Any HTML more complicated than simple B and P tags will rrender completely differently on every platform you try to view it on. It is a nightmare for web designers to work within the narrow range of HTML which works on all platforms, requiring inelegant hacks in order to get around every single browser's bugs and inconsistencies. Much-needed improvements such as XHTML and CSS are too little, too late; the ancient Netscape 4 is still in widespread use, and one cannot use anything more than that piece of garbage can support.
PDF and Flash are both open specs. The file formats are both available on the Web; numerous open-source PDF viewers exist, and projects are underway to make open-source Flash viewers. These standards were designed to render exactly the same in every viewer, and are supplanting HTML as we speak. More and more web designers forgo the agony of HTML for much easier Flash widgets. Scientific, educational and legal documents are now almost entirely published to the web in PDF instead of HTML. If you want HTML survive, tell the W3C to get off their asses and actually implement their standards instead of bending over for Netscape's and Microsoft's constant proprietary enhancements. For all intents and purposes, HTML is already dead.
There was a study done to answer this very question. The GUI is faster, even when the test was slanted to favour keyboard usage! As I said before, using the CLI gives you a cognitive workout, and thus seems perceptually faster since you need to do more to get it to work. Mousing around a GUI is much faster, but seems slower since it is easier and requires less thought. Please don't make me reiterate myself. Modern GUI's are not "stupid"; they are sophisticated aides to productivity and ease of use.
Is a hammer fun to use? Are a pen and paper? Celphone? Answering machine? I would love for work to be more entertaining, but there is a reason it is called work, and we have vacations and weekends with which to enjoy ourselves. Your productivity shouldn't be wasted, whether it be by playing minesweeper or having "fun" hashing out long, inscrutable commands at a shell prompt. Your naïveté is charming, but you really must learn to grow up.
None of those times include the time wasted typing out those excessively long commands.
Dragging and dropping is better than rsync, because with rsync you have to know and type out the name of the directory ahead of time. GUIs provide a nice spatial representation of the directory structure, and are very quick to scan and find.
In order to know how to use any of those commands, you would have to spend years learning the intricacies of all the various commands, options, etc. Setting up a for loop and pipeline takes an excessive amount of thought and care to ensure that everything works as it should. A single typo can have catastrophic results (cf. "rm -Rf *.o" and "rm -Rf *.o")
Most people's needs are simple. They don't need to sync massive directory trees or save webpages or any complex bullshit like that. For everyday tasks like web browsing, WMA playing, and writing Word documents, the GUI is superior.
The CLI is fine for a few highly specialised tasks and little else. It is fine for batch jobs and remote administration where a Telnet prompt is all you have. For day to day use, the GUI is simply faster.
Did you read the link before you posted your senseless drivel? Your text browser only seems faster because you have to think a lot more about using it than you should have to. How many times do you find yourself looking at the manual page because you don't know the correct key to, say, save a webpage's source? I don't know about you, but for me graphics provide essential feedback in modern web designs. Text browsers are missing out on the potential of the modern web; how does w3m handles the fun golf game at Electrotank.com or the helpful Flash buttons on any one of a number of professional sites? HTML is an anachronism being phased out in favour of better technology such as PDF, Flash and Javascript; your w3m browser will soon be useless for browsing the web at large.
I'm guessing from your fake email address that you're a troll, so I'll keep this short. I was the valedictorian of my high-school class, and currently make $500,000 a year as a web designer. My IQ is a fucking 169. I am smart enough to place functionality over form. Wasting my time typing "yes | hash | bison | true" or some other indecipherable rubbish is unacceptible. My time is worth money; I can't go doddering away time better spent working for my clients reading 1000-page UNIX manuals or coughing out pointless shellscripts. If you're so damn smart, you wouldn't waste your time either.
Computers aren't supposed to be fun. They're supposed to be TOOLS. They're supposed to sit there and do what I tell them to, without coughing out syntax errors and overall forcing me to yield to the idiosyncracies of some college student's term project. Get off your high horse and get into the modern age.
Tog says differently. People perceive that using the commandline is faster since it gives their mind more of a workout, whereas mousing is easier and more "boring". However, the stopwatch rings true, and it turns out mouse-based GUIs are almost always faster at most tasks than a CLI.
Now don't get me wrong, commandline utilities are great for basic scripting tasks and remote administration, but modern GUI research as manifested in OS X and Windows XP has superceded the commandline in usability and speed for all tasks that matter. Get into the 21st century, you damn luddite! There are so many new developments in software technology that require a GUI to fully manifest, like A/V editing, NetMeeting-style conferencing, and of course gaming. The CLI freaks are retarding themselves by sticking with such antiquated technology.
I've gotten the impression that the reason many cards (including my Matrox G400) underperform in Linux compared to Windows is due to the fact that the majority of the 3D talk is done in userspace, outside of the kernel. NVidia has chosen to completely bypass DRI and throw their entire driver into the kernel, which produces equal or better performance in Linux compared to Windows, at the expense of numerous stability problems (especially on multiprocessor boxes).
So, what I'd like to know is, is there a happy medium between userspace code in the X server and driver code in the kernel than can provide adequate performance without sacrificing stability? Right now, Linux 3D support is at either one end of the spectrum or the other: Stable yet slow DRI, or unstable yet blazingly fast kernel drivers. I would love to dump Windows for all my Unreal Tournament and Tribes 2 gaming needs, and am a loyal Loki customer, but I hate having to put up with either regular crashes or a large drop in performance. Hopefully, these Tungsten folk will find the best compromise.
We all like to spit out the rhetoric about how "people listen to Microsoft, but not us", but the fact is, this is no longer true. The antitrust case, while falling short of remedying the Microsoft situation, has at least drastically changed Joe User's perception of Microsoft, as the below-expected XP adoption rate shows. Everyday, Linux becomes more and more mainstream, and as it does, we see an increasing number of mentions of Redhat and Linux in general in tech magazines and newspapers. Any resource people go to to find the latest technology news today is likely to have a Linux section in it (short of "Windows Magazine" and other Microsoft asskissers). It's silly to say that "people will only see the Microsoft lies and not the rebuttals by Lineo and Redhat." This may have been true three years ago, but not anymore.
Holy cow, you all better get your tinfoil hats ready, because they really *can* and most likely *will* be watching us with these things! With Ashcroft's increasingly McCarthyesque persecution complex and our civil liberties being eroded away in the name of "national security" on a daily basis, you won't even be able to jaywalk without being spotted by one of these evil mechanical eyes! I bet the FBI is going to put a huge megaphone on every one of these satellites they shoot into space, so that as soon as you break a law, they can shout down the "word of god" from above, causing you to freeze in fear as the thought police zero in on your location!
</humour> (in case the absurdity of this post and all the exclamation marks didn't make it entirely clear)
Research really needs to be poured into the development of long-term solid-state storage. Even with GMR heads and modern EPRML magnetic encoding techniques, we are rapidly approaching the limitations of the magnetic medium. New technologies seek to enhance drive speed and capacity at the sake of reliability; I have had four 7200-rpm 100 GB drives fail on me within a year of their purchase. I have had no such trouble with older drives. With RAM and other solid-state getting progressively cheaper and being at absurdly low prices already, it seems foolish to still be reliant on fault-prone mechanical platters for long-term storage.
Fileplanet's services have gotten progressively worse, as anybody in the gaming community will be happy to tell you. Starting their "personal server" service (which still isn't very good of a connection, I can tell you, having tried it), and then purposely crippling their public servers by forcing people to wait in queue in order to "encourage" use of the Personal Servers in order to get anything downloaded at all in a reasonable amount of time. There must be another link you could provide; I would rather not support Gamespy's profiteering if I can help it.
In the server room at my old place of work, we had some heating problems in the summer. If you make sure the room is well-ventilated (opening windows, having air ducts, etc.), regular old ceiling fans work wonders for cooling large rooms, and make your server room look more classy as well:-) Just be sure to keep them spinning at their fastest speed if you've got a lot of Alphas...
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For a laptop that doesn't natively support suspend-to-disk, I would highly suggest trying out the Software Suspend patch that comes with FOLK. This works like Windows2000/XP's "Hibernate" feature, where the contents of memory are dumped to disk, the computer is turned off, and upon booting up again, the memory dump is loaded back into memory and everything comes back exactly as it was when you turned the computer off. This cuts down drastically on boot time, and works fairly well.
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PDF and Flash are both open specs. The file formats are both available on the Web; numerous open-source PDF viewers exist, and projects are underway to make open-source Flash viewers. These standards were designed to render exactly the same in every viewer, and are supplanting HTML as we speak. More and more web designers forgo the agony of HTML for much easier Flash widgets. Scientific, educational and legal documents are now almost entirely published to the web in PDF instead of HTML. If you want HTML survive, tell the W3C to get off their asses and actually implement their standards instead of bending over for Netscape's and Microsoft's constant proprietary enhancements. For all intents and purposes, HTML is already dead.
There was a study done to answer this very question. The GUI is faster, even when the test was slanted to favour keyboard usage! As I said before, using the CLI gives you a cognitive workout, and thus seems perceptually faster since you need to do more to get it to work. Mousing around a GUI is much faster, but seems slower since it is easier and requires less thought. Please don't make me reiterate myself. Modern GUI's are not "stupid"; they are sophisticated aides to productivity and ease of use.
Is a hammer fun to use? Are a pen and paper? Celphone? Answering machine? I would love for work to be more entertaining, but there is a reason it is called work, and we have vacations and weekends with which to enjoy ourselves. Your productivity shouldn't be wasted, whether it be by playing minesweeper or having "fun" hashing out long, inscrutable commands at a shell prompt. Your naïveté is charming, but you really must learn to grow up.
- None of those times include the time wasted typing out those excessively long commands.
- Dragging and dropping is better than rsync, because with rsync you have to know and type out the name of the directory ahead of time. GUIs provide a nice spatial representation of the directory structure, and are very quick to scan and find.
- In order to know how to use any of those commands, you would have to spend years learning the intricacies of all the various commands, options, etc. Setting up a for loop and pipeline takes an excessive amount of thought and care to ensure that everything works as it should. A single typo can have catastrophic results (cf. "rm -Rf *.o" and "rm -Rf *
.o")
- Most people's needs are simple. They don't need to sync massive directory trees or save webpages or any complex bullshit like that. For everyday tasks like web browsing, WMA playing, and writing Word documents, the GUI is superior.
The CLI is fine for a few highly specialised tasks and little else. It is fine for batch jobs and remote administration where a Telnet prompt is all you have. For day to day use, the GUI is simply faster.Did you read the link before you posted your senseless drivel? Your text browser only seems faster because you have to think a lot more about using it than you should have to. How many times do you find yourself looking at the manual page because you don't know the correct key to, say, save a webpage's source? I don't know about you, but for me graphics provide essential feedback in modern web designs. Text browsers are missing out on the potential of the modern web; how does w3m handles the fun golf game at Electrotank.com or the helpful Flash buttons on any one of a number of professional sites? HTML is an anachronism being phased out in favour of better technology such as PDF, Flash and Javascript; your w3m browser will soon be useless for browsing the web at large.
Computers aren't supposed to be fun. They're supposed to be TOOLS. They're supposed to sit there and do what I tell them to, without coughing out syntax errors and overall forcing me to yield to the idiosyncracies of some college student's term project. Get off your high horse and get into the modern age.
Now don't get me wrong, commandline utilities are great for basic scripting tasks and remote administration, but modern GUI research as manifested in OS X and Windows XP has superceded the commandline in usability and speed for all tasks that matter. Get into the 21st century, you damn luddite! There are so many new developments in software technology that require a GUI to fully manifest, like A/V editing, NetMeeting-style conferencing, and of course gaming. The CLI freaks are retarding themselves by sticking with such antiquated technology.
Because DEC 25 = OCT 31.
(ducks)
So, what I'd like to know is, is there a happy medium between userspace code in the X server and driver code in the kernel than can provide adequate performance without sacrificing stability? Right now, Linux 3D support is at either one end of the spectrum or the other: Stable yet slow DRI, or unstable yet blazingly fast kernel drivers. I would love to dump Windows for all my Unreal Tournament and Tribes 2 gaming needs, and am a loyal Loki customer, but I hate having to put up with either regular crashes or a large drop in performance. Hopefully, these Tungsten folk will find the best compromise.
We all like to spit out the rhetoric about how "people listen to Microsoft, but not us", but the fact is, this is no longer true. The antitrust case, while falling short of remedying the Microsoft situation, has at least drastically changed Joe User's perception of Microsoft, as the below-expected XP adoption rate shows. Everyday, Linux becomes more and more mainstream, and as it does, we see an increasing number of mentions of Redhat and Linux in general in tech magazines and newspapers. Any resource people go to to find the latest technology news today is likely to have a Linux section in it (short of "Windows Magazine" and other Microsoft asskissers). It's silly to say that "people will only see the Microsoft lies and not the rebuttals by Lineo and Redhat." This may have been true three years ago, but not anymore.
</humour> (in case the absurdity of this post and all the exclamation marks didn't make it entirely clear)
Research really needs to be poured into the development of long-term solid-state storage. Even with GMR heads and modern EPRML magnetic encoding techniques, we are rapidly approaching the limitations of the magnetic medium. New technologies seek to enhance drive speed and capacity at the sake of reliability; I have had four 7200-rpm 100 GB drives fail on me within a year of their purchase. I have had no such trouble with older drives. With RAM and other solid-state getting progressively cheaper and being at absurdly low prices already, it seems foolish to still be reliant on fault-prone mechanical platters for long-term storage.
Fileplanet's services have gotten progressively worse, as anybody in the gaming community will be happy to tell you. Starting their "personal server" service (which still isn't very good of a connection, I can tell you, having tried it), and then purposely crippling their public servers by forcing people to wait in queue in order to "encourage" use of the Personal Servers in order to get anything downloaded at all in a reasonable amount of time. There must be another link you could provide; I would rather not support Gamespy's profiteering if I can help it.
In the server room at my old place of work, we had some heating problems in the summer. If you make sure the room is well-ventilated (opening windows, having air ducts, etc.), regular old ceiling fans work wonders for cooling large rooms, and make your server room look more classy as well :-) Just be sure to keep them spinning at their fastest speed if you've got a lot of Alphas...
Hey now, ouija boards are serious business. I wouldn't go calling this "pretending".
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..some of you Linux geeks really need one. Don't you realise how much you all stink?
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Well, considering that you have to PAY FOR THE FULL GAME in order for these Linux binaries to work, your point is kinda moot, don't you think?
At least Canadians know how to spell "colour", "aluminium" and "manoeuvre", unlike you American hillbillies with your "American English".
Please, somebody mod this post up. It's not too often you see a well-reasoned post on Slashdot these days. KFG, I thank you.
The British Isles are not part of Europe.
Boooring!
AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAA AAAAAGH *BOOM* !!!
For a laptop that doesn't natively support suspend-to-disk, I would highly suggest trying out the Software Suspend patch that comes with FOLK. This works like Windows2000/XP's "Hibernate" feature, where the contents of memory are dumped to disk, the computer is turned off, and upon booting up again, the memory dump is loaded back into memory and everything comes back exactly as it was when you turned the computer off. This cuts down drastically on boot time, and works fairly well.