People should learn how to use computers. They can't just sit in front of it and expect it to do most of the stuff for them and teach them how to do the rest of it. That's why computer education at schools is so important. Computers are complex machines. When developers try do make it too easy to use things get overly complicated and bugs start to sneak in. Much of today's problems with computers can be attributed to people dumbing down computers.
Almost everyone seem think that Useability/Good UI means that the useage of the program should be easy to learn. However, a program's difficulty of learning has nothing to do with its useability. Even if it's hard to learn, once someone has learnt how to use it, the user should be able to do things quickly and easily. Therefore, programs like Vi (or even emacs) fare well in terms of useability. And most of the Windows/Mac/X apps are unuseable. Just because all the program's options are visible in a menu and big fancy buttons doesn't mean that it's easy to use. It's just easy to learn.
[And I'm sure I'll get flamed and modded down as troll because I mentioned Mac in a negative context.]
i think yahoo is just covering up that they already dleted the account, honestly.
Huh? Why would they do that? First of all why would they delete that particular account among the thousands of accounts on yahoo? If they deleted it because of the non-activity policy that some email providers have, why would they need to "cover it up"? It's in the TOS.
The Windows Server 2003-based Macworld Expo site folded under all those hits, while Apple's sites, running Mac OS X, were only knocked into sluggishness. (Server load is a complex thing, of course -- more complicated than what OS is on the servers.)
It's JPEG, not JPG. JPG is the file extension used for JPEG files on DOS systems because of 3 character file-extension limitation. JPEG is the name of the format/compression and the extension (which should be) used on systems that support 3+ character file-extensions. Because of the internet the JPG extension has spread and now people ignorantly use JPG to even refer to the format/compression.
True. Here, parents suppress any ambitions their children might have and (some times) even force them to graduate in either engineering or medical. And they think and make their children think that studying (related to school and college) like a machine is the only way to succeed in life. It really sucks. And it's far worse than it sounds.
He just tells about the advantages of online bookstores over conventional bookstores. He doesn't say much about what advantages Amazon can offer over other online bookstores. I guess there aren't many.
They are not asking to make ISPs liable. They are asking to make it required for ISPs to provide information about people who may be infringing on copyright. So the proper analogy would be the phone company being required to give information about someone doing something illegal.
So, why didn't anyone invade USA during the Salem Witch Trials? Sad incidents are not justification enough to invade a country. [ And your post seems to imply killing a person non-brutally is a lesser crime ]
Yeah, the small number of people who read slashdot will not buy it, but everyone else will blindly buy it. That's why we need to bitch. Not everyone is aware of these things.
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People should learn how to use computers. They can't just sit in front of it and expect it to do most of the stuff for them and teach them how to do the rest of it. That's why computer education at schools is so important. Computers are complex machines. When developers try do make it too easy to use things get overly complicated and bugs start to sneak in. Much of today's problems with computers can be attributed to people dumbing down computers.
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Almost everyone seem think that Useability/Good UI means that the useage of the program should be easy to learn. However, a program's difficulty of learning has nothing to do with its useability. Even if it's hard to learn, once someone has learnt how to use it, the user should be able to do things quickly and easily. Therefore, programs like Vi (or even emacs) fare well in terms of useability. And most of the Windows/Mac/X apps are unuseable. Just because all the program's options are visible in a menu and big fancy buttons doesn't mean that it's easy to use. It's just easy to learn
[And I'm sure I'll get flamed and modded down as troll because I mentioned Mac in a negative context.]
Should they excrete?
/me shudders
Excrete what?
i think yahoo is just covering up that they already dleted the account, honestly.
Huh? Why would they do that? First of all why would they delete that particular account among the thousands of accounts on yahoo? If they deleted it because of the non-activity policy that some email providers have, why would they need to "cover it up"? It's in the TOS.
The Windows Server 2003-based Macworld Expo site folded under all those hits, while Apple's sites, running Mac OS X, were only knocked into sluggishness. (Server load is a complex thing, of course -- more complicated than what OS is on the servers.)
Then why it it mentioned in the summary?
It's JPEG, not JPG. JPG is the file extension used for JPEG files on DOS systems because of 3 character file-extension limitation. JPEG is the name of the format/compression and the extension (which should be) used on systems that support 3+ character file-extensions. Because of the internet the JPG extension has spread and now people ignorantly use JPG to even refer to the format/compression.
Too Much Gaming Anyone?
No fucking way, man!
Dude!
RMS doesn't sound so insane/wrong/ now, does he?
True. Here, parents suppress any ambitions their children might have and (some times) even force them to graduate in either engineering or medical. And they think and make their children think that studying (related to school and college) like a machine is the only way to succeed in life. It really sucks. And it's far worse than it sounds.
He just tells about the advantages of online bookstores over conventional bookstores. He doesn't say much about what advantages Amazon can offer over other online bookstores. I guess there aren't many.
nope. can see it in firefox.
/hug Browsers-other-than-IE
/hug Linux
/hug FreeBSD
/hug OpenBSD
/hug NetBSD
/hug All-the-other-BSDs
/hug All-OSes-and-architectures-that-are-not-windows-on -x86
Oops, sorry for the bold text. I forgot a closing tag before the first "about"...
I was really waiting to see how an Apple zealot would use even this to defend Apple. Thanks.
They are not asking to make ISPs liable. They are asking to make it required for ISPs to provide information about people who may be infringing on copyright. So the proper analogy would be the phone company being required to give information about someone doing something illegal.
So, why didn't anyone invade USA during the Salem Witch Trials? Sad incidents are not justification enough to invade a country. [ And your post seems to imply killing a person non-brutally is a lesser crime ]
You seem to think that "divied" is a real word.
I'll have to agree only with the first sentence.
I pity your high school physics teacher.
Did I violate you buy hitting ctrl-c and ctrl-v?
It's called fair use. But your post does have a point.
As if AMD is going to just let Intel conquer the market.
Yeah, the small number of people who read slashdot will not buy it, but everyone else will blindly buy it. That's why we need to bitch. Not everyone is aware of these things.
How can his post be rated informatve when it isn't true?
You must be new here.
And, for me, there seems no real evidence that the Firefox community corrects problems quicker than MS.
Please don't make statements with incomplete knowledge.
The third one is not a bug, but a design flaw.