That total you see in the image in the article is for Microsoft Sites. This number includes searches from ALL of Microsoft's search boxes: Bing, Live, microsoft.com, etc etc.
Uh, all of those use Bing, though.
If you're trying to report on Bing usage, you'd obviously include all domains that use Bing... right? I mean... duh? I'd also expect that if they were counting Google usage, they'd throw in (for example) Mozilla.org's search box, which uses Google.
The analogy with Window's isn't quite accurate though, since Google doesn't (or can't) lock out competitors the way Microsoft can.
They can on paid search advertising spend. At least practically. They can also inflate their inventory's value by taking advantage of the fact that the majority of people use their search engine like a URL bar. (Google does nothing to compensate/correct for this, and their attribution model seems specifically designed to take advantage of it.)
The simple fact is that Google's paid search business is... kind of sleazy. Exactly what you'd expect from a company with very little competition. If Bing can get their share in the 30-40% range, I think we'll see a lot more fairness from Google when it comes to their paid search product.
I dunno, think about how many times you get the question, "how do I put two lines of text in a single Excel cell?" With the Return/Enter configuration, it's obvious how.
Yah, true, good point. Another thing Apple did right is *firmly* delineate which keys were modifiers and which were not... there was no such thing as a "sometimes one, sometimes the other." A good KISS principle.
We are currently working on a global opt out for users who would rather not have Tynt monitor them.
Why would you even LAUNCH this without a global out-out?
I mean, I don't really object to your service, but... well... what the holy fuck were you thinking in the first place? Even the seediest porn ad networks have global opt-out, it's virtually *required* when doing business on the web, and you need to walk into your boss's office right now and smack him for allowing that.
Anyone who responds to a criticism of any country with a rant about how bad the United States is has immediately lost the argument because they have failed to address any of the criticisms
Then...
The American Empire is broadly speaking evil. Everything thinking person agrees with this.
How do you keep those two sentences in your head without your skull exploding? Christ. Hypocrite of the Year candidate here!
The Chinese constitution is a work of complete fiction.
If their government followed it, China would be one of the most progressive countries in the world... it spells out tons of freedoms that the majority of the world doesn't have. It goes above and beyond the UN Human Rights Declaration. It's easy to find online in English-- read it and see what you think.
That said, nothing in their constitution has ever actually applied to China.
Vista and 7 changed the playfield. Apple came along with OS X, and Windows started to compete for home users market share, and somewhere on the line pretty much forgot the business users. The OS is no longer clearly aimed for business users.
Oh yeah, I remember clearly when they threw away Active Directory, File Sharing, Smart-card Authentication, Shadow Copy and all of those other business-class features that were just slowing home users down. Or... maybe you're smoking crack.
You can't just say things, you have to actually justify them. What makes you say that Windows no longer has a business focus? Please cite specific examples.
Vista was a disaster pretty much every way you look at it,
Not my way of looking at it. I call it, "rational human being who doesn't make decisions based on Slashdot or hype." I'm not going to say that Vista is the best product ever, but it's not even close to Microsoft's worst OS.
Part of the problem is the overly simplifying things and forcing old reliable tree-browsing into libraries.
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I suspect you also do not.
Library-like browsing is fine, if you want to watch photographs or browse mp3 collections at home, but it doesn't really work for corporate cases.
What is "library-like browsing?" Why doesn't it work for corporate cases? (You also can't just pull terms out of your ass and use them as if everybody else knows exactly what you mean.)
Fileservers are easier to use if you can logically follow the treeview.
What exactly is Vista or Windows 7 doing to prevent you from logically following the treeview?
Is your entire complaint centered around the fact that you've never bothered to check "Navigation Pane" from the Organize menu in an Explorer window? I hope that's not the case, because you'd end up looking like a real idiot.
(yes 7 has treeview too, but it sucks compared to old xp model)
Sucks how? Again, you have to actually justify statements like this... you can't just spout crap out of your noisehole and expect me to take it seriously.
does Alt+PrtSc allow you to manually select any *section* of screen ?
You must be the LEAST creative person of all time.
Windows ships with Paint, which is sufficient if all you're doing is cropping images. Of course, he's editing the documentation in Word, so he could use Word to do the cropping. Or he could download the free (and excellent) Paint.NET to do it. Or use the Clipping Tool in Windows Vista and Windows 7...
There's about a billion solutions to this trivial problem, and you're seriously telling me you couldn't come up with a SINGLE ONE!?
The only real problem with the built-in screen capture is when you're trying to capture a window that extends below the screen... you need to take two screenshots and stitch them together... or buy something like SnagIt, which will do that in one step.
That aside, you could buy SnagIt which is cheap and does a much better job of the built-in one (especially with scrolling windows-- you don't have to stitch together different shots for windows longer than your screen!), and you can use it to record movies of your desktop as well.
IMO, the perfect keyboard was the Mac Classic one, before they made it all PC-compatible.
My favorite feature was that "Enter" and "Return" were two different keys, so you didn't have to do that retarded "use control-Enter to actually do return" crap that we do all the time now. ("Return" added a new line and "Enter" entered information.)
"Home" and "End" worked in a reasonable fashion. And "Caps Lock" actually did what the key SAID it did, instead of caps reverse, which is what PCs have always done.
If I ran the world, I'd get rid of every key that causes more tech support calls than it saves time. This includes "Scroll Lock" and "Pause", which basically work as a "my Excel is broken!" key. And ditto "Insert", except that one's more of a "my Word is broken!" key. Oh, and "Num Lock"... why would anybody ever want the keypad to *not* be a keypad? Definitely scrap that one too.
And while we're at it, we need Microsoft to make up its mind whether the "Windows" key is a key or a modifier... right now it does both, which is insane.
You *always* look at the text box while you're typing?
Man, my text would be flying all over the place with that setup. IM pops up, I keep typing in Word while I read the IM, suddenly I'm confusing my friend with big words and my dissertation contains the phrase "'sup bud?"
Well, I know, and despite the negative hype I think Vista's a very good and stable OS, so you're right that my post is perhaps a bit unfair.
That search indexer bug is fucking annoying though, and it's been around for months. I'm sure there's one specific file or file format causing the crash when it gets indexed, but how do I find out which one?
I know everybody's probably already binned Vista, but I'd be happy if Microsoft fixed the bug where my search indexing daemon crashes in Vista before they started on the Windows 7 bugs. I just got this computer from work, so it'll be another year minimum before I can justify trading it in for a Windows 7 box.
Well, since smacking the pack of cigarettes does nothing ("packing the tobacco" is an urban legend), you could just smoke without doing that and those truth.com people would be fine with that... right?
Tom Baker? He has exactly one emotion, and it's "bored detachment." I always assumed he was just the dialog coach waiting for the actual actor to show up.
I think your using some rose-colored glasses here. Rewatch some of the Baker Doctor Who episodes (a bunch are up on Netflix streaming if you have that) and then come back and tell me he's a great actor. Or even an actor, as opposed to a script reader.
1) They spam the hell out of forums. You know, without even clicking through to the comments, that there's going to be 50 comments on this post saying "Firefly! Firefly! Firefly!" even though that's not even on-topic. (They're asking about *reboots*, Firefly is too current to be rebooted.) It's not enough for one person to post "Firefly!" and the other Firefly fans to just nod and agree, they all have to post... it's fucking annoying, and reduces the thread to uselessness as actual on-topic shows (best example: Blake's 7) get buried deep down.
2) They don't accept that other people might not like Firefly. If a Star Trek fan starts talking to you about Star Trek, and you say "oh, I'm not a fan of that show," guess what they do? They talk about something else. If a Firefly fan starts talking about Firefly, and you say you're not a fan-- well, that doesn't even slow them down. They don't care that you haven't seen the show, or don't know the characters, or don't care if it comes back. They just talk and talk and talk and talk about fucking Firefly until your ears bleed.
Well, it's kind of an unfair question, because in a truly free market the corn wouldn't have the ridiculous subsidies attached to it that we have. The reason candies and sodas use corn syrup instead of sugar is, because of the fucked up way we handle corn, it's actually cheaper that way.
Besides that, the answer is: if you believe it harms your liver, don't buy it. If enough people don't buy it, it becomes unprofitable and farmers stop growing it. It's really simple.
The answer to most of these "I'm so outraged" posts is usually, "then don't buy it." For example: "Google double-dips on the ETF for their Nexus One phone!" "Ok, so don't buy it." "Modern video games are really expensive and the gameplay isn't as good as older games!" "Ok, so don't buy them." "Windows is a crummy OS and it crashes all the time!" "Ok, so don't buy it."
You see, once you learn the "then don't buy it" secret, all of Slashdot becomes redundant.
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That total you see in the image in the article is for Microsoft Sites. This number includes searches from ALL of Microsoft's search boxes: Bing, Live, microsoft.com, etc etc.
Uh, all of those use Bing, though.
If you're trying to report on Bing usage, you'd obviously include all domains that use Bing... right? I mean... duh? I'd also expect that if they were counting Google usage, they'd throw in (for example) Mozilla.org's search box, which uses Google.
The analogy with Window's isn't quite accurate though, since Google doesn't (or can't) lock out competitors the way Microsoft can.
They can on paid search advertising spend. At least practically. They can also inflate their inventory's value by taking advantage of the fact that the majority of people use their search engine like a URL bar. (Google does nothing to compensate/correct for this, and their attribution model seems specifically designed to take advantage of it.)
The simple fact is that Google's paid search business is... kind of sleazy. Exactly what you'd expect from a company with very little competition. If Bing can get their share in the 30-40% range, I think we'll see a lot more fairness from Google when it comes to their paid search product.
I dunno, think about how many times you get the question, "how do I put two lines of text in a single Excel cell?" With the Return/Enter configuration, it's obvious how.
Effective communication is the responsibility of the communicator, not the communicatee.
Yah, true, good point. Another thing Apple did right is *firmly* delineate which keys were modifiers and which were not... there was no such thing as a "sometimes one, sometimes the other." A good KISS principle.
With Hillary Clinton in charge, they'll probably try to censor rated 'M' video games.
We are currently working on a global opt out for users who would rather not have Tynt monitor them.
Why would you even LAUNCH this without a global out-out?
I mean, I don't really object to your service, but... well... what the holy fuck were you thinking in the first place? Even the seediest porn ad networks have global opt-out, it's virtually *required* when doing business on the web, and you need to walk into your boss's office right now and smack him for allowing that.
Why would you type such a thorough and intelligent post without logging in first?
Anyone who responds to a criticism of any country with a rant about how bad the United States is has immediately lost the argument because they have failed to address any of the criticisms
Then...
The American Empire is broadly speaking evil. Everything thinking person agrees with this.
How do you keep those two sentences in your head without your skull exploding? Christ. Hypocrite of the Year candidate here!
The Chinese constitution is a work of complete fiction.
If their government followed it, China would be one of the most progressive countries in the world... it spells out tons of freedoms that the majority of the world doesn't have. It goes above and beyond the UN Human Rights Declaration. It's easy to find online in English-- read it and see what you think.
That said, nothing in their constitution has ever actually applied to China.
The Mac Classic version of that joke: Hold down Command and type QUICK to make the program run faster.
Troll? Seriously?
I don't mind being down-modded, if the mod makes sense. Could someone please explain to me how anything in that post is considered "trolling."
Vista and 7 changed the playfield. Apple came along with OS X, and Windows started to compete for home users market share, and somewhere on the line pretty much forgot the business users. The OS is no longer clearly aimed for business users.
Oh yeah, I remember clearly when they threw away Active Directory, File Sharing, Smart-card Authentication, Shadow Copy and all of those other business-class features that were just slowing home users down. Or... maybe you're smoking crack.
You can't just say things, you have to actually justify them. What makes you say that Windows no longer has a business focus? Please cite specific examples.
Vista was a disaster pretty much every way you look at it,
Not my way of looking at it. I call it, "rational human being who doesn't make decisions based on Slashdot or hype." I'm not going to say that Vista is the best product ever, but it's not even close to Microsoft's worst OS.
Part of the problem is the overly simplifying things and forcing old reliable tree-browsing into libraries.
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I suspect you also do not.
Library-like browsing is fine, if you want to watch photographs or browse mp3 collections at home, but it doesn't really work for corporate cases.
What is "library-like browsing?" Why doesn't it work for corporate cases? (You also can't just pull terms out of your ass and use them as if everybody else knows exactly what you mean.)
Fileservers are easier to use if you can logically follow the treeview.
What exactly is Vista or Windows 7 doing to prevent you from logically following the treeview?
Is your entire complaint centered around the fact that you've never bothered to check "Navigation Pane" from the Organize menu in an Explorer window? I hope that's not the case, because you'd end up looking like a real idiot.
(yes 7 has treeview too, but it sucks compared to old xp model)
Sucks how? Again, you have to actually justify statements like this... you can't just spout crap out of your noisehole and expect me to take it seriously.
Slashdot? Change an icon?
What strange parallel reality are you posting from where that happens?
does Alt+PrtSc allow you to manually select any *section* of screen ?
You must be the LEAST creative person of all time.
Windows ships with Paint, which is sufficient if all you're doing is cropping images. Of course, he's editing the documentation in Word, so he could use Word to do the cropping. Or he could download the free (and excellent) Paint.NET to do it. Or use the Clipping Tool in Windows Vista and Windows 7...
There's about a billion solutions to this trivial problem, and you're seriously telling me you couldn't come up with a SINGLE ONE!?
The only real problem with the built-in screen capture is when you're trying to capture a window that extends below the screen... you need to take two screenshots and stitch them together... or buy something like SnagIt, which will do that in one step.
Does Photoshop even take screenshots?
That aside, you could buy SnagIt which is cheap and does a much better job of the built-in one (especially with scrolling windows-- you don't have to stitch together different shots for windows longer than your screen!), and you can use it to record movies of your desktop as well.
IMO, the perfect keyboard was the Mac Classic one, before they made it all PC-compatible.
My favorite feature was that "Enter" and "Return" were two different keys, so you didn't have to do that retarded "use control-Enter to actually do return" crap that we do all the time now. ("Return" added a new line and "Enter" entered information.)
"Home" and "End" worked in a reasonable fashion. And "Caps Lock" actually did what the key SAID it did, instead of caps reverse, which is what PCs have always done.
If I ran the world, I'd get rid of every key that causes more tech support calls than it saves time. This includes "Scroll Lock" and "Pause", which basically work as a "my Excel is broken!" key. And ditto "Insert", except that one's more of a "my Word is broken!" key. Oh, and "Num Lock"... why would anybody ever want the keypad to *not* be a keypad? Definitely scrap that one too.
And while we're at it, we need Microsoft to make up its mind whether the "Windows" key is a key or a modifier... right now it does both, which is insane.
You *always* look at the text box while you're typing?
Man, my text would be flying all over the place with that setup. IM pops up, I keep typing in Word while I read the IM, suddenly I'm confusing my friend with big words and my dissertation contains the phrase "'sup bud?"
That access is actually provided in a ton of places you wouldn't expect.
Did you know that Xbox Live encrypts everything by default?
Did you know the one and only exception is... voice communication? Hmm...
Well, I know, and despite the negative hype I think Vista's a very good and stable OS, so you're right that my post is perhaps a bit unfair.
That search indexer bug is fucking annoying though, and it's been around for months. I'm sure there's one specific file or file format causing the crash when it gets indexed, but how do I find out which one?
I know everybody's probably already binned Vista, but I'd be happy if Microsoft fixed the bug where my search indexing daemon crashes in Vista before they started on the Windows 7 bugs. I just got this computer from work, so it'll be another year minimum before I can justify trading it in for a Windows 7 box.
Well, since smacking the pack of cigarettes does nothing ("packing the tobacco" is an urban legend), you could just smoke without doing that and those truth.com people would be fine with that... right?
Tom Baker? He has exactly one emotion, and it's "bored detachment." I always assumed he was just the dialog coach waiting for the actual actor to show up.
I think your using some rose-colored glasses here. Rewatch some of the Baker Doctor Who episodes (a bunch are up on Netflix streaming if you have that) and then come back and tell me he's a great actor. Or even an actor, as opposed to a script reader.
The real problem with Firefly fans is two-fold:
1) They spam the hell out of forums. You know, without even clicking through to the comments, that there's going to be 50 comments on this post saying "Firefly! Firefly! Firefly!" even though that's not even on-topic. (They're asking about *reboots*, Firefly is too current to be rebooted.) It's not enough for one person to post "Firefly!" and the other Firefly fans to just nod and agree, they all have to post... it's fucking annoying, and reduces the thread to uselessness as actual on-topic shows (best example: Blake's 7) get buried deep down.
2) They don't accept that other people might not like Firefly. If a Star Trek fan starts talking to you about Star Trek, and you say "oh, I'm not a fan of that show," guess what they do? They talk about something else. If a Firefly fan starts talking about Firefly, and you say you're not a fan-- well, that doesn't even slow them down. They don't care that you haven't seen the show, or don't know the characters, or don't care if it comes back. They just talk and talk and talk and talk about fucking Firefly until your ears bleed.
Well, it's kind of an unfair question, because in a truly free market the corn wouldn't have the ridiculous subsidies attached to it that we have. The reason candies and sodas use corn syrup instead of sugar is, because of the fucked up way we handle corn, it's actually cheaper that way.
Besides that, the answer is: if you believe it harms your liver, don't buy it. If enough people don't buy it, it becomes unprofitable and farmers stop growing it. It's really simple.
The answer to most of these "I'm so outraged" posts is usually, "then don't buy it." For example:
"Google double-dips on the ETF for their Nexus One phone!" "Ok, so don't buy it."
"Modern video games are really expensive and the gameplay isn't as good as older games!" "Ok, so don't buy them."
"Windows is a crummy OS and it crashes all the time!" "Ok, so don't buy it."
You see, once you learn the "then don't buy it" secret, all of Slashdot becomes redundant.