I DESPISE these ridiculous self-modifying menus; but if I were forced to implement a system where menus adapted to use, I agree I'd make everything visible to start with. I'd also be tempted to list "ever-present" items in a nice solid black, with any items which might eventually become hidden labelled in grey. Over time, unused items would "fade away" through one or two lighter shades, so the user could see what was going to vanish soon. Naturally, it would be possible to selectively make any command hidable or non-hidable. Piece of piss to program, and I think clearer than Microsoft's system - the obvious downside being that newbies who know about ghosted menu items might get confused. Can't think offhand of a neat way round that. HMM.
And because I get 200 floppies rather than just one keychain, I can stick files on a disc, give it to my mum and think no more of it. Plus I don't really trust my mum to find a USB port anyway. Maybe when she gets a computer with front USB ports - or a hub - but that ain't gonna happen for a while yet.
Sure, the USB drive has its advantages, but floppies have some of their own too.
I think your sig is an insulting and unwarranted slur on the French national character; but I like the translation.:) Feels a bit formal though - I'd have gone for something like "des singes capitulateurs fromage-mangeants." Any native speakers care to comment...?
Presumably, you're going to be streaming it to Microsoft, which is in turn going to reflect your one stream to your nine friends at once. I know they say it's P2P, but there has to be some central server for just this reason. Besides, I can't imagine MS would miss the chance to own all your conversations etc. I wouldn't be at all surprised if you need a Passport account even to log in to threedegrees.
I imagine you'd have a buffer that would show the last x thoughts you had, and then you'd just mentally indicate which one you wanted to insert at the cursor.
The problem isn't money or market-share, it's that so-called web designers are pandering to ignorant clients who want something pretty on their personal desktop rather than a useful web presence.
This is broadly true. But, as a sometime freelance web-designer myself, I have to say, "pandering to clients" is our job. My last boss considered that being usable with IE was good enough, and told me not even to test the site in other browsers as it would be a waste of time and money. What was I supposed to do? Sure, I could have tested the site in my own time, and made any modifications for free, but why should I have to fix the mistakes of some idiot boss of a company I don't even work for?
Err... all of London's trains are the same height... Well, at least, on the Picadilly, Northern, Victoria, Circle, District, Jubilee, and Central lines.
'Tain't so! There are two sorts of undergound train: "sub-surface stock," which is 3.695 metres high and operates on the Circle, District, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and East London lines; and "tube stock," which is 2.882 metres high and found on all other lines. All this, and much much more information than you ever wanted, can be found at Tubeprune's LU Rolling Stock page.
It's hardly Toshiba's fault that you're stupid, ugly, lazy, fat and boring. Or indeed that your breath smells awful and you've got a microscopic penis.
Bored, are we?:)
I never said it was Toshiba's fault. You don't see me stomping around demanding a refund (though I'd have been entitled to one within 28 days). I'd simply never previously come across a PC that didn't have some sort of serial port (this was 18 months ago). I checked the spec for things like USB ports, free SO-DIMM slots etc., but a serial port is the kind of thing you can easily imagine they just didn't mention. After all, the technology's been pretty much unchanged for 15 years.
Damn right. My Toshiba Satellite 3000-X4 has no serial ports; and this was not exactly trumpeted when I bought it. I was somewhat irked when I discovered I was trying to plug my mouse into an S-video socket. In the end I had to go out and buy a USB mouse.
It also offers no way to use the floppy drive concurrently with the CD (both fit into the single internal bay). I did at least realise this before I bought it, and I wasn't impressed. But it was about £200 cheaper than the next model up, and the salesman assured me I would never need to use both at once. And, on reflection, I concluded that he was probably right. But you know, I regularly take that laptop to the library and to the office with me, and I keep the floppy drive in the bay pretty much all the time. I save my documents straight onto a floppy, and then when I get home I stick the disc in my desktop and pick up where I left off. I would strongly resist buying a desktop or laptop that made that process harder. Then again, I've not really tried packet-writing to CD-RWs.
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You can remember which is which because they both come from the Latin - petere (to head towards) and fugere (to flee from). Er, hang on...
It's also an abbreviation though. Admittedly it's not quite a truncation, but I think it's quite defensible to consider that, since it's short for "distribution," you should put an apostrophe between it and any suffixes. Cf. "fire aft retro's," or "have a look in the program dir's."
Amen to that. I paid £50 for BeOS 4.5 - not because I couldn't get it on the net, and not in the mistaken belief that I could then ditch Windows right away - but because I was, for the first time in a very long time, excited about an OS, and I wanted to support it.
Sure, MacOS X now has some of what made BeOS such a thrill to use; but I don't need or want to replace most of my hardware with stuff that costs twice as much. And I don't much want to install Linux because it doesn't have any of the applications I need for work (I do page design). Admittedly, BeOS didn't either, but if it had lived up to its potential I can't imagine Adobe would have ignored it.
Of course cachet has nothing to do with quality, but people are only human. When you side with the underdog, it's a bit galling to have someone set themselves up as an under-underdog beneath you.
Yes, but with modern hardware even Windows XP is fast enough that you don't feel you're constantly waiting around for it, so the BeOS advantage is much less noticeable. I wouldn't really notice if a task that took a quarter of a second under BeOS took a second in Windows. I'd definitely notice if something that took eight seconds in Windows 95 on my old P120 only took two seconds in BeOS.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with "it's been a while since I've seen x do y." Admittedly it is more usual to refer to items being "on" a site than "in" a site, but it's really not an egregious error.
The language snobbery around here is getting ridiculous. One day we'll there'll be an article announcing that "Microsoft have ceased trading," and all the comments will just be posts saying "*sigh* You mean Microsoft has ceased trading."
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I DESPISE these ridiculous self-modifying menus; but if I were forced to implement a system where menus adapted to use, I agree I'd make everything visible to start with. I'd also be tempted to list "ever-present" items in a nice solid black, with any items which might eventually become hidden labelled in grey. Over time, unused items would "fade away" through one or two lighter shades, so the user could see what was going to vanish soon. Naturally, it would be possible to selectively make any command hidable or non-hidable. Piece of piss to program, and I think clearer than Microsoft's system - the obvious downside being that newbies who know about ghosted menu items might get confused. Can't think offhand of a neat way round that. HMM.
256Mb USB keychain: £129.01
200 floppies: £41.08
And because I get 200 floppies rather than just one keychain, I can stick files on a disc, give it to my mum and think no more of it. Plus I don't really trust my mum to find a USB port anyway. Maybe when she gets a computer with front USB ports - or a hub - but that ain't gonna happen for a while yet.
Sure, the USB drive has its advantages, but floppies have some of their own too.
Bitstream Vera Sans looks like Verdana;
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono looks like somewhat (but not quite exactly) like Lucida Sans Typewriter; and
Bistream Vera Serif looks like Lucida Bright.
The only subjunctive mood remaining in the English language.
:)
If someone should post such a view on Slashdot, he should watch out lest he be contradicted.
I think your sig is an insulting and unwarranted slur on the French national character; but I like the translation. :) Feels a bit formal though - I'd have gone for something like "des singes capitulateurs fromage-mangeants." Any native speakers care to comment...?
Presumably, you're going to be streaming it to Microsoft, which is in turn going to reflect your one stream to your nine friends at once. I know they say it's P2P, but there has to be some central server for just this reason. Besides, I can't imagine MS would miss the chance to own all your conversations etc. I wouldn't be at all surprised if you need a Passport account even to log in to threedegrees.
Also presumably it lets you make some good gags about "shaking Djibouti."
Latina est langua mortua, in arena jacet.
Prima necavit Romanas, nunc nos interfacit!!
Latin is a dead language, it lies [buried] in the sand.
First it killed the Romans, now it kills us.
Surely it should be lingua, though, not langua? Anyway, this is an interesting reworking (which I hadn't seen before) of the old schoolboy rhyme:
Latin's a dead language, as dead as dead can be;
It killed off all the Romans, and now it's killing me.
I imagine you'd have a buffer that would show the last x thoughts you had, and then you'd just mentally indicate which one you wanted to insert at the cursor.
Then simply set your wallpaper to Always On Top! :)
Seems to me, anyone with an hour to spend in the library looking at pictures of plaques could have done it.
an old canard parrotted by web quacks
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Incidentally, are you by chance an aviarist?
The problem isn't money or market-share, it's that so-called web designers are pandering to ignorant clients who want something pretty on their personal desktop rather than a useful web presence.
This is broadly true. But, as a sometime freelance web-designer myself, I have to say, "pandering to clients" is our job. My last boss considered that being usable with IE was good enough, and told me not even to test the site in other browsers as it would be a waste of time and money. What was I supposed to do? Sure, I could have tested the site in my own time, and made any modifications for free, but why should I have to fix the mistakes of some idiot boss of a company I don't even work for?
Err... all of London's trains are the same height... Well, at least, on the Picadilly, Northern, Victoria, Circle, District, Jubilee, and Central lines.
'Tain't so! There are two sorts of undergound train: "sub-surface stock," which is 3.695 metres high and operates on the Circle, District, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and East London lines; and "tube stock," which is 2.882 metres high and found on all other lines. All this, and much much more information than you ever wanted, can be found at Tubeprune's LU Rolling Stock page.
It's hardly Toshiba's fault that you're stupid, ugly, lazy, fat and boring. Or indeed that your breath smells awful and you've got a microscopic penis.
:)
Bored, are we?
I never said it was Toshiba's fault. You don't see me stomping around demanding a refund (though I'd have been entitled to one within 28 days). I'd simply never previously come across a PC that didn't have some sort of serial port (this was 18 months ago). I checked the spec for things like USB ports, free SO-DIMM slots etc., but a serial port is the kind of thing you can easily imagine they just didn't mention. After all, the technology's been pretty much unchanged for 15 years.
Damn right. My Toshiba Satellite 3000-X4 has no serial ports; and this was not exactly trumpeted when I bought it. I was somewhat irked when I discovered I was trying to plug my mouse into an S-video socket. In the end I had to go out and buy a USB mouse.
It also offers no way to use the floppy drive concurrently with the CD (both fit into the single internal bay). I did at least realise this before I bought it, and I wasn't impressed. But it was about £200 cheaper than the next model up, and the salesman assured me I would never need to use both at once. And, on reflection, I concluded that he was probably right. But you know, I regularly take that laptop to the library and to the office with me, and I keep the floppy drive in the bay pretty much all the time. I save my documents straight onto a floppy, and then when I get home I stick the disc in my desktop and pick up where I left off. I would strongly resist buying a desktop or laptop that made that process harder. Then again, I've not really tried packet-writing to CD-RWs.
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You can remember which is which because they both come from the Latin - petere (to head towards) and fugere (to flee from). Er, hang on...
Actually, this got me thinking; so I looked it up in Fowler[1], and discovered this:
Though once commonly used in the plural of abbreviations and numerals (QC's, the 1960's), the apostrophe is now best omitted in such circumstances.
So I'll accept that the apostrophe in "distro's" is deprecated. But I maintain that it's defensible, and certainly not wrong.
[1] Fowler's Modern English Usage, Third Edition, ed. R.W. Burchfield (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1998)
It's also an abbreviation though. Admittedly it's not quite a truncation, but I think it's quite defensible to consider that, since it's short for "distribution," you should put an apostrophe between it and any suffixes. Cf. "fire aft retro's," or "have a look in the program dir's."
Amen to that. I paid £50 for BeOS 4.5 - not because I couldn't get it on the net, and not in the mistaken belief that I could then ditch Windows right away - but because I was, for the first time in a very long time, excited about an OS, and I wanted to support it.
Sure, MacOS X now has some of what made BeOS such a thrill to use; but I don't need or want to replace most of my hardware with stuff that costs twice as much. And I don't much want to install Linux because it doesn't have any of the applications I need for work (I do page design). Admittedly, BeOS didn't either, but if it had lived up to its potential I can't imagine Adobe would have ignored it.
Of course cachet has nothing to do with quality, but people are only human. When you side with the underdog, it's a bit galling to have someone set themselves up as an under-underdog beneath you.
Yes, but with modern hardware even Windows XP is fast enough that you don't feel you're constantly waiting around for it, so the BeOS advantage is much less noticeable. I wouldn't really notice if a task that took a quarter of a second under BeOS took a second in Windows. I'd definitely notice if something that took eight seconds in Windows 95 on my old P120 only took two seconds in BeOS.
!!! Understated humour! On Slashdot!
I wish I had, like, five mod points right now. And also that it were possible to use, like, five mod points on a single edit.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with "it's been a while since I've seen x do y." Admittedly it is more usual to refer to items being "on" a site than "in" a site, but it's really not an egregious error.
The language snobbery around here is getting ridiculous. One day we'll there'll be an article announcing that "Microsoft have ceased trading," and all the comments will just be posts saying "*sigh* You mean Microsoft has ceased trading."