That's the most insane ridiculous excusre I've ever heard. There is no ambiguity. If you are typing a word in a foreign language, that word has exactly one way of being spelled correctly, whether it's uppercase or lowercase.
Besides the same thing applies to English searches. We can find things in databases in upper or lower case. We're more likely not to find it because the keyword we are searching for isn't in the thing (article, etc.) we're looking for. Some of this even happens because of variation in the English language, such as American vs. British English. If I'm searching for toilet and you typed "loo", I won't find what you wrote.
Exactly my point. This sounds like an outdated standard -- welcome to 1972. On the other hand, sometimes you can't do anything about this type of thing if some pointy-haired VP decides it should be done this way, stupid or not...
I've seen data entry done like this, and every time I wonder "why on earth are they doing this?" Can you tell me a real reason that a data entry person would have to type in all caps? The only times I have seen this is on old data entry systems that MADE THEM type in all caps (meaning the program controlled this behavior, not the typist, which, if you want this behavior, is actually how it should be done).
Great idea, I wholeheartedly agree! I recently bought a new PC (from Cyberpower) and the keyboard came without an Insert key. I thought immediately "this is sheer brilliance!". I've never pressed that key on purpose, and whenever I do, a lot of cursing follows when I notice that I've pressed it. The same thing goes for CapsLock! Kill 'em both!
When I first started programming, in character-mode DataFlex, just about all existing source code was written in all uppercase. What a bloody pain in the neck to read and maintain!
We actually demo'd our web development tool to a web coder and at the end she actually said that she uses notepad instead of any tools to code. Then again, she is a consultant and charges by the hour...undoubtedly makes more $$$ than I do.
I sure wish the guy who originally wrote the program I'm currently debugging knew what a comment was. He constantly did random weird stuff and never commented any of it. That's real fun -- I now have lots of comments in the code like:
// I have no idea what the point of this is, but it seems to be screwing up {whatever}. // I'm going to try to comment this block out to see if it fixes the problem.
Not to mention the amount of time I have to spend to implement what ought to be trivial changes to this project. ARGH!;-)
It's good to be the king! After all, that's more or less what Bush is, after being appointed to office by the Supreme Court instead of being elected.
In case you are wondering, I do live in Florida and no, I'm not sure how my vote was counted. I also think this years presidential elections may be just as much of a fiasco when we use the new electronic voting machines. Once again, we will be the laughing stock of the world (watch the rest of the world laugh and be scared to death at the same time). I'm sure the Supreme Court is standing by to solve the problem for us just as they did last time. After all, the founding fatehrs didn't trust the common people to vote, why should those in power to so now?
Not always. I'm in a new area of Miami in a 5 year old house and everything is on fiber, Bellsouth is the only ISP that supports fiber. Without fiber, I could choose and ISP, like my friends do just a few miles away. At my workplace, 4 miles from my house, we can't get DSL at all yet.
Also, when I had Adelphia Powerlink cable a few years ago, it was only one way, so I still had a regular modem for uploads.
So, buyer beware, do your research, but in many cases, you are still limited to what is available, and often there is not a lot of choice.
Yeah, no kidding. I worked at a place as an employee while my buddy was a contractor, doing pretty much the same job. He made about twice what I made, plus got some benefits through his temp agency.
The best part that he and I used to laugh about all the time was that in order to "encourage" contractors to become employees, they didn't allow contractors in most meetings. So, while I had to sit through hours upon hours of meetings, trying to stay awake and not slice my wrists, he was back in his cube getting paid by the hour. Then I had to stay late to actually do the work I couldn't do while in the meeting!
Do these management types have any f$%&ing clue at all? Like meetings are so much fun that people would take the salary cut to become employees just to be in them.
So after 3 months I told my pointy-haired boss that I was going back to my old job...
...is that they are usually applied without restraint or thought by pea-brained managers who don't know any better. You know, the typical "I took 2 computer classes in college and just spent a week tossing around fish at a management-training seminar" type of drone.
I recently worked at a big company where these types of rules were constantly enforced across the board, regardless of the fact that the variety of folks that work there are everything from $6/hour data entry types to programmers.
That's like saying that because my 5 year old kid can't drive, I'm not allowed to since I live in the same house.
Now, at a much smaller company, we have one guy who _always_ gets the latest viruses. The minute one of us in the place sees an email with a virus attached (which is _always_ caught by our anti-virus software), this $%#@* always manages to open it and then swears that _his_ anti-virus software, which runs the same version and updated sigs as everyone else's, didn't catch it. Now _this_ is the guy to apply a rule like this to, but don't punish everyone else.
Darn, I told myself I wasn't gonna rant on. Couldn't stop. Help!;-p
...that can't stop their VCRs from flashing 12:00.
Why would anyone with half a clue assume that the average person could or should ever get better at adopting a computer or any other complex technology? Most poeple can't do 5th grade math, that's not our failure as society, it's theirs.
Every time we make something idiotproof they invent a better idiot!
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That's the most insane ridiculous excusre I've ever heard. There is no ambiguity. If you are typing a word in a foreign language, that word has exactly one way of being spelled correctly, whether it's uppercase or lowercase.
Besides the same thing applies to English searches. We can find things in databases in upper or lower case. We're more likely not to find it because the keyword we are searching for isn't in the thing (article, etc.) we're looking for. Some of this even happens because of variation in the English language, such as American vs. British English. If I'm searching for toilet and you typed "loo", I won't find what you wrote.
Exactly my point. This sounds like an outdated standard -- welcome to 1972. On the other hand, sometimes you can't do anything about this type of thing if some pointy-haired VP decides it should be done this way, stupid or not...
I've seen data entry done like this, and every time I wonder "why on earth are they doing this?" Can you tell me a real reason that a data entry person would have to type in all caps? The only times I have seen this is on old data entry systems that MADE THEM type in all caps (meaning the program controlled this behavior, not the typist, which, if you want this behavior, is actually how it should be done).
Great idea, I wholeheartedly agree! I recently bought a new PC (from Cyberpower) and the keyboard came without an Insert key. I thought immediately "this is sheer brilliance!". I've never pressed that key on purpose, and whenever I do, a lot of cursing follows when I notice that I've pressed it. The same thing goes for CapsLock! Kill 'em both!
When I first started programming, in character-mode DataFlex, just about all existing source code was written in all uppercase. What a bloody pain in the neck to read and maintain!
If someone from another planet would watch our movies, he would think all the computers we use on Earth are Macs.
Am I the only one to notice that nobody can spell definitely?
Duh! I didn't need a report to tell me that.
Because a percentage (yes, what percentage is highly debatable) of /. readers use it, whether they'll admit to it or not.
Yeah, real programmers use notepad! ;-)
We actually demo'd our web development tool to a web coder and at the end she actually said that she uses notepad instead of any tools to code. Then again, she is a consultant and charges by the hour...undoubtedly makes more $$$ than I do.
I sure wish the guy who originally wrote the program I'm currently debugging knew what a comment was. He constantly did random weird stuff and never commented any of it. That's real fun -- I now have lots of comments in the code like:
// I have no idea what the point of this is, but it seems to be screwing up {whatever}.
// I'm going to try to comment this block out to see if it fixes the problem.
;-)
Not to mention the amount of time I have to spend to implement what ought to be trivial changes to this project. ARGH!
It's good to be the king! After all, that's more or less what Bush is, after being appointed to office by the Supreme Court instead of being elected.
;-P
In case you are wondering, I do live in Florida and no, I'm not sure how my vote was counted. I also think this years presidential elections may be just as much of a fiasco when we use the new electronic voting machines. Once again, we will be the laughing stock of the world (watch the rest of the world laugh and be scared to death at the same time). I'm sure the Supreme Court is standing by to solve the problem for us just as they did last time. After all, the founding fatehrs didn't trust the common people to vote, why should those in power to so now?
God Bless America, and no Place Else!
RE:
DSL lets you pick your own ISP
Not always. I'm in a new area of Miami in a 5 year old house and everything is on fiber, Bellsouth is the only ISP that supports fiber. Without fiber, I could choose and ISP, like my friends do just a few miles away. At my workplace, 4 miles from my house, we can't get DSL at all yet.
Also, when I had Adelphia Powerlink cable a few years ago, it was only one way, so I still had a regular modem for uploads.
So, buyer beware, do your research, but in many cases, you are still limited to what is available, and often there is not a lot of choice.
Yeah, no kidding. I worked at a place as an employee while my buddy was a contractor, doing pretty much the same job. He made about twice what I made, plus got some benefits through his temp agency.
The best part that he and I used to laugh about all the time was that in order to "encourage" contractors to become employees, they didn't allow contractors in most meetings. So, while I had to sit through hours upon hours of meetings, trying to stay awake and not slice my wrists, he was back in his cube getting paid by the hour. Then I had to stay late to actually do the work I couldn't do while in the meeting!
Do these management types have any f$%&ing clue at all? Like meetings are so much fun that people would take the salary cut to become employees just to be in them.
So after 3 months I told my pointy-haired boss that I was going back to my old job...
...is that they are usually applied without restraint or thought by pea-brained managers who don't know any better. You know, the typical "I took 2 computer classes in college and just spent a week tossing around fish at a management-training seminar" type of drone.
;-p
I recently worked at a big company where these types of rules were constantly enforced across the board, regardless of the fact that the variety of folks that work there are everything from $6/hour data entry types to programmers.
That's like saying that because my 5 year old kid can't drive, I'm not allowed to since I live in the same house.
Now, at a much smaller company, we have one guy who _always_ gets the latest viruses. The minute one of us in the place sees an email with a virus attached (which is _always_ caught by our anti-virus software), this $%#@* always manages to open it and then swears that _his_ anti-virus software, which runs the same version and updated sigs as everyone else's, didn't catch it. Now _this_ is the guy to apply a rule like this to, but don't punish everyone else.
Darn, I told myself I wasn't gonna rant on.
Couldn't stop.
Help!
...that can't stop their VCRs from flashing 12:00.
Why would anyone with half a clue assume that the average person could or should ever get better at adopting a computer or any other complex technology? Most poeple can't do 5th grade math, that's not our failure as society, it's theirs.
Every time we make something idiotproof they invent a better idiot!
Argh!
I tried using gnome, but it just drove me nuts. I much prefer KDE.