I had the same problem... the address bar got very glitchy: I couldn't use my keyworded bookmarks, and then when I switched to a new tab, the address bar kept the same broken keyword.
Isn't all that pre-installed crap the reason that computers are as cheap as they are? I say they should go ahead and shovel it on; I'm going to do a fresh install anyway.
By that logic, isn't Linux generally for people who are too cheap to pay the creators of a closed-source operating system for their awesome hard work and dedication?
Absurdly low memory, a browser that can handle barely any webpages, and a non-standard screen that breaks most WM software... I give it low ratings too. That said, I love it just because I can check my email anywhere.
I don't mean to come across as too obnoxious here, but as far as any word processors go, my only need for one is writing papers for school. For that, I just use notepad, and apply a basic CSS2 print layout to the file.
I mean -- typing <i> and </i> every time you want to italicize something? Not to mention typing out quotation marks and ampersands as HTML entities! If you're trying to write as quickly as the ideas form in your head, having to do all this extra work would be completely unreasonable for almost anyone else. Do you put your paragraphs in <i> tags, too?
Having watched the movies, I am greatly unimpressed. The reason the Mac UI works so well is that its eyecandy is a method of subtly including information that might otherwise be lost. For instance, when you minimize a window in MacOS (if I remember correctly), it slides down to a nice little parking place on the dock. In the first movie, the minimized document shrinks down in a nifty animation but shows no relationship between it and the button at the top of the screen. The second movie solves this problem (so why even have the first) but is slow (can you imagine minimizing eight windows? What a mess!).
Similarly, in the third example -- what information is being given to the user by fading the menus? I'm not sure what it is; instead, it just looks messier, and therefore less useful.
A side note: I knew this whole "No! Vorbis is the format! OGG is just the container" idea would bite me on the ass some day, and it looks like today's the day. I clicked on the movie links only to have my Winamp playlist destroyed. Even worse, Winamp didn't even know how to play the file. Is there a solution to this absurd problem?
If you're going to allow explicit heterosexuality (what? I'm just talking about characters marrying other characters!) you can't forbid homosexuality without being bigoted. “Given that this is a game which Blizzard expects to be played by teenagers as young as 13 years old, what place does a discussion of gay sex have in such a game?” is a straw man argument.
Blizzard's basically saying, “Sorry, but our customer base has a high percentage of bigots. We'd rather lose your custom than theirs.
(Which, of course, it could be argued that they have every right to do. But that doesn't make it right.)
Unfortuneatly for our "real" situation makers of everything from candy bars to bath soap would cry foul if replicators were ever invented. "Pirates" would be trading templates for items all over the place, but the technology would be villified beyond belief.
Yeah, until hobbyists start creating and distributing item template torrents under a Creative Commons license.
I'm saying he's comparing apples and oranges, in that just because somebody owns a Gamecube and an Xbox doesn't mean that owning a Gamecube should be discounted... but you make an excellent point. I wasn't thinking in terms of cross-platform games, which is, no doubt, what he is thinking of.
This proof of Nintendo's failure seems about as suitable:
Rein then conducted a quick audience survey to find out how many people present owned a GameCube - and found that rather a large number of hands were raised.
He then asked everyone who also ate at McDonald's in the past week to put their hands down - and concluded that under ten per cent of the audience were Cube owners who hadn't eaten at McDonald's recently.
"Hard to make a business on less than 10 per cent," Rein said.
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I had the same problem... the address bar got very glitchy: I couldn't use my keyworded bookmarks, and then when I switched to a new tab, the address bar kept the same broken keyword.
Just because everybody lies doesn't mean nobody should be called on it.
Isn't all that pre-installed crap the reason that computers are as cheap as they are? I say they should go ahead and shovel it on; I'm going to do a fresh install anyway.
Users barely need to know anything about computers to keep a LiveJournal. Hosting your own blog is an order of magnitude more complex.
Anyone can use LJ as a private journal there that can be updated anywhere.
LJ's friends-only feature makes it a great way for friends to keep in touch.
- Jamie Zawinsky
- Bram Cohen
Here's a hint: they don't write about what they had for breakfast, or which boys like them.Does anybody else love the subtle disdain that single quotes give the subject of this posting?
Microsoft's request isn't all that difficult to follow; just put FreeDOS on every machine. Everybody wins!
Why would the Ugandan government buy the laptops, then trade them for guns? Why not just buy the guns?
Bittorrent? Pshaw! It would do fantastic business on YouTube!
By that logic, isn't Linux generally for people who are too cheap to pay the creators of a closed-source operating system for their awesome hard work and dedication?
Enormity, huh? If it was so nasty, why spend so much time playing it?
Absurdly low memory, a browser that can handle barely any webpages, and a non-standard screen that breaks most WM software... I give it low ratings too. That said, I love it just because I can check my email anywhere.
I mean -- typing <i> and </i> every time you want to italicize something? Not to mention typing out quotation marks and ampersands as HTML entities! If you're trying to write as quickly as the ideas form in your head, having to do all this extra work would be completely unreasonable for almost anyone else. Do you put your paragraphs in <i> tags, too?
I was waiting for this service to go live so I could recommend it to actors who want to put their resumés online. Unfortunately,
A. No tables (!)
B. It won't FTP to other domains.
Having paid close attention to the UIs in free software for the past eight years (not professionally, I admit), I'm not going to hold my breath.
Having watched the movies, I am greatly unimpressed. The reason the Mac UI works so well is that its eyecandy is a method of subtly including information that might otherwise be lost. For instance, when you minimize a window in MacOS (if I remember correctly), it slides down to a nice little parking place on the dock. In the first movie, the minimized document shrinks down in a nifty animation but shows no relationship between it and the button at the top of the screen. The second movie solves this problem (so why even have the first) but is slow (can you imagine minimizing eight windows? What a mess!).
Similarly, in the third example -- what information is being given to the user by fading the menus? I'm not sure what it is; instead, it just looks messier, and therefore less useful.
A side note: I knew this whole "No! Vorbis is the format! OGG is just the container" idea would bite me on the ass some day, and it looks like today's the day. I clicked on the movie links only to have my Winamp playlist destroyed. Even worse, Winamp didn't even know how to play the file. Is there a solution to this absurd problem?
youtube link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8mya7nD03ug&search=zeld a%20cdi
Blizzard's basically saying, “Sorry, but our customer base has a high percentage of bigots. We'd rather lose your custom than theirs.
(Which, of course, it could be argued that they have every right to do. But that doesn't make it right.)
Thanks for the tip, J-- Jake? James?
Yeah, until hobbyists start creating and distributing item template torrents under a Creative Commons license.
As I don't know what a rock-man is, how will I know if one is graphically represented well?
I first learned of the RC when Firefox told me about it. I like that.
Three D??? That's a lot of dragons to have to worry about.
Okay, so I'm not so insightful.
Rein then conducted a quick audience survey to find out how many people present owned a GameCube - and found that rather a large number of hands were raised.
He then asked everyone who also ate at McDonald's in the past week to put their hands down - and concluded that under ten per cent of the audience were Cube owners who hadn't eaten at McDonald's recently.
"Hard to make a business on less than 10 per cent," Rein said.
“As other posters pointed out, you can't realistically expect a $0 program to be equivalent to a $1000 program.”
“Equivalent” is too tricky a word to argue with, but Apache and Linux easily compete with $1000 products.