China stopped being communist a long time ago, or did you not notice that the distinctly fascist combination of state and corporate ownership of the means of production has held sway for a while now.
The ignorance of subjugates will always be a Bolshevik, and not a fascist, end.
All that Commmie ignorance and the Russians still managed to put a man into space before anyone else.
All the rest of your post is just flowery-worded bollocks to try and look intellectual whilst in fact just presenting a set of 20th century prejudices as an original idea.
I'm doing fine thanks but a lot of people I know aren't as prices rise and wages are capped. I was parodying the previous poster who also didn't use quotation marks but his parenting skills weren't called into question; why are mine?
I left my kids in front of the computer because I was working two jobs to put food on the table and keep them clothed because corporate America thinks I don't need a living wage.
They wouldn't stop an invasion though would they, just make it shitty for the invaders once they were there. And they'd be terrorists then so they'd have to shoot themselves.
I live in the UK. Yes I have traveled - just not to the US (nor would I want to).
So do I and I'm sure Americans will be pleased to hear that they won't have to have you in their country.
Utter rubbish - in Europe you ask for a half litre or beer. Places with plenty of tourists will understand you when you ask for a pint, but they will give you half a litre.
How is asking for a beer or a half litre of beer any different to asking for a pint of beer? It certainly doesn't require your ludicrous language mangling to get a drink in Europe which is why I wondered whether you'd actually been outside the country at all.
Fruit, meat, etc is all priced by the gram. Sure, you can buy "4 apples" or something but they will be weighed and charged by the gram.
But you said people ask for a pound of apples and I said that they didn't so try arguing with what I said.
Well done for trying to argue that anything that was done in the 19th century must, by extension, still be happening in the 21st century. Yes, the imperial units were invented in the UK, but they have since been superseded, and for the most part, discarded. It's also worth noting that the lack of standardisation of imperial units (such as the US gallon != imperial gallon) does cause confusion.
Not sure what you're trying to say here. First you argue that we should cling to ancient units of measurement because they're part of the language and then you deride the Act that legally defined them as being old. Not sure what the last sentence is on about either, a lack of standardisation is why the use of the logical metric system has overtaken the use of imperial which you appear to think is a bad thing.
What a strange country you must live in and you must not have travelled at all. Alcohol is still sold in standard amounts in bars in metric countries too and that's what you ask for; people buy as much fruit as they need/want not a specific amount as they're sold in both bags of apples (which are neither 1 pound or 1 kilo) or loose so you can buy what you want; people order coke in cans because funnily enough you can't buy it in anything else but cans or bottles. The development of the language had nothing to do with imperial measurements; someone somewhere had to define what a pint/pound/inch actually represents and guess what it was this in the UK.
If civil engineers built bridges in the same way as IT departments/software companies build software the bridge would be required to be built in a week and would take 5 years. The bridge would be opened with loads of holes which the drivers would be instructed how to avoid. The holes would never be filled in but lots of ramps would be put on the bridge over the next few years to allow the drivers to jump their vehicles over them. Eventually there would be loads of extra lanes added to sections of the bridge as no one still understands how the original bridge was built. This of course is assuming that the bridge actually manages to span the gap and doesn't have some of the road left out to "get the damn thing finished".
We've only been doing electronics for about 100 years and yet the failure rate is a lot lower, so it's not a new tech problem. I doubt software engineering will ever get better because there are too many incompetents doing it and too many incompetents managing the incompetents doing it and way too many snake oil salesmen selling garbage to the clueless.
The user is not at fault if they are lied to repeatedly on a subject they know little about and which is confusing and over-complicated to someone already intimidated by relatively new technology. I find computing simple, but I know that I'm in a very small minority. We don't need better users we need developers who understand the above and try to work with their users to meet their needs rather than treating them like idiots who should be grateful for any buggy piece of crap that is confusing, inconsistent and endlessly unreliable. Education is part of that, but again that requires some understanding of the people you're trying to educate.
I looked at that with disbelief as well. Which programmers are privileging speed and efficiency of code? I've not seen that in any of the big software packages I use (including the OSS ones I might add). I'd also dispute the speed and efficiency of development too. For all the extra shit available to supposedly speed up development and/or make software more reliable it still takes too long to come up with something that still doesn't work properly. RAD tools only allow some programmers to make a turd more quickly but it's still a turd.
Those analogies to objects need to be pretty obvious though and there's still a great deal in Windows that is non-obvious. Just because something has a GUI interface does not make it easy to use.
Selling the injection of a very nasty poison into your facial muscles that in fact makes you less attractive was an easy enough sell - I think you may have a winner there.
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China stopped being communist a long time ago, or did you not notice that the distinctly fascist combination of state and corporate ownership of the means of production has held sway for a while now.
The ignorance of subjugates will always be a Bolshevik, and not a fascist, end.
All that Commmie ignorance and the Russians still managed to put a man into space before anyone else.
All the rest of your post is just flowery-worded bollocks to try and look intellectual whilst in fact just presenting a set of 20th century prejudices as an original idea.
I was presenting an alternative and possible reason for lack of parental supervision based on some of the families I know.
I'm doing fine thanks but a lot of people I know aren't as prices rise and wages are capped. I was parodying the previous poster who also didn't use quotation marks but his parenting skills weren't called into question; why are mine?
I left my kids in front of the computer because I was working two jobs to put food on the table and keep them clothed because corporate America thinks I don't need a living wage.
Usually it's only one constitutionally protected freedom judging by the Libertarians around here.
Do Nokia, Sony Ericsson and the rest really sell at a loss? That must make it pretty tough to do business.
They wouldn't stop an invasion though would they, just make it shitty for the invaders once they were there. And they'd be terrorists then so they'd have to shoot themselves.
I live in the UK. Yes I have traveled - just not to the US (nor would I want to).
So do I and I'm sure Americans will be pleased to hear that they won't have to have you in their country.
Utter rubbish - in Europe you ask for a half litre or beer. Places with plenty of tourists will understand you when you ask for a pint, but they will give you half a litre.
How is asking for a beer or a half litre of beer any different to asking for a pint of beer? It certainly doesn't require your ludicrous language mangling to get a drink in Europe which is why I wondered whether you'd actually been outside the country at all.
Fruit, meat, etc is all priced by the gram. Sure, you can buy "4 apples" or something but they will be weighed and charged by the gram.
But you said people ask for a pound of apples and I said that they didn't so try arguing with what I said.
Well done for trying to argue that anything that was done in the 19th century must, by extension, still be happening in the 21st century. Yes, the imperial units were invented in the UK, but they have since been superseded, and for the most part, discarded. It's also worth noting that the lack of standardisation of imperial units (such as the US gallon != imperial gallon) does cause confusion.
Not sure what you're trying to say here. First you argue that we should cling to ancient units of measurement because they're part of the language and then you deride the Act that legally defined them as being old. Not sure what the last sentence is on about either, a lack of standardisation is why the use of the logical metric system has overtaken the use of imperial which you appear to think is a bad thing.
I can only imagine what Fosters is doing to Australia's reputation for beer. People in Australia don't even drink that stuff.
Aussies are lying to you. I've drunk Fosters in Australia and it was shit there too.
It's a sad state of affairs when you feel you have to correct what is obviously a typo out of fear of being accused of being a paedophile.
What a strange country you must live in and you must not have travelled at all.
Alcohol is still sold in standard amounts in bars in metric countries too and that's what you ask for; people buy as much fruit as they need/want not a specific amount as they're sold in both bags of apples (which are neither 1 pound or 1 kilo) or loose so you can buy what you want; people order coke in cans because funnily enough you can't buy it in anything else but cans or bottles. The development of the language had nothing to do with imperial measurements; someone somewhere had to define what a pint/pound/inch actually represents and guess what it was this in the UK.
I bet he thinks Harry Potter should be burned at the stake for practising witchcraft too.
They taught you that Latin came from Greece? I'm glad I didn't go there.
I 5hink that describes socialism pretty well, don't you? ;)
No it doesn't you evil troll you!
If civil engineers built bridges in the same way as IT departments/software companies build software the bridge would be required to be built in a week and would take 5 years. The bridge would be opened with loads of holes which the drivers would be instructed how to avoid. The holes would never be filled in but lots of ramps would be put on the bridge over the next few years to allow the drivers to jump their vehicles over them. Eventually there would be loads of extra lanes added to sections of the bridge as no one still understands how the original bridge was built.
This of course is assuming that the bridge actually manages to span the gap and doesn't have some of the road left out to "get the damn thing finished".
We've only been doing electronics for about 100 years and yet the failure rate is a lot lower, so it's not a new tech problem. I doubt software engineering will ever get better because there are too many incompetents doing it and too many incompetents managing the incompetents doing it and way too many snake oil salesmen selling garbage to the clueless.
I could but you wouldn't believe me.
The user is not at fault if they are lied to repeatedly on a subject they know little about and which is confusing and over-complicated to someone already intimidated by relatively new technology. I find computing simple, but I know that I'm in a very small minority.
We don't need better users we need developers who understand the above and try to work with their users to meet their needs rather than treating them like idiots who should be grateful for any buggy piece of crap that is confusing, inconsistent and endlessly unreliable. Education is part of that, but again that requires some understanding of the people you're trying to educate.
Both are in the "largely irrelevant to Microsoft" league, at least on the desktop.
The idea is you post it without the disclaimer and laugh at all the flames ;-)
I looked at that with disbelief as well. Which programmers are privileging speed and efficiency of code? I've not seen that in any of the big software packages I use (including the OSS ones I might add). I'd also dispute the speed and efficiency of development too. For all the extra shit available to supposedly speed up development and/or make software more reliable it still takes too long to come up with something that still doesn't work properly. RAD tools only allow some programmers to make a turd more quickly but it's still a turd.
IBM has a mom and a basement?
Except that people's recklessness in cars kills or injures other people. It's better to prevent that in the first place if at all possible.
Those analogies to objects need to be pretty obvious though and there's still a great deal in Windows that is non-obvious. Just because something has a GUI interface does not make it easy to use.
Selling the injection of a very nasty poison into your facial muscles that in fact makes you less attractive was an easy enough sell - I think you may have a winner there.