Yes, there are many ways, and the button is least expensive and most reliable.
I'll grant that a button may be a few dollars less expensive than many other equally reliable ways to detect when people are on elevator. But if you think saving $5 is important, you'll shocked to realize the real cost savings you can achieve by ripping out the elevator and installing stairs.
Um, there are many ways that are helpful for telling that someone is inside an elevator that don't involve buttons. And if someone is inside an elevator, then they want to go to the other floor. Just throwing our ideas here.
and you'd also wan't buttons for panic alarm, close doors now (i HATE lifts that lack this or respond slowly to it) etc.
On the majority of lifts, the "close door" buttons exist only to give the occupants something to do while waiting for the doors to close. The publically accessible thermostat is more likely to affect the temperature in your office building.
Actually, for a two-floor structure like the Apple Store, that would work quite nicely. I'm not sure "there" would be the best label for the button, though.
Why the hell would you need any buttons on a two-floor structure? That's as useless as a modal dialog box with only an OK button. If someone is in the elevator, it's because they want to go to the other floor.
I'll grant that a button does serve one useful purpose -- people like to push buttons. But an elevator should be designed to move people from floor to floor, not help treat their psychological problems.
First, 1450 square feet is not a little house.
Second, I agree that the real estate market went insane, and that you're not going to find a livable house on one years gross income anymore. There are a few houses for less than $70K in the twin cities area, though they're usually unhabitable.
Third, there are over five hundred homes listed on the MLS for less than $150K in the city limits of Minneapolis or St. Paul, right now. None of these houses are huge or pretty. But many, many of those homes are in livable condition, in the lowest crime areas of the cities, and in the very best school districts.
High six figures in pounds stirling works out to a little over a million US dollars. It's high, but not incredibly out of line for a highly skilled business owners willing to take risks and work their asses off.
I make twice as much as a first year associate in a major firm than I was as a senior developer working on some major web sites.
This boggles the mind. My brother just walked away from an entry level web designer job in NYC that was close to $150K. And, he's strictly designer. The most complex code he's ever written is an onMouseOver script. I imagine senior developers must make much more. If you're making twice as much again as a junior associate in a law firm, I'm very envious.
Of course, if you're really working longer hours than a web developer, I may not envy you nearly as much. An 18 hour day is bad enough. I can't imagine what it's like to have less than 6 hours a day to eat, sleep, and travel. Plus, I bet they make lawyers bath, which must take even more time.
Uh, no, LaTeX embeds a combination of semantics, presentation, and documents into an incredibly primitive programming langague, and then executes those programs to create a visual display.
VB6 developers that transferred to VB.Net had to learn the majority of their chosen language again.
Yes, and my experience is that it takes them a long time learn, and they're not very good with it when they're done.
The reason VB developers wouldn't learn C# is probably a productivity issue, rather than not being able to learn the language
No, the reason VB programmers wouldn't learn C# is that they're generally not very good developers, and it takes them a long time to learn new languages.
C# is more like Java/C++ than VB - the language and syntax is entirely different to VB.NET.
The syntax is absolutely the most trivial part of any language. A Java developer should be able to learn the VB.Net or C# syntax in literally a few hours. The difficult part of any language is learning the libraries and runtime. A good developer can learn the basics of the.NET runtime in a few days, but might take months or even years to learn it well.
The library and runtime for VB.Net and C# are (basically) identical, and the two languages can be mechanically translated. They really are the same language in nearly every way that matters to a developer.
Frankly, the only significant differences in the languages are seen by a hiring manager.
At some point in the project some component might fall under the "this will really suck under VB, and we can tackle it much better by writing this piece in C#" which will let you get a toe-hold on the idea of using a better language.
VB.Net and C# are essentially identical.
The only difference in the real world is that VB.Net programmers are usually the low-skilled guys who can't learn a new language in a couple of days.
Everything we see negative in society today can be attributed to fiat currency -- wars, socialism, powermongering and wage destruction. Housing bubbles, tech bubbles and even the Great Depression occured due to fiat currency.
Thank God. I thought I'd never read another dada again. Your trolls restore my faith in humanity.
Anyone else want to weigh in on the fact that the NSA "phone-tapping scandal" is turning out to be a big flop for our vaunted mainstream media?
No, since calling the story a "big flop" is your opinion. Come back when you know the difference between a fact and an opinion, and we'll reconsider your brilliant and insightful analysis.
I'm pretty sure there have been proof-of-concept exploits that have involved X clients connecting to compromised X servers.
Of course, these exploits couldn't provide privilege escalation by themselves. And, the trust relationship involved is often not useful to an attacker. But, the exploits are still possible.
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Here's real irony for you: we'll know that American society once again values education and students when we fire every teacher in America.
1st year associates make $145K with a bonus on the low-end of $30K, and probably no much mor e than $45 or $50K on the high end.
Wow. To be honest, I always assumed that top graduates made way more than that coming out of law school.
Um, there are many ways that are helpful for telling that someone is inside an elevator that don't involve buttons. And if someone is inside an elevator, then they want to go to the other floor. Just throwing our ideas here.
Actually, for a two-floor structure like the Apple Store, that would work quite nicely. I'm not sure "there" would be the best label for the button, though.
Why the hell would you need any buttons on a two-floor structure? That's as useless as a modal dialog box with only an OK button. If someone is in the elevator, it's because they want to go to the other floor.
I'll grant that a button does serve one useful purpose -- people like to push buttons. But an elevator should be designed to move people from floor to floor, not help treat their psychological problems.
High six figures in pounds stirling works out to a little over a million US dollars. It's high, but not incredibly out of line for a highly skilled business owners willing to take risks and work their asses off.
This boggles the mind. My brother just walked away from an entry level web designer job in NYC that was close to $150K. And, he's strictly designer. The most complex code he's ever written is an onMouseOver script. I imagine senior developers must make much more. If you're making twice as much again as a junior associate in a law firm, I'm very envious.
Of course, if you're really working longer hours than a web developer, I may not envy you nearly as much. An 18 hour day is bad enough. I can't imagine what it's like to have less than 6 hours a day to eat, sleep, and travel. Plus, I bet they make lawyers bath, which must take even more time.
Uh, no, LaTeX embeds a combination of semantics, presentation, and documents into an incredibly primitive programming langague, and then executes those programs to create a visual display.
There's plenty of WYSIWYG tools for Latex
No, there aren't. If you believe a WYSIWYG tool is possible for LaTeX, then you either don't understand LaTeX or you don't don't understand WYSIWYG.
Based on the requirements, you should be using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Sharepoint.
If those don't fill your needs, then either you've failed to describe your requirements or you've failed to correctly set up the software.
VB6 developers that transferred to VB.Net had to learn the majority of their chosen language again.
.NET runtime in a few days, but might take months or even years to learn it well.
Yes, and my experience is that it takes them a long time learn, and they're not very good with it when they're done.
The reason VB developers wouldn't learn C# is probably a productivity issue, rather than not being able to learn the language
No, the reason VB programmers wouldn't learn C# is that they're generally not very good developers, and it takes them a long time to learn new languages.
C# is more like Java/C++ than VB - the language and syntax is entirely different to VB.NET.
The syntax is absolutely the most trivial part of any language. A Java developer should be able to learn the VB.Net or C# syntax in literally a few hours. The difficult part of any language is learning the libraries and runtime. A good developer can learn the basics of the
The library and runtime for VB.Net and C# are (basically) identical, and the two languages can be mechanically translated. They really are the same language in nearly every way that matters to a developer.
Frankly, the only significant differences in the languages are seen by a hiring manager.
At some point in the project some component might fall under the "this will really suck under VB, and we can tackle it much better by writing this piece in C#" which will let you get a toe-hold on the idea of using a better language.
VB.Net and C# are essentially identical.
The only difference in the real world is that VB.Net programmers are usually the low-skilled guys who can't learn a new language in a couple of days.
Everything we see negative in society today can be attributed to fiat currency -- wars, socialism, powermongering and wage destruction. Housing bubbles, tech bubbles and even the Great Depression occured due to fiat currency.
Thank God. I thought I'd never read another dada again. Your trolls restore my faith in humanity.
Hopefully someone articulate will set the story straight and the moderators won't have to reward the loonies.
On slashdot, the loonies moderate you!
Thanks for the link. Is your summary of its contents 100% wrong because you're a troll, or because you're functionally illiterate?
Anyone else want to weigh in on the fact that the NSA "phone-tapping scandal" is turning out to be a big flop for our vaunted mainstream media?
No, since calling the story a "big flop" is your opinion. Come back when you know the difference between a fact and an opinion, and we'll reconsider your brilliant and insightful analysis.
You mean "you can't eat your pudding and still have it."
Plus, what if someone hacked into the server and decided to "rent" a bunch of nice cars?
What if someone in a monster truck drives over all the cars in the parking lot?
How will such a system manage depreciation?
$ ncol -2 | join -l, | sed -e 's/^,/$/g'
duh.
Amortization of assets?
vi won't work, but vim includes a macro.
duh.
Automatically deal with purchase orders?
in emacs 'PO' mode, use ctrl-meta-R ctrl-meta-Q crtl-meta-C ctrl-meta-P ctrl-meta-ASDF ctrl-meta-option-alt-command-F5.
duh.
If you can't be bothered to learn how free software works, you have no business on slashdot.
A VW Beetle is a chick car. It's an artsy-fartsy car, driven by graphics designers.
Ford Mustangs are chick cars.
I'm pretty sure there have been proof-of-concept exploits that have involved X clients connecting to compromised X servers.
Of course, these exploits couldn't provide privilege escalation by themselves. And, the trust relationship involved is often not useful to an attacker. But, the exploits are still possible.
legitimate email is not supposed to vanish without a trace.
There is no feature in the design of SMTP email to guarantee this.
if it does, bug somebody who could help you to find the cause and eliminate it.
There is no feature in the design of SMTP email to allow the user to know when to do this.
don't wonder that people will be telling you how it really is.
There is not feature in the design of Slashdot to encourage factually correct posts.
You install X11...
Is this a joke? Why would you need to install an X server to run X client applications? Do you even understand what X is?