Well since this is Slashdot, I obviously didn't RTFA, but if the summary is accurate, this study is moronic.
I check my email regularly because I get email regularly. I occasionally forget to open Thunderbird in the morning (I leave it open and watch the notifications) and then I miss a bunch of important emails and wonder what's going on.
I don't doubt that some people are addicted to email. But it sounds to me like the indicators the study used are ridiculous. As you say, checking your email in the morning can easily just be part of your routine (which you could stop doing easily if there were a compelling reason to do so). Oh no, I have my email open all day! I must be addicted!
Their business plans involve locking people into their proprietary software, right? Improper implementation of CSS means that people have to pick which browser to code for and since IE is the most popular browser, people will code for IE. Or at least, this is Microsoft's hope.
Nowadays IE supports standards well enough in most cases that you can get most pages working well enough on all or most modern browsers (other than some bugs). I would love IE to be more compatible with standards, but as long as it doesn't get worse, I'll deal.
Thus Microsoft profited when they sold him the Xbox, but all the game vendors and developers lost out.
Actually, Microsoft probably didn't profit from the sale of that Xbox, and in fact renting the titles probably did contribute something to the vendors.
According to the article, the XBox OS was Windows 2000 with 95% of it removed or heavily altered. Now the XBox 360 will run the XBox OS heavily altered and ported to a new architecture. It hardly counts as Windows 2000 any more.
Well a dictionary search of "pregadous" suggests that perhaps he meant "preludious," which means pertaining to preludes. This is clearly what he meant.
I guess you've never heard of the concept of the tyranny of the majority, or the steps the founding fathers took to avoid it (such as the Bill of Rights).
I don't think you're intended to have fingers on all four shoulder buttons. I think you're meant to have your index fingers up there switching around, generally.
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That double negation doesn't equate to "you can run" but rather "you must run."
But there's lots of legally free porn available.
Well since this is Slashdot, I obviously didn't RTFA, but if the summary is accurate, this study is moronic.
I check my email regularly because I get email regularly. I occasionally forget to open Thunderbird in the morning (I leave it open and watch the notifications) and then I miss a bunch of important emails and wonder what's going on.
I don't doubt that some people are addicted to email. But it sounds to me like the indicators the study used are ridiculous. As you say, checking your email in the morning can easily just be part of your routine (which you could stop doing easily if there were a compelling reason to do so). Oh no, I have my email open all day! I must be addicted!
That doesn't really make any sense, even as a joke.
Those are of course both extreme examples. Hitler was also a fascist.
Whatever you think about socialism, in this case (and the cases of Hitler and Stalin) the problem isn't so much socialism as it is extremism.
Moderation in all things.
Their business plans involve locking people into their proprietary software, right? Improper implementation of CSS means that people have to pick which browser to code for and since IE is the most popular browser, people will code for IE. Or at least, this is Microsoft's hope.
Nowadays IE supports standards well enough in most cases that you can get most pages working well enough on all or most modern browsers (other than some bugs). I would love IE to be more compatible with standards, but as long as it doesn't get worse, I'll deal.
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Think about that nasty widget security flaw and the KHTML stuff mentioned in other replies to your post.
Those things have absolutely nothing to do with how elegantly the Mac OS X GUI is implemented.
Sure, it's a noun that means "A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks." Look it up!
Thus Microsoft profited when they sold him the Xbox, but all the game vendors and developers lost out.
Actually, Microsoft probably didn't profit from the sale of that Xbox, and in fact renting the titles probably did contribute something to the vendors.
According to the article, the XBox OS was Windows 2000 with 95% of it removed or heavily altered. Now the XBox 360 will run the XBox OS heavily altered and ported to a new architecture. It hardly counts as Windows 2000 any more.
OTOH, most password protected sites will work well only with IE and not w other browsers.
Um, no. Most password protected sites work just fine with other browsers.
Well a dictionary search of "pregadous" suggests that perhaps he meant "preludious," which means pertaining to preludes. This is clearly what he meant.
If I recall it was created for Netscape 3. So definitely not the beginning of the browser.
I guess you've never heard of the concept of the tyranny of the majority, or the steps the founding fathers took to avoid it (such as the Bill of Rights).
No worse?
Lining up for Star Wars at the wrong theater = pretty dumb.
Lighting flourescent tubes filled with gasoline on fire to stage a light-saber fight = very, very dangerously stupid.
This is much, much worse.
In reality, there is no difference between the invisible chocolate pudding and the invisible soul.
When logical people debate, they use arguments instead of just repeating axioms.
This is like that russian pencil, Million dollar US space pen email I get all the time.
You mean, untrue?
Being first worked so well for the Dreamcast!
Huh? Is it too hard to do a simple dictionary search before saying something like this?
sans
Pronunciation Key (snz, sä)
prep.
Without.
I don't think you're intended to have fingers on all four shoulder buttons. I think you're meant to have your index fingers up there switching around, generally.
Tabs are a really bad thing -- they are a totally inconsistant form of window management that is only used in one type of application.
Not true. I've used lots of programs that have tabs. Macromedia Homesite+ for instance. Even Excel has tabs for multiple pages in a spreadsheet.
He was clearly being sarcastic.
No. :P
Does anyone else find the term "Internetworks" annoying? After all, internet basically is short for internetwork already.