The current MS PR team could use Olivia Newton John's "Lets Get Physical" as a launch theme song, then hire on Arnold Schwarzenegger to host ads about the new user interface, which leads to the use of the term "No Pain, No Gain" for users having to do contortions for some operations.
They could call the MUI OS "MS Fit" I guess (heh that really works to... Monkey dance, throwing chairs, etc. yeah!):-D
You are bringing a decade of bad UI experience into your expectations, which is skewing your opinion of 2007.
How is it a bad UI when it worked for us for a decade? If it was a really bad UI folks would have abandoned it long ago.
A good UI would be something that works in spite of what you have learned... having many of the the options stuffed into a logo button does not seem like and intuitive design to me.
And of course, doing so when they are visibly ranked in the top 20 is really bad PR... and this is generally a PR stunt so they are trying to keep the spin positive while becoming political. So much for caring for the community.
Because IE6 is a thorn in the side to most web developers; there are css/html standards and then there are IE6 adjustments. And most books put in a statement like "while IE6 is not compliant it is a dominant browser, so futz up your code to support it."
Having IE6 being the minority lets the developers un-hobble thier HTML/CSS and improve the design and usability of the sites.
GIMP - really cool can even open fully some PST files on it but I don't think it is 100% compatible with PST (Im not a photoshop user so cant say for sure)
Inkscape - Spectacular each version ins getting better then the last, can open most AI files but not all that compatible, has a lousy time with EPS though. Each version is adding some new exciting design feature, just check the website. Really like it, use it a lot in Linux!
Scribus - Use this for producing our agency newsletter, if you used PageMaker/InDesign you will have little trouble getting going with this. They just released 1.3.5 which is a EXCELLENT upgrade - while not having all the features of PageMaker (not much InDesign experience) it is free and has a built-in preflight checker. the new version fixed a lot of bugs from 1.3.3.x and 1.3.4, though Spelling check I think is still absent. But would recommend giving it a spin.
NVU - remember the built in web editor from Netscape/Mozilla? that is what NVU/Kompozer is, right decent but also archaic. Its better then nothing but I wish they'd take Quanta Plus for KDE and revamp it for KDE4 and add in more wysiwyg editing into it, and you would have something spectacular. The site management and other advanced editing tools in Quanta are worth suffering with compatibility hobbled version 3.5 while in KDE4. If I wasn't such a programmer I'd look at Amaya, as that is the W3C supported editor, you might try it though.
Nice think about these is they are Cross Platform, I think each has Windows, Linux as well as Mac versions! Also don't discount Open Office Draw for graphics work.
So after they move out what will keep them doing to the US what they do to other countries - exploit countries resources for profit. As we were the home to these greedy groups we have been pretty much insulated as they didn't rock their own boat. But if they are based outside of the US, kinda cleans off that slate and opens us up as a whole new market to exploit, don't you think?
I just bought all cheap PC keyboards to replace the aging mac keyboards. mainly because the mac ones are way too expensive... ~$40. Also because all the Mac keyboards have been a point of irritation- from being bright white with clear housing (sure shows crumbs well) to having non-traditional keys (new ones ala mac book keyboard) they just aren't good for the real work environment.
They can even use thier old slogan: "Windows Mainframe now with improved security!"
"Hi, I'm a Mac..." "You're a wimp. Hi, I'm a Mainframe!"
640TB is all the memory you'll ever need!
Windows Vista Compatible*
I wonder if you need multiple mainframes to run Windows Mainframe Server 2007?
While in the middle of some crucial nuclear simulation thingie... "Windows has finished installing updates, your mainframe will automatically restart in 2 minutes!"
"We spend all of our time going omg open source software might appear in Project XYZ. In the end it never does"
You mean like the industry wag about optical processors, holographic storage, cell phone competition, lowered broadband prices, higher connectivity, modular windows OS, fair competition, etc, etc. There is a lot of hot air on the commercial side that promises a lot of solutions but the problems just seem to remain.
"They've been waiting for 30 years for their big federal lootfest, and now they are going to get it."
Not much of that left after the big corporate/republican federal lootfest, which was shortly after the even bigger American public lootfest, that got this country into this mess in the first place.
I see a lot more work in investing inside the US in the cities and people then I do with the previous admin. All it seems that was invested in in the last few years are secure bank accounts for the wealthy few.
You mean 'usually opt out' like those CDs that had auto installers that surreptitiously disabled CD recording programs? Both of these are too scummy but what those hidden CDs programs did was a lot worse, disabling others legitimate software.
We started with decentralized data, coaxing xBase to move and merge data between systems with floppy disks.
It was great then, but as of a few years back we now have a lot of computers I have to keep in sync (quicker now via network, but still messier than centralized). Updates to apps, table structures, and data corrections take a lot more complex operations on a distributed systems (you have to develop a complex update deployment system as well as making your app/data updates).
I am enjoying the web based centralization we are implementing - no multiple installs (if a client dies no resintall of the required OS, etc. Just make sure browser/PDF viewer is up to spec), we have only need a kick-ass server instead of a massive regular client upgrade, no significant compatibility issues (standard HTML, take that MS!) data is clean(er) and the web offers expandability beyond what I cold have dreamt with hard coded clients (integrated web data lookups, etc.) Using LAMP, the licensing cost are way down scalability is not as big a problem anymore.
Then again, the good things about decentralization is you could loose a significant part of the system and things still work (backups everywhere... what that could be bad too), or you can have remote facilities which need only sync intermittently (that also is bad too).
Long term, change, expandability and maintenance is really tough on that model, distributed does have its uses (UPS guys would be miserable without it), but it's really not that great for most of us.
Upgrading Ubuntu to Intrepid Ibex, I just tried KDE 4.1 (from using KDE 3.x for the past few years years) and found it to be REALLY slow with the fancy effects, and wasting of a lot of screen real estate with the new styles. It definately was getting in my way of trying to get stuff done.
You can't arrange files the way you like, the desktop is practically off limits except for KDE toys, the new K menu (being bulkier and over-animated) sucks, themes are gone (no way to "fix it"), etc.
Gnome may not be my choice but like KDE it Just works, maybe not as well as KDE 3 but it certainly is far better then the Fischer Price like KDE 4 interface.
Well, sonny, back in those times there was mainly BASIC and Assembly. Nothing much in the way of fast high level languages (BASIC, maybe Pascal by then.
You and your assembler, you had it easy....
Many of us starting out coding higher speed stuff had to hand-write our assembly and then lookup instruction values, calculate the addresses, branch offsets, etc. So we could enter it in a monitor or use DATA statements to POKE it in.
Having health records as a standard brings more transparency to the Health care industry, start with that and then soon people will want them standardized invoicing and billing etc. Obfustication seems to be a popular method to profit.
Is the autopilot in BZFlag, if you need to do a quick break you turn on autopilot and your tank goes merrily along and then you can turn it off and continue.
If there are no sales most companies don't sit on their hands and cry, well maybe the really big ones do - to the feds. Smaller ones just start rolling out some new ideas to see if they can drum up a new market. What's not innovative about that?
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The current MS PR team could use Olivia Newton John's "Lets Get Physical" as a launch theme song, then hire on Arnold Schwarzenegger to host ads about the new user interface, which leads to the use of the term "No Pain, No Gain" for users having to do contortions for some operations.
They could call the MUI OS "MS Fit" I guess (heh that really works to... Monkey dance, throwing chairs, etc. yeah!) :-D
You are bringing a decade of bad UI experience into your expectations, which is skewing your opinion of 2007.
How is it a bad UI when it worked for us for a decade? If it was a really bad UI folks would have abandoned it long ago.
A good UI would be something that works in spite of what you have learned... having many of the the options stuffed into a logo button does not seem like and intuitive design to me.
And of course, doing so when they are visibly ranked in the top 20 is really bad PR... and this is generally a PR stunt so they are trying to keep the spin positive while becoming political. So much for caring for the community.
Here is the obigitory SNL clip on this,
warning may be NSFW
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/wii-guys/1018727/
Because IE6 is a thorn in the side to most web developers; there are css/html standards and then there are IE6 adjustments. And most books put in a statement like "while IE6 is not compliant it is a dominant browser, so futz up your code to support it."
Having IE6 being the minority lets the developers un-hobble thier HTML/CSS and improve the design and usability of the sites.
Without the Windows skills/experience they won't be able to point out the flaws so easily:
"Blue screen of Death? Never heard of it."
"I've never had virus problems on my computer."
And then when customers come in to complain,
"I'm not familiar with that, call the support number." can be said without guilt.
GIMP - really cool can even open fully some PST files on it but I don't think it is 100% compatible with PST (Im not a photoshop user so cant say for sure)
Inkscape - Spectacular each version ins getting better then the last, can open most AI files but not all that compatible, has a lousy time with EPS though. Each version is adding some new exciting design feature, just check the website. Really like it, use it a lot in Linux!
Scribus - Use this for producing our agency newsletter, if you used PageMaker/InDesign you will have little trouble getting going with this. They just released 1.3.5 which is a EXCELLENT upgrade - while not having all the features of PageMaker (not much InDesign experience) it is free and has a built-in preflight checker. the new version fixed a lot of bugs from 1.3.3.x and 1.3.4, though Spelling check I think is still absent. But would recommend giving it a spin.
NVU - remember the built in web editor from Netscape/Mozilla? that is what NVU/Kompozer is, right decent but also archaic. Its better then nothing but I wish they'd take Quanta Plus for KDE and revamp it for KDE4 and add in more wysiwyg editing into it, and you would have something spectacular. The site management and other advanced editing tools in Quanta are worth suffering with compatibility hobbled version 3.5 while in KDE4. If I wasn't such a programmer I'd look at Amaya, as that is the W3C supported editor, you might try it though.
Nice think about these is they are Cross Platform, I think each has Windows, Linux as well as Mac versions! Also don't discount Open Office Draw for graphics work.
So after they move out what will keep them doing to the US what they do to other countries - exploit countries resources for profit. As we were the home to these greedy groups we have been pretty much insulated as they didn't rock their own boat. But if they are based outside of the US, kinda cleans off that slate and opens us up as a whole new market to exploit, don't you think?
Does that mean that Quanta web development tool will be native to KDE4 finally?
I just bought all cheap PC keyboards to replace the aging mac keyboards. mainly because the mac ones are way too expensive... ~$40. Also because all the Mac keyboards have been a point of irritation- from being bright white with clear housing (sure shows crumbs well) to having non-traditional keys (new ones ala mac book keyboard) they just aren't good for the real work environment.
Hear Hear!
Also the big-iron Blue Screen of Death!
They can even use thier old slogan: "Windows Mainframe now with improved security!"
"Hi, I'm a Mac..."
"You're a wimp. Hi, I'm a Mainframe!"
640TB is all the memory you'll ever need!
Windows Vista Compatible*
I wonder if you need multiple mainframes to run Windows Mainframe Server 2007?
While in the middle of some crucial nuclear simulation thingie... "Windows has finished installing updates, your mainframe will automatically restart in 2 minutes!"
"We spend all of our time going omg open source software might appear in Project XYZ. In the end it never does"
You mean like the industry wag about optical processors, holographic storage, cell phone competition, lowered broadband prices, higher connectivity, modular windows OS, fair competition, etc, etc. There is a lot of hot air on the commercial side that promises a lot of solutions but the problems just seem to remain.
"They've been waiting for 30 years for their big federal lootfest, and now they are going to get it."
Not much of that left after the big corporate/republican federal lootfest, which was shortly after the even bigger American public lootfest, that got this country into this mess in the first place.
I see a lot more work in investing inside the US in the cities and people then I do with the previous admin. All it seems that was invested in in the last few years are secure bank accounts for the wealthy few.
I figured it is about right, from the farts of the malnourished masses to the hot air expelled by politicians and CEOs.
You mean 'usually opt out' like those CDs that had auto installers that surreptitiously disabled CD recording programs? Both of these are too scummy but what those hidden CDs programs did was a lot worse, disabling others legitimate software.
We started with decentralized data, coaxing xBase to move and merge data between systems with floppy disks.
It was great then, but as of a few years back we now have a lot of computers I have to keep in sync (quicker now via network, but still messier than centralized). Updates to apps, table structures, and data corrections take a lot more complex operations on a distributed systems (you have to develop a complex update deployment system as well as making your app/data updates).
I am enjoying the web based centralization we are implementing - no multiple installs (if a client dies no resintall of the required OS, etc. Just make sure browser/PDF viewer is up to spec), we have only need a kick-ass server instead of a massive regular client upgrade, no significant compatibility issues (standard HTML, take that MS!) data is clean(er) and the web offers expandability beyond what I cold have dreamt with hard coded clients (integrated web data lookups, etc.) Using LAMP, the licensing cost are way down scalability is not as big a problem anymore.
Then again, the good things about decentralization is you could loose a significant part of the system and things still work (backups everywhere... what that could be bad too), or you can have remote facilities which need only sync intermittently (that also is bad too).
Long term, change, expandability and maintenance is really tough on that model, distributed does have its uses (UPS guys would be miserable without it), but it's really not that great for most of us.
Upgrading Ubuntu to Intrepid Ibex, I just tried KDE 4.1 (from using KDE 3.x for the past few years years) and found it to be REALLY slow with the fancy effects, and wasting of a lot of screen real estate with the new styles. It definately was getting in my way of trying to get stuff done.
You can't arrange files the way you like, the desktop is practically off limits except for KDE toys, the new K menu (being bulkier and over-animated) sucks, themes are gone (no way to "fix it"), etc.
Gnome may not be my choice but like KDE it Just works, maybe not as well as KDE 3 but it certainly is far better then the Fischer Price like KDE 4 interface.
looking at the pictures of him holding it I half experted him to shake the unit upside down to refresh the browser page... :-)
Also, it needs a red frame.
Well, sonny, back in those times there was mainly BASIC and Assembly. Nothing much in the way of fast high level languages (BASIC, maybe Pascal by then.
You and your assembler, you had it easy....
Many of us starting out coding higher speed stuff had to hand-write our assembly and then lookup instruction values, calculate the addresses, branch offsets, etc. So we could enter it in a monitor or use DATA statements to POKE it in.
(cue for the next Yorkshireman)
Having health records as a standard brings more transparency to the Health care industry, start with that and then soon people will want them standardized invoicing and billing etc. Obfustication seems to be a popular method to profit.
I am more interested in seeing this one actually fly then some hybrid airplane (which has been done before...):
http://www.moller.com/skycar.htm
Is the autopilot in BZFlag, if you need to do a quick break you turn on autopilot and your tank goes merrily along and then you can turn it off and continue.
It's more like the VIC-TV, a 1983 Commodore CES prototype. Picture at Secret Weapons of Commodore pages:
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/supervic.html
If there are no sales most companies don't sit on their hands and cry, well maybe the really big ones do - to the feds. Smaller ones just start rolling out some new ideas to see if they can drum up a new market. What's not innovative about that?
Lets trigger some more deja vu:
No 3.11 is not a bug fix, it's an upgrade!