Re:Is Opera Google's doorway to beating Microsoft?
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Google to Buy Opera?
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"Word, Excel, IE -- they're all old news."
Funny... because I've never written a proposal, given a presentation or managed my finances with Google Maps.
This all sounds very much like "if we can put a man on the moon, why can't we...".
Google is focusing on what it does well, search data. All sorts of data. People were sure Google was making a move to destroy Microsoft with their Sun/Open Office deal. What did google do with it? They now offer "view as html" links for *.doc files in Gmail. I think a lot of you have a little more faith in Google's ambition than they themselves have.
Sounds alot like a workstation laptop from say... Alienware or Boxx.
Boxx at least sells laptops with RAID 0 arrays of 7200 RPM drives. This thing sounds like a type writer in comparison to their HD Laptops.
Funny, because my MOM who is more computer literate than most moms but is not a programmer asked me "Why do I have to keep using that bad office replacement, I'll pay whatever it takes just get rid of it." Well... maybe not in those words, but that was the general idea of her rant.
I mostly just use wordpad myself so I won't take sides, but all I would hear day in and day out until I ordered office was. "I hate that thing, why haven't you ordered office yet?" That was a direct quote.
"Personally, I would have gone for a less blatant discount, or refrained from visiting the same store so soon afterwards."
Personally, I wouldn't steal said iPods in the first place.
"what happens if one of these tornadoes gets away?"... ok it's official Slashdot's standards for news editing are somewhere around that of a 2 year old's.
Well what would happen? Considering the whole thing is precariously engineered to take place inside of a giant cylinder, IF it did somehow jump out of it's container, it would no longer have the precise input conditions to be a tornado and would immediately break up.
Tornados require massive thunder cells to power them, they don't usually just take place in the metaphoric vacuum of atmospheric conditions. This isn't Doc Oct. and his crazy chain reaction sun we're talking about here.
True AI to me is when the computer can take in various inputs, identify and store them all in an abstraction layer of sorts. Much like a folder for "car" "rain" "snow". And from this information be able to learn and adapt.
Speeking english and recognizing emotions, in my mind has nothing to do with AI.
Case in point: someone who is mute and say autistic, may have trouble recognizing normal emotional responses, they could also be suffering from a severe speach impediment. By the definition listed above, that individual wouldn't pass the test.
... is do you need to upgrade at all? All upgrades or changes cause chaos and transition periods. If your office is HAPPY with Windows, and there aren't any pressing wide spread problems necessitating a change... why not just leave Windows be? Besides, compared to other costs Windows is financially miniscule.
Based on my wages, I "earn" a copy of Windows every hour or two. The time it usually takes me to get a Linux Distro up to Windows level functionality is much much greater than that.
Stop and ask yourself, from a purely economic standpoint, does the extra time you would be spending trying to manage a mixed OS environment be beneficial to the company. If the answer is no, then you've saved yourself trying to hoodwink your superiors into making decisions that you "like" to see instead of decisions that are actually good for the company.
People will still buy thier product, people accept that it sucks."
Funny... I don't remember buying internet explorer. I'm pretty sure I downloaded it from this page: It went by the name of microsoft.com or something like that.
Re:Great...what's next?
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There was a service where you could sign up online for a free car plastered with ads a few years ago. Don't know what ever happened of it, but at the time I saw at least one of them a day.
Sorry, not trying to create off topic flame bait. I'm just thinking of the motto we would jovially shout to the world every time our linux render farm would quirk out and would have to resusitate it, but Hey! at least the distro was free!
Apparently you've never used a high end graphics package such as Maya, Combustion or 3d Studio max. 95% of the application is context sensitive, and as soon as you know what menu will be where when, your muscle memory will get you there hundreds of times faster than an obnoxiously placed consistent button.
consistent interfaces are fine for 20-30 buttons, but as soon as you want to expose more features, you can either follow the Adobe route and just make everything in a drop down menu, or you can place everything the user needs in context menus. If they don't need to see something, don't show it to them, but make sure the current tool isn't defined as "all they need", a good context sensitive UI will also provide the next couple links of the chain.
I mean God forbid when I'm working inside a form, all of the form tools are featured prominently!
and I have always viewed Robert Rodrigues through a double lens. On one hand he has really made a breakthrough in being able to produce movies on the cheap, but on the other hand, his moviesjust tend to look cheap and uninspired as a consequence. Rodriguez tends to make products not art, and the production quality of his movies are usually related closely to his budget.
I'll tell you why we need them, its because movie cost alot of money, and that money has to come from somewhere, if you limit artistic endeavours to people who can afford it, you're going to severely limit the creative pool. If your "art" costs 150 million dollars to produce, you best hope there is a business model in place to pay those bills.
Not if you disable "group like icons" in windows. I will admit there is one application that makes the OSX interface almost acceptable to me and that is Witch, and I will say that is one schnazzy UI app.
Sorry for double posting, but it applied to both. And I didn't feel like typing a similar response.
Yes I do find that better. I may have opened the window 10 minutes ago if it were say... a word document and have no idea what the page actually looks like. And I don't want to have to hover my mouse over each one to figure out what its name is. I'm one of those users who doesn't even want their taskbar to autohide because it takes "too long" for me to find what I'm looking for. Speed is to me most critical in a multi-app environment. 2 monitors are necessary on any computer with a monitor smaller than 23" (I have a apple 23" Cinema so I'm not all anti mac) and Multiple desktops just slow me down, that's ONE MORE CLICK. On windows I can access any open application/window in one click with accuracy, OSX doesn't allow me to do that.
Yes I do find that better. I may have opened the window 10 minutes ago if it were say... a word document and have no idea what the page actually looks like. And I don't want to have to hover my mouse over each one to figure out what its name is. I'm one of those users who doesn't even want their taskbar to autohide because it takes "too long" for me to find what I'm looking for. Speed is to me most critical in a multi-app environment. 2 monitors are necessary on any computer with a monitor smaller than 23" (I have a apple 23" Cinema so I'm not all anti mac) and Multiple desktops just slow me down, that's ONE MORE CLICK. On windows I can access any open application/window in one click with accuracy, OSX doesn't allow me to do that.
Sorry for double posting, but it applied to both.
As a digital artist I will have to disagree. The Apple interface is horrific for power users who open lots of windows simultaneously and enjoy a powerful simple interface. Windows offers me the stability and speed that Apple simply hasn't been able to offer me.
Maybe back in the dark ages of Windows 98 the story was different, but I can't imagine working on any other OS at this point.
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"Word, Excel, IE -- they're all old news."
Funny... because I've never written a proposal, given a presentation or managed my finances with Google Maps.
This all sounds very much like "if we can put a man on the moon, why can't we...".
Google is focusing on what it does well, search data. All sorts of data. People were sure Google was making a move to destroy Microsoft with their Sun/Open Office deal. What did google do with it? They now offer "view as html" links for *.doc files in Gmail. I think a lot of you have a little more faith in Google's ambition than they themselves have.
So if I write 42 great articles does that make me as thorough and accurate as Britannica?
Sounds alot like a workstation laptop from say... Alienware or Boxx. Boxx at least sells laptops with RAID 0 arrays of 7200 RPM drives. This thing sounds like a type writer in comparison to their HD Laptops.
Funny, because my MOM who is more computer literate than most moms but is not a programmer asked me "Why do I have to keep using that bad office replacement, I'll pay whatever it takes just get rid of it." Well... maybe not in those words, but that was the general idea of her rant.
I mostly just use wordpad myself so I won't take sides, but all I would hear day in and day out until I ordered office was. "I hate that thing, why haven't you ordered office yet?" That was a direct quote.
"The fact that this project contains so many underdogs just might make it succeed. " such as "News Corporation".
Hahahahaha... I would be terrified to see the media company large enough to make News Corp an underdog.
Well in all fairness, my post was ammusingly redundant, just not intentionally.
Hahah.. I'm literally 1 second late in hitting submit and I get down modded! Damn you person above me with the slightly shorter sentence!
"Personally, I would have gone for a less blatant discount, or refrained from visiting the same store so soon afterwards." Personally, I wouldn't steal said iPods in the first place.
"what happens if one of these tornadoes gets away?" ... ok it's official Slashdot's standards for news editing are somewhere around that of a 2 year old's.
Well what would happen? Considering the whole thing is precariously engineered to take place inside of a giant cylinder, IF it did somehow jump out of it's container, it would no longer have the precise input conditions to be a tornado and would immediately break up.
Tornados require massive thunder cells to power them, they don't usually just take place in the metaphoric vacuum of atmospheric conditions. This isn't Doc Oct. and his crazy chain reaction sun we're talking about here.
True AI to me is when the computer can take in various inputs, identify and store them all in an abstraction layer of sorts. Much like a folder for "car" "rain" "snow". And from this information be able to learn and adapt. Speeking english and recognizing emotions, in my mind has nothing to do with AI. Case in point: someone who is mute and say autistic, may have trouble recognizing normal emotional responses, they could also be suffering from a severe speach impediment. By the definition listed above, that individual wouldn't pass the test.
You mean Power Users, like corporations who barely use their computers for anything other than Email and Word Processing.
... is do you need to upgrade at all? All upgrades or changes cause chaos and transition periods. If your office is HAPPY with Windows, and there aren't any pressing wide spread problems necessitating a change... why not just leave Windows be? Besides, compared to other costs Windows is financially miniscule.
Based on my wages, I "earn" a copy of Windows every hour or two. The time it usually takes me to get a Linux Distro up to Windows level functionality is much much greater than that.
Stop and ask yourself, from a purely economic standpoint, does the extra time you would be spending trying to manage a mixed OS environment be beneficial to the company. If the answer is no, then you've saved yourself trying to hoodwink your superiors into making decisions that you "like" to see instead of decisions that are actually good for the company.
Slashdot News Formula:
MPAA + Linux + RIAA + Movies + Music + Microsoft = News
hmmm "(Score: 1, Troll)" ... no bias on slashdot.
"Why should they?
People will still buy thier product, people accept that it sucks."
Funny... I don't remember buying internet explorer. I'm pretty sure I downloaded it from this page: It went by the name of microsoft.com or something like that.
There was a service where you could sign up online for a free car plastered with ads a few years ago. Don't know what ever happened of it, but at the time I saw at least one of them a day.
9-1-1 has been known to work wonders in situations just such as that.
...if you don't value your time.
First Rule of Linux adoption.
Sorry, not trying to create off topic flame bait. I'm just thinking of the motto we would jovially shout to the world every time our linux render farm would quirk out and would have to resusitate it, but Hey! at least the distro was free!
Apparently you've never used a high end graphics package such as Maya, Combustion or 3d Studio max. 95% of the application is context sensitive, and as soon as you know what menu will be where when, your muscle memory will get you there hundreds of times faster than an obnoxiously placed consistent button.
consistent interfaces are fine for 20-30 buttons, but as soon as you want to expose more features, you can either follow the Adobe route and just make everything in a drop down menu, or you can place everything the user needs in context menus. If they don't need to see something, don't show it to them, but make sure the current tool isn't defined as "all they need", a good context sensitive UI will also provide the next couple links of the chain.
I mean God forbid when I'm working inside a form, all of the form tools are featured prominently!
and I have always viewed Robert Rodrigues through a double lens. On one hand he has really made a breakthrough in being able to produce movies on the cheap, but on the other hand, his moviesjust tend to look cheap and uninspired as a consequence. Rodriguez tends to make products not art, and the production quality of his movies are usually related closely to his budget.
I'll tell you why we need them, its because movie cost alot of money, and that money has to come from somewhere, if you limit artistic endeavours to people who can afford it, you're going to severely limit the creative pool. If your "art" costs 150 million dollars to produce, you best hope there is a business model in place to pay those bills.
Not if you disable "group like icons" in windows. I will admit there is one application that makes the OSX interface almost acceptable to me and that is Witch, and I will say that is one schnazzy UI app.
Sorry for double posting, but it applied to both. And I didn't feel like typing a similar response.
Yes I do find that better. I may have opened the window 10 minutes ago if it were say... a word document and have no idea what the page actually looks like. And I don't want to have to hover my mouse over each one to figure out what its name is. I'm one of those users who doesn't even want their taskbar to autohide because it takes "too long" for me to find what I'm looking for. Speed is to me most critical in a multi-app environment. 2 monitors are necessary on any computer with a monitor smaller than 23" (I have a apple 23" Cinema so I'm not all anti mac) and Multiple desktops just slow me down, that's ONE MORE CLICK. On windows I can access any open application/window in one click with accuracy, OSX doesn't allow me to do that.
Yes I do find that better. I may have opened the window 10 minutes ago if it were say... a word document and have no idea what the page actually looks like. And I don't want to have to hover my mouse over each one to figure out what its name is. I'm one of those users who doesn't even want their taskbar to autohide because it takes "too long" for me to find what I'm looking for. Speed is to me most critical in a multi-app environment. 2 monitors are necessary on any computer with a monitor smaller than 23" (I have a apple 23" Cinema so I'm not all anti mac) and Multiple desktops just slow me down, that's ONE MORE CLICK. On windows I can access any open application/window in one click with accuracy, OSX doesn't allow me to do that. Sorry for double posting, but it applied to both.
As a digital artist I will have to disagree. The Apple interface is horrific for power users who open lots of windows simultaneously and enjoy a powerful simple interface. Windows offers me the stability and speed that Apple simply hasn't been able to offer me.
Maybe back in the dark ages of Windows 98 the story was different, but I can't imagine working on any other OS at this point.