Soldiers join up understanding that as part of their duty they may be killed. However, the government has an equal duty to not randomly send them to their deaths for no good reason other than increasing the Haliburton share price.
In China, red is associated with good luck and money. If the operation you were performing was connected with either of these, there could be confusion.
And let's not get started on red/green colourblind people....
And I'd argue that a scientist "believing" something (in the scientific realm) is different to the way that someone outside of science believes something. A scientist, whilst understandably reluctant to change from a deeply held belief, will change when presented with overwhelming evidence. This is in direct opposition to those who can never be changed from their opinions, regardless of the evidence.
Compare: scientific belief in Relativity: "No way! That's some crazy stuff! Hey, its predictions match observations! Oh well... Sorry Newton!"
A layman's belief in old wives tales: "If a cow lies down before 7, rain before 11. Hmm... That cow's lying down, I'd better get my umbrella. Oh it didn't rain... Damn cow! Better keep an eye out for better cows".
Windows does it very well without manual affinity adjustment. However, for tuning processes, you can use affinity to take advantage of CPU cache, or to ensure that an application can never take over the entire system.
The length of modern books gets to me! I've been ploughing my way through Asimov's Foundation series: they're all a couple of hundred pages. Look back at the old Penguin books from the '70s and they're about the same length. Compare that to the length of your average Nick Hornby (or whatever it is you kids are reading these days).
We might be getting more bang for our "book", but as books seem to cost proportionally more than they used to, I'd rather have a tightly-written, shorter, cheaper book, and be able to get through a wider variety of stories and writing styles in a shorter time.
I for one have never heard two artist discussing who has the best brush.
I disagree with your analogy. I'd compare this to two artists discussing different mediums (watercolour vs acrylic vs oils). You might be an expert in watercolour, but sit down in front of oils for the first time and you're screwed. The learning curve is there regardless of the "tool".
In that case, it'd be nice to have an equivalent to Add/Remove Programs for each user's personal profiles so we can easily clean out our unwanted configuration information. (Not that I'd want to do that for FireFox!)
As far as I'm concerned, Add/Remove Programs lists all the programs that can be uninstalled. There is no excuse for having more than one entry. Without Googling and fighting through Bugzilla, how on earth am I meant to know that I should delete the registry key, and that there aren't really two programs?
And as for uninstalling the original Firefox first, I kind of resent the fact that all of my configuration data is maintained without my permission. An uninstall should be just that.
Until someone actually deals with usability issues like this one, OSS projects will always seem just a bit more amateurish than many commercial offerings.
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Who're you to say how much a TV programme can make?
There are many bacteria that we cannot grow in labs. Does this mean that they cannot grow in nature?
I always thought that having to complete a quick Simon game on the top of the clock before the alarm can be shut off would be good.
Yeah, but apart from network load balancing, and general clustering... What has Windows clustering ever done for us?
Soldiers join up understanding that as part of their duty they may be killed. However, the government has an equal duty to not randomly send them to their deaths for no good reason other than increasing the Haliburton share price.
Personally, I agree with you! That Chinese example was the best (and only) one I could come up with... Just having a cruddy day at work :(
And let's not get started on red/green colourblind people....
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So, you're saying that all textbooks should be copyright free.
Don't forget, the cost of hacking a network is a function of the sysadmin's salary and his loyalty to the company.
In my experience, the Premium petrol is the cheapest, and you need something called ActiGrade(TM) or some other tosh to get the expensive stuff...
In British English the full stop goes outside the quotes: far more intuitive (expecially for those who write well-formed XML)!
Yah, cos men have never been greedy, adulterous, money-lovers until just recently.
Sheesh.
And I'd argue that a scientist "believing" something (in the scientific realm) is different to the way that someone outside of science believes something. A scientist, whilst understandably reluctant to change from a deeply held belief, will change when presented with overwhelming evidence. This is in direct opposition to those who can never be changed from their opinions, regardless of the evidence.
Compare: scientific belief in Relativity:
"No way! That's some crazy stuff! Hey, its predictions match observations! Oh well... Sorry Newton!"
A layman's belief in old wives tales:
"If a cow lies down before 7, rain before 11. Hmm... That cow's lying down, I'd better get my umbrella. Oh it didn't rain... Damn cow! Better keep an eye out for better cows".
Come on, admit that it disturbs you that it's sooooo blatent? I mean, there's no style to that!
Sorry, don't hate me. :( I feel dirty...
Assuming that Steam's still running then... Otherwise you're stuffed.
A fairly decent explanation is here.
Windows does it very well without manual affinity adjustment. However, for tuning processes, you can use affinity to take advantage of CPU cache, or to ensure that an application can never take over the entire system.
We might be getting more bang for our "book", but as books seem to cost proportionally more than they used to, I'd rather have a tightly-written, shorter, cheaper book, and be able to get through a wider variety of stories and writing styles in a shorter time.
In the film we barely see the physical book itself, though the short asides we do get are beautifully animated.
Do they get to save money by doing away with all that pesky "health and safety" legislation?
Aah! A veil has been lifted! :)
In that case, it'd be nice to have an equivalent to Add/Remove Programs for each user's personal profiles so we can easily clean out our unwanted configuration information. (Not that I'd want to do that for FireFox!)
As far as I'm concerned, Add/Remove Programs lists all the programs that can be uninstalled. There is no excuse for having more than one entry. Without Googling and fighting through Bugzilla, how on earth am I meant to know that I should delete the registry key, and that there aren't really two programs?
And as for uninstalling the original Firefox first, I kind of resent the fact that all of my configuration data is maintained without my permission. An uninstall should be just that.
Until someone actually deals with usability issues like this one, OSS projects will always seem just a bit more amateurish than many commercial offerings.