since the underlying technologies (which themselves are usually patented or licensed) are often used in the newer products that replaced the older ones
True. We all know Microsoft is all about backward compatibility. Even Vista carries load from the 16bit era.
Of course. DVDs exist for quite some time and the biggest video sharing site just updated its quality to 480x360 pixels. Still they produce immense ammounts of traffic. It's always "but in the future everything will be HD" and stuff. They used to say that for DVDs, now they say that for HD content... untill the Next Big Thing comes along. But I think we'll stick to the compressed to hell crap for quite some time.
Well, I have problems with flash very rarely but every time my browser locked up because of flash a small dialog box would appear asking me whether I'd like to stop an apparently misbehaving flash file. I'm not really shure if this is my browser (Opera) or flash itself but I think the latter.
It's like Windows calculator. Type in 1000000000! and after a few seconds of wasted CPU cycles you get a chance to stop the calculation.
Well, you don't really seem to hate it that much as you're obviously using it and writing a lot of stuff about it. Fine by me.
Your first complaint is partly solved I think as the tabs only show up when there is more than one conversation going on. But you're right, there is still lots of whitespace and the buddy icon was fine next to the text field. But that's also fine by me. I don't understand the thing with the formatting icons as it works as expected here (Pidgin 2.4.1): The icon with the blue background is for changing the background color and the other for foreground. Both tooltip and functionality are correct. Maybe it was wrong in February but "not fixed" is wrong too.
Recently my company bought a Mac server and it is causing nothing but problems. For example you can't use the calendar unless you use the delivered directory service because it can't connect to existing ones. It also has to be the master server and can't be just a replica. Great. It's things like that that are just annoying. I wouldn't want to administrate such a mess. The business hotline is not better: "Well, I don't know anything about the server but do you know you can watch porn on the new iPod?". And I'm not making this up.
Although I'd never use a Mac voluntarily I'm quite open-minded and think everybody should use the system that's suited best for him. Then again there are these Mac friendly decision makers that have to mess it up. "If it's good for me, it's good for you and if it's not good for you then it's at least good for me."
And as a last quote... the poor guy that has to work with this thing: "There are things that work, there are things that work a little bit and then there is this Mac server."
As a side note the server doesn't even look good or shiny or whatnot.
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Jerry? Is that you?
Or maybe it was the beginning of a program.
...a shingle is just fine.
Throw lime in the sea, I said. Nobody bothered listening. Now they pretend they don't know me.
since the underlying technologies (which themselves are usually patented or licensed) are often used in the newer products that replaced the older ones
True. We all know Microsoft is all about backward compatibility. Even Vista carries load from the 16bit era.
I won't be worried until computers start to beat us at bear pong.
... or maybe at Chess Boxing
Of course. DVDs exist for quite some time and the biggest video sharing site just updated its quality to 480x360 pixels. Still they produce immense ammounts of traffic. It's always "but in the future everything will be HD" and stuff. They used to say that for DVDs, now they say that for HD content... untill the Next Big Thing comes along. But I think we'll stick to the compressed to hell crap for quite some time.
You know what it means, I know what it means. We both know it isn't funny.
Well, I have problems with flash very rarely but every time my browser locked up because of flash a small dialog box would appear asking me whether I'd like to stop an apparently misbehaving flash file. I'm not really shure if this is my browser (Opera) or flash itself but I think the latter.
It's like Windows calculator. Type in 1000000000! and after a few seconds of wasted CPU cycles you get a chance to stop the calculation.
Video Games Can Make Us More Aggressive
There, fixed it for you.
Well, you don't really seem to hate it that much as you're obviously using it and writing a lot of stuff about it. Fine by me.
Your first complaint is partly solved I think as the tabs only show up when there is more than one conversation going on. But you're right, there is still lots of whitespace and the buddy icon was fine next to the text field. But that's also fine by me.
I don't understand the thing with the formatting icons as it works as expected here (Pidgin 2.4.1): The icon with the blue background is for changing the background color and the other for foreground. Both tooltip and functionality are correct. Maybe it was wrong in February but "not fixed" is wrong too.
Recently my company bought a Mac server and it is causing nothing but problems. For example you can't use the calendar unless you use the delivered directory service because it can't connect to existing ones. It also has to be the master server and can't be just a replica. Great. It's things like that that are just annoying. I wouldn't want to administrate such a mess. The business hotline is not better: "Well, I don't know anything about the server but do you know you can watch porn on the new iPod?". And I'm not making this up.
Although I'd never use a Mac voluntarily I'm quite open-minded and think everybody should use the system that's suited best for him. Then again there are these Mac friendly decision makers that have to mess it up. "If it's good for me, it's good for you and if it's not good for you then it's at least good for me."
And as a last quote... the poor guy that has to work with this thing: "There are things that work, there are things that work a little bit and then there is this Mac server."
As a side note the server doesn't even look good or shiny or whatnot.
This reminds me of all the programming languages named D.