Man, what a bunch of whiny, entitled, douchebags.
Slashdot came up and worked fine for me, so that tells me one of two things:
1) I have tweaked my settings somehow and made it non-default in such a way that it looks good.
But I don't do much customization here, which tells me that the 'broken-ness' of the site is only a tweak or two away (by the developers or the masses).
or
2) Your weirdo, customized-to-the-hilt setup is to blame.
Either way, it's not the end of the world, a personal attack on you, or a result of complete incompetence.
Geez. Go take a walk.
I've never seen the 'Wikipedia is a MUD' comparison before, but it's completely awesome.
There are some good lessons in there.
Yeah, like:
It's even louder than a Model M? Uh...neato?
Man, anyone with a Model M that works in an office environment deserves a swift kick in the nuts. It's incredibly inconsiderate to the rest of your coworkers.
Go ahead and make all your 'but teh ergonomics of clicking', 'but my RSI'...at the end of the day you're a loud, distracting jerk that only considers yourself.
Like to use a Model M at home? Sweet...rock on.
...except from itself.
Domscheit-Berg: [Redacted] and i talked about it, [Redacted] talked about it, [Redacted] talked about it, [Redacted] talked about it
And here I thought that no secrets were worth keeping.
I'd say 'predictably bad'.
Seriously, I knew it was going to slow my web pages down by about a zillion times, and so far it's delivered. So much of the web is rendered unusable in the default browser on my phone because of the flash plugin it's comical. Worse yet, there's no way that I know of to disable flash.
But the beauty of Android is that I can just use a different browser. Which I do. (thank you Opera!)
Keep your Microsoft crap off my phone.
That company has built up so much ill-will that I don't care how "technically inferior" the alternatives are, I don't want anything from Microsoft anywhere near my phone or computers.
I'm happy to wait that extra fraction of a second or do without the 'ooh shiny.'
What a balanced and unbiased summary. I will be sure to read the linked article and participate in what will certainly be a level-headed and thought-provoking discussion.
Well, a candy bar would probably clear the pool. Until, at least, it was confirmed to be just a candy bar.
You know...I'm just saying...
Man, if there was ever an argument for copyright, it's that one.
Anything to get rid of the Wilhelm Scream! Scorched earth!
This will probably be a big, complex simulation. It will be interesting to see how well it matches up with reality.
- What proportion of users really care about the finesse of the layout? Most people are happy with MS Word's typesetting, and don't really notice the improvement in a TeX typeset document, for example.
I'll admit that it does take a trained eye to actually spot the differences in a TeX output versus something crappy from Word. But much of the improvement with TeX, though subtle, can actually facilitate reading. I don't know if those effects are really large enough to measure well, though. I notice them because I know they are there.
Music notation is a different animal. You can usually read text at your leisure, and if you misread something the first time, you can go back and read it again. With music notation, you should be able to read it accurately in real time, and that means any little thing that you stumble over can be an annoyance to a performer. Suddenly, you feel the need to mark up the score to point out that sharp you missed, the extra beat that was obscured by poor spacing, etc.
Obviously, standard notation applications have been producing crap layout for decades, so I suppose people have gotten used to it. But I have done a lot of work with Finale and Sibelius (for example), and I've used music typesetters that are better at spacing (e.g., Lilypond). The Lilypond output actually is easier for me to play from, even in pieces I've written or know really well. Yes, this is anecdotal evidence, but I have a lot of friends who are professional musicians that have agreed (even if they use Finale or Sibelius themselves because they are easily available and WYSIWYG). Finale and Sibelius have gotten a lot better over the past decade, but a lot of that improvement has to do with better automatic spacing algorithms.
$5-$10 a month for something as ubiquitous as Facebook would be well worth the money, in my opinion.
I have a feeling that, at $5-$10 a month, it would get a lot less ubiquitous.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
