We have an intranet site that uses the clipboard too. Basically an Office application copies the document properties to the clipboard, opens a webpage, and auto-magically fills in a form.
1. FFS, use POST or a URL string.
2. FFS, ask me before overwritting the information I already had in the clipboard.
3. FFS, people rate you as a good web developer. Why? Yes I'm talking to you Mr. I-Stick-Stupid-MySQL-logos-on-every-page.
Why do Americans want to hang onto their paper $1 notes so much? I cannot imagine carrying around £0.50 in paper in my wallet.
We've had £1 coins for, if I had to guess, 20 years. £2 coins for 5 years. Even our £5 notes seem worthless at times. You could even do without your $5 notes.
No one tell me that it's because 'they rub holes in your pockets'. All the other small change builds up quicker.
On my street the NTL fibre runs from one end to the other. Copper wire brings the signal into my house. An engineer laughed at me once when I suggested that I had fibre coming in through the walls. "It's too expensive to do that" he said.
Word does not seem to like working with tables, footnotes and graphs. Nor does it seem to like documents longer than 30 pages, or paste and copy within a document, or work nicely between it and Excel (almost 100% crashes on my machines and I have tried all kinds of remedies... not looking how to fix it, don't even suggest it as I don't have it installed anymore).
I've just finished a 2,500 page Word document with tables, graphs, footnotes, headers, footers, TOCs for each Section - the works. 6 months work. Zero crashes.
Copying and pasting within the same document works fine. Copying and pasting between documents based on differnet templates is not so good. Templates imported from older versions of Word also compound these sorts of problems.
30 pages? Bollocks. Come back and comment when you've written something other than a short story.
Blind person: "Why doesn't this deer have any eyeballs?"
Sighted person thinking fast: "No eye deer"
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.
Re:class action lawsuit in the works?
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Speaking of scripting...
Why let a telephone conversation go on this long? After two minutes I would have written a nice letter explaining things. Some things cannot be explained over the phone properly and this article highlights that fact.
Put your tinfoil hats away people. You are all wrong (apart from the O2 user down the thread).
UK pre-paid phones can be bought for cash. Stick the SIM in and it just works. There is nothing magic about it. Everyone and their dog does it here. I have never registered any of my phones.
You can top it up with credit using cash. There are a billion ways of topping up your phone these days. ATMs, Shops, scratch cards, phone hot-lines...
With some operators, if you don't use your SIM for a period of 6 months they cut you off and reassign the the number to a new pre-paid phone SIM.
All the operators here offer free SIM cards from their websites. I have a stack of SIM card here, all networks. They all offer free credit after I stick the first ten quid on it.
The UK is not the USA yet. Put your tin-foil hats in the bin.
P.S. Prepaid SIM cards here are often roaming SIMs too. No fucking about when you travel. Step off the plane, get a text message from a local operater and blow.
About the only thing I never worked out is how they get them to release from the molds so cleanly...
The plastic shrinks as is cools. Simple as that.
Yes, I used to make plastic injection moulding tools. Well, that's a lie, I made the patterns that were used to cast the dies. A hammer wielding Toolmaker made the tools, obviously.
I like the way it's blocked 812 emails to my slash address this year. Bots crawling this site... how stupid is that? Or maybe Taco is selling... no, that couldn't be true.;)
I've been making gapless MP3s for years using EAC. I make one continous, large MP3 and create a CUE sheet to go with it. Loads of MP3 programs support CUE sheets, it's not a new technology. Heck, a CUE sheet only lists the track number, when it starts and possibly the track name in plain editable text.
Portable MP3 players and their software are 5-10 years behind everyone else.
Back in the 3.1 days, my Windows (and MS Office) training involved watching half a dozen VHS videos. Does that still happen? I think not.
Today I had to ZIP some files onto a USB drive because my 40 year old boss didn't know how. He's a lead engineer in charge of a 650 million pound project but things like Zipping a few files together aren't interesting to him. Why should they be?
I work with others in their forties who cannot map network drives, don't understand that you can save shortcuts in your favorites [sic] to absolutely anything, are unable to save email attachments, do not understand that you can drag and drop almost anything anywhere, etc, etc, etc.
I'm not convinced that training for the office working Joe Bloggs is the problem. Joe Bloggs doesn't know how to use Windows to even a moderate standard.
Me? I only use Windows these days because everyone else is using it and I know that is true for many, many people.
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Sod it. Click them all. I know I did.
Merry Everybody!
We have an intranet site that uses the clipboard too. Basically an Office application copies the document properties to the clipboard, opens a webpage, and auto-magically fills in a form.
1. FFS, use POST or a URL string.
2. FFS, ask me before overwritting the information I already had in the clipboard.
3. FFS, people rate you as a good web developer. Why? Yes I'm talking to you Mr. I-Stick-Stupid-MySQL-logos-on-every-page.
Mod this man up.
No one uses Auto-CAD for anything other than 2D sketches, plans of buildings, office seating arrangements...
CATIA was the standard in BMW 5 years ago (don't know if it still is). It is a fantastic application.
Autodesk? Serious engineering? hehehe
Like a sheet of glass?
It's no good asking me, I only come here for the women.
Eagles, Hawks and Owls. Three types of birds with eyesight ten times better than mine.
I can see the blades spinning...
Why do Americans want to hang onto their paper $1 notes so much? I cannot imagine carrying around £0.50 in paper in my wallet.
We've had £1 coins for, if I had to guess, 20 years. £2 coins for 5 years. Even our £5 notes seem worthless at times. You could even do without your $5 notes.
No one tell me that it's because 'they rub holes in your pockets'. All the other small change builds up quicker.
The best mobile phone I ever owned was a Samsung. I look forward to buying from them again.
On my street the NTL fibre runs from one end to the other. Copper wire brings the signal into my house. An engineer laughed at me once when I suggested that I had fibre coming in through the walls. "It's too expensive to do that" he said.
I've just finished a 2,500 page Word document with tables, graphs, footnotes, headers, footers, TOCs for each Section - the works. 6 months work. Zero crashes.
Copying and pasting within the same document works fine. Copying and pasting between documents based on differnet templates is not so good. Templates imported from older versions of Word also compound these sorts of problems.
30 pages? Bollocks. Come back and comment when you've written something other than a short story.
Blind person: "Why doesn't this deer have any eyeballs?"
Sighted person thinking fast: "No eye deer"
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.
Speaking of scripting...
Why let a telephone conversation go on this long? After two minutes I would have written a nice letter explaining things. Some things cannot be explained over the phone properly and this article highlights that fact.
Dear Sir,
So why not buy a decent player that skips over that crap?
I have a player that skips that crap and it cost me less than a bottle of Brandy.
I don't think that's strictly true.
I don't use BitTorrent much these days but when I did, I always got my client to request small files like NFOs, SFVs, JPEGs and AVI samples first.
There's nothing to stop the client asking for the blocks in order.
Put your tinfoil hats away people. You are all wrong (apart from the O2 user down the thread).
UK pre-paid phones can be bought for cash. Stick the SIM in and it just works. There is nothing magic about it. Everyone and their dog does it here. I have never registered any of my phones.
You can top it up with credit using cash. There are a billion ways of topping up your phone these days. ATMs, Shops, scratch cards, phone hot-lines...
With some operators, if you don't use your SIM for a period of 6 months they cut you off and reassign the the number to a new pre-paid phone SIM.
All the operators here offer free SIM cards from their websites. I have a stack of SIM card here, all networks. They all offer free credit after I stick the first ten quid on it.
The UK is not the USA yet. Put your tin-foil hats in the bin.
P.S. Prepaid SIM cards here are often roaming SIMs too. No fucking about when you travel. Step off the plane, get a text message from a local operater and blow.
Hey that's unfair! My "Shopping list written in blue crayon #1" drawing is due for exhibition in the Tate Modern starting Spring 2007.
Book early to avoid disappointment.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
What is this "My Space" that everyone keeps talking about? It sounds gorgeously fun.
Turbans are worn by Sikhs. Idiot.
The plastic shrinks as is cools. Simple as that.
Yes, I used to make plastic injection moulding tools. Well, that's a lie, I made the patterns that were used to cast the dies. A hammer wielding Toolmaker made the tools, obviously.
I like the way it's blocked 812 emails to my slash address this year. Bots crawling this site... how stupid is that? Or maybe Taco is selling... no, that couldn't be true. ;)
I only show it above for the fun of it.
I've been making gapless MP3s for years using EAC. I make one continous, large MP3 and create a CUE sheet to go with it. Loads of MP3 programs support CUE sheets, it's not a new technology. Heck, a CUE sheet only lists the track number, when it starts and possibly the track name in plain editable text.
Portable MP3 players and their software are 5-10 years behind everyone else.
You make me cry because the machine I use daily is of a lower spec than that.
I'd happily give up 4 Saturdays for a higher spec machine. I'm sure it's not 'real work' anyway.
Training. Do people even get Windows training?
Back in the 3.1 days, my Windows (and MS Office) training involved watching half a dozen VHS videos. Does that still happen? I think not.
Today I had to ZIP some files onto a USB drive because my 40 year old boss didn't know how. He's a lead engineer in charge of a 650 million pound project but things like Zipping a few files together aren't interesting to him. Why should they be?
I work with others in their forties who cannot map network drives, don't understand that you can save shortcuts in your favorites [sic] to absolutely anything, are unable to save email attachments, do not understand that you can drag and drop almost anything anywhere, etc, etc, etc.
I'm not convinced that training for the office working Joe Bloggs is the problem. Joe Bloggs doesn't know how to use Windows to even a moderate standard.
Me? I only use Windows these days because everyone else is using it and I know that is true for many, many people.
Spare a thought for me. I assumed Pump and Dump was a type of fetish that the likes of George Michael are into.
God bless Google.
Insightful? Stupid mods, he was trying to be funny.
Un-crippling will be as simple as:
1. Open the disk tray
2. Type 1234 on the remote
3. Close the disk tray
Why wouldn't it be that easy?