<--Excerpt-->
"
Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
it's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,
but out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears from galactic central point,
We go around ever two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
in this amazing and expanding universe!
"
well no we're not at the edge of the galaxy, we're about two-thirds of the way there if I remember correctly. The edge of the galaxy is a long long way away.
so you think me misspelling exaggerated is similar to me mistyping Google?
Google, Slashdot, BBSpot, Fark, Penny-Arcade, PVPOnline, all the sites I visit frequently, aren't easily misspelled words (they are the sites I visit most commonly), and I don't think I've ever typed in the wrong domain name because of bad spelling.
www.exaggerated.com isn't a real site. I don't see how me misspelling exaggerated refutes my argument.
I think biometrics used in compliment to passwords/passphrases or whatever are a much better security system, especially for credit cards or something of the like. That means that even if they get two of your credit card, your password, and your fingerprint, then they would still need to get the third before they could have access. The chances of someone getting all three without something really dirty is quite slim.
And if someone does get all three you can always change your password and they have to get that again.
Do you know the ironic thing there? I first typed in exaggerated, and then thought "no that doesn't look right!" and deleted one of the gs. So basically my typing is alright, I just can't spell.
Shoe shoppers who mistype www.zappos.com as wwwzappos.com get pictures of women who are wearing shoes but not much else.
Unfortunately, though Slate's servers are well hardened against DOS attacks such as what slashdot inflicts, since every slashdotter who will read that quote will instantly type in wwwzappos.com into his URL bar, the servers of that site will fall under the weight of the 80% of slashdotters who get that URL correct.
"Various studies have estimated that 10 percent to 20 percent of all hand-entered URLs are mistyped"
Surely that number is slightly exagerated there? My personal score would be well under 1%, and I practically live on the internet. That's a lot of URLs that I type.
Especially with the drop-down menus telling URLs that start with the letters you are typing, I don't see how people could mistype that many URLs.
I knew it was a troll, and you'd have to be an idiot to miss that in my message, as my first sentence was "That's just fud". In case your amazing knowledge of acronyms has failed you, that stands for "fear, uncertainty, doubt". In other words, the guy is a troll, be it knowingly trolling or not. However, at least three other people didn't know it was a troll, being the three people who moderated the post without actually reading the interviews or verifying its authenticity.
However as a little lesson in the acronyms you have used, saying YHL means not that you have lost to the trolls, but the entire forum has lost in not ignoring the troll. But indeed slashdot has lost if some mods with some brains don't mark the parent as flamebait and troll as it should be marked, as should someone seek information from the comments, then being the only +5 moderated comment, should it not be labelled as a troll or misinformation, they might actually believe what it says.
yeah, i'd always use words like fuck and shit in my debugging code, as i was sure these words weren't already in use. However now it looks like i'll have to stop it, seeing as it's such a common occurance. Now where was that "how to swear in all languages" doc?....
That's just fud. All the guy from XFCE says is that though they follow the standards they don't create them. I don't see anything wrong with that. I really don't know how fud like that got +5 insightful, but maybe you should read articles more closely.
Usually a bad UI is synonimous with something that's different, even if it's better. Look for how many Windows users talk about how crap the Mac UI is, and also look for the amount of Gnome vs KDE UI flames going around. Surely they can't both be better...
My opinion is that graphics app UI is even more sensitive than OS's. I've changed between many graphics apps (including photoshop, gimp, and PSP) over the years and found it exceedingly difficult each time, and I'm not even an artist.
I pretty much grew up in graphical terms on paint shop pro 7 until I started using linux. Then I started using gimp, slowly at first because I had the same complaints as you.
Now I'm quite comfortable with gimp and I've got to use photoshop. Basically I have exactly the same arguments as you had but the exact opposite. I just can't stand photoshop, and I'm thinking the exact same phrases, how the user interface sucks (to put it nicely).
My experiences tell me that most of graphics is knowing what to do at the right time, and, on computers, most of knowing what to do is knowing where to click. If the place to click is even slightly different, then you feel something's wrong.
I still haven't learnt photoshop's idiosyncrasities, and I'm pretty sure it's taking longer than to learn Gimp's.
The amount of GPL'd software, which includes the Linux Kernel, GCC, G++, KDE, Gnome, MYSQL and OpenOffice, just offhand. Definitely there is a pretty much equal percentage of non-gpl'd work that hasn't gotten off the ground yet/at all as gpl'd work, so I don't see how your first point matters. However, it seems clear to me that the amount of GPL'd work outweighs the amount of non-gpl'd osi-approved-license work put together; please if you want to show me a source that says otherwise. If you eliminate more than half the projects in the open source world from using your work in your open source license intentionally then in my opinion saying you're releasing it to the "open source world" is just PR.
That's the whole of my argument. I don't see anywhere where you highlight any major flaws. Saying "why is sun trying to destroy linux/gpl" is perhaps a bit extreme - I should have probably said "why does it seem they are trying to", but otherwise I still stand by my argument.
It's probably the native fonts in linux. Freetype does look slightly different to the Windows fonts ("better or worse" is for another conversation), and they can have slightly different symantics.
For me it's pretty obvious. I'd take a screenshot of it but I don't have a hoster. The a is bolded and the actual url is extending off the screen. I picked it up from the corner of my eye, so it can't be that difficult to see.
IE wasn't relevant to this article, yet you found a way to wedge it in and smear it regardless.
What about to the people who have the plugin for IDN? This is a place for geeks, and there are bound to be people that have that sort of plugin. Saying IE isn't affected is pretty much false in that light.
Slashdot Mirror
You apparently want Earth colder and Mars hotter. Make up your mind!
Umm, perhaps that's because Earth is scorching hot and Mars is f***ing cold?
Lol I was thinking of the galaxy song!
<--Excerpt-->
"
Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
it's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,
but out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears from galactic central point,
We go around ever two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
in this amazing and expanding universe!
"
Creds to Eric Idle and Co.
well no we're not at the edge of the galaxy, we're about two-thirds of the way there if I remember correctly. The edge of the galaxy is a long long way away.
so you think me misspelling exaggerated is similar to me mistyping Google?
Google, Slashdot, BBSpot, Fark, Penny-Arcade, PVPOnline, all the sites I visit frequently, aren't easily misspelled words (they are the sites I visit most commonly), and I don't think I've ever typed in the wrong domain name because of bad spelling.
www.exaggerated.com isn't a real site. I don't see how me misspelling exaggerated refutes my argument.
I think biometrics used in compliment to passwords/passphrases or whatever are a much better security system, especially for credit cards or something of the like. That means that even if they get two of your credit card, your password, and your fingerprint, then they would still need to get the third before they could have access. The chances of someone getting all three without something really dirty is quite slim.
And if someone does get all three you can always change your password and they have to get that again.
Just...umm...wondering... Where do you work? Oh and another thing, what's your boss' name again? I've forgotten.
Do you know the ironic thing there? I first typed in exaggerated, and then thought "no that doesn't look right!" and deleted one of the gs. So basically my typing is alright, I just can't spell.
Shoe shoppers who mistype www.zappos.com as wwwzappos.com get pictures of women who are wearing shoes but not much else.
Unfortunately, though Slate's servers are well hardened against DOS attacks such as what slashdot inflicts, since every slashdotter who will read that quote will instantly type in wwwzappos.com into his URL bar, the servers of that site will fall under the weight of the 80% of slashdotters who get that URL correct.
"Various studies have estimated that 10 percent to 20 percent of all hand-entered URLs are mistyped"
Surely that number is slightly exagerated there? My personal score would be well under 1%, and I practically live on the internet. That's a lot of URLs that I type.
Especially with the drop-down menus telling URLs that start with the letters you are typing, I don't see how people could mistype that many URLs.
no
Lost for me. Not sure if you live in Sydney like I do, but if you do, I've made today's vulnerability tragedy just a little better.
I knew it was a troll, and you'd have to be an idiot to miss that in my message, as my first sentence was "That's just fud". In case your amazing knowledge of acronyms has failed you, that stands for "fear, uncertainty, doubt". In other words, the guy is a troll, be it knowingly trolling or not. However, at least three other people didn't know it was a troll, being the three people who moderated the post without actually reading the interviews or verifying its authenticity.
However as a little lesson in the acronyms you have used, saying YHL means not that you have lost to the trolls, but the entire forum has lost in not ignoring the troll. But indeed slashdot has lost if some mods with some brains don't mark the parent as flamebait and troll as it should be marked, as should someone seek information from the comments, then being the only +5 moderated comment, should it not be labelled as a troll or misinformation, they might actually believe what it says.
Yep, I already knew my team was smarter than the other team. Here's my proof!
yeah, i'd always use words like fuck and shit in my debugging code, as i was sure these words weren't already in use. However now it looks like i'll have to stop it, seeing as it's such a common occurance. Now where was that "how to swear in all languages" doc?....
That's just fud. All the guy from XFCE says is that though they follow the standards they don't create them. I don't see anything wrong with that. I really don't know how fud like that got +5 insightful, but maybe you should read articles more closely.
Google for sources: "Fast forward ten years, the two leading OS technologies will be Windows and Linux"
Usually a bad UI is synonimous with something that's different, even if it's better. Look for how many Windows users talk about how crap the Mac UI is, and also look for the amount of Gnome vs KDE UI flames going around. Surely they can't both be better...
My opinion is that graphics app UI is even more sensitive than OS's. I've changed between many graphics apps (including photoshop, gimp, and PSP) over the years and found it exceedingly difficult each time, and I'm not even an artist.
So it can be exactly like photoshop, which he is used to.
I pretty much grew up in graphical terms on paint shop pro 7 until I started using linux. Then I started using gimp, slowly at first because I had the same complaints as you.
Now I'm quite comfortable with gimp and I've got to use photoshop. Basically I have exactly the same arguments as you had but the exact opposite. I just can't stand photoshop, and I'm thinking the exact same phrases, how the user interface sucks (to put it nicely).
My experiences tell me that most of graphics is knowing what to do at the right time, and, on computers, most of knowing what to do is knowing where to click. If the place to click is even slightly different, then you feel something's wrong.
I still haven't learnt photoshop's idiosyncrasities, and I'm pretty sure it's taking longer than to learn Gimp's.
yep, you were meaning to hit the 'y' but ... oh whoops! You accidentely hit the 'i' then the 'n' then the 'e'!
he he
while Microsoft's is starting to underperform to the point where they are now paying dividend.
You do know that Microsoft made record profits last quarter don't you? They can't be underperforming that badly...
The amount of GPL'd software, which includes the Linux Kernel, GCC, G++, KDE, Gnome, MYSQL and OpenOffice, just offhand. Definitely there is a pretty much equal percentage of non-gpl'd work that hasn't gotten off the ground yet/at all as gpl'd work, so I don't see how your first point matters. However, it seems clear to me that the amount of GPL'd work outweighs the amount of non-gpl'd osi-approved-license work put together; please if you want to show me a source that says otherwise. If you eliminate more than half the projects in the open source world from using your work in your open source license intentionally then in my opinion saying you're releasing it to the "open source world" is just PR.
That's the whole of my argument. I don't see anywhere where you highlight any major flaws. Saying "why is sun trying to destroy linux/gpl" is perhaps a bit extreme - I should have probably said "why does it seem they are trying to", but otherwise I still stand by my argument.
Ah yeah, I forgot about that!
It's probably the native fonts in linux. Freetype does look slightly different to the Windows fonts ("better or worse" is for another conversation), and they can have slightly different symantics.
For me it's pretty obvious. I'd take a screenshot of it but I don't have a hoster. The a is bolded and the actual url is extending off the screen. I picked it up from the corner of my eye, so it can't be that difficult to see.
IE wasn't relevant to this article, yet you found a way to wedge it in and smear it regardless.
What about to the people who have the plugin for IDN? This is a place for geeks, and there are bound to be people that have that sort of plugin. Saying IE isn't affected is pretty much false in that light.