Don't you watch Godzilla movies? Japan has a modern, relatively large, and very well-armed military... the only thing that's happened as a result of the WWII treaties is that it's called a "self-defense force" instead of an "army." Having it, however, and using it are two different things... for the time-being, it's being used as a self-defense force.
If there was a tool I could use to easily change how the interface works without having to learn EVERYTHING about the product, then I would do that. But as things stand, without the developers' help, such a task would be impossible... and the developers aren't willing to help, obviously, or it would already be changing.
And you know what else is retarded? Whenever someone points out a weakness with a commercial application, people immediately start to attack open source apps!
They do? I see the opposite... if you say that IE is insecure because it has ActiveX turned on by default, you'll get 20 replies proclaiming how superior the open-source Firefox is in comparison.
Both of them are very valid arguments. People complain about open source but not about commercial apps?
Where in my statement did I assert that people don't complain about commercial apps? Ask anybody I work with... usually 75% of my time here is spent complaining about the flaws in Lotus Notes.
That utterly misses my point entirely. My point is that people *defend* open-source application flaws by pointing out that they also exist in closed-source applications. They use a sort of, "well, Microsoft's product is buggy in the same way, so it's ok if my product is buggy." With that kind of attitude, it is impossible to make an open-source application that is better than its closed-source equilivant.
That just shows that they're nothing more than a bunch of whiners who are completely blind against any criticism towards non-open source apps, which means they're automatically disqualified.
That sentence doesn't make any sense to me. Disqualified from what?
And it what way does whining about the product and mentally trying to destroy developers, who are already very busy but still invest their free time into a free application, instead of helping, make the product any better? In what way does ranting about "all developers must be BANNED from UI design" help the product?
It's not whining, it's frusteration. GIMP's interface and name are agreed upon by almost every reasonable person to be highly flawed, and yet the developers refuse to do anything to improve either. Nobody is trying to "mentally destroy" anybody. The problem is that when the developers are so bull-headed that they do not listen to reasonable criticism (as these complaints were when they were first made) that OF COURSE the reaction is that people become frusterated and become more vocal about it.
If the developers haven't done anything to help improve the UI in this amount of time, well, then maybe they SHOULD be prohibited from working with the UI. What the GIMP product needs is someone who knows marketing, and someone who knows GUI design, to work with them... but they'll never get it if they're so stubborn they don't even suggest that they WANT to change anything. Once Mozilla admitted that their interface was a problem, the improvements came really quickly.
Ask the Slashdotters who always attack open source whenver someone criticises commercial software.
Again, I don't see that happening.
Then be honest about it and stop pretending like the problem only exists in open source software. Until Slashdotters realize that, they will never be taken seriously.
Who's pretending the problem only exists in open-source software? Lotus Notes has a terrible, horrible UI and it's made by IBM corporation. Microsoft products (Office in particular) is well-known for making misguided interface decisions.
Newsflash: if you send a hate mail full of insults and name calling to a company, they will delete your email without reading it, no matter how valid your "criticism" is.
Duh, but what does that have to do with anything we've just discussed?
Handling memory? I'm not aware of any difference whatsoever in how Windows 2000 and Windows XP handle memory. As a Mac user, I think both of them are pretty lame-- what's with completely swapping out a program just because I minimize it?-- but at least it's equally lame.
And, in any case, BSODs are caused by one of two things in 2000/XP: 1) Defective driver, 2) Defective hardware. My guess is that one of the drivers in your system is not entirely compatible with Windows XP and that is causing the error.
You know what else is retarded? How whenever someone on Slashdot points out a weakness with an open source application and the reply is an instant, "yeah, well, the commercial application is just as bad!"
GIMP toolbars? It's the same as Photoshop but people don't complain about it!
Poor installers? Windows has poor installers too, you know!
Sheesh, man, how are you ever going to make the product BETTER than Photoshop or BETTER than Windows if you always use the other product's weaknesses as a scapegoat? A problem is a problem, whether or not it exists in competing products.
The next version of RealBasic will compile for Linux. The problem is it costs $300 and, frankly, Linux users are notoriously cheap... will they buy it? Or just pirate it while chanting "information wants to be free?"
If you need a product like that, you need to pay for it. If Linux users paid for things, in general, then they wouldn't need to encourage cross-platform development because companies would already be doing it! Look at MacOS X... OS X users buy their software and, as a result, they have high quality commercial software available to buy.
Service Pack 2 breaks Excel? Do you know how much of a looney saying something like that makes you sound? Don't you think that the Microsoft Office applications would be the FIRST thing they check for compatibility when putting out a service pack?
There's this wide belief that Windows 2000 is better than Windows XP because it's more simple... i.e. less background services, less eye candy, runs faster.
The fact is that XP, once configured close to Windows 2000's defaults, is actually quite a bit faster than Windows 2000, uses the same amount of memory, and still has all the features built-into XP. (Like Remote Desktop, System Restore, more advanced IE.)
In my opinion, there is absolutely no reason to still be using Windows 2000 with Windows XP available. Grab XP, spend an hour customizing it, and you can make it basically a clone of 2000 but with more features.
The sad thing is that, from my experience, it's mostly self-descibed "environmentalists" that reject nuclear power plants and protest their construction.
If people are worried about safety, they can either build newer, safer reactor types (like pebble-bed reactors), have them staffed by effective US Navy personnel who have proven over the last 50 years that they are more than capable of running a stable and safe reactor, or both.
If people are worried about nuclear material, well, we already have a hugely expensive storage system built which unless I'm mistaken still has years worth of capacity. And there have been other plans proposed that make a huge amount of sense to me... maining drilling them far underground in a subduction zone between plates where they will eventually be drawn into the Earth's core and mix in with that.
But the Bush administration has done everything you can reasonably expect to encourage the building of nuclear power plants short of breaking existing law. Don't say that the Bush administration doesn't care for the environment; they're encouraging the use of Nuclear power. It's the self-described "environmentalists" who are opposed to it.
The Longest Journey's done alright, and it wasn't published until quite a bit after Grim Fandango.
In addition, the Myst series always seems to do pretty well at retail. The only reason I haven't bought the new one is because I don't have a DVD drive in my PC.
Beyond Good and Evil for Xbox (and some other platforms) did well, also, and you'd be hard-pressed to call that anything but an adventure game.
The only people who have declared adventure games dead are those people who don't bother to seek them out and play them. The genre has never died, people just stopped putting it in the cover of magazines.
iChat sucks ass anyway. I know it's not really an answer to your problem, but there you go. AIM on Macintosh keeps logs in plain ol' HTML format, easy to read, with descriptive filenames.
Ok, I call foul on using "Just Works (tm)" on anything that requires config files.
The origin of the phrase was to describe how MacOS X is capable of doing pretty much exactly what you'd expect it to do in every circumstance without any configuration. For instance, copy a few cells from Excel and paste them into Photoshop-- it just works. Using Connect To Server and typing in the path to a Windows fileshare-- it just works.
If you need to use any kind of configuration file, it doesn't Just Work.
Let's all go naked, cover ourselves in pig blood, and stand outside department stores looking for people wearing fur so we can rub the blood all over them. Then we can put up a huge billboard with a picture of a cooked human baby and a happy family eating it, making sure that it's so disgusting it'll cause traffic accidents.
Get a grip, man, PETA is a joke. The more THEY say eating meat is bad, the more meat I will eat. That's a huge virtual middle finger to you.
1) MacOS X doesn't have a port of OpenOffice, so making a native Abiword release is newsworthy. To my knowledge, it's the first open-source word processor to have a MacOS X port. (Yes, OpenOffice *kind* of runs in x11 on MacOS X, but it's nowhere close to usable.)
2) Modern word processors are all closer to typesetters than they are to typewriters. Read the excellent book, "The Macintosh Is Not A Typewriter" for an explanation of how computers work (and should work) as opposed to typewriters.
Yes... in the small font used for compatibility reasons. The same font that forward-delete is labelled as 'del' and that Clear is labelled as 'num-lock.'
Macs really do not have a alt key. The reason the label is there is because a USB keyboard can be used on any type of computer, and therefore it should have all the expected labels.
Just FYI, I know that sheets are the "correct" way of showing dialogs, but I personally can't stand them. You can't move a sheet out of the way of the text below it... often I don't know what filename to give a saved file because there's a big sheet in the way that can't be moved. So I have to close the save sheet, then find the text I need, then choose save again. Pain in the ass.
Buster Keaton?... he's not an action hero, he's a physical comedian. A great one, given, but he's also an entire generation off from the rest of your list. Unless there's another Buster Keaton I don't know about...
Hey, guess what? I'll donate when the program is useful to me! Right now, it's not because I can't get it approved for use where I work. Sure, I'd LIKE it to be useful to me, but it's not because the programmer didn't want to spend the time to design a professional product.
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Yeah, my problem is that IBM ViaVoice doesn't work in the newest MacOS X version and there's no patch available I can find. What a fucking ripoff.
Yeah, but in Canada you can't get a steak rare. It's medium-well, or well, or burnt... but not rare.
Don't you watch Godzilla movies? Japan has a modern, relatively large, and very well-armed military... the only thing that's happened as a result of the WWII treaties is that it's called a "self-defense force" instead of an "army." Having it, however, and using it are two different things... for the time-being, it's being used as a self-defense force.
If there was a tool I could use to easily change how the interface works without having to learn EVERYTHING about the product, then I would do that. But as things stand, without the developers' help, such a task would be impossible... and the developers aren't willing to help, obviously, or it would already be changing.
And you know what else is retarded? Whenever someone points out a weakness with a commercial application, people immediately start to attack open source apps!
They do? I see the opposite... if you say that IE is insecure because it has ActiveX turned on by default, you'll get 20 replies proclaiming how superior the open-source Firefox is in comparison.
Both of them are very valid arguments. People complain about open source but not about commercial apps?
Where in my statement did I assert that people don't complain about commercial apps? Ask anybody I work with... usually 75% of my time here is spent complaining about the flaws in Lotus Notes.
That utterly misses my point entirely. My point is that people *defend* open-source application flaws by pointing out that they also exist in closed-source applications. They use a sort of, "well, Microsoft's product is buggy in the same way, so it's ok if my product is buggy." With that kind of attitude, it is impossible to make an open-source application that is better than its closed-source equilivant.
That just shows that they're nothing more than a bunch of whiners who are completely blind against any criticism towards non-open source apps, which means they're automatically disqualified.
That sentence doesn't make any sense to me. Disqualified from what?
And it what way does whining about the product and mentally trying to destroy developers, who are already very busy but still invest their free time into a free application, instead of helping, make the product any better? In what way does ranting about "all developers must be BANNED from UI design" help the product?
It's not whining, it's frusteration. GIMP's interface and name are agreed upon by almost every reasonable person to be highly flawed, and yet the developers refuse to do anything to improve either. Nobody is trying to "mentally destroy" anybody. The problem is that when the developers are so bull-headed that they do not listen to reasonable criticism (as these complaints were when they were first made) that OF COURSE the reaction is that people become frusterated and become more vocal about it.
If the developers haven't done anything to help improve the UI in this amount of time, well, then maybe they SHOULD be prohibited from working with the UI. What the GIMP product needs is someone who knows marketing, and someone who knows GUI design, to work with them... but they'll never get it if they're so stubborn they don't even suggest that they WANT to change anything. Once Mozilla admitted that their interface was a problem, the improvements came really quickly.
Ask the Slashdotters who always attack open source whenver someone criticises commercial software.
Again, I don't see that happening.
Then be honest about it and stop pretending like the problem only exists in open source software. Until Slashdotters realize that, they will never be taken seriously.
Who's pretending the problem only exists in open-source software? Lotus Notes has a terrible, horrible UI and it's made by IBM corporation. Microsoft products (Office in particular) is well-known for making misguided interface decisions.
Newsflash: if you send a hate mail full of insults and name calling to a company, they will delete your email without reading it, no matter how valid your "criticism" is.
Duh, but what does that have to do with anything we've just discussed?
Five-word reply:
Your experience is not typical.
Handling memory? I'm not aware of any difference whatsoever in how Windows 2000 and Windows XP handle memory. As a Mac user, I think both of them are pretty lame-- what's with completely swapping out a program just because I minimize it?-- but at least it's equally lame.
And, in any case, BSODs are caused by one of two things in 2000/XP: 1) Defective driver, 2) Defective hardware. My guess is that one of the drivers in your system is not entirely compatible with Windows XP and that is causing the error.
You know what else is retarded? How whenever someone on Slashdot points out a weakness with an open source application and the reply is an instant, "yeah, well, the commercial application is just as bad!"
GIMP toolbars? It's the same as Photoshop but people don't complain about it!
Poor installers? Windows has poor installers too, you know!
Sheesh, man, how are you ever going to make the product BETTER than Photoshop or BETTER than Windows if you always use the other product's weaknesses as a scapegoat? A problem is a problem, whether or not it exists in competing products.
The next version of RealBasic will compile for Linux. The problem is it costs $300 and, frankly, Linux users are notoriously cheap... will they buy it? Or just pirate it while chanting "information wants to be free?"
If you need a product like that, you need to pay for it. If Linux users paid for things, in general, then they wouldn't need to encourage cross-platform development because companies would already be doing it! Look at MacOS X... OS X users buy their software and, as a result, they have high quality commercial software available to buy.
Yes, because you don't need to patch Windows 2000... oh wait.
Service Pack 2 breaks Excel? Do you know how much of a looney saying something like that makes you sound? Don't you think that the Microsoft Office applications would be the FIRST thing they check for compatibility when putting out a service pack?
There's this wide belief that Windows 2000 is better than Windows XP because it's more simple... i.e. less background services, less eye candy, runs faster.
The fact is that XP, once configured close to Windows 2000's defaults, is actually quite a bit faster than Windows 2000, uses the same amount of memory, and still has all the features built-into XP. (Like Remote Desktop, System Restore, more advanced IE.)
In my opinion, there is absolutely no reason to still be using Windows 2000 with Windows XP available. Grab XP, spend an hour customizing it, and you can make it basically a clone of 2000 but with more features.
The sad thing is that, from my experience, it's mostly self-descibed "environmentalists" that reject nuclear power plants and protest their construction.
If people are worried about safety, they can either build newer, safer reactor types (like pebble-bed reactors), have them staffed by effective US Navy personnel who have proven over the last 50 years that they are more than capable of running a stable and safe reactor, or both.
If people are worried about nuclear material, well, we already have a hugely expensive storage system built which unless I'm mistaken still has years worth of capacity. And there have been other plans proposed that make a huge amount of sense to me... maining drilling them far underground in a subduction zone between plates where they will eventually be drawn into the Earth's core and mix in with that.
But the Bush administration has done everything you can reasonably expect to encourage the building of nuclear power plants short of breaking existing law. Don't say that the Bush administration doesn't care for the environment; they're encouraging the use of Nuclear power. It's the self-described "environmentalists" who are opposed to it.
The Longest Journey's done alright, and it wasn't published until quite a bit after Grim Fandango.
In addition, the Myst series always seems to do pretty well at retail. The only reason I haven't bought the new one is because I don't have a DVD drive in my PC.
Beyond Good and Evil for Xbox (and some other platforms) did well, also, and you'd be hard-pressed to call that anything but an adventure game.
The only people who have declared adventure games dead are those people who don't bother to seek them out and play them. The genre has never died, people just stopped putting it in the cover of magazines.
Amazing discovery!
Things get better over time! Revolutionary.
iChat sucks ass anyway. I know it's not really an answer to your problem, but there you go. AIM on Macintosh keeps logs in plain ol' HTML format, easy to read, with descriptive filenames.
Ok, I call foul on using "Just Works (tm)" on anything that requires config files.
The origin of the phrase was to describe how MacOS X is capable of doing pretty much exactly what you'd expect it to do in every circumstance without any configuration. For instance, copy a few cells from Excel and paste them into Photoshop-- it just works. Using Connect To Server and typing in the path to a Windows fileshare-- it just works.
If you need to use any kind of configuration file, it doesn't Just Work.
Ooo, he links to Peta.
Let's all go naked, cover ourselves in pig blood, and stand outside department stores looking for people wearing fur so we can rub the blood all over them. Then we can put up a huge billboard with a picture of a cooked human baby and a happy family eating it, making sure that it's so disgusting it'll cause traffic accidents.
Get a grip, man, PETA is a joke. The more THEY say eating meat is bad, the more meat I will eat. That's a huge virtual middle finger to you.
Remember what Maddox says:
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For every animal you don't eat, I'll eat three.
Two simple replies:
1) MacOS X doesn't have a port of OpenOffice, so making a native Abiword release is newsworthy. To my knowledge, it's the first open-source word processor to have a MacOS X port. (Yes, OpenOffice *kind* of runs in x11 on MacOS X, but it's nowhere close to usable.)
2) Modern word processors are all closer to typesetters than they are to typewriters. Read the excellent book, "The Macintosh Is Not A Typewriter" for an explanation of how computers work (and should work) as opposed to typewriters.
Yes... in the small font used for compatibility reasons. The same font that forward-delete is labelled as 'del' and that Clear is labelled as 'num-lock.'
Macs really do not have a alt key. The reason the label is there is because a USB keyboard can be used on any type of computer, and therefore it should have all the expected labels.
Just FYI, I know that sheets are the "correct" way of showing dialogs, but I personally can't stand them. You can't move a sheet out of the way of the text below it... often I don't know what filename to give a saved file because there's a big sheet in the way that can't be moved. So I have to close the save sheet, then find the text I need, then choose save again. Pain in the ass.
Heh. What they miss is that the AS/400 runs its own operating system with its own applications, most of them custom-built by each business.
No, it's going nowhere soon. The migration costs are simply too high, much higher than the markup on the hardware.
Buster Keaton? ... he's not an action hero, he's a physical comedian. A great one, given, but he's also an entire generation off from the rest of your list. Unless there's another Buster Keaton I don't know about...
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000036/
Oh no! You poor scriptkiddies! Why, with no Suprnova you might actually have to fucking PAY for the content you consume.
Please don't shut down what amounts to an organized crime ring! Waah!
Or the iMac G5 from Apple, which is pretty much the exact same thing. Doesn't run on a battery, though, I don't know if this MPC machine does...
Hey, guess what? I'll donate when the program is useful to me! Right now, it's not because I can't get it approved for use where I work. Sure, I'd LIKE it to be useful to me, but it's not because the programmer didn't want to spend the time to design a professional product.