I have an honest question here - why is it you need e-mail and calendar functionality bundled into one package? They kinda seem to go together like water and oil. My dad, in fact, still swears by MS Schedule+ (released yonks ago) because it "doesn't include all the e-mail junk with it", and because apparently there's some problem with Outlook's profile files not being properly readable from a remote machine.
Erm, use a second hard drive, or tape, or something that was designed to make backups on? Seriously, why in hell would you ever wish to backup your workstation to DVD???
What people see is that there are almost no sites that Firefox can do, but IE can, while there are many that IE can load, that Firefox can not. I'll agree that the number of sites rendered properlu by Firefox is lower than IE's, but come on... 'almost no sites Firefox can do'? I think you meant something else. I browse the web with Firefox all the time and *virtually never* come across a site that doesn't render/work 100% fine.
I have to agree with the AC who also replied to this post. A vote for a non-Republican/Democrat over there IS a wasted vote. We just had an election over here in the UK. TV and web forums are full of people saying that we need to improve our electoral system because the state of Parliament doesn't well enough represent the common vote. Still, at least it crudely approximates it. I laugh, because I take a look over at the US, and things are *much* worse. Even if you overlook the many voting irregularities there were in the previous elections, you literally throw away around 50% of people's votes, never to be seen again. Your system needs change, or you might as well throw away the notion that you have a democracy and declare a Whitehouse despotism.
Which makes this interesting - would it be too far a step to propose that this design be used to allow LCDs to natively support a number of different resolutions? Might make them more acceptable if the last remaining serious flaw with LCDs was, if not fixed, made better.
There are windows viruses because in 2005 it doesn't have actual fucking multi-user permissions and properly seperated logins. It still can't prevent local-root exploits.
Although I agree with most of what you've said, this is no longer true with NTFS. It has a very extensive multi-user permissions system. Of course, this is hidden by default because 'Use simple file sharing (recommended)' is checked in Explorer.:-)
However, I unchecked it and when you go to a file's security properties, you can setup all sorts of permissions (read, write, execute, modify, 'special') on files, different for any user you care to add to the list.
Generally I tell people (that I know in person, and ask why their computer is slow) that if they have 30 or more processes when they first turn on their computer, they have too much junk and/or spyware and need to disable a lot of it.
Damn, I'm glad you didn't advise me when I was a computer newbie.
I have absolutely zero spyware on this modest Windows system, it runs fast enough, and I currently have 42 processes running, many of them system/local service/network service. I don't consider any of my processes to be superfluous.
Please stop giving such generalized advice to people who may have good reasons to have many processes open.
The problem for me is that LCDs suck royally for different resolutions than the intended one. Why isn't more research being done into making LCDs better able to look good in several different resolutions? 1024x768 is all well and good, as you said, for the desktop, but some of us still like to play games (DOS, emulated, and of course new) at fullscreen, and they're not all gonna look good (or have the option of being played) at one single resolution.
I've got to ask - how do you run your mailbox up to 16GB worth of stuff? I mean, combining all the emails I've EVER received, including spam (which really ought to be deleted PDQ and no archiving necessary), I've maybe used a few gigs. Are your employees receiving 30MB attachments with most e-mails or something?
That's why I think people who don't use curly braces and put a block statement on a new line should be shot. I either use braces, or put a single statement on the same line as the if/else. Yours is a problem that can be avoided by being generally... clean and consistent. Ah, but that's the very same argument used by Python programmers for whitespace, turned on its head!
If anything, I think languages should go the other way, and enforce *non-whitespace* block delimiters.
People use indentation to easily perceive blocks of code. Computers 'prefer' braces for the same goal. But programming languages are meant for the human coder, therefore it's better to use a human way of block delimiting.
No, that's a non sequitur. We don't use English to write computer programs; why not? Because there'd be ambiguity in the language.
Programming languages have as their (probably) #2 goal being easy to read to humans. But surely the #1 goal is to avoid ambiguity, computers ain't gonna stand for ambiguity. Introducing whitespace introduces ambiguity, at least visually to the programmer. I say that's a step backward.
Hmm. If you think about it, you could enforce tabs too. If there's one thing that's guaranteed about a tab, it's that it's going to cause the cursor to move right. Apart from that, you don't really care - how far does it travel? Doesn't matter. In fact, this seems a slightly better way to do things because, as someone said above, it means that you can set tab sizes to whatever you want in your editor to look best for you. All you care about is that a tab causes *some* sort of movement to the right.
Agreed. Why doesn't Python simply make any non-tab character between two statements illegal? That'd make the whole whitespace thing a lot more viable; it's no longer whitespace, it's *definitely* tabs, or it's illegal code.
I've never had problems with people using curly braces as block delimiters. I love it. If you have problems reading it, frankly I don't have much sympathy. I don't, so get better at reading code.
I have, however, had nasty problems caused by whitespace significance, and it seems like a really stupid thing to make significant, considering that whitespace is a favourite for all sorts of programs to modify/chop away, as well as being invisible without close inspection.
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I have an honest question here - why is it you need e-mail and calendar functionality bundled into one package? They kinda seem to go together like water and oil. My dad, in fact, still swears by MS Schedule+ (released yonks ago) because it "doesn't include all the e-mail junk with it", and because apparently there's some problem with Outlook's profile files not being properly readable from a remote machine.
I use neither.
Why is it we can't see the traffic stats for Slashdot.org again? ROB, GIVE US THOSE STATS!!!!!
Erm, use a second hard drive, or tape, or something that was designed to make backups on? Seriously, why in hell would you ever wish to backup your workstation to DVD???
What people see is that there are almost no sites that Firefox can do, but IE can, while there are many that IE can load, that Firefox can not.
I'll agree that the number of sites rendered properlu by Firefox is lower than IE's, but come on... 'almost no sites Firefox can do'? I think you meant something else. I browse the web with Firefox all the time and *virtually never* come across a site that doesn't render/work 100% fine.
May I ask why on earth you need that feature? I've not once felt like using it in Opera, frankly text scaling is more useful anyway.
Try telling these people that.
I have to agree with the AC who also replied to this post. A vote for a non-Republican/Democrat over there IS a wasted vote. We just had an election over here in the UK. TV and web forums are full of people saying that we need to improve our electoral system because the state of Parliament doesn't well enough represent the common vote. Still, at least it crudely approximates it. I laugh, because I take a look over at the US, and things are *much* worse. Even if you overlook the many voting irregularities there were in the previous elections, you literally throw away around 50% of people's votes, never to be seen again. Your system needs change, or you might as well throw away the notion that you have a democracy and declare a Whitehouse despotism.
Giving out the full address of one's female friend on Slashdot just can't be the best idea...
fuck!
Which makes this interesting - would it be too far a step to propose that this design be used to allow LCDs to natively support a number of different resolutions? Might make them more acceptable if the last remaining serious flaw with LCDs was, if not fixed, made better.
Where do you work, a hospital?
Isn't that the main demographic that voted for George W. Bush?
There are windows viruses because in 2005 it doesn't have actual fucking multi-user permissions and properly seperated logins. It still can't prevent local-root exploits.
:-)
Although I agree with most of what you've said, this is no longer true with NTFS. It has a very extensive multi-user permissions system. Of course, this is hidden by default because 'Use simple file sharing (recommended)' is checked in Explorer.
However, I unchecked it and when you go to a file's security properties, you can setup all sorts of permissions (read, write, execute, modify, 'special') on files, different for any user you care to add to the list.
Generally I tell people (that I know in person, and ask why their computer is slow) that if they have 30 or more processes when they first turn on their computer, they have too much junk and/or spyware and need to disable a lot of it.
Damn, I'm glad you didn't advise me when I was a computer newbie.
I have absolutely zero spyware on this modest Windows system, it runs fast enough, and I currently have 42 processes running, many of them system/local service/network service. I don't consider any of my processes to be superfluous.
Please stop giving such generalized advice to people who may have good reasons to have many processes open.
Is there somewhere I can buy beer for a moose, or a chicken?
I have plenty of Sacagawea dollars
You can trade them in at the bank for a REAL dollar! Huh? Huh???!
The problem for me is that LCDs suck royally for different resolutions than the intended one. Why isn't more research being done into making LCDs better able to look good in several different resolutions? 1024x768 is all well and good, as you said, for the desktop, but some of us still like to play games (DOS, emulated, and of course new) at fullscreen, and they're not all gonna look good (or have the option of being played) at one single resolution.
I've got to ask - how do you run your mailbox up to 16GB worth of stuff? I mean, combining all the emails I've EVER received, including spam (which really ought to be deleted PDQ and no archiving necessary), I've maybe used a few gigs. Are your employees receiving 30MB attachments with most e-mails or something?
That's why I think people who don't use curly braces and put a block statement on a new line should be shot. I either use braces, or put a single statement on the same line as the if/else. Yours is a problem that can be avoided by being generally... clean and consistent. Ah, but that's the very same argument used by Python programmers for whitespace, turned on its head!
If anything, I think languages should go the other way, and enforce *non-whitespace* block delimiters.
People use indentation to easily perceive blocks of code. Computers 'prefer' braces for the same goal. But programming languages are meant for the human coder, therefore it's better to use a human way of block delimiting.
No, that's a non sequitur. We don't use English to write computer programs; why not? Because there'd be ambiguity in the language.
Programming languages have as their (probably) #2 goal being easy to read to humans. But surely the #1 goal is to avoid ambiguity, computers ain't gonna stand for ambiguity. Introducing whitespace introduces ambiguity, at least visually to the programmer. I say that's a step backward.
Hmm. If you think about it, you could enforce tabs too. If there's one thing that's guaranteed about a tab, it's that it's going to cause the cursor to move right. Apart from that, you don't really care - how far does it travel? Doesn't matter. In fact, this seems a slightly better way to do things because, as someone said above, it means that you can set tab sizes to whatever you want in your editor to look best for you. All you care about is that a tab causes *some* sort of movement to the right.
Agreed. Why doesn't Python simply make any non-tab character between two statements illegal? That'd make the whole whitespace thing a lot more viable; it's no longer whitespace, it's *definitely* tabs, or it's illegal code.
Yes, and in practice too.
I've never had problems with people using curly braces as block delimiters. I love it. If you have problems reading it, frankly I don't have much sympathy. I don't, so get better at reading code.
I have, however, had nasty problems caused by whitespace significance, and it seems like a really stupid thing to make significant, considering that whitespace is a favourite for all sorts of programs to modify/chop away, as well as being invisible without close inspection.
"April Fools'"?