Complete idiot on my team.

I have a developer on my team, and I can't convince him to program in a clean manner. I have spoke to my manager about it, and my manager is just useless.
Anyways, he has this fascination of using the GUI builder tool for swing panels, which produces pretty horibble looking code. For example there is one section of our application which is a JTabbpane contain 6 tabs, and tables under each tab. The class that has been built is over 7000 lines long, and is a complete mess.
How would you guys go about convincing this guy that java is an object oriented language, and that does not mean one object. I mean I am blue in the face with him and he is a complete muppet!!! Its funny, I want to rewrite the whole thing but I know he will only start crying to our manager.

smcmorro wrote:
Hey, I am only a contractor here, and pretty much don't really care what happens with the project. My initial impression that you were said complete idiot was correct.
As a contractor you should care, it's your job.
The fact that you don't means you're not doing your job.
We have to constantly edit the code and there is absolutely no division between the screen code, and the functional code used to populate the screen. Sounds like most code I've ever seen, especially code created by contractors.
If the gui builder was used to create the look and feel, etc. and then another class or 2 was used to do the functional manipulation of the screen. I would be ok with that, but its just so all over the place.
Which is just how gui builders create code, and how people learn to create code in school.
Most likely all that's needed is some professional education in object oriented design and analysis (courses usually not provided to programmers for some reason).
I think I will just have to put up with it, cos in the end there ain't much you can do in organizations like this.Wrong attitude. Most organisations and people are quite willing to listen to reason, but won't listen to ranting.
And as you appear to only be ranting it's small wonder that they don't listen to you, especially given your attitude that you don't care one way or another.

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Some complete idiot!

Well I'm on a job where I'm preparing a projection mapping installation and I've been given a quad core Mac G5 for a few weeks. I have admin privileges, so I've put the projection mapping software in, and all my favorite widgets and plugs. All running smoothly. Until this evening (working late) when I have Media encoder open, and then the screen goes blank.
Some idiot has unplugged me. "Oh it'll be alright." he says.
It's not. Every time I try starting encoder up, I get a message saying that I should run the application that installed encoder. Other stuff starts up Ok.
If I take this back to IT they'll probably want to wipe the disk and put it back to a fresh install. This could cost me hours.
However, someone said that the prog is probably looking for a specific hidden file that isn't there, and all I have to do is delete some other file... but he couldn't rememebr any more.
Any thoughts?
I'm on CS6, and running Snow Leopard.

Right, thanks. So when I'm back there I just launch the others (AE didn't do the trick) and then see if AME launches?
And if it doesn't? IT could do a complete re-install of CS6, but I think they'd rather reload the whole disk image. I'd like to avoid that.
What if I took in my own CS6 install disk..? Could I re-install CS6 and it would remember the old serials and not prompt me for those?

Apologies for complete 'idiot' question..

Been sort of thrown in at the deep end with this app really, but hey ho..
I have a nice crisp company vector logo that I wish to import into FCP.
Saved it as a .ai file and it comes in with the white page background & logo in the middle - no good!
Plonked it into a photoshop file, saved it as a .psd, imported into FCP. This time I get the psd layers showing in the timeline BUT with a nice black box round the vector info - again not good.
Am I presuming too much here and hoping for a simple answer?
I completed a 3 day Apple course yesterday and we never got onto this subject, and subsequent google searches haven't really unearthed much.
Cheers in advance,
Andy

Yeah, this is one of those things - as you tell by the range of suggestions - where there is no simple, single workflow.
If you need to maintain the scalable nature of the vector artwork, drop your .ai file into Motion and work on it there. Once you've corrected things in Reveal Source Media - press Shift-F after you've dropped your file in and uncheck the Fixed Resolution box in the Media tab of the Inspector - you will be able to grow/shrink the file as necessary without the nasty pixelation.
But since you're new to Final Cut Studio and are probably just looking to keep things as simple as possible for a while, next time try a File > Save for Web and Devices out of Illustrator using the PNG-24 preset (transparency should be toggled on by default). It'll be all good when you import the .png file into FCP.

When I select a song on my iTunes library is will not play, no sound and does not advance. The speaker on my computer MacBook Air is fine and functioning otherwise. I am a complete idiot when it comes to computers, ext. Can anyone give me some advice

When I select a song to play from my iiTunes library it will not play, advance, no sound. Speakers are fine otherwise on MacBook Air. Where can I start.? Thank you for any suggestions.

Hi,
See if these Links for Home Sharing add any light to the problem
Understanding
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819
Troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
How to
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2688

Complete idiot calls on all for help

Hello,
I'm in a bind. We bought MS Expression Web to create a
website. But the template we purchased is Flash based and came in
two formats: SWF and FLA. I learned that I have to use a program
like Adobe Flash CS3 Professional in order to tweak the template to
custom design. However, I'm lost. I just need access to the text on
each frame in order to change the text. How though?
usarmyman2327

usarmyman2327,
> ... the template we purchased is Flash based and came in
two
> formats: SWF and FLA.
This isn't going to make you feel any better, but for what
it's worth,
I've seen many, many, many Flash templates over the years.
I've helped
dozens of people update their templates (they paid me to do
this) -- which
were sold as "easy to update" -- because in all these years,
I haven't seen
a single template yet that was easy to work with. I obviously
can't claim
that 3rd party templates are 100% bad, but I wouldn't
personally bet a dime
on finding a good one.
They look beautiful out of the box, don't get me wrong ...
but every one
I've seen has been slapped together with bubble gum and duct
tape on the
inside. The ActionScript they use tends to be very obscure,
unnecessarily
scattered among unnecessarily nested timelines, disorganized,
and poorly
documented (if at all).
> I just need access to the text on each frame in order
to change
> the text. How though?
Text is going to appear inside something called a text
field, which is
accessible/editable with the Text tool in the Tools panel.
Make sure your
layers are unlocked (look for the lock icon for each later in
the Timeline
panel) and select your text fields to get started. The
editable file is the
FLA file.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

[SOLVED] I am a complete idiot and deleted my boot files!!!

Help!!
For some stupid reason, I just deleted everything in /boot
The partition is still there unchanged, just without the necessary files! Is there a way i can regenerate these files please?
Thanks in advance
Last edited by ninjaprawn (2009-12-31 12:15:24)

ok, i tried to boot arch back up again, but it doesn't work. I get the grub command and am stuck there. I think my menu.lst isn't quite right
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# /boot/grub/menu.lst
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# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/sda (hd0)
# /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
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# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
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# (0) Arch Linux
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root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=773
initrd /kernel26.img
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I feel like a complete idiot.... JDK for Linux question....

I downloaded the JDK for Linux... and I have a small problem...
It says "permission denied" when I attempt to access the file..
Now I imagine this might not have anything to do with Java... ((Opening the file as root does nothing either.. I get the same response))...
It just seems really odd that "root" would lack permission to do this, so I am wondering if there is something I am missing in this...
(PS- I can download and install the JDK for Win95 just fine :-) )
[email protected]

It would seam that you do not have the right permissions set on the executable but your question was to vauge witch file are you trying to access when you receive this message? what group are you in ?
I can probably help if you furnish me with more info.
--Ian Mechura

The Palm phone engineers are complete IDIOTS!!!!!!! Treo Pro is a joke!!

Re: Treo Pro
so i decided to give palm yet another chance and i got screwed once again. i just got my TREO PRO in the mail (of course no carriers have it i guess they already knew palm was a waste of time). so i'm playing with the phone (nothing really impressive, my HTC touch pro blows it out of the water) & i get a call coming in that i want to silence, not "ignore"...silence. here's the difference for those that don't get it. "silence" means while you hit a button (side volume for instance) the phone's ringer & vibrate feature stop while the phone goes thru its normal 4 ring cycle & then goes to voice mail. "ignore" sends a caller straight to voice mail & the caller knows that they have been ignored.
is palm serious??? they actually let this phone come out??? i don't even think they view this as a glitch. when i called about this thinking to myself that there was no way this could actually be, they know about it and it doesn't even seem like a problem to them.
PALM I QUIT!!!!!! you jipped me for the last time. this phone is going back as soon as i can get it back in the packaging it came in. the only reason that i was willing to give it a try once more was because i want a open face qwerty keyboard, touchscreen, windows mobile device and palm is the only one that has that, but i will sacrifice one of those and get a phone that the developers truly took their time to release a phone without MAJOR OVERSIGHTS!
Post relates to: Treo 750 (Cingular)

smkranz wrote:
the ringer switch only stops the audible ring, not the vibrate feature. imagine being in a meeting with a phone that you can't control. very stupid on palm's behalf...very stupid!
Most of the meetings I sit in on, the vibrating phone in my pocket is the best part
Personally, I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. If you don't want the phone to either ring or vibrate during a meeting, just turn it off.
Post relates to: None
Message Edited by smkranz on 11-30-2008 07:52 AM
that's your opinion, however you wouldn't have that opinion if your phone rings every 5 mins because it's also a business line. oh by the way, you can silence YOUR phone...right?
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I have been completely Ripped off by these People

I have been completely Ripped off by these People and they do not care. None of them. I have spoke to multiple customer service reps on the phone. None of them gave a toss about me. They don't care. Spent hours on the phone to them being passed around and told the same lines over and over again which they are clearly reading from a script. Very annoyed.
Basically I moved house in december 2013 and arranged a move house package. was meant to be adtivated jan 6 2014. waited in all day and no one showed up. not even a phone call or anything. turned out the bt engineer didnt bother coming as the cables werent even laid yet by my house. (brand new housing estate). yet they never bothered to tell me this, they just let me wait inside like a complete idiot all day long. by now we have been without internet/phone since december 19th 2013. we were then told the cables were being laid the next wednesday.
when wednesday came they sent an email saying they had arranged our engineer visit and that we had to wait 7 days or something stupid as thats the time it takes when initiating a new order. even though our order was cancelled so i would have thought they'd have not made us wait the 7 days again. of course our internet did not arrive 7 days later as it turned out the engineer hadnt even put in a mastersocket or anything. NOTHING. no engineer came to our house at all at any time. we had no service until Jan 22nd the day they activated it at the exchange or whatever. Thats an entire MONTH with no service. oh and we still couldnt use it as none of the sockets had been wired to the master socket. it just had a plain blank socket on it. but hey it was active. so I rang up to order an infinity package (upgrade) and was promised the engineer would come and install our sockets and stuff. he finally arrived on Feb 11th.
Hurray we had service. Only about 7 weeks we waited. But then I rang up to ask about a refund on the bill since we had not used anything as it wasn't there AND it wasn't OUR fault. But this is when I was passed around like a parcel in a childrens game. No one cared. So I ended up paying £51 for NOTHING. Oh btw our bill is SUPPOSED to be £42 so I was charged extra actually. They refunded me the £10 extra and thought I should be grateful or something.
Would you like to pay £42 for nothinG? NO. Who would? Well I DID! But then the real joke arrived a few hours ago. I receive my next bill. £74. They are now toying with me. I have become a complete joke to them or something. It is absolutely pathetic. An extra £34. Why? I have no idea?????? I wish I knew why they were torturing me like this. Upon inspection of the bill it looks as though they have charged me for two packages in one month. the original broadband package AND the upgraded infinity package. (now the reason i started off with a lesser package was because it took a while for my brand new address to be recognised as available for infinity).
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Your previous bill
£51.36
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6 Feb 14
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Oh my God. I am.. just... what ... the??? I don't even know why they have done this to me.
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5 Feb - 27 Feb 14 £19.29
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Broadband and Calls
28 Feb - 27 Mar 14 £26.00
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Broadband Unlimited BT Infinity 2
Broadband and Calls
28 Feb - 27 Mar 14 £28.15
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Calling Plan Unlimited Evening and Weekend Plan
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I am being charged for 2 and a half packages or something.
My package should be £42. I am having a nightmare with this company. They don't care about me, they don't care at all. First charge me money for nothing, no apologies either, just backchat on the phone. And now they charge me £31 extra again for nothing. I am going to be BROKE when my next bill comes as thats probably going to be even bigger. They probably will double it or something just to be even more spiteful.
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Insufficient memory was available to complete the operation

Hello,
I am having trouble using the "place" function to drop a JPEG with a size of approximately 7.6MB into Illustrator CS5. I am creating cross-sections for drill hole planning, and I use the images exported from Geosoft's Target as a base. From there I interpret the geology, precious metal occurences, plan drill holes in Illustrator. I am by no means an expert with Creative Suite, but I know enough to get around. My computer has an i7 processor, 8GB RAM, and 750GB of hard drive space. My intentions are not to be rude, but do not waste my time assuming I am a complete idiot (e.g. I rebooted my machine, rebooted the program, checked to make sure I have plenty of space available, etc...). I worked all night last night without issue, and create all of my cross-sections using this method. I typically never get any issues, but this problem has randomly cropped up twice (the last time it eventually stopped). Unfortunately, I do not have time to magically wait for Illustrator to right itself as I need to present to my Sr. VP on Monday.
Cutting to the chase:
I exported a drill hole fence from Target as a JPEG with a file size of 7.6MB. I then opened up my cross-section template (.ai file) in illustrator, went to File|Place| and accessed the file (I also tried to File|Open). Rather than performing the operation I get the error message "Insufficient memory was available to complete this operation". I then restarted my computer, and attempted this again. My CPU usage is fluttering at 3% +/- 2%, and the Physical Memory is at 31% usage. This seems pretty "buggy" to me, but as I said I am a "beginner user" and perform very basic operations in Illustrator. I have looked around the forums and have seen this issue come up several times, sometimes with very complex advice. I have no plug-ins installed, and have not fiddled with any settings.
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