The data collection mechanism is internally called âoeService Quality Monitoringâ, or just SQM. It was introduced in Office 2003, and presents itself to the user as âoeCustomer Experience Improvement Programâ (CEIP), or you might also see it under the heading of âoeHelp Make Office Betterâ. . ..What did Microsoft do with the data? It turns out, a lot. The data combined with human judgment was the basis for the placement of all commands on the Ribbon. The Home tab in all programs is a great example of the statistics at work. The commands on the Home tab represent the 80% most used commands of that particular application.
"One difference between Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.0 is that the Back button grew in size," Raskin said. "Why did it change? Because we found that people used the Back button much more than the Forward button."
I hope this information about most used features isn't going to be used to develop a Mozilla ribbon.
They didn't though. These stickers were being put up before Vista was on the market, and M$ had adopted the policy of not hyping Vista to keep its holiday (XP) sales up. The information was not being made readily available, and this wasn't just the retailers, it was M$ policy.
The HW manufactures may have physically put the stickers on, but M$ decided which computers got it. Vista was an MS trademark. They gave out the specs on what could be labeled vista compatible. Obviously they didn't just send the OEM's boxes of stickers and say "merry christmas".
In fact, if you go here you can see the internal memos and email wherein M$ decides what hardware can get the "compatible" sticker.
+1 on this, it pisses me off when they (I've got the cells cos in mind) advertise unlimited plans and then, in the contract, they have fair-use TOS bs about how much of your "unlimited" bandwidth you can use.
Just market what you are actually selling.
In the US, as far as I know, the person being recorded generally needs a reasonable expectation of privacy (although it varies from state to state). I'm also fairly sure that as long as the recorder is visible to the speaker it is considered consent: If you were sitting there with a recorder on your desk, in plain sight, unless the professor tells you to turn it off, you are safe.
We're talking about the GUI and the user interaction, not the programmer's implementation. I don't know one way or the other whether there is a hidden window somewhere that doesn't show up in the taskbar (I never wrote anything on windows) but the point of the quote was that "Word has no choice but to display this ugly application window" which seems pretty obviously false. It could do like lots of other apps and run in the tray. Even if there is technically a window sitting somewhere.
Windows needs a window for each application, and this need doesn't go away just because there are no documents open. So, Word has little choice but to display this ugly application window. There's simply nowhere for the application to exist without having a windowâ"the window is the application.
Um I thought a lot of apps would run in the background without a window (e.g., filesharing tools that stay in the tray after closed, skype, winamp, etc).
precise has to do with the measurement. Not the scale. You can be as precise as you need to using imperial units (you just use bigger denominators). Also, 22/7 is not exact. It is accurate to 3 significant digits. Since pi is an irrational number, it can't be written as a fraction. But I do agree, for many everyday uses fractions tend to be more natural.
Downloading debs directly from the web isn't far from this: you google, find the page of the project, find the section for installing on ubuntu/debian, click the link to a deb file, open the file. When you are prompted for a password, just enter it. and you're done.
I think this was already covered above: You would get the browser that the OEM chooses to ship (not the browser M$ forced them to ship as a condition of installing Windoz). I assume they aren't trying to handicap new computers, just trying to keep M$ from using it monopoly in the OS market, to strong arm its way into a monopoly in the browser market.
I may be thinking in the box, but I can't think of many situations where this would be useful.
1) it relies on wifi (so unlike the iphone you have to be in a hotspot to do anything)
2) It's big (unlike the iphone you have to use two arms to hold it/control it, and you can't carry it in your pocket)
3) it doesn't seem like it could be used to take notes in any efficient way (unless you want to use an on screen keyboard)
4) you have to hold it, so you can't comfortably watch movies or shows
5) you have to hold it so it's useless for looking at pr0n
Aside from reading ebooks I don't see how this is really going to be useful for anyone
> "indicates the depths to which our great nation has sunk to."
One of the two 'to's is redundant. How do you expect people to take you seriously with such shit grammar?
I don't think the original poster was talking about fully loading. He was talking about replying. And your description of the process of loading a page is awfully inadequate in key ways, especially for a sysadmin at a web hosting company: The server doesn't send all the content after the first request. It sends a page which then causes the client to send a series of new requests (for images, stylesheets, linked-in JS etc). The original post was saying that if the first page isn't returned in 10 sec. it isn't coming.
well if someone is standing there with eyes closed (as his parents were) waiting for a surprise, it's not too much harder to slit his throat than to shoot his head, and most people with a slit throat neither fight back nor successfully staunch the wound.
I wasn't saying the former. Obviously that is a ridiculous measure of insanity, as you note. I was saying that since the judge believes that he didn't realize that he was murdering his parents( in the sense of he thought they wouldn't really be dead, as in gone forever) it does seem like legal insanity. He didn't know what he was doing (permanently killing his parents). Ergo he isn't responsible.
Adding an addiction to this would only then serve to further exculpate him, insofar as his act might not have been entirely free, although I have no idea whether this last point establishes legal insanity or is just a consideration in sentencing.
Well it would if they were *actually* rendered useless or redundant. Redistributing man-hours from less productive work to more is a natural (if sometimes painful) economic necessity that occurs in free markets, but is hindered in a protectionist environment. This is why bankruptcy shouldn't usually be averted through legislation. It just keeps a waste of labor and resources around longer.
Besides none of them would go belly up overnight.
How is bringing up the 2nd amendment relevant? Isn't blaming this on the gun just as illogical as (or even more so than) blaming it on the game. This is a perfect case of "people kill people". As was noted he could have used a butcher knife, especially given that the parents closed their eyes expecting a surprise; He wouldn't have even needed to overpower them.
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The data collection mechanism is internally called âoeService Quality Monitoringâ, or just SQM. It was introduced in Office 2003, and presents itself to the user as âoeCustomer Experience Improvement Programâ (CEIP), or you might also see it under the heading of âoeHelp Make Office Betterâ. . . .What did Microsoft do with the data? It turns out, a lot. The data combined with human judgment was the basis for the placement of all commands on the Ribbon. The Home tab in all programs is a great example of the statistics at work. The commands on the Home tab represent the 80% most used commands of that particular application.
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"One difference between Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.0 is that the Back button grew in size," Raskin said. "Why did it change? Because we found that people used the Back button much more than the Forward button."
I hope this information about most used features isn't going to be used to develop a Mozilla ribbon.
oh come on, xfce is going halfway. If you really want something slim go OpenBox.
They didn't though. These stickers were being put up before Vista was on the market, and M$ had adopted the policy of not hyping Vista to keep its holiday (XP) sales up. The information was not being made readily available, and this wasn't just the retailers, it was M$ policy.
yeah it has to be one of the dumbest defenses ever conceived by lawyers: "Ruling against us would be a big benefit to the other side at our expense"
The HW manufactures may have physically put the stickers on, but M$ decided which computers got it. Vista was an MS trademark. They gave out the specs on what could be labeled vista compatible. Obviously they didn't just send the OEM's boxes of stickers and say "merry christmas".
In fact, if you go here you can see the internal memos and email wherein M$ decides what hardware can get the "compatible" sticker.
+1 on this, it pisses me off when they (I've got the cells cos in mind) advertise unlimited plans and then, in the contract, they have fair-use TOS bs about how much of your "unlimited" bandwidth you can use.
Just market what you are actually selling.
In the US, as far as I know, the person being recorded generally needs a reasonable expectation of privacy (although it varies from state to state). I'm also fairly sure that as long as the recorder is visible to the speaker it is considered consent: If you were sitting there with a recorder on your desk, in plain sight, unless the professor tells you to turn it off, you are safe.
We're talking about the GUI and the user interaction, not the programmer's implementation. I don't know one way or the other whether there is a hidden window somewhere that doesn't show up in the taskbar (I never wrote anything on windows) but the point of the quote was that "Word has no choice but to display this ugly application window" which seems pretty obviously false. It could do like lots of other apps and run in the tray. Even if there is technically a window sitting somewhere.
Windows needs a window for each application, and this need doesn't go away just because there are no documents open. So, Word has little choice but to display this ugly application window. There's simply nowhere for the application to exist without having a windowâ"the window is the application.
Um I thought a lot of apps would run in the background without a window (e.g., filesharing tools that stay in the tray after closed, skype, winamp, etc).
yes
I think the message was more of a "we'll gladly rip off the suckers."
What's mildly disturbing is that those are the people he was calling loyal.
precise has to do with the measurement. Not the scale. You can be as precise as you need to using imperial units (you just use bigger denominators).
Also, 22/7 is not exact. It is accurate to 3 significant digits. Since pi is an irrational number, it can't be written as a fraction.
But I do agree, for many everyday uses fractions tend to be more natural.
A 227gramer with cheese?
Do you mean "revolutionary"? Pretty sure "evolutionary" does refer to small incremental changes.
Downloading debs directly from the web isn't far from this: you google, find the page of the project, find the section for installing on ubuntu/debian, click the link to a deb file, open the file. When you are prompted for a password, just enter it. and you're done.
"Belkin does not participate in . . . unethical practices like this."
paraphrase: We don't do what we just did.
But aren't you missing the point, Opera wants Opera browsers to be the platform of web 2.0. They already claim inroads in the mobile and embedded hardware but they want the desktop market too.
I think this was already covered above:
You would get the browser that the OEM chooses to ship (not the browser M$ forced them to ship as a condition of installing Windoz). I assume they aren't trying to handicap new computers, just trying to keep M$ from using it monopoly in the OS market, to strong arm its way into a monopoly in the browser market.
I may be thinking in the box, but I can't think of many situations where this would be useful.
1) it relies on wifi (so unlike the iphone you have to be in a hotspot to do anything)
2) It's big (unlike the iphone you have to use two arms to hold it/control it, and you can't carry it in your pocket)
3) it doesn't seem like it could be used to take notes in any efficient way (unless you want to use an on screen keyboard)
4) you have to hold it, so you can't comfortably watch movies or shows
5) you have to hold it so it's useless for looking at pr0n
Aside from reading ebooks I don't see how this is really going to be useful for anyone
> "indicates the depths to which our great nation has sunk to." One of the two 'to's is redundant. How do you expect people to take you seriously with such shit grammar?
I don't think the original poster was talking about fully loading. He was talking about replying. And your description of the process of loading a page is awfully inadequate in key ways, especially for a sysadmin at a web hosting company: The server doesn't send all the content after the first request. It sends a page which then causes the client to send a series of new requests (for images, stylesheets, linked-in JS etc). The original post was saying that if the first page isn't returned in 10 sec. it isn't coming.
well if someone is standing there with eyes closed (as his parents were) waiting for a surprise, it's not too much harder to slit his throat than to shoot his head, and most people with a slit throat neither fight back nor successfully staunch the wound.
I wasn't saying the former. Obviously that is a ridiculous measure of insanity, as you note. I was saying that since the judge believes that he didn't realize that he was murdering his parents( in the sense of he thought they wouldn't really be dead, as in gone forever) it does seem like legal insanity. He didn't know what he was doing (permanently killing his parents). Ergo he isn't responsible. Adding an addiction to this would only then serve to further exculpate him, insofar as his act might not have been entirely free, although I have no idea whether this last point establishes legal insanity or is just a consideration in sentencing.
Well it would if they were *actually* rendered useless or redundant. Redistributing man-hours from less productive work to more is a natural (if sometimes painful) economic necessity that occurs in free markets, but is hindered in a protectionist environment. This is why bankruptcy shouldn't usually be averted through legislation. It just keeps a waste of labor and resources around longer. Besides none of them would go belly up overnight.
How is bringing up the 2nd amendment relevant? Isn't blaming this on the gun just as illogical as (or even more so than) blaming it on the game. This is a perfect case of "people kill people". As was noted he could have used a butcher knife, especially given that the parents closed their eyes expecting a surprise; He wouldn't have even needed to overpower them.