I was really confused at first because I read that as "SoftWithVeryGoodLegs." I was expecting an entirely different kind of wtf.
Posts made by kilroo
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RE: Na na na na na na na na na... Bat...man?
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RE: Here's a new one
@Abso said:
Or rather, the same bad idea, but with more enthusiasm behind it.
This turn of phrase entertained me greatly. I shall add it to my repertoire.
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RE: The Perfect Storm
@serguey123 said:
@blakeyrat said:
@snoofle said:
Upon arrival, I'm greeted by the REAL reason I work!
Your prostitute makes house calls?Or his dealer
What got me was the fact that it seemed at first that he meant upon arrival at the bus. Yay bus!
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RE: Windows Server 8
@blakeyrat said:
@ASheridan said:
Having not used Windows 8 Server, does it have a powerful command line interface? By powerful, I mean more powerful than the command line in Windows 7.
Go download it and knock yourself out.
BTW, since you're a Linux user and therefore entirely ignorant of Windows, I assume when you say "the" command line in Windows 7, you're referring to CMD. You're wrong; Windows 7 has several CLIs: CMD, VBScript/JScript, PowerShell. CMD is only really there for backwards compatibility and geezers who refuse to learn anything new ever. If think CMD is awful, you're right. If you think that means "the" command line in Windows 7 is awful, you're dead wrong.
@ASheridan said:
This is a feature I think Linux is much stronger on than Windows,
Windows is already on-par with Linux, and PowerShell is a much better CLI UI than Bash. Then again, smearing feces on your monitor is a better CLI UI than Bash, so...
And that's before you install more consoles for your own purposes, such as Lua, or Python, or Ruby (or the Iron versions of the latter two), or what have you. Granted, some of those you can have on Linux as well. Also granted, I haven't tried any of them except Powershell and cmd. I do like Bash considerably better than smearing feces...well, anywhere, really, though.
Also, if there are things you actually like better about bash than Powershell, you can install Cygwin and have both (Blakeyrat might consider it a horrible idea, I don't know; but you [i]can[/i]). Keeping straight how to write paths that both of them will like gets tedious sometimes though.
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RE: This isn't the project you're looking for
@derula said:
@pjt33 said:
VS solutions (workspaces in other IDEs' terminology)
Or "project groups" by other other IDEs.
Insert pedantic dickweedery about whether solutions, workspaces, and project groups are really all analagous ideas. (I actually was kind of interested that you'd draw that comparison but my questioning of what led you to do so was coming out as pedantic dickweedery anyway.)
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RE: Windows Server 8
@boomzilla said:
@blakeyrat said:
The real question to me is, why would Microsoft take the ONE thing that really differentiates their server OS from the competition and discourage its use? Yeah, I know they have a lot of big corporate installations clamoring for a fully scriptable OS, but:
1) Windows Server 2008 is already full scriptable
2) "fully scriptable" and "installs a GUI" are not mutually-exclusive anywayIs there some ssh-like ability to remote into one of these? I haven't read in depth about this stuff, but I haven't noticed anything obvious like that. I understand that there are powershell cmdlets that allow you to do stuff across the network, but that seems like it might be less convenient for some stuff.
The main reason I could think of is the general rule about installing stuff on servers: Don't install it if you don't need it. Things like the previous GDI+ vulnerabilities come to mind. In other words, any GUI based vulnerabilities simply won't be present if it isn't there. Note that I'm not making a judgment here about the pros or cons of that equation.
As I understand it, yes. I haven't messed around with that yet, though.
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RE: Web 0.2
@thistooshallpass said:
There is this big telco that also offers TV, mobile, internet, etc. They have a hugely dynamic website; there is no static navigation, the workflow is updated each time the client moves around the site in order to maximize the chances that the client will buy something. As an example, if you check the tv stuff, when you switch to the phone stuff the top links in the menu are about tv. The featured bundles are based on previous navigation. Even the type of browser has an impact on the workflow. The website is running on Weblogic, and the individual session size is about... 4MB.
I know a guy whose team of 10 devs worked for months on the small workflow starting at the moment a client selects a product and add options, until it ends up in the shopping cart. And they were no cheap staff, all experienced, J2EE gurus, BEA certified and whatnot. Major leagues. Price tag for this website: 35 millions.
So this website is awesome, it is almost magic. After completing the checkout, the user goes back to his life, confident that his order is already being processed. Well that's almost the case... what actually happened after the checkout is that a description of the order has been sent BY EMAIL to someone in a call center who punches the order manually into the system just as if it had been received by phone.
I don't know which Web version that is, but this is definitely a in-tears architecture.
FTFY
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RE: Fixed dialog sizes
@blakeyrat said:
@kilroo said:
[pedantic dickweed]You seem to have imagined one quite easily.[/pedantic dickweed]
... nope, sorry. I still think "8 MB to support all hardware" is more ludicrous.
... Ah. I didn't realize you hadn't made up your mind yet when you posted it. Or if you had, you neglected to say "No, not even that."
I'm almost inclined to give the edge to your suggestion, but only because of semantic dickweedery involving the distinction between the core kernel and loadable kernel modules...but if modules on Linux don't count toward the size of the kernel, they probably shouldn't count as not needing to download drivers separately, either.
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RE: Here's a shocker: Eclipse-based Aptana Studio sucks shit!
@Helix said:
@blakeyrat said:
@Helix said:
I read somewhere that a bit keeper user can terminal in on the BK port and from a text menu, request a clone of the repository. As far as I understand it Tridge then pulled data out of the local repository file stream.
Yes, but that's still using BitKeeper because the server is BitKeeper. He's either pulling some Bill Clinton shit and trying to redefine the word "use", or he's a liar.
That's what i thought too - maybe he got a friend to pull it off for him?
Kinky.
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RE: Fixed dialog sizes
@blakeyrat said:
@locallunatic said:
@Sutherlands said:
@MrMartijn said:
I require a blakeyrant.and why can linux make every single piece of hardware work with a 8mb kernel image,
>.>BLAKEEEYYYYY
Do I even need to say anything? It would be hard to imagine a more ludicrous claim. Maybe, "Linux single-handedly defeated the Nazis."
[pedantic dickweed]You seem to have imagined one quite easily.[/pedantic dickweed]
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RE: Here's a shocker: Eclipse-based Aptana Studio sucks shit!
I thought what got termed as "reverse engineering" bitkeeper was that someone tried to telnet into it on a whim, and it worked, and he typed "help," and it gave him a command listing. Or something. Maybe I'm thinking of a different thing.
Back on topic: I've been using Aptana as an Eclipse plugin for a while (since around when Blakeyrat liked its Javascript intellisense, I think). In my opinion, the extra few things that have to be done manually to set up the Eclipse SDK and install Aptana as a plugin instead of installing Aptana standalone are the better end of that tradeoff, but setup is still something of a hump to get past. However, I'd say it's still about as good as Eclipse-based programs get once it's set up (except maybe for Tasktop), so if they do get the path business straightened out in the next couple releases, you might find it worth trying again.
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RE: Mozilla Have Lost Their Mind - Revenge of the Sith
@fatbull said:
I am still waiting for a browser web app. Just think about it: World-wide instant upgrades! And the popular counter-argument—that you need an internet connection to use web apps—does not even apply because you need an internet connection to browse anyway! Ha! In the future, you will only have to download Xulrunner and then you can open the Firefox browser.xul directly from the Mozilla homepage! Just think of all the kittens!
Someone please kill me.
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RE: Productivity Meetings
@dhromed said:
@kilroo said:
Partly due to the assistance of my sister (two
years my senior), I could read, write (I think...I know I could write
numbers), add, subtract, and multiply (again, I think) when I was 4[...]
I'm well aware that my sister and I were not typical in that part of our
upbringing, but I still have a hard time not assuming that we should be.@Mason Wheeler said:
I was reading really simple books by age 3, and the more advanced Dr. Seuss stuff by kindergarten.
Ok, smart people have that tendency to be able to read (or, if not able, at least potentially capable). That's alright. Same here, as I said earlier. That's cool, obviously. A wealth of diverse information at your fingertips in your fundamentally formative years. You're in the top 10% or 5% or less, of all kids. I think most people on this forum are, in fact*.
So you really think it's a good idea to enforce such a strict general requirement based on that very small section of the gaussian curve?
*) except blakeyrat.
No, not really...in fact, in my opinion, my own circumstances leave me unqualified to judge whether it is realistic to expect the average child to be able to learn to read by the age of 4. But I have to make a conscious effort not to assume that most 4-year-olds can read.
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RE: Productivity Meetings
@jasmine2501 said:
@Mason Wheeler said:
@hoodaticus said:
It's not moronic at all. Teachers are glorified baby sitters. Nothing will change my mind on this until Detroit's literacy rate exceeds at least 60%.
If you believe that literacy is the teacher's responsibility, you're already hopelessly lost. That responsibility lies with the parents. If a kid doesn't enter school already knowing how to read, they're already badly disadvantaged and there's only so much a teacher can do.
BULL Shit. I have heard this time and again and it always annoys me. TEACHING is the responsibility of TEACHERS, who are specially trained to TEACH. I am a computer programmer, and I am not trained in the skills to teach a child to read. THAT'S WHAT I PAY TEACHERS FOR! Reading with my child when he was that age was a major struggle - partly because he wasn't actually being taught to read at school, but mostly because I'm not trained for that.
You're right. You should be required to have training and certification as a parent before you are allowed to reproduce.
@AndyCanfield said:
WHAT? I entered school without knowing how to read, and eventually did OK (a Master's from Stanford). Reading and 'riting and 'rithmatic were the three R's, the basic stuff that public schools were created to teach. AFAIK the whole idea was that the nation is better off if it's citizens are literate, so they created public schools to ensure that all citizens were literate.
Now it may help a kid if she can read before she gets to school. It also helps if she know calculus before she gets to college. But demanding that as a prerequiite is changing the rules of the game.
@dhromed said:?
I find your comment nonsensical. School teaches kids to read.
I don't know how it is in the US, but kids go to school at 4 years here. You enter grade 1 and 2, e.g. kindergarten, which is mostly fucking about. Then move on to Base School, starting at grade 3. You are now 6. I was 5 because I was already capable of reading and skipped grade 2.
In grade three kids learn to read. Things like Tree, House, Fish, Dog, Cat. Cursive writing. Aa Bb Cc Dd. Controlling a fountain pen.
There was a math exercise in grade 8 that playfully introduced me to x!. Grade 7 and 8 teach some basic English.
Obviously, parents should expose their kids to reading material by having books of every kind around, and by reading stories to them. But to say that school should be deferred until basic literacy is fully achieved (~8, 9 years) is poppycock.
See, I have a hard time grasping arguments like this because I am in a poor position regarding grounds for comparison. Partly due to the assistance of my sister (two years my senior), I could read, write (I think...I know I could write numbers), add, subtract, and multiply (again, I think) when I was 4 (division, as I recall, took me a little longer to grasp). The two of use were home-schooled until I was 8 (I don't remember when we started but I suspect that I was included starting when I was 4), at which point we transferred into a private school using the same curriculum, and I had to repeat 4th grade (We don't number them the same way here...where you have Grade 1, 2, 3, etc, we have K-4, K-5, then 1, 2, 3...so 4th grade for me would have been chronologically equivalent to your grade 6) math...because I had been a grade ahead in that subject. I don't recall getting it through my head that being able to read books (children's book, to be sure, but books nonetheless) without assistance before the age of 5 was unusual until the following year, in a combined 5th and 6th grade class, when it registered with me that even some of the 6th graders had trouble reading.I'm well aware that my sister and I were not typical in that part of our upbringing, but I still have a hard time not assuming that we should be.
...I think nowadays in America we're no longer teaching cursive, at least not in all schools, and I definitely did not have the benefit of school instruction in learning to control a fountain pen, although somehow I've never made a disastrous mess with one. Just several illegible messes and a few halfway respectable sentences or signatures.
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RE: How I know I need to take a break
Oh, and by the way...maintainability I'll readily grant, because you don't have to maintain your own home-rolled library for things like event management and .closest and .remove...but if one were doing this without the benefit of a prebuilt library (or a framework, if I have to settle for one), it wouldn't necessarily turn out much less readable, if at all. At least, if one bothered to refactor it. Shoot, I actually wrote something remarkably similar several years ago that was arguably more readable...not to be conflated with good or maintainable. If I remember correctly, it used DOM 0 events. Which is both why it might have been more readable, and the main reason it was less maintainable. As soon as we needed two events delegated to the same parent it would have gotten ugly.
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RE: How I know I need to take a break
@Ragnax said:
@Rhywden said:
What I forgot: My approach works always, no matter what you're doing to the contents inside the table (okay, unless they're nesting a table inside a table - but that should land them in the 6th circle of Hell anyway).
His approach breaks as soon as his action-tags become more nested (thus moving down one level in the DOM) or less nested (thus moving up one level). Which means that rewriting the design also requires a rewrite of the code.
Maybe less dependency between code and design is a better argument, yes? :)You're still potentially binding a ton of separate event handlers and you have to take care that they're also bound to the delete action whenever a fresh row is added. Better to solve both problems at once by tapping into more of the framework's power and using delegated events:
<table id="datatable"> <tr> <td>...</td> <td>...</td> <td><input value="delete" class="action-delete" type="button"></td> </tr> </table> <script> $( document ).ready( function() { $( "#datatable" ).delegate( ".action-delete", "click", function( event ) { event.preventDefault(); $( this ).closest( "tr" ).remove(); }); }); </script>
Imho this nicely illustrates why frameworks like jQuery are practically a necessity if you want to produce well-written, well-behaving, and efficient JavaScript DOM manipulation code. Writing the equivalent in the raw DOM API is nowhere near as readable or maintainable.
This also illustrates one of my biggest problems with jQuery, which is not so much a problem with the framework itself as it is a problem with its effect on people who learn jQuery instead of javascript...especially those who haven't bothered to learn any new features since 1.4.1. It's so darn easy to use $(selector).click() that .delegate gets overlooked a lot.
The jQuery documentation is good enough, and they've introduced enough features I like in the last .3 versions or so, that the only objection I have to the framework itself is that I personally prefer choosing my tools per need over having one package provide me with everything it thinks I'll ever need (for example, .delegate and sizzle are okay, but I personally like NWMatcher and NWEvents better). But I still think of it as the PHP or VB (both of which I use, by the way, because they're what get me paid) of the Javascript world in terms of the stereotype resulting from its low barrier to entry.
That said, jQuery has progressed to the point now where if I were working on web projects again, I might pick it over whatever combination of more specialized libraries I might otherwise use just because of how many visitors would probably already have the latest google cdn version in cache.
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RE: Overcoding?
@zelmak said:
... I hope you do realize that 'we three strings' was me having fun with anonymization?
Now let's come up with a way to duplicate this functionality in the R programming language using OrientDB somehow...
Granted, I know almost nothing about either R or OrientDB except the names, but...I think my suggestion may actually be not only stupid, but phenomenally stupid.
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RE: Expensive Analytics Software WTF
@D-Coder said:
Who in the nine billion names of God has a 47-character name for a server? That's the Real WTF. They could have used a guid and been shorter.
What, God needs nine billion names but one measly little server can't have 47 characters? Did He use them all up? (That said, my mind does boggle a bit at a server name that long, but it's Blakeyrat. If there weren't some rationalized (or even rational) reason for it, I would have thought he'd wtf that at us too.)
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RE: Git vs. SVN and what NOT to do...
@superjer said:
Git has a tool for this. It's called filter-branch. For example:
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch .svn' HEAD
As seen here: http://help.github.com/remove-sensitive-data/
That will replay the entire history of the current branch, removing anything named .svn from each commit. It will change the commit hashes. It won't delete the actual .svn dirs in the working copy.
You should be able to retain all the history as well, using a couple of branches and a rebase. Convert the original SVN history into a new git branch, svnhist. Then rebase:
git checkout master
git rebase svnhist
That will replay all the history of master on top of the svnhist branch. Assuming the original git commit was identical to where the SVN history ended, there shouldn't even be any merge conflicts.
Then you can import the full history back to SVN. Even though SVN sucks. :)
There's this odd little voice in the back of my head suggesting that the fact that recovering from this with history intact AND switching back to svn is an argument in favor of git being overall better than subversion, and that the fact that it took this many posts before we got someone who knew it could be this easy is an argument in favor of not trying to teach git to people who have a hard time getting the hang of new things.(That said, I like git better than svn myself, although due to how I have to be able to do things at work I know Bazaar and Mercurial better and mostly use Mercurial.)
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RE: Ow ow ow ... this.isAbuse()
@tchize said:
@Whoa314 said:
Calling AbstractFrame.this is ugly syntax; it makes it look like you are getting a static member of AbstractFrame.
At least it's better than creating an actual Field.
Speak about ugly syntax:
<font face="terminal,monaco">Outer outerInstance = new Outer();
Outer.Inner inner = outerInstance.new Outer.Inner();</font>So, you were under Oveur and over Unger.
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RE: The Other Boiling Point
@dohpaz42 said:
@Zemm said:
[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated.
NOTE FOR NON-AMERICANS:
Five pennies = One nickel; Two nickels = One dime; Two and a half dimes = One quarter; Two quarters = One half-dollar; Two half-dollars = One dollar; Five dollars = One finski; Two finskis = One sawbuck; Ten sawbucks = One Benjamin
Granted, not as complicated as the £sd system, but if you include nicknames of money you can complicate it. (I had to confirm the names on Wikipedia, are there others?)
1 c-note = 100 bucks; a dime could be either 10 cents or $10,000 - it all depends on context. "A buck and a quarter" could mean $1.25 or $125, again depending on context. If you really want slang, go for a Washington ($1), Lincoln ($5), Jackson ($20), or Benjamin ($100).[/quote]Zemm's post is the first time I ever heard of a finski. The context-driven magnification of "dime" and variations of "buck" do get rather silly, though, in my opinion. (Especially since I'm pretty sure I've also heard a buck fifty used to mean $150,000.)
You can also get into some fun at the high end of the scale once you get to, say, a billion...which probably won't confuse anyone who knows you're American, but might make some Europeans think you're even richer if they don't know where you're from (see milliard); and at the lower end of the scale, while our current coinage is in multiples of 5 and (with the exception of the nickel and possibly the dime) at least somewhat linguistically indicative of value relative to a dollar...the American use of the word "bit" for currency (two bits is a quarter) probably only makes cents (ha ha) in Americanized context. Unless there are other countries that used to chop silver dollars into pieces to make change.
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RE: Meters, Yard, Same Thing . . .
@gramie said:
100 meters has 1 significant digit. When converting, what is the point of saying 109.36 yards, when the distance is clearly a rough estimate anyway? I would say that using an inappropriate conversion is worse.
It was actually 9.36 yards from the near edge of the explosion to the far edge.
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RE: Thunderbird 5
@ender said:
@kilroo said:
Apparently, while Opera still doesn't support (as far as I can tell) making the x button on a tab or middle-clicking on a tab close and focus previous
What do you mean by "focus previous"? Opera has the following settings for behaviour when closing tabs: "Activate the last active tab", "Activate the next tab", "Activate the first tab opened from the current tab" (with my preference being "Activate the last active tab"; strangely, this was somewhat broken between 10.50 and 11.0, and only fixed in the 11.10 betas).I phrased it that way because the keyboard shortcut ends up being for "Close Page & Switch to Previous Page." What I mean is the active tab closes and the next tab to receive focus is the tab that was previously immediately to the left of the closing tab (or the new leftmost tab, if the closing tab was previously the leftmost).
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RE: Thunderbird 5
@bannedfromcoding said:
@kilroo said:
As far as I can tell, I still can't set it so that when I close a tab it activates the tab to the left (or the new leftmost tab if the one I closed was leftmost). That's a critical feature for me.
I find that slightly odd, I always want the tab to the right, but I won't argue here. Indeed, I don't see that available. But... this is the very first time I've heard anyone asking for that. Maybe post a wishlist bug? After all, they won't add it if no one (including their internal devs) asks for it...
Apparently, while Opera still doesn't support (as far as I can tell) making the x button on a tab or middle-clicking on a tab close and focus previous, it does support adding a toolbar button, mouse gesture, or keyboard shortcut (including w ctrl) for that action, apparently. Well, considering how unlikely I am to click the x on any browser tab except by accident and the fact that if I middle-click a tab to close it it probably wasn't focus, that toolbar button might work just fine for me.
...And the page where I learned the above was easier for me to find than anything that clearly indicated whether this has been wishlisted before, but it probably has, and I'll look again later.
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RE: Thunderbird 5
@blakeyrat said:
@kilroo said:
Okay. I don't do any transcoding, but I'm perfectly willing to believe that IO is the problem. The reason I look for processor usage first is because experience has taught me that if everything slows down, and I close whatever program the system reports is at 99% CPU usage, the system stops slowing down.I don't really pay attention to my memory usage unless things start to be unresponsive, and even then only after I look for runaway processor usage.
An unresponsive system is far, far, far more likely to be due to IO than processor usage. I frequently do MP4 transcoding on my computers, which involves "runaway processor usage" (that is, the MP4 encoder takes up every iota of CPU power it can get its greedy mitts on), and the system stays responsive enough to play World of Warcraft at the same time.
@blakeyrat said:@kilroo said:
based on my limited experiences with Vista,
Meaning, "I read a bad review of it the first week it came out, and then Slashdot made fun of it."
Meaning, "I tried the beta once, my mother's copy of it a handful of times, and various friends' computers at widely separate intervals." I think I gave the wrong impression by saying "based on" rather than "probably due to." I'm flattered that you cared, though.
@blakeyrat said:... anyway, what are you getting at here? In response to my claim that the typical Linux user would prefer XP because it has "less new stuff", and would probably turn on the Classic theme to boot, you responded, that you use Linux, prefer Windows XP over Windows 7, and turn on the Classic theme. So... in what way are you "not typical?" You have the exact opinion I predicted you'd have.
No, I have something close to the behavior you predicted I'd have. (Although I did specifically say I do not prefer XP over 7, you seem to have missed that part. Windows 7 is great.) What I found entertaining was mostly the difference between my reasons for that behavior and those outlined in your stereotype. -
RE: Thunderbird 5
@blakeyrat said:
Think of it this way: Linux users are frequently what I like to call "luddites", meaning they hate change and using new software/interfaces/etc. They're likely to dismiss usability improvements, saying that the software just "looks pretty". They'll be concerned about things like memory and disk usage of software that the majority of people aren't concerned about.
This type of person, if using Windows, would prefer XP over Vista or Windows 7, because it has less new stuff in it. They default to "looking pretty", and some native apps (like Paint) don't even let you turn the "prettiness" off. Vista and Windows 7 have more aggressive disk caching, and thus to the Linux user "uses more memory".
The same sort of person who uses Linux would, if they used Windows, prefer Windows XP. They probably also change Windows XP to look like Windows 2000, and disable features like System Restore which "waste disk space".
I found this one interesting...I seem not to be typical.
I switched from Windows to Linux largely because I thought a change might be nice.
I don't really pay attention to my memory usage unless things start to be unresponsive, and even then only after I look for runaway processor usage.
I don't prefer Windows XP over 7, but I did prefer it over Vista based on my limited experiences with Vista, and so far I haven't felt it worth the price of 7 to upgrade at home when I am running Windows only in a virtual machine or on a tertiary computer.
I changed Windows XP to Classic mode because I thought the default theme was ugly (particularly when adjusted not to take up so much vertical space for the title bars...I was on 1024x768 back then and the difference bothered me). I also used Litestep for a long time back when I wasn't on windows yet, but while it's been a long time, I don't recall Litestep affecting the window decorations, so those would have still been some color scheme of Classic.
System Restore always struck me as a pretty valid use of disk space, although I can't recall whether it ever helped me. I may be confusing it with "Last Known Good," which always seemed to be just as broken as whatever had me trying to use it. Unless System Restore was what provided Last Known Good, in which case I'd probably just broken it somehow.
I do have to admit that my fvwm theme is pretty spartan, though.
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RE: Thunderbird 5
@derula said:
Ah, so seems that current versions are pretty much up-to-speed now on the costumizability part.
As far as I can tell, I still can't set it so that when I close a tab it activates the tab to the left (or the new leftmost tab if the one I closed was leftmost). That's a critical feature for me.
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RE: Thunderbird 5
- I would kind of expect the spinner, personally.
- I could do without all the options for the folder pane except Unified Folders, although there seem to be a couple of kinks left to work out with Junk and Archives in Thunderbird 3. However, I'm not sure there's any point even making Unified Folders available unless you have multiple accounts set up. Possibly multiple IMAP accounts, specifically, but I'm less sure of that.
- Mozilla might not have a theme that doesn't look like crap. All the good ones might be third-party contributions. Windows XP, on the other hand, had the Classic theme...but I digress.
- I agree categorically with anything that can be covered under "If it looks like a toolbar or menu bar, I should have some way to reposition it and anything on it however I want."
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RE: Oh how we laughed in those golden days, before ...
@blakeyrat said:
@boomzilla said:
IYKWIMAITTYD
I have no fucking clue what that means. I think I worked it out once, but if I did, it's completely forgotten by now.
I decree that from now on, it means: "I yak king with it, Massachusetts and it totally tramples your dad."
"If you know what I mean" I had gotten. I like your version for the rest of it.
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RE: Mozilla have lost their mind - Part 2
@Zecc said:
@blakeyrat said:
Ok, I see what you're talking about now. That is a bit annoying, that you can't turn it off. But it's not like it's a huge departure from previous versions of Windows, so... the problem is really the (new) ability to move applications around on the taskbar leads to the illusion that you should also be able to move each window's button individually, which isn't the case.
It is a departure from previous versions. I'm currently running Vista with grouping disabled and I have: Firefox, Windows update, Explorer, Acrobat Reader, Explorer, Notepad++, Firefox, Firefox. These are ordered chronologically, in the order I've opened them. If I open a new window its button will appear right-most, not inside some group I need to look for.It is indicative of the number of years that I and the rest of my immediate family have spent with our Windows taskbars moved to one [i]side[/i] of the screen that, even though on my primary Linux machine the equivalent of a taskbar is at the top of one monitor, I tripped over the word "right-most," thinking "Wait, why does this person have tasks going sideways?"
Mental conditioning yay.
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RE: Misspelled something? No problem, use an alias!
@RHuckster said:
document.getElementByEgo('donaldtrump');
FUNCTION_NOT_FOUND
Dammit, I wanted to summon him and punch him in the face. Oh well.
'donaldtrump' is more likely his ID, not his ego. I suppose it might be the same thing, but he still wouldn't bother answering you.
I'm now tempted to write something that uses document.getElementBySuperego at some point. Far, far more tempted than I've ever been to write anything that uses jQuery.
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RE: Business user emails are nearly as bad as SOAP
@Xyro said:
I just received an email with an attached jpeg of a (badly cropped) screen shot of a Word document containing an embedded screen shot of a completely text-based screen.
Yes.
Yes, it is true.
I just thought you'd all like to know.
Why do I receive these so frequently?? Is someone in the company explicitly training folks to communicate this way?? Aaarrg
How could someone go to that much trouble and forget the wooden table?
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RE: There is no free lunch
@RHuckster said:
@DaveK said:
Is C** anything like C++ and C#? I never even heard of it! ;-)
Pfft, if you look at your keyboard, you can tell right away it's an honest typo. He meant to say C((
Nah, it was supposed to be /\bC[A-Z]O\b/. Easy typo to make.
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RE: Pricing problems
@SilentRunner said:
I'd like to know how you seen it. Is seening something different that sawing it?
TRWTF is not knowing the language, be it C, VB, Perl or English.
Indeed.
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RE: Self-referential
@Someone You Know said:
@dhromed said:
@Lorne Kates said:
@El_Heffe said:
Yes, I have noticed that Vista always.
Except when it.
I don't even.
That would explain why you're so.
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RE: An error was unable to be described usefully
There are people out there who PREFER Winzip's UI to 7-zip's? Consider my mind boggled. Raise your own standards.
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RE: InduceBrowserCrashForRealz
I'd rather see something in Comic Sans than in Courier. At least it's sans.
It's rare that the use of a font that is not Bitstream, Lucida, or Consolas strikes me as an improvement over using one of those three, and those rare cases are usually in header-type situations.
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RE: Mozilla have lost their mind
I hate Chromium's tabs, and last time I checked Opera still had no way of focusing the next tab to the left on tab close (for that matter, the way Chromium does it sometimes means the tab to the right is shown for a split second and then it switches).
I should take another look at Midori and Kaze sometime soon and re-catalog why I don't use them except on my laptop.
I've been using Midori a lot lately on my phone. Starts up quicker than Fennec and seems easier to work with than MicroB. Opera starts up quickly too, though. Maybe I'll try it out some more as well.
...Of course, I'm writing this from a Webkit tab in Lunascape.
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RE: Android looks to the future
I wonder if gravity has an effect on the teleportation of goats.
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RE: Progress
@frits said:
@blakeyrat said:
@frits said:
It's not the midwest's fault you guys all decided to crowd together like cockroaches hiding behind a fridge. Spread out a little, it's a huge, empty, country. I mean, hell, it's been a state for like a century now, and there's *still* nothing worthwhile in Utah.@SQLDave said:
We've got a snow melter here in the Midwest, too. We call it "the sun".
That doesn't fly when you can have >50000 people/ sq. mile.
Like all successful cockroaches, we know where the food is.
Isn't most of it in the midwest?
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RE: Microsoft's three-value boolean
@DaveK said:
@blakeyrat said:
@DaveK said:
Except that you aren't. You're comparing a GUI for an 8-bit home games machine from 1986 with one for a 16-bit small-office workstation from 1990. Some might consider that relevant to the comparison.Waittaminnit, now you think a valid comparison is that 8-bit OS that ran on Commdore-64s? GEM was pretty horrid, I'll agree, but Mac, Amiga and X11 were all far in advance of and far more user-friendly than Windows 3.
Yes, I think it's valid to compare one GUI for home computers in 1991 with another GUI for home computers in 1991.
I have a pretty strong suspicion that the intended comparison was to 16-bit PC/GEOS, or Geoworks Ensemble, which was released in 1990; which my family's second computer used (first one was a C64); and which I personally thought had a better interface than Windows 3.1. I still sometimes miss that little screwdriver icon for bolting a menu open.
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RE: Questions asked while teaching Windows Vista and Computer Hardware courses
@Helix said:
@dhromed said:
This analogy is getting away from us fast.
i blame the tesla roaster
Now I want to cook dinner using a tesla coil.
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RE: Cracks and Keygen's
That's a shame. I was hoping for "Don't Copy That Floppy." But that wouldn't have made sense in context.
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RE: All Weather
@dhromed said:
In any case, it's a lot of dashes (hyphen-minus), and we're still no closer to that regex.
It's becoming a problem.
You shouldn't stand too close to a regex. You might be hit by a ping-pong ball or a hailstone of equal volume.