SO evidentally your post proves that if you use enough random big words you immediately get modded insightful...as your post is about the most idiotic thing I have ever read...
I was just thinking that this would make a nice home security device...someone breaks in, strobe starts going, person goes catatonic, police arrive pick up said perp, then cleaning crew comes to clean up perp's spew. Of course this could be thwarted simply with some proper glasses to filter the strobe.
Nah, it is proven that Porn (excessive), causes issues in relationships and effectively causes issues in the male psyche. Given there are youtube videos that will cause scars they are not nearly as potent as porn is. I can't pull up the research as I am here at work:) But, males in particular have issues with just looking at porn, it usually causes a physiological response as well as a mental one. There are other studies showing long term effects on attitude, behavior, and sex life.
Whereas I am not for pornography in the workplace (Porn causes phych issues). I do agree with your underlying argument. In workplaces we need to get away from the idea that if I sit at my desk for 8 hours I am productive. Rather we need a concept of whether or not the employee is doing work. I know people who surf half the day and still do 3x the work as the 9-5ers. This is especially so in gov't institutions.
Interesting! I poked around a couple times for them. I hate using the RGB connector on my TV as it doesnt work with POP. I will check this out. thanks!
LOL, sorry forgot to close my tag there, The hard drives that exceed this are few and far between, however that is only under optimum conditions...on wednesdays...under a full moon. It is more like a realistic 30-45MBs. Of course same thing with 480Mb/s. Just because the shiny package says 133 or 200 or whatever, doesn't mean that is what the sustained read and write are. Platters only spin so fast.
I just realized you said 1.50 a day...holy crap. Looks like it is about $1 a day here for a week, but there is the no late fees deal now so it is more like 14 days so.50 a day.
I used my blockbuster pass, runs about $20USD a month for unlimited DVDs and 2 in store games. I know there is a game pass but I don't know what that costs.
Exactly, I will rent many games because the rental times now are so friggin long that I can get my enjoyment out of them in a week or two.
However, there are certain games where I have more than gotten my money out of them, namely, Zelda Ocrina of time(still have no clue why I am compelled to play this game start to finish every year or 2), 007 Goldeneye, Mariokart 64 and wii, Starcraft, Warcraft III and baulders gate II (even though only played through once, the hours discussing, playing and thinking alone have put pennies on the dollar for enjoyment.)
Sounds like either your PCs are really old at work, or your Tech didn't install the drivers properly. I haven't used a usb 1 port in a very long time...speaking as a network admin here.
I haven't read down all the Comments but WTF? what purpose does putting a hard drive on USB3 provide? The bottleneck isn't the communications protocol for cryin out loud. An car doesn't magically get more horsepower because the speed limit changes...USB2 helped at least because it allowed external hard drives to reach a new level of throughput, but this does nothing for external drives other than make peoples "shiny sense" tingle.
no I am thinking of the work environments. Kind of like in Ubuntu when I do desktop switching, or whatever it is called. I have one desktop with a certain set of shortcuts and windows open when I am doing photo editing. But then when I am just searching the web and torrenting I switch to a separate desktop. With the firefox ribbon I think it would be handy to be able to hide all the tools and plugins I am not currently using by switching to a different tab in firefox.
No windows doesnt call it a dock...big difference:) j/k although in all seriousness the dock was copied from the windows start bar, macs just did it a hellofa lot better. Windows and linux have been listing open apps and windows on a toolbar for over 15 years now. It always confused me before OSX why my mac laptop couldn't show me my running apps and windows in an easy fashion...
(How is having to scroll to a tab, click it, find the button and click it NOT slower than just finding a button and clicking it - assuming properly setup toolbars in 2003?)
Way to put that disclaimer in at the end. You can still setup and customize the ribbon so your point is moot. Two clicks on a ribbon is better than 4 clicks in a menu system...and that is if you KNOW where you are going.
You know, I would have to agree with it. Psychologically we tend to use the path of least resistance, as a user becomes more and more aware of easier ways to do things they will do them. It would stand to reason that a person who used excel excessively would eventually learn shortcuts to doing their tasks. I have had a number of excel and word users who never touched the mouse except for rare tasks. I know some people who are good at excel and use the menus but for the most part the users I would consider advanced and heavy users all rely on keyboard shortcuts immensely.
I am not a 20 something whiz kid:) However, having worked at the state, I saw enough 20 something whiz kids get promoted into IT because they showed up the existing IT personel. These people became IT managers and are currently being shown up by the new 20 somethings...however, I assume you are good at your job, you wont see it in practice then:)
in my case I have more 2007 users than 2003 users. But even in the 2000->xp->2003 migrations I received a TON of calls. 2007 I still received calls but they were more regarding the new features. My reply to people when I installed 2007 was for them to think of where they think it should be and chances are they will find it there.
Well I think that it would be nice in firefox, as you alluded to, firefox doesnt have as many menu items. However, I personally would find it useful if I could customize the ribbon with my bookmarks and tools based on the task I was performing. Am I editing my joomla sites? Am I just browsing? Am I downloading torrents? adjust to the section of the ribbon that I want. I think that is what people are missing here. This ribbon wont be just like the office one, if Mozilla's other projects are indications, this ribbon will be highly customizable, they are just using the layout style.
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SO evidentally your post proves that if you use enough random big words you immediately get modded insightful...as your post is about the most idiotic thing I have ever read...
I was just thinking that this would make a nice home security device...someone breaks in, strobe starts going, person goes catatonic, police arrive pick up said perp, then cleaning crew comes to clean up perp's spew. Of course this could be thwarted simply with some proper glasses to filter the strobe.
Nah, it is proven that Porn (excessive), causes issues in relationships and effectively causes issues in the male psyche. Given there are youtube videos that will cause scars they are not nearly as potent as porn is. I can't pull up the research as I am here at work :) But, males in particular have issues with just looking at porn, it usually causes a physiological response as well as a mental one. There are other studies showing long term effects on attitude, behavior, and sex life.
Whereas I am not for pornography in the workplace (Porn causes phych issues). I do agree with your underlying argument. In workplaces we need to get away from the idea that if I sit at my desk for 8 hours I am productive. Rather we need a concept of whether or not the employee is doing work. I know people who surf half the day and still do 3x the work as the 9-5ers. This is especially so in gov't institutions.
Interesting! I poked around a couple times for them. I hate using the RGB connector on my TV as it doesnt work with POP. I will check this out. thanks!
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/seagate-2tb-barracuda-xt-worlds-first-sata-6gbps-hard-drive/
With the bits packed so tight on these drives and the extended cache we have a reason for USB3.
LOL, sorry forgot to close my tag there, The hard drives that exceed this are few and far between, however that is only under optimum conditions...on wednesdays...under a full moon. It is more like a realistic 30-45MBs. Of course same thing with 480Mb/s. Just because the shiny package says 133 or 200 or whatever, doesn't mean that is what the sustained read and write are. Platters only spin so fast.
I just realized you said 1.50 a day...holy crap. Looks like it is about $1 a day here for a week, but there is the no late fees deal now so it is more like 14 days so .50 a day.
I used my blockbuster pass, runs about $20USD a month for unlimited DVDs and 2 in store games. I know there is a game pass but I don't know what that costs.
However, there are certain games where I have more than gotten my money out of them, namely, Zelda Ocrina of time(still have no clue why I am compelled to play this game start to finish every year or 2), 007 Goldeneye, Mariokart 64 and wii, Starcraft, Warcraft III and baulders gate II (even though only played through once, the hours discussing, playing and thinking alone have put pennies on the dollar for enjoyment.)
Woah, where are you getting a DVI->HDMI adapter at? last i checked they were above $100. I would love one for my media PC.
Sounds like either your PCs are really old at work, or your Tech didn't install the drivers properly. I haven't used a usb 1 port in a very long time...speaking as a network admin here.
I haven't read down all the Comments but WTF? what purpose does putting a hard drive on USB3 provide? The bottleneck isn't the communications protocol for cryin out loud. An car doesn't magically get more horsepower because the speed limit changes...USB2 helped at least because it allowed external hard drives to reach a new level of throughput, but this does nothing for external drives other than make peoples "shiny sense" tingle.
no I am thinking of the work environments. Kind of like in Ubuntu when I do desktop switching, or whatever it is called. I have one desktop with a certain set of shortcuts and windows open when I am doing photo editing. But then when I am just searching the web and torrenting I switch to a separate desktop. With the firefox ribbon I think it would be handy to be able to hide all the tools and plugins I am not currently using by switching to a different tab in firefox.
No windows doesnt call it a dock...big difference :) j/k although in all seriousness the dock was copied from the windows start bar, macs just did it a hellofa lot better. Windows and linux have been listing open apps and windows on a toolbar for over 15 years now. It always confused me before OSX why my mac laptop couldn't show me my running apps and windows in an easy fashion...
Man it was really hard to find this list...http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HP100738481033.aspx
Way to put that disclaimer in at the end. You can still setup and customize the ribbon so your point is moot. Two clicks on a ribbon is better than 4 clicks in a menu system...and that is if you KNOW where you are going.
You know, I would have to agree with it. Psychologically we tend to use the path of least resistance, as a user becomes more and more aware of easier ways to do things they will do them. It would stand to reason that a person who used excel excessively would eventually learn shortcuts to doing their tasks. I have had a number of excel and word users who never touched the mouse except for rare tasks. I know some people who are good at excel and use the menus but for the most part the users I would consider advanced and heavy users all rely on keyboard shortcuts immensely.
mmmmmm R, I made some fun fractal pictures in R the other day but ya, R kicks the crap out of excel but the learning curve is a bit steep :)
I am not a 20 something whiz kid :) However, having worked at the state, I saw enough 20 something whiz kids get promoted into IT because they showed up the existing IT personel. These people became IT managers and are currently being shown up by the new 20 somethings...however, I assume you are good at your job, you wont see it in practice then :)
Yes and if history is any indicator, now you will have a choice to use the ribbon style, before you didn't.
Hmmm maybe Rosetta stone should come out with a regular expressions version...
AMEN! There is a reason the 20 something whiz kid shows up the IT personnel, they think about the problem, not memorize the solution.
in my case I have more 2007 users than 2003 users. But even in the 2000->xp->2003 migrations I received a TON of calls. 2007 I still received calls but they were more regarding the new features. My reply to people when I installed 2007 was for them to think of where they think it should be and chances are they will find it there.
Well I think that it would be nice in firefox, as you alluded to, firefox doesnt have as many menu items. However, I personally would find it useful if I could customize the ribbon with my bookmarks and tools based on the task I was performing. Am I editing my joomla sites? Am I just browsing? Am I downloading torrents? adjust to the section of the ribbon that I want. I think that is what people are missing here. This ribbon wont be just like the office one, if Mozilla's other projects are indications, this ribbon will be highly customizable, they are just using the layout style.