Same goes for UI designed by developers. *UNLESS* you have spent time with the end users seeing what it is they are trying to do, you are not going to hit the mark by coding UI in your cubicle on the mistaken assumption that you know the best way to do something.
In some environments, the developers are deliberately shielded from interacting with customers and instead have to somehow get this information through marketing and sales.
The point [ad hominem snipped] is not that parallel's don't exist and it's most certainly not with the content of the political commentary; rather it's the sophomoric presentation.
And my point is that you're assuming it's commentary about the current President because it happens to fit.
I haven't seen Lucas admit to deliberately drawing any such parallel. He seems to indicate otherwise in one article, "Lucas said he patterned his story after historical transformations from freedom to fascism, never figuring when he started his prequel trilogy in the late 1990s that current events might parallel his space fantasy."
LiquidEric: It seems if it were a C8H10N4O2 molecule it would switch much faster. Ghoser777: I believe that's the molecular structure for caffeine.
PETER GRIFFIN: Ok guys, we're playing Texas Hold'em TED TURNER: Are aces high or low? PETER: They go both ways. BILL GATES: Heh, he said they go both ways. EVERYONE BUT TED: [laughing] TED: Like a bisexual. MICHAEL EISNER: Thank you Ted, that was the joke.
Vader:You're either with me, or my enemy Bush:You're either with or against us Obi-Wan:Only the Sith deal in absolutes
So you caught Lucas's sorry attempt at political commentary?
Vader and the Emperor are modeled after the tried-and-true fantasy fiction cliche of the evil tyrant. Ever think that perhaps it's not Lucas' fault that the sitting PUSA resembles that cliche?
That's his plan all along. He tells Padme that they can rule the galaxy together, and when that falls through he tries to recruit Luke for ruling-the-galaxy duty.
That isn't just Anakin, that's apparently part-and-parcel of the Sith master/apprentice setup. The Emperor uses that "rule the galaxy together" bit, too.
Maybe the 9K itself caused the warining to be posted after the whole shebang has already passed. At least people could've prepared to see great Auroras.
There was a fluctuation in the galactic Zone boundaries and we dropped into a slower Zone. Must be why I'm having computer problems today.
You didn't hear the same line. For win2k, "no reboots" applied to system services. For example, NT4 needed a reboot to change network information. Win2k fixed that and a lot of other administrative reboots. WinXP focused more and more on installation reboots, and a well-behaved installer now only needs to reboot the system now if it has to change certain files that are already in use by system processes (for example, security patches)
One of the more annoying bits that's still in there, even in Windows Server 2003, is that when the PATH variable is modified, you need to reboot the operating system to get services to use the new value. Apparently, unlike Explorer, the service launcher won't update its copy of the PATH variable from the registry when it's updated, so launched services keep using the old version of it. It's not sufficient to just restart a service, you need to restart the service launcher. You can't do that (IIRC) without restarting the operating system.
This becomes an issue when, for instance, you've got Apache Tomcat installed as a Windows Service and you need a particular servlet to be able to access something on the updated PATH. Rather than just requiring a servlet reload or restarting Tomcat, you have to reboot the server itself.
Now if you were bad and evil and all that, and the water level started coming up to your waist, _and_ you knew where there was a boat.. wouldn't you try to hijack it? And there would be a fair number of people too.
Try to use vernacular vocabulary and language style when explaining what things do [...]
Indeed, especially with non-technical types. I had a meeting once where I had to explain the term "deprecated". Even using the term "self-deprecating" as an example didn't help.
In a different setting, I had to do the same thing with the word "cryptic".
I am merely playing devil's advocate and pointing out the rather obvious fact that the majority of the people at Gitmo are hardly innocent citizens of friendly foreign nations.
Just like nobody arrested in the USA is an innocent citizen, because after all, they were arrested.
Umm.. the.Net library has a namespace called System.Windows which contains all the windows-specific functionality (COM, System.Windows.Forms, etc). Nobody is forced to use this namespace, nor can we blame MS for offering Windows-only functionality.
And when someone wants to use something else, is it a matter of plugging in a different implementation and changing the configuration to use it? No, they have to rewrite all their code to exorcise the System.Windows namespace.
Microsoft should have taken a different approach and created a general UI API interface that could have been implemented by Windows or other windowing subsystem. This would have allowed them to easily pull out the "thin wrappers" around Win32 and plugged in something else.
They didn't because they didn't want to facilitate use of.NET to build tools for non-Microsoft platforms.
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Same goes for UI designed by developers. *UNLESS* you have spent time with the end users seeing what it is they are trying to do, you are not going to hit the mark by coding UI in your cubicle on the mistaken assumption that you know the best way to do something.
In some environments, the developers are deliberately shielded from interacting with customers and instead have to somehow get this information through marketing and sales.
Doesn't look like a mail server... Maybe I should read his article. Not having a mail server does indeed look like an efficient way to fight spam.
The "Escape character is '^]'." bit is from your telnet client. A peer post suggests that an SMTP banner is indeed sent by the server.
Actually the article says 570000 pounds
Wow, that guy IS big.
The point [ad hominem snipped] is not that parallel's don't exist and it's most certainly not with the content of the political commentary; rather it's the sophomoric presentation.
And my point is that you're assuming it's commentary about the current President because it happens to fit.
I haven't seen Lucas admit to deliberately drawing any such parallel. He seems to indicate otherwise in one article, "Lucas said he patterned his story after historical transformations from freedom to fascism, never figuring when he started his prequel trilogy in the late 1990s that current events might parallel his space fantasy."
LiquidEric: It seems if it were a C8H10N4O2 molecule it would switch much faster.
Ghoser777: I believe that's the molecular structure for caffeine.
PETER GRIFFIN: Ok guys, we're playing Texas Hold'em
TED TURNER: Are aces high or low?
PETER: They go both ways.
BILL GATES: Heh, he said they go both ways.
EVERYONE BUT TED: [laughing]
TED: Like a bisexual.
MICHAEL EISNER: Thank you Ted, that was the joke.
Vader:You're either with me, or my enemy
Bush:You're either with or against us
Obi-Wan:Only the Sith deal in absolutes
So you caught Lucas's sorry attempt at political commentary?
Vader and the Emperor are modeled after the tried-and-true fantasy fiction cliche of the evil tyrant. Ever think that perhaps it's not Lucas' fault that the sitting PUSA resembles that cliche?
Its about as bad as naming roller coasters after Zyklon gas.
Zyklon is the German word for cyclone. Are they not allowed to use that word anymore?
That's his plan all along. He tells Padme that they can rule the galaxy together, and when that falls through he tries to recruit Luke for ruling-the-galaxy duty.
That isn't just Anakin, that's apparently part-and-parcel of the Sith master/apprentice setup. The Emperor uses that "rule the galaxy together" bit, too.
The best word maker has to be the Portmanteau.
i ll ax/chortle/Engrish/gaydar
Smog/ginormous/brunch/animatronics/camcorder/ch
"Engrish" isn't a portmanteau, it's a play on the Japanese r/l thing.
You really have never seen non-American Slashdot posters complaining about a discussion of something American they've never heard of? Curious.
Wallace & Rines' revamped spambone was to do just that. It didn't pan out.
Maybe the 9K itself caused the warining to be posted after the whole shebang has already passed. At least people could've prepared to see great Auroras.
There was a fluctuation in the galactic Zone boundaries and we dropped into a slower Zone. Must be why I'm having computer problems today.
If you want truly unpredictable, unrecreatable, random numbers - let my wife balance your checkbook.
She occasionally gets it exactly correct?
You didn't hear the same line. For win2k, "no reboots" applied to system services. For example, NT4 needed a reboot to change network information. Win2k fixed that and a lot of other administrative reboots. WinXP focused more and more on installation reboots, and a well-behaved installer now only needs to reboot the system now if it has to change certain files that are already in use by system processes (for example, security patches)
One of the more annoying bits that's still in there, even in Windows Server 2003, is that when the PATH variable is modified, you need to reboot the operating system to get services to use the new value. Apparently, unlike Explorer, the service launcher won't update its copy of the PATH variable from the registry when it's updated, so launched services keep using the old version of it. It's not sufficient to just restart a service, you need to restart the service launcher. You can't do that (IIRC) without restarting the operating system.
This becomes an issue when, for instance, you've got Apache Tomcat installed as a Windows Service and you need a particular servlet to be able to access something on the updated PATH. Rather than just requiring a servlet reload or restarting Tomcat, you have to reboot the server itself.
This text looks like an unattributed rip from http://www.intel.com/technology/comms/uwb/ and http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/q22001/a rticles/art_4.htm
Now if you were bad and evil and all that, and the water level started coming up to your waist, _and_ you knew where there was a boat.. wouldn't you try to hijack it? And there would be a fair number of people too.
Or in lieu of hijacking, sabotage?
CASL
Being an old PC dialup user, I thought that was Crosstalk Application Scripting Language.
No, just because something is multicast does not mean it is streaming media.
http://myhome.hanafos.com/~soonjp/vchx.html
"1992 Jul: MBone audio/video casts (vat/dvc), 24th IETF, Boston"
An AV feed from a conference sounds like "streaming media" to me. CU-SeeMe was developed that same year, too.
Wouldn't MBONE count as streaming multimedia? It predates that by three years.
...an instant coast-to-coast flight.... "Fifth Element" is coming true.
Er, the flight in The Fifth Element that involved hibernation wasn't just trans-continental, it was interstellar.
Try to use vernacular vocabulary and language style when explaining what things do [...]
Indeed, especially with non-technical types. I had a meeting once where I had to explain the term "deprecated". Even using the term "self-deprecating" as an example didn't help.
In a different setting, I had to do the same thing with the word "cryptic".
Why not take a cue from *nix and put the pagefile.sys on its own partition, safely away from ANY other file activity that might cause it to fragment?
I am merely playing devil's advocate and pointing out the rather obvious fact that the majority of the people at Gitmo are hardly innocent citizens of friendly foreign nations.
Just like nobody arrested in the USA is an innocent citizen, because after all, they were arrested.
Right.
So, would reversible computing let me have a Blue Screen Of Life?
Since it would be occurring backwards, wouldn't it be red?
Umm .. the .Net library has a namespace called System.Windows which contains all the windows-specific functionality (COM, System.Windows.Forms, etc). Nobody is forced to use this namespace, nor can we blame MS for offering Windows-only functionality.
.NET to build tools for non-Microsoft platforms.
And when someone wants to use something else, is it a matter of plugging in a different implementation and changing the configuration to use it? No, they have to rewrite all their code to exorcise the System.Windows namespace.
Microsoft should have taken a different approach and created a general UI API interface that could have been implemented by Windows or other windowing subsystem. This would have allowed them to easily pull out the "thin wrappers" around Win32 and plugged in something else.
They didn't because they didn't want to facilitate use of