Well, yeah. But don't you wash them before consuming? They were out growing in nature, covered in dirt or subject to birds pooping on them, dust, bugs, who-knows-what, picked, tossed in a truck or some other conveyance, possibly stored somewhere, stocked by someone at the grocery, pawed over by other customers, etc., etc. . . . They probably did get a washing or rinsing at one or more points along the line, but do you know when or how thoroughly? I think I'd go ahead and give them a little rinse regardless of how I brought them home.
So basically, you're saying that to avoid having a plastic bag blow on your tree once in a blue moon, you'd rather enslave yourself to washing reusable bags?
And you continue to want reusable bags even if it's not clear that washing (using electricity, water and soap) doesn't hurt the environment more?
When I read this, I get the impression that someone else does your laundry . . . Not that there's anything wrong with that, just that you may not be familiar with how the process works. My washer's not infinitely adjustable, load-wise. If I've got filthy bags, I can toss them in the next load with some spare capacity for no extra cost.
Is this even possible? I don't see anything that one needs to use the right pinky for except possibly/.
Swap the 'P' with something, perhaps 'Z' ?
Shift your home keys over one? If you're learning new layouts anyways, this seems easier.
There is only one letter involved, swap 'P' with ',' and there are none. Not sure how you can avoid it more changing all the other letters around.
Besides, whatever works for you. Not like i used more than 4-5 fingers to type this. Like someone else above my hands move more than my fingers.
Starting to wonder about Ask Slashdot myself....
What do you type to, uh, you know, enter something? Or to, say, return to the left side of the space you're editing?
Really? I have pages and pages of apps. Rather than memorize where that rarely used but critical app is, I just search.
While it's easier to find an app you're looking for whose name you know by searching by name rather than wading through categories, it's easier to find an application/function/feature of a particular type the other way.
I don't think they understand what a "vaccine" is. Can we (especially the media) stop throwing that word around for everything? A vaccine immunizes you against a disease, by getting the body to produce antibodies.
Why stop there? Real vaccinations are only to prevent smallpox (and come from cows). You're thinking "inoculation".
What are you doing with a spreadsheet that you find the built-in functionality so limiting?
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every screw looks like a nail. When the only tool you know how to use is a hammer, it is the screw's fault that it won't go in like a nail when you hit it.
He didn't say he was an orthopedic surgeon. That does change things . ..
What are you doing with a spreadsheet that you find the built-in functionality so limiting?
It's possible that perhaps you're getting to the "hairy edge" of what a spreadsheet is capable of. Depending on your application, perhaps you need a more specialized -- or more general purpose -- tool, here.
Others have suggested MATLAB. If not that, how about Mathematica?
Maybe you've outgrown the scope of a spreadsheet and need a general purpose programming language, perhaps one that you can get a reporting package that suits your requirements. If you're using lots of VBA, why not go all out and use VB, or any other general purpose solution (C, Java, Python, etc., etc., etc.)?
Are you doing signal processing or control or other engineering stuff? Perhaps DaDiSP.
Some more info on your particular needs might get a more specific and useful answer from someone here that's done the same thing.
...most programmers seem to be far more interested in more impressive things like making sure whatever you are doing is in the wrong language and you cannot find any way of returning to the English language that you have set on your computer - (not that I get really pissed off with that)
The easiest way to do that is to make sure that the language selection interface always translates/localizes all the language names into whatever the application is working in right now. That way the user is trying to guess what "English" looks like in Tagalog or how "français" is rendered in Urdu. You could make a game out of it!
I never mention time remaining in my progress bars.... why do you assume that is what I am displaying?
If it's your progress bar, you tell me why it makes me think it means time. If you're measuring progress in something else, fine, but it's your progress bar, you've got to tell the user what that scale is.
Realistically a large IO bound task is something you hand off to low-end process to get it done as fast as ppssible. Would you over-ride the O/S to transfer that 10gigs in 100 meg blocks and report each bit back to your high level UI so that th progress bar is accurate?
Yes. If you don't update the user, he's eventually gonna reboot, assuming something locked up. Then you've got to do it all again, assuming that the reboot mess can be cleaned up.
The goal of a progress bar -- from the programmer's perspective -- is to prevent the user from killing the task and/or rebooting the machine.
I'm not quite clear on how the scam was uncovered, either my father-in-law noticed something or one of his friends thought it odd that there were two of him.
Not to probe too deeply into his personal affairs, but his friend didn't think it was odd that he was asking his friends for money?
OK, it sounds like a friend did notice this was out of character, but I'm still not sure whether my father-in-law had uncovered the plot before his friend did or what the time-frame of the scam was. I don't think even father-in-law knows how long it went on.
A better question would be, what system would allow 1000 password guesses per second to be authenticated?
Irrelevant, as the cracking will happen offline after the bad guys have stolen your PW DB by exploiting other weaknesses in your system
Which makes things even worse, since to protect your account, you're depending online service "X" to protect and secure their tables of passwords and account names with the best practices available (if convenient). And to make things even worse than that, those guys are counting on the general public to create more entropic and cryptographically secure passwords to secure their authentication data!
Register account, to keep someone else from using my name (it happens, I've had internet stalkers for over a decade that have done things like register domains, show up at my door, etc).
Your precaution seems wise, although possibly not sufficient. This kind of facebook impersonation happened to my father-in-law last week. And he has a facebook account that he uses regularly. Even so, an impostor created a look-alike account and asked his friends for money. I'm not quite clear on how the scam was uncovered, either my father-in-law noticed something or one of his friends thought it odd that there were two of him. I didn't ask for clarification since I heard about this while walking through the room while my wife was on speakerphone with her dad, so I was technically eavesdropping.
To really leave facebook, you're gonna have to take off and nuke it from orbit. And by "it," I mean all their data centers and anywhere their backups reside. Because just because you're no longer adding info -- indeed, even if you've never joined at all -- they're still accumulating it.
Not that leaving facebook is a bad idea, though. At least you're not intentionally adding more personal information, and that's worth something.
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Make it out of recycled Heineken cans and sell it to hipsters.
PBR for our hipsters.
Many fruits & vegetables don't come prepackaged.
Well, yeah. But don't you wash them before consuming? They were out growing in nature, covered in dirt or subject to birds pooping on them, dust, bugs, who-knows-what, picked, tossed in a truck or some other conveyance, possibly stored somewhere, stocked by someone at the grocery, pawed over by other customers, etc., etc. . . . They probably did get a washing or rinsing at one or more points along the line, but do you know when or how thoroughly? I think I'd go ahead and give them a little rinse regardless of how I brought them home.
So basically, you're saying that to avoid having a plastic bag blow on your tree once in a blue moon, you'd rather enslave yourself to washing reusable bags?
And you continue to want reusable bags even if it's not clear that washing (using electricity, water and soap) doesn't hurt the environment more?
When I read this, I get the impression that someone else does your laundry . . . Not that there's anything wrong with that, just that you may not be familiar with how the process works. My washer's not infinitely adjustable, load-wise. If I've got filthy bags, I can toss them in the next load with some spare capacity for no extra cost.
Is this even possible? I don't see anything that one needs to use the right pinky for except possibly /.
Swap the 'P' with something, perhaps 'Z' ?
Shift your home keys over one? If you're learning new layouts anyways, this seems easier.
There is only one letter involved, swap 'P' with ',' and there are none. Not sure how you can avoid it more changing all the other letters around.
Besides, whatever works for you. Not like i used more than 4-5 fingers to type this. Like someone else above my hands move more than my fingers.
Starting to wonder about Ask Slashdot myself....
What do you type to, uh, you know, enter something? Or to, say, return to the left side of the space you're editing?
I C your sense of humor is pretty sharp.
Just try to make me play more than 2 sharps on a clarinet, you insensitive clod. There's a reason God created the A clarinet.
You lost me there. When has Ubuntu ever been targeted at the "more technically literate"?
When? When your Mom starts bitching about DRM and vendor lock-in, and extolling open source like she's RMS while ripping her CDs to FLAC, that's when.
Really? I have pages and pages of apps. Rather than memorize where that rarely used but critical app is, I just search.
While it's easier to find an app you're looking for whose name you know by searching by name rather than wading through categories, it's easier to find an application/function/feature of a particular type the other way.
I don't think they understand what a "vaccine" is. Can we (especially the media) stop throwing that word around for everything? A vaccine immunizes you against a disease, by getting the body to produce antibodies.
Why stop there? Real vaccinations are only to prevent smallpox (and come from cows). You're thinking "inoculation".
Well, porting Office to iOS would potentially reduce the sale of Microsoft Surface. I reckon Microsoft want to have a firmer control of their users.
Ya, but if someone's gonna eat your lunch, it might as well be you.
What are you doing with a spreadsheet that you find the built-in functionality so limiting?
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every screw looks like a nail. When the only tool you know how to use is a hammer, it is the screw's fault that it won't go in like a nail when you hit it.
He didn't say he was an orthopedic surgeon. That does change things . . .
What are you doing with a spreadsheet that you find the built-in functionality so limiting?
It's possible that perhaps you're getting to the "hairy edge" of what a spreadsheet is capable of. Depending on your application, perhaps you need a more specialized -- or more general purpose -- tool, here.
Others have suggested MATLAB. If not that, how about Mathematica?
Maybe you've outgrown the scope of a spreadsheet and need a general purpose programming language, perhaps one that you can get a reporting package that suits your requirements. If you're using lots of VBA, why not go all out and use VB, or any other general purpose solution (C, Java, Python, etc., etc., etc.)?
Are you doing signal processing or control or other engineering stuff? Perhaps DaDiSP.
Some more info on your particular needs might get a more specific and useful answer from someone here that's done the same thing.
I already travel through time. A way to stop, or at least pause for a bit, would be more impressive.
Maybe a kind of stopwatch like this? What could possibly go wrong?
They're already *at* the bottom.
Actually, I'm thinking that there are an awful lot of Missourians today shaking their heads and saying: "At least there's Mississippi."
...most programmers seem to be far more interested in more impressive things like making sure whatever you are doing is in the wrong language and you cannot find any way of returning to the English language that you have set on your computer - (not that I get really pissed off with that)
The easiest way to do that is to make sure that the language selection interface always translates/localizes all the language names into whatever the application is working in right now. That way the user is trying to guess what "English" looks like in Tagalog or how "français" is rendered in Urdu. You could make a game out of it!
It would negatively affect performance to be more accurate in many cases.
Doesn't having the user kill your application or reboot the machine also negatively impact performance?
I never mention time remaining in my progress bars.... why do you assume that is what I am displaying?
If it's your progress bar, you tell me why it makes me think it means time. If you're measuring progress in something else, fine, but it's your progress bar, you've got to tell the user what that scale is.
Realistically a large IO bound task is something you hand off to low-end process to get it done as fast as ppssible. Would you over-ride the O/S to transfer that 10gigs in 100 meg blocks and report each bit back to your high level UI so that th progress bar is accurate?
Yes. If you don't update the user, he's eventually gonna reboot, assuming something locked up. Then you've got to do it all again, assuming that the reboot mess can be cleaned up.
The goal of a progress bar -- from the programmer's perspective -- is to prevent the user from killing the task and/or rebooting the machine.
I can see Ron Paul's side of things.
Sure, I can see why he wants it. Yes, it is rational. It would benefit him.
I want an army of fembots.
Sun comes up. Sun goes down. You can't explain that.
I'm not quite clear on how the scam was uncovered, either my father-in-law noticed something or one of his friends thought it odd that there were two of him.
Not to probe too deeply into his personal affairs, but his friend didn't think it was odd that he was asking his friends for money?
OK, it sounds like a friend did notice this was out of character, but I'm still not sure whether my father-in-law had uncovered the plot before his friend did or what the time-frame of the scam was. I don't think even father-in-law knows how long it went on.
A better question would be, what system would allow 1000 password guesses per second to be authenticated?
Irrelevant, as the cracking will happen offline after the bad guys have stolen your PW DB by exploiting other weaknesses in your system
Which makes things even worse, since to protect your account, you're depending online service "X" to protect and secure their tables of passwords and account names with the best practices available (if convenient). And to make things even worse than that, those guys are counting on the general public to create more entropic and cryptographically secure passwords to secure their authentication data!
People who post pictures of themself drunk, passed out pants round their ankles in the street are concerned with privacy.
Report: Every Potential 2040 President Already Unelectable Due To Facebook
Why does it have your cell number? I certainly wouldn't put mine on there...
I think it nags you for your number "in case you forget your password" or something like that.
Register account, to keep someone else from using my name (it happens, I've had internet stalkers for over a decade that have done things like register domains, show up at my door, etc).
Your precaution seems wise, although possibly not sufficient. This kind of facebook impersonation happened to my father-in-law last week. And he has a facebook account that he uses regularly. Even so, an impostor created a look-alike account and asked his friends for money. I'm not quite clear on how the scam was uncovered, either my father-in-law noticed something or one of his friends thought it odd that there were two of him. I didn't ask for clarification since I heard about this while walking through the room while my wife was on speakerphone with her dad, so I was technically eavesdropping.
To really leave facebook, you're gonna have to take off and nuke it from orbit. And by "it," I mean all their data centers and anywhere their backups reside. Because just because you're no longer adding info -- indeed, even if you've never joined at all -- they're still accumulating it.
Not that leaving facebook is a bad idea, though. At least you're not intentionally adding more personal information, and that's worth something.