However, I still don't see the usefulness of it. Microsoft keep talking about usability improvements... Why, because you see a blurred view of the window behind your active one? Because you work more efficiently if gratified with fancy zoom in/out animations?
2. Aero isn't 3D. Aero gives transparent & blurred effects throughout various parts of the UI, most visibly the title bars, fancy window open/close effects, a new way to Alt-Tab through applications, and a poor clone of Apple's Exposé with windows stacked on top of each other (god... why!?) and letting the user pick one of them. Aero also gives the user thumbnails for the current app displays when hovering the pointer over the task bar tasks. It's also supposed to be better hardware accelerated, but I didn't notice anything special speed-wise, and I can't say the 2000/XP UI is anywhere near "slow" or "sluggish".
3. Near zero.
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How is it "evil" if they don't use the information in an "evil" way?
Sure, they have the potential to do it because they have the means to do it with all this information, like a car driver has the potential to drive you over when you cross the street.
New images of 2003 UB313 (aka Xena) were delivered by the Hubble Telescope and showed up as only 1.5 pixels!"
... it was soon after discovered that according to current theories, moving closer to the 10th planet would make it show up as 3 pixels, and even 6! Scientists worldwide are baffled at this discovery, and one was quoted as "if we send out a space probe far enough, it could even cover an entire screen of several Megapixels". This claim was however met with scepticism, with many still claiming that this planet is indeed just 1.5 pixels large, as the trustworthy Hubble Telescope indicates.
Over there, you should find tips about the usual stuff: Firefox, Opera, OpenOffice.org, and whatever the heck you intend to use Windows for. To answer your specific questions:
Spreadsheet: OpenOffice.org unless you want to become a bit more poor with Office 2003 (that's a really good piece of software; probably a better MS product than Windows).
Graphics: I'm assuming graphics 2D editor here. Adobe Photoshop is really the best IMO, and also exist for Mac. If you want something cheaper, you don't say how cheap, and I'm not so sure I want to recommend The Gimp as it complies to neither the Mac nor Windows UI guidelines. But you may wish to look it up anyway, I hear it's powerful for those who have figured out the UI puzzle to 100%.
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FTP client: FileZilla?
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Games: You don't state your game preferences. Check the PC top charts.
Online enhancements (toolbars etc): I don't tend to use "toolbars". Umm... The just released Google Toolbar 2 for Firefox? No idea really, but at least they're reasonably trustworthy and at least tell that they may track your browsing habits if enabling certain features.:-p
I thought it was about Google taking his rights from something in court due to the "winning", but what they did was acquiring the rights, and he even works on Google now:
Mr Andrew Stead, the business development manager at UNSW's NewSouth Innovations agency confirmed that Mr Allon left Australia six weeks ago and was now working at Google's headquarters at Mountain View, California.
Mr Stead said the move was not a secondment; Mr Allon's move was permanent.
Since it sounds like he was a student immediately before, it sounds like a step up in his career, and the only possibly evil thing I ended up seeing here was that Google is taking on a tech with Microsoft praise.;-)
Yeah, but that didn't stop the.biz TLD phenomenon despite.com existing.;-) And if it was introduced to solve domain shortage, I don't see that as anything more than a bandaid solution.
Yes, you're right here, and I was just using my example to illustrate the redundancy. I mean, there's basically no company dealing with the entire EU before this introduction that couldn't register a good domain name, right? The UN example was just to show how that would also introduce TLD redudancy, much like any company in the EU today already having a.com or a national TLD. (but maybe more likely, a.com, national,.biz,.net,.info, and a bunch of other national TLD's)
I liked the performance of Jaberwacky a bit myself.
Here's a short conversation:
JW: I like Shakespeare. Me: Why do you like Shakespeare? JW: His plays are interesting. Me: Who taught you about Shakespeare? JW: You. Me: That can't be right! JW: I am always right. Me: I thought your developer had taught you? JW: Jabberwacky is your name. Me: You're so confused now. JW: What? I'm not confused! Me: Your name is Jabberwacky. JW: No, your name is jabberwacky. Me: No, my name is Jugalator. JW: But you just said your name was Nash.. How can you be Nash AND Julie? Me: Do you remember past conversations?? JW: Yes, your name is Jugalator like mine. Me: This is crazy. I give up! JW: What is crazy. Me: When it comes to you, what isn't? JW: You don't make much sense. Me: Neither do you. JW: Yes I do.
I agree, and although burning fossil fuels make one aspect worse, cleaning the air while having greenhouse effects running on make another, doesn't mean both, and even further efforts to reduce our impact on nature will. I mean, all this article is doing is say "cool, cleaning air can be good", but don't realize unclean air kills people and is only good to aid a bit against the greenhouse many speculate that we helped start anyway. Let's not just look at individual solutions, but rather the whole picture...
Yes, of course. What's being debated is usually how much the greenhouse preserve this energy and causing the temperature rises with the effects the parent you replied to talk about. But *originally* it of course came from the sun, but what does that have to do with anything?
What do you mean? If we're products of evolution, then we humans are supremely natural. Furthermore, everything we do is supremely natural. Just as bees act according to their nature, and whales act according to their nature, so do we act according to our nature. How could it be otherwise? At what point would you say that "un-nature" has been introduced into the process?
I agree. It has little to do with our actions being "natural" or not. That depends on the viewpoints of the people in the discussion. However, what it has to do with is if it's harmful for the Earth, but an overpopulated species causing them to ruining their environment happens all the time on Earth. The result is that the species either dies or finds new ways to adapt.
Is it time to set off a few nukes and see if nuclear winter can cool things down?
No, it's more likely time do try achieve cleaner air *and* reduce CO2 levels.
All this says is that cleaning are alone by reducing pollution isn't enough, thanks to other problems in effect that many believe are more or less in part due to human influence.
Erm, I hate to say this but install Solaris on a piece of Sun hardware and you need NO drivers disk...
And on my Amiga, it's all in ROM!:-D
OK, now I'm ridiculing Solaris, but I think his point was the implication this has to the home users of today. Those who really want (and need) to have it as easy as possible. Solaris isn't exactly anything to place under the christmas tree for these reasons.
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Honestly, at this point we just want to finish it.
:-p
With a motivation among the devs at this level, what quality can one expect from the game?
Have you seen screenshots of Aero Glass? It looks like the short films of a first year computer animation student http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/longhorn3/Aer o%20Glass%20-%20Contacts.jpg.
:-) What build of Vista was that?? :-S
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That screenshot looks plain awful
Here's a current (February) build anyway:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Win
However, I still don't see the usefulness of it. Microsoft keep talking about usability improvements... Why, because you see a blurred view of the window behind your active one? Because you work more efficiently if gratified with fancy zoom in/out animations?
1. No, and N/A for your last question there. :-)
2. Aero isn't 3D. Aero gives transparent & blurred effects throughout various parts of the UI, most visibly the title bars, fancy window open/close effects, a new way to Alt-Tab through applications, and a poor clone of Apple's Exposé with windows stacked on top of each other (god... why!?) and letting the user pick one of them. Aero also gives the user thumbnails for the current app displays when hovering the pointer over the task bar tasks. It's also supposed to be better hardware accelerated, but I didn't notice anything special speed-wise, and I can't say the 2000/XP UI is anywhere near "slow" or "sluggish".
3. Near zero.
How is it "evil" if they don't use the information in an "evil" way?
Sure, they have the potential to do it because they have the means to do it with all this information, like a car driver has the potential to drive you over when you cross the street.
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OK, OK, so I wanted to be different from those "get Firefox" jokes!
everything else is not acceptable.
;-)
Heh, now a Slashdotter made this unintentional imitation of the comic book guy in Simpsons again.
Check out the Pricelessware 2006 winners; only the "best" (according to alt.comp.freeware) freeware software to be found here, in several categories.
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http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/PL2006Categ
Over there, you should find tips about the usual stuff: Firefox, Opera, OpenOffice.org, and whatever the heck you intend to use Windows for. To answer your specific questions:
Spreadsheet: OpenOffice.org unless you want to become a bit more poor with Office 2003 (that's a really good piece of software; probably a better MS product than Windows).
Graphics: I'm assuming graphics 2D editor here. Adobe Photoshop is really the best IMO, and also exist for Mac. If you want something cheaper, you don't say how cheap, and I'm not so sure I want to recommend The Gimp as it complies to neither the Mac nor Windows UI guidelines. But you may wish to look it up anyway, I hear it's powerful for those who have figured out the UI puzzle to 100%.
Anti-spam: Try Thunderbird with bayesian filters enabled, or any mail client of your choice with an antispam proxy like POPFile or K9.
FTP client: FileZilla?
Antivirus: NOD32, AntiVir, AVG, Avast? Of those all are free besides NOD32, but it's worth your money.
Games: You don't state your game preferences. Check the PC top charts.
Online enhancements (toolbars etc): I don't tend to use "toolbars". Umm... The just released Google Toolbar 2 for Firefox? No idea really, but at least they're reasonably trustworthy and at least tell that they may track your browsing habits if enabling certain features.
And then it gets a whole lot harder to profit, given the little (but still existing) profitability from spam. I have to wonder if it's still possible.
The TLD hijacking phenomenon that's a decade old profitable business model didn't suddenly stop that day. :-p
Since it sounds like he was a student immediately before, it sounds like a step up in his career, and the only possibly evil thing I ended up seeing here was that Google is taking on a tech with Microsoft praise.
Yeah, but that didn't stop the .biz TLD phenomenon despite .com existing. ;-)
And if it was introduced to solve domain shortage, I don't see that as anything more than a bandaid solution.
Yes, you're right here, and I was just using my example to illustrate the redundancy. I mean, there's basically no company dealing with the entire EU before this introduction that couldn't register a good domain name, right? The UN example was just to show how that would also introduce TLD redudancy, much like any company in the EU today already having a .com or a national TLD. (but maybe more likely, a .com, national, .biz, .net, .info, and a bunch of other national TLD's)
Why not... .UN! All members in the United Nations can register one! :-p
Redundancy and more redundancy for the domain registrars to make money...
Exactly. Whenever I suspect "someone" to be a bot I ask "how much is five plus three?".
You didn't look hard.
Jabberwacky: Who are you?
Me: I am Jugalator. What is 5 plus 3?
Jabberwacky: 5 plus 3 equals 8.
These bots are usually not supposed to be fact databases, but do a conversation as well as possible.
I liked the performance of Jaberwacky a bit myself.
Here's a short conversation:
JW: I like Shakespeare.
Me: Why do you like Shakespeare?
JW: His plays are interesting.
Me: Who taught you about Shakespeare?
JW: You.
Me: That can't be right!
JW: I am always right.
Me: I thought your developer had taught you?
JW: Jabberwacky is your name.
Me: You're so confused now.
JW: What? I'm not confused!
Me: Your name is Jabberwacky.
JW: No, your name is jabberwacky.
Me: No, my name is Jugalator.
JW: But you just said your name was Nash.. How can you be Nash AND Julie?
Me: Do you remember past conversations??
JW: Yes, your name is Jugalator like mine.
Me: This is crazy. I give up!
JW: What is crazy.
Me: When it comes to you, what isn't?
JW: You don't make much sense.
Me: Neither do you.
JW: Yes I do.
And so on...
I agree, and although burning fossil fuels make one aspect worse, cleaning the air while having greenhouse effects running on make another, doesn't mean both, and even further efforts to reduce our impact on nature will. I mean, all this article is doing is say "cool, cleaning air can be good", but don't realize unclean air kills people and is only good to aid a bit against the greenhouse many speculate that we helped start anyway. Let's not just look at individual solutions, but rather the whole picture...
Yes, of course. What's being debated is usually how much the greenhouse preserve this energy and causing the temperature rises with the effects the parent you replied to talk about. But *originally* it of course came from the sun, but what does that have to do with anything?
What do you mean? If we're products of evolution, then we humans are supremely natural. Furthermore, everything we do is supremely natural. Just as bees act according to their nature, and whales act according to their nature, so do we act according to our nature. How could it be otherwise? At what point would you say that "un-nature" has been introduced into the process?
I agree. It has little to do with our actions being "natural" or not. That depends on the viewpoints of the people in the discussion. However, what it has to do with is if it's harmful for the Earth, but an overpopulated species causing them to ruining their environment happens all the time on Earth. The result is that the species either dies or finds new ways to adapt.
Is it time to set off a few nukes and see if nuclear winter can cool things down?
No, it's more likely time do try achieve cleaner air *and* reduce CO2 levels.
All this says is that cleaning are alone by reducing pollution isn't enough, thanks to other problems in effect that many believe are more or less in part due to human influence.
CNN.com reports on a pair of black holes in a mating dance
:-S
Sounds like there's a party at the Goatse guy.
*looks at 180 comments above*
:-(
So many Slashdotters without an ounce of humor.
Why would I want to run the worst possible OS on the most expensive hardware?
:-)
Come on now, talking about Alienware XP computers here is just plain off-topic.
Erm, I hate to say this but install Solaris on a piece of Sun hardware and you need NO drivers disk...
:-D
And on my Amiga, it's all in ROM!
OK, now I'm ridiculing Solaris, but I think his point was the implication this has to the home users of today. Those who really want (and need) to have it as easy as possible. Solaris isn't exactly anything to place under the christmas tree for these reasons.