We agree at that point. They could have implemented it right (as in, the new form) and keeping the name of the function "Save As..." or at least "Save a Copy".

"Save a version" and "Duplicate" confuses people. I guess that's how they came up with names to replace "Branch" in both cases, lol

Let me stop you right there. I don't like it either but you're not being very receptive.

Think of it this way: You're working on your form letter template, adjusting signature, header, common text etc. You don't need to worry about saving the document because the document exists and all versions of it as well. You are to forget you need to save - hard, I know. But when you think about it, why the hell should we be worrying about saving a document?

Now, you need to create one letter from your template. Cool, you want it to be saved differently so you'd save as - but then again, saving is a process you don't need so they named it Duplicate. Here is the issue, whan you actually duplicate it freaking creates a new windows with a copy and keep the damn original version open! This is not intuitive.

That's what they fixed. Duplicating now actually will ask you to save the file differently and not create a new window. Truth be told, I'm taking this out of my ass because I might have imagined reading it.


Finally, I believe we finally reached a point in consumer computing where shit happens before you needing to intervene. We may discuss all about saving or not but seriously, why the hell have we gone all these years having to do something that the computer should be doing all along? Is the same shit as AI and context language interpretation.

It's the difference between "Search Pizza Place Near my current location" and "I want some pizza fast".

which is the time you buy a new one and stuff the old in a cabinet door in your kitchen plugged to the power outlet 24x7 and use it as whatever means you want in the kitchen.

people replacing hardware every year is not the problem - the problem is when they replace and leave the other one to eat dust when they could make some cool usage. (or, you know, charity)

Though it's interesting why one cannot use proxies by claiming (and proving, obviously) that it's owned in MTGO/MOL

Well, I use metric and I believe it to be the only truth (aside from Math), but when you read this definition one 1 metre (sorry US):

Length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second (17th CGPM)

versus the definition one 1 inch

From July 1, 1959, the United States and countries of the British Commonwealth defined the length of the international yard to be exactly 0.9144 metres.Consequently, the international inch is defined as exactly 25.4 millimetres.

makes you understand why some people prefer to use a system where "it's the lenght on a man's thumb!" (sure, may not be true but whatever)

Also, in Brazil and I believe most of Europe, who cares about pumbling? They're still using inches, heck, I don't even have a unit of measure for them - I just ask for a size x bolt/pipe or whatever. I believe this holds true everywhere else. You just know the size you want but do not care about the lenght and the UOM.

Disclaimer: everything off of wikipedia. take it with a grain of salt

and the quality of thumbnail images really isn't that important either

(Emphasis mine). Obviously you don't know what the Internet is for...

Someone please mod parent up as it is very interesting and shows a different view of what is happening at Princeton.

Specially if you look at comment 35866584 which refers a part of the bug report.

Very very concerning I might say... (posting openly as I could not care any less for OIT :D)

Interestingly enough there a _lot_ of modules for LaTeX including Chemical modules for you to add formulae in a simple way - not easy.

Sure, nothing beats WYSIWYG for editing but the quality of the document done in LaTeX where you just focus on content is amazing. Nor re-organizing, cross-references that always work in the end is a given. The weird part is that I had a MAKEFILE to produce by undergraduation final paper.

i mean my ps3 jumps and says "hey, here's a fw update, wanna install it?" and you click yes.

The only reason your PS3 "jumps in" and tell you there's a firmware upgrade is because you have it connected to your network and the internet. The same person that actually goes and pays the money for the upgrade is the same person that never connected or does not want to connect it.

It makes a LOT of sense too. Take my father for instance: He still think it's a little absurd that a video-game connects to the internet to play online while it's perfectly acceptable to have more people in the same room for the other games (which incidentally can give birth to the online/offline multiplayer). So, by my father's stance, why would he connect the video-game to the internet and therefore know there's a fw upgrade?

Most likely, the ppl that pay up the service receive the notification by trying to play some game and it requests a certain fw version or see some an article somewhere that mentions that the last PS3 fw update has 3D capabilities on it.

Actually, the ones who care about this stunts by Apple are the ones that either do not own an iP(hone|ad) or do not plan on having one. Honestly, I don't get all the bithing about this - it's not like it wasn't pretty clear when you bought that THAT is how the game is played.

It's almost as if these ppl want an iPhone but do not want the restrictions.Guess what? That's not how Apple plays.