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Comment Re:features myth (Score 1) 652

by lelitsch (#25820113) Attached to: Microsoft Feared Mac Vs. Vista In '05

Well, I am waiting for some consumer features, and I don't see many things OS X does wrong--or XP for that matter. Obviously Office 2007 is a different story, because it took a few big steps back in usability.

OK, here are some wishes:

-right click on any text in any application for Google search. (on OS X, you can drag to the Safari icon, but that's disruptive)
-Full sized cover flow
-RAW support at the OS level
-Smart text parsing. The OS should know that xxxx@yyyy.zzz is an email. Mail does something like this, but I don't use it for other reasons.
-Real transparent server file systems. No, XP/Vista/OS X/Linux do not have this.
-And specifically for the Mac, although this can be considered user experience: Someone please let me lock the wireless to a network instead of scanning all 55 open networks in my building every single time it gets out of standby.

And there are features like Time Machine that I didn't know I needed until I started using them.
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Submission + - 7 years of "Less space than a Nomad"

Submitted by lelitsch
lelitsch writes: Hey, you probably get this submitted a lot today, but 174 million iPods later, we should take a minute to reflect on the 7th anniversary of the biggest blown call on Slashdot.
Security

Submission + - Virtual Border fence doesn't work

Submitted by lelitsch
lelitsch writes: The Washington Post reports that the initial pilot of the Virtual Border Fence planned by the DHS and subcontracted to Boeing has been a miserable failure. A lot of things sound like death march software development projects. Some choice quotes include "did not work as planned or meet the needs of the U.S. Border Patrol", "DHS officials do not yet know the type of terrain where the fencing is to be constructed", and "the design will not be used as the basis for future . . . development".
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Submission + - One down, two to go.

Submitted by lelitsch
lelitsch writes: The WSJ, Reuters and other news agencies report that CompUSA has been sold and is going to be liquidated. While this will give a short term boost to CircuitCity and Best Buy, I wonder if their combination or high prices, high pressure sales techniques (not to use a nastier word), unfriendly staff and lack of technical savvy might drive all of them out of business eventually. Are we headed for a WalMart and web world for tech toys?
Government

Submission + - Ohio has a newmaster plan to fix electronic voting 1

Submitted by lelitsch
lelitsch writes: Ars reports that after all the problems with voting machines in Ohio, the secretary of state has finally come up with a bullet proof solution: printing paper ballots from the memory cards in their Diebold touchscreen voting machines, so that they can tabulate paper copies. Does this set a new benchmark for not getting it?

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