Parent was modded as troll, but it's one of the most insightful comments on this page. Anybody got modpoints to fix this? One fast -1 Troll seems to have buried parent and that's a shame.
You have no expectation of privacy with regard to Google Street View photographs, or any other "shutterbug" snapping pictures on your street, provided the photos were taken from public property, and were not done in such a way as to grossly invade your space (telephoto lenses into your bathroom window, for example). (emphasis mine)
Exactly. This was not public property. It was clearly labeled as a private road. Oops, sorry, I read TFA.
I'll tell you why Win 7 will be a huge flop: since it breaks almost all compatibility between itself and previous windows releases, it has to compete on the same grounds as Linux, *BSD and OSX. Which means, that without the massive inertia of the previous windows releases, those three will kick the living crap out of Win 7 in terms of maturity, usability and price. No, it won't. Maybe for you, there is no problem installing VirtualBox and then XP in there. For most users, that is a problem. And VirtualBox || VMWare || yourSolutionHere is not the same as an app that at least appears native, as the XP apps will in W7. Actually, wine comes close, and sometimes I forget that the wine app I run (ListPro) is in wine. The VirtualBox (and VMWare) apps, such as SolidWorks, have no OS integration other than clipboard text. That won't be the case in W7: Although the WinXP apps will run in a VM from the machine's standpoint, so far as the user is concerned it will behave like an other application.
Didn't Apple say nearly 10 years ago that Carbon was a stopgap solution and that you shouldn't particularly rely on it anyways? If that is so, then why isn't Photoshop (and other apps) not written in Qt? Qt is native to Mac, native to Windows, and native to Linux as well. Skype, Google Earth, Opera, and lots of other cross-platform, proprietary software is written in Qt.
This isn't a rhetorical question. I'm ME, not CS, so I'm really interested in knowing the reasoning. I'm sure there's a good reason, what is it?
Customers win because they now have an OS that's not crap. Developers win because they just re-code the UI and sell a new version. So, the customer only wins _after_ he's rebought the applications that he's already paid for, in addition to the cost of the updated OS?
Lets make ODF the de-facto standard. Whenever you have to send a document, send them an ODF document. If they complain about being unable to open it, send them a link to OpenOffice.org. If they don't want to use OOO then tell them to complain with MS, whose software doesn't support (one of) the official standards. I have been doing just that for over half a year now. I have been rejecting.doc files and requesting pdf's as well. With the exception of maybe one or two crybabies, everyone has thanked me. Mostly these are people who use cracked MS Office (and windows) so price is not a concern. Even though I personally _like_ MSO 2007 (and I would pay for it if it ran on Ubuntu and saved in.odf), many people don't like it and are very happy to find a replacement. Morals and price notwithstanding.
I'm honestly confused as to why Vista was designed to require substantially higher system requirements and consume more resources. So that the consumer would be forced to buy new, expensive hardware. That accomplishes two goals: 1) The hardware manufacturers make more money. Then then repay MS by not supporting other OSes. 2) The cost of the software remains low in relation to the cost of the total system. People won't notice a $200 OS buried in $1000 of hardware. But in $200 of hardware another $200 stands out.
People know how to use XP, and how to fix it when it's broken. Who needs an upgrade? By 'upgrade', do you mean an OS that break in new, unimagined ways that people don't yet know how to fix?
Microsoft says it will extend the sales of Windows XP Home to OEMs by several years, but it's not in response to the SaveXP petition. Microsoft is supposedly making the move in part to ensure that Linux doesn't dominate the market for certain types of 'ultra-low-cost' laptops. Read: We know that this is what the consumer wants, but to hell with them. We are doing this in the interest of stifling competition, not in the consumer's interest.
I did not realize that. I drink a fair amount of coffee, but I know nothing of the gourmet coffees. In fact the word "gourmet" sounds like "dead kitten" in my language. Not something I'd want to taste...
My 82 yr old dad suffers from dementia and Alzheimer's, and I can't recall him being a coffee drinker. If you can't recall it, maybe you've proved the genetic link.
You are forgetting the Surface's biggest accomplishment: a true no-language interface. Anyone, who speaks any language, can sit down to a surface and use it. Read it here. (disclaimer: my site)
I got them too. At first I thought that the boxes were cool because it would help find the parent threads, but that just isn't the case. If the old discussion system was akin to block separation by indentation (python), then the new system is akin to XML's close-tag requirement. In other words, visually messy and confusing. Maybe if the blocks were colour coded for depth it would be easier, but I find myself doubting that as I type it.
And I do like the "you must preview before you post" requirement, as/. does not allow for the editing of threads.
No sound? Lame... Forgot the sound. Why wasn't it in 3D? From the article: "The event was captured by Nasa's twin Stereo spacecraft designed to make 3D images of our parent star."
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For those who don't know, the Zonbu is really a rebranded VIA Artigo: http://what-is-what.com/what_is/zonbu.html (disclosure: my site)
It's worse than you think.
Good thing that you didn't bash Apple!
This was supposed to be around in 1984, according to Orwell. It fact, I've suspected that it has been for years.
Parent was modded as troll, but it's one of the most insightful comments on this page. Anybody got modpoints to fix this? One fast -1 Troll seems to have buried parent and that's a shame.
Exactly. This was not public property. It was clearly labeled as a private road. Oops, sorry, I read TFA.
... to Extend?!?
This isn't a rhetorical question. I'm ME, not CS, so I'm really interested in knowing the reasoning. I'm sure there's a good reason, what is it?
1) The hardware manufacturers make more money. Then then repay MS by not supporting other OSes.
2) The cost of the software remains low in relation to the cost of the total system. People won't notice a $200 OS buried in $1000 of hardware. But in $200 of hardware another $200 stands out.
I did not realize that. I drink a fair amount of coffee, but I know nothing of the gourmet coffees. In fact the word "gourmet" sounds like "dead kitten" in my language. Not something I'd want to taste...
Where can the PETA crowd now buy coffee that hasn't been tested on rabbits?
For that we have the holy handgrenade.
So run your French press through a paper filter. I'm sure you can rig something up.
You are forgetting the Surface's biggest accomplishment: a true no-language interface. Anyone, who speaks any language, can sit down to a surface and use it. Read it here. (disclaimer: my site)
I got them too. At first I thought that the boxes were cool because it would help find the parent threads, but that just isn't the case. If the old discussion system was akin to block separation by indentation (python), then the new system is akin to XML's close-tag requirement. In other words, visually messy and confusing. Maybe if the blocks were colour coded for depth it would be easier, but I find myself doubting that as I type it.
/. does not allow for the editing of threads.
And I do like the "you must preview before you post" requirement, as
"The event was captured by Nasa's twin Stereo spacecraft designed to make 3D images of our parent star."