Too early to tell if this is a decent program. Right now it is slow as molasses. Can't tell whether it's the client side program or the server that's slow, or maybe a little of both.
It's so slow now, I've got to wonder if their servers are down. But since it's beta that's perfectly acceptible.
Sure. People can deal with it. Google just has to put no ads in the pages that would annoy people. I haven't figured out which pages that is yet (it would be a shift) but I'm sure they could figure it out.
I decided to switch from Google to Yahoo. Originally I made my.yahoo.com my home page instead of www.google.com. It didn't take long to realize I didn't want ads on my home page, so I changed my home page to search.yahoo.com.
BTW, Yahoo! Search is just as good as Google's, I've found.
Just the fact that it's in XML doesn't make it that much easier. There are still the images and things to deal with. What makes it easy is that both formats are documented and free of patent nonsense.
Actually it's even funnier because he screwed it up. It's the Koreans we're talking about here. Not sure whether the grandparent learned English as a second (or later) language or if (s)he's just a hick, but it sounds like Ingrish to me.
No wonder all of the really good programmers I know aren't interested in working at MS. It's a company dominated by marketing, and that becomes clearer every day.
If they refuse to look at the past, they refuse to learn from the past. No wonder they're fascists.
99% of times I read the word QA it's bullshit. That's the case here.
Just having users doesn't get something tested for the developers. They need to have meaningful communication with their users. The kind of users that get things fixed are those who understand the source. I'd say Mozilla has at least ten times such users as IE, due to it being open source.
Mozilla probably has more patches because there is more rapid development. This is why number of patches is a bullshit metric. It's great for sensationalistic journalists who want to drum things up though.
Show me a percentage of Firefox users that have had their computers screwed up, compared with IE. I'm sure the Firefox number will be lower.
If Firefox had been more popular, would it have been more exploited? Would it have been worse than IE? These are useless questions.
The point is, Firefox users are more secure than IE users. And Firefox developers are much better listeners than IE developers. People who use Firefox have a better experience with their computers. And that is why IE has lost market share.
I hope nobody takes all these B. S. articles seriously.
Great! Somebody get some lobbyists and set this into motion.
What, nobody has any lobbyists available? Too bad.
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Yeah, it felt Japanese to me as well. I think it's overall a bad thing, because they're adding another thing for people to learn, but there are some things I could like about their new toolbar scheme.
In it's current state, it's ugly though. The use of images vs. no images, margins, etc. make no sense.
I am kind of glad everyone is doing the search bars. I don't think invented them or anything, but they are a lot more ubiquitous on OS X than any other operating system. I have a Mac and the search bars are pretty darn useful.
Good to see Microsoft being original
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Drop Shadows - Mac: right bottom, Windows: left bottom
Search Box Magnifying Glass - Mac: left side, Windows: right side
I agree. I have only been given daily grind tasks at work. I also have a bad workspace.
I think the last paragraph was particularly insightful (and of course it needed the previous paragraphs to lead into). It needs to make it out in to online news sources as much as possible. I think you might write an article about it and email it to Paul Graham. He may add a link to one of his essays if it's as insightful as the above post:)
I know that. But enlightenment, I think, had the minimized windows showing their contents before OS X did. Also, the dock on NeXT looks quite different.
Enlightenment has been out longer than Mac OS X and has had an interface similar to the dock. So Apple may have copied Enlightenment, not the other way around.
I'm not trying to trumpet OS X...yeah the fuck right, you freakin' karma whore.
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It's so slow now, I've got to wonder if their servers are down. But since it's beta that's perfectly acceptible.
Oh, wait, that already happened.
At least Shuttleworth won't join them due to lack of money. He's richer than coffee puree.
I decided to switch from Google to Yahoo. Originally I made my.yahoo.com my home page instead of www.google.com. It didn't take long to realize I didn't want ads on my home page, so I changed my home page to search.yahoo.com.
BTW, Yahoo! Search is just as good as Google's, I've found.
Millions of people who use music for motivation would disagree with you on that point.
Just the fact that it's in XML doesn't make it that much easier. There are still the images and things to deal with. What makes it easy is that both formats are documented and free of patent nonsense.
Actually it's even funnier because he screwed it up. It's the Koreans we're talking about here. Not sure whether the grandparent learned English as a second (or later) language or if (s)he's just a hick, but it sounds like Ingrish to me.
So they could be working on a project as a small group, spewing something that's useless crap to everyone else. But they choose not to.
Sounds like plain and simple good engineering to me.
Right-O.
No wonder all of the really good programmers I know aren't interested in working at MS. It's a company dominated by marketing, and that becomes clearer every day.
If they refuse to look at the past, they refuse to learn from the past. No wonder they're fascists.
I stopped reading IBM articles a while ago. The forced registration is very annoying. Another reason is that the articles are often pointless.
Hello dickless.
Why do you feel the need to spew such bullshit? Or is it the best you can come up with?
You're pathetic.
I will not be trying out World of Warcraft. Once I get a network connection, it will be Guild Wars instead.
Why don't you merge with cingular? Then your developers can leave and you can just be one big ball of suck.
Just having users doesn't get something tested for the developers. They need to have meaningful communication with their users. The kind of users that get things fixed are those who understand the source. I'd say Mozilla has at least ten times such users as IE, due to it being open source.
Mozilla probably has more patches because there is more rapid development. This is why number of patches is a bullshit metric. It's great for sensationalistic journalists who want to drum things up though.
If Firefox had been more popular, would it have been more exploited? Would it have been worse than IE? These are useless questions.
The point is, Firefox users are more secure than IE users. And Firefox developers are much better listeners than IE developers. People who use Firefox have a better experience with their computers. And that is why IE has lost market share.
I hope nobody takes all these B. S. articles seriously.
What, nobody has any lobbyists available? Too bad.
In it's current state, it's ugly though. The use of images vs. no images, margins, etc. make no sense.
I am kind of glad everyone is doing the search bars. I don't think invented them or anything, but they are a lot more ubiquitous on OS X than any other operating system. I have a Mac and the search bars are pretty darn useful.
Search Box Magnifying Glass - Mac: left side, Windows: right side
Can anyone come up with any others?
That would only be true if nobody talked about it. Maroon.
Gotta love wikipedia :)
I think the last paragraph was particularly insightful (and of course it needed the previous paragraphs to lead into). It needs to make it out in to online news sources as much as possible. I think you might write an article about it and email it to Paul Graham. He may add a link to one of his essays if it's as insightful as the above post :)
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Nope, sorry, don't trust you. Maybe if your /. id was lower.
I liked Windows 3.0.
I know that. But enlightenment, I think, had the minimized windows showing their contents before OS X did. Also, the dock on NeXT looks quite different.
Enlightenment has been out longer than Mac OS X and has had an interface similar to the dock. So Apple may have copied Enlightenment, not the other way around.
I'm not trying to trumpet OS X...yeah the fuck right, you freakin' karma whore.