so long as there's a reliable opt-out I'm not going to be critical.
Since when is it okay for there to be an opt-out? What happened to OPTING IN!?
Next people will be saying "as long as the fee for opting out is reasonable I'm not going to be critical."
I'd personally much prefer opt-ins to opt-outs. Especially when my privacy is an issue. However this certainly won't be an issue for me, as I'm not planning on buying a brand new car anytime soon.
No, there's definitely a method. Do as powerful as you can, and play with the angle. Some angles are better then others.
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it looks as though they've thrown every bit of GUI common practice and standardization out of the window.
This is how improvements to user interfaces can be brought about. In theory, Microsoft had a good GUI with Word. In practice, it was a complicated, bloated piece of shit that was a nightmare to try to use, especially if there were more then one user using it.
It appears that Microsoft has taken the complaints of users (well, complaints I've had for quite some time anyway) and worked on a new GUI that addresses these concerns. There's no reason the GUI should look the same it did back in Word95.
One of my big problems is that the toolbar is too complex. There are too many submenu's, trying to customize it so it displays relevant things (and keeping it's settings which was always buggy) was always a chore. The whole "let's hide most of the menu in the drop-down menu" thing was annoying. Now with it being in the toolbar represented via graphics, with a very small amount of parent menus, I'll be able to find what I want much more easily. This is a good thing(TM).
Is it different? Sure. Will some people be confused? Definitely. Is the difference a great enough improvement to deal with the confusion? IMO, most definitely.
Now if only they'd do something about those damn Virus-writer (sorry, "Macros") and make it less bloated and buggy.
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Bearing more than a passing resemblance to Aqua and brushed metal looks from Mac OS X
And everyone knows this is the most important part of the new UI *roll-eyes*
Unfortunately I can't comment on anything else because it's been slashdotted. However these tabbed pop-up things sound like they're a change for the sake of a change. That is bad. Making changes to the UI can be good when they improve functionality and ease of use. Making changes to the UI so they can sell yet another copy of your favourite bloatware office program is not good.
Word has a lot of elements of a UI that are good in theory. Now if only they could work on their implementation of these elements.
Oh for crying out loud! At least I thought they were bribing the government to give their case credence. But no. That would have made such ridiculous laws a little better.
Wow, yet another vague summary, that can definitely be misleading. Having first read the summary, I thought it was about a company claiming to have created the code and/or services of Gmail only to have google steal it. But no, the company is merely sueing for trademark infringement. Way to go slashdot! The word "TRADEMARK" could have been mentioned somewhere in the article, would have cleared it up a tiny bit. But I guess Slashdot gets more pageviews (and ad views) by confusing its readers.
I specifically do NOT want a device that does more than one thing.
Agreed. I have a typewriter for creating documents (OpenOffice), a console for playing video games (computer games), a telephone for talking to people (Skype), a video player (porn). This fandangled thing called a "computer" just does too many things, all of them poorly. Give me seperate devices any day.
Some may think this is flame-bait, but I'm being deadly serious. When he doesn't care about black people, what makes you think he's going to care about an even smaller minority (the non-IE users) of America?
you can join the military at 17 in the US. It would also be a little stupid to say "you aren't allowed to see violence in video games, if you want to see that... go to Iraq!" In other words, shoot people with computerized guns: not until 18.. shoot people with real guns: 17
Oh I see, so it's okay to not only pretend to kill people, but actually do it in real life as a profession. But seeing sex depicted in a game? Hell no! That better be for Adults Only!
I still say the secretaries should have been reprimanded, severely repremanded, and the pinkslip should have been reserved for the moron who made company E-Mail coresspondence public property.
Why would you want to reward the moron with a pinkslip? Then he would just get out of having to spend quite a bit of money for his car.
Aha! I was wondering what that meant. I thought it meant it was the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere (depending on how you define the southern hemisphere). I was going to make a post asking how there could be ambiguity over the definition of the southern hemisphere. So thankyou for clearing that up.
Supernova 1987A is the closest supernova event since the invention of the telescope.
Wow! So not only does this Supernova challenge current scientific theories, but it also challenges the laws of physics! What do I mean? Well the first telescope was invented in 1609 which means that this supernova must have happened after 1609. Considering it happened 169,000 light years away, the emissions must have travelled faster then the speed of light to reach us in 1987 (which is when it was first detected).
This is one special Supernova people!
Another nitpick: This may not be the closest supernova to have happened. One might have happened 100,000 light years away (but happened 80,000 years ago) so we won't know about it until 20,000 years from now.
You can easily rip paper pulling it out of your pocket.
Will it have a paper-like price-tag (bumped up slightly for it's more durable state)? If yes, great. Otherwise it being fragile is a real concern. Now I'm by no means rough with my expensive gadgets, but if it's too flimsy when unrolling it, it's usefulness is decreased dramatically.
Also, how easy will it be to keep this thing open? And do you really need both hands? Reading something so small two handed can be annoying (please leave the jokes for another time). You need a good justifiable reason for needing both hands with something this small (such as with a PSP where both hands are doing something), and "keeping it open" doesn't seem a very good one (in my opinion). This should be a design issue that's worked on before it's released if this product is going to be useful.
You are wrong. The best way to get rid of unjust laws is to have everyone break them so they become unenforceable.
Actually, it's to publicly break them en masse, so that the jails will get too crowded so that people CAN'T be jailed. However to do that you need high numbers of people willing to do that. In the past people have been able to achieve the high numbers necessary because people WERE willing to go to jail, because the cause was something they strongly believed in.
I doubt you'll ever be able to get enough p2p users to do it, as most use it anonymously. In that case, they aren't activists. They're criminals.
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so long as there's a reliable opt-out I'm not going to be critical.
Since when is it okay for there to be an opt-out? What happened to OPTING IN!?
Next people will be saying "as long as the fee for opting out is reasonable I'm not going to be critical."
I'd personally much prefer opt-ins to opt-outs. Especially when my privacy is an issue. However this certainly won't be an issue for me, as I'm not planning on buying a brand new car anytime soon.
No, there's definitely a method. Do as powerful as you can, and play with the angle. Some angles are better then others.
it looks as though they've thrown every bit of GUI common practice and standardization out of the window.
This is how improvements to user interfaces can be brought about. In theory, Microsoft had a good GUI with Word. In practice, it was a complicated, bloated piece of shit that was a nightmare to try to use, especially if there were more then one user using it.
It appears that Microsoft has taken the complaints of users (well, complaints I've had for quite some time anyway) and worked on a new GUI that addresses these concerns. There's no reason the GUI should look the same it did back in Word95.
One of my big problems is that the toolbar is too complex. There are too many submenu's, trying to customize it so it displays relevant things (and keeping it's settings which was always buggy) was always a chore. The whole "let's hide most of the menu in the drop-down menu" thing was annoying. Now with it being in the toolbar represented via graphics, with a very small amount of parent menus, I'll be able to find what I want much more easily. This is a good thing(TM).
Is it different? Sure. Will some people be confused? Definitely. Is the difference a great enough improvement to deal with the confusion? IMO, most definitely.
Now if only they'd do something about those damn Virus-writer (sorry, "Macros") and make it less bloated and buggy.
Bearing more than a passing resemblance to Aqua and brushed metal looks from Mac OS X
And everyone knows this is the most important part of the new UI *roll-eyes*
Unfortunately I can't comment on anything else because it's been slashdotted. However these tabbed pop-up things sound like they're a change for the sake of a change. That is bad. Making changes to the UI can be good when they improve functionality and ease of use. Making changes to the UI so they can sell yet another copy of your favourite bloatware office program is not good.
Word has a lot of elements of a UI that are good in theory. Now if only they could work on their implementation of these elements.
Oh for crying out loud! At least I thought they were bribing the government to give their case credence. But no. That would have made such ridiculous laws a little better.
What would that do to all the people with @gmail.com addresses? Yeah, people can change it but for that many users it would be a royal PITA.
That's what happens for using a beta service. It is in beta for a reason (and more then just google loving to claim everything is in beta).
the word "trademark" DID appear, albeit in the last paragraph of the article.
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I was talking about the one paragraph slashdot summary
I wonder why Google hasn't just paid them to license the name?
It's a frikken G and a dash. The fact that Google would have to pay a company to use a G is just ridiculousness.
This just highlights the ridiculousness that can be trademark laws.
That's how trademarks work. From Wikipedia: They applied for a trademark, they received it. They must now defend it, or otherwise they shouldn't have applied for it in the first place.
Intellectual Property laws: helping encourage innovation of adding a G and a dash to a word.
I guess you didn't RTFA. The article said they have been talking with Google about this for 15months. From Wikipedia:
Oh the hide of them. They waited less then a month before initiating talks with Google! How dare they wait so long.
Or would you have rathered they began sueing after 6months, and let the talks be damned?
Wow, yet another vague summary, that can definitely be misleading. Having first read the summary, I thought it was about a company claiming to have created the code and/or services of Gmail only to have google steal it. But no, the company is merely sueing for trademark infringement. Way to go slashdot! The word "TRADEMARK" could have been mentioned somewhere in the article, would have cleared it up a tiny bit. But I guess Slashdot gets more pageviews (and ad views) by confusing its readers.
I specifically do NOT want a device that does more than one thing.
Agreed. I have a typewriter for creating documents (OpenOffice), a console for playing video games (computer games), a telephone for talking to people (Skype), a video player (porn). This fandangled thing called a "computer" just does too many things, all of them poorly. Give me seperate devices any day.
An athlete and a model, seemingly superior breeding stock, frequently have children with horrible birth defects.
Which goes to show they aren't superior breeding stock. It was probably the bulemia and drugs that caused the problems.
What would happen if it said "Sorry but because you're black you can not use this website" ?
Yeah, that would be an issue...
I hope that last line was sarcastic, because to be honest, George Bush simply doesn't care about black people. Except when they pose a threat to him, in those cases, he'll deny them their legal rights.
Some may think this is flame-bait, but I'm being deadly serious. When he doesn't care about black people, what makes you think he's going to care about an even smaller minority (the non-IE users) of America?
So if you're a black mac user you might as well shoot yourself as far as he's concerned?
Depends on what turns you on.
you can join the military at 17 in the US. It would also be a little stupid to say "you aren't allowed to see violence in video games, if you want to see that... go to Iraq!" In other words, shoot people with computerized guns: not until 18 .. shoot people with real guns: 17
Oh I see, so it's okay to not only pretend to kill people, but actually do it in real life as a profession. But seeing sex depicted in a game? Hell no! That better be for Adults Only!
I still say the secretaries should have been reprimanded, severely repremanded, and the pinkslip should have been reserved for the moron who made company E-Mail coresspondence public property.
Why would you want to reward the moron with a pinkslip? Then he would just get out of having to spend quite a bit of money for his car.
Aha! I was wondering what that meant. I thought it meant it was the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere (depending on how you define the southern hemisphere). I was going to make a post asking how there could be ambiguity over the definition of the southern hemisphere. So thankyou for clearing that up.
It's alright. The article is just one of a number of crackpot pseudoscientific wild-ass-guesses on that site.
What site? There's no link. Oh wait, I get it. You mean slashdot.
Supernova 1987A is the closest supernova event since the invention of the telescope.
Wow! So not only does this Supernova challenge current scientific theories, but it also challenges the laws of physics! What do I mean? Well the first telescope was invented in 1609 which means that this supernova must have happened after 1609. Considering it happened 169,000 light years away, the emissions must have travelled faster then the speed of light to reach us in 1987 (which is when it was first detected).
This is one special Supernova people!
Another nitpick: This may not be the closest supernova to have happened. One might have happened 100,000 light years away (but happened 80,000 years ago) so we won't know about it until 20,000 years from now.
I looked at the pic again, it isn't as flimsy as I first thought. Nifty.
You can easily rip paper pulling it out of your pocket.
Will it have a paper-like price-tag (bumped up slightly for it's more durable state)? If yes, great. Otherwise it being fragile is a real concern. Now I'm by no means rough with my expensive gadgets, but if it's too flimsy when unrolling it, it's usefulness is decreased dramatically.
Also, how easy will it be to keep this thing open? And do you really need both hands? Reading something so small two handed can be annoying (please leave the jokes for another time). You need a good justifiable reason for needing both hands with something this small (such as with a PSP where both hands are doing something), and "keeping it open" doesn't seem a very good one (in my opinion). This should be a design issue that's worked on before it's released if this product is going to be useful.
The same people using Internet Explorer.
You are wrong. The best way to get rid of unjust laws is to have everyone break them so they become unenforceable.
Actually, it's to publicly break them en masse, so that the jails will get too crowded so that people CAN'T be jailed. However to do that you need high numbers of people willing to do that. In the past people have been able to achieve the high numbers necessary because people WERE willing to go to jail, because the cause was something they strongly believed in.
I doubt you'll ever be able to get enough p2p users to do it, as most use it anonymously. In that case, they aren't activists. They're criminals.