I don't think they'll give a fig about you, sorry to say. They'll make camera-enabled phones lest they lose market share, which is all they care about. They' only produce a camera-less phone if it means its cheaperr to make and therefore targets the low-end market.
I know there are many other places where you don't want hidden cameras - swimming baths for example (too many paedophiles taking pics of half dressed kiddies apparently, according to the popular media).
well, hang on a moment - read the feedback comments and make an informed decision, don't just assume that less than 100% is a fraudster.
eg. Anyone with a feedback of more than a thousand is going to get a couple of bad recs - stuff that went astray n the post, muppets who leave neg feedback before even bothering to email the seller etc.
Eg. In my case I have a feedback of 178, 1 neutral and 1 negative.
The neutral one was because I didn't leave the seller feedback (I do, just took a little longer about it that time round).
The negative one was because I bought some RAM off a guy, and he didn't send it to me. I gave neg feedback (and contacted ebay), so he left me a neg. I have 1 neg because some guy didn't like me complaining about him ripping me off.
I think 90% is the limit for ebay to offer buyer protection, so use that figure.
The BBC has *no* commercials at all - except for the ads for its own programmes that are on later in the schedules. (and they're handily between shows only)
No commercials at all, no ad breaks, not even on the radio. Its great!
not even the most rabid anti-American person would do that to you guys. I hear Osama said that he'd give up all terrorist activity 'as he couldn't hurt the Americans any more than that':)
If Java was made OSS, then the risk of forking it is huge - especially if some of those feature requests require design changes (as many will). Personally, I see the forking risk as the main reason why Sun won't free Java - pure Java is a big selling point for it, the moment you need to write code that won't run on previous JVMs (or with certain syntax changes) then you've stuffed the whole reason for having Java in the first place (write once etc).
That said, if Parrot is going to be so good, why not just dump Java and its 'tons of' bugs and design problems? Lets move on people, newer, faster, better stuff over here...
Its not that new - Scrapheap Challenge (the Uk show 'junkyard wars' came from) made 2 to race against each other. In that episode, the driver say inside the wheel - so the thing was more like a single-wheel motorcycle than the one shown in the article.
This is the bloke who was the judge/expert: http://www.americanroadshop.com/The _Monocycle/the_ monocycle.html
He also holds the world speed record for monocycle driving... and sells them, for you rich geeks who want to ride up to work in something different.
I thought that was mentioned twice in the article - firstly that OS X was no longer 'the OS for the rest of us', and then the mention that the open dialog didn't work as expected.
I guess the first means - sorry Mac users - things are now complicated for you too. The second, I can only assume is broken on the Mac, surely the open dialog works for every other app, just that the Gimp uses it diferently (or doesn't recognise the platform specific stuff like Mac special folders)
Loading the Gimp up on Windows now, yes... there is a custom open dialog - and no sign of 'My Documents' anywhere. No wonder the author of the article is confused with it if its the same on the Mac - although to me (as a techie) I know where that directory is located, it'll confuse an 'ordinary user'.
So.. why doesn't the Gimp use #define and the standard file-open dialogs? (and non-standard cursors coem to that).
absolutely not. The requirements are what the customer wants. The analysts then get together with them and thrash out what can be done, what you can do, what they should accept given time/performance/risk constraints etc.
But in the real world where contracts are not quite as well defined as you'd obviously like (unless you work for a governemnt/military/telecoms/etc, etc sector that does have firm design specs) you'll find that the spec often doesn't do quite what the customer wanted. This is the cause of many problems in waterfall design methodolgy for example.
Now, as a programmer you may not see the requirements at all - and the specs then are your 'reqs', but for the company as a whole - na, the customer will only be happy if it does what they originally wanted, regardless of what legal contracts have been drawn up (they only contain the blame after all, not contribute to good software engineering).
My current company, for instance, has a good working relationship with our main customer - we don;t do specs at all (its great, I get to work on stuff without doing masses of documentation). They're happy with what they get, and when there is a problem it gets sorted out and everyone is happy. Unlike many contract-based relationships where everyone is unhappy with the compromises that are made, and the project managers just bitch at each other.
If you do something like RUP, then requirements ARE your requirements, your test plans are based on your requirements. If you do something like XP, requirements ARE what you base your test harnesses on, and they are your specs and requirements, and practically your design too.
that's a fair point - that most linux distros allow you not to check the 'install this' box at install time. However, you're showing your ignorance otherwise - IIS isn't so 'tightly integrated', you can remove it:
go Add/Remove programs in control panel, click the (little known admittedly) 'Add/Remove Windows Components' on the left-hand bar. Uncheck the IIS entry in the list.
BTW, you can do this with Media player too - its al the bottom of the list. AFAIK removing WMP will not screw your system (I've never tried it), I know removing IIS won't as I have done that before.
So.. what's the difference again - one installs stuff for you, then you can turn it off; the other lets you not install it in the first place. Its not that much of a difference really.
(actually, come to think of it, I think you can not install WMP at install time on w2k at least.. when installing, instead of clicking 'next' all the time, stop at the 'install windows components' section and see what's there)
Yeah, true I suppose... however, I wonder when some lawmaker will slap a fine on Red Hat for bundling Apache with their OS distro? After all, it uses its market dominance in web-server OSs to ship this app.
Or perhaps its the other way round, but the deal is the same - bundling is bad if MS does it, but OK if F/OSS does it?
I have a cheap-branded vacuum cleaner, but all vacuum cleaners are called 'Hoovers' (in the Uk at least).
Similarly until recently all portable stereos were called 'walkmans'.
Why shoud TIVO be any different - no company can rest on its laurels, it'll just be left behind by its competitors, but the name will live on in consumer's minds. Perhaps its how we're built - we need a 'tag' to describe something.
yes I have - at school (years back) we had a term where we were taught 'home economics' (as it was called back then). I learned how to use a sewing machine, and how to cook rice. Can't remember anything else though, but it's good to know that the taxpayers money wasn't entirely wasted.
You have a foot pedal where you can change the speed. you can make the needle rattle along pulling the fabric out of your fingers (well... oops, ow, ow, scissors needed here), or really, really, really slowly - generally used for the tricky bits (i.e. doing straight lines for me).
Now, where are the girls on/. to back me up. Oh yeah, I remember, asserting their post-feminist privileges and status:)
You'll just have to go on a sewing machine for yourself. Let us know how you get on.
unlike the current punch systems or color-in-the-circle-with-number-2-pencil ballots.
this isn't true - there is nothing better than just tick-in-the-box paper voting.
if the pen runs out of ink, you can see immediately and obviously that it isn't working right - and use a different pen. For a printout, the systems will run out of ink/toner/whatever all the time. Unless you give the paper vote back to the voter for eyeball checking, you'll end up with a paper audit trail of blanks or unreadable faded votes.
The trouble with returning a 'receipt' to the voter is that you then have to ask them to give you the receipt, which can cause a lot of confusion along the lines of:
'Ive already voted', 'If this is my vote, why did I have to use the machine', 'Help, someone is trying to find out who I voted for', 'Its a nice souvenir, Ill just take it home', 'I didn't think it was important, I rolled it up and threw it on the floor'.
etc.
Nothing simpler and effective as a pencil. Technology doesn't always make things better.
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imagine you are wearing a skirt?
yes, well maybe he is, along with some silky panties and suspenders.
I don't think they'll give a fig about you, sorry to say. They'll make camera-enabled phones lest they lose market share, which is all they care about. They' only produce a camera-less phone if it means its cheaperr to make and therefore targets the low-end market.
I know there are many other places where you don't want hidden cameras - swimming baths for example (too many paedophiles taking pics of half dressed kiddies apparently, according to the popular media).
even an switched off cell phone can be tapped
Yeah? but I bet they'll be listening in for ages before they hear anything interesting...
well, hang on a moment - read the feedback comments and make an informed decision, don't just assume that less than 100% is a fraudster.
eg. Anyone with a feedback of more than a thousand is going to get a couple of bad recs - stuff that went astray n the post, muppets who leave neg feedback before even bothering to email the seller etc.
Eg. In my case I have a feedback of 178, 1 neutral and 1 negative.
The neutral one was because I didn't leave the seller feedback (I do, just took a little longer about it that time round).
The negative one was because I bought some RAM off a guy, and he didn't send it to me. I gave neg feedback (and contacted ebay), so he left me a neg. I have 1 neg because some guy didn't like me complaining about him ripping me off.
I think 90% is the limit for ebay to offer buyer protection, so use that figure.
In that case, you'll just have to start sucking your shower curtain in the morning instead of taking your vitamins! Problem solved!
Adolph was Austrian... so any studies showing 80% of Germans coming from his country would be equally crap as this one was :)
The BBC has *no* commercials at all - except for the ads for its own programmes that are on later in the schedules. (and they're handily between shows only)
No commercials at all, no ad breaks, not even on the radio. Its great!
and Noels House Party
:)
not even the most rabid anti-American person would do that to you guys. I hear Osama said that he'd give up all terrorist activity 'as he couldn't hurt the Americans any more than that'
If Java was made OSS, then the risk of forking it is huge - especially if some of those feature requests require design changes (as many will). Personally, I see the forking risk as the main reason why Sun won't free Java - pure Java is a big selling point for it, the moment you need to write code that won't run on previous JVMs (or with certain syntax changes) then you've stuffed the whole reason for having Java in the first place (write once etc).
That said, if Parrot is going to be so good, why not just dump Java and its 'tons of' bugs and design problems? Lets move on people, newer, faster, better stuff over here...
Its not that new - Scrapheap Challenge (the Uk show 'junkyard wars' came from) made 2 to race against each other. In that episode, the driver say inside the wheel - so the thing was more like a single-wheel motorcycle than the one shown in the article.
e _Monocycle/the_ monocycle.html
This is the bloke who was the judge/expert:
http://www.americanroadshop.com/Th
He also holds the world speed record for monocycle driving... and sells them, for you rich geeks who want to ride up to work in something different.
I thought that was mentioned twice in the article - firstly that OS X was no longer 'the OS for the rest of us', and then the mention that the open dialog didn't work as expected.
I guess the first means - sorry Mac users - things are now complicated for you too. The second, I can only assume is broken on the Mac, surely the open dialog works for every other app, just that the Gimp uses it diferently (or doesn't recognise the platform specific stuff like Mac special folders)
Loading the Gimp up on Windows now, yes... there is a custom open dialog - and no sign of 'My Documents' anywhere. No wonder the author of the article is confused with it if its the same on the Mac - although to me (as a techie) I know where that directory is located, it'll confuse an 'ordinary user'.
So.. why doesn't the Gimp use #define and the standard file-open dialogs? (and non-standard cursors coem to that).
hang on a minute.. how did he manage to get laid? This is obviously a fantasy book. :)
absolutely not. The requirements are what the customer wants. The analysts then get together with them and thrash out what can be done, what you can do, what they should accept given time/performance/risk constraints etc.
But in the real world where contracts are not quite as well defined as you'd obviously like (unless you work for a governemnt/military/telecoms/etc, etc sector that does have firm design specs) you'll find that the spec often doesn't do quite what the customer wanted.
This is the cause of many problems in waterfall design methodolgy for example.
Now, as a programmer you may not see the requirements at all - and the specs then are your 'reqs', but for the company as a whole - na, the customer will only be happy if it does what they originally wanted, regardless of what legal contracts have been drawn up (they only contain the blame after all, not contribute to good software engineering).
My current company, for instance, has a good working relationship with our main customer - we don;t do specs at all (its great, I get to work on stuff without doing masses of documentation). They're happy with what they get, and when there is a problem it gets sorted out and everyone is happy. Unlike many contract-based relationships where everyone is unhappy with the compromises that are made, and the project managers just bitch at each other.
If you do something like RUP, then requirements ARE your requirements, your test plans are based on your requirements. If you do something like XP, requirements ARE what you base your test harnesses on, and they are your specs and requirements, and practically your design too.
I think its more like:
Requirements are what the customer wants.
Specifications are what he's actually going to get
Design is how the analyst thinks it should be done.
that's a fair point - that most linux distros allow you not to check the 'install this' box at install time. However, you're showing your ignorance otherwise - IIS isn't so 'tightly integrated', you can remove it:
go Add/Remove programs in control panel, click the (little known admittedly) 'Add/Remove Windows Components' on the left-hand bar. Uncheck the IIS entry in the list.
BTW, you can do this with Media player too - its al the bottom of the list. AFAIK removing WMP will not screw your system (I've never tried it), I know removing IIS won't as I have done that before.
So.. what's the difference again - one installs stuff for you, then you can turn it off; the other lets you not install it in the first place. Its not that much of a difference really.
(actually, come to think of it, I think you can not install WMP at install time on w2k at least.. when installing, instead of clicking 'next' all the time, stop at the 'install windows components' section and see what's there)
Yeah, true I suppose... however, I wonder when some lawmaker will slap a fine on Red Hat for bundling Apache with their OS distro? After all, it uses its market dominance in web-server OSs to ship this app.
Or perhaps its the other way round, but the deal is the same - bundling is bad if MS does it, but OK if F/OSS does it?
remember that Adams is a man who sells content for a living
:)
Which is why all the people now busily slashdotting the dilbert web site are reading the comic for free
I have a cheap-branded vacuum cleaner, but all vacuum cleaners are called 'Hoovers' (in the Uk at least).
Similarly until recently all portable stereos were called 'walkmans'.
Why shoud TIVO be any different - no company can rest on its laurels, it'll just be left behind by its competitors, but the name will live on in consumer's minds. Perhaps its how we're built - we need a 'tag' to describe something.
yes I have - at school (years back) we had a term where we were taught 'home economics' (as it was called back then). I learned how to use a sewing machine, and how to cook rice. Can't remember anything else though, but it's good to know that the taxpayers money wasn't entirely wasted.
/. to back me up. Oh yeah, I remember, asserting their post-feminist privileges and status :)
You have a foot pedal where you can change the speed. you can make the needle rattle along pulling the fabric out of your fingers (well... oops, ow, ow, scissors needed here), or really, really, really slowly - generally used for the tricky bits (i.e. doing straight lines for me).
Now, where are the girls on
You'll just have to go on a sewing machine for yourself. Let us know how you get on.
Impact armour. from Ringworld, or all the known space books really.
"Sarge! I gotta crap bad, but I can't!"
:)
"dont panic son, we're into combat soon, oh, and you're on point"
"phhhrrrrrrrrp"
I think the difference is the speed of impact - being stabbed usually involves a short, fast stroke, whereas sewing is much more gentler.
:)
Otherwise, imagine the court cases - 'your honour, the cause of death was repeated strikes over a period of time in a herringbone pattern'
unlike the current punch systems or color-in-the-circle-with-number-2-pencil ballots.
this isn't true - there is nothing better than just tick-in-the-box paper voting.
if the pen runs out of ink, you can see immediately and obviously that it isn't working right - and use a different pen. For a printout, the systems will run out of ink/toner/whatever all the time. Unless you give the paper vote back to the voter for eyeball checking, you'll end up with a paper audit trail of blanks or unreadable faded votes.
The trouble with returning a 'receipt' to the voter is that you then have to ask them to give you the receipt, which can cause a lot of confusion along the lines of:
'Ive already voted',
'If this is my vote, why did I have to use the machine',
'Help, someone is trying to find out who I voted for',
'Its a nice souvenir, Ill just take it home',
'I didn't think it was important, I rolled it up and threw it on the floor'.
etc.
Nothing simpler and effective as a pencil. Technology doesn't always make things better.
Yeah, but my dictionary does have a link for Whoa
:(
The OED, good book, requires subscription though
Banned driver caused double fatal
or, from last year.. Carr, who was driving a stolen vehicle, already had 89 previous convictions for driving offences
Personally, I'd be in favour of removing their legs, but then they'd get disability allowances and be given a specially modified vehicle.