"There are products that are fully secure and free of bugs." I don't believe this. How do you know they have absolutely no bugs, rather than that just no bugs have been found? Unless you can mathematically prove that they are bug free, you cannot know whether they really are bug free.
I think the fact that computer security sucks implies that one of these is true: 1. It just isn't possible to make software ultra-secure and free of vulnerabilities. I.e. you cannot expect *any* piece to be 100% secure, ever. 2. It is possible, but the costs of making software ultra-secure is so high that it's not worth it. Customers would rather pay a lower price for a slightly less secure system than a much larger price for a 100% secure system.
The only reason why I don't actively use XHTML (and instead use HTML 4 strict) is because Internet Explorer doesn't correctly support it. It renders XHTML as HTML 4 *transitional*, which activates IE's broken 'compatibility' box model. And IE doesn't support the XHTML MIME type.
The past new years I've noticed that the browser world has become IE versus "the rest". Firefox, Opera and Konqueror seem to render everything nearly identically. 95% of the rendering problems during website development seem to come from IE, and IE only.
"excuse me, we are talking about GAMES, PLAYING, living their CHILDHOOD, in the context. where did stealing and murdering come from ?"
From the word "ANYTHING".
"intentions in that subject do not change the results considerably. whatever the intention, supressed/postponed stuff strikes back."
There's a huge difference between suppressing your children from enjoying gaming and preventing game addiction from ruining their lives. I'd say 3 hours gaming per day, in combination with other non-computer-gaming recreational activities, is more than enough to live a good childhood. Heck, I'd even say non-computer-gaming recreational activities (like, you know, socializing with other kids, in real life?) are probably more healthy than computer gaming!
"ANYTHING that is suppressed gets bigger and strikes back at a later date."
Suppressing people from stealing will make more people steal? Suppressing people from murdering will result in more murderers? Sorry I don't see the logic in that.
"you, chinese are total morons for approving that, or forcing your kids to forfeit their present for their future, a future which never comes and constant sacrifice continues while trying to reach it."
It's the culture. Many Chinese parents were born in the 50s-60s. They've experienced the Cultural Revolution and many of them have never had proper education, so now they want their kids to have proper education and to have a better future. Of course they don't want their kids ruining their lives by spending 12 hours a day on a game. 3 hours a day spent on gaming is very reasonable (and that's excluding the time spent on, oh you know, PLAYING with other kids! And I don't mean behind a computer.) I call you a moron for not even trying to understand their point of view.
It's because of the culture. I don't know whether you've noticed, but Asian parents tend to put a lot of value in studying. They want their children to study hard and to go to a good university and to get a good job. The thought of your own child being addicted to games and neglecting school is the fear of every Chinese parent.
You know, not every government decision has to be associated with suppression and regime.
Pointing out problems in public first is inhuman? If that's what you call inhuman then I don't want to know what you consider human. I fail to see why you blame the "zealot wolves"' behavior on Michael. The zealots are at fault and are entirely responsible for their own behavior, not Michael.
Yes. I want emailed receipts. I want to be able to search my payment history with GMail. And you forgot things like email address verification - Paypal needs to send emails for that.
Heck, even if they decide not to send emails anymore, then people will still fall for Paypal phishing emails.
"Since that time there has been absolutely no reason for GNOME to exist." Bullshit. GNOME has a very good reason to exist - emphasis on simplicity over configurability. Every time I look at KDE, the interfaces are full of controls and the configuration dialogs have tons of options. I much prefer GNOME's simple interfaces, even if they're less configurable. Granted, there are people who like KDE's configurability, but there are also plenty of people who don't like it. Thus GNOME's existence is justified.
No. I know the brothers Wright invented the airplane in the 1900s. I didn't associate the word "telescope" with this because I'm not a native English speaker. Yeah, so I don't know everything. Big deal. Get over it. I asked whether 4 centuries is a typo because I wanted to learn something, is that ok with you?
Actually I do (and why I got modded troll, I have no idea). When you say "telescope", I think about huge things like this - not something someone from 400 years ago could have built. And when you say "Galileo" I think "the guy who claimed earth was not the center of the universe along with Copernicus", not "the guy who invented the telescope".
"Yes, they could have mirrored the directory structure in a separate directory."
And where is this seperate directory? How is subversion supposed to find it? Would you have to put a config file in every folder pointing to that folder?
"I'd say any tool that imposes itself in ways that interferes with other tools is broken."
Suppose my filesystem browser doesn't support hiding dot files, and dot files clutter the screen. KDE makes a bunch of dot files. Is my filesystem browser broken or is KDE broken? According to your reasoning KDE is broken.
From TFA: "Since the invention of the telescope four centuries ago" I didn't know telecopes were that old. Is this a typo, and didn't they mean decades instead? If not, what did ancient telescopes do?
I have a FreeBSD server. FreeBSD is good, but I hate some of its userland. I much prefer GNU tar, bash, ls, etc. over BSD's own userland. And frankly I don't care whether the binaries are a few kilobytes bigger, this is 2007 and a few kilobytes or even megabytes isn't going to kill me. I think it's quite useless to speak about "bloat" in your example.
Actually CVS puts a 'CVS' (without dot) folder in your folders. That's annoying because I actually see the folder - I don't want to see it.
As for the '.svn' folder - is there any other way they could have implemented it? They could put all the information in a single file, but how do you locate that file when you're in a subfolder? I'd say your tools are broken if they can't be configured to ignore.svn folders.
It's a *Perl* program, not a native program. The memory as used by the Perl parse tree is not shared between instances. The memory used by the Perl interpreter itself and related native libraries are tiny compared to the memory used by the Perl program itself.
On the contrary, fork() is still sensible even today. Especially the copy-on-write implementations. fork() is ideal for saving memory in scripting languages. Imagine a Perl program, which requires about 35 MB of memory (25 MB for the parsed code, 10 MB for actual work). The user wants to run 6 instances of the program. Without fork (that is, on Windows) the user will need 210 MB of memory. On Unix I can use fork() and the user will only need about 100 MB of memory because the parsed code is shared between instances. This is not a hypothetical situation, I actually have a program that fits this description. A GNOME developer also recently developed a Python script which preloads PyGTK and forks instances, to save memory in PyGTK apps.
fork() is also ideal for making a "protected copy" of your program. Suppose that you have a web server which forks when a new client connected. If the child process crashes then it won't affect the parent process or the other children. I don't think you can do that in Windows easily.
Uhm yeah, the colors are different. So what? The layout is almost exactly the same - bookmarks on the left, files and folders on the right, action buttons on the bottom, in right-to-left order (Cancel/Open instead of Open/Cancel as Windows apps would usually use). Usability is pretty much the same.
"If they apply "widely used principles of UI design", why, for example, is the file save dialog so different (and much worse) than in Windows, OS X or KDE ?"
Which part of the GTK file dialog is "much worse" than the OS X one? There's almost no difference.
"Testing the interface on "real people" is fine, but are they exclusively doing this on people who have next-to-no computer experience ? Testing what these people find useable for their first few days of computing experience with a new environment is fine, but everyone learns things in time, learns their own preferred way of doing things, and is able to absorb more and more functionality."
How naive you are. Things don't work like that for 90% of the users, sorry.
All the -su words there are Japanese. There are more Japanese words that end with -su than that website lists. "Manatsu" being one. And there are probably tons of anime characters whose names end with -su.
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No they aren't. I've been there too. It's Windows everywhere I see it. I don't even see Macs.
"There are products that are fully secure and free of bugs."
I don't believe this. How do you know they have absolutely no bugs, rather than that just no bugs have been found? Unless you can mathematically prove that they are bug free, you cannot know whether they really are bug free.
I think the fact that computer security sucks implies that one of these is true:
1. It just isn't possible to make software ultra-secure and free of vulnerabilities. I.e. you cannot expect *any* piece to be 100% secure, ever.
2. It is possible, but the costs of making software ultra-secure is so high that it's not worth it. Customers would rather pay a lower price for a slightly less secure system than a much larger price for a 100% secure system.
The only reason why I don't actively use XHTML (and instead use HTML 4 strict) is because Internet Explorer doesn't correctly support it. It renders XHTML as HTML 4 *transitional*, which activates IE's broken 'compatibility' box model. And IE doesn't support the XHTML MIME type.
The past new years I've noticed that the browser world has become IE versus "the rest". Firefox, Opera and Konqueror seem to render everything nearly identically. 95% of the rendering problems during website development seem to come from IE, and IE only.
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"excuse me, we are talking about GAMES, PLAYING, living their CHILDHOOD, in the context. where did stealing and murdering come from ?"
From the word "ANYTHING".
"intentions in that subject do not change the results considerably. whatever the intention, supressed/postponed stuff strikes back."
There's a huge difference between suppressing your children from enjoying gaming and preventing game addiction from ruining their lives. I'd say 3 hours gaming per day, in combination with other non-computer-gaming recreational activities, is more than enough to live a good childhood. Heck, I'd even say non-computer-gaming recreational activities (like, you know, socializing with other kids, in real life?) are probably more healthy than computer gaming!
"ANYTHING that is suppressed gets bigger and strikes back at a later date."
Suppressing people from stealing will make more people steal? Suppressing people from murdering will result in more murderers? Sorry I don't see the logic in that.
"you, chinese are total morons for approving that, or forcing your kids to forfeit their present for their future, a future which never comes and constant sacrifice continues while trying to reach it."
It's the culture. Many Chinese parents were born in the 50s-60s. They've experienced the Cultural Revolution and many of them have never had proper education, so now they want their kids to have proper education and to have a better future. Of course they don't want their kids ruining their lives by spending 12 hours a day on a game. 3 hours a day spent on gaming is very reasonable (and that's excluding the time spent on, oh you know, PLAYING with other kids! And I don't mean behind a computer.) I call you a moron for not even trying to understand their point of view.
It's because of the culture. I don't know whether you've noticed, but Asian parents tend to put a lot of value in studying. They want their children to study hard and to go to a good university and to get a good job. The thought of your own child being addicted to games and neglecting school is the fear of every Chinese parent.
You know, not every government decision has to be associated with suppression and regime.
Yes, let's rename it to Linux Instant Messenger Plus. Would that satisfy you?
Pointing out problems in public first is inhuman? If that's what you call inhuman then I don't want to know what you consider human. I fail to see why you blame the "zealot wolves"' behavior on Michael. The zealots are at fault and are entirely responsible for their own behavior, not Michael.
"Emailed receipts?"
Yes. I want emailed receipts. I want to be able to search my payment history with GMail. And you forgot things like email address verification - Paypal needs to send emails for that.
Heck, even if they decide not to send emails anymore, then people will still fall for Paypal phishing emails.
"Since that time there has been absolutely no reason for GNOME to exist."
Bullshit. GNOME has a very good reason to exist - emphasis on simplicity over configurability. Every time I look at KDE, the interfaces are full of controls and the configuration dialogs have tons of options. I much prefer GNOME's simple interfaces, even if they're less configurable. Granted, there are people who like KDE's configurability, but there are also plenty of people who don't like it. Thus GNOME's existence is justified.
Regardless of whether global warming is caused by CO2, it's still a good idea to reduce CO2 output.
No. I know the brothers Wright invented the airplane in the 1900s. I didn't associate the word "telescope" with this because I'm not a native English speaker. Yeah, so I don't know everything. Big deal. Get over it. I asked whether 4 centuries is a typo because I wanted to learn something, is that ok with you?
Actually I do (and why I got modded troll, I have no idea). When you say "telescope", I think about huge things like this - not something someone from 400 years ago could have built. And when you say "Galileo" I think "the guy who claimed earth was not the center of the universe along with Copernicus", not "the guy who invented the telescope".
"Yes, they could have mirrored the directory structure in a separate directory."
And where is this seperate directory? How is subversion supposed to find it? Would you have to put a config file in every folder pointing to that folder?
"I'd say any tool that imposes itself in ways that interferes with other tools is broken."
Suppose my filesystem browser doesn't support hiding dot files, and dot files clutter the screen. KDE makes a bunch of dot files. Is my filesystem browser broken or is KDE broken? According to your reasoning KDE is broken.
From TFA: "Since the invention of the telescope four centuries ago"
I didn't know telecopes were that old. Is this a typo, and didn't they mean decades instead? If not, what did ancient telescopes do?
I have a FreeBSD server. FreeBSD is good, but I hate some of its userland. I much prefer GNU tar, bash, ls, etc. over BSD's own userland. And frankly I don't care whether the binaries are a few kilobytes bigger, this is 2007 and a few kilobytes or even megabytes isn't going to kill me. I think it's quite useless to speak about "bloat" in your example.
Actually CVS puts a 'CVS' (without dot) folder in your folders. That's annoying because I actually see the folder - I don't want to see it.
.svn folders.
As for the '.svn' folder - is there any other way they could have implemented it? They could put all the information in a single file, but how do you locate that file when you're in a subfolder? I'd say your tools are broken if they can't be configured to ignore
It's a *Perl* program, not a native program. The memory as used by the Perl parse tree is not shared between instances. The memory used by the Perl interpreter itself and related native libraries are tiny compared to the memory used by the Perl program itself.
On the contrary, fork() is still sensible even today. Especially the copy-on-write implementations. fork() is ideal for saving memory in scripting languages.
Imagine a Perl program, which requires about 35 MB of memory (25 MB for the parsed code, 10 MB for actual work). The user wants to run 6 instances of the program. Without fork (that is, on Windows) the user will need 210 MB of memory. On Unix I can use fork() and the user will only need about 100 MB of memory because the parsed code is shared between instances.
This is not a hypothetical situation, I actually have a program that fits this description. A GNOME developer also recently developed a Python script which preloads PyGTK and forks instances, to save memory in PyGTK apps.
fork() is also ideal for making a "protected copy" of your program. Suppose that you have a web server which forks when a new client connected. If the child process crashes then it won't affect the parent process or the other children. I don't think you can do that in Windows easily.
- Then where are screenshots from newer versions of OS X? I can't find them on Google.
- Does column view improve usability significantly?
Uhm yeah, the colors are different. So what? The layout is almost exactly the same - bookmarks on the left, files and folders on the right, action buttons on the bottom, in right-to-left order (Cancel/Open instead of Open/Cancel as Windows apps would usually use). Usability is pretty much the same.
Do you even know what you're talking about? The GTK file dialog is almost exactly the same as the OS X file dialog. Compare these screenshots:
GTK save file dialog: http://clemens-and.nihongonauts.com/uploads/gtk2.
OS X save file dialog: http://www.uwec.edu/help/MacOSX/Images/dialog/fil
GTK open file dialog: http://www.flamerobin.org/images/screenshots/0.6.
OS X open file dialog: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/interfac
Which part of the GTK file dialog is "much worse" than the OS X one? There's almost no difference.
How naive you are. Things don't work like that for 90% of the users, sorry.
All the -su words there are Japanese. There are more Japanese words that end with -su than that website lists. "Manatsu" being one. And there are probably tons of anime characters whose names end with -su.