If you are a resident of Nevada utilising a prostitute in Nevada, why would you listen to someone from Washington(?) acusing you of breaking laws in Washington?
If "just plugging it in" == "clever", then, OK, I'm clever.
You obviously weren't concentrating when you read my comment. To the average users, that apparently is clever. You have to look at files directly! Nothing to guide but what is displayed on the screen in front of you!
I'm afraid you sort of reversed the direction of my rant. I apologise for getting your hopes up under false pretences and not articulating myself in a manner that communicated my meaning accurately.
I meant users are dumb.
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Let us Get Shit Done and all's well.
Sigh. Another engineer, another prancer.
Engineers don't do jack. Solving problems and making stuff is what tradies do. Engineers prance around crowing about the problems 'they' have solved. If they actually understood what it is to get their hands dirty I'd have a little respect for them. Engineers are PHBs.
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Engineers? makes stuff? what world are you in? It is the tradies that do all that, as well as inform the engineers how to improve it. Engineers are just marketing.
Gah, Boss came through! Must have press submit absentmindedly.
While neither is testing per se, the latter makes it easier (well to some degree) for debuggers know where to test.
I'd hazard that there are more casual developers & debuggers working on Mozilla stuff than on IE, ergo more likely to be tested properly. Not just the "works for me" kind.
Heh. Now see here, watch carefully. IE does have more general users. However if something goes wrong, the average user restarts the entire machine again. If it happens again, the average user says something like... the internet is broken *Again*. They go do something else.
Now you may consider that testing, but I don't. If there is a similar crash in Firefox or OSS in general, then the same users whinge, loud long and to everyone.
So you are clever enough to know how to use it as a mass storage device...
Now, all the users I know only do things the 'official' way. The amount of times I have surprised people by 'just plugging it in' gets very wearying. They are always accompanied by comments like "...are you some kind of computer guru? (I am *their* computer technician damn it!) So you're good with computers then?"
The point is people don't even grasp the basic potential of computers. So we lead them. If you need it everywhere, I'm sure you can come up with a suitable solution.
Is it actually impossible to do firmware updates of ext? Not being trollish I hope; I do understand that currently *everyone* uses fat... but can we change?
C'mon, does it really need to be flexible AND touch-sensitive? We have non-projector wall-monitors (some rear-projected, some plasma screens) that we control with a mouse. Works pretty well. Not one person using it has said, "You know, this is just unacceptable. This has to be flexible and touch-sensitive in order for me to do my job."
That seems to me to be arguing just the opposite. The first line is a question if we actually have a need for this.
No what we should be pursuing is manufacture in space. I.E. Asteroid capture and return, mining and construction in orbit. Why aren't NASA capturing that massive asteroid that passes 'close' in 2012. Even if we can't use it well for another 20 or 30 years it would be a huge bonus to science and the planet.
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Right, lets take a poll to see what the rest of the world wants. I believe it may side with the Swedes
If you are a resident of Nevada utilising a prostitute in Nevada, why would you listen to someone from Washington(?) acusing you of breaking laws in Washington?
You obviously weren't concentrating when you read my comment. To the average users, that apparently is clever. You have to look at files directly! Nothing to guide but what is displayed on the screen in front of you!
I'm afraid you sort of reversed the direction of my rant. I apologise for getting your hopes up under false pretences and not articulating myself in a manner that communicated my meaning accurately.
I meant users are dumb.
Sigh. Another engineer, another prancer.
Engineers don't do jack. Solving problems and making stuff is what tradies do. Engineers prance around crowing about the problems 'they' have solved. If they actually understood what it is to get their hands dirty I'd have a little respect for them. Engineers are PHBs.
Engineers? makes stuff? what world are you in? It is the tradies that do all that, as well as inform the engineers how to improve it. Engineers are just marketing.
Strange, I've found it to be the exact opposite for the past year and a half!
Gah, Boss came through! Must have press submit absentmindedly.
While neither is testing per se, the latter makes it easier (well to some degree) for debuggers know where to test.
I'd hazard that there are more casual developers & debuggers working on Mozilla stuff than on IE, ergo more likely to be tested properly. Not just the "works for me" kind.
Heh. Now see here, watch carefully. IE does have more general users. However if something goes wrong, the average user restarts the entire machine again. If it happens again, the average user says something like ... the internet is broken *Again*. They go do something else.
Now you may consider that testing, but I don't. If there is a similar crash in Firefox or OSS in general, then the same users whinge, loud long and to everyone.
yeah fair enough. It is so easy to degenerate int RIAA type thinking.
So you are clever enough to know how to use it as a mass storage device...
Now, all the users I know only do things the 'official' way. The amount of times I have surprised people by 'just plugging it in' gets very wearying. They are always accompanied by comments like "...are you some kind of computer guru? (I am *their* computer technician damn it!) So you're good with computers then?"
The point is people don't even grasp the basic potential of computers. So we lead them. If you need it everywhere, I'm sure you can come up with a suitable solution.
IIRC Microsoft didn't comply with the restrictions you stated.
Is it actually impossible to do firmware updates of ext? Not being trollish I hope; I do understand that currently *everyone* uses fat... but can we change?
They aren't, focus is (at least it is the most easily managed factor).
Bloke, go read your post. Or http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1147647&cid=27053677. You were douche bagging on a development. You now try to make it sound like you were observing a great phenomenon or something. This is not how you edit your /. comments!
That seems to me to be arguing just the opposite. The first line is a question if we actually have a need for this.
God Forbid that it should be a lesson learned and a compulsion to publish better quality books...
Damn Urowpeons.
I kid, I kid! See my Sig!
Is what you really meant.
hmmmm... meh. I'd post a link but I'm feeling lethargic.
Damn it he only has two songs!
Heh, in Rockhampton Qld Aus. I've noticed a sudden increase in linux eeeies. Of course just after I bought another small laptop. gah.
Or clone Plan 9 and improve it.
The ABC gives us our best stuff, until they sell out to Channel 10.
What have you done?
My enemy would would read:
"He's not that good, he is a bit of a dweeb. Gets over-excited about stuff that doesn't matter that much..."
Mine would read:
"I'm not too bad, I can be a bit nerdish. I'm passionate, admittedly I go off on a tangent occasionally."
No what we should be pursuing is manufacture in space. I.E. Asteroid capture and return, mining and construction in orbit. Why aren't NASA capturing that massive asteroid that passes 'close' in 2012. Even if we can't use it well for another 20 or 30 years it would be a huge bonus to science and the planet.
People learning English from subtitles are *expected* to misspell.