Here's another analogy. There is a colored plastic cup upside-down on a table. Underneath is either a mini-cupcake or termite digging into the table. Scientists hear scratching noises through the cup, but can't lift it. Either we fix the problem (smash the cup) which might ruin a cupcake if that is under it, however if it's a termite, we stop an infestation before it enters the table. If we wait around and double check our readings to confirm a termite, it will burrow into the table and squishing it will no longer be possible
The odds on the cupcake making the scratching sounds are pretty low. Taking the risk and smashing that cup looks like the best option.
It amazes me how much people are complaining about the commercial shows and the itunes rating system.
Surely as long you are given the choice to listen to what you want there isn't a problem. You can choose to listen to an unkown indie show or to a more professional show made by the mainstream media. You can choose to ignore the itunes rating system which (quite usefully in my opinion) lists all of the most popular shows based on recent downloads. There is nothing stopping you from searching through the massive catalogue of shows for some obsure show that you could quite possibly be the only person to have an interest in.
Apple isn't stopping you from using any of the software or sources that exited before they integrated there implementation into itunes and they're not preventing any of the indie sources from posting there podcasts on itunes. They've just created another way of accessing podcasts that in my opinion is the easiest to use and the most polished out there. So get over it.
Time zones simplifies differences in time between two locations into an integer number of hours, allowing a simple calculation to be done after glancing at a clock set in the local frame of reference.
Time zones aren't quite that simple, there's nothing saying the difference has to be an "integer number of hours" and indeed there are cases where they aren't. However these differences still tend to only be 1/2 an hour so the conversion is still kept relatively simple.
As an example I think the time zone for Mumbai, India is UTC + 5.5
Yeah thanks for that useful reply, I've never heard of sarcasm before, thanks for pointing that out.
This
gives you an understanding of how I think the phrase works and why it doesn't make much sense to me in it's current form.
This indicates that both forms are used in America (I'm from New Zealand), but that the form excluding the not is just American.
An interseting quote from this site being: And because it is hard to be sarcastic in writing, it loses its force when put on paper and just ends up looking stupid. In such cases, the older form, while still rather colloquial, at least will communicate your meaning--at least to those who really could care less
This meanwhile says that it's just careless to exclude the not.
Still I never realised that "I could care less" meant the same as "I could not care less", good to know.
This probably the main reason why Gnome and KDE are so intent on copying the Windows gui. It may not be pretty or very sensible but everyone out there knows how to use it, and more they expect a computer to behave like that.
So while you certainly can make a more effective and enjoyable user experience most users aren't prepared to go through the learning curve that is required to get there. They expect it to just work the way that it always has, the way that they are used to. I think that when linux has gained a large enough market share then they can start gradually making the gui more useable in ways that the user isn't used to.
Why is everyone on/. so concerned about dupes and making everyone aware that one's been made. If you've seen a story before feel free to not read (or post to) it again.
Admittedly it does show some slackness on the part of the editors that they don't even keep up to date with what has already been reported on their own site. But do we really need every second post to be some snarky comment pointing this out.
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Given that the market share of linux is slowly increasing platform independence is becoming more and more important.
If you have a number of customers that all use different systems you don't want to have to create a unique application for each one. It is much more productive to able to write that application in one language and have it just work for all your clients. This saves both money and time, something that most developers that I know never have enough of!
And why should a company be forced to continue to employ someone who is going to publicly abuse and humiliate them? There is a line to be drawn here but it depends on what side you are on as to where that line should be drawn. A balance needs to be found between the two but it is unlikely that either side will/can always be happy.
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Here's another analogy. There is a colored plastic cup upside-down on a table. Underneath is either a mini-cupcake or termite digging into the table. Scientists hear scratching noises through the cup, but can't lift it. Either we fix the problem (smash the cup) which might ruin a cupcake if that is under it, however if it's a termite, we stop an infestation before it enters the table. If we wait around and double check our readings to confirm a termite, it will burrow into the table and squishing it will no longer be possible
The odds on the cupcake making the scratching sounds are pretty low. Taking the risk and smashing that cup looks like the best option.
It amazes me how much people are complaining about the commercial shows and the itunes rating system.
Surely as long you are given the choice to listen to what you want there isn't a problem. You can choose to listen to an unkown indie show or to a more professional show made by the mainstream media. You can choose to ignore the itunes rating system which (quite usefully in my opinion) lists all of the most popular shows based on recent downloads. There is nothing stopping you from searching through the massive catalogue of shows for some obsure show that you could quite possibly be the only person to have an interest in.
Apple isn't stopping you from using any of the software or sources that exited before they integrated there implementation into itunes and they're not preventing any of the indie sources from posting there podcasts on itunes. They've just created another way of accessing podcasts that in my opinion is the easiest to use and the most polished out there. So get over it.
6) Perl: Many Perl programmers write maintainable but unreadible code
If it's unreadable I would have thought that it would also be unmaintainable.
Time zones simplifies differences in time between two locations into an integer number of hours, allowing a simple calculation to be done after glancing at a clock set in the local frame of reference.
Time zones aren't quite that simple, there's nothing saying the difference has to be an "integer number of hours" and indeed there are cases where they aren't. However these differences still tend to only be 1/2 an hour so the conversion is still kept relatively simple.
As an example I think the time zone for Mumbai, India is UTC + 5.5
Yeah thanks for that useful reply, I've never heard of sarcasm before, thanks for pointing that out.
This gives you an understanding of how I think the phrase works and why it doesn't make much sense to me in it's current form.
This indicates that both forms are used in America (I'm from New Zealand), but that the form excluding the not is just American.
An interseting quote from this site being: And because it is hard to be sarcastic in writing, it loses its force when put on paper and just ends up looking stupid. In such cases, the older form, while still rather colloquial, at least will communicate your meaning--at least to those who really could care less
This meanwhile says that it's just careless to exclude the not.
Still I never realised that "I could care less" meant the same as "I could not care less", good to know.
So in summary you "can care less".
(And just to be picky wouldn't it make more sense if it was "I couldn't care less")
It's easy to use if you know how to use it.
This probably the main reason why Gnome and KDE are so intent on copying the Windows gui. It may not be pretty or very sensible but everyone out there knows how to use it, and more they expect a computer to behave like that.
So while you certainly can make a more effective and enjoyable user experience most users aren't prepared to go through the learning curve that is required to get there. They expect it to just work the way that it always has, the way that they are used to. I think that when linux has gained a large enough market share then they can start gradually making the gui more useable in ways that the user isn't used to.
Why is everyone on /. so concerned about dupes and making everyone aware that one's been made. If you've seen a story before feel free to not read (or post to) it again.
Admittedly it does show some slackness on the part of the editors that they don't even keep up to date with what has already been reported on their own site. But do we really need every second post to be some snarky comment pointing this out.
</rant>
Given that the market share of linux is slowly increasing platform independence is becoming more and more important. If you have a number of customers that all use different systems you don't want to have to create a unique application for each one. It is much more productive to able to write that application in one language and have it just work for all your clients. This saves both money and time, something that most developers that I know never have enough of!
And why should a company be forced to continue to employ someone who is going to publicly abuse and humiliate them?
There is a line to be drawn here but it depends on what side you are on as to where that line should be drawn. A balance needs to be found between the two but it is unlikely that either side will/can always be happy.
I don't think it's that IE handles broken code so much as code has to be broken to work in IE. They really don't support standards that well.