Well, because keystrokes involving F-# are stupid because it's not a standard touch-typing-reachable key pair, because CTRL-Q predates Windows, and depending on "Fn"-key prefs, alt-F# may or may not do the thing you expected. In case that's not clear: you can set Prefs so teh Fn-F# combo such as switch screen, WiFi on/off, etc are the default and you have to use Fn-Alt-F4 to quit an app.
Take a look at Office, their cash cow for a zillion years now. But even today, Powerpoint supports CTRL-Q to exit while Excel and Word don't. And us old-timers remember that all pre 2003 (or maybe 2000) Office suites were abysmal at copypasting text from one app to another. Font, font size, color, etc. would get completely bollixed up.
There is a value in 'information sharing', it just depends on the information being shared. Sharing the sorts of data associated with an intrusion, so that others can check their networks for similar activity or vulnerabilities? That's a good thing. The comparison here would be having Tylenol's makers share the information on how their supply chain was possibly compromised in the first place, so that we don't wind up having them fix the problem, only for other companies to get hit with the same thing because the details were kept secret.
Except it wasn't. The poisoning turned out to happen inside a home, and the public was never in any danger. So, we ended up with a huge cost increase on every single product, dangerous or not, along with multiple layers of "safety" straps,coatings, etc. which are incrediblyannoying to remove and do very little to improve the alleged tamper-proofness of the product itself. Really: do you think some creep could manage to drop poison pills into hundreds of nsaid bottles in CVS stores (assuming no tamper-proofness) without anyone ever noticing?
I know people don't RTFA, but apparently nobody RTFP(osts) either. we've got, what, 30 identical wrong answers (north pole only), 30 people who don't understand the difference between 1 mile from the South pole and 1mile+ X/pi ?
Just for that: imagine a Beowulf cluster of starting points in the Southern Hemisphere...
Granted, for many users, speed matters. But, here are some other concerns.
1) The Registry File. Enough said. 2) Under OS X, open any kind of file in any kind of editor. Go back to the Finder window, rename the file, move it to a different folder no problem. Can't be done under Windows. Half the time, even after you close the file (not the editor app), the app fails to 'release' the lock and you STILL can't rename the file. 3) None of Microsoft's pseudo-shell implementations come close to bash/csh/ksh in useability.
For most users, most of the time spent on a computer is in dealing with the UI/GUI/UX (whatever you want to call it). That's what matters; raw speed of calculation is the primary need of a rather small subset of users (who probably buy time on a cluster node:-) )
I find it far easier and more pleasant to take the train from Boston. Presumably the same holds for folks from Philly.
I'd also like to see more business travellers learn to use video conferencing instead of blowing off a few gigajoules on the theory that face-to-face is the only acceptable way to hold a meeting.
An awful lot of scientists (at least us old guys) like Asimov & Heinlein and various other scifi authors who gave us all sorts of words which have graduated to general useage. (not to mention, say "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor" and "reverse the polarity")
OTOH, I shudder to think that maybe in 50 years someone will write "all scientists love GoT and name things after the characters."
You guys are missing the obvious solution: make like the Japanese and their artificial islands. Fill in the Bering Strait and just build a paved road on top of the ridgeline you just created between SIberia and AK.
One good reason to discourage the pasive voice is that it leads the reader to believe things "just happened," rather than emphasizing the causative agent.
"War broke out" vs "A small band of vocal rabble chose to separate from England rather than pay excessive tax on tea"
Yes, LEDs are far more efficient and use less electricity yada yada. However, it's pretty much guaranteed that this will not lead to cost savings. Historically, every time a cheaper lighting technology came along, from candles to oil lamps to gas lamps to Edison bulbs to CFLs, people simply increase the amount of lighting and the length of time (into the night) that they keep the house lit up. I see nothing to suggest that conversion to LEDs will change this trend.
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Well, because keystrokes involving F-# are stupid because it's not a standard touch-typing-reachable key pair, because CTRL-Q predates Windows, and depending on "Fn"-key prefs, alt-F# may or may not do the thing you expected. In case that's not clear: you can set Prefs so teh Fn-F# combo such as switch screen, WiFi on/off, etc are the default and you have to use Fn-Alt-F4 to quit an app.
Take a look at Office, their cash cow for a zillion years now. But even today, Powerpoint supports CTRL-Q to exit while Excel and Word don't. And us old-timers remember that all pre 2003 (or maybe 2000) Office suites were abysmal at copypasting text from one app to another. Font, font size, color, etc. would get completely bollixed up.
So no surprise that Microskype is going this way.
Not a single science fiction writer, or scientific study that I know, imagined worlds with chaotic orbits
Cixin Liu, "The Three-body Problem."
There are several old-ish scifi stories but I don't recall their titles at this instant.
There is a value in 'information sharing', it just depends on the information being shared. Sharing the sorts of data associated with an intrusion, so that others can check their networks for similar activity or vulnerabilities? That's a good thing. The comparison here would be having Tylenol's makers share the information on how their supply chain was possibly compromised in the first place, so that we don't wind up having them fix the problem, only for other companies to get hit with the same thing because the details were kept secret.
Except it wasn't. The poisoning turned out to happen inside a home, and the public was never in any danger. So, we ended up with a huge cost increase on every single product, dangerous or not, along with multiple layers of "safety" straps,coatings, etc. which are incrediblyannoying to remove and do very little to improve the alleged tamper-proofness of the product itself. Really: do you think some creep could manage to drop poison pills into hundreds of nsaid bottles in CVS stores (assuming no tamper-proofness) without anyone ever noticing?
When mine started telling me to kill my neighbor with the dog that pees on my amaryllis,...
Ok, so you've got a dog. How do you use it to kill your neghbor?
I know people don't RTFA, but apparently nobody RTFP(osts) either. we've got, what, 30 identical wrong answers (north pole only), 30 people who don't understand the difference between 1 mile from the South pole and 1mile+ X/pi ?
Just for that: imagine a Beowulf cluster of starting points in the Southern Hemisphere...
I prefer Aten (Egyptian monotheistic God) instead.
Oh yeah? If he's a monotheism how come there's ten of him? :-)
Granted, for many users, speed matters. But, here are some other concerns.
1) The Registry File. Enough said.
2) Under OS X, open any kind of file in any kind of editor. Go back to the Finder window, rename the file, move it to a different folder no problem. Can't be done under Windows. Half the time, even after you close the file (not the editor app), the app fails to 'release' the lock and you STILL can't rename the file.
3) None of Microsoft's pseudo-shell implementations come close to bash/csh/ksh in useability.
For most users, most of the time spent on a computer is in dealing with the UI/GUI/UX (whatever you want to call it). That's what matters; raw speed of calculation is the primary need of a rather small subset of users (who probably buy time on a cluster node :-) )
I find it far easier and more pleasant to take the train from Boston. Presumably the same holds for folks from Philly.
I'd also like to see more business travellers learn to use video conferencing instead of blowing off a few gigajoules on the theory that face-to-face is the only acceptable way to hold a meeting.
hmmm.... solving fizzbuzz....
( code is in the R language BTW)
An awful lot of scientists (at least us old guys) like Asimov & Heinlein and various other scifi authors who gave us all sorts of words which have graduated to general useage. (not to mention, say "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor" and "reverse the polarity")
OTOH, I shudder to think that maybe in 50 years someone will write "all scientists love GoT and name things after the characters."
The Russian hole drilling had to stop because it go[t] so hot that the drill was losing its hardness
Quite the opposite reaction to what most of our drills have. //smirk
can you imagine an entire state full of Jack Russell terriers?
Dunno... what's that in units of Beowolf Clusters? (misspelling intentional)
They were a civilisation of dentists, and they kept their trove of Mercury around 'cause it's used in fabbing the amalgalm for fillings.
An enlisted man would have received 10 years in Leavenworth.
Or eleven years in Twelveworth,
or five to ten in Woolworth.
Hey, someone had to quote it!
If it was a new app, it would have to be called Therst, Thyrst, or Thrst.
Seems to me that, at least on /. , it needs to be called "Thrist."
In a post about half a page down from this article, Norway is going to kill off FM in favor of digital (DAB) as the only broadcast method.
So there you are.
You guys are missing the obvious solution: make like the Japanese and their artificial islands. Fill in the Bering Strait and just build a paved road on top of the ridgeline you just created between SIberia and AK.
WCPGW?
One good reason to discourage the pasive voice is that it leads the reader to believe things "just happened," rather than emphasizing the causative agent.
"War broke out" vs "A small band of vocal rabble chose to separate from England rather than pay excessive tax on tea"
He clearly suggested spending less on Defense Dept and more on socialist anarchist anti-American [[sarcasm]] !
We can't have that now, can we?
Control of information is Paramount[emphasis mine] in maintaining a docile populace.
Or MGM, or Sony, or Disney.
(sarcasm)
Yes, LEDs are far more efficient and use less electricity yada yada. However, it's pretty much guaranteed that this will not lead to cost savings.
Historically, every time a cheaper lighting technology came along, from candles to oil lamps to gas lamps to Edison bulbs to CFLs, people simply increase the amount of lighting and the length of time (into the night) that they keep the house lit up. I see nothing to suggest that conversion to LEDs will change this trend.
See, I'm only going to do one eye. That way I'll look really unusual (or worse terms :-) ) , plus I'll have 2500 to waste on hookers and blow.
I'll need two fossils and the sex tape
And a marriage certificate.
Not to mention a USA birth certificate.
Having sex with a spy is on my bucket list.
Although knowing my luck it will be a forced anal invasion in Guantanamo...but buggers can't be choosers I guess...
FTFY