Indifference? I'd be more than willing to upgrade if I knew which format to bet on, or had dual format burners for a reasonable price out by now. I'm not really indifferent to this technology. I'd perhaps rather call the whole thing "frustrating".
Besides the hilarities in that video, why on Earth are people spending REAL MONEY buying property there?
I can kind of understand MMORPG fees to support a live team and server infrastructure costs, but buy someone's poorly designed property that seems to belong in computer graphics in the early 90's?
Windows is...well, Windows is very eager to tell you what's going on. Constantly. Plug something in, and you get a message. Unplug something and you get a message.
While I can agree of Windows traditionally being quite attention seeking, this is a poor example as it's often been useful for me to diagnose USB device or driver problems. Is he saying OS X doesn't tell when you that the USB connectivity is working? That seems like a quite big disadvantage here.
I'd have to say a little of both. Vista is definitely continuing the gradual convergence of the OS UI and the Internet Explorer UI.
Not moreso than in e.g. XP this time around. It's not any more similar now than before. And Vista has now finally separated IE from the shell, so it's surprising to hear this now, of all times. Obviously IE is quite similar in look & feel to the rest of the Windows OS; there's no reason it shouldn't be, as it belongs to the same OS, after all. I'm sure OS X users are happy if their apps use quite similar looks too.
Second, in my usage, the window transparency, while nice, is not what I'd call an "instantly obvious" indication of window status.
Yes, I agree about this, and it's basically my only beef with Vista and I'm sorry to see that stayed through the betas as it was remarked on before and MS was aware of it. They fixed the maximized window issue where the frame turned black (in order to blend better with the black of underscan areas on CRT's) and deviated from the theme colors. Now it's sort of a mix. This is a good thing, because on XP, you don't see if a window is maximized or not besides from it filling the screen. However, a maximized window on Windows has more different properties than that, such as not being able to be moved across multiple desktops. But unfortunately the active window isn't very visible; it gains an extra shadow effect and colored buttons, but not much more than that.
The UI is also lacking in some consistency, and MS has directly commented on the ShellRevealed blog on that in the past, in an unusually lengthy post, where they acknowledged the problem and gave some circumstances behind this.
The other thing I keep noticing about Vista's UI is how many times things just seem to be changed seemingly for no reason beyond "new version, gotta change stuff." You may have noticed in the first image in this article that "My Computer" has changed to just "Computer." I'm not sure what was served by this change, but there it is. There are a lot of things within Vista like this, where you just wonder, "why?"
Yes, however, just because you don't understand why doesn't imply there's no reason behind it. That's more or less a logical fallacy due to an overly aggressive opinion, and unfortunately the reviewer doesn't see and sitestep this mistake. Anyway, now that he did it, I believe the "My" was removed since it's been called superfluous and has often been brought up as a silly "Microsoft thing" in the past. I'm pretty sure I saw MS comment on this too in the past, although I don't exactly recall what they said about it then, right now.
This kind of "change for change's sake" is all over Vista. The window controls in Vista are smaller and flatter than in XP, and unlike XP, don't reach all the way to the top of the window anymore.
... but the bounding box of the target area still reaches to the top, right? I assume this is just a design change in Aero Basic (Glass still has them all to the top even visually), like OS X has also seen in the past. Why did Apple go from flat looks to brushed metal? Nothing is "broken" in the flat look, so why fix it? Personally, I don't know, and I don't care. I'll let the designers do their thing for branding because that's not going to stop anyway, even if grumpy reviewers sometimes want it to.
When was the last time a new version of Microsoft Windows came out with a faster user interface?
Huh? I've never seen the Windows UI being "slow"? I don't really know what you mean... You saying there's a difference in e.g. Windows XP compared to Windows 95?
Are you really talking about the Windows USER32 and other such subsystems or rather simple application requirements?
To me, languages like these (C# is a bit similar in some cases, even moreso the upcoming C# 3.0) offer you the tools for special circumstances, but it doesn't mean you have to use its entire toolbox in every application you develop. For example, you don't have to nest your functions as soon as you'll be able to, or even learn how to do it. However, chances are that when you run into a language problem you think "it would be damn nice if you could design a program like this" -- then some basic research of D's feature set would give you an "aha" moment and then, in that case, perhaps let you try use one of its more obscure features.
When I think of language complexity, I think of needlessly much code to do quite little or strange design from e.g. mixing up an object-oriented design with one that isn't, which feels much more like C++'s territory than D's.
Here they were progressing well on improving their Mining skills while grinding along on various digging quests, and NASA just steps in to HACK them and boost their abilities?!
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Indifference? I'd be more than willing to upgrade if I knew which format to bet on, or had dual format burners for a reasonable price out by now. I'm not really indifferent to this technology. I'd perhaps rather call the whole thing "frustrating".
What, without being a crime suspect? :-(
Jeez, wtf is going on here.
Yes, that would've been bad assuming they were exactly there, assuming there was life, and assuming it was killed.
Gotta lova articles like these!
Hehe, admit it, even if you had, you wouldn't be an angel.
So in other words, Gates is operating from Mount Doom in Mordor...
Come on, tell us something new here!
Perhaps not, but now that's completely besides the point.
Try not make love in front of masses of people on a public beach.
Hahaha, oh my...
Besides the hilarities in that video, why on Earth are people spending REAL MONEY buying property there?
I can kind of understand MMORPG fees to support a live team and server infrastructure costs, but buy someone's poorly designed property that seems to belong in computer graphics in the early 90's?
Hmm, how many stones to store 1 TB?
:-)
And let's define "byte" as "inscribed letter".
Same, but on a NEC 20WGX2... From my own pockets, but switch near New Year nevertheless! :)
Yes, I agree about this, and it's basically my only beef with Vista
:)
Bah, meant to say "Aero" here, nothing else.
While I can agree of Windows traditionally being quite attention seeking, this is a poor example as it's often been useful for me to diagnose USB device or driver problems. Is he saying OS X doesn't tell when you that the USB connectivity is working? That seems like a quite big disadvantage here.
Not moreso than in e.g. XP this time around. It's not any more similar now than before. And Vista has now finally separated IE from the shell, so it's surprising to hear this now, of all times. Obviously IE is quite similar in look & feel to the rest of the Windows OS; there's no reason it shouldn't be, as it belongs to the same OS, after all. I'm sure OS X users are happy if their apps use quite similar looks too.
Yes, I agree about this, and it's basically my only beef with Vista and I'm sorry to see that stayed through the betas as it was remarked on before and MS was aware of it. They fixed the maximized window issue where the frame turned black (in order to blend better with the black of underscan areas on CRT's) and deviated from the theme colors. Now it's sort of a mix. This is a good thing, because on XP, you don't see if a window is maximized or not besides from it filling the screen. However, a maximized window on Windows has more different properties than that, such as not being able to be moved across multiple desktops. But unfortunately the active window isn't very visible; it gains an extra shadow effect and colored buttons, but not much more than that.
The UI is also lacking in some consistency, and MS has directly commented on the ShellRevealed blog on that in the past, in an unusually lengthy post, where they acknowledged the problem and gave some circumstances behind this.
Yes, however, just because you don't understand why doesn't imply there's no reason behind it. That's more or less a logical fallacy due to an overly aggressive opinion, and unfortunately the reviewer doesn't see and sitestep this mistake. Anyway, now that he did it, I believe the "My" was removed since it's been called superfluous and has often been brought up as a silly "Microsoft thing" in the past. I'm pretty sure I saw MS comment on this too in the past, although I don't exactly recall what they said about it then, right now.
Umm, if you're trying to say this article is as unspecific as your comment with that comparison, you're wrong... :-p
When was the last time a new version of Microsoft Windows came out with a faster user interface?
Huh? I've never seen the Windows UI being "slow"? I don't really know what you mean...
You saying there's a difference in e.g. Windows XP compared to Windows 95?
Are you really talking about the Windows USER32 and other such subsystems or rather simple application requirements?
Can you explain why it's not?
:-p
I thought it was Software Debating 101 to learn why car analogies are newbie mistakes.
http://www.petitiononline.com/CAFL/petition.html
Actually, I dislike most analogies because it's usually just a way for a poster that have a hard time making his/her point to still try get one.
Yeah, probably kinda like that in behavior, but encoded genetically as opposed to a parasite's influence.
The game Grim Fandango called it Department of Death ;-)
I found it funny that "logic bomb" is just a fancy word for unauthorized computer code triggered by a special system state.
;)
So it has nothing to do with his usage, and he's either just mocking with buzz words or more or less lost connection with reality.
And that has little to do with Wikipedia and Wikipedians, but more to do with an organization with a large following. :-)
When you do this, YouTube will drop like a rock in popularity, depending how good job you did.
To me, languages like these (C# is a bit similar in some cases, even moreso the upcoming C# 3.0) offer you the tools for special circumstances, but it doesn't mean you have to use its entire toolbox in every application you develop. For example, you don't have to nest your functions as soon as you'll be able to, or even learn how to do it. However, chances are that when you run into a language problem you think "it would be damn nice if you could design a program like this" -- then some basic research of D's feature set would give you an "aha" moment and then, in that case, perhaps let you try use one of its more obscure features.
When I think of language complexity, I think of needlessly much code to do quite little or strange design from e.g. mixing up an object-oriented design with one that isn't, which feels much more like C++'s territory than D's.
Do anyone know of their power status?
Do Martian dust at all collect on their panels or are e.g. winds / dust devils regularly wiping that off completely so it's simply no issue?
I heard about some wheel problem on one of the rovers; is there any other special serious problems they're at all seeing at this point?
Here they were progressing well on improving their Mining skills while grinding along on various digging quests, and NASA just steps in to HACK them and boost their abilities?!
I can tell you Blizzard wouldn't approve of this!
I still have a hard time getting over the quality of their photos...
:-)
Just one picture I cropped from one of their ridiculously large ~3000x4000 pixel photos for display on a 24" Widescreen LCD.
I think the RIAA want to show the world how to own Russia. Literally...