Not really an improvement, because it involves actually caring enough about another person's poor grammar to expend/any/ effort in telling them how many words they wrote...
Thanks for the command info though, I'll add it to the collection
. (Total time, 20 minutes, Total cost to me, $23.30 via AT&T -- we're now at $69.00 expended on toll calls to Palm support.)
Over a dollar a minute for toll rates? Find a new provider - seriously, you're getting ripped off. VOIP is great if you're in area that has it; otherwise various other long distance carriers have 'unlimited usage' packages. Hell, even paying for skype-to-landline would've b een a whole lot cheaper than that.
(You mention AT&T so I assume you're living in the USA; if not, disregard...;) )
Being that IPv6 has been around for over a decade, meaning most legacy hardware has been replaced by then that used IPv4 only as well many systems even ones older then 10 years old that support TCP/IP are often new enough to get a software patch for IPv6 and what is left are so old and legacy that they are not available on the internet or [..]
Hi. Some of us don't like reading 96-word rambling sentences. Thanks.
But apparently some of us have time and inclination to count the number of words...
Static typing sucks. It might catch the 0.1% of use cases where a programmer confuses the types of arguments and calls (or tries to call) code with the wrong argument types. That kind of error is typically picked up during testing anyway. Sometimes it's picked up, if the tests are good. Personally, I like the fact that I don't have to test something to find obvious errors in it, which is static typing's biggest advantage.
These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear. So what has Bill Gates been using for the past twenty years? A Mac? Does he have Linux on his home PC? I have trouble imagining that Bill Gates would be confused by a Windows directory structure that has been in place for decades. If by "decades" you mean "since Windows 2000" then you're 100% right;)
I tried unsuccessfully for about 2 minute to convince myself that it was real. FAKE Apparently trying didn't extend to doing any actual research, since this was used as evidence in the DOJ trial.
This one doesn't ask for a password. That's why it's dangerous. It just runs, because the original one doesn't ask for a password. It "just works". Get it through your thick skull.
Ah, yes. Something completely different. Running an untrusted program on your computer could have consequences. Quick, stop the presses.
Hopefully the oil prices will cause people to become more concerned with the environment by wasting less (because of the price) and realize that gas won't last forever and get them interested in alternative fuel sources.
This is the prevailing attitude, and it's most frustrating. I suspect most of us here aren't hit very hard by the change in gas prices, so it's very easy to sit back and say "Great, this will give incentive to come up with better options."
The problem with that is that these options won't be showing up overnight - they'll take years to come to market. When they finally show up, they'll be sufficiently more expensive than the oil-powered method that it's out of range of the people who need it most. Naturally the price will drop, but that also won't happen overnight.
Which leads me to my point: the people who make less than 40k a year, which is still the majority of employment in this country. These people are directly impacted by the oil prices in a way that it seems most people who espouse the "this will lead to better alternatives" line don't seem to understand.
People have gone from paying $60/mo in gas in 2000 to $60-120 a week. That means that every household now has $300-400 less in income per month. When you take home 2500 or less a month, this is huge.
It's very easy to say "Oh, this is just some short term pain, but it wll be good for us in the long term." But that doesn't feed the kids.
no one works hard at anything without their eyes on some idea of profit. you have a weak model of human nature and what motivates it And you have a very narrow one;)
absolutely every single bit of human progress in all of human history was motivated by money, sex, or power Memorized all of the millions of years human history, have you?
I am not saying that people don't have their reasons for doing things - maybe it just makes them feel good; by your definition I suppose that may be "profit", though that veers far from the context under discussion thus far. But to reduce it to "money, sex, or power" is rather demeaning and speaks of a either very limited experience dealing with real, live people -- or at the very best, it speaks of much experience in dealing with a very limited type of person.
That would make sense; but I'd like to see "unique visitor" statements qualified to that effect, since it often looks like people use them without clear definition. (Especially when it comes time to boast of web site popularity...)
Are you sure it's an applet and not javascript? The onyl reason you'd have "cross browser incompatibilities" is if you were doing something that depended on the browser. Java doesn't; the other possibility is that you're somehow running Microsoft's old bug-ridden JRE.
My point is only that sometimes selling out for maximum profit is not the only motivation that people have when they start these projects. And it's a good thing, too - otherwise, there's a lot of innovation that would not have happened historically.
Frankly, it's not reasonable to expect them to - that's like comparing apples to... Boeing jets. I suspect if the Windows was the size and complexity of Ruby, they'd be able to get fixes out just as quickly.
thats how you really make money on social networking sites: you sell out to established media conglomerates, and then go play frisbee. to keep a hold of the site, and thinking you are going to become a permanent internet portal, like google, is hubris, arrogance, egotism And yet if nobody is willing to take the risk of loss and failure, there would be conglomerates to make those purchases. Sometimes, it's about more than making a quick buck off of a sure thing.
That's always been used as a significant metric, and I've never understood why. This article is a perfect example. 120million unique visitors in a month. If we assume that's a peak... and that it's been trending generally upward but not dramatically, it's not too hard to extrapolate at least 2 billion "unique hits" in 2 years. The problem with that is that there are significantly less than 2 billion people people online. So what do those numbers really mean?
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See here.
Actually, "literally" can also have the nearly the opposite of its expected meaning: see Definition 2
Not really an improvement, because it involves actually caring enough about another person's poor grammar to expend /any/ effort in telling them how many words they wrote...
Thanks for the command info though, I'll add it to the collection
. (Total time, 20 minutes, Total cost to me, $23.30 via AT&T -- we're now at $69.00 expended on toll calls to Palm support.)
Over a dollar a minute for toll rates? Find a new provider - seriously, you're getting ripped off. VOIP is great if you're in area that has it; otherwise various other long distance carriers have 'unlimited usage' packages. Hell, even paying for skype-to-landline would've b een a whole lot cheaper than that.
(You mention AT&T so I assume you're living in the USA; if not, disregard... ;) )
Being that IPv6 has been around for over a decade, meaning most legacy hardware has been replaced by then that used IPv4 only as well many systems even ones older then 10 years old that support TCP/IP are often new enough to get a software patch for IPv6 and what is left are so old and legacy that they are not available on the internet or [..]
Hi. Some of us don't like reading 96-word rambling sentences. Thanks.
But apparently some of us have time and inclination to count the number of words...
(or is 5 percent a lot?)
I would say that depends on if it's the five percent I am in.
Yeah. Here are some curious quotes:
These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear. So what has Bill Gates been using for the past twenty years? A Mac? Does he have Linux on his home PC? I have trouble imagining that Bill Gates would be confused by a Windows directory structure that has been in place for decades. If by "decades" you mean "since Windows 2000" then you're 100% rightYou can toss up all the straw men you wish, but it doesn't alter the validity of my argument. Good day.
This one doesn't ask for a password. That's why it's dangerous. It just runs, because the original one doesn't ask for a password. It "just works". Get it through your thick skull.
Ah, yes. Something completely different. Running an untrusted program on your computer could have consequences. Quick, stop the presses.Fuck 'em. I've been driving 4-cylinder efficient vehicles since day 1. They should have conserved.
Most of the SUV buyers are in the more affluent portion of the population . Them I don't feel bad for - but those are not the people under discussion.I said 60/month not per week originally, and now - at $4+ a gallon, it's 60+ per week.
You head on down to the Capitol building. I'll meet you there.
This is the prevailing attitude, and it's most frustrating. I suspect most of us here aren't hit very hard by the change in gas prices, so it's very easy to sit back and say "Great, this will give incentive to come up with better options."
The problem with that is that these options won't be showing up overnight - they'll take years to come to market. When they finally show up, they'll be sufficiently more expensive than the oil-powered method that it's out of range of the people who need it most. Naturally the price will drop, but that also won't happen overnight.
Which leads me to my point: the people who make less than 40k a year, which is still the majority of employment in this country. These people are directly impacted by the oil prices in a way that it seems most people who espouse the "this will lead to better alternatives" line don't seem to understand.
People have gone from paying $60/mo in gas in 2000 to $60-120 a week. That means that every household now has $300-400 less in income per month. When you take home 2500 or less a month, this is huge.
It's very easy to say "Oh, this is just some short term pain, but it wll be good for us in the long term." But that doesn't feed the kids.
I live here too - and you know it's sad when the only thing we have going for us is that we're "conveniently located near major cities"...
I am not saying that people don't have their reasons for doing things - maybe it just makes them feel good; by your definition I suppose that may be "profit", though that veers far from the context under discussion thus far. But to reduce it to "money, sex, or power" is rather demeaning and speaks of a either very limited experience dealing with real, live people -- or at the very best, it speaks of much experience in dealing with a very limited type of person.
That would make sense; but I'd like to see "unique visitor" statements qualified to that effect, since it often looks like people use them without clear definition. (Especially when it comes time to boast of web site popularity...)
Are you sure it's an applet and not javascript? The onyl reason you'd have "cross browser incompatibilities" is if you were doing something that depended on the browser. Java doesn't; the other possibility is that you're somehow running Microsoft's old bug-ridden JRE.
While this is somewhat true, a single JVM instance will very rarely need to access 3GB+ of RAM if the applications it is running are well designed.
My point is only that sometimes selling out for maximum profit is not the only motivation that people have when they start these projects. And it's a good thing, too - otherwise, there's a lot of innovation that would not have happened historically.
Frankly, it's not reasonable to expect them to - that's like comparing apples to ... Boeing jets. I suspect if the Windows was the size and complexity of Ruby, they'd be able to get fixes out just as quickly.
That's always been used as a significant metric, and I've never understood why. This article is a perfect example. 120million unique visitors in a month. If we assume that's a peak... and that it's been trending generally upward but not dramatically, it's not too hard to extrapolate at least 2 billion "unique hits" in 2 years. The problem with that is that there are significantly less than 2 billion people people online. So what do those numbers really mean?