You're STUCK with that? I don't think so. See, it's called open source, and... connect the fucking dots.
How does making a program open sourse suddenly make all users have a good techical understanding on how to edit progam config files etc? Or are you just being ignorant?
When you expect that Quit will do something other than quit, all other bets are off. Funny how they didn't mention the only other menu item in that menu: Close. Wonder what that one would do, close the menu?
Sorry, but thanks for playing. The debugger window is not really part of the browser...It's a debugger. Quit would logicaly quit the debugger, and not the whole browser. They shouldn't really have a quit button on there if they consider it part of the browser, just close. A child of the parent window shouldn't have command that can affect the parent in such a durastic way.
This is where programmers tend to make the biggest mistakes. They that their way is right (I'm sure someone will tell me that I'm full of shit). But the fact is, the user clicked the wrong button. Given that the Cnet people aren't totaly newbies, it's the programmers fault that the user clicked the wrong button....They have misslead the user in some way.
Yeah well... given that Taco is a programmer. Can anyone really take his opinion on athetics seriously?
I've seen the same thing. The company I'm doing work for has got 3 of the new iMacs. Everyone who has seen them has ohhed and ahhed at them....Especially the women.
I personal like it. And as for cheap plastic toys, most PC cases look exactly that. Even the some of the expensive aluminium cases (LiTan or something?) look horrible to me (horrible lines, spacing, alignemnts etc).
Since progammers are more common than designers here, I'll probably get modded down or have someone reply to me get modded up in opposition to what I'm saying. But hey, Opinions are opinions and I'm allowed to think that mine is right.
I would say never, but then there will prolly be some small company that does.
Given that 99% of the components are soldered down to the board. Just how would you upgrade one of these things?
If you designed it so that parts can be exchanged and upgraded etc. The PDA would be too big.
Plus the fact that some of the parts won't be upgradeable, the limited range of upgrade parts for each model, and that fact that newer models would still come out, and will probably have things that you can't upgrade to if you have an older PDA. I really can't see it happening.
Alot of people find it cheaper to buy a whole new computer than to upgrade their existing one in todays world. Let alone PDAs.
Compare that attitude with Firestone's policy of deny and cover-up when people's lives were at stake
Japaness business men seem to have more of these things called 'ethics'. Not sure why. I know they have alot more suicides from CEOs if the company stuffs up etc. As opposed to the take the money and run attitude that seems common in western countires.
Seems like OLEDS, Smartpaper or E-ink will have won by then:)
I don't think they are competing for the same thing really (except for TV's maybe). An OLED, or E-ink will still require the physical size of a panel, even if you can fold it up.
The advantage with this is that the display device can be made smaller without making the actual displayed image smaller.
Well, if you went back 20 years and told them you could buy a 1.2Ghz chip for $100 bucks. Not only would they say it was impossable to make in the first place, but if they could, it would probably cost $100,000,000.
Hell, they'd probably laugh at the fesibilty of a 486 chip for under $100,000. Now they are so worthless people can hardly sell them.
When I flipped over my new iBook. I read the words "Designed in California Assembled in Taiwan".
I noticed the screen wasn't properly aligned with the base, and that the top was sligtly deformed. It was closer to the base on the edges, and higher where the hinge was, it was the opposite on the front where it has rubber stoppers on the edge, and a clip pulling it down in the middle. It's only by a couple of mm's, but it's quite noticable when the top is closed. They keyboard it a bit bouncy because it dosn't fit it into the base exactly, and the key's rub against the screen when it's closed. So much for high quality. That being said, it still seems better quality that alot of PC laptops.
The only electronic device that I have brough recently that is of good quailty is my Fuji 6900 digicam....Made in Japan by a Japaness company. Go figure...
Really? I paid $1024 (NZ) for my Palm Vx. That was a normal price at the time. It's going great except for the fact that they used a f'n membrane button for the power button. Now the power button only works half the time, making it pretty much useless. For that price, it wouldn't have hurt them to use the same kinda of button as the app buttons (a real button).
I really could care less if Palm was wipped out of the market. Their hardware seems poor quality for the price, and there is no inovation in either their hardware or software division. If it wasn't for 3rd parties, Palm would be stone dead in terms of innovation.
MSIE's product manager is half right. Alot if times for me, Chimera is faster that IE (For rendering HTML), others it's slower (GUI). But over all, they are all horribly slow on my iBook (The GUI is what's killing it). My PII 233 with IE 5.5 still feels like a speed deamond compared to anything under OS X on my iBook.
He he.... The car one is deffinitly different. It looks like a 1/5 or 1/4 scale R/C car with it's innards ripped out.
What would be even more impressive was if he had both the R/C stuff and computer in there at the same time. A truly portable computer!...If you don't mind grease/dirt/fuel/oil/exaust getting all over the computer that is;)
Chance that these bugs become uncontrollable would almost be zero - remember, that we're GENETICALLY ENGINEERING a bug. It means, we can potentially make any "mod" to these bugs.
Sure! That's solution. We all know that it's possable to modify any part of a bug and be sure that it will work flawlessly with no hidden side-effects.
Do I really need to spell out the huge flaw in your comment? Or is my bad sarcasim enough?
Given how new genetic engineering is. I would never even think about exposing something like this to the earths environment without at least 20 years of lab tests a research.
Considering that the US military is involved with this, it wouldn't supprise me if they are willing to risk the worlds environment to increase these arsonal.
There is a difference between a shade an a hue. Unless you just missphrased that.
Now. I could be wrong here (and probably am). But there are 255 shades of each hue in a 24bit colour space. 16,581,375 / 255 = 65,025 different hues--considerably less than 7 million.
So you can type with you thumb reliably, easly, using that virtual keyboard? I'm impressed. But I'm also overcome by the overpowering stench of bullshit.
QWERTY was designed for typewiters, DOVARK is for keyboards (even though QWERTY dominates). What f'n use are these layouts on a small keyboards like a phone or PDA?
I'm glad that some people are looking for keyboard alternatives, because QWERTY sucks for this kind of application.
Well, given that this is supposibly leeked info. I don't think they would have bothered too much about making it look nice.
Anyway. The fact that it looks like crap says it could be real to me. I'm still suppised sometimes when I visit a big brand site, and find that it looks like it's been done by the back-end guys. You can't go by design professionalism when it comes to big companies and electronic info.
2nd clue is that it's Excel. What else would your average big coporate use?;)
Except for the performace hit you take for having A having 2 cards with no AGP, and the fact that they are 3 seperate cards, using differnt (and differnt types) of slots, sounds like a bad mixure to me if performace or reliablity is you goal. Not to mention it takes up 2 extra slots, that might not be avalible depending on you system.
You have to put the url in, slashdots crudbuster wouldn't let me post the complete addy.
This brings up a good question....Why is/. stil using the lameness filter? I don't post that many posts, but I have encountered the lameness far too may times, and I have read so many comments that have complained about the lameness filter.
You see, the idea of the lamness filter, is to filter out lame comments. The reason for this is to improve the quality and usefulness of the/. forums....Right?
OK, sounds great. But don't you think it's time to trash an idea when it starts to become the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do? That being the fact that it's stopping people posting good comments.
As far as I can see. The lameness it doing more harm than good. I have yet to see a troll post in atleast a year (while browsing at score:2). But I have seen plenty of people pissed off with the lameness filter. It's lame, and should really be filtering it's self out IHMO.
Over here! You can come by and pick it up when you want. I'm having some Aztec friends over tonight for a beer. If you pick it up tonight, you're more than welcome to have a drink with us. I think those crazy, stone-carving guys from Easter Island are comming over to, they're always great people to have over....I just wish they would stop carving rude things out of my concrete wall.
I saw something like this on TV a few years ago....Prolly part of the same project.
They made a point specificly about the skull and bones, and that it would be useless, because even in some cultures today, the skull and bones has a non-negitive meaning.
They seem to give the conclution that it would be better off making the place unreachable, as opposed to using warning signs. Black sand (too hot to walk on etc) or something was part of on idea (or maybe just an example). But they pointed out that this was also useless, because it would get blowen before 100,000 years.
I think the basic conclution that the program came to, was that it would be f'n hard to make sure no one accidently stumbles across it for 100,000 years.
Personaly. I think that we would be better of keeing it here, and waiting untill space travel get a bit more relible and safer, then just send it on a course to the sun.
TIFF, GIF, PNG are much better than JPG for large areas of blank space, they are also better for preserving quality (except GIF and 8-bit PNGs since they will loose colour).
But this doesn't mean that the pages you scan will be small if you use TIFF etc. A straight scan from the scanner may look white, but there will lots of noise in their, and that won't compress well.
What I do, is open it up in Photoshop (or app of your choice), and use the levels to 'blow the highlights' (usally a bad thing when editing photos). There will still be a bit of noise left unless you went overkill, but you could use the wand, or use the colour selection, and fill it with white.
Now you have something that will compress alot better.
You can also automate it if you have Photoshop. Let me know if you want details.
I've got PHP and MySQL Web Development by Sams, It comes with the full PDF version (exact copy of the book) on the CD. I find it very handy. I use the dead tree version at home, but keep the PDF on my laptop, so I can pull it up anywhere. I wish more companies would do this. It's nice to know that there are still some people don't treat their customers like software pirates.
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How does making a program open sourse suddenly make all users have a good techical understanding on how to edit progam config files etc? Or are you just being ignorant?
Sorry, but thanks for playing. The debugger window is not really part of the browser...It's a debugger. Quit would logicaly quit the debugger, and not the whole browser. They shouldn't really have a quit button on there if they consider it part of the browser, just close. A child of the parent window shouldn't have command that can affect the parent in such a durastic way.
This is where programmers tend to make the biggest mistakes. They that their way is right (I'm sure someone will tell me that I'm full of shit). But the fact is, the user clicked the wrong button. Given that the Cnet people aren't totaly newbies, it's the programmers fault that the user clicked the wrong button....They have misslead the user in some way.
I've seen the same thing. The company I'm doing work for has got 3 of the new iMacs. Everyone who has seen them has ohhed and ahhed at them....Especially the women.
I personal like it. And as for cheap plastic toys, most PC cases look exactly that. Even the some of the expensive aluminium cases (LiTan or something?) look horrible to me (horrible lines, spacing, alignemnts etc).
Since progammers are more common than designers here, I'll probably get modded down or have someone reply to me get modded up in opposition to what I'm saying. But hey, Opinions are opinions and I'm allowed to think that mine is right.
Given that 99% of the components are soldered down to the board. Just how would you upgrade one of these things?
If you designed it so that parts can be exchanged and upgraded etc. The PDA would be too big.
Plus the fact that some of the parts won't be upgradeable, the limited range of upgrade parts for each model, and that fact that newer models would still come out, and will probably have things that you can't upgrade to if you have an older PDA. I really can't see it happening.
Alot of people find it cheaper to buy a whole new computer than to upgrade their existing one in todays world. Let alone PDAs.
Japaness business men seem to have more of these things called 'ethics'. Not sure why. I know they have alot more suicides from CEOs if the company stuffs up etc. As opposed to the take the money and run attitude that seems common in western countires.
1024 shades of grey, that's 35 trillion colours. The maths dosn't add up there, but either way, it's a tab more that anything around today.
I don't think they are competing for the same thing really (except for TV's maybe). An OLED, or E-ink will still require the physical size of a panel, even if you can fold it up.
The advantage with this is that the display device can be made smaller without making the actual displayed image smaller.
Hell, they'd probably laugh at the fesibilty of a 486 chip for under $100,000. Now they are so worthless people can hardly sell them.
I noticed the screen wasn't properly aligned with the base, and that the top was sligtly deformed. It was closer to the base on the edges, and higher where the hinge was, it was the opposite on the front where it has rubber stoppers on the edge, and a clip pulling it down in the middle. It's only by a couple of mm's, but it's quite noticable when the top is closed. They keyboard it a bit bouncy because it dosn't fit it into the base exactly, and the key's rub against the screen when it's closed. So much for high quality. That being said, it still seems better quality that alot of PC laptops.
The only electronic device that I have brough recently that is of good quailty is my Fuji 6900 digicam....Made in Japan by a Japaness company. Go figure...
I really could care less if Palm was wipped out of the market. Their hardware seems poor quality for the price, and there is no inovation in either their hardware or software division. If it wasn't for 3rd parties, Palm would be stone dead in terms of innovation.
MSIE's product manager is half right. Alot if times for me, Chimera is faster that IE (For rendering HTML), others it's slower (GUI). But over all, they are all horribly slow on my iBook (The GUI is what's killing it). My PII 233 with IE 5.5 still feels like a speed deamond compared to anything under OS X on my iBook.
What would be even more impressive was if he had both the R/C stuff and computer in there at the same time. A truly portable computer!...If you don't mind grease/dirt/fuel/oil/exaust getting all over the computer that is ;)
Sure! That's solution. We all know that it's possable to modify any part of a bug and be sure that it will work flawlessly with no hidden side-effects.
Do I really need to spell out the huge flaw in your comment? Or is my bad sarcasim enough?
Given how new genetic engineering is. I would never even think about exposing something like this to the earths environment without at least 20 years of lab tests a research.
Considering that the US military is involved with this, it wouldn't supprise me if they are willing to risk the worlds environment to increase these arsonal.
Now. I could be wrong here (and probably am). But there are 255 shades of each hue in a 24bit colour space. 16,581,375 / 255 = 65,025 different hues--considerably less than 7 million.
And IMHO, we never will be able to create the equation properly (from withing the our universe), since our equation would be part of its self.
QWERTY was designed for typewiters, DOVARK is for keyboards (even though QWERTY dominates). What f'n use are these layouts on a small keyboards like a phone or PDA?
I'm glad that some people are looking for keyboard alternatives, because QWERTY sucks for this kind of application.
The Bastard Theory: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=377910 &lastnode_id=639773
And what are these features that know one wants?
Anyway. The fact that it looks like crap says it could be real to me. I'm still suppised sometimes when I visit a big brand site, and find that it looks like it's been done by the back-end guys. You can't go by design professionalism when it comes to big companies and electronic info.
2nd clue is that it's Excel. What else would your average big coporate use? ;)
Except for the performace hit you take for having A having 2 cards with no AGP, and the fact that they are 3 seperate cards, using differnt (and differnt types) of slots, sounds like a bad mixure to me if performace or reliablity is you goal. Not to mention it takes up 2 extra slots, that might not be avalible depending on you system.
This brings up a good question....Why is /. stil using the lameness filter? I don't post that many posts, but I have encountered the lameness far too may times, and I have read so many comments that have complained about the lameness filter.
You see, the idea of the lamness filter, is to filter out lame comments. The reason for this is to improve the quality and usefulness of the /. forums....Right?
OK, sounds great. But don't you think it's time to trash an idea when it starts to become the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do? That being the fact that it's stopping people posting good comments.
As far as I can see. The lameness it doing more harm than good. I have yet to see a troll post in atleast a year (while browsing at score:2). But I have seen plenty of people pissed off with the lameness filter. It's lame, and should really be filtering it's self out IHMO.
Over here! You can come by and pick it up when you want. I'm having some Aztec friends over tonight for a beer. If you pick it up tonight, you're more than welcome to have a drink with us. I think those crazy, stone-carving guys from Easter Island are comming over to, they're always great people to have over....I just wish they would stop carving rude things out of my concrete wall.
They made a point specificly about the skull and bones, and that it would be useless, because even in some cultures today, the skull and bones has a non-negitive meaning.
They seem to give the conclution that it would be better off making the place unreachable, as opposed to using warning signs. Black sand (too hot to walk on etc) or something was part of on idea (or maybe just an example). But they pointed out that this was also useless, because it would get blowen before 100,000 years.
I think the basic conclution that the program came to, was that it would be f'n hard to make sure no one accidently stumbles across it for 100,000 years.
Personaly. I think that we would be better of keeing it here, and waiting untill space travel get a bit more relible and safer, then just send it on a course to the sun.
TIFF, GIF, PNG are much better than JPG for large areas of blank space, they are also better for preserving quality (except GIF and 8-bit PNGs since they will loose colour).
But this doesn't mean that the pages you scan will be small if you use TIFF etc. A straight scan from the scanner may look white, but there will lots of noise in their, and that won't compress well.
What I do, is open it up in Photoshop (or app of your choice), and use the levels to 'blow the highlights' (usally a bad thing when editing photos). There will still be a bit of noise left unless you went overkill, but you could use the wand, or use the colour selection, and fill it with white.
Now you have something that will compress alot better.
You can also automate it if you have Photoshop. Let me know if you want details.
I've got PHP and MySQL Web Development by Sams, It comes with the full PDF version (exact copy of the book) on the CD. I find it very handy. I use the dead tree version at home, but keep the PDF on my laptop, so I can pull it up anywhere. I wish more companies would do this. It's nice to know that there are still some people don't treat their customers like software pirates.