Slackware instalation takes half an hour, and comes in a couple of bootable CDs, plus you dont need to take your right off the keyboard, where it belongs!
Of course, I was just talking to the parent, who said that judges or laws should decide what you could see. Who cares about Adobe? If you use Adobe it is you who are restricting your rights, at least there is the Gimp available, that might not be similar to Photoshop, or familiar to its users, but does not cut away your freedom. Some people care about features, some care about freedom, then there are productive people, and free people, each one chooses.
Kde is a bad copy of windows, ok, but not everybody uses desktops, It was nice, but many of us find no use in the desktop metaphor, Metacity + shortcuts, and Gnome's alt-f2 is ok for me, not adding clutter to my display. I too think that those attempts to mimic windows are lame (KDE, openoffice) I think time should be spend doing things better, not just as bad as they are in the MS world.
Architects and graphic artists need those things, and they need 3d. Better quality (good DAC , good connectors, shielding) is expensive to produce in a video card, and color definition and resolution are solved by dvi output and a good monitor, not just the video card. The thing is that you want a copy of your old, very expensive card, for 10 dollars, when it is on-board in most motherboards, anyway. I want a g-force 3ti for 10 dollars, too.
In the engineering school where I study, there are some old Sparc workstations with Postscript displays , and even optical mouses, from the eighties!! (the ones with the grid on the mousepad)
I tried Linux, because I wanted a better operating system. Luckily, I found GNU, savoured the taste of freedom, and now there's no way I'm going back from free software. A better Windows, or a no-cost Windows doesn't compare to a free OS, no matter what technical advance they could think of.
Not cost, ethics. There are people who value freedom, and Windows takes away your freedom, by making you promise that you wont change or share the software you use.
I have a girlfriend, she doesn't bith about me coding at night because now that I live with her, I stopped doing so. Anyway, I snore and she doesn't mind, she sleeps like a log, but my comment was supposed to be +1 Funnily trollish
I think you are right, but you just have a small misunderstanding of human perception. If you are used to shaded windows, you dont "have to read the title bar". In fact, it is faster browsing through words than it is browsing through images. Anyway, you are right in that bigger targets for your mouse pointer make you faster, and no doubt it would be muuuch prettier.
Better that right clickiing on my desktop, since I dont have any desktop (my computer sits on a plastic table). Your method would be a bit complicated since I would have to load a Desktop Manager. I use
Doesnt have anything to do with profit, the problem is that closed source is _evil_ in many ways. I am a professional developer. I work at a company that develops custom software with servlets. Out code is usually free software, although we use no dependencies that force us to do so. I am against closed source development, mostly because I find it is not ethical, in the way RMS explains it. My company does not use closed source, but it makes profit, because we make custom software, that was not previously available, but we dont like to hold our users hostage. We prefer to have returing customers because of the quality of our service and not our unethical marketing strategies.
I rather spend time running a business/empire/enterprise than configuring a computer. It is a better use of time. Granted, a system admin might come along with a new program or technique that will change the industry and make him rich, but what is the chance of that happening? Me thinks you would stand a better chance playing the stock market: just short SCOX-;0)
I dont think you meant what you said. Working and making money is not a good use of my time, at least. A good use of my time is taking a walk with a beatiful girl, and stuff like that
Bullshit. No such thing as an untrained user. Access is easy for people experienced in Excel would be a more accurate thing to say. Anyway, although those people can start using Access right away, there are lots of things they just cannot use, and need help with, like subforms, validations, and such. At the end of a six month period, these people would be much better off having invested their time in a database + php training course, than struggling with MSAccess particular limitations. And this is coming from someone whose first contact with databases was Access 2.0, and learned to formulate queries the graphical way.
There are objective ways to compare interfaces. It is a discipline on its own, not just a slashdot ranting topic.
For example, GOMS can be used for an objective productivity test, and interfaces can be tested with "virgin" users, measuring response times and such. That studies are, of course, expensive, and that is the reason why there are not many numbers available, although big companies perfom those studies and make decisions according to that.
Apart from that, I had some trouble getting used to PhotoShop back in the Win95 time, but now I feel very comfortable with the Gimp, I like the fact that I can leave some menus floating, accelerating access to functions I need to perform often. I think that it has much to do with the kinds of things you like, and how committed you are to the whole windows GUI thing.
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I think Mono is the most important open source project second only to linux, because it will make the most advanced software platform in existence available for free on unix and windows. It is also interesting that it is a useful tool for identifying those among us that are zealots and not software idealists.:-)
"for free" is not important. Neither is "open source". Mono is free software. That gives you much more than just getting it for free, or getting the code. In fact, its not the fact of getting it for free that matters, but the fact that it is free as in freedom. Of course, Microsoft most probably has patents that they can enforce to kill the project if it becomes too successful, but luckily not in my country.
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Nuclear devices with no radiation. Sounds like Saddams invisible WMDs!!
Slackware instalation takes half an hour, and comes in a couple of bootable CDs, plus you dont need to take your right off the keyboard, where it belongs!
Of course, I was just talking to the parent, who said that judges or laws should decide what you could see. Who cares about Adobe? If you use Adobe it is you who are restricting your rights, at least there is the Gimp available, that might not be similar to Photoshop, or familiar to its users, but does not cut away your freedom. Some people care about features, some care about freedom, then there are productive people, and free people, each one chooses.
Kde is a bad copy of windows, ok, but not everybody uses desktops, It was nice, but many of us find no use in the desktop metaphor, Metacity + shortcuts, and Gnome's alt-f2 is ok for me, not adding clutter to my display.
I too think that those attempts to mimic windows are lame (KDE, openoffice) I think time should be spend doing things better, not just as bad as they are in the MS world.
No one has the right to decide what kind of image I view/edit, no judge, no law.
Architects and graphic artists need those things, and they need 3d. Better quality (good DAC , good connectors, shielding) is expensive to produce in a video card, and color definition and resolution are solved by dvi output and a good monitor, not just the video card. The thing is that you want a copy of your old, very expensive card, for 10 dollars, when it is on-board in most motherboards, anyway. I want a g-force 3ti for 10 dollars, too.
something like this?
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In the engineering school where I study, there are some old Sparc workstations with Postscript displays , and even optical mouses, from the eighties!! (the ones with the grid on the mousepad)
I tried Linux, because I wanted a better operating system. Luckily, I found GNU, savoured the taste of freedom, and now there's no way I'm going back from free software. A better Windows, or a no-cost Windows doesn't compare to a free OS, no matter what technical advance they could think of.
Not cost, ethics. There are people who value freedom, and Windows takes away your freedom, by making you promise that you wont change or share the software you use.
I have a girlfriend, she doesn't bith about me coding at night because now that I live with her, I stopped doing so. Anyway, I snore and she doesn't mind, she sleeps like a log, but my comment was supposed to be +1 Funnily trollish
Anyway, the minimalistic solution would have been to kick the damn bitch out of the room, so even replacing the mouse is overkill.
I think you are right, but you just have a small misunderstanding of human perception. If you are used to shaded windows, you dont "have to read the title bar". In fact, it is faster browsing through words than it is browsing through images. Anyway, you are right in that bigger targets for your mouse pointer make you faster, and no doubt it would be muuuch prettier.
Better that right clickiing on my desktop, since I dont have any desktop (my computer sits on a plastic table). Your method would be a bit complicated since I would have to load a Desktop Manager.
I use
Alt-F2
xrandr -s 1-9
I can bind those to sawfish keys, eaaaaasily.
Doesnt have anything to do with profit, the problem is that closed source is _evil_ in many ways. I am a professional developer. I work at a company that develops custom software with servlets. Out code is usually free software, although we use no dependencies that force us to do so. I am against closed source development, mostly because I find it is not ethical, in the way RMS explains it.
My company does not use closed source, but it makes profit, because we make custom software, that was not previously available, but we dont like to hold our users hostage. We prefer to have returing customers because of the quality of our service and not our unethical marketing strategies.
I rather spend time running a business/empire/enterprise than configuring a computer. It is a better use of time. Granted, a system admin might come along with a new program or technique that will change the industry and make him rich, but what is the chance of that happening? Me thinks you would stand a better chance playing the stock market: just short SCOX- ;0)
I dont think you meant what you said. Working and making money is not a good use of my time, at least. A good use of my time is taking a walk with a beatiful girl, and stuff like that
Bullshit. No such thing as an untrained user. Access is easy for people experienced in Excel would be a more accurate thing to say. Anyway, although those people can start using Access right away, there are lots of things they just cannot use, and need help with, like subforms, validations, and such. At the end of a six month period, these people would be much better off having invested their time in a database + php training course, than struggling with MSAccess particular limitations. And this is coming from someone whose first contact with databases was Access 2.0, and learned to formulate queries the graphical way.
Maybe some tarpit resource?
The one with the biggest wife gets the biggest loove.
But you can do it standing, thats reeaaal nice.
And their asses are higher, so you dont have to bend to grab them.
Tall women rock!!
You could always move to a place where you dont have to be rich to get good health care.
In fact, they must be learning about the slashdot effect themselves, I have been getting "500 internal server error" in the past days.
My question then becomes, if Linksys had instead chosen a BSD instead of Linux, would they face the same issues?
C'mon, everybody knows that BSD is dying!
Release a new version != innovate
At least in what respects to software.
There are objective ways to compare interfaces. It is a discipline on its own, not just a slashdot ranting topic.
For example, GOMS can be used for an objective productivity test, and interfaces can be tested with "virgin" users, measuring response times and such. That studies are, of course, expensive, and that is the reason why there are not many numbers available, although big companies perfom those studies and make decisions according to that.
Apart from that, I had some trouble getting used to PhotoShop back in the Win95 time, but now I feel very comfortable with the Gimp, I like the fact that I can leave some menus floating, accelerating access to functions I need to perform often. I think that it has much to do with the kinds of things you like, and how committed you are to the whole windows GUI thing.
I think Mono is the most important open source project second only to linux, because it will make the most advanced software platform in existence available for free on unix and windows. It is also interesting that it is a useful tool for identifying those among us that are zealots and not software idealists. :-)
"for free" is not important. Neither is "open source". Mono is free software. That gives you much more than just getting it for free, or getting the code. In fact, its not the fact of getting it for free that matters, but the fact that it is free as in freedom. Of course, Microsoft most probably has patents that they can enforce to kill the project if it becomes too successful, but luckily not in my country.