Similar story but the other way around for me, I found Drupal to be much easier to develop with than Joomla, this was back when I first dived into the world of website development. Especially the documentation of Drupal, at the time, far surpassed Joomla's.
To me Drupal seems a lot cleaner, simpler and tidier while Joomla is a mess. I'm not sure whether the documentation is better now or not, but a year or so ago it was impossible to figure out how to develop for it.
Since my original comparison I never gave Joomla another second of thought.
Like for most games, our stores once again double the price for no reason other than that they can. If I buy this at all it'll be an import from somewhere like play-asia.
I've already installed a lot of applications onto my iPod Touch through the hacked installer.
On top of that they want me to pay for a firmware upgrade that will allow me to install programs from their store.
I'm definitely not paying to get the "privilege" of installing applications from the app store when I can do so already, and for something that should have been included when the iPhone/iPod Touch first came out.
As annoying, ridiculous and stupid as this is, it won't actually stop anyone from getting the game through other means. They're just kidding themselves, and eventually we'll get the R18+ rating for games, because that's what we want. It's just a matter of time.
It's hard to believe these people actually attended law school, or are they just grabbing more money from RIAA by making it look like they're doing something?
It sure seems ridiculous from an outside point of view, but I wonder what actually goes on. Any theories?
Granted I didn't browse through all of it, but a few unimportant flash additions to an otherwise solid website makes you cry? Something that "looks" like Flash is bad?
Wake up, the internet is full of flash content and other dynamic elements. As long as content remains accessible, which is the case here, making it attractive is something every web designer strives to do.
Also an IM inside an IDE isn't such a terrible idea, it may be distracting only if you're not concerned about your work, but communication within a group is pretty important.
It's not the greatest IDE around and I wouldn't buy it, or use it (Eclipse is awesome), but you're complaining about all the wrong things here.
I prefer Blender's UI to 3DsMax, and I'm not alone.
Unless you have anything more constructive to say than "UI just flat out sucks" I'm going to throw you in the same boat as the other people that can't form arguments or model cubes.
I never said it was widely used, I only said you exaggerated how little use it had.
I know Blender isn't as popular right now but that's only because its development was slower than other packages, clearly because proprietary software has money backing up its development.
That said with the past few updates Blender has acquired enough features to rival proprietary software and I see its popularity growing faster and faster with each update. If the Peach project is any indication, Blender has been quite capable for a lot of professional work, and is only becoming more capable by the minute.
Also the only ridicule I have heard of about Blender was regarding its interface and as I've already stated those comments are so over exaggerated that I can't help but believe that those people don't know what they're talking about in the least.
Oh please, do some research before you say crap like that.
Blender is being used by plenty of freelance professionals and inside studios. There is at least one small studio I read about a while back that based its entire operations around open-source programs such as Blender.
Not to mention if you're going to talk about big time studios centred around hollywood and such then they use more in-house tools than anything else.
I'll also add that nobody in their right professional mind will use only one application to do everything. Some applications do certain tasks better than others and Blender has its place among useful tools like any other.
Being a Blender user since 2003, I've also seen the community grow tremendously over the years which can only lead me to belief Blender's popularity is growing at an incredible rate with each new release.
Show me some evidence proving your own feeble case and I may change my mind, until then you only make yourself look like a fool.
If you are disoriented by Blender's interface, that's fine, personal preferences and such usually get in the way of learning when you've worked with another application for a long time.
On the other hand if you hate Blender's interface and find it horrible or other such strong words then you are not a professional, you're not even intermediate. I doubt you could model a cube in any 3D application let alone Blender.
The reason you hate Blender's interface isn't because it's difficult to use, it's because you don't know how to use it, you opened it up for the first time because it's open-source and free and you were just overwhelmed by the complexity of a real professional software package and gave up after you realised this would actually take effort.
Then you went onto slashdot and complained like you actually know something.
Blender is not for you. It takes time and effort to learn and understand. It takes practice to acquire skills at modelling and animating (this goes for any 3D application). Something you obviously aren't prepared for.
I suggest that you stick to making squares in Paint because Blender and any other 3D package is way beyond you, but if you don't want to look like an idiot don't go on here, or anywhere else, and say Blender has a horrible interface or the like because anyone who has taken that seriously step into the 3D world will laugh in your face.
You're right that an extensive study and comparison of the two applications would have to be carried out to actually prove/disprove that Blender has a faster workflow; my example was just to drive a point and shouldn't be looked at as proof.
The main point though that unlike intuitiveness efficiency and speed are things that can be quantified with a proper study and submitted as proof. Such as measuring the speed of a moving car compared to that of a person. While you're right that this depends on the situation I think the "muddy pond" example is just nitpicking.
Especially since professional applications are mostly out to do a job defined by fairly specific criteria and do it well.
It refers to how quickly a user can learn to perform given workflows without outside instruction. It is also sometimes called "learnability" or "learning curve". As I've stated before, this is something that varies from person to person. While one individual can pick up 3DsMax faster than Blender, another would not have a problem with either.
Also as someone else has pointed out when you pick up on how an application works from a few examples you are suddenly able to comprehend the entire application's inner working better than you did at first glance.
Perhaps "intuitive" has a specific meaning in usability testing but it's still an evolving and varying entity in practice.
In fact most of the things that you find easy to use now, you have been trained to find intuitive over the course of your computer education.
Although you can argue that to make something intuitive you have to view it from the perception of a majority, I think it's obvious by this endless flamewar regarding interfaces that there is no such thing.
I think you're right, although my reasoning is slightly different.
Comparing 3DsMax and Blender: the basis behind why I prefer Blender is that it's faster to use.
Now you might think this is something that's arguable, but no, not quite. Just like you wouldn't try to argue that a person can outrun a car at full speed, you can't argue that using the 3DsMax interface is faster than using Blender's.
More intuitive? Maybe, how intuitive something is depends on who you are, what you know, where you've been, from how high you have been dropped on your head as a kid etc...
Intuitiveness is so vague and different for each person it's not even worth bothering to argue about it.
I got some screenshots here I took a while ago comparing Blender to 3DsMax, now I haven't used Max for as long as I have Blender and there may very well be some hidden functionality I haven't found, or some plugin that oils this rusty old program. Either way this is why Blender is faster than Max (from the perspective I had at the time)
Which method is faster? (That's version 6 of 3DsMax by the way, I hope the modelling tools in the current version have improved, I wouldn't know, I use Blender =)
I have compared Blender to its commercial counterparts, Blender is better.
GIMP needs improvements in a few areas (what does't though?), but it's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be.
You're right about Pidgin, even though it's the only chat program I use, I sure do wish its developers would find someone with interface design knowledge.
As far as Windows vs Linux is concerned, I feel you're statement is fairly accurate. Trying to be different for the sake of being different while ignoring some simple GUI concepts is incredibly stupid.
In fact I'm going to pick on Slashdot, I know we're all computer literate and know what a <p> tag is, but do we REALLY need to use HTML inside our posts just to get some line breaks? If you're going to setup Javascript functionality for everything, then how about updating this ancient post box.
In the Options menu there is a "Comment Box Size" setting: Is this really the year 2008? How do you expect non-webdevelopers to know what the number 50 for the Column variable is suppose to specify exactly? How about just adding resizing functionality to this box that uses.. dun dun dunn... the mouse, you know, that thing invented all the way back in the 1960s.
You can't ask newbies to install device drivers or recompile the kernel, naysayers argue.
That's a pretty silly set of examples, for one thing since when didn't you have to install drivers in Windows?
Also since when have you ever had to recompile the kernel to use Linux?
Generally speaking Linux distros do tend to be slightly more technical than their Windows/OSX, but using the above examples
just makes the "naysayers'" arguments seem ridiculously stupid.
But is it wrong if another person makes something similar and sells it for 0.5 million?
Even if you do patent something, if someone else makes a similar thing from scratch, and sells it for less or makes it free, well tough, you shouldn't be able to sue them for it. If you find that you have competition, you improve your own product, things should be sold by their value, not by destroying competition.
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Similar story but the other way around for me, I found Drupal to be much easier to develop with than Joomla, this was back when I first dived into the world of website development. Especially the documentation of Drupal, at the time, far surpassed Joomla's.
To me Drupal seems a lot cleaner, simpler and tidier while Joomla is a mess. I'm not sure whether the documentation is better now or not, but a year or so ago it was impossible to figure out how to develop for it.
Since my original comparison I never gave Joomla another second of thought.
Like for most games, our stores once again double the price for no reason other than that they can. If I buy this at all it'll be an import from somewhere like play-asia.
On other news studies show that most studies are biased and wrong.
Can you feel that? The universe just imploded.
Clearly engineers aren't reproducing as quickly as they would like, at this rate we will be out of baby engineers by 2010!
Solution: Send more women!
I've already installed a lot of applications onto my iPod Touch through the hacked installer.
On top of that they want me to pay for a firmware upgrade that will allow me to install programs from their store.
I'm definitely not paying to get the "privilege" of installing applications from the app store when I can do so already, and for something that should have been included when the iPhone/iPod Touch first came out.
As annoying, ridiculous and stupid as this is, it won't actually stop anyone from getting the game through other means. They're just kidding themselves, and eventually we'll get the R18+ rating for games, because that's what we want. It's just a matter of time.
I know you're trying to be funny, but this rings so true it's scary.
It's hard to believe these people actually attended law school, or are they just grabbing more money from RIAA by making it look like they're doing something?
It sure seems ridiculous from an outside point of view, but I wonder what actually goes on. Any theories?
Granted I didn't browse through all of it, but a few unimportant flash additions to an otherwise solid website makes you cry? Something that "looks" like Flash is bad?
Wake up, the internet is full of flash content and other dynamic elements. As long as content remains accessible, which is the case here, making it attractive is something every web designer strives to do.
Also an IM inside an IDE isn't such a terrible idea, it may be distracting only if you're not concerned about your work, but communication within a group is pretty important.
It's not the greatest IDE around and I wouldn't buy it, or use it (Eclipse is awesome), but you're complaining about all the wrong things here.
First of all: What Flash animations? That site is entirely Javascript driven from what I can see, and well designed too.
Second of all: Their IDE actually looks quite decent with some nice features.
Mod parent troll.
The future of E-Paper is hopefully affordable prices, right now an iPod Touch is more accessible with a lot more functionality.
Something that's meant for nothing but reading should be as cheap as actual paper, otherwise what's the point.
I prefer Blender's UI to 3DsMax, and I'm not alone.
Unless you have anything more constructive to say than "UI just flat out sucks" I'm going to throw you in the same boat as the other people that can't form arguments or model cubes.
Mystery
I never said it was widely used, I only said you exaggerated how little use it had.
I know Blender isn't as popular right now but that's only because its development was slower than other packages, clearly because proprietary software has money backing up its development.
That said with the past few updates Blender has acquired enough features to rival proprietary software and I see its popularity growing faster and faster with each update. If the Peach project is any indication, Blender has been quite capable for a lot of professional work, and is only becoming more capable by the minute.
Also the only ridicule I have heard of about Blender was regarding its interface and as I've already stated those comments are so over exaggerated that I can't help but believe that those people don't know what they're talking about in the least.
Mystery
If any?
Oh please, do some research before you say crap like that.
Blender is being used by plenty of freelance professionals and inside studios. There is at least one small studio I read about a while back that based its entire operations around open-source programs such as Blender.
Not to mention if you're going to talk about big time studios centred around hollywood and such then they use more in-house tools than anything else.
I'll also add that nobody in their right professional mind will use only one application to do everything. Some applications do certain tasks better than others and Blender has its place among useful tools like any other.
Being a Blender user since 2003, I've also seen the community grow tremendously over the years which can only lead me to belief Blender's popularity is growing at an incredible rate with each new release.
Show me some evidence proving your own feeble case and I may change my mind, until then you only make yourself look like a fool.
Mystery
Yes, that's obviously why it's one of the most successful open-source projects out there with so many people defending it against trolls like you.
Mystery
Fine, I'm just going to go ahead and say this:
If you are disoriented by Blender's interface, that's fine, personal preferences and such usually get in the way of learning when you've worked with another application for a long time.
On the other hand if you hate Blender's interface and find it horrible or other such strong words then you are not a professional, you're not even intermediate. I doubt you could model a cube in any 3D application let alone Blender.
The reason you hate Blender's interface isn't because it's difficult to use, it's because you don't know how to use it, you opened it up for the first time because it's open-source and free and you were just overwhelmed by the complexity of a real professional software package and gave up after you realised this would actually take effort.
Then you went onto slashdot and complained like you actually know something.
Blender is not for you. It takes time and effort to learn and understand. It takes practice to acquire skills at modelling and animating (this goes for any 3D application). Something you obviously aren't prepared for.
I suggest that you stick to making squares in Paint because Blender and any other 3D package is way beyond you, but if you don't want to look like an idiot don't go on here, or anywhere else, and say Blender has a horrible interface or the like because anyone who has taken that seriously step into the 3D world will laugh in your face.
Mystery
The main point though that unlike intuitiveness efficiency and speed are things that can be quantified with a proper study and submitted as proof. Such as measuring the speed of a moving car compared to that of a person. While you're right that this depends on the situation I think the "muddy pond" example is just nitpicking.
Especially since professional applications are mostly out to do a job defined by fairly specific criteria and do it well. It refers to how quickly a user can learn to perform given workflows without outside instruction. It is also sometimes called "learnability" or "learning curve". As I've stated before, this is something that varies from person to person. While one individual can pick up 3DsMax faster than Blender, another would not have a problem with either.
Also as someone else has pointed out when you pick up on how an application works from a few examples you are suddenly able to comprehend the entire application's inner working better than you did at first glance.
Perhaps "intuitive" has a specific meaning in usability testing but it's still an evolving and varying entity in practice.
In fact most of the things that you find easy to use now, you have been trained to find intuitive over the course of your computer education.
Although you can argue that to make something intuitive you have to view it from the perception of a majority, I think it's obvious by this endless flamewar regarding interfaces that there is no such thing.
I think you're right, although my reasoning is slightly different.
Comparing 3DsMax and Blender: the basis behind why I prefer Blender is that it's faster to use.
Now you might think this is something that's arguable, but no, not quite. Just like you wouldn't try to argue that a person can outrun a car at full speed, you can't argue that using the 3DsMax interface is faster than using Blender's.
More intuitive? Maybe, how intuitive something is depends on who you are, what you know, where you've been, from how high you have been dropped on your head as a kid etc...
Intuitiveness is so vague and different for each person it's not even worth bothering to argue about it.
I got some screenshots here I took a while ago comparing Blender to 3DsMax, now I haven't used Max for as long as I have Blender and there may very well be some hidden functionality I haven't found, or some plugin that oils this rusty old program. Either way this is why Blender is faster than Max (from the perspective I had at the time)
Filling in a polygon face with Max:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/mystery/BlenderVSmax/MaxCube.jpg
Filling in a polygon face with Blender:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/mystery/BlenderVSmax/BlenderCube.jpg
Which method is faster? (That's version 6 of 3DsMax by the way, I hope the modelling tools in the current version have improved, I wouldn't know, I use Blender =)
GIMP needs improvements in a few areas (what does't though?), but it's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be.
You're right about Pidgin, even though it's the only chat program I use, I sure do wish its developers would find someone with interface design knowledge.
As far as Windows vs Linux is concerned, I feel you're statement is fairly accurate. Trying to be different for the sake of being different while ignoring some simple GUI concepts is incredibly stupid.
In fact I'm going to pick on Slashdot, I know we're all computer literate and know what a <p> tag is, but do we REALLY need to use HTML inside our posts just to get some line breaks? If you're going to setup Javascript functionality for everything, then how about updating this ancient post box.
In the Options menu there is a "Comment Box Size" setting: Is this really the year 2008? How do you expect non-webdevelopers to know what the number 50 for the Column variable is suppose to specify exactly? How about just adding resizing functionality to this box that uses.. dun dun dunn... the mouse, you know, that thing invented all the way back in the 1960s.
That's a pretty silly set of examples, for one thing since when didn't you have to install drivers in Windows? Also since when have you ever had to recompile the kernel to use Linux?
Generally speaking Linux distros do tend to be slightly more technical than their Windows/OSX, but using the above examples just makes the "naysayers'" arguments seem ridiculously stupid.
If a few people do it, it's against the law, if 6 million do it, wouldn't you call that a revolution instead?
Mr. Gates should have been a comedian.
Obviously they're not teaching kids about copyright law, they're teaching kids to read disclaimers and the fine print.
Even if you do patent something, if someone else makes a similar thing from scratch, and sells it for less or makes it free, well tough, you shouldn't be able to sue them for it. If you find that you have competition, you improve your own product, things should be sold by their value, not by destroying competition.
She has obviously not played Portal.