Try out MSN explorer for windows, and try not to pass it off as colorful shit in 20 seconds. We need features that read in to themselves, and a much more consistent mode of thought. You are just thinking along the lines of menu options and the like, I figure they will throw out menus all together before it over. We're stuck in a rut of old operating system concepts of directories ect when most of the world just can not handle the complexity, with all of the computing power now there has to be a better way. For all the people who will just reply, you want to throw out directories?!?, maybe not, but at least throw out the concept.
But the closest thing to their realization can be found in the new version of the MSN Explorer (code-named "Mars"), which Microsoft openly describes as a test bed for some of the.NET ideas. And one of its key architects has been Steve Capps--who was one of the main designers of the famous "Finder" file-management system in the original Macintosh, and then the honcho of Apple's ill-fated Newton personal digital assistant. It was partially through Capps's influence that a persistent media player wound up on the screen; it is also Capps's minimal esthetic ("I'm a Bauhausian," he cheerfully explains) that helps keeps the MSN screen coherent in the midst of a surprising amount of activity. "Folders are ridiculous!" he says with a snort. "Computers have 20 things that are important, 10 things you use often and a bunch of crap. Let's put it all on one screen--go for it!"
I think that quote pretty much speaks for itself. I use MSN explorer almost exclusivly in windows after 4 years of working with linux. It's for beginners but I think its great, very very simple with everything I use allready. Linux is stuck trying to conform to posix or whatever direction linux is going (Does it have direction?) while the world passes it by.
From the article: Gates insists that the only place that's willing to redefine the interface is his own company. OS X may look cool, he says, but it's "just sexy widgets." To go all the way, he explains, you have to define a new style for a new generation of applications. You have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to do it. You have to eliminate previously sacrosanct concepts and unify formerly disparate functions.
He is so right there, OSX is not exactly revolutionary, and support for things like vectors ect is not exactly what UI's need right now. I remember some stats from msft that roughly 95% of users dont use their right-click menus in windows. At first I just thought as I usually do that the world is stupid about computers, but if it's not intuitive to 95% of the world then we are the stupid ones for sticking to it. Great article...
If you spent money on an alpha but are using the gcc compiler, you are just throwing your money away. Compaqs compiler is an absolute must to attain any sort of advertised performance with the alpha. On the other hand, if you just wanted your linux box to be different, then disregard this post.
Supposedly, MSFT has defined open interfaces across all languages and platforms. It might be worth a look considering that it's open and will conform not only with outlook but every msft product that implements a calender. The initial stages of.NET should be in place by 1Q 2001. This should allow for easy interpolability(sp?) without much reverse engineering. I really think the linux community should embrace.NET, it is the beginning of the end for the OS which should be good for both sides as far as compatibility is concerned. The only problem is overcoming the MSFT stigma enjoyed by most of the community.
Yes, evil bill gates is in his cave working all the controls of the evil msft empire. Equate religion to an obsession, if its unaccepted then it's a cult. Otherwise its perfectly fine to be consumed.
People in general are stupid, France knows this and america knows this. Besides, we are not taught the past, only parts of the past that serve to reinforce our current moral stance. Do people in this country know hitler is bad or do they just repeat what they are taught. German school children sure did think differently. How could a country follow such an "evil" man? America restricts its people more than you know, only that it's subtle and acceptable. It's the reason that god is working so many maricles down in the bible belt. What are impressionable young youth; is it sinful for them to turn out at all different from their parents? As far as repeating the past, we only have a glimpse of it; it's forever lost. Freedom in this country is a joke when everyone wants you to be an american.
According to the other poster it's allready been done where it counts in the graphic libs. Chill out some you obvious intel basher, caus its going to happen.
..you license it and I thought most people on this site would be aware of that. You were and will never be able to do "whatever" you want with the software, you just license it indefinatly. I like the subscription service as opposed to buying the next version of office whenever it comes out which is what most companies do allready. As for what the open source community "stands for", it does not mean it is the way things work, only some idealistic stance.
I'm sure most slashdot readers have noticed the statistic that most users are going to LESS sites than they used to and spending more time on one site. The sites to win out are the sites that have it all, not a site just to purchase your dog food from. The REALLY SCARY statistic is that 60% of all traffic is divided among 3 websites; yahoo, aol, and msn. This leaves the millions of other sites competing for the other 40%. Hmm, wonder how long that will last...
Yea, and where are the mistakes in evolution. Wouldn't you expect a few screw ups like an extra half formed arm that didnt do anything. We'd all survive, we'd just be a little messed up and half evolved. Then theres punctuated evolution where it really starts to stop making sense.
Isn't just obvious, with all intense competition and the advent of stuff for free, the internet was doomed to be bad financially. Look at any part of it, they all must compete because of places like pricewatch.com and advertising revenue is just a joke. Theres lots of ad space, did anyone think that was a bad thing? I'm not so sure about the internet, it's great and all but it's great because its free information (music, movies, and anything else...). Anyone can compete with minimal resources, bad bad bad as far as profits are concerned.
Final note: fuckedcompany.com
...I always had headaches with my nokia 5160 after talking for 20 minutes or more. Then I find it at number 2 on the list, the high list. I complained to nokia once and it's reproducable but they told me there was no confirmed link, not responsible, ect ect. I don't know what to think, but this shocked me a little. My new startac on the other hand is low on the list, reception is a little off though, makes sense.
Unlimited bandwidth...until now piracy has only been limited by the amount of resources available, not anymore. Look at a cable user's mp3 collection compared to the guy with a 56k. When bandwith expands in the near future to make movies download like mp3s today, ALL intellectual property will be in danger. The government and others would like to think people have respect for intellectual property but they do not. Look at napster, look at the bandwidth coming; its going to happen. The internet is here, now what can we download for free?
I have seen other discussion sites do this so it is not original. I think slashdot needs an option to mail the replies to a posted comment to your email address. I know I'm not the only person that sometimes forgets to recheck answers to questions asked ect. This should be so simple to implement and there could be a limit of email alerts/day or whatever. Well?...
If you really want to get what you paid for with an alpha, you have to use compaqs compiler. gcc is just not very good at optimizations on the alpha arch. There are just not enough skilled programmers working on gcc for alpha and probably PPC also for that matter. It takes years to fully optimize a compiler plus a very strange kind of person with the dedication and knowledge needed.
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Try out MSN explorer for windows, and try not to pass it off as colorful shit in 20 seconds. We need features that read in to themselves, and a much more consistent mode of thought. You are just thinking along the lines of menu options and the like, I figure they will throw out menus all together before it over. We're stuck in a rut of old operating system concepts of directories ect when most of the world just can not handle the complexity, with all of the computing power now there has to be a better way. For all the people who will just reply, you want to throw out directories?!?, maybe not, but at least throw out the concept.
But the closest thing to their realization can be found in the new version of the MSN Explorer (code-named "Mars"), which Microsoft openly describes as a test bed for some of the .NET ideas. And one of its key architects has been Steve Capps--who was one of the main designers of the famous "Finder" file-management system in the original Macintosh, and then the honcho of Apple's ill-fated Newton personal digital assistant. It was partially through Capps's influence that a persistent media player wound up on the screen; it is also Capps's minimal esthetic ("I'm a Bauhausian," he cheerfully explains) that helps keeps the MSN screen coherent in the midst of a surprising amount of activity. "Folders are ridiculous!" he says with a snort. "Computers have 20 things that are important, 10 things you use often and a bunch of crap. Let's put it all on one screen--go for it!"
I think that quote pretty much speaks for itself. I use MSN explorer almost exclusivly in windows after 4 years of working with linux. It's for beginners but I think its great, very very simple with everything I use allready. Linux is stuck trying to conform to posix or whatever direction linux is going (Does it have direction?) while the world passes it by.
Gates insists that the only place that's willing to redefine the interface is his own company. OS X may look cool, he says, but it's "just sexy widgets." To go all the way, he explains, you have to define a new style for a new generation of applications. You have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to do it. You have to eliminate previously sacrosanct concepts and unify formerly disparate functions.
He is so right there, OSX is not exactly revolutionary, and support for things like vectors ect is not exactly what UI's need right now. I remember some stats from msft that roughly 95% of users dont use their right-click menus in windows. At first I just thought as I usually do that the world is stupid about computers, but if it's not intuitive to 95% of the world then we are the stupid ones for sticking to it. Great article...
If you spent money on an alpha but are using the gcc compiler, you are just throwing your money away. Compaqs compiler is an absolute must to attain any sort of advertised performance with the alpha. On the other hand, if you just wanted your linux box to be different, then disregard this post.
No, that just requires the right conditioning. To start and turn away is something else.
Supposedly, MSFT has defined open interfaces across all languages and platforms. It might be worth a look considering that it's open and will conform not only with outlook but every msft product that implements a calender. The initial stages of
Yes, evil bill gates is in his cave working all the controls of the evil msft empire. Equate religion to an obsession, if its unaccepted then it's a cult. Otherwise its perfectly fine to be consumed.
People in general are stupid, France knows this and america knows this. Besides, we are not taught the past, only parts of the past that serve to reinforce our current moral stance. Do people in this country know hitler is bad or do they just repeat what they are taught. German school children sure did think differently. How could a country follow such an "evil" man? America restricts its people more than you know, only that it's subtle and acceptable. It's the reason that god is working so many maricles down in the bible belt. What are impressionable young youth; is it sinful for them to turn out at all different from their parents? As far as repeating the past, we only have a glimpse of it; it's forever lost. Freedom in this country is a joke when everyone wants you to be an american.
According to the other poster it's allready been done where it counts in the graphic libs. Chill out some you obvious intel basher, caus its going to happen.
..you license it and I thought most people on this site would be aware of that. You were and will never be able to do "whatever" you want with the software, you just license it indefinatly. I like the subscription service as opposed to buying the next version of office whenever it comes out which is what most companies do allready. As for what the open source community "stands for", it does not mean it is the way things work, only some idealistic stance.
Heh, MDMA, the first thing that came to mind...shows where my priorities are.
I'm sure most slashdot readers have noticed the statistic that most users are going to LESS sites than they used to and spending more time on one site. The sites to win out are the sites that have it all, not a site just to purchase your dog food from. The REALLY SCARY statistic is that 60% of all traffic is divided among 3 websites; yahoo, aol, and msn. This leaves the millions of other sites competing for the other 40%. Hmm, wonder how long that will last...
PS: .NET excites and scares the hell out of me.
Yea, and where are the mistakes in evolution. Wouldn't you expect a few screw ups like an extra half formed arm that didnt do anything. We'd all survive, we'd just be a little messed up and half evolved. Then theres punctuated evolution where it really starts to stop making sense.
Isn't just obvious, with all intense competition and the advent of stuff for free, the internet was doomed to be bad financially. Look at any part of it, they all must compete because of places like pricewatch.com and advertising revenue is just a joke. Theres lots of ad space, did anyone think that was a bad thing? I'm not so sure about the internet, it's great and all but it's great because its free information (music, movies, and anything else...). Anyone can compete with minimal resources, bad bad bad as far as profits are concerned.
Final note: fuckedcompany.com
Didn't Russia turn in to a 1984? They killed more of their own people than the Nazis did. What ARE you talking about?
Technology is the worst investment you can make hands down. I should have bought some land...
...I always had headaches with my nokia 5160 after talking for 20 minutes or more. Then I find it at number 2 on the list, the high list. I complained to nokia once and it's reproducable but they told me there was no confirmed link, not responsible, ect ect. I don't know what to think, but this shocked me a little. My new startac on the other hand is low on the list, reception is a little off though, makes sense.
Unlimited bandwidth...until now piracy has only been limited by the amount of resources available, not anymore. Look at a cable user's mp3 collection compared to the guy with a 56k. When bandwith expands in the near future to make movies download like mp3s today, ALL intellectual property will be in danger. The government and others would like to think people have respect for intellectual property but they do not. Look at napster, look at the bandwidth coming; its going to happen. The internet is here, now what can we download for free?
Most people dream about sex and drugs in college, whats wrong with you?
Got any stats on those? I bet it's a bit more impressive. The NSA measures its computers in acres...
Got this from an earlier post on up. Winners really do use drugs. 71% of them actually...
Hd's are huge now, there really is no reason to compare 400megs to 200megs. Maybe a few years ago, but now?
If you found the site slow as I did, try THIS.
I have seen other discussion sites do this so it is not original. I think slashdot needs an option to mail the replies to a posted comment to your email address. I know I'm not the only person that sometimes forgets to recheck answers to questions asked ect. This should be so simple to implement and there could be a limit of email alerts/day or whatever. Well?...
If you really want to get what you paid for with an alpha, you have to use compaqs compiler. gcc is just not very good at optimizations on the alpha arch. There are just not enough skilled programmers working on gcc for alpha and probably PPC also for that matter. It takes years to fully optimize a compiler plus a very strange kind of person with the dedication and knowledge needed.