I suspect the only things preventing me from liking Apple's interfaces are my years of Windows experience and my affinity for the keyboard. I should point out that I only know the Windows-based Apple software--I have little to no experience of Macs--but I hate that it can't be operated from the keyboard. I'm talking specifically about iTunes and Quicktime for Windows.
Car companies go on about how safe their cars are all the time. It's government groups and non-profits that produce the "drive safely" ads and tell you to wear a seatbelt. People don't (often) die as a result of a Windows box being infected, so the push to get people to use their computers responsibly isn't too strong. But businesses are affected, so they should be coming together to push the proper use of networked machines. Big businesses should commision television ads, or something similarly visible, to press home the dangers of the Internet. It's in their benefit to limit the number and severity of attacks on the network.
It's a play on Apple's adverising slogan, "Think Different". That should have been "Think Differently" of course. I guess they sacrificed grammar for flow. "Think Different" reads--and looks, when it's in print ads--better than the correct version, unless you're like me and the mistake just yells at you until you go away.
"Affect" is also a noun. It's much rarer than the other three ("effect" [noun], "effect" [verb], and "affect" [verb]). If you're using that word you almost certainly know the distinction well enough not to have to think about it. It's a useful one to know if people start to tell you that "affect" isn't a noun.
The original intention for Phoenix, according to Blake Ross, was to make the best browser on Windows. It has always been cross-platform and the developers are compltely committed to that now, but it was conceived for Windows.
Yes, you're missing the fact that Google makes most of its money from sub-licensing its search technology, including letting other engines serve their results for a fee.
It simplifies it for people who can't or don't want to remember all of the various sites you or I would use. A single text box that can find anything is easier than a list of specially-tuned searches.
That's precisely why there are preview releases. They don't claim to be candidates for release as 1.0. This is an actual candidate to become a preview release. If no bugs are found in this version it will be relabeled as preview release 1 (PR1) and released. Then more bugs will be fixed, candidates for PR2 will be released until one is acceptable as PR2. Same process again, candidate, bug fixes, candidate, etc. until... version 1.0.
Absolutely true. I've had a dreadful time trying to get some of the professional wrestling articles into some intelligible state. It's important to remember that while someone's style may not be great they generally do offer new material that deserves to be in the article. There are also those who put the most trivial garbage in the least appropriate part of the article; I tend to just revert the worst offences.
A particular annoyance is an article with strings of sentences beginning, "He also..."
Wikipedia isn't a dictionary, so saying it's "not comprehensive like a real dictionary" is a bit stupid. Yes, anyone can insert garbage. Anyone can also see what's inserted, and by whom, and what else they inserted. Anyone can see recent changes. Anyone logged in can see all changes to pages in his or her watch-list to keep particular attention on any articles they are interested in or knowledgeable about.
I admit there are a few articles that don't conform to the policy of neutral point-of-view (NPOV), but they aren't just left like that and ignored. People put lots of work into balancing these articles, despite the best efforts of a few trouble-makers.
Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia by any reasonable definition. I don't know how you can consider it a blog. Perhaps you could enlighten me. It doesn't claim to be authoritative but informative, just like any encyclopaedia.
Lastly, as someone with a grammar-nazi sig you should know the difference between "imply" and "infer".
I don't doubt that you want what's best for the child, I just question your ability to determine what that might be. It's fine to speculate that the child might be best off with two parents of opposite sex, but until you have evidence to support that hypothesis you're just being prejudiced (however pleasant and caring a package you wrap that up in).
Do you have any reason to require that the guardians be of opposite sex? Other than a general feeling of "they just should be, because that's how mine were".
No, they're selling you both the CD and the licence. If you break one (the CD; you can't break the licence, at least in this sense) then you should be able to replace it. That is, replace the CD and not the licence, so you pay the small price of the CD but not the huge price of the licence.
Unbelievable. People want the specs for.doc so they can build interoperating software. Your response is to use COM, which requires that you have Word installed. Have you personally ever said anything dumber than that? If so, what was it?
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Google of course!
I suspect the only things preventing me from liking Apple's interfaces are my years of Windows experience and my affinity for the keyboard. I should point out that I only know the Windows-based Apple software--I have little to no experience of Macs--but I hate that it can't be operated from the keyboard. I'm talking specifically about iTunes and Quicktime for Windows.
Car companies go on about how safe their cars are all the time. It's government groups and non-profits that produce the "drive safely" ads and tell you to wear a seatbelt. People don't (often) die as a result of a Windows box being infected, so the push to get people to use their computers responsibly isn't too strong. But businesses are affected, so they should be coming together to push the proper use of networked machines. Big businesses should commision television ads, or something similarly visible, to press home the dangers of the Internet. It's in their benefit to limit the number and severity of attacks on the network.
It's a play on Apple's adverising slogan, "Think Different". That should have been "Think Differently" of course. I guess they sacrificed grammar for flow. "Think Different" reads--and looks, when it's in print ads--better than the correct version, unless you're like me and the mistake just yells at you until you go away.
"Affect" is also a noun. It's much rarer than the other three ("effect" [noun], "effect" [verb], and "affect" [verb]). If you're using that word you almost certainly know the distinction well enough not to have to think about it. It's a useful one to know if people start to tell you that "affect" isn't a noun.
Is "Physics Toady" a magazine for scientifically minded sycophants?
Nope, just notoriously unreliable memory.
The original intention for Phoenix, according to Blake Ross, was to make the best browser on Windows. It has always been cross-platform and the developers are compltely committed to that now, but it was conceived for Windows.
Yes, you're missing the fact that Google makes most of its money from sub-licensing its search technology, including letting other engines serve their results for a fee.
It simplifies it for people who can't or don't want to remember all of the various sites you or I would use. A single text box that can find anything is easier than a list of specially-tuned searches.
That's brilliant.
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That's not unprecedented. Weren't you here in July?
That's precisely why there are preview releases. They don't claim to be candidates for release as 1.0. This is an actual candidate to become a preview release. If no bugs are found in this version it will be relabeled as preview release 1 (PR1) and released. Then more bugs will be fixed, candidates for PR2 will be released until one is acceptable as PR2. Same process again, candidate, bug fixes, candidate, etc. until... version 1.0.
Absolutely true. I've had a dreadful time trying to get some of the professional wrestling articles into some intelligible state. It's important to remember that while someone's style may not be great they generally do offer new material that deserves to be in the article. There are also those who put the most trivial garbage in the least appropriate part of the article; I tend to just revert the worst offences.
A particular annoyance is an article with strings of sentences beginning, "He also..."
Wikipedia isn't a dictionary, so saying it's "not comprehensive like a real dictionary" is a bit stupid. Yes, anyone can insert garbage. Anyone can also see what's inserted, and by whom, and what else they inserted. Anyone can see recent changes. Anyone logged in can see all changes to pages in his or her watch-list to keep particular attention on any articles they are interested in or knowledgeable about.
I admit there are a few articles that don't conform to the policy of neutral point-of-view (NPOV), but they aren't just left like that and ignored. People put lots of work into balancing these articles, despite the best efforts of a few trouble-makers.
Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia by any reasonable definition. I don't know how you can consider it a blog. Perhaps you could enlighten me. It doesn't claim to be authoritative but informative, just like any encyclopaedia.
Lastly, as someone with a grammar-nazi sig you should know the difference between "imply" and "infer".
I don't doubt that you want what's best for the child, I just question your ability to determine what that might be. It's fine to speculate that the child might be best off with two parents of opposite sex, but until you have evidence to support that hypothesis you're just being prejudiced (however pleasant and caring a package you wrap that up in).
Do you have any reason to require that the guardians be of opposite sex? Other than a general feeling of "they just should be, because that's how mine were".
Actually, trunk fixes won't be merged with the aviary branch until after 1.0.
That's not new!
No, they're selling you both the CD and the licence. If you break one (the CD; you can't break the licence, at least in this sense) then you should be able to replace it. That is, replace the CD and not the licence, so you pay the small price of the CD but not the huge price of the licence.
Bookmark this bit of javascript:
javascript:document.location.href = document.location.href.replace("it.slashdot", "slashdot");
Then just hit that bookmark on any it.slashdot.org article. Or you can just manually remove the "it." from the URL.
I thought it was three? Val Kilmer had to do three.
Still nothing about scaling back WinFS. It just said it won't be included in Longhorn. That's not the same thing. That's scaling back Longhorn.
I don't think the dikes or the boy were proverbial.
Unbelievable. People want the specs for .doc so they can build interoperating software. Your response is to use COM, which requires that you have Word installed. Have you personally ever said anything dumber than that? If so, what was it?