To refresh your memory: Back before we had PDA's, we called such software PIM's.
My boss kept all his contacts in an old-school Macintosh FileMaker file until a couple of years ago when he upgraded to ACT! for Windows (a cutting edge PIM).
... it's time to put Longhorn on the fast track to release. Nothing stimulates the hardware industry like a new, even more piggish release of Windows with plenty of "new features to make Windows even easier to use"!
The Windows UI was gray long before Apple's was. You could purchase add-ons for the beveled-gray look, but before MacOS 8 and Platinum Appearance the look out of the box was the same black-and-white stuff we know and love.
Of course, we were told by Mac fans that it was better looking...
I don't really know which came first, the users calling things "my" or Microsoft, but it's actually a pretty common thing for novices.
I tend to reverse the pronouns when discussing things with another person. "Here's what you're gonna do. You're gonna hit your Start menu, go to your Applications menu, and select Mozilla. This brings up your Mozilla window. From there you can enter your URL..."
This is where Windows (and GNOME) fanboys would jump in about the superior COM object model of Windows scripting, how it's more powerful than antiquated Unix, and etc. But the Law of Leaky Abstractions applies: in the Unix world, tools are loosely coupled, and their means of communication is well understood. In Windows, tools are tightly coupled, with preference being given to Microsft tools, and their means of communication is far more opaque. So if a tool fails, or doesn't cover a particular need, it's a bit trickier to extend or replace under the Windows model than under the Unix one.
Microsoft turns good ideas into profitable ones. Profitable for Microsoft, that is... maybe not so profitable for you if you dreamed up the idea (unless you now work for Microsoft). To paraphrase Auron, "That's what Microsoft does."
... is that it is tied to Smalltalk, and hence to object-oriented methodology.
OO isn't the only way to program. It isn't even the best way to program, in certain situations.
XP, Design Patterns, and fads like these are all nice in that they reflect certain practices which make for good software. But they are the CS equivalent of "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way": great at what they do, good at expressing the concepts behind a particular style/method, not very useful when you want to cross over into other styles/methods.
In case you haven't hit the link in my sig, I'm a cartoonist myself, who has been trying to improve the execution of his art over the past three years. My comic has a small audience but I enjoy doing it (when I can find the time anymore).
But Scott Adams Didn't create a comic strip with self-expression and self-improvement as his primary goal. He created the Dilbert strip to make money. There is no emotional or moral loading in that statement; art and cartoons are largely irrelevant to him except for Dilbert's profitability. With Dilbert and co. kept relatively unchanging, the strip becomes far more profitable because their faces become instantly recognizable trademarks. Whether you like that or not is a matter of taste. Of course, millions of people still do love the strip.
There was a scene in Evangelion where Kaji and Misato were making whoopie. You could see the lovers' clasped hands, and hear some moans, but nothing else.
It was strange to me. Part of it was, this wasn't the normal anime peekaboo "fan service"; it was a television show that showed, in however limited and discreet a fashion, two people in the act of making love. American soap operas usually don't go that far; they'll show a man and woman between the sheets kissing, and then cut to a scene where the evil midget doll is concocting a love potion that will enable her to steal Celeste's fiancee or whatever. To keep the camera on any part of the actors while they do "the act" is a bit much for American censors. Thus, that little scene struck me as being simultaneously totally discreet and totally explicit.
If you haven't played it yet, you must go out ands get your hands on a copy of Rez... easily the most innovative, mind-blowing game to come along in at least a decade. It was released in the United States, to a small, select but appreciative audience. Larger electronics stores (e.g., Best Buy, Fry's) will likely carry it.
It is a shooting game where your actions add to the beat of the techno music that's playing and to the surreal on-screen display. Learn to play in harmony with the game, and you will be rewarded with amazing sights and sounds.
I bought the game a couple of months ago, and it still continues to blow my mind.
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Don't you just love it when suits split hairs over their job titles?
A digital divide is a symptom of a set of much more deep-rooted problems, not a cause. I think diplomats like to pay lip service to the "digital divide" so they can look like they're concerned about the issues at hand when they're really not. After all, having an enormous underclass to put to cheap labor is good for big business.
What the government doesn't want you to know is that the hazardous nuclear materials in the Cassini space probe pose a serious threat to the environment! What if the launch failed and the rocket crashed back to earth, spreading radioactive plutonium out over a... uh, what's that you said? Cassini is in space already? Oh. Uhhhh.... never mind.:)
[sarcasm] Solaris is one of only two commercial operating systems to be Common Criteria EAL4 compliant (the other is Microsoft Windows 2000). That's gotta make it better than Linux somehow. [/sarcasm]
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To refresh your memory: Back before we had PDA's, we called such software PIM's.
My boss kept all his contacts in an old-school Macintosh FileMaker file until a couple of years ago when he upgraded to ACT! for Windows (a cutting edge PIM).
... it's time to put Longhorn on the fast track to release. Nothing stimulates the hardware industry like a new, even more piggish release of Windows with plenty of "new features to make Windows even easier to use"!
The Windows UI was gray long before Apple's was. You could purchase add-ons for the beveled-gray look, but before MacOS 8 and Platinum Appearance the look out of the box was the same black-and-white stuff we know and love.
Of course, we were told by Mac fans that it was better looking...
I tend to reverse the pronouns when discussing things with another person. "Here's what you're gonna do. You're gonna hit your Start menu, go to your Applications menu, and select Mozilla. This brings up your Mozilla window. From there you can enter your URL..."
Look everyone, Scott McCollum of World Tech Tribune! What are you doing among the Linux cultists, ya big troll?
Just when you'd seen enough of Natalie Portman and Heidi Wall...
This is where Windows (and GNOME) fanboys would jump in about the superior COM object model of Windows scripting, how it's more powerful than antiquated Unix, and etc. But the Law of Leaky Abstractions applies: in the Unix world, tools are loosely coupled, and their means of communication is well understood. In Windows, tools are tightly coupled, with preference being given to Microsft tools, and their means of communication is far more opaque. So if a tool fails, or doesn't cover a particular need, it's a bit trickier to extend or replace under the Windows model than under the Unix one.
The Law of Leaky Abstractions is why Unix won.
So did ROTT (via a cheat code).
Probably around as big as Microsoft Word.
It made me think of the Axem Rangers from Super Mario RPG.
Flash has Radiskull and Homestar Runner firmly in its camp. SVG doesn't.
Oh, and the SWF format is an open standard.
Microsoft turns good ideas into profitable ones. Profitable for Microsoft, that is... maybe not so profitable for you if you dreamed up the idea (unless you now work for Microsoft). To paraphrase Auron, "That's what Microsoft does."
... is that it is tied to Smalltalk, and hence to object-oriented methodology.
OO isn't the only way to program. It isn't even the best way to program, in certain situations.
XP, Design Patterns, and fads like these are all nice in that they reflect certain practices which make for good software. But they are the CS equivalent of "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way": great at what they do, good at expressing the concepts behind a particular style/method, not very useful when you want to cross over into other styles/methods.
In case you haven't hit the link in my sig, I'm a cartoonist myself, who has been trying to improve the execution of his art over the past three years. My comic has a small audience but I enjoy doing it (when I can find the time anymore).
But Scott Adams Didn't create a comic strip with self-expression and self-improvement as his primary goal. He created the Dilbert strip to make money. There is no emotional or moral loading in that statement; art and cartoons are largely irrelevant to him except for Dilbert's profitability. With Dilbert and co. kept relatively unchanging, the strip becomes far more profitable because their faces become instantly recognizable trademarks. Whether you like that or not is a matter of taste. Of course, millions of people still do love the strip.
Why improve your characters when they are far more profitable as they are? Illiad learned this.
Could the indigenous bacteria sue for intellectual property theft?
What if a bacterium steals patented DNA? Do the pharmaceutical companies have a case against it?
There was a scene in Evangelion where Kaji and Misato were making whoopie. You could see the lovers' clasped hands, and hear some moans, but nothing else.
It was strange to me. Part of it was, this wasn't the normal anime peekaboo "fan service"; it was a television show that showed, in however limited and discreet a fashion, two people in the act of making love. American soap operas usually don't go that far; they'll show a man and woman between the sheets kissing, and then cut to a scene where the evil midget doll is concocting a love potion that will enable her to steal Celeste's fiancee or whatever. To keep the camera on any part of the actors while they do "the act" is a bit much for American censors. Thus, that little scene struck me as being simultaneously totally discreet and totally explicit.
Who's the filer of a suit that has validity?
S-T-A, N-L-Y, M-O-U-S-E!
("Hey, you spelled my name wrong! I want double the damages!")
No, but see that article in the other comment.
If you haven't played it yet, you must go out ands get your hands on a copy of Rez... easily the most innovative, mind-blowing game to come along in at least a decade. It was released in the United States, to a small, select but appreciative audience. Larger electronics stores (e.g., Best Buy, Fry's) will likely carry it.
It is a shooting game where your actions add to the beat of the techno music that's playing and to the surreal on-screen display. Learn to play in harmony with the game, and you will be rewarded with amazing sights and sounds.
I bought the game a couple of months ago, and it still continues to blow my mind.
Don't you just love it when suits split hairs over their job titles?
A digital divide is a symptom of a set of much more deep-rooted problems, not a cause. I think diplomats like to pay lip service to the "digital divide" so they can look like they're concerned about the issues at hand when they're really not. After all, having an enormous underclass to put to cheap labor is good for big business.
What the government doesn't want you to know is that the hazardous nuclear materials in the Cassini space probe pose a serious threat to the environment! What if the launch failed and the rocket crashed back to earth, spreading radioactive plutonium out over a... uh, what's that you said? Cassini is in space already? Oh. Uhhhh.... never mind. :)
"Display?"
"Active matrix, man! A million psychedelic colors!"[1]
"I bet it looks crispy in the dark!"
[1]Cereal Killer is the direct spiritual ancestor of Steven the Dell Kid. I'm sure of it.
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Solaris is one of only two commercial operating systems to be Common Criteria EAL4 compliant (the other is Microsoft Windows 2000). That's gotta make it better than Linux somehow.
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