And here I was looking forward to eating a nice curry on the moon. I had the wrong Indians all along.
Actually, Native Americans have been lying to Americans all along. When anyone else visits, they're treated to really amazing curry, which puts Southern Asia's to shame.
Nice headline! "250-Foot Hybrid Airship To Spy Over Afghanistan In" - in what? In November? In 2010? In next ten years? In mission to provide big target in sky? In huge ball of flames? In super-secret mission that no-one knows about?
Also, a big part of it is probably that most people don't actually learn the principles behind menus etc... they just memorise locations. If you're do that without any understanding of what organisation system you're using, then memorising the location in an entirely disorganised system will not seem any different to you.
I'm an IT consultant and across all the people I've deployed Office 2007 to, not one has had more then a handful of questions and zero complaints (at least with regard to the ribbon).
That's because most people are happy to use a word processor like it's a text editor with bold, italic, and fancy fonts.
How about a data mining application to scour through political speeches and legislative records to identify politicians most- and least-likely to support such a scheme?
"Such a scheme" meaning "terrorist cells", right?;)
I have used privoxy in the past, but it's slow, breaks sites, and just doesn't cut it these days. I would love a standard proxy that has adblock support, and have even thought of building one, but mostly I just think of browsers as a fundamental tool that should work well on its own these days.
2 weeks of my life wasted so I could save 1/4 second selecting my command.
I highly doubt that people save time using ribbons. Wading through many similar icons in random positions only to find that the option you want isn't there is hardly faster than drilling down through topic-oriented menus with standardised positions, until you find what is definitely there.
A dropdown menu in tabs is not a ribbon. Ribbons are separated by topic, and have little predictability in terms of option position between one tab and the next. Chrome simply does away with a main menu in favor of a simpler interface. Microsoft did not invent eschewing the Operating System's standard GUI, and it has nothing to do with ribbons.
Having a company be able to SEE any user's password should be a crime. Standard practice is that NOBODY, not even sysadmins can see it. They can change it but not see it.
That depends on who you ask. A LOT of IT organisations keep passwords around, since users just can't take their passwords seriously enough. With company data (or any other data really) encrypted using passwords/keys, it's not simply a matter of resetting the password and continuing as if nothing had happened.
Putting features in front of the user rather than 3 to 4 deep in a menu system is far more intuitive.
You need a (credible) reference for this.
In fact I think the office ribbon layout is due to a massive amount of consumer research on Microsoft's Behalf. (I cant find a reference for that right now).
Not this. And microsoft's own consumer research on something it implemented is not valid. I could (but won't) argue that Microsoft may have implemented the ribbon purely to distinguish its products from the similar-but-free OpenOffice.
You could even go and buy Z80 compatible cores for US$ 0,95 each. That would get you more than 8000 cores for under 8K.
Pfft. If you shop around, you can get many palettes full of old Apples for that. Each one of them has a core, AND you can keep you horse happy for a month.
Thankfully, I'm sure there will be a theme or add-on to fix this GUI abortion.
Yes. I imagine it'll be called EpiphanyForWindows, WebkitFF3Theme, FirefoxLite, or something similar. Chances are though, that the Firefox project itself will just plough ahead with this stupid idea, and ignore everyone who disagrees. Any project that fixes it is likely to be a third-party effort.
Whatever. I'm just waiting for a stable version of Chrome that has adblock support.
That is also the problem. Everyone adds pieces and eventually it starts to become a mess. Then someone else should fix it
This is also called refactoring. Most rapid software development usually works on the approach of adding separate peripheral features, seeing what those features have in common (where the bloat is), and refactoring to make it all work better together, thus establishing a more featureful core framework.
"Hi, doctor? I read this article about your hospital on slashdot.org, and I'm worried about whether I should continue giving you my medical vouchers, or if I should take my money to another hospital? What's that? Oh, you don't have the internet in a big place like that? When I've had it for years and it tells me really important stuff like not to use your hospital because it's not safe? OK, I think I'll try the other hospital then. Bye.";)
Spoke to a marine biologist friend who thinks the iStraw is more of a health hazard that'll contaminate water than a purification option. Just read all the caveats on the site.
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Whether it is common enough to assume presence is not clear at all. What's clear is that we didn't assume it.
Actually, Native Americans have been lying to Americans all along. When anyone else visits, they're treated to really amazing curry, which puts Southern Asia's to shame.
In the Baghdad Comedy Club, for two nights only.
Monsieur, with zeese Imperial Probe Droids, you're really spoiling us.
Also, a big part of it is probably that most people don't actually learn the principles behind menus etc... they just memorise locations. If you're do that without any understanding of what organisation system you're using, then memorising the location in an entirely disorganised system will not seem any different to you.
That's because most people are happy to use a word processor like it's a text editor with bold, italic, and fancy fonts.
"Such a scheme" meaning "terrorist cells", right? ;)
I have used privoxy in the past, but it's slow, breaks sites, and just doesn't cut it these days. I would love a standard proxy that has adblock support, and have even thought of building one, but mostly I just think of browsers as a fundamental tool that should work well on its own these days.
I highly doubt that people save time using ribbons. Wading through many similar icons in random positions only to find that the option you want isn't there is hardly faster than drilling down through topic-oriented menus with standardised positions, until you find what is definitely there.
A dropdown menu in tabs is not a ribbon. Ribbons are separated by topic, and have little predictability in terms of option position between one tab and the next. Chrome simply does away with a main menu in favor of a simpler interface. Microsoft did not invent eschewing the Operating System's standard GUI, and it has nothing to do with ribbons.
That depends on who you ask. A LOT of IT organisations keep passwords around, since users just can't take their passwords seriously enough. With company data (or any other data really) encrypted using passwords/keys, it's not simply a matter of resetting the password and continuing as if nothing had happened.
No it doesn't. Not everything that lacks a menu is a ribbon. And watch your tone next time.
You need a (credible) reference for this.
Not this. And microsoft's own consumer research on something it implemented is not valid. I could (but won't) argue that Microsoft may have implemented the ribbon purely to distinguish its products from the similar-but-free OpenOffice.
Pfft. If you shop around, you can get many palettes full of old Apples for that. Each one of them has a core, AND you can keep you horse happy for a month.
Yes. I imagine it'll be called EpiphanyForWindows, WebkitFF3Theme, FirefoxLite, or something similar. Chances are though, that the Firefox project itself will just plough ahead with this stupid idea, and ignore everyone who disagrees. Any project that fixes it is likely to be a third-party effort.
Whatever. I'm just waiting for a stable version of Chrome that has adblock support.
What do you think it's for?
This is also called refactoring. Most rapid software development usually works on the approach of adding separate peripheral features, seeing what those features have in common (where the bloat is), and refactoring to make it all work better together, thus establishing a more featureful core framework.
"Hi, doctor? I read this article about your hospital on slashdot.org, and I'm worried about whether I should continue giving you my medical vouchers, or if I should take my money to another hospital? What's that? Oh, you don't have the internet in a big place like that? When I've had it for years and it tells me really important stuff like not to use your hospital because it's not safe? OK, I think I'll try the other hospital then. Bye." ;)
Are you referring to patches (which should be free), or ribbons (which should not be)? ;)
Except when you're mandated to provide general internet access.
Of course space is a series of tubes too. How else do you think we got Interplanetary Internet on the ISS?
Actually, that was a typo in the manual of the sales demo. If you read the errata on the product you bought, you'll see that the word is "colonic".
Uhh, we're not all psycho-privacy-invaders with no ability to let go and move on, you insensitive clod.
I believe that would be an unsecured cargo bay.
Spoke to a marine biologist friend who thinks the iStraw is more of a health hazard that'll contaminate water than a purification option. Just read all the caveats on the site.