I tried notepad once but couldn't figure out how to switch from insert mode to normal mode. When I called microsoft support the moron I got kept insisting he didn't know what I was talking about!
"If an ISP wants people to accept worse service, they have to offer something (such as a lower price) constantly."
Not so, comcast has a monopoly here and DSL speed and pricing are both poor. All they have to do to make people accept worse service is lower the quality of the service and keep the pricing better than 1.5mbps and south of 80$/month.
Why do you even need the second stick for aiming/turning? How often do most people side-step in their daily lives? I can't remember the last time I saw someone circling strafing around a corner at the super market, can you?
What's the point of horizontal scrolling in a file dialog?
I'll agree, horizontal scrolling is retarded, and I'll never argue that it isn't. I can sort of understand where they were coming from, as far as needing a way to deal with a list that doesn't fit on screen all at once. It's just a dumb way to handle it and should be dropped. What that has to do with hiding the ability to browse a file structure behind an expandable dialog I have no idea, which is what gnome does if you hadn't noticed. Do you gnome kids just not save things very often or what?
What's the point in repeating myths?
Where's the myth? gnome uses a retarded, unified registry as opposed to files in ~/.gnome/ like sane Linux apps. If this isn't copycatting the mistakes of microsoft with windows, what is?
Ah, I see, so that bullshit like this doesn't seem so stupid. Linux is kernel no more no less, about the only "Linux way" is to release early and often.
How about not being assbackwards for the sake of being assbackwards? How about working well with other applications? I'm not going to defend everything about KDE, which I happen to use. I like a number of window managers that don't have the same level of native applications, but KDE has the customization and features that I want, and the ones I don't want stay out of the way for the most part. Particularly the whole KOffice interface design drives me nuts in a similar way to the gnome stuff, but it doesn't interfere with thing that I do use, as is the case with the gnome-ification of The GIMP.
Confused much? Or just trolling?
File dialogs in gtk apps on windows are MUCH more usable than those on Linux. You also don't get, due to the windows standard widgets, the backwards buttons in dialogs and inconsistent operation of interfaces. A lot of it is also just lazy/poor design on gtk apps, but a lot of it is the "gnome philosophy". For instance, why is it that hitting enter doesn't confirm and dismiss all dialogs? It's retarded.
gtk apps are just about at the point where they are gnome-specific, failing completely to integrate with any NON-gnome (xfce excluded, because it's practically "gnome lite") on Linux. Are you really as clueless as you sound or are you just trolling for the sake of trolling?
When KDE dialogs make you click a button to browse for directories when saving or make you type/home/username to get to ~/ via keyboard that'll be a fair thing to say, until then stfu. The gnome dialogs are frustrating because they require far too much needless crap just to use them. The old gtk1-style dialog, while definitely not like anything else sane (not that it wasn't sane itself, just different), did work and worked pretty well. What was the excuse they used for changing it? That it wasn't stupid enough?
Can you please explain what you gnome apologists get out of defending unintuitive (I hate to use that word, but gnome is backasswards enough to warrant it) and just plain stupid interface decisions? The whole "gnome philosophy" (which I can't even begin to understand) makes using gtk apps a trial in frustration, one that I'm less and less willing to put up with. Luckily there are only a handful of apps that don't have superior alternatives with less hassle, and hopefully in the near future there will be none.
I think they were talking about games like Karaoke Revolution. You'll notice in that sentence states, "Which platform could work as a karaoke machine, allowed you to put yourself in the game, had all kinds of trivia products?" They're talking about the wide variety of games on PS2, particularly the maybe less "traditional" ones. Respectively they're referring to karaoke VIDEO GAMES, EyeToy, and I don't know the name of any "trivia" games on PS2, but I've seen them at stores.
And they're absolutely right, those kind of games are a big part of establishing a wide audience. Neither of my sisters play video games normally, but one of them bought her son a PS2 a few years ago and found out about Karaoke Revolution. She now owns all of them and occasionally plays other games. She introduced my other sister to it and now she's considering buying a console to play similar kinds of games.
I think the error you made was thinking they were talking about playing karaoke CDs or something, which is totally understandable. I'm sure you agree when looking at it from this perspective. Or maybe the article is full of crap and we're both right, since I didn't read it.
Where do you gnome kids get off thinking that somehow the only proper way to have a computer interface is for nothing to be on it? The gtk2 file dialogs don't give you any context when typing through your filesystem, so I guess memorizing every directory is what you gnome kids do? They also don't let you access the tab-completed keyboard interface using ~, which is the most common place to begin when typing a file path. And to top it off, they force you to click (or maybe there's some crazy gnome shortcut) to open up the "even more widgets" section of the dialog, which still doesn't let me use single click to navigate directories.
I still can't figure out what the gnome philosophy is supposed to be, other than "apple didn't do it stupid enough to begin with." What's the point of hiding all the useful parts of a file dialog when the file dialog is still gigantic? What's the point of having to hold down shift to get at what one would assume should be the default behavior for something? What's the point in copying the windows registry?
It seems to me that the gtk/gnome crowd just doesn't like Linux very much, and doesn't really understand it. Because gnome doesn't fit well with the Linux ways of doing things and it would definitely explain why the gtk devs spend more time integrating their toolkit with windows than they do integrating it with Linux, which theoretically should be their native platform.
I liked the old gtk file dialog, a lot actually. While it doesn't integrate visually and (to a lesser extent, functionally) with my KDE desktop, it was easy to navigate, didn't hide anything that needed to be seen, and got the job done fine. I don't see why they couldn't have just added bookmarking for those who don't want to type and been done.
As for the pos win32 filedialog, it is far better than the crap gtk2 dialog. At the very least it doesn't require extra clicks to open the browser, doesn't force double-click (which is an outdated windows relic anyway), and doesn't play like it's going to support tab-completed directory navigation and then offer up something so clumsy and broken as to not be worth the bother.
The issues with the gtk2 dialogs isn't about "complainers", it's about making apps that much more difficult to use by having arbitrary, idiotic, and backwards conventions. Of course those seem to be the hallmarks of modern gtk development, so the real answer is to replace the few gtk-exclusive apps that still lack competent or superior alternatives.
Come on, switch to Maya already. It's lightyears ahead of 3DS Max and runs great on Linux, much better performance than the windows version and doesn't crash. If you're not down for that, there's always XSI which I hear great things about but have never seriously used myself. Not to mention that you can buy BOTH for less than a single copy of 3DS Max, which I know you paid for because every windows user pays for all of their applications as they aren't just a bunch of freeloading pirate hippies like us Linux users.
I'll agree The GIMP can't really compare to Photoshop, but Photoshop has interface problems too, it's just that the toolset and features are a lot nicer there. I'll also agree on the changing GUI crap. I'm sick of the gtk crowd making everything harder to use all the time for no reason. Hopefully someday we'll have the holes filled in the KDE/Qt lineup with either native apps or at least ones using sensible GUI toolkits with sensible interfaces. But even gtk apps might get there if we can get an alternative file dialog, The GIMP's interface has improved a LOT in recent version, particularly the scale tool which actually almost doesn't suck anymore (except that floating layer business).
I don't know, movies seem to be getting a lot better lately. At least there are a handful films each year that I want to see and end up enjoying now, as opposed to a few years back when there were maybe one or two the whole year that I wound up seeing that were worth my time, not even counting the money.
On the other hand, stargate sg-1 and atlantas are some of the weakest shows on television. All those SciFi channel original series seem like they've got a random plot generator that includes scripting and lame acting choice notes. I know that'll get me modded troll or flamebait, but stargate isn't any better than all the lame reality TV.
I didn't read the article, and don't really care much about GPLv3, so what exactly is in either that would stop a company from purchasing another company and then nerfing their excellent, low-end hardware to protect the buying company's high-end offerings?
That's the most bullshit argument ever. It is neither reasonable nor realistic to expect me or any other FOSS user to have the time and knowledge to fix GTK and then keep that updated while the GTK devs do their best to keep it fucked up. Nor is it reasonable to expect the same thing about firefox.
Well I've got to tell you, I updated and I'm seriously considering switching back. For some reason 1.5.0.5 isn't taking the nsFilePicker hack to get the chrome file dialogs back on Linux, which leaves me with the complete garbage gnome dialogs. Forget being lazy, they keep making the newer versions crappier.
People have done this before. Given away from computers that required you to view ads while using them, and usually required a certain amount of time spent with the computer connected to the Internet for retrieving new ads.
Could someone who cared enough to read the article explain how this patent is different than what those companies were doing in the late 90s?
WRT54G is Linksys. They made the switch because people were upgrading their 50$ wireless routers to have all the features of 200$+ routers and Linksys was losing sales on the higher end stuff because the 50$ router and a free firmware upgrade got them the same features at a fraction of the price.
The decrease in ROM size was either because the non-Linux firmware didn't require as much, Linksys was trying to make sure that the router stayed crippled as much as possible when people hacked Linux back onto it (which they have), or a combination of both (which is most likely) I don't really know.
The switch wasn't to save money on the WRT54G to keep the price down or profits up, it was to protect their higher end router offerings.
Also, what's even the percentage of desktop systems running a version of windows that ie7 will even run on? I'm sure there's quite a few installations of win9x running wild and they're definitely not releasing ie7 for those.
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Why bother with AAC? And you can't even make AAC files on Linux. Go h.264+FLAC in MKV.
Does that mean my brain will be able to run Linux? Sweet!
There will be accessory sales to be sure, but they're a pittance compared to game sales.
Perhaps by unit sales numbers, but accessories are where these retailers make their profits.
"If it were not for gnome it could be a major drawback for linux."
What are you getting at? gnome is already the biggest drawback of Linux for me, and I never even have it on my machines.
I tried notepad once but couldn't figure out how to switch from insert mode to normal mode. When I called microsoft support the moron I got kept insisting he didn't know what I was talking about!
"If an ISP wants people to accept worse service, they have to offer something (such as a lower price) constantly."
Not so, comcast has a monopoly here and DSL speed and pricing are both poor. All they have to do to make people accept worse service is lower the quality of the service and keep the pricing better than 1.5mbps and south of 80$/month.
What's the license on the Tux image?
When I would pitch say, a 'platform shooter with racing bits inbetween levels, set in space', they told me it was unmarketable.
What was he pitching it to? Sounds a lot like Ratchet & Clank, and those games are not only excellent, but pretty big sellers.
Why do you even need the second stick for aiming/turning? How often do most people side-step in their daily lives? I can't remember the last time I saw someone circling strafing around a corner at the super market, can you?
What's the point of horizontal scrolling in a file dialog?
I'll agree, horizontal scrolling is retarded, and I'll never argue that it isn't. I can sort of understand where they were coming from, as far as needing a way to deal with a list that doesn't fit on screen all at once. It's just a dumb way to handle it and should be dropped. What that has to do with hiding the ability to browse a file structure behind an expandable dialog I have no idea, which is what gnome does if you hadn't noticed. Do you gnome kids just not save things very often or what?
What's the point in repeating myths?
Where's the myth? gnome uses a retarded, unified registry as opposed to files in ~/.gnome/ like sane Linux apps. If this isn't copycatting the mistakes of microsoft with windows, what is?
Ah, I see, so that bullshit like this doesn't seem so stupid. Linux is kernel no more no less, about the only "Linux way" is to release early and often.
How about not being assbackwards for the sake of being assbackwards? How about working well with other applications? I'm not going to defend everything about KDE, which I happen to use. I like a number of window managers that don't have the same level of native applications, but KDE has the customization and features that I want, and the ones I don't want stay out of the way for the most part. Particularly the whole KOffice interface design drives me nuts in a similar way to the gnome stuff, but it doesn't interfere with thing that I do use, as is the case with the gnome-ification of The GIMP.
Confused much? Or just trolling?
File dialogs in gtk apps on windows are MUCH more usable than those on Linux. You also don't get, due to the windows standard widgets, the backwards buttons in dialogs and inconsistent operation of interfaces. A lot of it is also just lazy/poor design on gtk apps, but a lot of it is the "gnome philosophy". For instance, why is it that hitting enter doesn't confirm and dismiss all dialogs? It's retarded.
gtk apps are just about at the point where they are gnome-specific, failing completely to integrate with any NON-gnome (xfce excluded, because it's practically "gnome lite") on Linux. Are you really as clueless as you sound or are you just trolling for the sake of trolling?
When KDE dialogs make you click a button to browse for directories when saving or make you type /home/username to get to ~/ via keyboard that'll be a fair thing to say, until then stfu. The gnome dialogs are frustrating because they require far too much needless crap just to use them. The old gtk1-style dialog, while definitely not like anything else sane (not that it wasn't sane itself, just different), did work and worked pretty well. What was the excuse they used for changing it? That it wasn't stupid enough?
Can you please explain what you gnome apologists get out of defending unintuitive (I hate to use that word, but gnome is backasswards enough to warrant it) and just plain stupid interface decisions? The whole "gnome philosophy" (which I can't even begin to understand) makes using gtk apps a trial in frustration, one that I'm less and less willing to put up with. Luckily there are only a handful of apps that don't have superior alternatives with less hassle, and hopefully in the near future there will be none.
I think they were talking about games like Karaoke Revolution. You'll notice in that sentence states, "Which platform could work as a karaoke machine, allowed you to put yourself in the game, had all kinds of trivia products?" They're talking about the wide variety of games on PS2, particularly the maybe less "traditional" ones. Respectively they're referring to karaoke VIDEO GAMES, EyeToy, and I don't know the name of any "trivia" games on PS2, but I've seen them at stores.
And they're absolutely right, those kind of games are a big part of establishing a wide audience. Neither of my sisters play video games normally, but one of them bought her son a PS2 a few years ago and found out about Karaoke Revolution. She now owns all of them and occasionally plays other games. She introduced my other sister to it and now she's considering buying a console to play similar kinds of games.
I think the error you made was thinking they were talking about playing karaoke CDs or something, which is totally understandable. I'm sure you agree when looking at it from this perspective. Or maybe the article is full of crap and we're both right, since I didn't read it.
Where do you gnome kids get off thinking that somehow the only proper way to have a computer interface is for nothing to be on it? The gtk2 file dialogs don't give you any context when typing through your filesystem, so I guess memorizing every directory is what you gnome kids do? They also don't let you access the tab-completed keyboard interface using ~, which is the most common place to begin when typing a file path. And to top it off, they force you to click (or maybe there's some crazy gnome shortcut) to open up the "even more widgets" section of the dialog, which still doesn't let me use single click to navigate directories.
I still can't figure out what the gnome philosophy is supposed to be, other than "apple didn't do it stupid enough to begin with." What's the point of hiding all the useful parts of a file dialog when the file dialog is still gigantic? What's the point of having to hold down shift to get at what one would assume should be the default behavior for something? What's the point in copying the windows registry?
It seems to me that the gtk/gnome crowd just doesn't like Linux very much, and doesn't really understand it. Because gnome doesn't fit well with the Linux ways of doing things and it would definitely explain why the gtk devs spend more time integrating their toolkit with windows than they do integrating it with Linux, which theoretically should be their native platform.
I liked the old gtk file dialog, a lot actually. While it doesn't integrate visually and (to a lesser extent, functionally) with my KDE desktop, it was easy to navigate, didn't hide anything that needed to be seen, and got the job done fine. I don't see why they couldn't have just added bookmarking for those who don't want to type and been done.
As for the pos win32 filedialog, it is far better than the crap gtk2 dialog. At the very least it doesn't require extra clicks to open the browser, doesn't force double-click (which is an outdated windows relic anyway), and doesn't play like it's going to support tab-completed directory navigation and then offer up something so clumsy and broken as to not be worth the bother.
The issues with the gtk2 dialogs isn't about "complainers", it's about making apps that much more difficult to use by having arbitrary, idiotic, and backwards conventions. Of course those seem to be the hallmarks of modern gtk development, so the real answer is to replace the few gtk-exclusive apps that still lack competent or superior alternatives.
Come on, switch to Maya already. It's lightyears ahead of 3DS Max and runs great on Linux, much better performance than the windows version and doesn't crash. If you're not down for that, there's always XSI which I hear great things about but have never seriously used myself. Not to mention that you can buy BOTH for less than a single copy of 3DS Max, which I know you paid for because every windows user pays for all of their applications as they aren't just a bunch of freeloading pirate hippies like us Linux users.
I'll agree The GIMP can't really compare to Photoshop, but Photoshop has interface problems too, it's just that the toolset and features are a lot nicer there. I'll also agree on the changing GUI crap. I'm sick of the gtk crowd making everything harder to use all the time for no reason. Hopefully someday we'll have the holes filled in the KDE/Qt lineup with either native apps or at least ones using sensible GUI toolkits with sensible interfaces. But even gtk apps might get there if we can get an alternative file dialog, The GIMP's interface has improved a LOT in recent version, particularly the scale tool which actually almost doesn't suck anymore (except that floating layer business).
I don't know, movies seem to be getting a lot better lately. At least there are a handful films each year that I want to see and end up enjoying now, as opposed to a few years back when there were maybe one or two the whole year that I wound up seeing that were worth my time, not even counting the money.
On the other hand, stargate sg-1 and atlantas are some of the weakest shows on television. All those SciFi channel original series seem like they've got a random plot generator that includes scripting and lame acting choice notes. I know that'll get me modded troll or flamebait, but stargate isn't any better than all the lame reality TV.
I didn't read the article, and don't really care much about GPLv3, so what exactly is in either that would stop a company from purchasing another company and then nerfing their excellent, low-end hardware to protect the buying company's high-end offerings?
That's the most bullshit argument ever. It is neither reasonable nor realistic to expect me or any other FOSS user to have the time and knowledge to fix GTK and then keep that updated while the GTK devs do their best to keep it fucked up. Nor is it reasonable to expect the same thing about firefox.
Go troll someone else, moron.
These new Mindstorm sets are going to work with Linux out of the box?
Well I've got to tell you, I updated and I'm seriously considering switching back. For some reason 1.5.0.5 isn't taking the nsFilePicker hack to get the chrome file dialogs back on Linux, which leaves me with the complete garbage gnome dialogs. Forget being lazy, they keep making the newer versions crappier.
Yeah, I forgot about that. The changes did come after Cisco bought Linksys and it was the higher-end Cisco stuff that they were protecting.
People have done this before. Given away from computers that required you to view ads while using them, and usually required a certain amount of time spent with the computer connected to the Internet for retrieving new ads.
Could someone who cared enough to read the article explain how this patent is different than what those companies were doing in the late 90s?
WRT54G is Linksys. They made the switch because people were upgrading their 50$ wireless routers to have all the features of 200$+ routers and Linksys was losing sales on the higher end stuff because the 50$ router and a free firmware upgrade got them the same features at a fraction of the price.
The decrease in ROM size was either because the non-Linux firmware didn't require as much, Linksys was trying to make sure that the router stayed crippled as much as possible when people hacked Linux back onto it (which they have), or a combination of both (which is most likely) I don't really know.
The switch wasn't to save money on the WRT54G to keep the price down or profits up, it was to protect their higher end router offerings.
It's not a funny joke to make, though. Asian girls: serious business!
Also, what's even the percentage of desktop systems running a version of windows that ie7 will even run on? I'm sure there's quite a few installations of win9x running wild and they're definitely not releasing ie7 for those.