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If you don't want the bloat, don't install it. Everything's a plug-in in Winamp, and the installer lets you easily leave out stuff like video support, visualizations, modern skin support, etc. You can customize it down to the plug-in, so if all you want is a program that plays your oggs, just install that.
This is true; what Microsoft has done is legitimized OpenOffice.org as a replacement for Microsoft Office. The number of posts here along the lines of "I hadn't thought much of it before, but I might check it out now" indicate as much.
It's interesting that you should mention how search engine-centric the modern web is; I was just going some February access statistics for a couple of web servers I administer and noticing how the vast majority of referrers were search engines. It's somewhat rare to be linked to by another site, and even when it happens, the number of click-throughs for these referrers is always far less than from search engines (even uncommon search engines besides Google).
Personally, I think we've benefited from this trend in that good sites are designed with the expectation that you just arrived on any given page from a search, which makes them generally more straightforward.
Windows users can download Microsoft's font properties extension and view many fonts' metadata. For Times New Roman, for instance:
Description: This remarkable typeface first appeared in 1932 in The Times of London newspaper, for which it was designed. It has subsequently become one of the worlds most successful type creations. The original drawings were made under Stanley Morison's direction by Victor Lardent at The Times. It then went through an extensive iterative process involving further work in Monotype's Type Drawing Office. Based on experiments Morison had conducted using Perpetua and Plantin, it has many old style characteristics but was adapted to give excellent legibility coupled with good economy. Widely used in books and magazines, for reports, office documents and also for display and advertising.
Copyright: Typeface The Monotype Corporation plc. Data The Monotype Corporation plc/Type Solutions Inc. 1990-1992. All Rights Reserved
Trademark: Times New Roman Trademark of The Monotype Corporation plc registered in the US Pat & TM Off. and elsewhere.
Just fucking great. Instead of actually fixing the problem, they just told RFC 2396 (which is based on the ten year-old RFC 1738 and officially endorsed by the HTTP standard) to fuck itself and called it a day. And in the meantime, they recommend that users not click any links at all.
Just amazing that this is what we have to deal with.
Don't forget other UI disasters Apple is responsible for like Home and End keys that never seem to do what you expect.
For example, in Safari, I expect that when I'm editing a text field, if I hit home, the cursor should move to the beginning of the field, not scroll to the top of the page. If I'm selecting emails in mail.app, hitting up and down selects the next and previous emails, but hitting home doesn't take me to the top of the email list, it scrolls the currently selected email.
Use Command+Left to go to the beginning of a line or Command+Right to go to the end of a line. Alt+Left and Alt+Right skip words. It's not a bad system necessarily, just one you aren't used to.
Actually, the Eolas "president" (it's a one-man operation) is only going after Microsoft specifically to promote "alternative" browsers such as Mozilla.
At least it'll give us an IE patch; it seems like the only way to get Microsoft to update the thing is to come up with a lawsuit. Anyone have patents on a "Faulty DOM Implementation"? Or maybe someone with a patent on "Buffer Overflows" could take out the whole company.
Google US (which goes to a country-specific Google if available) brings up four ads; the first three are to buy the Tom Clancy novel online and the last is for the Wall Street Journal.
I know you're being at least a little sarcastic there, but I think a lot of people like the idea of getting a $500 office suite for free. I mean, how many people do you know who have a pirated installation of Photoshop, AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, Flash, etc.? How many of those actually know how to use either program on a advanced level?
On some bizarre level, OO.o is almost too inexpensive. It's hard telling people to use some office suite they've never heard of, and the fact that it's free gives people the idea that it's cheap.
I love the thing though. Burning OO.o CD-Rs for folks is definitely the best way to spread the word around, since once people actually know that it exists as a viable alternative, it sort of legitimizes it for them.
It's fundamentally wrong to blame the medium for the content. The role of a public library, for instance, is simply provide information to everyone, not to decide what information is suitable for whom. The internet is like a gigantic library.
People should accept that not everything on it is going to agree with their views. One person's right to have a copy of Hustler and another person's right to have a copy of the Bible are the exact same right. It's dangerous to think otherwise. Likewise, the technology that may allow people to spread things like child pornography (which I agree is horrible and should be illegal) helps make other forms of information free as well.
It's scary that some types of information are more free than others, because who ultimately decides what's appropriate for whom? And why is it so easy to convince people that the technology is the problem?
Well, thanks to a misguided idea called "HTML e-mail," it also needs to be a fully functional web browser. And web browsers are really complicated when you throw in things like images, style sheets, character encoding, etc.
I like how Firebird and Thunderbird are separate apps, but it'd be nice if their shared components were stored in some centralized place and actually shared to save hard drive space if not memory.
The fallacy that seems to have become pervasive among many people in the pop music recording field, especially among record companies, is that if a CD is pushing the absolute digital max it will somehow be louder or better on the air and presumably win more airplay, and thus sell more copies to the public. This is not true at all. Compressing a CD will contribute to on-air loudness almost unnoticeably. Radio people have the brains to turn up a CD that's recorded at a normal level, and broadcast stations' existing compressors will even everything out anyway. The only thing that is accomplished is messing up the dynamic range for those who pay their good money for CDs, "squashing" the life out of any acoustic instruments in the mix, and increasing listener fatigue.
In my experience, most non-geek Linux initiates are encouraged to switch by Linux users, so why not just burn an extra copy or two of your distro of choice for someone?
To be more specific about my question, whos going to be the 'public face' of Blizzard now that Bill Roper is gone?
I can see Warcraft III lead designer Rob Pardo stepping up to that plate, since he already does a lot of interviews and such. It won't be quite the same as the guy who recorded "STOP POKING MEEEEEEEE!" but he's a good guy.
Sorting by type is not the same thing as sorting by extension. Suppose WiMP has registered *.mp3, *.au, *.aiff, *.wma, and *.aac as the same type so they can all open in it. If you sort by type, it'll sort all files of each type by name regardless of extension. Since most people let their programs handle their file associations for them, messes like these aren't especially uncommon.
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It also has the Windows 2000 color scheme (brownish objects instead of 192 grey) and 256-color icons in the tray.
It's a syllogism.
Let me give it a shot.
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Oh, never mind, nothing'll ever come of that.
If you don't want the bloat, don't install it. Everything's a plug-in in Winamp, and the installer lets you easily leave out stuff like video support, visualizations, modern skin support, etc. You can customize it down to the plug-in, so if all you want is a program that plays your oggs, just install that.
This is true; what Microsoft has done is legitimized OpenOffice.org as a replacement for Microsoft Office. The number of posts here along the lines of "I hadn't thought much of it before, but I might check it out now" indicate as much.
Mozilla with the quicklaunch on is much, much faster than Firefox. I use Firefox, but I'm curious why it doesn't have a quicklaunch feature.
It's interesting that you should mention how search engine-centric the modern web is; I was just going some February access statistics for a couple of web servers I administer and noticing how the vast majority of referrers were search engines. It's somewhat rare to be linked to by another site, and even when it happens, the number of click-throughs for these referrers is always far less than from search engines (even uncommon search engines besides Google).
Personally, I think we've benefited from this trend in that good sites are designed with the expectation that you just arrived on any given page from a search, which makes them generally more straightforward.
Windows users can download Microsoft's font properties extension and view many fonts' metadata. For Times New Roman, for instance:
Just fucking great. Instead of actually fixing the problem, they just told RFC 2396 (which is based on the ten year-old RFC 1738 and officially endorsed by the HTTP standard) to fuck itself and called it a day. And in the meantime, they recommend that users not click any links at all.
Just amazing that this is what we have to deal with.
Use Command+Left to go to the beginning of a line or Command+Right to go to the end of a line. Alt+Left and Alt+Right skip words. It's not a bad system necessarily, just one you aren't used to.
Actually, the Eolas "president" (it's a one-man operation) is only going after Microsoft specifically to promote "alternative" browsers such as Mozilla. At least it'll give us an IE patch; it seems like the only way to get Microsoft to update the thing is to come up with a lawsuit. Anyone have patents on a "Faulty DOM Implementation"? Or maybe someone with a patent on "Buffer Overflows" could take out the whole company.
Google US (which goes to a country-specific Google if available) brings up four ads; the first three are to buy the Tom Clancy novel online and the last is for the Wall Street Journal.
Google UK gives two sex toy-related links.
So yes.
What the hell do patents have to do with anything? GIF: 3,473 bytes PNG: 2,551 bytes Optimized by 26.5%.
They are.
The final example uses XHTML 1.0 Strict, even. The logical next step, I think, would be replacing the GIFs with PNGs.
Yes, they're always 10.3 steps ahead of the competition.
I know you're being at least a little sarcastic there, but I think a lot of people like the idea of getting a $500 office suite for free. I mean, how many people do you know who have a pirated installation of Photoshop, AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, Flash, etc.? How many of those actually know how to use either program on a advanced level?
On some bizarre level, OO.o is almost too inexpensive. It's hard telling people to use some office suite they've never heard of, and the fact that it's free gives people the idea that it's cheap.
I love the thing though. Burning OO.o CD-Rs for folks is definitely the best way to spread the word around, since once people actually know that it exists as a viable alternative, it sort of legitimizes it for them.
It's fundamentally wrong to blame the medium for the content. The role of a public library, for instance, is simply provide information to everyone, not to decide what information is suitable for whom. The internet is like a gigantic library.
People should accept that not everything on it is going to agree with their views. One person's right to have a copy of Hustler and another person's right to have a copy of the Bible are the exact same right. It's dangerous to think otherwise. Likewise, the technology that may allow people to spread things like child pornography (which I agree is horrible and should be illegal) helps make other forms of information free as well.
It's scary that some types of information are more free than others, because who ultimately decides what's appropriate for whom? And why is it so easy to convince people that the technology is the problem?
Well, thanks to a misguided idea called "HTML e-mail," it also needs to be a fully functional web browser. And web browsers are really complicated when you throw in things like images, style sheets, character encoding, etc.
I like how Firebird and Thunderbird are separate apps, but it'd be nice if their shared components were stored in some centralized place and actually shared to save hard drive space if not memory.
http://georgegraham.com/compress.html
The article provides a nice perspective on the subject.
In my experience, most non-geek Linux initiates are encouraged to switch by Linux users, so why not just burn an extra copy or two of your distro of choice for someone?
It's really about time we had a streaming 1-bit image format.
I can see Warcraft III lead designer Rob Pardo stepping up to that plate, since he already does a lot of interviews and such. It won't be quite the same as the guy who recorded "STOP POKING MEEEEEEEE!" but he's a good guy.
Sorting by type is not the same thing as sorting by extension. Suppose WiMP has registered *.mp3, *.au, *.aiff, *.wma, and *.aac as the same type so they can all open in it. If you sort by type, it'll sort all files of each type by name regardless of extension. Since most people let their programs handle their file associations for them, messes like these aren't especially uncommon.
So we can support non-Clear Channel-controlled stations by...skipping through their main source of revenue?