Mozilla has always (well, almost always) used a red dinosaur instead of Netscape's green lizard. Somebody probably considered the trademark thing at some point, but the switch was made only to make it clear that Mozilla.org was a separate entity from Netscape. If Netscape the company ever started using Mozilla as its mascot again, it would still be green.
The problem with advertisers on the Web is that they demand websites prove that viewers are paying attention to the ads. They don't hold ads in other media to these standards (well, they're trying with TV, but...). How many people throw out newspaper inserts or flip past ads in magazines?
If they can be satisfied with this in other media, why not on the web? Note to whoever clued marketing in that banner ads could (gasp!) be ignored: you shouldn't have said that.
Face it: people will ignore ads, and making them harder to ignore just makes people angrier.
This is in the release notes:
http://gnome.org/start/2.0/quirks.html#cutandpaste
The #2 most common complaint is caused by GNU Emacs, which has its own insane clipboard behaviour unique to that application. Use XEmacs instead if it bothers you, or complain to the Emacs maintainer. Not GNOME's fault.
GNU Emacs 21 fixes this bug. Also see the variable "x-select-enable-clipboard".
I'm not anti-change. America should use the metric system. But changing the dollar (my dollar) to suit visitors?
The key is that I don't like the metric system just because everybody else is using it, but because it's easier. Who cares what everbody else is doing? I want what's best, not what's popular.
That said, I'm against colored money because the green bills are an American symbol just as important as any big building in Washington or a dynamited mountain. We even have a word for it: "greenbacks". There's no real reason to sacrifice this beloved symbol. The article even alludes to this.
Maybe so few Americans favor colored money because they feel the same way. After all, we don't go mocking your national treasures or symbols do we? (Well, yes, but....)
As for the advantages of varying sizes or color, I don't really think so. I can tell the difference between Andrew Jackson's face and Washington's face almost as easily as between, say, green and red. I bet for a color-blind person the difference is even bigger. A stack of uniform bills just looks better in my wallet or sitting on a table.
Different colors or sizes would probably gain only a few milliseconds at the expense of ascetics and one of the most distinctive American symbols.
GEOS (the Global Episode Opinion Survey) is a great place for info on TV shows. Like the name says, they have both all the facts about the episode and what people think of it.
From my personal experiance, the Microsoft accessibility research was just as good as their stablility research.
I have a close relative who is blind and who struggles with Windows at home and work every day. Microsoft's accessibility packages break constantly, and MS never provides help beyond "Fixed in the next upgrade." Of course, each upgrade has most of the old problems and some new ones. I try to help him out when I can, but there's only so much one can do. The best accessibility feature in Windows isn't the special packages, its the keyboard shortcuts IMHO. Those, at least, work. When the focus is in just the right place. Just getting focus to the desktop from Word is amazingly difficult.
BTW, he's asked my several times about Linux (he hasn't switched because of his work). He says some of his friends use it and its much better for them than Windows (in part because of all the text mode apps).
Actually, the very first barely-Unix system was built so that Bell Labs engineers could play video games.
This patent processing machine came later, and might have been the first mature system, but it technically wasn't first, just a short interlude in the bigger picture.
Next time it gets cold and winter-ish, put on a pair of those gloves with newfangled space-age insulators. Thank the space program for developing the material that's keeping your hands warm.
That's only one example of how NASA provides a return on investment for the American public. It's an old example, and there have been many, many, more since then.
It seems to me that the backlash against "cool", while it looks good on paper, doesn't work so well in real life. Humans are social animals, they require a social group. Just "being who you are" doesn't get you a social group unless you have multiple personalities, so it won't actually work for most kids.
Not that I'd want mainstream "cool", mind you.
So my proposed solution: start a LUG at your kid's high school. Establish a beachhead for the kind of "cool" that really is. Sure, not everyone will think it's "cool" ("that club is for freaks! join the football team!"), but it could really help a certain kind of kid to find a geek community in their high school. I wish I had.
AOL floppies were mostly low density, to keep people from doing what you did and "stealing" from the company. The idea was that reformaters would get so frustrated that they would just sign up or pass the disks along instead of profiting off the company's ads.
Plus LD floppies are cheaper and can be used at HD (once)....
No, I am not crazy. The next big revolution in interface technology will be a return to the command line. Specifically, a graphical command line.
What is everybody prediciting as the next evolutionary step in interfaces? Voice. Companies like IBM are positioning themselves to get in at the ground floor. Microsoft even put out a dictation package a few years back. And you can bet that all those users with microphones are not going to want to say "Move the mouse 3 -- no, 6, -- pixels left -- up more -- click --" every time they want to do something. They are going issue words as commands ("Launch Emacs. find-file"). The future UI looks like a CLI with a bunch of windows plastered on to it.
That's why EFM will be at a tremendous advantage. Now, it's great because if you know how to use the command line, you can combine the two (try typing into an EFM window). In the future, EFM will be even better, because it will already have completed the painful evolution other file managers will have to endure. Word will act like Emacs, in that everything will be a text command you can enter.
I've tried Nautilus, and I love it. But long term, CLI is the future. And after trying EFM, I can take the future for a test drive any time I want.
As a side issue, who wants to bet every interface company will suddenly invent command redirection? Picture advertisements for a great new feature that looks like this: |.
Yeah. The reason that there are so many protests about "just a browser" is that the people who want more than just a browser aren't protesting. You hit the nail on the head.
The problem is that people think this is a competition.
When you have two equal options, choice is good. But when people fight over which of those choices is better, you have problems: pride, greed, and so forth. Stop trying to kill each other, pick a DE, and write code!
What I mean is that my Mac can read DOS disks, even though I don't own a MS-DOS computer. My Linux box can write Mac disks. My BSD box can send e-mail to a co-worker using Windows. (Not that Windows is a good choice). As different choices mature, they become more compatible, unless something gets in the way. There is no reason not to have two choices, as long as both work.
Once both options work, the developers of A get the great idea to make it work with B. Then B's team decides to make B work with A.
If you look, that's what's starting to happen right now, despite the fighting between some misguided individuals. KDE can use GNOME skins. We have to encourage this trend, not stop it. It's the Right Thing to do.
By the way, people say that choice confuses users. Look at the KDE panel and compare it to the GNOME panel. Both panels have a button to launch programs. Both buttons are in the same place. This isn't nearly as big of an issue as some people believe.
I like choice. I want both KDE and GNOME installed on my system, so I can use whichever I'm in the mood for when I start X. The truth is, though, I usually start EFM.
What this comes down to is that the government wants an easy way to stop "dangerous" activity, even if it means stepping on the toes of its citizens. The ISP is protecting the rights that the government has ignored.
The government is supposed to work for the people. When it starts to interfere in their lives in order to "protect" them, it becomes their enemy. A police force that can be called on the phone if you are robbed is a good thing. But would you want a police officer checking in on you randomly to make sure you weren't being robbed? We're not there yet, but we're pretty close. We don't need a government with power to spy on its citizens, and certainly not one that can do so without telling them. There are other ways to do things. Perhaps they are more difficult. But this is a government for the people, remember? Shouldn't it go out of its way to accommodate them? Sometimes wiretaps are necessary. But they must be used very sparingly. This system makes it to easy for the government to invade our privacy. How sad is it when a corporation is willing to stand up for natural rights that the US government isn't willing to protect?
Step 1: Go to your local high school, or whatever education level you want to work at. Step 2: Ask if they'd be willing to let you advertise for a free, after school programming class. Step 3: If they let you, you could probably find enough kids in a high school interested in the class to teach it. If they don't, go to another school.
This is just like another thing that happened a while ago. How many Microserf decided to abandon Windows when their MSCEs were expired by decree of Microsoft Marketing? Bad things provide incentives for people to try to fix them, or create alternative good things. Sure, they're still bad, but good happens that might otherwise not happen, like the release of a cool package or a few thousand converts.
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Mozilla has always (well, almost always) used a red dinosaur instead of Netscape's green lizard. Somebody probably considered the trademark thing at some point, but the switch was made only to make it clear that Mozilla.org was a separate entity from Netscape. If Netscape the company ever started using Mozilla as its mascot again, it would still be green.
If they can be satisfied with this in other media, why not on the web? Note to whoever clued marketing in that banner ads could (gasp!) be ignored: you shouldn't have said that.
Face it: people will ignore ads, and making them harder to ignore just makes people angrier.
One problem: eog doesn't have the image editing features of ee. It doesn't even have an image list, so if you want 32 images you need 32 windows.
http://gnome.org/start/2.0/quirks.html#cutandpast
The #2 most common complaint is caused by GNU Emacs, which has its own insane clipboard behaviour unique to that application. Use XEmacs instead if it bothers you, or complain to the Emacs maintainer. Not GNOME's fault.
GNU Emacs 21 fixes this bug. Also see the variable "x-select-enable-clipboard".
I'm not anti-change. America should use the metric system. But changing the dollar (my dollar) to suit visitors?
The key is that I don't like the metric system just because everybody else is using it, but because it's easier. Who cares what everbody else is doing? I want what's best, not what's popular.
That said, I'm against colored money because the green bills are an American symbol just as important as any big building in Washington or a dynamited mountain. We even have a word for it: "greenbacks". There's no real reason to sacrifice this beloved symbol. The article even alludes to this.
Maybe so few Americans favor colored money because they feel the same way. After all, we don't go mocking your national treasures or symbols do we? (Well, yes, but....)
As for the advantages of varying sizes or color, I don't really think so. I can tell the difference between Andrew Jackson's face and Washington's face almost as easily as between, say, green and red. I bet for a color-blind person the difference is even bigger. A stack of uniform bills just looks better in my wallet or sitting on a table.
Different colors or sizes would probably gain only a few milliseconds at the expense of ascetics and one of the most distinctive American symbols.
These keys may have equivalents with "Run" replaced by "Run Services". Don't forget to check those, too.
Bad example. AtheOS's APIs are based on BeOS. And KHTML is from KDE.
X-Files section is here
You can block image loading and/or cookies by specific sites. Combined, these features give you extremely flexible ad blocking.
I have a close relative who is blind and who struggles with Windows at home and work every day. Microsoft's accessibility packages break constantly, and MS never provides help beyond "Fixed in the next upgrade." Of course, each upgrade has most of the old problems and some new ones. I try to help him out when I can, but there's only so much one can do. The best accessibility feature in Windows isn't the special packages, its the keyboard shortcuts IMHO. Those, at least, work. When the focus is in just the right place. Just getting focus to the desktop from Word is amazingly difficult.
BTW, he's asked my several times about Linux (he hasn't switched because of his work). He says some of his friends use it and its much better for them than Windows (in part because of all the text mode apps).
This patent processing machine came later, and might have been the first mature system, but it technically wasn't first, just a short interlude in the bigger picture.
That make you feel better? :-)
Try http://slashdot.org/palm/. Lots of programs can parse such simple HTML.
That's only one example of how NASA provides a return on investment for the American public. It's an old example, and there have been many, many, more since then.
Not that I'd want mainstream "cool", mind you.
So my proposed solution: start a LUG at your kid's high school. Establish a beachhead for the kind of "cool" that really is. Sure, not everyone will think it's "cool" ("that club is for freaks! join the football team!"), but it could really help a certain kind of kid to find a geek community in their high school. I wish I had.
Plus LD floppies are cheaper and can be used at HD (once)....
Ummm... sorry, but Mr. Anderson didn't write the Rouge Squadron series. As I recall, Michael Stackpole wrote all but a few of the books.
What is everybody prediciting as the next evolutionary step in interfaces? Voice. Companies like IBM are positioning themselves to get in at the ground floor. Microsoft even put out a dictation package a few years back. And you can bet that all those users with microphones are not going to want to say "Move the mouse 3 -- no, 6, -- pixels left -- up more -- click --" every time they want to do something. They are going issue words as commands ("Launch Emacs. find-file"). The future UI looks like a CLI with a bunch of windows plastered on to it.
That's why EFM will be at a tremendous advantage. Now, it's great because if you know how to use the command line, you can combine the two (try typing into an EFM window). In the future, EFM will be even better, because it will already have completed the painful evolution other file managers will have to endure. Word will act like Emacs, in that everything will be a text command you can enter.
I've tried Nautilus, and I love it. But long term, CLI is the future. And after trying EFM, I can take the future for a test drive any time I want.
As a side issue, who wants to bet every interface company will suddenly invent command redirection? Picture advertisements for a great new feature that looks like this: |.
Yeah. The reason that there are so many protests about "just a browser" is that the people who want more than just a browser aren't protesting. You hit the nail on the head.
When you have two equal options, choice is good. But when people fight over which of those choices is better, you have problems: pride, greed, and so forth. Stop trying to kill each other, pick a DE, and write code!
What I mean is that my Mac can read DOS disks, even though I don't own a MS-DOS computer. My Linux box can write Mac disks. My BSD box can send e-mail to a co-worker using Windows. (Not that Windows is a good choice). As different choices mature, they become more compatible, unless something gets in the way. There is no reason not to have two choices, as long as both work.
Once both options work, the developers of A get the great idea to make it work with B. Then B's team decides to make B work with A.
If you look, that's what's starting to happen right now, despite the fighting between some misguided individuals. KDE can use GNOME skins. We have to encourage this trend, not stop it. It's the Right Thing to do.
By the way, people say that choice confuses users. Look at the KDE panel and compare it to the GNOME panel. Both panels have a button to launch programs. Both buttons are in the same place. This isn't nearly as big of an issue as some people believe.
I like choice. I want both KDE and GNOME installed on my system, so I can use whichever I'm in the mood for when I start X. The truth is, though, I usually start EFM.
I sent them a note about RedHat is not Linux! with the bugs form.
That's why they're spinning off a series built around The Lone Rangers.
What this comes down to is that the government wants an easy way to stop "dangerous" activity, even if it means stepping on the toes of its citizens. The ISP is protecting the rights that the government has ignored.
The government is supposed to work for the people. When it starts to interfere in their lives in order to "protect" them, it becomes their enemy. A police force that can be called on the phone if you are robbed is a good thing. But would you want a police officer checking in on you randomly to make sure you weren't being robbed? We're not there yet, but we're pretty close. We don't need a government with power to spy on its citizens, and certainly not one that can do so without telling them. There are other ways to do things. Perhaps they are more difficult. But this is a government for the people, remember? Shouldn't it go out of its way to accommodate them? Sometimes wiretaps are necessary. But they must be used very sparingly. This system makes it to easy for the government to invade our privacy. How sad is it when a corporation is willing to stand up for natural rights that the US government isn't willing to protect?
Step 1: Go to your local high school, or whatever education level you want to work at. Step 2: Ask if they'd be willing to let you advertise for a free, after school programming class. Step 3: If they let you, you could probably find enough kids in a high school interested in the class to teach it. If they don't, go to another school.