In the comercial world market share is all that counts and technical correctness is optional. Most companies won't pay the extra cost. If you can squirt out a site from Front Page and capture 95% of the market then nobody is going to pay $80 an hour (or whatever) for someone to hand code html to
a) Gain that extra 5%.
b) To keep a developer from whining.
It's just not financially worth it (unless the browser market moves of course).
I don't know what anyone with a better understanding would make of using "send to" causing a protection fault, periodic mouseless periods of up to 10 seconds to name but two. I was disappointed I must say, especially as I hadn't done anything particulary nasty to it. Maybe it is the residue of a million COM experiments or the introduction of a Java development system, but I'd have expected better not worse. Still - the next machine will no doubt have less problems, assuming it's all pre-installed.
Interesting. I was running NT4 for around 7 years at 3 different companies with virtually zero problems. My recent XP upgrade has caused things to stop working that previously worked fine. It's a pretty old PC (I've had it for 3 years and it's probably a little older than that) It could be that, but I'd be surprised. Most people, as you did, seem to find it a lot better though. God knows I've sent enough bug reports off, mostly from MS Word.
Counting cards does not affect the overall odds. What it means is that you can bet low (or not at all) when you have a bad or neutral deck and up the stake when you think things will get good. The chances on each hand are actually the same.
I wonder if it will be cheaper to pay an average Chinese wage to someone so they can copy stuff out by hand rather than buy a photocopier. It wouldn't surprise me, at least (until the markets open up a bit).
MS Word already does this. I did a (very) quick check it and gets these examples right and gives the correct version.
I gave them there cookies.
The cookies are over their.
Their crazy!
Maybe you should use something other than vi for your word processing:)
Bet you anything he works longer hours than he did at his 'real job' to make anywhere near as much money
I'd do almost anything if my job was worth giving up for $17.5K pa ($1000 / 3 weeks)! Given that he has a wife & kids to support makes me think he'll have to work pretty hard to get by on that money.
Good point. I wasted 2 hours watching a crappy film at the cinema and was cheated out of enjoyment. For some reason I don't expect my money back. Maybe my kindergarten worked after all.
Don't forget insurance. If that happens at all, I'd imagine whoever insures Dell/Amazon or whatever probably won't cover it once it leaves the US. Although perhaps UPS/DHL or whoever take care of that, which certainly validates your point.
But in the other favourite/. case of music, surely lighting my candle from yours (copying a song) is depriving the guy who sold you your matches (the artist).
This is a good example of a point that book review a few articles ago was trying to make.
âoeConsequence-Based Thinkingâ in Chapter 2, a concept that promotes decision-making based on desired business results, rather than on the IT problems you face.
(Unfortunately) most IT isn't about messing around with cool new stuff, it's implementing specific requirements, no matter how mundane. How she thinks the severity of loss of extremely private data can be mitigated with "look at my cool network" I don't know.
None of us even know the filename for our mp3s anymore, it's buried in iTunes or Winamp or XMMS, we just know the artist, and the song name
Good point. It's like phone numbers and cell phones. I've never even bothered to try to remember a single one. Once it's in the phone and has the person's name next to it, the actual number is irrelevent.
I want to see it under max load with "n" task accessing it and the planet worth of data to pull from with a good percentage being changing. Then crash it and try to restore the mess
This is what databases are for. (Unless you consider MSQL a database, in which case you have implemented a basic database using a file system. How very Soviet Russia!).
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In the comercial world market share is all that counts and technical correctness is optional. Most companies won't pay the extra cost. If you can squirt out a site from Front Page and capture 95% of the market then nobody is going to pay $80 an hour (or whatever) for someone to hand code html to
a) Gain that extra 5%.
b) To keep a developer from whining.
It's just not financially worth it (unless the browser market moves of course).
I don't know what anyone with a better understanding would make of using "send to" causing a protection fault, periodic mouseless periods of up to 10 seconds to name but two. I was disappointed I must say, especially as I hadn't done anything particulary nasty to it. Maybe it is the residue of a million COM experiments or the introduction of a Java development system, but I'd have expected better not worse. Still - the next machine will no doubt have less problems, assuming it's all pre-installed.
Interesting. I was running NT4 for around 7 years at 3 different companies with virtually zero problems. My recent XP upgrade has caused things to stop working that previously worked fine. It's a pretty old PC (I've had it for 3 years and it's probably a little older than that) It could be that, but I'd be surprised. Most people, as you did, seem to find it a lot better though. God knows I've sent enough bug reports off, mostly from MS Word.
Counting cards does not affect the overall odds. What it means is that you can bet low (or not at all) when you have a bad or neutral deck and up the stake when you think things will get good. The chances on each hand are actually the same.
I wonder if it will be cheaper to pay an average Chinese wage to someone so they can copy stuff out by hand rather than buy a photocopier. It wouldn't surprise me, at least (until the markets open up a bit).
MS Word already does this. I did a (very) quick check it and gets these examples right and gives the correct version.
:)
I gave them there cookies.
The cookies are over their.
Their crazy!
Maybe you should use something other than vi for your word processing
Yeah - and the traditional christmas meal of +5 fries-with-that of Arse Widening. (Arse Widening in the fat sense - not the goatsex sense!)
That should be patently obvious.
I wouldn't normally buy from a spammer either but my wife's spamTunnel is too big! I need something to enhance my spamProbe.
Good point. I wasted 2 hours watching a crappy film at the cinema and was cheated out of enjoyment. For some reason I don't expect my money back. Maybe my kindergarten worked after all.
Surely most money is virtual these days. I expect most "real" money exists solely on a disk somewhere at XYZ Bank/Visa data centre.
Try getting into Crown Casino. It's easier to beat a breathalyser than get into there when you've had a few.
Generally not for strings. Maybe if I still used char arrays like I did in 1986.....
Cute, apart from the fact that none of this has been relevent since about 1986. Except point 7.
Don't forget insurance. If that happens at all, I'd imagine whoever insures Dell/Amazon or whatever probably won't cover it once it leaves the US. Although perhaps UPS/DHL or whoever take care of that, which certainly validates your point.
But in the other favourite /. case of music, surely lighting my candle from yours (copying a song) is depriving the guy who sold you your matches (the artist).
I'd start to get concerned when the coffee, sugar and milk all come from the same organism.
I can't wait until my boss trades in my desktop and gives me a PS2 instead.
Wow! We'd have to pay fees not to fly off into space because we didn't licence gravity! Cool. Might save NASA a few $.