They went through relationship after relationship, meeting asshole after asshole... This guy is willing to take a year out of his life to experiment with art, to answer a question about existance and meaning. This is a guy who is confident enough in who he is and has a solid grasp of what he wants out of life.
Yeah, so you seem to be equating "holding onto a job because otherwise you'd lose your house" and "not being confident" with "being an asshole". That's pretty lame.
There are still some people who need the desktop, but it's getting smaller and smaller as they have to be uber-power-users.
Or people who want a decent keyboard, mouse, speakers, and screen. Oh, you plug all those things in? Well then I think you have to ask yourself whether you're using a "laptop" or a smaller form factor PC.
And "Desktop" systems seem to be receeding back into the niches that need them... business, developers, gamers, power-users.
Well, if "business, developers, gamers, and power-users" counts as a niche now then I guess there will be a few businesses making quite a lot of money out of those "niches". That's probably a few hundred million people right there. By the way, you forgot image/video/sound editing and processing.
He'd been through a lot of frustration with his Windows laptop, and said every time he tried to connect it to wireless it was a 30 minute job.
Then either he isn't as intelligent as you make out, or there is something wrong with his hardware.
Slashdot has this absurd bias that PCs should be magical devices which are reserved for the technology priesthood... I think that's ridiculous.
And I think that's a ridiculous characterization of techies' view of PCs. We want PCs to remain general-purpose computing devices which are programmable and open, yes. As far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't fulfil those criteria, it isn't a PC. But do we want it to be arbitrarily "magical"? Erm, no. At least not most of us.
Are you kidding me? The problem with the EU Commission is that it's *too much* like the US government. You think the US 2-party system has ANY accountability to the voter whatsoever?
She and her husband continue to show the best side of capitalism.
I hate to piss on the parade, but it's just a shame she's a practising Catholic. Her "most revered" figure thinks condoms are evil. Kind of clashes with her message.
Who cares about the bloody web console? They've ruined the UI by turning it into a copy of Chrome. They are forcing users to use "tabs on top". For me that's the final nail in the coffin. I'm switching to using a combination of Chrome and Seamonkey.
Can you state any clinching advantage SeaMonkey has over Firefox?
Yes. Its UI isn't turning into a clone of Google Chrome's. And because the project is run by people who are a bit more "traditionalist" in their user interface designs, it's not ever likely to.
Mozilla jumped the shark when they replaced started taking design decisions away from programmers and putting them in the hands of "user experience designers" who are nothing more than glorified fashion designers. Mozilla's "user experience team" has 25(!) people on it (http://blog.mozilla.org/ux/who-we-are/). How many people does it take to design an interface for a browser? Every new release of Firefox copies more things from Chrome and dumbs down the interface in the process.
Oh boy, do I agree with you. And do you know they're forcing tabs on top, probably in Firefox 15, hoping that the "old-fashioned" people who liked the Firefox 3 interface will go away? That's the final straw for me; I've disabled updates from FF13, and I'm going to switch, like you, to a combination of Seamonkey and Chrome; Chrome so I can get the "real deal" (not Firefox's emulation of it), and Seamonkey to get a decent browser UI. The only thing about Seamonkey that slightly annoys me is the inability to customize the tab bar to move the dropdown tab list on the right to the navigation bar, but it's not too bad.
I am so angry at the way Mozilla's headed now that I thoroughly hope Firefox crashes and burns, Firefox OS crashes and burns, and all those fucking UX people are out of a job. I'm also going to name a name: Asa Dotzler, you are *the* most arrogant bastard I've come across in a long time. You don't accept criticism, you ignore a large part of your userbase, and you suck. I also hope you lose your job. You and your arrogant UX team are nothing but bad news to Mozilla.
Thunderbird, IMO, could improve greatly with a UI redesign. It's a good program -- don't get me wrong. But to just declare that it's "about as good as it can get" and give up most of the support for the project seems a bit arrogant to me. I hate change for the sake of change (which is really what I felt most of Microsoft Office 2007 gave people vs. version 2003, with everything moved around to different places as the "ribbon bar" menu was created). But especially for Windows users, Thunderbird mail client has the look of some sort of project ported over from Linux. A lot of little things like the graphics for the buttons and even the default fonts used just don't have the polish of a client like Outlook.
I don't know what you're talking about. I use 3.1.11 (old now, but it works great for me) and it looks like a native Windows XP application with nice colourful icons. I fail to see what looks "ported" about it; in fact I'd hold it up as a good example of how an application should look. IMHO when they fucked it up was when they went down the route of grey icons and a "glass style" background, which was when I stopped upgrading.
Probably why I stick with version 3.1.11, and disable upgrading. It was before they screwed up the Windows 7 interface, and it works very nicely for me.
Yeah, but that's hardly the same as the opportunity a drip-drip effect of revelations would have presented them with to stop Wikileaks before anything else was released.
Yes, that would have meant going over all the stuff which would have taken years, and Assange didn't have the patience for that. But if he did, the papers would have had to concentrate on the truly important parts, and maybe Wikileaks wouldn't be bankrupt today.
Or maybe he would've released 1 or 2 sensitive pieces of information, and the US government would've immediately persecuted him and his organization before it could release any more embarrassing stuff.
All that said, conceptually there is one thing I think is nice about Metro and Gnome 3, the general concept that when you do 'Start' or 'Activities', that the entire screen real estate is dedicated to the action.
Ugh, I totally disagree. I'm perfectly happy with a start menu-type interface for starting applications; the last thing I need is my existing application windows to go whizzing around all over the place or being hidden. That's one of the biggest issues I had with Gnome 3 frankly. I'll never accept such an interface - I'll use a different window manager.
This all comes down to what you define a PC as. If you're talking about the form factor of the hardware that humans don't need to interact with then, sure, maybe it will become the size of a grain of sand one day. However, I think it's a pretty safe bet that if you're talking about a PC as consisting of certain human interface devices (a real keyboard, a real mouse, a good sized monitor), they're *never ever* going to be replaced by a tablet because they're fundamentally more human-ergonomic for many computing tasks, and the human body can't be upgraded quite as easily as computer hardware.
You are advocating luddism as a solution to a social problem. The social problem being that "they" think they have a right to track other people. Until you address that, you're just playing whack-a-mole, and with every smack of the hammer denying society access to the technology that's being used against it.
The trouble is it's hard to see any other solution. By their very nature, politicians tend to like control and surveillence, so I adopt the default position of not trusting them with my privacy. Even if the CURRENT lot are trustworthy, it's likely that some future politicians won't be. Don't give them more power than necessary, ever.
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He paid the price for this defiance, and they're slowly trying to get rid of freeview
I hope they succeed. I don't want to pay a licence fee for other people's viewing habits, and I don't want them calling it "free".
They went through relationship after relationship, meeting asshole after asshole ...
This guy is willing to take a year out of his life to experiment with art, to answer a question about existance and meaning. This is a guy who is confident enough in who he is and has a solid grasp of what he wants out of life.
Yeah, so you seem to be equating "holding onto a job because otherwise you'd lose your house" and "not being confident" with "being an asshole". That's pretty lame.
There are still some people who need the desktop, but it's getting smaller and smaller as they have to be uber-power-users.
Or people who want a decent keyboard, mouse, speakers, and screen. Oh, you plug all those things in? Well then I think you have to ask yourself whether you're using a "laptop" or a smaller form factor PC.
And "Desktop" systems seem to be receeding back into the niches that need them... business, developers, gamers, power-users.
Well, if "business, developers, gamers, and power-users" counts as a niche now then I guess there will be a few businesses making quite a lot of money out of those "niches". That's probably a few hundred million people right there. By the way, you forgot image/video/sound editing and processing.
He'd been through a lot of frustration with his Windows laptop, and said every time he tried to connect it to wireless it was a 30 minute job.
Then either he isn't as intelligent as you make out, or there is something wrong with his hardware.
Slashdot has this absurd bias that PCs should be magical devices which are reserved for the technology priesthood ... I think that's ridiculous.
And I think that's a ridiculous characterization of techies' view of PCs. We want PCs to remain general-purpose computing devices which are programmable and open, yes. As far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't fulfil those criteria, it isn't a PC. But do we want it to be arbitrarily "magical"? Erm, no. At least not most of us.
Man, I'm tempted to sign up for Comcast again just so I can dump their sorry asses all over again.
Maybe that's their business plan.
Pedantically speaking, smoking or burning anything causes some harm to anyone nearby. Lungs weren't really designed to inhale particulates.
But you don't have to smoke cannabis; you can vape it or eat it.
Are you kidding me? The problem with the EU Commission is that it's *too much* like the US government. You think the US 2-party system has ANY accountability to the voter whatsoever?
She and her husband continue to show the best side of capitalism.
I hate to piss on the parade, but it's just a shame she's a practising Catholic. Her "most revered" figure thinks condoms are evil. Kind of clashes with her message.
By the way, I did type that text correctly, but as we all know, Slashdot fucks up non-ASCII characters. :-)
Je n'ai pas de problÃme avec cette texte, car j'utilise la disposition du clavier "UK Extended Enhanced" qui est le mien. Cependent, j'ai plus de difficulté avec le franÃais. ;-)
My opinion: everone migrates to US-International and we're done with it.
Hell no. I HATE that thin enter key. You can take my UK layout keyboard from my cold dead hands. :-)
Who cares about the bloody web console? They've ruined the UI by turning it into a copy of Chrome. They are forcing users to use "tabs on top". For me that's the final nail in the coffin. I'm switching to using a combination of Chrome and Seamonkey.
There is a lot to be said for something that encourages all of us to adopt the same set of rules.
It's called "law", and it's preferably developed by a secular government.
Can you state any clinching advantage SeaMonkey has over Firefox?
Yes. Its UI isn't turning into a clone of Google Chrome's. And because the project is run by people who are a bit more "traditionalist" in their user interface designs, it's not ever likely to.
Mozilla jumped the shark when they replaced started taking design decisions away from programmers and putting them in the hands of "user experience designers" who are nothing more than glorified fashion designers. Mozilla's "user experience team" has 25(!) people on it (http://blog.mozilla.org/ux/who-we-are/). How many people does it take to design an interface for a browser? Every new release of Firefox copies more things from Chrome and dumbs down the interface in the process.
Oh boy, do I agree with you. And do you know they're forcing tabs on top, probably in Firefox 15, hoping that the "old-fashioned" people who liked the Firefox 3 interface will go away? That's the final straw for me; I've disabled updates from FF13, and I'm going to switch, like you, to a combination of Seamonkey and Chrome; Chrome so I can get the "real deal" (not Firefox's emulation of it), and Seamonkey to get a decent browser UI. The only thing about Seamonkey that slightly annoys me is the inability to customize the tab bar to move the dropdown tab list on the right to the navigation bar, but it's not too bad.
I am so angry at the way Mozilla's headed now that I thoroughly hope Firefox crashes and burns, Firefox OS crashes and burns, and all those fucking UX people are out of a job. I'm also going to name a name: Asa Dotzler, you are *the* most arrogant bastard I've come across in a long time. You don't accept criticism, you ignore a large part of your userbase, and you suck. I also hope you lose your job. You and your arrogant UX team are nothing but bad news to Mozilla.
Thunderbird, IMO, could improve greatly with a UI redesign. It's a good program -- don't get me wrong. But to just declare that it's "about as good as it can get" and give up most of the support for the project seems a bit arrogant to me. I hate change for the sake of change (which is really what I felt most of Microsoft Office 2007 gave people vs. version 2003, with everything moved around to different places as the "ribbon bar" menu was created). But especially for Windows users, Thunderbird mail client has the look of some sort of project ported over from Linux. A lot of little things like the graphics for the buttons and even the default fonts used just don't have the polish of a client like Outlook.
I don't know what you're talking about. I use 3.1.11 (old now, but it works great for me) and it looks like a native Windows XP application with nice colourful icons. I fail to see what looks "ported" about it; in fact I'd hold it up as a good example of how an application should look. IMHO when they fucked it up was when they went down the route of grey icons and a "glass style" background, which was when I stopped upgrading.
Probably why I stick with version 3.1.11, and disable upgrading. It was before they screwed up the Windows 7 interface, and it works very nicely for me.
Yeah, but that's hardly the same as the opportunity a drip-drip effect of revelations would have presented them with to stop Wikileaks before anything else was released.
insulation
Wouldn't insulation keep heat in once it got in (this is usually the reason for insulation in the UK)?
Yes, that would have meant going over all the stuff which would have taken years, and Assange didn't have the patience for that. But if he did, the papers would have had to concentrate on the truly important parts, and maybe Wikileaks wouldn't be bankrupt today.
Or maybe he would've released 1 or 2 sensitive pieces of information, and the US government would've immediately persecuted him and his organization before it could release any more embarrassing stuff.
These judges are just easy come, easy go.
All that said, conceptually there is one thing I think is nice about Metro and Gnome 3, the general concept that when you do 'Start' or 'Activities', that the entire screen real estate is dedicated to the action.
Ugh, I totally disagree. I'm perfectly happy with a start menu-type interface for starting applications; the last thing I need is my existing application windows to go whizzing around all over the place or being hidden. That's one of the biggest issues I had with Gnome 3 frankly. I'll never accept such an interface - I'll use a different window manager.
This all comes down to what you define a PC as. If you're talking about the form factor of the hardware that humans don't need to interact with then, sure, maybe it will become the size of a grain of sand one day. However, I think it's a pretty safe bet that if you're talking about a PC as consisting of certain human interface devices (a real keyboard, a real mouse, a good sized monitor), they're *never ever* going to be replaced by a tablet because they're fundamentally more human-ergonomic for many computing tasks, and the human body can't be upgraded quite as easily as computer hardware.
You are advocating luddism as a solution to a social problem. The social problem being that "they" think they have a right to track other people. Until you address that, you're just playing whack-a-mole, and with every smack of the hammer denying society access to the technology that's being used against it.
The trouble is it's hard to see any other solution. By their very nature, politicians tend to like control and surveillence, so I adopt the default position of not trusting them with my privacy. Even if the CURRENT lot are trustworthy, it's likely that some future politicians won't be. Don't give them more power than necessary, ever.