It would make a good deal of sense if you followed common UI design critera. A reasonable number of computer users have some sort of colorblindness and as such it is usually a good idea to design applications to not depend solely on color.
It works fine to not lock files if you can merge the (usually minor) overlap later, but in the case of say word documents, being binary, you can't really merge changes (easily) and thus locking is neccesary.
You might like to check out the specs on Bluetooth a little more carefully. It is so low-bandwidth you'd be lucky to stream a high quality MP3 over it.
> Yes, a metal detector at the door would have
> stopped McVeigh from driving the truck into the
> garage
Hold on, you're trying to tell me that a metal detector around the entrance to a parking garage (assuming he drove it into it) would be of any use whatsoever? Every car passing through is composed largely of metal. (And the bomb he used was largely NOT!)
Well, you got it half right. The people in this experiment wore glasses that flipped the image going to the eye so it was right side up in the retina. Like you said.
The interesting part was that their brains simply saw everything as upside down for a while, somewhere on the scale of a few weeks. The people wearing them just lived with seeing things upside down. Then, reasonably quickly, they adjusted such that their brains decided that it was dumb to be seeing things upside down, and they felt like everything was right-side-up again eventually.
But then, after they had become acclimated, taking the glasses off made everything seem upside down again. More a case of the adaptability of the brain than anything else.
But at the same time, does RedHat have to abandon standards and make itself incompatible with the rest of the Linux community? Its annoying!:)
Yes, of course!
Red Hat is a business, and thus wishes to make itself "better" in a way that customers will buy over a competing distribution. The only way to be "better" is to be different, for the most part. If you went to the store to buy wine, for example, and all the companies used the same grapes from the same vineyard, aged in the same materials, and packaged similarly, would you have a brand preference? Probably not as strong of one. All the wine would taste the same. You would differentiate on things unrelated to the product itself, such as price.
Red Hat does not want to become a "commodity Linux" player, but instead wants to stand out as a product that is buyable not because it is "Linux" but because it is "Red Hat". If Redhat was just selling Debian on a CD, could they charge 80 dollars? Of course not! They would have to compete directly with other cheap sellers.
This is not to say that this is wrong, however. Does X have Windows NT compatibility? Is it broken that way? Sometimes a better product needs to break the rules to get that way.
Exactly. Look is important, and that is what Style Sheets are there to fix. HTML is not designed nor supposed to do any of the nifty crap that it currently is.
Just because everyone abuses it dosen't make it right. There are now alternatives (CSS) that should be used instead of screwing up the HTML layout.
I think this article is much less a critique of Open Source than a critical look at how well business can exploit it. Thankfully, from my perspective at least, the consensus in this article seems to be: "Open Source works, for the most part, but don't expect to be able to somehow magically use it to make a lot of money for yourself"
This is great. I think that if business wants to use OSS techniques to be more profitable, thats fine, but they should be dissuaded from simply trying to profit-monger.
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It would make a good deal of sense if you followed common UI design critera. A reasonable number of computer users have some sort of colorblindness and as such it is usually a good idea to design applications to not depend solely on color.
It works fine to not lock files if you can merge the (usually minor) overlap later, but in the case of say word documents, being binary, you can't really merge changes (easily) and thus locking is neccesary.
Um,
You might like to check out the specs on Bluetooth a little more carefully. It is so low-bandwidth you'd be lucky to stream a high quality MP3 over it.
> Yes, a metal detector at the door would have
> stopped McVeigh from driving the truck into the
> garage
Hold on, you're trying to tell me that a metal detector around the entrance to a parking garage (assuming he drove it into it) would be of any use whatsoever? Every car passing through is composed largely of metal. (And the bomb he used was largely NOT!)
Sure, if you got a patent on it. That's the whole point of a patent.
Well, you got it half right. The people in this experiment wore glasses that flipped the image going to the eye so it was right side up in the retina. Like you said.
The interesting part was that their brains simply saw everything as upside down for a while, somewhere on the scale of a few weeks. The people wearing them just lived with seeing things upside down. Then, reasonably quickly, they adjusted such that their brains decided that it was dumb to be seeing things upside down, and they felt like everything was right-side-up again eventually.
But then, after they had become acclimated, taking the glasses off made everything seem upside down again. More a case of the adaptability of the brain than anything else.
What point are you trying to make? I think watching TV for 4 hours a day (1/6 of your life!) qualifies as unhealthy also.
But at the same time, does RedHat have to abandon standards and make itself incompatible with the rest of the Linux community? Its annoying! :)
Yes, of course!
Red Hat is a business, and thus wishes to make itself "better" in a way that customers will buy over a competing distribution. The only way to be "better" is to be different, for the most part. If you went to the store to buy wine, for example, and all the companies used the same grapes from the same vineyard, aged in the same materials, and packaged similarly, would you have a brand preference? Probably not as strong of one. All the wine would taste the same. You would differentiate on things unrelated to the product itself, such as price.
Red Hat does not want to become a "commodity Linux" player, but instead wants to stand out as a product that is buyable not because it is "Linux" but because it is "Red Hat". If Redhat was just selling Debian on a CD, could they charge 80 dollars? Of course not! They would have to compete directly with other cheap sellers.
This is not to say that this is wrong, however. Does X have Windows NT compatibility? Is it broken that way? Sometimes a better product needs to break the rules to get that way.
Exactly. Look is important, and that is what Style Sheets are there to fix. HTML is not designed nor supposed to do any of the nifty crap that it currently is.
Just because everyone abuses it dosen't make it right. There are now alternatives (CSS) that should be used instead of screwing up the HTML layout.
I think this article is much less a critique of Open Source than a critical look at how well business can exploit it. Thankfully, from my perspective at least, the consensus in this article seems to be: "Open Source works, for the most part, but don't expect to be able to somehow magically use it to make a lot of money for yourself"
This is great. I think that if business wants to use OSS techniques to be more profitable, thats fine, but they should be dissuaded from simply trying to profit-monger.