The most obvious reason that comes to mind why OO is more important than control panel applets is that OO is a tool, while control panel applets are meta-tools. People use computers so that they can use office. People use control panels so that they can more efficiently use computers so that they can use office.
Ratios is a concept that is pretty stupid with BitTorrent.
Right, stupid as in "people routinely saturate their downstream when ratio is enforced because everyone keeps seeding after having downloaded" and as opposed to smart, non-ratio trackers as in "people often get crappy speeds especially when they're on asymmetric connections because everyone kills the client after having downloaded the file".
BT is kind of self-regulating, upload more and you download more. But the self-regulation only goes so far and offers no incentive whatsoever to actually seeding files. Since a vast majority of the peers are on asymmetric links (e.g. ADSL), there obviously is a need for pure seeds to keep network speed at a high level, because otherwise the maximum network speed would be limited by the total upload speed of the asymmetric links.
Jane and Aunt Tillie typically don't open complex Word documents, and, believe me, they wouldn't ever notice that the document looks a tad different in OO than in Word. They just don't, even if it's totally obvious to an experienced user. So yeah I think the compatibility of OO with Word is easily good enough for a personal computing environment. Business, I'm not so sure, it's probably good enough if you have at least one back-up system with Word installed on it.
Look again. The circle is there, but only to show a similarity to the previous examples. The radius of the circle is irrelevant, and he only uses one point on the circle - in other words, the circle is totally unused and you could use any point on any of the lines.
I mean, look, we have a brushed aluminum theme, we have toolbars replacing menus... and the toolbars themselves being replaced by sticky menus that look like folder tabs, that pull down more toolbars...
Looks to me like they just applied the tab idea to toolbars. You always had toolbars for different purposes. My current OO Impress window has among others the toolbars "Drawing" and "Presentation" active. Instead of displaying all active toolbars concurrently, apparently Office 12 will display just one at a time, with you switching between them via tabs. Seems pretty straightforward. I assume they're doing it to be newbie friendly - some of the new toolbars feature large images that help people figure out what the button will do more easily.
"Write" is selected. What does "Write" mean? Well, I'd assume that it had something to do with handwriting or with saving files, but no, "Write" simply seems to be the default tab... but the next tab is marked "Insert". I have no idea what "Insert" means, but it can't be "insert mode". Can it?
No, it can't mean insert mode. Write apparently is the tool bar that includes the standard actions for editing text (ie. writing). Stuff like basic font and paragraph formatting, spell checking. Insert isn't anywhere as non-intuitive to me as it apparently is to you. It's also in line with all previous versions of Word, which have an insert menu. OO has adapted the same terminology, too. Obviously the insert toolbar deals with inserting stuff: foot notes, images, formulas, text boxes, fields, charts etc.
Then there's the "Table Tools". It's hilighted in orange. What does that mean? Who cares? If it's not selected it shouldn't be hilighted. If it's selected, then Write shouldn't be hilighted.
As you say, it's highlighted in orange, so there is no way of confusing it for the active toolbar. That said, I don't know why it's highlighted. Maybe it's context sensitive and changes color when inside a table. (That is so that newbies find where to click faster - you wouldn't believe how long it takes my parents to "scan" a screen to find the right button, even when they know what to look for.)
This is important because Office is often one of Microsoft's first vehicles for new GUI themes and functionality. It's also influential, many Windows developers will try to emulate the style Microsoft introduces with Office - presumably because it's known to users, and they consider it modern. (Too bad the site is already slashdotted.)
Well, TBH the first thing that came to my mind was that I wouldn't want to sit on a bar stool for the amounts of time I typically spend at the computer. I imagine the ergonomics geeks won't be happy with that, either. You've got an office chair there, but that's probably for console gaming, I can't see how you would use the computers sitting in it.
You must be in Australia or something. Played some hours yesterday, always with a ping of 30-something. Lots of European servers (most of them full, though).
There are lots of multiplayer online tetris games, Tetrinet is one example. As for word games, there are lots of those as well. PopCap has Bookworm, which is great fun, and very much non-twitching.
Dystopia will always be free if you're running it on top of HL2.
We've called our first release a demo because we wanted people to realise that we've got a far more polished and stable release than a normal mod beta. Dystopia has been in a closed beta for 6 months now, and the demo release is being released to the public to let everyone get a taste of Dystopia.
Please tell me you didn't write that flame-ish post because of the new options panel. Can't figure out any other "significant" change in the UI, though.
Simple: ActiveX was and is often used by websites to extend website functionality. For instance, Microsoft uses it to implement the functionality of its Windows Update website. Trend Micro uses it to implement the functionality of its house call anti virus service. And so on. Of course there isn't anything inherently bad about it, both examples are very useful. It would be very insecure, though, to allow untrusted sites to extend their functionality this way, and it would have been very bad if ActiveX had been a standard repertoire of web design in the way that Flash is, for example.
Firefox extensions are quite different. They typically extend the functionality of the browser, independent of the web sites you might use. I say typically because there are counterexamples, for instance extensions designed to make working with Wikipedia easier. But this is the exception, not the norm. Firefox extensions aren't "meant" to be used by a lot of different web site, and people would find it quite strange if they were required to install an extension for viewing just one web site.
So maybe the technology is similar (I wouldn't know), the way they are typically used, and were designed and meant to be used are quite different.
This means a BIOS update that supports USB boot options is necessary. You can find information about where to obtain such updates from your PC's (or motherboard's) user manual, on the driver CD included with the PC (or motherboard) or on the vendor's Website.
And to flash your updated BIOS, just boot the system to DOS using your USB boot drive! See how useful those things are!
The point is that there are some scanners with a relatively high resolution that give results worse than relatively low res scanners do. Also, stores often advertise resolutions attained through interpolation which is about as informative as a PMPO speaker rating. (But I guess that goes without saying on Slashdot.)
You can distribute software (updates) using MSI and Active Directory... There are Firefox MSI distributions, so that would work, I think. Not exactly the same as clients checking themselves like they do in Debian, but I'm pretty sure most system admins wouldn't want client systems updating on their own authority, anyway.
Watches are a whole different thing, because they use a really, REALLY small amount of power. But yeah, it's essentially the same thing, the first link especially is very similar in its goals. OTOH it doesn't say how much energy is created - I'd wager that there is a pretty huge difference.
Wow, you actually quote the article, but miss the crucial fact that the load can be anything - like clothes, a tent or food. Backpackers already carry that much weight, bringing 30 kg in replacement batteries is not an option.
Actually, it's not like the power generator weighed 50 pounds, the backpack just needs some weight to work - more weight means more power generated. If your backpack already weighs a lot, you're good to go. In other words, RTFA.;)
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Way to miss my point entirely. "People" doesn't necessarily mean "all people", by the way.
The most obvious reason that comes to mind why OO is more important than control panel applets is that OO is a tool, while control panel applets are meta-tools. People use computers so that they can use office. People use control panels so that they can more efficiently use computers so that they can use office.
Atomic diffusion, apparently.
Ratios is a concept that is pretty stupid with BitTorrent.
Right, stupid as in "people routinely saturate their downstream when ratio is enforced because everyone keeps seeding after having downloaded" and as opposed to smart, non-ratio trackers as in "people often get crappy speeds especially when they're on asymmetric connections because everyone kills the client after having downloaded the file".
BT is kind of self-regulating, upload more and you download more. But the self-regulation only goes so far and offers no incentive whatsoever to actually seeding files. Since a vast majority of the peers are on asymmetric links (e.g. ADSL), there obviously is a need for pure seeds to keep network speed at a high level, because otherwise the maximum network speed would be limited by the total upload speed of the asymmetric links.
Yes, Braeburn are great apples. It's also Scots for something like hill (brea) + stream (burn), if I recall correctly.
Jane and Aunt Tillie typically don't open complex Word documents, and, believe me, they wouldn't ever notice that the document looks a tad different in OO than in Word. They just don't, even if it's totally obvious to an experienced user. So yeah I think the compatibility of OO with Word is easily good enough for a personal computing environment. Business, I'm not so sure, it's probably good enough if you have at least one back-up system with Word installed on it.
Look again. The circle is there, but only to show a similarity to the previous examples. The radius of the circle is irrelevant, and he only uses one point on the circle - in other words, the circle is totally unused and you could use any point on any of the lines.
Owned. :)
And also: Google knows all.
I agree, I always thought The Gimp was such a gay name.
I mean, look, we have a brushed aluminum theme, we have toolbars replacing menus... and the toolbars themselves being replaced by sticky menus that look like folder tabs, that pull down more toolbars...
Looks to me like they just applied the tab idea to toolbars. You always had toolbars for different purposes. My current OO Impress window has among others the toolbars "Drawing" and "Presentation" active. Instead of displaying all active toolbars concurrently, apparently Office 12 will display just one at a time, with you switching between them via tabs. Seems pretty straightforward. I assume they're doing it to be newbie friendly - some of the new toolbars feature large images that help people figure out what the button will do more easily.
"Write" is selected. What does "Write" mean? Well, I'd assume that it had something to do with handwriting or with saving files, but no, "Write" simply seems to be the default tab... but the next tab is marked "Insert". I have no idea what "Insert" means, but it can't be "insert mode". Can it?
No, it can't mean insert mode. Write apparently is the tool bar that includes the standard actions for editing text (ie. writing). Stuff like basic font and paragraph formatting, spell checking.
Insert isn't anywhere as non-intuitive to me as it apparently is to you. It's also in line with all previous versions of Word, which have an insert menu. OO has adapted the same terminology, too. Obviously the insert toolbar deals with inserting stuff: foot notes, images, formulas, text boxes, fields, charts etc.
Then there's the "Table Tools". It's hilighted in orange. What does that mean? Who cares? If it's not selected it shouldn't be hilighted. If it's selected, then Write shouldn't be hilighted.
As you say, it's highlighted in orange, so there is no way of confusing it for the active toolbar. That said, I don't know why it's highlighted. Maybe it's context sensitive and changes color when inside a table. (That is so that newbies find where to click faster - you wouldn't believe how long it takes my parents to "scan" a screen to find the right button, even when they know what to look for.)
This is important because Office is often one of Microsoft's first vehicles for new GUI themes and functionality. It's also influential, many Windows developers will try to emulate the style Microsoft introduces with Office - presumably because it's known to users, and they consider it modern. (Too bad the site is already slashdotted.)
Well, TBH the first thing that came to my mind was that I wouldn't want to sit on a bar stool for the amounts of time I typically spend at the computer. I imagine the ergonomics geeks won't be happy with that, either. You've got an office chair there, but that's probably for console gaming, I can't see how you would use the computers sitting in it.
And I know many a gaming clan who was sponsored by a local business. I'm not sure WHY, but I know of them within my online circles.
I imagine it's often because one of the guys in the clan owns the business or is in some other way affiliated...
You must be in Australia or something. Played some hours yesterday, always with a ping of 30-something. Lots of European servers (most of them full, though).
There are lots of multiplayer online tetris games, Tetrinet is one example. As for word games, there are lots of those as well. PopCap has Bookworm, which is great fun, and very much non-twitching.
Please tell me you didn't write that flame-ish post because of the new options panel. Can't figure out any other "significant" change in the UI, though.
Simple: ActiveX was and is often used by websites to extend website functionality. For instance, Microsoft uses it to implement the functionality of its Windows Update website. Trend Micro uses it to implement the functionality of its house call anti virus service. And so on. Of course there isn't anything inherently bad about it, both examples are very useful. It would be very insecure, though, to allow untrusted sites to extend their functionality this way, and it would have been very bad if ActiveX had been a standard repertoire of web design in the way that Flash is, for example.
Firefox extensions are quite different. They typically extend the functionality of the browser, independent of the web sites you might use. I say typically because there are counterexamples, for instance extensions designed to make working with Wikipedia easier. But this is the exception, not the norm. Firefox extensions aren't "meant" to be used by a lot of different web site, and people would find it quite strange if they were required to install an extension for viewing just one web site.
So maybe the technology is similar (I wouldn't know), the way they are typically used, and were designed and meant to be used are quite different.
Oh, that's true - heck, somebody ought to make a joke about that!
This means a BIOS update that supports USB boot options is necessary. You can find information about where to obtain such updates from your PC's (or motherboard's) user manual, on the driver CD included with the PC (or motherboard) or on the vendor's Website.
And to flash your updated BIOS, just boot the system to DOS using your USB boot drive! See how useful those things are!
The point is that there are some scanners with a relatively high resolution that give results worse than relatively low res scanners do. Also, stores often advertise resolutions attained through interpolation which is about as informative as a PMPO speaker rating. (But I guess that goes without saying on Slashdot.)
You can distribute software (updates) using MSI and Active Directory... There are Firefox MSI distributions, so that would work, I think. Not exactly the same as clients checking themselves like they do in Debian, but I'm pretty sure most system admins wouldn't want client systems updating on their own authority, anyway.
Watches are a whole different thing, because they use a really, REALLY small amount of power. But yeah, it's essentially the same thing, the first link especially is very similar in its goals. OTOH it doesn't say how much energy is created - I'd wager that there is a pretty huge difference.
Wow, you actually quote the article, but miss the crucial fact that the load can be anything - like clothes, a tent or food. Backpackers already carry that much weight, bringing 30 kg in replacement batteries is not an option.
Actually, it's not like the power generator weighed 50 pounds, the backpack just needs some weight to work - more weight means more power generated. If your backpack already weighs a lot, you're good to go. In other words, RTFA. ;)