In both KDE 3.5 and Gnome, the Gimp interface sucks for me. MDI is a trillion times better than what Gimp does. I don't know what esoteric window manager they expect you to use, but I'd rather use the big ones, thanks.
To me the problem is both images and tools. If I click in the taskbar on the gimp window (well, I should say "a" gimp window here), I want to see both tools and the painting.
No, the makers of a painting program should not say "use window manager X or Y". The makers of a painting program should ensure that their program works in a reasonable way on the system the user has.
The problem is this: most people are not programmers. If all those people CHOOSE to use this device instead of general purpose computers, then general purpose computers will become an exception rather than the norm. If they become an exception, they become non-standard, don't matter anymore to the home user, and are much more expensive. And all that's left for programmers is either relying on Apple and their app store, or working on expensive devices only available in the industry.
Ah well, in a few decades we'll have the technological singularity and the entity resulting of that will be so smart that not only it'll exist out of the entire universe, but it'll also prevent its death or make sure its death will result in a new Big Bang!
It's not my intention to troll. I'm a Linux user because I like the style and way of working with that operation better than Windows. So anything that is BIG and tries to limit the choice of users to "Windows-only" is bad to me (that is, things like Direct3D, IE-only webpages, Office formats,...), because I think users should be able to make a choice what OS to use and have a good range of software choices on all.
IMHO, I see no reason to not use the NVidia drivers, that they make for Linux, and allow me to play some modern (=2009) games in Wine. If people are trolling NVidia saying they don't cooperate, they could as well pull the plug and not provide the drivers anymore.
I do like the programming effort of trying to reverse engineer them, it is a very interesting effort and the results could be massive. So I definatly don't want to troll against the people doing this effort, on the contrary.
I program things that use OpenGL myself and require hardware acceleration, software OpenGL rendering is too slow, and I've heard Linux users complain about the hardware acceleration requirement. And THAT is what I'd like to troll against. Hardware 3D acceleration should not be an "option" today.
If those NVidia drivers don't support hardware accelerated 3D, then I really don't understand the point. 3D hardware acceleration is 15 years old. Linux is an operating system that should be at the frontline of technology. Working in the dark ages of pre-3D acceleration, the times of Motif GUI's, should be far past us. How can something that ignores such an important part of the graphics card, almost half the computation power of the whole computer is there, be accepted?
If they do support 3D, then congratulations, ignore my post above:)
Print screen isn't that rarely used. Maybe if you'd remove that ability you'd find out you miss it more than you think. And print screen button is the standard in Windows, Gnome and KDE. There is no other sane known keyboard shortcut for this. If the print screen button is gone, No desktop or Windows will properly support print screen anymore, I don't think they'll bother finding another combination for it. And using various "screen grab" tools is too much work.
Slightly related: All those Scroll Lock LED lights that nobody uses on every desktop keyboard... How much cleaner our environment would have been if all those LEDs didn't have to be produced!
That is the Print Screen key. Don't ever remove that key from the keyboard! I don't care that the word "SysRq" is written below "Print Screen" on that key. Feel free to remove that "SysRq" word from there, but do NOT remove the handy print screen key! Thanks.
Would you draw more power with 16 lasers? Each laser needs to cover only 1/16th of the area so theoretically also 1/16th of the power (for the same overall brightness).
Yeah, they want to go back to the phosphor and sweeping beam technology? There were more things than just the thickness that I liked about LCD versus CRT's, and radiation & flickering were some of them.
Maybe because your car is so heavy that the weight of passengers can be neglected. So you're carrying ALL that car weight all the time, burning gasoline to move all that weight, just to move you and some passengers?
Ok, I get it now, I guess with multiplatform games I was thinking too much about games for Windows, Mac and Linux. But of course I had forgotten that PC gaming is dead and games refers to consoles today.
I didn't read the article, but, how can making a game multiplatform almost double the cost? I thought the art, levels, motion capturing, all the data, etc... was the most expensive. Writing the code probably also is expensive, but if you develop for multiplatform a lot of code (AI etc...) can be shared and only things like renderer and input need multiple implementations, which can't be THAT much more work??
Why do you get that reflex but the person uses that email address doesn't? The reason you get that reflex is because you know certain things. Someone who doesn't have that reflex, doesn't know these things. So the least that such an email indicates about a person, is that he/she doesn't have the knowledge about those things that give you that reflex. Depending on whether or not you need to have the person to have that knowledge, this could cause you to decide not to hire this person for a certain task.
What knowledge this is exactly? Don't know, maybe just knowledge of IT?
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Wall hacks and aim bots, that's how...
In both KDE 3.5 and Gnome, the Gimp interface sucks for me. MDI is a trillion times better than what Gimp does. I don't know what esoteric window manager they expect you to use, but I'd rather use the big ones, thanks.
To me the problem is both images and tools. If I click in the taskbar on the gimp window (well, I should say "a" gimp window here), I want to see both tools and the painting.
No, the makers of a painting program should not say "use window manager X or Y". The makers of a painting program should ensure that their program works in a reasonable way on the system the user has.
User-friendlyness, you know?
Why not floating windows inside the main window?
Oh I know why: because the GTK designers don't like floating windows inside a window for whatever strange reason.
But great improvement nonetheless, kudos!
It's not like there only live man in the US.
The problem is this: most people are not programmers. If all those people CHOOSE to use this device instead of general purpose computers, then general purpose computers will become an exception rather than the norm. If they become an exception, they become non-standard, don't matter anymore to the home user, and are much more expensive. And all that's left for programmers is either relying on Apple and their app store, or working on expensive devices only available in the industry.
A Turing machine can simulate a Turing machine. So is the universe no Turing machine?
Ah well, in a few decades we'll have the technological singularity and the entity resulting of that will be so smart that not only it'll exist out of the entire universe, but it'll also prevent its death or make sure its death will result in a new Big Bang!
Well I wasn't trying to be funny...
It's not my intention to troll. I'm a Linux user because I like the style and way of working with that operation better than Windows. So anything that is BIG and tries to limit the choice of users to "Windows-only" is bad to me (that is, things like Direct3D, IE-only webpages, Office formats, ...), because I think users should be able to make a choice what OS to use and have a good range of software choices on all.
IMHO, I see no reason to not use the NVidia drivers, that they make for Linux, and allow me to play some modern (=2009) games in Wine. If people are trolling NVidia saying they don't cooperate, they could as well pull the plug and not provide the drivers anymore.
I do like the programming effort of trying to reverse engineer them, it is a very interesting effort and the results could be massive. So I definatly don't want to troll against the people doing this effort, on the contrary.
I program things that use OpenGL myself and require hardware acceleration, software OpenGL rendering is too slow, and I've heard Linux users complain about the hardware acceleration requirement. And THAT is what I'd like to troll against. Hardware 3D acceleration should not be an "option" today.
If those NVidia drivers don't support hardware accelerated 3D, then I really don't understand the point. 3D hardware acceleration is 15 years old. Linux is an operating system that should be at the frontline of technology. Working in the dark ages of pre-3D acceleration, the times of Motif GUI's, should be far past us. How can something that ignores such an important part of the graphics card, almost half the computation power of the whole computer is there, be accepted?
If they do support 3D, then congratulations, ignore my post above :)
Afsluitdijk translates (if translated literally) to English as "Obstructdike".
Print screen isn't that rarely used. Maybe if you'd remove that ability you'd find out you miss it more than you think. And print screen button is the standard in Windows, Gnome and KDE. There is no other sane known keyboard shortcut for this. If the print screen button is gone, No desktop or Windows will properly support print screen anymore, I don't think they'll bother finding another combination for it. And using various "screen grab" tools is too much work.
The truth is out there...
Slightly related: All those Scroll Lock LED lights that nobody uses on every desktop keyboard... How much cleaner our environment would have been if all those LEDs didn't have to be produced!
That is the Print Screen key. Don't ever remove that key from the keyboard! I don't care that the word "SysRq" is written below "Print Screen" on that key. Feel free to remove that "SysRq" word from there, but do NOT remove the handy print screen key! Thanks.
Would you draw more power with 16 lasers? Each laser needs to cover only 1/16th of the area so theoretically also 1/16th of the power (for the same overall brightness).
Yeah, they want to go back to the phosphor and sweeping beam technology? There were more things than just the thickness that I liked about LCD versus CRT's, and radiation & flickering were some of them.
Maybe because your car is so heavy that the weight of passengers can be neglected. So you're carrying ALL that car weight all the time, burning gasoline to move all that weight, just to move you and some passengers?
Ok, I get it now, I guess with multiplatform games I was thinking too much about games for Windows, Mac and Linux. But of course I had forgotten that PC gaming is dead and games refers to consoles today.
C++?
I didn't read the article, but, how can making a game multiplatform almost double the cost? I thought the art, levels, motion capturing, all the data, etc... was the most expensive. Writing the code probably also is expensive, but if you develop for multiplatform a lot of code (AI etc...) can be shared and only things like renderer and input need multiple implementations, which can't be THAT much more work??
That would be cool if he broke the Pi computation record purely with his mind though! :)
Why do you get that reflex but the person uses that email address doesn't? The reason you get that reflex is because you know certain things. Someone who doesn't have that reflex, doesn't know these things. So the least that such an email indicates about a person, is that he/she doesn't have the knowledge about those things that give you that reflex. Depending on whether or not you need to have the person to have that knowledge, this could cause you to decide not to hire this person for a certain task.
What knowledge this is exactly? Don't know, maybe just knowledge of IT?