It doesn't matter who anyone is, it matters what they do. So long as you leave me alone and don't delay up my flight, I don't care if you're a terrorist on vacation, a murderer coming back from a killing spree, or just someone who is sneaking off to have an affair and flying under a different name.
The summary uses the acronym "SMB", which is used in TFA, and is also used on the linked Microsoft blog. At no point does anyone define this term or give enough contextual clues for it to be obvious.
Considering how Microsoft treats its customers, it's obviously an acronym for "Suck My Balls."
I've used various versions of Word (and before that, the original AppleWorks on an Apple ][e) to write books and book-length dissertations. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I still think the best version of Word for the Mac is 5.1a.
For the last decade or so my strategy was to use Word's outliner then fill in the text. Pretty straightforward when you know exactly how things are supposed to go, like for a paper or a report. Unfortunately, I found them wanting for my creative writing, where I tend to write from the inside out, starting with a scene or a character or a funny sentence but not knowing where that bit would fit in a story. Sure, I could just dump everything in the ol' slop file, or link a bunch of individual files using Word's master document, but it was always forced and clunky.
Last October I was looking for a new tool for Nanowrimo and I experimented with WriteRoom, Jer's Novel Write, Lyx, CopyWrite, Storyist, and Scriviner. In the end it came down to Storyist and Scriviner. I liked how Storyist had novel templates, but they seemed overly restrictive--and the software cost twice as much. I ended up buying Scriviner.
What I like about Scriviner is that it gracefully handles working with both long chapters and little scraps, easily allowing you to change the views to an outline or index cards on a cork board with synopses, or as individual documents, or all run in together in a single window.
A Gulfstream V aircraft will take off from San Jose, Calif...The primary goal of the lengthy airborne mission is to observe the Quadrantid meteor shower in ideal and virtually unchanging conditions...
Those ideal conditions specifically being the well-stocked supply of canapés and booze in that private jet.
Consistent would be a good start. I'm not keen on the idea of it being done by studios, though, as I neither know nor care which studio does which flick. How about some standard human-interface guidelines so it's consistent across movies? Maybe include guidelines on feedback too, so that it's clear what's being selected. I think the worst I ever saw was when the frame around a box went from white to--I kid you not--silver. WTF?
A half-second of animation would be tolerable. What I object to now is having to wait and wait for something that intellectually isn't worth the wait. It's like on a web page waiting for a flash animation to load to make a simple menu selection that could pop up instantly in HTML.
I like the saving your own scenes thing you describe, but my gripe was really about when one goes do something that should be simple, like selecting a single episode of a TV show instead of telling it to play all.
For me, improved DVD menus would be text-only with immediate feedback.
I hate how nowadays every DVD has to have a a little intro for each section of the menu and its own, hard-to-interpret way of indicating which selection is selected.
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That must have driven their marketing people batshit.
Citation and relevance, please.
I think they just needed more time to work network server bugs out before Leopard was released.
Wireless is cool, but I'm just hoping that a Time Machine update will let me backup via Ethernet to my Infrant NV+.
I hope Time Capsule means that Time Machine will be updated to work with other network servers.
I'm a Mac.
And I'm a Oh my God, I'm burning!
Or hacked to display goatse and ads for competing stores at random moments.
Sounds good. I'd also add requiring free radio/television time to candidates to lower the fundraising aspect of national politics.
So which one of you had to eat the soggy biscuit?
I'm shocked, shocked to learn that the Chinese are shitting all over the environment.
My wife showed me the "killed in a knitting accident" part, which was causing much mayhem in the ravelry knitting and crochet site.
It doesn't matter who anyone is, it matters what they do. So long as you leave me alone and don't delay up my flight, I don't care if you're a terrorist on vacation, a murderer coming back from a killing spree, or just someone who is sneaking off to have an affair and flying under a different name.
No, wait. He's a red giant.
Microsoft embraces the open-source community like a dog embraces a leg.
"Don't taste me, bro" --Domain
The summary uses the acronym "SMB", which is used in TFA, and is also used on the linked Microsoft blog. At no point does anyone define this term or give enough contextual clues for it to be obvious.
Considering how Microsoft treats its customers, it's obviously an acronym for "Suck My Balls."
I've used various versions of Word (and before that, the original AppleWorks on an Apple ][e) to write books and book-length dissertations. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I still think the best version of Word for the Mac is 5.1a.
For the last decade or so my strategy was to use Word's outliner then fill in the text. Pretty straightforward when you know exactly how things are supposed to go, like for a paper or a report. Unfortunately, I found them wanting for my creative writing, where I tend to write from the inside out, starting with a scene or a character or a funny sentence but not knowing where that bit would fit in a story. Sure, I could just dump everything in the ol' slop file, or link a bunch of individual files using Word's master document, but it was always forced and clunky.
Last October I was looking for a new tool for Nanowrimo and I experimented with WriteRoom, Jer's Novel Write, Lyx, CopyWrite, Storyist, and Scriviner. In the end it came down to Storyist and Scriviner. I liked how Storyist had novel templates, but they seemed overly restrictive--and the software cost twice as much. I ended up buying Scriviner.
What I like about Scriviner is that it gracefully handles working with both long chapters and little scraps, easily allowing you to change the views to an outline or index cards on a cork board with synopses, or as individual documents, or all run in together in a single window.
perhaps ammonia is a simpler compromise
And unlike gasoline, you wouldn't have to clean up an ammonia spill. In ammonia-fueled car, fuel spill cleans you!
A Gulfstream V aircraft will take off from San Jose, Calif...The primary goal of the lengthy airborne mission is to observe the Quadrantid meteor shower in ideal and virtually unchanging conditions...
Those ideal conditions specifically being the well-stocked supply of canapés and booze in that private jet.
Consistent would be a good start. I'm not keen on the idea of it being done by studios, though, as I neither know nor care which studio does which flick. How about some standard human-interface guidelines so it's consistent across movies? Maybe include guidelines on feedback too, so that it's clear what's being selected. I think the worst I ever saw was when the frame around a box went from white to--I kid you not--silver. WTF?
A half-second of animation would be tolerable. What I object to now is having to wait and wait for something that intellectually isn't worth the wait. It's like on a web page waiting for a flash animation to load to make a simple menu selection that could pop up instantly in HTML.
I like the saving your own scenes thing you describe, but my gripe was really about when one goes do something that should be simple, like selecting a single episode of a TV show instead of telling it to play all.
It's just a QWERTY keyboard with a second shift key
Sounds shifty to me.
Seriously, though, don't most keyboards have two shift keys (and a caplocks key)?
Yes, because 'Mexican" isn't a race.
For me, improved DVD menus would be text-only with immediate feedback.
I hate how nowadays every DVD has to have a a little intro for each section of the menu and its own, hard-to-interpret way of indicating which selection is selected.
Not sure why they modded you troll, unless it's possible to mod: "Funny, Troll"
It is, indirectly. Actually, my post was modded 30% Funny, 30% Troll and 30% Informative.
(This post is Informative.)
So this begs me to ask, why do they consider the more expensive, less equipped, and weaker operating system computer better than the other?
The Dell comes with a TV tuner. People who like Dells also like American Idol and Fox news.
More likely a billboard-sized BSOD.