> The largest dairy company out there is Fronterra. This is> a farmer's owned company in New Zealand. While that's correct, the company is called Fonterra. And yes, I live in New Zealand. It's because of Fonterra that the country who makes the damn milk now pays three times what we paid before!> A couple of year ago, Bill Gates said the...

Very uh, intriguing. And so ripe for misinterpretation. Exactly how many ways you could write what happens after is ... well, yeah.Imagine if you will, that what makes someone else happy is: domination. Pure and simple. Nothing else even comes close. What sort of problem would that person have trying to adjust to what would then be considered...

They seem to have a limited number of pre-set links, with no obvious facility for adding personal links not already in the list. Frankly, though I like some of the effects, I'm also put off by the spinning stories. How the hell am I supposed to "pluck one out of the clued"? Oops - that was supposed to be cloud, but now I think my first guess...

> > Given this disparity, it seems> > crazy that, at least in my experience, the amount of> > effort applied to documenting the plan is so much more> > than the effort put into documenting the final system.> > Spot on. Savvy project managers will plan time for> documentation after implementation. However, much of the> time re-assignment to...

I'm a novice programmer, and I may be repeating the obvious here, but I quite often hash out implementation before I really get into the design. I work with the bash scripting language to get simple (and sometimes complex too) jobs done, so for me at least, the line count isn't all that high. I can generally see the design and hold most of the...

Interesting to see what Borland is doing. I started off with one or two of the Turbo IDEs, and got to like it. When I compared it to gcc (at that time, under MS-DOS, I was pleasantly surprised at its speed, and it allowed me to step through each line of the code I was executing at the time. Then Robert Hoehne brought out his IDE to front-end...

The demo that they used was in flash, and as such, was pretty slow on my machine. If they were to use flash (on the desktop, for example) it'd need to be tuned to have acceptable performance on older machines, otherwise nobody would use it. I wonder if the same thing would happen in a java-based environment - Sun's desktop, for example? I'm...

I'm rather sorry I didn't get to this conversation earlier, but here goes. Coming at this from a new programmer's mindset, and trying to learn a language (C, Java), I'd rather be able to pick up an editor, and just view the file in plain text, without having to strip off the XML envelope first. If we wrapped up the source in an XML-serialised...

Personally, since I tried out Adobe Reader 7, I haven't looked back, and indeed, now cringe at the screen whenever I use earlier versions. The one down point in the version running under Linux is: they took the DRM out. So I can't read books that have protection included, unless it's only password protection. Major annoyance, as my Windows...

Depending upon how much of the document was loaded into memory, you would possibly double memory requirements at the time of cloning and saving. Is this a feasible way of doing the job of saving a big document at the same time as you continue to work upon it?Could "save" sessions be tied into a "microbreak" anti-RSI loop? I.E. the user HAS to...

I like the article. I want to talk about two things, remembering that I've got absolutely no experience in any fields you lot know about, aside from the fact that I've been kicking around the desktop world long enough to get to know more than others currently do who are just starting.First off: you've discussed how it's difficult to judge how...

> I've learned to just grit my teeth and say it. "blog blog> blog blog," after awhile it loses its meaning and you can> ignore it.Hate the name, love the concept. I think for quality of feedback, a protected wiki is definitely the way to go, however, you still have the problem of validating someone who seems good at the time, but ends up just...