I use firefox right now, and I can't wait to try IE7. I'm not super-impressed with the stability and speed, and it's not like Firefox is perfect, so, if IE7 is better, I'm as good as there.
(Before anybody calls me an ungrateful twerp, I have contributed financially to the Mozilla foundation...)
Wow, you make it sound like rebooting once a week saps all of someone's productivity. It really isn't much of a problem (btw, it's only once a month when updates come out, generally). You still have to restart programs/ services/ X when you update Linux software. The only real downfall of updating anymore is that you have to restart your session of whatever program you're updating, not the fact that you have to reboot. And that applies to all OSes. Heck, rebooting takes hardly any time at all in XP.
Who in the world cares about having years of uptime for a desktop- a machine where, most of the time, it's not being used *at all*?
And a reasonably-managed XP system doesn't need to be reinstalled constantly. I waited a year and a half before reinstalling, and I reinstalled because I simply wanted to "start fresh", not because anything was going wrong. I'm actually starting to regret it now, because I've suddenly become too lazy to get everything back to how I want it:-P.
Derr...where is it? If you're just talking about the official updates page, there's still tons of crap extensions there. Ones with cludgy interfaces, confusing menu options, and some that even compromise the stability of my browser.
All the extensions are mostly a positive, but there is a negative aspect to them. When folks write buggy extensions, it impacts the whole firefox experience. And, some of the interfaces for the extensions are really awful. Like, how they clutter your context menus with confusing commands, often trumping some of the original commands out of their original positions (one moved the properties option out of the bottom position for me). Another ridiculous one for Thunderbird was the quicknotes extension, which added an "options" option to the tools menu, and it was below the "preferences" option. I can't tell you how many times I opened options thinking it was the thunderbird preferences.
I really wish there was some sort of system for having the mozilla foundation somehow "sign" or "seal" extensions that follow sensible conventions (I guess they would have to post what conventions would be considered "sensible" first).
I find it hilarious that Windows' built in search ignores the "Program Files" folder by default. That's where most programs store their files by default. Also it won't search subfolders by default.
Um, what are you using? Windows 95?
My programs generally default configuration files to Local Settings or Application Data, and documents to My Documents.
If anything, by not including those folders, MS is doing a service. Maybe those few lame programs that still stick things in Program Files that should not be there will start to move them in to users' folders, where they should be.
It's perhaps the only form of synchronous communication that is asynchronous enough that you can carry on multiple completely independent instances of it at once. In other words, I can have 5 or 6 completely separate conversations on IM at once, whereas I can only have one of those one the phone.
At work, they had me clean up a card-access system (Northern Win-Pak 2.0, yuck...) and I still have admin access on it since it's still messed up:-). Anyway, there's a sliding door that uses a card reader- it's the entrance to where we store our servers and equipment. One day, I forgot my card, and I needed to go in and out of that room a lot, and hardly anybody else was there. So, I timed it out, and figured out it took 15 seconds for me to walk from my cube to the door, and set the scripting thing in Win-Pak to wait 15 seconds and then open the door.
So, now I walk in and out with no card, with the door sliding just as I walk up to it, without even breaking my stride. Our fridge and microwave is right next to the door, so I can't wait to mess with people's heads. Maybe I'll tell them we just installed retina scanners;-).
Whoa! I really did get eighth post! I feel like the kid guessing the right number of jelly beans in the jar, or the lucky 19th caller What do I win? Hot grits? A Beowulf cluster? A trip to Soviet Russia? NATALIE PORTMAN?!
As millions of broadband subscribers who missed a wardrobe-malfunction moment on TV can attest, the internet can be a convenient resource for finding much-talked-about events on video.
Finding videos on the internet is easy.
Large net portals and a handful of smaller sites are looking to change that.
So they're going to make it harder?
In recent weeks, Yahoo, Google and MSN have each rolled out services designed to make it easier to upload or locate video online.
...that I can already seamlessly do with Mac OS X's automatic detection of saved wireless network settings, rolling prioritized detection of available network interfaces, and quick switching of locations?
I think my laptop With XP SP2 does that already (in fact, it did just about all of that with SP1), so I'm guessing they're talking of improving the process even more. Certainly you can't say that your Macintosh does this absolutely perfectly every single time in every concievable situation? Just like with searching- I'm sure Spotlight isn't perfect, and the article even says that MS is going to add features that go beyond Spotlight. And it's pretty much a given that by 2007 Apple will have improved on Spotlight, too.
It's OK if the features of two different OSes overlap features, and it's OK if they don't all come out at the same time. The end goal for both systems is essentially the same, so we should expect some redundancy. Searching and finding wireless hotspots are two very common functions, and they don't have a whole lot of leeway in their functionality or interfaces. Everybody wants searching to be faster, to cover more fields, to interpret user input better, etc.
I think we could safely say that a lot of change would occur in those hundreds of thousands of years, but would we really be able to say that the net change was that great? All we have here are existing traits varying within a range- no new traits are coming into existance. If anything, the variance might be cyclic, at least considering only one trait (other traits would cycle in different intervals, I guess).
Really, while hatching dormant eggs is really, really cool, the observations are unremarkable. We've observed this behavior many, many times already.
This is cool, but it's not worth the "OMG WE CAN SEE EVOLUTION!!!111!11" headline, or the snide comments (not your's; this part is just a general rant) about people's faith being shattered.
We lease PCs for 3 years. Any time the floppy (or any other part, save batteries) breaks over that 3 years (actually sometimes it ends up being 2 years, 350 days because they don't line up the warranty and the lease right, but that's another story), we get it replaced for free. After the warranty is up, we'd have to pay for one, but we still could exchange it for a like part (i.e., a $15 off-the-shelf floppy). HOWEVER, if we return the PC to the leasing company with the busted floppy, they will test it, find out, and charge us 18% of the original price for the *entire* PC, which will generally end up being somewhere between $125-$150. Sometimes as much as 20-25% of the floppies will fail testing, so we really can't afford to not test them. But it is a serious drain on our time. Which, of course leads to not getting these things out on time, which leads to late fees, which I did not add in. Now, if the leasing company would just replace the floppy and charge us for that and service, we might just send them back as-is.
So, if he did it the way you wanted it, where the heck was he going to put the choroid? And how much does that blind spot really affect you?
Funny, people mock it for being a bad design, yet nobody's built a better one. And the eyes that are supposedly better-designed don't actually see as well.
I TA'ed for an intro programming course in C++ for 4 semesters at school, and all the time kids would use asserts to verify that user input was in the correct range. And THEN they'd complain when they lost points!
student: "But it IS error-checking!"
me: "Yes, but how would you feel if a program you were using crashed just because you slipped and entered the wrong number?"
student: "Uhhh...."
me: "I'd cry. In fact, I did when I ran your program. It took me a good fifteen minutes to collect myself."
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Funny...I don't remember Aeris eating all her materia right before dying...
I use firefox right now, and I can't wait to try IE7. I'm not super-impressed with the stability and speed, and it's not like Firefox is perfect, so, if IE7 is better, I'm as good as there.
(Before anybody calls me an ungrateful twerp, I have contributed financially to the Mozilla foundation...)
Wow, you make it sound like rebooting once a week saps all of someone's productivity. It really isn't much of a problem (btw, it's only once a month when updates come out, generally). You still have to restart programs/ services/ X when you update Linux software. The only real downfall of updating anymore is that you have to restart your session of whatever program you're updating, not the fact that you have to reboot. And that applies to all OSes. Heck, rebooting takes hardly any time at all in XP.
:-P.
Who in the world cares about having years of uptime for a desktop- a machine where, most of the time, it's not being used *at all*?
And a reasonably-managed XP system doesn't need to be reinstalled constantly. I waited a year and a half before reinstalling, and I reinstalled because I simply wanted to "start fresh", not because anything was going wrong. I'm actually starting to regret it now, because I've suddenly become too lazy to get everything back to how I want it
Derr...where is it? If you're just talking about the official updates page, there's still tons of crap extensions there. Ones with cludgy interfaces, confusing menu options, and some that even compromise the stability of my browser.
All the extensions are mostly a positive, but there is a negative aspect to them. When folks write buggy extensions, it impacts the whole firefox experience. And, some of the interfaces for the extensions are really awful. Like, how they clutter your context menus with confusing commands, often trumping some of the original commands out of their original positions (one moved the properties option out of the bottom position for me). Another ridiculous one for Thunderbird was the quicknotes extension, which added an "options" option to the tools menu, and it was below the "preferences" option. I can't tell you how many times I opened options thinking it was the thunderbird preferences.
I really wish there was some sort of system for having the mozilla foundation somehow "sign" or "seal" extensions that follow sensible conventions (I guess they would have to post what conventions would be considered "sensible" first).
I find it hilarious that Windows' built in search ignores the "Program Files" folder by default. That's where most programs store their files by default. Also it won't search subfolders by default.
Um, what are you using? Windows 95?
My programs generally default configuration files to Local Settings or Application Data, and documents to My Documents.
If anything, by not including those folders, MS is doing a service. Maybe those few lame programs that still stick things in Program Files that should not be there will start to move them in to users' folders, where they should be.
Yes, because anytime anybody ever writes something related to his religion he is trying to manipulate you.
They're not really alienating that many customers if most of them just reopen the webpage in IE...
a theory that has been shown to explain the origins of life time and time again
Evolution != origins. That's abiogenesis. Evolution doesn't care about the origins of life AT ALL.
It's perhaps the only form of synchronous communication that is asynchronous enough that you can carry on multiple completely independent instances of it at once. In other words, I can have 5 or 6 completely separate conversations on IM at once, whereas I can only have one of those one the phone.
Don't forget about students who use assert()'s for validating user input!
Not really stealing, but "exploiting", I guess...
:-). Anyway, there's a sliding door that uses a card reader- it's the entrance to where we store our servers and equipment. One day, I forgot my card, and I needed to go in and out of that room a lot, and hardly anybody else was there. So, I timed it out, and figured out it took 15 seconds for me to walk from my cube to the door, and set the scripting thing in Win-Pak to wait 15 seconds and then open the door.
;-).
At work, they had me clean up a card-access system (Northern Win-Pak 2.0, yuck...) and I still have admin access on it since it's still messed up
So, now I walk in and out with no card, with the door sliding just as I walk up to it, without even breaking my stride. Our fridge and microwave is right next to the door, so I can't wait to mess with people's heads. Maybe I'll tell them we just installed retina scanners
Ew...I wish I hadn't picked Door #3....
Whoa! I really did get eighth post! I feel like the kid guessing the right number of jelly beans in the jar, or the lucky 19th caller What do I win? Hot grits? A Beowulf cluster? A trip to Soviet Russia? NATALIE PORTMAN?!
As millions of broadband subscribers who missed a wardrobe-malfunction moment on TV can attest, the internet can be a convenient resource for finding much-talked-about events on video.
Finding videos on the internet is easy.
Large net portals and a handful of smaller sites are looking to change that.
So they're going to make it harder?
In recent weeks, Yahoo, Google and MSN have each rolled out services designed to make it easier to upload or locate video online.
But they're going to do that by making it easier?
Eighth post?
"IANAP, but..."
...that I can already seamlessly do with Mac OS X's automatic detection of saved wireless network settings, rolling prioritized detection of available network interfaces, and quick switching of locations?
I think my laptop With XP SP2 does that already (in fact, it did just about all of that with SP1), so I'm guessing they're talking of improving the process even more. Certainly you can't say that your Macintosh does this absolutely perfectly every single time in every concievable situation? Just like with searching- I'm sure Spotlight isn't perfect, and the article even says that MS is going to add features that go beyond Spotlight. And it's pretty much a given that by 2007 Apple will have improved on Spotlight, too.
It's OK if the features of two different OSes overlap features, and it's OK if they don't all come out at the same time. The end goal for both systems is essentially the same, so we should expect some redundancy. Searching and finding wireless hotspots are two very common functions, and they don't have a whole lot of leeway in their functionality or interfaces. Everybody wants searching to be faster, to cover more fields, to interpret user input better, etc.
I think we could safely say that a lot of change would occur in those hundreds of thousands of years, but would we really be able to say that the net change was that great? All we have here are existing traits varying within a range- no new traits are coming into existance. If anything, the variance might be cyclic, at least considering only one trait (other traits would cycle in different intervals, I guess).
Really, while hatching dormant eggs is really, really cool, the observations are unremarkable. We've observed this behavior many, many times already.
This is cool, but it's not worth the "OMG WE CAN SEE EVOLUTION!!!111!11" headline, or the snide comments (not your's; this part is just a general rant) about people's faith being shattered.
Octopi don't see as well as we do.
yeah, because you could actually use a digital camera just like a human eye. I'll keep my hopelessly flawed human eyes, thank you very much.
An FYI on the floppy costing $150...
:-).
We lease PCs for 3 years. Any time the floppy (or any other part, save batteries) breaks over that 3 years (actually sometimes it ends up being 2 years, 350 days because they don't line up the warranty and the lease right, but that's another story), we get it replaced for free. After the warranty is up, we'd have to pay for one, but we still could exchange it for a like part (i.e., a $15 off-the-shelf floppy). HOWEVER, if we return the PC to the leasing company with the busted floppy, they will test it, find out, and charge us 18% of the original price for the *entire* PC, which will generally end up being somewhere between $125-$150. Sometimes as much as 20-25% of the floppies will fail testing, so we really can't afford to not test them. But it is a serious drain on our time. Which, of course leads to not getting these things out on time, which leads to late fees, which I did not add in. Now, if the leasing company would just replace the floppy and charge us for that and service, we might just send them back as-is.
Anyway, that's why the floppy costs so much
four if you count the desk... (Long story, dont ask.)
Ummm...I really gotta ask.
So, if he did it the way you wanted it, where the heck was he going to put the choroid? And how much does that blind spot really affect you?
Funny, people mock it for being a bad design, yet nobody's built a better one. And the eyes that are supposedly better-designed don't actually see as well.
I TA'ed for an intro programming course in C++ for 4 semesters at school, and all the time kids would use asserts to verify that user input was in the correct range. And THEN they'd complain when they lost points!
student: "But it IS error-checking!"
me: "Yes, but how would you feel if a program you were using crashed just because you slipped and entered the wrong number?"
student: "Uhhh...."
me: "I'd cry. In fact, I did when I ran your program. It took me a good fifteen minutes to collect myself."
1.) The dialog that appears asking for an admin password to install software. Directly ripped from OS X.
So, how should they obtain the admin password for installing software, praytell?