Don't engineer it specifically as how YOU would want it done, engineer it as how you think Joe Sixpack would like it to be done.
Do that and most of the appeal of Linux to me, and to many others, goes down the drain. While I understand that a lot of people are looking for something that's a drop in replacement for windows, doing everything the same way but without the microsoft label, there's a large amount of people using Linux just because we prefer the way it works. We like it specifically because it's an operating system which primarily targets the way we do things, as opposed to targeting the way Joe Sixpack operates. He already has an operating system geared to him, I don't see why he should have ours as well.
If you're so obsessed with getting the perfect caffeine ratio, just buy some caffeine pills. You'll get nearly the same effect, can take it faster, you won't have to get up to piss as a result, and it's only something around a nickel or less per pill. In comparison to a drink that'd cost twenty times more and deliver less caffeine.
YOu're what we call lucky:) With any drug there's going to be a wide spectrum of how bad withdrawl symtoms are going to be. Personally, for me the headaches and tirdness went on for about two weeks.
I'll second that "fuck you, please don't generalise your own biochemestry to the rest of the population". There's huge varience in withdrawl symptoms for every combination of drug and person, and just taking your own experiences as applicable to everyone else is just assine. I used amphetamines in high school and didn't have very bad withdrawl symptoms when I gave them up. But there's no way I'm going to take that and just assume that everyone else who does have a problem giving up speed are just chronic whiners!
Because I don't have any desire to switch from linux to osx, I'd still like to make sure my code compiles on osx, and I don't have the money to shell out for something I'd a couple minutes use out of every month.
Have you talked to a doctor about your problems with birth controll pills? I know you say that hormones drive you crazy, but keep in mind that you're filled up with hormones - it's changes in hormone levels that seems to be your problem. A good gynecologist might have ideas on how to get you on them with the least amount of discomfort for you. Certainly it seems like it'd be worth trying considering the cost of the alternitive.
Linux? If one includes recompiling sure, but at a binary level I don't know about that. I've heard a lot of people complain about loki games they can't get working on modern distros, and offhand I remember having a lot of problems with opera when a new version of...I think it was libpng was released, before they started making new opera releases specifically for it.
Not 'need' perhaps, but I think it's still somewhat common courtousy to not use QuickTime. Just for the fact that the majority are windows users, and only a small fraction of those are going to be using anything other than the terrible official player. It's the same reason I still release video encodes as avi, even though I both prefer mkv with libavcodec/vorbis and know that everyone else on linux can easily play it. Like quicktime, it'd be playable on windows, but a big pain for the majority of them.
I wouldn't say it's all that steep in terms of system requirements. Mine's an old clunker - 850mhz with 128mb ram and a GF4mx and I still managed to get fair performance from it.
I know this is a pretty late reply, so you might not see it, but oh well. It mirrored my own question from a couple weeks back, so I thought I should chime in. There was a brief comment on their message board recently where someone chimed in that he was going to do an opengl driver for a linux release. Not sure how official that makes it though. Personally I just find it weird that they constantly refer to windows as "pc". I expect that from gaming magazines, but I'd think anyone who does any real cross-platform development would be horrified to have things glossed over in such a vauge manner.
The fact is the majority of users don't watch DivX's. If you could click on a link and play one without installing additional software, and if they all had cheap bandwidth they might.
I think we might be talking about two different things here. I'm not talking about people going to watch a 20 second news clip. I'm talking about people who want to keep the results on their hard drive for repeat viewing. I've been reading a fansub board for a long time, and I've never seen anyone refuse to install a codec for something they've downloaded.
I disagree. Mozilla and its relatives have a low share because most of the potential userbase doesn't have much understanding of the merits - or even of its existence. People doing video encoding on the other hand, or at least encoding video for non commercial use on the internet, usually have a fairly solid grasp of what the options are. And the end user isn't left with much choice, they double click on a file or they don't get to watch the movie or TV show. I'm going to use xvid as an example. Much less known than DivX, real, or wmv. But it's one of if not the most commonly used codecs for large video files on the internet.
I think I'd have to chalk it up to personal prefrence. I've got a 3650, and have had pretty much the opposite experience. No problems at all with screen size, I find it easier to go back than with a book since I can use the search feature, and the small size to me makes it more comfortable to read than a book.
In the price comparison I think she's missing one of the major points of the gimp - it's open source. I don't think many of the developers are working on it so I don't have to shell out some money for paint shop pro, they're more likley developing it because there's a gimp shaped hole in the open source comunity that needed filling.
I agree, it does get a little annoying. I cringe a little everytime I hear someone bring up the subject of blue screaning. I think it also does go both ways though. It seems like you can't go a linux article without heaps of complaints about problems that have already been solved there as well.
What your sig gets wrong though is that there is no generic lump of 'people'. I'm a person, and I do want an endless amount of choices. It's one of the reasons I use Linux. Now if your sig read 'the average computer user considering using Linux dosn't want an endless amount of choices', then I'd agree. And I'd also not really care what they want. We've got a high enough user base to get the occasional port of games, and 3D drivers - that's more than enough for what I want. Past that, why should I care about more people using the same operating system as me than I'd care about people using the same brand of sock? Especially if to get them to wear that sock, it'd have to be shrunk to a level uncomfortable for my foot.
Don't worry, once the rapture comes the copyright owners will ascend and the rest of the world can plunder not only their cloths, but the "Left Behind" books themselves!
No, I won't admit it. A friend of mines computer was hit by a couple viruses. She'd never used Linux before, isn't a computer geek, and yet she had a good grasp of knoppix by the end of the day I burned a cd for her. The only question she had to ask was the name of a cd burning program, and after that she had no problems backing up the files from windows. Even better in light of the fact that she'd only burned cds in windows a few times, so doing that on any system was a fairly new thing.
What really baffled me was the line This is a nice boon for those that have to deal with cross-platform compatibility
I can think of some reasons to use microsoft's compiler, but it seems to me that cross-platform compatibility is the single largest reason not to. It can be hard enough keeping things cross-platform when you're using gcc on each, adding a whole other compiler to the mix is just asking for trouble.
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Hardly anyone buys software for Linux desktop use, which is really what the thread is about.
In the interview a few weeks back, it seemed like codeweavers was doing fairly well selling crossover to desktop as opposed to corporate users.
Don't engineer it specifically as how YOU would want it done, engineer it as how you think Joe Sixpack would like it to be done.
Do that and most of the appeal of Linux to me, and to many others, goes down the drain. While I understand that a lot of people are looking for something that's a drop in replacement for windows, doing everything the same way but without the microsoft label, there's a large amount of people using Linux just because we prefer the way it works. We like it specifically because it's an operating system which primarily targets the way we do things, as opposed to targeting the way Joe Sixpack operates. He already has an operating system geared to him, I don't see why he should have ours as well.
If you're so obsessed with getting the perfect caffeine ratio, just buy some caffeine pills. You'll get nearly the same effect, can take it faster, you won't have to get up to piss as a result, and it's only something around a nickel or less per pill. In comparison to a drink that'd cost twenty times more and deliver less caffeine.
Yet, scientists are far from unanimous on the health impacts of coffee, and caffeine in particular.
And worse, much of the reasearch is just plain badly done - at least when it comes to the mental effects of caffeine.
YOu're what we call lucky :) With any drug there's going to be a wide spectrum of how bad withdrawl symtoms are going to be. Personally, for me the headaches and tirdness went on for about two weeks.
I'll second that "fuck you, please don't generalise your own biochemestry to the rest of the population". There's huge varience in withdrawl symptoms for every combination of drug and person, and just taking your own experiences as applicable to everyone else is just assine. I used amphetamines in high school and didn't have very bad withdrawl symptoms when I gave them up. But there's no way I'm going to take that and just assume that everyone else who does have a problem giving up speed are just chronic whiners!
Because I don't have any desire to switch from linux to osx, I'd still like to make sure my code compiles on osx, and I don't have the money to shell out for something I'd a couple minutes use out of every month.
Have you talked to a doctor about your problems with birth controll pills? I know you say that hormones drive you crazy, but keep in mind that you're filled up with hormones - it's changes in hormone levels that seems to be your problem. A good gynecologist might have ideas on how to get you on them with the least amount of discomfort for you. Certainly it seems like it'd be worth trying considering the cost of the alternitive.
Linux? If one includes recompiling sure, but at a binary level I don't know about that. I've heard a lot of people complain about loki games they can't get working on modern distros, and offhand I remember having a lot of problems with opera when a new version of...I think it was libpng was released, before they started making new opera releases specifically for it.
Not 'need' perhaps, but I think it's still somewhat common courtousy to not use QuickTime. Just for the fact that the majority are windows users, and only a small fraction of those are going to be using anything other than the terrible official player. It's the same reason I still release video encodes as avi, even though I both prefer mkv with libavcodec/vorbis and know that everyone else on linux can easily play it. Like quicktime, it'd be playable on windows, but a big pain for the majority of them.
I wouldn't say it's all that steep in terms of system requirements. Mine's an old clunker - 850mhz with 128mb ram and a GF4mx and I still managed to get fair performance from it.
I know this is a pretty late reply, so you might not see it, but oh well. It mirrored my own question from a couple weeks back, so I thought I should chime in. There was a brief comment on their message board recently where someone chimed in that he was going to do an opengl driver for a linux release. Not sure how official that makes it though. Personally I just find it weird that they constantly refer to windows as "pc". I expect that from gaming magazines, but I'd think anyone who does any real cross-platform development would be horrified to have things glossed over in such a vauge manner.
The fact is the majority of users don't watch DivX's. If you could click on a link and play one without installing additional software, and if they all had cheap bandwidth they might.
I think we might be talking about two different things here. I'm not talking about people going to watch a 20 second news clip. I'm talking about people who want to keep the results on their hard drive for repeat viewing. I've been reading a fansub board for a long time, and I've never seen anyone refuse to install a codec for something they've downloaded.
I disagree. Mozilla and its relatives have a low share because most of the potential userbase doesn't have much understanding of the merits - or even of its existence. People doing video encoding on the other hand, or at least encoding video for non commercial use on the internet, usually have a fairly solid grasp of what the options are. And the end user isn't left with much choice, they double click on a file or they don't get to watch the movie or TV show. I'm going to use xvid as an example. Much less known than DivX, real, or wmv. But it's one of if not the most commonly used codecs for large video files on the internet.
I think I'd have to chalk it up to personal prefrence. I've got a 3650, and have had pretty much the opposite experience. No problems at all with screen size, I find it easier to go back than with a book since I can use the search feature, and the small size to me makes it more comfortable to read than a book.
In the price comparison I think she's missing one of the major points of the gimp - it's open source. I don't think many of the developers are working on it so I don't have to shell out some money for paint shop pro, they're more likley developing it because there's a gimp shaped hole in the open source comunity that needed filling.
It is? Odd, scrolling down so far with top scores first I'm seeing almost no one agreeing with them, much less to that extent.
you can smear poop on a blank cdr, put it in your drive, and mplayer will play it.
If mplayer ever wants to put out a boxed set, they have to make this the sole quote on the back.
I agree, it does get a little annoying. I cringe a little everytime I hear someone bring up the subject of blue screaning. I think it also does go both ways though. It seems like you can't go a linux article without heaps of complaints about problems that have already been solved there as well.
Great, more "competition." See my sig.
What your sig gets wrong though is that there is no generic lump of 'people'. I'm a person, and I do want an endless amount of choices. It's one of the reasons I use Linux. Now if your sig read 'the average computer user considering using Linux dosn't want an endless amount of choices', then I'd agree. And I'd also not really care what they want. We've got a high enough user base to get the occasional port of games, and 3D drivers - that's more than enough for what I want. Past that, why should I care about more people using the same operating system as me than I'd care about people using the same brand of sock? Especially if to get them to wear that sock, it'd have to be shrunk to a level uncomfortable for my foot.
Don't worry, once the rapture comes the copyright owners will ascend and the rest of the world can plunder not only their cloths, but the "Left Behind" books themselves!
What does that make Hinduism?
Absinthe?
He forgot Motif, the insensitive clod! :)
Shhhh, don't insult him. He might be nice and teach us how he managed to do that! I've been trying to forget that motif exists for years now.
No, I won't admit it. A friend of mines computer was hit by a couple viruses. She'd never used Linux before, isn't a computer geek, and yet she had a good grasp of knoppix by the end of the day I burned a cd for her. The only question she had to ask was the name of a cd burning program, and after that she had no problems backing up the files from windows. Even better in light of the fact that she'd only burned cds in windows a few times, so doing that on any system was a fairly new thing.
What really baffled me was the line This is a nice boon for those that have to deal with cross-platform compatibility
I can think of some reasons to use microsoft's compiler, but it seems to me that cross-platform compatibility is the single largest reason not to. It can be hard enough keeping things cross-platform when you're using gcc on each, adding a whole other compiler to the mix is just asking for trouble.