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Comment Re:gnome better than kde (Score 1) 455

MDIs and dockable toolbars are ugly and annoying

Those little floating toolbars are the most annoying things in the world. Every time I try to do something they're in the way. And I find docked to be much more elegant than something that you can't figure out where to put so you just leave it floating.

I was sooo happy when Photoshop (CS3?) moved to dockable toolbars. They even did a really nice job of it. And they left the choice open to the user. Why restrict someone that might have a different working style?

This is also one of the big things keeping me from using OSX as my main OS. That and the common ribbon menu at the top... Apps should be in their single main window, with the occasional popup.

But I do love the contextual inspector palettes like in M$ Office and SolidWorks.

Comment Re:not really anonymous (Score 1) 231

Well yes. That's my point.

The people behind Wikileaks aren't anonymous, don't need to be, and have chosen not to be. They are trying to provide a way for whistleblowers to be anonymous, which is what would keep someone from coming forward with whatever leak.

So yes, it IS really anonymous for those that want/need to be.

Comment Re:It is not legal to "sell" GPL software, but ... (Score 1) 543

I found a piece of software available for purchase on eBay once. The seller had taken screenshots of some software for simple image editing (or something similar) and blurred out the title bar trying to hide the name. There was still enough information to find out that software he was selling was open source and freely available on sourceforge. I confronted him, using the "Ask seller a question" feature and he replied saying the GPL (or similar) allowed him to charge a fee for providing the software.

Comment Re:The new graphics (Score 1) 305

Then they will be pushed to developing games for linux.

With games developed for a linux based console, it would be an easy switch (if not trivial) to distribute them to linux PCs. That's part of why the windows + xbox releases are so easy to make.

Though M$ likes that they have control over industry and won't give it up without a fight.

Comment Re:Voting is a joke now (Score 2, Interesting) 223

Maybe not as easy as you think. Watch the videos; they've come up with some very clever ways that the voting machines can tamper with the paper trail.

This was just an exploit of crappy programming and an ineffective paper log on Sequoia's part and not an indication that the principle of a paper trail is flawed. For instance, in the case when the voter leaves before actually casting their vote and it is then voided could easily be avoided by making the voter aware that their vote hasn't been cast until X. If they don't bother to ensure that X happens, it's their fault. It's equivalent to handing your ballot to someone without staying to watch them drop it in the machine. If that is still too complicated for people, there can still be an optional paper equivalent.

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