It's the advertisers who should be angry. They're the ones paying for these services. They rely on the readers to view the web pages and buy their products.
In other words, consistancy. Consistancy is the key to making things intuative to learn and easy to use. This includes icons, toolbars, fonts, dialog boxes, etc. Most of these things are pretty well covered in Gnome and KDE when using Gnome apps and KDE apps. The difficulty lies when someone wants to use k3b, firefox, juk, openoffice, gaim, and gftp in either desktop. They all share different appearences which makes them appear thrown together.
I mention these specific apps because I use them frequently in both KDE and Gnome. I've tried the gtk engine to display the gtk apps like they were qt, but I had stability issues so I had to revert back to their original forms. I consider these apps the best in their individual categories and that's why I use them and deal with the inconsistancies.
I guess what I'm saying is usability might improve not just for newbies but for power users if all apps I used in KDE shared the same dialogs, at the very least. Icons and widgets would be nice, but I don't know enough about the underlying architectures of qt and gtk to expect them to be able to share these features.
In terms of daily use, annoyances of both products, and pain when the simplest task becomes complicated, microsoft office beats openoffice hands down. It is simply a much better and refined product.
I use linux, I like it, but microsoft office 2003 is a truly a good product. Openoffice 2.0 is just not nearly as good. I think a lot of people were hoping 2.0 would be the microsoft killer, but it simply isn't. Microsoft has two main sources of income, windows and office. Openoffice may be as good or better in the future, but it still has a lot of catching up to do in terms of features but more importantly usability. It's almost naive to think that openoffice 2.0 would have suceeded in the promises people around here tried to make. It's simply not that good. Office 2003 is a much better product.
Think of it this way though, it's probably cheaper for the stores to underpay their workers so they don't care about missing merchandise rather than paying them a real wage and hoping they catch thieves. If you're working in loss prevention, then yes, this is your job. But for some guy making $7 an hour mopping the floors at Wal-Mart, why would he care?
Whats more interesting is the Boeing Everett plant mentioned in that link has its own weather. I saw a special on it on the history channel and it said how it can rain inside the building. This along with the building mentioned in the article shows how humans can not assume their pride or ambition can overcome the forces of nature. You can construct a strong building, but if the foundation is made of quicksand over a fault line, it just might sink.
So what? You're not the target audience. You probably built this yourself and you knew what you were doing. Apple is trying to make a consumer product that's easy for people to figure out and use. This is like a machinist saying a cordless drill from home depot is useless because his drill press is so much more accurate and robust.
And how they use the name "Altria Group" when possible. I like how that name almost sounds like the word "altruistic" even though they're making billions by killing people.
Good points. I don't understand all the comments wondering "why Microsoft is so stupid not to know what an open format is?" They are doing this simply to buy some time and give the image that they are creating an open and free to use standard. They never truly will because then a lot of people would immediately switch to other office programs to save a few bucks. Microsoft NEEDS office. They need to hold on to the format lock-in that helps them retain their customers.
You'd still have to do something for the optics though. A screen wrapping my goggles sounds good, but how are my eyes going to focus on something an inch away for a long time? It might work better if it dynamically adjusted focus along with my eyes. For example, if I'm in combat and I need information, I shouldn't have to refocus from gunfire to the screen and back again. This takes some time and disorients the soldier. I don't know if this technology exists, but it'd make screens like this much more useful for this application.
The article/blurb never mentioned anything about the A and B buttons. This doesn't look that complicated. It seems more Dremel skills are needed than electrical engineering. All you'd have to do it break apart the MP3 player and wire the switch contacts over to the D-Pad switch contacts. It looks cool, but its got to be a lot bigger than the original. I would have liked it more if a better battery system was used. A rechargeable cell phone battery packed in there might have been a little cooler and to get some more life out of it.
Does anyone know what "final version of the OpenOffice.org application suite" means? Are they simply referring to whatever the current version of openoffice is at the time?
Most people who program, myself included as an engineering student, probably take this for granted, but GCC is like having a Home Depot down the street that gives their stuff away. For no cost, anyone can use these tools to create just about anything they want. It's pretty amazing, and fitting for Thanksgiving to show some appreciation, that we all have access to these incredible tools for free.
I hate the voice commands when they're asking you to say a number. The system only works some of the time while pressing the damn button always works.
Companies should spend more time trying to improve customer service. A lot of companies people deal with on a daily basis have no stores or salesman. The only interaction between the customers and the company is through customer service. As more industries sell items that might as well be a commodity, what will separate them in the future is loyalty brought on by good customer service.
Here's how a system could work. You load people one by one on a conveyor belt. As they move along, you take a blood, hair, or semen sample. Then a machine quickly and painlessly prints a temporary barcode on their forehead. Then they continue to move along the conveyor belt.
In about 5 minutes, the DNA is determined and compared against a database of known Un-Americans. At this time, a laser barcode reader down the line scans each head and if an enemy of the state is found, they are quickly escorted off either by trained guards or another piece of machinery for re-classification.
So what's the problem? Barcodes and conveyor belts have been around for years.
3 crackheads down the street who started their life long pursuit of illegal drugs eating magic mushrooms has sued Nintendo. They claim years of playing Super Mario Brothers in their mom's basement restructured their minds to make them addicted to mushrooms. They are also considering filing lawsuits because their pyromania stems from what they call, "a life of throwing fireballs at their enemies."
Nintendo could not be reached for comment as they were too busy wondering what the fuck is wrong with this world.
That has to be the worst idea to come out of a marketing drone since synergistic paradigm. At least Microsoft is actually working on new stuff lately. Google and Firefox have urged them to restart their old habits of copying that we haven't seen since the mid nineties.
Because the unnerds don't care. Paris Hilton's phone is stolen?? Now that's news. Face it, they don't care and the media doesn't want to waste the time trying when fantasy land entertainment figures are easy to track and report on every time they crap.
then tell everyone you know to move to Google Talk and you'll be set.
I'm running gaim and I got this aimbot stuff. I deleted them and they're gone for now. I don't mind it so much since I'm still getting a lot for paying nothing. I don't get ads with gaim and so AOL hasn't made a dime off me directly.
Microsoft probably invested a good chunk of change into this so it makes me wonder..are they trying to turn a profit on this? If they are, the market is probably small and they'll have to charge a lot per license to make any real money on it. Or, this is more or less to build up their image to impress those wishing to buy their current enterprise software for other large tasks. Bottom line, this is probably more for show than to directly turn a profit.
What's worse is that the new ones are easier and faster to use. I wouldn't trade bittorrent for napster any day. Thank you RIAA for those fast linux ISOs.
I've installed both. The computer to my right is running Ubuntu 5.10. It's really a great distro. Very clean, simple, easy to maintain, and "snappy". I installed Kubuntu a few months ago, and I feel it wasn't as polished as Ubuntu is. I think both projects are really good for the community and I'd love to see Kubuntu surpass the commercial distros like Suse and Mandriva.
I prefer to use my short term memory to remember what the pages roughly look like since my memory is free and I don't have to upgrade it. And a phishing filter is only good for the user if it blocks every phishing scheme that will ever be created. Otherwise, they'll let their guard down over time and then get bit in the ass. A better solution may be to make the user that they are aware they're on a secure server and that the server address better match with the address in the address bar. That would be a good feature for firefox to...wait...
Help them out and file bug reports since it's a release candidate. If everyone just downloaded and said nothing bad about it since it's firefox, the final version may still have some nasty bugs in it.
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It's the advertisers who should be angry. They're the ones paying for these services. They rely on the readers to view the web pages and buy their products.
In other words, consistancy. Consistancy is the key to making things intuative to learn and easy to use. This includes icons, toolbars, fonts, dialog boxes, etc. Most of these things are pretty well covered in Gnome and KDE when using Gnome apps and KDE apps. The difficulty lies when someone wants to use k3b, firefox, juk, openoffice, gaim, and gftp in either desktop. They all share different appearences which makes them appear thrown together.
I mention these specific apps because I use them frequently in both KDE and Gnome. I've tried the gtk engine to display the gtk apps like they were qt, but I had stability issues so I had to revert back to their original forms. I consider these apps the best in their individual categories and that's why I use them and deal with the inconsistancies.
I guess what I'm saying is usability might improve not just for newbies but for power users if all apps I used in KDE shared the same dialogs, at the very least. Icons and widgets would be nice, but I don't know enough about the underlying architectures of qt and gtk to expect them to be able to share these features.
In terms of daily use, annoyances of both products, and pain when the simplest task becomes complicated, microsoft office beats openoffice hands down. It is simply a much better and refined product.
I use linux, I like it, but microsoft office 2003 is a truly a good product. Openoffice 2.0 is just not nearly as good. I think a lot of people were hoping 2.0 would be the microsoft killer, but it simply isn't. Microsoft has two main sources of income, windows and office. Openoffice may be as good or better in the future, but it still has a lot of catching up to do in terms of features but more importantly usability. It's almost naive to think that openoffice 2.0 would have suceeded in the promises people around here tried to make. It's simply not that good. Office 2003 is a much better product.
Think of it this way though, it's probably cheaper for the stores to underpay their workers so they don't care about missing merchandise rather than paying them a real wage and hoping they catch thieves. If you're working in loss prevention, then yes, this is your job. But for some guy making $7 an hour mopping the floors at Wal-Mart, why would he care?
Whats more interesting is the Boeing Everett plant mentioned in that link has its own weather. I saw a special on it on the history channel and it said how it can rain inside the building. This along with the building mentioned in the article shows how humans can not assume their pride or ambition can overcome the forces of nature. You can construct a strong building, but if the foundation is made of quicksand over a fault line, it just might sink.
So what? You're not the target audience. You probably built this yourself and you knew what you were doing. Apple is trying to make a consumer product that's easy for people to figure out and use. This is like a machinist saying a cordless drill from home depot is useless because his drill press is so much more accurate and robust.
And how they use the name "Altria Group" when possible. I like how that name almost sounds like the word "altruistic" even though they're making billions by killing people.
Good points. I don't understand all the comments wondering "why Microsoft is so stupid not to know what an open format is?" They are doing this simply to buy some time and give the image that they are creating an open and free to use standard. They never truly will because then a lot of people would immediately switch to other office programs to save a few bucks. Microsoft NEEDS office. They need to hold on to the format lock-in that helps them retain their customers.
You'd still have to do something for the optics though. A screen wrapping my goggles sounds good, but how are my eyes going to focus on something an inch away for a long time? It might work better if it dynamically adjusted focus along with my eyes. For example, if I'm in combat and I need information, I shouldn't have to refocus from gunfire to the screen and back again. This takes some time and disorients the soldier. I don't know if this technology exists, but it'd make screens like this much more useful for this application.
Did this guy just watch "Independence Day" or something?
The article/blurb never mentioned anything about the A and B buttons. This doesn't look that complicated. It seems more Dremel skills are needed than electrical engineering. All you'd have to do it break apart the MP3 player and wire the switch contacts over to the D-Pad switch contacts. It looks cool, but its got to be a lot bigger than the original. I would have liked it more if a better battery system was used. A rechargeable cell phone battery packed in there might have been a little cooler and to get some more life out of it.
Does anyone know what "final version of the OpenOffice.org application suite" means? Are they simply referring to whatever the current version of openoffice is at the time?
Most people who program, myself included as an engineering student, probably take this for granted, but GCC is like having a Home Depot down the street that gives their stuff away. For no cost, anyone can use these tools to create just about anything they want. It's pretty amazing, and fitting for Thanksgiving to show some appreciation, that we all have access to these incredible tools for free.
I hate the voice commands when they're asking you to say a number. The system only works some of the time while pressing the damn button always works.
Companies should spend more time trying to improve customer service. A lot of companies people deal with on a daily basis have no stores or salesman. The only interaction between the customers and the company is through customer service. As more industries sell items that might as well be a commodity, what will separate them in the future is loyalty brought on by good customer service.
Jeez, have you no imagination?
Here's how a system could work. You load people one by one on a conveyor belt. As they move along, you take a blood, hair, or semen sample. Then a machine quickly and painlessly prints a temporary barcode on their forehead. Then they continue to move along the conveyor belt.
In about 5 minutes, the DNA is determined and compared against a database of known Un-Americans. At this time, a laser barcode reader down the line scans each head and if an enemy of the state is found, they are quickly escorted off either by trained guards or another piece of machinery for re-classification.
So what's the problem? Barcodes and conveyor belts have been around for years.
3 crackheads down the street who started their life long pursuit of illegal drugs eating magic mushrooms has sued Nintendo. They claim years of playing Super Mario Brothers in their mom's basement restructured their minds to make them addicted to mushrooms. They are also considering filing lawsuits because their pyromania stems from what they call, "a life of throwing fireballs at their enemies."
Nintendo could not be reached for comment as they were too busy wondering what the fuck is wrong with this world.
That has to be the worst idea to come out of a marketing drone since synergistic paradigm. At least Microsoft is actually working on new stuff lately. Google and Firefox have urged them to restart their old habits of copying that we haven't seen since the mid nineties.
Because the unnerds don't care. Paris Hilton's phone is stolen?? Now that's news. Face it, they don't care and the media doesn't want to waste the time trying when fantasy land entertainment figures are easy to track and report on every time they crap.
then tell everyone you know to move to Google Talk and you'll be set.
I'm running gaim and I got this aimbot stuff. I deleted them and they're gone for now. I don't mind it so much since I'm still getting a lot for paying nothing. I don't get ads with gaim and so AOL hasn't made a dime off me directly.
Microsoft probably invested a good chunk of change into this so it makes me wonder..are they trying to turn a profit on this? If they are, the market is probably small and they'll have to charge a lot per license to make any real money on it. Or, this is more or less to build up their image to impress those wishing to buy their current enterprise software for other large tasks. Bottom line, this is probably more for show than to directly turn a profit.
What's worse is that the new ones are easier and faster to use. I wouldn't trade bittorrent for napster any day. Thank you RIAA for those fast linux ISOs.
I've installed both. The computer to my right is running Ubuntu 5.10. It's really a great distro. Very clean, simple, easy to maintain, and "snappy". I installed Kubuntu a few months ago, and I feel it wasn't as polished as Ubuntu is. I think both projects are really good for the community and I'd love to see Kubuntu surpass the commercial distros like Suse and Mandriva.
I prefer to use my short term memory to remember what the pages roughly look like since my memory is free and I don't have to upgrade it. And a phishing filter is only good for the user if it blocks every phishing scheme that will ever be created. Otherwise, they'll let their guard down over time and then get bit in the ass. A better solution may be to make the user that they are aware they're on a secure server and that the server address better match with the address in the address bar. That would be a good feature for firefox to...wait...
Help them out and file bug reports since it's a release candidate. If everyone just downloaded and said nothing bad about it since it's firefox, the final version may still have some nasty bugs in it.