It's a symptom of a more dangerous malaise, that any idea that threatens a belief system is avoided. Evolution isn't even a threat which is even more scary. I went to a Catholic (yeh you know the first Christian church) school 20 years ago and was taught that evolution was how God populated the earth. Now if the largest Christian church on earth doesn't feel threatened by Darwin why do so many Americans?
I have and do. I wish people would stop saying "I don't use it so it must be pointless"; macros are very useful and save me a lot of time. Excel doesn't come with the be all and end all of functions; sometimes a user-defined one is necessary. Word doesn't allow for every possible permutation; sometimes a little program is needed. Custom scripts would be good too, I hate having to load Word to generate a document, but when the document is already open and being edited a macro makes more sense than an external program taking over your app (which is surely a security risk as well).
100 row spreadsheet comes in every day, user has to laboriously create 100 incidents in a web based system with virtually the same details. This takes 2 hours, the user can't do her main joband she hates doing it because it's mindnumbingly boring. Enter someone who knows how to code VBA macros. As he knows that the IT department has far more important things to do the coder writes an Excel macro in a couple of hours that links to the IE scripting object and automatically fills in the webform based on the data in the spreadsheet. All the user has to do now is hit submit on the web form (and I only didn't automate that because it would tie up the machine for 2 or 3 minutes which the boss didn't like). Now the boring 2 hour job is a boring 10 minute job and the user can spend 1 hour 50 minutes more doing something valuable for the business. You seem to forget that computers are designed to do repetitive tasks very quickly. VBA is great for that. Copy and paste is too much for anybody (apart from you it seems) when you have to do copy -> switch -> paste 100 times.
Really? So I was just imagining the various productivity improvements the macros I've written have delivered to my team with the judicious use of VBA and VBScript? Don't let your prejudices blind you; I would never use VBA for a major system, but for fairly simple tools and data manipulation it's excellent.
It's a bit of a grey area given that Circuit City are helping consumers exercise their fair use rights by providing the technology that ordinary users are unable to get their hands on nowadays. A good lawyer could probably argue that Circuit City are helping consumers exercise their fair use rights and charging for such a service is not unreasonable since you have to pay someone to do the actual rip and transfer. It's not like Circuit City are ripping DVDs and selling copies, they're ripping from DVDs that have already been paid for. Let's get the popcorn out; it's gonna be a good show.
why anyone would want to run Doom through Cedega, when ID Software offers a Linux binary for Doom (which needless to say runs better since it's native), is a good question.
If every software company was as generous as ID then Cedega wouldn't be required now would it?
The trouble with science is that the value of research is very hard to measure. However the more we know about the world the better we understand it. Just because supercomputer research hasn't produced a certain amount of value yet doesn't mean it never will. I'm all for "wasting" money on learning more, because the more humans learn the more likely we are to discover stuff that is useful.
Not as priceless as the look on my face on reading that and noting that that clueless muppet gets paid a lot more than I do. Maybe I should get off my arse and get one of them MCSE thingies.
Well it's innocent until proven more likely than not that he did break the law. So not quite as cut and dried but it's still a fairly high standard. They also need to prove their losses (in order to justify the claim for damages) to the same standard which will be a lot harder.
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It's a symptom of a more dangerous malaise, that any idea that threatens a belief system is avoided. Evolution isn't even a threat which is even more scary. I went to a Catholic (yeh you know the first Christian church) school 20 years ago and was taught that evolution was how God populated the earth. Now if the largest Christian church on earth doesn't feel threatened by Darwin why do so many Americans?
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I have and do. I wish people would stop saying "I don't use it so it must be pointless"; macros are very useful and save me a lot of time. Excel doesn't come with the be all and end all of functions; sometimes a user-defined one is necessary. Word doesn't allow for every possible permutation; sometimes a little program is needed. Custom scripts would be good too, I hate having to load Word to generate a document, but when the document is already open and being edited a macro makes more sense than an external program taking over your app (which is surely a security risk as well).
And what about all the stuff that doesn't run under Wine or on an alternative OS i.e. most of it.
A beer belly wouldn't look quite right on a Muslim.
They made their bed, they now have no room to complain about having to lie in it.
Yes you could just run your software on one of the many other Windows compatible OSes out there. Oh wait....
Except that for the most part they are the same mega corps.
100 row spreadsheet comes in every day, user has to laboriously create 100 incidents in a web based system with virtually the same details. This takes 2 hours, the user can't do her main joband she hates doing it because it's mindnumbingly boring.
Enter someone who knows how to code VBA macros. As he knows that the IT department has far more important things to do the coder writes an Excel macro in a couple of hours that links to the IE scripting object and automatically fills in the webform based on the data in the spreadsheet.
All the user has to do now is hit submit on the web form (and I only didn't automate that because it would tie up the machine for 2 or 3 minutes which the boss didn't like). Now the boring 2 hour job is a boring 10 minute job and the user can spend 1 hour 50 minutes more doing something valuable for the business.
You seem to forget that computers are designed to do repetitive tasks very quickly. VBA is great for that. Copy and paste is too much for anybody (apart from you it seems) when you have to do copy -> switch -> paste 100 times.
Really? So I was just imagining the various productivity improvements the macros I've written have delivered to my team with the judicious use of VBA and VBScript? Don't let your prejudices blind you; I would never use VBA for a major system, but for fairly simple tools and data manipulation it's excellent.
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It's a bit of a grey area given that Circuit City are helping consumers exercise their fair use rights by providing the technology that ordinary users are unable to get their hands on nowadays. A good lawyer could probably argue that Circuit City are helping consumers exercise their fair use rights and charging for such a service is not unreasonable since you have to pay someone to do the actual rip and transfer. It's not like Circuit City are ripping DVDs and selling copies, they're ripping from DVDs that have already been paid for. Let's get the popcorn out; it's gonna be a good show.
I bet you'd shout FIRE! in a crowded theatre too you maniac :P
why anyone would want to run Doom through Cedega, when ID Software offers a Linux binary for Doom (which needless to say runs better since it's native), is a good question.
If every software company was as generous as ID then Cedega wouldn't be required now would it?
A person is intelligent, people are stupid. A corporate worker is a normal human being, a corporate entity is an amoral profiteering monster.
The trouble with science is that the value of research is very hard to measure. However the more we know about the world the better we understand it. Just because supercomputer research hasn't produced a certain amount of value yet doesn't mean it never will. I'm all for "wasting" money on learning more, because the more humans learn the more likely we are to discover stuff that is useful.
Rule #2 shut the fuck up you anal moron.
I'm in both groups then since I don't understand about half the last sentence :P
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a built-in OS feature probably can't suck up 100+MB off the top in an always-resident manner.
Can't it? I would have thought part of the OS would be able to do a great deal more than an app that can't access all areas.
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Because the US has never had a recession of course.
Not as priceless as the look on my face on reading that and noting that that clueless muppet gets paid a lot more than I do. Maybe I should get off my arse and get one of them MCSE thingies.
Well it's innocent until proven more likely than not that he did break the law. So not quite as cut and dried but it's still a fairly high standard. They also need to prove their losses (in order to justify the claim for damages) to the same standard which will be a lot harder.
Like me who don't know what dythirambic means.