On 7/17/06, Cocoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped...]
and for you and me, we have the skills and inclination to prefer to tweak the system and make it work for us. thats engineer talk and its fine with us right? but you know what? normal people don't care about such things. they just need the thing to work.
Yes me too. I dont believe in the separation between gurus and newbies. We all walk the same right? we put one leg forward and then the other. i like to just push the button and immediatley logging in and then start working where i left off yesterday. And i dont want to be asked about a filename when i finish. And i dont want to remember to click save either. Where we differ is in the amount of control we have over our software. And our ability to produce them. but that doesnt mean the needs differ. [snipped...]
those things are normal everyday stuff. but there are some apps out there that the commercial versions are much better. photoshop over gimp? photoshop.
Is it easy to use? IMO its not. I will say the same thing for all the other WIMP apps out there. If i try to imitate photoshop no way. The most complex part is the damn ui. yes i probably will write a new picture editor and i actually intend to do that. its not rocket science. there is a lot of code out there to manipulate pictures. and there is a lot of literature on the subject. i dont have to buy the knowledge and the software. linux cluster? well we probabaly can write our own for that.
climate modeling software? tall order, it would be nice to have an open source software out there but i guess the climate modeling community have their own internal stuff for that that they write.
code to launch say... a long range missile or to destroy one or to intercept one.... would you want that open sourced? i'd feel safe knowing people who really know that kind of stuff and who will use it for the right thing have it.
Why not? Relying on peoples good will and character does not always work. Who is the perfect judge of character? This is technology and its going to be passed around regardless. Iran is building their own nuclear weapon which it intend to use on isreal as soon as possible, Pakistan and india have their own long range missiles. So whats if we acquired our own long range missile software? Or our own antimissile software? If everybody had acess to that people will hesitate to build missiles in the first place. Its all about balance of power and dual use open software can dramatically improve that. -- things i hate about my linux pc: 1. it takes more than a second to boot up 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
