I'm not Microsoft, but it seems to make sense that a function like printing is more global than an edit function like cut or paste. So it's not tied to a specific tab and you can keep doing whatevery you're doing with out having to go up to the ribbon bar to select a new tab to print something. Same thing with Save.
That being said, one of the annoying things that I find with the new "meta menu" is that the keyboard shortcuts don't show up when you mouse over the menu item. They do in the rest of the tabs, just not the main one. Strange.
Why is this a problem? Print, Save and some of the other context-insensitive menu items are in a place that doesn't change dependent upon which tab you're using. It took me a second to figure where it was the first time I used it but it makes more sense being there than under the Home tab...
To paraphrase Dr. Strangelove: Yes, but the... whole point of the new technology... is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?
What good would it be to try to sell an airplane that no one knows about?
And that will be bad how? If an "appliance" does exactly what the user wants it to, why should they be forced to get a general-purpose computer if it has functions that they neither want nor need? An artist friend of mine once bought a tablet because he thought it would be easier than lugging a laptop and everything else he used to do art around. He just wanted to use drawing and painting tools - everything else was secondary to him. If there was a device that just let him do what he wanted to do but little else, would he be wrong in buying it?
Besides, this is a false dichotomy - there will always be need for a general computing device. The iPad and its like will neither supplant nor completely replace them.
HP made one, the T1100. It even used Wacom drivers. I have one. It sits gathering dust in my closet because it sucks. Too slow for graphic applications, too limited for anything else than taking notes and Magnetic Ink in Windows XP Tablet edition made that impossible because it was incapable of telling the difference between a lower case L and the number one.
The only thing nice about it was that the keyboard detached and it could be used as a true tablet.
No disconnect. The book isn't lent out to ten people simultaneously - one person has to return it before another can have it. There still is only one physical representation of the book. In digital form, there is no real limitation to the number of copies and any number of people could have it simultaneously.
Not even remotely the same thing. When I lend out a book, I no longer have access to it. If the lendee forgets where it came from and lends it to someone else or sells it (yes, it happened to me), the only way I'm ever going to read it again is to buy another copy or try to find it in a library.
With e-books you aren't "lending", you're merely making a copy...
Not wholly. The ongoing cost of wireless access has to be covered somehow and without a stable ongoing income, the potential costs would have to be included in the original cost of the unit. Either that, or the costs are will have to be absorbed by a kind of pyramid scheme where the price of future units has to cover the cost of service for the existing ones. A scary prospect.
This begs the question of why we don't already have netbooks this awesome, with free internet and days of battery life.
Because, in the case of the Kindle and Nook, the cost of the wireless connection is subsidized by book sales. There will be no additional purchases to subsidize Netbook access so what purpose would it serve a manufacturer to have it bundled in?
So, I no longer wish to pay for lights in areas of town that I will never visit, refuse to pay for schools because I have no children, can see no purpose to having my tax dollars pay for the Interstate Highway system in New Hampshire as I will never go there, will not subsidize additions to my local airport as I do not fly and refuse to subsidize the building of fire houses except in the area that I live in.
How else would they know which of all the banks out there was one he was using?
They don't have to. All they do is flood a set of known addresses with the same message. I've gotten a the same type of phishing email purporting to come from just about every bank in the US sent to my work email address - an address I never use for personal business. I get very few to my personal ones and have never gotten any from the banks that I actually do business with.
The opening of the doors at Ahn'Qiraj was a real-time event (rather than just appearing after a patch). I figure that they did the collecting thing to space out the openings so they could deal with the inevitable realm server crashes one at a time rather than all at once.
Why use BootCamp? Because sometimes you need to have Windows.
I have a Buffalo NAS - yeah, I know, it seemed like a good idea at the time - which crashed after a power outage. To get it into a state that would permit me to remove everything from its drives I needed to reinstall the OS. The installer only works from within Windows. Not Leopard. Not Linux. Windows. Without BootCamp, it would have taken me a whole lot longer to it working.
I also have other equipment that has installers that work only from Windows. It sucks, yes, but that's the way it is...
Or maybe they don't want to have to remember whether they put their copy of Beethoven's 9th Symphony played by the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas under Classical, Beethoven, MTT or some place else.
For finding a single song a directory tree may be easier but it sucks once you want to organize the same information different ways.
Ah, someone who knows what penultimate means (and someone who doesn't).
From Merriam-Webster's: Main Entry: penultimate
Pronunciation: \pi-nl-t-mt\
Function: adjective
Date: 1677
1 : next to the last (the penultimate chapter of a book)
2 : of or relating to a penult (a penultimate accent)
No, I'm not the GP. And I wasn't home-schooled either.
Hot drinks and moving vehicles never seemed like a terribly good combination to me either, but we served an awful lot of coffee in the mornings and almost none of it was consumed on the premises - either before or after the drive-thru window was installed.
McDonalds coffee is such a shitty, freeze dried process that it was necessary for them to heat their water much hotter than it normally takes to brew coffee, so hot it really could cause serious harm while 'normal' coffee just hurt, unless directly exposed to the eyes or sensitive membranes.
When I worked there a looonnnggg time ago, the biggest complaint I heard about the coffee from people using the drive-thru was that it wasn't hot enough. I never really figured out why as it certainly seemed hot enough when I handed it to them, but I guess that the coffee (Farmer Brothers ground coffee, incidentally, not freeze-dried) apparently wasn't warm enough when people got to their destination. Most people seemed to have no problem with the temperature and I wasn't a coffee drinker myself so I never actually tried it, but that's pretty much the only complaint we had. The temperature on the coffee maker wasn't adjustable so there wasn't a bunch we could do to help...
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I'm not Microsoft, but it seems to make sense that a function like printing is more global than an edit function like cut or paste. So it's not tied to a specific tab and you can keep doing whatevery you're doing with out having to go up to the ribbon bar to select a new tab to print something. Same thing with Save.
That being said, one of the annoying things that I find with the new "meta menu" is that the keyboard shortcuts don't show up when you mouse over the menu item. They do in the rest of the tabs, just not the main one. Strange.
Why is this a problem? Print, Save and some of the other context-insensitive menu items are in a place that doesn't change dependent upon which tab you're using. It took me a second to figure where it was the first time I used it but it makes more sense being there than under the Home tab...
To paraphrase Dr. Strangelove: Yes, but the... whole point of the new technology... is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?
What good would it be to try to sell an airplane that no one knows about?
You have a Treo 680, don't you?
And that will be bad how? If an "appliance" does exactly what the user wants it to, why should they be forced to get a general-purpose computer if it has functions that they neither want nor need? An artist friend of mine once bought a tablet because he thought it would be easier than lugging a laptop and everything else he used to do art around. He just wanted to use drawing and painting tools - everything else was secondary to him. If there was a device that just let him do what he wanted to do but little else, would he be wrong in buying it?
Besides, this is a false dichotomy - there will always be need for a general computing device. The iPad and its like will neither supplant nor completely replace them.
HP made one, the T1100. It even used Wacom drivers. I have one. It sits gathering dust in my closet because it sucks. Too slow for graphic applications, too limited for anything else than taking notes and Magnetic Ink in Windows XP Tablet edition made that impossible because it was incapable of telling the difference between a lower case L and the number one.
The only thing nice about it was that the keyboard detached and it could be used as a true tablet.
Is our Two Minute Hate up yet?
No disconnect. The book isn't lent out to ten people simultaneously - one person has to return it before another can have it. There still is only one physical representation of the book. In digital form, there is no real limitation to the number of copies and any number of people could have it simultaneously.
So the Google's shareholders don't freak out when Google leaves a potentially lucrative market?
How about they just release it to video?
With e-books you aren't "lending", you're merely making a copy...
Not wholly. The ongoing cost of wireless access has to be covered somehow and without a stable ongoing income, the potential costs would have to be included in the original cost of the unit. Either that, or the costs are will have to be absorbed by a kind of pyramid scheme where the price of future units has to cover the cost of service for the existing ones. A scary prospect.
Because, in the case of the Kindle and Nook, the cost of the wireless connection is subsidized by book sales. There will be no additional purchases to subsidize Netbook access so what purpose would it serve a manufacturer to have it bundled in?
So, I no longer wish to pay for lights in areas of town that I will never visit, refuse to pay for schools because I have no children, can see no purpose to having my tax dollars pay for the Interstate Highway system in New Hampshire as I will never go there, will not subsidize additions to my local airport as I do not fly and refuse to subsidize the building of fire houses except in the area that I live in.
Remeber, before the RICO laws, the Feds used tax laws to put mobsters behind bars. That may be why the setion in the revinue code is there...
How else would they know which of all the banks out there was one he was using?
They don't have to. All they do is flood a set of known addresses with the same message. I've gotten a the same type of phishing email purporting to come from just about every bank in the US sent to my work email address - an address I never use for personal business. I get very few to my personal ones and have never gotten any from the banks that I actually do business with.
The opening of the doors at Ahn'Qiraj was a real-time event (rather than just appearing after a patch). I figure that they did the collecting thing to space out the openings so they could deal with the inevitable realm server crashes one at a time rather than all at once.
Why use BootCamp? Because sometimes you need to have Windows.
I have a Buffalo NAS - yeah, I know, it seemed like a good idea at the time - which crashed after a power outage. To get it into a state that would permit me to remove everything from its drives I needed to reinstall the OS. The installer only works from within Windows. Not Leopard. Not Linux. Windows. Without BootCamp, it would have taken me a whole lot longer to it working.
I also have other equipment that has installers that work only from Windows. It sucks, yes, but that's the way it is...
Or maybe they don't want to have to remember whether they put their copy of Beethoven's 9th Symphony played by the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas under Classical, Beethoven, MTT or some place else.
For finding a single song a directory tree may be easier but it sucks once you want to organize the same information different ways.
Ah, someone who knows what penultimate means (and someone who doesn't).
From Merriam-Webster's:
Main Entry: penultimate
Pronunciation: \pi-nl-t-mt\
Function: adjective
Date: 1677
1 : next to the last (the penultimate chapter of a book)
2 : of or relating to a penult (a penultimate accent)
No, I'm not the GP. And I wasn't home-schooled either.
Maybe god had a bigger budget than Paramount, Fox and Warner Brothers did...
Yeah, because we all want to live next to Love Canal.
Yes, the process is slow and is often abused, but there is a good reason why it's there...
If you're talking about styrofoam cups, they were only used in cheap restaruants and truck stops - McDonalds used paper cups.
Hot drinks and moving vehicles never seemed like a terribly good combination to me either, but we served an awful lot of coffee in the mornings and almost none of it was consumed on the premises - either before or after the drive-thru window was installed.
McDonalds coffee is such a shitty, freeze dried process that it was necessary for them to heat their water much hotter than it normally takes to brew coffee, so hot it really could cause serious harm while 'normal' coffee just hurt, unless directly exposed to the eyes or sensitive membranes.
When I worked there a looonnnggg time ago, the biggest complaint I heard about the coffee from people using the drive-thru was that it wasn't hot enough.
I never really figured out why as it certainly seemed hot enough when I handed it to them, but I guess that the coffee (Farmer Brothers ground coffee, incidentally, not freeze-dried) apparently wasn't warm enough when people got to their destination. Most people seemed to have no problem with the temperature and I wasn't a coffee drinker myself so I never actually tried it, but that's pretty much the only complaint we had. The temperature on the coffee maker wasn't adjustable so there wasn't a bunch we could do to help...