I still belive that the browser itself can handle say undo instead of the webpage, and I also think it's hard to come up with an idea for an application which would be better in webform / impossible to create as a native one.
But yes, I can agree that most technology can be good if used correctly. To bad it's not.
I've noticed that it's sometimes possible to get the textarea box back with the information on Slashdot, I don't know why it works or something, but it has done so. And I know gmail saves my text every now and then, thought still Opera would have saved it aswell if I wanted to redo some stupid action I've done. It may not store it if the whole browser crash thought. But if it was a javascript which had disabled the textarea on page load and let the user enable it say thru a quick reply button it would definitly not work because how would the browser know in what way I wanted it when there are the option of running the page as it would be freshly loaded or as if it was last time or..
Oh, I see a web developer found my post and moderated it accordingly... Good luck with your whole-site-in-flash-designs, they rule! Sure noone knows how to navigate the UI, sure it takes ages to load, sure people hate waiting for anims to finish, sure people hate sound, but it looks so cool!!
Just like DVD-menues, I hate those to. They never work the same and you have to wait while they play shitty animations.
Maybe Apple should change their font style settings in documents into a wizard, with multiple pages and alternatives even if you don't want to change the things, and prevent it all with smooth anims showing how the document would transform! That would be so like teh awesome!
True that it will help in some browser-based applications, I don't know if it's positive thought.
Webmail can be done without it, I'd prefer it without it (well, addressbook while typing are convenient, not that necessary thought) and you know there exist mail applications which are better at it anyway.
Rich text editing sucks since it makes people change fontsize, add bold, color and other disturbing shit just because they want their crap shown and noticed the most.
I don't see why a CMS can't be done without java-script.
Lots of webpages open images in a small window via javascript, I hold down the command/whatever key and click them all just to get 20 tabs which says javascript(..., it sucks so fucking hard and makes me angry as hell. Why do the developer try to decide in what way I want to view the images? Why can't I choose myself? Same for all the stupid people who try to get pixel perfects design on the web, shouldn't it be the browsers work to retrive the information and present it in a nice way? If people just lived with that it's a medium for distributing INFORMATION not designs things would be so much easier.
I know my browser need to download less using AJAX, but I also know I'm screwed when it doesn't work. For instance atm the send button in facebooks send message formular doesn't work for profiles I've searched for but can't visit, it works on profiles I can visit. I have no idea why, I've killed privoxy and removed all cookies but it still doesn't work (in Firefox 3.0 RC1 but also not in Safari 3.1, atleast earlier.) Since the formular isn't static browsers like Opera which have awesome undo functionallity may not be able to give my data back if I by accident leave the page, more likely because my damn mac was beachballing and for whatever reason lost focus on the text area and I try to make some changes with backspace or whatever and the browser goes back... Or more often when I try to make a dollar sign but the retarded keyboard setup on the mac makes me visit the bookmark with whatever number (4) I press, it have happened so many times.
Like say I'm here on slashdot and write an answer and want to mention that something is 2000 dollar, and then the fucking browser visits some other webpage, so I press back, and voila, all gone. If it wasn't for stupid gay AJAX back would just go back to the old form and show the data. AJAX suck. It's just technology perversation, not user convenient. Also I'm on 100/10 mbps so I can afford to reload the whole page....
Yes, to show a previously hidden layer of information may be convenient for design, but it's not like it would be impossible to just show all information from the begining, or make a link. I agree that it looks better thought.
Well, my browser supports javascript, but atm send message on facebook are broken and I've lost way to many forum/webpage posts because the browser have changed page / something couldn't load / I accidently closed the wrong tab /.. Opera would have handled that flawlessly if it wasn't for the scriptcrap.
No. Thought I hope Suns CRTs and such was shielded so you don't get cancer, if nothing else atleast people using them stay far away from the other sun so that may save them.
So, ways to use javascript of which I can come up with right now: * raise window * resize window * disable right click * remove buttons and toolbars and stuff like that * force people to open images thru javascript * stupid disabled textarea boxes which the browser can't undo if you close the tab by accident or similair * clocks, text in status bar, crap like that.
Uhm, ok, so those all suck.
"Quick reply" are decent but considering all the times I've lost my text I'd prefer to never use it.
So the only good kind of javascript I know of are the one which lets me moderate here on Slashdot without scrolling up/down and choose moderate. Oh, the awesome feature!
Except that? It always suck, I can't come up with something more good atleast.
Code perversism because it's "fun" or "cool" to do something and not because it will benefit the user or make the user interface / information retrival better SUCK.
So please tell me when it doesn't suck. (Without it our browsers would be more compatibla and less bloated aswell I guess.)
Flash suck aswell.
Midi background sounds or flash with sounds are one among the most sucky things there is.
Myspace are probably the most elite of sucky things:D, it really sucks the worst! (I'm not registered, but from the small things I can see.. it's like web 95 all over again..)
I want to be able to click back and come back to my text area. I want to be able to open all my screenshots in new tabs in the background and look at them later / when they have loaded. I can decide how I want my windows myself thank you. I don't need hovermenus which sometimes fucks up / you can't click the item / whatever because some sucker didn't know what he was up to when he made the stupid menu.
Just give me plain hypertext documents with support for images and download links for all other data.
Ok, saw that there existed 3 games for NES, weird, never heard of it back then, I have seen screenshots for the DS of course but it haven't got me intrested, tried the rocket/slime thingy a little.
I understand them quite well, it goes something like this:
1) Build bm and try to harass, fail. 2) Tech wind riders.
Point 2 aren't valid in 100% of the cases but it's damn near at say 90% or so in RT games.
Solution? Own them with talons and eventually faerie dragons because it's fun. = visible bm, fucked up air, cycloned taurens, cycloned + faerie fired grunts,.. Beware of bats thought;D
Personally I haven't used it, but since before it was released I've been impressive with and a fan of the new user interface since it's so much less cluttered.
I know some openoffice/whatever fanatics says that's bad because now it doesn't look standard/like all other apps. No shit! But they shouldn't have designed their apps to look like Office in the first place. I can understand that they did it to make it easier and more likely for people to switch, but the design was and is very crappy so why copy something which sucks so hard? And that has been my point since way before Office 2007.
iWork Pages (user interface) good. Microsoft Word pre 2007 bad.
What are your point? That it's named lite and not light? Or that I should have said the light one?
It's indeed named lite and it's the DS lite which have the screen with better lighting, so there are nothing wrong in my post?
Or did you just doubted it? It's much brighter in the lite.
I haven't played on mine for long, since I surf to much and play some wc3 even thought I've played it a lot. Suck... I really should play more DS.. but:/
Ofcourse it will, they are the same (except form, battery and lcd.)
I don't see why this makes Slashdot thought, there are lots of games for the DS and for all other game consoles aswell, but we can't have a news item for each of them can we?
Just use it for huge titles if anything, such as Starcraft II.
A third Castlevania title are in the works for the DS, I'd rather play that (Though I have played no Dragon Quest at all so I don't know what I'm missing.)
I also saw that there existed a SIP-client for the DS as homebrew, something I may actually start to use:)
Personally I think neighbours / society at large should get part of the money aswell since it's blocking their view / disturbing the landscape / whatever, maybe. And now I also want to say that then one think about it it's weird how one can own land, ohwell, let's not go there.
But personally I think they look cool so I'm not bothered with them, it's more like I've been on the lookout for them since I was a kid:)
(And human life at large "disturbs the landscape", where are my gigantic leaf forests!?!)
Nah, they wouldn't need to click yes, they would just login as root for convenience.
IANAVU (I'am not a vista user), but I suspect that the difference of UAC and Sudo are that the Windows developers haven't cared earlier and therefor do all kinds of bad stuff because nothing have prevented them from doing so earlier, and therefor UAC bothers the users more so they get annoyed and start pressing yes for all (much as I suspect my sister does for her antivirus, antimalware and firewall I installed for her.) But are Microsoft really to blame for that? Especially since they had already tried to tell the developers to not do it earlier if I remember correctly, sure they made it possible in the first place but most OSes did back then. And now they try to fix it, and in the end it will probably lead to less applications trying to do stuff which need higher privileges and therefor less UAC boxes and eventually better security. Just as in the case of unix.)
But the same is true for all (?) oses so what's the difference? I guess one can try to prevent it with password protected partitions or whatever but it will just fail anyway.
won't some leet folks please write a virus for Linux and level the playing field Well, maybe Wine enables you to run Media Player, Internet Explorer and Outlook? =P, if nothing else I guess VmWare got you covered!
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Uhm, scrap that. 5 billion tones :D
..
tired
"Just 25 tonnes of helium, which can be transported on a space shuttle, is enough to provide electricity for the US for one full year,"
"Some 200 million tonnes of lunar soil would produce one tonne of helium, Taylor said, noting that only 10 kilos of helium are available on earth."
Ok, so all we need to do is to get there, extract 500 million tones of moon soil and, warm it up to 1400 degrees and then bring it back.
What are the estimated price of that small mission?
How nice will the moon look afterwards? Not that it looks so nice now either, but please think of the footprints!
Yeah, it's cute until you lose your text, which have happened to me. So I'd still prefer the old way thank you.
I still belive that the browser itself can handle say undo instead of the webpage, and I also think it's hard to come up with an idea for an application which would be better in webform / impossible to create as a native one.
But yes, I can agree that most technology can be good if used correctly. To bad it's not.
I've noticed that it's sometimes possible to get the textarea box back with the information on Slashdot, I don't know why it works or something, but it has done so. And I know gmail saves my text every now and then, thought still Opera would have saved it aswell if I wanted to redo some stupid action I've done. It may not store it if the whole browser crash thought. But if it was a javascript which had disabled the textarea on page load and let the user enable it say thru a quick reply button it would definitly not work because how would the browser know in what way I wanted it when there are the option of running the page as it would be freshly loaded or as if it was last time or ..
Oh, I see a web developer found my post and moderated it accordingly ... Good luck with your whole-site-in-flash-designs, they rule! Sure noone knows how to navigate the UI, sure it takes ages to load, sure people hate waiting for anims to finish, sure people hate sound, but it looks so cool!!
Just like DVD-menues, I hate those to. They never work the same and you have to wait while they play shitty animations.
Maybe Apple should change their font style settings in documents into a wizard, with multiple pages and alternatives even if you don't want to change the things, and prevent it all with smooth anims showing how the document would transform! That would be so like teh awesome!
True that it will help in some browser-based applications, I don't know if it's positive thought.
.. Opera would have handled that flawlessly if it wasn't for the scriptcrap.
Webmail can be done without it, I'd prefer it without it (well, addressbook while typing are convenient, not that necessary thought) and you know there exist mail applications which are better at it anyway.
Rich text editing sucks since it makes people change fontsize, add bold, color and other disturbing shit just because they want their crap shown and noticed the most.
I don't see why a CMS can't be done without java-script.
Lots of webpages open images in a small window via javascript, I hold down the command/whatever key and click them all just to get 20 tabs which says javascript(..., it sucks so fucking hard and makes me angry as hell. Why do the developer try to decide in what way I want to view the images? Why can't I choose myself? Same for all the stupid people who try to get pixel perfects design on the web, shouldn't it be the browsers work to retrive the information and present it in a nice way? If people just lived with that it's a medium for distributing INFORMATION not designs things would be so much easier.
I know my browser need to download less using AJAX, but I also know I'm screwed when it doesn't work. For instance atm the send button in facebooks send message formular doesn't work for profiles I've searched for but can't visit, it works on profiles I can visit. I have no idea why, I've killed privoxy and removed all cookies but it still doesn't work (in Firefox 3.0 RC1 but also not in Safari 3.1, atleast earlier.)
Since the formular isn't static browsers like Opera which have awesome undo functionallity may not be able to give my data back if I by accident leave the page, more likely because my damn mac was beachballing and for whatever reason lost focus on the text area and I try to make some changes with backspace or whatever and the browser goes back... Or more often when I try to make a dollar sign but the retarded keyboard setup on the mac makes me visit the bookmark with whatever number (4) I press, it have happened so many times.
Like say I'm here on slashdot and write an answer and want to mention that something is 2000 dollar, and then the fucking browser visits some other webpage, so I press back, and voila, all gone. If it wasn't for stupid gay AJAX back would just go back to the old form and show the data. AJAX suck. It's just technology perversation, not user convenient. Also I'm on 100/10 mbps so I can afford to reload the whole page....
Yes, to show a previously hidden layer of information may be convenient for design, but it's not like it would be impossible to just show all information from the begining, or make a link. I agree that it looks better thought.
Well, my browser supports javascript, but atm send message on facebook are broken and I've lost way to many forum/webpage posts because the browser have changed page / something couldn't load / I accidently closed the wrong tab /
No. Thought I hope Suns CRTs and such was shielded so you don't get cancer, if nothing else atleast people using them stay far away from the other sun so that may save them.
So, ways to use javascript of which I can come up with right now:
:D, it really sucks the worst! (I'm not registered, but from the small things I can see.. it's like web 95 all over again..)
* raise window
* resize window
* disable right click
* remove buttons and toolbars and stuff like that
* force people to open images thru javascript
* stupid disabled textarea boxes which the browser can't undo if you close the tab by accident or similair
* clocks, text in status bar, crap like that.
Uhm, ok, so those all suck.
"Quick reply" are decent but considering all the times I've lost my text I'd prefer to never use it.
So the only good kind of javascript I know of are the one which lets me moderate here on Slashdot without scrolling up/down and choose moderate. Oh, the awesome feature!
Except that? It always suck, I can't come up with something more good atleast.
Code perversism because it's "fun" or "cool" to do something and not because it will benefit the user or make the user interface / information retrival better SUCK.
So please tell me when it doesn't suck. (Without it our browsers would be more compatibla and less bloated aswell I guess.)
Flash suck aswell.
Midi background sounds or flash with sounds are one among the most sucky things there is.
Myspace are probably the most elite of sucky things
I want to be able to click back and come back to my text area. I want to be able to open all my screenshots in new tabs in the background and look at them later / when they have loaded. I can decide how I want my windows myself thank you. I don't need hovermenus which sometimes fucks up / you can't click the item / whatever because some sucker didn't know what he was up to when he made the stupid menu.
Just give me plain hypertext documents with support for images and download links for all other data.
Ok, saw that there existed 3 games for NES, weird, never heard of it back then, I have seen screenshots for the DS of course but it haven't got me intrested, tried the rocket/slime thingy a little.
Maybe that's why he has so many visitors, Web 2.0 and java-/ecmascripts suck.
I understand them quite well, it goes something like this:
.. Beware of bats thought ;D
1) Build bm and try to harass, fail.
2) Tech wind riders.
Point 2 aren't valid in 100% of the cases but it's damn near at say 90% or so in RT games.
Solution?
Own them with talons and eventually faerie dragons because it's fun.
= visible bm, fucked up air, cycloned taurens, cycloned + faerie fired grunts,
1) Because the old one was crap?
Personally I haven't used it, but since before it was released I've been impressive with and a fan of the new user interface since it's so much less cluttered.
I know some openoffice/whatever fanatics says that's bad because now it doesn't look standard/like all other apps. No shit! But they shouldn't have designed their apps to look like Office in the first place. I can understand that they did it to make it easier and more likely for people to switch, but the design was and is very crappy so why copy something which sucks so hard? And that has been my point since way before Office 2007.
iWork Pages (user interface) good. Microsoft Word pre 2007 bad.
So what was the problem with my grammar? It's the lite which are brighter. Still.
Over here "light" is the name for the (incorrect word) diet foods.
Well, whatever "it would be" it is brighter, and it's called lite. And I think Nintendo used it for both size and brightness.
What are your point? That it's named lite and not light? Or that I should have said the light one?
:/
:D
It's indeed named lite and it's the DS lite which have the screen with better lighting, so there are nothing wrong in my post?
Or did you just doubted it? It's much brighter in the lite.
I haven't played on mine for long, since I surf to much and play some wc3 even thought I've played it a lot. Suck... I really should play more DS.. but
Need Starcraft II the most though
Not the only thing, but they run the same software.
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=559954&cid=23493382
The major improvement are the backlighting of the LCD, the lite ones are much brighter, they also changed the coating so it is more scratchproof.
Also the batterylife was improved (and the size as you have already mentioned.)
Finally due to the size reduction GBA games stick out from the DS lites.
That's all I can remember (the feeling of the buttons are different aswell.)
Ofcourse it will, they are the same (except form, battery and lcd.)
:)
I don't see why this makes Slashdot thought, there are lots of games for the DS and for all other game consoles aswell, but we can't have a news item for each of them can we?
Just use it for huge titles if anything, such as Starcraft II.
A third Castlevania title are in the works for the DS, I'd rather play that (Though I have played no Dragon Quest at all so I don't know what I'm missing.)
I also saw that there existed a SIP-client for the DS as homebrew, something I may actually start to use
Personally I think neighbours / society at large should get part of the money aswell since it's blocking their view / disturbing the landscape / whatever, maybe. And now I also want to say that then one think about it it's weird how one can own land, ohwell, let's not go there.
:)
But personally I think they look cool so I'm not bothered with them, it's more like I've been on the lookout for them since I was a kid
(And human life at large "disturbs the landscape", where are my gigantic leaf forests!?!)
Well, atleast it keep people occupied ...
Hey, it's what we all use on vbulletin forums! (well, not black then, but anyway.)
Nah, they wouldn't need to click yes, they would just login as root for convenience.
IANAVU (I'am not a vista user), but I suspect that the difference of UAC and Sudo are that the Windows developers haven't cared earlier and therefor do all kinds of bad stuff because nothing have prevented them from doing so earlier, and therefor UAC bothers the users more so they get annoyed and start pressing yes for all (much as I suspect my sister does for her antivirus, antimalware and firewall I installed for her.)
But are Microsoft really to blame for that? Especially since they had already tried to tell the developers to not do it earlier if I remember correctly, sure they made it possible in the first place but most OSes did back then.
And now they try to fix it, and in the end it will probably lead to less applications trying to do stuff which need higher privileges and therefor less UAC boxes and eventually better security. Just as in the case of unix.)
But the same is true for all (?) oses so what's the difference? I guess one can try to prevent it with password protected partitions or whatever but it will just fail anyway.
(I'm mostly shooting for the DRM-makes-it-a-virus-part in http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=558098&cid=23473018 but maybe you can run into other issues aswell.)