There's nothing worse than a 'Usability' cretin at Microsoft who decides that because the majority of tards using their product poke around at the data with a mouse like a small child with a plate full of vegetables, we all poke away at our data with mouses. The specific way this has become apparent to me was an instance of 'popup help' recently. I enter data in the lab from time to time into an Excel sheet. I also periodically use the [alt][file][save] keystroke sequence to save the data when I have finished a subgroup within the test (this is a Microsoft product we are talking about- it WILL crash and take the data with it).
Little old clippy popped up after I had done this a few times with the 'helpful tip' that I could 'just click the save icon' up on the toolbar. Yeah. I could reach over to the mouse, drag a pointer all across the screen to a specific location, then click it, instead of just hitting [alt][f][s]. Luckly there was a 'stfu and NEVER bug me about crap like that again' option in the Clippy popup window.
It's funny in a sad, pathetic way, to watch a mouse-bound Windows user navigating a screen. So often there is a 'click click click' method of keyboard shortcuts they could use.
If you're in a particularly cruel mood and it isn't an essential task being completed, you can walk up to a mouse-poker's keyboard and fire off some [alt][f4] sequences. Snap! Snap! Snap! everything is closed, even sometimes the whole machine initiates a shutdown sequence. And poor mouse-poker-tard doesn't know what you did. Usually they just grip the mouse even harder, holding on for dear life.
And I giggle because I'm a dino running on old, obsolete mainframe technology where the end user can't just slap something together and put it into production.
You find it sort of amusing to maintain a chokehold on the data, eh? For better or for worse, there are whole categories of management now dedicated to eliminating people like you from the hierarchy.
Your aforementioned cited problem isn't solved by ossified data structures and vintage business hierarchies. Which you are a part of.
I would think that there would be 'nobody better in the world to create' WikiTetris than the original Russian dude who created Tetris. (I'm pleased to report his name has slipped my mind)
WikiTetris: where you enter your information into little Tetris(tm) blocks which slowly fill the screen, then it all disappears when the screen is full.
From my point of view, this is just as worthy a 'metaphor transfer' as is being discussed here. Bricklin is a fine individual, but having been the first to come up with the Spreadsheet concept doesn't make him anything special enough to warrant this hoopala.
When I was on CompuServ it was MUCH MORE expensive for 2400 bps usage. There were two modem pools to dial into CompuServ on. The 300 baud modems were $6 an hour and the 2400 baud modems were $12 an hour.
And the power generator makes a kilowatt off of anything that burns.
Well, there you go. Is there still a small patch of scrappy woods on the edge of the village? Now you can burn it down in order to experience Brittney Spears and other exciting forms of entertainment from the west on your villages' satellite TV.
Carter, for instance, got an award for the negotigations with North Korea and almost immediately afterwards they pushed strongly forward on their Nuclear Weapons development, reneging on those negotigations.
It's a highly politicized award at this point in time. And the irony is that the founder, Nobel, was a munitions maker himself.
Better Military Recruiters than gang recruiters. At least they can go to college when they are out of the military. If they join a gang instead, they'll just end up in a different institution, for a longer term, at the same government expense.
Agreed, but it's important to shine a good bright light on the 'few thousand who are rioting' for several reasons:
1. They are the equivalent of the Jim Swaggart nutcase christians in this country. 2. The most 'explosive' cartoons in the collection they are distributing all over the Muslim world to inflame people are the most blasphemous, but were never distributed and probably not even produced by any European cartoonists.
So if a bright enough light is shined on these creeps, the mainstream followers of Islam should see them as blasphemers who actually were the originators and distributors of the worse cartoons and put them to death. Or turn away from them in distaste, which is a form of hell the nutcases REALLY won't be able to deal with.
There's nothing that will drive a bunch of zealots to fury more than a majority populace who doesn't take them seriously. That's true all over the world.
The Bible isn't really 'a book written about 2000 years ago.' It is a collection of books, written over a fairly long stretch of time. And, interestingly, nothing about 'the new stuff' in the bible (the story of Christ, etc., that makes up the New Testament) was even written during Christ's time, it was all written considerably later. So the Bible really is a book explicitly NOT written about 2000 years ago. It is all older or newer than that.
People who obsess over the toys they grew up with aren't nerds, anyway.
My favorite things to play with as a child were discarded electronic things like old tape recorders, TV sets, etc. I don't think that's unusual for a nerd.
Trendy kids played with whatever was shiney and advertised heavily on TV. They most assuredly were NOT nerds in that respect. But right now it's kinda trendy to pose as a nerd.
That's also the way the Scientific Process works, incidentally. People who propose shockingly new theories are challanged to prove them. Many major new scientific discoveries are made by 'heretics' within the Scientific Community. Only later are said scientists heralded.
But, really, this whole discussion is about trashing religion, so don't let me interfere...
Is it an 'AppleEvent' when you stick a music CD into your Mac and have to bring it to a repair shop to get the CD to eject?
I ask, because:
1. I am not up on the latest Apple-Lingo. 2. For some reason this article isn't in apple.slashdot.org where it belongs.
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He's bitching because he had to reach into wikipedia to back up his assertion, instead of citing anything from personal experience. In other words, he was likely listening to Barney sing back in the early 90's.
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Unfortunately it also concerns an Apple Product. And traditional hackers have boycotted anything Apple since Jobs gave the boastful 'hacker proof' presentation about the original Macintosh: a closed-source sealed-box platform designed to be anti-hacker.
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My eBay computer is the one that runs sniping apps. I don't know why processor speed would be an issue, unless you have a LOT of bandwidth to spare and a LOT of items to snipe, though.
You'll probably note that the GP picked a 'date of triumph' in mid January, after all the Christmas iPod sales were registered, but before everybody was fully set up and not buying music from iTunes.
No. Not hardly. Increasingly complex and powerful apps come on the scene all the time, and it generally doesn't matter much what Window Manager you run them under.
Now, if you're concerned with 'eye candy' and how the 'desktop' looks, the situation differs.
Yes, it's a very important discovery, but unless the site is in threat of destruction or degradation, there's really no reason that scientists couldn't take a slow approach, as the grandparent suggests. I grow tired of hasty 'scientists' apparently badly in need of their tenure and under 'publish or perish' threats bulling their way into any body of perisible evidence there is and ripping it up to fill their needs.
Remember, the thing that makes this site 'valuable to science' is that the ham-handed 'scientists' of the past never discovered it. Isn't it likely that the 'scientists' a century from now will wish the current pack of ham-handed 'scientists' hadn't discovered it??
I grow tired of archaeologists who think it's prudent to transfer relics and remains from stone enclosures where they have been preserved for centuries to steel-and-glass boxes with a proven history of lasting a few decades. At least they should admit they're doing it for reasons of personal prestige and advancement.
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There's nothing worse than a 'Usability' cretin at Microsoft who decides that because the majority of tards using their product poke around at the data with a mouse like a small child with a plate full of vegetables, we all poke away at our data with mouses. The specific way this has become apparent to me was an instance of 'popup help' recently. I enter data in the lab from time to time into an Excel sheet. I also periodically use the [alt][file][save] keystroke sequence to save the data when I have finished a subgroup within the test (this is a Microsoft product we are talking about- it WILL crash and take the data with it).
Little old clippy popped up after I had done this a few times with the 'helpful tip' that I could 'just click the save icon' up on the toolbar. Yeah. I could reach over to the mouse, drag a pointer all across the screen to a specific location, then click it, instead of just hitting [alt][f][s]. Luckly there was a 'stfu and NEVER bug me about crap like that again' option in the Clippy popup window.
It's funny in a sad, pathetic way, to watch a mouse-bound Windows user navigating a screen. So often there is a 'click click click' method of keyboard shortcuts they could use.
If you're in a particularly cruel mood and it isn't an essential task being completed, you can walk up to a mouse-poker's keyboard and fire off some [alt][f4] sequences. Snap! Snap! Snap! everything is closed, even sometimes the whole machine initiates a shutdown sequence. And poor mouse-poker-tard doesn't know what you did. Usually they just grip the mouse even harder, holding on for dear life.
And I giggle because I'm a dino running on old, obsolete mainframe technology where the end user can't just slap something together and put it into production.
You find it sort of amusing to maintain a chokehold on the data, eh? For better or for worse, there are whole categories of management now dedicated to eliminating people like you from the hierarchy.
Your aforementioned cited problem isn't solved by ossified data structures and vintage business hierarchies. Which you are a part of.
I would think that there would be 'nobody better in the world to create' WikiTetris than the original Russian dude who created Tetris. (I'm pleased to report his name has slipped my mind)
WikiTetris: where you enter your information into little Tetris(tm) blocks which slowly fill the screen, then it all disappears when the screen is full.
From my point of view, this is just as worthy a 'metaphor transfer' as is being discussed here. Bricklin is a fine individual, but having been the first to come up with the Spreadsheet concept doesn't make him anything special enough to warrant this hoopala.
too spendy even for 2400bps usage
When I was on CompuServ it was MUCH MORE expensive for 2400 bps usage. There were two modem pools to dial into CompuServ on. The 300 baud modems were $6 an hour and the 2400 baud modems were $12 an hour.
And the power generator makes a kilowatt off of anything that burns.
Well, there you go. Is there still a small patch of scrappy woods on the edge of the village? Now you can burn it down in order to experience Brittney Spears and other exciting forms of entertainment from the west on your villages' satellite TV.
Jimmy Carter, etc. etc.
Carter, for instance, got an award for the negotigations with North Korea and almost immediately afterwards they pushed strongly forward on their Nuclear Weapons development, reneging on those negotigations.
It's a highly politicized award at this point in time. And the irony is that the founder, Nobel, was a munitions maker himself.
This wasn't a political award.
Better Military Recruiters than gang recruiters. At least they can go to college when they are out of the military. If they join a gang instead, they'll just end up in a different institution, for a longer term, at the same government expense.
Agreed, but it's important to shine a good bright light on the 'few thousand who are rioting' for several reasons:
1. They are the equivalent of the Jim Swaggart nutcase christians in this country.
2. The most 'explosive' cartoons in the collection they are distributing all over the Muslim world to inflame people are the most blasphemous, but were never distributed and probably not even produced by any European cartoonists.
So if a bright enough light is shined on these creeps, the mainstream followers of Islam should see them as blasphemers who actually were the originators and distributors of the worse cartoons and put them to death. Or turn away from them in distaste, which is a form of hell the nutcases REALLY won't be able to deal with.
There's nothing that will drive a bunch of zealots to fury more than a majority populace who doesn't take them seriously. That's true all over the world.
The Bible isn't really 'a book written about 2000 years ago.' It is a collection of books, written over a fairly long stretch of time. And, interestingly, nothing about 'the new stuff' in the bible (the story of Christ, etc., that makes up the New Testament) was even written during Christ's time, it was all written considerably later. So the Bible really is a book explicitly NOT written about 2000 years ago. It is all older or newer than that.
You think I care?? Why would I care?
People who obsess over the toys they grew up with aren't nerds, anyway.
My favorite things to play with as a child were discarded electronic things like old tape recorders, TV sets, etc. I don't think that's unusual for a nerd.
Trendy kids played with whatever was shiney and advertised heavily on TV. They most assuredly were NOT nerds in that respect. But right now it's kinda trendy to pose as a nerd.
That's also the way the Scientific Process works, incidentally. People who propose shockingly new theories are challanged to prove them. Many major new scientific discoveries are made by 'heretics' within the Scientific Community. Only later are said scientists heralded.
But, really, this whole discussion is about trashing religion, so don't let me interfere...
Is it an 'AppleEvent' when you stick a music CD into your Mac and have to bring it to a repair shop to get the CD to eject?
I ask, because:
1. I am not up on the latest Apple-Lingo.
2. For some reason this article isn't in apple.slashdot.org where it belongs.
He's bitching because he had to reach into wikipedia to back up his assertion, instead of citing anything from personal experience. In other words, he was likely listening to Barney sing back in the early 90's.
Unfortunately it also concerns an Apple Product. And traditional hackers have boycotted anything Apple since Jobs gave the boastful 'hacker proof' presentation about the original Macintosh: a closed-source sealed-box platform designed to be anti-hacker.
It's actually called an Isolation Transformer.
I figured maybe this would be an interesting discussion of the relative merits of torroidal versus laminated iron cores.
But it's just another gen-x kiddie toy discussion.
You guys need to get over your nostalgia for all that junk.
No, just everything x86 they produced up until the K5.
My eBay computer is the one that runs sniping apps. I don't know why processor speed would be an issue, unless you have a LOT of bandwidth to spare and a LOT of items to snipe, though.
And seperate address/data busses, then? Sounds like a pretty high pin-count package.
M is the second letter in AMD, not the first.
Nice troll. Do you need the services of a taxidermist?
You'll probably note that the GP picked a 'date of triumph' in mid January, after all the Christmas iPod sales were registered, but before everybody was fully set up and not buying music from iTunes.
No. Not hardly. Increasingly complex and powerful apps come on the scene all the time, and it generally doesn't matter much what Window Manager you run them under.
Now, if you're concerned with 'eye candy' and how the 'desktop' looks, the situation differs.
Yes, it's a very important discovery, but unless the site is in threat of destruction or degradation, there's really no reason that scientists couldn't take a slow approach, as the grandparent suggests. I grow tired of hasty 'scientists' apparently badly in need of their tenure and under 'publish or perish' threats bulling their way into any body of perisible evidence there is and ripping it up to fill their needs.
Remember, the thing that makes this site 'valuable to science' is that the ham-handed 'scientists' of the past never discovered it. Isn't it likely that the 'scientists' a century from now will wish the current pack of ham-handed 'scientists' hadn't discovered it??
I grow tired of archaeologists who think it's prudent to transfer relics and remains from stone enclosures where they have been preserved for centuries to steel-and-glass boxes with a proven history of lasting a few decades. At least they should admit they're doing it for reasons of personal prestige and advancement.