1) No more freaking menus and dialog boxes
Otherwise known as 'break the interface paradigm that people know, which makes it *harder* to use'. Ask anyone who actually knows anything about usability - the easiest interface is the one you know.
Those same usability knowledgeable people would also tell you that having information presented to you is always better than having to go looking for it because it is hidden. The Ribbon in Office 2007 is useful and elegant. It's a huge leap over myriad toolbars with nondescript icons and a menu structure that was failing under its own weight. It doesn't make Word harder to use, it makes creating a document a logical and organized endeavor.
I'm guessing the article didn't mention Divx players because it was about computing companies that didn't deserve to die. Divx was a consumer electronics product that thankfully did die.
All you can say is that you don't remember anything, not that nothing happened. It's well known that the part of the brain that processes short term memories is one of the most fragile areas, for whatever reason. Short term amnesia covering a time from slighty before (sometimes as much as a week) an accident/injury up till the point the person regains consciousness is pretty much par for the course.
I rolled a car once and ended up being rushed to a hospital. I had no serious injuries, no broken bones, no concussion, no nothing. Except for a big stripe across my chest from where the seat-belt dug in to me I was fine. I was unconscious from the time of the accident until about an hour later. I have no memory of the accident, the 30 minutes or so before the accident, or the time I was unconscious. None whatsoever. If an incident like that, which affected no major physical injury on me, can wipe out a full 90+ minutes of my memories I can only imagine something similar if not more pronounced happening to your short term memory when your heart stopped.
Multiplayer games these days have one problem. Cheating.
Really? Just one? What about:
Bad design
High prices
Poor performance
Steep system requirements
Bugs
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No, it won't result in a resurgence of OpenGL in the gaming industry. Vista runs both DX 9 and DX 10. If developers are uninterested in DX10 they will just use DX 9.
Bundling arguments are a red herring in this context. Microsoft has included a search function since Windows 3.x (2.x?) It's not like they stuck something new in Vista just to counter Google Desktop Search.
The specs to the PSD format are available. Many other photo editing and other types of applications can load Photoshop documents. Adobe doesn't even protect their plugin format. there are other editing apps than can load and utilize Photoshop plugins without problems.
Photoshop is a bitmap creation and editing package. CorelDraw is (was) a vector image creation and editing package. CorelDraw's competitors were Aldus/Macromedia/Adobe Freehand, and Adobe Illustrator.
There's nothing illegal about being a monopoly. if you use your monopolistic position to bully/threaten/squash competition then you are doing something illegal. With the proliferation of other image editing apps like Painter, PhotoPaint, PaintShopPro, Paint.NET, etc... it's quite evident that Adobe is not using their industry leading position (not, not a Monopoly) to squash competition.
It's not specifically aimed at students. While it is intended for students and hobbyists there are no limitations against developing commercial applications with the Express products.
How much of your own money are you investing like this? Or, are you handing out ill-informed and extremely risky investing advice in a vain hope to appear learned?
Device drivers had to be rewritten going from 98 to XP. Some device drivers had to be rewritten going from 95 to 98. The obsolescence you are describing has been going on for a decade. History has shown it will be no obstacle to Vista's acceptance.
Sayint "the support for it on Linux would have already been better" is hyperbole at best and irrelevant to the terms of my question at worst. I asked "all other things being equal" what would OSS have done to make the situation better. If he had fired it up on Linux and discovered it didn't work well do you really think a legion of Linux coders would've immediately answered his call for help and fixed the problem on the spot? Maybe some would've...maybe not....and it's questions like that that made me ask for more information.
Just because you feel that "Everyone got that" with regards to the licensing you can't demonstrably prove your point. The original post seemed to express equal frustration with the licensing, performance, and handling of old work units. That's why I asked for more information. You're comment of "everyone got it" is simultaneously condescending and a perfect example of the insular nature and head-burying attitude of OSS advocates.
Thank you for answering that and shedding light on where you think OSS would've helped. I understand that if it was, historically, OSS software the Linux performance issues and backwards compatibility issues would probably have been fixed. That's why I asked my question in terms of "all other things being equal". I wanted to see what your biggest concern was with the software as it currently exists.
I love it. I ask a serious question....a question of elaboration on the parent's post and I get marked a troll. Why? Solely because I broke the unspoken pact and questioned what OSS would've provided to solve this one person's particular problem. I dared to, even in this one instance, question the assumed superiority of OSS so that I could better understand how it would've helped. I set out to gain valid use-case data from which everyone could've learned and benefited. Instead, a group of moderators decided they needed to show their support of OSS, not by engaging in a debate of its merits, but by trying to bury my question...essentially burying their heads in the sand in the process.
It's this mindset...this "OSS is holy....just because" group-think that keeps OSS from truly gaining traction with mainstream users. It's the community's insular nature, lack of interest in how software is actually used by people, and general "We know better, so there" attitude that keeps the whole concept sidelined.
Marking my question as a troll might make the moderators feel like they've done something useful. All they've really done, though, is show their ignorance and their desire to not have to look at the real issues. They'd rather just hold on to their belief of "it's just better....because!"
What part of your problem would've been fixed if it had been open source, all other things being equal? Was your problem the licensing, the inferior Linux performance, or the fact that it would only reprocess workbooks? How would it being open source have fixed any of that? Even if it being OSS just meant that there was no licensing scheme that is only 1/3 of your listed problems (at best). Given that you were in such a hurry and that the code to do what Mathematica does is probably extremely complex I doubt you would've edited the code to fix problems #2 or #3. So, how exactly would OSS have helped you?
Humans once again find out that they don't know nearly as much about anything as previously thought. Don't panic, though, folks. They will still use their miniscule amount of knowledge to extrapolate seemingly dire trends and predict yet another impending global catastrophe.
* Global Cooling is going to lead to another Ice Age! Wait...that was 30 years ago... Now it's GLOBAL WARMING IS GOING TO GET US!!!
* Electromagnetic Radiation Causes Cancer! Don't live near power lines!! Wait...that was 20 years ago... Now it's BUY THESE MAGNETIC BRACELETS AND MATRESS PADS! MAGNETISM LEADS TO HEALTH AND PROSPERITY!
I would love to invest in a blu-ray or HD-DVD player...
Buying a consumer good, especially an electronic device, is not an investment. An investment is when you put your money into something that bears interest, pays a dividend, or appreciates in some other manner. DVD players do not appreciate. They depreciate at an alarming rate, as do most other consumer goods.
There's nothing wrong with buying a BluRay or HD-DVD player if you can afford it. Don't try to rationalize spending money on something you don't need or can't afford by calling it an investment, though. If you really want one put your $500 into a high interest savings account (E*Trade has 5.05% savings with no minimums currently) and wait 3 years. You'll have $580 and the price of the HD-DVD player will probably have dropped to $100 or less. All of the movies will still be available and you'll have saved $480 instead of pissing away $500.
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Those same usability knowledgeable people would also tell you that having information presented to you is always better than having to go looking for it because it is hidden. The Ribbon in Office 2007 is useful and elegant. It's a huge leap over myriad toolbars with nondescript icons and a menu structure that was failing under its own weight. It doesn't make Word harder to use, it makes creating a document a logical and organized endeavor.
I'm guessing the article didn't mention Divx players because it was about computing companies that didn't deserve to die. Divx was a consumer electronics product that thankfully did die.
I rolled a car once and ended up being rushed to a hospital. I had no serious injuries, no broken bones, no concussion, no nothing. Except for a big stripe across my chest from where the seat-belt dug in to me I was fine. I was unconscious from the time of the accident until about an hour later. I have no memory of the accident, the 30 minutes or so before the accident, or the time I was unconscious. None whatsoever. If an incident like that, which affected no major physical injury on me, can wipe out a full 90+ minutes of my memories I can only imagine something similar if not more pronounced happening to your short term memory when your heart stopped.
Gasoline is not stored pressurized. It would be both expensive and dangerous to do so.
Somehow I doubt the wave is new. It's only our understanding of it that is new.
Their name choice has certainly worked on you. It's not "Microsoft Open Office XML" like you said. It's "Microsoft Office Open XML".
Really? Just one? What about:
Bad design
High prices
Poor performance
Steep system requirements
Bugs
No, it won't result in a resurgence of OpenGL in the gaming industry. Vista runs both DX 9 and DX 10. If developers are uninterested in DX10 they will just use DX 9.
The Windows Indexing Service was first shipped with Windows NT 4.0. Windows has had indexed search since around 1998-1999.
Bundling arguments are a red herring in this context. Microsoft has included a search function since Windows 3.x (2.x?) It's not like they stuck something new in Vista just to counter Google Desktop Search.
The specs to the PSD format are available. Many other photo editing and other types of applications can load Photoshop documents. Adobe doesn't even protect their plugin format. there are other editing apps than can load and utilize Photoshop plugins without problems.
There's nothing illegal about being a monopoly. if you use your monopolistic position to bully/threaten/squash competition then you are doing something illegal. With the proliferation of other image editing apps like Painter, PhotoPaint, PaintShopPro, Paint.NET, etc... it's quite evident that Adobe is not using their industry leading position (not, not a Monopoly) to squash competition.
It's not specifically aimed at students. While it is intended for students and hobbyists there are no limitations against developing commercial applications with the Express products.
How much of your own money are you investing like this? Or, are you handing out ill-informed and extremely risky investing advice in a vain hope to appear learned?
A scanner or a printer is a scanner or a printer regardless of the machine you connect it to.
Device drivers had to be rewritten going from 98 to XP. Some device drivers had to be rewritten going from 95 to 98. The obsolescence you are describing has been going on for a decade. History has shown it will be no obstacle to Vista's acceptance.
Sayint "the support for it on Linux would have already been better" is hyperbole at best and irrelevant to the terms of my question at worst. I asked "all other things being equal" what would OSS have done to make the situation better. If he had fired it up on Linux and discovered it didn't work well do you really think a legion of Linux coders would've immediately answered his call for help and fixed the problem on the spot? Maybe some would've...maybe not....and it's questions like that that made me ask for more information. Just because you feel that "Everyone got that" with regards to the licensing you can't demonstrably prove your point. The original post seemed to express equal frustration with the licensing, performance, and handling of old work units. That's why I asked for more information. You're comment of "everyone got it" is simultaneously condescending and a perfect example of the insular nature and head-burying attitude of OSS advocates.
Thank you for answering that and shedding light on where you think OSS would've helped. I understand that if it was, historically, OSS software the Linux performance issues and backwards compatibility issues would probably have been fixed. That's why I asked my question in terms of "all other things being equal". I wanted to see what your biggest concern was with the software as it currently exists.
It's this mindset...this "OSS is holy....just because" group-think that keeps OSS from truly gaining traction with mainstream users. It's the community's insular nature, lack of interest in how software is actually used by people, and general "We know better, so there" attitude that keeps the whole concept sidelined.
Marking my question as a troll might make the moderators feel like they've done something useful. All they've really done, though, is show their ignorance and their desire to not have to look at the real issues. They'd rather just hold on to their belief of "it's just better....because!"
What part of your problem would've been fixed if it had been open source, all other things being equal? Was your problem the licensing, the inferior Linux performance, or the fact that it would only reprocess workbooks? How would it being open source have fixed any of that? Even if it being OSS just meant that there was no licensing scheme that is only 1/3 of your listed problems (at best). Given that you were in such a hurry and that the code to do what Mathematica does is probably extremely complex I doubt you would've edited the code to fix problems #2 or #3. So, how exactly would OSS have helped you?
Dude! The 360 doesn't run Windows!
* Global Cooling is going to lead to another Ice Age! Wait...that was 30 years ago... Now it's GLOBAL WARMING IS GOING TO GET US!!!
* Electromagnetic Radiation Causes Cancer! Don't live near power lines!! Wait...that was 20 years ago... Now it's BUY THESE MAGNETIC BRACELETS AND MATRESS PADS! MAGNETISM LEADS TO HEALTH AND PROSPERITY!
Buying a consumer good, especially an electronic device, is not an investment. An investment is when you put your money into something that bears interest, pays a dividend, or appreciates in some other manner. DVD players do not appreciate. They depreciate at an alarming rate, as do most other consumer goods.
There's nothing wrong with buying a BluRay or HD-DVD player if you can afford it. Don't try to rationalize spending money on something you don't need or can't afford by calling it an investment, though. If you really want one put your $500 into a high interest savings account (E*Trade has 5.05% savings with no minimums currently) and wait 3 years. You'll have $580 and the price of the HD-DVD player will probably have dropped to $100 or less. All of the movies will still be available and you'll have saved $480 instead of pissing away $500.
No, you can unlock it with something as simple as an ActionReplay device. Here's a page that lists the AR codes. http://vgstrategies.about.com/od/playstation2codes /a/hotcoffeecodes.htm
There is no hacking of the GTA code required.
There was already a Lodestone Games. They did work for Sony. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodestone_Games