> what about all the data that is lost forever because there is simply not enough paper to record it on
I have discovered a truly marvelous solution to this problem that this margin is too narrow to contain.
I always thought that operator overloading was evil, but I may be wrong. I'm not at familiar with scientific programming, so could you say why operator overloading is essential?
Opera doesn't hide its identity that sneakily. Here's the user agent HTTP header from Opera 7.03:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Opera 7.03
You can see that user agent headers are a mess, and figuring out which browser sent the request isn't trivial: that's Opera pretending to be Internet Explorer pretending to be Netscape 4.0! However, anyone who reads a web server log correctly can figure it out.
And now that comment again, with the correct formatting. 8~)
You're wrong on point 1. We were having trouble starting an EJB container yesterday which turned out to be because we had introduced a new field: we had a <Description> tag where we should have had <description>. Look closely: they are different.
Adding things will break your validating parser because it's not in the DTD.
You're wrong on point 1. We were having trouble starting an EJB container yesterday which turned out to be because we had introduced a new field: we had a tag where we should have had . Look closely: they are different.
Adding things will break your validating parser because it's not in the DTD.
I certainly don't wish to see you or your wife put to the sword.
Full employment doesn't equal no unemployment. Keynes was explaining why the huge levels of unemployment seen in the 1930s weren't reduced by swarming market forces. People were willing and able to work but couldn't.
Since you've brought up economic theory, you might also have mentioned that Keynes showed that the end result of swarm behaviour can be distinctly sub-optimal: it's quite possible (indeed normal) for the economy to reach equilibrium without full employment. The general point is that while the swarm will do surprising things given the limitations of their interactions, what they do could often be improved upon.
I'm perturbed by the fact that at the end of a project I am given time to document what I've done, so I can explain to some future maintenance programmer what's wrong with my code, but I'm not allowed to fix it because it's working well enough to go live. If I change the code at that point they'll have to regression test it, and there's no time for that.
I once heard a good example of how Human Computer Interaction should work. The human can't find something so asks the computer.
H: Where did you put it? C: Put what? H: You know... C: Oh, in the usual place.
I had thought that this was a well-known HCI story, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Anyway, the point is that users don't want to specify where things go, either by path or by meta-data. They just want the computer to look after them and return them when required.
What if I could google my file system? Then finding that expenses claim I made last March would be as easy as finding dubious web sites. I wouldn't have to rememeber where I saved it, what meta-data I attached to it, or even what format it was in. I haven't used any file search utility that worked as well as a web search.
Alert readers may note that this suggestion is slightly spoiled by the fact that I couldn't find the HCI example I was looking for on Google...
[Linux lacks] an integrated GUI where cut & paste works consistently across every application-- even for graphics, formatted text, and tables
I'm not a Linux user, so I can't say if that's right or not, but if it is, it's scary. Who cares about the metaphor you use for you UI if this basic stuff doesn't work?
My understanding is that most phone calls are digitised already. The connections between exchanges are (mostly) fibre-optic, so the traffic is digital. I can't comment on who's listening in. Surely that doesn't happen without due cause and the appropriate courtroom approvals?
</wide-eyed innocence>
Ironically, I'm posting this over a dial-up which modulates my digital data to analogue. The signal is then digitally encoded at the telephone exchange, with the whole process being reversed as the signal reaches my ISP.
You have to prove that you don't watch *any* broadcast TV, not only BBC. If you have a VCR, you have to have the tuner removed from it to avoid paying the licence.
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> what about all the data that is lost forever because there is simply not enough paper to record it on
I have discovered a truly marvelous solution to this problem that this margin is too narrow to contain.
I always thought that operator overloading was evil, but I may be wrong. I'm not at familiar with scientific programming, so could you say why operator overloading is essential?
Opera doesn't hide its identity that sneakily. Here's the user agent HTTP header from Opera 7.03:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Opera 7.03
You can see that user agent headers are a mess, and figuring out which browser sent the request isn't trivial: that's Opera pretending to be Internet Explorer pretending to be Netscape 4.0! However, anyone who reads a web server log correctly can figure it out.
And now that comment again, with the correct formatting. 8~)
You're wrong on point 1. We were having trouble starting an EJB container yesterday which turned out to be because we had introduced a new field: we had a <Description> tag where we should have had <description>. Look closely: they are different.
Adding things will break your validating parser because it's not in the DTD.
You're wrong on point 1. We were having trouble starting an EJB container yesterday which turned out to be because we had introduced a new field: we had a tag where we should have had . Look closely: they are different. Adding things will break your validating parser because it's not in the DTD.
I certainly don't wish to see you or your wife put to the sword.
Full employment doesn't equal no unemployment. Keynes was explaining why the huge levels of unemployment seen in the 1930s weren't reduced by swarming market forces. People were willing and able to work but couldn't.
Since you've brought up economic theory, you might also have mentioned that Keynes showed that the end result of swarm behaviour can be distinctly sub-optimal: it's quite possible (indeed normal) for the economy to reach equilibrium without full employment. The general point is that while the swarm will do surprising things given the limitations of their interactions, what they do could often be improved upon.
You kan use open sourse letters in your kode, or you kan klimb in bed with Mikrosoft (who've reserved 'VC' as a single Unikode glyph).
As Erdos was Hungarian, the pronounciation of his surname is not obvious. Here's a helpful limerick.
A question both deep and profound
Is whether a circle is round
In a paper by Erdos
Written in Kurdish
A counter example is found
I'm perturbed by the fact that at the end of a project I am given time to document what I've done, so I can explain to some future maintenance programmer what's wrong with my code, but I'm not allowed to fix it because it's working well enough to go live. If I change the code at that point they'll have to regression test it, and there's no time for that.
I once heard a good example of how Human Computer Interaction should work. The human can't find something so asks the computer.
H: Where did you put it?
C: Put what?
H: You know...
C: Oh, in the usual place.
I had thought that this was a well-known HCI story, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Anyway, the point is that users don't want to specify where things go, either by path or by meta-data. They just want the computer to look after them and return them when required.
What if I could google my file system? Then finding that expenses claim I made last March would be as easy as finding dubious web sites. I wouldn't have to rememeber where I saved it, what meta-data I attached to it, or even what format it was in. I haven't used any file search utility that worked as well as a web search.
Alert readers may note that this suggestion is slightly spoiled by the fact that I couldn't find the HCI example I was looking for on Google...
My understanding is that most phone calls are digitised already. The connections between exchanges are (mostly) fibre-optic, so the traffic is digital. I can't comment on who's listening in. Surely that doesn't happen without due cause and the appropriate courtroom approvals?
</wide-eyed innocence>
Ironically, I'm posting this over a dial-up which modulates my digital data to analogue. The signal is then digitally encoded at the telephone exchange, with the whole process being reversed as the signal reaches my ISP.
You have to prove that you don't watch *any* broadcast TV, not only BBC. If you have a VCR, you have to have the tuner removed from it to avoid paying the licence.
Zowie Bowie is David Bowie's *son*, thought I believe he prefers to be called Duncan Jones. He could have chosen any name, but he chose "Duncan".
When Marc Bolan heard the David Bowie named his son Zowie, he liked the idea so much that he called his son Rolan Bolan.