I'll go one step further - I can't wait when my Flickr account will be integrated with my Google account;) (oh, and del.icio.us is also sort-of nice...;P )
I definatelly feel that bookmarks aren't implemented to my liking. When it comes to how I would implement them...well, I actually thought about it recently. Nothing revolutionary I guess, just small details than improve flow. Looking at whole "flow" from the beginning: - one button press or keyboard shortcut consisting of one key, thank you very much (doable already) - "add bookmark" dialogue that doesn't obstruct webpage - essentially "add bookmark" bar (like current search bars in FF and Opera) - I don't want to click on anything to add short description and comment, all fields must be immediatelly available, so that TAB is enough - and tags are a really nice thing IMHO
Basically current implementations fail in my case when it comes to quickly adding a bookmark, and they don't have tags (yes, del.icio.us has them, but I want my database of bookmarks to be local - I think I stressed already that I'm interested in speed;) )
When it comes to menaging bookmarks, what I find in latest Opera comes close (except lack of tags) but it's still a bit chaotic - I want fulltext search not only in adress bar, but also in bookmarks manager (which itself is of course a sidebar, I want to see it all the time if I'm using it) to present me with few possible filtering options and so that only bookmarked pages are searchable. And tabs;) (with all organisation options allowed by them). And notifications when content of pages changes (with various level of importance possible for every bookmark) - yeah, RSS integration comes close but RSS isn't available everywhere.
Luckily it's getting better, perhaps one day... (BTW, it's possible that all of this is, in some way, already possible and I missed it:) - didn't have much incentive to check often how bookmarks are implemented...). I've heard next version of FF will rethink bookmarks... (FF3 was supposed to do that but the idea was pushed later?)
And yes, 400 tabs is navigable if spreading them across few windows and using all THREE ways in which Opera lets you navigate tabs, dependend on situation (1. classic tab bar 2. "window" menu in menubar 3. right-click scroll which show tabs in "recently viewed" order - try it, really usefull (just hold right mouse button and move scrollwheel while in Opera window)). The thing that Opera doesn't become sluggish even with that many tabs helps a lot...as well as the thing that I don't actually work on most of them activelly, they're mostly equivalent to your 'bucket' folder, with with few spacial hints to their relations.
Thx, I'll try to remember that next time when sitting on other browser (despite what you might hear about Opera fundamentalists, I'm also partial to Seamonkey and Konqueror;) ).
Might finally find some use for bookmarks... (IMHO they are, universally, badly implemented, so I mostly just keep opened tabs "to check later" in the background; so I end up with A LOT of them, currently ~400 - and that's one of the reasons I like Opera, no other browser can handle that amount gracefully, especially on my main hardware (AthlonXP 1700+ with 768MB))
(nvm that I wasn't aware/. news frequency was determined by popularity among US consumers...I thought this was about geek news, technical merit and all that rubbish)
I'm perfectly fine with developers doing the homework and trying to make good looking game by all possible means, not just relying mostly on bling of latest GPUs...
(@importance of textures: http://forums.galciv2.com/310173 section "The Updated Graphics", also: http://forums.galciv2.com/167995 I couldn't find the post in which they describe how they did it, so: each race has one, detailed, "ships texture", parts of which are used by all ships of given race; apparently it also means only one copy has to kept in memory = massive reduction of usage)
You have to draw the line somewhere, especially if there's a chance that we'll end up with a lot more than 30 (it shows the signifance of given object for the Solar System as a whole vs. the significance of a lot of objects as quite homogonous group). For example, Ceres was ALSO initially considered a planet...right until the point when we started to discover the rest of asteroid belt.
All signs on heaven (and...only on heaven;P ) hint that Pluto is simply a similar "first", discovered by chance because it was back then close to eclyptic and close to predicted position of Planet X (Uranus/Neptune - like object predicted by perturbations in Neptune orbit - later measurements shown them to be non-existent)
By saying this you (and people agreeing with you - yes, you know who you are!) show you didn't put any effort into understanding what "clearing neighbourhood" in planet definition means.
Specifically, it doesn't say that no other bodies in vicinity are present, but that all of them are dominated by gravitational influence of a planet. And that's definatelly the case with Moon and near Earth asteroids. But not with Pluto - it's in orbital resoncance with Neptune.
I actually really like this definition, fairly precise, universal, and avoids waking up one day in a Solar System with 20 or 30 planets, once we start discovering more Pluto-like objects. But somehow we have this nonsence of people attaching sentimental value to the notion of Pluto beeing a planet, which makes the whole deal unpopular.
And BTW, I don't like this latest "plutoids" thing; looks more like PR stunt. Definatelly doesn't really resolve anything, and if/. summary is to be trusted, is specific to our system.
I'm among those who hope for minilaptop-like e-ink device...and heard concerns about slow refresh before.
But ask yourself this: do you really need scrolling? Do you really need to move app window? In current UIs - of course! But why would you use such GUI for e-ink device?...
Ultimatelly though, I doubt such device would suceed...consumers _want_ colors and high refresh rates...
That might be more due to weakeaning of Reality Distortion Field after crossing Atlantic. Really, while number of Macs or iPods around me does inrease slightly, they're usually "just another laptop, but boy, expensive one"/same for iPod. Last iPod I've seen was at Apple conference in September, Mac - January, and I haven't ever seen iPhones here.
One of the reasons for that might be lower price of PL version (in comparison with Germany/etc.) to encourage buying the damn game in a country dominated by rampant piracy. Releasing EN version for the same, low price might cannibalise a bit sales in surrounding countries.
Of course it still sounds weird (though you have to admit that some translations feel actually better performed than originals)
So...I take it that they are listening to "suggest feature" pages after all?;P
Because IMHO it would be really great to see video support in Google Talk (yes, standalone one), though you might like more if it would implement groupchat, I guess;)
It would become perfect IM app...no nonsense, best in VoIP quality (very noticeable on poor connections) and I have hope that Google would implement video properly, with high fps and good synchronisation taking priority over high resolution or even colours. And all that in new Jingle version, so Linux Jabber clients could incorporate everything.
PS. Come to think about it...since you seem to be among their beta testers, could you also give them a hint?;)
I won't really get into "why", but...I really started to use e-mail as a viable communication tool after getting Gmail account, so Google certainly done something right.
None, but from what many of slashdotters tell here that's not exactly a rule in US, right?
It definatelly is in EU - I haven't encountered any phones sold by telecoms that would differ from models sold by manufacturers more than sim-lock/wallpaper/logo/startup animation.
But also: in EU phones are "unlocked" (I'm not talking about simlock that allows usage only with originating telecom, I'm talking about actually beeing able to install your own apps or beeing able to communicate with the phone via USB/transfer music/pictures that way, etc.)
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For your information, Maya is available for Linux...
Might have something to do that apparently many studios choose IRIX -> Linux migration path...
Yes, it at least gives some framework...for the gullible.
I think it's not an accident that in the last 19 years of democracy in my country the only competent president (and the only one elected for two terms) was an atheist, and competent parliaments/governments tend to have majority of "ex commies/atheists" (though most of them aren't atheists, they're just used to leaving faith matters at home - they had to do it in the past). As a matter of fact, the last disaster of a parliament happened sort of because of "faith based initiatives".
Regarding Poland - I seriously doubt there was even one day, ever, when opposition to Iraq war among population dropped below 50%. It's just that for the last 19 years or so we were unable to elect a government which wouldn't act as America's bitch wannabe...
At least beeing a bitch comes with financial incentives - we got for free in the meantime few frigates, few hundred Humvees, few Herculeses and F-16s (ok, the last one not free) and will be getting Apaches and Blackhawks (last one also not free, but wil end up pretty ok considering that they'll be produced here after some time). And in the same tone: in spite of opposition when the decision was made, one of the reasons, put up front, was "financial incentives" (yep, oil; but also contracts for polish companies, which never really materialised). At least it was a bit honest, even if disgusting. Like "it's good for our army" (experience/equipment) argument that recently surfaced.
By the measure of his libertanian ass - it would seem that yes, it follows.
After all you can do pretty much everything (freedom all the way!) in Afghanistan or Sudan if you're sufficiently talented, determined and don't have much contempt for others.
Scandinavia OTOH...well, I beliebe even on/. there's a story from time to time that even if you are in position of power, your options are still limited...
And in light of all this it's interesting that Tamarin was actually _donated_ to Mozilla by Adobe... ("you can't do it properly by yourself so here, use this, dammit" crossed my mind few times...)
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I'll go one step further - I can't wait when my Flickr account will be integrated with my Google account ;) (oh, and del.icio.us is also sort-of nice... ;P )
Regarding Poland - two things play a role here.
1. Fanboyism is generally much more rampant then in many places.
2. Alternative browsers really have a large portion of market share here:
- IE 54%
- Gecko 39%
- Opera 7%
I definatelly feel that bookmarks aren't implemented to my liking. When it comes to how I would implement them...well, I actually thought about it recently. Nothing revolutionary I guess, just small details than improve flow. Looking at whole "flow" from the beginning:
;) )
;) (with all organisation options allowed by them). And notifications when content of pages changes (with various level of importance possible for every bookmark) - yeah, RSS integration comes close but RSS isn't available everywhere.
:) - didn't have much incentive to check often how bookmarks are implemented...). I've heard next version of FF will rethink bookmarks... (FF3 was supposed to do that but the idea was pushed later?)
- one button press or keyboard shortcut consisting of one key, thank you very much (doable already)
- "add bookmark" dialogue that doesn't obstruct webpage - essentially "add bookmark" bar (like current search bars in FF and Opera)
- I don't want to click on anything to add short description and comment, all fields must be immediatelly available, so that TAB is enough
- and tags are a really nice thing IMHO
Basically current implementations fail in my case when it comes to quickly adding a bookmark, and they don't have tags (yes, del.icio.us has them, but I want my database of bookmarks to be local - I think I stressed already that I'm interested in speed
When it comes to menaging bookmarks, what I find in latest Opera comes close (except lack of tags) but it's still a bit chaotic - I want fulltext search not only in adress bar, but also in bookmarks manager (which itself is of course a sidebar, I want to see it all the time if I'm using it) to present me with few possible filtering options and so that only bookmarked pages are searchable. And tabs
Luckily it's getting better, perhaps one day... (BTW, it's possible that all of this is, in some way, already possible and I missed it
And yes, 400 tabs is navigable if spreading them across few windows and using all THREE ways in which Opera lets you navigate tabs, dependend on situation (1. classic tab bar 2. "window" menu in menubar 3. right-click scroll which show tabs in "recently viewed" order - try it, really usefull (just hold right mouse button and move scrollwheel while in Opera window)). The thing that Opera doesn't become sluggish even with that many tabs helps a lot...as well as the thing that I don't actually work on most of them activelly, they're mostly equivalent to your 'bucket' folder, with with few spacial hints to their relations.
Thx, I'll try to remember that next time when sitting on other browser (despite what you might hear about Opera fundamentalists, I'm also partial to Seamonkey and Konqueror ;) ).
Might finally find some use for bookmarks... (IMHO they are, universally, badly implemented, so I mostly just keep opened tabs "to check later" in the background; so I end up with A LOT of them, currently ~400 - and that's one of the reasons I like Opera, no other browser can handle that amount gracefully, especially on my main hardware (AthlonXP 1700+ with 768MB))
Well, we do hear more often also about Safari...
/. news frequency was determined by popularity among US consumers...I thought this was about geek news, technical merit and all that rubbish)
(nvm that I wasn't aware
Yeah, I'm so used to it that I have difficulties using other browsers efficiently ;)
I mean...it was, like, RELEASED, today; not only announced to be released.
:/
But I guess that clears any doubts as to "/. pet-browser" that Firefox has...
I'm perfectly fine with developers doing the homework and trying to make good looking game by all possible means, not just relying mostly on bling of latest GPUs...
(@importance of textures: http://forums.galciv2.com/310173
section "The Updated Graphics", also:
http://forums.galciv2.com/167995
I couldn't find the post in which they describe how they did it, so: each race has one, detailed, "ships texture", parts of which are used by all ships of given race; apparently it also means only one copy has to kept in memory = massive reduction of usage)
You have to draw the line somewhere, especially if there's a chance that we'll end up with a lot more than 30 (it shows the signifance of given object for the Solar System as a whole vs. the significance of a lot of objects as quite homogonous group). For example, Ceres was ALSO initially considered a planet...right until the point when we started to discover the rest of asteroid belt.
;P ) hint that Pluto is simply a similar "first", discovered by chance because it was back then close to eclyptic and close to predicted position of Planet X (Uranus/Neptune - like object predicted by perturbations in Neptune orbit - later measurements shown them to be non-existent)
All signs on heaven (and...only on heaven
By saying this you (and people agreeing with you - yes, you know who you are!) show you didn't put any effort into understanding what "clearing neighbourhood" in planet definition means.
/. summary is to be trusted, is specific to our system.
Specifically, it doesn't say that no other bodies in vicinity are present, but that all of them are dominated by gravitational influence of a planet. And that's definatelly the case with Moon and near Earth asteroids. But not with Pluto - it's in orbital resoncance with Neptune.
I actually really like this definition, fairly precise, universal, and avoids waking up one day in a Solar System with 20 or 30 planets, once we start discovering more Pluto-like objects. But somehow we have this nonsence of people attaching sentimental value to the notion of Pluto beeing a planet, which makes the whole deal unpopular.
And BTW, I don't like this latest "plutoids" thing; looks more like PR stunt. Definatelly doesn't really resolve anything, and if
Oh my...now even some slashdotters assume that desktop Linux = Gnome?... :/ (Eee Xandros install runs KDE)
Oh well, I guess still better than computer = Windows...
I'm among those who hope for minilaptop-like e-ink device...and heard concerns about slow refresh before.
But ask yourself this: do you really need scrolling? Do you really need to move app window? In current UIs - of course! But why would you use such GUI for e-ink device?...
Ultimatelly though, I doubt such device would suceed...consumers _want_ colors and high refresh rates...
That might be more due to weakeaning of Reality Distortion Field after crossing Atlantic. Really, while number of Macs or iPods around me does inrease slightly, they're usually "just another laptop, but boy, expensive one"/same for iPod. Last iPod I've seen was at Apple conference in September, Mac - January, and I haven't ever seen iPhones here.
One of the reasons for that might be lower price of PL version (in comparison with Germany/etc.) to encourage buying the damn game in a country dominated by rampant piracy. Releasing EN version for the same, low price might cannibalise a bit sales in surrounding countries.
Of course it still sounds weird (though you have to admit that some translations feel actually better performed than originals)
So...I take it that they are listening to "suggest feature" pages after all? ;P
;)
;)
Because IMHO it would be really great to see video support in Google Talk (yes, standalone one), though you might like more if it would implement groupchat, I guess
It would become perfect IM app...no nonsense, best in VoIP quality (very noticeable on poor connections) and I have hope that Google would implement video properly, with high fps and good synchronisation taking priority over high resolution or even colours. And all that in new Jingle version, so Linux Jabber clients could incorporate everything.
PS. Come to think about it...since you seem to be among their beta testers, could you also give them a hint?
I won't really get into "why", but...I really started to use e-mail as a viable communication tool after getting Gmail account, so Google certainly done something right.
So your are exception to the rule?
None, but from what many of slashdotters tell here that's not exactly a rule in US, right?
It definatelly is in EU - I haven't encountered any phones sold by telecoms that would differ from models sold by manufacturers more than sim-lock/wallpaper/logo/startup animation.
Comparing with shoreline should be easier...
But also: in EU phones are "unlocked" (I'm not talking about simlock that allows usage only with originating telecom, I'm talking about actually beeing able to install your own apps or beeing able to communicate with the phone via USB/transfer music/pictures that way, etc.)
For your information, Maya is available for Linux...
Might have something to do that apparently many studios choose IRIX -> Linux migration path...
Yes, it at least gives some framework...for the gullible.
I think it's not an accident that in the last 19 years of democracy in my country the only competent president (and the only one elected for two terms) was an atheist, and competent parliaments/governments tend to have majority of "ex commies/atheists" (though most of them aren't atheists, they're just used to leaving faith matters at home - they had to do it in the past). As a matter of fact, the last disaster of a parliament happened sort of because of "faith based initiatives".
Regarding Poland - I seriously doubt there was even one day, ever, when opposition to Iraq war among population dropped below 50%. It's just that for the last 19 years or so we were unable to elect a government which wouldn't act as America's bitch wannabe...
At least beeing a bitch comes with financial incentives - we got for free in the meantime few frigates, few hundred Humvees, few Herculeses and F-16s (ok, the last one not free) and will be getting Apaches and Blackhawks (last one also not free, but wil end up pretty ok considering that they'll be produced here after some time). And in the same tone: in spite of opposition when the decision was made, one of the reasons, put up front, was "financial incentives" (yep, oil; but also contracts for polish companies, which never really materialised). At least it was a bit honest, even if disgusting. Like "it's good for our army" (experience/equipment) argument that recently surfaced.
By the measure of his libertanian ass - it would seem that yes, it follows.
/. there's a story from time to time that even if you are in position of power, your options are still limited...
After all you can do pretty much everything (freedom all the way!) in Afghanistan or Sudan if you're sufficiently talented, determined and don't have much contempt for others.
Scandinavia OTOH...well, I beliebe even on
And in light of all this it's interesting that Tamarin was actually _donated_ to Mozilla by Adobe... ("you can't do it properly by yourself so here, use this, dammit" crossed my mind few times...)