I'm not surprised they killed it. Only a small percentage of masochists actually like that functionality. For everyone who has ever been totally screwed while filling out forms and such, it was an infuriating nightmare.
Backspace means BACKSPACE. As in, move the cursor BACK one SPACE and delete what is there.
See also: the spacebar. It literally means to insert a space, but in web browsers it scrolls the page down by one screenful (equivalent to a PgDn), are we going to throw this out, too, since people can be entering data in a form, accidentally tab out of it, and then scroll down, losing their place, or accidentally tab over to a button and activate it by hitting the spacebar?
Backspace to navigate back has been in place for decades in lots of programs, and I'd be willing to bet it's used more than you seem to think.
Amen to that. On the old Slashdot, even the trolls were intelligent and were pretty cool when you talked to them in journals. The only big name in open source I've seen post here in a long time is Bruce Perens. It seems like so many of the good commenter have been replaced by rude buffoons. Sadly, I think you're right. I remember when my six digit uid (below 400,000) was a really high uid. If I could remember the password, it would be one of the lowest ones still posting.
To make the workspace task centric and simple to use. It's still designed first and foremost for a mouse and keyboard although the design doesn't exclude touch. I'd add that the shell is also extendible and many plugins exist that rectify things people commonly moan about, e.g. if you want a start-like menu, taskbar, workspace switcher etc. then those things exist..
Hiding things behind nondescriptive hamburger menus or something similar only gives an illusion of simplicity and hinders discoverability. It's simple if you already know where the option or setting or whatever is buried (i.e. you're an expert user or a developer of the application), but if you've never used the application before it turns into a game of "How do I do <task>? Where did <developer> hide <option I want>?"
This will make a LOT of people here mad, but the exponential growth computational power of digital computers is ending. We can no longer count of the computers of tomorrow to be significantly faster or have more memory than today. If you have been following the industry closely you can already see start to happen 10 years ago. So we can forget about projections that used the argument of exponential growth creating the "Singularity" or "AI". There just simply won't be enough processor power available with classical digital computers. The computer you use 10 years from now will look and perform a lot like the one you have today.
Heck, the computer I use 10 years from now might very well be the same computer that I'm using today.
You can use bittorrent to share your own videos, it is peer-to-peer, two-way, etc... All you need it is a typical home internet connection. But look at what bittorrent is used for : 90% of it is for piracy of popular content like Hollywood blockbusters. I almost felt weird when I shared original content on TPB. Despite the occasional collateral damage caused by anti-piracy systems, the little voice is actually better heard on video sharing platforms like YouTube, at least for now. That's simply because with piracy out of the way, people are forced to see less mainstream content instead. YouTube RED may change this, not because it is bad, I think it is actually a very good initiative, but it may cause the mainstream to come back. And experience has shown us that all other things being equal, people prefer to watch Hollywood blockbusters rather than independent content.
Lots of 'typical home connection' ISPs get really grumpy if you start sending lots of gigabytes of information to the Internet.
Posting AC because of mods, but I agree with you, heavily. It's rather crushing to go back and read predictions made in the 70's, 80's, and even into the 90's. There was so much optimism and innovative ideas, there were actually individuals, and it was decentralized - you could actually own a piece of the internet. People even hosted their own websites!! Imagine that. Watching it all fade to the world of Twitter and Facebook...
Hey now, I own a piece of the Internet (several, in fact), and I still run a few websites for my personal enjoyment/enrichment and to get my personal message out there, but since each website I run is one out of about a billion voices, it's tough to be heard above the din.
There are a lot more non-technical users of the Internet these days than there are technical users, but everyone wants their voice to be heard. The problem is that for people like you and me, setting up and maintaining a website is trivial, but to the average Internet user, setting up a website, even one that's barebones HTML is either too hard, or too time consuming. The masses flock to places like twitter and facebook and youtube because they can get their message out quickly and easily and they don't have to have any technical skill (which is to say, they don't have to *gasp* learn something).
You go here to meta moderate. Though I've long wondered about the utility of marking a comment as 'good or bad' over the old metamod's 'moderating the moderations', and I'm not even sure what meta moderating even does these days.
With all that crappy sites out there the web is barely usable on Lynx anymore. *sigh!*
If a site doesn't care enough to have a text-only failsafe mode (you know, in case javascript is turned of, adblockers are on, something from their CDN didn't load, or, heaven forbid, you're using something like a screen reader because you're visually impaired, or some other issue), then I'd say that site probably isn't worth anyone's time anyway.
Amen to that. Installing and updating the proprietary Nvidia drivers manually is a colossal pain, especially if you're running Ubuntu or similar and they fart out a new kernel revision every couple of weeks, requiring new kernel headers, and a rebuild of the driver. Not to mention that the proprietary driver still is missing some features that they solved in the Windows driver years ago. For example, you still can't enable TwinView (multiple monitors) and SLI at the same time, and that was a problem that Nvidia managed to fix in Windows Vista.
It's my computer, so the only one who gets to decide what software is installed on it is me.
... until you agree to the Win10 EULA.
Which I didn't do. That was a bridge too far, and it pushed me out of the Windows ecosystem entirely. Yeah, it sucks that I can no longer play a large portion of games in my Steam library, for example (which is bloated beyond belief with stuff I'll probably never get to anyway thanks to indie bundles and Steam sales), but that's a sunk cost, and I have a big enough console game backlog over a dozen or so systems (going back to the NES) that I'm not going to be wanting for video games to play any time soon.
1. the population that they are targeting with nostalgic remakes is almost entirely through "the point of no more gaming" - that moment you no longer buy 1/5 the games you did because adulthood catches up
Now that I'm an Adult(tm) and have a fair amount of disposable income, I actually buy more games now than I did when I was younger, even though I barely have time to play them like I once did. My backlog is enormous, but I like to think that I'm saving them to play after I've retired. Plus, it's nice to throw some money at developers I like in the hopes that they continue making things.
I cut the cord a while back, but since I only have one decent spot in my house where I get decent reception, I use an HD HomeRun Connect and then use either VLC or the PS3/PS4, depending on what display device I'm closest to when I want to watch something.
For streaming media, I ostensibly have access to stuff via Amazon Prime Instant Video through my Amazon Prime subscription, but I hardly ever use it. I've never been a big movie watcher, and there's more than enough free TV around here that I can find something to watch if I'm in the mood. I used to keep a Windows 8.1 computer around just for Windows Media Center, but got rid of it when I realized I was just recording stuff I wasn't getting around to watching. My video game backlog is big enough, I don't need a DVR backlog, too.
Huh, looks like I accidentally my submission somehow. That was supposed to read, "...Linux Standard Base has been developed as an attempt to reduce the differences between Linux distributions in an effort to make programs portable between distributions without significant effort."
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SystemD has an optional DHCP server. Apache and nginx better watch out.
It's been a while since I read the docs, but I'm pretty sure that Apache and nginx aren't DHCP servers.
I tried that, but a lot of webmasters got mad at me for dog-earing their pages
6 digits is low now?
Finally!
I'm not surprised they killed it. Only a small percentage of masochists actually like that functionality. For everyone who has ever been totally screwed while filling out forms and such, it was an infuriating nightmare.
Backspace means BACKSPACE. As in, move the cursor BACK one SPACE and delete what is there.
See also: the spacebar. It literally means to insert a space, but in web browsers it scrolls the page down by one screenful (equivalent to a PgDn), are we going to throw this out, too, since people can be entering data in a form, accidentally tab out of it, and then scroll down, losing their place, or accidentally tab over to a button and activate it by hitting the spacebar?
Backspace to navigate back has been in place for decades in lots of programs, and I'd be willing to bet it's used more than you seem to think.
Actually TWITter is just a place for all the TWITS to get together online!
I thought all the TWITS gathered at TWiT.tv.
Amen to that. On the old Slashdot, even the trolls were intelligent and were pretty cool when you talked to them in journals. The only big name in open source I've seen post here in a long time is Bruce Perens. It seems like so many of the good commenter have been replaced by rude buffoons. Sadly, I think you're right. I remember when my six digit uid (below 400,000) was a really high uid. If I could remember the password, it would be one of the lowest ones still posting.
I still consider my UID to be be really high.
I have a Brother, an HP and a Canon printer hooked up to my Android phone.
It must be really difficult hauling all of that equipment around.
Let's just skip to the end and launch an initiative to remove Yahoo.
Seriously, who uses them?
Anybody who installed Firefox and accepted all defaults
To make the workspace task centric and simple to use. It's still designed first and foremost for a mouse and keyboard although the design doesn't exclude touch. I'd add that the shell is also extendible and many plugins exist that rectify things people commonly moan about, e.g. if you want a start-like menu, taskbar, workspace switcher etc. then those things exist..
Hiding things behind nondescriptive hamburger menus or something similar only gives an illusion of simplicity and hinders discoverability. It's simple if you already know where the option or setting or whatever is buried (i.e. you're an expert user or a developer of the application), but if you've never used the application before it turns into a game of "How do I do <task>? Where did <developer> hide <option I want>?"
This will make a LOT of people here mad, but the exponential growth computational power of digital computers is ending. We can no longer count of the computers of tomorrow to be significantly faster or have more memory than today. If you have been following the industry closely you can already see start to happen 10 years ago. So we can forget about projections that used the argument of exponential growth creating the "Singularity" or "AI". There just simply won't be enough processor power available with classical digital computers. The computer you use 10 years from now will look and perform a lot like the one you have today.
Heck, the computer I use 10 years from now might very well be the same computer that I'm using today.
You can use bittorrent to share your own videos, it is peer-to-peer, two-way, etc... All you need it is a typical home internet connection.
But look at what bittorrent is used for : 90% of it is for piracy of popular content like Hollywood blockbusters. I almost felt weird when I shared original content on TPB.
Despite the occasional collateral damage caused by anti-piracy systems, the little voice is actually better heard on video sharing platforms like YouTube, at least for now. That's simply because with piracy out of the way, people are forced to see less mainstream content instead. YouTube RED may change this, not because it is bad, I think it is actually a very good initiative, but it may cause the mainstream to come back. And experience has shown us that all other things being equal, people prefer to watch Hollywood blockbusters rather than independent content.
Lots of 'typical home connection' ISPs get really grumpy if you start sending lots of gigabytes of information to the Internet.
Posting AC because of mods, but I agree with you, heavily. It's rather crushing to go back and read predictions made in the 70's, 80's, and even into the 90's. There was so much optimism and innovative ideas, there were actually individuals, and it was decentralized - you could actually own a piece of the internet. People even hosted their own websites!! Imagine that. Watching it all fade to the world of Twitter and Facebook...
Hey now, I own a piece of the Internet (several, in fact), and I still run a few websites for my personal enjoyment/enrichment and to get my personal message out there, but since each website I run is one out of about a billion voices, it's tough to be heard above the din.
There are a lot more non-technical users of the Internet these days than there are technical users, but everyone wants their voice to be heard. The problem is that for people like you and me, setting up and maintaining a website is trivial, but to the average Internet user, setting up a website, even one that's barebones HTML is either too hard, or too time consuming. The masses flock to places like twitter and facebook and youtube because they can get their message out quickly and easily and they don't have to have any technical skill (which is to say, they don't have to *gasp* learn something).
You go here to meta moderate. Though I've long wondered about the utility of marking a comment as 'good or bad' over the old metamod's 'moderating the moderations', and I'm not even sure what meta moderating even does these days.
Can you implement code to auto delete any post that contains "APK" ?
If that happened, how would we be able to discuss the latest and greatest Android application packages?
With all that crappy sites out there the web is barely usable on Lynx anymore.
*sigh!*
If a site doesn't care enough to have a text-only failsafe mode (you know, in case javascript is turned of, adblockers are on, something from their CDN didn't load, or, heaven forbid, you're using something like a screen reader because you're visually impaired, or some other issue), then I'd say that site probably isn't worth anyone's time anyway.
Linux is massively overrated and that's why I stopped using it. But defending the Windows 10 GUI? If I don't like it, it's fear of change? OK.
I just swapped your car's pedals and inverted the dashboard, and the fuel cap is now under the left wheel. Quit being afraid of change and adapt.
So, Linux is overrated because it's not Windows?
Chocolate-doom for the most vanilla experience.
Huh, I wouldn't have called that one.
Amen to that. Installing and updating the proprietary Nvidia drivers manually is a colossal pain, especially if you're running Ubuntu or similar and they fart out a new kernel revision every couple of weeks, requiring new kernel headers, and a rebuild of the driver. Not to mention that the proprietary driver still is missing some features that they solved in the Windows driver years ago. For example, you still can't enable TwinView (multiple monitors) and SLI at the same time, and that was a problem that Nvidia managed to fix in Windows Vista.
I think you mean "ermagherd darknrt"
That reminds me... I haven't played a Legend of Zelda game in a while.
darknrt
Gesundheit.
It's my computer, so the only one who gets to decide what software is installed on it is me.
... until you agree to the Win10 EULA.
Which I didn't do. That was a bridge too far, and it pushed me out of the Windows ecosystem entirely. Yeah, it sucks that I can no longer play a large portion of games in my Steam library, for example (which is bloated beyond belief with stuff I'll probably never get to anyway thanks to indie bundles and Steam sales), but that's a sunk cost, and I have a big enough console game backlog over a dozen or so systems (going back to the NES) that I'm not going to be wanting for video games to play any time soon.
Or better, a list of problems:
1. the population that they are targeting with nostalgic remakes is almost entirely through "the point of no more gaming" - that moment you no longer buy 1/5 the games you did because adulthood catches up
Now that I'm an Adult(tm) and have a fair amount of disposable income, I actually buy more games now than I did when I was younger, even though I barely have time to play them like I once did. My backlog is enormous, but I like to think that I'm saving them to play after I've retired. Plus, it's nice to throw some money at developers I like in the hopes that they continue making things.
I cut the cord a while back, but since I only have one decent spot in my house where I get decent reception, I use an HD HomeRun Connect and then use either VLC or the PS3/PS4, depending on what display device I'm closest to when I want to watch something.
For streaming media, I ostensibly have access to stuff via Amazon Prime Instant Video through my Amazon Prime subscription, but I hardly ever use it. I've never been a big movie watcher, and there's more than enough free TV around here that I can find something to watch if I'm in the mood. I used to keep a Windows 8.1 computer around just for Windows Media Center, but got rid of it when I realized I was just recording stuff I wasn't getting around to watching. My video game backlog is big enough, I don't need a DVR backlog, too.
"Huh, looks like I accidentally my submission somehow."
Maybe you accidentally your keyboard.
That would explain all of the
Huh, looks like I accidentally my submission somehow. That was supposed to read, "...Linux Standard Base has been developed as an attempt to reduce the differences between Linux distributions in an effort to make programs portable between distributions without significant effort."