Why is every software project changing its interface drastically for tablets and phones? Did desktops just fall off the face of the Earth? Seriously, get off the mobile bandwagon if your doing Desktop software and stick with Desktop design ideas. That goes for Mozilla, Gnome, and anyone else. Stop making half and half crappy designs changes and and focus up on one or the other but no half way crap that ruins the experience.
I don't care if the UI for Gnome 3 is better for tablets and such. I don't care that you think the URL bar is too big at 33 pixels or whatever it is. Stop messing up things that work as they are. Start a new project and give the existing stuff to someone else who won't have mobile on the brain for a desktop product.
Sorry for the rant but this is getting old watching good and decent desktop software become hybrid mobile nightmare designs.
"A lot of the copying of commercial software is done by people who can't afford it. You'll get students that want to play with 3DSMax or something but can't really swing the $3,500 asking price so they'll download it. That is NOT a lost sale, if it was impossible to copy, they'd simply do without because they haven't the money."
http://www.blender.org/
They can still get the free alternatives available. There's also student discount pricing available for non-free products. One way or another they don't have to steal and if their instructor requires they use a product they can't afford it usually is installed in the computer labs so all the student would have to invest is lab time.
I have it running on my old EEE 1000 40g and it's running ok for the most part. I'm not doing anything serious with it but I'm really not going to use it on a main machine till there is an LTS release. I can say I already miss having my weather app up next to the clock. It's an OK experience but not enjoyable. Sadly Gnome is changing big time as well so I dunno... I feel like things are changing where they don't need to be changed because it worked fine as is.
* Lots of curves. * Smart and able to help me when I make mistakes. * Always there when I want to do something. * Always there when I don't want to do something. * A pretty smile. * Good at helping me with problems.
*** PROCESSING *** > Please log in to Facebook now to meet your new girlfriend!
*Opens Browser and logs in*
*Whirrrrrlllll TINK TINK TINK*
From Clippy'etta: Hello handsome! It looks like you are trying to find a girlfriend today!
From Me: NooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOO!
"People who don't have a Facebook account should get one or risk having a financial profile created for them says founder and president of Metal International, Ken Rutkowski."
This sounds like some sort of big money making scheme mixed with scare tactics to push people to get on Facebook for someone else benefit rather then their own.
They might want to look in to Windows stability a little more. The game has been crashing regularly for me when I'm running it under Windows 7 through the executable. I get black screens of death basically and have to restart it. Now under Ubuntu the game has never crashed on me. In Ubuntu I run it directly from the JAR file unlike Windows. I've not tested running the JAR file directly in Windows yet to see if I'd have the same results there. Too busy building in my Ubuntu partition saves. >_>
Mercury has a magnetic field unlike Venus or Mars. If I remember one article right it's also more dense of a planet. Maybe we'll find some nifty raw materials there that some day in the future we could harvest.
I had up to Calc 2 for my CS degree. I didn't go on to a masters but I have a decent job doing UNIX/Oracle coding. For me the most math I've used is +, -, *, / and some set theory. Outside of that I've yet to touch any calculus or trig or anything fancy in 6 years of programming work out of college.
I guess I could touch on that stuff more in my work but then I have other people who may have to look at my code and not understand what that stuff is about. K.I.S.S. applies to application design and coding so maintaining things is easier when accompanied with good documentation.
I'm not going to be around forever and I'd like the code I write to last beyond me for some time. The easier it is to work with the longer it'll stick around I think so long as the problem it solves lasts beyond me.
Seriously, you kids are your emails these days. Old ways are the best, shipping isn't so bad if I aim the catapult right and if I miss the mattress at the target the message get encrypted enough I don't have to worry about theft.
My mother is the farthest thing from computer literate that I am with her horse riding interests. While I could adapt to this interface grudgingly with all my computer experience she'd be blown out of the water trying to find anything or how to do anything. It was bad enough getting her from Windows XP to Windows 7.
From what I understand they couldn't own the term SciFi for their channel so they changed it to ScyFy. Could someone start a channel specifically named SciFi and actually put real science fiction shows on it since they gave up?
Between the VIM/VI/Emacs talk and SUDO/SU I charcoal where my asbestos undies used to be. The Perl vs. AWK/GREP/SED comment on the site made me feel like Wile E. Coyote after running over my own TNT trap.
I remember games having this back in the DOS days. Leather Goddesses of Phobos had that scratch and sniff pad that came in the packaging if I remember right. Also putting this in to some kind of a device would make companies like HP salivate. They're making a killing from printer cartridges already and now the possibility of scent cartridges? They'd be all over that I bet.
After wearing glasses all my life I have to say bifocals would be cheaper and easier to replace. Also bifocals don't have much trouble with water when you have a clean towel or napkin around. As cool as electronic glasses would be to me, I'd much rather wear ordinary glasses for the simplicity and ease of use.
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Why is every software project changing its interface drastically for tablets and phones? Did desktops just fall off the face of the Earth? Seriously, get off the mobile bandwagon if your doing Desktop software and stick with Desktop design ideas. That goes for Mozilla, Gnome, and anyone else. Stop making half and half crappy designs changes and and focus up on one or the other but no half way crap that ruins the experience.
I don't care if the UI for Gnome 3 is better for tablets and such. I don't care that you think the URL bar is too big at 33 pixels or whatever it is. Stop messing up things that work as they are. Start a new project and give the existing stuff to someone else who won't have mobile on the brain for a desktop product.
Sorry for the rant but this is getting old watching good and decent desktop software become hybrid mobile nightmare designs.
Thank you! Now I have a modern day version of this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-zs7jKcGDg#t=3m4s
"A lot of the copying of commercial software is done by people who can't afford it. You'll get students that want to play with 3DSMax or something but can't really swing the $3,500 asking price so they'll download it. That is NOT a lost sale, if it was impossible to copy, they'd simply do without because they haven't the money."
http://www.blender.org/
They can still get the free alternatives available. There's also student discount pricing available for non-free products. One way or another they don't have to steal and if their instructor requires they use a product they can't afford it usually is installed in the computer labs so all the student would have to invest is lab time.
That way the dead horse that was once a science fiction channel can finally be put to rest.
I have it running on my old EEE 1000 40g and it's running ok for the most part. I'm not doing anything serious with it but I'm really not going to use it on a main machine till there is an LTS release. I can say I already miss having my weather app up next to the clock. It's an OK experience but not enjoyable. Sadly Gnome is changing big time as well so I dunno... I feel like things are changing where they don't need to be changed because it worked fine as is.
Thats what VirtualBox is for, when you get that non-LTS itch. :)
"or at the very worst an extra few dollars on their unemployment checks."
Well depending on how this turns out those capes might be worth money down the road if collectors get interested.
My perfect girl friend has/is...
* Lots of curves.
* Smart and able to help me when I make mistakes.
* Always there when I want to do something.
* Always there when I don't want to do something.
* A pretty smile.
* Good at helping me with problems.
*** PROCESSING ***
> Please log in to Facebook now to meet your new girlfriend!
*Opens Browser and logs in*
*Whirrrrrlllll TINK TINK TINK*
From Clippy'etta: Hello handsome! It looks like you are trying to find a girlfriend today!
From Me: NooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOO!
"People who don't have a Facebook account should get one or risk having a financial profile created for them says founder and president of Metal International, Ken Rutkowski."
This sounds like some sort of big money making scheme mixed with scare tactics to push people to get on Facebook for someone else benefit rather then their own.
They might want to look in to Windows stability a little more. The game has been crashing regularly for me when I'm running it under Windows 7 through the executable. I get black screens of death basically and have to restart it. Now under Ubuntu the game has never crashed on me. In Ubuntu I run it directly from the JAR file unlike Windows. I've not tested running the JAR file directly in Windows yet to see if I'd have the same results there. Too busy building in my Ubuntu partition saves. >_>
Mercury has a magnetic field unlike Venus or Mars. If I remember one article right it's also more dense of a planet. Maybe we'll find some nifty raw materials there that some day in the future we could harvest.
I had up to Calc 2 for my CS degree. I didn't go on to a masters but I have a decent job doing UNIX/Oracle coding. For me the most math I've used is +, -, *, / and some set theory. Outside of that I've yet to touch any calculus or trig or anything fancy in 6 years of programming work out of college.
I guess I could touch on that stuff more in my work but then I have other people who may have to look at my code and not understand what that stuff is about. K.I.S.S. applies to application design and coding so maintaining things is easier when accompanied with good documentation.
I'm not going to be around forever and I'd like the code I write to last beyond me for some time. The easier it is to work with the longer it'll stick around I think so long as the problem it solves lasts beyond me.
"If a minor UI change like this really is that much of an impact on your productivity, then maybe working with computers is just not for you."
Tell that to my mother who wants to scan and email and had a fit finding things again from the "minor UI changes" between Windows XP and Windows 7.
Apparently they might lose the buttons as well for Windows 8 if the rumor mill about a bubble interface is true.
http://www.ispyce.com/2011/02/microsoft-shows-off-radical-new-ui.html
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If only I had funny mod points, thank you sir!
*Chips away at a stone tablet*
Seriously, you kids are your emails these days. Old ways are the best, shipping isn't so bad if I aim the catapult right and if I miss the mattress at the target the message get encrypted enough I don't have to worry about theft.
My mother is the farthest thing from computer literate that I am with her horse riding interests. While I could adapt to this interface grudgingly with all my computer experience she'd be blown out of the water trying to find anything or how to do anything. It was bad enough getting her from Windows XP to Windows 7.
From what I understand they couldn't own the term SciFi for their channel so they changed it to ScyFy. Could someone start a channel specifically named SciFi and actually put real science fiction shows on it since they gave up?
Can't cheat death? Just you wait till the story breaks that Watson was bought out and suddenly renamed to Jobs.
Between the VIM/VI/Emacs talk and SUDO/SU I charcoal where my asbestos undies used to be. The Perl vs. AWK/GREP/SED comment on the site made me feel like Wile E. Coyote after running over my own TNT trap.
No broken giant wooden rabbits were found on the US side of the border.
I remember games having this back in the DOS days. Leather Goddesses of Phobos had that scratch and sniff pad that came in the packaging if I remember right. Also putting this in to some kind of a device would make companies like HP salivate. They're making a killing from printer cartridges already and now the possibility of scent cartridges? They'd be all over that I bet.
After wearing glasses all my life I have to say bifocals would be cheaper and easier to replace. Also bifocals don't have much trouble with water when you have a clean towel or napkin around. As cool as electronic glasses would be to me, I'd much rather wear ordinary glasses for the simplicity and ease of use.
As good as it sounds, eating insects just bugs me to no end since I didn't grow up doing it.
I wonder if they will find anyTHING?
"Peter, what are you doing Peter?!"
*Nom nom nom nom nom and radio static*