Here's a beef with all the video sites: You can't have full screen running and then click elsewhere. It instantly goes back to normal size. I have 2 monitors, and want the 2nd monitor to be playing the show full-screen. Ugh.
When will developers realize we live in a 2+ monitor world? You move an app from the primary to secondary monitor, all popup dialogs still end up on the 1st screen.
If you are testing something at work that involves multiple websites(or pages within 1 website), you'll need all the tab room you can get. The only downside of tabs maybe is the ADD associated with it. You're reading an article, then you click on a link within to start reading about a subtopic in a topic. Things branch off. You have 35 tabs open.
I can sympathize with you. On my Thinkpad T60p, there was one video(angry video game nerd's website) I couldn't watch halfway until it froze up the system entirely. Was repeatable. Got around it just by using a different system.
If the vendors don't provide documentation or aren't cooperative with our efforts to support their hardware, then they simply don't gain a huge amount of users purchasing and using their hardware.
Not a Linux problem.
If it doesn't work on Linux and it works on Windows, it's still a problem, nonetheless. Shifting the blame doesn't solve it.
And you don't have to have all that crap in your system tray if you don't want it to be there. You can always not install it there in the first place and/or remove it yourself.
How do you get rid of the 'safely remove devices' systray icon? That seems to never go away. What's worse are those apps that you can't do a simple rt-click & close, where instead you have to exit it from the File menu,or from the systray icon. Irritating.
Sadly, Linux apps are now catching up with annoying taskbar icons as well. Amarok, the wonderful media player that can't play over fucking Samba shares, has one.
Want to view a web page? Count the super-distorted kitties in this sequence of letters, numbers & symbols on the Stargate chevrons. Want to leave a comment? Decrypt this email address that's worse than slashdot's email address obfuscation system, where you spend more time decrypting it than sending in a message. Want to create an account? Play this java applet where you have to click on the moving bunny.
Ah, what a utopia. A whole internet that doesn't know if you are a dog, but will quiz you to make sure you are not a robot construct, or some farmer in India.
How about we just allow fucking Viagra to be sold over the counter, without a prescription at any drug store? Pick up a hot dog, slurpee, the latest issue of Low Rider, oh, yeah, and a vial of Viagra.
1. On my Asus EEE pc, the to: address section is four lines high. This takes up quite a bit of real estate and I can't seem to reduce it. 2. Fluidic import/export of emails. I accidentally downloaded a ton of emails off my Comcast account and forgot to check to leave the messages on server. I couldn't find a way to re-import them into my main pc's Thunderbird. They are just sitting on the hard drive, but I would rather have them IN Thunderbird for searching. 3. Searching nested email folders doesn't work in the upper-right hand widget. To add insult to injury, I have to re-type it when I switch folders. 4. Hitting Esc doesn't clear the search box. Itunes is the only app I've seen that lets you do this. 5. No blatant "block person" in newsgroups. 6. No caching of password when news servers(read: giganews) screw up and ask you to re-authenticate. Can't you pre-populate the password field? I'll retype it in if it is really wrong. 7. No uuencode support like FreeAgent(the most over-complicated software ever made for newsreading) has.
Take a door in a public place. There's a hydraulic mechanism to make sure it doesn't slam shut. There's a bit of a resistance when you open a door. Think of how many times doors in public places open & close on a given day. Sure, it may not be much per 1 door open/shut, but imagine a shopping mall or office with hundreds of doors.
Take the hydraulic damper and turn it into a generator. Chain together all the doors and have it provide power peak power hours(when the public will be using them). Make them compatible(ie mount-wise) with existing dampers & retrofit them everywhere.
Slap a generator on those revolving doors too. Imagine the power it could make in a busy downtown area.
Can't you buy them a USB 3.5 inch drive, then use the 5.25 drive on the mobo connector?
I'm honestly surprised floppy drive connectors still exist on today's motherboards. Then again, parallel ports on a mobo lasted forever, and I can't remember the last time I even used it.
I can attest to the fact YouTube has not been so snappy lately. First, I noticed that embedded videos(ie watching a YT video on some other website) is ultra-slow, going to 19990-era speeds(ie no realtime streaming). Then I go to the youtube page, and it's not that much better.
That reminds me of the Zeos pocket PC I still have, from 1991. The dang thing is so old the type 1 PCMCIA cards have data rot in them. I remember being on IRC with it in '94(using the 9600 baud modem, size of a cig pack) & playing Gauntlet with it.
Could it not be narrowed down to about 10 different standardized rechargeable batteries?
But that would mean numerous companies could make the one battery type that covers numerous laptops, thus increasing competition and lowering price. Sadly, that means your favorite PC mfg couldn't gouge you for replacement batteries.
This might have been an interesting question to ask about 7-8 years ago but now it just seems like Bruce is running out of topics. He's running out of things to declare as "insecure". Don't worry. There will be new products out there that he can declare as insecure. Worry when he gets senile and declares can openers & drinking straws as being laden with security flaws.
I highly doubt Apple will be able to make a computer under $500, much less $1200, much less a PORTABLE computer under $1200. That's not the Apple way. I have a feeling this is one market Apple will not be able to penetrate. Sure, they could make a smaller laptop, but would charge much more than the competition.
1. RealPlayer - they pioneered innovation in annoyance software. I think they wanted to be the innovators of an audio standard, and buffered out. 2. Adobe Reader - I just want to read PDF documents in less than 20 minutes. If it could print preview them in less than 3 days, that would be great too. 3. Any software that has tooltips that you can't get rid of. Basically, all of them. Try viewing images & such in FireFox, and often the tooltip will be late to the party, and cover up part of the image you are viewing. 4. Any software that has a splash window that covers EVERYTHING. I even submitted a bug report for one app, for several versions, and they didn't fix it. 5. Anything that steals focus. I'm lookin' at you, Windows Explorer
Please don't bring up "what about the birds?" in regards to wind turbines. Just don't. Sure, some may fly into one and die. Some won't. It's called survival of the fittest. Eventually, evolution will program birds so they will know "wind turbine ahead = death". The ones that don't pick up on it will be dead, and thus not to worry about.
You see, if air pollution from oil/coal/whatever happens, that affects the birds too, dumb and smart.
My whole office got shut down and what we were doing for the past 10 years moved offshore to Taiwan. Spending a week teaching QA stuff was, interesting to say the least. I did it. Just took multiple explanations to do it. It will be interesting to see what the next version of the product is going to be now that development is roughly 100% offshored. When I left the company, some know-how about the app left with me. Didn't feel like documenting it since it would take forever to explain.
If you're talking about modern laptops, I'd like to suggest that you talk to a doctor. No grown adult should consider a 5 lb, 10"x16" chunk of plastic either "big" or "heavy", and it shouldn't require "lugging".
Maybe he's talking about one of those Osbourune portable computers that weigh a lot more than a gamer case these days.
What I hope to see with these lower-cost, lower res laptops is software adapated to use LOWER RESOLUTIONS. 2 dacades ago, we had computers with real low rez, and we got by just fine. But with windowed apps, it seems that, like system resources, is used rather unwisely. The "apply changes" window for Synaptic package manager is taller than the EEE's screen. I'm sure there are hundreds of more examples out there in Windows & Linux.
Let's put some app windows, dialogs(and all in between) on a diet, so it fits nicely on these lower resoltions. The real-estate hogging dialogs, windows, etc can live just fine on my main desktop screens.
I actually like the Xandros included on the EEE PC more than Ubuntu. There's a few things here and there that are more Windows-like and just simply easier to use. The only downside is that the software repositories. For the Xandros repos, there's only a handful available, but with Ubuntu, there's quite a bit more. Eh, maybe I'm nitpicking.
Exactly. There's such thing as TOO MUCH cgi, and Speed Racer is a perfect example. It looks less like a movie, but moreso a non-interactive video game that we will see in 20 years. I'm going to skip this one.
You could have an Xbox + separate stand-alone Blu-ray drive, but that means having to switch tv stations, or a/v junction box settings each time you want to switch between the two.
With a blu-ray addon drive, you only need 1 set of A/V ports for all of it. As someone who has already run out of available ports, I would shoot for it if the price was right.
At $800 for a new PC, I think that Cubans are going to resort to doing what they did with cars; taking pre-revolution ones and keeping them going for 40-50 years.
I think this could also work somewhat for computers. They could get by just fine setting up Linux distros on older systems. It would be interesting to see what they would develop.
If I would ever have to reinstall XP from the legit cd(which I have), there's of course a ton of updates I have to install afterward. I wish MS would let me sign up for a legit, printed, same serial # CD with all the updates,etc. Then I can trash the original CD & use the new one. That would save a lot of time, and especially at the workplace when they have new boxes to setup. Hmm..
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Here's a beef with all the video sites: You can't have full screen running and then click elsewhere. It instantly goes back to normal size. I have 2 monitors, and want the 2nd monitor to be playing the show full-screen. Ugh.
When will developers realize we live in a 2+ monitor world? You move an app from the primary to secondary monitor, all popup dialogs still end up on the 1st screen.
If you are testing something at work that involves multiple websites(or pages within 1 website), you'll need all the tab room you can get. The only downside of tabs maybe is the ADD associated with it. You're reading an article, then you click on a link within to start reading about a subtopic in a topic. Things branch off. You have 35 tabs open.
I can sympathize with you. On my Thinkpad T60p, there was one video(angry video game nerd's website) I couldn't watch halfway until it froze up the system entirely. Was repeatable. Got around it just by using a different system.
If the vendors don't provide documentation or aren't cooperative with our efforts to support their hardware, then they simply don't gain a huge amount of users purchasing and using their hardware.
Not a Linux problem.
If it doesn't work on Linux and it works on Windows, it's still a problem, nonetheless. Shifting the blame doesn't solve it.
And you don't have to have all that crap in your system tray if you don't want it to be there. You can always not install it there in the first place and/or remove it yourself.
How do you get rid of the 'safely remove devices' systray icon? That seems to never go away. What's worse are those apps that you can't do a simple rt-click & close, where instead you have to exit it from the File menu,or from the systray icon. Irritating.
Sadly, Linux apps are now catching up with annoying taskbar icons as well. Amarok, the wonderful media player that can't play over fucking Samba shares, has one.
Want to view a web page? Count the super-distorted kitties in this sequence of letters, numbers & symbols on the Stargate chevrons.
Want to leave a comment? Decrypt this email address that's worse than slashdot's email address obfuscation system, where you spend more time decrypting it than sending in a message.
Want to create an account? Play this java applet where you have to click on the moving bunny.
Ah, what a utopia. A whole internet that doesn't know if you are a dog, but will quiz you to make sure you are not a robot construct, or some farmer in India.
How about we just allow fucking Viagra to be sold over the counter, without a prescription at any drug store? Pick up a hot dog, slurpee, the latest issue of Low Rider, oh, yeah, and a vial of Viagra.
Shouldn't that at least cut out the Viagra spam?
1. On my Asus EEE pc, the to: address section is four lines high. This takes up quite a bit of real estate and I can't seem to reduce it.
2. Fluidic import/export of emails. I accidentally downloaded a ton of emails off my Comcast account and forgot to check to leave the messages on server. I couldn't find a way to re-import them into my main pc's Thunderbird. They are just sitting on the hard drive, but I would rather have them IN Thunderbird for searching.
3. Searching nested email folders doesn't work in the upper-right hand widget. To add insult to injury, I have to re-type it when I switch folders.
4. Hitting Esc doesn't clear the search box. Itunes is the only app I've seen that lets you do this.
5. No blatant "block person" in newsgroups.
6. No caching of password when news servers(read: giganews) screw up and ask you to re-authenticate. Can't you pre-populate the password field? I'll retype it in if it is really wrong.
7. No uuencode support like FreeAgent(the most over-complicated software ever made for newsreading) has.
Take a door in a public place. There's a hydraulic mechanism to make sure it doesn't slam shut. There's a bit of a resistance when you open a door. Think of how many times doors in public places open & close on a given day. Sure, it may not be much per 1 door open/shut, but imagine a shopping mall or office with hundreds of doors.
Take the hydraulic damper and turn it into a generator. Chain together all the doors and have it provide power peak power hours(when the public will be using them). Make them compatible(ie mount-wise) with existing dampers & retrofit them everywhere.
Slap a generator on those revolving doors too. Imagine the power it could make in a busy downtown area.
Dang, I should patent this before.........
Can't you buy them a USB 3.5 inch drive, then use the 5.25 drive on the mobo connector?
I'm honestly surprised floppy drive connectors still exist on today's motherboards. Then again, parallel ports on a mobo lasted forever, and I can't remember the last time I even used it.
(Comcast here)
I can attest to the fact YouTube has not been so snappy lately. First, I noticed that embedded videos(ie watching a YT video on some other website) is ultra-slow, going to 19990-era speeds(ie no realtime streaming). Then I go to the youtube page, and it's not that much better.
That reminds me of the Zeos pocket PC I still have, from 1991. The dang thing is so old the type 1 PCMCIA cards have data rot in them. I remember being on IRC with it in '94(using the 9600 baud modem, size of a cig pack) & playing Gauntlet with it.
Could it not be narrowed down to about 10 different standardized rechargeable batteries?
But that would mean numerous companies could make the one battery type that covers numerous laptops, thus increasing competition and lowering price. Sadly, that means your favorite PC mfg couldn't gouge you for replacement batteries.
And that's why it won't happen.
This might have been an interesting question to ask about 7-8 years ago but now it just seems like Bruce is running out of topics.
He's running out of things to declare as "insecure". Don't worry. There will be new products out there that he can declare as insecure. Worry when he gets senile and declares can openers & drinking straws as being laden with security flaws.
I highly doubt Apple will be able to make a computer under $500, much less $1200, much less a PORTABLE computer under $1200. That's not the Apple way. I have a feeling this is one market Apple will not be able to penetrate. Sure, they could make a smaller laptop, but would charge much more than the competition.
The inspiration is clearly from the PS2 game "Kinetica".
1. RealPlayer - they pioneered innovation in annoyance software. I think they wanted to be the innovators of an audio standard, and buffered out.
2. Adobe Reader - I just want to read PDF documents in less than 20 minutes. If it could print preview them in less than 3 days, that would be great too.
3. Any software that has tooltips that you can't get rid of. Basically, all of them. Try viewing images & such in FireFox, and often the tooltip will be late to the party, and cover up part of the image you are viewing.
4. Any software that has a splash window that covers EVERYTHING. I even submitted a bug report for one app, for several versions, and they didn't fix it.
5. Anything that steals focus. I'm lookin' at you, Windows Explorer
Please don't bring up "what about the birds?" in regards to wind turbines. Just don't. Sure, some may fly into one and die. Some won't. It's called survival of the fittest. Eventually, evolution will program birds so they will know "wind turbine ahead = death". The ones that don't pick up on it will be dead, and thus not to worry about.
You see, if air pollution from oil/coal/whatever happens, that affects the birds too, dumb and smart.
My whole office got shut down and what we were doing for the past 10 years moved offshore to Taiwan. Spending a week teaching QA stuff was, interesting to say the least. I did it. Just took multiple explanations to do it. It will be interesting to see what the next version of the product is going to be now that development is roughly 100% offshored. When I left the company, some know-how about the app left with me. Didn't feel like documenting it since it would take forever to explain.
If you're talking about modern laptops, I'd like to suggest that you talk to a doctor. No grown adult should consider a 5 lb, 10"x16" chunk of plastic either "big" or "heavy", and it shouldn't require "lugging".
Maybe he's talking about one of those Osbourune portable computers that weigh a lot more than a gamer case these days.
What I hope to see with these lower-cost, lower res laptops is software adapated to use LOWER RESOLUTIONS. 2 dacades ago, we had computers with real low rez, and we got by just fine. But with windowed apps, it seems that, like system resources, is used rather unwisely. The "apply changes" window for Synaptic package manager is taller than the EEE's screen. I'm sure there are hundreds of more examples out there in Windows & Linux.
Let's put some app windows, dialogs(and all in between) on a diet, so it fits nicely on these lower resoltions. The real-estate hogging dialogs, windows, etc can live just fine on my main desktop screens.
I actually like the Xandros included on the EEE PC more than Ubuntu. There's a few things here and there that are more Windows-like and just simply easier to use. The only downside is that the software repositories. For the Xandros repos, there's only a handful available, but with Ubuntu, there's quite a bit more. Eh, maybe I'm nitpicking.
Exactly. There's such thing as TOO MUCH cgi, and Speed Racer is a perfect example. It looks less like a movie, but moreso a non-interactive video game that we will see in 20 years. I'm going to skip this one.
...and I will say it: a/v port savings.
You could have an Xbox + separate stand-alone Blu-ray drive, but that means having to switch tv stations, or a/v junction box settings each time you want to switch between the two.
With a blu-ray addon drive, you only need 1 set of A/V ports for all of it. As someone who has already run out of available ports, I would shoot for it if the price was right.
At $800 for a new PC, I think that Cubans are going to resort to doing what they did with cars; taking pre-revolution ones and keeping them going for 40-50 years.
I think this could also work somewhat for computers. They could get by just fine setting up Linux distros on older systems. It would be interesting to see what they would develop.
If I would ever have to reinstall XP from the legit cd(which I have), there's of course a ton of updates I have to install afterward. I wish MS would let me sign up for a legit, printed, same serial # CD with all the updates,etc. Then I can trash the original CD & use the new one. That would save a lot of time, and especially at the workplace when they have new boxes to setup. Hmm..