What, and we're supposed to research your post history and find out this context from some other discussions you've had about this in other threads? All we've seen from you so far is:
I'm sure in your mind it was some sort of ingenious tactical decision to save your actual point in reserve, until a couple of people called you a dick. And then BAM! There's egg on my face now!
And I don't know if you're already aware of it, but this
if you want to use a text based only browser (stupid)
still counts as dismissing text browsers out of hand.
Wow, way to ignore the points made by every single reply to your post so far, especially the one made by the guy you just replied to.
People who can't look at something beyond what their tiny brain can come up with after 2 seconds of thought. Text browsing is still useful nowadays for a multitude of reasons.
Did this even register with you? Did you even read the other posts explaining how useful a text browser can still be?
No, you just leapt straight back onto offense with shouts of "asshat" and "nerd-penis", once again dismissing text browsers out of hand, which is ironic given the way you attempted to turn his point back around on him.
Remember how Linus once spat on Slashdot, calling it a "big wank fest" or something similar? Digg is that x 1000. It's like one long search for the absolute lowest common denominator.
I don't (Firefox 1.5.0.3 under XP Pro), and I don't see anything resembling collapsable sections in the winner's design either. Something else must be amiss.
Your too stupid to read slashdot, no one will miss you if you stop. Try digg, they can't get enough retards.
Please, please tell me that you screwed up and replied to the wrong post. I really don't want to believe that someone would reply to "I don't see..." with what you wrote. Until I see otherwise, you can have the benefit of the doubt.
It's not about a specific font type. It's font family. If he has trouble with all sans serifs, he should turn them off completely. I had a bit of trouble with all serifs and turned them off completely. See what I mean?
The winning design is perfectly capable of rendering with serif fonts, if your browser is configured that way. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some font settings to change back.
There's been a few comments about minor preferences, such as whether the body uses serif or sans-serif. These kind of things should be easily customized without having to sign in.
If that's your specific case, change your own default fonts to serif across the board. Definitely don't go through each website you visit and demand that they cater to your odd personal needs.
And anyway, are you really claiming that that italicised serif body text is easy to read? For me Slashdot summaries were the hardest read of the day, until I wised up and switched serif fonts off completely in my browser settings. You might consider doing the opposite.
1. Spot story really late after slashdotting. 2. Make a dick of myself by talking shit about the incomplete version. 3. Profit! (or at least get modded up) Yawn.
Then your reason for liking Lada's design is stupid, as it contains way more noise than either the winning design or the current look. It's got way too many borders, gradients and other details for my taste at least.
The freedom of the internet is a negative right, not a positive one. But it's on the national level, not the individual level, meaning that nations are not prevented by others from connecting to the internet, and nobody is obligated to step forward and connect others to the internet. And each nation gets to decide individually whether or not to allow certain traffic, just as they are allowed to make their skies a no-fly zone or ban the importation of products that are blasphemous according to their belief system.
If it were any other way, it'd be paternalistic imperialism on our part (see Iraq)
NT took the desktop without a fight. The Unix world collectively said "Here, take it all! Just don't hurt us!". The only place where NT "steadily gained market share until Linux, a Unix clone, in turn began to supplant NT", is in the server market, where according to 'my' article
In 1999, Linux scooted past Novell's Netware to become the No. 2 server operating system behind Microsoft's Windows NT. Over the next four years, IDC said, Linux shipments will grow at a rate of 28 percent,
So fuck you, troll. We're not just talking about desktop Linux today, so go back under your bridge and wait.
Believe me, I agree completely that it's an incredibly stupid issue, and that we should be ashamed that it even exists in the first place. I just disagree in that I don't think that many 'normal people' care about it. The fact that your wife did anything beyond downloading and installing an RPM puts her way out of that category.
I'm not asking for anything......because Windows utilizes it?
You do realise that I was agreeing with you when I said "This is the OSS Godwin...... newfound superiority", right?
I think that the reason that consistency falls so far behind Windows is that open source projects tend to be very inward-looking. In a menu comparison that I posted a while back, there's another good example of these little details. Apparently the singular 'Filter' is the KDE standard, despite the plural 'Filters' making more sense and already being more familiar because of the ubiquity of the GIMP. These tiny insignifiant details mount up really quickly as well. Lack of interaction between GNOME and KDE is to blame for this one.
is the only line of your post that I understood, so I can't answer the question as a yes/no, but I can ignore it completely and just answer a similar question instead.
The pinnacle of OS design is when I can throw my computer out of the window and reflash my brain and connect it to the brain internet at will.
The brain internet is coming! You probably heard it here first!
Basic inconsistencies like these frustrate people attempting to switch
Wrong. Nobody switching to Linux gives a shit what directory their KDE is installed in. Believe it or not most people have more important criteria that they demand from their computers, and are much more likely to switch back to Windows if they are required to look in their KDE directory in the first place.
"If you want a product more like Windows, then use Windows. We don't want our product dumbed down."
This is the OSS Godwin. People turn to the OMG WINDOZE!! argument when they know that they're wrong and their elitism is threatened. Unless you know for a fact that you got that response from developers, I'm willing to bet it came from newly converted teenagers itching to shit on their old OS and get closure on their newfound superiority.
The basic file structure of GNU/Linux needs a major overhaul. Furthermore, now that we have menu standards that both KDE and Gnome use, is it too much to ask that programs include themselves in the menu when you install them?
These two points are very related. Just how hard can it be to have a standard menu.xml file that can be read by all WMs and DEs that use the menu concept? You could have them all keep their own private one too, so as you don't get a load of slow KDE apps polluting the menu in WindowMaker, but their locations should be well documented and static. Or even better, every distro could have a central xml file in somewhere like/var, where desktop apps could append themselves into, supplying their name, the location of an icon, and category. Then all the WMs and DEs could simply parse that file for changes periodically.
But ideas are easy to come by, and even easier to spew out into a Slashdot post. The devil is in writing the code and getting the standards adopted.
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And I don't know if you're already aware of it, but this
still counts as dismissing text browsers out of hand.To be fair to me, I did try to do an IE graphic too. I only said I didn't think it could be done because I couldn't figure this out.
No, you just leapt straight back onto offense with shouts of "asshat" and "nerd-penis", once again dismissing text browsers out of hand, which is ironic given the way you attempted to turn his point back around on him.
Most informative Slashdot post ever! THANK YOU!!
Remember how Linus once spat on Slashdot, calling it a "big wank fest" or something similar? Digg is that x 1000. It's like one long search for the absolute lowest common denominator.
The winning design is perfectly capable of rendering with serif fonts, if your browser is configured that way. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some font settings to change back.
Konqueror
I don't think you can do it in IE. Most Slashdotters use IE. Haha!
And anyway, are you really claiming that that italicised serif body text is easy to read? For me Slashdot summaries were the hardest read of the day, until I wised up and switched serif fonts off completely in my browser settings. You might consider doing the opposite.
Well said.
1. Spot story really late after slashdotting. 2. Make a dick of myself by talking shit about the incomplete version. 3. Profit! (or at least get modded up) Yawn.
pre is a magic newline and space deal, whereas ecode is a capricious beast that I do not understand. Apparently it depends on the site owner's implementation.
O wise master! I have emptied my cup! Please teach me your mysterious ways!
If it were any other way, it'd be paternalistic imperialism on our part (see Iraq)
I think that the reason that consistency falls so far behind Windows is that open source projects tend to be very inward-looking. In a menu comparison that I posted a while back, there's another good example of these little details. Apparently the singular 'Filter' is the KDE standard, despite the plural 'Filters' making more sense and already being more familiar because of the ubiquity of the GIMP. These tiny insignifiant details mount up really quickly as well. Lack of interaction between GNOME and KDE is to blame for this one.
The pinnacle of OS design is when I can throw my computer out of the window and reflash my brain and connect it to the brain internet at will.
The brain internet is coming! You probably heard it here first!
But ideas are easy to come by, and even easier to spew out into a Slashdot post. The devil is in writing the code and getting the standards adopted.
By the time Unix died, it had already given birth to Minix, which had already given birth to Linux. Linux is very much not dead.
You were probably too busy boosting your ego via anti-Linux trolls to notice