Well, I tend to agree with the very hard part. I personally believe that it is possible to merry the two, and when I switched to Linux in the late 90's that was the reason, it was open and possibility to be as complicated, or as uncomplicated as you liked.
I don't believe smarter is always harder, and I don't believe ease of use and power is always a straight forward black and white trade-off.
Even in Windows XP you can change the desktop shell, hit the registry, add more complicated programs, so its only really an appliance if you want it to be. But I believe its a hallmark of well thought out UI design when the interface can be simultaneously simple and complex. THAT is the challenge, that elegance.
Or, if your toaster doesn't work then maybe you should replace it with something that does.
And don't go using silly examples. Try something a little smarter like the iPod, hell Apple took the BSD core and turned it into something elegant and simple to use. This argument is outdated. A computer should have layers, it should be powerful, but on the surface it should be quite usable.
Oh, I am listening. If a major media outlet says your projects feature 'K' isn't adequate, adequate being vague and general, you pose the question: how or why isn't it adequate. This is the part we have the pointy-hairs and marketing research departments for. Some of the best comments your going to get will simply point you in the right direction. The rest is up to you. But who really wants to hear that, right? So we go on complaining about DAU's in our smug condescending way.
Maybe I've just got too many friends who are non-techy, but I stopped expecting the world to know any more about their computer then they do their toaster. And you know what? They shouldn't have to.
Yes, and this is exactly why KDE will succeed. One camp proclaims why their system is good, while the other listens to how it could be better. The only thing is I can't tell is if its the Gnome users or the culture of the actual developers, but their comes a point where it doesn't matter.
Feedback is feedback, if you want things to be spoon fed, I'm sorry, you woke up on the wrong side of the world.
But being hostle about the kind of feedback your actually getting really takes the cake. No-one said users had to be developers in order to be heard. If we in the OSS community can't bridge that gap then it is our failure, not theirs.
We've been hearing from the Gnome camp for a while? What is technically good and what is good for the user is not always the same thing. In fact, sometimes their quite different.
And I belive ALL feedback is important, even if you have to work to translate it into something useful.
99% of all users wont care about libraries or how they are supposed to use something. They've got babies, family, car payments and jobs to worry about.
But Apple will never do it so its irrelevant. Just because you'd pay for their product doens't mean they'd sell it to you (especially if they have a business model that involves more then just OS sales..which they do).
I imagine the cost of simply supporting the hodge-podge of pc hardware that makes up the average pc desktop gives everyone at Apple nightmares.
No matter what his motive were when he started the war, his adminstration has effectively played the war card again and again.
Not supporting your president in a time of war is tantamount to not supporting our troops, casualties, American victims, the Iraqies right to freedom, a world without fear or our own nation in a time of crisis.
Think what you may, this is a time of drummed up nationalism and a lot of people are still angry and scared. Conflicting facts and false realities are everywhere (and honestly, if you truely want to believe your president it doesn't take much).
You like jumping right in there and being an asshole. This is Slashdot, its a community that does tend to support OSS *anything* and has a bit of a fuck you attitude towards big corporations. But we don't support piracy any more then your most rabid, Microsoft fawning, neo conservative community business leader. But heres a fact, republicans steal software too. The difference is when liberals do it its called piracy, when republicans do its called unlicensed software.
Personally I support both commercial software and OSS software. I like choices.
What about employees with drunk driving records? Speeders? Kids who put m-80's into toilets? People commonly do all sorts of stupid, socially insensitive things. In fact, we probably all have. But I guess when someone uses technology to do it its different..
I wouldn't hire a known (current) hacker. But most of us grow out of being kids at some point, I don't see any reason to assume hackers are different.
Hire him for what? I mean really. Hacking can be looked on as an additional skill-set, but with a disadvantage. If I can get someone whos qualified to do the job with no questionable blackmarks on their record what am I going to do? If I need someone with some advanced knowledge of socially reprehensible activity A and I can't find someone who's traditionally qualified, then hacker it is. And there are places that having a hacker simply makes sense.
Just FYI, you can download using the client OR download tracks directly. The client stopped working for me ages ago so I've been queing then up in d4x ever since.
So you read their blurb then launch in to speculation about what they might be and get modded insightful?
Anyway, if you consider buying albums and they have something you like then it is a good deal compared to most of the competition. The 50 free for two weeks is a) true b) a great deal if you see something you'd really like.
I had an account with emusic ages ago when they not only provided a fancy Linux d/l client but also offered unlimited downloads for $9.99 a month. As it happens I love music and really like checking out a lot of different music, this was a great opportunity to explore a lot of jazz and ethnic music that I wouldn't have been comfortable paying big money for.
Anyway, the unlimited d/ls ended and now its 40 for $9.99 or 90 for $19.99. My point is, they have an alright selection for what they are and all they are is another choice (probably even more importantly, a choice with out crippling DRM). Sometimes they are the best deal going, it just depends on what your looking for.
For your Dead try allofmp3.com. I see 15 album listed, all 100% DRM free.
I mean just because a cd sells for $15 at retail center A and then the same album retails online at retail center B (with DRM and lower quality encoding) for $5 less doesn't mean doesn't make B a good deal. The author is obviously saying he's not comfortable paying $10 per album and I think there has been more then enough posts pointing out that the cost of manufacturing and distributing a compact disk is out of balance with the retail price.
The only thing I'd fault the author for is failing to mention another mp3 (wav/flac/ogg) retailer:
Aside from not using DRM of any kind they charge by the megabyte, for a 192k encoded album I pay on average about $.70. And they sell all the Top 40 crap everyones alway complaining groovy company B can't provide.
If more music companies considered pricing more similar to allofmp3 (if record companies let them) they would easily make up in volume what they lost in premium. Paying pennies for good music is better economics then paying nothing for low quality rips via p2p.
Last time I did an install when I selected LSB packages it told me I needed to use the 2.4 series kernel? This could just have been a glitch in the distro I was using, but considering I've never installed a piece of software that needed the LSB I immediated unselected it.
Whenever I hear the word standard regarding Linux I tend to think its a good thing, but I've started to feel pretty indifferent regarding the LSB. Is there any reason I shouldn't?
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Slashdot has been getting popular enough that we have to feign some nonpartisanship for all the Windows dweebs.
If Windows XP was a shoe it would be like a orthopedic shoe; useful, but no one should really wants to wear it. Go figure.
Well, I tend to agree with the very hard part. I personally believe that it is possible to merry the two, and when I switched to Linux in the late 90's that was the reason, it was open and possibility to be as complicated, or as uncomplicated as you liked.
I don't believe smarter is always harder, and I don't believe ease of use and power is always a straight forward black and white trade-off.
Even in Windows XP you can change the desktop shell, hit the registry, add more complicated programs, so its only really an appliance if you want it to be. But I believe its a hallmark of well thought out UI design when the interface can be simultaneously simple and complex. THAT is the challenge, that elegance.
Or, if your toaster doesn't work then maybe you should replace it with something that does.
And don't go using silly examples. Try something a little smarter like the iPod, hell Apple took the BSD core and turned it into something elegant and simple to use. This argument is outdated. A computer should have layers, it should be powerful, but on the surface it should be quite usable.
Oh, I am listening. If a major media outlet says your projects feature 'K' isn't adequate, adequate being vague and general, you pose the question: how or why isn't it adequate. This is the part we have the pointy-hairs and marketing research departments for. Some of the best comments your going to get will simply point you in the right direction. The rest is up to you. But who really wants to hear that, right? So we go on complaining about DAU's in our smug condescending way.
Maybe I've just got too many friends who are non-techy, but I stopped expecting the world to know any more about their computer then they do their toaster. And you know what? They shouldn't have to.
Yes, and this is exactly why KDE will succeed. One camp proclaims why their system is good, while the other listens to how it could be better. The only thing is I can't tell is if its the Gnome users or the culture of the actual developers, but their comes a point where it doesn't matter.
Feedback is feedback, if you want things to be spoon fed, I'm sorry, you woke up on the wrong side of the world.
But being hostle about the kind of feedback your actually getting really takes the cake. No-one said users had to be developers in order to be heard. If we in the OSS community can't bridge that gap then it is our failure, not theirs.
We've been hearing from the Gnome camp for a while? What is technically good and what is good for the user is not always the same thing. In fact, sometimes their quite different.
And I belive ALL feedback is important, even if you have to work to translate it into something useful.
99% of all users wont care about libraries or how they are supposed to use something. They've got babies, family, car payments and jobs to worry about.
Short answer:
Yes.
But Apple will never do it so its irrelevant. Just because you'd pay for their product doens't mean they'd sell it to you (especially if they have a business model that involves more then just OS sales..which they do).
I imagine the cost of simply supporting the hodge-podge of pc hardware that makes up the average pc desktop gives everyone at Apple nightmares.
It might not be that bad of a gimmick. It really depends on his intentions.
Educating the public on what is involved in the political process would be a noble goal and could be done in this way.
The disconnect between the an {insert country name} politician and the public can't be helping to create a healthier democracy.
No matter what his motive were when he started the war, his adminstration has effectively played the war card again and again.
Not supporting your president in a time of war is tantamount to not supporting our troops, casualties, American victims, the Iraqies right to freedom, a world without fear or our own nation in a time of crisis.
Think what you may, this is a time of drummed up nationalism and a lot of people are still angry and scared. Conflicting facts and false realities are everywhere (and honestly, if you truely want to believe your president it doesn't take much).
You like jumping right in there and being an asshole. This is Slashdot, its a community that does tend to support OSS *anything* and has a bit of a fuck you attitude towards big corporations. But we don't support piracy any more then your most rabid, Microsoft fawning, neo conservative community business leader. But heres a fact, republicans steal software too. The difference is when liberals do it its called piracy, when republicans do its called unlicensed software.
Personally I support both commercial software and OSS software. I like choices.
but they preffer to be called models. Its a solid idea though.
Damn, your right and I should have skipped the com and those spaces too.
::0 ads.osdn.*
cat>>/etc/hosts
^d
Whats, that 33? Your at 32?
True Linux users should be lazy:
/etc/hosts
cat >>
0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com
^d
I just saved you 5 keystrokes.
*burble*
(I responded to the wrong funny post..)
True Linux users should be lazy:
/etc/hosts
cat >>
0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com
^d
I just saved you 5 keystrokes.
*burble*
much Star Trek. At best you mean tactile feedback. Touch is something you might require, say.. sentience to appreciate and we aren't there quite yet.
The media won that war. :_
What about employees with drunk driving records? Speeders? Kids who put m-80's into toilets? People commonly do all sorts of stupid, socially insensitive things. In fact, we probably all have. But I guess when someone uses technology to do it its different..
I wouldn't hire a known (current) hacker. But most of us grow out of being kids at some point, I don't see any reason to assume hackers are different.
Hire him for what? I mean really. Hacking can be looked on as an additional skill-set, but with a disadvantage. If I can get someone whos qualified to do the job with no questionable blackmarks on their record what am I going to do? If I need someone with some advanced knowledge of socially reprehensible activity A and I can't find someone who's traditionally qualified, then hacker it is. And there are places that having a hacker simply makes sense.
Just FYI, you can download using the client OR download tracks directly. The client stopped working for me ages ago so I've been queing then up in d4x ever since.
So you read their blurb then launch in to speculation about what they might be and get modded insightful?
Anyway, if you consider buying albums and they have something you like then it is a good deal compared to most of the competition. The 50 free for two weeks is a) true b) a great deal if you see something you'd really like.
I had an account with emusic ages ago when they not only provided a fancy Linux d/l client but also offered unlimited downloads for $9.99 a month. As it happens I love music and really like checking out a lot of different music, this was a great opportunity to explore a lot of jazz and ethnic music that I wouldn't have been comfortable paying big money for.
Anyway, the unlimited d/ls ended and now its 40 for $9.99 or 90 for $19.99. My point is, they have an alright selection for what they are and all they are is another choice (probably even more importantly, a choice with out crippling DRM). Sometimes they are the best deal going, it just depends on what your looking for.
For your Dead try allofmp3.com. I see 15 album listed, all 100% DRM free.
I had the same trouble. The client AFAIK is still broken, but the downloads don't require it you can download tracks directly too.
I mean just because a cd sells for $15 at retail center A and then the same album retails online at retail center B (with DRM and lower quality encoding) for $5 less doesn't mean doesn't make B a good deal. The author is obviously saying he's not comfortable paying $10 per album and I think there has been more then enough posts pointing out that the cost of manufacturing and distributing a compact disk is out of balance with the retail price.
The only thing I'd fault the author for is failing to mention another mp3 (wav/flac/ogg) retailer:
allofmp3.com
Aside from not using DRM of any kind they charge by the megabyte, for a 192k encoded album I pay on average about $.70. And they sell all the Top 40 crap everyones alway complaining groovy company B can't provide.
If more music companies considered pricing more similar to allofmp3 (if record companies let them) they would easily make up in volume what they lost in premium. Paying pennies for good music is better economics then paying nothing for low quality rips via p2p.
Last time I did an install when I selected LSB packages it told me I needed to use the 2.4 series kernel? This could just have been a glitch in the distro I was using, but considering I've never installed a piece of software that needed the LSB I immediated unselected it.
Whenever I hear the word standard regarding Linux I tend to think its a good thing, but I've started to feel pretty indifferent regarding the LSB. Is there any reason I shouldn't?
Lifes. Opps. :)
And your point? What, like 95% of Windows users who trash on the Amiga OS can write code to save their lifes?