It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
That's not what annoys me the most about it. What annoys me is the fact that they can't keep anything the same from one version to another. Not just IE but all MS apps and OSes as well; it's apparently a dilbertesque company policy. Also what annoys me is they can't stand to call anything the same thing everyone else calls it.
And "favorites" highlights both these idiotic user-hostile Microsoft insanities. Everyone else calls them "bookmarks" so MS has to call them "favorites". Well, if they change the "favorites" to "bookmarks" like everyone else (it would surprise me) that's great, but why do they have to confuse their present customers by naming something else with that name? I get the feeling that they want their customers to feel stupid so when they come across a bug or idiotic feature they chalk it up to their own stupidity instead of Microsoft's arrogance andr stupidity.
Trying to change anything from its default has always been incredibly hard with a new version of IE because it's in a different place in the menu system with every release. Once it was under "file", once it was under "edit", once it was under "tools", and IIRC once it was under a menu that isn't in IE any more.
And I'm completely with you on the last part. I don't want my web browser opening a spreadsheet or word processing document! I don't even want it opening an Acrobat document in its window. If there's a link to a Word document it should open Word with a strong warning that you might get infected with a virus if you open it.
I wish Microsoft would take an ethics course. I think if they did their software would improve, maybe to the point that I could actually like it. As it is now, Microsoft is my least favorite software company.
No way, man. The only "standards" they care about are the pseudostandards they and they alone have. For instance, IE can fade from page to page - but it has to use MS's nonstandard commands to do it, and it only works on IE.
There are still too many web sites that refuse to let non-IE browsers in, and the list has probably been shrinking since the growth of Firefox, Opera, and other browsers has gone so well.
Now according to the summary we have "Activities". The term "contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage" sounds pretty useless to me; what services are they talking about? The Associated Press, or more likely OS (Windows) services?
"WebSlices" is another. You can bet your bottom dollar there are going to be idiot web designers (or ignorant ones using Front Page that don't know or care that they're using IE-only features) that shut out anyone using Konqueror or Safari or any other non-Microsoft browser.
Once just for laughs I coded my homepage so that if the user-agent was IE it would redirect to a page that said "sorry, you need to upgrade to a modern browser" with a link to Firefox, even if it was Microsoft's latest incarnation of their pathetic browser. The site was (and still is) plain vanilla HTML, looks pretty much the same on any browser.
It's more common to assume, just because you "can" produce a pressed CD for a few thousand dollars more, that you'll get more value from doing so. This isn't always the case.
I wonder, if that were the case, why the big labels would dump so much money into each release.
The more cash they dump, the more they can charge the band, and many of these charges are charges for things that the label itself owns and don't cost the labels a penny. The more the label spends, the more the label makes and the more the BAND must spend.
You say "Some of the artists on sellaband have even commented that they've gone the "inexpensive" route before, and not been fully satisfied with the result." But you don't define "inexpensive". If you define it like I do than you're right. One band I know was giving CDs away - they were simply burned blanks of recorded shows, ink-jet labeled. All they cost was blancks and ink. They produced an album at a professional studio and had it commercially stamped. These CDs are no different than any RIAA label CD. In fact, they're manufactured in the same factories. But they only cost a few thousand dollars total.
It's easy to be cynical about a new idea, but if you're genuinely interested in hearing a wide range of great music from people who don't want to sue you for liking their product, then you really should check out sellaband.com for yourself before rushing to judgement.
The only downside I see is that the band has to pay WAY too much.
There are always bugs, and there will always be bugs unless there is careful and tedious checking by a lot of programmers.
Every program should have careful and tedious checking by a lot of programmers. This is where open source really shines, and is a large reason why open source OSes and apps are so much more secure than closed source.
Instead, the way most commercial software is written it appears that the code is given a cursory glance, run ("tested") by a few people, shoveled out the door for other people to run and betatest, and then shoveled in to store shelves to annoy and frustrate users.
"Mans head explodes from intense confusion after reading news article about Microsoft releasing Open Source OS"
Minor nit: you misspelled "Asplodes". From the link:
Use By Noobs N00bs use the term asplode as a form of 13375p33k. For example: Non-Noob: Lol I pwnt u with a rocket launcher! Noob: Oh teh noes!!! I am asplode!!11!eleventyone!! Non-Noob: Wtf?
A splode: the command prompt Micro$oft secretly enabled a splode as a DOS command. Opening the command prompt and entering C:\asplode would start a countdown which would, when finished, cause your hard drive to a splode. Entering D:\asplode made the CD drive a splode. And entering A:\asplode would would make the floppy drive a splode. If you have a B:\ drive, you can a splode it by entering B:\asplode. Usually this makes the 5.25" floppy drive a splode! If you enter this into a Linux shell, it a splodes all computers within a 5-mile radius that run Window$. If you loved your PC, you would have entered this DOS command.
(Note: drive letter may vary between PCs.)
It is unknown whether the Singularity OS incorporates this useful command, but it is assumed that a singularity asplosion would release vast quantities of something not real nice.
However, considering that Vista has become something of a "black hole" for them, I think they were a little late with the "singularity" moniker. Is the next Windows going to be called "Event Horizon?"
That black hole has surely sucked in a few dollars of mine, and sucked in a lot of little companies that were pulled apart by Microsoft's huge gravity well.
-mcgrew (Apologies for the lack of journals lately)
Well, it's not hopeless; they may come to their senses. They passed a "moment of silence" bill with "prayer" in the name that mandated a moment of silence in schools here in Illinois last year, and pretty much repealed it.
No, having three guys state the obvious is. I was referring to "waste" as in "throwing dollar bills out the window" rather than "I paid three dollars a pound for this chicken but I can't eat the bones".
That's what mandatory insurance is for! There's a local joke about that, remember that Springfield is the Capital of Illinois.
A guy is in Chicago on business and takes a taxicab. The driver rund the first red light he comes to. "Hey!" exclaims the businessman, "you just rand a red light!"
"It's ok" the cab driver says, "I'm from Springfield". He runs another one.
"Hey, man, you just ran another one!"
"I told you, I'm from Springfield, it's ok."
The red light ahead turns green and the driver screeches to a halt. "Why did you stop??" asks the befuddled businessman.
"My brother's in town, he's from Springfield too!"
More seriously, you can't time it so exectly that you'll be at the intersection just as it turns green. It will have to turn green long enough before you reach the intersection to give yourself room to stop if it doesn't turn green. If you get hit by a red light runner that long after it turns green the driver running it simply didn't see it, so it really wouldn't matter either way.
You're going to pass the guy sitting there because he's picking his nose or watching some girl or something, and not paying attention to the light.
I do see folks braking at every green light, most likely for the reason you give, and it infuriates me. Gas is expensive but worse, it's contributing to global warming without any benefit. By the time he can tell someone's running the light it's too late anyway.
It seems Resnor is wisely using a tactic that visual artists have been using for hundreds of years. You create the work, then make a limited number of them, and sign and number each one. I hope he's signing and numbering them in pencil like printmakers do, otherwise it's too easy to counterfeit them.
Personally, I wouldn't pre-pay $10 for something I've never heard
Me either; but then again I work for a living, like you probably do. Ten bucks is a half case of beer, or a CD (or two) from a local band, or a DVD. I guess it's hard to understand the value of something you have in limitless supply, even if it's something everyone is short of. I think those commercials for Donald Trump's "how to get rich" book are hilarious. WTF does someone born into wealth know about GETTING rich?
I still think $30000 just to record an album is a bit much
I'm afraid the fellow's not going to get much business. Guys I know are recording in professional studios, and even with cover art, commercial duplication, etc it's only costing them a few thousand. Thirty grand is insanely high. Three grand would garner business, thirty is insane.
I do fear that success of this sort will only lead to backlash and a more intense milking of the failing biz plan that they are clinging to like the parasites they are.
If you can think of any way possible the RIAA labels can become even more evil than they already are, you've got a better imagination than I do. Either that or you're in management.
That's the thing - indoctrinating children with their religious beliefs is completely unnecessary. Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined.
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It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
That's not what annoys me the most about it. What annoys me is the fact that they can't keep anything the same from one version to another. Not just IE but all MS apps and OSes as well; it's apparently a dilbertesque company policy. Also what annoys me is they can't stand to call anything the same thing everyone else calls it.
And "favorites" highlights both these idiotic user-hostile Microsoft insanities. Everyone else calls them "bookmarks" so MS has to call them "favorites". Well, if they change the "favorites" to "bookmarks" like everyone else (it would surprise me) that's great, but why do they have to confuse their present customers by naming something else with that name? I get the feeling that they want their customers to feel stupid so when they come across a bug or idiotic feature they chalk it up to their own stupidity instead of Microsoft's arrogance andr stupidity.
Trying to change anything from its default has always been incredibly hard with a new version of IE because it's in a different place in the menu system with every release. Once it was under "file", once it was under "edit", once it was under "tools", and IIRC once it was under a menu that isn't in IE any more.
And I'm completely with you on the last part. I don't want my web browser opening a spreadsheet or word processing document! I don't even want it opening an Acrobat document in its window. If there's a link to a Word document it should open Word with a strong warning that you might get infected with a virus if you open it.
I wish Microsoft would take an ethics course. I think if they did their software would improve, maybe to the point that I could actually like it. As it is now, Microsoft is my least favorite software company.
No way, man. The only "standards" they care about are the pseudostandards they and they alone have. For instance, IE can fade from page to page - but it has to use MS's nonstandard commands to do it, and it only works on IE.
There are still too many web sites that refuse to let non-IE browsers in, and the list has probably been shrinking since the growth of Firefox, Opera, and other browsers has gone so well.
Now according to the summary we have "Activities". The term "contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage" sounds pretty useless to me; what services are they talking about? The Associated Press, or more likely OS (Windows) services?
"WebSlices" is another. You can bet your bottom dollar there are going to be idiot web designers (or ignorant ones using Front Page that don't know or care that they're using IE-only features) that shut out anyone using Konqueror or Safari or any other non-Microsoft browser.
Once just for laughs I coded my homepage so that if the user-agent was IE it would redirect to a page that said "sorry, you need to upgrade to a modern browser" with a link to Firefox, even if it was Microsoft's latest incarnation of their pathetic browser. The site was (and still is) plain vanilla HTML, looks pretty much the same on any browser.
Microsoft annoys the hell out of me.
-mcgrew
It's more common to assume, just because you "can" produce a pressed CD for a few thousand dollars more, that you'll get more value from doing so. This isn't always the case.
I wonder, if that were the case, why the big labels would dump so much money into each release.
The more cash they dump, the more they can charge the band, and many of these charges are charges for things that the label itself owns and don't cost the labels a penny. The more the label spends, the more the label makes and the more the BAND must spend.
You say "Some of the artists on sellaband have even commented that they've gone the "inexpensive" route before, and not been fully satisfied with the result." But you don't define "inexpensive". If you define it like I do than you're right. One band I know was giving CDs away - they were simply burned blanks of recorded shows, ink-jet labeled. All they cost was blancks and ink. They produced an album at a professional studio and had it commercially stamped. These CDs are no different than any RIAA label CD. In fact, they're manufactured in the same factories. But they only cost a few thousand dollars total.
It's easy to be cynical about a new idea, but if you're genuinely interested in hearing a wide range of great music from people who don't want to sue you for liking their product, then you really should check out sellaband.com for yourself before rushing to judgement.
The only downside I see is that the band has to pay WAY too much.
There are always bugs, and there will always be bugs unless there is careful and tedious checking by a lot of programmers.
Every program should have careful and tedious checking by a lot of programmers. This is where open source really shines, and is a large reason why open source OSes and apps are so much more secure than closed source.
Instead, the way most commercial software is written it appears that the code is given a cursory glance, run ("tested") by a few people, shoveled out the door for other people to run and betatest, and then shoveled in to store shelves to annoy and frustrate users.
Minor nit: you misspelled "Asplodes". From the link:It is unknown whether the Singularity OS incorporates this useful command, but it is assumed that a singularity asplosion would release vast quantities of something not real nice.
"super-stable-hacker-resistant"
"Does it run IE?"
Not if it's super-stable-hacker-resistant. If it lacks active-x it is at least more crhacker resistant and stable, though.
However, considering that Vista has become something of a "black hole" for them, I think they were a little late with the "singularity" moniker. Is the next Windows going to be called "Event Horizon?"
That black hole has surely sucked in a few dollars of mine, and sucked in a lot of little companies that were pulled apart by Microsoft's huge gravity well.
-mcgrew
(Apologies for the lack of journals lately)
Well, it's not hopeless; they may come to their senses. They passed a "moment of silence" bill with "prayer" in the name that mandated a moment of silence in schools here in Illinois last year, and pretty much repealed it.
I allways count to ten before getting pissed
That's wise. Also wise is remembering that anger is counterproductive in almost every circumstance.
Physics is a bitch, isn't it?
No, having three guys state the obvious is. I was referring to "waste" as in "throwing dollar bills out the window" rather than "I paid three dollars a pound for this chicken but I can't eat the bones".
I used to have a three digit ID IIRC under the name "mcgrew", but lost /. passwords and changed email addresses took care of that.
No, I live in THE Springfield. As in this political cartoon about the local power plant exploding. Note that the artist's depiction of Todd Renfrow (the bald guy on the right) and Mayor Davlin are well penned. And we have an alderman named Gail Simpson.
The real Springfield is Capital of Illinois. And our roads suck, too. Well, except for the one in front of the Capitol.
The reason your roads suck like ours and California's don't is the weather. Florida mostly has good roads too.
That's what mandatory insurance is for! There's a local joke about that, remember that Springfield is the Capital of Illinois.
A guy is in Chicago on business and takes a taxicab. The driver rund the first red light he comes to. "Hey!" exclaims the businessman, "you just rand a red light!"
"It's ok" the cab driver says, "I'm from Springfield". He runs another one.
"Hey, man, you just ran another one!"
"I told you, I'm from Springfield, it's ok."
The red light ahead turns green and the driver screeches to a halt. "Why did you stop??" asks the befuddled businessman.
"My brother's in town, he's from Springfield too!"
More seriously, you can't time it so exectly that you'll be at the intersection just as it turns green. It will have to turn green long enough before you reach the intersection to give yourself room to stop if it doesn't turn green. If you get hit by a red light runner that long after it turns green the driver running it simply didn't see it, so it really wouldn't matter either way.
You're going to pass the guy sitting there because he's picking his nose or watching some girl or something, and not paying attention to the light.
I do see folks braking at every green light, most likely for the reason you give, and it infuriates me. Gas is expensive but worse, it's contributing to global warming without any benefit. By the time he can tell someone's running the light it's too late anyway.
Please, people, don't get any of your legal education from TV
Is it OK to get your education in physics from Star Trek?
I also, ANAL, but if I recall correctly, it's a state to state matter.
I, Robot: Isaac Asimov
I, ANAL: Slashdot
IANDL: I Ain't No Damned Lawyer!
No. And don't call me "Shirley".
-Frank Drebin
No, silly, not The Who, the Monkees!
Ok I was joking; the GP's Wikipedia link was bad. The one here works.
It seems Resnor is wisely using a tactic that visual artists have been using for hundreds of years. You create the work, then make a limited number of them, and sign and number each one. I hope he's signing and numbering them in pencil like printmakers do, otherwise it's too easy to counterfeit them.
Personally, I wouldn't pre-pay $10 for something I've never heard
Me either; but then again I work for a living, like you probably do. Ten bucks is a half case of beer, or a CD (or two) from a local band, or a DVD. I guess it's hard to understand the value of something you have in limitless supply, even if it's something everyone is short of. I think those commercials for Donald Trump's "how to get rich" book are hilarious. WTF does someone born into wealth know about GETTING rich?
I still think $30000 just to record an album is a bit much
I'm afraid the fellow's not going to get much business. Guys I know are recording in professional studios, and even with cover art, commercial duplication, etc it's only costing them a few thousand. Thirty grand is insanely high. Three grand would garner business, thirty is insane.
I do fear that success of this sort will only lead to backlash and a more intense milking of the failing biz plan that they are clinging to like the parasites they are.
If you can think of any way possible the RIAA labels can become even more evil than they already are, you've got a better imagination than I do. Either that or you're in management.
At least he isn't huffing them.
Well, at least we don't have to listen to their damned poetry!
You don't know that it didn't already go nova 8000 years ago.
Easy, they asked me.
That's the thing - indoctrinating children with their religious beliefs is completely unnecessary. Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined.