Navigating nested menus is slow as shit, it often involves reading and moving the mouse as much as 1000px total. I can open almost any ap on my comp in the manner listed in under 1second, with a mouse its more like 4seconds. My way involves pressing 3~6keys and it can be done blindfolded with no thought. Start menu+mouse involves moving your hand about 1' to the mouse, 4clicks, possible scrolling, and skimming.
So yeah, I'd like to see the study. Also if the study showed a laptop touchpad I'm sure the difference would be pretty staggering (and I'm a person comfortable playing FPSes with a touchpad... I prefer a mouse but still)
Tons of unique things come from the FOSS ppl... they just don't make it mainstream until other people have it. BTW try running KDE and you'll see a shit ton of next 5 years stuff. Some of it might catch on some won't but a lot of it is new and innovative.
I think all of these are good ideas! Also... related to ""run as root" in the menu under right mouse click" I think it'd be nice if when you tried to do something that needed root but you weren't root it should popup asking for your password ALL THE TIME... It does it for some things atm but not everything. I've no idea why that isn't more normalized.
Start menu in windows 7 is a button you hit to bring up the text box where you type in the first 2 letters of whatever app you need. Since I've switched to win7 I haven't really used the actual start menu itself more than a handful of times.
Also windows7 moves away from the startbar, it has a mac like launcherbar thing and Quick launch... plus you can add your own toolbars. Also it still has the currently open apps displayed on the screen... not in a start bar.
And it is bad, you add a click and time to every single action simply to make the screen a bit cleaner (without saving much screen space btw).
Well TBH i think the truncated names will be fixed it is quite beta... but the idea of having my whole desktop contort when I go to change between aps or open something or look for something or... looks annoying as hell. It'd probably be less annoying if the whole screen went black. If I'm opening something from the menu I don't know why I'd even need to see my desktop...
Vista/win7 actually made one seemingly minor but actually huge improvement. They killed the start menu. Though they later killed the quick start toolbar which i put back myself, no idea wtf they were thinking there. Anyways!
In vista/7 to open Firefox I: Click the windows button. push the f key hit enter.
For word instead of f i hit wo. Hamachi I hit h. WMP classic I hit c.
It is so efficient and easy I don't actually need anything within the start menu itself. With explorer notepad++ and FF pinned to the start menu (Generally I don't like the new mac ripoff so I have titles not just icons) and 6 things in quick start...
Linux needs this. Also, I'd suggest a one click entry to terminal that acts much the same way, something like an always running terminal. When you click you are ready to type your command and it drops down the screen of shit you've done recently. Fast, simple, clean. We definitely don't need so much shit popping up whenever we want to do anything... including look at what stuff we have open. I can occasionally remember what I have open but when you are booted up for a month or two and use 4~6 desktops having to check would get old real fucking fast... also, clicking is faster than alt+tabbing a good portion of the time...
Showing what ap you are currently using is not fucking useful at all. Being able to view all desktops at once while useful is a minor change and could be accessed through a button... like holding alt while dragging a window or some shit.
Gnome3 looks unusable anyways, delay it forever. Go through the early tour and tell me that is more usable. I've no idea wtf they were thinking.
Lose the ability to 1click to open aps. Clock takes a huge chunk of real estate. The aps button is needlessly large and boring text. Opening a common folder takes more time now. This is just my first look at it but still wtf...
Haha only on/. would someone compare Apple to communist Russia and be corrected 'Its worse than that, you could even call it DRM'.
I hate DRM too but it probably isn't as bad as the USSR. Though really if Apple owned a country I'm not sure if it would be more or less restrictive than the USSR...
I imagine a lunar space elevator is feasible using today's technology.
The vast bulk of the materials would be on the moon (fuel and coarse structural components can be produced on the moon). Spaceships need not be so sturdy if they don't crash into thick atmospheres. Specialty parts would be produced on earth and shipped up to low lunar orbit. Manufacturing of a lunar space elevator and bulky parts could be done on the moon. They would be shipped up to Lmo by the elevator.
The neat thing about this is that if the ship is never intended to go to earth we can pick w/e the fuck size we wish. If we want one that's big enough for 5,000 people the cost scales much more nicely than a ship made on earth.
From a real world POV thats a useful tip. From a bureaucracy and goverment POV. WHYYYYY? wtf we don't need redundancy in these situations. I can see why socialism is so unpopular in the states when the system is so retarded.
I have a better solution. Instead of redirecting all of the common misspellings of big sites back to the correct spelling (the typist learns nothing). You could have every typo redirect to goatze and tubgirl. Spelling errors will plummet in weeks.
Yeah, I was overestimating a bit. Still by 2000 drive prices were cheaper than CDs (they overtook earlier if you take into account a CD burner). You could have stored your songs on a tape array?:P. I remember CD burns failing a lot, having maybe 3 burners die, they didn't last long got lost, scratched. So for me HDDs probably overtook CDs in 98.
Wireless data networks. There is no difference between a phone call and a youtube video (cept its one way). Yet they vary wildly in costs today. It is a true look at a network WITHOUT net neutrality.
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Navigating nested menus is slow as shit, it often involves reading and moving the mouse as much as 1000px total. I can open almost any ap on my comp in the manner listed in under 1second, with a mouse its more like 4seconds. My way involves pressing 3~6keys and it can be done blindfolded with no thought. Start menu+mouse involves moving your hand about 1' to the mouse, 4clicks, possible scrolling, and skimming.
So yeah, I'd like to see the study. Also if the study showed a laptop touchpad I'm sure the difference would be pretty staggering (and I'm a person comfortable playing FPSes with a touchpad... I prefer a mouse but still)
Tons of unique things come from the FOSS ppl ... they just don't make it mainstream until other people have it. BTW try running KDE and you'll see a shit ton of next 5 years stuff. Some of it might catch on some won't but a lot of it is new and innovative.
I think all of these are good ideas! ... related to ""run as root" in the menu under right mouse click" I think it'd be nice if when you tried to do something that needed root but you weren't root it should popup asking for your password ALL THE TIME... It does it for some things atm but not everything. I've no idea why that isn't more normalized.
Also
So you are saying to the non geek modifying links to support windows instead of linux is easier than just pasting it? Do tell...
Start menu in windows 7 is a button you hit to bring up the text box where you type in the first 2 letters of whatever app you need. Since I've switched to win7 I haven't really used the actual start menu itself more than a handful of times.
Also windows7 moves away from the startbar, it has a mac like launcherbar thing and Quick launch... plus you can add your own toolbars.
Also it still has the currently open apps displayed on the screen... not in a start bar.
And it is bad, you add a click and time to every single action simply to make the screen a bit cleaner (without saving much screen space btw).
Well TBH i think the truncated names will be fixed it is quite beta... but the idea of having my whole desktop contort when I go to change between aps or open something or look for something or... looks annoying as hell. It'd probably be less annoying if the whole screen went black. If I'm opening something from the menu I don't know why I'd even need to see my desktop...
Oh I know they are out there its linux. I meant they should be standard in gnome/ubuntu since it is becoming THE desktop of choice.
Vista/win7 actually made one seemingly minor but actually huge improvement. They killed the start menu. Though they later killed the quick start toolbar which i put back myself, no idea wtf they were thinking there. Anyways!
In vista/7 to open Firefox I:
Click the windows button.
push the f key
hit enter.
For word instead of f i hit wo. Hamachi I hit h. WMP classic I hit c.
It is so efficient and easy I don't actually need anything within the start menu itself. With explorer notepad++ and FF pinned to the start menu (Generally I don't like the new mac ripoff so I have titles not just icons) and 6 things in quick start...
Linux needs this. Also, I'd suggest a one click entry to terminal that acts much the same way, something like an always running terminal. When you click you are ready to type your command and it drops down the screen of shit you've done recently. Fast, simple, clean. We definitely don't need so much shit popping up whenever we want to do anything... including look at what stuff we have open. I can occasionally remember what I have open but when you are booted up for a month or two and use 4~6 desktops having to check would get old real fucking fast... also, clicking is faster than alt+tabbing a good portion of the time...
Showing what ap you are currently using is not fucking useful at all.
Being able to view all desktops at once while useful is a minor change and could be accessed through a button... like holding alt while dragging a window or some shit.
Gnome3 looks unusable anyways, delay it forever. Go through the early tour and tell me that is more usable. I've no idea wtf they were thinking.
Lose the ability to 1click to open aps. Clock takes a huge chunk of real estate. The aps button is needlessly large and boring text. Opening a common folder takes more time now. This is just my first look at it but still wtf...
Haha only on /. would someone compare Apple to communist Russia and be corrected 'Its worse than that, you could even call it DRM'.
I hate DRM too but it probably isn't as bad as the USSR. Though really if Apple owned a country I'm not sure if it would be more or less restrictive than the USSR...
Maybe he meant it was high quality...
"detected more than 100 kilograms in the part of the plume it observed."
And they couldn't see the vast majority of the plume.
"regardless of what else is discovered."
Bin Laden?
I imagine a lunar space elevator is feasible using today's technology.
The vast bulk of the materials would be on the moon (fuel and coarse structural components can be produced on the moon). Spaceships need not be so sturdy if they don't crash into thick atmospheres. Specialty parts would be produced on earth and shipped up to low lunar orbit. Manufacturing of a lunar space elevator and bulky parts could be done on the moon. They would be shipped up to Lmo by the elevator.
The neat thing about this is that if the ship is never intended to go to earth we can pick w/e the fuck size we wish. If we want one that's big enough for 5,000 people the cost scales much more nicely than a ship made on earth.
From a real world POV thats a useful tip. From a bureaucracy and goverment POV. WHYYYYY? wtf we don't need redundancy in these situations. I can see why socialism is so unpopular in the states when the system is so retarded.
I have a better solution. Instead of redirecting all of the common misspellings of big sites back to the correct spelling (the typist learns nothing). You could have every typo redirect to goatze and tubgirl. Spelling errors will plummet in weeks.
http://backslashdot.org/ is actually currently under development. I've no idea how long thats been there of course.
Yeah, I was overestimating a bit. Still by 2000 drive prices were cheaper than CDs (they overtook earlier if you take into account a CD burner). You could have stored your songs on a tape array? :P. I remember CD burns failing a lot, having maybe 3 burners die, they didn't last long got lost, scratched. So for me HDDs probably overtook CDs in 98.
Wireless data networks. There is no difference between a phone call and a youtube video (cept its one way). Yet they vary wildly in costs today. It is a true look at a network WITHOUT net neutrality.
How'd I get modded down for following through and doing research? ...
So you are saying it is "Wear our condom, you are an idiot." How the fuck does that help?
My plan is 90$, has unlimited sms and 500MB/month data.
From a technological POV cellphones have been usurped completely. It angers me that they haven't died. Also, cool info on the sms' is free.
There are an odd number of poets on /. I'm not sure how that happened.
er I fail at math, that should be:
Text msg: 0.20c/msg - 0.00000039c (30$ * 70bytes / 5GB)
512,820 times as expensive, yay.