Sure, I get pissed off when I can't figure out how to get to something because I'm so used to where it was in Win2K?If after using XP for a month I still can't figure it out, well then it's unintuitive.
\In*tu"i*tive\, a. [Cf. F. intuitif.] 1. Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.
2. Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.
Your statement is a stunning testament to the sado-masochism of Microsoft's world. Either that, or you have no concept as to what "intuitive" means.
BUT I fear a giant lawsuit from the monster in Redmond.
The Windows 9X window manager is actually derived from the OpenStep specification set forth by NeXT. The specification, as hinted by the name, is open. This is why Microsoft was able to implement it. This is also why Microsoft moved away from it with Windows XP; they have no legal recourse for people copying the look of their OS.
This company had an add campaign several years ago which featured death row murders as the spokesmen.
Benetton never has spokespersons. No one in Benetton's ads ever speak, or are ever attributed with speech. You just read "United Colors of Benetton".
This is brutally insensitive to the families of those they murdered. This was a shameless attempt to generate publicity.
Benetton has always been a socially conscious clothing company. The Benetton family are very active in social causes ranging from lobbying to stop war to AIDS research funding. There are a large group of people that believe murder is immoral period. Whether it is government sanctioned (such as the death penalty) or not. Benetton has also never featured its own clothing in any of its ads.
As a result of their campaign their largest retailer, Sears, dropped Benetton's products (which is commendable). We should all do the same.
Sears was not their largest retailer. Outside of Sears Benetton has never sold their clothes anywhere other then Benetton boutiques and their catalog. The line of Benetton in Sears was a unique line (and subquality in many people's opinion) created specifically for Sears. Sears failed to market this well and therefore Benetton would not agree to making a second line.
Like most Americans you view the USA as the world. Benetton has always been wildly successful in Europe, after all, it is an Italian brand, just like Diesel. If everyone in America stopped buying Benetton it would make very little difference as this is one of their smallest audiences.
I actually put that word in there to see if you were paying attention. Knowing what your reaction to it would be was almost too easy. You just helped me win $20 from my cube-mate.
So, viewing porn is "wrong" but gambling is OK? Especially since every state outlaws gambling anywhere but sanctioned by the state (if it is even sanctioned by the state) and to be sure your employer does not pay you to gamble on company time, and more than likely forbids gambling somewhere in your contract/rules of conduct.
If it weren't for double standards you wouldn't have any standards at all.
The quote you reference is actually a little headline banter between Bill Gates and Lee Iacoca. I'm sure Reuters has it archived somewhere.
It was around 96 and Gates said something like "If automobiles had followed the rate of development of computers, everyone would have one and they'd cost $600." A few days later the press told Iacoca about Bill Gates' quote and he said something to the effect of, "Who wants a car that crashes twice a day?"
I doubt they could because NeXT used a recycle logo for their "trash" folder before Windows 95 came out. Actually, they seemed to have copied a lot from NeXT. I guess that's the downfall of turning your operating system into a "specification" instead of an actual product.
it is merely that they want to steal for the sake of stealing.
In this posting you say you go to a rich white private high school. Which would explain a lot as to why the kids are stealing just for the thrill. Sounds like that has nothing to do with the program, and is entirely based around the culture of your school/community.
Though I would like to note, the laptop program itself isn't so great. The main use that people have for them is to play games/surf the web during class. This shouldnt be a problem as I myself am guilty of this (i'm in spanish right now!) but most people can't focus on their work while also playing... which leads to pulling the whole class down. Very annoying.
As mentioned in your earlier article, the culture of the school you go to sounds like the issue here. Your parents have bought your education. I'd conjecture the general concensus of your teachers is that if you want to throw away your education, that's your prerogative. You're in high school now, you don't need nurse maiding. That's the same sentiment college professors share. You're paying for your education, if that's not worth anything to you, it's your prerogative.
Nothing you've said about the situation at your school is disruptive to other students. It's entirely a cultural phenomenon that at your school quite a few of the kids you have class with don't care about their education.
Maybe the kids at the Maine public schools value their education more, which is why the iBook is a success at their schools.
A PC running embedded NT is not unconventional. While the concept of making a dedicated gaming machine with hardware to match is novel, I also don't think it's interesting, since hardcore gamer geeks do it all the time.
a modular coin-op built around it could also be interesting.
Interesting is subjective. It was interesting when SEGA did it back in 1999 with the Naomi hardware boards that were basically souped-up Dreamcast boards.
One possible example could be leveraging the hard drive, a coin-op that offers many games that happen to use the same input controller. An arcade manager might find that a more attractive way to allocate limitted floorspace.
Nintendo had the Playchoice 10 in 1985, SNK did this with the Neo Geo in, what was it, 1990? Nintendo's vs. System used ROM carts, Capcom's arcade systems use CD's to boot an arcade to reduce the cost of upgrading. They ship you a new CD and panels for the backlit marquee.
I can only see this panning out well if Microsoft goes into the business of Microsoft Arcades. The arcade is dead. Long live consoles.
What's really needed is for the KDE and Gnome camps to get together and decide on some basics for Human Interface Guidelines. That way people will use whatever environment they prefer but can have some assurance that an application will be consistent.
Obviously you didn't develop the app to let you synch, so what makes you think I could/would?
Bitch, moan, complain, then says it's not your responsibility to make sure your needs are met.
We need more people like you on the open source front. You're mad that you can't sync with some exotic application? Then don't use that exotic application or, like I said earlier, develop a conduit, beg a developer to develop a conduit or pay to develop a conduit.
None of them work with any email/address/calendar clients besides Outlook, Notes or Eudora.
Then develop a conduit for whatever application with which you are trying to sync. Palm is very friendly to developers. My m125 syncs just dandy with iCal and Address Book thanks to iSync Palm Conduit.
Unless IDC has changed hwo they do it:
IDC calculates how many new computers a company ships (ships, not sells) and adds that to how many copies of an operating system is sold.
Lots of companies don't report any of that information because either a) they don't care about what IDC says, or b) their customers don't care about what IDC says. Look up your favourite computer/software company to verify this.
Some people might need to read a document -- but not necessarily copy or print it, because you can't be 100% sure they won't sell the information to your competition.
Back in the olden days before we had them newfangled computers, we had this here thing called a pen and paper.
In the same vein that there will be people who record a film at the theatre and people that will pay to watch those recordings, there are people who will copy sensitive information from a computer screen with a pen and paper. Or maybe even a snapshot.
Someone will always think of a way to circumvent copy protection. You have to look at behaviours and reasons why they do it.
They cost about the same, in modern drives they are written and read from faster than floppy, they are more robust as a physical item, are not prone to accidental erasures from stray magnetic fields, archival life is magnitudes longer.
I believe it was Yamaha or Panasonic that is working on software that treats CD-RW like a floppy, letting you read, write, erase similarly.
I'll give you a tip. You don't "win" the argument by proving that you don't feel any need for a segway. The person is not claiming everyone should need or want one. They are saying it has legitimate uses for people, and the hostility towards this possiblity is really unnecessary.
Apparently no one else feels the "need" for it, either.
Welcome to the free market. There's no demand for a souped up scooter. The inventor should have made this a souped up wheelchair. I'm sure a lot of people that have accessibility needs would easily hand over $5000 for one.
The only thing that makes a Mac a Mac anymore is that Apple puts their name on it and their software in it. No more ROM. You can buy PowerPC-based boards to run Linux (just not a laptop yet, so far as I know).
Apple isn't charging a tax for their OS, they've always been a firmware company. You're buying a Mac as a total package. You don't buy a PC from Dell as a total package. Dell makes none of the hardware, none of the software, it's just cobbled together.
Why can't I buy an SGI without IRIX? Why can't I buy a SPARC without Solaris? Why can't I buy an RS/6000 without AIX? Why can't I buy a Palm without Palm OS? Why can't I buy a C3750 without HP/UX?
PC users are always telling me that PCs are faster and cheaper, and I'd be happy enough running Linux for what I want the notebook for. So: I'm looking for PC notebook computers that outperform the iBook?Performance isn't a major concern, as I'm not going to be playing 3D games on it.
Am I the only one so far that has caught this paradox?
Basically this guy says he wants everything in a 12" PowerBook G4 but says he wants an IA-32 architecture notebook because he hears PCs perform better, then goes on to say performance doesn't matter.
I'd look at how a PowerBook performs compared to a mobile version of an IA-32 processor. Not how a Mac and a PC compare in desktops, especially since you're going to be running Linux, which I really don't know why you'd not go for the Mac because you get Mac OS X, Classic, plus the ability to run everything Linux runs with a recompile.
And since the poster is using a Mac, it's improbable that he will never use the Command Key. Not that the glyph on that looks anything like a double-s shape.
The "glyph" on the command key is a cartography symbol. It represents a point of interest.
what i do see happening is some company creating a keyboard with extra keys that do things like cut/copy/paste
It already happened and it didn't take. When Apple debuted their extended keyboard (basically a PC keyboard clone with a command key) they hardwired the F-keys 1 through 4 to Undo Cut Copy Paste. Maybe the relative distance from the home row made them useless when command-z(xcv) was closer.
The most useful addition for me to any keyboard has got to be the volume keys. I could do without the keypad entirely.
play the games the way they were intended - with a brick-like controller
Actually, if you can get ahold of one, Nintendo made a SNES-like controller when they re-introduced the original NES. You could also try and locate a NES Max controller which is probably more common.
I like the shape of the controller, just not the bias of the buttons, it's difficult to use for someone who plays every game with the superspeed buttin held down.
I want to know how my e-card reader is supposed to connect to this thing without an adapter. The link cable slot and the cartridge slot are at opposing ends of the new unit, while the e-card reader has them together.
The e-card reader has been heralded by many gaming magazines as the best game system peripheral in years and it's popularity is buildingâ¦how is Nintendo going to mesh these two pieces of hardware? This new Gameboy should have had an e-card reader built in.
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\In*tu"i*tive\, a. [Cf. F. intuitif.] 1. Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.
2. Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.
Your statement is a stunning testament to the sado-masochism of Microsoft's world. Either that, or you have no concept as to what "intuitive" means.
The Windows 9X window manager is actually derived from the OpenStep specification set forth by NeXT. The specification, as hinted by the name, is open. This is why Microsoft was able to implement it. This is also why Microsoft moved away from it with Windows XP; they have no legal recourse for people copying the look of their OS.
Benetton never has spokespersons. No one in Benetton's ads ever speak, or are ever attributed with speech. You just read "United Colors of Benetton".
Benetton has always been a socially conscious clothing company. The Benetton family are very active in social causes ranging from lobbying to stop war to AIDS research funding. There are a large group of people that believe murder is immoral period. Whether it is government sanctioned (such as the death penalty) or not. Benetton has also never featured its own clothing in any of its ads.
Sears was not their largest retailer. Outside of Sears Benetton has never sold their clothes anywhere other then Benetton boutiques and their catalog. The line of Benetton in Sears was a unique line (and subquality in many people's opinion) created specifically for Sears. Sears failed to market this well and therefore Benetton would not agree to making a second line.
Like most Americans you view the USA as the world. Benetton has always been wildly successful in Europe, after all, it is an Italian brand, just like Diesel. If everyone in America stopped buying Benetton it would make very little difference as this is one of their smallest audiences.
So, viewing porn is "wrong" but gambling is OK? Especially since every state outlaws gambling anywhere but sanctioned by the state (if it is even sanctioned by the state) and to be sure your employer does not pay you to gamble on company time, and more than likely forbids gambling somewhere in your contract/rules of conduct.
If it weren't for double standards you wouldn't have any standards at all.
Because Nokia is from Finland and so is Linus Torvalds.
It was around 96 and Gates said something like "If automobiles had followed the rate of development of computers, everyone would have one and they'd cost $600." A few days later the press told Iacoca about Bill Gates' quote and he said something to the effect of, "Who wants a car that crashes twice a day?"
I doubt they could because NeXT used a recycle logo for their "trash" folder before Windows 95 came out. Actually, they seemed to have copied a lot from NeXT. I guess that's the downfall of turning your operating system into a "specification" instead of an actual product.
In this posting you say you go to a rich white private high school. Which would explain a lot as to why the kids are stealing just for the thrill. Sounds like that has nothing to do with the program, and is entirely based around the culture of your school/community.
As mentioned in your earlier article, the culture of the school you go to sounds like the issue here. Your parents have bought your education. I'd conjecture the general concensus of your teachers is that if you want to throw away your education, that's your prerogative. You're in high school now, you don't need nurse maiding. That's the same sentiment college professors share. You're paying for your education, if that's not worth anything to you, it's your prerogative.
Nothing you've said about the situation at your school is disruptive to other students. It's entirely a cultural phenomenon that at your school quite a few of the kids you have class with don't care about their education.
Maybe the kids at the Maine public schools value their education more, which is why the iBook is a success at their schools.
A PC running embedded NT is not unconventional. While the concept of making a dedicated gaming machine with hardware to match is novel, I also don't think it's interesting, since hardcore gamer geeks do it all the time.
Interesting is subjective. It was interesting when SEGA did it back in 1999 with the Naomi hardware boards that were basically souped-up Dreamcast boards.
Nintendo had the Playchoice 10 in 1985, SNK did this with the Neo Geo in, what was it, 1990? Nintendo's vs. System used ROM carts, Capcom's arcade systems use CD's to boot an arcade to reduce the cost of upgrading. They ship you a new CD and panels for the backlit marquee.
I can only see this panning out well if Microsoft goes into the business of Microsoft Arcades. The arcade is dead. Long live consoles.
There needs to be a little JAVA applet or something so I can keep up.
If Unix is dead, and Linux is based on Unix, why is Red Hat better than Solaris?
I think what's dead is the concept of Unix being a high-end-several-thousands-of-dollars solution.
What's really needed is for the KDE and Gnome camps to get together and decide on some basics for Human Interface Guidelines. That way people will use whatever environment they prefer but can have some assurance that an application will be consistent.
Bitch, moan, complain, then says it's not your responsibility to make sure your needs are met.
We need more people like you on the open source front. You're mad that you can't sync with some exotic application? Then don't use that exotic application or, like I said earlier, develop a conduit, beg a developer to develop a conduit or pay to develop a conduit.
Then develop a conduit for whatever application with which you are trying to sync. Palm is very friendly to developers. My m125 syncs just dandy with iCal and Address Book thanks to iSync Palm Conduit.
IDC calculates how many new computers a company ships (ships, not sells) and adds that to how many copies of an operating system is sold.
Lots of companies don't report any of that information because either a) they don't care about what IDC says, or b) their customers don't care about what IDC says. Look up your favourite computer/software company to verify this.
Back in the olden days before we had them newfangled computers, we had this here thing called a pen and paper.
In the same vein that there will be people who record a film at the theatre and people that will pay to watch those recordings, there are people who will copy sensitive information from a computer screen with a pen and paper. Or maybe even a snapshot.
Someone will always think of a way to circumvent copy protection. You have to look at behaviours and reasons why they do it.
"Don't steal music!" anyone?
Those products let you write to a CD similar to a floppy.
They don't let you erase like a floppy. You have to erase the whole CD-RW.
CD-R, CD-RW.
They cost about the same, in modern drives they are written and read from faster than floppy, they are more robust as a physical item, are not prone to accidental erasures from stray magnetic fields, archival life is magnitudes longer.
I believe it was Yamaha or Panasonic that is working on software that treats CD-RW like a floppy, letting you read, write, erase similarly.
Apparently no one else feels the "need" for it, either.
Welcome to the free market. There's no demand for a souped up scooter. The inventor should have made this a souped up wheelchair. I'm sure a lot of people that have accessibility needs would easily hand over $5000 for one.
Apple isn't charging a tax for their OS, they've always been a firmware company. You're buying a Mac as a total package. You don't buy a PC from Dell as a total package. Dell makes none of the hardware, none of the software, it's just cobbled together.
Why can't I buy an SGI without IRIX? Why can't I buy a SPARC without Solaris? Why can't I buy an RS/6000 without AIX? Why can't I buy a Palm without Palm OS? Why can't I buy a C3750 without HP/UX?
Am I the only one so far that has caught this paradox?
Basically this guy says he wants everything in a 12" PowerBook G4 but says he wants an IA-32 architecture notebook because he hears PCs perform better, then goes on to say performance doesn't matter.
I'd look at how a PowerBook performs compared to a mobile version of an IA-32 processor. Not how a Mac and a PC compare in desktops, especially since you're going to be running Linux, which I really don't know why you'd not go for the Mac because you get Mac OS X, Classic, plus the ability to run everything Linux runs with a recompile.
The "glyph" on the command key is a cartography symbol. It represents a point of interest.
It already happened and it didn't take. When Apple debuted their extended keyboard (basically a PC keyboard clone with a command key) they hardwired the F-keys 1 through 4 to Undo Cut Copy Paste. Maybe the relative distance from the home row made them useless when command-z(xcv) was closer.
The most useful addition for me to any keyboard has got to be the volume keys. I could do without the keypad entirely.
It could but only IBM PowerPC machines, such as RS/6000.
Actually, if you can get ahold of one, Nintendo made a SNES-like controller when they re-introduced the original NES. You could also try and locate a NES Max controller which is probably more common.
I like the shape of the controller, just not the bias of the buttons, it's difficult to use for someone who plays every game with the superspeed buttin held down.
The e-card reader has been heralded by many gaming magazines as the best game system peripheral in years and it's popularity is buildingâ¦how is Nintendo going to mesh these two pieces of hardware? This new Gameboy should have had an e-card reader built in.