Swing though always looks the same no matter what the platform is. This means Swing apps look and operate the same no matter what the platform.
This is a negative, though. People care about having an app that looks like whatever else in on *their computer*, not that the app looks the same to them as it does to someone running it on a washing machine somewhere.
This is a no-brainer. Most people in computer science got into it because they heard there was money in it - not because they had a love for it. Now that it's become clear that compsci's not a crap shoot when it comes to getting a high-paying job, they're jumping ship like there's airborne HIV on board.
Only the true geeks (the ones who love the stuff) will stay with it even when it gets rocky.
You've got to love +5 insightful just for repeating a point that was in the article.
It depends how you do it. I use 6 fingers to type letters, both pinkies for control keys and my left thumb for the space bar (I'm right-handed. Go figure.). My index fingers are usually somewhere around the 'd' and 'k' keys, although each hand moves around an inch or two. I can touch type until I realize I'm going it, so that's basically like cartoon physics.
I probably type around 80wpm (except when I think about it, like now), and when I've attempted to use proper form, it hurt.
I don't like Harry Potter. I read the first one, and no matter what anyone tells me, these are childrens books.
I think you're getting your singular and plural mixed up here. The first one (Sorceror's Stone / Philosopher's Stone) is a children's book. The second is more advanced, but still basically a children's book. Prisoner of Azkaban really isn't a children's book, anymore.
The reading level of the books advances with the age of the characters.
When it was Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot, sure (although I was too young). When it was Clinton vs. Dole, I did vote Libertarian. I may well vote libertarian in 2008.
We had a password checker for our users (when I was at an ISP) that prevented stupid user dictionary attacks back in 1994/1995. A little user hassle at that bottleneck prevents a world of hurt later on.
So, in response, your users now write down their passwords because they can't remember them. That's not an improvement.
What about when most users had Windows 3.1? Setting that up wasn't practical for an end user either, as it required the ability to physically set hardware addresses, configure things through the MCI control panel that were a little less than intuitive, and knowledge of how Program Manager tied into the actual programs.
Theoretically. In practice, when I installed DOS and Win3.1, the default settings were correct nearly every time (and I think the exception was due to my Mom's computer on which she insisted upon 2 3.5" floppies and 2 5.25" floppies). Win98 wasn't too bad, and WinXP is fine, but I always thought Win95's Plug-And-Play was much more difficult than Win3.1's sound-cards-on-IRQ5, mouse-on-IRQ7, etc. approach.
BTW, when did we confuse the MPAA with the RIAA? Last I knew, the MPAA's biggest crime was the whole DeCSS thing. They actually took a halfway decent approach to piracy with their (admittedly lame) commercials. They've actually been claiming that more blame belongs to the "cell-phone users" who IM their friends that a movie sucks.
If you'd split that into a separate post, you probably could have gotten two +5's out of it.
It is stock. My wife's 2000 Neon has a key that turns off the alarm (big honkin' thing with an RFID in it, I think), so that's what I thought mine was when it worked the first time.
I'll complain to the dealer about it sometime, and ask them to check for a loose connection. Thanks.
My 2004 Sunfire will open with just the key, but the alarm will still go off. Sometimes. I have no idea what the pattern is, but I stick to the remote now.
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When law is a profession with specialties, ignorance is an excuse. Failing to recognize that means you have a police state.
Programmers like writing skinnable interfaces. Has anyone really checked to see if the users like it?
Swing though always looks the same no matter what the platform is. This means Swing apps look and operate the same no matter what the platform.
This is a negative, though. People care about having an app that looks like whatever else in on *their computer*, not that the app looks the same to them as it does to someone running it on a washing machine somewhere.
This is a no-brainer. Most people in computer science got into it because they heard there was money in it - not because they had a love for it. Now that it's become clear that compsci's not a crap shoot when it comes to getting a high-paying job, they're jumping ship like there's airborne HIV on board.
Only the true geeks (the ones who love the stuff) will stay with it even when it gets rocky.
You've got to love +5 insightful just for repeating a point that was in the article.
"Learning to do A,B or C if X,Y or Z happens is NOT computer science!" :-)
Really? Because I really don't understand finite state automata then. Crud.
No, I think it just means that you, yourself, are not a finite state automata.
It depends how you do it. I use 6 fingers to type letters, both pinkies for control keys and my left thumb for the space bar (I'm right-handed. Go figure.). My index fingers are usually somewhere around the 'd' and 'k' keys, although each hand moves around an inch or two. I can touch type until I realize I'm going it, so that's basically like cartoon physics.
I probably type around 80wpm (except when I think about it, like now), and when I've attempted to use proper form, it hurt.
Sure, it's nice in the long run to re-write software with greater portability in mind
If you have an emulator that runs basically anywhere, I think I'd have to say that old PDP-7 assembler code has become portable.
I don't like Harry Potter. I read the first one, and no matter what anyone tells me, these are childrens books.
I think you're getting your singular and plural mixed up here. The first one (Sorceror's Stone / Philosopher's Stone) is a children's book. The second is more advanced, but still basically a children's book. Prisoner of Azkaban really isn't a children's book, anymore.
The reading level of the books advances with the age of the characters.
When it was Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot, sure (although I was too young). When it was Clinton vs. Dole, I did vote Libertarian. I may well vote libertarian in 2008.
Not when W is running.
Because HTML was really only appropriate for Lynx?
What about someone wandering through the office?
We had a password checker for our users (when I was at an ISP) that prevented stupid user dictionary attacks back in 1994/1995. A little user hassle at that bottleneck prevents a world of hurt later on.
So, in response, your users now write down their passwords because they can't remember them. That's not an improvement.
When last I checked, only misrepresenting who's sending the spam was criminal.
The point wasn't whether I actually remembered them, but that the defaults avoided most of the problems.
What about when most users had Windows 3.1? Setting that up wasn't practical for an end user either, as it required the ability to physically set hardware addresses, configure things through the MCI control panel that were a little less than intuitive, and knowledge of how Program Manager tied into the actual programs.
Theoretically. In practice, when I installed DOS and Win3.1, the default settings were correct nearly every time (and I think the exception was due to my Mom's computer on which she insisted upon 2 3.5" floppies and 2 5.25" floppies). Win98 wasn't too bad, and WinXP is fine, but I always thought Win95's Plug-And-Play was much more difficult than Win3.1's sound-cards-on-IRQ5, mouse-on-IRQ7, etc. approach.
Where would Apple be now if it wasnt for OSX?
Running BeOS, probably.
Why is it everyone thinks they know better when it comes to Apple?
2.8% market share is why. Whether I or this guy know what Apple should do, Apple themselves clearly do not.
I hope this succeeds, then gets improved upon in a second version. How cool would it be to be a part of the next project called... "Bossa Nova"?
But that would have to be a rewrite from scratch.
Well, we've just been covering schedulers in my operating systems class, and we did Gantt charts of the processes. I was a little startled by that.
if everyone worked locally
They won't.
Locally is far too large a problem in our case. My son is going to private school.
That's great for getting *your kids* educated, but it doesn't do much for overall social improvement.
BTW, when did we confuse the MPAA with the RIAA? Last I knew, the MPAA's biggest crime was the whole DeCSS thing. They actually took a halfway decent approach to piracy with their (admittedly lame) commercials. They've actually been claiming that more blame belongs to the "cell-phone users" who IM their friends that a movie sucks.
If you'd split that into a separate post, you probably could have gotten two +5's out of it.
It is stock. My wife's 2000 Neon has a key that turns off the alarm (big honkin' thing with an RFID in it, I think), so that's what I thought mine was when it worked the first time.
I'll complain to the dealer about it sometime, and ask them to check for a loose connection. Thanks.
My 2004 Sunfire will open with just the key, but the alarm will still go off. Sometimes. I have no idea what the pattern is, but I stick to the remote now.