A soccer equivalent would probably be something like "if the record company detects an infringing download, a representative will fall to the floor screaming, rolling from side to side in agony, clutching his face with his hands, until a charge is laid; at that point the record company representative will stand up and go about his business".
If you really want to see a dust-up, wait until 2012 - only three years from now. In 2012 it will be fifty years since the release of "Love Me Do", the first single by The Beatles (a Liverpool rock band. You may have heard of them.)
Unless this video comes with some 3D glasses and I missed out on them, this is 2D. The image has height and width, but I can't rotate it around to see the heartbeat from the side or the back or the top or the bottom.
Software types are more analytical, (either as a result or as an cause of them being in their field). As such they see things that Joe Random doesn't even notice.
When the waitress says "If you need anything else, my name is Betty" Joe Random grunts and takes a bite of his meal. Programmer dude wonders what her name is if he doesn't need any thing else.
What you are describing is JOE RANDOM seeing things that the programmer doesn't even notice.
When the waitress says "If you need anything else, my name is Betty" Joe Random instantly knows that what she means is "if you need anything else and you can't immediately find me, just tell any other restaurant employee what you want and that you are being looked after by Betty. I value the opportunity to provide personal service to you because I'm a waitress and much of my take-home pay is in tips from happy customers". Joe Random understands this because he understands people, has eaten in restaurants before, has tipped waitresses before, and he understands the unwritten rules of communication in a wide range of social situations, including this one.
Programmer dude has problems understanding why people don't explain themselves clearly, when in fact the problem is that he has no sense of communication in a social context. Joe Random and Betty just exchanged a massive amount of information, referring to customs, past experiences, the hierarchy of the restaurant staff, Betty's personal situation, possible future events, and Joe Random's understanding with nothing more than one verbal sentence from Betty and a grunt from Joe Random.
The best coder I've ever worked with - like, ever - was a guy who openly professed to hating computers and avoiding them outside work hours where possible.
He loved CODE, he just hated computers.
These days I don't care about resumes and I don't care what a headhunter says. I care what the candidate's LinkedIn profile looks like, what recommendations he or she has, and from whom.
I was going to go back and check whether Card does as you say, but then I realised that I used all my Ender books when I ran out of toilet paper one weekend. A shame, as they weren't even really fit for THAT task.
In the past three years I've turned down three all-expenses-paid trips to the USA. "Hey, there's this conference--" "Is it in the USA?" "Yeah." "Not interested."
I've crisscrossed the USA many times, and I dare say I've seen more of it than most Americans. And I just have no interest in visiting now. In fact it's not just that I am not interested in visiting, it's that I actively intend to NOT visit.
There was a short period of time when companies actually made sure their products were usable by people.
That was in 1970s.
Yeah, like the DC-10 and the Pinto.
Scoble's blog was hosted by Wordpress.com for about four years. During that time he wasn't hacked once. When Scoble was hired to pimp Rackspace, his blog moved to a box at Rackspace, and evidently no-one at Rackspace keeps up with security patches. Not a good look for a hosting company.
Yeah, but you actually CARE. Anyone who runs a Wordpress blog is greeted, in mile-high-flaming letters, with "YOUR WORDPRESS VERSION IS OUT OF DATE, CLICK HERE TO UPDATE" whenever he logs in to the CMS when it's running a version other than current. The hole being exploited by this worm was fixed about six months ago.
In other words, the people who are getting hit by this worm have been ignoring the reminders to upgrade for at least half a year.
I do not see how this can be considered to be good for food in general and McDonalds in particular. In fact, it will probably hasten the decline of American food in favor of tastier Asian and Italian food coming out of other restaurants
Newsflash, no-one's forcing you to read Marvel comics when there are hundreds of alternative publishers releasing good stuff.
Dreamweaver: I prefer Coda. No WYSIWYG editor, but I've stopped using Dreamweaver completely. Completely agree. I couldn't live without Coda now.
Photoshop: Acorn. If you're a power photoshop user, it won't suffice... depends on what you're doing. There's also pixelimator Pixelmator is very good for what it costs, which is something like 5% of the sticker price of Photoshop. But like Acorn it won't satisfy you if you need all Photoshop's functionality.
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A soccer equivalent would probably be something like "if the record company detects an infringing download, a representative will fall to the floor screaming, rolling from side to side in agony, clutching his face with his hands, until a charge is laid; at that point the record company representative will stand up and go about his business".
They imposed ridiculous penalties on Germany after WW1 and allowed Germany to remilitarize, giving birth to Nazi Germany.
They defeated the British Army in the Revolutionary War and provided financial aid to the Continental Army, giving birth to the USA.
Basically the French are directly responsible for the two most hated nations in living memory.
If you really want to see a dust-up, wait until 2012 - only three years from now. In 2012 it will be fifty years since the release of "Love Me Do", the first single by The Beatles (a Liverpool rock band. You may have heard of them.)
Well, a 3.5 to 7 pound weight loss over 12 weeks isn't such a bad result WTF? That's what, 1.6 to 3.2 kilograms? I could lose that in a DAY.
I've been running Chrome 4 all week on my Macs. It's a free download from the Google dev channel.
I actually thought the movie was quite well-done for a Hollywood action flick based around the I, Robot stories. I was pleasantly surprised.
The only remaining question is ... at what point do we have to replace them the hard way?
And you'd replace them with what, exactly?
Is this some use of "classic" of which I have been heretofore ignorant?
Unless this video comes with some 3D glasses and I missed out on them, this is 2D. The image has height and width, but I can't rotate it around to see the heartbeat from the side or the back or the top or the bottom.
With apache+mysql+php, sshd, samba, and the entire OS X GUI running my Mini draws 16 watts. SIXTEEN.
In conclusion: original post author on crack.
Software types are more analytical, (either as a result or as an cause of them being in their field). As such they see things that Joe Random doesn't even notice.
When the waitress says "If you need anything else, my name is Betty" Joe Random grunts and takes a bite of his meal. Programmer dude wonders what her name is if he doesn't need any thing else.
What you are describing is JOE RANDOM seeing things that the programmer doesn't even notice.
When the waitress says "If you need anything else, my name is Betty" Joe Random instantly knows that what she means is "if you need anything else and you can't immediately find me, just tell any other restaurant employee what you want and that you are being looked after by Betty. I value the opportunity to provide personal service to you because I'm a waitress and much of my take-home pay is in tips from happy customers". Joe Random understands this because he understands people, has eaten in restaurants before, has tipped waitresses before, and he understands the unwritten rules of communication in a wide range of social situations, including this one.
Programmer dude has problems understanding why people don't explain themselves clearly, when in fact the problem is that he has no sense of communication in a social context. Joe Random and Betty just exchanged a massive amount of information, referring to customs, past experiences, the hierarchy of the restaurant staff, Betty's personal situation, possible future events, and Joe Random's understanding with nothing more than one verbal sentence from Betty and a grunt from Joe Random.
Programmer dude noticed none of this.
The best coder I've ever worked with - like, ever - was a guy who openly professed to hating computers and avoiding them outside work hours where possible. He loved CODE, he just hated computers.
These days I don't care about resumes and I don't care what a headhunter says. I care what the candidate's LinkedIn profile looks like, what recommendations he or she has, and from whom.
I was going to go back and check whether Card does as you say, but then I realised that I used all my Ender books when I ran out of toilet paper one weekend. A shame, as they weren't even really fit for THAT task.
After the fiasco that was the Atlanta Olympics, I'm pretty sure the IOC would be thinking "give the USA another chance to fuck everything up? no way."
I wonder how many paying jobs the Olympics would have created in America.
#fail
In the past three years I've turned down three all-expenses-paid trips to the USA. "Hey, there's this conference--" "Is it in the USA?" "Yeah." "Not interested."
I've crisscrossed the USA many times, and I dare say I've seen more of it than most Americans. And I just have no interest in visiting now. In fact it's not just that I am not interested in visiting, it's that I actively intend to NOT visit.
Dude. Just... wow. Let me guess, you use Monster cables exclusively, right?
And after all the megafauna were extunct, we started eating each other.
TOLD YOU WE WUZ HARDCORE
There was a short period of time when companies actually made sure their products were usable by people. That was in 1970s. Yeah, like the DC-10 and the Pinto.
Advertising and marketing are not the same thing.
Scoble's blog was hosted by Wordpress.com for about four years. During that time he wasn't hacked once. When Scoble was hired to pimp Rackspace, his blog moved to a box at Rackspace, and evidently no-one at Rackspace keeps up with security patches. Not a good look for a hosting company.
Yeah, but you actually CARE. Anyone who runs a Wordpress blog is greeted, in mile-high-flaming letters, with "YOUR WORDPRESS VERSION IS OUT OF DATE, CLICK HERE TO UPDATE" whenever he logs in to the CMS when it's running a version other than current. The hole being exploited by this worm was fixed about six months ago.
In other words, the people who are getting hit by this worm have been ignoring the reminders to upgrade for at least half a year.
Newsflash, no-one's forcing you to read Marvel comics when there are hundreds of alternative publishers releasing good stuff.
Dreamweaver: I prefer Coda. No WYSIWYG editor, but I've stopped using Dreamweaver completely.
Completely agree. I couldn't live without Coda now.
Photoshop: Acorn. If you're a power photoshop user, it won't suffice... depends on what you're doing. There's also pixelimator
Pixelmator is very good for what it costs, which is something like 5% of the sticker price of Photoshop. But like Acorn it won't satisfy you if you need all Photoshop's functionality.