Re:Why no click?
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No-click Mouse?
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My SO does hear the mouse clicking and complains about it. It's even woken our two kids during particulary fierce xpilot battles. Keyboards can have the "keyclick" feature turned off, why not mice also?
The the discussion of *why* is irrelevant. It is a mistake for *any* engineer to think that there needs to be a reason. You should always include an on/off switch no matter what the feature.
Electronic devices (such as printers) that can potentially kill someone (i.e. necktie stuck) if not turned off need to have on/off switches that actually work, and work immediately.
Computers themselves (i.e. identification badge on a metal-bead neclace hitting a power supply) ought to have a better method than yanking the power cord too.
Age discrimination in the software industry is more often caused by the notion (which I think is absurd) that older people "lose" creativity they had when they were younger. I have not heard of it ever being caused by managers wanting "someone
they hope to retain for a long time, and dont have to start paying retirement benefits within a small number of years."
The other main factor fostering age discrimination is the fact that you can pay a young kid 1/4th to 1/2 what you would have to pay a competent, experienced engineer.
I do not know of any software house (well, maybe Microsoft) that genuinely expects to retain a software developer for five years. Most people have either grown out of software development by then, or at least branched out to *something* new (new language or new application realm or even a new industry) after 2 - 3 years.
Actually, his goal is for LindowsOS.com to *be purchased* by Microsoft.
He hopes to lose each and every leagal battle with Microsoft the same way he lost to Vivendi Universal.
I'm sure he hopes to go out with a gargantuan buyout at the end (with Microsoft paying cash to him as reward money for letting them win their legal battles against the open source community.)
The only time you should *not* be backward-compatible is when you want to be embarassed.
If you are saying you can't make it as good as the old version, you are retarded. I don't mean that only as a jibe exclusively to Microsoft either - if you cannot meet the basic requirements of doing what the old version did, then you are as evil as a mojor vendor that decides to not support plugins.
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My SO does hear the mouse clicking and complains about it. It's even woken our two kids during particulary fierce xpilot battles. Keyboards can have the "keyclick" feature turned off, why not mice also?
The the discussion of *why* is irrelevant. It is a mistake for *any* engineer to think that there needs to be a reason. You should always include an on/off switch no matter what the feature.
Electronic devices (such as printers) that can potentially kill someone (i.e. necktie stuck) if not turned off need to have on/off switches that actually work, and work immediately.
Computers themselves (i.e. identification badge on a metal-bead neclace hitting a power supply) ought to have a better method than yanking the power cord too.
Calling Gnome small is like saying the national debt is small. The last time I brutalized myself with red carpet my 30GB hard drive died.
I don't understand what you wish to complain about. They summarized your complain with very slightly harsher language. SO WHAT?
You said you were worried that your competitors would be rewarded. That *is* the same thing as punishing you.
I have had three IBM 40GB drives die on me in the last year. Each within 6 months of purchase.
Guess I'm just lucky.
Age discrimination in the software industry is more often caused by the notion (which I think is absurd) that older people "lose" creativity they had when they were younger. I have not heard of it ever being caused by managers wanting "someone they hope to retain for a long time, and dont have to start paying retirement benefits within a small number of years."
The other main factor fostering age discrimination is the fact that you can pay a young kid 1/4th to 1/2 what you would have to pay a competent, experienced engineer.
I do not know of any software house (well, maybe Microsoft) that genuinely expects to retain a software developer for five years. Most people have either grown out of software development by then, or at least branched out to *something* new (new language or new application realm or even a new industry) after 2 - 3 years.
Actually, his goal is for LindowsOS.com to *be purchased* by Microsoft.
He hopes to lose each and every leagal battle with Microsoft the same way he lost to Vivendi Universal.
I'm sure he hopes to go out with a gargantuan buyout at the end (with Microsoft paying cash to him as reward money for letting them win their legal battles against the open source community.)
Dear gwb:
'obsoleted' is not a word.
The only time you should *not* be backward-compatible is when you want to be embarassed.
If you are saying you can't make it as good as the old version, you are retarded. I don't mean that only as a jibe exclusively to Microsoft either - if you cannot meet the basic requirements of doing what the old version did, then you are as evil as a mojor vendor that decides to not support plugins.