Hmm. I can maybe see that if you're wandering around with a bottle of Smirnoff on your mitt swigging it, but checking cans of coke? Furrfu. I'm still hoping the original poster was exaggerating.
> They come and check to see if you've slipped > something alcoholic in it.
I don't get this bit. Even if you have, what business is it of theirs if you want to get gently sloshed during the day? Surely that's your own problem.
>I am really starting to hate what this country is >becoming. Is it any better over your side of the >pond?
The US is ahead of us in this regard - they already have the chips implanted in library books, according to the article. Looking at the comments, most people don't seem to have read down that far, though.
(Which is a site that everyone should read before doing UI stuff.)
Sample of one of the "best" bits:
Judging from the number of visitors who have mentioned it, the process of copying messages in Notes is perhaps its worst interface "feature". Apparently, when mail messages are copied from one folder to another, the message itself is not copied; Notes creates a "reference" to the message. Unbeknownst to the user, if you delete the reference, Notes will in turn delete the message itself. Similarly, deleting the message will cause all references to it to also be deleted.
The problem is that when you're used to a client which functions far better than the Gnutella network allows - downloading from multiple sources, searching for artists, albums, etc, browsing user files - then trying to use Gnutella is just painful. And that's even before you get to the Gnutella-over-modem problem.
Speaking for myself, I did try the new Morpheus client. I then ditched it, because it's basically lost all the good features I wanted from Morpheus instead of just using a basic Gnut client, and I now use Kazaa instead. Somewhat less people on there at present, but even then it's far preferable to the alternative IMO.
They could be semi-right, in that they don't necessarily have to have given the address out. Depending on the account name, dictionary-attacks by the spammers would find it sooner or later, and they're doing those pretty much all the time.
What the subject says. I think, as a couple of other people have said, we really only tend to hear from people with complaints. So I'm going to post a message for what I suspect is the silent majority.:-)
As someone who's used them quite a few times over the last 1-2 years to pay for things, I've had no problems at all.
>This was bound to happen soon. You can only go
>so far with 28 bits, or whatever the original
>IDE has. LBA gave us some time, but harddisks
>must now go to ATAPI.
Er... check my other post in the thread. You don't have to go to ATAPI at all - ATA-6 has specs for LBA-48. I know this because I spent some time recently implementing them in a driver for the company I work at.
"Extended" LBA commands are part of the ATA-6 standard (or proposed standard, or whatever it's marked as today). They give 48-bit address spaces. I suspect Maxtor is using this; if not, hopefully it will be soon.
You have to *pay* to say that you don't want to receive junk calls? And that's seen as a good thing? Wow.:-)
Another option is just to go ex-directory, which is what my phone line is. Admittedly it's in the UK and I don't know how your phone directories work, but...
"Ximian CEO Nat Friedman was discussing the advertisements with Mr. Pour. They both agreed that the discord was counterproductive, and quickly reached an amicable resolution."
"Ximian will revise its advertisements on Google to eliminate the possibility of confusion, and will not create new advertising campaigns based on KDE-related keyword searches."
>I guess it all depends on what you're trying to
>convey from the site. If it's just a plain old
>artsy fartsy "Look at me, I'm naked and
>petrified" site, then cross-browser
Heh, I'd forgotten that particular troll(set).
>compatibility should be easy to implement and
>well worth the effort, but when it comes to
>efficient web applications,
Just curious here, what kind of web applications are you talking about? I can't think of any I use that require ActiveX or any of the other MS stuff (which is a good thing, since I have AX turned off).
I'm not quite sure why you have a full-time team administering VOBs etc. A properly setup environment will more or less run itself, acts of gods excluded. You need someone who knows details on hand for those minor things which always pop up, but there's no way it should require a full-time admin.
It's hard to recommend one or the other without having more details about your requirements. For example, will the repositories need to be available in more than one location, how many projects, what kind of data, what kind of *usage*, how many users, how much resource the company is willing to expend, etc.
For what it's worth, I'm currently responsible for the use of ClearCase in our division (not the installation etc., that's left to IT). (We/I'm trying to find someone to take over - I'm a developer, dammit!)
It does require more effort to set up initially, but once done it can be more or less left alone - a few hours a week is the most I've had to do to it in the last few months, IIRC. It's far more useful than CVS, at least IMO. I wouldn't want to try and switch us over, I don't think it would fly.:)
No, I don't test every possible combination. The test harnesses do cover a good subset of them, though, which is my point. We're not talking about testing every combination of input and conditions; a test harness should ideally take the program down each code-path, and you'd expect this kind of error to show up then. Certainly not after you've shipped it.
But, to make it clearer - yes, I agree that compile-time checking would be preferred, and cut down the time taken for testing. It was just the statement that it might occur after the app had been shipped which I was replying to.:)
>The main loser is Joe Sixpack, the hardworking, taxpaying investor who takes a bath because he doesn't know to get out of the
>stock while the getting's good. But it's probably his fault, since he doesn't really know enough about lunch to invest in it.
>He should know better than to listen to press releases and earnings reports on technology.
Yes. He should know better than to invest money he can't afford, onto the stock market (everything goes down as well as up), *especially* when he doesn't know much about the industry he's investing in. Bet he won't do it again, will he?
The people who buy the products the companies buying the ad-space are selling. Since I never buy anything from a banner ad or program ad, I effectively get it for free.
Since I don't like Opera anyway, it doesn't bother me, but something like Eudora Sponsored mode is a good thing.
>Half of which are text editors, the other half being mail, Usenet and IRC clients.
Or graphics programs, word-processing (latex, if you don't count staroffice etc.:), spreadsheets, a myriad of servers, audio programs (midi, wave, formatting, mp3), games (bit limited there I'll admit), databases, modelling, emulators, circuit designers and simulators.. you get the idea.
Some time ago it was mostly networking stuff, but it's expanded. I'm not saying they're all great, because obviously they can't be - but there's way more than the stuff you listed.
Slashdot Mirror
In, not on. Fool. That'll teach me to use preview.
Hmm. I can maybe see that if you're wandering around with a bottle of Smirnoff on your mitt swigging it, but checking cans of coke? Furrfu. I'm still hoping the original poster was exaggerating.
> They come and check to see if you've slipped
> something alcoholic in it.
I don't get this bit. Even if you have, what business is it of theirs if you want to get gently sloshed during the day? Surely that's your own problem.
>I am really starting to hate what this country is
>becoming. Is it any better over your side of the
>pond?
The US is ahead of us in this regard - they already have the chips implanted in library books, according to the article. Looking at the comments, most people don't seem to have read down that far, though.
I could list it all here, but it's much more efficient to just point people at:
http://www.iarchitect.com/lotus.htm
(Which is a site that everyone should read before doing UI stuff.)
Sample of one of the "best" bits:
Judging from the number of visitors who have mentioned it, the process of copying messages in Notes is perhaps its worst interface "feature". Apparently, when mail messages are copied from one folder to another, the message itself is not copied; Notes creates a "reference" to the message. Unbeknownst to the user, if you delete the reference, Notes will in turn delete the message itself. Similarly, deleting the message will cause all references to it to also be deleted.
The problem is that when you're used to a client which functions far better than the Gnutella network allows - downloading from multiple sources, searching for artists, albums, etc, browsing user files - then trying to use Gnutella is just painful. And that's even before you get to the Gnutella-over-modem problem.
Speaking for myself, I did try the new Morpheus client. I then ditched it, because it's basically lost all the good features I wanted from Morpheus instead of just using a basic Gnut client, and I now use Kazaa instead. Somewhat less people on there at present, but even then it's far preferable to the alternative IMO.
(Haven't tried Grokster yet.)
They could be semi-right, in that they don't necessarily have to have given the address out. Depending on the account name, dictionary-attacks by the spammers would find it sooner or later, and they're doing those pretty much all the time.
The UK branch seems to be more active than the others at present - http://uk.eurorights.org/
What the subject says. I think, as a couple of other people have said, we really only tend to hear from people with complaints. So I'm going to post a message for what I suspect is the silent majority. :-)
As someone who's used them quite a few times over the last 1-2 years to pay for things, I've had no problems at all.
If you can do that, then why not get the SSN for the people who founded companies which ask you for details like that?
When the checkout people ask you for your SSN, you give them that number. When it gets irritating enough, maybe the companies will stop...
>This was bound to happen soon. You can only go
... check my other post in the thread. You don't have to go to ATAPI at all - ATA-6 has specs for LBA-48. I know this because I spent some time recently implementing them in a driver for the company I work at.
>so far with 28 bits, or whatever the original
>IDE has. LBA gave us some time, but harddisks
>must now go to ATAPI.
Er
"Extended" LBA commands are part of the ATA-6 standard (or proposed standard, or whatever it's marked as today). They give 48-bit address spaces. I suspect Maxtor is using this; if not, hopefully it will be soon.
Hope that's helpful.
You have to *pay* to say that you don't want to receive junk calls? And that's seen as a good thing? Wow. :-)
Another option is just to go ex-directory, which is what my phone line is. Admittedly it's in the UK and I don't know how your phone directories work, but...
>Most were posted by the same crackpots who add X-No-Archive headers to their posts
:-)
Why does putting that on my posts make me a crackpot, exactly?
You forgot the update/resolution; see http://www.ximian.com/google.php3
Extracts:
"Ximian CEO Nat Friedman was discussing the advertisements with Mr. Pour. They both agreed that the discord was counterproductive, and quickly reached an amicable resolution."
"Ximian will revise its advertisements on Google to eliminate the possibility of confusion, and will not create new advertising campaigns based on KDE-related keyword searches."
> I think there is a Webmaster's guild somewhere.
There's the HTML Writer's Guild, http://www.hwg.org/ - they claim to have over 120,000 members, although how many are active is another matter.
>I guess it all depends on what you're trying to
>convey from the site. If it's just a plain old
>artsy fartsy "Look at me, I'm naked and
>petrified" site, then cross-browser
Heh, I'd forgotten that particular troll(set).
>compatibility should be easy to implement and
>well worth the effort, but when it comes to
>efficient web applications,
Just curious here, what kind of web applications are you talking about? I can't think of any I use that require ActiveX or any of the other MS stuff (which is a good thing, since I have AX turned off).
I'm not quite sure why you have a full-time team administering VOBs etc. A properly setup environment will more or less run itself, acts of gods excluded. You need someone who knows details on hand for those minor things which always pop up, but there's no way it should require a full-time admin.
It's hard to recommend one or the other without having more details about your requirements. For example, will the repositories need to be available in more than one location, how many projects, what kind of data, what kind of *usage*, how many users, how much resource the company is willing to expend, etc.
:)
For what it's worth, I'm currently responsible for the use of ClearCase in our division (not the installation etc., that's left to IT). (We/I'm trying to find someone to take over - I'm a developer, dammit!)
It does require more effort to set up initially, but once done it can be more or less left alone - a few hours a week is the most I've had to do to it in the last few months, IIRC. It's far more useful than CVS, at least IMO. I wouldn't want to try and switch us over, I don't think it would fly.
No, I don't test every possible combination. The test harnesses do cover a good subset of them, though, which is my point. We're not talking about testing every combination of input and conditions; a test harness should ideally take the program down each code-path, and you'd expect this kind of error to show up then. Certainly not after you've shipped it.
:)
But, to make it clearer - yes, I agree that compile-time checking would be preferred, and cut down the time taken for testing. It was just the statement that it might occur after the app had been shipped which I was replying to.
>The whole point was to have type-safety, and get compile-time errors,
... you do build and test your apps before you ship them, yeah? :-)
>instead of runtime error's which may occur after you shipped the product.
Er
>The main loser is Joe Sixpack, the hardworking, taxpaying investor who takes a bath because he doesn't know to get out of the
>stock while the getting's good. But it's probably his fault, since he doesn't really know enough about lunch to invest in it.
>He should know better than to listen to press releases and earnings reports on technology.
Yes. He should know better than to invest money he can't afford, onto the stock market (everything goes down as well as up), *especially* when he doesn't know much about the industry he's investing in. Bet he won't do it again, will he?
See? Evolution in action.
The people who buy the products the companies buying the ad-space are selling. Since I never buy anything from a banner ad or program ad, I effectively get it for free.
Since I don't like Opera anyway, it doesn't bother me, but something like Eudora Sponsored mode is a good thing.
>Half of which are text editors, the other half being mail, Usenet and IRC clients.
:), spreadsheets, a myriad of servers, audio programs (midi, wave, formatting, mp3), games (bit limited there I'll admit), databases, modelling, emulators, circuit designers and simulators .. you get the idea.
Or graphics programs, word-processing (latex, if you don't count staroffice etc.
Some time ago it was mostly networking stuff, but it's expanded. I'm not saying they're all great, because obviously they can't be - but there's way more than the stuff you listed.
You can do that - like Simon says, hold down shift when you right-click. You should get an "open with" on the context menu.