That's not really an issue - the same laws that make the road agencies keep roads open for use by the public will make the future road agencies keep the future-roads open for the public to use - public servants will always be public servants.
I'm using it right now, so clearly you have no idea what you're talking about.
The keyboard navigation does NOT work out of the box. Even when you enable the "full keyboard access" in SysPref, you still can't use the keyboard to navigate around pop-ups and various windows fully. Not to mention the lack of standard keyboard shortcuts for things like closing windows, etc. And the alt-tab that only shows *applications* and not windows, so if you want to move from one firefox window to a particular word document, you're stuck with moving from firefox to word, then using that application's own custom keystrokes to navigate between the documents.
I'm not saying it's good or bad, it's just different for people who are used to using the keyboard for 99.9% of the stuff they do in GUIs. The one thing about Windows that's been consistantly great is its keyboard shortcuts - you don't need a mouse in Windows, which is the polar opposite to OSX. Make of that what you will.
What about drop-down (select) boxes? You can't tab to those, yet they take input from the keyboard (up/down to select items)... Take, for instance, the first window of Dreamweaver - where it asks you what you want to create. You can't navigate that with the keyboard in OSX, whereas you can in XP (and linux, most likely, if they ported it to the penguin). You have to reach for the mouse to click the various options in the lists, then to click "OK".
I'm not having a go at OSX here - I know there must be over a million Mac fans out there punching holes in the wall 'cos I'm talking so much smack about it - I'm an IT contractor, and the place I'm currently working at has macs, and these are some of the things I've noticed. I do use windows at home, but I'm no zealot:)
Yes, really - even when you turn on the "All controls" option in System Preferences, you still can't use the keyboard to navigate between controls in the same window, which means you have to continually reach for the mouse if that's your style of using a computer. Voice recognition is no viable alternative, for obvious reasons, and neither is using a command-line app. If you're going to use terminal all the time, why get OSX?:-P
Also remember that some people actually *like* running Windows. Your idea of "the good stuff" might equal someone else's idea of "the nightmare stuff";)
Or you simply might like using XP more than OSX. Say, if you use the keyboard for navigation, you won't like OSX at all.
There are many valid reasons for using XP over other operating systems, as there are for using any OS over any other (hence all these different OSs still existing). As soon as someone says "there's no reason why..." you know you've got a fanboy on your hands:-P
I was going to say the exact same thing. I was working on a store for a client, using osCommerce, and I found any modifications to it ridiculously labourious. The HTML was everywhere, with PHP crudely wedged in between it. TEMPLATES, PEOPLE!
I ended up using ZenCart, which turned out to be pretty much exactly the same thing, with very few updates to its osCommerce predecessor.
Eventually I just used the ZenCart back-end, and developed my own front-end, using templates to at least make it sane.
You clearly haven't been keeping up to date with the academic pricing of Microsoft licenses... but then don't let facts get in the way of your zealotry;)
Surely the idea is to teach the kids what they need to know when they leave school. If the Windows market share wasn't as ridiculously strong as it is, there might be an argument for running Linux...
It will work regardless of whether the phone owner is rude or not. Like someone on the bus who gets a call they don't want to answer, and their phone is not on silent. They just stare at the phone as it rings and rings. I hate 'em. There is absolutely no reason for phones to have ring tones at all. The amount of intrinsic rudeness in mobile phones is ridiculous.
Even better - insist on closed headphones in your office only. If someone has to hear the cubicle/office in the background, do as other posters have suggested - use a cheap microphone:)
Those headphones are bad enough when you're wearing them in your ears - the sound must be so tinny with them hovering an inch away it doesn't bear thinking about:-P
The military machine gives us technological benefits is not a good reason for its existance in the first place. That is really dangerous logic - "the end justifies the means". Just think how many innocent people were turned inside out because of some shit they didn't want any part in? That's enough to make me think the military might not be the answer to our safety after all...
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So now it's windows causing the problems and not Internet Explorer? Can we at least keep the claims straight?:)
If you have a firewall, your windows box will be secure. If you don't download and run any random executables, you'll be secure.
Bring on the troll modding. I'd expect nothing less.
Exactly. Using DIVs for positioning is ideologically superior, but tables offer cross-browser pixel-perfect positioning without javascript or css hacks.
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I hear this all over the net. I've been using IE 6 since it was released, and I've yet to have spyware/adware on my machine or have my browser "hijacked", etc. I go on some hell-ass dodgy sites, too, and I've yet to come across anything untoward. It's almost as if the insecurity of IE has been blown out of all proportion...
Maybe the war wasn't about the actual commodity, but how the oil was being traded. Saddam was, apparently, going to start trading oil in euros instead of dollars. The petrodollars are essential for the US's economy, and if the world (or even some big players) started using euros instead of dollars for trading, then the US gets a massive hit. As Iran is now calling to trade in euros, the war is seeming more likely.
Oil is still pretty much everywhere - the more immediate danger is the currency. If the dollar is devalued even more, the US is fucked.
Apache and server-side tools are not "used" by the general computer-unsavvy public. Sure, they view sites hosted on them, but they don't roll up their sleeves and delve into httpd.conf or ever use a terminal. They're used entirely by IT professionals, or people who could easily be IT professionals. OpenOffice is a product directly competing with a closed-source rival, and is widely used by the public, both savvy and unsavvy. I think it's a pretty good comparison, as if you're ever going to get to the bottom of what strenghts OSS actually have in the real world, you need to look at a product that encompasses almost every facet of software usage, from the public's point of view.
If we want to compare closed- and open-source software, we need to pick suitable packages. Seeing as Microsoft is the usual target (and quite rightly), comparing their showcase software and OSS's rival is a good idea.
It's not really "spying" if you're in public. I mean, the cameras don't do anything a bunch of police with radios can't do. You don't have a right for people to not be able to recognise your car as it travels down the road.:)
OSX would run on any old x86 out there. The article even has it running on a 1.2ghz Pentium M - that's about as low as most computers you buy these days get.
That's just pathetic:) You'd go without a great OS just because you didn't get the pretty box it runs on? Then you talk about having no support or guarantee, and immediately follow it with "I'd rather run Linux". Absolute hilarity.
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That's not really an issue - the same laws that make the road agencies keep roads open for use by the public will make the future road agencies keep the future-roads open for the public to use - public servants will always be public servants.
I think you'll find China is something the Seventh Fleet can't do much about, not the other way round :)
The keyboard navigation does NOT work out of the box. Even when you enable the "full keyboard access" in SysPref, you still can't use the keyboard to navigate around pop-ups and various windows fully. Not to mention the lack of standard keyboard shortcuts for things like closing windows, etc. And the alt-tab that only shows *applications* and not windows, so if you want to move from one firefox window to a particular word document, you're stuck with moving from firefox to word, then using that application's own custom keystrokes to navigate between the documents.
I'm not saying it's good or bad, it's just different for people who are used to using the keyboard for 99.9% of the stuff they do in GUIs. The one thing about Windows that's been consistantly great is its keyboard shortcuts - you don't need a mouse in Windows, which is the polar opposite to OSX. Make of that what you will.
I'm not having a go at OSX here - I know there must be over a million Mac fans out there punching holes in the wall 'cos I'm talking so much smack about it - I'm an IT contractor, and the place I'm currently working at has macs, and these are some of the things I've noticed. I do use windows at home, but I'm no zealot :)
Yes, really - even when you turn on the "All controls" option in System Preferences, you still can't use the keyboard to navigate between controls in the same window, which means you have to continually reach for the mouse if that's your style of using a computer. Voice recognition is no viable alternative, for obvious reasons, and neither is using a command-line app. If you're going to use terminal all the time, why get OSX? :-P
Also remember that some people actually *like* running Windows. Your idea of "the good stuff" might equal someone else's idea of "the nightmare stuff" ;)
There are many valid reasons for using XP over other operating systems, as there are for using any OS over any other (hence all these different OSs still existing). As soon as someone says "there's no reason why ..." you know you've got a fanboy on your hands :-P
Zen Cart is JUST as bad. Horrific code in the front and back ends. I could go on but I'd be sick.
I ended up using ZenCart, which turned out to be pretty much exactly the same thing, with very few updates to its osCommerce predecessor.
Eventually I just used the ZenCart back-end, and developed my own front-end, using templates to at least make it sane.
Horrible software. Really nasty.
You clearly haven't been keeping up to date with the academic pricing of Microsoft licenses... but then don't let facts get in the way of your zealotry ;)
Surely the idea is to teach the kids what they need to know when they leave school. If the Windows market share wasn't as ridiculously strong as it is, there might be an argument for running Linux...
It will work regardless of whether the phone owner is rude or not. Like someone on the bus who gets a call they don't want to answer, and their phone is not on silent. They just stare at the phone as it rings and rings. I hate 'em. There is absolutely no reason for phones to have ring tones at all. The amount of intrinsic rudeness in mobile phones is ridiculous.
Even better - insist on closed headphones in your office only. If someone has to hear the cubicle/office in the background, do as other posters have suggested - use a cheap microphone :)
Those headphones are bad enough when you're wearing them in your ears - the sound must be so tinny with them hovering an inch away it doesn't bear thinking about :-P
I just had to say something. Again, sorry.
The military machine gives us technological benefits is not a good reason for its existance in the first place. That is really dangerous logic - "the end justifies the means". Just think how many innocent people were turned inside out because of some shit they didn't want any part in? That's enough to make me think the military might not be the answer to our safety after all...
If you have a firewall, your windows box will be secure. If you don't download and run any random executables, you'll be secure.
Bring on the troll modding. I'd expect nothing less.
Exactly. Using DIVs for positioning is ideologically superior, but tables offer cross-browser pixel-perfect positioning without javascript or css hacks.
I hear this all over the net. I've been using IE 6 since it was released, and I've yet to have spyware/adware on my machine or have my browser "hijacked", etc. I go on some hell-ass dodgy sites, too, and I've yet to come across anything untoward. It's almost as if the insecurity of IE has been blown out of all proportion...
Maybe the war wasn't about the actual commodity, but how the oil was being traded. Saddam was, apparently, going to start trading oil in euros instead of dollars. The petrodollars are essential for the US's economy, and if the world (or even some big players) started using euros instead of dollars for trading, then the US gets a massive hit. As Iran is now calling to trade in euros, the war is seeming more likely. Oil is still pretty much everywhere - the more immediate danger is the currency. If the dollar is devalued even more, the US is fucked.
But Reagan didn't have any morality. I mean, come on. Read some history on the man and look at what he did :)
If we want to compare closed- and open-source software, we need to pick suitable packages. Seeing as Microsoft is the usual target (and quite rightly), comparing their showcase software and OSS's rival is a good idea.
It's not really "spying" if you're in public. I mean, the cameras don't do anything a bunch of police with radios can't do. You don't have a right for people to not be able to recognise your car as it travels down the road. :)
OSX would run on any old x86 out there. The article even has it running on a 1.2ghz Pentium M - that's about as low as most computers you buy these days get.
That's just pathetic :) You'd go without a great OS just because you didn't get the pretty box it runs on? Then you talk about having no support or guarantee, and immediately follow it with "I'd rather run Linux". Absolute hilarity.