serve it up in english svp

25.V.MCDXXX

Summary: In conclusion, I think search engines like google and other web services / portals should always be served in an international language by default until the language setting is later changed and saved using cookies or whatever.

i hate when software makers start to make guesses for the user that they should not be making.

Most annoying, eg, is how google and other WWW public(?)/free(?) services make guesses about the language I want to read their service in based on the geo location of my IP. (although this is withOUt saved cookies i should disclaim.)

So if i'm a business traveler in myanmar, and tap a query into the search engine from the hotel bar or biz ctr, or try to access other services without saved cookies , i get served in malayo , which i've never learnt or read in my life.

and so even though the entire malayo nation itself has gone thru the trouble of making all its public information available to foreigners in one or moreinternational languages like english or french or chinese. Not so with service providers like google - noooo, they gotta play "smaaart" and guess for you what language You speak ! ... Read more

nice UI v latent critique

Video using the ITheora player and the Theora video format.

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The "UI" refers to the rotating desktop environment in the video.


27.X.2008

Criticism to follow would be in order.

So - i don't wanna play the file again so memory might fail - the user in the vid uses several pieces of software on different desktops and virtual platforms, but how is this different from running all the software he ran on the same machine, perhaps on multiple desktops as has been possible with linux and solaris for the past umpteen years? The only difference is that 3d finding nemo school of fish and whales . But do I really need that when i'm trying to render a 3d model of a humongous data set with some software? or when i'm trying to test the performance of some java Web Publishing Platform and rule engine combination ? In other words, for computer usage that requires performance , this pretty cube is undesirable. Unless on sitting on terabytes of memory; but this is rarely the case except in very big high-risk servers. and ironically, all any important realtime server, will be addressed with a minimal sort of graphic UI on control consoles.

So who else would benefit from the pretty linux UI except those that actually do nothing with their computers but open and close web browsers and play videos ?

Ironically again, a lot of those will become stuck at some point on some linux arcanum that would frustrate the aesthetic gains.

Though linux, does have other gains to be fair. ... Read more