My mistake actually Wikipedia has it. Google's boner for Wikipedia was apparently not strong enough to make it appear within the 20 first results I looked at.
A broken clock is right twice a day, a clock that spins like a fan is right much more often! Let's vote batshit crazy people into power hoping they'll do the right thing by mistake even more often!!
But.. but.. a very few people are getting sued by the RIAA, surely that's at least as important as North Korea, the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, healthcare, education, unemployment, the global economic shitstorm and global warming put together, amirite guys? Guys??
You think that this is anything other than tactical deception? Seriously. You're not nearly libertarian enough. The Obama government, just like the Bush government, was all about control. It's a nice brief, but it doesn't change anything about the new thugs, just like the old thugs.
Really, that's what you guys say now? When the DoJ hired RIAA lawyers, all you'd see on Slashdot was !change tags and such comments as "Now that's change you can believe in!/sarcasm". I guess it shows that Slashdot's collective knee jerk reactions are full of shit. Unable to see anything positive about the RIAA lawyers being hired, NOW you all see it.
lol yeah actually you're not the first person to comment about the custom GUI. But the thing is, I tried to make something mostly API/library independent (and I was right to do so considered how I just switched every library when making the Mac port), I find GUI toolkits complicated, ugly, not necessarily designed to do what I want, and well basically I just get a hell of a lot more freedom and power by doing my own thing in a framebuffer. What I did before I even started the project was drawing the interface I wanted based on the functionality I planned (which actually turned out to be a bit different from what people would want to use it for), and I'm quite happy that the result turned out to be as good, simple and straightforward as my original concept. I mean even my mother can use it. It's probably not the case for any other similar tools out there.
As for the knobs, well I actually quite like them, because unlike the usually knobs that you have to move up or down to turn around, these are angle based, which is much more intuitive and precise, unless you're already used to up/down knobs. And the maximise and minimise buttons are those of the host OS, I just cropped them out of the screenshot, but they do work. As for getting rid of the buttons, well I'm considering how to deal with only showing the relevant knobs depending on the context, and pondering what would be a good idea or not.
I know what you mean, I'm self employed and heading for a life of mixed self-employment and contracting, I just couldn't take working a 9 to 5 in a cubicle with a manager telling me what to do, I guess I'm what Americans call a maverick. It is indeed a shame that we cultivate this idea that being an active member of society consists in being a full-time employee or boss, when really there's a way for anyone to find their place in society through work without having to consider such extremes as being a marginal who eats out of dumpsters.
If I had more money I'd travel across the world more though, not much else to be honest, I probably wouldn't even buy a car.
lol, I love the smell of wishful thinking in the morning. The peninsular war was the sudden and sneaky invasion of a nation by a powerful empire, which was then defended by not only the nation itself but its allies, one of which was the British empire. Yeah, that's a bit far off the desktop OS situation.
The desktop OS market is a market. You can make OSes that you control, but you can't control the market. You can conquer it, but the Microsoft empire got about 90% of it occupied already, and Apple about 9%. The barbarian Linux hordes have about 1% of it, and it's going to be very tough to improve it significantly, because Microsoft and Apple have a well guarded territory, because Microsoft and Apple have built their own OS pretty much from the ground up when all the Linux guys can do is cobble a bunch of projects together, their OSes are arguably easily superior to the Linux distros, and finally both Microsoft and Apple are huge fucking companies that are worth hundreds of billions and employ shitloads of the best professionals out there, and let's just say they have a bit more leverage to get their OS on average Joe's computer than you do.
So tell me, how is an anarchic horde made mostly of semi-competent hobbyists supposed to take on these giants? They can't. Hear hear, for I'm gonna tell you the explanation and outcome for the current Linux situation : the new barbarians arrived on the land of the desktop OS, make a few settlements, claim some very small territory, the end. You know why? Because as much as you guys would like to wage a war on the big guys, you've already reached your peak, the point of equilibrium when your OS can only be so good compared to the concurrence given how many resources you have versus how many they have, and how you can only be so loud when the big guys are much louder. This situation is just bound to slowly peak, and remain stable. Red Hat, Ubuntu, they can't do anything about it, because in reality they're actually pretty small, they only have the power to make distros, not full OSes, let alone great OSes. Your only hope is that the Microsoft empire crumbles by itself, but even then, you'd rather see a big player pop out of the blue into this market than the barbarian hordes claim it. Cause Linux isn't even prepared to have significantly more marketshare than it does.
Well, that's correct, but they're more like barbarian tribes. Not that barbarian tribes can't do great things, but none of the ones we're talking about have the power to make significant dents in the desktop world.
Look at the Ubuntu project, when you think of all it takes to make a desktop OS, it's a relatively modest undertaking. They don't write the OS from the bottom up or anything like that, all they do is cobble up some pre-existing projects as nicely as they can.
There's a reason why Apple would have never considered for a second using something like GNOME, which is almost too obvious to state : they'd have little control over it, that wouldn't allow them to actually do much, they're way too big and innovative for them to even consider that, and so on. See, Apple is so big that what's the only kind of choice for the distro tribes isn't even anywhere in the range of being vaguely and remotely acceptable or considerable by Apple. That's why in my analogy Apple is a powerful nation, the distros are barbarian tribes in the wild, and Microsoft is an empire. Cause that actually maps well to reality.
You're the delusional one. Some people are homeless and hate it, but some people just choose this lifestyle because that's what they want. Yup, some people would rather spend all day outside, drinking booze, eating food from dumpsters (I'm sure the more experienced dumpster divers eat better food than I do) and sleep in a park bench or abandoned building with 3 other guys rather than get up early in the morning, do a retarded job in a cubicle all day to go back home to watch TV and worry about paying bills and mortgages.
Some people would rather choose freedom than working a 9 to 5. Mind blowing, isn't it?
lol, paradise... If more than one in every 6 persons is a douchebag in your neighbourhood you either live in New Jersey or you're just a whiney social misfit. I live in a European capital by the way...
Why would you care that only 1% of the other computer users are running Linux too? Well, see, I'm a commercial programmer, and I made a program originally for Windows, and planned to port it to both Mac OS and Linux. While I got over 100 e-mails asking me for the Mac version, I've had 0 for the Linux version.
So I'm not going to port it to Linux, I have no reason to. Apparently the very few Linux users out there are content enough with running my program in Wine... Good for you if you're fine with that.
The community can't get it's shit together enough to do it.
Well, that's what you get for choosing an anarchic project management style. It's like the FOSS community is just waking up to the fact that it's hard to do something coherent when anyone only does what they want. The forces of the people involved put together are mighty, and produce great tools, but the Linux crowd really is just a mob. They can do a lot together, but they're a mob, not an army.
To further the mob/army analogy, they want to invade the empire of Microsoft. It can't happen, a mob can't do that. Apple has a better shot at it, because of their wise dictator and well-trained army.
For one thing, noise canceling headphones have it easy because they're right before the ear, there's little difference in phase/delay between it it hears and what the ear hears. Besides, they only reduce things by something like 25 dB, and that's by taking into account the passive stuff, not just the cancelling.
Further more it's complicated in something like a submarine because you're trying to cancel from the source, but there's not just one tiny source, the whole thing is making noise, and it's not like you can put a big ass loudspeaker right in the middle of an engine anyways.
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My mistake actually Wikipedia has it. Google's boner for Wikipedia was apparently not strong enough to make it appear within the 20 first results I looked at.
Funnily enough if you google it all you get is forum threads. Looks like they don't even have an official site or a Wikipedia article..
A broken clock is right twice a day, a clock that spins like a fan is right much more often! Let's vote batshit crazy people into power hoping they'll do the right thing by mistake even more often!!
But.. but.. a very few people are getting sued by the RIAA, surely that's at least as important as North Korea, the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, healthcare, education, unemployment, the global economic shitstorm and global warming put together, amirite guys? Guys??
You think that this is anything other than tactical deception? Seriously. You're not nearly libertarian enough. The Obama government, just like the Bush government, was all about control. It's a nice brief, but it doesn't change anything about the new thugs, just like the old thugs.
Fixed it for you.
Really, that's what you guys say now? When the DoJ hired RIAA lawyers, all you'd see on Slashdot was !change tags and such comments as "Now that's change you can believe in! /sarcasm". I guess it shows that Slashdot's collective knee jerk reactions are full of shit. Unable to see anything positive about the RIAA lawyers being hired, NOW you all see it.
You so wish.
lol, what would allow you to think from what I just said that I'm not a native English speaker?
lol yeah actually you're not the first person to comment about the custom GUI. But the thing is, I tried to make something mostly API/library independent (and I was right to do so considered how I just switched every library when making the Mac port), I find GUI toolkits complicated, ugly, not necessarily designed to do what I want, and well basically I just get a hell of a lot more freedom and power by doing my own thing in a framebuffer. What I did before I even started the project was drawing the interface I wanted based on the functionality I planned (which actually turned out to be a bit different from what people would want to use it for), and I'm quite happy that the result turned out to be as good, simple and straightforward as my original concept. I mean even my mother can use it. It's probably not the case for any other similar tools out there.
As for the knobs, well I actually quite like them, because unlike the usually knobs that you have to move up or down to turn around, these are angle based, which is much more intuitive and precise, unless you're already used to up/down knobs. And the maximise and minimise buttons are those of the host OS, I just cropped them out of the screenshot, but they do work. As for getting rid of the buttons, well I'm considering how to deal with only showing the relevant knobs depending on the context, and pondering what would be a good idea or not.
I know what you mean, I'm self employed and heading for a life of mixed self-employment and contracting, I just couldn't take working a 9 to 5 in a cubicle with a manager telling me what to do, I guess I'm what Americans call a maverick. It is indeed a shame that we cultivate this idea that being an active member of society consists in being a full-time employee or boss, when really there's a way for anyone to find their place in society through work without having to consider such extremes as being a marginal who eats out of dumpsters.
If I had more money I'd travel across the world more though, not much else to be honest, I probably wouldn't even buy a car.
lol, allow me to call you out on your wishful thinking. The Germanic tribes were huge. Period.
lol, I love the smell of wishful thinking in the morning. The peninsular war was the sudden and sneaky invasion of a nation by a powerful empire, which was then defended by not only the nation itself but its allies, one of which was the British empire. Yeah, that's a bit far off the desktop OS situation.
The desktop OS market is a market. You can make OSes that you control, but you can't control the market. You can conquer it, but the Microsoft empire got about 90% of it occupied already, and Apple about 9%. The barbarian Linux hordes have about 1% of it, and it's going to be very tough to improve it significantly, because Microsoft and Apple have a well guarded territory, because Microsoft and Apple have built their own OS pretty much from the ground up when all the Linux guys can do is cobble a bunch of projects together, their OSes are arguably easily superior to the Linux distros, and finally both Microsoft and Apple are huge fucking companies that are worth hundreds of billions and employ shitloads of the best professionals out there, and let's just say they have a bit more leverage to get their OS on average Joe's computer than you do.
So tell me, how is an anarchic horde made mostly of semi-competent hobbyists supposed to take on these giants? They can't. Hear hear, for I'm gonna tell you the explanation and outcome for the current Linux situation : the new barbarians arrived on the land of the desktop OS, make a few settlements, claim some very small territory, the end. You know why? Because as much as you guys would like to wage a war on the big guys, you've already reached your peak, the point of equilibrium when your OS can only be so good compared to the concurrence given how many resources you have versus how many they have, and how you can only be so loud when the big guys are much louder. This situation is just bound to slowly peak, and remain stable. Red Hat, Ubuntu, they can't do anything about it, because in reality they're actually pretty small, they only have the power to make distros, not full OSes, let alone great OSes. Your only hope is that the Microsoft empire crumbles by itself, but even then, you'd rather see a big player pop out of the blue into this market than the barbarian hordes claim it. Cause Linux isn't even prepared to have significantly more marketshare than it does.
Well, that's correct, but they're more like barbarian tribes. Not that barbarian tribes can't do great things, but none of the ones we're talking about have the power to make significant dents in the desktop world.
Look at the Ubuntu project, when you think of all it takes to make a desktop OS, it's a relatively modest undertaking. They don't write the OS from the bottom up or anything like that, all they do is cobble up some pre-existing projects as nicely as they can.
There's a reason why Apple would have never considered for a second using something like GNOME, which is almost too obvious to state : they'd have little control over it, that wouldn't allow them to actually do much, they're way too big and innovative for them to even consider that, and so on. See, Apple is so big that what's the only kind of choice for the distro tribes isn't even anywhere in the range of being vaguely and remotely acceptable or considerable by Apple. That's why in my analogy Apple is a powerful nation, the distros are barbarian tribes in the wild, and Microsoft is an empire. Cause that actually maps well to reality.
The problems is that in this country, about 1 in 6 aspire to be in that 2%. That's pretty much the basis of contemporary American culture.
I'll concede you this point :D.
To his defence you have a way with words that is quite disconcerting to say the least.
You're the delusional one. Some people are homeless and hate it, but some people just choose this lifestyle because that's what they want. Yup, some people would rather spend all day outside, drinking booze, eating food from dumpsters (I'm sure the more experienced dumpster divers eat better food than I do) and sleep in a park bench or abandoned building with 3 other guys rather than get up early in the morning, do a retarded job in a cubicle all day to go back home to watch TV and worry about paying bills and mortgages.
Some people would rather choose freedom than working a 9 to 5. Mind blowing, isn't it?
Send a Christmas card with a picture of your dog in a Santa hat. I heard on radio that people love it.
lol, paradise... If more than one in every 6 persons is a douchebag in your neighbourhood you either live in New Jersey or you're just a whiney social misfit. I live in a European capital by the way...
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There are cases where a benevolent dictator is better than democracy - as long as they stay benevolent, which is another 'Good Luck'.
Democracy? Where? Where do users vote? Are you sure you don't mean anarchy?
Why would you care that only 1% of the other computer users are running Linux too? Well, see, I'm a commercial programmer, and I made a program originally for Windows, and planned to port it to both Mac OS and Linux. While I got over 100 e-mails asking me for the Mac version, I've had 0 for the Linux version.
So I'm not going to port it to Linux, I have no reason to. Apparently the very few Linux users out there are content enough with running my program in Wine... Good for you if you're fine with that.
The community can't get it's shit together enough to do it.
Well, that's what you get for choosing an anarchic project management style. It's like the FOSS community is just waking up to the fact that it's hard to do something coherent when anyone only does what they want. The forces of the people involved put together are mighty, and produce great tools, but the Linux crowd really is just a mob. They can do a lot together, but they're a mob, not an army.
To further the mob/army analogy, they want to invade the empire of Microsoft. It can't happen, a mob can't do that. Apple has a better shot at it, because of their wise dictator and well-trained army.
No no no, he means 1 in 6.78 people are douchebags. And actually, the estimate seems a little low to me.
You sound like a great person! :D
For one thing, noise canceling headphones have it easy because they're right before the ear, there's little difference in phase/delay between it it hears and what the ear hears. Besides, they only reduce things by something like 25 dB, and that's by taking into account the passive stuff, not just the cancelling.
Further more it's complicated in something like a submarine because you're trying to cancel from the source, but there's not just one tiny source, the whole thing is making noise, and it's not like you can put a big ass loudspeaker right in the middle of an engine anyways.