Mine's been running for 2 weeks solid with no problems, and at least 8 tabs constantly open. Maybe you're doing something wrong.
If an application crashes, I'm sorry, but it isn't the users fault. Application crashes are not the fault of the users.
In programs like this, bugs are inevitable, as there are *soo many* forms of input, and it is hard for a programmer to take them all into account. But in any case, if blame has to be put on anyone, it would be the developers.
If they were complaining that the browser was spitting back a "Malformed page" error, and continuing on, then you could say that it was the fault of the user (in this case, the writer of the html)
To me, talking about touchscreen systems is crying wolf. The problem is not touchscreens, it's the totally independent issue of secretively operated and maintained closed-source vote counting servers.
We don't need vote counting servers to have touchscreen voting.
I totally agree with you. Why not have a touch-screen system that is there merely to eliminate the confusion and the hanging chads? When you've selected your candidates via the touch-screen system, a filled-in ballot can be shown for review onscreen for confirmation, then when confirmed, a real paper ballot with your selections can be printed, then to be put in the collection box as per usual.
This method would eliminate the problems of hanging chads, people who didn't vote for any candidate because they didn't see it, hard to interpret pencil marks, et al.
Don't forget the extra $2.50 for TONE dialing! They even charged this years and years after tone dialing was put in our town - when they didn't even have equipment to block tones from working on accounts that didn't pay for tone dialing. Instead, after a while they let you know that you were using tone dialing without the tone-dialing feature, and then charged you $2.50/mo (well, something around there).
And I remember my father telling me that his boss, a high up manager at Digital Equipment Corp (when it was that) didn't have a computer at all -- his secratery would print out all of his email, he'd bring it home with him in his briefcase, mark up his comments in pen, and he'd give it back to her in the morning to send out replies. And this was at DEC!
(Not that Wireless-G is anything to write home about, I vote for Ultra-Wifi;-)
Of course, that whole style of naming schemes has limitations (can only go 3-4 generations) which usually ends up in overloading of names, which merely confuses the enduser and techies alike -- basically giving the same name to entirely different things.
Yes, Monopolies only apply to single companies, and the [A-Z]IAA can't be considered one, but they can be considered an Oligopoly. The last time I knew, there were serious restrictions on Collusion amongst oligopolies, so that things like price fixing, which is exactly what these organizations do, doesn't happen.
The only hardware that can autodetect mounting of a floppy disk is the Mac, and it's done it since 1984.
Don't forget about the Amiga. It had autodetection of floppies too, albeit a wee bit later than apple.
When I moved from an Amiga to a PC, I felt like I was taking a step backwards (I went back to the Amiga for many tasks for quite a few years afterward). One of those steps backward was the fact that it had a (to my view) vastly inferior GUI, and the absence of floppy auto-detection.
It just seemed absurd not to have auto-detection of floppies. I have thought that for a long time. Of course now, floppies are pretty much by the wayside. At least they didn't carry on the absence of auto-detection for other newer storage mediums.
I've actually heard from a friend that the magic get-out-of-your-contract words are "I'm moving to minnesota"... though it's been a year or so, so maybe some provider actually has coverage in minnesota now, and won't buy that.
Think not of spam, but of the RIAA using that list as a watchlist, to illegally watch some/everyone on that list for something that looks even remotely close to illicit file trading.
The smartest thing to do IMHO would be to just phase out the manned portion of space exploration for a while... it's *much* cheaper to send unmanned probes/sattelites rather than manned craft.
OTOH, we cannot forget about the space station, which currently needs constant human attention to keep up. What should be done in the lab down here is to design new systems or extend the current systems aboard the ISS, such that it can be extended soas to keep itself in a constant, usable or ready-to-use state without human intervention. The minimum requirements would be to keep the station automated and self sufficient when no crew was aboard. This could be extended to being automated while crew was aboard, but is not necessarily a requirement.
Once the ISS is fitted with these automated systems, manned spaceflight could be stopped or postponed at any time, leaving us to focus on unmanned exploration. Heck, why not work on building an unmanned lunar-station builder? Once the station is built, *then* we could send people up there.
For those that do not know, it is generally believed now that Poe did not die of alcohol toxicity, as was originally rumored and believed.
He is now believed to have died of rabies, contracted from one of his pets months earlier. In fact, the records from the hospital where he died actually said that he had abstained from alcohol for the previous 6 months.
I've found that a lot of tabletop gaming and comic book stores sell/rent anime as well..
I noticed the other week that Gamestop (Video game/computer game store) carries a limited selection of Anime for sale, so it seems that it at least somewhat goes hand in hand with video gamers as well... You can find Gamestop in malls.
Also, you can find it in Suncoast Video... In our area, they have a really good selection, yet it's quite expensive... Like others have said, It's cheaper to buy online. Ebay is a great choice.
The problem is that guns (generally) do not go off by themselves. They don't shoot random people across the globe. There is nothing wrong with all the features in Outlook, they just should be turned OFF by default, so anyone who needs them can still use them. Most people have no idea what is and isn't turned on in their software, or even how to check for it.
Exactly.
Just as guns need trigger locks when the user is not in control, so should email clients, or other programs with access to the outside world. If the users wish to take the trigger locks off altogether, so be it. They take the risks then.
Next they're going to start bitching about how many gigs of hard drive space are being sold.
Note from the article: "I find it incredibly ironic that some people will spend an extra $1,000 on their hard drives just so they can store more music, but they won't pay for the music"
They already are starting to bitch about gigs of HD space. Also note how absolutely wrong this guy has on his dollar figure for music. $1000 in cheap disk space would amount to somewhere just shy of 1 Terrabyte (920GB figuring $87 for an 80Gig drive) which would store some 16,000 CDs worth of MP3s (figuring 128Kbit/s, 60mins/CD)
or somewhere around 1500 uncompressed CDs.
I just read about this in umm... err.. The magazine "Science" I believe, and it all sounds great. Brighter, thinner, faster, cheaper, less power, etc... I was extatic.
Then, they let out the bombshell at the end of the article. They only last for something like 1000 hours of use (i.e. 1000 hrs of time accumulated while on).
That just sucks. The article did mention that they would use them first in cell phones, because the actual usage time of the display would be adequate for the typical life of a cell phone (I suppose if they figure that people replace them after 2 years or so).
Now, if these displays can really be a WHOLE lot cheaper than LCD displays are now, maybe they can produce and integrate them such that you can just pop out your old used up display and pop in a brand new one. I wonder if they can be re-charged somehow - i.e. you can send them back to the factory to be refurbished.
To add on to that, UNIX was created under the guise (to management) of making a Patent Application System. Great example of programmers itch getting around beauracracy to develop some neat things.
Well, amazingly - when I read the first paragraph of this on the main page -- I thought this little blurb was good -- IF it ended there, Katz would have suprised me and contributed something decent to slashdot. But then he goes on with his mindless drivel, as usual.
Well.. he did get me thinking (from that first paragraph). Why do I vote? Well... I really don't like either candidate in this case (and it has happened before), so, instead of not voting at all (that doesn't do ANY good), I vote for the person who is the least bad. In this case, I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT want George Dubbuya as our prez. I mean, he is a bumbling fool -- daddy's little rich boy. That is why am planning to vote for gore -- so that I can contribute to ensuring that Georgeie doesn't get into office. There are a number of things that I don't agree with Gore on (which Bill Bradley seemed to fit better), but he is miles ahead of George.
I'll agree with this. I don't particularly like the editor (I'm a vi person myself), except for the ultra-mondo-cool intellisense feature, but the plethora of good quality 3rd party tools like Rational Purify, Quantify and (esp.) Clear Case is quite nice. The tool integration is especially nice with clear case. Things hardly ever crash, which is *NOT* the case on linux or other unices (this is development tools I'm alking about). The debugger is quite a bit nicer and easier to get used to (and just as powerful) than ddd. Many times, on complex CORBA apps, gdb and/or ddd has crashed and burned.
I think part of the reason that dev studio doesn't crash much is that M$ actually uses it to develop code, so of course it is going to be clean -- they have a lot of beta testers and dev studio fixit people.:)
I found that yesterday, while installing W2k upgrade on one of the systems here at my work. Found it today to quote on the cd in the file::\I386\eula.txt:)
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If an application crashes, I'm sorry, but it isn't the users fault. Application crashes are not the fault of the users.
In programs like this, bugs are inevitable, as there are *soo many* forms of input, and it is hard for a programmer to take them all into account. But in any case, if blame has to be put on anyone, it would be the developers.
If they were complaining that the browser was spitting back a "Malformed page" error, and continuing on, then you could say that it was the fault of the user (in this case, the writer of the html)
We don't need vote counting servers to have touchscreen voting.
I totally agree with you. Why not have a touch-screen system that is there merely to eliminate the confusion and the hanging chads?
When you've selected your candidates via the touch-screen system, a filled-in ballot can be shown for review onscreen for confirmation, then when confirmed, a real paper ballot with your selections can be printed, then to be put in the collection box as per usual.
This method would eliminate the problems of hanging chads, people who didn't vote for any candidate because they didn't see it, hard to interpret pencil marks, et al.
Don't forget the extra $2.50 for TONE dialing! They even charged this years and years after tone dialing was put in our town - when they didn't even have equipment to block tones from working on accounts that didn't pay for tone dialing. Instead, after a while they let you know that you were using tone dialing without the tone-dialing feature, and then charged you $2.50/mo (well, something around there).
Gah the phone company sucks.
And I remember my father telling me that his boss, a high up manager at Digital Equipment Corp (when it was that) didn't have a computer at all -- his secratery would print out all of his email, he'd bring it home with him in his briefcase, mark up his comments in pen, and he'd give it back to her in the morning to send out replies. And this was at DEC!
They've since updated the firmware -- about 5-6 days ago.. If you've got a Linksys router, check out the support page..
(Not that Wireless-G is anything to write home about, I vote for Ultra-Wifi ;-)
Of course, that whole style of naming schemes has limitations (can only go 3-4 generations) which usually ends up in overloading of names, which merely confuses the enduser and techies alike -- basically giving the same name to entirely different things.
Yes, Monopolies only apply to single companies, and the [A-Z]IAA can't be considered one, but they can be considered an Oligopoly. The last time I knew, there were serious restrictions on Collusion amongst oligopolies, so that things like price fixing, which is exactly what these organizations do, doesn't happen.
The only hardware that can autodetect mounting of a floppy disk is the Mac, and it's done it since 1984.
Don't forget about the Amiga. It had autodetection of floppies too, albeit a wee bit later than apple.
When I moved from an Amiga to a PC, I felt like I was taking a step backwards (I went back to the Amiga for many tasks for quite a few years afterward). One of those steps backward was the fact that it had a (to my view) vastly inferior GUI, and the absence of floppy auto-detection.
It just seemed absurd not to have auto-detection of floppies. I have thought that for a long time.
Of course now, floppies are pretty much by the wayside. At least they didn't carry on the absence of auto-detection for other newer storage mediums.
I've actually heard from a friend that the magic get-out-of-your-contract words are "I'm moving to minnesota"... though it's been a year or so, so maybe some provider actually has coverage in minnesota now, and won't buy that.
Think not of spam, but of the RIAA using that list as a watchlist, to illegally watch some/everyone on that list for something that looks even remotely close to illicit file trading.
Another site to check would be TireRack They've always been great for tires for me.
Actually, this becomes a feature: feed the homeless, reduce the pigeon population and communicate data. What more could you ask?
Just watch your head.
The smartest thing to do IMHO would be to just phase out the manned portion of space exploration for a while... it's *much* cheaper to send unmanned probes/sattelites rather than manned craft.
OTOH, we cannot forget about the space station, which currently needs constant human attention to keep up. What should be done in the lab down here is to design new systems or extend the current systems aboard the ISS, such that it can be extended soas to keep itself in a constant, usable or ready-to-use state without human intervention. The minimum requirements would be to keep the station automated and self sufficient when no crew was aboard. This could be extended to being automated while crew was aboard, but is not necessarily a requirement.
Once the ISS is fitted with these automated systems, manned spaceflight could be stopped or postponed at any time, leaving us to focus on unmanned exploration. Heck, why not work on building an unmanned lunar-station builder? Once the station is built, *then* we could send people up there.
Actually, the story of C and C++ goes as follows:
Before C there was B, before B there was 'BCPL'...
sometime after B, 'A' was being developed at UWaterloo (early 70s)(per my father's memory)
BCPL was/is a fairly simple language without types... it was designed in '66 by Martin Richards, and implemented in spring '67 by people at MIT
B and C, and C++ were all real languages that came out of Bell Labs..
It was always wondered whether the next language in the series would be called 'P' or 'D'
~Keithel
He is now believed to have died of rabies, contracted from one of his pets months earlier. In fact, the records from the hospital where he died actually said that he had abstained from alcohol for the previous 6 months.
Find out more about this theory.
I've found that a lot of tabletop gaming and comic book stores sell/rent anime as well..
I noticed the other week that Gamestop (Video game/computer game store) carries a limited selection of Anime for sale, so it seems that it at least somewhat goes hand in hand with video gamers as well... You can find Gamestop in malls.
Also, you can find it in Suncoast Video... In our area, they have a really good selection, yet it's quite expensive... Like others have said, It's cheaper to buy online. Ebay is a great choice.
The problem is that guns (generally) do not go off by themselves. They don't shoot random people across the globe. There is nothing wrong with all the features in Outlook, they just should be turned OFF by default, so anyone who needs them can still use them. Most people have no idea what is and isn't turned on in their software, or even how to check for it.
Exactly.
Just as guns need trigger locks when the user is not in control, so should email clients, or other programs with access to the outside world. If the users wish to take the trigger locks off altogether, so be it. They take the risks then.
Next they're going to start bitching about how many gigs of hard drive space are being sold.
Note from the article: "I find it incredibly ironic that some people will spend an extra $1,000 on their hard drives just so they can store more music, but they won't pay for the music"
They already are starting to bitch about gigs of HD space. Also note how absolutely wrong this guy has on his dollar figure for music. $1000 in cheap disk space would amount to somewhere just shy of 1 Terrabyte (920GB figuring $87 for an 80Gig drive) which would store some 16,000 CDs worth of MP3s (figuring 128Kbit/s, 60mins/CD) or somewhere around 1500 uncompressed CDs.
So, is Disney a paying customer to, or investor in Jabber.com?
See! Photographic Evidence that WAP really does suck.
I just read about this in umm... err.. The magazine "Science" I believe, and it all sounds great. Brighter, thinner, faster, cheaper, less power, etc... I was extatic.
Then, they let out the bombshell at the end of the article. They only last for something like 1000 hours of use (i.e. 1000 hrs of time accumulated while on).
That just sucks. The article did mention that they would use them first in cell phones, because the actual usage time of the display would be adequate for the typical life of a cell phone (I suppose if they figure that people replace them after 2 years or so).
Now, if these displays can really be a WHOLE lot cheaper than LCD displays are now, maybe they can produce and integrate them such that you can just pop out your old used up display and pop in a brand new one. I wonder if they can be re-charged somehow - i.e. you can send them back to the factory to be refurbished.
To add on to that, UNIX was created under the guise (to management) of making a Patent Application System. Great example of programmers itch getting around beauracracy to develop some neat things.
Just my 2 cents.
Well, amazingly - when I read the first paragraph of this on the main page -- I thought this little blurb was good -- IF it ended there, Katz would have suprised me and contributed something decent to slashdot. But then he goes on with his mindless drivel, as usual.
Well.. he did get me thinking (from that first paragraph). Why do I vote? Well... I really don't like either candidate in this case (and it has happened before), so, instead of not voting at all (that doesn't do ANY good), I vote for the person who is the least bad. In this case, I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT want George Dubbuya as our prez. I mean, he is a bumbling fool -- daddy's little rich boy. That is why am planning to vote for gore -- so that I can contribute to ensuring that Georgeie doesn't get into office. There are a number of things that I don't agree with Gore on (which Bill Bradley seemed to fit better), but he is miles ahead of George.
I'll agree with this. I don't particularly like the editor (I'm a vi person myself), except for the ultra-mondo-cool intellisense feature, but the plethora of good quality 3rd party tools like Rational Purify, Quantify and (esp.) Clear Case is quite nice. The tool integration is especially nice with clear case. Things hardly ever crash, which is *NOT* the case on linux or other unices (this is development tools I'm alking about). The debugger is quite a bit nicer and easier to get used to (and just as powerful) than ddd. Many times, on complex CORBA apps, gdb and/or ddd has crashed and burned.
:)
I think part of the reason that dev studio doesn't crash much is that M$ actually uses it to develop code, so of course it is going to be clean -- they have a lot of beta testers and dev studio fixit people.
Keithel
I found that yesterday, while installing W2k upgrade on one of the systems here at my work. Found it today to quote on the cd in the file: :\I386\eula.txt :)
-Keithel