And what's wrong with saying something is changing backwards? People used to believe in teaching creation in schools. Then for awhile we didn't. Now there are some that want to go back to teaching it. If we are reverting back to a previous state, isn't that changing backwards? It's a useful phrase that concisely expresses the idea that change is not always progress.
I'll go one step further and say that the MDI interface is the most hateful interface paradigm that's ever been forced on me.
What if I have some text in one application that I want to refer to while working in a window in my MDI application? Not so easy since I've got a big gray useless mother window blocking everything. I've got to arrange my windows within the MDI window, and then arrange the MDI window with my other app windows. Twice as much work, thanks. How convenient.
So your opinion is that Al Gore's response to the NY-WTC attack would have been - don't invade Afghanistan.
Right or wrong, I doubt it too. But he also probably would have finished the job instead of leaving have way through allowing the Taliban to regain influence. That was a royally stupid move.
As for Iraq, in 1991 we defeated them easily. There was no reason to suspect any different the second time around.
We didn't go into Baghdad in 1991. Why not? Because it would have been a quagmire, that's why. If only that guy could have been in the White House in 2001, maybe he could have talked some sense into someone.
It doesn't bother me either way either. I'm a linux person, but I grew up on Macintosh. The Mac way makes perfect sense though, and there is still a visual representation of the application both in the Dock and in the menu bar. That's why I think that someone complaining about this probably doesn't understand the Mac OS. In Mac OS the window is not the application.
Also there are very good reasons for not closing the application after the last window is closed. A well behaved process will not use any resources other than swap while no windows are open and the next time the app is needed it will already be loaded and so it will save the user time. Some programs in Windows have a service that runs in the background to accomplish a similar thing, but the Macintosh way gives the user the ability to control exactly what stays loaded.
Lets not talk about the stupid Red, yellow and green application window controls. When I press the Red X, I want the fucking application to close, not minimize to a DIFFERENT place than the yellow button minimizes it to. Seriously, who thought this was a good idea?
You lost me there. First of all clicking on the red X doesn't minimize the application anywhere, it closes the window. Secondly, why should closing a window equate with quitting an application? What if the application has two windows open? Should closing one of them still quit the app? It sounds like you don't really understand what you are complaining about.
I agree that a lack of reason to upgrade is probably the biggest issue, though I think that your average user does also get bitten by DRM bullshit enough that it leaves a bad taste in their mouth.
For instance I just moved recently. The AT&T DVR I have runs some lousy MS IPTV software and because of the DRM it uses I wasn't able to keep any of my recorded programs. Sure your average user doesn't know it's DRM behind their problems, but they know it's bullshit they can't keep their recordings when they are moving across the street and it's surely going to lower their satisfaction with the product.
And it doesn't matter what they think it stands for. All they have to know is DRM means support headaches and/or getting screwed out of stuff you pay for.
Not necessarily if the rescue vehicle didn't have enough cargo space or was substantially more expensive to operate. Of course there is no alternative vehicle they could use at the moment so the point is sort of moot.
Hey, the fundamentals of our economy are strong. All the people losing houses and financial firms failing are just a correction. Stay the course. Go USA.
No, using USians is always stupid and wrong. It's also ambiguous. Does it refer to The United Mexican States or the United States of America? Since The United States of America is the only country with America in the name it is just dickish to claim that it is not an appropriate name.
IANAB, but I understand that the soap breaks apart the lipids that compose the cell membrane and that is what makes it very effective at killing bacteria. A resistance to this is apparently not easy for a single celled organism to develop.
Well, I don't see any definition in your post that is applicable to drug possession, but we can agree on arguing over slang. I imagine we both have more productive things we could be doing.
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And what's wrong with saying something is changing backwards? People used to believe in teaching creation in schools. Then for awhile we didn't. Now there are some that want to go back to teaching it. If we are reverting back to a previous state, isn't that changing backwards? It's a useful phrase that concisely expresses the idea that change is not always progress.
Hey Microsoft, I've got news for you. We've had computers in space since at least the Apollo program.
Sheesh, these guys think they're so smart...
I'll go one step further and say that the MDI interface is the most hateful interface paradigm that's ever been forced on me.
What if I have some text in one application that I want to refer to while working in a window in my MDI application? Not so easy since I've got a big gray useless mother window blocking everything. I've got to arrange my windows within the MDI window, and then arrange the MDI window with my other app windows. Twice as much work, thanks. How convenient.
So your opinion is that Al Gore's response to the NY-WTC attack would have been - don't invade Afghanistan.
Right or wrong, I doubt it too. But he also probably would have finished the job instead of leaving have way through allowing the Taliban to regain influence. That was a royally stupid move.
As for Iraq, in 1991 we defeated them easily. There was no reason to suspect any different the second time around.
We didn't go into Baghdad in 1991. Why not? Because it would have been a quagmire, that's why. If only that guy could have been in the White House in 2001, maybe he could have talked some sense into someone.
It doesn't bother me either way either. I'm a linux person, but I grew up on Macintosh. The Mac way makes perfect sense though, and there is still a visual representation of the application both in the Dock and in the menu bar. That's why I think that someone complaining about this probably doesn't understand the Mac OS. In Mac OS the window is not the application.
Also there are very good reasons for not closing the application after the last window is closed. A well behaved process will not use any resources other than swap while no windows are open and the next time the app is needed it will already be loaded and so it will save the user time. Some programs in Windows have a service that runs in the background to accomplish a similar thing, but the Macintosh way gives the user the ability to control exactly what stays loaded.
Some of your complaints are valid, but this:
You lost me there. First of all clicking on the red X doesn't minimize the application anywhere, it closes the window. Secondly, why should closing a window equate with quitting an application? What if the application has two windows open? Should closing one of them still quit the app? It sounds like you don't really understand what you are complaining about.
None. Is that something you do on a regular basis?
So what about in America where there's no such thing as a run-of-the-mill terrorist?
Seriously? Have you ever been to New England, or do you just read too much Steven King?
Cut the guy some slack, he wrote the book in the 40's. Back then computer was still a job description.
I agree that a lack of reason to upgrade is probably the biggest issue, though I think that your average user does also get bitten by DRM bullshit enough that it leaves a bad taste in their mouth.
For instance I just moved recently. The AT&T DVR I have runs some lousy MS IPTV software and because of the DRM it uses I wasn't able to keep any of my recorded programs. Sure your average user doesn't know it's DRM behind their problems, but they know it's bullshit they can't keep their recordings when they are moving across the street and it's surely going to lower their satisfaction with the product.
Seems more like competition is the problem when it comes to format wars.
And it doesn't matter what they think it stands for. All they have to know is DRM means support headaches and/or getting screwed out of stuff you pay for.
Maybe they should consider putting free trial Blu-Ray players in magazines. I'd consider giving them a spin of they did that.
Dewd. The girls that eat up panspermia are teh hawtness.
Eww, I hope that's not the part specific to your parents. TMI.
How is it that the guy repeating your point got +5 Insightful and you get bupkis? The mods work in mysterious ways.
Not necessarily if the rescue vehicle didn't have enough cargo space or was substantially more expensive to operate. Of course there is no alternative vehicle they could use at the moment so the point is sort of moot.
No, but I'd be a bit surprised if it was sabotage.
Hey, the fundamentals of our economy are strong. All the people losing houses and financial firms failing are just a correction. Stay the course. Go USA.
No, using USians is always stupid and wrong. It's also ambiguous. Does it refer to The United Mexican States or the United States of America? Since The United States of America is the only country with America in the name it is just dickish to claim that it is not an appropriate name.
Why not add a funny moderation modifier in your comment preferences?
Actually, the ideal while camping is to have no electronics at all apart from a cellphone for emergencies only. IMHO, that is.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think you may be right.
IANAB, but I understand that the soap breaks apart the lipids that compose the cell membrane and that is what makes it very effective at killing bacteria. A resistance to this is apparently not easy for a single celled organism to develop.
Well, I don't see any definition in your post that is applicable to drug possession, but we can agree on arguing over slang. I imagine we both have more productive things we could be doing.