The odd thing to me is that they just can't compromise and allow for a Start Menu on the desktop. It isn't like this is a new product, they have a significant existing user base. Just have an option. Maybe right click the taskbar and the properties dialog has a "Show Start Menu" option. That alone would be huge.
The funny thing I think is that one of the reasons Windows Mobile 6.x sucked was the insistence on the Start Menu paradigm. But now to have a more mobile friendly interface they kill the start menu on PC's.
01/11/2012 - The T/V Renda and CGC Healy have not travelled any significant distance since noon yesterday. The vessels remain approximately 100 nautical miles from Nome. An experienced U.S. ice navigator hired by Vitus Marine as a technical advisor arrived safely on board the Healy around 4:00 PM today. He may transfer to Renda after assessing the challenges from on board the Healy.
01/12/2012 - The vessels worked until approximately 12:30 am this morning and made good progress. They are currently about 70 miles from Nome and hopeful for continued good progress today. (updated 10:15am)
01/13/2012 - At this time, the Renda is staying offshore while the Healy is making runs to test the ice and determine the best place for the Renda to moor for the fuel transfer.
The article states the switch has 100M lines of code, the switch was existence before Windows 2000. 100 million > 30 million. That is the point I was trying to make.
It is good that you can still remember potentially incorrect facts 10 years later, it is more of an old "Microsoft Windows 2000 Marketing Blitz Fact" than an actual fact IMO
I've purchased items on newegg.com for many years, still doesn't make Amazon "daunting". Although taking a peek at it now, looks like they (newegg) have changed the UI a little bit, at least since the last time I logged in.
I often assumed Newegg had the best pricing in the past, but then found a physical store chain (Microcenter.com) that beat it cost on some items, even with sales tax taken into account, so go figure.
FTA : "In fact I myself find the website disturbingly daunting, and I worked there for over half a decade. I've just learned to kinda defocus my eyes and concentrate on the million or so pixels near the center of the page above the fold."
Huh? we are talking about the e-commerce site?. Just type in what you want and hit search. Add to cart. submit, done. How hard is that? Retail usuallly isn't about big empty spaces. Unless you have large profit margins or physically large products (think Apple stores, 'phone' stores, car dealerships, high end audio etc)
The article does not state it solves any energy problems. It is merely a discovery. If you stop imagining these periodic discoveries are the solutions to our problems, you won't be so disappointed. Glad I could help.
I don't see any mention of 'solving' energy problems anywhere in the links of the post, but don't let facts jump in the way of the narrative you want to push.
I have to assume this was sarcasm because even the relatively svelte google home page on a PC is 50K, not including external resources like images, scripts or CSS.
Granted a mobile specific page would be smaller but 160 bytes is pretty limited, and from my own experience, I do not think SMS message order is in any way guaranteed and in some rare cases I have had messages take several *hours* to get to their destination.
Funny, the "demo scene" link mentions how the old-timers are frustrated by the newcomers.
If you want to learn something to an extreme and have it be relevant 20 years later, become a carpenter or a stone mason, stay out of software.
And to be clear, I am not ripping on carpenters or stone masons, just that if you get into software, understand that 90% of what you know at any point in time is going to be useless 20 years later.
Take an expert in DOS interrupts, BIOS minutae, 80386 code optimization, utilizing EMS and XMS memory from 1991 and transport him through time to today. He could very well be immediately unemployed for a significant amount of time. And of course, if smart and adaptive that person can learn new things.
My point is, you can't stick a pole in the ground and say, "this is it, MASM, Visual C++ 1.5 and MFC, thats it! I don't have to learn anything else! Time to start memorizing the instruction set!"
Now I am not saying not to learn something to an extreme either, just don't expect relevancy 20 years hence.
If I write a web app in ASP.NET, I am really not that concerned about cross platform. My clients can be running IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome. Opera, KDE Konqueror, whatever, I try and make sure they all work, and on smartphone/tablet browsers too. As long as the browser is a relatively modern version (say within last 4 years). So I can't run the web server on another OS, I am not concerned.
If I generate a report for example it is HTML or PDF, not XPS or XLS, again, trying to support many clients
As for running.NET apps *on the client*, most Microsoft developers I know have dropped that (or try too) if possible. Even then, if they just want to support Windows clients they should use Silverlight. The ease of upgrading web apps compared to client installs on myriad machines alone is enough to give up any extra ease of development a WPF or WinForms app may offer, but I don't think I am offering any insight there, this has been the mindset for several years now.
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The odd thing to me is that they just can't compromise and allow for a Start Menu on the desktop. It isn't like this is a new product, they have a significant existing user base. Just have an option. Maybe right click the taskbar and the properties dialog has a "Show Start Menu" option. That alone would be huge.
The funny thing I think is that one of the reasons Windows Mobile 6.x sucked was the insistence on the Start Menu paradigm. But now to have a more mobile friendly interface they kill the start menu on PC's.
"About Yahoo!
Yahoo! is the premier digital media company,..."
Really?
Or would the geek in us just like to assume it?
From http://dec.alaska.gov/Spar/renda/index.htm
01/11/2012 - The T/V Renda and CGC Healy have not travelled any significant distance since noon yesterday. The vessels remain approximately 100 nautical miles from Nome. An experienced U.S. ice navigator hired by Vitus Marine as a technical advisor arrived safely on board the Healy around 4:00 PM today. He may transfer to Renda after assessing the challenges from on board the Healy.
01/12/2012 - The vessels worked until approximately 12:30 am this morning and made good progress. They are currently about 70 miles from Nome and hopeful for continued good progress today. (updated 10:15am)
01/13/2012 - At this time, the Renda is staying offshore while the Healy is making runs to test the ice and determine the best place for the Renda to moor for the fuel transfer.
The article states the switch has 100M lines of code, the switch was existence before Windows 2000. 100 million > 30 million. That is the point I was trying to make.
It is good that you can still remember potentially incorrect facts 10 years later, it is more of an old "Microsoft Windows 2000 Marketing Blitz Fact" than an actual fact IMO
100M lines of pre-Windows 2000 code here
I say potentially because "lines of code" isn't a great metric, it is hard to know if its apples to apples language wise etc etc
"Only 60,000 workers" worldwide, but how many pieces of automated machinery/robots? It is not 1951 anymore people.
Vista SP1 fixed many of the flaws that caused Vista's bad reputation, but it was too late, Vista was synonymous with 'flop' by then.
Some would say the movie "The Social Network" helped
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/technology/11computing.html?pagewanted=all
http://jezebel.com/5667829/why-programming-is-hip-again-hint-its-not-the-bong-hits
http://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/That-Hollywood-touch-gilds-computer-science-1691321.php
You are damn right. What are these particulates? Who invented them? My opinion is Scientists : what are they up to? .
That I thought I read about 3 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/us/30grease.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2008/0506/p01s03-usgn.html
http://blog.oregonlive.com/nwheadlines/2008/05/restaurant_kitchen_grease_thef.html
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/2884/california-cop-is-arrested-for-grease-theft/
And last year
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-09-29-restaurant-grease-thieves_N.htm
But apparently has been around much longer, maybe even before the Simpsons episode (1998)
http://www.salon.com/2000/11/06/grease_wars/
I've purchased items on newegg.com for many years, still doesn't make Amazon "daunting". Although taking a peek at it now, looks like they (newegg) have changed the UI a little bit, at least since the last time I logged in.
I often assumed Newegg had the best pricing in the past, but then found a physical store chain (Microcenter.com) that beat it cost on some items, even with sales tax taken into account, so go figure.
FTA : "In fact I myself find the website disturbingly daunting, and I worked there for over half a decade. I've just learned to kinda defocus my eyes and concentrate on the million or so pixels near the center of the page above the fold."
Huh? we are talking about the e-commerce site?. Just type in what you want and hit search. Add to cart. submit, done. How hard is that? Retail usuallly isn't about big empty spaces. Unless you have large profit margins or physically large products (think Apple stores, 'phone' stores, car dealerships, high end audio etc)
The article does not state it solves any energy problems. It is merely a discovery. If you stop imagining these periodic discoveries are the solutions to our problems, you won't be so disappointed. Glad I could help.
I don't see any mention of 'solving' energy problems anywhere in the links of the post, but don't let facts jump in the way of the narrative you want to push.
How about NotJustStraightToVideoFlix or WouldActuallyPay10DollarsToSeeInTheaterFlix or HasActorsIHaveHeardOfFlix. Bet those domain names are open too!
I have to assume this was sarcasm because even the relatively svelte google home page on a PC is 50K, not including external resources like images, scripts or CSS.
Granted a mobile specific page would be smaller but 160 bytes is pretty limited, and from my own experience, I do not think SMS message order is in any way guaranteed and in some rare cases I have had messages take several *hours* to get to their destination.
I guess you could try a secondary browser like Dolphin.
I guess you could try downloading the Kindle app and getting The Economist through that.
Or you could just sell your tablet on e-bay to someone who wants it and go buy your iPad
You have students, and you seem to think seeing more people writing in paper notebooks than using tablets in somehow a knock on tablets?
Do more people use pen and paper than netbooks in your classes? Does that damn netbooks to irrelevancy?
Five years ago far fewer people had smart phones, would a "I don't know anyone who has a smartphone" argument from back then seem prescient now?
Tablets will not be as common as smartphones, but they will be something you see more often. More often than netbooks, that is certain.
But maybe one of his neighbors is technically inclined and changed it as a gag?
And eating :)
I could be wrong, but that window on the Bel Air isn't breaking like I would expect an original to.
Funny, the "demo scene" link mentions how the old-timers are frustrated by the newcomers.
If you want to learn something to an extreme and have it be relevant 20 years later, become a carpenter or a stone mason, stay out of software.
And to be clear, I am not ripping on carpenters or stone masons, just that if you get into software, understand that 90% of what you know at any point in time is going to be useless 20 years later.
Take an expert in DOS interrupts, BIOS minutae, 80386 code optimization, utilizing EMS and XMS memory from 1991 and transport him through time to today. He could very well be immediately unemployed for a significant amount of time. And of course, if smart and adaptive that person can learn new things.
My point is, you can't stick a pole in the ground and say, "this is it, MASM, Visual C++ 1.5 and MFC, thats it! I don't have to learn anything else! Time to start memorizing the instruction set!"
Now I am not saying not to learn something to an extreme either, just don't expect relevancy 20 years hence.
Extremely Lazy Coding. And stop looking at .NET's ass.
If I write a web app in ASP.NET, I am really not that concerned about cross platform. My clients can be running IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome. Opera, KDE Konqueror, whatever, I try and make sure they all work, and on smartphone/tablet browsers too. As long as the browser is a relatively modern version (say within last 4 years). So I can't run the web server on another OS, I am not concerned.
.NET apps *on the client*, most Microsoft developers I know have dropped that (or try too) if possible. Even then, if they just want to support Windows clients they should use Silverlight. The ease of upgrading web apps compared to client installs on myriad machines alone is enough to give up any extra ease of development a WPF or WinForms app may offer, but I don't think I am offering any insight there, this has been the mindset for several years now.
If I generate a report for example it is HTML or PDF, not XPS or XLS, again, trying to support many clients
As for running
mint money instead of print it?