Symbols (+ -) appear when you mouse over the buttons.
Exactly my point. I would make more sence to say, maybe, have the icons there, and have the color change from grey to green (or red etc..) when the mouse is over it. That way. The user knows what it is. And they get feedback when they hover over it. Instead of the user having to "check" each one untill they find the right button.
Apple stuck it with the iMacs... and good on them. So they're trying to do the same with their new OS. And thats fine with me. But I think that they focused on the athetics just a bit too much a forgot about the UI. The can easly have it both ways. That's why I hope they make those changes.
I use both PC and Mac... Win emulation on Macs from what I hear are horribly slow. And that emulator seems promising if they relese a PowerPC version.
Well, I dont' know where your getting ur prices from, But i can hardely afford to upgrade my current 233 at the moment, let taking a loan out for a G4.
Don't look at those apple charts too much. The results are differnt when you actually use the computer for every day tasks (still favoring the mac though).
I do design, print and web. Mac has better software for print. But I have yet to find one text editor like the one i use, for mac. Not to mention all the other little things. Restarting the computer all the time would be a major pain in the ass.
"There's a few rough edges but it's really looking good," he said. Jobs said OS X's designers were "shooting for a new level of fit and finish never seen in a user interface before." To illustrate his point, he showed off the operating system's fluid and good-looking user interface, which features animated menus, buttons and control bars, and an easy-to-use, browser-like file navigation system.
Uh... animated menus? buttons? browser-like file navagation? Didn't we see this in Windoze 95? Sure, maybe it's done better on Mac OS X. But it's deffinitly been seen before.
1 is a number so is 2, 3, 10, 1000000000, 36478263462684322x7432974827479222/432432423423423 +435733387979 to the power of 857495793.
But infinity is not a number, or else you'd be able to count it. Just like 0 is not a number, something that doesn't exist can't be a number. Something that represents and ongoing array of numbers, can't be a number either.
So before you go leaping off and deciding whether or not black holes exist. I think you need to get some basic maths right first.
Yes Sir. Sorry Sir. I won't do it again. Free speech is evil.
Seriously though. Do you really think the auther who wrote the artical really cares, if you tell people that you got the artical from him? It's not like he posted a secret, or clamed that he wrote the artical.
It also wan't really redundant either. A few posts up, someone was complaning that the site was slashdoted. So they couldn't read it.
You have something against communists? If so, And you can do it in a intelligent manner, I'd like you to tell me why.
I really hope that they are changing the GUI on Mac OS X, From what I've seen, and from all the reviews I've read, They've really boched it up a bit. e.g. like having colored buttons for close, restore, minimize. instead of graphical icons.
I hope they arn't doing what I think they're doing, That is: To make a "cool" looking interface for marketing reasons. Instead of practical reasons.
Linux just dosn't have the apps I need at the moment. And Apple is lagging a bit too behide (and too expensive) for me. Which is why I'm stuck with win98 Until someone wakes up.
Which brings me to another issue. Someone mentioned that there might be a Mac OS X for Intel. I really hope apple go ahead with this, as I think it would be a big help to them. One of the main resons I don't use a Mac instead of my wintel box is 'cause Macs are so damn expensive. Sure, they're high quality. But I'm not that rich. For the price of a G4, at the very lest, I could get a 1gighz Athlon (i hope i'm right there, but of not, u get the drift). And I'm sure I'm not the only who's been put off a Mac because of the price.
If they do make an intel version. I really hope that thay also have the brains to make it possable to run it from within windows. If that happened... My problems would be solved.
BTW, Emulators.com Have SoftMac, which can emulate up to a Mac Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 The clame that they can get ~50-60% clock speed on a pentium or celeron. And ~80-90% on a Athlon k7 And up to a gig of RAM. And It can run in a window, or full screen. They also talk about possable linux versions, and a PowerMac emulator.
If they start banning users.. I can't see that solving the problem. For a start, someone is bound to make some sort of encyption for it, then they won't know what they're sniffing.
The other thing... what if everyone decides to protest by putting "metallica" on the end of every file.. And napster bans you.. Wouldn't it be possable to sue metallica for causeing you to get banned by napster becasue they wrongly accused you of pirating music?
Where not talking about the sweatshop slaves in the CD factories. Or the average perosn working there ass off to by a CD that's priced at 10x whats it's worth... We're talking about Metallica. A group of millionares who make a living by acting roudy, and making music (which they enjoy doing).
For fucks sake! Charity? What about the billions of ppl with no food or water?
When it comes to Mp3z, i may feel sympathy for some really small band, whos music careers are threatened by bankrupcy. But for big shots like Metallica, I couldn't realy give a S#$^.
They need to fucken wake up and realise that they've got life relitily easy compared to eveyone else.
As for the ppl who ARE strugging to make a dime to live on becasue of Mp3z.... thats an issue they need to take up with there record lables who are ripping them off.
Theft = when someone TAKES something from you... i.e. you loose something you once had. Therefore, trading mp3z is not theft because technicaly nothing was taken from anyone. It's true that that person might have otherwsie bought the CD, But you can't prove that. And chances are that wouldn't have bought it otherwise anyway.
Record companies are there to represent artists and to provide them with a range of services which they'd find difficult to get on their own - marketing, production, distribution and often nowadays, legal representation. Sure, they make money from doing this, but we live in a capitalist society where making money is how our economy functions.
Uh huh... What you don't seem to understand it how much money they are charging for there services, which is WAY too much.
Music artists put a lot of time and effort into producing a work of art which they then allow the general public to enjoy. That is the important point here - they allow the public to listen to. As it is their work, they decide how they want people to obtain and use said work, and anyone that believes otherwise is just condoning theft in one of its many forms
If they really cared that much about how they wanted ppl to hear there music, they wouldn't have signed up with a big record lable.
If anything, this action is a lot more soft than it could have been considering the sums of money which have been lost to the hordes of Napster pirates.
Money lost? I must have at least 50 albums which i don't own... Ur right.. thats alot of money that I "stole" from the record companies/artists. But truth is... I would never bother to get the albums if i had to pay for them. I'm only a student, I can't affored to spend $1000 on music. Some might say that, that's just the way it goes, if you can't afford something, you can't have it... that might work well for say.. TVs, Computers, cars etc... But digital media is a whole differnt ball game. Whether or not I downloaded those songs would have made no differnce whatsoever to the record labels/artists.
I'm not sure how lynx works, if it's completely keyboard driven or if u can acctually use a mouse. But with a mouse, all i have to do is click. command line, i'm sure u'd have to press the down arrow a few time at least.
And when it comes to computer graphics, 3D modeling. A command line interface would just be insane.
I acctually like the window environment... At the moment, I'm reading slashdot, whaching TV (small window in the corner), using winamp, and have a few of my friend floating about (ICQ). If i was using some sort of 2d, one-app-at-a-time interface, i wouldn't be able to do this.
Dialog box's give the user the feeling that they are still in the program they are using (since u can see it in the background). And they interupt the user from the program. I.e. the "Do you want to save the changes" dialog box forces the use to take action, other wise, they might exit and not save with out even knowing.
Anyway, with windows, when everything is maxamise, and u just use the task bar to switch applications, it isn't like a windowing GUI, more like what u where wanting.
Well... that might not be the exact quote, but the point is that if you say "never" especially in something like the computer industry, chances are it will happen.
Acctually, Apple are pretty sloppy when it comes to the mouse, one mouse button gives less funtionality and means that something else has to take on more commands. And since that Mac are slack with keyboard navagation. Doing simple things can sometimes be quite a tedious process.
As clumsy as windows can be, At least you can use the mouse fully, or use the keyboard fully, and switch between the 2 easy or use both at the same time.
As for 2/3/4 mouse buttons, u don't have to use the extra ones. U can just use the first one and navigate the computer with ease. When u feel comfortable, u can get a little more advance and start experimenting with the 2nd button.
As for linux/KDE, it's new, and still being developed, so natuarally, a few things will be inconsitant for a while. And hey, it's open source anyway... so if you don't like it, u (or someone else) can change it to suit.
The best way to create a user interface is make it like something that every person uses at least one a day. Make it look like a car. Almost everyone knows how to drive a car.
Acctually, thats a bad thing to do, and unfortunaly something that is begining to be seen more oftern. An interface for a car, is for a car, having an interface for something that it is not will just create confustion for the user. It nearly as bad (if not worse) that the "real life" interfaces.. e.g., a picture of a phone for dialing software, or maybe a more well know example is the Apple Quicktime interface.
A properly designed interfase should have the most used functions at hand, and should be easly recognizable using well known icons. It should be simple and easy to use, and should have the same look and feel of the OS, unless it would be impoved otherwise (i.e. winamp would be clumsy if it used the normal win GUI). Having some customiseation is also good as everyone has differnt ways of using things.
Although apps like MS office 2000, do have a huge amount of bloat, they still alow you to customize it easly, and revert back to the standard interface if needed.
Also, a good GUI isn't made by making it look pretty, it's made by making it usable, and usaly when u do that, it looks good anyway.
Well... u seem to be the big know it all. So y don't you tell everyone what the problem is.
Alot of ppl say the vioent TV/games, casue real life violence, alot say thast a load of BS.
Like most things in life, This is not a black and white thing.
Here's what i thibk: Violent TV/games do help casue violence when that person is atill learning about human emotions (5-15-ish?). Ppl who arn't brought up prtenting to kill ppl or whaching them get killed, can halden it when they grow up.
I play violent games, and i don't have an urge to kill anyone, alot of ppl say i couldn't hurt a fly. ON the other hand. I imagine that if someone was brought up whatching violent tv, and killing ppl in video games, that they would be violent ppl, casue thats what their brain was brought up to think. (humans follow by example)
If the ppl of Japan realy give a f about this, then they need to protest...
If every web-designer in japan put a little icon of a naked lady on there site, the whole net (in japan) would be illegal. And hopfully it would show just how dumb this law really is. I mean what would they do? Shut down every site? Arrest anyone with a FTP program?
BTW this makes all the major search engines illegal. And it's a good beet that alot of japaness corperate and government site's would link to a major search engine -- making them all illegal to.
Perhaps it's just me, but it seems like this is just one of those gimmes. Linking to illegal stuff is illegal. It's like ordering someone else to pull the trigger, it might be their gun, but your guilty be association.
What?! How can you be in support of this at all? Linking to an illegal site is NO WAY like ordering someone to pull a trigger. Two things that ppl have to understand: - The web is just information, It, technicaly can in no way harm someone or do something illegal. - The web is digital, so no real life anologies is going to make sence (e.g. no one steals music, nothing is taking, the infomation is being duplicated with no cost to the other peson).
The whole idea about trying to control the web is just insanly stupit. Even if dumb laws like this are passed. It won't make that much doffernce. Ppl will find a way around it, or they'll just keep doing it anyway. All these facist govenments and coperations need to realize that they arn't going to solve anything by doing something about the web. They need to go to the root of the problem... the ppl who do illegal things. else.. it's just a waste of time.
It's a scam to compare them the way MS did, e.g. claiming that "user must learn Grafitti". True, but handwriting recognition in Wince really, really blows. Really! When I use Jot (Handwriting rec. for Jornada) I give up quickly and use the annoyingly little keyboard instead. Grafitti is a true blessing, and it takes just an hour to learn... Just an example.
Well, just download calligrapher, or one of the many other regcognition s/w and find one that u like. Just becasue the one that came default with you PDA don't work 4 u, dosn't mean u have to put up with it.
The one thing i like about the wince machines is that u can see the ink, and it is onscreen. Unlike the palm which u can't change since it's part of the hardware. U can also configure it diffently, i.e. u can set it to regconize words, not just letters (by adjusting the delay). U can even write the entire message, and it will recognize it in one go.
They fail to mention that the Palm, along with a modem, also allows unlimited web access. Web clipping only applies to the Palm VII, a wireless capability that the PocketPC doesn't even have.
Yeah... but... really, could u actually browse the web comfortably in 16 shades of gray? with a width of (~)160 pixes?
The PPC wince machines might still be a bit craped, but the HPC wince machines are very readable.
"Yeah, I bought a WinCE-based Nino. Pretty impressive unit, for about a week. Slightly larger than a PalmIII. Slow, crashes, little storage memory (app bloat), slow, cumbersome GUI (scaled down Outlook), slow, "What do you mean I have to close an app to add a new appointment? All that's running is the Calendar and the Address Book!!", oh and did I mention SLOW?"
Well, i have a jornada 680 (clamshell design, not a properhand held). And it runs fine, never crashes. I'm not sure ur having so many problems, maybe it's the fact that its a nino.. i've opened up about 15 programs at once.. and it still ran fine.
"No thanks Microsoft. A PalmVx running at half the speed will do nicely, thank you. So I can't look at a video clip in 16-bit color, so what? Why would I do that on a PDA?"
[SARCASIM] Of cource, what the hell where micro$oft thinking?! evolution is bad! I hope the next PDA comes out with less memory, less power, less features, and can only read text files. Who on earth would want to whach there favorite movies and listen to music anywhere they are? [/SARCASIM]
"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. And just because someone else almost did, doesn't mean you must."
Dosn't mean u shouldn't either
"Then again - seeing ANOTHER MS gimick do a face-plant might be entertaining. Remember Bob?"
Besides, a more efficient method to get more speed is to get as much RAM as you can afford and get a faster hard drive. I usually recommend around 128 to 192 MB of system RAM, because then you don't have to use the hard drive so much as virtual memory, which speeds things up quite a lot.
Not for everyting. More RAM won't:
- Encode/decode MP3s faster - Run photoshop filters faster - Raytrace things faster - Crack encypition faster - Encode/decode DVD faster
Well... it acctually will depending on how much RAM u have to begin with but no as much differce as cranking up the CPU speed.
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Exactly my point. I would make more sence to say, maybe, have the icons there, and have the color change from grey to green (or red etc..) when the mouse is over it. That way. The user knows what it is. And they get feedback when they hover over it. Instead of the user having to "check" each one untill they find the right button.
Apple stuck it with the iMacs... and good on them. So they're trying to do the same with their new OS. And thats fine with me. But I think that they focused on the athetics just a bit too much a forgot about the UI. The can easly have it both ways. That's why I hope they make those changes.
It's not 80% of a 68040... 80% of the processor i.e. a 1000mHz athlon would run like a 800mHz, a 1000mHz pentium would run like a 600mHz
If you read futher down, they say that they are working on a PowerPC emulator, which is expected to be out this year.
Well, I dont' know where your getting ur prices from, But i can hardely afford to upgrade my current 233 at the moment, let taking a loan out for a G4.
Don't look at those apple charts too much. The results are differnt when you actually use the computer for every day tasks (still favoring the mac though).
I do design, print and web. Mac has better software for print. But I have yet to find one text editor like the one i use, for mac. Not to mention all the other little things. Restarting the computer all the time would be a major pain in the ass.
For actual interface design, not graphic design.. it's much better. But not ground breaking.
"There's a few rough edges but it's really looking good," he said. Jobs said OS X's designers were "shooting for a new level of fit and finish never seen in a user interface before." To illustrate his point, he showed off the operating system's fluid and good-looking user interface, which features animated menus, buttons and control bars, and an easy-to-use, browser-like file navigation system.
Uh... animated menus? buttons? browser-like file navagation? Didn't we see this in Windoze 95? Sure, maybe it's done better on Mac OS X. But it's deffinitly been seen before.
But infinity is not a number, or else you'd be able to count it. Just like 0 is not a number, something that doesn't exist can't be a number. Something that represents and ongoing array of numbers, can't be a number either.
So before you go leaping off and deciding whether or not black holes exist. I think you need to get some basic maths right first.
I won't do it again. Free speech is evil.
Seriously though. Do you really think the auther who wrote the artical really cares, if you tell people that you got the artical from him?
It's not like he posted a secret, or clamed that he wrote the artical.
It also wan't really redundant either. A few posts up, someone was complaning that the site was slashdoted. So they couldn't read it.
You have something against communists? If so, And you can do it in a intelligent manner, I'd like you to tell me why.
I hope they arn't doing what I think they're doing, That is: To make a "cool" looking interface for marketing reasons. Instead of practical reasons.
Linux just dosn't have the apps I need at the moment. And Apple is lagging a bit too behide (and too expensive) for me. Which is why I'm stuck with win98 Until someone wakes up.
Which brings me to another issue. Someone mentioned that there might be a Mac OS X for Intel.
I really hope apple go ahead with this, as I think it would be a big help to them. One of the main resons I don't use a Mac instead of my wintel box is 'cause Macs are so damn expensive. Sure, they're high quality. But I'm not that rich. For the price of a G4, at the very lest, I could get a 1gighz Athlon (i hope i'm right there, but of not, u get the drift).
And I'm sure I'm not the only who's been put off a Mac because of the price.
If they do make an intel version. I really hope that thay also have the brains to make it possable to run it from within windows. If that happened... My problems would be solved.
BTW, Emulators.com Have SoftMac, which can emulate up to a Mac Quadra with Mac OS 8.1
The clame that they can get ~50-60% clock speed on a pentium or celeron. And ~80-90% on a Athlon k7 And up to a gig of RAM. And It can run in a window, or full screen.
They also talk about possable linux versions, and a PowerMac emulator.
Huh? Do we really still live in a society where eye colour make so much difference?
For a start, someone is bound to make some sort of encyption for it, then they won't know what they're sniffing.
The other thing... what if everyone decides to protest by putting "metallica" on the end of every file.. And napster bans you.. Wouldn't it be possable to sue metallica for causeing you to get banned by napster becasue they wrongly accused you of pirating music?
Where not talking about the sweatshop slaves in the CD factories. Or the average perosn working there ass off to by a CD that's priced at 10x whats it's worth... We're talking about Metallica. A group of millionares who make a living by acting roudy, and making music (which they enjoy doing).
For fucks sake! Charity? What about the billions of ppl with no food or water?
When it comes to Mp3z, i may feel sympathy for some really small band, whos music careers are threatened by bankrupcy. But for big shots like Metallica, I couldn't realy give a S#$^.
They need to fucken wake up and realise that they've got life relitily easy compared to eveyone else.
As for the ppl who ARE strugging to make a dime to live on becasue of Mp3z.... thats an issue they need to take up with there record lables who are ripping them off.
Theft = when someone TAKES something from you... i.e. you loose something you once had. Therefore, trading mp3z is not theft because technicaly nothing was taken from anyone. It's true that that person might have otherwsie bought the CD, But you can't prove that. And chances are that wouldn't have bought it otherwise anyway.
Record companies are there to represent artists and to provide them with a range of services which they'd find difficult to get on their own - marketing, production, distribution and often nowadays, legal representation. Sure, they make money from doing this, but we live in a capitalist society where making money is how our economy functions.
Uh huh... What you don't seem to understand it how much money they are charging for there services, which is WAY too much.
Music artists put a lot of time and effort into producing a work of art which they then allow the general public to enjoy. That is the important point here - they allow the public to listen to. As it is their work, they decide how they want people to obtain and use said work, and anyone that believes otherwise is just condoning theft in one of its many forms
If they really cared that much about how they wanted ppl to hear there music, they wouldn't have signed up with a big record lable.
If anything, this action is a lot more soft than it could have been considering the sums of money which have been lost to the hordes of Napster pirates.
Money lost? I must have at least 50 albums which i don't own... Ur right.. thats alot of money that I "stole" from the record companies/artists. But truth is... I would never bother to get the albums if i had to pay for them. I'm only a student, I can't affored to spend $1000 on music. Some might say that, that's just the way it goes, if you can't afford something, you can't have it... that might work well for say.. TVs, Computers, cars etc... But digital media is a whole differnt ball game. Whether or not I downloaded those songs would have made no differnce whatsoever to the record labels/artists.
And when it comes to computer graphics, 3D modeling. A command line interface would just be insane.
Not to mention having to learn all the commands.
Dialog box's give the user the feeling that they are still in the program they are using (since u can see it in the background). And they interupt the user from the program. I.e. the "Do you want to save the changes" dialog box forces the use to take action, other wise, they might exit and not save with out even knowing.
Anyway, with windows, when everything is maxamise, and u just use the task bar to switch applications, it isn't like a windowing GUI, more like what u where wanting.
Well... that might not be the exact quote, but the point is that if you say "never" especially in something like the computer industry, chances are it will happen.
"Never" is a word of the narrow minded.
As clumsy as windows can be, At least you can use the mouse fully, or use the keyboard fully, and switch between the 2 easy or use both at the same time.
As for 2/3/4 mouse buttons, u don't have to use the extra ones. U can just use the first one and navigate the computer with ease.
When u feel comfortable, u can get a little more advance and start experimenting with the 2nd button.
As for linux/KDE, it's new, and still being developed, so natuarally, a few things will be inconsitant for a while. And hey, it's open source anyway... so if you don't like it, u (or someone else) can change it to suit.
Acctually, thats a bad thing to do, and unfortunaly something that is begining to be seen more oftern.
An interface for a car, is for a car, having an interface for something that it is not will just create confustion for the user. It nearly as bad (if not worse) that the "real life" interfaces.. e.g., a picture of a phone for dialing software, or maybe a more well know example is the Apple Quicktime interface.
A properly designed interfase should have the most used functions at hand, and should be easly recognizable using well known icons. It should be simple and easy to use, and should have the same look and feel of the OS, unless it would be impoved otherwise (i.e. winamp would be clumsy if it used the normal win GUI).
Having some customiseation is also good as everyone has differnt ways of using things.
Although apps like MS office 2000, do have a huge amount of bloat, they still alow you to customize it easly, and revert back to the standard interface if needed.
Also, a good GUI isn't made by making it look pretty, it's made by making it usable, and usaly when u do that, it looks good anyway.
Alot of ppl say the vioent TV/games, casue real life violence, alot say thast a load of BS.
Like most things in life, This is not a black and white thing.
Here's what i thibk: Violent TV/games do help casue violence when that person is atill learning about human emotions (5-15-ish?). Ppl who arn't brought up prtenting to kill ppl or whaching them get killed, can halden it when they grow up.
I play violent games, and i don't have an urge to kill anyone, alot of ppl say i couldn't hurt a fly. ON the other hand. I imagine that if someone was brought up whatching violent tv, and killing ppl in video games, that they would be violent ppl, casue thats what their brain was brought up to think. (humans follow by example)
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If every web-designer in japan put a little icon of a naked lady on there site, the whole net (in japan) would be illegal.
And hopfully it would show just how dumb this law really is.
I mean what would they do? Shut down every site? Arrest anyone with a FTP program?
BTW this makes all the major search engines illegal. And it's a good beet that alot of japaness corperate and government site's would link to a major search engine -- making them all illegal to.
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What?! How can you be in support of this at all? Linking to an illegal site is NO WAY like ordering someone to pull a trigger.
Two things that ppl have to understand:
- The web is just information, It, technicaly can in no way harm someone or do something illegal.
- The web is digital, so no real life anologies is going to make sence (e.g. no one steals music, nothing is taking, the infomation is being duplicated with no cost to the other peson).
The whole idea about trying to control the web is just insanly stupit. Even if dumb laws like this are passed. It won't make that much doffernce. Ppl will find a way around it, or they'll just keep doing it anyway.
All these facist govenments and coperations need to realize that they arn't going to solve anything by doing something about the web. They need to go to the root of the problem... the ppl who do illegal things. else.. it's just a waste of time.
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Well, just download calligrapher, or one of the many other regcognition s/w and find one that u like. Just becasue the one that came default with you PDA don't work 4 u, dosn't mean u have to put up with it.
The one thing i like about the wince machines is that u can see the ink, and it is onscreen. Unlike the palm which u can't change since it's part of the hardware. U can also configure it diffently, i.e. u can set it to regconize words, not just letters (by adjusting the delay). U can even write the entire message, and it will recognize it in one go.
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Yeah... but... really, could u actually browse the web comfortably in 16 shades of gray? with a width of (~)160 pixes?
The PPC wince machines might still be a bit craped, but the HPC wince machines are very readable.
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Slow, crashes, little storage memory (app bloat), slow, cumbersome GUI (scaled down Outlook), slow, "What do you mean I have to close an app to add a new appointment? All that's running is the Calendar and the Address Book!!", oh and did I mention SLOW?"
Well, i have a jornada 680 (clamshell design, not a properhand held). And it runs fine, never crashes. I'm not sure ur having so many problems, maybe it's the fact that its a nino.. i've opened up about 15 programs at once.. and it still ran fine.
"No thanks Microsoft. A PalmVx running at half the speed will do nicely, thank you. So I can't look at a video clip in 16-bit color, so what? Why would I do that on a PDA?"
[SARCASIM] Of cource, what the hell where micro$oft thinking?! evolution is bad! I hope the next PDA comes out with less memory, less power, less features, and can only read text files. Who on earth would want to whach there favorite movies and listen to music anywhere they are? [/SARCASIM]
"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. And just because someone else almost did, doesn't mean you must."
Dosn't mean u shouldn't either
"Then again - seeing ANOTHER MS gimick do a face-plant might be entertaining. Remember Bob?"
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Not for everyting. More RAM won't:
- Encode/decode MP3s faster
- Run photoshop filters faster
- Raytrace things faster
- Crack encypition faster
- Encode/decode DVD faster
Well... it acctually will depending on how much RAM u have to begin with but no as much differce as cranking up the CPU speed.
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