I still don't get why you would want multiple instances of the same program running when you could just open all of the documents from within one instance? Is it just for grouping/organization/workflow? Then why not have the application itself offer some sort of way to "group" sets of open documents? It *does* seem absolutely bizarre to want to have 10 copies of Word open rather than one copy with 10 documents open. Are you serious?!?
So, no iPhone for me because I'm not on ATT (Verizon has much better coverage where I am, and first and foremost I need a phone to make calls). And now no Google software-powered goodness, either? Good grief. Ugly retarded phones, and no glitz features at all - way to go Verizon!
Is it going to be Win95 or 3.1 or something? From what I can tell, the specs for the Classmate PC are woefully pathetic to reasonably run XP, let alone Vista. Or are brand new high-end laptops part of the deal between MS and Nigeria, too?
Why wouldn't you just create a "Work" label and a "John" label, and mark anything from John as "John", and anything from John that's work-related tagged as both "Work" and "John"? I'm pretty sure you can search by multiple labels.
Do you honestly consider dialup to be a legitimate alternative to Comcast broadband? Sure, candlelight is an alternative to electricity, outhouses are an alternative to indoor plumbing, and horse and buggy are alternatives to automobile. But none of those are actually *legitimate* alternatives that provide anywhere near the same experience.
I've been using Thunderbird with Lightning for about a year now to try and manage my calendar, and it's kludgey at best. There's minimal integration between the two, other than they run in the same "instance". Group sharing is almost non-existant, or a PITA to set up.
I don't understand why the Thunderbird camp doesn't get with the Chandler camp and create a real alternative to the OSS PIM options out there. Thunderbird needs a better calendaring/task management part, and Chandler needs a real email client.
Also any random user should be able to fire up any given application and automagically become DaVinci, amirite? It must be the fault of the GUI that's blocking your inner creativity and keeping you from becoming the next amazing artist and dying poor and unappreciated.
Actually, yes. Ideally, any tool is an enabler to the user to express (be it writing, drawing, animating, whathaveyou) what they want, easily. If using the tool is a hindrance to that then yes, it is a problem. Anyone who has a vision can pick up a pencil and paper and write the Great American Novel. Why shouldn't it be the same for anyone with a vision for an animation or film?
How does this affect WordPress multiuser? Usually that's a few steps ahead of the single WP installation. Also, how does this actually schedule and send things? I'm on a hosted WP install, and as far as I know, I'd have to manually go in an set up some sort of job or something to get any sort of recurring activity. They're saying my hosted webserver PHP code is going to initiate outgoing requests or something?
I'm sure when signing up to be a camp counselor, you are fully debriefed in all the legal hoopla that may stem from any possible circumstances. All counselors are also fully knowledgeable lawyers, too.
I think the family is just pissed they didn't get any "compensation" for Virgin using a photo for promotions.
What I see with OpenOffice is that it is perpetually trying to be MS Office. It shouldn't try to be MS Office, with an always circa-5-years-ago. For OO to succeed, it needs to be better than MS Office. Make people want to use it instead of MS's offerings. This seems to be the case with a lot of open office software - they're pushed as alternatives that mostly do the job, but the "big" selling points are that they are free to the end user, mostly compatible with the competition, and use open formats. Look at what Firefox did - they didn't try and replicate an alternative to IE that was always chasing IE's features...they made a *better* browser.
If material cost were not an issue, now or ever, who would pick OO over MS Office? All OO is, and will be in the forseeable future, is the bastard wannabe kid brother of MS Unfortunately, Exchange is in the mix, too, because of the links between the office suite, email, and intranet. Where's the open source initiative to create a *better* solution than the MS Exchange environment? Everyone just focuses on Exchange compatibility, and as long as you do that, you're perpetually going to be playing catch up.
Really, they should start from the ground up, and create a whole new office app/email app/email backend. Whose goal is to be *better* than the competition instead of a cheap or free alternative. That is, if anyone really wants to try and supplant MS's share. Just my $.02.
What improvements are there that I care about from a user perspective? And how does OO 2.3 compare to the newly released Lotus Symphony suite?
Does the spreadsheet program have a useable Text-to-columns function yet, and can it use web data or consume web services for data? It seems like last time I checked, Excel was still quite superior to OO's spreadsheet offerings.
College football is getting in the mix, too. Here in the Midwest, the Big Ten Network is hosing things up, taking games that used to be on local affiliates and moving them to cable-only. Sigh...
That's strange...we're on a local cable provider but they use the same Motorola HD boxes that we had with Comcast. I've got the receiver plugged into the S/PDIF digital audio, and it works on all the channels, digital or analog. How annoying would it be to have to change your receiver inputs when you change TV channels??
How much more is it costing you for separate services? I've been considering DirecTV lately for a number of reasons, but DSL here can't touch the cable Internet provider's service. So I'm looking at the possibility of cable Inernet w/o TV service and satellite TV, but it doesn't look like the numbers work in my favor - it's gonna be hella expensive....
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I still don't get why you would want multiple instances of the same program running when you could just open all of the documents from within one instance? Is it just for grouping/organization/workflow? Then why not have the application itself offer some sort of way to "group" sets of open documents? It *does* seem absolutely bizarre to want to have 10 copies of Word open rather than one copy with 10 documents open. Are you serious?!?
So, no iPhone for me because I'm not on ATT (Verizon has much better coverage where I am, and first and foremost I need a phone to make calls). And now no Google software-powered goodness, either? Good grief. Ugly retarded phones, and no glitz features at all - way to go Verizon!
Is it going to be Win95 or 3.1 or something? From what I can tell, the specs for the Classmate PC are woefully pathetic to reasonably run XP, let alone Vista. Or are brand new high-end laptops part of the deal between MS and Nigeria, too?
Why wouldn't you just create a "Work" label and a "John" label, and mark anything from John as "John", and anything from John that's work-related tagged as both "Work" and "John"? I'm pretty sure you can search by multiple labels.
Confusing much?
But don't you want your VoIP traffic to have priority over your torrents of linux downloads? To some extent you *need* to prioritize services.
Do you honestly consider dialup to be a legitimate alternative to Comcast broadband? Sure, candlelight is an alternative to electricity, outhouses are an alternative to indoor plumbing, and horse and buggy are alternatives to automobile. But none of those are actually *legitimate* alternatives that provide anywhere near the same experience.
Honestly, none of those hold a candle to VS 2005 for .NET development.
Here's hoping for an eventual crossover movie. Star Wars vs. Star Trek....yeah! Or Star Wars vs. Star Trek vs. ALIEN vs. Predator!
Actually, I think it will use the new ptth:// protocol....err, maybe the //:ptth, or \\:ptth? Hmmmm.....
Funny that, because you can't actually steal music. Infringe copyrights, sure, but good luck arguing theft.
I've been using Thunderbird with Lightning for about a year now to try and manage my calendar, and it's kludgey at best. There's minimal integration between the two, other than they run in the same "instance". Group sharing is almost non-existant, or a PITA to set up.
I don't understand why the Thunderbird camp doesn't get with the Chandler camp and create a real alternative to the OSS PIM options out there. Thunderbird needs a better calendaring/task management part, and Chandler needs a real email client.
I think you forgot to add "on the web". That's the money-phrase to get the patent!
How does this affect WordPress multiuser? Usually that's a few steps ahead of the single WP installation. Also, how does this actually schedule and send things? I'm on a hosted WP install, and as far as I know, I'd have to manually go in an set up some sort of job or something to get any sort of recurring activity. They're saying my hosted webserver PHP code is going to initiate outgoing requests or something?
I'm sure when signing up to be a camp counselor, you are fully debriefed in all the legal hoopla that may stem from any possible circumstances. All counselors are also fully knowledgeable lawyers, too.
I think the family is just pissed they didn't get any "compensation" for Virgin using a photo for promotions.
What I see with OpenOffice is that it is perpetually trying to be MS Office. It shouldn't try to be MS Office, with an always circa-5-years-ago. For OO to succeed, it needs to be better than MS Office. Make people want to use it instead of MS's offerings. This seems to be the case with a lot of open office software - they're pushed as alternatives that mostly do the job, but the "big" selling points are that they are free to the end user, mostly compatible with the competition, and use open formats. Look at what Firefox did - they didn't try and replicate an alternative to IE that was always chasing IE's features...they made a *better* browser.
If material cost were not an issue, now or ever, who would pick OO over MS Office? All OO is, and will be in the forseeable future, is the bastard wannabe kid brother of MS Unfortunately, Exchange is in the mix, too, because of the links between the office suite, email, and intranet. Where's the open source initiative to create a *better* solution than the MS Exchange environment? Everyone just focuses on Exchange compatibility, and as long as you do that, you're perpetually going to be playing catch up.
Really, they should start from the ground up, and create a whole new office app/email app/email backend. Whose goal is to be *better* than the competition instead of a cheap or free alternative. That is, if anyone really wants to try and supplant MS's share. Just my $.02.
What improvements are there that I care about from a user perspective? And how does OO 2.3 compare to the newly released Lotus Symphony suite?
Does the spreadsheet program have a useable Text-to-columns function yet, and can it use web data or consume web services for data? It seems like last time I checked, Excel was still quite superior to OO's spreadsheet offerings.
College football is getting in the mix, too. Here in the Midwest, the Big Ten Network is hosing things up, taking games that used to be on local affiliates and moving them to cable-only. Sigh...
An IR blaster! What, more than one channel or dual tuners? More than one satellite box, one for each channel! Woohoo!
That's strange...we're on a local cable provider but they use the same Motorola HD boxes that we had with Comcast. I've got the receiver plugged into the S/PDIF digital audio, and it works on all the channels, digital or analog. How annoying would it be to have to change your receiver inputs when you change TV channels??
Ahhhh, the price of being behind the times. Hey, did you hear who won the 2005 Super Bowl yet?
How much more is it costing you for separate services? I've been considering DirecTV lately for a number of reasons, but DSL here can't touch the cable Internet provider's service. So I'm looking at the possibility of cable Inernet w/o TV service and satellite TV, but it doesn't look like the numbers work in my favor - it's gonna be hella expensive....