When did you get Internet access? ICQ is one of the oldest instant messaging services. Dating back to 1998. Ogg Vorbis is "a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source." http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp
They have UI Guidelines and have conducted usability studies.
While that may be true, there is no evidence of it.
When have you used GNU/Linux with any graphical UI? And what was the distribution? I think you haven't seen any modern desktops. In past 15 years I have used all kinds of operating systems Windows, OS/2, GNU/Linux distributions, Solaris, Irix, Mac Os classic and Mac Os X. They all habe usable GUI's but on my humble opinion Os X is one of the strangest of them all. Integrating software totally into operatings systems own GUI messes things up I think. Why can't programs have their own menu's? And how usable it is that you don't close the program by closing all it's windows, but by going trough active programs and killing the application?
The point is that something that's possible but difficult might as well be impossible for all practical purposes. Because long before figuring out how to do it on Linux, a reasonable person will give up and go do it easily on Mac OS X.
But still they would read some tutorial and learn from that how to do it. In Linux you might even learn what happends underneath the pretty surface. I have given Linux cources to unemployed and elderly people. They have learned to use GNOME desktop quickly and have installed Linux on their PC's. All of them used Mandrake or SUSE. Both of them have logical program menus, with best choise of free software. Mandrake has even menu "I wan to.." which has different topics. Clicking somethings like ".. burn music on cd" would start the right program with easy userinterface for you. I just installed latest SUSE and I was really impressed of the installation programs usability. Other Linux distributions should learn from it.
To the contrary, the example you pointed to of a killer app appears to be an atrocity, worse by a million miles than the very worst Mac OS X application ever written.
On what ground can you say that? Lets see Firefox, Evolution and OpenOffice are more feature rich and easier to use than their counter parts on MAC OS X. You got Internet Explorer, your fancy Mail.app and Microsoft Office! Into how many different kind of mail and groupware can your Mail.app connect? In 21st century it's not practical to have isolated programs that can talk to other programs on the same computer. But not with the corporate mainframe that has GroupWare and user management. Can you just drag and drop those into your system?
Lots of hoaxes going on in the boards. You should check who is the sender.. and is the message on www.halflife2.net www.hlfallout.net or www.planethalflife.com
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Sorry M$, just like Apple, you are way behind Europe. Nokia for example already has that kind of products out. TV out put, content sharing etc. Look at this product for example http://www.nseries.com/products/n95/index.html#l=p roducts,n95
What's ICQ? What's Ogg Vorbis
When did you get Internet access? ICQ is one of the oldest instant messaging services. Dating back to 1998. Ogg Vorbis is "a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source." http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp
They have UI Guidelines and have conducted usability studies.
While that may be true, there is no evidence of it.
When have you used GNU/Linux with any graphical UI? And what was the distribution? I think you haven't seen any modern desktops. In past 15 years I have used all kinds of operating systems Windows, OS/2, GNU/Linux distributions, Solaris, Irix, Mac Os classic and Mac Os X. They all habe usable GUI's but on my humble opinion Os X is one of the strangest of them all. Integrating software totally into operatings systems own GUI messes things up I think. Why can't programs have their own menu's? And how usable it is that you don't close the program by closing all it's windows, but by going trough active programs and killing the application?
The point is that something that's possible but difficult might as well be impossible for all practical purposes. Because long before figuring out how to do it on Linux, a reasonable person will give up and go do it easily on Mac OS X.
But still they would read some tutorial and learn from that how to do it. In Linux you might even learn what happends underneath the pretty surface. I have given Linux cources to unemployed and elderly people. They have learned to use GNOME desktop quickly and have installed Linux on their PC's. All of them used Mandrake or SUSE. Both of them have logical program menus, with best choise of free software. Mandrake has even menu "I wan to.." which has different topics. Clicking somethings like ".. burn music on cd" would start the right program with easy userinterface for you. I just installed latest SUSE and I was really impressed of the installation programs usability. Other Linux distributions should learn from it.
To the contrary, the example you pointed to of a killer app appears to be an atrocity, worse by a million miles than the very worst Mac OS X application ever written.
On what ground can you say that? Lets see Firefox, Evolution and OpenOffice are more feature rich and easier to use than their counter parts on MAC OS X. You got Internet Explorer, your fancy Mail.app and Microsoft Office! Into how many different kind of mail and groupware can your Mail.app connect? In 21st century it's not practical to have isolated programs that can talk to other programs on the same computer. But not with the corporate mainframe that has GroupWare and user management. Can you just drag and drop those into your system?
Lots of hoaxes going on in the boards. You should check who is the sender.. and is the message on www.halflife2.net www.hlfallout.net or www.planethalflife.com
I just wouldn't trust any other boards..