But does it really matter? Did you understand what he said?
When you stop letting it bother you, your blood pressure will drop, and you will still have understood the other person. I routinely chat online with people from all over the world. If I still cared about the quality of the English, I would have had a heart attack by now.
Mac systems upgrades come with fancy animal names, new features, bug fixes, speed enhancements, and security fixes. They cost money almost every time. Sometimes they leave older systems behind. But I have never heard such vicious attacks against Apple over minor speed enhancements, stranded hardware, or just about anything else that you read hear complaining about Microsoft.
Brand me a Microsoft Denier or a Troll, or something, but I speak the truth and you know it. I plead with you not to be less strict with Microsoft, but to remember the standards you use here, and the tone, when you are paying for Snow Leopard, or trying to get the latest package to load.
If she got the employees their own radios, even if they listened to the same station, it would not be a public broadcast on her part, since they each would have their own receivers of the original broadcast(s).
I will make this clear. Safari, on a Mac, current and old versions, SUCKS. Firefox on the Mac is more stable, faster, includes the cmd-enter trick, and is just overall better. Firefox is of course also better than IE on a Windows PC.
I use multiple Macs and Windows systems, of all ages, in the course of my life and job. Firefox wins hands down on all of these systems. I do admit, after my experience with Safari on a Mac, I have refused to even let it install on a Windows System. So, AFIK, Safari on a PC is heaven.
Ask those companies that threw their weight behind HD-DVD, whether or not being first to market makes you automatically win a standards war. Blu-ray won that war, despite being months behind HD-DVD's release, and missing most of the advanced features that were available to HD-DVD users at launch. To date, Blu-Ray still has fewer advanced features than HD-DVD. In addition, manufacturers yield for Blu-Ray is 10 to 20 percent less than HD-DVD, which makes the profit margin much slimmer for Blu-Ray manufacturing.
In Conclusion, first to market, superior advanced features, and a larger profit margin did not help HD-DVD win the war against Blu-Ray.
NOTE: Yes, Blu-Ray has more space than HD-DVD, but as that space is not being used by the content creators, that one superior aspect of Blu-Ray was not a real factor in this war.
I have a very real First Life, but somehow manange to be online too, like all of us reading this. While online, I have a Second Life account that allows me to have many friends from all over the world that I would not have otherwise..
Those of you that constantly harp on MMORPG (and NON-Game) players to get a life should examine your own life, and perhaps spend more time offline enjoying your First Life and not ragging on those that have both!!
ROFL, XD, and DANG!, 12 hours a day at a RL job and yet still I log in.. Imagine that;)
1) I was really discussing the "hostile" part, that had not been explained here.
2) Let us parse this discussion from the start:
a- Original poster uses the word "disinterested"
b- Reply quotes the dictionary to "correct" the usage of the form of the word "interest". This critique used the first definition and thoroughly ignored the second definition in their own quote, as show below.
"disinterested |dis?int??restid; -tristid| adjective 1 not influenced by considerations of personal advantage : a banker is under an obligation to give disinterested advice. 2 having or feeling no interest in something : her father was so disinterested in her progress that he only visited the school once."
When a marketer creates something that is not new, I have or feel no interst in it, therefore, I am disinerested, per definition 2.
I was not going to get into this nit picky battle, but you just had to ignore my main point and whine about a comma... XD
I understand that, and that is why the analogy is funny. Gold-farming, and completing the game, is not a part of "game-play" Second life, which is why his analogy fails when comparing the real world to the intertet based virtual world called Second Life....
If your gonna slam me, you better pay attention to what I said.. ROFL
Let me help explain how that Second Life residents can be both disinterested and hostile at the same time.
We are talking about the feelings Second Life residents feel towards different types of marketing campains, that are being used by different marketing companies in Second Life. One campain stategy, that has been discussed in the posts here thoroughly, is the big companies. These large corporations are responsable for the disinterest, because of their un-inspired presentations, and some protests by extreemests, just like in real life. The final marketing campain type, that has been greeted with so much hostility, is the low level mass marketers. These marketers do the real world equavelent of buying your neighbors house, and all of the houses at major street corners, and put up massive ugly ads for sex, and gambling, and all sorts of horrible MLM schemes. These marketing companies destroy the once wonderful views that the local land owners have worked so hard to create. In real life most municipalities have passed laws against this sort of behavior, so it does not happen. But in Second Life, the residents have no such protections. So, some have banded together to purchase the land around these horrible ad farms, and surround them with trees, or a building, to return their view, and land value!!
That is an amazingingly funny analogy of real life vs World of Warcraft. BUT, does not accurately represent the experience differences between Second Life and Real Life..
Thx, but please be sure you understand the virtual world you are discussing before posting, no matter how funny;)
As I read the article I tried to duplicate his experience and found my reality different. I could not duplicate most of his issues.
1) The new file browsing interface is broken My dropdown list shows folders I have been to recently, not some web sites.
As for his complaint about no tree list. If you look at the word "Folders" to the bottom left of the explorer window, you will see an up arrow. Click on the up arrow and you see a familiar, yet Mac like, folder tree list. This will persist when you close and re-open explorer.
2) The new start menu sucks (Kind of) The new start menu works fine for me. With or without slashes.
3) Windows Networking is a mess This network interface is no worse or better than any other. And it has pretty pictures too. And only one click away from the original interface.
4) Windows Search Is Broken It really is. Even if you dink with the settings to index more.
5) Windows copying has not improved Yeah, it is bad. Even for a couple of small files you are in for a long setup, the slow copy itself, and a long teardown. You'd think we were being charged for this time.;)
Only 2 out of 5 right. The lack of accuracy of this bloggers opinion did NOT warrant/. attention.
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But does it really matter? Did you understand what he said?
When you stop letting it bother you, your blood pressure will drop, and you will still have understood the other person. I routinely chat online with people from all over the world. If I still cared about the quality of the English, I would have had a heart attack by now.
Mac systems upgrades come with fancy animal names, new features, bug fixes, speed enhancements, and security fixes. They cost money almost every time. Sometimes they leave older systems behind. But I have never heard such vicious attacks against Apple over minor speed enhancements, stranded hardware, or just about anything else that you read hear complaining about Microsoft.
Brand me a Microsoft Denier or a Troll, or something, but I speak the truth and you know it. I plead with you not to be less strict with Microsoft, but to remember the standards you use here, and the tone, when you are paying for Snow Leopard, or trying to get the latest package to load.
Here Here!! I was hoping somebody had beaten me to this point!
All this energy to Microsoft bash over something that is considered a "Feature" of the much lauded OSX.
HA
Forget the above reply.. I just saw the same idea in another reply from earlier.
Forgive me greater Slashdot community at large, I did not mean to accidentally copycat a prior reply!?!?!?!
If she got the employees their own radios, even if they listened to the same station, it would not be a public broadcast on her part, since they each would have their own receivers of the original broadcast(s).
I will make this clear. Safari, on a Mac, current and old versions, SUCKS. Firefox on the Mac is more stable, faster, includes the cmd-enter trick, and is just overall better. Firefox is of course also better than IE on a Windows PC.
I use multiple Macs and Windows systems, of all ages, in the course of my life and job. Firefox wins hands down on all of these systems. I do admit, after my experience with Safari on a Mac, I have refused to even let it install on a Windows System. So, AFIK, Safari on a PC is heaven.
Ask those companies that threw their weight behind HD-DVD, whether or not being first to market makes you automatically win a standards war. Blu-ray won that war, despite being months behind HD-DVD's release, and missing most of the advanced features that were available to HD-DVD users at launch. To date, Blu-Ray still has fewer advanced features than HD-DVD. In addition, manufacturers yield for Blu-Ray is 10 to 20 percent less than HD-DVD, which makes the profit margin much slimmer for Blu-Ray manufacturing.
In Conclusion, first to market, superior advanced features, and a larger profit margin did not help HD-DVD win the war against Blu-Ray.
NOTE:
Yes, Blu-Ray has more space than HD-DVD, but as that space is not being used by the content creators, that one superior aspect of Blu-Ray was not a real factor in this war.
Amazing how laws can sometimes work for us too!
Awww give me a break!!!..
;)
I have a very real First Life, but somehow manange to be online too, like all of us reading this. While online, I have a Second Life account that allows me to have many friends from all over the world that I would not have otherwise..
Those of you that constantly harp on MMORPG (and NON-Game) players to get a life should examine your own life, and perhaps spend more time offline enjoying your First Life and not ragging on those that have both!!
ROFL, XD, and DANG!, 12 hours a day at a RL job and yet still I log in.. Imagine that
Signed,
Hardcore technogeek with an RL too!!
Did YOU read the definition?
1) I was really discussing the "hostile" part, that had not been explained here.
2) Let us parse this discussion from the start:
a- Original poster uses the word "disinterested"
b- Reply quotes the dictionary to "correct" the usage of the form of the word "interest". This critique used the first definition and thoroughly ignored the second definition in their own quote, as show below.
"disinterested |dis?int??restid; -tristid| adjective 1 not influenced by considerations of personal advantage : a banker is under an obligation to give disinterested advice. 2 having or feeling no interest in something : her father was so disinterested in her progress that he only visited the school once."
When a marketer creates something that is not new, I have or feel no interst in it, therefore, I am disinerested, per definition 2.
I was not going to get into this nit picky battle, but you just had to ignore my main point and whine about a comma... XD
I understand that, and that is why the analogy is funny. Gold-farming, and completing the game, is not a part of "game-play" Second life, which is why his analogy fails when comparing the real world to the intertet based virtual world called Second Life....
If your gonna slam me, you better pay attention to what I said.. ROFL
Let me help explain how that Second Life residents can be both disinterested and hostile at the same time.
;)
We are talking about the feelings Second Life residents feel towards different types of marketing campains, that are being used by different marketing companies in Second Life. One campain stategy, that has been discussed in the posts here thoroughly, is the big companies. These large corporations are responsable for the disinterest, because of their un-inspired presentations, and some protests by extreemests, just like in real life. The final marketing campain type, that has been greeted with so much hostility, is the low level mass marketers. These marketers do the real world equavelent of buying your neighbors house, and all of the houses at major street corners, and put up massive ugly ads for sex, and gambling, and all sorts of horrible MLM schemes. These marketing companies destroy the once wonderful views that the local land owners have worked so hard to create. In real life most municipalities have passed laws against this sort of behavior, so it does not happen. But in Second Life, the residents have no such protections. So, some have banded together to purchase the land around these horrible ad farms, and surround them with trees, or a building, to return their view, and land value!!
Whew...
Hope this helps
That is an amazingingly funny analogy of real life vs World of Warcraft. BUT, does not accurately represent the experience differences between Second Life and Real Life..
;)
Thx, but please be sure you understand the virtual world you are discussing before posting, no matter how funny
As I read the article I tried to duplicate his experience and found my reality different. I could not duplicate most of his issues.
;)
/. attention.
1) The new file browsing interface is broken
My dropdown list shows folders I have been to recently, not some web sites.
As for his complaint about no tree list. If you look at the word "Folders" to the bottom left of the explorer window, you will see an up arrow. Click on the up arrow and you see a familiar, yet Mac like, folder tree list. This will persist when you close and re-open explorer.
2) The new start menu sucks (Kind of)
The new start menu works fine for me. With or without slashes.
3) Windows Networking is a mess
This network interface is no worse or better than any other. And it has pretty pictures too. And only one click away from the original interface.
4) Windows Search Is Broken
It really is. Even if you dink with the settings to index more.
5) Windows copying has not improved
Yeah, it is bad. Even for a couple of small files you are in for a long setup, the slow copy itself, and a long teardown. You'd think we were being charged for this time.
Only 2 out of 5 right. The lack of accuracy of this bloggers opinion did NOT warrant