Obviously my remark was conjecture because this is, to me anyway, a new idea. I sometimes base my remarks on opinions formed when talking to different types of people in the past.
You were mistaken there. We live in a Capitalist society. This has got nothing to do with democracy, other than the fact that some/many people tend to vote for capitalism.
In case anyone else wonders, neither is the Socialism you will find in much of western Europe incompatible with democracy. In fact, it is also what people repeatedly democratically vote for.
Once you have created a site with dreamweaver, you are effectively locked in. The HTML it writes is appalling.
Agreed, it can do good stuff - templates, layers and lots more. Try and have a look at what it has done in a text editor. As a deliberate stir, I state that FrontPage code is a lot easier to read. Perhaps, less standards compliant, but a lot easier for someone with less expensive software and experience.
Several years ago, I was given a set of simple pages written by different programmes, including MS Word. As everyone might guess, Word came first on the size with all its junk. Dreamweaver came (a not close) second. The winner for the tightest code was, unsurprisingly, the one done by a text editor but FrontPage Express came out well. As I remember, all the pages looked identical.
Conclusion? Simple tools and knowledge are better than complicated tools and software lock ins...
Popular culture throughout the world may struggle against IE in all its forms but we have no hope while ill-educated MBAs wearing expensive suits are in charge.
Here in the UK, for example, our health service has millions of PCs. We are told we must run IE6 because the national programme will not run on anything else.This is tested and found to be incorrect but that is what the Suits command.
Apparently, it will not run on FF although I haven't heard of it tested with IEtabs
I think, it means that when stuff costs less more (or less) people buy it differently. It works differently for different stuff. Fuel, for instance probably is not very elastic because it is not a discretionary purchase - you have to get it. I think some really expensive stuff might actually sell more because it is expensive - caviar anyone?
A game is a highly discretionary purchase and so it will be very elastic. Proper capitalism should mean that you try and maximise your profit by lowering the price and increasing sales. Obviously, you can only cut the price so far because you need to make some profit per unit but the theory is sound and fairly obvious to me.
The idiots in charge in the industry seem to see the whole thing differently. Obviously MBA/parasite economics is not the same as real economics.
A great example of this the "help" line for an oversized ISP. You get asked a load of irellevant questions because that is what the script says - even though you told the operative precisely what the problem is. They have to follow the over-documented step by step procedure.
Example Customer Hello? I need a new HDD. I got errors X, Y and Z so I ran your boot CD and it did a BIOS test and said error 7 so please send one. Helpdesk Please check the following... (for 5 minutes) Helpdesk Right, so the drive is there and we have errors X, Y and Z. Have you tried reinstalling Windows? Customer No, the error indicates a hardware failure(5 more minutes> Helpdesk Do you have our system CD? Please put it in the drive...(10 minutes to run test) Helpdesk I see you have error 7. This means you will need a new HDD
It is not the fault of the helpdesk that they ignored everything you told them at the start. They are required to. We all know that end users have varying abilities and intelligence. That is where Staff training can save a lot of company time and improve customer perceptions.
For those who correctly pointed out that I ommitted the ' sign, I can spell and have a large vocabulary by my grammar is poor.
I was told by a friend long ago that missing apostrophes are less offensive than spurious ones so when in doubt miss them out!
The city of Birmingham, near where I live, in the south of the UK has decided to drop all apostrophes from signs. Who am I to argue with a budget and population that size!
There are a number of real words that would fit the bill in your example. They include...
encourage
cause
incite
persuade
and lots more. The English language has an enormous number of words. Sometimes, when there isn't an appropriate word, one needs to be invented. Sometimes they are imported from other languages and sometimes they are existing ones used in a new way.
What it does not need is sub-literate PHB buzz-speak. That fits the word "pathetic". That sort of excuse for communication just shows the need for basic literacy.
I think that it is very unlikely that many navies anywhere use nautical miles in any circumstances.
Exceptions to that statement will naturally include the USA and may include the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
I cannot imagine France ever using nautical miles...
Every month, the hospital where I work has a new batch of starters. There will be perhaps 30+ people (we are a small hospital). When I get the list of names, I pass it to the 1st line helpdesk. They do it between people phoning in support calls in so it is hard to say how long it takes but probably less than a couple of hours later I get a stack of sheets to take to the 15 minutes I get at the start of the "induction process". In this, I tell them all the usual stuff - sign here, support desk number, don't share passwords etc.
I agree, this does not include the job interviews or hiring process. That is where it is decided where they will work etc but I feel that 2-3 minutes per person is about right.
Starters also get hours of other stuff, including an hour from me later about data security, others about fire safety, hygiene, moving & handling etc. None of those are part of getting an email address. That was done on the first day. If you take longer, you are wasting time & money.
How does the system 'know' when to start running the DRM? There must be something running at all times "just in case" the paying customer decides to excersise their right to play their own stuff.
Whether it is a service, thread or whatever, it doesn't matter. Some system resources have to be used in advance. That can only drop the performance.
We have a similar police force in the UK. On Railway property, there is the Transport Police and on the other side of an imaginary line the normal one. I suspect that you will find something similar in many other places. It is nothing new - a quick look on Wikipedia says ours can be traced back to 1826. Amtrak is not a trend setter there, don't worry about it...
Because I had done algebra, I was able to sit down at a keyboard and use BASIC to number crunch. Using = to assign seemed logical and I had never touched a computer until then.
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Straw man arguments are lies.
Generalisations are all wrong too!
Obviously my remark was conjecture because this is, to me anyway, a new idea. I sometimes base my remarks on opinions formed when talking to different types of people in the past.
I don't think that was an insult.
It seems to acknowledge that people in CA are smart enough to understand that this is a pretty straightfoward concept.
The only people who will object are those who think that the only bright idea in the world is the spending power of the powerful.
when IE8 runs on Linux
Let me know when I can install IEanything without having to reboot my PC...
I thought we were living in a democratic society
You were mistaken there. We live in a Capitalist society. This has got nothing to do with democracy, other than the fact that some/many people tend to vote for capitalism.
In case anyone else wonders, neither is the Socialism you will find in much of western Europe incompatible with democracy. In fact, it is also what people repeatedly democratically vote for.
Once you have created a site with dreamweaver, you are effectively locked in. The HTML it writes is appalling.
Agreed, it can do good stuff - templates, layers and lots more. Try and have a look at what it has done in a text editor. As a deliberate stir, I state that FrontPage code is a lot easier to read. Perhaps, less standards compliant, but a lot easier for someone with less expensive software and experience.
Several years ago, I was given a set of simple pages written by different programmes, including MS Word. As everyone might guess, Word came first on the size with all its junk. Dreamweaver came (a not close) second. The winner for the tightest code was, unsurprisingly, the one done by a text editor but FrontPage Express came out well. As I remember, all the pages looked identical.
Conclusion? Simple tools and knowledge are better than complicated tools and software lock ins...
They will be in charge. I will not have a job.
Popular culture throughout the world may struggle against IE in all its forms but we have no hope while ill-educated MBAs wearing expensive suits are in charge.
Here in the UK, for example, our health service has millions of PCs. We are told we must run IE6 because the national programme will not run on anything else.This is tested and found to be incorrect but that is what the Suits command.
Apparently, it will not run on FF although I haven't heard of it tested with IEtabs
I did this in Economics long ago. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_elasticity_of_demand.
I think, it means that when stuff costs less more (or less) people buy it differently. It works differently for different stuff. Fuel, for instance probably is not very elastic because it is not a discretionary purchase - you have to get it. I think some really expensive stuff might actually sell more because it is expensive - caviar anyone?
A game is a highly discretionary purchase and so it will be very elastic. Proper capitalism should mean that you try and maximise your profit by lowering the price and increasing sales. Obviously, you can only cut the price so far because you need to make some profit per unit but the theory is sound and fairly obvious to me.
The idiots in charge in the industry seem to see the whole thing differently. Obviously MBA/parasite economics is not the same as real economics.
Flowcharts of method but scripts are really bad.
A great example of this the "help" line for an oversized ISP. You get asked a load of irellevant questions because that is what the script says - even though you told the operative precisely what the problem is. They have to follow the over-documented step by step procedure.
Example
Customer Hello? I need a new HDD. I got errors X, Y and Z so I ran your boot CD and it did a BIOS test and said error 7 so please send one.
Helpdesk Please check the following... (for 5 minutes)
Helpdesk Right, so the drive is there and we have errors X, Y and Z. Have you tried reinstalling Windows?
Customer No, the error indicates a hardware failure(5 more minutes>
Helpdesk Do you have our system CD? Please put it in the drive...(10 minutes to run test)
Helpdesk I see you have error 7. This means you will need a new HDD
It is not the fault of the helpdesk that they ignored everything you told them at the start. They are required to. We all know that end users have varying abilities and intelligence. That is where Staff training can save a lot of company time and improve customer perceptions.
For those who correctly pointed out that I ommitted the ' sign, I can spell and have a large vocabulary by my grammar is poor.
I was told by a friend long ago that missing apostrophes are less offensive than spurious ones so when in doubt miss them out!
The city of Birmingham, near where I live, in the south of the UK has decided to drop all apostrophes from signs. Who am I to argue with a budget and population that size!
Or even the Principals office!
Especially if you don't eat your greens
I do think so.
There are a number of real words that would fit the bill in your example. They include...
encourage
cause
incite
persuade
and lots more. The English language has an enormous number of words. Sometimes, when there isn't an appropriate word, one needs to be invented. Sometimes they are imported from other languages and sometimes they are existing ones used in a new way.
What it does not need is sub-literate PHB buzz-speak. That fits the word "pathetic". That sort of excuse for communication just shows the need for basic literacy.
I think that it is very unlikely that many navies anywhere use nautical miles in any circumstances.
Exceptions to that statement will naturally include the USA and may include the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
I cannot imagine France ever using nautical miles...
Every month, the hospital where I work has a new batch of starters. There will be perhaps 30+ people (we are a small hospital). When I get the list of names, I pass it to the 1st line helpdesk. They do it between people phoning in support calls in so it is hard to say how long it takes but probably less than a couple of hours later I get a stack of sheets to take to the 15 minutes I get at the start of the "induction process". In this, I tell them all the usual stuff - sign here, support desk number, don't share passwords etc.
I agree, this does not include the job interviews or hiring process. That is where it is decided where they will work etc but I feel that 2-3 minutes per person is about right.
Starters also get hours of other stuff, including an hour from me later about data security, others about fire safety, hygiene, moving & handling etc. None of those are part of getting an email address. That was done on the first day. If you take longer, you are wasting time & money.
I think it takes 3 minutes to create an account, including exchange.
How long does it take in the head office of the USA?
How does the system 'know' when to start running the DRM? There must be something running at all times "just in case" the paying customer decides to excersise their right to play their own stuff.
Whether it is a service, thread or whatever, it doesn't matter. Some system resources have to be used in advance. That can only drop the performance.
Please site some references
Or even CITE them
We have a similar police force in the UK. On Railway property, there is the Transport Police and on the other side of an imaginary line the normal one. I suspect that you will find something similar in many other places. It is nothing new - a quick look on Wikipedia says ours can be traced back to 1826. Amtrak is not a trend setter there, don't worry about it...
Have you seen the speed that hospital staff walk?
I think my walking speed has increased >25% since I started to work in one. Unfortunately, it has not made me loose any weight yet...
And the rest of the world has a word for that - KIDNAP.
Now, if only our goverment had the 'nads to back up the laws on that...
I am not sure that our health service would cover them in the UK.
Mmmm, curried octopus...
rather chewy I'm afraid.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7719281.stm says 1 in 12 million.
Because I had done algebra, I was able to sit down at a keyboard and use BASIC to number crunch. Using = to assign seemed logical and I had never touched a computer until then.