IDE integration: SVN is currently integrated with our IDEs (all 3), one of the main selling points in choosing a VCS.
Ease of backups: We archive our repositories every day, IT loves being able to simply tgz the SVN directory and not have to worry about anything else, regardless of the state of any current projects (all groups use SVN).
Simplicity: SVN/Trac training (client use, management, backend workings) takes less than 10 minutes. In another 15 minutes I can have someone setting up their own SVN repositories+Trac, without needing to pull up a single reference document, primarily because the an SVN setup methodology is trivial to memorize.
Just like Monster is a copy of Red Bull and Windows is a copy of Mac and Toyota is a copy of Ford and an iPod is a copy of a (cd?)walkman. The fact that Linux shares no code is really the subject. Misleading article title.
that is part of their target market. It's very silly to say that Ubuntu UI choices for 98% of the users (people with windows or mac experience of any kind) are less important than the 2% (computer illiterate) who will then have to learn it another way (windows) in the workplace since they might actually get a job.
..those phony-cheerful, "Wow, we're so cool and so are you" voices saying crap like, "Hey, guys, we've just decided you like us sooooo much it would be really cool for us to put our prices up so you can tell all your friends what an important, expensive service you have".
Works for apple. I have a feeling this is what Apple will be turning into. Same message, "Be hip" but without the quality products or service to give it weight.
/owned a mac Apple II until MacOS7 my last powerbooks started failing. Might go back one day. //I've always considered most apple software, ESPECIALLY iTunes, to be terribly bloated, usually with trashware. Scares me.
I would submit you have a better chance to learn something from a more specific goal than a competition with rules that take focus away from the fundamental problems. How can we make it more efficient? Stick an anorexic child in the car, that'll reduce the weight, how ingenuitive!
It's not supposed to be for production, numb-nuts. Forumla 1 racers don't have AM radios, either, nor power windows. They must suck, eh?
The implication is that the achievement is not a matter of fuel/applied power efficiency alone. If the primary reason (most of these) contests exist is relegated to an afterthought, the arbitrary rules that allow for such a minimal design seem silly. Why isn't the car tested in a lab if you're going to remove it from the realm of real application anyways? What's the point if not a theoretical application of minimalism in a controlled environment? If you want a fuel efficiency competition you probably don't want it to be influenced by the rule of thumb that the mass of the car can be shrunk. When you get a 4-runner to go 1000 miles on a gallon of gas, I'll take notice. Till then, these competitions are relatively pointless imo.
That's a bit too cynical. We don't have all the information here. If Lucas went hired Ainsworth and told him what he wanted and Ainsworth developed the detailed design and the molds, then the basic idea was Lucas's and the design was a work for hire, the rights to which belong to Lucas.
Even if THAT were the case (which is probably isn't), Ainsworth would still hold the rights to the design. You need a contract stating that the intellectual property is yours, especially when dealing with foreign nationals.
It's just like when an engineer designs a chip for Intel - the design belongs to Intel, not the engineer.
Er, in reality you have to sign an employment agreement for that to be true, depending on where the agreement is made.
If the ads are customized toward the game's audience I wholeheartedly approve of any billboard/building/bus-stop advertising in an urban game. It's painfully simple to put a Superhero leaping to save a little girl's burger in front of a McD's.
NATO isn't the US, and the US isn't NATO. Pretending [NATO EXISTS WITHOUT THE US] and calling names won't change that, and won't make your personal attack any less of a sign that you know you're [right].
I would say it's not necessary so much as inevitable.
I agree.
I do wonder if expletives, and probably "hate speech", are only effective because of a disparate distribution of knowledge. People get upset at others because of a lack of understanding (including an ability to understand that some people do not care what others think). Hate speech effective because of a lack of self-control, reasoning, and accurate contextual information, of the viewership.
I see no reasoning that establishes that it is "necessary" and more than there needs to be topics that are taboo. More importantly, swear words are part of what my family considers normal vocabulary and that people who are uncomfortable with expletives are at best immature, and at worst hypocrites. I found it disturbing to hear a nurse ask a patient in excruciating pain to refrain from swearing as if there was a medical or social consequence. THAT'S fucking stupid.
I remember all initial articles/hype quoting Amazon reps as saying it was a method of monetizing devalued/obsolete hardware rather than writing it off and disposing (all) of it.
Never attribute to incompetence what can be just as easily attributed to malice.
That statement works both ways:)
It does not. One is a general rule that holds true in the majority of situations, the reverse does not, which is why the original is recognized at all. It works in this specific case, or you would not even bring it up.
The question is flawed. Anyone worth their weight as a programmer doesn't care what language they program in.
Really? What kind of idiot programmers do you work with? My life is finite and my time is valuable. If you don't care what language you program in, you don't care what language you learn, and you must not care what framework you learn either. Heck, all languages and frameworks must be worth learning! Reality check: What kind of languages you spend time to learn, matters.
Much discussion goes into what languages my team will use for what project and why. We don't fear learning new languages, but even as individuals away from work, nobody wastes time learning languages that do not serve a purpose in the workplace or in our own personal projects just to "know them". I've dabbled in Erlang, Lisp, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. Mostly Erlang. None of these languages would I claim to "know". I'm not going to learn any of them. It doesn't help me to know them right now or in the future AFAIK, which is the point.
Flex Actionscript programming I've had to learn and have taken Adobe classes to learn. I "know" Flex and the associated Cairngorn framework. It's been the most useful thing I've learned in a long long time. I'd recommend to anyone, learn Flex.
See, that's an answer, not this constant/. nonsense of "you're too dumb to ask the right question".
Um, not it isn't. It's ECMA and doesn't relate to java in any way. That was just a bad naming co-incidence.
As a matter of fact, many javascript objects have properties and methods that are near-identical to Java counterparts. It's not just a bad naming coincidence, it's also a language that is Java-like in syntax.
Because he's not actually black (as per the standard definition of African-American). It's a matter of accuracy versus perception. If there's anywhere you will get bitchslapped for misrepresentation, it's on/. His caveat is well said and your response is irrationally directed at an act, unrelated to political correctness.
Implying someone else is unpatriotic or lazy because you don't agree with them is a pretty sorry indicator of your personal ideology.
When someone implies that, I will agree. I did no such thing. Might want to reread it. To say that ideology does not overcome self-interest is simply wrong. To tell someone that they WILL behave a certain way, as the GP did, was arrogance (with a measure of ignorance). I called him on it.
Most of your post is not arguing the point but, a perceived slight, that someone might have brought nationalism into a logical debate about American behavior.
No, you wouldn't. Ideology is easy when it doesn't hurt you (or, in this case, your pocket).
I did not go to college, I worked and studied my way into a Senior Developer position, so how's that easy? Ideology is what drives many people to risk their lives for their country, much less their lifestyle or careers. Do not suppose your cynical views make you suited to speak for others.
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Having to confirm payment for craploads of little $1 purchases all the time is not convenient.
What you describe is not a system anyone would implement (might want to describe how someone would come about choosing that model?) If you implement micro transactions correctly, ideally they would be optional, periodically available, and easily accessible.
The idea of MTs for ORIGINAL kinds of items (previously unavailable items like WoW BoP Epic gems of +5Int/+5Dodge or even vanity item graphics, look at the crappy specral tiger mount) is what is WILDLY popular in other countries. Vanity units in Starcraft 2 tied to your account? There's tons of opportunity and it's very surprising they haven't been implemented yet in any Blizzard title (given the rest of their business practices).
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IDE integration:
SVN is currently integrated with our IDEs (all 3), one of the main selling points in choosing a VCS.
Ease of backups:
We archive our repositories every day, IT loves being able to simply tgz the SVN directory and not have to worry about anything else, regardless of the state of any current projects (all groups use SVN).
Simplicity:
SVN/Trac training (client use, management, backend workings) takes less than 10 minutes. In another 15 minutes I can have someone setting up their own SVN repositories+Trac, without needing to pull up a single reference document, primarily because the an SVN setup methodology is trivial to memorize.
McBride also testified "the" "on" "book", but these are not the reason the testimony is false on its face.
The article title is misleading, not factually incorrect.
Just like Monster is a copy of Red Bull and Windows is a copy of Mac and Toyota is a copy of Ford and an iPod is a copy of a (cd?)walkman. The fact that Linux shares no code is really the subject. Misleading article title.
that is part of their target market. It's very silly to say that Ubuntu UI choices for 98% of the users (people with windows or mac experience of any kind) are less important than the 2% (computer illiterate) who will then have to learn it another way (windows) in the workplace since they might actually get a job.
Works for apple. I have a feeling this is what Apple will be turning into. Same message, "Be hip" but without the quality products or service to give it weight.
I would submit you have a better chance to learn something from a more specific goal than a competition with rules that take focus away from the fundamental problems. How can we make it more efficient? Stick an anorexic child in the car, that'll reduce the weight, how ingenuitive!
The implication is that the achievement is not a matter of fuel/applied power efficiency alone. If the primary reason (most of these) contests exist is relegated to an afterthought, the arbitrary rules that allow for such a minimal design seem silly. Why isn't the car tested in a lab if you're going to remove it from the realm of real application anyways? What's the point if not a theoretical application of minimalism in a controlled environment? If you want a fuel efficiency competition you probably don't want it to be influenced by the rule of thumb that the mass of the car can be shrunk. When you get a 4-runner to go 1000 miles on a gallon of gas, I'll take notice. Till then, these competitions are relatively pointless imo.
My biggest fear of MS+Yahoo is how it will affect the yahoo music player. I certainly don't use a legit copy of windows (media player).
Even if THAT were the case (which is probably isn't), Ainsworth would still hold the rights to the design. You need a contract stating that the intellectual property is yours, especially when dealing with foreign nationals.
Er, in reality you have to sign an employment agreement for that to be true, depending on where the agreement is made.
Er, if an act causes a physical response that can be addictive, there's no useful distinction. So I respectfully disagree.
If the ads are customized toward the game's audience I wholeheartedly approve of any billboard/building/bus-stop advertising in an urban game. It's painfully simple to put a Superhero leaping to save a little girl's burger in front of a McD's.
Fixed.
This is a quote from a Garfield comic.
I agree.
I do wonder if expletives, and probably "hate speech", are only effective because of a disparate distribution of knowledge. People get upset at others because of a lack of understanding (including an ability to understand that some people do not care what others think). Hate speech effective because of a lack of self-control, reasoning, and accurate contextual information, of the viewership.
Why?
I remember all initial articles/hype quoting Amazon reps as saying it was a method of monetizing devalued/obsolete hardware rather than writing it off and disposing (all) of it.
I'll wait for Slider (aka Glider2) : The Re-Branding, where the program is sold from Israel.
It does not. One is a general rule that holds true in the majority of situations, the reverse does not, which is why the original is recognized at all. It works in this specific case, or you would not even bring it up.
Really? What kind of idiot programmers do you work with? My life is finite and my time is valuable. If you don't care what language you program in, you don't care what language you learn, and you must not care what framework you learn either. Heck, all languages and frameworks must be worth learning! Reality check: What kind of languages you spend time to learn, matters.
Much discussion goes into what languages my team will use for what project and why. We don't fear learning new languages, but even as individuals away from work, nobody wastes time learning languages that do not serve a purpose in the workplace or in our own personal projects just to "know them". I've dabbled in Erlang, Lisp, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. Mostly Erlang. None of these languages would I claim to "know". I'm not going to learn any of them. It doesn't help me to know them right now or in the future AFAIK, which is the point.
Flex Actionscript programming I've had to learn and have taken Adobe classes to learn. I "know" Flex and the associated Cairngorn framework. It's been the most useful thing I've learned in a long long time. I'd recommend to anyone, learn Flex.
See, that's an answer, not this constant
As a matter of fact, many javascript objects have properties and methods that are near-identical to Java counterparts. It's not just a bad naming coincidence, it's also a language that is Java-like in syntax.
Because he's not actually black (as per the standard definition of African-American). It's a matter of accuracy versus perception. If there's anywhere you will get bitchslapped for misrepresentation, it's on
When someone implies that, I will agree. I did no such thing. Might want to reread it. To say that ideology does not overcome self-interest is simply wrong. To tell someone that they WILL behave a certain way, as the GP did, was arrogance (with a measure of ignorance). I called him on it.
Most of your post is not arguing the point but, a perceived slight, that someone might have brought nationalism into a logical debate about American behavior.
I did not go to college, I worked and studied my way into a Senior Developer position, so how's that easy? Ideology is what drives many people to risk their lives for their country, much less their lifestyle or careers. Do not suppose your cynical views make you suited to speak for others.
What you describe is not a system anyone would implement (might want to describe how someone would come about choosing that model?)
If you implement micro transactions correctly, ideally they would be optional, periodically available, and easily accessible.
The idea of MTs for ORIGINAL kinds of items (previously unavailable items like WoW BoP Epic gems of +5Int/+5Dodge or even vanity item graphics, look at the crappy specral tiger mount) is what is WILDLY popular in other countries. Vanity units in Starcraft 2 tied to your account? There's tons of opportunity and it's very surprising they haven't been implemented yet in any Blizzard title (given the rest of their business practices).