Yes, but each OS has a different set of apps; technically, I should say "I'm most productive on any OS that properly runs bash, gcc, make, enlightenment, rxvt, has several programming and scripting languages installed by default, is one with the network, and is generally geared for the more technical sort of user"; but instead I say "I'm most productive with linux". Picking whether I'd rather say the former or the latter isn't rocket science, especially when anyone with a clue will take them to mean approximately the same thing.
My 8 year old sister begs to differ -- since installing ubuntu, she's stopped using windows "because ubuntu is so much easier".
Just a hunch, but do you personally find windows easier than linux? Firstly there's the point that it's easier to learn from nothing than to switch over; Also my sister knows when you use "your" and when to use "you're", so maybe she just learns things better than you...
Remeber your ancient TNT graphics card that had 16MB of memory?
No, because I was never that lucky -- I'm still using a non-accelerated 2MB card; mplayer crashes when I go full screen because it runs out of VRAM!
(Currently using an ATI 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB], I also have ~5 S3 Virge / Trio / Things, but they didn't seem any better; I have several decent AGP cards, but my AGP slot is fuzzy and locks everything up every few minutes -- if those cards should be >2MB and / or accelerated and I'm just using the wrong options somehow, please point me at the way to make them better:)
"A desktop using just black-and-white pixels can be far more usable than one with shadows, transparency, and all those other features "... "they go back many years in the academic literature as visual clues."
I think you just answered your own complaint -- sure a good black & white desktop is better than a bad featureful one, but a well designed featureful desktop is best of all.
And you need brackets somewhere or something, as something takes priority over something else; enough people've pointed out tweaks to my version that I can't even remember any more (and it's 4am, which is never a good time for thought...)
You notice there's no dirt lovers proclaiming it's superiority to pie. Must be a problem with the pie lovers:P
And does chess help me get an asian girlfriend?
(I don't play enough of either to take sides, but it annoys me to see people who's arguments are entirely logically falicious getting modded insightful...)
iTunes for video would be the win, with another important point -- make it cheap. Especially with anime which goes at $400 for a 10 episode series -- at $40 per episode in one lump, I'm not going to buy any; at $2 per episode one at a time I'd buy lots -- it confuses me how companies prefer $400 x 0 to $10 x lots, and their reaction to a drop in sales is to *increase* prices...
PS. if anyone is planning on doing this, please don't call it iToons. That would suck.
Doing effects over non-overlapping windows is possible
The windows *are* overlapping.
(Screenshot changed to make this clearer; the clock and the icon bar are windows, overlapped by the gimp -- currently there's only the top level main windows which can overlap the bottom level windows, but more are coming -- E17 has it's own built in composite manager ala x.org, so things like that, that and that are quite possible (but note that the WM itself is only a few weeks old, so the controls aren't implemented yet -- e17/WM doesn't yet do anything other than just display windows...))
By itself, E17 may be able to give your windows shadows or fake transparency, but a full compositing manager + hardware accelerated backend will allow true alpha blending, fast updates and fun live animations like OSX's genie. Note that this extensions can be easily used by E17 as well, but are really impossible without them.
See this? Full shadows, running in realtime, with no hardware acceleration, on 400MHz (and account for 2 lots of X overhead, networking, and compression, as I was running it within VNC). True alpha blending of full windows is also doable, but there's no UI for setting it yet:(
To repeat: full blending, realtime, on non-accelerated 400MHz. With current X + E17 technology.
PS. Please don't mod me up, that image is hosted on my home connection for lack of anywhere else to put it >_<
In typical use it's on X, but theory wise it's more beside it -- Evas (the basic E canvas) can run without X there at all; current back ends are DirectFB, Qtopia, memory buffer, OpenGL, and of course X as well; it's designed to work on anything that can comprehend pixels. With so little of the rendering chain being X, an optimised X probably won't make a great deal of difference (Unless the 5% of the chain that's X (counting lines of code) takes up 50% (counting cpu time); I haven't checked, but I don't think that X is *that* inefficient)
I'd priorotise full immersion 3D displays over that -- there are "true" 3D interfaces already like that which you describe, but they really suck when displayed on a 2D screen.
I was pointing at the backend stuff for E17; raster's written most of the display related stuff himself rather than using the X code. Go to the FA and look for the bulleted lists - Of the 22 points, E17 already does 15, and has the capability to do all of them. The first time I saw the stuff in CVS was the first (and currently, only) time that my jaw has actually physically dropped, at the beauty of it. (note that it's the way things glide and fade in / out that amazes most, static screenshots aren't that good). Also amazing is the speed of it all - E17 (the WM part) does drop shadows with no hardware acceleration, on my 400MHz box, with no slowdown -- xorg drops to around 1 frame/sec doing the same thing.
As to E16, which I assume you're thinking of -- I've only found ~3 themes which I consider usable (of the ~200? on freshmeat), and have stuck with the same one for the past ~3 years.
Those of us who like out UIs fast, featureful, and pant wettingy gorgeous, already have what we want
Bad in theory, but who cares in real life?
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The sha1 of my root password is 48f9ce665c935dd7298a6cf4297b3d95e7808d2c. Wake me up when someone can use that info to extract a useful password that'll let them in to my box.
For bonus points, my kernel is 1e47925e07c0cc69d753c9261eecee79f0c1b260. Add in a rootkit without changing the hash.
We wouldn't have much of this problem if browsers didn't send the HTTP "Referer" header
Taking away the referer will stop lawyers doing stupid things? I think not. I've also found that the referer header is very useful - I can graph out how visitors to my sites move around, and optimise them to make the most looked for things the easiest to find.
And while you're at it, cut out the HTTP "User-Agent" header. With web standards, there's no longer any need for this, either. That will stop the practice of favoring certain browsers.
WTF? How? You think removing the user agent will force people to design to standards, just in case they're getting lots of variation in browsers that they can't see? Again, I think not. More likely would be that they'll design to work in IE, and have nothing to suggest that they should do otherwise.
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Yes, but each OS has a different set of apps; technically, I should say "I'm most productive on any OS that properly runs bash, gcc, make, enlightenment, rxvt, has several programming and scripting languages installed by default, is one with the network, and is generally geared for the more technical sort of user"; but instead I say "I'm most productive with linux". Picking whether I'd rather say the former or the latter isn't rocket science, especially when anyone with a clue will take them to mean approximately the same thing.
It's open... source...
Not necessarily open business; they need to get food on the table somehow...
First hit googling for "flash blocker" --> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Just a hunch, but do you personally find windows easier than linux? Firstly there's the point that it's easier to learn from nothing than to switch over; Also my sister knows when you use "your" and when to use "you're", so maybe she just learns things better than you...
No, because I was never that lucky -- I'm still using a non-accelerated 2MB card; mplayer crashes when I go full screen because it runs out of VRAM!
(Currently using an ATI 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB], I also have ~5 S3 Virge / Trio / Things, but they didn't seem any better; I have several decent AGP cards, but my AGP slot is fuzzy and locks everything up every few minutes -- if those cards should be >2MB and / or accelerated and I'm just using the wrong options somehow, please point me at the way to make them better :)
Slightly offtopic, but what does this extreme mode actually do?
I think you just answered your own complaint -- sure a good black & white desktop is better than a bad featureful one, but a well designed featureful desktop is best of all.
Your attitude towards correct spelling offends me. :/
Is that just a troll, or is there some meaning? I see nothing wrong with my attitude to spelling
And you need brackets somewhere or something, as something takes priority over something else; enough people've pointed out tweaks to my version that I can't even remember any more (and it's 4am, which is never a good time for thought...)
And does chess help me get an asian girlfriend?
(I don't play enough of either to take sides, but it annoys me to see people who's arguments are entirely logically falicious getting modded insightful...)
PS. if anyone is planning on doing this, please don't call it iToons. That would suck.
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The windows *are* overlapping.
(Screenshot changed to make this clearer; the clock and the icon bar are windows, overlapped by the gimp -- currently there's only the top level main windows which can overlap the bottom level windows, but more are coming -- E17 has it's own built in composite manager ala x.org, so things like that, that and that are quite possible (but note that the WM itself is only a few weeks old, so the controls aren't implemented yet -- e17/WM doesn't yet do anything other than just display windows...))
See this? Full shadows, running in realtime, with no hardware acceleration, on 400MHz (and account for 2 lots of X overhead, networking, and compression, as I was running it within VNC). True alpha blending of full windows is also doable, but there's no UI for setting it yet :(
To repeat: full blending, realtime, on non-accelerated 400MHz. With current X + E17 technology.
PS. Please don't mod me up, that image is hosted on my home connection for lack of anywhere else to put it >_<
In typical use it's on X, but theory wise it's more beside it -- Evas (the basic E canvas) can run without X there at all; current back ends are DirectFB, Qtopia, memory buffer, OpenGL, and of course X as well; it's designed to work on anything that can comprehend pixels. With so little of the rendering chain being X, an optimised X probably won't make a great deal of difference (Unless the 5% of the chain that's X (counting lines of code) takes up 50% (counting cpu time); I haven't checked, but I don't think that X is *that* inefficient)
I'd priorotise full immersion 3D displays over that -- there are "true" 3D interfaces already like that which you describe, but they really suck when displayed on a 2D screen.
As to E16, which I assume you're thinking of -- I've only found ~3 themes which I consider usable (of the ~200? on freshmeat), and have stuck with the same one for the past ~3 years.
Those of us who like out UIs fast, featureful, and pant wettingy gorgeous, already have what we want
For bonus points, my kernel is 1e47925e07c0cc69d753c9261eecee79f0c1b260. Add in a rootkit without changing the hash.
Yes... as said - by your logic, removing patents will destroy *all* research-based business, not just that which you personally object to.
So they'll be forced to let you in; it won't mean they'll work in non-ie browsers though :P
mplayer mms://www.kaleidescape.com/TheKaleidescapeExperien ce
the -dumpstream option will save to file, ~11MB. Although save to file may be illegal as you aren't watching via the authorised player :/
Than WINE?
Taking away the referer will stop lawyers doing stupid things? I think not. I've also found that the referer header is very useful - I can graph out how visitors to my sites move around, and optimise them to make the most looked for things the easiest to find.
And while you're at it, cut out the HTTP "User-Agent" header. With web standards, there's no longer any need for this, either. That will stop the practice of favoring certain browsers.
WTF? How? You think removing the user agent will force people to design to standards, just in case they're getting lots of variation in browsers that they can't see? Again, I think not. More likely would be that they'll design to work in IE, and have nothing to suggest that they should do otherwise.
So by getting rid of software patents, nobody'll have any reason to make software? Yay software patents \o/