Dude, attempting to shape up Slashdot's graphic design is a losing proposition. According to Malda himself, the amateurish UI, the third-grade spelling and grammar mistakes, the dupes, the transparent payola schemes, the astonishingly incompetent editorial foulups, all these things are here to contribute to the "homespun" atmosphere of this place. Saying that Slashdot should look and function better is like saying Penthouse should get rid of the T&A--it misses the point entirely. And it's never going to happen.
Except the interface is painfully lethargic even after startup. Hit command-comma to bring up the "Options" screen (terribly un-Maclike, but violating HIG without a cause is another topic), and you can literally see Azureus drawing every box, every line, every character like your neighbor's retarded son with a black crayon drawing a landscape on your doorstep. I don't know if it's the Java, and I don't particularly care. Azureus sucks for its astounding sloth and for its breathtakingly shitty UI.
"I don't like Azureus at all- I find its user interface clunky and pathetically slow... Sadly, it's the only decent mac client."
I guess you're looking for something like Transmission, my favorite client since I discovered it last week. It's probably worth it to grab the nightly build, since it looks like it's been developed a ways past the latest official release. Don't worry--the interface and feature set is far more aesthetically tasteful than that directory of nightlies would have you believe.
Yes, but places like New York have the internet in addition to a rich community of very intelligent people living just down the block, or in an office environment, working one cubicle over. Places like these, places that give you more options than just the internet, will always command a wage and cost-of-living premium, and will always attract the best of the talent.
Basically, the internet--transformative though it is--doesn't upend 10,000 years of human habitation patterns.
Funny, I was just reading a paper on this exact subject. A couple of economists, having noticed that similar businesses tend to clump together even on an intra-city scale, studied the pattern of business siting decisions in New York. (For instance, graphic design-related businesses are concentrated in Chelsea and along 23rd Street. Why?) Skip the boring regression analyses, which just formalize what you already know intuitively, and you have a good summary of why geography still matters--and always will.
How does a material that's "99.8% empty space" (air? vacuum?) manage to stop and capture anything traveling at high speeds like the particles in a comet's tail? Anyone know?
Apple's not in the hardware business, nor are they in the software business. Apple's in the business of selling Macs.
If you can't understand at least this much, I submit that you haven't the proper attitude or aesthetic taste to understand anything else about Apple, its customers, or its market.
Yeah, seriously. I'll never know what so enrages them when we teach our children the fact that God created the universe 6,000 years ago. Or the fact that homosexuals are child molesters by nature. Or the fact that we were greeted as liberators.
"No, the point is that the kids are reading crap. Will the Shakespeare come later? Will American Idol and American Chopper watchers suddenly all go to the library and start reading Keats?"
Well, I do. But I guess your experience differs.
Who are you to pass judgment on popular culture, anyway? If no one's out there reading Gottfried's original, untranslated Tristan und Isolde, maybe it just isn't engaging for a modern audience in that form. I know plenty of people smarter than you or me who happen to enjoy shows like Fear Factor and Desperate Housewives, which, if you've got the imagination to make the stretch, are all just classics reinterpreted. This is not the downfall of civilization--on the contrary, if you ask me, it's evidence of a smart and discerning public.
But hey, it's Slashdot, so let's blame the user. Their fault for being stupid, right?
You know, I don't especially know why, but I feel compelled to chime in here. Look, I'm 23. I've got a BA from a liberal northeastern Ivy. I like Battlestar, even if it's a little cheesy sometimes. Jeopardy tickles me too. And I've been loving the History Channel lately. Catching the Lincoln biopic after coming home late this week was probably worth my cable bill in itself--and I pay Manhattan prices for my cable.
Yet I have a Myspace profile. I'm a pretty active user, in fact. And I was raised on shows like Friends and Seinfeld. Nowadays I love catching Project Runway on Bravo--shit, I'll even watch Blind Date if I'm bored. And while I don't watch American Chopper or Mythbusters, I do think it's cool that programs like these are getting people interested in engineering and science at all. Dismissing them because they're "pop" is like lambasting Christopher Pike for not having written Ulysses: surely the point is that kids are reading. The Shakespeare can come later.
I guess I just wanted to point out that this attitude of superiority comes off a little sour. Thumbing your nose at popular culture doesn't make you better than everyone else. Not to single you out--I see this all over Slashdot.
In general, however, I have to disagree with the idea that crossplatform interfaces are desirable, unless you're targeting one OS and don't care about the others beyond bullet points on a spec sheet. In the MVC model, keep the model and controller portable if you want, but you've at least got to customize your view for each OS you target.
It's a mistake to believe all GUIs are similar enough to target as one. Microsoft learned this the hard way fifteen years ago with Word 6.0 for Mac, and haven't tried it again since. Seems to me that the open source world today is repeating the same mistake.
It's not the spelling and grammar per se. It's that the editors' sloppiness and blatant carelessness show through in almost every aspect of the site, and these "minutiae" make this attitude obvious to anyone who reads an article summary. Shitty editing represents a shitty site. So I say, you're right: no, don't change, don't clean up your spelling and grammar, because to do so would be to lie about the quality of the rest of the content.
"...QT may prove to be superior for writing efficient crossplatform applications."
Not if Google Earth for Mac is any indication. It's even less Maclike than plain-vanilla Firefox, and that's pretty fucking ugly. Of course, you could always ditch QT and write a Cocoa wrapper (like Apple's done with WebKit/KHTML for Safari), but seems to me you could do the same with Gecko (see Camino).
Yes, there are indeed a lot of antisemites in Japan. My father, for one. It's pretty sickening how often you'll hear talk of the "Jewish world conspiracy," meant in all sincerity.
Whatever your opinion or mine, the fact is that shit like this drives a lot of people away from this site who would otherwise be contributing to the discussions, moderating comments, subscribing and viewing ads, and generally improving the quality of Slashdot as a whole. You could argue that people who are turned off by the editors' carelessness and lack of attention to content are exactly the nitpicky types of people you don't want around in the first place--that's fair, I suppose. Just realize that this is what you're doing.
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Dude, attempting to shape up Slashdot's graphic design is a losing proposition. According to Malda himself, the amateurish UI, the third-grade spelling and grammar mistakes, the dupes, the transparent payola schemes, the astonishingly incompetent editorial foulups, all these things are here to contribute to the "homespun" atmosphere of this place. Saying that Slashdot should look and function better is like saying Penthouse should get rid of the T&A--it misses the point entirely. And it's never going to happen.
I haven't checked, but I'd assume Azureus is skinnable so you can customize out the startup screen. Themeability. Such is the way of bloated trash.
Except the interface is painfully lethargic even after startup. Hit command-comma to bring up the "Options" screen (terribly un-Maclike, but violating HIG without a cause is another topic), and you can literally see Azureus drawing every box, every line, every character like your neighbor's retarded son with a black crayon drawing a landscape on your doorstep. I don't know if it's the Java, and I don't particularly care. Azureus sucks for its astounding sloth and for its breathtakingly shitty UI.
"I don't like Azureus at all- I find its user interface clunky and pathetically slow ... Sadly, it's the only decent mac client."
I guess you're looking for something like Transmission, my favorite client since I discovered it last week. It's probably worth it to grab the nightly build, since it looks like it's been developed a ways past the latest official release. Don't worry--the interface and feature set is far more aesthetically tasteful than that directory of nightlies would have you believe.
No, this is Wikimedia, not Wikipedia. There's a difference.
The difference is that Wikimedia is full of crap. Wikipedia is the one full of mistakes.
That article is but one link away from "Hairy ball theorem". I can't decide whether someone trolled Wikipedia again, or someone trolled physics.
Yes, but places like New York have the internet in addition to a rich community of very intelligent people living just down the block, or in an office environment, working one cubicle over. Places like these, places that give you more options than just the internet, will always command a wage and cost-of-living premium, and will always attract the best of the talent.
Basically, the internet--transformative though it is--doesn't upend 10,000 years of human habitation patterns.
Funny, I was just reading a paper on this exact subject. A couple of economists, having noticed that similar businesses tend to clump together even on an intra-city scale, studied the pattern of business siting decisions in New York. (For instance, graphic design-related businesses are concentrated in Chelsea and along 23rd Street. Why?) Skip the boring regression analyses, which just formalize what you already know intuitively, and you have a good summary of why geography still matters--and always will.
It's called a "strawman." Sorry the ironing went over your head.
Dude, I agree with the other two guys who responded to you in this branch of the thread. And you're an asshat.
:-)
You said you wanted an ad hominem, right?
How does a material that's "99.8% empty space" (air? vacuum?) manage to stop and capture anything traveling at high speeds like the particles in a comet's tail? Anyone know?
Apple's not in the hardware business, nor are they in the software business. Apple's in the business of selling Macs.
If you can't understand at least this much, I submit that you haven't the proper attitude or aesthetic taste to understand anything else about Apple, its customers, or its market.
Yeah, seriously. I'll never know what so enrages them when we teach our children the fact that God created the universe 6,000 years ago. Or the fact that homosexuals are child molesters by nature. Or the fact that we were greeted as liberators.
Ah, yeah. Sorry I read too far into your comment.
Stop. Please stop. Apple doesn't sell hardware; Apple doesn't sell software. Apple sells Macs.
Without understanding at least this much, I doubt very much you can understand anything else about Apple, its products, or its market.
"No, the point is that the kids are reading crap. Will the Shakespeare come later? Will American Idol and American Chopper watchers suddenly all go to the library and start reading Keats?"
Well, I do. But I guess your experience differs.
Who are you to pass judgment on popular culture, anyway? If no one's out there reading Gottfried's original, untranslated Tristan und Isolde, maybe it just isn't engaging for a modern audience in that form. I know plenty of people smarter than you or me who happen to enjoy shows like Fear Factor and Desperate Housewives, which, if you've got the imagination to make the stretch, are all just classics reinterpreted. This is not the downfall of civilization--on the contrary, if you ask me, it's evidence of a smart and discerning public.
But hey, it's Slashdot, so let's blame the user. Their fault for being stupid, right?
You know, I don't especially know why, but I feel compelled to chime in here. Look, I'm 23. I've got a BA from a liberal northeastern Ivy. I like Battlestar, even if it's a little cheesy sometimes. Jeopardy tickles me too. And I've been loving the History Channel lately. Catching the Lincoln biopic after coming home late this week was probably worth my cable bill in itself--and I pay Manhattan prices for my cable.
Yet I have a Myspace profile. I'm a pretty active user, in fact. And I was raised on shows like Friends and Seinfeld. Nowadays I love catching Project Runway on Bravo--shit, I'll even watch Blind Date if I'm bored. And while I don't watch American Chopper or Mythbusters, I do think it's cool that programs like these are getting people interested in engineering and science at all. Dismissing them because they're "pop" is like lambasting Christopher Pike for not having written Ulysses: surely the point is that kids are reading. The Shakespeare can come later.
I guess I just wanted to point out that this attitude of superiority comes off a little sour. Thumbing your nose at popular culture doesn't make you better than everyone else. Not to single you out--I see this all over Slashdot.
Parent post currently stands at 0, Troll. Looks like the literalist mods are out in force tonight.
Obviously, there's nothing left to discover.
Step in shit, you'll want to wipe your shoes. Bathe in it and you'll start believing it's milk chocolate.
(n.b. I've never seen Firefly)
No idea. How would I tell?
In general, however, I have to disagree with the idea that crossplatform interfaces are desirable, unless you're targeting one OS and don't care about the others beyond bullet points on a spec sheet. In the MVC model, keep the model and controller portable if you want, but you've at least got to customize your view for each OS you target.
It's a mistake to believe all GUIs are similar enough to target as one. Microsoft learned this the hard way fifteen years ago with Word 6.0 for Mac, and haven't tried it again since. Seems to me that the open source world today is repeating the same mistake.
It's not the spelling and grammar per se. It's that the editors' sloppiness and blatant carelessness show through in almost every aspect of the site, and these "minutiae" make this attitude obvious to anyone who reads an article summary. Shitty editing represents a shitty site. So I say, you're right: no, don't change, don't clean up your spelling and grammar, because to do so would be to lie about the quality of the rest of the content.
"...QT may prove to be superior for writing efficient crossplatform applications."
Not if Google Earth for Mac is any indication. It's even less Maclike than plain-vanilla Firefox, and that's pretty fucking ugly. Of course, you could always ditch QT and write a Cocoa wrapper (like Apple's done with WebKit/KHTML for Safari), but seems to me you could do the same with Gecko (see Camino).
Yes, there are indeed a lot of antisemites in Japan. My father, for one. It's pretty sickening how often you'll hear talk of the "Jewish world conspiracy," meant in all sincerity.
Whatever your opinion or mine, the fact is that shit like this drives a lot of people away from this site who would otherwise be contributing to the discussions, moderating comments, subscribing and viewing ads, and generally improving the quality of Slashdot as a whole. You could argue that people who are turned off by the editors' carelessness and lack of attention to content are exactly the nitpicky types of people you don't want around in the first place--that's fair, I suppose. Just realize that this is what you're doing.