Faulty hardware whose state registers have been corrupted? Yes. A reboot would fix that.
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This reminds me of the PageRank problem where all the porn sites link to Disney.com and if you searched for "sex" it would rank tops... Think of the implications...
Hah! Sweden is a huge producer of pop music. Saying they're not creative is like... um... dunno. It's just silly. And they're also the home of Propellerhead Software, who made Reason. I believe the Nordlead synths come from Sweden too. So hah.;)
Apple has that? They're à jour with the possibilities of modern technology then. Microsoft's video chat solutions suck... I know that. To get good video chat on a PC you have to pay...
Such lists are quite rare, but I doubt I'd get confused if the spacing was proper, i.e. 1,024, 2,048, 4,096, etc. With computers it's not generally a problem. If you're a programmer you have to use periods anyway, and if you're using Excel, you're inputting things into individual cells anyway, and it accepts and displays numbers in that format automatically if your locale is set properly.
Us other Europeans tend to think of England as the backwards-country of Europe.;) You drive on the wrong side of the road, (have) use(d) funny units... And you're not even part of the mainland.;)
In Europe we use periods or spaces to delimit thousands, i.e. 100.000 is one hundred thousand. Our decimal sign is a comma. 100.000,54 is one hundred thousand point fifty four. In Norway 5,4 is "fem komma fire" thus we even use it in everyday speech.
It works like this in Norway (which is a part of Europe) as well, so I can confirm this. It creates some degree of confusion when we set the Windows locale to use comma as the decimal delimiter (happens automatically when the country is set to Norway) and some stupid program ignoring the locale still wants it with a period.
LOL. You make a funny point, voluntarily or not. Cafe owners usually get pissed if you enter their cafe and start munching away at stuff you didn't buy there. They would probably not be too happy if you started sharing candy with everyone (imagine that you're a rich dude and you have a huge sack of candy). Many cafes have a sign that prohibits you from doing stuff like that. It sorta applies when you speak of copyright too. The world is your cafe, the music/movies are your food and the angry cafe owner is the government.;)
Yeah. DLL protection. I'm well aware. It's a nice feature. Do you happen to know about a Linux distribution that lets me actually do system configuration without having to use the command line? It seems that not even Ubuntu lets you edit how Grub or LILO boots with a GUI. Whenever I test a supposedly user friendly Linux distribution, I always try to do it like a Windows user first. "Okay. I want to remove a device driver. Now let's go to the control panel... A listing of/proc/pci, and a listing of loaded modules. Nonono! I just wanna remove the device. Okay. A Windows user would definitely become confused." "Now to plug in my webcam... um... it isn't being autodetected, and it's not asking me to install a driver. Okay. My sister couldn't use this." I'll be impressed if someone has designed a solution that just works that smoothly. Microsoft and Apple are just pretty hard to beat in that area...
Special cases, needs and tasks always cause unforseen problems. Using the system exactly like the deveopers intended it usually makes it more reliable. Tweaking it will often break it. Well behaved applications do version checking.
Well. Yes. I know that. DLLs in Windows have never been shared libraries in the Linux way. There are a set of DLLs in the system directory and it's generally left alone, or perhaps upgraded to a newer version by an application that needs it. More frequently, however, DLLs are used as plug-in modules for developers. They're just put in the application directory to provide some functionality for a single application. It's not how DLLs were supposed to be, perhaps, but I've only rarely had problems with it.
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Testing universe? I'm afraid this is it.
Yup. Clearly remember having a Post box on all the BBSes I went to back in the day...
Faulty hardware whose state registers have been corrupted? Yes. A reboot would fix that.
This reminds me of the PageRank problem where all the porn sites link to Disney.com and if you searched for "sex" it would rank tops... Think of the implications...
Time to perhaps remove this from your sig? My head is still aching from the echos...
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Hah! Sweden is a huge producer of pop music. Saying they're not creative is like... um... dunno. It's just silly. And they're also the home of Propellerhead Software, who made Reason. I believe the Nordlead synths come from Sweden too. So hah. ;)
Apple has that? They're à jour with the possibilities of modern technology then. Microsoft's video chat solutions suck... I know that. To get good video chat on a PC you have to pay...
I think he means hacking in the positive sense...
MSN has had video chat for... years. That isn't even news.
Such lists are quite rare, but I doubt I'd get confused if the spacing was proper, i.e. 1,024, 2,048, 4,096, etc. With computers it's not generally a problem. If you're a programmer you have to use periods anyway, and if you're using Excel, you're inputting things into individual cells anyway, and it accepts and displays numbers in that format automatically if your locale is set properly.
Us other Europeans tend to think of England as the backwards-country of Europe. ;) You drive on the wrong side of the road, (have) use(d) funny units... And you're not even part of the mainland. ;)
In Europe we use periods or spaces to delimit thousands, i.e. 100.000 is one hundred thousand. Our decimal sign is a comma. 100.000,54 is one hundred thousand point fifty four. In Norway 5,4 is "fem komma fire" thus we even use it in everyday speech.
It works like this in Norway (which is a part of Europe) as well, so I can confirm this. It creates some degree of confusion when we set the Windows locale to use comma as the decimal delimiter (happens automatically when the country is set to Norway) and some stupid program ignoring the locale still wants it with a period.
Of course. But they did end up going public with it.
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LOL. You make a funny point, voluntarily or not. Cafe owners usually get pissed if you enter their cafe and start munching away at stuff you didn't buy there. They would probably not be too happy if you started sharing candy with everyone (imagine that you're a rich dude and you have a huge sack of candy). Many cafes have a sign that prohibits you from doing stuff like that. It sorta applies when you speak of copyright too. The world is your cafe, the music/movies are your food and the angry cafe owner is the government. ;)
I don't think he had time to read that as he was trying to get in the first post.
Not to insult you, but have you heard of the Placebo effect?
Most have heard it. I associate it with rich, slightly excentric people doing charity or such...
I don't even recall having this problem with Windows 3.11. Windows has just worked well for me in general, heck even Windows 95 was stable.
Yeah. DLL protection. I'm well aware. It's a nice feature. Do you happen to know about a Linux distribution that lets me actually do system configuration without having to use the command line? It seems that not even Ubuntu lets you edit how Grub or LILO boots with a GUI. Whenever I test a supposedly user friendly Linux distribution, I always try to do it like a Windows user first. "Okay. I want to remove a device driver. Now let's go to the control panel... A listing of /proc/pci, and a listing of loaded modules. Nonono! I just wanna remove the device. Okay. A Windows user would definitely become confused." "Now to plug in my webcam... um... it isn't being autodetected, and it's not asking me to install a driver. Okay. My sister couldn't use this." I'll be impressed if someone has designed a solution that just works that smoothly. Microsoft and Apple are just pretty hard to beat in that area...
Special cases, needs and tasks always cause unforseen problems. Using the system exactly like the deveopers intended it usually makes it more reliable. Tweaking it will often break it. Well behaved applications do version checking.
Well. Yes. I know that. DLLs in Windows have never been shared libraries in the Linux way. There are a set of DLLs in the system directory and it's generally left alone, or perhaps upgraded to a newer version by an application that needs it. More frequently, however, DLLs are used as plug-in modules for developers. They're just put in the application directory to provide some functionality for a single application. It's not how DLLs were supposed to be, perhaps, but I've only rarely had problems with it.
What's this DLL hell everyone speaks of? I know what it would implicate, but I've never in my life had a DLL problem such as that in Windows.