I'm all for civil liberties, but theres dangerous terrorists on the loose who want to destroy our way of life. What's the loss of a few freedoms as long as were safer / being protected? Thinks like habeus corpus and search warrants and right to speedy trial and reprentation only protect bad people anyway. If you haven't done anything wrong what have you got to fear?
Some of that memory usage is not bloat, its caching. Windows has always dome this to a certain extent. The more ram you have the more it uses to improve the user experience. Vista just does it more, typically with better results.
People like to blame MS for dirty tricks in establishing IE as the "standard." This is the real reason. People started using IE because Netscape started sucking.
Would there be controls in place for this download and install app? I see two bad scenarios, both of which can be construed as "typical MS evil"
You browse the available apps for what you need. The user chooses "Billy Bobs hacked botnet client and Web browser." MS is blamed to "offering" lousy / dangerous software.
The second option is that MS is very picky and only allows trusted apps. Those left out for various reasons will cry foul, and file suit.
I beg to differ. You have another trait that sets you apart - you try and you learn. I've seen people waste time calling support for things they should know if they could only bother to learn. They use the line "I dont know nothin about computers" to excuse their ignorance.
Its not that some users cant. Its usually that they wont.
Where did he say he was a greifer? Bio-shock is a single player game. Hes doing an activity that is defined within the game. I would agree with you that griefers are annoying assholes. But its not because they win or because they beat you - its because they are cheating.
To be clear, there are clear QAM tuners available for Windows. But they require a 3rd party app, media center does not support the tuner natively for recording or through the onscreen guide.
And how much information is the dock providing you on these open windows?
Even less. Only that a program that lives in the dock is running. And it only shows windows you had the foresight to minimize. And if you minimized them all you'd have the same issue as with the windows taskbar.
Neither the dock nor the taskbar scale well. In the 20 windows scenario you'd need a "ctrl tab," expose, or flip 3d to effectively sort them no matter the OS.
I'm sure theres a better way that no ones thought of yet. But for right now I'd kill for a taskbar clone in OS X.
Yes, Flip 3-d is essentially a flashier version of expose. I can't really say which one I like better. I still like the task bar. It provides a quick visual tally of what windows are available and which one is active. Child windows rarely get lost, in large part due to the taskbar.
Window management. OS X needs a real taskbar that keeps track of open windows. The dock tries to do too much and doesn't do any of it as well as the Windows taskbar. its far too easy to lose windows in OS X. Expose helps, but seems like a subpar hack rather than an improvement in interface design.
I'll grant you that the Windows interface follows the Mac lead, but they did make some substantial improvements.
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I'm all for civil liberties, but theres dangerous terrorists on the loose who want to destroy our way of life. What's the loss of a few freedoms as long as were safer / being protected? Thinks like habeus corpus and search warrants and right to speedy trial and reprentation only protect bad people anyway. If you haven't done anything wrong what have you got to fear?
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Some of that memory usage is not bloat, its caching. Windows has always dome this to a certain extent. The more ram you have the more it uses to improve the user experience. Vista just does it more, typically with better results.
People like to blame MS for dirty tricks in establishing IE as the "standard." This is the real reason. People started using IE because Netscape started sucking.
You lost all your audiophile cred with "I only buy Greatest Hits albums" and "I'll just record it off the radio"
And on top of that the Zune's not all bad. The device itself is very nice and competes very well with the equivalent ipod.
I cant say the same for the software unfortunately. And they're a *software company.*
I used to mock V also, but its downright Shakespearian compared to Nemesis.
Would there be controls in place for this download and install app? I see two bad scenarios, both of which can be construed as "typical MS evil"
You browse the available apps for what you need. The user chooses "Billy Bobs hacked botnet client and Web browser." MS is blamed to "offering" lousy / dangerous software.
The second option is that MS is very picky and only allows trusted apps. Those left out for various reasons will cry foul, and file suit.
I beg to differ. You have another trait that sets you apart - you try and you learn. I've seen people waste time calling support for things they should know if they could only bother to learn. They use the line "I dont know nothin about computers" to excuse their ignorance.
Its not that some users cant. Its usually that they wont.
This will be used against us when they rally their robotic brethren to overthrow the merciless shoving meatsack humans.
This is another nice option for burning ISOs.
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
My apologies. I thought you were referring to topham. I didnt see the parent to your post, I suppose because it was modded down as flamebait.
Evidently he was about 2 years away from using Windows 95. Its obvious you never have.
Where did he say he was a greifer? Bio-shock is a single player game. Hes doing an activity that is defined within the game. I would agree with you that griefers are annoying assholes. But its not because they win or because they beat you - its because they are cheating.
Nothing in his post indicated greifing.
Tell me about it. I like most of OSX but what I wouldnt give for a taskbar.
Dude, kittens are sharp.
Yes....yes they should.
Or the alternative, Ferarris for every one. woo!
Xp in general is bad coming back from hibernate. I don't see how this is a firefox problem.
To be clear, there are clear QAM tuners available for Windows. But they require a 3rd party app, media center does not support the tuner natively for recording or through the onscreen guide.
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And how much information is the dock providing you on these open windows?
Even less. Only that a program that lives in the dock is running. And it only shows windows you had the foresight to minimize. And if you minimized them all you'd have the same issue as with the windows taskbar.
Neither the dock nor the taskbar scale well. In the 20 windows scenario you'd need a "ctrl tab," expose, or flip 3d to effectively sort them no matter the OS.
I'm sure theres a better way that no ones thought of yet. But for right now I'd kill for a taskbar clone in OS X.
Yes, Flip 3-d is essentially a flashier version of expose. I can't really say which one I like better. I still like the task bar. It provides a quick visual tally of what windows are available and which one is active. Child windows rarely get lost, in large part due to the taskbar.
Window management. OS X needs a real taskbar that keeps track of open windows. The dock tries to do too much and doesn't do any of it as well as the Windows taskbar. its far too easy to lose windows in OS X. Expose helps, but seems like a subpar hack rather than an improvement in interface design. I'll grant you that the Windows interface follows the Mac lead, but they did make some substantial improvements.
Sure I'd go. Just not to the special preview before the opening. Wait a few weeks.
They made a Highlander II? =)
Like Star Trek before Insurrection...
I fixed it for both of you.
Yeah lets not judge too harshly. Say what you will about "Expanded Universe" they don't live down to the infamy of the movie prequels.