Word bug of the day
Posted on November 24th, 2011 by Infidel
Choose a point in a paragraph and put the caret there. Type delete three times. Count how many times you need to hit backspace before a backspace actually occurs. I count four.
Choose a point in a paragraph and put the caret there. Type delete three times. Count how many times you need to hit backspace before a backspace actually occurs. I count four.
LRSS2: Defender is the working name of my iOS game. This is the first entry in the development journal.
I will post screenshots etc. of what I have already got shortly.
Tonight I updated the version of PVRShell I was using to the 2.8 release. Tricky part was merging in my touch handling code – I deal with 11 touches, the POWERVR SDK only does 1. Sadly, I can’t see an easy way of feeding this back right now as I have to hackily include the PVRTools in the PVRShell to achieve this at the moment. It’s probably not that hard, mind.
I’ll probably update the PVRTools that I’m using soon as well – although I’ll have to merge in more improvements there, I suspect.
Especially if you add it to a virtual function that’s supposed to be overridden and don’t add it to the overriding functions.
Oops.
I don’t hold with most mystical philosophy nonsense, but every now and again I see something that makes sense:
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius
Why? Because it is very true and I wish I’d understood this earlier (see Mr Russell’s observation too).
At least that’s the user pic I chose at random on my work iMac.
Although it wasn’t obvious that this why an orange appeared at the top of my emails in Mail – no tool-tip or anything.
“Broadly speaking, it is held that getting money is good and spending money is bad. Seeing that they are two sides of one transaction, this is absurd; one might as well maintain that keys are good, but keyholes are bad. Whatever merit there may be in the production of goods must be entirely derivative from the advantage to be obtained by consuming them.”
–Bertrand Russell
“I don’t want to be reaching around on a vertical surface all day – my hands will get tired. It’d be so awkward!”
Why on earth do people assume that touch interfaces to desktops, laptops or whatever, will remain vertical and not be adjustable to an angle that’s comfortable to work at? My 6 year old laptop screen already does this and it doesn’t even have a touch screen. The iMac in front of me can lean back a bit already. I’ve read so many complaints like the one above, often from apparently very knowledgeable people on sometimes very specialist forums, it beggars belief. Every one seems to forget that your real desktop that you reach about on and touch is still horizontal, just like it was 30 years ago before computers became so typical. Obviously, one reason for this choice of inclination is to stop things falling off, but, for instance, draughtsman working on large paper designs used to work at an angle, because it was easier for them – touch screens will be adjustable to the angle you want to work at. I could quite easily imagine multiple surfaces at different angles depending on their function – think about the Nintendo DS or imagine a music studio with mixer channels at a shallow angle with sound information etc. displayed on a more conventional screen. Would these all be touch enabled? Perhaps not initially, perhaps not ever. Perhaps not until the technology became so ubiquitous that not having it would be considered unusual. After all, reaching out and touching a vertical surface might be the most intuitive thing to do occasionally, even if it is a little awkward for constant use.
The other huge assumption is that as soon as touch screens become available then we’ll suddenly have to throw away all our mice and keyboards and be entirely restricted to working/playing with the touch screen. Doesn’t anybody remember when computer mice became popular? We had all these complaints then – it never seemed to occur to people that 25 years on we’d still see “QWERTY” every time we sat at a machine. On the whole, computer interfaces are additions to each other that may overlap in use, but entire replacements are rare. This will be exactly the same. Perhaps the reason people are getting so upset is because of the way mobile devices are developing, but in a stationary environment, space and weight concerns are not so severe and so input choice can be much more varied.
Steps:
Disclaimer: this worked for me – your mileage may vary…
Dry biscuits, Christmas fixtures and people who enter computers across a network covertly. The last definition is not also a definition of the meaning of the word “hacker”. No dispute. Simple facts. Nothing to see here.
So I was saddened to see that the cancer that plagues Wikipedia, specifically the insistence of ignorant people with too much time on their hands to meddle with information posted by professionals and other specialists in their areas, had spread to this article:
I suppose I should just be glad that there’s no suggesting that passwords consist entirely of three letter words and that computer pros all wear inline skates constantly. As if I’d get to fool around in a swimming pool with Angelina just ’cause I can bypass a Windows login…
So I’m trying to write an Applescript in ScriptEditor (don’t ask) and I’m used to Xcode. So I do a couple of lines and hit Command-B which would build my project in Xcode. Except it doesn’t do that in ScriptEditor (obviously), it does something else. What I’d like is some nice standard way that a program will report what I just did and how to undo it (if possible).BTW in ScriptEditor Command-B just switches on bold type (wtf this has to do with scripting I don’t know – huh?). However, in the other use cases for this option – the “I-Guessed-That-This-Shortcut-Would-Do-This-But-Was-Surprised-To-Find-It-Didn’t-What-The-Hell-Has-Happened-To-My-Work-Now” Case or the similar “I-Hit-The-Wrong-Keys-With-My-Sausage-Fingers-WTF-Just-Happened” case – I feel it might be more useful.
