I didn't think there was a Pidgin build for mobiles. If there is, please point me to it, I'd love to use it.
And you're ignoring my point. Yes, fine, in gtk+ it's more work to have an auto-resizing window than a manual one. But my point was, it's certainly more work to have both at once than either as a fixed mode of operation.
Right, but it's a lot more cases you have to handle in code to deal with the conflict between user-set sizes and app-set sizes. I don't know what the right answer is here, but I sympathize with their desire to pick one or the other.
It's what happens when developers enforce their petty "HIG guidelines" over common sense. Someone please tell me why it is necessary to forbid the user from resizing a window or widget that was previously resizeable.
Not defending Pidgin specifically here, but the more "optional" features you have, the more code and effort it takes to support them. And this is an extremely minor feature on a free product, when major for-pay projects don't provide options for much more visible features (MS Office Ribbon, for example). All software reflects someone's opinion, and if the price of getting a clean, functional, non-bloatware product is an occasional interface peculiarity, it's probably worth it in the long run.
You're talking about average temperatures for most of history, which is MAYBE 2000 years. Considering ice ages last between 40,000-100,000 years, that doesn't seem too significant to predict the climate.
*whooosh*
How do you think scientists got that information on the length of ice ages, but can't get a decent grasp on average temperature for more than 2000 years? Your sentences directly contradict each other.
So now you have imeem as this monster service where you can essentially listen to any tune ever recorded
I tried it out on your recommendation, and I'm not impressed. I've been meaning to buy Nick Cave's album "Henry's Dream", so I searched for tracks. Only 3, and none of them the well known songs of the album.
They won't do it again because taking a plane out of the sky really will make airport security like a military check point, thus also limiting the mobility of the enemy for the reward of taking 1 or 2 planes out of the sky with no hard land target in mind. Not going to happen.
If that's true, why have tightened security and "liquid carry-on limits" in the first place? Either the TSA is useful and effective, or they're just for show.
It doesn't even succeed against known threats. They have regular security screenings where a TSA agent sneaks through a fake bomb disguised as a back brace or something innocuous. Less than a 50% success rate at stopping it. If "the terrorists" actually get to that point, it's more likely than not that TSA will let them through.
While I do believe in the shortage, I don't think it's fair to say that there's no worthwhile talent in the industry at all. I happen to know quite a few extremely qualified software developers in the Seattle area. I suspect that your problem is more along the lines of, "drained of anybody worth hiring who will work for the salary I'm offering".
Well, they did test whether they'd prefer groups of 12 or 8, which is a larger ratio than 3 vs 4, and found no response in that case. So they did check for the size thing.
I don't think raw innovation is the problem. Like so many places, it's likely that good ideas are all over the place, even implementations of good ideas, but management and marketing ignore them because they don't fit their pet projects, or don't double market share in a week. Google's advantage seems to be that their management actually understands the benefits of investing heavily in good engineering from the ground up. Engineers everywhere want to do things right, but it's rare to find managers who will let them.
Well, they're already making money from it. MSN/Live Search do have some revenue. Whether it's enough (whether it's even a positive net revenue) is another question.
I dislike a number of Microsoft products as much as the next guy, but that's just ridiculous. Like it or not, billions of people have used computers running Windows to accomplish tasks they wouldn't have been able to without any computer. They might have done them faster or cheaper with another OS, but not without a computer altogether. So it's not a net negative to the economy, no matter how much you dislike them.
Unfortunately, even if that were true, elevating him to the level of "he who must not be drawn" is giving him the same status that the rule was supposed to avoid. You just can't win with some people.
That's a damn good point. If cars were as fault tolerant as users want computer programs to be, you could pour soda into the gas tank and the car would filter it out, put it in a cup, and place it in your drink holder for you. The number of strange operating conditions that software handles gracefully is extremely broad, compared to a lot of other consumer products.
Because users fear change. Google's so successful that they aren't Google anymore, they're "the web". So when people go to another part of "the web" and it doesn't look like what they're used to, they get scared. It's all catering to the lowest common denominator.
How does an inorganic origin counter peak oil? No matter where it comes from, there's going to be a point where we've exhausted the deposits we can reasonably get access to.
It's majority enough that it's taught as the leading theory in all of Europe, and possibly further. I'm not saying I believe it, but the organic origin doesn't seem to be completely nailed down.
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It's a fucking superhero from a comic book. What do you want?
I didn't think there was a Pidgin build for mobiles. If there is, please point me to it, I'd love to use it.
And you're ignoring my point. Yes, fine, in gtk+ it's more work to have an auto-resizing window than a manual one. But my point was, it's certainly more work to have both at once than either as a fixed mode of operation.
Right, but it's a lot more cases you have to handle in code to deal with the conflict between user-set sizes and app-set sizes. I don't know what the right answer is here, but I sympathize with their desire to pick one or the other.
How do you think scientists got that information on the length of ice ages, but can't get a decent grasp on average temperature for more than 2000 years? Your sentences directly contradict each other.
I tried it out on your recommendation, and I'm not impressed. I've been meaning to buy Nick Cave's album "Henry's Dream", so I searched for tracks. Only 3, and none of them the well known songs of the album.
The actual article linked to is dated the 30th, so unless it's now SOP to disguise your april fools jokes by faking a date, this is probably for real.
I was pretty sure they had a patent on dual-touch interfaces or some such nonsense.
It doesn't even succeed against known threats. They have regular security screenings where a TSA agent sneaks through a fake bomb disguised as a back brace or something innocuous. Less than a 50% success rate at stopping it. If "the terrorists" actually get to that point, it's more likely than not that TSA will let them through.
It doesn't prevent every occurrence of something, but it prevents some occurrences.
I do think this law in particular is despicable, but to claim the law doesn't modify behavior at all seems disingenuous.
Isn't that just semantics? It's preventative through the threat of punishment.
While I do believe in the shortage, I don't think it's fair to say that there's no worthwhile talent in the industry at all. I happen to know quite a few extremely qualified software developers in the Seattle area. I suspect that your problem is more along the lines of, "drained of anybody worth hiring who will work for the salary I'm offering".
That's Tuttle with a 'T', but the papers I've got say we were supposed to nominate Fred Buttle. It's been confusion from the word 'go'.
At that point reality probably matches government records without any further work needed.
Well, they did test whether they'd prefer groups of 12 or 8, which is a larger ratio than 3 vs 4, and found no response in that case. So they did check for the size thing.
Well, they're already making money from it. MSN/Live Search do have some revenue. Whether it's enough (whether it's even a positive net revenue) is another question.
I dislike a number of Microsoft products as much as the next guy, but that's just ridiculous. Like it or not, billions of people have used computers running Windows to accomplish tasks they wouldn't have been able to without any computer. They might have done them faster or cheaper with another OS, but not without a computer altogether. So it's not a net negative to the economy, no matter how much you dislike them.
Unfortunately, even if that were true, elevating him to the level of "he who must not be drawn" is giving him the same status that the rule was supposed to avoid. You just can't win with some people.
That's a damn good point. If cars were as fault tolerant as users want computer programs to be, you could pour soda into the gas tank and the car would filter it out, put it in a cup, and place it in your drink holder for you. The number of strange operating conditions that software handles gracefully is extremely broad, compared to a lot of other consumer products.
Because users fear change. Google's so successful that they aren't Google anymore, they're "the web". So when people go to another part of "the web" and it doesn't look like what they're used to, they get scared. It's all catering to the lowest common denominator.
How does an inorganic origin counter peak oil? No matter where it comes from, there's going to be a point where we've exhausted the deposits we can reasonably get access to.
It's majority enough that it's taught as the leading theory in all of Europe, and possibly further. I'm not saying I believe it, but the organic origin doesn't seem to be completely nailed down.