I prefer multiple monitors with multiple windows on each monitor. And none of them maximized.
And there you go -- at the point where you're maximizing all your windows, do you really even need the option not to maximize them anymore?
Call this a crazy prediction of the future, but one of these days instead of opening a new tab on your browser we'll all just pull out another laptop/screen/tablet/whatever and load the URL on that.
The problem of having all these different windows is managing them. It's like having a tiny desk with a hundred sheets of paper on top of one another, except those pieces of paper are resizable and highly mutable. Occasionally a post-it note appears out of nowhere on top of your mess to remind you to update your virus scanner.
Can't say I think Gnome 3 or any of these newer UIs are perfect. It's pretty obvious they're not. But at least folks like Gnome are willing to take a chance and try to make something better than what we have.
Shouldn't free/open source be about innovation? Or would we rather just make clones of last year's commercial software?
Plenty of people use tablets and phones that don't have multiple windows. And not to sound like an old fart, but let's not forget that up until the mid 80's most computers barely had any multi-tasking at all, let alone multiple windows.
And what do multiple windows really give you? Inefficient usage of your screen? The hassle of dragging titlebars and fiddling with window grips? A paradigm where dragging and dropping an object causes an unpredictable IPC interaction?
Seems to me multiple windows is more of a bug than a feature.
The problem with that is it's really obnoxious. Ever try to sell something on Craigslist? Or find a job on there?
Every time I've tried, 9/10 of the responses were scams. Not saying it wasn't pretty obvious -- Yeah, like you really want to pay $60 to ship a broken telescope and pay via Western Union? Please -- but it's more the annoyance factor. Who wants to wade through scam after scam just to weed out the real deals?
On the flip side, you get false positives as well. Hell, I've had people on Craigslist accuse me of scamming for a variety of bizarre and incomprehensible reasons.
No moderation system is perfect; but it's not hard to do better than a free-for-all.
Right, because there's absolutely nothing arcane or overly complex about having to open a terminal window, read a bunch of man pages, and then issue two commands with various flags just to mount a disk image.
Apparently actual classrooms are using it in an "inverted" model, where students watch the lectures at home and then do work in class. That way the students are already prepared to understand the classroom assignments, and if they need help the teacher is there for them.
Would be interesting to see if this model works for every subject and with every lecturer, or if there's something particularly good about Khan's lessons.
Speaking as someone who took a class about the myth of Faust, I can tell you in my expert opinion that my notes and papers from that course were lost when a brownout fried my hard drives. Damn! If only I'd sold my soul to a cloud backup service.
But this sounds more like a modernized, snoopier incarnation of AllAdvantage than a genuine Faustian bargain; particularly because you can quit whenever you want.
I'm typing this on a MacBook Air, which gets about 3x the battery life of my previous laptop. And the room I'm in has CFL bulbs which are about 1/4 as power hungry as the old fashioned bulbs.
So no, newer electronics don't *always* use more power.
In an ideal world there's no difference between what a software does and what it's supposed to do. But in the real world any non-trivial software will be imperfect.
Developers shouldn't be in a situation where they rely on unintended quirks in external code or file formats. You don't want someone else's bugfix to become your bug; that's why "real" documentation is so important. Looking at the code doesn't cut it.
It's interesting to see how a government defines what "open source" means. Some of the wording might actually restrict certain packages, for example:
Is documented, so that anyone can write software that can read and interpret the complete semantics of any data file stored in the data format;
As a professional open source developer myself, I have to admit that documentation isn't often a strong point of open source, and internal file formats are no exception.
Look at Trader Joe's. Sure, you can buy all that stuff elsewhere but it's cheaper because it's a "house brand." If Target can do this, more power to 'em.
Did you even read the article in question? It's just a re-hash of a press release, written by someone who doesn't seem to understand how any of these newfangled gadgets work.
Here, this is a quote from the article. See if you can read it without facepalming:
A study published this month by Arieso, an Atlanta firm that specializes in mobile networks, found that the Siri-equipped iPhone 4S uses twice as much data as does the plain old iPhone 4 and nearly three times as much as does the iPhone 3G. The new phone requires far more data than most other advanced smartphones, which are pretty data-intensive themselves, The Post has reported.
To continue with the author's car analogy, blaming your new phone for the fact that you download more with it is like blaming your car for a parking ticket. It's not the phone, it's the user.
Hell, if the author had bothered reading the study he linked to, he'd know the study was about data usage vs. phones. The summary page doesn't even mention Siri.
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By your definition, both slapstick and knock-knock jokes qualify as irony.
I believe what you mean to type was: "It's like RAAAAAEEEEYYYAAAAAAAAAAAIIN... on your wedding day!"
Lawyers maybe, but they lost nearly half a billion in Q4 alone.
And there you go -- at the point where you're maximizing all your windows, do you really even need the option not to maximize them anymore?
Call this a crazy prediction of the future, but one of these days instead of opening a new tab on your browser we'll all just pull out another laptop/screen/tablet/whatever and load the URL on that.
The problem of having all these different windows is managing them. It's like having a tiny desk with a hundred sheets of paper on top of one another, except those pieces of paper are resizable and highly mutable. Occasionally a post-it note appears out of nowhere on top of your mess to remind you to update your virus scanner.
Can't say I think Gnome 3 or any of these newer UIs are perfect. It's pretty obvious they're not. But at least folks like Gnome are willing to take a chance and try to make something better than what we have.
Shouldn't free/open source be about innovation? Or would we rather just make clones of last year's commercial software?
Plenty of people use tablets and phones that don't have multiple windows. And not to sound like an old fart, but let's not forget that up until the mid 80's most computers barely had any multi-tasking at all, let alone multiple windows.
And what do multiple windows really give you? Inefficient usage of your screen? The hassle of dragging titlebars and fiddling with window grips? A paradigm where dragging and dropping an object causes an unpredictable IPC interaction?
Seems to me multiple windows is more of a bug than a feature.
Wait, wait? You mean to tell me you leave your repo writable to everyone on the internet with no registration required?
Because if you don't, then we're not talking about the same thing at all.
The problem with that is it's really obnoxious. Ever try to sell something on Craigslist? Or find a job on there?
Every time I've tried, 9/10 of the responses were scams. Not saying it wasn't pretty obvious -- Yeah, like you really want to pay $60 to ship a broken telescope and pay via Western Union? Please -- but it's more the annoyance factor. Who wants to wade through scam after scam just to weed out the real deals?
On the flip side, you get false positives as well. Hell, I've had people on Craigslist accuse me of scamming for a variety of bizarre and incomprehensible reasons.
No moderation system is perfect; but it's not hard to do better than a free-for-all.
Let's also not forget all the other ways GoDaddy sucks:
So fuck GoDaddy. There's plenty of registrars with better service that cost less anyway.
Right, because there's absolutely nothing arcane or overly complex about having to open a terminal window, read a bunch of man pages, and then issue two commands with various flags just to mount a disk image.
The recent Wired article about Khan Academy makes me think there's a bit more to it than that.
Apparently actual classrooms are using it in an "inverted" model, where students watch the lectures at home and then do work in class. That way the students are already prepared to understand the classroom assignments, and if they need help the teacher is there for them.
Would be interesting to see if this model works for every subject and with every lecturer, or if there's something particularly good about Khan's lessons.
Speaking as someone who took a class about the myth of Faust, I can tell you in my expert opinion that my notes and papers from that course were lost when a brownout fried my hard drives. Damn! If only I'd sold my soul to a cloud backup service.
But this sounds more like a modernized, snoopier incarnation of AllAdvantage than a genuine Faustian bargain; particularly because you can quit whenever you want.
You can always wait for the next version, but at some point you have to actually make a purchase.
[citation needed]
I'm typing this on a MacBook Air, which gets about 3x the battery life of my previous laptop. And the room I'm in has CFL bulbs which are about 1/4 as power hungry as the old fashioned bulbs.
So no, newer electronics don't *always* use more power.
Couldn't they sue as well?
I was about to mod your post, but then I realized there's no "Obligatory" option.
Why have fighter jets at all? Is it still worth buying expensive war machines with the asymmetric threats larger nations face now days?
In an ideal world there's no difference between what a software does and what it's supposed to do. But in the real world any non-trivial software will be imperfect.
Developers shouldn't be in a situation where they rely on unintended quirks in external code or file formats. You don't want someone else's bugfix to become your bug; that's why "real" documentation is so important. Looking at the code doesn't cut it.
It's interesting to see how a government defines what "open source" means. Some of the wording might actually restrict certain packages, for example:
As a professional open source developer myself, I have to admit that documentation isn't often a strong point of open source, and internal file formats are no exception.
You're saying meetings are more effective if everyone smokes?
That's why I always use the bathroom in the restaurant next door.
Look at Trader Joe's. Sure, you can buy all that stuff elsewhere but it's cheaper because it's a "house brand." If Target can do this, more power to 'em.
This strategy doesn't have to suck as much as the Sears-branded Atari 2600.
Bjork should stick to making creepy pop music and leave education to the professionals.
What about if you have a subscription?
Most US magazines are 1/4 of the price if you subscribe. Is it any cheaper to read these expensive UK magazines if you subscribe?
Did you even read the article in question? It's just a re-hash of a press release, written by someone who doesn't seem to understand how any of these newfangled gadgets work.
Here, this is a quote from the article. See if you can read it without facepalming:
To continue with the author's car analogy, blaming your new phone for the fact that you download more with it is like blaming your car for a parking ticket. It's not the phone, it's the user.
Hell, if the author had bothered reading the study he linked to, he'd know the study was about data usage vs. phones. The summary page doesn't even mention Siri.