The ROM on the original 128k Mac was 64k. The ROM of the Macintosh did not reach 1MB until the PowerMac 9500. The ROM was named Super Mario because of its size.
If I was shipwrecked in a storm and suffered from a high fever while hiding in a cave, I may have a "revelation" myself. Of course now it would be called delusions.
My time is valuable. What are you offering me as incentive to read your ads? Specifically.
this is why I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE GaiaOnline. Not only is it in-depth advertising that you are required to go through, they present it in an interesting way and you get a reward for going through it. Most websites have nothing to offer and have the American False Sense of Entitlement Syndrome where they feel they deserve to make money because they put up a website.
Just for shits, I'll throw out there that WebKit based browsers pass the Acid2 test. It would be the only open-sourced rendering engine to do so. If you are looking for a WebKit-based Firefox I already asked about this when chatting with a Gecko contributor. He said that all the "Firefoxy" things are intrinsically tied to Gecko. Camino is a perfect example of what he was talking about. It is based on Gecko but has none of the Firefox stuff because they did not want to be tied to the Gecko engine if things changed in the future.
"My neice, back in Scotland, has many games for her gameboy, and she plays it more often than she ever plays on playstations and computers and so on. I think it shows how it doesn't matter what the game looks like on a handheld, as long as it is well designed."
Which illustrates exactly why girls/women are more likely to have a Gameboy than a Playstation. Women are not as stimulated visually as men are. Girls are crazy about Pokemon because it emphasises gameplay and collecting, as well as cute monsters. Most games for "NexGen" game systems bore me after a day or two because it's the same thing over and over with different visuals. Which I suppose is why RPG's have done so well lately, because there's somewhat of a story to entertain you since the gameplay is so lame. Hopefully Phantasy Star Online will pave the way for better "'NexGen" games.
I myself am waiting for Nintendo to re-release or make a sequel to "Earthtbound" for Gameboy Advance. I think it was probably the most entertaining RPG game ever: a girl and three boys save the world with baseball bats and frying pans:)
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
F. Scott Fitzgerald had a semi-tragic life. He was a fantastic author and literary artist. He was a virtual nobody outside his shenannigans with Zelda. Real artists are like what Frederick Douglas said, "the caged bird sings because it has to".
Some people don't whore out their gifts, hence the Open Source movement. Some people just don't respect IP. I have very little respect for it. If someone steals my work and says it's theirs, that angers me, if someone steals and alters my work, but gives me credit for inspiration, that delights me.
It all smacks of publicity. His career has been in the toilet ever since his game based on "I have no mouth but I must scream" got panned for being inappropriate. He's been labeled as racist and ant-semitic and he wants us to feel bad because his bizarre little stories that lack the creativity of Ray Bradbury are being posted somewhere. He can't sell his derivitave works, so I say he may as well give them away for free.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
3DO had their system on an EISA card. I never had the card (although I had a 3D0), so I can't say what the interface was for playing games (DOS?). Surprisingly, it cost more than the system, even though it was sans CD-ROM. It used Creative Labs Sound Blaster on the card for audio.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
Now stick someone in front of a Mac with an empty HD that booted from a CD, and it has an open Finder window with an Icon that is labeled "Install Mac OS" and tell them to install it...
Now you get the idea why Apple wanted to use BSD. Apple has a knack for making anything easy to use.
Imagine how powerful Unix can be when it has a smiling face on it. No matter what you think about Apple and Mac OS Classic, you have to admit, that smiling face isn't a dumb look, but a devilish grin.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
"Every student who takes a course in the NWE has a UNIX account with almost totally unrestricted Internet access. Students can make Web pages in one of the five NWE classrooms using one of several HTML editors available through our X-Windows interface. However, many students find the transition between the online environment and their home computer very unsettling."
The first problem I see with this statement (actually the implications of it) is that this has little to do with his ideaology of ease. It has more to do with the ideology of familiarity.
If I take a trip over to Europe, and I plug a toaster in, I would feel unsettled by the fact that the outlets look different. This would give me pause because I am not used to outlets looking like that, I would also doubt my abilities to do something simple as plugging in a toaster, because I had never used that type of outlet. But if I want some toast, I can't be afraid to plug in the toaster. Of course, I could always ask someone else to plug it in...hopefully I'd pay attention to how they did it, so i wouldn't have to rely on someone else just to plug in my toaster so I could make some toast.
"Students who manage to download and install the FTP software, and then try to upload graphics and other files they created on their home computers, often don't know where to look for the files they've created on their computer. Because many applications have their own peculiar file-management dialog boxes, students learn how to manipulate files while using each program, but fail to generalize their skills and develop the ability to manage files on a system level."
This whole paragraph has nothing to do with computing, or it's ease of use. It's entirely related to cognition and recognition. Most people have poor cognitive skills. The only problem I see here in relation to computers is that when a computer performs an important action, or when a user performs an important reaction in response to a computer, the interface rarely bothers to mention to the user that this is important. Usually only destructive actions are deemed important, and comstructive actions (which are actually more important) are seen as insignificant by the user interface. We just need an interface that makes people aware of important events. But again, that's entirely related to cognitive skills. Not everyone needs to be told when they are doing something important.
I think the largest advances we will make in computing will be related to an interface that makes liberal use of "Tell me more" and "Don't show me this again" featues, which allow every user to customise the "ease" of their computer. The best example I have ever seen of this is AppleGuide on Mac OS. It would walk you through things and actually circle things onscreen if you needed help figuring out how to do it, but it was only there if you asked for it.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
If you do web design and you're good, you run it through the W3C's validator, and if it validates, it's up to browser companies to fix their buggy apps so that their engines render pages correctly. If people always compensate for poor rendering, why should a browser programmer fix the bug?
"We don't need to fix that bug, no one ever runs across it except in testing. Instead, let's put in colored scroll bars!"
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
4 out of 5 Linux zealots agree that Mac zealots are more zealatious!
I seriously doubt more than a handful of people would agree with you that Mac OS is "ugly", and it's only as restrictive as you let it be. You can patch every trap in the Mac OS, basically making it suit your every need, if you have the dilligence and programming knowledge, or the patience to try shareware/freeware control panels and extensions. I personally don't think it's any slower than every other OS, but it isn't at all responsive.
As for Linux, well, how pretty can a CLI be? As far as default X-Windows is concerned, it has that minimalist charm, but there's no beauty to it, no matter how many rancid schemes you toss on top of a window manager bloated with debug code that runs on top of an antiquated windowing system (one that, I should mention, is older than Mac OS QuickDraw).
Linux may be powerful, but it is not attractive, and it is not easy to use just because power users are finding it easier to install.
I give Linux a chance every time a significant release of a desktop enviornment comes out simply because I'd like to have an alternative to Windows besides Macintosh (BeOS doesn't have the hardware support), but I've yet to use a release of GNOME or KDE that is as usable as Finder or Explorer.exe.
But that's usability from my perspective, which is shared by the vast majority of computer users. Linux is a great server OS, and a pretty good high-end app OS, but it offers nothing to the average or above-average user in it's current incarnation. Hopefully EAZEL will change all this.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
...because only idiots use pens, because pens don't require you to learn how to sharpen a pencil, and everyone knows that only people serious about writing use pencils, and only people that are too stupid to learn how to sharpen a pencil use pens.
Ignore the fact that pencils break more and require you to sharpen them when they do, because that's all part of the writing experience. Ignore the fact that sharpening a pencil has nothing to do with actually writing. "I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
I appologise in advance for the inability to recall all of the details, but I remember a thread here on/. about someone who worked in the Macinstosh Human Interface division of Apple and they were working on new interface elements for Mac OS. One of these was "piles". People work by keeping their files in piles of paper and not in folders or drawers. You would do the same thing on your Mac OS desktop. A visual pile could be dragged out to reveal all of the items in it, and then when one was selected the pile would collapse. Also you could click on the file on top and it would shuffle through the "papers". I think this idea combined with the Mac OS X dock would be a great addition to Linux.
Linux users would have piles along with folders, and when you clicked on a pile, a bar like the Mac OS X dock would appear on the bottom of the screen where you could scroll through files like Mac OS X does. Power users would have a keystroke/contextual menu to open the pile in a detail-view window.
Another one of the interface elements in the article was the use of time-based visual cues. Older files would look aged, larger files would have visual size/depth.
Apple pioneered the use of icons as nouns (Xerox-PARC only used icons for verbs i.e. cut, copy, paste), I think Linux window managers should take it to the next level.
It's sad but true that there isn't a lot of cutting-edge work being done on the OS level in Linux, there's a lot of "we can do what Bedowsintosh can do", when what there needs to be is "Bedowsintosh can't do this". "I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
People don't just magically come across power. It's not in some hidden cave somewhere or found at the end of a rainbow. People work long and hard to gain and maintain the power they have, and no matter how long and hard they work, they don't get that power unless you give it to them.
I'm not suffering one bit from all of this capitalism and supposed loss of my freedom. They say ignorance is bliss and perception is reality, so if I'm losing freedoms I never used, that's like Microsoft no longer selling Windows: what difference does it make to me?
Most of these people are ranting because the world is changing and they're afraid of what's to come. The sad truth is that change is S_L_O_W. I'm not going to wake up tomorrow in an Orwellian novel. It's going to take long enough time that I am going to adapt to my enviornment or that I am going to make my enviornment adapt to me.
It is rather sad that Jose is protesting corporatism affecting his life, when in fact, he has invited it to affect his life. If he wanted to be rid of corporatism he and a bunch of his buddies should buy some land, and set up a self-sufficient commune. Oh wait, that means that they'd have to do everything themselves. Hmm.
The real protest is that these people want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want to be able to go to market and buy their cheese and baguettes, but they don't want to have to go to SuperMarche to buy it. It's just reverse snobbery.
Like Marie-Antoinette said, "If they want something to eat, let them eat cake." If you're gonna eat the cake, don't complain about it.
Seems to me Jose is most upset about everyone else eating the cake. Sounds exactly like the corporatism he's protesting. "I want to have control over what other people do." If you don't want the cake, don't eat it. If you feel the need, tell other people you don't like the cake, and you don't think they should eat it either, but for heaven's sake, some people don't care if it's rotten, they're just happy to get cake!
The greatest freedom is freedom of choice, and protesting to remove that is worse than what he's protesting. "I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
I want my MTV (Thunderpuss 2000 mix)!
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Where exactly does the RIAA suppose that I buy the Plasmic Honey remix of Amber's "Above the Clouds"? I tried finding it, but obviously it's only available on a single that is out of distribution. What about the Pet Shop Boys song "The Truck Driver and His Mate"? It's a B-side that you can't buy anymore, unless you scour used record stores, from which the RIAA doesn't get any profits.
I found those on Napster, and that's the only way I've found them.
There's so many out-of-print or unavailable music that I have in my library (95% of my library is remixes). The RIAA doesn't care about the artists, or the remix artists, or the fact that I want that version of the song. They just want money. "I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
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The ROM on the original 128k Mac was 64k. The ROM of the Macintosh did not reach 1MB until the PowerMac 9500. The ROM was named Super Mario because of its size.
If I was shipwrecked in a storm and suffered from a high fever while hiding in a cave, I may have a "revelation" myself. Of course now it would be called delusions.
OH! So they're Christians! Wait...
I think gangbangers make more money than anyone in the US military does.
It's not your website, you obviously don't contribute, STFU.
this is why I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE GaiaOnline. Not only is it in-depth advertising that you are required to go through, they present it in an interesting way and you get a reward for going through it. Most websites have nothing to offer and have the American False Sense of Entitlement Syndrome where they feel they deserve to make money because they put up a website.
Um, black on white is preferred because it mimics the printed page.
Just for shits, I'll throw out there that WebKit based browsers pass the Acid2 test. It would be the only open-sourced rendering engine to do so. If you are looking for a WebKit-based Firefox I already asked about this when chatting with a Gecko contributor. He said that all the "Firefoxy" things are intrinsically tied to Gecko. Camino is a perfect example of what he was talking about. It is based on Gecko but has none of the Firefox stuff because they did not want to be tied to the Gecko engine if things changed in the future.
Apparently all the impact has been CAUSED by Apple.
How do you digg comments on here? I see all these scores but no way to digg people up or down.
Are you new here? Oh, yeah.
Which illustrates exactly why girls/women are more likely to have a Gameboy than a Playstation. Women are not as stimulated visually as men are. Girls are crazy about Pokemon because it emphasises gameplay and collecting, as well as cute monsters. Most games for "NexGen" game systems bore me after a day or two because it's the same thing over and over with different visuals. Which I suppose is why RPG's have done so well lately, because there's somewhat of a story to entertain you since the gameplay is so lame. Hopefully Phantasy Star Online will pave the way for better "'NexGen" games.
I myself am waiting for Nintendo to re-release or make a sequel to "Earthtbound" for Gameboy Advance. I think it was probably the most entertaining RPG game ever: a girl and three boys save the world with baseball bats and frying pans :)
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
Some people don't whore out their gifts, hence the Open Source movement. Some people just don't respect IP. I have very little respect for it. If someone steals my work and says it's theirs, that angers me, if someone steals and alters my work, but gives me credit for inspiration, that delights me.
It all smacks of publicity. His career has been in the toilet ever since his game based on "I have no mouth but I must scream" got panned for being inappropriate. He's been labeled as racist and ant-semitic and he wants us to feel bad because his bizarre little stories that lack the creativity of Ray Bradbury are being posted somewhere. He can't sell his derivitave works, so I say he may as well give them away for free.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
According to Apple it costs $599.00.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
3DO had their system on an EISA card. I never had the card (although I had a 3D0), so I can't say what the interface was for playing games (DOS?). Surprisingly, it cost more than the system, even though it was sans CD-ROM. It used Creative Labs Sound Blaster on the card for audio.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
Now stick someone in front of a Mac with an empty HD that booted from a CD, and it has an open Finder window with an Icon that is labeled "Install Mac OS" and tell them to install it...
Now you get the idea why Apple wanted to use BSD. Apple has a knack for making anything easy to use.
Imagine how powerful Unix can be when it has a smiling face on it. No matter what you think about Apple and Mac OS Classic, you have to admit, that smiling face isn't a dumb look, but a devilish grin.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
The first problem I see with this statement (actually the implications of it) is that this has little to do with his ideaology of ease. It has more to do with the ideology of familiarity.
If I take a trip over to Europe, and I plug a toaster in, I would feel unsettled by the fact that the outlets look different. This would give me pause because I am not used to outlets looking like that, I would also doubt my abilities to do something simple as plugging in a toaster, because I had never used that type of outlet. But if I want some toast, I can't be afraid to plug in the toaster. Of course, I could always ask someone else to plug it in...hopefully I'd pay attention to how they did it, so i wouldn't have to rely on someone else just to plug in my toaster so I could make some toast.
"Students who manage to download and install the FTP software, and then try to upload graphics and other files they created on their home computers, often don't know where to look for the files they've created on their computer. Because many applications have their own peculiar file-management dialog boxes, students learn how to manipulate files while using each program, but fail to generalize their skills and develop the ability to manage files on a system level."
This whole paragraph has nothing to do with computing, or it's ease of use. It's entirely related to cognition and recognition. Most people have poor cognitive skills. The only problem I see here in relation to computers is that when a computer performs an important action, or when a user performs an important reaction in response to a computer, the interface rarely bothers to mention to the user that this is important. Usually only destructive actions are deemed important, and comstructive actions (which are actually more important) are seen as insignificant by the user interface. We just need an interface that makes people aware of important events. But again, that's entirely related to cognitive skills. Not everyone needs to be told when they are doing something important.
I think the largest advances we will make in computing will be related to an interface that makes liberal use of "Tell me more" and "Don't show me this again" featues, which allow every user to customise the "ease" of their computer. The best example I have ever seen of this is AppleGuide on Mac OS. It would walk you through things and actually circle things onscreen if you needed help figuring out how to do it, but it was only there if you asked for it.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
"We don't need to fix that bug, no one ever runs across it except in testing. Instead, let's put in colored scroll bars!"
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
4 out of 5 Linux zealots agree that Mac zealots are more zealatious!
I seriously doubt more than a handful of people would agree with you that Mac OS is "ugly", and it's only as restrictive as you let it be. You can patch every trap in the Mac OS, basically making it suit your every need, if you have the dilligence and programming knowledge, or the patience to try shareware/freeware control panels and extensions. I personally don't think it's any slower than every other OS, but it isn't at all responsive.
As for Linux, well, how pretty can a CLI be? As far as default X-Windows is concerned, it has that minimalist charm, but there's no beauty to it, no matter how many rancid schemes you toss on top of a window manager bloated with debug code that runs on top of an antiquated windowing system (one that, I should mention, is older than Mac OS QuickDraw).
Linux may be powerful, but it is not attractive, and it is not easy to use just because power users are finding it easier to install.
I give Linux a chance every time a significant release of a desktop enviornment comes out simply because I'd like to have an alternative to Windows besides Macintosh (BeOS doesn't have the hardware support), but I've yet to use a release of GNOME or KDE that is as usable as Finder or Explorer.exe.
But that's usability from my perspective, which is shared by the vast majority of computer users. Linux is a great server OS, and a pretty good high-end app OS, but it offers nothing to the average or above-average user in it's current incarnation. Hopefully EAZEL will change all this.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
Ignore the fact that pencils break more and require you to sharpen them when they do, because that's all part of the writing experience. Ignore the fact that sharpening a pencil has nothing to do with actually writing.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
Linux users would have piles along with folders, and when you clicked on a pile, a bar like the Mac OS X dock would appear on the bottom of the screen where you could scroll through files like Mac OS X does. Power users would have a keystroke/contextual menu to open the pile in a detail-view window.
Another one of the interface elements in the article was the use of time-based visual cues. Older files would look aged, larger files would have visual size/depth.
Apple pioneered the use of icons as nouns (Xerox-PARC only used icons for verbs i.e. cut, copy, paste), I think Linux window managers should take it to the next level.
It's sad but true that there isn't a lot of cutting-edge work being done on the OS level in Linux, there's a lot of "we can do what Bedowsintosh can do", when what there needs to be is "Bedowsintosh can't do this".
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
I'm not suffering one bit from all of this capitalism and supposed loss of my freedom. They say ignorance is bliss and perception is reality, so if I'm losing freedoms I never used, that's like Microsoft no longer selling Windows: what difference does it make to me?
Most of these people are ranting because the world is changing and they're afraid of what's to come. The sad truth is that change is S_L_O_W. I'm not going to wake up tomorrow in an Orwellian novel. It's going to take long enough time that I am going to adapt to my enviornment or that I am going to make my enviornment adapt to me.
It is rather sad that Jose is protesting corporatism affecting his life, when in fact, he has invited it to affect his life. If he wanted to be rid of corporatism he and a bunch of his buddies should buy some land, and set up a self-sufficient commune. Oh wait, that means that they'd have to do everything themselves. Hmm.
The real protest is that these people want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want to be able to go to market and buy their cheese and baguettes, but they don't want to have to go to SuperMarche to buy it. It's just reverse snobbery.
Like Marie-Antoinette said, "If they want something to eat, let them eat cake." If you're gonna eat the cake, don't complain about it.
Seems to me Jose is most upset about everyone else eating the cake. Sounds exactly like the corporatism he's protesting. "I want to have control over what other people do." If you don't want the cake, don't eat it. If you feel the need, tell other people you don't like the cake, and you don't think they should eat it either, but for heaven's sake, some people don't care if it's rotten, they're just happy to get cake!
The greatest freedom is freedom of choice, and protesting to remove that is worse than what he's protesting.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"
I found those on Napster, and that's the only way I've found them.
There's so many out-of-print or unavailable music that I have in my library (95% of my library is remixes). The RIAA doesn't care about the artists, or the remix artists, or the fact that I want that version of the song. They just want money.
"I don't want more choice, I just want nicer things!"