MATE has been upgrade to 1.6, which saw many old and deprecated packages replaced with newer technologies
oh no! things were removed! Better fork MATE so I can have it be exactly the same as a previous version!
I know you're just being snarky, but really why is it so hard to keep my desktop the same while still getting security updates for the over all system and new versions of my apps when they upgrade? Why?
I hate to give Microsoft credit for anything, but at least they had enough insight to keep the option to switch back to the previous version of the desktop available for many many releases afterwards. Up until fairly recently it was pretty easy to go back to your preferred work space in Windows. From Win95--Windows 2000 you could still get Progman.exe to run. You could still revert the taskbar and themes from Fisherprice to the 'standard' look that carried over from Win95 all the way through Windows XP to Windows 7.
Why is it so unreasonable to expect the same in Linux?
Oh and I'm one of those people who prefer MATE over the mess that Gnome 3.0 has become with its intentional breaking of the system to prevent people from keeping what they had before, but if these changes actually ruin the desktop you can be sure that people will indeed fork MATE.
Looks like the anti-MS shills are spamming Slashdot's comment section again.
Who needs shills when your competition has been diligently chumming the water in which they live for a decade or two? Microsoft has earned its hatred in this industry, one pissed off user at a time. To pretend this entirely predictable reaction is the work of shills only betrays your own allegiance and paid for status...
With Orson Scott Card's emphatically homophobic world view, I refuse to help finance any of his works.
Awesome. It's certainly your right to choose to not read any of the man's books or watch any media based on them. You're absolutely free to do without the enjoyment that comes from reading one of his books or watching this movie which from the trailer looks to be quite fun.
What you're not free to do is get in the faces of those of us who are planning to continue enjoying his work and seek to ruin it for us.
It is estimated that 5-10% of the population is gay.
Errr...actually it's less. A lot less. As a matter of fact would you believe the real number stands at slightly less than 2%?
Don't worry, almost no one in America gets this one right...
The difference between your Martin Niemoller reference and what I am saying is that what they are going after, is that in Niemoller's case, the people "they came for" may have, at worst, been considered the fringes of society, but they weren't necessarily doing anything that was previously against the law. Copyright infringement actually *IS* illegal, and has been for quite a long time.
I'll take copyright infringement seriously the day that Big Media starts taking the public domain seriously, and not one second before. They thought they could play this game of indefinitely extending the length of copyright terms, effectively stealing from the public domain and all of humanity without there being unforeseen consequences? Guess what? People now take copyrights about as seriously as Big Media does, i.e. not at all.
Fuck your copyrights.
Most set top boxes have that somewhere in the settings.
Yeah, and then once you've hidden the junk channels (seriously how many home shopping channels are there? who the hell watches\buys this crap??) the company takes great pleasure in moving the channels around, making you have to head back into the settings and figure out which numbers now need to be unblocked...
Gets especially painful at my Dad's house because he expects me to fix it for him and doesn't seem to understand why channels disappear from one set top box to the other, despite me explaining to him repeatedly that he has the HD package, but the set top box in his bedroom is still his old non-HD receiver, so different channels are available on different numbers depending on whether or not the channel is broadcast in HD. At the time he had an old SDTV in the bedroom, so I understand not wanting to pay more for definition he couldn't see, but he has a new HDTV in there now and still doesn't get that he's still using the SD receiver.
So yeah, while technically it's possible to just hide unused channels in practice it turns into a game of catch the wandering channel.
Although recently we've seen a few of those used for stupid things (death star) as well as being flat out trampled on a few times with responses that basically said "we don't feel like telling you that", it would still be nice to see it out there.
You're confusing cause and effect here. The reason there has been so much success in getting stupid things voted up to the top of the list on the 'We the People' site is because of the lack of real responses and the sheer mindfuckery that is having the head of the organization the petition requests disband reply to said petition.
If the government doesn't seem to take the site any more seriously than an 'American Idol' poll or even a poll to name a new soft drink flavor, why should the rest of us?
They're free to fork it if they want. If google doesn't like it then tough.
Actually, if Google doesn't like it, Samsung will be forbidden to call it Android. This already happened once with Acer. What makes you think Google won't spank Samsung too if necessary?
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
