My grandfather's over 80 and still capable of sailing solo. When he turned 65 he built himself a 50-foot steel-hulled yacht and virtually sailed solo from New Zealand to Fiji, round to the Solomon Islands, then down the east coast of Australia.
A pox on you young cretins who think you're tough... he's several times the man you are!!!:P
Like other posters have said, the Pacific Ocean's a dangerous place. Here's hoping he's just gone to Vancouver to look at some grizzly bears...
Look at this and cringe when you see the word "RESPONSABILITY"... I know I did.
How will people take this seriously if basic, ignorant spelling mistakes like that slip in at the installer stage???? I know several people who would instantly hit Cancel and never look at Linux again. Silly, silly people.
I would consider myself an above-average user, but when I go to install something that's outside the scope of my repositories and get shot down by the dependency failures... that's when I get a little peeved.
If Linux standardised, I'd be sure to recommend it to my friends and family. Even the dumbest "For Dummies" distros aren't simple enough for Joe Bloggers to use.
Agreed. It's not an incredible piece of journalism, but I like that it shows the classic stages of idea development when a great idea goes through that stage that requires perseverance and sits on the cusp of failure.
It also shows that small, niche, open source projects can survive. If anything, hopefully it will encourage a few dozen people to get onto Sourceforge.net and find projects they can contribute to.
Dev salaries is only a small portion of the cost of R&D. These guys won't be self-managing - there will be support staff, secretaries, PAs, managers,... they may have an espresso machine that costs 1.5M to run. Once you bundle electricity, maintenance of the space where you stick them and other running costs you might be lucky to get 10 guys who actually do software.
And how many of those were porting Freecell and Minesweeper to the HC11?
I work for one of the larger New Zealand companies in a cubicle farm. The noise drives me to distraction. I work here and R&D is spread over two cubicle farms. Cubicles are annoying when you have to put up with the constant beep of radios!!!
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'd love an office... I sometimes work weekends when no-one is around to take advantage of the peace and quiet I desire.
Unfortunately buddy, some of us still got this with Linux. I use Matlab R14 SP3 at home and it permits activation only twice before it locks up. I had to replace a dead motherboard... I used an onboard ethernet interface so my eth0 id changed... thus needing to completely reinstall Matlab. Then, due to a bug in Kubuntu, it caused all sorts of hassles that meant I had to get involved with technical support in the US that took way too long to resolve.
Mathworks have lost my business. Furthermore, this is quite a common model amongst companies that use the FlexLM smegnology. Thus, I'm looking at Octave for my work from now on.
I think you need to re-read the thread: you have taken my comment out of context. The point of parent was that all the documentation is on the internet. While my point is that you cannot access this documentation while you're installing. And, bright spark, what happens if you need help installing your modem? If you didn't have the foresight to preserve your Windows installation and internet connection (if you had one in the first place) then you're pretty screwed.
I'm going to be dumb enough to respond to your lame flamebait.
I guess you haven't installed an operating system before while being the owner of a sole computer on dialup. Some people just don't have internet access during the installation process.
I heard a fantastic talk by Dr Carl Myhill from GE. The reason plenty of software fails is because of the tremendous number of people required to get it right... psychologists, interaction design experts, anthropologists, users (not customers), graphic designers, a pencil sharpener... it's just too much to expect small projects to have all this, much less expert Dilbertian-type managers to sign off the investment required for all these.
The main reason I see for software sucking is simply that there aren't enough skills to get it right, and release-date-driven projects are going to suffer even more.
Looking at companies that make great products... they invest the time in all areas and experiment to get it right - look at iPods (though I'm not convinced they're as easy/obvious to use as people say.. I've played with a few) or Nokia cellphones. They're items with solid UIs, and well-designed from many perspectives (with a few exceptions).
Then there is my Motorola V3x that has plenty of UI annoyances - Motorola's a giant that apparently has a heck of a lot of resources at its fingertips. Then how come my phone is so annoying... And the music cuts out on my bluetooth headphones when it's in my trouser pocket... what is this? My nether regions don't emit 2.4 GHz (I connected them up to a spectrum analyser just to make sure).
it's a shame, really. He actually makes valid points. Engineers are typically poor at making business decisions...
The owner of the company I work for failed twice in business before hiring a manager to lead the way... company has been going 35 years and has been very successful... I think pulling of heads from bottoms is something few techy guys do.
but when it gets bumped off because Windows thinks I used something else more often, I'm confused for a few seconds, just enough to be annoyed.
That's when you right-click... Pin To Start Menu. Windows does it well IMHO, you just need to learn how to do it: which is perhaps part of the problem.
It's only part of the living language that some people call English. Read a book calling Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson. This condition has never left English - Chaucer spelt the naughty word c*nt THREE different ways in Canterbury Tales (it was more acceptable back then). Look at English words that are of foreign extraction but spelt incorrectly: from the missing acute on "cafe" to "ordinary" (from "ordinaire"..... the list goes on: in fact it happens in reverse - Kangaroo (from Aboriginal extraction (one small tribe in Sydney actually, it went by many other names all over Aussie). Read "The Spoken Word") is spelt "kangourou" in French.
I'd suggest this guy wakes up to the fact that spelling is largely subjective, often phonetic by some people, and the language is evolving: in 200 years time "should of" may well be the rule rather than the exception.
Bizarre, probably more of a troll/flamebait topic for discussion than anything else.
Anyone care to say how uncouth the Americans are for dropping the "u" in "humour"???
France and Japan already has a deal about 'disposing' nuclear waste. Anyone who lives in NZ/Australia would know because there's a shipment of plutonium waste through the Tasman Sea every frew years between France and Japan.
This "new" partnership is a simple extension of that and probably will extend further as time goes on.
PS Grammar trolls should ignore the "ain't nothing"... I know.
They never banned Mark Geyer for good. Anyway, Hopoate should be old enough to be forced into retirement when his next ban expires. He's a Mormon too, funny how these religious freaks are so barbaric.
If you can't take the violence, switch to watching rugby! Here in NZ, we don't any of that, we only eye-gouge, stomp on heads and give the fingers to offensive South African crowds.
Hmm, South Africa, don't even go there if you want to talk barbaric sportsmen.....
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A pox on you young cretins who think you're tough... he's several times the man you are!!! :P
Like other posters have said, the Pacific Ocean's a dangerous place. Here's hoping he's just gone to Vancouver to look at some grizzly bears...
How will people take this seriously if basic, ignorant spelling mistakes like that slip in at the installer stage???? I know several people who would instantly hit Cancel and never look at Linux again. Silly, silly people.
I would consider myself an above-average user, but when I go to install something that's outside the scope of my repositories and get shot down by the dependency failures... that's when I get a little peeved.
If Linux standardised, I'd be sure to recommend it to my friends and family. Even the dumbest "For Dummies" distros aren't simple enough for Joe Bloggers to use.
It also shows that small, niche, open source projects can survive. If anything, hopefully it will encourage a few dozen people to get onto Sourceforge.net and find projects they can contribute to.
And how many of those were porting Freecell and Minesweeper to the HC11?
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'd love an office... I sometimes work weekends when no-one is around to take advantage of the peace and quiet I desire.
Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau
John Cleese's Hungarian from the Hungarian Phrasebook Sketch.
MOUSTACHES ARE FUNNY... OK?!
Sacha Baron Cohen ---> SBC?
Nice.
Mathworks have lost my business. Furthermore, this is quite a common model amongst companies that use the FlexLM smegnology. Thus, I'm looking at Octave for my work from now on.
Quite a gripping novel. A bunch of nanotech robots becoming self-aware and being rather nasty.
s /fr/prey.htm
See: http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/mysteryreview
Good to see this being implemented already, but scary!!
Yeah, I tried reading a book while on the exercycle at the uni gym once. I had the following concentration breakers:
Read before you post!
I guess you haven't installed an operating system before while being the owner of a sole computer on dialup. Some people just don't have internet access during the installation process.
The main reason I see for software sucking is simply that there aren't enough skills to get it right, and release-date-driven projects are going to suffer even more.
Looking at companies that make great products... they invest the time in all areas and experiment to get it right - look at iPods (though I'm not convinced they're as easy/obvious to use as people say.. I've played with a few) or Nokia cellphones. They're items with solid UIs, and well-designed from many perspectives (with a few exceptions).
Then there is my Motorola V3x that has plenty of UI annoyances - Motorola's a giant that apparently has a heck of a lot of resources at its fingertips. Then how come my phone is so annoying... And the music cuts out on my bluetooth headphones when it's in my trouser pocket... what is this? My nether regions don't emit 2.4 GHz (I connected them up to a spectrum analyser just to make sure).
Oh yeah... I have mod points and would have used them if it wasn't AC.
The owner of the company I work for failed twice in business before hiring a manager to lead the way... company has been going 35 years and has been very successful... I think pulling of heads from bottoms is something few techy guys do.
That's when you right-click... Pin To Start Menu. Windows does it well IMHO, you just need to learn how to do it: which is perhaps part of the problem.
Having said that, it's cheaper than porn, so perhaps it isn't so bad.
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/lurgie/
I'd suggest this guy wakes up to the fact that spelling is largely subjective, often phonetic by some people, and the language is evolving: in 200 years time "should of" may well be the rule rather than the exception.
Bizarre, probably more of a troll/flamebait topic for discussion than anything else.
Anyone care to say how uncouth the Americans are for dropping the "u" in "humour"???
This "new" partnership is a simple extension of that and probably will extend further as time goes on.
PS Grammar trolls should ignore the "ain't nothing"... I know.
Who wants to bet that this has been brought forward by 4 months to allow this company to grab market share?
I started using the "I for one welcome our new X overlords" thing at work... I guess I'm just another FUBAR /. no-brainer.
Laziness is good... the actual word is "mathematics"; the English world says "maths", the American world took the laziness one step further to "math"
I, for one, welcome our new laziness overlords who use the following method...
1. In Soviet Russia, be lazy
2. In Soviet Russia, ???????
3. Profit in a Roublesque fashion.
FYI, I'm actually a Kiwi! We play league here too, even have a team in the NRL!
I hope plenty of Mod points get wasted modding our comments Offtopic.... it's not as if people can't work that out....
PS Vun Vurd About Zee Crikit And You Vill Be Shot Und Sendt To Zee Russian Front!
If you can't take the violence, switch to watching rugby! Here in NZ, we don't any of that, we only eye-gouge, stomp on heads and give the fingers to offensive South African crowds.
Hmm, South Africa, don't even go there if you want to talk barbaric sportsmen.....