Worst use of Flash I've ever seen: A pure HTML website with a Flash navigation that doesn't even have any effects that couldn't be trivially implemented with CSS. Ugh.
Given the fact that a number of other apps display a list of applications you need to close before you can install the app (updated whenever you click "Next") I think it'd be better to allow me to do just that rather than tell me I have to shut down my system.
Do you hate secure networking that much? As the documentation Swordfish showed, a blowjob ans John Travolta holding a gun to one's face is everything that stands between a hacker and a 128 bit-encrypted login form revealing the administrator password!
Okay, I admit that in your case Vista is better. Unfortunately, though, most users are both the administrator and the idiot who installs everything they find on the net...
Safari updates are obnoxious, regardless of the OS. On Windows they sneak them in through the back door, while on OS X Safari updates for some reason require you to reboot the computer.
Yes, I have to reboot a Unix box because I update a web browser. I don't know what came over Apple to make that decision; the only reason I can think of is that Safari hooks into the kernel - and quite seriously, a kext for a browser is a pretty bad design choice.
Okay, you could write a program that dynamically generates SRPMs to user specifications, but then again, why not change the package manager to directly support sub-package level configurability?
"Hand-write this config file" might be okay for xorg.conf fine-tuning, but it's not okay as a step towards building a package. It's even less okay when I can't specify that the package manager shall apply these changes to all SRPMs I will build in the future.
When I want to make sure that all packages that can support KDE4 do so, Portage just requires me to add "kde4" to the USE variable/etc/make.conf and rebuild all affected packages (ie. emerge -DN world). All future packages will have KDE4 support enabled unless I make a per-package exception. Can SRPMs/rpm/yum do that?
Portage decouples the actual packages from the options. A package manager that doesn't do that is not very good in my opinion - the end user shouldn't have to touch the package tree (much less add to it) in order to change a build option.
Or we combine the powers of water, air, earth, fire and love to form Captain Planet. Or - even better - we combine Cheetos, Coke, anonymity, too much spare time and Linux to form Captain Fanboy, with the power of writing scathing flames on Slashdot.
Of course, Microsoft could counter that by combining the powers of Soviet Russia, old Koreans, Nathalie Portman, hot grits and Cowboy Neal to form Captain Meme, who drowns out everything Captain Fanboy posts with a flood of +5, Funny posts.
Spyware that's hard to defend against. Trojan-style malware doesn't need security flaws to enter the system, thus Vista's new security features won't help much against it.
I can't tell an RPM that I want to build Gnucash with HBCI support. Or that I want ImageMagick without support for JBIG images.
Like the sibling says - USE flags, SLOTs etc. offr a great degree of configurability if you care to use them properly. (I won't touch CFLAGs as those are mostly performance-related.) The advantage of Gentoo is that you can decide which parts of which programs you want to use on a very fine level. Depending on what you enable/disable that can mean you don't have to install large packages you dn't really need
For example, several package contain optional X11 interfaces. I don't know if Debian etc. put that into a separate foo-x11 package, but if they don't you automatically have to install X11 just to install foo because you could at some point need X11 to use all of foo's capabilities. On a headless machine that'd mean you lug around X11 without a good reason, especially if the program's configure allows you to disable the X11 component altogether. Gentoo caters to that - there's an X11 USE flag; if it's off no X11-dependent parts will be built.
Gentoo carrys on, but it doesn't grow. It was supposed to be the meta-distribution that can run on any Unix-like OS, but the technology that would allow this (Prefixed Portage) still doesn't happen because very few of the maintainers care to write compatible ebuilds. Code-wise it has been there for years, but as someone who uses Portage on OS X I know how many holes there are in the prefixed tree.
I just tell people that with such a small laptop, I'm clearly not trying to compensate for anything:P
Tell them you are. "You know, it's just too big! I carry around an extra-small subnotebook to distract people from its enormeous size." It'll work, guaranteed! You know you can trust Slashdot for pickup advice!
I actually preferred the drawer. Sure, it made the window bigger, but it didn't require a proto-dialog that doesn't fit in with anything else. I also could look at the details for one event while having the entire month in view.
I think Apple should replace the event inspector with one of those black floating windows (cf. Quick Look). That would make it freely positionable so it doesn't have to obscure the day/week/minth view and it would make the interface more consistent.
There's a clear industry standard at work here: "X ready" means "supports at leat the very lowest possible definition of X, even if just barely". "HD Ready" means 720p (and only because 720i doesn't exist); "Vista Ready" means "capable of booting Vista Home Basic"... "Desktop Ready" obviously has to mean "supports any GUI that follows the desktop metaphor".
Linux deserved a "Desktop Ready" sticker as soon as it got X11.
Well; regular windows are unified but iTunes is still a bit different, floating sub-windows are still the black thing (actually useful because it indicates that you're dealing with a sub-window) and certain apps like Garage Band still look unlike everything else. It got much better, though.
Oh, and the event detail popup in iCal is entirely unlike everything else in the OS, even to the point of being the only thing with (quite ugly) vertical stripes. iCal really got a lot worse with Leopard.
And lo, the LORD appeared unto Moses and the LORD said thus: "Moses, I command you to look at this picture I found." And Moses looked at the picture and it was of a naked man doing unusual things to his behind. And a great unease came over Moses and he said: "My LORD, I beg you for a spoon to carve my eyes out with." And the LORD was greatly amused.
If we use a single UI for all Linux PCs everyone will have to share one monitor! I don't think that's very convenient.
Maybe we can work out a compromise - like one UI every 100 square kilometers. The monitors could then be made really big and attached to blimps. Would that be acceptable?
Actually, a 4 is potentialy still pretty decent. Depending on your frame of reference, a 10 means "everything I could expect from this movie" or "the absolute best the movie industry can conceivably* create at the moment". In the first case a 4 isn't that good, but then again if you follow this kind of scoring scheme you will be considered to have panned something if the score comes out below 8.5. This kind of scoring is usually found in video game magazines.
If you use the other scoring method, a 4 is still quite reasonable and most probably fairly standard. 40% of the best Hollywood can get sounds about right for a decent summer blockbuster. Of course nobody reviews like that because after a while companies will show up and casually note that they're advertising in your magazine/show/whatever, especially since you give their latest work a 9.5 rating, wink, wink. And then you silently adjust your scoring method.
* I know what that word means. I'm not from Sicily.
A fair bit of that is that everyone was super excited about them and they completely failed to do any of the things people expected.
Let me go on a tangent for a bit. There is a turn-based tactics game for the original Playstation, Final Fantasy Tactics. I like it, mostly for two reasons: The game's story is dark and gritty, full of backstabbing and corruption. And if you accept that magic exists it's also entirely believable, especially for a Final Fantasy game. It feels like you're playing through a particularly dark Shakespearean play.
Also, the game's combat system forces you to think in advance, as (for example) magic users have to charge for a while before casting a spell, leaving them completely vulnerable - and as most spells have an area of effect, if you want to zap someone and he uses the charge time to move right next to the caster you end up with a fried caster. The result was a game that, unlike most other Final Fantasy games, very much appealed to me.
A few years later Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the GBA came out. While most people seem to think it's a perfectly agreeable GBA game I think it's awful. The dark, gritty story is replaced with a little boy who finds a magical book that takes him to a candy-colored wonderland where he immediately becomes a mercenary. Uh-huh. And they dumbed down the combat so even the most powerful spells have no charge time. But because things got too easy, they added a referee who randomly declares items or skills you may not use during combat.
To me, FFTA is an insult. To its predecessor and probably also to me as a gamer. Not because it doesn't work as a game; it does, more or less. But because it doesn't work as a worthy successor to FFT. It completely ignores all the things that made the first part great and instead goes into the other direction at full speed. Where the first part made sense the second part is random and arbitrary. Where the first part was geared towards adults the second one is a coloring book.
The Shadow Menace and its two sequels did exactly that: They delivered exactly what people didn't want in a way they didn't like. All the big questions people had after Return of the Jedi are answered within five minutes and with as little suspense as possible. An annoying in-your-face comic relief character makes one feel as if the movie targets a lower age bracket (the early twenties being too old already). The marvel of the force gets destroyed in favor of technobabel, something Star Wars doesn't really thrive on.
The prequels gave people things they didn't want (Backstroke reference semi-intended). Their merit as movies aside, as successors to the original trilogy they don't quite hold up - and as prequels they completely fall flat because much of the suspense of the original trilogy relies on mysteries that are solved in the first three movies.
Of course it doesn't help that George Lucas isn't exactly the best writer out there.
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Worst use of Flash I've ever seen: A pure HTML website with a Flash navigation that doesn't even have any effects that couldn't be trivially implemented with CSS. Ugh.
Given the fact that a number of other apps display a list of applications you need to close before you can install the app (updated whenever you click "Next") I think it'd be better to allow me to do just that rather than tell me I have to shut down my system.
Do you hate secure networking that much? As the documentation Swordfish showed, a blowjob ans John Travolta holding a gun to one's face is everything that stands between a hacker and a 128 bit-encrypted login form revealing the administrator password!
Okay, I admit that in your case Vista is better. Unfortunately, though, most users are both the administrator and the idiot who installs everything they find on the net...
Safari updates are obnoxious, regardless of the OS. On Windows they sneak them in through the back door, while on OS X Safari updates for some reason require you to reboot the computer.
Yes, I have to reboot a Unix box because I update a web browser. I don't know what came over Apple to make that decision; the only reason I can think of is that Safari hooks into the kernel - and quite seriously, a kext for a browser is a pretty bad design choice.
Okay, you could write a program that dynamically generates SRPMs to user specifications, but then again, why not change the package manager to directly support sub-package level configurability?
/etc/make.conf and rebuild all affected packages (ie. emerge -DN world). All future packages will have KDE4 support enabled unless I make a per-package exception. Can SRPMs/rpm/yum do that?
"Hand-write this config file" might be okay for xorg.conf fine-tuning, but it's not okay as a step towards building a package. It's even less okay when I can't specify that the package manager shall apply these changes to all SRPMs I will build in the future.
When I want to make sure that all packages that can support KDE4 do so, Portage just requires me to add "kde4" to the USE variable
Portage decouples the actual packages from the options. A package manager that doesn't do that is not very good in my opinion - the end user shouldn't have to touch the package tree (much less add to it) in order to change a build option.
Actually, they will just remove the C key from all keyboards.
Or we combine the powers of water, air, earth, fire and love to form Captain Planet. Or - even better - we combine Cheetos, Coke, anonymity, too much spare time and Linux to form Captain Fanboy, with the power of writing scathing flames on Slashdot.
Of course, Microsoft could counter that by combining the powers of Soviet Russia, old Koreans, Nathalie Portman, hot grits and Cowboy Neal to form Captain Meme, who drowns out everything Captain Fanboy posts with a flood of +5, Funny posts.
Spyware that's hard to defend against. Trojan-style malware doesn't need security flaws to enter the system, thus Vista's new security features won't help much against it.
I can't tell an RPM that I want to build Gnucash with HBCI support. Or that I want ImageMagick without support for JBIG images.
Like the sibling says - USE flags, SLOTs etc. offr a great degree of configurability if you care to use them properly. (I won't touch CFLAGs as those are mostly performance-related.) The advantage of Gentoo is that you can decide which parts of which programs you want to use on a very fine level. Depending on what you enable/disable that can mean you don't have to install large packages you dn't really need
For example, several package contain optional X11 interfaces. I don't know if Debian etc. put that into a separate foo-x11 package, but if they don't you automatically have to install X11 just to install foo because you could at some point need X11 to use all of foo's capabilities. On a headless machine that'd mean you lug around X11 without a good reason, especially if the program's configure allows you to disable the X11 component altogether. Gentoo caters to that - there's an X11 USE flag; if it's off no X11-dependent parts will be built.
Gentoo carrys on, but it doesn't grow. It was supposed to be the meta-distribution that can run on any Unix-like OS, but the technology that would allow this (Prefixed Portage) still doesn't happen because very few of the maintainers care to write compatible ebuilds. Code-wise it has been there for years, but as someone who uses Portage on OS X I know how many holes there are in the prefixed tree.
It's sad to see Gentoo move on so slowly.
You should get in touch with Panasonic. Maybe they will make a ToughEEE. Alternatively, you could just put your subnotebook in a clear plastic bag.
I actually preferred the drawer. Sure, it made the window bigger, but it didn't require a proto-dialog that doesn't fit in with anything else. I also could look at the details for one event while having the entire month in view.
I think Apple should replace the event inspector with one of those black floating windows (cf. Quick Look). That would make it freely positionable so it doesn't have to obscure the day/week/minth view and it would make the interface more consistent.
There's a clear industry standard at work here: "X ready" means "supports at leat the very lowest possible definition of X, even if just barely". "HD Ready" means 720p (and only because 720i doesn't exist); "Vista Ready" means "capable of booting Vista Home Basic"... "Desktop Ready" obviously has to mean "supports any GUI that follows the desktop metaphor".
Linux deserved a "Desktop Ready" sticker as soon as it got X11.
Well; regular windows are unified but iTunes is still a bit different, floating sub-windows are still the black thing (actually useful because it indicates that you're dealing with a sub-window) and certain apps like Garage Band still look unlike everything else. It got much better, though.
Oh, and the event detail popup in iCal is entirely unlike everything else in the OS, even to the point of being the only thing with (quite ugly) vertical stripes. iCal really got a lot worse with Leopard.
Try singing; that should work.
I think the "Unstoppable" music is even worse. An IDE is not an action movie and trying to pass it off as one is, well... lame.
The company desperately tries to be cool, but like everyone who does that they fail. Horribly.
An apocryphal text mentions this:
And lo, the LORD appeared unto Moses and the LORD said thus: "Moses, I command you to look at this picture I found." And Moses looked at the picture and it was of a naked man doing unusual things to his behind. And a great unease came over Moses and he said: "My LORD, I beg you for a spoon to carve my eyes out with." And the LORD was greatly amused.
In Soviet Korea "What's funny about this" repeating overlords welcome only old people.
If we use a single UI for all Linux PCs everyone will have to share one monitor! I don't think that's very convenient.
Maybe we can work out a compromise - like one UI every 100 square kilometers. The monitors could then be made really big and attached to blimps. Would that be acceptable?
Ducks aren't that funny.
Actually, a 4 is potentialy still pretty decent. Depending on your frame of reference, a 10 means "everything I could expect from this movie" or "the absolute best the movie industry can conceivably* create at the moment". In the first case a 4 isn't that good, but then again if you follow this kind of scoring scheme you will be considered to have panned something if the score comes out below 8.5. This kind of scoring is usually found in video game magazines.
If you use the other scoring method, a 4 is still quite reasonable and most probably fairly standard. 40% of the best Hollywood can get sounds about right for a decent summer blockbuster. Of course nobody reviews like that because after a while companies will show up and casually note that they're advertising in your magazine/show/whatever, especially since you give their latest work a 9.5 rating, wink, wink. And then you silently adjust your scoring method.
* I know what that word means. I'm not from Sicily.
A fair bit of that is that everyone was super excited about them and they completely failed to do any of the things people expected.
Let me go on a tangent for a bit. There is a turn-based tactics game for the original Playstation, Final Fantasy Tactics. I like it, mostly for two reasons: The game's story is dark and gritty, full of backstabbing and corruption. And if you accept that magic exists it's also entirely believable, especially for a Final Fantasy game. It feels like you're playing through a particularly dark Shakespearean play.
Also, the game's combat system forces you to think in advance, as (for example) magic users have to charge for a while before casting a spell, leaving them completely vulnerable - and as most spells have an area of effect, if you want to zap someone and he uses the charge time to move right next to the caster you end up with a fried caster. The result was a game that, unlike most other Final Fantasy games, very much appealed to me.
A few years later Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the GBA came out. While most people seem to think it's a perfectly agreeable GBA game I think it's awful. The dark, gritty story is replaced with a little boy who finds a magical book that takes him to a candy-colored wonderland where he immediately becomes a mercenary. Uh-huh. And they dumbed down the combat so even the most powerful spells have no charge time. But because things got too easy, they added a referee who randomly declares items or skills you may not use during combat.
To me, FFTA is an insult. To its predecessor and probably also to me as a gamer. Not because it doesn't work as a game; it does, more or less. But because it doesn't work as a worthy successor to FFT. It completely ignores all the things that made the first part great and instead goes into the other direction at full speed. Where the first part made sense the second part is random and arbitrary. Where the first part was geared towards adults the second one is a coloring book.
The Shadow Menace and its two sequels did exactly that: They delivered exactly what people didn't want in a way they didn't like. All the big questions people had after Return of the Jedi are answered within five minutes and with as little suspense as possible. An annoying in-your-face comic relief character makes one feel as if the movie targets a lower age bracket (the early twenties being too old already). The marvel of the force gets destroyed in favor of technobabel, something Star Wars doesn't really thrive on.
The prequels gave people things they didn't want (Backstroke reference semi-intended). Their merit as movies aside, as successors to the original trilogy they don't quite hold up - and as prequels they completely fall flat because much of the suspense of the original trilogy relies on mysteries that are solved in the first three movies.
Of course it doesn't help that George Lucas isn't exactly the best writer out there.
This one. It's critically acclaimed. Well... At least critics claimed a lot of things about this movie.