The new iPhone 3GS introduces OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible hardware. Its 3D chip--reportedly a PowerVR SGX GPU core integrated in a Samsung chip--is more powerful than the previous generation...The new graphic processing unit provides the iPhone with a modern GPU core with 5th-generation shader-driven tile-based deferred rendering. The current 3D graphics unit is 4th-generation tile-based deferred rendering, compatible with OpenGL ES 1.1, but not 2.0.
All this and it still can't do MMS (pretty much the standard in most of the world for sending media - images/music etc. over mobile networks) or even video calls, while my £69 3skypephone can.
Dude, I linked you to an article that is exclusively for Office 2007. Office 2007 does not have menus and does not have the Office 2003 interface. You're talking gibberish.
You go ahead and do that. Go ahead and ignore everything else I've said on the thread, cover your ears and yell la-la-la at the top of your lungs. Don't let reality or truth get in the way.
"The Personalized Menus and Toolbars feature evaluates what menu commands you use. Additionally, this feature displays only those items that you use most frequently on a shortened version of each menu. By default, when you click a menu and then rest the mouse pointer over the menu title, the menu expands and displays all the menu items.
And when you look below at which applications it mentions are storing these settings, it's the ones that don't use the Ribbon but the Office 2003 interface (since not all office 2007 applications use the Ribbon). The office 2003 interface did this, the Ribbon does not.
Well except for the fact that the ribbon reorganises itself so you can't ever find anything.
What are you talking about?
I've used office 2007 on quite a few different machines and pretty much the buttons are always in the same place. The only thing is when working on lower resolutions, some buttons are made smaller to fit together, but they are still in the same place.
Since you don't refer to the reason, I'll just assume you're mad about the "Fired their Aces game development team ending a long running franchise in flight simulation" point.
Does anyone have any data for this? My experience in legal has been pretty much the opposite.
More anecdotal evidence, but with the accumulation of it, it becomes 'data' at some point.
I have not yet found a single person (and I've installed this on 100+ workstations) who didn't find the ribbon interface easier to work with after they got used to it.
On the other hand, look at Apple. Snow Leopard is only a $29 upgrade for a single license and a $59 upgrade for a family license. There is only 1 Leopard version not the myriad of versions like Windoze, and Leopard kicks Windoze butt any given day.
But then the hardware is more expensive. I spent £400 on my widescreen laptop that comes with everything from bluetooth, firewire, sdcard readers etc. (and even a copy of Windows) that is superior to a Mac Mini (hardware wise) which costs £499, that is £99 more... For what?
But then I need to buy a Windows license to use my Windows only software and run Windows - like most users do. So why would I want that?
The worst is, majority of stuff I use (mostly games) works absolutely fine in Wine in practically every platform... But on OS X's wine ports (including crossover), it doesn't seem to work for the majority of it (Jeremy White mentioned something about OS X having broken opengl and buggy drivers, requiring each application to have specific hacks).
OS X, in my opinion is cheap - but I'm not referencing cost in that statement.
Actually, It would not surprise me if they are laughed out of court, in some European countries that is... The US is another matter entirely.
I doubt it. You paid for a specific license for a specific piece of software. Windows XP is not a older version of Windows Vista or Windows Seven. It's a different product.
Just because I hold a license to Windows Vista doesn't mean I am legally allowed to Windows 2000 datacenter edition etc.
Some updates forced by IT also force PC to restart.
There are different ways of managing thi issue, many corporations block the user from doing anything to begin with on the system until the system is up to date to begin with. But my own setups I have done use installation cloning against the master image server on boot up.
The problem is real: IT can't tell hundreds people (whole company or department) arbitrarily to stop working because some idiot attached private notebook with an infected OS.
Don't need to. A decently managed large company should be able to use to block any device from using the network or at least be able to trace the exact hardware location the device was plugged in to within a few moments of knowing the IP address. Not this rubbish the company mentioned before is doing.
Corporate PCs are slow because IT schedules piles of checks during start-up and piles of back-ups during shutdown. AV updates on my corporate PC always take at least 1.5 minute during start-up. Plus 2-5 minutes check for 3rd party software updates. YMMV.
Don't push your bad IT management skills/experience as a reason for it. I don't run shit IT departments and even on limited router and switch hardware that didn't support this capability I would be using Kerberos which would ensure on authorized equipment (which would then be documented who has it etc) was accessing the network.
And, even without Kerberos, I would at least be able to tell the DHCP server to give that specific machine a certain subnet split up from the other machines where I could intercept all requests to various protocols with a specific message to the user.
That is your issue - I do see a problem, as does the parent. Therefore, we choose to purchase Macs instead. When I ran linux, it was for the same reasons.
Ah! I am enlightened now. Mac users don't like security updates, which is why Apple is so bad at doing them!
We get weekly updates on some software with bug fixes, but my company has to push this onto our computers.
I don't see the problem.
We also have virus updates very often (separate from the software updates)
I don't see a problem with that either.
Last month they were searching a campus of 10K units looking for one computer, not issued by IT that someone was bringing into our network randomly, but infecting the network each time they connected.
Sounds like they don't have a very nicely setup network. For the £5 difference in the cost to get a switch with hardware location identification verses a regular switch, that is kind of ridiculous.
infecting the network each time they connected.
Infecting? So the machines aren't up to date on the business network then? Doesn't that conflict with what you said earlier? o.O
My work computer takes 15 minutes to boot up and about 5 minutes to shut down - I understand from others this is not the XP standard times, but due to all the stuff to prevent virus infiltration.
And my 7 year old Windows XP machine takes less than a minute to start or shut down, and it's using roaming profiles with avast anti-virus for the anti-virus software (centrally managed from the domain server too). It's beginning to sound like your company doesn't have the right people to me.
I suspect there are some on slashdot using Linux for similar reasons.
Nah, I just use Linux because I find it superior to most operating systems out there. Viruses have never been a real concern for me (I take enough safe guards), Windows or otherwise.
My complains about multiple document interface stem from trying to get Metrowerks Codewarrior to work with a third party hex editor--I was working on binary I/O at the time.
You should be happy to know that Microsoft don't use MDI in any of their core products anymore. Infact, Microsoft Office dumped it back in the 90s. I can't really think of any other core Microsoft product that used MDI and Microsoft certainly doesn't prompte it's use anymore.
I will say however that I really love MDI with my IRC client (mIRC).
You do realise that the optical drive eject buttons nowadays are soft eject, and therefore largely useless when the power is off
I quite like my optical drive. It has a soft eject button, but if you hold said button for six seconds, it will force an eject (turning off the burner if it's on).
This is actually still a problem - why does Apple have a UK keyboard layout which is different to standard UK keyboard layouts? You have the option to choose 'UK Keyboard' specifically when speccing a new Apple system, but its different to the UK keyboard prevelent. Annoying.
And then you have to hit alt+3 to type #, which some applications will intercept and perform an action instead.
That has got to be one of the most annoying things I have ever seen on a laptop. Who ever thought this was a good idea at Dell should be forced to have 20 of these laptops asleep in his room at night while he tries to sleep.
You assume he would have a problem sleeping with it (I don't).
Maximize Window? Why would you want a Maximized Window?
From a user point of view, I have noticed many people can't seem to handle too much information on the screen. They get confused and click the wrong thing, frustrated as they try to focus on what is most important but can't seem to locate it with all the information all over the screen. Users generally are not very good at multitasking.
Now, you can argue how the zoom feature is superior, however, you can't say it works for all applications well - Finder (this problem existed from 10.0 to 10.4 not sure if the problem exists in 10.5) had insane issues with it's 'zoom' feature with a folder that had a good amount of files. You would tell it to zoom, and it would end up expanding the window so far, that the was so tall, it couldn't fit on your screen in height, the resize tool being out of reach as it's got past the window region and this is superior to maximization? No.
Playing with the window border tool to make it fill the screen is annoying, even Apple agrees with quite a few of their core products, see - iMovie, iPhoto, iCal, QuickTime and GarageBand.
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All this and it still can't do MMS (pretty much the standard in most of the world for sending media - images/music etc. over mobile networks) or even video calls, while my £69 3skypephone can.
I happen to actually use the software here,
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2007 do not use the Ribbon interface (Additional note: Outlook uses it partially for only certain windows).
How do I know this? I use these applications. Don't believe the Google image results? Then why don't you believe the article you linked:
Two words come to mind. Sore and loser.
I wasn't replying to you.
And when you look below at which applications it mentions are storing these settings, it's the ones that don't use the Ribbon but the Office 2003 interface (since not all office 2007 applications use the Ribbon). The office 2003 interface did this, the Ribbon does not.
What are you talking about?
I've used office 2007 on quite a few different machines and pretty much the buttons are always in the same place. The only thing is when working on lower resolutions, some buttons are made smaller to fit together, but they are still in the same place.
Since you don't refer to the reason, I'll just assume you're mad about the "Fired their Aces game development team ending a long running franchise in flight simulation" point.
More anecdotal evidence, but with the accumulation of it, it becomes 'data' at some point.
I have not yet found a single person (and I've installed this on 100+ workstations) who didn't find the ribbon interface easier to work with after they got used to it.
But then the hardware is more expensive. I spent £400 on my widescreen laptop that comes with everything from bluetooth, firewire, sdcard readers etc. (and even a copy of Windows) that is superior to a Mac Mini (hardware wise) which costs £499, that is £99 more... For what?
But then I need to buy a Windows license to use my Windows only software and run Windows - like most users do. So why would I want that?
The worst is, majority of stuff I use (mostly games) works absolutely fine in Wine in practically every platform... But on OS X's wine ports (including crossover), it doesn't seem to work for the majority of it (Jeremy White mentioned something about OS X having broken opengl and buggy drivers, requiring each application to have specific hacks).
OS X, in my opinion is cheap - but I'm not referencing cost in that statement.
I doubt it. You paid for a specific license for a specific piece of software. Windows XP is not a older version of Windows Vista or Windows Seven. It's a different product.
Just because I hold a license to Windows Vista doesn't mean I am legally allowed to Windows 2000 datacenter edition etc.
FYI: I live in Europe.
Linux has been available on desktops for a while.
Why wouldn't those work on Seven?
There are different ways of managing thi issue, many corporations block the user from doing anything to begin with on the system until the system is up to date to begin with. But my own setups I have done use installation cloning against the master image server on boot up.
Don't need to. A decently managed large company should be able to use to block any device from using the network or at least be able to trace the exact hardware location the device was plugged in to within a few moments of knowing the IP address. Not this rubbish the company mentioned before is doing.
Don't push your bad IT management skills/experience as a reason for it. I don't run shit IT departments and even on limited router and switch hardware that didn't support this capability I would be using Kerberos which would ensure on authorized equipment (which would then be documented who has it etc) was accessing the network.
And, even without Kerberos, I would at least be able to tell the DHCP server to give that specific machine a certain subnet split up from the other machines where I could intercept all requests to various protocols with a specific message to the user.
Ah! I am enlightened now. Mac users don't like security updates, which is why Apple is so bad at doing them!
I don't see the problem.
I don't see a problem with that either.
Sounds like they don't have a very nicely setup network. For the £5 difference in the cost to get a switch with hardware location identification verses a regular switch, that is kind of ridiculous.
Infecting? So the machines aren't up to date on the business network then? Doesn't that conflict with what you said earlier? o.O
And my 7 year old Windows XP machine takes less than a minute to start or shut down, and it's using roaming profiles with avast anti-virus for the anti-virus software (centrally managed from the domain server too). It's beginning to sound like your company doesn't have the right people to me.
Nah, I just use Linux because I find it superior to most operating systems out there. Viruses have never been a real concern for me (I take enough safe guards), Windows or otherwise.
I don't feel like including install commands.
As did Apples back then.
I haven't seen any viruses for AmigaOS3.9 or 4.0 yet.
It's a Toshiba, Windows identifies it the model as "SD-L802B"
You should be happy to know that Microsoft don't use MDI in any of their core products anymore. Infact, Microsoft Office dumped it back in the 90s. I can't really think of any other core Microsoft product that used MDI and Microsoft certainly doesn't prompte it's use anymore.
I will say however that I really love MDI with my IRC client (mIRC).
I quite like my optical drive. It has a soft eject button, but if you hold said button for six seconds, it will force an eject (turning off the burner if it's on).
And then you have to hit alt+3 to type #, which some applications will intercept and perform an action instead.
You assume he would have a problem sleeping with it (I don't).
Sounds like the forum software sucks.
From a user point of view, I have noticed many people can't seem to handle too much information on the screen. They get confused and click the wrong thing, frustrated as they try to focus on what is most important but can't seem to locate it with all the information all over the screen. Users generally are not very good at multitasking.
Now, you can argue how the zoom feature is superior, however, you can't say it works for all applications well - Finder (this problem existed from 10.0 to 10.4 not sure if the problem exists in 10.5) had insane issues with it's 'zoom' feature with a folder that had a good amount of files. You would tell it to zoom, and it would end up expanding the window so far, that the was so tall, it couldn't fit on your screen in height, the resize tool being out of reach as it's got past the window region and this is superior to maximization? No.
Playing with the window border tool to make it fill the screen is annoying, even Apple agrees with quite a few of their core products, see - iMovie, iPhoto, iCal, QuickTime and GarageBand.
Some things I will never understand. We know already that these kind of keyboards are bad and yet some big companies, insist on making badly designed keyboards with the same flaws in this day and age still.