A lot of them miss out another important requirement for elections and voting systems, at least in actual democracies.
Requirement #0: Convincing enough of the losers that they've lost.
Doesn't matter if your fancy system is actually secure and proven. If the losers think they lost because "too much magic" happened, you could have riots on the streets or even civil war.
While paper votes have problems, they are easier to explain to voters. And if you do them right, the losers tend to agree with the results- they might dispute with a few problem constituencies, but you won't get massive riots.
You get riots when you do them wrong e.g. having one party do the counting in secret. And riots might even be justified or at least understandable since since having just one party count paper votes secretly is rather fishy.
In my country I think they rig it with postal votes. The counting is done in front of various observers from different political parties and a few 3rd parties even.
So where they can rig it is with postal votes, or in places which are more obscure - nobody bothers to show up to watch the counts, ballot boxes etc (but those places often don't make much of a difference;) ). So that puts a limit to the cheating - so when enough voters get pissed off enough with you, despite your efforts you can still lose the elections - there are just so many postal votes to go around.
Whereas most electronic voting systems tend to do their counts in a way that cannot be observed by others. There's too much magic:).
And all for what? Make things faster? You want to do it right, take the time and money to do it right. What's so hard about scaling? Your education system should be good enough so that you have enough volunteer counters who can actually count.
I find it funny that the US spends billions to supposedly hold elections in Iraq (regime change right?;)), and they can't seem to be able to do it right at home... With Diebolded elections and all that.
So why doesn't the US join in the games? They were a colony once right?;)
I find the Commonwealth Games rather amusing. After all how many countries would be able to pull the following off:
1) Take over other countries (often via military force) 2) Extract resources from those countries. 3) Get kicked out by those other countries. 4) Organize an event to celebrate the Commonwealth:).
FWIW, I think the reason why the Brits can pull it off is in many cases they were actually better to/for the local population and country than the local rulers were...
The other reason is you probably have to a Brit to be able to actually think this is such a great idea:).
Imagine the Belgians or Dutch trying to hold their own Commonwealth Games. How many would want to show up?
RTFA: "According to Facebook, Guerbuez fooled its users into providing him with their usernames and passwords. One method was the use of fake websites that posed as legitimate destinations."
"After Guerbuez gained access to user's personal profiles, he used computer programs to send out millions of messages promoting a variety of products, including marijuana and penis-enlargement products, Facebook said."
How much damage is that to you?
Whatever the damages are, to me the punitive fines of USD100 per user seem fair to me. So he should still be looking at USD400+ million in fines.
I don't think you want to encourage "economies of scale" when it comes to crimes.
So if you figure out a clever but illegal way to paste ads on 4 million people's front-doors, you should only be fined the same amount as someone who does it on one door?
Yes those people "could always remove the crap on their front door", but if you keep letting people get away with it, you end up with crap permanently on your door.
You do city-scale damage, you get city-scale fines. Sounds fair to me. Don't like it, think before you do it.
It's like those littering fines. Yes it doesn't cost that much to remove one coke can from the ground, or a discarded wrapper.
I don't see why someone should get a smaller fine per offense than a "normal person" just because they chose to make money in a way which involves littering on a massive scale.
Uh, if you want to use cities as a measurement then it's NOT absurd.
Apparently he annoyed at least 4 million people. He took over their accounts: "According to Facebook, Guerbuez fooled its users into providing him with their usernames and passwords. One method was the use of fake websites that posed as legitimate destinations."
I'd say 4 million people is a reasonable amount for a city.
You cause city-size damage, you get city-size fines. Sounds fair enough. Maybe the damage bit of USD100 is too high, but the punitive part doesn't.
What's the punitive fine for littering in your city?
I don't think he should be jailed though unless he persists in misbehaviour - I assume he's no physical danger to other people.
Just look at the "problem" from the Gov and Big Corp point of view.
When we are out of IPv4 addresses this is what will happen:
0) Most people start getting NATed. 1) P2P stuff stops working well 2) SIP phones and Skype won't work so well 3) "Normal People" can't run their own servers, only people with more $$$ can. 4) Stuff like Farmville and most other games still work.
Sure looks like a benefit and not a problem from their POV.
Chondroitin and glucosamine are supposedly for joints and cartilage (and it's not proven that they work).
Whereas B12 (e.g. methylcobalamin) and a few other B vitamins (but don't take too high doses of those) are proven to work for nerves.
Since you're getting tingling and pain (that's not linked to any external source), it's your nerves which are getting damaged. So the obvious options are to: 1) stop the nerves from getting squished: some resort to surgery, some do less stuff (rest etc) 2) help the nerves take the squishing: that's the B12 approach.
Building joints and cartilage for this scenario is unlikely to help as much.
No other Asian country spoke a word in favor of Japan
But I don't think any Asian country has spoken a word in favour of China over this issue either.
I think most of us in Asia don't care very much - not like they'd be crazy to start a war over a few little islands. Yes it does affect the territory (and might have oil and gas), no it's still NOT important enough (don't be stupid just share the oil and gas 50:50 instead of warring). So my opinion regarding this dispute is, whoever starts shooting people first is the bad guy.
It's just like trademark enforcement. They have to defend their claim, otherwise they might lose the right to stake claim over it.
As for the claim itself, it's not so clear that it belongs to China, since apparently China says the islands are Taiwan's, and the last I checked a fair number of Taiwanese don't want to be part of China nor believe they are part of China;).
Given your company was so stingy can I assume they were using rather low end servers?
So just one or two modern whitebox machines with 4GB (or more) of RAM, a dual/quad core CPU, etc, could probably simulate all of the servers at once with stuff like vmware server (free).
If they're too stingy to buy even that, I suggest you go work somewhere else, what are the odds they'd give you a raise or a bonus?
PC hardware for a test environment is not very expensive. Software licenses would be your biggest problem, here is where OSS shines:).
In my experience perl is on most unix machines, and works quite well for cross-platform tasks.
Can't depend on Java or GNU tools to be present everywhere, but so far I've found perl on OSX, Solaris, OpenSolaris, AIX, most Linux distros and FreeBSD.
So if I ever had to write a cross platform unix/linux virus I'd write it in perl:).
Ever tried methylcobalamin? It worked for me. Doc prescribed me a 500 microgram tablet after meals (note: it's microgram not milligram!).
Basically it's a better absorbed B12 vitamin for the nerves. The pain and tingling are because your nerves are getting squished. So this helps them.
In the long term if you help the nerves heal or at least survive, the rest of your body parts involved should adapt around them (after all many body builders do grow bigger wrists over time, and not all of them get RSI - so it's probably partly due to stuff growing out of sync/proportion than just mere stress and strain).
It's pretty safe, you can ask a neurologist about it. The research was mainly done in Japan, so western docs might overlook them.
I have tried the Apple trackpad (I have a MacBook on my desk). I still prefer my "el cheapo" a4tech k4-50D optical mouse to the track pad. I don't even bother with a mousepad.
I'm now waiting for a trackball fan to reply to your "suck balls" remark:).
Yes like what is best? I think the best path is to instead spend the resources to build space stations that generations of humans can actually live and reproduce on practically.
Then we can even have humans visiting Jupiter, Venus, Mars etc. No need to rush.
Plus we would then have the basic building blocks for large space colonies, which buys the human race some more time.
Stealth mode shouldn't be such a big problem for avoidance. The subs weren't even moving fast, so IMO the submarines just need better tech so that they can "hear" the "acoustic shadow" of the submarine or other object they are about to crash into:).
There's usually lots of ambient noise in the ocean - snapping shrimp, boats etc.
Blindfold yourself and get someone to place their hand 10 cm or so away from your ear, if you have normal hearing you would be able to hear the difference it makes.
Something much bigger than your hand like a submarine would cast a bigger shadow.
No idea. I find the thought of a Windows 7 Zealot somewhat amusing! I wonder what a stereotypical windows 7 cult member would look like:).
FWIW I use windows 7 at work and windows xp at home, have a OSX machine on my work desk (which I use mostly via SSH), and an opensolaris box beside me, and a few linux virtual machines. I'm doing some cross platform stuff.
I'm weird I guess, in terms of GUIs I actually prefer Windows XP to Windows 7, and Windows 7 to OSX.
Yes I'm unfamiliar with the OSX GUI, but I still don't see how stuff like "Expose" etc is going to make things better and faster for my usage. Wait for the Expose animation and drawing of 30 windows, select window wait for animation etc, vs just clicking on the relevant task button. Or click on the relevant app, hold down mouse button, wait for animation, then click on the desired window...
Think I'll get a troll mod from the Apple zealots now?:)
Are you telling me you manually number everything in your start menu you could ever possibly want to launch?
No just the common ones. And it's easy to add to or extend. Just drag a shortcut you want to "2 Tools" or whatever and rename it accordingly (if necessary). It's basically organizing the stuff I commonly use in the start menu in a hierarchical manner.
The other benefit is if you forget the shortcut sequence you can still find it by using the start menu, and traversing the relevant categories.
IMO the Win9x UI designers were actually quite clever ( with the Win9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista/7 UI you can even add shortcuts to the SendTo menu so that you can open any file with whatever program you choose - e.g. hexeditor. Just place/make your app shortcut in the SendTo folder. Quick and easy ).
Whereas the recent UI (and other) changes haven't really improved things much, kinda disappointing - they spent billions and that's what we get?
If you need to switch between two or four Windows, and alt-tabbing is "too slow", hit win-tab and click on the window you want. Or use the winkey+number shortcuts to switch to that program on your taskbar - they're shipping your linkkey program with Windows, so be happy.
win-tab doesn't work well when I have lots of windows open. I already mentioned winkey+number in my previous post, so I'm well aware of what it does and how it works (along with ctrl+winkey+number). And it's not the same thing as what my linkkey program does, which allows you to _quickly_ associate alt+number with a particular window. Or bind the "last 9 most recently used windows" with alt/win 1-9.
So if I have 30 windows open I can choose to quickly work with a subset of them. Then switch to work with another subset.
Why would I have so many windows open? I don't see the point of opening and closing stuff if I'll be using it again soon, esp since I don't have an SSD yet. That'll actually work out slower since I'd have to do winkey, type first few letters of shortcut, launch/open the program/document etc, rather than just click on the relevant taskbutton or "alt+number" (if I have the window bound).
The number of windows starts to add up: a few explorer windows open for common locations: e.g. "my documents", code tree private, code tree "published", network share #1, network share #2. Emails, Editor windows. browser windows for work related stuff (references, man pages etc). browser windows for misc stuff (e.g. slashdot). ssh connections to various machines. IM windows - colleagues, friends etc.
In theory I could use "screen" (the CLI program) like a friend who uses OSX. But I think it's funny to use a GUI and then actually resort to using screen for "window"/task management.
I don't get your #3 complaint - you already used the mouse to right-click on the program. Why don't you just move it 20 pixels up and click it again?
Uh, it's faster? Basically when I'm finally done with a working set of windows (out of the dozens), I can close them rapidly, by just right clicking on the relevant ones and pressing C.
What would be even faster is if I could quickly bind winkey+ to a particular "tab" in a window. Then I wouldn't need to resort to opening stuff in a new window just to make them fast to switch amongst (via alt tab etc). In which case I would have a working set of tabs, and closing the working set would be just a matter of closing the window containing those tabs, or a branch of tabs ( I use Treestyle Tabs in firefox).
All that time saved allows me to waste it on Slashdot or wherever;).
Windows XPs start menu becomes a complete mess. With 7 you just quickly type in the name of the program and it will 90% of the time show up before you're done typing it.
The "win 7 start menu search " method is faster for noob users, not for advanced/power users.
For advanced users, my way is faster on XP. And more importantly more predictable - you don't have the risk of launching the wrong thing just because something else happened to match.
When it's not predictable (as in Windows 7), if you don't want to launch/open the wrong thing by mistake, you have to wait to understand what the search really returned before you press enter. That takes at least 250 milliseconds for most people, usually longer.
With my Win XP setup, you already know what will launch so you do not need to counter check.
IMO a move away from predictability is actually a step backwards in terms of UI design (that's why the "personalized menus" crap is crap).
Wen you want to scratch your head, you just set your body parts into motion and do it, you don't have to first counter check to make sure the right appendages are actually reporting for duty before using them.
Anyway, even then it doesn't always work because it uses an index which is often out of date and I don't see a way to force it to not use the index. Rebuilding the index seems to require it to scan the whole hard drive, not just current bit I'm interested in.
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A lot of them miss out another important requirement for elections and voting systems, at least in actual democracies.
;) ). So that puts a limit to the cheating - so when enough voters get pissed off enough with you, despite your efforts you can still lose the elections - there are just so many postal votes to go around.
:).
;)), and they can't seem to be able to do it right at home... With Diebolded elections and all that.
Requirement #0: Convincing enough of the losers that they've lost.
Doesn't matter if your fancy system is actually secure and proven. If the losers think they lost because "too much magic" happened, you could have riots on the streets or even civil war.
While paper votes have problems, they are easier to explain to voters. And if you do them right, the losers tend to agree with the results- they might dispute with a few problem constituencies, but you won't get massive riots.
You get riots when you do them wrong e.g. having one party do the counting in secret. And riots might even be justified or at least understandable since since having just one party count paper votes secretly is rather fishy.
In my country I think they rig it with postal votes. The counting is done in front of various observers from different political parties and a few 3rd parties even.
So where they can rig it is with postal votes, or in places which are more obscure - nobody bothers to show up to watch the counts, ballot boxes etc (but those places often don't make much of a difference
Whereas most electronic voting systems tend to do their counts in a way that cannot be observed by others. There's too much magic
And all for what? Make things faster? You want to do it right, take the time and money to do it right. What's so hard about scaling? Your education system should be good enough so that you have enough volunteer counters who can actually count.
I find it funny that the US spends billions to supposedly hold elections in Iraq (regime change right?
So why doesn't the US join in the games? They were a colony once right? ;)
:).
:).
I find the Commonwealth Games rather amusing. After all how many countries would be able to pull the following off:
1) Take over other countries (often via military force)
2) Extract resources from those countries.
3) Get kicked out by those other countries.
4) Organize an event to celebrate the Commonwealth
FWIW, I think the reason why the Brits can pull it off is in many cases they were actually better to/for the local population and country than the local rulers were...
The other reason is you probably have to a Brit to be able to actually think this is such a great idea
Imagine the Belgians or Dutch trying to hold their own Commonwealth Games. How many would want to show up?
RTFA: "According to Facebook, Guerbuez fooled its users into providing him with their usernames and passwords. One method was the use of fake websites that posed as legitimate destinations."
"After Guerbuez gained access to user's personal profiles, he used computer programs to send out millions of messages promoting a variety of products, including marijuana and penis-enlargement products, Facebook said."
How much damage is that to you?
Whatever the damages are, to me the punitive fines of USD100 per user seem fair to me. So he should still be looking at USD400+ million in fines.
I don't think you want to encourage "economies of scale" when it comes to crimes.
So if you figure out a clever but illegal way to paste ads on 4 million people's front-doors, you should only be fined the same amount as someone who does it on one door?
Yes those people "could always remove the crap on their front door", but if you keep letting people get away with it, you end up with crap permanently on your door.
You do city-scale damage, you get city-scale fines. Sounds fair to me. Don't like it, think before you do it.
It's like those littering fines. Yes it doesn't cost that much to remove one coke can from the ground, or a discarded wrapper.
I don't see why someone should get a smaller fine per offense than a "normal person" just because they chose to make money in a way which involves littering on a massive scale.
Uh, if you want to use cities as a measurement then it's NOT absurd.
Apparently he annoyed at least 4 million people. He took over their accounts: "According to Facebook, Guerbuez fooled its users into providing him with their usernames and passwords. One method was the use of fake websites that posed as legitimate destinations."
I'd say 4 million people is a reasonable amount for a city.
You cause city-size damage, you get city-size fines. Sounds fair enough. Maybe the damage bit of USD100 is too high, but the punitive part doesn't.
What's the punitive fine for littering in your city?
I don't think he should be jailed though unless he persists in misbehaviour - I assume he's no physical danger to other people.
Uh why would they?
Just look at the "problem" from the Gov and Big Corp point of view.
When we are out of IPv4 addresses this is what will happen:
0) Most people start getting NATed.
1) P2P stuff stops working well
2) SIP phones and Skype won't work so well
3) "Normal People" can't run their own servers, only people with more $$$ can.
4) Stuff like Farmville and most other games still work.
Sure looks like a benefit and not a problem from their POV.
Yeah, the sort of people who'd be their customers wouldn't be the sort who'd post on Slashdot or even know of Slashdot...
@CRC'99 all my equipment (except maybe the cable modem) support #ipv6. stop using #oldshit
Ironically, if you want an IPv6 internet, the cable modem needs IPv6 support more than the other stuff he mentioned.
Chondroitin and glucosamine are supposedly for joints and cartilage (and it's not proven that they work).
Whereas B12 (e.g. methylcobalamin) and a few other B vitamins (but don't take too high doses of those) are proven to work for nerves.
Since you're getting tingling and pain (that's not linked to any external source), it's your nerves which are getting damaged.
So the obvious options are to:
1) stop the nerves from getting squished: some resort to surgery, some do less stuff (rest etc)
2) help the nerves take the squishing: that's the B12 approach.
Building joints and cartilage for this scenario is unlikely to help as much.
you're getting 99% of the theater experience without the overpriced, crap junk food or the rude patrons.
But I'm a rude patron you insensitive clod!
No other Asian country spoke a word in favor of Japan
But I don't think any Asian country has spoken a word in favour of China over this issue either.
I think most of us in Asia don't care very much - not like they'd be crazy to start a war over a few little islands. Yes it does affect the territory (and might have oil and gas), no it's still NOT important enough (don't be stupid just share the oil and gas 50:50 instead of warring). So my opinion regarding this dispute is, whoever starts shooting people first is the bad guy.
It's just like trademark enforcement. They have to defend their claim, otherwise they might lose the right to stake claim over it.
As for the claim itself, it's not so clear that it belongs to China, since apparently China says the islands are Taiwan's, and the last I checked a fair number of Taiwanese don't want to be part of China nor believe they are part of China ;).
Given your company was so stingy can I assume they were using rather low end servers?
:).
So just one or two modern whitebox machines with 4GB (or more) of RAM, a dual/quad core CPU, etc, could probably simulate all of the servers at once with stuff like vmware server (free).
If they're too stingy to buy even that, I suggest you go work somewhere else, what are the odds they'd give you a raise or a bonus?
PC hardware for a test environment is not very expensive. Software licenses would be your biggest problem, here is where OSS shines
In my experience perl is on most unix machines, and works quite well for cross-platform tasks.
:).
Can't depend on Java or GNU tools to be present everywhere, but so far I've found perl on OSX, Solaris, OpenSolaris, AIX, most Linux distros and FreeBSD.
So if I ever had to write a cross platform unix/linux virus I'd write it in perl
Ever tried methylcobalamin? It worked for me. Doc prescribed me a 500 microgram tablet after meals (note: it's microgram not milligram!).
Basically it's a better absorbed B12 vitamin for the nerves. The pain and tingling are because your nerves are getting squished. So this helps them.
In the long term if you help the nerves heal or at least survive, the rest of your body parts involved should adapt around them (after all many body builders do grow bigger wrists over time, and not all of them get RSI - so it's probably partly due to stuff growing out of sync/proportion than just mere stress and strain).
It's pretty safe, you can ask a neurologist about it. The research was mainly done in Japan, so western docs might overlook them.
The pills I took are made by Eisai (a Japanese company). Look something like these: http://www.salepharmacy.biz/89-268-thickbox/buy-methycobal-mecobalamin-500mcg-30tablets-peripheral-neuropathies.jpg
I have tried the Apple trackpad (I have a MacBook on my desk). I still prefer my "el cheapo" a4tech k4-50D optical mouse to the track pad. I don't even bother with a mousepad.
:).
I'm now waiting for a trackball fan to reply to your "suck balls" remark
we should be rethinking the assumptions here.
Yes like what is best? I think the best path is to instead spend the resources to build space stations that generations of humans can actually live and reproduce on practically.
Then we can even have humans visiting Jupiter, Venus, Mars etc. No need to rush.
Plus we would then have the basic building blocks for large space colonies, which buys the human race some more time.
Stealth mode shouldn't be such a big problem for avoidance. The subs weren't even moving fast, so IMO the submarines just need better tech so that they can "hear" the "acoustic shadow" of the submarine or other object they are about to crash into :).
There's usually lots of ambient noise in the ocean - snapping shrimp, boats etc.
Blindfold yourself and get someone to place their hand 10 cm or so away from your ear, if you have normal hearing you would be able to hear the difference it makes.
Something much bigger than your hand like a submarine would cast a bigger shadow.
There are very many airports where airliners about to take off are within striking range of a Cessna or similar plane...
Maybe we should give them both a cookie and say "Good boy!", and hope they continue behaving like this.
:).
Hey it works for dogs
If the protocol were improved a little bit, and ISPs were a little smarter, then everyone wins.
They already can do something like that. It's not a technical issue. It's a legal issue.
ISPs don't want the **AA suing them.
No idea. I find the thought of a Windows 7 Zealot somewhat amusing! I wonder what a stereotypical windows 7 cult member would look like :).
:)
FWIW I use windows 7 at work and windows xp at home, have a OSX machine on my work desk (which I use mostly via SSH), and an opensolaris box beside me, and a few linux virtual machines. I'm doing some cross platform stuff.
I'm weird I guess, in terms of GUIs I actually prefer Windows XP to Windows 7, and Windows 7 to OSX.
Yes I'm unfamiliar with the OSX GUI, but I still don't see how stuff like "Expose" etc is going to make things better and faster for my usage. Wait for the Expose animation and drawing of 30 windows, select window wait for animation etc, vs just clicking on the relevant task button. Or click on the relevant app, hold down mouse button, wait for animation, then click on the desired window...
Think I'll get a troll mod from the Apple zealots now?
Yep, that's why steel wool can be dangerous in some scenarios...
Are you telling me you manually number everything in your start menu you could ever possibly want to launch?
No just the common ones. And it's easy to add to or extend. Just drag a shortcut you want to "2 Tools" or whatever and rename it accordingly (if necessary). It's basically organizing the stuff I commonly use in the start menu in a hierarchical manner.
The other benefit is if you forget the shortcut sequence you can still find it by using the start menu, and traversing the relevant categories.
IMO the Win9x UI designers were actually quite clever ( with the Win9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista/7 UI you can even add shortcuts to the SendTo menu so that you can open any file with whatever program you choose - e.g. hexeditor. Just place/make your app shortcut in the SendTo folder. Quick and easy ).
Whereas the recent UI (and other) changes haven't really improved things much, kinda disappointing - they spent billions and that's what we get?
If you need to switch between two or four Windows, and alt-tabbing is "too slow", hit win-tab and click on the window you want. Or use the winkey+number shortcuts to switch to that program on your taskbar - they're shipping your linkkey program with Windows, so be happy.
win-tab doesn't work well when I have lots of windows open. I already mentioned winkey+number in my previous post, so I'm well aware of what it does and how it works (along with ctrl+winkey+number). And it's not the same thing as what my linkkey program does, which allows you to _quickly_ associate alt+number with a particular window. Or bind the "last 9 most recently used windows" with alt/win 1-9.
So if I have 30 windows open I can choose to quickly work with a subset of them. Then switch to work with another subset.
Why would I have so many windows open? I don't see the point of opening and closing stuff if I'll be using it again soon, esp since I don't have an SSD yet. That'll actually work out slower since I'd have to do winkey, type first few letters of shortcut, launch/open the program/document etc, rather than just click on the relevant taskbutton or "alt+number" (if I have the window bound).
The number of windows starts to add up: a few explorer windows open for common locations: e.g. "my documents", code tree private, code tree "published", network share #1, network share #2. Emails, Editor windows. browser windows for work related stuff (references, man pages etc). browser windows for misc stuff (e.g. slashdot). ssh connections to various machines. IM windows - colleagues, friends etc.
In theory I could use "screen" (the CLI program) like a friend who uses OSX. But I think it's funny to use a GUI and then actually resort to using screen for "window"/task management.
I don't get your #3 complaint - you already used the mouse to right-click on the program. Why don't you just move it 20 pixels up and click it again?
Uh, it's faster? Basically when I'm finally done with a working set of windows (out of the dozens), I can close them rapidly, by just right clicking on the relevant ones and pressing C.
What would be even faster is if I could quickly bind winkey+ to a particular "tab" in a window. Then I wouldn't need to resort to opening stuff in a new window just to make them fast to switch amongst (via alt tab etc). In which case I would have a working set of tabs, and closing the working set would be just a matter of closing the window containing those tabs, or a branch of tabs ( I use Treestyle Tabs in firefox).
All that time saved allows me to waste it on Slashdot or wherever ;).
Windows XPs start menu becomes a complete mess. With 7 you just quickly type in the name of the program and it will 90% of the time show up before you're done typing it.
That's slower. See 2) in http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1806850&cid=33777308
The "win 7 start menu search " method is faster for noob users, not for advanced/power users.
For advanced users, my way is faster on XP. And more importantly more predictable - you don't have the risk of launching the wrong thing just because something else happened to match.
When it's not predictable (as in Windows 7), if you don't want to launch/open the wrong thing by mistake, you have to wait to understand what the search really returned before you press enter. That takes at least 250 milliseconds for most people, usually longer.
With my Win XP setup, you already know what will launch so you do not need to counter check.
IMO a move away from predictability is actually a step backwards in terms of UI design (that's why the "personalized menus" crap is crap).
Wen you want to scratch your head, you just set your body parts into motion and do it, you don't have to first counter check to make sure the right appendages are actually reporting for duty before using them.
Yeah, my personal setting is "Use Windows XP in Classic mode" instead of whatever Ubuntu's default is.
FWIW, I use Linux on my home server.
Well it's not documented here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx
or http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Advanced-tips-for-searching-in-Windows#keywords
Anyway, even then it doesn't always work because it uses an index which is often out of date and I don't see a way to force it to not use the index. Rebuilding the index seems to require it to scan the whole hard drive, not just current bit I'm interested in.
I'm not the only one having problems: e.g. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/ecbecc00-f3e7-429f-87cd-8900fc313add