Hey, you are looking at CVS development screenshots! They are not supposed to be pretty! They are supposed to hint you what could be direction of what you could expect, that's all. Now turn on your imagination. Or wait for the release.
And remember - GTK is themeable. That means in my themed environment that will look entirely different. Nothing like what you saw in screenshots.
>> Everything is modular using Bonobo, so bloat is not an issue. Don't use your file manager as a web browser? The HTML component (Mozilla) won't be loaded into memory.
Well, the back side of this is that if I do want all of the thigs, the start to take 3 times more space than monolitic application because of all plugin-layers out there.
Apple has played a certain amount of lip service to the open source/Free software movement, but largely with technologies that are probably more beneficial for Apple to have as open source, rather than being beneficial to the end users
That's what every other commercial company in existence does and will do. They open technology for three reasons: they have no more uses of it, they want market to catch the thing so that the'll control the market or they want to force competitor's technology off the market (the latter two is really almost the same). I do not see any "public good" or "end user benefit" amnog those three, do you? The only people who can make anything for end user benefits are end users themselves.
>> here is no need for foreign intervention into problems that individual nations can solve themselves
.com domains long stopped to be US domestic matter. They.us domains maybe still are, but.com domains are international, and I don't see why my business in Haifa should bow to some judge back in Arizona...
>> Actually, Netscape webservers are used because they are very good.
From my experience with them, they are very far from being good. They lose to Apache on every usability aspect (exept for not having to use command line, which is bad excuse for me - I know my tools and I do not require MS-Office paperclip to write three letters in sequence). Maybe they are a bit faster (which I doubt, but just maybe - I didn't test it) but I'd better buy more memory than crawl through Netspace user-misinterface and numerous bugs.
>> They continue to win awards.
Oh yeah. There are so many awards everyone gets some. If it runs, it can get award.
>> First of all IE won't be ported to Linux anytime soon.
yeah, that's sad. For me, that is - for Netscape it's very good, I'm still forced to use their crap.
>> this poses absolutely no threat to Netscape, as they are part of AOL,
That was a smart move, they are immortal now. But being immortal is not the same as being alive on scenes - most probably they'll just be some part of AOL, sucking money from unlucky clients locked in with their "solutions". That's a usual revenue model for many other companies - lure client in, then suck money from them for decades, basically doing nothing just releasing "upgrades" and sometimes fixing bugs.
There's no Solaris version of IE. There's Solaris program that looks like IE from the first glance, but is totally unusable. Which is no wonder - to make it usable, they'd have to port all their COM infra-structure, and I doubt they did.
Thats' one more proof - you can not educate your users. If you could, world be so nice place, but you can't. You should make tools that protect them from themselves, just like you hide dangerous liquids and matches from kids. If you use wrong tools or let them do, you accept your doom. Instead of sending next virus-alike to your grands, send letter to their mail client maker and ask them to remove "double-click" thing. Do this repeatedly until they get a clue or use other product.
You cannot "ask for cookie". Cookies are sent by *your* browser, when you tell him to go to some page. Too bad you can't control this function, but this is not DClick's fault. That's your browser maker fault - so sue the right person.
The only cause why Netscape is alive yet is that Microsoft totally ignores UNIX platforms. That's why broken-beyond-all-repair Netscape browser is still holding monopoly on UNIX desktop - there's no other choice. That's why Netscape webservers are used - because they are "commercial" and Apache is not. Netscape is itself a clear example what happens when you have monopoly rotting for years with no competition in sight.
So no wonder Netscape is scared - the day when there will be IE for Linux (given that it would have same qualities as Windows IE) would be the day I wipe Netscape from my machines totally. I'm sick of this sub-quality product where bugs are not fixed for years and no features added, just silly "shopping" and AOL buttons. And given that IE as a browser is much more open and scriptable than Netscape (who is evil here?), I can see the winner.
I seriaously doubt there will be Unix browser from Microsoft, but if there will be - this would be the end for Netscape browser era, and Netscape did its best for it.
You know what? I just go to my good old CD-writer and make copies of Windows CDs for me and my friends. So much for piracy battle - now they not only encourage it (they always did - piracy is the only cause why Windows catched in low-income countries with huge markets, like Russia), they make it absolutely vital for business survival. You just *can't* be without windows disk - on every problem they advise you to reinstall.
As far as I know, most cellphone companies have mail gateways to phone's messaging. I was always wondering, how many time would it take for spammers to discover this thing. You can spam *every* mobile phone in existance, just taking random numbers and using it as a key for the gateway. I was just wondering why they don't do it yet, really? So, here goes the first one.
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Hey, really? Where is that Microsoft people telling us to use PHP? That must be really wonderful news for PHP - Microsoft has great marketing, as we know...
From my personal experience, StarOffice is very bad in reading.doc documents. From every 5 documents I try StarOffice is hardly reading one. That if you using last versions of Word (which most Windows users do).
AbiWord is much better in this regard, but it doesn't understand tables and many other things, like TOCs, etc. - so what you get is mostly text.
To the other side it's also a bit problematic - Word and StarOffice seem to understand tables, frames, backgrounds etc. differently, which leads to non-nice effects. But never saw StarOffice-produced file that Word can't read - so at least you get your text.
the OS will simply percieve psychically what the user wants to do
From the Mac OS XII manual:
... To change to this folder, kick your computer twice with your left foot in the right side. Then, to run Explorer, gently tap the face side. You'll see computer shiver in horror. That's apple main page has been loading. As soon as shivering stops, you may continue browsing by spitting on the place of computer you think to be appropriate.
Why should you sue napstaer on this? Do you sue phone company when someone calls you and says something bad? Do you sue roadbuilders if someone steals your car? Sue whoever trading wares, if you like - why Napster is at blame? They are media carrier.
Actually, this thing is nothing more than search engine. So I see nothing bad (or even too interesting) in it. So mp3-warez d00dz would name their files M3T4LL1C4.mp3, and go on. Or just name them after the song title and put a [M] before, and everybody will just know [M] means metallica. That's an old and ethernal shield-sword game.
BTW, I'm not sure you can name your music "Metallica" without Metallica's permission. Don't they have a sort of TM over the name?
6/1/00 ------ Well, this is going to be an interesting.plan update.
Most of this is not really public business, but if some things aren't stated explicitly, it will reflect unfairly on someone.
As many people have heard discussed, there was quite a desire to remake DOOM as our next project after Q3. Discussing it brought an almost palpable thrill to most of the employees, but Adrian had a strong enough dislike for the idea that it was shot down over and over again.
Design work on an alternate game has been going on in parallel with the mission pack development and my research work.
Several factors, including a general lack of enthusiasm for the proposed plan, the warmth that Wolfenstien was met with at E3, and excitement about what we can do with the latest rendering technology were making it seem more and more like we weren't going down the right path.
I discussed it with some of the other guys, and we decided that it was important enough to drag the company through an unpleasant fight over it.
An ultimatum was issued to Kevin and Adrian(who control >50% of the company): We are working on DOOM for the next project unless you fire us.
Obviously no fun for anyone involved, but the project direction was changed, new hires have been expedited, and the design work has begun.
It wasn't planned to announce this soon, but here it is: We are working on a new DOOM game, focusing on the single player game experience, and using brand new technology in almost every aspect of it. That is all we are prepared to say about the game for quite some time, so don't push for interviews. We will talk about it when things are actually built, to avoid giving misleading comments.
It went smoother than expected, but the other shoe dropped yesterday.
Kevin and Adrian fired Paul Steed in retaliation, over my opposition.
Paul has certainly done things in the past that could be grounds for dismissal, but this was retaliatory for him being among the "conspirators".
I happen to think Paul was damn good at his job, and that he was going to be one of the most valuable contributors to DOOM.
We need to hire two new modeler/animator/cinematic director types. If you have a significant commercial track record in all three areas, and consider yourself at the top of your field, send your resume to Kevin Cloud.
You wanna real realism? Join US Army or UN corps or whoever is hiring guns. You'll get it all 100%-realistic. You wouldn't even need 3D accelerator, no computer, no OS requirements. Cool, ain't it?
In fact, if I had opportunity and a decent proposal, I'd work for somebody like id even without job security. That is, if they'd allow me to do real stuff. id is The Name, and they do cool stuff. OK, they'll fire you. So you go to next one and say "I worked for id and I did Doom that you are playing at evening" and get twice as much and be looked on as Man From ID:)
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Hey, you are looking at CVS development screenshots! They are not supposed to be pretty! They are supposed to hint you what could be direction of what you could expect, that's all. Now turn on your imagination. Or wait for the release.
And remember - GTK is themeable. That means in my themed environment that will look entirely different. Nothing like what you saw in screenshots.
>> Everything is modular using Bonobo, so bloat is not an issue. Don't use your file manager as a web browser? The HTML component (Mozilla) won't be loaded into memory.
Well, the back side of this is that if I do want all of the thigs, the start to take 3 times more space than monolitic application because of all plugin-layers out there.
That's what every other commercial company in existence does and will do. They open technology for three reasons: they have no more uses of it, they want market to catch the thing so that the'll control the market or they want to force competitor's technology off the market (the latter two is really almost the same). I do not see any "public good" or "end user benefit" amnog those three, do you?
The only people who can make anything for end user benefits are end users themselves.
Hey, seems that cluetrain has entered Canada. Is it going to move on to US too or it's having opposite direction?
>> here is no need for foreign intervention into problems that individual nations can solve themselves
.us domains maybe still are, but .com domains are international, and I don't see why my business in Haifa should bow to some judge back in Arizona...
.com domains long stopped to be US domestic matter. They
>> Actually, Netscape webservers are used because they are very good.
From my experience with them, they are very far from being good. They lose to Apache on every usability aspect (exept for not having to use command line, which is bad excuse for me - I know my tools and I do not require MS-Office paperclip to write three letters in sequence). Maybe they are a bit faster (which I doubt, but just maybe - I didn't test it) but I'd better buy more memory than crawl through Netspace user-misinterface and numerous bugs.
>> They continue to win awards.
Oh yeah. There are so many awards everyone gets some. If it runs, it can get award.
>> First of all IE won't be ported to Linux anytime soon.
yeah, that's sad. For me, that is - for Netscape it's very good, I'm still forced to use their crap.
>> this poses absolutely no threat to Netscape, as they are part of AOL,
That was a smart move, they are immortal now. But being immortal is not the same as being alive on scenes - most probably they'll just be some part of AOL, sucking money from unlucky clients locked in with their "solutions". That's a usual revenue model for many other companies - lure client in, then suck money from them for decades, basically doing nothing just releasing "upgrades" and sometimes fixing bugs.
There's no Solaris version of IE. There's Solaris program that looks like IE from the first glance, but is totally unusable. Which is no wonder - to make it usable, they'd have to port all their COM infra-structure, and I doubt they did.
Thats' one more proof - you can not educate your users. If you could, world be so nice place, but you can't. You should make tools that protect them from themselves, just like you hide dangerous liquids and matches from kids. If you use wrong tools or let them do, you accept your doom. Instead of sending next virus-alike to your grands, send letter to their mail client maker and ask them to remove "double-click" thing. Do this repeatedly until they get a clue or use other product.
You cannot "ask for cookie". Cookies are sent by *your* browser, when you tell him to go to some page. Too bad you can't control this function, but this is not DClick's fault. That's your browser maker fault - so sue the right person.
The only cause why Netscape is alive yet is that Microsoft totally ignores UNIX platforms. That's why broken-beyond-all-repair Netscape browser is still holding monopoly on UNIX desktop - there's no other choice. That's why Netscape webservers are used - because they are "commercial" and Apache is not. Netscape is itself a clear example what happens when you have monopoly rotting for years with no competition in sight.
So no wonder Netscape is scared - the day when there will be IE for Linux (given that it would have same qualities as Windows IE) would be the day I wipe Netscape from my machines totally. I'm sick of this sub-quality product where bugs are not fixed for years and no features added, just silly "shopping" and AOL buttons. And given that IE as a browser is much more open and scriptable than Netscape (who is evil here?), I can see the winner.
I seriaously doubt there will be Unix browser from Microsoft, but if there will be - this would be the end for Netscape browser era, and Netscape did its best for it.
You know what? I just go to my good old CD-writer and make copies of Windows CDs for me and my friends. So much for piracy battle - now they not only encourage it (they always did - piracy is the only cause why Windows catched in low-income countries with huge markets, like Russia), they make it absolutely vital for business survival. You just *can't* be without windows disk - on every problem they advise you to reinstall.
Well, great idea if you have some couple of hudreds Kbucks to spare. Just like copmanies like CNet have. Just like we don't.
As far as I know, most cellphone companies have mail gateways to phone's messaging. I was always wondering, how many time would it take for spammers to discover this thing. You can spam *every* mobile phone in existance, just taking random numbers and using it as a key for the gateway. I was just wondering why they don't do it yet, really?
So, here goes the first one.
Hey, really? Where is that Microsoft people telling us to use PHP? That must be really wonderful news for PHP - Microsoft has great marketing, as we know...
From my personal experience, StarOffice is very bad in reading .doc documents. From every 5 documents I try StarOffice is hardly reading one. That if you using last versions of Word (which most Windows users do).
AbiWord is much better in this regard, but it doesn't understand tables and many other things, like TOCs, etc. - so what you get is mostly text.
To the other side it's also a bit problematic - Word and StarOffice seem to understand tables, frames, backgrounds etc. differently, which leads to non-nice effects. But never saw StarOffice-produced file that Word can't read - so at least you get your text.
You need PHP for the list to be full :)
PHP 4 has support for Roxen, so if you like Roxen and not want to move to Pike, you might be interested in it.
the OS will simply percieve psychically what the user wants to do
From the Mac OS XII manual:
... To change to this folder, kick your computer twice with your left foot in the right side. Then, to run Explorer, gently tap the face side. You'll see computer shiver in horror. That's apple main page has been loading. As soon as shivering stops, you may continue browsing by spitting on the place of computer you think to be appropriate.
Why should you sue napstaer on this? Do you sue phone company when someone calls you and says something bad? Do you sue roadbuilders if someone steals your car? Sue whoever trading wares, if you like - why Napster is at blame? They are media carrier.
Actually, this thing is nothing more than search engine. So I see nothing bad (or even too interesting) in it. So mp3-warez d00dz would name their files M3T4LL1C4.mp3, and go on. Or just name them after the song title and put a [M] before, and everybody will just know [M] means metallica. That's an old and ethernal shield-sword game.
BTW, I'm not sure you can name your music "Metallica" without Metallica's permission. Don't they have a sort of TM over the name?
Site seems to be slashdotted, so here's the copy:
.plan update.
6/1/00
------
Well, this is going to be an interesting
Most of this is not really public business, but if some things aren't stated
explicitly, it will reflect unfairly on someone.
As many people have heard discussed, there was quite a desire to remake DOOM
as our next project after Q3. Discussing it brought an almost palpable thrill
to most of the employees, but Adrian had a strong enough dislike for the idea
that it was shot down over and over again.
Design work on an alternate game has been going on in parallel with the
mission pack development and my research work.
Several factors, including a general lack of enthusiasm for the proposed plan,
the warmth that Wolfenstien was met with at E3, and excitement about what
we can do with the latest rendering technology were making it seem more and
more like we weren't going down the right path.
I discussed it with some of the other guys, and we decided that it was
important enough to drag the company through an unpleasant fight over it.
An ultimatum was issued to Kevin and Adrian(who control >50% of the company):
We are working on DOOM for the next project unless you fire us.
Obviously no fun for anyone involved, but the project direction was changed,
new hires have been expedited, and the design work has begun.
It wasn't planned to announce this soon, but here it is: We are working on a
new DOOM game, focusing on the single player game experience, and using brand
new technology in almost every aspect of it. That is all we are prepared to
say about the game for quite some time, so don't push for interviews. We
will talk about it when things are actually built, to avoid giving
misleading comments.
It went smoother than expected, but the other shoe dropped yesterday.
Kevin and Adrian fired Paul Steed in retaliation, over my opposition.
Paul has certainly done things in the past that could be grounds for
dismissal, but this was retaliatory for him being among the "conspirators".
I happen to think Paul was damn good at his job, and that he was going to be
one of the most valuable contributors to DOOM.
We need to hire two new modeler/animator/cinematic director types. If you
have a significant commercial track record in all three areas, and consider
yourself at the top of your field, send your resume to Kevin Cloud.
You wanna real realism? Join US Army or UN corps or whoever is hiring guns. You'll get it all 100%-realistic. You wouldn't even need 3D accelerator, no computer, no OS requirements. Cool, ain't it?
In fact, if I had opportunity and a decent proposal, I'd work for somebody like id even without job security. That is, if they'd allow me to do real stuff. id is The Name, and they do cool stuff. OK, they'll fire you. So you go to next one and say "I worked for id and I did Doom that you are playing at evening" and get twice as much and be looked on as Man From ID :)
Well, this is obvious. They'll see things inside-out - everything standing out they'll see engraved in, and vice versa. Pretty funny effect, I guess.
So, does it mean when you shift you head image would more and/or distort, like it happens with 3d postcards?
Hey, I have an idea - display that displays one things to me and other things to somebody looking over my shoulder!