Replicants are essentially like a highly simplified OLE. It allows you do embed objects into programs. For example, if you run a ticker program, you can embed that into the desktop (if you're so inclined) You can also embed things in your programs. There is a BeBook (the BeOS API Doc) browser called BeHappy. The developer wanted the thing to be integrated, but had no desire to code his own HTML rendrer. So he just made it so the program embeds NetPositive into his program and browses from there. Quite useful, but still underpowered.
A lot of books are produced entirely with *NIX.
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I know, I here TEX is really cool. I was just being a jackass;)
All OSs have strengths for different environments. If, like me, all you ever need is ssh and a browser, then Debian GNU/Linux
is better than NT4. I wish I could run IE, but even without it I prefer Linux for responsiveness and lack of "surprises".
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Good for you, but I have to tell you that WinNT is a good deal more responsive than Linux, and I do think it has something along the lines of SSH. But hey, if you're happy, more power to ya!
For games it depends on the game. Benchmarks be damned, I'd rather run Quake on Unix (Linux or BSD).
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Well, for games, stability isn't a big issue since the game will go down long before the OS will. I wouldn't have a problem if Linux was just a little slower (though given the piece of junk that is Windows, it shouldn't be!) but often the Windows version retains playable fps at a higher res.
For CAD it depends on the app. Some aren't even available for NT.
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For 3D editing, which is what I was talking about, NT cannot be beat. Linux's situation will improve when Maya comes out, (and also the the WildCat 4420 gets Linux drivers which it will soon), but NT still dominates from the tools point of view.
For video editing, depends on the app, NT is probably first choice, or for super high-end, maybe IRIX or something obscure.
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If you're doing realtime video editing, check out BeOS. Though PersonalStudio won't do anything for ya if you need Premiere caliber videos, but it can often do more on less hardware than a lot of NT programs.
This debate isn't one which can be answered definitively, any more than you can answer a car debate definitively. I like VWs
for personality. Some Japenese cars get better milage. Some American cars get style or raw horsepower/dollar bonuses. You
get the picture.
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For the midrange, Mitsubishi Ecclipses are undoutedly the most sexy. For the high end, nothing beats an XK8. That IS the truth.
"...I prove to myself that NT4 is in fact better"
Then you're right. NT4 is best for you, hands down. You must be very happy, you've found your "soul operating system".
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Not at all, I think NT is far from my "soul operating system." Linux is farther still, and BeOS, though I love it, is still not there yet. With a couple of tweeks, BeOS could get there (me being a media/graphics person) but its not there yet.
If a person doesn't care about race/religion/sex/whatever and takes no special precautions to try to avoid offending someone, why is that a bad thing? Isn't that the whole definition of race/relgion/sex-blind? I couldn't care less what is P.C I treat everyone the same. When you take special care to try to avoid offending people, then you acknowledge that race/religion/sex plays a bigger part in your life than it should.
If somebody tells me it makes me uncomfortable, I don't joke. In general, I tend not to make jokes because people are uptight about these things. However, I never seem to mind Indian jokes and they just don't offend me. There are jackasses out there who make jokes to make other people feel bad. However why should I have to be careful for their sake?
That's the whole thing you miss! I shouldn't have to show respect. I should be able to treat women EXACTLY like I treat men.
The Alt-Tab thing can be switch with three clicks (literally) Also, the group thing is due to the way BeOS organizes by application, then by window. The Deskbar is the same way (two levels, one for apps, one for windows.) As for replicants, they kick ass! BeOS has no need for the complexity of Kparts, or whatever because messaging is already built into the system. Replicants allow you to use replicant enabled apps in your own programs. They're a bit underpowered, but they are a much better solution than the morass of code that makes up most object systems.
Jackass. I had no problem compiling the KDE beta on my Linux box. I still think it is too much trouble to go through. Let me ask you. What system are you running? When I'm not running BeOS or Win2K, I'm running a minumal slackware box with custom complied X, the NVIDIA drivers, ALSA compiled from source, a 2.4-test kernel, and KDE compiled from source. I edited all the config files by hand to set up NAT, my two network cards, ALSA, etc. I think I have a little idea of what the hell I'm doing!
Or I could download nt4sp6a.exe, double click it, and have a totally updated system! You people think too much inside the box. I have no problem compiling KDE from scratch and installing it on my Slackware box (though it takes too damn long and I should only have to give one set of make commands) but for those who really don't want to use computers, 10 packages is silly. Hell, downloading an *exe is silly. It should be one click to upgrade.
I'm not having trouble with it. The minute you got to the second arrow, you screwed it. That's too much for a user who couldn't care less about the computer. You should hit start -> Update. The computer finds the FTP server, it checks which updates you need and it installs them. If you mess something up, hit start -> Fix, and the computer should scan itself and fix the problem. You plug together two computers, it should work. That's how it is supposed to be.
KDE 2 Might have been released later than they said look at the 2.4 kernel and other projects.
Theres more than one component in a distribution do you wait for the new gnome, the new apache, the new mozilla...
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For a desktop, Apache is one thing, the main DE is another. If you're going to release a desktop OS, wait for the latest XFree, the latest kernel, and the latest DE. If you're releasing a server, use a mature kernel, and wait for a couple of point releases of Apache.
Regards the making computers easy to use, yes its true windows isn't easy it has GUIs for everything but you still need to know what to but in the each
configuration box. BUT, there is a big difference between the computer and the car, the car does one thing, no latest feature upgrades and so on.
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No there is not. That's the kind of thinking that gets you in trouble. Who says computers have to do many different things? Most people use their computers for one set of tasks anyway, right? The computer should mold itself to fit those tasks. Its high talk, but I'm not looking for YADE (Yet Another DE) here, I'm looking for a user-interface revolution.
The car is
much simpler. The car is one kind of hardware, the computer can have thousands of different options for hardware, just look at all the video cards, sound
cards, network cards, and so on.
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Ummm, last time I checked, there are more types of tires than graphics cards. Cars are made up of thousands of different, interchangable parts. Sure computer parts aren't interchangable, but maybe they SHOULD be?
We need to move towards the target you talk about and this is getting there for most software people use.
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Uh, no. Sorry. But you still get the consolation prize. Take, for example, CD burning. On a dedicated copier, you plug in a disc, and hit copy. Then take a look at Adaptec's software. You've got dozens of different options. Multi-mode, Disc at once, image types, speed, etc. That is simply unacceptable for consumer level software. To make a disc, all I should have to do is put in a CD, and drag files into it (which DirectCD does, but it adds it's own set of problems) Some software makers do the Beginner/Advanced interface scheme. Wrong again. The software should grow as the user grows. Its a dumb idea to hem an intermedia user into a beginner interface, or drop them into an advanced one.
To a certain extent that is true, but take a look at the rest of the consumer industry. A Prosche gives you so much damn power, and a Range Rover gives you so many more features (off-road, etc) yet they are as easy to use a Toyota Echo. Developers MUST think beyond the current levels of software. Paradigm shifts are hard, but nobody ever said life was easy.
A) Let's see. Gnumeric & Pico vs. Excel and Word. Do you people actually produce documents any more complex than a OSS API doc? (Which could be printed on a napkin in a lot of cases!)
B) The whole "windoze" thing bothers me. No one has convinced me that Linux is better than NT4, and when I look at my 3D graphics benchmarks, I prove to myself that NT4 is in fact better. So it troubles me that article authors get away with using "windoze." Of course it is to be expected of unwashed masses, but those posting articles should be held to a higher level, don't you think? And I doubt it will fly too well if I start refering to it as "LinSux" from now on, would it?
Technicalties and features count for something, but FEEL is king. For example, my mom just wandered into BeOS (the dual boot starts BeOS as default) and asked me to get Windows back. I asked her what she didn't like about it. She said it just felt bad. She's been using Windows for two days. Feel counts and it counts big time.
My dad isn't ignorant, he isn't and idiot. He could talk the hell out of you in politics or sociology any day. He doesn't want to use the computer, he just needs to get work done. Its a means to an end. Just like a cofee machine. Nobody wants to use the damn thing, they just want cofee. As such, it can NEVER be too easy.
Really. I'm sorry my attempts at installing KDE Betas 1.91 through 1.93 (both RMP and compiling) don't count as trying. Why do Slashdotters automatically assume that when I say something is too complicated, I haven't tried it?
Second, you got into dangerous territory the minute you hit the CLI. Third, RPM upgrades are a dangerous thing. The Slack package is probably the easiest thing to do, and that is still too difficult ("install_pkg kde2.tgz")
The problem is that it isn't automatic. I should be able to go to a webpage (or program) click on the things I want upgraded, and have the thing download all RPMS automatically (another sticky point, does anybody actually ever download only one RPM? Why keep them seperate?) install the thing, and reboot. Take a cue from the way BeOS does Tracker upgrades. I hit the ActiveUpdate button. It downloads Tracker and Deskbar. It warns me that it is installing, and Tracker reboots while I am still typing in Netpositive. THAT'S the way it should work.
I get no perverse pleasure from being politically incorrect (or correct for that matter.) I am simply telling it like it is. The word "babe" is used to refer to two things
A) Little babies. However this meaning is totally outmoded.
B) Women. This is the meaning that you see in every 99% of the contexts that "babe" is used in.
There are two reasons that hate, animosity, and exclusion exist. The first are those people who cannot get over differences and feel like they have to act on them. The second are those who cannot get over differences and feel that every comment is in some way meant to offend them. Case in point: A while back, some guy chastisted me for using the word "niggly" to mean insignificant. I didn't even realize that that word had a negative connotation. The point is that it shouldn't have mattered, the use of a word, when not meant to personally injure someone, is totally harmless. If you knew me personally, you'd know that I am one of the most anal people you'll meet about treating people fairly. However, I have a strong belief that the only way to reconcile differences is to accept them. If you are so aware of them that you can joke about them with somebody from the opposite group, then you two are enemies. No matter how nice you may act, or how PC you may be, you are still enemies. Only when you can accept each other as they are, and not get hung up over the odd joke or the passing word, only then can you be friends. Let me give you a concrete example: There are two ways joke can work. First, say your friend makes a Mexican (Indian, Polish, whatever) joke (assume you are said ethnicity) If he says it as a joke, and it is genuinely funny, then you laugh. When somebody says it to purposely make you feel bad, then its bad and you get angry at them.
I think that it is the racists, bigots and people like you that make the world that much worse for minorities. For a different point of view, take a look at that "whiney bastard" on NBC (or CBS, I know this is totally vague). I can't remember his name, but he did a couple of specials about different groups and how "the most easily offended are the ones making the rules."
Now maybe it didn't deserve a +1, but I don't really care. +0 should be the default.
Imagine, releasing their 7.0 a week before KDE2 final. He he. You realize what the problem is, don't you? All the desktop users who aren't UNIX gurus (you know, the guys still running the stock kernel) will be using RC1 (or whatever KDE2 Suse comes with) for the rest of their lives. I don't care what all the blowhard UNIX gurus say, KDE is too hard to install. Helix has the right idea with Helix GNOME and its about time that KDE (and the rest of Linux) gets with the program. Believe it or not, Storm and Corel are doing a great thing by mixing the GUI and apt-get, but
A) It still isn't pervasive enough, and
B) It still isn't automatic enough.
Windows Update is a very cool thing for the mass of users. The system takes care of itself, not the user. That's the way it should be.
PS> It's incredible how nearsighted the bulk of the Linux community is. They look at Windows and think, "oh, its ridiculously easy." That's just not true. No computers are yet to the ease of use of every other damn consumer product. Take, for example, resolution and refresh rate. You do realize, don't you, that 90% of home users without at least an intermediate computer knowledge (or a sysadmin) are sitting there running there 19" moniter at 640x480 @60hz. The computer should detect he monitor type, and configure itself. Then you have networking. What the hell is an IP? Your telco's equiptment (assuming DSL) should automatically configure your modem and your computer for you. Think of the present day cars. They do so much behind the scenes so the user doesn't have to bother with it. For example, our car automatically runs the AC fan on a hot day to evaporate the condensed water. Without features like that you end up with thousands of people with corroded radiators.
Sorry for the OT, but I had to vent. Moderate away!
Is it just me, or is does Win2K's vaunted stability totally break down when you do anything network related? I can run 3D Studio, Visual Studio, and Photoshop all at the same time with no problems, but the minute I try to browse my other computer of TCP/IP the bloody thing freezes hard. Funny thing, NT4 never used to have this problem, but Win98 did.
A) Just because Apple's GUI works with a one button interface doesn't mean that they think anything more is complex.
B) Apple's UI guidelines kicks ass. I can't stand the company itself, but I've used Macs several times and the UI is great. The OS is a piece of shit, but the UI is wonderful. Take, for example, the menu-bar across the top. Not only does it greatly simplify things (since all apps have a menu bar in more or less the same place) it greatly shrinks the amount of screen space devoted to gadgetry like that. When I see that Apple's thin little bar takes the place of GNOME's entire monstrosity plus the "file edit view" bar present in every single app I see a well designed UI. When I see how well input boxes are labled and how usefull error messages are, I see a good UI. Even BeOS, which owes a lot of its friendliness to the Mac, still can't compete in some UI areas (though it outshines it in some others)
Really? The seperate taskbar was the whole reason I ditched KDE1! Those huge button bars at the bottom must be the most useless things ever invented. They take up screen space and the auto-popup never works correctly. What's I'd really like to see is something along the lines of LnLauncher (a BeOS shortcut program) It stays in the corner of the screen, and it never interferes unles you bring your mouse over a little rectangle in corner. Since mine's on the left, I almost never hit it by accident. (Unlike every other auto-hide menu I've ever used.) Of course, they should have an option for the big-ass buttons, if you're so inclined.
A) Like the other poster said, women (in general) ARE weaker.
The point you miss is that women may be just as good or better than men, but it does not mean that they are the SAME as men. The Princess thing is a perfect example. She wasn't a strong character. However, she was probably one of the best because of her other talents. PC (political correctness) throws me for a loop once in awhile. I just realized: It's wrong to say that women can use their particular talents to be successful, but its encouraged that teachers push their right-brained students to use their special talents to be sucessful. Weird.
Maybe, in the end, people might realize that a generalization is just that: A generalization. People do it all the time, that's how people are designed. When you treat a specific person according to a generalization, that wrong, that's prejudice. When you make a generalization that you can support with fact, and use that generalization when talking about the group in general, that's fine.
of course, getting that first game to play I was frustrated by having the keep on trying to blow in the game, in the machine, hit it a few times on the top... all the same frustrations that remember doing over 10 yrs ago to get the system working.
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A) Can anyone verify exactly WHY the blowing thing worked? I think it's a universal part of the NES experience. Strangely, my Sega machines never needed blowing. (Okay, I know I'm asking for a bunch of blowjob jokes)
B) If only blowing on Linux would make it work!
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Ahh, the subtlties of the English langague. In this case, "full" isn't used to denote a fraction, but as an emphasis to mean an entire fractional point. For example, you can have a whole half-pie, or you can have a fraction of a half-pie. It's still correct.
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Replicants are essentially like a highly simplified OLE. It allows you do embed objects into programs. For example, if you run a ticker program, you can embed that into the desktop (if you're so inclined) You can also embed things in your programs. There is a BeBook (the BeOS API Doc) browser called BeHappy. The developer wanted the thing to be integrated, but had no desire to code his own HTML rendrer. So he just made it so the program embeds NetPositive into his program and browses from there. Quite useful, but still underpowered.
A lot of books are produced entirely with *NIX. ;)
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I know, I here TEX is really cool. I was just being a jackass
All OSs have strengths for different environments. If, like me, all you ever need is ssh and a browser, then Debian GNU/Linux
is better than NT4. I wish I could run IE, but even without it I prefer Linux for responsiveness and lack of "surprises".
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Good for you, but I have to tell you that WinNT is a good deal more responsive than Linux, and I do think it has something along the lines of SSH. But hey, if you're happy, more power to ya!
For games it depends on the game. Benchmarks be damned, I'd rather run Quake on Unix (Linux or BSD).
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Well, for games, stability isn't a big issue since the game will go down long before the OS will. I wouldn't have a problem if Linux was just a little slower (though given the piece of junk that is Windows, it shouldn't be!) but often the Windows version retains playable fps at a higher res.
For CAD it depends on the app. Some aren't even available for NT.
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For 3D editing, which is what I was talking about, NT cannot be beat. Linux's situation will improve when Maya comes out, (and also the the WildCat 4420 gets Linux drivers which it will soon), but NT still dominates from the tools point of view.
For video editing, depends on the app, NT is probably first choice, or for super high-end, maybe IRIX or something obscure.
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If you're doing realtime video editing, check out BeOS. Though PersonalStudio won't do anything for ya if you need Premiere caliber videos, but it can often do more on less hardware than a lot of NT programs.
This debate isn't one which can be answered definitively, any more than you can answer a car debate definitively. I like VWs
for personality. Some Japenese cars get better milage. Some American cars get style or raw horsepower/dollar bonuses. You
get the picture.
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For the midrange, Mitsubishi Ecclipses are undoutedly the most sexy. For the high end, nothing beats an XK8. That IS the truth.
"...I prove to myself that NT4 is in fact better"
Then you're right. NT4 is best for you, hands down. You must be very happy, you've found your "soul operating system".
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Not at all, I think NT is far from my "soul operating system." Linux is farther still, and BeOS, though I love it, is still not there yet. With a couple of tweeks, BeOS could get there (me being a media/graphics person) but its not there yet.
If a person doesn't care about race/religion/sex/whatever and takes no special precautions to try to avoid offending someone, why is that a bad thing? Isn't that the whole definition of race/relgion/sex-blind? I couldn't care less what is P.C I treat everyone the same. When you take special care to try to avoid offending people, then you acknowledge that race/religion/sex plays a bigger part in your life than it should.
If somebody tells me it makes me uncomfortable, I don't joke. In general, I tend not to make jokes because people are uptight about these things. However, I never seem to mind Indian jokes and they just don't offend me. There are jackasses out there who make jokes to make other people feel bad. However why should I have to be careful for their sake?
That's the whole thing you miss! I shouldn't have to show respect. I should be able to treat women EXACTLY like I treat men.
The Alt-Tab thing can be switch with three clicks (literally) Also, the group thing is due to the way BeOS organizes by application, then by window. The Deskbar is the same way (two levels, one for apps, one for windows.) As for replicants, they kick ass! BeOS has no need for the complexity of Kparts, or whatever because messaging is already built into the system. Replicants allow you to use replicant enabled apps in your own programs. They're a bit underpowered, but they are a much better solution than the morass of code that makes up most object systems.
Its spatial. Obviously you're not a language person ;)
Hey I posted without the +1!
Jackass. I had no problem compiling the KDE beta on my Linux box. I still think it is too much trouble to go through. Let me ask you. What system are you running? When I'm not running BeOS or Win2K, I'm running a minumal slackware box with custom complied X, the NVIDIA drivers, ALSA compiled from source, a 2.4-test kernel, and KDE compiled from source. I edited all the config files by hand to set up NAT, my two network cards, ALSA, etc. I think I have a little idea of what the hell I'm doing!
You still have to figure it out. You should be able to hit a button, and have it automaticaly update all software on the system. Like magic.
Or I could download nt4sp6a.exe, double click it, and have a totally updated system! You people think too much inside the box. I have no problem compiling KDE from scratch and installing it on my Slackware box (though it takes too damn long and I should only have to give one set of make commands) but for those who really don't want to use computers, 10 packages is silly. Hell, downloading an *exe is silly. It should be one click to upgrade.
I'm not having trouble with it. The minute you got to the second arrow, you screwed it. That's too much for a user who couldn't care less about the computer. You should hit start -> Update. The computer finds the FTP server, it checks which updates you need and it installs them. If you mess something up, hit start -> Fix, and the computer should scan itself and fix the problem. You plug together two computers, it should work. That's how it is supposed to be.
KDE 2 Might have been released later than they said look at the 2.4 kernel and other projects.
Theres more than one component in a distribution do you wait for the new gnome, the new apache, the new mozilla...
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For a desktop, Apache is one thing, the main DE is another. If you're going to release a desktop OS, wait for the latest XFree, the latest kernel, and the latest DE. If you're releasing a server, use a mature kernel, and wait for a couple of point releases of Apache.
Regards the making computers easy to use, yes its true windows isn't easy it has GUIs for everything but you still need to know what to but in the each
configuration box. BUT, there is a big difference between the computer and the car, the car does one thing, no latest feature upgrades and so on.
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No there is not. That's the kind of thinking that gets you in trouble. Who says computers have to do many different things? Most people use their computers for one set of tasks anyway, right? The computer should mold itself to fit those tasks. Its high talk, but I'm not looking for YADE (Yet Another DE) here, I'm looking for a user-interface revolution.
The car is
much simpler. The car is one kind of hardware, the computer can have thousands of different options for hardware, just look at all the video cards, sound
cards, network cards, and so on.
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Ummm, last time I checked, there are more types of tires than graphics cards. Cars are made up of thousands of different, interchangable parts. Sure computer parts aren't interchangable, but maybe they SHOULD be?
We need to move towards the target you talk about and this is getting there for most software people use.
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Uh, no. Sorry. But you still get the consolation prize. Take, for example, CD burning. On a dedicated copier, you plug in a disc, and hit copy. Then take a look at Adaptec's software. You've got dozens of different options. Multi-mode, Disc at once, image types, speed, etc. That is simply unacceptable for consumer level software. To make a disc, all I should have to do is put in a CD, and drag files into it (which DirectCD does, but it adds it's own set of problems) Some software makers do the Beginner/Advanced interface scheme. Wrong again. The software should grow as the user grows. Its a dumb idea to hem an intermedia user into a beginner interface, or drop them into an advanced one.
To a certain extent that is true, but take a look at the rest of the consumer industry. A Prosche gives you so much damn power, and a Range Rover gives you so many more features (off-road, etc) yet they are as easy to use a Toyota Echo. Developers MUST think beyond the current levels of software. Paradigm shifts are hard, but nobody ever said life was easy.
A) Let's see. Gnumeric & Pico vs. Excel and Word. Do you people actually produce documents any more complex than a OSS API doc? (Which could be printed on a napkin in a lot of cases!)
B) The whole "windoze" thing bothers me. No one has convinced me that Linux is better than NT4, and when I look at my 3D graphics benchmarks, I prove to myself that NT4 is in fact better. So it troubles me that article authors get away with using "windoze." Of course it is to be expected of unwashed masses, but those posting articles should be held to a higher level, don't you think? And I doubt it will fly too well if I start refering to it as "LinSux" from now on, would it?
Technicalties and features count for something, but FEEL is king. For example, my mom just wandered into BeOS (the dual boot starts BeOS as default) and asked me to get Windows back. I asked her what she didn't like about it. She said it just felt bad. She's been using Windows for two days. Feel counts and it counts big time.
My dad isn't ignorant, he isn't and idiot. He could talk the hell out of you in politics or sociology any day. He doesn't want to use the computer, he just needs to get work done. Its a means to an end. Just like a cofee machine. Nobody wants to use the damn thing, they just want cofee. As such, it can NEVER be too easy.
Really. I'm sorry my attempts at installing KDE Betas 1.91 through 1.93 (both RMP and compiling) don't count as trying. Why do Slashdotters automatically assume that when I say something is too complicated, I haven't tried it?
Second, you got into dangerous territory the minute you hit the CLI. Third, RPM upgrades are a dangerous thing. The Slack package is probably the easiest thing to do, and that is still too difficult ("install_pkg kde2.tgz")
The problem is that it isn't automatic. I should be able to go to a webpage (or program) click on the things I want upgraded, and have the thing download all RPMS automatically (another sticky point, does anybody actually ever download only one RPM? Why keep them seperate?) install the thing, and reboot. Take a cue from the way BeOS does Tracker upgrades. I hit the ActiveUpdate button. It downloads Tracker and Deskbar. It warns me that it is installing, and Tracker reboots while I am still typing in Netpositive. THAT'S the way it should work.
I get no perverse pleasure from being politically incorrect (or correct for that matter.) I am simply telling it like it is. The word "babe" is used to refer to two things
A) Little babies. However this meaning is totally outmoded.
B) Women. This is the meaning that you see in every 99% of the contexts that "babe" is used in.
There are two reasons that hate, animosity, and exclusion exist. The first are those people who cannot get over differences and feel like they have to act on them. The second are those who cannot get over differences and feel that every comment is in some way meant to offend them. Case in point: A while back, some guy chastisted me for using the word "niggly" to mean insignificant. I didn't even realize that that word had a negative connotation. The point is that it shouldn't have mattered, the use of a word, when not meant to personally injure someone, is totally harmless. If you knew me personally, you'd know that I am one of the most anal people you'll meet about treating people fairly. However, I have a strong belief that the only way to reconcile differences is to accept them. If you are so aware of them that you can joke about them with somebody from the opposite group, then you two are enemies. No matter how nice you may act, or how PC you may be, you are still enemies. Only when you can accept each other as they are, and not get hung up over the odd joke or the passing word, only then can you be friends. Let me give you a concrete example: There are two ways joke can work. First, say your friend makes a Mexican (Indian, Polish, whatever) joke (assume you are said ethnicity) If he says it as a joke, and it is genuinely funny, then you laugh. When somebody says it to purposely make you feel bad, then its bad and you get angry at them.
I think that it is the racists, bigots and people like you that make the world that much worse for minorities. For a different point of view, take a look at that "whiney bastard" on NBC (or CBS, I know this is totally vague). I can't remember his name, but he did a couple of specials about different groups and how "the most easily offended are the ones making the rules."
Now maybe it didn't deserve a +1, but I don't really care. +0 should be the default.
Imagine, releasing their 7.0 a week before KDE2 final. He he. You realize what the problem is, don't you? All the desktop users who aren't UNIX gurus (you know, the guys still running the stock kernel) will be using RC1 (or whatever KDE2 Suse comes with) for the rest of their lives. I don't care what all the blowhard UNIX gurus say, KDE is too hard to install. Helix has the right idea with Helix GNOME and its about time that KDE (and the rest of Linux) gets with the program. Believe it or not, Storm and Corel are doing a great thing by mixing the GUI and apt-get, but
A) It still isn't pervasive enough, and
B) It still isn't automatic enough.
Windows Update is a very cool thing for the mass of users. The system takes care of itself, not the user. That's the way it should be.
PS> It's incredible how nearsighted the bulk of the Linux community is. They look at Windows and think, "oh, its ridiculously easy." That's just not true. No computers are yet to the ease of use of every other damn consumer product. Take, for example, resolution and refresh rate. You do realize, don't you, that 90% of home users without at least an intermediate computer knowledge (or a sysadmin) are sitting there running there 19" moniter at 640x480 @60hz. The computer should detect he monitor type, and configure itself. Then you have networking. What the hell is an IP? Your telco's equiptment (assuming DSL) should automatically configure your modem and your computer for you. Think of the present day cars. They do so much behind the scenes so the user doesn't have to bother with it. For example, our car automatically runs the AC fan on a hot day to evaporate the condensed water. Without features like that you end up with thousands of people with corroded radiators.
Sorry for the OT, but I had to vent. Moderate away!
Is it just me, or is does Win2K's vaunted stability totally break down when you do anything network related? I can run 3D Studio, Visual Studio, and Photoshop all at the same time with no problems, but the minute I try to browse my other computer of TCP/IP the bloody thing freezes hard. Funny thing, NT4 never used to have this problem, but Win98 did.
Idiot.
A) Just because Apple's GUI works with a one button interface doesn't mean that they think anything more is complex.
B) Apple's UI guidelines kicks ass. I can't stand the company itself, but I've used Macs several times and the UI is great. The OS is a piece of shit, but the UI is wonderful. Take, for example, the menu-bar across the top. Not only does it greatly simplify things (since all apps have a menu bar in more or less the same place) it greatly shrinks the amount of screen space devoted to gadgetry like that. When I see that Apple's thin little bar takes the place of GNOME's entire monstrosity plus the "file edit view" bar present in every single app I see a well designed UI. When I see how well input boxes are labled and how usefull error messages are, I see a good UI. Even BeOS, which owes a lot of its friendliness to the Mac, still can't compete in some UI areas (though it outshines it in some others)
Really? The seperate taskbar was the whole reason I ditched KDE1! Those huge button bars at the bottom must be the most useless things ever invented. They take up screen space and the auto-popup never works correctly. What's I'd really like to see is something along the lines of LnLauncher (a BeOS shortcut program) It stays in the corner of the screen, and it never interferes unles you bring your mouse over a little rectangle in corner. Since mine's on the left, I almost never hit it by accident. (Unlike every other auto-hide menu I've ever used.) Of course, they should have an option for the big-ass buttons, if you're so inclined.
Your definition of proprietory is a little weird.
A) When was the last time either BFS, HPFS, or NTFS changed?
B) Ext2 can change too, and the change will break software.
Under your definition, everything is proprietory to those outside its community.
A) Like the other poster said, women (in general) ARE weaker.
The point you miss is that women may be just as good or better than men, but it does not mean that they are the SAME as men. The Princess thing is a perfect example. She wasn't a strong character. However, she was probably one of the best because of her other talents. PC (political correctness) throws me for a loop once in awhile. I just realized: It's wrong to say that women can use their particular talents to be successful, but its encouraged that teachers push their right-brained students to use their special talents to be sucessful. Weird.
Maybe, in the end, people might realize that a generalization is just that: A generalization. People do it all the time, that's how people are designed. When you treat a specific person according to a generalization, that wrong, that's prejudice. When you make a generalization that you can support with fact, and use that generalization when talking about the group in general, that's fine.
of course, getting that first game to play I was frustrated by having the keep on trying to blow in the game, in the machine, hit it a few times on the top... all the same frustrations that remember doing over 10 yrs ago to get the system working.
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A) Can anyone verify exactly WHY the blowing thing worked? I think it's a universal part of the NES experience. Strangely, my Sega machines never needed blowing. (Okay, I know I'm asking for a bunch of blowjob jokes)
B) If only blowing on Linux would make it work!
Ahh, the subtlties of the English langague. In this case, "full" isn't used to denote a fraction, but as an emphasis to mean an entire fractional point. For example, you can have a whole half-pie, or you can have a fraction of a half-pie. It's still correct.
Hey, does anyone know what kind of proc the NES used? I know it was around 1.7-something megahertz, but what type?