Listen; in this post I won't debate the merits/lack-there-of of say, konq vs nautilus or kicker vs gpanel, just as a question.
You can compile moz to sort-of use gtk and look like gtk. Same goes for Java. QT looks like windows on windows and sort-of like aqua on Mac OS X. Won't it make sense to have qt have a gtk/gdk backend? If gtk looks ugly, improve its looks. I'm just longing for a merger between the two camps.
The same is true for GNUstep. I acknowledge that a lot of people prefer the programming paradigms inherent to KDE or GNUstep, but it feels like the time to choose a sort-of standard widget toolkit is now, esp. with say Cairo nearing.
I'm not that much of a technical wizard, and I'm not intending to flame, just asking.
The problem is when they put the tax at just the most annoying level - where it's high enough to be a nuisance and low enough to be bothered to work around.
"No, sorry, officer, I can't point you to the nearest drug dealer because we have a free-speech-limiting law in place that prohibits me to do so. You and you're fellow police officers will have to look elsewhere for your dope. Have a nice day."
I'd probably say that you are at fault. Just get over it and ignore copyright, it's archaic anyway. Easier to just send a couple of bucks to the artists, producers etc through the mail. If even that.
Hey, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Doesn't violence beget violence? I'd wager more violent criminals have been subject to violence themselves.
I was brought up without paddling or much punishment at all. Okay, so I'm a lazy bum but at least I try to be kind.
I guess that may explain why I don't respect laws that I find meaningless (such as most aspects of copyright law) - that I have no built in fear/respect for the faces of authority.
So it's "good" that Apple have an inconsistent UI with some apps looking like striped sugar and some looking like brushed metal?
It might true that Expose doesn't work as well with same-y looking apps, but maybe Expose isn't the best way to work with programs after all?
In my opinion, the problem of how to organize programs is still unsolved.
"Tabbed" windows and MDI, in other words telling programs to do the window manager's job, is one solution but something about it strikes me as very wrong.
Something like Ion is another solution, if it were tweaked a bit more and applications more adapted to it.
Workspaces/desktops is another, "Clutter" is a fourth, and we've got the hard-to-learn-easy-to-use workings of LarsWM and similar as well.
ACME of plan 9 has an interesting UI, as has Emacs.
All of these have their problems though, and I'm still on the lookout for the perfect UI.
Problems with WIMP:
Windows cluttering each other
Many icons are unintuitive or don't make sense - especially tool bar icons. (A floppy means save? A magnifying glass means preview or zoom or solar-burn-a-hole-in-the-paper?)
Hierarchical menus require time to organize.
...and I don't use a file manager because my home directory usually has about a hundred ficons (most of them folders) in it, so it really becomes search-and-click. With a shell and the fileutils I've never noticed the so-called mess since I can just type the filenames I want (with wildcards when I'm unsure of spelling).
Yeah, I think I'm going to start using Seth's Storage (even if basing the query language on english strikes me as a bad idea), maybe that'll get me to use the GUI again.
I don't know.. I've worked as a proofreader and I've also dabbled in translation work, but I still tend to trust my own writing a lot more. I never run a spellchecker (which won't keep you from using the wrong words, which is something I do a lot more than spelling them wrong) and I only causally glance at my text as a "proofread" (much sloppier than I would someone elses) rather than retype it. Retyping could also introduce errors like missed lines and paragraphs and so on.
I work a lot on intuition when I write. Too tight proofreading makes it less errorprone but kills it somewhat.
When I need to hand write, for example a personal letter, I'll often write it out in a word processor, then hand copy it!
Yeah? My sister does this, too. She actually hates computers, and, to make a point, hands in handwritten essays in school and uses handwritten letters everywhere - but her brain, like yours (and I guess mine), prefers text editors. She's not the fastest typist and I've occasionally helped her out with the typing (I'm a total dvorak head so I don't have a problem), only to have her restructure the text and then hand copy it. And how I miss her.
To be honest, I've only played with ogg/ogm and the utterly braindead avi.
You can vcut and cat oggs to your hearts content, and the bitstream is pretty robust. I know mov also is capable of streaming, though. (I couldn't find a good mov vs ogm comparison online.)
That wouldn't be much less work than what the theora project is doing with putting theora/vp3 and vorbis in an ogg format bitstream, and oggs are nice and flexible.
It's still a traditionally, hierarchically organized corporation. It's better than most, and I'm quite interested in this, but I'd be interested in a democratic (read: anarchic) organization similar to Debian, but for musicians.
That's not what GNU "is about", that's just a side-effect.
Where did this myth that "GNU is about choice", "Linux is about choice" come from? I've heard it since the early days but it never was. GNU is about freedom (end user freedom, programmer freedom) - and have been from the start. Linux, the kernel, was about Linus playing around with a home implementation of unix. Choice? Yeah, we got "choice", and that's occasionally good - but that's not what it "is about".
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Listen; in this post I won't debate the merits/lack-there-of of say, konq vs nautilus or kicker vs gpanel, just as a question.
You can compile moz to sort-of use gtk and look like gtk. Same goes for Java. QT looks like windows on windows and sort-of like aqua on Mac OS X. Won't it make sense to have qt have a gtk/gdk backend? If gtk looks ugly, improve its looks. I'm just longing for a merger between the two camps.
The same is true for GNUstep. I acknowledge that a lot of people prefer the programming paradigms inherent to KDE or GNUstep, but it feels like the time to choose a sort-of standard widget toolkit is now, esp. with say Cairo nearing.
I'm not that much of a technical wizard, and I'm not intending to flame, just asking.
The problem is when they put the tax at just the most annoying level - where it's high enough to be a nuisance and low enough to be bothered to work around.
Global permanent tax strike.
I really liked this movie.
"No, sorry, officer, I can't point you to the nearest drug dealer because we have a free-speech-limiting law in place that prohibits me to do so. You and you're fellow police officers will have to look elsewhere for your dope. Have a nice day."
Ah, right, I totally misunderstood, I thought you meant the architecture.
It's been my experience that Macs are more homogenous than say, IA-32-based PC:s.
Good luck charging megabucks if copyright is abolished!
(Note: I'm definitely not saying that there aren't business models that work without copyright.)
I'd probably say that you are at fault. Just get over it and ignore copyright, it's archaic anyway.
Easier to just send a couple of bucks to the artists, producers etc through the mail. If even that.
If a wheel is as nice to push/press as a button, why don't we have three wheels instead of buttons?
I hate scroll wheels. I don't mind thumb buttons (though they're easily hit by mistake).
Yeah, if you assume that rewards are better than punishment, sure. (Flies like shit and that would be rewarding them.)
Hey, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Doesn't violence beget violence? I'd wager more violent criminals have been subject to violence themselves.
I was brought up without paddling or much punishment at all. Okay, so I'm a lazy bum but at least I try to be kind.
I guess that may explain why I don't respect laws that I find meaningless (such as most aspects of copyright law) - that I have no built in fear/respect for the faces of authority.
Please, contribute to one of the various open/free hardware projects out there.
For those who don't think that using a default "he" is bad, please check out this thought experiment by Douglas Hofstader.
It's interesting to read, regardless of what conclusion you come up with.
I don't really grok what you're looking for, is it something like Cairo or one of the svg-libraries that depend on it?
I love the X window system.
It might true that Expose doesn't work as well with same-y looking apps, but maybe Expose isn't the best way to work with programs after all?
In my opinion, the problem of how to organize programs is still unsolved.
"Tabbed" windows and MDI, in other words telling programs to do the window manager's job, is one solution but something about it strikes me as very wrong.
Something like Ion is another solution, if it were tweaked a bit more and applications more adapted to it.
Workspaces/desktops is another, "Clutter" is a fourth, and we've got the hard-to-learn-easy-to-use workings of LarsWM and similar as well.
ACME of plan 9 has an interesting UI, as has Emacs.
All of these have their problems though, and I'm still on the lookout for the perfect UI.
Problems with WIMP:
Yeah, I think I'm going to start using Seth's Storage (even if basing the query language on english strikes me as a bad idea), maybe that'll get me to use the GUI again.
Like Kino, a digital video editing program modelled after vi. Good idea, IMHO, at least if the target audience is geeks.
I don't know.. I've worked as a proofreader and I've also dabbled in translation work, but I still tend to trust my own writing a lot more. I never run a spellchecker (which won't keep you from using the wrong words, which is something I do a lot more than spelling them wrong) and I only causally glance at my text as a "proofread" (much sloppier than I would someone elses) rather than retype it. Retyping could also introduce errors like missed lines and paragraphs and so on.
I work a lot on intuition when I write. Too tight proofreading makes it less errorprone but kills it somewhat.
Yeah? My sister does this, too. She actually hates computers, and, to make a point, hands in handwritten essays in school and uses handwritten letters everywhere - but her brain, like yours (and I guess mine), prefers text editors. She's not the fastest typist and I've occasionally helped her out with the typing (I'm a total dvorak head so I don't have a problem), only to have her restructure the text and then hand copy it. And how I miss her.
RMS wrote about something similar last year.
Now, if you excuse me, I'll have to go buy a copy of Catcher in the rye...
Oh, I didn't know that.
To be honest, I've only played with ogg/ogm and the utterly braindead avi.
You can vcut and cat oggs to your hearts content, and the bitstream is pretty robust. I know mov also is capable of streaming, though. (I couldn't find a good mov vs ogm comparison online.)
Didn't Preacher do that earlier?
That wouldn't be much less work than what the theora project is doing with putting theora/vp3 and vorbis in an ogg format bitstream, and oggs are nice and flexible.
"You take your car to work, ...eh.. I'm probably too.
I'll take my board -
and when you're out of fuel.."
Surf wax america!
It's still a traditionally, hierarchically organized corporation. It's better than most, and I'm quite interested in this, but I'd be interested in a democratic (read: anarchic) organization similar to Debian, but for musicians.
That's not what GNU "is about", that's just a side-effect.
Where did this myth that "GNU is about choice", "Linux is about choice" come from? I've heard it since the early days but it never was. GNU is about freedom (end user freedom, programmer freedom) - and have been from the start. Linux, the kernel, was about Linus playing around with a home implementation of unix. Choice? Yeah, we got "choice", and that's occasionally good - but that's not what it "is about".