Doesn't predictive text make a "more efficient" layout basically pointless? Yes, once you'd learnt it entering proper nouns and other non-dictionary words would be quicker. But really, just turn predictive text on folks. The pain of the first few days soon gives way to MUCH quicker texting.
The front page of our OpenWiki was blank and wasn't responding to edits so I nipped into the code, wrote the query it was running against the DB to the screen, ran that against the db and saw that none of the rows in the revisions table was marked current, marked the latest one current and now it all works again.
The fact that the internet has been around a short while and we're used to it doesn't mean you can't be excited about the new possibilities it presents almost every day.
For example, I got a GPRS mobile phone with Java on Monday and now I can connect to my books list (of books that I want to buy) on my webserver when I happen to pass a secondhand bookshop and see if they have any of the books off my list through my phone. Cool!
Scans of text. I scan a 20-page document every week and put it online. If I OCR and check spelling it takes forever (dark text on dark background). If I just scan and stick it up as images it takes 5-10 mins.
Resizing makes it unreadable. Novice users get confused and think its their resolution or the website's fault or similar.
Well I think you can be forgiven that one as it is clearly available from first principles. Our intranet Look and Feel (both ASP and Java versions) contain a function IsCrapBrowser() or isCrapBrowser()
All our dev machines are named after porn stars. It all began because we had a machince called "lovelace" (after Ada) and I couldn't resist adding "lords", "jameson", etc. etc. Needless to say we named the live servers differently although its still good to send people to lovelace when we're developing for them.
More than that I think that it is used for this purpose - there is no mistake in George Orwell's naming of this 1948 novel '1984' (reversed the last two digits).
Stand-up Comedian: Men are pigs! *Women in crowd scream and cheer* Stand-up Comedian (louder): Men are pigs! *Women in crowd scream and cheer like crazy* Stand-up Comedian: Its just a shame we own everything really.
I've taken more from the internet than I will ever give back. If someone wants some of my code they can have it. Maybe I'd feel differently if I was more talented?
But that's the thing - that's the whole thing. This place is great. They made in part by accident and in part by design and sometimes they're not perfect and _sometimes_ they are. And now it belongs to the community and it even brings people into the community. Some people install linux for the first time because of Slashdot - lots of people even. I think its fabulous.
In the last year I've spent as much time on/. as on the rest of the web put together (maybe). This whole article makes me sad because so many of the comments are negative. Its sad when we're negative even about the very best things we have. And I like the kludgeniess!
In fact they languish in the relegation zone of Division Two (the third of the four) and look near-certain to end up in the bottom division next season.
Of course I find this hilarious as they are my brother's team but there you go...
The guy clearly feels strongly enough about his project to put teetering on seven figures into it so maybe he was 'forced' into GPL-ing it in order to get some of the Open Source crowd in to help and make it work. He doesn't want to see his baby fail so he bit the bullet that would get more people involved. And it worked too - I bet he gets at least one contributor on the basis of the/. article alone.
There are loads of these at http://www.eeggs.com/. I particularly like "I'd like to kill Bill Gates" in Word 97 American English thesaurus giving you "I'll drink to that" as a suggestion (although that is one of the few _un_intententional ones).
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Doesn't predictive text make a "more efficient" layout basically pointless? Yes, once you'd learnt it entering proper nouns and other non-dictionary words would be quicker. But really, just turn predictive text on folks. The pain of the first few days soon gives way to MUCH quicker texting.
Interestingly enough, yes.
The front page of our OpenWiki was blank and wasn't responding to edits so I nipped into the code, wrote the query it was running against the DB to the screen, ran that against the db and saw that none of the rows in the revisions table was marked current, marked the latest one current and now it all works again.
Free Software is not just (even) about cost.
Are you crazy? All the time!
The fact that the internet has been around a short while and we're used to it doesn't mean you can't be excited about the new possibilities it presents almost every day.
For example, I got a GPRS mobile phone with Java on Monday and now I can connect to my books list (of books that I want to buy) on my webserver when I happen to pass a secondhand bookshop and see if they have any of the books off my list through my phone. Cool!
Scans of text. I scan a 20-page document every week and put it online. If I OCR and check spelling it takes forever (dark text on dark background). If I just scan and stick it up as images it takes 5-10 mins.
Resizing makes it unreadable. Novice users get confused and think its their resolution or the website's fault or similar.
Well if they hadn't I wouldn't have been there for the last few hours. I'm glad they did.
Well I think you can be forgiven that one as it is clearly available from first principles. Our intranet Look and Feel (both ASP and Java versions) contain a function IsCrapBrowser() or isCrapBrowser()
All our dev machines are named after porn stars. It all began because we had a machince called "lovelace" (after Ada) and I couldn't resist adding "lords", "jameson", etc. etc. Needless to say we named the live servers differently although its still good to send people to lovelace when we're developing for them.
More than that I think that it is used for this purpose - there is no mistake in George Orwell's naming of this 1948 novel '1984' (reversed the last two digits).
Fuck you cunt.
Stand-up Comedian: Men are pigs!
*Women in crowd scream and cheer*
Stand-up Comedian (louder): Men are pigs!
*Women in crowd scream and cheer like crazy*
Stand-up Comedian: Its just a shame we own everything really.
Sorry to post off topic but no email: topterms, your sig link is wrong. It links to http://slashdot.org/TopTerms.htm .
Can you suggest a better alternative?
I've taken more from the internet than I will ever give back. If someone wants some of my code they can have it. Maybe I'd feel differently if I was more talented?
My understanding is that _W_indows _N_ew _T_echnology was named after VMS (V->W, M->N, S->T).
Nope, 2000 _is_ a leap year. /4 unless divisible by 400 unless divisible by 2000.
But that's the thing - that's the whole thing. This place is great. They made in part by accident and in part by design and sometimes they're not perfect and _sometimes_ they are. And now it belongs to the community and it even brings people into the community. Some people install linux for the first time because of Slashdot - lots of people even. I think its fabulous.
In the last year I've spent as much time on /. as on the rest of the web put together (maybe). This whole article makes me sad because so many of the comments are negative. Its sad when we're negative even about the very best things we have. And I like the kludgeniess!
Its a length restriction - same thing happened to some guy callled blah blah lightning rod. He has no rod anymore.
In fact they languish in the relegation zone of Division Two (the third of the four) and look near-certain to end up in the bottom division next season.
Of course I find this hilarious as they are my brother's team but there you go ...
Or to put it another way: all comedy has a victim. Except maybe puns.
The report was in Word Perfect format according to the news site I read. Operating System was not mentioned.
No - its OK - we'll just sue McDonnell-Douglas!
The guy clearly feels strongly enough about his project to put teetering on seven figures into it so maybe he was 'forced' into GPL-ing it in order to get some of the Open Source crowd in to help and make it work. He doesn't want to see his baby fail so he bit the bullet that would get more people involved. And it worked too - I bet he gets at least one contributor on the basis of the /. article alone.
But Norwegian scientists and Open Source heroes will fight the good fight! They won't put us back in the tin!
There are loads of these at http://www.eeggs.com/. I particularly like "I'd like to kill Bill Gates" in Word 97 American English thesaurus giving you "I'll drink to that" as a suggestion (although that is one of the few _un_intententional ones).
Ah but they give you metaspy and that's just funny.