I assume this is a TV show or movie or book or something by the titlecase...
Serial Experiment Lain was a televised Japanese anime from the late 90s, wherin recently-suicided schoolkids carried on email correspondence with classmates (often invitations to "Join me, here with God")
I'm going to randomly attack you on vocabulary correctness here, because I enjoy precision in language. You said "issues" when you actually meant "problems" or "bugs".
"Issues" are things that come out in a sequence, and can be good or bad. Time Magazine has issues, but there's nothing wrong with that. "Issues" is a cowardly euphemism. If you mean the software was buggy, come out and say so.
Am I the only one here who has NEVER had a successful AIM file transfer when using Gaim?
Hate to talk like an AOLer, but "me too!". The frustrating part is that this is clearly a widespread problem, but it never gets documented on the gaim FAQ or changelog.
(I haven't used gaim in a while, so I just installed the latest to check that it was still broken before replying. I discovered that they've managed to sink the Open File dialog box to previously unimaginable lows- worse than any other GTK program I've seen so far)
If you haven't used IM before, you shouldn't be on ICQ. Sign up for AIM (or MSN, yahoo, or whatever).
Here's another way to test AIM:
AOLSafetyBot: Hi ya! I'm the AOLSafetyBot, and I'm here to answer your questions about how to stay safe online. Type privacy to read my Privacy Policy. Ask me a question or type menu for a list of options.
They really don't have to redevelop the applications software for IA 64, just recompile and relink.
False. Software written with an assumption of a 32-bit architecture will require nontrivial modifications. It can stretch all throughout the code. "Does this function take an 'int' because they just needed a number? Or did they specifically want it to be a 32-bit quantity, so that it could be mem-mapped into a pre-padded structure loaded directly from a file?"
Consider the famous "RAM dump" system used by Microsoft Word to save files to disk. Can Microsoft just "recompile and link" to make an ia64 version of Word? Not if they want it to be compatible with files saved on 32-bit machines!
Of course, if a program's source code was already 64-bit clean then it's fine. That's more likely to be the case with Unix programs that have been running on 64-bit CPUs for a while (Alpha, etc) than Windows(r) software that is Intel x86 only. Sure, MAYBE developers of Windows applications have been careful to plan ahead for 64-bit architectures. Want to gamble your servers on that?
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Really - why should I give a rat's ass how Europe is doing?
Any fool can learn from his own mistake. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
The Itanium is a high-end workstation/server chip. ONLY.
Not anymore it's not. Delete "workstation" from that sentence.
Whoever submitted this article seems to think that every AMD64 sold is going to be going into the high-end server market.
No, he just thinks that disparate total sales actually mean something. The AMD64 is good for workstations, servers, laptops, email, and videogames. Itanium is now server-only. The fact that AMD64 has so many consumer sales actually makes it more attractive for high end use, because the volume drives the per-chip cost way down, and boosts R&D reinvestment.
For the average person, the overwhelming disadvantage is that it's incompatible. The Itanium (ia64) cannot run existing PC programs compiled for 386/Pentium.
"None of my software will even run" is a pretty major problem. The AMD 64 chip, on the other hand, can run earlier binary progams.
Some Itanium defenders would argue "This is a high-end chip, for serious professionals only. You should be willing to redo all your software just to try it out"
As heretical as it sounds, no one ever stays a newbie forever.
But everyone was a newbie once. You can't ignore either side of it: design only for newbies, and only newbies will use it. But design only for experts, and NOBODY will ever use it.
Every UI designer must aim for the right balance of accessibility and power.
I would rather reward my long time loyal customer than someone just sniffing around for a good deal.
That makes sense if you actually have those long-term customers. Microsoft does; KDE does not.
Non-monopolist UIs have a greater need to focus on new users. They're a bigger part of KDE's potential audience. Most computer operators have used MS Windows, but only a slender fraction have any KDE experience.
PS. My primary workstation runs KDE exclusively. Even though I hate single-clicking to launch icons.
The war was NOT underway at the time of this speech.
From the speech itself: "On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war. These are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign."
This is actually the only thing i liked about Lotus Notes. It would output three stars per character typed.
My version of Notes had a row of Egyptian hieroglyphs next to the password input. Each time you pushed a key, all 4 glyphs randomly changed to a different one. That way, you could tell it was accepting input, but there was no visual indication as to your password's length.
(window not out of focus or something)
The fact that the Gnome login screen actually allows keyboard focus to go anywhere besides the username/password boxes is a really odd flaw.
False. A "flat format" would be one big list, with no hierarchy. KDE's controls are sorted in a 2-level tree. The Microsoft(tm) Windows(r) Control Panel, on the other hand, is a flat format, since each control panel icon is just sitting in a big window with all the others.
Honestly, I don't see how any of your complaints against the kde control center couldn't be applied even more strongly to Microsoft's control panel.
Even the basics such as the default 'single click to launch' behaviour are just wrong, wrong, wrong from a usability standpoint.
True, that's a real mistake. But the problem isn't so much that it's a bad default, but that there's no way to change it. When Microsoft tried single-click, they made the toggle-button easy to find. There's one Windows feature I wish KDE had copied.
You'd have to find a dozen similarly intelligent people who had never used a computer.
That's a red herring. Although accessibility to a new user is important, you're only a newbie once.
The majority of the time spent with a computer system is by experienced users who've had enough time to be educated (if they wanted).
The last system tested would almost certainly be deemed the most usable.
Which is why to be accurate, you need to make her go back through all the other systems AGAIN, and re-address 1 from the perspective of 3, and so on. Keep going until the skill level with ALL systems has stopped increasing. That's terribly time-consuming for both the subject and the testers, but it's the only real way.
I think the parent post was referring to the president's speech of March 19, 2003:
That speech was after Bush's war was already in progress. Once things were underway, he immediately started backpedaling from his sales pitch. Why, even the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was meant to shift the focus from the false idea that Saddam threatened the USA.
Instead look at Bush's actual speech asking permission for the war:
Some worry that a change of leadership in Iraq could create instability and make the situation worse. The situation could hardly get worse, for world security and for the people of Iraq. The lives of Iraqi citizens would improve dramatically if Saddam Hussein were no longer in power
It's naive for anyone supporting an anti-abortion candiate to expect him to really make any significant change. Abortion rights have been too cemented in the past decades to ever revert. Don't hold Bush accountable for things so far beyond his power.
And what is stopping a dubious individual from borrowing one of these tokens?
The only way it could work is aggressive monitoring. The token must contain not just age/gender of the child, but an ID number into a huge database... and all browsing/chatting done under that ID must be reported in summary form to an adult responsible for the child (parent or teacher).
That way, users of borrowed tokens can be caught by profiling. (Or more likely, lost/sold tokens can be deactivated before the "predatory" adult gets his hands on it)
... but still not economically viable. The hours involved ($$$) in the port would still be wasted on a very small market portion.
Wrong. Unreal is not just a game, it's also a showcase for a resellable engine. Some of the buyers of that engine want to run it on Linux- including groups like military simulation coders, etc.
This is looking more to me like a pissing contest and less like an actual discussion of history with every passing moment.
That's what happens when you start by accusing North-apologist brainwashers of teaching you "lies" in school. And it only gets worse when you accuse Lincoln of concocting emancipation solely as an anti-South economic weapon.
The original comment with which I took issue stated that "Over 360,000 Union soldiers died during the Civil War, largely to put an end to slavery."
That comment is true. If you don't understand why, check your dictionary for "largely" and then see if it has "entirely" listed as a synonym.
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I assume this is a TV show or movie or book or something by the titlecase...
Serial Experiment Lain was a televised Japanese anime from the late 90s, wherin recently-suicided schoolkids carried on email correspondence with classmates (often invitations to "Join me, here with God")
GTK had issues on Win32, expecially early on.
I'm going to randomly attack you on vocabulary correctness here, because I enjoy precision in language. You said "issues" when you actually meant "problems" or "bugs".
"Issues" are things that come out in a sequence, and can be good or bad. Time Magazine has issues, but there's nothing wrong with that. "Issues" is a cowardly euphemism. If you mean the software was buggy, come out and say so.
Am I the only one here who has NEVER had a successful AIM file transfer when using Gaim?
Hate to talk like an AOLer, but "me too!". The frustrating part is that this is clearly a widespread problem, but it never gets documented on the gaim FAQ or changelog.
(I haven't used gaim in a while, so I just installed the latest to check that it was still broken before replying. I discovered that they've managed to sink the Open File dialog box to previously unimaginable lows- worse than any other GTK program I've seen so far)
If you haven't used IM before, you shouldn't be on ICQ. Sign up for AIM (or MSN, yahoo, or whatever).
Here's another way to test AIM:
If you're using a keyboard and mouse, why not just play on the PC?
Around $400 is why.
They really don't have to redevelop the applications software for IA 64, just recompile and relink.
False. Software written with an assumption of a 32-bit architecture will require nontrivial modifications. It can stretch all throughout the code. "Does this function take an 'int' because they just needed a number? Or did they specifically want it to be a 32-bit quantity, so that it could be mem-mapped into a pre-padded structure loaded directly from a file?"
Consider the famous "RAM dump" system used by Microsoft Word to save files to disk. Can Microsoft just "recompile and link" to make an ia64 version of Word? Not if they want it to be compatible with files saved on 32-bit machines!
Of course, if a program's source code was already 64-bit clean then it's fine. That's more likely to be the case with Unix programs that have been running on 64-bit CPUs for a while (Alpha, etc) than Windows(r) software that is Intel x86 only. Sure, MAYBE developers of Windows applications have been careful to plan ahead for 64-bit architectures. Want to gamble your servers on that?
Really - why should I give a rat's ass how Europe is doing?
Any fool can learn from his own mistake. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
The Itanium is a high-end workstation/server chip. ONLY.
Not anymore it's not. Delete "workstation" from that sentence.
Whoever submitted this article seems to think that every AMD64 sold is going to be going into the high-end server market.
No, he just thinks that disparate total sales actually mean something. The AMD64 is good for workstations, servers, laptops, email, and videogames. Itanium is now server-only. The fact that AMD64 has so many consumer sales actually makes it more attractive for high end use, because the volume drives the per-chip cost way down, and boosts R&D reinvestment.
Or is there really something wrong with it?
For the average person, the overwhelming disadvantage is that it's incompatible. The Itanium (ia64) cannot run existing PC programs compiled for 386/Pentium.
"None of my software will even run" is a pretty major problem. The AMD 64 chip, on the other hand, can run earlier binary progams.
Some Itanium defenders would argue "This is a high-end chip, for serious professionals only. You should be willing to redo all your software just to try it out"
It'll survive, as the high-end niche CPU it was actually meant to be.
These just-cancelled HP workstations were high-end niche products. I have one, and they don't even fit under a desk.
As heretical as it sounds, no one ever stays a newbie forever.
But everyone was a newbie once. You can't ignore either side of it: design only for newbies, and only newbies will use it. But design only for experts, and NOBODY will ever use it.
Every UI designer must aim for the right balance of accessibility and power.
I would rather reward my long time loyal customer than someone just sniffing around for a good deal.
That makes sense if you actually have those long-term customers. Microsoft does; KDE does not.
Non-monopolist UIs have a greater need to focus on new users. They're a bigger part of KDE's potential audience. Most computer operators have used MS Windows, but only a slender fraction have any KDE experience.
PS. My primary workstation runs KDE exclusively. Even though I hate single-clicking to launch icons.
The war was NOT underway at the time of this speech.
From the speech itself: "On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war. These are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign."
This is actually the only thing i liked about Lotus Notes. It would output three stars per character typed.
My version of Notes had a row of Egyptian hieroglyphs next to the password input. Each time you pushed a key, all 4 glyphs randomly changed to a different one. That way, you could tell it was accepting input, but there was no visual indication as to your password's length.
(window not out of focus or something)
The fact that the Gnome login screen actually allows keyboard focus to go anywhere besides the username/password boxes is a really odd flaw.
options presented in a flat format.
False. A "flat format" would be one big list, with no hierarchy. KDE's controls are sorted in a 2-level tree. The Microsoft(tm) Windows(r) Control Panel, on the other hand, is a flat format, since each control panel icon is just sitting in a big window with all the others.
Honestly, I don't see how any of your complaints against the kde control center couldn't be applied even more strongly to Microsoft's control panel.
Even the basics such as the default 'single click to launch' behaviour are just wrong, wrong, wrong from a usability standpoint.
True, that's a real mistake. But the problem isn't so much that it's a bad default, but that there's no way to change it. When Microsoft tried single-click, they made the toggle-button easy to find. There's one Windows feature I wish KDE had copied.
You'd have to find a dozen similarly intelligent people who had never used a computer.
That's a red herring. Although accessibility to a new user is important, you're only a newbie once.
The majority of the time spent with a computer system is by experienced users who've had enough time to be educated (if they wanted).
The last system tested would almost certainly be deemed the most usable.
Which is why to be accurate, you need to make her go back through all the other systems AGAIN, and re-address 1 from the perspective of 3, and so on. Keep going until the skill level with ALL systems has stopped increasing. That's terribly time-consuming for both the subject and the testers, but it's the only real way.
That speech was after Bush's war was already in progress. Once things were underway, he immediately started backpedaling from his sales pitch. Why, even the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was meant to shift the focus from the false idea that Saddam threatened the USA.
Instead look at Bush's actual speech asking permission for the war:
despite of what happened on 9/11 and a subsequent war,
Uh, wars always HELP the economy. What pulled the USA out of the great depression? World War.
the partial birth abortion ban passed
Yeah, and it lasted for almost 15 minutes.
It's naive for anyone supporting an anti-abortion candiate to expect him to really make any significant change. Abortion rights have been too cemented in the past decades to ever revert. Don't hold Bush accountable for things so far beyond his power.
Moreover, if you believe that labeling would not be de facto censorship, you're mistaken.
Labelling is de-facto advertising.
And what is stopping a dubious individual from borrowing one of these tokens?
The only way it could work is aggressive monitoring. The token must contain not just age/gender of the child, but an ID number into a huge database... and all browsing/chatting done under that ID must be reported in summary form to an adult responsible for the child (parent or teacher).
That way, users of borrowed tokens can be caught by profiling. (Or more likely, lost/sold tokens can be deactivated before the "predatory" adult gets his hands on it)
I'm glad he's at least thinking about the first ammendment,
I'd be happier if he thought of it back before, ya know, passing unconsitutional laws.
... but still not economically viable. The hours involved ($$$) in the port would still be wasted on a very small market portion.
Wrong. Unreal is not just a game, it's also a showcase for a resellable engine. Some of the buyers of that engine want to run it on Linux- including groups like military simulation coders, etc.
I'd expect this type of mistake from a local news story but not from sources who should know better.
A mistake? You mean that the subjects were actually allowed to use the internet, and could run FTP and IRC, just not HTTP or POP3?
This is looking more to me like a pissing contest and less like an actual discussion of history with every passing moment.
That's what happens when you start by accusing North-apologist brainwashers of teaching you "lies" in school. And it only gets worse when you accuse Lincoln of concocting emancipation solely as an anti-South economic weapon.
The original comment with which I took issue stated that "Over 360,000 Union soldiers died during the Civil War, largely to put an end to slavery."
That comment is true. If you don't understand why, check your dictionary for "largely" and then see if it has "entirely" listed as a synonym.
Not necessarily true. We could have an amendment that destroys the EC, but creates a system where each state
"My car is slow"
"That's because it's green. Paint it red!"
"Painting it red won't help anything!"
"Not necessarily true. We could paint it red, but also strip the seats to reduce weight and install a high-volume air filter feeding a new 430 hp V8"