No it just wastes your time with coverflow and by requiring vast resources and being incredibly slow.
iTunes used to be my favorite music software, but aroudn version 6 it got really slow. At least on XP.
I use Windows Media Player on XP, Rhythmbox on Ubuntu. Windows Media player is fast, Rhythmbox isn't but I can't stand those silly sideways tabs in Amarok.
Music software should be able to do everything iTunes 5 could do as fast as winamp.
Now this: "please please please can we stop acting like altering the UI of a program does anything even remotely useful?"
I assume you meant users playing around with the interface, not the actual interface design. Right?
That's it actually. I always have 2 browsers open. IE and FF. FF for webmail, twitter, all that other stuff. IR for testing my websites (Virtual or Remote). So FF is easily replaceable for me. The performance, specially UI response in addition to the stability (even at this early stage!) makes FF seem outdated.
At home I use WinXP (all I do on that thing is play games + surf the web) and chrome, at work I need Linux so I still use FF 90% of the time.
Even better then Chrome for Linux would be a new process oriented GNOME based, webkit driven browser specially for Linux.
How naive to think that the wheat in "your own back yard" is intrastate commerce. Your water came from another state, as did your top soil, fertilizer and pesticides. Once harvested with machines imported from another state, it will be shipped off to even more states and possibly countries to turn into food. That wheat will then be exported to even more states/countries and possibly imported back to your own.
And then there is the pollution that runs off your field, into a river and carried not only to the farm next door, but next state. There is pollution from China ending up in California!
Nothing in the US is intrastate. Almost Nothing in the US intraNATION.
Everything is connected. Everything is international. States rights and nationalism belong to the good-old-days of flat earth and simple thinking.
Before I went back to school I was working developing high level application mostly forms/ databases. I was designing but I just always ended up more useful developing.
I went back to school and have a computer arts degree where I learned mostly about animation and design.
After I went back to work, a year and a half into it I'm back making high level web apps.
My concern is that because I don't have a CS degree, am I screwed when I leave this place looking for a programming job?
I'm reading Code Complete and sucking up as much info as I can but I feel like I might be screwed w/o the CS degree.
All this squabbling is going to do is result in Adobe owning the web. While MS and FF are arguing over how to bring an advanced scripting language to the web Adobe already has brought one to 90% of it with Actionscript3.
If Microsoft had a shred of intellect in it's massive evil encrusted soul it would realize embracing ECMA4 and an open web is nothing but good for everyone, including MS. MS should focus on making IE more stable, user friendly, faster, and safer then FF, and building the best development tools for JS programming available. By putting all their eggs in one OS basket they are just going to lose in the end as that technology is no longer needed.
Wrong. Blender is not easy to pick up for those who are already familiar with similar professional level tools. It's so unlike the mojor packages that it's a total pain in the rear to use. Just try moving an edge or a face in 3ds/xsi/maya/lw/c4d then try in blender.
That's bull. It doesn't matter which 3d package you use. 4D, Lightwave, Maya, Max, XSI... because they all work the same way. This is the main problem Blender has. If they would just give up and realize they don't own some secret knowledge and that the big guys might actually know what they are doing - Blender on your resume would be fine. The second anyone who works in 3D tries to move a freaking vertex/edge/face in Blender they realize it's not worth it.
The makers of Drive used Modo for modeling(subds!), maya for animation, lightwave for rendering. In 300 the bare chested dudes were animated in XSI and the fluids were done in lightwave.
Blender should work just a little more like the 3d packages we use on a daily basis if the devs ever want it used in a commercial pipeline.
I think you have hit the only advantage the PS3 has over Wii and one of the two advantages the 360 has over Wii. HD. However, that advantage does not really count right now, as HDTV's are not commonplace. And Wii is making so much money that by the time HDTVs are commonplace in US homes there could be an HD Wii ready to go.
As for the other advantage the 360 has, I'm not sure Wii will ever catch up: games. Some pretty damn good ones too. I love my DS on the road but the reason I play console/PC games is for immersion and experiences.
Will Wii catch up before HDTVs take over? Not sure.
As for the other poster,
Please stop telling us what WE ALL want. Sure Harry Potter is written in simple language with simple themes we all can enjoy, but sometimes I want to read something like Game of Thrones. As in other forms of media variety is key for me. I will wait and see which console has the largest variety of games and continue playing my DS till then.
I agree 100%. Firefox neds to get smaller not bigger. Looks like the guys at Nielson/Norman were right, OSS will end up in feature creep. FF is by far my favorite OSS... too bad.
"If you see these cultural identifiers as negative, that just means you share the Alliance's prejudices."
Too bad I didn't have any mod points. I don't play WOW, but I did play WC, WCII, and WCIII and I totally agree with you. The sentance perfectlly describes what is wrong with this article.
First, there is NO light anything in the rev controller. Learn about it before you talk about it dumbass.
Second, this isn't on rails as the developer stated.
Zonk is such an idiot. Why does he get to spew nonsense in the article head? He should have to regulate that crap to the comments section down here with us.
Yeah right. I just purchased one a few months ago. Had to take it back cause I needed a phone line to upgrade the system in order to have it connect to my wifi network. So, I needed to have a phone line to upgrade cause I diddn't have a phone line.
Pathetic. Issues like this are why Tivi has a VERY short lifespan. I would rather own OSDN stock!
This sounds fing crazy dude. And, while reading your post I was thinking that you were quite insane... But then I realized that when a political party wants to go to war they are sentancing countless others to far less human forms of death (not that any are humane, whatever that means). So, really your comment is not really more insane then launching any unavoidable offesnsive millitary action.
Anyway, if the UN had any balls they would be able to stop any nation from attacking any other nation, with robots or troops or anything. But, they don't.
It's my bet. Given the odds I would probably get, I would bet a 20...
Not sure if this secret is it but eventually this is coming to the revolution. It's the only true reason non hi-def graphics are being witheld from the system that makes any sense.
Get over it. Just becuase your addicted to newsertainment in the form of Rush or Fox News doesn't mean you have to hate everybody else for enjoying actual in-depth reporting that doesn't owe their entire existance to corporations. NPR owes their entire existance to huh! OMG tax payers!
Sort of unrelated, but that linux laptop designed by MIT (previously slashdotted) -- well, wouldn't the lifeline radio business model work for MIT's laptop? Sell them for 200 in the US, then send one to Africa or wherever for each one purchased?
I agree with you and your point is well stated, but my favorite two novelists: Arthur C. Clark and Neal Stephanson both spend alot of time on the 'how' and both end up writing some pretty damn good stories.
Do you think perhaps the reason 2001 was so well recieved is that it didn't spend but a few seconds on how the ship's gravity worked (cent. force, plus it was 100% visual) and left most of the science to imagination?
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Yeah I disagree with that statement too. iTunes (if anything) is bloated, not featureless.
No it just wastes your time with coverflow and by requiring vast resources and being incredibly slow.
iTunes used to be my favorite music software, but aroudn version 6 it got really slow. At least on XP.
I use Windows Media Player on XP, Rhythmbox on Ubuntu. Windows Media player is fast, Rhythmbox isn't but I can't stand those silly sideways tabs in Amarok.
Music software should be able to do everything iTunes 5 could do as fast as winamp.
Now this: "please please please can we stop acting like altering the UI of a program does anything even remotely useful?"
I assume you meant users playing around with the interface, not the actual interface design. Right?
For me it's
1.) No Linux Version
That's it actually. I always have 2 browsers open. IE and FF. FF for webmail, twitter, all that other stuff. IR for testing my websites (Virtual or Remote). So FF is easily replaceable for me. The performance, specially UI response in addition to the stability (even at this early stage!) makes FF seem outdated.
At home I use WinXP (all I do on that thing is play games + surf the web) and chrome, at work I need Linux so I still use FF 90% of the time.
Even better then Chrome for Linux would be a new process oriented GNOME based, webkit driven browser specially for Linux.
Till either of those come true, it's FF.
How naive to think that the wheat in "your own back yard" is intrastate commerce. Your water came from another state, as did your top soil, fertilizer and pesticides. Once harvested with machines imported from another state, it will be shipped off to even more states and possibly countries to turn into food. That wheat will then be exported to even more states/countries and possibly imported back to your own.
And then there is the pollution that runs off your field, into a river and carried not only to the farm next door, but next state. There is pollution from China ending up in California!
Nothing in the US is intrastate. Almost Nothing in the US intraNATION.
Everything is connected. Everything is international. States rights and nationalism belong to the good-old-days of flat earth and simple thinking.
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Before I went back to school I was working developing high level application mostly forms/ databases. I was designing but I just always ended up more useful developing.
I went back to school and have a computer arts degree where I learned mostly about animation and design.
After I went back to work, a year and a half into it I'm back making high level web apps.
My concern is that because I don't have a CS degree, am I screwed when I leave this place looking for a programming job?
I'm reading Code Complete and sucking up as much info as I can but I feel like I might be screwed w/o the CS degree.
I love developing, but I'm no computer scientist.
All this squabbling is going to do is result in Adobe owning the web. While MS and FF are arguing over how to bring an advanced scripting language to the web Adobe already has brought one to 90% of it with Actionscript3.
If Microsoft had a shred of intellect in it's massive evil encrusted soul it would realize embracing ECMA4 and an open web is nothing but good for everyone, including MS. MS should focus on making IE more stable, user friendly, faster, and safer then FF, and building the best development tools for JS programming available. By putting all their eggs in one OS basket they are just going to lose in the end as that technology is no longer needed.
Wrong. Blender is not easy to pick up for those who are already familiar with similar professional level tools. It's so unlike the mojor packages that it's a total pain in the rear to use. Just try moving an edge or a face in 3ds/xsi/maya/lw/c4d then try in blender.
That's bull. It doesn't matter which 3d package you use. 4D, Lightwave, Maya, Max, XSI... because they all work the same way. This is the main problem Blender has. If they would just give up and realize they don't own some secret knowledge and that the big guys might actually know what they are doing - Blender on your resume would be fine. The second anyone who works in 3D tries to move a freaking vertex/edge/face in Blender they realize it's not worth it.
The makers of Drive used Modo for modeling(subds!), maya for animation, lightwave for rendering. In 300 the bare chested dudes were animated in XSI and the fluids were done in lightwave.
Blender should work just a little more like the 3d packages we use on a daily basis if the devs ever want it used in a commercial pipeline.
I think you have hit the only advantage the PS3 has over Wii and one of the two advantages the 360 has over Wii. HD. However, that advantage does not really count right now, as HDTV's are not commonplace. And Wii is making so much money that by the time HDTVs are commonplace in US homes there could be an HD Wii ready to go. As for the other advantage the 360 has, I'm not sure Wii will ever catch up: games. Some pretty damn good ones too. I love my DS on the road but the reason I play console/PC games is for immersion and experiences. Will Wii catch up before HDTVs take over? Not sure. As for the other poster, Please stop telling us what WE ALL want. Sure Harry Potter is written in simple language with simple themes we all can enjoy, but sometimes I want to read something like Game of Thrones. As in other forms of media variety is key for me. I will wait and see which console has the largest variety of games and continue playing my DS till then.
"It's especially fascinating to see Nintendo out-Sony Sony!" Got that part right. It's exactlly why they are dominating.
I agree 100%. Firefox neds to get smaller not bigger. Looks like the guys at Nielson/Norman were right, OSS will end up in feature creep. FF is by far my favorite OSS... too bad.
Lol check out this guy's sig. Obviously he didn't read it or his post wouldn't have so much faith in SONY.
"If you see these cultural identifiers as negative, that just means you share the Alliance's prejudices." Too bad I didn't have any mod points. I don't play WOW, but I did play WC, WCII, and WCIII and I totally agree with you. The sentance perfectlly describes what is wrong with this article.
First, there is NO light anything in the rev controller. Learn about it before you talk about it dumbass.
Second, this isn't on rails as the developer stated.
Zonk is such an idiot. Why does he get to spew nonsense in the article head? He should have to regulate that crap to the comments section down here with us.
Ah, reasons to switch to Digg.
"means he is revered by gamers of a certain age who grew up playing his semenal titles."
sick, i'm not playing with anyone's semenal titles.
Except my own of course.
Which I am doing now.
Dear Hype,
Personally, I hype there to be at least HYPE to HYPE units sold through HYPE!!!
Hype hype hype hype, hype hype hype hype. Furthermore, hype hype hype HYPE HYPE HYPE!!! Yeah! HYPE!
PS3 is the bomb dank HYPE!!!
Yeah right. I just purchased one a few months ago. Had to take it back cause I needed a phone line to upgrade the system in order to have it connect to my wifi network. So, I needed to have a phone line to upgrade cause I diddn't have a phone line.
Pathetic. Issues like this are why Tivi has a VERY short lifespan. I would rather own OSDN stock!
This sounds fing crazy dude. And, while reading your post I was thinking that you were quite insane... But then I realized that when a political party wants to go to war they are sentancing countless others to far less human forms of death (not that any are humane, whatever that means). So, really your comment is not really more insane then launching any unavoidable offesnsive millitary action.
Anyway, if the UN had any balls they would be able to stop any nation from attacking any other nation, with robots or troops or anything. But, they don't.
It's my bet. Given the odds I would probably get, I would bet a 20... Not sure if this secret is it but eventually this is coming to the revolution. It's the only true reason non hi-def graphics are being witheld from the system that makes any sense.
Get over it. Just becuase your addicted to newsertainment in the form of Rush or Fox News doesn't mean you have to hate everybody else for enjoying actual in-depth reporting that doesn't owe their entire existance to corporations. NPR owes their entire existance to huh! OMG tax payers!
Seriously. Get over it. RTFA... I mean LTFA.
Sort of unrelated, but that linux laptop designed by MIT (previously slashdotted) -- well, wouldn't the lifeline radio business model work for MIT's laptop? Sell them for 200 in the US, then send one to Africa or wherever for each one purchased?
Well, the only women I actually know -- my wife and my sister, like puzzle games.
My sister actually got a new computer cause she couldn't play SNOOD on OS9.
My wife won't play anything without a touchscreen or a mouse now. She thinks controllers have too high of a learning curve.
She plays
DS: Zoo Keeper
PC: Bejeweled, Insaniquarium, Zuma
GC: Animal Crossings, Wind Waker(a little, not in the fighting areas)
The link you posted had 100X the info and at least 10X the ergonomics that were in that ergonomics article.
The parent was more of a history of, rather then a ergonomics article. What a waste of time.
I agree with you and your point is well stated, but my favorite two novelists: Arthur C. Clark and Neal Stephanson both spend alot of time on the 'how' and both end up writing some pretty damn good stories.
Do you think perhaps the reason 2001 was so well recieved is that it didn't spend but a few seconds on how the ship's gravity worked (cent. force, plus it was 100% visual) and left most of the science to imagination?
My GAWD I wish I had some mod points that was fing funny.