Just because WYSIWYG is good for word processors doesn't mean it's good for everything else you'll ever use in your life.
If you need to do 1 or 2 equations every 6 months, that's fine. For anyone with more demanding needs, a more advanced system is better.
The problem is that Word processors and similar programs are extremely monolithic, requiring the installation of a giant amount of crap most people will never use. Programs with a more modern design let people use plugins to enable advanced features while allowing regular users to keep everything simple.
I use bookmark search sometimes, but it's a feature I rarely need compared to having multiple levels of bookmarks. I guess the current bookmark system was in response to someone saying submenus are evil, but the solution isn't to just get rid of them without offering a substitute.
Quakenet, Gamesnet and many others do not allow any kind of illegal file trading. There was also a story here a few days ago about some warez groups getting raided, so IRC isn't being overlooked.
IM is worse than IRC, at least with IRC you can install any client and it'll work on any network. I stopped using IM because I couldn't find a client that let me connect to everyone I knew and supported all the features of the official clients.
Also, all the popular protocols are propietary and clients magically stop working after a couple of months because companies drop backwards compatibility on purpose.
One problem would be communication (having a common language). I've talked to people from the northern countries and most speak english. In the south, they tend to stick to their own language. Of course, for reasons of trade, English is becoming popular as a second language all over the world... so maybe in 50 years most people will speak it.
I don't see a relationship between hard drive space and choice. Most people will buy the product that fits their needs and they need choice for that because everyone has different needs. Nobody sees the ability to set a different wallpaper as a bad thing, the problem in the case of the desktop is that nobody understands the point of having two of everything. For example both kde and gnome install html libraries, then browsers like mozilla or epiphany use a separate library.
I'm sure there's a good reason for this, but I don't see why I can't tell my apps which library to use so I just have to install one.
It could be worse, when she started talking about her relationship problems I found out she was a lesbian. In a span of 2-3 minutes she went from possible girlfriend -> maybe not -> absolutely no chance.
Homicide detectives aren't being forced to work on stopping warez and just because/. doesn't post every single story related to muggings or spousal abuse doesn't mean those problems are low priority for the government. At least where I live, I haven't seen any evidence of the police force giving anti-piracy crackdowns more importance.
Also, like every other sector of this society, they are highly specialized. It would be useless to send everyone after killers and forget about all the other crimes.
Btw a victimless crime is smoking a joint, not making a company bankrupt. Even if corporations aren't people, I'm sure they have something other than aliens and robots making games.
It's not about not having to think, it's about things being easier.
I do file management on the console because its easier. I change my volume settings using a gui because its easier to move your mouse wheel up and down than typing lots of things.
Most people who have used a console think of command.com, something archaic which feels almost like assembling your own car every time you want to go somewhere.
Most of the oss stuff I use doesn't have a commercial version available to copy from. Although, i'll admit xmms is a terrible copy of winamp2... and there's nothing better available.
Some guys started designing a library called boost meant to be used for the next version of ISO C++. They thought the language wasn't gigantically huge and complicated enough.
emerge nvidia-kernel works for me... you shouldn't need to edit any config files since you're just recompiling a bit of code to let nvidia work with the new kernel.
I do think X configuration should be more automatic by default. Having to magically know that my USB mouse uses the IMPS/2 protocol is kind of... impossible.
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According to your quote, the user interface will be consistent. Seems to me like they're describing themes, not a specific interface for each application.
I understand the concerns about toolkits, but what could be wrong about having many window managers? Nobody is forced to use more than one at a time, nobody is forced to use something other than what was installed by default and those who don't like the default can install a different window manager.
The general image of Apple is: expensive, doesn't have any programs/games, to upgrade the system you throw your computer out the window and go buy a new one and it is easy to use.
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That's even less likely than the arc actually existing.
You should read the Word of all the other Gods whose religions had stories about floods and giant boats.
Just because WYSIWYG is good for word processors doesn't mean it's good for everything else you'll ever use in your life.
If you need to do 1 or 2 equations every 6 months, that's fine. For anyone with more demanding needs, a more advanced system is better.
The problem is that Word processors and similar programs are extremely monolithic, requiring the installation of a giant amount of crap most people will never use. Programs with a more modern design let people use plugins to enable advanced features while allowing regular users to keep everything simple.
I use bookmark search sometimes, but it's a feature I rarely need compared to having multiple levels of bookmarks. I guess the current bookmark system was in response to someone saying submenus are evil, but the solution isn't to just get rid of them without offering a substitute.
Average users don't need to type equations. The ones who do, will find learning a syntax just as hard as learning to use a calculator (ie. not hard).
Quakenet, Gamesnet and many others do not allow any kind of illegal file trading. There was also a story here a few days ago about some warez groups getting raided, so IRC isn't being overlooked.
I have seen ratio fserves. Btw, if the bandwidth thing were true you wouldn't see giant queues on fserves either.
IM is worse than IRC, at least with IRC you can install any client and it'll work on any network. I stopped using IM because I couldn't find a client that let me connect to everyone I knew and supported all the features of the official clients.
Also, all the popular protocols are propietary and clients magically stop working after a couple of months because companies drop backwards compatibility on purpose.
One problem would be communication (having a common language). I've talked to people from the northern countries and most speak english. In the south, they tend to stick to their own language. Of course, for reasons of trade, English is becoming popular as a second language all over the world... so maybe in 50 years most people will speak it.
I don't see a relationship between hard drive space and choice. Most people will buy the product that fits their needs and they need choice for that because everyone has different needs. Nobody sees the ability to set a different wallpaper as a bad thing, the problem in the case of the desktop is that nobody understands the point of having two of everything. For example both kde and gnome install html libraries, then browsers like mozilla or epiphany use a separate library.
I'm sure there's a good reason for this, but I don't see why I can't tell my apps which library to use so I just have to install one.
It could be worse, when she started talking about her relationship problems I found out she was a lesbian. In a span of 2-3 minutes she went from possible girlfriend -> maybe not -> absolutely no chance.
Homicide detectives aren't being forced to work on stopping warez and just because /. doesn't post every single story related to muggings or spousal abuse doesn't mean those problems are low priority for the government. At least where I live, I haven't seen any evidence of the police force giving anti-piracy crackdowns more importance.
Also, like every other sector of this society, they are highly specialized. It would be useless to send everyone after killers and forget about all the other crimes.
Btw a victimless crime is smoking a joint, not making a company bankrupt. Even if corporations aren't people, I'm sure they have something other than aliens and robots making games.
It's not about not having to think, it's about things being easier.
I do file management on the console because its easier. I change my volume settings using a gui because its easier to move your mouse wheel up and down than typing lots of things.
Most people who have used a console think of command.com, something archaic which feels almost like assembling your own car every time you want to go somewhere.
Reminds me of that awful default fvwm color scheme, the bright pink on gray.
Most of the oss stuff I use doesn't have a commercial version available to copy from. Although, i'll admit xmms is a terrible copy of winamp2... and there's nothing better available.
Apple already lost a lawsuit over look and feel, setting a precedent that makes it safe for openoffice to look like ms office.
Cool, so the options are throw the computer away and get a new one or buy a soundcard as expensive as a new computer.
Some guys started designing a library called boost meant to be used for the next version of ISO C++. They thought the language wasn't gigantically huge and complicated enough.
emerge nvidia-kernel works for me... you shouldn't need to edit any config files since you're just recompiling a bit of code to let nvidia work with the new kernel.
I do think X configuration should be more automatic by default. Having to magically know that my USB mouse uses the IMPS/2 protocol is kind of... impossible.
According to your quote, the user interface will be consistent. Seems to me like they're describing themes, not a specific interface for each application.
It doesn't have to be stored in binary, get the drive to convert it when the OS requests some data.
Or a very large sheet of paper.
Macros disappear after cpp goes through the file so there should be no reason for the executable to be larger.
I understand the concerns about toolkits, but what could be wrong about having many window managers? Nobody is forced to use more than one at a time, nobody is forced to use something other than what was installed by default and those who don't like the default can install a different window manager.
The general image of Apple is: expensive, doesn't have any programs/games, to upgrade the system you throw your computer out the window and go buy a new one and it is easy to use.