Like someone says in the comments, Clippy has been around since Office 98.
That being said, I always though Microsoft's weird fascination with these things went a little too far -- anyone else remember the 20 or so different animated characters that you could get to help you in Windows XP, just to use the File Search feature?
A lack of critical thinking skills is a malady that strikes a large part of the population. It's easy to understand -- just think of critical thinking as like, a limb, and these people are born without it.
The problem is that most users don't know images can be used in that way.
Think about it -- they don't even know that they're files.
Just "things" that they can "import" into a Word document by going to "File > Import" (or however the hell you do it in Word).
I encounter this a lot -- most users have had some sort of basic "word processing" class (read: MS Word class) and they know how to import pictures. Most users, however, aren't instructed as to how to paste pictures inside an email, be it Outlook or something else.
And before you say, "Well, why don't they just figure it out?" know that "figuring something out" is beyond most basic users, who are shit scared of clicking something errant and screwing something up, and thus keep their explorations within applications to a bare minimum.
I don't know very much about the consumer/client side to notes, but I work on quite a bit of web apps that use the Domino (server-side) part, and I'm telling you, I wouldn't work with anything else. The ease at which I can create a system using Domino leaves something like ASP (which I've worked with too) in the dust.
And it's not even anything fancy to do with UI -- just the security aspects of building a web application with Domino is by far the easiest thing I've ever done. Heck, just the individual user security settings I have at my disposal would make me choose it over anything else.
Oh, trust me, he'll respond to the most popular ones left on there. All it will take is a quick 3-minute Youtube video, and it'll placate the masses enormously. I don't see a reason why he wouldn't -- it looks great politically.
I would say what "be a man" means, but as there are a lot of types of women out there, you need to figure out the right approach of "be a man" you need to get the right girls for you:-)
Or you can just a be a jerk. Works up until women turn 30.
Thanks for the explanation. I wonder how that whole mess works -- if all traffic being filtered by the IWF comes from just a few/single IP addresses, isn't that like 90% of the UK anyway? Are 90% of the requests from the UK really coming from just a few IP's these days?
You're in the UK, I presume? It could be because Wikipedia was in turn blocking a lot of the UK -- someone more technical minded than me can explain that part of it. Guess it'll take a bit for them to remove that block, too.
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ALL HAIL THE FREE MARKET, praise ayn rand, pass the cigarettes
Why does the Chinese government want to keep it secret that inside each living, breathing person, is a skeleton waiting to get out and start swinging around a comically huge sword?
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I just realized what that post is supposed to be -- it's like a "mental DNS" attack to fark up the rest of the discussion.
Probably a rogue Microsoft patent attorney!
Trivial or not to create them... why 20?
Whatever happened to just yelling "first post?"
...gets its facts wrong in the first paragraph.
Like someone says in the comments, Clippy has been around since Office 98.
That being said, I always though Microsoft's weird fascination with these things went a little too far -- anyone else remember the 20 or so different animated characters that you could get to help you in Windows XP, just to use the File Search feature?
A lack of critical thinking skills is a malady that strikes a large part of the population. It's easy to understand -- just think of critical thinking as like, a limb, and these people are born without it.
The problem is that most users don't know images can be used in that way.
Think about it -- they don't even know that they're files.
Just "things" that they can "import" into a Word document by going to "File > Import" (or however the hell you do it in Word).
I encounter this a lot -- most users have had some sort of basic "word processing" class (read: MS Word class) and they know how to import pictures. Most users, however, aren't instructed as to how to paste pictures inside an email, be it Outlook or something else.
And before you say, "Well, why don't they just figure it out?" know that "figuring something out" is beyond most basic users, who are shit scared of clicking something errant and screwing something up, and thus keep their explorations within applications to a bare minimum.
Have definitely looked at CouchDB -- I have this feeling that I'm going to be using it at some time in the future...
Wow -- I've just been reading through CouchDB's overview, and that's definitely inspired by Domino. :P
Of course, I like it for that very reason.
I don't know very much about the consumer/client side to notes, but I work on quite a bit of web apps that use the Domino (server-side) part, and I'm telling you, I wouldn't work with anything else. The ease at which I can create a system using Domino leaves something like ASP (which I've worked with too) in the dust.
And it's not even anything fancy to do with UI -- just the security aspects of building a web application with Domino is by far the easiest thing I've ever done. Heck, just the individual user security settings I have at my disposal would make me choose it over anything else.
Checked the news lately? Kim Jong Il ain't doing much these days (though his photoshopped image sure is getting around). The plans are safe!
New to the US?
The prices are all over -- depends if they're MLC drives or SLC drives. SLC are more expensive because they're much faster.
...for the next update of SRWare Iron. :D
That's when the "rubber-hose" encryption-breaking procedures start.
(England prevails.)
Oh, trust me, he'll respond to the most popular ones left on there. All it will take is a quick 3-minute Youtube video, and it'll placate the masses enormously. I don't see a reason why he wouldn't -- it looks great politically.
(I'm not bitter about how biology and society works.)
Only bitter that this little life lesson isn't taught to everyone when they become a young adult.
Medical-grade carbon fiber? That's actually pretty neat.
I would say what "be a man" means, but as there are a lot of types of women out there, you need to figure out the right approach of "be a man" you need to get the right girls for you :-)
Or you can just a be a jerk. Works up until women turn 30.
Then you just need to be rich too.
A lol-... guinea pig?
Thanks for the explanation. I wonder how that whole mess works -- if all traffic being filtered by the IWF comes from just a few/single IP addresses, isn't that like 90% of the UK anyway? Are 90% of the requests from the UK really coming from just a few IP's these days?
You're in the UK, I presume? It could be because Wikipedia was in turn blocking a lot of the UK -- someone more technical minded than me can explain that part of it. Guess it'll take a bit for them to remove that block, too.
ALL HAIL THE FREE MARKET, praise ayn rand, pass the cigarettes
I checked all 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac -- couldn't find the Year of Linux, sorry.
Why does the Chinese government want to keep it secret that inside each living, breathing person, is a skeleton waiting to get out and start swinging around a comically huge sword?
...everywhere. On the chip level, even, like that prototype I saw a while back.
Muhuhahahahaha! And then, I, Electro-light-monster-villian, will finally complete my diabolical plan!