Deaths from terrorism (with the possible exception of state-sponsored terrorism by a government against its own people) have _always_ been low. You don't need to blow too many people into tiny, bloody fragments to make your point, after all. If you look carefully at what most governmants are currently doing about terrorism, about 99.9% of it is theatre (sky marshalls, increased airport security, shooting Brazillians wearing coats, hassling people of Middle Eastern origin, etc), and the only value it has is to make the sheeple feel that their government has their welfare at heart, and is actually doing something about the problem. (This is aided and abetted by the right-wing media.) It's analogous to saying, "Look! Over there!" as they pick your pocket.
Compare and contrast this with the efforts that governments put into real problems like climate change, pollution, overpopulation, road deaths, deaths due to smoking, deaths due to eating fatty foods,...
PCs weren't the problem. There was an enormous amount of code written in COBOL and various assembly languages which had been running on mainframes since the '60s with 2 digit years. THAT was the problem, and it could have been much more costly than the fix was.
I agree about Notes, but what's wrong with greenscreens (in their place)? Face it, most users don't deserve better and could do most of what they need to on a terminal anyway.
The worst thing I remember about using Notes (despite a lot of competition) was trying to remember how to change my fucking password. (We were afflicted with some idiot edict by a bunch of idiot fucking accountants/auditors from KPMG or somewhere mandating that we change our Windows password every few weeks, so I used to change every other password (well, they were all the same, and I liked to keep them in step) at the same time as well.) Fortunately, I can't remember the gruesome details any more, but it was a complete headfuck, because it was hidden in the wierdest place imaginable.
Why would anyone in their right mind buy it (unless they'd got an _awful_ lot of cocaine and blowjobs in the back of a limo)?
No, it isn't (unless it's changed significantly in the last 18 months).
I've never met anyone who liked using Notes. I think I met one bloke who quite liked developing Notes "applications", but maybe he was just saying that because that's what they paid him to do.
The wonderful folk who made the "Interface Hall of Shame" website stated that, if they'd found Notes before they built the site, they could have used it as their sole example of how not to do user interfaces.
> If you are only using it for email then you wasted your money.
If you bought it at all, you wasted your money.
I've worked at two different places that used it (and, yes, one of them used it as a kind of document management system as well as email), and I can't think of a single thing that it's any good for. Anything it does can be done significantly better by any number of other bits of software, and none of them (not even Oracle) has an interface that sucks as badly as Lotus Notes'.
I'm not going to waste my time looking at anything on Junk Science - the fact that a statement is made on that site is pretty much prima facie evidence that it's a lie.
In Australia we vote on Saturday, and there are always enough polling stations open for long enough that it's never more than about 30min wait (at least where I live). Also, it's compulsory to at least attend and get your name ticked on a copy of the electoral roll (and while you're there you may as well vote). The conservatives want to get rid of compulsory voting because, although it used to favour them (at which time they approved of it), now it favours what passes for the Left in Australia. I think it's a good idea - voting is an obligation, as well as a priviledge, of citizenship.
The Titanic wasn't actually _properly_ compartmentalised, as each compartment leaked at the top (unlike a number of properly compartmentalised ships built around the same time, which would have survived the iceberg).
We had a lab full of SG machines when I worked for the Geography Dept at Adelaide University about 10-12 years ago. They were sweet. _Really_ fast, and gorgeous graphics.
When I was a lad, I was taught to write up chemistry and physics experiments in the passive voice (to remove the observer from the scene, so to speak). While that can occasionally give rise to some pretty fractured sentences, it's not always, or necessarily, a bad thing.
That said, technical writing should always be clear and concise. Sometimes that means the writer must use a passive voice, and at other times an active voice.
In Australia, under most awards, we get 20 days plus public holidays (about 8-10, I think) paid leave each year, plus another 10 days paid sick leave. This is due to change (for the worse) pretty soon for many people, because of recent changes to our labour laws introduced by an anti-worker conservative government. (I don't understand why so many Australians have voted against their own best interests, but the government _is_ good at the Big Lie.)
Oh! Fuck! Maybe socialised medicine is ACTUALLY THE WAY TO GO!!! What a huge surprise. Oh, of course, along with a reasonable amount of paid holiday as well. Shit! Maybe a totally free (TM) labour market doesn't actually work, at least for people's health and well-being. And, let's face it folks, why else do we have an economy?
What I'd really like to know is how come the code even compiled if it was missing a closing parenthesis somewhere. None of mine ever does in that circumstance.
I agree - I quite like FORTRAN, although I sometimes get odd looks when I admit this. It's certainly possible to write really clean code if you take a disciplined approach.
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Deaths from terrorism (with the possible exception of state-sponsored terrorism by a government against its own people) have _always_ been low. You don't need to blow too many people into tiny, bloody fragments to make your point, after all. If you look carefully at what most governmants are currently doing about terrorism, about 99.9% of it is theatre (sky marshalls, increased airport security, shooting Brazillians wearing coats, hassling people of Middle Eastern origin, etc), and the only value it has is to make the sheeple feel that their government has their welfare at heart, and is actually doing something about the problem. (This is aided and abetted by the right-wing media.) It's analogous to saying, "Look! Over there!" as they pick your pocket.
...
Compare and contrast this with the efforts that governments put into real problems like climate change, pollution, overpopulation, road deaths, deaths due to smoking, deaths due to eating fatty foods,
PCs weren't the problem. There was an enormous amount of code written in COBOL and various assembly languages which had been running on mainframes since the '60s with 2 digit years. THAT was the problem, and it could have been much more costly than the fix was.
You _could_ argue that point, but you'd be wrong.
> ... gayness is well established in britain since Oscar Wilde.
Yeah, right. Obviously you've forgotten what happened to Alan Turing.
I don't think the buyer is homophobic, I just think he's justifiably angry at being ripped off.
You forgot about the duct tape.
Offsite backup.
Thank you for your input. The thing is, I don't care, because with luck and good management I'll never have to use Notes again.
I can't imagine anything that would make the Notes experience a good one. I'd rather poke out my eyes than work at another company that has Notes.
I agree about Notes, but what's wrong with greenscreens (in their place)? Face it, most users don't deserve better and could do most of what they need to on a terminal anyway.
He probably did try to learn it briefly, but the experience was so horrid he didn't care to repeat it. That, at least, is my experience with Notes.
And blaming users for the shortcomings of the software just won't do.
The worst thing I remember about using Notes (despite a lot of competition) was trying to remember how to change my fucking password. (We were afflicted with some idiot edict by a bunch of idiot fucking accountants/auditors from KPMG or somewhere mandating that we change our Windows password every few weeks, so I used to change every other password (well, they were all the same, and I liked to keep them in step) at the same time as well.) Fortunately, I can't remember the gruesome details any more, but it was a complete headfuck, because it was hidden in the wierdest place imaginable.
Why would anyone in their right mind buy it (unless they'd got an _awful_ lot of cocaine and blowjobs in the back of a limo)?
No, it isn't (unless it's changed significantly in the last 18 months).
I've never met anyone who liked using Notes. I think I met one bloke who quite liked developing Notes "applications", but maybe he was just saying that because that's what they paid him to do.
The wonderful folk who made the "Interface Hall of Shame" website stated that, if they'd found Notes before they built the site, they could have used it as their sole example of how not to do user interfaces.
> If you are only using it for email then you wasted your money.
If you bought it at all, you wasted your money.
I've worked at two different places that used it (and, yes, one of them used it as a kind of document management system as well as email), and I can't think of a single thing that it's any good for. Anything it does can be done significantly better by any number of other bits of software, and none of them (not even Oracle) has an interface that sucks as badly as Lotus Notes'.
I'm not going to waste my time looking at anything on Junk Science - the fact that a statement is made on that site is pretty much prima facie evidence that it's a lie.
In Australia we vote on Saturday, and there are always enough polling stations open for long enough that it's never more than about 30min wait (at least where I live). Also, it's compulsory to at least attend and get your name ticked on a copy of the electoral roll (and while you're there you may as well vote). The conservatives want to get rid of compulsory voting because, although it used to favour them (at which time they approved of it), now it favours what passes for the Left in Australia. I think it's a good idea - voting is an obligation, as well as a priviledge, of citizenship.
The Titanic wasn't actually _properly_ compartmentalised, as each compartment leaked at the top (unlike a number of properly compartmentalised ships built around the same time, which would have survived the iceberg).
Dunno that it was so quick.
We had a lab full of SG machines when I worked for the Geography Dept at Adelaide University about 10-12 years ago. They were sweet. _Really_ fast, and gorgeous graphics.
When I was a lad, I was taught to write up chemistry and physics experiments in the passive voice (to remove the observer from the scene, so to speak). While that can occasionally give rise to some pretty fractured sentences, it's not always, or necessarily, a bad thing.
That said, technical writing should always be clear and concise. Sometimes that means the writer must use a passive voice, and at other times an active voice.
You're new here, aren't you.
In Australia, under most awards, we get 20 days plus public holidays (about 8-10, I think) paid leave each year, plus another 10 days paid sick leave. This is due to change (for the worse) pretty soon for many people, because of recent changes to our labour laws introduced by an anti-worker conservative government. (I don't understand why so many Australians have voted against their own best interests, but the government _is_ good at the Big Lie.)
Just because they don't hide it, ,it doesn't rule out collusion.
We have an AMA (aka the Painters' and Doctors' Union) here in Australia as well.
Oh! Fuck! Maybe socialised medicine is ACTUALLY THE WAY TO GO!!! What a huge surprise. Oh, of course, along with a reasonable amount of paid holiday as well. Shit! Maybe a totally free (TM) labour market doesn't actually work, at least for people's health and well-being. And, let's face it folks, why else do we have an economy?
What I'd really like to know is how come the code even compiled if it was missing a closing parenthesis somewhere. None of mine ever does in that circumstance.
I agree - I quite like FORTRAN, although I sometimes get odd looks when I admit this. It's certainly possible to write really clean code if you take a disciplined approach.