I have to disagree. I loved Myst way back when, precisely because all those pretty pre-rendered scenes and the slightly eerie background sounds made it so easy to lose myself in the game. And I absolutely adored the way it started by just plonking you right into the middle of a game with no clue what was going on, where you were or what you were supposed to do. Maybe I'm just highly suggestible, but something about playing Myst alone late into the night, staring into the screen where I (almost) never saw another human being represented, felt genuinely other-worldly.
It may not have been a good adventure game strictly speaking, but I can't agree it was overrated.
Of course, the other game I remember playing obsessively late into the night was Quake (somehow I missed Doom, pretty much jumping from Wolfenstein directly to Quake.) How I loved the sound of that nail gun...
You may not like (or even accept) what I'm about to tell you, but your problem is that you're used to an inferior system.
It's hardly a problem, since the system I have does what I want.
Windows as "logically self-contained units" are a dumb idea (and it lead to UI idiocies like windows containing other windows). Maximizing windows is also a dumb idea (and by the way, it's not true that you can't do it on a Mac; option-click on the "zoom to fit" button will maximize a window
Thanks for the tip. Hmm, I just tried it and it didn't work. Admittedly, the only Mac here right now is an older system (10.1.5), so maybe that's the problem.
- however, there's rarely a reason to do so).
How about because I like to work that way?
Unless you use something like IntelliJ, there is really no reason to maximize windows. It's a waste of space, and it prevents you from seeing windows below your current window.
But sometimes that is precisely why I want to do it! There are times I like to have the entire screen devoted to the window in which I'm currently working. I often find it much less distracting/more enjoyable to work what way. What's wrong with that?
If you use a Mac, get used to multitasking.
I already am used to it. I just prefer to alt-tab between maximized windows.
Don't maximize windows; zoom them to fit their content, and then work with more than one window at the same time. If you don't want to, fine, maximize your windows if you have to (and as I said, you can), but don't pretend that Windows is superior.
Now where did I ever say that? So far I've just stated my preferences. I wouldn't claim Windows is superior to Macintosh -- or vice versa for that matter. That kind of argument is best left to the fanboys. Indeed, even though I pretty much exclusively use Windows for historical reasons, I'd certainly consider getting a Mac. And I have no doubt it's a better OS when it comes to security, multimedia support, etc. (though as I'm a reasonably intelligent Windows user I have no particular problems with it.) But I refuse to stop working the way I like to because it doesn't fit somebody's notion of the best UI paradigm. At the end of the day, this experimental animal does as he damned well pleases. After all, what ever happened to "Think Different"?
Haven't 20+ years of usability studies pretty much proven that the Mac way is vastly superior in nearly every aspect?
No.
Why does WinXP not refresh the file list when you add new items, or rename something?
Case in point. I *like* that Windows puts files that are moved/renamed/changed at the bottom of the list. Makes it easy to find them. And if/when I do want them in their proper sorted position, I hit F5. A much better way of handling things to me.
Possibly, but they aren't going away, so debating it is somewhat pointless. Yeah, having menus appear where your mouse is might be a great idea, but we don't have it. We can either have the menu in windows (as in Windows) or on the top of the Screen. The second option is probably not the best possible option, but it's definitely a whole lot better than the first.
Like hell it is. Speak for yourself. I like having every window be a logically self-contained unit.
Another thing that drives me crazy about Macs is the inability to maximize a window. I *like* having the current window take up all the screen real estate even if it doesn't need it. It makes me feel like all my attention is focussed on the current app; otherwise I feel distracted. I remember how astonished I was when I was first told "you can't do that on a Mac."
Hansen's email is not a scientific publication regarding the correction. It is his personal informed opinion about the nature of the controversy and the degree of deceit involved on the part of his opponents. And as he thinks the stakes are indeed very high, his impassioned prose is perfectly appropriate.
Didn't you see the "Print" option near the bottom of the page? Between that and the "slideshow" option, you get all the text on one page and all the pics with (almost) no ads.
While there is nothing immoral in the pictures, but part of the sin lies in the objectification or women. If you're still objectifying them, its still wrong.
Have you ever been hit by a woman moving at high velocity? They are most definitely objects!
And in actuality, only six of my mp3s are illegal (back in the day, I just couldn't bring myself to buy an entire Skynyrd album to get "Sweet Home Alabama"). I was just going for an easy +5 Funny.
That's fine if you're talking about adults, but I want my three year old daughter to be surprised when Vader lays the awful truth on Luke. And I want her to be surprised when she finds out how the Harry Potter series ends, and who Norman Bate's mother is, and why Soylent Green is so damned tasty, and what Rosebud has to do with winter sports... Who said parenting would be easy.
If I have any sense, I'll tell Hotmail to go fuck themselves and politely tell my customers their free e-mail service does not accept our e-mails and that they should complain or find a new provider.
How are you going to tell that to your customers when Hotmail won't deliver your messages to them?
The term "evolutionary species" is also strange. All "species" are by definition "evolutionary", since that is the process by which individual species arise.
Without having read the article (heck, this is Slashdot) I would guess the author is referring to one of the many species concepts: evolutionary species, phylogenetic species, biological species, morphological species, phenetic species, and so on ad nauseum. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species.
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You still didn't figure it out. It's "passed ITS prime." No apostrophe.
I have to disagree. I loved Myst way back when, precisely because all those pretty pre-rendered scenes and the slightly eerie background sounds made it so easy to lose myself in the game. And I absolutely adored the way it started by just plonking you right into the middle of a game with no clue what was going on, where you were or what you were supposed to do. Maybe I'm just highly suggestible, but something about playing Myst alone late into the night, staring into the screen where I (almost) never saw another human being represented, felt genuinely other-worldly.
It may not have been a good adventure game strictly speaking, but I can't agree it was overrated.
Of course, the other game I remember playing obsessively late into the night was Quake (somehow I missed Doom, pretty much jumping from Wolfenstein directly to Quake.) How I loved the sound of that nail gun...
I'm 45 years old. I read Watchmen for the first time ever about a week ago and I loved it. But then I'm fairly immature.
Interesting post with a spot-on analysis. If this old fogey had mod points, he'd use 'em.
And what (or who) exactly was mounted in those tiny pictures?
Do you want employees or pussies?
When I envision myself with a harem, I do not see myself surrounded by employees.
However, I'm led to a different train of thought.
Hope the kid doesn't control that train, too!
And by a great scientist and really nice guy to boot. Neil Shubin is wonderful spokesman for science.
You may not like (or even accept) what I'm about to tell you, but your problem is that you're used to an inferior system.
It's hardly a problem, since the system I have does what I want.
Windows as "logically self-contained units" are a dumb idea (and it lead to UI idiocies like windows containing other windows). Maximizing windows is also a dumb idea (and by the way, it's not true that you can't do it on a Mac; option-click on the "zoom to fit" button will maximize a window
Thanks for the tip. Hmm, I just tried it and it didn't work. Admittedly, the only Mac here right now is an older system (10.1.5), so maybe that's the problem.
- however, there's rarely a reason to do so).
How about because I like to work that way?
Unless you use something like IntelliJ, there is really no reason to maximize windows. It's a waste of space, and it prevents you from seeing windows below your current window.
But sometimes that is precisely why I want to do it! There are times I like to have the entire screen devoted to the window in which I'm currently working. I often find it much less distracting/more enjoyable to work what way. What's wrong with that?
If you use a Mac, get used to multitasking.
I already am used to it. I just prefer to alt-tab between maximized windows.
Don't maximize windows; zoom them to fit their content, and then work with more than one window at the same time. If you don't want to, fine, maximize your windows if you have to (and as I said, you can), but don't pretend that Windows is superior.
Now where did I ever say that? So far I've just stated my preferences. I wouldn't claim Windows is superior to Macintosh -- or vice versa for that matter. That kind of argument is best left to the fanboys. Indeed, even though I pretty much exclusively use Windows for historical reasons, I'd certainly consider getting a Mac. And I have no doubt it's a better OS when it comes to security, multimedia support, etc. (though as I'm a reasonably intelligent Windows user I have no particular problems with it.) But I refuse to stop working the way I like to because it doesn't fit somebody's notion of the best UI paradigm. At the end of the day, this experimental animal does as he damned well pleases. After all, what ever happened to "Think Different"?
Haven't 20+ years of usability studies pretty much proven that the Mac way is vastly superior in nearly every aspect?
No.
Why does WinXP not refresh the file list when you add new items, or rename something?
Case in point. I *like* that Windows puts files that are moved/renamed/changed at the bottom of the list. Makes it easy to find them. And if/when I do want them in their proper sorted position, I hit F5. A much better way of handling things to me.
Possibly, but they aren't going away, so debating it is somewhat pointless. Yeah, having menus appear where your mouse is might be a great idea, but we don't have it. We can either have the menu in windows (as in Windows) or on the top of the Screen. The second option is probably not the best possible option, but it's definitely a whole lot better than the first.
Like hell it is. Speak for yourself. I like having every window be a logically self-contained unit.
Another thing that drives me crazy about Macs is the inability to maximize a window. I *like* having the current window take up all the screen real estate even if it doesn't need it. It makes me feel like all my attention is focussed on the current app; otherwise I feel distracted. I remember how astonished I was when I was first told "you can't do that on a Mac."
Hansen's email is not a scientific publication regarding the correction. It is his personal informed opinion about the nature of the controversy and the degree of deceit involved on the part of his opponents. And as he thinks the stakes are indeed very high, his impassioned prose is perfectly appropriate.
Didn't you see the "Print" option near the bottom of the page? Between that and the "slideshow" option, you get all the text on one page and all the pics with (almost) no ads.
While there is nothing immoral in the pictures, but part of the sin lies in the objectification or women. If you're still objectifying them, its still wrong.
Have you ever been hit by a woman moving at high velocity? They are most definitely objects!
And in actuality, only six of my mp3s are illegal (back in the day, I just couldn't bring myself to buy an entire Skynyrd album to get "Sweet Home Alabama"). I was just going for an easy +5 Funny.
If your entire collection of mp3s is illegal to begin with, who cares if the software you have to install to play them is illegal too?
Who was Norman Bate's mother?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bates. Better yet, rent Psycho.
Incidentally I either omitted an "s" or misplaced the apostrophe, depending on your persuasion.
That's fine if you're talking about adults, but I want my three year old daughter to be surprised when Vader lays the awful truth on Luke. And I want her to be surprised when she finds out how the Harry Potter series ends, and who Norman Bate's mother is, and why Soylent Green is so damned tasty, and what Rosebud has to do with winter sports... Who said parenting would be easy.
If I have any sense, I'll tell Hotmail to go fuck themselves and politely tell my customers their free e-mail service does not accept our e-mails and that they should complain or find a new provider.
How are you going to tell that to your customers when Hotmail won't deliver your messages to them?
For clearing up a common mis-"conception."
And for not making a lame joke about parthenogenesis like I just did.
I guess the editors did not notice my typo
...or they would have tried to pass it off as one of their own.
Nope, nope, nope. The evolutionary species concept is one of many competing species concepts.
The term "evolutionary species" is also strange. All "species" are by definition "evolutionary", since that is the process by which individual species arise.
Without having read the article (heck, this is Slashdot) I would guess the author is referring to one of the many species concepts: evolutionary species, phylogenetic species, biological species, morphological species, phenetic species, and so on ad nauseum. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species.
You forgot to add "And you have to pee."
Must be an example of dual-core advertising.