For all you know, a Hutu may have killed a Tutsi with it. How would your mom feel about that? Best to just ignore the parents on calls like these. God knows what trouble could be unleashed.
I might be old fashioned, but in the way that I think about UI, if the system appears to be functional and is at a point where the interface at least pretends to work, the whole interface should work. Similar to what I said below: loading of background apps has nothing to do with the menu UI. There is _absolutely_ no reason that the menu UI should ever be impacted by the background activity of a completely unrelated program (especially one that isn't doing any UI tasks at the time.) Bad design. Plain and simple.
You've missed the point. I want the preview. I find it convenient. I like using it. The preview has _absolutely_ nothing to do with the menu. As a result, they shouldn't be exclusive in any way. Would you really feel comfortable telling someone using their car that they had to turn the dome light off to use the radio? They have nothing to do with each other, so their usability aspects have absolutely no reason to collide. It's just bad design and/or lazy programming.
What I love about Slashdot: I realize that I have an old username sitting around from way back when. I dust it off an am impressed that it is still active after three years of idleness. It hasn't been gathering karma as it's been in the on the shelf for a long time. The first post I make is vaguely edgy, I get moderated down (justifiably or not) and suddenly, I'm posting at zero. Slick system.
I suspect a more than a few devolutionists (and Welsh!) would take exception to that suggestion. But what do I know, I'm an American. From America. The country. Of America.
Does it turn off the tendency of Windows to make my menus go away randomly? I can't tell you how infuriating that is. Like when the machine starts up and the crap in the systray (ugh) and everywhere else is still loading. There's no way for me to know when it's done with all of that stuff other than listening to the hard drive. Should I wish to launch a program during that period, there's a 50% chance that the start menu will simply disappear for no apparent reason, forcing me to navigate back through all of that mess. That's horrific and unacceptable UI.
I haven't used TweakUI since Win95, but it didn't impress me much then. Has it changed substantially in the intervening five years?
And we're Americans. America is the greatest country on the Earth. The prezeedent said so. God bless America, but keep them dirty Mexicans out of America.
The OP suspected that the drag caused by the turbine would counteract, power-consumption-wise, any power generated. Throw in thermodynamics, and you're leaking efficiency like a sieve.
Of course, I'm not a physicist, so I have no idea if that's accurate or not. I just think it's what he was thinking.
Eh, I've used Win2k extensively. Though the core OS is a lot better, the GUI is still crap, and the Explorer is a genuine pain to use. Doing anything that involves the interface is endlessly annoying. Browsing files, playing videos, anything.
An example: If I right click on a media file with the intention of deleting or otherwise modifying it, the menu pops up as expected. Good. But, the OS then kicks in and loads the preview. When the preview loads, the right-mouse-menu goes away. So I have to click again. My only choices are to click twice, or select more than one file. That, my friend, is an example of royally bad interface design.
It wasn't that different not long ago. Like it or not, most Linux fanboys are all about booting to Linux for the style and racy thrill of it, but when it comes time to do something they actually know how to do, they rush back to that familiar cloud bootup screen. Sad, really.
This thing looks like an elegant Mac all PC-ified. I love looking at my friends' PCs -- they're ridiculous. All lights and crap. There's an argument to be made for functionality, but for god's sake, some of the lights just don't matter. Like the "device in media bay" kind of things. Who the hell cares? If I want to know if there's a device in the media bay, I'll look at the media bay.
What about the CERT? Didn't they have something to do with it? A task force of state and federal agents probably didn't do it alone. And, the article was by MSNBC, not, IMO, the model of journalistic independence or integrity.
I haven't looked through the mklinux source code, but as it includes the Mach kernel, isn't the majority of what Apple is announcing already open-source?
Of course, they have been reticent about releasing technical specs for the G3s. I wonder what this means for the folks over at Be.
Maybe they weren't thinking in terms of formal rank. I always got the impression that it was Darth Vader who was running things and the emperor was a feeble old figurehead. But that's just me.
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For all you know, a Hutu may have killed a Tutsi with it. How would your mom feel about that? Best to just ignore the parents on calls like these. God knows what trouble could be unleashed.
I might be old fashioned, but in the way that I think about UI, if the system appears to be functional and is at a point where the interface at least pretends to work, the whole interface should work. Similar to what I said below: loading of background apps has nothing to do with the menu UI. There is _absolutely_ no reason that the menu UI should ever be impacted by the background activity of a completely unrelated program (especially one that isn't doing any UI tasks at the time.) Bad design. Plain and simple.
You've missed the point. I want the preview. I find it convenient. I like using it. The preview has _absolutely_ nothing to do with the menu. As a result, they shouldn't be exclusive in any way. Would you really feel comfortable telling someone using their car that they had to turn the dome light off to use the radio? They have nothing to do with each other, so their usability aspects have absolutely no reason to collide. It's just bad design and/or lazy programming.
What I love about Slashdot: I realize that I have an old username sitting around from way back when. I dust it off an am impressed that it is still active after three years of idleness. It hasn't been gathering karma as it's been in the on the shelf for a long time. The first post I make is vaguely edgy, I get moderated down (justifiably or not) and suddenly, I'm posting at zero. Slick system.
I suspect a more than a few devolutionists (and Welsh!) would take exception to that suggestion. But what do I know, I'm an American. From America. The country. Of America.
(Enough of that, moving on...)
Does it turn off the tendency of Windows to make my menus go away randomly? I can't tell you how infuriating that is. Like when the machine starts up and the crap in the systray (ugh) and everywhere else is still loading. There's no way for me to know when it's done with all of that stuff other than listening to the hard drive. Should I wish to launch a program during that period, there's a 50% chance that the start menu will simply disappear for no apparent reason, forcing me to navigate back through all of that mess. That's horrific and unacceptable UI.
I haven't used TweakUI since Win95, but it didn't impress me much then. Has it changed substantially in the intervening five years?
And we're Americans. America is the greatest country on the Earth. The prezeedent said so. God bless America, but keep them dirty Mexicans out of America.
The OP suspected that the drag caused by the turbine would counteract, power-consumption-wise, any power generated. Throw in thermodynamics, and you're leaking efficiency like a sieve.
Of course, I'm not a physicist, so I have no idea if that's accurate or not. I just think it's what he was thinking.
Eh, I've used Win2k extensively. Though the core OS is a lot better, the GUI is still crap, and the Explorer is a genuine pain to use. Doing anything that involves the interface is endlessly annoying. Browsing files, playing videos, anything.
An example: If I right click on a media file with the intention of deleting or otherwise modifying it, the menu pops up as expected. Good. But, the OS then kicks in and loads the preview. When the preview loads, the right-mouse-menu goes away. So I have to click again. My only choices are to click twice, or select more than one file. That, my friend, is an example of royally bad interface design.
It wasn't that different not long ago. Like it or not, most Linux fanboys are all about booting to Linux for the style and racy thrill of it, but when it comes time to do something they actually know how to do, they rush back to that familiar cloud bootup screen. Sad, really.
Bravo. Somebody had to say it.
This thing looks like an elegant Mac all PC-ified. I love looking at my friends' PCs -- they're ridiculous. All lights and crap. There's an argument to be made for functionality, but for god's sake, some of the lights just don't matter. Like the "device in media bay" kind of things. Who the hell cares? If I want to know if there's a device in the media bay, I'll look at the media bay.
It was all over state lines.
What about the CERT? Didn't they have something to do with it? A task force of state and federal agents probably didn't do it alone. And, the article was by MSNBC, not, IMO, the model of journalistic independence or integrity.
I haven't looked through the mklinux source code, but as it includes the Mach kernel, isn't the majority of what Apple is announcing already open-source?
Of course, they have been reticent about releasing technical specs for the G3s. I wonder what this means for the folks over at Be.
I'm sure that violates a whole lot of licenses. Runing a virtual machine is the same as running a real one, when it comes to the lawyers.
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I think that Toys 'R' Us is actually correct on this one, as well.
If Gus hadn't been using the site to sell products, then the situation might be different. But, IMHO, Gus stepped over the line. But that's just me.
-Ash
Maybe they weren't thinking in terms of formal rank. I always got the impression that it was Darth Vader who was running things and the emperor was a feeble old figurehead. But that's just me.