The trouble with Clippy was that people ended up consulting it after getting frustrated trying to figure out how to do something. Cute is not amusing when you're pissed. This reminds me of when I was trying to teach programming to groups of people over the net by releasing lessons users could read. At that time I was into trying to add too much humor into programming, but ended up just distracting from the content with my juvenile humor. I didn't understand that then, I do now.
I'm afraid though that my lessons would just end up incredibly boring.
When I started working as a programmer some 15 years ago I had an AA degree in computer science. I learned on my own and wrote some pretty fantastic code. My first job was to write a multithreading app and I did well. Now I'm out of work and I can't get a job doing stuff that I could do in my sleep because I don't have a BA and I'm 54 years of age. I can't get a job, in a month or two I'll be homeless. I have pneumonia and I can't even afford to go to the doctor, stinking california denied my medical aid because I didn't state whether i was PREGNANT or not!!! Recently I decided my only hope is to go into business myself and now i read about this situation. Not a day goes by that I don't think about suicide and can only manage to get to sleep by pretending I'm dying. How pathetic I know but that's the way it is. Its over for me.
Yep if they don't care about computers they won't be motivated to put forth any effort towards figuring things out for themselves. Instead they will just call you.
You may be setting yourself up for a lot of hassle.
I was listening to a tv show I could not hear. I went to turn it up but before I was able to touch the volume control, a commercial came on and blew my speakers.
If they can't figure out a way to specify the appropriate volume then they are morons. Even my cat can tell when a commercial is too damn loud!
Chosen well music can help you program or solve problems. It can help regulate mood and eliminate boredom.
There have been times when playing my music helps me program, and times when I choose to turn it off because I am in a state where music is not doing the trick for me.
The ability to flex or adjust to the situation is why they have humans as managers - otherwise we could have a computer program managing things. Managers who act like robots are idiots.
I guess this person never has been under the gun from a boss who is more concerned about getting the coding done than in making comments. I make comments because I want to save the next person to work on the code some frustration - its an act of compassion and not intended to please a nit-picking arrogant English teacher!
It's like building a house of cards in an earthquake. It always comes falling down.
Would you tell your surgeon that it was ok if he stepped out to work on other patients while he had you laying open on the operating table?
This stupid myth that multitasking is a good thing is the one thing that has caused me more headaches and failure to get a job than anything else.
They would ask me how good I am at multitasking and i would honestly say it was not something I could handle well. It breeds mistakes like mad and it would piss me off when i would get pulled out of something I was about to finish to start on something else.
its a piss poor way to do things and I had the studies to prove it a decade ago. They did a study, where they simply interrupted people every 20 minutes. They found it killed productivity - it came to a near standstill. Nothing got done. Why? They found that people work best in a certain rhythm or routine, but that it took about 20 minutes to get into that rhythm but when you interrupts folks, they never get into that rhythm - think of stopping a train every 20 yards and you get the idea.
The only kind of multitasking that is ok, is the kind where you break your project into parts or you have a few different projects that if you get stuck or are unsure how you should proceed and have to let the ideas simmer for a bit, then it is good to work on something else for awhile WHEN you are in a spot where you can stop and come back to it later without having to re-orient yourself all the time.
PS: I'm a dedicated programmer looking for a job. Hire me! I need work and not to be looking for it while living under a bridge!
It amazes me how many times I have seen old news passed off as new news over the decades.
its about time for them to repeat for the fifth time that they have JUST discovered that the universe is not expanding at a constant rate.
The big attraction for console games is that the hard ware is so standardized. With the PC the possible combinations of hardware is probably in the thousands maybe even millions.
Sure there is a standard and when everything conforms to that standard, everything "Should" work but not always.
Companies writing drivers tend to rush-job it, or soup up the performance, pushing things to the limit and simple human error occurs and suddenly things don't work quite well as planned.
With the console, writers for a particular console write the game, and if it works for one console, it works for them all because they are virtual clones of each-other.
I have a problem with save points in games. I won't play nor buy nor even accept such games even if they gave them to me for free!!
The number one biggest problem with save-points is that you are about to die and your death is saved. Sometimes it takes hours to get from one save point, to another in this one game and it would crash, or I'd get a phone call and have to interrupt the game to use my computer. After a few days of this I uninstalled and never ever bought another game from that company again and that was 14 years ago.
The thing that folks who make save points don't realize is that folks do not want their computer held prisoner to one thing and that save points are not convenient. People need to be able to save the games when THEY need it saved, not when they don't want nor need it to be saved.
how useless would a time machine be if the only point you could go back to was AFTER you made the mistake and never before? It would be a waste of airspace.
I would add that the pranknet site is probably about as safe as being locked alone with a cellmate named bubba.
Their next victim could be you.
PS: I really liked this comment, but I wanted to comment in a separate thread, and I note that there appears to be no way to comment except in reply to someone else's comment. I must be blind, where in the hell is the link to make a comment instead of replying to a pre-existing one?
I'd be glad to get that but as it is I'm laid off. I'm a programmer dba person. If you move on can I have your job?
I don't mean to sound flippant, its like what I said to a friend of mine who was always low on funds... he said he didn't like the idea of working 40 hours a week that he likes his free time.
I replied that I found that all the free time in the world isn't worth a plug nickel if you are spending all that time worrying about how you are going to get your next meal.
He's been steadily/full-time employed ever since.
Magical hehe, yep totally. We should all get ahold of these bean counter researchers and educate them about this. Obviously if they haven't figured this out by now, they are doomed without our help.
Exactly! I'll be damed if I am going to tolerate my nose feeling like a rock quarry with all chock full of boulders superglued into placee, just because I could blow my nose till my head explodes and not budge a single one just because some asshole thinks I should spend my life feeling like I got beans rattling in my nose.
Sometimes I will run up to our own flag in war song gulch and say "Dang! I came to steal the wrong flag!
i like to make silly macros to do silly stunts in Warcraft....
list...
Macro to say I've been run over and to feign death when a player runs through me. warcraft doesn't have player mass.
Well, even smart people do stupid stuff, but I for one find it neat that they are taking up a collection. They didn't have to do that.
We hear a lot about the heartless acts of various lawyers, but little of anything noble.
I guess I would rather be stupid than ignoble.
Not only that but its always a bad idea for businesses to put too many eggs in one basket.
People die, people get hurt and injured, and things just stop.
Sure, it's prestigious to be high on the ladder, and to be so important, but its also stressful, and if the unthinkable happens, chaos ensues.
A bit of redundancy and contingency plans is a fine thing too.
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The trouble with Clippy was that people ended up consulting it after getting frustrated trying to figure out how to do something. Cute is not amusing when you're pissed. This reminds me of when I was trying to teach programming to groups of people over the net by releasing lessons users could read. At that time I was into trying to add too much humor into programming, but ended up just distracting from the content with my juvenile humor. I didn't understand that then, I do now. I'm afraid though that my lessons would just end up incredibly boring.
Crappy planning produces crappy code.
When I started working as a programmer some 15 years ago I had an AA degree in computer science. I learned on my own and wrote some pretty fantastic code. My first job was to write a multithreading app and I did well. Now I'm out of work and I can't get a job doing stuff that I could do in my sleep because I don't have a BA and I'm 54 years of age. I can't get a job, in a month or two I'll be homeless. I have pneumonia and I can't even afford to go to the doctor, stinking california denied my medical aid because I didn't state whether i was PREGNANT or not!!! Recently I decided my only hope is to go into business myself and now i read about this situation. Not a day goes by that I don't think about suicide and can only manage to get to sleep by pretending I'm dying. How pathetic I know but that's the way it is. Its over for me.
A placebo would probably be cheaper. Years ago I did some research on it. It is total pseudoscience. A fool and his placebo are soon united.
Yep if they don't care about computers they won't be motivated to put forth any effort towards figuring things out for themselves. Instead they will just call you. You may be setting yourself up for a lot of hassle.
I was listening to a tv show I could not hear. I went to turn it up but before I was able to touch the volume control, a commercial came on and blew my speakers. If they can't figure out a way to specify the appropriate volume then they are morons. Even my cat can tell when a commercial is too damn loud!
Chosen well music can help you program or solve problems. It can help regulate mood and eliminate boredom. There have been times when playing my music helps me program, and times when I choose to turn it off because I am in a state where music is not doing the trick for me. The ability to flex or adjust to the situation is why they have humans as managers - otherwise we could have a computer program managing things. Managers who act like robots are idiots.
I guess this person never has been under the gun from a boss who is more concerned about getting the coding done than in making comments. I make comments because I want to save the next person to work on the code some frustration - its an act of compassion and not intended to please a nit-picking arrogant English teacher!
Having to struggle against myself does NOT sound relaxing to me.
Tighten the darn string between the tin cans that's all they have to do!
The subject line was weeded out. it should have said Gravity from every direction (not equal sign) aka not equal to no gravity at all.
This is no more a simulation of no gravity its simply telling you that mice don't do well in rolling barrel.
It's like building a house of cards in an earthquake. It always comes falling down. Would you tell your surgeon that it was ok if he stepped out to work on other patients while he had you laying open on the operating table? This stupid myth that multitasking is a good thing is the one thing that has caused me more headaches and failure to get a job than anything else. They would ask me how good I am at multitasking and i would honestly say it was not something I could handle well. It breeds mistakes like mad and it would piss me off when i would get pulled out of something I was about to finish to start on something else. its a piss poor way to do things and I had the studies to prove it a decade ago. They did a study, where they simply interrupted people every 20 minutes. They found it killed productivity - it came to a near standstill. Nothing got done. Why? They found that people work best in a certain rhythm or routine, but that it took about 20 minutes to get into that rhythm but when you interrupts folks, they never get into that rhythm - think of stopping a train every 20 yards and you get the idea. The only kind of multitasking that is ok, is the kind where you break your project into parts or you have a few different projects that if you get stuck or are unsure how you should proceed and have to let the ideas simmer for a bit, then it is good to work on something else for awhile WHEN you are in a spot where you can stop and come back to it later without having to re-orient yourself all the time. PS: I'm a dedicated programmer looking for a job. Hire me! I need work and not to be looking for it while living under a bridge!
Nuff said.
It amazes me how many times I have seen old news passed off as new news over the decades. its about time for them to repeat for the fifth time that they have JUST discovered that the universe is not expanding at a constant rate.
The big attraction for console games is that the hard ware is so standardized. With the PC the possible combinations of hardware is probably in the thousands maybe even millions. Sure there is a standard and when everything conforms to that standard, everything "Should" work but not always. Companies writing drivers tend to rush-job it, or soup up the performance, pushing things to the limit and simple human error occurs and suddenly things don't work quite well as planned. With the console, writers for a particular console write the game, and if it works for one console, it works for them all because they are virtual clones of each-other. I have a problem with save points in games. I won't play nor buy nor even accept such games even if they gave them to me for free!! The number one biggest problem with save-points is that you are about to die and your death is saved. Sometimes it takes hours to get from one save point, to another in this one game and it would crash, or I'd get a phone call and have to interrupt the game to use my computer. After a few days of this I uninstalled and never ever bought another game from that company again and that was 14 years ago. The thing that folks who make save points don't realize is that folks do not want their computer held prisoner to one thing and that save points are not convenient. People need to be able to save the games when THEY need it saved, not when they don't want nor need it to be saved. how useless would a time machine be if the only point you could go back to was AFTER you made the mistake and never before? It would be a waste of airspace.
Yep, I bet the database they have uses the SSN to identify the customer and all their transactions. A foolish choice on their part.
I would add that the pranknet site is probably about as safe as being locked alone with a cellmate named bubba. Their next victim could be you. PS: I really liked this comment, but I wanted to comment in a separate thread, and I note that there appears to be no way to comment except in reply to someone else's comment. I must be blind, where in the hell is the link to make a comment instead of replying to a pre-existing one?
I'd be glad to get that but as it is I'm laid off. I'm a programmer dba person. If you move on can I have your job? I don't mean to sound flippant, its like what I said to a friend of mine who was always low on funds ... he said he didn't like the idea of working 40 hours a week that he likes his free time.
I replied that I found that all the free time in the world isn't worth a plug nickel if you are spending all that time worrying about how you are going to get your next meal.
He's been steadily/full-time employed ever since.
Magical hehe, yep totally. We should all get ahold of these bean counter researchers and educate them about this. Obviously if they haven't figured this out by now, they are doomed without our help.
Exactly! I'll be damed if I am going to tolerate my nose feeling like a rock quarry with all chock full of boulders superglued into placee, just because I could blow my nose till my head explodes and not budge a single one just because some asshole thinks I should spend my life feeling like I got beans rattling in my nose.
Sometimes I will run up to our own flag in war song gulch and say "Dang! I came to steal the wrong flag! i like to make silly macros to do silly stunts in Warcraft ....
list ...
Macro to say I've been run over and to feign death when a player runs through me. warcraft doesn't have player mass.
It's a McDonald's
Well, even smart people do stupid stuff, but I for one find it neat that they are taking up a collection. They didn't have to do that. We hear a lot about the heartless acts of various lawyers, but little of anything noble. I guess I would rather be stupid than ignoble.
Not only that but its always a bad idea for businesses to put too many eggs in one basket. People die, people get hurt and injured, and things just stop. Sure, it's prestigious to be high on the ladder, and to be so important, but its also stressful, and if the unthinkable happens, chaos ensues. A bit of redundancy and contingency plans is a fine thing too.