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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)
« Last post by wraith808 on April 22, 2011, 06:08 PM »Or maybe to make a unique thread for this, and keep updating the first post.
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The idea is to look for reviews on other sites and post about them on review day-housetier (April 22, 2011, 08:01 AM)
Oh just close it already lol-Stephen66515 (April 21, 2011, 07:00 PM)
I might not see the LOL part in it. But I think I'm pretty much in agreement with the rest of Stephen's comment to wit: "...just close it already."-40hz (April 21, 2011, 07:19 PM)
A lot of times when I have a problem I have to code a solution for, I check there first to see if someone else has already done it.It is possible to ignore individual threads in the DC forum. Would it not be a good idea to be able to have an option like 'ignore forum section', so none of the threads created in that section will appear for those who do want that?
Seems the best compromise to me, giving anyone the option to ignore sections if they so desire.-Shades (April 21, 2011, 01:37 PM)
$0.02 -> Keep the section (there must have been a rationale for creating it in the first place) but have some strong guidelines that people must view and adhere to before posting. No personal attacks, etc, etc. That way it's all confined to one place and people are well aware of what they should/shouldn't be doing before they post.-nosh (April 21, 2011, 01:01 PM)
IMO some of the very best and most insightful (is that a word?) posts I've ever read were here during Linux/FOSS ...um...'discussions.'
Didn't matter if the comments were for or against. Most were well considered and very well written. Learned a lot reading and participating in some of those threads. Sharpened my thinking and deepened my respect for more than one DoCo member. (Good stuff!)-40hz (April 21, 2011, 07:25 AM)
[just in case noone noticed, this thread was 2 years old and was revived by necro spamming by a bot]
-jgpaiva (April 20, 2011, 04:11 PM)
I've tried Linux over, and over, and over again.
<snip... though all of this applies too />
It's just that Windows does everything I need my home PC to do, and Linux is still more trouble than it's worth for daily use.-cthorpe (April 20, 2011, 01:35 PM)
Also, and please do not take this the wrong way, I wonder if the oddities in tone, humor, and how BartlesMedia "does business" is, at least somewhat, a product of English not being his first language. I say this because I have worked with many such individuals who's writing has similar issues. As a teacher, I can attest that tone is difficult for many native speakers to master, let alone non-native speakers.-cthorpe (April 20, 2011, 11:24 AM)
But then again, that's the company bosses' duty - maximising long-term returns.Nope not necessarily. Just maximising returns.-johnk (April 20, 2011, 07:23 AM)
In a meeting with several high powered executives (many of well known companies), a presenter asked the question in an icebreaker exercise, "If you had the choice of (a) a slow measured growth over 10 years, doubling stock price, but the company being strong in its industry, or (b) increasing the stock price 5x over the next year, but the company being out of business in 5 years, which would you choose?"
After tallying the results, over 80% chose (b). And that's pretty much true for corporations...-wraith808 (April 20, 2011, 10:47 AM)
Well, all I can say is that the first thing you're taught at business school (yes, I did...) is that your duty is to maximize long-term returns. Any idiot can boost short-term returns, and, believe it or not, shareholders do worry about the long-term and have intelligent analysts who will see through and flag up short-term thinking by bad managers (obviously I am referring to the big shareholders, the pension funds and so on, not the hedge fund cowboys trying to make a fast buck).-johnk (April 20, 2011, 11:11 AM)
Like mentioned moving about is good, your eyes too, every 20 minutes or so make sure your eyes are concentrated on something farther away for 30 seconds.
As far as standing all day it would probably kill my ankle.-rgdot (April 20, 2011, 08:59 AM)
But then again, that's the company bosses' duty - maximising long-term returns.-johnk (April 20, 2011, 07:23 AM)
Am I the only person having a problem with the way BartlesMedia responded in this thread?-40hz (April 20, 2011, 08:14 AM)
nice story 40hz!-mouser (April 18, 2011, 06:53 PM)
Only in retrospect. That reprimand set the tone for the rest of my tenure with that company. I got passed over for a promotion twice because of it.-40hz (April 18, 2011, 09:22 PM)
The GeForce 430 is probably (guesstimate, haven't looked at specs!) more power-hungry than the old card. Perhaps the PSU isn't delivering enough Watts, or is slightly flake and have voltages that drift too much? Could also be a motherboard problem, if it's voltage regulators are flunky; there's been known problems with too cheap capacitators on several motherboards.-f0dder (April 17, 2011, 09:05 AM)
I don't think I have ever read any EULA. When I did scroll down to the very end it was because otherwise the continue button wouldn't activate.-housetier (April 18, 2011, 01:49 PM)
My current solution will be to stick with dropbox until this is fixed -- I don't have this problem with dropbox, as I said. They must use a different delta backup algorithm.That, or DropBox uses special handling for certain files, including access databases?-Armando (April 18, 2011, 12:49 PM)-f0dder (April 18, 2011, 01:02 PM)
FWIW:
Dropbox was unable to backup my database until it was closed -
SpiderOak is able to back it up while it's open-tomos (April 18, 2011, 01:23 PM)
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