Lol. Does he really think he gets trough with this? And does he really think we care to follow his lead? He's cool, for making the thing in the first place. But I can fork it in what? Five minutes? Then I diff his updates, take out the stuff I do not want, patch my fork, perhaps add one additional cool feature, or fix a bug, and upload it. There. Done. ^^
My standpoint is: Advertisement is no finance model. Ever. It can not work. Period.:)
The "rebooted" Hulk was a total joke. Straight out of the Hellboy and Fantastic Four world. From retards, for retards. (No wonder it ran so well. ^^)
The 2003 Hulk was just epic. Better than every Spidernerd, Plastic Fantastic Four, Superaverageman, Hellemogay, Bycicle Repairman and what ever you are offering, except for Batman and Watchmen. Nothing beats hitting a tank with *another tank* ^^ Or the dialogs with his father. It came close to the best elements of a theater performance.
I'm sorry for everyone who liked the new Hulk movie more, because I can't just say we have different tastes. It's more a matter of still having a whole brain. Sorry. Can't say it in a more "sensitive" way...
Hmm, I bet it would be a fun project, to actually make that real. Not that much work. We need an interface to automate the UI, a small application that everyone could build, who can use a RAD tool, and a concept and project plan for the actual "movie script". Should be done in a weekend. Or a week when not coding trough, and polishing it a bit more.
The one who makes it, gets to put his name in big letters at first the start of every new Linux distribution. (Hey, if you do it, you deserve that reward.) How cool would that be? Who's interested?
Because I avoid companies that use crooked methods such as viral marketing -- which is nothing else than lying about who you are, to sneak under the radar of "this is advertisement" -- to get the news out. Why not do it in a normal fashion? Why not really let others test it, instead of paying an employee to act as if he were not affiliated, to trick us?
Sorry, but this is morally unacceptable behavior. Something only crooks and criminals do. Plain and simple.
You must have missed, that intel already was well-known for doing that, ten years ago, when AMD wanted to get mainboard manufacturers to make some boards for the then new Athlon CPU. I remember this, because I bought an Athlon 850 back ten. And there were only 4 companies on the planet who offered a board. And way too late too. Which was because of intel's practices. I also remember, that it was before 2001, because I moved at the end of 2000 and then already had my new computer.
Well, for hardware shops, pc builders and mainboard manufacturers, it's "do what we say, or you will never be able to buy intel products again, or create compatible systems". Which for mainboard manufacturers would mean going out of business. And for the others, to be seriously limited and damaged.
That's the problem.
From what I heard, even back in the days of the first Athlon, some manufacturers had a really heated discussion with intel over such practices. I dunno if intel got punished for it back then. But I sure hope they get a really hard punch in the nutsack this time.
It's just like with games. It's still half a century or something, until it is available to the general public, but already we get stuffed up to the nose with blablabla (for lack of a better term) about it. ^^
This alone is a reason for me to avoid it, and recommend you to do so too.
I do not equal and generalize a shitty feature with the whole country (and its people) being shitty. I inform myself.
But you seem to massively generalize and well... I dunno what to say, but... you do not make your people look very good. ^^
No matter what you think, and even while you act just as "We don't need anybody!"-style overly proud... just like the French (Yeah, I said it! ^^)...we are still on your side. And with "you", I mean the people.
Oh, and actually, you are very weak and fragile. If someone stops lending you money, you're done. Finito. The eeend. ^^ So I recommend accepting this friendship.;)
Why can't somebody do for Linux what Apple does for OSX?
Indeed. I mean we can certainly outperform OSX, when we do it right. The problem is, that it feels somehow nasty, to do it that way.
Here is how we should play it: 0. Warning: Do not change Linux. It already is what we want. Make a separate OS, to allow for things that would not be OK to do with Linux. 1. Dreams, dreams, dreams! What matters is what dream you sell. Since the day of the Hoover dam. This is a marketing job. So we need marketing geeks, imagining what the greatest dream of every person in the target group is. And making it seem possible. 2. Looks, looks, looks! Yes, it has to be good below. Of course. But it will never come that far, if it does not look good. As with people, the first 10 (or 30) seconds count the most (exponentially falling curve). The Microsoft people understood this. But they did not have the base below the looks. We can easily fire up Compiz, and make them have their eyes fall out. Hell, every girl who looks at my desktop wants me to install that on her computer. (They are talking about the looks.) And on the basis, we are way more stable too. 3. Integrate with closed-source stuff, like driver makers. Define simple interfaces and make them happy. Go call them, and make them have wet dreams of their card working in our new system. 4. Support, support, support. Either have a high-quality human contact on the phone, who can solve any problem, or go home? (*booooo*)
See, it feels dirty. But that's the way...
So imagine this: A b-e-a-utiful laptop. Something that a women would "wear", even if it's just for decoration. A variant for men, being actually made out of carbon-steel. A box for professionals. Looking like an engine block. With heavy looking metal work. Then you see the display and the keyboard. Everything looks like it's made out of one piece. Including the OS. CompizFusion is a must here. Make the OS different for different people. (Build on the Ubuntu philosophy.) Do NOT imitate. Do not make it look or act like Windows. Or OSX. Make it better. Make them feel that. (E.g.: There is no point in binding the window-close command to Alt-F4. Ask the average secretary if the uses than one. She doesn't. ^^) On the first start, show an impressive tour around the system. Let the user choose when to stop, and when to come back. Make the tour like a game. With the same technique of motivation. Show the controls in the order of their usage frequency. With sound and video and substance, and comfort, until they shit their pants in awe. ^^ After 10 minutes they have to be able to fully use the window management and run applications. After 30 min, they have to be able to use all their main programs. (For a business guy: the office suite, the calculator, the PIM suite). Offer two things everywhere in the tour: 1. CALL SUPPORT, 2. Customization (I WANT IT MY WAY!). In support, always offer to actually program a feature for the user, if he wants it. There is no no. There is just an offer with a fair price. (As long as physically possible.)
So the ultimate user experience has to be like this: 1. He saw a dream. 2. He got that dream. 3. He was up and running in <30 minutes. 4. No matter what problem, there was someone there for him, offering a solution. 5. PROFIT! ^^
[Linux] still requires a lot more hands-on than somebody who is using Windows
It's "allows". "Linux allows a lot more hands-on".That is Linux's biggest (and some would say only) advantage, isn't it. And you want to take it away, in the ever-going and global pursuit of a bigger market share...for absolutely no reason??
Let me ask you this: Why does everything always have to grow? Why do we have to bring Linux to everyone? Why would we even want to please Joe Sixpack and Jane Hockeymom, or Frank Businessdrone and Michelle Barbiemodel? What do we gain from it?
Or more importantly: What do we lose with it?
Guys... I do not want to make any suggestions here. I just ask you to think this last two questions trough. And see what development of Linux would make you the most happy. What do you really want?
Maybe we should just learn from history. And in great/. tradition, I am going to make the best car analogy ever here:;)
Maybe you remember (stories of) the early days of cars. They were still experimental. They were completely custom-built for the owner. And everybody had no be at least a bit of a mechanic to use one. But over time, more and more people wanted to use a car, without knowing how to build one. (Or ever how to drive one.) So a whole industry was born. Of mechanics, builders, tuners, teachers, etc. But a small but strong group wanted to know how to build one. How to tune one. How to make it go faster. Etc. So they became race car teams, tuners, and custom car shops. Nobody of those people would want to be limited to a off-the-assembly-line car.
So nowadays we have two completely different types of cars. We have the default car for everybody. And we have Formula 1 cars. Dragsters. Ferraris. Real off-road-capable Jeeps, that drive to the north pole. Even Monster Trucks. None of those cars can be "just used". You have to know them. And understand them. They may have problems no normal car would have. They might require changing the motor every second race. But they are... and this is my point: They are the prototypes and basis for all other cars.
Nobody would dream of the "The year of the Formula 1 car in the town house garage."
So what I am saying is, that Linux is not meant for the average desktop. And it shouldn't. But: We can create a new OS, and copy well-tested, standardized parts, out of it, to make a generic customer OS.
Funnily, this is exactly what Microsoft and especially Apple are doing with Windows (with the BSD parts, and with copying from everybody else) and MacOS X (with being a NextStep/BSD with a beautiful UI on top). So if you want to do that in a free manner, look at them. But do not try to standardize the prototype itself.
Or you might, one day, notice that you are left without any advantages, like flexibility, freedom and innovation. Or in other words: Without our greatest strengths.
Seriously. Being independent of some retarded else, telling me what to do, and not stealing my ideas, IS THE VERY POINT OF HAVING YOUR OWN COMPANY!
I'd rather die than work in a company of someone else again. And I would literally defend the ideas that are the core value of this company with my own life.
It's the point of my existence. Take it away, and you die. Seriously.
Yes, that's a sad fact. But in fact, both, Gnome and KDE, try like crazy, to imitate windows in every detail. Especially the bad details. I just wait for the moment where I go to the root directory in Nautilus, and get a "This is a system directory, and nothing for you dumb users to look at. Move along!" message. ^^
I have *no buttons* at all in my window decorations anymore. And the Windows key is for window control. Win-LMB = move, Win-RMB = resize, Win-Button4 = maximize, Win+Button5 = minimize, Win+Button2 (the wheel) = close. Works very nice. And the theme is designed by sampling colors of the soft green background image of KDE (the one with the trees and grass), and putting them in vrunner for Emerald. Very beautiful, and summer-like. (I also have a winter theme.) Why limit to Windows concepts, when you can have so much more. Beauty *and* efficiency. And it's easy to remember too.
Absoluterly. What do you thing, that clicking sound came from, when you used a phone where you had the loudspeaker at your ear while dialing?:) I loved to look at them. Huge pillars of golden discs, rotating against each other. Very cool golden look. If I would put columns in my building, I would use those things.:)
...to me, Benford's law always seemed completely obvious. I didn't think that someone would give it a name and publish it as a great new concept. I mean, how can you not immediately notice that, when you try to count to 1000, then up to a million, and play a bit with numbers, as a child?
Ok, someone had to notice that it is a concept, and be the one who writes it down. I give credit for that. But the rest...
First of all, I am proud for not having a geek card at all. Second: I agree. I found TOS to be too primitive for me. Like TNS with a cavemen topping. ^^ Third: How about a "young Picard" movie. ^^ Fourth: As long as Star Trek has "aliens" that are humans with some glued-on parts and a bit of color and hair-work, it will be in my book under "really *really* crappy imagination". Sorry. Give me some real aliens. Nowadays it's technically possible too. Main rule: If any part of the design reminds you of anything that could have come from here (like f.ex. the concept of an "arm with fingers"), then throw it in the trash.
And I am proud to not call myself that, and actually having women rub their butt against me wildly. You should try it. Because, wanna know what's cooler than that? *Still* posting on/., and the still thinking you're fuckin' cool.:D
That is, because... well, I wonder if all those scientist who thought about time travel were stupid... because if you think about it, it's really quite obvious, that it would create an alternate time-line starting at the point where you changed things. Point is, that you would never be able to leave that time line, if not trough creating another new one. So this alternate time-line would not matter to you anyway. No causal relationship, so to say. And for traveling to the future. Well, that's really simple, and works like accelerating a space ship (literally). Just get really fast, and the time-distortion will kick in. Or better: Just get as close as possible to a black hole (so that you still can get back out again), and wait a bit. Time will fly. (Which is better than dragging the whole universe towards you and eating more energy than an average black hole with option A.) That's it.
Now the only missing element is, how to actually move back in time. ^^
P.S.: If nobody ever came up with this, and steals the idea, to get some prize or fame... I will find out... and beat him to pulp.;)
Not very realistic. In terms of physics especially those non-continuous mushroom umbrellas, and graphically the trees and a bit of the lighting. This is how it's done right: http://www.dusso.com/ (Look at the 3 left links in the menu on the top.)
What elections? That farce theater there? How do you not realize that the whole point of it, is to keep you from using your guns and/or hang them? Imagine the exact same situation that is now, but without elections, and without any information about the politics getting out.
Would the population rise up? You can bet on it!
So all that crooked spin doctoring and beating around the bush, and the whole "election" theater just keep you off of it, while actually meaning exactly nothing for your freedom to choose a government.
That's the problem. The real problem. And that's why I read books about rhetorics, logic in speeches, psychological manipulation and and neuro-linguistic programming right now. ^^
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Lol. Does he really think he gets trough with this? And does he really think we care to follow his lead?
He's cool, for making the thing in the first place. But I can fork it in what? Five minutes? Then I diff his updates, take out the stuff I do not want, patch my fork, perhaps add one additional cool feature, or fix a bug, and upload it. There. Done. ^^
My standpoint is: Advertisement is no finance model. Ever. It can not work. Period. :)
You mean they will fuck-up that too?
The "rebooted" Hulk was a total joke. Straight out of the Hellboy and Fantastic Four world. From retards, for retards. (No wonder it ran so well. ^^)
The 2003 Hulk was just epic. Better than every Spidernerd, Plastic Fantastic Four, Superaverageman, Hellemogay, Bycicle Repairman and what ever you are offering, except for Batman and Watchmen.
Nothing beats hitting a tank with *another tank* ^^ Or the dialogs with his father. It came close to the best elements of a theater performance.
I'm sorry for everyone who liked the new Hulk movie more, because I can't just say we have different tastes. It's more a matter of still having a whole brain. Sorry. Can't say it in a more "sensitive" way...
Hmm, I bet it would be a fun project, to actually make that real. Not that much work. We need an interface to automate the UI, a small application that everyone could build, who can use a RAD tool, and a concept and project plan for the actual "movie script". Should be done in a weekend. Or a week when not coding trough, and polishing it a bit more.
The one who makes it, gets to put his name in big letters at first the start of every new Linux distribution. (Hey, if you do it, you deserve that reward.) How cool would that be?
Who's interested?
Because I avoid companies that use crooked methods such as viral marketing -- which is nothing else than lying about who you are, to sneak under the radar of "this is advertisement" -- to get the news out. Why not do it in a normal fashion? Why not really let others test it, instead of paying an employee to act as if he were not affiliated, to trick us?
Sorry, but this is morally unacceptable behavior. Something only crooks and criminals do. Plain and simple.
Interestingly, a barn is a very small unit. One sq. ft. is 6.4516E24 barns. One m^2 is 1E28 barns.
Must be very very tiny farms, with very very very tiny animals...
You must have missed, that intel already was well-known for doing that, ten years ago, when AMD wanted to get mainboard manufacturers to make some boards for the then new Athlon CPU. I remember this, because I bought an Athlon 850 back ten. And there were only 4 companies on the planet who offered a board. And way too late too. Which was because of intel's practices.
I also remember, that it was before 2001, because I moved at the end of 2000 and then already had my new computer.
Well, for hardware shops, pc builders and mainboard manufacturers, it's "do what we say, or you will never be able to buy intel products again, or create compatible systems". Which for mainboard manufacturers would mean going out of business. And for the others, to be seriously limited and damaged.
That's the problem.
From what I heard, even back in the days of the first Athlon, some manufacturers had a really heated discussion with intel over such practices. I dunno if intel got punished for it back then. But I sure hope they get a really hard punch in the nutsack this time.
For those of you who aren't gonna RTFA, I would like to...
tl;dr. ;)
Use Qalculate!, and define your own units. :)
Oh, and remember to define "B" as byte and "b" as bit, or you might end up with somethingsomething megabarns of memory. ^^
...and you all are so completely falling for it.
It's just like with games. It's still half a century or something, until it is available to the general public, but already we get stuffed up to the nose with blablabla (for lack of a better term) about it. ^^
This alone is a reason for me to avoid it, and recommend you to do so too.
Sorry, but that is your prejudice. ^^
I do not equal and generalize a shitty feature with the whole country (and its people) being shitty. I inform myself.
But you seem to massively generalize and well... I dunno what to say, but... you do not make your people look very good. ^^
No matter what you think, and even while you act just as "We don't need anybody!"-style overly proud... just like the French (Yeah, I said it! ^^) ...we are still on your side. And with "you", I mean the people.
Oh, and actually, you are very weak and fragile. If someone stops lending you money, you're done. Finito. The eeend. ^^ ;)
So I recommend accepting this friendship.
Why can't somebody do for Linux what Apple does for OSX?
Indeed. I mean we can certainly outperform OSX, when we do it right.
The problem is, that it feels somehow nasty, to do it that way.
Here is how we should play it:
0. Warning: Do not change Linux. It already is what we want. Make a separate OS, to allow for things that would not be OK to do with Linux.
1. Dreams, dreams, dreams! What matters is what dream you sell. Since the day of the Hoover dam. This is a marketing job. So we need marketing geeks, imagining what the greatest dream of every person in the target group is. And making it seem possible.
2. Looks, looks, looks! Yes, it has to be good below. Of course. But it will never come that far, if it does not look good. As with people, the first 10 (or 30) seconds count the most (exponentially falling curve). The Microsoft people understood this. But they did not have the base below the looks. We can easily fire up Compiz, and make them have their eyes fall out. Hell, every girl who looks at my desktop wants me to install that on her computer. (They are talking about the looks.) And on the basis, we are way more stable too.
3. Integrate with closed-source stuff, like driver makers. Define simple interfaces and make them happy. Go call them, and make them have wet dreams of their card working in our new system.
4. Support, support, support. Either have a high-quality human contact on the phone, who can solve any problem, or go home? (*booooo*)
See, it feels dirty. But that's the way...
So imagine this:
A b-e-a-utiful laptop. Something that a women would "wear", even if it's just for decoration. A variant for men, being actually made out of carbon-steel. A box for professionals. Looking like an engine block. With heavy looking metal work.
Then you see the display and the keyboard. Everything looks like it's made out of one piece. Including the OS. CompizFusion is a must here.
Make the OS different for different people. (Build on the Ubuntu philosophy.)
Do NOT imitate. Do not make it look or act like Windows. Or OSX. Make it better. Make them feel that. (E.g.: There is no point in binding the window-close command to Alt-F4. Ask the average secretary if the uses than one. She doesn't. ^^)
On the first start, show an impressive tour around the system. Let the user choose when to stop, and when to come back.
Make the tour like a game. With the same technique of motivation. Show the controls in the order of their usage frequency. With sound and video and substance, and comfort, until they shit their pants in awe. ^^
After 10 minutes they have to be able to fully use the window management and run applications. After 30 min, they have to be able to use all their main programs. (For a business guy: the office suite, the calculator, the PIM suite).
Offer two things everywhere in the tour: 1. CALL SUPPORT, 2. Customization (I WANT IT MY WAY!).
In support, always offer to actually program a feature for the user, if he wants it. There is no no. There is just an offer with a fair price. (As long as physically possible.)
So the ultimate user experience has to be like this:
1. He saw a dream.
2. He got that dream.
3. He was up and running in <30 minutes.
4. No matter what problem, there was someone there for him, offering a solution.
5. PROFIT! ^^
[Linux] still requires a lot more hands-on than somebody who is using Windows
It's "allows". "Linux allows a lot more hands-on".That is Linux's biggest (and some would say only) advantage, isn't it. And you want to take it away, in the ever-going and global pursuit of a bigger market share ...for absolutely no reason??
Let me ask you this: Why does everything always have to grow? Why do we have to bring Linux to everyone? Why would we even want to please Joe Sixpack and Jane Hockeymom, or Frank Businessdrone and Michelle Barbiemodel? What do we gain from it?
Or more importantly: What do we lose with it?
Guys... I do not want to make any suggestions here. I just ask you to think this last two questions trough. And see what development of Linux would make you the most happy. What do you really want?
Maybe we should just learn from history. And in great /. tradition, I am going to make the best car analogy ever here: ;)
So what I am saying is, that Linux is not meant for the average desktop. And it shouldn't.
But: We can create a new OS, and copy well-tested, standardized parts, out of it, to make a generic customer OS.
Funnily, this is exactly what Microsoft and especially Apple are doing with Windows (with the BSD parts, and with copying from everybody else) and MacOS X (with being a NextStep/BSD with a beautiful UI on top).
So if you want to do that in a free manner, look at them. But do not try to standardize the prototype itself.
Or you might, one day, notice that you are left without any advantages, like flexibility, freedom and innovation. Or in other words: Without our greatest strengths.
Just say NO.
There. Done it for you. ^^
Seriously. Being independent of some retarded else, telling me what to do, and not stealing my ideas, IS THE VERY POINT OF HAVING YOUR OWN COMPANY!
I'd rather die than work in a company of someone else again. And I would literally defend the ideas that are the core value of this company with my own life.
It's the point of my existence. Take it away, and you die. Seriously.
Yes, that's a sad fact. But in fact, both, Gnome and KDE, try like crazy, to imitate windows in every detail. Especially the bad details. I just wait for the moment where I go to the root directory in Nautilus, and get a "This is a system directory, and nothing for you dumb users to look at. Move along!" message. ^^
I have *no buttons* at all in my window decorations anymore. And the Windows key is for window control. Win-LMB = move, Win-RMB = resize, Win-Button4 = maximize, Win+Button5 = minimize, Win+Button2 (the wheel) = close. Works very nice. And the theme is designed by sampling colors of the soft green background image of KDE (the one with the trees and grass), and putting them in vrunner for Emerald. Very beautiful, and summer-like. (I also have a winter theme.) Why limit to Windows concepts, when you can have so much more. Beauty *and* efficiency. And it's easy to remember too.
"party contributions" nowadays...
Seriously... where is this different?
Absoluterly. What do you thing, that clicking sound came from, when you used a phone where you had the loudspeaker at your ear while dialing? :) :)
I loved to look at them. Huge pillars of golden discs, rotating against each other. Very cool golden look. If I would put columns in my building, I would use those things.
...to me, Benford's law always seemed completely obvious. I didn't think that someone would give it a name and publish it as a great new concept.
I mean, how can you not immediately notice that, when you try to count to 1000, then up to a million, and play a bit with numbers, as a child?
Ok, someone had to notice that it is a concept, and be the one who writes it down. I give credit for that. But the rest...
First of all, I am proud for not having a geek card at all.
Second: I agree. I found TOS to be too primitive for me. Like TNS with a cavemen topping. ^^
Third: How about a "young Picard" movie. ^^
Fourth: As long as Star Trek has "aliens" that are humans with some glued-on parts and a bit of color and hair-work, it will be in my book under "really *really* crappy imagination". Sorry. Give me some real aliens. Nowadays it's technically possible too. Main rule: If any part of the design reminds you of anything that could have come from here (like f.ex. the concept of an "arm with fingers"), then throw it in the trash.
And I am proud to not call myself that, and actually having women rub their butt against me wildly. You should try it. /., and the still thinking you're fuckin' cool. :D
Because, wanna know what's cooler than that? *Still* posting on
That is, because... well, I wonder if all those scientist who thought about time travel were stupid... because if you think about it, it's really quite obvious, that it would create an alternate time-line starting at the point where you changed things. Point is, that you would never be able to leave that time line, if not trough creating another new one. So this alternate time-line would not matter to you anyway. No causal relationship, so to say.
And for traveling to the future. Well, that's really simple, and works like accelerating a space ship (literally). Just get really fast, and the time-distortion will kick in.
Or better: Just get as close as possible to a black hole (so that you still can get back out again), and wait a bit. Time will fly. (Which is better than dragging the whole universe towards you and eating more energy than an average black hole with option A.) That's it.
Now the only missing element is, how to actually move back in time. ^^
P.S.: If nobody ever came up with this, and steals the idea, to get some prize or fame... I will find out... and beat him to pulp. ;)
The new?? ^^
Whatever that is... as dead and disgusting as it sounds, you can probably scrape if off of some basement trekkie nerd's butt. ^^
Also: Ewww... ^^
Not very realistic. In terms of physics especially those non-continuous mushroom umbrellas, and graphically the trees and a bit of the lighting.
This is how it's done right: http://www.dusso.com/ (Look at the 3 left links in the menu on the top.)
What elections? That farce theater there? How do you not realize that the whole point of it, is to keep you from using your guns and/or hang them? Imagine the exact same situation that is now, but without elections, and without any information about the politics getting out.
Would the population rise up? You can bet on it!
So all that crooked spin doctoring and beating around the bush, and the whole "election" theater just keep you off of it, while actually meaning exactly nothing for your freedom to choose a government.
That's the problem. The real problem. And that's why I read books about rhetorics, logic in speeches, psychological manipulation and and neuro-linguistic programming right now. ^^