The easiest way to think about this problem is this:
Pretend that instead of three doors, there are a million doors. You pick one to start and Monty opens up 999,998 other doors, all goats. Now, would you switch? You would go from 1 in a million to 999,999 in a million.
I don't expect people to recognize the subtle differences between affect/effect, affluent/effluent, or even capital/capitol, but this is so basic. If we're getting this wrong, we m,igh@t as wEll ign0re oll uther r0olz-
For what it's worth, the volume stuff in Windows 2000 is not from Microsoft. It's a light version of a separate piece of software called VERITAS Volume Manager.
The thing is, there are legitimate cases where you would want a script to control Outlook through automation. If you want these scripts to be fully automated, you can't have dialog boxes popping up everywhere, pausing execution.
This is slightly off-topic, but I remember reading about how a genetic algorithm (am I thinking of the right thing? I'm talking about the programs that write themselves) that was made to design some kind of circuit layout to do some task came up with a design that was totally convoluted, but it worked.
My point is, in this working design, there were parts of the circuit that weren't connected to the rest (i.e. didn't affect the input/output). What's more interesting is that there were other disconnected parts of the circuit that *did* affect the input/output.
Could this be a case of man-made technology imitating nature?
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The easiest way to think about this problem is this:
Pretend that instead of three doors, there are a million doors. You pick one to start and Monty opens up 999,998 other doors, all goats. Now, would you switch? You would go from 1 in a million to 999,999 in a million.
I don't expect people to recognize the subtle differences between affect/effect, affluent/effluent, or even capital/capitol, but this is so basic. If we're getting this wrong, we m,igh@t as wEll ign0re oll uther r0olz-
This is just the patent for the Toyota Pod concept, featured in one of the Gran Turismo concept games. Here's a little bit more information: http://www.supercars.net/cars/2001@$Toyota@$POD%20 Conceptb.html
For what it's worth, the volume stuff in Windows 2000 is not from Microsoft. It's a light version of a separate piece of software called VERITAS Volume Manager.
That's why you must use Links!
The thing is, there are legitimate cases where you would want a script to control Outlook through automation. If you want these scripts to be fully automated, you can't have dialog boxes popping up everywhere, pausing execution.
This is slightly off-topic, but I remember reading about how a genetic algorithm (am I thinking of the right thing? I'm talking about the programs that write themselves) that was made to design some kind of circuit layout to do some task came up with a design that was totally convoluted, but it worked.
My point is, in this working design, there were parts of the circuit that weren't connected to the rest (i.e. didn't affect the input/output). What's more interesting is that there were other disconnected parts of the circuit that *did* affect the input/output.
Could this be a case of man-made technology imitating nature?