Stallman has nothing to do with Linux? Last I checked, Linux took the role of the HURD and uses GNU tools. Linus declaring that he won't use GPL3 is information that has to do with Stallman, isn't it?
On the contrary, having people yell "All information needs to be free!" hurts those who are working to make some information free, because the public then associates making any information free with the yelling kook. Maybe--just maybe--people can grow up and pass along ideas without shrieking absolutes?
Is anyone else a bit surprised that a Slashdot editor didn't know that Enlightenment was a window manager, and even worse, used it incorrectly three times? After the first time, one of the other editors should have pointed it out to him, eh?
Context menus are bad interface design. It causes developers to hide functionality so that the only way you can find things is to right-click around and hope the feature you're looking for is there. You're still living in a Windows/Linux mindset and should try OS X for longer than 5 days!
Macs aren't more expensive anymore. The Mac Pro is $1,000 less than the equivalent Dell.
For example, if I remote desktop into a Windows machine, I can't access context menus, and I can't paste in PuTTY.
Apple's approach is that a user technically-minded enough to be remoting into a Windows machine will have purchased their own cheap two-button mouse or selected the Mighty Mouse option on order. Apple knows these users can take care of themselves.
This is a huge failure on Apple's part that they keep trying to "make up" for while also appeasing their fanbase that would consider a second button a "sell-out." It's stupid, and it needs to end.
It will never end, because the two-button mouse is an artifact of bad GUI design that confuses the majority of computer users and leads to badly designed applications. Believe it or not, Apple has done user-testing on this, and Windows itself is a good example of what would happen due to the fact you needed a second button to get anything done in it when you remoted in.
You can use two fingers for the right-click, or the Ctrl key. Plus, you don't need the right mouse button for the OS X interface.
In fact, the right mouse button is one of the worst inventions for the GUI in history. Every day, I deal with the eternal question "left click or right click?" When you tell someone to right-click something, they will ask you from that point forward which one to click.
OS X Tiger is 64-bit on the UNIX level. OS X Leopard will be fully 64-bit, and unlike Windows, will ship on one 32-bit/64-bit Intel/PPC universal binary disc, so you don't have to buy separate versions of 32-bit and 64-bit. Also unlike Windows, 64-bit Leopard will happily run all 32-bit applications and device drivers, and it's all run native and not using translation.
Apple's going to make Microsoft's 64-bit implementation look ridiculous and amateur. You people testing 64-bit Vista know what I'm talking about.
Not only do Macs ship with the Mighty Mouse, but the OS X interface is designed to only need one button anyway. I got a third-party multi-button once, and I never used it because functionality isn't buried away in context menus ala Linux and Windows.
This meme is even more tired than the "Macs are more expensive" myth.
For the sake of Dean Hachamovitch, IE7 general manager, please do not post any links to any Firefox executable on any platform.
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I'd say its healthier than the Windows world, which has nothing like the really cool apps we get like Delicious Library, the Omni apps, etc. Such cutting-edge apps were the inspiration for this contest.
But hey, enjoy Win32 and the registry for another half-decade.
You're padding the Windows list with things like "wait for it to arrive" when most people buy from a store.
If you're going to include padding like buying the CD, why not include the time for installing and configuring Linux in its list? Windows comes pre-installed and pre-configured on its machines, after all.
I think you're overestimating the value they saw in his free as in speech philosophy and underestimating the value that disadvantaged (poorer) places see in stuff they can download off the Internet for free.
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Stallman has nothing to do with Linux? Last I checked, Linux took the role of the HURD and uses GNU tools. Linus declaring that he won't use GPL3 is information that has to do with Stallman, isn't it?
On the contrary, having people yell "All information needs to be free!" hurts those who are working to make some information free, because the public then associates making any information free with the yelling kook. Maybe--just maybe--people can grow up and pass along ideas without shrieking absolutes?
This is the kind of stuff CmdrTaco loves to post. Anyone remember his twelve-paragraph essay whining about the fact he had to change his name in World of Warcraft? Even worse, the article attempts to argue that he should have been able to keep his name solely because he's CmdrTaco of Slashdot, and he's been using the name a long time.
That story was posted to the front page. The front page of what was once the #1 tech news site (since surpassed in traffic by Digg).
How about not using a taskbar in the first place? Why do people accept these obvious clones of Microsoft interfaces?
I didn't ignore the content of the post. I read it and enjoyed it, then logged in to post about kdawson's ridiculous mistake.
Best post of the entire article.
Is anyone else a bit surprised that a Slashdot editor didn't know that Enlightenment was a window manager, and even worse, used it incorrectly three times? After the first time, one of the other editors should have pointed it out to him, eh?
Context menus are bad interface design. It causes developers to hide functionality so that the only way you can find things is to right-click around and hope the feature you're looking for is there. You're still living in a Windows/Linux mindset and should try OS X for longer than 5 days!
Macs aren't more expensive anymore. The Mac Pro is $1,000 less than the equivalent Dell.
You are correct. The Mighty Mouse is a drop-down option on the purchase page.
Apple's approach is that a user technically-minded enough to be remoting into a Windows machine will have purchased their own cheap two-button mouse or selected the Mighty Mouse option on order. Apple knows these users can take care of themselves.
It will never end, because the two-button mouse is an artifact of bad GUI design that confuses the majority of computer users and leads to badly designed applications. Believe it or not, Apple has done user-testing on this, and Windows itself is a good example of what would happen due to the fact you needed a second button to get anything done in it when you remoted in.
I don't think it's going to happen. The iMac is essentially a beefier MacBook Pro on a stand. It's still surprising to me how thin it is.
/me looks at his 20" iMac and wonders if you've ever even looked up the resolutions for Apple's computers.
You can use two fingers for the right-click, or the Ctrl key. Plus, you don't need the right mouse button for the OS X interface.
In fact, the right mouse button is one of the worst inventions for the GUI in history. Every day, I deal with the eternal question "left click or right click?" When you tell someone to right-click something, they will ask you from that point forward which one to click.
I heard there's this new operating system called OS X. I think it's even been around since 2001.
OS X Tiger is 64-bit on the UNIX level. OS X Leopard will be fully 64-bit, and unlike Windows, will ship on one 32-bit/64-bit Intel/PPC universal binary disc, so you don't have to buy separate versions of 32-bit and 64-bit. Also unlike Windows, 64-bit Leopard will happily run all 32-bit applications and device drivers, and it's all run native and not using translation.
Apple's going to make Microsoft's 64-bit implementation look ridiculous and amateur. You people testing 64-bit Vista know what I'm talking about.
Okay, I'll bite. Post the full specs for your six month old Acer notebook along with price, and we'll see who's doing the "catching up" here.
Not only do Macs ship with the Mighty Mouse, but the OS X interface is designed to only need one button anyway. I got a third-party multi-button once, and I never used it because functionality isn't buried away in context menus ala Linux and Windows.
This meme is even more tired than the "Macs are more expensive" myth.
Apple doesn't use those batteries in the Intel Macs. Got anything else?
For the sake of Dean Hachamovitch, IE7 general manager, please do not post any links to any Firefox executable on any platform.
I'd say its healthier than the Windows world, which has nothing like the really cool apps we get like Delicious Library, the Omni apps, etc. Such cutting-edge apps were the inspiration for this contest.
But hey, enjoy Win32 and the registry for another half-decade.
Ha, if you think IE7 is bad, wait until you try Vista. It doesn't even adhere to its own styles half the time.
You're padding the Windows list with things like "wait for it to arrive" when most people buy from a store.
If you're going to include padding like buying the CD, why not include the time for installing and configuring Linux in its list? Windows comes pre-installed and pre-configured on its machines, after all.
Torvalds, definitely. Stallman? He pretty much will be a footnote, mentioned as the guy who wrote the GPL...that Linux uses.
I think you're overestimating the value they saw in his free as in speech philosophy and underestimating the value that disadvantaged (poorer) places see in stuff they can download off the Internet for free.
I think Linus is simply realistic and grounded in the real world. I don't want a "freedom fighter" determining the community's legal documents anyway.