Ahh the sims. The only game I know of where you get to virtually go to work, clean your house, go to the bathroom, mow the lawn, etc, and still find time to sleep. Oh, but it's virtual, so it must be fun!
I'll never understand the popularity of that franchise. The stress in my daily life is enough, I don't need a video game to emulate it again for me.
So basically they're a bank that's figured out a way to weasle out of the rules regarding banks and the need for insurance.
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You jest, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was possible. Don't forget, this is the country where a buglar can sue his victims if he breaks his leg while breaking into their house and win.
Off topic I know, and I apologize... but this post just got me wondering how often one of those 80k boxes goes down. I wonder what maintainance is like over in googles datacenter.
Wrong. If Microsoft went down the tubes, where do you think hardware manufacturers would be putting their support? Face it, Microsoft owns a good portion of the computing world, and whether or not you think you have anything to do with them, you do. Maybe it's indirect, but something that big happening in their court is going to affect you.
Ok, you've made your point, things can be changed. However, the default setup still remains as such, and people who are just beginning to use linux / gnome are very likely to be turned off at the way things work. The linux community is still trying to gain marketshare, and to do that, there needs to be some* catering to the comforts of the end user.
*(note: I say some, not complete)
"Seems like people are always complaining that GNOME and KDE don't innovate, and when they do everybody gets upset."
Did you miss the part that OS/2, Win95 and early Mac OS versions worked this way too? How is it inovation if it's already been done before?
The whole idea of the spacial file management system is to bring the metaphor of files and folders closer to what it is in the real world. However, that comes at a loss in usability, and there's no reason to try to do this if people are already comfortable with the way that file managers work at the moment.
To move a saw to the limb you've walked out on, I played the original zelda for hours and hours when it was new, and I couldn't wait for the Adventures of link to come out (slightly dissapointed there...) but personally, the art of the wind waker just annoyed the heck out of me. That doesn't mean that I won't play it by any means, but I do wish that it was drawn in a less stylized fashion.
As was said before, Link was always a cool hero in my eyes, and the wind waker's art just kills that for me. I'm sure when I get around to playing it, the gameplay will be more than enough to cancel that out, but it's still an annoyance.
What about the people that support a large network of computers that can't afford to upgrade each one of them? You're right, 129 dollars isn't much. 129.00 x 100, however, is a little bit more of a pain. I'm sure apple has bulk licensing, but even down to 29.00 a piece would be 2,900 dollars. Some places just can't afford that.
While I don't own a mac myself, I do manage a network full of macs at my school, and I'll tell you it annoys the heck out of me that we can't get X11 on them all, just because we don't have panther. Not to mention certain developers tools, ie. Xcode and I don't even think Eclipse will run on Jaguar.
I'm not trying to troll here, it's just the plain and simple truth.
It's also an up and coming userbase though. Linux is growing very quickly among the younger crowd and getting them interested in macintosh software is a good way to increase their userbase down the road.
You have to admit, though, that apple makes it quite hard for people to stay with previous versions of the OS. It seems that every time I want to install a new piece of software (often times development based) it requires panther. I've run into this many times and it gets quite annoying to say the least.
I may be out of my league here, but logically it would seem to me that if you have problems with forking in-house, then your programming staff needs to have better guidelines.
But that goes for anything closed source. If Cisco goes bust, you won't get firmware upgrades.
True, but then again, you haven't put months of labor into those switches / routers, etc. either. They can be replaced if they fail, whereas a program written in a sudenly deprecated language has to be ported, meaning a lot of time and money down the drain.
Or was it the people that realize that going in a straight line for 10 seconds just isn't as fun as a car that handles well on a street / autocross track?
You make an interesting point, but the same thing can be done without MDI and is on the macintosh. You don't need one big window holding everything just to keep the windows of a program together.
Try talking some people who use photoshop in their daily work flow into downgrading back to 5.5. They'd laugh in your face. 6 7 and now CS have all had HUGE upgrades in usability. Can you do anything with 16bpc files? Yeah, I thought not. How about the healing brush? That alone saves a lot of time over the stamp tool (in the correct situation). If you have trouble adapting to the small changes that were made in the basic layout of the program, then you probably shouldn't be using it in the first place.
Now comparing Fireworks to Photoshop? They're completely differen't programs! Not to mention that Fireworks generates some of the worst HTML on the planet. (though that may have changed as I haven't used it for quite some time for that very reason).
I apologize for the hostility here, I HATE to flame, but this post is completely uninformed and that annoys me deeply.
Do we really want linux to take over the desktop though, or do we just want it to gain a decent amount of it? Choice is good, because it keeps competition up. Without competition things get too stale.
I think what we really need is to gain enough marketshare that we have better support. I.E. better drivers, commercial applications (sorry, some people do want them), etc. What I'm looking for is the day that I can use linux and it's going to work just as well as windows does in supporting hardware and commonly used software, ala photoshop (and please don't tell me to use the gimp). I want to see linux get to the point where I can have it on my (main) computer, without any need to dual boot. How about we get some analysts that tell us when that is going to happen?
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Ahh the sims. The only game I know of where you get to virtually go to work, clean your house, go to the bathroom, mow the lawn, etc, and still find time to sleep. Oh, but it's virtual, so it must be fun!
I'll never understand the popularity of that franchise. The stress in my daily life is enough, I don't need a video game to emulate it again for me.
I'm all over the DVD's when they come out. That's one of the funniest things I've seen in a loooong time :)
So basically they're a bank that's figured out a way to weasle out of the rules regarding banks and the need for insurance.
You jest, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was possible. Don't forget, this is the country where a buglar can sue his victims if he breaks his leg while breaking into their house and win.
Actually we had classes on C++ at my school.
Porn with a good plot?! Jeesus, you're asking for another ice age!
Off topic I know, and I apologize... but this post just got me wondering how often one of those 80k boxes goes down. I wonder what maintainance is like over in googles datacenter.
Hmm, that's a very interesting take on things, and it does change it for me a bit.
Wrong. If Microsoft went down the tubes, where do you think hardware manufacturers would be putting their support? Face it, Microsoft owns a good portion of the computing world, and whether or not you think you have anything to do with them, you do. Maybe it's indirect, but something that big happening in their court is going to affect you.
Ok, you've made your point, things can be changed. However, the default setup still remains as such, and people who are just beginning to use linux / gnome are very likely to be turned off at the way things work. The linux community is still trying to gain marketshare, and to do that, there needs to be some* catering to the comforts of the end user. *(note: I say some, not complete)
"Seems like people are always complaining that GNOME and KDE don't innovate, and when they do everybody gets upset."
Did you miss the part that OS/2, Win95 and early Mac OS versions worked this way too? How is it inovation if it's already been done before?
The whole idea of the spacial file management system is to bring the metaphor of files and folders closer to what it is in the real world. However, that comes at a loss in usability, and there's no reason to try to do this if people are already comfortable with the way that file managers work at the moment.
To move a saw to the limb you've walked out on, I played the original zelda for hours and hours when it was new, and I couldn't wait for the Adventures of link to come out (slightly dissapointed there...) but personally, the art of the wind waker just annoyed the heck out of me. That doesn't mean that I won't play it by any means, but I do wish that it was drawn in a less stylized fashion.
As was said before, Link was always a cool hero in my eyes, and the wind waker's art just kills that for me. I'm sure when I get around to playing it, the gameplay will be more than enough to cancel that out, but it's still an annoyance.
What about the people that support a large network of computers that can't afford to upgrade each one of them? You're right, 129 dollars isn't much. 129.00 x 100, however, is a little bit more of a pain. I'm sure apple has bulk licensing, but even down to 29.00 a piece would be 2,900 dollars. Some places just can't afford that.
Yes, but they don't tell you that your older car can't drive on certain roads because it's incompatible either.
While I don't own a mac myself, I do manage a network full of macs at my school, and I'll tell you it annoys the heck out of me that we can't get X11 on them all, just because we don't have panther. Not to mention certain developers tools, ie. Xcode and I don't even think Eclipse will run on Jaguar.
I'm not trying to troll here, it's just the plain and simple truth.
It's also an up and coming userbase though. Linux is growing very quickly among the younger crowd and getting them interested in macintosh software is a good way to increase their userbase down the road.
You have to admit, though, that apple makes it quite hard for people to stay with previous versions of the OS. It seems that every time I want to install a new piece of software (often times development based) it requires panther. I've run into this many times and it gets quite annoying to say the least.
This is a very thought provoking post and deserves to be modded up.
I may be out of my league here, but logically it would seem to me that if you have problems with forking in-house, then your programming staff needs to have better guidelines.
Or was it the people that realize that going in a straight line for 10 seconds just isn't as fun as a car that handles well on a street / autocross track?
You make an interesting point, but the same thing can be done without MDI and is on the macintosh. You don't need one big window holding everything just to keep the windows of a program together.
Actually, you can do color changes and transforms on a single layer quite easily, you're just looking in the wrong place.
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Rule of thumb: If you don't think photoshop can do something, then you haven't looked hard enough through the tools
Try talking some people who use photoshop in their daily work flow into downgrading back to 5.5. They'd laugh in your face. 6 7 and now CS have all had HUGE upgrades in usability. Can you do anything with 16bpc files? Yeah, I thought not. How about the healing brush? That alone saves a lot of time over the stamp tool (in the correct situation). If you have trouble adapting to the small changes that were made in the basic layout of the program, then you probably shouldn't be using it in the first place.
Now comparing Fireworks to Photoshop? They're completely differen't programs! Not to mention that Fireworks generates some of the worst HTML on the planet. (though that may have changed as I haven't used it for quite some time for that very reason).
I apologize for the hostility here, I HATE to flame, but this post is completely uninformed and that annoys me deeply.
Do we really want linux to take over the desktop though, or do we just want it to gain a decent amount of it? Choice is good, because it keeps competition up. Without competition things get too stale.
I think what we really need is to gain enough marketshare that we have better support. I.E. better drivers, commercial applications (sorry, some people do want them), etc. What I'm looking for is the day that I can use linux and it's going to work just as well as windows does in supporting hardware and commonly used software, ala photoshop (and please don't tell me to use the gimp). I want to see linux get to the point where I can have it on my (main) computer, without any need to dual boot. How about we get some analysts that tell us when that is going to happen?