I downloaded it right away, because IMHO it is a nice browser BUT I have uninstalled it right away because it is not supported by NetVibes. I've just made it my homepage as I find it really cool.
Sorry opera... it seems the "Impersonate Explorer 6" is not working..
Sure, but, what about making a "portable" configuration profile that you save on your usb drive and you load when login in on any computer? That would be useful if you log in the "guest" account of the system, which will look for a config file and load the configuration in it. And if there isnt one, it would load the default configuration.
1. Create really cheap mp3 player 2. Add a propietary methanol battery pack 3. Give away mp3 player (ala Lexmark) 4. Fuck buyer's ass with expensive battery packs. 5. profit!
Now Nintendo's introduced the next generation, and Sony and Microsoft are caught flat-footed, with massive amounts of cash sunk into minor improvements on last-generation consoles.
I agree, I once wrote that the way console games generation works, this is was gonig to be the real nintendo Next gen. one. You see: NES [Completely new generation] SNES [an improved NES, 16 bit, better graphics] N64 [Completely new generation, 3D] GC [an Improved N64, 128 bit, better graphics] Revolution [Completely new generation]...
And it is not only the trend Nintendo follows: Sony: PS1 [Completely new generation 3D, etc] PS2 [An improved PS1, better graphics] PS3 [Completely new geneartion (Cell chip etcetc)]
Unfortunately for Microsoft, he has been only 2 generations on this market so: Xbox [Completely new geneartion 3D, etc etc] Xbox 360 [ An improved Xbox, better graphcis etc.]
So, for what I see, Nintendo really has a chance this time. I am looking to buy one of the two consoles (Nintendo's Rev. or Sony's PS3). I want the Playstation because of the Linux compatibility it promises to have, and I like the Nintendo because to get a hand into the new true generation of console games.
I don't know that I would call a desktop OS 'critical infrastructure.' When I think 'critical infrastructure,' I think of data routers and switches, or DMS100s or ESS switches. Power circuit relays in electrical substations might be better termed 'critical infrastructure,' vice 'Microsoft Windows.'
I have to disagree with you, just as an example, in Mexico there is some government organism called "IFE" which translates to something like Federal Electoral Institute, which is in charge of managing all the processes around selecting new governors, presidents and any other political job which worker has to be seelcted by voting. It does some other smaller things also.
The thing is, they use propietary Microsoft and other brand software and I think it would benefit to use free software.
I have a friend that works there and, she offered me a Senior-Programmer/IT full job, she asked me to make a software to handle certain kind of data.
Now, after looking at the requirments for the program I realized that almost any IFE office on Mexico would certainly beneffit from the software. Ultimately I didnt accepted the job (as I got a scholarship to make a phD) but I thought it would be great to make that program (with other programs used by that office or other governments office) Open source, and that ran over an OSS platform. That way, I could, lets say, start and pubilsh the project in sourceforge and all the other IT managers from the offices in the other cities could have contributed to the software. And of course all the community.
"And to top it all, no letters to name the buttons, but geometric shapes. "
I agree with you, when I frist played the PlayStation I was amazed with the buttons "names". It is simply stupid, how are you supposed to explain someone how to play: "press the box button to punch and then the circle button to run", when it is a thousand times simpler to say "press A to run, B to crunch" or whatever, also It is easier to memorize a letter than a "box", and if someone wants to tell you to quickly press one button, will he tell you "press box" instead of "press A". Also, compare the X,Y A B buttons from SNES controllers (the best controller design ever IMHO), the name of the controllers have logic "A, B" the classic 2 game buttons, "X, Y" extended buttons, "L, R" left and right.
Sony instead put:
_ |_| O/_\ X
What about using exagon, trapezoid, rombus and octagon for the L1, L2, R1, R2 buttons?...
I kind of agree with you, but I think one of the previous posters had a nice idea, to make a "MRU commands toolbar" which is filled with buttons of the commands you use.
What about having a shortcut to put a command like "open file" and, after that, if the command is not so clear the program could show you a menu with the different options (in the case of "open file" I think it is clear).
And after you use it the MRU toolbar gets updated. I think the technology does exist to make that and it would combine the two worlds (what people do not want from command oriented is to have to learn commands to do something so, "open file", "open document" and "open" should yield the same results). And of course being a textbox it could have autocomplete function showing the different options: if I type "Print" the autocomplete should show "Print document" "Print Preview" etc. if I write "Print Work" and the program does not fully understand, then at least it should show a 2 menu option with "print preview", "print document" "print configuration" and when I select the option I want then my command should be related to that option so the next time I write "print work" it does what I want to do, and of course it should update the toolbar.
I think that funcionality could be implemented as a plugin in OpenOffice, and there is no need to drop the menus as it is just a toolbar, that way, you could start using the menus and static toolbars and that would update your MRU toolbar.
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Me? balant ripoff.
As KDE trying to mimic the IMNHO shitty and useless MS Windows "start menu" (does anyone *really* find useful having to hunt through all the submenus to get run an application [just look at the last Knoppix KDE start menu]).
Linux zealots? Probably they will call it "Nice features match & compatibility".
Of course, not all the Linux applications try to ripoff their closed source counterpart (you mention Photoshop, but The GImp interface is quite different from the one of Adobe's software
IIRC Windows 1.0 was a balant ripoff of Apple Macintosh graphical OS. back in 1985...
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I do not know, but until now I have not seen any program which menu *really* makes sense. Not even the OSS systems.
Specially int the Office programs (Word, Excel, etc etc) which have a hundred different options hidden inside the submenus. I think it is time to think on a new approach like the Search-dont-sort google approach but for menus... that way instead of going deep into the sub menu mess you would only need to select a specific command with one click acording to what you are selecting.
As an example, how about right click/configure on a word document page bringing of the Page Configure option, or something like that?
I agree with you, (and I am Mexican so my country may be affected by the nukes). You should fucking nuke the ass of USA (not all America is that bad okey;-).
Not to kill them all, not to kill their people or whatever, just to turn down its self-inflated ego. For some time they have been proclaimed the "most powerful country in the world" and they are using that to create an empire of tyrany over the world, not only in the politic side, but also on the economic side (USA enterprises and chains like walmart or even MS).
It is time to fuck them so much that they again remember that the world do not belong to them and that they better live in peace with the world than to go and get their asses in whichever place they want.
The anonymous coward has a point with the battery observation, but aside of that, it would be great to have one handheld device that could do photo, phone, music player and PDA all in one.
Of course it is always the main complain that of quality of the devices but I am sure if you asked the question:
"Would you prefer to wear 4 devices of quality A+ or 1 device that does what the other 4 with quality A+?"
Everyone would prefer the second option! the caveat is that there is currently no such device, or they cost way too much!, hopefully with the water lens technology and while chips continue to shrink those all in one devices will become better & cheaper until mr AC above and GGP likes the quality of the device.
Play encrypted DVD's.... You know, Windows doesn't do this either:-) You only think it is easy because your computer vendor shipped you a CD with WinDVD on it
Wrong, you can play all kind of DVD's with Microsoft (R) Windows (r) Media Player (tm).
Thank the DMCA for the requirement to download this software on Linux Lets say you are outside a USA ruled country (which let me say there are few nowadays) you still have to download Xine + dcss (tarballs) and install it with the emacs configure; tar xzvf;./config;make;make install...commands which, for the average user who DO NOT WANT [AND DO NOT NEED] TO BE a computer geek is waaaaay too much.
So then what can a software developer label on her box as requirements for an application to run? That's where the whole complexity problem of Linux distros comes from.
As a software developer, you should aim to: - Red Hat Linux - Fedora Core
Why?, because it is the most standard distribution, RPM came from Red Hat and Mandriva and other distributions use it. It may also help that it is one of the most used Linux distributions.
Of course you could try to test your applications and make isntallers for different linux versions... that is a problem but if you want more buyers you have to do that.
Neither you nor the Gparent post understood one of th e main points of the great-GP post.
To answer GP: Not in the software thats available, but in sheer choice of software. MS Has Windows XP home and Windows XP Professional, designed for the general required use, its easy to tell epopel to get the correct version.
Sure, and it is really easy to tell the same people to buy Xandros or Lindows or even Mandriva. Just tell them to use Mandriva! Do not tell them to use just "Linux" because then you will give them problems.
Its like if someone bought a computer and you tell them "you can install Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4, Windows XP, Windows 2004 or MS-DOS if you like the command line"
Of course you will know that person and if he is not computer saavy, you will tell him just to install Windows XP Home or pro.
Make the same with Linux, as GP said, Open Source software is all about Choice, Linux IS OSS, so it is all about choice.
The problem here is that we (Linux advocates) continue to try to push this motto "Linux is Easy" or "Linux is for geeks only" or whichever but the key element is that Linux (nowadays) is all that.
"Linux is Easy" for your Grandma if she uses Lindows.
"Linux is easy" for John Sysadmin if he uses Slackware (just an example okey? do not bash me)
"Linux is for geeks only" if we are talking about Gentoo
"Linux is difficult and not functional" if talking about Lindows for John Sysadmin.
Do you understand? I think it is time to stop thinking about "linux" as the operating system -per se- and start to think about distributions there ARE distributions for every kind of person and whichever the person, if you recommend the wrong distribution it will be -difficult-
Yes, I have had a lot of problems with Flash on Firefox too :
- Sometimes Flash wont process mouse clicks. - Sometimes Firefox would start to work slow when
looking at a Flash movie/application. [ not happening in opera] - When into a Flash page, if you leave Firefox open for a lot of time then memory will go up a lot (once it ended being like 250MB with only 1 window (no tabs) open in a flash page).
Oh and one thing I LOVE about opera Flash support is that when you resize the window Opera resizes the Flash content. It is REALLY good as in firefox resizing just affect the fonts (I would also want it to resize images but... i think it is a lot to ask for).
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Or you could press CTRL+H and select the last URL you visited...
I think a better question would be if it supports any kind of Lego attachments, imagine if you could build a real Lara Croft kind of maid!
Cooool!
I downloaded it right away, because IMHO it is a nice browser BUT I have uninstalled it right away because it is not supported by NetVibes. I've just made it my homepage as I find it really cool.
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Sorry opera... it seems the "Impersonate Explorer 6" is not working
ok you clever coward just tell me how do you translate "enchilarse"
Go to www.allofmp3.com it is a site that you can get your music in plain mp3 or ogg or other non-DRM-crippled format,.
It is quite cheap and alternative OS friendly as you only need a web browser (dunno if it works on Lynx though...).
A full album (9 tracks) in OGG Q10 (about 186 MB) will cost you like $4. Nice deal uh?
Does anyone know what was the supreme court ruling? I am curious.
Sure, but, what about making a "portable" configuration profile that you save on your usb drive and you load when login in on any computer? That would be useful if you log in the "guest" account of the system, which will look for a config file and load the configuration in it. And if there isnt one, it would load the default configuration.
Oh yeah, I can see a new profit plan arising:
1. Create really cheap mp3 player
2. Add a propietary methanol battery pack
3. Give away mp3 player (ala Lexmark)
4. Fuck buyer's ass with expensive battery packs.
5. profit!
Now Nintendo's introduced the next generation, and Sony and Microsoft are caught flat-footed, with massive amounts of cash sunk into minor improvements on last-generation consoles.
...
I agree, I once wrote that the way console games generation works, this is was gonig to be the real nintendo Next gen. one.
You see:
NES [Completely new generation]
SNES [an improved NES, 16 bit, better graphics]
N64 [Completely new generation, 3D]
GC [an Improved N64, 128 bit, better graphics]
Revolution [Completely new generation]
And it is not only the trend Nintendo follows:
Sony:
PS1 [Completely new generation 3D, etc]
PS2 [An improved PS1, better graphics]
PS3 [Completely new geneartion (Cell chip etcetc)]
Unfortunately for Microsoft, he has been only 2 generations on this market so:
Xbox [Completely new geneartion 3D, etc etc]
Xbox 360 [ An improved Xbox, better graphcis etc.]
So, for what I see, Nintendo really has a chance this time. I am looking to buy one of the two consoles (Nintendo's Rev. or Sony's PS3). I want the Playstation because of the Linux compatibility it promises to have, and I like the Nintendo because to get a hand into the new true generation of console games.
I don't know that I would call a desktop OS 'critical infrastructure.' When I think 'critical infrastructure,' I think of data routers and switches, or DMS100s or ESS switches. Power circuit relays in electrical substations might be better termed 'critical infrastructure,' vice 'Microsoft Windows.'
I have to disagree with you, just as an example, in Mexico there is some government organism called "IFE" which translates to something like Federal Electoral Institute, which is in charge of managing all the processes around selecting new governors, presidents and any other political job which worker has to be seelcted by voting. It does some other smaller things also.
The thing is, they use propietary Microsoft and other brand software and I think it would benefit to use free software.
I have a friend that works there and, she offered me a Senior-Programmer/IT full job, she asked me to make a software to handle certain kind of data.
Now, after looking at the requirments for the program I realized that almost any IFE office on Mexico would certainly beneffit from the software. Ultimately I didnt accepted the job (as I got a scholarship to make a phD) but I thought it would be great to make that program (with other programs used by that office or other governments office) Open source, and that ran over an OSS platform. That way, I could, lets say, start and pubilsh the project in sourceforge and all the other IT managers from the offices in the other cities could have contributed to the software. And of course all the community.
Dunno but I have found it very useful, you may want to try www.dodgeit.com
It even has an RSS feed of the mailbox. This kind of recyclable mailboxes are useful for signing up on Torrent, Ed2k and other distribution sites.
"And to top it all, no letters to name the buttons, but geometric shapes. "
/_\ X
I agree with you, when I frist played the PlayStation I was amazed with the buttons "names". It is simply stupid, how are you supposed to explain someone how to play: "press the box button to punch and then the circle button to run", when it is a thousand times simpler to say "press A to run, B to crunch" or whatever, also It is easier to memorize a letter than a "box", and if someone wants to tell you to quickly press one button, will he tell you "press box" instead of "press A".
Also, compare the X,Y A B buttons from SNES controllers (the best controller design ever IMHO), the name of the controllers have logic "A, B" the classic 2 game buttons, "X, Y" extended buttons, "L, R" left and right.
Sony instead put:
_
|_| O
What about using exagon, trapezoid, rombus and octagon for the L1, L2, R1, R2 buttons?...
hahaha
Nice one,
I kind of agree with you, but I think one of the previous posters had a nice idea, to make a "MRU commands toolbar" which is filled with buttons of the commands you use.
What about having a shortcut to put a command like "open file" and, after that, if the command is not so clear the program could show you a menu with the different options (in the case of "open file" I think it is clear).
And after you use it the MRU toolbar gets updated. I think the technology does exist to make that and it would combine the two worlds (what people do not want from command oriented is to have to learn commands to do something so, "open file", "open document" and "open" should yield the same results).
And of course being a textbox it could have autocomplete function showing the different options:
if I type "Print" the autocomplete should show "Print document" "Print Preview" etc.
if I write "Print Work" and the program does not fully understand, then at least it should show a 2 menu option with "print preview", "print document" "print configuration" and when I select the option I want then my command should be related to that option so the next time I write "print work" it does what I want to do, and of course it should update the toolbar.
I think that funcionality could be implemented as a plugin in OpenOffice, and there is no need to drop the menus as it is just a toolbar, that way, you could start using the menus and static toolbars and that would update your MRU toolbar.
Me? balant ripoff.
As KDE trying to mimic the IMNHO shitty and useless MS Windows "start menu" (does anyone *really* find useful having to hunt through all the submenus to get run an application [just look at the last Knoppix KDE start menu]).
Linux zealots?
Probably they will call it "Nice features match & compatibility".
Of course, not all the Linux applications try to ripoff their closed source counterpart (you mention Photoshop, but The GImp interface is quite different from the one of Adobe's software
1995?
IIRC Windows 1.0 was a balant ripoff of Apple Macintosh graphical OS. back in 1985...
I do not know, but until now I have not seen any program which menu *really* makes sense. Not even the OSS systems.
Specially int the Office programs (Word, Excel, etc etc) which have a hundred different options hidden inside the submenus. I think it is time to think on a new approach like the Search-dont-sort google approach but for menus... that way instead of going deep into the sub menu mess you would only need to select a specific command with one click acording to what you are selecting.
As an example, how about right click/configure on a word document page bringing of the Page Configure option, or something like that?
Where does the recursivity stop?
See, in Epistemic logic it is called common knowledge and it goes ad infinitum.
I agree with you, (and I am Mexican so my country may be affected by the nukes). You should fucking nuke the ass of USA (not all America is that bad okey ;-).
Not to kill them all, not to kill their people or whatever, just to turn down its self-inflated ego. For some time they have been proclaimed the "most powerful country in the world" and they are using that to create an empire of tyrany over the world, not only in the politic side, but also on the economic side (USA enterprises and chains like walmart or even MS).
It is time to fuck them so much that they again remember that the world do not belong to them and that they better live in peace with the world than to go and get their asses in whichever place they want.
The anonymous coward has a point with the battery observation, but aside of that, it would be great to have one handheld device that could do photo, phone, music player and PDA all in one.
Of course it is always the main complain that of quality of the devices but I am sure if you asked the question:
"Would you prefer to wear 4 devices of quality A+ or 1 device that does what the other 4 with quality A+?"
Everyone would prefer the second option! the caveat is that there is currently no such device, or they cost way too much!, hopefully with the water lens technology and while chips continue to shrink those all in one devices will become better & cheaper until mr AC above and GGP likes the quality of the device.
Play encrypted DVD's.... You know, Windows doesn't do this either :-) You only think it is easy because your computer vendor shipped you a CD with WinDVD on it
...commands which, for the average user who DO NOT WANT [AND DO NOT NEED] TO BE a computer geek is waaaaay too much.
Wrong, you can play all kind of DVD's with Microsoft (R) Windows (r) Media Player (tm).
Thank the DMCA for the requirement to download this software on Linux
Lets say you are outside a USA ruled country (which let me say there are few nowadays) you still have to download Xine + dcss (tarballs) and install it with the emacs configure; tar xzvf;./config;make;make install
ha!
That is nothing compared to the 256 GB USB disk from AtomChip(c) corporation!
Of course it is available only with the 6.8 Ghz computer!
So then what can a software developer label on her box as requirements for an application to run? That's where the whole complexity problem of Linux distros comes from.
As a software developer, you should aim to:
- Red Hat Linux
- Fedora Core
Why?, because it is the most standard distribution, RPM came from Red Hat and Mandriva and other distributions use it. It may also help that it is one of the most used Linux distributions.
Of course you could try to test your applications and make isntallers for different linux versions... that is a problem but if you want more buyers you have to do that.
Neither you nor the Gparent post understood one of th e main points of the great-GP post.
To answer GP:
Not in the software thats available, but in sheer choice of software.
MS Has Windows XP home and Windows XP Professional, designed for the general required use, its easy to tell epopel to get the correct version.
Sure, and it is really easy to tell the same people to buy Xandros or Lindows or even Mandriva. Just tell them to use Mandriva! Do not tell them to use just "Linux" because then you will give them problems.
Its like if someone bought a computer and you tell them "you can install Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4, Windows XP, Windows 2004 or MS-DOS if you like the command line"
Of course you will know that person and if he is not computer saavy, you will tell him just to install Windows XP Home or pro.
Make the same with Linux, as GP said, Open Source software is all about Choice, Linux IS OSS, so it is all about choice.
The problem here is that we (Linux advocates) continue to try to push this motto "Linux is Easy" or "Linux is for geeks only" or whichever but the key element is that Linux (nowadays) is all that.
"Linux is Easy" for your Grandma if she uses Lindows.
"Linux is easy" for John Sysadmin if he uses Slackware (just an example okey? do not bash me)
"Linux is for geeks only" if we are talking about Gentoo
"Linux is difficult and not functional" if talking about Lindows for John Sysadmin.
Do you understand? I think it is time to stop thinking about "linux" as the operating system -per se- and start to think about distributions there ARE distributions for every kind of person and whichever the person, if you recommend the wrong distribution it will be -difficult-
Try Metacritic I find it very useful for game revies and scores. And it has also Films, DVDs, Music and Books.
Yes, I have had a lot of problems with Flash on Firefox too :
- Sometimes Flash wont process mouse clicks.
- Sometimes Firefox would start to work slow when
looking at a Flash movie/application. [ not happening in opera]
- When into a Flash page, if you leave Firefox open for a lot of time then memory will go up a lot (once it ended being like 250MB with only 1 window (no tabs) open in a flash page).
Oh and one thing I LOVE about opera Flash support is that when you resize the window Opera resizes the Flash content. It is REALLY good as in firefox resizing just affect the fonts (I would also want it to resize images but... i think it is a lot to ask for).