On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:21 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > At 10:05 AM Thursday 4/24/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
>> The whole point of using drop-down menus in a GUI is to be table to >> slide the cursor across them and immediately see what's available. >> Somebody in Redmond apparently thought they were improving on that. Somebody at AddInTools.com evidently agrees with you that this was no real improvement, and has a product to restore classic menus: http://www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice/ Microsoft: creating a vibrant software ecosystem by ruining existing products. >> Vi is easier than this. > > ;) If only because nobody makes money from vi, it hasn't been fscked- around with over the years. If you learned to use vi on a VT-52 hooked up to a PDP-11, as I did, then today's Mac OS X copy of Vim ("VI iMproved") is as familiar as you'd want it to be. >> This brings to mind an elderly friend who yesterday was talking ... Cool UI thing on Mac OS X "Leopard" and the Mail application: hovering over the word "yesterday" reveals that it has been recognized as a time-related word, which can be clicked to pull down a menu allowing me to: "Create New iCal Event" or "Show This Date in iCal". >> I suppose one of the worst offenders is the pharmaceutical industry, >> where the newer allergy and heartburn drugs are no better than the >> old ones, just tested less... and far more expensive. Such as the supposed difference between Celexa and Lexapro: Lexapro came out just as third parties began marketing generic citalopram. Actual theraputic benefits of the new version may not be meaningful. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
