We already have Ritalin (or alcohol) for that. Most of the really good engineers (of many stripes) I know are functionally autistic, ADD/ADDHD or high-functioning alcoholics.
Here's the (PDF warning) complaint in case anyone's interested.
Here's my favorite quote:
Thus, a Defendant's distribution of even one unlawful copy of a motion picture can result in the nearly instantaneous worldwide distribution of that single copy to a limitless number of people.
but I'm not a native speaker, there's a lot of errors for me to learn yet...
SOUNDS acceptable when spoken, but in fact, is actually "there is(singular) a lot of errors(plural)", which is incorrect; most native speakers would say (and write) "there are a lot of errors", but it would SOUND like the (non-existent/incorrect) contraction "there're".
No, actually pretty everyone in the world is better than native english speakers at spelling, because they learn English mostly by reading it, instead of learning it by listening and speaking it...
...we need some Slashdotter to come up with a car analogy to help us non-physicists out.
Glad to oblige.
Imagine a highway. All the north-bound cars are WHITE Toyota Camrys, and all the south-bound cars are BLACK Toyota Camrys. All the cars are moving very very very fast. At a certain point in the road, workers open gates that cause the two streams of traffic to plow into each other, head on. At the crash site, common sense would tell you that pieces of Toyota Camrys would come flying out, but instead, complete vehicles of other makes and models (Honda Civics and Nissan Sentras, many others, including vehicles larger than two Camrys, like Peterbilt 18-wheelers) appear instead. After a few seconds, some of these vehicles break apart, and become other vehicles, say a Peterbilt breaks apart and becomes a Ford F-150 and two Harley Davidson motorcycles. Particle physicists make a living by crashing different streams of vehicles into each other and observing the new vehicles that come out. They've put together a list of these, like "Peterbuilt --> Ford F-150 + 2(Harley Davidson Motorcycles)". They call this list the Standard Model. This new experiment shows that sometimes, after a while, one of the Harleys suddenly changes models, say from a Fat Boy to an Electra Glide.
Too right. I've taken to asking people "You don't go to the bad part of town and have unprotected sex with junkies, why do you keep downloading this stuff?". Sadly, most people don't get the analogy.
Sorry, but you're just plain wrong. Fascism and Nazism are considered as far right as it's possible to be. And yes, a government that says to the people "listen to us, we're better than you, we know better than you" is trying (or at least claiming) to be "benevolent".
The Volkswagon Beetle was a mandated car, developed by a conservative benevolent dictator government, and it didn't turn out so bad - the car, that is.
I was just talking about the visual aspects themselves, not necessarily the "user experience". Seriously, I find it hard to believe that Microsoft has gone whole-hog using Apple's widgets and UI paradigms; more likely, they've put an abstraction layer between VS's native Windows widget calls and the OS's widget services.
I feel certain that most Apple developers would rather stick needles in their eyes than use Visual Studio. For one thing, it's more visually appealing.
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We already have Ritalin (or alcohol) for that. Most of the really good engineers (of many stripes) I know are functionally autistic, ADD/ADDHD or high-functioning alcoholics.
True. The correct term is "meeces".
Here's my favorite quote:
I'm pretty sure that "Don't eat the yellow snow" and "Let's make the water turn black" were about Windows.
SOUNDS acceptable when spoken, but in fact, is actually "there is(singular) a lot of errors(plural)", which is incorrect; most native speakers would say (and write) "there are a lot of errors", but it would SOUND like the (non-existent/incorrect) contraction "there're".
Does this include baby Jesus?
just askin'
LOL. Whooosh.
I think "phonetic" may be the most ironic word in the English language.
You could of given us some examples there.
Yup. More like a 1-pin dot matrix printer. But oh-so-wonderful!
Wonderful. Like angels on an illustrated manuscript.
Good grief. I started this to see how ridiculously far I could stretch the car analogy. ;D
Tell the damn queen to stop texting and get back to work.
Glad to oblige.
Imagine a highway. All the north-bound cars are WHITE Toyota Camrys, and all the south-bound cars are BLACK Toyota Camrys. All the cars are moving very very very fast. At a certain point in the road, workers open gates that cause the two streams of traffic to plow into each other, head on. At the crash site, common sense would tell you that pieces of Toyota Camrys would come flying out, but instead, complete vehicles of other makes and models (Honda Civics and Nissan Sentras, many others, including vehicles larger than two Camrys, like Peterbilt 18-wheelers) appear instead. After a few seconds, some of these vehicles break apart, and become other vehicles, say a Peterbilt breaks apart and becomes a Ford F-150 and two Harley Davidson motorcycles. Particle physicists make a living by crashing different streams of vehicles into each other and observing the new vehicles that come out. They've put together a list of these, like "Peterbuilt --> Ford F-150 + 2(Harley Davidson Motorcycles)". They call this list the Standard Model. This new experiment shows that sometimes, after a while, one of the Harleys suddenly changes models, say from a Fat Boy to an Electra Glide.
Hope this helps.
It's the damn scientists who are at fault - if they'd only learn to see things from other people's perspective, this would be a perfect world.
Too right. I've taken to asking people "You don't go to the bad part of town and have unprotected sex with junkies, why do you keep downloading this stuff?". Sadly, most people don't get the analogy.
Dependant clauses and adjectives, too many after the subject occurring. Evaluation out-of-order for CPUs easy, not so much humans for.
Sorry, but you're just plain wrong. Fascism and Nazism are considered as far right as it's possible to be. And yes, a government that says to the people "listen to us, we're better than you, we know better than you" is trying (or at least claiming) to be "benevolent".
The Volkswagon Beetle was a mandated car, developed by a conservative benevolent dictator government, and it didn't turn out so bad - the car, that is.
Oh, for a big bucket of saltwater.
Hee hee. Both.
Yeah, because there isn't any naturally occurring mercury. Oh, wait...
I was just talking about the visual aspects themselves, not necessarily the "user experience". Seriously, I find it hard to believe that Microsoft has gone whole-hog using Apple's widgets and UI paradigms; more likely, they've put an abstraction layer between VS's native Windows widget calls and the OS's widget services.
Six for dancing and sweating, one for talking.
I feel certain that most Apple developers would rather stick needles in their eyes than use Visual Studio. For one thing, it's more visually appealing.