...the christian bible is also full of violence and pornography, and there are many proven cases where children and adults committed heinous crimes modeled specifically after biblical passages or quoting the bible as justification for their crimes.
i say we should require photo ID for access to the christian bible too.
with that justification, we should rip out everything which a majority of users don't use. this includes (but not limited to): i2o, arcnet, tokenring, hippi, slip, 10gbe, touchscreens, most of the "miscellaneous filesystems", voluntary kernel preemption, etc.
all this crap just shoehorns linux into a shoe it's too large to fill. no reason to burden all other linux distros with this mess.
besides, hardly anyone uses linux on embedded devices anyway. linux doesn't belong there.
...recall that apple initially argued against the use of color in the UI because it would "confuse the users"...
apple is not always right!
metaphor often fails because real world objects do not always nicely translate to computer oriented tasks, when you are trying to use eg a mouse to twiddle them. user interfaces which adhere too strongly to metaphor almost always fail.
this is something which has been repeatedly proven objectively through extensive usability testing.
don't let 'consistency' and apple dogma blind you to better design decisions.
for example MDI works excellently for stuff like tabbed browser windows (eg mozilla). (yes, i know it's not 'traditional mdi' but it is mdi.)
I say again, consistency is worth a considerable amount. Even if you find a system subjectively poor (ie. you find it annoying) , it's possible that it's objectively (that is, testably) better to use, just because it's consistent.
i say fixing things when it's obvious it's broken is better than standardized mediocrity.
proportional sliders were objectively better in every UI usability test I know of dating back to the 1980s. nothing subjective about it.
i guess apple is just slow. they were among the last major vendors to finally move to real preemptive multitasking and memory protection.
now you'll try to convince me that singletasking and no memory protection are objectively better:-)
it wouldn't be nearly so bad if apple at least followed their own guidlines. yet so many of their own software breaks their own rules -- and this is a problem that goes back to the original mac. apple chants this 'consistency' mantra, yet they violate the rules themselves, so they come off as rank hypocrites.
worse yet, apple's osx ui is a regression in many ways. they abandoned usability and consistency in favor of eye candy. not that they're alone in making this error, but i would have expected better from apple.
so uh, standardized mediocrity is a good thing? i thought that was microsoft's specialty. now you're trying to convince me it's apple's?:P
if their boneheaded decisions can be looked at critically and changed for the better, why did it take 10 years to fix proportional sliders? and why are many boneheaded decisions still there?
and I really wish that AMD and Intel would make those architectures public
no you don't. you think you do, but you really don't.
those internal architectures are very limited microinstruction architectures and would have a not-very-nice binary representation. code would become bloated for no good reason at all, and wouldnt perform any better.
think of the x86 instruction set as being a compressed representation of those microinstructions. better?
...when economy of scale dictates you can run that architecture insanely fast for incredibly cheap.
the relative simplicity of design also allows you to scale the architecture to incredibly high speeds. this is why "beautiful" designs like mips and 68k never made it into the ghz range.
mips and ppc might be "beautiful" internal architectures, but they are also not economical ones.
hell, sparc is a "beautiful" design with register windows and all. didn't save them in the long run though.
unless you're programming in assembly all the time, C/C++ will insulate you from the architecture details, so "ugly" instruction sets are largely irrelevant.
there is also nothing preventing someone from making a "beautiful" x86 hardware design. hell, SGI did this once with their visual workstation series. the linux kernel still has support for this subarchitecture type (processor type and features -> subarchitecture type -> sgi 320 / 540).
the move from 68k to ppc didn't seem to slow down apple any. i recall 68k apps working quite well on ppc during the 68k->ppc migration.
i'm quite sure apple could pull off a move from ppc to x86 quite easily, if they chose to. they already managed a move from 68k to ppc with few problems.
...remember it took them nearly 10 years to come around to the fact that proportional window sliders are more intuitive than a tiny fixed size square.
the menus at the top of the screen has more to do with the singletasking nature of original 68k macos, than any specific ui design decision.
"pulldown" menus (eg menus you had to hold down the mousebutton while navigating) were also a bad design decision, because people's fingers often would slip and accidentally enable a setting they didn't want.
apple made a lot of good ui design decisions, and a lot of boneheaded ones. these are just a few of the boneheaded ones. there's lots more.
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a growing % of these criminals are from saudi arabia or the netherlands.
they still can't spell for shit though.
yahoo happily host criminals. the only way to get rid of them is with a search warrant.
malaysia is not just full of racial bigotry, but religious bigotry as well.
one comes to expect this sort of thing from islamic states. its the rule rather than the exception.
...arent you the people who made chewing gum illegal though?
at the very least theyre sprinkled with a light coating of cometary and other space debris.
you can't play just any divx with it though. you need to encode divx files within tight restrictions that can play on the DC's limited cpu.
Because apple doesn't want it to happen .
so basically IB failed to deliver on its inital design goals so they retargeted it.
they want to repeat the raging success known as IBM MCA.
everything you described sounds a lot like fibre channel to me. self healing, rdma, prioritization, low latency.
...compelling speaker, even if his subjects are dry or a bit shallow. i was fortunate enough to see him speak in seattle.
his 'connections' series are ok, but his 'day the universe changed' was far better (sadly its not available on vhs or dvd anywhere).
sadly they all pale to sagan's 'cosmos' series. the subject matter was sweeping and grand, and sagan's presentation was spellbinding.
...such as the bible.
it's full of incredibly violent, gory stories and pornography. many people have committed heinous crimes, driven by what they read in the bible.
i say we start there.
I don't see why they would use this as a way to get your customer info
why _wouldnt_ they?
companies have used grossly unethical/criminal methods to get customer info in the past, why wouldnt they use this?
...the christian bible is also full of violence and pornography, and there are many proven cases where children and adults committed heinous crimes modeled specifically after biblical passages or quoting the bible as justification for their crimes.
i say we should require photo ID for access to the christian bible too.
linus is not always correct.
remember how linus stonewalled loadable modules?
i20 is used by alot of TV tuner cards.
um no, it most certainly is not.
with that justification, we should rip out everything which a majority of users don't use. this includes (but not limited to): i2o, arcnet, tokenring, hippi, slip, 10gbe, touchscreens, most of the "miscellaneous filesystems", voluntary kernel preemption, etc.
all this crap just shoehorns linux into a shoe it's too large to fill. no reason to burden all other linux distros with this mess.
besides, hardly anyone uses linux on embedded devices anyway. linux doesn't belong there.
...recall that apple initially argued against the use of color in the UI because it would "confuse the users"...
apple is not always right!
metaphor often fails because real world objects do not always nicely translate to computer oriented tasks, when you are trying to use eg a mouse to twiddle them. user interfaces which adhere too strongly to metaphor almost always fail.
this is something which has been repeatedly proven objectively through extensive usability testing.
don't let 'consistency' and apple dogma blind you to better design decisions.
for example MDI works excellently for stuff like tabbed browser windows (eg mozilla). (yes, i know it's not 'traditional mdi' but it is mdi.)
I say again, consistency is worth a considerable amount. Even if you find a system subjectively poor (ie. you find it annoying) , it's possible that it's objectively (that is, testably) better to use, just because it's consistent.
:-)
i say fixing things when it's obvious it's broken is better than standardized mediocrity.
proportional sliders were objectively better in every UI usability test I know of dating back to the 1980s. nothing subjective about it.
i guess apple is just slow. they were among the last major vendors to finally move to real preemptive multitasking and memory protection.
now you'll try to convince me that singletasking and no memory protection are objectively better
it wouldn't be nearly so bad if apple at least followed their own guidlines. yet so many of their own software breaks their own rules -- and this is a problem that goes back to the original mac. apple chants this 'consistency' mantra, yet they violate the rules themselves, so they come off as rank hypocrites.
worse yet, apple's osx ui is a regression in many ways. they abandoned usability and consistency in favor of eye candy. not that they're alone in making this error, but i would have expected better from apple.
so uh, standardized mediocrity is a good thing? i thought that was microsoft's specialty. now you're trying to convince me it's apple's? :P
if their boneheaded decisions can be looked at critically and changed for the better, why did it take 10 years to fix proportional sliders? and why are many boneheaded decisions still there?
and I really wish that AMD and Intel would make those architectures public
no you don't. you think you do, but you really don't.
those internal architectures are very limited microinstruction architectures and would have a not-very-nice binary representation. code would become bloated for no good reason at all, and wouldnt perform any better.
think of the x86 instruction set as being a compressed representation of those microinstructions. better?
...when economy of scale dictates you can run that architecture insanely fast for incredibly cheap.
the relative simplicity of design also allows you to scale the architecture to incredibly high speeds. this is why "beautiful" designs like mips and 68k never made it into the ghz range.
mips and ppc might be "beautiful" internal architectures, but they are also not economical ones.
hell, sparc is a "beautiful" design with register windows and all. didn't save them in the long run though.
unless you're programming in assembly all the time, C/C++ will insulate you from the architecture details, so "ugly" instruction sets are largely irrelevant.
there is also nothing preventing someone from making a "beautiful" x86 hardware design. hell, SGI did this once with their visual workstation series. the linux kernel still has support for this subarchitecture type (processor type and features -> subarchitecture type -> sgi 320 / 540).
the move from 68k to ppc didn't seem to slow down apple any. i recall 68k apps working quite well on ppc during the 68k->ppc migration.
i'm quite sure apple could pull off a move from ppc to x86 quite easily, if they chose to. they already managed a move from 68k to ppc with few problems.
...remember it took them nearly 10 years to come around to the fact that proportional window sliders are more intuitive than a tiny fixed size square.
the menus at the top of the screen has more to do with the singletasking nature of original 68k macos, than any specific ui design decision.
"pulldown" menus (eg menus you had to hold down the mousebutton while navigating) were also a bad design decision, because people's fingers often would slip and accidentally enable a setting they didn't want.
apple made a lot of good ui design decisions, and a lot of boneheaded ones. these are just a few of the boneheaded ones. there's lots more.
An ISP's TOS can't make them immune from subpoenas, search warrants, or criminal prosecution. An ISP can't simply TOS away state and federal law, and an ISP can't immunize themselves against wrongdoing through a TOS.