Because they would each need an insane amount of money (modern media is *expensive*). And with the government involved in the accounting and administrative process, the cost would easily be several orders of magnitude higher than even what was required. Oh, and we wouldn't be able to increase the exposure of candidates we agreed with.
Options are typically represented by a long scrolled row of buttons. Maybe this won't be so bad once we all have jog dials, but it's a horrible navigation system. Ask any interface designer what they think of horizontal scrollbars.
Errr, that's a design decision. No one forces you to use this idiom. The frameworks and tools don't force you to design your application this way. You can do whatever you want with them, just as with any other tools. The nice thing about *these* tools is that they are much easier and simpler to use.
Completing the ninety degree flip, we have menus that take the worst of windows and macos. Now not only are menus not attached to the application, they're not attached to anything *at all*, but merely float out there, unattached.
No one ever uses them that way, of course. We always just use the right mouse button to get the menu to pop up right under the cursor. That way, you don't have to move to get to the menu. Ever. I like that.
I don't remember if they expand over the existing menu (thus making menus hard to navigate) or cascade to the size (thus forcing one to zigzag), but neither is all that useful.
They cascade. But seriously, that's the way *all* menus work. Look at the top of your web browser in Windoze. Now click on one of those. Wow, look at that! They cascade!
The problem is that the mere mention of God or religion is almost always responded to with "Quit trying to shove your beliefs down my throat!" Someone telling others what they belive does not constitute "shoving it down their throat." 500 years ago, people would have been thankful if all anyone ever did was tell people about their belief system.
Besides, why are people so scared of the dissemination of a viewpoint that they don't like, anyway?
This creates a wonderful opportunity. Instead of aiming for 'end users', Linux desktops should aim at amateur developers who want a free and simple workbench for writing the kinds of applications that made Windows 3.1 rule the world.
You are talking about GNUstep. For many years, the OpenStep API and development tools have been far superior to *anything* else in the Windows or UNIX world. The GNUstep project has already got usable alpha clones of the NeXT development tools that are a joy to work with. Take a look at this mail client developed quickly with GNUstep tools. It runs on GNUstep platforms and Mac OS X.
The GNUstep project is actively tracking the additions made to Cocoa (what Apple decided to call OpenStep after buying NeXT).
GNUstep frameworks and applications will build on most UNIXes, on Mac OS X (obviously), and win32 platforms. Support for the GUI backend is Alpha on win32 but is progressing.
Like Apple, you can write your applications in Objective C or Java. Unlike Apple, the GNUstep project provides several other language options: Ruby, Guile, and other scripting languages by way of StepTalk.
We already say that some things are off-limits during elections (campaigning near polling stations, early release of results, etc) so why not go one step further and forbid giving politicians any money, directly or otherwise?
Because politicians need a lot of money to field a successful campaign. If they don't get it from campaign contributions, I shudder to think where they *will* get it.
Not necessarily. I'm not defending the RIAA or this bill, but what's much more likely is that this guy *already* had these pro-media feelings and those companies contributed to his campaign because he was "on their side".
You're right but I think what most people in this community are afraid of is the continual insistence that clicking through a bunch of menu items is easier than (and absolutely must replace) simply typing 'make'. I personally feel beleagered by interfaces that make me use a mouse for every task simply because a mouse is More Intuitive (TM).
What if they're still making new episodes 50 years from now, would it be fair to make them put their work in the public domain and anybody can make new episodes?
Yes. (Well, the Founding Fathers actually seemed to think that 14 years was a better number.)
They USED to do good work. When you go back and watch the older films from the 50s and 60s, you see some really good artwork. Beautiful backgrounds, good use of light and color, fluid and interesting characterization. Now it's just bland bilge that they keep rehashing every year. If there's artistry there, I don't see it.
Yep, still have my Sound Blaster Pro (circa 1990 or so). My parents gave it to me for Christmas that year (and I was about 12 years old). I remember how cool it was when I got my copy of Space Quest 4 and heard music coming out of something other than the PC speaker.
But my SB is on the shelf now. Right next to my Turtle Beach Pinnacle. Sigh.
Yep, all the serious high end cards do outboard conversion to/from analog in a breakout box and then pipe the audio into the computer through a digital interface.
5. Fixing most of the problems requires fundamental architectural changes that would be expensive and would take two or three years (a la Mozilla). Being a for-profit corporation, you can't afford to wait that long or spend that much money.
6. Fixing even the shallow defects would break backwards compatibility and the customers all swear they will go to your competitors.
Maybe the "Powers that Be" aren't quite the dreadful authoritarian monsters that most slashdot posters like to think they are. Nah, that couldn't be true. They're just a bunch of clones of Hitler, right?
Meanwhile, programmers have to trudge through the shithole that is MFC instead of using something nice like Cocoa/Objective-C. Now you see where *I'm* coming from.
My parents and most of their friends, have no idea (according to you, and me too) how to use their computers, but they purchase a cable internet account.
Really? I guess it could be the area I live in; we're the only house in our neighborhood with a cable modem. I remember a lot of brouhaha about all the DSL companies going bankrupt last year too. Well, thanks for the perspective at least.:-)
OK. I was thinking more of "are the *bands* obscure"?
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In music the notes ARE the original
Errrr, no. The ONLY thing that can be considered original is the concept in the composer's head. Original intent is lost the second it becomes more than an idea.
Even if we could travel back in time and listen to a period orchestra playing a Mozart symphony, we wouldn't be hearing the same music because we bring our own cultural baggage into the experience. Your perception of a piece of music depends entirely on what else you've heard (and even on your philosophy of art and life in general). It is completely impossible for us to experience Mozart's music as the listeners of his day would have. Even THEY wouldn't have gotten the original intent. Most of them were blissfully ignorant of the depths of the work.
Furthermore, MANY musical works are built on borrowing. Bach arranged Vivaldi concerti for keyboard. A large portion of Liszt's performing repertoire consisted of his piano reductions of symphonic and operatic works. Jazz is based on quotations. Rap and other electronic genres are based on collage techniques. Ever heard a marching band? Almost ALL marching band charts are arrangements of works from other genres. What's more, arrangments and recompositions of other composers works are a PRIMARY tool for learning and artistic growth. Mozart himself did this.
Now, are people ever unhappy about what someone has done with their work? Sure. But a lot of people are happy with it too. It's gratifying to see someone take what you've done and extend it beyond what you ever dreamed was possible.
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Because they would each need an insane amount of money (modern media is *expensive*). And with the government involved in the accounting and administrative process, the cost would easily be several orders of magnitude higher than even what was required. Oh, and we wouldn't be able to increase the exposure of candidates we agreed with.
Errr, that's a design decision. No one forces you to use this idiom. The frameworks and tools don't force you to design your application this way. You can do whatever you want with them, just as with any other tools. The nice thing about *these* tools is that they are much easier and simpler to use.
Completing the ninety degree flip, we have menus that take the worst of windows and macos. Now not only are menus not attached to the application, they're not attached to anything *at all*, but merely float out there, unattached.
No one ever uses them that way, of course. We always just use the right mouse button to get the menu to pop up right under the cursor. That way, you don't have to move to get to the menu. Ever. I like that.
I don't remember if they expand over the existing menu (thus making menus hard to navigate) or cascade to the size (thus forcing one to zigzag), but neither is all that useful.
They cascade. But seriously, that's the way *all* menus work. Look at the top of your web browser in Windoze. Now click on one of those. Wow, look at that! They cascade!
Cops don't have to mount national advertising campaigns to get hired.
Besides, why are people so scared of the dissemination of a viewpoint that they don't like, anyway?
You are talking about GNUstep. For many years, the OpenStep API and development tools have been far superior to *anything* else in the Windows or UNIX world. The GNUstep project has already got usable alpha clones of the NeXT development tools that are a joy to work with. Take a look at this mail client developed quickly with GNUstep tools. It runs on GNUstep platforms and Mac OS X.
The GNUstep project is actively tracking the additions made to Cocoa (what Apple decided to call OpenStep after buying NeXT).
GNUstep frameworks and applications will build on most UNIXes, on Mac OS X (obviously), and win32 platforms. Support for the GUI backend is Alpha on win32 but is progressing.
GNUstep has a database framework much like NeXT's Enterprise Object Framework and a web development system much like WebObjects. Also available is a 3D framework, music and sound frameworks, a networking framework, an email framework, and others.
Like Apple, you can write your applications in Objective C or Java. Unlike Apple, the GNUstep project provides several other language options: Ruby, Guile, and other scripting languages by way of StepTalk.
Because politicians need a lot of money to field a successful campaign. If they don't get it from campaign contributions, I shudder to think where they *will* get it.
Not necessarily. I'm not defending the RIAA or this bill, but what's much more likely is that this guy *already* had these pro-media feelings and those companies contributed to his campaign because he was "on their side".
This guy is from *California*. If that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does.
You're right but I think what most people in this community are afraid of is the continual insistence that clicking through a bunch of menu items is easier than (and absolutely must replace) simply typing 'make'. I personally feel beleagered by interfaces that make me use a mouse for every task simply because a mouse is More Intuitive (TM).
Or is that MIT page just an overblown dramatic way of saying, "Hey! We're doing usability testing!"
Yes. And who is part of that conspiracy? Someone you know, perhaps. Someone you know very well. Yesssssss. Someone close to you...
That's what the Beatles meant when they said, "And your bird can sing."
Yes. (Well, the Founding Fathers actually seemed to think that 14 years was a better number.)
They USED to do good work. When you go back and watch the older films from the 50s and 60s, you see some really good artwork. Beautiful backgrounds, good use of light and color, fluid and interesting characterization. Now it's just bland bilge that they keep rehashing every year. If there's artistry there, I don't see it.
But my SB is on the shelf now. Right next to my Turtle Beach Pinnacle. Sigh.
Yep, all the serious high end cards do outboard conversion to/from analog in a breakout box and then pipe the audio into the computer through a digital interface.
6. Fixing even the shallow defects would break backwards compatibility and the customers all swear they will go to your competitors.
Oops! You forgot to mention the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy!
Maybe the "Powers that Be" aren't quite the dreadful authoritarian monsters that most slashdot posters like to think they are. Nah, that couldn't be true. They're just a bunch of clones of Hitler, right?
And besides, we all know that the best way not to be seen is to stand inside a filing cabinet.
Meanwhile, programmers have to trudge through the shithole that is MFC instead of using something nice like Cocoa/Objective-C. Now you see where *I'm* coming from.
Incidentally, in case you wanted to know, Objective-C/OpenStep bombed the Visual.NET developer back into the primordial soup around 1993 or so. :-)
Really? I guess it could be the area I live in; we're the only house in our neighborhood with a cable modem. I remember a lot of brouhaha about all the DSL companies going bankrupt last year too. Well, thanks for the perspective at least. :-)
OK. I was thinking more of "are the *bands* obscure"?
Errrr, no. The ONLY thing that can be considered original is the concept in the composer's head. Original intent is lost the second it becomes more than an idea.
Even if we could travel back in time and listen to a period orchestra playing a Mozart symphony, we wouldn't be hearing the same music because we bring our own cultural baggage into the experience. Your perception of a piece of music depends entirely on what else you've heard (and even on your philosophy of art and life in general). It is completely impossible for us to experience Mozart's music as the listeners of his day would have. Even THEY wouldn't have gotten the original intent. Most of them were blissfully ignorant of the depths of the work.
Furthermore, MANY musical works are built on borrowing. Bach arranged Vivaldi concerti for keyboard. A large portion of Liszt's performing repertoire consisted of his piano reductions of symphonic and operatic works. Jazz is based on quotations. Rap and other electronic genres are based on collage techniques. Ever heard a marching band? Almost ALL marching band charts are arrangements of works from other genres. What's more, arrangments and recompositions of other composers works are a PRIMARY tool for learning and artistic growth. Mozart himself did this.
Now, are people ever unhappy about what someone has done with their work? Sure. But a lot of people are happy with it too. It's gratifying to see someone take what you've done and extend it beyond what you ever dreamed was possible.