Surely their innovators can create even better engine? One that is alot faster, renders better etc. etc. Why do they need KDE for it?
Writing better engine isn't really what I would call innovation. There's not much point making a browser render faster these days as the speed up would be unnoticeable. There's also no point writing a better engine for Safari if it's already using the fatest of the bunch (see the benchmarks halfway down the page). And by using the KDE rendering engine Apple avoids the dreaded not invented here syndrome.
Sure you can do that. But I was just wondering that with your uber-leet innovators you could have done something better than those no-good copycats at KDE.
It's an HTML rendering engine for goodness sake! What exactly do you propose they innovate?
And you can run Beagle right now. Today. Or are you stuck in the mindset that if it doesn't come in a shiny box, it doesn't count?
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They have tarballs available, in case you didn't see them.
Yes, you can run Beagle right now if you know how to compile and install software from source. Reality check: the majority of users out there don't.
Have you seen that start menu? More usable? It's got a motherfucking scrollbar inside of a fucking menu.
Have you actually tried it yet? You may actually find it easier to use than the current Windows XP start menu. You can't totally judge usability from a screenshot.
Didya read my comment? I said my iTunes for Windows *could* successfully rip copy protected CDs using certain hardware on my Windows desktop. Windows doesn't suck in this case. My laptop CD drive does.
I'm not the magic here is iTunes. I can't successfully rip copy protected CDs using iTunes on my laptop, but I can successfully rip them using my CD writer using iTunes on my desktop (both machines run Windows). I personally think it comes down to the error handling capabilities of the hardware used ripping the CD with.
Hmmm...no link to an actual news story about the announcement...yet another April Fools story, and if you RTFA you will discover Steve's yearly salary is $1.
The Flickr link in the story only links to one person's photoset (no disrespect to that person, w00kie). The Transparent Screens group pool is much more interesting as it aggregates everyones transparent screen photos.
If only VB were a F/OSS project instead of a proprietary customers could be assured of continued support as long as there was demand.
Wrong! Customers could only be assured of continued support as long as there is demand and there are capable developers who are interested in supporting the project.
There is no announcement yet from Google of their change.
No there isn't, and I don't see any reason why they need to make one. However Marissa Meyer, Product Manager for Google explains the switch to answers.com:
This decision was driven off of concern for our user experience. We are not paying answers.com for this service nor are they paying us. They were willing to work with us and design a website that we felt represented an improvement for our users over what was offered on dictionary.com (no pop-ups, dense information presentation).
I think it's safe to say most people use Google in their Firefox toolbar search field.
No sir! I have the toolbar search field turned off as it takes up extra space that could be used by the address bar and I search Google using a bookmark with the keyword g.
Sample excerpts from the book are available in PDF format from the book website. You can also download the full Using Tags and Branches chapter artima.com (free login required).
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If you think the Gnome Bugzilla search form is perfectly usable then why does it need to insult users with the help link at the bottom of the page that says "Give me a clue about how to use this form"?
Perhaps this begs a more important question... Why would you label the contextual menu item for access to all applications "Start"... It's clear that the computer is already turned on, so you're not telling the user anything useful... Start what, exactly?
Well, to start an application I would have thought.
Those who know what it's for don't need the label, and those who don't are only going to find it meaningless as it tells them absolutely nothing about what it does...
The Start label isn't entirely meaningless. The label is important for communication and documentation purposes - anything that instructs a user to use the button will need to call it something so the user knows that is indeed the button to hit, and labeling the button will give a user no doubts about what button to use.
Oh-- and let's not forget how you restart a PC (not that you have to do it much)! Click "start." Select "shut down." Now select "restart." Yeah, I would have found that.
You may have not found it, but apparently others did during usability tests when the taskbar was designed. Read the story.
I'm sure the guy would not have commented about the blank dialog if he *knew* what caused it. You yourself said it took a few hours to figure it out. (Of course, it would have been obvious immediately if McAfee at least put something in the title bar of the dialog to indicate it popped up the dialog.) I still stand by my not a moron call.
That blank diaglog that he blamed on Firefox is cause by McAffee Activescan...thats a problem with a completely different software suite and he blamed it on Mozilla. What a moron.
The dialog was blank!!! It appeared when opening Firefox, so naturally one would initially conclude Firefox was at fault. Not a moron.
Have you tested the spreadsheet it in OpenOffice? The current spreadsheet only works in Excel 2003 Professional, so I am somewhat dubious it would work in OpenOffice.
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Didya read my comment? I said my iTunes for Windows *could* successfully rip copy protected CDs using certain hardware on my Windows desktop. Windows doesn't suck in this case. My laptop CD drive does.
I'm not the magic here is iTunes. I can't successfully rip copy protected CDs using iTunes on my laptop, but I can successfully rip them using my CD writer using iTunes on my desktop (both machines run Windows). I personally think it comes down to the error handling capabilities of the hardware used ripping the CD with.
Hmmm...no link to an actual news story about the announcement...yet another April Fools story, and if you RTFA you will discover Steve's yearly salary is $1.
So would that make Slashdot a pimp?
The Flickr link in the story only links to one person's photoset (no disrespect to that person, w00kie). The Transparent Screens group pool is much more interesting as it aggregates everyones transparent screen photos.
Wrong! Customers could only be assured of continued support as long as there is demand and there are capable developers who are interested in supporting the project.
Obligatory book website and sample chapter links.
No sir! I have the toolbar search field turned off as it takes up extra space that could be used by the address bar and I search Google using a bookmark with the keyword g.
Sample excerpts from the book are available in PDF format from the book website. You can also download the full Using Tags and Branches chapter artima.com (free login required).
<gripe>Most tech books these days have a page on the publishers website, and some offer a sample chapter for download. Book reviewers should include a direct link to this book page, and note what excerpts/chapters are available for preview, if any (and prevent people like me karma whoring).</gripe>
Yes and yes.
From the W3C:Links in HTML documents - The A element: Basic HTML data types - Link types:
If you think the Gnome Bugzilla search form is perfectly usable then why does it need to insult users with the help link at the bottom of the page that says "Give me a clue about how to use this form"?
Do you know the length of the timespan for such a deal?
I'm sure the guy would not have commented about the blank dialog if he *knew* what caused it. You yourself said it took a few hours to figure it out. (Of course, it would have been obvious immediately if McAfee at least put something in the title bar of the dialog to indicate it popped up the dialog.) I still stand by my not a moron call.
Have you tested the spreadsheet it in OpenOffice? The current spreadsheet only works in Excel 2003 Professional, so I am somewhat dubious it would work in OpenOffice.
Yeah. The same thing was happening to me. I just checked again now and it appears to be working again.
I dunno. Maybe it's one of Ben's favourite holiday places?