Oh the irony
http://www.snopes.com/autos/accident/seatbelt.asp
Oh the irony
http://www.snopes.com/autos/accident/seatbelt.asp
[quote user="Albatross"]
That's better than the one I have - I have one of those motion detectors that you put in your back yard, so if you're working out there at night the light automaticially comes on. The switching logic says that when the switch is off, the detector and lights are off, and when the switch is on, the detector is on. BUT, if you switch it off and then on again with 30 seconds, it goes into "perminant-on" mode, where the light won't turn off. To clear this setting, you have to switch it off, then wait 30 seconds, then switch it back on. But then you have to wait for the inactivity timer to time out (2-3 minutes) to see the light goes out to see if it is still stuck in perma-on mode, which it could very well be, because it's difficult to wait a full 30 seconds when you're in a hurry to leave/go to bed! Arrgh!!!! </rant>
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What a stupid design. It would me much simpler to have a 3-state switch where user could select between 3 modes: "off", "auto", "on". Problem solved.
This sort of half-assed solution kinda reminds me of my car's odometer. It has a LED display that can either display a clock or mileage. And one single button. To switch between 2 modes, you just press the one button. Now, to adjust the clock, you must hold the button, wait a bit, release and adjust the hour by pressing the button. Then, to adjust the minutes, you must HOLD the button again, wait, release and adjust the minutes accordingly. To reset the odometer, you must enter odometer mode, hold the button, wait, release. Oh, I nearly forgot. These adjustments require you turn the engine on.
I guess it never happened to them using two buttons for this task.
Wow. It has threaded view.
But, so far, design mode doesn't work well in FF1.5 on ubuntu.
The preview works...
I can even edit!
I disagree. Calendar drops and DatePickers require mouse clicking and that is bad for productivity. Ideally, user must be able to choose between (a) directly typing it in locale's format (this format should be informed next to the editbox) or (b) a datePicker. In case of (a), user is choosing for productivity, in case of (b), he's choosing ease-of-use.
There's a similar problem for city/country selection. Usually the user is presented to big, crowded list of countries. I'd rather type my country's name than search for it inside such a list. This drop-down thingie is usually there to standardize the spelling (ie, matching your "city" field in your personal informado to exactly one record in the "cities" table). IMO, this a rich place for an auto-completing AJAX component which would save both bandwidth load (by not sending whole list of countries) and user patience (typing is ALWAYS faster than clicking).
@Joost_ said:
"SQL" appears to stand for "SQL Query Language"
Let me see, they're charging $9,99 for this
$ cat file.html | sed -e 's/^(.*)$/echo "\1";/g' > file.php
I don't know what is dumber... He who sells it or he who BUYS it...
brillant!