Seriously, the last four or five times I went into a cinema in a large town not 10 minutes from London, there were about three people in there, including me.
Odd, the last few times I've been to the cinema just outside London boroughs (in Epsom - and not on the Orange Wednesdays offers), it's been rammed full, and had a high proportion of idiots who decide they'll check/send text messages while the film is on, or even have conversations with pals that are sitting next to them, or on the 'phone.
I've pretty much stopped going to the cinema now, because the tickets are expensive, the number of retards who seem to go there to not actually watch the movie is too high, and, the seats seem to be kicked too easily by the people behind you.
I did like going to the cinema, but, with a Lovefilm subscription and lots of blu-rays, and my choice of time to watch the films, it just doesn't seem to make sense anymore.
I think the article title is misleading. It should be 'privacy' not 'secrets' IMHO. Surely you don't put your actual secrets on some Google site, and if so, why?
I hope that gives a vague idea - but somethings like the Workspace feature are best to be seen in action:
Press F2, and you get your ebay workspace with it's own history and set of pages up Press F3, and you get your online comics all loading up in their own tabs come up. Press F1, and you get your news + slashdot workspace. etc. etc.
The thumbnail tab browsing can be turned to text/thumbnail depending on preference. I normally use text tabs, not thumbnail - I can fit more tabs in that way:-).
The best bit really is that if the browser does crash (and unfortunately, it does at times), when you restart you are pretty much exactly where you left it, including history, so you can use that back button. The only issue you will have is if the site you were browsing has sessions, then it won't necessarily 'just work' - you'll have to log in again.
I should probably add - I'm not an extensions person. I've found some to be buggy, and keeping multiple things upto date (even with auto updates) is a bit annoying...
I suppose it is good that the basic browser can be quite lightweight, but I don't want to have to pick and choose extensions either. That's too much like hard work for an end user. The (very slick) workspace and tab features in Omniweb 'just work'. Which I would hope is the goal of the Firefox browser to 'just work'.
Now that Internet Explorer will be getting this thumbnail tab feature (IMO in a not very slick way) maybe Firefox can follow suit, but preferably by taking a leaf out of Omniweb's book.
That's a cool feature - something that I've been using with Omniweb on the Mac for a few years now. Once browsers like Firefox have this functionality by default, I'll probably have little need for a commercial browser like Omniweb.
The drag and dropping of the tabs was a welcome addition to Firefox for me - it's still not as slick as Omniweb, but it's getting there.
Now they just need to implement 'Workspaces' from Omniweb into Firefox/Seamonkey in as simple a way as possible, and then I can say a sad farewell to it.
I know this post has no content about Internet Explorer in it:-)
I'm afraid this type of technology will be used as an exuse for people not to learn foreign languages, which is a shame.
I'm not quite sure what you mean here not bother because of this technology?
I can't see anyone not wanting to bother learning a language because of this technology. Not unless it was a babelfish/universal translator type technology - i.e. basically invisible. In which case, what's the issue?;-)
What are you going to do: a) Walk around with a little device which translates with 60-80% accuracy when you're in a country where people speak a language you do not understand. b) Try to learn the language so you don't have to rely on a gadget?
I think I know which one I'd choose - not that I can speak anything other than English, but I do try.
Once devices get to 100% accuracy, my argument disappears. I'd love for that to happen too:-)
You'd hope they were faster/better at finding bugs before they had to freeze the design though:-)
Oddly, I'm getting the errata sheet (a PDF file) from the Intel site which appears to be a valid PDF file, just the page content is non existant, and the ToC is garbage.
Though I kinda made the proviso of if we all had these speed limiter things (sorry, while I laugh at this preposterous thought!) we'd all be safe, in the speeding highway situation.
I also see the point with the STOP sign, and what another poster said about big rigs. Though I'm always thinking that a lorry will pull out of in front of me anyway, rapidly, and also that people will pull out too early at stop signs (this is assuming I can see them!).
Regarding the over the hill situation, I see that as a "can't see the road ahead, should take appropriate action", if that be 'slow down' on a highway, so be it. I personally think blind hills at 65mph on a highway seems like an interesting design decision too, but that's a whole different matter;-)
Anyway, I do think they are interesting points, but they don't convince me - I think they are avoidable still, to a degree. It's the 'stop sign' one that someone else posted with that I'm stuck on - that may not be so easy to avoid, if it's blind to you, on a fast road, and there's no sign saying there is a junction up ahead.
No. I don't think I am the best driver in the world either! This is all mostly just thought for discussion...
there are occasions where I have needed to accelerate out of trouble
I'm never sure about this argument - I do think it myself (I have thought about a GPS or other based speed limiting system before, and I think people are starting to build them too now, it rings a vague bell).
Where have you had to accelerate out of trouble? I'm trying to think the last time I have had to do that, where it wasn't my own fault for pulling into a road too early. I'm not doubting it does happen, I just can't think of a sensible 'Not my fault, guv' kind of situation where I would have to accelerate out of trouble.
Also in an ideal world situation, where everyone was forced to drive with one of these speed limiter gadgets (unlikely!) - you'd surely only need to accelerate up to their speed, why the need for a bit of speeding - they wouldn't be able to hit you if you were able to cotton onto their speed the fastest your car could get to that speed limit (I'm assuming someone behind you for this example)?
There is feature that could be added I suppose, a few seconds of burst perhaps, only when the pressure on the accelerator changed quite substantially though.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't even need instructions.
I haven't got a USB 'drive' handy, but I'm sure when I've plugged in an unformatted card I get a warning (on my camera) which goes along the lines of "Unformatted card, format? yes/no".
It's not technologically a hard process to format a FAT filesystem is it? Even if current devices don't have this feature, maybe they can put it in - and they've probably already thought of it, as it makes consumers lives easier.
Yes, but he said 'Do you expect to get new versions of AppleWorks for free'. Not 'Do you get a version of Appleworks with your iBook or e/iMac', which is what you appear to have read.
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Seriously, the last four or five times I went into a cinema in a large town not 10 minutes from London, there were about three people in there, including me.
Odd, the last few times I've been to the cinema just outside London boroughs (in Epsom - and not on the Orange Wednesdays offers), it's been rammed full, and had a high proportion of idiots who decide they'll check/send text messages while the film is on, or even have conversations with pals that are sitting next to them, or on the 'phone.
I've pretty much stopped going to the cinema now, because the tickets are expensive, the number of retards who seem to go there to not actually watch the movie is too high, and, the seats seem to be kicked too easily by the people behind you.
I did like going to the cinema, but, with a Lovefilm subscription and lots of blu-rays, and my choice of time to watch the films, it just doesn't seem to make sense anymore.
I think the article title is misleading. It should be 'privacy' not 'secrets' IMHO. Surely you don't put your actual secrets on some Google site, and if so, why?
Sid
I think it's more sensible for me to post the marketing blurb by the Omniweb guys themselves:
:-).
Omniweb Features
I hope that gives a vague idea - but somethings like the Workspace feature are best to be seen in action:
Press F2, and you get your ebay workspace with it's own history and set of pages up
Press F3, and you get your online comics all loading up in their own tabs come up.
Press F1, and you get your news + slashdot workspace. etc. etc.
The thumbnail tab browsing can be turned to text/thumbnail depending on preference. I normally use text tabs, not thumbnail - I can fit more tabs in that way
The best bit really is that if the browser does crash (and unfortunately, it does at times), when you restart you are pretty much exactly where you left it, including history, so you can use that back button. The only issue you will have is if the site you were browsing has sessions, then it won't necessarily 'just work' - you'll have to log in again.
I hope that helps a little.
Sid
I should probably add - I'm not an extensions person. I've found some to be buggy, and keeping multiple things upto date (even with auto updates) is a bit annoying...
I suppose it is good that the basic browser can be quite lightweight, but I don't want to have to pick and choose extensions either. That's too much like hard work for an end user. The (very slick) workspace and tab features in Omniweb 'just work'. Which I would hope is the goal of the Firefox browser to 'just work'.
Now that Internet Explorer will be getting this thumbnail tab feature (IMO in a not very slick way) maybe Firefox can follow suit, but preferably by taking a leaf out of Omniweb's book.
Sid
That's a cool feature - something that I've been using with Omniweb on the Mac for a few years now. Once browsers like Firefox have this functionality by default, I'll probably have little need for a commercial browser like Omniweb.
:-)
The drag and dropping of the tabs was a welcome addition to Firefox for me - it's still not as slick as Omniweb, but it's getting there.
Now they just need to implement 'Workspaces' from Omniweb into Firefox/Seamonkey in as simple a way as possible, and then I can say a sad farewell to it.
I know this post has no content about Internet Explorer in it
Sid
maybe the "your results are being censored" text will wake some people up
How long until that text is censored?
Sid
I wrote:
I'm not quite sure what you mean here not bother because of this technology?
(I also can't write sense!)
You wrote:
Perhaps you a not like most people...
Perhaps you're right, perhaps I'm not like most people. In any case, this technology is not yet the kind that is useful to most people I believe.
I do think it's cool technology, but not really a cause for concern with languages.
I'm afraid this type of technology will be used as an exuse for people not to learn foreign languages, which is a shame.
;-)
:-)
I'm not quite sure what you mean here not bother because of this technology?
I can't see anyone not wanting to bother learning a language because of this technology. Not unless it was a babelfish/universal translator type technology - i.e. basically invisible. In which case, what's the issue?
What are you going to do:
a) Walk around with a little device which translates with 60-80% accuracy when you're in a country where people speak a language you do not understand.
b) Try to learn the language so you don't have to rely on a gadget?
I think I know which one I'd choose - not that I can speak anything other than English, but I do try.
Once devices get to 100% accuracy, my argument disappears. I'd love for that to happen too
Sid
You'd hope they were faster/better at finding bugs before they had to freeze the design though :-)
Oddly, I'm getting the errata sheet (a PDF file) from the Intel site which appears to be a valid PDF file, just the page content is non existant, and the ToC is garbage.
Valid points :-)
;-)
Though I kinda made the proviso of if we all had these speed limiter things (sorry, while I laugh at this preposterous thought!) we'd all be safe, in the speeding highway situation.
I also see the point with the STOP sign, and what another poster said about big rigs. Though I'm always thinking that a lorry will pull out of in front of me anyway, rapidly, and also that people will pull out too early at stop signs (this is assuming I can see them!).
Regarding the over the hill situation, I see that as a "can't see the road ahead, should take appropriate action", if that be 'slow down' on a highway, so be it. I personally think blind hills at 65mph on a highway seems like an interesting design decision too, but that's a whole different matter
Anyway, I do think they are interesting points, but they don't convince me - I think they are avoidable still, to a degree. It's the 'stop sign' one that someone else posted with that I'm stuck on - that may not be so easy to avoid, if it's blind to you, on a fast road, and there's no sign saying there is a junction up ahead.
No. I don't think I am the best driver in the world either! This is all mostly just thought for discussion...
Sid
there are occasions where I have needed to accelerate out of trouble
I'm never sure about this argument - I do think it myself (I have thought about a GPS or other based speed limiting system before, and I think people are starting to build them too now, it rings a vague bell).
Where have you had to accelerate out of trouble? I'm trying to think the last time I have had to do that, where it wasn't my own fault for pulling into a road too early. I'm not doubting it does happen, I just can't think of a sensible 'Not my fault, guv' kind of situation where I would have to accelerate out of trouble.
Also in an ideal world situation, where everyone was forced to drive with one of these speed limiter gadgets (unlikely!) - you'd surely only need to accelerate up to their speed, why the need for a bit of speeding - they wouldn't be able to hit you if you were able to cotton onto their speed the fastest your car could get to that speed limit (I'm assuming someone behind you for this example)?
There is feature that could be added I suppose, a few seconds of burst perhaps, only when the pressure on the accelerator changed quite substantially though.
Sid
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't even need instructions.
I haven't got a USB 'drive' handy, but I'm sure when I've plugged in an unformatted card I get a warning (on my camera) which goes along the lines of "Unformatted card, format? yes/no".
It's not technologically a hard process to format a FAT filesystem is it?
Even if current devices don't have this feature, maybe they can put it in - and they've probably already thought of it, as it makes consumers lives easier.
Sid
Yes, but he said 'Do you expect to get new versions of AppleWorks for free'.
Not 'Do you get a version of Appleworks with your iBook or e/iMac', which is what you appear to have read.
Sid