You don't work, do you? And you never shop online and want to print the order confirmation? Or buy a ticken online and have to print it and bring it to the event?
Er, yes, yes I do. Number of times I've printed something from a web browser for work purposes? Once. That was just to test the A3 colour laser anyway.
Order confirmation? Comes via email.
TIckets online? Have to print? Not in PDF? File->Print.
The task menu is not there either on popups. People expect to be able to print from a web browser, and when that is suddenly impossible, it's very disturbing.
Then that is a better argument against the not showing a task menu than adding bloat to the context menu.
At the end of the day, I'm quite sick of reading on that bug report "you don't work, do you", or "all users want this", or "developers have sticks up their arse because they don't agree with me".
Grow up!
More on topic of the GIMP UI, there's an app that scares me back to just coding. It's horrible to do complex things, it's unintuitive when trying to do simple things, and it's not exactly pleasing to look at either (though of course that's subjective).
Er, if you were using VPC to switch your Windows data, presumably you were using Windows under it?
If so, was it legal? If so, you had things to do with them. If no, well...
Come on, if you were using Windows, what does it matter who owns the emulator?
If you weren't using Windows: what was the point at all?
Technically I think the best way of writing it is:
+44 +20 7124 4567, as is the normal practice here in New Zealand.
Here we have a nice simple system... an area code which is 0,[3,4,6,7,9]. So it's either 03, 04, 06, 07 or 09. This is followed by a 7 digit number. There are two 'exceptions': the mobile prefix, which is 0,2,[1-9] (where the 3rd digit tells you it's either vodafone cellular, telecom paging, telecom's TDMA network, telecom's CDMA network, or TelstraClear's part of vodafone cellular). There is also 0800 and 0508, which are both free calling (ie. costs the caller nothing), and 0900, which has a specific per minute charge.
Of course, here, if the number is 'local' you do not dial the area code. Simple as that. And it costs the same to call a mobile no matter where in the country they are, so it's always 'national' rather than local.
And, calling internationall is simply a matter of 00[countrycode][areacode][localnumber].
So you always know where you are calling, and it's easy to do.
It's there - regarding using Java if i remember correctly. Never. Ever. Use. Java. If there's life involved...
(Friends don't let friends do Java in LifeSupport)
Single-Sign-On is one of those things that is just so damned useful. Especially if you can do it in the way that MS has with Passport and XP.
I wish universities would do it... so much hassle to:
a) login to worksation
b) login to email
c) login to accounting server (see how much cash you have left on print/internet server)
and so on.
Perhaps we have to realise that more and more often the domestic user doesn't share a pc in the same way anymore. (Windows XP certainly encourages users to have their own 'windows', as does Linux).
I have to disagree about the IE easy way: I use Phoenix, and it' works as transparantly as IE does. The only time I end up in IE is when I type a URL into an address bar in Explorer.
I reckon people choose Windows because it's easy to use, its graphical, and it does what those 90% of people want it to do.
I personally hate Window Managers & Multiples (ie Gnome/Kde et.al.) because they lack consistency. They don't all Look The Same (or more specifically, they don't all look the same way that you want it to look). And then people MOAN AND COMPLAIN when someone (ie. RedHat) tries to change it...
My cable company doesn't charge for rental of the STB. You just don't have any choice - it's part of the montly charge. (Although you can, as I do, rent a second box for NZD$10/month - or ~USD$5/month).
But we also pay for extra channels provided by the national satellite tv company (the cable tv provider in the two cities here that have cable hopped in to bed with the only satellite tv company, and thus sky (they satellite) manages the catv content.
We also pay for our modem - $17/month. (Or about USD$8.50/month). It's DOCSIS, so I presume I could buy my own. But why bother? They don't sell cable modems in New Zealand (with only one carrier, why bother?), so it'd be hard to convince them to let me use it, I'd bet.
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Er, yes, yes I do. Number of times I've printed something from a web browser for work purposes? Once. That was just to test the A3 colour laser anyway.
Order confirmation? Comes via email.
TIckets online? Have to print? Not in PDF? File->Print.
Then that is a better argument against the not showing a task menu than adding bloat to the context menu.
At the end of the day, I'm quite sick of reading on that bug report "you don't work, do you", or "all users want this", or "developers have sticks up their arse because they don't agree with me".
Grow up!
More on topic of the GIMP UI, there's an app that scares me back to just coding. It's horrible to do complex things, it's unintuitive when trying to do simple things, and it's not exactly pleasing to look at either (though of course that's subjective).
Konqueror on my boxes supports XMLHttpRequest just fine, at least in my experience.
And I wouldn't call it a major browser by any means, I don't know anyone who uses it...
Er, if you were using VPC to switch your Windows data, presumably you were using Windows under it? If so, was it legal? If so, you had things to do with them. If no, well... Come on, if you were using Windows, what does it matter who owns the emulator? If you weren't using Windows: what was the point at all?
Technically I think the best way of writing it is: +44 +20 7124 4567, as is the normal practice here in New Zealand. Here we have a nice simple system... an area code which is 0,[3,4,6,7,9]. So it's either 03, 04, 06, 07 or 09. This is followed by a 7 digit number. There are two 'exceptions': the mobile prefix, which is 0,2,[1-9] (where the 3rd digit tells you it's either vodafone cellular, telecom paging, telecom's TDMA network, telecom's CDMA network, or TelstraClear's part of vodafone cellular). There is also 0800 and 0508, which are both free calling (ie. costs the caller nothing), and 0900, which has a specific per minute charge. Of course, here, if the number is 'local' you do not dial the area code. Simple as that. And it costs the same to call a mobile no matter where in the country they are, so it's always 'national' rather than local. And, calling internationall is simply a matter of 00[countrycode][areacode][localnumber]. So you always know where you are calling, and it's easy to do.
It's there - regarding using Java if i remember correctly. Never. Ever. Use. Java. If there's life involved... (Friends don't let friends do Java in LifeSupport)
Single-Sign-On is one of those things that is just so damned useful. Especially if you can do it in the way that MS has with Passport and XP. I wish universities would do it... so much hassle to: a) login to worksation b) login to email c) login to accounting server (see how much cash you have left on print/internet server) and so on. Perhaps we have to realise that more and more often the domestic user doesn't share a pc in the same way anymore. (Windows XP certainly encourages users to have their own 'windows', as does Linux).
One could bring up a good point here: Windows .NET Server was not for consumers! It is a SERVER os.
So that's just not really a good point is it...
I have to disagree about the IE easy way: I use Phoenix, and it' works as transparantly as IE does. The only time I end up in IE is when I type a URL into an address bar in Explorer.
I reckon people choose Windows because it's easy to use, its graphical, and it does what those 90% of people want it to do.
I personally hate Window Managers & Multiples (ie Gnome/Kde et.al.) because they lack consistency. They don't all Look The Same (or more specifically, they don't all look the same way that you want it to look). And then people MOAN AND COMPLAIN when someone (ie. RedHat) tries to change it...
My cable company doesn't charge for rental of the STB. You just don't have any choice - it's part of the montly charge. (Although you can, as I do, rent a second box for NZD$10/month - or ~USD$5/month). But we also pay for extra channels provided by the national satellite tv company (the cable tv provider in the two cities here that have cable hopped in to bed with the only satellite tv company, and thus sky (they satellite) manages the catv content. We also pay for our modem - $17/month. (Or about USD$8.50/month). It's DOCSIS, so I presume I could buy my own. But why bother? They don't sell cable modems in New Zealand (with only one carrier, why bother?), so it'd be hard to convince them to let me use it, I'd bet.