I heard steve jobs crapped them out onto a feathery pillow, surrounded by angelic harp music, in his white marble palace overlooking the Pacific, as the sun sets...
I hear ya! I'm a web developer, and I write PHP scripts and HTML for various websites hosted on linux boxes, but I never use anything apart from Windows as my desktop. Sure, you can get copycat apps for Linux that do what homesite does, but none of them look as good or run as fast.
Linux does most of what I need as a desktop user, but not all. That's where windows steps in, I'm afraid.
Linux=server
Windows=desktop
that's the only way they make sense. Reverse that and you're in trouble.:-P
Dude - I just looked at your screenshot. The fonts are all spindly and not antialiased well. The icons are huge and the text is miles away from it. And as for your dock...
If that's the best aqua you can get for linux, I'm laughing. It looks like some 14-year-old finnish student copied it while high on crystal meth in his parent's basement.
Do you really thing there are only 2 themes for XP? http://www.themexp.org and http://www.deviantart.com will show you just how good it can look. I've yet to see anything from any other OS that comes close to the customisation and excellent tight look you can get from a great theme on XP.
The one thing about Linux themes is, once you start using them, they fall apart. The menus and windows don't have the cohesion present in XP's themes. Buttons look out of place, icons move by 1px off where they should be, things aren't redrawn properly, etc. That just doesn't happen on XP.
Of course, this being/. I'm not expecting anyone to take this on board:-P
Check out www.deviantart.com and www.themexp.org for some real visual styles. If they included more styles, you'd complain it was bloated. Because they leave you to choose the style you want, you blame them for making it ugly.
You can say what you want, but I've yet to see a linux desktop environment that looked half as good, olive green or not.:-P
Seriously, as has been pointed out before: google-watch.org is a personal venting site for tin-hat-powered musings and assumptions. Because the owner's site (namebase) wasn't deeply and fully indexed (it's a site full of information on people), Daniel thought it was a personal slant, so he started slinging mud the way the best toddlers do. genius. Apparently, he wanted every search for a person to come up with his site's page on that person first. Utter fascism. Try telling him that, though.
Google have hundreds of thousands of disks to play with. Their distributed file system can handle hundreds of terabytes in a single filesystem, so I really don't think they're eyeing up a firewire hard disk and going "ooh... should we get another 80gigs? Where could we plug it in?" - they have storage sorted, with a capital S.
After using PHP since '99, and last year I thought it was about time for me to make my own templating toolkit. I came up with a great class I use in pretty much everything I do now. I use it for creating anything from arrays of data (which, as it happens, fits in nicely with my database class).
Depending on the logic the templating engine understands, you can make excellent websites with tight HTML in minutes.
The overheads are always present, but it's easy enough to write your own caching methods should you need them. I run a production website at work using the engine, and it serves up massive HTML pages for the sales consultants through my engine, and the performance is great (especially seeing as it's running on my spare computer under my desk:-P)
I guess what I'm saying is, it's not intrinsically a good or bad thing, as it can be misused beyond belief. If you choose the right solution for your problem, weighing up the pros and cons of it all, it's definitely an approach that can work wonders for most websites...
I think it was Greatshead or something who invented it. It's called his "Shield", and was a revolutionary method for digging deep-level tunnels. It's why the tube is called the tube - his method allowed for perfectly tubular tunnels to be dug. Other underground systems used the "cut and cover" method, where a trench was dug then had rails laid and then covered up. There's a statue of him next to the bank of england in the city of london...
The reverse gear doesn't matter. When the machine moves through the ground, it places behind it rings to strengthen the tunnel. These rings are smaller than the machine, so it's perpetually blocked in, with only one way to move;)
Sure - if half the country is shooting at you. Fortunately, there is only a tiny proportion of the country shooting at anyone. Fox et al don't want you to know that, so they show stock footage of "angry looking arab-type dudes" running around with AK47s, to make you believe Iraq is a truly dangerous place.
If the pay has to be so good for the contractors, why are the Iraqi police being paid a pittance for the most dangerous job in Iraq?
I know what you're saying, but this system could flag innocent people. It is perfectly acceptable for someone at McDonalds to drive a Rolls Royce - they shouldn't be sent paperwork or investigated on that reason alone.
As we've seen before, US Gov't computer systems (especially when networked) have a surprising tendancy to screw up fantastically. When we're talking about federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison, I'd hope they've put a lot more work into this system than, say, their pathetic airline check-in flagging system. soundex? pah!
I'm all for the unpopular stance, but yours isn't popular because it's missing the whole point.;)
Troll? It's a valid point. How can people get pissy at bad Indian tech support when tech support from anywhere can be worse? Fair enough if every single tech support worker in Europe and the US was perfect and never screwed up. If they never put you on hold and disconnected you. If they never made stuff up on the spot. If they never passed the buck on to another member of staff. The only time you can take the piss out of Indian tech support is when the other tech support is perfect. Until then, it's a bad and fatally flawed argument.
Christ! Are you stuck in the 1800s or something? The caste system in India is less powerful than any golf club in the US. It's certainly less powerful than a good fraternity. If anything, the US is the one with the caste system, not India.
That's why I said border-line racist. Sheesh. You didn't challenge the fact they aren't going to help squat.
Why should they stay in the US? If they do that, they deprive an Indian of a job. If all people are created equal, why is the American more deserving of a job than an Indian guy? Your example of one single guy to show why the US should impose laws on foreign trade is hilarious. Maybe he was a straight-up shitty coder. It does happen.
Why on earth should a country have to take an American because America took someone with an H1-B visa? Do you even know what an H1-B visa is??
Inflation, subsidies, aid. Those are 3 things that have a combined dollar strength of billions of dollars. That amount of money used wisely could avert a situation like this.
I used Netgear's support in India, and I've never experienced such good support. They took my details and every time I phoned up they knew exactly what products I've got/had, and any issues I've experienced in the past.
I've also spoken with other companys' technical support in the UK and other European countries, and it's been god-damned awful.
Seeing as not all western technical support is good, blaming other technical support for not being all good is kinda hypocritical...
I know what you're saying, but I think I didn't explain myself properly:) What the software I'm talking about does, it effectively make a vision->hearing bridge. It doesn't convert to a form understandable by humans. You certainly can't put one of these devices on and walk around your apartment with your eyes closed - you'll hurt yourself. What the software does is bombard you with as much information about the visible world, by turning it into sonic information. Facial recognition and accurate hearing are good, but they won't tell you there's a low-hanging sign 2 feet in front of your face... It essentially tries to "re-route" vision through your ears, putting a lot of the computational emphasis on your brain to decypher the apparent nonsense thrown at it. It takes time to get accustomed to, but I think this will be the real deal, for one simple reason - it takes ages to talk. Ever see one of those documentaries late at night where they have the voice-over person describing the scene for the hard-of-hearing? They have to talk really quickly to fit in between the normal narrator. Imagine trying to describe everything you can see in front of you, as quickly as your brain realises it's there. I can glance over my desk in under a second and be relatively sure I know where all the big things are. If someone had to describe it to me - "There are two LCD screens in front of you, a simpsons calendar to the left, and an old cup of tea" etc - it would take about a minute, and be really hard work. Now, imagine being blind, walking down the street and having a conversation with someone. If you've got a voice talking to you in one ear and you're listening to your friend in the other, you're not going to be able to do both at once. Effectively, you have 5 senses, but can only use 4 at once. You have to choose between listening to your "sight", or your friend. By encoding the visual world as strange sounds, your brain can listen to them while you listen to the conversation (the same way as you can listen to music and talk to people).
Theoretically, with a person well-adjusted to the sonic landscape thing, they could play soccer/football:)
However, the sonic landscape thing wouldn't be able to convey something as complicated as a page of written text, which is where the iCare thing comes into play;)
Slashdot Mirror
j/k :-P
It's now at over one million pounds... I hope they can get rid of the freaky bids, as I'd hate for someone's prank to screw up these peoples' plans...
Linux does most of what I need as a desktop user, but not all. That's where windows steps in, I'm afraid.
Linux=server
Windows=desktop
that's the only way they make sense. Reverse that and you're in trouble. :-P
If that's the best aqua you can get for linux, I'm laughing. It looks like some 14-year-old finnish student copied it while high on crystal meth in his parent's basement.
Your argument is crumbling. ;)
The one thing about Linux themes is, once you start using them, they fall apart. The menus and windows don't have the cohesion present in XP's themes. Buttons look out of place, icons move by 1px off where they should be, things aren't redrawn properly, etc. That just doesn't happen on XP.
Of course, this being /. I'm not expecting anyone to take this on board :-P
You can say what you want, but I've yet to see a linux desktop environment that looked half as good, olive green or not. :-P
Seriously, as has been pointed out before: google-watch.org is a personal venting site for tin-hat-powered musings and assumptions. Because the owner's site (namebase) wasn't deeply and fully indexed (it's a site full of information on people), Daniel thought it was a personal slant, so he started slinging mud the way the best toddlers do. genius. Apparently, he wanted every search for a person to come up with his site's page on that person first. Utter fascism. Try telling him that, though.
Google have hundreds of thousands of disks to play with. Their distributed file system can handle hundreds of terabytes in a single filesystem, so I really don't think they're eyeing up a firewire hard disk and going "ooh... should we get another 80gigs? Where could we plug it in?" - they have storage sorted, with a capital S.
Depending on the logic the templating engine understands, you can make excellent websites with tight HTML in minutes.
The overheads are always present, but it's easy enough to write your own caching methods should you need them. I run a production website at work using the engine, and it serves up massive HTML pages for the sales consultants through my engine, and the performance is great (especially seeing as it's running on my spare computer under my desk :-P)
I guess what I'm saying is, it's not intrinsically a good or bad thing, as it can be misused beyond belief. If you choose the right solution for your problem, weighing up the pros and cons of it all, it's definitely an approach that can work wonders for most websites...
"Land of the Free" my ass. "Land of the free to get shafted" more like.
I guess there must be some commie-hatin' good ol' boys modding this story...
I think it was Greatshead or something who invented it. It's called his "Shield", and was a revolutionary method for digging deep-level tunnels. It's why the tube is called the tube - his method allowed for perfectly tubular tunnels to be dug. Other underground systems used the "cut and cover" method, where a trench was dug then had rails laid and then covered up. There's a statue of him next to the bank of england in the city of london...
The reverse gear doesn't matter. When the machine moves through the ground, it places behind it rings to strengthen the tunnel. These rings are smaller than the machine, so it's perpetually blocked in, with only one way to move ;)
If the pay has to be so good for the contractors, why are the Iraqi police being paid a pittance for the most dangerous job in Iraq?
As we've seen before, US Gov't computer systems (especially when networked) have a surprising tendancy to screw up fantastically. When we're talking about federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison, I'd hope they've put a lot more work into this system than, say, their pathetic airline check-in flagging system. soundex? pah!
I'm all for the unpopular stance, but yours isn't popular because it's missing the whole point. ;)
Do you even know what a trifecta is? :-P
Troll? It's a valid point. How can people get pissy at bad Indian tech support when tech support from anywhere can be worse? Fair enough if every single tech support worker in Europe and the US was perfect and never screwed up. If they never put you on hold and disconnected you. If they never made stuff up on the spot. If they never passed the buck on to another member of staff. The only time you can take the piss out of Indian tech support is when the other tech support is perfect. Until then, it's a bad and fatally flawed argument.
You want to live in French?? :-P
he must be on /. somewhere...
Bad dave420! Naughty dave420! How dare you remind everyone that being a citizen of the US isn't that great a deal!
Christ! Are you stuck in the 1800s or something? The caste system in India is less powerful than any golf club in the US. It's certainly less powerful than a good fraternity. If anything, the US is the one with the caste system, not India.
Why should they stay in the US? If they do that, they deprive an Indian of a job. If all people are created equal, why is the American more deserving of a job than an Indian guy? Your example of one single guy to show why the US should impose laws on foreign trade is hilarious. Maybe he was a straight-up shitty coder. It does happen.
Why on earth should a country have to take an American because America took someone with an H1-B visa? Do you even know what an H1-B visa is??
Inflation, subsidies, aid. Those are 3 things that have a combined dollar strength of billions of dollars. That amount of money used wisely could avert a situation like this.
I've also spoken with other companys' technical support in the UK and other European countries, and it's been god-damned awful.
Seeing as not all western technical support is good, blaming other technical support for not being all good is kinda hypocritical...
Theoretically, with a person well-adjusted to the sonic landscape thing, they could play soccer/football :)
However, the sonic landscape thing wouldn't be able to convey something as complicated as a page of written text, which is where the iCare thing comes into play ;)