+ 6 digit Insightful...
For us, the ones with 6 digit UID, getting a N digit achievement is impossible... Unless, you make a 6 digit UID one (please please please!!);)
Yes, that's because you can't configure GNOME, and it doesn't do what you need it to do, so you just give up and accept the brown-plated shit that is given to you.
I understand your position. KDE is better for power users, for people who like to fiddle with options. But for the regular public, using convoluted user intefaces with tons of configuration menus and toolbar buttons is overwhelming.
I consider myself a power user and I find KDE 3.5 a good desktop environment (except for that fucked-up kitchensink that is Konqueror), but I wouldn't recommend it to my non geek friends. And also, for power users, even the most complete user interfaces get in your way, so for advanced stuff we just use the command line. I betcha Linus does that too.
KDE 4 is another thing. They learned some things (like separating the fie manager from the web broswer), but they are using the same GUI guidelines from older KDE versions (with seem to be inspired from Netscape Communicator). They had the opportunity to make their programs more intuitive. maybe hiding advanced options using a plugin framework... but no, they had to take the eyecandy from OS X and Vista and make it impossible to use thanks for it's overconfigurability (I know that's not a word).
What? Microsoft always adds new libraries! But at least they backport them, not like Apple (eg: Win32s from Windows 3.1, Unicode libraries for Win 9x, Win2K SP4 included some features from XP, WPF for Windows XP, etc)
There's more than that. What I don't get on other notebooks is:
1. True multi-touch trackpad (not just scrolling). You can go on ebay and try for a fingerworks trackpad when they are available at ebay but they go for big money and are for desktops (but nice software, too bad company was bought by apple).
Who cares about multitouch in a computer?? Sweeping 4 fingers to show the desktop feels weird. Scrolling can be done in Windows and Linux by sweeping your fingers on the right and bottom borders of touchpad.
2. Economizing ports. I like a lack of ports, it always irks me when I see something as antiquated as a serial port on my notebook. Don't ask me why, but it's rather like seeing a floppy drive on a notebook.
Come on! They don't even have camera card readers.They even removed Firewire on the MacBook! And you can't fix that because there is no ExpressCard slot.
3. Stylish elegance. THe unibody construction is really nice. It may be silly, but even the upper end notebooks from competitors seem like hunks of ugly black plastic, and if not, they still get a lot of little things wrong. The little things like their crappy bezels/logos on the back or just the obvious overpacking of ports to fill out a bureacratic checklist. It's like they try to a certain extent, and then promptly give up once they have to invest in something that costs more money than usual.
Unibody??! The main body is still made of various parts, not just one.
Yes, Apple owns me completely, I guess I'm their whore in this direction.
I didn't notice that:D
But since a notebook is a tool I work with all day (has replace my desktop as well), I might as well get something I like, even if it costs a bit more.
I honestly don't get the debate. Either buy it or don't. But this issue/whining comes so frequently, I have to wonder if its from people who want to get one but can't afford it, can't talk their boss/SO into it, or just too cheap. I never hear people obsess over Alienware's prices as much. Even the new Macbook, lacking firewire, may be called the new 13 inch Mac Book Pro for all intents and purposes and considering some of the upgrade, the rise in price was probably warranted (more RAM in both offerings by default is called for though).
Instead, it seems like they are constantly trying to make others feel bad for their purchase. Lighten up, it's just a notebook. I would got with an MSI Wind|EEEpc + cheap desktop if I couldn't afford the Mac right now. Not a big deal.
Come on let's be honest, reading between lines you said that Macs are fashion items, which is true. So, the two real reasons why people get Macs is because of their design (they are not the best built computers, but they are pretty) and their terrific OS.
I don't mean to be rude but having a LOT of bitchy users means you are doing something wrong. It is not reasonable for users to have to deal with offline apps in business hours. Also, if there are users complaining, with features they wanted, there may be user interface issues. UI issues are also present when you change and old application to a easy to use one, because users don't expect the changes. You should listen to their complaints and make compromises with them. And although they are *almost* always wrong, you should try to understand their way of looking at things. If you work with moaners you should make software that minimizes that.
In the case of Facebook and Google, people complain because these companies aren't making changes for their current users, but are making changes because they want to take their applications in other directions (in the case of Facebook I guess they want it to be more useful, instead of being as annoying as MySpace; the problem is that the users are content with the latter and not the former).
Heeeyy!!! Thanks for explaining me this issue! There's a Wikipedia article on the subject that was very informative for me: Sleep/Hypnopompic paralysis
I know that online profiles are stupid, but why did they do that. They should have implemented a migration process or something like that. Now Yahoo risks losing some of its userbase for some braindead decision (from the users' point of view).
Sometimes I dream that I'm awake lying on my bed but I can't move and I start to panic (it's awful). That thing has happened so many times that in those dreams I realized the fact that I'm sleeping, but I still can't move or wake up, so I just try to stay calm until I stop dreaming.
...the rest just renders perfectly in IE.
(i would prefer if there wasn't any truth in it.)
To be honest, most of the rest also renders perfectly on Firefox. The sites that don't are mostly Microsoft and online banking sites. But who cares about them? *sigh*
Yeah, and I betcha that's the spam and porn free part of the web. Cause who would care about correctness (HTML or moral) when you are trying to sell fake watches and transexual horse porn.
Slashdot Mirror
It wants the millenium bug back.
That's the Conficker Geniune Advantage program prompt!
+ 6 digit Insightful... ;)
For us, the ones with 6 digit UID, getting a N digit achievement is impossible...
Unless, you make a 6 digit UID one (please please please!!)
How about an open source achievement, given to people that has never logged in using a Windows user agent :-)
Yes, that's because you can't configure GNOME, and it doesn't do what you need it to do, so you just give up and accept the brown-plated shit that is given to you.
I understand your position. KDE is better for power users, for people who like to fiddle with options. But for the regular public, using convoluted user intefaces with tons of configuration menus and toolbar buttons is overwhelming.
I consider myself a power user and I find KDE 3.5 a good desktop environment (except for that fucked-up kitchensink that is Konqueror), but I wouldn't recommend it to my non geek friends. And also, for power users, even the most complete user interfaces get in your way, so for advanced stuff we just use the command line. I betcha Linus does that too.
KDE 4 is another thing. They learned some things (like separating the fie manager from the web broswer), but they are using the same GUI guidelines from older KDE versions (with seem to be inspired from Netscape Communicator). They had the opportunity to make their programs more intuitive. maybe hiding advanced options using a plugin framework... but no, they had to take the eyecandy from OS X and Vista and make it impossible to use thanks for it's overconfigurability (I know that's not a word).
Gnome doesn't get in your way. It doesn't shout "PLEASE CONFIGURE ME!" in your face as KDE does.
What? Microsoft always adds new libraries! But at least they backport them, not like Apple (eg: Win32s from Windows 3.1, Unicode libraries for Win 9x, Win2K SP4 included some features from XP, WPF for Windows XP, etc)
But with Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc, you don't even need to use tools like qmake, Jam.
+1 Funny
holy shit
I always knew you could pull it off!!
There's more than that. What I don't get on other notebooks is:
1. True multi-touch trackpad (not just scrolling). You can go on ebay and try for a fingerworks trackpad when they are available at ebay but they go for big money and are for desktops (but nice software, too bad company was bought by apple).
Who cares about multitouch in a computer?? Sweeping 4 fingers to show the desktop feels weird. Scrolling can be done in Windows and Linux by sweeping your fingers on the right and bottom borders of touchpad.
2. Economizing ports. I like a lack of ports, it always irks me when I see something as antiquated as a serial port on my notebook. Don't ask me why, but it's rather like seeing a floppy drive on a notebook.
Come on! They don't even have camera card readers.They even removed Firewire on the MacBook! And you can't fix that because there is no ExpressCard slot.
3. Stylish elegance. THe unibody construction is really nice. It may be silly, but even the upper end notebooks from competitors seem like hunks of ugly black plastic, and if not, they still get a lot of little things wrong. The little things like their crappy bezels/logos on the back or just the obvious overpacking of ports to fill out a bureacratic checklist. It's like they try to a certain extent, and then promptly give up once they have to invest in something that costs more money than usual.
Unibody??! The main body is still made of various parts, not just one.
Yes, Apple owns me completely, I guess I'm their whore in this direction.
I didn't notice that :D
But since a notebook is a tool I work with all day (has replace my desktop as well), I might as well get something I like, even if it costs a bit more.
I honestly don't get the debate. Either buy it or don't. But this issue/whining comes so frequently, I have to wonder if its from people who want to get one but can't afford it, can't talk their boss/SO into it, or just too cheap. I never hear people obsess over Alienware's prices as much. Even the new Macbook, lacking firewire, may be called the new 13 inch Mac Book Pro for all intents and purposes and considering some of the upgrade, the rise in price was probably warranted (more RAM in both offerings by default is called for though).
Instead, it seems like they are constantly trying to make others feel bad for their purchase. Lighten up, it's just a notebook. I would got with an MSI Wind|EEEpc + cheap desktop if I couldn't afford the Mac right now. Not a big deal.
Come on let's be honest, reading between lines you said that Macs are fashion items, which is true. So, the two real reasons why people get Macs is because of their design (they are not the best built computers, but they are pretty) and their terrific OS.
Selling $1300 laptops without firewire ports and card slots IS cheap.
PAX has replaced E3 for a lots of people (including journalists)
I don't mean to be rude but having a LOT of bitchy users means you are doing something wrong. It is not reasonable for users to have to deal with offline apps in business hours.
Also, if there are users complaining, with features they wanted, there may be user interface issues. UI issues are also present when you change and old application to a easy to use one, because users don't expect the changes.
You should listen to their complaints and make compromises with them. And although they are *almost* always wrong, you should try to understand their way of looking at things. If you work with moaners you should make software that minimizes that.
In the case of Facebook and Google, people complain because these companies aren't making changes for their current users, but are making changes because they want to take their applications in other directions (in the case of Facebook I guess they want it to be more useful, instead of being as annoying as MySpace; the problem is that the users are content with the latter and not the former).
Heeeyy!!! Thanks for explaining me this issue!
There's a Wikipedia article on the subject that was very informative for me: Sleep/Hypnopompic paralysis
I know that online profiles are stupid, but why did they do that. They should have implemented a migration process or something like that. Now Yahoo risks losing some of its userbase for some braindead decision (from the users' point of view).
Sometimes I dream that I'm awake lying on my bed but I can't move and I start to panic (it's awful). That thing has happened so many times that in those dreams I realized the fact that I'm sleeping, but I still can't move or wake up, so I just try to stay calm until I stop dreaming.
I agree with you on the Venn Diagrams comic, which could also work with christian fanatics and Fox News reporters.
PS: Your sig made me spit my drink.
-20 It has nothing, I hate you, I even checked the source code.
-1 Wrong ... We need something fair for both parties, game devs and users.
Check out Magnetoresistive RAM. It is a relatively new tech that could eventually replace DRAM.
and it's not instant on.
...the rest just renders perfectly in IE. (i would prefer if there wasn't any truth in it.)
To be honest, most of the rest also renders perfectly on Firefox.
The sites that don't are mostly Microsoft and online banking sites. But who cares about them? *sigh*
Yeah, and I betcha that's the spam and porn free part of the web. Cause who would care about correctness (HTML or moral) when you are trying to sell fake watches and transexual horse porn.