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  1. Re:The Ribbon is functionally limited on Happy 30th Birthday, Windows! · · Score: 1

    Also, in other interfaces (beyond Office), where Toolbars used to be customizable, you will instead now have non-configurable Ribbons instead (see Explorer). To make File Explorer remotely usable, you'll need something like QTTabbar, then you can almost entirely ignore the Ribbon for most intents and purposes.

  2. Re:The Ribbon is functionally limited on Happy 30th Birthday, Windows! · · Score: 1

    That will allow you to create a similcrum of the existing Ribbon subjects, but it will not let you specify the dimensions of the elements (actions) that you are adding -- nor it's behaviour as the Ribbon changes width --- as to whether it should be "large" or med, small, if the element should stack on another --- you can't actually layout the toolbar, and if you even try to recreate the existing Ribbons the flaws of the limited customization is glaringly apparent.

  3. The Ribbon is functionally limited on Happy 30th Birthday, Windows! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While the Ribbon interface is somewhat functional, it is limited compared to what it is replacing.
    * The Ribbon interface replaces both toolbars and drop-down menus.
    ----> The Ribbon interface is not as complete as the drop-down menu's.
    ----> The Ribbon interface is basically not customizable.
    ----> The Ribbon interface takes up more space than multiple toolbars and a menu-bar.
    ----> The Ribbon interface is limited to one "topic" available to use at any given time,
    whereas:
    ---> Toolbars could have multiple different toolbars on-screen at any given time.
    ---> Toolbars could be docked to different locations on the window: sides, top, bottom. ---> Toolbars could be UNdocked, and displayed outside of a given window.

  4. Re:In other words ... on Jolla Goes For Debt Restructuring (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In America maybe. Except this is Finland. Executive salary likely isn't more than 5-10x that of the blue collar workers. On top of that, I highly doubt that a company founded by Engineers from Finland would of set up an internal company infrastructure to include "executive bonuses".

    In other words, Yeah No.

  5. Re:Just to be clear on SteamOS Gaming Performance Lags Well Behind Windows (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Pretty much. Since they opened Ars-UK and hired some women to do fluff-feeling pieces. In addition a few of their "writers" (UK&US) use Ars for little more than a personal blog.

  6. Re: Too little, too late? on Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS · · Score: 1

    Reliable --- not stable. You have always been able to rely on FF to use too much memory and trust that it will reliably crash before you close it.

  7. Re:Movie theaters, too. on TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on your theatre of choice maybe? We go to "iPic" and pay a price-premium for movie tickets (50-100% above normal rates). Order Food, Coffee, Alcohol, delivered right to your super-sized-enterprise-grade-lazy-boy-chair - and only about ~50 seats in the theatre. At the iPic they play the normal trailers, and a pre-show about some of their drinks or highlight a seasonal dish. Oh yeah, and Free popcorn.

  8. Re:Do anything other than what Perl did on Symbolic vs. Mnemonic Relational Operators: Is "GT" Greater Than ">"? · · Score: 1

    Why do you even need a string concatenating symbol? The lack of a symbol when strings are adjacent would be enough for a compiler|interpreter to determine it should be concatenation - if the language was designed as such.

    FOO:="FOO"
    BAR:="BAR"
    FOO:=FOO BAR "LICIOUS"
    or
    FOO.=BAR . "LICIOUS"
    It irks me everytime I use a language that uses "+" as string concatenation. Plus is Math addition for petes sake.

  9. Re:mnemonic assumes everyone speaks English on Symbolic vs. Mnemonic Relational Operators: Is "GT" Greater Than ">"? · · Score: 1

    That's one of my favorite "quirks" of AutoHotkey -- while it does allow usage of a sole "=", assignment can be done with ':=' and comparison with '=='.

  10. You value something you pay for - more on Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    So you have terabytes of books --- that you will never read. Bonus for you.

  11. Re:And the rest of the world? on Why New Antibiotics Never Come To Market (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean all those drugs that are peddled in-between Dr.Phil and Dr.Oz? Yes, I imagine those are likely American in nature.
    Perhaps you need something for your shaky-leg-syndrome then.

  12. The Canadian government could easily just tie the GST rebate check into the Census, which tended to be at least $50 - $75 every 4 months. If you were of legal age when the census was released, and you didn't file, you can't claim your GST rebates.

  13. Re:XPoint smells like an arch inflection point... on Intel Offers More Insight On Its 3D Memory (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I figure it should be less than $5000 for the 3D-drive. (1,000GB/16GB * $75 == $4688). Although it is Intel, it might require your first born.

  14. Don't worry until FF 44 on Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators · · Score: 2

    Probably not too many extensions to worry about until FireFox 44 - that is where the current usage of "let" and "const" will be deprecated. That change breaks almost everything. Any extension that doesn't get an update for FF44 will (likely) no longer work --- Most FF extensions that I've unpacked use least one if not dozens of let's and const's. I had to downgrade Nightly to 44.0a1 (2015-10-05) within the last three weeks --- I haven't tested a more recently Nightly since almost none of my "active" extensions have gotten an update to resolve that issue yet.

  15. Vivaldi was Interesting - a year ago on Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now Though? It's taken over a year for any extension at all to be able to be used (from it's icon). Vivaldi is closed source like everything that Jon von Tetzchner is involved in. The whole "for our friends" and placating manner seems disingenuous.

    Personally, I can't stand their implementation of Tab-Stacks - it is less than useless, and just makes finding a given tab even more difficult than it already is when you have "too many" open.

    Then there's the whole censorship crap that goes on in the forums - just like it always was over at Opera HQ - though perhaps the mods aren't as completely off the hook over on Opera's side these days --- though it still is prevalent.
    I got banned from Vivaldi.net last week because it's auto-spam detector didn't like a forum post that did word|word|word|word. I had been a member since the beginning, had a post history over the last year+. At this point, well fuck you Vivaldi.

  16. Re:A friggen video driver... on AMD To Retire Catalyst Control Center Drivers, Rolling Out New Crimson Platform (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    LOL. It's COD. It's Important dammnit!

  17. TV Series' is more like: Good (ToS), Eventually Great (TNG), Great, Eventually Craptastic (DS9), We-Expected-Great-It-Took-a-little-while-to-realize-what-shit-Voyager-was-where-far-too-many-fucking-stories-resolved-with-ooops-alternate-universe (although some characters were interesting). Scott-Bakula-is-too-damned-familiar-to-cut-it-as-The-Captain, plus too much f'n time-travel.

    To Summarize:
    Good (ToS), Great (TNG), Worth Watching (DS9), I wish I could have that time back: Voyager & Enterprise.

  18. Re:Linus is right. on Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu) · · Score: 1
    What you are talking about has nothing to do with sic "professional", perhaps you meant polite and politically correct.

    but "you're a fucking moron and my gramma is smarter than you" is not OK (for several reasons).

    What reasons? You're a cow and if someone doesn't massage your feelings it wont be nice? How about just replying back, to Linus, "I know right! I AAAAM a fucking moron, but I'm pretty sure I'm smarter than your grandma..." No best not to do that, best cry about someone being so mean, and complain to HR. Don't stand up for yourself though, we wouldn't want that.

    professional [prfeSH()n()l/]
    adjective: professional
    1. of, relating to, or connected with a profession.
    2.(of a person) engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.
    having or showing the skill appropriate to a professional person; competent or skillful.
    noun: professional; plural noun: professionals
    1. a person engaged or qualified in a profession.

  19. Re:It's not just the criminal justice system. on Crime Lab Scandals Just Keep Getting Worse (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing about "The Law" should be privatized. If laywers were just another facet of the overall court system - perhaps businesses might retain lawyers for corporate|business law --- the rest would be for the people, by the people. I think you would even do away with "Ambulance chasers" in that type of system.

    Of course, I don't believe anything in the current US Justice system can be fixed until the prisons are no longer run by for-profit organizations.

  20. Re:Way too small on Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? · · Score: 1

    MsgBox, This is a GUI Dialog.
    --- AutoHotkey

  21. Re:Let the Public Decide on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The Car Manafacturers don't care either way. They own the credit-financing companies that you are going to deal with unless you buy your car outright.

  22. Re:Physical store advantage? on Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon · · Score: 1

    Plus. If we're going to be told what customers want...
    Customers want to NOT shop at Walmart.

  23. Re:Breaking out of the middle of a loop on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Drop it all:
    return (x < y)?-1:(x > y)?1:0

  24. Re:Who is buying the FX-8370? on Intel's Core i5 6500 Shines As a $199 Skylake Processor, Works With Linux (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The FX-6300 was also a drop-in replacement for the Phenom II, on an AM3+ motherboard, which made it that much easier to justify.

  25. Re:Who is buying the FX-8370? on Intel's Core i5 6500 Shines As a $199 Skylake Processor, Works With Linux (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The Intel Core i5 6500 (no HyperThreading) appears to be faster than AMD's FX-6300 in single-process benchmarks by 40-100%, yet the multi-process benchmarks don't show as much of a pronounced difference: 10-40%. Granted the scores/graphs are all unmarked, which limits their usefulness in trying to make an informed decision, when you don't know the actual time-frame, nor if the FX-6300 was overclocked (which it can be, and the i5 can't). As you stated, TFA compares it to a similarly priced AMD processor, as opposed to the FX-6300.

    I upgraded to an AMD FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition ($84.99) last year to replace a Phenom II X2 560 ($99.99, from 2011). I doubt it was actually necessary, but the FX-6300 was (and is still?) the sweet spot for price/performance.