She's from a different planet and possibly a different species. She ages differently. Or they have really good plastic surgery technology. Which would be a better explanation.
With all this licensing based on hardware stuff in XP, I am left to wonder, why not just go to a hardware based key that, in the event of it being broken, can be flash upgraded as well? Plug it into the USB/serial/paralled port. Other companies have been doing this for quite some time.
Now this elite 'smartier than thou' attitude towards end users is precisely what is going to keep linux away from desktop users.
Even if you take 30 minutes to learn the interface, doing something because you were told to do it that way is different than doing something naturally or instinctively. If my car had you push down for a right turn signal (instead of up on the lever), it'd take you merely a minute to learn it. However, it would still feel wrong and usual, and you'd probably hate driving the vehicle.
Sure, you can learn a UI. But the more natural it feels, the more instinctive it is, the better. There is a lot of money spent on user interface research and evaluation. If it was as simple as saying "spend half an hour learning how to use it", then companies would of been wasting millions of dollars.
There are advantages to testing usability with Windows users. If you want to convert people from Windows to X, you need to make sure that the Windows people will not be entering a hostile environment.
For linux to work on the desktop (which I personally think won't happen but that's not the point), you need to make sure Windows people can migrate over.
"The 867 is also nice but less than one would hope. But what's with dual 800s? Why not dual 867s? Surely availability can't be a major problem with the 867s in the mainstream of the line."
Supply issues probably. They released the dual 500 instead of a dual 733 last time because, as Steve said at the keynote, if we did dual 733 we wouldn't have enough processors to ship units within a few months. Apple probably has access, or perhaps they can manufacture, more 800 today as opposed to 867.
I don't believe there will ever be a silver bullet in UI design. Although, Windows fills those above points more than a unix desktop does.
Not that I tremendously like the Windows interface. But I think it is better overall. Not perfect, but better.
Maybe that's why many schools start with MacOS, then goes to Windows in high school, and Unix in college. It also could be that more people are willing to pluge through windows than unix desktops.
Thank you. Someone who truly understand my point about how using Unix or command line does not mean knowledge of the inner workings of the operating system, let alone the hardware.
No, installing linux, recompiling a kernal, and using a command prompt does not in and by itself show how a computer or operating system works.
Typing "/usr/bin/emacs" and clicking "Start -> Programs -> emacs" merely launch emacs. Likewise, clicking an icon in a GUI that represents the file location does the same thing. Just because you got unix does not mean you know how program execution works.
The problem with linux and especially X is:
1) Consistancy
2) Predictability
3) Simplicity
4) Standardization
These can be very fustrating to new users. Heck, it annoys me, and I consider myself experienced enough.:) I just live with it. But if I was new to the system, I wouldn't want to use unix. It is way to hostile of an environment. The younger the kids, the more annoying these inconsistancies become. And then you turn kids off to computers.
And how is a computer going to pass them useful information? As opposed to books. Assuming the 3rd worlders can read (either their native language or english).
Story I've heard. On a university campus, many people have BlackICE installed, and it complains and throws up a red flag when a ping sweep or SNMP querys are done, causing users to panic and call the help desk worrying that the networking staff is hacking them.:)
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There could of been a major disaster, such as an asteroid crashing into the planet, kicking up enough dust to make the planet cold.
As for the 2000 years of discovery, look at how much advancement there has been since the birth of christ until now, that's about 2000 years.
A nice UPS should help a bit, with proper grounding. Not those cheap crappy kind, or surge supressors. I mean APC or other ones that come with $25K guarentees.
Just because OSDN went down does not mean that the Internet died. Take out MAE-EAST, the internet will still work. Won't be able to access all content, and things will be a bit haywire, but it'll still be around.
Plus, having two internet connections of a high speed nature is quite expensive, I really doubt they could afford it.
I believe this ask slashdot is not asking about buying a home on the Internet, but searching for one.
I've looked for price estimates and styles at realtor.com. These things are very useful in narrowing down lists of possibilities. It's also good for roughly judging particular areas. For example, I know I can't buy 10 acres of land in downtown syracuse (duh:) or liverpool, but can in Clay, NY. I also can tell that Manlius houses seem to cost over $120k, but Cicero can be bought for $70k
There's also the problem of rotational banner ads. Sure, it's good in some ways, not in other ways. For example, here I'm holding the latest copy of Network Computing (heh). Page 80, an ad for WhatsUpGold and a link to a free demo. This intersts me, but I want to look at it later. I can come back tomorrow, next week, a year later, and find the ad and the hyperlink.
Now reload just the slashdot page. You got a different ad. Sometimes I miss a banner ad, or click a link and then realize I want to see that banner ad, but the next page loads, and when you go back, the previous banner has rotated. And I've never seen a website have an "advertiser index" like so many magazines have.
You may be thinking of solaris, where sometimes/tmp and swap are on the same partition.
Swap is on a completely seperate partition, untouchable and unviewable by users. It's my opinion that putting swap and/tmp on the same partition is not a great idea.
Yes we can blow away/tmp at any time. Tmp is rather big (we originally used it to juggle around partitions for a disk upgrade a few years back). But all the users are friends, and we're pretty informal, and I'd rather not just delete a whole bunch of stuff - much of which belongs in/pub anyways. We just don't have time or motivation to go through it all and verify what works. Maybe one day. It's a bit messy but works just fine.
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She's from a different planet and possibly a different species. She ages differently. Or they have really good plastic surgery technology. Which would be a better explanation.
Well if I am not mistaken, the AP style guide says "Internet" when talking about the Internet, internet in the general or otherwise sense.
www.m-w.com defines "Internet" as a noun.
Most closed source software comes with the same disclaimer.
Yep. Those are exactly what I'm talking about. I've seen them on some high cost software.
:)
Not that I like them.
With all this licensing based on hardware stuff in XP, I am left to wonder, why not just go to a hardware based key that, in the event of it being broken, can be flash upgraded as well? Plug it into the USB/serial/paralled port. Other companies have been doing this for quite some time.
Now this elite 'smartier than thou' attitude towards end users is precisely what is going to keep linux away from desktop users.
Even if you take 30 minutes to learn the interface, doing something because you were told to do it that way is different than doing something naturally or instinctively. If my car had you push down for a right turn signal (instead of up on the lever), it'd take you merely a minute to learn it. However, it would still feel wrong and usual, and you'd probably hate driving the vehicle.
Sure, you can learn a UI. But the more natural it feels, the more instinctive it is, the better. There is a lot of money spent on user interface research and evaluation. If it was as simple as saying "spend half an hour learning how to use it", then companies would of been wasting millions of dollars.
There are advantages to testing usability with Windows users. If you want to convert people from Windows to X, you need to make sure that the Windows people will not be entering a hostile environment.
For linux to work on the desktop (which I personally think won't happen but that's not the point), you need to make sure Windows people can migrate over.
"The 867 is also nice but less than one would hope. But what's with dual 800s? Why not dual 867s? Surely availability can't be a major problem with the 867s in the mainstream of the line."
Supply issues probably. They released the dual 500 instead of a dual 733 last time because, as Steve said at the keynote, if we did dual 733 we wouldn't have enough processors to ship units within a few months. Apple probably has access, or perhaps they can manufacture, more 800 today as opposed to 867.
And then Apple changed the project name to LAW - Lawyers Are Wimps.
I don't believe there will ever be a silver bullet in UI design. Although, Windows fills those above points more than a unix desktop does.
Not that I tremendously like the Windows interface. But I think it is better overall. Not perfect, but better.
Maybe that's why many schools start with MacOS, then goes to Windows in high school, and Unix in college. It also could be that more people are willing to pluge through windows than unix desktops.
Thank you. Someone who truly understand my point about how using Unix or command line does not mean knowledge of the inner workings of the operating system, let alone the hardware.
No, installing linux, recompiling a kernal, and using a command prompt does not in and by itself show how a computer or operating system works.
:) I just live with it. But if I was new to the system, I wouldn't want to use unix. It is way to hostile of an environment. The younger the kids, the more annoying these inconsistancies become. And then you turn kids off to computers.
Typing "/usr/bin/emacs" and clicking "Start -> Programs -> emacs" merely launch emacs. Likewise, clicking an icon in a GUI that represents the file location does the same thing. Just because you got unix does not mean you know how program execution works.
The problem with linux and especially X is:
1) Consistancy
2) Predictability
3) Simplicity
4) Standardization
These can be very fustrating to new users. Heck, it annoys me, and I consider myself experienced enough.
And how is a computer going to pass them useful information? As opposed to books. Assuming the 3rd worlders can read (either their native language or english).
Story I've heard. On a university campus, many people have BlackICE installed, and it complains and throws up a red flag when a ping sweep or SNMP querys are done, causing users to panic and call the help desk worrying that the networking staff is hacking them. :)
There could of been a major disaster, such as an asteroid crashing into the planet, kicking up enough dust to make the planet cold.
As for the 2000 years of discovery, look at how much advancement there has been since the birth of christ until now, that's about 2000 years.
A nice UPS should help a bit, with proper grounding. Not those cheap crappy kind, or surge supressors. I mean APC or other ones that come with $25K guarentees.
"To my knowledge, Apple is the only computer manufacturer in history not to include an eject button"
I don't recall ever seeing an eject button on Sun floppy drives.
Did you notice the force feedback mechanisms too? Run into a wall, you feel it!
And what about that localized damage zones, like in Action Quake! I jumped off a high cliff, and could hardly walk around until I bandaged my legs.
Just because OSDN went down does not mean that the Internet died. Take out MAE-EAST, the internet will still work. Won't be able to access all content, and things will be a bit haywire, but it'll still be around.
Plus, having two internet connections of a high speed nature is quite expensive, I really doubt they could afford it.
"see the article to see what I mean."
see the article. Michael, dude, you haven't been paying attention to slashdot, have you?
:-)
I've seen a few posts here already.
:) or liverpool, but can in Clay, NY. I also can tell that Manlius houses seem to cost over $120k, but Cicero can be bought for $70k
I believe this ask slashdot is not asking about buying a home on the Internet, but searching for one.
I've looked for price estimates and styles at realtor.com. These things are very useful in narrowing down lists of possibilities. It's also good for roughly judging particular areas. For example, I know I can't buy 10 acres of land in downtown syracuse (duh
There's also the problem of rotational banner ads. Sure, it's good in some ways, not in other ways. For example, here I'm holding the latest copy of Network Computing (heh). Page 80, an ad for WhatsUpGold and a link to a free demo. This intersts me, but I want to look at it later. I can come back tomorrow, next week, a year later, and find the ad and the hyperlink.
Now reload just the slashdot page. You got a different ad. Sometimes I miss a banner ad, or click a link and then realize I want to see that banner ad, but the next page loads, and when you go back, the previous banner has rotated. And I've never seen a website have an "advertiser index" like so many magazines have.
"Just my 5 Eurocents Johan."
Cable systems may be better here in the US then.
I get about 60 channels, and digital cable offers up to 212.
The rest of your post I cannot understand.
You may be thinking of solaris, where sometimes /tmp and swap are on the same partition.
/tmp on the same partition is not a great idea.
/tmp at any time. Tmp is rather big (we originally used it to juggle around partitions for a disk upgrade a few years back). But all the users are friends, and we're pretty informal, and I'd rather not just delete a whole bunch of stuff - much of which belongs in /pub anyways. We just don't have time or motivation to go through it all and verify what works. Maybe one day. It's a bit messy but works just fine.
Swap is on a completely seperate partition, untouchable and unviewable by users. It's my opinion that putting swap and
Yes we can blow away
Brilliant idea.
Wait until IPv6 addresses become common.
Surf to http://3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf
Have fun.