Yellow Smarties have same health qualities as red Smarties.
Why is there this weird upsurge in news reports appearing surprised at the bleeding obvious? Apparently, charging for university tuition means only the rich can afford to educate their children. Shock! Horror! Hold the front page!
Eating lard makes you fat!
Smoking is bad for you!
Pope is Catholic!
(etc).
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Let's put it like this: Since we migrated our software to GTK, the free support I've had from the GTK mailing list has been head and shoulders above any "support" I ever had from Trolltech, and that was when we were paying them.
Obviously you are a happy camper, and I'm pleased, and I'm even more pleased that you never ended up in the situation we did where the "guarantee that someone is going to answer" failed to materialise.
The tuth is, paying Trolltech only ever increased your chances of getting a decent answer, it never guaranteed it.
The happy situation now is that they can carry on providing the same crappy, random, non-deterministic, substandard, unhelpful "support" as they have been doing all along, but now they won't be charging through the nose for it.
Which can only be good.
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Whilst being very good at code and generally geekery, Trolltech are total rubbish at the support game, leaving paying developers (i.e. me a few years ago) feeling massively shafted when being told "here's the code, fix it yourself". WTF am I paying for If I have to not only find your bugs, but fix them as well?
Now everything is back as it should be - free code and no support, the way God intended.
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That'll be because music uses sharps (i.e. unicode symbol 266F) rather than octothorpes (unicode 0023)
E followed by unicode 266F is indeed E sharp E followed by unicode 0023 is E-octothorpe.
Foctothorpe FTW
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I am a sad case and find much amusement in the fact that the "correct" name for the # symbol is octothorpe, which means "C#" should not be pronounced "C-sharp" but Coctothorpe.
Imagine my joy on discovering that they've scoured the alphabet and have managed to find a new initial letter that makes an even funnier name.
Ladies and gentlemen, let us welcome the new language, F# or Foctothorpe.
I don't think that it's Google that is wrong, everyone else is.
They admit their software is shonky load of old arse - hence the beta tag.
How often have you bought a piece of supposedly "finished" software only to find out it is absolute dreck? It's the companies that sell those bits of beta software as if they are proper products that deserve our scorn, rather than Google who are trying to be honest about what they are distributing.
If you think anyone is "anti-business" then you probably have a flawed idea of what "business" means.
It is not a single cohesive thing, you can't look at a something and say "that's business" or something else and say "that's not business". It pervades and influences everything, a bit like the force, except not always good.
Ask these techies "Do you like getting paid?" They will say "Yes" and that is part of "business"
Ask them "Do you want to produce good products?" They will say "Yes" and that is part of "business"
On the other hand ask them to follow some half-arsed "business" process that you've read about in a book and they may well tell you where to go.
The fact that they are disagreeing with you doesn't mean they are anti-business, it means they are anti-you.
I'm always a bit uneasy when I see people writing about "modelling with maths". It strikes me that that is like discussing "talking with words".
If you're not "modelling with maths" then you're modelling with something else (astrology? guesswork? religon?) and what you're going to end up with is mmmmemmemmmememmmememem
(that's meant to be a text representation of someone trying to talk without words)
Just because most recruitment consultants are rubbish, doesn't mean all of them are.
Find one with a reputation and use them.
I'm basically thinking of http://www.ecmselection.co.uk/ here, they won't accept you as a client (on either side of the deal) if you're not very good, so companies *know* that they are are not going to be sent any poor candidates, and candidates *know* they are going to be sent to decent companies with decent jobs for decent salaries. Everyone's a winner.
Just out of interest, does anyone know where I can get a TV with a hard disk in it in the UK? Trying to search for "TV with HD" gives me a load of High Definition silliness.
The only one I've managed to find is one from LG that costs £1700. I want one for £500 (tops)
In contrast to a load of the posts here, I am absolutely cock-a-hoop with this. After having my needs in laptopery ignored for years, someone has finally made a laptop that is basically exactly what I want. No useless DVD drive, no stupid sockets (This Thinkpad I'm using now has a parallel port, FFS), no stupid replaceable battery, a full size keyboard, a decent screen, very low weight, fast processor, good HD and a reasonable amount of RAM.
Well done Apple.
The only thing that is a bit silly is the camera and I'll need to see one after its been dropped on the floor before I'll actually shell out.
Has anyone got a link to an English version of the article? Or can give a few hints about what "snowed" means or why he seems to be talking about cooking crows?
The first thing you do when you come across an online journal demanding cash is to check the author's home page. They very often have the paper for free download.
I'm guessing that pretty much everyone who wants to read this paper will have (at least) that level of nouse, so those jokers at the journal will not get any money. No harm no foul.
On the other hand, the slow *will* pay the cash and will get stung, but if we're going to try and stop this sort of thing there are much bigger, lower hanging fruit i.e. shampoo salesmen (pentapeptides, my arse).
Why is this candidate "bad" because he interprets a piece of marketing twaddle (i.e. the name of C#) in a different way from Bill?
Round here we (mostly) purposefully call things the wrong name, usually as an exclusive in-joke because we all really know what the real term is meant to be. This includes Giga- pronounced "jigga-" and internet called "interweb" or "interwebnets". My favourite is referring to C# as "coctothorpe" as the proper name for the # symbol is octothorpe. I also used to call C++ "C double plus" as "plus plus" just sounds so ugly (and I'd just finished reading 1984 when I started programming).
This candidate may be useless for other reasons (and it looks like he is), but calling a silly programming language with a silly name something silly shouldn't be held against him.
Bang on, and connects with something I've been wondering about for a while.
Is anyone thinking about how to make an age proof system for the interweb? Obviously some things require you to be above a certain age to access (and we all know what that is), but there's also things like this that require proof the other way.
I have no idea how as to even begin to think about how to devise such a system but I hope someone out there is.
The only evidence you have for saying these people are dumb is that they failed to understand the questioners explanations.
and that's pretty much the whole point. It is a stated part of the problem that these managers have been proved to be wrong in the past. My "evidence" is the statement that these people have failed to understand the poster, and have made the wrong decision. Now, surely, after the dust had settled, if they had any sense, they'd compare what had happened with what the poster had advised. They would realise (if they hadn't realised before) that they hadn't understood what the poster had said and that they were financially out of pocket.
I am working from the assumption (based on the wording of the original post) that these things had come to pass and that, instead of doing what anyone with a brain would have done ("Hey, this weirdo was right, but I couldn't understand a word he said last time. Maybe next time I'll make the effort to understand him") they have taken the easier part ("My lack of understanding is his fault, I'll let him sort it out")
People don't understand things. This is a given. The part that differentiates whether they are dullards or not is how they deal with thier ignorance. Dullards ignore it and carry on. Non-dullards make the effort to fix thier ignorance, they ask more questions, they do some research.
Also, one thing implicit in all of this discussion is that there is some difference between "non-technical" people and "technical" people (which was sort of what I was saying with my first line). There (obviously) is no correlation between stupidity and technical ability, it is a 4-section contingency diagram: stupid-techies, clever-techies, stupid-non-techies, clever-non-techies. The poster seems to think that his overlords can't understand him because they are "non-techies" which serious misreading of the situation and usually leads to silliness. Their lack of understanding has nothing to do with their education (or "techie-ness") and everything to do with them not listening to someone they pay (where "not listening" doesn't just imply "not taking his advice" but "not realising they don't understand him") It is not because they are "non-techies" its because they are dullards.
There may be perfectly logical (from the PHBs point of view) arguments in favour of ignoring it, or they could be receiving differing advice form another source.
If there are "perfectly logical" reasons that cause you to make the wrong decision then they should not be trusted. In my experience, managers hidden variable decision tree very rarely has any logic in it and usually includes the sort of "reasoning" explemiefd in my post. "I like blue, we'll have the blue one", "Dave has got one of product A, I'll buy that", "Product B is Microsoft, I'll buy that". The reason they get away with this is that their decision trees very closely match the decision trees of general Big brother watching, gum chewing, people on the street. i.e. their ultimate customers.
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Yellow Smarties have same health qualities as red Smarties.
Why is there this weird upsurge in news reports appearing surprised at the bleeding obvious? Apparently, charging for university tuition means only the rich can afford to educate their children. Shock! Horror! Hold the front page!
Eating lard makes you fat!
Smoking is bad for you!
Pope is Catholic!
(etc).
Let's put it like this: Since we migrated our software to GTK, the free support I've had from the GTK mailing list has been head and shoulders above any "support" I ever had from Trolltech, and that was when we were paying them.
Obviously you are a happy camper, and I'm pleased, and I'm even more pleased that you never ended up in the situation we did where the "guarantee that someone is going to answer" failed to materialise.
The tuth is, paying Trolltech only ever increased your chances of getting a decent answer, it never guaranteed it.
The happy situation now is that they can carry on providing the same crappy, random, non-deterministic, substandard, unhelpful "support" as they have been doing all along, but now they won't be charging through the nose for it.
Which can only be good.
Whilst being very good at code and generally geekery, Trolltech are total rubbish at the support game, leaving paying developers (i.e. me a few years ago) feeling massively shafted when being told "here's the code, fix it yourself". WTF am I paying for If I have to not only find your bugs, but fix them as well?
Now everything is back as it should be - free code and no support, the way God intended.
That'll be because music uses sharps (i.e. unicode symbol 266F) rather than octothorpes (unicode 0023)
E followed by unicode 266F is indeed E sharp
E followed by unicode 0023 is E-octothorpe.
I am a sad case and find much amusement in the fact that the "correct" name for the # symbol is octothorpe, which means "C#" should not be pronounced "C-sharp" but Coctothorpe.
Imagine my joy on discovering that they've scoured the alphabet and have managed to find a new initial letter that makes an even funnier name.
Ladies and gentlemen, let us welcome the new language, F# or Foctothorpe.
I don't think that it's Google that is wrong, everyone else is.
They admit their software is shonky load of old arse - hence the beta tag.
How often have you bought a piece of supposedly "finished" software only to find out it is absolute dreck? It's the companies that sell those bits of beta software as if they are proper products that deserve our scorn, rather than Google who are trying to be honest about what they are distributing.
If you think anyone is "anti-business" then you probably have a flawed idea of what "business" means.
It is not a single cohesive thing, you can't look at a something and say "that's business" or something else and say "that's not business". It pervades and influences everything, a bit like the force, except not always good.
Ask these techies "Do you like getting paid?" They will say "Yes" and that is part of "business"
Ask them "Do you want to produce good products?" They will say "Yes" and that is part of "business"
On the other hand ask them to follow some half-arsed "business" process that you've read about in a book and they may well tell you where to go.
The fact that they are disagreeing with you doesn't mean they are anti-business, it means they are anti-you.
I'm always a bit uneasy when I see people writing about "modelling with maths". It strikes me that that is like discussing "talking with words".
If you're not "modelling with maths" then you're modelling with something else (astrology? guesswork? religon?) and what you're going to end up with is mmmmemmemmmememmmememem
(that's meant to be a text representation of someone trying to talk without words)
I was about to ask how encrypting the data is going help secure against "loss".
Obviously, if the disk goes bad, the data is lost, irrespective of whether it's encrypted or not.
But if it is all "backed up" by the NSA then that explains their marketing claim.
http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/
Just because most recruitment consultants are rubbish, doesn't mean all of them are.
Find one with a reputation and use them.
I'm basically thinking of http://www.ecmselection.co.uk/ here, they won't accept you as a client (on either side of the deal) if you're not very good, so companies *know* that they are are not going to be sent any poor candidates, and candidates *know* they are going to be sent to decent companies with decent jobs for decent salaries. Everyone's a winner.
".. as many as one-third of American teens regularly post inappropriate language or manipulated images on the Web"
What the hell are the other two thirds doing?
>> * Self closed tags can't have a space between the slash and bracket
My reading of this http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/ (especially production 44) was that the slash and the bracket *MUST* be together.
Jokes aside, what would be the point of a "low quality" copy?
"Well, its quite a good copy, only 4% of the bits are wrong."
If it's not 100% bit-for-bit accurate, it's a chocolate tea pot.
If you want DRM then you have fundamentally misunderstood how (and why) computers and the internet work.
I suggest a career change to advertising.
Just out of interest, does anyone know where I can get a TV with a hard disk in it in the UK? Trying to search for "TV with HD" gives me a load of High Definition silliness.
The only one I've managed to find is one from LG that costs £1700. I want one for £500 (tops)
In contrast to a load of the posts here, I am absolutely cock-a-hoop with this. After having my needs in laptopery ignored for years, someone has finally made a laptop that is basically exactly what I want. No useless DVD drive, no stupid sockets (This Thinkpad I'm using now has a parallel port, FFS), no stupid replaceable battery, a full size keyboard, a decent screen, very low weight, fast processor, good HD and a reasonable amount of RAM.
Well done Apple.
The only thing that is a bit silly is the camera and I'll need to see one after its been dropped on the floor before I'll actually shell out.
Thanks,
I can now appreciate that these are all perfectly cromulent phrases. Do you have any references to their etymology?
Has anyone got a link to an English version of the article? Or can give a few hints about what "snowed" means or why he seems to be talking about cooking crows?
Bzzt!
> 700 joules per second per hour per day
No, 700 joules per second times hours. i.e. energy per time multiplied by time = energy
A watt-hour is a unit of energy just a a joule is, except its a bit clearer how it relates to other quantities.
And calculating average outputs over a time period where the out put fluctuates wildly is a bit silly.
The first thing you do when you come across an online journal demanding cash is to check the author's home page. They very often have the paper for free download.
I'm guessing that pretty much everyone who wants to read this paper will have (at least) that level of nouse, so those jokers at the journal will not get any money. No harm no foul.
On the other hand, the slow *will* pay the cash and will get stung, but if we're going to try and stop this sort of thing there are much bigger, lower hanging fruit i.e. shampoo salesmen (pentapeptides, my arse).
That's a weird article.
Why is this candidate "bad" because he interprets a piece of marketing twaddle (i.e. the name of C#) in a different way from Bill?
Round here we (mostly) purposefully call things the wrong name, usually as an exclusive in-joke because we all really know what the real term is meant to be. This includes Giga- pronounced "jigga-" and internet called "interweb" or "interwebnets". My favourite is referring to C# as "coctothorpe" as the proper name for the # symbol is octothorpe. I also used to call C++ "C double plus" as "plus plus" just sounds so ugly (and I'd just finished reading 1984 when I started programming).
This candidate may be useless for other reasons (and it looks like he is), but calling a silly programming language with a silly name something silly shouldn't be held against him.
They're also not responsible for traffic congestion, the state of my shoes or the colour of aubergines.
In fact the number of things that they don't do is almost infinite.
Bang on, and connects with something I've been wondering about for a while.
Is anyone thinking about how to make an age proof system for the interweb? Obviously some things require you to be above a certain age to access (and we all know what that is), but there's also things like this that require proof the other way.
I have no idea how as to even begin to think about how to devise such a system but I hope someone out there is.
Good. See you can write sensibly if you try.
The only evidence you have for saying these people are dumb is that they failed to understand the questioners explanations.
and that's pretty much the whole point. It is a stated part of the problem that these managers have been proved to be wrong in the past. My "evidence" is the statement that these people have failed to understand the poster, and have made the wrong decision. Now, surely, after the dust had settled, if they had any sense, they'd compare what had happened with what the poster had advised. They would realise (if they hadn't realised before) that they hadn't understood what the poster had said and that they were financially out of pocket.
I am working from the assumption (based on the wording of the original post) that these things had come to pass and that, instead of doing what anyone with a brain would have done ("Hey, this weirdo was right, but I couldn't understand a word he said last time. Maybe next time I'll make the effort to understand him") they have taken the easier part ("My lack of understanding is his fault, I'll let him sort it out")
People don't understand things. This is a given. The part that differentiates whether they are dullards or not is how they deal with thier ignorance. Dullards ignore it and carry on. Non-dullards make the effort to fix thier ignorance, they ask more questions, they do some research.
Also, one thing implicit in all of this discussion is that there is some difference between "non-technical" people and "technical" people (which was sort of what I was saying with my first line). There (obviously) is no correlation between stupidity and technical ability, it is a 4-section contingency diagram: stupid-techies, clever-techies, stupid-non-techies, clever-non-techies. The poster seems to think that his overlords can't understand him because they are "non-techies" which serious misreading of the situation and usually leads to silliness. Their lack of understanding has nothing to do with their education (or "techie-ness") and everything to do with them not listening to someone they pay (where "not listening" doesn't just imply "not taking his advice" but "not realising they don't understand him") It is not because they are "non-techies" its because they are dullards.
There may be perfectly logical (from the PHBs point of view) arguments in favour of ignoring it, or they could be receiving differing advice form another source.
If there are "perfectly logical" reasons that cause you to make the wrong decision then they should not be trusted. In my experience, managers hidden variable decision tree very rarely has any logic in it and usually includes the sort of "reasoning" explemiefd in my post. "I like blue, we'll have the blue one", "Dave has got one of product A, I'll buy that", "Product B is Microsoft, I'll buy that". The reason they get away with this is that their decision trees very closely match the decision trees of general Big brother watching, gum chewing, people on the street. i.e. their ultimate customers.