Or here's another one I shook my head at just a few hours before reading ESR's rant:
"clean your mouse" - Yeah but that won't fix your interface usability.
It happened here when a guy mentioned how in Evolution it's too easy to accidently move a folder: evolution-hackers thread. (I've had same problem with evo -- it's not the mouse.)
Not to pick on Evo's crew, it's just an endemic attitude problem with OSS developers.
Kinda like how in 1950's movies a boss might give his secretary a condescending pat on the behind. Today we know that kind of thing just isn't OK.
Oh - and non-OSS devs have the same attitude, but users can't interact with them. Feedback goes through sales/support/marketing droids before hitting the non-OSS devs.
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The Carneros region is much closer to Skywalker than 30 miles, and produces some tasty stuff.
But perhaps we can both just agree that Jar Jar must die, and leave it at that.
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Just for some perspective, a crow would fly about 30 miles from Skywalker Ranch to downtown Napa, passing over many vinyards on the way.
Lindows are arguing that "windows" is a generic term for a type of computer software, which of course it is...
The only problem with that argument is that it's bullsh*t. Lindows intentionally named themselves after MS Windows in particular. And for that they should fry. Sorry, but in this case MS is not the bad guy.
The entire frozen dinner section at a small convenience store near Las Vegas, NV mysteriously cooked itself at approximately 7:03PM.
A special envoy of the Pope has been called in to investigate the possible miracle. Said one bystander, "I don't think it was, like, God or something because this chicken burrito is way overdone."
One ISP in the SF Bay area lets you do that. You subscribe to their DSL, share it as a hotspot, and get credit to your account for each paying WiFi user (1...2...3!).
[I have no affiliation with this
company
but it has a good reputation among local users.]
At least votes bought directly from thousands of people are more democratic than thousands of votes bought from, say, the CEO of Diebold.
California's Secretary of State announced last month that California will have a paper trail for its electronic voting machines (starting in mid-'05). It's a good thing IMHO.
press release(PDF)
Agree - asphalt (and tires) make a much bigger impact on noise then gas vs electric.
In my area the elevated commuter train (BART) is the biggest noisemaker. I wonder if they made any dB-specific promises to local communities when it was built. By lack of maintenance it has only gotten louder.
Anything matching my qualifications and located in Hyderabad or Bombay.
[I wince when I see these on Dice. I don't even think they hire Americans. They're probably just hiring back some of the Indians who came here on H1 visas.]
Ok but your example doesn't negate my real point, which is
that Microsoft benefits by increasing the bloat of its OS so that you buy new hardware (which typically has MS installed).
RH may be bloated (by Linux standards) in terms of disk space, but it will run great in much less RAM (and CPU) than WinXP, while providing equivalent functionality.
I concede that NetBSD or other distros may be even better performers on grandma's toaster or whatever.
In some sense one can say that the people who design operating systems and new processors are looking for ways that you won't have sufficient performance with the machine you have today, so that you'll need to buy something new. Is there any way out of this vicious cycle?
The branding effort is a good idea and will help get wider adoption. But there should be a parallel campaign to organize pressure on major websites to be mozilla compatible (and say so on their sites).
I've been pleasantly surprised to see a few major sites that say "best viewed with.... or Mozilla 1.x", and it's a boost to brand awareness.
But more often big sites just ignore Mozilla. For example, the International Herald Tribune looks all funky in moz 1.5.
In the section on What Unix Gets Wrong the author's prime example is how X, by striving to provide "mechanism, not policy", leaves users overwhelmed with options.
But the cost of the mechanism-not-policy approach is that when the user can set policy, the user must set policy. Nontechnical end-users frequently find Unix's profusion of options and interface styles overwhelming and retreat to systems that at least pretend to offer them simplicity.
I agree with this. Linux distros that hope for mass adoption add value by having a designer make the choices that put a uniform look-and-feel into the user interface (and into administration tools for that matter). Redhat, e.g., does a nice job of starting to feel like a self-consistent OS.
However in the later comparison to NT, he knocks the registry hard for being a single-point-of-failure whereby one rogue app can corrupt the database and require a total format/reinstall. NT may be ugly by implementation, but the registry concept kicks Unix ass. (In truth it just goes the next logical step, but because it was done in Redmond and done badly at first, we think we have to reject the whole concept and keep editing a bunch of dot-files. Oops.)
A further entry in the hate-to-admit-it dept. is the fact that Windows through COM/OLE lets different apps share data in a way that also kicks Unix butt. Hell I can't even cut and paste between most apps on my Linux box. This is another pitiful consequent of a) the extreme (& beautiful) flexibility of Unix without either b) a guiding hand (designer) to select self-consistent choices within the ones the flexibility allows or c) the humility to recognize those areas where Windows is actually better than Unix.
Why hasn't the settlement been more widely publicized?
I'm a news junkie and I've only heard about the $16/product through/.
[Yes there are a zillion google hits, but have YOU heard about it through your local news or paper?]
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"clean your mouse" - Yeah but that won't fix your interface usability.
It happened here when a guy mentioned how in Evolution it's too easy to accidently move a folder: evolution-hackers thread. (I've had same problem with evo -- it's not the mouse.)
Not to pick on Evo's crew, it's just an endemic attitude problem with OSS developers.
Kinda like how in 1950's movies a boss might give his secretary a condescending pat on the behind. Today we know that kind of thing just isn't OK.
Oh - and non-OSS devs have the same attitude, but users can't interact with them. Feedback goes through sales/support/marketing droids before hitting the non-OSS devs.
But perhaps we can both just agree that Jar Jar must die, and leave it at that.
Just for some perspective, a crow would fly about 30 miles from Skywalker Ranch to downtown Napa, passing over many vinyards on the way.
[Surely GF is one of the best adventure games of all time. I think it will actually run under ScummVM, but haven't tried that yet.]
And it has been used to stealth market junk long before it was used to sell candidates: push polling
The only problem with that argument is that it's bullsh*t. Lindows intentionally named themselves after MS Windows in particular. And for that they should fry. Sorry, but in this case MS is not the bad guy.
Then you can go play on the moon.
For extra points, solve the energy problem.
But I think it's a load of horse-puckey myself.
A special envoy of the Pope has been called in to investigate the possible miracle. Said one bystander, "I don't think it was, like, God or something because this chicken burrito is way overdone."
Well then they can join the peace activists already stuck in the airport waiting lounge. TSA's No-Fly Blacklist
[See "Boot CP/M!" link mid-page.]
perl -pi -e 's/(\S+)(\+\S+)?(\@\S+)/spamto:$1$3/g' comments_file.txt Do I win the prize?
[I have no affiliation with this company but it has a good reputation among local users.]
California's Secretary of State announced last month that California will have a paper trail for its electronic voting machines (starting in mid-'05). It's a good thing IMHO. press release(PDF)
In my area the elevated commuter train (BART) is the biggest noisemaker. I wonder if they made any dB-specific promises to local communities when it was built. By lack of maintenance it has only gotten louder.
Anything matching my qualifications and located in Hyderabad or Bombay. [I wince when I see these on Dice. I don't even think they hire Americans. They're probably just hiring back some of the Indians who came here on H1 visas.]
RH may be bloated (by Linux standards) in terms of disk space, but it will run great in much less RAM (and CPU) than WinXP, while providing equivalent functionality.
I concede that NetBSD or other distros may be even better performers on grandma's toaster or whatever.The branding effort is a good idea and will help get wider adoption. But there should be a parallel campaign to organize pressure on major websites to be mozilla compatible (and say so on their sites). I've been pleasantly surprised to see a few major sites that say "best viewed with .... or Mozilla 1.x", and it's a boost to brand awareness.
But more often big sites just ignore Mozilla. For example, the International Herald Tribune looks all funky in moz 1.5.
So your answer to "I can't cut and paste" is "that's because Windows is too complex and insecure." *Bzzzzt.* Thanks for playing.
Why hasn't the settlement been more widely publicized? I'm a news junkie and I've only heard about the $16/product through /.
[Yes there are a zillion google hits, but have YOU heard about it through your local news or paper?]