I run Vista on my Dell D400 laptop from around 2003, and it's rock solid. It won't run AERO Glass obviously, but it's fast enough to run Visual Studio 2008 etc.
I hear a lot from the US about how bad instant coffee is. Is Australian instant coffee different or something? Most of the time I prefer it to brewed coffee. Either is fine by me. I like Nescafe Gold, or any of the Moccona varieties. Brewed coffee's nice, but instant's just fine in my book.
Umm.. we are talking about kelvin here. It's not like they're measuring in F or C. That would truely be impressive.
What's the difference between measuring something in Kelvin and measuring it in Degrees Celsius? I mean, you just add 273.15 to the figure. It's no more or less impressive in terms of accuracy. Or did I miss a smiley somewhere there?
Forgive me if this is OT, and forgive my ignorance since I'm not a Mac user or developer, but if the program is creating its windows with standard API calls, shouldn't it get a 'brushed-metal' look and feel 'for free'?
Or does Apple build that custom look into all its apps rather than adjusting the back-end API to do it for them?
>That's $2 Australian, which is about $1 US, i.e. it's about the same price.
Here's where I disagree. If you think purely in terms of percentages of wages, $2 Australian is closer to $2 US than it is to $1.
In poorer countries whose populace earn far less per hour than us, it makes sense to use the exchange rate to calculate prices. But between Australia and the US the exchange rate seems to mean very little. Parties in both countries might earn $40000 per year, yet we pay nearly twice as much for goods. Weird!
(disclaimer: I'm not a Linux user at all, but neither am I a Windows fanboy, so this is totally an outsider's perspective)
I disagree. I think one of Linux' weak points is that it doesn't offer any real *alternative* when it comes to the GUI.
I think Linux needs some sort of wildly different GUI, perhaps not even based on the WIMP metaphore. Those people who are trying to make their GUIs exactly like Windows are missing the point: Why bother changing if you're getting exactly the same thing?
As for the question at hand: I think configuration options should really be limited to colours and fonts. Once you start doing things like rearranging buttons, or changing their glyphs, then the learning curve starts to get steeper for new users.
Hmm... I can see it now. You set up a camera in a busy hall, and have it beep you at the appropriate time. Without even having to look at a monitor, you could know *exactly* when to 'accidentally' step out into the path of that hot chick. You just better hope the software is properly trained, or else you might step out into the path of Tito the body-building delivery guy.
I think it was Apple who decided that OK should be on the right. The idea is that the buttons should work like the 'Next' and 'Back' buttons do in wizards - take you to the next logical step, or go back to the previous one. When you think of them in that context, OK and Cancel really should be ordered the other way around. Of course, it's still hard to get used to for your average Windows user (like me).
Down here is Australia SMS is (in my experience) 100% reliable. The only times I've had trouble has been over busy periods like Christmas, when a message might take a few hours to get to the recipient, rather than a few seconds.
I use SMS like I use email. In fact, it's nicer, since you don't have to wait for your friends/family to be at their PC (if they own one) and online.
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I run Vista on my Dell D400 laptop from around 2003, and it's rock solid. It won't run AERO Glass obviously, but it's fast enough to run Visual Studio 2008 etc.
I hear a lot from the US about how bad instant coffee is. Is Australian instant coffee different or something? Most of the time I prefer it to brewed coffee.
Either is fine by me. I like Nescafe Gold, or any of the Moccona varieties. Brewed coffee's nice, but instant's just fine in my book.
Umm.. we are talking about kelvin here. It's not like they're measuring in F or C. That would truely be impressive.
What's the difference between measuring something in Kelvin and measuring it in Degrees Celsius? I mean, you just add 273.15 to the figure. It's no more or less impressive in terms of accuracy. Or did I miss a smiley somewhere there?
I don't get it. What does this one have that JBuilder hasn't had for about five years? Or am I missing something?
Forgive me if this is OT, and forgive my ignorance since I'm not a Mac user or developer, but if the program is creating its windows with standard API calls, shouldn't it get a 'brushed-metal' look and feel 'for free'?
Or does Apple build that custom look into all its apps rather than adjusting the back-end API to do it for them?
Mabster
>That's $2 Australian, which is about $1 US, i.e. it's about the same price.
Here's where I disagree. If you think purely in terms of percentages of wages, $2 Australian is closer to $2 US than it is to $1.
In poorer countries whose populace earn far less per hour than us, it makes sense to use the exchange rate to calculate prices. But between Australia and the US the exchange rate seems to mean very little. Parties in both countries might earn $40000 per year, yet we pay nearly twice as much for goods. Weird!
Interesting. Your stylesheet explicitly states that the font size is 11px, so if Mozilla handles it, it's doing it with a kludge.
And yet, when I click View|Text Size|Largest, your site's font doesn't change.
Makes it difficult for readers who can't read small fonts, I would say.
Unless, of course, it's a chamber of sarin gas. :)
(disclaimer: I'm not a Linux user at all, but neither am I a Windows fanboy, so this is totally an outsider's perspective)
I disagree. I think one of Linux' weak points is that it doesn't offer any real *alternative* when it comes to the GUI.
I think Linux needs some sort of wildly different GUI, perhaps not even based on the WIMP metaphore. Those people who are trying to make their GUIs exactly like Windows are missing the point: Why bother changing if you're getting exactly the same thing?
As for the question at hand: I think configuration options should really be limited to colours and fonts. Once you start doing things like rearranging buttons, or changing their glyphs, then the learning curve starts to get steeper for new users.
Mabster
Yes: Australian golfer Jack Newton lost his right arm in a propeller accident many years ago.
Two atoms are talking to each other, and one says,
"I think I've just lost an electron!"
"Are you certain?" the other replies.
"Yes! I'm positive!"
and a science/sporting one:
Q: How much force does it take to stop a propeller?
A: About half a Newton.
Hmm ... I can see it now. You set up a camera in a busy hall, and have it beep you at the appropriate time. Without even having to look at a monitor, you could know *exactly* when to 'accidentally' step out into the path of that hot chick.
You just better hope the software is properly trained, or else you might step out into the path of Tito the body-building delivery guy.
I think it was Apple who decided that OK should be on the right. The idea is that the buttons should work like the 'Next' and 'Back' buttons do in wizards - take you to the next logical step, or go back to the previous one.
When you think of them in that context, OK and Cancel really should be ordered the other way around.
Of course, it's still hard to get used to for your average Windows user (like me).
Interesting. My gf's phone is Optus, and mine is Telstra, and we've never had any problems (apart from the aforementioned busy time ones) at all.
Down here is Australia SMS is (in my experience) 100% reliable. The only times I've had trouble has been over busy periods like Christmas, when a message might take a few hours to get to the recipient, rather than a few seconds.
I use SMS like I use email. In fact, it's nicer, since you don't have to wait for your friends/family to be at their PC (if they own one) and online.
"Nucular". It's pronounced "Nucular".
Yeah, I know: this is off topic; but it's schemata, not schemas, isn't it?
"The Turing Option" by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minksy featured a watch which you could hold up to your monitor and download the day's appointments.
A year or two after that book came out, Microsoft and (I think) Timex came out with just such a watch.