Is anyone working on the little things? Stuff like the URL bar not getting the focus half the time when creating a new tab, or the status bar not saying "Done" when a page is actually finished?
The continuous minor irritations of things like that are what make up a large part of a user's general feelings about a product, and one of the reasons I"ll always prefer to use Safari when I can.
There is no goddamn line. If the Slamdance invited the game where you played a concentration camp commander, it would be OK with me. They'd lose all their sponsors in about five seconds, and that'd be OK too, but that's what the free market's for. Welcome to free speech.
One of the main findings was that rather than weighing a choice between the pleasure of making a purchase and the delayed gratification of using the dough for something else, the brain is actually weighing between the pleasure of buying and the pain of forking over the cash.
Well, duh. Only economists actually think about opportunity cost. Everyone else considers spending vs. not spending. (Not to say they're wrong, since they're not, it's just that they have a tendency to over-estimate the depth of thought people put into economic decisions.)
Front coined the term but I make the claim To be the progenitor of the nerdcore flow So for all you nerds who be new to the show You only exist with the Hawk's permission But that's all good if you're down with the Hawk So come on everybody it's time to rock!
Most of which probably went into designing those horrible tool icons, rather than using Susan Kare's. The one place where they should have copied Apple....
OS X, at least, seems fairly honest to me. If you turn off auto-login, you'll find that a default system should be fully responsive about five seconds after the desktop draws.
I've got an old Apple Colorsync seventeen-inch CRT (presumably a Sony Trinitron tube, judging by the wire shadows on the screen) hooked up to my beige G3, and it takes at least fifteen seconds to come on.
If you believe it is appropriate for the government to permanently the restrict the activities of anyone, whatever they've done, merely out of concern for what they might do, you are part of the problem. Life is dangerous and it's not the government's job to protect you from it. Deal.
Two questions, from someone who tried it a couple months back and thought it sucked: can it handle any interesting codecs yet (*cough*XViD*cough*) and does the BT client not totally suck anymore? I found that anything I actually wanted to watch had to be opened in VLC, and the BT performance was worse even than the reference client, never mind Azureus.
Maybe this is good for the HURD--if Linus insists on sticking with GPLv2, and GPLv2 is found to permit this kind of thing, that might be incentive to people to finish up the HURD and get a pure GPLv3 kernel out there.
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App-specific web archives FTL, that's what wget's for. Browsers are for browsing.
Is anyone working on the little things? Stuff like the URL bar not getting the focus half the time when creating a new tab, or the status bar not saying "Done" when a page is actually finished? The continuous minor irritations of things like that are what make up a large part of a user's general feelings about a product, and one of the reasons I"ll always prefer to use Safari when I can.
The first of the microstates from The Star Fraction is being born.
There is no goddamn line. If the Slamdance invited the game where you played a concentration camp commander, it would be OK with me. They'd lose all their sponsors in about five seconds, and that'd be OK too, but that's what the free market's for. Welcome to free speech.
Hey, it works for Zaireeka.
RTFA! This is just an ad for Micro Focus.
Well, duh. Only economists actually think about opportunity cost. Everyone else considers spending vs. not spending. (Not to say they're wrong, since they're not, it's just that they have a tendency to over-estimate the depth of thought people put into economic decisions.)
Nice acronym.
D'oh, that was supposed to be "funny". Posting to retract mod.
Follow the link. It's obscure, but actually fairly funny.
And to quote MC Hawking,
Direct-to-dvd movies? Since when? This is the first I've heard of them.
Most of which probably went into designing those horrible tool icons, rather than using Susan Kare's. The one place where they should have copied Apple....
Adam Sandler FTW!
I know they're not really equivalent, but it's still funny to see this right above "New Zealand's First Land Mammal Discovered".
OS X, at least, seems fairly honest to me. If you turn off auto-login, you'll find that a default system should be fully responsive about five seconds after the desktop draws.
I've got an old Apple Colorsync seventeen-inch CRT (presumably a Sony Trinitron tube, judging by the wire shadows on the screen) hooked up to my beige G3, and it takes at least fifteen seconds to come on.
If you believe it is appropriate for the government to permanently the restrict the activities of anyone, whatever they've done, merely out of concern for what they might do, you are part of the problem. Life is dangerous and it's not the government's job to protect you from it. Deal.
Two questions, from someone who tried it a couple months back and thought it sucked: can it handle any interesting codecs yet (*cough*XViD*cough*) and does the BT client not totally suck anymore? I found that anything I actually wanted to watch had to be opened in VLC, and the BT performance was worse even than the reference client, never mind Azureus.
I thought that was Freenet....
You can log in as >console, and get to a pure text interface. I assume you can run X from there, though I've never actually tried.
Maybe this is good for the HURD--if Linus insists on sticking with GPLv2, and GPLv2 is found to permit this kind of thing, that might be incentive to people to finish up the HURD and get a pure GPLv3 kernel out there.
"Sol?" What's wrong with "day"? A footnote to mention that they're counting in local days could be added if they think it's really necessary.
Progress requires risk. Deal.
Ask Darl McBride....