Nat Friedman doesn't like the splash screen..
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Gnome 2.10 Released
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so why should I? I personally think it looks crappy and ameture. Nat Friedman, the creator of Ximian, had this to say about it:
"Also, I don't like the winning login splash for GNOME 2.10. It is poorly chosen.
Why? Because the chooser (and I really don't know who chose it) made the classic mistake of failing to distinguish between things that are interesting to the user and things that are interesting to the team building the software. To the team of hackers behind the project, it is interesting and noteworthy that this is a new release of GNOME, and that with each release it gets a little better. It is worth taking note of this milestone, and celebrating it.
And that is what the height-chart theme of the splash screen suggests. But it is not interesting to the user. There is utility in putting the version number in the splash, but the main role of the splash screen design should probably be to convey the personality of the desktop the user is about to experience, not how long it has been under development. "
They wont goto jail. they wont get caught. They're hackers! Everyone knows hackers dont get caught, OR goto jail.
Besides, what kind of hackers use xboxes?
I can speak from personal experience on this one here. This mobo isn't for your hardcore gamer, its for your average computer user who still wants to play video games at a reasonable price.
I went the cheap way out and bought a barebones amd athlon 1700+ system. The motherboard that came with it is total crap. It had integrated *everything*, and all of it sucked. The vga capabilities were a joke (SiS), the audio was crappy, and it didn't even have an unused AGP slot to plug in a decent video card.
So I'm left with two options: Go out and buy a new, feature rich motherboard, along with a new graphics card, and ethernet card, and sound card...
Or I can just buy one of these nice nForce motherboards. They have one on newegg for $80. It has built in 5.1 dolby audio, and the integrated nForce chipset. Plus it has an additional AGP Slot, should I want to upgrade in the future.
So this GeForce4 mx- ish vga pared with the athlon 1700+ proc and the 512 mb of 2100 DDR ram is actually QUITE sufficient to play pretty much any game I would want right now, including UT2k3. Sure I can't run it maxed out with all settings on their highest level but it still looks nice and fast. And for only $80 its definitly worth the price.
And if at some point down the road I want to play Doom3, then I can just go get a faster video card and that will be that.
So stop knocking these integrated motherboards -- they do what they are supposed to do, and they do it pretty damn well. And if I had to guess, there is actually a pretty big market for these type of things.
I'm in atlanta on a T1, I haven't noticed anything big. Wachovia.com wasn't coming up for a while (20 minutes) in the late AM, but besides that everything has been working fine. Maybe its because our stupid ISP routes all traffic through san francisco first or something, who knows.
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so why should I? I personally think it looks crappy and ameture. Nat Friedman, the creator of Ximian, had this to say about it:
"Also, I don't like the winning login splash for GNOME 2.10. It is poorly chosen.
Why? Because the chooser (and I really don't know who chose it) made the classic mistake of failing to distinguish between things that are interesting to the user and things that are interesting to the team building the software. To the team of hackers behind the project, it is interesting and noteworthy that this is a new release of GNOME, and that with each release it gets a little better. It is worth taking note of this milestone, and celebrating it.
And that is what the height-chart theme of the splash screen suggests. But it is not interesting to the user. There is utility in putting the version number in the splash, but the main role of the splash screen design should probably be to convey the personality of the desktop the user is about to experience, not how long it has been under development. "
I agree with him.
So by that logic, Lindows computers should all be free because they come loaded with linux?
They wont goto jail. they wont get caught. They're hackers! Everyone knows hackers dont get caught, OR goto jail. Besides, what kind of hackers use xboxes?
I can speak from personal experience on this one here. This mobo isn't for your hardcore gamer, its for your average computer user who still wants to play video games at a reasonable price. I went the cheap way out and bought a barebones amd athlon 1700+ system. The motherboard that came with it is total crap. It had integrated *everything*, and all of it sucked. The vga capabilities were a joke (SiS), the audio was crappy, and it didn't even have an unused AGP slot to plug in a decent video card. So I'm left with two options: Go out and buy a new, feature rich motherboard, along with a new graphics card, and ethernet card, and sound card... Or I can just buy one of these nice nForce motherboards. They have one on newegg for $80. It has built in 5.1 dolby audio, and the integrated nForce chipset. Plus it has an additional AGP Slot, should I want to upgrade in the future. So this GeForce4 mx- ish vga pared with the athlon 1700+ proc and the 512 mb of 2100 DDR ram is actually QUITE sufficient to play pretty much any game I would want right now, including UT2k3. Sure I can't run it maxed out with all settings on their highest level but it still looks nice and fast. And for only $80 its definitly worth the price. And if at some point down the road I want to play Doom3, then I can just go get a faster video card and that will be that. So stop knocking these integrated motherboards -- they do what they are supposed to do, and they do it pretty damn well. And if I had to guess, there is actually a pretty big market for these type of things.
I'm in atlanta on a T1, I haven't noticed anything big. Wachovia.com wasn't coming up for a while (20 minutes) in the late AM, but besides that everything has been working fine. Maybe its because our stupid ISP routes all traffic through san francisco first or something, who knows.
Its finally been /.'d. Took long enough, I'm rather dissapointed in you guys.