I do thing you are being a bit optimistic. I remember when ign.com used a background image to set the color behind the text to white. The only problem is even on cable it would take a number of seconds before you can read the text. On dialup, it would be closer to 20 to 30 seconds before you could read the text.
Honestly, if big websites like that can't figure out basic good web design, I don't trust general designers. These are the people who will likely still feed images to users if they can figure out how to detect if they don't support the @font-family css setting. Hell, with a current CMS I have set up, I can't edit the menus using the CMS because the damn links are images.
You don't use the Pentium M based processors when you want to get better battery time with the least amount of weight. The only thing I haven't been impressed with is Flash performance, which is why I block it. I am a Gentoo EeePC with a 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom processor. (Feel free to get off my lawn;-))
The FSF isn't hijacking it. It is correctly framing the discussion. HTML5 isn't going to do anything to replace the bulk of Flash web content out there. Most of that is already replaced with "apps".
I swear, you can't make anyone happy here. Where were you when Apple was forcing most applications on the iPhone to be made with HTML (and thus open and thus interpolerable)? I swear, you can't please anybody on slashdot. Your shit if you do, and shit if you don't.
Are you running an all Dell shop and only swapping RAM between them? I swear, people will take a crapshot at Apple without looking at what they are currently running. It was a lot cheaper for me buying ram for my B&W G3 back in the day than a Dell Dimension.
I am not sure exactly how much competition there really is when the prices are artificially set by the RIAA. For a time non-iTunes stores were getting special deals just for the fact that they were not iTunes. I doubt Lala would get the same flexibility from the RIAA now that they are part of Apple anyway,
People scoff at image, but I do believe the company shapes the image as much as the image shapes them and their product. Apple had developers and users who were fanatical about the user interface and it showed. The Wii is now seriously starting to get a cheap image from software, which begs more cheap software as game snobs ignore the good software that is actually released for it. (Big fat cycle.) If Linux loses the hacker image, you won't see so many tinkerers come to it.
How long is my warranty in the US or Canada and how do I check the warranty status?
Nintendo systems carry a standard twelve-month warranty, which is one of the longest standard warranties in the video game industry. For more information and to look up your system's warranty status, click here.
How can I pay for my repair if is not under warranty?
We accept Visa or MasterCard, or for some options you can send in a check or money order with your repair. The payment options and pricing will depend on the type of repair selected. If you have a question about payment, please call 1-800-255-3700.
The snap thing is another example of a design made for people who like to maximize everything. It absolutely drives me nuts because I have a tendency to throw windows to the corner of the screen to get them out of the way. Sometimes I swear windows is more about the taskbar than windows.
On Linux I will actually over lap windows and type on the one underneath. I don't have to worry about the window popping to the top because I have to hold alt as I click it to make it do that. It creates an amazing number of possibilities and flexibility where a window having focus doesn't necessarily mean it has to be in the front.
When you have a name like that on Microsoft Windows, how is anyone supposed to even know something better can and does exist? I was stumped to figure out what MS would call it. After some googling, it turns out it isn't referred to as Ludicrous Color (:-O!!!) but "Beyond True Color" or "Brilliant Color". Reference . Anyone know more than I do?
The release of joomla 1.6 would be newsworthy
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when you can use flashblock, stopping JavaScript animations and NoScript. It means if I can't see an advert, it's the own website's own fault. My Netbook is slow enough on the web without Flash and fancy Javascript.
Interesting affects of my usage are that www.newgrounds.com accuses me of adblocking in their advert spots and screwattack.com videos don't play unless I turn off NoScript.
Um. Then get something like RHEL and be done with it. They specialize in keeping everything as stable as possible (and yes you pay for it.) It sounds like you are using the wrong product for your needs.
Still waiting for that iPod..^W^W^W iPhone...er ^W^W^W iPad killer. It really is a bit like the rise of popularity of sushi.
There was a time when people in the US would generally not touch Sushi and thought of is as barbaric....which is a lot like the first cellphone apps which were utterly horrible and no one really even acknowledged their existence. A phone is to be used as a phone. It is not a computer.
Then came the sushi craze. Though this US sushi is supposedly inferior that the original, especially if you get it from a Chinese all you can eat, and yet still, the people who previously wouldn't touch the food and still wouldn't touch any other Japanese food go out of their way to eat sushi and get used to it. The only reason is because it is now cool and socially acceptable to show you can eat it and that you do eat it. A bit like the old standby of beer, really.
Then comes the minority group that complains about how the sushi that they are eating is junk. Not fresh at all. The "gourmands." But considering the previous background of the non-sushi eaters, they still don't have enough experience to know or really care. They aren't going to recognize an android phone just by looking at it. Maybe not even a blackberry. They are still getting used to the though of applications being on their phone.
At least that is how I see it in a nutshell. The Android is another iPod killer. The iPhone should have never taken off in the first place because it is so locked down. It is the year of Linux on the desktop.
So don't? Can't you just download the updated binary packages with Gentoo?
You best researching before saying silly stuff like that. There is no qt bin package. Gentoo is a source based distribution. There are a few bin packages available here and there, but they are the exception and not the rule. There is a reason why I posted what I posted before. If there was a bin installation that I knew about, I wouldn't have written it.
How much time are you spending building packages and how much time are you actually saving?
You asking that question shows that you know absolutely nothing about Gentoo users. Using Gentoo is not about this mythical "speed", but customization. Get off my lawn.
Compiling both qt and gtk on Gentoo is a bear for every security fix. Thank god for Qt being recently split up into different components making things a bit easier, though.
My main problem with most music player software today is the idea of a 'media library'. In order to play a file, you first have to put it in the library. I understand such a database has its benefits, but to me it is unnecessary complication of a simple operation. In fact, I do have a custom script for managing music files burnt to DVDs, but in the unix spirit I like to keep thing separate, so I am free to use different players.
Which used to be the difference between Quicktime and iTunes for me when I used to use a Mac. The nice thing about those programs is one is one is 'media library' based, and one isn't. On the linux side it it is comparable to Totem vs Rhythmbox. Windows forces them to be together in WMP. Don't know about KDE, but I think they only use Amarok?
The trick is to call the $9.99 $10.00 and then stop looking at the damn number. (Out of sight out of mind anyone?) The longer you stare at it, the more of a phycological impact $9.99 will have.
Prices like $2.98 still make me personally totter a bit, though. I mean, what the hell is with that number!? Thanks for the wikipedia link
I used to be a spacial junkie...
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...but I still do not use browser mode, either. Instead, I am now just using the terminal 99% of the time. The spacial implementation in Gnome failed for me because it was way too clunky. For something that is supposed reflect placement of real objects in real life, you really need to be able to interact with them with both hands in order for it to be enjoyable. In other words, there needs to be many more keyboard/mouse/mouse-keyboard commands for mass window management. Sometimes, it just doesn't work piddling with every single window individually every single time.
Where is my option-click to close all the windows of an appliciation?
Where is my option click outside of the window to hide it?
Where is my ctrl-shift-w to close all windows of an application?
Where is my option-click for my taskbar window button to bring all windows of that application to the font?
Why can't I click this same window button to hide all the windows that just came to the front?
Where is my system level ctrl-~ to switch between windows of a single application?
Because of this, spacial in Gnome always felt lame in a lot of ways like how spacial in Windows 95 was lame. Spacial just doesn't work if you try to use it with an arm tied behind your back. Now granted, since moving to Gnome from Mac OS, I have fallen in love with modifier-drag combination for moving windows around. Shift drag is also pretty fancy. We just need more of those kinds of things.
Ignoring that it is very possible to skip upgrades on Mac OS X, these price point debates are just made by people to support what they like working with. If people cared about price that much, no one would ever buy Windows Ultimate edition and Linux would be ruler of the earth. But rather, the atmosphere of things is more like this....
If it really bothers you that much, why don't you find the bumps with your middle finger, and then move your hands over?
That is the crux of the problem. I tend to lose my position when I do that.
Or you can do what I do, put my hands in typing position
To each their own. I find when I do this I can't feel the bumps. My index fingers are much more sensitive than my pointer fingers and it is just plain easier to search with them. On top of that, when you are in typing position the fingers tend to be placed with the fingernail pointed diagonally down, making them less sensitive. And then there is the weird swirly wrist motion you have to do when you keep typing position and are freshly search for the home row in the dark.
Most of the time typing your fingers all are the same distance from the keyboard anyway, you should probably be used to that by now.
Yes when on the home row. When you touch type you are mostly moving your fingers. When you search for the home row, there is a lot more wrist action when makes it difficult for me to find it.
Seriously, D and K just make more sense. I never used anything more comfortable than the old Mac keyboards. The only way it could be worse than it is now is if the bumps were on the A and ; for the pinkies.
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Reminds me of console makers for some reason. No wonder it is becoming a popular gaming platform.
I do thing you are being a bit optimistic. I remember when ign.com used a background image to set the color behind the text to white. The only problem is even on cable it would take a number of seconds before you can read the text. On dialup, it would be closer to 20 to 30 seconds before you could read the text.
Honestly, if big websites like that can't figure out basic good web design, I don't trust general designers. These are the people who will likely still feed images to users if they can figure out how to detect if they don't support the @font-family css setting. Hell, with a current CMS I have set up, I can't edit the menus using the CMS because the damn links are images.
Humbug.
You don't use the Pentium M based processors when you want to get better battery time with the least amount of weight. The only thing I haven't been impressed with is Flash performance, which is why I block it. I am a Gentoo EeePC with a 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom processor. (Feel free to get off my lawn ;-))
The FSF isn't hijacking it. It is correctly framing the discussion. HTML5 isn't going to do anything to replace the bulk of Flash web content out there. Most of that is already replaced with "apps".
I swear, you can't make anyone happy here. Where were you when Apple was forcing most applications on the iPhone to be made with HTML (and thus open and thus interpolerable)? I swear, you can't please anybody on slashdot. Your shit if you do, and shit if you don't.
Dell's are very funny about ram, make sure that you use ram specifically for Dell either Crucial or Kingston.
Are you running an all Dell shop and only swapping RAM between them? I swear, people will take a crapshot at Apple without looking at what they are currently running. It was a lot cheaper for me buying ram for my B&W G3 back in the day than a Dell Dimension.
I am not sure exactly how much competition there really is when the prices are artificially set by the RIAA. For a time non-iTunes stores were getting special deals just for the fact that they were not iTunes. I doubt Lala would get the same flexibility from the RIAA now that they are part of Apple anyway,
Bah. Bad delivery on that one. Ce la vie.
I know that the Japanese like their linear algebra and all, but they need to get back to what they are good at: making Marios.
People scoff at image, but I do believe the company shapes the image as much as the image shapes them and their product. Apple had developers and users who were fanatical about the user interface and it showed. The Wii is now seriously starting to get a cheap image from software, which begs more cheap software as game snobs ignore the good software that is actually released for it. (Big fat cycle.) If Linux loses the hacker image, you won't see so many tinkerers come to it.
It's all image.
It's just as bad as some medications and smoking now. I must go blog about this.
on the free trade coffee websites. Free trade vs free software.
So your console died and you didn't call Nintendo? They do have a replacement program the last I checked where they transfer your data to the new console...
From Nintendo's website:
How long is my warranty in the US or Canada and how do I check the warranty status?
Nintendo systems carry a standard twelve-month warranty, which is one of the longest standard warranties in the video game industry. For more information and to look up your system's warranty status, click here.
How can I pay for my repair if is not under warranty?
We accept Visa or MasterCard, or for some options you can send in a check or money order with your repair. The payment options and pricing will depend on the type of repair selected. If you have a question about payment, please call 1-800-255-3700.
You can probably still send it in.
The snap thing is another example of a design made for people who like to maximize everything. It absolutely drives me nuts because I have a tendency to throw windows to the corner of the screen to get them out of the way. Sometimes I swear windows is more about the taskbar than windows.
On Linux I will actually over lap windows and type on the one underneath. I don't have to worry about the window popping to the top because I have to hold alt as I click it to make it do that. It creates an amazing number of possibilities and flexibility where a window having focus doesn't necessarily mean it has to be in the front.
When you have a name like that on Microsoft Windows, how is anyone supposed to even know something better can and does exist? I was stumped to figure out what MS would call it. After some googling, it turns out it isn't referred to as Ludicrous Color (:-O!!!) but "Beyond True Color" or "Brilliant Color". Reference . Anyone know more than I do?
Not a book on Joomla 1.5 just before it is about to become outdated.
when you can use flashblock, stopping JavaScript animations and NoScript. It means if I can't see an advert, it's the own website's own fault. My Netbook is slow enough on the web without Flash and fancy Javascript. Interesting affects of my usage are that www.newgrounds.com accuses me of adblocking in their advert spots and screwattack.com videos don't play unless I turn off NoScript.
Um. Then get something like RHEL and be done with it. They specialize in keeping everything as stable as possible (and yes you pay for it.) It sounds like you are using the wrong product for your needs.
Still waiting for that iPod..^W^W^W iPhone ...er ^W^W^W iPad killer. It really is a bit like the rise of popularity of sushi.
At least that is how I see it in a nutshell. The Android is another iPod killer. The iPhone should have never taken off in the first place because it is so locked down. It is the year of Linux on the desktop.
So don't? Can't you just download the updated binary packages with Gentoo?
You best researching before saying silly stuff like that. There is no qt bin package. Gentoo is a source based distribution. There are a few bin packages available here and there, but they are the exception and not the rule. There is a reason why I posted what I posted before. If there was a bin installation that I knew about, I wouldn't have written it.
How much time are you spending building packages and how much time are you actually saving?
You asking that question shows that you know absolutely nothing about Gentoo users. Using Gentoo is not about this mythical "speed", but customization. Get off my lawn.
Compiling both qt and gtk on Gentoo is a bear for every security fix. Thank god for Qt being recently split up into different components making things a bit easier, though.
My main problem with most music player software today is the idea of a 'media library'. In order to play a file, you first have to put it in the library. I understand such a database has its benefits, but to me it is unnecessary complication of a simple operation. In fact, I do have a custom script for managing music files burnt to DVDs, but in the unix spirit I like to keep thing separate, so I am free to use different players.
Which used to be the difference between Quicktime and iTunes for me when I used to use a Mac. The nice thing about those programs is one is one is 'media library' based, and one isn't. On the linux side it it is comparable to Totem vs Rhythmbox. Windows forces them to be together in WMP. Don't know about KDE, but I think they only use Amarok?
Almost everyone is fooled by 9.99 and "under $10" pricing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing Endless studies have been done on the matter and it works.
The trick is to call the $9.99 $10.00 and then stop looking at the damn number. (Out of sight out of mind anyone?) The longer you stare at it, the more of a phycological impact $9.99 will have.
Prices like $2.98 still make me personally totter a bit, though. I mean, what the hell is with that number!? Thanks for the wikipedia link
...but I still do not use browser mode, either. Instead, I am now just using the terminal 99% of the time. The spacial implementation in Gnome failed for me because it was way too clunky. For something that is supposed reflect placement of real objects in real life, you really need to be able to interact with them with both hands in order for it to be enjoyable. In other words, there needs to be many more keyboard/mouse/mouse-keyboard commands for mass window management. Sometimes, it just doesn't work piddling with every single window individually every single time.
Because of this, spacial in Gnome always felt lame in a lot of ways like how spacial in Windows 95 was lame. Spacial just doesn't work if you try to use it with an arm tied behind your back. Now granted, since moving to Gnome from Mac OS, I have fallen in love with modifier-drag combination for moving windows around. Shift drag is also pretty fancy. We just need more of those kinds of things.
Ignoring that it is very possible to skip upgrades on Mac OS X, these price point debates are just made by people to support what they like working with. If people cared about price that much, no one would ever buy Windows Ultimate edition and Linux would be ruler of the earth. But rather, the atmosphere of things is more like this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-L-0s-7-Z0&feature=PlayList&p=8DF58E9C3BB72043&index=0
If it really bothers you that much, why don't you find the bumps with your middle finger, and then move your hands over?
That is the crux of the problem. I tend to lose my position when I do that.
Or you can do what I do, put my hands in typing position
To each their own. I find when I do this I can't feel the bumps. My index fingers are much more sensitive than my pointer fingers and it is just plain easier to search with them. On top of that, when you are in typing position the fingers tend to be placed with the fingernail pointed diagonally down, making them less sensitive. And then there is the weird swirly wrist motion you have to do when you keep typing position and are freshly search for the home row in the dark.
Most of the time typing your fingers all are the same distance from the keyboard anyway, you should probably be used to that by now.
Yes when on the home row. When you touch type you are mostly moving your fingers. When you search for the home row, there is a lot more wrist action when makes it difficult for me to find it.
Seriously, D and K just make more sense. I never used anything more comfortable than the old Mac keyboards. The only way it could be worse than it is now is if the bumps were on the A and ; for the pinkies.