A GIMP user with a lot of experience with the program, may have the same problems when migrating to Photoshop
I seriously doubt that and find this argument a little boring, to be honest. Everytime someone talks about usability of an open source software, the OSS community unite itself under the voice of "That's because you're not used to it".
I didn't have to get used to Photoshop, I just found all the stuff I needed naturally.
Now The Gimp is another matter altogether. I don't know anyone that got used to its clumsy 12 windows that fill in your task bar. None of the user interactions are standard (Like Esc to simulate "Cancel", Tab, Space, Enter,...) nothing works like the rest. If that is the price for writing a portable app, then they might as well forget about the portability. For a normal Windows user, The Gimp is a step back of 15 years in terms of UI.
I guess it all depends what you call "Good Quality". I could not put even 90 minutes of good quality video on a CD (DivX), since good quality means that it has to look flawless on my DLP projector (Image projected on a wall, 98 inch diagonal). Even original DVDs are sometimes horrible to watch on such a setting.
But more seriously, how can you know if you post is a duplicate or not? Most of the cases can be adressed by just reading the thread, but sometimes the post you are duplicating will be posted while you actually type yours in. How do you know in that case?
For the trolling/flaming one, I agree that the Karma Bonus is already the first step to that. We just need a little more, IMO.
Yeah, while that is arguably accurate, sometimes you just discover that your post is a duplicate of an earlier one just a few minutes after posting. Then you might want to go back to yours and shoot it down in flames...
On a slightly offtopic note, I think slashcode should allow us to mod down our own posts. I mean, when I'm trolling or flaming, I do it knowingly (most of the time at least). If I could already mod myself down, it would be beneficial so that the moderators are not disturbed by my post. They would save their mod points to mod up interesting content instead of modding down garbage.
Well, I would add that any patent that would be refuted/dismissed should see its applicant pay for all the fees involved. And if you can prove in 30 seconds that half a million implementations of prior art are available since more than 20 years to anyone that own more than $100, there should be a $1 million fine for "active bullshitting".
Well, maybe you should re-read my post. While it is pretty close for NTSC titles, it is a hell of a lot worse with PAL titles, which doesn't have a 480 px height but a 576px height. If the X1 crops your picture, you end up seeing 50% of your movie. I certainly hope that's not the case...
The main reason people dislike 800x600 is because it is lower than the native resolution of a DVD.
DVDs are 720x576 (PAL DVDs at least) and if you have a 16:9 title (most of them), the picture will be enlarged to 800 in width and black bars will be created to reform the original aspect ration. Hence the DVD will be squeezed in 450 pixels height. That's even less than an NTSC title!
I don't think so. Cars are not a commodity like cellphones or other gadgets. You can actually kill people with it.
Now I'm not saying everyone having a deadly accident should be banned for life. But going at 3X the speed limit and not even releasing the gas pedal before impact with a real person is a bit irresponsible to me.
Talk about this being extreme to the poor victim's wife and kids...
Well, funny that you think this is a strength. This is IMO the main weakness of all Unix based systems. Too many options means you can be familiar 100% with your system, and yet you won't be able to operate (well) another Linux, because things are so different. Hence the difficulty to debug your mom's Linux on the phone because your freaking brother installed it and he's on vacation right now, so you have no clue how to drive your mom through the command line stuff. With Windows, if she has a Win98 and you too, you're on the same page. It basically boils down to:
If you want a huge userbase, and a lot of knowledge of your system spread around, present a homogen system. Heterogen system will look (from Joes SixPack's point of view) as different systems, and he will be - rightfully - scared. Joe Sixpack wants a system that works. Not a tetrazillion of options and choices. Joe is scared by choices by nature.
What kind of bias trying to sell you report afterward would force?
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You are amazingly out of the real world.
Then it's broken. I don't have lots of sympathy for those that implement part of TCP
When you are a broadcaster, what matters to you is not the purity of the implementation of the TCP stack of your listener, but the fact that most people can listen to you. If you tell me: "Let's use multicast. Win people cannot listen, but we don't care, they are just using broken stuff. I don't care if they are 98% of your audience", then you are way off in terms of business. People will just laugh at you if they are in the mood, otherwise they'll just throw you out of the door.
This is not a matter of how pure and well written your TCP stack is, but a matter of business people trying to reach the greatest audience.
you can kick off a new stream every MINUTE
I didn't get that, can you elaborate? I mean, there is 60 minutes in an hour so how come after ten hours you don't have 600 streams?
Well, I will tend to disagree here. I'd say that the content is necessary. And for this project to succeed, it will need to have a lot more than just raw, uncut content.
Some content are so ugly that no one would read them. And it is not a new tendency to overlook the presentation, as if it was secondary. That's probably one aspect where Microsoft widely dominates everything else, OSS included.
Although Mac OS 6 was notably faster than Windows, it can't be really compared to for the following reasons: 1. It did not run on cheap hardware. 2. Its application base was notoriously smaller than Windows, although not that small 3. It's development APIs were tightly locked-up. This hasn't changed either, as Apple wants to retain a good control over what runs on their HW/SW. This leads to a few controlled app enhancing greatly the stability of the system, since there is no crappy stuff running (or few). I know that Word for mac was one of these bad apps crashing the whole Mac OS in no time, highlighting the fact that Mac OS and Windows were both based on cooperative multitasking, inherently unsafe with any unsafe app.
BTW, I've had a bunch of MacOS6 on my hands and crashes were as frequent as with Windows, but maybe it's just me...
While what you're saying is true, please just point to me another OS (Or let's say windows manager ?) that would give approx the same features as Windows 3.0 at the same time.
Got it? ok, now was it any better? No. None of them. So what exactly do you have to bash over 3.0?
Don't get me wrong, Windows 3.x was a horrible piece of crap. But it wasn't much worse than its competitors.
Do you know what you are talking about? C# was inspired by Java, sme part of the.Net framework was inpired by the J2EE, and visual studio is a visual development environment, how could it have been inspired by a server platform?
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Is it a good idea to buy anything that's in beta?
You can buy anything. It is a good idea if you want it hard enough.
Couldn't Google just wipe out all of the beta accounts when the service starts up?
This guy is kidding, right?
A GIMP user with a lot of experience with the program, may have the same problems when migrating to Photoshop
...) nothing works like the rest. If that is the price for writing a portable app, then they might as well forget about the portability. For a normal Windows user, The Gimp is a step back of 15 years in terms of UI.
I seriously doubt that and find this argument a little boring, to be honest. Everytime someone talks about usability of an open source software, the OSS community unite itself under the voice of "That's because you're not used to it".
I didn't have to get used to Photoshop, I just found all the stuff I needed naturally.
Now The Gimp is another matter altogether. I don't know anyone that got used to its clumsy 12 windows that fill in your task bar. None of the user interactions are standard (Like Esc to simulate "Cancel", Tab, Space, Enter,
I guess it all depends what you call "Good Quality". I could not put even 90 minutes of good quality video on a CD (DivX), since good quality means that it has to look flawless on my DLP projector (Image projected on a wall, 98 inch diagonal). Even original DVDs are sometimes horrible to watch on such a setting.
Wow! AC tells me I'm a smart guy! Interesting.
But more seriously, how can you know if you post is a duplicate or not? Most of the cases can be adressed by just reading the thread, but sometimes the post you are duplicating will be posted while you actually type yours in. How do you know in that case?
For the trolling/flaming one, I agree that the Karma Bonus is already the first step to that. We just need a little more, IMO.
Yeah, while that is arguably accurate, sometimes you just discover that your post is a duplicate of an earlier one just a few minutes after posting. Then you might want to go back to yours and shoot it down in flames...
On a slightly offtopic note, I think slashcode should allow us to mod down our own posts. I mean, when I'm trolling or flaming, I do it knowingly (most of the time at least). If I could already mod myself down, it would be beneficial so that the moderators are not disturbed by my post. They would save their mod points to mod up interesting content instead of modding down garbage.
Well, I would add that any patent that would be refuted/dismissed should see its applicant pay for all the fees involved. And if you can prove in 30 seconds that half a million implementations of prior art are available since more than 20 years to anyone that own more than $100, there should be a $1 million fine for "active bullshitting".
Well, maybe you should re-read my post. While it is pretty close for NTSC titles, it is a hell of a lot worse with PAL titles, which doesn't have a 480 px height but a 576px height. If the X1 crops your picture, you end up seeing 50% of your movie. I certainly hope that's not the case...
The main reason people dislike 800x600 is because it is lower than the native resolution of a DVD.
DVDs are 720x576 (PAL DVDs at least) and if you have a 16:9 title (most of them), the picture will be enlarged to 800 in width and black bars will be created to reform the original aspect ration. Hence the DVD will be squeezed in 450 pixels height. That's even less than an NTSC title!
Most of the French were happy to welcome and serve their new German overlords
Happy, or scared enough to shut up and say hello?
Maginal Line
Notice how by removing the two legs from the M, you get Vaginal Line.
More seriously though, it is the Maginot Line. That way, not only you get your facts straight, but you also avoid bad jokes such as the one above.
I don't think so. Cars are not a commodity like cellphones or other gadgets. You can actually kill people with it.
Now I'm not saying everyone having a deadly accident should be banned for life. But going at 3X the speed limit and not even releasing the gas pedal before impact with a real person is a bit irresponsible to me.
Talk about this being extreme to the poor victim's wife and kids...
The problem with Iomega is usually the price of their devices/media. Not mentionning the lack of interoperability and the proprietary aspect of it...
How many Windows are there? How many Unix/Linux variants?
I think you get my point now. 10 vs 1/2 million.
One of the strengths of Linux is options
Well, funny that you think this is a strength. This is IMO the main weakness of all Unix based systems. Too many options means you can be familiar 100% with your system, and yet you won't be able to operate (well) another Linux, because things are so different. Hence the difficulty to debug your mom's Linux on the phone because your freaking brother installed it and he's on vacation right now, so you have no clue how to drive your mom through the command line stuff. With Windows, if she has a Win98 and you too, you're on the same page. It basically boils down to:
If you want a huge userbase, and a lot of knowledge of your system spread around, present a homogen system. Heterogen system will look (from Joes SixPack's point of view) as different systems, and he will be - rightfully - scared. Joe Sixpack wants a system that works. Not a tetrazillion of options and choices. Joe is scared by choices by nature.
I, however, am unlikely to have a GBP 8,000,000.00 house
And why not? Here, in the silicon valley, I can assure you that some people live in US$>10M houses.
Dammit! Just one character missing and the whole sentence is just gone!
:-D
What kind of bias trying to sell your report afterward would force?
See? It all makes sense now!
What kind of bias trying to sell you report afterward would force?
You are amazingly out of the real world.
Then it's broken. I don't have lots of sympathy for those that implement part of TCP
When you are a broadcaster, what matters to you is not the purity of the implementation of the TCP stack of your listener, but the fact that most people can listen to you. If you tell me: "Let's use multicast. Win people cannot listen, but we don't care, they are just using broken stuff. I don't care if they are 98% of your audience", then you are way off in terms of business. People will just laugh at you if they are in the mood, otherwise they'll just throw you out of the door.
This is not a matter of how pure and well written your TCP stack is, but a matter of business people trying to reach the greatest audience.
you can kick off a new stream every MINUTE
I didn't get that, can you elaborate? I mean, there is 60 minutes in an hour so how come after ten hours you don't have 600 streams?
Obviously content is the most important thing
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Well, I will tend to disagree here. I'd say that the content is necessary. And for this project to succeed, it will need to have a lot more than just raw, uncut content.
Some content are so ugly that no one would read them. And it is not a new tendency to overlook the presentation, as if it was secondary. That's probably one aspect where Microsoft widely dominates everything else, OSS included.
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They did cost a lot too.
Yeah, but a lot less than macs.
Although Mac OS 6 was notably faster than Windows, it can't be really compared to for the following reasons:
1. It did not run on cheap hardware.
2. Its application base was notoriously smaller than Windows, although not that small
3. It's development APIs were tightly locked-up. This hasn't changed either, as Apple wants to retain a good control over what runs on their HW/SW. This leads to a few controlled app enhancing greatly the stability of the system, since there is no crappy stuff running (or few). I know that Word for mac was one of these bad apps crashing the whole Mac OS in no time, highlighting the fact that Mac OS and Windows were both based on cooperative multitasking, inherently unsafe with any unsafe app.
BTW, I've had a bunch of MacOS6 on my hands and crashes were as frequent as with Windows, but maybe it's just me...
While what you're saying is true, please just point to me another OS (Or let's say windows manager ?) that would give approx the same features as Windows 3.0 at the same time.
Got it? ok, now was it any better?
No. None of them. So what exactly do you have to bash over 3.0?
Don't get me wrong, Windows 3.x was a horrible piece of crap. But it wasn't much worse than its competitors.
The Visual IDEs pre-date Java.
Yes, and the sky is blue. Do you have a point, or is that just a random statement?
Do you know what you are talking about? C# was inspired by Java, sme part of the .Net framework was inpired by the J2EE, and visual studio is a visual development environment, how could it have been inspired by a server platform?