You're annoyed? Heck, I just found out that today it is the culinery olympics in germany... why oh why can't the news agencies tell us these important things *before* they happen, eh? I could have booked off some holiday time...
you will eventually find someone who can 'program' MS Excel.
Actually I found it quite handy for validating data. Some people might argue that it (visual basic for applications) is more powerful than older languages like fortran77 since it has full support for recursion and a more modern type system, and I have used it as a testbed for COM objects (which lets you move speed-critical or hardware-dependant code out of the interpretation). I don't see how you could claim that that isn't programming.
Well when I went to university the tasks were things like "write a 5000 word essay" or "write a 7000 word essay", not "explain this topic clearly". If you "pay" people by the word this is what you will get.
The opposite of this is the headline or first paragraph in a newspaper like "The Sun" which will fit the maximum meaning into the fewest words.
Like the current administration would care about a piece of paper? They would just pull out of it like they did from those various others, e.g. ones to reduce profileration of various weapons of mass destruction - after all, if they don't proliferate there is one less excuse for invading other countries.
Is that the leadership of the US has given up on the pretense of truth, i.e. saying something clever that is misleading but accurate (e.g. clintons denials of sex based on the judges definition of what sex was), and resorted to plain lies.
e.g. according to bush on tv "every" person held in guantanemo bay was captured in action in afghanistan. That's just a plain lie - several were arrested from normal places in other countries - even other continents.
So instead of trying to second-guess *exactly* what the person is saying to find out the truth (which I do, and other fans of political satire programs, but many others don't alas), I have to look for completely separate sources of information. That's more work for me, and is annoying.
Maybe you should tell software publishers (e.g. Electronic Arts with "The Sims 2") it would be a good idea to not require the user to be running as admin. I was at a talk by microsoft where they said this, but hardly anyone else was there (Hmm, Windows xp, that's just DOS with DirectX added isn't it?)
It will all be very tasteful double-page adverts saying "9/11" in big numerals, like Microsoft did when they released a new version of flight simulator on 9/11/2001.
I have often wondered about that in the UK or NZ, since the weights and measures inspectors have more authority than the police or customs & excise (no warrent required) whether they would take advantage of that.
"You there with the bags of cocaine! We have reason to believe your scales are inaccurate! You're nicked my son."
or "Hey there, tooled up yardie gang. We hear that you are selling hash and dope in ounces instead of metric measures. It's jail for you now!"
being able to load.doc files, such as you might get from a neighbour or a work colleage. Yes, I know open office can usually load the text, it's just the formatting and document layout it gets wrong. My neighbour gave me a simple page to print out and I had to edit it to make it make sense.
being able to copy and paste from internet explorer. This is an example of a simple operation in the computer literacy course my auntie was taking, but she couldn't do it because someone had sneaked open-office onto her system, and it pasted the test page completely wrong.
Maybe things like "open file" and "paste" are very complicated to get right (god knows microsoft was unable to perform "save document" correctly for several years) but users expect these things to just work.
Hey, don't make NZ do Chernobyl impressions while I'm away will you? I want somewhere decent left for when I retire:-). And Yarrow bakery in Taranaki has discovered the perils of not being careful enough about GM food.
Anyway, look at Icelands recent research about hot deep geothermal energy. NZ is on a fault zone and might be suited to that too. I was astonished to see in a recent New Scientist article that Geothermal energy had several times the potential of solar, wind, tidal put together.
And the ARM7 in this chip is backward compatible with what pray tell, apart from other ARMs? No doubt the peripherals and hardware has some shared heritage, but I don't think the software will be very 8 bit compatible.
Since most GameBoy Advance games use a lot of C , it has been shown to support higher level languages anyway.
From the net: "The world's first commercial RISC processor and first ARM processor, ARM1, yield working silicon the first time it was fabricated, in April 1985 at VLSI Technology. It bettered the stated design goals while using fewer than 25,000 transistors. These samples were fabricated using 3m process."
The whole point of RISC was to throw away the inefficient architecture inheirited from the 8 bit days and start afresh.
I am using 16 bit chips (with cpu, audio, video, ADC, RAM, etc. on chip) which cost $1.30 or so; there would really have to be a compelling argument to buy something for over twice the price.
A few years ago I heard of a guy being done for importing some magazines from Amsterdam. He got seriously fined, much more than he would have for e.g. hardcore pr0n.
They were Disney comics, and hadn't been licensed for distribution in the UK:-)
And yeah, I heard of people getting done more for selling apples in imperial weights (or something like that) than is standard for selling dope too:-)
Come on, the TV license advertisements use that as a selling point! Their message to students is "Watch TV without a license and you will have to beg mum and dad to pay the £1000 fine." and showing all the things you will miss out on. Admittedly these are usually shown as holidays and alcohol rather than tuition and books. The RIAA/BPI/BSA/MPAA/CIA/IRA methods would fit right in.
Remember that millions of people play the lottery each week. This is just the same but in reverse;-)
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After all, Wagner's ring cycle makes LotR look like a cartoon short by comparison...
You're annoyed? Heck, I just found out that today it is the culinery olympics in germany... why oh why can't the news agencies tell us these important things *before* they happen, eh? I could have booked off some holiday time...
Actually I found it quite handy for validating data. Some people might argue that it (visual basic for applications) is more powerful than older languages like fortran77 since it has full support for recursion and a more modern type system, and I have used it as a testbed for COM objects (which lets you move speed-critical or hardware-dependant code out of the interpretation). I don't see how you could claim that that isn't programming.
The opposite of this is the headline or first paragraph in a newspaper like "The Sun" which will fit the maximum meaning into the fewest words.
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Hey! 3d realms have announced a week or so ago that they have chosen a middleware supplier, so I guess work should start on that game quite soon! :-)
that dang soviet woodpeckers... but more so :-(
(note to US readers; a kiwi is the national bird of new zealand, not a fruit).
e.g. according to bush on tv "every" person held in guantanemo bay was captured in action in afghanistan. That's just a plain lie - several were arrested from normal places in other countries - even other continents.
So instead of trying to second-guess *exactly* what the person is saying to find out the truth (which I do, and other fans of political satire programs, but many others don't alas), I have to look for completely separate sources of information. That's more work for me, and is annoying.
Maybe you should tell software publishers (e.g. Electronic Arts with "The Sims 2") it would be a good idea to not require the user to be running as admin. I was at a talk by microsoft where they said this, but hardly anyone else was there (Hmm, Windows xp, that's just DOS with DirectX added isn't it?)
IIRC the US government uses Barney as a form of torture in Guantanemo bay/Iraq.
Hey, the I (heart) USA crowd just covers 5 timezones, but the I (dagger) USA crowd covers 25 time zones (when daylight savings is active :-)
You're several years out of date it seems. "Loose Produce" was metricated on Jan 1st 2000.
It will all be very tasteful double-page adverts saying "9/11" in big numerals, like Microsoft did when they released a new version of flight simulator on 9/11/2001.
"You there with the bags of cocaine! We have reason to believe your scales are inaccurate! You're nicked my son."
or "Hey there, tooled up yardie gang. We hear that you are selling hash and dope in ounces instead of metric measures. It's jail for you now!"
In Canada a woman can divorce a woman also!
OTOH, if Florida gets washed away, at least the spam ratio should go down!
Maybe things like "open file" and "paste" are very complicated to get right (god knows microsoft was unable to perform "save document" correctly for several years) but users expect these things to just work.
Anyway, look at Icelands recent research about hot deep geothermal energy. NZ is on a fault zone and might be suited to that too. I was astonished to see in a recent New Scientist article that Geothermal energy had several times the potential of solar, wind, tidal put together.
Since most GameBoy Advance games use a lot of C , it has been shown to support higher level languages anyway.
From the net: "The world's first commercial RISC processor and first ARM processor, ARM1, yield working silicon the first time it was fabricated, in April 1985 at VLSI Technology. It bettered the stated design goals while using fewer than 25,000 transistors. These samples were fabricated using 3m process."
The whole point of RISC was to throw away the inefficient architecture inheirited from the 8 bit days and start afresh.
OK an ARM7 is going to kick its ass, but you can write reasonably powerful code in 68000.
I am using 16 bit chips (with cpu, audio, video, ADC, RAM, etc. on chip) which cost $1.30 or so; there would really have to be a compelling argument to buy something for over twice the price.
They were Disney comics, and hadn't been licensed for distribution in the UK :-)
And yeah, I heard of people getting done more for selling apples in imperial weights (or something like that) than is standard for selling dope too :-)
Do you mean they sing as well? I thought they were kids TV presenters :-)
Remember that millions of people play the lottery each week. This is just the same but in reverse ;-)