At the top of the search results, it will say "Sorry, Google Personalized does not currently support Safari." (right next to the link that says 'Edit Profile'). If you change your User Agent, the page will reload and in that spot where the error message was will be a gauge you can click on for "Min" and "Max" personalization.
It says: Tip: Drag the slider (above) to the right to personalize results. Personalized results are marked by [little google balls here]
It sort of works in Safari, but it isn't draggable, you have to click - and it misjudges where you clicked relative to the gauge. It does seem to change the results though. This is what the "personalized" searching is really doing - if you are in Safari and you can't use the gauge, all you get is slightly different results from a regular Google search. There's not much "personalized" about it. Hope that clarifies what people are seeing here...
And if you search for define:something (like define:taoism), Google will gather definitions of that term from pages around the web. Handy if you are looking for a quick overview of what a term means in actual use, rather than in the dictionary.
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One day we will all move to mars, and use Earth as a big garbage dump...
Except for the 'move to Mars' bit, we are already at that point...
So the slashdot crowd roots for IBM because IBM's the 'underdog' in the case of SCO vs. IBM?
I think Slashdot roots for IBM because open source (and, specifically, Linux) is the underdog in this battle. Or you could say, free software is the underdog, and SCO represents the not-so-underdog realm of the scummiest side of capitalism.:)
iPod users could buy online music from any number of places. iPod users would have a choice.
They already have a choice... they can buy from iTMS, continue (or, giving the benefit of the doubt, start) downloading music illegally, get MP3s from eMusic, rip their friends' CDs, etc.
And yes, if SuSE tried to make a search engine, web browser, media player, BIOS, mail client, office suite, etc. that all integrated and all kept me locked to their platform I'd be outraged. Wouldn't you?
Perhaps briefly. Then I'd come to my senses and install Debian, or Red Hat, or Mandrake, or Gentoo, or Slackware, or Fedora, or even Lindows. If Microsoft tries to lock me in with their stuff on Windows, I'll just take my business to... uh... one of those other... Windows vendors......
Shouldn't Slashdot's editors make at least a token effort...
This doesn't occur for much the same reason people are often jerks in traffic and don't give someone room to enter their lane. Despite the fact it would take a measly 5 seconds out of their precious day, they'd rather hog the lane and not let you in. The reason being, of course, that since nobody makes them exercise that courtesy, they generally will not. And so it is with Slashdot...
I'm not all that familiar with libel in legal terms, so here are a couple of questions I had off the top of my head - can you sue someone for the results of a mathematical equation? After all, PageRank is basically glorified statistics and mathematical wizardry. Furthermore, is it "libel" if a computer produces results based on mere data? Doesn't some human have to be involved in making the "statements" about someone for it to be considered libel?
However, were I in Opera's shoes, it would probably make more sense to emulate the behavior of Mac's bundled browsers (past and present) and set behavior to insertion rather than selection on first click.
Not only that, but it's the little things in a UI that can get on your nerves. In pretty much any OS X app, clicking in a text field will place the insertion point. Double-clicking will select the word under the mouse, and triple clicking will select the whole line. When an application (especially one you would potentially use very often throughout the day, like a browser) ignores these simple conventions that you don't even think about, it can be disconcerting. Case in point, many Java apps that look like Cocoa apps, but often don't behave like them in small (but noticeable) ways.
If you press ctrl-l with the fileselector open you get a textentry box with tab-completion.
Why can't they have it work similarly to the (new in Panther, I believe) file dialogs in OS X? In most apps now, when you have an open dialog box open, and you start typing with a / or ~ character, a little prompt pops up allowing you to type the path. This, to me, seems a bit more pleasant than having to bother with a separate key combo when I could just start typing the path and let the dialog box figure it out.
Why can't we build games where everything you need to run the game is right on the CD?
As cool (from a geek standpoint) as this approach is, I have always seriously questioned the usefulness of it. I mean, really - how many games are out there that you a) can't get for Windows, and b) would want to bother rebooting your computer to use? Then there's the problem of how you deal with patches and updates, adding new maps, etc.
I suppose the latter could be dealt with by having a portion of your hard drive to stick maps and such in, but if you're going to bother with using the hard drive anyway, why not just install the damn game? As for updates, are you going to expect people to burn a whole new ISO and coaster the old CD-R?
I'm just rambling, really, but ultimately I fail to see the practicality of bootable game CDs. Yeah, there is the geek chic side - you could burn 20 bootable UT2K3 discs and turn a college network lab into a LAN party or something. But honestly, what effect would this sort of thing have on 99% of gamers (especially those who don't care about Linux anyway)?
And just what sort of trouble will this get the (many) people in who have connections like Comcast, where you're not even supposed to share within your house without paying for extra IPs (yeah right), much less with neighbors and passers-by?
The zire is a toy, come back when you have something with a persistant connection to the internet, a larger screen, a keyboard, and a phone and we'll talk.
No, the Zire is a PDA. What you described borders on being a notebook - if I wanted to carry a notebook computer around, I would have one. But you see, I don't need (or want) a persistant connection to the internet, or a larger screen, or a phone. A keyboard would be nice, but it's not critical. The Zire lets me organize my contacts and notes, view whatever documents I need to carry with me, play games, play video and music, and carry around my photo albums in my pocket.
And like you said, the other devices "eat up power like you wouldn't believe." Why again would I want a device that has features I don't want, in a form factor I don't want to lug around, and that is a pain in the ass requiring frequent recharges?
That's what I thought. Sorry, troll, maybe you should use one of your wonderful "2.5G devices" in the real world and see how you like it.
the days of plugging in the palm every month or so are gone, and many users are used to recharging on a daily basis.
Funny, I have a Palm Zire (nice bright color display) that I use heavily on a daily basis, with sounds and such turned on. I also make use of the built-in camera once in a while when I'm in a pinch. I only have to charge it once every month or so, sometimes once every two months if my usage is not very heavy for a while. So what's this about recharging on a daily basis again?
Didn't like having 5-6 tasks on my taskbar for just one app. On inkscape, if I mistakenly close the last image, the whole app closes down.
This isn't just the fault of an app, it's mainly the fault of whatever is managing the windows. Photoshop uses multiple windows/palettes on the Mac, but nobody really complains. Why? Because all the windows are tied to the application. The OS/window manager/whatever should be smart enough to know that yes, these 5 windows belong to The GIMP, so they should not be listed as 5 separate items in the task manager. The task manager is supposed to manage tasks, not windows!
In my opinion, MDI is just a hack for poor management of windows and applications.
Why aren't they using the already functional International Space Station?
Probably for the same reason they'd rather not use closed source from Microsoft? There's the issues of trustworthiness, national pride, etc. Not to mention that if I were the Chinese government, I sure wouldn't want my fledgling space program to in any way get tied up in the present troubles of NASA.
They had no conflicts with existing software trademarks. I noticed the About dialog showed a TM sign too, so I have a feeling they now actually got a registration through.
"TM" means nothing, really. You can claim anything as a trademark, but unless it's a registered trademark (R) it won't be nearly as strong in court. It takes a lot more effort to defend a trademark you claim is yours (TM) vs. a registered trademark that is yours (R).
It is just like over complicated phones. All I need it to do is keep time
Yeah, I hate these over complicated devices, too! Why can't my phone just tell time, my watch just play movies, and my camera just record audio?! Is that too much to ask?
I wasn't speaking strictly about games, although that was my initial point in my post. Most software in general written for Windows over the last decade or so is likely to work fine on Win2k or XP. There are, of course, problems, but this is similar to the 68k-to-PPC transition on the Mac side. Native apps generally worked better, but you could still use the majority of your older stuff. And you still can.
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At the top of the search results, it will say "Sorry, Google Personalized does not currently support Safari." (right next to the link that says 'Edit Profile'). If you change your User Agent, the page will reload and in that spot where the error message was will be a gauge you can click on for "Min" and "Max" personalization.
It says: Tip: Drag the slider (above) to the right to personalize results. Personalized results are marked by [little google balls here]
It sort of works in Safari, but it isn't draggable, you have to click - and it misjudges where you clicked relative to the gauge. It does seem to change the results though. This is what the "personalized" searching is really doing - if you are in Safari and you can't use the gauge, all you get is slightly different results from a regular Google search. There's not much "personalized" about it. Hope that clarifies what people are seeing here...
And if you search for define:something (like define:taoism), Google will gather definitions of that term from pages around the web. Handy if you are looking for a quick overview of what a term means in actual use, rather than in the dictionary.
One day we will all move to mars, and use Earth as a big garbage dump...
Except for the 'move to Mars' bit, we are already at that point...
So the slashdot crowd roots for IBM because IBM's the 'underdog' in the case of SCO vs. IBM?
I think Slashdot roots for IBM because open source (and, specifically, Linux) is the underdog in this battle. Or you could say, free software is the underdog, and SCO represents the not-so-underdog realm of the scummiest side of capitalism. :)
iPod users could buy online music from any number of places. iPod users would have a choice.
They already have a choice... they can buy from iTMS, continue (or, giving the benefit of the doubt, start) downloading music illegally, get MP3s from eMusic, rip their friends' CDs, etc.
And yes, if SuSE tried to make a search engine, web browser, media player, BIOS, mail client, office suite, etc. that all integrated and all kept me locked to their platform I'd be outraged. Wouldn't you?
Perhaps briefly. Then I'd come to my senses and install Debian, or Red Hat, or Mandrake, or Gentoo, or Slackware, or Fedora, or even Lindows. If Microsoft tries to lock me in with their stuff on Windows, I'll just take my business to... uh... one of those other... Windows vendors......
Because anyone who actually *leads* will always make mistakes, since they're trying something no one has done before.
You mean they always make mistakes like these?
Shouldn't Slashdot's editors make at least a token effort ...
This doesn't occur for much the same reason people are often jerks in traffic and don't give someone room to enter their lane. Despite the fact it would take a measly 5 seconds out of their precious day, they'd rather hog the lane and not let you in. The reason being, of course, that since nobody makes them exercise that courtesy, they generally will not. And so it is with Slashdot...
You wouldn't deny a chihauhau a place among dogs because it is too small,
Geez... it's chihuahua. Chihauhau doesn't even look remotely like the word sounds!
YAGASENCTSSE
(yet another gripe about slashdot editors not correcting the slightest spelling errors)
I'm not all that familiar with libel in legal terms, so here are a couple of questions I had off the top of my head - can you sue someone for the results of a mathematical equation? After all, PageRank is basically glorified statistics and mathematical wizardry. Furthermore, is it "libel" if a computer produces results based on mere data? Doesn't some human have to be involved in making the "statements" about someone for it to be considered libel?
However, were I in Opera's shoes, it would probably make more sense to emulate the behavior of Mac's bundled browsers (past and present) and set behavior to insertion rather than selection on first click.
Not only that, but it's the little things in a UI that can get on your nerves. In pretty much any OS X app, clicking in a text field will place the insertion point. Double-clicking will select the word under the mouse, and triple clicking will select the whole line. When an application (especially one you would potentially use very often throughout the day, like a browser) ignores these simple conventions that you don't even think about, it can be disconcerting. Case in point, many Java apps that look like Cocoa apps, but often don't behave like them in small (but noticeable) ways.
If you press ctrl-l with the fileselector open you get a textentry box with tab-completion.
Why can't they have it work similarly to the (new in Panther, I believe) file dialogs in OS X? In most apps now, when you have an open dialog box open, and you start typing with a / or ~ character, a little prompt pops up allowing you to type the path. This, to me, seems a bit more pleasant than having to bother with a separate key combo when I could just start typing the path and let the dialog box figure it out.
Why can't we build games where everything you need to run the game is right on the CD?
As cool (from a geek standpoint) as this approach is, I have always seriously questioned the usefulness of it. I mean, really - how many games are out there that you a) can't get for Windows, and b) would want to bother rebooting your computer to use? Then there's the problem of how you deal with patches and updates, adding new maps, etc.
I suppose the latter could be dealt with by having a portion of your hard drive to stick maps and such in, but if you're going to bother with using the hard drive anyway, why not just install the damn game? As for updates, are you going to expect people to burn a whole new ISO and coaster the old CD-R?
I'm just rambling, really, but ultimately I fail to see the practicality of bootable game CDs. Yeah, there is the geek chic side - you could burn 20 bootable UT2K3 discs and turn a college network lab into a LAN party or something. But honestly, what effect would this sort of thing have on 99% of gamers (especially those who don't care about Linux anyway)?
And just what sort of trouble will this get the (many) people in who have connections like Comcast, where you're not even supposed to share within your house without paying for extra IPs (yeah right), much less with neighbors and passers-by?
The zire is a toy, come back when you have something with a persistant connection to the internet, a larger screen, a keyboard, and a phone and we'll talk.
No, the Zire is a PDA. What you described borders on being a notebook - if I wanted to carry a notebook computer around, I would have one. But you see, I don't need (or want) a persistant connection to the internet, or a larger screen, or a phone. A keyboard would be nice, but it's not critical. The Zire lets me organize my contacts and notes, view whatever documents I need to carry with me, play games, play video and music, and carry around my photo albums in my pocket.
And like you said, the other devices "eat up power like you wouldn't believe." Why again would I want a device that has features I don't want, in a form factor I don't want to lug around, and that is a pain in the ass requiring frequent recharges?
That's what I thought. Sorry, troll, maybe you should use one of your wonderful "2.5G devices" in the real world and see how you like it.
the days of plugging in the palm every month or so are gone, and many users are used to recharging on a daily basis.
Funny, I have a Palm Zire (nice bright color display) that I use heavily on a daily basis, with sounds and such turned on. I also make use of the built-in camera once in a while when I'm in a pinch. I only have to charge it once every month or so, sometimes once every two months if my usage is not very heavy for a while. So what's this about recharging on a daily basis again?
I grew up in a household that made heavy use of TV in pretty much every room of the house. It didn't affect my atten
Didn't like having 5-6 tasks on my taskbar for just one app. On inkscape, if I mistakenly close the last image, the whole app closes down.
This isn't just the fault of an app, it's mainly the fault of whatever is managing the windows. Photoshop uses multiple windows/palettes on the Mac, but nobody really complains. Why? Because all the windows are tied to the application. The OS/window manager/whatever should be smart enough to know that yes, these 5 windows belong to The GIMP, so they should not be listed as 5 separate items in the task manager. The task manager is supposed to manage tasks, not windows!
In my opinion, MDI is just a hack for poor management of windows and applications.
Why aren't they using the already functional International Space Station?
Probably for the same reason they'd rather not use closed source from Microsoft? There's the issues of trustworthiness, national pride, etc. Not to mention that if I were the Chinese government, I sure wouldn't want my fledgling space program to in any way get tied up in the present troubles of NASA.
You mean third party software like Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft ActiveX, Microsoft Office...?
3) Proprietary a la OpenOffice -- piss off everyone and have graphical glitches and be slow.
Might as well just port it to Java then. :)
They had no conflicts with existing software trademarks. I noticed the About dialog showed a TM sign too, so I have a feeling they now actually got a registration through.
"TM" means nothing, really. You can claim anything as a trademark, but unless it's a registered trademark (R) it won't be nearly as strong in court. It takes a lot more effort to defend a trademark you claim is yours (TM) vs. a registered trademark that is yours (R).
It is just like over complicated phones. All I need it to do is keep time
Yeah, I hate these over complicated devices, too! Why can't my phone just tell time, my watch just play movies, and my camera just record audio?! Is that too much to ask?
I wasn't speaking strictly about games, although that was my initial point in my post. Most software in general written for Windows over the last decade or so is likely to work fine on Win2k or XP. There are, of course, problems, but this is similar to the 68k-to-PPC transition on the Mac side. Native apps generally worked better, but you could still use the majority of your older stuff. And you still can.
Even though I have mplayer setup for such tasks, it still gives me ther error that the "proper" plugin is not installed.
Don't feel too badly about that - I'm running OS X Panther with the latest version of QuickTime, and it doesn't work for me either. :)