On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:56:39AM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2007-03-07 08:21 -0000, John Robson wrote: > > I don't like xinerama therefore: > > ... I am not going to waste my breath supporting it. Recent > research, BTW, suggests that the manufacturing of a computer > with a monitor, takes five times as much energy as the > manufacturing of a car. And it is well-known that the > manufacturing of a car takes much more energy (but not with > quite as high a factor as the above) than a car uses in its > lifetime -- which also isn't a small number. So, there, > you techno-toy fetists chasing after the latest cool gizmo > and upgrading your hardware every few months: your lifestyle > may not last long. but please don't blame the climate change on Xinerama. you are twisting and bending your arguments in a remarkable, if not admirable way. > > > I don't want to support month old releases therefore: > > ... Distributors should not provide them to people as "ion3" > (without further version specifiers) without a very noticeabled > mention that they are unsupported, ancient, and not representative > of the project's present state. > > > I don't want to to subscribe to a mailing list... > > ... because it's such a hassle to subscribe for just a single question. > I use slrn/NNTP/Gmane for most of my lists, BTW, and have disabled > receiving the emails. I'd prefer not having to subscribe either, or > the subscription (and disabling of receiving mail) being queried > in response to a posting when not subscribed. (gmane, in fact, does > already try to verify that you really are there and not just a rooted > spam bot, before it lets you post... but the lists don't know that.) > It would also be great to be able to subscribe to just the single > thread that you start -- automatically. > > > The less users, the better. Users are a problem... > > - They are also the point of software - without them software is useless. > > One user is enough. I don't need the zillion kids for whom Ion is the > latest shiny gadget to be dumped when the next one comes along. > > > Don't get me worng I still think ion is a great WM, but you seem to have a > > very odd mental block with regard to people. > > People suck. > it's starting to seem you might be one of them, actually. that's getting ridiculous and/or annoying rapidly (accelatering at about 9.81 m/s^2: you are in free fall). lucky thing, ion3 is more sensible and consistent than your arguments and your general view of the state of affairs, which sound like some of your neurotransmitters are off-balance right now. I've had enough of this megalomaniac nonsense. so I'll stay away from this list from now on until I have a ion3 related question (which then hopefully will not cause pseudo-progressive comments from some kind of sociologist on crack).
no offense meant (not really), joerg > -- > Tuomo
