Windows: Don't adopt until Service Pack 1
Ubuntu: Don't adopt until 1-2 months after release
Even better, why not try the beta before it's released, and report any issues found? I get the impression that a number of the exposed issues might have been found by running the LiveCD of the beta on those same systems. (Of course, it would be even more interesting if Ubuntu has a way to 'install to try', with an option to rever to the previous state in case of failure.)
We follow the philosophy of people like von Mises or Murray Rothbard: every individual has a right to his life, liberty, and everything derived from it (e.g. his income and property) and as long as he does not interfere with the rights of others, he should be free to act in his own self interest.
The real question is: what happens when your self interest and your rights conflict with the self interest and rights of others?
IRC in itself is pretty good, but it misses a couple of features, like offline backlogging and some kind of more direct integration with pastebins, source code repository and such. I haven't been invited to Google Wave yet, but I had the impression the whole point was to have something like that: an IRC integrated with all the corollary tools that can be used to coordinate development.
- "Doesn't anyone use their phone as a god damn PHONE anymore? I'm running ($massively_antiquated_cellphone) and other than the hernia from carrying it around it stays charged for 3 months!"
The problem is not the massively antiquated cellphone but the lack of NEW lightweight phones WITHOUT all the useless crapola I'm never going to use. I've been using a now-old Nokia 2100 (which, by the way, is not significantly heavier than the new Nokia 2630 I have since yesterday), and since it was obviously getting out of business (after the umpteenth fall and drop in the water, keys started to fail to act properly, reception had gone the way of the dodo, etc) and I had an upcoming birthday, I asked my relatives to see if they could get me a new cellphone, the most basic they could find.
As it happens, the most basic they could find was this Nokia 2630 I mentioned, that has bluetooth, an FM radio, a camera that can do still and pictures, and so on and so forth, plus a fancy colorful display, and it can play mp3s and midis. Even keeping as much functionality off, it's going to drain the battery faster than the old one was, while giving me exactly ZILCH functionality I missed from the previous phone.
So rather what you should mention is: why is it that I cannot get a new bare-bone cellphone anymore? (think of the battery life you could get out of that)
I have a Wii, and if I were to buy one now I wouldn't pay more than $149.
That's exactly the reason why I haven't bought the Wii yet; I think it's a very interesting idea, and I even bought the controller which I plan to use for whiteboard stuff, but I'm not going to buy the console itself unless it drops below 150â.
I know I probably hold a minority opinion here, but I disagree with your points on usability compared to the traditional menu. The ribbon system allows for the logical grouping of actions by function.
So does the menu. A typical comparison that could be made was the menu layout in MS Word (an irrational mishmash of things in ridiculous places) vs the menu layouts in WordPerfect, the latter being extremely well-designed, with logical grouping of related functions and even multiple access points to some functions when it made sense to put them in two different groups.
Additionally, WordPerfect also implemented two toolbar concepts: the typical toolbar(s) with fixed functions, immutable and context-insensitive (you could have multiple on at the same time, obviously), and the PowerBar, a context-sensitive (configurable) toolbar that exposed context-specific functions. The combination of logical menus, toolbars (for those who wanted them) and the PowerBar offered incredible usability in a very compact screen estate and without any need to resort to abnormal, un-flexible UI 'innovations' like the Ribbon.
Actually the ribbon style is not built for eye candy but rather for usability. The problem with menu style systems is that it is not intuitive.
Sorry but that's bullshit. A menu system is not intuitive only if the entries in the menu are distributed in an irrational way. Menu systems built rationally and logically are very easy to use. The same holds true for any other form of UI system you choose: toolbars, ribbons, whatever. It's not the system per-se, it's the way the options are organized.
I can't speak for everyone, but my opposition to universal healthcare is that I have yet to see a proposal that satisfies all of my concerns. Socialist policies -- although all warm and fuzzy and humanitarian in theory -- fail to address one major flaw: if people don't have to work to take care of themselves because the government will do it for them, then who is going to pay the bills when everyone is staying at home expecting a government handout?
Nations where this happens go bankrupt, nations where this doesn't happen thrive
Your concern arises from the misconception that just because the government is providing for the most essential needs people will stay at home rather than go looking for (and finding) a job. In fact, at least as far as Europe is concernted, the employment rates tend to be higher in the countries with a better welfare system (Norway, Denmark) than in those with a worse one (Italy, Spain).
America has that same childish and ignorant "for mother country" thing going on as well
If we had international laws, policies, standards of living, etc. I'd agree with you. As we don't, I don't see a problem with wanting to take care of our own.
I assume that's the reason why you blasted trillions in a war but got bitching crazy about the proposal of universal healthcare.
Typing speed is what matters. I've never taken a single touch typing class, and with the exception of knowing what the two notches on the F and J keys are there for, I have little idea of what finger is for what key. The result? I type at 90+ words per minute and have extremely high accuracy.
I had no idea what the notches on the F and J keys were for, but now that you mentioned them in this context they make perfect sense. Thanks.
I'm sorry. I misunderstood your response of "Dragonfly" as an actual answer. I will look into that as it may cover the features that Web Developer has. Thank you!
Dragonfly, as you probably found out by now, is the equivalent of Firebug. Also, in Opera (except in some older releases where the feature was broken) you can hand-edit any document you look at as source and save to do runtime html/css/js file editing from the browser itself.
As for the RSS reader, I must say I don't actually use it so I don't know how it compares to the one in FF.
I remember trying Opera several years ago, and while I liked the performance, it had some other quirks that were troublesome at that time. Since then, I have grown very fond of Firefox, and as when I considered switching to Chrome, I found that there are a couple key features I simply cannot be without.
1) RSS Feeds in my bookmarks.
2) Web Developer
3) Firebug
Does Opera have similar functionality?
1) Opera has a built-in RSS reader.
2) What is 'Web Developer'?
3) Dragonfly
Unless I am missing something, they haven't brought Unite into the proper release yet. Maybe their attempt to reinvent the web isn't going according to plan?
It has been rescheduled for Opera 10.10; since the feature is still in Alpha status, it would have unnecessarily delayed the release of Opera 10.0
Slashdot Mirror
(which is basically proxying from dedicated Opera servers)
Perhaps to draw them on the screen when rendering text?
I thought GDI was supposed to that? Or is GDI in kernel-space now?
Windows: Don't adopt until Service Pack 1 Ubuntu: Don't adopt until 1-2 months after release
Even better, why not try the beta before it's released, and report any issues found? I get the impression that a number of the exposed issues might have been found by running the LiveCD of the beta on those same systems. (Of course, it would be even more interesting if Ubuntu has a way to 'install to try', with an option to rever to the previous state in case of failure.)
Still the fastest way. Then retype your notes on the computer when you get back home. The quick refresh on retype is also good for your memory.
We follow the philosophy of people like von Mises or Murray Rothbard: every individual has a right to his life, liberty, and everything derived from it (e.g. his income and property) and as long as he does not interfere with the rights of others, he should be free to act in his own self interest.
The real question is: what happens when your self interest and your rights conflict with the self interest and rights of others?
Sure, I could see Sybian at the top.
Actually, that's more likely to be at the bottom.
i.e., not e.g.
Or just http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVPkK3e1Q14&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=D2FF18CFF7716816
IRC in itself is pretty good, but it misses a couple of features, like offline backlogging and some kind of more direct integration with pastebins, source code repository and such. I haven't been invited to Google Wave yet, but I had the impression the whole point was to have something like that: an IRC integrated with all the corollary tools that can be used to coordinate development.
Let's get the kneejerk comments out of the way:
- "Doesn't anyone use their phone as a god damn PHONE anymore? I'm running ($massively_antiquated_cellphone) and other than the hernia from carrying it around it stays charged for 3 months!"
The problem is not the massively antiquated cellphone but the lack of NEW lightweight phones WITHOUT all the useless crapola I'm never going to use. I've been using a now-old Nokia 2100 (which, by the way, is not significantly heavier than the new Nokia 2630 I have since yesterday), and since it was obviously getting out of business (after the umpteenth fall and drop in the water, keys started to fail to act properly, reception had gone the way of the dodo, etc) and I had an upcoming birthday, I asked my relatives to see if they could get me a new cellphone, the most basic they could find.
As it happens, the most basic they could find was this Nokia 2630 I mentioned, that has bluetooth, an FM radio, a camera that can do still and pictures, and so on and so forth, plus a fancy colorful display, and it can play mp3s and midis. Even keeping as much functionality off, it's going to drain the battery faster than the old one was, while giving me exactly ZILCH functionality I missed from the previous phone.
So rather what you should mention is: why is it that I cannot get a new bare-bone cellphone anymore? (think of the battery life you could get out of that)
"I am a dinosouar" And I've got the primative writing skills to prove it!
You mean primative as in misspelt primitive or primative as 'pertaining to primates'?
If I want a great multiplayer strategy game with complex rules and takes a lot of time to learn, I'll play that on my PC or Mac
Such games are much bettter played tabletop with a bunch of friends, with cardboard tiles and wooden, plastic or metal placeholders.
I have a Wii, and if I were to buy one now I wouldn't pay more than $149.
That's exactly the reason why I haven't bought the Wii yet; I think it's a very interesting idea, and I even bought the controller which I plan to use for whiteboard stuff, but I'm not going to buy the console itself unless it drops below 150â.
I know I probably hold a minority opinion here, but I disagree with your points on usability compared to the traditional menu. The ribbon system allows for the logical grouping of actions by function.
So does the menu. A typical comparison that could be made was the menu layout in MS Word (an irrational mishmash of things in ridiculous places) vs the menu layouts in WordPerfect, the latter being extremely well-designed, with logical grouping of related functions and even multiple access points to some functions when it made sense to put them in two different groups.
Additionally, WordPerfect also implemented two toolbar concepts: the typical toolbar(s) with fixed functions, immutable and context-insensitive (you could have multiple on at the same time, obviously), and the PowerBar, a context-sensitive (configurable) toolbar that exposed context-specific functions. The combination of logical menus, toolbars (for those who wanted them) and the PowerBar offered incredible usability in a very compact screen estate and without any need to resort to abnormal, un-flexible UI 'innovations' like the Ribbon.
Actually the ribbon style is not built for eye candy but rather for usability. The problem with menu style systems is that it is not intuitive.
Sorry but that's bullshit. A menu system is not intuitive only if the entries in the menu are distributed in an irrational way. Menu systems built rationally and logically are very easy to use. The same holds true for any other form of UI system you choose: toolbars, ribbons, whatever. It's not the system per-se, it's the way the options are organized.
I can't speak for everyone, but my opposition to universal healthcare is that I have yet to see a proposal that satisfies all of my concerns. Socialist policies -- although all warm and fuzzy and humanitarian in theory -- fail to address one major flaw: if people don't have to work to take care of themselves because the government will do it for them, then who is going to pay the bills when everyone is staying at home expecting a government handout?
Nations where this happens go bankrupt, nations where this doesn't happen thrive
Your concern arises from the misconception that just because the government is providing for the most essential needs people will stay at home rather than go looking for (and finding) a job. In fact, at least as far as Europe is concernted, the employment rates tend to be higher in the countries with a better welfare system (Norway, Denmark) than in those with a worse one (Italy, Spain).
America has that same childish and ignorant "for mother country" thing going on as well
If we had international laws, policies, standards of living, etc. I'd agree with you. As we don't, I don't see a problem with wanting to take care of our own.
I assume that's the reason why you blasted trillions in a war but got bitching crazy about the proposal of universal healthcare.
Typing speed is what matters. I've never taken a single touch typing class, and with the exception of knowing what the two notches on the F and J keys are there for, I have little idea of what finger is for what key. The result? I type at 90+ words per minute and have extremely high accuracy.
I had no idea what the notches on the F and J keys were for, but now that you mentioned them in this context they make perfect sense. Thanks.
And you are saying Opera is a new kid on the block?
Opera 10 is. When was the last Safari for Windows released?
Aaarrgghhhh!! I didn't need to know there was a sequel! Kiss my afternoon goodbye...
I will hide this link from you to beg for forgiveness.
So I guess you don't want to know about the second episode, do you?
Getting a rocket to orbit or manned flight takes a few more resources than maxxing out your credit card to buy an Altair or even an Apple II.
No it doesn't
I'm sorry. I misunderstood your response of "Dragonfly" as an actual answer. I will look into that as it may cover the features that Web Developer has. Thank you!
Dragonfly, as you probably found out by now, is the equivalent of Firebug. Also, in Opera (except in some older releases where the feature was broken) you can hand-edit any document you look at as source and save to do runtime html/css/js file editing from the browser itself.
As for the RSS reader, I must say I don't actually use it so I don't know how it compares to the one in FF.
I remember trying Opera several years ago, and while I liked the performance, it had some other quirks that were troublesome at that time. Since then, I have grown very fond of Firefox, and as when I considered switching to Chrome, I found that there are a couple key features I simply cannot be without.
1) RSS Feeds in my bookmarks. 2) Web Developer 3) Firebug
Does Opera have similar functionality?
1) Opera has a built-in RSS reader. 2) What is 'Web Developer'? 3) Dragonfly
Unless I am missing something, they haven't brought Unite into the proper release yet. Maybe their attempt to reinvent the web isn't going according to plan?
It has been rescheduled for Opera 10.10; since the feature is still in Alpha status, it would have unnecessarily delayed the release of Opera 10.0