No, when I say credit card companies I mean credit card companies. I have direct experience with one, and whatever they can get about your records is mined from here to wholaidit. Perhaps they have anaonymized it by that point, but the data is definitely out there, and they definitely look through it thoroughly.
Lots of people care. But guess what? Chances are good, your information is already being "mined" by the credit card companies anyway. Might as well get something for your trouble, if you're so inclined. Me, I didn't like the pyramid style of it, so I didn't. But I certainly thought about it a bit, and others I know had their iPods in time for christmas. Could have been a nice stocking stuffer had I opted in....
Intuitive has become just another buzz word for dumbing down and crippling.
Clearly your brain is so huge, I'm amazed you aren't pinned to the floor and unable to post.
Just because you have brainspace to waste on obscure interface trivia because you have no life to occupy yourself with doesn't mean that Intuitive == "User Friendly" which I believe is the buzzword you're shooting for. And in fact, if you actually applied some of that brain to something besides Gimp Interface Details, you might think or even ask, and find that I agree that many things that are alleged to be "user friendly" are indeed crippled and stupid. But just because most implementations fail miserably doesn't mean that the goal is not worthwhile.
A Gimpy interface is the diametric opposite of "crippled"--so complex as to be useless to anyone who hasn't got lots of time to waste poking at it to figure it out. A truly Intuitive interface contains all the power, but makes that power manageable so that you can learn it in steps instead of having to swallow the whole hog in one bite. Gimp has two gears--nothing and overdrive. "User Friendly" interfaces have one gear, first. Intuitive interfaces recognize that people know how to shift gears and gear up as they go.
When grandma lives many hours away "in person" is nice, but not very frequent. The post loses things, and my mother has plenty of clutter to fill her house anyway. A Ceiva is one thing, if she wants a particular photo in "real life" dad can order it from the website.
Read the article. One of the best is the Ceiva, which you can give to your technophobic parents or grandparents and send them photos regularly. Yes, you pay a subscription, but it's worth it to be able to let my mom see pictures of her grandson--she can't use dad's computer because she has too much tremor in her hand to use a mouse and doesn't want to be bothered with having someone set up accessability for her.
You sound like someone who really doesn't understand how to use The Gimp. It's sad that you're so incapable.
And this is what makes Gimp Zealots so loveable. An utter incomprehension of the idea that user interface should be intuitive, rather than requiring vast study that you can then lord over all the "posers".
I don't need keystrokes to use Photoshop, the buttons and menus are designed to actually be findable. Which, by the way, it's interesting you should assume I'm comparing to Photoshop, because it wasn't all that intuitive to use at first either. Paint Shop Pro and some other tools are better interfaces than both from a usability standpoint.
Sun took an effectively open source OS, closed it up and called it their own. All perfectly legal under the BSD license, but certainly not very neighborly of them.
I hope you're not claiming that is true of Solaris. Starting with SunOS 5 it was pretty much rewritten in collaboration with AT&T (aka SVR4).
None of this would exist without AT&T's liberal licensing policies, so we can play oneupsmanship on who came first too. Woo hoo.
For a very long time, gcc produced faster and more efficient binaries than Sun's own C compiler, and unlike gcc, you had to pay extra to get it.
Only after we abandoned the BSD code, as I just pointed out. So if you're going to attack Sun, pick a version you want to attack instead of what you can conjure out of worst of all instantiations.
Your will contains a "master password" to an encrypted escrow of some sort with all the other passwords in it. Since wills are typically held closely, that should not be a big problem. If somehow your master password is compromised, then you'd have to change your will--but then, wills change periodically for other major and typically rare events too.
Thanks for the link and the memory refresh. It's worth noting that Sun is both doing it and not breaking compatability, and it's going to get deployed pretty widely.
Well, I cannot speak for Sun, but the impression I have is that the Solaris x86 target market is enterprises deploying x86 servers because the hardware is cheaper, not the home user. Yes, that still gives bad press, and leaves room for lots of fuddites in the zealot ranks to whine that Sun still doesn't do anything for them, but the question is really whether that will have any impact on the data center people who are deploying x86 because of the bottom line, not because of "my video card".
'course in the time it takes Linux to come up to speed on that, Sun will have an opportunity to make more strides. We'll see if Sun actually manages to do it or not.
Clearly you're not paying attention to Sun's claims about Solaris 10, much less how much it may or may not deliver on those claims. Sort by article score and scroll back up a few articles to the summary about all the new features in Solaris 10, that Linux doesn't touch right now.
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No, when I say credit card companies I mean credit card companies. I have direct experience with one, and whatever they can get about your records is mined from here to wholaidit. Perhaps they have anaonymized it by that point, but the data is definitely out there, and they definitely look through it thoroughly.
Lots of people care. But guess what? Chances are good, your information is already being "mined" by the credit card companies anyway. Might as well get something for your trouble, if you're so inclined. Me, I didn't like the pyramid style of it, so I didn't. But I certainly thought about it a bit, and others I know had their iPods in time for christmas. Could have been a nice stocking stuffer had I opted in....
Preview? We don't need no stinking preview! We just screw up the URLs any old way we like! (better check that link to PA again, Zonk).
Clearly your brain is so huge, I'm amazed you aren't pinned to the floor and unable to post.
Just because you have brainspace to waste on obscure interface trivia because you have no life to occupy yourself with doesn't mean that Intuitive == "User Friendly" which I believe is the buzzword you're shooting for. And in fact, if you actually applied some of that brain to something besides Gimp Interface Details, you might think or even ask, and find that I agree that many things that are alleged to be "user friendly" are indeed crippled and stupid. But just because most implementations fail miserably doesn't mean that the goal is not worthwhile.
A Gimpy interface is the diametric opposite of "crippled"--so complex as to be useless to anyone who hasn't got lots of time to waste poking at it to figure it out. A truly Intuitive interface contains all the power, but makes that power manageable so that you can learn it in steps instead of having to swallow the whole hog in one bite. Gimp has two gears--nothing and overdrive. "User Friendly" interfaces have one gear, first. Intuitive interfaces recognize that people know how to shift gears and gear up as they go.
When grandma lives many hours away "in person" is nice, but not very frequent. The post loses things, and my mother has plenty of clutter to fill her house anyway. A Ceiva is one thing, if she wants a particular photo in "real life" dad can order it from the website.
Welcome aboard the USS Make Shit Up!
Read the article. One of the best is the Ceiva, which you can give to your technophobic parents or grandparents and send them photos regularly. Yes, you pay a subscription, but it's worth it to be able to let my mom see pictures of her grandson--she can't use dad's computer because she has too much tremor in her hand to use a mouse and doesn't want to be bothered with having someone set up accessability for her.
Something is cleaning the editor's memory of the past. Too bad it doesn't work more quickly.
No, posting to Fark.com
And this is what makes Gimp Zealots so loveable. An utter incomprehension of the idea that user interface should be intuitive, rather than requiring vast study that you can then lord over all the "posers".
I don't need keystrokes to use Photoshop, the buttons and menus are designed to actually be findable. Which, by the way, it's interesting you should assume I'm comparing to Photoshop, because it wasn't all that intuitive to use at first either. Paint Shop Pro and some other tools are better interfaces than both from a usability standpoint.
Are you going to judge him by his words, which dissemble, or by his actions, which demonstrate his acceptance of the influence of the PTC?
After Traci Lords....???
I dunno, the gimp default button patch sure looks like boxes in boxes to me.
has an interface that doesn't take hours of struggle to learn to the point that it can actually be useful?
I was only attacking your premise that OSS owes "respect" to Sun. As far as I can tell, Sun owes at least as much to OSS as OSS owes to Sun.
The only way that statement makes sense is if I denied that Sun owes anything to OSS.
I don't recall saying that Sun owed no respect to OSS, I was pointing out that if you don't respect us NOW, why would you expect anything in return?
I hope you're not claiming that is true of Solaris. Starting with SunOS 5 it was pretty much rewritten in collaboration with AT&T (aka SVR4).
None of this would exist without AT&T's liberal licensing policies, so we can play oneupsmanship on who came first too. Woo hoo.
For a very long time, gcc produced faster and more efficient binaries than Sun's own C compiler, and unlike gcc, you had to pay extra to get it.
Only after we abandoned the BSD code, as I just pointed out. So if you're going to attack Sun, pick a version you want to attack instead of what you can conjure out of worst of all instantiations.
Your will contains a "master password" to an encrypted escrow of some sort with all the other passwords in it. Since wills are typically held closely, that should not be a big problem. If somehow your master password is compromised, then you'd have to change your will--but then, wills change periodically for other major and typically rare events too.
Thanks for the link and the memory refresh. It's worth noting that Sun is both doing it and not breaking compatability, and it's going to get deployed pretty widely.
Well, I cannot speak for Sun, but the impression I have is that the Solaris x86 target market is enterprises deploying x86 servers because the hardware is cheaper, not the home user. Yes, that still gives bad press, and leaves room for lots of fuddites in the zealot ranks to whine that Sun still doesn't do anything for them, but the question is really whether that will have any impact on the data center people who are deploying x86 because of the bottom line, not because of "my video card".
That's a different issue, and I agree, it would be a bad thing to see Linux entangled in patent or IP issues.
'course in the time it takes Linux to come up to speed on that, Sun will have an opportunity to make more strides. We'll see if Sun actually manages to do it or not.
Clearly you're not paying attention to Sun's claims about Solaris 10, much less how much it may or may not deliver on those claims. Sort by article score and scroll back up a few articles to the summary about all the new features in Solaris 10, that Linux doesn't touch right now.
I seem to recall Bill Gates saying that not too long ago....