That's just the beginning, there're timing issues outside of resolution on most DLP TVs that complicate the matter even further.
NVIDIA has options in the Windows software to specifically output to HDTV, which I haven't tinkered with since about 8 months ago, but which was mediocre at best (on my particular TV at that time, which was a pretty new format, so likely not well supported) and which started with the "By enabling this feature you're completely voiding all warranties on this video card" message.
And that was using a DVI-HDMI convert... so it was supposed to be the easy way.
oooo yeah, that's going to be a great way to help the adoption of HD-DVD/BluRay right now.
Sorry your brand new laptop with a built in drive won't play the newest movies, but some people have hacked the software on your laptop, yes that's right the software we licensed and approved, and now you must update the same software with new keys to watch new movies.
AKA, you're on an airplane, you have no connection, and things just plain don't work.
people are motivated to join Congress by two things, money and power.
I think that's a little overly cynical... I think people are motivated to join congress for a large variety of reasons, most of them probably more altruistic variations on power.
Now, what motivates the parties to help pick up the tab, not run a smear campaign against you and otherwise make actually joining congress a reality... that's where I'd put money and power.
I really like that idea... I'd like the client to color code it so I know I did it, and I'd like access to the original subject line... but yeah, I agree, cool idea.
No, in fact in the last few days of the beta I often have to close/restart just to read email. It gets stuck in some process or another, I believe it has to do with attachments, but I don't have the time at the moment to diagnose it, so I just close re-open.
And no, I haven't submitted a bug or anything, I know I should, but I haven't.
If by labels you mean tags, then you're doing something wrong.
I use multiple machines over IMAP, I use webmail/Thunderbird/Outlook and I have many folders (both IMAP and local) as well as multiple accounts.
My tags translate fine between them all... granted my Thunderbird tags aren't available in Webmail (and I'm not sure about Outlook I don't use it often)
Yep, I'm in 2.0 beta, and it's just the same... easy, I'd even say too easy cause I often send from the wrong address, but I prefer taking the responsibility on myself as opposed to having to jump through hoops.
I completely disagree. To me the only interesting models are and have always been the biggest jukebox available. And I used to by the iRiver's because I thought they had the real technical and usability advantages. But now, there's no (IMO) viable competition in the >20gb market, iPods are the only player there now. That's why I bought an iPod when I fried my iRiver with the wrong charger.
.NET is a tool just like any other framework... the failures you mention are with the coders, not the tool. There are plenty of perfectly wonderful.NET apps in the world, just like there are plenty of perfectly wonderful GTK+ apps in the world, and the opposite also holds true. So while the content of your post may very well be accurate, the title is a ridiculous assumptions based on it.
This has nothing to do with anything. Having the application look the same across platforms doesn't have anything to do with the amount of functionality you're providing, unless you don't provide it on all platforms, in which case, you have bigger problems.
I meant across machines, as in the 50 desktops at an office. Or my desktop/laptop/server. Depending on the program, i.e. a web browser, consistency of interface is important... granted, depending on the program customization of the interface may be more important. My original point wasn't intended to say ones better than the other, just that depending on the realities of the program everything can change... Five million installed web browsers vs. 10 installations of a highly functional custom coded solution are going to have different priorities. "Software" is not some concept for which the answer to this question is always the same. And, IMO, that goes for both the developer's and user's view.
Set the DPI to be accurate for your monitor. Things will work. What's confusing? This will have none of the above mentioned errors unless you're running programs which are custom drawing fonts based on pixel heights, which I don't think I've seen in Windows well, ever.
But it's not just a software question. Sure maybe I can flip a setting in my config file so all my text is ROT13'd, including the config file... but then do I help them when they call for support? Software is not just a product put out by engineers, it's also a product which must be supported by someone, sold by someone, packaged, run on a computer (obviously infinite choices wouldn't run very quickly).
Extra choices can add significant complexity, both to the code and sometimes to the usability... consistency across machines is often important for example, the last thing you want to do in such a program is to provide so many choices that the interface doesn't even look familiar any more.
Who suggested messing with the Windows font size or scaling bitmap images by an amount other than an integer scale? I was referring to adjustments to DPI to fix problems with, oh I dunno, DPI issues.
Form action isn't a bad extra thing to check, but don't forget that it's not a guarantee that that's the only place the information is going. You need to trust the site requesting the information when it comes to the auto-fill out thing, end of story. Because I trust X I'm going to trust Y.X or X/~joe was just a bad design decision.... I get the point, sites like newegg and their nine different login pages depending on the vector. But, it's just not practical. Besides, the whole point of this software is that you enter it once, not you enter it nonce. At the VERY LEAST, if it's not the exact page you told to save the password there should be a popup mentioning the info was requested and would you like to provide it.
You've misconfigured your OS if higher resolution means smaller font size.... and in regards to photo/video... zoom in. Higher resolution means you have more to work with, not that everything is smaller. (1400x1050 in a 14.1" for the record.)
Not to mention the the last two or three years worth of QuickBooks packages won't even attempt to run under Wine... for that matter they won't even run under anything older than Windows 2000.
When I first started managing my accounts I started with GNUCash, and I really like it... when I got an accountant, I switched to Quickbooks, and I think it's ok... but I'd be in GNUCash if I had my druthers.
Remember FL in 2000? Paper ballots... are those punched ALL the way through or not?
They can get confusing, especially in major cities where you have dozens of things to vote on. With millions of potential voters. Electronic voting is a good thing, unfortunately it's been horribly implemented. There's no need to be a Luddite on this topic, just the opposite in fact. However, given the current state of things.... paper all the way for 2006!
And don't underestimate the peripheral market... I know it's a chicken/egg argument, but it's really helped apple maintain. You walk into any Best Buy or similar store and you see dozens of add-ons for the iPods, and none for the Creatives. That's a marketing point for the people who are coming at this rather blind.
I dunno, I had an iRiver h140... and now I have an iPod 80GB cause I broke the iRiver, and when I went to replace it, there just wasn't a comparable technology to the iPod.
iRiver stopped making its big jukeboxes, I think its biggest player now is 10 or 20 GB.... and everything else that plays video now (a minor feature to me) is a bit larger than the iPod.
I will definitely agree though, the audio quality that came out of the iRiver is heads above the iPod, and I'm no audiophile, it's just plain noticeable. And the iRiver was easier to use too in my opinion, the buttons always do the same thing and are very responsive. My iPod often lags, and sometimes when it says it's playing a song it's dead silent... the software on the thing is just a bit buggy, and apparently too intensive for the hardware they've put it on.
Either way, I'm happy with both purchases, I think they're both good pieces of hardware... my iRiver cost exactly as much as a comparable iPod when I purchased it btw.
Excuse me for my loose wording, I assumed an audience familiar with the article, this is what SSL Certificates signed by Verisign and similar companies are already supposed to be.
One snarl-up for Mozilla may have been working out an alternative to the rest of Microsoft's site-rating system. As well as getting dishing out green address bars, servers at Redmond will blacklist dodgy and suspect sites, which can look forward to red and amber flashing up.
I don't feel all paranoid about this, and I think the technology is a good concept, but dang, do we want any for profit company to be the one in charge of maintaining these lists? And what's the appeal process, if my online store got listed red or amber for even a couple weeks at the wrong time, that's a serious hit to my business. Now, like I said, I'm not really concerned that MS is going to go off and start red flagging sites they have a grudge against, I generally trust them, but do we even want to give any for-profit the temptation? (I wouldn't want to take this responsibility on as part of my company, I'd much rather start a specific organization for it which was completely transparent and accountable)
Couldn't agree more, posted a similar concept a little higher up... but reading it in your words makes me wonder, is there a class action lawsuit in the near future for standard SSL users?
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I had that happen at O'Hare not too long ago, wrote them a nice email on my phone, and had my $8 refunded to my credit card before I landed in NYC.
You might be a mathematical moron, but with the calculator you'll still get the answer right.
That's just the beginning, there're timing issues outside of resolution on most DLP TVs that complicate the matter even further.
NVIDIA has options in the Windows software to specifically output to HDTV, which I haven't tinkered with since about 8 months ago, but which was mediocre at best (on my particular TV at that time, which was a pretty new format, so likely not well supported) and which started with the "By enabling this feature you're completely voiding all warranties on this video card" message.
And that was using a DVI-HDMI convert... so it was supposed to be the easy way.
I have mod points, but I can't find the -1 Paranoid... wtf?
oooo yeah, that's going to be a great way to help the adoption of HD-DVD/BluRay right now.
Sorry your brand new laptop with a built in drive won't play the newest movies, but some people have hacked the software on your laptop, yes that's right the software we licensed and approved, and now you must update the same software with new keys to watch new movies.
AKA, you're on an airplane, you have no connection, and things just plain don't work.
people are motivated to join Congress by two things, money and power.
I think that's a little overly cynical... I think people are motivated to join congress for a large variety of reasons, most of them probably more altruistic variations on power.
Now, what motivates the parties to help pick up the tab, not run a smear campaign against you and otherwise make actually joining congress a reality... that's where I'd put money and power.
I really like that idea... I'd like the client to color code it so I know I did it, and I'd like access to the original subject line... but yeah, I agree, cool idea.
No, in fact in the last few days of the beta I often have to close/restart just to read email. It gets stuck in some process or another, I believe it has to do with attachments, but I don't have the time at the moment to diagnose it, so I just close re-open.
And no, I haven't submitted a bug or anything, I know I should, but I haven't.
If by labels you mean tags, then you're doing something wrong.
I use multiple machines over IMAP, I use webmail/Thunderbird/Outlook and I have many folders (both IMAP and local) as well as multiple accounts.
My tags translate fine between them all... granted my Thunderbird tags aren't available in Webmail (and I'm not sure about Outlook I don't use it often)
Yep, I'm in 2.0 beta, and it's just the same... easy, I'd even say too easy cause I often send from the wrong address, but I prefer taking the responsibility on myself as opposed to having to jump through hoops.
I completely disagree. To me the only interesting models are and have always been the biggest jukebox available. And I used to by the iRiver's because I thought they had the real technical and usability advantages. But now, there's no (IMO) viable competition in the >20gb market, iPods are the only player there now. That's why I bought an iPod when I fried my iRiver with the wrong charger.
.NET is a tool just like any other framework... the failures you mention are with the coders, not the tool. There are plenty of perfectly wonderful .NET apps in the world, just like there are plenty of perfectly wonderful GTK+ apps in the world, and the opposite also holds true. So while the content of your post may very well be accurate, the title is a ridiculous assumptions based on it.
This has nothing to do with anything. Having the application look the same across platforms doesn't have anything to do with the amount of functionality you're providing, unless you don't provide it on all platforms, in which case, you have bigger problems.
I meant across machines, as in the 50 desktops at an office. Or my desktop/laptop/server. Depending on the program, i.e. a web browser, consistency of interface is important... granted, depending on the program customization of the interface may be more important. My original point wasn't intended to say ones better than the other, just that depending on the realities of the program everything can change... Five million installed web browsers vs. 10 installations of a highly functional custom coded solution are going to have different priorities. "Software" is not some concept for which the answer to this question is always the same. And, IMO, that goes for both the developer's and user's view.
Set the DPI to be accurate for your monitor. Things will work. What's confusing? This will have none of the above mentioned errors unless you're running programs which are custom drawing fonts based on pixel heights, which I don't think I've seen in Windows well, ever.
But it's not just a software question. Sure maybe I can flip a setting in my config file so all my text is ROT13'd, including the config file... but then do I help them when they call for support? Software is not just a product put out by engineers, it's also a product which must be supported by someone, sold by someone, packaged, run on a computer (obviously infinite choices wouldn't run very quickly).
Extra choices can add significant complexity, both to the code and sometimes to the usability... consistency across machines is often important for example, the last thing you want to do in such a program is to provide so many choices that the interface doesn't even look familiar any more.
Who suggested messing with the Windows font size or scaling bitmap images by an amount other than an integer scale? I was referring to adjustments to DPI to fix problems with, oh I dunno, DPI issues.
Form action isn't a bad extra thing to check, but don't forget that it's not a guarantee that that's the only place the information is going. You need to trust the site requesting the information when it comes to the auto-fill out thing, end of story. Because I trust X I'm going to trust Y.X or X/~joe was just a bad design decision.... I get the point, sites like newegg and their nine different login pages depending on the vector. But, it's just not practical. Besides, the whole point of this software is that you enter it once, not you enter it nonce. At the VERY LEAST, if it's not the exact page you told to save the password there should be a popup mentioning the info was requested and would you like to provide it.
You've misconfigured your OS if higher resolution means smaller font size.... and in regards to photo/video... zoom in. Higher resolution means you have more to work with, not that everything is smaller. (1400x1050 in a 14.1" for the record.)
Not to mention the the last two or three years worth of QuickBooks packages won't even attempt to run under Wine... for that matter they won't even run under anything older than Windows 2000.
When I first started managing my accounts I started with GNUCash, and I really like it... when I got an accountant, I switched to Quickbooks, and I think it's ok... but I'd be in GNUCash if I had my druthers.
Remember FL in 2000? Paper ballots... are those punched ALL the way through or not?
They can get confusing, especially in major cities where you have dozens of things to vote on. With millions of potential voters. Electronic voting is a good thing, unfortunately it's been horribly implemented. There's no need to be a Luddite on this topic, just the opposite in fact. However, given the current state of things.... paper all the way for 2006!
And don't underestimate the peripheral market... I know it's a chicken/egg argument, but it's really helped apple maintain. You walk into any Best Buy or similar store and you see dozens of add-ons for the iPods, and none for the Creatives. That's a marketing point for the people who are coming at this rather blind.
I dunno, I had an iRiver h140... and now I have an iPod 80GB cause I broke the iRiver, and when I went to replace it, there just wasn't a comparable technology to the iPod.
iRiver stopped making its big jukeboxes, I think its biggest player now is 10 or 20 GB.... and everything else that plays video now (a minor feature to me) is a bit larger than the iPod.
I will definitely agree though, the audio quality that came out of the iRiver is heads above the iPod, and I'm no audiophile, it's just plain noticeable. And the iRiver was easier to use too in my opinion, the buttons always do the same thing and are very responsive. My iPod often lags, and sometimes when it says it's playing a song it's dead silent... the software on the thing is just a bit buggy, and apparently too intensive for the hardware they've put it on.
Either way, I'm happy with both purchases, I think they're both good pieces of hardware... my iRiver cost exactly as much as a comparable iPod when I purchased it btw.
Excuse me for my loose wording, I assumed an audience familiar with the article, this is what SSL Certificates signed by Verisign and similar companies are already supposed to be.
One snarl-up for Mozilla may have been working out an alternative to the rest of Microsoft's site-rating system. As well as getting dishing out green address bars, servers at Redmond will blacklist dodgy and suspect sites, which can look forward to red and amber flashing up.
I don't feel all paranoid about this, and I think the technology is a good concept, but dang, do we want any for profit company to be the one in charge of maintaining these lists? And what's the appeal process, if my online store got listed red or amber for even a couple weeks at the wrong time, that's a serious hit to my business. Now, like I said, I'm not really concerned that MS is going to go off and start red flagging sites they have a grudge against, I generally trust them, but do we even want to give any for-profit the temptation? (I wouldn't want to take this responsibility on as part of my company, I'd much rather start a specific organization for it which was completely transparent and accountable)
Couldn't agree more, posted a similar concept a little higher up... but reading it in your words makes me wonder, is there a class action lawsuit in the near future for standard SSL users?