which is why a right-click menu should NEVER be the only way of accessing functionality.
I agree, and it isn't the only way. All context-menu functionality is duplicated in the top-level menu. And you have hot keys. So for rename in Gnome, you have 3 options (that I know of): 1. right-click on file, rename 2. select file, Edit menu item->Rename 3. select file, hit F2
In my opinion, the mouse shouldn't be the only way to do things, there should always be a way to do it with the keyboard.
Microsoft could crush Linux forever tomorrow... If they released Windows complete with source under the GPL. Won't ever happen.
I would expect this would cause more of a merging of the two, or at least make it very easy for both sides to borrow from each other, and for compatibility to be established between the two. This would be a good thing for the general public, but probably a bad thing for Microsoft, as they would have to make some modifications to their business model.
People are buying iPods - not WMA players. If that's the case, it *makes sense* to tie them to the Apple store.
Actually, iTMS is more an attempt to sell iPods than the other way around. They don't profit enough from iTMS for it to matter, what matters is they sell iPods.
What happens with your model to a man whose wife works?
There are always exceptions to the rule. But I am talking about what's most common and more likely. You can try to argue that its uncommon that a man has to support a family including a wife that doesn't work and children...
If a women is supporting a family while the man stays at home and doesn't work, he needs to get off his lazy ass (or at least that's what society says). I know it does happen, but it is not the norm.
At the same time, I hear people damning the "conservatives" who insist that a woman's place is in the home, taking care of the children.
To me, the most visible conflict between the sexes is whether or not women and men get paid equally for doing the same kind of work at the same level of skill. I don't think a person's sex should matter in determining his or her rate of pay (indeed, in the U.S., this type of discrimination was made illegal in 1975), but it still does matter, sometimes. I think most of us would agree with the idea of equal pay?
I think the idea that men should be paid more is valid for this reason: Men are more likely to be supporting a wife who is at home taking care of the children. A woman is unlikely to be supporting her spouse, and at worst, is supporting only children.
I know a lot of women who haven't gotten anywhere career-wise and are looking for a man to pay for everything so they can stay at home and not work.
I noticed they had an edited (censored) album for download. Are they going to sell only censored albums like they do in their stores? I just did a bit of browsing around and many albums are "edited."
If this is the case, this music service is going to be useless for a lot of music.
I had no problem with either site, though I didn't log in to expensable.com. Browsing with Firebird 0.7. I logged in to the NYU site no problem, it appears the same as in IE.
I did notice one thing. When I go to the NYU site with Firebird, I get these hot chicks on the front page, whereas with IE I get some dorky dude. Needless to say, I'll continue to use Firebird.
I've seen both these things, too (no text and the overlapping sidebars). The no text thing is strange, because if you look at the page source its all there. It's gotten a lot better recently, though, and I haven't seen the no text thing in a while. Maybe they fixed it.
Who really wants all this shadowing, and translucent windows, and animated desktop graphics? I mean seriously, what's the point? Does it help you get you work done? Does it increase your productivity?
Yes, we want it. Yes, it makes us more productive. Yes, it helps get work done. Its quite simple: visual cues. For example, you minimize a window, and you see it animate its way to the taskbar. That animation cues you as to where it will be when you want to select it in the taskbar.
Shadow effects are helpful because they give you a clear distinction between windows (or widgets such as menus), and you can quickly tell where a window ends.
Translucency, I don't know how useful that will be. Probably because I've never used an app with translucency. Maybe it'll be helpful, maybe it won't. I'll give it a try, though. Maybe it'll be good for things you want to keep open, but don't want to have to compromise desktop real estate for.
I don't think this is about trying to sell hardware, its more about giving users what they want. Personally, I like my GUI looking nice. I like the fact that Gnome looks great (IMO, better than Windows and KDE). I'd like to see shadowing and maybe some other effects. I'd like my desktop to be as smooth looking as OS X (but not bloated and ugly like WinXP).
It is obvious that Slashdot was just planning to break the HTML standard to force everyone to use Slashdot's "integrated" browser, Mozilla.
I disagree here, considering how poorly Slashdot has rendered with recent versions of Mozilla and Firebird. I've had huge problems, to the point where I'm hitting reload 10 times just to get a message to post properly.
Personally, I think Slashdot is paid by Microsoft to break compatibility with Mozilla/Firebird. But I haven't browsed Slashdot with IE to confirm this conspiracy theory. However, I can at least point to all the Microsoft ads we see on Slashdot all the time. They probably charge Microsoft a little extra in exchange for little "tweaks" to the HTML here and there. Meanwhile, the Slashdot staff is using Safari (or IE?) on OS X so it renders fine for them.
Even as I preview this message in Firebird, the left panel is overlapping with the main content. It looks like a total mess. I'm going to hit submit and hope that it actually displays the message I just submitting, so that I know it actually submitted.
I've had huge problems with Slashdot using Firebird 0.7 (and 0.6). The left panel often doesn't line up with the main content, sometimes they overlap which looks like a total mess. Many many times I do a preview or submit of a message and I get a page with the left panel, but not the main content. But then I go read the HTML and see that all the text is there, it just didn't render correctly.
I've notice a lot of problems like this after they redid the left panel.
Very strange behavior. I haven't really noticed anything strange like this on any other sites I visit.
I'll eat spam for breakfast before I let them tax email.
I can't imagine how something like this would be implemented. Would your ISP monitor how many times you send mail through their SMTP servers? What if you ran your own SMTP servers? Would they have to monitor all of your communications in order to log how much e-mail you sent out? What if a spammer spoofed your e-mail address, causing you to be charged for it? Who is going to bill you? etc...
You can't tax internet communication (unless its a flat tax), when will these politicians learn that?
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which is why a right-click menu should NEVER be the only way of accessing functionality.
I agree, and it isn't the only way. All context-menu functionality is duplicated in the top-level menu. And you have hot keys. So for rename in Gnome, you have 3 options (that I know of):
1. right-click on file, rename
2. select file, Edit menu item->Rename
3. select file, hit F2
In my opinion, the mouse shouldn't be the only way to do things, there should always be a way to do it with the keyboard.
It is punishment enough that they are baiting him into becoming a Microsoft drone.
They allow you to post on Slashdot? You lucky bastard.
Microsoft could crush Linux forever tomorrow... If they released Windows complete with source under the GPL. Won't ever happen.
I would expect this would cause more of a merging of the two, or at least make it very easy for both sides to borrow from each other, and for compatibility to be established between the two. This would be a good thing for the general public, but probably a bad thing for Microsoft, as they would have to make some modifications to their business model.
People are buying iPods - not WMA players. If that's the case, it *makes sense* to tie them to the Apple store.
Actually, iTMS is more an attempt to sell iPods than the other way around. They don't profit enough from iTMS for it to matter, what matters is they sell iPods.
What happens with your model to a man whose wife works?
There are always exceptions to the rule. But I am talking about what's most common and more likely. You can try to argue that its uncommon that a man has to support a family including a wife that doesn't work and children...
If a women is supporting a family while the man stays at home and doesn't work, he needs to get off his lazy ass (or at least that's what society says). I know it does happen, but it is not the norm.
At the same time, I hear people damning the "conservatives" who insist that a woman's place is in the home, taking care of the children.
To me, the most visible conflict between the sexes is whether or not women and men get paid equally for doing the same kind of work at the same level of skill. I don't think a person's sex should matter in determining his or her rate of pay (indeed, in the U.S., this type of discrimination was made illegal in 1975), but it still does matter, sometimes. I think most of us would agree with the idea of equal pay?
I think the idea that men should be paid more is valid for this reason: Men are more likely to be supporting a wife who is at home taking care of the children. A woman is unlikely to be supporting her spouse, and at worst, is supporting only children.
I know a lot of women who haven't gotten anywhere career-wise and are looking for a man to pay for everything so they can stay at home and not work.
I noticed they had an edited (censored) album for download. Are they going to sell only censored albums like they do in their stores? I just did a bit of browsing around and many albums are "edited."
If this is the case, this music service is going to be useless for a lot of music.
This is great that they did this but perhaps resources would be better spent developing for Mozilla?
Not if the "patch" involves replacing IE with Mozilla or another Gecko-based browser.
Microsoft isn't stupid, Linux is a great study in OS Development, and they are using it to their advantage.
Well what took them so long? And what was with all the anti-Linux FUD?
They may not being completely stupid, but they are certainly slow.
Why can't Debian take from these projects and make their distro better?
Because some of the components are proprietary and closed source?
I had no problem with either site, though I didn't log in to expensable.com. Browsing with Firebird 0.7. I logged in to the NYU site no problem, it appears the same as in IE.
I did notice one thing. When I go to the NYU site with Firebird, I get these hot chicks on the front page, whereas with IE I get some dorky dude. Needless to say, I'll continue to use Firebird.
SO yes you have to patch even if you dont run IE.
Cry use moz all you want, but you still HAVE to patch IE.
Not when you're using Linux!!!! or OS X... or Solaris.. or FreeBSD.
I've seen both these things, too (no text and the overlapping sidebars). The no text thing is strange, because if you look at the page source its all there. It's gotten a lot better recently, though, and I haven't seen the no text thing in a while. Maybe they fixed it.
And the sales of Ogg-capable hardware are up, too, since there finally is some.
What hardware is capable of playing Ogg?
Who really wants all this shadowing, and translucent windows, and animated desktop graphics? I mean seriously, what's the point? Does it help you get you work done? Does it increase your productivity?
Yes, we want it. Yes, it makes us more productive. Yes, it helps get work done. Its quite simple: visual cues. For example, you minimize a window, and you see it animate its way to the taskbar. That animation cues you as to where it will be when you want to select it in the taskbar.
Shadow effects are helpful because they give you a clear distinction between windows (or widgets such as menus), and you can quickly tell where a window ends.
Translucency, I don't know how useful that will be. Probably because I've never used an app with translucency. Maybe it'll be helpful, maybe it won't. I'll give it a try, though. Maybe it'll be good for things you want to keep open, but don't want to have to compromise desktop real estate for.
I don't think this is about trying to sell hardware, its more about giving users what they want. Personally, I like my GUI looking nice. I like the fact that Gnome looks great (IMO, better than Windows and KDE). I'd like to see shadowing and maybe some other effects. I'd like my desktop to be as smooth looking as OS X (but not bloated and ugly like WinXP).
It is obvious that Slashdot was just planning to break the HTML standard to force everyone to use Slashdot's "integrated" browser, Mozilla.
I disagree here, considering how poorly Slashdot has rendered with recent versions of Mozilla and Firebird. I've had huge problems, to the point where I'm hitting reload 10 times just to get a message to post properly.
Personally, I think Slashdot is paid by Microsoft to break compatibility with Mozilla/Firebird. But I haven't browsed Slashdot with IE to confirm this conspiracy theory. However, I can at least point to all the Microsoft ads we see on Slashdot all the time. They probably charge Microsoft a little extra in exchange for little "tweaks" to the HTML here and there. Meanwhile, the Slashdot staff is using Safari (or IE?) on OS X so it renders fine for them.
Even as I preview this message in Firebird, the left panel is overlapping with the main content. It looks like a total mess. I'm going to hit submit and hope that it actually displays the message I just submitting, so that I know it actually submitted.
I've had huge problems with Slashdot using Firebird 0.7 (and 0.6). The left panel often doesn't line up with the main content, sometimes they overlap which looks like a total mess. Many many times I do a preview or submit of a message and I get a page with the left panel, but not the main content. But then I go read the HTML and see that all the text is there, it just didn't render correctly.
I've notice a lot of problems like this after they redid the left panel.
Very strange behavior. I haven't really noticed anything strange like this on any other sites I visit.
Just call it Firebird!
Or how about Firehat? Oh wait, nope.
anyone else find it a bit of a coincidence that the Fedora Project's web site has a black hat as its logo?
Dude, I feel really bad for you. When you said you had a few women, I didn't realize how bad it really was.
You're using an SMC networking product. That's not bragging, that's a cry for help.
True enough... I have an SMC wireless router that I got for free, and I don't think its worth what I paid...
I'll eat spam for breakfast before I let them tax email.
I can't imagine how something like this would be implemented. Would your ISP monitor how many times you send mail through their SMTP servers? What if you ran your own SMTP servers? Would they have to monitor all of your communications in order to log how much e-mail you sent out? What if a spammer spoofed your e-mail address, causing you to be charged for it? Who is going to bill you? etc...
You can't tax internet communication (unless its a flat tax), when will these politicians learn that?
Is this the guy that thinks that robots are going to take over the world?!!
You mean robots haven't already?