I RTFA too, and in the very first paragraph it says "And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design."
>> True, but I don't think it's just a Microsoft thing.
I'll agree with that...unfortunately for Microsoft, they're the largest example ever of a red-tape-laden software giant, and most comments that *should* be generalizations end up becoming anti-Microsoft slams.
It makes me wonder, though, if large software corps don't have something to learn from this "event" as the article keeps calling it. Would it ultimately be productive/counterproductive to, say, stop work on all new projects (or new features to old projects) in order to spend a couple weeks fixing important, nagging bugs?
I suspect that I'm thinking too much like a small business...software giants probably have entire teams devoted to fixing bugs while the other programmers keep cranking out new features (which will of course be based on the original buggy code).
IMHO, this is what sets OSS above/apart from The Microsoft Way. These guys got together over a weekend to do maintenance and fix bugs on a project they truly care about. The guys at MS only started fixing bugs when it became obvious that their ineptitude might cost them some of The Almighty Dollar.
....Apple has contracts with the record labels to sell songs at.99
That may be true, but that price ($.99/track that users pay) is not what's at issue here...it's the $.65/track that Apple pays. Saying that Apple has a contract to sell songs for $.99 a piece doesn't necessarilly mean that the RIAA can't raise the wholesale price that Apple pays per track. Of course, I don't actually know what this "contract" says, so this type of thing may be guarded against.
What I've trained myself to do is this: in Mozilla/Konq/etc., Ctrl-U erases the line. So, I highlight the URL i want, click on the current (unwanted) URL, hit Ctrl-U to remove it, and hit the middle button to paste the new URL. Works for me...
When I graduated from college, I was at 180. Not skinny by any means, but...I wasn't feeling 'fat'.
2 years later, I've been working as a SysAdmin/Applications Developer. Lots 'o desk time, zero exercise, and plenty of beer in the off-hours. A month ago, I weighed myself in at 208. The mirror laughed when I asked what happened to the distance runner from 6 years ago.
Since then, I've started lifting and running again after work. Also, I've started (attempting) to eat a little better...water instead of pop, cut down on the fast food, and eat more smaller-portioned meals.
Trust me, it's a pain in the ass, but after a few weeks, you get used to it. Right now, I'm back down to 192, once again have muscles that I can use, and have to wear a belt.
Basically, what I'm saying is you don't necessarily need to do anything differently at work, aside from maybe eating differently and drinking more water. If you try to get 30-60 minutes of exercise after work, you'll start to notice a difference in a few weeks!
I would assume that as a mathematician (he wasn't just a CS guy), writing proofs is much easier with the pen than it is with the keyboard. IANAMathematician, but when I was in school, I'd constantly be picking up the old writing stick to do my brainstorming for math classes.
Maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe it's just what he feels most comfortable using...Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam fame) still uses an old, beat-up typewriter to put his lyrics on paper.
The college I webmaster/sysadmin for (click on my URL) has used Netscape 4.7 for the longest time...we're moving over to Mozilla this summer, for both mail and browser use. I can't tell you how happy I am...and how sick I am of explaining why our CSS-driven web site doesn't look right in Netscape 4.7
"Why does the font change half way down the page??"
I'd have to agree here....I'm a systems administrator/webmaster for a small, liberal arts college in Indiana. While all of our non-administration servers are running Slackware, and our CS department runs totally Microsoft free, we do have Windows/Office on all of our lab machines, and the overwhelming majority of the students have Windows machines (I'd say about 98%).
It's almost impossible to expect the average (and above-average) college student to ditch Microsoft products, when they know full well that they will have to use them when they get out.
Thank the Gods....I'm sure my asian brothers were really, really tired of having to re-write all of their apps from the ground up using Cocoa....this should save some headaches!
"O'Reilly also makes an interesting point that UNIX/Linux users, rather than Windows users, would be the best target niche for Apple's "switch" campaign."
I tend to agree with that, but I would further qualify it to say that "Linux users as well as those who don't think that Linux has a place on the desktop would be the best target niche."
Obviously, OS X has a BSD filesystem, not Linux, but as a user of both Slackware Linux (at work) and OS X (at home) I have come to think of my iMac as a *nix machine with a hecka-sweet desktop environment......far sweeter than any currently available for Linux.
I don't know...I think that when it ships with the ability to cortically realize "Selective X-Ray Perception" I'll be much more likely to shell out the dough.
Sorry, I have to say it....
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"Her goal is to register for the conference, give a speech and answer questions."
Given the audience, I wonder how many questions will be answered with, "No, I won't meet you in your hotel room."
So......what ever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty'? They're prisoners during detainment, yes, but it's not certain that they've done anything. This is the equivalent of taking away someone's rights because "we think you've done something wrong".
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...I think you're wrong.
I RTFA too, and in the very first paragraph it says "And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design."
Ever tried putting Asterisk on one? It's sweet!
I'll agree with that...unfortunately for Microsoft, they're the largest example ever of a red-tape-laden software giant, and most comments that *should* be generalizations end up becoming anti-Microsoft slams.
It makes me wonder, though, if large software corps don't have something to learn from this "event" as the article keeps calling it. Would it ultimately be productive/counterproductive to, say, stop work on all new projects (or new features to old projects) in order to spend a couple weeks fixing important, nagging bugs?
I suspect that I'm thinking too much like a small business...software giants probably have entire teams devoted to fixing bugs while the other programmers keep cranking out new features (which will of course be based on the original buggy code).
IMHO, this is what sets OSS above/apart from The Microsoft Way. These guys got together over a weekend to do maintenance and fix bugs on a project they truly care about. The guys at MS only started fixing bugs when it became obvious that their ineptitude might cost them some of The Almighty Dollar.
....Apple has contracts with the record labels to sell songs at .99
That may be true, but that price ($.99/track that users pay) is not what's at issue here...it's the $.65/track that Apple pays. Saying that Apple has a contract to sell songs for $.99 a piece doesn't necessarilly mean that the RIAA can't raise the wholesale price that Apple pays per track. Of course, I don't actually know what this "contract" says, so this type of thing may be guarded against.
What I've trained myself to do is this: in Mozilla/Konq/etc., Ctrl-U erases the line. So, I highlight the URL i want, click on the current (unwanted) URL, hit Ctrl-U to remove it, and hit the middle button to paste the new URL. Works for me...
Slashdot humor: Microsoft (9967) is hated by no one.
.sig I've seen yet!
This might be the best
I'm sure there's prior art.....
"Kazaa needs to highlight it's "other" uses..."
"Want some spyware on your machine? We can do that!"
Eh...my iBook only goes up to F12 (and doesn't have a Scroll Lock key).
I'm submiiting a patch to replace all occurances of "bathroom" with "lavatory".
That should be W.C., you ignorant b@$#*$!!!
When I graduated from college, I was at 180. Not skinny by any means, but...I wasn't feeling 'fat'.
2 years later, I've been working as a SysAdmin/Applications Developer. Lots 'o desk time, zero exercise, and plenty of beer in the off-hours. A month ago, I weighed myself in at 208. The mirror laughed when I asked what happened to the distance runner from 6 years ago.
Since then, I've started lifting and running again after work. Also, I've started (attempting) to eat a little better...water instead of pop, cut down on the fast food, and eat more smaller-portioned meals.
Trust me, it's a pain in the ass, but after a few weeks, you get used to it. Right now, I'm back down to 192, once again have muscles that I can use, and have to wear a belt.
Basically, what I'm saying is you don't necessarily need to do anything differently at work, aside from maybe eating differently and drinking more water. If you try to get 30-60 minutes of exercise after work, you'll start to notice a difference in a few weeks!
It surprised me too, at first...
I would assume that as a mathematician (he wasn't just a CS guy), writing proofs is much easier with the pen than it is with the keyboard. IANAMathematician, but when I was in school, I'd constantly be picking up the old writing stick to do my brainstorming for math classes.
Maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe it's just what he feels most comfortable using...Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam fame) still uses an old, beat-up typewriter to put his lyrics on paper.
"Why does the font change half way down the page??"
Ugh.
Remember LOGO? That turtle rocked!
According to the article, the first time around the plot was an allegory referring to the Nazi invasion.
I just wonder if, in this sequel, the humans will be looking for some Weapons of Mass Destruction.....
I'd have to agree here....I'm a systems administrator/webmaster for a small, liberal arts college in Indiana. While all of our non-administration servers are running Slackware, and our CS department runs totally Microsoft free, we do have Windows/Office on all of our lab machines, and the overwhelming majority of the students have Windows machines (I'd say about 98%).
It's almost impossible to expect the average (and above-average) college student to ditch Microsoft products, when they know full well that they will have to use them when they get out.
Don't let mom throw away that Commodore 64!
Thank the Gods....I'm sure my asian brothers were really, really tired of having to re-write all of their apps from the ground up using Cocoa....this should save some headaches!
Sweet...now I can play Burger Time without having to search for a ROM that works!!!
"O'Reilly also makes an interesting point that UNIX/Linux users, rather than Windows users, would be the best target niche for Apple's "switch" campaign."
I tend to agree with that, but I would further qualify it to say that "Linux users as well as those who don't think that Linux has a place on the desktop would be the best target niche."
Obviously, OS X has a BSD filesystem, not Linux, but as a user of both Slackware Linux (at work) and OS X (at home) I have come to think of my iMac as a *nix machine with a hecka-sweet desktop environment......far sweeter than any currently available for Linux.
I don't know...I think that when it ships with the ability to cortically realize "Selective X-Ray Perception" I'll be much more likely to shell out the dough.
"Her goal is to register for the conference, give a speech and answer questions."
Given the audience, I wonder how many questions will be answered with, "No, I won't meet you in your hotel room."
the question, essentially, is this:
is it your understanding that Microsoft tried to maintain a monopoly by engaging in certain practices that the courts have held to be unlawful?
Now, to me, the phrase "by engaging in certain practices that the courts have held to be unlawful" is the exact same thing as "by breaking the law".
so in other words:
is it your understanding that Microsoft tried to maintain a monopoly by breaking the law?
To which he answered yes. Sounds like an admission to me...
So......what ever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty'? They're prisoners during detainment, yes, but it's not certain that they've done anything. This is the equivalent of taking away someone's rights because "we think you've done something wrong".