I am a beaurocrat, and we are NOT striving towards excellence. Maybe perfection, but the point is that we are striving for something out of reach. If we find any way to reach it, we need a new goal.
What might be a better idea, would be to tell them what they need to know. If you shouldn't send large e-mail attachments/clutter your mailbox, tell them why, leaving out what they don't need to know.
If someone wanted me to clean my inbox, and started telling me crap about protocols, I'd think of them as jerks.
If my car have a broken engine, I don't want to know what all the parts do. Just fix it, and tell me how not to wreck it once I get it back.
Every single time I see a movie preivew it is in.rm or.mov format. I _hate_ real player. I don't know what's wrong with all the other codecs, but if you movie guys e-mail me about it, I'll see if I find something better for you mmmkay?
Yes, what a great idea. Show me the person who NEVER MADE ONE GOD DAMN MISTAKE. We all make mistakes. If I finally get an option to recover files I deleted but shouldn't have, then I'd be glad.
And if you had read the howto write god programs howto, you would have seen that any good programmer would allow the user to make mistakes, or tell them that an action is irreversible. I prefer i trash can to a message for every file.
Well, it could be combined. If you look at the skinning community, the Stardock gives away free versions of their programs. While you get the latest and greatest by paying, I for one, feel that there is more to those guys than just the hunger for money. I'd say I'm emotionally attached.;)...and it doesn't come on a CD...
At work I have a Windows 2k box. I don't have admin rights to it, but I have installed as much un-needed stuff as possible. I like lots of little meters and media players on my desktop. And guess what, there is NO cruft in it. If I don't start all those crufty programs, it is almost as good as new. And that's a PII 350, 64MB box.
It is all the experimental programs that the "Power Users" download, that lead to the accelerated decay. Because most tested applications clean up after themselves.
And all those registry-bashing Linux people. God damn, from what I read over at gnome.org, there is some sort of GNOME-registry, which "everyone" agreed was a "good thing". The thing with the Windows registry is all the dumb programmers, IE Creative, who loaded ALL their mixer settings into this, it was a whopping 3 MB! And when the "clean" registry from Microsft was below 1 MB(Win95), then that was a huge degradement. But if you know what you are doing, it is not harder to do some cleanning in the Windows registry than removing unwanted files from a Linux system.
And on top of that, Windows XP comes with a feature called "System restore", which allows you to get back all those settings that worked so well, including the registry. OK, I've only used it once, and it may not be the "best" tool there is, but it is certainly better than nothing.
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er... ....no.
I am a beaurocrat, and we are NOT striving towards excellence. Maybe perfection, but the point is that we are striving for something out of reach. If we find any way to reach it, we need a new goal.
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Defeat Efficency Now!
CheeseCow
...so we don't end up with a lesser version because they don't like the other implementation.
;)
I thought that was what OSS was about, getting the best of all worlds?
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Helmers
...the question is, will my games run faster on FreeBSD?
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CheeseCow
What might be a better idea, would be to tell them what they need to know. If you shouldn't send large e-mail attachments/clutter your mailbox, tell them why, leaving out what they don't need to know.
;)
If someone wanted me to clean my inbox, and started telling me crap about protocols, I'd think of them as jerks.
If my car have a broken engine, I don't want to know what all the parts do. Just fix it, and tell me how not to wreck it once I get it back.
And 5 MB should be enough for everyone.
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CheeseCow
Yeah!
;)
It's the people IN the countries that count, not who's leading it.
Every single time I see a movie preivew it is in .rm or .mov format. I _hate_ real player. I don't know what's wrong with all the other codecs, but if you movie guys e-mail me about it, I'll see if I find something better for you mmmkay?
Yes, what a great idea. Show me the person who NEVER MADE ONE GOD DAMN MISTAKE. We all make mistakes. If I finally get an option to recover files I deleted but shouldn't have, then I'd be glad. And if you had read the howto write god programs howto, you would have seen that any good programmer would allow the user to make mistakes, or tell them that an action is irreversible. I prefer i trash can to a message for every file.
Well, it could be combined. If you look at the skinning community, the Stardock gives away free versions of their programs. While you get the latest and greatest by paying, I for one, feel that there is more to those guys than just the hunger for money. I'd say I'm emotionally attached. ;) ...and it doesn't come on a CD...
First of all, the pages load faster. And second, it have got tabs! I just love tabbed browsing. This feature alone is enough to switch from IE.
At work I have a Windows 2k box. I don't have admin rights to it, but I have installed as much un-needed stuff as possible. I like lots of little meters and media players on my desktop. And guess what, there is NO cruft in it. If I don't start all those crufty programs, it is almost as good as new. And that's a PII 350, 64MB box.
It is all the experimental programs that the "Power Users" download, that lead to the accelerated decay. Because most tested applications clean up after themselves.
And all those registry-bashing Linux people. God damn, from what I read over at gnome.org, there is some sort of GNOME-registry, which "everyone" agreed was a "good thing". The thing with the Windows registry is all the dumb programmers, IE Creative, who loaded ALL their mixer settings into this, it was a whopping 3 MB! And when the "clean" registry from Microsft was below 1 MB(Win95), then that was a huge degradement. But if you know what you are doing, it is not harder to do some cleanning in the Windows registry than removing unwanted files from a Linux system.
And on top of that, Windows XP comes with a feature called "System restore", which allows you to get back all those settings that worked so well, including the registry. OK, I've only used it once, and it may not be the "best" tool there is, but it is certainly better than nothing.