Maybe, just maybe, not everyone hates it. Maybe it's just a vocal minority that hates it. Maybe the 'community' -is- getting input and the problem is that you are going against the community, not them.
They're not all that vocal, really. Just a handful of complaints on Slashdot and a few other forums don't count as statistically significant. I agree that they should allow users to configure the behavior more, all the way from a FF2 bar to a tuned FF3 bar. Still, the FF3 bar is pretty easily gamed into submission.
I'm pretty sure the same bug doesn't affect Windows. I suppose you could see a similar behavior if you're moving the mouse down and right as you right click, and then if the click itself is made as a series of clicks instead of just one, but I doubt that's very common.
The screen won't get larger, but most rumors say the next iPhone (much like the G2 launching in April) will feature an OLED screen with much higher resolution. It will use less battery, and be slimmer.
I hope so. Resolution is a big deal. I can easily read text without zooming in on most pages (for instance, this one) on my 640x480 htc diamond display. I tried an iphone briefly after I got the diamond and while it was very slick in a lot of ways, I couldn't handle the lower resolution for web browsing. I have only so-so vision and I imagined pixel density would make high resolution on these little screens pointless, but I was wrong. An iphone with at an 800x600 display would more than double my interest.
Many patients want a test to be done to ease their mind about it, or a pill they can take that will make it better. Even a placebo effect is better than nothing. People don't just wander into doctor's offices - some physical condition prompts them to go, and they expect the doctor to "fix it".
A good practitioner of evidence-based medicine would probably need to present their patient with the same data they are using to make their decision not to treat in a more condensed and easy to understand form. When you go against expectations, it's important to have a rationale can be understood to back up your response. Otherwise it almost sounds like you're lazy and just don't want to do "your job", which is to "fix it".
The most common requested treatment from what I've heard is a cycle of antibiotics. There's certainly a big downside of giving everyone antibiotics - their effectiveness declines.
I guess I do sometimes prescribe and perform treatments that have little evidence behind them. The problem is that the placebo effect is not necessarily statistically significant. Is it worth taking the gravol to have one less barf over the course of the illness? Maybe...
It's hard for me to recommend anything that has potential to harm, unless I firmly believe that the benefits outweigh the harms. That's the crux of the issue for me.
Many people I see take a number of medications, prescription and non that I may not even know about. There are potential dangerous interactions there that I don't/can't/won't know about. Even non dangerous side effects can be problematic. There is also the fact that medications cost money. I don't want people to waste their money on a treatment that is no better than placebo.
I do prescribe things that are of nebulous benefit, when people are desperate to try something, or to cling to their experience that it works.
It's just not my style to prescribe unnecessarily (in my opinion). If you see me for your cold. I will tell you to rest, take some advil or tylenol, suggest a decongestant and give you a note for work if you need it. If you see my partner, you will get a prescription for cough syrup (most do nothing), painkillers and decongestants. He also has a very low threshold for prescribing antibiotics. The net result is that his patients are extremely satisfied and his visits are quicker. My patients leave somewhat disappointed, often come back (I'm STILL sick!!!) and I have to spend a lot more time educating my patients. The patient populations self select over time and the pill poppers go to him, and the pill averse come to me.
I think the placebo effect isn't worthwhile if there's any risk of a negative side effect from the placebo itself. I also worry that the side effects of many medications are rather poorly known.
You might enjoy reading In Defense of Food, which discusses many of the problems with the lack of evidence based nutritionism.
Of course, its Newsweek, the famous liberal rag, and yes, the intent here is trying to persuade doctors that foolishly supported Obama into believing that they will somehow gain in the new regime. They won't.
Yeah, the famous liberal rag with a George "The weapons of mass destruction must still be out there to be found along with proof that evolution is a lie" Will editorial in every issue. That one.
$344 of actual examples of popular Windows Mobile apps included on the iPhone: -Dashboard: WorldMate Pro $75 "world clocks and weather forecasts, flight and travel information" -real email client: Pocket Informant $25 "replacement for Pocket Outlook on the Pocket PC" -real web browser: none seem to exist. -real contacts: Photo Contacts PRO $30 -Photo browser: Imageer $15 -iPod: Pocket Player MP3 player $20 -Movies: Pocket DVD studio $30 -TV: HandiTV $20 "watch TV from mobile devices" -Dial up networking: PDANet $34 "use your mobile as a modem!" -Calculator: Revolutionary Calculator $30 -Touch screen type input: Full Screen Keyboard $10 -PDF: PDF Reader $25 -Notes: List Pro $30 âoeManage your notesâ
Wow... I had no idea windows mobile apps were so expensive! I just got a touch recently and have about 20 apps installed on it, all but three of which were free. The three I bought were $0.99, $1.99, and $2.99. The most expensive app I saw while browsing was an incredible VNC client that does everything plus makes breakfast, for $24.99. over 1/2 the apps in the above list are more expensive than that.
Does MS get some insane cut on the apps or what? Why are they so incredibly more expensive?
The vast majority of WinMo apps are free. If you work hard, like the GP did, you can find pay-versions of the free software.
This is a case of pure spin combined with a lack of english skills. Here's what he was trying to say:
"Our hardware is so powerful that *of course* it's hard to develop for. So to use the most advanced hardware in the world, only the smartest developers will take advantage of it".
That kind of spin may play in Japanese markets, but it just sounds dumb to everyone else.
This is the point of a CEO. Read the comments of any CEO after a clear strategic mistake and you'll see almost identical comments. "We intentionally took this path that LOOKS like a blinder for now, but which will eventually reward us with great riches!"
Basic Open Source versus Proprietary issue. It's a lot easier for a hardware company to get drivers added to Linux distros than to Windows install disks.
They must be trying harder on Windows then, considering that the vast majority of hardware just works in Vista off the install disk but much, much more manual intervention is required in at least Debian and Ubuntu. Open source does make it technically easier for a vendor to get a driver into a distro (and cheaper), but most vendors just don't care. The GP's case is definitely the exception, not the rule.
Although every OS X does have advantages over the last version, Apple does stretch things a bit when they say "200 new features" in the latest OS X. There are maybe a dozen really cool new features while they others are tweaking the way OS X did something.
I guess MS just has to keep up with the PR about Windows 7 and the constant "don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain" releases to make the public forget about Vista.
Uh, MS didn't say these were new features. Only the OP did. These are 36 "Some Changes Since Beta for the RC" specifically in the UI and made because of user feedback (that thing that Apple replaces with the RDF). There are a couple thousand other changes/fixes since the beta not in the UI and not based on user feedback, too. They're also not touted as "features."
As a mac owner, I read this list with some surprise. Since nearly all these features have been in mac osx for years I had assumed, incorrectly, that equally polished analogs of them were Already in XP or vista. e.g. things like eye-catching but not annoying bouncing icons that need your attention, usefully short hot lists of recent files, something like expose' for an application switcher...
even linux has had these.
Well redmond has really started the copiers.
by the way, if you find the mac jumping icons insufficiently subtle, then you will find they are much less intrusive when you move the dock to side of the screen and set it to smallish icons using magnification.
All of these features, in the vague terms you describe, have been around since Windows 95. The new implementations mentioned in this post, however, are further streamlined versions. In some cases, they're not as good as the OSX versions. In some cases, they're better. In a lot, they're equivalently good but different.
The poster (I wouldn't have modded you troll) has a point... Windows (any version) is still the most violated / open to violation operating system out there.
The security problem isn't easily solvable. The computer illiterate will keep getting infected almost no matter what MS does. Remember from last year's OS hacking competition which we talked about on slashdot that when people are actually targeting each OS, OSX was the most easily violated, and Vista was equivalent to Linux. However, no one targets OSX or Linux because of market share. Argue about details all you want, but with Vista already having been shown empirically to be more secure than OSX yet having basically infinitely higher infection rates than OSX, the solution on the OS side of things is anything but obvious.
The Japanese cell market sounds a lot like the Korean market, which makes me think that it's not just "features instead of UI" that makes the Japanese dislike the iPhone, but instead the UI itself. In Korea, when someone wants to get a specific feature of his cell phone, which may be through several "ugly" list menus, he flips open the phone, takes about a quarter second to hit the memorized sequence of hotkeys for menu choices on his hardware keypad without looking at the phone, and by the time he gets it out of his pocket and up to his head the feature is waiting for him. An American with an iPhone will take five more seconds to navigate through pretty menus to get to the same thing. The iPhone looks more friendly and advanced, but the guy with the archaic lists navigates his UI 10x faster. Even Americans, at least the more techy ones, can get used to their phones to the extent that the UI which looks clunky to us at first actually _works_ much better for them than an iPhone's can.
Netbook == Swiss Army Knife (pretty good at a BUNCH of things)
Kindle2 price is equivilent to a Netbook
For me, the netbook makes more sense for the money. If the Kindle was $50, then fine. But it's too much for a single purpose item of that sort.
Right on. You know, a netbook can also play music. An ipod can play music, but not do all the stuff a netbook can. I'll throw my ipod into the sea and carry my netbook around when I want to listen to music! Take that, Steve Jobs!
What happened to the 80 billion worth of printers, loggers, paper mills, transport, and fish-wrappers? Did they all go on Welfare so we can ship their jobs overseas to the Kindle manufacturing countries?
This is just the broken window fallacy, spending money on waste is still waste even if it supports other industries. If the NY Times distributed their paper 100% on the kindle today would you suggest that they move to print to save the economy?
Netbooks is where mass media is going. And once you have a netbook, who needs a Kindle.quote>
Personally, I would much, much rather have a device like a kindle for media. The screen is much easier on the eyes, free connectivity through the cell networks, better battery life, smaller, etc etc. Of course, I'm not everyone, so that's just my 2 cents.
Wrong. He's specifically concerned with WHERE the money will go. If you draw your box around Earth, yes, it's the BWF. If you draw it around the United States, as the GP did, it's actual loss.
Apparently neither of you have been to Massachusetts...
I've driven in Massachusetts, New York, California, and pretty much everywhere in between. I've driven in France and Germany and England and Italy and Greece. Of those, Greece is the worst. As one of my tour books said, it has the second worst accident rate in Europe (behind Portugal, which the GP or GGP or something mentioned). In Greece, on two lane roads with a cliff down one side and up the other, a driver will think nothing of passing the guy in front of him while he can see you coming in the opposing lane. He expects you or the driver to pull onto the shoulder (which is what you do on the larger highways, despite the unpleasantness of dropping from 90 mph down to s safe speed to drive on the dirt shoulder because the guy behind you wants to go 120 and won't wait for the opposing traffic to disperse), but when there is no shoulder, it basically means you slam on the breaks and think happy thoughts. I've also driven in Beijing, which wasn't so bad, but my Indian friends tell me traffic all over India is chaotic and unpredictable enough to dwarf my experiences.
And for the guy a few posts down, yes, Napoli is worse than Athens, but the Greeks are worse by far outside of city centers. Also, if you ever want extra fun in Athens, drive to Pireas. In my experience, the pedestrians have it worse off than anyone else in Napoli.
Another fun fact: motorcycle accidents in Greece are a full order of magnitude more common there than in the US, and fatal motorcycle accidents are more common by an even larger factor.
Barely. I think the only way in which Geocities wins that contest is there were no integrated forums/walls on each garish, color-clashing, animation heavy page.
Geocities had fewer instances of black text over very dark and busy background images, and slightly less music loading with the page. Also, for awhile people put quasi-content on geocities. Little freeware apps, etc. I haven't seen something useful yet on Myspace.
I don't understand the people mocking this. Sure this is probably a service a la geocities with a minority of webpages worth of any interest. But some are. Internet gains million of new users and publishers and people just dismiss this as non-significant while we should try to build bridges. As ugly a Myspace-QQ bridge may sound, it could be a worthwhile objective...
I can't take seriously someone who claims he loves Vista AND considers XP to be crap.
I can kinda, sorta understood someone liking Vista's pretty new interface, but I've been using XP for 7 years now, and it's far from being crap. It's the most stable OS I've ever used, second only to the Mac OS. Vista on the other hand..... I can't even get it to play video on cnn.com or foxnews.com. It's not the worst OS I've ever used (Windows 3 was worse), but it's still pretty sad.
The OP certainly has weird taste in somehow hating XP but liking Vista. They're not that different. XP is stable, and Vista is more stable. Vista is faster for most daily tasks (remember that our/. story showing 7 faster than XP in something like 19 of 22 tasks also showed Vista faster than XP in most tasks). Vista is slower for disk manipulation, which is baffling. They're equivalent for gaming - Vista is no longer any slower, but DX10 is still useless. Vista doesn't slow down over time like XP did, though this was never a problem for knowledgeable users anyway.
There's no difference between the two in playing videos from cnn or that other place. The least computer literate people I know, people who can't understand what a pixel is, what a network connection is, or that there's a difference between a "computer" and "software" can do that with absolutely no problem.
- Scrolling this/. page is extremely slow in safari. - The tabs in the window's title bar is just plain annoying and feels really out of place. - Just like Google's Chrome this browser also doesn't blend in well with MS Windows UI. It's feels alien to the other programs.
-No, it's 30x faster than anything you've ever seen. -That's Windows' fault and yours. Windows should be designed around Safari, not the other way around. -Again, the Windows UI is just a thin shell meant to blend nicely with Safari. If it doesn't, then it's Windows fault.
Well, obviously, Apple isn't in a monopoly position, and has not been shown to have criminal intent to abuse such a monopoly.
Microsoft, however, has been found in criminal breach of monopoly and other laws.
That's a pretty basic difference, right there.
Leave fanboyism out of it.
Legal status is not equivalent to moral status. MS punished (in the US) and abused (in the EU) in a way that Apple has not, but that doesn't make Apple any better. The GP is arguing that the legal status needs to be equalized. When someone argues that the laws are unfair, don't respond with, "But it's ILLEGAL?" It makes you look slow.
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No, quantum mechanics is reliable. It defines physical uncertainties in a robust way. Electrons suffer from crappy positional and momentum certainty.
I loved it from the first time I saw it.
Maybe, just maybe, not everyone hates it. Maybe it's just a vocal minority that hates it. Maybe the 'community' -is- getting input and the problem is that you are going against the community, not them.
They're not all that vocal, really. Just a handful of complaints on Slashdot and a few other forums don't count as statistically significant. I agree that they should allow users to configure the behavior more, all the way from a FF2 bar to a tuned FF3 bar. Still, the FF3 bar is pretty easily gamed into submission.
By the way, Chrome doesn't do multi-threading. It has a multi-process architecture.
Good to note.
Also happens for me in the Windows version.
I'm pretty sure the same bug doesn't affect Windows. I suppose you could see a similar behavior if you're moving the mouse down and right as you right click, and then if the click itself is made as a series of clicks instead of just one, but I doubt that's very common.
The screen won't get larger, but most rumors say the next iPhone (much like the G2 launching in April) will feature an OLED screen with much higher resolution. It will use less battery, and be slimmer.
I hope so. Resolution is a big deal. I can easily read text without zooming in on most pages (for instance, this one) on my 640x480 htc diamond display. I tried an iphone briefly after I got the diamond and while it was very slick in a lot of ways, I couldn't handle the lower resolution for web browsing. I have only so-so vision and I imagined pixel density would make high resolution on these little screens pointless, but I was wrong. An iphone with at an 800x600 display would more than double my interest.
Many patients want a test to be done to ease their mind about it, or a pill they can take that will make it better. Even a placebo effect is better than nothing. People don't just wander into doctor's offices - some physical condition prompts them to go, and they expect the doctor to "fix it".
A good practitioner of evidence-based medicine would probably need to present their patient with the same data they are using to make their decision not to treat in a more condensed and easy to understand form. When you go against expectations, it's important to have a rationale can be understood to back up your response. Otherwise it almost sounds like you're lazy and just don't want to do "your job", which is to "fix it".
The most common requested treatment from what I've heard is a cycle of antibiotics. There's certainly a big downside of giving everyone antibiotics - their effectiveness declines.
I guess I do sometimes prescribe and perform treatments that have little evidence behind them. The problem is that the placebo effect is not necessarily statistically significant. Is it worth taking the gravol to have one less barf over the course of the illness? Maybe...
It's hard for me to recommend anything that has potential to harm, unless I firmly believe that the benefits outweigh the harms. That's the crux of the issue for me.
Many people I see take a number of medications, prescription and non that I may not even know about. There are potential dangerous interactions there that I don't/can't/won't know about. Even non dangerous side effects can be problematic. There is also the fact that medications cost money. I don't want people to waste their money on a treatment that is no better than placebo.
I do prescribe things that are of nebulous benefit, when people are desperate to try something, or to cling to their experience that it works.
It's just not my style to prescribe unnecessarily (in my opinion). If you see me for your cold. I will tell you to rest, take some advil or tylenol, suggest a decongestant and give you a note for work if you need it. If you see my partner, you will get a prescription for cough syrup (most do nothing), painkillers and decongestants. He also has a very low threshold for prescribing antibiotics. The net result is that his patients are extremely satisfied and his visits are quicker. My patients leave somewhat disappointed, often come back (I'm STILL sick!!!) and I have to spend a lot more time educating my patients. The patient populations self select over time and the pill poppers go to him, and the pill averse come to me.
I think the placebo effect isn't worthwhile if there's any risk of a negative side effect from the placebo itself. I also worry that the side effects of many medications are rather poorly known.
You might enjoy reading In Defense of Food, which discusses many of the problems with the lack of evidence based nutritionism.
Of course, its Newsweek, the famous liberal rag, and yes, the intent here is trying to persuade doctors that foolishly supported Obama into believing that they will somehow gain in the new regime. They won't.
Yeah, the famous liberal rag with a George "The weapons of mass destruction must still be out there to be found along with proof that evolution is a lie" Will editorial in every issue. That one.
$344 of actual examples of popular Windows Mobile apps included on the iPhone:
-Dashboard: WorldMate Pro $75 "world clocks and weather forecasts, flight and travel information"
-real email client: Pocket Informant $25 "replacement for Pocket Outlook on the Pocket PC"
-real web browser: none seem to exist.
-real contacts: Photo Contacts PRO $30
-Photo browser: Imageer $15
-iPod: Pocket Player MP3 player $20
-Movies: Pocket DVD studio $30
-TV: HandiTV $20 "watch TV from mobile devices"
-Dial up networking: PDANet $34 "use your mobile as a modem!"
-Calculator: Revolutionary Calculator $30
-Touch screen type input: Full Screen Keyboard $10
-PDF: PDF Reader $25
-Notes: List Pro $30 âoeManage your notesâ
Wow... I had no idea windows mobile apps were so expensive! I just got a touch recently and have about 20 apps installed on it, all but three of which were free. The three I bought were $0.99, $1.99, and $2.99. The most expensive app I saw while browsing was an incredible VNC client that does everything plus makes breakfast, for $24.99. over 1/2 the apps in the above list are more expensive than that.
Does MS get some insane cut on the apps or what? Why are they so incredibly more expensive?
The vast majority of WinMo apps are free. If you work hard, like the GP did, you can find pay-versions of the free software.
This is a case of pure spin combined with a lack of english skills. Here's what he was trying to say:
"Our hardware is so powerful that *of course* it's hard to develop for. So to use the most advanced hardware in the world, only the smartest developers will take advantage of it".
That kind of spin may play in Japanese markets, but it just sounds dumb to everyone else.
This is the point of a CEO. Read the comments of any CEO after a clear strategic mistake and you'll see almost identical comments. "We intentionally took this path that LOOKS like a blinder for now, but which will eventually reward us with great riches!"
Lenovo is not IBM
And it's a Chinese company, isn't it?
Basic Open Source versus Proprietary issue. It's a lot easier for a hardware company to get drivers added to Linux distros than to Windows install disks.
They must be trying harder on Windows then, considering that the vast majority of hardware just works in Vista off the install disk but much, much more manual intervention is required in at least Debian and Ubuntu. Open source does make it technically easier for a vendor to get a driver into a distro (and cheaper), but most vendors just don't care. The GP's case is definitely the exception, not the rule.
"Use Your web browser and camera To Get Out of A Ticket"
There.
The so-called news here is that they finally got their site to work on iPhone's Safari.
It's always a celebration when the slowest runner finishes the race.
Although every OS X does have advantages over the last version, Apple does stretch things a bit when they say "200 new features" in the latest OS X. There are maybe a dozen really cool new features while they others are tweaking the way OS X did something.
I guess MS just has to keep up with the PR about Windows 7 and the constant "don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain" releases to make the public forget about Vista.
Uh, MS didn't say these were new features. Only the OP did. These are 36 "Some Changes Since Beta for the RC" specifically in the UI and made because of user feedback (that thing that Apple replaces with the RDF). There are a couple thousand other changes/fixes since the beta not in the UI and not based on user feedback, too. They're also not touted as "features."
As a mac owner, I read this list with some surprise. Since nearly all these features have been in mac osx for years I had assumed, incorrectly, that equally polished analogs of them were Already in XP or vista. e.g. things like eye-catching but not annoying bouncing icons that need your attention, usefully short hot lists of recent files, something like expose' for an application switcher...
even linux has had these.
Well redmond has really started the copiers.
by the way, if you find the mac jumping icons insufficiently subtle, then you will find they are much less intrusive when you move the dock to side of the screen and set it to smallish icons using magnification.
All of these features, in the vague terms you describe, have been around since Windows 95. The new implementations mentioned in this post, however, are further streamlined versions. In some cases, they're not as good as the OSX versions. In some cases, they're better. In a lot, they're equivalently good but different.
The poster (I wouldn't have modded you troll) has a point... Windows (any version) is still the most violated / open to violation operating system out there.
The security problem isn't easily solvable. The computer illiterate will keep getting infected almost no matter what MS does. Remember from last year's OS hacking competition which we talked about on slashdot that when people are actually targeting each OS, OSX was the most easily violated, and Vista was equivalent to Linux. However, no one targets OSX or Linux because of market share. Argue about details all you want, but with Vista already having been shown empirically to be more secure than OSX yet having basically infinitely higher infection rates than OSX, the solution on the OS side of things is anything but obvious.
The Japanese cell market sounds a lot like the Korean market, which makes me think that it's not just "features instead of UI" that makes the Japanese dislike the iPhone, but instead the UI itself. In Korea, when someone wants to get a specific feature of his cell phone, which may be through several "ugly" list menus, he flips open the phone, takes about a quarter second to hit the memorized sequence of hotkeys for menu choices on his hardware keypad without looking at the phone, and by the time he gets it out of his pocket and up to his head the feature is waiting for him. An American with an iPhone will take five more seconds to navigate through pretty menus to get to the same thing. The iPhone looks more friendly and advanced, but the guy with the archaic lists navigates his UI 10x faster. Even Americans, at least the more techy ones, can get used to their phones to the extent that the UI which looks clunky to us at first actually _works_ much better for them than an iPhone's can.
Actually, I don't think you went far enough.
Kindle2 == Steak knife (good at one thing)
Netbook == Swiss Army Knife (pretty good at a BUNCH of things)
Kindle2 price is equivilent to a Netbook
For me, the netbook makes more sense for the money.
If the Kindle was $50, then fine.
But it's too much for a single purpose item of that sort.
Right on. You know, a netbook can also play music. An ipod can play music, but not do all the stuff a netbook can. I'll throw my ipod into the sea and carry my netbook around when I want to listen to music! Take that, Steve Jobs!
What happened to the 80 billion worth of printers, loggers, paper mills, transport, and fish-wrappers? Did they all go on Welfare so we can ship their jobs overseas to the Kindle manufacturing countries?
This is just the broken window fallacy, spending money on waste is still waste even if it supports other industries. If the NY Times distributed their paper 100% on the kindle today would you suggest that they move to print to save the economy?
Netbooks is where mass media is going. And once you have a netbook, who needs a Kindle.quote>
Personally, I would much, much rather have a device like a kindle for media. The screen is much easier on the eyes, free connectivity through the cell networks, better battery life, smaller, etc etc. Of course, I'm not everyone, so that's just my 2 cents.
Wrong. He's specifically concerned with WHERE the money will go. If you draw your box around Earth, yes, it's the BWF. If you draw it around the United States, as the GP did, it's actual loss.
Apparently neither of you have been to Massachusetts ...
I've driven in Massachusetts, New York, California, and pretty much everywhere in between. I've driven in France and Germany and England and Italy and Greece. Of those, Greece is the worst. As one of my tour books said, it has the second worst accident rate in Europe (behind Portugal, which the GP or GGP or something mentioned). In Greece, on two lane roads with a cliff down one side and up the other, a driver will think nothing of passing the guy in front of him while he can see you coming in the opposing lane. He expects you or the driver to pull onto the shoulder (which is what you do on the larger highways, despite the unpleasantness of dropping from 90 mph down to s safe speed to drive on the dirt shoulder because the guy behind you wants to go 120 and won't wait for the opposing traffic to disperse), but when there is no shoulder, it basically means you slam on the breaks and think happy thoughts. I've also driven in Beijing, which wasn't so bad, but my Indian friends tell me traffic all over India is chaotic and unpredictable enough to dwarf my experiences.
And for the guy a few posts down, yes, Napoli is worse than Athens, but the Greeks are worse by far outside of city centers. Also, if you ever want extra fun in Athens, drive to Pireas. In my experience, the pedestrians have it worse off than anyone else in Napoli.
Another fun fact: motorcycle accidents in Greece are a full order of magnitude more common there than in the US, and fatal motorcycle accidents are more common by an even larger factor.
Barely. I think the only way in which Geocities wins that contest is there were no integrated forums/walls on each garish, color-clashing, animation heavy page.
Geocities had fewer instances of black text over very dark and busy background images, and slightly less music loading with the page. Also, for awhile people put quasi-content on geocities. Little freeware apps, etc. I haven't seen something useful yet on Myspace.
I don't understand the people mocking this. Sure this is probably a service a la geocities with a minority of webpages worth of any interest. But some are. Internet gains million of new users and publishers and people just dismiss this as non-significant while we should try to build bridges. As ugly a Myspace-QQ bridge may sound, it could be a worthwhile objective...
At least Geocities was better than Myspace.
I can't take seriously someone who claims he loves Vista AND considers XP to be crap.
I can kinda, sorta understood someone liking Vista's pretty new interface, but I've been using XP for 7 years now, and it's far from being crap. It's the most stable OS I've ever used, second only to the Mac OS. Vista on the other hand..... I can't even get it to play video on cnn.com or foxnews.com. It's not the worst OS I've ever used (Windows 3 was worse), but it's still pretty sad.
The OP certainly has weird taste in somehow hating XP but liking Vista. They're not that different. XP is stable, and Vista is more stable. Vista is faster for most daily tasks (remember that our /. story showing 7 faster than XP in something like 19 of 22 tasks also showed Vista faster than XP in most tasks). Vista is slower for disk manipulation, which is baffling. They're equivalent for gaming - Vista is no longer any slower, but DX10 is still useless. Vista doesn't slow down over time like XP did, though this was never a problem for knowledgeable users anyway.
There's no difference between the two in playing videos from cnn or that other place. The least computer literate people I know, people who can't understand what a pixel is, what a network connection is, or that there's a difference between a "computer" and "software" can do that with absolutely no problem.
Your sig is stupid, btw.
- Scrolling this /. page is extremely slow in safari.
- The tabs in the window's title bar is just plain annoying and feels really out of place.
- Just like Google's Chrome this browser also doesn't blend in well with MS Windows UI. It's feels alien to the other programs.
-No, it's 30x faster than anything you've ever seen.
-That's Windows' fault and yours. Windows should be designed around Safari, not the other way around.
-Again, the Windows UI is just a thin shell meant to blend nicely with Safari. If it doesn't, then it's Windows fault.
Well, obviously, Apple isn't in a monopoly position, and has not been shown to have criminal intent to abuse such a monopoly.
Microsoft, however, has been found in criminal breach of monopoly and other laws.
That's a pretty basic difference, right there.
Leave fanboyism out of it.
Legal status is not equivalent to moral status. MS punished (in the US) and abused (in the EU) in a way that Apple has not, but that doesn't make Apple any better. The GP is arguing that the legal status needs to be equalized. When someone argues that the laws are unfair, don't respond with, "But it's ILLEGAL?" It makes you look slow.