That happens to me a lot. Inevitably, when Microsoft makes the UI "smart" enough to "know" what I'm trying to do, it is almost always wrong... at least for me. I just wish they could come up with UI improvements (or at least what they think are improvements) that don't make things worse for people who actually have a little experience.
Functionally, Explorer hasn't gotten any better since Windows 2000, IMO. At least crashes less than it used to, but I always thought it was the weakest and most poorly designed part of Windows, at with every new release it never gets better.
I don't see anyone complaining about Windows 7's snap to the boarder feature.
I am. I hate it. Snapping to the border isn't so bad, but it always resizes the window to an amazingly unuseful size. I'm constantly having to fight with the thing when I want to arrange a couple of windows so I can see them both at the same time.
Yeah... the whole ribbon vs. menu argument is really kind of moot because either way, you're still using Office, and that's a whole lot of DEEP HURTING regardless of the UI.
Only because they got rid of a bunch of space-wasting crap that shouldn't have been there in the first place... stuff that any sane user would have immediately turned off to begin with.
This explains the trend I've noticed of more and more Java apps simply being distributed with their own JREs. It's gotten pretty ridiculous really. "Write Once, Run Almost Anywhere But Only On The Exact Same Version of the JRE" is closer to the truth.
That's getting harder and harder to find since we a society are losing the collective ability to manage, or even know what a manager should be able to do.
Well, since we don't have any, I'd say you're right. We have people in charge, but they are hardly leaders... mostly just scum that has risen to the top in a system that rewards corruption and appealing to the lowest common denominator.
The problem is not shallow people that care about irrelevant data, the problem is that too many people have an inordinate amount of power over your life. Whether it's a crook who is subverting technology to steal your identity or stalk you, or a government official who has decided to put you on a list of people for a tax audit, or deny you an approval to make improvements to your home, or who vindictively sends the FBI after you because you support his political opponent ("Why yes, I did hear him making threats of terrorism."), the ability of anyone to cause anyone else great amounts of harm in ways that are more or less anonymous is the real problem.
I think it's fair to say RMS is both a genius and a crackpot. His goals are laudable, and I support them, but what he's willing to sacrifice to achieve them isn't necessarily so.
Because PDF to ePub conversion generally gives you pretty awful results. Nothing against Calibre. I use it. But most PDFs I've tried to convert for my Nook Classic have had less than stellar results: readable if you're lucky, but not nicely formatted. And if there are embedded images, all bets are off.
This is fine. Then if I purchase an e-Book, I only need the PDF version specific to the device I'm currently using (a Nook Classic)... oh, and any device I might ever want to use for the rest of my life. A proper eBook format cannot be tied to a specific page format.
I like PDF for computer use, but the parent is right... it's definitely "rotten" for e-Readers. I've tried converting PDF to ePub to use on my Nook and it's a hit-or-miss proposition, with much more "miss" than "hit".
I can't see that. I'm sure the NASA boffins just need to send the commands an hour or so ahead of time. It's not like they have to make moment-to-moment adjustments.
Microsoft lost this round of the browser war, probably for good. Now if only someone could beat them in the office suite war. As much as I don't like IE, even IE6 isn't as bad as using Office.
I tried Outlook in 2003 or so and found it to be so bad I can't imagine anyone could work on the product and not kill themselves from shame. I imported my e-mail archives into it only to find it craps out at about 1.5GB in a mailbox file and randomly starts losing stuff. When I mentioned the problem to a few folks their responses were, essentially, "Of course, that's a well-known bug." It would take 30-60 seconds to open a large folder. I could go on...
I have to use Outlook at work and I'm randomly getting alerts for calendar events that were cancelled. Some times I get alerts for calendar items from days, even months in the past. A couple days ago, I got an alert from an event that never existed several days after the fact (I know because the event was at midnight). It got to the point at one time where I was missing actual meetings because I was getting alerts for items that didn't show up in my calendar view and was assuming they were just spurious.
I'll take Thunderbird over Outlook any day. T'bird might not be slick and it might not have had many significant new features since version 1... e.g., why in the world does it still not support import and export?... but it does the job and doesn't tick me off... or suddenly freeze up for several minutes like Outlook has on occasion.
It's funny, at work I was upgraded in the last year to both Windows 7 and Office 2007. I've found Windows 7 to be decent; it's no Vista although I still prefer XP and would prefer Linux even more. But Windows 7 manages to not be worse in XP in most ways. Office, however, is as weird and buggy and unreliable as ever. I think nothing speaks to the truth that Microsoft is a monopoly than the existence of Office. In a world of crappy software, it manages to do things worse than almost any other piece of software I've ever seen.... well, non-enterprise software anyway. In my experience over the years, enterprise software is generally of a level of horribleness that even Microsoft doesn't reach. It seems once you hit the big leagues, everything good that's happened to software in the last 25 years no longer exists.
they decided to make the name Y2K compliant this time
Yes, because a lot of people might be confused, thinking the standard came out in 1911.;-)
Regarding the type inference, I always found that to be a glaring deficiency in STL. I always thought Borland's style of implementation was much better to use, although I can understand it wasn't as flexible or fast as templates. I did the same thing in my own class library back before I used templates (and they were standard), so I could do for-loops like this:
for (iterator i(collection); i.hasMore( ); i++) {
something = collection[i]...
The new use for "auto" solves this whole issue very neatly.
But the purpose of religion is not tell us the whats and hows of the working of the world, so as a believer _and_ a big fan of science, I have no problems with that. It's not that religion fails to do what science does, but that religion answers a different set of questions. Science has also failed to answer the questions that religion addresses.
Precisely. I also wasn't so popular when I was doing the same amount of work with 1/3 of the code. I remember interviewing with one of the supervisors who said "We're sort of a garage shop here." I took that to mean they weren't particularly formal in their development process (presumably because they knew what they were doing and were good at it), which is what I was used to at other places, but I soon figured out that what he really meant was, "We have no idea what we're doing." exactly the opposite of how I took it.
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You know I find it ironic that disabling this so-called usability feature is in a section called "Make the mouse easier to use".
It's not often they are so upfront about admitting their mistakes.
That happens to me a lot. Inevitably, when Microsoft makes the UI "smart" enough to "know" what I'm trying to do, it is almost always wrong... at least for me. I just wish they could come up with UI improvements (or at least what they think are improvements) that don't make things worse for people who actually have a little experience.
Functionally, Explorer hasn't gotten any better since Windows 2000, IMO. At least crashes less than it used to, but I always thought it was the weakest and most poorly designed part of Windows, at with every new release it never gets better.
I don't see anyone complaining about Windows 7's snap to the boarder feature.
I am. I hate it. Snapping to the border isn't so bad, but it always resizes the window to an amazingly unuseful size. I'm constantly having to fight with the thing when I want to arrange a couple of windows so I can see them both at the same time.
Yeah... the whole ribbon vs. menu argument is really kind of moot because either way, you're still using Office, and that's a whole lot of DEEP HURTING regardless of the UI.
Only because they got rid of a bunch of space-wasting crap that shouldn't have been there in the first place... stuff that any sane user would have immediately turned off to begin with.
This explains the trend I've noticed of more and more Java apps simply being distributed with their own JREs. It's gotten pretty ridiculous really. "Write Once, Run Almost Anywhere But Only On The Exact Same Version of the JRE" is closer to the truth.
I'm a Christian, but I can assure you I'm highly concentrated.
That's getting harder and harder to find since we a society are losing the collective ability to manage, or even know what a manager should be able to do.
Well, since we don't have any, I'd say you're right. We have people in charge, but they are hardly leaders... mostly just scum that has risen to the top in a system that rewards corruption and appealing to the lowest common denominator.
The problem is not shallow people that care about irrelevant data, the problem is that too many people have an inordinate amount of power over your life. Whether it's a crook who is subverting technology to steal your identity or stalk you, or a government official who has decided to put you on a list of people for a tax audit, or deny you an approval to make improvements to your home, or who vindictively sends the FBI after you because you support his political opponent ("Why yes, I did hear him making threats of terrorism."), the ability of anyone to cause anyone else great amounts of harm in ways that are more or less anonymous is the real problem.
Oh, I have plenty of friends, but none of them know my real name, job or where I live. Plus I always leave the house in disguise. At night.
I think it's fair to say RMS is both a genius and a crackpot. His goals are laudable, and I support them, but what he's willing to sacrifice to achieve them isn't necessarily so.
Because PDF to ePub conversion generally gives you pretty awful results. Nothing against Calibre. I use it. But most PDFs I've tried to convert for my Nook Classic have had less than stellar results: readable if you're lucky, but not nicely formatted. And if there are embedded images, all bets are off.
This is fine. Then if I purchase an e-Book, I only need the PDF version specific to the device I'm currently using (a Nook Classic)... oh, and any device I might ever want to use for the rest of my life. A proper eBook format cannot be tied to a specific page format.
I like PDF for computer use, but the parent is right... it's definitely "rotten" for e-Readers. I've tried converting PDF to ePub to use on my Nook and it's a hit-or-miss proposition, with much more "miss" than "hit".
I can't see that. I'm sure the NASA boffins just need to send the commands an hour or so ahead of time. It's not like they have to make moment-to-moment adjustments.
It's particularly fun to go fullscreen with it and run nethack, and people actually think you're doing something very brainy and technical.
It's Nethack for crying out loud. Games don't get much more brainy and technical than Nethack!
Yeah, it does kind of suck for grandma, but what's your alternative, other than botnets forever?
iPads.
Microsoft lost this round of the browser war, probably for good. Now if only someone could beat them in the office suite war. As much as I don't like IE, even IE6 isn't as bad as using Office.
I tried Outlook in 2003 or so and found it to be so bad I can't imagine anyone could work on the product and not kill themselves from shame. I imported my e-mail archives into it only to find it craps out at about 1.5GB in a mailbox file and randomly starts losing stuff. When I mentioned the problem to a few folks their responses were, essentially, "Of course, that's a well-known bug." It would take 30-60 seconds to open a large folder. I could go on...
I have to use Outlook at work and I'm randomly getting alerts for calendar events that were cancelled. Some times I get alerts for calendar items from days, even months in the past. A couple days ago, I got an alert from an event that never existed several days after the fact (I know because the event was at midnight). It got to the point at one time where I was missing actual meetings because I was getting alerts for items that didn't show up in my calendar view and was assuming they were just spurious.
I'll take Thunderbird over Outlook any day. T'bird might not be slick and it might not have had many significant new features since version 1... e.g., why in the world does it still not support import and export?... but it does the job and doesn't tick me off... or suddenly freeze up for several minutes like Outlook has on occasion.
It's funny, at work I was upgraded in the last year to both Windows 7 and Office 2007. I've found Windows 7 to be decent; it's no Vista although I still prefer XP and would prefer Linux even more. But Windows 7 manages to not be worse in XP in most ways. Office, however, is as weird and buggy and unreliable as ever. I think nothing speaks to the truth that Microsoft is a monopoly than the existence of Office. In a world of crappy software, it manages to do things worse than almost any other piece of software I've ever seen.... well, non-enterprise software anyway. In my experience over the years, enterprise software is generally of a level of horribleness that even Microsoft doesn't reach. It seems once you hit the big leagues, everything good that's happened to software in the last 25 years no longer exists.
they decided to make the name Y2K compliant this time
Yes, because a lot of people might be confused, thinking the standard came out in 1911. ;-)
Regarding the type inference, I always found that to be a glaring deficiency in STL. I always thought Borland's style of implementation was much better to use, although I can understand it wasn't as flexible or fast as templates. I did the same thing in my own class library back before I used templates (and they were standard), so I could do for-loops like this:
The new use for "auto" solves this whole issue very neatly.
Maybe that's why He's a Trinity... so the meetings aren't so boring. ;-)
Yeah, but people are screwing with science for other reasons all the time, too (like politics). Science will survive that as well.
But the purpose of religion is not tell us the whats and hows of the working of the world, so as a believer _and_ a big fan of science, I have no problems with that. It's not that religion fails to do what science does, but that religion answers a different set of questions. Science has also failed to answer the questions that religion addresses.
Yeah, we're doomed as a species if you think about it.
Precisely. I also wasn't so popular when I was doing the same amount of work with 1/3 of the code. I remember interviewing with one of the supervisors who said "We're sort of a garage shop here." I took that to mean they weren't particularly formal in their development process (presumably because they knew what they were doing and were good at it), which is what I was used to at other places, but I soon figured out that what he really meant was, "We have no idea what we're doing." exactly the opposite of how I took it.