From an end user perspective, adherence to UI standards is far more important. UI guidelines exist for a reason.
I just installed Opera on my WinXP machine at work to try it out, thinking that if I like it, I'll install it on my OS X machine at home as well. The first thing I noticed was the absolutely hideous interface. Not a standard UI element in sight. Firefox has its problems with UI guidelines adherence, but it isn't nearly as bad as Opera. I promptly uninstalled it and definitely won't install it at home.
They won't get 15 Chumbawamba songs if all but one of them are crap.
Where crap is defined as music I don't particularly care for. I'm quite fond of Chumbawamba's earlier stuff but I thought Tubthumper was absolute garbage. I don't remember what the rest of the album sounded like, but this lack of any impression whatsoever is telling.
He's not working on IE7 for the same reason he didn't work on IE6: because he's no longer working for Microsoft. He left the company to persue writing full time.
His book, The Art of Project Management (published by O'Reilly, no less), is a good read. I read it a couple months ago and pulled it out again just last night to review.
If I open up a new page I want new content.. quite simple.
Don't forget, you only get this behavior if you open a new tab. If you open a new window you get your default home page. Regardless of your feelings, or mine, about how new tabs should be handled, this inconsistancy is a big usability problem.
If I open a new tab, I want to see the same thing I see when I open a new window: Google. If I can't get that by default, I want an option to change it, the way I used to be able to in Mozilla. Quite simple, really.
I disagree. Why does a new tab behave differently than a new window? When I open a new window, I get Google (my default browser home page). When I open a new tab, I get... nothing.
This behavior was configurable in Mozilla but was intentionally taken out in Firefox. Even after reading over the relevant Bugzilla posts on the topic, it still makes no sense.
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Note that their web site is running Drupal, as Gallery is a photo gallery, not a CMS. They didn't write the code their site is running on.
If you don't want to buy Apple hardware, you are, of course, still free to write your own Better Windowing System for your non-Apple x86 BSD machine. The rest of us realize that Apple hardware is worth the small premium we pay for it, and that for 99.9% of the computer using population, processor architecture is largely irrelevant.
Novell is evil, except when they're doing stuff with Linux.
Which is pretty much all the time these days, isn't it? Don't we get to like them just on account of that? They're actually more interesting lately that most of the other companies you've mentioned.
If, on the other hand we want to let them stay here anyway, then we ought to change the immigration laws so that they won't be illegal anymore.
Fixing our immigration laws is much easier said than done. Large, sweeping changes seem to scare an awful lot of people, which translates into lost votes and changes that aren't ever implemented.
Because the underlying problem (illegal immigration) can't be fixed this easily, smaller changes that can reduce related problems (unlicensed, uninsured driving) can be helpful in the interim. Illegal immigrants are going to drive, period. We should do what we can to help as many as possible do it legally.
For the time being, Google is the only one hosting such servers
Not even close. My web hosting company, for example, provides Jabber with all service levels. Why have a Jabber ID of user@gmail.com when you can have user@your-own-domain? Needless to say, they also support S2S.
I was hoping that Google Talk would be the thing to get some people to start moving away from AIM to Jabber. As it stands though, Google Talk is no better than AIM or any other propietary IM network.
If you really want to use your primary email to chat, then tell your ISP to join up.
Also note that an e-mail address is not an inherent requirement to use Jabber. It may be required by the operator of the Jabber server you want to use, but there's no reason one couldn't get Jabber service from a provider they otherwise have nothing to do with. See the open server list at Jabber.org.
The question submitter is using a Powerbook though, and OS X comes with Apache, mod_ssl, Perl, PHP, etc, installed by default. The only thing he'd need to install is a database.
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Maybe that's why they want to influence people to stick with IE.
From an end user perspective, adherence to UI standards is far more important. UI guidelines exist for a reason.
I just installed Opera on my WinXP machine at work to try it out, thinking that if I like it, I'll install it on my OS X machine at home as well. The first thing I noticed was the absolutely hideous interface. Not a standard UI element in sight. Firefox has its problems with UI guidelines adherence, but it isn't nearly as bad as Opera. I promptly uninstalled it and definitely won't install it at home.
They won't get 15 Chumbawamba songs if all but one of them are crap.
Where crap is defined as music I don't particularly care for. I'm quite fond of Chumbawamba's earlier stuff but I thought Tubthumper was absolute garbage. I don't remember what the rest of the album sounded like, but this lack of any impression whatsoever is telling.
Or better yet, apachectl graceful.
cats like to look down at things
Ain't that the truth.
He's not working on IE7 for the same reason he didn't work on IE6: because he's no longer working for Microsoft. He left the company to persue writing full time.
His book, The Art of Project Management (published by O'Reilly, no less), is a good read. I read it a couple months ago and pulled it out again just last night to review.
If I open up a new page I want new content.. quite simple.
Don't forget, you only get this behavior if you open a new tab. If you open a new window you get your default home page. Regardless of your feelings, or mine, about how new tabs should be handled, this inconsistancy is a big usability problem.
If I open a new tab, I want to see the same thing I see when I open a new window: Google. If I can't get that by default, I want an option to change it, the way I used to be able to in Mozilla. Quite simple, really.
I disagree. Why does a new tab behave differently than a new window? When I open a new window, I get Google (my default browser home page). When I open a new tab, I get... nothing.
This behavior was configurable in Mozilla but was intentionally taken out in Firefox. Even after reading over the relevant Bugzilla posts on the topic, it still makes no sense.
Note that their web site is running Drupal, as Gallery is a photo gallery, not a CMS. They didn't write the code their site is running on.
Note that their web site is running Drupal, as Gallery is a photo gallery, not a CMS. They didn't write the code their site is running on.
If you don't want to buy Apple hardware, you are, of course, still free to write your own Better Windowing System for your non-Apple x86 BSD machine. The rest of us realize that Apple hardware is worth the small premium we pay for it, and that for 99.9% of the computer using population, processor architecture is largely irrelevant.
It's not uncommon. I know a developer at Yahoo who recently got an unsolicited recruitment letter from Google.
But isn't IMAP the same? Unless you use (or require!) SSL/TLS, which you can do for POP3 just as easily.
Novell is evil, except when they're doing stuff with Linux.
Which is pretty much all the time these days, isn't it? Don't we get to like them just on account of that? They're actually more interesting lately that most of the other companies you've mentioned.
Jesus Christ, doesn't anyone follow links anymore?
I know, I know, I must be new here...
Louisiana is a city, not a nation.
HTH!
I think you mean, "No there not".
HTH!
If, on the other hand we want to let them stay here anyway, then we ought to change the immigration laws so that they won't be illegal anymore.
Fixing our immigration laws is much easier said than done. Large, sweeping changes seem to scare an awful lot of people, which translates into lost votes and changes that aren't ever implemented.
Because the underlying problem (illegal immigration) can't be fixed this easily, smaller changes that can reduce related problems (unlicensed, uninsured driving) can be helpful in the interim. Illegal immigrants are going to drive, period. We should do what we can to help as many as possible do it legally.
To counter that with my own anecdotal evidence, I've used File Vault on my laptop since Panther was released and have never had the slightest problem.
I'm a vampire, you insensitive clod!
For the time being, Google is the only one hosting such servers
Not even close. My web hosting company, for example, provides Jabber with all service levels. Why have a Jabber ID of user@gmail.com when you can have user@your-own-domain? Needless to say, they also support S2S.
I was hoping that Google Talk would be the thing to get some people to start moving away from AIM to Jabber. As it stands though, Google Talk is no better than AIM or any other propietary IM network.
If you really want to use your primary email to chat, then tell your ISP to join up.
Also note that an e-mail address is not an inherent requirement to use Jabber. It may be required by the operator of the Jabber server you want to use, but there's no reason one couldn't get Jabber service from a provider they otherwise have nothing to do with. See the open server list at Jabber.org.
What is it suspended by? If the answer is "more ice", then you're wrong. If the answer is "Greenland", then you're right.
I was actually going to suggest an infinite tower of turtles, but you've made me rethink that position. Thanks!
The question submitter is using a Powerbook though, and OS X comes with Apache, mod_ssl, Perl, PHP, etc, installed by default. The only thing he'd need to install is a database.
1. Orkut's interface has never changed
2. Google didn't buy Orkut, it was created by a Google employee.