Ahh, the old canard about the pen being mightier than the sword. Guess what? It's a lot more difficult to use properly, and the American public has been undereducated for decades.
These days most of those letters would be printed. Cursive is no longer taught in US schools, or at least the ones in this state.
I can see some high brow congressman being mightily impressed with a thousand "D.e.a.r. M.i.s.t.o.r. C.o.n.g.r.e.s.m.a.n." letters.
Microsoft is pushing purchasable apps in Windows 10. It has created a (crappy) new interface, so programs stupid enough to comply with the new interface must be written for it before they can be sold to everyone.
So Microsoft wants a head start -- "Sorry, our compiler is not available (to those outside Microsoft)". A couple of years from now, with the apps market saturdated, and Microsoft dominating once again in familiar (and new) categories, "Will you look at that, we WILL be shipping VS64. Here you go, one buggy VS64 beta coming up."
The completed structure will have a footprint of 5.8 million square feet, roughly the size of 100 football fields. Inside, however, will be at least twice as much floor space because some sections will stand four stories tall.
23 acres per million sq. ft. ==> 133.5 acres of basic floor area, 267 acres of floor space (counting the up to four floors).
IBM died on consumer machines because of their testing/QA methodology. Waterfall method. Exhaustive but not reactive.
Windows programmers had to "eat their own dog food" and the chow started to taste better very quickly.
IBM was (and probably still is) like Raytheon when I worked there. It became a standard joke for those of us testing an air traffic control system (MAATS) -- we'd ask each other if bugs found months ago had been fixed. They never were.
It is mind blowing how mind numbing Facebook posts are. They are all within a narrow range of "Cool, but useless" or "Amazing, but not threatening to any large corporation".
What astonishes me the most is that anyone would go there for any reason. I guess it serves the same purpose as the local bar used to, and some just have to hang out and poison themselves.
This is great advice, and in no way related to GP's point nor to the point of the story.
By the way, what happens if cell phone apps are monitoring children's voices (as I'm sure countless apps are)? Do Siri and Cortana escape the child's right to privacy?
The ink originally had a lanolin base, and later became an oil in water emulsion. This emulsion commonly used Turkey-Red Oil (Sulfated Castor Oil) which gives it a distinctive and heavy scent.
8. Have discoverable interfaces -- way gone from Chrome
9. Be usable by keyboard and mouse -- increasingly gone in many programs, especially frequently updated ones desperately trying to be hip
If a troll got his version in, then he just needs to keep editing it at a frequency to keep any other edit out. Truly knowledgeable people wouldn't have time to wait out the time-out, so they are more likely to leave.
It is a matter of someone within Wikipedia deciding that "this right now" is close enough. Then, any edits do not show up right away. They are queued and reviewed infrequently -- once a day or less -- and troll/repeat edits will be quickly discarded during this periodic review.
Another problem with the integrity score is the difficulty to track "reverts" in an automatic fashion. If revert reduces the integrity, the troll wouldn't "revert", but make another change of less substance along with undoing the good change a different person made.
Again the idea is that any edit, good, bad or indifferent, will erode the integrity score since the truth rarely changes over time. And combined with the point above, where edits are not automatically live, and the troll can't win. Good edits can (assuming a non-jealous gatekeeper).
To allow the integrity score to climb due to non-editing, one could weight recent edits higher -- they lower the integrity more. Then, as time without edits goes by, the page increases in integrity.
The Integrity measure is a first-line defense. To deal with excess edits, some code could automatically slow down edits. It might kick in based on frequency of edits, or who does the editing, or the nature of the subject. When in doubt, don't change the page. Queue up edits to be reviewed in a meaningful way. Apply edits that deserve to be applied.
Edit free-for-alls made sense in the early days of Wikipedia, and don't make sense today. Dial down the frequency of changes -- that in itself will deter many of the troll editors.
Wikipedia needs an LTS approach now.
Wikipedia could post an integrity score for each of its pages. The score would be based solely on how often edits are reverted. If a page bounces back and forth repeatedly, the score would be close to zero and people would be told to not put much stock in that page. And, again automatically, the page's editor(s) would be notified and, in time, could be consequenced in a variety of ways.
Slashdot needs something similar, for when mods up then down then up then down mod a post. Typically the down-modders are the problem but, with a bit of human intervention by the editors, they could "settle the argument" and deal out a consequence to whomever is on the problem side.
In case ExtremeTech is listening, I added them to my hosts file (several months back) and now never go there any more. Used to be worth a periodic visit...
The official Microsoft Press Release detailed this mantrap very clearly.
They even released a video showing what happens when you step on the spikes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What else do you want?
Just keep an extra xx-roll bag or two on hand. It helps to have the square footage to do this, but it avoids the need for 'crisis' shopping altogether. Do the same for paper towels, laundry detergent, long-shelf-life soy milk and a few canned goods.
BTW, grandparent's comment about "fruit/veg/meat all I care about" forgets things like coffee. Are you really going to buy Amazon-brand coffee?
every time Google farts the entire internet takes one big inhale to smell the methane burst
Except that methane is odorless.
There are several chemicals that contribute to the smell of farts:
- skatole (by-product of meat digestion)
- indole (by-product of meat digestion)
- methanethiol (a sulfur compound)
- dimethyl sulfide (a sulfur compound)
- hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg odor, flammable)
- volatile amines
- short chain fatty acids
- feces (if present in the rectum)
- bacteria Source
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Why don't you start a Kickstarter campaign to keep your old screen name active?
These days most of those letters would be printed. Cursive is no longer taught in US schools, or at least the ones in this state. I can see some high brow congressman being mightily impressed with a thousand "D.e.a.r. M.i.s.t.o.r. C.o.n.g.r.e.s.m.a.n." letters.
A spokesman added that "Thumb drives should continue to work as before."
There is no money in friendship.
Microsoft is pushing purchasable apps in Windows 10. It has created a (crappy) new interface, so programs stupid enough to comply with the new interface must be written for it before they can be sold to everyone.
So Microsoft wants a head start -- "Sorry, our compiler is not available (to those outside Microsoft)". A couple of years from now, with the apps market saturdated, and Microsoft dominating once again in familiar (and new) categories, "Will you look at that, we WILL be shipping VS64. Here you go, one buggy VS64 beta coming up."
What about the Recycle symbol?
23 acres per million sq. ft. ==> 133.5 acres of basic floor area, 267 acres of floor space (counting the up to four floors).
IBM died on consumer machines because of their testing/QA methodology. Waterfall method. Exhaustive but not reactive.
Windows programmers had to "eat their own dog food" and the chow started to taste better very quickly.
IBM was (and probably still is) like Raytheon when I worked there. It became a standard joke for those of us testing an air traffic control system (MAATS) -- we'd ask each other if bugs found months ago had been fixed. They never were.
Good point.
It is mind blowing how mind numbing Facebook posts are. They are all within a narrow range of "Cool, but useless" or "Amazing, but not threatening to any large corporation".
What astonishes me the most is that anyone would go there for any reason. I guess it serves the same purpose as the local bar used to, and some just have to hang out and poison themselves.
This is great advice, and in no way related to GP's point nor to the point of the story.
By the way, what happens if cell phone apps are monitoring children's voices (as I'm sure countless apps are)? Do Siri and Cortana escape the child's right to privacy?
And, also for your protection, paste has been disabled.
I guess it is a unicode issue. This is one way around it. Sigh.
As did this company. I'm not sure that a commanding market share means much when the quality plummets, or just isn't there in the first place.
- Wiki's 'mimeograph process' entry
These inventors must not be married.
8. Have discoverable interfaces -- way gone from Chrome
9. Be usable by keyboard and mouse -- increasingly gone in many programs, especially frequently updated ones desperately trying to be hip
It is a matter of someone within Wikipedia deciding that "this right now" is close enough. Then, any edits do not show up right away. They are queued and reviewed infrequently -- once a day or less -- and troll/repeat edits will be quickly discarded during this periodic review.
Again the idea is that any edit, good, bad or indifferent, will erode the integrity score since the truth rarely changes over time. And combined with the point above, where edits are not automatically live, and the troll can't win. Good edits can (assuming a non-jealous gatekeeper).
To allow the integrity score to climb due to non-editing, one could weight recent edits higher -- they lower the integrity more. Then, as time without edits goes by, the page increases in integrity.
The Integrity measure is a first-line defense. To deal with excess edits, some code could automatically slow down edits. It might kick in based on frequency of edits, or who does the editing, or the nature of the subject. When in doubt, don't change the page. Queue up edits to be reviewed in a meaningful way. Apply edits that deserve to be applied.
Edit free-for-alls made sense in the early days of Wikipedia, and don't make sense today. Dial down the frequency of changes -- that in itself will deter many of the troll editors. Wikipedia needs an LTS approach now.
There is a simple and automated solution to this.
Wikipedia could post an integrity score for each of its pages. The score would be based solely on how often edits are reverted. If a page bounces back and forth repeatedly, the score would be close to zero and people would be told to not put much stock in that page. And, again automatically, the page's editor(s) would be notified and, in time, could be consequenced in a variety of ways.
Slashdot needs something similar, for when mods up then down then up then down mod a post. Typically the down-modders are the problem but, with a bit of human intervention by the editors, they could "settle the argument" and deal out a consequence to whomever is on the problem side.
In case ExtremeTech is listening, I added them to my hosts file (several months back) and now never go there any more. Used to be worth a periodic visit...
The official Microsoft Press Release detailed this mantrap very clearly.
They even released a video showing what happens when you step on the spikes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What else do you want?
Just keep an extra xx-roll bag or two on hand. It helps to have the square footage to do this, but it avoids the need for 'crisis' shopping altogether. Do the same for paper towels, laundry detergent, long-shelf-life soy milk and a few canned goods.
BTW, grandparent's comment about "fruit/veg/meat all I care about" forgets things like coffee. Are you really going to buy Amazon-brand coffee?
My Geocities account limit was 250KB.
And they wonder why everyone is cord-cutting...
Except that methane is odorless.
There are several chemicals that contribute to the smell of farts:
- skatole (by-product of meat digestion)
- indole (by-product of meat digestion)
- methanethiol (a sulfur compound)
- dimethyl sulfide (a sulfur compound)
- hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg odor, flammable)
- volatile amines
- short chain fatty acids
- feces (if present in the rectum)
- bacteria
Source