A grammar checker would be a good idea if: - It is well implemented, from what I hear, Wordperfect's Grammatik used to be almost always correct and very useful,as opposed to Word's grammar checker that 's here just so that Microsoft can say "we have a grammar checker"
- It didn't try to 'improve your style'. I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.Also my pet hate when Word underlines all my headers and says "fragment: consider revising"...what the heck you dumb program! It's a freaking header! must all my headers be complete sentences?
- It can be easily turned off, and doesnt fill your page with green lines under every sentence.
it won't be as good as peer review or a professional proofreader, but it may spot that embarrasing mistake before you send that critical report to the customer at 11 pm..
I stand corrected, the idea does seem to have potential. Indeed, many of today's most useful technology is integrating a bunch of existing ideas anyway. and yes, people mostly look at this from a "Google competes with Microsoft" point of view.
What good is a web based office suite anyway? ( not a rhetorical question...I'm really wondering) Allowing people to collaborate on the same document online,is already possible in traditional office suites+groupware. And centralized storage of documents is avaliable via, you know, Yahoo Briefcase. so what exactly would a web office suite bring to the table, aside from the coolness factor?
Not the Quran. I've read the complete text for the Quran and if you do a full text search for the words "dar al harb" you won't find it.At least for the original Arabic text, not a translation where the translator added his own interpetation.
The official stance of the majority of Muslim scolars is , i quote
it's clearly stated that the concept of categorizing countries as Dar Kufr and Dar Islam is a matter of ijtihad (independent judgment) made by learned scholars. There is no mention of this concept in either the Qur'an or the Sunnah.
Muslim scholars maintain that the labeling of a country or place as being an Islamic country or a non-Islamic one Dar al-Harb revolves around the question of religious security. This means that if a Muslim practices Islam freely in his place of abode despite that the place happens to be secular or un-Islamic, then he will be considered as living in a Dar Islam, meaning that he is not obliged to immigrate from that place.
> Both American and Arab fundies want the ability to > subject the local populace to their own > interpretation of their corresponding religions. > While they might not want to enslave us, they > certainly want to do that with their own people.
The desire for some party to lie bout religion to gain popularity is hardly the fault of Islam ( or Christianity) but you're right in context of the grandparent poster: some fundamantalists are all about control.
Agreed. It's still basically a mock up and may be changed anytime.(And thanks for pointing out that the traditional menus remain).But still, Microsoft's intent is to replace the user's default way of working with what I beleive is an inferior way. (And if both menus and mega toolbars become standard, indy programmers will still need that graphics designer!).
I agree with the parent poster, it's not just that everything's changed. There are many obvious reasons that it changed for the worse:
- The old menus were text, these are all icons! Anyone with visual impairment won't see them, anyone with bad memory and casual users like me will have to pass over each button and read the tooltip to search for a feature they want. Instead of, you know, looking at the menu!
- The old menus had keyboard navigation.And alt+key shortcuts. anyone who can't hold the mouse or just wants to work with only the kb will be farked.
- the old menus made sense.What are those new menus? if I wanted cut/paste will I find it on write or page layout? maybe its on review ( which is synonymous with edit, but then again it may mean versioning and tracked changes).
even worse, if that becomes the next standard for windows application UI, an independant devloper like me will have to hire a graphics designer to create 100 unique buttons for him before he starts a project, instead of doing the menu in 5 minutes. sigh.
I suspect the majority of people aren't going to be at the store looking at boxed copies of XP and Vista, and make a decision on which to buy. They just take what is installed on the computer they buy.
sadly, you're right.And then I will probably have to buy it when I don't want to in order to develop and test my software for the Vista using customers:(
if I do, my main computer will still be a win2k/linux dual boot machine however.
umm, not quite. win95 changed almost everything from windows 3.1, from the GUI to the meory management to the networking.at that time I was a (shame!) microsoft admirer partly because of the effort they put into their new OS. microsoft is trying to relive the excitement years by changing everything and creating a similar buzz like the win95 days. good luck to them, so far I've been only disappinted.
windows vista (I preferred longhorn!) is intended by microsoft to be as big an upgrade as win95 was over win3.1, but every time I read news about it, I simply make up my mind more not to buy it
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not running opengl effectively? are they kidding? how many independant software developers ( ms's biggest asset according to steve ballmer), gamers ( the #1 reason windows guys don't completely switch to linux), and researchers are going to be pissed off?
microsoft product designers like to develop software according to idealistic hypothetical usage situations. they assume that all users are happily running directx 9.0,that their video cards are all top notch and a 50% degradation would be nothing for the misguided few who still run GL. heck, maybe it will make them upgrade their dinosaur era hardware!
The studios claim they lose $3.5 billion worldwide in annual revenues from sales of illegally copied movies on video and DVD formats in street bazaars and black markets.
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Earlier this month, the MPAA filed lawsuits against computer networks utilizing a software technology known as BitTorrent, but these new suits were against end users, or people who actually downloaded the films
Apparently, they're currently targeting the distributors who are selling illegally copied films.they should stick to that strategy, as it 1) focuses the attacks on what hurts them most (since black market targets customers who pay for the stuff) and 2) less likely to make consumers hate them
This is all very true,currently the mozilla project has several problems: 1-FUD from the likes of CNet & ZDNet 2-Some people in The Open Source community say it's either not 'really free software' or that it's a failure. 3-The impression that Mozilla is Netscape,or that Netscape is only getting free programmers. 4-Delays. The Open Source community should participate with more code,bugs et al,currently by viewing their code changes in Bonsai* you will see 80% of the work done by Netscape programmers. -MS ---------------- * (Bonsai is Mozilla's code-changes tree-sorry couldn't come with a better def.)
You wrote your Epilogue to "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" about the release of the Mozilla Source Code.Do you think Mozilla,now after years of release of the source,is beginning to become a real "serious project"? Does Mozilla has any significance in your opinion to the OSS movement? Or was it really an attempt by Netscape to hire "free programmmers"? Thanks!
When I think of an upgrade from 'Series 5' to 'Series 7' I think of a major overhaul.Yes,the hardware is much better,but it's the same plain old EPOC32 OS with the same apps and the same tools,and the only new piece of SW (the Java VM) is already in the 5mx. Symbian,please move faster.
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A grammar checker would be a good idea if:
...what the heck you dumb program! It's a freaking header! must all my headers be complete sentences?
- It is well implemented, from what I hear, Wordperfect's Grammatik used to be almost always correct and very useful,as opposed to Word's grammar checker that 's here just so that Microsoft can say "we have a grammar checker"
- It didn't try to 'improve your style'. I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.Also my pet hate when Word underlines all my headers and says "fragment: consider revising"
- It can be easily turned off, and doesnt fill your page with green lines under every sentence.
it won't be as good as peer review or a professional proofreader, but it may spot that embarrasing mistake before you send that critical report to the customer at 11 pm..
I stand corrected, the idea does seem to have potential.
Indeed, many of today's most useful technology is integrating a bunch of existing ideas anyway.
and yes, people mostly look at this from a "Google competes with Microsoft" point of view.
What good is a web based office suite anyway? ( not a rhetorical question...I'm really wondering)
Allowing people to collaborate on the same document online,is already possible in traditional office suites+groupware. And centralized storage of documents is avaliable via, you know, Yahoo Briefcase.
so what exactly would a web office suite bring to the table, aside from the coolness factor?
The official stance of the majority of Muslim scolars is , i quote
you may like to read the full info here:
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?page
> Both American and Arab fundies want the ability to
> subject the local populace to their own
> interpretation of their corresponding religions.
> While they might not want to enslave us, they
> certainly want to do that with their own people.
The desire for some party to lie bout religion to gain popularity is hardly the fault of Islam ( or Christianity) but you're right in context of the grandparent poster: some fundamantalists are all about control.
Agreed. It's still basically a mock up and may be changed anytime.(And thanks for pointing out that the traditional menus remain).But still, Microsoft's intent is to replace the user's default way of working with what I beleive is an inferior way.
(And if both menus and mega toolbars become standard, indy programmers will still need that graphics designer!).
I agree with the parent poster, it's not just that everything's changed. There are many obvious reasons that it changed for the worse:
- The old menus were text, these are all icons! Anyone with visual impairment won't see them, anyone with bad memory and casual users like me will have to pass over each button and read the tooltip to search for a feature they want. Instead of, you know, looking at the menu!
- The old menus had keyboard navigation.And alt+key shortcuts. anyone who can't hold the mouse or just wants to work with only the kb will be farked.
- the old menus made sense.What are those new menus? if I wanted cut/paste will I find it on write or page layout? maybe its on review ( which is synonymous with edit, but then again it may mean versioning and tracked changes).
even worse, if that becomes the next standard for windows application UI, an independant devloper like me will have to hire a graphics designer to create 100 unique buttons for him before he starts a project, instead of doing the menu in 5 minutes.
sigh.
fitting a camera in every room?
sadly, you're right.And then I will probably have to buy it when I don't want to in order to develop and test my software for the Vista using customers
if I do, my main computer will still be a win2k/linux dual boot machine however.
umm, not quite.
win95 changed almost everything from windows 3.1, from the GUI to the meory management to the networking.at that time I was a (shame!) microsoft admirer partly because of the effort they put into their new OS.
microsoft is trying to relive the excitement years by changing everything and creating a similar buzz like the win95 days. good luck to them, so far I've been only disappinted.
windows vista (I preferred longhorn!) is intended by microsoft to be as big an upgrade as win95 was over win3.1, but every time I read news about it, I simply make up my mind more not to buy it
.not running opengl effectively? are they kidding? how many independant software developers ( ms's biggest asset according to steve ballmer), gamers ( the #1 reason windows guys don't completely switch to linux), and researchers are going to be pissed off?
microsoft product designers like to develop software according to idealistic hypothetical usage situations. they assume that all users are happily running directx 9.0,that their video cards are all top notch and a 50% degradation would be nothing for the misguided few who still run GL. heck, maybe it will make them upgrade their dinosaur era hardware!
us being on 1'st of april and everything..
Apparently, they're currently targeting the distributors who are selling illegally copied films.they should stick to that strategy, as it 1) focuses the attacks on what hurts them most (since black market targets customers who pay for the stuff) and 2) less likely to make consumers hate them
The "shit happens" page simply insults all mentioned religions.
I don't think this is funny.
--Mohamed
This is all very true,currently the mozilla project has several problems: 1-FUD from the likes of CNet & ZDNet 2-Some people in The Open Source community say it's either not 'really free software' or that it's a failure. 3-The impression that Mozilla is Netscape,or that Netscape is only getting free programmers. 4-Delays. The Open Source community should participate with more code,bugs et al,currently by viewing their code changes in Bonsai* you will see 80% of the work done by Netscape programmers. -MS ---------------- * (Bonsai is Mozilla's code-changes tree-sorry couldn't come with a better def.)
You wrote your Epilogue to "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" about the release of the Mozilla Source Code.Do you think Mozilla,now after years of release of the source,is beginning to become a real "serious project"? Does Mozilla has any significance in your opinion to the OSS movement? Or was it really an attempt by Netscape to hire "free programmmers"?
Thanks!
Oh yes,and by seven I mean the version number,not the machine.
When I think of an upgrade from 'Series 5' to 'Series 7' I think of a major overhaul.Yes,the hardware is much better,but it's the same plain old EPOC32 OS with the same apps and the same tools,and the only new piece of SW (the Java VM) is already in the 5mx.
Symbian,please move faster.
Break the boundary between platforms: Java promised this via software,now Transmeta by hardware?