Going back to the original "news for nerds" subject, instead of Mad Magazine's opinion on the Starr trials, perhaps a better subject would be their Windows 98 Parody, from the same source. (I took the link from the frame to get there, so it complains, but the picture is hilarious.:)
I completely agree with the spirit of the article, that the record companies missed a bet, and are now paying for it.
I used to buy a CD for a song, back when they weren't *as* overpriced as they are now. I know how much it costs to press a CD in volume, and I know how much the band gets. I can't justify paying the rest of the cost.
Yep, it looks pretty friggin' ugly to me, but as long as we can change it, I don't care.
For that matter, I'm in favor of having a themeable UI library that can (a) look like any other widget set and whatnot (i.e. themeable) and (b) support all the calls of the other widget sets (their APIs and whatnot).
Then we can recompile everything against that, have only *one* library (as opposed to athena/athena-3d, motif/lesstif, GTK, Qt, etc.) and choose our look and feel for either the whole desktop, or on an application-by-application basis, or different for each virtual desktop, or whatever we want...
Heck, GTK would be a good start, since it's somewhat themeable, and there's so much interest in it already.
It's all about freedom of choice, which UNIX already offers, more than the other platforms do, and it'd be great to allow a consistency of user interface if desired, without having to rewrite every application with a new, incompatible toolkit, and still not necessarily be tied to a single API...
Of course, I don't have the necessary experience to do this, it'd require someone with the expertise of, say, Rasterman, or whoever made the other toolkits in the first place... (Xaw3d is a good example) But it's a project I'd love to see, and would be happy to support, test, or debug.
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Going back to the original "news for nerds" subject, instead of Mad Magazine's opinion on the Starr trials, perhaps a better subject would be their Windows 98 Parody, from the same source. (I took the link from the frame to get there, so it complains, but the picture is hilarious. :)
I completely agree with the spirit of the article, that the record companies missed a bet, and are now paying for it.
I used to buy a CD for a song, back when they weren't *as* overpriced as they are now. I know how much it costs to press a CD in volume, and I know how much the band gets. I can't justify paying the rest of the cost.
Yep, it looks pretty friggin' ugly to me, but as long as we can change it, I don't care.
For that matter, I'm in favor of having a themeable UI library that can (a) look like any other widget set and whatnot (i.e. themeable) and (b) support all the calls of the other widget sets (their APIs and whatnot).
Then we can recompile everything against that, have only *one* library (as opposed to athena/athena-3d, motif/lesstif, GTK, Qt, etc.) and choose our look and feel for either the whole desktop, or on an application-by-application basis, or different for each virtual desktop, or whatever we want...
Heck, GTK would be a good start, since it's somewhat themeable, and there's so much interest in it already.
It's all about freedom of choice, which UNIX already offers, more than the other platforms do, and it'd be great to allow a consistency of user interface if desired, without having to rewrite every application with a new, incompatible toolkit, and still not necessarily be tied to a single API...
Of course, I don't have the necessary experience to do this, it'd require someone with the expertise of, say, Rasterman, or whoever made the other toolkits in the first place... (Xaw3d is a good example) But it's a project I'd love to see, and would be happy to support, test, or debug.
I must agree.
I am thankful everyday that "nothing else is a Pepsi",
and I must say that "Coke is it".
(and Pepsi is way too sickeningly sweet,
and there is no worse soda than any variant of "Diet Pepsi")