Not for everything. I am sure some of the stuff there would be another inventor for, but other things they may not have been. For example the Window Interface may not be around, but more of an interface with frames, Like Plan9 or Windows 8.
Spreadsheets are good for "throwaway applications" you need to do these calculations fast or gather data, and after a few weeks you don't need it anymore. If you are going to be following a process with a fairly rigid data sets. You are going to be better off spending the time and money to make a real application with a real database with it. That way the rigidness is to your favor to prevent incompatible creep, and allow for future data gathering abilities.
Using Spreadsheets for your application needs works but it is very flimsy and over the long run you will be spending a lot more time fixing your mistakes (say a bad sort) Or a mistime change and save, or just the wrong click of your mouse you messed up a lot of data.
I would agree It isn't the resolution that makes multiple screens handy it is how you can divide up your work. I tend to have a primary screen for most of my normal stuff. Then a second (or third if I can get one) for lesser or quick glance type of stuff (emails, dashboards, a list of stuff etc...)
Sure an extra wide screen would do the trick, however I would probably still want an other monitor that I can turn off or reposition as I need it.
What does that mean. We as a culture have gotten very fearful within the past Decade. The fact that we are afraid of so much stuff has created more problems to be fearful of.
Polarized Government: With people so fearful about a lot of things they will try to pinpoint the government as the major contributor. If you are right of center than Big Government is out to make your lives worse. If your are left of center then it is those Corporations that are out to make your lives worse. Those people who support your opposing side must be corrupted in some way. So they need to be stopped!
Obesity: Lets not leave the confines of our own homes because there are dangerous people around the corner who wants to kill, abduct or mug us. So you stay inside where it is "Safe" after a while you start getting out of shape, then you don't want to go out even more because you are out of shape and are afraid of being insulted by people who don't like the way you work. You would go to the Gym, but only after you lose 20lbs first (so you are not the Fat Guy at the Gym), but losing those 20lbs is hard because you are not going to the gym.
Economy: We need small businesses who can innovate (and much more than silly mobile apps). However people are afraid to start businesses because there is a chance that they will fail. Or get some lawsuit for stepping on some bogus patent or make a product that someone misused and hurt themselves. Combined with the fear trying to meet current regulations that you don't know about. Also fear of looking for an other better job because of uncertainty on how well other companies will last combined with companies fears about the same thing preventing them from hiring.
We make these crazy lines between good guys and bad guys, with government these lines do not exist every government is capable of great good and evil at the same time.
Russia really doesn't care much about what he did. But they like putting the US in a position that they will need to beg and bargain to them.
Snowden was stupid enough to blab about what he found, he could have probably functioned a lot better by slowly feeding the American Conspiracy ideal by saying. I have worked for the CIA, I cannot tell you the details but you all should be really scared about your privacy. He probably could have gotten much further.
You know about all the bitching and moaning. It is just about a new UI, that really isn't that big of a deal, especially for a group of people use to using a bunch of Operating Systems.
I haven't read many comments about Windows 8 with problems with more important things such as Driver Compatibility, Unexpect crashes, other technical problems, or Slowness.
It just sounds like a bunch of Whiny people who wants to get an Apple or Defend Linux, or are so old or autistic that they cannot handle any change.
You have Teacher and Professor ego to deal with. Will the students care, probably less so than the teachers, whose goal is to make them look like a better person than the rest of society. If you were to show that kids are struggling in their class and it isn't due to their own laziness, will make them look like a less of the perfect person. Off to complain to the union about this. Screw if kids are missing out in a good education it is always about the teachers, If they are teachers they must be trying work for the students best interests.
Ah the "Dumbing Down Excuse" which is akin to the Intentionally Make it more difficult preference. Making something easier to use isn't always dumbing it down. For Disabling Javascript (Not just blocking some of it), it is a feature that most people will no longer, if they do they intentionally put themselves in a disadvantage.
Yes, but if you are that paranoid to live like you did last century, you really shouldn't be worrying about Javascript, as you are avoiding most of the web. You might as well stick to an old version, it isn't like you are going to get a new feature anymore, that is useful. Most of HTML5 features are Javascript dependent, so unless you are really that interested in Sites with CSS 3 without JS. You are really don't need anything new.
Even with Steve. The competition is across Business Units, Not the actually Businesses.
Companies like Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, Apple... Have a lot of different Units making a slue of different stuff. Chances are these big technology companies will make something the other guy is making, Thus they will be competing to get dominance for that product. However these guys also have a fair amount of stuff that is unique to them. Where the other Companies Business unit is the Valued Customer for that piece.
This is one of the first Stories in a while with Acronym that actually explains what it is, in the story headline. I really hate it when they post a story and shoot out acronyms left and right especially acronyms for a particular field that is not covered so much on Slashdot.
Yes it is a small screen, you wont be clicking all around the screen. It would probably be closer to the iPod Nano, 4 buttons, Swipe, perhaps a pinch zoom.
But compared to trying to use the old Watch Calculators or Watch Games, a touch display would be welcomed. Or even those painful little buttons on Digital watches that leave an impression of the button for a few minutes on your finger.
Those too. You should want to wear a seatbelt and helmet. However if you do not, it is your own damn fault if something happens. However you should have to have insurance because if you do get injured or killed, then you are affecting other people from your injury.
Sure there are stats showing how many lives have been saved from seatbelts and helmet laws, I don't have any cause to disbelieve them. But really should government say we should do something just because it is safer.
What is wrong with just making devices with USB ports. Normal USB, and Micro USB. Why do we need a bunch of freakin ports. Just make the fastest bi-directional port you can, and use it... For everything.
We shouldn't need VGA,HDMI, DVI, USB, Firewire, SD, SATA..... Just give us one port to connect a damn wire from one system to the next!
Yes Freedom is more important than general safety.
When the government says you can't have or do X because it is unsafe. It allows them to take the next step and say the next thing is unsafe and you shouldn't do it.
Remember the old Nentendo game pads. You couldn't plug them into a Sega, Atari or a PC. The PC joystick port was all weird. I had an old Amstrad 512cpc as a kid. It had a special mouse and keyboard and monitor connector. (It could use Sega and Atarti controllers though. )
As the Gay Population is probably between 3%-10% I doubt that make it a major factor.
But I expect the real reason is simpler. Booth Babes attract people however it may not equate in increased sales. While booths with people who know the technical details, or are good sales people, do.
Writing code Simple or Complex really depends on the Developer and the mindset of the developer at the time.
Sometimes the Simple Code actually makes it too hard to manage. Say you are given specs and you find it fits nicely in a mathematical function. So you create that function and it works fine, until a new change happens then you function is just wrong and you need to redo it. However if you make your code a bit more complicated, that change might be just a simple if statements, and you are all set again.
The line depends on the skill of the developer. Having worked with recent grads who really did write good code, however lacked experience, got really frustrated at my designs because they accounted for "changes that wasn't in the specs". Why are you using a String instead of an Int, the int is faster and takes up less space, the data told us this element is a number. However my experience told me for that case you could come across a state where it could be a string. Months later there was an Oh By the Way We have this case which made it a string, and we didn't have to remap a bunch of fields. Experience is key.
There is a real danger in increasing this electric law. With governments with Complex and large legal systems combined with the fact that we are human, means most of us probably have broken some minor laws every day. To have a system that indiscriminately catches you, and in essence judges you and send you the fine in the mail. Comes close to the Orwellian 1984 world, but not so extreme.
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Not for everything.
I am sure some of the stuff there would be another inventor for, but other things they may not have been. For example the Window Interface may not be around, but more of an interface with frames, Like Plan9 or Windows 8.
Spreadsheets are good for "throwaway applications" you need to do these calculations fast or gather data, and after a few weeks you don't need it anymore.
If you are going to be following a process with a fairly rigid data sets. You are going to be better off spending the time and money to make a real application with a real database with it. That way the rigidness is to your favor to prevent incompatible creep, and allow for future data gathering abilities.
Using Spreadsheets for your application needs works but it is very flimsy and over the long run you will be spending a lot more time fixing your mistakes (say a bad sort) Or a mistime change and save, or just the wrong click of your mouse you messed up a lot of data.
I would agree It isn't the resolution that makes multiple screens handy it is how you can divide up your work.
I tend to have a primary screen for most of my normal stuff. Then a second (or third if I can get one) for lesser or quick glance type of stuff (emails, dashboards, a list of stuff etc...)
Sure an extra wide screen would do the trick, however I would probably still want an other monitor that I can turn off or reposition as I need it.
One nation Under God.
If you don't believe in God, then that means One Nation under No One.
It is a humble way to say the United States won't be anyone's bitch.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
What does that mean. We as a culture have gotten very fearful within the past Decade. The fact that we are afraid of so much stuff has created more problems to be fearful of.
Polarized Government: With people so fearful about a lot of things they will try to pinpoint the government as the major contributor. If you are right of center than Big Government is out to make your lives worse. If your are left of center then it is those Corporations that are out to make your lives worse. Those people who support your opposing side must be corrupted in some way. So they need to be stopped!
Obesity: Lets not leave the confines of our own homes because there are dangerous people around the corner who wants to kill, abduct or mug us. So you stay inside where it is "Safe" after a while you start getting out of shape, then you don't want to go out even more because you are out of shape and are afraid of being insulted by people who don't like the way you work. You would go to the Gym, but only after you lose 20lbs first (so you are not the Fat Guy at the Gym), but losing those 20lbs is hard because you are not going to the gym.
Economy: We need small businesses who can innovate (and much more than silly mobile apps). However people are afraid to start businesses because there is a chance that they will fail. Or get some lawsuit for stepping on some bogus patent or make a product that someone misused and hurt themselves. Combined with the fear trying to meet current regulations that you don't know about. Also fear of looking for an other better job because of uncertainty on how well other companies will last combined with companies fears about the same thing preventing them from hiring.
N I X O N S BACK!
We make these crazy lines between good guys and bad guys, with government these lines do not exist every government is capable of great good and evil at the same time.
Russia really doesn't care much about what he did. But they like putting the US in a position that they will need to beg and bargain to them.
Snowden was stupid enough to blab about what he found, he could have probably functioned a lot better by slowly feeding the American Conspiracy ideal by saying. I have worked for the CIA, I cannot tell you the details but you all should be really scared about your privacy. He probably could have gotten much further.
You know about all the bitching and moaning. It is just about a new UI, that really isn't that big of a deal, especially for a group of people use to using a bunch of Operating Systems.
I haven't read many comments about Windows 8 with problems with more important things such as Driver Compatibility, Unexpect crashes, other technical problems, or Slowness.
It just sounds like a bunch of Whiny people who wants to get an Apple or Defend Linux, or are so old or autistic that they cannot handle any change.
You have Teacher and Professor ego to deal with. Will the students care, probably less so than the teachers, whose goal is to make them look like a better person than the rest of society. If you were to show that kids are struggling in their class and it isn't due to their own laziness, will make them look like a less of the perfect person. Off to complain to the union about this. Screw if kids are missing out in a good education it is always about the teachers, If they are teachers they must be trying work for the students best interests.
Ah the "Dumbing Down Excuse" which is akin to the Intentionally Make it more difficult preference.
Making something easier to use isn't always dumbing it down. For Disabling Javascript (Not just blocking some of it), it is a feature that most people will no longer, if they do they intentionally put themselves in a disadvantage.
Yes, but if you are that paranoid to live like you did last century, you really shouldn't be worrying about Javascript, as you are avoiding most of the web.
You might as well stick to an old version, it isn't like you are going to get a new feature anymore, that is useful.
Most of HTML5 features are Javascript dependent, so unless you are really that interested in Sites with CSS 3 without JS. You are really don't need anything new.
Even with Steve.
The competition is across Business Units, Not the actually Businesses.
Companies like Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, Apple... Have a lot of different Units making a slue of different stuff. Chances are these big technology companies will make something the other guy is making, Thus they will be competing to get dominance for that product. However these guys also have a fair amount of stuff that is unique to them. Where the other Companies Business unit is the Valued Customer for that piece.
This is one of the first Stories in a while with Acronym that actually explains what it is, in the story headline. I really hate it when they post a story and shoot out acronyms left and right especially acronyms for a particular field that is not covered so much on Slashdot.
They pay however they feel like it. Employees tend to like getting paid in smaller checks multiple times a month.
OH NO. NEW TECHNOLOGY IS BAD!
Yes it is a small screen, you wont be clicking all around the screen. It would probably be closer to the iPod Nano, 4 buttons, Swipe, perhaps a pinch zoom.
But compared to trying to use the old Watch Calculators or Watch Games, a touch display would be welcomed. Or even those painful little buttons on Digital watches that leave an impression of the button for a few minutes on your finger.
Find as many charges as you can. That way if a few get by as not-guilty there is a bunch more to make sure he is locked up for life.
Those too. You should want to wear a seatbelt and helmet. However if you do not, it is your own damn fault if something happens. However you should have to have insurance because if you do get injured or killed, then you are affecting other people from your injury.
Sure there are stats showing how many lives have been saved from seatbelts and helmet laws, I don't have any cause to disbelieve them. But really should government say we should do something just because it is safer.
What is wrong with just making devices with USB ports. Normal USB, and Micro USB.
Why do we need a bunch of freakin ports. Just make the fastest bi-directional port you can, and use it... For everything.
We shouldn't need VGA,HDMI, DVI, USB, Firewire, SD, SATA..... Just give us one port to connect a damn wire from one system to the next!
Yes Freedom is more important than general safety.
When the government says you can't have or do X because it is unsafe. It allows them to take the next step and say the next thing is unsafe and you shouldn't do it.
The neat thing about having a population of 6 billion people. Is that we can research multiple things at the same time.
Today?
This has been around as long as technology.
Remember the old Nentendo game pads. You couldn't plug them into a Sega, Atari or a PC.
The PC joystick port was all weird.
I had an old Amstrad 512cpc as a kid. It had a special mouse and keyboard and monitor connector. (It could use Sega and Atarti controllers though. )
As the Gay Population is probably between 3%-10% I doubt that make it a major factor.
But I expect the real reason is simpler. Booth Babes attract people however it may not equate in increased sales. While booths with people who know the technical details, or are good sales people, do.
You mean accelerating at 9.8m/s^2
The same as the pull of gravity of earth.
Writing code Simple or Complex really depends on the Developer and the mindset of the developer at the time.
Sometimes the Simple Code actually makes it too hard to manage. Say you are given specs and you find it fits nicely in a mathematical function. So you create that function and it works fine, until a new change happens then you function is just wrong and you need to redo it. However if you make your code a bit more complicated, that change might be just a simple if statements, and you are all set again.
The line depends on the skill of the developer. Having worked with recent grads who really did write good code, however lacked experience, got really frustrated at my designs because they accounted for "changes that wasn't in the specs". Why are you using a String instead of an Int, the int is faster and takes up less space, the data told us this element is a number. However my experience told me for that case you could come across a state where it could be a string. Months later there was an Oh By the Way We have this case which made it a string, and we didn't have to remap a bunch of fields. Experience is key.
There is a real danger in increasing this electric law.
With governments with Complex and large legal systems combined with the fact that we are human, means most of us probably have broken some minor laws every day. To have a system that indiscriminately catches you, and in essence judges you and send you the fine in the mail. Comes close to the Orwellian 1984 world, but not so extreme.