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Merissa Pence's Quotes About Victoria F.'s "Women Tell All" Segment Are... A Lot
By Rachel Varina
There has been no lack of drama on Peter Weber's season of The Bachelor, and the relationship he had with contestant Victoria Fuller was easily one of the biggest catalysts for it on the show. One of the largest pitfalls between them was the rumor Victoria had a history of breaking up marriages, told to Peter by his ex-girlfriend, Merissa Pence. Victoria denied the rumors, but Merissa Pence's quotes about Victoria F.'s "Women Tell All" segment reveal she stands by her accusations.
"It definitely was hurtful to watch her on 'Women Tell All'," Merissa told Us Weekly on March 9. "It was her way of being manipulative and saying she didn't break up multiple relationships."
In case you blocked out the drama, here's a quick recap of the Pence-Fuller situation: According to Merissa, she casually dated Peter Weber for a few months back in 2012, and she met Victoria three years ago when she moved back home to Virginia Beach. Though the two ran in the same social circle, turns out, they didn't mesh at all. Victoria apparently told Merissa she was going to slash her tires because she was hanging out with one of her ex-boyfriends. During Victoria's hometown date with Peter in Virginia Beach, Merissa showed up with concerns for Peter and accused Victoria of breaking up multiple relationships in the past.
Victoria denied the "breaking up relationships" accusations on the "Women Tell All" episode, saying, "This was someone that didn't like me and ... I don't really know why she did it. Maybe she wanted to come on the show."
Merissa, however, is saying something completely different. She continued to Us Weekly:
It wasn't a personal motive for me to go on, it was a blanket motive for all those people here that couldn't speak up. I got a lot of messages after that saying, 'I can't believe she's lying again.' 'Stay true to yourself, you know why you did this,' and so much more stuff [about Victoria] has come out after this because people feel empowered to speak up and before they were scared to speak up.
Merissa went on to say she's heard from other women apparently involved in Victoria F.'s reported hometown drama, and says they support her.
"They want to speak up but then realize there's more to life than this reality TV show," Merissa said, explaining her thoughts on why none of the women have actually come forward publicly. According to her, they're using Reddit accounts to open up. "You have to put yourself in their shoes. If you had a child and you're now divorced ... I think it just digs up a lot of dark times for them and I'm glad I was able to speak up for them."
Whether you're #TeamMerissa, #TeamVictoria, or #TeamJustWaitingForThisSeasonToEnd, it's likely this isn't the last Bachelor Nation will hear from either woman on the matter.
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Liberty dispatches Jacksonville from ASun tournament
The Times-Union
Mar 4, 2019 at 9:26 PM Mar 4, 2019 at 10:05 PM
Liberty pulled away from a 13-13 tie by outscoring Jacksonville University 21-6 over the last 6:31 of the first half and went on to oust the Dolphins from the ASun Conference tournament 72-58 on Monday at the Vines Center in Lynchburg, Va.
Seventh-seeded JU (12-20) ends the season on a five-game losing streak and was swept in three games against the second-seeded Flames (26-6).
After falling behind 9-0 and 11-2, the Dolphins fought back to tie the game on an 11-2 run that was capped with J.D Notae's jumper with 6:55 left in a slow-pace first half.
However, the Flames connected on three 3-point shots over the balance of the first half and Caleb Homesley scored seven points during a 21-6 run to give Liberty a 34-19 halftime lead.
JU went on a 12-3 spurt early in the second half, with five players scoring, and eventually cut the lead to 56-47 on Cory Romich's layup with 8:35 left.
However, Scottie James assisted on an Elijah Cuffee dunk, then scored a layup during successive possessions and JU never got closer.
Dolphins' senior forward Jace Hogan recovered from a two-game shooting slump in which he was held scoreless to share game-high honors with teammate Aamahne Santos with 13 points. Hogan added six rebounds in his final game for JU.
DeAnthony McCallum had 11 points and Bryce Workman eight.
Notae, JU's leading scorer, was held to four points on 2 of 12 shooting. He missed all seven of his 3-point attempts.
Georgie Pacheco-Ortiz led the Flames with 16 points and James added 15. Liberty shot .522 (26 of 46) and held the Dolphns to .431 (22 of 51). JU made only 5 of 21 3-point attempts.

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This research is being done to find out if daily use of the drug levetiracetam can improve memory function in individuals with memory problems like those associated with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Increasing research is focused on conditions that precede the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in order to detect patients at risk for early intervention. One such condition is mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in this group of patients have reported increased activation in the Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) during performance of memory tasks. The functional significance of increased activation is unclear. One possibility is that greater activity reflects the increased effort needed in order to maintain performance, and as such would be a compensatory response. An alternative possibility is that increased activation reflects aberrant physiology related to the disease process itself and as such would be a sign of greater underlying disease severity and would interfere with brain function.
Data in animal models suggest the possibility that low dose levetiracetam (well-tolerated anti-convulsant) treatment may reduce the observed hyperactivity and improve memory performance among individuals with MCI. The investigators are therefore conducting a within-subjects trial of 8 weeks duration, involving 144 subjects and low dose treatment with levetiracetam. During the course of the study, each subject may receive both drug and placebo for two weeks, with the order of administering those treatments counterbalanced. Cognitive testing and fMRI imaging will be obtained after 2-weeks on drug/placebo. The overall goal of the study is to determine if treatment of MCI subjects with low dose levetiracetam reduces hyperactivity within the MTL and improves memory performance.
Measurement of average brain activity in the dentate gyrus / CA3 subregion of the hippocampus measured with BOLD functional MRI in patients with mild cognitive impairment on placebo and on drug compared to average brain activity in this brain area in control subjects.
Mnemonic similarity task which assesses long term memory function. Scale ranges from 0-100 with higher scores indicating better memory performance.
All: English as a first language; right handed; able to complete written informed consent.
MCI subjects: In addition to above, must meet criteria for amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). This includes a memory complaint corroborated by an informant; impaired memory function for age and educational level; preserved general cognitive function; intact abilities of daily living; no clinical dementia.
Age matched Controls: Must have memory and cognitive status that is normal for their age.
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UK Riot Grrrl
Tag: Not Right
In which Not Right appear all over the place
by Ruth
Thanks to everyone who came to see us at Revolt – it was great to see so many people having a good time! We had some issues hearing ourselves on stage but apparently no-one noticed, which can only be a good thing. Apparently we sound like a proper band now and everything.
Talking of recent gigs, we've just put up some photos from Battle of the Bands. You can see them here.
Looking ahead to the future, we have many exciting gigs coming up. Here's the ones we have confirmed at present:
Saturday 20th April (Leamington Spa)
We'll be playing brand new Leamington venue LAMP alongside pop-punkers Taxi Treats and blues rock band Handsome Devils Club. This looks likely to be our last gig on home turf for a little while plus we've got a nice long set with many, many (short) songs, so if you live locally you should totally come down to see us play. We might even play some new tunes we've been working on…
More details, tickets etc.
Facebook event page.
Friday 10th May (London)
We're playing the wonderfully named National Minimum Rage at Power Lunches in Hackney. Shopping and Methodist Centre are also playing, there will be DJs from Power Queers and Cinnamon Buns, zine distros, and a screening of "She Said Boom", a documentary about Canadian feminist punk pioneers Fifth Column.
Saturday 11th May (Birmingham)
Can't make it to London? Well, we'll be shuttling up to the Midlands the very next day to take part in a punk halfdayer at the Adam & Eve organised by Birmingham collective Punks Alive. There will be many awesome bands playing from 2pm onwards!
Thursday 30th May (Birmingham)
We'll be returning to the Adam & Eve at the end of May for another gig with Punks Alive – this time supporting Swedish goth rockers Dark Valentine.
Punks Alive page.
Saturday 29th June (Brighton)
A fundraiser for Daughters Of Eve: an organisation committed to preventing female genital mutilation. It'll take place in the Cowley Club and there will be a whole host riot grrrlesque groups also playing. More details to follow – keep an eye the live page.
…aaaand finally for now, we'd like to plug the latest issue of the Alternative Female Voices Magazine – not only because it's great (as usual) but because our song "Balls" is on the covermount CD!
Revolt!
We've been making little references to Revolt for some time, and even put a hastily constructed poster for it onto the back of our most recent zine. But finally, the time has come to reveal more about Coventry's riot grrrl night!
Revolt will take place in Taylor John's House on Saturday 13th October. We'll be opening the night in support of other punk bands, spoken word acts, DJs and a feminist burlesque group. Excited? Of course you are.
Full details can be found on the Revolt page, which should be updated over the next couple of months as more details are announced.
Not Right at Notts Pride
We're playing the Trans Tent at Nottinghamshire Pride from around 1:30pm tomorrow (Saturday). In a sense, this is our first "festival" gig. We'll be debuting a new song during our half-hour set, and will have some multi-coloured copies of our second zine.
If you can make it, there's a whole load of other exciting things happening in the Trans Tent during the Saturday afternoon. Recreation Nottingham have put together a brilliant line-up with some of the best trans and queer performers in the country. Poetry, cabaret, comedy and rock…it's all here.
We've created a Facebook event page for our set.
…and the full timetable for the afternoon is available below!
12:00 (Pride opens)
Single Bass
Angel/El Dia
Jase Redfield
Elaine O'Neill
Not Right
Lashings of Ginger Beer Time (1st set)
Dr Carmilla (1st set)
Lashings of Ginger Beer Time (2nd set)
Roz Kaveney
Sally Outen
Lashings of Ginger Beer Time (3rd set)
Dr Carmilla
George Hadden
Trioxin Cherry
Tia Anna
We're playing Robbin's Well for the second time in as many weeks this coming Wednesday, at an event run by student promoters Resound. We'll be playing alongside Subject To Change, Gunmen of the Apocalypse, Coast Is Clear and Instinct By Default.
The night kicks off at 7:30pm and entry is free! What's not to like?
There's an event page here for Facebook users.
Then at the end of July we've been invited to play the trans area at Nottinghamshire Pride (no, really!) We don't have many details on this one as yet, so watch the live page for updates.
Leamington gig tomorrow!
We're playing the basement of Robbin's Well again tomorrow, alongside the awesome Mongolian Death Worm, We Are A Communist and Matt Shillito. It's been organised by Dan and Freja of Communist.
We leaped onto the bill for this one at the last minute for various personal reasons…but better a late announcement than no announcement!
There is a Facebook event page here.
Review: Bar Wotever
Tuesday's set at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern was without a doubt the best gig we've ever played. Until now we've enjoyed providing some increasingly raucous performances, but we'd not quite managed to tap into that sound that we get in the practice room, when it all comes together and sounds like it's meant to, like it does in our heads.
On Tuesday we managed it and then some. Sure, we're still pretty rough and ready, but that's the point. I felt my voice and my bass lock in with Kirsty's vicious riffs and Snowy's inventive drumming, as we shared our joy and anger with an utterly receptive audience. We also debuted a new backdrop flag and a new cover: Manic Street Preachers' Repeat, a perfect song for the Jubilee.
We couldn't ask for a more warm and welcoming crowd than at Wotever. A massive "thank you" to everyone who came!
Of course, our set was just the start of the night!
I didn't manage to catch much of Killer's Riches because we were packing our stuff, but what I did hear was pretty awesome. Kye Oram is a lovely fellow with a great voice, great hair, great politics and a heap of passion. I'm not sure whether he was attacking his guitar or making love to it, but either way there was a whole load of noise for one guy with an acoustic instrument.
I've been meaning to see The Makeshifts for ages so this was the perfect opportunity to do so. Their music moved organically from quiet beauty to raging folk-punk wig-out and back again without fault: wonderful! I was particularly impressed by the addition of two new band members (including a temporary drummer, covering for a guy who has just had surgery) without any apparent impact on the group's sound, which was very impressive. The addition of a violinist was particularly cool and really worked. A special mention should also go to the mesmerising cover of Mr Brightside – I really hate that song, and the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed the Makeshifts' moving reinvention says a great deal. Vocal harmonies for the win.
Closing the night were Battle Of You, who were without a doubt the most polished act of the night. This was pop music as it should be, with songs that are actually about something performed with meaning and energy. Each song was stuffed full of hooks that cried out for you to dance around and sing along. There was some great musicianship from each member of the group, but it always served the bands's quest for a perfect tune. Plus: pink spandex! A great headline act who I really hope to catch again one day.
Kudos also to Joe Pop and Seth Corbin for great DJ sets.
Finally, thanks to Jo and Ingo for organising such a wonderful night, and putting faith in us!
Here's a video about the night by Jess Eyre, including a short snippet of "Tory Scum" and a brief interview with myself:
Our setlist is up here, with photos to hopefully follow soon!
London gig
It's now less than a week until our gig at Bar Wotever, in London's legendary Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
Details are as follows:
Date: Tuesday 29th May
Doors: 6pm-12am
Location: The Royal Vauxhall Tavern (just across the road from Vauxhall tube station)
Playing alongside: Battle Of You, The Makeshifts, Killer's Riches.
We're playing first, so get down early if you can!
Snowy:
Thursday's gig has me looking in the rear view mirror. It was organised by the same people who offered us our debut performance just before Christmas, who were working in a similar capacity.
It's also roughly a year since I unexpectedly bumped into Kirsty at a rock night in Coventry and she told me to start playing the drums for hers and Ruth's band.
We've come a long way since both of those evenings. Here's to a similarly long way yet.
Ruth:
I can't believe it's been around a year! We've come a long way in that time. For one thing, Snowy and I basically had no experience playing our respective instruments! The great thing about punk is that it can give anyone a gateway into music.
The crowd seemed a little bewildered on Thursday but I suppose that's what comes of playing a postgraduate student event. I saw a few people getting into it though, loosening up, dancing a little, chanting along to "Tory Scum". That's what we like to see! Plus we got some great feedback afterwards.
Our next performance will be at the B/ull(s)hit Conference (University of Warwick library, Friday 4th May): a complete mockery of the academic world in which we're embedded. Then we'll be playing a "proper gig" at the Exchange in Leamington on 11th May before heading to London at the end of the month.
Thursday's setlist:
Intersectionality Song
Debate Club Wanker
Short Songs*
The Facilitation of Lawful Protest
Pasties and Beer
Kirsty's PhD
Rebel Girl**
* Dead Kennedys cover
** Bikini Kill cover
All the news that's new
We've added two gigs to the "live" page…
The most exciting of these is our very first excursion to London. We'll be playing alongside The Makeshifts and B.O.Y. at Bar Wotever on Tuesday 29th May. Come along for a queer old time!
We've also added some new photos and a couple of live recordings (with more hopefully to come).
There are now actually things to see and do on this site! We've updated the "live" page, added pictures and videos, and tentatively launched the beginnings of a directory of active riot grrrl acts in the UK. Expect a couple of live recordings (of considerably better quality than the videos) and the first issue of our zine to follow soon.


The Sanctuary Is A Resounding Success!
I have to say the Monarch Sanctuary is working even better than I thought it would, and I had pretty high hopes. So far there are 12 chrysalises, and about 10 more caterpillars happily chowing down thanks to a restocking run to Jennifer's.
Should be a few monarchs emerging any day now, which I'm excited about. I've noticed a few hanging around outside the sanctuary, trying to get inside to lay more eggs. I tried putting a pot of milkweed in front of it, which worked great until I looked out the office window and noticed the geese had discovered it and started chowing down.
The monarch had just laid a bunch of eggs, so that was far from ideal and necessitated a panicked flight out of the house. I've also been checking on the cocoons after every rainstorm, but the sanctuary is far enough back that not much water or wind blows in on them.
I've had to be vigilant about checking the sanctuary for predators, too. So far I've escorted a spider and some weird triangular bug out. I didn't realize that beetles eat caterpillars, or that they'll latch onto the cocoons and do terrible things, but I guess that's nature. I also didn't realize that birds eat butterflies until Gene pointed out a flycatcher with colorful wings sticking out from either side of its beak. It's a rough world for butterflies, but at least they're getting a good start on life.
Sadly, we've inadvertently taken out a few ourselves, by way of the F150's grill. Gene had to pop the hood on it yesterday, and expose the filter that's behind the grill. It looked like modern art. Wings, striped torsos, heads that were identifiable by species – it was horrible. Festively colored, but horrible. I knew northern Minnesota had a ton of bugs, but I didn't need that kind of proof.
Much more zen than squashed butterflies, you're welcome.
I was going to snap a picture because one of my great joys in life is making Bess Bess say "ewwwww", but I didn't want the tow truck driver to think I was some kind of psycho who rejoices in the demise of butterflies trying to cross the highway. Gene had been picking up the tiller from Duluth and was on his way home when the truck broke down on the highway, so I had gone to pick him up.
Of course the truck picked the hottest day of the year so far to blow the alternator, so when the tow guy got there he was in a mood most foul. I cheerfully said hello, because who isn't thrilled when the tow guy finally arrives? He stared at me, then growled, "It's freaking hot", except he didn't say freaking. Then he unhooked our truck, got back in his, and left. Without saying another single word.
Then 10 minutes later we managed to lock the keys in the truck while it was running, and had to call AAA again. Gene said if they dispatched the same driver I should try to give him a hug to see if we could make him roar, but it was a different, much more cheerful guy.
That whole debacle took up about 5 hours, so when we got back home I decided to spend some time with the monarchs. While I love watching them, I'm torn because it vexes the robins who have their nest directly above the Sanctuary under the roof of the carport. It's prime real estate, and they don't like sharing it. They've buzzed my head, and they'll perch on whatever surface is nearby and screech at me. You may not have known robins can screech, but indeed they can. The pair is on their second brood, and I realized why they've suddenly started to mind my presence so much – 3 more chicks hatched!


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2019: Atiku emerges PDP presidential candidate; to challenge Buhari
October 7, 2018 Cletus Ukpong, Samuel Ogundipe and Nasir Ayitogo
Atiku Abubakar
Atiku Abubakar, a retired Customs officer and Nigeria's vice president between 1999 and 2007, has been elected the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
At a PDP national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, held Saturday and Sunday, Mr Abubakar defeated 11 other aspirants to clinch the hotly-contested ticket. His victory sets him as the main challenger to President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 general election.
The ruling All Progressives Congress confirmed Mr Buhari as its candidate at a non-competitive convention in Abuja, Nigeria's capital on Saturday.
Mr Abubakar, an Adamawa-born politician whose quest for Nigeria's presidency has seen him vie for the top office since 1992, scored 1,532 votes at this weekend's convention.
His closest rival, Aminu Tambuwal, scored 693 votes while Senate President Bukola Saraki came third with 317 votes.
Sunday's PDP 2018 National Convention is one of the most competitive since 1998 when the party chose Olusegun Obasanjo as its candidate. Mr Obasanjo went on to lead Nigeria for eight years starting in 1999, with Mr Abubakar as his vice president.
Mr Abubakar left the PDP in the build up to the 2007 election to be the flag bearer of the then opposition Action Congress. He lost the election to late President Umaru Yar'Adua.
He later joined the PDP again and sought to be the party's candidate in 2011. He lost the ticket to Goodluck Jonathan who led Nigeria until 2015.
Mr Abubakar, in the build up to the 2015 election again left the PDP for the then newly formed All Progressives Congress. He came third in the APC presidential primary behind Muhammadu Buhari and Rabiu Kwankwaso. Mr Buhari went on to win the general election and is now seeking re-election.
Mr Abubakar left the APC for the PDP last year, accusing the ruling party and President Buhari of failing Nigerians.
Cletus Ukpong is PREMIUM TIMES' assistant editor in charge of Nigeria's South-South region. He is a graduate of Mass Communication, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Twitter: @CletusUkpong
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Last week Sonakshi Sinha, Karan Johar and many others were quite surprised with Kartik's simpleton look from Pati Patni Aur Woh and now looks like another bigwig from showbiz has also joined his list of admirers. We're talking about Ekta Kapoor. The producer and TV Czarina shared a meme on her social media which has different looks of Kartik Aaryan and comparing the actor to various OTT platforms. And Ekta's Alt Balaji has the famous Kartik Aaryan's wink look from Luka Chuppi which has made his fans trend the hashtag #PoseLikeKartik.
Kartik Aaryan soon replied to the picture saying That's so sweet. Btw our choices are similar, even I love the wink look 'Guddu'.
Now those kind words are quite true. Kartik Aaryan was for the longest time an under-rated actor. He was known for his monologue and his looks, but 2018 changed the game for him and today he's giving some of the biggest superstars sleepless nights. Nevertheless, it's not just Ekta Kapoor and Kartik Aaryan who love the wink look, but we all are a fan of it. Ardent fans! It's difficult for anyone to not to fall for the actor's effortless charms.


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Q: Having trouble with equals/not equals using array in Java I am working on an Address Book homework assignment for Java, using arrays. I am stuck on how to make sure someone isn't in the address book before adding them, and making sure they are in the address book in order to delete them. I have three files; hopefully I'll copy the code into here correctly. Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong are most appreciated.
This is the AddressBook class:
package addressbook;

public class AddressBook
{

    // declaring variable addressBook as reference
    // to an array of Person objects
    Person[] addressBook;

    // using a static field to keep track of
    // the number of person objects
    public static int people = 0;

    // allocate memory for the array field in a constructor
    public AddressBook()
    {
        addressBook = new Person[2];
    }

    //Method to add a person object to the addressBook
    public void AddPerson(Person person)
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        for (int i = 0; i < people; i++)
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                if (people < addressBook.length)
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                    //  specified by variable people (starting with 0)
                    addressBook[people] = person;
                } // if there are too many person objects
                // to fit in the address book
                else
                {
                    // declare a temp array twice the length of address book
                    Person[] temp = new Person[addressBook.length * 2];
                    for (int j = 0; j < addressBook.length; j++) // put the references from the old address book into temp
                    {
                        temp[j] = addressBook[j];
                    }
                    //add the new person object into temp
                    temp[people] = person;
                    // copy the reference to temp into address book
                    addressBook = temp;
                }
                // increase person object count (since you just added a person)
                people++;
                // print to the console to see if method is working
                System.out.println("people = " + people + "\n"
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            }
        }
    }
    // Method to search for a person by name.
    // Searches both first and last names
    // and puts the results into an array.

    public Person[] searchName(String name)
    {
        Person[] searchResults = new Person[addressBook.length];
        for (int i = 0; i < people; i++)
        {
            if ((addressBook[i].firstName.equals(name))
                    || (addressBook[i].lastName.equals(name)))
            {
                searchResults[i] = addressBook[i];
            }
        }
        return searchResults;
    }

    // Method to search for a person by ID number.
    // Puts the results into an array.
    public Person[] searchID(int id)
    {
        Person[] resultsList = new Person[addressBook.length];
        for (int i = 0; i < people; i++)
        {
            if (addressBook[i].idNumber == id)
            {
                resultsList[i] = addressBook[i];
            }
        }
        return resultsList;
    }

    //Method to remove a person object from the addressBook
    public void removePerson(int id)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < people; i++) // Search by ID number.
        {
            if (addressBook[i].idNumber == id)
            {
                // copy the ref to the last person object in array
                // into the index location of the person object being removed
                addressBook[i] = addressBook[people - 1];
                // set the ref of the (formerly) last person object to null
                addressBook[people - 1] = null;
                // decrease person object count (since you just removed a person)
                people--;
            }
        }
        // If your count of people is 25% or less than the
        // length of your address book
        if (people <= (addressBook.length / 4))
        {
            // declare a temp array half the length of address book
            Person[] temp = new Person[addressBook.length / 2];
            for (int j = 0; j < people; j++) // put the references from the old address book into temp
            {
                temp[j] = addressBook[j];
            }
            // copy the reference to temp into address book
            addressBook = temp;
        }
        // print to the console to see if method is working
        System.out.println("Count= " + people + "\n"
                + "addressBook.Length= " + addressBook.length);
    }

    // Prints the array to the console
    public void PrintAddressBook()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < addressBook.length; i++)
        {
            System.out.println(addressBook[i]);
        }
    }
}

This is the Person class:
package addressbook;

public class Person
{
    public String firstName, lastName;
    public int idNumber = 0;
    public static int nextIdNumber;

    public Person(String fn, String ln)
    {
        firstName = fn;
        lastName = ln;
        nextIdNumber++;
        idNumber = nextIdNumber;
    }

    public String getFirstName()
    {
        return firstName;
    }

    public void setFirstName(String newFirstName)
    {
        firstName = newFirstName;
    }

    public String getLastName()
    {
        return lastName;
    }

    public void setLastName(String newLastName)
    {
        lastName = newLastName;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        return ("First name: " + firstName + "\n"
                + "Last name: " + lastName + "\n"
                + "Full name: " + firstName + " " + lastName + "\n"
                + "ID number: " + idNumber);
    }

    public void printInformation()
    {
        System.out.println(lastName + ", " + firstName + ", " + idNumber);
    }
}

And this is the AddressBookTester:
package addressbook;

public class AddressBookTester {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        AddressBook addressBook = new AddressBook();

        System.out.println("-----Testing a Person Constructor-----");
        System.out.println("--------using ToString Method--------\n");
        Person person1 = new Person("Helen", "Mirren");
        System.out.println(person1);
        System.out.println();

        Person person2 = new Person("Helen", "Thomas");
        System.out.println(person2);
        Person person3 = new Person("Thomas", "Wolfe");
        System.out.println(person3);
        Person person4 = new Person("Robert", "Redford");
        System.out.println(person4);
        Person person5 = new Person("Robbie", "Robertson");
        System.out.println(person5);

        System.out.println("--Testing Add Person Method--");
        addressBook.AddPerson(person1);
        addressBook.AddPerson(person2);
        addressBook.AddPerson(person3);
        addressBook.AddPerson(person4);
        addressBook.AddPerson(person5);
        addressBook.PrintAddressBook();

        System.out.println("----Testing Search by Name Method------");
        //create return Person object array for searchName function
        Person[] searchList = addressBook.searchName("Helen");
        for (int i = 0; i < searchList.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(searchList[i]);
        }

        System.out.println("----Testing Search by ID Method------");
        Person[] results = addressBook.searchID(5);
        for (int i = 0; i < results.length; i++) {
            System.out.println(results[i]);
        }

        System.out.println("----Testing Remove Person Method------");
        addressBook.removePerson(4);
        addressBook.removePerson(3);
        addressBook.removePerson(2);
        addressBook.PrintAddressBook();
    }
}

When I run it, I get:
/*run:
-----Testing a Person Constructor-----
--------using ToString Method--------

First name: Helen
Last name: Mirren
Full name: Helen Mirren
ID number: 1

First name: Helen
Last name: Thomas
Full name: Helen Thomas
ID number: 2
First name: Thomas
Last name: Wolfe
Full name: Thomas Wolfe
ID number: 3
First name: Robert
Last name: Redford
Full name: Robert Redford
ID number: 4
First name: Robbie
Last name: Robertson
Full name: Robbie Robertson
ID number: 5
--Testing Add Person Method--
null
null
----Testing Search by Name Method------
null
null
----Testing Search by ID Method------
null
null
----Testing Remove Person Method------
Count= 0
addressBook.Length= 1
Count= 0
addressBook.Length= 0
Count= 0
addressBook.Length= 0
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)
*/

Thanks for any ideas as to how to fix this code. I am very new to coding, obviously...

A: I can't thoroughly read your code right now, but I'll try and give a few hints on some points I observed.
No. 1:
In your searchX() methods you return an array of Person which is exactly the size of the address book. Within the methods you loop over the addressbook (hint use foreach instead of looping by index) and then call searchResults[i] = addressBook[i];. This might result in a lot of null entries all over the result array.
You might want to have a different index for searchResults instead and increment that only when you add an entry. That way all the null entries are at the end of the array and you can easily make a copy of that array and leave out the empty part at the end.
No. 2:
In general, if you're allowed to use collections like List, Set etc. use those instead of arrays.
No. 3:
Don't compare objects with == or != like in if( addressBook[i] != person) since you could create two objects with the same data and you'd not see that they're equal due to == comparing object indentity instead of equality.
No. 4:
You're not getting the printed statemend when calling addPerson() which should indicate there's something wrong.
Try and debug your code and you should see that for (int i = 0; i < people; i++) will result in no iteration since people initially is 0 and thus i < 0 is never satisfied. Hence nothing gets added to your array.
I think here's the real problem:
Your addPerson method has a wrong structure. Besides the i < 0 problem mentioned above, you're adding each new  person multiple times since you don't terminate the loops but add the person whenever addressBook[i] != person which would be true for every entry in the array in the case of a new person.
Try and change that to something like the following pseudo code:
boolean personInArray = searchById( person.getId() );

if( !personInArray ) {
  if( people == addressBook.length) {
    //resize the array, since it is full and the person should be added
  }

  //add the person
  addressBook[people] = person;
  people++;
}

No. 5:
As a side note, try to stick to the Java code conventions, e.g. method names always start with a lower case character, i.e. addPerson instead of AddPerson. Although this more a matter of style it will help you and others to debug and understand your code.

A: There's a very clear problem firstly:
You start by initializing the person count keeper to 0, and then in your AddPerson() method you initiate your loop to perform:
for(int i=0;i<person;i++){
...
}

since person = 0, it won't even enter the loop, because 0 is not less than 0.
Secondly, you are performing an == comparison on objects, which is bound to go wrong. Here's why:
== and != are reference comparisons, i.e. == will only return true if the two objects being compared are referencing the same object in memory.
Instead, you should use the .equals(...) function, but since your Person class does not extend anything, this will default to the Object.equals() superclass method, which is equivalent to the above.
Hence the correct way to go about the comparison, is to override the equals() method for the Person class such that it returns true if e.g. the first and last name are the same, or whichever your criteria may be. At the same time, you should also make sure to override the hashCode() method to honor the contract between those two methods. You can read more about this e.g. here:
http://javarevisited.blogspot.dk/2011/02/how-to-write-equals-method-in-java.html

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Football career
Azman started playing competitive football at 11 years old. She played for the Woodlands Secondary School and Republic Polytechnic.

Club career
Azman previously played for the South West Queensland Thunder in the National Premier Leagues Women's in Australia. She made 31 appearances for the club.

In 2021, Azman became the first Singaporean to play professionally in Japan, when she joined INAC Kobe Leonessa of the Japan Women's Empowerment Professional Football League. Azman struggled in INAC Kobe due to the different level of play and language barrier. In an attempt to bridge to the gap, she put in extra training and ultimately injured herself, tearing her left gluteus maximus muscle, sidelining her for two months.

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Kibi International signed Azman on 1 July 2022 for six months.

International career
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References

1997 births

Living people

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Singapore women's international footballers
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By Editor | August 23, 2022
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Don't panic? Windows 8 and the "ribbonification" of Explorer
Microsoft's plans for a ribbon-equipped Explorer in Windows 8 have alarmed …
Peter Bright - Feb 8, 2012 2:15 am UTC
When Microsoft first revealed that the Explorer file manager would be outfitted with a ribbon-style toolbar in Windows 8, responses were loud, passionate, and frequently negative.
The company recently described changes that it has made to Windows 8's Explorer in response to the feedback. These include some small modifications to the ribbon experience along with some other refinements of Explorer's new features. Though the changes themselves have been welcomed, the continued hostility toward Explorer's redesign remains.
Microsoft's original Explorer ribbon design
Since its introduction in Office 2007, the ribbon has been a polarizing user interface. The ribbon's purpose was to make a package that was feature-packed but unwieldy more approachable—to enable people to find more of those features when they wanted to use them. Microsoft says that it has broadly succeeded at this goal, and there is evidence that all but the heaviest Office users regard it as an improvement.
But those heaviest users have bemoaned the way the ribbon has moved options from familiar places, and they have criticized (especially in Office 2007) the lack of customization options. While Office 2010 has reinstated much of the configurability and customization, the other complaints remain. With the ribbon expanding into such basic software as Explorer, the old complaints are being reheated. Do they have any merit?
Relight the fire
While the Office ribbon has largely been met with acquiescence—Microsoft was resolute about not providing a "legacy" user interface in Office, giving people little option but to like it or lump it—the decision to include a ribbon in Explorer has reawakened much of the anti-ribbon feeling. Windows 8 provides a new battleground on which to repeat the conflicts inspired by Office 2007.
Adding fuel to this anti-ribbon fire was the level of explication and detail that Microsoft included in its original descriptions of the ribbon. The ribbon's design—the placement of the buttons, the grouping into different categories, the decision to place things on the default tab or some other—was fundamentally not driven by taste or aesthetics: it was driven by empirical observation.
The ribbon does include some kind of logical categorization, especially for the "contextual" tabs that aren't permanently enabled—things like the "table tools" section in Word 2010, for example, that only appears when the I-beam is in a table. Still, the most important section, the catch-all "Home" section that's displayed by default, is driven by something much more basic: how often people use the feature in question. If a feature is important, it goes in the Home section. If it isn't, it doesn't.
Microsoft collects data from a broad subset of the Windows-using community through its opt-in, optional Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). With this data, the company knows which Explorer features people use most often, and how they access those features—whether it be through the main menu, the context menu, toolbars, or keyboard shortcuts.
This data has been instrumental in creating the Explorer ribbons, with often-used items given prominent placement. For example, in Windows 7 some of the most-used options, including copy and paste, are not found on the toolbar-like "command bar" at all. Instead, they're accessed through the context menu. Windows 8 puts them on the ribbon's Home tab, right at the left, making them the easiest-to-find buttons in the whole interface.
Data-driven design
More than the use of the ribbon itself, it is this explanation and the data used that have generated criticism. Some of that criticism is off-base: for example, in this widely Tweeted and Tumbled post, the complaint was made that some of the Home tab's features had a usage of zero percent, calling into question their inclusion. The reason these features have zero usage is because they don't exist in Windows 7, however; that Microsoft has collected no usage data about them is not at all surprising. They are, however, reasonably logical extensions of other features, so their inclusion is not indicative of any particular problem.
The ribbon and its supporting data
Other criticisms are more on point. Microsoft's own data shows that people use the context menus extensively and barely touch the menus and command bar. This in turn raises an implicit question: if people are finding the features on the context menus, and they are happy to use the context menus, does this not mean that the context menus are a perfectly appropriate place to stick such options? The ribbon could be seen as streamlining something that's already streamlined and accessible.
The ribbon might even be seen as illogical. There's little to link the items on the home tab, for instance, other than the fact that they're used regularly. This is not an intrinsic property of the items themselves, and it will not make sense to users of the software.
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I'll definitely be staying on Win 7 for the foreseeable future. Win 8 looks set to make Vista seem like a rousing success.
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There is no easy answer
Sure there is. Those legacy people should just continue to use legacy software. If you think that Windows XP and Office 2003 were the pinnacle of usability, go right ahead and keep using that software.
simpleWho Ars Scholae Palatinae
Just One word: QDir; an absolutely gem of an alternative to Explorer. Other alternatives are: NexusFiles and Explorer++.
I have found Explorer to always be too cluttered and 'noisy'. I don't even expect that Microsoft has the 'artistic' finesse to make it 'look' neat.
But even more importantly are the glaring bugs and usability issues that they ought to address first. E.g; how the explorer looses all its settings when it sees a media (picture or sound) file in the list.
Or how there there is no column-oriented view;
And specially the frustrating experience of not being able to find an 'empty' space which is needed for copy and paste operations.
If the basics aren't down to a few orthogonal concepts and design principles; then the visual gimmicks like Ribbon vs Menus isn't going to solve the problem. They have to analyze and reduce the problem-space first which may then automatically lead to a 'better' UI. At present, the only result will be that menu items will move around, shift their place but they would still be the same.
Dick Cheney Ars Scholae Palatinae
pusher robot wrote:
I dont remember anybody whining about Windows 7...
I remember defending Windows Vista as a good OS.
Metro is utter bullshit and should be killed with fire. (on the desktop, obviously)
As for the Ribbon, ok its fuggly but its not a big deal.
enderandrew Ars Scholae Palatinae
Microsoft usability experts said it was a massive improvement to have to make extra clicks to perform the same tasks with most of the Vista changes. And I was told that if I use the ribbon enough, I'll surely fall in love with it. 9 years later, it still takes me more time to perform the same tasks that it does for me to use 2003 or LibreOffice.
Looking at the evolution of Office, Explore, Windows Media Player, etc. over the past 10 years I see applications that look a lot nicer today in screenshots, but are usability messes.
Microsoft counters that they have usability experts. If it is harder for me to perform tasks, then how is that a usability win? Do they understand what usability means?
GoodBytes Smack-Fu Master, in training
WiseWeasel wrote:
The main reason why Vista failed, is that the OS was too ahead of it's time. Most people didn't have the computational power, and latest hardware to get proper Vista support. Basically, if you had a high-end gaming system, Vista 64-bit provided a nice experience. But few had such system, or feature older technologies, which caused manufactures to not really care about making drivers. Now I am not saying it's not Microsoft fault, for several reasons, including (as it was said at the time): lack of documentation, and Microsoft set "vista ready" on too lower specs systems
OEM biggest error, is to provide Intel graphic solutions (which at the time, was really an abomination) in systems, instead of a low end Nvidia or ATI graphic solution, this would have avoided the choppy and slow experience that many users had, and also, avoid the problem with laptops getting virtually no battery life, as the Intel graphic solution and CPU (as they are together) was stressing like no tomorrow, to try and draw. While a low end dedicated graphic card, can draw Aero experience, like if it was nothing.
That are some, among others, factors of why Vista failed.
Windows 8 is based on Win7 (which is also based on Vista). If you install Vista on your Win7 system, I can assure you that your reaction would be "Well it's not THAT bad... Vista is pretty good. Not Win7 good of course, but better than XP in many things".
Anyway, I am getting off topic here.
All to say, is that Windows 8 will work, and sale very well. It won't, and can't be like Vista. Only some vocal power user complains... I am sure that the average person would welcome Win8. Might feel strange to them at first, but it will catch on.
Microsoft tried to force people to use the Windows desktop environment on phones and tablets, which failed miserably.
Apple designed their phone/tablet OS around touch and design concepts that made sense for the form factor.
Now Microsoft is trying to force touch interface into the desktop world. They don't realize why Apple succeeded. Use appropriate interface designs for the hardware you have.
It makes sense that they want to reuse the same Windows 8 kernel in Windows mobile, and the desktop. But don't force the same UI on both.
GoodBytes wrote:
What you're really saying is that if you threw enough hardware at it, it covered up how poorly Vista performed.
In reality, Microsoft changed their driver API drastically enough without working with vendors. Creative never got stable sound drivers working 100% in Vista during the entire life cycle. Nvidia and ATI both struggled to get decent video drivers working.
And Aero should have offloaded rendering to the GPU, freeing up load on the CPU. In reality, Aero in Vista pegged both the CPU and GPU for no good reason.
You had massive usability regressions, the removal of features for no good reason (recovery install for instance), instability and terrible performance. Vista was an absolute dog. Simply stating that you could give it powerful enough hardware to make up for those problems does not make it good.
Especially when you consider how many games broke with UAC. Vista was an absolutely terrible OS for gaming.
ArbitraryOne Seniorius Lurkius
Hated Desktop Search--it ruined Explorer--uninstalled it.
Had to improved Explorer by integrating freeware: BulkFileRename
The ribbon made Office a little more asthetically pleasing and I think improved organization.
'Course my MAC had didn't need any of these improvements.
'nuf said.
2 posts | registered Feb 8, 2012
Ninhalem Ars Scholae Palatinae
Your best bet to find out if Windows 8 will succeed is to take the upcoming beta on a laptop, tablet, or desktop to someone of the baby boomer generation and see if they like it. They have by far the most money to spend at this point, and are a fairly large population. This techie community pales in comparison to them.
Ruoruni Smack-Fu Master, in training
I consider myself an Office power user. It took a few days to get used to the ribbon, but it is a superior interface than the old menu/toolbar system. Microsoft could take a cue, though, from Siemens NX software which has recently implemented a 'Command Finder' button. It acts like the search feature in the 'Insert Function' dialog box, but with a more GUI result display. It gives the option in the results to add commands to menus and toolbars. It's far superior to using 'Help' to find out where they hid a command. Now if only Siemens would drive NX to ribbons...
71 posts | registered Mar 26, 2010
I still run Vista on one of my computers, and I like it just fine. I was referring to the poor reception for Vista in the media. By the same logic, though, you could say Vista is based on XP, XP is based on 2000, 2000 is based on NT, etc., so I don't see what your point is.
I disagree. I see Win 8 as being designed primarily for tablets, representing a big step back for desktop users, and I expect a large number of desktop users to completely reject it. I think the demand for downgrading new PCs to Win 7 will be much greater than downgrading to XP from Vista and 7 ever was.
Last edited by WiseWeasel on Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:52 pm
Dick Cheney wrote:
Oh ho ho... Windows 7 was also blasted like Win8 is now.
-> Maximize window, doesn't make Aero non-transparent anymore
-> About everything and aspect of the new task bar.. even called a direct rip-off of MacOs X (I still don't see any resemblance)
-> No up folder button on explorer
-> No 16-bit (DOS) application support for 64-bit Windows 7 (like Vista)
-> XP Mode doesn't support DirectX
-> Blue tool bar was complained a lot, as well. People wanted the old menu bar, and not have that bar anymore
-> Libraries were called totaly useless
-> Search feature, people wanted the search XP dog back (I kid you not... ok not the dog part, but what the silly menu that the dog shows)
-> Aero basic looks ugly, even though, on today's systems, using the GPU to render the interface (Aero), is much better and advantageous than to use the CPU (which sucks at drawing). (that's also from Vista)
Hmm what else... Well they were several other things, but the above is what I remember from my top of my head.
keath Ars Tribunus Militum
vividvew wrote:
Windows CE. Take a mouse and keyboard centric interface and force it onto a touch interface. FAIL.
Windows 8. Take a touch centric interface and force it onto a mouse and keyboard. Still FAIL.
Seriously!! How can they not see it. It's SOOO obvious.
I agree. And yet, the majority of computer users in the world will be using it in a few years; and they will claim it is actually better. It's always been this way.
enderandrew wrote:
GoodBytes is right, you are wrong.
I had Vista RC1 x64, Vista Beta x64 and Vista Ult x64. It worked flawlessly and was a great step forward when it came out. I also happened not to install it on a shitty computer. I had a Q6600@3.6, 4GB of RAM and big ass GPU so it ran extremely smoothly. Anyone with any idea of what they were doing would have disabled UAC right after the first boot.
The only problem with Vista was that people expected their piece of shit computers to run it like if it was XP.
I had a Creative X-Fi sound card btw.
ding0tr0n Seniorius Lurkius
Does nobody know that you can create your own ribbon tabs? I was very much anti ribbon until I found this, at which point I spent 10 minutes making my own ribbon and have not had any problems since then. As long as they keep the customization options available, I see no problem.
20 posts | registered Nov 4, 2011
crackedCRT Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
The ribbon is great for newbies or old people who are scared to delve into menus ( or don't know how!). It should be expanded by default. However, it is cluttered and defiantly represents a polar opposite to the metro ui.
Nothing on the scale of Metro. Those are all minor things to pick on. Of course no OS will ever be perfect. The search feature from XP (NOT 4.0) was superior indeed, never cared enough to whine about it though. I keep my stuff organized and never used the feature outside of the workplace.
My biggest problem with Win7 was the whole no quicklaunch and pinning crap to your taskbar. I just fixed both to look identical to XP.
NullRedShift Ars Centurion
I still hate the ribbon. It is not as efficient for me to use, it hogs space, and feels like visual cluttered. I will say that the Mac version of office seems to strike a better balance with it for me. It seems slightly smaller, and you still have the Hierarchical menu in the mac bar. For complex apps, I prefer customizable pallets that I can organize to my needs.
Lanz Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Why couldn't they have used the time they wasted wrecking Explorer's UI on giving it tabs or the ability to split the view so one could look at two folders at once within the same window? They really need to get their priorities straight.
Astlor Ars Tribunus Militum
Lanz wrote:
They have their priorities straight. They are Final Cut Pro Xing Explorer along with the rest of the Windows UI. If you don't like it...tough. You obviously don't matter becuase you obviously aren't the majority.
Choice is for chumps. \m/
Edit: Oh, did that come out a little bitter sounding? So sorry about that. I'll try to remain upbeat and on message next time.
2506 posts | registered Mar 6, 2010
JoshMilewski Seniorius Lurkius et Subscriptor
drfisheye wrote:
JoshMilewski wrote:
I like the Start Menu because it allows multitasking. If I'm running some process that I want to continue monitoring, like Task Manager or some script running in an SSH client or even something as simple and common as a YouTube video, I like that I can still search or browse through all the programs and files on my computer through the Start Menu without having my entire screen taken over by it.
Thanks for the reply. My time spend in the start menu is really very low, so I don't mind it going over other things for a second. And since I pin my most used porgrams to the taskbar, I don't need the start menu very often anyway. I do hope video will continu to play when opening the start screen. In WP7 video stops even when pulling up the start screen, which is annoying.
I think that Microsoft does 'want' us to pin most of the stuff we open to the taskbar. I pin my most used programs there on Windows 7 and it works great, but I do also use the Start Menu to open up other applications I don't have pinned to the taskbar almost every day, and more important to open Computer, Control Panel, etc. For aesthetic reasons I don't want to pin every single one of those to my taskbar, so I'm still going to have to open up the Start Screen more than I'd like to on Windows 8. And doing that kills the multitasking I was talking about.
To answer another one of your questions, if you're going to be browsing for an application to open, then you're going to be scrolling around whether it's with the Start Menu or with the Start Screen. That's not likely going to change with the Start Screen, partly because the icons take up even more pixels than they do in the Start Menu.
Yes there is scrolling in the start screen as well, but less so, since lots more programs fit on one screen. The Windows 8 Build Blog shows some metrics on this. I usually use the type-to-search function whenever I don't immediately see the program I'm looking for, which makes scrolling unnecessary for both the start menu and start screen.
I agree with that. Search is definitely the superior way to find things.
DrPizza Account Banned
Open another window. Problem solved.
DrPizza wrote:
I love Aero snap for that very reason.
Well, that doesn't solve the problem exactly. That's why we moved away from multiple windows with Web browsers to one window with multiple tabs. It's cleaner. Being able to split an Explorer window like an FTP client would be cleaner than opening two windows as well.
I personally don't think Ribbon on Explorer is a bad idea, especially since it's collapsable, but Lanz's other points are good.
zelannii Ars Praefectus
-> Control panel redesign unfinished, inconsitant, and hard to navigate.
-> Backups still broken for D2D boot images.
-> Large folder copies broken, slower than any prior Microasoft OS
-> Upgrade process completely broken, sometimes taking days to finish
-> Many core features of XP and Vista automatically removed by installer, forcing you to upgrade to newer "live" versions, which are not included in the default install.
-> UAC in many cases even more of a pain than before
-> WPM12, don;t get me started.
-> No value to Ultimate edition aside from bitlocker, which is not included in Pro version at all forcing companies to buy Ultimate and/or sign enterprise licencing agreements (made SMBs cost for windows licence go up $100/client with no benefit other than encrytption). All Ultimate perks promised in Vista not only were canceled, but perks already acquired were not present in 7 Ult either.
-> XP mode required it;s own patching routine, and own AV tools, essentially making it a complete VM with all the issues of managing one with none of the benefits of HAVING one other than (limited) legacy compatability.
So why is it so successful? Upon launch, XP SP2/3 was an N-3 OS release, and no longer compliant per US Federal and EU regulations for use in Banking, Medical, and other industries. They Had to choose Vista or 7, XP was no longer an option. All those companies that skipped vista had 1 year, by law, to deploy 7, or else.... Anyone who had vista? Well, 7 was better and going backwards wasn't really an option, so most of them upgraded quick too.
geoken Ars Scholae Palatinae
It was cleaner with browsers because as people became heavier users of the web, they started multitasking to a greater degree and needed better window/tab management. I think for scenarios where you're typically running 5 or fewer instances Win 7's taskbar provides a better UI experience than an application having its own integrated window/tab manager. I can hover over the icon, have the thumbnails show instantly, and then select the appropriate instance faster than I could select the app, navigate through its built in window management system and switch to the appropriate window.
For example, I run 3 or 4 instances of my text editor because when I'm working on a site I typically have the css, html/php and js files loaded up. I'm typically jumping between my text editor and browser. I've found that using Window's taskbar allows me to open the correct file faster than I can when I use my text editor's built in tab based document manager.
Mordachai Smack-Fu Master, in training
For myself, I find the ribbons in various applications lame.
I have not had the experience of "oh, I can do that?!"
Nor have I had the experience of "that's easier now."
Rather, I've had the experience of "What is this ghastly large dense information overload consuming significant portion of my visual work area and mind-space, distracting me from my actual tasks."
Seems like change for change's sake. Not that pull-down menus are are any great shakes, but they have the immense value of being discreet, and broken into logical groupings. I have yet to see what value ribbons provide to me.
Mordachai wrote:
Do you feel that way even when it's in its minimized state?
Entegy Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
Not that pull-down menus are are any great shakes, but they have the immense value of being discreet, and broken into logical groupings. I have yet to see what value ribbons provide to me.
The Ribbon can be discreet (minimized, pops over content with a click, like a menu!) and logically grouped. If I want to insert something, I go to insert. Spellcheck seems much better placed in a "Review" tab then it does in some catch-all Tools menu, or, as I've seen some people look, in Edit.
The Ogre Ars Praetorian
geoken wrote:
Might be able to minimize the Ribbon to save real-estate, but it is still extremely nasty to navigate and find features in (due to the relatively random groupings of icons) when you have to open it again, since there will be no choice allowed to go with a proper menu interface instead as they will be removed.
The best solution, which would remove virtually all complaints, would be to leave the menus in for those who want them and the ability to completely remove the ribbon, even collapsed, like you can with toolbars.
Feels just like a non-functional drop down menu!
Metaluna Ars Scholae Palatinae
Unless you have dual monitors, then it's next to useless.
Metaluna wrote:
I have three monitors and use it all the time. Though the mouse can only snap at the extreme left and extreme right, the keyboard can snap to the edge of any monitor.
Open another window. Snap to half of your screen. And then navigate to that folder. This is 3 steps. Or you have open a tab/column in your file manager like everyone else manages. This is 1 step.
Which is the best from a usability perspective?
Wait, I'm pretty sure a Microsoft usability expert said three steps is better and I'm not qualified to question it.
I have 2 monitors and I use it all the time. Its annoying to have to snap then move it but its still faster than manually resizing the damn thing.
headfoot Ars Praetorian
Dwezl.equinox wrote:
I had already made up my mind that I and my company will skip this version of Windows. So why would I care about how M$ fouls up their system. I use as little M$ software as possible. The only exception, outside of the operating system for some computers, is the use of Office 2003. Why Office 2003? No ribbon bar needlessly cluttering up the screen and confusing the users. I will probably go to LibreOffice.
Go ahead M$, make the IBM mistake and dictate how users will use their computers.
Your credibility is directly and inversely related to the number of times you use the term "M$"
598 posts | registered Sep 5, 2011
sporkme wrote:
Ever since I've upped the RAM on my desktop and found at least one windows app that I need to regularly run (the free vmware management tool) I find myself hating both OSes even more. There are some really, really cool things I've found in Win7 (and I actually kind of like the look) and plenty of more familiar things in OS-X that are really cool (someone upthread mentioned chrome's copy of safari's "tear off" tabs), and some unique apps in both (you can have iTerm2 when you pry it from my cold dead fingers).
But seeing both of them just reinforces a general sense that a general UI for both normal and power users is always a monumental compromise for both groups.
And both Explorer and Finder can DIAF... Like, 5 years ago.
I wish there was a real OS market where we had like 5 options that all support all the closed-source stuff normal people use.
You're using Windows where you control your computer for the most part. Not OS X where it is decreed "There shall be one explorer for all." Just install a different explorer program... problem solved
abhijeetgaiha Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
abhijeetgaiha wrote:
NegativeZero, I would prefer we got rid of file extensions entirely as the legacy crap they ate and let file metadata handle things.
Files, in general, don't have useful metadata. They do, however, all have names. Allowing type information to intrude on the names may be somewhat ugly, but it's enormously robust and universally usable. Nothing else comes remotely close. File names aren't "legacy crap"; they're "the only viable approach".
No, it's not the "only viable approach" actually. Content on the web routinely has metadata in the form of the content tag in the HTTP header, so such a system has been around for decades now. It's not that hard to add such a standard filesystem header to every file.
Not usefully it doesn't. I don't want files identified as application/octet-stream. It's utterly useless.
That doesn't mean a system isn't possible, it just means that enough meaningful content types have not been defined yet.
GoodBytes is right, you are wrong./quote]
Creative, Nvidia and ATI all said it was next to impossible to write a decent drive for Vista. Microsoft publicly admitted they screwed the pooch in this regard and invited them to the table in stabilizing the driver API early on for Windows 7. You're saying that you know better than Creative, Nvidia, ATI and Microsoft about what their driver API was like. Exactly how many drivers did you write for Vista?
Again, just because you were able to mask performance problems with powerful enough hardware, that didn't make Vista a good OS. Microsoft's claim was that Vista was faster than XP, which was an outright lie. It had higher minimum requirements. They claimed Vista was the OS that all netbooks should use because it worked so well with minimum hardware, which is absolute bullshit.
And again, if you have to disable a core feature of Vista to even play games, then it isn't a great gaming OS. The advantage of Vista was DirectX 10 for gaming, except very few games supported it. Five years later there have only been about 40 games to support DirectX 10. A year after Vista's release there were only 11 games on the planet that supported DirectX 10.
You also haven't addressed the instability issues. Vista was a buggy, crash-laden mess.
Or the UI regressions.
But other than the fact that you have UI regressions, more crashes, and worse performance, and you had to disable UAC or games didn't work, it was absolutely great for gaming.


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