"Half the world's mod-makers are using illegal version of 3D Studio Max anyway"
And half of the world's working 3D modelers learned on illegal versions of software. I got Maya from a company that went under. They threw it into the dumpster. I ain't proud.
It isn't a bad idea; it's a bad implementation of an average idea by people beholden to Stockholders and the marketing dept.
1. There is no security model because we don't need one. What?! Well, I'm sitting here in a house, anybody who walks by is a relative, so I've got nothing to worry about there. I don't have a static IP or run a server. The network is read-only. I am both user and admin. A security model integrated into the OS would just be cruft. We don't need no steenking chmod.
One word:Viruses! Before you jump, the Morris worm was 12 years ago....
2. The designers of Windows didn't sit around making assumptions about the intelligence of users. They simply set out to make things easy. There is a subtle distinction there.
The intuitiveness of Windows is at best debatable. It is based on unclear metaphors and assumptions about what people want. Remember, the mouse was intended to slow a user down. Don't even mention the crufty kernel and really hamfisted device management. Remember trying to update a driver for a NIC in Win95a? It has only become more obvious, not any better.
3. I'm not aware of any OS that can be separated from the UI. Exactly what would *NIX without a shell look like?
Embedded devices.
:)
Emoticons only tip off the sophistication of the TROLL.
A long time ago (1996) in a Galaxie 500 called Knoxville,TN there was a little company that could. Cyberflix could and did with Titanic. This game was cool and chicks dug it too. A mystery set on a sinking ship was kinda well like Cyberflix itself.
The company disappeared. (The killer space they occupied on Market Square in Fab Downtown Knoxstantinople is still available is if anyone wants cheap rent wired.) But the game still resonates with me. It was lush and plush. Intriguing and diffifcult. The solution wasn't just a matter of trial and error. I finally finished the game AFTER I stopped kludging. Anybody ever play it? Some reviews called it the ultimate... I don't know if that's the case, but it certainly was a wee bit above DiabloII (not a troll)....
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And half of the world's working 3D modelers learned on illegal versions of software. I got Maya from a company that went under. They threw it into the dumpster. I ain't proud.
Head to Head:
You: Using the mouse, find and open a file in an arbitrary directory while at the root of you file system -- the desktop in Windows.
Me: /servers/conf/httpd.conf
bash$ vi
Faster no matter what trick you try.
It isn't a bad idea; it's a bad implementation of an average idea by people beholden to Stockholders and the marketing dept.
1. There is no security model because we don't need one. What?! Well, I'm sitting here in a house, anybody who walks by is a relative, so I've got nothing to worry about there. I don't have a static IP or run a server. The network is read-only. I am both user and admin. A security model integrated into the OS would just be cruft. We don't need no steenking chmod.
One word:Viruses! Before you jump, the Morris worm was 12 years ago....
2. The designers of Windows didn't sit around making assumptions about the intelligence of users. They simply set out to make things easy. There is a subtle distinction there.
The intuitiveness of Windows is at best debatable. It is based on unclear metaphors and assumptions about what people want. Remember, the mouse was intended to slow a user down. Don't even mention the crufty kernel and really hamfisted device management. Remember trying to update a driver for a NIC in Win95a? It has only become more obvious, not any better.
3. I'm not aware of any OS that can be separated from the UI. Exactly what would *NIX without a shell look like?
Embedded devices.
Emoticons only tip off the sophistication of the TROLL.
Agreed! The Russians were doing it the American way long before the Americans were....
Well, no. But the Underweight Lover BillyD did!
The company disappeared. (The killer space they occupied on Market Square in Fab Downtown Knoxstantinople is still available is if anyone wants cheap rent wired.) But the game still resonates with me. It was lush and plush. Intriguing and diffifcult. The solution wasn't just a matter of trial and error. I finally finished the game AFTER I stopped kludging. Anybody ever play it? Some reviews called it the ultimate... I don't know if that's the case, but it certainly was a wee bit above DiabloII (not a troll)....
Umm. I don't think Ben Franklin ever held an elected position. Then again, Dubya hasn't either.