What kills the usability is being forced to switch from one method of input to another.
If I'm mousing away in a graphics program and click save, why can't the application at least suggest a filename, so I can just click "OK" and continue mousing?
Who puts dates in filenames anyway? This metadata is already saved with the file and any application that doesn't let you sort a list of files/directories by creation/modification date, instead of just name, is broken.
People pant at the thought of "metadata" filesystems and they can't use what they already have.
A "smart" ASCII sort would be a nightmare, yet another example of a "smart" algorithm forcing the user to deal with "unexpected" behaviour.
I think you are giving to much credit to "this" generation. In every generation there are those that value independent learning, and those that actively avoid learning anything.
Computers are not "new" technology and most software is very derivative of older software, not many "rapid developments" there.
Most education systems are also not teaching people how to learn either, despite this being their core function.
From a survivablity stand point, it makes much more sense for a man to have as many mates as posible, and let nature and the woman sort out which ones survive.
I'd be putting my money on the infants of those men who stayed around to help them and their mothers survive.
As for unwanted children, we all know there is only one 100% effective form of contraception.
Hmm, I can't parse that. Nevermind, I just wanted to ask what a 100 seat license costs for anti-virus and intrusion detection/prevention software? As well as a 100 desktop intrusion prevention devices, whatever they are.
As an example, I use the GIMP (on Linux) for image processing. I could use Photoshop on Windows XP.
Purchase Costs (Australian Dollars): GIMP: $0 Linux: $0 Total: $0 Income Tax: $0 Total Tax Paid: $0
Adobe Photoshop CS? : $1172 Windows XP Pro : $599 Total : $1771 (GST: $177.10) Income Tax : $531.30 Total Tax Paid : $708.40
There are lots of caveats to how these figures were created but I'm too busy right now to go through them all. Here's one:
1) I choose my own income level, so I can choose to get paid $2302 dollars less in a year (and have more time to myself) and not pay the income tax if I don't need to purchase software.
As an aside, I've never used Photoshop so please don't count me as a "migrating user sick of commercial offerings".
Is the idea to punish criminals, prevent them from committing further crimes, rehabilitate them to productive society members, deter other would-be criminals, comfort the victims, make the unwashed masses feel that "the government" is "tough on crime", all of the above or something else?
I expect the perfect criminal justice system will be devised about the same time as the perfect system of government.
Here at bank.net we have a "Trusted" vault. Thieves are required to fill out form 22A in duplicate and present three forms of identification before attempting access to the vault.
Thieves are also required to access the vault via the main secured entrance, not the unsecured janitor door.
Bank.net is not liable for any theft resulting from a failure to follow above procedures.
Oh, and it isn't the job of our OS to ensure applications behave appropriately either, we have paperwork for that too.
One of the things the cat is trying to point out is that the same person that will go to the effort of unpacking a password protected zip to infect themselves, will also gladly follow instructions to "run make install as root".
Now I know you young'uns are all soft from your time on the intranet, so I want you to keep in mind that not everyone out here on the digital plains has control of their border security.
Most of those that do have access to their firewalls are city slickers, and we all know they are either stupid or lazy. The stupid ones wouldn't know what a firewall was if it bit them on the ass, and the lazy ones whine everytime they have to go through the routine of opening ports.
Lame cowboy impressions aside, "server-push" is never something the sane suggest for the general internet population.
Err, you do realize that the U.S. has one of the most subsidised agricultural industries? Would-be exporters to the U.S. are least likely to choose farming as a profession.
I'd be interested to know how you are measuring power as well.
If you take a look a little further back in history to WW II, you'll find that one of the major reasons we not only won the war but emerged as the dominant superpower when the shooting was done is that we made sure the combat took place on enemy soil. Hawaii (then a territory) was the only part of the United States to see major combat, and that happened only once.
Yeah, that foreign soil method worked so well in Korea and Vietnam.
Whilst you're talking about WWII you might also want to thank the Russians for their part in the victory, they not only broke the back of the German army but did it on their own soil and still managed to emerge as a super power without having to terrorize any civilian populations by dropping nuclear bombs on them...
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The whole point though is that you don't know your input. It should always be verified, no exceptions.
Yep, choice is grand.
That's why I stopped using Gnome, there was a deliberate push to remove choice from the configuration of Gnome to target a subset of users.
Strangely enough, this seems to have alienated some developers and past users. It's not really a surprise that some of them want to fork off.
What kills the usability is being forced to switch from one method of input to another.
If I'm mousing away in a graphics program and click save, why can't the application at least suggest a filename, so I can just click "OK" and continue mousing?
Who puts dates in filenames anyway? This metadata is already saved with the file and any application that doesn't let you sort a list of files/directories by creation/modification date, instead of just name, is broken.
People pant at the thought of "metadata" filesystems and they can't use what they already have.
A "smart" ASCII sort would be a nightmare, yet another example of a "smart" algorithm forcing the user to deal with "unexpected" behaviour.
You have to wonder if it is intentional.
Evil Programmer #1: The plan is to change the window so it doesn't accept mouse clicks or key presses.
EP #2: Brilliant!
I think you are giving to much credit to "this" generation. In every generation there are those that value independent learning, and those that actively avoid learning anything.
Computers are not "new" technology and most software is very derivative of older software, not many "rapid developments" there.
Most education systems are also not teaching people how to learn either, despite this being their core function.
... are great for entry level photographers, some of whom have no need for a mobile phone, with or without a colour screen.
I'd be putting my money on the infants of those men who stayed around to help them and their mothers survive.
As for unwanted children, we all know there is only one 100% effective form of contraception.
Have you tried ht://Dig?
connected directly through the firewall
Hmm, I can't parse that. Nevermind, I just wanted to ask what a 100 seat license costs for anti-virus and intrusion detection/prevention software? As well as a 100 desktop intrusion prevention devices, whatever they are.
As an example, I use the GIMP (on Linux) for image processing. I could use Photoshop on Windows XP.
Purchase Costs (Australian Dollars):
GIMP: $0
Linux: $0
Total: $0
Income Tax: $0
Total Tax Paid: $0
Adobe Photoshop CS? : $1172
Windows XP Pro : $599
Total : $1771 (GST: $177.10)
Income Tax : $531.30
Total Tax Paid : $708.40
There are lots of caveats to how these figures were created but I'm too busy right now to go through them all. Here's one:
1) I choose my own income level, so I can choose to get paid $2302 dollars less in a year (and have more time to myself) and not pay the income tax if I don't need to purchase software.
As an aside, I've never used Photoshop so please don't count me as a "migrating user sick of commercial offerings".
Backing up personal data is a lot easier then saving the state of an entire OS and its installed applications.
Restoring said personal data is also a lot faster/easier.
it certainly occured to me that near an airport such a thing could post a considerable hazard.
Yeah ... airports ... aircraft ...
Pointing such a device at a traffic intersection or mounting one within a motor vehicle would be an unconsiderable hazard perhaps?
Is the idea to punish criminals, prevent them from committing further crimes, rehabilitate them to productive society members, deter other would-be criminals, comfort the victims, make the unwashed masses feel that "the government" is "tough on crime", all of the above or something else?
I expect the perfect criminal justice system will be devised about the same time as the perfect system of government.
Probably not what you're after, but a good start none the less.
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Everything, yeah, like liquid CO2... or perhaps not.
Never mind Linux, how about a reason why the hardware manufacturers could not make USB ports that support multiple standards ... like they do now.
Here at bank.net we have a "Trusted" vault. Thieves are required to fill out form 22A in duplicate and present three forms of identification before attempting access to the vault.
Thieves are also required to access the vault via the main secured entrance, not the unsecured janitor door.
Bank.net is not liable for any theft resulting from a failure to follow above procedures.
Oh, and it isn't the job of our OS to ensure applications behave appropriately either, we have paperwork for that too.
One of the things the cat is trying to point out is that the same person that will go to the effort of unpacking a password protected zip to infect themselves, will also gladly follow instructions to "run make install as root".
Curiosity killed the android etc.
SPEWS a professional blacklist ....
I suppose you believe that NANAE is a "professional" newsgroup too, with no rabid anti-spammers .
Hey kiddo, welcome to the internet.
Now I know you young'uns are all soft from your time on the intranet, so I want you to keep in mind that not everyone out here on the digital plains has control of their border security.
Most of those that do have access to their firewalls are city slickers, and we all know they are either stupid or lazy. The stupid ones wouldn't know what a firewall was if it bit them on the ass, and the lazy ones whine everytime they have to go through the routine of opening ports.
Lame cowboy impressions aside, "server-push" is never something the sane suggest for the general internet population.
Err, you do realize that the U.S. has one of the most subsidised agricultural industries? Would-be exporters to the U.S. are least likely to choose farming as a profession.
I'd be interested to know how you are measuring power as well.
Sorry, you can't blame your countrymen for this one. Small-minded/selfish people everyone suffer from a lack of insight.
"Hey, there has always been 'gas/petrol' at the 'petrol/gas' station, so there always will be, and if there isn't, its the governments fault."
or
"I have 'gas/petrol' in my 'gas/petrol' tank, not my problem if you don't have any in yours, hmm, what are you going to do with that pointy stick?"
Yeah, that foreign soil method worked so well in Korea and Vietnam.
Whilst you're talking about WWII you might also want to thank the Russians for their part in the victory, they not only broke the back of the German army but did it on their own soil and still managed to emerge as a super power without having to terrorize any civilian populations by dropping nuclear bombs on them...
I have objects of type A and B. Both handling strings, A as a single string and B as an array of strings.
You seem to think that
A3 = A1+A2
B3 = B1+B2
is just as easy for a human to parse as
A3 = A1.concat(A2)
B3 = B1.add_element(B2)
I disagree.