The idea of Amazon not allready making a good turnover is pretty neat, yet they are obviously not. And come to think of it - I can understand why. All right, they've got quite a good store going on there, but HOW THE HELL are people supposed to find things, expecially when going there for the first time! I think if they were to redesign their site, according to a simple law of organization I choose to call "Common sense", they would probably start gaining a profit quicker.
But theres annother problem: The laws of information architecure are so simple when it comes to this: You cannot create a perfect database, whereas for each item of information in the database, the complexity of the database itsself goes up.
They may therefore be better off the way they are today... who knows?
Well, I've been a great Mp3 fan from day three, and I rather like it. Recently I've noticed OGG popping up here and there, especcially, but not localized to, OGG Vorbis. So what do I do? I try a OV file on mpg123 - and hail mary, it does not work... didn't really expect it to either. So what I need is a console player that not only supports Mp3 *and* OggVorbis, but also WMA... anyone?
In terms of technical expertise, we found that a Microsoft technician using Knowledge Base was about as helpful as a Psychic Friends reader using Tarot Cards. All in all, however, the Psychic Friends Net work proved to be a much friendlier organization than Microsoft Technical Support.
Figures. I mean, I've never worked in techsupport, but I guess it's quite annoying to get thousands of phonecalls per day from ignorant users, but looking from my own perspective: Ignorant user. Or maybe not - I consider myself pretty darn computer literate, and I've called techsupport about five times during my life, all releated to server-side problems that I had no access to fix on my own. The thing is, after reciveing thousands of phone-calls from ignorant $lusers, they automaticly go into "ignorant $luser mode" when they pick up the phone, leaving fellow geeks to be crushed with answers that don't really tell us anything... most of which begin with the words "press the start button", in which cases, I promptly hang up...
I'd like one of those, except with the ammount of dust gathering in my machines anyway, all I'd see is dust an nice blue sparks.... try sleeping with that hummer beside yah! =)
> IIRC, blackbox works well as a window manager for KDE (no you don't HAVE to use KWM), but does not fully support Gnome
That is correct... GNOME Support in BlackBox is minimal, and will remain so because BlackBox is designed for a abysmally small memory footprint. When it comes to acurate vs. inacurate comparisons, I reallize that BlackBox is a WM and GNOME and KDE are DE's, but in perspective of usability it is really simple to compare them - Users don't give a flying fuck weather it's a DE or a WM as long as it works!
Magnetic lifts are very good for this kind of thing, with the extra benifit that they can make "layout" tracks - horizontal pathways that the elevators zip into when stopping on a floor, so that many elevators can travel in each tunnel.
.. first, I have to flame the guys with the "first cocks"... stupid mofos..
I like the idea of 2.5 times the battery life, after all, it is rather painful for me with my laptop, wheras I was attempting to upgrade my Laptops system to RH7.1 last night while riding the bus home, and the frikkin' machine died on me.. vaporware some say, but frankly: I don't care if it's vaporware as long as it works!
This may not happen: I admit to not having read all the comments, but I read the article, and *never* - absolutely *never* did they mention two movies that are really good - they are'nt exactly "hacker" movies from the muggles point of view, but it is from mine, and probably yours:
The Pirates of Sillicon Valley - The story of Microsoft and Apple.
Operation Takedown - The *completelyliedupandscrewedup* story of Kevin Mitnick: the perspective of the stupid idiot (forgive my dogma) who got him locked up.... well, enough about that...
This would be like counting up the Star Trek movies and skipping out the Undiscovered Country!
I refreshed and saw the text: 0 of 1 comment.
I clicked on the "read more button".
5 comments, 2 below your current threshhold.
Bullcrap.
Anyway, so that I'm not offtopic;) I'll say something interesting.
Why would we need YAPM (Yet Annother Package Manager)??
At the moment there are RPM's, DEB's (apt) and they are cool enough.. then there's the good old tarballs, and BeOS PKGs', then there's QNX' package manager, and loads of time..
Ok. Anyway.. nice work...
One word: Generaization.
Even though some - or even most doctors are plutocratic sons-o'-bitchs, it doesn't mean that they all are. Some are really not in it for the money. Some really do have the hacker traits we so dearly guard.
Corel, Caldera?
Of course, Corel has stopped making Linux, but Caldera even has a bloody Windows-based-installation program!
Hows that for user frienly?
Do you realy think that Linus, or any person for that matter, would spend 14 hours a day working on a project if not relying on the work on that project to pay the bills? I wouldn't.
Off course Linus' situation is different - he only has Linux as a personal project (well, to our knowlage), other than me for instance - I only feel content if I've got a whole line of projects lined up for me..
Linux has to be worked on in real programmers spare time - otherwise it isn't what it is. (nobody understood that part, did they?)
Nice manuvering.. I suggest changing "flaimbait" to "insightful" on this one!
The GNOME project was IMHO originally created for the sake of legal issues with QT. KDE's decision to use QT instead of GTK is really strange in all accounts, but when you look at historical matters, GTK was just a small hack of a TK used in the Gimp back when KDE was designed, and even more to the point, KDE is written in C++, and whereas GTK is written in C, it is a real challenge to find anything in it! (belive me, I've tryed!)
KDE has evolved from a nice friendly look combining the best from MacOS and Windows into a Semi-automatic road-hog that kicks ass in every way. It still bears a resemblance to Windows, but it is so superslick nowadays that you can hardly notice with a nice theme and a few modifycations.
In KDE 1.x my biggest asthetical concerns were based on the uglyness of QT. But as of QT 2.0 everything is cool, and I for one am flaberghasted by the results.
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The idea of Amazon not allready making a good turnover is pretty neat, yet they are obviously not. And come to think of it - I can understand why. All right, they've got quite a good store going on there, but HOW THE HELL are people supposed to find things, expecially when going there for the first time! I think if they were to redesign their site, according to a simple law of organization I choose to call "Common sense", they would probably start gaining a profit quicker.
But theres annother problem: The laws of information architecure are so simple when it comes to this: You cannot create a perfect database, whereas for each item of information in the database, the complexity of the database itsself goes up.
They may therefore be better off the way they are today... who knows?
Well, I've been a great Mp3 fan from day three, and I rather like it. Recently I've noticed OGG popping up here and there, especcially, but not localized to, OGG Vorbis. So what do I do? I try a OV file on mpg123 - and hail mary, it does not work... didn't really expect it to either. So what I need is a console player that not only supports Mp3 *and* OggVorbis, but also WMA... anyone?
Figures. I mean, I've never worked in techsupport, but I guess it's quite annoying to get thousands of phonecalls per day from ignorant users, but looking from my own perspective: Ignorant user. Or maybe not - I consider myself pretty darn computer literate, and I've called techsupport about five times during my life, all releated to server-side problems that I had no access to fix on my own. The thing is, after reciveing thousands of phone-calls from ignorant $lusers, they automaticly go into "ignorant $luser mode" when they pick up the phone, leaving fellow geeks to be crushed with answers that don't really tell us anything... most of which begin with the words "press the start button", in which cases, I promptly hang up...
I really don't know why I bother sometimes =)
I'd like one of those, except with the ammount of dust gathering in my machines anyway, all I'd see is dust an nice blue sparks.... try sleeping with that hummer beside yah! =)
> IIRC, blackbox works well as a window manager for KDE (no you don't HAVE to use KWM), but does not fully support Gnome
That is correct... GNOME Support in BlackBox is minimal, and will remain so because BlackBox is designed for a abysmally small memory footprint. When it comes to acurate vs. inacurate comparisons, I reallize that BlackBox is a WM and GNOME and KDE are DE's, but in perspective of usability it is really simple to compare them - Users don't give a flying fuck weather it's a DE or a WM as long as it works!
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit ;)
GNOME? Who needs it?
I prefer BlackBox... smaller footprint.. but I doubt anyone will want to go into flame-wars over windowmanagers now, do they?
However, nautaurius is pretty cool... gimmie! =)
Nahh, the Tower of Babel... God'll be here any second *hnff* ;)
They're called magnets =)
Magnetic lifts are very good for this kind of thing, with the extra benifit that they can make "layout" tracks - horizontal pathways that the elevators zip into when stopping on a floor, so that many elevators can travel in each tunnel.
.. first, I have to flame the guys with the "first cocks"... stupid mofos..
;)
I like the idea of 2.5 times the battery life, after all, it is rather painful for me with my laptop, wheras I was attempting to upgrade my Laptops system to RH7.1 last night while riding the bus home, and the frikkin' machine died on me.. vaporware some say, but frankly: I don't care if it's vaporware as long as it works!
Hurray for lithium!
This may not happen: I admit to not having read all the comments, but I read the article, and *never* - absolutely *never* did they mention two movies that are really good - they are'nt exactly "hacker" movies from the muggles point of view, but it is from mine, and probably yours:
The Pirates of Sillicon Valley - The story of Microsoft and Apple.
Operation Takedown - The *completelyliedupandscrewedup* story of Kevin Mitnick: the perspective of the stupid idiot (forgive my dogma) who got him locked up.... well, enough about that...
This would be like counting up the Star Trek movies and skipping out the Undiscovered Country!
I refreshed and saw the text: 0 of 1 comment. ;) I'll say something interesting.
I clicked on the "read more button".
5 comments, 2 below your current threshhold.
Bullcrap.
Anyway, so that I'm not offtopic
Why would we need YAPM (Yet Annother Package Manager)??
At the moment there are RPM's, DEB's (apt) and they are cool enough.. then there's the good old tarballs, and BeOS PKGs', then there's QNX' package manager, and loads of time..
Ok. Anyway.. nice work...
One word: Generaization. Even though some - or even most doctors are plutocratic sons-o'-bitchs, it doesn't mean that they all are. Some are really not in it for the money. Some really do have the hacker traits we so dearly guard.
Corel, Caldera?
Of course, Corel has stopped making Linux, but Caldera even has a bloody Windows-based-installation program!
Hows that for user frienly?
Do you realy think that Linus, or any person for that matter, would spend 14 hours a day working on a project if not relying on the work on that project to pay the bills? I wouldn't.
Off course Linus' situation is different - he only has Linux as a personal project (well, to our knowlage), other than me for instance - I only feel content if I've got a whole line of projects lined up for me..
Linux has to be worked on in real programmers spare time - otherwise it isn't what it is. (nobody understood that part, did they?)
The GNOME project was IMHO originally created for the sake of legal issues with QT. KDE's decision to use QT instead of GTK is really strange in all accounts, but when you look at historical matters, GTK was just a small hack of a TK used in the Gimp back when KDE was designed, and even more to the point, KDE is written in C++, and whereas GTK is written in C, it is a real challenge to find anything in it! (belive me, I've tryed!)
KDE has evolved from a nice friendly look combining the best from MacOS and Windows into a Semi-automatic road-hog that kicks ass in every way. It still bears a resemblance to Windows, but it is so superslick nowadays that you can hardly notice with a nice theme and a few modifycations.
In KDE 1.x my biggest asthetical concerns were based on the uglyness of QT. But as of QT 2.0 everything is cool, and I for one am flaberghasted by the results.
Remarkable effort on behalf of the KDE team!