Ahh, but that would require the contest directors (aka, stakeholders) to put forth the effort to create coherent and complete requirements (and when does THAT happen?!)
The implication to 'whoever best' is that the task is non-trivial enough to end in enough of a gradation to separate out even the top tier percent into a clear winner. Non-triviality of this level would be an effort ten-fold larger than the actual programming. Bullet-proof specifactions like that don't just grow on trees ya know...;)
you might be able to re-seed the updater database using this tip. Basically, delete the stuff in datastore (with the updater service shut down) and the restart it. I found this to help when I had a similar problem with Windows XP SP1. I know our helpdesk have a couple of SP2 though that nothing so far has helped get updater to work consistently. YMMV but HTH.
I use firefox extension "open new window from here" for this. since you probably refer to one of several tabs most frequently, or a small subset of those with reference to the other application (doc or source or whatever), when you make mental note of this association (the second or third time you find yourself alt-tabbing and then ctrl-tabbing) you just open it in its own firefox window. you can use THAT window to further clarify associations. Say you find that two firefox windows are really useful together, just open a blank tab and paste the url. voila, you have document application, firefox temp results, firefox significant results, all available from taskbar or alt-tab. very workflow-ish.
I feel so crippled when I have to use IE and this is a major reason for that. Firefoxes extensibility is another but that's been beat to death, both pro and con, on/. aplenty already...
tabbed browsing is critical for managing hierarchical retrieval of hypertext resources. Beyond opening results from google in their own document, many web pages contain links to external pages and to internal anchors. Those should not be read linearly as IE6 forces you to do (link, link, link, back, back, second link, etc.) Tabs allow you to open them individually and view them with your OWN sequence!
or are you just trolling?
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if there was one person using freenet to provide kiddy porn and one other person who accessed it. And that was all there was, then the likelihood of freenet being secure and anonymous would shrink to approaching zero.
likewise, if there were one person standing on the sidewalk conversing with just one other person, and that was all of humankind who did so, then the likelhood of that being secure, lawful, etc. also would diminish to near zero.
I think that's the analogy the grandparent was making and I find it clever as hell.
I just missed a VH1 show that I'd have liked to see. I sure wish the content owners would get-it-together and understand that copy to a cache device is about all MOST people are going to do. I'd have streamed that show to my PC, since I'm doing other things I'd have watched it later. Probably on my DVD upstairs in my room. But copy it to others? Not mostly!
>>`created' means i `helped make it what it is now'.
Odd, to me 'created' means bringing something forth from raw ingredients. The funding of the 90's hardly relates to the Internet of today, or even when Gore made the quip. I think it helped this process along, but hardly a godlike act of "creation".
See, it's like a cake. Do you create a cake? No, you create cake batter. You bake the batter into a cake.
So if Gore wants credit for being another cook in the kitchen I suppose that's his due (and probably the kind of homage Vint Cerf meant). IMHO.
The batter was already there. The recipe, the ingredients and the knowledge of what a cake should be and how it should be decorated. RFC after RFC preceeding Gore's acts provides testament to THAT!
fantastic. Blame the consumer. Like my 'Aunt Betty' who is fascinated by the fact that the disc (CD/DVD) goes in, goes out, goes in again...
Yeah, consumer pc users *surely* should be out there _demanding_ the newest in physics, chemical and biological enhancements to their current raft of toys.
And they obviously use 100% of the feature set of Quicken Deluxe so are *well positioned* to impress upon Intuit just where their rather laggard engineers have got it wrong.
Whoa! I never have figured out the drawing piece, but I switched to OO *specifically* for the outline mode. This is not some vapid construct or facade over the editor, it's the ability to set the hierarchy mode (styles floating toolbar) and the ability to navigate to the heading of interest (navigator). This is IMO *much* easier to use than the Word alternative.
I've never created a user guide, release notes, handover, admin reference, testplan, or any other of the artifacts which I may be forgetting in 2005 using anything but OO.
I distribute these as PDF since I can be more certain that the 5th person viewing the information is viewing the information I distributed, not some team lead's interpretation of 'what he must have meant to write so I'll fix it'.
Others have mentioned that schools must train students according to the expectations of the marketplace. True.
But I totally disagree with the corollary that they are unable to adapt. Several things my son did in a standard Computer Applications class (at a small 10k pop. town) were in advance of things I do day to day.
Aside from Powerpoint and Access specific tasks though, they would have been easily replicated in OO.
The way I *think* it should work is use OO for all the beginner to intermediate Office/Clerical/Computer classes and offer specific targeted 'Advanced' classes which use the specific features of MS Office which are absent from OSS alternatives.
sure. Just like most of us don't really know much about the details of what's powering our cars. I mean, like compression ratio, cubic displacement, torque and horsepower. I haven't thought about that in one of my cars since my '64 Stang!
I was thinking about the 2000 Intrepid I just traded in. I don't think I raised the hood, even, on that car more than half a dozen times. Most of those were to put in windshield fluid!!
in the really really geek crowd they still debate the merits of dedicated consoles, like the Atari or - gasp - NES, over real game machines like the adam or vic...
then again, if you're supporting his literary efforts he probably has less time free to pursue fractious lobbying efforts. Given that his writings aren't the problem, that is...;)
Myself, I've really enjoyed Card's literary work. And that's enough for me. As many have said, YMMV.
Electronics. Heathkit ET-340 trainer. Assembly. Being able to plug in hardware to make the platform do what I wanted.
Then the Vic-20. There was a space rocket missile type game in the handbook. I modified it a LOT. Called it "Dense Pack" after a politico-social concept of the time. (once you ran out of missiles you were dead;)
I don't think you can force this on a kid. Nor should you. But offering the right teaser is still fair! lol
Even the new scrip language in O-Office1.9 is a start. There's several Turtle-like things around.
or like I did, give my son an old phone to tear apart...
"BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on LG VX4400/VX6000 and many Sanyo Sprint cell phones. This includes the PhoneBook, Calendar, WallPapers, RingTones (functionality varies by phone) and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based phones."
http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/
I've been using this with my LG vx6000 phone so I can use it as calendar and update from my work or home computer. Works for me...
there's one other place that the ISV maintains competitive advantage by keeping source closed; persistence mechanism. (btw- I include transfer of data to external softwares in this).
I use Quicken but have no access to my data outside of their GUI (I would dearly love to be able to write my own reporting and utility tools to run against my finance data).
I (am forced to) use MS-Office but we all know the man-years of effort the OpenOffice folks have spent with that one.
I say that linux or any other OS will ever capture the hearts and minds of the general public until it can run the hottest games as soon as they come out. That, my friends, is where the money and the success lies.
witness the commodore, atari and the like. while the 'simple' PC was sitting on business desktops running workflow applications.
...while commodore games spawned an entire 'cracking' mythology as about it's only real legacy.
an OS that is truly accessible to the masses, very easy to use, very powerful, and very stable
it's all those little tidbits that let you manage data (not stably, but... nontheless) on the Win2000 desktop which makes windows so appealing from a usability standpoint. Data being that stuff you use to get your work done. Call it 'workability' instead of usability, I guess.
there is a resource installer project that should improve linux's 'accessibility' just in making linux easy to manage I say that since the first act of 'owning' a PC is that of adding software that you, personally, use. This is where many newbies fall off the linux bandwagon and which needs first addressing.
I agree with your list, but the interpretation of those broad terms is what spells the difference between wide acceptance and noteriety.
one should hope that the 'Open Windows Team' to recognize the difference. And it's worth observing the obvious dependancy on windows code becoming open source per the settlement. I don't think that will actually happen. Compatability tests would be a much more fruitful experiment if so ordered... imagine; having to prove by acceptable standards that api was reproducable! if only....
So far, I've seen no mention of Linux' KDE Desktop. It works like windows enough that you have the essence of the contribution windows made. Seems to me that's enough....
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>>Maybe we should give well laid out requirements
;)
Ahh, but that would require the contest directors (aka, stakeholders) to put forth the effort to create coherent and complete requirements (and when does THAT happen?!)
The implication to 'whoever best' is that the task is non-trivial enough to end in enough of a gradation to separate out even the top tier percent into a clear winner. Non-triviality of this level would be an effort ten-fold larger than the actual programming. Bullet-proof specifactions like that don't just grow on trees ya know...
you might be able to re-seed the updater database using this tip. Basically, delete the stuff in datastore (with the updater service shut down) and the restart it. I found this to help when I had a similar problem with Windows XP SP1. I know our helpdesk have a couple of SP2 though that nothing so far has helped get updater to work consistently. YMMV but HTH.
s howarticle.aspx?articleid=21&ln=en
http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/
I use firefox extension "open new window from here" for this. since you probably refer to one of several tabs most frequently, or a small subset of those with reference to the other application (doc or source or whatever), when you make mental note of this association (the second or third time you find yourself alt-tabbing and then ctrl-tabbing) you just open it in its own firefox window. you can use THAT window to further clarify associations. Say you find that two firefox windows are really useful together, just open a blank tab and paste the url. voila, you have document application, firefox temp results, firefox significant results, all available from taskbar or alt-tab. very workflow-ish.
/. aplenty already...
I feel so crippled when I have to use IE and this is a major reason for that. Firefoxes extensibility is another but that's been beat to death, both pro and con, on
tabbed browsing is critical for managing hierarchical retrieval of hypertext resources. Beyond opening results from google in their own document, many web pages contain links to external pages and to internal anchors. Those should not be read linearly as IE6 forces you to do (link, link, link, back, back, second link, etc.) Tabs allow you to open them individually and view them with your OWN sequence!
or are you just trolling?
if there was one person using freenet to provide kiddy porn and one other person who accessed it. And that was all there was, then the likelihood of freenet being secure and anonymous would shrink to approaching zero.
likewise, if there were one person standing on the sidewalk conversing with just one other person, and that was all of humankind who did so, then the likelhood of that being secure, lawful, etc. also would diminish to near zero.
I think that's the analogy the grandparent was making and I find it clever as hell.
I just missed a VH1 show that I'd have liked to see. I sure wish the content owners would get-it-together and understand that copy to a cache device is about all MOST people are going to do. I'd have streamed that show to my PC, since I'm doing other things I'd have watched it later. Probably on my DVD upstairs in my room. But copy it to others? Not mostly!
>>`created' means i `helped make it what it is now'.
Odd, to me 'created' means bringing something forth from raw ingredients. The funding of the 90's hardly relates to the Internet of today, or even when Gore made the quip. I think it helped this process along, but hardly a godlike act of "creation".
See, it's like a cake. Do you create a cake? No, you create cake batter. You bake the batter into a cake.
So if Gore wants credit for being another cook in the kitchen I suppose that's his due (and probably the kind of homage Vint Cerf meant). IMHO.
The batter was already there. The recipe, the ingredients and the knowledge of what a cake should be and how it should be decorated. RFC after RFC preceeding Gore's acts provides testament to THAT!
fantastic. Blame the consumer. Like my 'Aunt Betty' who is fascinated by the fact that the disc (CD/DVD) goes in, goes out, goes in again...
Yeah, consumer pc users *surely* should be out there _demanding_ the newest in physics, chemical and biological enhancements to their current raft of toys.
And they obviously use 100% of the feature set of Quicken Deluxe so are *well positioned* to impress upon Intuit just where their rather laggard engineers have got it wrong.
sigh.
surely you must be a mouthpiece for the RIAA...
Is the Administrative Tools under Accessories different from the Administrative Tools in the main menu tree?!?
;) does an administrative binary selection become an "accessory" anyways....
And why in Bill's-Green-Earth
sheesh.
Whoa! I never have figured out the drawing piece, but I switched to OO *specifically* for the outline mode. This is not some vapid construct or facade over the editor, it's the ability to set the hierarchy mode (styles floating toolbar) and the ability to navigate to the heading of interest (navigator). This is IMO *much* easier to use than the Word alternative.
;)
I've never created a user guide, release notes, handover, admin reference, testplan, or any other of the artifacts which I may be forgetting in 2005 using anything but OO.
I distribute these as PDF since I can be more certain that the 5th person viewing the information is viewing the information I distributed, not some team lead's interpretation of 'what he must have meant to write so I'll fix it'.
Others have mentioned that schools must train students according to the expectations of the marketplace. True.
But I totally disagree with the corollary that they are unable to adapt. Several things my son did in a standard Computer Applications class (at a small 10k pop. town) were in advance of things I do day to day.
Aside from Powerpoint and Access specific tasks though, they would have been easily replicated in OO.
The way I *think* it should work is use OO for all the beginner to intermediate Office/Clerical/Computer classes and offer specific targeted 'Advanced' classes which use the specific features of MS Office which are absent from OSS alternatives.
And I BET that list gets smaller each semester!
at the risk of a karma hit... mod parent up. that is FUNNY. IMO.
>>How do you know you don't have a chip in your head right now
Hah! if I do then it's definately version 0.1, very alpha, and probably has a hot cathode as well (1959). lol
the slashdot bug appears to be fixed for me. the topics are not laying over the 'menu' on the left. Is there another manifestation that I'm missing?
who wants to bet we'll see Microsoft disable the FirefoxView extension in IE7?
works for Yahoo also. CTRL-L (which puts you in the address box) yahoo [keyword]...[keyword]
awesome!
sure. Just like most of us don't really know much about the details of what's powering our cars. I mean, like compression ratio, cubic displacement, torque and horsepower. I haven't thought about that in one of my cars since my '64 Stang!
I was thinking about the 2000 Intrepid I just traded in. I don't think I raised the hood, even, on that car more than half a dozen times. Most of those were to put in windshield fluid!!
out of site, out of mind - indeed....
in the really really geek crowd they still debate the merits of dedicated consoles, like the Atari or - gasp - NES, over real game machines like the adam or vic...
then again, if you're supporting his literary efforts he probably has less time free to pursue fractious lobbying efforts. Given that his writings aren't the problem, that is... ;)
Myself, I've really enjoyed Card's literary work. And that's enough for me. As many have said, YMMV.
Electronics. Heathkit ET-340 trainer. Assembly. Being able to plug in hardware to make the platform do what I wanted.
;)
Then the Vic-20. There was a space rocket missile type game in the handbook. I modified it a LOT. Called it "Dense Pack" after a politico-social concept of the time. (once you ran out of missiles you were dead
I don't think you can force this on a kid. Nor should you. But offering the right teaser is still fair! lol
Even the new scrip language in O-Office1.9 is a start. There's several Turtle-like things around.
or like I did, give my son an old phone to tear apart...
"BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on LG VX4400/VX6000 and many Sanyo Sprint cell phones. This includes the PhoneBook, Calendar, WallPapers, RingTones (functionality varies by phone) and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based phones."
http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/
I've been using this with my LG vx6000 phone so I can use it as calendar and update from my work or home computer. Works for me...
there's one other place that the ISV maintains competitive advantage by keeping source closed; persistence mechanism. (btw- I include transfer of data to external softwares in this).
I use Quicken but have no access to my data outside of their GUI (I would dearly love to be able to write my own reporting and utility tools to run against my finance data).
I (am forced to) use MS-Office but we all know the man-years of effort the OpenOffice folks have spent with that one.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/appsrvr_pe/f aqs.html#2
"Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8 is free to use for development, deployment, and redistribution"
witness the commodore, atari and the like. while the 'simple' PC was sitting on business desktops running workflow applications.
-rsh
computer!=game_machine
an OS that is truly accessible to the masses, very easy to use, very powerful, and very stable
it's all those little tidbits that let you manage data (not stably, but... nontheless) on the Win2000 desktop which makes windows so appealing from a usability standpoint. Data being that stuff you use to get your work done. Call it 'workability' instead of usability, I guess.
there is a resource installer project that should improve linux's 'accessibility' just in making linux easy to manage
I say that since the first act of 'owning' a PC is that of adding software that you, personally, use. This is where many newbies fall off the linux bandwagon and which needs first addressing.
I agree with your list, but the interpretation of those broad terms is what spells the difference between wide acceptance and noteriety.
one should hope that the 'Open Windows Team' to recognize the difference. And it's worth observing the obvious dependancy on windows code becoming open source per the settlement. I don't think that will actually happen. Compatability tests would be a much more fruitful experiment if so ordered... imagine; having to prove by acceptable standards that api was reproducable! if only....
but I digress...
-rsh
So far, I've seen no mention of Linux' KDE Desktop. It works like windows enough that you have the essence of the contribution windows made. Seems to me that's enough....
-rsh