you brin a little homeless kid to an orphanage. Kid never had shoes and was always hungry. Give the kind some food and a pair of shoes. He's smart enough to figure out how to put on the shoes (left/right same difference). You EMPOWER him to run around the back yard like a normal kid without worrying about slicing his foot on junk on the ground. However, the kid and all his new orphan friends repeatedly trip over their shoe laces and bruise themselves. This happens all day, every day, and since they are all falling together, they think it's normal. They think there's no better way to run around and incompetent bastards who run the orphanage don't care to watch the kids during recess or teach them anything. None of the kids stop wearing there shoes but eventually more than a couple stop playing during recess.
Finally 2 or three kids show up who actualy know how to tie their damned shoes. One by one they TEACH the other kids how to tie their shoes. Now they can run faster, jump higher, kick harder and are MORE EMPOWERED to explore their environment and the limits of their own abilities.
The super users need to show the hopeless ones how to become competent users. Then you can dazzle them with intermediate/super user workflows. Honestly if more time (and money from trees) were spent educating users about alternatives and how to use them, more and more home/small business users would have dumped windows somewhere between winME and winXPSP1.
I try switching to linux every couple of months but it just don't work cuz I don't know how to make it work. If I could replace all I know about windows with an equal amount of linux know-how I'm sure I'd have no complains but that just aint happening.
OS X is an annoying piece of POO. I've used it all day every day for like 2 years now. But you can make it really tiny if you want.
I actually got an older version of knoppix to boot for me a couple times and really the size of things didn't bother me. For the most part I wouldnt say "wasted space", more like "breathing room". But since I don't USE it like I USE XP or OS X I can't really say how it may or may not interfere with my work flow.
You know what would be great for making Linux more accessible to new users. Having a user friendly distrobution that actually worked on almost any hardware.
I've tried knoppix and ubuntu on 2 systems over and over again for the last year and a half (new distro releases and new hardware along the way) and had some friends try other distros on my main machine and none ever work.:(
Is there anyone out there who I could pay $(whatever the cost of vista is) to get ubuntu running on my system with xgl and full hardware 3d accelleration and load me up with emulators and whatever it is I need to play windows games and run photoshop and make my wacom tablet work?
I'm serious. I can probaby only afford to ship my system to Florida. So if you know anyone there (Ft. Lauderdale especially) let them know.
Alternatively, if anyone living in FL would like a free boat ticket to the Bahamas with a free motel room (nowhere near the beach) and 1 day scooter rental for getting Linux to work for me, we could probably figure something out.
sad thing is, before you can teach someone this sort of system as one of the many options to better manage your data, they must first understand C: D: E: and F: and somehow some people can't seem to grasp it!
btw, my destop is also full of icons. I use them as a sort of 'to do' list. Everything on my desktop I'm supposed to do something with or to it. Sure some stuff has been there since last october, but it's still on the active 'to do list'. (mostly 'to delete')
My Documents = F:/thinsoldier/ (windows will FUCK OVER your My Documents folder EVERY TIME. DO NOT USE IT FOR IMPORTANT FILES! DON'T!)
All those important installation files = F:/downloads/ Other unimportant trial installation files like quicktime go in/Desktop/TEMP/
everything else
e:/games/quake3/ e:/games/quake3/bats/ (i've got like 40 q3a bat files for many reasons long forgotten) e:/games/gta3 e:/games/emu/ e:/games/emu/genesis/ e:/games/emu/genesis/emus/ e:/games/emu/genesis/roms/ e:/games/emu/snes/ e:/games/emu/snes/emus/ e:/games/emu/snes/roms/ e:/games/emu/gba/ e:/games/emu/gba/emus/ e:/games/emu/gba/roms/
d:/stockpile/ (ever image I ever downloaded is in here and categorized as much as possible)
And thanks to run's autocomplete I can open anything anywhere in like 2 seconds. And have quick access to 50X the number of files than can visibly fit on the windows desktop.
really? All it ever did for me was lock up my system. And my neighbour's system. And my Aunts. And my uncle's. And my Uncle's neighbour. And my cousin's 2 systems. And..... etc...
not being able to find c:\downloads\my momz crap\virus.exe is just as frustrating to them as not being able to find virus.exe on a desktop with over 300 files.
Usually with people that have over 300 files on their desktop, they gladly pay attention when I explain that the desktop is actually a folder where you can sort files by many criteria and can scroll through the painfully long list of files quicker and easier than looking at the desktop.
Think of it as teaching a child to tie their shoes. It may seem difficult and complicated at first but once they at least learn to tie at least some sort of knot to keep their shoes on, they're better off.
Would you let someone work in your shoe store who couldn't tie their shoes? Didn't think so. Would you let someone drive your car if they didn't comprehend the importance of the door locks at night, windshield wipers during the rain, or the parking brake when parking on the side of a steep hill? Ok then.
Just like I don't let people touch my computer if they don't even halfway understand (or make an attempt to) how to use the thing.
personally I think the whole article was a waste of time. E-mail is just one of many uses of the internet and it's totally possible to do all your emailing via the web. The questions is a waste of time. Even if email totally disappeared, there's still blog comments, forum threads, personal messages via forums etc... all of these put together basically are e-mail but better in some ways. Heck, you can even chat on almost every known IM network via multiple websites.
And for me there is no alternative to web mail. Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows itself have F#*$(# up my locally stored e-mail so many damned times I refuse to use anything but web mail (until I switch to mac or linux).
I predict most people saying 'no' are under 22 years of age and live in urban areas. Most people saying 'yes' are near or over 30 and spent their childhood in a rural area with woods, creeks, rivers, lakes etc (Little House on the Prarie/Bonanza type stuff). I base this on absolutely nothing.
Even though I don't even live in America I have dreams of someday (having kids and then) taking my kids on Summer Vacation cross country road trips in the US then Canada then Europe. Seeking out the most 'middle of nowhere'/wilderness location I can find where they better interact with people & the environment if they wanna have any hope of enjoying the trip.
have any adapter recommendation?
Only ones I've been able to find are Huskee usb adapters for PS2. But it seems everything made by Huskee is total garbage, especially the drivers. It works great the first time and the first time only. I've tested it on multiple systems and it always only works the first time.
I've actually been waiting a damned long time for a company to come along and let me pay them to do the hard work of finding all the old school games I want to play instead of having to hunt down roms and emulators myself. GAMETAP!
--A console-like controller for PC costs like $10.--
round here they cost $25 and up and NONE that I've bought have ever been worth buying. It honestly seems that whenever a defective batch of logitech (or other brands) controllers are discovered, they immediately get shipped to the Bahamas. Every pc controller I've bought in the last SEVEN YEARS has been a useless piece of crap.
8. Games look better in high-def...from the couch.
and not that many people (around here at least) have high-def televisions. And with wireless keyboard + wireless mouse + s-video/rca out from the video card it's quite simple to use a pc for many tasks from your couch. Even easier if you have a laptop (I think).
...thougth... if I have a computerized voice telling me the characters in the captcha on the website... and I have some voice recognition software that only works when I intentionally speak in an unnatural computer-like tone... couldn't the spammers just automate that and we're back to square one?
and it means there's less work for the future when he or somebody has to update the site to xhtml or whatever comes in the future that demands properly nested and closed tags.
too much BAD, outdated, "should not be written like so", "all caps" kind of html.
I just don't think the programs authors have the best wishes of web developers at heart if their example images of html contain such old code. I want something obviously by modern web developers obviously for modern web developers. That screenshot obviously turns me off.
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How about just not including Firefox as a part of the distro?
If the user wants it after setting up the system they can download it. Simple.
you brin a little homeless kid to an orphanage.
Kid never had shoes and was always hungry.
Give the kind some food and a pair of shoes.
He's smart enough to figure out how to put on the shoes (left/right same difference).
You EMPOWER him to run around the back yard like a normal kid without worrying about slicing his foot on junk on the ground.
However, the kid and all his new orphan friends repeatedly trip over their shoe laces and bruise themselves.
This happens all day, every day, and since they are all falling together, they think it's normal. They think there's no better way to run around and incompetent bastards who run the orphanage don't care to watch the kids during recess or teach them anything.
None of the kids stop wearing there shoes but eventually more than a couple stop playing during recess.
Finally 2 or three kids show up who actualy know how to tie their damned shoes. One by one they TEACH the other kids how to tie their shoes. Now they can run faster, jump higher, kick harder and are MORE EMPOWERED to explore their environment and the limits of their own abilities.
sounds like a plan.
The super users need to show the hopeless ones how to become competent users. Then you can dazzle them with intermediate/super user workflows. Honestly if more time (and money from trees) were spent educating users about alternatives and how to use them, more and more home/small business users would have dumped windows somewhere between winME and winXPSP1.
I try switching to linux every couple of months but it just don't work cuz I don't know how to make it work. If I could replace all I know about windows with an equal amount of linux know-how I'm sure I'd have no complains but that just aint happening.
OS X is an annoying piece of POO. I've used it all day every day for like 2 years now.
But you can make it really tiny if you want.
I actually got an older version of knoppix to boot for me a couple times and really the size of things didn't bother me. For the most part I wouldnt say "wasted space", more like "breathing room". But since I don't USE it like I USE XP or OS X I can't really say how it may or may not interfere with my work flow.
You know what would be great for making Linux more accessible to new users.
:(
Having a user friendly distrobution that actually worked on almost any hardware.
I've tried knoppix and ubuntu on 2 systems over and over again for the last year and a half (new distro releases and new hardware along the way) and had some friends try other distros on my main machine and none ever work.
Is there anyone out there who I could pay $(whatever the cost of vista is) to get ubuntu running on my system with xgl and full hardware 3d accelleration and load me up with emulators and whatever it is I need to play windows games and run photoshop and make my wacom tablet work?
I'm serious. I can probaby only afford to ship my system to Florida. So if you know anyone there (Ft. Lauderdale especially) let them know.
Alternatively, if anyone living in FL would like a free boat ticket to the Bahamas with a free motel room (nowhere near the beach) and 1 day scooter rental for getting Linux to work for me, we could probably figure something out.
sad thing is, before you can teach someone this sort of system as one of the many options to better manage your data, they must first understand C: D: E: and F: and somehow some people can't seem to grasp it!
btw, my destop is also full of icons. I use them as a sort of 'to do' list. Everything on my desktop I'm supposed to do something with or to it. Sure some stuff has been there since last october, but it's still on the active 'to do list'. (mostly 'to delete')
I have lots of similar files.
/Desktop/TEMP/
/RnB/, etc...)
But in my world:
My Documents = F:/thinsoldier/ (windows will FUCK OVER your My Documents folder EVERY TIME. DO NOT USE IT FOR IMPORTANT FILES!
DON'T!)
All those important installation files = F:/downloads/
Other unimportant trial installation files like quicktime go in
everything else
e:/games/quake3/
e:/games/quake3/bats/ (i've got like 40 q3a bat files for many reasons long forgotten)
e:/games/gta3
e:/games/emu/
e:/games/emu/genesis/
e:/games/emu/genesis/emus/
e:/games/emu/genesis/roms/
e:/games/emu/snes/
e:/games/emu/snes/emus/
e:/games/emu/snes/roms/
e:/games/emu/gba/
e:/games/emu/gba/emus/
e:/games/emu/gba/roms/
f:/audio/mp3/
f:/audio/mp3/rap (/raggae/,
f:/audio/wav/
f:/audio/ogg/
f:/audio/cooleditsessions/ (now know as adobe audition)
f:/video/
f:/flash/
f:/iso/
d:/art/projects
d:/art/psd/
d:/art/ai/
d:/art/maya/
d:/art/max/
d:/art/zbrush/
d:/stockpile/ (ever image I ever downloaded is in here and categorized as much as possible)
And thanks to run's autocomplete I can open anything anywhere in like 2 seconds. And have quick access to 50X the number of files than can visibly fit on the windows desktop.
really? All it ever did for me was lock up my system. And my neighbour's system. And my Aunts. And my uncle's. And my Uncle's neighbour. And my cousin's 2 systems. And ..... etc...
open the folder that contains the desktops contents and it's much easier to sort through. And while you're at it, organize some stuff into folders.
20 organized folders on your desktop is way better than 200 files.
not being able to find c:\downloads\my momz crap\virus.exe
is just as frustrating to them as not being able to find virus.exe on a desktop with over 300 files.
Usually with people that have over 300 files on their desktop, they gladly pay attention when I explain that the desktop is actually a folder where you can sort files by many criteria and can scroll through the painfully long list of files quicker and easier than looking at the desktop.
Think of it as teaching a child to tie their shoes. It may seem difficult and complicated at first but once they at least learn to tie at least some sort of knot to keep their shoes on, they're better off.
Would you let someone work in your shoe store who couldn't tie their shoes? Didn't think so.
Would you let someone drive your car if they didn't comprehend the importance of the door locks at night, windshield wipers during the rain, or the parking brake when parking on the side of a steep hill? Ok then.
Just like I don't let people touch my computer if they don't even halfway understand (or make an attempt to) how to use the thing.
personally I think the whole article was a waste of time. E-mail is just one of many uses of the internet and it's totally possible to do all your emailing via the web. The questions is a waste of time. Even if email totally disappeared, there's still blog comments, forum threads, personal messages via forums etc... all of these put together basically are e-mail but better in some ways.
Heck, you can even chat on almost every known IM network via multiple websites.
And for me there is no alternative to web mail. Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows itself have F#*$(# up my locally stored e-mail so many damned times I refuse to use anything but web mail (until I switch to mac or linux).
I predict most people saying 'no' are under 22 years of age and live in urban areas.
Most people saying 'yes' are near or over 30 and spent their childhood in a rural area with woods, creeks, rivers, lakes etc (Little House on the Prarie/Bonanza type stuff).
I base this on absolutely nothing.
Even though I don't even live in America I have dreams of someday (having kids and then) taking my kids on Summer Vacation cross country road trips in the US then Canada then Europe. Seeking out the most 'middle of nowhere'/wilderness location I can find where they better interact with people & the environment if they wanna have any hope of enjoying the trip.
have any adapter recommendation? Only ones I've been able to find are Huskee usb adapters for PS2. But it seems everything made by Huskee is total garbage, especially the drivers. It works great the first time and the first time only. I've tested it on multiple systems and it always only works the first time.
I've actually been waiting a damned long time for a company to come along and let me pay them to do the hard work of finding all the old school games I want to play instead of having to hunt down roms and emulators myself. GAMETAP!
--A console-like controller for PC costs like $10.-- round here they cost $25 and up and NONE that I've bought have ever been worth buying. It honestly seems that whenever a defective batch of logitech (or other brands) controllers are discovered, they immediately get shipped to the Bahamas. Every pc controller I've bought in the last SEVEN YEARS has been a useless piece of crap.
8. Games look better in high-def...from the couch.
and not that many people (around here at least) have high-def televisions.
And with wireless keyboard + wireless mouse + s-video/rca out from the video card it's quite simple to use a pc for many tasks from your couch. Even easier if you have a laptop (I think).
I've not been able to properly hold a controller and perform respectably in any console game since the days of the 8-bit NES.
...more and more damned sequels...:(
"Terminator 4"; one or two installments of "The Hobbit," and a sequel to "The Thomas Crown Affair"
the web is not "inherently visual" The web is text. Lots and lots of text that can be read as lots and lots of braille.
lol, wtf is ...thougth...
...thougth...
if I have a computerized voice telling me the characters in the captcha on the website...
and I have some voice recognition software that only works when I intentionally speak in an unnatural computer-like tone...
couldn't the spammers just automate that and we're back to square one?
and it means there's less work for the future when he or somebody has to update the site to xhtml or whatever comes in the future that demands properly nested and closed tags.
too much BAD, outdated, "should not be written like so", "all caps" kind of html.
I just don't think the programs authors have the best wishes of web developers at heart if their example images of html contain such old code.
I want something obviously by modern web developers obviously for modern web developers.
That screenshot obviously turns me off.
damn i hate the new wsftp. Looks like friggin MSOffice!