Perhaps, but when every single developer who runs into the project keeps asking why this is not getting more press and being written up on slashdot, maybe that says something to?
It does. It says:
Keep improving your project, and eventually it will get noticed, used, and become popular enough that some impartial third party will become excited enough to submit a story about something related to it (Ask Slashdot: Why isn't VCF more well known?, perhaps),
On the other hand, what it doesn't say is:
Submit a story to slashdot pretending you aren't the lead developer while the project is still in its early and butt ugly stages and has no compelling advantage over any of its competitors, thereby irritating and alienating the very audience that might otherwise have cared about it. You want to advertise your own project, submit it to Freshmeat again, FFS. It's not windows only anymore.
If the only person who cares enough to submit something about your project is you, be up front about it. Don't try to con people into believing otherwise. This is hella lame.
OSX still uses a BSD interface which is alot similar
iTunes doesn't, so you're wrong here. It uses Carbon, a completely different and very large API ported to Mach from MacOS. I doubt highly it touches the BSD server much.
and OSX's fancy graphics are still X11 based
Wrong. Quartz is essentially a display PDF renderer, written from scratch and having nothing to do with X11.
and music devices and disks are still/dev/whatever/ so I don't see any problem
Wrong. 0 for 3. Thanks for playing "Slashdot pundit who doesn't know what he's talking about".
don't refer to Derek Smart as a Doctor, at least without putting quotation marks around the "Dr". He has admitted that the "institution" he obtained it from was not accredited, and it is impossible to earn a valid PhD from a degree mill.
Furthering his delusions of grandeur is not something any sane person should be actively engaged in doing.
No. They don't guarantee that your e-mail will be deleted from all their caches and backups the instant you delete it, but they do guarantee that it will get wipped as those things are updated.
The same thing is true of pretty much any webmail service, though.
My God, do you mean to say that people apply different standards for behavior to convicted monopolists than they do to, say, law-abiding corporations?!
If you tell someone they are going to see an amazing interface, they're going to expect an amazing interface, not a standard interface that is an interesting achievement purely because of certain achievements under the hood.
Amazing job of replicating a standard interface in an unlikely environment? Yes.
it's hard as hell to write a nontrivial rich client with the existing web technologies.
You've guessed wrong, but you mis-understand me.
From a technical standpoint, it's a fairly neat achievement.
From an interface standpoint (and the story mentions Oddpoint's amazing interface, mind), I don't find it amazing at all. It's strictly 'been there, done that' except this time on the web. Technically impressive, but 'meh' interface wise, in my opinion. Confusing those two issues (amazing interface vs amazing technical achievement) as being the same issue happens all too often in the software world, which I think is where you're coming from.
Come on, I hardly see how asking what others find so amazing about the interface was flamebait. It was intended to stimulate a discussion of the interface, and nothing more.
Because it's a low rent Outlook clone that runs in a web browser.
Yeah, I figured that part. I just don't find the interface to be particularly 'amazing'. I never liked Outlook, though, so to each his own.
That's right, they took the time to clone outlook using JavaScript and sever-side tools such that the user gets the look and feel of Outlook but can use it without need to install anything on any computer that has MSIE on it.
Are there really very many computers that have IE but don't have Outlook? I suppose it is nice to be able to check your e-mail from a different (Windows) computer, if you're really attached to the Outlook interface.
I took a look at the link to Oddpost, but I'm having trouble seeing what exactly is so amazing about their e-mail interface. It looks like a low rent outlook clone.
Anyone want to take a stab at explaining to me why Oddpost is so amazing?
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No Star Wars Holiday Special??
Couldn't this be easily solved... by not playing with people who cheat?
New to the internet, are we?
It doesn't matter whether the legal term is "stealing" or copyright infringement.
Don't be ridiculous, that is almost the only thing that does matter.
Stealing violates criminal law. Copyright infringement violates civil law. There's a world of difference between the two.
(though there could be something already out there... I just don't know about it ;) ).
Ximian Evolution is the Managerial, Outlook-esque product for Linux that you seem to be missing.
Perhaps, but when every single developer who runs into the project keeps asking why this is not getting more press and being written up on slashdot, maybe that says something to?
It does. It says:
Keep improving your project, and eventually it will get noticed, used, and become popular enough that some impartial third party will become excited enough to submit a story about something related to it (Ask Slashdot: Why isn't VCF more well known?, perhaps),
On the other hand, what it doesn't say is:
Submit a story to slashdot pretending you aren't the lead developer while the project is still in its early and butt ugly stages and has no compelling advantage over any of its competitors, thereby irritating and alienating the very audience that might otherwise have cared about it. You want to advertise your own project, submit it to Freshmeat again, FFS. It's not windows only anymore.
If the only person who cares enough to submit something about your project is you, be up front about it. Don't try to con people into believing otherwise. This is hella lame.
Cheaper, smoother gameplay, no EA bullshit.
OSX still uses a BSD interface which is alot similar
/dev/whatever/ so I don't see any problem
iTunes doesn't, so you're wrong here. It uses Carbon, a completely different and very large API ported to Mach from MacOS. I doubt highly it touches the BSD server much.
and OSX's fancy graphics are still X11 based
Wrong. Quartz is essentially a display PDF renderer, written from scratch and having nothing to do with X11.
and music devices and disks are still
Wrong. 0 for 3. Thanks for playing "Slashdot pundit who doesn't know what he's talking about".
The Unreal Tournaments, I believe.
The NES is, as far as I know, at this time more or less perfectly emulated
The SNES is mostly perfect, although I can think of a few games that are fairly glitchy on all the emulators I've tried.
The N64 emulators still have some issues with a number of games.
The GameCube isn't remotely close to having a playable emulator for it. Period.
So no, in absolutely no sense could you possible do all of this with MythTV. It's not even close.
My math degree says:
Absolutely no. There is no way in hell math could possibly be considered a sport. Is this question some kind of joke?
don't refer to Derek Smart as a Doctor, at least without putting quotation marks around the "Dr". He has admitted that the "institution" he obtained it from was not accredited, and it is impossible to earn a valid PhD from a degree mill.
Furthering his delusions of grandeur is not something any sane person should be actively engaged in doing.
You monsters, you're forcing me to find something else to waste my time doing!!!
Their a monopolist that's been convicted of abusing said monopoly. Hence, convicted monopolist.
No. They don't guarantee that your e-mail will be deleted from all their caches and backups the instant you delete it, but they do guarantee that it will get wipped as those things are updated.
The same thing is true of pretty much any webmail service, though.
My God, do you mean to say that people apply different standards for behavior to convicted monopolists than they do to, say, law-abiding corporations?!
How strange.
Duh. Joke. Duh.
And does he have any relation to Stephen Hawking?
Questions are trolls, now?
In all seriousness, doesn't the 'bait' in 'flamebait' indicate that it's intended to cause a lot of responses?
If you tell someone they are going to see an amazing interface, they're going to expect an amazing interface, not a standard interface that is an interesting achievement purely because of certain achievements under the hood.
Amazing job of replicating a standard interface in an unlikely environment? Yes.
Amazing interface? No.
it's hard as hell to write a nontrivial rich client with the existing web technologies.
You've guessed wrong, but you mis-understand me.
From a technical standpoint, it's a fairly neat achievement.
From an interface standpoint (and the story mentions Oddpoint's amazing interface, mind), I don't find it amazing at all. It's strictly 'been there, done that' except this time on the web. Technically impressive, but 'meh' interface wise, in my opinion. Confusing those two issues (amazing interface vs amazing technical achievement) as being the same issue happens all too often in the software world, which I think is where you're coming from.
Why is it that the ongoing systemic outages on GMail are not reported here?
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Because "Breaking News: Beta Software Has Occasional Reliability Issues" is more a subject for Duh Magazine than for
but Yoda never struck me as the semi-literate retard type, you know?
I mean, if Yoda couldn't speak english properly, I figure the rest of that species should be downright horrible in comparrison.
Come on, I hardly see how asking what others find so amazing about the interface was flamebait. It was intended to stimulate a discussion of the interface, and nothing more.
Because it's a low rent Outlook clone that runs in a web browser.
Yeah, I figured that part. I just don't find the interface to be particularly 'amazing'. I never liked Outlook, though, so to each his own.
That's right, they took the time to clone outlook using JavaScript and sever-side tools such that the user gets the look and feel of Outlook but can use it without need to install anything on any computer that has MSIE on it.
Are there really very many computers that have IE but don't have Outlook? I suppose it is nice to be able to check your e-mail from a different (Windows) computer, if you're really attached to the Outlook interface.
I took a look at the link to Oddpost, but I'm having trouble seeing what exactly is so amazing about their e-mail interface. It looks like a low rent outlook clone.
Anyone want to take a stab at explaining to me why Oddpost is so amazing?