not only would that cause me and a million other people to buy the music from iTunes and to purchase more iPods but it would bring the cost down causing more people to buy more iPods and music.
That would be awesome, the problem being that the music industry is riding their artist pony to the grave because they all signed contracts for rights on their songs and how they are distributed. The music industry retains control until brave (and popular) artists say FUCK YOU to the music industry and start releasing their stuff solo.
If you're out there, listen to me: I'll buy your songs if you're good and you're releasing them on the internet for around 33 cents a track. Mr. Jobs, if you're reading this, you should change iTunes to have an "indy" section where people can sell their songs online without going through the music industry. Then you can charge whatever the artists want for those songs. Remember what Beethoven said:
"I think there is need for only one large art warehouse where all the artists of the world can drag their art to and leave with what they need."
"How is Opera going to make my browsing experience better in a way that cannot be replicated via Firefox extensions?"
It's simple, I think that if you have to use extensions, the whole point of Firefox has been lost. I have one extension on my Firefox browser which I've been using since 0.7 and that's the download extension cause I hate the default Firefox download thingy. Firefox is a streamlined, beautifully simple browser and it's open source. However, if you're into all those extensions like mouse gestures, cool display of all your tabs at once, web developer, image disabling, voice commands, and so much much more, there has never been any question that Opera does all that stuff way way better. For example, when you Ctrl+Scroll on your page in Opera, EVERYTHING is resized including pictures and flash animations.
The second point is stability. Firefox crashes when you open up too many tabs at the same time and then change your screen resolution. Opera doesn't. As a matter of fact, I haven't been able to do anything that crashes Opera.
I'd say if you have more than 2 or 3 extensions in Firefox, you should Give Opera a try, you might fall in love with it. I personally use both for different reasons.
oh so he's the asshole who takes care of all the dependency problems that arise from having a different glibc version than every package developer is developing against. In that case, knowing nothing of the issue at hand, I'd like to say that GLIBC leadership is more of a problem for Linux than whatever the ____ LSB is.
Is it just me or when you go to register with Firefox the site seems broken... it just takes you back to the registration page. I did it in IE and it worked. If this is so... WTF is it doing on slashdot?
Slackware was the thing that kept me with Linux. After destorying both my Gentoo and Ubuntu installations countless times because of pesky gcc and libc requirements from new versions of packages and basically shitty dependencies, I posted here and someone told me to try Slack. IT'S THE SHIT.
Every time I want to install something, it just works. I go to the website, get the Slack package for it, pkgtool and I'm done. None of that "we could not install this package because such and such packages are not available, please run whatever with dist-upgrade option.... and after you run it....failed blah blah.... and so you go and upgrade gcc or libc.... blalaiewa3l2 9*qaw9w8el aliw439238243... BOOOOOM!!!!", you know? It's like that Ellen Feiss apple comercial. I switched to Slack, yeah, I'm a switcher.
Thank you Pat, thanks for the login quotes and the stability!!!
I agree with ancestor posters on all of their points. The problem is, I believe grammar or spelling for that matter should not be checked by anything.
The whole point of language is that it is an evolving art. It depends on how it is used by the people that speak it. Why else do people pronounce Arkansas arkinsaw? There's like two letter swaps going on there and it makes no sense but that's what everyone says. So then, by the nature of language that should become Arkinsaw in the dictionary. Grammar is the same.
The interesting thing to ponder is that back in the day, the few scholars learned and spoke a language in much smaller circles whereas the illiterate were not allowed to influence the language. With higher literacy rates, we have a "degradation" of language. The confusion between its and it's is one that all slashdot readers can relate to. Or to and too.
So my question is, where do we draw the line between a language evolving and degrading? Abreviations such as "it's" for "it is" or "it has" are handy but confusing if misused. Perhaps we should start working on Esperanza Open Source style?
A lot of people posted good usability improvements in this discussion. Please read those and mod parent down.
For example. Choosing 'n' things from 'm' menus in a typical menu involves 2 * n clicks (once for the menu, once for the item. This new version involves m + n which, considering over the course of a whole day m n, is a substantial improvement. As a matter of fact, I think it's theoretically the best possible case. The only thing to do to improve this would be the organization of items in menus.
Why is that? Say for example you have to click on 3 different choices in the same menu. In the current way that everything is developed (with some notable exceptions) you have to click once to open the menu, click once for your first choice, click again to open the menu, again for your second choice, etc.
That's 2*n clicks where n is the number of submenu items you need. The way that Office is set up from the look of the screenshots, you have 1+n clicks. That's freaking AWESOME. How is that Change for Change's Sake? It's a step forward in UI design and it may not be the best thing ever but it's a step. Do we really want to have stagnating drop down menus for the eternity of computing?
You can't be knocking people because of advancements, knock them when they use dirty underhanded tricks to push others out of the business. Knock them for not using Open Standards, but not for innovation.
lol, yeah, those rich bastards : ) Open Source consulting, now there's something I'd be into. Basically making one company all over the world and charging for the service but releasing all source code for others to benefit / improve.
Do you like... work for them or something? You've got to be kidding, right? I have one thing to say about accenture. Cingular Wireless. Accenture was hired to do the merger with AT & T. Now, I know that this is a tough task to ask of anyone but I've never in my life seen a more screwed up website than Cingular's. It looks like someone was amazed that the project actually compiled and just released it out there.
Seriously, Accenture is all business, 0 quality. Get yourself a real quality consulting firm. IBM and RedHat are good examples of companies that can provide quality.
I definitely agree with you about the Flash plugin issue. I have had the same problem and it's really annoying on a slower system.
Also, one thing that I found in Opera that I really loved (besides the free license a week ago:) was that you could open like 400 pages in the background and at some point it would have an adverse effect like you couldn't ctrl+scroll to zoom any more, but that's understandable taking into account I was pushing the limits.
As far as bugs, if you consider what you're going against, I think Opera is the only browser out there with a smaller bugs / features ratio. But firefox is da bomb and I'm sticking with it. Good job on the 1.5 beta you guys, keep up the good work.
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Couldn't agree more. When I'm in Europe, there's like naked chicks everywhere, sexuality is bubbling out of people, men and women. I feel comfortable in that environment, have a wank now and then to relieve the need and go on with my life. Here though, I go through a sterile day at the office, a sterile lunch, sterile drive home, sterile people, sterile conversations, makes me nuts. I get home and I can't wait to jump on the web to see some photos of sexy women showing off their stuff.
It's just like alcohol and everything else here. If you repress it, it will only bubble up in other places and hurt you. But I do agree, in the USA, pornography hurts people. It's cause everyone's so damn prudish.
One like the parent which calls this story out as being unworthy of slashdot news. The other jumping on board with it and talking about their pet peeves that relate to the ones in the article. Perhaps this disconnect is the subtle current under poor interface design. The techies don't care and the non-techies complain in non-intelligent ways.
So here's a (hopefully) intelligent list of complaints:
People are not stupid. The argument that interfaces need to stay visually backwards compatible is inherently flawed. When's the last time that your grandma complained because you rearanged / changed the furniture to make more space and beautify a room. Do you think she would mind the same being done with her computer program? Maybe, if you teach her how to use computers by saying that hitting such and such a button will blow it up. But think about it, why do we teach people that hitting such and such buttons will blow up the computer? Because our computers are easy to blow up. Why? Because there's no clear separation between things that blow up the computer and things that open documents and respond to email. So, really, the old "don't change the interface because the users are too stupid" is more like "don't change the interface because we're too lazy to program and design an application or operating system that can handle beginers and advanced users with grace and flexibility".
Microsoft does not get their interface from gillions of dollars of research. They stole it from Apple and added a few features to it. Some are useful, some are not. But if you think about it, interface hasn't changed in Windows in any significant way for the past 15+ years (or however long Windows 3.1 was around). Menus still drop down, everything's rectangles and nothing's scalable or intelligent about where it is on the screen. You too OS X!! You haven't done anything either, just made cooler transitions and added a couple of neat shortcuts that some people like and some people don't. I'm talkin lets get to the real research being done and work on some circular menus or multi-dimensional interfaces. The hardware is there, the software is in research projects all over the place, but the big players keep saying we have to keep compatible with old interfaces. I say if it's well designed, it makes sense to anybody except for the companies that lose money because people like your interface better.
Specifically, there's no reason we should scroll all the way through a list of choices to pick one and there's no reason that our windows shouldn't be easier to manipulate (try resizing a window when its right edge is really close to another window's left edge. There are solutions for these things. Such as the way that X11 resizes things in its crappy and bland default window manager (yeah, that cool skeleton thing, I love that) or circular menus instead of linear ones. Lets get to it, see how many people love them.
that's too funny. Ok, so lets for one second "suppose" that for some really funny reason what TFA says is true. IE doesn't hide anything and Firefox and Opera do.
This is, just by the way, not true. IE puts some hidden stuff in that Content.IE5 folder which seems to not exist on your hard drive (it's not hidden or operating system protected) but pops up if you type it into the address bar after your temporary files. OOOOOh, that's fucking straightforward.
So AAAnyway, let's "suppose" that this is all backwards and that somehow Firefox hides data. Think about that for a moment? What are they proposing? That everyone switch to IE so that it's easier for the FUCKING GOVERNMENT TO SEARCH THROUGH OUR SHIT? LOLOLOLOLROTFLMAO. Moreover, lets suppose that all reason and rationality has just jumped out of a 10 story building, if everyone does switch to IE to enable the government to better monitor us, are the terrorists and people with shit to hide going to do the same thing? NO MAN, HOLY FREAKING GOD, NO. THAT'S THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF BEING A THIEF AND A PIRATE AND A FUCKING TERRORIST.
Article summary: terrorists are uncooperative with authorities because they use a file structure which is non standard and harder to search.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I almost pissed my pants. Dude, the fucking government should be worried about how to recover files from hard disks that have been literally blown up in explosions to cover up data. Jesus christ. CNET is like, really dumb.
I raise my Dreamcast controller and dusty IBM PC keyboard to you my friend.
I feel like I'm in like Geek Braveheart.
"Every man dies, but not every man really games."
Seriously though, look at games like Orisinal which really speak for what gameplay is all about. They're simple, well designed, challenging, addictive, non intrusive games. They are genius too because the music goes perfectly with the game and what is happening. Try the cats game... doesn't that sound like cats are involved? Or the little girl and star game... makes me feel like a little girl catching stars and I'm a freakin meathead football player.
I love what the OP said, I totally agree, how about some open source games? It seems that games, once they have an engine (which could be like Quake 3's engine or any other OpenSource engine) can just be improved upon by anyone. For that matter, why don't we all work on Project Revolution. Or if you want something new, how about a game where you have to survive in New York city by playing chess and basketball. You get a "rep" and the higher the "rep" the more tournaments you can join. The grand finale could be you playing in the Rucker and then facing off against Maurice Ashley in Washington Square Park. You get minus "rep" points if your basketball friends catch you playing chess or something like that.
I so agree. I have real reasons too. For starters... where are the applications? Like, in windows I have a quick launch and in Linux they're all organized for me and I can go configure the menus if I want. But in OSX? They're like on the dock... in the apple menu? But then they disappear from the dock? What is a dock? Is that a task bar or a quick launch, or what? Then I try to do something like ftp. I can't find any programs so I figure, this is Unix, maybe there's a command line thingy that does it. Then comes the thing I hate most... where is the command line? If it's so damn Unixy, put the command line smack in front of me. The mice are a whole other story. I think this. Great graphics, great stability, security. Great performance. Shitty, uncustomizable interface. Fluxbox or XFCE kick the teeth out of Mac OSX's interface. The only thing I like is when you right click you can scroll through the menu like through their iPod menus. Kudos for that.
Your car analogy is interesting. Whereas I think it applies to buggy code out of the box (kernel crashes, etc.) it does not apply to viruses. A virus for an automobile manufacturer would be like someone hiding rats in the back seat of brand new Chevy Cavaliers rolling out of the factory. Or waiting by the corner of the dealership to shoot holes in your tires within 3 minutes of driving off the lot. I'm pretty sure GM doesn't face these sort of challenges.
As far as defects out of the box, that *company* you've got your sights on has not had many in recent memory. Whereas the windshield wipers on my Chevy Impala broke when the odometer read 3000 miles and I just saw a dude killed in a Chevy Cavalier because the airbag went off while he was stationary without any car hitting him, my windows 2000 advanced server box has been running disconnected from the viral internet for the past 6 years without any problems.
One point of yours I agree with however. In GM's case, they probably paid a huge amount of money to that poor Chevy Cavalier guy's family. Software companies are not held accountable for their actions, and I think they should be.
awesome, my girl keeps asking me to go on vacation. I just got tickets to this thing, printed out my confirmation and everything. Damn, I thought space travel wasn't going to happen for a while.
no, if you go by what I say, I'm just straight up a hipocrite. If you were watching me type what I typed however, you'd see a satisfied little smirk on my face that enjoys swearing and fighting with anyone for fighting's sake. I agree with everything you said though, and I could care less what other see the world as. I am a little bit saddened by the fact that people can't appreciate Chaplin.
In any case, I also don't care what critics say except when they have valid points. Some movies are just plain bad and critics force you to actually think about what you consider is good or bad. All I was trying to do with my inflamatory cursing is get people to tell me what they think about movies. Instead, all I got was people putting me down, and rightfully so. I retract my curses with nothing gained. Perhaps honey will attract more bees than vinegar next time.
Good idea. I wonder if it'd work... Google says the mass of earth is like 10 to the 24th or so kilograms. A car is like 1500 or so kilograms so like 10 to the 3rd. And when you press the brakes, the most that you could hope is that all the momentum is transfered into the earth as if you collided into it (not true, it's just going to be like a fraction of that because you're only getting friction forces to transfer energy). Now, the speed of the earth at the equator is like 1700 km/h. That's pretty damn fast... cars can do like 200 with no cops around... Maybe. So then we have a much bigger mass going at a much faster rate.
Dude... I wanted to believe in it just because it would be something cool to do like going around in baggy clothes trying to convince everyone that we need to drive east and brake hard or the world will end. Unfortunately, I think because of the physics behind it, people won't listen.
I posted this above too, but it requires a repost as a reply to your comment.
Synergy
is a very cool concept especially when used in the Entropy vs. Synergy context as relates to the fundamental driving forces of our physical enviornment and our goals in life. Like when you win at a game of solitaire, that's changing something entropic into something synergistic.
whereas that may be funny and all, and you may be right that in this instance the words are misused, lets stop jumping on words just because they sound funny. Synergy and Paradigm are two very freaking awesome words. And Paradigm Shift is a very cool phrase.
Synergy means unification and it's a nice way to say it when talking about Synergy vs. Entropy. The tendency towards complete Entropy seems to be one of the fundamental truths in our physical world. Creating Synergy seems to be one of our fundamental drives.
Paradigm is used to describe a core of philosophies. A Paradigm shift is used to describe a change in attitude while staying aligned with certain goals. This is not bullshit, it's english at its best. Make all the fun you want, but if you keep bashing words and stop expanding your vocabularies, you'll end up having coversations like:
- like, so I was like totally impressed - really? That is sooo cool
really? That's like contrary to what Everyone else says about these things. Cool, but it's still weird that you're like the only one I've heard of with that experience. If it ever breaks on you, please post back to this.
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not only would that cause me and a million other people to buy the music from iTunes and to purchase more iPods but it would bring the cost down causing more people to buy more iPods and music.
That would be awesome, the problem being that the music industry is riding their artist pony to the grave because they all signed contracts for rights on their songs and how they are distributed. The music industry retains control until brave (and popular) artists say FUCK YOU to the music industry and start releasing their stuff solo.
If you're out there, listen to me: I'll buy your songs if you're good and you're releasing them on the internet for around 33 cents a track. Mr. Jobs, if you're reading this, you should change iTunes to have an "indy" section where people can sell their songs online without going through the music industry. Then you can charge whatever the artists want for those songs. Remember what Beethoven said:
"I think there is need for only one large art warehouse where all the artists of the world can drag their art to and leave with what they need."
"How is Opera going to make my browsing experience better in a way that cannot be replicated via Firefox extensions?"
It's simple, I think that if you have to use extensions, the whole point of Firefox has been lost. I have one extension on my Firefox browser which I've been using since 0.7 and that's the download extension cause I hate the default Firefox download thingy. Firefox is a streamlined, beautifully simple browser and it's open source. However, if you're into all those extensions like mouse gestures, cool display of all your tabs at once, web developer, image disabling, voice commands, and so much much more, there has never been any question that Opera does all that stuff way way better. For example, when you Ctrl+Scroll on your page in Opera, EVERYTHING is resized including pictures and flash animations.
The second point is stability. Firefox crashes when you open up too many tabs at the same time and then change your screen resolution. Opera doesn't. As a matter of fact, I haven't been able to do anything that crashes Opera.
I'd say if you have more than 2 or 3 extensions in Firefox, you should Give Opera a try, you might fall in love with it. I personally use both for different reasons.
oh so he's the asshole who takes care of all the dependency problems that arise from having a different glibc version than every package developer is developing against. In that case, knowing nothing of the issue at hand, I'd like to say that GLIBC leadership is more of a problem for Linux than whatever the ____ LSB is.
Is it just me or when you go to register with Firefox the site seems broken... it just takes you back to the registration page. I did it in IE and it worked. If this is so... WTF is it doing on slashdot?
Word bro,
....failed blah blah.... and so you go and upgrade gcc or libc.... blalaiewa3l2 9*qaw9w8el aliw439238243... BOOOOOM!!!!", you know? It's like that Ellen Feiss apple comercial. I switched to Slack, yeah, I'm a switcher.
Slackware was the thing that kept me with Linux. After destorying both my Gentoo and Ubuntu installations countless times because of pesky gcc and libc requirements from new versions of packages and basically shitty dependencies, I posted here and someone told me to try Slack. IT'S THE SHIT.
Every time I want to install something, it just works. I go to the website, get the Slack package for it, pkgtool and I'm done. None of that "we could not install this package because such and such packages are not available, please run whatever with dist-upgrade option.... and after you run it
Thank you Pat, thanks for the login quotes and the stability!!!
I agree with ancestor posters on all of their points. The problem is, I believe grammar or spelling for that matter should not be checked by anything.
The whole point of language is that it is an evolving art. It depends on how it is used by the people that speak it. Why else do people pronounce Arkansas arkinsaw? There's like two letter swaps going on there and it makes no sense but that's what everyone says. So then, by the nature of language that should become Arkinsaw in the dictionary. Grammar is the same.
The interesting thing to ponder is that back in the day, the few scholars learned and spoke a language in much smaller circles whereas the illiterate were not allowed to influence the language. With higher literacy rates, we have a "degradation" of language. The confusion between its and it's is one that all slashdot readers can relate to. Or to and too.
So my question is, where do we draw the line between a language evolving and degrading? Abreviations such as "it's" for "it is" or "it has" are handy but confusing if misused. Perhaps we should start working on Esperanza Open Source style?
Fuck YEAH man, FUCK YEAH!!!
A lot of people posted good usability improvements in this discussion. Please read those and mod parent down.
For example. Choosing 'n' things from 'm' menus in a typical menu involves 2 * n clicks (once for the menu, once for the item. This new version involves m + n which, considering over the course of a whole day m n, is a substantial improvement. As a matter of fact, I think it's theoretically the best possible case. The only thing to do to improve this would be the organization of items in menus.
"This seems to me like change for change's sake"
Why is that? Say for example you have to click on 3 different choices in the same menu. In the current way that everything is developed (with some notable exceptions) you have to click once to open the menu, click once for your first choice, click again to open the menu, again for your second choice, etc.
That's 2*n clicks where n is the number of submenu items you need. The way that Office is set up from the look of the screenshots, you have 1+n clicks. That's freaking AWESOME. How is that Change for Change's Sake? It's a step forward in UI design and it may not be the best thing ever but it's a step. Do we really want to have stagnating drop down menus for the eternity of computing?
You can't be knocking people because of advancements, knock them when they use dirty underhanded tricks to push others out of the business. Knock them for not using Open Standards, but not for innovation.
lol, yeah, those rich bastards : )
Open Source consulting, now there's something I'd be into. Basically making one company all over the world and charging for the service but releasing all source code for others to benefit / improve.
Good post, good post. Except for one thing.
ACCENTURE????
Do you like... work for them or something? You've got to be kidding, right? I have one thing to say about accenture. Cingular Wireless. Accenture was hired to do the merger with AT & T. Now, I know that this is a tough task to ask of anyone but I've never in my life seen a more screwed up website than Cingular's. It looks like someone was amazed that the project actually compiled and just released it out there.
Seriously, Accenture is all business, 0 quality. Get yourself a real quality consulting firm. IBM and RedHat are good examples of companies that can provide quality.
I definitely agree with you about the Flash plugin issue. I have had the same problem and it's really annoying on a slower system.
:) was that you could open like 400 pages in the background and at some point it would have an adverse effect like you couldn't ctrl+scroll to zoom any more, but that's understandable taking into account I was pushing the limits.
Also, one thing that I found in Opera that I really loved (besides the free license a week ago
As far as bugs, if you consider what you're going against, I think Opera is the only browser out there with a smaller bugs / features ratio. But firefox is da bomb and I'm sticking with it. Good job on the 1.5 beta you guys, keep up the good work.
Couldn't agree more. When I'm in Europe, there's like naked chicks everywhere, sexuality is bubbling out of people, men and women. I feel comfortable in that environment, have a wank now and then to relieve the need and go on with my life. Here though, I go through a sterile day at the office, a sterile lunch, sterile drive home, sterile people, sterile conversations, makes me nuts. I get home and I can't wait to jump on the web to see some photos of sexy women showing off their stuff.
It's just like alcohol and everything else here. If you repress it, it will only bubble up in other places and hurt you. But I do agree, in the USA, pornography hurts people. It's cause everyone's so damn prudish.
seems to me that there are two kinds of posts:
One like the parent which calls this story out as being unworthy of slashdot news. The other jumping on board with it and talking about their pet peeves that relate to the ones in the article. Perhaps this disconnect is the subtle current under poor interface design. The techies don't care and the non-techies complain in non-intelligent ways.
So here's a (hopefully) intelligent list of complaints:
People are not stupid. The argument that interfaces need to stay visually backwards compatible is inherently flawed. When's the last time that your grandma complained because you rearanged / changed the furniture to make more space and beautify a room. Do you think she would mind the same being done with her computer program? Maybe, if you teach her how to use computers by saying that hitting such and such a button will blow it up. But think about it, why do we teach people that hitting such and such buttons will blow up the computer? Because our computers are easy to blow up. Why? Because there's no clear separation between things that blow up the computer and things that open documents and respond to email. So, really, the old "don't change the interface because the users are too stupid" is more like "don't change the interface because we're too lazy to program and design an application or operating system that can handle beginers and advanced users with grace and flexibility".
Microsoft does not get their interface from gillions of dollars of research. They stole it from Apple and added a few features to it. Some are useful, some are not. But if you think about it, interface hasn't changed in Windows in any significant way for the past 15+ years (or however long Windows 3.1 was around). Menus still drop down, everything's rectangles and nothing's scalable or intelligent about where it is on the screen. You too OS X!! You haven't done anything either, just made cooler transitions and added a couple of neat shortcuts that some people like and some people don't. I'm talkin lets get to the real research being done and work on some circular menus or multi-dimensional interfaces. The hardware is there, the software is in research projects all over the place, but the big players keep saying we have to keep compatible with old interfaces. I say if it's well designed, it makes sense to anybody except for the companies that lose money because people like your interface better.
Specifically, there's no reason we should scroll all the way through a list of choices to pick one and there's no reason that our windows shouldn't be easier to manipulate (try resizing a window when its right edge is really close to another window's left edge. There are solutions for these things. Such as the way that X11 resizes things in its crappy and bland default window manager (yeah, that cool skeleton thing, I love that) or circular menus instead of linear ones. Lets get to it, see how many people love them.
that's too funny. Ok, so lets for one second "suppose" that for some really funny reason what TFA says is true. IE doesn't hide anything and Firefox and Opera do.
This is, just by the way, not true. IE puts some hidden stuff in that Content.IE5 folder which seems to not exist on your hard drive (it's not hidden or operating system protected) but pops up if you type it into the address bar after your temporary files. OOOOOh, that's fucking straightforward.
So AAAnyway, let's "suppose" that this is all backwards and that somehow Firefox hides data. Think about that for a moment? What are they proposing? That everyone switch to IE so that it's easier for the FUCKING GOVERNMENT TO SEARCH THROUGH OUR SHIT? LOLOLOLOLROTFLMAO. Moreover, lets suppose that all reason and rationality has just jumped out of a 10 story building, if everyone does switch to IE to enable the government to better monitor us, are the terrorists and people with shit to hide going to do the same thing? NO MAN, HOLY FREAKING GOD, NO. THAT'S THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF BEING A THIEF AND A PIRATE AND A FUCKING TERRORIST.
Article summary: terrorists are uncooperative with authorities because they use a file structure which is non standard and harder to search.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I almost pissed my pants. Dude, the fucking government should be worried about how to recover files from hard disks that have been literally blown up in explosions to cover up data. Jesus christ. CNET is like, really dumb.
I raise my Dreamcast controller and dusty IBM PC keyboard to you my friend.
I feel like I'm in like Geek Braveheart.
"Every man dies, but not every man really games."
Seriously though, look at games like Orisinal which really speak for what gameplay is all about. They're simple, well designed, challenging, addictive, non intrusive games. They are genius too because the music goes perfectly with the game and what is happening. Try the cats game... doesn't that sound like cats are involved? Or the little girl and star game... makes me feel like a little girl catching stars and I'm a freakin meathead football player.
I love what the OP said, I totally agree, how about some open source games? It seems that games, once they have an engine (which could be like Quake 3's engine or any other OpenSource engine) can just be improved upon by anyone. For that matter, why don't we all work on Project Revolution. Or if you want something new, how about a game where you have to survive in New York city by playing chess and basketball. You get a "rep" and the higher the "rep" the more tournaments you can join. The grand finale could be you playing in the Rucker and then facing off against Maurice Ashley in Washington Square Park. You get minus "rep" points if your basketball friends catch you playing chess or something like that.
wow. You should Never talk again. Ever. Ask your friends to join you in on that too. Thanks.
Someone with mod points, break this person's karma.
I so agree. I have real reasons too. For starters... where are the applications? Like, in windows I have a quick launch and in Linux they're all organized for me and I can go configure the menus if I want. But in OSX? They're like on the dock... in the apple menu? But then they disappear from the dock? What is a dock? Is that a task bar or a quick launch, or what? Then I try to do something like ftp. I can't find any programs so I figure, this is Unix, maybe there's a command line thingy that does it. Then comes the thing I hate most... where is the command line? If it's so damn Unixy, put the command line smack in front of me. The mice are a whole other story. I think this. Great graphics, great stability, security. Great performance. Shitty, uncustomizable interface. Fluxbox or XFCE kick the teeth out of Mac OSX's interface. The only thing I like is when you right click you can scroll through the menu like through their iPod menus. Kudos for that.
Your car analogy is interesting. Whereas I think it applies to buggy code out of the box (kernel crashes, etc.) it does not apply to viruses. A virus for an automobile manufacturer would be like someone hiding rats in the back seat of brand new Chevy Cavaliers rolling out of the factory. Or waiting by the corner of the dealership to shoot holes in your tires within 3 minutes of driving off the lot. I'm pretty sure GM doesn't face these sort of challenges.
As far as defects out of the box, that *company* you've got your sights on has not had many in recent memory. Whereas the windshield wipers on my Chevy Impala broke when the odometer read 3000 miles and I just saw a dude killed in a Chevy Cavalier because the airbag went off while he was stationary without any car hitting him, my windows 2000 advanced server box has been running disconnected from the viral internet for the past 6 years without any problems.
One point of yours I agree with however. In GM's case, they probably paid a huge amount of money to that poor Chevy Cavalier guy's family. Software companies are not held accountable for their actions, and I think they should be.
awesome, my girl keeps asking me to go on vacation. I just got tickets to this thing, printed out my confirmation and everything. Damn, I thought space travel wasn't going to happen for a while.
no, if you go by what I say, I'm just straight up a hipocrite. If you were watching me type what I typed however, you'd see a satisfied little smirk on my face that enjoys swearing and fighting with anyone for fighting's sake. I agree with everything you said though, and I could care less what other see the world as. I am a little bit saddened by the fact that people can't appreciate Chaplin.
In any case, I also don't care what critics say except when they have valid points. Some movies are just plain bad and critics force you to actually think about what you consider is good or bad. All I was trying to do with my inflamatory cursing is get people to tell me what they think about movies. Instead, all I got was people putting me down, and rightfully so. I retract my curses with nothing gained. Perhaps honey will attract more bees than vinegar next time.
Here's to eloquence and love of mankind!
Good idea. I wonder if it'd work...
Google says the mass of earth is like 10 to the 24th or so kilograms.
A car is like 1500 or so kilograms so like 10 to the 3rd. And when you press the brakes, the most that you could hope is that all the momentum is transfered into the earth as if you collided into it (not true, it's just going to be like a fraction of that because you're only getting friction forces to transfer energy). Now, the speed of the earth at the equator is like 1700 km/h. That's pretty damn fast... cars can do like 200 with no cops around... Maybe. So then we have a much bigger mass going at a much faster rate.
Dude... I wanted to believe in it just because it would be something cool to do like going around in baggy clothes trying to convince everyone that we need to drive east and brake hard or the world will end. Unfortunately, I think because of the physics behind it, people won't listen.
I posted this above too, but it requires a repost as a reply to your comment.
Synergy is a very cool concept especially when used in the Entropy vs. Synergy context as relates to the fundamental driving forces of our physical enviornment and our goals in life. Like when you win at a game of solitaire, that's changing something entropic into something synergistic.
Words don't hurt people. People hurt people.
whereas that may be funny and all, and you may be right that in this instance the words are misused, lets stop jumping on words just because they sound funny. Synergy and Paradigm are two very freaking awesome words. And Paradigm Shift is a very cool phrase.
Synergy means unification and it's a nice way to say it when talking about Synergy vs. Entropy. The tendency towards complete Entropy seems to be one of the fundamental truths in our physical world. Creating Synergy seems to be one of our fundamental drives.
Paradigm is used to describe a core of philosophies. A Paradigm shift is used to describe a change in attitude while staying aligned with certain goals. This is not bullshit, it's english at its best. Make all the fun you want, but if you keep bashing words and stop expanding your vocabularies, you'll end up having coversations like:
- like, so I was like totally impressed
- really? That is sooo cool
really? That's like contrary to what Everyone else says about these things. Cool, but it's still weird that you're like the only one I've heard of with that experience. If it ever breaks on you, please post back to this.