Absolutely true! I store all customer user-accounts in/dev/null to save diskspace (the compression of that device is awesome!)...so far nobody complained.
I don't know what you mean, there is only one OS in that mix, Linux.
But if you mean Distributions, then no, that doesn't need any standardization or unification by definition. I'm not sure what you mean with "packaging connector location and shape", though...
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I think the open-source movement would be well served if more OSS developers took this advice. Of course, it doesn't always apply, but if you're trying to compete with a dominant commercial product, don't think you know better than Microsoft or Adobe or Apple; just copy the damn thing.
Your logic is wrong, it's not about "copying the damn thing" and "compete with a commercial product"...it's about coding! Why do you think that thousands of people sit down to their home PCs and startz coding after an 8 hour day of...coding! Because they enjoy it. Most FLOSS projects did never think that they'd grow to that size, and most never do.
The GIMP crew thinks they know better than Adobe how to design a UI, and look at how far that has got them – the butt of every joke in the OSS world. People don't want GIMP, they want an open-source copy of Photoshop, so give that to them.
Thanks for telling me what I want. I actually love GIMP and the Multi-Window GUI, it's easier to use for me. It's about what people are used to, not what they want. If they want Photoshop, go buy it!
Likewise, people don't want all the "innovative" desktop environments Gnome and KDE are coming out with; they want an open-source copy of the Windows UI. Or better yet an open-source version of Windows; it's amazing to me that ReactOS hasn't gotten more love, when it represents the best potential long-term method for open source to take over the desktop.
Yes, please! I want freaking desktop effects I can't turn off! And I want only one panel with limited capabilities! And yes, pretty please, I want a file manager with ribbon toolbar!
I know it's not as rewarding for the coders, but if you actually care about the market share of OSS software, this is the way forward. Change the graphics as much as needed for copyright reasons, but copy the look and feel. After all, both Microsoft and Apple got their footholds the same way.
No, Microsoft got their way because they killed everyone else the hard way. Apple got their way because their products are limited but extremely polished.
Because no-one will launch nukes. Even the U.S. pissed their pants when they saw what they had done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The cold-war is over, and so are the last changes for a *real* nuclear conflict around the world. Sure, there are still two or three muppets out there which would throw a nuclear weapon at somebody...but no-one is dumb enough to throw one back just for the sake of it. It's over, get over it, worry about economy instead.
It would suck if the world would end this year...not because then we'll all die or something like that...but because the last thing we'd hear is a bunch of dumbasses screaming "WE WERE RIGHT!".
I totally agree. But as a fellow software developer, I can tell you this has one major problem (like every other software has): The average computer user.
Dumb, blind and willing-to-pay-for-shiny-stuff lemmings.
We can sit on Slashdot all day and say we won't buy that crap anymore...unfortunately, despite the fact that Slashdot is large, it is only very small compared to the market. But I agree that this starts little, and *we* should at least think and stop.
Actually that's not a good question for any SE site. It's at best a buying recommendation and at worst a "plz give me da linkz!" question...so no, stop sending people with such awful questions to SE.
I think the real reasoning is that *n*x admins are still looking down on Windows if it comes to server usage...and let's face it, the Windows Server market share is nowhere near the Desktop share. They want to get all this old and beardy Unix-Admins into the boat, and they can only do that if they provide a slick server and a good shell.
Not anymore...what you find in a todays Windows is called "cmd", and is not quite similar to DOS. While DOS was a real OS, cmd is a bare command line / shell (and it sucks).
Additionally, the Kernels which are based on DOS where only used until Windows 98/ME. Windows NT/2000 already had the new NT kernel...at least so I remember it from the Wiki article.
Why did you then start a discussion about usability and UI design?
I know shit about UI design...so I try to stay away and especially not start a discussion about it. But I'm smart enough to know that everyone wants something different...some people want KDE, some Gnome2, some Gnome3, some find E17 awesome, others ask what a so-called-GUI is...I can see that people like Ribbon, hell, I can even understand if somebody says "Luna looks cool"...but that's not my opinion, those awesome new designs like Ribbon do not work for me. I like my ugly 16x16 icon-palette with no description, you know, I'm able to remember what every icon means and which ones I need. I'm also able to work quick and flawless with the shell, I'm faster and it's easier, for me. I also don't hesitate to read the manual, after all, that's what they were written for (I find man pages awesome, so much information squeezed into that...that might be why I'm able to solve most problems myself, without running to someone "this doesn't work anymore, why?!" - "What's the error message?" - "Ugh...I don't know!").
If you like Ribbon, great, go for it...but don't you dare telling me what I should use, because you think it's better.
The game was sold over 3 million times. Until proofen otherwise I assume that 75% of all illegal downloaders used that as a demo and bought the game afterwards...the other 25% found it not worthy to buy...I wonder if we can map that against IQ statistics...
I'm not going into detail how many other advantages different accounts have (two words:personal preferences), but if your spouse goes all "I can't look at your browser history? YOU MUST HAVE AN AFFAIR!" on you...well, get a better spouse...or train that one better. You know, trust and relationships and such stuff. ^^
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Absolutely true! I store all customer user-accounts in /dev/null to save diskspace (the compression of that device is awesome!)...so far nobody complained.
I don't know what you mean, there is only one OS in that mix, Linux.
But if you mean Distributions, then no, that doesn't need any standardization or unification by definition. I'm not sure what you mean with "packaging connector location and shape", though...
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I think the open-source movement would be well served if more OSS developers took this advice. Of course, it doesn't always apply, but if you're trying to compete with a dominant commercial product, don't think you know better than Microsoft or Adobe or Apple; just copy the damn thing.
Your logic is wrong, it's not about "copying the damn thing" and "compete with a commercial product"...it's about coding! Why do you think that thousands of people sit down to their home PCs and startz coding after an 8 hour day of...coding! Because they enjoy it. Most FLOSS projects did never think that they'd grow to that size, and most never do.
The GIMP crew thinks they know better than Adobe how to design a UI, and look at how far that has got them – the butt of every joke in the OSS world. People don't want GIMP, they want an open-source copy of Photoshop, so give that to them.
Thanks for telling me what I want. I actually love GIMP and the Multi-Window GUI, it's easier to use for me. It's about what people are used to, not what they want. If they want Photoshop, go buy it!
Likewise, people don't want all the "innovative" desktop environments Gnome and KDE are coming out with; they want an open-source copy of the Windows UI. Or better yet an open-source version of Windows; it's amazing to me that ReactOS hasn't gotten more love, when it represents the best potential long-term method for open source to take over the desktop.
Yes, please! I want freaking desktop effects I can't turn off! And I want only one panel with limited capabilities! And yes, pretty please, I want a file manager with ribbon toolbar!
I know it's not as rewarding for the coders, but if you actually care about the market share of OSS software, this is the way forward. Change the graphics as much as needed for copyright reasons, but copy the look and feel. After all, both Microsoft and Apple got their footholds the same way.
No, Microsoft got their way because they killed everyone else the hard way. Apple got their way because their products are limited but extremely polished.
Because no-one will launch nukes. Even the U.S. pissed their pants when they saw what they had done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The cold-war is over, and so are the last changes for a *real* nuclear conflict around the world. Sure, there are still two or three muppets out there which would throw a nuclear weapon at somebody...but no-one is dumb enough to throw one back just for the sake of it. It's over, get over it, worry about economy instead.
You man the U.S. sues him for violating their Copyright by illegally sharing money with other people?
+1 Funny if I could.
It would suck if the world would end this year...not because then we'll all die or something like that...but because the last thing we'd hear is a bunch of dumbasses screaming "WE WERE RIGHT!".
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I totally agree. But as a fellow software developer, I can tell you this has one major problem (like every other software has): The average computer user.
Dumb, blind and willing-to-pay-for-shiny-stuff lemmings.
We can sit on Slashdot all day and say we won't buy that crap anymore...unfortunately, despite the fact that Slashdot is large, it is only very small compared to the market. But I agree that this starts little, and *we* should at least think and stop.
Today, NTFS is the most widely used, advanced, and feature rich file system in broad use.
If this is true...it's a very sad world we live in...
Actually that's not a good question for any SE site. It's at best a buying recommendation and at worst a "plz give me da linkz!" question...so no, stop sending people with such awful questions to SE.
I think the real reasoning is that *n*x admins are still looking down on Windows if it comes to server usage...and let's face it, the Windows Server market share is nowhere near the Desktop share. They want to get all this old and beardy Unix-Admins into the boat, and they can only do that if they provide a slick server and a good shell.
Not anymore...what you find in a todays Windows is called "cmd", and is not quite similar to DOS. While DOS was a real OS, cmd is a bare command line / shell (and it sucks).
Additionally, the Kernels which are based on DOS where only used until Windows 98/ME. Windows NT/2000 already had the new NT kernel...at least so I remember it from the Wiki article.
+1 Funny if could!
Who wants to run a GUI on a server anyway?
Upcoming next article: "How to get Indian companies to document the code I payed for?"
Why did you then start a discussion about usability and UI design?
I know shit about UI design...so I try to stay away and especially not start a discussion about it. But I'm smart enough to know that everyone wants something different...some people want KDE, some Gnome2, some Gnome3, some find E17 awesome, others ask what a so-called-GUI is...I can see that people like Ribbon, hell, I can even understand if somebody says "Luna looks cool"...but that's not my opinion, those awesome new designs like Ribbon do not work for me. I like my ugly 16x16 icon-palette with no description, you know, I'm able to remember what every icon means and which ones I need. I'm also able to work quick and flawless with the shell, I'm faster and it's easier, for me. I also don't hesitate to read the manual, after all, that's what they were written for (I find man pages awesome, so much information squeezed into that...that might be why I'm able to solve most problems myself, without running to someone "this doesn't work anymore, why?!" - "What's the error message?" - "Ugh...I don't know!").
If you like Ribbon, great, go for it...but don't you dare telling me what I should use, because you think it's better.
That's not a bug, that's a feature!
I haven't heard any threats lately...though, to me it looks like Iran is recently painting a big bullseye into their backyard.
The command line is not coming back...
I didn't realize it was gone...or optionally: Go tell all the admins!
The game was sold over 3 million times. Until proofen otherwise I assume that 75% of all illegal downloaders used that as a demo and bought the game afterwards...the other 25% found it not worthy to buy...I wonder if we can map that against IQ statistics...
Yeah, because a window and an half-eaten apple is way better.
Somewhere, beyond the sea...
I fear I'll associate that song for the rest of my life with Rapture...
I'm not going into detail how many other advantages different accounts have (two words:personal preferences), but if your spouse goes all "I can't look at your browser history? YOU MUST HAVE AN AFFAIR!" on you...well, get a better spouse...or train that one better. You know, trust and relationships and such stuff. ^^
How about different user accounts?