if you get Enterprise edition of MSFT Vista you are required by contract to ONLY rent software, you can't own it, for all apps from MSFT, so that they can pull the plug on all your apps all at once.
This is insidious. Kind of like "oh, my domain has expired" and then not just the site but your entire workplaces worldwide for your corporations goes dark and you can't even email MSFT.
I like that you can set FF to prompt you on whether or not to accept site cookies and then set your choice as a rule. However, every now and then you find a site where denying cookies won't allow you to browse properly.
It would be nice to have an OPTIONAL site list of approved sites that will keep cookies when you flush all the other cruft - for example, I tend to keep yahoo cookies but some sub-site cookies at like poll.seattlepi.com should be flushed as they just gum things up after a while.
But because you've already set a rule to deny all cookies for the site, you have to go to tools->options->privacy->cookies->options, scroll through the list, and change the rule. To my knowledge, there isn't anywhere on the browser or tab (e.g., an icon in a corner) where you can double-click to view and/or change cookie behavior for the currently viewed page. Too bad. -- Paul
Or right-click (if you checked an option) and select Open With Cookies Allowed For Site.
It's also odd he mentioned that Firefox should retain the last URL when opening a new window - this is perhaps the IE feature I hate the most, with a passion. Often I'm simply viewing a large site and want to spawn a clean window (since there are no tabs) - it has to reload the whole thing over again.
I also wish IE didn't ALWAYS remember the last URL, as it has a bad habit of autocompleting the WRONG frickin URL. But it would be nice if this was an option, if it ever is implemented in Firefox, selected via the checkbox and/or a right-click option. But not normally a default option.
I have to agree with the bottom browser placement of the find box, and the elimination of the "go" menu. I have NEVER scene anyone use that.
I don't agree with a find box on the bottom, but I too have never ever used - or seen someone use - the "go" menu. What a waste.
Though I disagree with his take on tabs. I love having a blank tab, because I often prefer typing a URL (or at leat the first few characters) to using the mouse for drop down in my bookmarks. Bookmarks work great if you only have a few, but I tend to bookmark interesting sites that I won't visit frequently, but I nevertheless find interesting.
I'm of two minds on tabs - sometimes I want a fresh tab - faster - sometimes I want a moldy tab - remembers history. Wish there was a checkbox to turn on History Tab option, so I could do both as a right-click choice.
I never book my frequent sites, my browsing goes like this: slas, cnn, coa, espn, nfl, never takes more than 4 characters to get to where I go most often. If I were to scroll through my bookmark list it takes considerably longer. So for my usage firefox work the best.
I always book my sites, and have bookmark folders for things like Media, UW, my job - and then use the links there. But sometimes I type them. Proper folder org is critical if you bookmark and use it.
Though I would like a little button nextto the URL bar to instantly clear it like in Konq. That makes it much easier in Linux to copy and paste URLS. A pet peeve i have is selecting a URL with the mouse,and going to the browser to "midde click" paste and having the URL automatically become selected, thus wiping out the X windows clipboard. Yes I know I can usually use the seperate cntl-c / cntl-v but that requires switching from mouse to keyboard and back....
I too frequently mess up the copy/paste of bookmarks, especially when I'm emailing in webpine, since I want to send the real URL or a URL link, but not all twenty-five URL links cause only one or two are important. This is a major problem of mine, and sometimes I mess up the ctrl-c / ctrl-v paste and nuke my link in the bar, which is a royal pain for secure sites as sometimes that expires me.
I have to agree with the bottom browser placement of the find box, and the elimination of the "go" menu. I have NEVER scene anyone use that.
I don't agree with a find box on the bottom, but I too have never ever used - or seen someone use - the "go" menu. What a waste.
Though I disagree with his take on tabs. I love having a blank tab, because I often prefer typing a URL (or at leat the first few characters) to using the mouse for drop down in my bookmarks. Bookmarks work great if you only have a few, but I tend to bookmark interesting sites that I won't visit frequently, but I nevertheless find interesting.
I'm of two minds on tabs - sometimes I want a fresh tab - faster - sometimes I want a moldy tab - remembers history. Wish there was a checkbox to turn on History Tab option, so I could do both as a right-click choice.
I never book my frequent sites, my browsing goes like this: slas, cnn, coa, espn, nfl, never takes more than 4 characters to get to where I go most often. If I were to scroll through my bookmark list it takes considerably longer. So for my usage firefox work the best.
I always book my sites, and have bookmark folders for things like Media, UW, my job - and then use the links there. But sometimes I type them. Proper folder org is critical if you bookmark and use it.
Though I would like a little button nextto the URL bar to instantly clear it like in Konq. That makes it much easier in Linux to copy and paste URLS. A pet peeve i have is selecting a URL with the mouse,and going to the browser to "midde click" paste and having the URL automatically become selected, thus wiping out the X windows clipboard. Yes I know I can usually use the seperate cntl-c / cntl-v but that requires switching from mouse to keyboard and back....
I too frequently mess up the copy/paste of bookmarks, especially when I'm emailing in webpine, since I want to send the real URL or a URL link, but not all twenty-five URL links cause only one or two are important. This is a major problem of mine, and sometimes I mess up the ctrl-c / ctrl-v paste and nuke my link in the bar, which is a royal pain for secure sites as sometimes that expires me.
So now that it's found, we're gonna piss n moan over who did the finding? Yeah if they stole data, shame on them, but in the end what does it matter?
The discoverer(s) get to name the object. When it's something close and important like that, it's a big deal.
It's like me discovering a tree in your yard that you've been watering for years, and getting to hang a plaque on it calling it "Ygdrassil". Especially since you've been thinking of it as "Bilboa" for all those years. And you have to keep seeing that plaque all the time, and hearing your neighbors talk about "Why Ygdrassil is looking nice today". It would bother you quite a bit. Especially when I show up in the paper next to your tree and on the evening news and they never mention you or it being your tree.
We were just discussing in our lab, yesterday, how a scientist at a conference in Florence (Firenze) had forgotten to acknowledge work a number of other scientists had done before that led to a discovery "he" made, which noone called him on, but that was being talked about afterwards, since some of the people who did the original work were in the same room as the presenter, and most attending knew it.
The astronomers should have claimed the discovery and given credit for the US observations to the US team. Or written the paper and offered a co-authorship. Going for the full credit just blows up in your face. Even the discovers of DNA have a cloudy history, since they didn't include a competing colleague who was the source of their data and kept them from incorrect conclusions.
How come none of you goofballs has asked the important question yet: does this new interface work with standards-compliant browsers, or is this just more crap that will require Internet Explorer?
That's a very good question.
I had problems getting the Yahoo! Radio and Yahoo! Music working on either Opera or Firefox, had to install a plugin for Firefox to almost work with them.
So if this new email means it doesn't work with Firefox, or at least Opera (on non-IE format), then I can't see using the new version.
And that goes for my $400K in investments that I manage with the Yahoo portfolio right now. I'll switch rather than fight - to another provider.
You already get that with Yahoo! Messenger. I've done long-distance web chat with tallgirl in NYC and I live in Seattle, including the webcam traffic, and all over a basic 11b/g wireless setup (and she's on - get this - DIALUP!!!)
then patent it and sue the heck out of them so that they will be crushed utterly.
Re:Uhhh, Mr. Gates? Unix? Multics, fer chrissake?
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"Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. So it's not like there was capability and our software did not. As we use the Internet to connect everyone up, then the need to essentially have suspicion and only listen to certain other systems, and if flaws come up to have those updated very quickly, that became a new requirement."
Yeah, I for one remember writing multi-user software at SFU back in the early 1980s. Maybe BillG is right and my entire existence will vanish in a puff of illogic... nah.
have to admit that the ONLY time I use cuddled else statements is when it's a DEBUG statement, so that they stand out and run on one line.
if ($DEBUG eq "Y") { print "OMFG/n"; } else { print "whew, missed that bullet/n"; };
the rest of the time, uncuddled else statements make it easier to follow the logic flow.
if ($foo) {
if ($foo > 2)
{
if ($bar)
{
if ($bar eq "open")
{
print "spend money";
}
else
{
print "take home paycheck";
}
}
else
{
print "no bar in this town";
}
}
else
{
print "not enuf to buy bheer";
} } else {
print "no foo means no bar"; }
Well until they invent a dog simulation which has them behaving neurotically, rolling on their backs and pissing on themselves, eating their own feces, destroying garbage cans that professional garbage men can't, and figuring out how to turn door knobs to open pantry doors then I can't really say they are lifelike.
I think that's for the xBox, not the Nintendo DS.
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The only thing I wish for is that the dogs could grow up. I always thought it was fun watching that happen in older games like Dogz.
Maybe you'll be able to import your Nintendog into a Nintendog Show game for the new Nintendo platform when it comes out.
Makes sense, as you have to have a DS to play it, so it would encourage people to buy both and "trade" dogs or take them for the "dog show circuit" for extra training.
If not Cubicleman, then Death by Furriness
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A non-game game where you enter numbers into spreadsheet cells. Sounds like non-fun to me.
Way better than Yet Another FPS that seems to be all the industry cranks out now.
Obviously if Nintendo can make such a game with dogs, they can also do the same with cats, mice, rats, rabbits. Taking some of these for a walk might be a problem, although I did have a neighbour who used to keep a cat indoors in her flat and take it out for a walk while on a leash.
While it is possible to train your cat to use the toilet - in fact, a friend publicized how she trained hers to do that - it's not very common to take cats for walks, and in some cases dangerous.
I would aim for having a simulation of catwalks indoors, where you build cat-scratching posts and walkways up near the ceiling, as those are much easier to interact with. And perhaps do the old ball on a string, fluff on a string cat games.
Err, hybrids are anything but cheap. Ford is also one of the big players in the hybrid market.
As even a casual reader of the Wall Street Journal could tell you, the hybrids that Ford is pushing are hand-turned, not mass production like Toyota. I think Honda licensed the tech from them, and possibly some of the new GM hybrids are using this higher-thruput hybrid production.
Which is why the Ford hybrids are so much more expensive. Automation is cheaper.
Pretty much Toyota is betting the farm on hybrids, and so is Honda, but none of the Big Three are.
Look, I've probably fired more rounds than many people, having qual'd as a sharpshooter on three weapons in the Army, but I think IMHO that frags-per-round is just a temporary thing, in that gaming is already showing signs of getting bored with the preponderance of FPS.
My guess is pets per hour, or here-boys-per-hour, in Nintendogs is likely to be a more useful stat over the next few years, as gaming - again, as it always does - moves on to the next best thing.
you have to remember the system requirements and the drag to replace things, that plus the world market for the OS.
It's like Ford/GM/etc pushing bigger SUVs on a market that is dealing with gas prices doubling in months, while someone else (Toyota/Honda) is selling cheaper faster hybrids that are mass-manufactured.
At some point, the OS price and the total price point goes beyond what the consumer is willing to pay - nowadays it's all about the Net bandwidth and you're frequently better off buying a cheap laptop or PC or just using the PS3 or Nintento whatever instead.
When PCs and laptops cost $2000 for entry and $4000 for premium, the OS cost was only a fraction, and you could raise the OS price and people would eat it up. But now that the PC retails for around $300 and a laptop comes in around $1000, the OS cost becomes noticeable.
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if you get Enterprise edition of MSFT Vista you are required by contract to ONLY rent software, you can't own it, for all apps from MSFT, so that they can pull the plug on all your apps all at once.
This is insidious. Kind of like "oh, my domain has expired" and then not just the site but your entire workplaces worldwide for your corporations goes dark and you can't even email MSFT.
I like that you can set FF to prompt you on whether or not to accept site cookies and then set your choice as a rule. However, every now and then you find a site where denying cookies won't allow you to browse properly.
It would be nice to have an OPTIONAL site list of approved sites that will keep cookies when you flush all the other cruft - for example, I tend to keep yahoo cookies but some sub-site cookies at like poll.seattlepi.com should be flushed as they just gum things up after a while.
But because you've already set a rule to deny all cookies for the site, you have to go to tools->options->privacy->cookies->options, scroll through the list, and change the rule. To my knowledge, there isn't anywhere on the browser or tab (e.g., an icon in a corner) where you can double-click to view and/or change cookie behavior for the currently viewed page. Too bad. -- Paul
Or right-click (if you checked an option) and select Open With Cookies Allowed For Site.
It's also odd he mentioned that Firefox should retain the last URL when opening a new window - this is perhaps the IE feature I hate the most, with a passion. Often I'm simply viewing a large site and want to spawn a clean window (since there are no tabs) - it has to reload the whole thing over again.
I also wish IE didn't ALWAYS remember the last URL, as it has a bad habit of autocompleting the WRONG frickin URL. But it would be nice if this was an option, if it ever is implemented in Firefox, selected via the checkbox and/or a right-click option. But not normally a default option.
I have to agree with the bottom browser placement of the find box, and the elimination of the "go" menu. I have NEVER scene anyone use that.
I don't agree with a find box on the bottom, but I too have never ever used - or seen someone use - the "go" menu. What a waste.
Though I disagree with his take on tabs. I love having a blank tab, because I often prefer typing a URL (or at leat the first few characters) to using the mouse for drop down in my bookmarks. Bookmarks work great if you only have a few, but I tend to bookmark interesting sites that I won't visit frequently, but I nevertheless find interesting.
I'm of two minds on tabs - sometimes I want a fresh tab - faster - sometimes I want a moldy tab - remembers history. Wish there was a checkbox to turn on History Tab option, so I could do both as a right-click choice.
I never book my frequent sites, my browsing goes like this: slas, cnn, coa, espn, nfl, never takes more than 4 characters to get to where I go most often. If I were to scroll through my bookmark list it takes considerably longer. So for my usage firefox work the best.
I always book my sites, and have bookmark folders for things like Media, UW, my job - and then use the links there. But sometimes I type them. Proper folder org is critical if you bookmark and use it.
Though I would like a little button nextto the URL bar to instantly clear it like in Konq. That makes it much easier in Linux to copy and paste URLS. A pet peeve i have is selecting a URL with the mouse,and going to the browser to "midde click" paste and having the URL automatically become selected, thus wiping out the X windows clipboard. Yes I know I can usually use the seperate cntl-c / cntl-v but that requires switching from mouse to keyboard and back....
I too frequently mess up the copy/paste of bookmarks, especially when I'm emailing in webpine, since I want to send the real URL or a URL link, but not all twenty-five URL links cause only one or two are important. This is a major problem of mine, and sometimes I mess up the ctrl-c / ctrl-v paste and nuke my link in the bar, which is a royal pain for secure sites as sometimes that expires me.
I have to agree with the bottom browser placement of the find box, and the elimination of the "go" menu. I have NEVER scene anyone use that.
I don't agree with a find box on the bottom, but I too have never ever used - or seen someone use - the "go" menu. What a waste.
Though I disagree with his take on tabs. I love having a blank tab, because I often prefer typing a URL (or at leat the first few characters) to using the mouse for drop down in my bookmarks. Bookmarks work great if you only have a few, but I tend to bookmark interesting sites that I won't visit frequently, but I nevertheless find interesting.
I'm of two minds on tabs - sometimes I want a fresh tab - faster - sometimes I want a moldy tab - remembers history. Wish there was a checkbox to turn on History Tab option, so I could do both as a right-click choice.
I never book my frequent sites, my browsing goes like this: slas, cnn, coa, espn, nfl, never takes more than 4 characters to get to where I go most often. If I were to scroll through my bookmark list it takes considerably longer. So for my usage firefox work the best.
I always book my sites, and have bookmark folders for things like Media, UW, my job - and then use the links there. But sometimes I type them. Proper folder org is critical if you bookmark and use it.
Though I would like a little button nextto the URL bar to instantly clear it like in Konq. That makes it much easier in Linux to copy and paste URLS. A pet peeve i have is selecting a URL with the mouse,and going to the browser to "midde click" paste and having the URL automatically become selected, thus wiping out the X windows clipboard. Yes I know I can usually use the seperate cntl-c / cntl-v but that requires switching from mouse to keyboard and back....
I too frequently mess up the copy/paste of bookmarks, especially when I'm emailing in webpine, since I want to send the real URL or a URL link, but not all twenty-five URL links cause only one or two are important. This is a major problem of mine, and sometimes I mess up the ctrl-c / ctrl-v paste and nuke my link in the bar, which is a royal pain for secure sites as sometimes that expires me.
So now that it's found, we're gonna piss n moan over who did the finding? Yeah if they stole data, shame on them, but in the end what does it matter?
The discoverer(s) get to name the object. When it's something close and important like that, it's a big deal.
It's like me discovering a tree in your yard that you've been watering for years, and getting to hang a plaque on it calling it "Ygdrassil". Especially since you've been thinking of it as "Bilboa" for all those years. And you have to keep seeing that plaque all the time, and hearing your neighbors talk about "Why Ygdrassil is looking nice today". It would bother you quite a bit. Especially when I show up in the paper next to your tree and on the evening news and they never mention you or it being your tree.
We were just discussing in our lab, yesterday, how a scientist at a conference in Florence (Firenze) had forgotten to acknowledge work a number of other scientists had done before that led to a discovery "he" made, which noone called him on, but that was being talked about afterwards, since some of the people who did the original work were in the same room as the presenter, and most attending knew it.
The astronomers should have claimed the discovery and given credit for the US observations to the US team. Or written the paper and offered a co-authorship. Going for the full credit just blows up in your face. Even the discovers of DNA have a cloudy history, since they didn't include a competing colleague who was the source of their data and kept them from incorrect conclusions.
But that's just my opinion.
How come none of you goofballs has asked the important question yet: does this new interface work with standards-compliant browsers, or is this just more crap that will require Internet Explorer?
That's a very good question.
I had problems getting the Yahoo! Radio and Yahoo! Music working on either Opera or Firefox, had to install a plugin for Firefox to almost work with them.
So if this new email means it doesn't work with Firefox, or at least Opera (on non-IE format), then I can't see using the new version.
And that goes for my $400K in investments that I manage with the Yahoo portfolio right now. I'll switch rather than fight - to another provider.
Without user created chat rooms, it's nuthin'.
You already get that with Yahoo! Messenger. I've done long-distance web chat with tallgirl in NYC and I live in Seattle, including the webcam traffic, and all over a basic 11b/g wireless setup (and she's on - get this - DIALUP!!!)
Who needs chat rooms when you already have it?
I for one would be willing to switch to it just for that extra capability.
Mind you, I've got something like ten email accounts.
then patent it and sue the heck out of them so that they will be crushed utterly.
"Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. So it's not like there was capability and our software did not. As we use the Internet to connect everyone up, then the need to essentially have suspicion and only listen to certain other systems, and if flaws come up to have those updated very quickly, that became a new requirement."
... nah.
Yeah, I for one remember writing multi-user software at SFU back in the early 1980s. Maybe BillG is right and my entire existence will vanish in a puff of illogic
too many new millionaires that don't work for him taking up the really good suites at the tech shows.
My guess is that the corporate concept of "Do No Evil" is what's keeping Dr. Bill singing the praises of his Mac-borrowed Office.
There's a reason why it's gun-metal grey.
Well until they invent a dog simulation which has them behaving neurotically, rolling on their backs and pissing on themselves, eating their own feces, destroying garbage cans that professional garbage men can't, and figuring out how to turn door knobs to open pantry doors then I can't really say they are lifelike.
I think that's for the xBox, not the Nintendo DS.
The only thing I wish for is that the dogs could grow up. I always thought it was fun watching that happen in older games like Dogz.
Maybe you'll be able to import your Nintendog into a Nintendog Show game for the new Nintendo platform when it comes out.
Makes sense, as you have to have a DS to play it, so it would encourage people to buy both and "trade" dogs or take them for the "dog show circuit" for extra training.
A non-game game where you enter numbers into spreadsheet cells. Sounds like non-fun to me.
Way better than Yet Another FPS that seems to be all the industry cranks out now.
Obviously if Nintendo can make such a game with dogs, they can also do the same with cats, mice, rats, rabbits. Taking some of these for a walk might be a problem, although I did have a neighbour who used to keep a cat indoors in her flat and take it out for a walk while on a leash.
While it is possible to train your cat to use the toilet - in fact, a friend publicized how she trained hers to do that - it's not very common to take cats for walks, and in some cases dangerous.
I would aim for having a simulation of catwalks indoors, where you build cat-scratching posts and walkways up near the ceiling, as those are much easier to interact with. And perhaps do the old ball on a string, fluff on a string cat games.
Err, hybrids are anything but cheap. Ford is also one of the big players in the hybrid market.
As even a casual reader of the Wall Street Journal could tell you, the hybrids that Ford is pushing are hand-turned, not mass production like Toyota. I think Honda licensed the tech from them, and possibly some of the new GM hybrids are using this higher-thruput hybrid production.
Which is why the Ford hybrids are so much more expensive. Automation is cheaper.
Pretty much Toyota is betting the farm on hybrids, and so is Honda, but none of the Big Three are.
i found it on TigerDirect - think it's www.tigerdirect.com, originally from a /. header link.
Look under flash cards or MP3 and then select on the left side combinations or something like that.
Today they had a 1GB combo for $49.99.
But since I have one, am holding out till Xmas when I'll get another one for my son.
Well, if we can't get teleportation, then jetpacks would be cool, especially if we use them to fly up to our zeppelins.
just saw a 1GB advertised for $49.99 on TigerDirect this morning.
as I said, your mileage may vary.
Look, I've probably fired more rounds than many people, having qual'd as a sharpshooter on three weapons in the Army, but I think IMHO that frags-per-round is just a temporary thing, in that gaming is already showing signs of getting bored with the preponderance of FPS.
My guess is pets per hour, or here-boys-per-hour, in Nintendogs is likely to be a more useful stat over the next few years, as gaming - again, as it always does - moves on to the next best thing.
you have to remember the system requirements and the drag to replace things, that plus the world market for the OS.
It's like Ford/GM/etc pushing bigger SUVs on a market that is dealing with gas prices doubling in months, while someone else (Toyota/Honda) is selling cheaper faster hybrids that are mass-manufactured.
At some point, the OS price and the total price point goes beyond what the consumer is willing to pay - nowadays it's all about the Net bandwidth and you're frequently better off buying a cheap laptop or PC or just using the PS3 or Nintento whatever instead.
When PCs and laptops cost $2000 for entry and $4000 for premium, the OS cost was only a fraction, and you could raise the OS price and people would eat it up. But now that the PC retails for around $300 and a laptop comes in around $1000, the OS cost becomes noticeable.