Nice. Great Idea. Excellent feature. Now look at the screenshot in the article. Where is the start button to get that glorious start menu?;-P
"Where the heck have they hidden it this time?" basically describes my Windows experience from W2K onward. From the old days of DOS, Windows 3.11 and NT 3.5 it was always pretty "obvious" where stuff had moved. But these days they seem to move stuff around just for the heck of it.
Well, do you have to have done something *illegal* for the police to stop you and *ask* you something?
Some years ago I was stopped by a police car. While I was going "WTF" the cop walked up to my car and gave me my wallet that I left at the last tank stop.
Another scenario would be a cop looking for someone else entirely in a remote area stopping another driver asking if they saw that other car for example.
In this case, there was a car with an "unusual" radiation. It could have either bin a terrorist with a shielded much higher radiation source, some poor dolt who got sold a used garage from Chernobyl as a bargain, or someone who parked beside a trailer full of ex-soviet nukes a few hours ago at a dinner stop.
So in this case stopping the car and asking whether the radiation had a "normal" explanation seems quite reasonable. Walking up to someone or stopping someone and *asking a question* should always be within the legal rights of the police, as long as you have the right not to answer. If it's not, you get the effect that you have in the US that the police has to conjure something up to fine you with every time they feel the urge to stop you.
And while completely understanding the Java code, I had problems parsing the English that your (jimshatt's) reply was already to a post mentioning the "wastefulness" of the other checks, so that the exception is OF COURSE already "thrown before that.", so you are perfectly correct. Sorry.;-P
- An IllegalArgumentException is thrown if the toIndex parameter less than the fromIndex parameter. - An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException indicating that fromIndex is the problematic parameter is thrown when the fromIndex is less than 0 - An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException indicating that toIndex is the problematic parameter is thrown when the toIndex is bigger than the array length
Three different cases, three different problems that need to be reported back in three different exceptions.
Of course if someone calls has ALL those three wrong (for example by passing -7 as fromIndex and -10 as toIndex for an array from 0 to 4 ) then only the first is raised and not the two other problems.
But that is just the " DSL is Broadband" direction. Which is somewhat technical correct.
It's the "Broadband is DSL" direction that is wrong, why "everybody should get DSL" is wrong. For far-out customers fibre or probably even a long-rage wifi link will be the cheaper option. The mandate should be "Everybody should get $BITRATE at least".
And the companies shouldn't probably even be forced to actually do it, they should just lose the right to sue for "Unfair competition" in an area when they can't offer it to everybody that wants it.
The average Joes and Janes in our shops and work floors *use* them all the time. They have no clue what that small magic black box actually is, and how it's different from their kids stuff back home, but they use it just fine.;-)
Plus, the browser tabs. Having them at the side with TreeTab in FF is a HUGE benefit. You can have dozens of tabs open and still read all the captions.
(At least the ones I use as a developer, which are Plain-HTML-Text documentation. Dunno how the thing would crash left of right with a lot of Java Script or even Flash)
Reading or entering these recipes would have been very difficult for the average cook, since the user interface required the person to take a two-week course to learn to program the device, using only toggle-switch input and binary light output.
Hey, I didn't know they were able to run a Unity-like interface back in the days.
In astro physics measuring distances in the SI unit of length, the meter, is impractical.
That always get's me in Sci Fi shows. That they state the distance in "such and such million kilometres" instead of switching to more practical Mega / Gigameters.
After all, nobody is selling "2.9 million kilohertz" processors either, they switch to Gigahertz when talking about them.
Well. That might have worked a few years ago. But these days it's just to painful to have them sandblasted and tattooed anew every few month when Microsoft / Canonical / Gnome / etc.... ditch them for the next great thing.;-P
And while the *de*celeration alone is completely implausible, an *a*cceleration after the stop to regain the same speed again is even more implausible.
That would be a big distinction here in Europe, too.
If something is *defective* or *falsely advertised* in the purchase the store is required by law take it back or offer to repair it if possible for a time of one year after the purchase.
If you decide *you don't want it after all* then the store is not required to take it back. (Most stores do, though, bot most of then only do it for store credit, not for money back.)
I absolutely flunked a few month in a class where I tried to keep up with a very fast teacher who did a lot of writing on the blackboard. Until I switched to "just take notes of the stuff he writes in red", which was about 10% of the stuff, and then it really worked well.
Just make your content as easy (or easier ) available than on rapidshare. Note that I said "easier" not "cheaper" or "free" just "easier".
Sometimes it seems the priority one of the artists (or perhaps the distributors) is to PREVENT people from getting their stuff. Last Month I was looking for some older songs I remembered. No CD available at all, Only an MP3 on amazon.com I tried to buy it, but I wasn't allowed. So I had to spend about an hour tracking it down "some other way", since nobody was willing to offer me a option to actually buy it in a way that would have supported the artist.
Last week I got shipped 5 Blu-Rays hat I ordered. Only 2 of them worked out of the box, for 2 others I first had to upgrade my players firmware first, the fifth didn't work even then but funny enough I had no problem ripping it and then watching the copy.
So every time when I have to decide whether to buy or pirate, I have to take into account the amount of work it takes to get the actual purchased copies to even WORK. The only way out of this problem for customers AND content creators in my opinion to cut out the distributor middle-man. It used to be they were the ones who had better technical means to distribute content from the artists to the masses. But now every artist could have way better means to get his content to the masses, and in the end have perhaps $0.90 of $1 left over for himself.
Of course, that it is THEIR "valuable property" at all, and the can block the person who actually wrote it (Norman Spinrad,) from doing anything with stuff he actually wrote himself is only one further indicator that copyright is not about the "artist" at all, but about the money grabbers that want to rip off both the "artists" and the "customers"
Debian is not all Linux. It's actually only one of the "package based" ones.
If you have Arch Linux, you can write any package you like and upload the build script and sources to the Arch User Repository. Then it's shared with all Arch users.
Basically the two I use are Gentoo and Arch Linux. Because they just give you Linux with a software management (portage or pacman), but leave it completely up to you what editor/Desktop Environment/etc... you want to install and use.
Physical button: no power needed when not pressed. Touch and/or "powered feedback" button: battery drain from hell.
Doesn't of course really matter for people who want a phone as some sort of game boy or status symbol.
But for getting real work done , last year we made an extensive iPhone / Blackberry comparison in our company, and Blackberry won basically *only* for 2 Reasons:
- Because the battery was able to stand 20 hour sessions on trade fairs with data entry / photo shooting of items / phone calls / mails, the iPhone battery lasted 8 hours max under the same load. - Because 2-finger thumbing on the physical QWETRTZ keyboard turned out to be about 130% faster. ( With a sample group of about 30 users with no previous experience on either. )
And don't get me started on that useless enterprise-y software which thinks it needs to be "browser based".
For example: We now run multiple client based software packages for different tasks in our company. They can be configured to interact any way we choose. (for example a document from content management can be opened INSIDE the point of sale software, so that people at the cash register can view documents pertaining to the customer currently in transaction, so that they can for example pull up the letter the customer claimed to have sent last week to your central office.
When about a decade ago "web based" solution started to happen at first we thought "oh, cool, stuff like that will get easier because sooner or later all calls like that can be done via HTTP and URLs. In our own client applications we now use HTTP a lot to request data from other systems in the background. Protocol wise it's a really nice thing.
But putting the *FRONTEND* of an enterprise application into the browser is pretty messed up, since most of the time you need a lot of integration between different system on the user side, and that is pretty much forbidden by the browser security model.
What I think is *really* needed for HTML5 Enterprise "GUIs" to work is a separate HTML/CSS/JavaScript display application for "trusted apps" that can interact freely with everything and a "web browser" for the public Internet. Or some way to tell a browser that THIS signed "application" is allowed to talk to THAT signed "application" even with cross-site scripting.
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Dang. Have to undo botched moderation so I have to come up with a moderately witty reply. ;-)
So, how about:
Yeah, you can. But the backpack with the cooling system might get heavy.
Nice. Great Idea. Excellent feature. Now look at the screenshot in the article. Where is the start button to get that glorious start menu? ;-P
"Where the heck have they hidden it this time?" basically describes my Windows experience from W2K onward. From the old days of DOS, Windows 3.11 and NT 3.5 it was always pretty "obvious" where stuff had moved. But these days they seem to move stuff around just for the heck of it.
Rule #2. Never post anything about yourself, that you don't want your drug dealer or future to know.
Dang. Nothing left to post.
Well, do you have to have done something *illegal* for the police to stop you and *ask* you something?
Some years ago I was stopped by a police car. While I was going "WTF" the cop walked up to my car and gave me my wallet that I left at the last tank stop.
Another scenario would be a cop looking for someone else entirely in a remote area stopping another driver asking if they saw that other car for example.
In this case, there was a car with an "unusual" radiation. It could have either bin a terrorist with a shielded much higher radiation source, some poor dolt who got sold a used garage from Chernobyl as a bargain, or someone who parked beside a trailer full of ex-soviet nukes a few hours ago at a dinner stop.
So in this case stopping the car and asking whether the radiation had a "normal" explanation seems quite reasonable. Walking up to someone or stopping someone and *asking a question* should always be within the legal rights of the police, as long as you have the right not to answer. If it's not, you get the effect that you have in the US that the police has to conjure something up to fine you with every time they feel the urge to stop you.
And while completely understanding the Java code, I had problems parsing the English that your (jimshatt's) reply was already to a post mentioning the "wastefulness" of the other checks, so that the exception is OF COURSE already "thrown before that.", so you are perfectly correct. Sorry. ;-P
No it isn't.
- An IllegalArgumentException is thrown if the toIndex parameter less than the fromIndex parameter.
- An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException indicating that fromIndex is the problematic parameter is thrown when the fromIndex is less than 0
- An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException indicating that toIndex is the problematic parameter is thrown when the toIndex is bigger than the array length
Three different cases, three different problems that need to be reported back in three different exceptions.
Of course if someone calls has ALL those three wrong (for example by passing -7 as fromIndex and -10 as toIndex for an array from 0 to 4 ) then only the first is raised and not the two other problems.
But that is just the " DSL is Broadband" direction. Which is somewhat technical correct.
It's the "Broadband is DSL" direction that is wrong, why "everybody should get DSL" is wrong. For far-out customers fibre or probably even a long-rage wifi link will be the cheaper option. The mandate should be "Everybody should get $BITRATE at least".
And the companies shouldn't probably even be forced to actually do it, they should just lose the right to sue for "Unfair competition" in an area when they can't offer it to everybody that wants it.
s/use/buys/
The average Joes and Janes in our shops and work floors *use* them all the time. They have no clue what that small magic black box actually is, and how it's different from their kids stuff back home, but they use it just fine. ;-)
Plus, the browser tabs. Having them at the side with TreeTab in FF is a HUGE benefit. You can have dozens of tabs open and still read all the captions.
(At least the ones I use as a developer, which are Plain-HTML-Text documentation. Dunno how the thing would crash left of right with a lot of Java Script or even Flash)
Reading or entering these recipes would have been very difficult for the average cook, since the user interface required the person to take a two-week course to learn to program the device, using only toggle-switch input and binary light output.
Hey, I didn't know they were able to run a Unity-like interface back in the days.
In astro physics measuring distances in the SI unit of length, the meter, is impractical.
That always get's me in Sci Fi shows. That they state the distance in "such and such million kilometres" instead of switching to more practical Mega / Gigameters.
After all, nobody is selling "2.9 million kilohertz" processors either, they switch to Gigahertz when talking about them.
That I basically can agree to, but the Ruling that telling the whole world "I want my boss to be fired" isn't free speech is wrong.
It definitely SHOULD be protected speech. Just then your boss firing you for that should also be HIS protected speech.
Well. Apple names everything iSomething. Coincidence?
Well. That might have worked a few years ago. But these days it's just to painful to have them sandblasted and tattooed anew every few month when Microsoft / Canonical / Gnome / etc.... ditch them for the next great thing. ;-P
Quite the service from your bartender to post your opinions, too. ;-P
And while the *de*celeration alone is completely implausible, an *a*cceleration after the stop to regain the same speed again is even more implausible.
Unless it was a custom build drag racer.
That would be a big distinction here in Europe, too.
If something is *defective* or *falsely advertised* in the purchase the store is required by law take it back or offer to repair it if possible for a time of one year after the purchase.
If you decide *you don't want it after all* then the store is not required to take it back. (Most stores do, though, bot most of then only do it for store credit, not for money back.)
Or perhaps in a few decades people will say that "The Iceberg Strikes Back" was the best episode after all.
Until they set the try interval to 12 seconds.
I had similar experiences as a student.
I absolutely flunked a few month in a class where I tried to keep up with a very fast teacher who did a lot of writing on the blackboard. Until I switched to "just take notes of the stuff he writes in red", which was about 10% of the stuff, and then it really worked well.
Just make your content as easy (or easier ) available than on rapidshare. Note that I said "easier" not "cheaper" or "free" just "easier".
Sometimes it seems the priority one of the artists (or perhaps the distributors) is to PREVENT people from getting their stuff. Last Month I was looking for some older songs I remembered. No CD available at all, Only an MP3 on amazon.com I tried to buy it, but I wasn't allowed. So I had to spend about an hour tracking it down "some other way", since nobody was willing to offer me a option to actually buy it in a way that would have supported the artist.
Last week I got shipped 5 Blu-Rays hat I ordered. Only 2 of them worked out of the box, for 2 others I first had to upgrade my players firmware first, the fifth didn't work even then but funny enough I had no problem ripping it and then watching the copy.
So every time when I have to decide whether to buy or pirate, I have to take into account the amount of work it takes to get the actual purchased copies to even WORK. The only way out of this problem for customers AND content creators in my opinion to cut out the distributor middle-man. It used to be they were the ones who had better technical means to distribute content from the artists to the masses. But now every artist could have way better means to get his content to the masses, and in the end have perhaps $0.90 of $1 left over for himself.
Of course, that it is THEIR "valuable property" at all, and the can block the person who actually wrote it (Norman Spinrad,) from doing anything with stuff he actually wrote himself is only one further indicator that copyright is not about the "artist" at all, but about the money grabbers that want to rip off both the "artists" and the "customers"
Debian is not all Linux. It's actually only one of the "package based" ones.
If you have Arch Linux, you can write any package you like and upload the build script and sources to the Arch User Repository. Then it's shared with all Arch users.
Basically the two I use are Gentoo and Arch Linux. Because they just give you Linux with a software management (portage or pacman), but leave it completely up to you what editor/Desktop Environment/etc... you want to install and use.
Hint: Mobile device.
Physical button: no power needed when not pressed.
Touch and/or "powered feedback" button: battery drain from hell.
Doesn't of course really matter for people who want a phone as some sort of game boy or status symbol.
But for getting real work done , last year we made an extensive iPhone / Blackberry comparison in our company, and Blackberry won basically *only* for 2 Reasons:
- Because the battery was able to stand 20 hour sessions on trade fairs with data entry / photo shooting of items / phone calls / mails, the iPhone battery lasted 8 hours max under the same load.
- Because 2-finger thumbing on the physical QWETRTZ keyboard turned out to be about 130% faster. ( With a sample group of about 30 users with no previous experience on either. )
And don't get me started on that useless enterprise-y software which thinks it needs to be "browser based".
For example: We now run multiple client based software packages for different tasks in our company. They can be configured to interact any way we choose. (for example a document from content management can be opened INSIDE the point of sale software, so that people at the cash register can view documents pertaining to the customer currently in transaction, so that they can for example pull up the letter the customer claimed to have sent last week to your central office.
When about a decade ago "web based" solution started to happen at first we thought "oh, cool, stuff like that will get easier because sooner or later all calls like that can be done via HTTP and URLs. In our own client applications we now use HTTP a lot to request data from other systems in the background. Protocol wise it's a really nice thing.
But putting the *FRONTEND* of an enterprise application into the browser is pretty messed up, since most of the time you need a lot of integration between different system on the user side, and that is pretty much forbidden by the browser security model.
What I think is *really* needed for HTML5 Enterprise "GUIs" to work is a separate HTML/CSS/JavaScript display application for "trusted apps" that can interact freely with everything and a "web browser" for the public Internet. Or some way to tell a browser that THIS signed "application" is allowed to talk to THAT signed "application" even with cross-site scripting.