If any Americans are confused by the above post, the "pavement" is what you call the "sidewalk", i.e. the bit that pedestrians use, not the bit that cars use.
So, yes, the Segway is pretty much illegal to use anywhere public in the UK. There's also the fact that we've seen a revolutionary personal electric vehicle before and we weren't fooled the first time.
That depends. Normally you'd pay the socket manufacturer money to take the sockets off his hands. On the other hand, the socket manufacturer may choose to let you have the sockets for free in exchange for advertising.
If you want to use my software in your product, you can pay me for it or you can abide by the terms of whatever open source licence I choose to distribute it under. If that licence says you have to give me credit, is that too much too ask considering you are probably getting hundreds of hours of labour for no money?
Identity cards are not a big issue at the moment with the majority of the British electorate. In fact, last time there was a survey on id cards I think there was a majority in favour - a lot of people have bought the government's argument that they will help stop terrorists (even though all the recent terrorist attacks have been committed by previously upright British citizens).
No, most of us are more concerned about the apparent veniality of our politicians when it comes to expenses and the government's enthusiasm for paying huge quantities of money to rescue bankers from the consequences of their greed. Oh, and the prime minister has all the charisma of a wet fish that's dead.
No real file system in the world does not know the the exact size of a file to the byte. Otherwise almost every file you open would have whatever garbage at the end of it that was in the last block.
Certainly Windows and Unix will always report file sizes to the byte.
Lotus buried Lotus 123. In the good old days of Win16 they had the dominant spreadsheet. It all went wrong when they failed to deliver a Win32 version of Lotus 123 in a timely manner.
The one-button mouse spanned multiple generations of Apple computers and underscored Apple's stubborn unwillingness to produce computers that do what their users want, and not what Jobs or Apple's HID team think they should do.
What you mean is that Apple is unwilling to do what Linux geeks want. Their sales figures testify to the fact that they seem to have a good handle on what their users want.
Really. Apple refuses to correct the annoyances of the UI that should not exist. Why doesn't OSX have a maximize window button?
It does have a maximise button. It's just that the window is not resized to the whole screen unless the content is as big as the whole screen.
Why does clicking on "one hour before event" for an ical event reset the clock to one hour before the time you click the button, and not one hour before the event?
I have no idea what you are talking about here, I can't find that button in iCal. However, that looks like a bug to me. Have you reported it to Apple? If not, quit complaining about it.
Why doesn't finder support afp connections over ssh?
I guess most users don't use it. You could file an enhancement request to Apple.
None of those things seem to be complex, every one of them is a failure of the UI, and yet none of them have been corrected.
No. You have mentioned one thing that looks like a bug in the UI, one thing that looks like missing network functionality and one thing that actually exists in the UI but behaves differently from Windows.
You didn't write assembler for the M68K because then you would have known there were no 1 byte instructions. All of the instructions were 16 bits or multiples thereof.
Having said that, the 68K was a much better architecture for programming with. JeremyP's first law of assembler is that CPUs where the registers are numbered are easier to program for than CPUs where the registers have names.
I did it once and the fact that it couldn't be mounted was offset by the fact that no bugs were ever reported, nor did it it ever corrupt or lose any data. In fact, I didn't even have to write any of the implementation.
Point 2 is not really a problem as I am a slob and I don't care how many beer cans are lying about as long as I can get to the fridge. Point 1 is not a problem because once I have let go of a beer can, it is deemed to be finished by the beer can collector. Of course I do sometimes forget to let go of beer cans leading to a bit of a pile up.
However, when I was a C++ programmer, sometimes I used to accidentally throw away the cans while I was still drinking them which was messy and at other times I'd try to drink from beer cans I'd already thrown away which was embarrassing.
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Even in the late 60's teletypes would print the character you just typed in "real" time i.e. just after you pressed the key.
As a beer drinker, I drink lots of beer. When I was a C++ programmer, I had to make sure I threw away my empty beer cans after drinking the beer. Unfortunately, occasionally, I forgot to do that and pretty soon my room would fill up with empty beer cans so that I couldn't get to the fridge to get more beer out of it.
However, now I am a Java programmer and I have a servant (a beer can collector) who comes around and clears up the beer cans for me every now and again. I no longer have to worry about throwing them away myself.
So I could spend years learning Emacs and its extensions, or I could spend a week or two learning a real IDE and then have a head start of years (minus a week or two) over the Emacs user for writing the actual code.
That's fair comment when you are talking about a project consisting only of a single file. However, when was the last time you were involved in building a real application that had only one source file?
Yes IDEs are complex tools but they do improve efficiency once you learn to drive them (well good ones do).
I'm suspicious of unix coders who use them. If they need to be hand held to that extent while developing perhaps their skills arn't quite up to the job. Vi, gdb/dbx and strace should be all any unix/linux coder needs.
I honestly don't understand that attitude.
You can build a boat using only hand tools and I'm sure people who can are better craftsmen than people who can't. However, even the best boat builder will build boats faster if they have an electric drill.
Likewise, a well designed IDE will improve a coder's productivity. I like writing code but why should I have to handcraft the build rules for my application when a good IDE will do it for me?
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If any Americans are confused by the above post, the "pavement" is what you call the "sidewalk", i.e. the bit that pedestrians use, not the bit that cars use.
So, yes, the Segway is pretty much illegal to use anywhere public in the UK. There's also the fact that we've seen a revolutionary personal electric vehicle before and we weren't fooled the first time.
No. James Bond works for SIS aka MI6.
This would never have happened before Colin was murdered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wells_(Spooks)
How do we know that you aren't the government and that tin foil and aluminium foil don't cancel each other out?
Trying to get out.
Call yourself an oldster? Coming on here with your newfangled 700k user id.
There is absolutely nothing special about him other than the choices he made
That's absolutely true. I myself and many of my friends also have Nobel prizes for physics.
Get real. Feynman was a really good scientist who was also a great communicator.
Because the company that wants to distribute a product with Zed's code in it must either do it under the GPL or pay Zed to licence it commercially.
That depends. Normally you'd pay the socket manufacturer money to take the sockets off his hands. On the other hand, the socket manufacturer may choose to let you have the sockets for free in exchange for advertising.
If you want to use my software in your product, you can pay me for it or you can abide by the terms of whatever open source licence I choose to distribute it under. If that licence says you have to give me credit, is that too much too ask considering you are probably getting hundreds of hours of labour for no money?
Identity cards are not a big issue at the moment with the majority of the British electorate. In fact, last time there was a survey on id cards I think there was a majority in favour - a lot of people have bought the government's argument that they will help stop terrorists (even though all the recent terrorist attacks have been committed by previously upright British citizens).
No, most of us are more concerned about the apparent veniality of our politicians when it comes to expenses and the government's enthusiasm for paying huge quantities of money to rescue bankers from the consequences of their greed. Oh, and the prime minister has all the charisma of a wet fish that's dead.
Surely, so your lawn can mow you?
This is bullshit.
No real file system in the world does not know the the exact size of a file to the byte. Otherwise almost every file you open would have whatever garbage at the end of it that was in the last block.
Certainly Windows and Unix will always report file sizes to the byte.
Bearing in mind that the have migrated only 10% of desktops in 6 years, would you like to hazard a guess at how long this long run is?
Lotus buried Lotus 123. In the good old days of Win16 they had the dominant spreadsheet. It all went wrong when they failed to deliver a Win32 version of Lotus 123 in a timely manner.
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You have confused Java and Javascript on Slasdot. Your karma is toast.
The one-button mouse spanned multiple generations of Apple computers and underscored Apple's stubborn unwillingness to produce computers that do what their users want, and not what Jobs or Apple's HID team think they should do.
What you mean is that Apple is unwilling to do what Linux geeks want. Their sales figures testify to the fact that they seem to have a good handle on what their users want.
Really. Apple refuses to correct the annoyances of the UI that should not exist. Why doesn't OSX have a maximize window button?
It does have a maximise button. It's just that the window is not resized to the whole screen unless the content is as big as the whole screen.
Why does clicking on "one hour before event" for an ical event reset the clock to one hour before the time you click the button, and not one hour before the event?
I have no idea what you are talking about here, I can't find that button in iCal. However, that looks like a bug to me. Have you reported it to Apple? If not, quit complaining about it.
Why doesn't finder support afp connections over ssh?
I guess most users don't use it. You could file an enhancement request to Apple.
None of those things seem to be complex, every one of them is a failure of the UI, and yet none of them have been corrected.
No. You have mentioned one thing that looks like a bug in the UI, one thing that looks like missing network functionality and one thing that actually exists in the UI but behaves differently from Windows.
You didn't write assembler for the M68K because then you would have known there were no 1 byte instructions. All of the instructions were 16 bits or multiples thereof.
Having said that, the 68K was a much better architecture for programming with. JeremyP's first law of assembler is that CPUs where the registers are numbered are easier to program for than CPUs where the registers have names.
It's easy.
I did it once and the fact that it couldn't be mounted was offset by the fact that no bugs were ever reported, nor did it it ever corrupt or lose any data. In fact, I didn't even have to write any of the implementation.
Point 2 is not really a problem as I am a slob and I don't care how many beer cans are lying about as long as I can get to the fridge. Point 1 is not a problem because once I have let go of a beer can, it is deemed to be finished by the beer can collector. Of course I do sometimes forget to let go of beer cans leading to a bit of a pile up.
However, when I was a C++ programmer, sometimes I used to accidentally throw away the cans while I was still drinking them which was messy and at other times I'd try to drink from beer cans I'd already thrown away which was embarrassing.
Even in the late 60's teletypes would print the character you just typed in "real" time i.e. just after you pressed the key.
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Java does have malloc - or at least an equivalent to it. I'm petty sure that when I create a new object in Java, some memory is allocated to it.
As a beer drinker, I drink lots of beer. When I was a C++ programmer, I had to make sure I threw away my empty beer cans after drinking the beer. Unfortunately, occasionally, I forgot to do that and pretty soon my room would fill up with empty beer cans so that I couldn't get to the fridge to get more beer out of it.
However, now I am a Java programmer and I have a servant (a beer can collector) who comes around and clears up the beer cans for me every now and again. I no longer have to worry about throwing them away myself.
So I could spend years learning Emacs and its extensions, or I could spend a week or two learning a real IDE and then have a head start of years (minus a week or two) over the Emacs user for writing the actual code.
Hmmmm let me see.... ...I'll go with the real IDE.
That's fair comment when you are talking about a project consisting only of a single file. However, when was the last time you were involved in building a real application that had only one source file?
Yes IDEs are complex tools but they do improve efficiency once you learn to drive them (well good ones do).
I honestly don't understand that attitude.
You can build a boat using only hand tools and I'm sure people who can are better craftsmen than people who can't. However, even the best boat builder will build boats faster if they have an electric drill.
Likewise, a well designed IDE will improve a coder's productivity. I like writing code but why should I have to handcraft the build rules for my application when a good IDE will do it for me?