What about all the authors of the information these few editors are denying voice by taking Wikipedia hostage for a day? Seems like just another ego-satisfying romp by the powerful few.
While I like LG hardware as a reasonable price-feature middle ground (currently using a V35), their customized Android negates any real enthusiasm.Volume button doesn't work on lock screen? Can't set a temporary DND? Worlds most baffling settings menu? Literally a dozen useless apps that can't be uninstalled redundant with native Android, except with less features and poorer interface? Spastic colors? I"m not interested in rooting my own version, why can't LG figure this out?
Every time I buy an LG phone I promise myself I won't by another one. And about every 5 years I forget that promise only to make it again.
The flashlight app I use turns on the screen, not the camera LED. It allows for custom colors, so I can tune it to an accurate 3200K color from the default 6500K blue most screens are by default when full on (white).
I guess Pulse SMS proved there was a market for mobile-desktop SMS linkage by Android-Windows users. I've been using that app for several months because it could text from my computer AND sync between the two. Essentially this also acts as an infinite archive of all my text communications as well. (Assuming a diligently backed up system of the records created.) It's nice to be able to 10-finger type SMS from a keyboard and retain text threads across multiple platforms
I'm talking about SafeLinks. Microsoft edits and re-routes every link in an Outlook email so that it obscures the original URL and routes it through their servers. This is under the pretense of safety to see if they can get away with it. I first noticed it in December 2017 and I still haven't seen any news articles for concern, so they apparently are going to succeed.
Microsoft pretends to offer this to "prevent malware and phishing attacks" but we all know they are primarily doing this to track user behavior. Gmail also tracks user behavior, but they don't edit your email because they host the email in the first place. And yes, I know that some versions of Outlook do this and some don't, depending on your version and level. But I don't know how it is legal for any email client to literally edit what I'm sending without my knowledge, falsely mis-representing me, and breaking the legal requirement many entities have to retain data to the statute of limitations.
I used Outlook right up until Microsoft decided to edit all my email last year. They edited every single link I'd placed (often deep links to manufacturer product info because of the work I do) to their servers! I'm still shocked that there wasn't a class action suit over this. How are they allowed to edit archived email, required by law to be retained as sent?!
Now, Thunderbird. I'd used it for years a long time ago. Not terrible, it barely works for business. It's clunky, buggy, has weird fringe behaviors, and can't seem to do some basic tasks. But at least it doesn't secretly edit all my old email and new emails after I've just sent it!
On Android, still the gMail client. Tried K9 but the interface was rough.
I think they're all still the same platform. I read an article ages ago that explained how they designed their unibody to have variable width. Sort of like a commercial airliner fuselage that can grow 50% longer given enough development.
I think Honda might have been the first to do this about three decades ago when they based all their cars on just two flexible platforms. The Accord, TL, RL, TSX, Crosstour... all the same car. The smaller was the Civic and the RSX. The SUVs are similar, Pilot/MDX and CRV/RDX. They keep changing the model names to throw us off the trail, but the manufacturing is very carefully designed to minimize infrastructure, support, and design. I never figured out where the odd US models like Fit and Element fit that scheme, but they sure seemed expensive for so few units if they were unique.
The architecture profession has never emphasized grades, realizing that creative design is hardly measurable. There are a lot of successful practitioners with hardly notable academic backgrounds. Who cares if they got good grades if they can produce a great building? It is a stark contrast to the helicopter parent types that force their kids through heavy science and math curriculum, while totally omitting relaxed, creative, and intuition growing explorations that aren't as easily measured.
I'm glad to hear Amazon eschews MBA types, but I'd like to hear of other business grasping the value of a design approach. We've mistakenly use the word "success" for business that make a lot of money, but I see it defined by the usefulness of solutions, individual growth of their employees, long term (>25 years) contributions to their communities, strong consumer reputation, safety and durability of their products, and a noble reputation across several continents. It's a scam that a phone becomes unusable after three years. Is that how we define a successful company?!
Fortunately, the US is still hanging on to a culture that encourages scrappy, non-linear entrepreneurship. I'm frustrated by universities that value grades above creativity, and the current trend where our youth have to compete on such shallow metrics. (Against youth raised by helicopter parents from other cultures with no other purpose than to have the highest GPA.) Fortunately, these are short term problems and creativity triumphs in the long view. It always will. And that's the original American way. But I wonder why so many businesses grow out of this skill to their ultimate decline?
I know many SlashDot users don't use HTML email, but the rest of the world likes bold,italics, and underlines. And links.
That's where the email HTML spec breaks down. We could all use an ultra-limited email format spec that permits very basic HTML and nothing further. It depends on what your use of email is, but in my business it is occasionally helpful to use a block quote or embed a picture for reference. Think scholarly, not marketing.
I'm exactly the same as you. Pre-GNOME 1.0 I believe, maybe 0.9? I started helping Chema with graphics for gEdit. Had to spend a lot of effort getting my nVidia drivers working, too.
I've found Logitech's product quality to have dropped off over the years, so I'm not a surprised to see corporate resistance to doing the right thing.
Their 1990's mice were incredible. I still remember replacing all the vendor mice with Logitech's and being amazed nobody else could produce one as well.
These days, I still like the feel of the basic wired M100 mouse and K120 keyboard because they just work. But, WOW, do they have issues keeping the HPDE and rubber pads on. It takes just a week for the keyboard pad to flip off and only a month for the mouse pad adhesive to fail. And I recently bought a M310 wireless mouse that is so insanely difficult to click and wheel that it is unusable, even after opening it up and trying to "work" the insides a bit.
FreeCAD can't do basic drawing. It is primarily a 3D program, which sounds great, but the entire AEC industry operates with the assumption that 2D drawings are the final legal documents defining a contract.
This is the same argument against BIM. You can model everything cleverly, but you still have to draft half the sections, details, elevations, notes, and schedules for the legal 2D printed documents. BIM is pretty bad at extrapolating from model to parametric flat projections, so there's really no benefit versus using a great 3D modeler alongside a parallel process of 2D CAD.
There are no open source CAD softwares capable of producing the drawings used in architecture, engineering, design, and manufacturing. Yet, that same, expensive proprietary package continues on with the same performance hogging, unstable, fluff enhanced software that hasn't really changed in 15 years.
10K kWh per year reads better to those unfamiliar with electrical units as 10,000,000 Watts per year. When put in "light bulb" terms, people start to get just how much electrical power a single US home uses. Staggering.
You've suggested an interesting value add by integrating a generator. Combined with the Tesla battery system, the home's electrical power quality suddenly becomes UPS grade.
It seems obvious, but I don't hear Tesla touting their system as a component in better power, only green.
Literally taken, the first twelve chapters of Genesis could have been written by just three generations (Adam > Methuselah > Shem), all who overlapped each other more than 100 years and lived 500 years after the flood. Even without written language, it would be pretty easy to convey verbally, per most primitive cultures. The remaining 42 chapters Genesis would require only one or two additional generations ending with Jacob (Israel) and son Joseph.*
Also read literally, lifespans of Antediluvian peoples were 900+ years, while no one born after lived half that. In fact, Noah outlives his next seven generations, and his son, Shem, the next ten. I've never found any literary logic behind the rapid age changes of Postdiluvian peoples, the text seems to simply record this as technical fact. (Unlike Genesis 1, which has a pretty strong literary structure... three days of environments > three creatures for each of those environments, in order.)
Hmm... my experiences differ from yours. I find LibreOffice's styles very useful and predictable. I have 100+ of my business templates in Writer.ott format and they do great. I've got many thousands of documents associated with my architectural practice, some very technical, some heavily graphical. Some tips:
1. F11 to pop open the Styles and Formatting sidebar (undocked is my preference) 2. Use Ctrl+M to clear direct formatting. 3. Keep a master template of styles to re-import into the others to ensure uniformity. (Make sure to check Overwrite or you're wasting your time.) 4. Don't confuse paragraph styles with character styles. (Use Page and Frame styles for extra credit.)
Of course, NO word processor is going to do layout like a true graphics workhorse like Illustrator, InDesign, Scribus, or Inkscape. If you are looking for 1200 dpi accuracy, LO is the wrong software. But if you're looking for general office functionality, I don't know anything better, free or not. (And my first word processor was Claris MacWrite II about 1989, with long stints of WordPerfect and Word up until 2013 when I went pure OO.o/LO.)
Except that's the way professional CAD packages do it, for example.
You keep mentioning CAD software, but there is no similarity between CAD formats and typical raster formats. JPG, PNG, TIF, and GIF are industry standards that GIMP should be able to open and save. CAD formats have vectors and a lot of other information that is particular to each software's implementation since there aren't open, widely-used vector file formats.
There are AutoCAD-compatible clones that open and close that proprietary format without question. LibreOffice also opens and closes non-native formats without complaint if you turn off a checkbox preference. If you stretch the analogy enough, we can take this illustration to even further ridiculous extremes. But the fact remains, GIMP is raster software that can be used to edit lots of standard format raster files that shouldn't require exports for files opened.
If you honestly believe Export is the correct terminology and UX, then you should also be advocating GIMP's "Open" menu change to "Import." That would correctly match what you are claiming on the save side. Open would then be reserved for XCF files but everything else should have to be imported. GIMP should treat the whole business like RAW and refuse to ever save any changes over the originally opened file unless it is an XCF.
At least that would be consistent. Insane, but at least consistent.
The current GIMP behavior appears to be structured to sell the software's (developer's) capabilities over users that are too stupid to think for themselves. Unfortunately, everybody sees this except for the developers.
Engineers are responsible for the stuff they build.
Right on target here. Ancient laws held architects/engineers to the standard of an eye-for-an-eye or death for designs that failed to the result of equivalent injury or death. I'd like to see a similar system (another post this thread) that licenses software engineers and architects.
Most of the public do not realize that local authorities hold architects primarily responsible for criminal and civil damages instead of themselves. I'm not allowed to break the law, but in cases where it is vague or interpretive, my seal stands as the primary guaranty of safety over the authority having jurisdiction. "It's your seal!" they tell me.
Licensure is the public connection to responsibility.
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Feedly is a great, free replacement. That's what I moved to way back then and still read SlashDot and hundreds of other sources on it daily.
What about all the authors of the information these few editors are denying voice by taking Wikipedia hostage for a day? Seems like just another ego-satisfying romp by the powerful few.
While I like LG hardware as a reasonable price-feature middle ground (currently using a V35), their customized Android negates any real enthusiasm.Volume button doesn't work on lock screen? Can't set a temporary DND? Worlds most baffling settings menu? Literally a dozen useless apps that can't be uninstalled redundant with native Android, except with less features and poorer interface? Spastic colors? I"m not interested in rooting my own version, why can't LG figure this out?
Every time I buy an LG phone I promise myself I won't by another one. And about every 5 years I forget that promise only to make it again.
The flashlight app I use turns on the screen, not the camera LED. It allows for custom colors, so I can tune it to an accurate 3200K color from the default 6500K blue most screens are by default when full on (white).
Mod parent up +1 Informative.
I guess Pulse SMS proved there was a market for mobile-desktop SMS linkage by Android-Windows users. I've been using that app for several months because it could text from my computer AND sync between the two. Essentially this also acts as an infinite archive of all my text communications as well. (Assuming a diligently backed up system of the records created.) It's nice to be able to 10-finger type SMS from a keyboard and retain text threads across multiple platforms
Mod parent up, that's a great way to self-regulate the supposed value of the copyright.
I'm talking about SafeLinks. Microsoft edits and re-routes every link in an Outlook email so that it obscures the original URL and routes it through their servers. This is under the pretense of safety to see if they can get away with it. I first noticed it in December 2017 and I still haven't seen any news articles for concern, so they apparently are going to succeed.
Microsoft pretends to offer this to "prevent malware and phishing attacks" but we all know they are primarily doing this to track user behavior. Gmail also tracks user behavior, but they don't edit your email because they host the email in the first place. And yes, I know that some versions of Outlook do this and some don't, depending on your version and level. But I don't know how it is legal for any email client to literally edit what I'm sending without my knowledge, falsely mis-representing me, and breaking the legal requirement many entities have to retain data to the statute of limitations.
I used Outlook right up until Microsoft decided to edit all my email last year. They edited every single link I'd placed (often deep links to manufacturer product info because of the work I do) to their servers! I'm still shocked that there wasn't a class action suit over this. How are they allowed to edit archived email, required by law to be retained as sent?!
Now, Thunderbird. I'd used it for years a long time ago. Not terrible, it barely works for business. It's clunky, buggy, has weird fringe behaviors, and can't seem to do some basic tasks. But at least it doesn't secretly edit all my old email and new emails after I've just sent it!
On Android, still the gMail client. Tried K9 but the interface was rough.
I think they're all still the same platform. I read an article ages ago that explained how they designed their unibody to have variable width. Sort of like a commercial airliner fuselage that can grow 50% longer given enough development.
I think Honda might have been the first to do this about three decades ago when they based all their cars on just two flexible platforms. The Accord, TL, RL, TSX, Crosstour... all the same car. The smaller was the Civic and the RSX. The SUVs are similar, Pilot/MDX and CRV/RDX. They keep changing the model names to throw us off the trail, but the manufacturing is very carefully designed to minimize infrastructure, support, and design. I never figured out where the odd US models like Fit and Element fit that scheme, but they sure seemed expensive for so few units if they were unique.
The architecture profession has never emphasized grades, realizing that creative design is hardly measurable. There are a lot of successful practitioners with hardly notable academic backgrounds. Who cares if they got good grades if they can produce a great building? It is a stark contrast to the helicopter parent types that force their kids through heavy science and math curriculum, while totally omitting relaxed, creative, and intuition growing explorations that aren't as easily measured.
I'm glad to hear Amazon eschews MBA types, but I'd like to hear of other business grasping the value of a design approach. We've mistakenly use the word "success" for business that make a lot of money, but I see it defined by the usefulness of solutions, individual growth of their employees, long term (>25 years) contributions to their communities, strong consumer reputation, safety and durability of their products, and a noble reputation across several continents. It's a scam that a phone becomes unusable after three years. Is that how we define a successful company?!
Fortunately, the US is still hanging on to a culture that encourages scrappy, non-linear entrepreneurship. I'm frustrated by universities that value grades above creativity, and the current trend where our youth have to compete on such shallow metrics. (Against youth raised by helicopter parents from other cultures with no other purpose than to have the highest GPA.) Fortunately, these are short term problems and creativity triumphs in the long view. It always will. And that's the original American way. But I wonder why so many businesses grow out of this skill to their ultimate decline?
Hear, hear. My list of Thunderbird desirables WITHOUT extensions:
+ Export/import Thunderbird settings (accounts, layouts, etc.)
+ To/From/CC/BCC columns (currently in ColumnsWizard extension)
+ Auto-archive (currently in deprecated Awesome Auto Archive extension)
+ Read-only stand-alone (not in profile) MBOX files
+ Read PST files (currently by third party apps)
+ One-click HTML-plain text email reading
+ One-click HTML-plain text email authoring
+ Multiple signatures
+ Better lock file stability for real-time syncing while open
+ Simplification of "Extension", "Plugins", "Add-on", "Appearance", and "Theme" concepts
I don't know why [Sylpheed] isn't more popular.
Because it can't author HTML email.
I know many SlashDot users don't use HTML email, but the rest of the world likes bold, italics, and underlines. And links.
That's where the email HTML spec breaks down. We could all use an ultra-limited email format spec that permits very basic HTML and nothing further. It depends on what your use of email is, but in my business it is occasionally helpful to use a block quote or embed a picture for reference. Think scholarly, not marketing.
I'm exactly the same as you. Pre-GNOME 1.0 I believe, maybe 0.9? I started helping Chema with graphics for gEdit. Had to spend a lot of effort getting my nVidia drivers working, too.
I've found Logitech's product quality to have dropped off over the years, so I'm not a surprised to see corporate resistance to doing the right thing.
Their 1990's mice were incredible. I still remember replacing all the vendor mice with Logitech's and being amazed nobody else could produce one as well.
These days, I still like the feel of the basic wired M100 mouse and K120 keyboard because they just work. But, WOW, do they have issues keeping the HPDE and rubber pads on. It takes just a week for the keyboard pad to flip off and only a month for the mouse pad adhesive to fail. And I recently bought a M310 wireless mouse that is so insanely difficult to click and wheel that it is unusable, even after opening it up and trying to "work" the insides a bit.
FreeCAD can't do basic drawing. It is primarily a 3D program, which sounds great, but the entire AEC industry operates with the assumption that 2D drawings are the final legal documents defining a contract.
This is the same argument against BIM. You can model everything cleverly, but you still have to draft half the sections, details, elevations, notes, and schedules for the legal 2D printed documents. BIM is pretty bad at extrapolating from model to parametric flat projections, so there's really no benefit versus using a great 3D modeler alongside a parallel process of 2D CAD.
There are no open source CAD softwares capable of producing the drawings used in architecture, engineering, design, and manufacturing. Yet, that same, expensive proprietary package continues on with the same performance hogging, unstable, fluff enhanced software that hasn't really changed in 15 years.
10K kWh per year reads better to those unfamiliar with electrical units as 10,000,000 Watts per year. When put in "light bulb" terms, people start to get just how much electrical power a single US home uses. Staggering.
You've suggested an interesting value add by integrating a generator. Combined with the Tesla battery system, the home's electrical power quality suddenly becomes UPS grade.
It seems obvious, but I don't hear Tesla touting their system as a component in better power, only green.
Literally taken, the first twelve chapters of Genesis could have been written by just three generations (Adam > Methuselah > Shem), all who overlapped each other more than 100 years and lived 500 years after the flood. Even without written language, it would be pretty easy to convey verbally, per most primitive cultures. The remaining 42 chapters Genesis would require only one or two additional generations ending with Jacob (Israel) and son Joseph.*
Also read literally, lifespans of Antediluvian peoples were 900+ years, while no one born after lived half that. In fact, Noah outlives his next seven generations, and his son, Shem, the next ten. I've never found any literary logic behind the rapid age changes of Postdiluvian peoples, the text seems to simply record this as technical fact. (Unlike Genesis 1, which has a pretty strong literary structure... three days of environments > three creatures for each of those environments, in order.)
* Genesis 5, 11, 21:5, 25:7,26, 35:28, 41:46,53, 45:6, 47:8-9, 50:22, and Exodus 12:40-41.
Hmm... my experiences differ from yours. I find LibreOffice's styles very useful and predictable. I have 100+ of my business templates in Writer .ott format and they do great. I've got many thousands of documents associated with my architectural practice, some very technical, some heavily graphical. Some tips:
1. F11 to pop open the Styles and Formatting sidebar (undocked is my preference)
2. Use Ctrl+M to clear direct formatting.
3. Keep a master template of styles to re-import into the others to ensure uniformity. (Make sure to check Overwrite or you're wasting your time.)
4. Don't confuse paragraph styles with character styles. (Use Page and Frame styles for extra credit.)
Of course, NO word processor is going to do layout like a true graphics workhorse like Illustrator, InDesign, Scribus, or Inkscape. If you are looking for 1200 dpi accuracy, LO is the wrong software. But if you're looking for general office functionality, I don't know anything better, free or not. (And my first word processor was Claris MacWrite II about 1989, with long stints of WordPerfect and Word up until 2013 when I went pure OO.o/LO.)
You keep mentioning CAD software, but there is no similarity between CAD formats and typical raster formats. JPG, PNG, TIF, and GIF are industry standards that GIMP should be able to open and save. CAD formats have vectors and a lot of other information that is particular to each software's implementation since there aren't open, widely-used vector file formats.
There are AutoCAD-compatible clones that open and close that proprietary format without question. LibreOffice also opens and closes non-native formats without complaint if you turn off a checkbox preference. If you stretch the analogy enough, we can take this illustration to even further ridiculous extremes. But the fact remains, GIMP is raster software that can be used to edit lots of standard format raster files that shouldn't require exports for files opened.
If you honestly believe Export is the correct terminology and UX, then you should also be advocating GIMP's "Open" menu change to "Import." That would correctly match what you are claiming on the save side. Open would then be reserved for XCF files but everything else should have to be imported. GIMP should treat the whole business like RAW and refuse to ever save any changes over the originally opened file unless it is an XCF.
At least that would be consistent. Insane, but at least consistent.
The current GIMP behavior appears to be structured to sell the software's (developer's) capabilities over users that are too stupid to think for themselves. Unfortunately, everybody sees this except for the developers.
Well said.
Right on target here. Ancient laws held architects/engineers to the standard of an eye-for-an-eye or death for designs that failed to the result of equivalent injury or death. I'd like to see a similar system (another post this thread) that licenses software engineers and architects.
Most of the public do not realize that local authorities hold architects primarily responsible for criminal and civil damages instead of themselves. I'm not allowed to break the law, but in cases where it is vague or interpretive, my seal stands as the primary guaranty of safety over the authority having jurisdiction. "It's your seal!" they tell me.
Licensure is the public connection to responsibility.