OK, but why come to/. to get articles that you can easily get from CNN or MSNBC? Peter Jennings was a very talented and reputable journalist. His death is quite unfortunate, but I wouldn't consider it to be "news for nerds".
I don't think we should just dismiss it, though. This may be a symbolic gesture and yes, one that helps the Q Factor of Microsoft. Let's be fair, though.
You could say that any charitable donation that isn't made anonymously in some way serves an agenda of the donator. Since Microsoft is a public company, it can't really make anonymous donations for accounting reasons.
Are we saying that when a large company donates to charity, it should only donate in very grand amounts? Wouldn't this serve to discourage companies from making charitable donations?
I like KDE and GNOME too, but many functional aspects of the UI resemble both Windows and Macintosh. I'm just not sure where the chicken or the egg is, but the influence between the platforms is there. I'm not sure anyone should hold the trophy for being the most innovative or devoting most resources to HCI. All of these OS UIs are part imitation, part innovation.
I was saying the same thing when Phantom Menace was released.
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The UI can change from beta to release. I'm sure Microsoft collects feedback on UI design, usability,etc...
As for it being a ripoff, sure, but that's how business works. One company gets an advantage until the nature of the advantage is emulated by competitors. This forces the first company to be innovative to seek another advantage. And we, the users, reap the benefits!:-)
I used to prefer Mosaic, then Netscape, then IE, then Firefox.
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Agreed. Perhaps another reason not to use Linux is that you'll end up boring your friends with all the Windows bashing.
OK, but why come to /. to get articles that you can easily get from CNN or MSNBC? Peter Jennings was a very talented and reputable journalist. His death is quite unfortunate, but I wouldn't consider it to be "news for nerds".
LOL! Well said!
I don't think everyone on Slashdot feels that way, but there is a strong lobby!
I don't think we should just dismiss it, though. This may be a symbolic gesture and yes, one that helps the Q Factor of Microsoft. Let's be fair, though.
You could say that any charitable donation that isn't made anonymously in some way serves an agenda of the donator. Since Microsoft is a public company, it can't really make anonymous donations for accounting reasons.
Are we saying that when a large company donates to charity, it should only donate in very grand amounts? Wouldn't this serve to discourage companies from making charitable donations?
I like KDE and GNOME too, but many functional aspects of the UI resemble both Windows and Macintosh. I'm just not sure where the chicken or the egg is, but the influence between the platforms is there. I'm not sure anyone should hold the trophy for being the most innovative or devoting most resources to HCI. All of these OS UIs are part imitation, part innovation.
If it's good enough for the Mozilla underwear-gnomes, it's good enough for me!
No idea, but ASP.net kicks out a lot of default markup that breaks the schema. Doesn't seem like they're making an effort on the web app side.
Did I miss any good ones? I'm reminded of Turtle Logo. It was the apex of vector drawing in 1981. Go, Apple II! :-)
When asked for comment, Anthony Daniels responded "IT'S A TRAP!".
That's the 9,454,343,234th time that joke has been used, but we can give out a prize when we hit 10,000,000,000.
I guess Star Wars is truly done.
I was saying the same thing when Phantom Menace was released.
The UI can change from beta to release. I'm sure Microsoft collects feedback on UI design, usability,etc... As for it being a ripoff, sure, but that's how business works. One company gets an advantage until the nature of the advantage is emulated by competitors. This forces the first company to be innovative to seek another advantage. And we, the users, reap the benefits! :-)
I used to prefer Mosaic, then Netscape, then IE, then Firefox.