Yeah. That's right. Aptly named. Because boy, when I heard it described, "exherbo" just jumped out at me. The same...it sounds broken. I think I'm going to submit it to their bugzilla.
It's funny. When someone uses the CLI, they expect to be greeted with by a cold machine that accepts rigid syntax. But with voice, it's supposed to natually know what you want using a syntax that can have very vague meanings. I would think the first step in voice recognition is to make a terminal that accepts typed phases and interprets them in an intelligent way...
Other oddities are the Japanese people getting concerned over obesity caused by the western culture creeping in. (Read McDonalds.) Their children are heavier than they used to be...and we all know where that goes (theoretically.)
What? That's totally ridiculous. It means that the XO becomes nothing more than a vehicle for transfer of money from 3rd world children to Microsoft. Dammit, how else do you expect us to keep our economy afloat!? Try being a bit more patriotic, okay?
Wow, you're not just a little presumptuous. So using Linux is the only way to be "creative, inquisitive and independent minded"? I would give the original poster the benefit of the doubt. The man probably meant using ANYTHING but windows means you're "creative, inquisitive and independent minded." (He didn't mention Linux anywhere in his post...though he could have been hinting at it the sneaky bastard.)
There is a similar thing, only other way around: GTK-Qt, in fact it's 5 years old.
It's good to have the option for letting Gtk users keep their look and feel with Qt options, but I wonder why it took this long?
Is it because there wasn't much interest in Qt-based apps until now? It would surprise me, given the popularity of Amarok, K3B and the like That answer is more simple than you think. Things like klearlooks caused good enough syndrome for a long period of time. It wouldn't surprise me if QGtkStyle leverages something new in Qt4 to make the emulation of gtk more easily possible. If you've seen the screenshots, QGtkStyle makes a good showcase of the flexibility of qt4.
The key combination is a mixture of 3 buttons to take a screenshot. The number is just large enough and the frequency of usage is just low enought that many people just don't remember it. (Command-Shift-3)
According to US law, companies are regarded ENTITIES like you an me. They are held under the same laws you you an I are. A lot of times these entities are seen as extensions of the most visible figure. (Microsoft=Bill Gates, Apple=Steve Jobs.) Making things more complicated, corporations like walmart like to do commercials that make them seem even more like they were a person, in an attempt at humanizing the image of the company.
The waters are too muddy in people's minds to write corporations off as having no responsibility. This confusion leads to is a circular blame game for wrong deeds, and where nothing is every anyone's fault.
Wouldn't it be easier to make manufacturers use the old MB=1024 type standard than to get the common people to understand a new prefix that they just won't remember?
It really didn't start out that complicated, but it's the manufacturers who keeps F*ing it up because they are trying to stretch the numbers. I think it's the consumers who are the victims in this.
Hard drives have the MiB-MB problem because manufacturers wanted to be able to say 60GB instead of 54GB. When you buy a monitor, you have look for viewable size in much smaller print. Then there is the dithering you hear about on modern LCDs. I've also heard that early monitors were measured by their horizontal instead of their diagonal. Of course, the diagonal is longer so...
Which is why I included nuclear bombs in my examples.;) What irks me is when things that are used offensively are put in the same group as things that are used defensively. To put it succinctly:
Armor saves lives
Weapons may reduce casualties, but please don't put it in a same group as armor. That's an attempt at whoring the words "save human lives" in order to sell a product.
"British defence giant BAE Systems is creating a series of tiny electronic spiders, insects and snakes that could become the eyes and ears of soldiers on the battlefield, helping to save thousands of lives, and they claim that prototypes could be on the front line by the end of the year. A fascinating development to be sure, but who thinks this won't be misused domestically for spying and evidence gathering?" Great, now you're going to tell me how guns, missiles, tanks and nuclear weapons save millions of lives.
You were marked troll, but I think what you wrote is probably true. If I remember right, Apple releasing the newest Java only on the newest OS is a bad pattern.
Some other weirdness was a long standing 10.3 bug which caused third party browsers to be unable to access the newest version of java installed on the machine. So Safari was using 1.5 while Firefox was using 1.4.
You would be switching the problem around from being unsupported to being too expensive and likely be effectively in the same rutt. See the circle? Too expensive?
I mean seriously: if Microsoft came out with EULA stipulations tomorrow that stated that regardless of how well it worked, you couldn't install MS Office (even a legally purchased copy) on a WINE-equipped Linux machine, Slashdot would shit a jagged brick coated in hot sauce. Apple does the same though and it's reasonable behavior.
I think this mostly comes down to fear that these clones might bankrupt the company based on Apple's past exeriences. Even if they don't, Mac OS X at $130 is probably subisdized by hardware hardware sales. Without that money Mac OS X could possibly suffer from lack of funding, losing the very gleam that made you want it in the first place...or be forced to jump to Windows Super Ultimate Edition price.
You can be right, and you can be DEAD right. And you can't always have your cake and eat it too.
Of course, Apple has diversified since it's last jaunt with clones...
I have done my own testing on usability while making a Firefox extension and Thunderbird extension for importing photos to F-Spot ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7091 ). The first thing I realized is that sometimes as a designer, you start to get tunnel vision. If you have to add a dialog to explain a button, that might be a sign that the button should not be there period, should be moved, or changed into some other kind of element. The other thing I learned is my mother gets pissed off because "I keep changing things".;-)
In short the clever widget makers who started the whole industry get to specialise at a different part of the supply chain, and don't have to spend all their time subsidising work that can be done better/cheaper else where. The parent above you was talking about the workers. You're talking about a small subset of people who become insanely rich at the cost of the workers. With your logic, the US will corner itself into only having jobs for managers of multinationals...yes even the clever widget makers will eventually be outsourced (read as todays engineers, computer science majors...).
passitontotheconsumer I home you mean "pass it on to the customer" like how Microsoft deals with Windows Vista piracy in China.
"Microsoft confirmed independent reports revealing that Windows Vista prices will be cut in half. On August 1, Zan Xiaoqin, representing 8844.com, a Beijing Federal Software online software distributor, indicated that the Redmond company will take drastic measures in China in order to boost Windows Vista in the competition with local pirated copies of the operating system."
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http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3201 Custome Intel CPUs.
It's funny. When someone uses the CLI, they expect to be greeted with by a cold machine that accepts rigid syntax. But with voice, it's supposed to natually know what you want using a syntax that can have very vague meanings. I would think the first step in voice recognition is to make a terminal that accepts typed phases and interprets them in an intelligent way...
Skype can't do 3 way video conferencing, which is what the original poster was asking for. (I know, I've tried.)
I'm not saying I disagree or agree with you. So please don't shoot the messenger.
It's interesting when you look at the worldwide phenominion conserning obesity and smoking. Take for example, how the world's governments are starting to turn against cigarates. Taxes on tobacco has been going up worldwide. Or maybe the crazy french smoking band. I could have never seen the French banning smoking anywhere in my imagination.
Other oddities are the Japanese people getting concerned over obesity caused by the western culture creeping in. (Read McDonalds.) Their children are heavier than they used to be...and we all know where that goes (theoretically.)
Haven't you heard? Meat grinders are now a part of a coaches standard equipment.
Thanks. :)
Holy crap, what happened to Dan Rather? I suppose I was on the internet too long not reading news.
It's good to have the option for letting Gtk users keep their look and feel with Qt options, but I wonder why it took this long?
Is it because there wasn't much interest in Qt-based apps until now? It would surprise me, given the popularity of Amarok, K3B and the like That answer is more simple than you think. Things like klearlooks caused good enough syndrome for a long period of time. It wouldn't surprise me if QGtkStyle leverages something new in Qt4 to make the emulation of gtk more easily possible. If you've seen the screenshots, QGtkStyle makes a good showcase of the flexibility of qt4.
The key combination is a mixture of 3 buttons to take a screenshot. The number is just large enough and the frequency of usage is just low enought that many people just don't remember it. (Command-Shift-3)
According to US law, companies are regarded ENTITIES like you an me. They are held under the same laws you you an I are. A lot of times these entities are seen as extensions of the most visible figure. (Microsoft=Bill Gates, Apple=Steve Jobs.) Making things more complicated, corporations like walmart like to do commercials that make them seem even more like they were a person, in an attempt at humanizing the image of the company.
The waters are too muddy in people's minds to write corporations off as having no responsibility. This confusion leads to is a circular blame game for wrong deeds, and where nothing is every anyone's fault.
Wouldn't it be easier to make manufacturers use the old MB=1024 type standard than to get the common people to understand a new prefix that they just won't remember?
It really didn't start out that complicated, but it's the manufacturers who keeps F*ing it up because they are trying to stretch the numbers. I think it's the consumers who are the victims in this.
Hard drives have the MiB-MB problem because manufacturers wanted to be able to say 60GB instead of 54GB. When you buy a monitor, you have look for viewable size in much smaller print. Then there is the dithering you hear about on modern LCDs. I've also heard that early monitors were measured by their horizontal instead of their diagonal. Of course, the diagonal is longer so...
Meh. Buyer beware.
Which is why I included nuclear bombs in my examples. ;) What irks me is when things that are used offensively are put in the same group as things that are used defensively. To put it succinctly:
Armor saves lives
Weapons may reduce casualties, but please don't put it in a same group as armor. That's an attempt at whoring the words "save human lives" in order to sell a product.
Dali is a sheep, not a llama.
You were marked troll, but I think what you wrote is probably true. If I remember right, Apple releasing the newest Java only on the newest OS is a bad pattern. Some other weirdness was a long standing 10.3 bug which caused third party browsers to be unable to access the newest version of java installed on the machine. So Safari was using 1.5 while Firefox was using 1.4.
You would be switching the problem around from being unsupported to being too expensive and likely be effectively in the same rutt. See the circle? Too expensive?
I think this mostly comes down to fear that these clones might bankrupt the company based on Apple's past exeriences. Even if they don't, Mac OS X at $130 is probably subisdized by hardware hardware sales. Without that money Mac OS X could possibly suffer from lack of funding, losing the very gleam that made you want it in the first place...or be forced to jump to Windows Super Ultimate Edition price.
You can be right, and you can be DEAD right. And you can't always have your cake and eat it too.
Of course, Apple has diversified since it's last jaunt with clones...
I have done my own testing on usability while making a Firefox extension and Thunderbird extension for importing photos to F-Spot ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7091 ). The first thing I realized is that sometimes as a designer, you start to get tunnel vision. If you have to add a dialog to explain a button, that might be a sign that the button should not be there period, should be moved, or changed into some other kind of element. The other thing I learned is my mother gets pissed off because "I keep changing things".;-)
Between the vibration from the thrashing hard drive and intense CPU heat, the sticker seems to be pealing off...
"Microsoft confirmed independent reports revealing that Windows Vista prices will be cut in half. On August 1, Zan Xiaoqin, representing 8844.com, a Beijing Federal Software online software distributor, indicated that the Redmond company will take drastic measures in China in order to boost Windows Vista in the competition with local pirated copies of the operating system."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1637685.stm