When Joe Average gets a Windows app.. actually, screw Joe: when even _I_ get a Windows app, I expect it to look and behave exactly like every other Windows app. No, I don't want it to look like Swing, I don't want it to look like QT, and I sure don't want Mozilla's skinned idiocy, and I'm gonna puke if I have to use another idiotic GTK file dialog in _Windows_, etc. I want it to look and _act_ exactly like one thing: the Win32 widgets. Nothing else.
That's a fallacy. Windows hasn't had anything resembling a consistent look and feel since Windows 3.1, if even then.
Even Windows applications made by Microsoft don't have a consistent look and feel. IE draws its own widgets. Office not only draws its own widgets, but it drastically changes those widgets with every version (fyi, Office XP was patterned on a theme for the WinXP beta that MS later decided not to include in Windows). Same goes with Windows Media Player--it's even less consistent than Office. Visual Studio does the same thing--try running VS2003 on Windows 2000 and you'll see what I mean.
Speaking of Office, not only does it draw its own widgets, but it creates its own open and save dialogs. Office 2000's open and save dialogs look like the Windows 2000 dialogs, but they still look like the Windows 2000 dialogs even on older versions of Windows. "Older versions of Windows" also includes Windows NT 3.x. Try running Office 97 or 2000 on NT 3.x and note the stark contrast between Office's 3D widgets and NT's fugly flat widgets.
Also, I'll add that some of the most popular non-Microsoft 3rd party apps do this as well. WinAmp was the most popular media player on Windows for a long time, and it never had anything remotely resembling the Win32 widgets.
Namely, create a programming based magic system (blurring yet more the distinction between magic and code:-)
That sounds eerily like a magic system I came up with (and never wrote down) a couple of years ago. Basically, instead of coding for a computer system, the mage would be coding for a magical system--"programming reality", so to speak.
I also remember adapting some physics principles to magic--using Magical Potential Energy and Magical Kinetic Energy (MPE and MKE for short) as a logical explanation of MP/Mana/whatever else it's called.
I still remember when I was a kid and I first got my NES...I spent so much time playing Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. I remember being so excited about the SNES coming out. Before I had one myself, I'd play the demo models in Target every chance I got. Those were the days...
Now, I'm only in my early 20s, yet I feel like an old man.
Way to spew out things when you have no clue what you're talking about.
I find all this "boycott France because they won't support the war" garbage to be nothing short of barbaric. What France is doing to Google is also nothing short of barbaric. I despise both the loony left and the wretched right, thank you very much.
Nvidia at the time I bought my 9500, did not have a competing card.
Actually, the quality of ATI's Linux drivers is so horrid that even ATI's newest high-end cards can't compete with nVidia's previous-generation mid-range cards. If you read this article (it's a multi-page article...don't just read the first page), you'll see that cards as old as the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra and 5900 regularly outperform even the Radeon X800 Pro. The GeForce FX 5600XT is the only tested card that doesn't regularly outperform ATI's most powerful cards.
No, this is like an ad for Dior being placed next to a Vuitton display.
Here's a true story. I posted this in another article, but I'll post it here for posterity: a few miles from where I live, there's a Ford (or Toyota, I can't remember which) dealership. Right next to it is a billboard advertising another Ford (again, or Toyota) dealership, with the text "Drive a few extra miles and save". It's the same exact type of thing as the situation with Google--this sign even plays on the fact that it's right next to a competing dealership selling the same models.
It's perfectly legal and no different than the situation with Google.
There's no reason why Google should have to take this kind of abuse.
They should shut down google.fr (but keep control of the domain name so no one takes it over), and maybe even block French IPs from accessing the rest of Google.
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Well, I don't know much about Safari specifically, but KHTML is a kickass HTML renderer. Konqueror feels so much more responsive than Firefox, and I think it's just down to KHTML being lighter and faster.
There are only two reasons why I still use Firefox:
1) Konqueror's JavaScript engine blows. It's great for HTML, but not JS. I believe Safari has a better JS engine, but it's not been backported to Konqueror yet.
2) I like AdBlock too much to give it up. I've tried Privoxy, but it tends to slow things down.
I'd recommend 2.x. I'm using it myself, and it's fine.
That FUD you hear about Apache2 not working with PHP is just that, FUD. The only problem lies with the worker multi-process module (and it's because PHP was coded in a braindead fashion--it's not Apache's fault). Use the prefork MPM instead and you'll be fine. Also, from what I understand, PHP5 has resolved those issues.
"And better"? If that were true, drawing would be native on Windows 2000:)
Anyway, I agree with the rest of your post. I'll also add two more examples, from Microsoft themselves: Office and IE. They both draw their own widgets. It's also lead to some rather interestingeffects (note the bottom screenshot on the first page and the second-to-bottom screenshot on the second page).
Quite frankly, if a decent heatsink+fan isn't enough to keep your processor from overheating, you really need to get a new processor. You should spend your money on that, not on silly solutions that won't address the root cause of the problem and may or may not even work.
It's a known fact that one of the easiest ways to completely destroy your machine is to use a watercooler.
ordered Vivendi to amend the packaging and untie Steam from HL2 or face a hefty fine
I really hope that this is just the author misinterpreting the decision.
Vivendi shouldn't be allowed a choice. Well, they should, but it's the wrong choice. The choice should be: untie Steam from HL2 and pay the fine, or stop selling HL2 in Germany.
If it helps, my Athlon XP 2800+ runs at about 40C on average, and my heatsink/fan is about the same price as yours. I only have one case fan besides my processor fan, however, so if you have more (or less), that could skew things a little.
Smooth fonts make me ill. I go to extreme lengths to make sure that nothing on my system is antialiased. I love the way I have my fonts set up on my Linux box--no other OS compares to it. I've had my share of font issues, but I've since dealt with them, and my system looks better than ever.
I also like uneven widths--one of my favourite fonts is Luxi Sans, which has a lot of unevenness to it. It's quirky and distinctive, and I love it.
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When Joe Average gets a Windows app.. actually, screw Joe: when even _I_ get a Windows app, I expect it to look and behave exactly like every other Windows app. No, I don't want it to look like Swing, I don't want it to look like QT, and I sure don't want Mozilla's skinned idiocy, and I'm gonna puke if I have to use another idiotic GTK file dialog in _Windows_, etc. I want it to look and _act_ exactly like one thing: the Win32 widgets. Nothing else.
That's a fallacy. Windows hasn't had anything resembling a consistent look and feel since Windows 3.1, if even then.
Even Windows applications made by Microsoft don't have a consistent look and feel. IE draws its own widgets. Office not only draws its own widgets, but it drastically changes those widgets with every version (fyi, Office XP was patterned on a theme for the WinXP beta that MS later decided not to include in Windows). Same goes with Windows Media Player--it's even less consistent than Office. Visual Studio does the same thing--try running VS2003 on Windows 2000 and you'll see what I mean.
Speaking of Office, not only does it draw its own widgets, but it creates its own open and save dialogs. Office 2000's open and save dialogs look like the Windows 2000 dialogs, but they still look like the Windows 2000 dialogs even on older versions of Windows. "Older versions of Windows" also includes Windows NT 3.x. Try running Office 97 or 2000 on NT 3.x and note the stark contrast between Office's 3D widgets and NT's fugly flat widgets.
Also, I'll add that some of the most popular non-Microsoft 3rd party apps do this as well. WinAmp was the most popular media player on Windows for a long time, and it never had anything remotely resembling the Win32 widgets.
Am I the only one sick of all these whiners who complain about the articles on Slashdot?
/. on /., but you just come off as crybabies.
If you don't like the articles, don't read Slashdot, dammit.
You people think you're being cool by complaining about
Looks like the server was running on the suitcase after all.
Namely, create a programming based magic system (blurring yet more the distinction between magic and code :-)
That sounds eerily like a magic system I came up with (and never wrote down) a couple of years ago. Basically, instead of coding for a computer system, the mage would be coding for a magical system--"programming reality", so to speak.
I also remember adapting some physics principles to magic--using Magical Potential Energy and Magical Kinetic Energy (MPE and MKE for short) as a logical explanation of MP/Mana/whatever else it's called.
I feel the same way.
I still remember when I was a kid and I first got my NES...I spent so much time playing Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. I remember being so excited about the SNES coming out. Before I had one myself, I'd play the demo models in Target every chance I got. Those were the days...
Now, I'm only in my early 20s, yet I feel like an old man.
We are a REPUBLIC, and are based on the rule of law, not men.
This has to be the SCARIEST thing I have ever heard.
Go back to Mussolini's Italy, troll.
Rights aren't something granted by law. They simply exist. They can't be created or taken away. Only people have them, not states or even nations.
This isn't going to have any affect on people like me who are Carfree by Choice.
It's still another step down a slippery slope, and that scares me, but I'm glad that I'm not personally affected by this.
That's a fallacy. States don't have rights. People have rights.
Granted, I'm not fond of this thing either--it's just one more step down the slippery slope to "papers, please".
Way to spew out things when you have no clue what you're talking about.
I find all this "boycott France because they won't support the war" garbage to be nothing short of barbaric. What France is doing to Google is also nothing short of barbaric. I despise both the loony left and the wretched right, thank you very much.
Nvidia at the time I bought my 9500, did not have a competing card.
Actually, the quality of ATI's Linux drivers is so horrid that even ATI's newest high-end cards can't compete with nVidia's previous-generation mid-range cards. If you read this article (it's a multi-page article...don't just read the first page), you'll see that cards as old as the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra and 5900 regularly outperform even the Radeon X800 Pro. The GeForce FX 5600XT is the only tested card that doesn't regularly outperform ATI's most powerful cards.
Those laws themselves are abusive and Immoral.
I am sick and tired of this stupid relativist claptrap that says that if something is the law, it's automatically right. It's not.
No, it's just quid pro quo for the KDE 3.4 Beta 2 article being posted under the BSD section.
Moving isn't the same as having moved.
Debian will move to Xorg the day Duke Nukem Forever is released.
I believe it's still being developed, but most distributions are no longer packaging it.
No, this is like an ad for Dior being placed next to a Vuitton display.
Here's a true story. I posted this in another article, but I'll post it here for posterity: a few miles from where I live, there's a Ford (or Toyota, I can't remember which) dealership. Right next to it is a billboard advertising another Ford (again, or Toyota) dealership, with the text "Drive a few extra miles and save". It's the same exact type of thing as the situation with Google--this sign even plays on the fact that it's right next to a competing dealership selling the same models.
It's perfectly legal and no different than the situation with Google.
There's no reason why Google should have to take this kind of abuse.
They should shut down google.fr (but keep control of the domain name so no one takes it over), and maybe even block French IPs from accessing the rest of Google.
Well, I don't know much about Safari specifically, but KHTML is a kickass HTML renderer. Konqueror feels so much more responsive than Firefox, and I think it's just down to KHTML being lighter and faster.
There are only two reasons why I still use Firefox:
1) Konqueror's JavaScript engine blows. It's great for HTML, but not JS. I believe Safari has a better JS engine, but it's not been backported to Konqueror yet.
2) I like AdBlock too much to give it up. I've tried Privoxy, but it tends to slow things down.
I'd recommend 2.x. I'm using it myself, and it's fine.
That FUD you hear about Apache2 not working with PHP is just that, FUD. The only problem lies with the worker multi-process module (and it's because PHP was coded in a braindead fashion--it's not Apache's fault). Use the prefork MPM instead and you'll be fine. Also, from what I understand, PHP5 has resolved those issues.
"And better"? If that were true, drawing would be native on Windows 2000 :)
Anyway, I agree with the rest of your post. I'll also add two more examples, from Microsoft themselves: Office and IE. They both draw their own widgets. It's also lead to some rather interesting effects (note the bottom screenshot on the first page and the second-to-bottom screenshot on the second page).
Agreed.
Quite frankly, if a decent heatsink+fan isn't enough to keep your processor from overheating, you really need to get a new processor. You should spend your money on that, not on silly solutions that won't address the root cause of the problem and may or may not even work.
It's a known fact that one of the easiest ways to completely destroy your machine is to use a watercooler.
ordered Vivendi to amend the packaging and untie Steam from HL2 or face a hefty fine
I really hope that this is just the author misinterpreting the decision.
Vivendi shouldn't be allowed a choice. Well, they should, but it's the wrong choice. The choice should be: untie Steam from HL2 and pay the fine, or stop selling HL2 in Germany.
If it helps, my Athlon XP 2800+ runs at about 40C on average, and my heatsink/fan is about the same price as yours. I only have one case fan besides my processor fan, however, so if you have more (or less), that could skew things a little.
I love Qt, and I've been wanting this to happen for a long time. I never expected that TrollTech would actually do it. This is such a wonderful shock.
Wow...now, we'll actually see some Qt or even KDE apps become cross-platform. Maybe even KDE itself. I'm stunned.
Completely disagree here.
Smooth fonts make me ill. I go to extreme lengths to make sure that nothing on my system is antialiased. I love the way I have my fonts set up on my Linux box--no other OS compares to it. I've had my share of font issues, but I've since dealt with them, and my system looks better than ever.
I also like uneven widths--one of my favourite fonts is Luxi Sans, which has a lot of unevenness to it. It's quirky and distinctive, and I love it.