I've been testing the next release of the "unnamed proprietary operating system" in question, and I have to say that a great deal of the eye candy goes a long way to making things easier. Getting a live preview of a window if you hover over its taskbar button or flip between windows is a nice feature, as I constantly have a ton of windows open in the same app. Being able to move a window around without spiking the CPU to 60%+ is another subtle but nice benefit. In my testing of this release I've found that the UI is more responsive and smooth when the compositor is active versus when I have it switched off. This is on a 945 chipset's integrated graphics, too - you don't need a GeForce 7800GTXOMGBBQ in order to run the new UI smoothly.
Motorola's RAZR V3i (announced yesterday) would have likely been a better debut for iTunes on a cell phone. People know the RAZR, it's a very attractive device, and I think with the RAZR's current popularity that probably would have made more sense.
Sure, IE 6 gives you the ability to move the menu bar to where it's situated in IE 7, but at least it defaults to the standard positioning. IE 7 is positioning the menu bar in a very strange location by default. While it's not quite as bad as putting the menu on the right side a la Netscape 8, it's still not consistent with XP's standard user interface.
I know this is a beta, but I am not a fan of this screwy UI at all, ESPECIALLY on XP. The menu placement is awful and totally inconsistent with the rest of the system (even with MS Office). This will confuse scores and scores of XP users.
Windows only. There are rumors of a Linux version, but I don't know if that'll work out. It's just too tied to the IE engine. I guess they assume you'll just use Firefox.
With XUL they shouldn't have had a problem implementing the interface on other platforms (Mac would have caused problems, I'm sure). I think IE is ultimately the tie that binds NS 8 exclusively to the Windows desktop.
Besides, I think it's a safe assumption a lot of Linux users have migrated to Firefox and are aware of what it is. I wonder how many Linux users still use a Netscape-branded product after Mozilla and Firefox.
Coming from the administration that pushes the USA PATRIOT Act as a safeguard of liberty, hiring somebody who I'm sure has plenty of experience tiptoing around privacy rights in the Homeland Security Department is hardly unprecedented.
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I've been testing the next release of the "unnamed proprietary operating system" in question, and I have to say that a great deal of the eye candy goes a long way to making things easier. Getting a live preview of a window if you hover over its taskbar button or flip between windows is a nice feature, as I constantly have a ton of windows open in the same app. Being able to move a window around without spiking the CPU to 60%+ is another subtle but nice benefit. In my testing of this release I've found that the UI is more responsive and smooth when the compositor is active versus when I have it switched off. This is on a 945 chipset's integrated graphics, too - you don't need a GeForce 7800GTXOMGBBQ in order to run the new UI smoothly.
Dreamhost is offering Subversion now on their hosting plans. I haven't tried it out yet but they've been excellent with hosting my Web sites.
He should sue Match.com; their failure to provide him a good date put him in that situation.
Motorola's RAZR V3i (announced yesterday) would have likely been a better debut for iTunes on a cell phone. People know the RAZR, it's a very attractive device, and I think with the RAZR's current popularity that probably would have made more sense.
Sure, IE 6 gives you the ability to move the menu bar to where it's situated in IE 7, but at least it defaults to the standard positioning. IE 7 is positioning the menu bar in a very strange location by default. While it's not quite as bad as putting the menu on the right side a la Netscape 8, it's still not consistent with XP's standard user interface.
I know this is a beta, but I am not a fan of this screwy UI at all, ESPECIALLY on XP. The menu placement is awful and totally inconsistent with the rest of the system (even with MS Office). This will confuse scores and scores of XP users.
Windows only. There are rumors of a Linux version, but I don't know if that'll work out. It's just too tied to the IE engine. I guess they assume you'll just use Firefox.
With XUL they shouldn't have had a problem implementing the interface on other platforms (Mac would have caused problems, I'm sure). I think IE is ultimately the tie that binds NS 8 exclusively to the Windows desktop. Besides, I think it's a safe assumption a lot of Linux users have migrated to Firefox and are aware of what it is. I wonder how many Linux users still use a Netscape-branded product after Mozilla and Firefox.
Coming from the administration that pushes the USA PATRIOT Act as a safeguard of liberty, hiring somebody who I'm sure has plenty of experience tiptoing around privacy rights in the Homeland Security Department is hardly unprecedented.