I particularly like MDI applications because they provide the applications with a visual "hierarchy". I.e. non-MDI apps with windows floating around your desktop could just as well have been windows belonging to separate applications. This is what's messing with my head, but maybe it's just because I'm just not used to it. I enjoy MDI apps at the moment though, since a) no junk in alt-tab / task bar, and b) the windows are subwindows to the application window which makes sense since... well, they are in reality too.
Firefox on the other hand is free, but how much effort do they put into telling people about their browser? Zero.
They have a branding/marketing department, and the main website at Mozilla.org is clearly consumer-oriented. The plentiful reviews of the browser are almost always positive. They also provide telephone support. They have setup a european promotion and deployment division to provide enterprise services among others. If they have to purchase space for magazine advertisements to get the news out, when Microsoft doesn't since it's bundled, I think things have clearly gone too far.
Yes, unbundling IE might be a bad idea from a "Joe user" perspective. So a good alternative might be to remove all stuff like WMP, IE, Outlook Express, etc but still allow MS to put these tools on a second CD, just like Apple put extra tools for MacOS X on a separate CD. Then all they need is to insert a CD, get presented with a simple autostart menu where they can install the software they like, and avoid what they don't like.
The thing I want to get away from is that you auto-get IE and other assorted software and can't even remove it.
Oh yeah, sorry, we forgot. Consumers never want to have a choice. Only computer enthusiasts and system administrators (and these are of course not consumers, right?)
My God, if they took out the browser the average computer illiterate wouldn't know what to do.
Bah, they solved the equation of download Kazaa and leech mp3 files. Kazaa isn't included with Windows. At least enough users did to make it an international problem.
What are you saying -- that users are sitting with IE, having no clue on what to do else with their computers than typing in Wordpad and playing Minesweeper?
But hey, at least that tiny minority of competetitors will get make some nice profit, right?
Did you consider why they're a tiny minority today? If they'd be able to compete, did you consider how much better the software would be today? Monopoly is never a good thing for technology advancement.
Make a significantly better product and communicate this to your target market. Do this, and you'll win.
Nope, and that's the problem! Opera is surely a more feature rich product (and still simple to use), still it's in extreme minority. Mozilla has what, 3% of the browser market? Does this go in line with how powerful the software is? No. It doesn't even help that Mozilla is also offered for free.
Why SHOULDNT a desktop management system utilize a 128 mb card that is just sitting there?
I think that's OK, as long as it can fall back to useful GUI's without such cards and that such a system doesn't make the user slower in performing the various tasks.
I see.. in europe it's OK to sexually assault someone on TV.
Nowhere I could see in the news was sexual assault even mentioned, and I doubt it was classified as such. Was it just a coincidence that a magnified boob shot was used along with the news stories and not focus on that it should be considered a sexual assault? Did Jackson sue Justin Timberlake for it? If she didn't do anything special, I'll just assume it was part of their plan to get some extra attention. And now they have confirmation that a naked boob can turn large parts of a nation crazy. If anyone ate from the apple in Eden, it was surely these people.
To me, it would be more like an admission their user base has weaknesses. It's not really Windows' fault that users choose to bypass warnings and executing EXE file attachements in e-mail. Most viruses spread nowadays are after all stupid e-mail viruses that involve user interaction.
Yeah, this crossed my mind too... They might not do anything particularly interesting while they're still a bit inexperienced space travellers:-)
However, it was basically this I was wondering about:
[...] may have to skip the orbiting for the sake of orbiting's sake and get right to work on whatever-they'll-do.
What that last part actually is. I have really no good idea about what the chinese space programme will involve. I think it's exciting to get more countries to space, but it would be sure nice to know what they're going to do out there.:-) OK if a lot of it is PR and place China on the map of technologically advanced countries, but surely they aren't just launching a bunch of "taikonauts" just to return?
Hmm... I just have a feeling they did and that it sucked.:-) But it seems Inktomi recently released Web Search 9 of their search engine (version 9?) and this change by Yahoo! seems to coincide with that one well enough that they might use some brand new engine, and not just rolling back to some old pre-Google quality crap.
Here's by the way the press release, which I think should have been linked to from the/. article at least: Yahoo Press Release
Re:They said 6 billion items, not webpages.
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Yes, and while the press release says they doubled their image search index size, I'm more interested in how much their regular web index increased in size? I have a vague feeling it was around 4 billion before too?:-/
Guess we better junk it because it seems we aren't getting any good science out of it. Whats that? oldest known galaxy huh? Cool!.. lets study it to learn more about the origins of the galaxy!
Only time will tell whether it's an important bit of source code.
Code for the Windows Shell DLL (SHELL32.DLL) was leaked anyway, so was code for IE's rendering engine contained by MSHTML.DLL and a whole lot of the Windows network layer.
So there's some possibly exploitable stuff there to me..
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So *that's* what alt.religion.kibology is...
Here's a pretty neat little trick...in the google search bar type in...
"french military victories" and click the 'I'm feeling lucky' button!
You could also do the same with "miserable failure" and see what happens.
I particularly like MDI applications because they provide the applications with a visual "hierarchy". I.e. non-MDI apps with windows floating around your desktop could just as well have been windows belonging to separate applications. This is what's messing with my head, but maybe it's just because I'm just not used to it. I enjoy MDI apps at the moment though, since a) no junk in alt-tab / task bar, and b) the windows are subwindows to the application window which makes sense since... well, they are in reality too.
Firefox on the other hand is free, but how much effort do they put into telling people about their browser? Zero.
They have a branding/marketing department, and the main website at Mozilla.org is clearly consumer-oriented. The plentiful reviews of the browser are almost always positive. They also provide telephone support. They have setup a european promotion and deployment division to provide enterprise services among others. If they have to purchase space for magazine advertisements to get the news out, when Microsoft doesn't since it's bundled, I think things have clearly gone too far.
Yes, unbundling IE might be a bad idea from a "Joe user" perspective. So a good alternative might be to remove all stuff like WMP, IE, Outlook Express, etc but still allow MS to put these tools on a second CD, just like Apple put extra tools for MacOS X on a separate CD. Then all they need is to insert a CD, get presented with a simple autostart menu where they can install the software they like, and avoid what they don't like.
The thing I want to get away from is that you auto-get IE and other assorted software and can't even remove it.
Oh yeah, sorry, we forgot. Consumers never want to have a choice. Only computer enthusiasts and system administrators (and these are of course not consumers, right?)
My God, if they took out the browser the average computer illiterate wouldn't know what to do.
Bah, they solved the equation of download Kazaa and leech mp3 files. Kazaa isn't included with Windows. At least enough users did to make it an international problem.
What are you saying -- that users are sitting with IE, having no clue on what to do else with their computers than typing in Wordpad and playing Minesweeper?
But hey, at least that tiny minority of competetitors will get make some nice profit, right?
Did you consider why they're a tiny minority today? If they'd be able to compete, did you consider how much better the software would be today? Monopoly is never a good thing for technology advancement.
Make a significantly better product and communicate this to your target market. Do this, and you'll win.
Nope, and that's the problem! Opera is surely a more feature rich product (and still simple to use), still it's in extreme minority. Mozilla has what, 3% of the browser market? Does this go in line with how powerful the software is? No. It doesn't even help that Mozilla is also offered for free.
Why SHOULDNT a desktop management system utilize a 128 mb card that is just sitting there?
I think that's OK, as long as it can fall back to useful GUI's without such cards and that such a system doesn't make the user slower in performing the various tasks.
I see.. in europe it's OK to sexually assault someone on TV.
Nowhere I could see in the news was sexual assault even mentioned, and I doubt it was classified as such. Was it just a coincidence that a magnified boob shot was used along with the news stories and not focus on that it should be considered a sexual assault? Did Jackson sue Justin Timberlake for it? If she didn't do anything special, I'll just assume it was part of their plan to get some extra attention. And now they have confirmation that a naked boob can turn large parts of a nation crazy. If anyone ate from the apple in Eden, it was surely these people.
uh, remove that "Apple" above :-P
But Windows Media Player does play other formats. It also plays MP3, MPEG, WAV, AVI, MIDI and AU format files out of the box.
Yes, and this makes matters even worse.
Does this mean apple may have to start shipping OS X without Quicktime?
No, because they Apple don't have the power to kill software companies by bundling software.
No one is saying MS can't make a Windows Media Player for example, rather saying they should make it a stand-alone product.
whats going to happen next, no notepad allowed as it competes with XXXXX wordprocessor?
No, because Notepad isn't a word processor. I doubt they'd be allowed to bundle MS Office though.
To me, it would be more like an admission their user base has weaknesses. It's not really Windows' fault that users choose to bypass warnings and executing EXE file attachements in e-mail. Most viruses spread nowadays are after all stupid e-mail viruses that involve user interaction.
Ah, so that was their evil plan! :-)
1. Spread rumor to FBI that says illegal material is hosted.
2. ??? (if you didn't RTFA and the parent post)
3. Profit!
Yeah, this crossed my mind too... They might not do anything particularly interesting while they're still a bit inexperienced space travellers :-)
:-) OK if a lot of it is PR and place China on the map of technologically advanced countries, but surely they aren't just launching a bunch of "taikonauts" just to return?
However, it was basically this I was wondering about:
[...] may have to skip the orbiting for the sake of orbiting's sake and get right to work on whatever-they'll-do.
What that last part actually is. I have really no good idea about what the chinese space programme will involve. I think it's exciting to get more countries to space, but it would be sure nice to know what they're going to do out there.
Yeah, I am aware of that silly tradition. :-) Well, apparently people still think it's nice to hang on to.
I understand if chinese speaking persons prefer to call them for taikonauts, but why can't they be referred to as astronauts in english?
Read the mini article, but it sure didn't say much...
- Five to seven day mission doing what?
- Their coming space station will be carrying out what experiments?
- Why aren't they using the already functional International Space Station?
Switching from electric razors doesn't reduce your life expectancy but might improve it. Why did you say you should take the risk again?
Hmm...
Those Google Searches may seem like a good idea. However, only the first page in such articles works.
Ooh, that explains why I thought Yahoo! had "used" Inktomi before. :-P
Hmm... I just have a feeling they did and that it sucked. :-) But it seems Inktomi recently released Web Search 9 of their search engine (version 9?) and this change by Yahoo! seems to coincide with that one well enough that they might use some brand new engine, and not just rolling back to some old pre-Google quality crap.
/. article at least:
Here's by the way the press release, which I think should have been linked to from the
Yahoo Press Release
Yes, and while the press release says they doubled their image search index size, I'm more interested in how much their regular web index increased in size? I have a vague feeling it was around 4 billion before too? :-/
One martian day is apparently 24.7 hours.
:-)
So I guess it moved at this amazing speed?
Guess we better junk it because it seems we aren't getting any good science out of it. Whats that? oldest known galaxy huh? Cool! .. lets study it to learn more about the origins of the galaxy!
:-)
No, that's the job of the James Webb Telescope
http://www.ngst.nasa.gov/FastFacts.htm
Only time will tell whether it's an important bit of source code.
Code for the Windows Shell DLL (SHELL32.DLL) was leaked anyway, so was code for IE's rendering engine contained by MSHTML.DLL and a whole lot of the Windows network layer.
So there's some possibly exploitable stuff there to me..