It seems like the "new" twist in WinXP is that the grouping happens only when there is no more room left in the taskbar, and when there's room again it ungroups.
Wich is a behaviour that makes it really annoying, because you have to switch your mind-gears between "searching among open windows for the useful window" and "search for the app icon and then navigate to the useful window". I'd rather have "grouping always" or "grouping never", the latter being what you get when you disable the grouping 'feature'.
Id have a lot less trust if they tried to deny it for ages, until theyre eventually forced to admit the mistake and then not want to compensate people for their losses.
Yeah, that rocks. Maybe they learned something from the 585.98234587264872642348725462532 fiasco...
has more to do with Slash and Duff McKagan together again
Bah, those two aren't all that great. Where's Izzy Stradlin, that's what I would be looking out for. (Check out liner notes in all the GNR albums, he was the driving creative force behind the spoiled brat tantrums of Axl Rose... and soon after he left the band, no more original songs... one cover album and down the drain)
Actually, the inclusion of Scott Weiland arouses my curiosity a lot more than Slash/Duff/Matt. Always wondered what GNR would sound like if they had a real singer and not a whinning bitch.
To the ignorant soul who modded the parent poster as "Flamebait":
In tennis, (in Wimlbedon and english-language tournaments, at least), the referee never says "zero". When the score is 30-0 the ref does not say "Player leads thirty zero". He says "Player leads thirty-LOVE".
So, to a tennis player, in the context of a match, LOVE means ZERO. Get it now?
IIRC, it comes from the french language, because the number zero looks like an egg, so in french it's "l'oeuf".
So, the correct mod was "Funny". But no, you had to read the post, not understand a word of it, and mod if "Flamebait" because you don't understand.
And to parent poster, well done. I laughed quite a bit:)
I had the exact opposite experience some years ago... and I couldn't believe it!
I was working at home and remembered that I had to pay my credit card, so I go into my bank webpage and try the transfer from my checking account into my visa... but nothing. I was using mozilla, 1.2 I think.
So I call tech support and tell them that their transfers page doesn't work. The guy asks me what browser am I using. "Mozilla 1.2". What OS? "Linux". Wich distro? "umm... Redhat, 7.3". (I sure wasn't expecting THAT question).
And miracle of miracles, two days later the transfers worken on mozilla 1.2 + Redhat 7.3.
experiment that yields unexpected/bad results is a GOOD experiment.
Exactly!
Some people think it will reflect badly on them if their conclusions read like "people, don't even think of doing this. It doesn't work!", without realizing that, if they have proven that the approach they were taking or their hypothesis suck, they have saved a ton of time of other researchers that will not waste their time trying to do the same thing. And those poeple will investigate another thing, and that's how science goes forward:)
You mean to tell me that all this time people defining "spam" as "unsolicited email" were wrong?
Please tell me where I said that spam was not unwanted email.
As for your recycling woes,:(. Doesn't happen that way around these parts, but the other way around. (256/128kbps DSL is about, say, US$38/month, but people will take recycling paper out of your garbage!)
BTW, you can't get fraudulent snail mail. Ok, you can, but there's a law against it. And the people who sent the 17lbs of paper paid to send it. When you get spam, you paid for the bandwidth to download it.
IBM will start shipping an "enhanced" version of Linux, with a whole bunch of closed source IBM-only executables in it. Just like they did with Unix. Trying to lock people in again. And spreading FUD like they already did before.
They can ship all the binaries they want that run on linux, but any improvement over the linux kernel should be under the GPL. And their own case against SCO would come back and kick their own asses.
...goes a long way towards keeping your company productive.
Besides, I'm guessing that a lot of those PHD's independent projects have something to do or might eventually be integrated into google (PHDs researching information retrieval, web page ranking algorithms, you name it).
My folks bought one. Last time I went over for lunch I used the computer. Best damn CRT I've ever used. Sharpestr definition, bright and strong colors, and a not too shabby 1152x864@80Hz on a 17" screen. Not too shabby at all:)
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go finish saying my last goodbyes to my wife and my kitten. A slashdotter admitting wrong, the end of the world is here before supper!:D
Did you read my post or did you zero on the word "free" and went off on a rant? Let us see:
If you read my post, you would see "free" is describing "cooking oil", not "biodiesel".
Now, why do I need it to be free? Because is says so in TFA. Hell, it's even on the summary posted on the front page:
It didn't take him long to find a recipe for biodiesel, and with used cooking oil that he gets for free from a nearby restaurant, he figures he's now getting 44 miles per gallon out of his diesel powered VW Golf and only paying 41 cents a gallon.
It's $0.41 a gallon provided that he doesn't have to pay for the used vegetable oil. As in "gets used oil for free". Get it?
So, when you are going to flame somebody because they didn't read, please DO read first. Otherwise, you might be just making an ass out of yourself. Like, say, right now.
But somehow, my wife consistently plays a better SimCity game than I do.
I can get the whole map carpeted with houses in less time, but she has more money, prettier barrios, higher land value and better approval rating. I never could match her at SimCity:)
I want my n-monitor system with that funny IDE that lets you code exploits with on-screen spinning lego and gets you fine wines and a hot babe like Halle Berry.
Yes, exactly. Threathening with EOL didn't create the mass upgrade that MS dreamed of, so they must extend support until the next version of windows so that people don't bail out and leave longhorn with a diminished marketshare when it comes out.
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Wich is a behaviour that makes it really annoying, because you have to switch your mind-gears between "searching among open windows for the useful window" and "search for the app icon and then navigate to the useful window". I'd rather have "grouping always" or "grouping never", the latter being what you get when you disable the grouping 'feature'.
Grouping in the taskbar has to be one of the most annoying "Features" ever seen in a taskbar.
Yeah, that rocks. Maybe they learned something from the 585.98234587264872642348725462532 fiasco...
2. mandatory and costly MS upgrade cycles
3. proprietary lock in
4.piss off Bill Gates
You forgot:
5.- Get a kickass discount from MS.
And then:
6a.- Accept discount, tell OSS comunity to go hump or they shall taunt OSS again.
OR
6b.- Tell MS to piss off and get extra-strength number 4 (
Bah, those two aren't all that great. Where's Izzy Stradlin, that's what I would be looking out for. (Check out liner notes in all the GNR albums, he was the driving creative force behind the spoiled brat tantrums of Axl Rose... and soon after he left the band, no more original songs... one cover album and down the drain)
Actually, the inclusion of Scott Weiland arouses my curiosity a lot more than Slash/Duff/Matt. Always wondered what GNR would sound like if they had a real singer and not a whinning bitch.
Team X comes up with great new tech Y.
Team X wipes the floor with everybody else.
Regulations make Y ilegal or restrains it hard.
Back to square one.
(Remember Williams' active suspension? It got Nigel Mansell a chamopionship!)
In tennis, (in Wimlbedon and english-language tournaments, at least), the referee never says "zero". When the score is 30-0 the ref does not say "Player leads thirty zero". He says "Player leads thirty-LOVE".
So, to a tennis player, in the context of a match, LOVE means ZERO. Get it now?
IIRC, it comes from the french language, because the number zero looks like an egg, so in french it's "l'oeuf".
So, the correct mod was "Funny". But no, you had to read the post, not understand a word of it, and mod if "Flamebait" because you don't understand.
And to parent poster, well done. I laughed quite a bit :)
Lots of people, actually.
Tho, I know I couldn't. If I hadn't web access, I would not be able to slack off in slashdot and I would have to actually *WORK*!
The horror! The humanity!
I was working at home and remembered that I had to pay my credit card, so I go into my bank webpage and try the transfer from my checking account into my visa... but nothing. I was using mozilla, 1.2 I think.
So I call tech support and tell them that their transfers page doesn't work. The guy asks me what browser am I using. "Mozilla 1.2". What OS? "Linux". Wich distro? "umm... Redhat, 7.3". (I sure wasn't expecting THAT question).
And miracle of miracles, two days later the transfers worken on mozilla 1.2 + Redhat 7.3.
(shameless plug)
In a similar initiative, the company I work with has republished my country's first newspaper, from the first issue in 1812.
Exactly!
Some people think it will reflect badly on them if their conclusions read like "people, don't even think of doing this. It doesn't work!", without realizing that, if they have proven that the approach they were taking or their hypothesis suck, they have saved a ton of time of other researchers that will not waste their time trying to do the same thing. And those poeple will investigate another thing, and that's how science goes forward :)
Please tell me where I said that spam was not unwanted email.
As for your recycling woes, :(. Doesn't happen that way around these parts, but the other way around. (256/128kbps DSL is about, say, US$38/month, but people will take recycling paper out of your garbage!)
Seriously, wtf with all that elitist crap?
You recycle it, of course.
BTW, you can't get fraudulent snail mail. Ok, you can, but there's a law against it. And the people who sent the 17lbs of paper paid to send it. When you get spam, you paid for the bandwidth to download it.
They can ship all the binaries they want that run on linux, but any improvement over the linux kernel should be under the GPL. And their own case against SCO would come back and kick their own asses.
Besides, I'm guessing that a lot of those PHD's independent projects have something to do or might eventually be integrated into google (PHDs researching information retrieval, web page ranking algorithms, you name it).
My folks bought one. Last time I went over for lunch I used the computer. Best damn CRT I've ever used. Sharpestr definition, bright and strong colors, and a not too shabby 1152x864@80Hz on a 17" screen. Not too shabby at all :)
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go finish saying my last goodbyes to my wife and my kitten. A slashdotter admitting wrong, the end of the world is here before supper! :D
If you read my post, you would see "free" is describing "cooking oil", not "biodiesel".
Now, why do I need it to be free? Because is says so in TFA. Hell, it's even on the summary posted on the front page:
It didn't take him long to find a recipe for biodiesel, and with used cooking oil that he gets for free from a nearby restaurant, he figures he's now getting 44 miles per gallon out of his diesel powered VW Golf and only paying 41 cents a gallon.
It's $0.41 a gallon provided that he doesn't have to pay for the used vegetable oil. As in "gets used oil for free". Get it?
So, when you are going to flame somebody because they didn't read, please DO read first. Otherwise, you might be just making an ass out of yourself. Like, say, right now.
I can get the whole map carpeted with houses in less time, but she has more money, prettier barrios, higher land value and better approval rating. I never could match her at SimCity :)
A 500ci engine? How much gallons per mile do you get? :D
I want my n-monitor system with that funny IDE that lets you code exploits with on-screen spinning lego and gets you fine wines and a hot babe like Halle Berry.
Uh, yeah. God forbid we deprive the poor starving masses of their USED cooking oil.
a) Have a diesel car.
b) Have somebody who will give you free used oil.
Not all of us live nearby KFC :)
Yes, exactly. Threathening with EOL didn't create the mass upgrade that MS dreamed of, so they must extend support until the next version of windows so that people don't bail out and leave longhorn with a diminished marketshare when it comes out.