Oh, right. Well, different people have different ideas of sane. Actually, my favorite WM of all time was the SGI Irix workstations we had in our college computer lab around 1997. The combination of the soft colors, easy to read fonts, and the scratching sound the mouse made as I moved it across the desk without a mouse pad (mouse pads always got stolen) was very satisfying.
Later, the lab people started punching a hole in the mouse pad running the cord through it. That just killed the whole experience.
Windows or Unix/Linux or OSX they are all very capable. If you are smart enough to avoid vendorlock you have lots and lots of options with any one of them.
Avoiding vendorlock is not that easy in the corporate world. I would switch to Linux if it weren't for my:
Trading platform (I'm not willing to change brokers, for good reasons)
Enterprise Anti-virus control panel
Call center client software
PBX configuration application
Norton Ghost (bitwise image backups are much better than rsync)
Games
Some of these I could do in a virtual machine. But putting it all together, it's too much of a headache, and it wouldn't gain me very much. And I don't own the call center or the PBX, so those aren't my fault.
No, I'm saying that I use the mouse buttons for things that are not specific to Firefox. I don't even know how to configure the mouse inside Firefox. I'm also asking why the hell you would arbitrarily change the order of a popup menu except to piss people off?
Ctrl-click does work, but a one-handed solution is always nice.
No. When I charge my battery to 100%, that charge is mine. If I didn't want it, I would have only charged it to 50%. And if I didn't want to go wherever I want whenever I want, I wouldn't have bought a car. When we have a way to completely charge a battery in 5 seconds, then we can talk.
It's kind of like how I pay my power company extra for green power so nobody can bitch at me for leaving my computer on 24 hours a day.
In other words, when you put monkeys at a keyboard, you're usually trying to answer the question of whether they can turn chaos into order without intelligence. The answer is still no, because the filter is the intelligence.
Unless I'm missing something, this is obvious. If you type random characters long enough, you'll come up with some English words. If you eliminate all of the words not written by Shakespear, you'll be left with a Shakespear play.
It depends on what you mean by crime. A binding contract is usually enforceable by law. You won't normally go to jail for breach of contract, but you can certainly be sued.
I've never had a problem switching between my keyboard and my phone, but sometimes it is a little cumbersome to dial a phone number on my keyboard, or to use the calculator on my cell phone. In particular, with phone numbers that I dial often, my brain seems to remember the key sequence of that particular number, and that makes it harder to dial that number on a computer number pad. It's not cumbersome enough to worry about, though.
Spend the next 6 weeks looking up at the sky. If you see something coming toward you, run. Or you could build a bomb shelter, but you only have a couple of weeks to finish it.
Changing something just for the sake of changing it is bullshit. It has to be proven to be better first. You need specific reasons.
But yes, reducing screen space without adding significant functionality is very bad, too.
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Yeah, I'm an old fart. The idea of people born in the 90's having a driver's license seems like a freak of nature to me. :)
Oh, right. Well, different people have different ideas of sane. Actually, my favorite WM of all time was the SGI Irix workstations we had in our college computer lab around 1997. The combination of the soft colors, easy to read fonts, and the scratching sound the mouse made as I moved it across the desk without a mouse pad (mouse pads always got stolen) was very satisfying.
Later, the lab people started punching a hole in the mouse pad running the cord through it. That just killed the whole experience.
We still have those?
Of course. Even Windows has a Window Manager. The question is whether or not you have a choice.
Windows or Unix/Linux or OSX they are all very capable. If you are smart enough to avoid vendorlock you have lots and lots of options with any one of them.
Avoiding vendorlock is not that easy in the corporate world. I would switch to Linux if it weren't for my:
Trading platform (I'm not willing to change brokers, for good reasons)
Enterprise Anti-virus control panel
Call center client software
PBX configuration application
Norton Ghost (bitwise image backups are much better than rsync)
Games
Some of these I could do in a virtual machine. But putting it all together, it's too much of a headache, and it wouldn't gain me very much. And I don't own the call center or the PBX, so those aren't my fault.
Or do what I do and start posting more meaningful posts to bury the bad one and hope nobody notices.
No, I'm saying that I use the mouse buttons for things that are not specific to Firefox. I don't even know how to configure the mouse inside Firefox. I'm also asking why the hell you would arbitrarily change the order of a popup menu except to piss people off?
Ctrl-click does work, but a one-handed solution is always nice.
My middle click is assigned to a more important task.
To all developers: Stop changing shit that isn't broken. For example, since the last time I updated Skype, my smiley face looks stoned now.
To Mozilla: FFS... just stop.
Sharing with the grid
No. When I charge my battery to 100%, that charge is mine. If I didn't want it, I would have only charged it to 50%. And if I didn't want to go wherever I want whenever I want, I wouldn't have bought a car. When we have a way to completely charge a battery in 5 seconds, then we can talk.
It's kind of like how I pay my power company extra for green power so nobody can bitch at me for leaving my computer on 24 hours a day.
Meaningless. What happens when you want to drive the car and the battery isn't charged because the power has been returned to the grid?
In other words, when you put monkeys at a keyboard, you're usually trying to answer the question of whether they can turn chaos into order without intelligence. The answer is still no, because the filter is the intelligence.
Unless I'm missing something, this is obvious. If you type random characters long enough, you'll come up with some English words. If you eliminate all of the words not written by Shakespear, you'll be left with a Shakespear play.
The word "apparent" is the key here.
That would never happen in Ireland.
You mean because the lethal level is different there, right? :)
Right. You can build up a lot of kv. But if you're measuring amps, you're probably already dead.
It's much easier and safer to have a voice guide you than to read a map while driving.
Is any other breach of contract a crime?
It depends on what you mean by crime. A binding contract is usually enforceable by law. You won't normally go to jail for breach of contract, but you can certainly be sued.
I've never had a problem switching between my keyboard and my phone, but sometimes it is a little cumbersome to dial a phone number on my keyboard, or to use the calculator on my cell phone. In particular, with phone numbers that I dial often, my brain seems to remember the key sequence of that particular number, and that makes it harder to dial that number on a computer number pad. It's not cumbersome enough to worry about, though.
I thought in-state students paid less because the state paid the difference? Why should the school not make the same total amount from each student?
Spend the next 6 weeks looking up at the sky. If you see something coming toward you, run. Or you could build a bomb shelter, but you only have a couple of weeks to finish it.
Prior art much?
http://secondlife.com/
Surely that falls within "the year isn't exactly 365.25 days long".
I approve of your math.
If there's something you use frequently that isn't on the home tab
Or, how about if we just organize all of the commands into a pull-down menu bar? Oh, wait. That's what we've always had since Windows 3.1, until now.
It's cluttered, it takes up lots of screen space, and it doesn't add any functionality that wasn't already available.
Changing something just for the sake of changing it is bullshit. It has to be proven to be better first. You need specific reasons. But yes, reducing screen space without adding significant functionality is very bad, too.