The ribbon wouldn't be anywhere near so bad if it had a "quick search" feature.
The ribbon is bad to such a degree that someone at Microsoft heard your cry and made... a search commands plugin. It's made the time I have to spend with MS Office almost bearable.
I offer you a challenge then: Force yourself to use the ribbon interface until you become comfortable with it, then try and go back.
Been there, not comfortable, I dream of going back. I'm happy that it works for you, but a lot of folks, including me, are *not* happy about it. Thanks for enlightening me about what works best for me.
Luckily Office is not my main working tool, but I've been using it more or less daily at work since 1999. I've used the ribbon for years, and it's still no good. Even apart from the fact that they've removed whole submenus and that the layout does not make sense, here's why: Scanning a vertical list of text (as in a classical menu) is lightning fast, I'm literate after all. Hotkeys that are highlighted by default so I can use a keybord shortcut next time is even better. Having to hunt for keywords horizontally among a lot of ribbon clutter bullshit is slow, and even then I frequently have to hunt in a sub-dropdown. I guess that during my time with Word and Excel I've used maybe 90% of the features at one time or another, but many seldom enough that I still have to browse the menus to find them.
For me the ribbon plain doesn't work. Maybe it's better for the types who likes visuals better than text, but it slows me down to the point where I'm very happy that there is a "search ribbon"-plugin. You know that your "User Experience" is in trouble when people with 12+ years of experience with your software need a fucking search function for your damn "menus".
The ribbon is an improvement in user interface design, even if you don't personally like it.
Thanks again for teaching me. Your arrogance reminds me of a certain person who sought to teach people how to hold a phone, they were apparently "holding it wrong".
As a Kindle owner, I can say that I bought it because the Kindle was a great eBook reader. I would not consider upgrading unless their Tablet was also very good, and not just good at being an electronic book reader, but a great tablet.
I would not consider a tablet of any kind an upgrade for reading, as they eliminate the best selling factors for an e-ink reader: No eyestrain, amazing battery life and convenient size. I have a Sony PRS-650 myself, both it and the later versions of the Kindle are excellent readers. I might get a tablet at some point, but not for reading.
Are you in Germany? Is Slashdot? Are you Alanis Morissette? Unless both of the first answers are Yes and/or the third one is yes. then this is not ironic.
Good one:) It would be ironic if the ULD had a "Like" button on their site (they don't).
Because of the The Hague Invasion Act [wikipedia.org] of course.
This is getting OT, but that is absolutely insane. I was not aware of this.
The International Criminal Court (French: Cour Pénale Internationale; commonly referred to as the ICC or ICCt)[1] is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression
Obviously it's important to guard U.S. personnel against those pesky crimes-against-humanity activists. It's interesting that three nations have "unsigned" the treaty (how the fuck is that even possible?), ostensibly to be able to perpetrate “acts which would defeat the object and purpose of the treaty” without repercussions: Israel, Sudan and the United States.
America, FUCK YEAH. I'm glad that I live in a civilised country.
Anyway, at the time that film was made, science knew of chlorophyl, they knew what went in and what came out but not the mechanism by which it worked.
Holy cow, I had no idea that the details of photosynthesis were so recently discovered, and actually are still a subject for research. Thanks for giving me an incentive to look it up:)
Mass Effect 2 with its unskippable cutscenes, repetitive dialog and stupid quests is one of the worst games I've ever played.
My initial reaction was annoyance at the unskippable cutscenes, especially after doing the first mission a few times. After googling it i found this thread in which the first post describes how to make cutscenes skippable, and the second describes how to make a fast forward mode which works on both in-game cutscenes and gameplay. This is actually really handy for those long treks when you're in Fed-Ex missions as well as for bypassing cutscenes you've seen. It's not cheating, as the enemies moves equally fast when you're fast-forwarding, although I guess you could do a slow-motion mode as well. That's not really necessary in this game:)
With these hacks the game was enjoyable for me. It's a pity the developers are so hungry to extend the amount of play time that they feel like they must piss off a majority players in order to put "40+ hours" or whatever on the box. Even more annoying are those games with sparsely placed checkpoints, forcing you to re-play lots of content before you get to a tight spot.
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I went threw Chiropractor a few times and they worked... But not for cancer. I did it for fixing a stiff neck, and some nerve issues.
If you went to a modernly educated one they are definitely not quacks. What they can do just by manipulating joints and muscles is close to magic, but it stems from a general knowledge of anathomy that's more detailed than pretty much anything you can find among physicians (even specialists), and lots of practice. Of course they can only fix physiological symptoms, they're something like glorified physical therapists, but damn good ones:)
Disclaimer: my brother is one. The modern education is called clinical biomechanics in many places in order to separate its practitioners from the quacks. It's got nothing to do with any woo-woo, vaccine denial or anything like that. If they suspect that you're ill or that your problems are due to pathological stress or anxiety they'll pass you on to a regular physician.
It probably wouldn't slow your machine down as much as the other shovelware the put on there that only add bloat.
Apart from the whole power consumption issue you'll get a very noisy computer; any program that'll keep your CPU pegged at 100%, no matter how nice the process is, will probably also keep your fan running at max rpm. On second thought, it would be a lot less invasive than a lot of other pre-installed crap which also tend to give your fans a workout.
Your second idea would be good for consumers (and for those of us who help them) to the detriment of manufacturers, which certainly means it'll never happen. I would be interested in knowing how many Norton customers are actually scared into being so by their FUD. The dialog nagging my father to buy a subscription on a Gigabyte semi-tablet didn't even *have* any kind of option to decline, he called me upon seeing it because he thought his machine was infected with something:)
Absolutely. Once you're at well-formatted xhtml you can do a lot of boring structuring, TOC and so on with Calibre. Just import xhtml/css, put the right options and class names into the convert pane, and you're done. Epub is the best source format for converting to other ebook formats as well. Once you have a well formatted epub you get most other common formats almost for free, also with Calibre, depending on the complexities of your document and the limitations of those other formats.
I have no idea how his source document translates to xhtml, but if you start with a pure page-oriented format you will run into snags. A 'page' is a meaningless concept in a flowed format, so you'll need to convert your footnotes to bidirectional links in an endnote section. Headers and footers are also out. Any references to other sections or pages will have to be hyperlinked to make sense. If you have side boxes or other such elements you'll have to convert them to something that works in an xhtml setting. Vector illustrations might have to be rendered in something like svg which epub viewers generally support well. If you use any other glyphs than those found in the basic English ASCII set you should probably embed a font like DejaVu to make sure that your readers don't see just spaces or rectangles. If you can post it to Slashdot you're probably fine, though, they don't even support the pi symbol:)
All that said, it's perfectly possible to make a very usable academic epub, I do it all the time as I work with exactly this in an academic publishing house. A particular book on French grammar with 1132 (sub)sections and more than 5500 crosslinks actually became a *lot* more useable in a digital context due to hyperlinking, and it translated very well to epub, although it was a lot of work.
I wondered about the long deploy time on spinning drives as well. From the article:
The online retailer clones from templates on its storage to the VMs.
Even if you assume a very conservative 15MB/Sec write speed that indicates an image size in excess of 40 GB, which is enormous for a fresh OS instance. On would assume that it's stripped down to the bare essentials necessary for the task at hand?
Apparently many people who have never driven a manual still use both feet. Makes sense in a way - two feet and two pedals.
However, if I try to do that I can't brake smoothly at all. It seems strange to me, because you need to control the clutch precisely to shift smoothly, but my brain just isn't trained to control my left foot in the manner necessary for braking. Mind you, I've only tried it a few times because it's kind of dangerous, my driving skills are suddenly reduced to those of a complete novice:)
I wonder how it works when one of the automatic drivers tries a shift stick - their right foot isn't trained for braking either, and you frequently need to clutch and brake at the same time.
I thought so, but I put Win7 on a recently-built computer and I really like it. I had to make a few adjustments to fit the way I like to work, but at least those adjustments are possible with Win7.
I use Win7-64 at work on a powerful workstation, and I agree. One annoyance I haven't managed to fix yet is that it won't deign to tell me which application is craving my attention and keeps the task bar from hiding - the best workaround I've found is to kill explorer.exe. If there are any visual hints I frequently can't see them. Any suggestions?
Seems like way too much potential for false alarm - what happens when I'm driving along and thinking "Crap, I forgot to STOP for milk" or I see someone across the street about to get hit by a car and I think "That car's going to hit him, he better STOP! And my mind goes through the thought process of applying the brakes even though I don't do so"
If they were able to trigger on arbitrary words in your thoughts I'd suggest that they forget the whole braking thing and make a text input system instead. Somehow I don't believe they can do that yet:)
However, the article agrees with you in that they are worried about false alarms. They also state that similar technology is in use in the area of prosthetics, wheel chair and computer control./me goes off to read about how people control artificial limbs. Fascinating stuff.
Seems that I spoke a bit too soon, the aggregate bandwidth is 5-70 Mbps according to this page. There are probably still use cases where it is preferrable to other types of connections.
At a mighty 19Mbps for the whole thing you can forget about having any real number of customers. My home Internet connection is better than that, and it is not on a shared media like radiowaves.
Good for you, but it would be handy for getting a decent connection to areas which would otherwise be restricted to dial-up or satellite connections. I have a 20/2Mbps line at home (could've had 200Mbps if I wanted to). It's more than adequate for regular use, and sure as hell beats dial-up.
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The video is blocked.
I am in Norway.
Somebody post a mirror please.
I don't know if it's the exact same video (I'm in Norway as well), but this is apparently the same guy. If it's legit it's pretty amazing.
I have been pondering for years, the protocol for ESP (PSI), and know through research that the function is extremely real.
I have a feeling that if I jokingly advised you to "Check your tinfoil hat" you'd actually reach up and do just that :)
And do the same for Comodo while you're at it.
In my up-to-date Firefox neither Comodo nor DigiNotar can certify anything. I didn't disable them, so I guess it's from Mozilla.
The ribbon wouldn't be anywhere near so bad if it had a "quick search" feature.
The ribbon is bad to such a degree that someone at Microsoft heard your cry and made... a search commands plugin. It's made the time I have to spend with MS Office almost bearable.
I offer you a challenge then: Force yourself to use the ribbon interface until you become comfortable with it, then try and go back.
Been there, not comfortable, I dream of going back. I'm happy that it works for you, but a lot of folks, including me, are *not* happy about it. Thanks for enlightening me about what works best for me.
Luckily Office is not my main working tool, but I've been using it more or less daily at work since 1999. I've used the ribbon for years, and it's still no good. Even apart from the fact that they've removed whole submenus and that the layout does not make sense, here's why: Scanning a vertical list of text (as in a classical menu) is lightning fast, I'm literate after all. Hotkeys that are highlighted by default so I can use a keybord shortcut next time is even better. Having to hunt for keywords horizontally among a lot of ribbon clutter bullshit is slow, and even then I frequently have to hunt in a sub-dropdown. I guess that during my time with Word and Excel I've used maybe 90% of the features at one time or another, but many seldom enough that I still have to browse the menus to find them.
For me the ribbon plain doesn't work. Maybe it's better for the types who likes visuals better than text, but it slows me down to the point where I'm very happy that there is a "search ribbon"-plugin. You know that your "User Experience" is in trouble when people with 12+ years of experience with your software need a fucking search function for your damn "menus".
The ribbon is an improvement in user interface design, even if you don't personally like it.
Thanks again for teaching me. Your arrogance reminds me of a certain person who sought to teach people how to hold a phone, they were apparently "holding it wrong".
As a Kindle owner, I can say that I bought it because the Kindle was a great eBook reader. I would not consider upgrading unless their Tablet was also very good, and not just good at being an electronic book reader, but a great tablet.
I would not consider a tablet of any kind an upgrade for reading, as they eliminate the best selling factors for an e-ink reader: No eyestrain, amazing battery life and convenient size. I have a Sony PRS-650 myself, both it and the later versions of the Kindle are excellent readers. I might get a tablet at some point, but not for reading.
Are you in Germany? Is Slashdot? Are you Alanis Morissette?
Unless both of the first answers are Yes and/or the third one is yes. then this is not ironic.
Good one :)
It would be ironic if the ULD had a "Like" button on their site (they don't).
On a side note: In order to give protips one needs to be a pro, right? How does one become a professional retard?
Because of the The Hague Invasion Act [wikipedia.org] of course.
This is getting OT, but that is absolutely insane. I was not aware of this.
The International Criminal Court (French: Cour Pénale Internationale; commonly referred to as the ICC or ICCt)[1] is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression
Obviously it's important to guard U.S. personnel against those pesky crimes-against-humanity activists. It's interesting that three nations have "unsigned" the treaty (how the fuck is that even possible?), ostensibly to be able to perpetrate “acts which would defeat the object and purpose of the treaty” without repercussions: Israel, Sudan and the United States.
America, FUCK YEAH. I'm glad that I live in a civilised country.
Anyway, at the time that film was made, science knew of chlorophyl, they knew what went in and what came out but not the mechanism by which it worked.
Holy cow, I had no idea that the details of photosynthesis were so recently discovered, and actually are still a subject for research. Thanks for giving me an incentive to look it up :)
Mass Effect 2 with its unskippable cutscenes, repetitive dialog and stupid quests is one of the worst games I've ever played.
My initial reaction was annoyance at the unskippable cutscenes, especially after doing the first mission a few times. After googling it i found this thread in which the first post describes how to make cutscenes skippable, and the second describes how to make a fast forward mode which works on both in-game cutscenes and gameplay. This is actually really handy for those long treks when you're in Fed-Ex missions as well as for bypassing cutscenes you've seen. It's not cheating, as the enemies moves equally fast when you're fast-forwarding, although I guess you could do a slow-motion mode as well. That's not really necessary in this game :)
With these hacks the game was enjoyable for me. It's a pity the developers are so hungry to extend the amount of play time that they feel like they must piss off a majority players in order to put "40+ hours" or whatever on the box. Even more annoying are those games with sparsely placed checkpoints, forcing you to re-play lots of content before you get to a tight spot.
I went threw Chiropractor a few times and they worked... But not for cancer. I did it for fixing a stiff neck, and some nerve issues.
If you went to a modernly educated one they are definitely not quacks. What they can do just by manipulating joints and muscles is close to magic, but it stems from a general knowledge of anathomy that's more detailed than pretty much anything you can find among physicians (even specialists), and lots of practice. Of course they can only fix physiological symptoms, they're something like glorified physical therapists, but damn good ones :)
Disclaimer: my brother is one. The modern education is called clinical biomechanics in many places in order to separate its practitioners from the quacks. It's got nothing to do with any woo-woo, vaccine denial or anything like that. If they suspect that you're ill or that your problems are due to pathological stress or anxiety they'll pass you on to a regular physician.
Your father was right, he was infected with a case of Norton. Hopefully you helped him remedy the situation.
Of course I did :)
It was surprisingly hard to remove it completely, though, "infected" is probably the right term.
It probably wouldn't slow your machine down as much as the other shovelware the put on there that only add bloat.
Apart from the whole power consumption issue you'll get a very noisy computer; any program that'll keep your CPU pegged at 100%, no matter how nice the process is, will probably also keep your fan running at max rpm. On second thought, it would be a lot less invasive than a lot of other pre-installed crap which also tend to give your fans a workout.
Your second idea would be good for consumers (and for those of us who help them) to the detriment of manufacturers, which certainly means it'll never happen. I would be interested in knowing how many Norton customers are actually scared into being so by their FUD. The dialog nagging my father to buy a subscription on a Gigabyte semi-tablet didn't even *have* any kind of option to decline, he called me upon seeing it because he thought his machine was infected with something :)
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The best way to go seems LaTeX->HTML->ePUB.
Absolutely. Once you're at well-formatted xhtml you can do a lot of boring structuring, TOC and so on with Calibre. Just import xhtml/css, put the right options and class names into the convert pane, and you're done. Epub is the best source format for converting to other ebook formats as well. Once you have a well formatted epub you get most other common formats almost for free, also with Calibre, depending on the complexities of your document and the limitations of those other formats.
I have no idea how his source document translates to xhtml, but if you start with a pure page-oriented format you will run into snags. A 'page' is a meaningless concept in a flowed format, so you'll need to convert your footnotes to bidirectional links in an endnote section. Headers and footers are also out. Any references to other sections or pages will have to be hyperlinked to make sense. If you have side boxes or other such elements you'll have to convert them to something that works in an xhtml setting. Vector illustrations might have to be rendered in something like svg which epub viewers generally support well. If you use any other glyphs than those found in the basic English ASCII set you should probably embed a font like DejaVu to make sure that your readers don't see just spaces or rectangles. If you can post it to Slashdot you're probably fine, though, they don't even support the pi symbol :)
All that said, it's perfectly possible to make a very usable academic epub, I do it all the time as I work with exactly this in an academic publishing house. A particular book on French grammar with 1132 (sub)sections and more than 5500 crosslinks actually became a *lot* more useable in a digital context due to hyperlinking, and it translated very well to epub, although it was a lot of work.
uh, any logical explanation for this?
I wondered about the long deploy time on spinning drives as well. From the article:
The online retailer clones from templates on its storage to the VMs.
Even if you assume a very conservative 15MB/Sec write speed that indicates an image size in excess of 40 GB, which is enormous for a fresh OS instance. On would assume that it's stripped down to the bare essentials necessary for the task at hand?
yeah but why is your LEFT foot tired?
Apparently many people who have never driven a manual still use both feet. Makes sense in a way - two feet and two pedals.
However, if I try to do that I can't brake smoothly at all. It seems strange to me, because you need to control the clutch precisely to shift smoothly, but my brain just isn't trained to control my left foot in the manner necessary for braking. Mind you, I've only tried it a few times because it's kind of dangerous, my driving skills are suddenly reduced to those of a complete novice :)
I wonder how it works when one of the automatic drivers tries a shift stick - their right foot isn't trained for braking either, and you frequently need to clutch and brake at the same time.
I thought so, but I put Win7 on a recently-built computer and I really like it. I had to make a few adjustments to fit the way I like to work, but at least those adjustments are possible with Win7.
I use Win7-64 at work on a powerful workstation, and I agree. One annoyance I haven't managed to fix yet is that it won't deign to tell me which application is craving my attention and keeps the task bar from hiding - the best workaround I've found is to kill explorer.exe. If there are any visual hints I frequently can't see them. Any suggestions?
Seems like way too much potential for false alarm - what happens when I'm driving along and thinking "Crap, I forgot to STOP for milk" or I see someone across the street about to get hit by a car and I think "That car's going to hit him, he better STOP! And my mind goes through the thought process of applying the brakes even though I don't do so"
If they were able to trigger on arbitrary words in your thoughts I'd suggest that they forget the whole braking thing and make a text input system instead. Somehow I don't believe they can do that yet :)
However, the article agrees with you in that they are worried about false alarms. They also state that similar technology is in use in the area of prosthetics, wheel chair and computer control. /me goes off to read about how people control artificial limbs. Fascinating stuff.
Seems that I spoke a bit too soon, the aggregate bandwidth is 5-70 Mbps according to this page. There are probably still use cases where it is preferrable to other types of connections.
At a mighty 19Mbps for the whole thing you can forget about having any real number of customers. My home Internet connection is better than that, and it is not on a shared media like radiowaves.
Good for you, but it would be handy for getting a decent connection to areas which would otherwise be restricted to dial-up or satellite connections. I have a 20/2Mbps line at home (could've had 200Mbps if I wanted to). It's more than adequate for regular use, and sure as hell beats dial-up.
I am sure folks will find ways around this one.
Easy, just put the hole base station inside a Faraday cage :)
No, that's not even roughly correct. It would be a circle with a diameter of about 124 miles.
Which is also incorrect, it's about 61.8 miles [google.com].
Uh, of course a diameter of 124 miles is correct, I mixed up radius and diameter for a second there :)
Sorry.
No, that's not even roughly correct. It would be a circle with a diameter of about 124 miles.
Which is also incorrect, it's about 61.8 miles.