LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

[Daniel B. Thurman]

On 09/19/2011 10:06 AM, JB wrote:
> Alan Cox <alan <at> lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>
>> ...
>> I do think there is a problem with the Gnome development model and its
>> unwillingness of many of its developers to accept external input as
>> anything but criticism of them personally. The foundation-list is
>> currently involved in a fascinating example where many of the developers
>> are attempting to block and stonewall a third party survey of desktop
>> users and their interests. It reminds me of the behaviour of
>> failing governments that are about to implode before an election is
>> forced - a complete total denial.
>>
> This is about a GNOME 3 hacker who got lost in life ...
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Give Me Back My Dog...
>
>     A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture in Texas when
> suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
>
>     The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and
> YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how
> many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?"
>
>     Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully
> grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
>
>     The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it
> to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet,
> where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he
> then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an
> ultra-high-resolution photo.
>
>     The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it
> to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany .
>
>     Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has
> been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through
> an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a
> few minutes, receives a response.
>
>     Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
> miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have
> exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
>
>     "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
>
>     He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with
> amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
>
>     Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your
> business is, will you give me back my calf?"
>
>     The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
>
>     "You're a GNOME 3 developer", says Bud.
>
>     "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
>
>     "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though
> nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a
> question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying
> to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about
> how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a
> herd of sheep. .....
>
>     Now give me back my dog. 
>
>
> Reproduced with permission.
> JB
Good "tail", JD, but where are the 3-gnomes "herd"
<... dead silence, not even a moo, baa, or woof...>?