Multiples of 12 does have the nice feature of always being evenly divisible by 3 -- something many multiples of 10 can't do without ugliness like.333333 etc.
True, but I like the fact I can increase the number by a magnitude by simply throwing a 0 on the end (or moving the decimal place). It's not as easy to do that with 12s.
Maybe we should use multiples of 60 for everything! Divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30...
Hell, there are a lot of end users that don't know if they are currently running XP or Vista (but you can tell by complaints about performance LOL).
Vista runs faster than XP on my machine. It pre-fetches libraries, indexes drives, and hardware accelerates the GUI for a reason, you know.
I'm no MS fanboy, but most of the bagging Vista gets is uncalled for, and usually propaganda spread by people who don't know better, from people who don't know better.
To sum it up - SI is not right because it's "official". SI is WRONG for computer science. And if the universe is quantum, SI is technically wrong for everything. Calculus, too.
To sum it up, American in denial of metric's superiority to imperial. Multiples of 12? C'mon...
I agree with most of your argument though.:P
Ok, so if the average user is still doing the same basic tasks, browser/email/word processing it kills me that I'm now requiring the CPU power of yesterdays servers to do these basic tasks.
If you're still doing the same basic tasks with your current PC, why are you upgrading? If your current setup of Windows 98 will do IE, Outlook Express and Word (and that's all you care about), why are you "requiring the CPU power of yesterday's servers"? It's your decision to upgrade your PC and/or OS.
Bah. If stone tablets were good enough for the 10 Commandments, they're good enough for me.
Yeah, but didn't Moses break the tablets? If he'd asked God to print them on a bendy screen he probably would have had to bash it until there were enough dead pixels.
(Footnote: this requires electricity...)
To my ears it sounded a little different. It was more like, "We don't know what we're doing, we're semi-^H^H^H^H^Hincompetent, and I'm generally unprepared for your questions, but maybe we'll figure this out before the project gets abandoned."
I've heard QWERTY was intentionally laid out to slow the typist down so the keys wouldn't jam on early typewriters.
Actually, QWERTY was designed to reduce key jams and therefore increase the speed of the typist. An experienced typist will be fast regardless of the layout, so preventing key jam will allow them to be more efficient.
I used to be totally hooked on Kopiko (those coffee candy things). I'd go and buy about three bags and empty them all into a big bowl next to my PC. It only took a few months and I started having frequent palpitations... scared the shit outta me.
Maybe tell business people that the new operating system will save them the money they'll need to spend in upgrading all their software in diminished IT costs.
That's probably not a bad idea. If businesses migrate to a new system (and thus their employees will grow accustomed to it), chances are it will make its way into the homes of those employees. A good example is Office 2007. Given that Microsoft bit the bullet and created a new document format that's incompatible with older versions, employees are more likely to use the new version at home if it (or a cut down version) is supplied for free (or at a very low cost) by the employer.
Making the less tech-savvy employees feel comfortable with new software at their workplace would be a good incentive to use it in the home environment.
If you ask me, Microsoft is complicit in allowing malware to exist because they are unwilling to modernize Windows. They need to start over from scratch on their codebase and have a good hard think about what those APIs and interfaces are going to look like and then stick to it.
And the new version of Windows would be laughed at by non-IT consumers. "Why would I upgrade to the new Windows when all of my stuff doesn't work?" This is part of the argument against Vista, and why some people can't see past the need to break backward compatibility to do things "the right way".
Working with Java every day (and having worked with many other languages and platforms) has shown me that most of the frequent attacks and abuse it receives are really unnecessary and are usually made by people repeating propaganda. For non-Java developers out there: Swing != Java and API != Java.
And finally: please, please, please do not confuse JavaScript with Java. They are completely different beasts and share very little but a name.
That's funny, I found the same thing with Vista (64-bit). Being hardware-accelerated, Aero runs incredibly smooth compared to XP. The library prefetching in Vista makes application startup a breeze too. I'm no MS fanboy, but I think a lot of the current Vista-bashing is uncalled for.
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If I post a comment on last weeks article, will it also show up on this weeks article?
More to the point, if you post a comment on this week's article, will it travel back in time to last week's article?
I found myself unconsciously looking for places to hide and estimating when I could get a good firing angle on it.
Were you also unconsciously looking for the metal box with the infinite supply of rockets?
In other news, you frequently throw away items that have any words printed in grey on them.
'sif! They sell for heaps! :)
Multiples of 12 does have the nice feature of always being evenly divisible by 3 -- something many multiples of 10 can't do without ugliness like .333333 etc.
True, but I like the fact I can increase the number by a magnitude by simply throwing a 0 on the end (or moving the decimal place). It's not as easy to do that with 12s.
Maybe we should use multiples of 60 for everything! Divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30...
Im waiting till 4.3, 4.2 will most likely only meet the expectations of typical home users.
Typical home users run Windows.
Hell, there are a lot of end users that don't know if they are currently running XP or Vista (but you can tell by complaints about performance LOL).
Vista runs faster than XP on my machine. It pre-fetches libraries, indexes drives, and hardware accelerates the GUI for a reason, you know.
I'm no MS fanboy, but most of the bagging Vista gets is uncalled for, and usually propaganda spread by people who don't know better, from people who don't know better.
I'm still waiting on metric time myself.
I think you mean this. ;)
To sum it up - SI is not right because it's "official". SI is WRONG for computer science. And if the universe is quantum, SI is technically wrong for everything. Calculus, too.
To sum it up, American in denial of metric's superiority to imperial. Multiples of 12? C'mon... :P
I agree with most of your argument though.
Ok, so if the average user is still doing the same basic tasks, browser/email/word processing it kills me that I'm now requiring the CPU power of yesterdays servers to do these basic tasks.
If you're still doing the same basic tasks with your current PC, why are you upgrading? If your current setup of Windows 98 will do IE, Outlook Express and Word (and that's all you care about), why are you "requiring the CPU power of yesterday's servers"? It's your decision to upgrade your PC and/or OS.
Firefox 3 seems to be alright for me. I think at one stage I had about 60 tabs open and it wasn't using any more than about 150mb.
Bah. If stone tablets were good enough for the 10 Commandments, they're good enough for me.
Yeah, but didn't Moses break the tablets? If he'd asked God to print them on a bendy screen he probably would have had to bash it until there were enough dead pixels.
(Footnote: this requires electricity...)
To my ears it sounded a little different. It was more like, "We don't know what we're doing, we're semi-^H^H^H^H^H incompetent, and I'm generally unprepared for your questions, but maybe we'll figure this out before the project gets abandoned."
Fixed that for you. ;)
Now, certainly, Wikipedia should not be used as an authoritative source...
I once heard this quote:
Encyclopædia is to Wikipedia what library is to "some guys at a bus stop".
Basically, don't take everything you read on Wikipedia as gospel (although most articles I've read seem relatively accurate).
Call me when it rains Martinis.
I think you misspelled "Martians", in which case you should burst into song right now.
(It's raining Martians, hallelujah...)
I've seen that with branded IE ("Internet Explorer provided by Some Random Company") but I've not seen it with Firefox.
So you buy a Smell(TM) brand computer and they decide to put Opera on it instead of MSIE, you use Opera to get firefox.
So if they decide to put Firefox on there, do I use that to download Firefox?
Oh... hang on...
I've heard QWERTY was intentionally laid out to slow the typist down so the keys wouldn't jam on early typewriters.
Actually, QWERTY was designed to reduce key jams and therefore increase the speed of the typist. An experienced typist will be fast regardless of the layout, so preventing key jam will allow them to be more efficient.
TinyLauncher.
Not much use for online games, but for single player games, you're laughing.
I used to be totally hooked on Kopiko (those coffee candy things). I'd go and buy about three bags and empty them all into a big bowl next to my PC. It only took a few months and I started having frequent palpitations... scared the shit outta me.
So yeah I kinda gave up on those.
Trust me, the non-IT consumers that have Macs...
And there's your problem. The majority of non-IT consumers use Windows.
Maybe tell business people that the new operating system will save them the money they'll need to spend in upgrading all their software in diminished IT costs.
That's probably not a bad idea. If businesses migrate to a new system (and thus their employees will grow accustomed to it), chances are it will make its way into the homes of those employees. A good example is Office 2007. Given that Microsoft bit the bullet and created a new document format that's incompatible with older versions, employees are more likely to use the new version at home if it (or a cut down version) is supplied for free (or at a very low cost) by the employer.
Making the less tech-savvy employees feel comfortable with new software at their workplace would be a good incentive to use it in the home environment.
If you ask me, Microsoft is complicit in allowing malware to exist because they are unwilling to modernize Windows. They need to start over from scratch on their codebase and have a good hard think about what those APIs and interfaces are going to look like and then stick to it.
And the new version of Windows would be laughed at by non-IT consumers. "Why would I upgrade to the new Windows when all of my stuff doesn't work?" This is part of the argument against Vista, and why some people can't see past the need to break backward compatibility to do things "the right way".
Does this have anything to do with Sony's recent announcement of a $1.1 billion loss?
A fellow Java defender? On Slashdot? Gasp!
Working with Java every day (and having worked with many other languages and platforms) has shown me that most of the frequent attacks and abuse it receives are really unnecessary and are usually made by people repeating propaganda. For non-Java developers out there: Swing != Java and API != Java.
And finally: please, please, please do not confuse JavaScript with Java. They are completely different beasts and share very little but a name.
That's funny, I found the same thing with Vista (64-bit). Being hardware-accelerated, Aero runs incredibly smooth compared to XP. The library prefetching in Vista makes application startup a breeze too. I'm no MS fanboy, but I think a lot of the current Vista-bashing is uncalled for.