If you already know the filename (as in your example), you just scroll down anyway until you find the file/folder.
The one that can really trip you up is if you overwrite a folder with another folder. In Windows the files in the overwritten folder remain. In MacOS they get deleted.
In both cases nobody's right or wrong but the user can get confused. It might be nice to have options to configure folder sorting or overwriting, but there are more pressing issues that need sorting out in Finder first. And Apple try to avoid putting in lots of tweaky options so don't hold your breath waiting for it.
The inner circle of developers doesn't really care about users, they care about contributors. That much has already been admitted. If they did care about users they would have set up usability studies by now under their own initiative, but they haven't.
And as they are more focused towards the needs of contributors/developers, even if someone were to devise and carry out KDE usability studies, it's debatable if they would want to overhaul KDE according to these findings.
Contributors and developers like to tweak their UI settings and like things complicated and KDE serves them well in this regard. On the other hand users just want it to work; the suggestion of turning KDE into Gnome would probably be as well received as a cold cup of sick by the people who matter as well as KDE's contributors.
"From a cynical point of view, the only real benefit to KDE of having users is that some users turn into developers. This directly benefits the KDE project, the code, and the KDE developers who are writing the software (essentially) for themselves. Marketing in Open Source is a bit of a misnomer anyway, as we don't really benefit directly from having more users."
[...]
"KDE and open source is not ever obligated to please users. We are not obligated to fix bugs. We are not obligated to implement things that you demand. We are not obligated to provide open forums for you to attack us personally. If you are kind to us, we might do some of those things."
Given this attitude, do you think that KDE would set up usability studies?
Granted someone offering a developer individual help is nice if one program's UI is overly difficult to use, but MacOS didn't get famous for its ease-of-use because of certain individual applications in the OS were easy to use, it became famous because the whole OS was easy to use and Apple laid down the law to third parties.
My point being that KDE needs a coherent system-wide interface and to achieve that the first step is to undertake system-wide usability studies, however quotes like this from lead developers suggest that this this won't happen.
Someone outside the inner circle could always set up their own usability studies, but I doubt they'd be either a) acted upon or b) well received.
I would not say that the overall attitude that KDE development team has towards end users (and therefore usability) helps. As examples, there are quotes by developers such as KDE doesn't need users, it needs contributors and launching KDE 4.0 and completely failing to get across that it should have been called KDE 4.0 alpha 1.
Even if a KDE user were to propose changes with UI mockups, etc... I rather doubt that few KDE developers would be receptive to them. From the developer's point of view there's no problem at all because their application is entirely usable. The user's changes just amount to one person's opinion against another's instead of a measurable goal (a bugfix) and a developer doesn't have to overhaul their application just on someone's else's say so.
Perhaps if KDE development team sets up some usability studies to identify problems that would be a first step, but given their current attitude towards users it seems unlikely that that'll happen.
"Although putting an option to disable the cashew for desktops sounds reasonable, from a coding point of view it would introduce unnecessary complexity and would break the design."
What a user-friendly desktop KDE is, surely people can use KDE just get the job done with a design philosophy such as this.
Thank goodness someone didn't decide to make container plug-in render a row of dancing monkeys in title bars on a whim then refuse to remove it because it'd be too much like hard work and suggest that someone else write another window plug-in without dancing monkeys.
And the reason the FSF is doing this is because they believe that your choices are affecting their freedom to engage in commerce.
Um, the FSF are basically against commerce, aren't they?
Anyway, customer choice has meant that, where labels let them, Apple already offer non-DRM music which can even be played on Linux. I doubt a bunch of fanatic beardies clogging up Apple's support will improve or worsen the current state of affairs.
(Perhaps Apple could demonstrate to them that sound works straight away in each and every application without the volume levels going mad or playback stuttering, maybe they'd win over a few converts...)
So first the servers you check your DRM'd music against are taken down then you receive nasty letters/a reduction in service from your ISP/your ISP stops providing you a service/a possible fine if the law changes/etc... when you try and download songs you already own through eMule or BitTorrent so you end up buying the CD if you really care about the music.
It's genius, I never knew there were so many ways to pay for the same thing.
The classic controller doesn't have rumble, possibly for this very reason (Nintendo saw this patent lawsuit coming). Incidentally neither does the GCN Wavebird controller.
So I'm not sure why the classic controller falls under the patent but the Nunchuk doesn't, unless it's controller with two analogue sticks that are patented.
Anyway, Nintendo can just raise the price of the classic controller in the US or not sell it.
Haven't used the migration assistant so I can't help. However I think that once you have a network drive mounted in Finder it'd be enough for Aperature to notice it as it is for other programs.
Finder on 10.4 will remember the same settings for every window, it's one of the first things I did. Unfortunately I then forgot about how to do it as I didn't need to do it any more, however it's in the Finder's view settings menu.
If you're talking about the Apple mouse (Mighty Mouse), it's a two button mouse but it doesn't look like it. Go to mouse options and configure a different action for the right button (e.g. context menu).
There's a force exit menu option available through the context menu, but if you need to go to the force exit window, you can get there from the Apple menu. There's also a three button combination (like Windows' ctrl-alt-delete) to pop it up but I can't remember it offhand.
To edit/etc/hosts you need to be logged in an administrator user (or su to an administrator user if you're not logged in as an administrator user) and do a sudo -s before editing. This is not user friendliness, this is security.
It's not just whether a language is widely spoken or not, but it's if the country has a job market big enough to absorb you. I'd suggest that French or German or a Scandinavian language would be better bet than Italian and Spanish.
Nobody's going to get rich as a programmer in Spain by the way, because in Spain software engineering depends on recent graduates on low pay who may not have much idea about development but it doesn't matter because they're cheap. You'd need to like the lifestyle as compensation for the poor wages or get parachuted in by a US company.
A trojan which requires the user to manually download and run it isn't really a trojan...
And if a program requests the root password and the user gives it, is this the OS's fault? (In fact preference files are stored in the user's home directory, they don't need a password.)
I suggest you download the Nokia Device Software Update program (Google it), most problems which cause Nokias to crash are fixed by about 3 months after launch, then after that come regular updates which improve speed, etc...
In particular the N95 had an update which went from version 12 to 20 and improved things greatly.
Most wireless phones in the Nokia's N series beat the iPhone feature by feature, it's just that Nokia's marketing department in the US seems incapable of getting this across to anyone.
Unfortunately, in Europe at least, it's discontinued and there's no successor. A shame as I want a phone which allows my to connect to my company's VPN and the fold-out keyboard was just the job, much better than having a impractical BlackBerry-type design which is unfortunately catching on; you have to drag around a big phone which at the same time is impossible to type with because it's got tiny buttons.
Well if they don't make money one way, they'll make it another. If AT&T charge less upfront (or are forced to charge less upfront by Apple), it'd be pretty odd if they didn't raise the cost of the monthly bundle price.
A lot of this depends on how wholesale prices work in each country. For example, NZ may work as in the UK, where small ISPs are changed by their upstream ISP by the bandwidth they use but sell access to their home users a flat rate.
This kind of arrangement usually ends in tears; several years back in the UK a lot of modem dialup access companies folded one by one, ADSL seems a little better (if only because they have no hesitation in enforcing usage limits).
I suppose the economics of ISPs in the US is different.
No, this is rather like those night usage electricity tariffs for washing machines, dishwashers, etc...
For home packages the ISP just needs to set a low peak cap during the evening and a high off-peak cap during the rest of the day (e.g. ADSL24 in the UK).
Whatever protocol you use (BT, eMule, or HTTP download) doesn't interest the ISP, all they want to do is move non-interactive usage to off-peak times so that interactive usage during the evening works for everyone.
Most users will understand if things are set things out clearly at the start instead of suddenly receiving a fair usage warning e-mails when some mysterious unknown limit is hit. Indeed many P2P users may choose an ISP with this kind of peak/off-peak tariff as they know exactly what they signed up for.
I meant to say "Unfortunately it's probably fairly difficult to fix." on my last line
What you say may hold true for a fairly old computer but cannot be said to be true for an OS which has been recently installed (or supplied with a new PC).
Certainly Ubuntu's website does make the whole thing sound easy, mention the phrase 'it just works' and they'll even send you the CD. It doesn't mention that you may need to know the ins and outs of Linux, especially on the first or second day.
Given that Ubuntu offers to download the right video driver for you (open or binary), and there's a preferences window for screen settings, the end user is bound to be disappointed to find that after this promising start it doesn't 'just work' after all.
This is not ATI's fault... the driver they provide and Ubuntu find and downloads and installs supposedly does support dual screen and TV out.
This is not the user's fault for not being willing to become a Linux administrator. They've been told they don't need to, and certainly they shouldn't need to do this from the very beginning when it can be assumed the system is in a known clean state.
Nobody's in the wrong (ATI, Ubuntu, or X11, well, possibly X11 because they've had years to make configuration easier and they still haven't managed it) yet when you but the three together something's definitely lacking and the end user must step in to fiddle about with config files. In the end there may not even be a solution.
And this is just one example which tripped one user up right at start.
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If you already know the filename (as in your example), you just scroll down anyway until you find the file/folder.
The one that can really trip you up is if you overwrite a folder with another folder. In Windows the files in the overwritten folder remain. In MacOS they get deleted.
In both cases nobody's right or wrong but the user can get confused. It might be nice to have options to configure folder sorting or overwriting, but there are more pressing issues that need sorting out in Finder first. And Apple try to avoid putting in lots of tweaky options so don't hold your breath waiting for it.
Okay, one more time.
The inner circle of developers doesn't really care about users, they care about contributors. That much has already been admitted. If they did care about users they would have set up usability studies by now under their own initiative, but they haven't.
And as they are more focused towards the needs of contributors/developers, even if someone were to devise and carry out KDE usability studies, it's debatable if they would want to overhaul KDE according to these findings.
Contributors and developers like to tweak their UI settings and like things complicated and KDE serves them well in this regard. On the other hand users just want it to work; the suggestion of turning KDE into Gnome would probably be as well received as a cold cup of sick by the people who matter as well as KDE's contributors.
Going on into Troy's blog...
"From a cynical point of view, the only real benefit to KDE of having users is that some users turn into developers. This directly benefits the KDE project, the code, and the KDE developers who are writing the software (essentially) for themselves. Marketing in Open Source is a bit of a misnomer anyway, as we don't really benefit directly from having more users."
[...]
"KDE and open source is not ever obligated to please users. We are not obligated to fix bugs. We are not obligated to implement things that you demand. We are not obligated to provide open forums for you to attack us personally. If you are kind to us, we might do some of those things."
Given this attitude, do you think that KDE would set up usability studies?
Granted someone offering a developer individual help is nice if one program's UI is overly difficult to use, but MacOS didn't get famous for its ease-of-use because of certain individual applications in the OS were easy to use, it became famous because the whole OS was easy to use and Apple laid down the law to third parties.
My point being that KDE needs a coherent system-wide interface and to achieve that the first step is to undertake system-wide usability studies, however quotes like this from lead developers suggest that this this won't happen.
Someone outside the inner circle could always set up their own usability studies, but I doubt they'd be either a) acted upon or b) well received.
Spain has a national photo and fingerprint database too and has done for a long time. They're moving across from plastic to chipped ID cards now.
I would not say that the overall attitude that KDE development team has towards end users (and therefore usability) helps. As examples, there are quotes by developers such as KDE doesn't need users, it needs contributors and launching KDE 4.0 and completely failing to get across that it should have been called KDE 4.0 alpha 1.
Even if a KDE user were to propose changes with UI mockups, etc... I rather doubt that few KDE developers would be receptive to them. From the developer's point of view there's no problem at all because their application is entirely usable. The user's changes just amount to one person's opinion against another's instead of a measurable goal (a bugfix) and a developer doesn't have to overhaul their application just on someone's else's say so.
Perhaps if KDE development team sets up some usability studies to identify problems that would be a first step, but given their current attitude towards users it seems unlikely that that'll happen.
Browse through a VPN to company HQ.
Or are VPNs banned too?
That was my point. The code needs to be designed around the needs of the user, not the programmer.
If KDE was re-written from the ground up and is already running into these kinds of problems then it's not off to a good start.
"Although putting an option to disable the cashew for desktops sounds reasonable, from a coding point of view it would introduce unnecessary complexity and would break the design."
What a user-friendly desktop KDE is, surely people can use KDE just get the job done with a design philosophy such as this.
Thank goodness someone didn't decide to make container plug-in render a row of dancing monkeys in title bars on a whim then refuse to remove it because it'd be too much like hard work and suggest that someone else write another window plug-in without dancing monkeys.
And the reason the FSF is doing this is because they believe that your choices are affecting their freedom to engage in commerce.
Um, the FSF are basically against commerce, aren't they?
Anyway, customer choice has meant that, where labels let them, Apple already offer non-DRM music which can even be played on Linux. I doubt a bunch of fanatic beardies clogging up Apple's support will improve or worsen the current state of affairs.
(Perhaps Apple could demonstrate to them that sound works straight away in each and every application without the volume levels going mad or playback stuttering, maybe they'd win over a few converts...)
So first the servers you check your DRM'd music against are taken down then you receive nasty letters/a reduction in service from your ISP/your ISP stops providing you a service/a possible fine if the law changes/etc... when you try and download songs you already own through eMule or BitTorrent so you end up buying the CD if you really care about the music.
It's genius, I never knew there were so many ways to pay for the same thing.
The classic controller doesn't have rumble, possibly for this very reason (Nintendo saw this patent lawsuit coming). Incidentally neither does the GCN Wavebird controller.
So I'm not sure why the classic controller falls under the patent but the Nunchuk doesn't, unless it's controller with two analogue sticks that are patented.
Anyway, Nintendo can just raise the price of the classic controller in the US or not sell it.
If you want to browse pages like Slashdot, why don't you try Opera Mobile instead of Opera Mini?
I think at 18 someone should be treated and act like an adult instead of a child.
Certainly it's the age at which the law considers someone an adult in many European countries.
Haven't used the migration assistant so I can't help. However I think that once you have a network drive mounted in Finder it'd be enough for Aperature to notice it as it is for other programs.
Finder on 10.4 will remember the same settings for every window, it's one of the first things I did. Unfortunately I then forgot about how to do it as I didn't need to do it any more, however it's in the Finder's view settings menu.
If you're talking about the Apple mouse (Mighty Mouse), it's a two button mouse but it doesn't look like it. Go to mouse options and configure a different action for the right button (e.g. context menu).
There's a force exit menu option available through the context menu, but if you need to go to the force exit window, you can get there from the Apple menu. There's also a three button combination (like Windows' ctrl-alt-delete) to pop it up but I can't remember it offhand.
To edit /etc/hosts you need to be logged in an administrator user (or su to an administrator user if you're not logged in as an administrator user) and do a sudo -s before editing. This is not user friendliness, this is security.
It's not just whether a language is widely spoken or not, but it's if the country has a job market big enough to absorb you. I'd suggest that French or German or a Scandinavian language would be better bet than Italian and Spanish.
Nobody's going to get rich as a programmer in Spain by the way, because in Spain software engineering depends on recent graduates on low pay who may not have much idea about development but it doesn't matter because they're cheap. You'd need to like the lifestyle as compensation for the poor wages or get parachuted in by a US company.
It's arguable that you're less secure if you use auto update in Firefox because you're running as administrator instead of as a limited user.
If 83.3% run the latest version of Firefox on any given day, what percentage of people run as a limited user? A single digit number, probably.
A trojan which requires the user to manually download and run it isn't really a trojan...
And if a program requests the root password and the user gives it, is this the OS's fault? (In fact preference files are stored in the user's home directory, they don't need a password.)
I suggest you download the Nokia Device Software Update program (Google it), most problems which cause Nokias to crash are fixed by about 3 months after launch, then after that come regular updates which improve speed, etc...
In particular the N95 had an update which went from version 12 to 20 and improved things greatly.
Most wireless phones in the Nokia's N series beat the iPhone feature by feature, it's just that Nokia's marketing department in the US seems incapable of getting this across to anyone.
Unfortunately, in Europe at least, it's discontinued and there's no successor. A shame as I want a phone which allows my to connect to my company's VPN and the fold-out keyboard was just the job, much better than having a impractical BlackBerry-type design which is unfortunately catching on; you have to drag around a big phone which at the same time is impossible to type with because it's got tiny buttons.
Well if they don't make money one way, they'll make it another. If AT&T charge less upfront (or are forced to charge less upfront by Apple), it'd be pretty odd if they didn't raise the cost of the monthly bundle price.
A lot of this depends on how wholesale prices work in each country. For example, NZ may work as in the UK, where small ISPs are changed by their upstream ISP by the bandwidth they use but sell access to their home users a flat rate.
This kind of arrangement usually ends in tears; several years back in the UK a lot of modem dialup access companies folded one by one, ADSL seems a little better (if only because they have no hesitation in enforcing usage limits).
I suppose the economics of ISPs in the US is different.
No, this is rather like those night usage electricity tariffs for washing machines, dishwashers, etc...
For home packages the ISP just needs to set a low peak cap during the evening and a high off-peak cap during the rest of the day (e.g. ADSL24 in the UK).
Whatever protocol you use (BT, eMule, or HTTP download) doesn't interest the ISP, all they want to do is move non-interactive usage to off-peak times so that interactive usage during the evening works for everyone.
Most users will understand if things are set things out clearly at the start instead of suddenly receiving a fair usage warning e-mails when some mysterious unknown limit is hit. Indeed many P2P users may choose an ISP with this kind of peak/off-peak tariff as they know exactly what they signed up for.
1) It's got the classic controller, it's also got the Wiimote + nunchuck combination which has six buttons.
2) I doubt the 3D flourishes really need HD if the 2D bits don't.
3) There's also Dragon Ball 2 and 3 which work happily with motion controls and I suppose 2 sold enough to make 3 viable.
I meant to say "Unfortunately it's probably fairly difficult to fix." on my last line
What you say may hold true for a fairly old computer but cannot be said to be true for an OS which has been recently installed (or supplied with a new PC).
Certainly Ubuntu's website does make the whole thing sound easy, mention the phrase 'it just works' and they'll even send you the CD. It doesn't mention that you may need to know the ins and outs of Linux, especially on the first or second day.
Given that Ubuntu offers to download the right video driver for you (open or binary), and there's a preferences window for screen settings, the end user is bound to be disappointed to find that after this promising start it doesn't 'just work' after all.
This is not ATI's fault... the driver they provide and Ubuntu find and downloads and installs supposedly does support dual screen and TV out.
This is not the user's fault for not being willing to become a Linux administrator. They've been told they don't need to, and certainly they shouldn't need to do this from the very beginning when it can be assumed the system is in a known clean state.
Nobody's in the wrong (ATI, Ubuntu, or X11, well, possibly X11 because they've had years to make configuration easier and they still haven't managed it) yet when you but the three together something's definitely lacking and the end user must step in to fiddle about with config files. In the end there may not even be a solution.
And this is just one example which tripped one user up right at start.