Yeah, and I'm trying to imagine using this thing. Do you have to hover your fingertips above the surface all the time? That would kinda suck don't you think? I normally keep my fingers lightly resting on the buttons all the time.
Even if they had a single real button like the current mouse and determined if it was right or left by which finger was touching the surface, you'd still have to keep all but one finger off the surface while clicking.
A) I was going for Funny, not Informative B) I was talking about Applications. Most require absolutely no rebooting after installation, yet many still ask for it. c) Of course you are right. Hopefully this is the area that they are improving.
All they really had to do was add a disclaimer to the standard installer message telling you to reboot:
"Disclaimer: You don't REALLY have to reboot, but we're too lame to tell all the developers to stop putting up this dialog box after their installation script is done. You really haven't HAD to reboot after installing things for years. It's just the damn Developers, Developers, Developers who can't get with the program. Oh, and you're too dumb to figure this out for yourselves."
Here in the US, Hyundai means "muck" or "dung". Sonata (which IS what they call that car) is a kind of song. So, Hyundai Sonata is dung you can buy for a song?
Yes, but assuming that humans are at least a little bit intelligent, and that currently the only visible problem trying to be solved by this terminology is Hard Disk capacity 'mis-reporting', can't we assume that eventually most people will catch on? And the ones that don't deserve what they get (either a: a smaller HDD than they thought, or b: government interference to properly label the damn things)? Creating the new terms is giving up!
(or c: HDD sizes like soft drinks at fast-food places small, medium, large, super-sized. Of course at some point small becomes medium and then we're all screwed.)
RE: Auto versioning - YES! I installed a Win2003 server at work just so people would be able to recover their own damn files. I'd rather have installed a linux server, but there seems to be no comparable system (yet?).
However, everybody use MB when they mean MiB. The Mi-notation is not very widespread or successful.
And let's _please_ keep it that way! This is a solution looking for a problem. I mean, with hard disk sizes in the hundreds of GB and growing, who really cares?
"Our thrust is to prick holes in the stiff front erected by the smut dealers. We must keep mounting an offensive to penetrate any crack in his defenses, so we can lay to rest his dominate position. We want him hung and we want stiff action. Let's get on him. Let's ram through a stiff bail law so it'll be hard for him to get it up. We've got to come together so we can whip this thing into submission. It'll be hard on us but we can't lick it by being soft."
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I always thought it meant reduce TO 10%, not BY 10%. I had to look it up to realize I have been wrong all these years.
Decimation doesn't sound so bad now. Come on somebody, decimate me! I dare you.
I don't know the song he referred to, but maybe it is a recording of the band going 70 mph in a convertible with the top down.
"But he's had his dangling gap filler removed! How can he possibly reenter!?"
Yeah, and I'm trying to imagine using this thing. Do you have to hover your fingertips above the surface all the time? That would kinda suck don't you think? I normally keep my fingers lightly resting on the buttons all the time.
Even if they had a single real button like the current mouse and determined if it was right or left by which finger was touching the surface, you'd still have to keep all but one finger off the surface while clicking.
I just don't see how this can be a good thing.
Spelign Bad.
Save the html to a file. Use the extended file upload interface to check that file. Turn off utf-8 encoding (I selected iso-8859-1).
I got 623 errors from a copy of this page saved a few minutes ago.
You mis-spelled 'whine'.
Right, because yacc, bison, parrot, beagle, mozilla, apache, zope, gkrellm and superkaramba are all such normal names.
a) why is this different from the vault of parnassus?
It's so clean.
b) missed the cheese joke (not a big m. python fan I guess...)
See answer to a)
'course not. This is Slashdot. Thick skin and/or a sense of humor is a prerequisite.
A) I was going for Funny, not Informative
B) I was talking about Applications. Most require absolutely no rebooting after installation, yet many still ask for it.
c) Of course you are right. Hopefully this is the area that they are improving.
All they really had to do was add a disclaimer to the standard installer message telling you to reboot:
"Disclaimer: You don't REALLY have to reboot, but we're too lame to tell all the developers to stop putting up this dialog box after their installation script is done. You really haven't HAD to reboot after installing things for years. It's just the damn Developers, Developers, Developers who can't get with the program. Oh, and you're too dumb to figure this out for yourselves."
No, that would be Windriva.
(I can't believe it took that long to get a -driva post here! You guys are slipping.)
Here in the US, Hyundai means "muck" or "dung". Sonata (which IS what they call that car) is a kind of song. So, Hyundai Sonata is dung you can buy for a song?
In Soviet Russia...oh, nevermind.
I don't know, but it crashed shortly after booting up.
(Thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the Veal.)
Yeah, NASA is acting like a Rock Band in a Hotel Room. I wonder what they're gonna smash next.
Can we hang a "Please clean room" sign on Pluto?
I wonder if it will be friends with me...
("Oh no, not again!")
Yes, but assuming that humans are at least a little bit intelligent, and that currently the only visible problem trying to be solved by this terminology is Hard Disk capacity 'mis-reporting', can't we assume that eventually most people will catch on? And the ones that don't deserve what they get (either a: a smaller HDD than they thought, or b: government interference to properly label the damn things)? Creating the new terms is giving up!
(or c: HDD sizes like soft drinks at fast-food places small, medium, large, super-sized. Of course at some point small becomes medium and then we're all screwed.)
RE: Auto versioning - YES! I installed a Win2003 server at work just so people would be able to recover their own damn files. I'd rather have installed a linux server, but there seems to be no comparable system (yet?).
However, everybody use MB when they mean MiB. The Mi-notation is not very widespread or successful.
And let's _please_ keep it that way! This is a solution looking for a problem. I mean, with hard disk sizes in the hundreds of GB and growing, who really cares?
I'm at work right now using XP SP2 and it's "Turn Off Computer..."
"Our thrust is to prick holes in the stiff front erected by the smut dealers. We must keep mounting an offensive to penetrate any crack in his defenses, so we can lay to rest his dominate position. We want him hung and we want stiff action. Let's get on him. Let's ram through a stiff bail law so it'll be hard for him to get it up. We've got to come together so we can whip this thing into submission. It'll be hard on us but we can't lick it by being soft."
G.C.
Mod points if I had them. Fixed the alldumb.com link several posts above.
It still pisses me off to no end that there is no scrollbar so you can't see what percentage of the page you are viewing.
Huh? It works here just fine - always has.
Sure. You can guarantee its behavior and that it has exactly one bug.
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