All true, but I was talking about the overall *window* UI, not the OS UI. It's nearly identical: a control button in the upper left corner (which pops a menu with options like move, minimize, maximize, and exit), a title-bar, a minimize/maximize button in the upper right, and a pull-down menu immeditately under the title bar. The only real difference between windows in Win 3.1 and windows in Win 95 and later is the addition of the 'X' button.
I think that MS is taking a brave stance by trying to move away from the tried and true UI, but I think that many users will have a lot of trouble learning the new interface.
I tend to agree with you on both points. Changing UIs like that is a gutsy move. Even the switch to the windows 95 OS interface didn't change much about the overall window UI from 3.x. This is a huge move.
That said, I've asked folks at MS several times at conferences about the switch, and they all give a similar answer. Their research indicates that users overwhelmingly prefer the new UI over the old menu-driven approach.
It's a gutsy move, but they're sure it'll be a welcome one.
If it follows *movie* canon, Gandalf and Aragorn did not chase Gollum to Mordor. However, Balin's failure in Moria might be an interesting story. Difficult to tell, though, since we already know the outcome. Still, Lucas did it, right?
CareerBuilder.com has had a similar relationship with the local newspaper here (and a bunch of others, I gather) for some time. Looks like Yahoo is finally catching on.
Making a movie out of the Silmarillion would be like making a cartoon adaptation of a Fiscal Accounting handbook.
ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz * -- znoort. Huh? I'm sorry, I fell asleep three pages into the Silmarillion and I missed your comment. What exactly are you implying?
* will this make it past the lameness filter? Let's find out!
Oh, come now, the movies weren't that bad. In fact I quite enjoyed them. Yes, they weren't true to the books (I especially disliked the way Aragorn was a 'reluctant hero' rather than 'wants-to-be-king-so-he-can-marry-his-woman', and pretty much the whole Aragorn/Arwen relationship), but overall the movies -- as movies -- were damn good.
.... WTF? What do you mean "The Hobbit or the planned Lord of the Rings prequel"? Aren't the two the same thing? Or is this an allusion to The Silmarillion? Alas, the article is slashed, so I can't find out!!!
I started this morning by talking to everyone in XML.
<conversation>
<greeting type="friendly">Hello, fellow coworker type dude!</greeting>
<response type="violent">Have a black eye!</response>
</conversation>
...in replaing umpires. Sensors on the shoulders and knees, in the ball, and over home plate. No more bitching about a blind umpire! Great for pitching training (with a dummy, I suppose) or a high-tech sandlot game.
(They also want to reduce "Borg disk waste" by 50%... hmmm, Borg?)
Clearly "Borg disk waste" means "Microsoft disk waste". Google is moving to a less Microsoft-centric system. They clearly rely far too much on ASP.NET and SQL Server, and would like to become a LAMP shop. They may even be planning their own operating system to compete with Windows Vista.
Does this amount to indirect coercion? In XP, if I remember, unsigned drivers were allowed to run unhindered with loud information dialogs.
Not really, no. Unsigned drivers can still run in user mode -- which is all that 95% of the drivers out there really need. Microsoft is basically locking down the kernel to prevent that which causes most Windows failures -- poorly written drivers operating in kernel mode. This is a Good Thing(tm) IMO.
However, it does hinder folks with the "tinker gene" who really do need to write a kernel driver just for their computer. I suppose Microsoft could allow a special "tinker license" for Windows that would let you mess with the kernel and run unsigned kernel drivers, but it should only be available direct from Microsoft instead of OEM or off the shelf.
Look at the CPU usage: 46 percent. I'm betting he was tasking IE at the time, maybe with a very large web page or XML file. Or maybe with a webpage that loaded some wonky, memory-leaky javascript.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same guy who first bitched about the UAC always asking for passwords to do anything administrative? (read: mimics SU, only more annoyingly) Didn't Microsoft respond by taking the passwords out?
That was a bad move on both parties' account, IMO. There's a/. post still on the main page that shows why an annoying UAC (with password typing required) would be a Good Thing(tm). Where is it.... where is it.... ah!
oh, NOW he figures it out. That quality matters. Perhaps if the script for Episodes 1-3 didn't SUCK. Or maybe he figured out that people actually thought the scripts sucked for those episodes.
Go re-read the article. He actually implied that quality does *not* matter.
In a way, he's correct. After all, each of the prequels lacked quality in many ways -- particularly in the form of dialogue, character development, and acting -- but had quantity in... well, vast quantities. Yet people still went to see them in droves. If you follow that trend, he's spot on.
They COULD have claimed all the Heroes got their powers from toxic waste spills, but then they'd all be ripping off Daredevil. Maybe they could be aliens from other planets, bitten by radioactive insects, whose parents were killed in a mugging outside of an opera.
Hey, at least they're *open* about the fact that it's an X-Men rippoff... they even mentioned X-Men in the pilot. It was quite funny, and IIRC, it went something like this:
Hiro: Most people think time is like this, [draws a line] but it's really more like this. [draws a circle]
Hiro's Friend: Where did you learn that?
Hiro: X-Men 128!
IMO, the show was OK but not astounding. Hiro and his friend were quite funny, and made the show watchable. The special effects -- especially the fraternal flight fest at the end -- were sub-par, even for TV. I'll keep watching for "Super Hiro", though.
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All true, but I was talking about the overall *window* UI, not the OS UI. It's nearly identical: a control button in the upper left corner (which pops a menu with options like move, minimize, maximize, and exit), a title-bar, a minimize/maximize button in the upper right, and a pull-down menu immeditately under the title bar. The only real difference between windows in Win 3.1 and windows in Win 95 and later is the addition of the 'X' button.
PARIS HILTON == BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Lisa Simpson, however, makes sense. Alex Krotoski I've never heard of.
That said, I've asked folks at MS several times at conferences about the switch, and they all give a similar answer. Their research indicates that users overwhelmingly prefer the new UI over the old menu-driven approach.
It's a gutsy move, but they're sure it'll be a welcome one.
If it follows *movie* canon, Gandalf and Aragorn did not chase Gollum to Mordor. However, Balin's failure in Moria might be an interesting story. Difficult to tell, though, since we already know the outcome. Still, Lucas did it, right?
Er.....
um.............
Maybe not such a good example.
CareerBuilder.com has had a similar relationship with the local newspaper here (and a bunch of others, I gather) for some time. Looks like Yahoo is finally catching on.
* will this make it past the lameness filter? Let's find out!
Jack Black as Frodo has been done, and he was damn good, too!
Oh, come now, the movies weren't that bad. In fact I quite enjoyed them. Yes, they weren't true to the books (I especially disliked the way Aragorn was a 'reluctant hero' rather than 'wants-to-be-king-so-he-can-marry-his-woman', and pretty much the whole Aragorn/Arwen relationship), but overall the movies -- as movies -- were damn good.
.... WTF? What do you mean "The Hobbit or the planned Lord of the Rings prequel"? Aren't the two the same thing? Or is this an allusion to The Silmarillion? Alas, the article is slashed, so I can't find out!!!
<greeting type="friendly">Hello, fellow coworker type dude!</greeting>
<response type="violent">Have a black eye!</response>
</conversation>
...in replaing umpires. Sensors on the shoulders and knees, in the ball, and over home plate. No more bitching about a blind umpire! Great for pitching training (with a dummy, I suppose) or a high-tech sandlot game.
However, it does hinder folks with the "tinker gene" who really do need to write a kernel driver just for their computer. I suppose Microsoft could allow a special "tinker license" for Windows that would let you mess with the kernel and run unsigned kernel drivers, but it should only be available direct from Microsoft instead of OEM or off the shelf.
Look at the CPU usage: 46 percent. I'm betting he was tasking IE at the time, maybe with a very large web page or XML file. Or maybe with a webpage that loaded some wonky, memory-leaky javascript.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same guy who first bitched about the UAC always asking for passwords to do anything administrative? (read: mimics SU, only more annoyingly) Didn't Microsoft respond by taking the passwords out?
/. post still on the main page that shows why an annoying UAC (with password typing required) would be a Good Thing(tm). Where is it.... where is it.... ah!
That was a bad move on both parties' account, IMO. There's a
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In a way, he's correct. After all, each of the prequels lacked quality in many ways -- particularly in the form of dialogue, character development, and acting -- but had quantity in... well, vast quantities. Yet people still went to see them in droves. If you follow that trend, he's spot on.
Maybe; nobody else can see anything.
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I think that may be the point.
How about: USG States of GNUmerica?
Hey, at least they're *open* about the fact that it's an X-Men rippoff... they even mentioned X-Men in the pilot. It was quite funny, and IIRC, it went something like this:
Hiro: Most people think time is like this, [draws a line] but it's really more like this. [draws a circle]
Hiro's Friend: Where did you learn that?
Hiro: X-Men 128!
IMO, the show was OK but not astounding. Hiro and his friend were quite funny, and made the show watchable. The special effects -- especially the fraternal flight fest at the end -- were sub-par, even for TV. I'll keep watching for "Super Hiro", though.
I love how comments are turned off for that blog entry.
Some of us find the normal IE click sound useful, and don't particularly want it turned off.