As mentioned by the parent, that's a feature, not a bug.
Also, if you type in and hit ctrl+enter, it'll add www. to the from and.com to the end. (Same behavior as in IE.) I use these features all the time.
I know some people will say "just type in and hit enter and the browser will figure it out for you" (especially with Safari) but 1) that's not as fast and 2) I want to resolve to., not some random DNS name the browser chooses for me.
The biggest UI upgrade by far is built-in instant search. It works like spotlight in tiger (although it has the optimization to find application shortcuts quickly, which is something that os x won't have until leopard, and a major pita in using spotlight).
Now, maybe it isn't new compared to os x, but that feature alone makes it a much better user experience than XP.
Aero works fine on a pretty low-end (ATI Mobility Radeon X300) card. Actually, it works much better than in XP, as you would expect, since it uses the GPU more...
Obviously the built-in search is the biggest win. If you don't mention this in your pros, no wonder you don't like Vista
Er, last I checked, Google started in Palo Alto (at Stanford as Larry and Sergey's research) and moved on to Mountain View. Both are in the heart of the valley. Sure, now they're building out offices everywhere, but they certainly started in the valley.
To change the volume, scroll the wheel around.
To fast forward, hit the center button once and scroll the wheel around.
To go to the next song, hit the next button on the wheel.
etc.
If there's one thing the iPod has going for it, it's the UI. They thought it through pretty well.
No, of course you don't have to press 7 four times to get an S. Do you pay attention to the smartphone industry?
The whole point of a Treo is that is has a thumboard--that's one thing the iPhone doesn't. For heavy e-mail users, the Treo and Blackberry are probably sticking around; there's no replacing a real tactile keyboard for heavy use. And yes, every smartphone (even cellphone) on the market has predictive typing capabilities, not just the iPhone.
Of course, Apple probably doesn't care; they're going after the high-end consumer market.
Get out of your shed. This functionality has been implemented in PC laptops for at least the last 5 years. Probably closer to last 10 years. Just glide your finger on the side of the touchpad, and you get vertical or horizontal scrolling. I'm amazed it took Apple so long to acquire the functionality in the first place.
The biggest problem I have with the one button design is that it makes middle clicking a pain for X11 apps. You need it for more than just pasting, for example many commercial Unix wave viewers like Debussy require you to have a middle mouse buttons just to move signals around. Now, I use a Thinkpad normally, which means my laptop has 3 mouse buttons, which makes middle clicking trivial. On a regular PC, I still can use emulate3buttons to get an emulated 3rd button by clicking on both buttons at the same time. With the Apple one-button solution, I'm SOL. And in any case it's better to have an extra button rather than just one, especially because you right click so much.
The other nice thing about the Thinkpad arrangement is that I can use the trackpoint, which after you get used to it is much nicer than the touchpad (which the Thinkpad also has), because you can move the mouse cursor without moving your hands off the keyboard. (Note that most other business PC notebooks also have this dual pointing device arrangement.)
Weird, I seem to do that all the time with my Thinkpad T43, and Windows is certainly smart enough to resize my screen to single 1400x1050 after I undock from dual 1680x1050/1400x1050 while docked. And I don't have to turn anything off. Get your facts straight.
There are some alternatives to the WRT54G that run the same chipset and might be more available. My Motorola WR850G is running the latest standard build of DD-WRT, and I have 4 of them. Cost me $28 apiece a year ago. Just follow the directions at the broadbandreports moto forum.
Did you RTFA? All he says is he can see why someone else would come to a different conclusion than they did. And it's not like Google pulling out is going to do a shit. You think making a search engine is something special? If Google pulls out, they'll just use some other censored search engine like Baidu. If eBay pulls out, they'll just use another online auction site. No matter what any corporation does, it won't have a damn effect on the grand scale in China. There is enough technical expertise there already to do anything an American company would--perhaps inferior, but none of these things (search engines, auction sites, portals, etc...) are rocket science. Pulling American corporations out of China (to be replaced by native corporations) would only lessen our fucking leverage in China. Think about it.
The middle class (the people in China that can actually USE the internet) there is growing and prosperous. By and large, they're damn happy with the ways things have gone since 1989. (If you don't believe so, I invite you to visit any modern Chinese city and look at its amazing rate of development.) If there's going to be any revolt, it'll probably be from the countryside...from the people who don't have internet access anyway.
I've never had this problem, even when running on multiple desktops with Virtual Dimension and undocking. I do use Ultramon, though. Maybe that helps.
It's amusing to read these responses and listen to the/.'ers talk to me like I know nothing (I don't claim to be a Linux kernel hacker, but I've certainly done my share of embedded and basic OS work at university and at work!). Whether the problem lies in X or somewhere else in the distribution hardly matters to the user. The user doesn't care about semantics. He doesn't care whether X deals only with text files, or that the GUI config tools should be on a a layer above X, or any of the other utter BS I've read in this thread. When the user pops in the CD, he wants it to just work, and barring that, have some common-sense way of configuring the damn thing.
I'll look into the nVidia solution (I'll start interning there in a week, though doing ASIC stuff), but alas, all Thinkpads come with ATI cards.
I just installed dapper, and wasted the last 5 hours of my life on it.
Let's try to do something simple, which I could do back in Windows _98SE_ in 1 minute: make my 2005fpw 20" lcd my primary monitor, and my t43's sxga+ screen a secondary monitor. In windows, this takes three-five clicks. Display Properties, enable secondary monitor, drag the secondary monitor to the position you'd like, set its resolution. Done. What's more, if you undock the laptop, windows will automatically detect the change, and revert you back down to only the LCD. Dock it back in, and the windows will shift back onto the primary LCD, with space on the secondary display. No logout/login or shutdown needed. Everything just WORKS automagically.
Contrast this with Dapper (and FC5; I tried that too). 5 hours after playing with fglrx, and ati+mergedFB and i STILL could not get a correct dual-head setup. In any case, you shouldn't have to muck with a textfile to do something as simple as lighting up two displays at a time. This is 2006, for crying out loud. What's more, even if I COULD get the dual-display working, you can't even use 2 monitors in Linux with hot docking. "But it's as simple as startx --serverlayout_that_you_want!" No, I don't want to fucking close all my apps and restart my X server EVERY SINGLE TIME I dock or undock my laptop. That is not an acceptable solution.
I'm not going to even bother talking about how Dapper mucked up/etc/fstab because I installed with an external USB drive attached.
I'll stick to just ssh'ing into our linux cluster when I need linux tools. (Which is often, actually--perhaps that tells you how much I cannot stand Linux on the desktop.) I love the shell, but don't delude yourself into thinking Linux is "ready for the desktop". When you want to configure a GUI like X, you should be able to use the damn GUI to configure it. Apparently, those working on Linux distributions don't get this. I'll stick with Windows and Mac for my desktop until they do.
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As mentioned by the parent, that's a feature, not a bug. Also, if you type in and hit ctrl+enter, it'll add www. to the from and .com to the end. (Same behavior as in IE.) I use these features all the time.
I know some people will say "just type in and hit enter and the browser will figure it out for you" (especially with Safari) but 1) that's not as fast and 2) I want to resolve to ., not some random DNS name the browser chooses for me.
Most people learn VB to add scripting to Excel worksheets.
Yep, that Microsoft investment in the late '90s has really sunk Apple...
virtuawin works fine for me on a dual monitor system.
The biggest UI upgrade by far is built-in instant search. It works like spotlight in tiger (although it has the optimization to find application shortcuts quickly, which is something that os x won't have until leopard, and a major pita in using spotlight).
Now, maybe it isn't new compared to os x, but that feature alone makes it a much better user experience than XP.
WLM beta works just fine in Firefox with all features enabled. It actually works better than in IE, because you can more easily block all the ads.
Er, last I checked, Google started in Palo Alto (at Stanford as Larry and Sergey's research) and moved on to Mountain View. Both are in the heart of the valley. Sure, now they're building out offices everywhere, but they certainly started in the valley.
It is very possible.
To change the volume, scroll the wheel around.
To fast forward, hit the center button once and scroll the wheel around.
To go to the next song, hit the next button on the wheel.
etc.
If there's one thing the iPod has going for it, it's the UI. They thought it through pretty well.
No, of course you don't have to press 7 four times to get an S. Do you pay attention to the smartphone industry? The whole point of a Treo is that is has a thumboard--that's one thing the iPhone doesn't. For heavy e-mail users, the Treo and Blackberry are probably sticking around; there's no replacing a real tactile keyboard for heavy use. And yes, every smartphone (even cellphone) on the market has predictive typing capabilities, not just the iPhone. Of course, Apple probably doesn't care; they're going after the high-end consumer market.
MS live search has a SOAP, Yahoo search has REST--maybe you could use those instead.
So you work for Google? Even the interns get 2 24" monitors there. Unbelievable.
Great if you want fast answers, but the RAM used in GPUs isn't as robust accuracy-wise as normal RAM.
Get out of your shed. This functionality has been implemented in PC laptops for at least the last 5 years. Probably closer to last 10 years. Just glide your finger on the side of the touchpad, and you get vertical or horizontal scrolling. I'm amazed it took Apple so long to acquire the functionality in the first place.
The biggest problem I have with the one button design is that it makes middle clicking a pain for X11 apps. You need it for more than just pasting, for example many commercial Unix wave viewers like Debussy require you to have a middle mouse buttons just to move signals around. Now, I use a Thinkpad normally, which means my laptop has 3 mouse buttons, which makes middle clicking trivial. On a regular PC, I still can use emulate3buttons to get an emulated 3rd button by clicking on both buttons at the same time. With the Apple one-button solution, I'm SOL. And in any case it's better to have an extra button rather than just one, especially because you right click so much.
The other nice thing about the Thinkpad arrangement is that I can use the trackpoint, which after you get used to it is much nicer than the touchpad (which the Thinkpad also has), because you can move the mouse cursor without moving your hands off the keyboard. (Note that most other business PC notebooks also have this dual pointing device arrangement.)
Well, at least GvR had some funny replies, like:
Q: What do you think is the most important skill every programmer should possess?
A: Your questions are rather general and hard to answer. :-) I guess being able to cook an egg for breakfast is invaluable.
Weird, I seem to do that all the time with my Thinkpad T43, and Windows is certainly smart enough to resize my screen to single 1400x1050 after I undock from dual 1680x1050/1400x1050 while docked. And I don't have to turn anything off. Get your facts straight.
There are some alternatives to the WRT54G that run the same chipset and might be more available. My Motorola WR850G is running the latest standard build of DD-WRT, and I have 4 of them. Cost me $28 apiece a year ago. Just follow the directions at the broadbandreports moto forum.
RTFA, the requirements are for Vista Premium machines, e.g. media center style PCs.
This is about ESX server, right? There is no "host" OS in ESX server, you're running on top of a VMWare proprietary kernel.
Did you RTFA? All he says is he can see why someone else would come to a different conclusion than they did. And it's not like Google pulling out is going to do a shit. You think making a search engine is something special? If Google pulls out, they'll just use some other censored search engine like Baidu. If eBay pulls out, they'll just use another online auction site. No matter what any corporation does, it won't have a damn effect on the grand scale in China. There is enough technical expertise there already to do anything an American company would--perhaps inferior, but none of these things (search engines, auction sites, portals, etc...) are rocket science. Pulling American corporations out of China (to be replaced by native corporations) would only lessen our fucking leverage in China. Think about it.
The middle class (the people in China that can actually USE the internet) there is growing and prosperous. By and large, they're damn happy with the ways things have gone since 1989. (If you don't believe so, I invite you to visit any modern Chinese city and look at its amazing rate of development.) If there's going to be any revolt, it'll probably be from the countryside...from the people who don't have internet access anyway.
Rise of Nations? Much more complexity in that game.
I've never had this problem, even when running on multiple desktops with Virtual Dimension and undocking. I do use Ultramon, though. Maybe that helps. It's amusing to read these responses and listen to the /.'ers talk to me like I know nothing (I don't claim to be a Linux kernel hacker, but I've certainly done my share of embedded and basic OS work at university and at work!). Whether the problem lies in X or somewhere else in the distribution hardly matters to the user. The user doesn't care about semantics. He doesn't care whether X deals only with text files, or that the GUI config tools should be on a a layer above X, or any of the other utter BS I've read in this thread. When the user pops in the CD, he wants it to just work, and barring that, have some common-sense way of configuring the damn thing.
I'll look into the nVidia solution (I'll start interning there in a week, though doing ASIC stuff), but alas, all Thinkpads come with ATI cards.
They haven't changed their file formats in 10 years. Give it a rest.
I just installed dapper, and wasted the last 5 hours of my life on it. Let's try to do something simple, which I could do back in Windows _98SE_ in 1 minute: make my 2005fpw 20" lcd my primary monitor, and my t43's sxga+ screen a secondary monitor. In windows, this takes three-five clicks. Display Properties, enable secondary monitor, drag the secondary monitor to the position you'd like, set its resolution. Done. What's more, if you undock the laptop, windows will automatically detect the change, and revert you back down to only the LCD. Dock it back in, and the windows will shift back onto the primary LCD, with space on the secondary display. No logout/login or shutdown needed. Everything just WORKS automagically. Contrast this with Dapper (and FC5; I tried that too). 5 hours after playing with fglrx, and ati+mergedFB and i STILL could not get a correct dual-head setup. In any case, you shouldn't have to muck with a textfile to do something as simple as lighting up two displays at a time. This is 2006, for crying out loud. What's more, even if I COULD get the dual-display working, you can't even use 2 monitors in Linux with hot docking. "But it's as simple as startx --serverlayout_that_you_want!" No, I don't want to fucking close all my apps and restart my X server EVERY SINGLE TIME I dock or undock my laptop. That is not an acceptable solution. I'm not going to even bother talking about how Dapper mucked up /etc/fstab because I installed with an external USB drive attached.
I'll stick to just ssh'ing into our linux cluster when I need linux tools. (Which is often, actually--perhaps that tells you how much I cannot stand Linux on the desktop.) I love the shell, but don't delude yourself into thinking Linux is "ready for the desktop". When you want to configure a GUI like X, you should be able to use the damn GUI to configure it. Apparently, those working on Linux distributions don't get this. I'll stick with Windows and Mac for my desktop until they do.