I'm sure they didn't do it to annoy Linux users, but I can't see how it's anything but incompetence. They won't even let me set up forwarding rules to send my email to a server that does support IMAP.
As for the business reason, this is a research university. Researchers need a flexible environment. Their job is to support me, and they are not doing it. Even after I get outlook on a VM, how am I going to write scripts to start jobs on receipt of emails?
I don't know how to do that, they don't know how to do that, and they don't care that I'm less effective at my job because of their incompetence. Fuck those assholes.
the OS X UI (+look and feel) was sleek, smooth and very polished.
Smooth and polished, and cumbersome. How the hell do you deal with Finder? I feel like I'm wearing shackles every time I do some GUI file management on a mac.
Indeed. I have a tech coming by within the hour to install Windows on a VM for me because the IT department here is too incompetent to turn on the built in IMAP server in Exchange. WTF?
You don't have to be a fan of Sony, to see what these guys are doing is wrong and criminal.
But that's not why they're going to jail. Sony has done plenty of wrong and criminal things in their time, and no one there has gone to jail for it. Selective enforcement of the law is not justice.
the keyboard warriors out there will start to realise that they're not untraceable and can't just do as they damn well please on the internet.
I'm no fan of Sony
If you are Sony, you can do just as you damn well please on the internet. Still no arrests made for the rootkit fiasco, and that was every bit as illegal as this.
Knobs and analog gauges are much easier for user population to visualize and interpret
Not because they are inherently better but because...
You're dealing with people who have decades of training with analogue equipment
Exactly. Once we have people who have decades of training with digital equipment, there will be no point in using skeuomorphic interfaces.
knobs are a superior widget in many cases, because (if they're implemented properly) you can drag the mouse pointer further away from the knob to increase precision.
With a text input box you can specify any degree of precision you want.
Are they claiming IRL, working hard is meaningless?
Largely, yes. Look at the hardest workers around. Construction workers, nurses, loggers, wind turbine technicians. These people work fucking hard, and are lucky if they make it to the middle class.
Now look at the most successful people in the country. Lawyers, bankers, CEOs. They all sit around wearing pressed suits and charge tens if not hundreds of times the hourly rate of our hard working friends above. And they produce little or nothing of value for that time.
That's the world we live in. The more successful you are, the less hard work you actually do.
Not at my institution. They are largely premed and pharmacy students, and I barely ever see an apple machine. I see more of those funky laptops with the swivel touch display than I see macbooks or ipads.
Personally I'd argue that skeuomorphic designs are almost certainly worse for usability, but that might be outweighed in marketing by their attractiveness / emotional connections with the product.
Right. There's a reason iTunes isn't shaped like a stereo. We tried that in the 90s and it sucked.
How memory works is still an open question, but it has a lot to do with varying the strength of synaptic connections between neurons in the brain. If you're interested, this is a good place to start reading. Not sure what the relevance is to this conversation though.
I am strongly opposed to circumcision, and I can't agree with you there. If you're going to do it, do it when they are young and their nervous system is highly plastic. Children can rewire their nervous system, so they'll never miss the missing nerve endings. Adults don't have that ability.
Personally, I think a 50% lower risk of HIV is a bad reason for circumcision when condoms are over 90% effective, with much less risk of disaster. But if you're going to have it done, do it early.
But we don't. We have lab notebooks in which we write down how we did experiments, why we did experiments, and what the result of those experiments were, so we're not relying on our fallible memories.
What made you think I was advocating anything like that? I was speaking from personal experience. I have a couple dozen classic consoles and classic computers hooked up in my basement, and I spend more time curating than playing. Nothing about that means that museums aren't worthwhile. All it means is that if you're a gamer, you should think hard about getting into collecting because it might not be what you actually want to do.
For those who like playing with old technology as much as they like playing old games, it's a blast.
No, that's far too common to qualify as mental illness. Faith that remains in contradiction to evidence is normal. It's the rational among us who are abnormal.
As I get older, I often feel nostalgia for the games I played as a kid, but I just can't justify the amount of time, money, and most of all physical space involved in keeping old games/systems around
If you try, you inevitably end up spending more time troubleshooting, repairing, and configuring these machines than actually playing them. Old controllers need cleaning, old electrolytic capacitors need replacing, old video ports need to be modded to work on modern displays. It's a lot like having a classic car collection in that way. Cool and fun, but not really practical.
Michigan's sports programs make many millions of dollars profit for the school.
Michigan is a rare exception, if that's true. Most collegiate athletics come no where near to making a profit. Getting rid of all of them and putting their money back into the education budget would be a net win for education.
Science doesn't have to prove itself. It yields technology that works. If faith, or revelation, or scriptural study were a valid means for obtaining knowledge than we would have technology based on knowledge obtained through such means.
Genetic engineering. We induce mutations via the same mechanisms they occur in in nature (e.g. mismatch repair, retroviruses, etc) and increase their frequency through selective pressure. That's evolution.
Media is trying to be objective, for the most part.
No, media is trying to get ratings.
The political nuts, who favor one side or the other
They're all nuts. The Ds are nuts for thinking that Obama isn't yet another authoritarian crony capitalist (or for voting for him anyway). The Rs are nuts for thinking that more authoritarian crony capitalism is the solution to the problem caused by authoritarian crony capitalism. And the moderates are nuts for seriously considering not one, but two authoritarian crony capitalists.
The only sane reaction is the George Carlin reaction.
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I'm sure they didn't do it to annoy Linux users, but I can't see how it's anything but incompetence. They won't even let me set up forwarding rules to send my email to a server that does support IMAP.
As for the business reason, this is a research university. Researchers need a flexible environment. Their job is to support me, and they are not doing it. Even after I get outlook on a VM, how am I going to write scripts to start jobs on receipt of emails?
I don't know how to do that, they don't know how to do that, and they don't care that I'm less effective at my job because of their incompetence. Fuck those assholes.
the OS X UI (+look and feel) was sleek, smooth and very polished.
Smooth and polished, and cumbersome. How the hell do you deal with Finder? I feel like I'm wearing shackles every time I do some GUI file management on a mac.
Indeed. I have a tech coming by within the hour to install Windows on a VM for me because the IT department here is too incompetent to turn on the built in IMAP server in Exchange. WTF?
You don't have to be a fan of Sony, to see what these guys are doing is wrong and criminal.
But that's not why they're going to jail. Sony has done plenty of wrong and criminal things in their time, and no one there has gone to jail for it. Selective enforcement of the law is not justice.
the keyboard warriors out there will start to realise that they're not untraceable and can't just do as they damn well please on the internet.
I'm no fan of Sony
If you are Sony, you can do just as you damn well please on the internet. Still no arrests made for the rootkit fiasco, and that was every bit as illegal as this.
There is no rule of law in America.
Knobs and analog gauges are much easier for user population to visualize and interpret
Not because they are inherently better but because...
You're dealing with people who have decades of training with analogue equipment
Exactly. Once we have people who have decades of training with digital equipment, there will be no point in using skeuomorphic interfaces.
knobs are a superior widget in many cases, because (if they're implemented properly) you can drag the mouse pointer further away from the knob to increase precision.
With a text input box you can specify any degree of precision you want.
Are they claiming IRL, working hard is meaningless?
Largely, yes. Look at the hardest workers around. Construction workers, nurses, loggers, wind turbine technicians. These people work fucking hard, and are lucky if they make it to the middle class.
Now look at the most successful people in the country. Lawyers, bankers, CEOs. They all sit around wearing pressed suits and charge tens if not hundreds of times the hourly rate of our hard working friends above. And they produce little or nothing of value for that time.
That's the world we live in. The more successful you are, the less hard work you actually do.
Is that anything like salmon neuroscience?
Not at my institution. They are largely premed and pharmacy students, and I barely ever see an apple machine. I see more of those funky laptops with the swivel touch display than I see macbooks or ipads.
Personally I'd argue that skeuomorphic designs are almost certainly worse for usability, but that might be outweighed in marketing by their attractiveness / emotional connections with the product.
Right. There's a reason iTunes isn't shaped like a stereo. We tried that in the 90s and it sucked.
How memory works is still an open question, but it has a lot to do with varying the strength of synaptic connections between neurons in the brain. If you're interested, this is a good place to start reading. Not sure what the relevance is to this conversation though.
I think what should happen is this:
Anyone can sue to invalidate a patent
Indeed. The very concept of standing has become an obstacle to justice.
I am strongly opposed to circumcision, and I can't agree with you there. If you're going to do it, do it when they are young and their nervous system is highly plastic. Children can rewire their nervous system, so they'll never miss the missing nerve endings. Adults don't have that ability.
Personally, I think a 50% lower risk of HIV is a bad reason for circumcision when condoms are over 90% effective, with much less risk of disaster. But if you're going to have it done, do it early.
But we don't. We have lab notebooks in which we write down how we did experiments, why we did experiments, and what the result of those experiments were, so we're not relying on our fallible memories.
Right, archiving is a total waste.
What made you think I was advocating anything like that? I was speaking from personal experience. I have a couple dozen classic consoles and classic computers hooked up in my basement, and I spend more time curating than playing. Nothing about that means that museums aren't worthwhile. All it means is that if you're a gamer, you should think hard about getting into collecting because it might not be what you actually want to do.
For those who like playing with old technology as much as they like playing old games, it's a blast.
Why are you using WinRar when 7zip exists?
Crash? No. Come to a complete stop for 10 seconds while doing nothing more but scrolling? Yes.
No, that's far too common to qualify as mental illness. Faith that remains in contradiction to evidence is normal. It's the rational among us who are abnormal.
As I get older, I often feel nostalgia for the games I played as a kid, but I just can't justify the amount of time, money, and most of all physical space involved in keeping old games/systems around
If you try, you inevitably end up spending more time troubleshooting, repairing, and configuring these machines than actually playing them. Old controllers need cleaning, old electrolytic capacitors need replacing, old video ports need to be modded to work on modern displays. It's a lot like having a classic car collection in that way. Cool and fun, but not really practical.
Michigan's sports programs make many millions of dollars profit for the school.
Michigan is a rare exception, if that's true. Most collegiate athletics come no where near to making a profit. Getting rid of all of them and putting their money back into the education budget would be a net win for education.
Science doesn't have to prove itself. It yields technology that works. If faith, or revelation, or scriptural study were a valid means for obtaining knowledge than we would have technology based on knowledge obtained through such means.
Your memory is not reliable. Objective testing has shown that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Genetic engineering. We induce mutations via the same mechanisms they occur in in nature (e.g. mismatch repair, retroviruses, etc) and increase their frequency through selective pressure. That's evolution.
Media is trying to be objective, for the most part.
No, media is trying to get ratings.
The political nuts, who favor one side or the other
They're all nuts. The Ds are nuts for thinking that Obama isn't yet another authoritarian crony capitalist (or for voting for him anyway). The Rs are nuts for thinking that more authoritarian crony capitalism is the solution to the problem caused by authoritarian crony capitalism. And the moderates are nuts for seriously considering not one, but two authoritarian crony capitalists.
The only sane reaction is the George Carlin reaction.
Pens? Pens are symmetrical. How would that pose a problem?