What about the freenet project? If I'm not mistaken, freenet uses encryption and allows you to post stuff anonymously without people know where you're coming from. Is freenet going to be disallowed?
What other 3D browsers are there -- VRML plugins have been around a while -- yet they do not seem to be successful. Why is that?"
That's easy to answer: do you want to spend 99% of your time travelling from link to link by 'walking' to portals and gateways? It's tedious having to wait till your avatar reaches a place. With a 2D browser, you click on a link and you're done. You want to get from place to place as fast as possible, that's why people spend lots of money to upgrade to something like ADSL.
"Users know what they want. They know what is missing. Let us include them in the design loop, as we start creating a set of basic interactive tools which change only when an improvement is made--not simply because someone decided to change the interface arbitrarily with a new iteration."
Good idea. But how are you going to get the average user involved in improving the software? Most users just use software and have no awareness of the fact that they too can have a say in improving that software.
I think that all open source projects should have a "feedback" feature built in. The feedback feature should be prominent in the toolbar and should give people a chance to fill in ideas. It should be easy to use and should not be too much of a hassle. Because they won't bother to go to sourceforge or a newsgroup and get lost in a quagmire of discussions.
If such a feature is built in in a standardized manner which is familiar to the users, and that these users get an impression that their comments really do matter, then you can involve them in development.
Somebody out there please give me a basic lesson in computer science.
Does a 64 bit processor running at 2 Ghz do more computations per second than a 32 bit processor running at the same speed? Does this hold true for Intel processors?
Another thing, what about the Sun systems? Since they've released 64 bit processors a while ago, what's stopping them from making 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, 131072, 262144, 524288, 1048576, 2097152, 4194304, 8388608, 16777216 bit processors?
I don't think tricking the consumer is something they'll appreciate. They'll feel cheated when they discover they've spent their hard earned cash on something they thought they were going to get, and they didn't.
Games is an excellent way of promoting anything. Why do people buy expensive computers? Games. Why do people spend enormous amounts of cash on broadband internet? Games. So why should anybody interested in freenet? Games.
- Yuioup
"I could think of an interesting quote, but I couldn't be bothered right now - Yuioup"
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Yeah, I've been using jEdit for the last month or so and it's a good editor. I like the syntax highlighting.
But what I don't like about it is the bugs, and it has lots of them. Too bad I don't have the time to get involved in improving the source.
Yuioup
'nuff said
What about the freenet project? If I'm not mistaken, freenet uses encryption and allows you to post stuff anonymously without people know where you're coming from. Is freenet going to be disallowed?
What other 3D browsers are there -- VRML plugins have been around a while -- yet they do not seem to be successful. Why is that?"
That's easy to answer: do you want to spend 99% of your time travelling from link to link by 'walking' to portals and gateways? It's tedious having to wait till your avatar reaches a place. With a 2D browser, you click on a link and you're done. You want to get from place to place as fast as possible, that's why people spend lots of money to upgrade to something like ADSL.
Quote:
"Users know what they want. They know what is missing. Let us include them in the design loop, as we start creating a set of basic interactive tools which change only when an improvement is made--not simply because someone decided to change the interface arbitrarily with a new iteration."
Good idea. But how are you going to get the average user involved in improving the software? Most users just use software and have no awareness of the fact that they too can have a say in improving that software.
I think that all open source projects should have a "feedback" feature built in. The feedback feature should be prominent in the toolbar and should give people a chance to fill in ideas. It should be easy to use and should not be too much of a hassle. Because they won't bother to go to sourceforge or a newsgroup and get lost in a quagmire of discussions.
If such a feature is built in in a standardized manner which is familiar to the users, and that these users get an impression that their comments really do matter, then you can involve them in development.
Yuioup
Somebody out there please give me a basic lesson in computer science.
Does a 64 bit processor running at 2 Ghz do more computations per second than a 32 bit processor running at the same speed? Does this hold true for Intel processors?
Another thing, what about the Sun systems? Since they've released 64 bit processors a while ago, what's stopping them from making 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, 131072, 262144, 524288, 1048576, 2097152, 4194304, 8388608, 16777216 bit processors?
Please forgive me if I sound like an ignorant.
Yuioup
I don't think tricking the consumer is something they'll appreciate. They'll feel cheated when they discover they've spent their hard earned cash on something they thought they were going to get, and they didn't.
If a shorter pipeline is so much better, why didn't Apple produce a chip with 7 pipelines that runs on 1.8 Ghz? -Yuioup
I thought that Half-Life used a modified Quake engine, not a modified Quake 2 engine...
Games is an excellent way of promoting anything. Why do people buy expensive computers? Games. Why do people spend enormous amounts of cash on broadband internet? Games. So why should anybody interested in freenet? Games.
- Yuioup "I could think of an interesting quote, but I couldn't be bothered right now - Yuioup"