Or you could just save the text as a.uu (or.uue) and double-click it to open it up in WinZip (which I assume most everyone has installed (and registered)).
Surely the best placed people to know what is needed are the people using these desks. They know what's missing, they know what's not used, they know what would make their life easier.
It's been chaos here this morning. I take the overground train to work and had to walk past a couple of tube (Undergound) stations this morning. Both were closed which was unusual, but not unheard of.
The news has slowly unfurled over the course of the morning. The first incident to the east of the centre was at 9:00. Up until 10:30, the news were still claiming the problems were caused by the power supply. When the first bus was reported this obviously started to break down but it was another 20 minutes or so before the news confirmed that he problems were down to terrorists. Additional spots have been appearing on the map over the course of the morning and it's at seven at the moment.
Outside the streets are very empty, both of cars and pedestrians. I think almost everyone who can has stayed in their offices. Many shops have closed up and gone home so there is an eery feeling walking about the streets.
I've not yet visited any of the incident sites and, from what I've heard, they've now been cordened off.
Getting home will be very difficult with the mass transport systems out of action. During previous strike action the streets get very busy and I fear for will happen if the terrorists have planned anything else when the streets are busy at rush hour this evening.
Hmm, you sound like a well-balanced, liberal kind of chap.
So the possibility that someone may have a genuine concern over the reliability and accuracy of a police enforcement device doesn't enter into your world-view of human rights then?
Best not put too much vinegar on your chips tonight.
How does monitoring employees' email make them less productive? All of the monitoring products I've come across work transparently as a feature of the mail server.
I don't think business analysts, even the most technical of them, will become programmers but I think some (not many) will dabble with programming as they do in Excel, Lotus Notes and other applications that have programming facilities. I have no problem with them doing that but I feel that people, having gained a little confidence in working in Excel then try to apply that, same tool to every problem they encounter.
The important point you're missing in my original mail is that I'm not trying to change the world, I just moaning about it. I do think that these business employees, who have demonstrated an interest in technology in solving their immediate problems may be encouraged to find that there are other tools available.
As an amusing aside, I just this morning received a spreadsheet on a support call regarding a trader who is having a consistent problem over a period of time. Expecting a sheet of data from the past three months I opened it to reveal a screenshot of the trading system's GUI!
I'm not complaining at them creating stuff in Excel -- it is a great tool and I often use it myslef. I'm worried that they'll attempt to do too much in Excel and its limitations will cause more problems than it solves. It's all about "tool for the job" and Excel, frankly, is not the tool for large databases, trading applications, distributed applications and those where multiple users are working on common data or for a common purpose.
It's a tool that is misused. I've seen people write documents, presentations, database and myriad other applications in Excel -- things far beyone the numerical intention of the application. It can do those things with a lot of hacking but these applications aren't maintainable, scalable and have no concept of concurrency.
Yes, pragmatically we all know they will keep on doing these things that they have done for two decades now but the pratical world does not affect my opinion that complicated Excel solutions is not the way forward. If these people have a need for more complicated applications we should provide them the tools and training so that they can build them themselves or fund the projects so technicians, like me, can build such applications for them.
One note, trying to mount yourself on a pedestal above every other visitor to the Slashdot forums is quite arrogant. People are entitled to their views you know, regardless of whether they agree with yours.
Heaven forbid any of the traders in the investment bank I work in get a hold of a copy of this. It's bad enough as it is trying to get them to move over to the manageable, scalable applications we build for them without encouraging them to build more spreadsheet solutions.
There was some guy that invented some device (a helmet if I remember correctly) that prevented the smoke from his cigarette escaping -- instead it was filtered from the air. He tried using it on a flight once and, despite his careful explanation, was forced to extinguish.
Now I'm not pro- nor anti-smoking but if it doesn't affect the other passengers I fail to see why it is not allowed.
Yahoo's is native to Windows and Google's isn't? Eh? Eh? Google's is native too, it runs as a Windows process, indexing files and running searches.
If they mean the user interface is a Windows app rather than a web client then, yes, but who cares? That's not that bit that's doing the work, that's just rendering some results. It may mean Yahoo will be able to take advantage of some more advanced controls, such as listviews, but Google has already proven with Gmail that it is able to kick out a pretty convining web application so I wouldn't cite that as an advantage.
Hmm, super-cooperation. They are cooperating outside of the problem to achieve a goal outside of the problem. I think this is just a cheat. The programs are not out for personal gain at all and so are not truly participtaing.
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Fully agree. The guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Java has much more support in the industry,.NET in the enterprise is currently painful. The tools are barely usable (Visual Studio debugger on a large application, anyone?) plus he makes some fundamental errors in the list..NET does not support auto-unboxing for example (at least not.NET 1.0 or 1.1).
If you install Opera aswell, and use Opera for the sites that don't work in Firefox, you'll find the number of unusable sites drops to virtually zero. Firefox as primary and Opera as secondary are a formidable team.
When studying electronics at college, I used to listen to music on my Walkman whilst building circuits and working on the 6502 system boards we used. So one day I found that the plugs on the ends of the short power cables we used were almost exactly the same length as an AA battery and that if you put pushed two, one facing each way into the batter compartment, the battery springs would hold them in place. That meant I could hook my walkman up to my regulated power supply providing a steady 3V DC.
This particular day I had just finished up on a system and plugged my Walkman in but unfortunately forgot to alter the power down from 12V to the 3V my stereo was expecting. The tape spun at a tremendoust rate, smoke started pouring from the case before I realised what was happening and ripped the wires out. The stereo still worked but it had made it managed to wind about three tracks in around four seconds on play!
What are the variety of reasons against Java? It's now fast, it's almays been cross platform and has a rich and mature library. Swing is painful but it's a lot more flexible than.NET forms.
The only reason I can see for.NET over Java is that apps look more native on Windows where most of the money is when it comes to desktop apps. That and Windows shipping with.NET runtime making app downloads a lot smaller than the usual 30mb app+JRE downloads one finds for Java apps.
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>all that needs to be done is to tow the vehicle to a charger
Another claim was that the vehicles cannot be towed.
Why are the 5 and 8 not bold?
I just hope the emotions and reactions of a few don't destroy the huge benefits to the masses that offerings such as Wikipedia provide.
Or you could just save the text as a .uu (or .uue) and double-click it to open it up in WinZip (which I assume most everyone has installed (and registered)).
Surely the best placed people to know what is needed are the people using these desks. They know what's missing, they know what's not used, they know what would make their life easier.
Yup, let's just pretend Eclipse doesn't exist.
It's been chaos here this morning. I take the overground train to work and had to walk past a couple of tube (Undergound) stations this morning. Both were closed which was unusual, but not unheard of.
The news has slowly unfurled over the course of the morning. The first incident to the east of the centre was at 9:00. Up until 10:30, the news were still claiming the problems were caused by the power supply. When the first bus was reported this obviously started to break down but it was another 20 minutes or so before the news confirmed that he problems were down to terrorists. Additional spots have been appearing on the map over the course of the morning and it's at seven at the moment.
Outside the streets are very empty, both of cars and pedestrians. I think almost everyone who can has stayed in their offices. Many shops have closed up and gone home so there is an eery feeling walking about the streets.
I've not yet visited any of the incident sites and, from what I've heard, they've now been cordened off.
Getting home will be very difficult with the mass transport systems out of action. During previous strike action the streets get very busy and I fear for will happen if the terrorists have planned anything else when the streets are busy at rush hour this evening.
Hmm, you sound like a well-balanced, liberal kind of chap.
So the possibility that someone may have a genuine concern over the reliability and accuracy of a police enforcement device doesn't enter into your world-view of human rights then?
Best not put too much vinegar on your chips tonight.
The first thing that popped into my head was Remmington Fuzzaway, but it's hardly relevent.
Virgin Galactic was founded sometime last year.
http://www.virgingalactic.com/en/
How does monitoring employees' email make them less productive? All of the monitoring products I've come across work transparently as a feature of the mail server.
I don't think business analysts, even the most technical of them, will become programmers but I think some (not many) will dabble with programming as they do in Excel, Lotus Notes and other applications that have programming facilities. I have no problem with them doing that but I feel that people, having gained a little confidence in working in Excel then try to apply that, same tool to every problem they encounter.
The important point you're missing in my original mail is that I'm not trying to change the world, I just moaning about it. I do think that these business employees, who have demonstrated an interest in technology in solving their immediate problems may be encouraged to find that there are other tools available.
As an amusing aside, I just this morning received a spreadsheet on a support call regarding a trader who is having a consistent problem over a period of time. Expecting a sheet of data from the past three months I opened it to reveal a screenshot of the trading system's GUI!
I'm not complaining at them creating stuff in Excel -- it is a great tool and I often use it myslef. I'm worried that they'll attempt to do too much in Excel and its limitations will cause more problems than it solves. It's all about "tool for the job" and Excel, frankly, is not the tool for large databases, trading applications, distributed applications and those where multiple users are working on common data or for a common purpose.
It's a tool that is misused. I've seen people write documents, presentations, database and myriad other applications in Excel -- things far beyone the numerical intention of the application. It can do those things with a lot of hacking but these applications aren't maintainable, scalable and have no concept of concurrency.
Yes, pragmatically we all know they will keep on doing these things that they have done for two decades now but the pratical world does not affect my opinion that complicated Excel solutions is not the way forward. If these people have a need for more complicated applications we should provide them the tools and training so that they can build them themselves or fund the projects so technicians, like me, can build such applications for them.
One note, trying to mount yourself on a pedestal above every other visitor to the Slashdot forums is quite arrogant. People are entitled to their views you know, regardless of whether they agree with yours.
Heaven forbid any of the traders in the investment bank I work in get a hold of a copy of this. It's bad enough as it is trying to get them to move over to the manageable, scalable applications we build for them without encouraging them to build more spreadsheet solutions.
There was some guy that invented some device (a helmet if I remember correctly) that prevented the smoke from his cigarette escaping -- instead it was filtered from the air. He tried using it on a flight once and, despite his careful explanation, was forced to extinguish.
Now I'm not pro- nor anti-smoking but if it doesn't affect the other passengers I fail to see why it is not allowed.
I'd like to know how many users were scooped through the NYT advertisement.
Yahoo's is native to Windows and Google's isn't? Eh? Eh? Google's is native too, it runs as a Windows process, indexing files and running searches.
If they mean the user interface is a Windows app rather than a web client then, yes, but who cares? That's not that bit that's doing the work, that's just rendering some results. It may mean Yahoo will be able to take advantage of some more advanced controls, such as listviews, but Google has already proven with Gmail that it is able to kick out a pretty convining web application so I wouldn't cite that as an advantage.
Is this a serious question or an attempt to discredit a competitor?
Hmm, super-cooperation. They are cooperating outside of the problem to achieve a goal outside of the problem. I think this is just a cheat. The programs are not out for personal gain at all and so are not truly participtaing.
Fully agree. The guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Java has much more support in the industry, .NET in the enterprise is currently painful. The tools are barely usable (Visual Studio debugger on a large application, anyone?) plus he makes some fundamental errors in the list. .NET does not support auto-unboxing for example (at least not .NET 1.0 or 1.1).
If you install Opera aswell, and use Opera for the sites that don't work in Firefox, you'll find the number of unusable sites drops to virtually zero. Firefox as primary and Opera as secondary are a formidable team.
When studying electronics at college, I used to listen to music on my Walkman whilst building circuits and working on the 6502 system boards we used. So one day I found that the plugs on the ends of the short power cables we used were almost exactly the same length as an AA battery and that if you put pushed two, one facing each way into the batter compartment, the battery springs would hold them in place. That meant I could hook my walkman up to my regulated power supply providing a steady 3V DC.
This particular day I had just finished up on a system and plugged my Walkman in but unfortunately forgot to alter the power down from 12V to the 3V my stereo was expecting. The tape spun at a tremendoust rate, smoke started pouring from the case before I realised what was happening and ripped the wires out. The stereo still worked but it had made it managed to wind about three tracks in around four seconds on play!
What are the variety of reasons against Java? It's now fast, it's almays been cross platform and has a rich and mature library. Swing is painful but it's a lot more flexible than .NET forms.
.NET over Java is that apps look more native on Windows where most of the money is when it comes to desktop apps. That and Windows shipping with .NET runtime making app downloads a lot smaller than the usual 30mb app+JRE downloads one finds for Java apps.
The only reason I can see for
For me it's engineering, I follow the recipe books and my own experience (not that I'm any good).