a little clarfication on the os x permissions model. basically os x uses standard unix permissions right now. tiger's introducing ACL support. mac os x's good permissions model comes from well separated privledges, logical admin username/password prompts on actions that require escalation, and developers actually testing to make sure apps run/install without requiring admin privs. (heck you can install most apps in os x by just putting it in ~/Applications). technically windows has better permission control than most OSes out, it's just the defaults are total shit and the app developers don't take any responsibility to allow user-level installs and running.
i wrote some benchmarks of the three major search engines (downloadable here: asn1.tar.gz). Basically google had the fastest results, the most results, and tied with yahoo for the best quality results (actual usefulness of what was returned).
in computer science house, one of the clubs i'm in at RIT, the number of mac laptop users has skyrocketed in the past few years. it's probably even the most common laptop in the club now. i've seen similar trends across the CS department, but not nearly as high as this club in particular.
that's pretty rich. i'm sure if bmws were so much better, 9 out 10 people would use them instead of 1 out of 10. they're different markets assclown, get over yourself.
forced morality has always driven me nuts. some people, particularly those in high power, think they have the right to tell me and others what is and isn't wrong. quite frankly it makes me sick, because the people who force morality upon others are slimy hypocrites. what if i became president and deemed that christianity was morally wrong, then enlisted the pocket senators to enact laws banning the practice of that religion.
look, fuckers, we fled england for a reason. we wanted freedom, and force morality is just another form of shackles regardless of the end. the means are simply not just.
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it's not that simple really. radical changes in the user interface require high learning curves to transition to. it's not often when these changes come around, and any major paradigm shift in guis should happen gradual to ease users into a new way of using the computer. it's difficult to do all at once because people will think it's just too 'different.' everyone really borrows ideas off each other in the interface world. pretty much all environments now are a mix of the attributes of others. gnome is heavily mac os influenced. kde is heavily windows influenced. windows is mac influenced and mac is mostly xerox with a bit of creativity and HCI behind it. it's a natural evolution for the open source choices to take the best of both and try and merge them.
it's a shame we don't have a standard web-app framework yet, because i've seen some pretty cool stuff done with XUL. i keep thinking "man, it would be awesome to have an XUL based webmail client. or an XUL based search engine".. etc etc. hopefully what-wg will change things, but it's a shame to see all these competing web app libraries now because it really makes universality impossible
i wrote a paper on this topic for my CG1 class, and it covers most of the modern display systems with a few right around the the horizon.
i'm hoping cairo/glitz will give quartz extreme a run for its money. now we just need to get started on implementing something similar to coreimage/corevideo!
if we got just these two things, and nothing else, i might actually stop slitting my wrists as a web designer. PLEASE MICROSOFT. PLEASE. that's all i want god damnit.
context menus are great - use them.
just a nit pick on this one. you should always provide a way to access something using a context menu without having to right click (such as in the top menu like in mac os).
no, but people have been writing things in perl that perl simply wasn't meant for. desktop applications and any system that lends itself well to object oriented design falls flat in perl, yet perl is *still* used for these things. alan's criticizing the people who only have a hammer, and see every problem as a nail.
that really is a damn good question, but unfortunately i think i know the answer. if other countries refuse to product the HDTV shows from the US, they just won't agree to liscense them until said country has laws protecting their content. in essence they will bully the other countries into adopting similarly fucked up laws.
in some ways, sure. apple's done a lot to change their image not only for street cred (iPod) but geek cred too (BSD in OS X). google changed the way we use search engines -- such a simple webpage can find so much. apple's changing the way we think about technology now more than ever with the digital lifestyle of iLife + iPod + iMac.
how about checking the bitkeeper logs and see who committed a certain portion of the kernel?
here's a question for microsoft. what happens when a major vulnerability comes out that none of microsoft's customers can do a damn thing about, and they have to wait days/weeks/months for a fix? shit out of luck, that's what. with linux i could hire a developer to fix it if it was causing me enough of a problem. or i could wait for one of several major companies with dozens of kernel hackors to fix it (who often have a much faster turnaround time for patches too! imagine that).
unfortunately it has no plans to be included default in gnome 2.10, which means adoption is going to be really low from integrated application support. that's the deal breaker for something like this i believe. what good is it if no one else uses the APIs because they can't guarantee it will be installed with every gnome desktop?
hi nemo, i was getting a compile error due to line wrapping and couldn't get it to compile. i was stripping the comments to see if it made a difference. anyways, it's fixed now on my server. i meant no disrespect.
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a little clarfication on the os x permissions model. basically os x uses standard unix permissions right now. tiger's introducing ACL support. mac os x's good permissions model comes from well separated privledges, logical admin username/password prompts on actions that require escalation, and developers actually testing to make sure apps run/install without requiring admin privs. (heck you can install most apps in os x by just putting it in ~/Applications). technically windows has better permission control than most OSes out, it's just the defaults are total shit and the app developers don't take any responsibility to allow user-level installs and running.
i wrote some benchmarks of the three major search engines (downloadable here: asn1.tar.gz). Basically google had the fastest results, the most results, and tied with yahoo for the best quality results (actual usefulness of what was returned).
in computer science house, one of the clubs i'm in at RIT, the number of mac laptop users has skyrocketed in the past few years. it's probably even the most common laptop in the club now. i've seen similar trends across the CS department, but not nearly as high as this club in particular.
that's pretty rich. i'm sure if bmws were so much better, 9 out 10 people would use them instead of 1 out of 10. they're different markets assclown, get over yourself.
forced morality has always driven me nuts. some people, particularly those in high power, think they have the right to tell me and others what is and isn't wrong. quite frankly it makes me sick, because the people who force morality upon others are slimy hypocrites. what if i became president and deemed that christianity was morally wrong, then enlisted the pocket senators to enact laws banning the practice of that religion.
look, fuckers, we fled england for a reason. we wanted freedom, and force morality is just another form of shackles regardless of the end. the means are simply not just.
it's not that simple really. radical changes in the user interface require high learning curves to transition to. it's not often when these changes come around, and any major paradigm shift in guis should happen gradual to ease users into a new way of using the computer. it's difficult to do all at once because people will think it's just too 'different.' everyone really borrows ideas off each other in the interface world. pretty much all environments now are a mix of the attributes of others. gnome is heavily mac os influenced. kde is heavily windows influenced. windows is mac influenced and mac is mostly xerox with a bit of creativity and HCI behind it. it's a natural evolution for the open source choices to take the best of both and try and merge them.
it's a shame we don't have a standard web-app framework yet, because i've seen some pretty cool stuff done with XUL. i keep thinking "man, it would be awesome to have an XUL based webmail client. or an XUL based search engine" .. etc etc. hopefully what-wg will change things, but it's a shame to see all these competing web app libraries now because it really makes universality impossible
try ripping the dvd to your hard drive first. that greatly reduces power consumption
i like how the submitter listed all those off, and failed to mention bioruby. thanks
i wrote a paper on this topic for my CG1 class, and it covers most of the modern display systems with a few right around the the horizon.
i'm hoping cairo/glitz will give quartz extreme a run for its money. now we just need to get started on implementing something similar to coreimage/corevideo!
if we got just these two things, and nothing else, i might actually stop slitting my wrists as a web designer. PLEASE MICROSOFT. PLEASE. that's all i want god damnit.
hi adam. yes i did not actually make this. it was just a joke, please don't take offense :).
I've already submitted my entry. I've got my fingers crossed!
context menus are great - use them.
just a nit pick on this one. you should always provide a way to access something using a context menu without having to right click (such as in the top menu like in mac os).
no, but people have been writing things in perl that perl simply wasn't meant for. desktop applications and any system that lends itself well to object oriented design falls flat in perl, yet perl is *still* used for these things. alan's criticizing the people who only have a hammer, and see every problem as a nail.
that really is a damn good question, but unfortunately i think i know the answer. if other countries refuse to product the HDTV shows from the US, they just won't agree to liscense them until said country has laws protecting their content. in essence they will bully the other countries into adopting similarly fucked up laws.
in some ways, sure. apple's done a lot to change their image not only for street cred (iPod) but geek cred too (BSD in OS X). google changed the way we use search engines -- such a simple webpage can find so much. apple's changing the way we think about technology now more than ever with the digital lifestyle of iLife + iPod + iMac.
how about checking the bitkeeper logs and see who committed a certain portion of the kernel?
here's a question for microsoft. what happens when a major vulnerability comes out that none of microsoft's customers can do a damn thing about, and they have to wait days/weeks/months for a fix? shit out of luck, that's what. with linux i could hire a developer to fix it if it was causing me enough of a problem. or i could wait for one of several major companies with dozens of kernel hackors to fix it (who often have a much faster turnaround time for patches too! imagine that).
unfortunately it has no plans to be included default in gnome 2.10, which means adoption is going to be really low from integrated application support. that's the deal breaker for something like this i believe. what good is it if no one else uses the APIs because they can't guarantee it will be installed with every gnome desktop?
hi nemo, i was getting a compile error due to line wrapping and couldn't get it to compile. i was stripping the comments to see if it made a difference. anyways, it's fixed now on my server. i meant no disrespect.
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i've never seen this happen. and i use firefox on mac, linux, and windows rather requently. *shrug*
lisp was at least 50 years ahead of it's time. it will be probably another 50 before people realize functional programming's expressive power.
am i the only one who has absolutely no fucking clue what you people are bitching about, even though i use firefox every day to read slashdot?