WinXP allows users to set date-separators and the like in a way that makes unambiguous date/time parsing impossible.
That's a microsoft thing. Similarly, a.xls file created with a non-english excel (we often receive such files from clients who use excel in french) uses commas as the float separator and is unreadable in another version of excel.
There are tons of similar default behaviour of microsoft softwares that makes you want to kill people as soon as you begin working internationally.
How on earth can things like this happen? After the Y2K debacle how can anyone not anticipate and extensively test for future dates?
Is this sheer utter incompetence, or just a total lack of intelligence?
Yee Gods!
Step 1: A company uses a bunch of old softwares that can't handle dates past 1999, because the year is coded with 2 digits. Step 2: The company hires a consultant to correct their softwares. Step 3: The consultant sees the code is a mess, and understand he won't be able to correct everything cleanly before the deadline. Step 4: The consultant decides to call a function wherever a date is used, that changes the way dates are handled so that a year beginning by a 0 works like it is posterior to a year beginning by a 9 (or any other digit). Step 5: ???: The consultant warns the company that a better correction must be applied before 2010, and that they should do something about it in advance, not wake up suddenly on december 12 like this year and wonder what to do. Or he keeps that for himself (after all, it won't be a problem until 10 years later, why bother?) Step 6: Profit: The consultant gets his check and gets drunk. Step 7: The companys does nothing to correct the problem. Step 8: 10 years later, the Y2K bug strikes like the spanish inquisition, when nobody expects it.
Yeah, and I think C (and all its derivatives) went the wrong route. The single "=" should have been comparison, and something else (like ":=") should have been assignment. I think that's logically cleaner, and gets along nicer with mathematics.
If a device breaks, what would be the cost to have it repaired without the warranty? and what are the probabilities for the device to break between the end of base warranty and the end of extended warranty?
One great innovation of IE is IE8's "accelerators". select an address or a location name in any web page, and with a right-click you can send it to google maps. You can translate some text or post it to twitter or to your blog, start an e-mail with it... it really is a cool UI feature.
That said, it's not enough for it to be my main browser, I usually use chrome or opera or firefox and only start IE when i can't avoid it (as a web developper, it's fairly often).
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WinXP allows users to set date-separators and the like in a way that makes unambiguous date/time parsing impossible.
That's a microsoft thing. .xls file created with a non-english excel (we often receive such files from clients who use excel in french) uses commas as the float separator and is unreadable in another version of excel.
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There are tons of similar default behaviour of microsoft softwares that makes you want to kill people as soon as you begin working internationally.
How on earth can things like this happen? After the Y2K debacle how can anyone
not anticipate and extensively test for future dates?
Is this sheer utter incompetence, or just a total lack of intelligence?
Yee Gods!
Step 1: A company uses a bunch of old softwares that can't handle dates past 1999, because the year is coded with 2 digits.
Step 2: The company hires a consultant to correct their softwares.
Step 3: The consultant sees the code is a mess, and understand he won't be able to correct everything cleanly before the deadline.
Step 4: The consultant decides to call a function wherever a date is used, that changes the way dates are handled so that a year beginning by a 0 works like it is posterior to a year beginning by a 9 (or any other digit).
Step 5: ???: The consultant warns the company that a better correction must be applied before 2010, and that they should do something about it in advance, not wake up suddenly on december 12 like this year and wonder what to do. Or he keeps that for himself (after all, it won't be a problem until 10 years later, why bother?)
Step 6: Profit: The consultant gets his check and gets drunk.
Step 7: The companys does nothing to correct the problem.
Step 8: 10 years later, the Y2K bug strikes like the spanish inquisition, when nobody expects it.
And employers will replace them with 20-something go-getters with better attitudes and more up-to-date skills, and at half the salary.
I'd like to see how those 20-something will use their up-to-date skills when faced with my 80% cobol environment.
I did'nt see it, and don't intend to.
Romans didn't invent roads.
Strippers.
Freeze ray and Shrink Ray where in the game from the start.
Maybe not (in the free (shareware) version, but definitely before the expansion pack.
/. ate my "less than"
Yeah, and I think C (and all its derivatives) went the wrong route. The single "=" should have been comparison, and something else (like ":=") should have been assignment. I think that's logically cleaner, and gets along nicer with mathematics.
or "-".
I like drawing ASCII arrows in my code.
right, I forgot about Eve. And didn't know about Runescape (but who plays it anyway?)
Isn't any mmorpg out there capable of offering a stats-based or skill-based character with no classification system?
I do say Italy.
Then again, I live in France.
Thanks, that's what should have been linked in the GGGGP.
I understand it's the Moreton Bay that extends 90km north to Mooloolaba, not the port itself.
It's a statistics and probability problem.
If a device breaks, what would be the cost to have it repaired without the warranty? and what are the probabilities for the device to break between the end of base warranty and the end of extended warranty?
It's a cook book!
"The issue is that in the beginning we where told that nothing you could buy for "real money" would give you an advantage over non-paying players."
If it gives no competitive advantage then why in the world would it be worth real money?
You don't really understand the concept of "gaming", do you?
I think you should be nominated for an award in stupidity.
Pan-pizza is not pizza.
Pizza is Italian.
There's no such thing as american pizza. Only american would-be pizza.
user@computer:~$ oh shit, I was in the wrong folder. can you get those files back?
nope. you're fucked.
(never underestimate the possible stupidity of the user)
Altavista is and has always been far superior to yahoo.
If I displayed a fullscreen hi-res photo of someone's eye on such a lens, would it pass retina scan?
You need to use opera to share, not to access someone else's content.
One great innovation of IE is IE8's "accelerators". select an address or a location name in any web page, and with a right-click you can send it to google maps.
You can translate some text or post it to twitter or to your blog, start an e-mail with it... it really is a cool UI feature.
That said, it's not enough for it to be my main browser, I usually use chrome or opera or firefox and only start IE when i can't avoid it (as a web developper, it's fairly often).