Translation: they finally brainwashed you. People are not equal, never were, and never will be, no matter how hard you try to believe it. But now we need a $8 million study to acknowledge the fact that men and women think differently.
Spot on! That's *exactly* the point. In case you never tought about it, the essence of racism is assuming that a very large group of people that happen to share some phenotypic attributes are all equally bad.
yep they just have to sell a pluggable shell with a physical pad and some extra battery juice.
But it'd have to be a first party accessory to gain some traction on the market, and Apple would never make it because of their keep-it-simple mantra.
Maybe if some gaming big boy would put its name on it... say, Sega... build it, then port a lot of Dreamcast titles, and have a late laugh at Nintendo and Sony...
Nobody in their right mind *wants* to kill people, not even people in the military.
Exactly. In fact we're not talking about the mind of the people in the military, we are talking about very young guys' minds which shouldn't get brainwashed by educators nor seducted by rectruiters.
Minimizing a window and THEN hunting for the icon to click possibly takes longer than using the start menu...
well it's winkey+D then muscle memory, it's surely faster than traversing the start menu.
Also for notepad, I've its icon on the taskbar in the visible portion of the quicklaunch, it's at click range everytime.
I keep the handful of utilitarian icons in (browser, notepad, calculator...) in the visible portion of the quicklaunch, and the other apps I use organized by folder in the quicklaunch ">>" menÃ. Also apps that respond to drag-to-icon are aligned on the sides of the desktop. I almost never need to dig the start menu.
Same on OSX, I've the utilitarian things in the dock plus alias grouped in stacks. It's everything there, one or two click far away, all the time.
Anyway, I don't contest the snappiness of the quicksilvers and spotlights. They're indeed blazing fast, and also they don't need to be curated and optimized like the point and click launcher devices of the various OSes.
I'm just saying that if you take the time to set up the GUI to your usage patterns, you rarely get lost in clickitis and menu scannning.
Also, keyboard launching is perfect when you spend most of your computer time hands on the keyboard, like I guess most developers or writers, less so when your work is mouse centric. When I'm typing html or coding php, I tend to use keyboard launcher more, but when I'm photoshopping it's ankward. I can "cmd+space then F" with the keyboard hand, but I need to leave the right hand from the mouse or traverse the keyboard with the left hand to hit enter. I can click the spotlight results with the mouse but it's easier to go for the docked icon target. Also, when I'm reading in the browser or loosely editing graphics, I often stand with the left hand scratching my head or smoking a cigarette or whatever, so no hands ready on the keyboard.
Also, switching from windows to osx often, I tend to mess up with the key combos and shortcuts. The point and click approach is less confusing when using regularly more than one os. My experience is that the GUI context assist me better. I often catch myself trying, say, to cmd-space on windows or to winkey-e in osx, but I've never mistried to go for the osx dock on the left side in windows, or to reach the quicklaunch down left in osx.
There are many UI approaches as there are users, so there's not one single better approach for everyone.
It depends where your hands are when you need to start it.
If you've both hands on the keyboard, yes, if you're using the mouse, maybe not.
Also it depends which app you're starting.
If it's a frequent used app you probably have an alias in your quick launch, dock, desktop, pinned start menu whatever, and your muscle memory is sculpted to reach it fast in a click or two.
If it's something you don't use often it's probably buried in some app folder or all programs submenu, typing would get you to that way faster.
Unless you have to pause your brain to remember part of its name.
Bruce Tognazzini once ran a test with users invoking commands with shortcuts and clicking on them in pull down menus.
Many users reported to feel they were faster invoking shortcuts, while measured response times showed they were actually faster when clicking on menus.
That's because they were able to perceive the time they spent moving the pointer to the menu, while they didn't consciously measure the time that passed while they "paused" their thoughts and workflow to recall the desired shortcut.
This doesn't translate perfectly to the act of typing, and of course heavy power users and touch typist are snappier than most users, but it's interesting to point out that the way your consciousness experience the duration of a task is often not accurate.
Humidity isn't going to be the problem.
it's gonna be when he turns it off
They're seriously copying Apple with that name.
well they're honest about not hiding their sources...
If they can do it to that right then why can't they take away your right to a trial by jury, your right against self-incrimination, or any of the other rights that you hold so dear?
Maybe because keeping and bearing arms was seen more like a stupid idea than a dear time-honored right? Anyway, yes, I also have always considered the british legislative system to be somewhat weird (I'm not british btw).
There's also a 8000-pound donkeykong in the house, and is what the 10-15% of that human overpopulation do with their lives.
I'm in my mother's house right now.
Out of the window there's a parking lot and a small park.
When I was ten (1988, not 1888) every sunday there were around forty kids playing soccer in the park, and a dozen of cars in the parking lot.
Today, just 20 years later, there are around 80 cars in the lot, and no kid playing outside (guess they're all home toying with their consoles, pc and sat tv, even if it's sunny and warm today).
Until we deal with the fact that us 1stworld-ers MUST COLLECTIVELY fking change our ridiculous ultra consumeristic lifestyle, none of the rest is anything but posturing.
(and yes, I know I'm part of the problem, sitting here warm on the couch with my laptop and wi-fi)
To me it's more separate processes and sandboxing for each tab.
V8 performance is awesome, but I guess that Apple's squirrelfish and Mozilla's tracemonkey efforts will level up this field quite soon.
While the benefits of Chrome's "multitasking" tabs and security model will be harder to be injected in their older code base.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
