Not true for Sprint, all of the phones for Sprint at my BestBuy are almost ALWAYS cheaper than a Sprint store. In fact, most of the phones at my BestBuy are cheaper than any of the carrier stores. Also, the do not do mail-in-rebates anymore, that many carrier stores still do, BestBuy already has the mail-in-rebate equivalent discounted in the price or more.
Maybe AT&T is different, but damn, I would never go to a Sprint store to get a phone... EVER. If AT&T is better in that regard, great... still doesn't make up for the fact their connection quality and reliability is SHITTY and OVERPRICED.
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What I find weird is... I walk into my nearest Best Buy: Their mobile staff is really REALLY knowledgeable; their computer staff are knee-dragging morons! Is the mobile section of Best Buy a better money maker and worth having knowledgeable staff more-so than the computer section?
And $20 is EXPENSIVE for a game there, many game cap at $10 (full-fledged games)... I grabbed a couple of complete PopCap games there for $5 a piece and they play fantastic.
Mostly, superusers don't like change. The average office user, who uses less than 5% of the features of the products, like it more because the find features they could never figure out on their own.
superusers, who mad mastered many aspects of office, now have to relearn everything the HAD learned. other users don't complain, because they never really learned in the first place. The ribbon almost provides an interactive real use tutorial to new users... the old office apps, were incredibly daunting. superusers got used to the old interface, relearning everything is definitely harder and more frustrating than learning from scratch.
not much of a ribbon then really if it will be that. however, i know that Page menu is any operation that involves data on the currently viewed page. Tools is for everything else (about, configuration, history, UI manipulations, new tabs, etc...)
The point of the ribbon was to consolidate many complicated context sensitive (in this case i mean, menu items disable and enable based on current document context) menu items/tasks into a more readily available context sensitive toolbar (making a menu bar obsolete).
However, a web browser doesn't need that many context sensitive too bar elements. Chrome, Safari and even IE 8 already has a very simplified and usable tool bar (with one or two drop down menus for more detailed options - hardly requiring a ribbon).
The problem is, only a small fraction of Office users are "Advanced" users, they are the ones that has to do the most re-learning. The problem with Office (or even OOo) is that you average user has NO idea where any features beyond the very basic features are located in the software. Most know how to copy, paste, bold, italic, and save/open - and that is it.
The ribbon is supposed to show the average user immediate-to-advanced options for their software use and allow them to discover feature they would never even think of using. For them, it takes only 5 minutes, as the features they commonly use, it doesn't take long to show them where they are.
in the taskbar properties, you can revert to smaller icons and tell it to have labels. However, it will still *behave* like the new task bar - pinning items the aero-peek interface will remain, etc...
Most people don't "avoid" Bing (except maybe people like on slashdot, which aren't a consumer majority, by a longshot). People do not use Bing because most people have already used Yahoo! and Google for years, most people won't know the difference that much except maybe "hmm it looks a little bit different". If Bing's engine is better than Yahoo!'s, then maybe people will stay with Yahoo! even longer - well, as long as Yahoo can survive that is.
Really dark chocolate seems to have some interesting health effects. Really dark chocolates have more cocoa and much less sugar (example, my wife is Type 2 Diabetic, if she really wants chocolate, she gets at 70%+ cocoa chocolate bar) then your milk chocolate bars. Eating one like that every day as probably the same sugar risk as eating a couple pieces of toast.
If it is lower on the cocoa content, then yeah, I think that would be somewhat dangerous IMNSHO.
You make programming sound like some elitist club that only a few can joined and only if they do it the right way. I would say programming is totally useless with the ability to do any sort of logic processing.
Any tool that allows to execute some arbitrary set of rules on a computing platform based on a series of log process would constitute as programming to me. Syntax is truly just semantics here. "Strict syntax"?? - are you a Python programmer or something? (sorry... some languages are just not strict, well, to me - esp. those with no type safety, I would argue the language at that moment, would be pretty lax);) What is to say a visual programming language could not exist and be, ultimately just as powerful as anything with "keywords" and symbols to define branches, loops and entities?
This tool the article talks about may not be it... yet. Who is to say it couldn't evolve into such a tool that dwarfed many "traditional" languages in capabilities.
Any tool - text-based, graphic-based, hell, anything-based that could provide an excellent programming/development platform would be interesting to me. Any on that can teach logic AND programming at the same time would be beyond awesome.
If we are actually talking about the "BETA" - that WAS limited release. The Release Candidate is available to everyone. So, for a while, the Win7 Beta was absolutely more limited in distribution than the RC (even though you could create a copy of the disk image and give them your activation code, as those were shared - just the availability from MS was limited).
I would call the iPod a lot of positive words/descriptors. "Affordable" would not be one of those. I love my current iPod, but you pay a premium for quality/capabilities of such a device.
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I can already find a ton of Marge Simpson pr0n on the internet.
Oh internet... Is there nothing you won't show naked?
Rosie O'Donn...
wait... no... not any more...
*sobs uncontrollably*
Not true for Sprint, all of the phones for Sprint at my BestBuy are almost ALWAYS cheaper than a Sprint store. In fact, most of the phones at my BestBuy are cheaper than any of the carrier stores. Also, the do not do mail-in-rebates anymore, that many carrier stores still do, BestBuy already has the mail-in-rebate equivalent discounted in the price or more.
Maybe AT&T is different, but damn, I would never go to a Sprint store to get a phone... EVER. If AT&T is better in that regard, great... still doesn't make up for the fact their connection quality and reliability is SHITTY and OVERPRICED.
What I find weird is... I walk into my nearest Best Buy: Their mobile staff is really REALLY knowledgeable; their computer staff are knee-dragging morons! Is the mobile section of Best Buy a better money maker and worth having knowledgeable staff more-so than the computer section?
Wish I had mod points. I use PC/Consoles for big-screen gaming. my ipod touch gets more gaming time when i poop more than anything else.
And $20 is EXPENSIVE for a game there, many game cap at $10 (full-fledged games)... I grabbed a couple of complete PopCap games there for $5 a piece and they play fantastic.
Mostly, superusers don't like change. The average office user, who uses less than 5% of the features of the products, like it more because the find features they could never figure out on their own.
superusers, who mad mastered many aspects of office, now have to relearn everything the HAD learned. other users don't complain, because they never really learned in the first place. The ribbon almost provides an interactive real use tutorial to new users... the old office apps, were incredibly daunting. superusers got used to the old interface, relearning everything is definitely harder and more frustrating than learning from scratch.
not much of a ribbon then really if it will be that. however, i know that Page menu is any operation that involves data on the currently viewed page. Tools is for everything else (about, configuration, history, UI manipulations, new tabs, etc...)
ok, how would the UI know what context you are based on, say a cursor or mouse position?
I would argue those aren't contexts, but, instead, command groups - which could be contextual or not
The point of the ribbon was to consolidate many complicated context sensitive (in this case i mean, menu items disable and enable based on current document context) menu items/tasks into a more readily available context sensitive toolbar (making a menu bar obsolete).
However, a web browser doesn't need that many context sensitive too bar elements. Chrome, Safari and even IE 8 already has a very simplified and usable tool bar (with one or two drop down menus for more detailed options - hardly requiring a ribbon).
i just don't really get this...
it's probably been the KLF the entire time...
like you can do in most any current browser now you mean?
That's the Office Menu, it replaces most things in "File" as there isn't a "File" menu, made sense to em to start looking there.
The problem is, only a small fraction of Office users are "Advanced" users, they are the ones that has to do the most re-learning. The problem with Office (or even OOo) is that you average user has NO idea where any features beyond the very basic features are located in the software. Most know how to copy, paste, bold, italic, and save/open - and that is it.
The ribbon is supposed to show the average user immediate-to-advanced options for their software use and allow them to discover feature they would never even think of using. For them, it takes only 5 minutes, as the features they commonly use, it doesn't take long to show them where they are.
in the taskbar properties, you can revert to smaller icons and tell it to have labels. However, it will still *behave* like the new task bar - pinning items the aero-peek interface will remain, etc...
Most people don't "avoid" Bing (except maybe people like on slashdot, which aren't a consumer majority, by a longshot). People do not use Bing because most people have already used Yahoo! and Google for years, most people won't know the difference that much except maybe "hmm it looks a little bit different". If Bing's engine is better than Yahoo!'s, then maybe people will stay with Yahoo! even longer - well, as long as Yahoo can survive that is.
How do you reboot a franchise that just has one game?
really? does it taste like easting coffee beans? ;)
Really dark chocolate seems to have some interesting health effects. Really dark chocolates have more cocoa and much less sugar (example, my wife is Type 2 Diabetic, if she really wants chocolate, she gets at 70%+ cocoa chocolate bar) then your milk chocolate bars. Eating one like that every day as probably the same sugar risk as eating a couple pieces of toast.
If it is lower on the cocoa content, then yeah, I think that would be somewhat dangerous IMNSHO.
they all look like beef jerky to me
You make programming sound like some elitist club that only a few can joined and only if they do it the right way. I would say programming is totally useless with the ability to do any sort of logic processing.
;) What is to say a visual programming language could not exist and be, ultimately just as powerful as anything with "keywords" and symbols to define branches, loops and entities?
Any tool that allows to execute some arbitrary set of rules on a computing platform based on a series of log process would constitute as programming to me. Syntax is truly just semantics here. "Strict syntax"?? - are you a Python programmer or something? (sorry... some languages are just not strict, well, to me - esp. those with no type safety, I would argue the language at that moment, would be pretty lax)
This tool the article talks about may not be it... yet. Who is to say it couldn't evolve into such a tool that dwarfed many "traditional" languages in capabilities.
Any tool - text-based, graphic-based, hell, anything-based that could provide an excellent programming/development platform would be interesting to me. Any on that can teach logic AND programming at the same time would be beyond awesome.
(sorry VB.net compiles to MSIL - not classic VB which is absolutely NOTHING like C#)
Wrong, C# and VB have very little in common - except they both can compile into MSIL and use the .NET framework. LIKE EVERY OTHER .NET LANGUAGE.
If we are actually talking about the "BETA" - that WAS limited release. The Release Candidate is available to everyone. So, for a while, the Win7 Beta was absolutely more limited in distribution than the RC (even though you could create a copy of the disk image and give them your activation code, as those were shared - just the availability from MS was limited).
iPod = affordable?
I would call the iPod a lot of positive words/descriptors. "Affordable" would not be one of those. I love my current iPod, but you pay a premium for quality/capabilities of such a device.
not all open source apps are on a Linux platform