
and we have no idea how old Minnie Mouse was when she married Mickey. The shame.
And the small, lean desktop apps of those days have been replaced with bloatware as well. Abiword and GNUCalc were fast and useful back in the GNOME days, Now they are a joke-- they crash as soon as you do anything with them.
Numerous little GNOME 1.4 applications existed (time trackers, media players and cd rippers) that were fast and light and that worked well. Every GNOME release one of these apps would get booted out in favor of some bloated project that was "new" and "great". The "new" and "great" always meant twice the memory size, unstable habits while running, and much less functionality-- provided in drop down windows and wizards.
GNOME ended up with HAL, BONOBO, and mono. And guess what? All that crap in 2.0 that they added over 10 years-- that is now going away again because it was all so piss poor to begin with. LOL.
Hopefully GNOME 3.x is more like GNOME 1.5x.
Hopefully GNOME stops trying to include default applications and goes back to providing the API's and the HID best user practices and requirements.
I don't want to hear that web browser X is out of GNOME, and IM client Y is now "blessed" to be in GNOME. That crap is retarded. When your GNOME package starts depending on this silly list of dorky applications it gets really annoying. Either the app meets the GNOME usability and code and API usage guidelines or it does not. Give it a gold star, or a silver star, or a black dot, or whatever. But making productivity apps a core part of the desktop, and then changing the apps in every release to reward whomever has kissed the most ass that release has pissed me off to no end these past 10 years.
I am happy with an old version of RatPoison for serious work. Less distractions, more focus on the task at hand, and plenty of scripts and plug ins to get the job done.
When I don't care about productivity, GNOME with bells and whistles keeps me amused. Although, I do miss the 1.4 days.
According to TTAC, the number #1 vehicle for unintended acceleration is the Lincoln TownCar. The Ford Police cruiser is one of the lowest, however. Funny thing is that, mechanically-- they are the same car. The difference is the people who drive them-- one group being highly trained with fast reaction times, and the other group-- well not so much.
It is not just age distribution that they need to look at with Toyota, it is the complete demographic of the Toyota owner. Car enthusiasts do not usually buy Toyota's these days. Toyota's are incredibly boring in appearance and they handle like slugs. The are anti-exciting, right up there with a root canal. The average Toyota driver is the person in the fast lane doing 45mph and texting someone at the same time. For the average user, unintended acceleration happens everytime they touch that strange scary pedal on the right. When you add in that their brakes are likely shot because they drag them all the damn time while talking on their i-phone going down the road-- and never do routine maintenance on their vehicle: it is no wonder they can't stop.
Toyota's main problem is that they decided to make cars for idiots and got bit by that (granted that is a large market share, just ask Microsoft).
Oh I see it has a Florida license plate, that explains everything.
I think I am going to sue them. I am sure I got brain cancer just from looking at the pictures. Even if I did not get cancer, I now have emotional trauma.
The answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is... Four day work week, Two ply toilet paper!