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"[...] Vista and PowerPoint and Microsoft's other core non-game products are largely devoid of personality and are optimized to be sold to organizations that prefer it that way. Microsoft can change this if they want to, but until they do, running ads pretending to be something other than that is a waste of money."
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/09/what-adverti...
My friends do this to me all the time. I know they don't really care but they keep asking questions until I can't resist explaining stuff to them.
The old word interface (not the ribbon) actually did a pretty good job in this. Beginners used the menubar to do things. The options where accompanied by icons ("ooh, that's the same as the one on the iconbar.") and keyboard shortcuts ("What happens if I press Ctrl - S?"). The user interface doesn't get in the way of power users and teaches beginners and intermediate users.
Hopefully the search results will improve over time. I'd love to see a Google competitor.
From the trends page on google reader: "From your 114 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 9,483 items."
That way new users can get a feel for the community before they start posting and you only get users with a real interest in the stories posted here.
Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.>"Is Richard Stallman seriously suggesting that it’s right to illegally obtain copyrighted software?"
No he isn't. He's suggesting that Bill Gates should have allowed people to share his software.
>"It’s one thing to say that Gates should never have charged for his software and another to say that it’s OK to use it without paying."
Stallman is saying that the software should have been free as in speech, not free as in beer. Nowhere did he imply that it's OK to use the software without paying.
Share a song with some friends, create a mashup of two cool songs, use some music in a short film they've made, make a collage of different drawings, write new lyrics for an existing song and record that, use samples from an existing song to create something new etc. etc.