Man, am I happy that Germany isn't part of the EU. Over here, volume flatrates are mostly used by the mobile carriers; other ISPs (mostly DSL providers) usually give you true flatrates for all but the cheapest plans. No wonder; the telco market is quite competitive over here. (Granted, in that big internet survey a while ago Germany came out as a country with particularly cheap internet, so this might not hold true for the rest of Europe.)
Also, the comparison to Australia is rather moot if you consider that most Australian users on/. bitch about how broadband is quite expensive down there.
Yeah, that's going to earn them friends over at MS. "We know this contest was for Windows Mobile apps but we developed our app for everything but Windows Mobile instead."
And with this remote you can inform the world that you just switched to whatever your sat receiver calls channel 1049 because you're too lazy to put it back into a sensible position every time the damn channel changes transponders. Well, actually you only inform them about channel 1049.
If "Multiplayer" is the noun the "Massively" is syntactically wrong. If "player" is the noun "Multi" needs to be an adjective, which it isn't. Either way "Massively Multiplayer Online" remains nonsensical.
[...]I can personally attest to the fact that there ARE jump lists in Snow Leopard[...]
No, there aren't. There are context menus; Apple doesn't need to arbitrarily rename those. And as far as I can remember, they have been there for the last couple versions as well, including per-application functionaliy. Panther did that; finding screenshots isn't terribly hard.
It really boggles the mind that people hold "jump lists" as something Windows 7 does better than OS X. That kind of functionality has been in Mac OS for ages.
Are the numbers correct? For HDDs, yes, but what does Snow Leopard say about SSDs? As far as I know, those are actually measured in *iB. Telling people that their 500 GB HDD has a capacity of 500 GB might deflect lawsuits form idiots - but what about idiots who complain that they can't store 274 "gigabytes" on their 256 GiB SSD even though OS X told them they could? If OS X accounts for this, how does it determine which scale to use in which scenario?
I think that using both numbers (*B and *iB) would be more correct than giving people a base-ten GB number, whether that's appropriate or not.
The phlogiston theory also lasted for close to a century before getting rebuked. Still doesn't make it true. Tradition is no excuse for getting things wrong (although it is an explanation for irrationally disliking them).
That was also the case before the ads. Many people (essentially everyone who's not familiar with non-Windows OSes) define a PC as a home computer using a descendant of the Intel 8086 (or a compatible processor) running Microsoft Windows. Yes, the very same computer running Linux is already considered "not a PC". This is extremely prevalent in gaming, where a game can very well have different versions for Linux, OS X and "PC".
It's not that they couldn't have redefinable keyboard layouts. They just wanted the PC version to feel as much as possible like a console game and since modern console games usually don't have redefinable controls the PC version couldn't have them either.
(One reason why console games don't tend to have redefinable controls anymore is that the manufacturer's licensing terms dictate things like which button has to do which common action etc.)
Actually, that's a safety measure as the combination of the Spazer and the Plasma Beam can corrupt the entire universe if used in a room of improper size.
Ah. I haven't recently (read: For the last couple major releases) used Firefox's fullscreen mode, mainly because I'm primarily a Mac user and Firefox apparently doesn't have a portable way of making a full screen window, either - Firefox/Mac doesn't have fullscreen functionality. Then again, in the Mac world it's uncommon to even maximize a window, so it's not exactly missed.
Apart from the fact that pressing F11 now would only show me the desktop (wrong computer), full-screen mode still doesn't quite maximize the available space (full-screen mode plus rearranged toolbars would do that). Plus, I think that window managers are a nice thing to have and intend to use mine. Having to juggle some apps that have regular windows and some that take the full screen is unneccessary hassle.
So the sun being perceived as a thermonuclear as opposed to an electrical phenomenon somehow works in favor of the power companies? Or is it the military? I really have no idea how the Electrical Universe not being mainstream somehow keeps us from having free energy. If you can use EU to gather energy from nowhere, all you need to do is implement it. And no, the big companies can hardly do anything against it if you open-source your findings and spam it across half the internet. The Streisand effect works.
I can hit 12x12 toolbar buttons and I prefer text I can read without having to scroll every other second. 480 usable vertical pixels is quite bad. (Then again, the 1024x600 offered by the netbook in question are ridiculous by themselves.)
That's a bit problematic, actually. Most users start Firefox when they boot up the computer and close it when they want to shut down the computer. Delaying shutdown is worse than delaying startup (especially when you NEED the computer off at a certain time). Windows already does that too much for my taste (at least until I tell it not to download updates without my permission).
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I think many mathematicians would object that a certain kind of applied mathematics (physics) should be made mandatory for math students.
Man, am I happy that Germany isn't part of the EU. Over here, volume flatrates are mostly used by the mobile carriers; other ISPs (mostly DSL providers) usually give you true flatrates for all but the cheapest plans. No wonder; the telco market is quite competitive over here. (Granted, in that big internet survey a while ago Germany came out as a country with particularly cheap internet, so this might not hold true for the rest of Europe.)
/. bitch about how broadband is quite expensive down there.
Also, the comparison to Australia is rather moot if you consider that most Australian users on
Yeah, that's going to earn them friends over at MS. "We know this contest was for Windows Mobile apps but we developed our app for everything but Windows Mobile instead."
And with this remote you can inform the world that you just switched to whatever your sat receiver calls channel 1049 because you're too lazy to put it back into a sensible position every time the damn channel changes transponders. Well, actually you only inform them about channel 1049.
If "Multiplayer" is the noun the "Massively" is syntactically wrong. If "player" is the noun "Multi" needs to be an adjective, which it isn't. Either way "Massively Multiplayer Online" remains nonsensical.
No, there aren't. There are context menus; Apple doesn't need to arbitrarily rename those. And as far as I can remember, they have been there for the last couple versions as well, including per-application functionaliy. Panther did that; finding screenshots isn't terribly hard.
It really boggles the mind that people hold "jump lists" as something Windows 7 does better than OS X. That kind of functionality has been in Mac OS for ages.
Actually:
Leopard -> Snow Leopard: 30$
Tiger -> Snow Leopard: 30$
Everything Else -> (possibly wipe clean and) look below
Nothing -> Snow Leopard: 30$ but you violate the EULA by installing an upgrade on an empty machine.
You can, however, buy the Snow Leopard-iLife bundle for 170$, which also allows you to install on clean machines with a clean conscience.
So does Microsoft. The NT 6.0 to NT 6.1 upgrade price is 100-200 bucks. A bit steep for a mere point release, isn't it?
"Mega" and "Giga" sound like baby talk. You can't exactly argue their coolness.
Are the numbers correct? For HDDs, yes, but what does Snow Leopard say about SSDs? As far as I know, those are actually measured in *iB. Telling people that their 500 GB HDD has a capacity of 500 GB might deflect lawsuits form idiots - but what about idiots who complain that they can't store 274 "gigabytes" on their 256 GiB SSD even though OS X told them they could? If OS X accounts for this, how does it determine which scale to use in which scenario?
I think that using both numbers (*B and *iB) would be more correct than giving people a base-ten GB number, whether that's appropriate or not.
The phlogiston theory also lasted for close to a century before getting rebuked. Still doesn't make it true. Tradition is no excuse for getting things wrong (although it is an explanation for irrationally disliking them).
I managed to completely leave Microsoft behind by selling my PC and buying a Mac and an XBox 360--
D'oh!
Does that mean I save energy if I rotate my house? Do I save more if I rotate it really fast?
Perhaps because that gives Netcraft authority to confirm its vital status.
That was also the case before the ads. Many people (essentially everyone who's not familiar with non-Windows OSes) define a PC as a home computer using a descendant of the Intel 8086 (or a compatible processor) running Microsoft Windows. Yes, the very same computer running Linux is already considered "not a PC". This is extremely prevalent in gaming, where a game can very well have different versions for Linux, OS X and "PC".
Thst's not too difficult when the entire original PC dev team is one person.
It's not that they couldn't have redefinable keyboard layouts. They just wanted the PC version to feel as much as possible like a console game and since modern console games usually don't have redefinable controls the PC version couldn't have them either.
(One reason why console games don't tend to have redefinable controls anymore is that the manufacturer's licensing terms dictate things like which button has to do which common action etc.)
Yeah, but finding parking space downtown is a real bitch.
You just need to combine powdered aluminum with powdered iron oxide. Should be possible to obtain.
Actually, that's a safety measure as the combination of the Spazer and the Plasma Beam can corrupt the entire universe if used in a room of improper size.
Ah. I haven't recently (read: For the last couple major releases) used Firefox's fullscreen mode, mainly because I'm primarily a Mac user and Firefox apparently doesn't have a portable way of making a full screen window, either - Firefox/Mac doesn't have fullscreen functionality. Then again, in the Mac world it's uncommon to even maximize a window, so it's not exactly missed.
Apart from the fact that pressing F11 now would only show me the desktop (wrong computer), full-screen mode still doesn't quite maximize the available space (full-screen mode plus rearranged toolbars would do that). Plus, I think that window managers are a nice thing to have and intend to use mine. Having to juggle some apps that have regular windows and some that take the full screen is unneccessary hassle.
So the sun being perceived as a thermonuclear as opposed to an electrical phenomenon somehow works in favor of the power companies? Or is it the military? I really have no idea how the Electrical Universe not being mainstream somehow keeps us from having free energy. If you can use EU to gather energy from nowhere, all you need to do is implement it. And no, the big companies can hardly do anything against it if you open-source your findings and spam it across half the internet. The Streisand effect works.
I can hit 12x12 toolbar buttons and I prefer text I can read without having to scroll every other second. 480 usable vertical pixels is quite bad. (Then again, the 1024x600 offered by the netbook in question are ridiculous by themselves.)
That's a bit problematic, actually. Most users start Firefox when they boot up the computer and close it when they want to shut down the computer. Delaying shutdown is worse than delaying startup (especially when you NEED the computer off at a certain time). Windows already does that too much for my taste (at least until I tell it not to download updates without my permission).