I'm pretty sure I get in the right side of the car every time I go to drive it. We drive on the left hand side of the road, but are certainly a right hand drive country, just like England, Japan, NZ and South Africa (I think).
Isn't it several billion years? Also the cat has evolved into a humanoid life form with a religion based on Lister being their god and they all want to go to the mythical land of Fiji.
I doubt they are dimmer, in full sunlight my powerbook adjusts pretty bright and enough to be useable as long as there's no sunlight directly reflecting off the screen. Also, they are usually a lower resolution that windows laptops so the sharpness argument doesn't really have much comparison either. And about those "low" resolutions, I've never really needed anything higherand I used to use 1280 x 1024 on all my windows machines. It comes down to how the OS is designed to use the available screen real estate and windows is terrible in that respect. Even KDE and Gnome don't really do it right. Maximise is the single worst interface design decision in the history of GUIs.
What a simple minded comment. In practice you don't even realise it adjusts the brightness. Plus you can turn the feature off in System Prefs or adjust the brightness yourself with the three buttons on the keyboard (which also act as F8, F9, F10). Its these useful everyday features that show Apple designs their products for users and not just adding stupid preschool interfaces like XP.
Why is this such a problem? 99% of the time a single normal click is all that is required. The rare times you need an alternate click its an easy outstretch finger in addition to the normal click and can easily be done with one hand. The wear on my trackpad button is actually most prominent just to the right of centre. If there were two buttons there of equal size I'd be contorting my (right) hand into a less natural position, so I prefer the single button. That, and any OS/app that needs to use the right button a lot is not designed properly.
I've always wondered why they don't disprove some myths at the beginning with a simple calculation. So here goes my question:
"Why don't you ever back up your experiments with a mathematical proof? A lot of times there's a relatively simple calculation that could save a lot of physical exertion and cost in building a rig. Of course Jamie won't get an opportunity to screw up or build some over elaborate machine, but heh.
neither can give me a list of all the wireless networks around my computer in just 2 clicks in a default setup - but Windows can. I'd imagine OS X probably could too.
OSX takes exactly one click:) twice as good as Windows.
Exactly the kind of argument the proprietary software companies don't want to hear. The collective total saved by everyone using a better product coupled with the ability to 'roll their own' solutions.
Have you tried osCommerce? I find it great to work with. Sure, I've modified a few of the screens to work the way I prefer but that's the beauty of open source. Don't complain, fix the bloody thing yourself. You make it sound like the owe you something in providing a better interface. You're getting the majority of the software for no more than the cost of a download, so STFU already and do everyone else a favour and contribute like every other pserson who has contibuted to make the package what it is when you downloaded it. It's the only way these things get done. Contribute! Contribute! Contribute!
(which is also why there are issues with sharp angles in the pathways on multi gigahertz PCB's - the electrons are going too fast to turn the corner
So you're saying electrons travel faster or slower depending on the frequency of the circuit? They must travel pretty slow through the mains at only 50Hz (or 60Hz depending where you live). PCB traces need to be as short as possible (among probably some other precautions in multi-gigahertz speeds) to reduce inductance, not so electrons can turn the corner.
Can you point me in the direction of your donations page? (if you have one)
I've used reiserfs on several computers and its worked out great. So I'm more than happy to help you out a bit when I can.
I understand Apple's iTunes/iPod efforts are limited by the contracts they sign with the record companies
You understand wrong. I can use any file from anywhere (as long as its in the right format or course) in my iPod and play it anywhere, just like you can with your Treo. When the 2gb cards are available why not just buy an iPod Shuffle or maybe a Nano at that time, as they will be the same/cheaper anyway and you'll get more functionality with iTunes syncing, etc.
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Guitaroo Man has the symbols of the buttons flying on the screen, and probably several others too but that one comes to mind instantly.
I'm pretty sure I get in the right side of the car every time I go to drive it. We drive on the left hand side of the road, but are certainly a right hand drive country, just like England, Japan, NZ and South Africa (I think).
Whoosh! He was referring to the "Safe command prompt" boot option.
Not really, osx is just adding features always planned for vista from years back.
Yeah, and all of those promised vista features are useable right now (and for the past several years that osx has been implementing them. Moron.
Isn't it several billion years? Also the cat has evolved into a humanoid life form with a religion based on Lister being their god and they all want to go to the mythical land of Fiji.
Well, how long does it take to run this test on a 486DX66? Anyone willing to spend a year benchmarking?
Where's this? I usually find it the other way around. New releases for GC are in teh high $90 range and some stay there for quite a while.
That's why you posted AC?
Gone. Now I'll have to buy som ipecac for those emergencies.
You're absolutely right. Evolution sucks so much, so does thunderbird, mutt and er... pine.
I doubt they are dimmer, in full sunlight my powerbook adjusts pretty bright and enough to be useable as long as there's no sunlight directly reflecting off the screen. Also, they are usually a lower resolution that windows laptops so the sharpness argument doesn't really have much comparison either. And about those "low" resolutions, I've never really needed anything higherand I used to use 1280 x 1024 on all my windows machines. It comes down to how the OS is designed to use the available screen real estate and windows is terrible in that respect. Even KDE and Gnome don't really do it right. Maximise is the single worst interface design decision in the history of GUIs.
Yeah, and you could fit a pretty big battery in a powerbook with twice the thickness (equivalent to your Thinkpad).
What a simple minded comment. In practice you don't even realise it adjusts the brightness. Plus you can turn the feature off in System Prefs or adjust the brightness yourself with the three buttons on the keyboard (which also act as F8, F9, F10). Its these useful everyday features that show Apple designs their products for users and not just adding stupid preschool interfaces like XP.
Why is this such a problem? 99% of the time a single normal click is all that is required. The rare times you need an alternate click its an easy outstretch finger in addition to the normal click and can easily be done with one hand. The wear on my trackpad button is actually most prominent just to the right of centre. If there were two buttons there of equal size I'd be contorting my (right) hand into a less natural position, so I prefer the single button. That, and any OS/app that needs to use the right button a lot is not designed properly.
That's whole movies per second they are talking about. So even at only 2 movies per second thats 7200 people to get complete movie downloads per hour.
and stomping on it?
I've always wondered why they don't disprove some myths at the beginning with a simple calculation. So here goes my question:
"Why don't you ever back up your experiments with a mathematical proof? A lot of times there's a relatively simple calculation that could save a lot of physical exertion and cost in building a rig. Of course Jamie won't get an opportunity to screw up or build some over elaborate machine, but heh.Even Seagates website has a very obvious typo. It's contradicted in the press release which was released in 2001! See here.
neither can give me a list of all the wireless networks around my computer in just 2 clicks in a default setup - but Windows can. I'd imagine OS X probably could too. :) twice as good as Windows.
OSX takes exactly one click
My powerbook 17" has no soldered ram. It came with a 512mb stick and I added another. The new ones support up to 2gb.
Exactly the kind of argument the proprietary software companies don't want to hear. The collective total saved by everyone using a better product coupled with the ability to 'roll their own' solutions.
Have you tried osCommerce? I find it great to work with. Sure, I've modified a few of the screens to work the way I prefer but that's the beauty of open source. Don't complain, fix the bloody thing yourself.
You make it sound like the owe you something in providing a better interface. You're getting the majority of the software for no more than the cost of a download, so STFU already and do everyone else a favour and contribute like every other pserson who has contibuted to make the package what it is when you downloaded it. It's the only way these things get done.
Contribute! Contribute! Contribute!
(which is also why there are issues with sharp angles in the pathways on multi gigahertz PCB's - the electrons are going too fast to turn the corner
So you're saying electrons travel faster or slower depending on the frequency of the circuit? They must travel pretty slow through the mains at only 50Hz (or 60Hz depending where you live). PCB traces need to be as short as possible (among probably some other precautions in multi-gigahertz speeds) to reduce inductance, not so electrons can turn the corner.
Can you point me in the direction of your donations page? (if you have one) I've used reiserfs on several computers and its worked out great. So I'm more than happy to help you out a bit when I can.
I understand Apple's iTunes/iPod efforts are limited by the contracts they sign with the record companies You understand wrong. I can use any file from anywhere (as long as its in the right format or course) in my iPod and play it anywhere, just like you can with your Treo. When the 2gb cards are available why not just buy an iPod Shuffle or maybe a Nano at that time, as they will be the same/cheaper anyway and you'll get more functionality with iTunes syncing, etc.