I'm still waiting for the 250 MB inbox that hotmail promised was on the way. I'm still stuck at the old 2MB, which is pretty useless given how quickly that fills up with spam. Has anyone else been skipped over on the promised storage increase, or is it just me?
Give me more storage - THEN screw around with the interface.
That argument, while I agree with it, is utterly useless when addressing a religious atheist or agnostic -- a category that includes the majority of professing deists and theists.
As an agnostic atheist(don't believe in God, but don't claim to have proof), I accept that argument just fine. He said that our rights are ours by God or by birth. I choose birth.
However you get there, the point is that government doesn't give the people rights. Rather, people inherintly have rights and sometimes, by social contract, we allow the government to take them away.
I'm thrilled with the SVG support in this browser - IE's Adobe plugin not withstanding, this is the first browser that I've been able to get that page working in without a hitch. Should open the door to some more widespread SVG development goodness, once this browser gains popularity.
Oil prices went up because it was the only way that the demand for oil could be brought down to a level equal to the limited supply.
Its not gouging, its ordinary market forces. If oil companies didn't raise their prices, they would soon find themselves with no oil left to sell. And you would find yourself sitting in a half-mile long backup at the pump, hoping to get your ration of price-controlled gasoline.
Oh, sure, its very pretty... but the usability on my wife's Mini just gives me a headache.
The slider wheel thats not really a wheel is simply not as intuative as, say, buttons, and it overly succeptable to accedental brushing. But the biggest problem I find is the lack of an off button. Instead, you have to hit the slider in just the right way for the correct period of time.... you can do it, but its totally not intuative and it takes more practice than it should. How hard would it be to have a simple "on/off" button?
Meanwhile, people who actually consume the sponsor's products - by eating at McDonald's and drinking a lot of Coke - are way too fat to even consider competing in the games.
When I finally succumbed to the annoying box on my screen that was insisting I install SP2, it broke my Windows installation so thoroughly that I had to reinstall Windows from scratch just to get things working again.
If it was a couple of applications that didn't work, I could live with that. But in this case, the machine would hang in the middle of the windows flash screen on bootup, rendering the whole damned computer useless.
Thats a day of my life I'll never get back. Unacceptable.
Another historical White Elephant footnote: In aproximately 800 AD, the Caliph of Bagdad sent Charlameign the gift White Elephant.... and it was especially remembered for what a pain it was to get the animal over the Alps.
On the whole, I've been happy with the MSN search. Mostly because my sites rank there when the dont rank in Google.
However, as far as the UI goes... why is the search text-box so friggin small? It's 20 characters wide. Google's is 50 characters wide. search.yahoo.com has space for 60 characters.
If I want to paste a long search string in the box, with MSN, I can't even see the whole thing. Why is MSN search being so miserly with the text box size?
Additionally, Zogby polling within Iraq at polling places showed that over 58% of Iraqis believe there should be religious pluralism and freedom, with less than 30% favoring some form of Islamic council, and a significantly smaller percentage (~1%) favoring a Taliban style Islamic theocracy.
Yeah, Zogby polling also told us Kerry was going to win in November.
>What? In a lot of applications, if you hold down the button, you get the equivalent of a right-click menu.
Yeah, thats another pain in the ass with regards to the apple/mouse situation. Some applications give you a menu if you hold down the button, some insist you use control-click, and some don't give you squat no matter what you do. It inconsistant. Either all applications should support the same right-click type functionality, or none should. You shouldn't have to guess from application to application.... this is why UI standards are important.
As someone currenly job hunting in the DC/Baltimore area, I am amazed by the number of programming jobs that require security clearances. If you have a security clearace and took a couple java classes in college, government contractors will shower you with job offers. The requisite for getting a job on these projects, therefor, is not being a talented programmer, it is having a clearance that says you aren't a spy.
The result, I'm convinced, is that they hire a lot of sub-standard programmers, who create poorly designed products at great expense. And if the product doesn't work, well, thats another $100 million of taxpayer money down the drain.
These outfits need to either figure out a way to use better programmers who don't have security clearances, or figure out how to get good programmers cleared without a 2 year delay. Until that happens, a lot of substandard coders will contiue to write failed applications on the taxpayer dollar.
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I value desktop windows that actually maximize when you hit the maximize window button, so that rules out OS X....
Before the iPod Apple made a stir with OS X, which was certainly not just some stylized rehash of any PC stuff.
well, technically it was a stylized rehash of FreeBSD...
I'm still waiting for the 250 MB inbox that hotmail promised was on the way. I'm still stuck at the old 2MB, which is pretty useless given how quickly that fills up with spam. Has anyone else been skipped over on the promised storage increase, or is it just me?
Give me more storage - THEN screw around with the interface.
What could possibly go wrong?
Or maybe Homer should sue everyone for ripping off the Illiad
Sounds like a cool trick, IBM Powerbooks don't have that Windows key, so I can't test it out right now....
Would it have killed IBM to use a standard keyboard?
That argument, while I agree with it, is utterly useless when addressing a religious atheist or agnostic -- a category that includes the majority of professing deists and theists.
As an agnostic atheist(don't believe in God, but don't claim to have proof), I accept that argument just fine. He said that our rights are ours by God or by birth. I choose birth.
However you get there, the point is that government doesn't give the people rights. Rather, people inherintly have rights and sometimes, by social contract, we allow the government to take them away.
Here's an SVG sample I wrote myself: SVG Electoral Vote Calculator
I'm thrilled with the SVG support in this browser - IE's Adobe plugin not withstanding, this is the first browser that I've been able to get that page working in without a hitch. Should open the door to some more widespread SVG development goodness, once this browser gains popularity.
Oil prices went up because it was the only way that the demand for oil could be brought down to a level equal to the limited supply.
Its not gouging, its ordinary market forces. If oil companies didn't raise their prices, they would soon find themselves with no oil left to sell. And you would find yourself sitting in a half-mile long backup at the pump, hoping to get your ration of price-controlled gasoline.
Oh, sure, its very pretty... but the usability on my wife's Mini just gives me a headache.
The slider wheel thats not really a wheel is simply not as intuative as, say, buttons, and it overly succeptable to accedental brushing. But the biggest problem I find is the lack of an off button. Instead, you have to hit the slider in just the right way for the correct period of time.... you can do it, but its totally not intuative and it takes more practice than it should. How hard would it be to have a simple "on/off" button?
"Sir yes sir!" is not actually what the civilian world thinks it means.
In that case, please explain to us ignorant civilians what it means....
Meanwhile, people who actually consume the sponsor's products - by eating at McDonald's and drinking a lot of Coke - are way too fat to even consider competing in the games.
Bah, real Cops just scrape ones and zeros on a chunk of magnetic rock.
... is a stable version of Safari. Have they updated it so it doesn't go glacial if left open for more than a day?
Safari has a very similar leak. If you leave it open with tabs for a day, it will slow down the whole machine.
It takes a lot the fun out of tabbed browsing if you can't leave your tabs open....
Not everyone in the US knows how to interpret this horrible abomination that is the Fahrenheit scale...
What, did you skip that day in the third grade?
When I finally succumbed to the annoying box on my screen that was insisting I install SP2, it broke my Windows installation so thoroughly that I had to reinstall Windows from scratch just to get things working again.
If it was a couple of applications that didn't work, I could live with that. But in this case, the machine would hang in the middle of the windows flash screen on bootup, rendering the whole damned computer useless.
Thats a day of my life I'll never get back. Unacceptable.
Another historical White Elephant footnote: In aproximately 800 AD, the Caliph of Bagdad sent Charlameign the gift White Elephant.... and it was especially remembered for what a pain it was to get the animal over the Alps.
The best art asks the question "what is art?"
Of course, thats elitest bullshit.
Art is something pretty that hangs on the wall. Or possibly, its a statue. No need to get existential about it.
On the whole, I've been happy with the MSN search. Mostly because my sites rank there when the dont rank in Google.
However, as far as the UI goes... why is the search text-box so friggin small? It's 20 characters wide. Google's is 50 characters wide. search.yahoo.com has space for 60 characters.
If I want to paste a long search string in the box, with MSN, I can't even see the whole thing. Why is MSN search being so miserly with the text box size?
Thats why you go to http://search.msn.com/ - it doesn't have all that extra crap.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but its nice having an alternative to go to when you aren't finding what you want on Google.
Additionally, Zogby polling within Iraq at polling places showed that over 58% of Iraqis believe there should be religious pluralism and freedom, with less than 30% favoring some form of Islamic council, and a significantly smaller percentage (~1%) favoring a Taliban style Islamic theocracy.
Yeah, Zogby polling also told us Kerry was going to win in November.
>What? In a lot of applications, if you hold down the button, you get the equivalent of a right-click menu.
Yeah, thats another pain in the ass with regards to the apple/mouse situation. Some applications give you a menu if you hold down the button, some insist you use control-click, and some don't give you squat no matter what you do. It inconsistant. Either all applications should support the same right-click type functionality, or none should. You shouldn't have to guess from application to application.... this is why UI standards are important.
Yeah, and none of them does me a lick of good on my powerbook laptop.
As someone currenly job hunting in the DC/Baltimore area, I am amazed by the number of programming jobs that require security clearances. If you have a security clearace and took a couple java classes in college, government contractors will shower you with job offers. The requisite for getting a job on these projects, therefor, is not being a talented programmer, it is having a clearance that says you aren't a spy.
The result, I'm convinced, is that they hire a lot of sub-standard programmers, who create poorly designed products at great expense. And if the product doesn't work, well, thats another $100 million of taxpayer money down the drain.
These outfits need to either figure out a way to use better programmers who don't have security clearances, or figure out how to get good programmers cleared without a 2 year delay. Until that happens, a lot of substandard coders will contiue to write failed applications on the taxpayer dollar.