Oh god please no. In the 80's everything had 2000 appended to make it sound futuristic. In the early 90's everything hip was X-this and X-That. Then came the e-craze. And then Apple started with iEverything. Please no v. When are we going to stop? When the alphabet is run through? And then? Cyrillic?? Arabic?? Kanji?
It is better! It crashes faster! Think of all the time wasted on programs that crash. Now, you will not waste as much timme since the end result iis reached much quicker!
As the day wore on, Nedelin grew impatient with the delays and left the viewing area where the military dignitaries were seated a safe distance away. Nedelin returned to the launch pad to personally oversee the preparations, setting up a chair right beside the rocket.t
Nedelin was the director of the space program. Needless to say, he was blown to pieces. Talk about stupid.
Not to forget the disaster the Soviets had on a Launchpad somewhere in the early 60's where a rocket exploded killing many people on the ground, including the director of their space program.
Actually, the reason we have been slow at getting back to the moon is that is was an extremely expensive undertaking for the few benefits it bought. The space program, fine, that is a good idea. But sending men to the moon is too expensive. Lets not even go into what sening a man to Mars would cost. For that soort of mney the US could build an entirely new fleet of space going planees or somethingn which would bring MUCH more benefit.
Very, very few modern computer programs are CPu bound. Your computer spends waiting 99% of its time fo ether a harddisk or a network or some other input.
Lotus's external access library via Java/CORBA works wonders. I have quite a few external programs (written and debugged in Eclipse) that talk to a Notes Server. It works very, very well. In fact, the only difference is that you link with another JAR file. The API is pretty much identical.
That is the entire point with Notes. IF you use it for what it was designed for its a killer app. Problem is, in many companies someone uses Notes to do the Killer App thing and amazes the bejesus out of the suits and then suddenly they want to use the hot app it for EVERY thing.
Worst. Idea. Ever.
I am stuck in a development hell because a few years ag omy boss designed an app in Notes and I have to meintain it. I am soooo close to just sending the whole org to hell by leaving. the real problem with Notes is that
a) you cannot search your codebase b) The development environment is horrifying. Especially the Java part. c) The business logic and UI code are so intertwined it probably killed off the inventors of MVC by giving them massive simultaneous coronaries. d) Dynamic queries into the database are pretty much non existent e) Relations between documents??? Get real. f) The UI system makes it a massive pain in the butt to get your formatting right.
However, despite all the whining Notes does not have such a bad UI. Not for DB work at least.
Point c) there is Notes's greatest strength and also greatest weakness. When the UI and Business logic are entwined it is very easy to buid quick one-off apps, and Notes really shines there. On the other hand, writing a MAINTAINABLE app is a definite no-go.
Notes does haveother strengths a) Disconnected database replicas are really really good b) the Java/CORBA integration for external calls is very well implemented. It just works. c) The UI is pretty ok when you have to deal with lots of documents (except you cannot click on a category header to select all the docs in it)
Been there, done that. Then you have to hunt for one on EBay. NOW. Ask the seller to send it via hand-delivered overnight courier. NOW. For $200 extra.
And the controller that got wasted had its RAID config stored in NVRAM and not on the disks... And your predecessor did not write it down somewhere... Which makes the new controller useless....
Fortunately switching NVRAM chips works. Never been glad to see NT 4.0 boot in my life, except for that one single day.
True. The Keyboard does have a USB hub built in. And annoyingly, its a USB 1.0 Hub, not 2.0 so rather useless for pretty much anything short of a mouse these days.
a) A fire destroyed the building and everyone in it. b) The computer was fried and took the entire raid stack with it or the RAID controller card got fried (happened to me once) c) The disk crashed d) Oh my god I trashed the file cause Mary was working with it at the same time and gee we are confused and where is the file now you IT idiot!!!??
RAID covers c)
d) on the other hand, is by FAR the most prevalent case and, quite frankly RAID does zilch, zero, nuthin and jack-sh*t to cover that. That is why RAID is not a backup.
b) Is covered by external backups such as Tape/DVD/Holo/Printouts
Lots of people get into the non-profit sector thinking its not business, and without adequate budgetary and fiscal discipline.
Sigh.
No joke there...
I work at a non-profit NGO. It has it upsides, but managers who think they can do whatever thy please because they are "saving the world" (that was a quote) is truly amazing. So the upsides are about to become one long row of downsides.
Is there any good reason why the ENTIRE CSsmust alwaysbe declarative? While I am the first to state that declarative specification usually beats the procedural way (say float:right; width:50; instead of left: (windows-width - 50) or something like that).
However, declarative systems very often lead to a lot of intellectual masturbation to get some really "nifty" way of getting things just so simply case trust the computer is not always a good idea. Especially since computers tend to use different algorithns to translate the declarations into a real screen layout. While some geeks find the intellectual masturbation stimulating, quite frankly it wastes my time. Sometime I really just want to tell the damn thing that I want the box 70 - window-width and get on with it. After all, if I can write a JSP page I can presumably figure out something like that. Instead, I have to consult 6 websites on the l33t way to do a 3 column layout.
So my question is: Any ideas on making CSS a bit more procedural? Just for the cases where the computer screws up?
It would also be able to tell you exactly in which aisle on the floor you get the stuff you want, what it costs, and suggest alternatives in other the stores on the planet.
One thing that irks me about CSS is that all the hot CSS sites tend to look the same: They have a fixed width column in the middle and padding on the sides. This is not because it is aesthetically better, its because CSS makes it hell to do some kinds of layout differently. So now the very real limitations of CSS layout is forcing a very real change in they way many websites look. And the new way is quite limiting.
And lets not talk about all the flashy CSS hacks to get it to work in most modern browsers the same way. None of that crap with tables.
CSS is a good idea that needs a few extensions to make it really useful.
Don't laugh. Branson was once complaining about Virgin Olive Oil with some company until the courts told him that he does not have copyright on the word Virgin.
The Economist with their dry humour suggested that we reclassify olive oils as Normal and Deflowered.
The whole red-green thing is an interesting issue though. A problem with environimentalist orgs even the very scientific ones are that they tend to get taken over by very leftwing types. I have worked at one for 10 years and seen this. I cannot quite say why but it has to do with a similar mentality of us-vs-them and needing an issue to use to live out a persecution complex.
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Oh god please no. In the 80's everything had 2000 appended to make it sound futuristic. In the early 90's everything hip was X-this and X-That. Then came the e-craze. And then Apple started with iEverything. Please no v. When are we going to stop? When the alphabet is run through? And then? Cyrillic?? Arabic?? Kanji?
No I am not a German. I just have to live here!
There are only two jobs in the world where you get to lie on your back playing with floppy cables at work: a techie and a prostitute.
Prostitutes get more respoct and more money.
The really heartbreaking thing is that I live 5 km from the French border...
So near and yet so far.
It is better! It crashes faster! Think of all the time wasted on programs that crash. Now, you will not waste as much timme since the end result iis reached much quicker!
From the Wikipedia article:
As the day wore on, Nedelin grew impatient with the delays and left the viewing area where the military dignitaries were seated a safe distance away. Nedelin returned to the launch pad to personally oversee the preparations, setting up a chair right beside the rocket.t
Nedelin was the director of the space program. Needless to say, he was blown to pieces. Talk about stupid.
Not to forget the disaster the Soviets had on a Launchpad somewhere in the early 60's where a rocket exploded killing many people on the ground, including the director of their space program.
> If you plugged in enough cards, it could even fry an egg on the back of the case.
Apple has made a lot of progress since then. You don't need to plug cards in to fry eggs on the back of the case anymore!
You have never met any serious Greenpeacy treehuggers, have you?
Actually, the reason we have been slow at getting back to the moon is that is was an extremely expensive undertaking for the few benefits it bought. The space program, fine, that is a good idea. But sending men to the moon is too expensive. Lets not even go into what sening a man to Mars would cost. For that soort of mney the US could build an entirely new fleet of space going planees or somethingn which would bring MUCH more benefit.
Very, very few modern computer programs are CPu bound. Your computer spends waiting 99% of its time fo ether a harddisk or a network or some other input.
Lotus's external access library via Java/CORBA works wonders. I have quite a few external programs (written and debugged in Eclipse) that talk to a Notes Server. It works very, very well. In fact, the only difference is that you link with another JAR file. The API is pretty much identical.
That is the entire point with Notes. IF you use it for what it was designed for its a killer app. Problem is, in many companies someone uses Notes to do the Killer App thing and amazes the bejesus out of the suits and then suddenly they want to use the hot app it for EVERY thing.
Worst. Idea. Ever.
I am stuck in a development hell because a few years ag omy boss designed an app in Notes and I have to meintain it. I am soooo close to just sending the whole org to hell by leaving. the real problem with Notes is that
a) you cannot search your codebase
b) The development environment is horrifying. Especially the Java part.
c) The business logic and UI code are so intertwined it probably killed off the inventors of MVC by giving them massive simultaneous coronaries.
d) Dynamic queries into the database are pretty much non existent
e) Relations between documents??? Get real.
f) The UI system makes it a massive pain in the butt to get your formatting right.
However, despite all the whining Notes does not have such a bad UI. Not for DB work at least.
Point c) there is Notes's greatest strength and also greatest weakness. When the UI and Business logic are entwined it is very easy to buid quick one-off apps, and Notes really shines there.
On the other hand, writing a MAINTAINABLE app is a definite no-go.
Notes does haveother strengths
a) Disconnected database replicas are really really good
b) the Java/CORBA integration for external calls is very well implemented. It just works.
c) The UI is pretty ok when you have to deal with lots of documents (except you cannot click on a category header to select all the docs in it)
So it's a pro-con thing
Been there, done that. Then you have to hunt for one on EBay. NOW. Ask the seller to send it via hand-delivered overnight courier. NOW. For $200 extra.
And the controller that got wasted had its RAID config stored in NVRAM and not on the disks... And your predecessor did not write it down somewhere... Which makes the new controller useless....
Fortunately switching NVRAM chips works. Never been glad to see NT 4.0 boot in my life, except for that one single day.
True. The Keyboard does have a USB hub built in. And annoyingly, its a USB 1.0 Hub, not 2.0 so rather useless for pretty much anything short of a mouse these days.
Backups are neede for 4 reasons:
a) A fire destroyed the building and everyone in it.
b) The computer was fried and took the entire raid stack with it or the RAID controller card got fried (happened to me once)
c) The disk crashed
d) Oh my god I trashed the file cause Mary was working with it at the same time and gee we are confused and where is the file now you IT idiot!!!??
RAID covers c)
d) on the other hand, is by FAR the most prevalent case and, quite frankly RAID does zilch, zero, nuthin and jack-sh*t to cover that. That is why RAID is not a backup.
b) Is covered by external backups such as Tape/DVD/Holo/Printouts
a) Is covered by OFFSITE backups.
Lots of people get into the non-profit sector thinking its not business, and without adequate budgetary and fiscal discipline.
Sigh.
No joke there...
I work at a non-profit NGO. It has it upsides, but managers who think they can do whatever thy please because they are "saving the world" (that was a quote) is truly amazing. So the upsides are about to become one long row of downsides.
Is there any good reason why the ENTIRE CSsmust alwaysbe declarative? While I am the first to state that declarative specification usually beats the procedural way (say float:right; width:50; instead of left: (windows-width - 50) or something like that).
However, declarative systems very often lead to a lot of intellectual masturbation to get some really "nifty" way of getting things just so simply case trust the computer is not always a good idea. Especially since computers tend to use different algorithns to translate the declarations into a real screen layout. While some geeks find the intellectual masturbation stimulating, quite frankly it wastes my time. Sometime I really just want to tell the damn thing that I want the box 70 - window-width and get on with it. After all, if I can write a JSP page I can presumably figure out something like that. Instead, I have to consult 6 websites on the l33t way to do a 3 column layout.
So my question is: Any ideas on making CSS a bit more procedural? Just for the cases where the computer screws up?
It would also be able to tell you exactly in which aisle on the floor you get the stuff you want, what it costs, and suggest alternatives in other the stores on the planet.
An option to view a picture would be there too.
One thing that irks me about CSS is that all the hot CSS sites tend to look the same: They have a fixed width column in the middle and padding on the sides. This is not because it is aesthetically better, its because CSS makes it hell to do some kinds of layout differently. So now the very real limitations of CSS layout is forcing a very real change in they way many websites look. And the new way is quite limiting.
And lets not talk about all the flashy CSS hacks to get it to work in most modern browsers the same way. None of that crap with tables.
CSS is a good idea that needs a few extensions to make it really useful.
Illiad doea not need an excuse. He owes you or some fuzzy community of fanatics nothing. He can do his work in whatever program he goddamn pleases.
In pregnant women, Rubella also causes serious defects in the unborn child.
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In South Africa girls at immunized against it but not boys.
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I'll love you till the day I die
I'll count you as my hero
My love exceeds 1 over y
As y approaches zero
Don't laugh. Branson was once complaining about Virgin Olive Oil with some company until the courts told him that he does not have copyright on the word Virgin.
The Economist with their dry humour suggested that we reclassify olive oils as Normal and Deflowered.
The whole red-green thing is an interesting issue though. A problem with environimentalist orgs even the very scientific ones are that they tend to get taken over by very leftwing types. I have worked at one for 10 years and seen this. I cannot quite say why but it has to do with a similar mentality of us-vs-them and needing an issue to use to live out a persecution complex.