right that's why microsoft produced metro, because it's a 'professional' design targeted at business 'professionals, the lowest common denominator userbase...oh wait.
what vendor is producing a 'professional' interface today?
hell at this point, I'm so tired of these over constrictive minimalist yet graphics heavy 'semantic' desktop attempts from ms/apple/gnome/kde that I WANT windows 98/2000 style shells back.. seriously. it was simple. click menu, click program, done.. I don't want to use a search box.. at that point, give me a bash prompt and I'll tab-complete it myself.
win98/2k explorer was small (took 4-12MB of ram maybe), and could be extended with dlls when needed. it had simple, consistent hot keys and sane default focus points (when the window is selected, focus was on the file list, not some random button or text box). it was fast, faster than I could ever respond, compared to Vista/7's aero garbage being visibly slower, and the latest gnome/kde stuff is even slower than that.. I don't care about sfx or animated icons.. I want to be able to hit a half dozen hotkeys as fast as the keyboard buffer will take them and have the thing respond consistently and correctly, every time.
if you have to type out the names of your applications, then you don't even need the gui anymore.. just load it from bash. if the user is defaulting to search to find what is needed, the gui design fails.
..and I'd say most of the people moving to OSX aren't or weren't really *NIX users to begin with. Then there's the whole argument ad populum thing.. most people are also idiots, so what does that tell us?
desktop search is a crutch for a shitty UI design.. if you are using desktop search on osx and windows, that suggests those interfaces aren't exactly optimal either.
yes, and they might be good at math, but they have no business teaching here in the US if they can't speak reasonable english.. I find paklish barely intelligible.
nope.. those who make up the corporate and political classes are of the same group.. they graduated from the same classes in the same ivy league universities. it's the ultimate clique...complete with highschool style drama, only the stakes are much higher.
I can almost guarantee that the driver is heavily optimized for x86/SSE and friends at this point.. yes, they have it running on other arches but I doubt it's anywhere near as fast..
In the case of the nvidia driver, the closed source nature of it prevents debugging.. that's why the kernel 'taints' when nvidia.ko is loaded. The kernel guys don't want to be responsible for fixing bugs in code they can't see...and who wants to spend their time tearing apart blobs?
Also, the tools used to compile the binaries for a given distribution release can cause ABI changes too.
Actually no. what concerns me is having hoards of people demanding their vendor locked down, blackbox iplayskools meet their ever rising expectations without increasing input complexity. Sometimes there's room for this, but experience suggests this is quite rare. computers are like any other simple machine. they do require some physical and/or intellectual input to make them work, and as the complexity of the output increases, so must the input.
Sorry, dude, but I outgrew the whole egomaniacal insecurity complex by age 15, if that. These days I couldn't care less.. in fact, it'd be a relief to not answer idiotic questions from adults their own 6yo kids could answer.
..and the reason it works that way is because guys don't have the balls to say 'no' anymore..even if it means they don't get any. once she realizes she can't manipulate him that way, she'll stop.. she might even start to respect him a little more.
This stupid short sighted trade off is why men get no respect these days.. they've abdicated, either out of this or some feminist-twisted form of chivalry.
I agree we should compete on merit, but if we do this at the expense of our culture, less and less will differentiate us with the incoming cultures' values. it's a case of burning the village in order to save it. These incoming cultures don't care about our culture or our values.. they want the parts that'll benefit them and their homelands, not ours.
You speak of entitlement attitude, but that cuts both ways. There's just as much entitlement syndrome in today's corporations and governments who think lining citizens up like sardines in a can in order to cut costs is 'success.' I'm sorry, but I do not want to live like they do in china.
I hate to say it, but this AC is right. The average immigrant AND the average american today, are NOT the kind of people who made this country what it once was.. We need to bring some of that culture back, or our 'culture of immigrants' that helped build this country in the last century will become a culture of thieves who come here on scholarships or H1Bs, and siphon wealth back to their home countries before leaving again. America is a country dying a death of millions of tiny paper cuts.
To be fair, it's not just immigrants who cut and run. There's also what corporations, government, and social/financial lobbies are doing to undermine liberties for the sake of power grabs, ideologies, and profits of course. I won't side with left or right here. There's plenty of blame to go around. America needs to step out of this right/left dichotomy for a bit and look at this problem from the multidimensional perspective that it exists in. Once it has done this, then it will become clear where the country should focus its industries, politics, and sense of identity. If it stays mired in stupid shit like the middle east conflict, the UN, and every two bit country's beef with it, it'll never get anywhere and eventually collapse under its own weight. This would be really bad, because, underneath all the recent layers of outright crap that's been foisted upon it, the core concepts America was founded on are still the right way to go for a free society. I do not want to wake up one day and realize that I'm living the same sardine can lifestyle as people do in places like china, under the combinatory guise of safety, insecure emotional egoism, and the protection of too-big-to-fail corporations. There's just no way.
no they're not. they're making us learn their way. since we don't no longer have the testicular fortitude to stand up for our own culture out of some misguided attempt at 'multiculturalism,' we're setting the stage for a 'bloodless takeover.'
Instead of making english the official national language, we're teaching our kids spanish and mandarin in school. we're giving full blown scholarships to immigrants because of their immigrant status, while american citizens have to pay.
It is a fact of human nature that societies have to stand up for themselves and their identities, or else they ossify into someone else's.
I'm sure the mating behavior of both genders started and evolved co-dependently and in parallel, long before homo sapiens existed. Men and women objectify and check each other out.. it's how sex works. feminist morons need to accept their sexuality.
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use dosbox for wp. works fine.
right that's why microsoft produced metro, because it's a 'professional' design targeted at business 'professionals, the lowest common denominator userbase...oh wait.
what vendor is producing a 'professional' interface today?
hell at this point, I'm so tired of these over constrictive minimalist yet graphics heavy 'semantic' desktop attempts from ms/apple/gnome/kde that I WANT windows 98/2000 style shells back.. seriously. it was simple. click menu, click program, done.. I don't want to use a search box.. at that point, give me a bash prompt and I'll tab-complete it myself.
win98/2k explorer was small (took 4-12MB of ram maybe), and could be extended with dlls when needed. it had simple, consistent hot keys and sane default focus points (when the window is selected, focus was on the file list, not some random button or text box). it was fast, faster than I could ever respond, compared to Vista/7's aero garbage being visibly slower, and the latest gnome/kde stuff is even slower than that.. I don't care about sfx or animated icons.. I want to be able to hit a half dozen hotkeys as fast as the keyboard buffer will take them and have the thing respond consistently and correctly, every time.
if you have to type out the names of your applications, then you don't even need the gui anymore.. just load it from bash. if the user is defaulting to search to find what is needed, the gui design fails.
..and I'd say most of the people moving to OSX aren't or weren't really *NIX users to begin with. Then there's the whole argument ad populum thing.. most people are also idiots, so what does that tell us?
. I have no desire to spend any intellectual energy whatsoever in making my computer work.
You still need to know how to use your computer in order to get work done..
desktop search is a crutch for a shitty UI design.. if you are using desktop search on osx and windows, that suggests those interfaces aren't exactly optimal either.
yes, and they might be good at math, but they have no business teaching here in the US if they can't speak reasonable english.. I find paklish barely intelligible.
is not to watch tv. seriously, it sucks.
I want to hear about the state of the collective farms with the objectivity only the state can provide..
nope.. those who make up the corporate and political classes are of the same group.. they graduated from the same classes in the same ivy league universities. it's the ultimate clique...complete with highschool style drama, only the stakes are much higher.
love it or leave it? fuck that shit. go move to china if you want that sardine can lifestyle.
you should.. what other people think does matter. they control the doors to opportunity in the future.
I can almost guarantee that the driver is heavily optimized for x86/SSE and friends at this point.. yes, they have it running on other arches but I doubt it's anywhere near as fast..
In the case of the nvidia driver, the closed source nature of it prevents debugging.. that's why the kernel 'taints' when nvidia.ko is loaded. The kernel guys don't want to be responsible for fixing bugs in code they can't see. ..and who wants to spend their time tearing apart blobs?
Also, the tools used to compile the binaries for a given distribution release can cause ABI changes too.
Actually no. what concerns me is having hoards of people demanding their vendor locked down, blackbox iplayskools meet their ever rising expectations without increasing input complexity. Sometimes there's room for this, but experience suggests this is quite rare. computers are like any other simple machine. they do require some physical and/or intellectual input to make them work, and as the complexity of the output increases, so must the input.
Sorry, dude, but I outgrew the whole egomaniacal insecurity complex by age 15, if that. These days I couldn't care less.. in fact, it'd be a relief to not answer idiotic questions from adults their own 6yo kids could answer.
for a growing number of guys, this is the case.. and they're choosing singledom over histrionic roller coasters.
..and the reason it works that way is because guys don't have the balls to say 'no' anymore..even if it means they don't get any. once she realizes she can't manipulate him that way, she'll stop.. she might even start to respect him a little more.
This stupid short sighted trade off is why men get no respect these days.. they've abdicated, either out of this or some feminist-twisted form of chivalry.
I agree we should compete on merit, but if we do this at the expense of our culture, less and less will differentiate us with the incoming cultures' values. it's a case of burning the village in order to save it. These incoming cultures don't care about our culture or our values.. they want the parts that'll benefit them and their homelands, not ours.
You speak of entitlement attitude, but that cuts both ways. There's just as much entitlement syndrome in today's corporations and governments who think lining citizens up like sardines in a can in order to cut costs is 'success.' I'm sorry, but I do not want to live like they do in china.
I hate to say it, but this AC is right. The average immigrant AND the average american today, are NOT the kind of people who made this country what it once was.. We need to bring some of that culture back, or our 'culture of immigrants' that helped build this country in the last century will become a culture of thieves who come here on scholarships or H1Bs, and siphon wealth back to their home countries before leaving again. America is a country dying a death of millions of tiny paper cuts.
To be fair, it's not just immigrants who cut and run. There's also what corporations, government, and social/financial lobbies are doing to undermine liberties for the sake of power grabs, ideologies, and profits of course. I won't side with left or right here. There's plenty of blame to go around. America needs to step out of this right/left dichotomy for a bit and look at this problem from the multidimensional perspective that it exists in. Once it has done this, then it will become clear where the country should focus its industries, politics, and sense of identity. If it stays mired in stupid shit like the middle east conflict, the UN, and every two bit country's beef with it, it'll never get anywhere and eventually collapse under its own weight. This would be really bad, because, underneath all the recent layers of outright crap that's been foisted upon it, the core concepts America was founded on are still the right way to go for a free society. I do not want to wake up one day and realize that I'm living the same sardine can lifestyle as people do in places like china, under the combinatory guise of safety, insecure emotional egoism, and the protection of too-big-to-fail corporations. There's just no way.
no they're not. they're making us learn their way. since we don't no longer have the testicular fortitude to stand up for our own culture out of some misguided attempt at 'multiculturalism,' we're setting the stage for a 'bloodless takeover.'
Instead of making english the official national language, we're teaching our kids spanish and mandarin in school. we're giving full blown scholarships to immigrants because of their immigrant status, while american citizens have to pay.
It is a fact of human nature that societies have to stand up for themselves and their identities, or else they ossify into someone else's.
or if the driver was available as source, it could be compiled as needed, like every other sane linux driver.
I'm sure the mating behavior of both genders started and evolved co-dependently and in parallel, long before homo sapiens existed. Men and women objectify and check each other out.. it's how sex works. feminist morons need to accept their sexuality.
since her achievement has nothing to do with having babies, her being a woman doesn't make it any more or less special.