And that exposes another failure of the Windows package manager (well both maybe?)... you as a program have to put yourself into the list, Be interesting if Windows kept a nice list of every binary, and supplementary information about it like When installed, when ran, if it was theirs, who was claiming it as theirs, a short description of what it did etc. I'm sure the malware people would just lie about themselves, but it may still make them easier to track down.
That's a debate... certainly Linux power users agree with you, but a lot of the real world much prefers the Windows system where you go get the CD or download the exe for your installations, and you just use the "package manager" for uninstall functionality.
Of course Windows has bastardized this a bit with the "Windows Features" section.
No, it would take a program that can be controlled from the command line. I guess you could use C if the program in question had an exposed C api, or you could use AutoIT and write a simple script to click the right buttons for you, and I'm sure there are another dozen options. Your comment really has nothing to do with the OS or the CL... it's about 3rd party programs.
It's much less about server load, and much more about battery and response time. Polling tends to be cheap, and can actually reduce server load if you're constantly receiving a lot of messages because your poll will result in "download these 10". But all that depends on polling frequency.
I've been running Lightning on both 1.5 and 2.0 for a few months now, and then using BirdieSynch to synch it with my WindowsMobile device.
It rocks. At this point the only reason I prefer my Outlook calendar setup comes down to integration with other apps and over the air synch with my mobile.
Specifically
1) Outlook has a button to "Create a new page in onenote" which opens up a new page, and puts all the meeting info in, then links the two so I can go back and forth... great feature for me.
2) Over the synch just rocks... I want it for my webdav lightning calendar, and I want it now... if anyone has any ideas how it can be accomplished I'd love to hear them.
Why? There are plenty of studies showing that dual monitors provide a benefit. Sounds like he'd be better of just finding them.
Since it sounds like he's dealing with PHBs I'd start with a nice Microsoft article http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx? id=433
Googling "dual monitor productivity study" gives plenty of answers to this question, whereas asking slashdot apparently leads to a lot of tangents (have you seen the first half of the responses, it's something about hidden costs and government companies who print money, I don't know, I skimmed alot)
It's true though, the studies are pretty useless as anyone who's used one will attest, it's just better. The question, in my opinion, is what's the right number... 2,3,4... I think our biggest rig monitor wise is around 18 (not a developer), but I think 4 is the right number for me, though 3 suffices pretty well.
This discussion is silly in my mind... if Apple wanted to be completely consumercentric they would've taken a page from mp3.com on this one, and put an option in iTunes to let you choose what format you download your music in. I can understand wanting to keep it from getting absurd, but this easily could've been done.
That said, I'm thrilled with the move, I'll be entering my CC into iTunes for the first time when I get home tonight.
Mostly amount of power. DVD drives, some harddrives, laptops could be driven off the USB power, but they're not, they require a separate add on plug. It's not a bad idea, though I picture it a bit like christmas lights, someone plugging in a chain of 100 different items and wondering why their PSU is smoking. (Yes I realize that's an easy thing to avoid, but it's still how I picture it)
You're missing the original issue. It used to be that ctrl-c/ctrl-v didn't work across different apps. It has supposedly since been fixed. End of story.
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Which I love, cause I started working in an optical lab in 1992, and we were cutting transitions, and they weren't new then. Not to mention it has been done in glass lenses (vs. plastic) for even longer under the name Photogray. And back then anyway, the glass ones worked better.
Yes, you are. Though since I haven't used Linux as a desktop OS in awhile, I'm not sure if it's still an issue. Basically for a long time Linux had two different clipboards, some apps used one, some apps used another. So while what you describe worked 95% of the time, 5% of the time the two apps couldn't talk to each other via clipboard.
If your visor isn't UV protected you can already do this today with Transitions... http://www.transitions.com/ , they have several models for different usages (different starting tints basically)... but they're UV activated, so they kinda suck for their most obvious usage, driving. I hear their newer model "drivers" are supposed to be better for that... don't get me wrong, the old ones worked in a car, just not as well as they work out in the open air.
If you've got XGB of RAM, you may as well *use* it to cache commonly used data etc. and speed up your system, rather than just have it sit there like a lemon. Please tell me how doing this "shows poor design"?
And to reinforce that point a bit... Vista is faster when it's cached those programs. I have a dual boot XP/Vista box... ~60 seconds to load up my currently most common.sln file in XP... from click to type... in Vista, 4 seconds. Makes a big difference in my daily life since I have a bad habit of closing and reopening Visual Studio a lot during the day.
Mine (5G) charges fine over USB... but it's the oh so uncommon 25pin USB cable... so if they want to provide a USB port, then I can bring my own cable, and we all win. But I think what's happening is they're providing the 25pin "dock" concept where you just push the iPod down onto the 25 pins.... kinda a silly approach since I'm pretty sure apple just started using it at 4G, and like you say, USB would basically cover everyone (Or at least give everyone a standard they can work with)... plus then I can charge my bluetooth headset, my cell phone and my iPod in flight assuming enough ports. Not that I really need to do all that, but it would be nice to land with a full battery on my phone.
Then, of course, is the problem of realizing that calling Microsoft, when they have already refused to let you install your software is a bit too far of a stretch for many people. You have no idea as to how many people will just give up and walk away when they get told to piss off in an official manner.
I respectfully disagree. While I think the practice described in this summary is completely and total BS I think you're way off base on your analysis of human behavior. I'd say it is in fact exactly the opposite. Once people have paid you the $100 they'll jump through remarkable hoops to use it.... even if it costs $500 in their time to make it work. Now, when it comes time to buy the next product or upgrade, that's when they'll walk away if the hassle wasn't worth the reward.
Actually, it's unbelievably complicated. Why do I need to call anyone when installing software? Needless complications imposed by the manufacturer is why.
Absolutely, this is slashdot and the Linux crowd... Easy should mean going to IRC channels, posting in mailing lists and online forums.
No, we keep looking into at a small company I work for... but if you don't need a hefty desktop, then you can pick up a tiny, low powered PC for $400... dumb terminals aren't cheaper enough... in fact they're often more expensive... it keeps negating the move. The JackPC is the only dumb terminal which really has me interested, but I have a lot more to learn about running such a setup first.
I think it's an issue of Apple management being smarter their Microsoft counterparts. In a company as large and high-profile as Microsoft, it's folly to assume that they don't have some good engineers . . . but it's quite apparent that their management tree could use some pruning.
You are not the target market. Large corporations do not need to take steps to make the minority markets happy, even if those markets may be better educated on the given product. Why does everyone on Slashdot assume they're an expert who could manage Microsoft better? Guess what, they're doing alright!
I just tried it, it said everything went fine, I chose the Debian Installer at reboot, and I got a grub menu with 3 choices, expert, standard and auto. All three resulted in a "file not found message", so I booted back to XP.
I took the SAT in 1995, and I thought you couldn't use a calculator (turns out you could, but what're you going to do when you show up without one), so I have no idea if what you're saying is true or not... but if it is, then the problem is the people who should be scoring pathetically low will now be able to answer a bunch of the questions properly, and the people who really lose are the average students, because now there's no way to differentiate them from the suckers.
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And that exposes another failure of the Windows package manager (well both maybe?) ... you as a program have to put yourself into the list, Be interesting if Windows kept a nice list of every binary, and supplementary information about it like When installed, when ran, if it was theirs, who was claiming it as theirs, a short description of what it did etc. I'm sure the malware people would just lie about themselves, but it may still make them easier to track down.
That's a debate... certainly Linux power users agree with you, but a lot of the real world much prefers the Windows system where you go get the CD or download the exe for your installations, and you just use the "package manager" for uninstall functionality.
Of course Windows has bastardized this a bit with the "Windows Features" section.
No, it would take a program that can be controlled from the command line. I guess you could use C if the program in question had an exposed C api, or you could use AutoIT and write a simple script to click the right buttons for you, and I'm sure there are another dozen options. Your comment really has nothing to do with the OS or the CL... it's about 3rd party programs.
It's much less about server load, and much more about battery and response time. Polling tends to be cheap, and can actually reduce server load if you're constantly receiving a lot of messages because your poll will result in "download these 10". But all that depends on polling frequency.
You'd do it if you don't have an exchange server and want push email.
yeah me too... but it's fixed in Vista
I've been running Lightning on both 1.5 and 2.0 for a few months now, and then using BirdieSynch to synch it with my WindowsMobile device.
It rocks. At this point the only reason I prefer my Outlook calendar setup comes down to integration with other apps and over the air synch with my mobile.
Specifically
1) Outlook has a button to "Create a new page in onenote" which opens up a new page, and puts all the meeting info in, then links the two so I can go back and forth... great feature for me.
2) Over the synch just rocks... I want it for my webdav lightning calendar, and I want it now... if anyone has any ideas how it can be accomplished I'd love to hear them.
Why? There are plenty of studies showing that dual monitors provide a benefit. Sounds like he'd be better of just finding them. Since it sounds like he's dealing with PHBs I'd start with a nice Microsoft article http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx? id=433
Googling "dual monitor productivity study" gives plenty of answers to this question, whereas asking slashdot apparently leads to a lot of tangents (have you seen the first half of the responses, it's something about hidden costs and government companies who print money, I don't know, I skimmed alot)
It's true though, the studies are pretty useless as anyone who's used one will attest, it's just better. The question, in my opinion, is what's the right number... 2,3,4... I think our biggest rig monitor wise is around 18 (not a developer), but I think 4 is the right number for me, though 3 suffices pretty well.
This discussion is silly in my mind... if Apple wanted to be completely consumercentric they would've taken a page from mp3.com on this one, and put an option in iTunes to let you choose what format you download your music in. I can understand wanting to keep it from getting absurd, but this easily could've been done.
That said, I'm thrilled with the move, I'll be entering my CC into iTunes for the first time when I get home tonight.
the nytimes article says the album upgrade fee is $0.00, the bump is only for per track purchases.
Mostly amount of power. DVD drives, some harddrives, laptops could be driven off the USB power, but they're not, they require a separate add on plug. It's not a bad idea, though I picture it a bit like christmas lights, someone plugging in a chain of 100 different items and wondering why their PSU is smoking. (Yes I realize that's an easy thing to avoid, but it's still how I picture it)
You're missing the original issue. It used to be that ctrl-c/ctrl-v didn't work across different apps. It has supposedly since been fixed. End of story.
Which I love, cause I started working in an optical lab in 1992, and we were cutting transitions, and they weren't new then. Not to mention it has been done in glass lenses (vs. plastic) for even longer under the name Photogray. And back then anyway, the glass ones worked better.
Yes, you are. Though since I haven't used Linux as a desktop OS in awhile, I'm not sure if it's still an issue. Basically for a long time Linux had two different clipboards, some apps used one, some apps used another. So while what you describe worked 95% of the time, 5% of the time the two apps couldn't talk to each other via clipboard.
people maybe, retina's are in the back of the eye... retinal scans better not get confused by a colored contact.
If your visor isn't UV protected you can already do this today with Transitions... http://www.transitions.com/ , they have several models for different usages (different starting tints basically)... but they're UV activated, so they kinda suck for their most obvious usage, driving. I hear their newer model "drivers" are supposed to be better for that... don't get me wrong, the old ones worked in a car, just not as well as they work out in the open air.
And to reinforce that point a bit... Vista is faster when it's cached those programs. I have a dual boot XP/Vista box... ~60 seconds to load up my currently most common
And the more nefarious of the bunch will be secreting away all sorts of information from your connected devices to resell to the spammers!
Mine (5G) charges fine over USB... but it's the oh so uncommon 25pin USB cable... so if they want to provide a USB port, then I can bring my own cable, and we all win. But I think what's happening is they're providing the 25pin "dock" concept where you just push the iPod down onto the 25 pins.... kinda a silly approach since I'm pretty sure apple just started using it at 4G, and like you say, USB would basically cover everyone (Or at least give everyone a standard they can work with)... plus then I can charge my bluetooth headset, my cell phone and my iPod in flight assuming enough ports. Not that I really need to do all that, but it would be nice to land with a full battery on my phone.
Then, of course, is the problem of realizing that calling Microsoft, when they have already refused to let you install your software is a bit too far of a stretch for many people. You have no idea as to how many people will just give up and walk away when they get told to piss off in an official manner.
I respectfully disagree. While I think the practice described in this summary is completely and total BS I think you're way off base on your analysis of human behavior. I'd say it is in fact exactly the opposite. Once people have paid you the $100 they'll jump through remarkable hoops to use it.... even if it costs $500 in their time to make it work. Now, when it comes time to buy the next product or upgrade, that's when they'll walk away if the hassle wasn't worth the reward.
Actually, it's unbelievably complicated. Why do I need to call anyone when installing software? Needless complications imposed by the manufacturer is why.
Absolutely, this is slashdot and the Linux crowd... Easy should mean going to IRC channels, posting in mailing lists and online forums.
No, we keep looking into at a small company I work for... but if you don't need a hefty desktop, then you can pick up a tiny, low powered PC for $400... dumb terminals aren't cheaper enough... in fact they're often more expensive... it keeps negating the move. The JackPC is the only dumb terminal which really has me interested, but I have a lot more to learn about running such a setup first.
I think it's an issue of Apple management being smarter their Microsoft counterparts. In a company as large and high-profile as Microsoft, it's folly to assume that they don't have some good engineers . . . but it's quite apparent that their management tree could use some pruning.
You are not the target market. Large corporations do not need to take steps to make the minority markets happy, even if those markets may be better educated on the given product. Why does everyone on Slashdot assume they're an expert who could manage Microsoft better? Guess what, they're doing alright!
I just tried it, it said everything went fine, I chose the Debian Installer at reboot, and I got a grub menu with 3 choices, expert, standard and auto. All three resulted in a "file not found message", so I booted back to XP.
I took the SAT in 1995, and I thought you couldn't use a calculator (turns out you could, but what're you going to do when you show up without one), so I have no idea if what you're saying is true or not... but if it is, then the problem is the people who should be scoring pathetically low will now be able to answer a bunch of the questions properly, and the people who really lose are the average students, because now there's no way to differentiate them from the suckers.