Hmm, I have that problem too. Except that annoying buzz is coming from the speaker that's embedded inside my monitor. They called it a "feature." Sigh.
In any case I think any good implementation would have unlimited levels of Undo/Redo, as well as let you make permanent snapshots of your document as you're working on it. See Photoshop's History palette for a great example.
Not if there was a "snapshot" sort of concept, a la Photoshop. You could take snapshots of your document every so often, and later jump back to any previous snapshot.
I agree that the idea of "save" has outlived its usefulness.
Definitely! There's no reason in this day and age users should have to remember to save their documents before quitting or whatever. The concept of "save" has outlived its usefulness.
I like what Photoshop does with its History palette. You can save snapshots of your document as you work on it, and later on you can revert to any of those previous snapshots. I'd love to see this feature replace Save more generally in Photoshop and other applications.
I think the people who are saying "CVS does that already" are sort of missing the point. I want this built in to my apps and my OS, like the way Photoshop does it. Anything less threatens to be a pain in the ass.
I understand the sentiment, and I was a little disappointed too, but how could you really expect CNN and Fox to broadcast the whole hourlong panel? It's not their format to focus on a single thing for more than ten minutes, at least not until it's dark outside. Like other posters have said, all the information is available online for those of us who want more.
On a side note, how exactly is CNN pro-Bush? Especially now that Lou Dobbs, on his sad little jihad against free trade, has become the channel's halfhearted answer to Bill O'Reilly. I hope you didn't mean CNN was anti-Dean, because that's anti-Bush too. Oops, I smell a flamewar coming... seeya!
I don't know about you, but $12.95 a month is worth it for me not to be annoyed by a piss-poor design every time I pick up the remote. Did you see this article? TiVo paid a lot of attention to the UI of their product, and it shows.
That's just me, of course; YMMV. TiVo probably won't appeal as much to people who lack good taste.
By the way, TiVo's data feed was reverse engineered a long time ago, but the hackers who figured it out aren't releasing the format as a courtesy to TiVo (the company). If TiVo ever goes under, you can bet your box won't become an "overpriced doorstop."
So the article was corrected 16 minutes after your edits. What if I came by in the first 15 minutes and used your misabbreviations in a report I was preparing for work? Then I'd be screwed, wouldn't I?
I'd have to be a fool to rely on Wikipedia for anything important. The way it is now, it's not an encyclopedia. It's nothing but an interesting social experiment.
I will. There is no guarantee of reliability (hint: it's not enough to revert 90% of vandalism within ten minutes, or whatever). The prose, littered as it is with typos, egregious irrelevancies, awkward turns of phrase and grammatical oddities, is difficult to trust psychologically. On top of that, the page layout is incredibly ugly, and there are hardly any pictures or illustrations, even where they are most needed.
Sorry if this sounds like a flame, but it's 100% true and you know it. These are very hard problems to resolve and I don't claim to know how to fix it.
Even if somebody reverts vandalism "very, very quickly," that still isn't quickly enough. When I consult a reference, I don't want to have to think about the possibility that someone's been by in the past five minutes or even the past ten seconds to add disinformation.
And in reality, the only reverts that happen "very, very quickly" are the most egregious cases of vandalism. Subtler edits can go unchanged for days or even longer.
Sorry dude, you're wrong--T-Mobile offers free, unlimited internet access through GPRS, even on the cheapest plans. I've been using it for months (browsing on my computer via a Bluetooth connection) and haven't gotten charged a penny for it. Weird thing is the settings still all reference Voicestream (e.g. APN is wap.voicestream.com). Works great though.
Yeah, regulation can stifle innovation, but at the risk of sounding glib... it can enable innovation too. Depends how great the need for regulation is and if it's the "right" sort of regulation. One example is splitting up the radio spectrum early last century so that radio, TV, etc. could be developed without worrying about stations stomping on each other.
So maybe a little regulation might help. Maybe not. Who really knows?
"Yet, given the track record of the current administration a [Bill] Gates lead government couldn't be worse."
Say what you want about his company, but as a philanthropist the guy is actively involved in some of the most worthy causes on the planet, with the billions to back it up.
By contrast, the current administration's lip service to stopping the spread of AIDS in Africa (they oppose condom use?!) is a joke, a fucking sad joke.
I wasn't sure whether to believe you at first, so I looked it up and it turns out you weren't kidding! This is just too fucking funny.
Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group (This section is by Richard Stallman.)
Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.)
However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual su mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes with the ordinary users, he can tell the rest. The "wheel group" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of the rulers.
I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you might find this idea strange at first.
T-Mobile gives you unlimited free GPRS with every plan, so you can use your phone's email client without worrying about bandwidth limits. Or you can use your Bluetooth phone to connect to the Internet anywhere you get signal (which in Manhattan, admittedly, means you'll have to sit next to the window, but it's still useful sometimes).
Cingular gives you commercials strangely reminiscent of Apple's "Switch" campaign, except with hot girls.
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Hmm, I have that problem too. Except that annoying buzz is coming from the speaker that's embedded inside my monitor. They called it a "feature." Sigh.
yours
Good God, you're an obnoxious little twit.
NO. THAT IS NOT WHAT HE MEANT.
Didn't Newton OS have multiple levels of Undo?
In any case I think any good implementation would have unlimited levels of Undo/Redo, as well as let you make permanent snapshots of your document as you're working on it. See Photoshop's History palette for a great example.
yours
Not if there was a "snapshot" sort of concept, a la Photoshop. You could take snapshots of your document every so often, and later jump back to any previous snapshot.
I agree that the idea of "save" has outlived its usefulness.
Definitely! There's no reason in this day and age users should have to remember to save their documents before quitting or whatever. The concept of "save" has outlived its usefulness.
I like what Photoshop does with its History palette. You can save snapshots of your document as you work on it, and later on you can revert to any of those previous snapshots. I'd love to see this feature replace Save more generally in Photoshop and other applications.
I think the people who are saying "CVS does that already" are sort of missing the point. I want this built in to my apps and my OS, like the way Photoshop does it. Anything less threatens to be a pain in the ass.
Then at least they can say "We took reasonable steps, Your Honor." The law is not so black and white as you seem to believe.
"If you don't like it, it's not my problem!" What a stupid approach.
How about if your pipes exploded in the winter and you called the plumber, only to hear "It's a free country. Just replace all the pipes yourself!"
Can you back up your claim that we'd be driven to extinction by an asteroid hit?
I understand the sentiment, and I was a little disappointed too, but how could you really expect CNN and Fox to broadcast the whole hourlong panel? It's not their format to focus on a single thing for more than ten minutes, at least not until it's dark outside. Like other posters have said, all the information is available online for those of us who want more.
On a side note, how exactly is CNN pro-Bush? Especially now that Lou Dobbs, on his sad little jihad against free trade, has become the channel's halfhearted answer to Bill O'Reilly. I hope you didn't mean CNN was anti-Dean, because that's anti-Bush too. Oops, I smell a flamewar coming... seeya!
yours
I don't know about you, but $12.95 a month is worth it for me not to be annoyed by a piss-poor design every time I pick up the remote. Did you see this article? TiVo paid a lot of attention to the UI of their product, and it shows.
That's just me, of course; YMMV. TiVo probably won't appeal as much to people who lack good taste.
By the way, TiVo's data feed was reverse engineered a long time ago, but the hackers who figured it out aren't releasing the format as a courtesy to TiVo (the company). If TiVo ever goes under, you can bet your box won't become an "overpriced doorstop."
yours
Wow. Bitter much?
I hope you feel better now.
Holy shit, my thoughts exactly. (Mod me down.)
Hahaha! Hahahaha! Oh, man. That was a good one. Thanks.
How do you mean? Just curious...
So the article was corrected 16 minutes after your edits. What if I came by in the first 15 minutes and used your misabbreviations in a report I was preparing for work? Then I'd be screwed, wouldn't I?
I'd have to be a fool to rely on Wikipedia for anything important. The way it is now, it's not an encyclopedia. It's nothing but an interesting social experiment.
Yeah, I'm an armchair critic.
I will. There is no guarantee of reliability (hint: it's not enough to revert 90% of vandalism within ten minutes, or whatever). The prose, littered as it is with typos, egregious irrelevancies, awkward turns of phrase and grammatical oddities, is difficult to trust psychologically. On top of that, the page layout is incredibly ugly, and there are hardly any pictures or illustrations, even where they are most needed.
Sorry if this sounds like a flame, but it's 100% true and you know it. These are very hard problems to resolve and I don't claim to know how to fix it.
yours
Even if somebody reverts vandalism "very, very quickly," that still isn't quickly enough. When I consult a reference, I don't want to have to think about the possibility that someone's been by in the past five minutes or even the past ten seconds to add disinformation.
And in reality, the only reverts that happen "very, very quickly" are the most egregious cases of vandalism. Subtler edits can go unchanged for days or even longer.
Disclaimer: My Wikipedia username is "Wikisux."
Uhh, unless I missed the joke...? :)
Sorry dude, you're wrong--T-Mobile offers free, unlimited internet access through GPRS, even on the cheapest plans. I've been using it for months (browsing on my computer via a Bluetooth connection) and haven't gotten charged a penny for it. Weird thing is the settings still all reference Voicestream (e.g. APN is wap.voicestream.com). Works great though.
yours
I'll never tell... :-)
Yeah, regulation can stifle innovation, but at the risk of sounding glib... it can enable innovation too. Depends how great the need for regulation is and if it's the "right" sort of regulation. One example is splitting up the radio spectrum early last century so that radio, TV, etc. could be developed without worrying about stations stomping on each other.
So maybe a little regulation might help. Maybe not. Who really knows?
yours
"Yet, given the track record of the current administration a [Bill] Gates lead government couldn't be worse."
Say what you want about his company, but as a philanthropist the guy is actively involved in some of the most worthy causes on the planet, with the billions to back it up.
By contrast, the current administration's lip service to stopping the spread of AIDS in Africa (they oppose condom use?!) is a joke, a fucking sad joke.
Cheers.
By the way, I sincerely hope you're not still planning to vote for Mr. Nader.
I wasn't sure whether to believe you at first, so I looked it up and it turns out you weren't kidding! This is just too fucking funny.
Typical RMS.
T-Mobile gives you unlimited free GPRS with every plan, so you can use your phone's email client without worrying about bandwidth limits. Or you can use your Bluetooth phone to connect to the Internet anywhere you get signal (which in Manhattan, admittedly, means you'll have to sit next to the window, but it's still useful sometimes).
Cingular gives you commercials strangely reminiscent of Apple's "Switch" campaign, except with hot girls.