Actually, to put a finer point on it, I was pointing to the fact that current technology applied to the market is an Atlas rocket strapped to a horse cart. But, hey, what could go wrong?
Buy the public consciousness with a few baubles while continuing to drain away the vitality of the economy. They have learned much from the masters at the B & MGF.
The mad dash toward the "one interface to rule them all" has given us nothing but a deepening dive into a universally cumbersome user interface. While few people converse with the same tone and measure with which they write, UI designers seem oblivious to the nuances that make a platform what it is.
Will developing an OS help Gnome get a handle on this problem? Or will the OS become a distraction, like Mono appears to have been?
It is high time that any entity placing a non-valid takedown request be barred from further such requests for a minimum of three years. Or 30 years, whichever comes last.
I don't think many of us who were around at the time gave much credence to the idea that DOS was derivative of CP/M 86. Had it been, it would have been a better OS.
... most Win 7 machines have a restore partition. Simply boot into it and restore your machine to its original install state. Technically, all the bits won't be scrubbed from the drive, but unless you work at the NSA, it is unlikely anyone will recover your data.
I would suggest that, in the future, you keep your personal computing off your work machine, both for security and ethical reasons.
The configuration of the systems will be the most important factor in easing the transition. No distribution will come fully configured to meet the use cases of individual users or a task-specific group of users. I'd recommend Linux Mint KDE for the greater depth of configurability that KDE offers and the relatively finished state of configuration offered by Mint in the initial installation. Alternatively, Kubuntu will give the same basis with more of a blank slate to start. I'd suggest looking at UCK to produce a preconfigured master, specific to your situation.
I'd stress that this is an upgrade and that some adjustment will be necessary. If you buy a new car, you need to learn a new layout for the gauges and controls; improved software requires some of the same accommodations. Underline the benefits that will accrue to the users from committing to such a course.
So, you will need to 1) Configure the systems, yourself, to ease the transition, 2) Sell the benefits of the transition to get user buy-in, and 3) Educate your users to empower them with the new functionality the will enjoy.
If you're successful in marketing a software product built on a proprietary platform, you can expect the proprietor of that platform to attempt a takeover of your market, at some point. If you build on an open platform and are successful, you'll quite possibly have competition sooner, but it will likely be fair competition.
... to eliminate all inferior beings who need prosthetic devices. Next up, an assault on those who use crutches. We'll clean up that genome, yet. And as for those foreign-born cripples...
What makes WP "ugly" to a designer? More than anything, it's the unrelenting density of information. What makes WP great? More than anything, it's the unrelenting density of information.
That amazingly adaptable, (and quirky), organ, the brain, will map our fingers to the letters, no matter their arrangement. That takes care of familiarity, which leaves standardization as the crux question.
The QWERTY layout became a standard because of dictation. The highest speeds for typing are generally achieved in transcription. Typing while composing just takes longer. QWERTY popularity became a standard in large part because it allowed professional typists to move between work environments and still have familiar tools.
With the flexibility of modern key-mapping, we can all have our own, personalized keyboards, but what purpose would it serve? The circular argument, "QWERTY is a standard because QWERTY is a standard," is inescapable in its logic. It is arbitrary, but success dictates standards and it is generally beneficial to embrace successful standards. Most of the world drives on the right side of the road, those who don't pay a premium for the difference.
Putting on my cynical hat, I'd have to question whether or not it has always been like this. Complexity and magnitude have grown, and perhaps the struggle for the oligarchy has swayed more to the plutocrats than the autocrats, but we're still the same cogs in the same wheels, grown bigger.
The Applerati have long held an attitude of disdain for other platforms, while clinging to an illusion of invincibility inculcated by Apple marketing. It has always been a sham; researchers have repeatedly shown how Apple has introduced numerous vulnerabilities into OS X not present in its BSD antecedents.
Unfortunately, some Linux aficionados have been bitten by a similar bug. Nothing conceived by the human imagination is impervious to attack. Geek, secure thyself.
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... where is all this going to sit when you build your new computer on your printer?
Actually, to put a finer point on it, I was pointing to the fact that current technology applied to the market is an Atlas rocket strapped to a horse cart. But, hey, what could go wrong?
... it's hard to be red, too?
... pretty well before they introduced that pesky telegraph.
... enforcement will become a priority as soon as they finish rounding up all the perps for spitting on the sidewalk.
... presumably, this leaves us to deduce that in the database server room we would find the racks of ruin.
Buy the public consciousness with a few baubles while continuing to drain away the vitality of the economy. They have learned much from the masters at the B & MGF.
The mad dash toward the "one interface to rule them all" has given us nothing but a deepening dive into a universally cumbersome user interface. While few people converse with the same tone and measure with which they write, UI designers seem oblivious to the nuances that make a platform what it is.
Will developing an OS help Gnome get a handle on this problem? Or will the OS become a distraction, like Mono appears to have been?
It is high time that any entity placing a non-valid takedown request be barred from further such requests for a minimum of three years. Or 30 years, whichever comes last.
I don't think many of us who were around at the time gave much credence to the idea that DOS was derivative of CP/M 86. Had it been, it would have been a better OS.
The abandonment of Thunderbird, in particular, as well as the wholesale discarding of plugins, is a major peeve.
... that any lawyer seeking payment through deceptive tactics be disbarred and imprisoned. Period.
... to imagine the vendor should provide voice and chat services and allow the customer to choose?
... is a 12-step program for these folks, (all puns intended).
... most Win 7 machines have a restore partition. Simply boot into it and restore your machine to its original install state. Technically, all the bits won't be scrubbed from the drive, but unless you work at the NSA, it is unlikely anyone will recover your data.
I would suggest that, in the future, you keep your personal computing off your work machine, both for security and ethical reasons.
The configuration of the systems will be the most important factor in easing the transition. No distribution will come fully configured to meet the use cases of individual users or a task-specific group of users. I'd recommend Linux Mint KDE for the greater depth of configurability that KDE offers and the relatively finished state of configuration offered by Mint in the initial installation. Alternatively, Kubuntu will give the same basis with more of a blank slate to start. I'd suggest looking at UCK to produce a preconfigured master, specific to your situation.
I'd stress that this is an upgrade and that some adjustment will be necessary. If you buy a new car, you need to learn a new layout for the gauges and controls; improved software requires some of the same accommodations. Underline the benefits that will accrue to the users from committing to such a course.
So, you will need to 1) Configure the systems, yourself, to ease the transition, 2) Sell the benefits of the transition to get user buy-in, and 3) Educate your users to empower them with the new functionality the will enjoy.
If you're successful in marketing a software product built on a proprietary platform, you can expect the proprietor of that platform to attempt a takeover of your market, at some point. If you build on an open platform and are successful, you'll quite possibly have competition sooner, but it will likely be fair competition.
... if my campaign donors make a profit on it."
Just yesterday I was reminded of this old chestnut:
"There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain
... to eliminate all inferior beings who need prosthetic devices. Next up, an assault on those who use crutches. We'll clean up that genome, yet. And as for those foreign-born cripples ...
Facebook being devalued by users, even fake ones, is a refreshing change from Facebook characteristically devaluing users.
What makes WP "ugly" to a designer? More than anything, it's the unrelenting density of information. What makes WP great? More than anything, it's the unrelenting density of information.
That amazingly adaptable, (and quirky), organ, the brain, will map our fingers to the letters, no matter their arrangement. That takes care of familiarity, which leaves standardization as the crux question.
The QWERTY layout became a standard because of dictation. The highest speeds for typing are generally achieved in transcription. Typing while composing just takes longer. QWERTY popularity became a standard in large part because it allowed professional typists to move between work environments and still have familiar tools.
With the flexibility of modern key-mapping, we can all have our own, personalized keyboards, but what purpose would it serve? The circular argument, "QWERTY is a standard because QWERTY is a standard," is inescapable in its logic. It is arbitrary, but success dictates standards and it is generally beneficial to embrace successful standards. Most of the world drives on the right side of the road, those who don't pay a premium for the difference.
1. Don't, under any circumstances, mount it
2. Format it
3. Enjoy your new USB stick
Putting on my cynical hat, I'd have to question whether or not it has always been like this. Complexity and magnitude have grown, and perhaps the struggle for the oligarchy has swayed more to the plutocrats than the autocrats, but we're still the same cogs in the same wheels, grown bigger.
The Applerati have long held an attitude of disdain for other platforms, while clinging to an illusion of invincibility inculcated by Apple marketing. It has always been a sham; researchers have repeatedly shown how Apple has introduced numerous vulnerabilities into OS X not present in its BSD antecedents.
Unfortunately, some Linux aficionados have been bitten by a similar bug. Nothing conceived by the human imagination is impervious to attack. Geek, secure thyself.