Yeah - and next on the list is Nike. Some guy at RIAA apparently found out that his neighbors kids wears Nike sneakers when swapping disks at school. So Nike is actively manufacturing the tools for a p2p network too.
No one can write anything but a dirty hack in VBA, it _just isn't possible_!
This is SOOO wrong. Bad developers write bad code in VBA (and any other language), good developers write good code in VBA (and any other language). All VBA does is make bad developers out of people having no business coding in the first place because is't so accesible, but their code would be just as awful in any other language.
All you should need is a clean, open API into your business logic which should be destinct from the application suite and centralised for version control and efficiency, which can then hook into a _real_ database for data security and integrity. None of this half assed scripting rubbish that so many people get away with, even for enterprise applications:o(
Scripting is good for (at least) one thing - to act as "glue" between the business logic API you describe (and I agree there should be one), and the user interface. Look at ASP or PHP - they both provide wonderful vehicles for doing "gluing" of business logic to web pages. Scripting is not necessarily bad, you know.
Does this mean that now we'll have motherboards with ISA, PCI, PCI Express (I know - they'll physically co-exist with PCI slots happily, but that doesn't alleviate the confusion to the !/. crowd) and AGPx1,2,4,8 (take your pick)? Any future motherboard that has ONLY PCI Express (this means no AGP slot, not 0 PCI slots) would be rightly considered to be less backwards compatible, and would therefore offer much less choice in terms of components, lowering its perceived market value. The perfect example here would be the seemingly impossible-to-kill ISA slot, that by any standard of geekdom should have been extinct by now. But many motherboards still have them - maybe because failure to do so would leave x% of customers unhappy and they don't want to take that risk? Anyway, I think the exact same thing will happen to PCI Express. It looks like a cool bus design with lots of speed, and I'd like to see a system with just one type of expansion bus, but unfortunately I don't see that coming.
I'd like to know how many times it fails before it manages to grasp the objects. If it fails, like, 50 times for each success, then I'm a lot less impressed. I saw the videos (server not slashdotted form where I sit), and the speed and precision with which the hand moves around is really impressive - sure hope this is for real. I've been doing some robot control software myself (trying to make it drive towards a moving target, using vision guidance) and that much simpler task was hard enough.
Using entry-level physics and math, 15000K/50 yields 300K - roughly 27 Celcius. What's to hate about 27 degrees Celcius? Maybe the guy wrote it on his Athlon powered desktop PC?
[snip]... and at that point an SMS costs around 5 to 10p (approx. 8 to 16c at current exchaneg[sic] rates)... [snip]
That much? Most carriers in my country offer SMS at 3c-5c a piece, and some even offer them for free, along with heavily subsidized handsets (routinely below $20 a piece for a moderately advanced model). Maybe that's the reason why everybody and his little sister uses SMS all the time. In schools, the passing of little handwritten notes has been completely taken over by sending SMS'es. With group sending capabilities and the incredible ability (and agility) to type messages at high speed on a tiny keyboard without looking, it's a HUGE hit with the teen and pre-teen crowd. An old fart like myself can hardly figure out where 'space' is on the damn tiny thing, but almost everyone under the age of 20 seems to have a sort of 'SMS-mode' in their hands. Not sure whether it's impressive or scary...
But have you noticed how advertising for cell phones has moved away from phone calls? Now it's color screens, multimedia/animations, digital cameras, polyphonic ringtones, embedded games etc that makes a selling. No one is really interested in whether it can reliably carry a phone call or send an SMS, because that's a given fact now. With the HUGE success of SMS, they're all scrambling to develop the next killer app for cell phones, and it'll be interesting to see what it is.
Well, if you want mouse gestures, you can always get StrokeIt. It adds mouse gestures to Windows as a whole. Essentially, it recognizes a gesture and performs a macro based on which gesture it was and which application is active. It can even do global gestures like close, minimize all, and restore all.
StrokeIt? StrokeIt?!! I would never EVER buy anything called StrokeIt, if there is even the slightest chance of my wife finding out I bought something called that.
No such luck - I work at an all-MS shop, and apart from the all-MS issue it's a great job.
At home I've got an old box running RedHat to play around with, so I get out of the clutches once in a while where *I* decide what gets to run on my machine...
I've applied my fair share of patches from MS, but lately I've become really nervous about doing so. I'm always thinking "what kind of DRM will they include in this one?". It's gotten to the point where I will NOT apply patches for anything but server products, and only reluctantly so. Call me paranoid if you wish, but I can't really shake that feeling. Hey MS, great way to promote security - making users reluctant to apply patches...
I guess the US has gotten used to having corporations possessing so much power that it's considered normal to wave it around like a plush toy.
You know - maybe they're just imitating the US government. It's kind of hard to condemn the corporations for doing just what the government does, IMHO. It still sucks, though.
Here in Denmark broadband is politically defined to mean anything faster than 1Mbps (or was that 500 kbps? Too lazy to look it up. Anyway it's only about tax rules when your employer supplies the connection to your home). It has nothing to do with broadband/baseband or anything, which is really how the average user thinks. Here on Slashdot, some of us know about stuff like band issues, but the vast majority of the population knows nothing about that. All they do is associate "broadband" with "quick". You may argue about how sad that is, but there you have it. Now get over it.
is returning BETTER hits than Google. I don't really care about cluttered interfaces and stuff like that, if it returns a high quality set of links. So far, I have seen nothing to indicate anyone beating Google at that game. Better semi-automatic meta-data handling would be really cool - imagine searching for, say, programming related stuff and being able to indicate this in your search, and have it actually work!
All carbon is slightly radioactive, which is how carbon-dating works; when you burn coal by the truckload, all the little bits add up to more than the small amount of uranium used in fission plants
No it's not - a small fraction of carbon is radioactive (it's called C14, if memory serves correctly, and THAT's used for carbon-dating), but the majority of carbon is C12, which is NOT radioactive.
By having it somehow related to the mood of a woman. Everyone knows that THAT it completely unpredictable. But, that would require the woman to somehow enter her mood, and perhaps that requires predictability? [Mind boggles over possibly infinite recursion]. Oh well...
And here I thought all of their garbage came on CD
No, most of their *REAL* garbage comes out of the politicians they've bought over the years. That would probably be on Legal Paper I guess, but (hopefully!) not on CD.
I'm all for using XHTML, and have been doing so for at least a year now. Mostly the Transitional part, but it's still XHTML. However, these new standards are being defined much too fast for the real world to catch up. Backwards compatibility will really go away with 2.0, so it will be YEARS until major sites are fully compliant.
Might I suggest that the focus move to stuff like, say, SOAP? It's a good little proposal, but the W3C moves SOOOO slowly there that Microsoft and other large companies just go ahead and implement their own extensions, which will then find their way into the standards later - much like the chaos that was HTML 3.2 (shudder!). The end result? Crappy standards, to the detriment of most of us.
So if anyone from the W3C happens to be reading this (not likely, I know), *PLEASE* focus your energy on where the action is *AT THE MOMENT*.
Just because it rained when I was in belgium does not mean it always rains in belgium.
You're quite right - that's an honour reserved for Great Britain.
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The way modern diesel engines get their great performance AND fuel economy at the same time, is through a fuel delivery system called common rail. I'm no expert in this area, but it supposedly means direct injection of diesel fuel at a pressure of ~1500 bar. Now that's a whole lot of pressure, so it depends on a steady supply of high quality diesel to function. So DON'T allow a common railer to run out of gas - it can seriously damage the engine. Apparently small fragments of metal gets torn of the common rail system, and sucked into the engine itself, creating a world of problems to moving parts in there.
These days, all car manufacturer serious about selling cars in Europe have some variant of common rail diesel engines in their product lines. These babies sell like hot cakes and quite deservedly so, IMHO.
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Yeah - and next on the list is Nike. Some guy at RIAA apparently found out that his neighbors kids wears Nike sneakers when swapping disks at school. So Nike is actively manufacturing the tools for a p2p network too.
No one can write anything but a dirty hack in VBA, it _just isn't possible_!
This is SOOO wrong. Bad developers write bad code in VBA (and any other language), good developers write good code in VBA (and any other language). All VBA does is make bad developers out of people having no business coding in the first place because is't so accesible, but their code would be just as awful in any other language.
All you should need is a clean, open API into your business logic which should be destinct from the application suite and centralised for version control and efficiency, which can then hook into a _real_ database for data security and integrity. None of this half assed scripting rubbish that so many people get away with, even for enterprise applications :o(
Scripting is good for (at least) one thing - to act as "glue" between the business logic API you describe (and I agree there should be one), and the user interface. Look at ASP or PHP - they both provide wonderful vehicles for doing "gluing" of business logic to web pages. Scripting is not necessarily bad, you know.
It's called a Lexmark, and it does lots of random movements with my paper...
As cheesy a plot as flying to Niue to spam from a secret cave hideout might be, it's an idea that 10 seconds of thought would reject.
Agreed - but that doesn't mean Hollywood won't do it anyway :-)
Does this mean that now we'll have motherboards with ISA, PCI, PCI Express (I know - they'll physically co-exist with PCI slots happily, but that doesn't alleviate the confusion to the !/. crowd) and AGPx1,2,4,8 (take your pick)? Any future motherboard that has ONLY PCI Express (this means no AGP slot, not 0 PCI slots) would be rightly considered to be less backwards compatible, and would therefore offer much less choice in terms of components, lowering its perceived market value. The perfect example here would be the seemingly impossible-to-kill ISA slot, that by any standard of geekdom should have been extinct by now. But many motherboards still have them - maybe because failure to do so would leave x% of customers unhappy and they don't want to take that risk?
Anyway, I think the exact same thing will happen to PCI Express. It looks like a cool bus design with lots of speed, and I'd like to see a system with just one type of expansion bus, but unfortunately I don't see that coming.
I'd like to know how many times it fails before it manages to grasp the objects. If it fails, like, 50 times for each success, then I'm a lot less impressed. I saw the videos (server not slashdotted form where I sit), and the speed and precision with which the hand moves around is really impressive - sure hope this is for real.
I've been doing some robot control software myself (trying to make it drive towards a moving target, using vision guidance) and that much simpler task was hard enough.
Hard to believe that a question devoid of basic Economics 101 would appear on Slashdot.
You're new here, aren't you?
Using entry-level physics and math, 15000K/50 yields 300K - roughly 27 Celcius. What's to hate about 27 degrees Celcius? Maybe the guy wrote it on his Athlon powered desktop PC?
How did parent get modded Funny?
[snip]... and at that point an SMS costs around 5 to 10p (approx. 8 to 16c at current exchaneg[sic] rates)... [snip]
That much? Most carriers in my country offer SMS at 3c-5c a piece, and some even offer them for free, along with heavily subsidized handsets (routinely below $20 a piece for a moderately advanced model). Maybe that's the reason why everybody and his little sister uses SMS all the time. In schools, the passing of little handwritten notes has been completely taken over by sending SMS'es. With group sending capabilities and the incredible ability (and agility) to type messages at high speed on a tiny keyboard without looking, it's a HUGE hit with the teen and pre-teen crowd. An old fart like myself can hardly figure out where 'space' is on the damn tiny thing, but almost everyone under the age of 20 seems to have a sort of 'SMS-mode' in their hands. Not sure whether it's impressive or scary...
But have you noticed how advertising for cell phones has moved away from phone calls? Now it's color screens, multimedia/animations, digital cameras, polyphonic ringtones, embedded games etc that makes a selling. No one is really interested in whether it can reliably carry a phone call or send an SMS, because that's a given fact now. With the HUGE success of SMS, they're all scrambling to develop the next killer app for cell phones, and it'll be interesting to see what it is.
Damn, where are my mod points now? The parent comment is one of the most insightful ones posted here in a LONG time...
Well, if you want mouse gestures, you can always get StrokeIt. It adds mouse gestures to Windows as a whole. Essentially, it recognizes a gesture and performs a macro based on which gesture it was and which application is active. It can even do global gestures like close, minimize all, and restore all.
StrokeIt? StrokeIt?!! I would never EVER buy anything called StrokeIt, if there is even the slightest chance of my wife finding out I bought something called that.
Yup - count me in. I had the same association to Turbo Vision within seconds.
No such luck - I work at an all-MS shop, and apart from the all-MS issue it's a great job.
At home I've got an old box running RedHat to play around with, so I get out of the clutches once in a while where *I* decide what gets to run on my machine...
I've applied my fair share of patches from MS, but lately I've become really nervous about doing so. I'm always thinking "what kind of DRM will they include in this one?". It's gotten to the point where I will NOT apply patches for anything but server products, and only reluctantly so. Call me paranoid if you wish, but I can't really shake that feeling. Hey MS, great way to promote security - making users reluctant to apply patches...
I guess the US has gotten used to having corporations possessing so much power that it's considered normal to wave it around like a plush toy.
You know - maybe they're just imitating the US government. It's kind of hard to condemn the corporations for doing just what the government does, IMHO. It still sucks, though.
Here in Denmark broadband is politically defined to mean anything faster than 1Mbps (or was that 500 kbps? Too lazy to look it up. Anyway it's only about tax rules when your employer supplies the connection to your home). It has nothing to do with broadband/baseband or anything, which is really how the average user thinks. Here on Slashdot, some of us know about stuff like band issues, but the vast majority of the population knows nothing about that. All they do is associate "broadband" with "quick". You may argue about how sad that is, but there you have it. Now get over it.
is returning BETTER hits than Google. I don't really care about cluttered interfaces and stuff like that, if it returns a high quality set of links. So far, I have seen nothing to indicate anyone beating Google at that game. Better semi-automatic meta-data handling would be really cool - imagine searching for, say, programming related stuff and being able to indicate this in your search, and have it actually work!
I thought it meant Foul Language Instruction Word...
All carbon is slightly radioactive, which is how carbon-dating works; when you burn coal by the truckload, all the little bits add up to more than the small amount of uranium used in fission plants
No it's not - a small fraction of carbon is radioactive (it's called C14, if memory serves correctly, and THAT's used for carbon-dating), but the majority of carbon is C12, which is NOT radioactive.
Other than that - good comment
Will their WiFi uplink connection be as fat as their "food"?
By having it somehow related to the mood of a woman. Everyone knows that THAT it completely unpredictable. But, that would require the woman to somehow enter her mood, and perhaps that requires predictability? [Mind boggles over possibly infinite recursion]. Oh well...
And here I thought all of their garbage came on CD
No, most of their *REAL* garbage comes out of the politicians they've bought over the years. That would probably be on Legal Paper I guess, but (hopefully!) not on CD.
I'm all for using XHTML, and have been doing so for at least a year now. Mostly the Transitional part, but it's still XHTML. However, these new standards are being defined much too fast for the real world to catch up. Backwards compatibility will really go away with 2.0, so it will be YEARS until major sites are fully compliant.
Might I suggest that the focus move to stuff like, say, SOAP? It's a good little proposal, but the W3C moves SOOOO slowly there that Microsoft and other large companies just go ahead and implement their own extensions, which will then find their way into the standards later - much like the chaos that was HTML 3.2 (shudder!). The end result? Crappy standards, to the detriment of most of us.
So if anyone from the W3C happens to be reading this (not likely, I know), *PLEASE* focus your energy on where the action is *AT THE MOMENT*.
Just because it rained when I was in belgium does not mean it always rains in belgium.
You're quite right - that's an honour reserved for Great Britain.
The way modern diesel engines get their great performance AND fuel economy at the same time, is through a fuel delivery system called common rail. I'm no expert in this area, but it supposedly means direct injection of diesel fuel at a pressure of ~1500 bar. Now that's a whole lot of pressure, so it depends on a steady supply of high quality diesel to function. So DON'T allow a common railer to run out of gas - it can seriously damage the engine. Apparently small fragments of metal gets torn of the common rail system, and sucked into the engine itself, creating a world of problems to moving parts in there.
These days, all car manufacturer serious about selling cars in Europe have some variant of common rail diesel engines in their product lines. These babies sell like hot cakes and quite deservedly so, IMHO.