Interesting, and unfortunately plausible theory for this nonsense decision. For many Obama is still far too the right (despite the neo-cons incredulous claims that he is encouraging more socialism, it is obvious that he won because he was a moderate as opposed to Hillary or a lot of left-wing opinion makers).
That is a country that supported people who attacked civilian populations in our country without a declaration of war. Bush did the right thing attacking them, and Obama is doing the right thing by continuing it.
I think it is incredibly sad that actual moderate politicians are going to be buried again. Not just by the neo-cons, but apparently Obama is going to be sacrificed by the far-left too.
Hey I like Obama and voted for him, but this is crazy.
He has not done anything yet. Maybe he will do something brilliant, so wait and give him the prize then. Maybe instead he will do something terrible in which case you can give the prize to somebody else.
This simply the Nobel committee awarding Bush some kind of "anti-Nobel prize". And I don't like Bush either but this is pretty transparent. Way to go guys, you have discredited yourselves and made the neocons hate you more than ever.
An IDE can do a lot of useful things like this, but I feel that the underlying data structure has to be a stream of bytes and that it must be allowed to at least temporarily contain invalid text sequences.
The problem is that the conversion to this supposedly wonderful "Unicode string" (really meaning a UTF-16 string) is what is truncating it. Therefore the blame lies entirely on this "Unicode string" that you think so highly of.
I have tried to educate people before, but they are so enamored with the politically-correct idea that all langauges get equal-sized letters that they are willing to program complete moronic crap that they would never consider in any other context, just because the string is "text".
Truth: the bytes should be compared. None of this bullshit of "converting them to Unicode" (which is really just transcribing them to a different encoding of Unicode). But Microsoft has drunk the kool aid and we are living with the result.
I'm looking forward to languages that... leave simple character representation (ASCII e.a.) behind.
I worked on such a thing in 1983 at DEC (look up my MIT thesis to see). Structural editing.
Conclusion: it was an absolute disaster. Programmers cannot use this. Most of the work was in altering it to be as much like a plain text editor as possible.
"installer" means "it won't be done by most Apple users".
For Linux, you are not going to get it unless you run an installer anyway. That keeps the amount of Linux way down, however the share of them that are dual-boot is going to be much much higher, because the additional work of making it dual boot over just making it run Linux is almost nil.
This is bogus, it has nothing to do with affluence or computer savvy or need for a Windows box, and is simply an effect of Windows market dominance.
Lets assume that Apple has 7% of the market, and that 80% of the computer owners in the world decide to get a second computer, and COMPLETELY AT RANDOM 7% of them buy an Apple and the others buy a Windows machine. Now lets see what the results are:
a =.07 # number that buy Apple
p =.8 # number that buy 2 computers
W = (1-a)(1-p) =.186 # have 1 windows machine
A = a(1-p) =.014 # have 1 apple machine
WW= (1-a)*(1-a)*p =.692 # have 2 windows machines
AA= a*a*p =.004 # have 2 apple machines
WA=2*a*(1-a)*p =.104 # have one of each
allA = A+AA+WA =.122 # have at least 1 apple machine
WA/allA =.853 # fraction that also have a windows machine
I would think dual-boot machines with Windows would be much more common than a second Windows box. Dual-boot lets you reuse the peripherals.
Modern Apples are dual-boot as well but they don't come that way so that probably stops a lot of people who otherwise would want Windows for something. For somebody installing Linux the extra work to dual-boot with Windows is nil, there is a checkmark on the installer (this is assuming the machine already has Windows, which is true for 99% of them).
The first mice had three buttons (such as on the Alto and the Lisp machine and even earlier devices). I don't think I ever saw an example with less than 3 buttons (there were plenty that had more) until the initial Microsoft mouse came out with 2, and then the Macintosh and Lisa with one.
Cars on trains is not a new idea, and is used quite a bit in the Chunnel, there was also the Amtrak service down to Florida (not sure if it is still running).
My impression from how much these are used is that it is nowhere near as popular as you think it might be. Loading/unloading the train is a serious time sink.
This is total bullshit. I built a house in Los Angeles. The big money went to the contractor. All the permits were billed separately and I therefore know they were on the order of several thousand dollars, not the ludricous $100,000 you claim.
It is quite amazing and I think unlikely that riding a train makes it physically impossible to use a car for part of the same trip. That appears to be the basics of your argument, however.
I feel like this guy has a legitimate complaint. Especially if it is not obvious that the other person is doing a parody. Also apparently he used a photo for the twitter id, that would be a copyright infringement.
Just to show how completely out of it I am, I don't know a thing about Twitter.
Is it really possible for a person to make posts that look just like another person's posts? Or is it more like Slashdot where if you don't know their password the best you can do is make a new account with a creative misspelling of their name? Exactly what is this guy doing?
How is it legal for a single company to own BOTH the internet companies in your neighborhood (cable and dsl)? Sounds like a reason to file an antitrust lawsuit.
So, if you were in charge of Microsoft's advertising, what would you do differently?
They could print some little viral ads that say "we don't waste money on flashy/trendy advertising, we are instead writing better software". Or make a big joke ad where they fire their advertising agency and decide to hire engineers with the money instead.
Or don't advertise at all, it is pointless, it has *nothing* to do with Microsoft's market share or success. Really a guy goes to the store and buys a Dell, the don't know or care that $50 went to Microsoft. "Windows" as far as they know is a what the computer does the moment it is soldered together and means as much to them as a screw hidden inside the case or the spring that pops the CD out.
All I can say is that I have not seen any insults at all.
I tend to put the Ubuntu version into my searches, ie "Feisty" along with the problem. This works really well if it is an error message. Perhaps that is limiting me to the non-insult forums, but I just have not seen this at all. And this is for at least 5 years.
Again a pointer to a forum showing insults would go a long way to proving your point.
I agree with this. Not using Windows much, I actually blamed a lot of stupidity on the Gnome and KDE designers, such as the silly fact that "power saving for the monitor" is considered something completely different than "the screen saver". I was rather suprised once when trying to get the screen saver activated on their Windows machine to find it EXACTLY the same stupid design! So they copied something stupid from Windows, probably because some tester was used to it. This is not how to fix things. I'm reasonably certain that if turning off the screen power was on the screen saver setup even a long-time Windows user would find it and not be confused.
Some other stuff about font setup and how to configure wireless, which I also thought was insane stupid Gnome designs, I also discovered was copied from Windows.
Ubuntu worked out of the box with a Wacom Intuious 2 tablet (a few years old, missing a pen that I bought a replacement for, that damn pen was $40!). Quick test with some code I had shows it reporting pen angle and other info, though I see no software using it. Nuke (our commercial software) did pick up the pen pressure and two ends, I don't think it is using the pen angle at all however.
Gimp also picked it up but required a bunch of mysterious fiddling before it started treating the pen & eraser as different than the mouse, it sure looks to me like that could be improved a lot, since it certainly recognized the pen so why not at least guess at a useable setup? That is the sort of problems Linux (and everybody else including Windows and OS/X) have in their software, sometimes it is obvious you cannot blame anything other than programmer ineptitude and panic about compatability, it is obvious the program has all the information it needs so you cannot blame closed drivers or physical impossibility for anything.
Another example: people complain about the sound not working on Linux. Now if no sound ever came out I would probably not complain too much, figure they did not get information on the sound card. But far too often (well, it is better now) sound would work and then fail in the middle, until reboot. That is obviously a programming mistake that cannot be blamed on anybody else.
I would be interested in seeing actual links to such responses, rather than your anecdotes.
When I have searched for Linux problems I have either found a solution, or (too often) I have found somebody asking the question but there is no answer at all. I have never seen an insult or wrong solution ever presented.
I agree with this, it is making unmaintainable write-only code.
A rule I try to follow: unless you actually have, right NOW, two or more derived classes, DON'T MAKE A BASE CLASS! Just make one class that does what you want and stop trying to be clever or so conceited that you think your code is valuable enough to "reuse".
I certainly see systems where the inheritance diagram is a straight line far too often.
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Interesting, and unfortunately plausible theory for this nonsense decision. For many Obama is still far too the right (despite the neo-cons incredulous claims that he is encouraging more socialism, it is obvious that he won because he was a moderate as opposed to Hillary or a lot of left-wing opinion makers).
That is a country that supported people who attacked civilian populations in our country without a declaration of war. Bush did the right thing attacking them, and Obama is doing the right thing by continuing it.
I think it is incredibly sad that actual moderate politicians are going to be buried again. Not just by the neo-cons, but apparently Obama is going to be sacrificed by the far-left too.
Hey I like Obama and voted for him, but this is crazy.
He has not done anything yet. Maybe he will do something brilliant, so wait and give him the prize then. Maybe instead he will do something terrible in which case you can give the prize to somebody else.
This simply the Nobel committee awarding Bush some kind of "anti-Nobel prize". And I don't like Bush either but this is pretty transparent. Way to go guys, you have discredited yourselves and made the neocons hate you more than ever.
An IDE can do a lot of useful things like this, but I feel that the underlying data structure has to be a stream of bytes and that it must be allowed to at least temporarily contain invalid text sequences.
The problem is that the conversion to this supposedly wonderful "Unicode string" (really meaning a UTF-16 string) is what is truncating it. Therefore the blame lies entirely on this "Unicode string" that you think so highly of.
I have tried to educate people before, but they are so enamored with the politically-correct idea that all langauges get equal-sized letters that they are willing to program complete moronic crap that they would never consider in any other context, just because the string is "text".
Truth: the bytes should be compared. None of this bullshit of "converting them to Unicode" (which is really just transcribing them to a different encoding of Unicode). But Microsoft has drunk the kool aid and we are living with the result.
I'm looking forward to languages that ... leave simple character representation (ASCII e.a.) behind.
I worked on such a thing in 1983 at DEC (look up my MIT thesis to see). Structural editing.
Conclusion: it was an absolute disaster. Programmers cannot use this. Most of the work was in altering it to be as much like a plain text editor as possible.
Don't think you have an amazing new idea.
"installer" means "it won't be done by most Apple users".
For Linux, you are not going to get it unless you run an installer anyway. That keeps the amount of Linux way down, however the share of them that are dual-boot is going to be much much higher, because the additional work of making it dual boot over just making it run Linux is almost nil.
This is bogus, it has nothing to do with affluence or computer savvy or need for a Windows box, and is simply an effect of Windows market dominance.
Lets assume that Apple has 7% of the market, and that 80% of the computer owners in the world decide to get a second computer, and COMPLETELY AT RANDOM 7% of them buy an Apple and the others buy a Windows machine. Now lets see what the results are:
a = .07 # number that buy Apple .8 # number that buy 2 computers .186 # have 1 windows machine .014 # have 1 apple machine .692 # have 2 windows machines .004 # have 2 apple machines .104 # have one of each
p =
W = (1-a)(1-p) =
A = a(1-p) =
WW= (1-a)*(1-a)*p =
AA= a*a*p =
WA=2*a*(1-a)*p =
allA = A+AA+WA = .122 # have at least 1 apple machine .853 # fraction that also have a windows machine
WA/allA =
This is exactly what they are getting.
I would think dual-boot machines with Windows would be much more common than a second Windows box. Dual-boot lets you reuse the peripherals.
Modern Apples are dual-boot as well but they don't come that way so that probably stops a lot of people who otherwise would want Windows for something. For somebody installing Linux the extra work to dual-boot with Windows is nil, there is a checkmark on the installer (this is assuming the machine already has Windows, which is true for 99% of them).
The first mice had three buttons (such as on the Alto and the Lisp machine and even earlier devices). I don't think I ever saw an example with less than 3 buttons (there were plenty that had more) until the initial Microsoft mouse came out with 2, and then the Macintosh and Lisa with one.
So multiple buttons are hardly a new idea.
Cars on trains is not a new idea, and is used quite a bit in the Chunnel, there was also the Amtrak service down to Florida (not sure if it is still running).
My impression from how much these are used is that it is nowhere near as popular as you think it might be. Loading/unloading the train is a serious time sink.
The last place that I want to be is in a train doing 150 MPH when an earthquake hits.
Yea, that's why they never use trains in Japan!
This is total bullshit. I built a house in Los Angeles. The big money went to the contractor. All the permits were billed separately and I therefore know they were on the order of several thousand dollars, not the ludricous $100,000 you claim.
It is quite amazing and I think unlikely that riding a train makes it physically impossible to use a car for part of the same trip. That appears to be the basics of your argument, however.
Thanks for the explanation.
I feel like this guy has a legitimate complaint. Especially if it is not obvious that the other person is doing a parody. Also apparently he used a photo for the twitter id, that would be a copyright infringement.
Just to show how completely out of it I am, I don't know a thing about Twitter.
Is it really possible for a person to make posts that look just like another person's posts? Or is it more like Slashdot where if you don't know their password the best you can do is make a new account with a creative misspelling of their name? Exactly what is this guy doing?
What I meant was making the government do anything is often dismissed as "socialism" even if in this case it is to force competition.
How is it legal for a single company to own BOTH the internet companies in your neighborhood (cable and dsl)? Sounds like a reason to file an antitrust lawsuit.
OMG! Socialism! How dare you!
Sorry I've never heard of an "Apple party".
Obviously the quality of the product at Microsoft is inversely proportional to the quality of the marketing.
Hardly. Windows 95 had the start-it-up campaign and it is also easily the biggest improvement they ever did to the system.
So, if you were in charge of Microsoft's advertising, what would you do differently?
They could print some little viral ads that say "we don't waste money on flashy/trendy advertising, we are instead writing better software". Or make a big joke ad where they fire their advertising agency and decide to hire engineers with the money instead.
Or don't advertise at all, it is pointless, it has *nothing* to do with Microsoft's market share or success. Really a guy goes to the store and buys a Dell, the don't know or care that $50 went to Microsoft. "Windows" as far as they know is a what the computer does the moment it is soldered together and means as much to them as a screw hidden inside the case or the spring that pops the CD out.
All I can say is that I have not seen any insults at all.
I tend to put the Ubuntu version into my searches, ie "Feisty" along with the problem. This works really well if it is an error message. Perhaps that is limiting me to the non-insult forums, but I just have not seen this at all. And this is for at least 5 years.
Again a pointer to a forum showing insults would go a long way to proving your point.
I agree with this. Not using Windows much, I actually blamed a lot of stupidity on the Gnome and KDE designers, such as the silly fact that "power saving for the monitor" is considered something completely different than "the screen saver". I was rather suprised once when trying to get the screen saver activated on their Windows machine to find it EXACTLY the same stupid design! So they copied something stupid from Windows, probably because some tester was used to it. This is not how to fix things. I'm reasonably certain that if turning off the screen power was on the screen saver setup even a long-time Windows user would find it and not be confused.
Some other stuff about font setup and how to configure wireless, which I also thought was insane stupid Gnome designs, I also discovered was copied from Windows.
Ubuntu worked out of the box with a Wacom Intuious 2 tablet (a few years old, missing a pen that I bought a replacement for, that damn pen was $40!). Quick test with some code I had shows it reporting pen angle and other info, though I see no software using it. Nuke (our commercial software) did pick up the pen pressure and two ends, I don't think it is using the pen angle at all however.
Gimp also picked it up but required a bunch of mysterious fiddling before it started treating the pen & eraser as different than the mouse, it sure looks to me like that could be improved a lot, since it certainly recognized the pen so why not at least guess at a useable setup? That is the sort of problems Linux (and everybody else including Windows and OS/X) have in their software, sometimes it is obvious you cannot blame anything other than programmer ineptitude and panic about compatability, it is obvious the program has all the information it needs so you cannot blame closed drivers or physical impossibility for anything.
Another example: people complain about the sound not working on Linux. Now if no sound ever came out I would probably not complain too much, figure they did not get information on the sound card. But far too often (well, it is better now) sound would work and then fail in the middle, until reboot. That is obviously a programming mistake that cannot be blamed on anybody else.
I would be interested in seeing actual links to such responses, rather than your anecdotes.
When I have searched for Linux problems I have either found a solution, or (too often) I have found somebody asking the question but there is no answer at all. I have never seen an insult or wrong solution ever presented.
I agree with this, it is making unmaintainable write-only code.
A rule I try to follow: unless you actually have, right NOW, two or more derived classes, DON'T MAKE A BASE CLASS! Just make one class that does what you want and stop trying to be clever or so conceited that you think your code is valuable enough to "reuse".
I certainly see systems where the inheritance diagram is a straight line far too often.