The same people who say MS is playing catchup with [other-os], and how it's about time they have features others have had for ages, tend to be the same people who accuse MS of only copying what others are doing and not coming up with anything themselves. Damned if do, damned if don't.
And of cause, not to mention all the things MS did that other desktops don't. When will KDE let me organise my menu's just by dragging and dropping within them, and not having to open up some seperate editor ala windows 95? Anyone wanna realise that MS has had much better preemptive multitasking long before Mac's even looked at moving away from cooperative multitasking, ala Win3.1?
At the end of the day, there's a pool of ideas, people put in, and people take out and use. MS put as many in as anybody does, even if preconceptions stop people from seeing this. How can this be anything but a Good Thing(tm)?
Nice. Heading for download right now. Tell me though, do transparent windows (or bits of windows) blur the contents behind them as vista does, so text behind doesn't make text in front unreadable? Transparency's nice, but you have to turn it off when you have more than one window with text open in front of each other. With vista, I can leave it turned on.
(I expect I'll be able to answer this myself shortly)
And stop JUMPING OUT AT ME when I try to click on that thing down there goddamn it!!! This is the number 1 thing that turned me off OSX (well, apart from the one button mouse thing... I like my other buttons & scrolling, they speed things up for me)
Because you do things in a way that benefits from virtual desktops. It's like saying you have to work in another language, not your native one; it's gonna slow you down. However, someone who's native language is that language isn't going to feel crippled in the slightest, because they don't need what you need. I, for example, have no use for virtual desktops, and so remove the pager from my desktop, because that's not the way I interface with the computer.
or me, who likes to alt+tab to winamp or MPC etc, then just use the scroll wheel (well, scroll bit of the pad) for changing the volume, then alt+tab back... all quickly without even having to wait for any visual feedback (like you would do if it involved moving the mouse).
Plus when it comes to virtual desktop/console type things, I don't like free spin... prefer something like alt+f1-f4 to switch, so you can jump straight to where you know your stuff is without waiting for visual feedback.
cuz most people don't work that way, and at worse, can be confused (on a level) by virtual desktops. The amount of people I see trying to move windows around the screen because they don't even alt+tab, or minimise windows, even when they know how, makes you realise that a lot of people out there cannot comprehend the extra dimensions.
I do too... I'm a fast user, and things like that just slow me down. I don't want menus to fade/slide in, same with dropdown boxes, tooltips etc.
However; MS have done rather well with Vista. The fades/etc are done with transparencies, using the graphics card -not- the main system, and so makes it look/feel nicer, without slowing me down at all. I'm not a big fan of MS's stuff in the slightest; I develop server software and refuse to touch windows for that (i develop on linux), but credit where credit's due, preconceptions aside, I was quite impressed, it is a really nice gui.
I'm not saying you suffer from depression. I'm saying you're only finding the depressing things in "the big bad world" out there, at least in your last few posts. I'm not the "pot smoking love everbody hippy" that you mention just because I refuse to believe that the world/country is in the downward spin of alcoholism and violence, nor does it mean that I'm suffering from the need to grow up, a lack of confidence, or any kind of delusion.
It just means that I know enough good people out there to know that the people who will do things like, drive 70 miles to apply a pick axe handle to someone, are a very small minority, likely a decreasing minority, and does not reflect that our country must be going to hell and that we should collectively be ashamed of it.
I think the one thing the media is responsible more than anything is the spread of fear; fear of increasing levels of crime, increasing levels of terrorists, increasing levels of gonvernment control, when truth be known, we've never had it so good.
Um, how does "increasing chances or being friendly" = "no chance of being friendly without"? Once again, you're reading between the lines for anything depressing. I have no problem making friends, and I don't use drugs to make friends. The drugs many of my friends take affects their moods in positive, friendly, ways, as opposed to alcohol, which can make people aggressive. They work in different ways. But just because a drug can makes you friendlier, doesn't make you incapable of being friendly without.
"Rubbish! Binge drinking is on the increase"
It's rubbish that there are some areas where it's on the decrease, which is what I said? So what you're saying, is that *everywhere*, it's either going up or staying the same? That you couldn't find anywhere where it's going down? Well you hang out in all the wrong places dude.
"Please explain to me why, when I go into the town centre on a Saturday afternoon, every one of these pubs has a bouncer now?"
Because it only takes one person to ruin things for loads of other people, and bouncers can help deter that, or eject people who are ruining things for people. I have many friends who run nights in birmingham city center, who have people on the door to keep the few from ruining the night for the most. Get that? The *few*.
Without bouncers, the few/can/ ruin things for the most, leaving people end up with depressing views of the whole world, because they think that it's all as bad as a few people can make it.
"Please stop with that "namby pamby" hippy rubbish"
I guess that's your real problem, you think that anything other than the depressing is "namby pamby hippy rubbish". There's a lot of good people out there. If you're having trouble finding any, then you need to re-evaluate where you're spending your time, and who you're spending it with.
That's a load of crap. Violence has always existed, what's on the increase is a) population, and b) reporting.
I live in britain, and go out every weekend with a huge group of friends, none of us violent or get into that kind of state... we're amongst a rising increase of people who take drugs that increase our likeliness of being friendly with each other. All statistics show that we are on the increase.
Binge drinking in many areas is starting to decrease, where the new 24hour licensing is available, people don't need to ram as much down their neck as quickly as possible.
"This is a really sad incident and we should be ashamed that it happened here"
We should hold shame to ourselves for the actions of another?
I think you're just looking for ways to be depressed about the world.
"Maybe you need to expand your imagination more - or relax your difinition of a hand"
Or maybe relax the definition of the word 'hammer' and call it that?
Or just not use misleading words and expect people to change what the word means to fit the fact you wanna call it something? If there are words that more accurately describe something, less ambigiously, they're the one's that you should use.
I'd say, somewhere between a long long long long time, and never. First of all, you'd need cameras up in space capable of taking images of the entire planet (or at least the entire area you wish to see live), at a meaningful resolution (eg, 1 pixel per earth-surface-meter). That's a lot of pixels. Then you'd need to transfer all of that data to earth, requiring astronomical levels of bandwidth. That's assuming anyone would give google live satalite feeds in the first place.
Think it's to do with having too many flash controls open at once. I got round it by clicking the video outside of the play button, so it went to the youtube page in a full window (advantage also being you watch the video larger). Then, you can just close the window, unloading the flash control, and go to the next one.
Slashdot Mirror
I passed it back to the owner and went "eugh, how can you use that?!"
The same people who say MS is playing catchup with [other-os], and how it's about time they have features others have had for ages, tend to be the same people who accuse MS of only copying what others are doing and not coming up with anything themselves. Damned if do, damned if don't.
And of cause, not to mention all the things MS did that other desktops don't. When will KDE let me organise my menu's just by dragging and dropping within them, and not having to open up some seperate editor ala windows 95? Anyone wanna realise that MS has had much better preemptive multitasking long before Mac's even looked at moving away from cooperative multitasking, ala Win3.1?
At the end of the day, there's a pool of ideas, people put in, and people take out and use. MS put as many in as anybody does, even if preconceptions stop people from seeing this. How can this be anything but a Good Thing(tm)?
Nice. Heading for download right now. Tell me though, do transparent windows (or bits of windows) blur the contents behind them as vista does, so text behind doesn't make text in front unreadable? Transparency's nice, but you have to turn it off when you have more than one window with text open in front of each other. With vista, I can leave it turned on.
(I expect I'll be able to answer this myself shortly)
And stop JUMPING OUT AT ME when I try to click on that thing down there goddamn it!!! This is the number 1 thing that turned me off OSX (well, apart from the one button mouse thing... I like my other buttons & scrolling, they speed things up for me)
Because you do things in a way that benefits from virtual desktops. It's like saying you have to work in another language, not your native one; it's gonna slow you down. However, someone who's native language is that language isn't going to feel crippled in the slightest, because they don't need what you need. I, for example, have no use for virtual desktops, and so remove the pager from my desktop, because that's not the way I interface with the computer.
or me, who likes to alt+tab to winamp or MPC etc, then just use the scroll wheel (well, scroll bit of the pad) for changing the volume, then alt+tab back... all quickly without even having to wait for any visual feedback (like you would do if it involved moving the mouse).
Plus when it comes to virtual desktop/console type things, I don't like free spin... prefer something like alt+f1-f4 to switch, so you can jump straight to where you know your stuff is without waiting for visual feedback.
cuz most people don't work that way, and at worse, can be confused (on a level) by virtual desktops. The amount of people I see trying to move windows around the screen because they don't even alt+tab, or minimise windows, even when they know how, makes you realise that a lot of people out there cannot comprehend the extra dimensions.
I do too... I'm a fast user, and things like that just slow me down. I don't want menus to fade/slide in, same with dropdown boxes, tooltips etc.
However; MS have done rather well with Vista. The fades/etc are done with transparencies, using the graphics card -not- the main system, and so makes it look/feel nicer, without slowing me down at all. I'm not a big fan of MS's stuff in the slightest; I develop server software and refuse to touch windows for that (i develop on linux), but credit where credit's due, preconceptions aside, I was quite impressed, it is a really nice gui.
God knows the kick we all got out of drowning lara croft! We just can't help it!
I'm not saying you suffer from depression. I'm saying you're only finding the depressing things in "the big bad world" out there, at least in your last few posts. I'm not the "pot smoking love everbody hippy" that you mention just because I refuse to believe that the world/country is in the downward spin of alcoholism and violence, nor does it mean that I'm suffering from the need to grow up, a lack of confidence, or any kind of delusion.
It just means that I know enough good people out there to know that the people who will do things like, drive 70 miles to apply a pick axe handle to someone, are a very small minority, likely a decreasing minority, and does not reflect that our country must be going to hell and that we should collectively be ashamed of it.
I think the one thing the media is responsible more than anything is the spread of fear; fear of increasing levels of crime, increasing levels of terrorists, increasing levels of gonvernment control, when truth be known, we've never had it so good.
I stuck a DELETE.ME file on a CD-ROM :-D
Here's an interesting idea... perhaps the computer has --- *drum roll* --- more than one use!!!
"News Flash: Too much of anything is bad for you"
From the Department of Redundancy Department.
Of cause too much is bad for you; that's why it's called too much.
Pick axe handles don't kill people, the internet kills people (tubes are dangerous)
I'm guessing you were joking but... damn that's a tempting idea *lol*
haha, the fools, playing WoW when they could be posting on slashdot instead.
Um, how does "increasing chances or being friendly" = "no chance of being friendly without"? Once again, you're reading between the lines for anything depressing. I have no problem making friends, and I don't use drugs to make friends. The drugs many of my friends take affects their moods in positive, friendly, ways, as opposed to alcohol, which can make people aggressive. They work in different ways. But just because a drug can makes you friendlier, doesn't make you incapable of being friendly without.
/can/ ruin things for the most, leaving people end up with depressing views of the whole world, because they think that it's all as bad as a few people can make it.
"Rubbish! Binge drinking is on the increase"
It's rubbish that there are some areas where it's on the decrease, which is what I said? So what you're saying, is that *everywhere*, it's either going up or staying the same? That you couldn't find anywhere where it's going down? Well you hang out in all the wrong places dude.
"Please explain to me why, when I go into the town centre on a Saturday afternoon, every one of these pubs has a bouncer now?"
Because it only takes one person to ruin things for loads of other people, and bouncers can help deter that, or eject people who are ruining things for people. I have many friends who run nights in birmingham city center, who have people on the door to keep the few from ruining the night for the most. Get that? The *few*.
Without bouncers, the few
"Please stop with that "namby pamby" hippy rubbish"
I guess that's your real problem, you think that anything other than the depressing is "namby pamby hippy rubbish". There's a lot of good people out there. If you're having trouble finding any, then you need to re-evaluate where you're spending your time, and who you're spending it with.
That's a load of crap. Violence has always existed, what's on the increase is a) population, and b) reporting.
I live in britain, and go out every weekend with a huge group of friends, none of us violent or get into that kind of state... we're amongst a rising increase of people who take drugs that increase our likeliness of being friendly with each other. All statistics show that we are on the increase.
Binge drinking in many areas is starting to decrease, where the new 24hour licensing is available, people don't need to ram as much down their neck as quickly as possible.
"This is a really sad incident and we should be ashamed that it happened here"
We should hold shame to ourselves for the actions of another?
I think you're just looking for ways to be depressed about the world.
"who the hell owns a pick-axe nowadays?"
No one... but my god there's a scary amount of handles out there.
"Maybe you need to expand your imagination more - or relax your difinition of a hand"
Or maybe relax the definition of the word 'hammer' and call it that?
Or just not use misleading words and expect people to change what the word means to fit the fact you wanna call it something? If there are words that more accurately describe something, less ambigiously, they're the one's that you should use.
"how long untill google earth goes live"
I'd say, somewhere between a long long long long time, and never. First of all, you'd need cameras up in space capable of taking images of the entire planet (or at least the entire area you wish to see live), at a meaningful resolution (eg, 1 pixel per earth-surface-meter). That's a lot of pixels. Then you'd need to transfer all of that data to earth, requiring astronomical levels of bandwidth. That's assuming anyone would give google live satalite feeds in the first place.
Think it's to do with having too many flash controls open at once. I got round it by clicking the video outside of the play button, so it went to the youtube page in a full window (advantage also being you watch the video larger). Then, you can just close the window, unloading the flash control, and go to the next one.
The unprotected "open" girls get exploited and infected tho...
Yeah but wait til Google becomes too powerful, the only option we'll have to shut the computers down will be to black out the sky :-/
I think I heard a story about it once...
yeah, is kinda like 'not walking out in front of cars' huh!