Actually, I would have thought that the Fourth Amendment makes it somewhat doubtful that this can be done to a U.S. citizen at all. It states that:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The specificity requirement would tend to indicate that the one placing the GPS tracker specifies the place it will be used, which sort of defeats the purpose of placing the tracker in the first place.
Oh hardly. The man wants to distribute free software and he had to print out and sign 10 pages of legal documents. Then he had to comply with a whole bunch of ridiculous demands (like setting his version number less than 1.0.0 for a finished app), then deal with mountains of emails.
Does this sound like an efficient organization? Could it be that the reason why they've been overwhelmed is (gasp!) their ridiculous and inefficient distribution process?
Well, no - after all, that would be too much like *bashing Palm*. See how I turned that on you? Instead of *bashing Apple*, I turned it into *bashing Palm*! Neat trick, huh?
Well, I guess we'll agree to disagree, and I'll continue using products other than Word 2007. More power to you if you find it more useful! I don't really feel any of the things I'm talking about are minor, because the whole point was that it's meant to be intuitive, and intuitively if I want to insert a section break (which is actually quite a common occurance for a document of any complexity) I would have looked under the Insert menu.
There are other instances of this sort of thing, but similarly I could go on all day and I fear it's not something I want to do!
Except that the argument is that the ribbon is more intuitive. Why does it take 2 weeks to get acclimatized to the new interface again? I note that this is the same argument that could be made about the old interface!
"The fact is that old Office menus were complete garbage, and we only liked them because we'd been using them for the better part of almost 2 decades."
I'm sorry, but that is called "begging the question". You haven't proved anything to me - the old Office menus certainly were quite disorganized, and could definitely have been improved, but this doesn't mean that the menu system had no value.
If he had trouble with it, regardless of his previous experience, then it's because it's not intuitive! Where intuition means the ability to use the product without reading manuals, looking up online help, etc.
Incidentally, the ribbon interface has precisely nothing to do with backwards compatibility.
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+1 funny? What crack is that mod smoking?
You have heard of this technology called the cellular network, right? It involves phones you can carry around with that don't used fixed lines.
Well... given that roving wiretaps are so controversial in the Patriot Act, I'm not convinced of this. A lot of people seem to think otherwise!
Actually, I would have thought that the Fourth Amendment makes it somewhat doubtful that this can be done to a U.S. citizen at all. It states that:
The specificity requirement would tend to indicate that the one placing the GPS tracker specifies the place it will be used, which sort of defeats the purpose of placing the tracker in the first place.
Hey, someone is quoting my work!
Wow. Overuse of the word "wow" much?
I'm struggling to understand you. It's almost Kafkaesque.
Oh hardly. The man wants to distribute free software and he had to print out and sign 10 pages of legal documents. Then he had to comply with a whole bunch of ridiculous demands (like setting his version number less than 1.0.0 for a finished app), then deal with mountains of emails.
Does this sound like an efficient organization? Could it be that the reason why they've been overwhelmed is (gasp!) their ridiculous and inefficient distribution process?
Well, no - after all, that would be too much like *bashing Palm*. See how I turned that on you? Instead of *bashing Apple*, I turned it into *bashing Palm*! Neat trick, huh?
I somehow doubt that the GP was saying that smoking in a car causes 443,000 deaths per year... :-)
Of course, this just highlights the ridiculousness of the GP's post, so point made.
Yeah, and your second hand smoke would NEVER cause me any harm.
Well, I guess we'll agree to disagree, and I'll continue using products other than Word 2007. More power to you if you find it more useful! I don't really feel any of the things I'm talking about are minor, because the whole point was that it's meant to be intuitive, and intuitively if I want to insert a section break (which is actually quite a common occurance for a document of any complexity) I would have looked under the Insert menu.
There are other instances of this sort of thing, but similarly I could go on all day and I fear it's not something I want to do!
And yet you insert a page break under the Insert tab. That sort of negates what you say.
Yep, sure have.
Fish. It really doesn't mean anything.
Actually, I've not been happy with Internet Explorer since IE5.
You can think it's flamebait, but I mean what I say.
I know. Ho hum. Someone tell Microsoft to wake me up when they get around to actually making a decent browser. How many years has it been? 13 years?
Except that the argument is that the ribbon is more intuitive. Why does it take 2 weeks to get acclimatized to the new interface again? I note that this is the same argument that could be made about the old interface!
So not under the Insert tab then. Most intuitive.
Sorry to hear that you have insomnia. This being the Internet, I'm in Australian and it's 6PM for me.
Tell me, how do you add a section break using the ribbon?
"The fact is that old Office menus were complete garbage, and we only liked them because we'd been using them for the better part of almost 2 decades."
I'm sorry, but that is called "begging the question". You haven't proved anything to me - the old Office menus certainly were quite disorganized, and could definitely have been improved, but this doesn't mean that the menu system had no value.
If he had trouble with it, regardless of his previous experience, then it's because it's not intuitive! Where intuition means the ability to use the product without reading manuals, looking up online help, etc.
Incidentally, the ribbon interface has precisely nothing to do with backwards compatibility.
If it wasn't patented then what would stop someone else from implementing it? No patent != No implementation.
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POBOL? If you think that's bad, then it would be interesting to see an object-oriented Perl-COBOL. I call it POOBOL.