So Microsoft has done an about-face about OpenDocuments and such. But we all know what MS means by "open."
And what about the Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD battle? Would they say two standards are good? Since recent Slashdot news reported that Blu-Ray is winning, will we see the same push for double standards?
Firefox does have an extension that pretty much does what you want it to do. It's called CustomizeGoogle. It works through 1.6~, features lots of customizability (my own word there) and has been given reviews as one of the best extensions to Firefox.
The problem is, they probably had to tell the brain somehow that crashing is bad. They had to let the brain know it could control itself. They had do show it what wind does. In other words, they defined all the variables and set all the equations and fed them to the brain to plug and chug.
The real leap will be in getting the "brain" to define it's own variables. For example, it should be able to realize that a mountain will cause it to crash without having to fail for months on end. Otherwise, we are just programming a living computer to fly a plane for us. We control the variables. We control the horizontal and the vertical. The brain just does the messy number crunching.
Until we can get it to do that, I'd rather use a human any day, since they can do more than just math.
I have read a lot of posts complaining about how this new GUI is terrible, how there is no consistency, and how people are just going to stick with something familiar.
So we are bashing MS for innovating, yet we also bash MS for not innovating enough. Granted they may have gotten the idea to revamp their GUI from someone else, but they did overhaul the interface significantly. We joke and laugh at how MS seems to always be playing catch-up to Yahoo! and Google, how they always take someone else's idea and rehash it with a few tweaks. But now, when they really do something bold and independent, something innovative, we bash them some more for doing exactly what we made fun of them for not doing.
Is this just the Linux-Man, MS-haters Club, or can we recognize that MS might have actually improved their product?
On a different note, did anyone else notice that the Powerpoint is saved as a.pptx? Looks like we know the code for the new format.
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And what about the Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD battle? Would they say two standards are good? Since recent Slashdot news reported that Blu-Ray is winning, will we see the same push for double standards?
Get the extension here https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?id=743&application=firefox
That is, assuming you use Firefox ;)
The real leap will be in getting the "brain" to define it's own variables. For example, it should be able to realize that a mountain will cause it to crash without having to fail for months on end. Otherwise, we are just programming a living computer to fly a plane for us. We control the variables. We control the horizontal and the vertical. The brain just does the messy number crunching.
Until we can get it to do that, I'd rather use a human any day, since they can do more than just math.
I have read a lot of posts complaining about how this new GUI is terrible, how there is no consistency, and how people are just going to stick with something familiar. So we are bashing MS for innovating, yet we also bash MS for not innovating enough. Granted they may have gotten the idea to revamp their GUI from someone else, but they did overhaul the interface significantly. We joke and laugh at how MS seems to always be playing catch-up to Yahoo! and Google, how they always take someone else's idea and rehash it with a few tweaks. But now, when they really do something bold and independent, something innovative, we bash them some more for doing exactly what we made fun of them for not doing. Is this just the Linux-Man, MS-haters Club, or can we recognize that MS might have actually improved their product? On a different note, did anyone else notice that the Powerpoint is saved as a .pptx? Looks like we know the code for the new format.