Right now we're at the flaming torches stage. Pitchforks and scythes aren't too far off. Better have Igor stack a few more chairs against the lab door.
So the author's idea of an "active" interface is a flashing cursor? Linux has any number of these from the *shes to the various xterms.
I'm not sure I want my computer to be doing anything when I turn it on. Unless I have multiple power-on buttons like "Form of a Wordprocessor" and "Form of a Web Browser", how is this general purpose device to know what I want it to do? Instant-on would help a lot, but you still have to tell the box what you want it to do.
Perhaps a pseudo-command line is the way to go. Start typing first, and then have the box try to guess if this is a URL, an email, a shopping list or the Great American Novel. It would kind of suck to end up at ItWasADarkAndStormyNight.com, though.
Ywhich had a distribution of over a million. So clearly, some people liked the product.
They sent me a years worth of copies, free, without any instigation on my part. So I was probably one of the million at one point, even though the damn thing went straight from the mailbox to the recycle bin.
Whereas MS is like a pedigree puppy: very expensive to buy, very expensive to maintain, and prone to all sorts of very exciting diseases caused by generations of inbreeding.
I'm not sure he was condemning this behaviour. This is exactly what ALICE does. If anything, he is becoming like his creation, with all the Frankensteinian overtones you want.
It's probably something else already. My children seem to have no problems pretending that the massively over-specific toys their aunts buy them are something they only vaguely resemble.
Unfortunately the trees in our yard are not conducive to supporting any kind of treehouse.
Perhaps you can explain (preferably without shouting) why it is preferable to have one mile of single lane tailback to half a mile of two-lane tailback.
The Institute of Advanced Motorists says this: "In our view, the sensible advice for all lane merging situations is that drivers should reduce their speed and increase the gap between themselves and the vehicle in front. All available lanes should be used right up to where the lane closure begins and vehicles should merge in turn - one from the left, one from the right, and so on."
I suppose you are the person who attempts to drive in both lanes at once in an attempt to stop me using the road?
floor it up to the barrels and arrow-board in a construction area and FORCES her way in to the merged traffic at the last second
There's a perfectly usable lane up to the point the barrels start. Just because you pulled into the stationary left lane a mile and a half ago is no reason for you to try to prevent me from merging.
Some people get uncomfortable or angry. Others think about it and say they don't know. Others start drawing on the table. This can tell you a lot about the person.
I prefer to pose open-ended questions. One of my all time favourites was actually asked of me: you have been asked to implement the back end of an online game of Monopoly in C++. Discuss.
Pyramid schemes do work - just not by the stage that complete strangers are asking you to join. They work very well for the people who start them and their friends at level 1.
The USA for one had NO REASON TO STICK MILITARY AT THE AIRPORTS BEFORE SEPT. 11. They do now.
Please explain how a military presence at airports would have prevented the 9/11 hijackings.
Perhaps you're being extremely insightful, in that the USA does have a reason to place military units in airports now, and that reason is to make people feel more secure.
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Right now we're at the flaming torches stage. Pitchforks and scythes aren't too far off. Better have Igor stack a few more chairs against the lab door.
So the author's idea of an "active" interface is a flashing cursor? Linux has any number of these from the *shes to the various xterms.
I'm not sure I want my computer to be doing anything when I turn it on. Unless I have multiple power-on buttons like "Form of a Wordprocessor" and "Form of a Web Browser", how is this general purpose device to know what I want it to do? Instant-on would help a lot, but you still have to tell the box what you want it to do.
Perhaps a pseudo-command line is the way to go. Start typing first, and then have the box try to guess if this is a URL, an email, a shopping list or the Great American Novel. It would kind of suck to end up at ItWasADarkAndStormyNight.com, though.
Prob(no Cindy today) = 1 - 0.0000039 = 0.9999961
Prob(no Cindy for 70 years) = 0.9999961 ^ (70 * 365) = 0.9052 or thereabouts, don't feel like firing up the calculator again
Prob(Cindy sometime in the next 70 years) = 1 - 0.9052 = 0.0948 ~= 9.5%
Assuming that those odds don't change, you have a 9.5% chance of Cindy cooking you breakfast at some point in the next 70 years.
Poorly written, too. It felt like whoever wrote it was not a native speaker of the English language.
Ywhich had a distribution of over a million. So clearly, some people liked the product.
They sent me a years worth of copies, free, without any instigation on my part. So I was probably one of the million at one point, even though the damn thing went straight from the mailbox to the recycle bin.
and I claim my five pounds
Cattleprod.
Air-conditioned, psychoanalysed
You're very nearly human you're so well disguised.
Whereas MS is like a pedigree puppy: very expensive to buy, very expensive to maintain, and prone to all sorts of very exciting diseases caused by generations of inbreeding.
They don't have to. Corporations like HPQ will do a fine job of abridging freedom of speech without any help from the government.
s/create/purchase/
I'm not sure he was condemning this behaviour. This is exactly what ALICE does. If anything, he is becoming like his creation, with all the Frankensteinian overtones you want.
It's probably something else already. My children seem to have no problems pretending that the massively over-specific toys their aunts buy them are something they only vaguely resemble.
Unfortunately the trees in our yard are not conducive to supporting any kind of treehouse.
for you:
- slower than the slowest thing you can possibly imagine;
- randomly corrupt one file in 1,000;
- randomly return the wrong version of a file;
- sorting a directory by check-in timestamp, apart from one or two files that it inserts randomly into the list elsewhere;
- using client timestamps, so if you have a small fix you end up checking it in before the last guy did (since he's a timezone ahead of you);
- unusable over a 384kb VPN;
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Use both lanes.
Slow down.
Increase the distance between you and the car in front.
Merge 1 for 1 when the lane actually closes.
People who do it wrong have no reason to get angry at people who are doing it right. Even if they are in the majority.
But in a .net, those holes are small enough to stop a dot from slipping through.
The situation would be vastly improved if everyone didn't crowd into the non-closing lane like a bunch of lemmings.
Please explain why the Institute of Advanced Motorists is wrong. Preferably without resorting to death threats.
Perhaps you can explain (preferably without shouting) why it is preferable to have one mile of single lane tailback to half a mile of two-lane tailback.
The Institute of Advanced Motorists says this: "In our view, the sensible advice for all lane merging situations is that drivers should reduce their speed and increase the gap between themselves and the vehicle in front. All available lanes should be used right up to where the lane closure begins and vehicles should merge in turn - one from the left, one from the right, and so on."
I suppose you are the person who attempts to drive in both lanes at once in an attempt to stop me using the road?
floor it up to the barrels and arrow-board in a construction area and FORCES her way in to the merged traffic at the last second
There's a perfectly usable lane up to the point the barrels start. Just because you pulled into the stationary left lane a mile and a half ago is no reason for you to try to prevent me from merging.
Some people get uncomfortable or angry. Others think about it and say they don't know. Others start drawing on the table. This can tell you a lot about the person.
I prefer to pose open-ended questions. One of my all time favourites was actually asked of me: you have been asked to implement the back end of an online game of Monopoly in C++. Discuss.
July 2002: Linux Journal still not capable of withstanding a slashdotting.
Pyramid schemes do work - just not by the stage that complete strangers are asking you to join. They work very well for the people who start them and their friends at level 1.
The USA for one had NO REASON TO STICK MILITARY AT THE AIRPORTS BEFORE SEPT. 11. They do now.
Please explain how a military presence at airports would have prevented the 9/11 hijackings.
Perhaps you're being extremely insightful, in that the USA does have a reason to place military units in airports now, and that reason is to make people feel more secure.
MAC addresses can be faked. I just need to find the MAC address of a trusted user, which will be easy once the WEP is cracked.