If people who do not have enough knowledge/time to code could sue the spammers, and with the money fund OSS projects (like Blender, which still needs 100,000 US$), then we can all contribute to these projects!
Just a small estimate: say that 80% of Open Source users would not be able to contribute to the code, and only 1% of these people would actually start to sue spammers. Say there are around 4 million OSS users around, and an average user could sue a spammer in around 2 weeks. That would deliver a staggering 64000 cases each month. To continue: say for each sued spammer, we would win 50 US$ (which is low), then we could contribute a total of $3,200,000/month. $38,400,000 each year!
Aren't these commands more like a 'gesture' than a word? After having typed these commands for thousends of times, you don't think about how to type them anymore. It's like opening a jar or walking a staircase.
The reason most UIs are confusing is simply put: OSes and UIs are designed around the system (bottom up), whereas a user approaches the system from the highest standpoint (UI -> top down).
A user with no knowledge about the system workings feels he or she is constantly pushing a stick into a jar of what seems to be unchangeable jelly. Is it strange a user feels difficult to learn something like this?
And to put this into the 'current situation': Windows has a more intuitive UI because many users have seen it 'grow'. They or their neighbors have worked with DOS or Windows 3.1 and have seen the 'system'. UNIX boxen and Linux has only been used by a select group of individuals and the rest has not seen it grow to what it is right now. That is why people feel that Linux or UNIX is less 'intuitive' than Windows is.
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Well, i'm pretty sorry to say this to you but... BAISICK was never intended to be a programming language to make big applications in. Because the architecture of the language is totally wrong to make big application in, better to call slang code you get lost after writing more than a couple of 1000 lines. When BAISICK was developed in the 70ies (i guess, maybe even earlier), the developers made it to be a handy stepup for the more complicated languages of that time. Now meecrowsoft tries to bring sometin' use in BAISICK by bringing Visual BAISICK, and putting object orientated thing in it, and to make a grap and glue interface around it. Well, while never using it, I can't imaging coming anything usefull out of it. Maybe you can grab and glue a nice interface in it, but that'll all. Tell me: why is most software in Waindoos still written in C? I havn't seen one big application written in Visual BAISICK. Well because linux is in more serious bissness (at least more than waindoos), where _real_ developers code and where _real_ highend-expecting users expect stable, non-exploitable and good programs, most applications you will see under linux are just coded in C. Thereafter, most coders who can C and write professional code don't need a graphical widget to know where to put the buttons. Linux is not the kind of os where everything just "can" (mostly due to it's multi-user nature). So if you want to write your BAISICK programs, you'd better stay a while with Waindoos, and make that os insecure. Maybe you'll convince some people to use linux instead of windows by showing off your newest Visual BAISICK programms.
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If people who do not have enough knowledge/time to code could sue the spammers, and with the money fund OSS projects (like Blender, which still needs 100,000 US$), then we can all contribute to these projects!
Just a small estimate: say that 80% of Open Source users would not be able to contribute to the code, and only 1% of these people would actually start to sue spammers. Say there are around 4 million OSS users around, and an average user could sue a spammer in around 2 weeks. That would deliver a staggering 64000 cases each month. To continue: say for each sued spammer, we would win 50 US$ (which is low), then we could contribute a total of $3,200,000/month. $38,400,000 each year!
Aren't these commands more like a 'gesture' than a word? After having typed these commands for thousends of times, you don't think about how to type them anymore. It's like opening a jar or walking a staircase.
The reason most UIs are confusing is simply put: OSes and UIs are designed around the system (bottom up), whereas a user approaches the system from the highest standpoint (UI -> top down).
A user with no knowledge about the system workings feels he or she is constantly pushing a stick into a jar of what seems to be unchangeable jelly. Is it strange a user feels difficult to learn something like this?
And to put this into the 'current situation': Windows has a more intuitive UI because many users have seen it 'grow'. They or their neighbors have worked with DOS or Windows 3.1 and have seen the 'system'. UNIX boxen and Linux has only been used by a select group of individuals and the rest has not seen it grow to what it is right now. That is why people feel that Linux or UNIX is less 'intuitive' than Windows is.
Well, i'm pretty sorry to say this to you but...
BAISICK was never intended to be a programming language to make big applications in. Because the architecture of the language is totally wrong to make big application in, better to call slang code you get lost after writing more than a couple of 1000 lines. When BAISICK was developed in the 70ies (i guess, maybe even earlier), the developers made it to be a handy stepup for the more complicated languages of that time.
Now meecrowsoft tries to bring sometin' use in BAISICK by bringing Visual BAISICK, and putting object orientated thing in it, and to make a grap and glue interface around it. Well, while never using it, I can't imaging coming anything usefull out of it. Maybe you can grab and glue a nice interface in it, but that'll all.
Tell me: why is most software in Waindoos still written in C? I havn't seen one big application written in Visual BAISICK.
Well because linux is in more serious bissness (at least more than waindoos), where _real_ developers code and where _real_ highend-expecting users expect stable, non-exploitable and good programs, most applications you will see under linux are just coded in C. Thereafter, most coders who can C and write professional code don't need a graphical widget to know where to put the buttons.
Linux is not the kind of os where everything just "can" (mostly due to it's multi-user nature).
So if you want to write your BAISICK programs, you'd better stay a while with Waindoos, and make that os insecure. Maybe you'll convince some people to use linux instead of windows by showing off your newest Visual BAISICK programms.