I couldn't disagree more. I recently got a chance to use WindowsXP for the first time... and it was terrible. I was shocked at how annoying it is to navigate the file system. I guess I have to chalk it up to being spoiled by GNOMEs delicious user-friendly goodness.
I have to agree, the credits system always makes me think like its an attempt to rip me off. even after you have the calculation done you still have to think about it in the back of your mind with every purchase. Of course at least it makes some sense with starroms as they were arcade games that used "credits"
I didn't read the article (Yet, I swear!) but if (as is often NOT the case on slashdot) it turns out to describe what the description says this sounds great.
I have often thought of the stagnation of the mouse/keyboard as inptu devices in computing, it seems weekly there is some crazy new way of doing things proposed but most mouse changes are simple iterative improvements (adding buttons, removing the mechanical ball, etc) but a pointer that could transfer data with a strong metaphor like the description gives would be a revolution in computer-human interaction.
Of course it would have to be universally standardized, and would require standard data formats accross platforms. So it actually won't work that great. Of course if you have all SONY, MS, or equipment it will work great... but I bet the "standard" application will be about as good as cut-and-paste is in X between a GNOME app and an old Mosaic app.
I don't have concerns, but I personally think that the first Zelda is the best one. LTTP is close, and Link's Awakening was almost as good as that. But the 3D ones (OOT, MM, WW) just haven't caught the complete nature that the overhead ones had. and I am not an old gamer complaining about progress I don't think its the interface or the dungeons, I think its the weak story.
THe first one was pure game, and the second had some minor story to it... for some reason I think the story to WW feels like an annoyance (the game would be better if it just left out all the ridiculous story that isn't important to play anyway)... OOT is actually good, I guess my complaint is that It didn't evoke that same awe that LTTP did for me what it came out.
I think its possible to have a situation like the original with just gameplay and no silly cutscenes and still have a good game. And while only a minor annoyance the silly stuff they bable about in WW doesn't and anything... I pay attention enought to figure out where to go, and then go play (haven't finished yet:)
I haven't been more disappointed than I was in Super Smash Bros Melee in a very long time. I heard such great thing about it, and as soon as I got a GC I went and got it used for like 20$ and it was a HUGE waste. what a piece of crap.
I am ashamed to admit it but I spent most my GC time playing Mario Party with my GF.
I drive a honda civic, and spent the last week driving my sisters civic hybrid (been considering getting one).
At first I thought it felt remarkably close to the standard civic in performance, then I went back to the standard civic:) but it still performed perfectly well
But according to the car (its readout not my calculations) I got about 39-40 MPG durring the week, where as I calculate any where from 28-35 MPG on my civic.
Not a big increase, but It seemed like they could have done more to make little improvements, like according to the car the electric motor never assists unless your really heavily accelerating or going up an incline. also it turns the gas motro of at a stop light, but if you move again it wont turn it off unless you exceed 5 MPH, so if your in real bumper-to-bumper traffic the motro stays on, now I realize the design of the engine(s) probably makes it so the car can't move without the electric but it seems to me it would be morte asthetically pleasing to keep the gas off until you actually start moving faster than say 5MPH. (there would have been stretches of 20-30 minutes in traffic without the engine even running if that were the case for me.
all in all I would definatly consider a hybrid when I purchase my next car, but my milage expectations have been brought to earth.
name a "major browser" that won't support PNG. I don't know one. I use all PNG and have checked all my pages in enough "major" browsers to cover probably greater than 99% of people and they display fine.
I am sure there are or were some non-english programming languages (and even as a native english speaker I've thought about this problem myself). But, and its a big but, right now using english gets you access to the most diverse and largest audience (except maybe mandorin, but even there your talking basically the chinese (mandorin is not generally taught as a second language as widely as english).
With the internet and the "global economy" it makes NO sence to have a localized language, unless your a proprietary developer that doesn't want you code to have the longest life it could:)
You may think I am just saying this because I speak english so of course I think english should be the most used, but I honestly can tell you I would be quite happy to learn another language as best I could if english weren't the primary communication language for programming (and most anything really). I would obviously be severely inconvienenced, but no more so that maybe people whose software I use now.
Maybe the best choice would be to have translatable keywords for a language, because the syntax really doesn't match english in all cases anyway. Of course translatable keywords would become a nightmare quickly due to the severe limitation on variable names etc, for instance how could you ever choose a word and be sure the language wouldn't end up need that for "if" in some language you never heard of?
As far as different character sets, this becomes a non-issue as all software moves towards unicode and UTF-8 (or equivalent) encoding. Once that happens you can for get about worring about character sets (and its happening fast).
Maybe but the large ammo consumers (police, military) are all metric. I think industry just realize they HAD to go metric for sanity, so where its important its totally used. All medicine for instance (I always find it amusing when I tell the resident she doesn't have to bother stumpling to convert my son's weight into pounds because I can figure it out faster myself).
The more I think about it the more it occurs to me they could probably just switch all at once with out telling anyone and most people would stop complaining within a day or two. I mean really if the weather reports switched to SI for temp how long do you really think it would take you to get what is "hot" and what is "cold"? A week? Maybe speed limit signs would be a problem, but I doubt most people look at them anyway.
I think the dual system where you get both values hurts the system because you have no insentive to learn. But have you noticed that ALL food products have metric measures on them now in the US (its required) and soon the the requirement will only be for metric units on most foods, with the legacy units being optional.
Since the module reports that it is GPL, why doesn't every one start asking for the source code. Maybe they will be annoyed enough to fix the software (assuming they claim typo or some such) maybe they actually want to GPL the whole thing?:)
THe headstart means nothing without a completely killer app. The dreamcast beat sony by a year and it was twelves months of people saying "I'll wait and see what sony comes out with" not because they couldn't afford more than one system over the year, but because there was no killer that every one had to have (Halo, MGS, Zelda, etc).
What either MS or Nintendo have to do is come out with there systems with some very nice launch or near launch games, and heavily push a good line up. thats the only chance they have in the next round.
Of course I didn't own any of the current gen systems till I got a GameCube back in december, so I really am not the best to comment on console systems:)
And the odd part is I don't even remember the interface being as cluttered as the very early one linked through the archive in an earlier post. I suppose I moved on very early, although I remember when as far as I was concerned they were the only game in town.
Each year I use Windows for one thing, taxes. and each year I print out way more just in case I need to check a document, I wont have to go through the windows trouble. I've been lucky enough that I have had access to windows systems so far. But this year was probably the last that will be the case. Every year I also tell Intuit (via there registration and/or other feedback) that I would prefer a Linux solution.
I am as much a free software zealot as the next guy, as a matter of fact this is one of the few areas I would probably disagree with RMS on, I will be the first in line to purchase a tax solution for linux. - It is probably one of the last areas where there is literally NOTHING to compete with the windows platform, not even a substandard work in progress.
I understand the web based solutions, but would really prefer a standalone app if only for illogical person preference reasons.
I only watched farscape after if was cancelled in re-runs. So I got to see the entire series in a compress way. It really lost some of the magic as it went on (the first and second seasons being the best, dare I say it started really plummetting after Zaan left). And when you see an episode a day the uneveness really becomes obvious.
I hope the mini-series has the magic that the early show had, and they ridiculusness of the later episodes isn't present. It started to feel like the writers had no idea what to do so they just would set up absurd situations in the first few minutes and then have an even ore absurd solution that dragged on for the next 45 minutes. It was as you could take the segment in between the second and thrid commercial break and mix and match because it was the same stupid converstion that meandered away from the plot every episode.
So heres to a good mini-series, I think it was a little stupid the way they left the cliffhanger, as if they had setup a nice series endingm and POOF through in one last scene just to piss everyonje off at the cancellation, I hope they resolve it quickly (or start after it and make breif reference) and get on to a better story.
its not the Linus Torvalds building.... all we'd hear for the next two years would be some insane analogy about how it would be like Thomas Jefferson moving into the "George Washington, founding document authors complex" - maybe even something more absurd.
"old school" I know java, somewhat. But I would definately have to say that its the OO stuff that catches me, because I am a C coder by trade... I like functional programming because its what I do 5 days a week eight hours a day (the few things I do that I can use java with afford me the opertunity to work on my OO principles)
oh and I'm 26 and have only be coding professionally for 5 years. So much for your "old school" idea.... people will always be better at what they are used to working with. Ganted I have met many people that know OO and won't admit or realize it affects their design, and vice versa.
The key is being able to see the shortcoming and work on it, the problem is the vast numbers of people that don't think they have to.
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that should have been easy as nothing critical to the system uses glib... unless your confusing it with glibc ?
Maybe you should use a packaging system that warns about dependancies ?
PS - It is not usability at work when you have to read an entire suposedly technical article in the third person, as if I can't figure out what a resonable person would feel if they see something, I need the author to tell me.
How about next time you just tell me what YOU think about the install, not your imaginary friend.
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I couldn't disagree more. I recently got a chance to use WindowsXP for the first time... and it was terrible. I was shocked at how annoying it is to navigate the file system. I guess I have to chalk it up to being spoiled by GNOMEs delicious user-friendly goodness.
I have to agree, the credits system always makes me think like its an attempt to rip me off. even after you have the calculation done you still have to think about it in the back of your mind with every purchase. Of course at least it makes some sense with starroms as they were arcade games that used "credits"
Are these good original disk images, or are they all crack liked the ones floating around already ? :)
Of course I don't remember playing many Commodore games that didn't have a 'cracked by' intro
I didn't read the article (Yet, I swear!) but if (as is often NOT the case on slashdot) it turns out to describe what the description says this sounds great.
I have often thought of the stagnation of the mouse/keyboard as inptu devices in computing, it seems weekly there is some crazy new way of doing things proposed but most mouse changes are simple iterative improvements (adding buttons, removing the mechanical ball, etc) but a pointer that could transfer data with a strong metaphor like the description gives would be a revolution in computer-human interaction.
Of course it would have to be universally standardized, and would require standard data formats accross platforms. So it actually won't work that great. Of course if you have all SONY, MS, or equipment it will work great... but I bet the "standard" application will be about as good as cut-and-paste is in X between a GNOME app and an old Mosaic app.
I am typing this message on a Debian Unstable machine fully updated to GNOME 2.6, and its a PentiumII 233, with 196MB of RAM. And it is running fine.
I don't have concerns, but I personally think that the first Zelda is the best one. LTTP is close, and Link's Awakening was almost as good as that. But the 3D ones (OOT, MM, WW) just haven't caught the complete nature that the overhead ones had. and I am not an old gamer complaining about progress I don't think its the interface or the dungeons, I think its the weak story.
:)
THe first one was pure game, and the second had some minor story to it... for some reason I think the story to WW feels like an annoyance (the game would be better if it just left out all the ridiculous story that isn't important to play anyway)... OOT is actually good, I guess my complaint is that It didn't evoke that same awe that LTTP did for me what it came out.
I think its possible to have a situation like the original with just gameplay and no silly cutscenes and still have a good game. And while only a minor annoyance the silly stuff they bable about in WW doesn't and anything... I pay attention enought to figure out where to go, and then go play (haven't finished yet
I want to copy and paste in windows with a highlight a middle click.... I can berely use windows now because I can't it is VERY annoying.
but I use all GNOME apps practically and have not have a ctrl-c ctrl-v problem in a while.
I haven't been more disappointed than I was in Super Smash Bros Melee in a very long time. I heard such great thing about it, and as soon as I got a GC I went and got it used for like 20$ and it was a HUGE waste. what a piece of crap.
I am ashamed to admit it but I spent most my GC time playing Mario Party with my GF.
I drive a honda civic, and spent the last week driving my sisters civic hybrid (been considering getting one).
:) but it still performed perfectly well
At first I thought it felt remarkably close to the standard civic in performance, then I went back to the standard civic
But according to the car (its readout not my calculations) I got about 39-40 MPG durring the week, where as I calculate any where from 28-35 MPG on my civic.
Not a big increase, but It seemed like they could have done more to make little improvements, like according to the car the electric motor never assists unless your really heavily accelerating or going up an incline. also it turns the gas motro of at a stop light, but if you move again it wont turn it off unless you exceed 5 MPH, so if your in real bumper-to-bumper traffic the motro stays on, now I realize the design of the engine(s) probably makes it so the car can't move without the electric but it seems to me it would be morte asthetically pleasing to keep the gas off until you actually start moving faster than say 5MPH. (there would have been stretches of 20-30 minutes in traffic without the engine even running if that were the case for me.
all in all I would definatly consider a hybrid when I purchase my next car, but my milage expectations have been brought to earth.
name a "major browser" that won't support PNG. I don't know one. I use all PNG and have checked all my pages in enough "major" browsers to cover probably greater than 99% of people and they display fine.
I am sure there are or were some non-english programming languages (and even as a native english speaker I've thought about this problem myself). But, and its a big but, right now using english gets you access to the most diverse and largest audience (except maybe mandorin, but even there your talking basically the chinese (mandorin is not generally taught as a second language as widely as english).
:)
With the internet and the "global economy" it makes NO sence to have a localized language, unless your a proprietary developer that doesn't want you code to have the longest life it could
You may think I am just saying this because I speak english so of course I think english should be the most used, but I honestly can tell you I would be quite happy to learn another language as best I could if english weren't the primary communication language for programming (and most anything really). I would obviously be severely inconvienenced, but no more so that maybe people whose software I use now.
Maybe the best choice would be to have translatable keywords for a language, because the syntax really doesn't match english in all cases anyway. Of course translatable keywords would become a nightmare quickly due to the severe limitation on variable names etc, for instance how could you ever choose a word and be sure the language wouldn't end up need that for "if" in some language you never heard of?
As far as different character sets, this becomes a non-issue as all software moves towards unicode and UTF-8 (or equivalent) encoding. Once that happens you can for get about worring about character sets (and its happening fast).
Maybe but the large ammo consumers (police, military) are all metric. I think industry just realize they HAD to go metric for sanity, so where its important its totally used. All medicine for instance (I always find it amusing when I tell the resident she doesn't have to bother stumpling to convert my son's weight into pounds because I can figure it out faster myself).
The more I think about it the more it occurs to me they could probably just switch all at once with out telling anyone and most people would stop complaining within a day or two. I mean really if the weather reports switched to SI for temp how long do you really think it would take you to get what is "hot" and what is "cold"? A week? Maybe speed limit signs would be a problem, but I doubt most people look at them anyway.
I think the dual system where you get both values hurts the system because you have no insentive to learn. But have you noticed that ALL food products have metric measures on them now in the US (its required) and soon the the requirement will only be for metric units on most foods, with the legacy units being optional.
All I can say is I hope this one is truer than some ofthe current Jakks games. I grew up on the C64 and will be the first in line!
Since the module reports that it is GPL, why doesn't every one start asking for the source code. Maybe they will be annoyed enough to fix the software (assuming they claim typo or some such) maybe they actually want to GPL the whole thing? :)
THe headstart means nothing without a completely killer app. The dreamcast beat sony by a year and it was twelves months of people saying "I'll wait and see what sony comes out with" not because they couldn't afford more than one system over the year, but because there was no killer that every one had to have (Halo, MGS, Zelda, etc).
:)
What either MS or Nintendo have to do is come out with there systems with some very nice launch or near launch games, and heavily push a good line up. thats the only chance they have in the next round.
Of course I didn't own any of the current gen systems till I got a GameCube back in december, so I really am not the best to comment on console systems
And the odd part is I don't even remember the interface being as cluttered as the very early one linked through the archive in an earlier post. I suppose I moved on very early, although I remember when as far as I was concerned they were the only game in town.
Each year I use Windows for one thing, taxes. and each year I print out way more just in case I need to check a document, I wont have to go through the windows trouble. I've been lucky enough that I have had access to windows systems so far. But this year was probably the last that will be the case. Every year I also tell Intuit (via there registration and/or other feedback) that I would prefer a Linux solution.
I am as much a free software zealot as the next guy, as a matter of fact this is one of the few areas I would probably disagree with RMS on, I will be the first in line to purchase a tax solution for linux. - It is probably one of the last areas where there is literally NOTHING to compete with the windows platform, not even a substandard work in progress.
I understand the web based solutions, but would really prefer a standalone app if only for illogical person preference reasons.
Available at:
http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-g
Discusses mostly how to write accessible and translatable documentation. And includes a standard terminology list.
Haven't read it in a while so don't know how complete it is, also it is probably very GUI/GNOME-centric for obvious reasons.
I am not sure but I would assume other projects (KDE?) have similar documents.
I only watched farscape after if was cancelled in re-runs. So I got to see the entire series in a compress way. It really lost some of the magic as it went on (the first and second seasons being the best, dare I say it started really plummetting after Zaan left). And when you see an episode a day the uneveness really becomes obvious.
I hope the mini-series has the magic that the early show had, and they ridiculusness of the later episodes isn't present. It started to feel like the writers had no idea what to do so they just would set up absurd situations in the first few minutes and then have an even ore absurd solution that dragged on for the next 45 minutes. It was as you could take the segment in between the second and thrid commercial break and mix and match because it was the same stupid converstion that meandered away from the plot every episode.
So heres to a good mini-series, I think it was a little stupid the way they left the cliffhanger, as if they had setup a nice series endingm and POOF through in one last scene just to piss everyonje off at the cancellation, I hope they resolve it quickly (or start after it and make breif reference) and get on to a better story.
have you tried www.debianhelp.org ?
they may be rude sometimes, but ussually you get an answer you need.
its not the Linus Torvalds building.... all we'd hear for the next two years would be some insane analogy about how it would be like Thomas Jefferson moving into the "George Washington, founding document authors complex" - maybe even something more absurd.
I kid RMS...
"old school" I know java, somewhat. But I would definately have to say that its the OO stuff that catches me, because I am a C coder by trade... I like functional programming because its what I do 5 days a week eight hours a day (the few things I do that I can use java with afford me the opertunity to work on my OO principles)
oh and I'm 26 and have only be coding professionally for 5 years. So much for your "old school" idea.... people will always be better at what they are used to working with. Ganted I have met many people that know OO and won't admit or realize it affects their design, and vice versa.
The key is being able to see the shortcoming and work on it, the problem is the vast numbers of people that don't think they have to.
that should have been easy as nothing critical to the system uses glib... unless your confusing it with glibc ?
Maybe you should use a packaging system that warns about dependancies ?
I didn't understand the gconf hierarchy and I figured it out.
GNOME 1.4 didn't have pervasive toolbar editing, and as a matter of fact GNOME is closer to that now more than ever.
And all my GNOME installs since 2.0 have had a top menubar (but if you meant you don't want one, it is EASY to move the panel)
PS - It is not usability at work when you have to read an entire suposedly technical article in the third person, as if I can't figure out what a resonable person would feel if they see something, I need the author to tell me.
How about next time you just tell me what YOU think about the install, not your imaginary friend.