I don't want my GUI to determine how applications can be viewed. The GUI has no idea what the application is doing, how it's displaying its information, how it's being used. It is not the GUI's place to figure that shit out. Quick access to minimising, maximising and restoring a window is, to me at least, very useful. I'm pretty sure I know what I want to do more than my GUI does, so I prefer if I can decide.
The way OSX works would be perfect if OSX knew what each application was doing. The problem is, it doesn't. That's when problems arrise, and the GUI becomes slower to use. That's not what I look for.
And if they don't use geo-location via IP addresses? What if they ask for your TV license number before granting you a DRM license? Which is fair enough, I guess. Otherwise even Brits without TV licenses would get the content without paying for it.
Most people who want to watch this content run Windows, so it's not a problem for them. The BBC has a duty to do everything it can to protect its programmes. It's spending public money, so it has to protect it. That's why they use DRM. That's the same reasoning that prevents them from spending millions just to create a version for Linux - they can't justify spending so much money on such an (admittedly vocal) minority.
As with most things in life, I use things because I want them to do what I want, not because I want to do what they want me to. Like my OS. Even if it's all fucked up, I want it to work how I expect. There shouldn't be a learning curve with your desktop, just like there is no learning curve on a real-life desktop. You don't reach for that pen and suddenly it shoots off 50cm to the right, starts hovering in mid-air with a weird blue glow around it, quickly followed by all the contents of my desk miraculously re-arranging themselves 20cm above the top of the desk, Dana Barrat style.
The problem isn't that the users don't "get" OSX. OSX is just an operating system. You're talking about it like it's the hardest quantum theory any mere mortal could never hope to understand. I'm pretty sure I have the cognitive ability to understand what the buttons do. I just don't think "optimise" is such a great idea for resizing windows. I want to resize the window, but the UI has to step in to do it for me, as I can't be trusted? Is that it? If I want to make a window as big as my screen, shit, I paid for the OS and the software in question - I should be able to do that if I so wish.
I'm not having a go at you, I just think that you're arguing from your own perspective. I've been using computers for decades, and there ARE reasons you want to maximise/minimise your UI however you please. You blame it on the apps, but doesn't change the fact the GUI is not allowing you to fix it manually. If I wanted an authoritarian figure telling me I, or some software I've bought, is doing something stupid, I'd get some input from my wife. I don't need my GUI to tell me what to do, snatching my balls in the process:)
don't hate microsoft. There is no reason to hate a software producer. Unless they made RapeFast-2000, in which case there might be a point. Most people just use software as most use their cars. It's only enthusiasts who find some reason to dislike Microsoft, and those reasons usually fall into the usual clichés of borgness, something about being unfair, or something about bad software. Funnily enough, other corporations who do things just as borgy/unfair/badly don't get the same criticism, most likely as Qui Gon Jinn said, "There's always a bigger fish" - except for Microsoft there IS no bigger fish, so the criticism stops there. yay unobjective criticisms!:)
Score: -1, Doesn't understand the difference between Stalinist Communism and Socialism
Seriously, you obviously have no idea. Look at the Socialist countries of Europe, and see how they're performing better than the US. See how their crime rates are usually lower, how their healthcare is usually better, how more people vote, less poverty, etc. etc. etc. Why are you so poorly informed about other countries? It makes you look a wee bit foolish when your indoctrinations come clashing up against reality. It's not your fault, most likely an influential family member also had the wrong end of the stick and kindly imparted that knowledge to you when you were too young to realise adults get things wrong. Either that or a communist stole your girlfriend when you were at college. Either way, you're not arguing from logic:)
And if it happens to you, it must be happening to everyone else!:-P
I've yet to have any problems with hibernation on XP... I have 2gigs of ram, and my PC has no problems hibernating or waking up. Same story on my wife's 1gb notebook. They both wake up very quickly. I hibernate my work computers (Fedora 6 and XP), and the XP box hibernates quicker, and wakes up quicker. They're identical HP/Compaq boxes, too. Interesting:)
You can do that - XP has a QoS service that can do exactly what you want. I use it when I'm at work to prioritise my RDP over any torrents downloading, and to make sure my mp3 streams from home don't get choked.
WinTC - a small service used to configure the Windows QoS service.
If that doesn't do it for you, you could download something like NetLimiter, and use that to manage your bandwidth.
People study what interests them, not what will make them rich. 8-year-olds don't weigh up being an astronaut or engineer by how much they'd get paid, or by how the sector is predicted to perform. If someone's balls get tickled every time they think of physics, chances are they'll study physics. Kids need toys and environments that make them want to think. If, though, you plonk them in front of the TV and make them grow up thinking pop singers and sports stars are not worthless human beings, then they'll most likely do everything they can to be singing sports stars, and the problem will perpetuate.
Blaming the dark fellas for the problems of a country is SOOOO 20th century. Get on the bus, Ray.
Why not hold your judgement until you know what's actually going on? That way you won't look quite so childish. Saying it's "just sick" shows how emotionally bent out of shape you're able to get just over a mention of MS, regardless of knowing what they're actually doing. That's not objective. That helps no-one. What if MS was actually good for those kids? What if, and this is just an example (before you try to commit suicide over MS being hypothetically portrayed in positive light), they got more benefit out of using an OS they'd be likely to encounter in other parts of the world, in industry, etc.? Cynicism and knee-jerk reactions, like that which you so greatly displayed, could actually hurt their futures, if more folks thought like you. Being an unobjective fanboy helps no-one.
And I feel the same way when working in Windows than Linux - as you say, it's all down to the individual. That's why any fanboy asshat trying to convert people to any other camp just serves to piss them off - people will change when they want to - not before.
What you're proposing is nothing new at all - it has been standard practice since before WWII to do just that to invading troops. Wear them down, harass them, attack them where possible, etc. The US army needs to wake up, apparently.:)
We have drivers licenses, but we're not required to have it at any time. We are given a grace period in which to produce our details at your local Police station. Forcing everyone to have their ID at the same time will just turn all those who forget their IDs into criminals - as opposed to just those who lie when asked their details. "Papers, please!"
That's not true at all. Proteins existed without cells - we still eat protein, so clearly food pre-dates life. Non-living is not the same as non-organic - organic material existed before cells and DNA did. It's no big mystery. All this is well-known to anyone with a secondary-school science textbook.
If it IS Jesus who is there - you're only taking one book's word for what lies beyond. What if the Bible and all its players are actually doing the Devil's work? What if God is actually the Devil, and all those guys shunning scientific evidence are actually playing into his hands?
I guess that's the problem with a lack of objectivity - you can get abused.
But only in America are these people not laughed back into their caves. Or so it seems. For a modern western nation, the US sure has some ancient eastern practices. Fluffing God seems to be one of them.
If they were just saying "blue is my favourite colour", then yes, I completely agree. But, they're actually saying "blue is the only colour. If you believe any other colours exist, you will get fucked up by God". Obviously, spouting bullshit posed as fact is disgusting. That's where their right to spout-off falls short - when it comes up against the peoples' right to not be lied to.
Evolution is not about the origin of the species. It's about how one species can change into another, depending on what's required to mate and furthur one's genes.
As for your "first living cell" guess, you're pretty far off. The first living cell ate what it used to be, or some substance that is *nearly* a cell, or something else tasty. Or just some of the first proteins, bobbing around in some ooze somewhere. DNA exists because it gave results. Small, almost insignificant results to begin with, but as it proved successful, its success itself guaranteed it would spread.
Your "Throw letters at the wall" analogy is almost right - if the incorrect letters disappeared after they hit the wall, then yes - throwing letters at a wall, at random, WOULD give you Shakespeare, and in a lot quicker time than you'd think. That's evolution - the bad ideas don't clutter up the world - they die, and don't get to pass on their genes to the next generation. It guarantees progress.
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I don't want my GUI to determine how applications can be viewed. The GUI has no idea what the application is doing, how it's displaying its information, how it's being used. It is not the GUI's place to figure that shit out. Quick access to minimising, maximising and restoring a window is, to me at least, very useful. I'm pretty sure I know what I want to do more than my GUI does, so I prefer if I can decide.
The way OSX works would be perfect if OSX knew what each application was doing. The problem is, it doesn't. That's when problems arrise, and the GUI becomes slower to use. That's not what I look for.
It's time consuming. I'm using my computer to work, not as a performance piece.
Well, Firefox has the same feature, so I guess you have to be angry with them, too.
And if they don't use geo-location via IP addresses? What if they ask for your TV license number before granting you a DRM license? Which is fair enough, I guess. Otherwise even Brits without TV licenses would get the content without paying for it.
Most people who want to watch this content run Windows, so it's not a problem for them. The BBC has a duty to do everything it can to protect its programmes. It's spending public money, so it has to protect it. That's why they use DRM. That's the same reasoning that prevents them from spending millions just to create a version for Linux - they can't justify spending so much money on such an (admittedly vocal) minority.
That's a Channel 4 show :) See if their 4oD service (downloadable shows) is available where you are. I think they're currently doing a beta trial.
Isn't that the whole purpose of the bittorrent tracker? Couldn't it keep track of the UDP ports for corresponding IP addresses?
As with most things in life, I use things because I want them to do what I want, not because I want to do what they want me to. Like my OS. Even if it's all fucked up, I want it to work how I expect. There shouldn't be a learning curve with your desktop, just like there is no learning curve on a real-life desktop. You don't reach for that pen and suddenly it shoots off 50cm to the right, starts hovering in mid-air with a weird blue glow around it, quickly followed by all the contents of my desk miraculously re-arranging themselves 20cm above the top of the desk, Dana Barrat style.
The problem isn't that the users don't "get" OSX. OSX is just an operating system. You're talking about it like it's the hardest quantum theory any mere mortal could never hope to understand. I'm pretty sure I have the cognitive ability to understand what the buttons do. I just don't think "optimise" is such a great idea for resizing windows. I want to resize the window, but the UI has to step in to do it for me, as I can't be trusted? Is that it? If I want to make a window as big as my screen, shit, I paid for the OS and the software in question - I should be able to do that if I so wish.
I'm not having a go at you, I just think that you're arguing from your own perspective. I've been using computers for decades, and there ARE reasons you want to maximise/minimise your UI however you please. You blame it on the apps, but doesn't change the fact the GUI is not allowing you to fix it manually. If I wanted an authoritarian figure telling me I, or some software I've bought, is doing something stupid, I'd get some input from my wife. I don't need my GUI to tell me what to do, snatching my balls in the process :)
don't hate microsoft. There is no reason to hate a software producer. Unless they made RapeFast-2000, in which case there might be a point. Most people just use software as most use their cars. It's only enthusiasts who find some reason to dislike Microsoft, and those reasons usually fall into the usual clichés of borgness, something about being unfair, or something about bad software. Funnily enough, other corporations who do things just as borgy/unfair/badly don't get the same criticism, most likely as Qui Gon Jinn said, "There's always a bigger fish" - except for Microsoft there IS no bigger fish, so the criticism stops there. yay unobjective criticisms! :)
Score: -1, Doesn't understand the difference between Stalinist Communism and Socialism
Seriously, you obviously have no idea. Look at the Socialist countries of Europe, and see how they're performing better than the US. See how their crime rates are usually lower, how their healthcare is usually better, how more people vote, less poverty, etc. etc. etc. Why are you so poorly informed about other countries? It makes you look a wee bit foolish when your indoctrinations come clashing up against reality. It's not your fault, most likely an influential family member also had the wrong end of the stick and kindly imparted that knowledge to you when you were too young to realise adults get things wrong. Either that or a communist stole your girlfriend when you were at college. Either way, you're not arguing from logic :)
And if it happens to you, it must be happening to everyone else! :-P
I've yet to have any problems with hibernation on XP... I have 2gigs of ram, and my PC has no problems hibernating or waking up. Same story on my wife's 1gb notebook. They both wake up very quickly. I hibernate my work computers (Fedora 6 and XP), and the XP box hibernates quicker, and wakes up quicker. They're identical HP/Compaq boxes, too. Interesting :)
You can do that - XP has a QoS service that can do exactly what you want. I use it when I'm at work to prioritise my RDP over any torrents downloading, and to make sure my mp3 streams from home don't get choked.
WinTC - a small service used to configure the Windows QoS service.
If that doesn't do it for you, you could download something like NetLimiter, and use that to manage your bandwidth.
The SAS have been using this since last year at the latest, so it most likely wasn't a yank. hooah indeed :)
Yeah!! Blame those dark guys!
People study what interests them, not what will make them rich. 8-year-olds don't weigh up being an astronaut or engineer by how much they'd get paid, or by how the sector is predicted to perform. If someone's balls get tickled every time they think of physics, chances are they'll study physics. Kids need toys and environments that make them want to think. If, though, you plonk them in front of the TV and make them grow up thinking pop singers and sports stars are not worthless human beings, then they'll most likely do everything they can to be singing sports stars, and the problem will perpetuate.
Blaming the dark fellas for the problems of a country is SOOOO 20th century. Get on the bus, Ray.
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Why not hold your judgement until you know what's actually going on? That way you won't look quite so childish. Saying it's "just sick" shows how emotionally bent out of shape you're able to get just over a mention of MS, regardless of knowing what they're actually doing. That's not objective. That helps no-one. What if MS was actually good for those kids? What if, and this is just an example (before you try to commit suicide over MS being hypothetically portrayed in positive light), they got more benefit out of using an OS they'd be likely to encounter in other parts of the world, in industry, etc.? Cynicism and knee-jerk reactions, like that which you so greatly displayed, could actually hurt their futures, if more folks thought like you. Being an unobjective fanboy helps no-one.
And I feel the same way when working in Windows than Linux - as you say, it's all down to the individual. That's why any fanboy asshat trying to convert people to any other camp just serves to piss them off - people will change when they want to - not before.
What you're proposing is nothing new at all - it has been standard practice since before WWII to do just that to invading troops. Wear them down, harass them, attack them where possible, etc. The US army needs to wake up, apparently. :)
We have drivers licenses, but we're not required to have it at any time. We are given a grace period in which to produce our details at your local Police station. Forcing everyone to have their ID at the same time will just turn all those who forget their IDs into criminals - as opposed to just those who lie when asked their details. "Papers, please!"
That's not true at all. Proteins existed without cells - we still eat protein, so clearly food pre-dates life. Non-living is not the same as non-organic - organic material existed before cells and DNA did. It's no big mystery. All this is well-known to anyone with a secondary-school science textbook.
I guess that's the problem with a lack of objectivity - you can get abused.
But only in America are these people not laughed back into their caves. Or so it seems. For a modern western nation, the US sure has some ancient eastern practices. Fluffing God seems to be one of them.
If they were just saying "blue is my favourite colour", then yes, I completely agree. But, they're actually saying "blue is the only colour. If you believe any other colours exist, you will get fucked up by God". Obviously, spouting bullshit posed as fact is disgusting. That's where their right to spout-off falls short - when it comes up against the peoples' right to not be lied to.
As for your "first living cell" guess, you're pretty far off. The first living cell ate what it used to be, or some substance that is *nearly* a cell, or something else tasty. Or just some of the first proteins, bobbing around in some ooze somewhere. DNA exists because it gave results. Small, almost insignificant results to begin with, but as it proved successful, its success itself guaranteed it would spread.
Your "Throw letters at the wall" analogy is almost right - if the incorrect letters disappeared after they hit the wall, then yes - throwing letters at a wall, at random, WOULD give you Shakespeare, and in a lot quicker time than you'd think. That's evolution - the bad ideas don't clutter up the world - they die, and don't get to pass on their genes to the next generation. It guarantees progress.
Because otherwise, if they say science is bullshit, they look stupid. Really, really stupid.