When I reinstall my Windows box the first thing that gets replaced is Notepad. Specifically it is replaced with Notepad2, which is IMHO the best simple editor for Windows. In my opinion if Microsoft had any sense they would buy the app and substitute it in by default.
As for the subject...
I do wonder what they want to achieve with this: whether they really want to make the apps more visible by having them in a 'shopping aisle' on a server somewhere; or if they want to ease Windows OS and applications development; or if they want to make Windows seem cleaner to the end-user.
If the latter their efforts may be stunted by the cheapjack OEM software that often comes with new PCs.
I'm curious if Microsoft is actually trying to begin shifting things off the desktop in some small way here. You know, get people used to the idea of the 'core' simple software not coming bundled with the OS and needing to download it.
Later they add paid software and after that somewhat seamlessly begin adding paid services into the mix. Gradually they can turn their OS a more services oriented platform without any huge surprises for their users.
I could be waaay of the mark here but I can't help but wonder if this isn't part of a larger goal.
Reminds me of Red Dwarf - I guess you could call this an error message.
Holly: Rude alert! Rude alert! An electrical fire has knocked out my voice recognition unicycle! Many Wurlitzers are missing from my database. Abandon shop! This is not a daffodil. Repeat, this is not a daffodil. Rimmer: Well, thankfully Holly's unaffected.
Sorry folks! Never leave your machine while your kid brother is visiting:( A minute is all it takes.
Slashdot really needs a "You sound like an impostor" error.
I wasn't going to post here, but to touch the topic so as to not be completely OT in a second post, I once had a Vaio laptop on which Sony's software would pop up with a helpful message saying that it couldn't create a window and instruct the user to "press Cancel". The dialog only had an OK button.
Now if you don't mind, I have a little rapscallion to kill...
Is it considered very tacky to use your ISP-given e-mails address in a professional setting?
I can only speak for myself, but as unfair as it may seem I feel far more comfortable contracting the services of a workman who has his own registered domain with a professional site and has his emails go there. It shows that he's put some effort into it, suggests that he isn't fly-by-night and that he can be depended upon to put similar effort and professionalism into the job at hand.
Now of this could very well be flawed logic and indeed, any one of these things could be a faulty assumption, but it is just like advertizing - it is all about appearances. Look professional and you will get the business.
On the flip side of that coin there are many people who favor the small local business instead of the large faceless corporation because they have that 'personal touch' and are nearly always less of a bureaucratic nightmare when problems arise. This is actually why some local businesses in my area deliberately do not maintain toll free numbers as it is indicative of a large corporation. (Digressing a little bit there, sorry). I guess it's sort of like trying to hit the sweet spot near the middle of a scale of professionalism.
Back to the original point, a @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com on the email address just reflects badly on them and whether rightly or wrongly they won't get my business.
This is true for all but the smallest of businesses/professionals whom people already trust. (Although I will cede that I may be unique in applying this to manual laborers as well)
I would say that this is far less of an issue for an individual on the 'other' side of the fence however, such as one applying for a job. IMO that's a different thing altogether; others may disagree.
But it says that it doesn't have hands - it has LEDs all around it... I think that's pretty much the same thing, no?
Sort of. The inventor is still accurate in saying that it doesn't have hands though;) (& if you get too close to that grasshopper neither will you!)
The bit I find interesting is the mechanism for the LEDs. Because of my way of thinking I had assumed that the LEDs would be controlled programmatically. It is actually a clever entirely mechanical implementation using vernier slits (3:42 in the Youtube video). I find it fascinating. I'll admit to having never heard of them so it has that whole "woah!" appeal for me.
Besides, I'm not into bling but this thing is ostentatiously cool and doesn't IMHO look half bad. I'd love to own one if it wasn't so loud as to annoy the neighbors. Oh and if it wasn't one of a kind and I had that kind of money to hand of course.
Some people don't seem to like it and that's fair enough. All the same I find it altogether novel.
For real market penetration they need to develop the range to include Thought Hoodies, the Thought Balaclava, the Thought Fedora, the Thought Flat Cap and the Thought Umbrella.
Bonus points for diversifying into Thought Chicken Fillets. That may have a big market amongst 'dumb blondes'.
It is definitely novel and while reading the article (whoops!) I felt twinges of "that's a neat idea". But my view is that it would never be anything other than a novelty.
Let's take Amazon as an example. If you could browse their store in 3D as though it were a real bricks and mortar place that would take away one of the reasons I shop online. They would need to also include a nippy search with it and in that case why would I bother with the 3D stuff.
I dunno, I'm not convinced. I will concede that there may be sites where people might find such an interface useful. I can't think of any but then I'm the sort of person who doesn't want to be distracted with a 3D environment, I just want to get at what I want quickly and be done with it.
"Why yes, this operating system is as Hardy as a Heron. It's Feisty, Gutsy and if I do say so, rather Dapper. You buntu also be aware that you will be purchasing the Canonical OS conducive for human beings getting things done. You will need SP1 though, but be Intrepid, I can give you it on CD at the time of purchase. Just load the live CD, click Install Ubuntu and follow the prompts. Oh yeah, don't worry about that. That's just its codename."
That's because like children who can't get rid of a bad habit, they can't help but hold their breath during meditation. This makes them go blue and they approach death pretty quickly. The only way to bring them back up is to reboot them with your size nines. It's not pretty.
I didn't think it was funny but there was a moment I thought was mildly amusing: the pizza boy looking like 70s Gates. Everything else was just kind of 'meh...'
FWIW my prediction for the future ads: a Ricky Gervais guest spot. That is when they will have truly jumped the shark.
can you imagine if the employer found on google the archive of some '80s BBS which happened to be put online...
"Well, we were going to hire him, but we found these messages from him that were completely incomprehensible... numbers instead of letters, Z instead of S, lots of letters dropped... the guy must be illiterate. I wonder who helped him write his resume?"
Explain it away as being an archaic and early iteration of Perl script?
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When I reinstall my Windows box the first thing that gets replaced is Notepad. Specifically it is replaced with Notepad2, which is IMHO the best simple editor for Windows. In my opinion if Microsoft had any sense they would buy the app and substitute it in by default.
As for the subject...
I do wonder what they want to achieve with this: whether they really want to make the apps more visible by having them in a 'shopping aisle' on a server somewhere; or if they want to ease Windows OS and applications development; or if they want to make Windows seem cleaner to the end-user.
If the latter their efforts may be stunted by the cheapjack OEM software that often comes with new PCs.
I'm curious if Microsoft is actually trying to begin shifting things off the desktop in some small way here. You know, get people used to the idea of the 'core' simple software not coming bundled with the OS and needing to download it.
Later they add paid software and after that somewhat seamlessly begin adding paid services into the mix. Gradually they can turn their OS a more services oriented platform without any huge surprises for their users.
I could be waaay of the mark here but I can't help but wonder if this isn't part of a larger goal.
No it's an acronym.
Now whether I'm right or wrong I'll be delighted to take my 50% Insightful now please ;)
Reminds me of Red Dwarf - I guess you could call this an error message.
Holly: Rude alert! Rude alert! An electrical fire has knocked out my voice recognition unicycle! Many Wurlitzers are missing from my database. Abandon shop! This is not a daffodil. Repeat, this is not a daffodil.
Rimmer: Well, thankfully Holly's unaffected.
... and does its job.
You have to fix it to continue ;)
Sorry folks! Never leave your machine while your kid brother is visiting :( A minute is all it takes.
Slashdot really needs a "You sound like an impostor" error.
I wasn't going to post here, but to touch the topic so as to not be completely OT in a second post, I once had a Vaio laptop on which Sony's software would pop up with a helpful message saying that it couldn't create a window and instruct the user to "press Cancel". The dialog only had an OK button.
Now if you don't mind, I have a little rapscallion to kill...
this and that and some more and some more more more and a littlemore.
Is it considered very tacky to use your ISP-given e-mails address in a professional setting?
I can only speak for myself, but as unfair as it may seem I feel far more comfortable contracting the services of a workman who has his own registered domain with a professional site and has his emails go there. It shows that he's put some effort into it, suggests that he isn't fly-by-night and that he can be depended upon to put similar effort and professionalism into the job at hand.
Now of this could very well be flawed logic and indeed, any one of these things could be a faulty assumption, but it is just like advertizing - it is all about appearances. Look professional and you will get the business.
On the flip side of that coin there are many people who favor the small local business instead of the large faceless corporation because they have that 'personal touch' and are nearly always less of a bureaucratic nightmare when problems arise. This is actually why some local businesses in my area deliberately do not maintain toll free numbers as it is indicative of a large corporation. (Digressing a little bit there, sorry). I guess it's sort of like trying to hit the sweet spot near the middle of a scale of professionalism.
Back to the original point, a @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com on the email address just reflects badly on them and whether rightly or wrongly they won't get my business.
This is true for all but the smallest of businesses/professionals whom people already trust. (Although I will cede that I may be unique in applying this to manual laborers as well)
I would say that this is far less of an issue for an individual on the 'other' side of the fence however, such as one applying for a job. IMO that's a different thing altogether; others may disagree.
He just accelerated it so it's just logical that it would boot faster.
But it says that it doesn't have hands - it has LEDs all around it... I think that's pretty much the same thing, no?
Sort of. The inventor is still accurate in saying that it doesn't have hands though ;) (& if you get too close to that grasshopper neither will you!)
The bit I find interesting is the mechanism for the LEDs. Because of my way of thinking I had assumed that the LEDs would be controlled programmatically. It is actually a clever entirely mechanical implementation using vernier slits (3:42 in the Youtube video). I find it fascinating. I'll admit to having never heard of them so it has that whole "woah!" appeal for me.
Besides, I'm not into bling but this thing is ostentatiously cool and doesn't IMHO look half bad. I'd love to own one if it wasn't so loud as to annoy the neighbors. Oh and if it wasn't one of a kind and I had that kind of money to hand of course.
Some people don't seem to like it and that's fair enough. All the same I find it altogether novel.
Always upgrade to the newest stable drivers. Have we learned nothing?
Very useful in a thought shower.
For real market penetration they need to develop the range to include Thought Hoodies, the Thought Balaclava, the Thought Fedora, the Thought Flat Cap and the Thought Umbrella.
Bonus points for diversifying into Thought Chicken Fillets. That may have a big market amongst 'dumb blondes'.
This is causing insomnia? You poor fellow, a true geek. Have you tried Horlicks?
It is definitely novel and while reading the article (whoops!) I felt twinges of "that's a neat idea". But my view is that it would never be anything other than a novelty.
Let's take Amazon as an example. If you could browse their store in 3D as though it were a real bricks and mortar place that would take away one of the reasons I shop online. They would need to also include a nippy search with it and in that case why would I bother with the 3D stuff.
I dunno, I'm not convinced. I will concede that there may be sites where people might find such an interface useful. I can't think of any but then I'm the sort of person who doesn't want to be distracted with a 3D environment, I just want to get at what I want quickly and be done with it.
Isn't that on the neinth?
I kind of agree. Who determines what is and isn't "true" or "trustworthy"?
Tim Berners-Lee. Obviously.
I think there's a mistake in your lyrics there.
Please tell me there aren't four girls involved.
"Why yes, this operating system is as Hardy as a Heron. It's Feisty, Gutsy and if I do say so, rather Dapper. You buntu also be aware that you will be purchasing the Canonical OS conducive for human beings getting things done. You will need SP1 though, but be Intrepid, I can give you it on CD at the time of purchase. Just load the live CD, click Install Ubuntu and follow the prompts. Oh yeah, don't worry about that. That's just its codename."
That's because like children who can't get rid of a bad habit, they can't help but hold their breath during meditation. This makes them go blue and they approach death pretty quickly. The only way to bring them back up is to reboot them with your size nines. It's not pretty.
I didn't think it was funny but there was a moment I thought was mildly amusing: the pizza boy looking like 70s Gates. Everything else was just kind of 'meh...'
FWIW my prediction for the future ads: a Ricky Gervais guest spot. That is when they will have truly jumped the shark.
Ahm no' gonnae invest, so ahm oot.
</bannatyne>
"Edumacation... it's pronounced edu-ma-cation"
can you imagine if the employer found on google the archive of some '80s BBS which happened to be put online...
"Well, we were going to hire him, but we found these messages from him that were completely incomprehensible... numbers instead of letters, Z instead of S, lots of letters dropped... the guy must be illiterate. I wonder who helped him write his resume?"
Explain it away as being an archaic and early iteration of Perl script?
Can I have your autograph Mr Coward?