Ubuntu 6.06 criticisms from a programmer

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:45:05 +0000, bill wrote:

> How about, if you haven't got a clue how it works you have no business 
> using it?

You won't sell very many consumer products that way. :o)

 

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:50:46 -0500, Bit Twister wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:16:27 -0500, user wrote:
>>
>> What the hells a cylinder rod? Ive been fixing cars for 40 years but I 
>> aint never heard of a cylinder rod. A cylinder is a hole that the piston 
>> sits in. The connecting rod connects the piston to the crank, is that 
>> what you mean, the connecting rod?
> 
> Maybe I misnamed it, 
> What do you call the dohicky that connects the connecting rod to the piston?

Are you talking about that round thing-a-ma-jig?

arachnid wrote:
>>What do you call the dohicky that connects the connecting rod to the piston?
> Are you talking about that round thing-a-ma-jig?

Gudgeon pin?

Bit Twister wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:43:52 GMT, bill wrote:
> 
>> Like a Windows Internet and a Linux/Mac/everyone else Internet? I wish.
> 
> That is an idea at that. 
> Or maybe no OS on net unless it conforms to standards.

I would go for that.
Windows for simple stuff, games, and simple people (sorry, literally).
Linux for more serious and technical stuff.
I am not going elitist here, but there is so much Windows authored junk 
on the 'net that sometimes it is hard to get by all of it to find the 
meaningful stuff. Just do a simple Google of just about anything and you 
will get millions of hits, most of them totally junk and mostly links to 
Windows sites.
Bill Baka

arachnid wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:45:05 +0000, bill wrote:
> 
>> How about, if you haven't got a clue how it works you have no business 
>> using it?
> 
> You won't sell very many consumer products that way. :o)
> 
>  
How about products that allow the consumer to access more features as 
they learn, like at least knowing the difference between 802.11a, b, and 
g? Force them to learn at least something, and not just the latest game 
cheats, which is something my grandson spends way too much time on the 
Internet doing. Unfortunately, most consumers have more money to spend 
on toys than brains to put things to good use.
Sorry, hard ass mode invoked.
Bill Baka

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:15:56 +1000, Clifford Heath wrote:
> arachnid wrote:
>>>What do you call the dohicky that connects the connecting rod to the piston?
>> Are you talking about that round thing-a-ma-jig?
>
> Gudgeon pin?

That would be the British pronunciation :) 
or piston pin, wrist pin...

Dang went looking for proof and can not find cylinder rod.

When I was a kid I was smarting off my supposed engine knowledge and
the waitress at a Dairy Queen asked what it was called. I popped of
wrist pin. She said if I went down to (cannot remember actual name)
autoparts I had better call it cylinder pin if that is what I wanted.

I asked how she knew and she repied she had worked there several years
and had to know all the parts names. I never looked it up to see if she
was right or not.

I'll conceed it was bad information on my part.

Bit Twister wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:16:27 -0500, user wrote:
> >
> > What the hells a cylinder rod? Ive been fixing cars for 40 years but I
> > aint never heard of a cylinder rod. A cylinder is a hole that the piston
> > sits in. The connecting rod connects the piston to the crank, is that
> > what you mean, the connecting rod?
> 
> Maybe I misnamed it,
> What do you call the dohicky that connects the connecting rod to the piston?

Gudgeon pin or wrist pin.  Pondian specific.

-- 
Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
   Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
   <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:26:32 +0000, bill wrote:

> arachnid wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:45:05 +0000, bill wrote:
>> 
>>> How about, if you haven't got a clue how it works you have no business 
>>> using it?
>> 
>> You won't sell very many consumer products that way. :o)
>> 
>>  
> How about products that allow the consumer to access more features as 
> they learn, like at least knowing the difference between 802.11a, b, and 
> g? Force them to learn at least something, 

Not a bad idea, except that someone else will just offer a distro that
gives them more features without having to learn anything.

> and not just the latest game  cheats, which is something my grandson
> spends way too much time on the Internet doing. Unfortunately, most
> consumers have more money to spend on toys than brains to put things to
> good use. Sorry, hard ass mode invoked.

I quit playing games when game makers got this bright idea that they could
make it impossible to win without knowing secret codes that nobody would
ever guess, just so you'd have to buy their overpriced cheatbooks. I can
look up the cheats for free online but that's not the point. The challenge
is to figure out the solutions by myself. Having to go look up secret
codes breaks the flow and takes away the sense of accomplishment.

arachnid wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:26:32 +0000, bill wrote:
> 
>> arachnid wrote:
>>> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:45:05 +0000, bill wrote:
>>>
>>>> How about, if you haven't got a clue how it works you have no business 
>>>> using it?
>>> You won't sell very many consumer products that way. :o)
>>>
>>>  
>> How about products that allow the consumer to access more features as 
>> they learn, like at least knowing the difference between 802.11a, b, and 
>> g? Force them to learn at least something, 
> 
> Not a bad idea, except that someone else will just offer a distro that
> gives them more features without having to learn anything.
> 
>> and not just the latest game  cheats, which is something my grandson
>> spends way too much time on the Internet doing. Unfortunately, most
>> consumers have more money to spend on toys than brains to put things to
>> good use. Sorry, hard ass mode invoked.
> 
> I quit playing games when game makers got this bright idea that they could
> make it impossible to win without knowing secret codes that nobody would
> ever guess, just so you'd have to buy their overpriced cheatbooks. I can
> look up the cheats for free online but that's not the point. The challenge
> is to figure out the solutions by myself. Having to go look up secret
> codes breaks the flow and takes away the sense of accomplishment.
> 
Games and the excess time kids spend playing them are one of my pet 
peeves. When he told me he was going to play soccer I thought "Good" 
until I found out it was some video game he found. There just have to be 
better ways to get kids into computers.
Bill Baka

In comp.os.linux.misc bill <bbaka@syix.com> wrote:
:> 
:> 
: How about, if you haven't got a clue how it works you have no business 
: using it?
: Bill Baka

OK- just for the fun of it- 

Bill: please explain the quantum physics involved in the semiconductors
in the computer that you are using. Or even explain the basic
tradeoffs in the choice of doping profile for the RAM cells
as contrasted with the active transistors for the FPU.

You _do_ know how your computer works, right?

Stan

-- 
Stan Bischof ("stan" at the below domain)
www.worldbadminton.com