Years ago, MS told us that the multiple-document interface was bad because users supposedly weren't able to deal with it. Then they stepped back and reintroduced it in their next office update. Now IE is going to get MDI in the only way that really is usable: with tabs.
But that's not the point that I'm not getting. Pondering the best, most usable solution is a good thing. Even if it takes a couple of years. Even if it's done by Microsoft. No. What I don't get is the apparent hypocrisy.
Whether a browser is safe and usable isn't only determined by such in-your-face features as boring ol' tabs. Have you ever tried to tweak IE's options? Whether you are a complete noob or somebody that has been admining Windows machines for the last ten years, the options dialog is one part of IE that makes you run away screaming for you mommy.
Options with labels that are hard to understand (to put it mildly) that are caved into a too small dialog that cannot be resized. I don't know how much of this is due to a very bad localization. But the German version actually features an option that you could back-translate to "Enable page transitions". Help item: "Determines whether Internet Explorer will blank the current page and display the next page when you leave a page." Huh?
If somebody really thinks that tabs might make IE a substantially better browser, he hasn't used it yet.
As disgusting it is to hear about "online extortionists", I prefer them to the rl extortionists. The former might direct an army of zombies at your servers and ddos the hell out of them. But the latter direct a gang of hoodlums at you to make your knees deny their service.
Too bad that we now have both and that the online guys aren't replacing the rl ones.
Apparently, subversion allows you to rename files (which is a clumsy process in cvs). It's also able to keep track of directories themselves. cvs doesn't care about diretories, only about files.
There are lots more differences though, but the two I mentionend certainly sound like they made life a little easier.
... a frustrated consumer doesn't automagically turn into a consumer that is aware of his/her own market power.
If that were the case, consumers would be able to program their VCRs (because only usable VCRs would be sold), Windows would be a lot safer, spyware would be non-existant, etc, etc.
And even if consumers were aware of their market power, they'd need a vendor that would provide what they want.
I think you got a point there, but I don't know whether the crucial difference is really the one between software and non-software.
Maybe the crucial difference really is the one between voluntary commitment and ordered involvement.
The wikipedia authors, for example, are likely to have a good time when they write their articles. They just like that kind of stuff. But while having a wiki in a corporate intranet is certainly not a bad idea, the motivation to contribute one's knowledge is radically different.
I don't think that it's really the license or the methods involved that make many OS projects a success. It just maybe plain old fun.
OK. So it looks like I'm a flamebaiting troll posting interesting articles. Cheers to the moderators! I told you to call me a troll. I never said anything about rating.
If I GPLed my first hello-world program, the best thing you could say about this piece of software is that it's free and open source. Surely, Bastille is a lot better than my hello-world, which wasn't even standard compliant.
What if you went shopping for a used car and the salesman told you "and the best thing: it's got a little light in the ashtray!"?
Yes, Slashdotters prefer free and OS software to commercial apps. But it seems to me that Slashdotters aren't the ones that decide about what software gets to run on the company's servers. It's the people that are called 'suits' around here and those people generally don't pay that much attention to the license. If these people think that a particular piece of software is good, they will happily shell out lots and lots of money.
If you want those people to use OS software, then please don't sound like bad used-cars salesmen.
Tonight, the federation of the FOSS (farmers operating socialist software) announced that it has fullfilled its five-year plan to produce high quality socialist software that is better than the imperialist's product.
Since the late 90s, the imperialists have been using "web cams" to form monopolies, rage wars, and perform other counter-revolutionary crimes.
With the liberation of the MSN protocol, another battle in the fight against the imperialist pigs was gloriously won. The revolutionary forces may now use the imperialist's network to spread hype and FUD, and to cooperatively work on the liberation of even more imperialistic protocols in a very efficient manner.
Together with the presentation techniques that the FOSS has liberated from the counter-revolutinary Power Point application, the MSN web-cam protocol will give the revolutionary forces the means of production that our great leaders chose to include in their plans five years ago.
Seems like you should really check whether this couldn't be made into a business in your area.
mitfahrzentrale.de seems to charge some fees. I'm not exactly sure for what, though. And they do offer some mobile services so you can quickly query their db for rides. They offer SMS, i-mode, and WAP.
Guess you are quite right about the tracking problem. Privacy issues can be solved and I guess it doesn't take more than a flip switch to turn tracking on or off for the driver.
Mitfahrzentrale worked (and works) quite simple. As a driver, you call them, tell them where you want to go when and they try to find a passenger for you. It's been a while since I used their services (early 90s before the web), but they are online now: http://mitfahrzentrale.tiscali.de/
I stopped using them after they procured me a passenger who was obviously a junky and burned my seats with her cigarette. OK, the fact that I took the train more and more frequently may have had some influence.
For the driver, the real disadvantage is that you have to plan ahead more when you use them. The nice thing about taking the car instead of the train is that you can drive whenever you want. With a passenger, that one is out the window.
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The real irony here is that those that liberated Germany in WW2, are now the ones that seem to be happy tossing civil rights out window.
The difference isn't that hard to see when you look at the concept. But when it comes to the methods of measuring success, it gets quite blury.
Viral marketing? Addictive memes?
Sounds like just another SEO contest to me. The only twist: not every one needs to use the same stupid made-up keyword.
Phew. That was close. Got a 'Funny' rating and not the to be expected 'Troll' one. Congrats!
I don't get it. Really. I just don't get it.
Years ago, MS told us that the multiple-document interface was bad because users supposedly weren't able to deal with it. Then they stepped back and reintroduced it in their next office update. Now IE is going to get MDI in the only way that really is usable: with tabs.
But that's not the point that I'm not getting. Pondering the best, most usable solution is a good thing. Even if it takes a couple of years. Even if it's done by Microsoft. No. What I don't get is the apparent hypocrisy.
Whether a browser is safe and usable isn't only determined by such in-your-face features as boring ol' tabs. Have you ever tried to tweak IE's options? Whether you are a complete noob or somebody that has been admining Windows machines for the last ten years, the options dialog is one part of IE that makes you run away screaming for you mommy.
Options with labels that are hard to understand (to put it mildly) that are caved into a too small dialog that cannot be resized. I don't know how much of this is due to a very bad localization. But the German version actually features an option that you could back-translate to "Enable page transitions". Help item: "Determines whether Internet Explorer will blank the current page and display the next page when you leave a page." Huh?
If somebody really thinks that tabs might make IE a substantially better browser, he hasn't used it yet.
Sorry to see this moderated as 'Troll'. I certainly think it's funny.
Natural selection.
As disgusting it is to hear about "online extortionists", I prefer them to the rl extortionists. The former might direct an army of zombies at your servers and ddos the hell out of them. But the latter direct a gang of hoodlums at you to make your knees deny their service.
Too bad that we now have both and that the online guys aren't replacing the rl ones.
Apparently, subversion allows you to rename files (which is a clumsy process in cvs). It's also able to keep track of directories themselves. cvs doesn't care about diretories, only about files.
There are lots more differences though, but the two I mentionend certainly sound like they made life a little easier.
So why is this in the hardware category? Am I missing something? Or is it because you can print out documents thus turning them into hardware?
unless it just got slashdotted.
or something you can hide in a bag or something
Like a RFID chip? Well, the future is already here
... to find and recover the body.
airbus.com offers two little videos (needs flash): http://www.airbus.com/a380/seeing/discover/index.a spx
... a frustrated consumer doesn't automagically turn into a consumer that is aware of his/her own market power.
If that were the case, consumers would be able to program their VCRs (because only usable VCRs would be sold), Windows would be a lot safer, spyware would be non-existant, etc, etc.
And even if consumers were aware of their market power, they'd need a vendor that would provide what they want.
I think you got a point there, but I don't know whether the crucial difference is really the one between software and non-software.
Maybe the crucial difference really is the one between voluntary commitment and ordered involvement.
The wikipedia authors, for example, are likely to have a good time when they write their articles. They just like that kind of stuff. But while having a wiki in a corporate intranet is certainly not a bad idea, the motivation to contribute one's knowledge is radically different.
I don't think that it's really the license or the methods involved that make many OS projects a success. It just maybe plain old fun.
Rated funny and offtopic?
If I had any moderation points, I'd rate this one insightful.
OK. So it looks like I'm a flamebaiting troll posting interesting articles. Cheers to the moderators! I told you to call me a troll. I never said anything about rating.
If I GPLed my first hello-world program, the best thing you could say about this piece of software is that it's free and open source. Surely, Bastille is a lot better than my hello-world, which wasn't even standard compliant.
What if you went shopping for a used car and the salesman told you "and the best thing: it's got a little light in the ashtray!"?
Yes, Slashdotters prefer free and OS software to commercial apps. But it seems to me that Slashdotters aren't the ones that decide about what software gets to run on the company's servers. It's the people that are called 'suits' around here and those people generally don't pay that much attention to the license. If these people think that a particular piece of software is good, they will happily shell out lots and lots of money.
If you want those people to use OS software, then please don't sound like bad used-cars salesmen.
Thanks for not reading this.
but if the best thing you can say about something is that it's free and open source!, then what you are talking about isn't worth talking about.
I'm sure that Bastille is really nice and good and whatnot, but Best of all, it's free and open source! just doesn't sound that good to me.
We like open source because many OS programs are good or even very good, not because they are open source. Or don't we?
Tonight, the federation of the FOSS (farmers operating socialist software) announced that it has fullfilled its five-year plan to produce high quality socialist software that is better than the imperialist's product.
Since the late 90s, the imperialists have been using "web cams" to form monopolies, rage wars, and perform other counter-revolutionary crimes.
With the liberation of the MSN protocol, another battle in the fight against the imperialist pigs was gloriously won. The revolutionary forces may now use the imperialist's network to spread hype and FUD, and to cooperatively work on the liberation of even more imperialistic protocols in a very efficient manner.
Together with the presentation techniques that the FOSS has liberated from the counter-revolutinary Power Point application, the MSN web-cam protocol will give the revolutionary forces the means of production that our great leaders chose to include in their plans five years ago.
sheesh what's next.. cake?
Possible. But I'll be my money on FUDge.
Seems like you should really check whether this couldn't be made into a business in your area.
mitfahrzentrale.de seems to charge some fees. I'm not exactly sure for what, though. And they do offer some mobile services so you can quickly query their db for rides. They offer SMS, i-mode, and WAP.
Guess you are quite right about the tracking problem. Privacy issues can be solved and I guess it doesn't take more than a flip switch to turn tracking on or off for the driver.
Mitfahrzentrale worked (and works) quite simple. As a driver, you call them, tell them where you want to go when and they try to find a passenger for you. It's been a while since I used their services (early 90s before the web), but they are online now: http://mitfahrzentrale.tiscali.de/
I stopped using them after they procured me a passenger who was obviously a junky and burned my seats with her cigarette. OK, the fact that I took the train more and more frequently may have had some influence.
For the driver, the real disadvantage is that you have to plan ahead more when you use them. The nice thing about taking the car instead of the train is that you can drive whenever you want. With a passenger, that one is out the window.
Mitfahrzentrale. No relation to women. I like the idea, but would you, as a driver, want to be trackable? Anywhere? Any time? By anyone?
Now who moderated this funny? Obviously somebody who thinks that a post must be funny if it contains the word 'penis'.
Well done.
I guess this also gives us the reason why the publishers chose to not have the word penis on the cover.