107.7 The End in Seattle is the *only* Seattle station that's likely to play something you've never heard before. There is a very very small minority of radio stations that don't completely suck.
FYI, a World of Warcraft freeze is likely a hardware issue. Open up your case and make sure the headsinks on your CPU and VPU are clear of dust and that your fans are all spinning.
It's private property. The entire question is stupid... if I want to put cameras in my own house, for whatever reason, of course I can. If the mall wants to, they can, too! If you don't like it, don't go to my house.
90% of the people here that pan linux as too hard or driver limited are working from information that is so out of date it is not funny or blatent FUD.
Just FYI, 90% (ass-statistic) of the Linux users on Slashdot who pan Windows XP for being slow or unstable, or not having a good security model are also working from information that's so out-of-date that it's blatent FUD.
Hell, Slashdot is the only place in the *world* where you'll see somebody argue that Windows XP is a bad operating system because, at one point, Microsoft released BOB.
Again for a renowned user-friendly GUI app, it is suprisingly difficult to do some graphical copy, cut, and paste operations. There is a lack of consistent keyboard/mouse functionality across all apps and functions.
Can you be more specific on this one? Which applications are you using, and which "copy, cut, and paste operations" are you referring to?
Why don't you fix the distributions so that their APIs are more stable? I can run (most) 1980s programs easily on MacOS and Windows because those companies care about backwards compatibility-- why doens't Linux?
Why do you people even post here, and why is it always modded up? If you don't like it, don't use it. Period. And don't tell us about you not using it, because we don't give a shit.
I would agree with you, but almost everything marked as "funny" is the same 5 jokes over and over and over again, and they are only funny the first time. What really needs to happen is that the weirdos marking these are "funny" over and over again need to start making use of "redundant."
I understand Slashdot's rationale behind it. (Joel from JoelOnSoftware.com actually uses the same philosophy on his web forums, as well, for the same reason.) The problem I have is that almost *every* other forum I use allows me to edit my posts after I make them. So my habit is to type the post, submit it, read it in context and proofread for typos, then go back and edit the post to fix things. So I guess the problem is that my workflow doesn't account for Slashdot's way of doing things.
It also would be nice if Slashdot supported bbcode, since that's another mistake I frequently see around here.
What I've become accustomed to is a system that I've learned to be efficient with. Changing my system would require reaclimation and result in lost productivity. Unless you keep a user base continually unfamiliar with a UI, the more capable ones will become efficient with it. And once they're efficient, by the arguments you present, it's "too late."
Out of curiousity, if you're comfortable with what you have now, why would you even upgrade at all? Why not let this guy improve the interface for new users, and you can just keep using the version you already have? Wouldn't that be more constructive than saying he's wrong about everything?
In OS X, the menu changes based on the frontmost application. (You know, the one the user is actually using.) Except for the system menu for things like "restart" (nullifying the grandparent's point, BTW.)
The point is that the capitalization has to be consistant. The word is either spelled "GNOME" or "Gnome," and they need to pick *one* spelling and stick with it throughout the entire product.
Hiding the mouse pointer completely is usually a pretty stupid idea. It's quicker for the user to move the pointer out of the way than it is to find a hidden pointer when they need to use the mouse again...
Try it in MacOS. Seriously, hiding the mouse cursor should be done when:
1) The user is typing text and the insertion point is nearing where the cursor is. (Say, within 25-50 pixels or so.)
2) The mouse is over a scrollable window and the user scrolls it with the keyboard. (If the user scrolls it with the mouse, the cursor is likely already out of the way.)
MacOS does this right. I'm constantly annoyed in Windows when I'm reading a web page and I scroll to the bottom (with the keyboard) and the mouse cursor is sitting right atop some crucial letter in a sentence, so I have to move my hands away from the keyboard and tap the mouse to move it out of the way, interrupting the flow of my reading.
As for locating the mouse, you can't find the position of the cursor by looking for it on the screen anyway, so it's not like hiding it makes much of a difference.
(Seriously, try it. Look away from your screen, have somebody else reposition the cursor, then look back and see how quickly you can find it without touching the mouse, then with touching the mouse. Hint: You'll find that without touching the mouse it takes several seconds to find, but by moving the cursor you can find it almost instantly-- eyes track motion, not stationary objects. The reason you can normally find your cursor quickly isn't because it's highly visible, but because your brain remembers where you left it. Apple did a *ton* of psychological research on issues like this while they were designing their GUI, and it shows.)
(Even if you're coming from a pure "Unix hacker" point of view, you'd still say that it qualifies as duplication of effort and still say it needs to be fixed... why have two pieces of code that do the same task instead of having one piece of code that's called from both locations?)
Stupid Slashdot not having an edit button... that's a usability problem.
No, it's like Apple's permission dialog or using "Run As..." in Windows XP. You don't change users, you just give the computer the authorization it needs to perform a specific task. Changing users imply that you logged out (or are using fast-user-switching.)
If Ubuntu's "Change User" dialog *actually changed users*, he'd see his desktop icons and backdrop change to the ones set by "root," he'd see all his settings for applications change to the ones set by "root," etc.
He's not complaining that the login screen in "xscreensaver" shows a clock, but that it's entirely different from the normal login screen in the system. Why should two screens that perform the exact same task look and behave differently? That's confusing to users, and it needs to be fixed.
(Even if you're coming from a pure "Unix hacker" point of view, you'd still say that it qualifies as duplication of effort and still say it needs to be fixed... why have two pieces of code that do the same task instead of having one piece of code that's called from bother locations?)
Now I agree that some of his complaints are off-base. For instance, menu capitalization is pretty arbitrary-- as long as it's consistant. Saying all menus must be in titlecase (although that's the standard in MacOS X and Windows) is wrong, but saying all menus must be in the *same* case is correct. But most of what he's saying are problems that actually need to be fixed, period, end of story.
Apple's patching system is the same as Microsoft's, and requires reboots just as often... I don't get how Apple's is "better" than Microsoft, it seems to me that it's the exact same.
I use those all the time. There are some things that I think people should read (i.e. be modded highly) which aren't "interesting" or "insightful." Say, for instance, instructions on removing spyware from Windows or something. In those cases, "underrated" seems to be the best moderation fit.
Although I think the moderation catagories need to be re-thought. In particular, there needs to be more use of "redundant," I'm getting fucking sick of seeing the same lame-ass jokes over and over again.
Bullshit. I've tried improving the UI in several applications and most open source developers call you an asshole and move on. Or just give you the cold shoulder. Hell, even some Mozilla project bug reports have been like that. (I reported that the process for reporting bugs in Mozilla was too hard for the average user; they replied that it wasn't intended for the average user.)
BeOS did tabbing in the window manager, so you could drag two windows together, no matter what application they were from, and create a set of tabs with them. You could have a drawing, spreadsheet, web browser, and text editor all part of a single project all in a single set of tabs.
Tabbing shouldn't be app-level stuff, it should be window-manager-level stuff.
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107.7 The End in Seattle is the *only* Seattle station that's likely to play something you've never heard before. There is a very very small minority of radio stations that don't completely suck.
If you were in Apple's shoes, where would you put the cutoff date?
FYI, a World of Warcraft freeze is likely a hardware issue. Open up your case and make sure the headsinks on your CPU and VPU are clear of dust and that your fans are all spinning.
Lotus Notes is a piece of shit. IBM needs to pull a Firefox and restart development of it nearly from scratch...
The idea behind it is good, but HOLY SHIT I've never seen a worse software interface in my life.
... which doesn't work for a lot of applications.
But at least it tries.
It's private property. The entire question is stupid... if I want to put cameras in my own house, for whatever reason, of course I can. If the mall wants to, they can, too! If you don't like it, don't go to my house.
It's private property. What do you expect?
These guys are just morons pulling a stupid stunt and wasting people's time.
90% of the people here that pan linux as too hard or driver limited are working from information that is so out of date it is not funny or blatent FUD.
Just FYI, 90% (ass-statistic) of the Linux users on Slashdot who pan Windows XP for being slow or unstable, or not having a good security model are also working from information that's so out-of-date that it's blatent FUD.
Hell, Slashdot is the only place in the *world* where you'll see somebody argue that Windows XP is a bad operating system because, at one point, Microsoft released BOB.
Again for a renowned user-friendly GUI app, it is suprisingly difficult to do some graphical copy, cut, and paste operations. There is a lack of consistent keyboard/mouse functionality across all apps and functions.
Can you be more specific on this one? Which applications are you using, and which "copy, cut, and paste operations" are you referring to?
Why don't you fix the distributions so that their APIs are more stable? I can run (most) 1980s programs easily on MacOS and Windows because those companies care about backwards compatibility-- why doens't Linux?
Why do you people even post here, and why is it always modded up? If you don't like it, don't use it. Period. And don't tell us about you not using it, because we don't give a shit.
I would agree with you, but almost everything marked as "funny" is the same 5 jokes over and over and over again, and they are only funny the first time. What really needs to happen is that the weirdos marking these are "funny" over and over again need to start making use of "redundant."
I understand Slashdot's rationale behind it. (Joel from JoelOnSoftware.com actually uses the same philosophy on his web forums, as well, for the same reason.) The problem I have is that almost *every* other forum I use allows me to edit my posts after I make them. So my habit is to type the post, submit it, read it in context and proofread for typos, then go back and edit the post to fix things. So I guess the problem is that my workflow doesn't account for Slashdot's way of doing things.
It also would be nice if Slashdot supported bbcode, since that's another mistake I frequently see around here.
What I've become accustomed to is a system that I've learned to be efficient with. Changing my system would require reaclimation and result in lost productivity. Unless you keep a user base continually unfamiliar with a UI, the more capable ones will become efficient with it. And once they're efficient, by the arguments you present, it's "too late."
Out of curiousity, if you're comfortable with what you have now, why would you even upgrade at all? Why not let this guy improve the interface for new users, and you can just keep using the version you already have? Wouldn't that be more constructive than saying he's wrong about everything?
In OS X, the menu changes based on the frontmost application. (You know, the one the user is actually using.) Except for the system menu for things like "restart" (nullifying the grandparent's point, BTW.)
Try it before you knock it.
To be a sexist ass,
If you have two women who are equally intelligent and beautiful, wouldn't you prefer the one with the bigger boobs?
The point is that the capitalization has to be consistant. The word is either spelled "GNOME" or "Gnome," and they need to pick *one* spelling and stick with it throughout the entire product.
Hiding the mouse pointer completely is usually a pretty stupid idea. It's quicker for the user to move the pointer out of the way than it is to find a hidden pointer when they need to use the mouse again...
Try it in MacOS. Seriously, hiding the mouse cursor should be done when:
1) The user is typing text and the insertion point is nearing where the cursor is. (Say, within 25-50 pixels or so.)
2) The mouse is over a scrollable window and the user scrolls it with the keyboard. (If the user scrolls it with the mouse, the cursor is likely already out of the way.)
MacOS does this right. I'm constantly annoyed in Windows when I'm reading a web page and I scroll to the bottom (with the keyboard) and the mouse cursor is sitting right atop some crucial letter in a sentence, so I have to move my hands away from the keyboard and tap the mouse to move it out of the way, interrupting the flow of my reading.
As for locating the mouse, you can't find the position of the cursor by looking for it on the screen anyway, so it's not like hiding it makes much of a difference.
(Seriously, try it. Look away from your screen, have somebody else reposition the cursor, then look back and see how quickly you can find it without touching the mouse, then with touching the mouse. Hint: You'll find that without touching the mouse it takes several seconds to find, but by moving the cursor you can find it almost instantly-- eyes track motion, not stationary objects. The reason you can normally find your cursor quickly isn't because it's highly visible, but because your brain remembers where you left it. Apple did a *ton* of psychological research on issues like this while they were designing their GUI, and it shows.)
Of course that paragraph should be:
(Even if you're coming from a pure "Unix hacker" point of view, you'd still say that it qualifies as duplication of effort and still say it needs to be fixed... why have two pieces of code that do the same task instead of having one piece of code that's called from both locations?)
Stupid Slashdot not having an edit button... that's a usability problem.
In fact, you change users when switching to root.
No, it's like Apple's permission dialog or using "Run As..." in Windows XP. You don't change users, you just give the computer the authorization it needs to perform a specific task. Changing users imply that you logged out (or are using fast-user-switching.)
If Ubuntu's "Change User" dialog *actually changed users*, he'd see his desktop icons and backdrop change to the ones set by "root," he'd see all his settings for applications change to the ones set by "root," etc.
He's not complaining that the login screen in "xscreensaver" shows a clock, but that it's entirely different from the normal login screen in the system. Why should two screens that perform the exact same task look and behave differently? That's confusing to users, and it needs to be fixed.
(Even if you're coming from a pure "Unix hacker" point of view, you'd still say that it qualifies as duplication of effort and still say it needs to be fixed... why have two pieces of code that do the same task instead of having one piece of code that's called from bother locations?)
Now I agree that some of his complaints are off-base. For instance, menu capitalization is pretty arbitrary-- as long as it's consistant. Saying all menus must be in titlecase (although that's the standard in MacOS X and Windows) is wrong, but saying all menus must be in the *same* case is correct. But most of what he's saying are problems that actually need to be fixed, period, end of story.
Apple's patching system is the same as Microsoft's, and requires reboots just as often... I don't get how Apple's is "better" than Microsoft, it seems to me that it's the exact same.
I use those all the time. There are some things that I think people should read (i.e. be modded highly) which aren't "interesting" or "insightful." Say, for instance, instructions on removing spyware from Windows or something. In those cases, "underrated" seems to be the best moderation fit.
Although I think the moderation catagories need to be re-thought. In particular, there needs to be more use of "redundant," I'm getting fucking sick of seeing the same lame-ass jokes over and over again.
Bullshit. I've tried improving the UI in several applications and most open source developers call you an asshole and move on. Or just give you the cold shoulder. Hell, even some Mozilla project bug reports have been like that. (I reported that the process for reporting bugs in Mozilla was too hard for the average user; they replied that it wasn't intended for the average user.)
BeOS did tabbing in the window manager, so you could drag two windows together, no matter what application they were from, and create a set of tabs with them. You could have a drawing, spreadsheet, web browser, and text editor all part of a single project all in a single set of tabs.
Tabbing shouldn't be app-level stuff, it should be window-manager-level stuff.
To be fair, there are a lot of 400-page books that are complete trash. Romance novels come instantly to mind...