Why do you care what feed they came from? I use Google Reader, and it does exactly what I want, which is give me a chronological list of every post made to a source I've subscribed to, that I haven't read yet. If you're reading everything in the list, why wouldn't you see them? And if you're not reading everything, why do you even have the sources you don't want to read everything from subscribed?
That said, the sidebar with the list of all the feeds you've subscribed to, also bolds ones with new content, and puts the number of unread items at the end of their names. So you wouldn't really have to click through everything to read new content organized by source, anyway.
Bill wants to force patent trolls to pay defendant's legal bills? I know he isn't personally running Microsoft anymore, but doesn't he still have an interest in the company? And isn't Microsoft kind of one of the -biggest- patent trolls? Wait, not that Bill.
Never done that before. Well, if so, let me not be that guy who just posts "first post" and gets everyone annoyed at the lack of actual information, and instead be the guy who posts the obligatory link to Betteridge's Law of Headlines, and then says, "no" to the topic title.
I haven't played with it much in a while (I mostly use explorer++ and just live with the drawbacks), but the most obvious things I remember just from looking at it for 3 seconds, are the total lack of a decent search interface, and the fact that you can't get hide or remove the useless context-sensitive toolbar (the one with random things like "organize", "share with", etc). I also recall having issues with it forgetting my having applied layout settings periodically (I want it to just always default to sort by type, and view as a list). There's also rather a lot of unnecessary vertical space in between items in list mode, which is both kind of ugly and also means you can't fit as many files/folders into the same amount of space. Having to press enter in the address bar to edit the path is kinda dumb, too, but that's nitpicky.
What if "the job you want" includes "ability to wear a t-shirt"? Just saying. I like my job, it's pretty casual, but not -that- casual: I miss wearing t-shirts every day.
Meanwhile, unless they're wearing an actual suit, to me a person wearing a belt always implies "person's pants don't fit". Maybe I'm just weird, though.
Why would you want it to look like Win7? Win7's interface sucked almost as much as Win8.
I do agree that Win7's kernel is much better than XP (and -obviously- better than Vista's), but I disagree that the kernel is all that matters - it certainly does matter, but so does the UI, as there's only so much you can do, and unless you want to implement it yourself, you're also reliant on the third-party software actually existing. I would know - I've modded as much of the Win7 interface as I can to behave more like XP, but while I have found decent reproductions of the old start menu and old taskbar, I haven't found a perfect file manager yet. CubicExplorer has a great UI but but is slow and full of bugs; explorer++ is mostly great but has a couple important file manager features (notably, file undo-redo) just not implemented, and doesn't seem to be actively maintained by anyone anymore, and that's about it for decent Windows file managers attempting to be XP-explorer-like.
So yes, it -is- just like arguing about KDE vs Gnome: they both suck, and so do all the alternatives. I'd rather use explorer++, or for that matter, even native Win7 explorer, than KDE, Gnome, xfce, etc; meanwhile, if someone gave me a Linux file manager that was an exact visual-and-feature reproduction of XP's explorer, I just might run Linux on my laptop. A good file manager is pretty important to have.
Oddly enough, if you actually -do- mash all of pop and rock together (which is easier than you might expect, given the truth of the headline), you often get something significantly greater than the sum of its parts. Something like, for instance, DJ Earworm's United State of Pop series.
A bit off-topic, but when I see "mash" in the context of pop music, I can't help but take it literally.
I would like to request that someone who has mod points (or several someones) please mod this post up.
Capitalism: the worst economic system, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Apologies for ruining your quote, Churchill.) That is, after all, the whole theory behind why capitalism works (except when, occasionally, the theory breaks down): that if a company can be proven to be screwing us over, we are free to attempt to bring it down by not frequenting it.
I personally don't have anything truly against Microsoft these days from an ethical perspective, incidentally, just a UI perspective. I would hate to lump it in with Monsanto or the RIAA. Meanwhile, I'd hate to lump in small local businesses (the baker down the street, say) with any of those others. I try my hardest to -support- local businesses, even if in this particular example, the baker most immediately down the street charges rather too much.
(Edit: also various passwords that were grandfathered in and stuff, and passwords that I might need to share with other people that I don't want guessing the pattern, but it is a concept that I've liked and, sometimes, used.)
Mine too. Except for all the websites that have stupid rules that prevent me from using it. And no, I can't just come up with a single formula that works universally: some sites require that you enter a number; some require that you don't enter a number. Some want special characters; some won't allow non-alphanumeric characters. Some want more than 8 characters. Some want at most 8 characters (those are the particularly hilarious ones, where by hilarious I mean depressing). I've seen sites that will only accept numbers.
And -that's- the real wtf, not the lack of single sign-on, which I could do without. (Wait, crap, wrong site, this isn't tdwtf.)
No matter how much you test, any program more complicated than "Hello World!" will have bugs. I hate it just as much as you probably do when games (or other programs) are released in an obvious beta state, without really having been tested much first, and have really obvious breaking bugs that could not possibly have existed if they'd been tested even cursorily... but not all bugs are like that. Heck, I've been responsible for fixing bugs in our software that have lived in the wild for years before one of us ran across them. Some of them you wonder how nobody had noticed it for that long, but some of them you don't wonder that at all, if they're sufficiently obscure.
The point of driving fast is a. you want to get someplace quicker, and/or b. you enjoy driving faster. If you don't have to drive anymore, that gets rid of b, but being driven someplace faster still gets you where you wanted to go more quickly.
Speed limits are (usually) BS, anyway. (I'm not arguing there shouldn't be any speed limits for safety reasons, just that they shouldn't be nearly as low as they generally are, that generally being because it's a good way to make cities money for busting people for driving safely over the unreasonably low limit.)
Amazon was cheaper than local stores cause, well, it was. Amazon's listed prices were just always cheaper than anywhere else's listed prices, sales tax or no sales tax. And that's even before you factor in that they generally gave you a free paperback for every 3 paperbacks you bought.
Yes, not paying sales tax was an added benefit, I guess, but their prices are still crazy low.
I still like supporting local bookstores sometimes, but that's only -local- bookstores. As in, not giant megachains that just happen to have a branch in my area; those have been made 100% obsolete.
Mr AC didn't say keep the information to yourself. He said alert the parents and let the guy know they'd done so, rather than telling the police. I agree with that. If I overheard something that sounded like a death threat, that is also the sort of thing I'd want to happen as well, rather than immediately calling the police over what might well have been a joke or misheard or some people practicing lines for a play. Keeping the information to yourself: bad. Overreacting and calling the police: also bad. Sending the relevant parties anonymous messages and letting them deal with it themselves: good.
I'm going to continue not using facebook, though; it's sketched me out long before this.
Nothing ever said that anyone -was- "forced" to do any other drugs by what they chose to do before; the point of a gateway drug is just in the perfectly reasonable hypothesis that if someone takes a psychoactive substance and enjoys it, they might then decide to try a different, "harder" substance next. Just like you did.
My perspective on it is, if we treat all drugs as equally bad, a person is far more likely to end up in a situation like you did. I feel personally that a person should be free to make idiotic choices like getting hooked on crack if they want to, without the government telling them they can't, but that the government -should- make sure they know before doing it that they're making one. On the other hand, when it comes to drugs that are far easier to use safely and in moderation, like pot, they should have warnings, but far less scary ones, so people don't just lump them all together.
How about articles about how Sun boxes specifically were the past and some billionaire expected that Sun would be out of business within 5 years due to no people wanting to buy any of their products any longer? I would argue that would be a perfectly on topic response to such a thread, personally.
For the record, while I may actually decide to buy a tablet eventually if they get cheap enough, battery-life-ful enough and with a nice enough UI, I am certainly against the dumbing down of existing UIs just to make them look more similar to the UIs of completely different devices with completely different user experiences.
Neat! Those things your addon fixes have always bugged me a bit, but unlike some things, not enough to stop what I was doing and look for an addon to fix them. Still happy to try your fix out, though. Thanks!
I love the CLI for some things. But would anyone who actually read the quote argue with its point? I can't imagine. Isn't it -obvious- that nothing targeted at the consumer market should have functionality that can't be accessed through any other means than command-line, unless it's functionality that's only meant for debugging problems? I think so, and I love CLIs for the sort of things they're meant for. But I love programs that have GUI and CLI modes even more, especially when you can do everything in either mode, depending entirely on which is more convenient at the time.
An immortal line. Still, I prefer instead quoting: "You buy this ship, treat her proper, she'll be with you the rest of your life." "That's because it's a death trap."
The first rule of looking like you're actually doing something still, rather than just treading water badly until you drown: "If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is".
My copy of Windows 7 has a -great- UI... cause I ripped out most of the native UI, and replaced it all with various 3rd party applications that don't suck as badly...
Heh. While neat to know, most of the draw of Eve for me is that I hear frequently about how it implements massively-pvp mechanics particularly well. I'm not usually into pvp, so it would be a novel thing for me. Can't really get that in a single-player game.
Slashdot Mirror
Why do you care what feed they came from? I use Google Reader, and it does exactly what I want, which is give me a chronological list of every post made to a source I've subscribed to, that I haven't read yet. If you're reading everything in the list, why wouldn't you see them? And if you're not reading everything, why do you even have the sources you don't want to read everything from subscribed?
That said, the sidebar with the list of all the feeds you've subscribed to, also bolds ones with new content, and puts the number of unread items at the end of their names. So you wouldn't really have to click through everything to read new content organized by source, anyway.
Bill wants to force patent trolls to pay defendant's legal bills? I know he isn't personally running Microsoft anymore, but doesn't he still have an interest in the company? And isn't Microsoft kind of one of the -biggest- patent trolls?
Wait, not that Bill.
Bill Posters is innocent!
Never done that before. Well, if so, let me not be that guy who just posts "first post" and gets everyone annoyed at the lack of actual information, and instead be the guy who posts the obligatory link to Betteridge's Law of Headlines, and then says, "no" to the topic title.
No.
I haven't played with it much in a while (I mostly use explorer++ and just live with the drawbacks), but the most obvious things I remember just from looking at it for 3 seconds, are the total lack of a decent search interface, and the fact that you can't get hide or remove the useless context-sensitive toolbar (the one with random things like "organize", "share with", etc). I also recall having issues with it forgetting my having applied layout settings periodically (I want it to just always default to sort by type, and view as a list). There's also rather a lot of unnecessary vertical space in between items in list mode, which is both kind of ugly and also means you can't fit as many files/folders into the same amount of space. Having to press enter in the address bar to edit the path is kinda dumb, too, but that's nitpicky.
What if "the job you want" includes "ability to wear a t-shirt"? Just saying. I like my job, it's pretty casual, but not -that- casual: I miss wearing t-shirts every day.
Meanwhile, unless they're wearing an actual suit, to me a person wearing a belt always implies "person's pants don't fit". Maybe I'm just weird, though.
Why would you want it to look like Win7? Win7's interface sucked almost as much as Win8.
I do agree that Win7's kernel is much better than XP (and -obviously- better than Vista's), but I disagree that the kernel is all that matters - it certainly does matter, but so does the UI, as there's only so much you can do, and unless you want to implement it yourself, you're also reliant on the third-party software actually existing. I would know - I've modded as much of the Win7 interface as I can to behave more like XP, but while I have found decent reproductions of the old start menu and old taskbar, I haven't found a perfect file manager yet. CubicExplorer has a great UI but but is slow and full of bugs; explorer++ is mostly great but has a couple important file manager features (notably, file undo-redo) just not implemented, and doesn't seem to be actively maintained by anyone anymore, and that's about it for decent Windows file managers attempting to be XP-explorer-like.
So yes, it -is- just like arguing about KDE vs Gnome: they both suck, and so do all the alternatives. I'd rather use explorer++, or for that matter, even native Win7 explorer, than KDE, Gnome, xfce, etc; meanwhile, if someone gave me a Linux file manager that was an exact visual-and-feature reproduction of XP's explorer, I just might run Linux on my laptop. A good file manager is pretty important to have.
Sounds like a slightly un-sillified reincarnation of my favorite esoteric language, IRP?
Oddly enough, if you actually -do- mash all of pop and rock together (which is easier than you might expect, given the truth of the headline), you often get something significantly greater than the sum of its parts. Something like, for instance, DJ Earworm's United State of Pop series.
A bit off-topic, but when I see "mash" in the context of pop music, I can't help but take it literally.
16:10 instead of 16:9. [/obligatory post]
I would like to request that someone who has mod points (or several someones) please mod this post up.
Capitalism: the worst economic system, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Apologies for ruining your quote, Churchill.) That is, after all, the whole theory behind why capitalism works (except when, occasionally, the theory breaks down): that if a company can be proven to be screwing us over, we are free to attempt to bring it down by not frequenting it.
I personally don't have anything truly against Microsoft these days from an ethical perspective, incidentally, just a UI perspective. I would hate to lump it in with Monsanto or the RIAA. Meanwhile, I'd hate to lump in small local businesses (the baker down the street, say) with any of those others. I try my hardest to -support- local businesses, even if in this particular example, the baker most immediately down the street charges rather too much.
(Edit: also various passwords that were grandfathered in and stuff, and passwords that I might need to share with other people that I don't want guessing the pattern, but it is a concept that I've liked and, sometimes, used.)
Mine too. Except for all the websites that have stupid rules that prevent me from using it. And no, I can't just come up with a single formula that works universally: some sites require that you enter a number; some require that you don't enter a number. Some want special characters; some won't allow non-alphanumeric characters. Some want more than 8 characters. Some want at most 8 characters (those are the particularly hilarious ones, where by hilarious I mean depressing). I've seen sites that will only accept numbers.
And -that's- the real wtf, not the lack of single sign-on, which I could do without. (Wait, crap, wrong site, this isn't tdwtf.)
No matter how much you test, any program more complicated than "Hello World!" will have bugs. I hate it just as much as you probably do when games (or other programs) are released in an obvious beta state, without really having been tested much first, and have really obvious breaking bugs that could not possibly have existed if they'd been tested even cursorily... but not all bugs are like that. Heck, I've been responsible for fixing bugs in our software that have lived in the wild for years before one of us ran across them. Some of them you wonder how nobody had noticed it for that long, but some of them you don't wonder that at all, if they're sufficiently obscure.
Give me a hundred bucks, I'll buy one. That's way less than 450.
The point of driving fast is a. you want to get someplace quicker, and/or b. you enjoy driving faster. If you don't have to drive anymore, that gets rid of b, but being driven someplace faster still gets you where you wanted to go more quickly.
Speed limits are (usually) BS, anyway. (I'm not arguing there shouldn't be any speed limits for safety reasons, just that they shouldn't be nearly as low as they generally are, that generally being because it's a good way to make cities money for busting people for driving safely over the unreasonably low limit.)
Amazon was cheaper than local stores cause, well, it was. Amazon's listed prices were just always cheaper than anywhere else's listed prices, sales tax or no sales tax. And that's even before you factor in that they generally gave you a free paperback for every 3 paperbacks you bought.
Yes, not paying sales tax was an added benefit, I guess, but their prices are still crazy low.
I still like supporting local bookstores sometimes, but that's only -local- bookstores. As in, not giant megachains that just happen to have a branch in my area; those have been made 100% obsolete.
Mr AC didn't say keep the information to yourself. He said alert the parents and let the guy know they'd done so, rather than telling the police. I agree with that. If I overheard something that sounded like a death threat, that is also the sort of thing I'd want to happen as well, rather than immediately calling the police over what might well have been a joke or misheard or some people practicing lines for a play. Keeping the information to yourself: bad. Overreacting and calling the police: also bad. Sending the relevant parties anonymous messages and letting them deal with it themselves: good.
I'm going to continue not using facebook, though; it's sketched me out long before this.
Nothing ever said that anyone -was- "forced" to do any other drugs by what they chose to do before; the point of a gateway drug is just in the perfectly reasonable hypothesis that if someone takes a psychoactive substance and enjoys it, they might then decide to try a different, "harder" substance next. Just like you did.
My perspective on it is, if we treat all drugs as equally bad, a person is far more likely to end up in a situation like you did. I feel personally that a person should be free to make idiotic choices like getting hooked on crack if they want to, without the government telling them they can't, but that the government -should- make sure they know before doing it that they're making one. On the other hand, when it comes to drugs that are far easier to use safely and in moderation, like pot, they should have warnings, but far less scary ones, so people don't just lump them all together.
How about articles about how Sun boxes specifically were the past and some billionaire expected that Sun would be out of business within 5 years due to no people wanting to buy any of their products any longer? I would argue that would be a perfectly on topic response to such a thread, personally.
For the record, while I may actually decide to buy a tablet eventually if they get cheap enough, battery-life-ful enough and with a nice enough UI, I am certainly against the dumbing down of existing UIs just to make them look more similar to the UIs of completely different devices with completely different user experiences.
Neat! Those things your addon fixes have always bugged me a bit, but unlike some things, not enough to stop what I was doing and look for an addon to fix them. Still happy to try your fix out, though. Thanks!
I really wish I had points to give you +1 (Funny) right now.
I love the CLI for some things. But would anyone who actually read the quote argue with its point? I can't imagine. Isn't it -obvious- that nothing targeted at the consumer market should have functionality that can't be accessed through any other means than command-line, unless it's functionality that's only meant for debugging problems? I think so, and I love CLIs for the sort of things they're meant for. But I love programs that have GUI and CLI modes even more, especially when you can do everything in either mode, depending entirely on which is more convenient at the time.
An immortal line. Still, I prefer instead quoting:
"You buy this ship, treat her proper, she'll be with you the rest of your life."
"That's because it's a death trap."
The first rule of looking like you're actually doing something still, rather than just treading water badly until you drown: "If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is".
My copy of Windows 7 has a -great- UI... cause I ripped out most of the native UI, and replaced it all with various 3rd party applications that don't suck as badly...
Heh. While neat to know, most of the draw of Eve for me is that I hear frequently about how it implements massively-pvp mechanics particularly well. I'm not usually into pvp, so it would be a novel thing for me. Can't really get that in a single-player game.