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| DATE | 2006-05-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [michael@halligan.org: Re: [Balug-talk] [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The Linux Journal]
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>> Oh, so you disable the functionality, and consider it usable?
>
>
> See, Michael, if you bothered to understand what you were talking
> about,
> you wouldn't make embarrassing errors like that:
>
> Flashblock is a Firefox extension that substitutes a good-looking
> "Play"
> icon for any Macromedia Flash page inclusion sent with your HTML.
> _If_
> you also have a Flash player installed, you then have the option of
> hitting the Play button for any Flash code actually of interest to
> _you_, as opposed to something merely dumped at you by an advertiser.
>
I'm very familiar with flashblock. I just don't use it like you do.
It exists in firefox
for me to block advertising. However, I don't find the need to use
this for
preventing flash from hosing my desktop. If I ran Linux, then I
probably would, but
then again, I'd probably be too busy restarting X right now to type
this e-mail.
I often see this as an example for linux bigots to say "hey, web
browsing is fine in Linux.. Just
make sure to turn off Flash .. and Java Script .. and Java applets ..
and Images .. and Video". To
me, that's very sub-par. Linux would be a great desktop alternative
if this was 1996, but it is not.
> Pay attention, now, because this is just a wee bit subtle, and plainly
> you weren't bothering to read properly the first time I said it:
> If you
> _don't_ have a Flash player installed, you still win, because
> advertising sites will (upon doing a browser check) think you _do_
> have
> a player, avoid sending you the animated-GIF advertisements you would
> normally have gotten, and instead send Flash (which you then don't
> have
> to be bothered by).
>
> Apple doesn't want to give you that degree of control. They're too
> busy
> withdrawing features:
> http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/digital_music/
> features_lost_in_itunes_upgrades.php
> ...and taking formerly open source software proprietary:
> http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/17/closesdown/index.php
You seem to have some issues with control.
>
>> Sounds like the typical linux desktop experience to me.
>
> Funny, _your_ stuff sounds like typical MacOS cheerleading for
> depriving
> the user of control over his/her computing environment and then
> calling
> it a feature, to _me_.
You call it control. I call it cheap hacks in order to fix broken
functionality. Sure, twm
works as a window manager, but it's hardly a a rich desktop experience.
While I'm being productive, managing a few hundred "Open Source"
Linux servers, with
my evil closed-source Apple, you're jumping up and down in a skirt
with pom-poms,
to the tune of "Rah Rah Rah, Open Source, Rah Rah Rah" .. I just
don't have the time, if
you do, I've got a thousand tasks I could give to you. I haven't
washed my car in a couple
of weeks, perhaps you could find an open-source way to do that?
I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.
>> I've never used a G3 iBook, but then again, those are about 5
>> years old
>> at this point.
>
> Yes, did I mention that, with Ubuntu Linux, performance doesn't
> suck? I
> only do hardware upgrades on _my_ timetable, sir, not the Church of
> Steve's.
So basically, you're running severely outdated hardware, and trying
to get more functionality than
is capable. To make up for it, you run a third party operating
system, and turn off the functionality
that you cannot get out of the intended operating system?
If you *really* want to make the case that open source doesn't bloat
as time goes on, like every other
operating system, then I'm all ears.
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