Your code is clearly too complicated. If you can't glance at it and tell what's going on, it's too complicated.
He can't glance at it and tell what's going on because half of it hasn't been written yet.
Do you people even read the posts you're replying to, or do you just scan them for keywords and paste in ready-made responses from the Pair Programming Evangelist's Handbook?
Don't say that. That attitude does more harm than anything to the software industry.
Imagine what our cities would be like if people took the line that "anyone who can stack two bricks can build"? Well, that's what our software world looks like, precisely because people have taken the line that "anyone who can stick two lines of VB together can code". See thedailywtf for a depressing amount of proof.
The fact is, even in the middle of a downturn, managers don't want to pay for software engineers if they can afford code monkeys. (And they definitely don't want to pay for software engineers if the CEO's nephew is "really good" with computers and needs work experience.) If you want things to get better, don't tell them they need expensive coders -- tell them the truth, that most people who call themselves coders can't code.
realize that NICE denies care to those that could benefit from it greatly.
Welcome to what we call the "real world". In the real world, resources are limited. There isn't enough money to provide treatment to everyone who could benefit from it -- that means you have to deny some people treatment. Full stop.
NICE exists to make sure that the limited resources are spent on cost-effective treatments, not wasted on expensive and ineffective treatments.
Patients should decide when they can AND then with their doctors, what treatments to have. Everyone else needs to stay the f*** out of the decision nexus.
Fine -- go private, then. Private patients can buy whatever treatments they like, and NICE can't do a thing to stop them.
NICE decisions only have any effect whatsoever on the treatments that are provided by the NHS. Treatments that are funded by the taxpayer. What the hell makes you think you're entitled to demand that we pay for whatever treatment you want? If you want something that's not on the menu, you can damn well pay for it yourself.
Okay, then, she just HAPPENED always to land perfectly on her magical leg apparatus. Instead of e.g. landing on her head or her back, like most of us would. What was she, a cat-person?
No; there is much in Gnome that simply cannot be configured, even by experts. Unless you count ripping out complete subsystems and replacing them with non-Gnome components as "configuration", I guess.
And there is a lot more that technically can be configured, but only by editing undocumented gconf settings -- and since they're undocumented, they are subject to change at any time. So you might upgrade to a point release and suddenly your configuration is broken.
Sorry, but while Gnome has many virtues, configurability is not one of them. Those desiring a configurable desktop should look to Kde, or (if they want a Gtk+-based desktop) to Xfce. Or they can roll their own desktop environment by taking a standalone window manager and choosing the utilities they like best.
"Evil"? That's putting it a bit strongly. If you describe espionage as "evil", what words are left for things like torture, child abuse, or terrorism?
Spying violates people's privacy, and I can't say I'd particularly like the idea of having a foreign government snooping around my computer -- but it's hardly on the same level as acts that directly violate people's minds and bodies.
Although drawing a naked baby being raped by guys in rabbit suits might not involve any children who once or ever will exist, it's still obscene.
Indeed it would be. But this law would also make it a criminal offence to draw a married mother having consensual sex with her husband, if the entirely fictional act took place at 11:59 pm on the night before her 18th birthday.
It's a bit weird that NeXTSTEP is on the list. It was rebranded OPENSTEP and then Mac OS X, but it's still shipping.
Not in any real sense. OS X is a direct descendant of NeXTSTEP -- they've even retained the NS- prefix for many objects -- but at the same time a heck of a lot has changed. Quartz is not the same as Display Postscript. The Mac's dock is not the same as the NeXTSTEP dock. And so on.
The NeXTSTEP platform that people knew and loved is essentially dead, and the faithful few keeping its design alive today are using GNUstep, not OS X.
it seems to be the most significant point of failure in most desktop linux setups.
Really? I don't see that many people having problems with it. From the complaints and questions I notice, I'd have thought that wireless networking was the most significant failure point, followed by suspend/hibernate issues.
X generally "just works"; where it fails, it's invariably an issue with proprietary video card drivers, and the problem there is invariably that the drivers are proprietary (so the community can't provide adequate support, like it can for open source drivers). Nothing to do with X itself.
And Microsoft is aware of this. The Office 2007 interface, for example, is designed to make it easier to transition from mouse use to keyboard use. Press Alt, and all the items on the ribbon are labelled with a key. Pressing that key is equivalent to clicking on the item.
Unlike traditional toolbars/menus, you're looking at exactly the same thing regardless of whether you're using the keyboard or the mouse, so it's easier to learn the key sequence, at which point you stop having to look any more.
I can't stand Office and go out of my way to avoid using it whenever possible, but I can at least appreciate the work that's going into making it less of a pain to learn. In a few decades it might finally catch up with Emacs.:)
Now, imagine if you could fetch that 100% oomph when needed from a server farm instead of your own computer...
Do you seriously think that in the near future we're all going to start uploading raw video to the Internet in order to run the processor-intensive editing and compression processes on a server farm?
If so, perhaps I can interest you in my real estate portfolio? It includes several highly affordable bridges and a unique property with unmatched views of Paris.
Back in the real world, we're going to want powerful PCs for a little while yet.
That's RE, not the genre. There have been survival horror games with pretty good controls; System Shock 2 comes to mind. (Of course, there's no way a control scheme like that could be made to work on a console.)
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
And if your goal is the opposite, what is the order in which one removes these boxes from use?
One doesn't.
There's no need to remove the soap box. It's easier just to force your opponents to take even more extreme positions against you, so that people just stop taking them seriously.
There's no need to remove the ballot box. Half the country would still vote for your party even if its leader publicly killed a kitten at every campaign appearance, and the other half would still vote against you even if you were running against Hitler.
There's no need to remove the jury box. You just need to make sure you select the right juries.
And there's no need to remove the ammo box. A bunch of ragtag militias with peashooters can't pose any realistic threat to your rule. (You might, however, beneficially threaten to restrict gun ownership, because that guarantees that all the gun nuts will concentrate exclusively on protecting their precious gun rights, and won't notice anything else you do.)
No, he's thinking about the product sold in America under the name "Swiss cheese". This is not to be confused with the foodstuff popular in Europe that is also, confusingly, called cheese.
"Swiss cheese" is a waxy, rubbery, flavourless chemical solid that differs from regular "cheese" only in the fact that it has holes in. There are persistent rumours that it may be edible.
(Oh, and Emmental is a Swiss cheese. It gets made in France too, but then Cheddar, an English cheese, gets made all over the world, so that doesn't prove much.)
there's absolutely nothing to gain from doing this [...] This fix just makes it easier for people new to the game to find a non-shit server that's actually populated
So, um, is there something to gain from doing this or not? Helping newbies find a decent server sounds like a benefit to me...
That used to be true. Then they invented smartphones and netbooks at exactly the same moment that AJAX started pushing large amounts of processing client-side in an often-inefficient language.
It took about 10 seconds from when I hit the "Reply to this" button until the comment box opened. You bet I'm looking forward to Tracemonkey.
If it looks like a British government institution, sounds like a British government institution, then it might just be a British government institution.
But the BBC doesn't, so there's no reason to suppose it is.
Seriously, you think the British government would fund Panorama if it had any choice in the matter?
I suppose that the BBC views themselves as a branch of the British government.
How would that help? The government has to obey the law, just like everyone else.
There are exceptions that let the government do things that would otherwise be illegal, like imprison people or tap their phones, but those exceptions are always very limited in scope and usually require the direct approval of a court or senior minister. They certainly don't cover "breaking the law just to make a point".
Shifting to ARM will simply ensure the death of the OLPC project
Personally, I'd leap at the opportunity to buy a decent n(et|ote)book with an ARM inside it. But maybe that's just me.
because being able to run real windows is an underappreciated benefit of x86.
The only big benefit of Windows is that it runs enterprise apps and/or that it's what you're used to. OLPC is not aimed at enterprises or at people with existing experience of computers, so why would OLPC users care about having Windows?
Defending your home? From whom, exactly? I know an Englishman's home is his castle, but that doesn't mean we're regularly besieged by armies of marauding knights.
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He can't glance at it and tell what's going on because half of it hasn't been written yet.
Do you people even read the posts you're replying to, or do you just scan them for keywords and paste in ready-made responses from the Pair Programming Evangelist's Handbook?
Don't say that. That attitude does more harm than anything to the software industry.
Imagine what our cities would be like if people took the line that "anyone who can stack two bricks can build"? Well, that's what our software world looks like, precisely because people have taken the line that "anyone who can stick two lines of VB together can code". See thedailywtf for a depressing amount of proof.
The fact is, even in the middle of a downturn, managers don't want to pay for software engineers if they can afford code monkeys. (And they definitely don't want to pay for software engineers if the CEO's nephew is "really good" with computers and needs work experience.) If you want things to get better, don't tell them they need expensive coders -- tell them the truth, that most people who call themselves coders can't code.
Welcome to what we call the "real world". In the real world, resources are limited. There isn't enough money to provide treatment to everyone who could benefit from it -- that means you have to deny some people treatment. Full stop.
NICE exists to make sure that the limited resources are spent on cost-effective treatments, not wasted on expensive and ineffective treatments.
Fine -- go private, then. Private patients can buy whatever treatments they like, and NICE can't do a thing to stop them.
NICE decisions only have any effect whatsoever on the treatments that are provided by the NHS. Treatments that are funded by the taxpayer. What the hell makes you think you're entitled to demand that we pay for whatever treatment you want? If you want something that's not on the menu, you can damn well pay for it yourself.
Stabbed, you mean. We're also still allowed to be outraged at child abuse, bankers' pensions, and any celebrity who says something that sounds racist.
Okay, then, she just HAPPENED always to land perfectly on her magical leg apparatus. Instead of e.g. landing on her head or her back, like most of us would. What was she, a cat-person?
No; there is much in Gnome that simply cannot be configured, even by experts. Unless you count ripping out complete subsystems and replacing them with non-Gnome components as "configuration", I guess.
And there is a lot more that technically can be configured, but only by editing undocumented gconf settings -- and since they're undocumented, they are subject to change at any time. So you might upgrade to a point release and suddenly your configuration is broken.
Sorry, but while Gnome has many virtues, configurability is not one of them. Those desiring a configurable desktop should look to Kde, or (if they want a Gtk+-based desktop) to Xfce. Or they can roll their own desktop environment by taking a standalone window manager and choosing the utilities they like best.
And what exactly do you think "lock-in" is, if not a dependency on backwards-compatibility?
"Evil"? That's putting it a bit strongly. If you describe espionage as "evil", what words are left for things like torture, child abuse, or terrorism?
Spying violates people's privacy, and I can't say I'd particularly like the idea of having a foreign government snooping around my computer -- but it's hardly on the same level as acts that directly violate people's minds and bodies.
Indeed it would be. But this law would also make it a criminal offence to draw a married mother having consensual sex with her husband, if the entirely fictional act took place at 11:59 pm on the night before her 18th birthday.
No, it used MS-DOS 7.0 as a bootloader.
Have a read of Raymond Chen's explanation if you wish to enlighten yourself.
Not in any real sense. OS X is a direct descendant of NeXTSTEP -- they've even retained the NS- prefix for many objects -- but at the same time a heck of a lot has changed. Quartz is not the same as Display Postscript. The Mac's dock is not the same as the NeXTSTEP dock. And so on.
The NeXTSTEP platform that people knew and loved is essentially dead, and the faithful few keeping its design alive today are using GNUstep, not OS X.
Really? I don't see that many people having problems with it. From the complaints and questions I notice, I'd have thought that wireless networking was the most significant failure point, followed by suspend/hibernate issues.
X generally "just works"; where it fails, it's invariably an issue with proprietary video card drivers, and the problem there is invariably that the drivers are proprietary (so the community can't provide adequate support, like it can for open source drivers). Nothing to do with X itself.
Sorry to spoil your punchline, but xterm has supported antialiased fonts for years...
And Microsoft is aware of this. The Office 2007 interface, for example, is designed to make it easier to transition from mouse use to keyboard use. Press Alt, and all the items on the ribbon are labelled with a key. Pressing that key is equivalent to clicking on the item.
Unlike traditional toolbars/menus, you're looking at exactly the same thing regardless of whether you're using the keyboard or the mouse, so it's easier to learn the key sequence, at which point you stop having to look any more.
I can't stand Office and go out of my way to avoid using it whenever possible, but I can at least appreciate the work that's going into making it less of a pain to learn. In a few decades it might finally catch up with Emacs. :)
Do you seriously think that in the near future we're all going to start uploading raw video to the Internet in order to run the processor-intensive editing and compression processes on a server farm?
If so, perhaps I can interest you in my real estate portfolio? It includes several highly affordable bridges and a unique property with unmatched views of Paris.
Back in the real world, we're going to want powerful PCs for a little while yet.
That's RE, not the genre. There have been survival horror games with pretty good controls; System Shock 2 comes to mind. (Of course, there's no way a control scheme like that could be made to work on a console.)
Maybe they can't. IE7 doesn't run on Win2k, after all.
One doesn't.
There's no need to remove the soap box. It's easier just to force your opponents to take even more extreme positions against you, so that people just stop taking them seriously.
There's no need to remove the ballot box. Half the country would still vote for your party even if its leader publicly killed a kitten at every campaign appearance, and the other half would still vote against you even if you were running against Hitler.
There's no need to remove the jury box. You just need to make sure you select the right juries.
And there's no need to remove the ammo box. A bunch of ragtag militias with peashooters can't pose any realistic threat to your rule. (You might, however, beneficially threaten to restrict gun ownership, because that guarantees that all the gun nuts will concentrate exclusively on protecting their precious gun rights, and won't notice anything else you do.)
No, he's thinking about the product sold in America under the name "Swiss cheese". This is not to be confused with the foodstuff popular in Europe that is also, confusingly, called cheese.
"Swiss cheese" is a waxy, rubbery, flavourless chemical solid that differs from regular "cheese" only in the fact that it has holes in. There are persistent rumours that it may be edible.
(Oh, and Emmental is a Swiss cheese. It gets made in France too, but then Cheddar, an English cheese, gets made all over the world, so that doesn't prove much.)
So, um, is there something to gain from doing this or not? Helping newbies find a decent server sounds like a benefit to me ...
That used to be true. Then they invented smartphones and netbooks at exactly the same moment that AJAX started pushing large amounts of processing client-side in an often-inefficient language.
It took about 10 seconds from when I hit the "Reply to this" button until the comment box opened. You bet I'm looking forward to Tracemonkey.
But the BBC doesn't, so there's no reason to suppose it is.
Seriously, you think the British government would fund Panorama if it had any choice in the matter?
How would that help? The government has to obey the law, just like everyone else.
There are exceptions that let the government do things that would otherwise be illegal, like imprison people or tap their phones, but those exceptions are always very limited in scope and usually require the direct approval of a court or senior minister. They certainly don't cover "breaking the law just to make a point".
Personally, I'd leap at the opportunity to buy a decent n(et|ote)book with an ARM inside it. But maybe that's just me.
The only big benefit of Windows is that it runs enterprise apps and/or that it's what you're used to. OLPC is not aimed at enterprises or at people with existing experience of computers, so why would OLPC users care about having Windows?
Defending your home? From whom, exactly? I know an Englishman's home is his castle, but that doesn't mean we're regularly besieged by armies of marauding knights.