"I liked the effects, because they were exactly what I like, and because I think that the whole world revolves around me, I think that the people who did this movie were the best in the business, and everybody should learn from them, because everybody would like every film FX to be made like this."
My response: Well, I liked Matrix, A Scanner Darkly, Eternal Sunshine On A Spotless Mind, Sin City, 300, and other movies more, because of their "unrealistic" effects. It's called "style". Same as comics/manga. Same as paintings. Same as writing style.
So one could say that the style of this Star Trek was, to be invisible. Which is not good or bad. And I agree that I like it, just like I liked the style of Galactica. Just don't be so egocentric. ^^
Yes, it is funny, that you somehow can't work more than X hours a day, because you get you money. One might think that you still are a human, with still the same limitations. But of course everybody in HR and management knows that that is bullshit.:P
In case you didn't know: Water cooling must be in a closed loop. You should not ever need to replace that water. If you do, you can destroy your coolers, because growing crystals will burst them. I have seen pictures of that.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but either way you can't. In case you mean replacing the water: You're doing it wrong! ^^ The more often you replace the water, the more likely it is for your coolers to get some mineral crystals to grow. In two years, your CPU cooler might suddenly burst, killing your whole electronics. This even happens with distilled water, because there is no 100% in nature. There are even galleries out there of such bursts, including images of huge crystals inside the coolers.
So usually, you use some protective fluid to mix with the water. And that stuff can't be recycled I think.
Hey, I know a whole kind of cars, that gets unlimited miles per gallon: Cars that use abundant resources, like the sun! Now if they would only look half as good. ^^
And still, we will not have any "drugs" that actually heal people. They will still just make you depend on them, because they only take away the symptoms for just until you have to take the next pill.
People, please realize this: Nearly all health problems are better prevented than fixed later. Most of the time it's way easier too. But species-appropriate food and sports are so uncool, right? Sometimes I wonder, why we geeks aren't the one with the most perfectly running, properly maintained bodies. After all, our beloved computers can't hold a candle to the impressive perfection of our bodies, in terms of advanced technology.
How about seeing it like this: Imagine some aliens would land here, desperately in need for someone to tune and hack their extremely advanced robots and computers. You would notice that they were somehow wet and soft, and so totally different, that it would give you tinkering and optimizing fun for many lives. Would you do it? I think: Hell yeah! Well, you body is not far away from such machines. You got such a machine, to do with it what you like. And you can also get another one, to produce even more of them, if you do it right. Now if that isn't impressive, then I do not know what is...
I mean who would want to kidnap or kill that guy anyway? He's a worthless decoration. It would be like stealing the picture on the wall when you're inside Fort Knox. ^^ Besides, when you'd abduct him, he might trip and fall over himself, dying in the process. Who would want to clean up all the dimensions of that mess? ^^
He'd be perfectly safe, sitting right next to Osama and the forty holy warriors.
...not having 500 tabs open, just because you want to read them in the next 3 years or something? ^^
You know, there is a feature called "bookmarks" for this.
Basically, the only point where I can imagine that it makes sense to open enough tabs to fill the whole bar, is when you open many images, or search results. They could be displayed in a gallery-like manner.
But I have a problem with sidebars: They take away too much space. And still you got no overview. You basically either create one line per tab, which would usually cut off the most important part of the page title (Making 10 tabs say "Slashdot Comments | Mo..."). And below, you still got 80% of the tab empty. Or you add line-breaks, and more, and got some huge rows that take away most of the place, while still only allowing some 8 tabs to be visible. Again: Lost space. Filled but still lost.
But the concept of grouping tasks/tabs is not bad. Just please do not implement it in that incredibly disturbing and useless manner that it's implemented in XP. I would recommend adding a second "level" of tabs. For usability and overview, I would by default (but changable) force the number of tabs per set to 10 max. (average = 7). So you could have one level showing the topics, which would for example contain one topic for each project you are working on, and one for random stuff. And below that, there were the tabs, just like now.
Oh, and I would create a function in the right-click menu of the tabs, that would show a window with the exact details on the memory and CPU usage of that tab. So people could finally see, that most memory eating in Firefox comes from Flash, and huge, html-downscaled pics and animated gifs. Seriously. Flash is the guilty one here.
Well, that's pretty much the whole point: The developers do it, because *they* want something for *them*. Why should they care about you? And especially rant at them and think you can *demand* things. You can *not*. It is their life. If you want something, offer something. Like money.
If you do not offer money, or something other, that gives them a reason to do something that makes no sense to them, then just GTFO please.;) You would act the same, in their situation.
Try this: Be friendly, and fair. Tell them what you want, and why, and then offer them something that just feels to make it worth for them. Very likely they will become motivated. If not, other concurring activities had better offers. ^^
If you call that distorted, filtered, resampled trash that XP puts out "sound"... ^^
But with the sound: I never had problem with that. Followed the ALSA HOWTO for Gentoo, and done. I've got a DMX 6fire (Envy24 aka ICE1712 chip), and the mixer app (Envy24Control) just rocks. Maybe you just had the wrong sound card, or bad luck, I don't know.
But the only real problems I ever had with Linux, came from crappy driver support and even crappier hardware (nVidia (chipsets) and ATi, I look at you!) (the same thing that made Windows crash that often). Other than that, I never had problems resolving an application bug. Maybe, because the Gentoo installation made me actually understand what's happening and how the OS works, and maybe because the forums (apart from the non-working search) are the best thing since Linux was born.:)
Besides: Any professional does backups anyway. If you do not, then please hand me your geek card now. ^^
In short: Why would it have to be "ready" for the "desktop"? Why would I want a stupid colorful clickable for every function on my system? Maybe there is a point to not making Linux for the average noob. Maybe this would make it useless to real users. Those that actually automate things with their computers, instead of treating them like black box gadgets.
Very often, when I hear someone complain that something is too complicated, he is just too damn stupid an lazy. Wanna do a complex action on your computer, that nobody else thought of? Then better get off your buttons and write a two-liner script. Of course there are programs that really are needlessly complicated.
The point is *efficiency*. More easy does *not* equal more efficient.
One thing I always wondered, is that none of the GUI applications for Linux follows the Unix philosopy, of making small modules that you can put together. Not a single one. They are all monolithic "do it all, including the kitchen sink" apps. OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, K3B, Amarok, and so on, and so forth, down to basic things like Kate (the text editor).
If I were to design the UI for linux, I would split all apps into libraries with a fixed interface, that would allow them to be used like tools in photoshop that modify the object at one place, or wizards that process/transform whole objects. You could put them together how you like. Attach this to that, pipe this output there...
All graphical. But still somehow reminding of working on a console. But without having to memorize every parameter. With the interface compatible to at least C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, JavaScript, PHP, Haskell, OCaml, and perhaps Erlang and LUA And all keyboard-controllable. I'm thinking of building such a basic framework right now. Unfortunately I'm in some large game project right now, and for the next years.:(
But if you start such a thing, drop me a note, and I will contribute where I can.
Well, how about having real quotes. And a real dash character. Or an ellipsis character. Or math symbols. Etc, etc, etc. I have them all on my keyboard. This has not much to do with language. And besides: Whether you want it or not, this is an international site. With international names of persons, places, and so on.
Abuse is a fuckin' stupid excuse for laziness and incompetence. UTF-8 is implemented very properly by now. And you still can filter out the few characters that should not be allowed (<, LTR reversal, and, well.. I don't even think there are others. You can still disallow UTF-8 inside HTML tags here, and allow everything but the lame quote substitute characters (" and ').
The best comment on your "abuse" link is this one:
But fixing things requires actually doing hard work rather than cheap hacks.
There are even tools to filter UTF-8 by character class. So you could just allow certain classes without a problem. But nooo...
In the experiment, they used big expensive external devices to measure the user reaction. But as soon as you add those devices to the calculation, it stops to make sense...
And ravens can build tools, communicate, and solve complex problems. I bet they could play and win Pac-Man too. Same as Dolphins. And perhaps some other animals.
I just do not know what this has to do with the tastiness of the flesh.
Oh, of course: You think about it in the industrialized way, where you get the meat on your table. But I think if you want to eat it, you have to kill it yourself. If you can't, then: No meat for you. If you can, you deserve it. But if it can kill you, it can eat you too.
That's what we could call respectful natural selection.:) It's just that we are way too dominant on this planet. A natural predator would teach us. ^^
Who pays for their products? I know I certainly never did. And I only know two persons who did. One of them is now some psycho and not my friend anymore. The other one installed and defended Vista. He's dead now. (Not by my hand. He simply ate too much crap.)
Nope, they don't like being monitored. They just do not think further than around the next corner. If you tell them the concept of cardinal Richelieu, that if they want to find something, they will find something to hang you, and this gives them the possibility to find something, then they suddenly are very scared and surprised. Or they just start the ignore-machine and stick their head in the sand, which means they got it, but it shocked them too much to look directly at it, so they buried it as deep as they could.
No. I am originally from Luxemburg. And is says in the article, that it's in a Plus shop. I go to a Plus shop like that every other day, to buy my food. And this does not look like a Plus shop. The signs and price tags look wrong. They also do not have any shops in Switzerland and Luxemburg.
Slashdot Mirror
"I liked the effects, because they were exactly what I like, and because I think that the whole world revolves around me, I think that the people who did this movie were the best in the business, and everybody should learn from them, because everybody would like every film FX to be made like this."
My response: Well, I liked Matrix, A Scanner Darkly, Eternal Sunshine On A Spotless Mind, Sin City, 300, and other movies more, because of their "unrealistic" effects.
It's called "style". Same as comics/manga. Same as paintings. Same as writing style.
So one could say that the style of this Star Trek was, to be invisible. Which is not good or bad. And I agree that I like it, just like I liked the style of Galactica.
Just don't be so egocentric. ^^
Yes, it is funny, that you somehow can't work more than X hours a day, because you get you money. :P
One might think that you still are a human, with still the same limitations.
But of course everybody in HR and management knows that that is bullshit.
In case you didn't know: Water cooling must be in a closed loop. You should not ever need to replace that water. If you do, you can destroy your coolers, because growing crystals will burst them. I have seen pictures of that.
You can recycle your water
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but either way you can't.
In case you mean replacing the water: You're doing it wrong! ^^ The more often you replace the water, the more likely it is for your coolers to get some mineral crystals to grow. In two years, your CPU cooler might suddenly burst, killing your whole electronics.
This even happens with distilled water, because there is no 100% in nature.
There are even galleries out there of such bursts, including images of huge crystals inside the coolers.
So usually, you use some protective fluid to mix with the water. And that stuff can't be recycled I think.
As a replacement for a micropenis*, obviously. ^^
* Thank you for letting me know, that something like that really exists, with big detailed imagery, trolls. I hate you! ^^
Well, if a Porsche can do 35 miles per US gal. (or 42 imp. gal):
http://www.worldcarfans.com/9081217.019/porsche-911-carrera-achieves-42-mpg-with-pdk-trans
Then I think, some companies have to stop being little crybabies, and start to innovate.
Hey, I know a whole kind of cars, that gets unlimited miles per gallon: Cars that use abundant resources, like the sun!
Now if they would only look half as good. ^^
Why? I actually can see vibration. Are you slow, or why don't you? ^^
And still, we will not have any "drugs" that actually heal people. They will still just make you depend on them, because they only take away the symptoms for just until you have to take the next pill.
People, please realize this: Nearly all health problems are better prevented than fixed later. Most of the time it's way easier too. But species-appropriate food and sports are so uncool, right? Sometimes I wonder, why we geeks aren't the one with the most perfectly running, properly maintained bodies. After all, our beloved computers can't hold a candle to the impressive perfection of our bodies, in terms of advanced technology.
How about seeing it like this: Imagine some aliens would land here, desperately in need for someone to tune and hack their extremely advanced robots and computers. You would notice that they were somehow wet and soft, and so totally different, that it would give you tinkering and optimizing fun for many lives. Would you do it? I think: Hell yeah!
Well, you body is not far away from such machines. You got such a machine, to do with it what you like. And you can also get another one, to produce even more of them, if you do it right.
Now if that isn't impressive, then I do not know what is...
Or perhaps they want us to think that. ^^
I mean who would want to kidnap or kill that guy anyway? He's a worthless decoration. It would be like stealing the picture on the wall when you're inside Fort Knox. ^^
Besides, when you'd abduct him, he might trip and fall over himself, dying in the process. Who would want to clean up all the dimensions of that mess? ^^
He'd be perfectly safe, sitting right next to Osama and the forty holy warriors.
...not having 500 tabs open, just because you want to read them in the next 3 years or something? ^^
You know, there is a feature called "bookmarks" for this.
Basically, the only point where I can imagine that it makes sense to open enough tabs to fill the whole bar, is when you open many images, or search results. They could be displayed in a gallery-like manner.
But I have a problem with sidebars: They take away too much space. And still you got no overview.
You basically either create one line per tab, which would usually cut off the most important part of the page title (Making 10 tabs say "Slashdot Comments | Mo..."). And below, you still got 80% of the tab empty.
Or you add line-breaks, and more, and got some huge rows that take away most of the place, while still only allowing some 8 tabs to be visible. Again: Lost space. Filled but still lost.
But the concept of grouping tasks/tabs is not bad. Just please do not implement it in that incredibly disturbing and useless manner that it's implemented in XP.
I would recommend adding a second "level" of tabs. For usability and overview, I would by default (but changable) force the number of tabs per set to 10 max. (average = 7). So you could have one level showing the topics, which would for example contain one topic for each project you are working on, and one for random stuff. And below that, there were the tabs, just like now.
Oh, and I would create a function in the right-click menu of the tabs, that would show a window with the exact details on the memory and CPU usage of that tab. So people could finally see, that most memory eating in Firefox comes from Flash, and huge, html-downscaled pics and animated gifs. Seriously. Flash is the guilty one here.
Well, that's pretty much the whole point: The developers do it, because *they* want something for *them*. Why should they care about you? And especially rant at them and think you can *demand* things. You can *not*. It is their life. If you want something, offer something. Like money.
If you do not offer money, or something other, that gives them a reason to do something that makes no sense to them, then just GTFO please. ;)
You would act the same, in their situation.
Try this: Be friendly, and fair. Tell them what you want, and why, and then offer them something that just feels to make it worth for them. Very likely they will become motivated. If not, other concurring activities had better offers. ^^
If you call that distorted, filtered, resampled trash that XP puts out "sound"... ^^
But with the sound: I never had problem with that. Followed the ALSA HOWTO for Gentoo, and done.
I've got a DMX 6fire (Envy24 aka ICE1712 chip), and the mixer app (Envy24Control) just rocks.
Maybe you just had the wrong sound card, or bad luck, I don't know.
But the only real problems I ever had with Linux, came from crappy driver support and even crappier hardware (nVidia (chipsets) and ATi, I look at you!) (the same thing that made Windows crash that often). :)
Other than that, I never had problems resolving an application bug. Maybe, because the Gentoo installation made me actually understand what's happening and how the OS works, and maybe because the forums (apart from the non-working search) are the best thing since Linux was born.
Besides: Any professional does backups anyway. If you do not, then please hand me your geek card now. ^^
In short: Why would it have to be "ready" for the "desktop"? Why would I want a stupid colorful clickable for every function on my system? Maybe there is a point to not making Linux for the average noob. Maybe this would make it useless to real users. Those that actually automate things with their computers, instead of treating them like black box gadgets.
Very often, when I hear someone complain that something is too complicated, he is just too damn stupid an lazy. Wanna do a complex action on your computer, that nobody else thought of? Then better get off your buttons and write a two-liner script.
Of course there are programs that really are needlessly complicated.
The point is *efficiency*. More easy does *not* equal more efficient.
One thing I always wondered, is that none of the GUI applications for Linux follows the Unix philosopy, of making small modules that you can put together. Not a single one.
They are all monolithic "do it all, including the kitchen sink" apps. OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, K3B, Amarok, and so on, and so forth, down to basic things like Kate (the text editor).
If I were to design the UI for linux, I would split all apps into libraries with a fixed interface, that would allow them to be used like tools in photoshop that modify the object at one place, or wizards that process/transform whole objects. You could put them together how you like. Attach this to that, pipe this output there...
All graphical. But still somehow reminding of working on a console. But without having to memorize every parameter. With the interface compatible to at least C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, JavaScript, PHP, Haskell, OCaml, and perhaps Erlang and LUA And all keyboard-controllable. :(
I'm thinking of building such a basic framework right now.
Unfortunately I'm in some large game project right now, and for the next years.
But if you start such a thing, drop me a note, and I will contribute where I can.
Well, how about having real quotes. And a real dash character. Or an ellipsis character. Or math symbols. Etc, etc, etc. I have them all on my keyboard. This has not much to do with language. And besides: Whether you want it or not, this is an international site. With international names of persons, places, and so on.
Abuse is a fuckin' stupid excuse for laziness and incompetence. UTF-8 is implemented very properly by now. And you still can filter out the few characters that should not be allowed (<, LTR reversal, and, well.. I don't even think there are others. You can still disallow UTF-8 inside HTML tags here, and allow everything but the lame quote substitute characters (" and ').
The best comment on your "abuse" link is this one:
But fixing things requires actually doing hard work rather than cheap hacks.
There are even tools to filter UTF-8 by character class. So you could just allow certain classes without a problem. But nooo...
In the experiment, they used big expensive external devices to measure the user reaction. But as soon as you add those devices to the calculation, it stops to make sense...
And Apple Fanboi and Apple Fanboi basher bashers, which seem to be exceptionally good at trolling below the radar. ^^
Have you all missed the Slashdot story many months ago, where the reliability of HDDs was discussed with a study from Google?
It said, that at that time, they were adding 100,000 servers a month to their data centers!
They had, I thing 500k of them back then.
And ravens can build tools, communicate, and solve complex problems. I bet they could play and win Pac-Man too.
Same as Dolphins. And perhaps some other animals.
I just do not know what this has to do with the tastiness of the flesh.
Oh, of course: You think about it in the industrialized way, where you get the meat on your table.
But I think if you want to eat it, you have to kill it yourself. If you can't, then: No meat for you.
If you can, you deserve it. But if it can kill you, it can eat you too.
That's what we could call respectful natural selection. :)
It's just that we are way too dominant on this planet. A natural predator would teach us. ^^
Half man, half ork, half cow?
How cute and pleasing to the eyes. ^^
Who pays for their products? I know I certainly never did. And I only know two persons who did. One of them is now some psycho and not my friend anymore. The other one installed and defended Vista. He's dead now. (Not by my hand. He simply ate too much crap.)
Nope, they don't like being monitored. They just do not think further than around the next corner. If you tell them the concept of cardinal Richelieu, that if they want to find something, they will find something to hang you, and this gives them the possibility to find something, then they suddenly are very scared and surprised. Or they just start the ignore-machine and stick their head in the sand, which means they got it, but it shocked them too much to look directly at it, so they buried it as deep as they could.
No. I am originally from Luxemburg. And is says in the article, that it's in a Plus shop. I go to a Plus shop like that every other day, to buy my food. And this does not look like a Plus shop. The signs and price tags look wrong. They also do not have any shops in Switzerland and Luxemburg.
No problem. We know anyway.
Your UK Government.
Yeah, but because of that entry, we can *make* it true. ^^