Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 20:33 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 12/6/2013 5:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > André Nunes Batista wrote:
> >> BTW, why did they change that? Panel 0 and Panel 1 were such an cool way
> >> to teach gui users to count.
> >
> > Hmm... I disagree. Counting and indexing are two different things.
> > Indexes start at zero. Counting starts at one.
> >
> > This is often described as the classic fencepost problem.
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
> In SOME languages, indexing starts at 0. C was the first popular
> language to do this. Older languages such as BASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL
> start at 1 (unless that's also changed in the last 20 years! :) ).
Note folks, you only seem to think about computers. But the logic has
less to do with computers, it does effect computers too, but is not
related to computers, it's a logical issue.
The logical issue, math isn't logic, is not a computer related problem,
it's real live math from a long, long time before humans know computers.
We have the 20. of a month, the end of the month is the 30. and I need
2.50€ each day to have something to eat.
30 days - 20 days = 10 days, so 10 days * 2.50 €? Wrong!
20. day 1, 21. day 2, 22. day 3, 23. day 4, 24. day 5, 25. day 6, 26.
day 7, 27. day 8, 28. day 9, 29. day 10, 30. day 11.
It's 11 days * 2.50 €.
IOW if you write a computer program, you will use each bit available,
you'll optimize the speed of the rout, at least when you're an old
Assembler coder. _But_ the output has to be human readable, logical
regarding to the task, distance or count.
Some coders seem to notice this issue for the first time, when they
start programming computers and then they guess most users aren't aware
of this issue, but that's wrong. Most people are aware of this issue and
they don't know how to program a computer.
Sure if mom and pa buy them their food, they don't need to do the
bookkeeping and they'll become aware of something each other already
does know, when they start programming computers. That's why there is
that much bad software. Students who never experienced live, because mom
and pa do everything for them start writing real live applications. And
than they guess the users are the idiots, who needs to learn how to
use/read cryptic, bad programmed software.
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