That thing exists. It's called (La)TeX. And the UI is called LyX. The only problem with it, is that style classes are impossible to implement, if you don't know TeX. instead of being as nice as CSS styles.
If someone adds an Lotus WordPro style InfoBox (element/selection properties box with savable and inheritable classes) to LyX, you got the holy grail of word processing and DTP! I wish the OOo crowd would throw away all of OOo, and do exactly that. They could go home at the end of the month, and be nearly 100% done with it, instead of working years to badly imitate a bad imitation (MS Word) of a mediocre and outdated word processor (Xerox PARC Bravo).
What gave anyone the idea, that usability for people who do not want to be experts, and efficiency for people who DO want to be experts, would be a an exclusive OR? If anything, you can make the program better by allowing every step in-between.
How? Well, simple: It's called FREAKING OPTIONS. Allow the user to ramp up to more professional modes. Let the application grow and shrink with the user's (non-)expertise. Imagine a slider that steplessly goes from "Notepad" to "VIM". Or from "MS Word" so "LaTeX". Tadaa!
First of all, to all the ranters out there: Menus are really *stupid*, because they usually contain items that open *dialogs*. Modal ones nonetheless! So stop wanting them just because you are used to them. You are wrong, and they are far from what is called a good idea!
Second, to the OOo developers: ARE YOU FREAKING STUPID? (Sorry, I had to let this out.) Button bars are about the only thing that is worse than menus. Because they are a MOUSE-controlled UI element. They basically work strongly against the usage of the keyboard.
Also I got beaten much, for calling open source developers even worse imitators than Microsoft, because MS at least imitates the good ideas. And you promptly prove me right?? COME. ON! I would be more happy to be proven wrong.:(
Again, this thing is not thought to the end. As usually. Because then someone would have thrown the mouse out completely, except for those things where graphical positioning is really needed. Like tables in old-style web design, mouse usage for things that it is not meant for, leads to nothing but problems, inefficiency, and limitations.
If only someone would create a keyboard-only version of Lotus WordPro's InfoBox (a box of properties for the current node or selection in the document, with classes like in CSS).
The state in document editors is so desperate, that I nowadays use XHTML + CSS for my text and desktop publishing needs.
Besides, if you take applications on the web more serious than to use them for your spam or some irrelevant stuff, then you seriously need to see a shrink.
Web apps are the SUVs of software. Except that they are as safe as a Yugo Nowhere. Slow, expensive, insecure, ugly, SLOW, shaky, INSECURE, pointless. It's all of the "good" of the inner platform anti-pattern, all of the insecurity of a web connection, all of the slowness of scripting, and a whole lot of "made by the biggest web advertiser on the planet". ^^
It sounds like the Linux community would say, that after long hopes to please please be loved... or at least hated..., Microsoft now finally pays them the attention that they so desperately need. And while it still is hatred, at least it is *something*.
Who in the community actually is *that* desperate and pathetic, that he needs the acknowledgment of Microsoft that Linux now is allowed to be a "big boy" and be "taken seriously"?? How weak must one's self-confidence be, if that is something even worth mentioning?
I really wonder where this comes from, as I see the Linux community as powerful, and so strongly growing, that the question is not if it will bring Microsoft to its knees, but when(, and how hard they will suck ^^). And I think we won't even notice it, or remember that MS was relevant, when it's happening.
But maybe I'm from the big part of the Linux community, that's more self-confident, than those who try to imitate MS to no end. (The desktop environments mostly.)
And greed is a basic human motivator too. What do you think why we rule the world, instead of other animals. Certainly not because we gave everything to those who now are extinct or irrelevant. Whether their genetics were close or far away from our own.:)
You can by definition not fix anything in the body with a knife! All you can do is destroy things. Which is so primitive, that the sole fact that it is not seen as a horrible method from the dark ages, is shocking and disgusting.
Now for your homework, imagine something that would *actually* fix that part of the brain, and restore the "normal" functionality.;) For bonus points, try to define "normal" and elaborate on why something should be seen as "better" and for whom.
How is this any more right than screening employees for it?
It really does not matter for what group we give up basic human rights first. And of course it will always the one, that the majority of the population sees as evil. But it is always wrong. And it is always a slippery slope too.
So no matter how anyone twists it, even evil CEOs are still human. And if it's a disease, then maybe we should *heal* them if they *want* that. I would tell everyone, that we now can make you an even better leader, by fixing sociopathic twists in the brain. So that people who sometimes feel strange, can just test themselves, to fix the urge to fix that feeling, and then change something. This would help us all, and be much nicer than suspecting and punishing a group of people for no reason.
Both. And it's also a vicious feedback circle. But the original cause that started it, of course has to be either genetic or coming from the environment (social, food, nature, etc). (Because there are no other causes.;)
My first guess would be something social in very early childhood. (E.g. 0-4 years) Then genetic problems or toxins in the environment. Also in early childhood.
Which would mean, that the people in the article are "sociopaths", because such a structure abnormality usually grows with life, being formed by what you experience in it.
The brain is constantly changing. So don't imagine is as static. Things like that can grow, change, and go away. And every input on the senses, or other thing that creates a signal, which will be traveling trough the neurons, is changing it a bit. (Or else we would be unable to remember them!)
Which means that this can be fixed in the same way. You "just" have to know what signals to create on the senses, and in which strength, to create the changes that the patient wants*. Which is where the hard part starts.;)
___ * Yes. What the patient wants. This is often arrogantly "overlooked" But frankly, what we as a third person want, is completely and utterly irrelevant. Because right and wrong is *always* relative. All you can do, is force him (e.g. with a Gatling;) to go separate ways (e.g. move to somewhere else, leave you alone).
Also, if you look at it from above, there must be some difference in how some part of the electromagnetic spectrum is reflected and refracted. So you use a satellite with that spectrum, and scan the area. Then use a bit of Photoshop, and tadaaa!
And yes, it really is that "easy"! It's just a question of the right spectrum.
And what do you do with the VST plugins? Things like NI Absynth. Or the Kontakt sampler. You can't just use them on Linux. And there is no professional music production without at least some good VST plugins. As you may know, these things are mostly unique in their sound, and you can't just drop in another synth. Even near-perfect commercial clones often are not acceptable.
And that is the easiest thing to do! Try rigging a dozen of VST plugins AND (Propellerhead) Reason with Cubase. All under Wine. And then try to play some notes on the keyboard!
For bonus points, try getting your custom FX/synth (built in NI Reaktor) into it too!
It's a bit like your child, or your sports team (when you're the trainer)... You love to see it grow, flourish, any become king of the world. Because in a way, this makes you the king of the king of the world. And who wouldn't love that?
Linux is the child of us all. And it just passed puberty, but still can't go get drunk and play with the big girls/boys.
Try adding some work to a Linux project, and then notice, how you start to get this feeling too.
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Good to know, because that means I'll rather die than use them and let them wreck my DNS services!
Then he rolls it up, and smokes it. ^^
That thing exists. It's called (La)TeX. And the UI is called LyX. The only problem with it, is that style classes are impossible to implement, if you don't know TeX. instead of being as nice as CSS styles.
If someone adds an Lotus WordPro style InfoBox (element/selection properties box with savable and inheritable classes) to LyX, you got the holy grail of word processing and DTP!
I wish the OOo crowd would throw away all of OOo, and do exactly that. They could go home at the end of the month, and be nearly 100% done with it, instead of working years to badly imitate a bad imitation (MS Word) of a mediocre and outdated word processor (Xerox PARC Bravo).
What gave anyone the idea, that usability for people who do not want to be experts, and efficiency for people who DO want to be experts, would be a an exclusive OR?
If anything, you can make the program better by allowing every step in-between.
How?
Well, simple: It's called FREAKING OPTIONS. Allow the user to ramp up to more professional modes. Let the application grow and shrink with the user's (non-)expertise.
Imagine a slider that steplessly goes from "Notepad" to "VIM". Or from "MS Word" so "LaTeX". Tadaa!
First of all, to all the ranters out there: Menus are really *stupid*, because they usually contain items that open *dialogs*. Modal ones nonetheless! So stop wanting them just because you are used to them. You are wrong, and they are far from what is called a good idea!
Second, to the OOo developers: ARE YOU FREAKING STUPID? (Sorry, I had to let this out.)
Button bars are about the only thing that is worse than menus. Because they are a MOUSE-controlled UI element. They basically work strongly against the usage of the keyboard.
Also I got beaten much, for calling open source developers even worse imitators than Microsoft, because MS at least imitates the good ideas. And you promptly prove me right?? COME. ON! :(
I would be more happy to be proven wrong.
Again, this thing is not thought to the end. As usually. Because then someone would have thrown the mouse out completely, except for those things where graphical positioning is really needed.
Like tables in old-style web design, mouse usage for things that it is not meant for, leads to nothing but problems, inefficiency, and limitations.
If only someone would create a keyboard-only version of Lotus WordPro's InfoBox (a box of properties for the current node or selection in the document, with classes like in CSS).
The state in document editors is so desperate, that I nowadays use XHTML + CSS for my text and desktop publishing needs.
But I want my yoctobook! It would go so well with my cell phone and my projector.
-- White Goodman
And the companies that I will make contracts with aren't too.
It's like the banks that we hear about, that "lose" private data. You can bet that those clients and their friends won't ever use them again.
I for example never open a bank account, if I do not get at least HBCI 3.0 with a chip card for a class 2 terminal, and some powerful encryption.
There. Answered it all for you.
Besides, if you take applications on the web more serious than to use them for your spam or some irrelevant stuff, then you seriously need to see a shrink.
Web apps are the SUVs of software. Except that they are as safe as a Yugo Nowhere. Slow, expensive, insecure, ugly, SLOW, shaky, INSECURE, pointless.
It's all of the "good" of the inner platform anti-pattern, all of the insecurity of a web connection, all of the slowness of scripting, and a whole lot of "made by the biggest web advertiser on the planet". ^^
It sounds like the Linux community would say, that after long hopes to please please be loved... or at least hated..., Microsoft now finally pays them the attention that they so desperately need. And while it still is hatred, at least it is *something*.
Who in the community actually is *that* desperate and pathetic, that he needs the acknowledgment of Microsoft that Linux now is allowed to be a "big boy" and be "taken seriously"?? How weak must one's self-confidence be, if that is something even worth mentioning?
I really wonder where this comes from, as I see the Linux community as powerful, and so strongly growing, that the question is not if it will bring Microsoft to its knees, but when(, and how hard they will suck ^^).
And I think we won't even notice it, or remember that MS was relevant, when it's happening.
But maybe I'm from the big part of the Linux community, that's more self-confident, than those who try to imitate MS to no end. (The desktop environments mostly.)
...as Internet addiction. Never EVER forget that! EVER!
Also, wait for this to be the same in the "western" world in 10 years.
As if you couldn't program a cutter to cut in percentages of the automatically measured lattice size.
I can break your whole world with one question:
What exactly makes a stone out of a material that costs next to nothing to produce so valuable?
Bonus question:
Or do you mean the stuff that people are killed for?
And greed is a basic human motivator too. What do you think why we rule the world, instead of other animals. Certainly not because we gave everything to those who now are extinct or irrelevant. Whether their genetics were close or far away from our own. :)
You can by definition not fix anything in the body with a knife! All you can do is destroy things.
Which is so primitive, that the sole fact that it is not seen as a horrible method from the dark ages, is shocking and disgusting.
Now for your homework, imagine something that would *actually* fix that part of the brain, and restore the "normal" functionality. ;)
For bonus points, try to define "normal" and elaborate on why something should be seen as "better" and for whom.
How is this any more right than screening employees for it?
It really does not matter for what group we give up basic human rights first. And of course it will always the one, that the majority of the population sees as evil.
But it is always wrong. And it is always a slippery slope too.
So no matter how anyone twists it, even evil CEOs are still human. And if it's a disease, then maybe we should *heal* them if they *want* that. I would tell everyone, that we now can make you an even better leader, by fixing sociopathic twists in the brain. So that people who sometimes feel strange, can just test themselves, to fix the urge to fix that feeling, and then change something.
This would help us all, and be much nicer than suspecting and punishing a group of people for no reason.
Both. And it's also a vicious feedback circle. But the original cause that started it, of course has to be either genetic or coming from the environment (social, food, nature, etc). (Because there are no other causes. ;)
My first guess would be something social in very early childhood. (E.g. 0-4 years)
Then genetic problems or toxins in the environment. Also in early childhood.
Which would mean, that the people in the article are "sociopaths", because such a structure abnormality usually grows with life, being formed by what you experience in it.
The brain is constantly changing. So don't imagine is as static. Things like that can grow, change, and go away. And every input on the senses, or other thing that creates a signal, which will be traveling trough the neurons, is changing it a bit. (Or else we would be unable to remember them!)
Which means that this can be fixed in the same way. You "just" have to know what signals to create on the senses, and in which strength, to create the changes that the patient wants*. Which is where the hard part starts. ;)
___ ;) to go separate ways (e.g. move to somewhere else, leave you alone).
* Yes. What the patient wants. This is often arrogantly "overlooked" But frankly, what we as a third person want, is completely and utterly irrelevant. Because right and wrong is *always* relative. All you can do, is force him (e.g. with a Gatling
Then it would not be an *island*, would it?
Also, if you look at it from above, there must be some difference in how some part of the electromagnetic spectrum is reflected and refracted. So you use a satellite with that spectrum, and scan the area. Then use a bit of Photoshop, and tadaaa!
And yes, it really is that "easy"! It's just a question of the right spectrum.
And what about the just as toxic stuff that it releases? After all it is plastic. And usually produced with the use of toxic substances.
One word: Paludis (or Portage). ^^
I agree with everything, *but* the "bleepy shit" thing. Go tell that to Aphex Twin's face. ^^
And what do you do with the VST plugins? Things like NI Absynth. Or the Kontakt sampler. You can't just use them on Linux. And there is no professional music production without at least some good VST plugins. As you may know, these things are mostly unique in their sound, and you can't just drop in another synth. Even near-perfect commercial clones often are not acceptable.
And that is the easiest thing to do! Try rigging a dozen of VST plugins AND (Propellerhead) Reason with Cubase. All under Wine. And then try to play some notes on the keyboard!
For bonus points, try getting your custom FX/synth (built in NI Reaktor) into it too!
Masochism at its finest. ^^
It's a bit like your child, or your sports team (when you're the trainer)... You love to see it grow, flourish, any become king of the world. Because in a way, this makes you the king of the king of the world. And who wouldn't love that?
Linux is the child of us all. And it just passed puberty, but still can't go get drunk and play with the big girls/boys.
Try adding some work to a Linux project, and then notice, how you start to get this feeling too.