Don't ever disregard valuable feedback from an end-user perspective.
I agree, but there's no value to his criticism. No criticism that contains language like "fucktard" is valuable.
And JWZ, the Emacs nut, has the gall to criticize MPlayer for requiring users to remember a few keystrokes. I mean, c'mon, how many Emacs users chuckled when they read that?:-D
And really, how is criticising Ogle because it only plays physical DVDs, when it's stated purpose is simply to play physical DVDs, valuable feedback?
Honestly, I fail to see it. Being told to switch distributions as inevitable as Hitler? I mean, the list of complaints about Red Hat is long. Long, long, long.
And I read through his list of "problems" and didn't find anything that couldn't have been solved by simply asking someone, or reading the documentation.
Honestly, I don't think anyone who used to work at Netscape or had anything to do with XEmacs should have an opinion on usability. Honestly.:-D
KDE people also have the weird habit of producing their own versions of various pieces of software. Surely a conservative decisionmaker will choose a desktop-agnostic Mozilla or OpenOffice over the KDE-specific versions.
May I remind you that KDE predates both open-sourced Mozilla and OpenOffice...
And I can't say I agree about Gnome2. Multiple-windowmanager support seems to be an afterthought, at best, among other things. And I've noticed that it seems that, as far as an HTML widget is concerned, Gnome may be going the way of KDE. What advantage has Gnome had from using Gecko, anyway? If this is fixed now, I'm sorry, but have you ever opened a Web page in Nautilus and attempted to print the current document? Good luck.
I've been a GNOME user, and I've been a KDE user, and use apps and utilities from both (even on OS X!) I personally find KDE to be snappier, more useful, and has even managed to keep me from switching back to Window Maker or Fluxbox.;-D
And slightly OT: this was posted using the KHTML-based Safari Web browser on OS X v10.2.
The fact that the "eject" icon turns into a "burn" icon AFTER I start dragging the CD icon is shockingly bad UI design - the UI element needed is invisible until you start dragging things around. Why would I blindly pick up the CD icon without knowing what I was going to drop it on? Why would I want to drop it on anything if I can't see a "burn" control on the screen? I don't want to eject it yet!
The whole point is that you treat it like any other removable media on a Mac--you put the disk in, an icon shows up. You drag crap to the "disk", it shows up. You drag stuff from the "disk" to the trash, and you can throw it away. You drag the "disk" to the Trash, and you're given the option of burning or aborting. Just one extra step from any other removable media on a Mac.
Granted, it's a bit confusing to some, because a.) UDF isn't supported on Mac and b.) people think that they can treat CD-Rs like a floppy disc because they're handled much like floppy discs are handled.
If you can't figure out the procedure, odds are you're not a Mac user and shouldn't bitch too much because it's obvious that you sat down without finding out what the hell you're doing.:-D
As a kid I could always hear the flyback transformers in TVs and video screen. I could not tell you what the sound sounded like--it was not a high pitch. it was no pitch at all. But I could tell it was present.
I could always hear a high-pitched sound from TVs and video screens. Wasn't aware that it was the flyback transformer doing that, though.
My parents used to amuse themselves by turning on their TV with the volume all the way down; it amused them to no end that, even if I couldn't hear the "click" of a power switch, I could hear the high-pitched whine.
It's been said by others that a lot of kids in the Western world have tinnitis; somehow I doubt that it was caused by MP3s. Though I could hear the sound of a TV going as a child (heh, I'm gonna kick on my old Tandy CM-5 monitor to listen to the racket) I have always had constant ringing of the ears. Since I was born in 1975, I somehow doubt that my several-days-long collection of MP3s had anything to do with it.;-D
I tried doing just this a while back. A wonky PS from some overly-religious seller managed to fry every component I had bought for the project--and I was out $400.
Word to the wise (from the foolish): don't build your own Mac. Just don't. If you're going to build a computer, build a PC or some other machine you can build out of parts that are all under warranty.
Excuse me? In a present where we can send terabytes of information zipping around the globe daily on this "Internet" thingy, companies still have filing cabinets, FedEx is doing wonderful business, and fax machines are ubiquitous.
Maybe he saw one of those handful of Trek episodes where someone mentioned fiber. Hell, we have fiber nowadays, but you don't see the fiber terabit Ethernet cards flying off the shelves.;-D
Excellent point! I've never been impressed by Ebert, and keep in mind that he's a reviewer because he's a failed screenplay writer. He's bitter and doesn't like much that's popular. Well, he seems to be getting better about it, but he just doesn't have Gene to argue with anymore.:->
Jeez, if you want to get picky, *n?x had the "display-apps-remotely-on-thin-clients" well before Windows did. Ever heard of X?
But no, we have to be all snobbish and point out that some commercial product did a "me-too" product and a Free project was used to make a "me-too-too" product. Fine.
Just don't expect people like me to give you a high-five when you say that sort of thing to people like my boss, who doesn't take kindly to the patronizing tone. It tells people like me that you really don't know what's going on, and are relying on bravado to get you through life.
AC, I think you were right on the money when you said "twit.":-D
Either you're just trolling, or a bit slow, or both, but if you really think that clock speed is all that counts, obviously you've never worked with PowerPCs.
Again, as others have pointed out, it's just a troll, but the last time I checked one of the reasons people use Word in MS Office is as a glorified text editor. Writers write reviews in glorified text editors such as Word. Writers make money for what they do, therefore it's work. Writing is real work. Writing with Open Office is still real work.
I'm sorry, but you actually had to engage your brain watching Firefly? The saddest thing is that so many people have declared it to be one of the best sci-fi shows in years, which really shows you the poor caliber of sci-fi shows in recent years.
My big gripe is that the dialogue was horrible, and the plots, despite the fact that the show made a painfully obvious effort to not be Star Trek, were so obviously lifted from Star Trek.
I found the show to be marginally deeper than Andromeda, but that ain't saying much. The puzzling thing is that it was actually picked up by FOX.
Harlan Ellison(sp) is a bitter man. It's evident that he's a bitter man when he talks about "City on the Edge of Forever." One person he's had less than polite comments about is you; more specifically, he accused you in one written account of line-counting and demanding that you have more lines than Leonard Nimoy.
My question is, given Mr. Ellison's hotheaded nature, what's your take on the story? I find most of his account to be pretty immature, to tell the truth, and since he's talked about you in his accounts as having worked with him (something about a mark that's still in his driveway from your motorcycle?) I was wondering what really happened.
Speaking from the perspective of someone who uses BOTH Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD, I've got to say that I appreciate your debunking this. The real problem is that people hop onto FreeBSD thinking it's just like Linux, except it's not. Performance is, IMHO, about the same in both.
I prefer portage to ports simply because everything seems to go a bit smoother. Using portupgrade can be painful at times; of course, once in a while, using emerge can be painful as well. But I've never had to repair the Gentoo database yet.
I keep Gentoo around because I find it to be easier to work with. I don't have to mess with hdparm, either, because I use the correct HD controller drivers.;-D Gentoo is a bit more primitive than FreeBSD, really; at least, the way I have it set up, it is. Autodetection didn't work for me because I bootstrapped the darn thing via Debian rather than install from CD. But hell, it worksforme.
One of the things I really appreciate about FreeBSD is, yes, the ability to run Linux binaries. It's even possible (via sysctl) to set the default ELF brand to Linux.
This announcement won't push me back toward FreeBSD, as I don't have an nVidia card, but it's nice to see a vendor paying attention to FreeBSD users.
Remember that Microsoft has their fingers in a number of pies. And that they are the leader in productivity software . . . and desktop operating systems. If they can get away with pushing around a world power on this issue, what's next?
Bah, it's a Mac, and an ancient one at that. An LC of some sort, perhaps?
We have a few of these at my office collecting dust. They were remarkably good for doing word-processing and little else. Running older versions of Photoshop on them was . . . shall we say . . . painful. One of the classes I took in college was filled with LCs, and we were supposed to be doing dead-tree page layout, using Photoshop and QuarkXPress. *shudder* I have qualms about doing that sort of thing on less than a G4 nowadays . . . but I'm spoiled.
As a borderline GenX'er who avoided the Dotbomb boom like the Plague, and in very minor debt compared to my Dotbomb peers (I'm not counting the fact that I just bought a car), I have one thing to say . . .
A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Okay, now that I'm done with that . . . listen, y'all; if you really thought you could spend the rest of your life getting paid $100K+/yr for doing a tenth of the work I do, you're fools. Really. Stop crying in your beer and face the fact that you were acting foolishly. I don't get paid that much, but I actually have a little money in savings, and the only thing I owe on is a new car (and a used Altima, at that, so it's not much!) and quite frankly, I smirked behind the backs of people ditching school for Dotcoms back in the boom days. I knew it couldn't last, and I knew I'd have to tough it out (tough for me because I'm a lousy student:->) because I didn't want to get five years down the road and get ditched by my company, leaving me with no job, no degree, and no real work experience.
Yeah, and it's not even that damn creative. It's mainly a ripoff of old Western shows. C'mon, am I the only person of my generation who had to sit through reruns of Bonanza and all the other 50s dreck?
The only thing that makes it remotely cutting-edge is that it's not a total Star Trek ripoff. Whoopdedoo. You've got outlaws, train robberies, border towns, a surly sheriff and a twist to the story so predictable it makes me want to laugh. Don't get me started on the dialogue.
On a much lower level than you, I once called HP with problems with a li'l DeskJet. I told the screenreader on the other end, "Now, I don't think it's an OS or driver issue because it happens under Windows and Linux." The screenreader then informed me that I may have voided my warranty. How? Unsupported OS.
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I agree, but there's no value to his criticism. No criticism that contains language like "fucktard" is valuable.
And JWZ, the Emacs nut, has the gall to criticize MPlayer for requiring users to remember a few keystrokes. I mean, c'mon, how many Emacs users chuckled when they read that?
And really, how is criticising Ogle because it only plays physical DVDs, when it's stated purpose is simply to play physical DVDs, valuable feedback?
Honestly, I fail to see it. Being told to switch distributions as inevitable as Hitler? I mean, the list of complaints about Red Hat is long. Long, long, long.
And I read through his list of "problems" and didn't find anything that couldn't have been solved by simply asking someone, or reading the documentation.
Honestly, I don't think anyone who used to work at Netscape or had anything to do with XEmacs should have an opinion on usability. Honestly.
Dammit, when you worked at Netscape, JWZ, Navigator sucked ass. Sorry, dude, but Communicator has improved since you had a hissy fit and left.
What, I'm not allowed to criticize the great JWZ?
So do it, JWZ; either put together something that works the way you think it should work, or give up and buy a fucking Mac already.
May I remind you that KDE predates both open-sourced Mozilla and OpenOffice...
And I can't say I agree about Gnome2. Multiple-windowmanager support seems to be an afterthought, at best, among other things. And I've noticed that it seems that, as far as an HTML widget is concerned, Gnome may be going the way of KDE. What advantage has Gnome had from using Gecko, anyway? If this is fixed now, I'm sorry, but have you ever opened a Web page in Nautilus and attempted to print the current document? Good luck.
I've been a GNOME user, and I've been a KDE user, and use apps and utilities from both (even on OS X!) I personally find KDE to be snappier, more useful, and has even managed to keep me from switching back to Window Maker or Fluxbox. ;-D
And slightly OT: this was posted using the KHTML-based Safari Web browser on OS X v10.2.
Wow, that would mean Microsoft would have an agreement with itself to never produce another UNIX. That'd be great.
I want some of what you're smoking.
The whole point is that you treat it like any other removable media on a Mac--you put the disk in, an icon shows up. You drag crap to the "disk", it shows up. You drag stuff from the "disk" to the trash, and you can throw it away. You drag the "disk" to the Trash, and you're given the option of burning or aborting. Just one extra step from any other removable media on a Mac.
Granted, it's a bit confusing to some, because a.) UDF isn't supported on Mac and b.) people think that they can treat CD-Rs like a floppy disc because they're handled much like floppy discs are handled.
If you can't figure out the procedure, odds are you're not a Mac user and shouldn't bitch too much because it's obvious that you sat down without finding out what the hell you're doing. :-D
I could always hear a high-pitched sound from TVs and video screens. Wasn't aware that it was the flyback transformer doing that, though.
My parents used to amuse themselves by turning on their TV with the volume all the way down; it amused them to no end that, even if I couldn't hear the "click" of a power switch, I could hear the high-pitched whine.
It's been said by others that a lot of kids in the Western world have tinnitis; somehow I doubt that it was caused by MP3s. Though I could hear the sound of a TV going as a child (heh, I'm gonna kick on my old Tandy CM-5 monitor to listen to the racket) I have always had constant ringing of the ears. Since I was born in 1975, I somehow doubt that my several-days-long collection of MP3s had anything to do with it. ;-D
Word to the wise (from the foolish): don't build your own Mac. Just don't. If you're going to build a computer, build a PC or some other machine you can build out of parts that are all under warranty.
Maybe he saw one of those handful of Trek episodes where someone mentioned fiber. Hell, we have fiber nowadays, but you don't see the fiber terabit Ethernet cards flying off the shelves. ;-D
Excellent point! I've never been impressed by Ebert, and keep in mind that he's a reviewer because he's a failed screenplay writer. He's bitter and doesn't like much that's popular. Well, he seems to be getting better about it, but he just doesn't have Gene to argue with anymore. :->
You ought to see the final final cut. It's much better, IMHO. Not the best ST movie, but better than V and Insurrection.
Jeez, if you want to get picky, *n?x had the "display-apps-remotely-on-thin-clients" well before Windows did. Ever heard of X?
But no, we have to be all snobbish and point out that some commercial product did a "me-too" product and a Free project was used to make a "me-too-too" product. Fine.
Just don't expect people like me to give you a high-five when you say that sort of thing to people like my boss, who doesn't take kindly to the patronizing tone. It tells people like me that you really don't know what's going on, and are relying on bravado to get you through life.
AC, I think you were right on the money when you said "twit." :-D
God I hope so. The office I work in still has old Macs that can only do 10Base-T. Those 1000Base-T Ethernet jacks are just wasted on this network.
Again, as others have pointed out, it's just a troll, but the last time I checked one of the reasons people use Word in MS Office is as a glorified text editor. Writers write reviews in glorified text editors such as Word. Writers make money for what they do, therefore it's work. Writing is real work. Writing with Open Office is still real work.
My big gripe is that the dialogue was horrible, and the plots, despite the fact that the show made a painfully obvious effort to not be Star Trek, were so obviously lifted from Star Trek.
I found the show to be marginally deeper than Andromeda, but that ain't saying much. The puzzling thing is that it was actually picked up by FOX.
My question is, given Mr. Ellison's hotheaded nature, what's your take on the story? I find most of his account to be pretty immature, to tell the truth, and since he's talked about you in his accounts as having worked with him (something about a mark that's still in his driveway from your motorcycle?) I was wondering what really happened.
I prefer portage to ports simply because everything seems to go a bit smoother. Using portupgrade can be painful at times; of course, once in a while, using emerge can be painful as well. But I've never had to repair the Gentoo database yet.
I keep Gentoo around because I find it to be easier to work with. I don't have to mess with hdparm, either, because I use the correct HD controller drivers.
One of the things I really appreciate about FreeBSD is, yes, the ability to run Linux binaries. It's even possible (via sysctl) to set the default ELF brand to Linux.
This announcement won't push me back toward FreeBSD, as I don't have an nVidia card, but it's nice to see a vendor paying attention to FreeBSD users.
Remember that Microsoft has their fingers in a number of pies. And that they are the leader in productivity software . . . and desktop operating systems. If they can get away with pushing around a world power on this issue, what's next?
We have a few of these at my office collecting dust. They were remarkably good for doing word-processing and little else. Running older versions of Photoshop on them was . . . shall we say . . . painful. One of the classes I took in college was filled with LCs, and we were supposed to be doing dead-tree page layout, using Photoshop and QuarkXPress. *shudder* I have qualms about doing that sort of thing on less than a G4 nowadays . . . but I'm spoiled.
Ridiculous claim since Linux binaries are supported at the kernel level.
A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Okay, now that I'm done with that . . . listen, y'all; if you really thought you could spend the rest of your life getting paid $100K+/yr for doing a tenth of the work I do, you're fools. Really. Stop crying in your beer and face the fact that you were acting foolishly. I don't get paid that much, but I actually have a little money in savings, and the only thing I owe on is a new car (and a used Altima, at that, so it's not much!) and quite frankly, I smirked behind the backs of people ditching school for Dotcoms back in the boom days. I knew it couldn't last, and I knew I'd have to tough it out (tough for me because I'm a lousy student
Quitcherbitchin and start pulling your weight.
The only thing that makes it remotely cutting-edge is that it's not a total Star Trek ripoff. Whoopdedoo. You've got outlaws, train robberies, border towns, a surly sheriff and a twist to the story so predictable it makes me want to laugh. Don't get me started on the dialogue.
I just snagged a CPU for $99. So bleah. :-P
Even swapping out the CD-ROM drive is a massive chore IMHO.
They did warranty work anyway, but it worried me.