Leaving aside the fact it has been renamed since Vista, probably the same reason there are programs listed in Ubuntu's Add/Remove that can't be removed from there: inattention to detail.
Why is it that every UI discussion immediately turns into a pissing contest between OS fanboys? I've used nearly no software that couldn't stand improvement in the UI department. Even from relatively simple things like a smartphone, from a company with a reputation for getting UIs right, there are several absurdities present in the iPhone UI. Ever looked at most programmable thermostats?
The main thing I use it for is the cpu/ram meters.
Serious question. Not trying to troll or whatever else.
What do you do with your computer that makes CPU/RAM meters something you look at often?
I ask this because I was searching for a theme to dim Snow Leopard and I kept running across these very busy desktops with all sorts of meters and such on them. I do a whole bunch of Photoshop, and a lot of video editing, so my computers tend to be well stocked with CPU and RAM, which I did specifically because I don't want to have to pay attention to the machine's resources.
Most of the kids on/wg/ have all that Rainmeter stuff for geek bling purposes I'm sure, but I'm wondering what the actual useful applications might be.
That is less done out of ignorance than out of practicality.
I don't know how many news stories an average person encounters per day. There are 19 in the main column on front page of Slashdot right now. The Google News page shows me 46. Do you think any normal person could possibly properly research every one of those articles? Even read a second source? How about if the story is a blog post about an AP journalist's summary of a press conference a university hosted to announce a study? Should the blogger be checked out? The journalist? The university? The researchers? The study participants? Who funded it?
Unless a person happens across something that particularly interests them there is no practical way to dig much deeper than a quick read of a news story. Slashdot is marginally well focused on tech news, and the site demographic includes loads of geeks, but loads of people don't even read the summaries, let alone the links, or other information to back up the links.
Touch is great for fairly narrow types of usage. Industrial machine interfaces for one. I'd like to see OSs integrate some touch functionailty, or at least make it possible to set the thing up to be touch friendly, just to get the improvements for those narrow uses. As it is HMI packages usually look and work like cobbled together shit and you end up having to keep a keyboard in a desk drawer somewhere even if you don't want one. Or even if you manage to put together a truly touch only HMI you still need a keyboard to deal with the inevitable OS crash, since most HMI packages are Windows only.
But yeah, for general computing, desktop touch is a novelty.
Keep it in context. This was a guy at an open source conference, showing off a new example of something that Linux people take pride in. If he were trying to make a business of selling Ubuntu Kindles then he might need to concern himself with the practicality of it.
It would be like if your car's PCV valve required a permissive signal from the EGR valve via CAN-BUS linkage to MPI and DOHC. The ECR module would then TBI the MPG and various other RWHPs. Failing that the EFI unit ATF AC unit BTDC more of the CCs than CUINs. As long as your crank was CCW and you had COPI you would be good to go. Unless the CTVS was broken. In which case both your FWD and 4WD was unusable. You'd need to measure MAP and calibrate the VSS or you'll go WOT, and with NOS then you will likely exceed the allowable RPMs.
DOHV. OD. LED taillights. HO engine. blah blah blah.
I've been discharged a while (USMC) but that doesn't offend me at all.
It might be because I believe prayer to be a completely worthless means of getting anything done, but it also might be because I know that even though people have all sorts of beliefs I consider weird, very few of them have any actual impact on my life.
Also, the combination go/stop/reload button is a horrible idea from a useability perspective.
Indeed. Kind of like having UI elements (like buttons) disappear on a screen refresh, only to have an element that does something different appear in the same spot. Poorly designed web pages do a lot of that. Apple is fond of doing it on their phone.
Why do you care whether or not some random person on the internet 'hates' Apple?
Whatever weird offshoot of brand loyalty causes this kind of thing, it only reinforces the idea that people like you buy Apple products not because they are better, but for the external approval Apple's cool factor can get you. It isn't like this relationship offers hope of reciprocation. If Rog7 posts some irrational critique of you, Apple isn't going to dispatch an employee to come to your defense. And it isn't like Apple is going to close up shop in capitulation. So why does it matter?
I have a pile of Apple hardware. I bought it because it did what I needed it to do better than any alternatives. It matters not at all what some random person thinks about it, because I'm better qualified than he is to figure out what I need. If I got all teary eyed when I read an anti-Apple comment I'd never get anything done, what with the two-a-day iPhone stories just on Slashdot alone.
If you've ever run across a police while carrying a decent amount of cash you know they consider that prima facie evidence of involvement in the drug trade.
Not just availability but speed as well. And security. And privacy.
I think going from "Google has confirmed they are working on an OS" to "I can't wait until MS is dead" takes some seriously huge leaps of faith. None of us have ever even seen Chrome OS. It is likely going to have something to do with the internet, probably will integrate Google's existing product nicely. That is about it. And for whatever upsides it will offer, who knows what its down sides will be even in terms of funcitonality.
Consider how long better alternatives to Windows have been available. OSX and desktop friendly Linux have been better in many ways for 5 years or so. An Etch-a-Sketch was better than Vista until hardware caught up and a SP1 made it out. Apple has a widly popular media player and has leveraged that as best it knows how. The economy went down the tubes worldwide, which should have played right into the hands of FOSS.
Yet Microsoft's market share has hardly been eroded anywhere.
Geeks suffer from thinking that technical superiority is all it takes to win. That isn't even in the top 5. Google does search well, and email, and I like their web browser. The rest of their skills have yet to be tested, including marketing, particularly to businesses.
The problem is less a matter of doing the math to figure in wind and more a matter of giving the player realistic information to make wind calls. As in really shooting a real rifle over a long distance, the hardest part is figuring out what the wind speed(s) actually are. Sure you can hold up a Kestrel and know what the wind is right where you are, but what about the angle? What about gusts? Is it the same speed 400 meters away? 800 meters? That would be even better to know, since your bullet will have slowed down quite a bit by that time.
Just simulating all of the environmental variables involved in maiking a wind call would be a computationally intense task. Leaves and grass and brush and mirage and such, along 1200 meters.
How clear are Apple's guidelines? Do you know if they differ if the customer brings the item to a company store?
Apple Care once covered repair on an MBP for me that had been infiltrated by driver ants, causing it to overheat. They declined to replace one that had been driven over by an HMMV though, and here I thought the new aluminum chassis were supposed to be super strong.
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Where do you think you'd find 10 or 20 actual snipers willing to do this?
Straw purchases are already illegal.
Leaving aside the fact it has been renamed since Vista, probably the same reason there are programs listed in Ubuntu's Add/Remove that can't be removed from there: inattention to detail.
Why is it that every UI discussion immediately turns into a pissing contest between OS fanboys? I've used nearly no software that couldn't stand improvement in the UI department. Even from relatively simple things like a smartphone, from a company with a reputation for getting UIs right, there are several absurdities present in the iPhone UI. Ever looked at most programmable thermostats?
The main thing I use it for is the cpu/ram meters.
Serious question. Not trying to troll or whatever else.
What do you do with your computer that makes CPU/RAM meters something you look at often?
I ask this because I was searching for a theme to dim Snow Leopard and I kept running across these very busy desktops with all sorts of meters and such on them. I do a whole bunch of Photoshop, and a lot of video editing, so my computers tend to be well stocked with CPU and RAM, which I did specifically because I don't want to have to pay attention to the machine's resources.
Most of the kids on /wg/ have all that Rainmeter stuff for geek bling purposes I'm sure, but I'm wondering what the actual useful applications might be.
You could bolt a TC Encore to a table, no receiver change required.
The logical choice, since his book machine is probably immune to all viruses.
That is less done out of ignorance than out of practicality.
I don't know how many news stories an average person encounters per day. There are 19 in the main column on front page of Slashdot right now. The Google News page shows me 46. Do you think any normal person could possibly properly research every one of those articles? Even read a second source? How about if the story is a blog post about an AP journalist's summary of a press conference a university hosted to announce a study? Should the blogger be checked out? The journalist? The university? The researchers? The study participants? Who funded it?
Unless a person happens across something that particularly interests them there is no practical way to dig much deeper than a quick read of a news story. Slashdot is marginally well focused on tech news, and the site demographic includes loads of geeks, but loads of people don't even read the summaries, let alone the links, or other information to back up the links.
You forgot inexpensive, as the submitter dismisses satellite for that reason.
I use a Thuraya handset when I am in the bush and it has worked the few times I've needed it, as long as it wasn't under a heavy jungle canopy.
Yeah no.
Touch is great for fairly narrow types of usage. Industrial machine interfaces for one. I'd like to see OSs integrate some touch functionailty, or at least make it possible to set the thing up to be touch friendly, just to get the improvements for those narrow uses. As it is HMI packages usually look and work like cobbled together shit and you end up having to keep a keyboard in a desk drawer somewhere even if you don't want one. Or even if you manage to put together a truly touch only HMI you still need a keyboard to deal with the inevitable OS crash, since most HMI packages are Windows only.
But yeah, for general computing, desktop touch is a novelty.
Just the answer you gave is answer enough.
Keep it in context. This was a guy at an open source conference, showing off a new example of something that Linux people take pride in. If he were trying to make a business of selling Ubuntu Kindles then he might need to concern himself with the practicality of it.
It would be like if your car's PCV valve required a permissive signal from the EGR valve via CAN-BUS linkage to MPI and DOHC. The ECR module would then TBI the MPG and various other RWHPs. Failing that the EFI unit ATF AC unit BTDC more of the CCs than CUINs. As long as your crank was CCW and you had COPI you would be good to go. Unless the CTVS was broken. In which case both your FWD and 4WD was unusable. You'd need to measure MAP and calibrate the VSS or you'll go WOT, and with NOS then you will likely exceed the allowable RPMs.
DOHV. OD. LED taillights. HO engine. blah blah blah.
I've been discharged a while (USMC) but that doesn't offend me at all.
It might be because I believe prayer to be a completely worthless means of getting anything done, but it also might be because I know that even though people have all sorts of beliefs I consider weird, very few of them have any actual impact on my life.
If not from their customers, where do you think companies in a capitalist system get their funds?
Also, the combination go/stop/reload button is a horrible idea from a useability perspective.
Indeed. Kind of like having UI elements (like buttons) disappear on a screen refresh, only to have an element that does something different appear in the same spot. Poorly designed web pages do a lot of that. Apple is fond of doing it on their phone.
We need to get that guy into the accounting department at NetApp so he can price out their storage.
You can expect to get yourself into distro wars, but arguing from the Slackware side rather than Ubuntu side.
There are some other, more minor, technical differences but that is the main thing.
Why do you care whether or not some random person on the internet 'hates' Apple?
Whatever weird offshoot of brand loyalty causes this kind of thing, it only reinforces the idea that people like you buy Apple products not because they are better, but for the external approval Apple's cool factor can get you. It isn't like this relationship offers hope of reciprocation. If Rog7 posts some irrational critique of you, Apple isn't going to dispatch an employee to come to your defense. And it isn't like Apple is going to close up shop in capitulation. So why does it matter?
I have a pile of Apple hardware. I bought it because it did what I needed it to do better than any alternatives. It matters not at all what some random person thinks about it, because I'm better qualified than he is to figure out what I need. If I got all teary eyed when I read an anti-Apple comment I'd never get anything done, what with the two-a-day iPhone stories just on Slashdot alone.
This list is still accurate, if you apply the comment on #4 up to #5 as well.
And run DD-WRT.
So what cell phone/provider do you currently have?
This is how that kind of deal goes down in Indiana.
If you've ever run across a police while carrying a decent amount of cash you know they consider that prima facie evidence of involvement in the drug trade.
Not just availability but speed as well. And security. And privacy.
I think going from "Google has confirmed they are working on an OS" to "I can't wait until MS is dead" takes some seriously huge leaps of faith. None of us have ever even seen Chrome OS. It is likely going to have something to do with the internet, probably will integrate Google's existing product nicely. That is about it. And for whatever upsides it will offer, who knows what its down sides will be even in terms of funcitonality.
Consider how long better alternatives to Windows have been available. OSX and desktop friendly Linux have been better in many ways for 5 years or so. An Etch-a-Sketch was better than Vista until hardware caught up and a SP1 made it out. Apple has a widly popular media player and has leveraged that as best it knows how. The economy went down the tubes worldwide, which should have played right into the hands of FOSS.
Yet Microsoft's market share has hardly been eroded anywhere.
Geeks suffer from thinking that technical superiority is all it takes to win. That isn't even in the top 5. Google does search well, and email, and I like their web browser. The rest of their skills have yet to be tested, including marketing, particularly to businesses.
The problem is less a matter of doing the math to figure in wind and more a matter of giving the player realistic information to make wind calls. As in really shooting a real rifle over a long distance, the hardest part is figuring out what the wind speed(s) actually are. Sure you can hold up a Kestrel and know what the wind is right where you are, but what about the angle? What about gusts? Is it the same speed 400 meters away? 800 meters? That would be even better to know, since your bullet will have slowed down quite a bit by that time.
Just simulating all of the environmental variables involved in maiking a wind call would be a computationally intense task. Leaves and grass and brush and mirage and such, along 1200 meters.
How clear are Apple's guidelines? Do you know if they differ if the customer brings the item to a company store?
Apple Care once covered repair on an MBP for me that had been infiltrated by driver ants, causing it to overheat. They declined to replace one that had been driven over by an HMMV though, and here I thought the new aluminum chassis were supposed to be super strong.
It has always sucked to be at the bottom of the food chain.