No you're not. A page designed with CSS is a lot more compatible with a hardware like a cellphone or a pda, because CSS can downgrade very well. Specifying alternate style sheets, you can have the page rendered acording to the preferences of the browser. Check out Opera to see some cool use of user style sheets.
About the size: let's say you have a 10 kb independent HTML file, with table layout, and I have a 5 kb HTML file and 10 kb CSS file. Guess who's gonna win in size at the third page loaded on the website? The css file will get cached by the user agent.
Also, a CSS website is a lot more accesible to people with disabilities (you insensitive clod!). The webpage and screen readers will have a clear path across the page, the menus will become clear and you may even insert some specific options for the audio rendering with CSS.
1 cd (possibly 4) for the Office suite at least 1 cd for the Mail server 1 cd for the project manager ~5 cds for the development environment 1 cd for the extra stuff (the Plus CD). no cd for the internationalization
should I count more? You are really trolling. Compare this to Fedora, and you'll find that it's not so bloated.
Dillo is so 90's. It doesn't even support a full set of HTML specification, let alone CSS or any other modern improvement. The world exist outside pages optimized for lynx:)
Don't forget the insensitive clod jokes. They really hot these days... people still moderate them funny. Might be a good idea to have a way of tracking what's the latest fad on slashdot...:)
The ability to run thousand of third parties applications maybe?:) The support of software giants such as Clara, Bonzy, Gator? First browser implemented as driver in the kernel?
Are you saying that HTTP redirection will not work anymore? What the F---? (I have some sites that use this:) ) I'm using Mozilla 100% of my time and I don't have a problem with file redirection, stupid spyware that wants to install itself, and every other goddamn think. Just because IE is crap Microsoft wants to break the way my Internet works? This is getting silly...
I don't get the problem. Those users that Microsoft wants to protect have to do two things: click "Save" and then go to the folder and double click the file to launch it. Who do they want to protect?
I bet those are really easy to stop with custom stylesheets. Mozilla and Opera have this, they just need to be configured. Of course, some sites might make valid use of something like this (cause they're cool), so in the end something like privoxy, which has a custom blocking list compiled by users might help.
Why nobody even mentions privoxy? It's a filtering proxy that eliminates 99% of ads and banners, with almost no effort involved in configuring. Privoxy runs on Linux and Windows and together with Proxy+ (free for 2 users) or squid can make a sweet setup for a local network... Those are the first things I install on any network I configure...
I don't know anything about Gmail, but my guess would be somthing like this: Gmail tries to give yo a visual widget to compose your emails. It does that with the regular IE widget (which is activeX) or they use Midas (visual composing widget), from Mozilla.
BTW, check Epoz or Kutu, those are some crossbrowser visual widgets (they even work in konqueror):)
what about, for example, leaving some "white" space, as all designers and usability experts know that it improves reading...
What about clearly dividing, inside the two main areas, the little areas, like: Reports, Books, etc... as every usability expert knows that dividing content into areas, well spaced-out, makes them easier to spot. Right now, you really have to concentrate on the page to find those.
What about listening to his own advice and clearly state what the website is about, also leaving the marketing bullshit out, cause right now is: "useit.com: usable information technology", which can mean a lot and anything.
What about providing with a zoom-out and zoom-in (alternate style sheets), cause on my 21", 1024x768, that text is big...
Clearly, he is not a usability expert that practices what he preaches
I live in an Eastern European country and I feel very much offended by what you said. I feel also very angry that my country is excluded from the customers list of most major online shops (and even the little ones). Hell, even PayPall doesn't want to deal with us. I think this is just bullshit, because I am a legitimate customer and I am excluded for all kind of stupid reasons. BTW, my country has internet, computer crime and electronic fraud laws.
Just name one spyware or malware for Linux that one user has to knowingly install (as it is on Windows) just to get some shity software running (like 3d screensaver or kazaa). Just name one.
Man, but they didn't rewrite it from the ground up. They had some BSD to base it on (Darwin), and the APIs that they used were already in existance. So really, a lot of the hard work was already done for them.
Are you sure about what you're saying? 'Cause at one point in your discussion you mention urpmi, and that means automatic dependency, so that should have solved your problems. So in the end, you're just trolling.
Come on, man! You need to PROGRAM (like source code and stuff) to get something to show in POVRAY. I can understand, for example, if you use a scene exporter from other place... but what you're saying is that there is no need for visual tools for modeling, animation, placing textures, etc... cause we can all use source code! And you can program in all the other packages (XSI, Maya, 3dMax, Lightwave, Blender), but nobody's replacing their visual interface.
ever heard about captive? native ntfs drivers (from your windows partition), mounted via wine, giving you full write support. And it's so damn easy to install!
But HAVE you read the article? it says among the top ten supercomputers in the world, five run linux and ONE runs something from Microsoft. Go figure...
Slackware is my favourite server distro, but Fedora (or Mandrake, but I don't like it that much) is a lot better for a desktop system. At least for the pleasure of running apt and Synaptic for your package management and application instalation...
As for solving your problems... edit/etc/inittab, and you'll see that the default runlevel is 3... change it to 4. It's good that you knew what man pages to read, to add the users...:)
As a conclusion, use the distro that targets the desktop users... (Xandros, Lindows, Fedora, Mandrake), you'll have a much easier life. But if you want to learn Linux, I can only recomand you Slackware:)
Then maybe you should install KDE, or maybe you just have some really weird expectation from a "desktop operating system". Because from any point I look at the problem, for me at least, the Linux desktop shell (KDE in this case, 'cause I'm a fan) beats Windows XP. Konqueror is like windows explorer on steroids, you have lots of themes, you have a multiple level clipboard, better text editor, better multimedia player (with Kmplayer), etc. So, if all you want is to surf the net, watch movies, work word & powepoint, I think Linux (KDE & OpenOffice.org) is there. If you need games or application that have no counterpart on Linux... then XP is for you. But then it's not Windows XP that is better, it's just lucky that it runs you specific application.
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A! forgot something. CSS allows you to separate the content from the presentation. Easier to read as page structure...
No you're not. A page designed with CSS is a lot more compatible with a hardware like a cellphone or a pda, because CSS can downgrade very well. Specifying alternate style sheets, you can have the page rendered acording to the preferences of the browser. Check out Opera to see some cool use of user style sheets.
About the size: let's say you have a 10 kb independent HTML file, with table layout, and I have a 5 kb HTML file and 10 kb CSS file. Guess who's gonna win in size at the third page loaded on the website? The css file will get cached by the user agent.
Also, a CSS website is a lot more accesible to people with disabilities (you insensitive clod!). The webpage and screen readers will have a clear path across the page, the menus will become clear and you may even insert some specific options for the audio rendering with CSS.
We exercise our minds as well as our bodies!
Have you head of chess or go? There are a lot of federations, so it must be sport then
ok, so let's count:
1 cd (possibly 4) for the Office suite
at least 1 cd for the Mail server
1 cd for the project manager
~5 cds for the development environment
1 cd for the extra stuff (the Plus CD).
no cd for the internationalization
should I count more? You are really trolling.
Compare this to Fedora, and you'll find that it's not so bloated.
Dillo is so 90's. It doesn't even support a full set of HTML specification, let alone CSS or any other modern improvement. The world exist outside pages optimized for lynx :)
Hey man, you can do that with KDE also. It's not such a bad feature, it's just that the net is a bad place...
Please explain how paing a 70$ tax to a private bussiness will make it legal to use the product you have paid for (the DVD).
Don't forget the insensitive clod jokes. They really hot these days... people still moderate them funny. Might be a good idea to have a way of tracking what's the latest fad on slashdot... :)
The ability to run thousand of third parties applications maybe? :) The support of software giants such as Clara, Bonzy, Gator? First browser implemented as driver in the kernel?
Are you saying that HTTP redirection will not work anymore? What the F---? (I have some sites that use this :) ) I'm using Mozilla 100% of my time and I don't have a problem with file redirection, stupid spyware that wants to install itself, and every other goddamn think. Just because IE is crap Microsoft wants to break the way my Internet works? This is getting silly...
I don't get the problem. Those users that Microsoft wants to protect have to do two things: click "Save" and then go to the folder and double click the file to launch it. Who do they want to protect?
I bet those are really easy to stop with custom stylesheets. Mozilla and Opera have this, they just need to be configured. Of course, some sites might make valid use of something like this (cause they're cool), so in the end something like privoxy, which has a custom blocking list compiled by users might help.
Why nobody even mentions privoxy? It's a filtering proxy that eliminates 99% of ads and banners, with almost no effort involved in configuring. Privoxy runs on Linux and Windows and together with Proxy+ (free for 2 users) or squid can make a sweet setup for a local network... Those are the first things I install on any network I configure...
I don't know anything about Gmail, but my guess would be somthing like this: Gmail tries to give yo a visual widget to compose your emails. It does that with the regular IE widget (which is activeX) or they use Midas (visual composing widget), from Mozilla.
:)
BTW, check Epoz or Kutu, those are some crossbrowser visual widgets (they even work in konqueror)
It's an old crap monitor... It makes noises on higher resolution... Life sucks, I know.
what about, for example, leaving some "white" space, as all designers and usability experts know that it improves reading... What about clearly dividing, inside the two main areas, the little areas, like: Reports, Books, etc... as every usability expert knows that dividing content into areas, well spaced-out, makes them easier to spot. Right now, you really have to concentrate on the page to find those. What about listening to his own advice and clearly state what the website is about, also leaving the marketing bullshit out, cause right now is: "useit.com: usable information technology", which can mean a lot and anything. What about providing with a zoom-out and zoom-in (alternate style sheets), cause on my 21", 1024x768, that text is big... Clearly, he is not a usability expert that practices what he preaches
I live in an Eastern European country and I feel very much offended by what you said. I feel also very angry that my country is excluded from the customers list of most major online shops (and even the little ones). Hell, even PayPall doesn't want to deal with us. I think this is just bullshit, because I am a legitimate customer and I am excluded for all kind of stupid reasons. BTW, my country has internet, computer crime and electronic fraud laws.
Just name one spyware or malware for Linux that one user has to knowingly install (as it is on Windows) just to get some shity software running (like 3d screensaver or kazaa). Just name one.
Man, but they didn't rewrite it from the ground up. They had some BSD to base it on (Darwin), and the APIs that they used were already in existance. So really, a lot of the hard work was already done for them.
Are you sure about what you're saying? 'Cause at one point in your discussion you mention urpmi, and that means automatic dependency, so that should have solved your problems. So in the end, you're just trolling.
Come on, man! You need to PROGRAM (like source code and stuff) to get something to show in POVRAY. I can understand, for example, if you use a scene exporter from other place... but what you're saying is that there is no need for visual tools for modeling, animation, placing textures, etc... cause we can all use source code! And you can program in all the other packages (XSI, Maya, 3dMax, Lightwave, Blender), but nobody's replacing their visual interface.
ever heard about captive? native ntfs drivers (from your windows partition), mounted via wine, giving you full write support. And it's so damn easy to install!
But HAVE you read the article? it says among the top ten supercomputers in the world, five run linux and ONE runs something from Microsoft. Go figure...
Slackware is my favourite server distro, but Fedora (or Mandrake, but I don't like it that much) is a lot better for a desktop system. At least for the pleasure of running apt and Synaptic for your package management and application instalation... As for solving your problems... edit /etc/inittab, and you'll see that the default runlevel is 3... change it to 4. It's good that you knew what man pages to read, to add the users... :)
As a conclusion, use the distro that targets the desktop users... (Xandros, Lindows, Fedora, Mandrake), you'll have a much easier life. But if you want to learn Linux, I can only recomand you Slackware :)
Then maybe you should install KDE, or maybe you just have some really weird expectation from a "desktop operating system". Because from any point I look at the problem, for me at least, the Linux desktop shell (KDE in this case, 'cause I'm a fan) beats Windows XP. Konqueror is like windows explorer on steroids, you have lots of themes, you have a multiple level clipboard, better text editor, better multimedia player (with Kmplayer), etc. So, if all you want is to surf the net, watch movies, work word & powepoint, I think Linux (KDE & OpenOffice.org) is there. If you need games or application that have no counterpart on Linux... then XP is for you. But then it's not Windows XP that is better, it's just lucky that it runs you specific application.