I agree. The colors are too bright, green, blue, yellow, red, all very shiny and saturated. Some things changed for the worse, where there was nothing wrong. The close buttons on tabs have a focus style that's difficult to see. The downloads window, I don't know why they changed the visuals on that, there was really nothing wrong with it. And things that needed some work, like the customize toolbar window, still have a terrible interface (why not just show the buttons as I drag them, why can I resize that window until I see nothing?)
The good thing is, there will probably be an add-on to change everything back.
I just tried it for the first time. Here's my 10 minute experience in excise. I'm reading About Face by Cooper, so I might be overly critical.
I managed to hide the tools panes and I was not able to find a way to get them back. I got a row of buttons at the top but they did nothing! I couldn't resize that part of the screen to see if there was more, didn't work (bug?)
If I click Help > About, the about window disappears after less than a second. So what's that about?
In the file browser, I was so naive as to double click a folder wich is how my system (Windows) works. It not only opened the folder, but also another one, because in Blender apparently you only click once on a folder in the browser to open it.
The file and folder browser by default also shows hidden files, something my system and other programs don't do. Why would I want to see pagefile.sys listed when I first open the file browser in Blender?
At first the address field in the file browser showed '/' as the path, my Windows system does not actually have that path. I clicked in the field, clicked out of the field and it suddenly changed to 'c:/'. Better, but why?
There's a field underneath the address field, it's purpose is not clear. I can type in it, I expected it to be a filter. It's not, it doesn't seem to have any purpose to me right now.
The File browser shows me there's 2941.320 MB free, that's nice... and pretty useless.
Tooltips in the File browser appear halfway across the screen from the mouse pointer, pretty unusual.
On first startup, in the Buttons window, the first block is positioned slightly off screen to the left. I could get it in view by scrolling my mousewheel vertically, which made the buttons windows scroll horizotally, very unusual. I wonder if on the Mac you need to scroll horizontally using the mighty mouse?
I could resize the buttons windows until it was too small vertically for the controls in it. There was no scrollbar to get them in view. Scrolling the mousewheel, as said, only scrolled it horizontally.
There's a scrollbar in the file browser, it has the tactile feedback of a button. It misses the basic up/down buttons.
Why does my program have two windows? One is scary and black and it talks to me about stuff I don't really understand? I guess I'll close it... Hey! Where's the real program?!
What's the purple distracting thing with the black letters? Ah, it's the webaddress of the program. I don't really need that though (and it looks crap).
Oh, I figured out why the About screen disappears. It's because I moved my mouse. Silly me.
I clicked Help > System > System information. All I got was sort of a dialog saying it was done and I had to check somewhere else to see the results. Systeminfo.text.oo4 in the text windows actually. This instruction seemed clickable, it highlighted when I had my mouse over it. I would expect it to at least go the aforementioned text file, but nooo, I really have to go there myself. There was nothing there...
I'm in the info window now, playing with the toggle buttons. Right now, under 'Select with' I have selected neither mouse button. Why is that even possible? Now I have both left en right buttons selected, and it seems that then to deselect either you have to click it twice.
The layout of options in the info window is horrible, spacing is inconsitent and there's no alignment between options. This is 101 and can be found in most GUIdelines.
The options are separated in 'tabs' but they look just like buttons, only purple. There's no border around the tab and it's content, just the pressed button indicates the active tab.
In the action editor window, the timeline (is that what it is?) is not displayed correctly (the left part is not aligned to the left of the window. However, at least on number below it is displayed there, so that's just floating around without a timeline above it.
Does the Office department realise that Microsoft has a runtime on the Mac? It's called the Dynamic Language Runtime and it will run JavaScript, Ruby, Python and something called VBX (whatever that is).
Wouldn't it be a better idea to use that and build libraries for it. There's already Office libraries for.NET so it seems the smartest thing to do.
Of course, that would be awfully cross platform and that's a scray thing for Microsoft.
Google is taking pictures from a normal vantage point. and posting them on the internet. That's kind of an important part of the discussion. You didn't see me walk to work this morning did you? But now you can with Google maps.
Yeah, I can expect about a thousand people seeing me walk to work each morning. I didn't expect 3 billion people to see me.
MS LRL: It's bad because it forces you to use code written FOR windows on windows. So WTF is that license for if not for platform lock-in? If there's a.NET program under that license, it can't be used on Mono. Nice.
I think it has nothing to do with zealotry, just common sense (and an understanding of the history of Microsoft of course).
So, in summary, it's complicated, but if they could lower their prices they would, not out of kindness, but because of the murderous advantage it would give them in the marketplace. You keep believing that. In the mean time these corporations just agree to not go below 5 cents a message, so everyone can get rich. If you think that it costs you that much database space in your computers then I don't know what you are doing on Slashdot.
You probably don't bother explaining to them how the GPL works to insure contributions from everyone are available to all nor how it allows you to take avoid vendor lock-in and take competitive bids on improvements, resulting in lower ongoing costs... because those things take significant understanding and most people don't want to put that much effort in. My boss understands very well what vendor lock in is, after upgrading to Adobe CS3 with higher prices than ever before, incompatibility with previous version so the whole company has to upgrade etc. That doesn't need explaining at all.
Oh well, I guess php6 is where they are finally trying to do things right now. At which point it will be kind of like Java 1.2
Apart from the amazing amount of PHP code(rs) out there, it seems that PHP is destined to be old skool. With all the buzz around Ruby, Python 3, JavaScript, C# 3, how is PHP going to be a good choice for new projects in the future?
Waiting for years to get namespace support while a C# coder now has generics, lambdas, a query dsl and a proper base class library. How is that cool, why be a PHP programmer? So you can have generics by 2012?
They have a part of Microsoft in the pictures that I have read about. It's one of the most modern offices based around agility. The walls are writable and you can move them to create a new team workplace in a matter of minutes. There's empty offices for anyone to sit in quiet and it looks from the pictures they have aeron chairs at what, 800$ a pop?
Adobe not providing any 64bit support for OS X because Apple dropped the ball on Carbon x64bit support Yeah, doesn't it suck that the ancient framework Adobe used that was supposed to not be used anymore in the future is not upgraded. Totally somebody else's fault! I mean, Adobe had to spend a lot of time developing a shiny new interface with collapsing panes, so no way did they have time to do anything else. Apple should do the hard work so Adobe can just recompile. It's so unfair:'(
Apple ripped the ideas off from several years ago, let alone the MS multi-touch work that also preceded the TED conference. MS Research has and is doing more with UI than any other think tank in the world. Yeah, because everybody knows the most important thing is if an idea was stolen from someone else. Forget about functioning iPhones or multi-touch mac books, that's not important. Consumers decide based on wether a feature was invented before or after a TED conference...
Ok, but C# 3.0 does offer some really good functionality, like LINQ. It's a very nice language, and within a year F# (a functional language) will become a fully supported language alongside VB.NET and C#. And this year ASP.NET will finally have an 'official' MVC framework, and there will be the Entity Framework release.
I too am frustrated, the cost mostly, but I really like the.NET framework, languages and general direction of tools. I don't see such a complete package anywhere else.
You may have read the article, but I think you did not actually understand it. He did NOT compare the 'crowd' to the 'conflict' (that would be silly anyway). He compared the way the Apple fans react to reviews to the way biased people (everyone?) react to objective news (in this case about an event that involves Isreal and Palestinians). The point is that if you are biased (Apple fan, pro-Israel) to begin with, you will find something in a review or in the news that you think is biased the other way around.
Writing an extensible framework - and then extensions (or example extensions) would have been smarter, smaller, faster, and easier for true developers to implement. .NET 4 will have an extensibility framework.
But the minute you have to do that with your ARMPIT When is that? When you work at home where you don't have the right tools? Either don't work at home, or, if you need to, get your boss to get another license so you have the right tools when you need them! If you were a graphic designer, you'd go back to using notepad because, hey, you have to be able to work without those fancy Photoshop layers and effects, right? Of course not, you'd use the second activation that Adobe allows to install Photoshop at home.
Microsoft still makes a ton of money with their development tools, especially Visual Studio Team Whatever. But in the past years they have released free versions and have moved features down from the Team Edition to 'lower' editions. I'm still hoping one day they will just give something like the Professional Edition away for free. Sure, it's not money in the pocket, but it's developers in the pocket, that's got to be worth something too.
So true, last year I bought an HD-Ready TV, upscaling DVD player and I have collected 50+ DVD's. This year I plan to buy another 100+ DVD's. I am 100% satisfied with the setup, price and quality. I have no need for Blu-ray.
After all, their business is closely tied to the PC and, to a lesser extent, the Windows OS, so for every bit of ground gained by Linux, they can either risk losing relevance or have to expend time and money keeping up. I think there's so much more they can write about in Linux. Also, users neeed guidance to make the switch to Linux, CNET can provide. I think they stand to gain by the adption of Linux on the desktop.
I just tried this, and it does NOT work at all in Firefox with the user agent switched to IE 7. It looks somewhat the same, but it's not functioning at all.
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I agree. The colors are too bright, green, blue, yellow, red, all very shiny and saturated. Some things changed for the worse, where there was nothing wrong. The close buttons on tabs have a focus style that's difficult to see. The downloads window, I don't know why they changed the visuals on that, there was really nothing wrong with it. And things that needed some work, like the customize toolbar window, still have a terrible interface (why not just show the buttons as I drag them, why can I resize that window until I see nothing?) The good thing is, there will probably be an add-on to change everything back.
Does the Office department realise that Microsoft has a runtime on the Mac? It's called the Dynamic Language Runtime and it will run JavaScript, Ruby, Python and something called VBX (whatever that is). Wouldn't it be a better idea to use that and build libraries for it. There's already Office libraries for .NET so it seems the smartest thing to do.
Of course, that would be awfully cross platform and that's a scray thing for Microsoft.
They have a part of Microsoft in the pictures that I have read about. It's one of the most modern offices based around agility. The walls are writable and you can move them to create a new team workplace in a matter of minutes. There's empty offices for anyone to sit in quiet and it looks from the pictures they have aeron chairs at what, 800$ a pop?
How's that bad?
Ok, but C# 3.0 does offer some really good functionality, like LINQ. It's a very nice language, and within a year F# (a functional language) will become a fully supported language alongside VB.NET and C#. And this year ASP.NET will finally have an 'official' MVC framework, and there will be the Entity Framework release.
.NET framework, languages and general direction of tools. I don't see such a complete package anywhere else.
I too am frustrated, the cost mostly, but I really like the
I think the visuals are WPF, so .NET 3.0 and up, so that has been ready since Vista shipped.
You may have read the article, but I think you did not actually understand it. He did NOT compare the 'crowd' to the 'conflict' (that would be silly anyway). He compared the way the Apple fans react to reviews to the way biased people (everyone?) react to objective news (in this case about an event that involves Isreal and Palestinians). The point is that if you are biased (Apple fan, pro-Israel) to begin with, you will find something in a review or in the news that you think is biased the other way around.
Make that Paint by the way, notepad is a bit over the top for doing graphical work...
Microsoft still makes a ton of money with their development tools, especially Visual Studio Team Whatever. But in the past years they have released free versions and have moved features down from the Team Edition to 'lower' editions. I'm still hoping one day they will just give something like the Professional Edition away for free. Sure, it's not money in the pocket, but it's developers in the pocket, that's got to be worth something too.
Visual Studio is built that way too, you could build a drawing program on top of Visual Studio Shell.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx2008/products/bb933751.aspx
So true, last year I bought an HD-Ready TV, upscaling DVD player and I have collected 50+ DVD's. This year I plan to buy another 100+ DVD's. I am 100% satisfied with the setup, price and quality. I have no need for Blu-ray.
Explaining that on Slashdot is useless, most of us know. Explaining that anywhere else is useless too, most of them don't care.
Yah, Feisty Fawn, much better than Leopard. Whatever.
I just tried this, and it does NOT work at all in Firefox with the user agent switched to IE 7. It looks somewhat the same, but it's not functioning at all.
That was also before Victoria's Secret.