Dear Microsoft, Please just give us SHELL= in a file someplace so that if people want to run a tablet interface on their PC or laptop they can do that (for testing purposes maybe, to see what their software or web site looks like on a tablet). For SHELL= allow variables of WIN7 METRO or a path to a custom shell. This was pretty much how Win 3.x seemed to work. IIRC it even worked in Win95 where you could use SHELL=PROGMAN to get the 3.x look.
So there you go. Dust off SHELL= and for bonus points make it hot-swapable without rebooting. If you were really cool you'd even give us back the PROGMAN option just for grins and giggles.
If the shell is no longer a clear-cut component that you can easily separate from the OS and its services, then I don't know what to say...
It doesn't matter if you and your team can do that. You and your excellent team don't scale to every project on the planet. We need a better way to manage projects involving people who are something less than excellent.
I can't tell if you're joking or not. 10 (base 12) == 12 (base 10). 12 (base 10) is divisible by 2 and 3 regardless of what base you use to represent it. FWIW if I were going to change our numeric base, 16 seems like a better choice for the aforementioned digital aspects. Plus there's already widespread use of hex in the computer industry, just as there was widespread use of metric in science before it started spreading to the general public. On sale now! For the low, low, price of just $1FF.FF. LOL, pennies would be worth even less... BTW... I am joking. I have no desire to convert everyday numbers to hex.
Cycling back to the article, the White House response is spot on. If the person behind the counter at In-n-out can take my order in English, and then take the next order in fluent Spanish (I've seen this happen) then there's no reason why we can't have a mix of measures.
AFAIK, every car sold in the US has a dual readout speedometer. When I got a car with digital display I found that this was accomplished with a toggle-button. This leads to a trick that gets old quickly. "Hey this car has a button that makes it go 120 in an instant"/me toggles to kph. Hardee-har-har.
Care to foot the bill (no pun intended) for all the land records that would have to change? Aside from the problem of changing, that 5280 feet is very convenient. How?
A square mile is a "section", which is 640 acres. Now 640 acres ought to be enough for anybody (heheh). You could be the "section boss"--a familiar phrase from the Old West. Take that section and cut it into 16 equal squares. You get 16 40-acre plots. You could have "40 acres and a mule" if you bought one--another familiar phrase with deep meaning to African-Americans. The 40 acres are conveniently divided again into 10 acres plots, then in half for a five acre lot. Five acre lots were common mini-estate sizes where I grew up for this reason.
OK fine, by all means define the foot in terms of metric; but remove it from all records and from the culture? No. Just. No.
Aside from that, the Metric system is no less arbitrary than our customary units. The only reason 10 matters is because we have 10 digits on our hands. An alien race might not. If you want something truly universal, consider Planck units. Otherwise, all the metric arguments just boil down to "my arbitrary system is better than yours".
If anything, a system where things are commonly divided into two is more "ready for the digital age" than one that uses base-10 everywhere.
All that aside, I've gotten used to some metric units over the years. Liters are nice enough; but Celcius? Fuggedaboutit. Each decade of the Fahrenheit scale has a readily associated "feel" that Celcius can't match. They're both arbitrary systems, so it's really just one person's preferance vs. another.
I have fond memories of another boy (I swear) picking up a packed "motel" and showing it to the girls to freak them out. That was definitely in the 1970s when I was still in elementary school.
Your typical monster hurricane track starts off the west coast of Africa. It moves WEST in the tropics, then heads NORTH along the eastern US, often continuing some westward motion even well north of the tropics. It does eventually head east, but usually not until the damage is done. Think of it as a big C curve that is mostly over the Atlantic and/or Gulf of Mexico. If we're lucky, the left side of the C doesn't intersect land.
Another 3d printer. Everybody knows that capitalism is peace. This way, the 3d printer is just another form of money that creates its own interest. Eventually we'll be up to our necks in printers. We'll be so rich and it'll spawn fabulous new businesses like 3d-printer landfill operations, 3d-printer recylcing, and 3d-printer central banks to slow or speed up the production of 3d-printers.
You could get a very similar look years ago on Flickriver, Flickrhivemind, and probably a few other places. People have been using the APIs to create that look. The latter has infinite scrolling, and they both put your pictures on a black background and hide your comments.
Yes folks, Flickr's big innovation essentially takes something that 3rd parties have been doing, and forces it on users.
Hey here's an idea--maybe somebody can use the APIs to recreate Flickr's old interface, and save it from itself... at least until they take the APIs away. You know that's coming. As for me, I'm done.
It'll take a while to verify that I've extracted my 876 pictures and metadata properly. I feel sorry for the real professionals who have thousands of pictures up there.
As for making money, yeah sure. Budweiser sells a lot of beer; but they don't barge into your favorite brewpub, stick a funnel down your throat and start pouring.
Due to the aforementioned tilting problem, the North Atlantic is a bad idea. Too many swells. Going south allows them to use the Intracoastal Waterways
Point taken; but I've been in places where we went out (driving or walking) because we wanted to, not because we had to. Eating out, BTW, was a perk in some cases. It was the best of both worlds. As for the guy who prefers tea, that was available too. Done right, the person in charge of making purchases it attentive to what people want (can we get tea? This brand? Yeah sure, just ask Kathy she does the purchases).
Most perks wouldn't make a huge impact on your pay. Take the coffee, soda and snack budget. Spread it out over all the employees and you get... what? Not very much. Now without the coffe, etc. right there in the office, what do you do? Go to the same boring shop on the first floor of the building every day? Get in your car and drive or (if you're lucky) walk someplace and buy snacks at retail prices. You're right back to square one. You saved nothing. The company lost. You lost. Everybody lost. Penny-wise and pound foolish.
If NHTSA can change DUI limits, maybe they can mandate yellow times and end this nonsense. Blah, blah, blah states rights whatever. This is one case where I'd be happy to see them use the denial of Federal funding club to smack these douche bags upside the head.
I won't argue specific points. I'll just say that I believe your view is out of consensus on some points, and that I'll concede that I've omitted some things and aren't perfect either.
This is a difficult problem because labels are never perfect. They're blunt tools. I've reviewed the Wiki articles on the Progressive Era and Neoconservatism. You might want to do that too.
Base your license on actual performance metrics that matter. In Virginia, I had to take a peripheral vision test to get my license when I was younger.
I never had to take that test anyplace else. What if we took that concept and extended it to the wide variety of skills that directly translate to driving ability: actual perception of events in mirrors, reaction to those events, etc. We could do it with simulators or something.
Now here's the revolutionary part. We've all known people that claim they can drive with a bottle of JD in one hand and a joint in the other while texting with the phone between their knees. Let 'em try it in the simulator. If they pass the test, give 'em a permit to drive with a higher limit.
The problem with this is that we'd also see a lot of seniors who are worse sober behind the wheel than young people with a few beers in 'em. We'd see 20-somethings that could never get a license because they are truly stupid drivers. We'd see a class of people that were allowed to do things that are currently not permitted; but the real outrage would come from all the intrinsically dangerous people we'd have to take off the road.
That's why it's an interesting idea; but it won't happen.
Amen. I hope they have the common sense to wipe every last trace of their mis-guided Apple envy from Windows. The Windows Store should be fully voluntary, and when the inevitable tumble weeds start rolling through it, they can shut it down and there will be a little 3-line blurb on some tech blogs.
Everybody knows that Liberal was redefined, and that formerly it was what we now call Libertarian.
People are less familiar with the fact that Progressive was redefined. People who call themselves progressives these days are more accurately described as socialists or leftists in most cases.
Those who bear the true standard of the original Progressive movement today don't carry a particular name.
The hallmarks of the original Progressive movement were a "muckraking" press exposing corruption and proposing solutions. This occured around the turn of the 20th century. At the time, industrialists dominated the country and factored in most of the corruption.
Today, it's a mixed bag. There are corrupt leftists as well as corrupt right-wingers in government and society.
The acid test for me is the public employee unions. If you're a real progressive, you want to disentangle both unions and corporations from government. When you say that, the reaction you get really separates the wheat from the chaff. There isn't a whole lot of wheat out there, but it exists. The true progressive, Neoprog, if you will, recognizes that there is just as much muck to rake from one side of the aisle as the other.
Anecdotes of underachievement by those with far more advanced degrees and impressive scores are plentiful. To evaluate college you have to look at statistics, which pull in a large sample.
The general consensus is that a BS is the new HS diploma. Sad, but true. You need that ticket punched to get ahead. That said, go for the cheapest school that isn't a diploma mill or otherwise disreputable. Getting your ticket punched at State U is smart. Putting yourself deep in hock for an unmarketable degree from Big Ivy is where there's real potential for disaster.
FWIW, my BSEE was sold to me as the ticket to a steady career (50 thou a year will buy a lot of beer). Instead, it's been an up and down ride, with some stellar years but a lot of mediocre or bad ones. I don't blame school for that--it has a lot to do with personal circumstances that aren't measured by grades and SAT scores.
1. Talk to the employee in question. If that doesn't work then... 2. Talk to your supervisor. 3. If, and ONLY IF, your supervisor suggests that the solution to the problem is to have an orgy with the problem guy, then talk to HR.
You know, the manager takes everybody aside quaterly, or perhaps semi-annually and privately discusses strengths and weaknesses. If it's urgent there's a "see-me" meeting; but this is a slow leak, so it should be coming up in the guy's PRs. If it isn't, or there is no PR at all, management shares the blame. After having this mentioned in 2 or 3 PRs, and getting no bonuses or raises, it's shape up or ship out. Duh! That seems like management 101 to me.
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Dear Microsoft, Please just give us SHELL= in a file someplace so that if people want to run a tablet interface on their PC or laptop they can do that (for testing purposes maybe, to see what their software or web site looks like on a tablet). For SHELL= allow variables of WIN7 METRO or a path to a custom shell. This was pretty much how Win 3.x seemed to work. IIRC it even worked in Win95 where you could use SHELL=PROGMAN to get the 3.x look.
So there you go. Dust off SHELL= and for bonus points make it hot-swapable without rebooting. If you were really cool you'd even give us back the PROGMAN option just for grins and giggles.
If the shell is no longer a clear-cut component that you can easily separate from the OS and its services, then I don't know what to say...
It doesn't matter if you and your team can do that. You and your excellent team don't scale to every project on the planet. We need a better way to manage projects involving people who are something less than excellent.
I can't tell if you're joking or not. 10 (base 12) == 12 (base 10). 12 (base 10) is divisible by 2 and 3 regardless of what base you use to represent it. FWIW if I were going to change our numeric base, 16 seems like a better choice for the aforementioned digital aspects. Plus there's already widespread use of hex in the computer industry, just as there was widespread use of metric in science before it started spreading to the general public. On sale now! For the low, low, price of just $1FF.FF. LOL, pennies would be worth even less... BTW... I am joking. I have no desire to convert everyday numbers to hex.
Cycling back to the article, the White House response is spot on. If the person behind the counter at In-n-out can take my order in English, and then take the next order in fluent Spanish (I've seen this happen) then there's no reason why we can't have a mix of measures.
AFAIK, every car sold in the US has a dual readout speedometer. When I got a car with digital display I found that this was accomplished with a toggle-button. This leads to a trick that gets old quickly. "Hey this car has a button that makes it go 120 in an instant" /me toggles to kph. Hardee-har-har.
5280 feet in a mile
Care to foot the bill (no pun intended) for all the land records that would have to change? Aside from the problem of changing, that 5280 feet is very convenient. How?
A square mile is a "section", which is 640 acres. Now 640 acres ought to be enough for anybody (heheh). You could be the "section boss"--a familiar phrase from the Old West. Take that section and cut it into 16 equal squares. You get 16 40-acre plots. You could have "40 acres and a mule" if you bought one--another familiar phrase with deep meaning to African-Americans. The 40 acres are conveniently divided again into 10 acres plots, then in half for a five acre lot. Five acre lots were common mini-estate sizes where I grew up for this reason.
OK fine, by all means define the foot in terms of metric; but remove it from all records and from the culture? No. Just. No.
Aside from that, the Metric system is no less arbitrary than our customary units. The only reason 10 matters is because we have 10 digits on our hands. An alien race might not. If you want something truly universal, consider Planck units. Otherwise, all the metric arguments just boil down to "my arbitrary system is better than yours".
If anything, a system where things are commonly divided into two is more "ready for the digital age" than one that uses base-10 everywhere.
All that aside, I've gotten used to some metric units over the years. Liters are nice enough; but Celcius? Fuggedaboutit. Each decade of the Fahrenheit scale has a readily associated "feel" that Celcius can't match. They're both arbitrary systems, so it's really just one person's preferance vs. another.
The IQ of the dog is inversely proportional to how far it runs when you throw an imaginary stick.
I was pretty sure they were around in the 1970s and Wiki confirms that.
I have fond memories of another boy (I swear) picking up a packed "motel" and showing it to the girls to freak them out. That was definitely in the 1970s when I was still in elementary school.
Your typical monster hurricane track starts off the west coast of Africa. It moves WEST in the tropics, then heads NORTH along the eastern US, often continuing some westward motion even well north of the tropics. It does eventually head east, but usually not until the damage is done. Think of it as a big C curve that is mostly over the Atlantic and/or Gulf of Mexico. If we're lucky, the left side of the C doesn't intersect land.
Another 3d printer. Everybody knows that capitalism is peace. This way, the 3d printer is just another form of money that creates its own interest. Eventually we'll be up to our necks in printers. We'll be so rich and it'll spawn fabulous new businesses like 3d-printer landfill operations, 3d-printer recylcing, and 3d-printer central banks to slow or speed up the production of 3d-printers.
You could get a very similar look years ago on Flickriver, Flickrhivemind, and probably a few other places. People have been using the APIs to create that look. The latter has infinite scrolling, and they both put your pictures on a black background and hide your comments.
Yes folks, Flickr's big innovation essentially takes something that 3rd parties have been doing, and forces it on users.
Hey here's an idea--maybe somebody can use the APIs to recreate Flickr's old interface, and save it from itself... at least until they take the APIs away. You know that's coming. As for me, I'm done.
It'll take a while to verify that I've extracted my 876 pictures and metadata properly. I feel sorry for the real professionals who have thousands of pictures up there.
As for making money, yeah sure. Budweiser sells a lot of beer; but they don't barge into your favorite brewpub, stick a funnel down your throat and start pouring.
Due to the aforementioned tilting problem, the North Atlantic is a bad idea. Too many swells. Going south allows them to use the Intracoastal Waterways
Point taken; but I've been in places where we went out (driving or walking) because we wanted to, not because we had to. Eating out, BTW, was a perk in some cases. It was the best of both worlds. As for the guy who prefers tea, that was available too. Done right, the person in charge of making purchases it attentive to what people want (can we get tea? This brand? Yeah sure, just ask Kathy she does the purchases).
Most perks wouldn't make a huge impact on your pay. Take the coffee, soda and snack budget. Spread it out over all the employees and you get... what? Not very much. Now without the coffe, etc. right there in the office, what do you do? Go to the same boring shop on the first floor of the building every day? Get in your car and drive or (if you're lucky) walk someplace and buy snacks at retail prices. You're right back to square one. You saved nothing. The company lost. You lost. Everybody lost. Penny-wise and pound foolish.
Reading this story makes me feel like a new man. Those bills? You'll have to track down the old guy if you want them paid.
If NHTSA can change DUI limits, maybe they can mandate yellow times and end this nonsense. Blah, blah, blah states rights whatever. This is one case where I'd be happy to see them use the denial of Federal funding club to smack these douche bags upside the head.
I won't argue specific points. I'll just say that I believe your view is out of consensus on some points, and that I'll concede that I've omitted some things and aren't perfect either.
This is a difficult problem because labels are never perfect. They're blunt tools. I've reviewed the Wiki articles on the Progressive Era and Neoconservatism. You might want to do that too.
Base your license on actual performance metrics that matter. In Virginia, I had to take a peripheral vision test to get my license when I was younger.
I never had to take that test anyplace else. What if we took that concept and extended it to the wide variety of skills that directly translate to driving ability: actual perception of events in mirrors, reaction to those events, etc. We could do it with simulators or something.
Now here's the revolutionary part. We've all known people that claim they can drive with a bottle of JD in one hand and a joint in the other while texting with the phone between their knees. Let 'em try it in the simulator. If they pass the test, give 'em a permit to drive with a higher limit.
The problem with this is that we'd also see a lot of seniors who are worse sober behind the wheel than young people with a few beers in 'em. We'd see 20-somethings that could never get a license because they are truly stupid drivers. We'd see a class of people that were allowed to do things that are currently not permitted; but the real outrage would come from all the intrinsically dangerous people we'd have to take off the road.
That's why it's an interesting idea; but it won't happen.
Amen. I hope they have the common sense to wipe every last trace of their mis-guided Apple envy from Windows. The Windows Store should be fully voluntary, and when the inevitable tumble weeds start rolling through it, they can shut it down and there will be a little 3-line blurb on some tech blogs.
You can't lobby the court, but you can vote with your feet. It takes time and effort though. This is just a battle that was lost, not the war.
Everybody knows that Liberal was redefined, and that formerly it was what we now call Libertarian.
People are less familiar with the fact that Progressive was redefined. People who call themselves progressives these days are more accurately described as socialists or leftists in most cases.
Those who bear the true standard of the original Progressive movement today don't carry a particular name.
The hallmarks of the original Progressive movement were a "muckraking" press exposing corruption and proposing solutions. This occured around the turn of the 20th century. At the time, industrialists dominated the country and factored in most of the corruption.
Today, it's a mixed bag. There are corrupt leftists as well as corrupt right-wingers in government and society.
The acid test for me is the public employee unions. If you're a real progressive, you want to disentangle both unions and corporations from government. When you say that, the reaction you get really separates the wheat from the chaff. There isn't a whole lot of wheat out there, but it exists. The true progressive, Neoprog, if you will, recognizes that there is just as much muck to rake from one side of the aisle as the other.
Anecdotes of underachievement by those with far more advanced degrees and impressive scores are plentiful. To evaluate college you have to look at statistics, which pull in a large sample.
The general consensus is that a BS is the new HS diploma. Sad, but true. You need that ticket punched to get ahead. That said, go for the cheapest school that isn't a diploma mill or otherwise disreputable. Getting your ticket punched at State U is smart. Putting yourself deep in hock for an unmarketable degree from Big Ivy is where there's real potential for disaster.
FWIW, my BSEE was sold to me as the ticket to a steady career (50 thou a year will buy a lot of beer). Instead, it's been an up and down ride, with some stellar years but a lot of mediocre or bad ones. I don't blame school for that--it has a lot to do with personal circumstances that aren't measured by grades and SAT scores.
1. Talk to the employee in question. If that doesn't work then... 2. Talk to your supervisor. 3. If, and ONLY IF, your supervisor suggests that the solution to the problem is to have an orgy with the problem guy, then talk to HR.
You know, the manager takes everybody aside quaterly, or perhaps semi-annually and privately discusses strengths and weaknesses. If it's urgent there's a "see-me" meeting; but this is a slow leak, so it should be coming up in the guy's PRs. If it isn't, or there is no PR at all, management shares the blame. After having this mentioned in 2 or 3 PRs, and getting no bonuses or raises, it's shape up or ship out. Duh! That seems like management 101 to me.
Wonderful idea. I can't wait to run right out and buy that. /sarcasm
replace them all with electronics.
I think that'd be a WOPR of a problem. I think maybe the parent knew that and expected us to get the reference.