I think it's similar to worrying about pollution from old cars. Yes, they blow carbon everywhere, but they don't make any more old cars. As LCDs naturally replace CRTs on the desktop and eventually in the home TV, the problem will disappear.
The real solution right now is both highly simple and totally unimplementable: put up a "www.monitorexchange.gov" site where anyone who wants a CRT is matched with anyone who needs one.
Just get a big whiteboard. Those computerized canvas devices are expensive toys, like buying a tablet PC when you need a notepad and pencil...they steal productivity, not enhance it. If you really want to get the whiteboard online, then point a very good digital camera at the whiteboard, hooked up to an iBook. Then you can output the shot to an AIM window, or whatever you want! I challenge you to find a "custom solution" that will have less problems.
Imagine a sandbox in which there are ants, sugar cubes, anthills, and rocks. Ants like sugar: collectively they want to bring as many sugar cubes as possible back to their anthills before sunset.
For this contest, you will write the control program that each ant carries with it. Ants, being so small, have some limitations, of course. Each ant can carry no more than one sugar cube at a time. Further, each ant can only see her local vicinity. Your program, which is run sequentially for each ant, knows only what that ant knows. Thus you must bring about the best possible global outcome based only on local conditions. The ants don't have any memory as such, but they can leave behind a chemical trail to guide themselves and others across the sandbox landscape.
Your score is determined by how much progress you make moving food towards and into the anthills. Ideally your ants will move all the sugar cubes onto anthills. Practically this may not be possible; do the best you can. You receive credit even by moving one sugar cube one step closer to an anthill.
That was the most depressing writeup I've ever seen. It literally jumped from topic to topic after every sentence. Hey, since we're talking about Taiwan -- China just lifted its longtime ban on tourism and agricultural trade with Taiwan. That's good because another thing that happened recently is we went bike riding!
So, is that 11 pounds on earth, or on the moon? And if you can do this, why accept just $250,000 for what could be the biggest invention in human history?
Errr, is it possible that (well, considering that FOX must have known there are millions of obsessive fans of the show)...well, that they killed it specifically as a marketing technique to sell DVDs? I mean, considering 'n all how they make almost nothing off showing it to you for free. Um, sorry I said anything..i'll go back and sleep under my bridge now. Thank you
Are you aware of the fact that you can configure almost every aspect of KDE - including colors, icons, style?
Of course I am, and if I wasn't, I would just KNOW, because that's what designers like that do -- they put all the colors in some kind of configuration file and imagine that people can "customize the user interface!" I saw a hack once for MacOS X Cocoa that allowed you to hold down some modifier keys and drag buttons around in an app to really reorganize them. In fact you could drag them to another application and put them there, or to a floating toolbar or a menu. That's the beginning step of user interface customization.
In conclusion, molenarc, I think you are snarky to put pressure on the mods to put me down, because you are not as interesting as you think either.
The MPAA produce absolutely nothing. Nothing. Nothing. They're pure financial parasites. Why should they act with taste? What do they have to gain or lose?
The BFAA (Burger Flipper Association of America) served me with a lawsuit for $2500 last week, due to my "refrigeration of as many as three pounds of copyrighted food". Apparently their business model is based on consumers consuming consumables immediately. "If you don't eat it while it's hot, it's like stealing from us," they said. What can I do? I don't like sitting in their restaurant because it smells like hot grease. They insist I have to because the advertisements in the joint are being delivered bundled with the food.
but after hearing so much about how crappy the win interface is what do we get in kde, same old thing.
Let's think about "them" (the OSS programmers) for a second. Obviously, they're copying Windows. Obviously they are NOT producing consumer products for sale. And obviously they are NOT trying to somehow jump past Windows into the new paradigm.
I would say that they're doing something quite different and interesting: they're purging Windows from their souls. Like when a veteran visits Io Jima. To sum up, it's a labor of love, not of your approval!
I truly apologize for the incoherency of this, but I am a programmer and user interface designer from way back, so my posts are going to be simultaneously deeply structured and totally gnarly...
BLEAH. Positively BLEAH. Compared to regular Windows, it's more chromey, more toyish...the equivelent of eating ballpark sushi. Honestly, after a total of 3.4 versions, can't you usability rebels possibly come up with some good ideas, or at least copy some? User Interface is like enlightenment...you have to commit mental suicide and leave all the confusion behind, and you're not doing that.
I might as well tailpost and describe exactly what I would pay for:
A little iPod-sized box that plugs into a broadband connection, downloads anything QuickTime can play, and mirrors the screen using S-Video on any TV. Screen kinda optional but if there is one it should provide thumbnail previews of any files on the disk when not connected to a TV.
Oh and you should probably forget the whole portable media thing...you're going to need a hell of a strong hard drive to unpack and deliver a BluRay DVD's worth of high definition to a TV. Getting it from the network would at least remove the moving-part factor.
That may be just being young...you can feel things about to come. For example during Ghostbusters I could somehow feel that confusing anti-drug ad with skateboarders coming up. And I don't have Aspbergers, I was just used to the way the Saturday morning producer did business.
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The real solution right now is both highly simple and totally unimplementable: put up a "www.monitorexchange.gov" site where anyone who wants a CRT is matched with anyone who needs one.
stenalp rehto no stsixe efil eveileb .S.U. fO %06. (Sorry, I just got lazy).
Ilegal facist burocracy!
It's not about getting information on terrorists when they email each other.
It's about getting blackmail data on government officials to force them to do what the Administration wants.
I moved to Canada after the last elective castration. I haven't looked back either.
Pun? That was another misspelling in the submission.
Just get a big whiteboard. Those computerized canvas devices are expensive toys, like buying a tablet PC when you need a notepad and pencil...they steal productivity, not enhance it. If you really want to get the whiteboard online, then point a very good digital camera at the whiteboard, hooked up to an iBook. Then you can output the shot to an AIM window, or whatever you want! I challenge you to find a "custom solution" that will have less problems.
Imagine a sandbox in which there are ants, sugar cubes, anthills, and rocks. Ants like sugar: collectively they want to bring as many sugar cubes as possible back to their anthills before sunset.
For this contest, you will write the control program that each ant carries with it. Ants, being so small, have some limitations, of course. Each ant can carry no more than one sugar cube at a time. Further, each ant can only see her local vicinity. Your program, which is run sequentially for each ant, knows only what that ant knows. Thus you must bring about the best possible global outcome based only on local conditions. The ants don't have any memory as such, but they can leave behind a chemical trail to guide themselves and others across the sandbox landscape.
Your score is determined by how much progress you make moving food towards and into the anthills. Ideally your ants will move all the sugar cubes onto anthills. Practically this may not be possible; do the best you can. You receive credit even by moving one sugar cube one step closer to an anthill.
That was the most depressing writeup I've ever seen. It literally jumped from topic to topic after every sentence. Hey, since we're talking about Taiwan -- China just lifted its longtime ban on tourism and agricultural trade with Taiwan. That's good because another thing that happened recently is we went bike riding!
I saw that as "Today yodayodayoda More Than Ever yodayodayoda You Need yodayodayoda The Solution Is yodayodayoda"
So, is that 11 pounds on earth, or on the moon? And if you can do this, why accept just $250,000 for what could be the biggest invention in human history?
Errr, is it possible that (well, considering that FOX must have known there are millions of obsessive fans of the show)...well, that they killed it specifically as a marketing technique to sell DVDs? I mean, considering 'n all how they make almost nothing off showing it to you for free. Um, sorry I said anything..i'll go back and sleep under my bridge now. Thank you
Of course I am, and if I wasn't, I would just KNOW, because that's what designers like that do -- they put all the colors in some kind of configuration file and imagine that people can "customize the user interface!" I saw a hack once for MacOS X Cocoa that allowed you to hold down some modifier keys and drag buttons around in an app to really reorganize them. In fact you could drag them to another application and put them there, or to a floating toolbar or a menu. That's the beginning step of user interface customization.
In conclusion, molenarc, I think you are snarky to put pressure on the mods to put me down, because you are not as interesting as you think either.
The MPAA produce absolutely nothing. Nothing. Nothing. They're pure financial parasites. Why should they act with taste? What do they have to gain or lose?
The BFAA (Burger Flipper Association of America) served me with a lawsuit for $2500 last week, due to my "refrigeration of as many as three pounds of copyrighted food". Apparently their business model is based on consumers consuming consumables immediately. "If you don't eat it while it's hot, it's like stealing from us," they said. What can I do? I don't like sitting in their restaurant because it smells like hot grease. They insist I have to because the advertisements in the joint are being delivered bundled with the food.
Let's think about "them" (the OSS programmers) for a second. Obviously, they're copying Windows. Obviously they are NOT producing consumer products for sale. And obviously they are NOT trying to somehow jump past Windows into the new paradigm.
I would say that they're doing something quite different and interesting: they're purging Windows from their souls. Like when a veteran visits Io Jima. To sum up, it's a labor of love, not of your approval!
BLEAH. Positively BLEAH. Compared to regular Windows, it's more chromey, more toyish...the equivelent of eating ballpark sushi. Honestly, after a total of 3.4 versions, can't you usability rebels possibly come up with some good ideas, or at least copy some? User Interface is like enlightenment...you have to commit mental suicide and leave all the confusion behind, and you're not doing that.
Evil is what is allowed to exist when good men do nothing.
I might as well tailpost and describe exactly what I would pay for:
A little iPod-sized box that plugs into a broadband connection, downloads anything QuickTime can play, and mirrors the screen using S-Video on any TV. Screen kinda optional but if there is one it should provide thumbnail previews of any files on the disk when not connected to a TV.
Oh and you should probably forget the whole portable media thing...you're going to need a hell of a strong hard drive to unpack and deliver a BluRay DVD's worth of high definition to a TV. Getting it from the network would at least remove the moving-part factor.
I think the video iPod might be light enough to carry to your TV...
That may be just being young...you can feel things about to come. For example during Ghostbusters I could somehow feel that confusing anti-drug ad with skateboarders coming up. And I don't have Aspbergers, I was just used to the way the Saturday morning producer did business.