Whose ass do you have to sue to get some highres monitors around here?
Forget it.
The only way that's going to happen is if the pixel count gets magically quadrupled, so you can immediately jump from 1900x1200 on a 24" monitor to 3800x2400.
Any intermediate solutions simply wouldn't work due to issues with scaling existing content. Read: it would look like blurred shit. If you don't want to scale things up in size and keep everything 1:1, then tough luck, because it would require perfect vision and strain the eyes, which would make it inaccessible for the vast majority of people out there (and even then, there are limits). I have a 22" running the bog-standard 1680x1050, and to be honest, sometimes I wouldn't mind having a 24" with the same resolution for extra comfort, after a long day of work...
Scale up: looks like shit Don't scale up: include a magnifying glass with the monitor
Now, if the pixel count gets quadrupled, then you can keep everything displayed completely the same as now, have the OS lie about resolution and scale everything internally, but also add some new API functions to allow apps to draw certain things (such as font glyphs) at the true native resolution. About seven to ten years later (!), you could consider the transitions successful because all monitors sold would be high-res, all maintained software would have been written to make use of the new API, and all toolbar icons would have been quadrupled in resolution as well.
Unfortunately, you'd still have the issue of graphics on the web, so you'd also need a new image format that would hold a low res and a high res version, and if you said something was "300px" wide, it would technically be a lie, but never mind that.
In conclusion, it's not going to happen, and you can forget it:)
The only real problem are big investments, such as buying a roof over your head, and a set of wheels. Those are a bit hard to purchase without having banks breathing on your neck for a couple of decades, but that's what parents are for - when they die, you inherit their real estate, sell it, and pay off your credit loan for the house and buy that car you always wanted, and make the neighbour jealous;)
But, if someone like you would sell everything they have and come live here with all that money, they'd live like kings.
Or they could just move to a foreign country and live off $15.000 a year, have 30 vacation days, sick leave that doesn't interfere with that, seven hours of work per day, clean air, and efficient public transportation that doesn't require you to own a car and still be at work in half an hour.
But I guess they want their huge plasma screens and game consoles and three muscle cars and hookers and cocaine.
You went on to describe how Perl is great but just so you know - every one of those reasons you listed is why every multi-lingual person on the planet hates English.
I'm multi-lingual.
English, with the exception of Esperanto, was the easiest language to learn. There are several orders of magnitude more exceptions in some other languages; they also have a lot more cases and conjugations, and actually use genders (to which English is oblivious). Even spelling words in English is incredibly easy.
I think the matte vs. glossy discussion doesn't have any bearing on the vivid vs. drab comparison. I have a 97% gamut matte screen at home. It's incredible for movies - or anything else.
The only thing incredible about wide gamut is that it distorts the colours and makes them inaccurate...
That JS library looks pretty awesome. The PNG transparency in IE6 is nice, but it also says it fixes CSS issues - does it just fix bugs in the way IE renders CSS, or does it implement JS equivalents of modern CSS eye candy like CSS3 Pie too? If so, I'd use it.
No, it doesn't include the fancy shadows and rounded borders, but you get extremely helpful CSS selectors and even some really basic HTML5 functionality when it comes to IE7/8. The fixes for IE6 are incredible if you are unfortunate enough to be forced to develop for it; this makes things a lot better.
If you were intelligent enough to know how to install CSS3 Pie*, you wouldn't even use IE. *not exactly "install" per se seeing as it's a library, not an application but you know what I mean. Hopefully.
You seem to have misunderstood what this is about... The end-user doesn't install anything. The.htc resides on the server and it's the developer who includes the library and makes it work.
To be fair, however, CSS3 Pie isn't something that you should actually use, considering that it slows down the browser massively and it just adds the ability to display useless visual cruft.
This library, on the other hand, is several orders of magnitude more useful (and I'm dead serious about it): http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
I sunk 70+ hours into my first game (female Dwarf Noble) did as many side missions as I could find) and put about 40+ hours into my second game (female City Elf). Dragon Age's world really felt alive, and I felt like I was having a direct impact ont he way things were going.
You've opened a can of worms, in case you've chosen different outcomes for the "big" events. You might have to play the second game twice with both your saves, in order to see what the differences are:P
FYI, on my system the opera:about page shows it as version "10.60 internal", but its browser identification is: "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60" which could be construed as meaning either version 9.80 or version 10.60.
You can thank idiots who do browser sniffing the wrong way for that.
Basically, some people who should have never been allowed to do any development checked for Opera's version by the first digit. When Opera went to 10.00, some scripts suddenly thought it was Opera 1, and things went very bad. Therefore, all future Opera versions will fake-identify as "Opera/9.x" in order to prevent that from happening.
Chrome seems to be the next in line to hit version 10 by the way things are going, so I don't doubt they'll be in the same boat when it happens.
This is the genius of Jobs: his company makes products that are hard to be indifferent to. Everyone wants to own one because they we'd get to be the center of attention too, and this is the primary determinant of satisfaction with consumer electronics products.
ASIO works perfectly fine. You can get sub-millisecond latency on some systems. Firewire could be an issue there, yes... What you've encountered is uncommon.
Anyway, Windows runs everything perfectly fine. I have lots of friends who regularly perform live EDM acts on regular Windows laptops, and there have never been any problems with that, either.
Audio pros still need a system to hook on an 8 channel 24/192 interface. OS X has a pro audio subsystem the likes of which you can't find anywhere else. Are we going to just abandon that and tell music producers to use toy Windows?
You will have a very hard time finding music producers who *don't* use Windows (I have personally never met one). It's not the nineties anymore. All major DAW software and hardware runs on both operating systems, but the vast majority of VSTs are Windows-specific, and that settles the deal.
Just right-clicking into the blank space of the folder you're in will give you the context menu for that folder.
Yes, it will, but it won't have the shell items that I need. That context menu is completely useless.
Right-click on a folder and notice what items the context menu has... Then right-click on an empty space inside the window and compare. They aren't even similar.
(And whoever modded my parent post troll - please die in a fire. Thanks.)
I'm not using 7even (or Fista), but I do "have" a 2008 Server that I often RD into, and the one thing that irritates me incredibly (even more than UAC) is that I have no idea how to pop up the shell context menu for the folder I'm currently in.
In XP and earlier Windows, you'd just right-click on the folder icon on the top left of the window.
In Fista and above, that just pops up the standard useless menu with move/restore/minimize/maximize, just as when you right-click on the title bar.
Google is not helpful at all. The best I could get is an addition of "Open command prompt here" through shift+rightclick, but that's not what I want.
Please help me out here if you've figured it out... I often use that context menu to fire up 7-zip, or grep, or a duplicate copy of Win Explorer, or other things, and every time I have to do something on that server, I want to scream.
What I'd like to see in the next wave of RTS games, then, is a method by which they screw with the various units just enough from game to game that simply being able to do the same thing over and over again as quickly as possible does not equal success in multiplayer -- somehow introduce a measure of creativity and quick-thinking rather than just "zergling rush the bitches until Blizzard patches us"-style tactics.
Play Company of Heroes. Unlike Starcraft, which is still an old-gen RTS, despite the new graphics, COH has things such as popcap, map control, directional cover, suppression, retreating, reinforcing, etc. Sure, there's a lot of luck involved, and it's not perfectly balanced, but in many aspects it makes SCII look like a kid's toy (and dare I say it looks prettier to, even though it was released a long time ago). Furthermore, it's not a clickfest nor a spamfest, so even people out of their teens are able to play it very well.
How many times have you seen "the password must be between x and y characters in length and must contain blah blah"?
I want to enter a full sentence. Like "this is my password and you won't be able to guess it, you idiot". You aren't making this possible, because you're thinking like geek programmers who use randomly-generated strings of 8-12 characters by the dozens.
I write code and do inter-office support for my apps. Do you know how many times someone told me "I forgotz my password, halp!!11" after they were instructed to use a full sentence with a minimum of twenty-five characters? Zero. Nobody ever forgot it.
I know, they selected me as a beta user some time ago, and I happily deleted the cookies responsible for that monstrosity. There have been some improvements since then (most notably, URLs now look like URLs, instead of 524987-character garbage, and not everything is a playlist), but it's still garbage. If you picked a random person from the street, they would probably be able to design the page better and in a more usable way.
I honestly have no idea what they tried to accomplish with this, and why they haven't hired someone knowledgeable to do the design...
Unfortunately, it also looks like they are pushing through the new page design which I am not a huge fan of.
I've talked to a dozen people today about the new layout, and not a single person liked it - not the laymen, not the designers, not the programmers, nobody. The words "clusterfuck", "illegible", "wanky piece of shit" and "it's an April Fools' joke, right?" had been uttered.
Judging by how this thing looks and behaves, they probably haven't done any real usability testing, and they've partly left Opera out in the cold (videos now require "click to activate" and vertical centering is off on all "buttons", which is going to piss off tens of millions of people by itself). The comments are extremely hard to read, there are no borders, there is no colour, there is no real element grouping, ratings are binary shit... I'll be monitoring design/usability experts in the next few days to see what they have to say; I'd be extremely surprised if anyone found enough positive things about the new page design.
To be fair, the old design wasn't so perfect, either, but the new one has improved on very few areas.
I think they'll have to roll it back, or redesign the redesign, because the outburst is fairly significant.
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Whose ass do you have to sue to get some highres monitors around here?
Forget it.
The only way that's going to happen is if the pixel count gets magically quadrupled, so you can immediately jump from 1900x1200 on a 24" monitor to 3800x2400.
Any intermediate solutions simply wouldn't work due to issues with scaling existing content. Read: it would look like blurred shit. If you don't want to scale things up in size and keep everything 1:1, then tough luck, because it would require perfect vision and strain the eyes, which would make it inaccessible for the vast majority of people out there (and even then, there are limits). I have a 22" running the bog-standard 1680x1050, and to be honest, sometimes I wouldn't mind having a 24" with the same resolution for extra comfort, after a long day of work...
Scale up: looks like shit
Don't scale up: include a magnifying glass with the monitor
Now, if the pixel count gets quadrupled, then you can keep everything displayed completely the same as now, have the OS lie about resolution and scale everything internally, but also add some new API functions to allow apps to draw certain things (such as font glyphs) at the true native resolution. About seven to ten years later (!), you could consider the transitions successful because all monitors sold would be high-res, all maintained software would have been written to make use of the new API, and all toolbar icons would have been quadrupled in resolution as well.
Unfortunately, you'd still have the issue of graphics on the web, so you'd also need a new image format that would hold a low res and a high res version, and if you said something was "300px" wide, it would technically be a lie, but never mind that.
In conclusion, it's not going to happen, and you can forget it :)
There's one thing robots in space can never do that humans can: be humans in space.
Yup.
http://www.oldeenglish.org/podcast/astronauts
Yup. We have free university education for the top students, the rest pay a small amount of money (compared to the US).
The only real problem are big investments, such as buying a roof over your head, and a set of wheels. Those are a bit hard to purchase without having banks breathing on your neck for a couple of decades, but that's what parents are for - when they die, you inherit their real estate, sell it, and pay off your credit loan for the house and buy that car you always wanted, and make the neighbour jealous ;)
But, if someone like you would sell everything they have and come live here with all that money, they'd live like kings.
Sure you can. I live well on slightly over that amount :)
where is this mysterious country where this is true?
In most of Europe.
Or they could just move to a foreign country and live off $15.000 a year, have 30 vacation days, sick leave that doesn't interfere with that, seven hours of work per day, clean air, and efficient public transportation that doesn't require you to own a car and still be at work in half an hour.
But I guess they want their huge plasma screens and game consoles and three muscle cars and hookers and cocaine.
There's more to life than just money alone.
You went on to describe how Perl is great but just so you know - every one of those reasons you listed is why every multi-lingual person on the planet hates English.
I'm multi-lingual.
English, with the exception of Esperanto, was the easiest language to learn. There are several orders of magnitude more exceptions in some other languages; they also have a lot more cases and conjugations, and actually use genders (to which English is oblivious). Even spelling words in English is incredibly easy.
I think the matte vs. glossy discussion doesn't have any bearing on the vivid vs. drab comparison. I have a 97% gamut matte screen at home. It's incredible for movies - or anything else.
The only thing incredible about wide gamut is that it distorts the colours and makes them inaccurate...
That JS library looks pretty awesome. The PNG transparency in IE6 is nice, but it also says it fixes CSS issues - does it just fix bugs in the way IE renders CSS, or does it implement JS equivalents of modern CSS eye candy like CSS3 Pie too? If so, I'd use it.
Look here:
http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/test/index.html
No, it doesn't include the fancy shadows and rounded borders, but you get extremely helpful CSS selectors and even some really basic HTML5 functionality when it comes to IE7/8. The fixes for IE6 are incredible if you are unfortunate enough to be forced to develop for it; this makes things a lot better.
If you were intelligent enough to know how to install CSS3 Pie*, you wouldn't even use IE.
*not exactly "install" per se seeing as it's a library, not an application but you know what I mean. Hopefully.
You seem to have misunderstood what this is about... The end-user doesn't install anything. The .htc resides on the server and it's the developer who includes the library and makes it work.
To be fair, however, CSS3 Pie isn't something that you should actually use, considering that it slows down the browser massively and it just adds the ability to display useless visual cruft.
This library, on the other hand, is several orders of magnitude more useful (and I'm dead serious about it): http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
I sunk 70+ hours into my first game (female Dwarf Noble) did as many side missions as I could find) and put about 40+ hours into my second game (female City Elf). Dragon Age's world really felt alive, and I felt like I was having a direct impact ont he way things were going.
You've opened a can of worms, in case you've chosen different outcomes for the "big" events. You might have to play the second game twice with both your saves, in order to see what the differences are :P
FYI, on my system the opera:about page shows it as version "10.60 internal", but its browser identification is:
"Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60"
which could be construed as meaning either version 9.80 or version 10.60.
You can thank idiots who do browser sniffing the wrong way for that.
Basically, some people who should have never been allowed to do any development checked for Opera's version by the first digit. When Opera went to 10.00, some scripts suddenly thought it was Opera 1, and things went very bad. Therefore, all future Opera versions will fake-identify as "Opera/9.x" in order to prevent that from happening.
Chrome seems to be the next in line to hit version 10 by the way things are going, so I don't doubt they'll be in the same boat when it happens.
This is the genius of Jobs: his company makes products that are hard to be indifferent to. Everyone wants to own one because they we'd get to be the center of attention too, and this is the primary determinant of satisfaction with consumer electronics products.
I don't.
What would I do with it?
ASIO works perfectly fine. You can get sub-millisecond latency on some systems. Firewire could be an issue there, yes... What you've encountered is uncommon.
Anyway, Windows runs everything perfectly fine. I have lots of friends who regularly perform live EDM acts on regular Windows laptops, and there have never been any problems with that, either.
Audio pros still need a system to hook on an 8 channel 24/192 interface. OS X has a pro audio subsystem the likes of which you can't find anywhere else. Are we going to just abandon that and tell music producers to use toy Windows?
You will have a very hard time finding music producers who *don't* use Windows (I have personally never met one). It's not the nineties anymore. All major DAW software and hardware runs on both operating systems, but the vast majority of VSTs are Windows-specific, and that settles the deal.
Just right-clicking into the blank space of the folder you're in will give you the context menu for that folder.
Yes, it will, but it won't have the shell items that I need. That context menu is completely useless.
Right-click on a folder and notice what items the context menu has... Then right-click on an empty space inside the window and compare. They aren't even similar.
(And whoever modded my parent post troll - please die in a fire. Thanks.)
I'm not using 7even (or Fista), but I do "have" a 2008 Server that I often RD into, and the one thing that irritates me incredibly (even more than UAC) is that I have no idea how to pop up the shell context menu for the folder I'm currently in.
In XP and earlier Windows, you'd just right-click on the folder icon on the top left of the window.
In Fista and above, that just pops up the standard useless menu with move/restore/minimize/maximize, just as when you right-click on the title bar.
Google is not helpful at all. The best I could get is an addition of "Open command prompt here" through shift+rightclick, but that's not what I want.
Please help me out here if you've figured it out... I often use that context menu to fire up 7-zip, or grep, or a duplicate copy of Win Explorer, or other things, and every time I have to do something on that server, I want to scream.
What I'd like to see in the next wave of RTS games, then, is a method by which they screw with the various units just enough from game to game that simply being able to do the same thing over and over again as quickly as possible does not equal success in multiplayer -- somehow introduce a measure of creativity and quick-thinking rather than just "zergling rush the bitches until Blizzard patches us"-style tactics.
Play Company of Heroes. Unlike Starcraft, which is still an old-gen RTS, despite the new graphics, COH has things such as popcap, map control, directional cover, suppression, retreating, reinforcing, etc. Sure, there's a lot of luck involved, and it's not perfectly balanced, but in many aspects it makes SCII look like a kid's toy (and dare I say it looks prettier to, even though it was released a long time ago). Furthermore, it's not a clickfest nor a spamfest, so even people out of their teens are able to play it very well.
So they tried turning the show off and then on again?
Nah, they were still in shock from Jen's destruction of the internet.
How many times have you seen "the password must be between x and y characters in length and must contain blah blah"?
I want to enter a full sentence. Like "this is my password and you won't be able to guess it, you idiot". You aren't making this possible, because you're thinking like geek programmers who use randomly-generated strings of 8-12 characters by the dozens.
I write code and do inter-office support for my apps. Do you know how many times someone told me "I forgotz my password, halp!!11" after they were instructed to use a full sentence with a minimum of twenty-five characters? Zero. Nobody ever forgot it.
Nothing. Flash will never be replaced, and by the time you start seeing Canvas ads, you'll have Canvasblock :)
I know, they selected me as a beta user some time ago, and I happily deleted the cookies responsible for that monstrosity. There have been some improvements since then (most notably, URLs now look like URLs, instead of 524987-character garbage, and not everything is a playlist), but it's still garbage. If you picked a random person from the street, they would probably be able to design the page better and in a more usable way.
I honestly have no idea what they tried to accomplish with this, and why they haven't hired someone knowledgeable to do the design...
Unfortunately, it also looks like they are pushing through the new page design which I am not a huge fan of.
I've talked to a dozen people today about the new layout, and not a single person liked it - not the laymen, not the designers, not the programmers, nobody. The words "clusterfuck", "illegible", "wanky piece of shit" and "it's an April Fools' joke, right?" had been uttered.
Judging by how this thing looks and behaves, they probably haven't done any real usability testing, and they've partly left Opera out in the cold (videos now require "click to activate" and vertical centering is off on all "buttons", which is going to piss off tens of millions of people by itself). The comments are extremely hard to read, there are no borders, there is no colour, there is no real element grouping, ratings are binary shit... I'll be monitoring design/usability experts in the next few days to see what they have to say; I'd be extremely surprised if anyone found enough positive things about the new page design.
To be fair, the old design wasn't so perfect, either, but the new one has improved on very few areas.
I think they'll have to roll it back, or redesign the redesign, because the outburst is fairly significant.
...and Floppies are the new punch cards...and punch cards are the new abacuses...and abacuses are the new ...what? Fingers and toes?
I think you meant abacii.