A bunch of their offerings are currently so trashy you wonder why they've put the embarrassments online: - Google Video, the ugliest storefront on the web - Google Pack - Google Talk
This company is so intensely disliked, it's just beyond belief.
I work at a magazine, and the editors tolerate Quark as a necessary evil.
My uncle has a small publishing company. The Quark hardware dongle in the back of his Mac is so poorly manufactured that it'll often randomly break connection. When this happens, Quark immediately shuts itself down without saving work.
The outgoing editor of Danish magazine Euroman posted 10 bullet points in his farewell editorial. One was 'Fuck Quark'.
The most senior author of Quark books and manuals happily acknowledges that Quark's typographical controls haven't been changed in the last 14 years.
Lotus Notes is the buggiest, most inconsistent, ugliest piece of rubbish I've ever had the displeasure to use and develop for.
The last Notes course I attended was like the Muppet lab -- every single machine, tutor's included, had to be hard reset 10+ times a day.
What a dog.
Notes webmail sorts oldest mail topmost by default (has to be changed every time you open it), and the more polished Notes browser application crashes Firefox like a champion.
Well... From a usability point, the modern keyboard is a mess...
As you are typing, you have to take pains to avoid Caps Lock AND the three Windows keys, all of which are prominently placed and will screw up what you are doing.
I hit Caps Lock in error maybe 40 times for every one time I use it for its purpose. Gamers always pull off the Windows keys.
Many of us use a keyboard for 8+ hours a day. It's incredible that these guys seem to be the only firm producing an old-school quality keyboard:
In my opinion, the SCO lawsuit is one of the best things that could happen to Linux.
Why?
A lawsuit hitting Linux was inevitable - to quote Linus himself, any business larger than a lemonade stand is going to get sued.
Good fortune then that the current lawsuit, upon which future attacks on Linux will be judged, is weak and has been made into such a freakish spectacle.
The echo will linger for a long time after the SCO claims implode with a massive sucking noise.
Slashdot Mirror
They need to penetrate and perform :-)
Good call :-)
There is no master plan.
Google is just a millionaire on a spree.
A bunch of their offerings are currently so trashy you wonder why they've put the embarrassments online:
- Google Video, the ugliest storefront on the web
- Google Pack
- Google Talk
At least the Slashdot editors post consistently wrong grammar...
:-)
it's != its
they're != theyre
I guess I've read this site for 6 years now, no change...
"This cylinder may contain a root kit..."
Didya notice... the spin that - possibly - Sony has managed to put on the story
CNN Europe and other mainstream media providers carried it like this:
The trouble with the Sony software is that it makes your computer VULNERABLE TO VIRUSES.
The mainstream spin is that the Sony software just opens the door to the bad guys. The word "rootkit" is not offered.
It makes out as though Sony blundered and issued some insecure software, and how big a deal is that?
This story deserves to grow and become a defining moment, but there's a long way from the tech community to the mainstream media.
Everybody is rooting for brilliant convergence, but Google is a such a mess nowadays, it's just not going to happen.
Google Video is a ratty service, even for a beta, I've regretted the time I spent uploading content. No way it's going to shine.
Google Talk is a callback to 1995.
Picasa and Hello are glued messily together, and posting from Hello is flaky.
There's a bushel of great services too, but the whole Google concept is just all over the place.
The Big Lebowski - entire movie!
w ski&page=1&docid=3496646435701712155&urlcreated=11 19947995 :-)
http://video.google.com/videopreviewbigall?q=lebo
Yep, it's live...
http://video.google.com/video_interesting.html
Speaking as a content uploader, the quality is simply rubbish.
Small videos, heavy compression. Web video as of 5-6 years ago. No playback controls.
Okay for reference, but this HAS to be a rough beta, it seems half-baked...
Mod parent up.
;-)
My feeling too -- the links point to an advertising site that's getting a lot of traffic just about now
This company is so intensely disliked, it's just beyond belief.
I work at a magazine, and the editors tolerate Quark as a necessary evil.
My uncle has a small publishing company. The Quark hardware dongle in the back of his Mac is so poorly manufactured that it'll often randomly break connection. When this happens, Quark immediately shuts itself down without saving work.
The outgoing editor of Danish magazine Euroman posted 10 bullet points in his farewell editorial. One was 'Fuck Quark'.
The most senior author of Quark books and manuals happily acknowledges that Quark's typographical controls haven't been changed in the last 14 years.
Hope Microsoft takes Notes out of its misery.
Lotus Notes is the buggiest, most inconsistent, ugliest piece of rubbish I've ever had the displeasure to use and develop for.
The last Notes course I attended was like the Muppet lab -- every single machine, tutor's included, had to be hard reset 10+ times a day.
What a dog.
Notes webmail sorts oldest mail topmost by default (has to be changed every time you open it), and the more polished Notes browser application crashes Firefox like a champion.
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I second that...
Here's from my daily log
Googlebot | 1673 hits | 16.69 MB
MSNBot | 517 hits | 13.40 MB
Those bots have no manners, they're really devouring bandwidth.
Well, I suppose they're making my backups for me.
...that Linux is getting bloated
Mod parent up!
:-)
That's pretty insightful --
An AirPort Express with a composite video out for connection to a TV would be a stroke of genius.
Well... From a usability point, the modern keyboard is a mess...
As you are typing, you have to take pains to avoid Caps Lock AND the three Windows keys, all of which are prominently placed and will screw up what you are doing.
I hit Caps Lock in error maybe 40 times for every one time I use it for its purpose. Gamers always pull off the Windows keys.
Many of us use a keyboard for 8+ hours a day. It's incredible that these guys seem to be the only firm producing an old-school quality keyboard:
Tactile Pro
They should fix the core functionality before they pour on the store front and other 'innovations'.
Media Player is a bitch to use --
Unlike every single other media player out there
- The space bar doesn't pause and play the movie. You use the 'Ctrl+P' shortcut.
- Double clicking the movie doesn't bring up full screen. You need the handy 'left-alt+enter' shortcut.
- In full-screen mode, no movie controls are available. ESC pulls out of fullscreen, where you are graciously afforded volume and position controls.
Every single other media player out there do these things right.
tempting tempting...
I have a NEC2500 sitting under my desk right now, configured as 'master'.
Think I'm going to wait until the hardware sites have tested this, and more reliable accounts are available.
Also, the dual-layer media are as pricey as they'll ever get. They'll most probably follow the price curve of other recording media.
No! No! No!
No way I saw that!
Dr. Panko's website has the title
"New Page 1"
The Frontpage default. OMG.
Here's an 'expert' I won't be trusting!
The Danish government too
The change tracking feature in Word is a nightmare. Which particular smart monkey thought it would be a good idea to turn it on by default?
In my opinion, the SCO lawsuit is one of the best things that could happen to Linux.
Why?
A lawsuit hitting Linux was inevitable - to quote Linus himself, any business larger than a lemonade stand is going to get sued.
Good fortune then that the current lawsuit, upon which future attacks on Linux will be judged, is weak and has been made into such a freakish spectacle.
The echo will linger for a long time after the SCO claims implode with a massive sucking noise.
MIDI-controlled hamster
I won't tell ya where I connected the 5-pin DIN cable to the hamster... but it dances when I play the keyboard
Done is done. They can't go back on it, now...
;-)
There's no 'Back' button on Firefox.
In IE, two images placed below each other will come out with a strange bit of spacing between them - in any visual design a very unwanted quirk.
UNLESS you remove all carriage returns in the HTML source - make solid, unreadable HTML and the images align.
This has got to be the strangest, crappiest bug in 96% of users' favourite limping, wheezing browsing rectangle.
To create a world-class desktop, an overhead vantage point is needed. I guess this'll be a stretch for the development model of free software.
Windows and Mac heads are used to a VERY strong cross-application cut and paste.
Windows has often - (no sarcasm) - exceeded expectations in this area by allowing all kinds of data to be intelligently moved from one app to another.
It's something designers rely on and use all the time.