a text editor that is so error prone that *needs* to autosave constantly("continuously"). Or software in general, for that matter.
You've got it backwards--it ain't an error-prone text editor, it's an error-prone human. Even conscientious, process-driven users make stupid mistakes and forget to save their work (especially when they're on a roll.) This protects us from ourselves, not the machines we're working on.
Now, you may be among that handful of people who never forgets to save--in which case, I congratulate you on being in one of the outlier cohorts that software engineers really shouldn't ever spend their time worrying about.:D
What programs are you using that doesn't intercept that quit where you have unsaved work and prompt you to save or acknowledge that you'll lose work? Other than my browser where I'm filling in a form, I can't think of anything that allows you easily lose your work... power outages ignored for this as they're realtively rare and a UPS handily gives you time to save before the machine goes down.
Generally speaking, I don't like auto-save because there are many times where I work for a bit to try to figure something out and when that idea doesn't work, reverting to where I started is easy, or if the idea worked out then I can save. With auto-save, that revert ability becomes a lot harder or else impossible if the undo buffer is not large enough. Now, if it wants to auto-save to a temp file to prevent lose of work and make recovery easy if the something bad happens (like vim does) while the real file remains unaltered, that's great and something I'll welcome... all other forms of auto-save need not apply.:)
Once your stuff it in OneNote, there's no easy way to get it out.
Seriously? You haven't found the export (save as) feature? They give you Word, PDF, XPS, and MHT formats. If it all goes bad for you, you can always copy-n-paste it out. It's not hard to get info out of OneNote. If you're trying for mass export, as in you're trying to move away from OneNote, I believe they also provide the API so you can write your own export filter (haven't tried it though).
If I was taking a class (or whatever) with a high ratio of drawing to text, then I'd agree. However, I'm rarely in that situation; most of my notes are text only.
I can type faster than I write, even with abbreviations (which I can do while typing too), and my handwriting has decreased over the years, so typing is almost manditory unless I really slow my handwriting down, which is the opposite of what I need to do while taking notes when someone else is speaking.
That's how it is for me, perhaps your situation is more conduction for pen and paer... mine's not.
The withholding system works because it causes the least economic distortion -- the more a tax "hurts," the more adverse an effect it has on day-to-day economic decisions, the more it's liable to cause people to make bad economic decisions, like saving huge lump sums in the bank instead of investing or consumption. A tax "hurting" might be good politics (for some people), but if it causes people to have irregular cash flow or makes it significantly harder for them to make planning decisions it will hurt economic growth.
You're ignoring his point to go off on a tangent. Sure, it would change the current economic model in play today, but his point was that people need to see what they're giving to the government, and some pain with that *might* cause them to get more involved (this last part is probably wishful thinking on my part).
You would prefer Perl to Python if you know Perl but not Python.:) Then again I've heard it said that if you abandon one to go to the other, you're just trading one gnarly scripting language for another.
If you're doing this for a company that wants to keep it's data more priviate, and I can appreciate that, then get the company to set up it's own SharePoint server. You should be able to sync OneNote to that and not MS's servers just fine... or so I'd think because I haven't tried it.
Stop and really think about how you'd do that and you'll quickly figure out that it's far, far easier when you can use a protocol tuned to your needs.
I've recently started working on Basket Note Pads (a note taker for Linux) and syncing to a server is the next project I'll take up with it when I finish my current task. I already know that syncing to a server is going to be non-trivial and tricky to get right.
No, that year old comparison on pcworld.com is full of crap. It goes on and on about how Evernote can do XYZ and OneNote can't, but OneNote can do almost everyone one of them. The guy either is really biased or doesn't know much about OneNote.
The best competitor to OneNote on Linux is Basket Note Pads. It does the basics pretty well. It just needs a little help for the more advanced stuff, which some of us are trying to give it.
Can we use (sadly) this as yet another reason Flash must die? How many examples of bad security will it take before kill Flash forever? (Yeah, I know, marketing doesn't care about security as long as it looks good.)
I finally found "Flashlight", by Devesh Parekh. It requires no perms and just turns your whole screen bright white; hit the back button to turn it off. Really simple and it fits the needs, even if you don't have a camera flash.
Yes, I went thru that last week. My Nexus 5 didn't have a flashlight app, so I had to go find one. It took like 6 tries to find a flashlight app that didn't require network access, my email, or something else it didn't need. I mean really, if I'm fumbling to find a door lock in the dark, am I really going to be looking at an ad on my phone at the same time?
The way I kill nepomuk is: sudo chmod 000/usr/bin/nepomuk*/usr/bin/akonadi*
then reboot. Better still, put the chmod in your/etc/init.d/rc.local and then that will keep them under control even after updates.
I was greatly dismayed to see how many apps expect access to my email, location and contacts directory, most with no need whatsoever for such information.
Yes, that is really annoying. I tried to install a Flashlight app the other day. I had to go thru about 6 of them before I found one that didn't need any permissions. I mean really, why does a flashligh need permission for the network? Do I really need to see an ad for the 5s seconds I have the flashlight on to find the keyhole to my front door in the dark?
I guess I got lucky then.:) When I look in the orders for my account, along with all the android apps I've purchased over time, the Nexus 5 is listed at the top with an Nov 8 shipping date. Still no receipt yet, but I'm really hoping they don't email me back and say "sorry, but you're on a wait list".
I just ordered mine and it can't complete the transaction yet, saying the servers are very busy and it'll email me the receipt shortly. Shipping date is Nov 8. Since my current phone is barely working and is held together by force of will, I really look forward to this.:)
It's a law. Like any other law, if a group doesn't like it, they should try to get it hanged or repealed. In this case, the Republicans, after having passed the law, tried to get it repealed 42 times, including a jaunt into the Supreme Court.
Why does everyone keep saying the Repubicans passed the law when every one of them voted against it and 34 Dems voted against it too. The reason it passed was because the House was controlled by the Democrats. Or at least I remember it being that way and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act#House does too, unless I'm really misremembering and I can't read.
Don't care about Excel, but OneNote is why I'd buy it. Imaging have an easily portable reference library with my fairly large OneNote electronic notebook, all the PDFs, Word docs, and HTML docs of stuff that I use on a frequent basis with me at all times. That's useful!
The question I have is: Is the Win8 interface bearable on a tablet? That's important because I hate it on a desktop. The next most important question is: Why isn't the Surface 2 half the price it is? If it was, then it would be truly competitive.
Which, exactly, are those 'desktop' applications that people can't wait to run on their tablets?
For me, the reason to buy a tablet running Windows is to always have OneNote with me. Is that a good enough 'desktop' application for you?:)
Of course until I try one of these out in the store, I'm not sure how I'll feel about Win8. I hate it on the desktop, but I hear it's bearable on a tablet. Still, even if I can deal with Win8, the Surface 2 pro price will turn me elsewhere. OTOH, the ASUS T100 has a very tempting price and might be under the the Christmas tree... assuming Win8 is bearable.
There's a long recent history of Nokia management monkeying around with things, and infighting between the departments (for example, the Symbian folks successfully grabbed projects away from the Maemo folks and otherwise inhibited Nokia's attempts at developing any more future-proof alternatives)....
How many other ideas and features were strangled in their cribs by management? How many useless and misguided goals were set by that same management, monopolizing the time that entire departments had for things that any engineer on the ground could have told management was pointless? Certainly, I think, it was a primary reason for Nokia's inability to keep up.
That -- far more than is publically known. I worked at Nokia from 2005-2011 and I can tell you there are/were some very smart people there. However, all too often they were hindered from doing their best. Worse, many times when the error was pointed out (along with a solution), minds of management couldn't be changed. The Maemo/Meego stuff was really cool, but it couldn't get traction because the other groups wouldn't let it (in broad terms). It was really frustrating to watch.
Bottom line? Don't make me learn new interface stuff. I hate it. If it takes a non-zero amount of time for me to think about it, it's not a value, add; it's a value-subtract.
Users want the interface to stay the same and stable, other than bug fixes. MS needs to make changes to they can say they have something new for everyone to upgrade to and so they can make money. Those 2 things don't mix well.
Personally, I'm with you. Give me an XP that handles 64bit hardware well and I'd be happy... when I have to use MS-Windows.
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How about we follow the money for him to see if he's getting "contributions" to say this. Perhaps that's why he's using other's ideas.
+10 :) I was pleased to find the Linux version of Palemoon; it's my preferred browser now.
a text editor that is so error prone that *needs* to autosave constantly("continuously"). Or software in general, for that matter.
You've got it backwards--it ain't an error-prone text editor, it's an error-prone human. Even conscientious, process-driven users make stupid mistakes and forget to save their work (especially when they're on a roll.) This protects us from ourselves, not the machines we're working on.
Now, you may be among that handful of people who never forgets to save--in which case, I congratulate you on being in one of the outlier cohorts that software engineers really shouldn't ever spend their time worrying about. :D
What programs are you using that doesn't intercept that quit where you have unsaved work and prompt you to save or acknowledge that you'll lose work? Other than my browser where I'm filling in a form, I can't think of anything that allows you easily lose your work ... power outages ignored for this as they're realtively rare and a UPS handily gives you time to save before the machine goes down.
... all other forms of auto-save need not apply. :)
Generally speaking, I don't like auto-save because there are many times where I work for a bit to try to figure something out and when that idea doesn't work, reverting to where I started is easy, or if the idea worked out then I can save. With auto-save, that revert ability becomes a lot harder or else impossible if the undo buffer is not large enough. Now, if it wants to auto-save to a temp file to prevent lose of work and make recovery easy if the something bad happens (like vim does) while the real file remains unaltered, that's great and something I'll welcome
Once your stuff it in OneNote, there's no easy way to get it out.
Seriously? You haven't found the export (save as) feature? They give you Word, PDF, XPS, and MHT formats. If it all goes bad for you, you can always copy-n-paste it out. It's not hard to get info out of OneNote. If you're trying for mass export, as in you're trying to move away from OneNote, I believe they also provide the API so you can write your own export filter (haven't tried it though).
If I was taking a class (or whatever) with a high ratio of drawing to text, then I'd agree. However, I'm rarely in that situation; most of my notes are text only.
I can type faster than I write, even with abbreviations (which I can do while typing too), and my handwriting has decreased over the years, so typing is almost manditory unless I really slow my handwriting down, which is the opposite of what I need to do while taking notes when someone else is speaking.
That's how it is for me, perhaps your situation is more conduction for pen and paer ... mine's not.
The withholding system works because it causes the least economic distortion -- the more a tax "hurts," the more adverse an effect it has on day-to-day economic decisions, the more it's liable to cause people to make bad economic decisions, like saving huge lump sums in the bank instead of investing or consumption. A tax "hurting" might be good politics (for some people), but if it causes people to have irregular cash flow or makes it significantly harder for them to make planning decisions it will hurt economic growth.
You're ignoring his point to go off on a tangent. Sure, it would change the current economic model in play today, but his point was that people need to see what they're giving to the government, and some pain with that *might* cause them to get more involved (this last part is probably wishful thinking on my part).
You would prefer Perl to Python if you know Perl but not Python. :) Then again I've heard it said that if you abandon one to go to the other, you're just trading one gnarly scripting language for another.
If you're doing this for a company that wants to keep it's data more priviate, and I can appreciate that, then get the company to set up it's own SharePoint server. You should be able to sync OneNote to that and not MS's servers just fine ... or so I'd think because I haven't tried it.
Stop and really think about how you'd do that and you'll quickly figure out that it's far, far easier when you can use a protocol tuned to your needs.
I've recently started working on Basket Note Pads (a note taker for Linux) and syncing to a server is the next project I'll take up with it when I finish my current task. I already know that syncing to a server is going to be non-trivial and tricky to get right.
No, that year old comparison on pcworld.com is full of crap. It goes on and on about how Evernote can do XYZ and OneNote can't, but OneNote can do almost everyone one of them. The guy either is really biased or doesn't know much about OneNote.
The best competitor to OneNote on Linux is Basket Note Pads. It does the basics pretty well. It just needs a little help for the more advanced stuff, which some of us are trying to give it.
If I had mod points, you'd get an insightful for this. There's no reason for your gaming box and your general computer box to be the same hardware.
Can we use (sadly) this as yet another reason Flash must die? How many examples of bad security will it take before kill Flash forever? (Yeah, I know, marketing doesn't care about security as long as it looks good.)
How about (C), a new form of "Freedom of Information Act". :)
I finally found "Flashlight", by Devesh Parekh. It requires no perms and just turns your whole screen bright white; hit the back button to turn it off. Really simple and it fits the needs, even if you don't have a camera flash.
Yes, I went thru that last week. My Nexus 5 didn't have a flashlight app, so I had to go find one. It took like 6 tries to find a flashlight app that didn't require network access, my email, or something else it didn't need. I mean really, if I'm fumbling to find a door lock in the dark, am I really going to be looking at an ad on my phone at the same time?
The way I kill nepomuk is: sudo chmod 000 /usr/bin/nepomuk* /usr/bin/akonadi* /etc/init.d/rc.local and then that will keep them under control even after updates.
then reboot. Better still, put the chmod in your
I was greatly dismayed to see how many apps expect access to my email, location and contacts directory, most with no need whatsoever for such information.
Yes, that is really annoying. I tried to install a Flashlight app the other day. I had to go thru about 6 of them before I found one that didn't need any permissions. I mean really, why does a flashligh need permission for the network? Do I really need to see an ad for the 5s seconds I have the flashlight on to find the keyhole to my front door in the dark?
I guess I got lucky then. :) When I look in the orders for my account, along with all the android apps I've purchased over time, the Nexus 5 is listed at the top with an Nov 8 shipping date. Still no receipt yet, but I'm really hoping they don't email me back and say "sorry, but you're on a wait list".
I just ordered mine and it can't complete the transaction yet, saying the servers are very busy and it'll email me the receipt shortly. Shipping date is Nov 8. Since my current phone is barely working and is held together by force of will, I really look forward to this. :)
It's a law. Like any other law, if a group doesn't like it, they should try to get it hanged or repealed. In this case, the Republicans, after having passed the law, tried to get it repealed 42 times, including a jaunt into the Supreme Court.
Why does everyone keep saying the Repubicans passed the law when every one of them voted against it and 34 Dems voted against it too. The reason it passed was because the House was controlled by the Democrats. Or at least I remember it being that way and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act#House does too, unless I'm really misremembering and I can't read.
Don't care about Excel, but OneNote is why I'd buy it. Imaging have an easily portable reference library with my fairly large OneNote electronic notebook, all the PDFs, Word docs, and HTML docs of stuff that I use on a frequent basis with me at all times. That's useful!
The question I have is: Is the Win8 interface bearable on a tablet? That's important because I hate it on a desktop. The next most important question is: Why isn't the Surface 2 half the price it is? If it was, then it would be truly competitive.
Which, exactly, are those 'desktop' applications that people can't wait to run on their tablets?
For me, the reason to buy a tablet running Windows is to always have OneNote with me. Is that a good enough 'desktop' application for you? :)
... assuming Win8 is bearable.
Of course until I try one of these out in the store, I'm not sure how I'll feel about Win8. I hate it on the desktop, but I hear it's bearable on a tablet. Still, even if I can deal with Win8, the Surface 2 pro price will turn me elsewhere. OTOH, the ASUS T100 has a very tempting price and might be under the the Christmas tree
There's a long recent history of Nokia management monkeying around with things, and infighting between the departments (for example, the Symbian folks successfully grabbed projects away from the Maemo folks and otherwise inhibited Nokia's attempts at developing any more future-proof alternatives). ...
How many other ideas and features were strangled in their cribs by management? How many useless and misguided goals were set by that same management, monopolizing the time that entire departments had for things that any engineer on the ground could have told management was pointless? Certainly, I think, it was a primary reason for Nokia's inability to keep up.
That -- far more than is publically known. I worked at Nokia from 2005-2011 and I can tell you there are/were some very smart people there. However, all too often they were hindered from doing their best. Worse, many times when the error was pointed out (along with a solution), minds of management couldn't be changed. The Maemo/Meego stuff was really cool, but it couldn't get traction because the other groups wouldn't let it (in broad terms). It was really frustrating to watch.
Bottom line? Don't make me learn new interface stuff. I hate it. If it takes a non-zero amount of time for me to think about it, it's not a value, add; it's a value-subtract.
Users want the interface to stay the same and stable, other than bug fixes. MS needs to make changes to they can say they have something new for everyone to upgrade to and so they can make money. Those 2 things don't mix well.
... when I have to use MS-Windows.
Personally, I'm with you. Give me an XP that handles 64bit hardware well and I'd be happy