Issues: 1) does not scroll smoothly or nicely 2) scrool is thought of 1/2 time as a cick - so off to storie no down to next page. 3) I do not what tracking by facebook or others on Slashdot site 4) pop overs are annoing specially when the X is to small to touch or acts like click. Touch interfaces need to big enough for touch! Fat fingers are fat fingers!
Do not worry about safe search it is broken too. I posted to Google a complaint that if you mispell the word COLD as COOLD it brings up X rated Amine even with SaveSearch ON.
Though I did find that Google does not page to enter complaints of there products. Just others using their products. (google+, Blogger,...)
What if each bomb was let of on the moon instead? Each boom moves the Moon a little faarther out, pulling the Earth with it. I may a few centruies but we could move better position.
Though if they all went of together, we have "Space 1999" with a Moon size interplanetary ship. Will take awhile to get anywhere but at least we would be traveling.
WAs rememinicing about Quake Lan parties ~15 years ago. With Thin Net running aroung the house... And being between beat over and over by a 5 yr on a 486dx33!
Now in my rocker, I can look forward to I can look forward to the same on a Raspberry PI and connected to big screen.
I been watching the button less ads of Caddie. All I can think if texting and using a phone in a car is bad... just using the car is getting worse. When will the auto makers start to be sued for their broken by design in-dash smart systems?
It's now almost 35 years ago, when I had to write date routines that spanned the year 2000 and only use 2 char year, and only use the same 5 nibbles of storage that the julain date was stored in, in the end that system could handle a ~250 year period it took about about 500 Bytes of size. Then I wrote a rouitne that in 13 nibbles handle that same time period got us down to 8ms ticks. We then used them every where in the system. It is not hard, just need to be tested.
Why are these bad coders still in the system, that can't do the simple math let alone simple testing.
With such poor standards as white space and curly braces, write a pretty routine to clean it up. One to convert to your standard and one to convert back to theirs.
I come for the world of 6 upper charter names names for fields/columns. There naming conventions mean something becuase every is abbrivated. We keep or stnadards on single sheet of paper to so that could be followed.
I do not have a degree in English. My wfie does, but does not try proof my writing any more, too many fights. I also have a hardtime with the language becuase I do not hear the differences in sounds of words like most people would have a hard time spelling to, too and two without "use" contect. But for me, I have that same problem many words like specific and Pacific. I use to leave on the west coast and if some says "go to Pacific." I would ask "Specific what?"
About proof reading, I proofed that first post for over 10 minutes. But I can not read what is written, my head fills in and fixes to what I "wrote". My wife as a "love" card/note from me, that say "Wish remain your face". I know I wrote more than that!
My favorite saying "English is my second language, I am still looking for a first." Made my college professor in English just crack up.
For me it was a chance to solicalized, to be long to group that was like me. Think, what others did in high school, I did post college.
I meet many different poeple, from guys to could not tie their shoes but could talk about Choas Theory for hours, to wonderful people who open their homes and their lifes to stranges that only had a card or newsletter annoucing an event.
Myself, I hosted a monthly movie "night" in my apartment. It started on first Friday of month and lasted until the last person left or Monday. Via that meet many people, including one that became my wife. My freinds in Mensa found out of our weddings plans when we both changed our addresses and my wfie to be changed her name on month newsletter. It was nice receive a hand written note congratlating us in each of our newsletters.
I left Mensa after I figured out that I out grew the it. I gradulate from that part of my life.
On a side note - since I also was at one time part of the management of the local group, membership was broken down to about 5-10-85 split. 5% wanted the membership to prove themselfs. They did want the newsletter or any assocation, just a proof of making it. 10% as active. The came to events, helped with fund raising and other programs. 85% getting the newsletter and reading it and filling it aaway. These were the ones we kept trying to join in with 10% - it took me almost 5 years to start going to events and meeting people and become found I liked being with the 10%.
I found the time enjoyable. I was traveling alot, and found events in other parts of world that I drop in on while killing a weekend in a city that I did not know. Oh, and in Slashdot fashion - my mom, while I as living at home, found the test weekend and suggested that I take it.
Used the freezer trick more than once, but I don't remove it from the freezer to try. I have a few LONG cables. Place the computer on top of fridge with long cables hanging out and into the freezer. Close door and wait, power up computer and read the drive. When I get all that is getable. I take a hammer to drive.
Make the USPS the handler of the sales tax system. They are already in position to id your house, down to the City, County, State and whether it is actually city, county, state, federal or other jurisdiction.
Since we already have laws that make the drive of the truck responsible for the items. Then make the carriers which include FedEx and UPS, be the collector, since they are persons handing the package to customer.
This way the calculation of tax, is part of address validation that all these systems use along with freight charges.
I suggested this and other ways of using VNC embedded hardware like this years ago. It will be great to have keyboard, mouse, video - hope they also add virtual CD/DVD or USB to get the machine loaded remotely.
It is shame that it maybe to late with VBLOCK and ESX system taking hold.
I love D Knuth and have read is sorting and searching book many time over, always finding good times.
SPEED does mater and so does SIZE and BANDWIDTH. It is important to design things right the first time versus loops and loops of daily optimization that must code is written in today. The understanding of record-locks, index optimization and other multiplexing methods are needed today. I see too much of sucking a 1+ million peaces into memory to find 1 item, "Because it is fast".
Yes this sounds like "get of my grass", but "fast and sloppy", is a waste on everyone's resources not just a single computer.
I guess you do not work with large databases and trying to find a person the first time NO MATTER how the name is spelled. It is just good customer service. with as your example an Irish person entering a Scottish name and vis-a-vers-a easily making a mistake.
Now add in German names with a beta symbol instead of a double s. The Greek with AE combo letter vs AE. And all the other punctuations from the French, German, and... That are NOT normally not on capitalized words.
I did hotel software for 20yrs, these are common problems for cross boarder travel. I wrote custom search and translation software to "fix" these issues so the guest service can shine even with errors. But the cost was greater disk size and two files to read for each sorted name.
Most developers, do not get that the world is made up multiple standards and refuse to consider local vs database relationships like:
Boolean: Yes/Si/... No/No/..
Amounts:,.., 0,2,3 places from right for display, 0,2,3 places from right for value (USD:,.22, JPY:.,20) Dates::./ 0 suppressed ISO, JPN, USA
How do you thing the do working with phone@, addresses and names?
Database engines fail with these simple-complex constructs because sorting and matching tests are still left hand and character set driven. A database MUST treat all of these names the same: McClean, MacClean, MCLean, Mc Clean, Mac Clean. McCleen,...
1) USPS is responsible for address validation. It is their system that will add a new address to the database. Right now about 98% of all addresses will validate correctly(unknown). Specially with 5 different types of postal codes that affects how an address is validated. When it validates incorrectly it is normally an error in the USPS system. Nothing can fix that expect them.
2) GIS information normally runs 3-6 months behind USPS.
3) Tax rates are currently gathered monthly and supplied to clients by multiple accounting companies just for this need. Must all tax changes occur 3-4 months before they go into effect. Even if you miss the date, there is normally a grace period in which you implement the change.
YES all these services today you pay. If you use the USPS will be free, but do not over use it.
That is why I would like USPS to be the tax expert, you validate an address for shipping and they supply you the tax rate. Since it is USPS, they would be "always right", and indemnify the user of service. If an address does not validate, that too will be reported *AND* a tax rate will returned to as a default. We used the closest spelling match, and if more than 1 was found, the lowest rate. This logic passed all states, since it was the best that could be used at the time.
If the USPS steps up, the cost should be no more than what it costs today to validate an address. They are already passing back route information and other unneeded information for normal processing, the tax rate(s) that are in effect would be just a little more.
Slashdot Mirror
And I thought it was just me.
Issues:
1) does not scroll smoothly or nicely
2) scrool is thought of 1/2 time as a cick - so off to storie no down to next page.
3) I do not what tracking by facebook or others on Slashdot site
4) pop overs are annoing specially when the X is to small to touch or acts like click. Touch interfaces need to big enough for touch! Fat fingers are fat fingers!
Do not worry about safe search it is broken too. I posted to Google a complaint that if you mispell the word COLD as COOLD it brings up X rated Amine even with SaveSearch ON.
Though I did find that Google does not page to enter complaints of there products. Just others using their products. (google+, Blogger,...)
What if each bomb was let of on the moon instead? Each boom moves the Moon a little faarther out, pulling the Earth with it. I may a few centruies but we could move better position.
Though if they all went of together, we have "Space 1999" with a Moon size interplanetary ship. Will take awhile to get anywhere but at least we would be traveling.
WAs rememinicing about Quake Lan parties ~15 years ago. With Thin Net running aroung the house... And being between beat over and over by a 5 yr on a 486dx33!
Now in my rocker, I can look forward to I can look forward to the same on a Raspberry PI and connected to big screen.
More life changes, the more it stays the same.
I seen some cool case mods with glowing lights, now they could actually serve a propose! Neat.
I been watching the button less ads of Caddie. All I can think if texting and using a phone in a car is bad... just using the car is getting worse. When will the auto makers start to be sued for their broken by design in-dash smart systems?
I like it!
Now add a few lasers and you you got the training drone of Star Wars.
We need to cut the power and heat of NOCs. Why only build these for the junk market of throw way toys?
This other /. artical says it best How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code?
It's now almost 35 years ago, when I had to write date routines that spanned the year 2000 and only use 2 char year, and only use the same 5 nibbles of storage that the julain date was stored in, in the end that system could handle a ~250 year period it took about about 500 Bytes of size. Then I wrote a rouitne that in 13 nibbles handle that same time period got us down to 8ms ticks. We then used them every where in the system. It is not hard, just need to be tested.
Why are these bad coders still in the system, that can't do the simple math let alone simple testing.
Sounds like the tittle of a new TLC or PBS program.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2023218/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-tiny-linux-laptop.html
3D printer and some parts... A PI Laptop?
With such poor standards as white space and curly braces, write a pretty routine to clean it up. One to convert to your standard and one to convert back to theirs.
I come for the world of 6 upper charter names names for fields/columns. There naming conventions mean something becuase every is abbrivated. We keep or stnadards on single sheet of paper to so that could be followed.
Now get of my lawn!
He can start his own small Beowulf cluster.
Or 2 lego Mindstorm sets. Then you can compete building the best machine.
I tend to buy in two's for Christmas. That way a remote racecar has something to compeat with.
I do not have a degree in English. My wfie does, but does not try proof my writing any more, too many fights. I also have a hardtime with the language becuase I do not hear the differences in sounds of words like most people would have a hard time spelling to, too and two without "use" contect. But for me, I have that same problem many words like specific and Pacific. I use to leave on the west coast and if some says "go to Pacific." I would ask "Specific what?"
About proof reading, I proofed that first post for over 10 minutes. But I can not read what is written, my head fills in and fixes to what I "wrote". My wife as a "love" card/note from me, that say "Wish remain your face". I know I wrote more than that!
My favorite saying "English is my second language, I am still looking for a first." Made my college professor in English just crack up.
MENSA has plusses and minuses.
For me it was a chance to solicalized, to be long to group that was like me. Think, what others did in high school, I did post college.
I meet many different poeple, from guys to could not tie their shoes but could talk about Choas Theory for hours, to wonderful people who open their homes and their lifes to stranges that only had a card or newsletter annoucing an event.
Myself, I hosted a monthly movie "night" in my apartment. It started on first Friday of month and lasted until the last person left or Monday. Via that meet many people, including one that became my wife. My freinds in Mensa found out of our weddings plans when we both changed our addresses and my wfie to be changed her name on month newsletter. It was nice receive a hand written note congratlating us in each of our newsletters.
I left Mensa after I figured out that I out grew the it. I gradulate from that part of my life.
On a side note - since I also was at one time part of the management of the local group, membership was broken down to about 5-10-85 split.
5% wanted the membership to prove themselfs. They did want the newsletter or any assocation, just a proof of making it.
10% as active. The came to events, helped with fund raising and other programs.
85% getting the newsletter and reading it and filling it aaway. These were the ones we kept trying to join in with 10% - it took me almost 5 years to start going to events and meeting people and become found I liked being with the 10%.
I found the time enjoyable. I was traveling alot, and found events in other parts of world that I drop in on while killing a weekend in a city that I did not know. Oh, and in Slashdot fashion - my mom, while I as living at home, found the test weekend and suggested that I take it.
So when is the new new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service will be shown?
Used the freezer trick more than once, but I don't remove it from the freezer to try. I have a few LONG cables. Place the computer on top of fridge with long cables hanging out and into the freezer. Close door and wait, power up computer and read the drive. When I get all that is getable. I take a hammer to drive.
Amen. Covered very well. Ending is too simple.
Make the USPS the handler of the sales tax system. They are already in position to id your house, down to the City, County, State and whether it is actually city, county, state, federal or other jurisdiction.
Since we already have laws that make the drive of the truck responsible for the items. Then make the carriers which include FedEx and UPS, be the collector, since they are persons handing the package to customer.
This way the calculation of tax, is part of address validation that all these systems use along with freight charges.
A graet SF book of the computer systems interconnecting and helping each other, then to discover that humans are running around in the environment.
I suggested this and other ways of using VNC embedded hardware like this years ago. It will be great to have keyboard, mouse, video - hope they also add virtual CD/DVD or USB to get the machine loaded remotely.
It is shame that it maybe to late with VBLOCK and ESX system taking hold.
I love D Knuth and have read is sorting and searching book many time over, always finding good times.
SPEED does mater and so does SIZE and BANDWIDTH. It is important to design things right the first time versus loops and loops of daily optimization that must code is written in today. The understanding of record-locks, index optimization and other multiplexing methods are needed today. I see too much of sucking a 1+ million peaces into memory to find 1 item, "Because it is fast".
Yes this sounds like "get of my grass", but "fast and sloppy", is a waste on everyone's resources not just a single computer.
I guess you do not work with large databases and trying to find a person the first time NO MATTER how the name is spelled. It is just good customer service. with as your example an Irish person entering a Scottish name and vis-a-vers-a easily making a mistake.
Now add in German names with a beta symbol instead of a double s. The Greek with AE combo letter vs AE. And all the other punctuations from the French, German, and ... That are NOT normally not on capitalized words.
I did hotel software for 20yrs, these are common problems for cross boarder travel. I wrote custom search and translation software to "fix" these issues so the guest service can shine even with errors. But the cost was greater disk size and two files to read for each sorted name.
Most developers, do not get that the world is made up multiple standards and refuse to consider local vs database relationships like:
Boolean: Yes/Si/... No/No/..
Amounts: ,. ., 0,2,3 places from right for display, 0,2,3 places from right for value (USD: ,.22, JPY: .,20) ./ 0 suppressed ISO, JPN, USA
Dates::
How do you thing the do working with phone@, addresses and names?
Database engines fail with these simple-complex constructs because sorting and matching tests are still left hand and character set driven. A database MUST treat all of these names the same: McClean, MacClean, MCLean, Mc Clean, Mac Clean. McCleen, ...
You need to do a little research...
1) USPS is responsible for address validation. It is their system that will add a new address to the database. Right now about 98% of all addresses will validate correctly(unknown). Specially with 5 different types of postal codes that affects how an address is validated. When it validates incorrectly it is normally an error in the USPS system. Nothing can fix that expect them.
2) GIS information normally runs 3-6 months behind USPS.
3) Tax rates are currently gathered monthly and supplied to clients by multiple accounting companies just for this need. Must all tax changes occur 3-4 months before they go into effect. Even if you miss the date, there is normally a grace period in which you implement the change.
YES all these services today you pay. If you use the USPS will be free, but do not over use it.
That is why I would like USPS to be the tax expert, you validate an address for shipping and they supply you the tax rate. Since it is USPS, they would be "always right", and indemnify the user of service. If an address does not validate, that too will be reported *AND* a tax rate will returned to as a default. We used the closest spelling match, and if more than 1 was found, the lowest rate. This logic passed all states, since it was the best that could be used at the time.
If the USPS steps up, the cost should be no more than what it costs today to validate an address. They are already passing back route information and other unneeded information for normal processing, the tax rate(s) that are in effect would be just a little more.