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hackers were brave, the stakes were high, terminals were real terminals, floppy disks were real floppy disks and big furry beards from Alpha Centauri were real big furry beards from Alpha Centauri.
The whole idea of multiple document interfaces embedded in applications seems wrong to me, whether it is tabs or whatever you want to call it.
It bloats the application. You end up with this dumb MDI code in every application (and they all work differently).
And the main reason for doing it is to make up for deficiencies in the windows manager. Name your manager, nearly all have appalling control over window placement and switching between windows. They have a 'taskbar' which itself is just a clumsy tab bar. The ribbon is a step in the right direction, but not a radical one.
About the only thing that half works is the keyboard short cuts to switch back and forth between two application windows. But may the flying spaghetti monster help you if you have three application windows open.
Part of the problem is that screen sizes are way too small. If we really want to follow a desk metaphor, we need to be able to have a dozen documents/windows visible and readable at once (or at least, in a spatial relationship that remains relatively consistent).
A notable exception to the tab style is gimp. I would suggest that the usability issues with the detached gimp controls and windows are not the fault of gimp, but of the desktop.
So instead of discussing how firefox should implement tabs, we should be discussing how the desktop implements them (or improves on them as a way of organizing viewable content).
savings on the gym: $20/month
savings on insurance: $35/month
savings on fuel: $50/month
savings on car repayments: $100/month
saving my environment: priceless
While draconian intellectual property laws may hurt an economy in the long run, it could be argued that they are being used (particularly in the USA) as a protectionist device (as in trade barriers), protecting an economy where many people are not actually producing anything of value.
I do development on embedded devices where the code is stored in flash. During the development, we would typically download code to the test devices dozens of times a day (obviously with no wear leveling) over a year or two. Haven't seen any problems with dead flashes yet. Maybe we will see failures after a few more years, but if any development took that long then I'm sure we could afford to throw away the test device and build another one!
Your mileage may vary with an SSD drive, but if you have enough RAM to avoid too much swapping, then you should be able to get a couple of years use out of it, and probably a lot more.
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hackers were brave, the stakes were high, terminals were real terminals, floppy disks were real floppy disks and big furry beards from Alpha Centauri were real big furry beards from Alpha Centauri.
You need a fair bit of dead space when you are using your fists to type with.
cha yIbaH qara'DI'!
Chromium... alpha but seems stable and fast
[laughs] I'm just imagining what an alpha version of IE would be like (or what it would do to my machine).
I'd rather an empty page than a .net trojan.
Anyway, a blank html page is quite meditative, in a zen sort of way. I think we need more of them.
That's a bit much. I rather enjoyed reading Les Miserables.
The whole idea of multiple document interfaces embedded in applications seems wrong to me, whether it is tabs or whatever you want to call it.
It bloats the application. You end up with this dumb MDI code in every application (and they all work differently).
And the main reason for doing it is to make up for deficiencies in the windows manager. Name your manager, nearly all have appalling control over window placement and switching between windows. They have a 'taskbar' which itself is just a clumsy tab bar. The ribbon is a step in the right direction, but not a radical one.
About the only thing that half works is the keyboard short cuts to switch back and forth between two application windows. But may the flying spaghetti monster help you if you have three application windows open.
Part of the problem is that screen sizes are way too small. If we really want to follow a desk metaphor, we need to be able to have a dozen documents/windows visible and readable at once (or at least, in a spatial relationship that remains relatively consistent).
A notable exception to the tab style is gimp. I would suggest that the usability issues with the detached gimp controls and windows are not the fault of gimp, but of the desktop.
So instead of discussing how firefox should implement tabs, we should be discussing how the desktop implements them (or improves on them as a way of organizing viewable content).
hip hip...
savings on the gym: $20/month
savings on insurance: $35/month
savings on fuel: $50/month
savings on car repayments: $100/month
saving my environment: priceless
> larger than 10Mb, and change the default browser
I guess that'd rule out Internet Explorer then?
221368949 is an Irvine California phone number that has had its digits reversed.
Fortunately we now have virtualization, the modern playpen for recalcitrant operating systems.
Couldn't they just have photoshopped lower Manhattan into the background, instead of doing half an hour of flyovers?
What were they thinking?
Some of the original artists were royalties.
"oh the pain, the pain"
You've got to wonder why they need to raid his house looking for content when it is already posted up in plain view on the public internet?
twittering... it's what parliaments are good at.
> it seemed like such a laid-back, friendly place
perhaps "laid-back" is the same as "mostly apathetic"
> it seemed like such a laid-back, friendly place perhaps laid-back is the same as mostly apathetic?
While draconian intellectual property laws may hurt an economy in the long run, it could be argued that they are being used (particularly in the USA) as a protectionist device (as in trade barriers), protecting an economy where many people are not actually producing anything of value.
I do development on embedded devices where the code is stored in flash. During the development, we would typically download code to the test devices dozens of times a day (obviously with no wear leveling) over a year or two. Haven't seen any problems with dead flashes yet. Maybe we will see failures after a few more years, but if any development took that long then I'm sure we could afford to throw away the test device and build another one!
Your mileage may vary with an SSD drive, but if you have enough RAM to avoid too much swapping, then you should be able to get a couple of years use out of it, and probably a lot more.
Maybe he is the same guy who liked Windows ME but hated Windows 98.
Or the one who thought Ewoks had more dramatic potential than the Wookie.
Maybe he is the guy who liked Windows ME but hated Windows 98.
Or the guy who thought ewoks more dramatic than the Wookie.
Mammoths normally lived to about 60, so Zed died prematurely.
Well, you'd die prematurely too if you stepped into a pool of petrochemical quicksand.
So now famous actors can botox and still do their job... oh wait
I just like the ad that came through with the RSS feed for this slashdot article "I earnt $170 posting links on google" (and a picture of the cheque)!