So "you haven't proved you don't" is good enough to invade a sovereign country. The terms of the original gulf war cease fire agreement required him to do so. Iraq was not operating as a fully sovereign country until that agreement was fulfilled, certain restrictions were in place. As demonstrated by the no fly zone, certain economic restrictions, etc. That's the price a country pays for losing a war.
So breaking that agreement should result in UN approved sanctions against Iraq, not a military response.
The new carts will also display advertisements depending on where in the supermarket the cart is, using RFID technology to help locate it
I wish someone shopping in one of the places where they will have these takes the opportunity to plan their route through the aisles to spell nice messages using the RFID tracking for whoever is sifting through the data. Sure, it's a bit of a hassle but imagine the look on the face of the person seeing you draw goatse with your cart...
I hope that it will be able to replace windows mobile on my HTC device soon (the O2 XDA, not sure exactly what model that would be). I am sure that the actual hardware of the phone is not too bad but things are just so slow.
Like TFS says, it is great to have something to run on older hardware, especially with the way the phone market works these days trying to get you to do upgrades as often as possible, most of the time unnecessarily. How many don't just want a phone to use as a phone? I know my grandfather wouldn't mind having a special stripped down version of Android with only basic functions and if I can pick up an old used phone that most people think is outdated to run it on that would be perfect.
Can I do any of this? Nope - I'm not a programmer or expert in GUI design, but I'm an extensive user of this GUI and I know what would make it easier to use. A way for the enduser to easily move, resize and re-align elements would be a huge step in user friendliness of GUIs.
Another rule pointed out by parent: don't rely on what you personally would like. Do extensive usability testing with potential users. Also, don't confuse what a small subset of users might want with how the majority of users will use it. Like others have said, know your target audience and use sensible default values. If it is possible to add customisation that won't get in the way and you can assign the time for this then go ahead, don't just make everything customisable just because you can.
Asking for only certain characters from a password (e.g. characters 1,4,8 & 9)
This of course relies on the service asking for different numbers each time and not like Orange in the UK who always ask me for character 2 & 4.
One thing I don't like with this system though is that someone peeking over your shoulder will see on the screen what the 5th & 7th character of your password are and the next time two more characters...
Millennium books has a great series called SF Masterworks that has very nice titles such as Philip K. Dick's "Do androids dream of electric sheep?", Richard Matheson's "I am legend", James Blish's "Cities in flight", Olaf Stapledon's "Last and first men" and the absolutly fantastic (IMHO) "Lord of light" by Roger Zelazny which I really recommend. You can send a mail to smy@orionbooks.co.uk for info on the series.
..he's right. Not only are the comics not funny, but making fun of newbies only reveals your own pathetic insecurities.
But UF isn't making fun of the newbies but the ignorant people who are actually proud of not knowing anything. I have worked as a tech support and I have talked with many that had no intentions of learning anything. I think that ignorant people should be made fun of.
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This book is one that everyone should read (IMHO =) ). It has the greatest beginning of any book I have ever read. The score of 9.5 is a little strange to me. Didn't Cryptonomicon get 10? Personally I think Snow Crash is better than Cryptonomicon. Don't get me wrong, I think that it is a great book too. My favourite Stephenson book is The Diamond Age.
What I really like with the book reviews are all the great reading suggestions people make. Thank you all! I will be looking into Lois McMaster Bujold's books next time I'm in a bookstore. I'd like to add more suggestions to the list: the Shockwave Rider by John Brunner (I bought this after a suggestion in a previous book review) and Interface by Stephen Bury (which is Neal Stephenson and his uncle).
Reading through the comments I get the feeling that this is a book you'll either hate or love. Personally I loved it, I think it's even better than Snow Crash. If you liked Snow Crash but didn't like Diamond Age you should check out Zodiak if you haven't read it yet. I have The Cobweb and Interface by Stephen Bury (Neal and his uncle) standing in my bookcase, but I haven't had time to read them yet (so little time, yet so many books, maybe when I'm finished with the Shockwave Rider (most of the books I've bought lately are from recommendations by/. readers =) )), so I can't say if they are any good.
For me Netscape 4.08 is much more stable than IE 4.5 on MacOS (G3 266/MacOS 8.6). It renders pages a little slower, but is actually less of a resource hog than IE. I've had IE suddenly using 70 megs of RAM and 1000 MB of my harddrive for no apparent reason. And it has a tendency of getting into infinite loops and when I kill it, it leaves stale processes that cannot be killed so a restart is necessary.
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True, Pepsi would have been a better choice for the analogy :p
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Argueing about 100K UIDs... whippersnappers..
So breaking that agreement should result in UN approved sanctions against Iraq, not a military response.
I know what you mean, I waited too long as well with signing up ;-)
I wish someone shopping in one of the places where they will have these takes the opportunity to plan their route through the aisles to spell nice messages using the RFID tracking for whoever is sifting through the data. Sure, it's a bit of a hassle but imagine the look on the face of the person seeing you draw goatse with your cart...
I hope that it will be able to replace windows mobile on my HTC device soon (the O2 XDA, not sure exactly what model that would be). I am sure that the actual hardware of the phone is not too bad but things are just so slow.
Like TFS says, it is great to have something to run on older hardware, especially with the way the phone market works these days trying to get you to do upgrades as often as possible, most of the time unnecessarily. How many don't just want a phone to use as a phone? I know my grandfather wouldn't mind having a special stripped down version of Android with only basic functions and if I can pick up an old used phone that most people think is outdated to run it on that would be perfect.
Try Alt+up arrow for up one level in Explorer
Another rule pointed out by parent: don't rely on what you personally would like. Do extensive usability testing with potential users. Also, don't confuse what a small subset of users might want with how the majority of users will use it. Like others have said, know your target audience and use sensible default values. If it is possible to add customisation that won't get in the way and you can assign the time for this then go ahead, don't just make everything customisable just because you can.
This of course relies on the service asking for different numbers each time and not like Orange in the UK who always ask me for character 2 & 4.
One thing I don't like with this system though is that someone peeking over your shoulder will see on the screen what the 5th & 7th character of your password are and the next time two more characters...
Millennium books has a great series called SF Masterworks that has very nice titles such as Philip K. Dick's "Do androids dream of electric sheep?", Richard Matheson's "I am legend", James Blish's "Cities in flight", Olaf Stapledon's "Last and first men" and the absolutly fantastic (IMHO) "Lord of light" by Roger Zelazny which I really recommend. You can send a mail to smy@orionbooks.co.uk for info on the series.
..he's right. Not only are the comics not funny, but making fun of newbies only reveals your own pathetic insecurities.
But UF isn't making fun of the newbies but the ignorant people who are actually proud of not knowing anything. I have worked as a tech support and I have talked with many that had no intentions of learning anything. I think that ignorant people should be made fun of.
This book is one that everyone should read (IMHO =) ). It has the greatest beginning of any book I have ever read. The score of 9.5 is a little strange to me. Didn't Cryptonomicon get 10? Personally I think Snow Crash is better than Cryptonomicon. Don't get me wrong, I think that it is a great book too. My favourite Stephenson book is The Diamond Age.
What I really like with the book reviews are all the great reading suggestions people make. Thank you all! I will be looking into Lois McMaster Bujold's books next time I'm in a bookstore. I'd like to add more suggestions to the list: the Shockwave Rider by John Brunner (I bought this after a suggestion in a previous book review) and Interface by Stephen Bury (which is Neal Stephenson and his uncle).
I also tend to code better when I'm drunk. Too bad I don't know how or why that code works when I'm sober =)
I depends on the time and what mood I'm in. In the daytime mostly ska music and a lot of bob hund and in the nighttime something a little heavier.
Daytime: bob hund, Sublime, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Chickenpox, Liberator, Smashing Pumpkins...
Nighttime: Fireside, Rage Against The Machine... and sometimes NOFX, Bad Religion (No Control, Generator), Lagwagon...
And also Radiohead, REM, Hendrix and other stuff.
Reading through the comments I get the feeling that this is a book you'll either hate or love. Personally I loved it, I think it's even better than Snow Crash. If you liked Snow Crash but didn't like Diamond Age you should check out Zodiak if you haven't read it yet. I have The Cobweb and Interface by Stephen Bury (Neal and his uncle) standing in my bookcase, but I haven't had time to read them yet (so little time, yet so many books, maybe when I'm finished with the Shockwave Rider (most of the books I've bought lately are from recommendations by /. readers =) )), so I can't say if they are any good.
For me Netscape 4.08 is much more stable than IE 4.5 on MacOS (G3 266/MacOS 8.6). It renders pages a little slower, but is actually less of a resource hog than IE. I've had IE suddenly using 70 megs of RAM and 1000 MB of my harddrive for no apparent reason. And it has a tendency of getting into infinite loops and when I kill it, it leaves stale processes that cannot be killed so a restart is necessary.