A lot of Slashdotters are complaining that M$ doesn't have to support Win98 because for example, Borland no longer supports Borland C++ for DOS. The difference here being that Borland has an application not crucial to the operation of a computer, that no other app depends on, and also whose vast majority of users had moved on to a Windows based version. Microsoft is leaving behind over a quarter of its OS user base and providing no alternative for the number of programs dependent on that OS.
IMHO It should provide updates as until the user level falls below something like 10%.
1) No. The US can't find the weapons, now it is looking for war justification on the grounds of research into WMD by Iraq. Also you can bet if the US wanted it, the research could easily be converted into a weapon. Hence "military research".
2)Tut tut tut. You should have a good look at Amnesty International's site. You have a common misconception there. The US sprayed its own soldiers in Vietnam with toxic chemicals because it didn't want to tell them to move out and risk losing land. Those chemicals had no effect in the short term but became fatal, debilitating and caused serious birth defects.
Bush is an oaf. This is not a misconception when the majority of the free thinking world knows it. Almost everything he says or does lacks thought and with regards to the enemy labels them as "These bad guys".
America is a fine country, but you "guys" seriously need to think about whether you want such an idiot controlling your WMD.
For a bad UI design just look at Pocket PC 2002/Windows Mobile 2003. A HUGE star bar that takes about 1/6 of the screen and to stop tasks you have to go through three windows and use a "Memory" program. No ctrl alt del here....
Windows XP's interface is garish I agree, its not fantastic. I just used it as a well known example. I look at modern kde/gnome distros and just think Windows 95 lookalikes. I think we need some sort of commonality with Windows (i.e. a start bar), but need the sort of layout like an enhanced afterstep.
Developers may say they like the current GUI's because they get the job done.
IMHO punters and going to want something more, especially if its to wow them in the face of Apple and Microsoft GUIs which appear out of the box to be more striking. As a developer I often find between revisions of programs people say "oh nothing's changed" yet I may well have re-written the entire engine behind it. Likewise with Linux, the punters are only going to sit up and take notice if they are startled immediately by the way it looks or some wizzy visual fetaures.
Granted certain themed media players suck, but thats only a usability issue not a gui issue. Winamp 2 can have skins, and its IMHO a hell of lot better than Winamp 3. Likewise with WM9, its bloated GUI sucks it down IMHO.
Why do the default UI's in Linux distro look so Windows 95? Why do they have to look all the same despite Redhats and Mandrake's custom themes? I know you can have funky bells and whistles if you want to customize but if you look at Windows XP out of the box it STANDS OUT and YELLS "I'm different!" (from previous versions of Windows).
By the time we get up to spec on Windows XP's curved UI as a default UI, Longhorn will be about with its 3D user interface and Linux will be sporting the oh so old XP like GUI.
What we need is a default skin or theme that is round like Aqua, that doesn't have an annoting "K" or footprint as the Start button. IANAD (Designer) but square start menus and frames just don't cut it anymore. Let INNOVATE rather than copy, I know there are some fantastic web designers out there that can do wonders with GIMP (etc) and plain HTML. Surely a UI isn't much more difficult?
Where do you draw the line on moral values then, i.e. not religion? I mean just because you can do it should you? Would you drop bombs on innocent civilians such as in Iraq just because you could... ermmm waitaminute...!
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"it is good to know NASA's LINEAR guys are on the job"
Yeah? What can they do to stop an asteroid a couple months before impact? Its better we didn't know if we don't have line of defence.
A lot of Slashdotters are complaining that M$ doesn't have to support Win98 because for example, Borland no longer supports Borland C++ for DOS. The difference here being that Borland has an application not crucial to the operation of a computer, that no other app depends on, and also whose vast majority of users had moved on to a Windows based version. Microsoft is leaving behind over a quarter of its OS user base and providing no alternative for the number of programs dependent on that OS. IMHO It should provide updates as until the user level falls below something like 10%.
1) No. The US can't find the weapons, now it is looking for war justification on the grounds of research into WMD by Iraq. Also you can bet if the US wanted it, the research could easily be converted into a weapon. Hence "military research".
2)Tut tut tut. You should have a good look at Amnesty International's site. You have a common misconception there. The US sprayed its own soldiers in Vietnam with toxic chemicals because it didn't want to tell them to move out and risk losing land. Those chemicals had no effect in the short term but became fatal, debilitating and caused serious birth defects.
Bush is an oaf. This is not a misconception when the majority of the free thinking world knows it. Almost everything he says or does lacks thought and with regards to the enemy labels them as "These bad guys". America is a fine country, but you "guys" seriously need to think about whether you want such an idiot controlling your WMD.
For a bad UI design just look at Pocket PC 2002/Windows Mobile 2003. A HUGE star bar that takes about 1/6 of the screen and to stop tasks you have to go through three windows and use a "Memory" program. No ctrl alt del here....
Windows XP's interface is garish I agree, its not fantastic. I just used it as a well known example. I look at modern kde/gnome distros and just think Windows 95 lookalikes. I think we need some sort of commonality with Windows (i.e. a start bar), but need the sort of layout like an enhanced afterstep. Developers may say they like the current GUI's because they get the job done. IMHO punters and going to want something more, especially if its to wow them in the face of Apple and Microsoft GUIs which appear out of the box to be more striking. As a developer I often find between revisions of programs people say "oh nothing's changed" yet I may well have re-written the entire engine behind it. Likewise with Linux, the punters are only going to sit up and take notice if they are startled immediately by the way it looks or some wizzy visual fetaures.
Granted certain themed media players suck, but thats only a usability issue not a gui issue. Winamp 2 can have skins, and its IMHO a hell of lot better than Winamp 3. Likewise with WM9, its bloated GUI sucks it down IMHO.
Why do the default UI's in Linux distro look so Windows 95? Why do they have to look all the same despite Redhats and Mandrake's custom themes? I know you can have funky bells and whistles if you want to customize but if you look at Windows XP out of the box it STANDS OUT and YELLS "I'm different!" (from previous versions of Windows). By the time we get up to spec on Windows XP's curved UI as a default UI, Longhorn will be about with its 3D user interface and Linux will be sporting the oh so old XP like GUI. What we need is a default skin or theme that is round like Aqua, that doesn't have an annoting "K" or footprint as the Start button. IANAD (Designer) but square start menus and frames just don't cut it anymore. Let INNOVATE rather than copy, I know there are some fantastic web designers out there that can do wonders with GIMP (etc) and plain HTML. Surely a UI isn't much more difficult?
Ermm no. You've obviously never tried Coldfusion MX on JRockit 8. It works with Sun Java 2 1.3/1.4....
Where do you draw the line on moral values then, i.e. not religion? I mean just because you can do it should you? Would you drop bombs on innocent civilians such as in Iraq just because you could... ermmm waitaminute...!
In other news, Jenna Jameson gets a large raise... ;)
Heh heh thanks guys for pointing this out. =) Drat.
I back this. Why the hell do we have 3 stories on some server room going up in smoke when more interesting stores like Nanotech Self Healing Cameleon Colour Changing US Tanks never gets to see the light of day? Hello?
Here -about half way down the page, their "Vision" player.
We've found him! The only place were broadband is difficult to acquire is the UK!