OK, Rant on, I haven't even looked at the site. I hate themes, they contribute almost nothing, and in general just make things harder to use. How many times have you gone through your GTK (or WinAmp, or whatever program) to find something actually legible? If a theme made fonts larger for people with poor eyesight, WooHoo, but mostly they just have some red metallic background with wood trim that it's tough to see text on top of.
It's eyecandy, catchy, but no real substance. So now KDE can use pixmap themes, so they get the metallic and wood trim? What about real innovation, or even having current UI's work well? I've been programming since I was in 4th grade (Basic on Timex Sinclair 1000) and I have some difficulties using current UI toolkits. I feel this is wasted energy. Flamebait,Troll, -20
You can make cars with better than 35MPG, just no one in the states will buy them. The stripper version of the Geo Metro got 55MPG. The honda Civic VTEC-E was better than 35, can't remember what it was.
The thing is Americans don't buy those cars. We want BIG cars. Ever see the cars in Europe? Know what a VW Polo is? It's a 3/4 scale Golf/Jetta because the Golf is too big for a large number of european buyers. The Ford Focus here is a compact, in Europe it's a midsize. The Ford Contour sold badly here because it was too small. Too large for most Europeans.
With cheap American gas (and with all the handringing about the recent price spike, still cheaper here than pretty much everywhere else) there's little economic incentive for 55 MPG cars. People won't buy them, and car companies can't make up their R & D investment on the low volume.
I was thinking the same. Steep implies "moving swiftly with respect to time", which means to me learning quickly, which is usually the opposite of what's being described by the Steep Learning Curve(TM).
Tall learning curve makes it for me. Can I patent that? Or maybe have a trademark on Tall Learning Curve(TM)? Just don't hyperlink to this or you have to pay B.T.
At the University I went to (UIC is you care), we were a hard core IBM shop. We had a mainframe, 329x terminals, and all the PCs were old (even at that time) PS/2's. The 3290whatevers were a real pain, imagine telling 15,000 Liberal Arts majors they're gonna have VM/CMS, and *like* it. There were literally 4 public Macs on campus, only t3wo functioning at any given time, with about 25,000 students. Old comp guy said that's the only way it could work, Macs were too unstable, he said. It was rumored that he or the University got kickbacks from IBM.
Apple, in a smart marketing move, made you have a Mac lab on campus if you wanted to sell them. We made a 20 mac lab (Apples minimum), which I essentially ran, and it worked well enough that the University pres came in one day (when I'm in my basketball shorts and no shoes) and was convinced enough that it could actually work to bring some real computers on campus. No 3290s, no screen oriented tn3270 terminals, but *real* computers. They now have iMacs and real nice G3 Towers all over campus, essentially putting (R.I.P. Mac room...) my old room out of business.
I like to think we changed stuff, but it really was people just realizing the stupidity of being locked into things, and realizing that you just use the right tool for the job.
When I was in college I applied for a HTML position at some slapdash firm. I was pissed when I didn't get it. Then a month or two later I see it listed on "Worst of the Web". I laughed.
The C64, Apple II (but not the IIgs), Atari 8bit series, and TI/84a (sp?) ran MOS 650x series processors. Basically reworked versions of the Motorola 6800 series, and most of the basic design was by poached motorola engineers if I recall.
The C64 had a 6510, basically the diff was talking to all the support chips. Atari and Apple had base 6502's.
Don't forget all the old UNIX boxes. HPUX, NeXT, SunOS 3 (is that Solaris -1?), SGI I think too all ran their stuff on the 68k. Atari STs (520 and 130) ran them as well. Jack Tramiel, where are you?
I worked at a small contracting/outsourcing firm, and we ported some UNIX stuff to RedHat. Was a bit of a pain, but a learning experience thingy. Then they wanted a Slack port, we told them no. Why? Testing. Testing will kill you. Imagine running your ENTIRE test suite against every distro of Linux. Testing consumes (or should) 50% of your budget. The fact that Slack had a different layout (wasn't a filesystem standard talked about *years* ago) didn't help any. This is real money here. We ported to 8 different UNIXes, testing against a normal subset of distros (RH, Slack, Deb, SuSe...) would have doubled the testing costs. RH is the #1, if I'm doing Linux, that comes first, maybe only. If you'll pay me enough to run it on a Commodore 64, I'll do it. But unless you have infinite cash, I'm going with the money. If I feel I'll get my money back from Yellow Dog PPC, I'll do it, but don't expect it.
On a Flamebait rant, am I the only one that gets sick of the GNU/Linux naming stuff? "Well it's using GNU tools, so it's GNU." So a Mac is a Microsoft machine because it runs Word and IE? The kernels the thing. A harsher person would think RHS is jealous because Linux is headlines and the Hurd isn't much past vaporware.
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I tried a pong game on a Timex Sinclair 1000 with 1KB of RAM, never got it to work though. No offline storage, so when the power went away, so did my game
Had a drawing program on a 16KB Atari 800. Also, no offline storage, so when the news came on...
I used to troll a couple of Chuck's sites at my while I pretended to work at my last job. From what I recall (long vacation making memory hazy) PE came out with new album called "Bring The Noise 2000", basically a bunch of remixes with one or two new tracks. Label (I think referred by Chuck as "Def Scam") didn't wanna release it, so he released it as mp3s on his site. Leader of Def Scam, mentioned as "Hustle Simmons", didn't like this so came up with some legalese and made PE take the tracks down. By this time they were downloaded by a bunch of people, and were put up on GeoCities and other free web hosting sites. I got the notification on the Enemy Board and actually have a copy burned. Pretty good, with the "More Hype Believers Than Ever in '97" being my fav. Hmm, substitute an IRC channel for the Enemy Board, have a new protocol with mp3s based on your hard drive instead of free web servers and you may see shades of Napster, so calls of bandwagon jumping are kind of mislead.
Even though others had his back, Chuck didn't stand still, he released as a free track "Swindler's Lust" as a direct stab at the record labels.
If you don't own the masters
The masters own you
I don't remember legal issues, but it was available as an mp3 and "mp4". The mp4 was actually a windows executable with embedded audio, and had cool graphics, web links, yadda yadda. Mp4 never had anything to do with MPEG, or MP3 (it had it's own codec, called a2b I think), the naming just was a bandwagon thing to become the "next" mp3, just as mp3s were blowing up. Since I haven't played any other mp4s, mp3s are still here. By this time, everybody on the Board had mp3 players, so the mp4 kinda went away.
Soon after that, Chuck and PE broke from Def Jam and went to Atomic Pop, where they still are. They released an additional single free "Do you Wanna go our way", the main single off their album "There's a Poison Going On". You could download the whole album for $8, but I actually paid the $10 so I got an autographed CD sleeve. Since "Poison" contained 2 tracks freely downloadable, it's fairly safe to say he's still on the free music bus. Again, calls of bandwagon jumping again may be mislead.
One thing to think about is the cost of CDs. "There's a Poison Going On" sold for $10, plus shipping. How come it costs $17 over in the stores here? CDs are overpriced, and meant to be. No moving parts, but still cost more than tapes. Weren't they supposed to go down once economies of scale kicked in? How come a burnable CD (a more expensive technology than a prerecorded music CD) is cheaper than a blank tape, but the Sam Goody CD costs more? I'm not advocating piracy, hell Chuck *wants* you to copy his stuff and that's all-important, but the economics need to change. I seem to recall some label getting on Garth Brooks' case because he wanted to release an album for under $14. Nope, you need to charge more. Now AOL has Time Warner, it's a brave new world.
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It's eyecandy, catchy, but no real substance. So now KDE can use pixmap themes, so they get the metallic and wood trim? What about real innovation, or even having current UI's work well? I've been programming since I was in 4th grade (Basic on Timex Sinclair 1000) and I have some difficulties using current UI toolkits. I feel this is wasted energy. Flamebait,Troll, -20
I sure as hell hope so, that thing is way behind current standards.
The browser is Part of the OS? Man I *hate* IE as my shell. Big difference here is that you can choose or not to have xml all over.
The thing is Americans don't buy those cars. We want BIG cars. Ever see the cars in Europe? Know what a VW Polo is? It's a 3/4 scale Golf/Jetta because the Golf is too big for a large number of european buyers. The Ford Focus here is a compact, in Europe it's a midsize. The Ford Contour sold badly here because it was too small. Too large for most Europeans.
With cheap American gas (and with all the handringing about the recent price spike, still cheaper here than pretty much everywhere else) there's little economic incentive for 55 MPG cars. People won't buy them, and car companies can't make up their R & D investment on the low volume.
By the looks of things, things aren't working as well as planned.
Tall learning curve makes it for me. Can I patent that? Or maybe have a trademark on Tall Learning Curve(TM)? Just don't hyperlink to this or you have to pay B.T.
Maybe now RMS will stop acting like Steve Jobs and give people what they want instead of telling them what they want.
Apple, in a smart marketing move, made you have a Mac lab on campus if you wanted to sell them. We made a 20 mac lab (Apples minimum), which I essentially ran, and it worked well enough that the University pres came in one day (when I'm in my basketball shorts and no shoes) and was convinced enough that it could actually work to bring some real computers on campus. No 3290s, no screen oriented tn3270 terminals, but *real* computers. They now have iMacs and real nice G3 Towers all over campus, essentially putting (R.I.P. Mac room...) my old room out of business.
I like to think we changed stuff, but it really was people just realizing the stupidity of being locked into things, and realizing that you just use the right tool for the job.
When I was in college I applied for a HTML position at some slapdash firm. I was pissed when I didn't get it. Then a month or two later I see it listed on "Worst of the Web". I laughed.
The C64 had a 6510, basically the diff was talking to all the support chips. Atari and Apple had base 6502's.
Don't forget all the old UNIX boxes. HPUX, NeXT, SunOS 3 (is that Solaris -1?), SGI I think too all ran their stuff on the 68k.
Atari STs (520 and 130) ran them as well. Jack Tramiel, where are you?
On a Flamebait rant, am I the only one that gets sick of the GNU/Linux naming stuff? "Well it's using GNU tools, so it's GNU." So a Mac is a Microsoft machine because it runs Word and IE? The kernels the thing. A harsher person would think RHS is jealous because Linux is headlines and the Hurd isn't much past vaporware.
Had a drawing program on a 16KB Atari 800. Also, no offline storage, so when the news came on...
Even though others had his back, Chuck didn't stand still, he released as a free track "Swindler's Lust" as a direct stab at the record labels.
The masters own you
I don't remember legal issues, but it was available as an mp3 and "mp4". The mp4 was actually a windows executable with embedded audio, and had cool graphics, web links, yadda yadda. Mp4 never had anything to do with MPEG, or MP3 (it had it's own codec, called a2b I think), the naming just was a bandwagon thing to become the "next" mp3, just as mp3s were blowing up. Since I haven't played any other mp4s, mp3s are still here. By this time, everybody on the Board had mp3 players, so the mp4 kinda went away.
Soon after that, Chuck and PE broke from Def Jam and went to Atomic Pop, where they still are. They released an additional single free "Do you Wanna go our way", the main single off their album "There's a Poison Going On". You could download the whole album for $8, but I actually paid the $10 so I got an autographed CD sleeve. Since "Poison" contained 2 tracks freely downloadable, it's fairly safe to say he's still on the free music bus. Again, calls of bandwagon jumping again may be mislead.
One thing to think about is the cost of CDs. "There's a Poison Going On" sold for $10, plus shipping. How come it costs $17 over in the stores here? CDs are overpriced, and meant to be. No moving parts, but still cost more than tapes. Weren't they supposed to go down once economies of scale kicked in? How come a burnable CD (a more expensive technology than a prerecorded music CD) is cheaper than a blank tape, but the Sam Goody CD costs more? I'm not advocating piracy, hell Chuck *wants* you to copy his stuff and that's all-important, but the economics need to change. I seem to recall some label getting on Garth Brooks' case because he wanted to release an album for under $14. Nope, you need to charge more. Now AOL has Time Warner, it's a brave new world.