There is a tendancy to assume that because someone is a geek, they are a great person. I'm certainly guilty of it. The reality is that technology is neutral and skills in technology don't tell you much about a person. It may suggest a certain kind of temprament.
Under other circumstances (eg a stolen car that is found by our intrepid geek after fitting this thing to it)/. would be talking about what a cool hack it is.
The other issue with icons is that an icon can be associated with more than one extension when an application is associated with more than one extension. eg.log and.txt files on windows.
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I've seen a psion in action (I can't say which version, it was a while ago) and I wasn't totally impressed. I think it depends largely on where you enter your data. I consider my PDA to be largely a display device, entry for the most large part occurs on a PC.
I have to admin that my support for Palm products isn't completely rational. I bought a palm IIIe, and since I am used to the interface I tend to stick with it. So if there is something better out there I could well miss it and I am interested to hear about it. However I won't be replacing my palm for a while (since I just bought a new one).
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My palm (a Tungsten E because I don't have a stack of money) is: - To do list. This includes things like a shopping list becuase it is very convenient. It includes people I want to catch up with. It includes projects I need to get done at home and at work. - Diary. This is very convenient, as my hand writing is apalling. When your consider that a lot of the data is entered on a PC, but can be retrieved on the PDA this is also very helpful. - Address book. I haven't kept this as up to date as I would like, but it is still the most accurate address book I have. And frankly entering the data on the palm is a lot easier than on a phone, and it displays better. - Memo Pad. This is an awesome feature. I store all sorts of strange data in here, including movies & videos I want to see. IP addresses of machines on the work network. People I owe money/books/DVDs or the reverse. Thoughts for projects at home (eg perl scripts to manage bookmarks in mozilla). - Password storage. I don't know about you but I've ended up with an awful lot of passwords and logins. Frankly I cannot remember them all, so I use Keyring and lock them all away behind a strong password. That alone feature makes it worth buying a PDA.
I use it for other things, but those are the main uses. I don't carry it everywhere (otherwise I'd get a phone/PDA combination), but I carry it around a fair bit.
The alternative is collections of paper. I've developed a rooted objection to paper. Electronic holds so many advantages: - Messy writing is not a problem - You can cross something out and it disappears - You never run out of space to write something - Searchable (which you mentioned)
Certainly PDAs are not very powerful. You can't do a whole lot with them, but when you accept those limitations they can be extremely useful. I certainly wouldn't want to go with either a mobile phone (interface is terrible, both on data entry and screen size) or carrying round a laptop (large). I love my laptop (Thinkpad T41, blatent plug for thinkpads (I don't work for IBM, but I love my laptop)), but I can't stick it in a pocket.
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Phones suck at input and display. PDAs suck too, but not as badly. Different devices are good at different things. I personally have: a phone (small, interface poor, low power) palm (slightly larger, interface ok, lowish power) Laptop (Large, interface good, medium power) desktop (Huge, interface great, high power).
I don't see myself changing this general configuration any time soon, althouth I may change the individual devices.
Maybe this is just me, but I get the impression that Open Source is at its best when it comes to writing code (ie engine + tools), rather than content. I'm not sure that this makes it more likely to have open source games/mods.
Imagine a state where all the stupid and ridiculous laws are suddenly enforced because "we've got to follow orders." It's not a place you'd want to live.
Imagine a stage where not just stupid and ridiculous laws are enforced, but also immoral and harmful laws. "I was just following orders" was the defense used by a lot of Nazis at Nuremburg. Once you remove common sense and appropriate selective application of the law you are walking down that track.
All 2nd marriages need a failed 1st marriage before they can occur
Or a death. I'm not sure that I'd call a marriage ending in death of one of the parties necessarily a failure.
The percentage of divorces goes up for 2nd marriages, I'm sure. It's the first one that's a real bitch.
I think those two sentences are incompatible. If the first one is such a bitch, why does the percentage go up for second marriages.
I think you are trying to look at what proportion of failed marriages are second marriages. This is comparing apples are oranges. Instead we should be looking at what proportion of second marriages end in divorce.
Then you know what to expect. You'd *think* you would also know what to do to prevent divorce...
Or possibly the fact that you have been married may mean that preventing divorce is harder. Baggage.
However you look at it, that's a whole bunch of divorces.
Really? I understood that the failure rate was higher in 2nd marriages than 1st marriages. In fact as I understood the more times you have been married before, the higher the chance of failure of the marriage. An Australian study was done on the topic of marriage. The document I've linked to is the government response rather than the original.
Excuse me? The machines in Venezuela provided a paper trail therefore proof of fraud is possible. The election monitors also said the election was free and fair.
Just because you disagree with the results of the election doesn't mean it wasn't fair. What is rather funny about Venezuela is that the US tried to topple the popularly elected president in a coup. He then gets reinstated by the people, and then holds a referendum with a clear victory. Democracy in motion, however the US disapproves because they don't like the guy.
Just so long as your realise that not all Christians agree with the barrow George is pushing.
As a Christian I disagree with the position that these people take as it is not supported by scripture.
As a Christian I will oppose GWB with all my strength, because I believe that what he does is against Christian principles. Indeed I believe that GWB is the most dangerous figure in recent history. I struggle to find anyone apart from Hitler and Stalin that approaches him in the last 100 years or so.
Despite being a Christian I agree with most of the posts you make to/., to the point that you are on my friends list.
Wow you are either an amazing programmer or full of crap. I guess the latter.
I read of a great example of bug free code. A simple 40 line program was published in a book. Several people examined this code with the intent of looking for bugs and found one. It was then certified as bug free. 2 years later someone else examined it and found another bug & certified it as bug free. 3 years on, the same thing happened. The people involved were respected programmers & writers. I can't provide the reference for this right now (the book is at home somewhere), but I'm happy to dig it up if you are than interested.
The point is bugs in software are a fact of life. Good design principles, testing, code review are all just methods to *minimise*, not eliminate bugs. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is nothing more than dreaming.
I admit that the number of bugs in Microsoft products points to failures in their development processes, however to suggest that bug free software is achievable tells me you are on crack.
I don't necessarily agree with this statement. It's truthfulness is ultimately circumstantial. In theory, it's a fact, but in practice it's a lot more complicated
The fact that it is circular does not make it any less true. What he is saying is that if you want to improve productivity look to hiring good people, not buying shiny new tools. This point is fleshed out more in the book.
I think this is once again, circumstantial. If you're running a Microsoft shop, it's a fact. If you're running a Unix shop, the maintainenace costs can be negligible depending upon the quality of the program design.
The definition of maintenance used by the book includes altering/upgrading existing functionality. That is something that will be common to both Unix and windows shops.
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Um yes. He had threatened to kill her.
I think the whole story says a lot about geeks.
/. would be talking about what a cool hack it is.
There is a tendancy to assume that because someone is a geek, they are a great person. I'm certainly guilty of it. The reality is that technology is neutral and skills in technology don't tell you much about a person. It may suggest a certain kind of temprament.
Under other circumstances (eg a stolen car that is found by our intrepid geek after fitting this thing to it)
Not here.
In Australia the notes are plastic. You can't just print something off an inkjet.
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"I'm as fired up now as I've ever been in 24 years at Microsoft," Ballmer said
Great! More monkey boy style videos!
Legal, Yes. Ethical, No.
Do you really think any of that money filters down to the respective musicians?
The other issue with icons is that an icon can be associated with more than one extension when an application is associated with more than one extension. eg .log and .txt files on windows.
I've seen a psion in action (I can't say which version, it was a while ago) and I wasn't totally impressed. I think it depends largely on where you enter your data. I consider my PDA to be largely a display device, entry for the most large part occurs on a PC.
I have to admin that my support for Palm products isn't completely rational. I bought a palm IIIe, and since I am used to the interface I tend to stick with it. So if there is something better out there I could well miss it and I am interested to hear about it. However I won't be replacing my palm for a while (since I just bought a new one).
My palm (a Tungsten E because I don't have a stack of money) is:
- To do list. This includes things like a shopping list becuase it is very convenient. It includes people I want to catch up with. It includes projects I need to get done at home and at work.
- Diary. This is very convenient, as my hand writing is apalling. When your consider that a lot of the data is entered on a PC, but can be retrieved on the PDA this is also very helpful.
- Address book. I haven't kept this as up to date as I would like, but it is still the most accurate address book I have. And frankly entering the data on the palm is a lot easier than on a phone, and it displays better.
- Memo Pad. This is an awesome feature. I store all sorts of strange data in here, including movies & videos I want to see. IP addresses of machines on the work network. People I owe money/books/DVDs or the reverse. Thoughts for projects at home (eg perl scripts to manage bookmarks in mozilla).
- Password storage. I don't know about you but I've ended up with an awful lot of passwords and logins. Frankly I cannot remember them all, so I use Keyring and lock them all away behind a strong password. That alone feature makes it worth buying a PDA.
I use it for other things, but those are the main uses. I don't carry it everywhere (otherwise I'd get a phone/PDA combination), but I carry it around a fair bit.
The alternative is collections of paper. I've developed a rooted objection to paper. Electronic holds so many advantages:
- Messy writing is not a problem
- You can cross something out and it disappears
- You never run out of space to write something
- Searchable (which you mentioned)
Certainly PDAs are not very powerful. You can't do a whole lot with them, but when you accept those limitations they can be extremely useful. I certainly wouldn't want to go with either a mobile phone (interface is terrible, both on data entry and screen size) or carrying round a laptop (large). I love my laptop (Thinkpad T41, blatent plug for thinkpads (I don't work for IBM, but I love my laptop)), but I can't stick it in a pocket.
Phones suck at input and display. PDAs suck too, but not as badly. Different devices are good at different things. I personally have:
a phone (small, interface poor, low power)
palm (slightly larger, interface ok, lowish power)
Laptop (Large, interface good, medium power)
desktop (Huge, interface great, high power).
I don't see myself changing this general configuration any time soon, althouth I may change the individual devices.
One problem with this is that I don't see this providing good publicity for Team Boise. Would you hire a lawyer who acted this way?
Maybe this is just me, but I get the impression that Open Source is at its best when it comes to writing code (ie engine + tools), rather than content. I'm not sure that this makes it more likely to have open source games/mods.
Imagine a state where all the stupid and ridiculous laws are suddenly enforced because "we've got to follow orders." It's not a place you'd want to live.
Imagine a stage where not just stupid and ridiculous laws are enforced, but also immoral and harmful laws. "I was just following orders" was the defense used by a lot of Nazis at Nuremburg. Once you remove common sense and appropriate selective application of the law you are walking down that track.
All 2nd marriages need a failed 1st marriage before they can occur
Or a death. I'm not sure that I'd call a marriage ending in death of one of the parties necessarily a failure.
The percentage of divorces goes up for 2nd marriages, I'm sure. It's the first one that's a real bitch.
I think those two sentences are incompatible. If the first one is such a bitch, why does the percentage go up for second marriages.
I think you are trying to look at what proportion of failed marriages are second marriages. This is comparing apples are oranges. Instead we should be looking at what proportion of second marriages end in divorce.
Then you know what to expect. You'd *think* you would also know what to do to prevent divorce...
Or possibly the fact that you have been married may mean that preventing divorce is harder. Baggage.
However you look at it, that's a whole bunch of divorces.
Agreed. It is a pretty poor situation all round.
Really? I understood that the failure rate was higher in 2nd marriages than 1st marriages. In fact as I understood the more times you have been married before, the higher the chance of failure of the marriage. An Australian study was done on the topic of marriage. The document I've linked to is the government response rather than the original.
I think that one of the scenes that Homer remembers while in the coma is from the daredevil episode.
So now you have drunk guys smashing your stuff rather than stealing it. Smart!
People who are drunk won't care who provided the beer after enough of it.
Excuse me? The machines in Venezuela provided a paper trail therefore proof of fraud is possible. The election monitors also said the election was free and fair.
Just because you disagree with the results of the election doesn't mean it wasn't fair. What is rather funny about Venezuela is that the US tried to topple the popularly elected president in a coup. He then gets reinstated by the people, and then holds a referendum with a clear victory. Democracy in motion, however the US disapproves because they don't like the guy.
Just so long as your realise that not all Christians agree with the barrow George is pushing.
/., to the point that you are on my friends list.
As a Christian I disagree with the position that these people take as it is not supported by scripture.
As a Christian I will oppose GWB with all my strength, because I believe that what he does is against Christian principles. Indeed I believe that GWB is the most dangerous figure in recent history. I struggle to find anyone apart from Hitler and Stalin that approaches him in the last 100 years or so.
Despite being a Christian I agree with most of the posts you make to
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Don't just take it from me: bug free software?
Wow you are either an amazing programmer or full of crap. I guess the latter.
I read of a great example of bug free code. A simple 40 line program was published in a book. Several people examined this code with the intent of looking for bugs and found one. It was then certified as bug free. 2 years later someone else examined it and found another bug & certified it as bug free. 3 years on, the same thing happened. The people involved were respected programmers & writers. I can't provide the reference for this right now (the book is at home somewhere), but I'm happy to dig it up if you are than interested.
The point is bugs in software are a fact of life. Good design principles, testing, code review are all just methods to *minimise*, not eliminate bugs. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is nothing more than dreaming.
I admit that the number of bugs in Microsoft products points to failures in their development processes, however to suggest that bug free software is achievable tells me you are on crack.
I don't necessarily agree with this statement. It's truthfulness is ultimately circumstantial. In theory, it's a fact, but in practice it's a lot more complicated
The fact that it is circular does not make it any less true. What he is saying is that if you want to improve productivity look to hiring good people, not buying shiny new tools. This point is fleshed out more in the book.
I think this is once again, circumstantial. If you're running a Microsoft shop, it's a fact. If you're running a Unix shop, the maintainenace costs can be negligible depending upon the quality of the program design.
The definition of maintenance used by the book includes altering/upgrading existing functionality. That is something that will be common to both Unix and windows shops.
Isn't laser technology in the market? CD drives, laser pointers, range finders etc.
Australians also laugh when Europeans come over and start talking about routers, pronounced as rooters. For the same reason.