I'm not talking about grandma, that's my point.... I'm talking about me, i'm not overly intelligent, but nothing in windows is too hard, and i can't get ubuntu to do stuff i want it to do no matter how much time i throw at it. Don't get me wrong, i'll make it dance eventually, but it's going to be a hard slog, i know that and i'd just like other people to be aware that whatever the benefits, linux is still hard. as a matter of fact i'm in ubuntu drake right now and it appears that pygame has been pulled from the repository altogether.... sigh.
I would disagree, i have endless troubles in ubuntu getting stuff installed, i never did get my radeon driver working despite following the instructions on help.ubuntu.com, i *did* manage to get read access to my windows drives, but it took a while. I couldn't give a crap about the "Useful software" that comes bundled with it, but it annoys the hell out of me that i can't get freaking pygame 1.7 running (this is probably the default in drake). Maybe better, maybe faster, maybe safer, but it's still not easier, unless all you do is play some music, email, browse the web and use open office.
so what you're saying is that it's easier to do a three column layout for newbies because they don't do three column layouts? And i have also had 3 years in web design, any horrendously complicated layout can be done in includes, and since we're busting out incompetent coworkers as examples of why you shouldn't use one design method over the other, a coworker of mine spent over 15 hours trying to get a css based design to work in both major browsers when i could and have done similar designs in 10 minutes with tables.
despite all this i do believe killing tables is the way to go in the long run, it's just not as simple as the tables=bad div=good equation everyone seems to be touting. there are a lot of tradeoffs to moving.
The thing is, it's not easier or cleaner. In fact, it's usually the opposite. With CSS, you develop the layout code once, and apply it to all the pages on your site simultaneously. With tables, you have to hack up stupid s and s for each and every page you do. Mindless, boring, repetitive work.
Anyone with any moderately serious website would chuck the top of the table into a header and the bottom into a footer file and just #include it. I'm not saying you should use tables, but trust me, it IS a lot easier to do a 3 column layout with them.
My god, i've never so wanted to mod someone down... And by mod you down i mean fire you into the sun... And btw i HATE java, so yah take that as you will.
After about 2 months of gmail i stopped using an email client, admittedly i'm not that advanced an email user, i just use it for a few personal emails and to read some mailing lists(it's ability to flag emails works well enough to keep these seperate from my other emails)
I believe he was more for charging a sane amount compared to the chinese average wage and a sane amount compared to an american average wage, not so much doing an income check on everyone who went to buy a DVD. And honestly i agree, especially since you are simply trying to price it as high as the market will bear in order to maximise profit.
Considering gnome's releases are about every 6 months apart we will probably see 2.16 and 2.18 before we see vista ship (Vista, according to microsoft, being scheduled for late 2006/early 2007, taking into account minimal slippage).
There is nothing that can be lost by everyone switching to firefox (even though that will never happen, it's not installed by default on windows) except that web programmers will be suddenly able to write sites that conform to web standards and you can use any moderately competant browser you want.
No, most moderately intelligent windows users can do this, in the entire time i've been using windows i've only ever had blaster (This was before firewalls were really used by consumers) and one virus off of a game demo on a magazine cd(!). It's just a matter of having a firewall and not installing crapware.
For me it's not lack of apps as I only use OSS software on windows (I'm cutting back on gaming to do more coding lately anyways) it's just that everything is that little bit harder. After 30 min of screwing around trying to get something to work i just go "To hell with it" and reboot into windows so i can get some work done.
The other great example is Valve with their "episodic gaming" vision. While normally you'd pay roughly half of the price of the retail game for approx. 1/2 the value of the content of the full game for an expansion, they've now shifted that by charging you $20, or roughly 1/3 the price for what amounts to 1/5 the content.
The flaw in your argument here is that people have been charging full price for games about the same size of one of their episodes for years, i personally look forward to forking out my $20 for this one.
It takes a while but you can build up a mental resistance to this, for instance whenever i hear someone call their desktop background a "screensaver", my brain just narrates a (who gives a shit anyways) to the end of their sentence
I will almost always pick OSS over Closed source stuff if i have a choice, and truth be told the Gimp will do almost everything i need and a bunch of stuff i don't. However i learned Photoshop before i'd even heard of the gimp so now that's what i use and i think that's the position a lot of people are in. That's the problem with the gimp, it's got a different interface, not better or worse, just different. Sometimes popularity *is* a very important feature.
Report that a score will be issued to each webpage as the user visits it, showing it's overall compatibility with IE in an easy to read "Microsoft Lock-in Score"
Sure, the laughter of children seems like a good, clean source of power, but you have to take in to account pumping and storage costs, and also the cleanup afterwards.
Browsers are only half the picture, if the website is broken how can you expect the browser to show it correctly? Strictness is good because the browser knows what to expect, and if the browser knows what to expect then it can behave consistantly. If all of the browsers behave consistantly then the web coders know how to make websites that don't break in them, and then people can use any browser they want and people start throwing flowers in the air and dancing around with streamers and singing and stuff.
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I'm not talking about grandma, that's my point.... I'm talking about me, i'm not overly intelligent, but nothing in windows is too hard, and i can't get ubuntu to do stuff i want it to do no matter how much time i throw at it. Don't get me wrong, i'll make it dance eventually, but it's going to be a hard slog, i know that and i'd just like other people to be aware that whatever the benefits, linux is still hard. as a matter of fact i'm in ubuntu drake right now and it appears that pygame has been pulled from the repository altogether.... sigh.
I would disagree, i have endless troubles in ubuntu getting stuff installed, i never did get my radeon driver working despite following the instructions on help.ubuntu.com, i *did* manage to get read access to my windows drives, but it took a while. I couldn't give a crap about the "Useful software" that comes bundled with it, but it annoys the hell out of me that i can't get freaking pygame 1.7 running (this is probably the default in drake). Maybe better, maybe faster, maybe safer, but it's still not easier, unless all you do is play some music, email, browse the web and use open office.
so what you're saying is that it's easier to do a three column layout for newbies because they don't do three column layouts? And i have also had 3 years in web design, any horrendously complicated layout can be done in includes, and since we're busting out incompetent coworkers as examples of why you shouldn't use one design method over the other, a coworker of mine spent over 15 hours trying to get a css based design to work in both major browsers when i could and have done similar designs in 10 minutes with tables.
despite all this i do believe killing tables is the way to go in the long run, it's just not as simple as the tables=bad div=good equation everyone seems to be touting. there are a lot of tradeoffs to moving.
The thing is, it's not easier or cleaner. In fact, it's usually the opposite. With CSS, you develop the layout code once, and apply it to all the pages on your site simultaneously. With tables, you have to hack up stupid s and s for each and every page you do. Mindless, boring, repetitive work.
Anyone with any moderately serious website would chuck the top of the table into a header and the bottom into a footer file and just #include it. I'm not saying you should use tables, but trust me, it IS a lot easier to do a 3 column layout with them.
Python atm, but i like languages in this order, python, C++, C, vbscript, Perl, C#, java
My god, i've never so wanted to mod someone down... And by mod you down i mean fire you into the sun... And btw i HATE java, so yah take that as you will.
Won't work, unfortunately. A group of ponies is actually called a "Murder" of ponies.
After about 2 months of gmail i stopped using an email client, admittedly i'm not that advanced an email user, i just use it for a few personal emails and to read some mailing lists(it's ability to flag emails works well enough to keep these seperate from my other emails)
I believe he was more for charging a sane amount compared to the chinese average wage and a sane amount compared to an american average wage, not so much doing an income check on everyone who went to buy a DVD. And honestly i agree, especially since you are simply trying to price it as high as the market will bear in order to maximise profit.
Considering gnome's releases are about every 6 months apart we will probably see 2.16 and 2.18 before we see vista ship (Vista, according to microsoft, being scheduled for late 2006/early 2007, taking into account minimal slippage).
There is nothing that can be lost by everyone switching to firefox (even though that will never happen, it's not installed by default on windows) except that web programmers will be suddenly able to write sites that conform to web standards and you can use any moderately competant browser you want.
No, most moderately intelligent windows users can do this, in the entire time i've been using windows i've only ever had blaster (This was before firewalls were really used by consumers) and one virus off of a game demo on a magazine cd(!). It's just a matter of having a firewall and not installing crapware.
For me it's not lack of apps as I only use OSS software on windows (I'm cutting back on gaming to do more coding lately anyways) it's just that everything is that little bit harder. After 30 min of screwing around trying to get something to work i just go "To hell with it" and reboot into windows so i can get some work done.
The other great example is Valve with their "episodic gaming" vision. While normally you'd pay roughly half of the price of the retail game for approx. 1/2 the value of the content of the full game for an expansion, they've now shifted that by charging you $20, or roughly 1/3 the price for what amounts to 1/5 the content. The flaw in your argument here is that people have been charging full price for games about the same size of one of their episodes for years, i personally look forward to forking out my $20 for this one.
good, email should die, it sucks balls
It takes a while but you can build up a mental resistance to this, for instance whenever i hear someone call their desktop background a "screensaver", my brain just narrates a (who gives a shit anyways) to the end of their sentence
I will almost always pick OSS over Closed source stuff if i have a choice, and truth be told the Gimp will do almost everything i need and a bunch of stuff i don't. However i learned Photoshop before i'd even heard of the gimp so now that's what i use and i think that's the position a lot of people are in. That's the problem with the gimp, it's got a different interface, not better or worse, just different. Sometimes popularity *is* a very important feature.
Absolutely, On my NTFS drive i had one (1) ridiculously fragmented 1gb file that was taking up 10 gig of drive space
Or you could, y'know, just not watch it.
No, we have limited free speech laws, basically they stop protecting you if someone powerful gets pissed off (As in this case)
Report that a score will be issued to each webpage as the user visits it, showing it's overall compatibility with IE in an easy to read "Microsoft Lock-in Score"
Sure, the laughter of children seems like a good, clean source of power, but you have to take in to account pumping and storage costs, and also the cleanup afterwards.
opera 9 is currently in beta and available from the opera website
I still havn't seen these FF memory leaks, can you list some websites that cause memory leaks in firefox? I hate it when i miss out on a good bug.
Browsers are only half the picture, if the website is broken how can you expect the browser to show it correctly? Strictness is good because the browser knows what to expect, and if the browser knows what to expect then it can behave consistantly. If all of the browsers behave consistantly then the web coders know how to make websites that don't break in them, and then people can use any browser they want and people start throwing flowers in the air and dancing around with streamers and singing and stuff.