Overlapping windows are used to make more information available to the user than can be displayed on the available screen real estate. The RL metaphor is a collection of papers on a desk. You can't see every paper all at once, but you bring to the top of the pile those which you need. You do this for your own benefit, based on the needs of the moment, not for that of the desk -- or the computer. The whole point is that the space isn't tiled. I don't like working that way personally, and I suspect the reason we've moved away from that model is because most people don't. Remember the early Windows versions?
I don't agree with your metaphor. The only reason you have overlapping papers on a desk is so that you have easy access to said papers. However, if you were writing on one piece of paper while referring to another, you would have the pieces of paper side by side. The need for easy access due to overlapping is removed thanks to wonderful inventions like task bars. But if were needing to read from say, a CSS reference page while I wrote a stylesheet, I'd rather have them side by side while I work, and the current implementations for that are rather... crap.
Other "features"
- Look freaking stupid, pretty much all the time.
- Wasting the battery of an important piece of communications equipment that most people require for normal daily routine.
- Cramps and sore fingers from holding tiny phone between thumb and forfinger (look at tfa)
- Annoying static every time you get a phonecall or a sms.
- People talking about your mouse on slashdot,
It's a fun premise, but the only real reason someone would do it was "because they can". In reality, it'd be much easier just to use a normal mouse, or even *gasp* the touchpad.
If you were going to buy a new computer now, you're telling me you would buy a new AMD-based system even though you know it's not as fast as an Intel machine in the same price range?
So basically, you like wasting your money.
I was a staunch supporter of the AMD64 right up until Conroe. From the best bang for buck and the budget end all the way up to FX60 kicking the crap out of the too-hot-to-handle P4 EE, but I only chose AMD because it was better value for money.
Now, Conroes offer more performance for cheaper. Why the hell would you buy second best?
It's not so much the porn or the ponies, it's porn AND poonies together which will cause problems.
You see, in pretty much every society around the world (excpt of course, yours), it's considered abnormal or even abhorrent to copulate with equines. The world's a funny place isn't it?
And I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which side most indiscriminately chose to destroy said high-density urban area with missiles instead of using any kind of useful strategy.
Been a while since you went to high-school huh? I'm in a school of 700, and we have 3 or 4 computer rooms plus a few workstations in the library, so somewhere between 100 and 150 PCs. The number of students who'd actually be using computers for work at any given time averages out to about 5 per grade, so 25 overall (highschools here are grades 8-12). This leaves us with 75-125 spare computers. Like many people working in education, you seem to over-estimate how dedicated students actually are to their work.
"Dont blame it all on fast food - that would not be a problem if the kids got exercise (that does not mean they have to take an arobics class, it means they should do something that is hard and makes them sweat)."
You're totally right. That's another thing kids did a couple of generations ago that they don't do now. The problem is the social stigma of people with less ability or lower fitness exercising. I rode my bike to school every day, my friends (all nerds) did jogging, training, roller hockey, a whole bunch of crap. A couple were even trampolinists, a bunch of them got really into dance dance revolution. We learned to enjoy getting active because we all found places we could do it where it didn't matter how good at it we were, as long as we gave it a shot. Most high schools don't have that mentality. Less active kids will suffer unending jeers and taunts from "Jocks" and so forth, and this could be really damaging to someone's psyche, leading to an avoidance of all physical activity.
By the time you're a teenager, parents can't really do much to set you on an active or "healthy" path. You have to set yourself on it, and once there a parent can encourage you, but that's about it.
"A fine sentiment, but health is something that kids should not be allowed to make mistakes with."
Bullshit. Kids should do whatever they want as long as they're not hurting anyone else. How are people going to grow up at all if they're "mothered" every step of the way until they're 18. As a teenager I knew what was good and what was bad for me, but I did things that were "bad" for me because I "enjoyed" them. I ate junk food and played video games, and I still do. But I'm not an obese failure, and if I was, I'd have no one to blame but myself, and if a teenager can't handle that, they're in for a rude shock when they get into the real world.
Also, cafeteria food tastes like crap regardless. Parents, if you want kids to stop eating junk, feed them some real food. A few generations before us kids and parents had no concept of low fat or low carb "diets", but they're weren't obese. You know why? Because they didn't eat fast food at all. If all your kids will eat is crap and they're overweight, feed them some food that didn't come from a foil packet - eventually they'll realise that a pasta with a light tomato sauce or a vegetable curry with a million kinds of vitamins beats the everloving snot out of MacDonalds or microwavable Salsbury steak.
Good sir, I wish I had some mod points left for you
Seriously, every time you mention homeland security, every time you watch a special report on terrorism on you local current affair program - That means the terrorists are winning.
I believe by "professional user" our anonymous friend means "person who for some reason purchased the Professional Edition of Microsoft Office, possibly because it sounded cooler".
I use it for phone numbers!
Slashdot Mirror
So in summation, teenagers are stupid. Shock and surprise!
Well, not so much surprise...
Because it was obvious.
Why are there dots between you paragraphs?
Just wrap the quote in a parahraph tag?
Why are there dots between you paragraphs?
Was the poster being sarcastic or does he really believe it's a good thing?
I don't agree with your metaphor. The only reason you have overlapping papers on a desk is so that you have easy access to said papers. However, if you were writing on one piece of paper while referring to another, you would have the pieces of paper side by side. The need for easy access due to overlapping is removed thanks to wonderful inventions like task bars. But if were needing to read from say, a CSS reference page while I wrote a stylesheet, I'd rather have them side by side while I work, and the current implementations for that are rather... crap.
Pfft. I used hundreds of tools like this when I was in UNATCO way back in the 2050s.
Multitools I think the were called.
In Soviet Russia, Poinclare Conjecture proves you!
- Look freaking stupid, pretty much all the time.
- Wasting the battery of an important piece of communications equipment that most people require for normal daily routine.
- Cramps and sore fingers from holding tiny phone between thumb and forfinger (look at tfa)
- Annoying static every time you get a phonecall or a sms.
- People talking about your mouse on slashdot,
It's a fun premise, but the only real reason someone would do it was "because they can". In reality, it'd be much easier just to use a normal mouse, or even *gasp* the touchpad.
And you have no sense of humor.
I don't get it. Were you being stupid on purpose or is the P on the end of your :-P included in your 5 letters?
Why?
If you were going to buy a new computer now, you're telling me you would buy a new AMD-based system even though you know it's not as fast as an Intel machine in the same price range?
So basically, you like wasting your money.
I was a staunch supporter of the AMD64 right up until Conroe. From the best bang for buck and the budget end all the way up to FX60 kicking the crap out of the too-hot-to-handle P4 EE, but I only chose AMD because it was better value for money.
Now, Conroes offer more performance for cheaper. Why the hell would you buy second best?
It's not so much the porn or the ponies, it's porn AND poonies together which will cause problems.
You see, in pretty much every society around the world (excpt of course, yours), it's considered abnormal or even abhorrent to copulate with equines. The world's a funny place isn't it?
Super off-topic much?
"Bad grammer intended"
And I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which side most indiscriminately chose to destroy said high-density urban area with missiles instead of using any kind of useful strategy.
You don't really think that MS would make that button scriptable, do you?
Yes.
I don't think even MS are that stupid.
Not stupid, just lazy. They probably know the button doesn't do shit, but if it's a "feature" they can advertise, then they're happy.So to bypass it all a piece of software needs to do is Macro a button -_-'
For example, if I were using a program such as AutoIt, I could create a script to bypass the window like so:
WinSetOnTop("Security Warning","",1)
WinWaitActive("Security Warning")
Send("{ENTER}")
Don't let the Big Bad Macro eat me mummy!
Been a while since you went to high-school huh? I'm in a school of 700, and we have 3 or 4 computer rooms plus a few workstations in the library, so somewhere between 100 and 150 PCs. The number of students who'd actually be using computers for work at any given time averages out to about 5 per grade, so 25 overall (highschools here are grades 8-12). This leaves us with 75-125 spare computers. Like many people working in education, you seem to over-estimate how dedicated students actually are to their work.
"No different than Napster and Kazaa, to name a few. "
Except that Gnutella is a fully distributed network, while Napster and Kazaa are centralised and partially centralised (respectively).
Remember kids, Limewire is just a Gnutella client. If they shut down Limewire, we still have a dozen more clients we can use just as well.
Hooray for Open Source fully distributed networks!
"Dont blame it all on fast food - that would not be a problem if the kids got exercise (that does not mean they have to take an arobics class, it means they should do something that is hard and makes them sweat)."
You're totally right. That's another thing kids did a couple of generations ago that they don't do now. The problem is the social stigma of people with less ability or lower fitness exercising. I rode my bike to school every day, my friends (all nerds) did jogging, training, roller hockey, a whole bunch of crap. A couple were even trampolinists, a bunch of them got really into dance dance revolution. We learned to enjoy getting active because we all found places we could do it where it didn't matter how good at it we were, as long as we gave it a shot. Most high schools don't have that mentality. Less active kids will suffer unending jeers and taunts from "Jocks" and so forth, and this could be really damaging to someone's psyche, leading to an avoidance of all physical activity.
By the time you're a teenager, parents can't really do much to set you on an active or "healthy" path. You have to set yourself on it, and once there a parent can encourage you, but that's about it.
"A fine sentiment, but health is something that kids should not be allowed to make mistakes with."
Bullshit. Kids should do whatever they want as long as they're not hurting anyone else. How are people going to grow up at all if they're "mothered" every step of the way until they're 18. As a teenager I knew what was good and what was bad for me, but I did things that were "bad" for me because I "enjoyed" them. I ate junk food and played video games, and I still do. But I'm not an obese failure, and if I was, I'd have no one to blame but myself, and if a teenager can't handle that, they're in for a rude shock when they get into the real world.
Also, cafeteria food tastes like crap regardless. Parents, if you want kids to stop eating junk, feed them some real food. A few generations before us kids and parents had no concept of low fat or low carb "diets", but they're weren't obese. You know why? Because they didn't eat fast food at all. If all your kids will eat is crap and they're overweight, feed them some food that didn't come from a foil packet - eventually they'll realise that a pasta with a light tomato sauce or a vegetable curry with a million kinds of vitamins beats the everloving snot out of MacDonalds or microwavable Salsbury steak.
Good sir, I wish I had some mod points left for you
Seriously, every time you mention homeland security, every time you watch a special report on terrorism on you local current affair program - That means the terrorists are winning.
...You don't support terrorism now do you?
I believe by "professional user" our anonymous friend means "person who for some reason purchased the Professional Edition of Microsoft Office, possibly because it sounded cooler". I use it for phone numbers!
Pfft. Almost had me for a second there.
There're no women on the internet! Everyone knows that! It's the place where men are men, women are men, and children are fbi agents.
Show me this model and I'll shut my mouth.