"Dongle as the name of a device was used well before 1980 within the telecoms industry to refer to BNC cable joiners of either sex (such as the RG58 cable used on 10 meg Ethernet)."
If I am paying for a system, I expect the people I am paying to have paid some testers to test it. Maybe even to have used a test driven development model. If they push that activity out to the public, then they should pay for it out of the money they expect to make - perhaps offer a ten quid off token to everyone who installs Vista Beta and signs up for a test scheme from it?
Next, if I donate my time to an OSS test schedule, then statistically, I am indeed rewarded by getting a slightly better system, as there is a chance that I am the corner case that sees a bug.
Your first argument is thus the same as your second with opposite conclusions. By your second argument's logic, if I vote, I still don't sway the eventual result, I still just get what everyone else gets. So my reward is... absolutely nothing. Do I still get to bitch?
At least I don't have to pay to vote and then still have to put up with Neo Cons / New Labour (delete as applicable).
I've thought for ages that the backspace key should be moved to take half the space of the space bar. If I could remove errors as fast as I could add spaces, I'd be laughing. I hardly ever make errors when typing english, but when I code and need to put in other characters, often I miss. The GP post is prolly right for pure English, but rubbish when you frequently need to use colons, semi-colons, dollars, quotes (both kinds) which the keyboard does not put within easy reach.
Also, I never use the right thumb when typing - the left does all the spaces. That's a complete waste of a digit!
Tell me *eactly* how I can get the money back for that 3rd series of 24/Lost/Family Guy back when I've opened the packed, watched half of it and discovered it sucks?
Tell me how I can subscribe to (say) 24 (I'm in the UK) without having to buy all the rest of Sky?
Tell me how I, as a citizen of the world, get to choose how and why I pay for TV entertainment without being forced to pay for a lot of dross too?
No. We need a new way. P2P will replace broadcast. The **AAs of the world simply need to work out how their new business model will work.
Indeed - the REXX/XEDIT commands (which would almost certainly be present, in the same way sed is on unix) would be exactly analogous to the sed commands.
That's not really a criticism of the op who genuinely made a cool hack though. That's a criticism of the mainframe team at his place of work who didn't know that the facility to automate their edits existed on their own machine.
Product ships late because of bug fixes. Why did you think you could do it so quickly?
Product ships on time with bugs. Why didn't you tell us? Did you think we wouldn't notice?
I very much doubt you ever need a million points to do that... I suspect that if you are ever used more than the current 65k then you would just be wasting your own time waiting for the graph to be generated!
Don't talk crap. I just threw the Ubuntu Dapper Drake Beta on mine and everything has worked perfectly.
Actually, that's not quite true: I've just found a tiny tiny bug that I'm about to report. ImageMagick can't find mpeg2encode which is almost certainly a package dependency issue.
I'm fond of the current limit on excel, it forces analysts to think about their tool selection sometimes.
Which in answer to you, I would change to:
I'm fond of the current limit on excel, it forces users to think about their data needs sometimes.
No-one, but no-one, needs a million lines of detail. They will not read them. They need to find a better way of reporting if they are generating this much data.
I saw a hydrogen accident once... a truck delivering H2 to the University of Southampton Physics Department (where I was an undergrad) went to fast over a speed-bump and fractured a canister (well, prolly the valve actually).
The H2 went up in a huge column incredibly quickly. How could we tell, you may ask, as it's transparent! Well, the condensation made a thick black column like a very small thunderhead rain cloud.
Certainly not dangerous by any measure. Unless you were on top of it, or possibly indoors.
If you can prove complicity in the theft on the part of the reporters, then your situation is exactly analogous. If, on the other hand, this is a whistle-blower bringing information to the journalist, then you're simply wrong.
Please tell your friend I'm sorry for her. Either because she feels she needs to take money to do something she knows is bad and wrong, or because she actually is morally bankrupt.
Oh wait, you said she's a lawyer? Then I'm sorry that she's morally bankrupt.
"First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". True in the 1600s, true now.
Compared to countries with liberal gun laws, yes. We've just had a case where a man stabbed a woman during a burglary, and she died. It's been headline news on every news source as it's extreme for a burglar to attack someone, let alone kill them.
The UK for example, does not allow its citizens to own handguns.
Just to make sure we understand one another, by far the majority of people over here think that's a big, big plus.
Incidentally, we did have the head of our police on the radio the other day clarifying what you can do if you find a burglar in your house: hit him as hard as possible with the biggest thing you can find (eg baseball bat, golf club etc). This seems sufficient to me.
More precisely, those words exactly represent the bewilderment of the journalist who was faced with a big bunch of numbers and told to write an article on them.
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I believe I have identified your problem: crap design in your "ground up" new operating system.
Either that or you lied about the "ground up" bit and it's just another new UI/HAL interaction layer built on the same old tweaked NT kernel.
Or maybe you meant "ground up" in the same sense as mechanically recovered head meat...?
Love, Justin.
"There are no nouns that cannot be verbed"
~an anonymous American overheard.
Blech.
Justin.
No farmers unionised, no empires thrown out, no grand unifed theory, and not a single puppet!?
Surely you see their point! Their advertising is empty! Empty, I tell you!
Justin.
"Dongle as the name of a device was used well before 1980 within the telecoms industry to refer to BNC cable joiners of either sex (such as the RG58 cable used on 10 meg Ethernet)."
Justin.
You've drunk the cool-aid mate.
If I am paying for a system, I expect the people I am paying to have paid some testers to test it. Maybe even to have used a test driven development model. If they push that activity out to the public, then they should pay for it out of the money they expect to make - perhaps offer a ten quid off token to everyone who installs Vista Beta and signs up for a test scheme from it?
Next, if I donate my time to an OSS test schedule, then statistically, I am indeed rewarded by getting a slightly better system, as there is a chance that I am the corner case that sees a bug.
Your first argument is thus the same as your second with opposite conclusions. By your second argument's logic, if I vote, I still don't sway the eventual result, I still just get what everyone else gets. So my reward is... absolutely nothing. Do I still get to bitch?
At least I don't have to pay to vote and then still have to put up with Neo Cons / New Labour (delete as applicable).
Justin.
I've thought for ages that the backspace key should be moved to take half the space of the space bar. If I could remove errors as fast as I could add spaces, I'd be laughing. I hardly ever make errors when typing english, but when I code and need to put in other characters, often I miss. The GP post is prolly right for pure English, but rubbish when you frequently need to use colons, semi-colons, dollars, quotes (both kinds) which the keyboard does not put within easy reach.
Also, I never use the right thumb when typing - the left does all the spaces. That's a complete waste of a digit!
Justin.
Tell me *eactly* how I can get the money back for that 3rd series of 24/Lost/Family Guy back when I've opened the packed, watched half of it and discovered it sucks?
Tell me how I can subscribe to (say) 24 (I'm in the UK) without having to buy all the rest of Sky?
Tell me how I, as a citizen of the world, get to choose how and why I pay for TV entertainment without being forced to pay for a lot of dross too?
No. We need a new way. P2P will replace broadcast. The **AAs of the world simply need to work out how their new business model will work.
Justin.
THEY BOTH DISPLAY LIKE MDI, NOT CDI, SO WHAT THE FUCK IS THE PATTERN HERE, YOU OFFICE FUCKHEADS? EH? EH?!
Justin.
That's not really a criticism of the op who genuinely made a cool hack though. That's a criticism of the mainframe team at his place of work who didn't know that the facility to automate their edits existed on their own machine.
Justin.
Product ships late because of bug fixes. Why did you think you could do it so quickly?
Product ships on time with bugs. Why didn't you tell us? Did you think we wouldn't notice?
There. That's better.
Justin.
I very much doubt you ever need a million points to do that... I suspect that if you are ever used more than the current 65k then you would just be wasting your own time waiting for the graph to be generated!
Justin.
Don't talk crap. I just threw the Ubuntu Dapper Drake Beta on mine and everything has worked perfectly.
Actually, that's not quite true: I've just found a tiny tiny bug that I'm about to report. ImageMagick can't find mpeg2encode which is almost certainly a package dependency issue.
That's all.
Everything else Just Works TM.
J.
Which in answer to you, I would change to:
No-one, but no-one, needs a million lines of detail. They will not read them. They need to find a better way of reporting if they are generating this much data.
Justin.
I saw a hydrogen accident once... a truck delivering H2 to the University of Southampton Physics Department (where I was an undergrad) went to fast over a speed-bump and fractured a canister (well, prolly the valve actually).
The H2 went up in a huge column incredibly quickly. How could we tell, you may ask, as it's transparent! Well, the condensation made a thick black column like a very small thunderhead rain cloud.
Certainly not dangerous by any measure. Unless you were on top of it, or possibly indoors.
Justin.
If you can prove complicity in the theft on the part of the reporters, then your situation is exactly analogous. If, on the other hand, this is a whistle-blower bringing information to the journalist, then you're simply wrong.
Cheers,
Justin.
What you are saying boils down to this: the government can prosecute people for saying things the government wished to keep secret.
I think you'll need an amendment to manage that one.
(The government could prosecute someone for breaking in and stealing that secret, sure, but not for saying it out loud.)
Justin.
A Brit.
A GUI, so that MSCEs can use it.
Justin.
I agree. Interestingly though, my gp comment got modded troll, not insightful. Guess it's just you and me with the morals then... ;-)
J.
Please tell your friend I'm sorry for her. Either because she feels she needs to take money to do something she knows is bad and wrong, or because she actually is morally bankrupt.
Oh wait, you said she's a lawyer? Then I'm sorry that she's morally bankrupt.
"First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". True in the 1600s, true now.
Justin.
Compared to countries with liberal gun laws, yes. We've just had a case where a man stabbed a woman during a burglary, and she died. It's been headline news on every news source as it's extreme for a burglar to attack someone, let alone kill them.
J.
Due to the previously mentioned facts that hardly anyone has a gun in their house, and they're illegal, burglars here don't carry them.
Justin.
Just to make sure we understand one another, by far the majority of people over here think that's a big, big plus.
Incidentally, we did have the head of our police on the radio the other day clarifying what you can do if you find a burglar in your house: hit him as hard as possible with the biggest thing you can find (eg baseball bat, golf club etc). This seems sufficient to me.
Justin.
J.
Consider wearing on left ear?
HTH!
J.
Sorry about that ;-)
J.