> I would suggest that a browser not display the warning you are showing always, but only if the user is being prompted for data. That, or we need to make the three levels of security more clear to the end user. However, I'm not a big fan of putting more requirements on the user.
Okay so as a hacker I redirect my banks website to my own website, encrypted. No warning pops up on the users screen that the certificate is invalid yet. On the webpage, I tell the user that their bank account has been frozen, and to call a given phone number. The user does, and I get all of his details.
It reminds me the Roman empire Caesar Nero who had lots of enemies. He decided to invite all his enemies to great theatre performance. Nero's plan was to put on a production so beautiful that he would make his enemies love him.
Of course it didn't quite work out the way that he planned.
I'm not sure what you are disagreeing with exactly in Jason's blog. Technically KDE does need contributors rather than users. It was all based on Troy's blog that _certain_ users are poisonous to the project. Ones that just critize non-constructively, getting people down without helping in any way.
> Even if a KDE user were to propose changes with UI mockups, etc... I rather doubt that few KDE developers would be receptive to them
Honestly, give it a try. I can't think of any developer that wouldn't be willing to work with artists on improving their app.
The KDE project is always looking for usability experts. More specifically, I would love a usability expert to have a look at the KDE System Monitor (task manager thing). I'm more than happy to implement changes.
Go to http://bugs.kde.org/ and have a look at the types of bug reports we get and look at the responses.
I personally work on the task manager. I get around 1 bug report a day. Out of them, perhaps 1 in 20 is a suggestion for improving usability. And I have never received anything approaching a UI design document.
I have registered my app on www.openusability.org as well as with the internal kde usability group, and I browse forums for suggestions. And despite all this, I _still_ have not found a usability expert who has time to work on this app.
For the whole of the KDE project we have I think only 1 (maybe 2?) trained usability experts. There is far more demand than supply.
The fact is that people are willing to bitch about some app not being usable, but they are far less likely to put the effort into trying to come up with a good alternative solution and work with developers to get it implemented.
Actually if you are an advanced engineering student using a CAD program, you will almost certainly spend most of the time using the command line interface. Have you actually used AutoCAD, say? It has a command line interface at the bottom of the screen because it's a lot easier to type out the command to draw a line of a certain size, snapping to given points, than to do that with the GUI.
But at high school we did a lot of stuff like calculating lengths of chords in a circle. I'm now a theoretical particle physicist, and I've still never had to find the length of a chord!
I was reading a book on this last night, and it said that scientists named it that just so that they could publish papers about searching for a 'bare bottom' ( A bottom quark by itself ).
The book said that the silly names assigned to the quarks was because at the start nobody took quark theory seriously. Nobody expected the theory to last, so they assigned silly names.
Meh, I think you're naive if you believe their official reasons for why they chose CDDL. If CDDL was compatible was the GPL then they would have just chosen another license and come up with some reason for that license instead.
I do actually work for a company that writes graphics drivers and makes computer chips. _Most_ of our customers (TI etc) actually demand GPL drivers and there is semi-serious talk to open source our entire software stack because of customer demand. Most customers actually prefer the GPL licensed driver than the proprietary licensed one, even though we offer the customer the code in both cases.
Do not underestimate the financial pressure for open source drivers.
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> I would suggest that a browser not display the warning you are showing always, but only if the user is being prompted for data. That, or we need to make the three levels of security more clear to the end user. However, I'm not a big fan of putting more requirements on the user.
Okay so as a hacker I redirect my banks website to my own website, encrypted. No warning pops up on the users screen that the certificate is invalid yet. On the webpage, I tell the user that their bank account has been frozen, and to call a given phone number. The user does, and I get all of his details.
It reminds me the Roman empire Caesar Nero who had lots of enemies. He decided to invite all his enemies to great theatre performance. Nero's plan was to put on a production so beautiful that he would make his enemies love him.
Of course it didn't quite work out the way that he planned.
I'm not sure what you are disagreeing with exactly in Jason's blog. Technically KDE does need contributors rather than users. It was all based on Troy's blog that _certain_ users are poisonous to the project. Ones that just critize non-constructively, getting people down without helping in any way.
> Even if a KDE user were to propose changes with UI mockups, etc... I rather doubt that few KDE developers would be receptive to them
Honestly, give it a try. I can't think of any developer that wouldn't be willing to work with artists on improving their app.
I think you are just seeing what you want to see.
I will have a look at this for KDE.
The KDE project is always looking for usability experts. More specifically, I would love a usability expert to have a look at the KDE System Monitor (task manager thing). I'm more than happy to implement changes.
This post really annoyed me.
Go to http://bugs.kde.org/ and have a look at the types of bug reports we get and look at the responses.
I personally work on the task manager. I get around 1 bug report a day. Out of them, perhaps 1 in 20 is a suggestion for improving usability. And I have never received anything approaching a UI design document.
I have registered my app on www.openusability.org as well as with the internal kde usability group, and I browse forums for suggestions. And despite all this, I _still_ have not found a usability expert who has time to work on this app.
For the whole of the KDE project we have I think only 1 (maybe 2?) trained usability experts. There is far more demand than supply.
The fact is that people are willing to bitch about some app not being usable, but they are far less likely to put the effort into trying to come up with a good alternative solution and work with developers to get it implemented.
Actually if you are an advanced engineering student using a CAD program, you will almost certainly spend most of the time using the command line interface. Have you actually used AutoCAD, say? It has a command line interface at the bottom of the screen because it's a lot easier to type out the command to draw a line of a certain size, snapping to given points, than to do that with the GUI.
2 weeks to make an RPM? Wow you suck
You could send KDE money if you want..
Cool.
Just to point out though - a satellite dish a parabolic. It follows the equation y = x^2, as opposed to the sphere equation y^2 = r^2 - x^2
To find the focal point, point it at the sun and see where it focuses to a bright spot :)
Do font engines ever need to calculate the length of a chord? I don't know. Besides, if I actually needed to know that one day, I'd just look it up.
There's also plenty of math that is interesting.
But at high school we did a lot of stuff like calculating lengths of chords in a circle. I'm now a theoretical particle physicist, and I've still never had to find the length of a chord!
And it's wonderful. I can finally go into pub and not have to breathe smoke.
Hah, I saw my brother get 'contact high' when we were at a music festival. He was about 15 at the time.
From what I hear, that's not so true anymore? I thought the benchmarks showed the latests versions of gcc had caught up a lot
Uh sorry, I misread your original post :)
Click the link in the story: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_26
and it explains it all there
Um, did you try clicking on the link?
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_26
That's a pretty highlevel featurelist
If only you'd made it to the 2nd grade..
I was reading a book on this last night, and it said that scientists named it that just so that they could publish papers about searching for a 'bare bottom' ( A bottom quark by itself ).
The book said that the silly names assigned to the quarks was because at the start nobody took quark theory seriously. Nobody expected the theory to last, so they assigned silly names.
Hmm, I just caught myself doing exactly that. Strange how the brain works.
It depends if you can quit.
A simple way to beat you is:
*) Bet 1 dollar I'll win
*) If I win, quit. I've come out on top.
*) If I lose, bet 2 dollars I'll win.
*) Repeat, doubling each time.
It's a strategy guaranteed to win. :)
Meh, I think you're naive if you believe their official reasons for why they chose CDDL. If CDDL was compatible was the GPL then they would have just chosen another license and come up with some reason for that license instead.
Meh, it was clearly on purpose that ZFS was put under a GPL-incompatible license.
If the GPL was compatible with CDDL, then Sun would have just chosen another license
I think it's larger than you think.
I do actually work for a company that writes graphics drivers and makes computer chips. _Most_ of our customers (TI etc) actually demand GPL drivers and there is semi-serious talk to open source our entire software stack because of customer demand. Most customers actually prefer the GPL licensed driver than the proprietary licensed one, even though we offer the customer the code in both cases.
Do not underestimate the financial pressure for open source drivers.