I've seen both when they don't make sense (at least to me), but Ubuntu's are few are far between, whereas Vista's are just.. a bit too often.
A lot of the Vista ones are due to having to elevate programs to admin permissions else they don't work. Obvious argument is that it's the program at fault, but if MS had sorted user rights out earlier then said programs would have been programmed with proper permissions.
So unless you use a small screen, such as that of an older PC or a subnotebook PC, why would you use maximized windows with a web browser?
Poor eyesight?
I increase the text size of all pages, just because it makes it easier on my eyes. Maximized windows means I get to see more of the easier to read content.
Because they don't read sci-fi? I never did as a child, yet consider myself a geek. I've always read a lot, but never found any sci-fi books that really dragged me in.
What got me into tech were the movies depicting tech. Star Wars (IV), Tron, Wargames and Back to the Future (I). Playing with Lego and Mechano while watching them blew me away.
All the while I read a huge amount. Mostly fantasy, crime and horror. When I wasn't reading, I was probably either watching sci-fi movies, or playing games or creating text adventures on my Speccy.
As anyone who reads this is probably aware, shit changes - espically in the world of tech. Where we once read, we now may watch or listen instead. In another time slashdot may have been a newspaper with comments fueled by readers snail-mail. But it ain't.
If you don't think viewing sci-fi in other media makes you geeky enough, then start telegramming in your punch-card comments.
Is advertising that powerful? I'll admit I haven't used Vista a lot, but there doesn't seem to be any improvement over XP. The blind test was a nice idea, but I'm guessing are used to a fairly stable, fairly usable OS.. sorta like XP.
Vista is a service pack to XP. Apple has the right idea here. Get a decent base, then release updates of that. The difference is, Apple release them pretty much as updates to their core and advertise it as such - Microsoft do the same thing, but say it's all new.
I don't have anything aganist MS, but Vista was a non-starter. Despite the money they've put into it, I think they'd be better moving on and just trying to brush Vista under the carpet. I'm unsure how much mainstream press Vista's downfalls have had, but two years of bitching is going to be hard to just throw advertising at.
A bottling plant on Mars would make crazy money. "Don't drink earth water, drink E.T water!" (even more if they pluralize that and convince people alien urine will give them super health).
And then the Mars company will give everyone hell for calling it Mars Water.
It's damned ugly at the moment. The announcement on the front page of the app currently states:
We're putting finishing touches to Wordscraper, it will only get better!
Look/feel will be updated tomorrow as there are minor issues that we are working on.
From all the press they've been getting about it, I'm guessing the makers are getting a lot of feedback about the UI, and will only be a matter of time 'til they prettify it.
The Scrabulous site has a practice version available which allows you to play by yourself or against a computer. I'm guessing Wordscaper will have the same thing once they fix themselves up.
It died earlier sometime this morning (had the facebook app version of a 404), then reappeared this afternoon. I tried out the Wordscaper app, but really can't get used to the circular tiles. Surely just changing the special placements (double words and such) around would fix any issues with Scrabble - square tiles on.. well, squares surely wouldn't get them in more troubles.
On July 16, for instance, he filed a complaint alleging that the Mossad, the CIA and "Larry King Live" conspired to "hijack my torso, three toes, and my constitutional rights and ship them to a secret headquarters in Concord, NH," as well as inserted microchips and "dashing my hopes." He accuses Larry King of being "a voodoo witch doctor who stole my identity on February 25th, 2003 and purchased lead paint, Chips Ahoy!, Planter's Peanuts, and Ziploc bags under my identity. Distributed them to the CIA to microwave test my DNA."
For example, one line states "Why not program some stripped down embedded system for that task?" when it doesn't even indicate what version of Windows the system he's talking about use
Does it matter? The fact it's running a Windows OS with GUI is bad enough. Seriously.
I ran into my first ATM which ran windows about 2001. I only knew 'cus it crashed and showed the desktop. About that time, I'm guessing they'd be using '98. That same OS I used to show my friend how to hack his way around hisparental controls.
I've seen like five ATM's in similar states since, only three dead enough to show their desktops mind. One of them had solitare on the desktop (wish I was joking)!
I musta missed that, taking the time to bold the questioners comments and all. I was making a play on the linux-never-crashes-for-anyone-ever, but too much wine might have attributed to my poor delivery. My apologies.
Slashdot Mirror
I've seen both when they don't make sense (at least to me), but Ubuntu's are few are far between, whereas Vista's are just.. a bit too often.
A lot of the Vista ones are due to having to elevate programs to admin permissions else they don't work. Obvious argument is that it's the program at fault, but if MS had sorted user rights out earlier then said programs would have been programmed with proper permissions.
The bad smell only occurs when using Vista on a Mac. OS X produces the stench of rainbows, roses and women farts.
The Gaping Coffee scandal!
Tree Style Tab for Firefox.
Poor eyesight?
I increase the text size of all pages, just because it makes it easier on my eyes. Maximized windows means I get to see more of the easier to read content.
What's really gonna get you later, once you cap your limit, is the amount of bandwidth you wasted making such a pointless comment.
Those are not geeks.
Because they don't read sci-fi? I never did as a child, yet consider myself a geek. I've always read a lot, but never found any sci-fi books that really dragged me in.
What got me into tech were the movies depicting tech. Star Wars (IV), Tron, Wargames and Back to the Future (I). Playing with Lego and Mechano while watching them blew me away.
All the while I read a huge amount. Mostly fantasy, crime and horror. When I wasn't reading, I was probably either watching sci-fi movies, or playing games or creating text adventures on my Speccy.
As anyone who reads this is probably aware, shit changes - espically in the world of tech. Where we once read, we now may watch or listen instead. In another time slashdot may have been a newspaper with comments fueled by readers snail-mail. But it ain't.
If you don't think viewing sci-fi in other media makes you geeky enough, then start telegramming in your punch-card comments.
Is advertising that powerful? I'll admit I haven't used Vista a lot, but there doesn't seem to be any improvement over XP. The blind test was a nice idea, but I'm guessing are used to a fairly stable, fairly usable OS.. sorta like XP.
Vista is a service pack to XP. Apple has the right idea here. Get a decent base, then release updates of that. The difference is, Apple release them pretty much as updates to their core and advertise it as such - Microsoft do the same thing, but say it's all new.
I don't have anything aganist MS, but Vista was a non-starter. Despite the money they've put into it, I think they'd be better moving on and just trying to brush Vista under the carpet. I'm unsure how much mainstream press Vista's downfalls have had, but two years of bitching is going to be hard to just throw advertising at.
Then again, people are that stupid.
Many, so very many.
A bottling plant on Mars would make crazy money. "Don't drink earth water, drink E.T water!" (even more if they pluralize that and convince people alien urine will give them super health).
And then the Mars company will give everyone hell for calling it Mars Water.
Mod parent Insightful, and mod me drunk troll!
It's damned ugly at the moment. The announcement on the front page of the app currently states:
From all the press they've been getting about it, I'm guessing the makers are getting a lot of feedback about the UI, and will only be a matter of time 'til they prettify it.
The Scrabulous site has a practice version available which allows you to play by yourself or against a computer. I'm guessing Wordscaper will have the same thing once they fix themselves up.
It died earlier sometime this morning (had the facebook app version of a 404), then reappeared this afternoon. I tried out the Wordscaper app, but really can't get used to the circular tiles. Surely just changing the special placements (double words and such) around would fix any issues with Scrabble - square tiles on.. well, squares surely wouldn't get them in more troubles.
Nah, that's just jogging out of sexual frustration. Been there my friend.
Hopefully their crawlers are advanced enough to display ads for Malware removal tools alongside the infected pages.
Like Split Browser?
So if I sign up for an email account then my personal outgoing mails might be shown to others? You'd be lucky to get any human custom, let alone bots.
This guy is an amazing loon. Seriously, he makes Jack Thompson look sane.
From Washington Post (as linked in above summary):
Can't find words..
What does this message say? It doesn't display on my computer.
Does it matter? The fact it's running a Windows OS with GUI is bad enough.
Seriously.
I ran into my first ATM which ran windows about 2001. I only knew 'cus it
crashed and showed the desktop. About that time, I'm guessing they'd be using
'98. That same OS I used to show my friend how to hack his way around hisparental controls.
I've seen like five ATM's in similar states since, only three dead enough
to show their desktops mind. One of them had solitare on the desktop (wish I
was joking)!
I musta missed that, taking the time to bold the questioners comments and all. I was making a play on the linux-never-crashes-for-anyone-ever, but too much wine might have attributed to my poor delivery. My apologies.
FTFA
I got bored waiting for it to load, then it crashed ff3 so I gave up.
There was an interesting loop in the waiting room though, displaying what I can only assume were search queries.
One query in particular confirmed this.
Instead of office chair package contained bobcat..
omg uc wt ur $4txts?