Similar to the menu bar button move then. I guess it does make sense, although that doesn't necessarily mean it really is better in practice -- for instance, while most computer windows contain text, there are often any number of things between the "main" text and the left side of the window: icons, sidebars, layout elements on web pages, etc.
Either way I guess it comes down to striking a balance between alienating existing and prospective users and designing the interface to be more ideal according to some definition. I'm just wondering if the energy spent here could not be used to optimize other parts of the OS with a similar benefit to usability but without such jarring transitions.
Nice! Lets you do some pretty incredible stuff. So far I haven't been able to do stuff that's in the same league as the CS5 demo, which is probably due to a) my lack of skill, b) the suitability of the chosen images (random holiday snapshots in my case) but also c) the fact that the PS stuff is based on more recent research. It's still really cool though.
I don't know what happened to bubble memory, but I'm pretty sure there were no bubble memory products widely available from various manufacturers with massively better performance at fairly competitive prices. So maybe they're onto something this time...
But do you really *need* to carry all 30GB of music around with you on your laptop?
No. But once you have 30 GB of music, you either keep all of it on your laptop or you need to decide which 2, 5, 10 GB of those 30 GB you do want. Which can be annoying. It's easier to just have it all available all the time. The same issue exists with portable media players. Note that I'm quite happy with my flash-based player, but I understand how people don't want to bother with managing a second "current" music archive. None of this is about need, incidently, the word is just meaningless in this context.
I'd love to see the next version of windows released on a USB thumb drive. I own one external usb DVD player for OS installs and that's it. It feels very 1995 to still be installing my OS from optical media.
I like Ubuntu. I really like Gnome, so I don't feel like I have to tear it out. Most things just work for me -- including 5.1 sound --, and though some things don't, I can't imagine any other distribution (or OS, for that matter) not having its own share of issues. I don't care what init mechanism is used as long as things are running after booting. Similarly, I don't really care how partitions are mounted as long as they are, in fact, mounted. I guess I'm a luser these days. Many of the decisions that annoy me can easily be reverted (ctrl-alt-backspace in the past, menu bar buttons in the present; even removing PA apparently wasn't that difficult, even though I never tried it).
Other things I like:
- the update cycle, which is often enough to be interesting and rare enough not to be annoying
- the community support is really good because it seems to be sort of the default distribution these days
- the bug tracker is nice (from a user perspective, anyway)
- PPAs are available for popular software projects, sometimes from upstream itself, so I can get new versions or even nightly builds with updates and without compiling
- overall, Launchpad is pretty awesome
(He was even talking about moving the scroll bar away from the right side of the window, on the grounds that few people use it, and scroll wheels/touchscreen interfaces are becoming the big new thing. This doesn't give me the warm fuzzies either.)
Huh. Now that, I find interesting. It's very rare that I use the scrollbar widgets to do actual scrolling. But I'd miss the visual cue on where I am in the document and how much of it I'm seeing.
I'm pretty sure he's referring to software vulnerabilities being disclosed to the security team. As an outsider, you don't get to see those until they're fixed (or made public by somebody else).
Is it at all feasible to run a computer submerged in distilled water? You'd have to ensure that the water remains pure, obviously, but this might be easier than dealing with computers submerged in oil. The obvious advantage is that distilled water is more benign and MUCH easier to work with. Any spills can be cleaned up with a rag, for one thing.
turn the system on, put the "Top Gun" soundtrack in, crank it to 11, and drive down the highway in 20-foot-visibility fog at 70MPH following the painted lines
It's a particularly convenient false friend because the "alternatives" are regionalisms (ie either AE or BE) and much longer because phone is tacked onto them or, in their short forms, colloquial and have even stronger associations with one region. Of course, these days you can often get away with simply using phone by itself.
Let me get this straight, because it crops up all over this thread. You're suggesting Palm program it's own media player/PMP management software that reads the iTunes XML database and writes stuff to their devices? Or can you write a plugin for iTunes that does the interfacing, similar to how players are integrated into most FOSS media players. That would be great.
But I can see why they didn't want to write an iTunes replacement, or even a partial one that just does the PMP management thing. That'd be a massive reason for not using their hardware for many Mac users and would give Apple a substantive advantage in selling their media players. And of course Apple should interoperate here, everybody should be able to integrate their media player into iTunes, anything else is just a huge fuck you to the iTunes users.
And that Palm silliness is ridiculous. They didn't have any brilliant technology, they had their device identify itself as an iPod, which is in violation of USB standards. Apple's updates just helped enforce the standards. It's easy enough for third parties such as Palm to make their own app that interfaces into the iTunes library via the easily parse-able XML file that drives the program; there was no reason for Palm to break the USB standard.
I'm considered an Apple fan among my friends. But that whole paragraph is so stupid -- particularly the sentence I marked up -- that it bears repeating. RDF/Stockholm Syndrome in action. If MS pulled shit like that (and I'm not sure they have) I doubt anybody would be in a rush to defend them.
I can't imagine the output power being a problem. Regular in-ear headphones are already incredibly (painfully) loud when used in normal PMPs, so it's not like it's difficult to get the volume. And somehow I doubt the "sound quality" of hearing aids is any different from a normal set of $100 in ear headphones. The selective sound shaping is pretty cool, though.
Well, you said that things went backwards from 6 years ago. They didn't. Stuff got lighter, more energy-efficient and much, much cheaper. That was the point.
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Doesn't matter. There's an app for that!
Similar to the menu bar button move then. I guess it does make sense, although that doesn't necessarily mean it really is better in practice -- for instance, while most computer windows contain text, there are often any number of things between the "main" text and the left side of the window: icons, sidebars, layout elements on web pages, etc.
Either way I guess it comes down to striking a balance between alienating existing and prospective users and designing the interface to be more ideal according to some definition. I'm just wondering if the energy spent here could not be used to optimize other parts of the OS with a similar benefit to usability but without such jarring transitions.
Nice! Lets you do some pretty incredible stuff. So far I haven't been able to do stuff that's in the same league as the CS5 demo, which is probably due to a) my lack of skill, b) the suitability of the chosen images (random holiday snapshots in my case) but also c) the fact that the PS stuff is based on more recent research. It's still really cool though.
My binary is an ELF! It was different before, but that's a.out.
Okay, but why not leave it on the right side where it's been since ... Atari TOS.
I don't know what happened to bubble memory, but I'm pretty sure there were no bubble memory products widely available from various manufacturers with massively better performance at fairly competitive prices. So maybe they're onto something this time...
But do you really *need* to carry all 30GB of music around with you on your laptop?
No. But once you have 30 GB of music, you either keep all of it on your laptop or you need to decide which 2, 5, 10 GB of those 30 GB you do want. Which can be annoying. It's easier to just have it all available all the time. The same issue exists with portable media players. Note that I'm quite happy with my flash-based player, but I understand how people don't want to bother with managing a second "current" music archive. None of this is about need, incidently, the word is just meaningless in this context.
I'd love to see the next version of windows released on a USB thumb drive. I own one external usb DVD player for OS installs and that's it. It feels very 1995 to still be installing my OS from optical media.
It is.
(FWIW installing Linux from USB is, if anything, even more straightforward.)
New technology tends to take a while to trickle down to the third world.
Why would it be slower to find the right corner than it is to find the left? Just because some other widgets are in the left corner?
I like Ubuntu. I really like Gnome, so I don't feel like I have to tear it out. Most things just work for me -- including 5.1 sound --, and though some things don't, I can't imagine any other distribution (or OS, for that matter) not having its own share of issues. I don't care what init mechanism is used as long as things are running after booting. Similarly, I don't really care how partitions are mounted as long as they are, in fact, mounted. I guess I'm a luser these days. Many of the decisions that annoy me can easily be reverted (ctrl-alt-backspace in the past, menu bar buttons in the present; even removing PA apparently wasn't that difficult, even though I never tried it).
Other things I like:
- the update cycle, which is often enough to be interesting and rare enough not to be annoying
- the community support is really good because it seems to be sort of the default distribution these days
- the bug tracker is nice (from a user perspective, anyway)
- PPAs are available for popular software projects, sometimes from upstream itself, so I can get new versions or even nightly builds with updates and without compiling
- overall, Launchpad is pretty awesome
(He was even talking about moving the scroll bar away from the right side of the window, on the grounds that few people use it, and scroll wheels/touchscreen interfaces are becoming the big new thing. This doesn't give me the warm fuzzies either.)
Huh. Now that, I find interesting. It's very rare that I use the scrollbar widgets to do actual scrolling. But I'd miss the visual cue on where I am in the document and how much of it I'm seeing.
Hahaha. I doubt it, but man would THAT be fun to watch.
I'm pretty sure he's referring to software vulnerabilities being disclosed to the security team. As an outsider, you don't get to see those until they're fixed (or made public by somebody else).
Is it at all feasible to run a computer submerged in distilled water? You'd have to ensure that the water remains pure, obviously, but this might be easier than dealing with computers submerged in oil. The obvious advantage is that distilled water is more benign and MUCH easier to work with. Any spills can be cleaned up with a rag, for one thing.
turn the system on, put the "Top Gun" soundtrack in, crank it to 11, and drive down the highway in 20-foot-visibility fog at 70MPH following the painted lines
Man, now I really want to do this.
It's a particularly convenient false friend because the "alternatives" are regionalisms (ie either AE or BE) and much longer because phone is tacked onto them or, in their short forms, colloquial and have even stronger associations with one region. Of course, these days you can often get away with simply using phone by itself.
Who is this Eldar fellow and why is he scrolling V?
Apart from the blatant spelling/grammar mistake, obviously.
Hey that sweater you're wearing is red like my uncle's car. Your wearing my uncle's car. Spot the difference?
Let me get this straight, because it crops up all over this thread. You're suggesting Palm program it's own media player/PMP management software that reads the iTunes XML database and writes stuff to their devices? Or can you write a plugin for iTunes that does the interfacing, similar to how players are integrated into most FOSS media players. That would be great.
But I can see why they didn't want to write an iTunes replacement, or even a partial one that just does the PMP management thing. That'd be a massive reason for not using their hardware for many Mac users and would give Apple a substantive advantage in selling their media players. And of course Apple should interoperate here, everybody should be able to integrate their media player into iTunes, anything else is just a huge fuck you to the iTunes users.
And that Palm silliness is ridiculous. They didn't have any brilliant technology, they had their device identify itself as an iPod, which is in violation of USB standards. Apple's updates just helped enforce the standards. It's easy enough for third parties such as Palm to make their own app that interfaces into the iTunes library via the easily parse-able XML file that drives the program; there was no reason for Palm to break the USB standard.
I'm considered an Apple fan among my friends. But that whole paragraph is so stupid -- particularly the sentence I marked up -- that it bears repeating. RDF/Stockholm Syndrome in action. If MS pulled shit like that (and I'm not sure they have) I doubt anybody would be in a rush to defend them.
I can't imagine the output power being a problem. Regular in-ear headphones are already incredibly (painfully) loud when used in normal PMPs, so it's not like it's difficult to get the volume. And somehow I doubt the "sound quality" of hearing aids is any different from a normal set of $100 in ear headphones. The selective sound shaping is pretty cool, though.
If that's true then prices in the US really are as ridiculous as you always hear.
Well, you said that things went backwards from 6 years ago. They didn't. Stuff got lighter, more energy-efficient and much, much cheaper. That was the point.