Amen, brother! I too can honestly say I prefer searching through menus (not much searching required, actually) to searching through a bunch of hieroglyphs, I mean icons, on the ribbon. And you could have disagreed with the part about "putting the most used features at the users fingertips"--most of what's in the ribbons is not stuff I use (when was the last time anyone used "Mailings"?), and some of the stuff I use is not on the ribbons.
The problem is that for those of us who grew up with alphabetic writing systems, rather than hieroglyphics, the ribbon is a mess of useless pictures that you can't get rid of. (You can hide the ribbon, but when the ribbon is open you can't get rid of those useless and indecipherable icons.)
At least that's one of the problems. Another problem, IMNSHO, is that the ribbon only has room for a small number of actions, most of which I (and probably you) don't use. Like in Word, everything under the Mailings tab.
If only someone would get around to inventing Slow Glass. Then we could have the sunlight coming in our houses after dark, warming the house (in cold weather) when it needs it the most. Or with a sufficient thickness of Slow Glass, we could have the summer sunlight coming in during the winter.
If you haven't heard of Slow Glass, try searching for the subject line.
I had exercise-induced urticaria, but it was the result of an actual food allergy. I would occasionally break out in hives after a long run, or when taking a hot shower after a run. I went to a dermatologist (or maybe it was an allergist, I forget now) and had the 40-pin skin test. It showed a pronounced allergy to beef and tomatoes. I stopped eating beef and tomatoes before a run (so long Philly cheese steaks...), and haven't had urticaria in over ten years, despite still running distances and taking hot showers.
I was going to say s.t. about this, but you beat me to it.
This is the problem that's stopped *everyone*. Running your magnets at 100K instead of 4K is nice, but it doesn't do you any good if you don't generate net energy. It's like putting chrome bumpers on a horse-drawn wagon.
You have to scroll left and right in what app? I suppose if I'm viewing a PDF that's true, but that's surely a function of the screen, not the OS. I can't think of any other app where I have to scroll; it wraps my emails very nicely, for instance.
"When there is a new version of the software, the old customer is kicked out of the moving vehicle." Whereas with an Android phone, you can upgrade whenever a new version of the OS comes out? Not.
Call me Weird, but I had an Android phone for two years, and now I have a Windows phone. I find the Windows phone much easier to use; the UI seems so much clearer. (And no, I use Windows 7 on my home computer, not Windows 8.) Setting an alarm on my old Android phone is an exercise in frustration, as trying to scroll to a particular number results in constant overshoots. In contrast, setting an alarm on my Windows phone is easy. My Windows phone comes with an excellent weather app; all the weather apps I tried on my Android were advertising-ridden junk, IMHO. I could go on about the email apps, the maps, and so on, but I'm afraid no one will believe me. And I can get rid of any built-in apps I don't want on my Windows phone; try that in Android, without jail breaking.
Obviously there are many more apps for Android and iPhones, but they mostly don't matter to me. (It would be nice if my bank had an app for my Windows phone, but they don't. That's probably the only one I miss, but I can use the browser instead.)
I'll be disappointed if Windows phones go away, and I'll probably hold on to mine as long as it works. And of course you're much less likely to get malware on a Windows phone. (Ordinary Windows viruses can't infect a Windows phone, because the code base is entirely different; and no virus writer in his right mind would target the Windows phones, precisely because of their low market penetration.)
I've never had an iPhone, so I can't comment on that.
Actually, (c) need not be true; it need only be true that he *thought* he would sell more books if he exaggerated. (BTW, (b) is almost certainly true. What author doesn't want his/her books to sell?)
"Y2K bugs where so many and in so many variations, people like me, who actually worked in that business, really wonder that basically nothing bad has happened." Which I have always thought of as the point: Y2K was seriously over-sold as virtually impossible to fix. There was an article in Scientific American (I swear, although I haven't been able to find it since then). The claim was that even if far more $ were spent fixing Y2K-related bugs by 31 Dec 1999 than anyone was planning, the world would still be in a mess the next day. There were indeed many $ spent on fixing such bugs, and I'm sure it paid off in some way (certainly consultants benefited from the spending); but in the end there was no catastrophe, not even a little one.
I had exactly one experience with a Y2K bug. My checks were printed some time in the 90s with "19" in the date (so I didn't have to write that part of the date). Yes, my paper checks. I dealt with the bug quite easily, thank you, until I used up that supply of checks. (Maybe I should have kept them as antiques.)
Can someone explain the reasoning behind changing passwords periodically? If someone cracks my password, they're likely to have done plenty of damage before I change my password again. Why not allow (and require) us create more complex passwords that we don't have to change? (They can be much more complex if I don't have to periodically create and memorize a new one.) And each time I log in, they can tell me when the last time I logged in was; if someone has guessed my password, it's likely that they don't log in at the same time I do. Or if they do hide their tracks that way, there will be two logins from me at the same time, which ought to raise an alarm.
Presumably you mean dark like basalt. Otherwise, only half of the moon is in darkness at any one time. Several days ago the dark side was the near side, as I assume everyone here on/. knows.
BTW, this mission was widely reported in the press as aiming for a landing on the dark side of the Moon. At least here on/. they got it right: the far side.
I remember when I was told if I wanted to program microcomputers (which is what they were called in the late 70s), then I needed to learn Assembler. I did, but it was obviously short-sighted advice. (I had previously learned FORTRAN and PL-1, so assembler wasn't *that* much of a stretch.)
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Amen, brother! I too can honestly say I prefer searching through menus (not much searching required, actually) to searching through a bunch of hieroglyphs, I mean icons, on the ribbon. And you could have disagreed with the part about "putting the most used features at the users fingertips"--most of what's in the ribbons is not stuff I use (when was the last time anyone used "Mailings"?), and some of the stuff I use is not on the ribbons.
Yes, I am, every day I have to use it (it's the only choice on my office computer).
And yes, I am a people.
The problem is that for those of us who grew up with alphabetic writing systems, rather than hieroglyphics, the ribbon is a mess of useless pictures that you can't get rid of. (You can hide the ribbon, but when the ribbon is open you can't get rid of those useless and indecipherable icons.)
At least that's one of the problems. Another problem, IMNSHO, is that the ribbon only has room for a small number of actions, most of which I (and probably you) don't use. Like in Word, everything under the Mailings tab.
If only someone would get around to inventing Slow Glass. Then we could have the sunlight coming in our houses after dark, warming the house (in cold weather) when it needs it the most. Or with a sufficient thickness of Slow Glass, we could have the summer sunlight coming in during the winter.
If you haven't heard of Slow Glass, try searching for the subject line.
Are you radian for this? I'd cosine your statement, but that might be perceived as going off on a tangent.
I had exercise-induced urticaria, but it was the result of an actual food allergy. I would occasionally break out in hives after a long run, or when taking a hot shower after a run. I went to a dermatologist (or maybe it was an allergist, I forget now) and had the 40-pin skin test. It showed a pronounced allergy to beef and tomatoes. I stopped eating beef and tomatoes before a run (so long Philly cheese steaks...), and haven't had urticaria in over ten years, despite still running distances and taking hot showers.
Disclaimer: I've never used a jackhammer.
I was going to say s.t. about this, but you beat me to it.
This is the problem that's stopped *everyone*. Running your magnets at 100K instead of 4K is nice, but it doesn't do you any good if you don't generate net energy. It's like putting chrome bumpers on a horse-drawn wagon.
And I say it isn't programming if you're not throwing toggle switches to set the bits.
BTW, I once had a job running a CDC Cyber 170/750 whose boot-up instructions were actually set that way.
You have to scroll left and right in what app? I suppose if I'm viewing a PDF that's true, but that's surely a function of the screen, not the OS. I can't think of any other app where I have to scroll; it wraps my emails very nicely, for instance.
"When there is a new version of the software, the old customer is kicked out of the moving vehicle." Whereas with an Android phone, you can upgrade whenever a new version of the OS comes out? Not.
Call me Weird, but I had an Android phone for two years, and now I have a Windows phone. I find the Windows phone much easier to use; the UI seems so much clearer. (And no, I use Windows 7 on my home computer, not Windows 8.) Setting an alarm on my old Android phone is an exercise in frustration, as trying to scroll to a particular number results in constant overshoots. In contrast, setting an alarm on my Windows phone is easy. My Windows phone comes with an excellent weather app; all the weather apps I tried on my Android were advertising-ridden junk, IMHO. I could go on about the email apps, the maps, and so on, but I'm afraid no one will believe me. And I can get rid of any built-in apps I don't want on my Windows phone; try that in Android, without jail breaking.
Obviously there are many more apps for Android and iPhones, but they mostly don't matter to me. (It would be nice if my bank had an app for my Windows phone, but they don't. That's probably the only one I miss, but I can use the browser instead.)
I'll be disappointed if Windows phones go away, and I'll probably hold on to mine as long as it works. And of course you're much less likely to get malware on a Windows phone. (Ordinary Windows viruses can't infect a Windows phone, because the code base is entirely different; and no virus writer in his right mind would target the Windows phones, precisely because of their low market penetration.)
I've never had an iPhone, so I can't comment on that.
Is there anyone out there who shares my opinion?
Also https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~l... for C (I guess not C++).
French bot?
Actually, (c) need not be true; it need only be true that he *thought* he would sell more books if he exaggerated. (BTW, (b) is almost certainly true. What author doesn't want his/her books to sell?)
"Y2K bugs where so many and in so many variations, people like me, who actually worked in that business, really wonder that basically nothing bad has happened." Which I have always thought of as the point: Y2K was seriously over-sold as virtually impossible to fix. There was an article in Scientific American (I swear, although I haven't been able to find it since then). The claim was that even if far more $ were spent fixing Y2K-related bugs by 31 Dec 1999 than anyone was planning, the world would still be in a mess the next day. There were indeed many $ spent on fixing such bugs, and I'm sure it paid off in some way (certainly consultants benefited from the spending); but in the end there was no catastrophe, not even a little one.
I had exactly one experience with a Y2K bug. My checks were printed some time in the 90s with "19" in the date (so I didn't have to write that part of the date). Yes, my paper checks. I dealt with the bug quite easily, thank you, until I used up that supply of checks. (Maybe I should have kept them as antiques.)
Can someone explain the reasoning behind changing passwords periodically? If someone cracks my password, they're likely to have done plenty of damage before I change my password again. Why not allow (and require) us create more complex passwords that we don't have to change? (They can be much more complex if I don't have to periodically create and memorize a new one.) And each time I log in, they can tell me when the last time I logged in was; if someone has guessed my password, it's likely that they don't log in at the same time I do. Or if they do hide their tracks that way, there will be two logins from me at the same time, which ought to raise an alarm.
Really, no aliens visiting us now? I knew tourism had gone down, but... Does that mean the MiB are out of a job?
Are you a man, or a mouse?
Daikini-ist!
Actually, I believe the Nazis used it all up on the far side.
The Far Side? Moon? I thought it was this: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...
Presumably you mean dark like basalt. Otherwise, only half of the moon is in darkness at any one time. Several days ago the dark side was the near side, as I assume everyone here on /. knows.
BTW, this mission was widely reported in the press as aiming for a landing on the dark side of the Moon. At least here on /. they got it right: the far side.
It gets bigger, doesn't it?
I remember when I was told if I wanted to program microcomputers (which is what they were called in the late 70s), then I needed to learn Assembler. I did, but it was obviously short-sighted advice. (I had previously learned FORTRAN and PL-1, so assembler wasn't *that* much of a stretch.)
I *wish* it were stuck in 2003, then we wouldn't have that Ribbon, and the options menu item (not ribbon icon!) would be in the right place.