That's a patent falsehood. You see, I despise the beatles.
I know, I know. Shocking. I also think Led Zeppelin sucks, too. Further, I cannot stand Aerosmith.
Combining all 3 of them is my own personal hell. Write it down, make a note of it. Someday, when I die, and I go "what the shit? God actually exists? oh man, this does not end well for me", and I sometime after God says "what the hell are you doing here", that's where I'll spend eternity. Listening to the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, all sung to me by a billion evil spiders who look oddly like my ex.
Now that I've been confronted with that imagery, I'm going to go find out how to live forever. Brb.
Secondly, a poorly calibrated device does NOT imply that the software specifically written for this task, e.g. the application - what I consider the UI in this case - is the issue.
In this particular case, the calibration of the touch screen with regards to the operating system is the problem. As far as the application that handles the actual voting goes, it can only do it's job to the extent that the inputs it is receiving are correct (which come from the operating system, which come from the hardware, which comes from the user). If the transfer of said input from any one of those points is skewed in any way (a drunken user, a faulty touch screen, poor calibration of the OS-to-hardware (or other glitch)), then the application cannot help but be wrong.
As an application developer, I take particular umbrage at a few things. First, that you attribute motives and statements to me that I did not make. To that end, I dub thee cum guzzling gutter slut bitch, and were you within 10 feet of me right now, I would scatter bits and pieces of your face across the room. Don't fucking put words in my mouth, and don't use me as your target for things that piss me off. You don't fucking know me, and you clearly don't know what I was saying, so don't fucking assume, you cock docking ass clown. Second, that you think the person (or people) in charge of writing the application are also the ones who wrote the operating system, device drivers, and calibration software. You don't know a fucking thing about this breakdown, and your arrogant assumption that a single group of people were responsible for the creation of this "solution" from beginning to end is flawed, at best. Only an idiot would recreate the wheel - again - when you could use commonly available products that you could easily and cheaply integrate with minimal time (and more importantly, money) spent in the process. If this means it will take a moron at the voting station 25 seconds to tap the targets on the screen at various locations, so be it, and if they fuck it up, then I'm sorry, that's not being unreasonable. We have to set the bar somewhere, and that's where it's set. It's not onerous.
Next you'll be claiming that expecting someone to plug the machine in, or even take it out of the box, is too difficult to expect and that that's the entire problem with people who create things - they actually make reasonable expectations out of their users!
And with voting, I have zero problem with it. Deleting an icon on the desktop? Yeah, that's bothersome. Electing a leader to the most powerful position in the world (currently)? I wouldn't mind a quintuple check in the slightest.
Maybe not just UI, but poor calibration. I'm not sure how modern touch screen monitors work, but I know on a touch screen mobile device, you still have to calibrate it. If it isn't done correctly, every single vote will be skewed.
All the same, it seems to me a series of question/answers should be relatively trivial to write correctly. I'm talking Sophomore level of college here, at worst. If they can't get the UI to work on these things in that amount of time, someone needs burnt alive to their very deaths.
Which is why it is best to triple the time it would normally take to put your music out, get a real job, save your money up, and own your own god damned property after YOU pay for everything.
Of course, this is coming from the dude who refused to have a professional photographer take pictures at his wedding because he is adamantly opposed to the concept of the "work" being *theirs*, so take that bit of hypocrisy with you and chew on it a bit.
I fear that, while your idea is sound in theory, in practice it wouldn't hold up. Or, rather, at best you would have bread & soup kitchens and lots of people living homeless on the street.
The average person, when given the choice between putting new carpet in their house or donating to charity, is going to put new carpet in their house. Even if they had that extra money for welfare, their own personal financial equilibrium would shift and after a few months of "extra money", they would find themselves, again, living near the top of what they could afford (or, with some people, over it (credit)).
That's what actually will happen. A few enlightened individuals would donate, but the rest would just get annoyed at all the homeless littering the streets.
As much as I hate welfare, I do not want our cities to turn into those like found in India or Hong Kong. That much squalor is, in my opinion, more an indictment on the society than it is on the people who live there.
Right, but then you look at countries like France where the people revolted because the top 1% of the population lived..well, they lived like kings, and the rest were starving to death.
If you don't take care of the lowest of the low, you better be prepared to crush each revolution when they clamor for food and clean drinking water.
I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying we'll have to be a lot more brutal, internally, than we already are. I wish it weren't so, because personal responsibility is huge to me, but there's "the way it should be" and there's "human nature", and guess which one wins out?
Agreed. However, when some fool gambles his life savings, his house, his car, and loses it all and now the tax payer has to pay welfare for his family, I tend to get a bit irritated about it.
In JS, it's "not identical". It means "don't try to do any implicit casting - not only must their values be the same, but their type must be the same too"
I get pinged on it all the time when I'm running other people's JS through http://www.jslint.com/
He doesn't have to register his copyright, idiot. All registering your copyright means is the copyright office has it.
Just burn CDs of the material as soon as they create it to yourself via certified mail and don't open the copies. That's all you need to prove when it was created.
As far as who created it, you don't need to worry about it. Keep backups in multiple locations, and when someone pulls this, a: tell slashdot (so they get tremendous bad publicity) and b: go to a new webhost. It's no big deal.
Sweet, time to get that new "community swimming pool", which I will create by razing my neighbor's house, building it on his property, and then charge admittance to.
This is going to be awesome. I never liked his house anyway, and chicks in bikinis > fat man in sweats any day.
It depends on the type of music, actually. It is my opinion that any punk recorded in such surroundings is not even worth listening to anymore. I'd rather hear more garage-band-like sound out of bands than perfectly engineered studio-recorded CDs, so as far as I'm concerned, this is only icing on the cake.
You're making the assumption that your car isn't already in a foot and a half of snow to begin with. That's a bad assumption to make. I know when I shovel out behind my car, I do as little as possible to get out (I can shovel the whole damn thing when I get home, but when I just want to get to work, fuck it)
I don't really have precious books, and since these things are going to disintegrate at the rate I re-read them anyway, destroying them in the process of scanning them is not such a bad thing. Plus it seems like it'd be faster:O
How, precisely, do you scan in books? Do you have to manually scan each page?
I'd really have no trouble spending a few hundred dollars on a scanner that would basically do it for me. I really want to move to an e-book, but most of the books I love are rather modest Fantasy books that aren't available in e-book form. A flat bed scanner would take me probably a year to get my entire collection scanned in, and that just won't do.
I've heard of it before. It has to do when someone is threatening you with a lawsuit, but not following through. Rather than let that threat of a lawsuit affect your stock price, allowing the fear of it to affect your strategery, etc, it's best to just demand the court's rule and get it over with.
Essentially, it's calling in a game of poker. Only rather than letting the cards do the talking, you're letting the judge settle it.
Uh, dude, it's never R&D's job to get products out of beta.
Actually, the fact that so many of R&D's betas are used as end products by the masses just goes to show how exceptional their R&D really is. Most R&D departments do flimsy prototypes and call it a day. It's up to engineers working on a production system to bring something out of beta, kthx.
I'm sorry, but aside from my grandmother, who had to study the bible in school, I find it hard to believe that even 90% of the "Christians" around me have ever read the bible. They may listen to their priest or pastor read it on Sundays, but they never actually read it themselves.
Ever.
Under any circumstance.
Either they don't like to read or they'd rather read the DaVinci Code (or Harry Potter), which amuses me to no end.
I mean, how can you follow any religion without doing some research first?!
Conversely, in my job now, it'd be more like 5%. I don't think a single member of my dev team would actively sell anyone out. In fact, they'd probably just start looking for new jobs themselves, most likely en masse. They're funny like that. More worried about how their coworkers are treated than they are about themselves.
It all depends on what sort of company you work for, I guess.
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That's a patent falsehood. You see, I despise the beatles.
I know, I know. Shocking. I also think Led Zeppelin sucks, too. Further, I cannot stand Aerosmith.
Combining all 3 of them is my own personal hell. Write it down, make a note of it. Someday, when I die, and I go "what the shit? God actually exists? oh man, this does not end well for me", and I sometime after God says "what the hell are you doing here", that's where I'll spend eternity. Listening to the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, all sung to me by a billion evil spiders who look oddly like my ex.
Now that I've been confronted with that imagery, I'm going to go find out how to live forever. Brb.
Excuse me?
First off, fuck you.
Secondly, a poorly calibrated device does NOT imply that the software specifically written for this task, e.g. the application - what I consider the UI in this case - is the issue.
In this particular case, the calibration of the touch screen with regards to the operating system is the problem. As far as the application that handles the actual voting goes, it can only do it's job to the extent that the inputs it is receiving are correct (which come from the operating system, which come from the hardware, which comes from the user). If the transfer of said input from any one of those points is skewed in any way (a drunken user, a faulty touch screen, poor calibration of the OS-to-hardware (or other glitch)), then the application cannot help but be wrong.
As an application developer, I take particular umbrage at a few things. First, that you attribute motives and statements to me that I did not make. To that end, I dub thee cum guzzling gutter slut bitch, and were you within 10 feet of me right now, I would scatter bits and pieces of your face across the room. Don't fucking put words in my mouth, and don't use me as your target for things that piss me off. You don't fucking know me, and you clearly don't know what I was saying, so don't fucking assume, you cock docking ass clown. Second, that you think the person (or people) in charge of writing the application are also the ones who wrote the operating system, device drivers, and calibration software. You don't know a fucking thing about this breakdown, and your arrogant assumption that a single group of people were responsible for the creation of this "solution" from beginning to end is flawed, at best. Only an idiot would recreate the wheel - again - when you could use commonly available products that you could easily and cheaply integrate with minimal time (and more importantly, money) spent in the process. If this means it will take a moron at the voting station 25 seconds to tap the targets on the screen at various locations, so be it, and if they fuck it up, then I'm sorry, that's not being unreasonable. We have to set the bar somewhere, and that's where it's set. It's not onerous.
Next you'll be claiming that expecting someone to plug the machine in, or even take it out of the box, is too difficult to expect and that that's the entire problem with people who create things - they actually make reasonable expectations out of their users!
You fucking prick.
And with voting, I have zero problem with it. Deleting an icon on the desktop? Yeah, that's bothersome. Electing a leader to the most powerful position in the world (currently)? I wouldn't mind a quintuple check in the slightest.
Maybe not just UI, but poor calibration. I'm not sure how modern touch screen monitors work, but I know on a touch screen mobile device, you still have to calibrate it. If it isn't done correctly, every single vote will be skewed.
All the same, it seems to me a series of question/answers should be relatively trivial to write correctly. I'm talking Sophomore level of college here, at worst. If they can't get the UI to work on these things in that amount of time, someone needs burnt alive to their very deaths.
Which is why it is best to triple the time it would normally take to put your music out, get a real job, save your money up, and own your own god damned property after YOU pay for everything.
Of course, this is coming from the dude who refused to have a professional photographer take pictures at his wedding because he is adamantly opposed to the concept of the "work" being *theirs*, so take that bit of hypocrisy with you and chew on it a bit.
I suddenly have the irresistible urge to write "loot" on a bag full of stacks of paper in vaguely bill-shaped form.
I fear that, while your idea is sound in theory, in practice it wouldn't hold up. Or, rather, at best you would have bread & soup kitchens and lots of people living homeless on the street.
The average person, when given the choice between putting new carpet in their house or donating to charity, is going to put new carpet in their house. Even if they had that extra money for welfare, their own personal financial equilibrium would shift and after a few months of "extra money", they would find themselves, again, living near the top of what they could afford (or, with some people, over it (credit)).
That's what actually will happen. A few enlightened individuals would donate, but the rest would just get annoyed at all the homeless littering the streets.
As much as I hate welfare, I do not want our cities to turn into those like found in India or Hong Kong. That much squalor is, in my opinion, more an indictment on the society than it is on the people who live there.
Right, but then you look at countries like France where the people revolted because the top 1% of the population lived..well, they lived like kings, and the rest were starving to death.
If you don't take care of the lowest of the low, you better be prepared to crush each revolution when they clamor for food and clean drinking water.
I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying we'll have to be a lot more brutal, internally, than we already are. I wish it weren't so, because personal responsibility is huge to me, but there's "the way it should be" and there's "human nature", and guess which one wins out?
Agreed. However, when some fool gambles his life savings, his house, his car, and loses it all and now the tax payer has to pay welfare for his family, I tend to get a bit irritated about it.
In JS, it's "not identical". It means "don't try to do any implicit casting - not only must their values be the same, but their type must be the same too"
I get pinged on it all the time when I'm running other people's JS through http://www.jslint.com/
Wait, that's a cat? I thought it was an elephant that swallowed an airplane!
He doesn't have to register his copyright, idiot. All registering your copyright means is the copyright office has it.
Just burn CDs of the material as soon as they create it to yourself via certified mail and don't open the copies. That's all you need to prove when it was created.
As far as who created it, you don't need to worry about it. Keep backups in multiple locations, and when someone pulls this, a: tell slashdot (so they get tremendous bad publicity) and b: go to a new webhost. It's no big deal.
Have you ever tried using Flash *heavily* in a web application?
ActionScript is an abomination, at best.
I'll take Silverlight over Flash for that simple reason.
I'd still prefer neither.
In his defense, I have seen cows with 6 teats before. They were small and non functioning, but it had them.
But that's what comes from working on a dairy farm. You're bound to end up seeing freak teats eventually.
And I've rued that day ever since.
Sweet, time to get that new "community swimming pool", which I will create by razing my neighbor's house, building it on his property, and then charge admittance to.
This is going to be awesome. I never liked his house anyway, and chicks in bikinis > fat man in sweats any day.
It depends on the type of music, actually. It is my opinion that any punk recorded in such surroundings is not even worth listening to anymore. I'd rather hear more garage-band-like sound out of bands than perfectly engineered studio-recorded CDs, so as far as I'm concerned, this is only icing on the cake.
You're making the assumption that your car isn't already in a foot and a half of snow to begin with. That's a bad assumption to make. I know when I shovel out behind my car, I do as little as possible to get out (I can shovel the whole damn thing when I get home, but when I just want to get to work, fuck it)
I don't really have precious books, and since these things are going to disintegrate at the rate I re-read them anyway, destroying them in the process of scanning them is not such a bad thing. Plus it seems like it'd be faster :O
How, precisely, do you scan in books? Do you have to manually scan each page?
I'd really have no trouble spending a few hundred dollars on a scanner that would basically do it for me. I really want to move to an e-book, but most of the books I love are rather modest Fantasy books that aren't available in e-book form. A flat bed scanner would take me probably a year to get my entire collection scanned in, and that just won't do.
I've heard of it before. It has to do when someone is threatening you with a lawsuit, but not following through. Rather than let that threat of a lawsuit affect your stock price, allowing the fear of it to affect your strategery, etc, it's best to just demand the court's rule and get it over with.
Essentially, it's calling in a game of poker. Only rather than letting the cards do the talking, you're letting the judge settle it.
That's the *development* of research ideas. It is not the *production* of research ideas.
Methinks you don't have a clue what R&D is about.
Uh, dude, it's never R&D's job to get products out of beta.
Actually, the fact that so many of R&D's betas are used as end products by the masses just goes to show how exceptional their R&D really is. Most R&D departments do flimsy prototypes and call it a day. It's up to engineers working on a production system to bring something out of beta, kthx.
I'm sorry, but aside from my grandmother, who had to study the bible in school, I find it hard to believe that even 90% of the "Christians" around me have ever read the bible. They may listen to their priest or pastor read it on Sundays, but they never actually read it themselves.
Ever.
Under any circumstance.
Either they don't like to read or they'd rather read the DaVinci Code (or Harry Potter), which amuses me to no end.
I mean, how can you follow any religion without doing some research first?!
Conversely, in my job now, it'd be more like 5%. I don't think a single member of my dev team would actively sell anyone out. In fact, they'd probably just start looking for new jobs themselves, most likely en masse. They're funny like that. More worried about how their coworkers are treated than they are about themselves.
It all depends on what sort of company you work for, I guess.