So complaints and suggestions for improvement are unwelcome in the open source community, because everybody should either (a) just learn to program computers or (b) shut the fuck up, because that's the "point of OSS"? Sorry, I don't buy it.
I'm contributing by making suggestions, right here, right now. Not everybody can (or even wants to) learn to program. So don't be a jackass--it just makes the open source community look bad.
Well, Windows (and KDE and Gnome) manage to be consistent where consistency hurts. As Emerson wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Anyway, Apple's UI engineers aren't slaves to consistency as a principle; it's just a side effect of good taste and design sense.
Dupes drive the interesting stories off the front page faster, which is one reason people miss them the first time around. If you're so worried about missing an article, subscribe to the RSS feed or make sure to click "yesterday's news."
If you think the discussion here is good--and I do, in general--imagine how much better it would be if so many people hadn't stopped participating due to all the dupes and shit stories.
It's a personal preference, I'm sure, but MPlayer makes VLC look like the fucking Chrysler building in terms of design. All things considered, VLC's not too bad--it's just that it could be much better, without (seemingly) much effort.
Yeah, is there any reason they changed the icon? The old one was a lot better, or at least it gave you an idea what the program does. So what the hell is a construction cone titled "VLC.app" supposed to do?
I'll reserve judgment 'til I've used it a bit more, but nine times out of ten, wizards are a usability disaster that are only marginally better than the abomination of an interface that necessitated them to begin with. (Those nine times are usually in Microsoft products.) You shouldn't need a wizard to set things up, or to create things--the options should be right there in front of you, and not require elaborate explanation. Wizards are kind of alien to the whole OS X experience, even though there are a few examples of decent, helpful wizards in the OS.
Also, I notice the new VLC still doesn't have a nice way to compensate for audio desynchronization. There should be a slider or something on the controller to scrub the audio sync back and forth in realtime. Add to that the totally awkward menu to select where to play fullscreen--why not just play it on whatever display the window's in right now?--and overall I'm disappointed in this update.
That said, it's still the best "free" player out there for OS X I've seen yet. Congratulations to the developers. It could be a great product, if only they'd pay a little more attention to usability and elegance.
Hahahaha. I guess they figure it's OK for the AC adapter to be gigantic and ugly, since it's going to be lost in a rat's nest of cables anyway--but the only reason you have a rat's nest in the first place is terrible design decisions like these. Classic Microsoft "design."
May I point out they've also been also "first-to-market" with basic CSS properties ranging from the borderline frivolous, like text-shadow: and opacity:, to the nearly essential, like display: inline-block, which is still, after all these years, unimplemented in Firefox.
"Goldman CEO's name, Hank Paulson, doesn't sound Jewish to me. Neither does Jon Corzine, previous Goldman CEO, who became Sen. and then Gov. of NJ."
Which only makes putko's comment even stupider. That's assuming he knew the meaning of the phrase to begin with--I live in NYC and I've never heard it before.
Also, you might be interested to know Goldman Sachs' origins basically lie in the fact that Jews were so marginalized in 19th-century New York finance (J.P. Morgan et al., all the other banks, would only take them as clients) that Marcus Goldman's firm was pretty much the only place bankers could prosper if they had the misfortune of being from the "wrong" background. Even then, Jewish bankers were shut out of almost all but the most menial duties of the financial world. Or... you might not have been interested to know that.
Faster processors enable better compression so that you can squeeze more into less bandwidth. H.264, for example, is by most accounts the most bandwidth-efficient video codec (widely available right now), but it takes a lot of processor muscle to decode. AAC, same thing compared to MP3, though you'll never max out your processor playing AAC the way you might for a HD H.264 stream.
Complete resolution independence is coming to Leopard. The fundamentals are already beginning to be implemented in Tiger. And when OS X goes resolution independent, it'll be thorough, elegant, and beautiful, not half-assed like in Windows.
It's probably been much easier for you to avoid drugs and incarceration because you weren't born into a community and forced into a public school system where almost literally everyone around you, including your role models, were in and out of jail or addicted to drugs. In such conditions, you come to believe this is the norm, and this sort of situational, self-perpetuating poverty is hardly "by choice." Don't get me wrong, I'm all for personal responsibility--but this is a concept that only exists within context.
The floor's not much to look at now, but I'm looking forward to seeing it fully decked out when they throw a party someday (keeping my fingers crossed!) I'll invite y'all.
Some people are perfectly OK with other people benefiting from their work, and these tend to be BSD developers. Others are control freaks who fear that somebody else might use their code for private ends, and these are the people who prefer the GPL. Achieving Zen may not be for everybody, but an irrational possessiveness, it seems, is the source of much unhappiness in this world. The developers in question may find themselves happier by learning to surrender their ego. Accept impermanence; accept that the act of giving, nay, the very act of living, involves a loss of control along with a lessened responsibility. Only then can one understand the true beauty of BSD.
Because it's less hassle just to pay $3.99 than to trial-and-error their way through transcoding files into the appropriate format and then transferring them over via Bluetooth or USB. That's the fault of the UI designers and engineers, not the end users, and your patronizing attitude isn't helping things.
What are you talking about? What track record? Jobs is always giving off-the-cuff remarks about things like the ultimate inefficacy of DRM, the greediness and obstinacy of the labels, and yes, that he'd like to see downloads remain at 99 cents for the time being. These aren't the statements of a man trying to spin some positive public image, which would be of dubious benefit in any case--these are, almost certainly, his true convictions. But if you're determined to believe it's all part of a cunning PR gambit, I suppose that's your right.
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Cool, thanks for the tip, I'll try it next time. This functionality definitely needs to be exposed better in the UI.
So complaints and suggestions for improvement are unwelcome in the open source community, because everybody should either (a) just learn to program computers or (b) shut the fuck up, because that's the "point of OSS"? Sorry, I don't buy it.
I'm contributing by making suggestions, right here, right now. Not everybody can (or even wants to) learn to program. So don't be a jackass--it just makes the open source community look bad.
Or, to reply to myself, "unintelligent design" if you prefer.
Nah, there's no such thing as "no design," only thoughtless design.
Well, Windows (and KDE and Gnome) manage to be consistent where consistency hurts. As Emerson wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Anyway, Apple's UI engineers aren't slaves to consistency as a principle; it's just a side effect of good taste and design sense.
Dupes drive the interesting stories off the front page faster, which is one reason people miss them the first time around. If you're so worried about missing an article, subscribe to the RSS feed or make sure to click "yesterday's news."
If you think the discussion here is good--and I do, in general--imagine how much better it would be if so many people hadn't stopped participating due to all the dupes and shit stories.
It's a personal preference, I'm sure, but MPlayer makes VLC look like the fucking Chrysler building in terms of design. All things considered, VLC's not too bad--it's just that it could be much better, without (seemingly) much effort.
Yeah, is there any reason they changed the icon? The old one was a lot better, or at least it gave you an idea what the program does. So what the hell is a construction cone titled "VLC.app" supposed to do?
I'll reserve judgment 'til I've used it a bit more, but nine times out of ten, wizards are a usability disaster that are only marginally better than the abomination of an interface that necessitated them to begin with. (Those nine times are usually in Microsoft products.) You shouldn't need a wizard to set things up, or to create things--the options should be right there in front of you, and not require elaborate explanation. Wizards are kind of alien to the whole OS X experience, even though there are a few examples of decent, helpful wizards in the OS.
Also, I notice the new VLC still doesn't have a nice way to compensate for audio desynchronization. There should be a slider or something on the controller to scrub the audio sync back and forth in realtime. Add to that the totally awkward menu to select where to play fullscreen--why not just play it on whatever display the window's in right now?--and overall I'm disappointed in this update.
That said, it's still the best "free" player out there for OS X I've seen yet. Congratulations to the developers. It could be a great product, if only they'd pay a little more attention to usability and elegance.
Hahahaha. I guess they figure it's OK for the AC adapter to be gigantic and ugly, since it's going to be lost in a rat's nest of cables anyway--but the only reason you have a rat's nest in the first place is terrible design decisions like these. Classic Microsoft "design."
May I point out they've also been also "first-to-market" with basic CSS properties ranging from the borderline frivolous, like text-shadow: and opacity:, to the nearly essential, like display: inline-block, which is still, after all these years, unimplemented in Firefox.
"foe" -- Hey, I thought I was defending you, if you read past the first sentence of my comment. Still, you really should clarify what you meant.
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Also, you might be interested to know Goldman Sachs' origins basically lie in the fact that Jews were so marginalized in 19th-century New York finance (J.P. Morgan et al., all the other banks, would only take them as clients) that Marcus Goldman's firm was pretty much the only place bankers could prosper if they had the misfortune of being from the "wrong" background. Even then, Jewish bankers were shut out of almost all but the most menial duties of the financial world. Or... you might not have been interested to know that.
Faster processors enable better compression so that you can squeeze more into less bandwidth. H.264, for example, is by most accounts the most bandwidth-efficient video codec (widely available right now), but it takes a lot of processor muscle to decode. AAC, same thing compared to MP3, though you'll never max out your processor playing AAC the way you might for a HD H.264 stream.
Complete resolution independence is coming to Leopard. The fundamentals are already beginning to be implemented in Tiger. And when OS X goes resolution independent, it'll be thorough, elegant, and beautiful, not half-assed like in Windows.
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It's probably been much easier for you to avoid drugs and incarceration because you weren't born into a community and forced into a public school system where almost literally everyone around you, including your role models, were in and out of jail or addicted to drugs. In such conditions, you come to believe this is the norm, and this sort of situational, self-perpetuating poverty is hardly "by choice." Don't get me wrong, I'm all for personal responsibility--but this is a concept that only exists within context.
Curbed.com has a photo tour of Google's new office in Chelsea (15th at 8th), for which they just signed the lease a few days ago. At 311,000 square feet, it's over three times the size of their previous midtown space.
The floor's not much to look at now, but I'm looking forward to seeing it fully decked out when they throw a party someday (keeping my fingers crossed!) I'll invite y'all.
Some people are perfectly OK with other people benefiting from their work, and these tend to be BSD developers. Others are control freaks who fear that somebody else might use their code for private ends, and these are the people who prefer the GPL. Achieving Zen may not be for everybody, but an irrational possessiveness, it seems, is the source of much unhappiness in this world. The developers in question may find themselves happier by learning to surrender their ego. Accept impermanence; accept that the act of giving, nay, the very act of living, involves a loss of control along with a lessened responsibility. Only then can one understand the true beauty of BSD.
Because it's less hassle just to pay $3.99 than to trial-and-error their way through transcoding files into the appropriate format and then transferring them over via Bluetooth or USB. That's the fault of the UI designers and engineers, not the end users, and your patronizing attitude isn't helping things.
Surely that's a shocker of equal importance, and relevance, to "Sony May Sell HD-DVDs"? So why emphasize the latter?
Spin, spin, spin.
What are you talking about? What track record? Jobs is always giving off-the-cuff remarks about things like the ultimate inefficacy of DRM, the greediness and obstinacy of the labels, and yes, that he'd like to see downloads remain at 99 cents for the time being. These aren't the statements of a man trying to spin some positive public image, which would be of dubious benefit in any case--these are, almost certainly, his true convictions. But if you're determined to believe it's all part of a cunning PR gambit, I suppose that's your right.
Actually, as far as anyone knows, Jobs is pushing to keep downloads at 99 cents apiece.
Well, I never made it into the broader game community, but otherwise I guess you got me pegged. Hurrr! :-)