Bully for you. There ain't another rental establishment within a hundred leagues of my abode. They've killed of the mom and pop shops, and left nothing but waste in their wake.
I'd go to Hollywood Video, but I can't stop laughing at their redicilous attire. Sorry if you work there.
It doesn't matter what OS I'm using, if I'm word processing I save at every paragraph. If I'm developing, I save before executing. I trust no machine, no OS. They will all let you down some time, for some reason.
I develop for a living -- yes on and for Windows. I create a variety of applications: Web, desktop GUI, and command-line. It all depends on the audience. End users don't want to remember what list of switches and piping which into what will create the output they need. That's stuff's for techies and background processes. Users need a clean GUI that gives useful feedback.
Some days I ride in the font of the commuter train. From there, you can watch the engineer and take in the opperation of his interface. It makes all kinds of noises. This is called feedback, and is essential to good user design.
Sure, you can write a UI that merely displays a wait icon while the application performs the requested action, but that doesn't tell anyone whether anything is really happening. On the other hand, most users don't want to be bombarded with minutia about what the program is doing.
I think this whole discussion about programming culture is a load of bollocks. If you'd like Joe Blow to use your program, you're going to have to break-down and develop a GUI. This just isn't the day and age of the computer hobbiest anymore.
When developing a GUI app, you have to take the GUI into consideration, just as much as what the applicaiton's supposed to be doing. If your back end can't support your front end, then you've wasted your time, and your employer's money.
I am an advocate of a law that says the loser in a tort must pay the winner's court costs.
This is one of those social problems to which there is no technical or legal remedy. It has become ingrained into American society that if anything happens to you, it is your moral obligation to sue the other party into the ground.
It's not wrong to make the copable party pay restitution for a wrong doing. It is wrong to maliciously demand restitution for the sake of restitution.
Say, for example, that you go in for surgery, and the doctor leaves a cotton swab in your guts. It hurts like heck, and you sue the doctor. Alright, you were put out of work for a number of months, and you couldn't see straight. You want restitution, but more than that you want revenge. You hurt, and now you want the doctor to hurt. It's only natural, but this is civilized society, in which this kind of action is wrong.
That same doctor is a normal human being. Like all humans, he or she makes mistakes. To ruing his life over a mistake is wrong. There are boards which have the ability to revoke the doctor's license if the doctor's grossly neglegent. That same doctor's probably saved quite a few lives, and made a lot more just better.
Until people can start acting civilized, again, there is going to be no end to this spiral. Law suits keep getting bigger and bigger, along with insurance costs, medical costs, and everything else.
In this land where no one accepts responcibility for their own actions, this is going to be a tough cycle to break.
It certainly would be a BIG help if the chip manufacturers would put the thermal coupling in the EXACT center of the chip. That way, if you/accidentally/ attached the heat sink the wrong way round, you wouldn't fry the chip.
And it's not my fault. Fry's sold me some big arsed heat sink that only fit the wrong way round -- thus leading to the conclusion that it was the right way round.
This leads to my second axiom: Always buy the BOXED CPU, because it comes with the right sodding fan, and will actually fit the motherboard.
They don't run DOS, they have a hardware architecture that is incompatible with the 8088. They boot staight to a ROM, which included MS/TRS-Basic. If you have the large external box, you can run TRS-DOS, but that's your lot.
I believe the CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence is programmed into the keyboard controller. If it sees this sequence it generates a hardware interrupt zero. This is the same interrupt vector the 8088 series of chips looks at during the startup sequence. It should point to a bootstap sequence. Windows redirects it to a login process.
I think the distinguishing factor between hard drive makers and system vendors is that the hard drive makers all disclose 1GB = 1000MB; the system vendors do not. They're using different untils for primary and secondary storage: Primary uses 1GB=1024MB.
Hospitals have a tendency to ban cell phones too. One I went into cited a case where a cell phone interfered with a drip machine. That interference caused the machine to fail, killing the patient. When the patient and his belongings were removed, the machine returned to normal operation. No one could figure out why a perfectly functioning machine would fail, until someone brought the cell phone back into proximity with the machine, and it failed once more.
I would really like to think medical and aeronautical equipment can, and should be made to operate in the presence of RF, but until it is, we shouldn't force the airline companies to take risks. After all, many of these planes are more than 20 to 30 years old -- predating cell phones, laptops, and whatnot.
If it weren't for "the government sticking their noses into private businesses to force companies to pay people for not working", there'd be no vacations, holidays, or weekends. There sure wouldn't be adaquate lighting, or safe working conditions.
Some people are so blinded by their paranoia of an evil government, they don't see there are worse evils.
Any record shop should accept the return of any recording that does not follow the industry standards. After all, if the manufacturer's copy protection is so bloody good, there is no need to fear anything illicit has occured.
I don't think it even has to work exactly like Windows, either. It just has to work consistantly, and predictably. Apple Macs aren't exactly like Windows, yet they get people to migrate.
When the PC was young, there were two opperating systems available to it: PC-DOS and CP/M-80. Of course, PC-DOS flattened CP/M-80 even though CP/M was the dominant OS of the time. Why? Because Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer application for the IBM PC came for one OS only, and it wasn't CP/M.
There's no killer application for Linux. For the Mac, it was DTP, for Windows it really is Office (and cheap hardware). Linux needs to capitalize on something it can do that nothing else can, and everyone wants.
The article talks about a standard GUI, but it goes beyond that. If you read the subtext, you will realize it's saying that Linux needs a standard set of libraries. This was discussed, somewhat, last week. Developers must be able to rely on a certain set of libraries existing. If they don't exist, then the developer should include those libraries with their distribution. No one should have to unwind the twisty maze of library dependancies.
In the Windows world, if an application requires the MFC dll, or the VB dll, it's included. I don't know how many times I've attempted to install a Linux app, only to be thwarted by an endless list of libraries I had to hunt down. It's pure nonsense.
Indeed, and this is what we found in Windows NT 3.5 & 3.51. The video drivers ran in ring 3, where if they bombed, they wouldn't take down the OS. Problem was that was terribly unresponsive. I suspect that the NT devolopers reasoned "What use is a running kernal, if you can't see what it's doing?" (using my Agent Smith voice). For NT 4, they moved the video drivers into ring 0, which yeilded better performance, at the cost of a buggy driver being able to incurr a BSOD.
The problem with this is the same problem I encounter buying rail tickets from a vending machine. People stand there, not comprehending how to opperate the bloody machine, eliminating the convenience of being able to get in and out of there quickly. At least at fast food restaurnts, you have a team of (somewhat) trained individuals who know how to convert blatherings into a genuine order.
On another note, you know that when most people screw up, it won't be themselves they'll blame, but the machine. The legal system already demonstrates that people lack compassion, common sense and accepting responcibility.
Furthermore, eliminating people from accepting orders at fast food dives might well eliminate any contact many Slashdotters have with the females of the species.;-)
You, my friend, truely hit the nail on the head. While those foreign economies may improve, they're not going to raise to western levels any time before our levels have dropped significantly.
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Bully for you. There ain't another rental establishment within a hundred leagues of my abode. They've killed of the mom and pop shops, and left nothing but waste in their wake.
I'd go to Hollywood Video, but I can't stop laughing at their redicilous attire. Sorry if you work there.
It doesn't matter what OS I'm using, if I'm word processing I save at every paragraph. If I'm developing, I save before executing. I trust no machine, no OS. They will all let you down some time, for some reason.
I develop for a living -- yes on and for Windows. I create a variety of applications: Web, desktop GUI, and command-line. It all depends on the audience. End users don't want to remember what list of switches and piping which into what will create the output they need. That's stuff's for techies and background processes. Users need a clean GUI that gives useful feedback.
Some days I ride in the font of the commuter train. From there, you can watch the engineer and take in the opperation of his interface. It makes all kinds of noises. This is called feedback, and is essential to good user design.
Sure, you can write a UI that merely displays a wait icon while the application performs the requested action, but that doesn't tell anyone whether anything is really happening. On the other hand, most users don't want to be bombarded with minutia about what the program is doing.
I think this whole discussion about programming culture is a load of bollocks. If you'd like Joe Blow to use your program, you're going to have to break-down and develop a GUI. This just isn't the day and age of the computer hobbiest anymore.
When developing a GUI app, you have to take the GUI into consideration, just as much as what the applicaiton's supposed to be doing. If your back end can't support your front end, then you've wasted your time, and your employer's money.
That's like asking "Do dogs not age because they can't tell time?"
This is one of those social problems to which there is no technical or legal remedy. It has become ingrained into American society that if anything happens to you, it is your moral obligation to sue the other party into the ground.
It's not wrong to make the copable party pay restitution for a wrong doing. It is wrong to maliciously demand restitution for the sake of restitution.
Say, for example, that you go in for surgery, and the doctor leaves a cotton swab in your guts. It hurts like heck, and you sue the doctor. Alright, you were put out of work for a number of months, and you couldn't see straight. You want restitution, but more than that you want revenge. You hurt, and now you want the doctor to hurt. It's only natural, but this is civilized society, in which this kind of action is wrong.
That same doctor is a normal human being. Like all humans, he or she makes mistakes. To ruing his life over a mistake is wrong. There are boards which have the ability to revoke the doctor's license if the doctor's grossly neglegent. That same doctor's probably saved quite a few lives, and made a lot more just better.
Until people can start acting civilized, again, there is going to be no end to this spiral. Law suits keep getting bigger and bigger, along with insurance costs, medical costs, and everything else.
In this land where no one accepts responcibility for their own actions, this is going to be a tough cycle to break.
Which it ain't. It's realestate.
a LaserJet 1100 has soiled HP reputation, and I will never buy another product from them ever again.
Everyone who's had one has had the same paper jam problem, and the $20 cupon to buy another was just insult to injury.
The ones that really kill me are the ones that say "Pull trigger."
The Lone Ranger just wouldn't stand it.
It certainly would be a BIG help if the chip manufacturers would put the thermal coupling in the EXACT center of the chip. That way, if you /accidentally/ attached the heat sink the wrong way round, you wouldn't fry the chip.
And it's not my fault. Fry's sold me some big arsed heat sink that only fit the wrong way round -- thus leading to the conclusion that it was the right way round.
This leads to my second axiom: Always buy the BOXED CPU, because it comes with the right sodding fan, and will actually fit the motherboard.
They don't run DOS, they have a hardware architecture that is incompatible with the 8088. They boot staight to a ROM, which included MS/TRS-Basic. If you have the large external box, you can run TRS-DOS, but that's your lot.
I believe the CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence is programmed into the keyboard controller. If it sees this sequence it generates a hardware interrupt zero. This is the same interrupt vector the 8088 series of chips looks at during the startup sequence. It should point to a bootstap sequence. Windows redirects it to a login process.
not if you used exception handling in ASP.net:
try
breat.cut()
catch ex as exception
'appropriate action
Log(ex)
end try
I think the distinguishing factor between hard drive makers and system vendors is that the hard drive makers all disclose 1GB = 1000MB; the system vendors do not. They're using different untils for primary and secondary storage: Primary uses 1GB=1024MB.
Hospitals have a tendency to ban cell phones too. One I went into cited a case where a cell phone interfered with a drip machine. That interference caused the machine to fail, killing the patient. When the patient and his belongings were removed, the machine returned to normal operation. No one could figure out why a perfectly functioning machine would fail, until someone brought the cell phone back into proximity with the machine, and it failed once more.
I would really like to think medical and aeronautical equipment can, and should be made to operate in the presence of RF, but until it is, we shouldn't force the airline companies to take risks. After all, many of these planes are more than 20 to 30 years old -- predating cell phones, laptops, and whatnot.
If it weren't for "the government sticking their noses into private businesses to force companies to pay people for not working", there'd be no vacations, holidays, or weekends. There sure wouldn't be adaquate lighting, or safe working conditions.
Some people are so blinded by their paranoia of an evil government, they don't see there are worse evils.
> First Love, now Joy! What's NEXT!?!?
Happiness, if you must ask.
Any record shop should accept the return of any recording that does not follow the industry standards. After all, if the manufacturer's copy protection is so bloody good, there is no need to fear anything illicit has occured.
Just because it'll use XML doesn't mean it'll be useful. Remember, Word spits out HTML, and its as buggered as anything else.
I don't think it even has to work exactly like Windows, either. It just has to work consistantly, and predictably. Apple Macs aren't exactly like Windows, yet they get people to migrate.
When the PC was young, there were two opperating systems available to it: PC-DOS and CP/M-80. Of course, PC-DOS flattened CP/M-80 even though CP/M was the dominant OS of the time. Why? Because Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer application for the IBM PC came for one OS only, and it wasn't CP/M.
There's no killer application for Linux. For the Mac, it was DTP, for Windows it really is Office (and cheap hardware). Linux needs to capitalize on something it can do that nothing else can, and everyone wants.
The article talks about a standard GUI, but it goes beyond that. If you read the subtext, you will realize it's saying that Linux needs a standard set of libraries. This was discussed, somewhat, last week. Developers must be able to rely on a certain set of libraries existing. If they don't exist, then the developer should include those libraries with their distribution. No one should have to unwind the twisty maze of library dependancies.
In the Windows world, if an application requires the MFC dll, or the VB dll, it's included. I don't know how many times I've attempted to install a Linux app, only to be thwarted by an endless list of libraries I had to hunt down. It's pure nonsense.
While hiking through the Australian Blue Mountains (near Sidney), I came accross the following sign:
5 83
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=122
It had several lines of text, in various Asian languges, and one line of English that read:
THIS SIGN IS TO PREVENT FOREIGN TOURISTS FROM GETTING LOST.
Love to know what the other lines say.
Indeed, and this is what we found in Windows NT 3.5 & 3.51. The video drivers ran in ring 3, where if they bombed, they wouldn't take down the OS. Problem was that was terribly unresponsive. I suspect that the NT devolopers reasoned "What use is a running kernal, if you can't see what it's doing?" (using my Agent Smith voice). For NT 4, they moved the video drivers into ring 0, which yeilded better performance, at the cost of a buggy driver being able to incurr a BSOD.
This could be achievable with the internet enabled curbside, Wi-Fi mailbox. Everyone's mailbox will be filled with hard copies of spam.
The problem with this is the same problem I encounter buying rail tickets from a vending machine. People stand there, not comprehending how to opperate the bloody machine, eliminating the convenience of being able to get in and out of there quickly. At least at fast food restaurnts, you have a team of (somewhat) trained individuals who know how to convert blatherings into a genuine order.
;-)
On another note, you know that when most people screw up, it won't be themselves they'll blame, but the machine. The legal system already demonstrates that people lack compassion, common sense and accepting responcibility.
Furthermore, eliminating people from accepting orders at fast food dives might well eliminate any contact many Slashdotters have with the females of the species.
You, my friend, truely hit the nail on the head. While those foreign economies may improve, they're not going to raise to western levels any time before our levels have dropped significantly.