Most of the people says I wish I could, I wish you would.
Can't we use I wish I can, I wish you will?
I'd like to know what the main difference between the usage of can/will and could/would is.
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When should we use “can”, “could”, “will”, “would”?
I am not a native English speaker and this would/could thing always bothers me. Please give some example + explanation on this. Sorry if the question is too naive.
@KitFox all answers and comments get transferred from one question to the other. That can result in a helluva work overhead. Haven't looked at the two questions at hand.
I read this morning about this guy who doesn't have colour vision, but has an implant that hangs across his face and screws into his skull (at the back) that turns hue and saturation into sound
> I’ve given up entirely on the calendar, because it’s terrible. Changing to a week or day view requires a right click to make the control interface appear. I can’t work out how to edit an appointment, nor can I work out how to delete an appointment. There’s no way to show events from just one calendar. I think it may well be easier to alter my own birthday than to edit when it’s currently set for in the Windows 8 calendar. I really want to be making this up.
Re Win 8 Calendar app.
Well, I guess I'm convinced. I'll stay away from Windows 8
That's something I really hate about the iPad–if I'm running an 'app,' I can't switch without leaving the 'app' but also there's not usually an option to just quit, so I have no idea what's running in the background at any given time.
It's like on my phone, where I had to download an app (gah I hate saying that word) to kill my running apps, because nobody fucking puts off switches on things anymore.
@KitFox At least in Android, the idea is that the OS manages task-switching and background processes smartly and without any need for you to get involved.
@KitFox Well, you shouldn't need to reboot your computer either. I never reboot mine unless there's an update. I never reboot my main phone or my tablet.
@Cerberus I mean it doesn't count that you have to reboot to do that. The OS designers don't have to make it easy for you to do tasks that you're not supposed to do.
So if you have to force-kill an app whose memory model you've just manipulated on your rooted phone, it doesn't matter that force-killing apps is by-design difficult to do on phones. You're not supposed to need to do it. The fact that YOU need to do it doesn't matter.
@Cerberus No, a scenario where you as a highly non-typical user will want to reboot. Just to be clear.
@Mitch No, they intentionally didn't make it easy (it still has to be possible). They didn't make it harder than it should be, but they basically bury the option.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I feel that they made sure people wouldn't do it on a daily basis just because they were used to doing so on Windows, so the regular way to "get rid" of applications would have to be non-killing on Android.
It is about teaching users a different habit, without their even realising it.
In Android, the policy is more towards the "Users should uninstall apps whose behaviour they disapprove of". Which is why the battery meter shows you which apps suck down the most power.
@Cerberus Yes. But in Windows closing programs is a common thing whereas killing is not. In Android you don't close programs the same way and killing programs is meant to be an uncommon thing.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Closing a program historically meant iconifying its window in some framework GUI, while leaving it still running. Exiting a program and killed a program have different nuances still. You can exit a program transitively, which means it goes of its own accord, or you can kill a program through any number of external means and force.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Minimize is Microsoft talk. Iconify was the original term used by the X11 Window system used by Unix, which of course seriously antedates Microsoft.
Anyway, I hesitate to draw any linguistic conclusions from what X11 used for its terminology. Only geeks used it and they are way more precise and pedantic than normal people.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes of course. Close is something that you do to a window, not a program. Programmers already have a meaning for the close() syscall, which is altogether distinct. Perhaps you are thinking of the exit() syscall instead.
Programmer don't speak in metaphors as much as unlettered users do. They speak using the names of the syscalls they call to do those jobs.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I have no "close" option anywhere. I can say "Quit Safari", or I can go find its pid and kill it myself. Close is Microsoft babytalk that is alien to me.
@tchrist pssh, nobody cares about the tiny minority of snobs who've never used Windows and are confused by the verb "close" when dealing with a window, metaphorical or otherwise.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I don't give a fickle flying flip that nonprogrammers don't know what I am talking about when I am speaking of technical matters, such as programming. They simply haven't the training for it.
No, it's perfectly clear. "force stop" is a button that users can press in an android app.
Nobody sends signals in apps. Signals aren't even good programming concepts in modern systems. for a variety of reasons and users are surely never expected to use them.
> In Russia, the situation is even grimmer. In true Soviet fashion, the bomb makers secretly dumped unknown quantities of liquid waste into giant reservoirs around the plant. Nobody knows how much radioactive contamination is out there, but a single accident—the explosion of a waste tank in 1957—is thought to have been Chernobyl-like in scale.
> As recently as the 1990s, the plant was spewing radioactive waste at a rate that makes the leaks of radioactive water from the melted-down Fukushima power plant look like a bubble bath. Residents living around the plant have elevated rates of leukemia and genetic mutations. Their children get cancer. — from Curiosity's Dirty Little Secret
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I agree that signals are of extremely limited, albeit very great, usefulness. But I still don't know what you mean by stopping. Is this some background daemon you wish to decommission?
@tchrist On iOS and Android you leave an app by pressing the home button and opening up a new app, or by one app signalling that it needs some other app to do something, or by using the task switcher, or whatever. The app you just had open is now invisible. You cannot tell, typically, what apps are still running.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I can set it not to, but by default some icon stays behind if I close all my Word documents in Office 2003. I changed this setting, of course.
@tchrist First of all, on Android/iOS you don't really iconify or deiconify. Most apps don't have a command that tells them to exit. you "open" or "start" the app by invoking it (lots of ways to do that) and it either instantiates or resumes or comes to the foreground depending on what state it was last in.
@tchrist GUI Window? We're talking phones here. No windows.
@Cerberus well, if you modify the OS, then yes, it's possible to add windows to one without. That's what Microsoft did with DOS, after all.
Anyway, @tchrist, "closing" is what you do with windows. The window disappears when you close it. It is not iconified or minimized. The majority of programs exit when their last window is closed.
Android and iOS don't really have "windows". They have full-screen applications. Those applications get put in the background when the user starts a new application or switches to the home screen. There is no "close" metaphor.
@Cerberus No, Cornerstone is not an application you just install.
He says so in the video. You can't just install it. It integrates into the OS.
Installing an app is to the OS as putting a sofa in your living room is to your house. Modifying your OS for Cornerstone is to the OS as knocking down a wall and installing a secret-passageway-concealed-by-a-bookcase is to your house.
In the second case, changes are required to the parts that ship on the device. You have to actually change Android to do it. You can't just download the app. The OS doesn't provide the flexibility to do what the app needs.
At the end of the day, you are still putting code on the disk/flash of your computer, by copying it from one place to another. But the difference is which code you are putting down, and where.
So Android is a collection of programs that run on a computer. This computer is typically sold in a device meant to be used as a phone. Its PC analogue is Microsoft Windows.
Windows lets users install code just about anywhere including in the kernel itself, which effectively modifies the operating system. Many many features can be customized. Often this results in non-working computers if you mix the wrong pieces together.
Android doesn't allow end-users to customize the operating system.
There is a bright line between what you can change and what you cannot.
Some kinds of modifications can only be made by changing the OS itself, which no OS actually allows on a practical basis. Changing the OS requires making a new OS for yourself.
@Cerberus At the end of the day the user will either buy a device with Cornerstone on it already, or else replace his device's OS with one that has Cornerstone on it already, or else not use it, because it cannot be installed through normal means.
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I have flashed some files on my Android, never thought of it as replacing the OS.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 We are talking about these people, aren't we? People who don't install Cornerstone won't think of it in any way, nor use any word for it.
And what to call that particular action is irrelevant to me because I don't know the details of what, exactly, cornerstone requires, and whether or not it simply needs root or does it require changes to actual android components.
@ΜετάEd If you a chance, could you please take a look at this question’s edit, and tell if I’ve done something wrong? I tried to tidy it up, but the OP discarded my edits without a peep. I tried to put it into the style that you have been using; I didn’t change what he said. I feel the rollback is an uglyback.
@tchrist There's no accounting for taste. Also, some OPs are very attached to what they wrote. I don't see anything wrong with what you did, but I would not force the issue or engage in edit wars.
@Mahnax At this time of day? You've been slacking off :-)
@ΜετάEd Thanks. I wondered whether I’d done something obviously wrong, or stupid, because I couldn’t see that I had.
@ΜετάEd It is tricky to manage the trade-off between being attached to things one has written and a collaboratively edited site, as the FAQ (some FAQ, a FAQ) somewhere mentions.
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When should we use “can”, “could”, “will”, “would”?
I am not a native English speaker and this would/could thing always bothers me. Please give some example + explanation on this. Sorry if the question is too naive.
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