That's not nearly the same thing. By "exact same place", I don't mean "exact same area". I mean exact same place.
Here's how to get to Preferences in Mac OS:
In Mac OS 9: Click about a horizontal inch from the upper-left corner of the screen, and after the menu opens, click on the bottom item in that menu.
In Mac OS X: Click about a horizontal inch from the upper left corner of the screen, and after the menu opens, click about 1/2 to 3/4 an inch from the top of that menu.
On KDE, "Settings" is one of the last menus in the menu bar, and depending on the number of menus at the top of the window, it may be close to the middle of the window or near the edge. By default, since the menus are inside the window, moving a window down on the screen means menus move down with it. Depending on the current location of your window, "Options" could be located just about anywhere in relation to the edges of your screen, from the upper right corner to the lower middle to halfway up the left side.
In KDE, "Options" definitely does not always appear in the exact same place.
I agree completely. Apple's interface guidelines made it much simpler to edit an application's preferences. The edit menu always appeared in the same place on the screen (upper left). Regardless of which application you were using, you could find the preferences; you never had to even look at the menus over on the right.
In OS X, as well, you go to the exact same place to edit any application's preferences, right under the application menu in the upper left. This makes sense if you plan on using several applications or if you get any new applications. It is also much easier to handle, especially for anyone who is new to computers.
I don't buy that for a second. If they ran out of units, why did they recently drop the price and introduce an upgraded model with a bigger hard drive? I would think if they were experiencing a shortage of units, that they wouldn't be trying to make that known by trying to sell more of them right now?
I don't know where you got your information, but I don't believe it. I've never had a problem finding a DirecTiVo for purchase, and from what I've read, DirecTV is actually getting very close to releasing a high-definition DirecTiVo unit.
I'm not any less worried about terrorists because of anything the administration is doing. This administration tries to connect terrorism to plenty of things of things which have nothing to do with terrorism.
For a while after the World Trade Center attack, I thought a lot about terrorism, and I realized that I probably shouldn't be afraid. While terrorism definitely should not be ignored, terrorism is not the most dangerous thing in my life. I only have one life, and I don't plan to spend it in fear.
Many browsers have built in Google search, but Firebird goes a step further, doing "I'm feeling lucky" search on anything you type in the address bar that isn't in the form "something.extension". If Microsoft takes control of Google, this could really screw up Firebird users' browsing experience.
An extreme example would be if you typed "apple" to go to apple.com, Google could redirect you to a Microsoft page that said bad things about apple. Is there any plan to modify Firebird to allow users to switch this behavior?
I think IE's dominance is overstated, and that the number of internet users who don't use IE is probably larger than 5%.
Most estimates I've heard put Linux at around 5% marketshare and Apple's sales at around 5% of the computers sold per year. Linux doesn't run IE, and with MS stopping development or IE for the Mac, that's almost 10% that won't use IE. There are also other operating systems, which, while their marketshare may be small, still don't run IE.
Plus, while most people who use Windows do use IE, some portion of them don't. Mozillazine.org lists almost 367,000 downloads of Mozilla for Windows in just the past three weeks.
In general, I agree with you. Microsoft does design their software not to work with competitors' software. Surprisingly, though, RTF was designed by Microsoft.
I live two blocks from the McDonald's that served the coffee in question. I have gotten coffee at that McDonald's plenty of times, and it was never unbearably hot.
Also, I've never seen this anywhere, but that McDonald's is on a very steep hill, and when you're coming away from that drive through, the parking lot goes downhill very fast. You don't open a cup of hot coffee sitting between your knees while driving down a steep hill. Isn't that common sense?
Maybe he was talking about double-sided DVD-R, not dual-layer DVD-R? You can actually get double-sided DVD-R from several stores. They aren't dual-layered, but they do hold 9.4GB.
When I was doing tech support, everyone there dreaded calls from Thomaston, GA. Any call from there would almost always guarantee an hour long call. We had "walkers" walking around the floor of the call center watching for long calls and asking people if they needed help with those calls.
A response of "Thomaston" would pretty much always get a response from the walker of some sarcastic remark like "Aww, crap...'Howda ah turn on mah compooter?'" and then the walker would go help somebody else.
I had callers trying to put compact disks into floppy drives, people who would type the entire phone number under area code, people who didn't know if they needed to dial the area code to make local calls, people who called from work to get help with their computer at home, some people trying to control the mouse with their foot, et cetera. And they all seemed to have cell phones for some reason!
I wish I agreed with you. I use Mac OS X and GNU/Linux also, but for some reason I can't understand, Microsoft seems to be able to do whatever they want and still gain customers.
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How about this: A planet does not orbit another planet. If something that would otherwise be considered a planet is itself a satellite of a planet, it should be considered a moon.
It may be cheaper to get your band's music printed on normal CD than to burn it yourself to CD-R, but with CDR-ROM being brand new, we don't know how much mass printing will cost yet.
We can't assume a brand new product will cost less than something that has been on the market before.
That's a good point. I'm in the U.S. and I can think of several cameras within just two blocks of my home:
1. At the stop light behind my house
2. At the convenience store across the street
3. At another convenience store just down the street
4. At the movie rental store
5. In the parking lot of the strip mall where the movie rental store is located
6. At the bank down the street
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"Settings", not "Options".
Here's how to get to Preferences in Mac OS:
- In Mac OS 9: Click about a horizontal inch from the upper-left corner of the screen, and after the menu opens, click on the bottom item in that menu.
- In Mac OS X: Click about a horizontal inch from the upper left corner of the screen, and after the menu opens, click about 1/2 to 3/4 an inch from the top of that menu.
On KDE, "Settings" is one of the last menus in the menu bar, and depending on the number of menus at the top of the window, it may be close to the middle of the window or near the edge. By default, since the menus are inside the window, moving a window down on the screen means menus move down with it. Depending on the current location of your window, "Options" could be located just about anywhere in relation to the edges of your screen, from the upper right corner to the lower middle to halfway up the left side.In KDE, "Options" definitely does not always appear in the exact same place.
In OS X, as well, you go to the exact same place to edit any application's preferences, right under the application menu in the upper left. This makes sense if you plan on using several applications or if you get any new applications. It is also much easier to handle, especially for anyone who is new to computers.
Who is the monarch of Japan?
I don't know where you got your information, but I don't believe it. I've never had a problem finding a DirecTiVo for purchase, and from what I've read, DirecTV is actually getting very close to releasing a high-definition DirecTiVo unit.
For a while after the World Trade Center attack, I thought a lot about terrorism, and I realized that I probably shouldn't be afraid. While terrorism definitely should not be ignored, terrorism is not the most dangerous thing in my life. I only have one life, and I don't plan to spend it in fear.
Liver and Onions, maybe?
Wow. Alltheweb.com is actually pretty decent, and the image search definitely beats google. The shared results window idea is kind of neat, too.
An extreme example would be if you typed "apple" to go to apple.com, Google could redirect you to a Microsoft page that said bad things about apple. Is there any plan to modify Firebird to allow users to switch this behavior?
Most estimates I've heard put Linux at around 5% marketshare and Apple's sales at around 5% of the computers sold per year. Linux doesn't run IE, and with MS stopping development or IE for the Mac, that's almost 10% that won't use IE. There are also other operating systems, which, while their marketshare may be small, still don't run IE.
Plus, while most people who use Windows do use IE, some portion of them don't. Mozillazine.org lists almost 367,000 downloads of Mozilla for Windows in just the past three weeks.
Thanks for proving to me that yes, Microsoft is completely evil.
In general, I agree with you. Microsoft does design their software not to work with competitors' software. Surprisingly, though, RTF was designed by Microsoft.
Please mod parent up. He's the only one here who seems to know that iTunes supports several other mp3 players beside the iPod.
It only took three hours?
Also, I've never seen this anywhere, but that McDonald's is on a very steep hill, and when you're coming away from that drive through, the parking lot goes downhill very fast. You don't open a cup of hot coffee sitting between your knees while driving down a steep hill. Isn't that common sense?
Maybe he was talking about double-sided DVD-R, not dual-layer DVD-R? You can actually get double-sided DVD-R from several stores. They aren't dual-layered, but they do hold 9.4GB.
A response of "Thomaston" would pretty much always get a response from the walker of some sarcastic remark like "Aww, crap...'Howda ah turn on mah compooter?'" and then the walker would go help somebody else.
I had callers trying to put compact disks into floppy drives, people who would type the entire phone number under area code, people who didn't know if they needed to dial the area code to make local calls, people who called from work to get help with their computer at home, some people trying to control the mouse with their foot, et cetera. And they all seemed to have cell phones for some reason!
I thought those calls were myths!
The Amish have a web site?!?!
I wish I agreed with you. I use Mac OS X and GNU/Linux also, but for some reason I can't understand, Microsoft seems to be able to do whatever they want and still gain customers.
How about this: A planet does not orbit another planet. If something that would otherwise be considered a planet is itself a satellite of a planet, it should be considered a moon.
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We can't assume a brand new product will cost less than something that has been on the market before.
Bands can already do that with CD-R discs by just writing their songs as a session and not closing the disc.
That's not a joke; it's the mouse Apple's been shipping with all desktop systems for quite a while now.
1. At the stop light behind my house
2. At the convenience store across the street
3. At another convenience store just down the street
4. At the movie rental store
5. In the parking lot of the strip mall where the movie rental store is located
6. At the bank down the street