Unlike with Spotlight, Vista Beta 1's searches are not instantaneous, but this is by design and is arguably a better choice.
Quite arguably. Say I'm looking for "Programming in C", which may or may not actually be named that on my disc (although I know it'll have program-something in its name).
Tiger: Pro... Final cut pro shows up...gr... progressive insurance...am... Programming in C! There it is. This is all at one constant typing speed and watching the results, no waiting or stopping, instant feedback.
Vista: You have two options: Pro + enter too many results, try again Program + enter program files.... look down the list.. there it is!
or
Programming + enter hmmm... I don't see it... try Program + enter... look through the list... oh! the name was mispelled in the filename and was actually "programing" of course
And at this point I've made how many searches to equal the instant feedback of Tiger? Instant feedback is the whole point of having desktop search! Otherwise it's only a slight improvement over what they've had for ages.
That'll work great for stone and concrete buildings, but building on the "rubble" of anything like wood or such that decomposes is a great way to have your house's foundation split in two.
My bad. Didn't he do something with the whole offering his archives for free for any paper? I thought he had started some sort of organization for it, went to his site... bam, giant blank label comics banner.
Because they're generally getting in the news for something tangential to making comics. Like Child's Play, or PAX, or even the Strawberry Shortcake debacle.
If slashdot just link to everyone who made a good comic, there'd be no room for anything else on the site.
It's like how Scott Kurtz gets linked for his Blank Label comics, but not for just being a good strip. Someone's who's never read PA might still care about Child's Play.
And finally... they're probably one of the few comics that can actually withstand a slashdoting:)
The grammar checker in Word blows anyway. I thought for all of one assignment that if Word passed the grammar on my document, I wouldn't get very bad marks on an English paper. I was very wrong.
It may be useful if you think that like, uhm, and as if should be significant portions of an official document, but aside from that it's pretty much worthless. Oftentimes it's downright wrong.
It's nowhere close to the utility of a spellchecker, whose major use for me is to notice every time I typed "teh" or "whre."
How do you get it to stop wasting your entire screen with extra menus?
The auto-hiding tabs are a nightmare. Every time I want to go back to working, I have to move my mouse off and wait five seconds for it to decide to auto-hide, and then another second for the animation to finish. Is there any way to MANUALLY hide them without getting rid of them entirely?
If I leave things at the default I'm left with barely more room than half a terminal screen to actually code in. Gah!
They often make no official response, but the vast majority of people I've heard of having problems had them fixed right away. You just have to be willing to actually call them about it.
There are a few people who've had recurring iBook logic board issues, but in most cases you get a bunch of stories talking about how the customer service tried to fix your problem, even if the company didn't release a nice press release yet.
From following Apple news, it's been my experience that big recalls are only affirming what has been company policy for quite some time.
The actual fair settlement for this would be to Refund the few people who *did* pay $200-$300 to get their 1g or 2g battery replaced, maybe even give them a bit more. Apple keeps a customer database, they know who did it.
Anyone who hasn't, tough cookies. $50 for a replacement service is perfectly reasonable when compared to other manufacturers, and has been around almost as long as this whole debacle. Batteries die, and I don't remember Apple ever claiming that they run the ipod on magic fairy dust that doesn't.
But giving anyone who bought an early ipod (which includes many that didn't die before the cheaper fix was announced) $25 a) Doesn't actually refund anything close to what the few people who got screwed paid. b) Gives money to a bunch of people who bought a perfectly working product.
This, like most class action suits, is just another example of the messed up nature of our litigation-happy over-lawyered legal system.
What find most interesting are the relationship "fallbacks," when one member can't read the other properly, and does a generic response that they know will endear them.
For instance, if I'm not sure how to read my fiance, I give her a kiss, a backrub, an apology and a hug, then listen to her for a while.
And yet, despite this, it's been my experience that women in general are TERRIBLE at reading men's minds. If a man hasn't said something directly to them, they tend to be at least as clueless as men are supposed to be.
Now, this is all anecdotal, but it has been my experience. I would expect that it's the simple fact that most men and women expect the opposite sex to think the same way they do... which they kindof sortof do, but with generally different low-level priorities and therefore different results.
How often do you hear women talking about how their man won't share his feelings? I bet every one of his guy friends understands how he feels without him having to explain it in detail.
Unfortunately, the answer to this (in most pure benchmark cases) is *not* OS X, mostly because of their messaging and thread creation routines are significantly slower, for various reasons that I'm not quite technically qualified to explain.
So while they do some nice tricks in general (and I'm still convinced that their scheduling and virtual memory systems are better, as my old laptop never bogs down because one process is taking over like my PC does) in more pure benchmarks (like SQL server max connections) they lose miserably.
Would be to zip all your files together, encrypt them, then share them on Kazaa as "hot XXX teen pporn pr0n tryout mother daughter incest dog sex sex sex.avi." You data will never be lost completely;-)
Nope, Ohio. And most of what I've observed here has been either a few malevolent individuals (the HORRIBLY fraudulent investment of the state's money into collectable coins), or idiotic (the complete destruction of our public school system through ridiculous tests and reduced funding).
Well, ok, the school problem is most likely a more direct result the devilish combination of the three worst forces for education progress in the country - overly liberal education "experts" who want to make everyone "special", overly conservative fundamentalists who have no respect for teaching science, and the marketing forces of the wonderful people who get paid to produce standardized tests.
I was always under the naive impression that anyone in office was a sociopath who cared about power or money or whatever, and had therefore concocted a detailed plot to use the government and people for their own benefit.
Then I actually job shadowed a state senator for a day, sat in on a couple meetings and the general assembly... and I realize that they aren't (for the most part) psychopathic or plotting...
They're just... average.
And then I realized that the horrible state of legislation was not the result of malice, but of the pure incompetent that infects the entire society. These were the C students in high school who had the right connections, or just the right interests. They were the masses that I have spent my entire life trying not to disdain because they do not comprehend most complex issues as quickly as my "gifted" friends.
Heinlein once said (paraphrased) than an elected official, ideally, represents a slightly above average member of his electorate. I realized that day that when I consider my opinion of most people I meet, I am not surprised at all at what comes out of the capital. It is no hand-picked best of the best representatives, nor a oligarchy of vile schemers, but simply a vaguely representative group of the more affluent members of our society.
Unfortunately, I think that this realization made me expect even less out of government. An intelligent psychopath at least acts intelligently in his own interest, as opposed to blindly herding in whatever direction is popular today.
For instance, although the Architect and the Oracle's language is nothing like how people actually talk, they're easily the best written characters in the whole movie.
Or to take another example, Obi Wan Kenobi. Again, nothing like real dialogue, SIGNIFICANTLY better. How you wish every old man you met sounded.
While I'll agree that the dialogue in the matrix movies isn't great in general (and Revolutions was the worst - Trinity's final scene was some of the worst writing I've ever had to sit through) the scenes that *are* great (anything with the original oracle, the architect, agent smith's rant in the end of the first one) are great precisely because they are poetry, not real speech.
There kind of is, but it isn't the target picture.
The target picture was a sideways lighthouse.
And yes, I didn't notice the lighthouse either, even on the "control" sequence. I thought it was the tree branch with the mountain.
I agree with the parent that all this shows is it's hard to notice a side-ways image that's white with low contrast when it's only shown for 1/10th of a second.
Just out of curiosity, do you manage to avoid jello, make-up of any kind (for you or your spouse), shoes, fabrics, etc.?
I guess I can understand "doing the best you can," but it sometimes seems as though one can't be completely unhypocritically vegan and still live in the world.
Yep, the company I intern at makes its entire business by selling "solutions" to that problem.
Any laptop or desktop logging in without up-to-date virus software and other protections doesn't get access to the network, except for maybe an update server so they can fix themselves.
www.endforce.com
It seems like an interesting concept, at least. I know if they'd required it at my university it would have certainly helped the "plug in an everyone else in the campus attacks you within seconds" problem.
This is the first game where, in some cases, I haven't wanted to level up, because that means that the next quest I have on my todo list won't be as interesting.
Slashdot Mirror
Quite arguably. Say I'm looking for "Programming in C", which may or may not actually be named that on my disc (although I know it'll have program-something in its name).
Tiger:
Pro... Final cut pro shows up...gr
Vista:
You have two options:
Pro + enter
too many results, try again
Program + enter
program files.... look down the list.. there it is!
or
Programming + enter
hmmm... I don't see it... try
Program + enter
oh! the name was mispelled in the filename and was actually "programing" of course
And at this point I've made how many searches to equal the instant feedback of Tiger? Instant feedback is the whole point of having desktop search! Otherwise it's only a slight improvement over what they've had for ages.
Or you can do a cheap job with some silk screen and about $20.
Since some shirts are specifically designed to look faded anymore.
That'll work great for stone and concrete buildings, but building on the "rubble" of anything like wood or such that decomposes is a great way to have your house's foundation split in two.
According to www.bungie.net, some of the bungie guys were there. I'm also surprised there wasn't a larger booth.
My bad. Didn't he do something with the whole offering his archives for free for any paper? I thought he had started some sort of organization for it, went to his site... bam, giant blank label comics banner.
Apologies to the great people at Blank Label.
Because they're generally getting in the news for something tangential to making comics. Like Child's Play, or PAX, or even the Strawberry Shortcake debacle.
:)
If slashdot just link to everyone who made a good comic, there'd be no room for anything else on the site.
It's like how Scott Kurtz gets linked for his Blank Label comics, but not for just being a good strip. Someone's who's never read PA might still care about Child's Play.
And finally... they're probably one of the few comics that can actually withstand a slashdoting
Oh, yeah, that's why they're always hiding them I actually want them to stay. :P
All they had to do was let you click the fricking tab again to toggle it on/off.
The grammar checker in Word blows anyway. I thought for all of one assignment that if Word passed the grammar on my document, I wouldn't get very bad marks on an English paper. I was very wrong.
It may be useful if you think that like, uhm, and as if should be significant portions of an official document, but aside from that it's pretty much worthless. Oftentimes it's downright wrong.
It's nowhere close to the utility of a spellchecker, whose major use for me is to notice every time I typed "teh" or "whre."
How do you get it to stop wasting your entire screen with extra menus?
The auto-hiding tabs are a nightmare. Every time I want to go back to working, I have to move my mouse off and wait five seconds for it to decide to auto-hide, and then another second for the animation to finish. Is there any way to MANUALLY hide them without getting rid of them entirely?
If I leave things at the default I'm left with barely more room than half a terminal screen to actually code in. Gah!
They often make no official response, but the vast majority of people I've heard of having problems had them fixed right away. You just have to be willing to actually call them about it.
There are a few people who've had recurring iBook logic board issues, but in most cases you get a bunch of stories talking about how the customer service tried to fix your problem, even if the company didn't release a nice press release yet.
From following Apple news, it's been my experience that big recalls are only affirming what has been company policy for quite some time.
The actual fair settlement for this would be to Refund the few people who *did* pay $200-$300 to get their 1g or 2g battery replaced, maybe even give them a bit more. Apple keeps a customer database, they know who did it.
Anyone who hasn't, tough cookies. $50 for a replacement service is perfectly reasonable when compared to other manufacturers, and has been around almost as long as this whole debacle. Batteries die, and I don't remember Apple ever claiming that they run the ipod on magic fairy dust that doesn't.
But giving anyone who bought an early ipod (which includes many that didn't die before the cheaper fix was announced) $25
a) Doesn't actually refund anything close to what the few people who got screwed paid.
b) Gives money to a bunch of people who bought a perfectly working product.
This, like most class action suits, is just another example of the messed up nature of our litigation-happy over-lawyered legal system.
What find most interesting are the relationship "fallbacks," when one member can't read the other properly, and does a generic response that they know will endear them.
For instance, if I'm not sure how to read my fiance, I give her a kiss, a backrub, an apology and a hug, then listen to her for a while.
If she can't read me, she takes off her shirt.
Horny is always a constant in a guy's mood equation, but it isn't *always* the dominant term.
And yet, despite this, it's been my experience that women in general are TERRIBLE at reading men's minds. If a man hasn't said something directly to them, they tend to be at least as clueless as men are supposed to be.
Now, this is all anecdotal, but it has been my experience. I would expect that it's the simple fact that most men and women expect the opposite sex to think the same way they do... which they kindof sortof do, but with generally different low-level priorities and therefore different results.
How often do you hear women talking about how their man won't share his feelings? I bet every one of his guy friends understands how he feels without him having to explain it in detail.
Unfortunately, the answer to this (in most pure benchmark cases) is *not* OS X, mostly because of their messaging and thread creation routines are significantly slower, for various reasons that I'm not quite technically qualified to explain.
So while they do some nice tricks in general (and I'm still convinced that their scheduling and virtual memory systems are better, as my old laptop never bogs down because one process is taking over like my PC does) in more pure benchmarks (like SQL server max connections) they lose miserably.
Tell that to all my Indian classmates who have family members buy school books in India, ship them overseas to them, and still save over 50% overall.
Would be to zip all your files together, encrypt them, then share them on Kazaa as "hot XXX teen pporn pr0n tryout mother daughter incest dog sex sex sex.avi." You data will never be lost completely ;-)
Nope, Ohio. And most of what I've observed here has been either a few malevolent individuals (the HORRIBLY fraudulent investment of the state's money into collectable coins), or idiotic (the complete destruction of our public school system through ridiculous tests and reduced funding).
:P
Well, ok, the school problem is most likely a more direct result the devilish combination of the three worst forces for education progress in the country - overly liberal education "experts" who want to make everyone "special", overly conservative fundamentalists who have no respect for teaching science, and the marketing forces of the wonderful people who get paid to produce standardized tests.
Lovely place, the midwest
I was always under the naive impression that anyone in office was a sociopath who cared about power or money or whatever, and had therefore concocted a detailed plot to use the government and people for their own benefit.
Then I actually job shadowed a state senator for a day, sat in on a couple meetings and the general assembly... and I realize that they aren't (for the most part) psychopathic or plotting...
They're just... average.
And then I realized that the horrible state of legislation was not the result of malice, but of the pure incompetent that infects the entire society. These were the C students in high school who had the right connections, or just the right interests. They were the masses that I have spent my entire life trying not to disdain because they do not comprehend most complex issues as quickly as my "gifted" friends.
Heinlein once said (paraphrased) than an elected official, ideally, represents a slightly above average member of his electorate. I realized that day that when I consider my opinion of most people I meet, I am not surprised at all at what comes out of the capital. It is no hand-picked best of the best representatives, nor a oligarchy of vile schemers, but simply a vaguely representative group of the more affluent members of our society.
Unfortunately, I think that this realization made me expect even less out of government. An intelligent psychopath at least acts intelligently in his own interest, as opposed to blindly herding in whatever direction is popular today.
You must loathe shakespeare, then.
And no, people back then *didn't* talk in blank verse. I think a scene in Black Adder said it best.
Beshrew me, my lord! - Only stupid actors say "beshrew me"
For instance, although the Architect and the Oracle's language is nothing like how people actually talk, they're easily the best written characters in the whole movie.
Or to take another example, Obi Wan Kenobi. Again, nothing like real dialogue, SIGNIFICANTLY better. How you wish every old man you met sounded.
While I'll agree that the dialogue in the matrix movies isn't great in general (and Revolutions was the worst - Trinity's final scene was some of the worst writing I've ever had to sit through) the scenes that *are* great (anything with the original oracle, the architect, agent smith's rant in the end of the first one) are great precisely because they are poetry, not real speech.
I think the best analogy is in terms of poker or gambling or gaming as many have said.
It's the very specific set of circumstances of
1) Cheating
2) Profiting in real life from that cheating.
that is what got this guy involved with the law, I would bet, not the simple fact that he beat a guy at the game.
Kind of like how card counting can get you banned from the casino (TOS), whereas outright cheating at a poker table can get you arrested.
There kind of is, but it isn't the target picture.
The target picture was a sideways lighthouse.
And yes, I didn't notice the lighthouse either, even on the "control" sequence. I thought it was the tree branch with the mountain.
I agree with the parent that all this shows is it's hard to notice a side-ways image that's white with low contrast when it's only shown for 1/10th of a second.
Just out of curiosity, do you manage to avoid jello, make-up of any kind (for you or your spouse), shoes, fabrics, etc.?
I guess I can understand "doing the best you can," but it sometimes seems as though one can't be completely unhypocritically vegan and still live in the world.
Yep, the company I intern at makes its entire business by selling "solutions" to that problem.
Any laptop or desktop logging in without up-to-date virus software and other protections doesn't get access to the network, except for maybe an update server so they can fix themselves.
www.endforce.com
It seems like an interesting concept, at least. I know if they'd required it at my university it would have certainly helped the "plug in an everyone else in the campus attacks you within seconds" problem.
Exactly.
This is the first game where, in some cases, I haven't wanted to level up, because that means that the next quest I have on my todo list won't be as interesting.