Megabytes - the amount of disc space on your computer and the amount of memory
Gigabytes - also refers to disc space, but measures it in larger quantities
These people are in Europe for crying out loud! They use the metric system! It's hard to believe that they can't understand that "giga" means something larger than "mega." I mean, it's not as if people can't understand that a kilometer is bigger than a meter is bigger than a centimeter. jeez people
Try the new(ish) Adobe Reader 7. It loads up in about 2 seconds. I'm not sure what they did to make it faster than the previous version, but it's totally sweet.
If you really haven't had any success at all in getting spam (or, say, you've only gotten a couple of spams), you might want to check whether your mail provider is filtering spam for you.
For example, I can only remember getting maybe one spam email in the past two years of having used my present email account. The account is through my university, which maintains a rather agressive (and effective) anti-spam program.
I don't think the poster is referring to the fact that one will have to download/decompress/install/link to an app before one can enjoy a certain functionality, but rather that installing and configuring such additional software is much more challenging to novice (and moderately-experienced) users when it requires command-line interaction and involves more than a GUI install wizard.
Exactly. XP simply has more features than KDE. That is, in XP, one can install a few apps and make things nice and cozy entirely within the GUI; even with a relatively easy-to-use desktop like KDE, Linux and Unix require a healthy amount of command-line activity.
Really, the "preconfigured system" usability test is more a test of GUI applications than of a desktop environment (the users copied CD's and edited text, for example).
With the critical (and, I think, much more important) problem that it was always slow compared to WinIE, both in rendering and interface. I'll take quick-and-dirty over slow-and-fully-compliant any day.
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Megabytes - the amount of disc space on your computer and the amount of memory
Gigabytes - also refers to disc space, but measures it in larger quantities
These people are in Europe for crying out loud! They use the metric system! It's hard to believe that they can't understand that "giga" means something larger than "mega." I mean, it's not as if people can't understand that a kilometer is bigger than a meter is bigger than a centimeter. jeez people
Try the new(ish) Adobe Reader 7. It loads up in about 2 seconds. I'm not sure what they did to make it faster than the previous version, but it's totally sweet.
If you really haven't had any success at all in getting spam (or, say, you've only gotten a couple of spams), you might want to check whether your mail provider is filtering spam for you.
For example, I can only remember getting maybe one spam email in the past two years of having used my present email account. The account is through my university, which maintains a rather agressive (and effective) anti-spam program.
I don't think the poster is referring to the fact that one will have to download/decompress/install/link to an app before one can enjoy a certain functionality, but rather that installing and configuring such additional software is much more challenging to novice (and moderately-experienced) users when it requires command-line interaction and involves more than a GUI install wizard.
Exactly. XP simply has more features than KDE. That is, in XP, one can install a few apps and make things nice and cozy entirely within the GUI; even with a relatively easy-to-use desktop like KDE, Linux and Unix require a healthy amount of command-line activity.
Really, the "preconfigured system" usability test is more a test of GUI applications than of a desktop environment (the users copied CD's and edited text, for example).
That would be pretty funny if it were entirely true...
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With the critical (and, I think, much more important) problem that it was always slow compared to WinIE, both in rendering and interface. I'll take quick-and-dirty over slow-and-fully-compliant any day.