I live on the other end of that. I have a crap 800x600 monitor, which won't fit most of these fixed width sites with a fullscreened browser. Its outright bad design IMO. Though occasionally they just end up cropping off all their ads and it still reads well.
EVEN WHEN I had a non-sucky monitor that easily fit fixed width pages, it was a problem. I don't want my browser taking up the whole friggin' display, I used a windowed browser 100% of the time. The fixed width sites often had different widths, now I was eternally screwing around with the width of my browser because their dumb layouts had zero give to them.
Now, EVEN IF it totally sucks to read really huge columns, given a reasonably flexible layout, a user can reduce the width of their browser, or expand it, to suit them.
The whole cheap fixed width layout argument holds up not in my view, I hope the next person to start off a webpage with a fixed width table spontaneously combusts...
(further, you can automatically column out your article for the average full out browser, or try to be intelligent and have the server do that based on the browser's reported windowsize. maybe I'm just making too much sense for you though.)
Then don't use crippleware, pay for the full version.
Rather than fund the development of crippleware. (umm, I hate it you know, I hate spam too, I'm not buying "cialis" and mini RC cars either)
I went option three:
Use neither, grab a nice piece of FOSS, take saved money to buy food for continued survival.
I'd rather spend 18 months myself learning to program. At least then I'd have a skill, and I've always had a strong interest in 3D programming anyways.
Its my opinion, be happy I'm not still of the opinion that "Amiga rules, everything else is a flaming turd".
I wouldn't say no to any tips or suggestions as to which tools are the best to use. My guess for your email would be slashdot username at your listed website? The website appears to be down at present so I can't get it from there.
I'm a GIMP person, might be better stuff te use, I don't know of it.
Email, the one you guessed might be blackholed, since it was actually on here at one point, may have been collecting spam. Tack on some random stuff to be sure.
My site isn't really down, I'm just not sure what to do with it at the moment, so I threw up some BS until I can decide where to take it. Before I threw up a flexible skeleton with basically nothing in all the sections (news notes the long periods of inactivity between minor updates, links page is big bit stale, gallery has one pic of no value, and occasionally some wastoids want to know how to get warez from the "restricted area" which was pretty much a blank page in an otherwise unused dir).
And thats why Windows starter edition is so controversial. Ahem...:-)
I understand completely. The trust issue is a difficult problem to overcome.
Not too hard to overcome, just need a solid way to jail it, which isn't happening for something that uses the frail and far reaching GL subsystem.
Now all we need is more cross-platform games.;)
Or more good Linux games in general. To draw people from Windows starter edition, of course, *cough* *shady-look*.
An interesting idea. I've never put together animated gifs before to be honest.
And the nav buttons? I've toyed with the idea of turfing them as I change the sidebar so often. Still not 100% sure. I do want to draw attention to certain thinks like the order button, downloads, the forum etc etc.
Don't dull down the want-attention ones so much then.
Also if you want some help, email me (guess). I need to keep in practice somehow...
Well, the Free Edition is self-contained and has no time limits nor intrusive nags.
I still distrust binaries, and the security of Linux. Even though you seem really trustworthy.
Have it sit around the Debian archives for 6 months and I'll be less wary.;-)
Well, each person will have their own preferences. Some people will prefer Windows, some Linux, some OS X, so forth. Myself, yourself and others prefer Linux, and others yet prefer Windows. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.:)
OS X has ticked me off with its spinning pizza wheel of death antics (no AV software detected). I had high hopes there. RE: preferring Windows though, alot of them just don't know the alternatives, and alot of those are also locked into silly services (like ugly streaming music videos with one of three ads streaming in between that). Sure, choice exists, where people aren't locked in and underinformed.
I think I'd better disable the karma bonus on this post. This is getting pretty offtopic.;)
If anything I'd say we're starting to veer on topic. (crippled XP for cheapness, alternatives, practices)
But either way don't mention it, some foaming at the mouth mod will dock us with the most poorly fitting option they have. Happens too often, wish I could give myself an initial rating of 0 to minimize the effects of their frothy misplaced wrath.
needing to give people a visible benefit for contributing
Speaking of which, might want to have a few animgif screenshots on your site (and dull the navbuttons down a tad).
I couldn't be arsed to run the DOOM 3 demo binary on my system (I came close though), I prolly won't for yours either, but it looks kind of interesting, motion would be nice to see.
I am primarily a Linux user and have been for years. Not ready for the desktop my butt, I've been using it exactly that way for many years.
Yeah, some reviewers must live in a cave or something. I'm not giving up Linux for what little proprietary lock-in trinkets Windows has to offer.
For example, I developed my software full-time over eighteen months. This wiped out my savings and left me in a fair amount of debt.
Okay, I could never be talked into doing something like that myself. Nice resolve you showed, I think thats insane of you though...
People are very good at taking if there is no benefit to giving.
Not to criticize your strategy, what I say doesn't work for everything, but... If you have betas out, and there are still important features to implement, you could call that a benefit for paying.
As for avoiding crippleware, I'd have to disagree. What I can't stand is when people sell something without giving you a chance to try it out beforehand. That really sucks. Time limitations are a pain too, I hate the presumption that I can dedicate 30 days to trying something out...
I consider time limitations to be a form of crippling, and software that does that fits in my definition of crippleware. That is one reason I can encompass enough commercial wares into my crippleware category to partially blame crippleware for driving me to OSS.
(I really hate the idea of code on my system working against me, I in fact purely despise it)
I have gathered KDE makes things REALLY EASY to do.
From my Amiga experience, MUI made things really easy, and those apps tended to crash and have basic logic flaws.
I think it really is just a matter of "you must be this tall to use this toolkit ----", and if the average height is higher, the average app will reflect that.
No offense KDE team, but the Konqueror icon drag race conditions are getting to be annoying.
My question is, if someone finally gets the money to upgrade their low-end CPU to something faster, why should the OS stop working?
I had to replace my motherboard once, when Windows (pre-XP) decided all it was going to to was bluescreen on bootup, I switched to Linux.
I doubt Microsoft did that as a feature, and I knew that existed as a problem, but it was still quite enough rationale for me to leave Windows high and dry. (coupled with the extremely bad documentation and software that unmanagably moves about the system)
For example, with my software I have a number of different editions, effectively free, budget, and full (I call them the Free, Silver and Gold Edition). It took a decent amount of extra work to develop the Free and Silver Editions, and this was done by disabling features that would have been simpler to just leave in.
Crippleware is what I call it.
Happens to be one of the reasons I don't use much commerical software, and kind of avoid it like the plague.
I'm discounting physical security and the security flaws a user introduces, yes.
We could all suddenly decide to run out into the streets and kill each other, its not something a programmer can help (oops, subliminal timebomb "kill all" message, forgot about that, uhh, never too late to patch?).
In my own deluded way I'm hoping to encourage secure programming. I'll leave physical security to users with shotguns (kEiElElE EaElElE!).
SO, not to get too wierd on anyone...really, it's all probably hogwash, the whole bloody pursuit of "safety and security". Take the obvious precautions yes(update your software, use a firewall...), but don't get all surprised and indignant when somebody figures out how to break them!
They're called exploits because the software is already broken. Its not magic, software can be secure. Code you run has to pass control over to the exploiters, or be convinced to work in their interests. Write the code with no hidden extra features and no inclination to do the dangerous biddings of a random outsider, problem solved.
Though I'm still not comfortable writing "for" loops...
It seems to me that several of their written conclusions are based on the poor multitasking scheduling of Windows, or his inability to use task priority settings.
I like powerful CPUs, I don't like validating their purchase with "I'm too lazy to push this slider to low/idle priority".
It was designed around the concept of one analog stick and one big A button. If not for the analogs, it'd be a clear step backwards over the SNES controller, you should like it. (and pushing those shoulder buttons is just a great feel for the first few days, great masturbatory experience, less mess)
For all I know, the next 'tendo box will leave you with nothing but a touch screen to control with.
I'm drooling over the interactivity options the DS offers.
As a Nintendo fanboy I declare the PSP too mundane and pricey. (jokes about battery life and a lame disc eject trick will not be used here, though I just referenced them)
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I live on the other end of that. I have a crap 800x600 monitor, which won't fit most of these fixed width sites with a fullscreened browser. Its outright bad design IMO. Though occasionally they just end up cropping off all their ads and it still reads well.
EVEN WHEN I had a non-sucky monitor that easily fit fixed width pages, it was a problem. I don't want my browser taking up the whole friggin' display, I used a windowed browser 100% of the time. The fixed width sites often had different widths, now I was eternally screwing around with the width of my browser because their dumb layouts had zero give to them.
Now, EVEN IF it totally sucks to read really huge columns, given a reasonably flexible layout, a user can reduce the width of their browser, or expand it, to suit them.
The whole cheap fixed width layout argument holds up not in my view, I hope the next person to start off a webpage with a fixed width table spontaneously combusts...
(further, you can automatically column out your article for the average full out browser, or try to be intelligent and have the server do that based on the browser's reported windowsize. maybe I'm just making too much sense for you though.)
Then don't use crippleware, pay for the full version.
Rather than fund the development of crippleware. (umm, I hate it you know, I hate spam too, I'm not buying "cialis" and mini RC cars either)
I went option three:
Use neither, grab a nice piece of FOSS, take saved money to buy food for continued survival.
I'd rather spend 18 months myself learning to program. At least then I'd have a skill, and I've always had a strong interest in 3D programming anyways.
Its my opinion, be happy I'm not still of the opinion that "Amiga rules, everything else is a flaming turd".
I wouldn't say no to any tips or suggestions as to which tools are the best to use. My guess for your email would be slashdot username at your listed website? The website appears to be down at present so I can't get it from there.
:-)
;)
I'm a GIMP person, might be better stuff te use, I don't know of it.
Email, the one you guessed might be blackholed, since it was actually on here at one point, may have been collecting spam. Tack on some random stuff to be sure.
My site isn't really down, I'm just not sure what to do with it at the moment, so I threw up some BS until I can decide where to take it. Before I threw up a flexible skeleton with basically nothing in all the sections (news notes the long periods of inactivity between minor updates, links page is big bit stale, gallery has one pic of no value, and occasionally some wastoids want to know how to get warez from the "restricted area" which was pretty much a blank page in an otherwise unused dir).
And thats why Windows starter edition is so controversial. Ahem...
I understand completely. The trust issue is a difficult problem to overcome.
Not too hard to overcome, just need a solid way to jail it, which isn't happening for something that uses the frail and far reaching GL subsystem.
Now all we need is more cross-platform games.
Or more good Linux games in general. To draw people from Windows starter edition, of course, *cough* *shady-look*.
An interesting idea. I've never put together animated gifs before to be honest.
;-)
:)
;)
And the nav buttons? I've toyed with the idea of turfing them as I change the sidebar so often. Still not 100% sure. I do want to draw attention to certain thinks like the order button, downloads, the forum etc etc.
Don't dull down the want-attention ones so much then.
Also if you want some help, email me (guess). I need to keep in practice somehow...
Well, the Free Edition is self-contained and has no time limits nor intrusive nags.
I still distrust binaries, and the security of Linux. Even though you seem really trustworthy.
Have it sit around the Debian archives for 6 months and I'll be less wary.
Well, each person will have their own preferences. Some people will prefer Windows, some Linux, some OS X, so forth. Myself, yourself and others prefer Linux, and others yet prefer Windows. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
OS X has ticked me off with its spinning pizza wheel of death antics (no AV software detected). I had high hopes there. RE: preferring Windows though, alot of them just don't know the alternatives, and alot of those are also locked into silly services (like ugly streaming music videos with one of three ads streaming in between that). Sure, choice exists, where people aren't locked in and underinformed.
I think I'd better disable the karma bonus on this post. This is getting pretty offtopic.
If anything I'd say we're starting to veer on topic. (crippled XP for cheapness, alternatives, practices)
But either way don't mention it, some foaming at the mouth mod will dock us with the most poorly fitting option they have. Happens too often, wish I could give myself an initial rating of 0 to minimize the effects of their frothy misplaced wrath.
needing to give people a visible benefit for contributing
Speaking of which, might want to have a few animgif screenshots on your site (and dull the navbuttons down a tad).
I couldn't be arsed to run the DOOM 3 demo binary on my system (I came close though), I prolly won't for yours either, but it looks kind of interesting, motion would be nice to see.
I am primarily a Linux user and have been for years. Not ready for the desktop my butt, I've been using it exactly that way for many years.
Yeah, some reviewers must live in a cave or something. I'm not giving up Linux for what little proprietary lock-in trinkets Windows has to offer.
For example, I developed my software full-time over eighteen months. This wiped out my savings and left me in a fair amount of debt.
Okay, I could never be talked into doing something like that myself. Nice resolve you showed, I think thats insane of you though...
People are very good at taking if there is no benefit to giving.
Not to criticize your strategy, what I say doesn't work for everything, but... If you have betas out, and there are still important features to implement, you could call that a benefit for paying.
As for avoiding crippleware, I'd have to disagree. What I can't stand is when people sell something without giving you a chance to try it out beforehand. That really sucks. Time limitations are a pain too, I hate the presumption that I can dedicate 30 days to trying something out...
I consider time limitations to be a form of crippling, and software that does that fits in my definition of crippleware. That is one reason I can encompass enough commercial wares into my crippleware category to partially blame crippleware for driving me to OSS.
(I really hate the idea of code on my system working against me, I in fact purely despise it)
I have gathered KDE makes things REALLY EASY to do.
From my Amiga experience, MUI made things really easy, and those apps tended to crash and have basic logic flaws.
I think it really is just a matter of "you must be this tall to use this toolkit ----", and if the average height is higher, the average app will reflect that.
No offense KDE team, but the Konqueror icon drag race conditions are getting to be annoying.
My question is, if someone finally gets the money to upgrade their low-end CPU to something faster, why should the OS stop working?
I had to replace my motherboard once, when Windows (pre-XP) decided all it was going to to was bluescreen on bootup, I switched to Linux.
I doubt Microsoft did that as a feature, and I knew that existed as a problem, but it was still quite enough rationale for me to leave Windows high and dry. (coupled with the extremely bad documentation and software that unmanagably moves about the system)
For example, with my software I have a number of different editions, effectively free, budget, and full (I call them the Free, Silver and Gold Edition). It took a decent amount of extra work to develop the Free and Silver Editions, and this was done by disabling features that would have been simpler to just leave in.
Crippleware is what I call it.
Happens to be one of the reasons I don't use much commerical software, and kind of avoid it like the plague.
...And then bought overpriced theater junkfoods.
There are TV shows about Vampires that go by the name "Angel". Vampires and Lawyers are a relativly in the same boat as far as innate goodness goes...
Of course, I just posted to point out how screwed up it must be to be a guy with a girl's name.
I'm discounting physical security and the security flaws a user introduces, yes.
We could all suddenly decide to run out into the streets and kill each other, its not something a programmer can help (oops, subliminal timebomb "kill all" message, forgot about that, uhh, never too late to patch?).
In my own deluded way I'm hoping to encourage secure programming. I'll leave physical security to users with shotguns (kEiElElE EaElElE!).
I entered that line to imply the opposite of what you're implying I said.
I dunno how to interpret irony applied to irony...
SO, not to get too wierd on anyone...really, it's all probably hogwash, the whole bloody pursuit of "safety and security". Take the obvious precautions yes(update your software, use a firewall...), but don't get all surprised and indignant when somebody figures out how to break them!
They're called exploits because the software is already broken. Its not magic, software can be secure. Code you run has to pass control over to the exploiters, or be convinced to work in their interests. Write the code with no hidden extra features and no inclination to do the dangerous biddings of a random outsider, problem solved.
Though I'm still not comfortable writing "for" loops...
Indeed, at first I endorsed this review, but upon reviewing said review, I found I did not like it.
This review definitely feels kinda thrown together.
The makers sell for $150.
To quote Spock:
"We can't follow them to Mars, our PDAs would be useless."
It seems to me that several of their written conclusions are based on the poor multitasking scheduling of Windows, or his inability to use task priority settings.
I like powerful CPUs, I don't like validating their purchase with "I'm too lazy to push this slider to low/idle priority".
Ummm, you can use genkernel and make it work the first time, generally.
And I believe you can download precompiled binaries for most packages if you don't have time to burn.
These are old points too...
Can I get software for my cellphone to protect me from lion attacks?
The only case a guru might be caused by a ROM checksum failure would be if a program tested it and misbehaved based on those results, AFAIK.
Unusual enough to consider it negligible probability.
It didn't red screen on a guru, I think it meant ROM checksum failed.
Thats for before the guru handler was even loaded.
Mass starvation helps evolution along.
We'll be taking notes from them soon enough.
Take a look at the gamecube controller sometime.
It was designed around the concept of one analog stick and one big A button. If not for the analogs, it'd be a clear step backwards over the SNES controller, you should like it.
(and pushing those shoulder buttons is just a great feel for the first few days, great masturbatory experience, less mess)
For all I know, the next 'tendo box will leave you with nothing but a touch screen to control with.
I'm drooling over the interactivity options the DS offers.
As a Nintendo fanboy I declare the PSP too mundane and pricey.
(jokes about battery life and a lame disc eject trick will not be used here, though I just referenced them)