The Indians came to USA in dribs and drabs till 1960s. That was the time the employment based visa rules allowed the first wave of doctors and engineers to immigrate. Once the doctor shortage was declared to be over by AMA, there was a wave of nurses in 1980s. Then engineers were coming in small numbers till 1990s. Then the IT boom and the Y2K scare created a wave of 130,000 H1B visas per year that went mostly to Indians. After it has been reduced to 65000, due to off shoring and local labor market improvements, the Indian immigration has slowed down considerably in recent years. It is so well recorded, why is it even published?
Is it illegal in the UK for a private company (without any government funds) to mix religion with its business? It is illegal in USA? If there is no public resources involved, there is no standing for others to sue them.
On the other hand, others do have the freedom of expression to disparage the idea and the company. Again not using public funds or resources.
Pluto does not wear any clothes and I don't think it is just the fifth time they found it walking away from the camera. Surely it has done it many more times and it is not Pluto's fifth moon.
Well, I am not very religious, not fundie and I very strongly believe in evolution and science. Having said that, the only objection I have about the fundies is their attempt to grab tax dollars, or use tax money to fund their views and their sense of entitlement to the use of public property while denying the same level of access to the minority religions and atheists.
Here, as long as tax dollars are not used to support the ISP and if it is not a government sanctioned utility, I don't see anything wrong in a private company doing it with their own money and capital. You don't like it, use a different ISP.
Further recognize it is UK, it is not a secular nation but a Christian/Protestant nation and their laws will differ from ours, I mean the USA's. We did not like their laws and so we said adios way back in 1770s.
Well, he might as well order the waves to stop, like King Canute. Or follow the more recent example from North Carolina, ordering the Atlantic Ocean not to rise non-linearly.
Find what percentage of people arguing "grammar does not matter anymore" write perfectly formed full sentences with correct spelling and the percentage of people who defend the importance of grammar make typos and grammar mistakes.
Quicken repeatedly pitches moving my account tracking to "quicken.com" instead of my home desktop so that I can access it from anywhere. I don;t use it. It allows me to use its "bank safe" feature to store all the passwords in one place with one master password. I don't use it. I don not give my password to any third party. I punch in the password every time I down load transactions. The quicken file(s) will not have any passwords.
But Quicken is a private proprietary closed software and I just have to trust them, that they are not acting as man in the middle and cache my software. Also I should trust them to have enough procedure control over the source code to prevent rogue employees from slipping in a man-in-the-middle malware. But I have not found any serious alternative to Quicken.
This decision is going to create a new problem. Bank lawyers are going to design and approve the security measures of the bank. They do it purely from a lawyer view point. "Will this procedure allow the bank to argue in a court, we have done all we could your honor, to protect the customer.". They would not worry about whether are not the security has been actually enhanced, or whether the procedures would be convenient enough for the customers to adopt.
Each bank and brokerage account I have wants to send me an RSA dongle. "It is free! It is convenient! Add it to your key bunch! And lug it every where!". If I follow their advice my key fob will have more RSA dongles than actual keys. Then once you accept an RSA dongle, Quicken is not able to download transactions. "You want both security and also download transactions to Quicken? Choose either this or that buddy. I will tell the court we offered RSA dongle and he refused. He is totally at fault.".
You have the enthu. You want to learn. You are willing to put in the effort needed. You have two choices:
choice1 Play it safe. Continue to learn. But do not show off. Allow some of the seniors who are kind and who you like to take credit for some of the work you do. Fit in, and you will get ahead faster than many others but not super fast.
choice 2 Build a network of contacts. Market yourself. Find one great skill you have in something you love doing. Find someone to back you up and form your own company. Find a talented middle manager in your company two or three levels above you who is frustrated by not being able to move up. Show your talent and form a partnership. Have a plan to be your own boss before you lose the enthu or the youth.
One of the most interesting experiments Skinner did with pigeons, is the random reward experiment. Instead of trying the teach the pigeons to peck at red dot or blue dot or ring a bell, he simply randomly rewarded them with food. What the pigeons did was remarkable. They all developed superstitions. One would walk clockwise, and another would cower in a corner, another would lean to the left and yet another would stretch its neck. These pigeons all sincerely believed it is their action that made the food appear magically!
Some time in the 1980s the corporations realized the efficiencies of using office computers. But it was an esoteric and complex device and it required lots of training to use, and the top managers did not fully understand how easy/difficult it would be. I have seen highly intelligent relatives of mine who were totally flummoxed by the PC. So they were desperately looking for ways to reduce training costs and to get some kind of predictability. They wanted interoperability and portable skills for their work force. They picked on Microsoft as the common thing. Once enough corporations picked Microsoft, probably because of strong recommendations by IBM and its association with IBM, Microsoft became the de-facto monopoly. Food will appear magically. Not at random but at predictable intervels in a torrent.
Microsoft managers, like the pigeons in the random reward Skinner's box, started believing it is their action that had resulted in this huge torrent of cash. This torrent cash masked the incompetence of managers, the mediocrity of the products, the lack of innovation, the corrosive work culture, abusive customer relations, etc etc.
The article is way off base. The most fundamental reason for their success is not anything they have done or not done. It is the whole corporate sector conflating "Microsoft compatibility" with "interoperability". Otherwise they have always been the same. Lackluster products and copying/buying innovation done elsewhere has been its mainstay. The low quality of its products was masked by the ever increasing speed and decreasing cost of hardware. Their monopoly masked the incompetence of their managers. All that is happening now is people inside and outside Microsoft, waking up and smelling the coffee.
What is the issue here? Aren't angry birds supposed to crash? You are supposed to pull the catapult and release it and the angry birds crash into structures built by pigs and destroy them. Don't get upset, there is a never ending supply of angry birds. So what is the problem here?
Maybe. I have yet to see any actual historical evidence to indicate that there were no protests, but I would not be surprised in either case, since there was little in the way of mass media in 1797.
So on one hand even the casual routine activities by the founding fathers are to be analyzed for deep secondary and hidden meanings. "Oh! He said Creator in singular not creators in plural, and don't forget the capitalization!" or "He attended a prayer service on public property" or "They allowed churches to bid for public
service contracts". On the other hand, explicit declaration like this article of a treaty ratified unanimously by the Senate without provoking any recorded protest should be dismissed, "meh! big deal. They were not into following news that closely!".
More importantly, though, remember the context: when this treaty was signed, states continued to recognize and fund, with taxpayer dollars, state churches, and some would continue to do so for decades (particularly Connecticut, which disestablished its state church in 1818 and Massachusettes which had disestablished in 1780 but continued to fund a state Church until 1833. Many other states continued official endorsement of a particular Church in other ways).
So what? Many states continued to practice slavery and indentured service. For much longer after 1833. It took a war to get that straightened out. Churches went out of government with much less effort than a full fledged war. The states denied women property rights. Denied them voting rights. The federal government passed a law saying only Caucasians can own property. When Indian (dots not feathers) Americans claimed they were Caucasians, the Supreme Court ruled "meh! you guys are Caucasians but not white. Congress meant White. So no land for you!". A few instances of a few States spending tax dollars preferentially on one religion is nothing compared to the strong language in the written record about the intent of the framers and the lack of serious protest about it at that time from the general public. All the evidence points to a general consensus that "giving churches a say in the government is a bad idea" by the framers, by the churches and by the general public at that time.
My point was not mainly about the Treaty of Tripoli. It is about the dog that did not bark. The lack of public protests. The lack of concern about it in news papers and sermons and private correspondence. There was no, "look what we are forced to agree to by the damn Barbery pirates" anywhere. If the elder statesmen felt extorted into signing it, the local reverend whose sermon will never be heard in Tripoli did not have to constrain himself. He could have blasted it. Or explained to his congregation, "it is a wink and nod to fool them mehmetans". None of this happened. Everyone just accepted that church and the state shall not be mixed up.
Yes, you would not get it. I had educated so many like you.
Why didn't you use cygwin or some other unix-like build environment on Windows?
I use cygwin. Once the command line support came back in msdev, it was just a matter of a week to parse the sln files, vcproj files (actually their earlier incarnations) and write some perl scripts to build the makefiles to drive linux builds. But now our build process is driven from sln files controlled by MS, not Imakefiles under our control. At every upgrade we have to tweak. Additional cost for supporting linux because of this. There was no additional cost to support MSWin under our own Imakefiles. This is the kind of stacking the deck and creating pain to all others, that earned such a bad name for Microsoft.
Why were your build scripts complicated enough that they needed laborious conversions?
Because, MSdev of that version did not support command lines. Do you get it? The only way to build the target is to launch the gui and click on the damned build button. This was before XML. The file format was finicky and undocumented. We could not create the exact project files using scripts.
Why didn't your team have enough code review or discipline to stop someone including afxwin.h, or why didn't at least some of your 10k source files include some standard debugging functionality that was used instead?
Buddy, I was the enforcer. I am telling you what it takes to impose the discipline on the developers. We acquire companies, that used to be purely MS shops. They made small tools, never bothered about porting or supporting other platforms. We need to get past, "old unix geezers who have been made obsolete making my life difficult", "corporate goons who are pita" "people suffering from not invented here syndrome" "people who resist change and were stuck on old paradigms". After investing millions of dollars to acquire a company you can't just blow them off, we need to make them see our point of view, and genuinely convert them and earn their allegiance and trust. For most of our developers their programming knowledge is secondary to their skills in math and physics. They are PhDs and Masters in various engineering and physics disciplines. Often they will come in with good reputation and respect in the field. And they usually won't tolerate discipline imposed from the top. Once they understand why we ask them to do what we ask them to do, they will jump through hoops to comply.
Where do you get the idea that Metro will be crammed down your throat? For apps like yours, it certainly won't.
To be frank, I don't know if they will cram it down our throats. But was hoping they would. People who used to be ga-ga over Microsoft already feel betrayed by Microsoft. End of lifing MFC, making them port everything to.Net framework, then end-of-lifing the registry etc have left them with some sour taste in the mouth. Something like this could push them over the top.
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Treaty of Tripoli. Passed unanimously by the Senate. Three newspapers printed it whole. Each Senator got a printed copy. Not a single letters to the editor in protest. Not a single sermon recorded anywhere in protest. No protest from anyone in the USA. Almost all the founding fathers were still alive. No concern about it even in their private correspondence. John Adams made a special signing statement about this treaty. Against such specific and unambiguous statements, you look for symbolic meaning on their various acts.
I am a Hindu. I am here. I have as much rights and as much American as you are. Deal with it.
In my visit to Montecello, the factoid that impressed me most was the meat ration of his workers (yes, slaves). It was half a pound a week! Three quarter pounder burgers are routinely on the menu now a days. Most of us work in air conditioned offices clicking keyboards and mouse. Even the blue collar workers have so many machines assisting them it is practically a walk in the park compared to the work done by Teejay's workers. But they made do with just half a pound of meat!
May be the PC is changing. And may be this is where money is and this is where highly amortized commodity mass market devices are heading. But I am glad our company kept linux support alive. Our product does heavy duty scientific computing and number crunching. Traditional mainframe/unix support was the mainstay. One by one our platform makers succumbed. Cray fell. Then SGI irix tru64. Then DEC alpha. Then HP-UX. Then Sun-Solaris. We were forced to switch to Windows as the main development environment. They took command line batch build away in Ms-Dev 4.0. We laboriously converted our nice Imakefiles and makefiles and home grown scripts that will build on PC from Imakefiles to vcproj files. Then they brought it back in Ms-Dev, but our Imakefiles and scripts were irrecoverably damaged. We were forced to use mainsoft for porting. Then mainsoft broke up with Microsoft. Some idiot in Remond thought "no executable is going to be built using more than 10000 source files!" And his monkey of a manager approved. Our builds broke.
Through it all we persevered. A few of us were preaching separating "GUI from kernel" "event driven code from procedural code". And we pulled extra hours to practice what we preached. Fellow developers from MS world randomly included afxwin.h deep inside non graphical kernel library code to add a one line debug statement, broke the linux builds and threw tantrums when called to fix the offending code, "it is working in Windows, so it can't be my problem. You fix it in Linux". We suffered all these indignities and got our product to build and run in Linux all the time. We no longer have a 3 month delay in releasing linux version.
Now this. Good riddance. Let the windows and its market dominance and its subsidizing the computing platform go chasing the tablets or whatever. Before Wintel monopoly we had 90% revenue fro unix sales, it dropped to 10% at the height, now linux is back up to 40%. If they cram the win-8 interface down the throat or make our software to be sold through appstore or something, our windows version sales will have no place to go but down. Finally sanity will return. We will separate content from presentation. We will separate gui code from non-graphical code. We will separate event driven code from procedure libraries. Vindication at last.
All routers supplied by Verizon for FiOS service has a WAN side log-in port open, and they install firmware upgrades and you can do nothing about it. If you want FiOS you have to let them do whatever they want with the bits coming of the router at their end.
Just some time back I felt a great disturbance in force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I shrugged it off as a side effect of the burrito I had from Taco Bell last night. Looks like it was more than that.
The link you said says you can navigate down the floders in the quick launch toolbar to find the app to launch. In my WinXP it just launches the file explorer on the top folder in quick launch bar. But if I make a folder in desktop to be a toolbar, it lets me navigate down the folders to find the app to launch.
I figured out what is going on. If there are enough space to show all the icons in the quick launch bar or the my tool bar, it only shows a folder and it launches file explorer on it when clicked. If the tool bar runs out of space and shows the tiny two greater than signs, that opens a navigable cascading menu. I like my task bar on the right edge of the screen, not bottom.
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You talkin' about feathers not dots, right? oops.
On the other hand, others do have the freedom of expression to disparage the idea and the company. Again not using public funds or resources.
Pluto does not wear any clothes and I don't think it is just the fifth time they found it walking away from the camera. Surely it has done it many more times and it is not Pluto's fifth moon.
Sorry I called you Shirley.
Here, as long as tax dollars are not used to support the ISP and if it is not a government sanctioned utility, I don't see anything wrong in a private company doing it with their own money and capital. You don't like it, use a different ISP.
Further recognize it is UK, it is not a secular nation but a Christian/Protestant nation and their laws will differ from ours, I mean the USA's. We did not like their laws and so we said adios way back in 1770s.
Well, he might as well order the waves to stop, like King Canute. Or follow the more recent example from North Carolina, ordering the Atlantic Ocean not to rise non-linearly.
Find what percentage of people arguing "grammar does not matter anymore" write perfectly formed full sentences with correct spelling and the percentage of people who defend the importance of grammar make typos and grammar mistakes.
me donT caRe 4 grmmr. pnuctuatoin too. dont Worry abt seplling either. eef ewe kant git it eet ees yor prblem,.
But Quicken is a private proprietary closed software and I just have to trust them, that they are not acting as man in the middle and cache my software. Also I should trust them to have enough procedure control over the source code to prevent rogue employees from slipping in a man-in-the-middle malware. But I have not found any serious alternative to Quicken.
Each bank and brokerage account I have wants to send me an RSA dongle. "It is free! It is convenient! Add it to your key bunch! And lug it every where!". If I follow their advice my key fob will have more RSA dongles than actual keys. Then once you accept an RSA dongle, Quicken is not able to download transactions. "You want both security and also download transactions to Quicken? Choose either this or that buddy. I will tell the court we offered RSA dongle and he refused. He is totally at fault.".
Come on, this is not a real lawsuit! It is just an "post graduate training in management and economics, practicals, unit test 1, Law suits 303".
choice1 Play it safe. Continue to learn. But do not show off. Allow some of the seniors who are kind and who you like to take credit for some of the work you do. Fit in, and you will get ahead faster than many others but not super fast.
choice 2 Build a network of contacts. Market yourself. Find one great skill you have in something you love doing. Find someone to back you up and form your own company. Find a talented middle manager in your company two or three levels above you who is frustrated by not being able to move up. Show your talent and form a partnership. Have a plan to be your own boss before you lose the enthu or the youth.
Some time in the 1980s the corporations realized the efficiencies of using office computers. But it was an esoteric and complex device and it required lots of training to use, and the top managers did not fully understand how easy/difficult it would be. I have seen highly intelligent relatives of mine who were totally flummoxed by the PC. So they were desperately looking for ways to reduce training costs and to get some kind of predictability. They wanted interoperability and portable skills for their work force. They picked on Microsoft as the common thing. Once enough corporations picked Microsoft, probably because of strong recommendations by IBM and its association with IBM, Microsoft became the de-facto monopoly. Food will appear magically. Not at random but at predictable intervels in a torrent.
Microsoft managers, like the pigeons in the random reward Skinner's box, started believing it is their action that had resulted in this huge torrent of cash. This torrent cash masked the incompetence of managers, the mediocrity of the products, the lack of innovation, the corrosive work culture, abusive customer relations, etc etc.
The article is way off base. The most fundamental reason for their success is not anything they have done or not done. It is the whole corporate sector conflating "Microsoft compatibility" with "interoperability". Otherwise they have always been the same. Lackluster products and copying/buying innovation done elsewhere has been its mainstay. The low quality of its products was masked by the ever increasing speed and decreasing cost of hardware. Their monopoly masked the incompetence of their managers. All that is happening now is people inside and outside Microsoft, waking up and smelling the coffee.
What is the issue here? Aren't angry birds supposed to crash? You are supposed to pull the catapult and release it and the angry birds crash into structures built by pigs and destroy them. Don't get upset, there is a never ending supply of angry birds. So what is the problem here?
Maybe. I have yet to see any actual historical evidence to indicate that there were no protests, but I would not be surprised in either case, since there was little in the way of mass media in 1797.
So on one hand even the casual routine activities by the founding fathers are to be analyzed for deep secondary and hidden meanings. "Oh! He said Creator in singular not creators in plural, and don't forget the capitalization!" or "He attended a prayer service on public property" or "They allowed churches to bid for public service contracts". On the other hand, explicit declaration like this article of a treaty ratified unanimously by the Senate without provoking any recorded protest should be dismissed, "meh! big deal. They were not into following news that closely!".
More importantly, though, remember the context: when this treaty was signed, states continued to recognize and fund, with taxpayer dollars, state churches, and some would continue to do so for decades (particularly Connecticut, which disestablished its state church in 1818 and Massachusettes which had disestablished in 1780 but continued to fund a state Church until 1833. Many other states continued official endorsement of a particular Church in other ways).
So what? Many states continued to practice slavery and indentured service. For much longer after 1833. It took a war to get that straightened out. Churches went out of government with much less effort than a full fledged war. The states denied women property rights. Denied them voting rights. The federal government passed a law saying only Caucasians can own property. When Indian (dots not feathers) Americans claimed they were Caucasians, the Supreme Court ruled "meh! you guys are Caucasians but not white. Congress meant White. So no land for you!". A few instances of a few States spending tax dollars preferentially on one religion is nothing compared to the strong language in the written record about the intent of the framers and the lack of serious protest about it at that time from the general public. All the evidence points to a general consensus that "giving churches a say in the government is a bad idea" by the framers, by the churches and by the general public at that time.
My point was not mainly about the Treaty of Tripoli. It is about the dog that did not bark. The lack of public protests. The lack of concern about it in news papers and sermons and private correspondence. There was no, "look what we are forced to agree to by the damn Barbery pirates" anywhere. If the elder statesmen felt extorted into signing it, the local reverend whose sermon will never be heard in Tripoli did not have to constrain himself. He could have blasted it. Or explained to his congregation, "it is a wink and nod to fool them mehmetans". None of this happened. Everyone just accepted that church and the state shall not be mixed up.
Why didn't you use cygwin or some other unix-like build environment on Windows?
I use cygwin. Once the command line support came back in msdev, it was just a matter of a week to parse the sln files, vcproj files (actually their earlier incarnations) and write some perl scripts to build the makefiles to drive linux builds. But now our build process is driven from sln files controlled by MS, not Imakefiles under our control. At every upgrade we have to tweak. Additional cost for supporting linux because of this. There was no additional cost to support MSWin under our own Imakefiles. This is the kind of stacking the deck and creating pain to all others, that earned such a bad name for Microsoft.
Why were your build scripts complicated enough that they needed laborious conversions?
Because, MSdev of that version did not support command lines. Do you get it? The only way to build the target is to launch the gui and click on the damned build button. This was before XML. The file format was finicky and undocumented. We could not create the exact project files using scripts.
Why didn't your team have enough code review or discipline to stop someone including afxwin.h, or why didn't at least some of your 10k source files include some standard debugging functionality that was used instead?
Buddy, I was the enforcer. I am telling you what it takes to impose the discipline on the developers. We acquire companies, that used to be purely MS shops. They made small tools, never bothered about porting or supporting other platforms. We need to get past, "old unix geezers who have been made obsolete making my life difficult", "corporate goons who are pita" "people suffering from not invented here syndrome" "people who resist change and were stuck on old paradigms". After investing millions of dollars to acquire a company you can't just blow them off, we need to make them see our point of view, and genuinely convert them and earn their allegiance and trust. For most of our developers their programming knowledge is secondary to their skills in math and physics. They are PhDs and Masters in various engineering and physics disciplines. Often they will come in with good reputation and respect in the field. And they usually won't tolerate discipline imposed from the top. Once they understand why we ask them to do what we ask them to do, they will jump through hoops to comply.
Where do you get the idea that Metro will be crammed down your throat? For apps like yours, it certainly won't.
To be frank, I don't know if they will cram it down our throats. But was hoping they would. People who used to be ga-ga over Microsoft already feel betrayed by Microsoft. End of lifing MFC, making them port everything to .Net framework, then end-of-lifing the registry etc have left them with some sour taste in the mouth. Something like this could push them over the top.
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Treaty of Tripoli. Passed unanimously by the Senate. Three newspapers printed it whole. Each Senator got a printed copy. Not a single letters to the editor in protest. Not a single sermon recorded anywhere in protest. No protest from anyone in the USA. Almost all the founding fathers were still alive. No concern about it even in their private correspondence. John Adams made a special signing statement about this treaty. Against such specific and unambiguous statements, you look for symbolic meaning on their various acts.
I am a Hindu. I am here. I have as much rights and as much American as you are. Deal with it.
In my visit to Montecello, the factoid that impressed me most was the meat ration of his workers (yes, slaves). It was half a pound a week! Three quarter pounder burgers are routinely on the menu now a days. Most of us work in air conditioned offices clicking keyboards and mouse. Even the blue collar workers have so many machines assisting them it is practically a walk in the park compared to the work done by Teejay's workers. But they made do with just half a pound of meat!
... sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Through it all we persevered. A few of us were preaching separating "GUI from kernel" "event driven code from procedural code". And we pulled extra hours to practice what we preached. Fellow developers from MS world randomly included afxwin.h deep inside non graphical kernel library code to add a one line debug statement, broke the linux builds and threw tantrums when called to fix the offending code, "it is working in Windows, so it can't be my problem. You fix it in Linux". We suffered all these indignities and got our product to build and run in Linux all the time. We no longer have a 3 month delay in releasing linux version.
Now this. Good riddance. Let the windows and its market dominance and its subsidizing the computing platform go chasing the tablets or whatever. Before Wintel monopoly we had 90% revenue fro unix sales, it dropped to 10% at the height, now linux is back up to 40%. If they cram the win-8 interface down the throat or make our software to be sold through appstore or something, our windows version sales will have no place to go but down. Finally sanity will return. We will separate content from presentation. We will separate gui code from non-graphical code. We will separate event driven code from procedure libraries. Vindication at last.
Did anyone check the midichlorian count on that boy? Seems to be a little too preoccupied with the "dark" side.
All routers supplied by Verizon for FiOS service has a WAN side log-in port open, and they install firmware upgrades and you can do nothing about it. If you want FiOS you have to let them do whatever they want with the bits coming of the router at their end.
Just some time back I felt a great disturbance in force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I shrugged it off as a side effect of the burrito I had from Taco Bell last night. Looks like it was more than that.
I figured out what is going on. If there are enough space to show all the icons in the quick launch bar or the my tool bar, it only shows a folder and it launches file explorer on it when clicked. If the tool bar runs out of space and shows the tiny two greater than signs, that opens a navigable cascading menu. I like my task bar on the right edge of the screen, not bottom.