"Spatial" browsing IS a clone of the windows file browser. The one from windows 95, that is.
You're always sadly mistaken in thinking that gnome is the only wm that can do this, since windows (yes, your favourite desktop environment) as well as kde both have this option. I'm sure lots of others do too, but no one really cares because it's annoying.
Can't you just do like we do on Linux and create two CUPS printers that use the same hardware with different settings? Or does Uncle Steve not approve of that?
"Intuitive" is just another word for "like everything else" these days. Photoshop is hardly intuitive, it's just been widely used for a long time. If all programs are made to maintain the status quo, how are we ever supposed to get any improvements?
It's like the whole argument for Macs being easy to use. Apple goes on and on about how a computer should be simple enough that it can be used by anyone the first time they sit down at it. Other than this not being true of a Mac what about all the other times someone sits down to do work on it? The first time only happens once and the goal of any good UI design should be long term productivity gains not the misguided short term reduction in learning curve.
You've obviously not used the Gimp at any great lengths. It's easily got the technology there, if only the idiots running the show would put in some features it is sorely lacking (like layer sets). As for the UI, if you'd ever used Gimp the way it's meant to be used, with with sloppy focus and virtual desktops, then you would see how superior it is to Photoshop, even with a number of fairly major annoyances.
I'm somehow doubting you've ever used window shading yourself and are just fanboying off the looking glass demo. Nothing that I've seen from them is anything more than eye candy which has been done by by other people (translucency, video icon previews, etc) and less than useless "features" such as flipping a window around to write a note on the back (both useless "feature" and useless eye candy) and their bastardization of window shade.
Putting the window to the side doesn't take it out of the "primary work area" and negates the purpose of window shade in the first place, which is to quickly get a window out of the way.
The current window shade used with drop to back and multiple desktops is already so much more useful than this crap that sun is trying to sell that it's pathetic.
It only took them the better part of 10 years, but there is actually a game that make GOOD use of that click. In EA's MVP 2005 (yeah, they're evil, deal with it) you use the click on the right analog stick to bunt, aiming with the stick while holding it down. Which is really sweet when drag bunting. I'm assuming it works the same way on PS2, as that's how it works on xbox, and it's something that makes the Gamecube version distinctly inferior (besides the all around poor job of porting the controls).
Would you rather pay $20 for an add-on disk or expansion (typical PC tactic) to get a few new maps/cars/weapons/wathever, or $5 to download a new set of maps/cars/weapons/whatever?
I'd take it on PC where I can get it for free. Online play isn't a selling feature of consoles, despite the couple of million people who play online with their consoles. That's like what, 1% of the installed userbase of this generation?
Until console games have online play and downloadable addons of PC games from even 5 years ago who really cares?
Not really, given that smaller, non-corporate farming would be cheaper and less environmentally-destructive, without subsidies, than the current system. You are a moron and a coward. You prove this for thinking that nuclear weapons in any way make anything secure.
Actually, corporate farming requires government subsidizations to be profittable at all. It's not my job to pay for their profits. And you know just as well as I do that your post is bullshit, which is why you were too ashamed to put a name to it.
FYI Google just stole the idea from MMO's. "They" have been shipping beta products for years.
Which isn't surprising given the similarities between the products. Both require huge numbers of users in a live environment to see how the system will actually behave under stress. The major difference being that google advertises theirs as beta and doesn't charge for it.
Flash's lack of useful features has always bothered me a lot more than the interface. But that's most likely because I have primarily used it for creating animation for video, a task it was quite obviously not designed for.
Yeah, Firefox would have to very greatly increase it's marketshare before that would even be a possibility. Given the computer savvy of the average-to-intermediate windows user that's not likely to happen anytime soon, if ever.
Comcast charges like 55$/month and they don't give a fuck if they lose one or two customers, since their government-sanctioned monopoly on cable in their service areas (the largest in the country, btw) is going to ensure they still pull in the outrageous profits no matter what they do.
War is what happens when too many people have reached the level cap and have all the good gear. That's when they start attacking everything in sight for loot.
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You're always sadly mistaken in thinking that gnome is the only wm that can do this, since windows (yes, your favourite desktop environment) as well as kde both have this option. I'm sure lots of others do too, but no one really cares because it's annoying.
Can't you just do like we do on Linux and create two CUPS printers that use the same hardware with different settings? Or does Uncle Steve not approve of that?
It's like the whole argument for Macs being easy to use. Apple goes on and on about how a computer should be simple enough that it can be used by anyone the first time they sit down at it. Other than this not being true of a Mac what about all the other times someone sits down to do work on it? The first time only happens once and the goal of any good UI design should be long term productivity gains not the misguided short term reduction in learning curve.
You've obviously not used the Gimp at any great lengths. It's easily got the technology there, if only the idiots running the show would put in some features it is sorely lacking (like layer sets). As for the UI, if you'd ever used Gimp the way it's meant to be used, with with sloppy focus and virtual desktops, then you would see how superior it is to Photoshop, even with a number of fairly major annoyances.
Putting the window to the side doesn't take it out of the "primary work area" and negates the purpose of window shade in the first place, which is to quickly get a window out of the way.
The current window shade used with drop to back and multiple desktops is already so much more useful than this crap that sun is trying to sell that it's pathetic.
Because the people who own the government are in the minority and don't control purchasing in the market.
What exactly has sun done with window shading that's so evolutionary even? I've had that for years.
Microsoft is not a person at all, despite what so many people mistakenly believe from a hundred years of reading an opinion in a legal non-decision.
Not exactly sure how it's easier to hit a preset than to just dial 911.
It only took them the better part of 10 years, but there is actually a game that make GOOD use of that click. In EA's MVP 2005 (yeah, they're evil, deal with it) you use the click on the right analog stick to bunt, aiming with the stick while holding it down. Which is really sweet when drag bunting. I'm assuming it works the same way on PS2, as that's how it works on xbox, and it's something that makes the Gamecube version distinctly inferior (besides the all around poor job of porting the controls).
Sweet, then I guess this Rez Trance Vibrator is going back on ebay!
I'd take it on PC where I can get it for free. Online play isn't a selling feature of consoles, despite the couple of million people who play online with their consoles. That's like what, 1% of the installed userbase of this generation?
Until console games have online play and downloadable addons of PC games from even 5 years ago who really cares?
Maybe it's got a built in lazy susan, the obvious next step in the evolution of the paddle controller.
So, is PS3 going to be illegal to export to china just like PS2 was? Or is it just going to get classified as a "super computer"?
Those assholes put spyware on top of the files they offer for download, so no.
Not really, given that smaller, non-corporate farming would be cheaper and less environmentally-destructive, without subsidies, than the current system. You are a moron and a coward. You prove this for thinking that nuclear weapons in any way make anything secure.
Actually, corporate farming requires government subsidizations to be profittable at all. It's not my job to pay for their profits. And you know just as well as I do that your post is bullshit, which is why you were too ashamed to put a name to it.
Don't see what corporate farm subsidies are getting me for my money. Maybe you, the master of economy, could explain it.
Which isn't surprising given the similarities between the products. Both require huge numbers of users in a live environment to see how the system will actually behave under stress. The major difference being that google advertises theirs as beta and doesn't charge for it.
You're a paid microsoft troll, aren't you?
Flash's lack of useful features has always bothered me a lot more than the interface. But that's most likely because I have primarily used it for creating animation for video, a task it was quite obviously not designed for.
Linmodems work great. At least with the one I tried, which as it happens did not work in newer versions of windows.
Yeah, Firefox would have to very greatly increase it's marketshare before that would even be a possibility. Given the computer savvy of the average-to-intermediate windows user that's not likely to happen anytime soon, if ever.
Comcast charges like 55$/month and they don't give a fuck if they lose one or two customers, since their government-sanctioned monopoly on cable in their service areas (the largest in the country, btw) is going to ensure they still pull in the outrageous profits no matter what they do.
War is what happens when too many people have reached the level cap and have all the good gear. That's when they start attacking everything in sight for loot.