"This is not IE 6 with a few features borrowed from the competition, but rather a clear step in the evolution of user-centric design."
So is that why they decided to put the menu (file, edit, view,..) below the tabs in a totally unintutive place? Not trying to be mean about it but everything else that they've ever made has placed that menu at the topmost position on the window.
There is no such thing. Get close enough and you'll notice the ENTIRE picture is full of noise, it's just harder to see it at a certain distance on most TVs. Digital images are superior to analog ones since they are noise free.
If you have not noticed the noise from an analog TV set then I don't see why having a little (basically inaudible) losses in sound would be such a big deal.
They made the BIOS that's in the HP OmniBook XE2 DE, which apparently can't get the fan to turn on to prevent the system from overheating during anything else but boot time.
Huh? Hard drive noise is sooo 20th century. Every modern hard drive I've seen so far is really very quiet. They make a *little* noise usually when they're in use, but that's easily taken care of by putting it inside of a case. If it wasn't for an older IBM hard drive whirring, one of my older computers would be making (virtually) no noise. (Passive heat sink, mini ATX - the PSU is very silent.)
It's more of a temporary solution. You'll be playing the sound through them pretty loud if you don't have a decent pair with active noise cancellation. Even then, wearing them for more than 4 hours makes my head hurt. It would be better if someone could just hurry up and invent that cone of silence already.
There was an incident at my school recently where SOMEONE mailed a ton of students with an excel spreadsheet that contained people's names and social security numbers. It wasn't sent to a mailing list either.. Each of the hundreds of individuals that got it were individually added to the "To:" field (it was a lot - enough to make Thunderbird sit there rendering the list of names for good 10 seconds.) Of course, some recipients had to respond with meaningless comments mailing back hundreds of people in the process.
It would be good for capturing video in real time. Ever tried to dump an uncompressed video stream before? (MPEG-4 software compressors are way too slow for realtime.) A few minutes will eat up a few GB of space. I think you can see where I'm going with this.
Might as well block every other port as well. They are the most commonly used but that's not going to stop me from SSHing to my computer at home and using Firefox on it.. Or using a proxy that's on a different port.
It DOES save you time. That demo absolutely rocks. I've been in situations where I've had a ton of windows overlapping each other and I want to move an object to something that's on the bottom layer. So, now we have a choice between clicking a bunch of times to minimize the first few windows, resizing another one and then finally moving the object into the correct position dropping it, then restoring the other windows back to their original position. OR click on the object and fold a few windows back (which is totally cool by the way) and dropping it. Much better! THIS should be a standard feature in feature window managers.
1. I'm an adult. My serious computer game playing days should be behind me.
Adults aren't allowed to play games? Why is that exactly? Does it somehow make you less grown up? I know plenty of adults who play games for fun and relaxation.
2. Is there an end to these things? My only saving grace that let me return to a normal eating/sleeping pattern with games of the past is that they freakin' ended at some point. I don't think I ever would've seen the light of day if I played a game that never ended.
You would need to develop some sense of self control if you can't figure out where fun ends and when you should get on with the rest of your life. It's not a problem usually because most people will know when to stop.
Also, a lot of these online games are huge. Don't expect to finish them if you don't play forever. They're a story that starts from the moment you first log in to the time when you decide to cancel your account. They end when you say they do.
3. How in the world could anyone with a job compete with the people that play this 24x7?
The simple answer is you don't. No one expects you to either. As a matter of fact, people could care less about you in these virtual worlds so you're mostly there to enjoy yourself. I'm not sure why you though that you automatically need to compete with people in these games since most of them are set up so you cooperate with other players.
Those games are dangerous.
It's only dangerous if you make them dangerous. If you take the right approach, you'll have an enjoyable experience. These games are meant to be an escape from reality, which is nice to experience after a long day, but at the same time, you'll want to avoid being like the people who make it their entire lives.
What's with you people and saying C is so bad? It only seems to make bad applications because lazy people are using it too. Your safe interperted languages like Java are not acceptable replacements for C in my opinion. They have their place, but running an interperter always introduces extra overhead, slowness, etc. As long as you're careful C is a very powerful tool that CAN make solid applications (shocking, I know.)
Windows programmers program as fast as possible to maximize profit ignoring the reprecussions of bad programming while Unix programmers take pride in their product.
In most cases it actually turns out not to be a big deal to not have tight loops or optimized code everywhere, especially when it turns out your program is sleeping for 90% of the time. I do agree that being lazy is stupid, but being too anal about things when it doesn't really matter isn't much better. For example, I would care if he was writing the main rendering loop for an interactive application because being slow there sucks, but not so much if he was writing a text input utility.
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I think a lot of the stress would be reduced if people were restricted to only patenting things that they created themselves
So is that why they decided to put the menu (file, edit, view, ..) below the tabs in a totally unintutive place? Not trying to be mean about it but everything else that they've ever made has placed that menu at the topmost position on the window.
You're probably right. This is the first time I heard of it and it looks pretty cool.
Yeah, build an entire computer into a floppy drive.. At least you wouldn't have a problem booting it ;)
There is no such thing. Get close enough and you'll notice the ENTIRE picture is full of noise, it's just harder to see it at a certain distance on most TVs. Digital images are superior to analog ones since they are noise free.
If you have not noticed the noise from an analog TV set then I don't see why having a little (basically inaudible) losses in sound would be such a big deal.
They made the BIOS that's in the HP OmniBook XE2 DE, which apparently can't get the fan to turn on to prevent the system from overheating during anything else but boot time.
Each disk takes about 10 minutes to read to the MicroVAX .. and then more time to move across onto a real computer, of course.
Ouch. That must have stung. You're lucky computers don't have feelings.
Huh? Hard drive noise is sooo 20th century. Every modern hard drive I've seen so far is really very quiet. They make a *little* noise usually when they're in use, but that's easily taken care of by putting it inside of a case. If it wasn't for an older IBM hard drive whirring, one of my older computers would be making (virtually) no noise. (Passive heat sink, mini ATX - the PSU is very silent.)
It's more of a temporary solution. You'll be playing the sound through them pretty loud if you don't have a decent pair with active noise cancellation. Even then, wearing them for more than 4 hours makes my head hurt. It would be better if someone could just hurry up and invent that cone of silence already.
No, not really. The statement "free as in beer" makes more sense this way because beer was never free to begin with.
There was an incident at my school recently where SOMEONE mailed a ton of students with an excel spreadsheet that contained people's names and social security numbers. It wasn't sent to a mailing list either.. Each of the hundreds of individuals that got it were individually added to the "To:" field (it was a lot - enough to make Thunderbird sit there rendering the list of names for good 10 seconds.) Of course, some recipients had to respond with meaningless comments mailing back hundreds of people in the process.
It would be good for capturing video in real time. Ever tried to dump an uncompressed video stream before? (MPEG-4 software compressors are way too slow for realtime.) A few minutes will eat up a few GB of space. I think you can see where I'm going with this.
I predict that the frowney face will be widely used in Microsoft today
They were throwing other liquids into the blobs too. Imagine their disappointment (and mess) they experienced when gravity returned.
amd is going to kill them selfs if they continue to play musical sokect's.
Just like Intel did, right?
Come on Microsoft, how about an MSN toolbar for Firefox? ;)
Might as well block every other port as well. They are the most commonly used but that's not going to stop me from SSHing to my computer at home and using Firefox on it.. Or using a proxy that's on a different port.
Yeah, google.com is probably the most frequently used research tool here
Yeah, you know those force feedback mice made by Logitech? They never seemed to catch on, but I thought they were really neat.
It DOES save you time. That demo absolutely rocks. I've been in situations where I've had a ton of windows overlapping each other and I want to move an object to something that's on the bottom layer. So, now we have a choice between clicking a bunch of times to minimize the first few windows, resizing another one and then finally moving the object into the correct position dropping it, then restoring the other windows back to their original position. OR click on the object and fold a few windows back (which is totally cool by the way) and dropping it. Much better! THIS should be a standard feature in feature window managers.
Adults aren't allowed to play games? Why is that exactly? Does it somehow make you less grown up? I know plenty of adults who play games for fun and relaxation.
2. Is there an end to these things? My only saving grace that let me return to a normal eating/sleeping pattern with games of the past is that they freakin' ended at some point. I don't think I ever would've seen the light of day if I played a game that never ended.
You would need to develop some sense of self control if you can't figure out where fun ends and when you should get on with the rest of your life. It's not a problem usually because most people will know when to stop.
Also, a lot of these online games are huge. Don't expect to finish them if you don't play forever. They're a story that starts from the moment you first log in to the time when you decide to cancel your account. They end when you say they do.
3. How in the world could anyone with a job compete with the people that play this 24x7?
The simple answer is you don't. No one expects you to either. As a matter of fact, people could care less about you in these virtual worlds so you're mostly there to enjoy yourself. I'm not sure why you though that you automatically need to compete with people in these games since most of them are set up so you cooperate with other players.
Those games are dangerous.
It's only dangerous if you make them dangerous. If you take the right approach, you'll have an enjoyable experience. These games are meant to be an escape from reality, which is nice to experience after a long day, but at the same time, you'll want to avoid being like the people who make it their entire lives.
What's with you people and saying C is so bad? It only seems to make bad applications because lazy people are using it too. Your safe interperted languages like Java are not acceptable replacements for C in my opinion. They have their place, but running an interperter always introduces extra overhead, slowness, etc. As long as you're careful C is a very powerful tool that CAN make solid applications (shocking, I know.)
What about the hobbyist programmers on windows?
In most cases it actually turns out not to be a big deal to not have tight loops or optimized code everywhere, especially when it turns out your program is sleeping for 90% of the time. I do agree that being lazy is stupid, but being too anal about things when it doesn't really matter isn't much better. For example, I would care if he was writing the main rendering loop for an interactive application because being slow there sucks, but not so much if he was writing a text input utility.