Funny, at my high school there was actually a girl that was curious about how far the fire alarm switch had to be pulled before going off, and, well, did it in front of a teacher.
Now, all the fire alarms have a note on them saying "Don't play with the fire alarms; they go off so easily!"
I don't think there is any shame in the use of the long arrow for insertion of code, or the "carrot". The footnote type thing might work too.
When I write out code, some items like variables I forget to declare. Usually I have (for example) already declared 3 integers, so making the semicolon to a comma, then appending the new integer to the end works. As for prototyping a function, sometimes 'compressing' some variable declarations to single lines gets extra lines needed as well.
If you are one to have single lines for brackets, it is another chance to only displace a couple lines, by moving the bracket to the end of the previous line.
Sometimes a very slight bit of readability can be sacrificed for squeezing in that extra line of code for written code tests.
As for being hurried, I guess the only way to help that would be to have a good plan/diagram that can be checkmarked for items done.
Couldn't a similar thing be said about crosswalks then?
Pedestrians are supposed to be able to walk at crosswalks, not stop and look for idiots that don't know how to look out their right (or left, depending) window.
Do what I do (and what's supposed to happen):
Signal.
Look.
Pull into bike lane (if it's clear).
Look.
Turn.
Well Mendocino and its surrounding areas already has its own currency named SEED, for Self-sufficient Ecological Economic Development.
A SEED is $10, and stands for one hour of labor, raising their minimum wage. From what I read in econ, the stores that support this still pay for tax in the normal dollar.
The idea behind it is to keep money from leaving their community, but this too makes them seem like they are going towards their own island without even leaving...
The web is alredy too costly from a user GUI standpoint in that every link you click wastes about 5 seconds (YMMV) of your life. That's the real reason people hate sites that split their stories up into pages.
I solve the problem of "5 seconds wasted" with searching, forums, and articles with indexes by opening a massive amount of windows "one link deep", which in IE is easy enough:
hold down shift and click.
With that my 5 seconds turns into maybe 10 seconds for opening 15 pages. By the time I finish reading the first page I opened, most, if not all the other pages have loaded for my viewing. If it is one of those stories that aren't indexed, I usually change over to another page while it loads anyway in my insane form of multitasking. I guess it could be a form of precaching info that I would potentially want to see, but it works.
I also do the same thing for offline sessions (ie my brother wanting to use the phone for an indeterminate amount of time). I adapted this method from when on DSL, which was fast enough to load all the pages at the same time, but cursed me with downtime often.
I went back from DSL, the speed drop hurts immensely. I was at 384/384 (kilobits), which then went to 384/128, 128/128, and then less than 200/128 at about 75% downtime. My distance was an issue at the beginning, and at the end I'm sure that combined with the idiots inhabiting the central office led to my demise.
Other companies tried to offer me service, saying that my distance was fine, which I rejected for they were hunting for full year contracts, not to hear from me every day about their services being crap "just like the other company".
Browsing habits leaned towards high media webpages, with about 15 instances of Internet Explorer open at a time, strange but true, I used it instead of that bastard pair: the back/forward button.
Now I'm back on 56k (really about 50) and am at roughly 4 to 8 windows, and they're always loading. Cable doesn't even bother with internet, I'm stranded from high-speed home access again.
The trouble though with a key system to unlock albums on a disk would be that there is no handy way to transport that key.
After all, it's your CD, putting it in another player shouldn't mean paying more money to get it unlocked again.
The only way such a key system would work is you are either:
Constantly monitored/pestered with carrying a way to tell your player that its 'you' along with account information (finger-print ID? likely hacked?).
have every device teathered somewhat so one could login, then have their music unlocked, then the company in charge of that reap monthly charges and ruin all the albums that you 'bought' if more than one instance happens to be logged in at the same time.
Or of course, some combination with a cd-r type burner could etch the key onto the disk, but then that too could probably be hacked.
I really don't think subscription service would work short of sitting in front of a computer to listen to modified CDs, which would ruin what is experienced with current CD portability.
I think a while back on slashdot... or somewhere, I saw an alternate input search. Thumbscript is a pretty easy to learn method for typing full blown letters on a 9-number pad. Of course, I haven't seen it in any real devices, but I had it down after three tries through the alphabet. Pretty clever
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Funny, at my high school there was actually a girl that was curious about how far the fire alarm switch had to be pulled before going off, and, well, did it in front of a teacher.
Now, all the fire alarms have a note on them saying "Don't play with the fire alarms; they go off so easily!"
I don't think there is any shame in the use of the long arrow for insertion of code, or the "carrot". The footnote type thing might work too.
When I write out code, some items like variables I forget to declare. Usually I have (for example) already declared 3 integers, so making the semicolon to a comma, then appending the new integer to the end works. As for prototyping a function, sometimes 'compressing' some variable declarations to single lines gets extra lines needed as well.
If you are one to have single lines for brackets, it is another chance to only displace a couple lines, by moving the bracket to the end of the previous line.
Sometimes a very slight bit of readability can be sacrificed for squeezing in that extra line of code for written code tests.
As for being hurried, I guess the only way to help that would be to have a good plan/diagram that can be checkmarked for items done.
Couldn't you backup the hooked up laptops at lunchtime? Just see if a quota can be set for traffic to make it so everything else doesn't crawl.
Your first paragraph sounds almost like Farenheit 451..
Then couldn't it approach infinity?
lim 7.00/x = infinity
x -> 0
Did you have him try to use the add/remove hardware icon in the tray? No BSOD comes to me when I do that.
Couldn't a similar thing be said about crosswalks then?
Pedestrians are supposed to be able to walk at crosswalks, not stop and look for idiots that don't know how to look out their right (or left, depending) window.
Do what I do (and what's supposed to happen): Signal. Look. Pull into bike lane (if it's clear). Look. Turn.
Well Mendocino and its surrounding areas already has its own currency named SEED, for
Self-sufficient Ecological Economic Development.
A SEED is $10, and stands for one hour of labor, raising their minimum wage. From what I read in econ, the stores that support this still pay for tax in the normal dollar.
The idea behind it is to keep money from leaving their community, but this too makes them seem like they are going towards their own island without even leaving...
something like this?
I use the dumeter too with a large amount of alpha.
Neat, yes. Useful, 90% of the time, yes. I make use of dumeter to tell when I should stop opening opera sub-windows for forums, heh.
The web is alredy too costly from a user GUI standpoint in that every link you click wastes about 5 seconds (YMMV) of your life. That's the real reason people hate sites that split their stories up into pages.
I solve the problem of "5 seconds wasted" with searching, forums, and articles with indexes by opening a massive amount of windows "one link deep", which in IE is easy enough:
hold down shift and click.
With that my 5 seconds turns into maybe 10 seconds for opening 15 pages. By the time I finish reading the first page I opened, most, if not all the other pages have loaded for my viewing. If it is one of those stories that aren't indexed, I usually change over to another page while it loads anyway in my insane form of multitasking. I guess it could be a form of precaching info that I would potentially want to see, but it works.
I also do the same thing for offline sessions (ie my brother wanting to use the phone for an indeterminate amount of time). I adapted this method from when on DSL, which was fast enough to load all the pages at the same time, but cursed me with downtime often.
I went back from DSL, the speed drop hurts immensely. I was at 384/384 (kilobits), which then went to 384/128, 128/128, and then less than 200/128 at about 75% downtime. My distance was an issue at the beginning, and at the end I'm sure that combined with the idiots inhabiting the central office led to my demise.
Other companies tried to offer me service, saying that my distance was fine, which I rejected for they were hunting for full year contracts, not to hear from me every day about their services being crap "just like the other company".
Browsing habits leaned towards high media webpages, with about 15 instances of Internet Explorer open at a time, strange but true, I used it instead of that bastard pair: the back/forward button.
Now I'm back on 56k (really about 50) and am at roughly 4 to 8 windows, and they're always loading. Cable doesn't even bother with internet, I'm stranded from high-speed home access again.
After all, it's your CD, putting it in another player shouldn't mean paying more money to get it unlocked again.
The only way such a key system would work is you are either:
- Constantly monitored/pestered with carrying a way to tell your player that its 'you' along with account information (finger-print ID? likely hacked?).
- have every device teathered somewhat so one could login, then have their music unlocked, then the company in charge of that reap monthly charges and ruin all the albums that you 'bought' if more than one instance happens to be logged in at the same time.
Or of course, some combination with a cd-r type burner could etch the key onto the disk, but then that too could probably be hacked.I really don't think subscription service would work short of sitting in front of a computer to listen to modified CDs, which would ruin what is experienced with current CD portability.
I think a while back on slashdot... or somewhere, I saw an alternate input search.
Thumbscript is a pretty easy to learn method for typing full blown letters on a 9-number pad. Of course, I haven't seen it in any real devices, but I had it down after three tries through the alphabet.
Pretty clever
Has anyone tried thumbscript before? I learned it in an hour using their example, and is meant for people to use for phones.
I know this isn't as easy to use as query, but it shows some promise for all those damned phones that try guessing what you typed in.
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I didn't know you could sell items to yourself so easily hehe.
That's why they can call WB shows toonami just as it is on Cartoon Network.