The macro features are very powerful, but also very fraught. They lure you in with their simplicity (record macro, anyone???) but then you find out that the pitfalls are such that you need to become a VBA expert to create anything reliable. And by then you are better off just programming in something "real". I've done... unspeakable... things in Excel - at first on my own initiative and later at the behest of managers who couldn't be talked out of it. It always turns out to be harder than initially thought, and because you carry around a lot of complex baggage you can't simply worry about your code so the solution is not as robust as it would otherwise be.
With that said, I still use Excel to explore certain types of data, and even prototype solutions.
I doubt it. If you've ever worked in designing hardware, this would seem very familiar to you. You spec the hardware with the system that will be current when you plan to release the hardware. The hardware gets a few weeks or months behind schedule, and so you miss the alignment with the latest and greatest software. You now can further delay your hardware release while you debug and Q&A your newest software or you can ship as originally specified and then field patch later.
So you are saying we should repeat the mistakes of Mexico and let people flood in because they might openly rebel? I think that's where your logic was headed, but maybe you were trying to make a different point.
If they want to give me free phone service, I'm gonna let 'em. My fallback is CallCentric, so no biggie if it goes away. In the meantime, their junk call filter is fantastic. Same with gmail... I have my own domain that forwards to gmail. If they turn off the service, no biggie - I'll just forward it somewhere else. In the meantime, their junk filter is pretty darned good.
LOL, it would be worth trying - but I'm afraid dialing "0" on my phone has no effect since it is just an IP phone. I get "We could not complete your call, please try again," through Google Voice and "The number you have dialed is invalid or not in service," through CallCentric.
I'd rather support businesses that contribute to my city's economy, not destroy it.
Here, here! That's why I won't drive an electric car! Think of those poor service station workers. I also dial zero every time I want to place a call and have it manually routed.
Horrible by today's standards, sure. But everything back then was horrible by today's standards. I used IR Link to sync my Palm and my old Powerbook. It worked well, and was no more or less fidgety than the serial port method that was the alternative. When sending something laptop-to-laptop, you did indeed need to line up the IR ports - but that was relatively simple compared to the alternatives: 1. Splitting your file into pieces to fit on a series of floppies. 2. Hooking the two laptops up with a serial cable, enabling Appletalk, setting up a share, and transferring the file. 3. Doing the same as above with ethernet, if you were both lucky enough to have ethernet cards of some form.
That's all well and good, but if you can't even be bothered to see who your party is running prior to the election, I'd prefer if you just stayed home. That's not low-information voting, that's no-information voting.
Every time I open something from the file browser in MS Office, I marvel at the sheer number of clicks it now takes to do what used to be a single menu choice. We're 10 years in and I still hate the ribbon.
I'm sure there are worse reasons for picking a software product, but it would have to be something like "it tastes weird" or "it reminds me of my uncle's scrotum".
I didn't realize he was campaigning these policies for himself and not on the platform of the Republican party.
Did you only just hear about Trump? He's about as Republican as Bernie was Democrat. He can't pass legislation - he can't even introduce it. I don't have to "absolve" him of anything.
PA is one of those states, and I live there. In any event, the state advertising which party the candidates belong to is (I think) universal except in some local elections.
Well, the pendulum sure has swung the other way, hasn't it? Voters are now so low-information that we need to include the party of affiliation right there next to the candidate's name, and a single button to vote all one party. Because knowing even the slightest thing - even the most basic information - about the candidates before you step into the voting booth is too hard. But, you know, get out there and vote! Because for some reason!
There's a military program that will eventually take over (so costs weren't 'cut', just shifted to folk with different hats).
Except that there were two programs, and now there is one. In fact, right now there is triple redundancy, and one or two of the existing satellites should fail there is a lot of time to adjust. Or they could use one of the other countries' satellite data, just as we use Russia's manned space program to bring astronauts to the ISS.
If you read about the history of the project, there was more than thousands of man-hours wasted - and far before the project was cancelled. I think they were up to a $500 million overrun before congress cut it.
Yeah, I didn't think my mod through. I thought I had it set up to "trick" the tape deck into being the input whenever I plugged in an external jack, but this only worked when the external player was on the same ground and unless I plugged it in, it was on battery and floating. Plugging it in caused a ground loop. So rather than fix my shitty work, I just inserted a tape and moved on:)
Slashdot Mirror
The macro features are very powerful, but also very fraught. They lure you in with their simplicity (record macro, anyone???) but then you find out that the pitfalls are such that you need to become a VBA expert to create anything reliable. And by then you are better off just programming in something "real". I've done... unspeakable... things in Excel - at first on my own initiative and later at the behest of managers who couldn't be talked out of it. It always turns out to be harder than initially thought, and because you carry around a lot of complex baggage you can't simply worry about your code so the solution is not as robust as it would otherwise be.
With that said, I still use Excel to explore certain types of data, and even prototype solutions.
Didn't I see you in the YouTube comments section?
latest versions of macOS require new hardware.
What is your definition of "new hardware"? The latest OS runs on my late-2008 MacBook Pro. That it works at all is a wonder - it owes me nothing.
I doubt it. If you've ever worked in designing hardware, this would seem very familiar to you. You spec the hardware with the system that will be current when you plan to release the hardware. The hardware gets a few weeks or months behind schedule, and so you miss the alignment with the latest and greatest software. You now can further delay your hardware release while you debug and Q&A your newest software or you can ship as originally specified and then field patch later.
Not for network access, for local file access - just like all the other filesystem drivers.
Fortunately, if after they boot you off the movie plan and you spend all your money on full-price tickets, all your movies are free after that.
This can be solved by penalizing people without a movie plan through the tax code.
So the Mexico didn't provide the Texan immigrants with basic rights? So they were like freedom fighters then.
So you are saying we should repeat the mistakes of Mexico and let people flood in because they might openly rebel? I think that's where your logic was headed, but maybe you were trying to make a different point.
If they want to give me free phone service, I'm gonna let 'em. My fallback is CallCentric, so no biggie if it goes away. In the meantime, their junk call filter is fantastic. Same with gmail... I have my own domain that forwards to gmail. If they turn off the service, no biggie - I'll just forward it somewhere else. In the meantime, their junk filter is pretty darned good.
LOL, it would be worth trying - but I'm afraid dialing "0" on my phone has no effect since it is just an IP phone. I get "We could not complete your call, please try again," through Google Voice and "The number you have dialed is invalid or not in service," through CallCentric.
I'd rather support businesses that contribute to my city's economy, not destroy it.
Here, here! That's why I won't drive an electric car! Think of those poor service station workers. I also dial zero every time I want to place a call and have it manually routed.
IR Link was horrible
Horrible by today's standards, sure. But everything back then was horrible by today's standards. I used IR Link to sync my Palm and my old Powerbook. It worked well, and was no more or less fidgety than the serial port method that was the alternative. When sending something laptop-to-laptop, you did indeed need to line up the IR ports - but that was relatively simple compared to the alternatives:
1. Splitting your file into pieces to fit on a series of floppies.
2. Hooking the two laptops up with a serial cable, enabling Appletalk, setting up a share, and transferring the file.
3. Doing the same as above with ethernet, if you were both lucky enough to have ethernet cards of some form.
Cables have a very narrow field of view :)
Come to think of it, "Excel" does sound like an undergarment for seniors.
That's all well and good, but if you can't even be bothered to see who your party is running prior to the election, I'd prefer if you just stayed home. That's not low-information voting, that's no-information voting.
Every time I open something from the file browser in MS Office, I marvel at the sheer number of clicks it now takes to do what used to be a single menu choice. We're 10 years in and I still hate the ribbon.
I'm sure there are worse reasons for picking a software product, but it would have to be something like "it tastes weird" or "it reminds me of my uncle's scrotum".
That just means we need to incorporate time manipulation into the reaction.
I didn't realize he was campaigning these policies for himself and not on the platform of the Republican party.
Did you only just hear about Trump? He's about as Republican as Bernie was Democrat. He can't pass legislation - he can't even introduce it. I don't have to "absolve" him of anything.
PA is one of those states, and I live there. In any event, the state advertising which party the candidates belong to is (I think) universal except in some local elections.
Well, the pendulum sure has swung the other way, hasn't it? Voters are now so low-information that we need to include the party of affiliation right there next to the candidate's name, and a single button to vote all one party. Because knowing even the slightest thing - even the most basic information - about the candidates before you step into the voting booth is too hard. But, you know, get out there and vote! Because for some reason!
Because Trump wasn't running for congress, and for now he hasn't become a dictator.
There's a military program that will eventually take over (so costs weren't 'cut', just shifted to folk with different hats).
Except that there were two programs, and now there is one. In fact, right now there is triple redundancy, and one or two of the existing satellites should fail there is a lot of time to adjust. Or they could use one of the other countries' satellite data, just as we use Russia's manned space program to bring astronauts to the ISS.
If you read about the history of the project, there was more than thousands of man-hours wasted - and far before the project was cancelled. I think they were up to a $500 million overrun before congress cut it.
Yeah, I didn't think my mod through. I thought I had it set up to "trick" the tape deck into being the input whenever I plugged in an external jack, but this only worked when the external player was on the same ground and unless I plugged it in, it was on battery and floating. Plugging it in caused a ground loop. So rather than fix my shitty work, I just inserted a tape and moved on :)