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MehGerbil wrote: How is this a billion dollar company?
By not investing thousands of dollars in developing a Fisher Price UI that everybody will anyway criticize and by relying on solid good'ol' command line ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I suppose you still use DOS to navigate to files on your PC?
Because if you're using Windows Explorer then that is 'Fisher Price' and much too easy for a serious professional to use.
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I use TotalCommander Given, this is not DOS, but the design did not evolve since Win98.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Good Heavens!
I'm going to have to begrudgingly give you a +5.
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MehGerbil wrote: I suppose you still use DOS to navigate to files on your PC?
Often, but it depends on the task at hand.
"Use the right tool for the right job." -- Scotty
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If I haven't opened a command prompt window at least once on any given workday, I probably haven't accomplished much that day.
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I always have at least one open, often more than one.
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I write all my code in notepad. I haven't touched a modern IDE in ages.
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Stick with what works. The Command line works, always has always will. What I can't stand is the ridiculous Webbish interface they created that doesn't work.
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That is what I'm complaining about - the UI I'm trying to use is clunky and doesn't work.
They're doing a terrible job of modernizing, IMHO.
Why not just use DIP switches instead of the modern command line?
modified 12-Sep-14 11:11am.
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Dip switch is old technology. Use the punch cards instead.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Some people have too much time on their hands.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: Some people have too much time on their hands.
They have all that time because they use a modern UI to get their work done during the day.
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The command line is not outdated technology. In fact, it is still vastly superior to the point and click interface. See the immediate window in the VS-IDE, see Powershell, see Telnet. A trained user is also an order of magnitude faster typing the switches than someone navigating all kinds of Windows with expensive (and buggy!) controls.
The only machine that does not come with a command-line is called a "games console".
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The only machine that does not come with a command-line is called a "games console".
Or a Mac -- but even they have a command line now don't they? I stil lhaven't seen one on my Droid yet either.
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It's not installed, so you have to do that yourself[^].
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Or a Mac I prefer real meat.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Pretty sure Mac's have had a command line or terminal option for a VERY long time. Maybe even from the beginning (1984).
UPDATE: I stand corrected. Some hard core Googling indicates that the terminal app didn't exist until OS X (1999).
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
modified 12-Sep-14 17:07pm.
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I'm pretty sure my father's Mac II did not -- or maybe he just never let me get anywhere near it. I thought it was added when they went with OSX (or whatever it's called).
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See my edit above. You are correct.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Is the complaint only with the install/uninstall or it is generally usage of Oracle?
So, has anyone developed a GUI interface for Oracle as a community project?
I've used Oracle in the past, but not enough to really care one way or the other; wrote the queries I needed by hand and modified them only on occasion.
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I wrote an Oracle GUI in my last but one job - but sadly I left it behind (in the same way as one leaves a used diaper behind) when I no longer needed it.
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Some more whimsical than others.
Quote:
- 4 lawyers = 2 paralegals
- 2 untruths = 1 paralyze
- All perjured testimony in a gov't coverup = 1 scandalize
- 33.8 oz of a case of soft drinks = 1 liter of the pack
- 1 first-date kiss = 1 peck
- 1 french kiss = two tongues of fun
- Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = 1 Eskimo Pi
- 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
- 1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope
- Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle
- Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong
- 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling = 1 lite year
- 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
- Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
- 1000 aches = 1 megahurtz
- Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
- Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
- Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
- Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
- A half bathroom = 1 demijohn
- 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
- The first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee
- 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
- 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
- 365.25 days = 1 unicycle 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
- 10 cards = 1 decacards
- 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
- 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
- 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
- 1 trillion bulls = 1 terrabull
- 1 million billion picolos = 1 gigolo
- 10 rations = 1 decoration
- 100 rations = 1 C-ration
- 10 millipedes = 1 centipede
- 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
- 10 monologs = 5 dialogs
- 5 dialogs = 1 decalog
- 2 monograms = 1 diagram
- 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
- 2 wharves = 1 paradox
- 100 Senators = Not 1 decision
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At uni we developed the pint scale:
Volume 1 Pint = 1 pint (of beer)
Time 1 Pint = 20 mins - an average of how long one of our friends took to drink a pint in an afternoon session
Distance 1 Pint = 1 mile - How far said drinker could walk in 20 mins/1 pint.
This also gave the rather gratifying result that average walking speed was 1 pint pint-1 (1ppp). Metric system be damned!
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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