Could someone please explain to me why I would want to spend 2 minutes typing out what would take 15 seconds to say?
because the receipient is on the other side of the world and a txt costs 10p vs 1.00/min to call.
Because you are in russia and it costs 2.00p connection charge + 1.50p/min to call on your roaming plan vs only 10p extra for a txt when roaming.
Because you want to get a message to them but it's not urgent so rather than interupt them (wake them up in the middle of the night in the case of the other side of the world) you send a txt which they can read at their leisure.
Because you want to convey some info and not get caught up in 2 minutes of small talk.
mobile phones have had IM for years. Most of the world calls it SMS TXTing.
The key user experience difference between SMS and internet IM, is that on the internet you usually have a full size keyboard to type longer messages quicker.
Getting your phone to send a SMS over IP isn't going to change that.
I agree those cases are fucking huge! Who wants those in their lounge? Not me.
And dual 120mm cooling fans, plus 450W power supply cooling fan, plus CPU and gfx fans. What a joke, we are talking home theatre here, and i like my lounge to be silent when im reading a book.
I've got a Travla C137 case which is 68cm wide x 32cm deep x 25cm high. They do much smaller ones but then you have to use a laptop harddrive, and i wanted cheap and big(capacity, not size).
It's got a VIA EPIA SP8000 motherboard, a 320Gb HDD and a DVD RW. Runs myth front-end and back-end, and 0 fans. Not a single one. The only noise is the DVD and HDD when they are in use.
You're talking about a totally different election system if you don't have anonymous voting.
Besides, if you don't trust the voting software to tell the truth, why are you going to trust some website interfacing to said voting software to tell the truth?
Toss the old code base and start new with a tried and true Unix kernel. Provide an emulation environment if you have to but toss it all out and go with what is known to work.
I guess you were asleep when they transitioned from windows 3.1 to windows NT
Hmm yes some reliable numbers from a website that every single firefox install by default hits every 5 minutes to update it's latest news live bookmark.
I've resisted specialization for most of my career, giving me breadth but not depth. It's hurt me in job interviews where the hiring managers want specialized expertise instead of intelligence and problem solving skills.
Since when did problem solving, intelligence, and depth of knowledge become mutually exclusive?
JSP is for the presentation layer silly. It doesn't violate MVC etc.
Yes it has logic in it, PRESENTATION logic.
Do the apps you develop not have an interactive front end? If so then fine stick with plain HTML. Otherwise you need ASP or PHP, or JSP etc etc. And they can call functions on your EJB session beans or what layer you keep your business logic in.
If you want to be really anal, it's simple to turn on a flag so any JSPs with java scriptlets fail to compile, then you are forced to use jstl and the expression language (much better than embedded java for presentation logic IMHO)
Doesn't seem quite so bad, but they still do annoying things in the UK.
IE. you get a free phone from vodafone, it is locked to the vodafone network so you have to pay 10 quid down the local corner shop to get it unlocked if you want to use it on another network.
Then vodafone put firmware on it that maps various function keys to automatically launch the browser and go to their "live!" website, and you can't map the button to more useful functions, e.g. launch new txt msg.
Of course you can always pay full retail for non-network branded phone and just put your sim in that.
The specs did not say anything about the map display respecting the carvature of Earth. So we went out and implemented a flat model, where each pixel on the screen was converted linearly to a X, Y coordinate on the map.
So there was ambiguity in the specs, they didn't state if they assumed a curved or flat model.
And instead of spending 30 seconds to email or phone your client contact, and ask what they had assumed, you just thought you'd make the decision for them?
Sure, if it's a tiny ambiguity that would take 5 minutes to reverse you just make an assumption and not pester the client every 5 mins. But for something so fundamental your crazy to just make up requirements as you go along...
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Plug in a mighty mouse or other 3 button mouse and use the middle mouse button.
Could someone please explain to me why I would want to spend 2 minutes typing out what would take 15 seconds to say?
because the receipient is on the other side of the world and a txt costs 10p vs 1.00/min to call.
Because you are in russia and it costs 2.00p connection charge + 1.50p/min to call on your roaming plan vs only 10p extra for a txt when roaming.
Because you want to get a message to them but it's not urgent so rather than interupt them (wake them up in the middle of the night in the case of the other side of the world) you send a txt which they can read at their leisure.
Because you want to convey some info and not get caught up in 2 minutes of small talk.
mobile phones have had IM for years. Most of the world calls it SMS TXTing.
The key user experience difference between SMS and internet IM, is that on the internet you usually have a full size keyboard to type longer messages quicker.
Getting your phone to send a SMS over IP isn't going to change that.
The '2x' number Apple said was for the CPU
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Go to apple.com and there's a picture of an iMac, the tagline below is "2x faster. Twice as amazing."
That clearly gives the impression the machine is 2x faster. The machine isn't going to be twice as amazing if only one small part of it is 2x faster.
The tagline isn't "2x faster processor" ( of course the processor is 2x faster, there's two of them! )
And the picture isn't of the CPU.
here's a link to the pic incase the apple homepage changes
http://images.apple.com/home/2006/images/intelima
Uhh... what about a tree structure where every node on the tree is a collection of modules?
That was pretty standard when i was building sites a few years ago.
mark the share as "guest only" then give the guest user ( usually the user nobody ) full rights to the shared directory.
Apple can keep OS X running smoothly because they know exactly what's inside their machines.
Guess what?
Apple machines have PCI slots, and USB ports, and firewire ports, and PC Card ports etc.
The DSL modem that came free when we signed up would cause a kernel panic if when you resumed OS X.
I agree those cases are fucking huge! Who wants those in their lounge? Not me.
And dual 120mm cooling fans, plus 450W power supply cooling fan, plus CPU and gfx fans. What a joke, we are talking home theatre here, and i like my lounge to be silent when im reading a book.
I've got a Travla C137 case which is 68cm wide x 32cm deep x 25cm high. They do much smaller ones but then you have to use a laptop harddrive, and i wanted cheap and big(capacity, not size).
It's got a VIA EPIA SP8000 motherboard, a 320Gb HDD and a DVD RW. Runs myth front-end and back-end, and 0 fans. Not a single one. The only noise is the DVD and HDD when they are in use.
And did you pass your maths classes?
You're talking about a totally different election system if you don't have anonymous voting.
Besides, if you don't trust the voting software to tell the truth, why are you going to trust some website interfacing to said voting software to tell the truth?
The problem with a receipt is that it can then be used to make sure you voted a certain way.
you don't take the receipt away with you. It goes into a ballot box to be used for recounts and random verification.
More than a few people have basically said Konfabulator/Widget Engine sold out to Yahoo
Gee that wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that konfabulator sold out to Yahoo would it?
Toss the old code base and start new with a tried and true Unix kernel. Provide an emulation environment if you have to but toss it all out and go with what is known to work.
I guess you were asleep when they transitioned from windows 3.1 to windows NT
Hmm yes some reliable numbers from a website that every single firefox install by default hits every 5 minutes to update it's latest news live bookmark.
I've resisted specialization for most of my career, giving me breadth but not depth. It's hurt me in job interviews where the hiring managers want specialized expertise instead of intelligence and problem solving skills.
Since when did problem solving, intelligence, and depth of knowledge become mutually exclusive?
JSP is for the presentation layer silly. It doesn't violate MVC etc.
Yes it has logic in it, PRESENTATION logic.
Do the apps you develop not have an interactive front end? If so then fine stick with plain HTML. Otherwise you need ASP or PHP, or JSP etc etc. And they can call functions on your EJB session beans or what layer you keep your business logic in.
If you want to be really anal, it's simple to turn on a flag so any JSPs with java scriptlets fail to compile, then you are forced to use jstl and the expression language (much better than embedded java for presentation logic IMHO)
Where is "here"?
Doesn't seem quite so bad, but they still do annoying things in the UK.
IE. you get a free phone from vodafone, it is locked to the vodafone network so you have to pay 10 quid down the local corner shop to get it unlocked if you want to use it on another network.
Then vodafone put firmware on it that maps various function keys to automatically launch the browser and go to their "live!" website, and you can't map the button to more useful functions, e.g. launch new txt msg.
Of course you can always pay full retail for non-network branded phone and just put your sim in that.
- stop sending your fucking newsletter that I don't want to see !! (or make it blockable !!)
i just added them to my ignore list. Fixed the newletter problem.
The specs did not say anything about the map display respecting the carvature of Earth. So we went out and implemented a flat model, where each pixel on the screen was converted linearly to a X, Y coordinate on the map.
So there was ambiguity in the specs, they didn't state if they assumed a curved or flat model.
And instead of spending 30 seconds to email or phone your client contact, and ask what they had assumed, you just thought you'd make the decision for them?
Sure, if it's a tiny ambiguity that would take 5 minutes to reverse you just make an assumption and not pester the client every 5 mins. But for something so fundamental your crazy to just make up requirements as you go along...
Not everyone is geek enough to know how to do some of the cool things
Slashdot: News for non-Nerds, Stuff that's easy.
I think you'll find the "others" that do the R&D profit too, else they would go bust.
Simple economic specialisation.
Do you think DELL should be spending R&D to develop their own processors?
That's clearly been shown not to work so well.
There was nothing about dancing! Geeze!
From TFA:
It just quietly goes about its business while the rest of the world delights in arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Incorrect
You mean glibc not gcc
Simply because of the passing traffic is so noisy.
Yet another reason why all commuters should be forced to cycle to work!
Taxis and public transport should only be allowed for stumbling home from a club at 6am.
Here's the manual for those interested:
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http://www.ftconsult.com/twiki/bin/view/Cinelerra