Yeah, if it takes 15 seconds to delete a file, it must be the user's fault. There's no way the OS is at fault.
It's like people who complain OS X's Spotlight is slow, and get told "their must be something really wrong with your setup".
If the OS allows the user to unknowingly configure it to cause such huge slowdowns, then the OS is broken, imho. Or, you know, maybe the OS has bugs. That only show up on some computers. Imagine that.
It's unlikely to be PEBKAC, as it's a well documented problem (just google for it).
I also had it last night on my MacBook which I upgraded to Leopard about 2 days ago. Previously (under Tiger), it had been fine - the most reliable Wifi I'd ever used. Full signal strength at home, never dropped out.
Last night I watched my wifi icon mysteriously blink on and off every few seconds, and the list of 5-ish wireless networks around me dropped to 1 (my external WAP, not my internal WAP). My Macmini (also Leopard) could see all the other networks fine.
For a period of about an hour (the amount of time I spent looking into it), my wifi seemed to be utterly unreliable. After about 6 months of trouble-free usage under Tiger. During that hour I found lots of complaints about Leopard's wifi support being unreliable on forums, news sites, Apple's web site, etc.
But, you know, feel free to call it a PEBKAC. Maybe I was sitting wrong, and it blocked the wifi signals or something.
It's hard to imagine where you'd put a tray-loading drive on an iMac as it's difficult and failure-prone to load a disk into a vertically-mounted tray-loader.
No need to imagine - just go look at a PS2 or an Xbox 360, amongst others.
You make a statement about bytecode, then claim its blazingly fast? Granted, it is faster than an interpereted language, but its nowhere near the speed of compiled language.
Of course, he actually said that the bytecode compiler was blazingly fast. He never said that the bytecode interpreter was:-)
The great thing about 'unreasonable demands' is that employers don't have to yield to them.
If an employee makes unreasonable demands, and - here's the kicker - they actually are unreasonable, then they won't get those demands filled anywhere else either, so they won't move.
If, of course, they move to another employer who will give them what they want, then it's just the usual management bitching about uppity employees who keep whining about job satisfaction and respect. In which case, I'm over it, and these employers should just deal with it.
I was on Helldesk for the last 8 months, and I've observed that one of the guy that I work closely with would routinely put on his headphones if he need to work on something with some concentration
Of course, even that doesn't work well - see the book Peopleware, for example. Listening to music tends to harm your ability to concentrate. I like to listen to music while working, but I have also found that if I really need to concentrate, I turn it off.
This is assuming your co-worker actually listened to music, and didn't just use headphones as a social mechanism (i.e. wasn't actually listening to anything).
Anyway, all the people saying nobody needs an office should read Peopleware. They did the experiments and the math so that we don't have to.
allows you to allocate a specific amount of bandwidth for sharing if you're using one of their routers - say 1MB of your 8MB ADSL, which neatly overcomes the first poster's issue of not having enough bandwidth for their own nefarious purposes.
I have a FON router, and I used to share my internet connection. Except the FON software's minimum sharing setting was 512k - at the time that was half of my bandwidth. It was easily in excess of my upload bandwidth.
What happened was that a month or two later, one of my neighbours found the FON router and started using it. A lot. They totally saturated my uplink - I assume they were using P2P, so my connection went to shit. Web browsing/email became ludicrously slow, never mind if I actually wanted to take advantage of my own broadband connection (you know, the one I'm paying for).
It took me about 3 days to work out what was going on, then I killed the FON. It looked like that person was going to hammer my FON router 24/7 indefinitely, and there was nothing I could do to configure the FON to prevent it (other than become a 'Bill', which I didn't want to do).
So for me, in a densely populated area, FON is not so good (i.e. unworkable).
I'm quite happy in principle to share my connection with people for light usage (web browsing, email), but unfortunately, people are dicks.
Oh, and also my bandwidth is regulated at peak hours - if I go over the allocation, my connection is throttled for a period. It's just a lose-lose situation really.
As we say around here, the plural of anecdote is not data.
Note, of course, that I was (intentionally) vague in my original comment - I couldn't be bothered to see if the actual results of the survey were available. However, seeing as it was the impetus for the De Beers campaign to be aimed at men as I described, I'm guessing they thought it was significant, at least.
(It's funny though - whenever I mention this information to anyone, there's always someone who says "But I know a woman who really wanted a diamond ring!". I think it's some kind of law or something.)
For example if you think most women will simply accept a rational argument and be put off diamonds for a wedding ring you've got a lot to learn.
Ha. Actually, you may be interested to know that advertising for diamond rings is actually targeted (albeit surreptitiously) at men. The message is: Women want a diamond ring. You don't need to ask them if they want it. It's such a deep part of our culture and their psyche that they want one. Just buy one.
The reason for this is, the companies who make money out of diamonds did a survey of couples considering marriage, and asked the women if they wanted a diamond ring. A lot of women knew how expensive it was, and replied that they didn't want a diamond ring, and they'd much rather put the money towards a house, furnishings, a car, etc.
This is obviously bad news for the diamond companies, so a few decades ago, the whole 'Diamonds are a girl's best friend' type advertising campaigns started, the whole purpose of which is to stop the man asking the woman if she'd like a diamond. Because quite often, she'd say no.
Nearly every piece of advice is trite ("Design principle: Use noneditable controls for output-only text"). There's very little depth or thinking beyond the completely obvious. You will learn more from any other book (on any topic) than from this book.
And yet I suspect that from where we're sitting, each one of us could throw a rock and hit half a dozen pieces of software that fail to follow even that basic rule.
Part of the purpose of textbooks is codify good practices. They're not there to assume you know everything. 'Code Complete' would be a short book if McConnell had assumed you knew everything already.
Sure, it could, but given the face Google would lose, it seems unlikely they would suddenly pull it.
Exactly. That's like saying Google would launch a service where you could buy videos and then a year or two later pull the service so you can't watch those videos any more.
With a company with the size and profile of Google, that just aint going to happen.
If everyone wanted a blue Ford Focus to the exclusion of all other cars there would be a "shortage" of those as well.
And that does happen too - my sister bought a Vauxhall Corsa, and this model is so popular that Vauxhall are diverting parts destined for spare parts onto the production line so they can make enough cars to (try to) satisfy demand. Result is if you need a spare part, be prepared to wait. My sister had parts take 6 weeks to arrive, and my local garage said their courtesy car (also a Corsa) was broken into so they needed a new rear quarterlight. It took 3 months to arrive.
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Yeah, if it takes 15 seconds to delete a file, it must be the user's fault. There's no way the OS is at fault.
It's like people who complain OS X's Spotlight is slow, and get told "their must be something really wrong with your setup".
If the OS allows the user to unknowingly configure it to cause such huge slowdowns, then the OS is broken, imho. Or, you know, maybe the OS has bugs. That only show up on some computers. Imagine that.
It's unlikely to be PEBKAC, as it's a well documented problem (just google for it).
I also had it last night on my MacBook which I upgraded to Leopard about 2 days ago. Previously (under Tiger), it had been fine - the most reliable Wifi I'd ever used. Full signal strength at home, never dropped out.
Last night I watched my wifi icon mysteriously blink on and off every few seconds, and the list of 5-ish wireless networks around me dropped to 1 (my external WAP, not my internal WAP). My Macmini (also Leopard) could see all the other networks fine.
For a period of about an hour (the amount of time I spent looking into it), my wifi seemed to be utterly unreliable. After about 6 months of trouble-free usage under Tiger. During that hour I found lots of complaints about Leopard's wifi support being unreliable on forums, news sites, Apple's web site, etc.
But, you know, feel free to call it a PEBKAC. Maybe I was sitting wrong, and it blocked the wifi signals or something.
Not so much:
DVD recorder = archiving device
HD recorder (Tivo) = timeshifting device (that can be used for archiving to tape/DVD if desired)
No need to imagine - just go look at a PS2 or an Xbox 360, amongst others.
OS X already has a setting to 'ignore accidental trackpad input' - basically, if you're typing, it ignores it (I believe that's how it works anyway).
It's in Tiger, possibly earlier than that.
RERG RUSH!!!
Er, you 'don't get' the whole 'change default password crap'? Even though you 'usually' look up the password on a 'list of manufacturer default'?
Want to run that by us again? :-)
Of course, he actually said that the bytecode compiler was blazingly fast. He never said that the bytecode interpreter was :-)
The great thing about 'unreasonable demands' is that employers don't have to yield to them.
If an employee makes unreasonable demands, and - here's the kicker - they actually are unreasonable, then they won't get those demands filled anywhere else either, so they won't move.
If, of course, they move to another employer who will give them what they want, then it's just the usual management bitching about uppity employees who keep whining about job satisfaction and respect. In which case, I'm over it, and these employers should just deal with it.
Of course, even that doesn't work well - see the book Peopleware, for example. Listening to music tends to harm your ability to concentrate. I like to listen to music while working, but I have also found that if I really need to concentrate, I turn it off.
This is assuming your co-worker actually listened to music, and didn't just use headphones as a social mechanism (i.e. wasn't actually listening to anything).
Anyway, all the people saying nobody needs an office should read Peopleware. They did the experiments and the math so that we don't have to.
That's like...Texas times 1000. I don't even know how big that is!
Nobody does.
I have a FON router, and I used to share my internet connection. Except the FON software's minimum sharing setting was 512k - at the time that was half of my bandwidth. It was easily in excess of my upload bandwidth.
What happened was that a month or two later, one of my neighbours found the FON router and started using it. A lot. They totally saturated my uplink - I assume they were using P2P, so my connection went to shit. Web browsing/email became ludicrously slow, never mind if I actually wanted to take advantage of my own broadband connection (you know, the one I'm paying for).
It took me about 3 days to work out what was going on, then I killed the FON. It looked like that person was going to hammer my FON router 24/7 indefinitely, and there was nothing I could do to configure the FON to prevent it (other than become a 'Bill', which I didn't want to do).
So for me, in a densely populated area, FON is not so good (i.e. unworkable).
I'm quite happy in principle to share my connection with people for light usage (web browsing, email), but unfortunately, people are dicks.
Oh, and also my bandwidth is regulated at peak hours - if I go over the allocation, my connection is throttled for a period. It's just a lose-lose situation really.
In my day an EP could also be (and was more likely to be) a 7 inch record designed to be played at 33 1/3rd.
As we say around here, the plural of anecdote is not data.
Note, of course, that I was (intentionally) vague in my original comment - I couldn't be bothered to see if the actual results of the survey were available. However, seeing as it was the impetus for the De Beers campaign to be aimed at men as I described, I'm guessing they thought it was significant, at least.
(It's funny though - whenever I mention this information to anyone, there's always someone who says "But I know a woman who really wanted a diamond ring!". I think it's some kind of law or something.)
Ha. Actually, you may be interested to know that advertising for diamond rings is actually targeted (albeit surreptitiously) at men. The message is: Women want a diamond ring. You don't need to ask them if they want it. It's such a deep part of our culture and their psyche that they want one. Just buy one.
The reason for this is, the companies who make money out of diamonds did a survey of couples considering marriage, and asked the women if they wanted a diamond ring. A lot of women knew how expensive it was, and replied that they didn't want a diamond ring, and they'd much rather put the money towards a house, furnishings, a car, etc.
This is obviously bad news for the diamond companies, so a few decades ago, the whole 'Diamonds are a girl's best friend' type advertising campaigns started, the whole purpose of which is to stop the man asking the woman if she'd like a diamond. Because quite often, she'd say no.
And yet I suspect that from where we're sitting, each one of us could throw a rock and hit half a dozen pieces of software that fail to follow even that basic rule.
Part of the purpose of textbooks is codify good practices. They're not there to assume you know everything. 'Code Complete' would be a short book if McConnell had assumed you knew everything already.
I don't think that's right.
Could be worse. They could have named it the Fitta.
FUD.
Sure, it could, but given the face Google would lose, it seems unlikely they would suddenly pull it.
Exactly. That's like saying Google would launch a service where you could buy videos and then a year or two later pull the service so you can't watch those videos any more.
With a company with the size and profile of Google, that just aint going to happen.
Well, the Danes are certainly involved, but it's the pigs who are committed.
And that does happen too - my sister bought a Vauxhall Corsa, and this model is so popular that Vauxhall are diverting parts destined for spare parts onto the production line so they can make enough cars to (try to) satisfy demand. Result is if you need a spare part, be prepared to wait. My sister had parts take 6 weeks to arrive, and my local garage said their courtesy car (also a Corsa) was broken into so they needed a new rear quarterlight. It took 3 months to arrive.
Nintendo are currently producing 1.8 million Wiis per month.
I doubt that the number being sold on eBay is significant compared to that number.
Sounds like a line from the Brass Eye Special.
"Is it ok for a man to sleep with a 3 year old girl, now that she is 18?"
"No."
"Absolutely not."
"No way."
It probably is to some people.
Daily Mail? Is that you?