You'd think enough of us would have bitched by now that they'd have gotten the clue, but no, they went from interesting but not great covers to FSKING UGLY ones.
As PTerry pointed out when I saw him speak a couple of weeks ago and this question was asked -- A number of different covers have been tried on the books in the States, and the fact of the matter is, with the current covers, more books are being sold than with any of the other covers. And no matter what they look like, you can't argue with sales.
There are other things that could account for this, but they're harder to nail down for the publisher than something concrete like a graph showing covers on the x-axis, and sales on the y-axis. If the book publishing industry is anything like the music industry and the the movie industry in these united states, well...
..why not get rid of timezones and daylight savings, too?
The article said he was from Arizona, which already doesn't observe DST. He's probably there because he thinks DST is stupid. Either that, or he's too lazy to renew his drivers liscence because he has trouble remembering which month the renewal is due.
In place of using dselect to figure out package names, I'd recommend getting to know apt-cache. In particular, apt-cache search pattern is your friend.
About the only thing dselect is needed for anymore is dealing with optional packages.
We've already got Bungie's incredible Myth II, but I also want to see their upcoming games--Oni and Halo--Arrive safely on my Linux box. The graphics of Halo look incredible, and from what I've read, play well on yesterdays hardware, while the gameplay of Oni is just plain spiffy, and the anime style is tons of fun.
I admit I haven't read ANY of this stuff, but it seems really silly for them to take legal action against someone who payed for a DVD and wanted to watch the movie that he or she payed for.
Everytime I read about internet voting, the experiences of John Linnell come to my mind, and I point everyone at http://www.tmbg.org/cool/linnell/. Head Linnell's warnings! -bs
Well, lucky me, I've got a DC265, and having nothing better to do (except class), I stuck the mame.cam program and centipede, frogger and galaxian onto my 265... and PLAYED THEM. It really does work, this is pretty stinkin' cool...
It takes quite awhile to start up, and when you first run the program, the camera shuts off and you have to turn it back on... But it works, and that's just neat, in my opinion.
it's great to use. It's not reinventing the wheel, it's making everything much more easily accesible within the browser.
However, it makes the broswer the only thing that IS accessible. If web browsing was ALL I did, then I probably wouldn't have these 20 some odd windows open on the rest of my screen, hmm?
If all you're doing is web browsing, maybe it works for you. But I know that when I'm browsing, I'm often doing something else, too. Watching logs, chatting, etc. If you're using a WM that uses some braindead construct like a taskbar, then another braindead construct like MDI will probably do you fine. However, if you hate taskbars, and thus don't use them, then MDI is just going to hinder productivity.
That's the only reason I put up with MDI on Windows, and why I do not put up with MDI on any other system.
MDI, among other things, obscures all the information I want to have access to in my other windows. In the broken windows interface, MDI is almost necessary, or the taskbar becomes unusable, but this ISN'T WINDOWS, last time I checked, and I won't use a product that uses MDI. Star Office is right out, and if Opera continues with this bad bad course of action, their browser is something that will never be on my system.
Why should I pay to have the information in my other windows covered? I can live with Netscape's problems if Opera is going to make such a stupid mistake.
John Linnel, of They Might Be Giants fame, wrote an excellent piece on Internet voting as an editorial for the New York times. The piece can be read Here. It's well worth checking out.
Err... Okay, I just reinstalled KDE (damn deb's are nice things)...
I was playing, and I thought maybe it had something to do with my having active desktop borders enabled (when I was flinging my mouse up, I was going to another desktop &%^)
So I turned it off, and then turned the menu bars on, and umm... if I am at Y Coordinate 0 and I click... Nothing. If I'm at Y coordinate 1, however, it's all good.. This is interesting to note. On my old slack system, and my new Debian system, from the debs, this does not work. (though the K menu in the korner works fine at x0 y0, if that's what you're testing on).
So maybe it's just some people who it works for. It doesn't work for me.
I might play with KDE stuff under blackbox, but that means I'd have to recompile, and umm.. it takes SOOOoooo long to compile. (that was sarcasm).
No, if the pointer is at the very top of the screen... y coord 0... and you click the mouse, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN, even though it *SHOULD* activate the menu.
I guess a lot of people out there have never really *USED* a Mac and picked up on the subleties that make it's interface so nice. This is one of them. On a Mac, the user *ALWAYS* knows where they menu is... they can close their eyes and find it. This still isn't the case with KDE, though it's far better than the menu in the top of the window stuff..
This is what I experienced when I used KDE 1.1, at least, and that was probably the sole (mis)feature that kept me from liking it.
I *STILL* wouldn't have used it, though... I go in for my ultra minimalist hacked blackbox.
But even the "mac-like menus" in KDE aren't maclike. I was very excited when I saw this the first time, but then I tried it out and... No.
If your mouse is at the TOP of the screen, you can't click on the menu, but on a mac you can. It defeats the whole purpose of having the menu at the top of the screen if you can't have your mouse at y0 and click to a menu.
So I'll stick to using no DE for now. It's not necessary, anyway, but I was hopeful...
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- You'd think enough of us would have bitched by now that they'd have gotten the clue, but no, they went from interesting but not great covers to FSKING UGLY ones.
As PTerry pointed out when I saw him speak a couple of weeks ago and this question was asked -- A number of different covers have been tried on the books in the States, and the fact of the matter is, with the current covers, more books are being sold than with any of the other covers. And no matter what they look like, you can't argue with sales.There are other things that could account for this, but they're harder to nail down for the publisher than something concrete like a graph showing covers on the x-axis, and sales on the y-axis. If the book publishing industry is anything like the music industry and the the movie industry in these united states, well...
BTW, did Nunavut ever get created?
Yes.
And who thinks up that sort of name?
Eskimos.
The article said he was from Arizona, which already doesn't observe DST. He's probably there because he thinks DST is stupid. Either that, or he's too lazy to renew his drivers liscence because he has trouble remembering which month the renewal is due.
Here's the link -- Berkeley isn't blocking access either.
Of course one electron can hold an infinite amount of data. So can one bit, for that matter. All you lose is precision.
In place of using dselect to figure out package names, I'd recommend getting to know apt-cache. In particular, apt-cache search pattern is your friend.
About the only thing dselect is needed for anymore is dealing with optional packages.
While it might have taken a large combined swat to keep Amazon or CNN or Yahoo down, you've gotta wonder if eBay wasn't just down of its own accord.
Besides, making eBay go down wouldn't have been much of a challange. Don't know why they bothered.
We've already got Bungie's incredible Myth II, but I also want to see their upcoming games--Oni and Halo--Arrive safely on my Linux box. The graphics of Halo look incredible, and from what I've read, play well on yesterdays hardware, while the gameplay of Oni is just plain spiffy, and the anime style is tons of fun.
Yes, I know it's silly.
I was intentionally being silly.
I admit I haven't read ANY of this stuff, but it seems really silly for them to take legal action against someone who payed for a DVD and wanted to watch the movie that he or she payed for.
Sheesh.
Someone should sue them back for not supporting Linux in the first place. We never would have had to crack it if they would have been nice about it.
heed even.
Sheesh, it's been a long day.
-bs
Everytime I read about internet voting, the experiences of John Linnell come to my mind, and I point everyone at http://www.tmbg.org/cool/linnell/. Head Linnell's warnings! -bs
Well, lucky me, I've got a DC265, and having nothing better to do (except class), I stuck the mame.cam program and centipede, frogger and galaxian onto my 265... and PLAYED THEM. It really does work, this is pretty stinkin' cool...
It takes quite awhile to start up, and when you first run the program, the camera shuts off and you have to turn it back on... But it works, and that's just neat, in my opinion.
Off to class,
-bs
it's great to use. It's not reinventing the wheel, it's making everything much more easily accesible within the browser.
However, it makes the broswer the only thing that IS accessible. If web browsing was ALL I did, then I probably wouldn't have these 20 some odd windows open on the rest of my screen, hmm?
If all you're doing is web browsing, maybe it works for you. But I know that when I'm browsing, I'm often doing something else, too. Watching logs, chatting, etc. If you're using a WM that uses some braindead construct like a taskbar, then another braindead construct like MDI will probably do you fine. However, if you hate taskbars, and thus don't use them, then MDI is just going to hinder productivity.
That's the only reason I put up with MDI on Windows, and why I do not put up with MDI on any other system.
I totally agree.
MDI, among other things, obscures all the information I want to have access to in my other windows. In the broken windows interface, MDI is almost necessary, or the taskbar becomes unusable, but this ISN'T WINDOWS, last time I checked, and I won't use a product that uses MDI. Star Office is right out, and if Opera continues with this bad bad course of action, their browser is something that will never be on my system.
Why should I pay to have the information in my other windows covered? I can live with Netscape's problems if Opera is going to make such a stupid mistake.
John Linnel, of They Might Be Giants fame, wrote an excellent piece on Internet voting as an editorial for the New York times. The piece can be read Here.
It's well worth checking out.
Why would anyone want to disable me?
Just because a guy was born on April 1st and his initials happen to be BS, y'all pick me to death! Jeez, give a guy a break!
(Yes, I was born april first and yes, my initials are BS. Funny how things work out, eh?)
Err... Okay, I just reinstalled KDE (damn deb's are nice things)...
I was playing, and I thought maybe it had something to do with my having active desktop borders enabled (when I was flinging my mouse up, I was going to another desktop &%^)
So I turned it off, and then turned the menu bars on, and umm... if I am at Y Coordinate 0 and I click... Nothing. If I'm at Y coordinate 1, however, it's all good.. This is interesting to note. On my old slack system, and my new Debian system, from the debs, this does not work. (though the K menu in the korner works fine at x0 y0, if that's what you're testing on).
So maybe it's just some people who it works for. It doesn't work for me.
I might play with KDE stuff under blackbox, but that means I'd have to recompile, and umm.. it takes SOOOoooo long to compile. (that was sarcasm).
-bs
No, if the pointer is at the very top of the screen... y coord 0... and you click the mouse, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN, even though it *SHOULD* activate the menu.
I guess a lot of people out there have never really *USED* a Mac and picked up on the subleties that make it's interface so nice. This is one of them. On a Mac, the user *ALWAYS* knows where they menu is... they can close their eyes and find it. This still isn't the case with KDE, though it's far better than the menu in the top of the window stuff..
This is what I experienced when I used KDE 1.1, at least, and that was probably the sole (mis)feature that kept me from liking it.
I *STILL* wouldn't have used it, though... I go in for my ultra minimalist hacked blackbox.
But even the "mac-like menus" in KDE aren't maclike. I was very excited when I saw this the first time, but then I tried it out and... No.
If your mouse is at the TOP of the screen, you can't click on the menu, but on a mac you can. It defeats the whole purpose of having the menu at the top of the screen if you can't have your mouse at y0 and click to a menu.
So I'll stick to using no DE for now. It's not necessary, anyway, but I was hopeful...