But I was just at my local Fry's store in Alpharetta, GA, and there wasn't a single person looking at the Vista stuff, and the locked display case was completely full, like no one has actually bought any copies yet. I didn't even know it was launch day until I saw this thread.
Early on in the essay he makes a comment about IT insulting it's customers. Well, that's the problem: Users aren't "customers" of IT. The users and IT are all working for a company, and they're both given their own goals, objectives, responsibilities, etc. The IT department goals may be different from the users goals, but no less valid.
Duh. But why would I want to go to a whole separate location just to look at hte list of games? The client obviously has them all, it just doesn't have a way of displaying them in a useful manner.
The GameTap interface was just SO BAD I couldn't stand it. They spent too much time trying to be clever with the UI, and it's bascially unusable:
Annoying intro video
GameTap TV Videos that play with no way to tell them "Don't play any video", even when simply launching a game.
No way to see the whole list of games available, you need to spin through their "ring" interface.
Interface as a whole is graphically terrible
I had actually paid for a subscription, based on the news of "Sam & Max" and "Uru", but after my first taste of the GameTap experience, called and got a refund. At least you get a free trial, so it was no problem, and I will say that it was a pleasant surprise to get a helpful person on their tech support line.
I doin't care about EP2 after the sidappointment of EP1, but I'm really looking formward to playing Portal. Is that delayed as well? God, I hope not. The video made it look like a lot of fun.
RCP and Swing are two different things. You want to compare SWT and Swing. And that's a Holy War I'm not inclined to get involved in.
I'm using RCP to develop an in-house application, and I'm very impressed. Once you get over the huge learning curve (because the RCP framework encompasses such a large set of functionality), it's very nice. The Eclipse PDE is a nice dvelopment environment. The plugin metaphor is very powerful, and seems to work quite well. I'm also using the EMF (Eclipse Modelling Framework), and purchased WindowBuilder Pro to help out with the GUI work.
There's no printing, storage, or shipping costs associated with the PDF versions. I'd cheerfully start purchasing every one of the books, but no way I'm paying that much for an electronic download. I think my price point for this would be no more than $10. And what about upgrades? Errata? What's the policy on that?
I won't even look at buying a game until it's dropped below $30, and most I wait until it's below $20. A few exceptions are things like Psychonauts or Doom 3.
It might take a while, but by the time I get a game, it'll have most of it's patches out, the game guides will be up, and I'll have seen enough reviews to know if it is even worth buying in the first place.
MMORPGS are left until the client is released for free. I'm not spending money to buy a game that requires a monthly subscription.
Who cares about my.yahoo.com? I'm speaking of the default, first thing a user sees, first impression of yahoo: www.yahoo.com. This is supposed to be their best face, the thing that attracts people to and keeps them at their site. Instead, it's a horrible mish-mash of poorly organized, random content, the visual equivalent of cacophony. Why is it MY job to make their site useful?
What part of the JavaScript offering is even under discussion here? This is entirely based on the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. None of this pertains to the hypothetical possible theoretical cahnges that you may or may not do at a different site (my.yahoo.com), but the atrocious www.yahoo.com. Why can't you get your facts straight, and address the question at hand, rather than constructing imaginary arguments, attributing them to me, and then rebutting them (poorly, I might add)? You're just talking to yourself.
Again, why should I need to customize their web site? Why do I need to invest my time in cleaning up their poor design, ugly layout, and otherwise atrocious web pages? Yahoo has traditionally hasa cluttered, unappealing design, and it continues to grow worse as time goes on. And if that is their idea of good web design, I'll have no part of it.
I'm judging the applicability of Yahoo offering any sort of web design guidance when they can't even produce a decent landing page for their site. As a developer, their cluttered, ugly, messy web site is a serious negative influence on me taking anything they say about web design seriously.
And who's even mentioned search? You simply created made that inference up out of thin air. Read more carefully before you post.
What do you mean, "your Yahoo portal"? Why would I want to or need to customize their site? You seem to be agreeing that the default page presented by Yahoo is cluttered and useless. Considering the useless mess I'm presented with as their front page, I have no interest in proceeding any further into Yahoo land.
Yahoo has one of the least useful, most cluttered, and unappealing sites on the web. It seems pretty abusrd for them to claim to be releaseing "prescriptive guidance to help solve common design problems on the Web". Or perhaps they simply aren't practicing what they preach?
Well, it was impossible to watch the show. As soon as football season started, Futurama would vanish. I can't tell you how many times I went to my TiVo to watch the show, only to see the end of a football game.
Further adding insult to injury, the show at 7:30 that never was pre-empted was King of the Hill reruns. It would make me crazy to see the repeats being run on time when the first-runs were constantly pre-empted. I just don't understand why Fox even bothered to schedule a show there, when it NEVER got a chance to run during football season.
Finally, the show was never meant to run that early on a Sunday. It was a much more adult show, and needed a later time slot.
I don't buy the argument. Copying a file doesn't hurt anyone or lead to a loss for anyone. However, stealing an item does. Most people are fine with copying illegally, but they won't steal.
Regardless of your opinions of whether anyone is hurt or if it leads to a tangible loss, it is stealing under the law. If you don't agree, then the laws should be changed, but until then it is a crime, it is theft, and saying otherwise because no tangible good is involved is just sophistry.
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But I was just at my local Fry's store in Alpharetta, GA, and there wasn't a single person looking at the Vista stuff, and the locked display case was completely full, like no one has actually bought any copies yet. I didn't even know it was launch day until I saw this thread.
Early on in the essay he makes a comment about IT insulting it's customers. Well, that's the problem: Users aren't "customers" of IT. The users and IT are all working for a company, and they're both given their own goals, objectives, responsibilities, etc. The IT department goals may be different from the users goals, but no less valid.
Duh. But why would I want to go to a whole separate location just to look at hte list of games? The client obviously has them all, it just doesn't have a way of displaying them in a useful manner.
I had actually paid for a subscription, based on the news of "Sam & Max" and "Uru", but after my first taste of the GameTap experience, called and got a refund. At least you get a free trial, so it was no problem, and I will say that it was a pleasant surprise to get a helpful person on their tech support line.
Someone please take away Zonk's privileges! Everything he posts is just complete trash.
They could have saved a lot of typing by just linking to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines.
According to TFA, not only is Portal delayed as well, but the content is only about 4 hours long! What a big disappointment.
I doin't care about EP2 after the sidappointment of EP1, but I'm really looking formward to playing Portal. Is that delayed as well? God, I hope not. The video made it look like a lot of fun.
RCP and Swing are two different things. You want to compare SWT and Swing. And that's a Holy War I'm not inclined to get involved in.
I'm using RCP to develop an in-house application, and I'm very impressed. Once you get over the huge learning curve (because the RCP framework encompasses such a large set of functionality), it's very nice. The Eclipse PDE is a nice dvelopment environment. The plugin metaphor is very powerful, and seems to work quite well. I'm also using the EMF (Eclipse Modelling Framework), and purchased WindowBuilder Pro to help out with the GUI work.
There's no printing, storage, or shipping costs associated with the PDF versions. I'd cheerfully start purchasing every one of the books, but no way I'm paying that much for an electronic download. I think my price point for this would be no more than $10. And what about upgrades? Errata? What's the policy on that?
I won't even look at buying a game until it's dropped below $30, and most I wait until it's below $20. A few exceptions are things like Psychonauts or Doom 3.
It might take a while, but by the time I get a game, it'll have most of it's patches out, the game guides will be up, and I'll have seen enough reviews to know if it is even worth buying in the first place.
MMORPGS are left until the client is released for free. I'm not spending money to buy a game that requires a monthly subscription.
Who cares about my.yahoo.com? I'm speaking of the default, first thing a user sees, first impression of yahoo: www.yahoo.com. This is supposed to be their best face, the thing that attracts people to and keeps them at their site. Instead, it's a horrible mish-mash of poorly organized, random content, the visual equivalent of cacophony. Why is it MY job to make their site useful?
What part of the JavaScript offering is even under discussion here? This is entirely based on the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. None of this pertains to the hypothetical possible theoretical cahnges that you may or may not do at a different site (my.yahoo.com), but the atrocious www.yahoo.com. Why can't you get your facts straight, and address the question at hand, rather than constructing imaginary arguments, attributing them to me, and then rebutting them (poorly, I might add)? You're just talking to yourself.
Again, why should I need to customize their web site? Why do I need to invest my time in cleaning up their poor design, ugly layout, and otherwise atrocious web pages? Yahoo has traditionally hasa cluttered, unappealing design, and it continues to grow worse as time goes on. And if that is their idea of good web design, I'll have no part of it.
I'm judging the applicability of Yahoo offering any sort of web design guidance when they can't even produce a decent landing page for their site. As a developer, their cluttered, ugly, messy web site is a serious negative influence on me taking anything they say about web design seriously.
And who's even mentioned search? You simply created made that inference up out of thin air. Read more carefully before you post.
Again, what does this have to do with the atrocious look and feel of www.yahoo.com?
What do you mean, "your Yahoo portal"? Why would I want to or need to customize their site? You seem to be agreeing that the default page presented by Yahoo is cluttered and useless. Considering the useless mess I'm presented with as their front page, I have no interest in proceeding any further into Yahoo land.
Yahoo has one of the least useful, most cluttered, and unappealing sites on the web. It seems pretty abusrd for them to claim to be releaseing "prescriptive guidance to help solve common design problems on the Web". Or perhaps they simply aren't practicing what they preach?
No, but it was weird that there were no other dupe notices.
That this is a dupe?
Until I read this post, I didn't know that the submitter link was a URL. I just assumed it was eitehr a 'mailto:' or a link to their /. profile.
Well, it was impossible to watch the show. As soon as football season started, Futurama would vanish. I can't tell you how many times I went to my TiVo to watch the show, only to see the end of a football game.
Further adding insult to injury, the show at 7:30 that never was pre-empted was King of the Hill reruns. It would make me crazy to see the repeats being run on time when the first-runs were constantly pre-empted. I just don't understand why Fox even bothered to schedule a show there, when it NEVER got a chance to run during football season.
Finally, the show was never meant to run that early on a Sunday. It was a much more adult show, and needed a later time slot.
This has been covered before (from a different source): http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/30/ 1742213&tid=10&tid=219
Regardless of your opinions of whether anyone is hurt or if it leads to a tangible loss, it is stealing under the law. If you don't agree, then the laws should be changed, but until then it is a crime, it is theft, and saying otherwise because no tangible good is involved is just sophistry.
My statement was: A person who commits one kind of crime is more likely to commit other types of crime.
You misinterpreted that to mean: A person who commits one kind of crime is equally likely to commit any other kind of crime.
That's a rather broad over-genralization of my statement, isn't it?