Both yes and no. As others have mentioned, deaf people use SMS as much as the next guy. However, written language is extremely un-intuitive for deaf people. For someone who is deaf from birth, it's just sequences of meaningless symbols, and even the grammar is different. Which isn't that strange when you think about it - remember, their native language is sign language, not English.
Being able to communicate with your friends in your native language is something we take for granted, but to the deaf community this isn't always the case. That is why sign language via cell phones is turning into such a big thing. Here in Sweden, lots and lots of deaf people have switched to 3G phones with video ability because of that.
2) The county dumps in my area have declared the CFLs to be toxic waste. This makes it illegal to throw them in the garbage when they do die. The stores that sell the bulbs are not collecting them, so the only legal way to get rid of them is by driving them to the dump.
How odd. Here in Sweden, any store that sells CFLs are obliged by law to collect them as well. The same applies to batteries and other toxic disposables.
I can't tell for sure since I didn't design it, but the reason is probably that each "foo_controller" file contains a FooController class. Either that or to avoid confusion with file names, since many "FooControllers" have a corresponding "Foo" model class. If controllers and models would have shared the same file names, one could make "require 'foo'" cause different things by unwittingly tinkering with the load path. Views, OTOH, are a bit different as they aren't plain Ruby files (and therefore not loaded using "require").
But the filename conventions aren't that important anyway - Rails developers normally let Rails create the controller and model files by itself by invoking the "script/generate controller..." or "script/generate view..." commands from the root level of the app.
Well actually, that is just about the same thing as I'm doing right now. At work we have a huge web-based administrative app with a feature set that over time increased beyond what I consider manageable, and a DB structure that's been tinkered with so much that it has ended up being nothing but a mess. I.e., the normal state of most intranet apps:)
Finally, I got fed up with having to fix bugs and add new features, so now I'm in the process of redesigning the entire DB and replacing the old app with a new Rails-based one. So far I'm extremely impressed by the results - after just a few days of development I've recreated a considerable part of the previous app's functionality, but with only a fraction of the code. And the resulting code is _so_ much cleaner! I can't speak for everyone, of course, but for us the rewriting was definately worth the time. And I've been having a lot of fun in the process, too!
Both yes and no. The classic 900 (introduced in 1979, before the GM days) was incredibly robust, my dad used to drive around in an '84 sedan with 360,000 km on it. Now he's passed it onto my brother, and apart from some rust it's still in great condition - the engine is as good as new! But the Opel Vectra-based GM900 introduced in 1994 was initially a piece of crap, due to hasty development. Took them until '95 or so until all issues were sorted out (and by then it was a great car!) but in that time the brand had already lost a great deal of its reputation.
But the 9-5 is a whole different story, both excellent quality and wonderful to drive... for once GM got everything right:)
Honestly, I think IBM's desktop PC segment has grown more or less pathetic over the last few years. Old hardware (took them forever to stop using TNT2 cards), ridiculous prices and embarrasingly low quality. Even the chassis, which once was one of the most robust (and heavy!) ones, are now made of weak plastics, and overall I get the feeling that IBM only keeps their PC section alive purely out of habit. Selling their PC section to some low-cost manufacturer with a genuine interest of making it profitable would only make things better... or at least not worse than their present state:)
But their laptops are a whole different thing... i love them as much as i hate the desktops:)
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Both yes and no. As others have mentioned, deaf people use SMS as much as the next guy. However, written language is extremely un-intuitive for deaf people. For someone who is deaf from birth, it's just sequences of meaningless symbols, and even the grammar is different. Which isn't that strange when you think about it - remember, their native language is sign language, not English.
Being able to communicate with your friends in your native language is something we take for granted, but to the deaf community this isn't always the case. That is why sign language via cell phones is turning into such a big thing. Here in Sweden, lots and lots of deaf people have switched to 3G phones with video ability because of that.
How odd. Here in Sweden, any store that sells CFLs are obliged by law to collect them as well. The same applies to batteries and other toxic disposables.
But the filename conventions aren't that important anyway - Rails developers normally let Rails create the controller and model files by itself by invoking the "script/generate controller ..." or "script/generate view ..." commands from the root level of the app.
Finally, I got fed up with having to fix bugs and add new features, so now I'm in the process of redesigning the entire DB and replacing the old app with a new Rails-based one. So far I'm extremely impressed by the results - after just a few days of development I've recreated a considerable part of the previous app's functionality, but with only a fraction of the code. And the resulting code is _so_ much cleaner! I can't speak for everyone, of course, but for us the rewriting was definately worth the time. And I've been having a lot of fun in the process, too!
Both yes and no. The classic 900 (introduced in 1979, before the GM days) was incredibly robust, my dad used to drive around in an '84 sedan with 360,000 km on it. Now he's passed it onto my brother, and apart from some rust it's still in great condition - the engine is as good as new! But the Opel Vectra-based GM900 introduced in 1994 was initially a piece of crap, due to hasty development. Took them until '95 or so until all issues were sorted out (and by then it was a great car!) but in that time the brand had already lost a great deal of its reputation. But the 9-5 is a whole different story, both excellent quality and wonderful to drive... for once GM got everything right :)
But their laptops are a whole different thing... i love them as much as i hate the desktops :)
Actually there's been an OS X version of Vim available for quite some time now, but it uses Carbon bindings instead of Cocoa.