You Windows users are still using the command line? Why not switch to Linux where we have a choice of numerous UI's to suit every taste (and quite a few that propably suit none - fvwm95, anyone?)
You must have an iPhone. X is not the problem. And Google are deeply in the pit of hell as the rest of the problem makers! They, like all the other "high tech" morons, keep bloody reworking the UI.
If Linux is to have a chance, someone has to do a Gnome2/XP like interface, and not keep changing it. Serious users want drop down text menus with meaningful function names. They do not want wierd looking coloured blobs with no inherent meaning that vanish with each new release to be replaced by a completely unrelated, wierd coloured blob, that does something the same, only different. Nor do they want (Google, I am looking at Android Lollipop) something that looks like a Fisher-Price toy and doesn't work - for business!
For most non technical users Its like car manufacturers kept moving the pedals around with every new model. (They used to do that, till the governments stopped them).
You have no idea how many people have to go to classes to learn how to "press the left mouse button". If I were running a large government department, I would mandate "drop down text menus whose location, structure and font will not be changed for the next 20 years" for all software bids.
Who the hell uses "modern touch screen devices" in the workplace other than the McDonalds sales team?
Most workplaces use a PC for
a) Word
b) The Intranet
c) Some businesss specific Access app (probably for their timesheets).
Access to pron^H^H^H^H the internet is only marginally more available than in North Korea, and probably more effectively monitored.
Most workplaces are not doing software develiopment or research. They are doing actual work and that involves lifting and carrying, bending down, walking around and absolutely nothing that involves a computer.
"Most people" do cleaning, care work, cook food, drive trucks, farm, repair stuff (excluding those who do drugs and don't have a workplace at all). There are most certainly more supermarket shelf stackers than software developers. Hell, even primary school teachers barely use a computer, and that is probably still runnng XP in most state schools. Hint: Get out of the damned basement!
Some people do not manage remove servers over long periods.
You install three identical servers: one running the public facing web server, one running the database server, connected by a separate, private network. The third one is available for the new version of the software to be installed, and then activated. Once the software is upgraded on all three, you keep it runnning as a hot standby. If reliable service to clients is not worth more than the cost of running a hot standby, you probably would not have any servers in a colo.
Because they have to eat and pay the rent. Here in London, because both major parties believe a housing shortage will help them*, and lies about it, rents are often more than 50% of salary.
It is not easy to get a job. If it was, things would change fast - mostly imigration would increase to bring in even more people who don't understand the cost of living until too late.
Conservatives thing rising prices will make existing home owners vote for them as it makes them "richer".
Labour think housing shortages will make those in social housing more desperate to vote for them.
High frequency traders are busy looking at the next 1 second's report. If they can buy AFTER they sell by taking advantage of the fact that two different trading platforms do it two different ways, then there is a serious risk that the dollar will be toast
No one cares if it takes one second longer to log in to a
Quite a few people care that there are traders who probably have devoted weeks to figuring out how to sell the entire content of Fort Knox, and buy it back one second later (or earlier, according to which time standard you are using) at half price.
I care about these things. It seems like some other people do too.
The solution is, of course, "international agreement" on how to handle the issue. Does not matter which approach, so long as everyone agrees on it. Good luck with that one.
To hell with it! The Mafia cannot be made illegal - it would be a crime!
They also need a "Do not put any commercial results in here - I am not planning to buy anything, and have no intention of clicking on anything that looks like an advert - and I AM SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING SWITCHING TO BING" option.
The answer is "that was a dumb question"
You cannot share a cake between zero people. The cake may be still whole, but no person has a part of it of any size. Maybe they "could" have a part of almost any size, but that was not the question. (Maybe it should have been, but in that case, you have to provide for different max and min answers, and should have asked the question differently ).
What is the answer to x/0? The answer is "you have got the question wrong!" - otherwise known as Error: divide by zero.
How you report a divide by zero error, is of course somewhat context dependent. Silently ignoring it could well be the right approach if decoding VoIP. If controling a driverless truck - probably is not .
Conclusion: Yes, after rather more than 70 years of computing, we actually have got this one right!
UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker
