Yeesh! No way to stroke outside or inside a path instead of centered on a path? No way to turn off the visibility of the guff that indicates the current selection so that I can tweak layout easily?
And the interface! Yet more cryptic geek-boy nonsense.
Call me when you've got a real layout program. I guess that'd be v1.0.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: one of the primary reasons that Linux and suchlike things are the way they are is because geek boys have a driving need to feel that they are part of a Secret Club that has the Magic Knowledge that permits them to Lord It Over the Lowly Others. I've been a woman programmer in IT for some 15 years now, and I *always* see this attitude -- both in systems and co-workers. It's always a real timewaster in both.
Of course, if you point out this attitude and its effect on, say, the state of Linux, they lapse into techno-rant, attempting to squash you with the Magical Power of their Secrets. Boring.
The reason I don't use Linux is that I got tired of having to use bizarre cryptic command-line interfaces to get simple stuff done when those interfaces are only bizarre and cryptic to give geek boys their daily dose of "feeling like a Real Expert who uses Serious Tools and knows all the Secret Codes By Heart". My computer is a tool, and I use it get stuff done, not to have my ego stroked.
And don't try and persuade me of the great Linux GUIs that now exist. My experience with them as someone with some experience in UI design is that they present the same "make the geek boys feel like members of a secret club" crap in a different way -- the pointless quirky in-joke. Again, I don't give a rats, and if my soldering iron came with quirky jokes in the user manual I'd find myself wondering what clown is responsible for the tool I'm trying to use. So it is when I find "GUI quirk" lurking in Linux GUIs.
I'm really enjoying living through a period in which a world power is spiralling down the toilet. It's fascinating to watch the flailings of a dying empire as they keep desperately searching for relevance and control. Keep it up USA:).
I'm *really* waiting for Civil War II: The Malcontents Strike Back.
Just as a curious aside, it struck me that a really good way to increase Firefox's market share would be to hack the Windows Update server such that FF gets automatically downloaded to all the wonderful windows users out there. You could even use the standard critical level non-description in the update box:).
How much development effort would this really take?
"He compared the impact that OpenDocument will have on regular documents to kick-off of the web with selection of HTML as file format."
What the hell does this mean? It's not even a sentence. The "editors" of slashdot have *really* been dragging their heels lately -- the quality of language getting used here is becoming appalling.
I'm of the opinion that the reason that proficiency in written English isn't really particularly fashionable in the computer geek world, is that computer geeks like things that make them feel both like experts, and like a breed apart from conventional humans. Hence English isn't fashionable as it's the language used by all of those GUI using, Windows running, dumb-question asking end users. Who wants to have *anything* in common with them? Tres uncool!
I can understand that this sort of thing gets everyone's feathers in a conceptual ruffle, but really all we need to do is wait. There have been many different posts pointing out the pointlessness of any system for media copyproofing, so what's really going on here is that some clever (and probably rich) geeks are taking the music industry for on really long ride.
"Sure. Modern computers will let you copy protect your revenue stream... It'll just take us... Umm... 6 months to write the system!"
And why not indeed? It's just another case of the usual total disconnect between marketing promise and techincal understanding, except *this* time it's the techs taking advantage.
The music industry has hated copying at least since tape was the medium of choice for "piracy", it's just that someone has noticed this great market nieche in a really large, really paranoid industry. Milk 'em for all they're worth, I say; especially if they're going to be as pesky as they are.
Whilst talking amongst ourselves is fine, why not email support@destra.com, and describe, in detail, not only the flaws in their current system, but what you'd like to see in an online music shop.
They may simply be clueless marketing types just following the standard industry line without thinking.
Here's an example:
I've just looked over the service provided by one of your online music vendors, specifically HMV. I must say, I was completely disappointed.
Why on earth would I want to pay AU$2 per track for terrible sounding low-quality compressed music that doesn't play in anything but a Windows PC? For the same amount per track I can go and buy the CD itself, and then play it wherever and whenever I like, as often as I like.
Your service needs to radically change its pricing policy, and offer a variety of quality levels of audio when a track is downloaded. If it doesn't sound as good as a CD, what's the point, unless it's *much*, indeed proportionally, cheaper?
I get higher quality music than your site offers, just by turning on my radio. And it works everywhere.:)
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Isn't this obvious?
Yeesh! No way to stroke outside or inside a path instead of centered on a path? No way to turn off the visibility of the guff that indicates the current selection so that I can tweak layout easily?
And the interface! Yet more cryptic geek-boy nonsense.
Call me when you've got a real layout program. I guess that'd be v1.0.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: one of the primary reasons that Linux and suchlike things are the way they are is because geek boys have a driving need to feel that they are part of a Secret Club that has the Magic Knowledge that permits them to Lord It Over the Lowly Others. I've been a woman programmer in IT for some 15 years now, and I *always* see this attitude -- both in systems and co-workers. It's always a real timewaster in both.
Of course, if you point out this attitude and its effect on, say, the state of Linux, they lapse into techno-rant, attempting to squash you with the Magical Power of their Secrets. Boring.
The reason I don't use Linux is that I got tired of having to use bizarre cryptic command-line interfaces to get simple stuff done when those interfaces are only bizarre and cryptic to give geek boys their daily dose of "feeling like a Real Expert who uses Serious Tools and knows all the Secret Codes By Heart". My computer is a tool, and I use it get stuff done, not to have my ego stroked.
And don't try and persuade me of the great Linux GUIs that now exist. My experience with them as someone with some experience in UI design is that they present the same "make the geek boys feel like members of a secret club" crap in a different way -- the pointless quirky in-joke. Again, I don't give a rats, and if my soldering iron came with quirky jokes in the user manual I'd find myself wondering what clown is responsible for the tool I'm trying to use. So it is when I find "GUI quirk" lurking in Linux GUIs.
I'm really enjoying living through a period in which a world power is spiralling down the toilet. It's fascinating to watch the flailings of a dying empire as they keep desperately searching for relevance and control. Keep it up USA :).
I'm *really* waiting for Civil War II: The Malcontents Strike Back.
Jaye.
Just as a curious aside, it struck me that a really good way to increase Firefox's market share would be to hack the Windows Update server such that FF gets automatically downloaded to all the wonderful windows users out there. You could even use the standard critical level non-description in the update box :).
How much development effort would this really take?
HHOS!
Jaye.
Erm, wouldn't that be a CAT scan?
"He compared the impact that OpenDocument will have on regular documents to kick-off of the web with selection of HTML as file format."
What the hell does this mean? It's not even a sentence. The "editors" of slashdot have *really* been dragging their heels lately -- the quality of language getting used here is becoming appalling.
I'm of the opinion that the reason that proficiency in written English isn't really particularly fashionable in the computer geek world, is that computer geeks like things that make them feel both like experts, and like a breed apart from conventional humans. Hence English isn't fashionable as it's the language used by all of those GUI using, Windows running, dumb-question asking end users. Who wants to have *anything* in common with them? Tres uncool!
Jaye.
I can understand that this sort of thing gets everyone's feathers in a conceptual ruffle, but really all we need to do is wait. There have been many different posts pointing out the pointlessness of any system for media copyproofing, so what's really going on here is that some clever (and probably rich) geeks are taking the music industry for on really long ride.
"Sure. Modern computers will let you copy protect your revenue stream... It'll just take us... Umm... 6 months to write the system!"
And why not indeed? It's just another case of the usual total disconnect between marketing promise and techincal understanding, except *this* time it's the techs taking advantage.
The music industry has hated copying at least since tape was the medium of choice for "piracy", it's just that someone has noticed this great market nieche in a really large, really paranoid industry. Milk 'em for all they're worth, I say; especially if they're going to be as pesky as they are.
Jaye.
Whilst talking amongst ourselves is fine, why not email support@destra.com, and describe, in detail, not only the flaws in their current system, but what you'd like to see in an online music shop.
They may simply be clueless marketing types just following the standard industry line without thinking.
Here's an example: Jaye.