That's a gross unprovable generalisation, I certainly doubt I'm not the only one who spends lots of time working with many windows up not maximised.
I use machines as the tools they are, I spend time finding the applications/utilities/tools that let me work the best/fastest I can. Find the tool to fit the job, thoughtless consumer loyalty just costs you time and money.
I use both systems very similarly, I even use stardocks objectdock on my to increase my free space on my XP laptops small screen.
I do however happen to particularly like being able to click straight from [menuSetA in app1] straight to [menuSetB in app2] (2 steps, single direct mouse movement), rather than go screentop -> change application -> screentop (3 steps, back and forth movement). That's an illogical disruption of flow, and imo it makes sense for an applications menus/options to be in the application.
Back on topic, It seems to me your defending a lack of choice? I honestly thought there must be some shortcut I didn't know, this is totally mad...:o(
I'd disagree, I carefully chose to use the term 'fullscreen' rather than maximise, so as to not gain any confusion from mac users saying 'what are you on? click the maximise button'
The idea of 'maximise' is to take the maximum space available on the display device for the application, all of it.
Your image clearly shows desktop space and icons that are taking up several words of text per line, several thousand pixels of image space, or even just (if working on a constrained format piece like the one in a pic) a good hunk of nice clean empty space (come on, aren't mac users meant to be artists/art lovers?) to ease the eye and let it concentrate on the work at hand properly.
not too long ago I'd say that 'totally unused by the sole application I'm working on area' was wasting a good couple of hundred $'s of screen space on a laptop.
I knew it was bad application development that was significantly to blame for the problem, but didn't want to more than double my post going into it.
With each failing piece of software under a limited account, It won't magically just work under vista, it will have to be rewritten no matter which side's camp held the original faults. The work on vista has apparently been done, so it is now up to the software developers to patch their apps, or make sure their new releases work.
I believe MS has made correct functionality under limited accounts (depending on the specifics of software in question) a requirement for vista certification, this will help to encourage the developers to actually do this for the first time. In all honesty having not looked at the API's, for all I know this certification requirement may be all that's actually changed;o) It is possibly the most important thing they could have done, how else could they get developers to change habits on this.
The problem bringing this up, is rather than celebrate the fact that MS is trying to actively do positive things to rectify this, and see the light finally at the end of the tunnel, Ii'll bet the great unwashed masses will see the delays for app updates, or possibilities of the software they wish would work NEVER being updated, and.... knowing 'people', probably blame Vista for it.:(
How can you fullscreen an application? it annoys me no end that maximise...doesn't
I've used osx on and off for years, and there are many little things that I find make it slow (workflow not proccessing speed) and frustrating to work with compared to the way I work in windows, but this is the only thing that's always just frustrated the hell out of me.
I think it's a great shame that MS didn't split the admin levels like *nix, to root/admin, or some other name if they have to, I think it's a better system.
They haven't though,so admin is the highest level account and the basic idea for the rest is still there, no-one sits at a *nix box all day logged in as root, no-one should sit at a vista box logged in as admin for any longer than it takes to perform the specific admin tasks that require that login.
More so-called 'expert reviewers' should be spending less time moaning about UAC prompts, and more time seeing how viable treating admin as root, and using a 'user' or 'powerusr' account day to day actually is after MS's claims. Vista should make this actually viable for any end user, or deployment, as it wasn't in any previous version of windows in far too many situations I'd like to hear of others experience with this.
IMHO most people mocking the 'muscle memory flaw of UAC' don't actually consider the real intention or application of it.
UAC is not 'the little poppup that says do you want to do this yes/no' it's the whole system behind it, and the entire reworking of how windows deals with user accounts.
Vista's been rebuilt to work properly as you would expect with non administrator level accounts. Applications should work without error from lower level accounts. People you do not trust to tinker freely with 100% of the entire system should not have administrator access, period.
the "yes/no" prompt ONLY appears as a warning for possibly hazardous actions, if you are logged in as an administrator.
If your logged in with a lower level account, you are required to authenticate the action with an admin level user & password a-la *nix.
For the first time with reason in Windows, as an admin, you should be wondering 'why on earth is X webtard still on an admin level account, he doesn't need that access, he's a security risk' not 'why is UAC so stupid'
I seem to remember seeing a tutorial on how that was done for Perfect Storm using 3dsmax, it used some very basic (built in even I think) plugins, and a lot of work by hand, and added particle effects, and then just good textures. and post production effects.
That is totally not comparible to this simulation.
I really, really would have hoped they'd be looking at attempting to have switched over to the small powerfull capacitors that have been mentioned relatively recently as they've made them a reality with nanotech.
stock turnover was bound to happen eventually:)
the 4 remotes here were bought from 2 different stores, within a week of the launch, and only the one that came with the system had the stronger chord.
The out of the (console) box ones were, but most, if not all, of the additional controller, and wii play bundled ones still had the original cotton thin thread.
I was just checking the comments to see if I was about to post a dupe and I see I was..
However I still intend to add I still have yet to hear of a single complaint from anywhere in Europe.
I thought normal people leaving a house for a significant amount of time turned off gas, electricity (except for house alarms if possible) and water? cancel papers and milk etc (build up shows no-ones in)
The only real problem then is if you have general damp worries, some like to leave heating on to protect against that, but then that could be a fire risk. the only way after that is a VERY trusted friend/relative to check in every now and again (also helps deter burglars) or a house sitter. You can't put web cams on every corner of the house, looking at every pipe, all the rafters etc..
I've lost the ability to record FM on my Creative Zen with my last firmware update... ostensibly, though I can't confirm it because of industry pressure on Creative -- it was one of the features I bought it for.
Still it could have been even more true to life if it somehow could easily show Mr. Kutarchini having to hand his cash+more off to the manufacturer too;)
actually, if you don't beleive in the resurrection, don't feel strongly Christian, or even if your a little interested in attempting to research things before blindly pushing one groups opinion on your children it's real easy to tell anyone about Easter without mentioning the crucifixion.
I wont blame you for not even thinking to consider other alternatives, you've probably been fed the 'one truth' since a very early age at school and taught not to question it. interesting how things self perpetuate so quickly that way isn't it...;op
(I was brought up a Christian, I'm not sure what I truly beleive now other than people are stupid and easily lead (comment on most organised religion and not actually meant as an attack on any), and the more 'made a fool of' they may feel when questioned intelligently, sadly the more violently they are likely to react. I intend to teach my children to question all things and seek to learn enough from all sides until they are happy in their *own* decision, above all I beleive people should be good to other (yes event the stupid ones;o) ) people, and not force their opinions on others)
Origins of the name "Easter":
The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." 1 Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. (source http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm )
this passage is not talking about Easter. How do we know? The word translated Easter is the Greek word pascha (derived from the Hebrew word pesach; there is no original Greek word for Passover), and it has only one meaning. It always means Passover--it can never mean Easter! For this reason, we find a Hebrew word used in the Greek New Testament. Once again, this Hebrew word can only refer to Passover. And other translations, including the Revised Standard Version, correctly render this word Passover.
It's a very, very old one,/. not being a site devoted to English grammar I didn't feel the need to point out that everyone knows it has plenty of exceptions.
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That's a gross unprovable generalisation, I certainly doubt I'm not the only one who spends lots of time working with many windows up not maximised.
:o(
I use machines as the tools they are, I spend time finding the applications/utilities/tools that let me work the best/fastest I can. Find the tool to fit the job, thoughtless consumer loyalty just costs you time and money.
I use both systems very similarly, I even use stardocks objectdock on my to increase my free space on my XP laptops small screen.
I do however happen to particularly like being able to click straight from [menuSetA in app1] straight to [menuSetB in app2] (2 steps, single direct mouse movement), rather than go screentop -> change application -> screentop (3 steps, back and forth movement). That's an illogical disruption of flow, and imo it makes sense for an applications menus/options to be in the application.
Back on topic, It seems to me your defending a lack of choice? I honestly thought there must be some shortcut I didn't know, this is totally mad...
I'd disagree, I carefully chose to use the term 'fullscreen' rather than maximise, so as to not gain any confusion from mac users saying 'what are you on? click the maximise button'
The idea of 'maximise' is to take the maximum space available on the display device for the application, all of it.
Your image clearly shows desktop space and icons that are taking up several words of text per line, several thousand pixels of image space, or even just (if working on a constrained format piece like the one in a pic) a good hunk of nice clean empty space (come on, aren't mac users meant to be artists/art lovers?) to ease the eye and let it concentrate on the work at hand properly.
not too long ago I'd say that 'totally unused by the sole application I'm working on area' was wasting a good couple of hundred $'s of screen space on a laptop.
I knew it was bad application development that was significantly to blame for the problem, but didn't want to more than double my post going into it.
;o) It is possibly the most important thing they could have done, how else could they get developers to change habits on this.
:(
With each failing piece of software under a limited account, It won't magically just work under vista, it will have to be rewritten no matter which side's camp held the original faults. The work on vista has apparently been done, so it is now up to the software developers to patch their apps, or make sure their new releases work.
I believe MS has made correct functionality under limited accounts (depending on the specifics of software in question) a requirement for vista certification, this will help to encourage the developers to actually do this for the first time.
In all honesty having not looked at the API's, for all I know this certification requirement may be all that's actually changed
The problem bringing this up, is rather than celebrate the fact that MS is trying to actively do positive things to rectify this, and see the light finally at the end of the tunnel, Ii'll bet the great unwashed masses will see the delays for app updates, or possibilities of the software they wish would work NEVER being updated, and.... knowing 'people', probably blame Vista for it.
How can you fullscreen an application? it annoys me no end that maximise ...doesn't
I've used osx on and off for years, and there are many little things that I find make it slow (workflow not proccessing speed) and frustrating to work with compared to the way I work in windows, but this is the only thing that's always just frustrated the hell out of me.
First time I've spotted someone bringing up what's been on my mind, wish I had some mod points left :)
I think it's a great shame that MS didn't split the admin levels like *nix, to root/admin, or some other name if they have to, I think it's a better system.
They haven't though,so admin is the highest level account and the basic idea for the rest is still there, no-one sits at a *nix box all day logged in as root, no-one should sit at a vista box logged in as admin for any longer than it takes to perform the specific admin tasks that require that login.
More so-called 'expert reviewers' should be spending less time moaning about UAC prompts, and more time seeing how viable treating admin as root, and using a 'user' or 'powerusr' account day to day actually is after MS's claims. Vista should make this actually viable for any end user, or deployment, as it wasn't in any previous version of windows in far too many situations I'd like to hear of others experience with this.
IMHO most people mocking the 'muscle memory flaw of UAC' don't actually consider the real intention or application of it.
UAC is not 'the little poppup that says do you want to do this yes/no' it's the whole system behind it, and the entire reworking of how windows deals with user accounts.
Vista's been rebuilt to work properly as you would expect with non administrator level accounts. Applications should work without error from lower level accounts. People you do not trust to tinker freely with 100% of the entire system should not have administrator access, period.
the "yes/no" prompt ONLY appears as a warning for possibly hazardous actions, if you are logged in as an administrator.
If your logged in with a lower level account, you are required to authenticate the action with an admin level user & password a-la *nix.
For the first time with reason in Windows, as an admin, you should be wondering 'why on earth is X webtard still on an admin level account, he doesn't need that access, he's a security risk' not 'why is UAC so stupid'
I seem to remember seeing a tutorial on how that was done for Perfect Storm using 3dsmax, it used some very basic (built in even I think) plugins, and a lot of work by hand, and added particle effects, and then just good textures. and post production effects.
That is totally not comparible to this simulation.
Lithium ion in 2009?
I really, really would have hoped they'd be looking at attempting to have switched over to the small powerfull capacitors that have been mentioned relatively recently as they've made them a reality with nanotech.
Charge in 5 minutes, Drive 500 miles?
Capacitors to Replace Batteries?
Never heard the expression "Time is money" ?
stock turnover was bound to happen eventually :)
the 4 remotes here were bought from 2 different stores, within a week of the launch, and only the one that came with the system had the stronger chord.
The out of the (console) box ones were, but most, if not all, of the additional controller, and wii play bundled ones still had the original cotton thin thread.
I was just checking the comments to see if I was about to post a dupe and I see I was ..
However I still intend to add I still have yet to hear of a single complaint from anywhere in Europe.
I think your time scale is a bit off, winXP itself is 5 years old, and ff 3 still runs on win2k as you said...
I thought normal people leaving a house for a significant amount of time turned off gas, electricity (except for house alarms if possible) and water? cancel papers and milk etc (build up shows no-ones in)
The only real problem then is if you have general damp worries, some like to leave heating on to protect against that, but then that could be a fire risk.
the only way after that is a VERY trusted friend/relative to check in every now and again (also helps deter burglars) or a house sitter. You can't put web cams on every corner of the house, looking at every pipe, all the rafters etc..
No the only typo I made I didn't spot was 'cam' instead of can,
so I find your comment stuipfluous too and as such I'm modding it a nullity.
If he can make up numbers, then I cam make up words,
this whole thing is utterly stuipfluous.
1.60.01 firmware brings back this ability.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061120-82 55.html
I happen to check vgcats daily, saw the news piece (that had no comments at the time) happen to think it was the most apt thing I'd ever seen.
/. thanks.
Not everyone spends every waking moment reading every news post and every comment on
Still it could have been even more true to life if it somehow could easily show Mr. Kutarchini having to hand his cash+more off to the manufacturer too ;)
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=212
never a truer word on this was spoke..
black is the new gold.
(and silver, and bronze..)
I wont blame you for not even thinking to consider other alternatives, you've probably been fed the 'one truth' since a very early age at school and taught not to question it. interesting how things self perpetuate so quickly that way isn't it... ;op
(I was brought up a Christian, I'm not sure what I truly beleive now other than people are stupid and easily lead (comment on most organised religion and not actually meant as an attack on any), and the more 'made a fool of' they may feel when questioned intelligently, sadly the more violently they are likely to react. I intend to teach my children to question all things and seek to learn enough from all sides until they are happy in their *own* decision, above all I beleive people should be good to other (yes event the stupid ones ;o) ) people, and not force their opinions on others)
Origins of the name "Easter": The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." 1 Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. (source http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm )another interesting read would be http://www.thercg.org/books/ttooe.html on the one mention of 'easter' by name in the bible,
this passage is not talking about Easter. How do we know? The word translated Easter is the Greek word pascha (derived from the Hebrew word pesach; there is no original Greek word for Passover), and it has only one meaning. It always means Passover--it can never mean Easter! For this reason, we find a Hebrew word used in the Greek New Testament. Once again, this Hebrew word can only refer to Passover. And other translations, including the Revised Standard Version, correctly render this word Passover.It's a very, very old one, /. not being a site devoted to English grammar I didn't feel the need to point out that everyone knows it has plenty of exceptions.
Yeah,
;)
i before e except after c
too much 'Mortal Kombat' confusing you CmdrTaco ?