So? You're missing the forest for the trees. Let's take stock of a couple *facts*:
1) The Xbox was released at $300. 2) Inflation exists.
Therefore, regardless of how accurate your inflation estimate is, the Xbox 360 is being released at a cheaper price than the original Xbox, and the Slashdot summary is entirely full of crap (as usual).
I'm right up there with you, buddy. Seriously, "no Lotus Notes" is now a condition of employing me... if you expect me to support Notes, hell, even just USE Notes, no dice. Get somebody else.
Stallman seems like a wacko because he's a wacko. And reading that creed of yours there just made you seem like a wacko, also. I mean, seriously, who can write something like your last paragraph and not be entirely insane?
I for one am much more confident in my ability to define a menu full of scripts, shortcuts, services, and other tools associated with a given application than I am confident in some developer who has no idea what I am trying to do.
You have a typo there... that sentence should read:
I for one am much more confident in my ability to define a menu full of scripts, shortcuts, services, and other tools associated with a given application than I for one am confident in some developer who has no idea what I for one am trying to do.
Good, then maybe software developers will improve their user interfaces. If a user can't figure out how to do X, then X might as well not even be implemented... it amounts to the same thing.
It would help if the Linux kernel were designed to make driver support easier. Right now, why *should* a hardware company support Linux? Writing drivers is twice as hard as Windows, they'll break in the next 3 months anyway as the kernel gets upgraded, and the userbase isn't large enough to make it worthwhile.
If Linux wants drivers, you need to get Linus to stabilize the API for binary-only drivers that won't break every 10 minutes. Until they happens, you're dreaming.
Yes, and Microsoft's Remote Desktop Viewer for MacOS X doesn't "support" entering an IP in the address field, but it stills works just fine.
When did people start getting "supported" and "working" confused with each other? Did you seriously expect CrossOver Office to bend over backwards for you when your $10 1994 shareware app doesn't work right?
I was under the impression that Firefox is a stripped-down Mozilla, and therefore anything in Mozilla related to web browsing (and not to email/messenging/page editing) would be in Firefox as well. Of course, now that I find it's not, my question becomes, "well, WHY not?" That's a handy feature.
That's fine, but I'm sitting here in front of a copy of Firefox 1.0.1, and it's not putting any kind of dot, check mark, or any other indicator in the Go menu indicating which page I'm on. Period.
I don't know how my first post got marked as "flamebait" for stating a *fact*.
Duh. Haven't you seen Total Recall? It also means there's a giant alien nuclear reactor just primed and waiting to heat up all that ice and make air for the entire planet.
Technically, IE7's use of tabs is correct, as all the menu options, toolbars, and address bar all act on the current tab, they should all be included *within* the tab. That's well-established in UI design for years and years. Tabbed dialog boxes have always been this way, as was BeOS's *original* implementation of tabbed interfaces.
(Of course, BeOS implemented tabs in the window manager, where it belongs, and not in individual apps. Why can't I tab an email window to a browser window? Because tabs are managed by apps, not the OS-- stupid.)
I would probably argue for a hybrid approach, with the menu bar at top, *then* the tab bar, then the toolbars and address bar underneath the tab bar. It's not as technically correct as what IE7 does, but it would be a lot easier for people to get used to.
The Go menu shows your history, but it doesn't show your current position within that history. After you said this, I tested it out by hitting back a couple of times... there was nothing in that menu to indicate what site I was on.
So, in short, I think you're full of crap. Either that, or you completely misunderstand the text from the article that you quoted. Or you have some kind of plugin that's not in the default install.
Give it a few years. There are fewer and fewer games released for PC, also. And classically "PC-only" genres, like adventure games and flight simulators, are moving to consoles. In another decade, I wouldn't be surprised if the PC game market was limited to PopCap-type 'diversion' games, and all the 'serious' games moved to consoles. I don't think the PS3/Xbox 360 generation will see that, but I wouldn't be surprised if the next generation did.
In any case, I just own BOTH a Mac and PC for my game fix, and good OS fix. I think the whole "switch" mentality is broken... as if you can only own one computer at a time!
I don't buy the whole "lie" argument. If I say that Susie is going to McDonalds for lunch (because she mentioned being hungry for a Big Mac), and it turns out she went to Taco Bell, did I *lie* about where Susie was going? No reasonable person would say so.
I'm not a programmer, get off your damned high horse.
I'm just saying that with the, what, four or more widgets sets, the dozens of window managers, the thousands of text editors... in general, people in the open source community don't recycle code. Why does Firefox have its own widget set that no other produce uses? Why does Open Office? Don't these companies realize that if they'd used a single toolset with cross-platform support, maybe their editfields would work correctly in OS X by now?
(I'm tired of "cross-platform" projects that always get the OS X editfields wrong. They don't behave like Linux editfields, and they don't behave like Windows editfields, damnit! When I hit the down arrow in a single line editfield, I want the cursor at the end of the line! If it doesn't do that in OS X, it's wrong. Period.)
When software is a bunch of open source code, you can fasttrack through all the boring shit that's been done a million times by reusing another implementation and stick to the actual interesting creative work.
God that game pissed me off when they took the creature away. I stopped playing after that point, and spent all my time in the "playground" playing with the creature again. What the hell were they thinking, adding in one of the most fun game elements in years, and then TAKING IT AWAY?
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So? You're missing the forest for the trees. Let's take stock of a couple *facts*:
1) The Xbox was released at $300.
2) Inflation exists.
Therefore, regardless of how accurate your inflation estimate is, the Xbox 360 is being released at a cheaper price than the original Xbox, and the Slashdot summary is entirely full of crap (as usual).
OH NOES CORPORATE HELL STATE RUN!!!!!
Seriously, man, get a grip.
Maybe I could take you a little bit seriously if you didn't use words like, "breathren."
Holy shit, where do I sign up for that job? Does Microsoft serious pay bloggers, or are you just a paranoid nutjob?
I'm right up there with you, buddy. Seriously, "no Lotus Notes" is now a condition of employing me... if you expect me to support Notes, hell, even just USE Notes, no dice. Get somebody else.
IE7, currently in BETA TESTING, isn't a "modern browser?"
You might want to rethink that message.
You need to take a vacation.
Stallman seems like a wacko because he's a wacko. And reading that creed of yours there just made you seem like a wacko, also. I mean, seriously, who can write something like your last paragraph and not be entirely insane?
I for one am much more confident in my ability to define a menu full of scripts, shortcuts, services, and other tools associated with a given application than I am confident in some developer who has no idea what I am trying to do.
You have a typo there... that sentence should read:
I for one am much more confident in my ability to define a menu full of scripts, shortcuts, services, and other tools associated with a given application than I for one am confident in some developer who has no idea what I for one am trying to do.
Good, then maybe software developers will improve their user interfaces. If a user can't figure out how to do X, then X might as well not even be implemented... it amounts to the same thing.
What do you want? A prize?
It would help if the Linux kernel were designed to make driver support easier. Right now, why *should* a hardware company support Linux? Writing drivers is twice as hard as Windows, they'll break in the next 3 months anyway as the kernel gets upgraded, and the userbase isn't large enough to make it worthwhile.
If Linux wants drivers, you need to get Linus to stabilize the API for binary-only drivers that won't break every 10 minutes. Until they happens, you're dreaming.
Yes, and Microsoft's Remote Desktop Viewer for MacOS X doesn't "support" entering an IP in the address field, but it stills works just fine.
When did people start getting "supported" and "working" confused with each other? Did you seriously expect CrossOver Office to bend over backwards for you when your $10 1994 shareware app doesn't work right?
I don't have mod points, but that was funny. Thanks for the laugh on a friday afternoon.
I was under the impression that Firefox is a stripped-down Mozilla, and therefore anything in Mozilla related to web browsing (and not to email/messenging/page editing) would be in Firefox as well. Of course, now that I find it's not, my question becomes, "well, WHY not?" That's a handy feature.
Well, ok. I'm not an MSDN subscriber, so I'm just going by what other people on this thread say.
But I still stand by the notion that the most correct tabbing implementation would be in the window manager, so I could use it with every application.
That's fine, but I'm sitting here in front of a copy of Firefox 1.0.1, and it's not putting any kind of dot, check mark, or any other indicator in the Go menu indicating which page I'm on. Period.
I don't know how my first post got marked as "flamebait" for stating a *fact*.
Duh. Haven't you seen Total Recall? It also means there's a giant alien nuclear reactor just primed and waiting to heat up all that ice and make air for the entire planet.
Technically, IE7's use of tabs is correct, as all the menu options, toolbars, and address bar all act on the current tab, they should all be included *within* the tab. That's well-established in UI design for years and years. Tabbed dialog boxes have always been this way, as was BeOS's *original* implementation of tabbed interfaces.
(Of course, BeOS implemented tabs in the window manager, where it belongs, and not in individual apps. Why can't I tab an email window to a browser window? Because tabs are managed by apps, not the OS-- stupid.)
I would probably argue for a hybrid approach, with the menu bar at top, *then* the tab bar, then the toolbars and address bar underneath the tab bar. It's not as technically correct as what IE7 does, but it would be a lot easier for people to get used to.
The Go menu shows your history, but it doesn't show your current position within that history. After you said this, I tested it out by hitting back a couple of times... there was nothing in that menu to indicate what site I was on.
So, in short, I think you're full of crap. Either that, or you completely misunderstand the text from the article that you quoted. Or you have some kind of plugin that's not in the default install.
Give it a few years. There are fewer and fewer games released for PC, also. And classically "PC-only" genres, like adventure games and flight simulators, are moving to consoles. In another decade, I wouldn't be surprised if the PC game market was limited to PopCap-type 'diversion' games, and all the 'serious' games moved to consoles. I don't think the PS3/Xbox 360 generation will see that, but I wouldn't be surprised if the next generation did.
In any case, I just own BOTH a Mac and PC for my game fix, and good OS fix. I think the whole "switch" mentality is broken... as if you can only own one computer at a time!
Also, the new Spyro: A Dragon's Tale is excellent.
What makes "incomplete information" into a lie?
I don't buy the whole "lie" argument. If I say that Susie is going to McDonalds for lunch (because she mentioned being hungry for a Big Mac), and it turns out she went to Taco Bell, did I *lie* about where Susie was going? No reasonable person would say so.
I'm not a programmer, get off your damned high horse.
I'm just saying that with the, what, four or more widgets sets, the dozens of window managers, the thousands of text editors... in general, people in the open source community don't recycle code. Why does Firefox have its own widget set that no other produce uses? Why does Open Office? Don't these companies realize that if they'd used a single toolset with cross-platform support, maybe their editfields would work correctly in OS X by now?
(I'm tired of "cross-platform" projects that always get the OS X editfields wrong. They don't behave like Linux editfields, and they don't behave like Windows editfields, damnit! When I hit the down arrow in a single line editfield, I want the cursor at the end of the line! If it doesn't do that in OS X, it's wrong. Period.)
When software is a bunch of open source code, you can fasttrack through all the boring shit that's been done a million times by reusing another implementation and stick to the actual interesting creative work.
Yes, but nobody actually does that.
God that game pissed me off when they took the creature away. I stopped playing after that point, and spent all my time in the "playground" playing with the creature again. What the hell were they thinking, adding in one of the most fun game elements in years, and then TAKING IT AWAY?
Why don't we slip back a few years and do Thundaar The Barbarian? Talk about great cartoons...
Ookla, Ariel, RIDE!