Hey, I benefited from almost the exact same problem. I was test driving a program car, and it drove like a dream - except when I turned the steering wheel all the way to the side. Then it sounded like someone had a low-speed metal grinder under the hood. I told the salesman, and he pulled the car's record to look into it. As it turns out, the previous owner had tried to get that noise fixed maybe 5 times, but their dealer couldn't permanently repair it, so the owner returned it under their state's lemon law. My local dealer asked if I'd be interested in the car if they could fix it, so I went home to let them dig around inside.
As it turns out, there's a corrugated metal hose near the steering mechanism. When you turned the wheel all the way, it pushed a motor against that hose and caused the noise. The permanent fix? A plastic wire tie to pull the hose half an inch to the side. I got the car in mint condition for half price eight years ago, and I'm still driving it today.
Ummm, this is an obligatory car analogy to the laptops, so don't mod me off-topic.
My favorite is the "adaptive scoring" method, which looks at header information and body text and applies a kind of Bayesian filter to highlight threads you might be interested in, based on what you've read before. Dang, that's slick.
I've tried some newer GUI readers, but nothing has ever even gotten into the same ballpark as Gnus.
The interesting thing about free markets is that it doesn't matter what the producers want. The consumers have said that software must be cheaper. I'm glad that not all companies are going to fight it til the end, and are instead showing signs of embracing it. Seriously, good for them!
An open source person with an anti-corporate message!? I don't believe it.
This will blow your mind, then: a Free Software fan who doesn't mind corporations in the slightest. As long as an entity plays by the rules, I don't care what kind of a legal construct they are.
I like business. I love capitalism. I see Free Software being the logical end state of software development in a free market, and enjoy seeing these huge companies starting to realize it.
Let's say someone invents a new file system, that lets you access files almost as quickly but with many times the protection against data corruption. Why would this not be patentable?
For precisely the same reason that Newton's method for finding roots isn't patentable, even though it's clearly better and faster than just guessing around.
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Enderle is a joke, as his track record is abysmal.
I started learning it by playing with the menus, finding what I wanted, and using the displayed keyboard shortcuts to do it. I actually love Emacs and prefer it to Vim, but not a month goes by that I don't discover some handy feature that's been there for decades. "Learning GNU Emacs" was invaluable, too. Even the newbie chapters taught me things I didn't know that I didn't know.
You don't solve that by changing editors. You solve that by standardizing on a version control system and using it. For example, you could stick a Subversion server somehwere on your network, then install TortoiseSVN on your client machines. When you edit the file, you commit it with a log message of why you made the changes.
This is infinitely preferable to forcing all of your developers to use one specific editor (which is the universal holy war among programmers), when all of them will be half-assed at best when compared to real version control.
what are you talking about?? WTF???? I think you don't have that half of brain you mentioned before! Foxconn are horrible quality??? Foxconn produce the electronic boards for most of the electronics you use every day!
OK, we get it: they're a good company to work for. Still, McDonald's sells more hamburgers than everyone else, and yet they suck.
How's that a troll? The guy was a sociopath. Read the definition and see if it's not a perfect fit. The innocent child's death is horrible, but the wife married someone borderline criminally insane and enjoyed the fruits of his fraud. That doesn't mean she deserved to die, but she's no more blameless than someone who tries to beat a train through an intersection. What did she think would happen? Even though he got rich defrauding millions and annoying billions, he'd treat her with respect and dignity?
I feel bad for the kid that was killed by its loser of a father. The wife, though, presumably had no problem with her asshole husband ruining things for everyone so she could have a new TV. I just can't feel too sympathetic for her. I mean, what do you expect when you hitch your fortunes to a sociopath? "Ooh, he makes a good living through fraud and jackassery. I bet he'll treat me well!"
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Hey, I benefited from almost the exact same problem. I was test driving a program car, and it drove like a dream - except when I turned the steering wheel all the way to the side. Then it sounded like someone had a low-speed metal grinder under the hood. I told the salesman, and he pulled the car's record to look into it. As it turns out, the previous owner had tried to get that noise fixed maybe 5 times, but their dealer couldn't permanently repair it, so the owner returned it under their state's lemon law. My local dealer asked if I'd be interested in the car if they could fix it, so I went home to let them dig around inside.
As it turns out, there's a corrugated metal hose near the steering mechanism. When you turned the wheel all the way, it pushed a motor against that hose and caused the noise. The permanent fix? A plastic wire tie to pull the hose half an inch to the side. I got the car in mint condition for half price eight years ago, and I'm still driving it today.
Ummm, this is an obligatory car analogy to the laptops, so don't mod me off-topic.
My favorite is the "adaptive scoring" method, which looks at header information and body text and applies a kind of Bayesian filter to highlight threads you might be interested in, based on what you've read before. Dang, that's slick.
I've tried some newer GUI readers, but nothing has ever even gotten into the same ballpark as Gnus.
I was a collaborative effort.
Tell your mom I said hi.
I'd use gnus, except I don't have enough hard drive space to install emacs.
We call those "floppies" now, even if the outside is rigid.
The interesting thing about free markets is that it doesn't matter what the producers want. The consumers have said that software must be cheaper. I'm glad that not all companies are going to fight it til the end, and are instead showing signs of embracing it. Seriously, good for them!
Google Groups *is* the same thing as Usenet, because that is exactly what it is, a easy to use web front end to Usenet.
Where "easy to use" means "one tenth the features of a decent newsreader, but slower and more awkward". Long live Gnus.
An open source person with an anti-corporate message!? I don't believe it.
This will blow your mind, then: a Free Software fan who doesn't mind corporations in the slightest. As long as an entity plays by the rules, I don't care what kind of a legal construct they are.
I like business. I love capitalism. I see Free Software being the logical end state of software development in a free market, and enjoy seeing these huge companies starting to realize it.
Let's say someone invents a new file system, that lets you access files almost as quickly but with many times the protection against data corruption. Why would this not be patentable?
For precisely the same reason that Newton's method for finding roots isn't patentable, even though it's clearly better and faster than just guessing around.
Enderle is a joke, as his track record is abysmal.
Fixed that for you.
A 32MB file being edited in a browser form. That's like what evil programmers have to do in hell.
Its just getting past that feature abundance, it puts me off in a way that's hard to explain.
If it makes you feel better, I ignore a lot of stuff you can do with Vim. :-)
Oh, I'd say they're probably about a tenth of him. That sounds about right.
I started learning it by playing with the menus, finding what I wanted, and using the displayed keyboard shortcuts to do it. I actually love Emacs and prefer it to Vim, but not a month goes by that I don't discover some handy feature that's been there for decades. "Learning GNU Emacs" was invaluable, too. Even the newbie chapters taught me things I didn't know that I didn't know.
You don't read it all at once. It's meant to be sipped, a mindful at a time as needed, then left be while you digest what you've taken in.
'cause the alternative is just nuts.
Version control is a good choice for programmers, but with current interfaces (that I know) not for much of anyone else.
TortoiseSVN: right-click the changed file, select "commit". Write why you changed it. Click OK.
I don't have to interact with Windows that often, but when I do, TortoiseSVN is one of the things that makes it more tolerable.
The suit here is so that they can figure out who it is and avoid giving the person tickets in the future.
That's a lot cheaper than, say, printing the owner's name on the tickets.
You don't solve that by changing editors. You solve that by standardizing on a version control system and using it. For example, you could stick a Subversion server somehwere on your network, then install TortoiseSVN on your client machines. When you edit the file, you commit it with a log message of why you made the changes.
This is infinitely preferable to forcing all of your developers to use one specific editor (which is the universal holy war among programmers), when all of them will be half-assed at best when compared to real version control.
what are you talking about?? WTF???? I think you don't have that half of brain you mentioned before! Foxconn are horrible quality??? Foxconn produce the electronic boards for most of the electronics you use every day!
OK, we get it: they're a good company to work for. Still, McDonald's sells more hamburgers than everyone else, and yet they suck.
How's that a troll? The guy was a sociopath. Read the definition and see if it's not a perfect fit. The innocent child's death is horrible, but the wife married someone borderline criminally insane and enjoyed the fruits of his fraud. That doesn't mean she deserved to die, but she's no more blameless than someone who tries to beat a train through an intersection. What did she think would happen? Even though he got rich defrauding millions and annoying billions, he'd treat her with respect and dignity?
It should also be a lesson to all you married folks out there that feel you should help your spouse break jail...
No offense, but that doesn't really come up all that often.
It was meant as a joke. Laugh. :-)
I feel bad for the kid that was killed by its loser of a father. The wife, though, presumably had no problem with her asshole husband ruining things for everyone so she could have a new TV. I just can't feel too sympathetic for her. I mean, what do you expect when you hitch your fortunes to a sociopath? "Ooh, he makes a good living through fraud and jackassery. I bet he'll treat me well!"
Yeah, I thought about that after I posted. Let me try again:
I always said that Microsoft was pretty good as a peripherals company.
I always said that Microsoft was pretty good as a hardware company.