In my case, I turned my work/home laptop (owned by the company, but I was free to use it for whatever I wanted) in to keep it safe when I went out of the country for two months. When I came back, it was broken in a minor way that irritated me to no end (broken screen line), and there was no money to fix/replace it.
So I asked them if I could just buy a laptop for myself and use it for company work, and let my wife use the broken one. They had no problem with that. As long as they know where the old one is, they're happy -- they'd never use it. It's old and has a broken screen, after all.
If my company requires me to work outside of core hours and off the site, it seems silly to require I not allow myself to be comfortable on that laptop.
And Asa thinks he should add extensions to fix most of his problems.
This dodges the issue entirely. Extensions shouldn't be used to fix fundamental problems. And aside from the Go menu (which I use all the time), he's got a great list of fundamental problems.
There's a rule in interface designs: If a user can't find a feature, it isn't there. And if a user has to go find an extension and isntall it, it's definitely not there.
Incidentally, I agree with you that it was brilliantly criminal, unethical, bad for the world, etc, etc. There's just little arguing that it didn't work and Microsoft ultimately had no significant consequences...
I'm a Mac OS X fan myself, but I just don't see Apple keeping second place when their competitor is free and has a transparent development process like Gnome and Natalus.
There's a lot wrong with Linux on the desktop, don't get me wrong. What it will come down to is if Apple can fund more and better development than the various open source projects get.
I think it comes down strictly to OEM contracts in the 1980s and 1990s. It isn't that Apple blundered or Microsoft did something especially brilliant, it's that Apple blundered and Microsoft did something especially brilliant businesswise at the same time.
Going forward, I don't think Apple has much of a chance to even remain a second player. It seems inevitable that Linux will catch up on all counts eventually, especially now that the two operating systems are on the same platform.
If doctors were C++ programmers, we'd still have kids dying of easily treated diseases daily - after all, antibiotics don't cure viruses, so there's no point using them, is there?
Seriously flawed analogy. It's more like not trying two different antibiotics at once.
There is a cure for memory leaks: debugging where the leak occurs and fixing it. Decent programmers (of which there are few) constantly monitor to make sure memory leaks don't last long.
If a program crashes your Palm: 1. Don't use it. 2. In fact, delete it from your Palm so that it has no opportunity to crash durring notifications or other launch codes. 3. Optionally, bitch out the company that made the software for charging you for something that doesn't work. 4. There is no step 4, except being happy that regaining a useful Palm was that simple.
I have submitted stories, and you're missing an important step: Editing your statement so the stuff attributed to you is exactly the opposite of what you were saying.
Windows doesn't really need the Show App Windows feature, since (generally) each window is its own app. And the task bar does a decent (if uninspired) job of showing all Windows.
(Don't get me wrong; I would much rather have Expose. I use it all the time on my Powerbook.)
What we know is Apple has secured a line of PowerPC chips into 2008. However, Apple has no commitment to buy. It being for Powerbook, etc is pure speculation on the part of the contributor and contradictory to the keynote.
I totally agree. This reaction has just made me dislike ZDNet even more. I'm a hair's breadth from dropping the last remaining ZDNet publication that I like.
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In my case, I turned my work/home laptop (owned by the company, but I was free to use it for whatever I wanted) in to keep it safe when I went out of the country for two months. When I came back, it was broken in a minor way that irritated me to no end (broken screen line), and there was no money to fix/replace it.
So I asked them if I could just buy a laptop for myself and use it for company work, and let my wife use the broken one. They had no problem with that. As long as they know where the old one is, they're happy -- they'd never use it. It's old and has a broken screen, after all.
If my company requires me to work outside of core hours and off the site, it seems silly to require I not allow myself to be comfortable on that laptop.
And Asa thinks he should add extensions to fix most of his problems.
This dodges the issue entirely. Extensions shouldn't be used to fix fundamental problems. And aside from the Go menu (which I use all the time), he's got a great list of fundamental problems.
There's a rule in interface designs: If a user can't find a feature, it isn't there. And if a user has to go find an extension and isntall it, it's definitely not there.
This is a problem for me, since I work in a place with only two women. Both the "little redhead" and "tall skinny brunette" are men here. :(
I think quite deeply most of the day, too.
"Lunch -- Quizno's or Subway?"
So.... is that NCC-1701, NCC-1701A, NCC-1701B, NCC-1701C, NCC-1701D, or NCC-1701E?
Add in NX-01, and now I understand why they're shipping seven different editions!
Incidentally, I agree with you that it was brilliantly criminal, unethical, bad for the world, etc, etc. There's just little arguing that it didn't work and Microsoft ultimately had no significant consequences...
I'm a Mac OS X fan myself, but I just don't see Apple keeping second place when their competitor is free and has a transparent development process like Gnome and Natalus.
There's a lot wrong with Linux on the desktop, don't get me wrong. What it will come down to is if Apple can fund more and better development than the various open source projects get.
Brilliant and brilliantly criminal are not mutually exclusive. Ultimately, it worked.
I think it comes down strictly to OEM contracts in the 1980s and 1990s. It isn't that Apple blundered or Microsoft did something especially brilliant, it's that Apple blundered and Microsoft did something especially brilliant businesswise at the same time.
Going forward, I don't think Apple has much of a chance to even remain a second player. It seems inevitable that Linux will catch up on all counts eventually, especially now that the two operating systems are on the same platform.
"One box" does not mean "software." There were no software accessible video modes on the classic B&W macs, and no way for software to adjust sync.
You could tie a process to sync, but not change it.
Are you seriously suggesting that Microsoft achieved market dominance by being the best operating system out there?
I mean, there are a lot of arguments I can buy, but "bigger is better" isn't one of them.
If doctors were C++ programmers, we'd still have kids dying of easily treated diseases daily - after all, antibiotics don't cure viruses, so there's no point using them, is there?
Seriously flawed analogy. It's more like not trying two different antibiotics at once.
There is a cure for memory leaks: debugging where the leak occurs and fixing it. Decent programmers (of which there are few) constantly monitor to make sure memory leaks don't last long.
Here's your three steps to happiness, then.
If a program crashes your Palm:
1. Don't use it.
2. In fact, delete it from your Palm so that it has no opportunity to crash durring notifications or other launch codes.
3. Optionally, bitch out the company that made the software for charging you for something that doesn't work.
4. There is no step 4, except being happy that regaining a useful Palm was that simple.
Don't hold your breath for Palm OS 6.
Don't C++ garbage collectors just pick up blocks that have been marked free?
You were right. Damn you. ;)
As lame as Slashdot is, none of my other feeds cover the same range of stuff...
Maybe instead I should start a "break Zonk's fingers" fund instead.
No, it doesn't. If it did, I'd still read slashdot. As it is, this is my last story and last comment.
I have submitted stories, and you're missing an important step: Editing your statement so the stuff attributed to you is exactly the opposite of what you were saying.
Windows doesn't really need the Show App Windows feature, since (generally) each window is its own app. And the task bar does a decent (if uninspired) job of showing all Windows.
(Don't get me wrong; I would much rather have Expose. I use it all the time on my Powerbook.)
Crashed daily? Did it?
How do you know?
Unlike Windows' betas, anyone who actually used Tiger as a beta is bound by an NDA.
But yes, I agree, there's almost certainly more coming. I just hope it gets tested. :)
Yes. He seems to have a major problem understanding the difference between causation and correlation as well.
What we know is Apple has secured a line of PowerPC chips into 2008. However, Apple has no commitment to buy. It being for Powerbook, etc is pure speculation on the part of the contributor and contradictory to the keynote.
Did you by chance turn on "Use secure virtual memory" in Security?
I totally agree. This reaction has just made me dislike ZDNet even more. I'm a hair's breadth from dropping the last remaining ZDNet publication that I like.