Even if Linux doesn't gain a majority of users at some point in the future, there has to be something better than Windows and the latest Apple OS. In my opinion we need to start afresh and say goodbye to various kludges which only exist to ensure backwards compatiblity. We also need to 100% make sure we all work towards a common goal without a million spinoff branches (which is the current state of Linux). Programs which also work off the bat without depending (too much) on external libraries should be a goal too. We can still make things open source, whilst maintaining a 'main brand' that the majority people should stick to.
Maybe something like QNX/Haiku would be good, I don't know.
I've always been for program/library independence. The exception is where the required extension is so incredibly large (like.NET for example) that it's not worth it. Otherwise I like stuff self-contained - even things like user prefs and settings (and yes I see the advantages of storing in the registry etc., but even so).
On a related note, I dislike 'installs' generally, and if I had things done my own way, everything would extract from a zip the same one folder, and be ready to run straight away, without littering the hard drive with millions of files (I'm looking at you Apple).
So we have an article on Slashdot about someone used 30 USB ports to cook some bacon?
Wow. Have we stooped to a new low?
What does this article tell me? I'll tell you what it tells me; USB is woefully underpowered. I won't stop campaigning until it takes only one USB port to do the same. If I want to have a bacon sandwich from my laptop without moving from the comfort of my easy chair, then it would take an electrocution from the flying spaghetti monster to stop me.
Well said. Open source software is one thing, but open standards, (especially when it comes to hardware) is so critical in saving billions of pounds from the scourge of UWS (Unnecessary Work Syndrome).
I feel that we're 'lucky' to have say, USB as a standard in connectors. It saves an untold amount of time, development and hassle. I think very long and hard before I buy a device these days which doesn't support charging through USB.
Some like me love to customize and have hundreds of bookmarks, other don't even know how to save their favorites to the bookmarks toolbar. By trying to force everyone to
But my point is we can have the best of both worlds. Those who never use keyboard shortcuts for bookmarks won't know the feature is there, but it won't matter, and it won't get in their way.
Look I realize in practice, extensions are a good idea, because developers get it wrong often, and/or they don't have enough to implement them. I'm just saying ideally (i.e. 'think how a user views it', and listen to your customers). In fact, I use a program called Mediamonkey, and have written an extension for that called MegaDJ. Imo, it's a really good tool, and uses a logic-complete system for any search query you could imagine. I still think though that it would be even better if it *wasn't* an addon, but instead included by default!
Yeah, extensions are good, but ideally they should still be part of the default feature set (as long as they don't clutter the UI too much etc.).
I'm talking about the case when UI designers who spend too much time adding options instead of concentrating on getting the UI right in the first place. Everyone ends up with a different setup, and it leads to bloat, bugs, and an inconsistent experience for everyone (plus makes upgrading more of a challenege). If they just spent that time getting it right initially, rather than rely on the user changing a thousand different settings, that would be nice.
Of course, what's even worse is when they get it wrong, *and* there is no option to change it. That's when I sympathize with your position. I'm just talking about ideally.
For the record, I didn't really know that was Apple's philosophy, and I don't have any Apple product. Their iTunes software for Windows is pretty bloated in my eyes.
Okay, well tbh I thought the idea of using the same button over and over was so insane that I thought to myself "it's going to get harder soon, much harder". That 'soon' never came. And by the time I played around 5-10 hours worth, I was bored with the repetition (I think the story is what saved it to that point), and certainly didn't want to go back to the very beginning to try one of the 'hidden challenges' you can apparently use.
Funny, because I actually sometimes like to make a challenge for myself in a game (for example when I complete it on its hardest mode).
Now compare FF7 to a real RPG such as say, Mysteria on the Saturn. That actually had you thinking "now should I use up this turn on defense, or attack, and if so what kind of attack would perhaps score a hit against 3 enemies at once instead of just one. Or *maybe* after all, I should concentrate on one for now, if it's particularly deadly". That kind of thing. You get *none* of that in FF7. Even Plants versus Zombies had more tactical gameplay, and that's almost purely an action game.
Okay, that's fine if you want a more film-like experience.
But I meant literally when I said about using the same button/magic/item against the enemy. I'm confused, because it gives you a host of different weapons/magic to use against the enemy, but you only need to use one of them to actually beat the game (well I lasted up until the bike ride section). Because of this, one may as well skip the battles (impossible of course without doing the usual single button press) and just watch it as if it were a film.
Perhaps you're forgetting that we'll also have 20,000 x 10,000 resolutions by then, and maybe even 3D. In particular, loading a voxelized 100,000^3 3D map will still dig into those orders of magnitude for a little bit longer.
What doesn't seem too clear after listening to the videos is why the rat's cells wouldn't want to crash the robot it's controlling, into the wall. Did the scientists program that in (perhaps wall crashes give the cells some kind of negative electrical stimulation), or did the cells have a mind of its own on that front?
The difference is subtle because it means we have either a 'mere' replacement for computer chips, or potentially much more - a sentient clump of cells which want the 'best' for the robot it's controlling.
But there are about 10 dozen reasons why this can be considered fake, and that the real motive behind the video is to try and brainwash the public into thinking the Earth is round.
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Heh. Actually I often use subtitles too, especially if the characters have weird accents...
Even if Linux doesn't gain a majority of users at some point in the future, there has to be something better than Windows and the latest Apple OS. In my opinion we need to start afresh and say goodbye to various kludges which only exist to ensure backwards compatiblity. We also need to 100% make sure we all work towards a common goal without a million spinoff branches (which is the current state of Linux). Programs which also work off the bat without depending (too much) on external libraries should be a goal too. We can still make things open source, whilst maintaining a 'main brand' that the majority people should stick to.
Maybe something like QNX/Haiku would be good, I don't know.
I've always been for program/library independence. The exception is where the required extension is so incredibly large (like .NET for example) that it's not worth it. Otherwise I like stuff self-contained - even things like user prefs and settings (and yes I see the advantages of storing in the registry etc., but even so).
On a related note, I dislike 'installs' generally, and if I had things done my own way, everything would extract from a zip the same one folder, and be ready to run straight away, without littering the hard drive with millions of files (I'm looking at you Apple).
So we have an article on Slashdot about someone used 30 USB ports to cook some bacon?
Wow. Have we stooped to a new low?
What does this article tell me? I'll tell you what it tells me; USB is woefully underpowered. I won't stop campaigning until it takes only one USB port to do the same. If I want to have a bacon sandwich from my laptop without moving from the comfort of my easy chair, then it would take an electrocution from the flying spaghetti monster to stop me.
I think they only charge pennies for that though. Not ideal, but by no means bad.
Well said. Open source software is one thing, but open standards, (especially when it comes to hardware) is so critical in saving billions of pounds from the scourge of UWS (Unnecessary Work Syndrome).
I feel that we're 'lucky' to have say, USB as a standard in connectors. It saves an untold amount of time, development and hassle. I think very long and hard before I buy a device these days which doesn't support charging through USB.
Some people can't hear. I suggest we get rid of the sound too on TVs. We can all use subtitles!
Some like me love to customize and have hundreds of bookmarks, other don't even know how to save their favorites to the bookmarks toolbar. By trying to force everyone to
But my point is we can have the best of both worlds. Those who never use keyboard shortcuts for bookmarks won't know the feature is there, but it won't matter, and it won't get in their way.
Look I realize in practice, extensions are a good idea, because developers get it wrong often, and/or they don't have enough to implement them. I'm just saying ideally (i.e. 'think how a user views it', and listen to your customers). In fact, I use a program called Mediamonkey, and have written an extension for that called MegaDJ. Imo, it's a really good tool, and uses a logic-complete system for any search query you could imagine. I still think though that it would be even better if it *wasn't* an addon, but instead included by default!
Yeah, extensions are good, but ideally they should still be part of the default feature set (as long as they don't clutter the UI too much etc.).
I'm talking about the case when UI designers who spend too much time adding options instead of concentrating on getting the UI right in the first place. Everyone ends up with a different setup, and it leads to bloat, bugs, and an inconsistent experience for everyone (plus makes upgrading more of a challenege). If they just spent that time getting it right initially, rather than rely on the user changing a thousand different settings, that would be nice.
Of course, what's even worse is when they get it wrong, *and* there is no option to change it. That's when I sympathize with your position. I'm just talking about ideally.
For the record, I didn't really know that was Apple's philosophy, and I don't have any Apple product. Their iTunes software for Windows is pretty bloated in my eyes.
My germs, my precious germs!
They never harmed a soul. They never even had a chance!
I don't recall anyone on Slashdot hating Opera. Perhaps being ignorant of its feature set and quality...
YOUR web YOUR way and MY web MINE
There's also the BEST way, which will possibly be better if one gets used to it (and even otherwise).
As an extreme example, you could code the whole browser yourself and make it even more super-duper customizable...
I'm sure you get equally obvious patents *outside* the software industry. What needs to be abolished are obvious patents, not software patents per se.
Wow that whole document looks like a massive case of UWS (unnecessary work syndrome).
Was that really part of the story? You're right that's super dumb if it's true. Good guys turning not just dumb, but also seemingly evil.
Okay, well tbh I thought the idea of using the same button over and over was so insane that I thought to myself "it's going to get harder soon, much harder". That 'soon' never came. And by the time I played around 5-10 hours worth, I was bored with the repetition (I think the story is what saved it to that point), and certainly didn't want to go back to the very beginning to try one of the 'hidden challenges' you can apparently use.
Funny, because I actually sometimes like to make a challenge for myself in a game (for example when I complete it on its hardest mode).
Now compare FF7 to a real RPG such as say, Mysteria on the Saturn. That actually had you thinking "now should I use up this turn on defense, or attack, and if so what kind of attack would perhaps score a hit against 3 enemies at once instead of just one. Or *maybe* after all, I should concentrate on one for now, if it's particularly deadly". That kind of thing. You get *none* of that in FF7. Even Plants versus Zombies had more tactical gameplay, and that's almost purely an action game.
Okay, that's fine if you want a more film-like experience.
But I meant literally when I said about using the same button/magic/item against the enemy. I'm confused, because it gives you a host of different weapons/magic to use against the enemy, but you only need to use one of them to actually beat the game (well I lasted up until the bike ride section). Because of this, one may as well skip the battles (impossible of course without doing the usual single button press) and just watch it as if it were a film.
Since my post was modded flamebait (oh noes!), perhaps I should explain it more clearly.
I know nothing of the classic FF3 original (which from what I've heard was excellent), but for FF7 on the Playstation, here is what you did:
When you meet an enemy, press the same button over and over and over and over again. Caan you guess what happens when you meet the next enemy?
Rinse repeat. I'll repeat again, there was ABSOLUTELY ZERO CHALLENGE. It was the same button again and again. What the heck?!
Final Fantasy 7 was a mind numbing experience (just plod through the game, no difficulty or challenge).
I can't imagine how this could be worse.
It's bound to happen at some point though. It's needed for resolution independence etc.
Perhaps you're forgetting that we'll also have 20,000 x 10,000 resolutions by then, and maybe even 3D. In particular, loading a voxelized 100,000^3 3D map will still dig into those orders of magnitude for a little bit longer.
What doesn't seem too clear after listening to the videos is why the rat's cells wouldn't want to crash the robot it's controlling, into the wall. Did the scientists program that in (perhaps wall crashes give the cells some kind of negative electrical stimulation), or did the cells have a mind of its own on that front?
The difference is subtle because it means we have either a 'mere' replacement for computer chips, or potentially much more - a sentient clump of cells which want the 'best' for the robot it's controlling.
Well then how can holograms make it work okay? Is that magic?
Nice try, I'll give it that.
But there are about 10 dozen reasons why this can be considered fake, and that the real motive behind the video is to try and brainwash the public into thinking the Earth is round.
Like as if. For those who are still in denial, this is what would happen if the Earth was round:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/flat/rounwrld.jpg
Well, this PROUD flat-earther will NOT BUDGE.
Thanks for playing.
Can I subscribe to your newsletter - I am going through a difficult time with my faith in the FSM atm, so I am desperately seeking the real truth. Someone sent me this as a present, and I still have nightmares that these things will haunt and eat me. Please help - I am at my wits end. :(
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