Applying his "arguments" to other domains, we get:
1) People who spend their time watching 'narrow' movies like "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" should instead watch popular block-busters like "Armageddon". 2) Ford shouldn't have bothered making their "Ka" series; People who wanted to buy a small car already could choose the Fiat Pinto or other models. 3) Who are these upstarts Emmerich and Devlin? Don't they know that Sci-fi movies are made by George Lucas?
He apparently feels that Windows should be open-sourced, though, which would be the single point where we could agree with him...:-)
Well, the "Dune" movie had Frank Herbert's blessing, but producers Dino de Laurentiis and daughter cut Lynch's five hour epic down - removing key scenes in the process.
Frank Herbert has an essay on the making, at least reprinted in the short-story collection entitled "The Eye". He even lists the scenes cut.
Don't blame Lynch, blame the de Laurentiises. (Agh! How do you pluralize names properly in English?)
JavaScript is safe, except when idiots like eBay make it unsafe.
Run that by me once again: If I connect to eBay they somehow replace my browser's "safe" Javascript engine with an "unsafe" one?
If a technology can be (ab)used for "unsafe" purposes, it is by extension unsafe. Computer security at whatever level cannot be based on the assumption that everybody will use technology in a safe manner, and not try to do nasty things to you.
(It's a bit like the CERT/CC stuff in the late 80s/early 90s: Largely only Sun actually admitted their holes and bugs to them. Did that mean other Unix vendors had bug- and hole-free implementations? No, they just didn't want the "exposure". This meant that hackers knew the holes (like Ultrix' "finger @@"), while administrators not necessarily learnt of it.)
It's a good thing such things get out - what would eBay have said if the whole mess was discovered at a much later date, and a bunch of people sued them instead?
"Just promise me one thing, let's never resurrect GEOS as a window manager!"
IIRC it was ported to the PC...:-)
In fact, if the oldies - desQview and GEOS too - are released as GPL, there would be a certain peer pressure so that Micros~1 might feel compelled to release Windows 3.1 in the same manner.
It can help with sales of games for the playstation.
I agree. AFAIK, both Sony and Nintendo - SEGA seem out of the picture - sell their consoles at a loss in order to generate a market for what they really want people to buy: Lots of games.
As such, the VGS would only help them - unless it's bought by people who already have a PSX in order to play games they already own...:-)
Well, IIRC here in Norway we have more guns per k-capita than the U.S., but we have fewer incidents largely because
Those that have guns are trained to use them properly,
they're usually either hunters or members of the Armed Forces, and
it's mostly rifles and shotguns, handguns are far fewer (and actually more restricted than e.g. shotguns.)
Plus, we hail from the Vikings, which obviously were flower-power do-gooder hippies. After all, they didn't have porn, the Internet, videos and movies, guns, rock music or skimpy clothing, hence weren't violent. And I'll break the knee-caps of anyone who saysdifferently.:-)
Linux makes an excellent server and command line, but the human user interface, documentation, configuration/management, and application features are the equivalent of spaghetti code.
Where do you find anything in the Windows documentation that equals the HOWTOs? Windows documentation is for newbies, "power users" are supposed to buy a "resource kit".
But don't ever try to claim that Linux has any benefits on the desktop. It has arguably better stability and resource utilization than NT, but it falls down on every other issue. End of story.
No, beginning of story. Do you really see the Windows interface between applications as consistent?
One application I use often uses ^A to "same all", which of course is "select all" in some other applications.
Notepad does not even try to cater to accessibility other than ^C, ^X and ^V.
Microsoft's SourceSafe uses ^A to "Add" files to a project, and ^L to "select all".
^TAB switches between subwindows in their MDI accessibility guidelines. Fine. Now try that in MS Word, which happens to be an MDI application.
A student group at the University of Trondheim, Norway did just that: Added "langnese" (trans: "long nose") as name for 127.0.0.1 to the database for the "nvg.unit.no" domain. After publicising the name, they even got angry mails from someone accusing them of ripping their FTP site...:-)
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The problem is generally over-designed GUIs, of which Microsoft especially are guilty. A GUI is not user friendly if it's not friendly to the user.
Also, mundanes seem to be afraid of computers more than actually clueless: They don't learn how to use it not because they cannot, but because they're afraid that they'll muck up things. They're very passive about it, and tell themselves they cannot learn it.
As for Linux, I find it strange that adults that are supposed to learn traffic regulations, fill out tax returns, or for that matter juggle the characters and story of 5-10 soap operas cannot learn a simple, consistent and productive command-line interface.:-)
Of course, he could mean X11 window managers. There are a lot more than five of those.
The irony is that the same holds for Windows, though the number of "shell replacements" for Win95 are fewer that they were for Win 3.11. One of them (MSIE 4 in "Active Desktop" mode) is even produced by Microsoft.:-)
(That fewer exists may come as a consequence of MS' "borrowing" of features found in OS/2 PM and MacOS Finder for their Win95 hybrid thingy.)
And NCD's PC/X-Ware X11 server for Win 3.11 used the Windows shell as one of the choices for a Window manager... worked swell, too.
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I have said it before, and I'll say it again. IE is whooping Netscape's ass. If something isn't done, either with Mozilla, or with something else, Linux will have a major problem on its hands.
Well, that depends on how far the Linux Opera project has come...:-)
It still beats CivII's very limited event-oriented "scripting" - be happy for small favours, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, etc.:-)
Plus, it seems from postings to csipgs that there is a "rushed" feel to it overall - perhaps there was no time to merge a "proper" scripting language with it.
But that's the problem, isn't it? FSF appear to feel they're getting less "name recognition" than the Open Source guys, and try to compensate by "hijacking" a project they're contributing to. It would be as if Tom Christiansen insisted Perl should be called Tom/Perl because of his contributions.
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Applying his "arguments" to other domains, we get:
:-)
1) People who spend their time watching 'narrow' movies like "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" should instead watch popular block-busters like "Armageddon".
2) Ford shouldn't have bothered making their "Ka" series; People who wanted to buy a small car already could choose the Fiat Pinto or other models.
3) Who are these upstarts Emmerich and Devlin? Don't they know that Sci-fi movies are made by George Lucas?
He apparently feels that Windows should be open-sourced, though, which would be the single point where we could agree with him...
Well, the "Dune" movie had Frank Herbert's blessing, but producers Dino de Laurentiis and daughter cut Lynch's five hour epic down - removing key scenes in the process.
Frank Herbert has an essay on the making, at least reprinted in the short-story collection entitled "The Eye". He even lists the scenes cut.
Don't blame Lynch, blame the de Laurentiises. (Agh! How do you pluralize names properly in English?)
JavaScript is safe, except when idiots like eBay make it unsafe.
Run that by me once again: If I connect to eBay they somehow replace my browser's "safe" Javascript engine with an "unsafe" one?
If a technology can be (ab)used for "unsafe" purposes, it is by extension unsafe. Computer security at whatever level cannot be based on the assumption that everybody will use technology in a safe manner, and not try to do nasty things to you.
(It's a bit like the CERT/CC stuff in the late 80s/early 90s: Largely only Sun actually admitted their holes and bugs to them. Did that mean other Unix vendors had bug- and hole-free implementations? No, they just didn't want the "exposure". This meant that hackers knew the holes (like Ultrix' "finger @@"), while administrators not necessarily learnt of it.)
It's a good thing such things get out - what would eBay have said if the whole mess was discovered at a much later date, and a bunch of people sued them instead?
"Just promise me one thing, let's never resurrect GEOS as a window manager!"
:-)
:-)
IIRC it was ported to the PC...
In fact, if the oldies - desQview and GEOS too - are released as GPL, there would be a certain peer pressure so that Micros~1 might feel compelled to release Windows 3.1 in the same manner.
(As if...)
I agree. AFAIK, both Sony and Nintendo - SEGA seem out of the picture - sell their consoles at a loss in order to generate a market for what they really want people to buy: Lots of games.
As such, the VGS would only help them - unless it's bought by people who already have a PSX in order to play games they already own... :-)
Well, IIRC here in Norway we have more guns per k-capita than the U.S., but we have fewer incidents largely because
Plus, we hail from the Vikings, which obviously were flower-power do-gooder hippies. After all, they didn't have porn, the Internet, videos and movies, guns, rock music or skimpy clothing, hence weren't violent. And I'll break the knee-caps of anyone who saysdifferently. :-)
Where do you find anything in the Windows documentation that equals the HOWTOs? Windows documentation is for newbies, "power users" are supposed to buy a "resource kit".
No, beginning of story. Do you really see the Windows interface between applications as consistent?
The list goes on.
Heh.
:-)
A student group at the University of Trondheim, Norway did just that: Added "langnese" (trans: "long nose") as name for 127.0.0.1 to the database for the "nvg.unit.no" domain. After publicising the name, they even got angry mails from someone accusing them of ripping their FTP site...
The problem is generally over-designed GUIs, of which Microsoft especially are guilty. A GUI is not user friendly if it's not friendly to the user.
Also, mundanes seem to be afraid of computers more than actually clueless: They don't learn how to use it not because they cannot, but because they're afraid that they'll muck up things. They're very passive about it, and tell themselves they cannot learn it.
As for Linux, I find it strange that adults that are supposed to learn traffic regulations, fill out tax returns, or for that matter juggle the characters and story of 5-10 soap operas cannot learn a simple, consistent and productive command-line interface.:-)
The irony is that the same holds for Windows, though the number of "shell replacements" for Win95 are fewer that they were for Win 3.11. One of them (MSIE 4 in "Active Desktop" mode) is even produced by Microsoft. :-)
(That fewer exists may come as a consequence of MS' "borrowing" of features found in OS/2 PM and MacOS Finder for their Win95 hybrid thingy.)
And NCD's PC/X-Ware X11 server for Win 3.11 used the Windows shell as one of the choices for a Window manager... worked swell, too.
Well, that depends on how far the Linux Opera project has come... :-)
It still beats CivII's very limited event-oriented "scripting" - be happy for small favours, don't look a gift horse in the mouth, etc. :-)
Plus, it seems from postings to csipgs that there is a "rushed" feel to it overall - perhaps there was no time to merge a "proper" scripting language with it.
But that's the problem, isn't it? FSF appear to feel they're getting less "name recognition" than the Open Source guys, and try to compensate by "hijacking" a project they're contributing to. It would be as if Tom Christiansen insisted Perl should be called Tom/Perl because of his contributions.
No disrespect to Tom intended, etc. :-)