As someone else said, these are things that don't tend to annoy the average user. It's a geek thing.
What I haven't seen anyone mention is QuickTime. That's the one app that nags, nags, nags if you "haven't gone pro". It's stupid. It's annoying. And it's pointless.
Well, condoms aren't 100% effective, so that argument isn't exactly solid.
However, rather than go over the fine points of what was never intended to be some finely nuanced analogy... I'll spell it out in layman's terms:
The fact that an authority has regulated or banned something cannot be used as evidence of its apparent usefulness or lack thereof. Therefore, the fact that guns aren't allowed on commercial flights says nothing about their ability to keep people safe. Much in the same way that the fact that condoms aren't readily available in the majority of US high schools* says nothing about their contraceptive properties in regards to teen pregnancies.
*Notice all of the qualifiers I had to add to this to keep the pedants from avoiding the actual point?
That's an improvement. However, it still won't hop. Maybe delete the blanks before the carriage returns? That would free up some room... [awfully silly that you can't actually message people around here].
Should I open a peer review for this so we can generate some artifacts?
The summary explicitly states "...he's in for a share of the cash generated from the sale of 163 million iPods." Perhaps your summary reads "... he's in for a miniscule share of the fungible assets generated, in part, by the sale of 163 million iPods."
When I read the summary, my first thought was that my kdawson filter wasn't working. It's no surprise that you can't mod a summary down. At least I remembered to tag it as "lame".
As an FYI for Safari users, you can do the same in Safari. IIRC, it came in sometime in the 2.x era, but I might be mistaken in that. I frequently run the betas and the feature vs version issue gets a bit clouded for me.
Anyway, you can rearrange the tabs, drag them to other windows, are drag them out into a new window.
The only down side is that, as far as I can tell, you have to have multiple tabs in the window from which you're dragging. So consolidating two windows into one means you have to Cmd-T in one of them to open another window first, then close it after consolidation. Rather silly - and the preferences don't have an "Always show a tab" option.
Since when does someone who codes up a partial SQL implementation get promoted to inventor status? It reminds me of a guy at work (one of those self-promoter types) telling me how he and his team "invented an XML".
Perhaps Linux inventor Linus Torvalds and Melissa inventor David Smith could chime in with their thoughts on this.
OTOH, a flash chip that only needs to be written once in the factory could probably be produced much more cheaply than whatever methods we are using today. There would also need to be less controller circuitry as you don't need to be able to write to it.
Well, IIRC, that's called ROM. It seems like a waste of silicon to use flash as ROM.
The specific feature set found on a Motorola phone is dictated by the carrier. Which is why Verizon labeled versions of Moto phones are frequently feature-poor so that Verizon can then lease those capabilities back to you.
Oh, you got that right. Unfortunately, EVE absolutely blows under Cider. I boot into XP for it - it's more stable that way (well, you get the pretty graphics too).
You make good points, however one of them really isn't valid (assuming developers are using the tools provided to them by Apple).
After all of this, it would be really hard to convince developers to re-code for POWER instruction set, Altivec etc. It is a radically different thing
The reason being that 1) most devs using Cocoa are shipping Universal Binary (ies) already (that's anecdotal based upon what I've seen - I don't have an actual reference for that), and 2) CoreImage and its ilk abstract the GPU and SIMD pipelines away from the application layer.
If you had invested in MSFT you'd know that their stock has been essentially flat since 2000. Certainly if you were vested back then, selling off during the periodic spikes would help, but ultimately it has been a non-performer for nearly a decade now.
Yar! Twenty-freaking-five years later and I'm still trying to find some real choices in my virus scanning and spyware removal software. Damn you Apple!!!
Oh, you know, I actually forgot to respond to the other parts of your "insightful" post. This thread that you jumped into was about the excessive use of labels by California. An excessiveness that results in labeling being useless, because everything ends up with a label.
Ignoring your completely out of control blender example (because either your reading comprehension is poor, or it really is an example of one of those useless labels), the other examples you bring up have absolutely nothing to do with what the thread was discussing. The reason being that they have absolutely nothing to do with California's labeling obsession. Those labels are available everywhere, and have to do with end-consumer use (in the case of Home Depot chemicals) and buildings that most likely contain airborne asbestos potential. Although even those are out of hand in a lot of places.
And, if it were really a free country, I would be free of having to pay the cost of this excessive labeling. In fact, businesses would be free to not post them rather than having them mandated to them. And, furthermore, businesses that knowingly chose to ignore real dangers and caused injury to others would truly be penalized. And that penalty would not consist of making a law office wealthy while passing the cost on to the rest of us.
Yeah - this is the post I should probably have the sense not click submit on. Obviously I'm in no mood to put up with this crap today. Maybe you kids should get of my yard too.
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three syllables.... k-daw-son
As someone else said, these are things that don't tend to annoy the average user. It's a geek thing.
What I haven't seen anyone mention is QuickTime. That's the one app that nags, nags, nags if you "haven't gone pro". It's stupid. It's annoying. And it's pointless.
Well, condoms aren't 100% effective, so that argument isn't exactly solid.
However, rather than go over the fine points of what was never intended to be some finely nuanced analogy... I'll spell it out in layman's terms:
The fact that an authority has regulated or banned something cannot be used as evidence of its apparent usefulness or lack thereof. Therefore, the fact that guns aren't allowed on commercial flights says nothing about their ability to keep people safe. Much in the same way that the fact that condoms aren't readily available in the majority of US high schools* says nothing about their contraceptive properties in regards to teen pregnancies.
*Notice all of the qualifiers I had to add to this to keep the pedants from avoiding the actual point?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy
No. It means you'll have to check slashdot periodically to see if you're still alive.
Which has nothing to do with his sig nor my response.
Regarding your sig...
Isn't that a bit like saying "If condoms prevented teen pregnancies we'd be allowed to buy them in High School bathrooms."
That's an improvement. However, it still won't hop. Maybe delete the blanks before the carriage returns? That would free up some room... [awfully silly that you can't actually message people around here].
Should I open a peer review for this so we can generate some artifacts?
The summary explicitly states "...he's in for a share of the cash generated from the sale of 163 million iPods." Perhaps your summary reads "... he's in for a miniscule share of the fungible assets generated, in part, by the sale of 163 million iPods."
When I read the summary, my first thought was that my kdawson filter wasn't working. It's no surprise that you can't mod a summary down. At least I remembered to tag it as "lame".
Yes. However, as pointed up by JonathanBoyd above you have to use the View menu to make sure that tabs are always showing.
Yeah. I know. That was my point. I was being facetious.
I'm thinking without a closing " your rabbit process won't even take its first hop... :)
Awesome. Thanks!
As an FYI for Safari users, you can do the same in Safari. IIRC, it came in sometime in the 2.x era, but I might be mistaken in that. I frequently run the betas and the feature vs version issue gets a bit clouded for me.
Anyway, you can rearrange the tabs, drag them to other windows, are drag them out into a new window.
The only down side is that, as far as I can tell, you have to have multiple tabs in the window from which you're dragging. So consolidating two windows into one means you have to Cmd-T in one of them to open another window first, then close it after consolidation. Rather silly - and the preferences don't have an "Always show a tab" option.
Since when does someone who codes up a partial SQL implementation get promoted to inventor status? It reminds me of a guy at work (one of those self-promoter types) telling me how he and his team "invented an XML".
Perhaps Linux inventor Linus Torvalds and Melissa inventor David Smith could chime in with their thoughts on this.
OTOH, a flash chip that only needs to be written once in the factory could probably be produced much more cheaply than whatever methods we are using today. There would also need to be less controller circuitry as you don't need to be able to write to it.
Well, IIRC, that's called ROM. It seems like a waste of silicon to use flash as ROM.
The specific feature set found on a Motorola phone is dictated by the carrier. Which is why Verizon labeled versions of Moto phones are frequently feature-poor so that Verizon can then lease those capabilities back to you.
Oh, you got that right. Unfortunately, EVE absolutely blows under Cider. I boot into XP for it - it's more stable that way (well, you get the pretty graphics too).
You make good points, however one of them really isn't valid (assuming developers are using the tools provided to them by Apple).
The reason being that 1) most devs using Cocoa are shipping Universal Binary (ies) already (that's anecdotal based upon what I've seen - I don't have an actual reference for that), and 2) CoreImage and its ilk abstract the GPU and SIMD pipelines away from the application layer.
Man - the mods needs to grow a sense of humor. That was funny.
If you had invested in MSFT you'd know that their stock has been essentially flat since 2000. Certainly if you were vested back then, selling off during the periodic spikes would help, but ultimately it has been a non-performer for nearly a decade now.
Yar! Twenty-freaking-five years later and I'm still trying to find some real choices in my virus scanning and spyware removal software. Damn you Apple!!!
You might want to study this before posting again. Familiarizing yourself with this wouldn't hurt either.
Thank you! Now if only the GP could be modded "bull shit".
Oh, you know, I actually forgot to respond to the other parts of your "insightful" post. This thread that you jumped into was about the excessive use of labels by California. An excessiveness that results in labeling being useless, because everything ends up with a label.
Ignoring your completely out of control blender example (because either your reading comprehension is poor, or it really is an example of one of those useless labels), the other examples you bring up have absolutely nothing to do with what the thread was discussing. The reason being that they have absolutely nothing to do with California's labeling obsession. Those labels are available everywhere, and have to do with end-consumer use (in the case of Home Depot chemicals) and buildings that most likely contain airborne asbestos potential. Although even those are out of hand in a lot of places.
And, if it were really a free country, I would be free of having to pay the cost of this excessive labeling. In fact, businesses would be free to not post them rather than having them mandated to them. And, furthermore, businesses that knowingly chose to ignore real dangers and caused injury to others would truly be penalized. And that penalty would not consist of making a law office wealthy while passing the cost on to the rest of us.
Yeah - this is the post I should probably have the sense not click submit on. Obviously I'm in no mood to put up with this crap today. Maybe you kids should get of my yard too.