Your 6-year-old may mistype his favorite cartoon's URL and wind up at a porn site; a 16-year-old may reach the same site deliberately
Why should the sixteen year old be stopped from looking at porn? He's over the age of consent, what's wrong with letting him look at some naked women? He's probably thinking about sex all the time anyway, that's just what teenagers do.
Indeed, I think cubicles are a purely US office thing and they sound horrific. I've never seen anything more than a foot-high desk divider in UK offices: every office I've seen looked like the office from "The Office".
Yes, it's just truly awful UI design: why put the indicator of position in tiny letters the other side of the screen from the controller of the position?
Potentially MS has been optimising the hell out of DHTML in Vista's version of IE and will use this as an example of how superior Windows is. Firefox/Linux performance seems to really suck on Windows Live, especially on the image search.
Wow, Google must be really quaking in their boots about this. The page looks like a textbook example on how not to design an AJAX page. Apart from the apparent performance problems:
- Why use custom widgets? Does Windows not include a scrollbar widget? - Why is the custom scrollbar completely broken? Why does the scrollbar not indicate how far through the search results I am? Why can I not drag it easily? - Why smooth scroll? - Why are none of the 'links' on the page actual links? If you use Javascript links like that, middle-click to open in new window/tab doesn't work. - Why is their a speech-bubble like thing partially covering the search window - Why do I have to click on a zoom icon in order to search? Oh, you mean a circle with a line coming out of it means "search"? Why not write "search" on the button, then?
One office I worked in had docking stations with keyboard, mouse and 19" CRTs on many desks. I agree that many laptop displays are quite poor, although they are improving rapidly.
That said, the main advantage of having a laptop as your main computer is that it doesn't matter where you are, your entire work environment is right there, with no synchronisation problems and no software licence problems.
The majority of people I know who use laptops as desktop replacements have add on USB keyboards and mice they use at their desktop. With an iMac, you can't pick up your work machine, do a few hours work on the plane/train and get set up in a client's office in a minute: you have to have an extra laptop, which means duplicating files and setup.
Centrino laptops these days are powerful enough for most things (I can play BF2 on mine with decent graphics setttings) and have at least 3hr battery life in normal desktop usage
My local John Lewis had several *new* Gamecubes bundled with some Pokemon game for £39. The only annoying thing is that many of the classic Gamecube games are still pretty expensive even second hand: the cheapest I could get Tales of Symphonia was £30, Pikmin 2 is still £27+.
From the fact that he refers to the Sega Megadrive, I would guess the GP is in the UK. Over here, the big player during the 8/16bit console period was Sega, not Nintendo. The only Nintendo consoles I ever saw as a kid were a Japanese friend's NES and Gameboys. Personally, I hadn't even heard of Zelda until 1998 or so.
Why not just spend the $60 on a decent game that doesn't hide its content behind tasks so dull that people will pay to have them done for them.
So many MMORPG players seem to be able to produce these kind of almost convincing, hand-waving pseudo-explanations that almost justify why buying gold is OK: I think they are mostly trying to convince themselves.
The Amstrad PCW series (sounds like you had an 8256/8512) were fantastic machines. Locoscript was a nice simple word processor with some features that are still missing in Word today: multiple copy buffers for one, IIRC. My father used his 9512 until around 1995, replacing the disk drive band with a fresh elastic band every time it wore out.
They were actually 3" disks which were quite robust compared to the flimsier 3.5" PC style disks.
SSH is about the only port you would want to leave open to the outside world on a workstation. Many *nix machines are set up like that, so people can log in and run things remotely.
It is a first-generation version of an Apple product, they always have limitations. Look at the battery life difference between 1G and 2G iPod minis, for example. Personally, I'm going to wait for the second generation Mactels, presumably released Q4 06 or Q1 07.
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Somehow, I can't see someone doing image manipulation for 5+MP digital camera images on a 486
In fact, with the steady increase in browser based applications it might even be possible to argue that prevailing technology is excessive
Why would browser based applications, written in a much slower scripting language (Javascript), mean we don't need such fast processors?
Your 6-year-old may mistype his favorite cartoon's URL and wind up at a porn site; a 16-year-old may reach the same site deliberately
Why should the sixteen year old be stopped from looking at porn? He's over the age of consent, what's wrong with letting him look at some naked women? He's probably thinking about sex all the time anyway, that's just what teenagers do.
What's wrong with Ubuntu 5.10?
£30 in the UK, including VAT. I make that around $50. I paid £35 for Castlevania DS, for some reason.
Indeed, I think cubicles are a purely US office thing and they sound horrific. I've never seen anything more than a foot-high desk divider in UK offices: every office I've seen looked like the office from "The Office".
Yes, it's just truly awful UI design: why put the indicator of position in tiny letters the other side of the screen from the controller of the position?
Fairly standard for MS, though.
But it offers no visual feedback about location AFAICS and doesn't scroll on space bar press like every other browser window does.
Potentially MS has been optimising the hell out of DHTML in Vista's version of IE and will use this as an example of how superior Windows is. Firefox/Linux performance seems to really suck on Windows Live, especially on the image search.
Wow, Google must be really quaking in their boots about this. The page looks like a textbook example on how not to design an AJAX page. Apart from the apparent performance problems:
- Why use custom widgets? Does Windows not include a scrollbar widget?
- Why is the custom scrollbar completely broken? Why does the scrollbar not indicate how far through the search results I am? Why can I not drag it easily?
- Why smooth scroll?
- Why are none of the 'links' on the page actual links? If you use Javascript links like that, middle-click to open in new window/tab doesn't work.
- Why is their a speech-bubble like thing partially covering the search window
- Why do I have to click on a zoom icon in order to search? Oh, you mean a circle with a line coming out of it means "search"? Why not write "search" on the button, then?
One office I worked in had docking stations with keyboard, mouse and 19" CRTs on many desks. I agree that many laptop displays are quite poor, although they are improving rapidly.
That said, the main advantage of having a laptop as your main computer is that it doesn't matter where you are, your entire work environment is right there, with no synchronisation problems and no software licence problems.
The majority of people I know who use laptops as desktop replacements have add on USB keyboards and mice they use at their desktop. With an iMac, you can't pick up your work machine, do a few hours work on the plane/train and get set up in a client's office in a minute: you have to have an extra laptop, which means duplicating files and setup.
Centrino laptops these days are powerful enough for most things (I can play BF2 on mine with decent graphics setttings) and have at least 3hr battery life in normal desktop usage
My local John Lewis had several *new* Gamecubes bundled with some Pokemon game for £39. The only annoying thing is that many of the classic Gamecube games are still pretty expensive even second hand: the cheapest I could get Tales of Symphonia was £30, Pikmin 2 is still £27+.
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Pikmin 1+2
Mario Sunshine
Paper Mario
From the fact that he refers to the Sega Megadrive, I would guess the GP is in the UK. Over here, the big player during the 8/16bit console period was Sega, not Nintendo. The only Nintendo consoles I ever saw as a kid were a Japanese friend's NES and Gameboys. Personally, I hadn't even heard of Zelda until 1998 or so.
I think it's mostly just amazement on the part of the readers at the fact that people will play to *not* play a game.
Why not just spend the $60 on a decent game that doesn't hide its content behind tasks so dull that people will pay to have them done for them.
So many MMORPG players seem to be able to produce these kind of almost convincing, hand-waving pseudo-explanations that almost justify why buying gold is OK: I think they are mostly trying to convince themselves.
You presumably have some sort of psychic ability allowing you to predict the future of a Linux distro?
I think a lot of Slashdotters are going in the other direction, linux to OSX.
The Amstrad PCW series (sounds like you had an 8256/8512) were fantastic machines. Locoscript was a nice simple word processor with some features that are still missing in Word today: multiple copy buffers for one, IIRC. My father used his 9512 until around 1995, replacing the disk drive band with a fresh elastic band every time it wore out.
They were actually 3" disks which were quite robust compared to the flimsier 3.5" PC style disks.
So do most people. The problem is, it's not the same 10%.
The default file format for Office 12 onwards is an open XML format in a zip archive which is relatively simple to parse.
IIRC, there's an option "Enable full keyboard navigation" under Keyboard in System Preferences.
SSH is about the only port you would want to leave open to the outside world on a workstation. Many *nix machines are set up like that, so people can log in and run things remotely.
It is a first-generation version of an Apple product, they always have limitations. Look at the battery life difference between 1G and 2G iPod minis, for example.
Personally, I'm going to wait for the second generation Mactels, presumably released Q4 06 or Q1 07.