You have that completely backwards. The whole point of pinning is so the icons stay in the same place! And what do you mean the icons are placed next to each other? The icons for open windows all grouped by application, with a visual indicator for multiple windows of the same app. Have you even used Windows 7? Am I being trolled or something?
In Windows 8, if I search for 'update', it prominently says "no results". Intuitively I think "oh it must not be there" not "oh I should look over at the right column and see there is a category that has more than '0' to find the results.
IIRC, Win7 will display all the results rather than forcing you to switch categories.
EXACTLY! (sorry for the shouting)
metro (adj)
The the trait or quality of hidden useful functionality.
What improved multi monitor support? Maybe it's because I'm still on Windows 8 CP, but it appears no different to me than windows, other than the task bar is on both monitors (which I personally do not prefer, but that is irrelevant). Also, "I can still play my games" is not an improvement.
So what is it exactly that you like about Win 8 again?
What's with this new design paradigm to make everything hidden and unintuitive? If you wanted to redesign the start menu that's fine, but couldn't you have at least left the button that opens it? Personally, I'm a power user, so it's not that big of a deal for me to use the hot key, but that doesn't change the fact that a UI design that requires prior knowledge to use it (IE. use the windows key or mouse to the hidden area) is BAD design. There is another hidden area for the "options menu" to get to your shutdown and other useful functionality. And the login screen? Mother of god! No normal person would be able to use this crap without prior coaching, or quite a bit of fumbling around at first trying to "hack" the UI. In my opinion, that is the worst possible offense in UI design.
Go back to the drawing board and try again Microsoft.
The AutoCAD drawings being stolen were (presumably) never meant to be released to the public
Pirated music was never made available to the public to download for free either.
I feel like there is a difference there. The act of "piracy" is one of taking something that was shared to you willingly (EG. a burnt CD from a friend), without paying a tithe to the owner of that "idea." Accessing someone's private information and taking it from them against their will seems much more morally reprehensible to me.
I'm arguing that the artist deserves the right to hold a limited monopoly on their work and control the distribution thereof.
And your arguments are weak, to be frank.
I'll pick through the ones from your previous posts
Musicians deserve payment. Fuck off if you feel they do not.
That's the first "point" you said, and it's not even an argument. You just insulted people who might disagree with you.
Sure the music companies don't deserve the majority of the payment, but that doesn't deter from the fact that, if I write a song, and you love said song, I should be able to reap some reward from it.
That does not justify having government grant you the privilege (not "right") to a monopoly or control of what is essentially vibrations in the air or just an idea.
"Able to" - you don't need a monopoly to go up to people and ask for a reward. If they really like your song, they would give you a reward voluntarily without some government backed copyright. You see this with people who go out to support the bands at concerts and buying merchandise even though they may not have paid for the song.
"Some reward" also does not say it's up to government to help you collect that reward. See, it's up to YOU to set up a business model to secure payment. It's one thing if people abuse your system once or twice, but people today are finding ways around your (outdated) system repeatedly. This is no longer an issue with the people - it's a problem with your system; your business model.
The government should not grant you any special privileges (not rights) just so you can keep a bad model running.
I don't know. I'm starting to think that, when it comes to IP law, Slashdot is almost as bad as the creationists when it comes to evolution.
That again is not an argument like your "fuck you" line. It's just an insult.
No. A coder is paid up front. An Ironworker is paid up front. A driver gets paid at the end of the trip. A farmer gets paid before I eat it.
A musician gets paid a loan
As said by others, that isn't always the case. In the old days, people went with the patronage system, and artists were paid for the piecework. I'll say it again that in concerts, you usually do have to pay up front, or you can't get in.
people like yourself, who are seemingly inherently jealous of the fact that they have creative talent, fuck them over as well.
Yet another insult. First they're like creationists, now they're jealous?
Frankly, good sir or madam, fuck you and your philosophy on people who create things making nothing in the way of money and being ignored the entire way through.
Ignoring the swearing (I'll be ignoring a few more times before the end of my post, but I do hope you realize that insults don't make for good arguments), as said before: it's up to YOU to make sure people pay you for the things you make. If people can ignore you the entire way, the problem lies on YOUR inability to form a proper business model, not government's. This does not justify government granting you a monopoly.
respect that there are people who hold a separate opinion from yourself and deserve to be able to express themselves without having to worry about the fact that the people around them hate what they have to say.
Considering how you're throwing the swearing and insults out, I'd say the you're doing more hating than the people you argue with.
No one deserves payment for anything they do. You're a coder? Code for free. You're IT in a major corporation? Do it for free. You're a mechanic? Fix my car for free. You don't like it, too bad, you're arguing for it.
As said by the one you responded to, that's not his argument. I would say you're the one not reading people's com
More artists would be able to make a living wage if the media monopolies were broken up, loosing thier strangle hold on all the distrobution channels, and the services they once filled a need for be provided by small specialist companies whom work FOR said artists.
Piracy helps artists by tanking the business model that exploits them and the consumers.
What about streaming Netflix to you tv from HDMI? Or plugging in some external storage handed to you by a friend? My asus transformer does that, plus a lot more other things that my iPad does not. I do have to agree, the apps are better on the iPad, but I personally get much more use out of the transformer.
I just remembered, you don't even need to "install" java, per say. Just drop the jre directory somewhere (either extracting it from the standalone linux archive, or by copying it from another windows install), and set your JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the directory.
Does your work computer have Java on it? If so, than Eclipse runs without needing an install. It has plugins for every type of development emaginable (for example, I do my Flash development in Eclipse). It also happens to be my favorite IDE (which includes those I've paid hundreds of dollars for), so you are not going to sacrifice on quality. It also seems to be hated by many, though, they never seem to say why. Personally, it is the most productive IDE I've ever used, despite some of its minor flaws.
While i agree that rent seeking behavior is "racket," what you propose could potentially make low budget hardware cost prohibitive. At the very least, the floor price would be set by lawyers, rather than the actual cost of production.
Any religion that promises you rewards in payment as sexual slavery (72 virgins), is fucking insane! I would be very scared if these people had a nuke.
White people tend to be the ones who are almost always overly politically correct despite any and all rationale and reason. Mostly because they have a need to feel like they are enlightened, educated, smart, savvy and have their finger on the pulse of modern society. Basically they just do it to satisfy a desire to feel good about themselves and show everyone just how PC they are. Its purely just a self righteous motivation and has aboslutely nothing to do with being PC, they just want to be seen by others being PC. They are usually white, well to do (or the college kids type), smug, arrogant and very pretentious.
If they really cared they would just call them people instead of some made up title. They are usually the ones who will tell anyone who will listens that they have gay friends and will address them as such like "Oh I have a gay friend bob" or "My gay friend amy" or just out of the blue "I have gay friends so you better not have a problem with gay people because I love gay people and surround myself with people of lots of different backgrounds and ethinicities".
To me those people are just as self righteous, ignorant and closed minded as racists are. They are just reverse racists.
It's a game, not a webpage. It's perfectly reasonable and expected for it to play sound at you at random times.
What is really needed is a clean separation into apps and pages. Google is pushing for that in Chrome, but other browsers haven't really picked it up yet.
(emphasis mine)
That is an excellent point. What a lot of people seem to forget when jumping to the defense of HTML5 is, there's now more to the web than structured documents.
As a consumer, I am annoyed by the many poor design decisions in Flash, and appreciate a push to open (and enforceably less annoying) web standards. As someone who has to answer to my enterprise customers, HTML 5 is sorely lacking. It was simply not designed for this purpose.
I really love the idea of the Pepper API, and I hope it takes off as a standard.
Did you not read what I said? Our app runs better than all of our compition, even the ones written in Objective C! If I needed it to squeeze out every bit of performance, I would absolutely use Objective C. But if my app runs great already, why would I tie myself to that ONE platform? I suspect you are one to make decisions on ideology, rather than choosing the right tool for the job, so again, more money for me.
I hate to break it to you but many apps in the AppStore, including award-winning ones are built in Flash and packaged as apps.
And the ones that don't suck aren't.
We have a Flex AIR app that compiles to iOS and Android (plus all the other usual suspects). It runs better than _any_ of our competitor's, especially the ones based on HTML5. Oh, and the HTML5 based apps look like crap, in addition to running like it.
Now I realize that coding in pure native has the potential to be faster, but in practice, your developer is the limiting reagent. We greatly benefit from the cross platform capabilities and rapid development (scale-9 slicing + solid vector graphic framework+ countless other things I have been spoiled with over the years), and all without any noticeable degradation in performance.
I hope more people are as closed minded as you, because that means more money for me.
You are absolutely correct! I remember reading a thesis on this, and for some reason I forgot the main point. It described a theoretical architecture that could achieve this "interconnect," as you say. It is not enough to simply have many parallel processes. The challenge is creating some kind of message dispatching system between the processes, which if I remember correctly, would require some kind of adaptable hardware, or the ability to reprogram it's "circuit." I'm not a hardware guy, so please forgive my ignorance.
I would really like to give it another read, but I can't seem to find it any more. Bummer.
The problem is multithreading. Our brains are highly parallel, while computers are not. This parallelism allows us to do many things a computer can't easily do (for now). Neural networks attempts to solve this problem at a software level, but it's just not practical on today's hardware. We will need a fundamental change in architecture before we have computers that can "love." I don't think Moore's Law accounts for this.
I don't get this meme. Is there some meaning behind it, or is it like a rick roll or something? Meh. At least it's not as annoying as the "or vagina" posts that get modded +5 funny.
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You have that completely backwards. The whole point of pinning is so the icons stay in the same place! And what do you mean the icons are placed next to each other? The icons for open windows all grouped by application, with a visual indicator for multiple windows of the same app. Have you even used Windows 7? Am I being trolled or something?
In Windows 8, if I search for 'update', it prominently says "no results". Intuitively I think "oh it must not be there" not "oh I should look over at the right column and see there is a category that has more than '0' to find the results.
IIRC, Win7 will display all the results rather than forcing you to switch categories.
EXACTLY! (sorry for the shouting)
metro (adj)
The the trait or quality of hidden useful functionality.
Example: That new login screen is so metro!
What improved multi monitor support? Maybe it's because I'm still on Windows 8 CP, but it appears no different to me than windows, other than the task bar is on both monitors (which I personally do not prefer, but that is irrelevant). Also, "I can still play my games" is not an improvement.
So what is it exactly that you like about Win 8 again?
What's with this new design paradigm to make everything hidden and unintuitive? If you wanted to redesign the start menu that's fine, but couldn't you have at least left the button that opens it? Personally, I'm a power user, so it's not that big of a deal for me to use the hot key, but that doesn't change the fact that a UI design that requires prior knowledge to use it (IE. use the windows key or mouse to the hidden area) is BAD design. There is another hidden area for the "options menu" to get to your shutdown and other useful functionality. And the login screen? Mother of god! No normal person would be able to use this crap without prior coaching, or quite a bit of fumbling around at first trying to "hack" the UI. In my opinion, that is the worst possible offense in UI design. Go back to the drawing board and try again Microsoft.
The AutoCAD drawings being stolen were (presumably) never meant to be released to the public
Pirated music was never made available to the public to download for free either.
I feel like there is a difference there. The act of "piracy" is one of taking something that was shared to you willingly (EG. a burnt CD from a friend), without paying a tithe to the owner of that "idea." Accessing someone's private information and taking it from them against their will seems much more morally reprehensible to me.
I'm arguing that the artist deserves the right to hold a limited monopoly on their work and control the distribution thereof.
And your arguments are weak, to be frank.
I'll pick through the ones from your previous posts
Musicians deserve payment. Fuck off if you feel they do not.
That's the first "point" you said, and it's not even an argument. You just insulted people who might disagree with you.
Sure the music companies don't deserve the majority of the payment, but that doesn't deter from the fact that, if I write a song, and you love said song, I should be able to reap some reward from it.
That does not justify having government grant you the privilege (not "right") to a monopoly or control of what is essentially vibrations in the air or just an idea.
"Able to" - you don't need a monopoly to go up to people and ask for a reward. If they really like your song, they would give you a reward voluntarily without some government backed copyright. You see this with people who go out to support the bands at concerts and buying merchandise even though they may not have paid for the song.
"Some reward" also does not say it's up to government to help you collect that reward. See, it's up to YOU to set up a business model to secure payment. It's one thing if people abuse your system once or twice, but people today are finding ways around your (outdated) system repeatedly. This is no longer an issue with the people - it's a problem with your system; your business model.
The government should not grant you any special privileges (not rights) just so you can keep a bad model running.
I don't know. I'm starting to think that, when it comes to IP law, Slashdot is almost as bad as the creationists when it comes to evolution.
That again is not an argument like your "fuck you" line. It's just an insult.
No. A coder is paid up front. An Ironworker is paid up front. A driver gets paid at the end of the trip. A farmer gets paid before I eat it.
A musician gets paid a loan
As said by others, that isn't always the case. In the old days, people went with the patronage system, and artists were paid for the piecework. I'll say it again that in concerts, you usually do have to pay up front, or you can't get in.
people like yourself, who are seemingly inherently jealous of the fact that they have creative talent, fuck them over as well.
Yet another insult. First they're like creationists, now they're jealous?
Frankly, good sir or madam, fuck you and your philosophy on people who create things making nothing in the way of money and being ignored the entire way through.
Ignoring the swearing (I'll be ignoring a few more times before the end of my post, but I do hope you realize that insults don't make for good arguments), as said before: it's up to YOU to make sure people pay you for the things you make. If people can ignore you the entire way, the problem lies on YOUR inability to form a proper business model, not government's. This does not justify government granting you a monopoly.
respect that there are people who hold a separate opinion from yourself and deserve to be able to express themselves without having to worry about the fact that the people around them hate what they have to say.
Considering how you're throwing the swearing and insults out, I'd say the you're doing more hating than the people you argue with.
No one deserves payment for anything they do. You're a coder? Code for free. You're IT in a major corporation? Do it for free. You're a mechanic? Fix my car for free. You don't like it, too bad, you're arguing for it.
As said by the one you responded to, that's not his argument. I would say you're the one not reading people's com
More artists would be able to make a living wage if the media monopolies were broken up, loosing thier strangle hold on all the distrobution channels, and the services they once filled a need for be provided by small specialist companies whom work FOR said artists.
Piracy helps artists by tanking the business model that exploits them and the consumers.
That's actually good to know, thanks. (ironicly sent from my iPad)
What about streaming Netflix to you tv from HDMI? Or plugging in some external storage handed to you by a friend? My asus transformer does that, plus a lot more other things that my iPad does not. I do have to agree, the apps are better on the iPad, but I personally get much more use out of the transformer.
Yeah! And while we're at it, why do we let Muslims onto planes, when some of them are clearly terrorists! (sarchasim)
Hahaha. No. No it would not. Talk about a serious brain fart. :)
I just remembered, you don't even need to "install" java, per say. Just drop the jre directory somewhere (either extracting it from the standalone linux archive, or by copying it from another windows install), and set your JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the directory.
Does your work computer have Java on it? If so, than Eclipse runs without needing an install. It has plugins for every type of development emaginable (for example, I do my Flash development in Eclipse). It also happens to be my favorite IDE (which includes those I've paid hundreds of dollars for), so you are not going to sacrifice on quality. It also seems to be hated by many, though, they never seem to say why. Personally, it is the most productive IDE I've ever used, despite some of its minor flaws.
While i agree that rent seeking behavior is "racket," what you propose could potentially make low budget hardware cost prohibitive. At the very least, the floor price would be set by lawyers, rather than the actual cost of production.
Any religion that promises you rewards in payment as sexual slavery (72 virgins), is fucking insane! I would be very scared if these people had a nuke.
White people tend to be the ones who are almost always overly politically correct despite any and all rationale and reason. Mostly because they have a need to feel like they are enlightened, educated, smart, savvy and have their finger on the pulse of modern society. Basically they just do it to satisfy a desire to feel good about themselves and show everyone just how PC they are. Its purely just a self righteous motivation and has aboslutely nothing to do with being PC, they just want to be seen by others being PC. They are usually white, well to do (or the college kids type), smug, arrogant and very pretentious.
If they really cared they would just call them people instead of some made up title. They are usually the ones who will tell anyone who will listens that they have gay friends and will address them as such like "Oh I have a gay friend bob" or "My gay friend amy" or just out of the blue "I have gay friends so you better not have a problem with gay people because I love gay people and surround myself with people of lots of different backgrounds and ethinicities".
To me those people are just as self righteous, ignorant and closed minded as racists are. They are just reverse racists.
My kingdom for a mod point.
I have never once heard that term used here in America, to refer to American Indians, so you are probably mistaken.
It's a game, not a webpage. It's perfectly reasonable and expected for it to play sound at you at random times.
What is really needed is a clean separation into apps and pages. Google is pushing for that in Chrome, but other browsers haven't really picked it up yet.
(emphasis mine)
That is an excellent point. What a lot of people seem to forget when jumping to the defense of HTML5 is, there's now more to the web than structured documents.
As a consumer, I am annoyed by the many poor design decisions in Flash, and appreciate a push to open (and enforceably less annoying) web standards. As someone who has to answer to my enterprise customers, HTML 5 is sorely lacking. It was simply not designed for this purpose.
I really love the idea of the Pepper API, and I hope it takes off as a standard.
Shhhh. You're going to upset the FOSSIES with all that reason and logic.
Did you not read what I said? Our app runs better than all of our compition, even the ones written in Objective C! If I needed it to squeeze out every bit of performance, I would absolutely use Objective C. But if my app runs great already, why would I tie myself to that ONE platform? I suspect you are one to make decisions on ideology, rather than choosing the right tool for the job, so again, more money for me.
I hate to break it to you but many apps in the AppStore, including award-winning ones are built in Flash and packaged as apps.
And the ones that don't suck aren't.
We have a Flex AIR app that compiles to iOS and Android (plus all the other usual suspects). It runs better than _any_ of our competitor's, especially the ones based on HTML5. Oh, and the HTML5 based apps look like crap, in addition to running like it.
Now I realize that coding in pure native has the potential to be faster, but in practice, your developer is the limiting reagent. We greatly benefit from the cross platform capabilities and rapid development (scale-9 slicing + solid vector graphic framework+ countless other things I have been spoiled with over the years), and all without any noticeable degradation in performance.
I hope more people are as closed minded as you, because that means more money for me.
Don't ever go into business.
You are absolutely correct! I remember reading a thesis on this, and for some reason I forgot the main point. It described a theoretical architecture that could achieve this "interconnect," as you say. It is not enough to simply have many parallel processes. The challenge is creating some kind of message dispatching system between the processes, which if I remember correctly, would require some kind of adaptable hardware, or the ability to reprogram it's "circuit." I'm not a hardware guy, so please forgive my ignorance.
I would really like to give it another read, but I can't seem to find it any more. Bummer.
The problem is multithreading. Our brains are highly parallel, while computers are not. This parallelism allows us to do many things a computer can't easily do (for now). Neural networks attempts to solve this problem at a software level, but it's just not practical on today's hardware. We will need a fundamental change in architecture before we have computers that can "love." I don't think Moore's Law accounts for this.
I don't get this meme. Is there some meaning behind it, or is it like a rick roll or something? Meh. At least it's not as annoying as the "or vagina" posts that get modded +5 funny.