I know I am. I wish I would have thought of that first.
Though there is a good chance one of those 8 paying customers complained to apple. People who would pay that much money for a such a useless app probably have strong complaining power of might.
(2) People who can't cook have no business eating food and complaining when it makes them puke.
Actually in many cases it's more like you went to a friends place to eat dinner and started critiquing the food at the table. Even after being kicked out of the house for saying, "This food tastes monkey dung with bananas, please fix it," you still can't figure out why your fiend got so mad. Done incorrectly, complaining is extremely impolite. The wife of the fictitious friend went to some real trouble to create the meal and it's not like you're paying for it.
The other problem with complaining about usability is that it is much more subjective than people like to think.
Mac OS X and Gnome have put a lot of money and research into usability. Even so, Gnome constantly get's flamed by the tech community. For Mac OS X, there are a lot of users who just can't get into the "Mac" way of doing things and never adjust.
Some interfaces work much better after you get over the learning curve. This applies to a lot of professional apps.
Some users just like to complain to complain. "You changed my favorite button you bastard!"
Food also has many similar problems. Some you have to acquire a taste for. (Eating raw fish, beer, etc. It becomes more delicious the more you eat it, even if at first it makes your gag reflex go off.) Some people just plain don't like certain foods.("I can't drink water.", "Coke tastes like medicine, which is why I don't drink it.") Other people will not eat some foods just because it in not a taste they are used to, and they don't care to try expanding their favorite foods.
No it isn't. This is going to make half the Web break in IE8. The smart thing to do was what they did originally: default to legacy IE mode, and allow site developers to put a meta tag in to force standards mode. Then, some number of years down the road, when the majority of people were running sites that were standards-compliant (with or without the special meta tag), IE could've defaulted to standards mode. It's called phasing out old stuff, which is something you have to do when the old behavior is so widespread. What are you talking about?
Half of the web doesn't even specify a doctype. Those pages would be rendered in qwerks mode anyway, meaning they would display fine.
The zealots that are using strict html4 are most likely already aware of any display problems already.
The xhtml using folks basically already said "Screw Microsoft! I don't care if you can view this page anyway!" to begin with.
just to play devil's advocate here, you're suggesting a designer should code to standards, and let the page be broken for 80% of his visitors? i don't think many designers would keep that job very long. The sad part is that the designers and managers probably weren't thinking that both are not great choices. When you're coding for a non-standard, if that said programs starts losing popularity you're F*d over.
application/xhtml+xml? I thought pages had to be served as application/xml?
I jumped back to xhtml 1.0 personally because it lets my pages be served as the old sand by text/xhtml. When IE hopefully adds compatibility, I'll be making the jump to xhtml 1.1 too.
xhtml is kind of nice because of how it errors immediately when there is an error in the code. Another words you can't accidently output total crap in the same way you can't compile C with incorrect syntax. Yes you can still write stuff that doesn't work correctly but displays. Still, at least there is a good baseline.
But I don't think I get the feature when I send out my pages as text/xhtml:-(
A corporation is a tool for making money. Period. That's neither good nor bad, it's just a tool.
It is not a person. It is not ethical or unethical, moral or immoral, any more than a hammer is. I agree with you. Now if only we could stop getting corporations to stop confusing people by marketing themselves as a screwdriver (with layers of personification) when they are indeed just an inanimate hammer. Damn using the wrong tool for the wrong job.
If greedy corporate decisions cause a company to incur a billion dollars in fines due to an oil spill, ultimately shareholders DO write a check.
If you do something like crash your car and a police officer finds you, they will likely give you a ticket of some kind. Yes, you probably already learned your lesson because you eff'ed up your car. You will already have to dish out a crap-load of money to fix the vehicle. But you still have a responsibility to the law to pay the fine.
The shareholders never have to write that check in my opinion. They never get anything sent to them that makes them feel responsible in a direct sense.
gNewSense sounds like Ubuntu made to be Debian without the non-free parameter in sources.list. No binary video blobs, fine. Firefox? gNewSense replaces it with Epiphany, while Debian renames it because of trademark issues (specifically, you can't fork Firefox without calling it something else). Debian's course seems idealogical enough already, gNewSense is just over the top, IMO. Strangely enough, Epiphany and Evolution are part of a default Gnome install. The Ubuntu version of Gnome removes the two for alternative programs.
Some of that proprietary software is the reason my wireless works on Ubuntu.
I'm all for open source code, and all, but what guarantee do I have that my laptop would work with that?
1. You go to gNewSense's website, and see if your laptop or the one you are planning on buying has compatibility.
2. If it's listed, you know that your hardware should work with any Linux distribution and that it is well supported without overly strange hacks. You won't have to worry about Nvidia eventally dropping support for your card, and there will never be binary incompatibility because the binary blob was never updated for the latest kernel.
gNewSense is not a great consumer OS per say, but you're wrong if you think the community can't benefit from it.
I say we petition tho KDE devs to switch the name of KDE to one that includes the K, but is silent. (like the G in gnome is.) Here is a preliminary list of candidates. I vote for Knave!
Maybe if OO became a REAL competitor Microsoft would think much harder about playing nice! I hope you come back later and realize how little sense your sentence makes. Companies don't waste time, money, or resources on non-competitors. That's essentially the same as shitting money out.
I disagree. Most modern web pages need at least 1024 pixels wide. You can always make things bigger if a certain app hurts your eyes, but you can never get back resolution that the panel doesn't have. Thus, it is always better to go with a higher resolution than a lower one.
Not quite. Just upping the font sizes can really screw up the layout of a web page, sometimes making elements unreadable.
FF3 supports webpage scaling under the hood, but from what I have read it is still hidden under a cryptic name in about:config. Firefox is behind Safari,IE7, and Opera in that regard.
That is exactly the reason I set my grandmother on Linux. Because I was able to up the font sizes of EVERYTHING. Windows was steadfast on the same font size for some important dialogs and windows.
Out of curiosity, apart from the obvious medical complications such as rejection, what would be the problem with grafting a limb if someone wants it? Unlike an internal organ, it's something that's outwardly obvious that it isn't part of your own body. It'll have different skin color, hair texture, size, shape, and smell than that of your own body. Plus you'll be in constant fear of your body rejecting it, meaning you would have to get used to another person's arm. I also can't help but think having random arms grafted to your body would have to have some kind of strange psychological effects. If you're growing, I can't help but think some strange complications might pop up with maligning tissue/bone.
My friend in college with no arms, sometimes he'd wear one of the hooks, sometimes two, sometimes none. At the same time he was studying bio-mechanics so he could come up with a better prosthesis.
The problem with most prosthetics is that they only sort of work. While in some situations they are helpful, in others they are down right in the way. The advances that they have made are nice, but until some of the inherant problems are gone, things like crutches and hooks are probably going to still take first place for a lot of people. The two major issues would be comfort and control.
An example of comfort is that I don't feel like I can stand or sit relaxed with my prosthetic leg. Something is always poking somewhere uncomfortably, and standing takes more energy and concentration than it should. I can't sit with my legs crossed. I can't sit in the Japanese seiza position. I can't wear your prosthesis all of the time, because of sweat and grim build up. It feels disgusting and slimy in the socket.
Control wise, the more complicated the prosthetic limb is the less you can feel in control of it. That is where the bio-mechanics are coming in and they will help. But right now we have a bastard child where the CPU's of these limbs are trying to guess what they should be doing instead of the human. There are other problems concerning leverage too, here the amputee's stumps are not long enough to exert the force they want. The shorter the amputee's stumps are, the more likely they will reject using an artificial limb. The fact that the prosthesis is not directly connected to your bone also negitively effects control.
While technology is improving, I still haven't gotten the feeling that any of it is a clear improvement. I just try to use the right tool for the right job. When biking, skating, or rollerblading I wear my artificial leg, but when skiing, sitting for a long time, or walking around the house I tend to use crutches. I use either or when walking on nails, coals. In the end this may all be just stop-gap solution until organ cloning becomes possible.
This will be great to improve the standard of living for many of the returning soldiers.
You would be surprised how people adapt. For many amputees this is a non-issue, and they move on. The key is time and the correct mental attitude.
I have a prostetic leg, but I like my crutches. I'm agile on my crutches. I can do interesting things on my crutches I can't with a real leg. If I had to choose between my artificial leg and crutches, there is a good chance I would choose my crutches.
If you look at a person who has an amputated arm, if they go for a prosthesis it is often "the hook." It's because it's a damn lot more useful than a robotic arm. It feels like it is an extension of their body because they can count on it and have direct control. There are no battery, motor, or sensitivity problems.
The people who more often get most hung up on these ideas of helping amputees be 'normal' again are the non-amputees. It's a visual thing that I think actually times make the problem worse. I want to punch anyone who brings up grafting donor appendages. I really do.
Firefox has been pushing for it's extension developers to update their extensions for 3.0. Now that firefox is in the release candidate phase, extension developers finally don't have to worry about anymore damn api changes. I wonder if Mozilla will do another T-shirt givaway contest for extension developers who update heir extensions before the final release?
Interestin'! Are they all 3.5 programs, or 4.0 programs?
Now can we get back to why you even care?
Well...I don't use KDE and I am curious. Seems like reason enough. The impression I get from KDE is that all of the major programs have to have a k in them more often than other DEs/Mac OS with their own respective letters.
I thought afterwards that the firefox/thunderbird thing was a bit contrived, but it doesn't help that Ubuntu defaults to Firefox and it has no qt front-end.
Thanks for the reply:)
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Okay, lets play a little game for giggles. I want to to name at least 10 major KDE programs that don't have an obnoxious "k" in them. I'll take care of Mac OS and Gnome.
Mac apps without a prefixed "i" in the name made by Apple:
Finder
Address Book
Automater
Calculator
Dashboard
Chess
Dvd Player
Image Capture
Mail
Preview
Quicktime
Sherlock
Stickies
Spot Light
Final Cut Pro
Aperture
Dock
expose
Gnome apps without a prefixed "g" included with Gnome:
Tomboy
Beagle
File-roller
AisleRiot Solitaire
glchess
Totem
Nautilus
Evince
Rhythmbox
Pidgin
Epiphany
Ekiga
Firefox
Thunderbird
Banshee
vinagre
empathy
Evolution
Remember, I want at least 10 different KDE programs. They should be notable because they are included or many people use it, and it is preferable that the executable itself does not have the k in it. Go!
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Agh! That's it! I'm just going to switch to Knome!
The parent post is right. What this guy did was extremely extremely stupid. The chances that paypal was not checking for this type of scheme longterm asymptotically approaches zero.
The dead flag for this kind of fraud is when you reach the end of the month and you notice a strange increase in accounts that bought absolutely nothing. Think about it, the number of accounts needed to be created to earn about $50,000 is ridiculous. ($50,000) * (100 cents) / (2 to 3 cents) = 1666667.
I just installed the newest CVS 20 minutes ago. YouTube definitely still plays. Be warned though that it currently uses a crapload of CPU, and there can be a video lag while gnash loads things. Afterwards its fine though.
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I know I am. I wish I would have thought of that first. Though there is a good chance one of those 8 paying customers complained to apple. People who would pay that much money for a such a useless app probably have strong complaining power of might.
(2) People who can't cook have no business eating food and complaining when it makes them puke.
Actually in many cases it's more like you went to a friends place to eat dinner and started critiquing the food at the table. Even after being kicked out of the house for saying, "This food tastes monkey dung with bananas, please fix it," you still can't figure out why your fiend got so mad. Done incorrectly, complaining is extremely impolite. The wife of the fictitious friend went to some real trouble to create the meal and it's not like you're paying for it.
The other problem with complaining about usability is that it is much more subjective than people like to think.
Food also has many similar problems. Some you have to acquire a taste for. (Eating raw fish, beer, etc. It becomes more delicious the more you eat it, even if at first it makes your gag reflex go off.) Some people just plain don't like certain foods.("I can't drink water.", "Coke tastes like medicine, which is why I don't drink it.") Other people will not eat some foods just because it in not a taste they are used to, and they don't care to try expanding their favorite foods.
- Half of the web doesn't even specify a doctype. Those pages would be rendered in qwerks mode anyway, meaning they would display fine.
- The zealots that are using strict html4 are most likely already aware of any display problems already.
- The xhtml using folks basically already said "Screw Microsoft! I don't care if you can view this page anyway!" to begin with.
Damn drama queen.application/xhtml+xml? I thought pages had to be served as application/xml?
I jumped back to xhtml 1.0 personally because it lets my pages be served as the old sand by text/xhtml. When IE hopefully adds compatibility, I'll be making the jump to xhtml 1.1 too.
xhtml is kind of nice because of how it errors immediately when there is an error in the code. Another words you can't accidently output total crap in the same way you can't compile C with incorrect syntax. Yes you can still write stuff that doesn't work correctly but displays. Still, at least there is a good baseline.
But I don't think I get the feature when I send out my pages as text/xhtml :-(
If you do something like crash your car and a police officer finds you, they will likely give you a ticket of some kind. Yes, you probably already learned your lesson because you eff'ed up your car. You will already have to dish out a crap-load of money to fix the vehicle. But you still have a responsibility to the law to pay the fine.
The shareholders never have to write that check in my opinion. They never get anything sent to them that makes them feel responsible in a direct sense.
1. You go to gNewSense's website, and see if your laptop or the one you are planning on buying has compatibility.
2. If it's listed, you know that your hardware should work with any Linux distribution and that it is well supported without overly strange hacks. You won't have to worry about Nvidia eventally dropping support for your card, and there will never be binary incompatibility because the binary blob was never updated for the latest kernel.
gNewSense is not a great consumer OS per say, but you're wrong if you think the community can't benefit from it.
I say we petition tho KDE devs to switch the name of KDE to one that includes the K, but is silent. (like the G in gnome is.) Here is a preliminary list of candidates. I vote for Knave!
Not quite. Just upping the font sizes can really screw up the layout of a web page, sometimes making elements unreadable.
FF3 supports webpage scaling under the hood, but from what I have read it is still hidden under a cryptic name in about:config. Firefox is behind Safari,IE7, and Opera in that regard.
That is exactly the reason I set my grandmother on Linux. Because I was able to up the font sizes of EVERYTHING. Windows was steadfast on the same font size for some important dialogs and windows.
It makes you wonder what they have done to everything else. Especially worrying is what Microsoft could do to world governments....
I'm actually a bit surprised no one has mentioned Skype.
The problem with most prosthetics is that they only sort of work. While in some situations they are helpful, in others they are down right in the way. The advances that they have made are nice, but until some of the inherant problems are gone, things like crutches and hooks are probably going to still take first place for a lot of people. The two major issues would be comfort and control.
An example of comfort is that I don't feel like I can stand or sit relaxed with my prosthetic leg. Something is always poking somewhere uncomfortably, and standing takes more energy and concentration than it should. I can't sit with my legs crossed. I can't sit in the Japanese seiza position. I can't wear your prosthesis all of the time, because of sweat and grim build up. It feels disgusting and slimy in the socket.
Control wise, the more complicated the prosthetic limb is the less you can feel in control of it. That is where the bio-mechanics are coming in and they will help. But right now we have a bastard child where the CPU's of these limbs are trying to guess what they should be doing instead of the human. There are other problems concerning leverage too, here the amputee's stumps are not long enough to exert the force they want. The shorter the amputee's stumps are, the more likely they will reject using an artificial limb. The fact that the prosthesis is not directly connected to your bone also negitively effects control.
While technology is improving, I still haven't gotten the feeling that any of it is a clear improvement. I just try to use the right tool for the right job. When biking, skating, or rollerblading I wear my artificial leg, but when skiing, sitting for a long time, or walking around the house I tend to use crutches. I use either or when walking on nails, coals. In the end this may all be just stop-gap solution until organ cloning becomes possible.
You would be surprised how people adapt. For many amputees this is a non-issue, and they move on. The key is time and the correct mental attitude.
I have a prostetic leg, but I like my crutches. I'm agile on my crutches. I can do interesting things on my crutches I can't with a real leg. If I had to choose between my artificial leg and crutches, there is a good chance I would choose my crutches.
If you look at a person who has an amputated arm, if they go for a prosthesis it is often "the hook." It's because it's a damn lot more useful than a robotic arm. It feels like it is an extension of their body because they can count on it and have direct control. There are no battery, motor, or sensitivity problems.
The people who more often get most hung up on these ideas of helping amputees be 'normal' again are the non-amputees. It's a visual thing that I think actually times make the problem worse. I want to punch anyone who brings up grafting donor appendages. I really do.
Firefox has been pushing for it's extension developers to update their extensions for 3.0. Now that firefox is in the release candidate phase, extension developers finally don't have to worry about anymore damn api changes. I wonder if Mozilla will do another T-shirt givaway contest for extension developers who update heir extensions before the final release?
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Interestin'! Are they all 3.5 programs, or 4.0 programs?
Now can we get back to why you even care?Well...I don't use KDE and I am curious. Seems like reason enough. The impression I get from KDE is that all of the major programs have to have a k in them more often than other DEs/Mac OS with their own respective letters.
I thought afterwards that the firefox/thunderbird thing was a bit contrived, but it doesn't help that Ubuntu defaults to Firefox and it has no qt front-end.
Thanks for the reply :)
- Finder
- Address Book
- Automater
- Calculator
- Dashboard
- Chess
- Dvd Player
- Image Capture
- Mail
- Preview
- Quicktime
- Sherlock
- Stickies
- Spot Light
- Final Cut Pro
- Aperture
- Dock
- expose
Gnome apps without a prefixed "g" included with Gnome:- Tomboy
- Beagle
- File-roller
- AisleRiot Solitaire
- glchess
- Totem
- Nautilus
- Evince
- Rhythmbox
- Pidgin
- Epiphany
- Ekiga
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- Banshee
- vinagre
- empathy
- Evolution
Remember, I want at least 10 different KDE programs. They should be notable because they are included or many people use it, and it is preferable that the executable itself does not have the k in it. Go!Agh! That's it! I'm just going to switch to Knome!
But regardless of that, I don't know if this was important enough news for slashdot. Street Fight was at least more relevent.
The parent post is right. What this guy did was extremely extremely stupid. The chances that paypal was not checking for this type of scheme longterm asymptotically approaches zero.
The dead flag for this kind of fraud is when you reach the end of the month and you notice a strange increase in accounts that bought absolutely nothing. Think about it, the number of accounts needed to be created to earn about $50,000 is ridiculous. ($50,000) * (100 cents) / (2 to 3 cents) = 1666667.
I just installed the newest CVS 20 minutes ago. YouTube definitely still plays. Be warned though that it currently uses a crapload of CPU, and there can be a video lag while gnash loads things. Afterwards its fine though.