Look, bigger buttons are easier to find, move the mouse to, and click according to Fitts's law. Small buttons or commands hidden in menus (seemingly non-sensically/non-categorically, as I can never find the thing I need) are harder to find and click. So, as long as the categorization of the buttons makes sense, the ribbon is a better interface. That's really all there is to it.
Did you notice that (when using Firefox) the mock-up page shown with the opt-out cookie set uses text and images ripped directly from Firefox's error page? Yet I see no mention of the GPL anywhere.
Just use nLite, which is probably what TinyXP was made with (to begin with). Getting rid of everything you don't use and disabling unnecessary services can save a lot of disk space and reduce memory usage significantly. It works with Windows 2000 too.
There are even analogs of nLite for Windows 98 if you want to go even slimmer.
This is unrelated to the parent, but I would just like to bitch to the editor here:
Microsoft quickly denied that any GPL violation was a driver for their decision to donate the code
When you're talking about driver code, saying that something was or wasn't a driver for a decision is just fucking confusing. I had to read that sentence three times before I understood it.
Releasing source should be required. It's a public safety concern that it is not.
What part of a text only (Notepad, for example) editor affect public safety ?
Sure, it (more than likely) can't be exploited by opening a text file, but how do you know that Notepad itself is safe? His point was that without source code, you don't know what a program like Notepad is doing behind the scenes (like recording keystrokes, changing a random word in a 10 000 word document to "fuck", etc.).
What's the point of a patent if it's no good simply because someone else figures out how to do the same thing independently?
Well, by law, an invention is not patentable if it would be an obvious advancement of prior art to a person having ordinary skill in the art (PHOSITA) and could be invented without extraordinary skill. So if multiple independent parties easily find a way to do something, it's clear that the invention is obvious.
I'm no biochemistry expert, but testing the levels of some "output" in the blood to see the body's reaction to a drug seems completely obvious. And if it's obvious to me, I'd bet that it'd be obvious to a PHOSITA of biochemistry.
I think a more productive solution would be to update the drive's firmware, which would directly affect what types of discs it's able to read. I'm not sure that the BIOS has anything to do with that, other than supporting the drive itself.
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Look, bigger buttons are easier to find, move the mouse to, and click according to Fitts's law. Small buttons or commands hidden in menus (seemingly non-sensically/non-categorically, as I can never find the thing I need) are harder to find and click. So, as long as the categorization of the buttons makes sense, the ribbon is a better interface. That's really all there is to it.
Honestly, I don't know how I put that since I know that it's not.
Did you notice that (when using Firefox) the mock-up page shown with the opt-out cookie set uses text and images ripped directly from Firefox's error page? Yet I see no mention of the GPL anywhere.
As in, "I thought that's what lawyers were."?
I know. That was just my lame attempt at a joke. :-P
Wouldn't people just give it up faster then?
No, but you can export and run it through SPICE.
What the fuck is the point of arguing over this?
People live in different areas with different schools, the classrooms of which may or may not contain telephones.
Dial 9 first.
Well, the chances of being struck by any non-existant entity like "lightening" are 0, so I suppose that's true.
How does one end a word with a preposition?
But does it run Linux?
(Don't worry; I hated typing that joke as much as you hated reading it.)
That footnote made me chuckle.
Isn't "evil android" redundant? How many benevolent human-looking robots have you met?
So you're the one causing the jams!
Just use nLite, which is probably what TinyXP was made with (to begin with). Getting rid of everything you don't use and disabling unnecessary services can save a lot of disk space and reduce memory usage significantly. It works with Windows 2000 too.
There are even analogs of nLite for Windows 98 if you want to go even slimmer.
This is unrelated to the parent, but I would just like to bitch to the editor here:
When you're talking about driver code, saying that something was or wasn't a driver for a decision is just fucking confusing. I had to read that sentence three times before I understood it.
How do you grammar check a DVD screener rip?
Sure, it (more than likely) can't be exploited by opening a text file, but how do you know that Notepad itself is safe? His point was that without source code, you don't know what a program like Notepad is doing behind the scenes (like recording keystrokes, changing a random word in a 10 000 word document to "fuck", etc.).
"There" and "their" are homophones, not homonyms. They're not homographs.
Well, by law, an invention is not patentable if it would be an obvious advancement of prior art to a person having ordinary skill in the art (PHOSITA) and could be invented without extraordinary skill. So if multiple independent parties easily find a way to do something, it's clear that the invention is obvious.
I'm no biochemistry expert, but testing the levels of some "output" in the blood to see the body's reaction to a drug seems completely obvious. And if it's obvious to me, I'd bet that it'd be obvious to a PHOSITA of biochemistry.
I think a more productive solution would be to update the drive's firmware, which would directly affect what types of discs it's able to read. I'm not sure that the BIOS has anything to do with that, other than supporting the drive itself.
No, they still eat you, just in the light.
If, not is.
But what is he uses passive x controllers?