He didn't say you were just stupid, or that you were wasting your money. He said fair trade was evil. That means it's not so easy as saying "if you don't like it, don't buy it." Ignoring evil is not good, even if other people are doing the evil. "If you don't like murder, don't murder people" won't stop other people from committing murders. You're free to have your own opinion on whether fair trade actually is evil, but please address his point rather than ignoring it.
This was posted a few days ago. Using the normal link would flag it as a duplicate.
However, I think in most cases I'd prefer the printable version. Some articles are split up into multiple pages, and the printable version combines them and is often cleaner and faster to load.
Their metrics indicate that it works, and I'm inclined to believe the hard evidence over the vague guidelines of the UI textbooks. Besides, Google is used extremely frequently. They may want an interface that is efficient rather than one that is immediately intuitive.
Judging by your response, maybe they shouldn't name it Cuilbot.
I wonder if their overzealous bots and subsequent blocking are reasons why they launched with such terrible results. I heard several reasons for that catastrophic failure:
* Overstressed subject-specific servers failed, leading to
porn on hamburger searches and that kind of thing
* Crashing, random result variations due to overload
* Excessive media hype exacerbated the load issues
Your rephrasing doesn't make any sense. Bill Gates wants to convince people that hobbyism can't create good software, and he needs the money. Why should the audience (pirates) care about whether hobbyists make a living, as long as they get their software?
You're conflating a few different types of computer literacy. Introductory programming, especially nowadays, doesn't have much to do with knowing whether the monitor is the computer or how to transfer files over a network. Certainly if you're programming for math or science you might not need those 'general computer skills.'
None of their demos are particularly outlandish. Surface has been duplicated n times; Microsoft has had the best, most polished implementation, that's all. If you look at the real Natal demos, they're certainly doable for a big company like Microsoft. This tablet also isn't anything new; multi-touch PCs have been around for a while.
I'm not even particularly impressed with their interface here. It doesn't have the consistency of design that Apple's does, and it doesn't look particularly intuitive. That doesn't mean that it's vaporware, however; in fact, it probably means the opposite.
Anyway, Microsoft's operating systems are more successful than everyone else's anyway. Windows 7 looks like it will be successful even relative to other Windows releases, no matter what you think of it. The buzz is right, and people are impressed.
These are things that people aren't posting, though. This program doesn't look at a field on people's profiles which states their sexuality. It guesses from the information which they make available. You may well conceal the information you want to keep hidden, but then the information you post as public lets people make inferences.
I highly recommend that you try it on real hardware if you're going to try it at all. It's much, much snappier, even on a Pentium II or III, on a real machine than in a VM.
The reviewer's techniques aren't even particularly interesting. It's no surprise that she (presumably) was caught out, since anyone could have verified that bias with a quick glance. I'm more interested in learning about people who do this for profit, how many of them there really are, and how they manage to stay hidden.
Now you have me confused. People are watching videos on the Web, so they need 3GHz chips. Applications which require 3Ghz chips are not economical for use on the web and should be on the desktop. I think there's been some disconnect here, because it seems like a totally nonsensical discussion from my point of view.
Anyway, the definition of a "Web app" can be stretched quite a bit with special plugins. People are apparently satisfied to stick a plugin in the browser and call their desktop application a "Web app." The defining feature of these "Web apps" is that they do not require installation. A native-code plugin can make quite effective use of system resources.
Not great for the 10-20% minorities which are supported by the government of the whole country. They'd probably face oppression under a new regime, or themselves begin to rebel.
A resizable normal keyboard application is just not Apple's style. I can see them adding a hardware key and a popup, like Dashboard or the Dock. They can add more flashiness (pop-in, fade, whatever) that way, and it's also less confusing if the keyboard is tied to one button.
I don't spend most of my time on the computer computing, though I'm sure there are people who do. They're not called e-mailers or Webbers either. There's nothing wrong with tweaking your environment to provide a more comfortable experience. It's the same principle behind having a comfortably furnished house or apartment.
Let's be fair here. These are chat bubbles. They're not buttons or text boxes. There's no inconsistency in behavior between different versions in different UIs. They're just a pretty way of displaying a chat conversation. It's generally pretty easy to recognize when you're in a chat, and bubble shapes are distinctive. You could even use the tried-and-true text chat approach. This is reasonable as a way to avoid phishing-type scams where you fake IM or SMS to steal information.
I wouldn't put too much stock in the results. Tr.im had that intentional downtime, but more importantly, ls.gd is down right now for me (may change later):
Photo Booth is also the name of the built-in Mac OS X webcam demo app, which is probably known to a lot of their users. I would think of a ticket booth, too, but frankly I think the "daily" part is the weak link here. It's not engaging like the You in YouTube.
If he had just destroyed the phone (broken in the water?), then his death would have been much more plausible. Why would he leave it somewhere if he had drowned?
Now I'm curious. First of all, any random Core Duo could probably put a significant dent in that timeframe if all he had was an Athlon 64. Second, what would the effect of CUDA be on this? It was extremely useful in that MD5 contest earlier.
What info is in their database besides these torrents that would be valuable? They don't touch the actual files being shared. I doubt they log anything interesting; if they do, no one's ever going to see it. It would be a huge mistake for them to hand over visitor stats.
Compared to BeOS, Web apps that are cached are in no way lightweight and responsive. Maybe we're defining lightweight and responsive differently. I am thinking about the real-time media capabilities of BeOS which let you drag around videos on Pentium IIs. I'm thinking about native C++ applications and a completely multithreaded system. I'm thinking about Gobe Productive and native e-mail clients. For me, lightweight runs on a Pentium Pro with 64MB RAM.
Gmail is not lightweight. Compared to Yahoo Mail or Live Mail, its design is airy, and it's well-optimized. Let's be honest: Chrome OS is only here to tap the netbooks. It's not going to revive the massive amount of old hardware that BeOS could use. YouTube isn't lightweight. Chrome's process-per-tab system isn't lightweight.
To me, the idea of running applications in the "cloud" on JavaScript and HTML is the total opposite of a new BeOS. BeOS is supposed to be lightweight and highly responsive. The Web is not. That doesn't mean that ChromeOS won't have its uses, but any other modern OS will get you closer to BeOS than this.
Apple makes hardware too, as its major products. They're as much a hardware company as they are a software company. The cash cache gives them a lot of flexibility. Microsoft was able to use its cash for the Xbox, and Apple can use its cash for all its stuff (iPhone prototypes, tablets, whatnot).