The 'proper' way to do it is to have an entry on the taskbar for each launched instance of an app even if the app's window hasn't appeared yet. Unfortuanltely, Microsoft seems to stupidly associate taskbar entries to main app windows, not apps themselves.
>> if a young child can use a UI with minimal instruction, then that UI has done it's job more or less correctly.
True but only if you believe that everyone is identical and has the same needs.
There are other costs imposed to make that GUI to be intuitive and usable by a 2 yr old. It is massively inefficient to someone who already knows what they are doing. It hides away all useful functionality (what they are now calling "advanced").
Windows 8, iPad, Android, Unity and sadly now Gnome are all like plastic scissors. Great for a 2 year old who by their nature dont understand anything. THe trouble is w'ere all forgetting about the brain surgeon who is already aware of the minimal risks of a sharp scalpel but needs that level of control only a scalpel gives him to do his job.
The real problem is it is becoming hard to find anyone left making actual scalpels, as even all the traditional scalpel makers have jumped on the plastic scissors fad.
Tablet purchasers are mostly individuals doing so for entertainment reasons, not companies. Regardless of what features a tablet offers, I don't see many businesses adopting tablets. Those that do will be the few that have unconventional use-cases where tablets work better, and will probably have bought iPads already.
He's facing a death penalty just because he said he wouldn't pray for mohammed? wow. So much for all the moderate moslems that are always claiming islam is a religion of peace and forgiveness.
I drive a high performance car. I drive what I consider a safe speed for it and me, which is hardly ever as slow as what is written on the speed limit signs. I've driven in many different countries the same way,
However because I make a point of knowing my and cars limits, keeping good situational awareness, looking a long way ahead and not taking risks, I have had absolutely no accidents in over 35 years of driving,
Regardless of what the nanny-state says, my lack of accidents over that length of time cannot just be put down to 35 years of good luck. My figures prove I am actually a safer driver the vast majority of ignorant drivers that plod along at 10 mph under the speed limit, thinking they're being safe, while pissing off everyone behind them, yet getting high safety scores with their tomtom.
How does this monitoring system cater for actually safe drivers again?
>> anyone who wants to be able to run apps written and compiled for a different CPU.
The "I want to run my old ARM app" argument is bogus here. There's a lot more to binary compatibility that it just being compiled for the same CPU. I'm pretty sure you won't be able to run another ARM platform's apps on your ARM-based Apple.
>> Furthermore, you pardon someone when you find that his positive contributions have outweighed the harm he has caused.
Incorrect, in the UK at least: You pardon someone only when new evidence comes to light that now proves the were not guilty, i.e. a miscarriage of justice has occurred. Pardons have nothing to do with the relative moral values of their other actions.
>> The RIAA also warns that the need to hire an attorney to navigate the ITC's arcane legal process will 'put justice out of reach for small business American victims of IP theft.'
Funny how they're not concerned about those same legal costs that innocent individuals have to face to defend themselves, when the RIAA spam arbitrary blocks of John Does with threatening lawyers letters that amount to extortion.
Yet more meddling by the government in trying to legislate how people choose to live....and the proof is where/what exactly that specifically violent video games increase bullying and/or cause kids to need to go outside more?
>> Just as people who interact with lifelike robots often develop a strange feeling due to something they can't quite name,..and it has nothing at all to do with the fact that anything he says is inherently untrustable, and that he is only self-serving like the worst used car salesman?
Yes I'm already aware of the Fisker and Tesla. They actually prove my point.
Fisker and Tesla have proved a 'boutique' car manufacturer can produce a high performance luxury electric sports car, in low numbers (so the & of R&D cost per car is massive) and still sell it profitably for around $100k.
It just confirms my point that a mass-manufacturer such as Chevy or Toyota could and should be able to do better for cheaper han a Volt or Prius.
What a crap name for a car. Why would the pick a name already associated with another (lamer) transport product?
Just more evidence for my ongoing conspiracy theory that car companies actually don't want people to buy electric or hybrid vehicles. They have to be seen to be making an effort, but actually they prefer to just keep making/selling the same old internal combustion cars.
They also seemingly make all hybrids and electrics unnecessarily ugly, expensive and with reduced performance from what they should be easily able to achieve.
Maybe he did keep notes, but still he hadn't actually DONE anything. In the UK Its not illegal to write down thoughts or plans involving an illegal act. If I write a plan on a piece of paper for how I might kill someone, yes I should probably be watched, but I'm not actually guilty of anything until I act on the plan.
No way. I like the fact that as a Freeman of the city of London, I have ancient legal permission to drive my herd of sheep across Tower bridge during rush hour.
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Sea water is full of everything and follows no boundaries.
>> Lincolns are Jags.
Not any more. Since June 2008 Jaguar is now owned by Tata not Ford.
Splash screens suck.
The 'proper' way to do it is to have an entry on the taskbar for each launched instance of an app even if the app's window hasn't appeared yet. Unfortuanltely, Microsoft seems to stupidly associate taskbar entries to main app windows, not apps themselves.
>> if a young child can use a UI with minimal instruction, then that UI has done it's job more or less correctly.
True but only if you believe that everyone is identical and has the same needs.
There are other costs imposed to make that GUI to be intuitive and usable by a 2 yr old. It is massively inefficient to someone who already knows what they are doing. It hides away all useful functionality (what they are now calling "advanced").
Windows 8, iPad, Android, Unity and sadly now Gnome are all like plastic scissors. Great for a 2 year old who by their nature dont understand anything. THe trouble is w'ere all forgetting about the brain surgeon who is already aware of the minimal risks of a sharp scalpel but needs that level of control only a scalpel gives him to do his job.
The real problem is it is becoming hard to find anyone left making actual scalpels, as even all the traditional scalpel makers have jumped on the plastic scissors fad.
Tablet purchasers are mostly individuals doing so for entertainment reasons, not companies.
Regardless of what features a tablet offers, I don't see many businesses adopting tablets. Those that do will be the few that have unconventional use-cases where tablets work better, and will probably have bought iPads already.
He's facing a death penalty just because he said he wouldn't pray for mohammed? wow.
So much for all the moderate moslems that are always claiming islam is a religion of peace and forgiveness.
I drive a high performance car. I drive what I consider a safe speed for it and me, which is hardly ever as slow as what is written on the speed limit signs. I've driven in many different countries the same way,
However because I make a point of knowing my and cars limits, keeping good situational awareness, looking a long way ahead and not taking risks, I have had absolutely no accidents in over 35 years of driving,
Regardless of what the nanny-state says, my lack of accidents over that length of time cannot just be put down to 35 years of good luck. My figures prove I am actually a safer driver the vast majority of ignorant drivers that plod along at 10 mph under the speed limit, thinking they're being safe, while pissing off everyone behind them, yet getting high safety scores with their tomtom.
How does this monitoring system cater for actually safe drivers again?
Lets start with being able to get source code for the OS or any of the apps. Then we'll continue by discussing the DRM.
>> anyone who wants to be able to run apps written and compiled for a different CPU.
The "I want to run my old ARM app" argument is bogus here. There's a lot more to binary compatibility that it just being compiled for the same CPU. I'm pretty sure you won't be able to run another ARM platform's apps on your ARM-based Apple.
Does it actually matter what CPU your platform is running when the OS is totally locked down?
>> Furthermore, you pardon someone when you find that his positive contributions have outweighed the harm he has caused.
Incorrect, in the UK at least:
You pardon someone only when new evidence comes to light that now proves the were not guilty, i.e. a miscarriage of justice has occurred.
Pardons have nothing to do with the relative moral values of their other actions.
OMG you clearly dont have kids. Or at least, ones that will grow up with some sense.
>> The RIAA also warns that the need to hire an attorney to navigate the ITC's arcane legal process will 'put justice out of reach for small business American victims of IP theft.'
Funny how they're not concerned about those same legal costs that innocent individuals have to face to defend themselves, when the RIAA spam arbitrary blocks of John Does with threatening lawyers letters that amount to extortion.
uhhh...what?
Yet more meddling by the government in trying to legislate how people choose to live. ...and the proof is where/what exactly that specifically violent video games increase bullying and/or cause kids to need to go outside more?
The majority getting what they want is the very definition of democracy. Anything else is basically a dictatorship.
No system can
a) Give people have enough freedom of choice to want opposing things.
and
b) Please everyone all the time.
Get over it.
They arent shrieking zealots, they are THE PEOPLE.
>> can pressure a criminal investigation by the mere weight of numbers
Oh you mean like would happen, say, in a proper and uncorrupted democracy?
>> Just as people who interact with lifelike robots often develop a strange feeling due to something they can't quite name, ..and it has nothing at all to do with the fact that anything he says is inherently untrustable, and that he is only self-serving like the worst used car salesman?
Vote Paul.
This smells of complete fabricated bullshit.
Cite your reference.
...so are you going to vote Ron Paul? He's the only politician thats said he'd do exactly this.
Yes I'm already aware of the Fisker and Tesla. They actually prove my point.
Fisker and Tesla have proved a 'boutique' car manufacturer can produce a high performance luxury electric sports car, in low numbers (so the & of R&D cost per car is massive) and still sell it profitably for around $100k.
It just confirms my point that a mass-manufacturer such as Chevy or Toyota could and should be able to do better for cheaper han a Volt or Prius.
What a crap name for a car.
Why would the pick a name already associated with another (lamer) transport product?
Just more evidence for my ongoing conspiracy theory that car companies actually don't want people to buy electric or hybrid vehicles. They have to be seen to be making an effort, but actually they prefer to just keep making/selling the same old internal combustion cars.
They also seemingly make all hybrids and electrics unnecessarily ugly, expensive and with reduced performance from what they should be easily able to achieve.
Maybe he did keep notes, but still he hadn't actually DONE anything.
In the UK Its not illegal to write down thoughts or plans involving an illegal act.
If I write a plan on a piece of paper for how I might kill someone, yes I should probably be watched, but I'm not actually guilty of anything until I act on the plan.
The difference is the people in your illustration actually bought the materials and started doing things.
This guy just read about it and hadn't acted at all.
He certainly sounds like he needs to be watched, but finding him guilty of anything and putting him in prison is an outrage.
No way.
I like the fact that as a Freeman of the city of London, I have ancient legal permission to drive my herd of sheep across Tower bridge during rush hour.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/425364.stm