Posts by Teiwaz 4136 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2011
yet when you start to go beyond 20 odd lines and use generators to build the code they always come up with the most stupid code that is never efficient
That's been true since at least dbase 3.
Even if it is moderatly efficient, it's usually totally unreadable - making extension/expansion impossible without a total rewrite.
the Gov of late likes the scapegoat approach - wave a threat for the masses to fear then get some dodgy piece of legislation passed before the panic/moral outrage abates in the face of some other distraction.
Twitter / Facebook storms are so numerous the wolf in the sheepfold approach doesn't work. The storm isn't divisive enough for the government to pluck out the offenders without backlash.
The tax excuse doesn't fly, given the apple Ireland thing - the just want to bring under the heel the two platforms most likely to be instrumental in an organisation of another Jarrow Crusade in the future.
A large list of partnerships, covering a raft of areas, but not a peep about keeping things secure.
Business as usual then !
Every diner has his place at table denoted by a nice gold plated name tag. Soon the dish of the day will be presented along with the exclusive menu of delicacies and the roes of an unwiting public will be dined upon with gusto.
Phil-os-ophy - Waiter, this conversation is no good....
Better still, plug all of social networking into Cortana and let her get on with swapping useless inanities with herself while humanity forges ahead with something worthwhile....
....Wait, that doesn't serve the needs of the leaders of humanity - they prefer short term profit to the questionable returns on humanitys exploration of the universe.
In the meantime, just don't give her your credit card number....We apologise for the lack of sanity.
You're going to be so upset soon, BOB!!!! As Linux is ALL GOING FLATSO TOO!! !!
What do your mean all going damn flat themes have been more annoyingly 'in' than all those 'happy happy' songs that sat in the charts for unfeasibly long periods during the 80's.
Actually, the only way mobile will TRULY be "the future" is when the 'mobile devices' become 'persocoms' (obligatory 'Chobits' reference) or maybe a robot like THIS one.
seriously, hand-held is so "noughties"! heh.
Someone hasn't seen Space: above and Beyond [insert creeepy 'modem chirping' and gambling parlance here].
Mobile is a 'thing' that's not yet out of the honeymoon stage, we've yet to find out what life is like when conversation is dead and the only thing we can talk about is 'how much we both like Total'. There may yet be disinterest and looking for other partners on the horizon, if not a messy divorce.
Unfortunately, Microsoft murdered it and its mother Nokia in an ultimately doomed attempt to push Windows Mobile!
Sheesh, I still use a N900, but Nokia wasn't all that.
Nokia weren't exactly blazing a path along a rainbow from the N900/N950 when the sale to Microsoft happened. They were like the Disco craze in 1982 (if not actually paśse, nearly paśse).
Harmattan feels clunky now - but still preferable to what else is available.
"I ain't got time for that" when it popped up. Are these sorts of attack on the rise and are they hard to pull off?
Not least that the user will no doubt be controlling the mouse with the 'off-paw' in many cases.
I can imagine the wrong button might be clicked on what with cack-handedness and the any rhythmic motions from the other hand being carried over.
Maybe a good thing, extending the session, even with the less than salubrious condiment of frustration...
b) able to sense others and perceive that they are self-aware;
c) can appreciate that they have different views of the world to yourself;
Many humans mostly fail on these two....
Or at the very least ignore b) and fail not to feel threatened and outraged by c)...
We're doomed.
I quit watching TV several years ago, but find video advertising catching my attention more now that I'm not exposed to it every 15 minutes.
Too much of anything dulls the senses.
Advertising is a drug media has become addicted to - an easy fix. It's overuse pushed beyond the realms of medication to aid sales into meaningless background noise that's mostly ignored requiring larger and larger doses for similar effect.
If I come across a stack of compiler discs tucked under a bush in the local park I might give it a whirl. It will make a change from doing the usual 'tied to the desk' stuff I have to do.
Contemplating setting up a Phone Sex coding help-line - Think it's a winner?
Maybe set your LOCALE to a more permissive country.
Those are getting fewer and fewer...
We're going to need multiple locales on systems soon.
for time,
for language,
for keyboard,
for morality,
and probably one for legal jurisdiction - to rule them all - and in the darkness bind them....
Before the IT was filled with idiots...
Somebody accidentally uninstalled their sense of humour this morning...
There's a great tradition of 'silly' little projects like these, everyone knows not to take it seriously. This is just an exercise in free thought - next thing they may come up with is a more useful language.
When I were a lad we had no carrots, no parsnips and no cabbage. We were the true anti-thesis of luxury.
That said we did have peas.
There'd at least be novelty value in, if not a few guineas for a good boy who could carve halloween masks from garden peas....
Trying the same trick with carrots or parsnips would likely result in inappropriate results...
So is this a Harry Potter or just a US influence...?
When I were a kid, we had to make-do with turnip. At least for carving, I can't see anyone starting their day with a tall glass of turnip juice (unless it's their final day), or make anything (except maybe enemies *) with turnip muffins.
* Baldrick might love you though...
Would that be the shiny silver anorak, with the matching skintight trousers?
Ahh, you're thinking of the removable sleeves and legs number....?
.....No....
Nobody could possilby want to see my variably hairy legs topped by figurehugging silver hotpants ...
(even with a fetching purple wig) (and even if I dyed my beard to match)......
I for one, will be glad to reclaim more desk space (so I can put my feet up).
We've relegated the system box off the desk and out from under the monitor to the floor or elsewhere, the monitor has reduced in depth even if they are all pointlessly widescreen (bit of a step back there).
Now all we need is a flexible keyboard that is resistant to coffee (to at least pint-mug depth) and a better solution to the mouse/trackpad type action that doesn't involve pawing at a huge screen (with grubby kit kat chocolate covered fingers)...
Operating a PC is a solved problem and has been for decades
Not really. It's been a hashed together solution...
Cars are better designed, they didn't leave the reigns on for control merely because that is what people were used to. The steering wheel has evolved in design over more than a hundred years. Most of us still use keyboards with key layouts that are a design solution to the problem of mechanical typewriters jamming up.
Just because a number of radical design change attempts failed doesn't mean the existing design is not in need of a rethink.
Sort of like politics then? Come to think of it... both are very similar.
Two definitions to politics -
1 Activities connected with governing.
2 Activities connected to positioning of an individual within an organisation.
Depends on the politics - in the jovial, frontal lobotomy public face of British politics, the combatants appear to prefer getting the mental best of an adversary in the political ring*. They like to pretend it's all in the name of the 1st definition, but it's become all about the 2nd a long time ago.
* Which has been all posture, spin, and coached handwaving lessons these days.
In the evangelists eyes, an adversary is someone holding an opposing world view which because it's not their viewpoint it is a threat that must be eradicated if its proponents cannot be converted or won over, they must be purged. While The evangelist may be political motivated or a true believer, the politically motivated one may be reasoned with or bribed, the true believers are the real dangerous ones.
Militant Atheists are the worst thing since Militant Missionaries
Both are 'evangelists' seeking to convert others to the same world-view as themselves.
It's these 'there can be only one' world view types are the source of most of humanities issues. Be it One God, One Faith, One Party or one interpretation of scripture.
They'll bother everyone with leaflets on the streets, today, but given half the chance they'll all gleefully return to herding people into rivers and stacking kindling round non-conformers.
I think "pagan" religions are more threatening to Christian fundamentalists than Christian demons would be.
Eeesch! "pagan" religions are not more threatening, Christian fundamentalists are just more offended by their existence.
Early christianity was just the low-brow freebie version of the Cult of Mithras.
In the book the "secret weapon" is Fremen warriors trained in the "weirding combat" of the Bene Geserit. Think galaxy's greatest warriors + galaxy's most lethal secret martial art = a lot of suddenly very dead Sardaukar and a very nervous Emperor.
Sort of yes/no
What made the Emperor nervous was Duke Letos popularity among the other Great Houses, the ease at which he inspired loyalty by being/appearing a man of the people. Sending House Atreides to Arrakeen was to make them vulnerable - the Empire had no idea there were so many desert fanatics.
The Fremen trained up in the Bene Gesserit 'weirding way' of combat came after the fall of House Atreides. It was a secret weapon, just not the secret weapon that the Emperor found initially threatening and made him fearful enough to assist House Harkonnen in the destruction of House Atreides.
What was Googles point in bringing that up?
Maybe Google should be submitting some sort of self edit to itself or at least public perception/assumption.
Granted, the guy doesn't come across well, but these articles always seem to bring out the frothing vindictive self-righteous types - I'm always suspicious the most vocal of these are the very nastiest of pieces of work, who know it, and are eager to identify any group that they can claim moral superiority to.
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