I'd replace the steering wheel with an analogue joystick, I'd add a camera system to let you see the whole of your car while you're parking and I'd have the speed you're doing projected unobtrusively on the windscreen.
I know someone who crashed his car after going go karting. I think we should ban everything and all sit in sensory deprivation tanks when we're not at work/school just to be on the safe side.
In my experience most people don't find Windows easy to use, else I wouldn't get asked loads of questions by non-technical people. Windows is familiar, not easy to use, much like the controls on a car aren't the best but people are used to them.
But you do see lots of people driving SUVs for just that reason. If automation discourages people from buying those stupid things I'm all for it. By the way where's the post equating a traffic jam of these cars of the future with a mobile Beowulf cluster? I surely can't be the only one that occurred to.
How do you know it sucks if you've never learned it. I never said it was a brilliant language, but for automating Office it does a pretty decent job. It's just a tool like any other, who created it is meaningless. I'd much rather use Open Office at work but that's not up to me and being able to work round some of the annoying parts of Word/Excel is pretty handy.
Perhaps because the West has actively supported plenty of non-communist evil lunatics. None as vile as most of those list (Che Guevara was undeniably bad but nowhere near the rest).
Supporting Suharto of Indonesia, Saddam Hussein, the various tinpot Hitlers of South America ad nauseum don't exactly advance the argument that we're the good guys.
Knock communism all you want but I see that more as the failure of totalitarianism than socialism which worked very well in the mid to late 20th century in all the main industrialised countries.
Firefox has to support a hell of a lot less than any OS and Apple has enough of a userbase to require hardware and software vendors to support their newest OS. OS X would have precious little support if it was Apple's first offering.
You need to speak their language. You say we're going to do it this way because it will run faster and therefore save money and show them some Powerpoint slides in a meeting. Make sure you use terms like leveraging and synergy somewhere in any pitch to them too. No point saying technical things to them, it's like speaking Swahili to a red neck.
I didn't say it was hard, you were trying to make out that it was so simple that anyone could understand it which isn't the case. Yes non-programmers do use it but that doesn't mean it doesn't take time to learn it. I know it's hard to write good programs but I don't see what that has to do with your choice of language. You can write good code in VBA too and you can write appalling code in a 'real' language like C++. As for the final comment , I worked in IT for many, many years and the number of bad programs I've seen written by 'professionals' is why your condescension about VBA pissed me off in the first place.
Yes actually it is but that wasn't what you said anyway, you said that people could just look at VBA and instantaneously understand it which quite frankly is bollocks. Whether VBA is a good or cool programming language is debatable, but it has if then else, loops, variables, subroutines, functions and can even *shock horror* understand regular expressions. Some people can record macros, most people can't and don't know how and very, very few users of office can write routines in VBA. Just because it doesn't have the colossal learning curve of C++ or Perl doesn't mean that it's somehow not a programming language.
Possibly although saying that VBA is simple for any non-programmers might actually be seen as a ridiculous statement. VBA is a programming language (whether you consider it any good is irrelevant) and no Joe Average is going to be able to look at it and instantaneously understand it even though it doesn't have the smelly virgin cool of Perl.
You have a strange idea of Joe Public if you think VBA is simple enough for the average user. It isn't, it's a programming language. How many ordinary people do you know who can program even simple things?
People in Europe also have the advantage of really really cheap car hire prices (with the exception of the thieves in the UK) so instead of having to own and insure a gas-guzzling monster they can hire one if they need it.
Didn't you know that wealthy people/corporations are far more competent than the government. This comedy opinion has been used to justify handing loads of government work out to private corporations here in the UK, which means we get worse public services at a higher cost. Any libertarian who thinks the private sector is a panacea for society's woes should check out the various National Audit Dept reports on the vast incompetence and waste that 'efficient' corporations inflict on the public sector.
Depends how far over 30, I'm 34 and well aware of the fact that games are rated for my age range than that of the average 10 year old, although stuff like GTA is aimed at the gangsta rap loving 14 year old despite what Rockstar say.
So am I and I get called a commie a lot (strange since it's usually when I'm arguing against the indiscriminate killing of civilians which the commies were pretty fond of) but I'm still at a loss to see how making open and forcing to keep open is any more communist than say sharing scientific information with everybody i.e. you can use this information to make money but so can everyone else.
There's an enormous difference between fatties suing mcdonalds and the victims of fraud. That's why there are laws to protect the vulnerable (or stupid if you prefer).
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I'd replace the steering wheel with an analogue joystick, I'd add a camera system to let you see the whole of your car while you're parking and I'd have the speed you're doing projected unobtrusively on the windscreen.
I know someone who crashed his car after going go karting. I think we should ban everything and all sit in sensory deprivation tanks when we're not at work/school just to be on the safe side.
In my experience most people don't find Windows easy to use, else I wouldn't get asked loads of questions by non-technical people. Windows is familiar, not easy to use, much like the controls on a car aren't the best but people are used to them.
I'm not normally a spelling nazi but that typo made me chuckle so I ended up replying ;-)
Why would he go rouge? Are convicted black hats pumped full of a chemical that changes their skin colour if they commit another crime?
But you do see lots of people driving SUVs for just that reason. If automation discourages people from buying those stupid things I'm all for it. By the way where's the post equating a traffic jam of these cars of the future with a mobile Beowulf cluster? I surely can't be the only one that occurred to.
How do you know it sucks if you've never learned it. I never said it was a brilliant language, but for automating Office it does a pretty decent job. It's just a tool like any other, who created it is meaningless. I'd much rather use Open Office at work but that's not up to me and being able to work round some of the annoying parts of Word/Excel is pretty handy.
Perhaps because the West has actively supported plenty of non-communist evil lunatics. None as vile as most of those list (Che Guevara was undeniably bad but nowhere near the rest).
Supporting Suharto of Indonesia, Saddam Hussein, the various tinpot Hitlers of South America ad nauseum don't exactly advance the argument that we're the good guys.
Knock communism all you want but I see that more as the failure of totalitarianism than socialism which worked very well in the mid to late 20th century in all the main industrialised countries.
You need all that HD space for FreeBSD, Linux, Windows and Solaris partitions.
There's a few good ones here http://www.answers.com/topic/pointy-haired-boss
Firefox has to support a hell of a lot less than any OS and Apple has enough of a userbase to require hardware and software vendors to support their newest OS. OS X would have precious little support if it was Apple's first offering.
You need to speak their language. You say we're going to do it this way because it will run faster and therefore save money and show them some Powerpoint slides in a meeting. Make sure you use terms like leveraging and synergy somewhere in any pitch to them too. No point saying technical things to them, it's like speaking Swahili to a red neck.
The ratio of Windows admins to servers is a lot higher: 1:20 as opposed to 1:250. I'm guessing it's a typo ;-)
I didn't say it was hard, you were trying to make out that it was so simple that anyone could understand it which isn't the case. Yes non-programmers do use it but that doesn't mean it doesn't take time to learn it. I know it's hard to write good programs but I don't see what that has to do with your choice of language. You can write good code in VBA too and you can write appalling code in a 'real' language like C++. As for the final comment , I worked in IT for many, many years and the number of bad programs I've seen written by 'professionals' is why your condescension about VBA pissed me off in the first place.
Yes actually it is but that wasn't what you said anyway, you said that people could just look at VBA and instantaneously understand it which quite frankly is bollocks. Whether VBA is a good or cool programming language is debatable, but it has if then else, loops, variables, subroutines, functions and can even *shock horror* understand regular expressions. Some people can record macros, most people can't and don't know how and very, very few users of office can write routines in VBA. Just because it doesn't have the colossal learning curve of C++ or Perl doesn't mean that it's somehow not a programming language.
Possibly although saying that VBA is simple for any non-programmers might actually be seen as a ridiculous statement. VBA is a programming language (whether you consider it any good is irrelevant) and no Joe Average is going to be able to look at it and instantaneously understand it even though it doesn't have the smelly virgin cool of Perl.
You have a strange idea of Joe Public if you think VBA is simple enough for the average user. It isn't, it's a programming language. How many ordinary people do you know who can program even simple things?
People in Europe also have the advantage of really really cheap car hire prices (with the exception of the thieves in the UK) so instead of having to own and insure a gas-guzzling monster they can hire one if they need it.
Didn't you know that wealthy people/corporations are far more competent than the government. This comedy opinion has been used to justify handing loads of government work out to private corporations here in the UK, which means we get worse public services at a higher cost. Any libertarian who thinks the private sector is a panacea for society's woes should check out the various National Audit Dept reports on the vast incompetence and waste that 'efficient' corporations inflict on the public sector.
OK so I should have read the article but the AutoDJ thingy sounds like part of the software that came with my Creative so my point still stands.
I'm confused. How can either company have the rights to this since Creative and Archon both had HD based mp3 players out in 2001 (when I bought mine).
Depends how far over 30, I'm 34 and well aware of the fact that games are rated for my age range than that of the average 10 year old, although stuff like GTA is aimed at the gangsta rap loving 14 year old despite what Rockstar say.
So am I and I get called a commie a lot (strange since it's usually when I'm arguing against the indiscriminate killing of civilians which the commies were pretty fond of) but I'm still at a loss to see how making open and forcing to keep open is any more communist than say sharing scientific information with everybody i.e. you can use this information to make money but so can everyone else.
There's an enormous difference between fatties suing mcdonalds and the victims of fraud. That's why there are laws to protect the vulnerable (or stupid if you prefer).