It does makes the line of sight angle better. Did you look at the link I provided?
According the RACV study Large 4WD's (SUV's) aren't much different to medium and large cars. For example:
5.6 metres - Toyota Landcruiser 100 Series (5 Door Wagon)
8.2 metres - Nissan Maxima (Sedan)
5.5 metres - Subaru Liberty 2.5i (5 Door Wagon) (I've picked models that should be available in the US as well as Australia where the study was done.) Only vehicles in the Small Cars category were significantly better than 4WDs, but that is an unfair comparison as they don't have anywhere near the same capacity.
Note that I'm not advocating everyone buy 4WDs/SUVs, in fact unless you are going to actually use the offroad capabilities a regular vehicle would be a much better purchase.
"drivers in SUV's don't have the same vision out the back that smaller cars do" No they are often better as the driver is positioned higher relative to the rear window.
For example, suppose you work in an organization using a distributed SCM and you want to cut a release. Where does the code come from? Sure, in an OSS project, you just release the main developer's tree (eg, Linus'), but in a traditional organization, where there is no one person controlling the product, where does that code get cut from? You're still going to have a "Master" tree, it just happens that in Linux the master tree is Linus's.
Lack of sleep has caused me to be less tolerant so sorry for being rude.
I was annoyed that your comments regarding Powerpoint were completely off the topic of keyboard versus mouse human-computer interaction. What if you were talking about physics and used cars as an example, then someone went off on a tangent bitching about polution and global warming. They may be correct but it has nothing to do with the topic being discussed.
Now as to CAD comment, yes the keyboard is preferable in that case, but CAD software isn't usually used by the casual user. I use Photoshop occasionally and I am learning some of the keyboard shortcuts, but if I had to use them from the start I probably would bother with the program at all. As "i am kman" was saying if you don't live and breath these apps, mouse-driven menus at least let you easily access EVERYTHING.
I'm sure you're not really as stupid as that post makes you seem. The fact that Powerpoint was used in the example is almost irrelevant what if he/she had said "Try painting a bitmap image without a mouse". I'm sure you can do it but it would be a pain in the ass.
You don't actually mention which company you're talking about. So just in case, here are my recommendations.
1 - Cut them some slack. 2 - Give them all pay rises. 3 - They are obviously under too much stress, reduce their working hours. Send them on a paid vacation to recharge.
I think thats a pretty good start. Signed, Paul from IT.
The only reason anyone came up with GiBs and KiBs is because they couldn't stop the bastards from labelling a 111GB (119,185,342,464 bytes) drive as 120GB.
Why would anyone bother cracking it for the porn when there is no shortage of freely available porn?
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I have to lspci, then spend weeks messing around with mythtv-config and mythfrontend to try and get it to receive TV If you have a properly configured VFL, ivtv or DVB card it's as simple as selecting the card type from a drop down list.
That's the real problem, it's not MythTV that's difficult it's Linux. Configuring v4l & co. is a pain in the ass.
I agree completely with you about the Macromedia site. What really bugs me is the Macromedia Exchange section. It is a pain to use specifically because it is based on Flash. You can't open links in a new tab or window, and the back button doesn't work properly. It doesn't do anything useful that couldn't be done adaquately in HTML, or done better in AJAX.
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Not quite. 30FPS is a bit faster than the minimum needed for the image to appear continuous and moving, rather than as a series of still images. It is the minimum not the maximum. The average human can tell the difference when shown moving images at greater than 30FPS.
I thought the same thing about the life of the laptop. It lasted 3 flipping years! Okay it could be better but thats not too bad for any pc.
My advice would be to teach him to make backups, even something simple like just burning his files onto CDs. (That reminds me I should make a backup tonight.)
5) The play timer.... I like play timers, if they show I've been playing for a really long time then I feel like I'm getting value for money. Though I've always wondered if there were kids getting into trouble from parents due to the number of hours they've racked up, actually I hope they're still in use on the next-gen consoles so I can keep an eye on my future kids.:)
6) Unlockables suck! Unlockables are Ok as long as they dont make up half the game. Some games I've had required you to stuff around for hours unlocking stuff that was advertised on the packaging as major feature. Unlockables should just be for bonus stuff.
8) Cutscenes I dont mind most cut-scenes, unless they can't be skipped, can't be replayed if you missed the important bit, or if like the ones in Metal Gear Solid 2 they are overly long, completely stupid-insane, and made little difference to the actual game. It's odd the article picks on Ratchet and Clank for the cutscenes, when that series usually does a good job of them
I'm surprised that Trolltech hasn't looked into and started contributing to this. They recently hired someone specifically to work on the enhancement of X and bringing its eye-candy and performance capabilities up to the point where it can compete with things like MacOS X without slowing down horrible.
Maybe it's because they aren't that big a company. I'm surprised that one of the larger companies interested in linux hasn't hired someone for this.
Maintaining the OSX/OpenStep APIs for Windows would be a great idea as it would allow Mac developers to sell their software to windows users. In fact this was in Apple's original plans when they announced Rhapsody which OSX. Somewhere along the line they decided that making the market for mac developers software smaller instead of bigger was a better idea.
Opening and modifying one CSS file wouldn't take long at all. If you define things like link color in CSS you only need to modify one file, not 10,000. It'd definately be quicker than me writing and debugging a multi-stage command line.
By the way he only wanted to change the links to orange, not everything that was red.
I am a user who isn't too fussed about the "RMS philosophy", but I do appreciate the practical benefits of OSS such as Firefox and MythTV.
Which situation is more likely to result in change of OS: A: I use proprietory software such as IE, PaintShopPro, and MS Office on Windows. I hear good things about linux from a friend and try it on his PC, but I have to work out how to get all these different programs to do the same things I do on Windows. B: I start using OSS programs such as Firefox, Gimp, and OpenOffice on Windows because they are free. I hear good things about linux from a friend and try it on his PC, and only have to learn KDE/GNOME because the rest of the software is exactly the same.
The greatest barrier to entry for Linux or xBSD is having to relearn so many things. It is pretty easy to change from IE to Firefox, PaintShop to GIMP, or MSOffice to OpenOffice. But changing all of them at once, as well as changing to KDE or Gnome, is a much harder task. Being able to convert to those programs at your own pace while still using Windows is much easier.
The reason most people will change to OSS will be because it is cheaper. The only time most people choose an OS is when they buy a new computer. If using Linux can save them $$$ on their new PC they will consider it, but only if its easy to use. If Linux runs the same software they use on Windows then that makes it a lot easier to use.
Other posts have said it would be better if the effort put into porting software to Windows, were to be put into improving the Linux versions. The problem with this idea is that it usually isn't Linux programmers doing the porting its Windows programmers who don't wont to convert yet. So nothing is being taken away from the Linux side, but new developers are coming in from the Windows side.
Next, the spammers will start converting all the zombie PCs they now use for distributed email attacks into web servers that provide their advertisers a distributed source of order-taking. This means that unsuspecting PC owners everywhere will soon rack up astounding bandwidth overruns as URLs that point to their PC get entered into the SBS program.
This would actually be a simple way of notifying the owners of compromised PCs that they need to fix their PC. Two problems fixed for the price of one.
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It does makes the line of sight angle better. Did you look at the link I provided?
According the RACV study Large 4WD's (SUV's) aren't much different to medium and large cars.
For example:
5.6 metres - Toyota Landcruiser 100 Series (5 Door Wagon)
8.2 metres - Nissan Maxima (Sedan)
5.5 metres - Subaru Liberty 2.5i (5 Door Wagon)
(I've picked models that should be available in the US as well as Australia where the study was done.)
Only vehicles in the Small Cars category were significantly better than 4WDs, but that is an unfair comparison as they don't have anywhere near the same capacity.
Note that I'm not advocating everyone buy 4WDs/SUVs, in fact unless you are going to actually use the offroad capabilities a regular vehicle would be a much better purchase.
"drivers in SUV's don't have the same vision out the back that smaller cars do"
No they are often better as the driver is positioned higher relative to the rear window.
http://www.racv.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/Internet/Primary/my+car/car+safety/new+car+safety/reversing+visibility/
Lack of sleep has caused me to be less tolerant so sorry for being rude.
I was annoyed that your comments regarding Powerpoint were completely off the topic of keyboard versus mouse human-computer interaction. What if you were talking about physics and used cars as an example, then someone went off on a tangent bitching about polution and global warming. They may be correct but it has nothing to do with the topic being discussed.
Now as to CAD comment, yes the keyboard is preferable in that case, but CAD software isn't usually used by the casual user. I use Photoshop occasionally and I am learning some of the keyboard shortcuts, but if I had to use them from the start I probably would bother with the program at all. As "i am kman" was saying if you don't live and breath these apps, mouse-driven menus at least let you easily access EVERYTHING.
I'm sure you're not really as stupid as that post makes you seem. The fact that Powerpoint was used in the example is almost irrelevant what if he/she had said "Try painting a bitmap image without a mouse". I'm sure you can do it but it would be a pain in the ass.
That's what the Signed Off tags are for. So that they can tell who actually wrote the patch and who reviewed it and passed it upstream.
How hard is it to count 36 votes? Did you read the article?
It's not like there were thousands of votes, there were 3 dozen.
That's a great idea...until the telemarketer asks if you'd like to buy their crap and your phone says "yeah".
In some places companies can charge you via your phone account, so that it will show up on your next phone bill.
You don't actually mention which company you're talking about. So just in case, here are my recommendations.
1 - Cut them some slack.
2 - Give them all pay rises.
3 - They are obviously under too much stress, reduce their working hours. Send them on a paid vacation to recharge.
I think thats a pretty good start.
Signed,
Paul from IT.
The only reason anyone came up with GiBs and KiBs is because they couldn't stop the bastards from labelling a 111GB (119,185,342,464 bytes) drive as 120GB.
Why would anyone bother cracking it for the porn when there is no shortage of freely available porn?
That's the real problem, it's not MythTV that's difficult it's Linux.
Configuring v4l & co. is a pain in the ass.
I agree completely with you about the Macromedia site. What really bugs me is the Macromedia Exchange section. It is a pain to use specifically because it is based on Flash. You can't open links in a new tab or window, and the back button doesn't work properly.
It doesn't do anything useful that couldn't be done adaquately in HTML, or done better in AJAX.
Not quite.
30FPS is a bit faster than the minimum needed for the image to appear continuous and moving, rather than as a series of still images. It is the minimum not the maximum. The average human can tell the difference when shown moving images at greater than 30FPS.
That was the most 'insightful' comment I've read so far, and for some reason its only rated a "2".
It makes a lot more sense when you take into account the doubling up of all the library code.
I thought the same thing about the life of the laptop. It lasted 3 flipping years! Okay it could be better but thats not too bad for any pc.
My advice would be to teach him to make backups, even something simple like just burning his files onto CDs. (That reminds me I should make a backup tonight.)
5) The play timer ....
I like play timers, if they show I've been playing for a really long time then I feel like I'm getting value for money. Though I've always wondered if there were kids getting into trouble from parents due to the number of hours they've racked up, actually I hope they're still in use on the next-gen consoles so I can keep an eye on my future kids.:)
6) Unlockables suck!
Unlockables are Ok as long as they dont make up half the game. Some games I've had required you to stuff around for hours unlocking stuff that was advertised on the packaging as major feature. Unlockables should just be for bonus stuff.
8) Cutscenes
I dont mind most cut-scenes, unless they can't be skipped, can't be replayed if you missed the important bit, or if like the ones in Metal Gear Solid 2 they are overly long, completely stupid-insane, and made little difference to the actual game.
It's odd the article picks on Ratchet and Clank for the cutscenes, when that series usually does a good job of them
Maybe it's because they aren't that big a company. I'm surprised that one of the larger companies interested in linux hasn't hired someone for this.
Maintaining the OSX/OpenStep APIs for Windows would be a great idea as it would allow Mac developers to sell their software to windows users. In fact this was in Apple's original plans when they announced Rhapsody which OSX.
Somewhere along the line they decided that making the market for mac developers software smaller instead of bigger was a better idea.
Opening and modifying one CSS file wouldn't take long at all. If you define things like link color in CSS you only need to modify one file, not 10,000.
It'd definately be quicker than me writing and debugging a multi-stage command line.
By the way he only wanted to change the links to orange, not everything that was red.
Maybe they should have tried their new name out on a focus group. Surely somebody would have told them how crap it is.
Though if they did use a focus group, how bad must have the rejected names been?
Fair enough, but where can I get a Mini-ITX system pre-installed with linux.
I am a user who isn't too fussed about the "RMS philosophy", but I do appreciate the practical benefits of OSS such as Firefox and MythTV.
Which situation is more likely to result in change of OS:
A: I use proprietory software such as IE, PaintShopPro, and MS Office on Windows. I hear good things about linux from a friend and try it on his PC, but I have to work out how to get all these different programs to do the same things I do on Windows.
B: I start using OSS programs such as Firefox, Gimp, and OpenOffice on Windows because they are free. I hear good things about linux from a friend and try it on his PC, and only have to learn KDE/GNOME because the rest of the software is exactly the same.
The greatest barrier to entry for Linux or xBSD is having to relearn so many things. It is pretty easy to change from IE to Firefox, PaintShop to GIMP, or MSOffice to OpenOffice. But changing all of them at once, as well as changing to KDE or Gnome, is a much harder task. Being able to convert to those programs at your own pace while still using Windows is much easier.
The reason most people will change to OSS will be because it is cheaper. The only time most people choose an OS is when they buy a new computer. If using Linux can save them $$$ on their new PC they will consider it, but only if its easy to use. If Linux runs the same software they use on Windows then that makes it a lot easier to use.
Other posts have said it would be better if the effort put into porting software to Windows, were to be put into improving the Linux versions. The problem with this idea is that it usually isn't Linux programmers doing the porting its Windows programmers who don't wont to convert yet. So nothing is being taken away from the Linux side, but new developers are coming in from the Windows side.
Yes, I want a player that only supports ogg because it will be cheaper.
Have you not heard of Economies of Scale?
The market for an Ogg-only player would be tiny and the overheads involved would outway any licensing savings.
This would actually be a simple way of notifying the owners of compromised PCs that they need to fix their PC. Two problems fixed for the price of one.