Mozilla has a very nice feature that MS never thought of.
When you rotate the mouse wheel the window that the mouse is currently hovering over scrolls. This is clearly the right way to do it.
In normal Windows apps, it's the Window that has keyboard focus that scrolls.
leaving one's phone at home or letting the battery die as "the new taboo."
What about people who have conversations while they are carring out essencial body functions? This to me seems to be a much worse taboo, but maybe it's just because I'm old fashioned (or not Japanese). I mean don't they think the person on the other end is a bit put off by the strange noises? An I don't even want to consider the hygene issue.
One question I have: Is the battery replacable?
For a lot of mobile phones you have buy a new one once the battery goes. This is normally no big deal because they are so cheap, but type of phone doesn't come cheap.
The artical doesn't make it very clear, but I think it only applies to applications developed using the.NET framework. So, for all those other applications out there it's dll hell as usual;)
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I've being looking at a MP3 player reciently.
In America the Nomad Jukebox Zen sells for $300 (recommended retail price,without tax) while in Europe it's 410 euros (or $440). Creative prevents any one from Europe buying at the American price.
I think they do the same for all consumer electronics.
What's the justification for this price difference?
Whoever modded me down obviously doesn't believe me, so I tried to search for the artical that I was talking about... he's removed it now, but here's something releated: http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit024r.html
Maybe, slashdot should be more selective about what type of people they are associating themselves with.
You're probably right. This explains why we see no Windows free PCs from the big OEMs. Dispite the fact that the agreement was ment to make the playing field even, MS have found huge loopholes which make it fairly worthless. Business back to usual.
According to Gateway's testomany in the MS court case
:
"Gateway also faulted another provision of the new licensing agreement, which requires PC makers to pay a Windows royalty on every PC shipped, even if it didn't include Windows. To top it off, to qualify for market development funds, PC makers have to put a Microsoft OS on every PC. As a result, trying to sell non-Windows PCs, or even PCs without software, is a financial loser for computer makers."
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-868413.html
TW was bought partially as stock swap, which forced a valuation of both TW and AOL at the time. It's now worth less, and they declare the amount $80 billion less.
In the same way you can say Intel shares were going for around $70 in 2001 and now for about $15, that's a drop in value of $365 billion.
So saying AOL lost $100 billion as if that was any real loss, that's a bit misleading.
I'm taking some of these figures off the top of my head, so forgive me if they're a bit off, but I think you get the picture.
AOL lost no money in 2002. In fact they made $7 billion.
These "news reports" are journalists misleading their readers again because having a headline "AOL looses $100 billion" sounds cool and sells copy. In fact, the "loss" refers to the fact that AOL Time Warner is worth less than when they were valued at the time of the merger. Amazing news! Imagine a company worth less now than at the peak of the dot-com bubble!
Do you think they will actually make them available to the general public this time?
I think they made a sum total of seven 2800+ chips:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7193
I have being using an e-mail address for months without recieving a single unsolicitated e-mail, until I signed up for the Motley fool and I get a advertisement for a printer which has no reply address.
Any one have similar problems with dealing with Motley fool?
When they filed their year end statement, I distinctly got the impression that that XBox did well - at least they were bragging that the sales were better than expected. Now the say that it's loosing money. Is that misleading investors, or what?
XBox is important to MS becuase the Office and OS buisnesses are mature and won't be able to sustain the company forever. This shows that the company is failing to grow into other segments.
For anyone starting a new project from scratch I would advise not to use MFC as this product is being discontinued. Bug fixes will still be released, but no new features. The product manager of Visual.NET has stated that fact here (if you read between the lines): http://www.codeproject.com/interview/nickhodapp140 22002.asp
For a new project it's much better to choose a library that is seeing real improvement in each release, like QT from Trolltech.
It's already been stayed for 2 weeks to allow them to make an appeal...
and Microsoft are whinging that "a sudden change in the operating system could harm large corporations"
since when is java a "part of the OS"? How exactly does it harm big corperations?
It says in the artical: "While both AMD and Intel are working towards introducing Fully Depleted SOI in a matter of years, only AMD is introducing PD-SOI." I thought that the Prescott was going to be released on SOI, though maybe I got that mixed up with strained silicon. Anybody know?
Hmm, don't know about that, I have 2.8 and I notice it causes WinNT to blue screen more frequently than the previous version (that came with Netscape 4.7)
The quality of Rational Rose products is deplorable. Rational Rose 98 was buggy to the point of unusable. I don't know why people kept on buying their products. I think that the people who decide to buy software just look at advanced features, without looking at quality. Even in Rational Rose 2000 there were major bugs in the graphic editing tool which is a core part of the product. They seemed to be more interested in adding new features than actually getting the core functionality of the product to work properly.
I think it's a good idea to have these monitoring stations, for peace of mind. I think they should be installed in the EU as well (they already have roadside monitors telling you how much car fumes are in the air).
I'm not so worried about terrorist attack. I think it's far more dangerous the huge amounts of radioactive material held in hostipals and in univeristies right in the middle of city, not to mention naturally occuring radioactivity in places that have a granite bedrock. You can get a buildup of radeon gas inside peoples houses. People don't tend to think of these sources of radioactivity to be dangerous, even though they are just as deadly
This is one of the the best sci-fi novels I ever read:
http://www.concentric.net/~Los/ft/lossf.htm
It's amazing that the amatuer written stuff available for free is often much superior than books you have to pay for.
Software development should get more and more productive as developers take advantage of class libraries, frameworks, and third party components, unfortunately due to political decisions in various companies things aren't improving as fast as they should be (at least in the Windows world). I see a lot of companies stopping development of the GUI side of things, because they have become "unfashionable". For instance, Stingray no longer make newer versions of their Objective grid product, even though there is a lot of new features that could be added to it. Also, in the latest version of Visual studio, Microsoft has decided to discontinue the MFC framework (I mean no new features will be added, it's still supported as regards bugs). In fact the MFC framework has seen scarce improvements improved since VC 4.2 (at least regarding GUI stuff, like components and doc/view architecture). Even where Microsoft add new components , they often are awkward distribution restrictions like dependency on IE.
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Mozilla has a very nice feature that MS never thought of. When you rotate the mouse wheel the window that the mouse is currently hovering over scrolls. This is clearly the right way to do it. In normal Windows apps, it's the Window that has keyboard focus that scrolls.
leaving one's phone at home or letting the battery die as "the new taboo." What about people who have conversations while they are carring out essencial body functions? This to me seems to be a much worse taboo, but maybe it's just because I'm old fashioned (or not Japanese). I mean don't they think the person on the other end is a bit put off by the strange noises? An I don't even want to consider the hygene issue.
One question I have: Is the battery replacable? For a lot of mobile phones you have buy a new one once the battery goes. This is normally no big deal because they are so cheap, but type of phone doesn't come cheap.
The artical doesn't make it very clear, but I think it only applies to applications developed using the .NET framework. So, for all those other applications out there it's dll hell as usual ;)
I've being looking at a MP3 player reciently. In America the Nomad Jukebox Zen sells for $300 (recommended retail price,without tax) while in Europe it's 410 euros (or $440). Creative prevents any one from Europe buying at the American price. I think they do the same for all consumer electronics. What's the justification for this price difference?
Whoever modded me down obviously doesn't believe me, so I tried to search for the artical that I was talking about... he's removed it now, but here's something releated: http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit024r.html
Maybe, slashdot should be more selective about what type of people they are associating themselves with.
You're probably right. This explains why we see no Windows free PCs from the big OEMs. Dispite the fact that the agreement was ment to make the playing field even, MS have found huge loopholes which make it fairly worthless. Business back to usual.
According to Gateway's testomany in the MS court case : "Gateway also faulted another provision of the new licensing agreement, which requires PC makers to pay a Windows royalty on every PC shipped, even if it didn't include Windows. To top it off, to qualify for market development funds, PC makers have to put a Microsoft OS on every PC. As a result, trying to sell non-Windows PCs, or even PCs without software, is a financial loser for computer makers." http://news.com.com/2100-1001-868413.html
TW was bought partially as stock swap, which forced a valuation of both TW and AOL at the time. It's now worth less, and they declare the amount $80 billion less. In the same way you can say Intel shares were going for around $70 in 2001 and now for about $15, that's a drop in value of $365 billion. So saying AOL lost $100 billion as if that was any real loss, that's a bit misleading. I'm taking some of these figures off the top of my head, so forgive me if they're a bit off, but I think you get the picture.
AOL lost no money in 2002. In fact they made $7 billion. These "news reports" are journalists misleading their readers again because having a headline "AOL looses $100 billion" sounds cool and sells copy. In fact, the "loss" refers to the fact that AOL Time Warner is worth less than when they were valued at the time of the merger. Amazing news! Imagine a company worth less now than at the peak of the dot-com bubble!
Do you think they will actually make them available to the general public this time? I think they made a sum total of seven 2800+ chips: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7193
I have being using an e-mail address for months without recieving a single unsolicitated e-mail, until I signed up for the Motley fool and I get a advertisement for a printer which has no reply address. Any one have similar problems with dealing with Motley fool?
What about huge the memory leaks that were in the beta 2? Did they fix those as well? Just curious.
When they filed their year end statement, I distinctly got the impression that that XBox did well - at least they were bragging that the sales were better than expected. Now the say that it's loosing money. Is that misleading investors, or what? XBox is important to MS becuase the Office and OS buisnesses are mature and won't be able to sustain the company forever. This shows that the company is failing to grow into other segments.
No, the artical clearly states that *AOL*, not Advanced/Newhouse dropped 170000 users. Advanced/Newhouse is part of a different accounting unit.
For anyone starting a new project from scratch I would advise not to use MFC as this product is being discontinued. Bug fixes will still be released, but no new features. The product manager of Visual.NET has stated that fact here (if you read between the lines): http://www.codeproject.com/interview/nickhodapp140 22002.asp
For a new project it's much better to choose a library that is seeing real improvement in each release, like QT from Trolltech.
It's already been stayed for 2 weeks to allow them to make an appeal... and Microsoft are whinging that "a sudden change in the operating system could harm large corporations" since when is java a "part of the OS"? How exactly does it harm big corperations?
It says in the artical: "While both AMD and Intel are working towards introducing Fully Depleted SOI in a matter of years, only AMD is introducing PD-SOI."
I thought that the Prescott was going to be released on SOI, though maybe I got that mixed up with strained silicon.
Anybody know?
Hmm, don't know about that, I have 2.8 and I notice it causes WinNT to blue screen more frequently than the previous version (that came with Netscape 4.7)
Does anybody know if this vunerablity exist on older versions of Winamp? I remeber the older version had a simpler ID tag.
The quality of Rational Rose products is deplorable. Rational Rose 98 was buggy to the point of unusable. I don't know why people kept on buying their products. I think that the people who decide to buy software just look at advanced features, without looking at quality. Even in Rational Rose 2000 there were major bugs in the graphic editing tool which is a core part of the product. They seemed to be more interested in adding new features than actually getting the core functionality of the product to work properly.
I think it's a good idea to have these monitoring stations, for peace of mind. I think they should be installed in the EU as well (they already have roadside monitors telling you how much car fumes are in the air). I'm not so worried about terrorist attack. I think it's far more dangerous the huge amounts of radioactive material held in hostipals and in univeristies right in the middle of city, not to mention naturally occuring radioactivity in places that have a granite bedrock. You can get a buildup of radeon gas inside peoples houses. People don't tend to think of these sources of radioactivity to be dangerous, even though they are just as deadly
This is one of the the best sci-fi novels I ever read: http://www.concentric.net/~Los/ft/lossf.htm It's amazing that the amatuer written stuff available for free is often much superior than books you have to pay for.
http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200106/0671318357.ht m?blurb
Software development should get more and more productive as developers take advantage of class libraries, frameworks, and third party components, unfortunately due to political decisions in various companies things aren't improving as fast as they should be (at least in the Windows world). I see a lot of companies stopping development of the GUI side of things, because they have become "unfashionable". For instance, Stingray no longer make newer versions of their Objective grid product, even though there is a lot of new features that could be added to it. Also, in the latest version of Visual studio, Microsoft has decided to discontinue the MFC framework (I mean no new features will be added, it's still supported as regards bugs). In fact the MFC framework has seen scarce improvements improved since VC 4.2 (at least regarding GUI stuff, like components and doc/view architecture). Even where Microsoft add new components , they often are awkward distribution restrictions like dependency on IE.