The problem of effective screen real estate minimized by toolbars can easily be handled by having visible only those toolbars that are important... Hiding the options behind tabs is not a good solution, because it increases the number of clicks it takes to move from one state of the ribbon to another.
Except to have access to the same number of functions/actions with the toolbars, I need many more toolbars and lots more real-estate. Tabbed interfaces take care of that - you have the same real-estate shared among logical groups.
And of course I can create my own custom tabs, with functionality that I predominantly use so I do not need to switch between different tabs at all.
(and by getting a larger screen)
Great! How can I upgrade the screen on my laptop?
The UI even works on a laptop, with a much smaller screen.
No, it does not. The ribbon, in its default state (i.e. expanded), takes some serious space. It takes more space than a single menu bar and two tool bars with most Word options.
Yes, because <ctrl>+F1 is so hard to do... Try it, it toggles the visible status of the ribbon.
Why does the cache need to exist save the last access of tower location? Getting the location of a tower takes a second or two, plenty of time to speed up your GPS acquisition. If I am traveling in Los Angeles, there is precious little benefit in knowing where a tower was 8 months ago when I was in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Additionally, acquisition from a cold start should take less than 30 seconds (unless you have a really poor chipset); with a single, quick hit on the cell tower server (I use an HTC Touch Pro 2 and it has a "QuickGPS" app that does just that - ping's Verizon's servers about the position of the current tower I'm talking to) to get the position of the tower I'm connected, that GPS acquisition should be in the sub-3 second range.
This whole thing is incredibly bizarre. People are complaining that their GPS knows where it's been. Think about that.
Yes, think about that. For what reason does my GPS need to know where I've BEEN? I can understand it wanting to know where I AM, and where I might BE (for mapping purposes), but there's really no benefit in knowing where I WAS, unless I want to specifically map my path.
Sure, location awareness is nice, but why does it need to remember that sometime last December you went to Florida, instead of just looking at your current location and ignoring the history? I usually get time and automatic weather updates within 30 seconds of powering back on after touching down... Bing and Google Search both have a "locations near me" option, so I don't need to specify a city or state - just what business (or kind of business) I'm looking for. I really don't see the need to retain ANY location history.
You must be monitored and marketed to so the empire of Jobs can continue to grow. How else can they created ads that are location-aware, and thus out-Google Google?
Except that's irrelevant; what matters is how many iOS PHONES there are. Half of Apple's revenue comes from the iPhone - NOT other iOS devices. And most Android devices are phones. The tablets are irrelevant, because Apple's cash cow - their core source of revenue and profit - is the iPhone.
I cannot answer that, but since there are 145 million objects in the Library of Congress, and the average weight is about a pound, then there are 65.759.637.188 kg per Library of Congress. And as everybody knows, a Library of Congress IS and accepted SI unit.
Except we're not going into debt - and going deeper - from wars and military spending. It's entitlements which are growing, and to which we've just added with health care. The only way to deal with the debt and deficit is to address entitlements. Everything else is window dressing.
Funny how the same fucks who are always whinging about "tort reform" are typically screaming about how we need to be "tough on crime" with uber-long sentences. Apparently, doing crime only counts if you're unfortunate enough to not be rich.
This award is more akin to sentencing a person to 100 consecutive life sentences, but they don't have to start them until they walk to the prison... It's a huge judgment without any teeth to really enforce the judgment.
I see complaints about how it's all military spending that's the problem. Cut the entire DOD - the wars, the DOD, disband the entire military. Whack every penny. The deficit this year would STILL be over $800 billion dollars. The problem isn't military spending; it's entitlement spending. That drives 2/3rds of the US Federal spending, and it's growing at an ever-increasing rate (and with the addition of nationalized Healthcare, it will grow even faster). Entitlement spending is the problem. All else is window dressing.
Other than the cost of the bomb? Not really. There's a pretty big supply of willing suicide bombers, so it's really a couple hundred dollars of explosives and shrapnel that you lose.
The story is about Internet USERS, not Internet HOUSEHOLDS. A Household with 15 Mbps and 4 people there would qualify - according to this study - as four of those unlucky "slow Internet" people.
I have 1 Mbps down, 512 kbps up, and I like it. I could pay more for higher speed, but this works fine for me, and I like the price of $14.99 per month that I pay for the service. It's plenty for surfing, using SVN for checkins/checkouts of code, and streaming Pandora or Netflix, all at the same time... Maybe a lot of people in the US don't have "fast broadband" because they don't want or need it?
Maybe the airplane works to spec, but the CD player did not - it was poorly built or designed and radiated way more RF noise than ever anticipated... Sometimes it's not the receiver, but the transmitter.
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+F1 is really good at hiding/showing the ribbon...
The problem of effective screen real estate minimized by toolbars can easily be handled by having visible only those toolbars that are important... Hiding the options behind tabs is not a good solution, because it increases the number of clicks it takes to move from one state of the ribbon to another.
Except to have access to the same number of functions/actions with the toolbars, I need many more toolbars and lots more real-estate. Tabbed interfaces take care of that - you have the same real-estate shared among logical groups.
And of course I can create my own custom tabs, with functionality that I predominantly use so I do not need to switch between different tabs at all.
(and by getting a larger screen)
Great! How can I upgrade the screen on my laptop?
The UI even works on a laptop, with a much smaller screen.
No, it does not. The ribbon, in its default state (i.e. expanded), takes some serious space. It takes more space than a single menu bar and two tool bars with most Word options.
Yes, because <ctrl>+F1 is so hard to do... Try it, it toggles the visible status of the ribbon.
Additionally, acquisition from a cold start should take less than 30 seconds (unless you have a really poor chipset); with a single, quick hit on the cell tower server (I use an HTC Touch Pro 2 and it has a "QuickGPS" app that does just that - ping's Verizon's servers about the position of the current tower I'm talking to) to get the position of the tower I'm connected, that GPS acquisition should be in the sub-3 second range.
This whole thing is incredibly bizarre. People are complaining that their GPS knows where it's been. Think about that.
Yes, think about that. For what reason does my GPS need to know where I've BEEN? I can understand it wanting to know where I AM, and where I might BE (for mapping purposes), but there's really no benefit in knowing where I WAS, unless I want to specifically map my path.
No, they're perfectly fine for their target market of erotic story writhers...;)
Sure, location awareness is nice, but why does it need to remember that sometime last December you went to Florida, instead of just looking at your current location and ignoring the history? I usually get time and automatic weather updates within 30 seconds of powering back on after touching down... Bing and Google Search both have a "locations near me" option, so I don't need to specify a city or state - just what business (or kind of business) I'm looking for. I really don't see the need to retain ANY location history.
No, the reason they are spying on your location is to start working on location-aware advertisements. They want to out-Google Google...
You must be monitored and marketed to so the empire of Jobs can continue to grow. How else can they created ads that are location-aware, and thus out-Google Google?
He also programs in a language he created himself, targeting the PowerPC processor and monochrome vector graphics...
Mac User Older More conservative than anything you've ever heard on radio or seen elected to office anywhere
And proof there is some intelligence around /. - at least in terms of politics!
Except that's irrelevant; what matters is how many iOS PHONES there are. Half of Apple's revenue comes from the iPhone - NOT other iOS devices. And most Android devices are phones. The tablets are irrelevant, because Apple's cash cow - their core source of revenue and profit - is the iPhone.
There are tons of reasons to buy an iPod Touch over an iPhone - notably, lack of contracts, cheaper, and until recently, avoiding AT&T.
And both function about the same when it comes to making phone calls, too!
I'll do that - considering Microsoft makes more profit in absolute dollars as well...
No, they caused it to crash in 2001, with the dot-bomb implosion...
I cannot answer that, but since there are 145 million objects in the Library of Congress, and the average weight is about a pound, then there are 65.759.637.188 kg per Library of Congress. And as everybody knows, a Library of Congress IS and accepted SI unit.
Except we're not going into debt - and going deeper - from wars and military spending. It's entitlements which are growing, and to which we've just added with health care. The only way to deal with the debt and deficit is to address entitlements. Everything else is window dressing.
Funny how the same fucks who are always whinging about "tort reform" are typically screaming about how we need to be "tough on crime" with uber-long sentences. Apparently, doing crime only counts if you're unfortunate enough to not be rich.
This award is more akin to sentencing a person to 100 consecutive life sentences, but they don't have to start them until they walk to the prison... It's a huge judgment without any teeth to really enforce the judgment.
Next is the insane military industrial complex.
I see complaints about how it's all military spending that's the problem. Cut the entire DOD - the wars, the DOD, disband the entire military. Whack every penny. The deficit this year would STILL be over $800 billion dollars. The problem isn't military spending; it's entitlement spending. That drives 2/3rds of the US Federal spending, and it's growing at an ever-increasing rate (and with the addition of nationalized Healthcare, it will grow even faster). Entitlement spending is the problem. All else is window dressing.
Other than the cost of the bomb? Not really. There's a pretty big supply of willing suicide bombers, so it's really a couple hundred dollars of explosives and shrapnel that you lose.
The story is about Internet USERS, not Internet HOUSEHOLDS. A Household with 15 Mbps and 4 people there would qualify - according to this study - as four of those unlucky "slow Internet" people.
The US is more than one State and one regulatory district. Lumping the US as one entity is a little silly.
I have 1 Mbps down, 512 kbps up, and I like it. I could pay more for higher speed, but this works fine for me, and I like the price of $14.99 per month that I pay for the service. It's plenty for surfing, using SVN for checkins/checkouts of code, and streaming Pandora or Netflix, all at the same time... Maybe a lot of people in the US don't have "fast broadband" because they don't want or need it?
Maybe where YOU are, but what about in Italy?
Maybe the airplane works to spec, but the CD player did not - it was poorly built or designed and radiated way more RF noise than ever anticipated... Sometimes it's not the receiver, but the transmitter.