Did you know dog meat is served in restaurants in South Korea? I didn't. In the United States and most western countries, Fido is a family companion and while it's not ethical to judge another culture by our standards, anyone who doesn't at least (humanely) butcher the animal first is acting without proper care. South Korea relies on western consumerism for their economy and needs to be aware that we do not accept the practice of skinning and boiling dogs alive. Originally shared by April Benney Over 6,000 restaurants in South Korea are still serving dog meat even though it is now illegal. In many Asian countries dogs are boiled alive or skinned alive when slaughtered. It's an unbelievably horrendous & torturous way to die. I know a lot of you hate seeing this kind of posts on G+, but the Asian industry slaughtering dogs & cats is how I first got involved in animal rights & it will always be my main animal welfare concern. It's intolerable what is happen...
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The Linux desktop is here and has been for some considerable time.
The recognition factor isn't, but that's something else again.
Part of the reason for that has been the accessibilty aspect in the installation procedure in the past, and the alienation aspect that has propagated, but that is resolved, for the most part, in many quarters, and the desktop recognition factor, along with any number of others, will be overcome over time.
And hey, I use Linux on the Desktop (ubuntu ftw)
It's a growing demographic, and the desktop will grow with it. And Linux is not an easy metric to measure:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-windows-microsoft-android-ios,20220.html
http://www.datamation.com/osrc/article.php/3818696/Linux-Desktop-Market-Share-Greater-Than-One-Percent.htm
http://www.cnet.com/news/linux-desktop-market-share-is-up-as-much-as-61-percent-study-finds/#!
And this is an exponential growth.
The biggest reason, in my opinion, that command line hasn't filtered down is that it has no memory triggers. When I open a web page or run a GUI which does something, I get visual reminders of what I'm doing, I get prompts or wizards to guide me along. Command line is fast for the same reasons it is unfriendly: nothing between you and the command.
If people find a good enough reason, command line will be come more generally important. Meanwhile, non-tech people care that tech people can fix stuff. That's all the argument you need for command line.
Maybe it's just the massive technical debt in their products? They worked with Google to get a streaming version of photoshop, surely they looked at getting something running in the browser, or something linux native, and ended up deciding the only way was to run a client farm in the cloud.
For my own part, I have a dual boot computer. The windows partition is used mainly only for games that I can't get running in Wine.
I can't say that I have more problems in Ubuntu than I have in Windows. The oposite is probably true. Windows has a tendency to annoy me in a way that Ubuntu doesn't.
http://www.gimp.org/
https://inkscape.org/en/
http://www.blender.org/
http://www.povray.org/
I've had their product offered to me on an extended 12 month trial plan for free. from their international marketing manager, and turned it down.
The special effects for blockbusters such as 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Avatar' were done with some of the programmes mentioned above. Not Photoshop.