And perhaps you don't know that the upcoming GIMP 2.8 will feature a "single window mode". I tested it by compiling from the git repository: it still has a LOT of rough edges (that's unreleased software for you) but it's better than the present UI in my opinion.
Even if it's just removed from the live CD, I find this move from Canonical to be borderline on stupid.
I am very excited about the "single window mode" feature, but won't this only be a small step in the right direction? What about all the awful right click menu system with sub-sub-menus? That really need a thorough overhaul too.
Look at all the text there! That's not a very good interface for finding the icon you want quickly and efficiently. There's too much textual distraction.
You're looking at the Control Panel in classic view in details mode, i.e. the nerdiest mode. I guess you point is the exact reason that they've added a categorized view since Windows XP. In XP you can stick with the classic view and remove the describing text by choosing another view mode like tiles. I'm pretty shure that Vista will keep these possiblities.
Allofmp3's prices might seem fair to the users, but I'm pretty sure that the artists don't agree on that. I don't know how many royalties pay (my understanding is that they do pay some royalties), but it seems obvious to me that their pricing scheme is solely based on their bandwith cost. My guess is that they just buy one original cd and then makes any number of copies of that cd. Apple has said that at 99 cent per song they don't make any money on selling music, so I don't really see how you can lower that cost.
Do not consider music from Allofmp3 as legal! You're stealing from the artist.
I think you're completely wrong about the future of software for mobile phones. I guess you're right when you're saying that Windows Mobile crashes - my iPaq needed a reset from time to time. But my Nokia 6600 is much worse. The messaging applet has let me down so many times, I've stopped counting, each time forcing me to retype my text message. And sometimes the phone freezes, with the only solution being to remove the battery to turn it off. I would find a reset button really usefull on my Nokia phone.
I foresee that 2006 will be the year of the Microsoft Smartphone. I'm betting that people will realise that the software is becoming as important as the hardware, something that the average consumer definitely doesn't think about today. And I think that Microsoft is on the rigth path, because the software that they're building now has the features for tomorrow. I "just" needs a year of debugging.
Linux in mobile phones is probably an interesting path, but so far I haven't really seen any handheld products for the average Joe based on Linux.
The post was moderated as funny, but I find it quite insightful. And in a way that has already happened, since google is spelled with a lower case g, when it is used as a verb.
Remember the old 5 1/4 floppies? The cover always had a lot of warning signs on them, one of them being, that you shouldn't bend the disk. But my experience is these babies could easily survive being bent and crushed from lying between books for a whole day in a schoolbag.:)
Do you see this as a clear sing, that Microsofts Pocket PC is slowly winning the PDA operating system war? Or is it just that Sony couldn't turn Palm OS in to the media OS it wanted? Or perhaps something else?
If you're really hip you don't overclock your CPU - you undervolt it, so that you can make your rig super silent by skipping the fan on your CPU cooler.
"Somehow over the course of a very few minutes, and with no additional instruction, I had gone from an incompetent draftsman to a very impressive artist of the feline form"
What? The cats look more like dogs! Perhaps you should have yanked up the voltage a bit.;)
I do like the idea of a threaded SMS client (IM style).
Nokia has had that since the 3310.
From the features page: Mobile chat: The Nokia 3310 phone supports chat based on standard SMS, all previous written messages from both persons are visible on screen however chat messages are not saved on SIM-card.
The way I see it, it looks as if they whan to go away from the numbering of USB standards, and instead introduce a speed label, i.e. 'low speed', 'full speed' or 'hi-speed'. So in stead of going out shopping for a laptop with USB 2.0, they want you to look for one with Hi-Speed USB.
I think it's pretty obvious when you look at the logos on the USB Packaging page.
The problem with this naming scheme is of course, that they have to come up with new and more impressive names for each new version of USB. I expect that the standard computer in 2015 will support USB eXtra Fast Super Ludicrous Hi-Speed.
Over the years those who had the power (kings and churches) sought to enhance and secure their position by keeping the people dumb and manipulating them by altering passages from the bible in their favour.
[9F18] "... and the Lord said, Whack ye all the serpents which crawl on their bellies and thy town will be a beacon unto others. So you see Lisa, even God himself endorses whacking day."
I thought I had heard the song before, so a quick Google revealed that it's definitely not the first time a reviewer complain about the lack of innovation in games. I think I will complain about the lack of innovation by reviewers.;o)
I think that the Gecko engine renders HTML-pages with advanced CSS a little better than Opera. There's virtually no difference between Internet Explorer and Firebird*. And let's face it: IE is the de facto standard. I'm talking really suttle differences, like font-sizes, and default paddings, that are not completely the same when comparing Opera and IE.
*) The only differences I'm annoied with is the fact that IE doesn't put at top-margin on paragraphs and the likes and Gecko does. The font-size for input-fields aren't the same. And if you use percentages for font-sizes they are accumulated in IE, but not in Gecko.
The main reason I use Firebird is because of the impressive pop-up-blocker. It works much better than the add-ons for IE that I've tested. Dunno what Opera has to offer here, though.
Nokia's upcoming N-Gage has Bluetooth built-in, so I think it's pretty likely that Nintento will do the same thing for the next Gameboy. Now let's just hope that they will make them somewhat compatible.
I use multiple Pocket PC and Windows CE devices and have never had a crash on any of them yet.
While this is mostly true, and WinCE really is quite a different OS from full-blown NT, I've had PocketPC 3.0 crash every now and then. However, this isnt much of an annoyance, since it boots up real fast and thus far my crashes havent caused significant data losses. But having never experienced a crash -- I just find that hard to believe. Besides, all the cell phones I've owned have also crashed occasionally.
The problemet with Pocket PC isn't so much that it crashes from time time, but rather that it brings the whole system down with it. I mostly use my PDA for retreiving information, so I haven't really got anything to loose when it freezes. But I think that once they develop some better input devices for these little things, I'll need a more stable OS than Windows CE to support it.
And yeah, my Nokia 3210 has crashed a couple of times. I even made my old HP 32S calculater lock up once, wich required me to remove the batteries for several hours before I could boot it and get it up and running again. At least Pocket PC boots very fast, as you metion.:)
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And perhaps you don't know that the upcoming GIMP 2.8 will feature a "single window mode". I tested it by compiling from the git repository: it still has a LOT of rough edges (that's unreleased software for you) but it's better than the present UI in my opinion.
Even if it's just removed from the live CD, I find this move from Canonical to be borderline on stupid.
I am very excited about the "single window mode" feature, but won't this only be a small step in the right direction? What about all the awful right click menu system with sub-sub-menus? That really need a thorough overhaul too.
True. But it will only work if she doesn't play WOW herself.
You're looking at the Control Panel in classic view in details mode, i.e. the nerdiest mode. I guess you point is the exact reason that they've added a categorized view since Windows XP. In XP you can stick with the classic view and remove the describing text by choosing another view mode like tiles. I'm pretty shure that Vista will keep these possiblities.
Allofmp3's prices might seem fair to the users, but I'm pretty sure that the artists don't agree on that. I don't know how many royalties pay (my understanding is that they do pay some royalties), but it seems obvious to me that their pricing scheme is solely based on their bandwith cost. My guess is that they just buy one original cd and then makes any number of copies of that cd. Apple has said that at 99 cent per song they don't make any money on selling music, so I don't really see how you can lower that cost.
Do not consider music from Allofmp3 as legal! You're stealing from the artist.
I think you're completely wrong about the future of software for mobile phones. I guess you're right when you're saying that Windows Mobile crashes - my iPaq needed a reset from time to time. But my Nokia 6600 is much worse. The messaging applet has let me down so many times, I've stopped counting, each time forcing me to retype my text message. And sometimes the phone freezes, with the only solution being to remove the battery to turn it off. I would find a reset button really usefull on my Nokia phone.
I foresee that 2006 will be the year of the Microsoft Smartphone. I'm betting that people will realise that the software is becoming as important as the hardware, something that the average consumer definitely doesn't think about today. And I think that Microsoft is on the rigth path, because the software that they're building now has the features for tomorrow. I "just" needs a year of debugging.
Linux in mobile phones is probably an interesting path, but so far I haven't really seen any handheld products for the average Joe based on Linux.
Is Yahoo's video search based on AntaVista's technology? It seems to me that the results are identical.
Next move...
... we should decapitalize "Google".
The post was moderated as funny, but I find it quite insightful. And in a way that has already happened, since google is spelled with a lower case g, when it is used as a verb.
Remember the old 5 1/4 floppies? The cover always had a lot of warning signs on them, one of them being, that you shouldn't bend the disk. But my experience is these babies could easily survive being bent and crushed from lying between books for a whole day in a schoolbag. :)
MS Word for Windows has an interesting sequence of versions: 1, 2, 6, 95, 97, 2000.
You forgot the last two versions: XP and 2003.
Alternatively, slashdot could pay people for their accumulated karma. The users are what make this site. And the owners are raking in the bucks [...]
:)
Someone should start a new slashdot that pays the users for *their* content.
I'm look forward to the first professional slashdotter.
Well, I bothered. :)
This is not a regitry hack but a little program that attaches itself to the keyboard class driver.. shtml.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/ctrl2cap
Do you see this as a clear sing, that Microsofts Pocket PC is slowly winning the PDA operating system war? Or is it just that Sony couldn't turn Palm OS in to the media OS it wanted? Or perhaps something else?
Aha, it's called a "camel toe". I learned a new word today.
:)
Thank you!
If you're really hip you don't overclock your CPU - you undervolt it, so that you can make your rig super silent by skipping the fan on your CPU cooler.
Given enough time and enough monkeys they will eventually solve the cube in 19 seconds.
"Somehow over the course of a very few minutes, and with no additional instruction, I had gone from an incompetent draftsman to a very impressive artist of the feline form"
;)
What? The cats look more like dogs! Perhaps you should have yanked up the voltage a bit.
How are you seaching? Is it just at joke?
Here's what I get from search.msn.com:
browser: http://explorer.msn.com/home.htm
Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/
OpenOffice.org: http://www.openoffice.org/
quicktime: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
Apple computer: http://www.apple.com/
I do like the idea of a threaded SMS client (IM style).
Nokia has had that since the 3310.
From the features page: Mobile chat: The Nokia 3310 phone supports chat based on standard SMS, all previous written messages from both persons are visible on screen however chat messages are not saved on SIM-card.
The way I see it, it looks as if they whan to go away from the numbering of USB standards, and instead introduce a speed label, i.e. 'low speed', 'full speed' or 'hi-speed'. So in stead of going out shopping for a laptop with USB 2.0, they want you to look for one with Hi-Speed USB.
I think it's pretty obvious when you look at the logos on the USB Packaging page.
The problem with this naming scheme is of course, that they have to come up with new and more impressive names for each new version of USB. I expect that the standard computer in 2015 will support USB eXtra Fast Super Ludicrous Hi-Speed.
Over the years those who had the power (kings and churches) sought to enhance and secure their position by keeping the people dumb and manipulating them by altering passages from the bible in their favour.
[9F18] "... and the Lord said, Whack ye all the serpents which crawl on their bellies and thy town will be a beacon unto others. So you see Lisa, even God himself endorses whacking day."
Goodbye PKWare.
I think you can say goodbye to both PKWare and WinZip, since the zip format is supported natively by Windows XP.
(Unless, of course, if Microsoft is licensing the technology from one of them, or if PKWare actually can make money on their enterprise solutions.)
I thought I had heard the song before, so a quick Google revealed that it's definitely not the first time a reviewer complain about the lack of innovation in games. I think I will complain about the lack of innovation by reviewers. ;o)
To of the articles:
The True Death of Gaming? August 2000.
Change Is Scary... Hold Me November 2000.
I think that the Gecko engine renders HTML-pages with advanced CSS a little better than Opera. There's virtually no difference between Internet Explorer and Firebird*. And let's face it: IE is the de facto standard. I'm talking really suttle differences, like font-sizes, and default paddings, that are not completely the same when comparing Opera and IE.
*) The only differences I'm annoied with is the fact that IE doesn't put at top-margin on paragraphs and the likes and Gecko does. The font-size for input-fields aren't the same. And if you use percentages for font-sizes they are accumulated in IE, but not in Gecko.
The main reason I use Firebird is because of the impressive pop-up-blocker. It works much better than the add-ons for IE that I've tested. Dunno what Opera has to offer here, though.
Nokia's upcoming N-Gage has Bluetooth built-in, so I think it's pretty likely that Nintento will do the same thing for the next Gameboy. Now let's just hope that they will make them somewhat compatible.
The problemet with Pocket PC isn't so much that it crashes from time time, but rather that it brings the whole system down with it. I mostly use my PDA for retreiving information, so I haven't really got anything to loose when it freezes. But I think that once they develop some better input devices for these little things, I'll need a more stable OS than Windows CE to support it.
And yeah, my Nokia 3210 has crashed a couple of times. I even made my old HP 32S calculater lock up once, wich required me to remove the batteries for several hours before I could boot it and get it up and running again. At least Pocket PC boots very fast, as you metion.