Yes. I often have to hit CTRL+C three or four times before it actually copies the text I've selected. Other times it copies far more than I selected, because it didn't detect the mouse up event until a fraction of a second after I released it.
There's at least one bug report against Eclipse for this.
Saying something is "not acceptable" is not an argument. It's a demand. Or, at best, a whine.
And demanding that people 'act professionally' is demanding that they shut up and do what they're told, because that's what 'acting professionally' means.
The major obstacle to denser urban planning is that most people don't want to live like that. Few people choose to be crammed into a Stalinist tower block if they can have a house with a garden instead.
While I agree that no airliner is perfect when released, gearbox wear is probably something you can predict and at least monitor for with regular inspections if you do leave the planes in operation while waiting for a fix. Randomly catching on fire isn't.
So I save up my pennies and travel half way around the world to climb one of the truly iconic mountain peaks only to have people yammering on their cell phones on the trail and vending machines at the summit?
There have been vending machines and souvenir shops at the summit for decades. You don't think Japanese people would spend hours climbing a mountain if they couldn't buy Pocari Sweat at the top, do you?
With a new generation coming, I'd expect a bump in gaming PC sales as people are finally forced to upgrade their old machines to play the latest games at comparative quality to consoles.
Except the new consoles appear to be about as fast as a low-end PC with integrated graphics. That five-year-old gaming PC is probably just as good.
Touchsreen: 1) move hand to screen and touch (you could argue this is two actions I guess, but they're one fluid motion) 2) return hand to keyboard
Realise you selected the wrong link because your finger is much larger than the text. Touch back to go back to the previous web page. Touch the scrollbar to scroll back to where the link was. Zoom in on the link so you can actually select it reliably. Finally touch the link and get to where you wanted to go.
I suspect this is primarily because people who think of buying a new PC go to the store and see Windows 8 and think 'WTF? Why do I want a tablet interface on my 24" monitor?'
In a vain attempt to gain a few percent market share on tablets, Microsoft are killing their PC cash cow.
The big thing with stuff like Dropbox/Google Drive is that you can take a photo with your fun, have it automatically upload itself to the cloud, and then all your other devices automatically synchronise with it. Doing that with a physical drive requires extra effort. Seamlessness is what Dropbox offers.
Plus, if you lose it or accidentally delete it, you can just ask the NSA for a copy.
So long as you don't mind spending weeks trying to eliminate the pauses and bloated memory usage and creating internal caching schemes to avoid having to allocate more objects to be garbage collected.
That's not a bad plan. NASA could send food and stuff and then the people on Mars could fill the rocket with rocks to send back. Could be the first example of interplanetary commerce.
Garbage collection is supposed to stop dumb programmers doing dumb things, but in reality it just gives them different ways to do dumb things.
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If you paid for the content, you can only watch it on your anointed device, due to DRM. If you're a 'cheap asshole', you downloaded the content from a pirate site for free and you can watch it however you want.
See the problem?
DRM punishes your customers, while having little to no impact on pirates.
Of course you presumably know all that, which is why you're posting anonymously.
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was it somehow borken?
Yes. I often have to hit CTRL+C three or four times before it actually copies the text I've selected. Other times it copies far more than I selected, because it didn't detect the mouse up event until a fraction of a second after I released it.
There's at least one bug report against Eclipse for this.
Does copy and paste work yet?
Saying something is "not acceptable" is not an argument. It's a demand. Or, at best, a whine.
And demanding that people 'act professionally' is demanding that they shut up and do what they're told, because that's what 'acting professionally' means.
Then those others are morons. How much consideration do the politically correct have for anyone but themselves?
The world would be a much better place if more people were willing to tell others to fuck off.
Not being a dick != political correctness
There are few things more dickish than 'you must behave the way I tell you to' political correctness.
The major obstacle to denser urban planning is that most people don't want to live like that. Few people choose to be crammed into a Stalinist tower block if they can have a house with a garden instead.
The forward section stays afloat for over three weeks before it bursts into flames before sinking.
Was it carrying a 787 as cargo?
Why wouldn't you want your doctor to have your complete medical history at hand?
Because if they have it, so does the NSA.
And this is why browser extensions are a bad idea.
While I agree that no airliner is perfect when released, gearbox wear is probably something you can predict and at least monitor for with regular inspections if you do leave the planes in operation while waiting for a fix. Randomly catching on fire isn't.
The battery is in the front, this fire was in the back.
What are the odds they are related?
As far as I'm aware, there are two batteries, but the rear one isn't that far back.
There's one problem with your argument:
1. Schools exist to fund phat jobs for those who couldn't find work in the real world.
The last thing they want is to be more efficient and effective, then jobs get cut and they can't demand more money for doing a bad job.
And, uh, what do you think will happen to all that data once the government has it?
Why would people run Windows if their Windows apps are second-class citizens? They might as well switch to Linux and run them in Wine.
So I save up my pennies and travel half way around the world to climb one of the truly iconic mountain peaks only to have people yammering on their cell phones on the trail and vending machines at the summit?
There have been vending machines and souvenir shops at the summit for decades. You don't think Japanese people would spend hours climbing a mountain if they couldn't buy Pocari Sweat at the top, do you?
With a new generation coming, I'd expect a bump in gaming PC sales as people are finally forced to upgrade their old machines to play the latest games at comparative quality to consoles.
Except the new consoles appear to be about as fast as a low-end PC with integrated graphics. That five-year-old gaming PC is probably just as good.
Touchsreen: 1) move hand to screen and touch (you could argue this is two actions I guess, but they're one fluid motion) 2) return hand to keyboard
Realise you selected the wrong link because your finger is much larger than the text. Touch back to go back to the previous web page. Touch the scrollbar to scroll back to where the link was. Zoom in on the link so you can actually select it reliably. Finally touch the link and get to where you wanted to go.
I suspect this is primarily because people who think of buying a new PC go to the store and see Windows 8 and think 'WTF? Why do I want a tablet interface on my 24" monitor?'
In a vain attempt to gain a few percent market share on tablets, Microsoft are killing their PC cash cow.
The big thing with stuff like Dropbox/Google Drive is that you can take a photo with your fun, have it automatically upload itself to the cloud, and then all your other devices automatically synchronise with it. Doing that with a physical drive requires extra effort. Seamlessness is what Dropbox offers.
Plus, if you lose it or accidentally delete it, you can just ask the NSA for a copy.
GC is really quite nice.
So long as you don't mind spending weeks trying to eliminate the pauses and bloated memory usage and creating internal caching schemes to avoid having to allocate more objects to be garbage collected.
That's not a bad plan. NASA could send food and stuff and then the people on Mars could fill the rocket with rocks to send back. Could be the first example of interplanetary commerce.
Breaking news. Full story at 11.
Garbage collection is supposed to stop dumb programmers doing dumb things, but in reality it just gives them different ways to do dumb things.
If you paid for the content, you can only watch it on your anointed device, due to DRM. If you're a 'cheap asshole', you downloaded the content from a pirate site for free and you can watch it however you want.
See the problem?
DRM punishes your customers, while having little to no impact on pirates.
Of course you presumably know all that, which is why you're posting anonymously.
A tiny chunk of ice (relative to the size of the world) breaks off Antarctica and we're all doomed!
It's not as though tiny chunks of ice have been breaking off Antarctica ever since it first froze, or that most of Antarctica is cooling.
Duh, There's no free market when the government grants publishers a monopoly on publishing a book.