Quicktime is much more than the Player. It is a very rich API that lets you do some great things, albeit often with some suffering, as it is getting a bit old...
Even if you use VLC (I do), there's no chance of escaping Quicktime.
I realize this is a complete troll, but all socialists I know are very insistent that democracy is critical to a functioning government. You're confusing socialists with tyrants who claim to be communists in order to win the initial support of their people.
The old site works great in every browser, INCLUDING text-based browsers that handled tables (e.g.: links2).
Now, given that all positioning is done with CSS, the page just looks like one long pile of text in links. It is barely usable... I much prefer the old, compatible, non-CSS version that used tables. Other browsers that don't support CSS (e.g: Dillo) are similarly painful to use with Slashdot since the "improvement".
FWIW, I'm fine with an option for focus follows mouse. But what is focus strictly follows mouse? What is focus under mouse? There is no description of any kind, and it seems rather superfluous. Perhaps I'm missing something.
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Thanks for (roughly) correcting me. What's with such a strange bug in Kubuntu anyway? It looks absolutely amateurish and awful!
I'm glad to see there is a usability team. Hopefully as time goes on they'll steer KDE the right way.
For the record, I'm very aware of what KDE is. I didn't mean to compare it to wmii -- I was saying sometimes I want a simple window manager, and sometimes I want a full environment (Gnome, KDE).
Of course not, but a list of things being done to address usability issues is what I'm looking for. It is okay if they're not *my* usability issues. I don't need or want a point by point rebuttal to my complains... I just want some inside information on what is to come.
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I don't want a flamewar. I've used KDE within the past two months (Kubuntu live CD). To me, it is a nightmare of redundant options, unpredictable behaviour, and completely hideous defaults. Fuck, the text doesn't even fit in some of the configuration windows unless I resize them! (Why they can be resized so small that they're useless in the first place I don't know.)
I want to know what, if anything, is being done to correct these issues and many more without scouring mailing lists. That's all.
FWIW, the current Gnome file manager is very usable. Just tick the box so it uses the browser and not the spatial mode. The browser is minimal, but is has all of the necessary features and works very well. As for configuration, both Gnome and KDE have the critical options in place. KDE just has a lot more that seem useless to me (focus under mouse, focus follows mouse, focus strictly follows mouse, etc). KDE also has lots of insane UI issues, where the taskbar preferences you get from right-clicking the taskbar aren't *exactly* the same as the ones you get when picking it from the "control panel", etc. It just doesn't feel polished at all. To be honest, it is fundamentally *bad*, and needs a complete redesign on the UI level.
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I'm talking about the complete environment, which is why I was comparing it to Gnome. KDE has more issues than I can get into right now, but if that's all you've been using for eight years, you probably don't see them. I think they're glaringly obvious if looked at from a non-KDE user perspective.
I'm posting because I'm genuinely interested in what is being done for the sake of usability. I do not wish to debate what the current problem are... I don't have time for that right now.:-)
That's all well and good...
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But does anyone have info about usability improvements? KDE is currently a usability nightmare from my perspective. I personally use wmii, which is a fantastic minimal window manager, but for some things a full desktop environment is nice. I currently recommend Gnome to people for such a role without hesitation because, at least out of the box, KDE is horrific.
I think you're overestimating Joe Sixpack. If I told someone to get an AMD system and they hit this limitation, do you know where their anger would be directed? AT ME.
China needs search engines more than the engines need China. If Google, Yahoo, etc, had some balls, and said "there is no way we can technically censor the information", China would probably fold. Would be very ugly for chinese business for quite some time until China came up with an alternative.
They also have an obligation to follow the laws of the land. Nobody seems to think China has the right to impose their laws on American companies, which is bullshit.
The only thing that's bullshit here is your post. If China had a law saying that Google had to turn over anyone searching for info about the Tiananmen Square massacre, and that those people would be shot... Do you honestly think that Google has an obligation to do that!? You are absolutely mad! An unjust rule is not one that should be followed, especially if the rule is in a country different than the company making the choice! There is NO EXCUSE for the behaviour of these companies.
It depends on the permissions set for the property you're on, although these can be hacked around in some ways. So yeah, it is a programmer's MMOG, and yes, you can do stuff like that if you're a clever enough programmer. Awhile back, one person made an object that, when activated, would duplicate itself... and then the duplicates would duplicate themselves... and so on. It was essentially a doomsday device that was used the bring down multiple servers. This will get your banned fast, and the servers probably have some countermeasures in place now to make sure such things won't happen again, but that's just one example of the kind of "power" that SL offers you. That said, all I seem to manage to do is make a hot asian girl and get hit on.
So all of a sudden Linux wants to stop me playing that tune/movie/application/whatever on my laptop unless I buy two copies. Is Linux going to go the way of Unix & Minix for similar reasons? Am I missing something?
Yes. Without DRM in the kernel, you wouldn't be able to play them *at all*.
Just to clarify, it isn't that it is "DRM-encumbered". It is that because of the DRM, it is illegal to circumvent that DRM due to the DMCA (or so goes the logic).
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Quicktime is much more than the Player. It is a very rich API that lets you do some great things, albeit often with some suffering, as it is getting a bit old...
Even if you use VLC (I do), there's no chance of escaping Quicktime.
No socialists I know support the Chinese government and its insane number of human rights violations.
Opinions differ. I like Dillo and links2, and can't stand elinks. Ah well...
I realize this is a complete troll, but all socialists I know are very insistent that democracy is critical to a functioning government. You're confusing socialists with tyrants who claim to be communists in order to win the initial support of their people.
The old site works great in every browser, INCLUDING text-based browsers that handled tables (e.g.: links2).
Now, given that all positioning is done with CSS, the page just looks like one long pile of text in links. It is barely usable... I much prefer the old, compatible, non-CSS version that used tables. Other browsers that don't support CSS (e.g: Dillo) are similarly painful to use with Slashdot since the "improvement".
I second... I've heard this bounced around a few times but cannot find anything on the topic.
SubEthaEdit on the mac already does this.
FWIW, I'm fine with an option for focus follows mouse. But what is focus strictly follows mouse? What is focus under mouse? There is no description of any kind, and it seems rather superfluous. Perhaps I'm missing something.
Thanks for (roughly) correcting me. What's with such a strange bug in Kubuntu anyway? It looks absolutely amateurish and awful!
I'm glad to see there is a usability team. Hopefully as time goes on they'll steer KDE the right way.
For the record, I'm very aware of what KDE is. I didn't mean to compare it to wmii -- I was saying sometimes I want a simple window manager, and sometimes I want a full environment (Gnome, KDE).
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Wmii is great though. Try it.
Of course not, but a list of things being done to address usability issues is what I'm looking for. It is okay if they're not *my* usability issues. I don't need or want a point by point rebuttal to my complains... I just want some inside information on what is to come.
I don't want a flamewar. I've used KDE within the past two months (Kubuntu live CD). To me, it is a nightmare of redundant options, unpredictable behaviour, and completely hideous defaults. Fuck, the text doesn't even fit in some of the configuration windows unless I resize them! (Why they can be resized so small that they're useless in the first place I don't know.)
I want to know what, if anything, is being done to correct these issues and many more without scouring mailing lists. That's all.
FWIW, the current Gnome file manager is very usable. Just tick the box so it uses the browser and not the spatial mode. The browser is minimal, but is has all of the necessary features and works very well. As for configuration, both Gnome and KDE have the critical options in place. KDE just has a lot more that seem useless to me (focus under mouse, focus follows mouse, focus strictly follows mouse, etc). KDE also has lots of insane UI issues, where the taskbar preferences you get from right-clicking the taskbar aren't *exactly* the same as the ones you get when picking it from the "control panel", etc. It just doesn't feel polished at all. To be honest, it is fundamentally *bad*, and needs a complete redesign on the UI level.
I'm talking about the complete environment, which is why I was comparing it to Gnome. KDE has more issues than I can get into right now, but if that's all you've been using for eight years, you probably don't see them. I think they're glaringly obvious if looked at from a non-KDE user perspective.
:-)
I'm posting because I'm genuinely interested in what is being done for the sake of usability. I do not wish to debate what the current problem are... I don't have time for that right now.
But does anyone have info about usability improvements? KDE is currently a usability nightmare from my perspective. I personally use wmii, which is a fantastic minimal window manager, but for some things a full desktop environment is nice. I currently recommend Gnome to people for such a role without hesitation because, at least out of the box, KDE is horrific.
Continue with that story and I'll be naked and covered with my own hot sl.. er ...
Broke the mold - 143,000 hits
Threw away the mold - 2,140 hits
Where do you people come up with this stuff? It's broke I say, broke!
I think you're overestimating Joe Sixpack. If I told someone to get an AMD system and they hit this limitation, do you know where their anger would be directed? AT ME.
Why does it require OS X? Linux deals well with HFS+ in my personal experience.
You're right about the tools though. DiskWarrior is *godlike*. I cannot believe the stuff it has pulled off... stuff that made fsck cry.
You must be really fun at parties.
China needs search engines more than the engines need China. If Google, Yahoo, etc, had some balls, and said "there is no way we can technically censor the information", China would probably fold. Would be very ugly for chinese business for quite some time until China came up with an alternative.
They also have an obligation to follow the laws of the land. Nobody seems to think China has the right to impose their laws on American companies, which is bullshit.
The only thing that's bullshit here is your post. If China had a law saying that Google had to turn over anyone searching for info about the Tiananmen Square massacre, and that those people would be shot... Do you honestly think that Google has an obligation to do that!? You are absolutely mad! An unjust rule is not one that should be followed, especially if the rule is in a country different than the company making the choice! There is NO EXCUSE for the behaviour of these companies.
It depends on the permissions set for the property you're on, although these can be hacked around in some ways. So yeah, it is a programmer's MMOG, and yes, you can do stuff like that if you're a clever enough programmer. Awhile back, one person made an object that, when activated, would duplicate itself... and then the duplicates would duplicate themselves... and so on. It was essentially a doomsday device that was used the bring down multiple servers. This will get your banned fast, and the servers probably have some countermeasures in place now to make sure such things won't happen again, but that's just one example of the kind of "power" that SL offers you. That said, all I seem to manage to do is make a hot asian girl and get hit on.
So all of a sudden Linux wants to stop me playing that tune/movie/application/whatever on my laptop unless I buy two copies. Is Linux going to go the way of Unix & Minix for similar reasons? Am I missing something?
Yes. Without DRM in the kernel, you wouldn't be able to play them *at all*.
Just to clarify, it isn't that it is "DRM-encumbered". It is that because of the DRM, it is illegal to circumvent that DRM due to the DMCA (or so goes the logic).