Yeah, at first the ribbon looked weird and bloated to me, but after awhile I realized that 95% of what I needed to do was on the ribbon; it makes my occasional forays into Office-land quicker and more efficient.
Agreed! I was surprised Photoshop Elements wasn't mentioned earlier in all these replies. It writes data to the files and also stores it in a db, so you get the best of both worlds: your photos are portable, with all their info, and as a bonus for you tech guys and gals, you can hack the SqlLite db it uses.
However I don't believe it does non-destructive edits, if that's important to you. Personally, the fact the Picasa doesn't write the edits to the file is a dealbreaker for me.
In the late 60's or early 70's Mad magazine had a few pages of cartoons ("art"?) made on a typewriter. One that struck me was a rocket, looking something like this:
A H H I
(imagine it in Courier...)
A few years later I had a BASIC programming class, and when we finally got a few CRTs (to replace the printout only outputs we had previously) one of the first things I did, now that things could really "move"!, was to write a program to make this Ascii rocket take off! I remember showing it off to others in the class.
But, alas, this discovery from 1968 means I can no longer claim to be "the father of computer animation." Oh well, it was time for new business cards anyway...
In the late 60's or early 70's Mad magazine had a few pages of cartoons ("art"?) made on a typewriter. One that struck me was a rocket, looking something like this:
A
H
H
I
(imagine it in Courier...)
A few years later I had a BASIC programming class, and when we finally got a few CRTs (to replace the printout only outputs we had previously) one of the first things I did, now that things could really "move"!, was to write a program to make this Ascii rocket take off! I remember showing it off to others in the class.
But, alas, this discovery from 1968 means I can no longer claim to be "the father of computer animation." Oh well, it was time for new business cards anyway...
I'm sure these were as far the the bank could tell proper and secure transactions.
Based on what? That the thief had the routing and checking account numbers? Those numbers are so easy to get it's equivalent to no security at all.
How about if automated clearing house transfers only worked if you'd authorized the payee in advance?
This would probably mean some practices would need to change, but isn't that better than what we have now, where anybody you've ever written a check to can scoop money out of your account any time they want?
There is an amount, and a name of some kind that tells you what it was for.
The name should tell you what it was for, but many lines on a bank statement are an indecipherable alphabet soup.
I realize it would take a massive change of the financial infrastructure, but it would be great if each transaction had separate fields for company, location, time, type (ie, point-of-sale vs. online vs. automated clearing house) and even a comment field that you could optionally fill in for online transactions (so if you have 5 Amazon purchases you would know that one was for cousin Vinny's birthday present, etc.)
In short, if the bank expects us to detect their security problems for them, they need to give us the information we need to do it.
Regardless of whether or not this is the "real" semantic web, the concept will never fly until they rename it. Most people don't grasp what semantic is supposed to mean in this context, but if they called it something like the data web then the lightbulb would click on for a lot more people.
No more UP button in Windows Explorer:
For those rare occasions when you have a wildly long folder name, hitting ALT-UpArrow will take you up to the parent folder. I have to say that the breadcrumb/drop-down path is a real timesaver for me. I would not want to go back to the classic XP address style.
telnet not installed by default:
Go to Control Panel.
Go to Programs.
Go to Program and Features.
Click Turn Windows Feature on or off.
Check mark the telnet client.
People complain that Vista is bloatware, then they complain when a rarely used feature is not installed by default.
Virtual PC:
According to the page your own article linked to: Apparently VHP isn't "officially" supported by VPC 2007, but it still lets you install it anyway. I'm now happily running XP Pro under Vista without any problems.
Delete button:
Yes, that's right... try the delete button when you write something, say about Vista not working with Facebook, when you discover that the problem had nothing to do with Vista at all. If you want an audience then respect them enough to not waste their time.
I'm fine with Vista - it is much more secure and handles multitasking better - and would not want to go back to XP, but I certainly do have some gripes with it. I realize the need for the UAC warnings, and I'm glad that unlike Gnome I don't have to actually type the root password in each time, but I wish that 1) sometimes it didn't pop up two consecutive dialog boxes, and 2) didn't make the screen go dim and do all that beeping stuff.
And desktop search is completely and utterly broken. It was nearly worthless in XP but it's even worse in Vista.
On our 2000 Honda CR-V the driver has four switches to control the four power windows in the car. There is also a master lock switch, which is handy if the kids are playing with the windows.
So say the kids are making the windows go up and down, you tell'em to stop, and they don't. No problem: you flip the master lock switch and their buttons are unresponsive.
The problem is, the switch also makes the driver's switches unresponsive. So if you need to close their windows then you need to unlock the master switch, which then lets your (alert) kiddies start playing with their buttons again too.
Too bad they didn't make the lock just lock the passenger window switches.
Found a source for the vanilla -> vanillin issue, from Wikipedia:
The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest consumer of natural vanilla extract. When New Coke was introduced in 1985, this had a severe impact on the economy of Madagascar, a prime vanilla exporter, since New Coke used vanillin, a less-expensive synthetic substitute. Purchases of vanilla more than halved during this period. But the flop of New Coke brought a recovery.
I couldn't find a source for this in a quick search just now, but I read soon after the New Coke debacle that the switch was made not for the switch from sugar -> high fructose corn syprup, but to get rid of an even more expensive ingredient: the vanilla. Coke was reportedly buying a whopping 1/3 of the worldwide vanilla crop. When they briefly phased out the classic formula they stopped buying. Then, when Coke Classic came back, they started buying vanilla again.
Again, I read this claim long ago, so don't bet your life on it's being true, but it is interesting the Coke was (and still is) using real vanilla when most foods have long since switched to much cheaper vanillin.
You may still come out ahead with 3rd party cartridges if you do a lot of printing even if your printer is trashed after awhile. Take the money you save buying 3rd party carts over the life of the now-trashed printer and apply it towards buying a new printer which does come, of course, with the first set of "teaser" carts.
The default config used over 400MB on bootup and I find this appalling...
Relax, it's just doing a bunch of caching. If you load a program that needs more RAM you can still use most of that 400MB. This has been discussed many places.
A better question is why your sister bought a Vista laptop with just 0.5GB.
I've been known to send 1,000,000 legitimate emails a month.
Unhh... well if this is really true then you could always explain your legitimate reasons to the ISP and they'd let you send it.
It is really true and I should have to explain as much to my bandwidth supplier about how I use bandwidth as I do to my electricity supplier concerning my joules per coulomb.
Try telling your electricity provider you expect to get 1,000,000 amp service for the same price you're getting 150 amp service.
You flip open the top of a new bottle of ketchup. You squeeze. Nothing comes out.
Oh, yeah. You forgot about the inner seal.
You unscrew the top and are faced with a circular round piece of foil which seals the opening. Attached to this is a white plastic semi-circle. This is sticking up, implying that by pulling you will also remove the silver foil seal, allowing access to the product.
You pull at the semi-circle [gently|firmly|side-to-side|straight up] and it detaches completely, leaving the silver seal in place and the product as inaccessible as before.
Each teller has a binder on hand that contains security procedures specific to the teller. When one teller accidentally grabbed another's binder a few month ago...
So this place is paranoid about security, yet it's possible to get somebody else's codes simply by grabbing their binder?
How many people under 30 bought any of that stuff - very few
Well, I admit he hasn't actually bought it, buy my two year old asks me to blast London Calling every time we get into the car.
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In 1980 I was a DJ with Weird Al at KCPR, the radio station at Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo, California). For some idiotic reason the powers-that-be wanted the station to act like a commercial station, playing mostly the same bland hits that the commercial stations played. Someplace I've saved a hilarious interview in the student paper with Al, in which he says "They can tell me I have to play certain songs, but they never specified at what speed, or what direction to play them in!"
He was a very friendly guy, by the way. Always upbeat and helpful to everyone even though he was already something of a star.
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Yeah, at first the ribbon looked weird and bloated to me, but after awhile I realized that 95% of what I needed to do was on the ribbon; it makes my occasional forays into Office-land quicker and more efficient.
The original article has a quote from one person who sees through the mess to the root of the problem:
Simply resolve the "underlying geophysical issue" and the problem will be solved.
Agreed! I was surprised Photoshop Elements wasn't mentioned earlier in all these replies. It writes data to the files and also stores it in a db, so you get the best of both worlds: your photos are portable, with all their info, and as a bonus for you tech guys and gals, you can hack the SqlLite db it uses.
However I don't believe it does non-destructive edits, if that's important to you. Personally, the fact the Picasa doesn't write the edits to the file is a dealbreaker for me.
In the late 60's or early 70's Mad magazine had a few pages of cartoons ("art"?) made on a typewriter. One that struck me was a rocket, looking something like this:
...)
...
A
H
H
I
(imagine it in Courier
A few years later I had a BASIC programming class, and when we finally got a few CRTs (to replace the printout only outputs we had previously) one of the first things I did, now that things could really "move"!, was to write a program to make this Ascii rocket take off! I remember showing it off to others in the class.
But, alas, this discovery from 1968 means I can no longer claim to be "the father of computer animation." Oh well, it was time for new business cards anyway
In the late 60's or early 70's Mad magazine had a few pages of cartoons ("art"?) made on a typewriter. One that struck me was a rocket, looking something like this: A H H I (imagine it in Courier ...)
A few years later I had a BASIC programming class, and when we finally got a few CRTs (to replace the printout only outputs we had previously) one of the first things I did, now that things could really "move"!, was to write a program to make this Ascii rocket take off! I remember showing it off to others in the class.
But, alas, this discovery from 1968 means I can no longer claim to be "the father of computer animation." Oh well, it was time for new business cards anyway ...
I'm sure these were as far the the bank could tell proper and secure transactions.
Based on what? That the thief had the routing and checking account numbers? Those numbers are so easy to get it's equivalent to no security at all.
How about if automated clearing house transfers only worked if you'd authorized the payee in advance?
This would probably mean some practices would need to change, but isn't that better than what we have now, where anybody you've ever written a check to can scoop money out of your account any time they want?
There is an amount, and a name of some kind that tells you what it was for.
The name should tell you what it was for, but many lines on a bank statement are an indecipherable alphabet soup.
I realize it would take a massive change of the financial infrastructure, but it would be great if each transaction had separate fields for company, location, time, type (ie, point-of-sale vs. online vs. automated clearing house) and even a comment field that you could optionally fill in for online transactions (so if you have 5 Amazon purchases you would know that one was for cousin Vinny's birthday present, etc.)
In short, if the bank expects us to detect their security problems for them, they need to give us the information we need to do it.
Regardless of whether or not this is the "real" semantic web, the concept will never fly until they rename it. Most people don't grasp what semantic is supposed to mean in this context, but if they called it something like the data web then the lightbulb would click on for a lot more people.
Well, don't get too mad ... just hit ALT-UpArrow
No more UP button in Windows Explorer:
For those rare occasions when you have a wildly long folder name, hitting ALT-UpArrow will take you up to the parent folder. I have to say that the breadcrumb/drop-down path is a real timesaver for me. I would not want to go back to the classic XP address style.
telnet not installed by default:
People complain that Vista is bloatware, then they complain when a rarely used feature is not installed by default.
Virtual PC:
According to the page your own article linked to: Apparently VHP isn't "officially" supported by VPC 2007, but it still lets you install it anyway. I'm now happily running XP Pro under Vista without any problems.
Delete button: ... try the delete button when you write something, say about Vista not working with Facebook, when you discover that the problem had nothing to do with Vista at all. If you want an audience then respect them enough to not waste their time.
Yes, that's right
I'm fine with Vista - it is much more secure and handles multitasking better - and would not want to go back to XP, but I certainly do have some gripes with it. I realize the need for the UAC warnings, and I'm glad that unlike Gnome I don't have to actually type the root password in each time, but I wish that 1) sometimes it didn't pop up two consecutive dialog boxes, and 2) didn't make the screen go dim and do all that beeping stuff.
And desktop search is completely and utterly broken. It was nearly worthless in XP but it's even worse in Vista.
I have Vista and ... it's fine. I prefer it to Windows XP. It handles multitasking and security better.
Fortunately the Panasonic Genius line has many models that let you turn off the beep permanently.
Naturally it forgets this when there's a power failure, so I have long since memorized the key sequence to turn off the beep.
On our 2000 Honda CR-V the driver has four switches to control the four power windows in the car. There is also a master lock switch, which is handy if the kids are playing with the windows.
So say the kids are making the windows go up and down, you tell'em to stop, and they don't. No problem: you flip the master lock switch and their buttons are unresponsive.
The problem is, the switch also makes the driver's switches unresponsive. So if you need to close their windows then you need to unlock the master switch, which then lets your (alert) kiddies start playing with their buttons again too.
Too bad they didn't make the lock just lock the passenger window switches.
I couldn't find a source for this in a quick search just now, but I read soon after the New Coke debacle that the switch was made not for the switch from sugar -> high fructose corn syprup, but to get rid of an even more expensive ingredient: the vanilla. Coke was reportedly buying a whopping 1/3 of the worldwide vanilla crop. When they briefly phased out the classic formula they stopped buying. Then, when Coke Classic came back, they started buying vanilla again.
Again, I read this claim long ago, so don't bet your life on it's being true, but it is interesting the Coke was (and still is) using real vanilla when most foods have long since switched to much cheaper vanillin.
You may still come out ahead with 3rd party cartridges if you do a lot of printing even if your printer is trashed after awhile. Take the money you save buying 3rd party carts over the life of the now-trashed printer and apply it towards buying a new printer which does come, of course, with the first set of "teaser" carts.
Yes, the 32-bit processor can see 4GB worth of memory, but some of that memory space is taken up by the graphics card, the PCI slots, etc. See http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-maximum- memory-in-32-bit-windows-vista/ for more detail and experiences. Most people end up with about 3GB, give or take half a gig.
Unhh ... well if this is really true then you could always explain your legitimate reasons to the ISP and they'd let you send it.
One way to protect their own mail servers is by not sending 1,000,000 emails a month from zombied computers.
You flip open the top of a new bottle of ketchup. You squeeze. Nothing comes out.
Oh, yeah. You forgot about the inner seal.
You unscrew the top and are faced with a circular round piece of foil which seals the opening. Attached to this is a white plastic semi-circle. This is sticking up, implying that by pulling you will also remove the silver foil seal, allowing access to the product.
You pull at the semi-circle [gently|firmly|side-to-side|straight up] and it detaches completely, leaving the silver seal in place and the product as inaccessible as before.
Each teller has a binder on hand that contains security procedures specific to the teller. When one teller accidentally grabbed another's binder a few month ago ...
So this place is paranoid about security, yet it's possible to get somebody else's codes simply by grabbing their binder?
How many people under 30 bought any of that stuff - very few
Well, I admit he hasn't actually bought it, buy my two year old asks me to blast London Calling every time we get into the car.
In 1980 I was a DJ with Weird Al at KCPR, the radio station at Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo, California). For some idiotic reason the powers-that-be wanted the station to act like a commercial station, playing mostly the same bland hits that the commercial stations played. Someplace I've saved a hilarious interview in the student paper with Al, in which he says "They can tell me I have to play certain songs, but they never specified at what speed, or what direction to play them in!"
He was a very friendly guy, by the way. Always upbeat and helpful to everyone even though he was already something of a star.
"[W]e established the concept and vision ...
A concept and a vision - Great! Perhaps with funding they can turn it into an idea!