I wrote (6?) because I was unsure of which version of office was the first windows version. I guess it was 4 from your comment. The move from dos-based non-windows office suites was a big change. Probably the only thing that competes with the move to office 12, with the new ribbon interface.
I didn't say it wasn't easier, I said it just gives us another UI to learn. It might very well be the easier to learn UI in the world, but that doesn't stop it from being yet another UI to learn. You can't just forget about the old UI's because there's still a lot of applications that use them. And about that "read somewhere" sorry for not looking up the link but here's the link, with Vista still using UI from windows 3.1
If we get to vote on Distros, I'd much rather they use Mandriva. I've tried Ubuntu and I don't see what all the hype is about. I find Mandriva a lot easier to set up, and manage. What is it that people find so appealing about Ubuntu?
Yes, but Google also denied making an office suite, and then they came out with a word processor and a spreadsheet. Mind you, it's not an office suite in the way MS Office or OO.o is, but it's still an office suite.
The UI seems to be getting worse and worse each time they make a major overhaul, because they don't go update all their existing software. So if you're running Windows XP, then there's a lot of stuff (Included in the OS) that still has the windows 98 UI, or an even older UI. I read somewhere that Windows Vista includes applications with 5 different UIs because not everything was upgraded to work with the new Vista UI, and some of it hasn't been upgraded since 3.1. The worst part isn't the fact that they changed the UI, but that they changed some of it, and now the UI isn't consistent, so new users have to learn 5 UIs and existing users have to learn yet another UI.
I think that most reviewers had problems with the new UI because many (most?) people who use MS word have enough trouble with moving between different versions when there is very little UI change. A complete overhaul such as this would be terrible, especially when all the other applications they still use have a completely different UI. I think this is a method of getting more applications that work the same as the new MS Office, so that people start to think that it's more worth it to learn the new UI rather than just stick with the old software, or switch to OO.o, since it's more like Word 2003 is than the new MS Word. I think that MS is taking a brave stance by trying to move away from the tried and true UI, but I think that many users will have a lot of trouble learning the new interface. Remember the UI hasn't changed this drastically since the move to windows in MS Word 6(?).
The password manager should only fill in the password on the actual page you have entered it on before. This is just common sense. There's many situations where you might enter different credentials at different parts of a site, or where entering your information at one page under a certain domain might actually be a bad thing. This is why I have password manager turned off on all my browsers. It's a littl more work to remember passwords, but it's a lot safer.
This is where you will really see the difference. There are some people who have a valid need for Oracle. But there are also a lot of people who are paying for Oracle who could do the same thing with MySQL or PostGres. There's a lot of MS SQL Server licenses that are only being paid for because the only alternative they can think of is Access, which isn't much of a database. They don't really need SQL Server (and definitely not Oracle), but they need something more than Access. This is the market that PostGres and MySQL should be aiming for. The other issue is that they don't want to have to support more than 1 database. If they need Oracle for 1 project, they may choose it for all, simply because that way, there's only 1 DB to support.
Using memory sticks is actually an advantage. My friend found this out when he sent in his original XBox for repairs. They sent back a unit with a different hard drive. So all his saved games were gone. Had the XBox used a memory stick, this wouldn't have been an issue. I'm not sure how much this affects the XBox 360, since I'm pretty sure the hard drive is user-removable, but I'm not sure if you're supposed to send in the hard drive when you want it repaired. The problem might actually be with the hard drive, so I imagine they would want you to return it.
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Do people really buy the first book that comes out, or do they look at reviews and try to buy the best book? It would seem from my experience that a bad book is probably worse than no book at all, since you're getting fed misinformation, or at best spending money on something you're not using. I don't just go to the store and buy the first book I see, I read the reviews to make sure I'm buying the right one. Is this different from what the average Joe does?
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The review states that the book has been updated for IE 7 and firefox 1.5, but IE7 only came out very recently. How did they manage to get the book edited and checked so fast after IE 7 was released?
The simple reason they don't want you voting at home, is because it's supposed to be a secret ballot. There's no way of knowing that the vote is secret if you are at home.
According to wikipedia, Happy Birthday was copyrighted in 1935, and the copyright doesn't exprire until 2030. That's an unbelievably long time for copyright to last. Especially on a song that never really had any financial use anyway. The funny thing is, is that wikipedia doesn't even write the lyrics, possible because it would be a breach of copyright.
I didn't contradict myself. I said people should use the keyboard, but most of the time they use the mouse. This is basically a 1-1 substitute for being too lazy to memorize the keyboard shortcuts. Besides, how would you even find the stuff you're looking for with this kind of keyboard. Press CTRL, look around for the option you want, not there, then ALT, then CTRL+ALT, then Shift+Ctrl and so on, by the time you find the command, you could have clicked 15 different menus and found it. It's easier just to memorize this in the first place. Here's a much cheaper way to implement the same thing. Hold down control, and a keyboard shows up on your screen, with labels on the keys defining what they do. Then as you learn them, you can disable the feature. With the OLED keyboard, you get the same thing, except once you learn the shortcuts, you're not looking at it any more, and you basically have a $400 keyboard that doesn't do anything more than a $20 keyboard.
Which is a great idea for grandma, who doesn't know how to use a computer, but really isn't that much of an advantage to an advanced computer user who never looks at their keyboard anyway. Anybody who users a computer more than 2 hours a day, should probably learn the key shortcuts and make their life easier. People depend way too much on the mouse, which is understandable in a GUI environment, but even then, using the keyboard is much faster. I could see this being an advantage with VS.Net, and it showing all the key combinations, but at that point, you're still better off memorizing the shortcuts, because looking down at the keyboard to figure out what you want to do is much slower than right click + select option, or even going all the way to the top menu and selecting something out of there. All this reminds me of WordPerfect 5.1. You could do everything via the keyboard, and it was so much nicer to use than any of the modern word processors, because you spent more time getting stuff done, and less time messing around with mice,drop down menus, and the 50,000 fonts we have now.
The fact that the web is stateless and connectionless is a huge advantage. You think you can handle 100,000 users on single computer if they are all holding an open connection? Probably not, you only have 65,000 ports, and there's many other reasons this doesn't work well. But you could probably support 100,000 users on a single computer if they didn't have to be connected all the time, but only when they needed to exchange data. This is the big problem. People are trying to use the web (read http) to create applications that would much better be served by some other protocol. They want to build an online desktop, which is a great idea, but HTTP isn't teh best way to do this, and you can't expect to have 100,000 users connected to a single machine all the time.
If web 2.0 is rounded corners, then it still hasn't arrived yet. We need CSS3 finallized and implemented to get rounded corners. Judging by the glacial pace IE is taking at implementing CSS 2, it's going to be a while before we get CSS 3 and rounded corners.
I can't speak for the MCSE, but as far as MCDBA goes, i'm not impressed. I've met MCDBA's who can't write a simple join statement. These certifications prove nothing, and I find that most of the time, the people who get them are the ones who know so little that they couldn't get a real diploma/degree. And they don't actually know enough to get their foot in the door without a piece of paper. So, what, you can pass 4 exams. That really doesn't say much. If you pay for the course that teaches you how to pass the test, you're going to pass the test. That doesn't mean your a competent DBA. I'm not a DBA, I took software engineering in university, but I learned more in my 1 database class then some people with an MCDBA.
I think patents were a good idea, when people were less technologically advanced, and couldn't figure out how things worked by studying them, so they had to get the inventors to divulge their secrets. Now, analytical methods have grown to a point that even if you don't know how something is build, you can figure it out. Pepsi could make a drink that tastes exactly like Coke, but nobody want's a Coke copycat, they want the real thing, and Pepsi drinkers like Pepsi, not Coke.
Yes, that's for sure. We shouldn't even have subjects, the subject is the article. People most of the time end up doing stupid things like splitting the post between the subject and the comment, or leaving it as "Re: Subject that doesn't make sense" Because the subject refers to something 3 levels up and the subject has changed by this point. Nobody reads subjects, and hardly anybody puts in a useful subject anyway. It's nice for email, because you can scan your messages and tell which message is about what, but when you're reading posts, it's not worth your time to read all those subjects because 98% of them are Re......
Britney Spears' first album sold 15 million copies in the US. With 11 tracks on the disc, that's 165,000,000 Tracks sold by a single artist on a single disc. Granted she's a very popular artist but if a single artist can make even 1/10 of the sales of iTunes on a single disc, then I wouldn't say that iTunes comes anywhere close to approaching popularity. It's just a drop in the bucket as far as music sales are concerned.
I'm confused. Do the developers have to use Blu-Ray discs or can the blue-ray drives read DVDs? If you only have 9.8 gigs of content, then why not just press your game out on a DVD. If it doesn't read DVDs, then I guess your point does stand.
However, it's stupid to copy the entire movie, probalby around 5 Gigs in most cases onto the iPod in 720x480 resolution and AC3 sound when the screen can't even display that resolution, and you're using headphones. It makes much more sense to compress the movie down, shrink the resolution, and lower the sound quality so you can fit 100 movies instead of 15 (assuming an 80 Gig iPod). The movie will look just as good, because the screen is so small, and you won't be able to tell the difference with hte sound, because you only have 2 channel speakers (headphones) anyway.
But the people are buying the movies. The company in this case is just doing the format shifting for them. If I format shift DVDs for a friend, because they don't know how to do it, then I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Even if I'm not really their friend, and charge them a fee to do the format shift. Just like I can take an NTSC VHS tape I bought, and make a copy in PAL so I can watch it in my PAL VCR. I can even pay someone to do the format shifting for me.
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I wrote (6?) because I was unsure of which version of office was the first windows version. I guess it was 4 from your comment. The move from dos-based non-windows office suites was a big change. Probably the only thing that competes with the move to office 12, with the new ribbon interface.
I didn't say it wasn't easier, I said it just gives us another UI to learn. It might very well be the easier to learn UI in the world, but that doesn't stop it from being yet another UI to learn. You can't just forget about the old UI's because there's still a lot of applications that use them. And about that "read somewhere" sorry for not looking up the link but here's the link, with Vista still using UI from windows 3.1
If we get to vote on Distros, I'd much rather they use Mandriva. I've tried Ubuntu and I don't see what all the hype is about. I find Mandriva a lot easier to set up, and manage. What is it that people find so appealing about Ubuntu?
Yes, but Google also denied making an office suite, and then they came out with a word processor and a spreadsheet. Mind you, it's not an office suite in the way MS Office or OO.o is, but it's still an office suite.
The UI seems to be getting worse and worse each time they make a major overhaul, because they don't go update all their existing software. So if you're running Windows XP, then there's a lot of stuff (Included in the OS) that still has the windows 98 UI, or an even older UI. I read somewhere that Windows Vista includes applications with 5 different UIs because not everything was upgraded to work with the new Vista UI, and some of it hasn't been upgraded since 3.1. The worst part isn't the fact that they changed the UI, but that they changed some of it, and now the UI isn't consistent, so new users have to learn 5 UIs and existing users have to learn yet another UI.
I think that most reviewers had problems with the new UI because many (most?) people who use MS word have enough trouble with moving between different versions when there is very little UI change. A complete overhaul such as this would be terrible, especially when all the other applications they still use have a completely different UI. I think this is a method of getting more applications that work the same as the new MS Office, so that people start to think that it's more worth it to learn the new UI rather than just stick with the old software, or switch to OO.o, since it's more like Word 2003 is than the new MS Word. I think that MS is taking a brave stance by trying to move away from the tried and true UI, but I think that many users will have a lot of trouble learning the new interface. Remember the UI hasn't changed this drastically since the move to windows in MS Word 6(?).
The password manager should only fill in the password on the actual page you have entered it on before. This is just common sense. There's many situations where you might enter different credentials at different parts of a site, or where entering your information at one page under a certain domain might actually be a bad thing. This is why I have password manager turned off on all my browsers. It's a littl more work to remember passwords, but it's a lot safer.
This is where you will really see the difference. There are some people who have a valid need for Oracle. But there are also a lot of people who are paying for Oracle who could do the same thing with MySQL or PostGres. There's a lot of MS SQL Server licenses that are only being paid for because the only alternative they can think of is Access, which isn't much of a database. They don't really need SQL Server (and definitely not Oracle), but they need something more than Access. This is the market that PostGres and MySQL should be aiming for. The other issue is that they don't want to have to support more than 1 database. If they need Oracle for 1 project, they may choose it for all, simply because that way, there's only 1 DB to support.
Using memory sticks is actually an advantage. My friend found this out when he sent in his original XBox for repairs. They sent back a unit with a different hard drive. So all his saved games were gone. Had the XBox used a memory stick, this wouldn't have been an issue. I'm not sure how much this affects the XBox 360, since I'm pretty sure the hard drive is user-removable, but I'm not sure if you're supposed to send in the hard drive when you want it repaired. The problem might actually be with the hard drive, so I imagine they would want you to return it.
Do people really buy the first book that comes out, or do they look at reviews and try to buy the best book? It would seem from my experience that a bad book is probably worse than no book at all, since you're getting fed misinformation, or at best spending money on something you're not using. I don't just go to the store and buy the first book I see, I read the reviews to make sure I'm buying the right one. Is this different from what the average Joe does?
The review states that the book has been updated for IE 7 and firefox 1.5, but IE7 only came out very recently. How did they manage to get the book edited and checked so fast after IE 7 was released?
The simple reason they don't want you voting at home, is because it's supposed to be a secret ballot. There's no way of knowing that the vote is secret if you are at home.
According to wikipedia, Happy Birthday was copyrighted in 1935, and the copyright doesn't exprire until 2030. That's an unbelievably long time for copyright to last. Especially on a song that never really had any financial use anyway. The funny thing is, is that wikipedia doesn't even write the lyrics, possible because it would be a breach of copyright.
I didn't contradict myself. I said people should use the keyboard, but most of the time they use the mouse. This is basically a 1-1 substitute for being too lazy to memorize the keyboard shortcuts. Besides, how would you even find the stuff you're looking for with this kind of keyboard. Press CTRL, look around for the option you want, not there, then ALT, then CTRL+ALT, then Shift+Ctrl and so on, by the time you find the command, you could have clicked 15 different menus and found it. It's easier just to memorize this in the first place. Here's a much cheaper way to implement the same thing. Hold down control, and a keyboard shows up on your screen, with labels on the keys defining what they do. Then as you learn them, you can disable the feature. With the OLED keyboard, you get the same thing, except once you learn the shortcuts, you're not looking at it any more, and you basically have a $400 keyboard that doesn't do anything more than a $20 keyboard.
Which is a great idea for grandma, who doesn't know how to use a computer, but really isn't that much of an advantage to an advanced computer user who never looks at their keyboard anyway. Anybody who users a computer more than 2 hours a day, should probably learn the key shortcuts and make their life easier. People depend way too much on the mouse, which is understandable in a GUI environment, but even then, using the keyboard is much faster. I could see this being an advantage with VS.Net, and it showing all the key combinations, but at that point, you're still better off memorizing the shortcuts, because looking down at the keyboard to figure out what you want to do is much slower than right click + select option, or even going all the way to the top menu and selecting something out of there. All this reminds me of WordPerfect 5.1. You could do everything via the keyboard, and it was so much nicer to use than any of the modern word processors, because you spent more time getting stuff done, and less time messing around with mice,drop down menus, and the 50,000 fonts we have now.
The fact that the web is stateless and connectionless is a huge advantage. You think you can handle 100,000 users on single computer if they are all holding an open connection? Probably not, you only have 65,000 ports, and there's many other reasons this doesn't work well. But you could probably support 100,000 users on a single computer if they didn't have to be connected all the time, but only when they needed to exchange data. This is the big problem. People are trying to use the web (read http) to create applications that would much better be served by some other protocol. They want to build an online desktop, which is a great idea, but HTTP isn't teh best way to do this, and you can't expect to have 100,000 users connected to a single machine all the time.
If web 2.0 is rounded corners, then it still hasn't arrived yet. We need CSS3 finallized and implemented to get rounded corners. Judging by the glacial pace IE is taking at implementing CSS 2, it's going to be a while before we get CSS 3 and rounded corners.
I can't speak for the MCSE, but as far as MCDBA goes, i'm not impressed. I've met MCDBA's who can't write a simple join statement. These certifications prove nothing, and I find that most of the time, the people who get them are the ones who know so little that they couldn't get a real diploma/degree. And they don't actually know enough to get their foot in the door without a piece of paper. So, what, you can pass 4 exams. That really doesn't say much. If you pay for the course that teaches you how to pass the test, you're going to pass the test. That doesn't mean your a competent DBA. I'm not a DBA, I took software engineering in university, but I learned more in my 1 database class then some people with an MCDBA.
I think patents were a good idea, when people were less technologically advanced, and couldn't figure out how things worked by studying them, so they had to get the inventors to divulge their secrets. Now, analytical methods have grown to a point that even if you don't know how something is build, you can figure it out. Pepsi could make a drink that tastes exactly like Coke, but nobody want's a Coke copycat, they want the real thing, and Pepsi drinkers like Pepsi, not Coke.
Yes, that's for sure. We shouldn't even have subjects, the subject is the article. People most of the time end up doing stupid things like splitting the post between the subject and the comment, or leaving it as "Re: Subject that doesn't make sense" Because the subject refers to something 3 levels up and the subject has changed by this point. Nobody reads subjects, and hardly anybody puts in a useful subject anyway. It's nice for email, because you can scan your messages and tell which message is about what, but when you're reading posts, it's not worth your time to read all those subjects because 98% of them are Re......
Britney Spears' first album sold 15 million copies in the US. With 11 tracks on the disc, that's 165,000,000 Tracks sold by a single artist on a single disc. Granted she's a very popular artist but if a single artist can make even 1/10 of the sales of iTunes on a single disc, then I wouldn't say that iTunes comes anywhere close to approaching popularity. It's just a drop in the bucket as far as music sales are concerned.
I'm confused. Do the developers have to use Blu-Ray discs or can the blue-ray drives read DVDs? If you only have 9.8 gigs of content, then why not just press your game out on a DVD. If it doesn't read DVDs, then I guess your point does stand.
However, it's stupid to copy the entire movie, probalby around 5 Gigs in most cases onto the iPod in 720x480 resolution and AC3 sound when the screen can't even display that resolution, and you're using headphones. It makes much more sense to compress the movie down, shrink the resolution, and lower the sound quality so you can fit 100 movies instead of 15 (assuming an 80 Gig iPod). The movie will look just as good, because the screen is so small, and you won't be able to tell the difference with hte sound, because you only have 2 channel speakers (headphones) anyway.
But the people are buying the movies. The company in this case is just doing the format shifting for them. If I format shift DVDs for a friend, because they don't know how to do it, then I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Even if I'm not really their friend, and charge them a fee to do the format shift. Just like I can take an NTSC VHS tape I bought, and make a copy in PAL so I can watch it in my PAL VCR. I can even pay someone to do the format shifting for me.