![]() no mailing no hassle, My guess is this throws Stanley/Bostitch out of the game, my guess is Walmart wont work like this. As far as i know all of these tools carry "lifetime warranties" I want something where I can walk with a broken tool, and walk out with a new one. My primary concern would be the warranty and ease of warranty. Home Depots Husky (<- Husky seems to have the best quality tool to price ratio, but I am unsure of how easy they are to work with if warranty is needed.)Ĭurrently I am hacking it with a few Stanley Tools my grandparents got for me when I moved into my first house, a few craftsman tools I have picked up on sale, and a assortment of Harbor Freight Stuff which works fine, but I cant see it holding up well in the long run. I am wanting to start building a 'decent set' of tools, but cant really afford something really nice like MAC/Snap-On. They still won't fix it - but I feel I have the moral high ground.As of recently I have started working on my own vehicles, and learning everything I can about them, and am trying to get back into school to work towards my ASE certifications. I argue, though, that because it crosses the line and makes an actual mistake (converting from pounds to dollars or vice versa by simply changing from £ to $) it's a bug. So stuff stays in the cart? Not ideal, but hey. Yabdab aren't interested in doing anything to fix this because as far as they are concerned it's a feature. If I put an item into the cart from the UK site, then go to the US site and add an item in dollars, then the first item is still in the cart - but its price has been switched from pounds to dollars. As far as I can see, Paysnap only sets up one shopping cart on a computer. This is appreciated by US customers, who prefer to pay in their own currency - and why not? But here's the thing. I was implementing this on my Hymn CDs site, which has two versions, one operating in UK pounds, the other in US dollars. With me so far? A big advantage of this over using Paypal direct, as I did previously is that it sets up a nice little shopping cart/trolley on your site and you only go off to Paypal to handle payment when all the items are in the cart. And I'm using a nice little stack from Yabdab called PaySnap that makes it easy to take payments on a website. I'm using a product called RapidWeaver, which has lots of bolt-ons called stacks. (Boggle.) As a result of my move to Mac I've started re-writing my websites, as my old website software doesn't have a Mac version. ![]() ![]() This all came back to me when I had an argument with the support department of a software company called Yabdab. Not much use in a system for calculating loads on a 747, but it is a feature, not a bug. It's just that (say) it won't let you put more than nine passengers on a plane. A (bad) feature is when it does something the user doesn't want it to, but there is no actual error. Meanwhile back at that programmer/user conversation - a bug is when a computer program does something it shouldn't because of an error in the code. While it probably did refer to some such incident in the dim and unrecorded past with a mechanical device, the early computing example was just making use of a term that already existed. This would be a good story for the origin if the term hadn't been in use by engineers in Victorian times. ![]() The insect was stuck in the computer's log book with a write up that said there was a "bug" in the system. A (valve) computer failed and on investigation it was found by the early computer expert Grace Hopper that there was a large insect in the machine had caused a short circuit. You will see it said that the word originated from the early days of computing. I need to briefly dive into the origins of this word 'bug' before exploring the sociology. Programmer: 'Sorry, that's not a bug, it's a feature.' I might not be rich, but I could probably afford a pint of beer if I had 10p for every time I heard a conversation between programmer and user going a little like this: The error in the code that makes it do the wrong thing. Arguably the most fascinating sociological aspect of the computer programming environment is the concept of the bug. I spent a fair number of years at British Airways both programming myself and working with programmers. ![]()
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