"many shops don't admin access to their computers and are stuck with IE because IT says so. Yes such places exist. They are not just a story your mother told you to scare you."
Stuck with IE is a Bad Thing obv, but depriving (most) Windows users of admin access, not so much.
"It's not a perfect emulation, ofcourse, but in my experience it's good enough once you learn its limitations"
TFA: "... ExCanvasâ"a complex library that implements many of the Canvas element's features with VML, Microsoft's proprietary alternative to SVG. Unfortunately, scripted manipulation of VML is too slow to be used for highly interactive web applications"
"they sure as hell notice when things don't work right"
TFA: "but the browser's defensive security mechanisms insist on prompting the user before every time it is used. This detracts from the seamlessness of the plugin and makes it difficult to use for conventional web applications"
Sorry, but unless MS generously decides to relax this we'll all be getting calls about how our websites "don't work right".
"Yes, totally sounds like an awesome business plan. Sure, some giants do it -anyway- because they cannot wait for someone else to copy, but... not everyone has IBM's ressources."
To be brief: a business plan does not have to work for everyone in order to, well, work.
My first instinct reading the summary was, well, now that they've embraced/extended the word "open" so that -- astonishingly -- their tarball of an XML format qualifies in common parlace, I suppose they'll start in on making "open source" mean something other than what it actually means.
For Act III, I don't imagine they'd have much difficulty in redefining "free software" so that it means "MS software with a price tag of $0"
Obviously, the problem is that there aren't *enough of these spoofable chips. We should have them in our passports, cars, cellphones, and under the skin. 'Cause of terra.
I might just be on a hobbyhorse here, but it seems like a proper HTML5 standard with a -video- tag and a recommended codec would put a stop to all this "Download the latest executable thingamajig to view the media on this site"
(if you hadn't heard, this was tried, and any DRM-incompatible codec was called a "non-starter" by the "content industry")
I already posted in this thread or I would give you all my mod points.
The most usable of all possible interface is probably the command line. There's no uncertainty about what icons mean, instructions are usually a keystroke or two away (and don't take eleven minutes to get online and load), etc.
Pace Microsoft Bob, if you cannot be bothered to learn the language (phonetic or ideogrammatic) that an interface is "written" in, don't blame *it.
"(1) "Usability" is in the mind of the user. If you learned how to use some other system first and now expect that any other way of doing things isn't "usable" enough, that's just plain old resistance to change"
I can dig. Being a longtime GNU/Linux user, I recently got a MacBook Pro and find it nigh unusable. As a student of human nature, I'm aware that this is largely due to my own conditioning. So I don't trot around saying the problems are cause by its being a Mac, or an Apple, or Proprietary.
Ah, but when free software is under discussion, all of a sudden the *business or development model is to blame for the drawbacks?
Amarok is 8 X more usable than any other media player I've seen. More responsive, too. Also links you up with scads of free culture if you want it to.
I'd put it around 90%. This quote by Holt rings pretty true for me:
"...the anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know."
So many people don't see the payoff of spending 2-3 hours learning the gist of an extraction/reporting tool (or two or three). They're happy to pay $50/mo. for this to be taken off their hands. Makes me laugh. In three months they've easily paid for the time it would've taken to grok a man page.
Look it up if you have to. Failing that, how about some sort of cost-benefit analysis of the time spent in yr average public school (hint: most ppl I know agree that over 2/3 of school time is wasted.)
is that the --ahem -- "content industry" wants it both ways. They want you to acknowledge that the music you buy is licensed, not sold, and thus that they retain control of it.
However, if it's the *music is licensed, you still have a right to the music if, for example, the CD is damaged or destroyed. Try and get a free replacement CD under the(ir) theory that what you bought was not the CD but the right to hear the music on it.
I find that support personnel often have no concept of what "supporting linux" even means. If you just say the "L" word they'll do what they can to make you go away as soon as possible. Thanks the AlmightCthulhu for sticking with this one to the end.
Slashdot Mirror
By my count something like 300 mod points have been wasted on this junk. ;)
(gunning for "Insightful" here)
"Only people who want "something for nothing" are going to go for this kind of fraud"
Watch "No Country for Old Men". It's awesome.
"many shops don't admin access to their computers and are stuck with IE because IT says so. Yes such places exist. They are not just a story your mother told you to scare you."
Stuck with IE is a Bad Thing obv, but depriving (most) Windows users of admin access, not so much.
"It's not a perfect emulation, ofcourse, but in my experience it's good enough once you learn its limitations"
TFA:
"... ExCanvasâ"a complex library that implements many of the Canvas element's features with VML, Microsoft's proprietary alternative to SVG. Unfortunately, scripted manipulation of VML is too slow to be used for highly interactive web applications"
"they sure as hell notice when things don't work right"
TFA:
"but the browser's defensive security mechanisms insist on prompting the user before every time it is used. This detracts from the seamlessness of the plugin and makes it difficult to use for conventional web applications"
Sorry, but unless MS generously decides to relax this we'll all be getting calls about how our websites "don't work right".
"This may be Ubuntu's market if they can sign up more OEM's."
It occurs to me that GNOME on these things is almost as awkward and out-of-place as XP
I'm an armory, by industry, and .. *sigh.. too tired to finish this one. Someone else do it?
"Yes, totally sounds like an awesome business plan. Sure, some giants do it -anyway- because they cannot wait for someone else to copy, but... not everyone has IBM's ressources."
To be brief: a business plan does not have to work for everyone in order to, well, work.
Your comment cracks me up. As if competition in the form of imitation is so dangerous.
Did Will Ferrell put James Lipton out of business?
My first instinct reading the summary was, well, now that they've embraced/extended the word "open" so that -- astonishingly -- their tarball of an XML format qualifies in common parlace, I suppose they'll start in on making "open source" mean something other than what it actually means.
For Act III, I don't imagine they'd have much difficulty in redefining "free software" so that it means "MS software with a price tag of $0"
Obviously, the problem is that there aren't *enough of these spoofable chips. We should have them in our passports, cars, cellphones, and under the skin. 'Cause of terra.
I might just be on a hobbyhorse here, but it seems like a proper HTML5 standard with a -video- tag and a recommended codec would put a stop to all this "Download the latest executable thingamajig to view the media on this site"
(if you hadn't heard, this was tried, and any DRM-incompatible codec was called a "non-starter" by the "content industry")
"a $12 dollar sterilization ... "
Huh? Why would you want to sterilize a dollar? And who on earth provides this service for only $12?
I already posted in this thread or I would give you all my mod points.
The most usable of all possible interface is probably the command line. There's no uncertainty about what icons mean, instructions are usually a keystroke or two away (and don't take eleven minutes to get online and load), etc.
Pace Microsoft Bob, if you cannot be bothered to learn the language (phonetic or ideogrammatic) that an interface is "written" in, don't blame *it.
"But I still know when someone else's design either works or fails utterly"
No, I don't think you do. Not fersure, at least:
Tell me: which design works better for *me, Quicken or GnuCash?
"(1) "Usability" is in the mind of the user. If you learned how to use some other system first and now expect that any other way of doing things isn't "usable" enough, that's just plain old resistance to change"
I can dig. Being a longtime GNU/Linux user, I recently got a MacBook Pro and find it nigh unusable. As a student of human nature, I'm aware that this is largely due to my own conditioning. So I don't trot around saying the problems are cause by its being a Mac, or an Apple, or Proprietary.
Ah, but when free software is under discussion, all of a sudden the *business or development model is to blame for the drawbacks?
Amarok is 8 X more usable than any other media player I've seen. More responsive, too. Also links you up with scads of free culture if you want it to.
hm... my svn co reported host not found /.ed?
Is the repos
Or is my ISP helpfully filtering -- ahem -- suspicious traffic for me?
I'd put it around 90%. This quote by Holt rings pretty true for me:
"...the anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know."
Isn't the point of GP that when you pay the proper amount, you can often count on -- gasp -- *competent people coming to work.
So many people don't see the payoff of spending 2-3 hours learning the gist of an extraction/reporting tool (or two or three). They're happy to pay $50/mo. for this to be taken off their hands. Makes me laugh. In three months they've easily paid for the time it would've taken to grok a man page.
Look it up if you have to. Failing that, how about some sort of cost-benefit analysis of the time spent in yr average public school (hint: most ppl I know agree that over 2/3 of school time is wasted.)
is that the --ahem -- "content industry" wants it both ways. They want you to acknowledge that the music you buy is licensed, not sold, and thus that they retain control of it. However, if it's the *music is licensed, you still have a right to the music if, for example, the CD is damaged or destroyed. Try and get a free replacement CD under the(ir) theory that what you bought was not the CD but the right to hear the music on it.
I'm sure we could get ISO to fast track a few "adjustments"
I find that support personnel often have no concept of what "supporting linux" even means. If you just say the "L" word they'll do what they can to make you go away as soon as possible. Thanks the AlmightCthulhu for sticking with this one to the end.
"I threw a chair at him but it missed and hit a statue of Natalie Portman."
You shouldn't have done that; my patent #48763458765 covers the use of seating equipment in grits-oriented ballistic encounters