My player has a little joystick nub on it. I push it left to go back one song, right to go forward one song, up to turn up the volume, and down to turn the volume down. If I wan to navigate my playlist in a more complex manner than next/last song, I press the joystick nub in, like a button. I figured all this out in under a minute without even opening up the manual.
May I ask how the clickwheel is more obvious and user friendly than that for normal use?
Granted, having to press/hold the nub in and hold it for a few seconds to get to advanced settings was less than intuitive and I did have to open the manual for that. But that was the only time I used the manual.
So that's why the kids died and my tv/360 stopped working when I tossed the 360 and the TV in the pool after they asked if I they could play video games.
MS has had the ability to force ads upon us since Windows 95 or 98 when they first created the ability to put web pages as the desktop background. They have not yet.
because MS as a corporation with shareholders is required to maximize profits.
That argument actually favors MS not putting this in payed windows (or at least, full-price windows)
1. Keeping existing user base is also important to making profit. 2. Gaining user base is important to making profits. 3. Users don't like advertisements, especially when they didn't ask for them. 4. MS is aware of #3 due to their creation of an anti-spyware/adware program. 5. Users tend to move away only when they have active dislike, not when they don't notice somthing. 6. The less than moral advertising agencies on the web have no low to which they will not stoop.
Combining these facts, we can conclude Microsofts next actions will most likely consist of: 1. Full priced Windows will not have these advertisements 2. A reduced price and/or free Windows may be released, with advertisements of varying invasiveness 3. Microsoft will sue any advertising agency violating this patent on Windows, to keep such advertisements off Windows, keeping the user base happier 4. Microsoft may or may not sue agencies violating this patent on other OSes - if they do not, then that's more encouragement for users to use Windows, where they don't have such a hassle.
There's that option... But another option is possible too...
"Oh, you are spamming ads at a series of actions - we own the patent. Here's your cease-and-desist, and we are sueing you for your profits. Have a nice day."
Give how much that could interfere with users using the OS, I can see this as being Microsoft's more likely use. The exception being if the start making advert-to-use OS subsidisation.
Sorry, but mods, please read the BSD license before modding parent.
Sorry, but the BSD License SPECIFICALLY states that the copyright license/notice and diclaimers must be kept with any binary or source redistribution of the code.
Now the code in question was dual licensed, with "either" being the join, not "both", so they may theoretically be able to chuck the BSD license. However, straight BSD does not allow removal of the license like you suggest.
Oh, and the BSD License for the curious. Occasionally clause 3 and 4 can be removed, but clause 1, which is the relevant portion here, is always kept. BSD License
it uses a hyperdimensional tracever, which sends the signal through its own alternate reality, where no signal is being sent to interfere with it, and not only that but there is no pesky weather to bother it either!
No, those space ships popping into existance in the sky aren't angry-transdimensional aliens coming to ravage our world because we were dropping harmful EM radiaition onto their pleantes, honestly!
I know I have the gnu tools running on my BSD machine. Problem is, BSD is a *LOT* more picky about where command line switches are placed - why I use the gnu tools. This could break some shell scripts in Linux.
As an example, I'll use the ls command. I typically think of the directory of interest first, then they type of information I want
works good in both sets: $ ls -lh
My habitual accident, works fine in GNU tools, but not in BSD (gives an error of no -lh directory): $ ls/var/log -lh In BSD I need to $ ls -lh/var/log
Which typically involves the home key and some arrow keys:-)
But I can see that difference causing problems in some poorly written scripts.
Hardware could be tweaked to add graphcial improvements also. If you leave the interface layer the same, and just beef-up the underlying layer, it's not unreasonable for things like higher-resolution support, better AA, etc. to be added.
I wouldn't necessarily say myopic. It varies based on the time frame.
The original K7/Athlon, (actually, even P3) was noticably better than the first generation P4, without cpu beer-goggles. Later P4s managed to overtake the 32-Bit Athlons noticably, until the Athlon64 came out, which took the lead again. It didn't hold that lead for long, because the Core2s seemed to be major ass-kickers.
During these timeframes, there were extended periods where one was on-par with the other, or they were too close to call. However, by "better", I mean that the CPU performed noticably better on most benchmarks. The not-best manufacturer of any given time usually still has one or two tasks/benchmarks at which it excels at over the first.
The thing is, neither manufacturer seems to be always-better, or better-at-everything. They do bounc back and forth on better-at-most-things, or even which tasks they are better at.
"Commander Taco is really an onion wearing a Fedora doing that dance doing a jig on the top of the Vadicant" Is a fact, but certainly not a true fact.
Interestingly, AMD chips, to my experience, have been just as good as Intel. The problem has been motherboard chipsets. These are very rarely produced by AMD, and until nVidia came along and made them, did suck. As of nVidia producing them, AMD has been just as stable/reliable of a platform as Intel. Actually if you knew where to look in the VIA chipsets, you could find a few gems pre-nVidia-chipset as well. I have an old Tyan Trinity MVP3 with a K6-III on it that is rock solid.
let me rephrase that, it doesn't automatically include everything, but at the same time it doesn't automatically include stuff you don't need
I have written a lot of perl applications where I didn't need regular expressions for example, but that library was included by default. Who knows how many things were automatically included that I didn't need beyond that?
Conversely, if I need regular expression in Python, I can simply put the line 'import re' near the beginning of my file, and viola, I have them.
all the functionality I need, sans excess during the runtime.
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I doubt it was, but I guess my point is that the iPod isn't the only thing with a good user interface.
:-)
And the ogg/flac support on my player is nice too
If I wrote down notes, I tended to miss parts of the lecture, usually important stuff.
I didn't have that problem with the notebook.
Serious question, not intended to be a Troll.
My player has a little joystick nub on it. I push it left to go back one song, right to go forward one song, up to turn up the volume, and down to turn the volume down. If I wan to navigate my playlist in a more complex manner than next/last song, I press the joystick nub in, like a button. I figured all this out in under a minute without even opening up the manual.
May I ask how the clickwheel is more obvious and user friendly than that for normal use?
Granted, having to press/hold the nub in and hold it for a few seconds to get to advanced settings was less than intuitive and I did have to open the manual for that. But that was the only time I used the manual.
So that's why the kids died and my tv/360 stopped working when I tossed the 360 and the TV in the pool after they asked if I they could play video games.
It was a nice TV too...
Couldn't you have told me this earlier?
I was looking for this reference, figured it'd already been made since this is a few news articles down already :-(
I was gonna say...
Will they name the first ship "Winged Monkey's Writing Stick"?
actually, with the way the desktop in windows acts, I wouldn't surprise me if active-desktop was auto-on by default anyway, as of Windows 2000 or so.
And even if not, what's to keep MS from auto-oning that, and more than these ads we are discussing now?
I dunno, I'm still wondering about this version - which end the gust is coming from (or if it is coming out of both ends?)
not trying to get modded up, just trying to bring some light to some eyes.
Regarding your sig, wouldn't that be the BSD and MIT licenses, not BSD and GPL?
MS has had the ability to force ads upon us since Windows 95 or 98 when they first created the ability to put web pages as the desktop background. They have not yet.
That argument actually favors MS not putting this in payed windows (or at least, full-price windows)
1. Keeping existing user base is also important to making profit.
2. Gaining user base is important to making profits.
3. Users don't like advertisements, especially when they didn't ask for them.
4. MS is aware of #3 due to their creation of an anti-spyware/adware program.
5. Users tend to move away only when they have active dislike, not when they don't notice somthing.
6. The less than moral advertising agencies on the web have no low to which they will not stoop.
Combining these facts, we can conclude Microsofts next actions will most likely consist of:
1. Full priced Windows will not have these advertisements
2. A reduced price and/or free Windows may be released, with advertisements of varying invasiveness
3. Microsoft will sue any advertising agency violating this patent on Windows, to keep such advertisements off Windows, keeping the user base happier
4. Microsoft may or may not sue agencies violating this patent on other OSes - if they do not, then that's more encouragement for users to use Windows, where they don't have such a hassle.
May I ask why you seem so certain MS is going to put this in a for-pay version of windows?
There's that option... But another option is possible too...
"Oh, you are spamming ads at a series of actions - we own the patent. Here's your cease-and-desist, and we are sueing you for your profits. Have a nice day."
Give how much that could interfere with users using the OS, I can see this as being Microsoft's more likely use. The exception being if the start making advert-to-use OS subsidisation.
Sorry, but mods, please read the BSD license before modding parent.
Sorry, but the BSD License SPECIFICALLY states that the copyright license/notice and diclaimers must be kept with any binary or source redistribution of the code.
Now the code in question was dual licensed, with "either" being the join, not "both", so they may theoretically be able to chuck the BSD license. However, straight BSD does not allow removal of the license like you suggest.
Oh, and the BSD License for the curious. Occasionally clause 3 and 4 can be removed, but clause 1, which is the relevant portion here, is always kept. BSD License
They'd probably add that feature in the port. Along (hopefully) with the smarter command line argument handling.
it uses a hyperdimensional tracever, which sends the signal through its own alternate reality, where no signal is being sent to interfere with it, and not only that but there is no pesky weather to bother it either!
No, those space ships popping into existance in the sky aren't angry-transdimensional aliens coming to ravage our world because we were dropping harmful EM radiaition onto their pleantes, honestly!
Probably wouldn't be hard.
/var/log -lh /var/log
:-)
I know I have the gnu tools running on my BSD machine. Problem is, BSD is a *LOT* more picky about where command line switches are placed - why I use the gnu tools. This could break some shell scripts in Linux.
As an example, I'll use the ls command. I typically think of the directory of interest first, then they type of information I want
works good in both sets:
$ ls -lh
My habitual accident, works fine in GNU tools, but not in BSD (gives an error of no -lh directory):
$ ls
In BSD I need to
$ ls -lh
Which typically involves the home key and some arrow keys
But I can see that difference causing problems in some poorly written scripts.
A lot more QA mostly. Also, if I remember correctly, server chips tend to be tweaked more for multithreading and integer performance.
Hardware could be tweaked to add graphcial improvements also. If you leave the interface layer the same, and just beef-up the underlying layer, it's not unreasonable for things like higher-resolution support, better AA, etc. to be added.
Core2 Quad = Desktop
They are talking about server chips, which typically are more expensive than desktop chips.
I think that covers the situation nicely.
I wouldn't necessarily say myopic. It varies based on the time frame.
The original K7/Athlon, (actually, even P3) was noticably better than the first generation P4, without cpu beer-goggles.
Later P4s managed to overtake the 32-Bit Athlons noticably, until the Athlon64 came out, which took the lead again.
It didn't hold that lead for long, because the Core2s seemed to be major ass-kickers.
During these timeframes, there were extended periods where one was on-par with the other, or they were too close to call. However, by "better", I mean that the CPU performed noticably better on most benchmarks. The not-best manufacturer of any given time usually still has one or two tasks/benchmarks at which it excels at over the first.
The thing is, neither manufacturer seems to be always-better, or better-at-everything. They do bounc back and forth on better-at-most-things, or even which tasks they are better at.
Yes, that's just a fact.
My question is - is it a true fact.
"Commander Taco is really an onion wearing a Fedora doing that dance doing a jig on the top of the Vadicant" Is a fact, but certainly not a true fact.
Interestingly, AMD chips, to my experience, have been just as good as Intel. The problem has been motherboard chipsets. These are very rarely produced by AMD, and until nVidia came along and made them, did suck. As of nVidia producing them, AMD has been just as stable/reliable of a platform as Intel. Actually if you knew where to look in the VIA chipsets, you could find a few gems pre-nVidia-chipset as well. I have an old Tyan Trinity MVP3 with a K6-III on it that is rock solid.
I thought they had entangled atoms before also. Given the other reply to you post, maybe it's the combination of atoms and macroscopic distance?
if I read the article correctly, the fact that they managed to entangle the particles at a macroscopic distance.
let me rephrase that, it doesn't automatically include everything, but at the same time it doesn't automatically include stuff you don't need
I have written a lot of perl applications where I didn't need regular expressions for example, but that library was included by default. Who knows how many things were automatically included that I didn't need beyond that?
Conversely, if I need regular expression in Python, I can simply put the line 'import re' near the beginning of my file, and viola, I have them.
all the functionality I need, sans excess during the runtime.