I agree with the idea of having it both hinder and help at the same time. When you see 30-50 lines of comments for each method it can sometimes get in the way. I (partially) like the way Microsoft has handled this with their C# compiler, allowing the developer to generate xml a meta document similiar to JavaDoc or the developer can choose to place the comments in an external file and reference them from within the code comments using the tag. But I did not like the way it outputs only xml, so if I want an html document I have to either use VisualStudio's tool to output html comments based on their templates (poo poo) or parse the xml myself.
A standard for Literate Programming certainly wouldn't kill any of us.
In the sales industry they refer to this as being column fodder. You are merely there to bid so they can put your bid in a spreadsheet and show why they shouldn't choose you. A lot of times if you don't have contacts on the inside of the target organization then you will be doomed from the start, merely used to show that they made an "informed decision" by investigating alternatives. Sales are deteremined by not just price, but perceived value and they will go with the company they know. Get inside contacts that have influence over the decision to make the sale.
There are many good suggestions in previous posts such as well documented API's, source code, examples, good help files, good support, direct contact with your developers, servers to use (such as the strong arm servers compaq opens to developers to write for that processor/platform)
One suggestion - I've noticed that platform creators like to write about their sdks in trade magazines, on websites, and newsgroups about the details of their sdks and why developers should use them. One good example is Miguel De Icaza and the Mono project. He wrote in detail about it in Dr Dobbs about the technical merits of using the Mono framework on Linux to run.Net applications. That article shed some light on Mono and cast aside the FUD that propogates when you have a void of information. If people don't know your position on the advantages of your platform then they will assume things.
This is just another Disaster type of Preparedness/Emergency Management (DP/EM) software. I had the chance to see similiar software used by large government installations/institutions. This particular one was purchased by Camp LeJeune developed by Applied Ordanance Technology. The typical scenario use was either for prepardness, running simulations of disasters (everything from terror attacks to floods), or for Emergency Management where emergency professionals would use the software on site at an emergency location to help plan their efforts. Usually all of this was tied into GIS/Mapping software compiled with all kinds of information. You could program the software to raise the water levels by X feet in one area, or map out affected areas depending on a WMD you specify, weather, social events, population, season, etc. It would even allow you to get all the way down into the nitty gritty getting detailed architectural plans of any building you specify. This is great for emergency personel who need to know what type of materials are stored in a building at a location before they enter.
I agree that this should not be a substitute for trust. On the other hand I have never felt such an awful feeling as losing track of where your child is. They are so curious and care free that they wander/run off, especially when they are young.
To try and use one of these with my daughter when she turns 16 is a joke. She's only 9 now and thinks she knows everything and doesn't need any help. I couldn't imagine trying something like that with a teenager.
I guess it would use the.Disable() method on the exposed zone alarm api?
I also suggest running a firewall on its own box (as I do myself) but disabling a built in firewall would be both difficult(anything is possible though) and possibly illegal. There is no exposed API so they would have to reverse engineer is, thereby opening themselves up to legal action under the DCMA, the very thing they are trying to uphold. Kind of a paradox.
Maybe it's because we are constantly told that we are evil and our culture is not actual culture. Everytime we want something for ourselves it's labeled as either: a. Stolen or b. Not actual culture. Then when we get into this mode of self loathing and self hate. We start to believe that maybe we are doing something wrong, maybe our culture is not culture at all but just stolen ideas or fluff, maybe we are evil at the root. But I fail to see how we are so different from any other culture in history.
Britney Spears gets on the stage to entertain the masses. William Shakespeare wrote plays to entertain the masses. Yet one is placed on the pedestal of "culture" and admired, while the other is deemed fluff. The value of both art works could be argued infinitely, but my point is that we are forged from birth to be self loathing Americans and it's hard to shake that. We constantly question ourselves and our actions (that can be a good thing) to the point that it drives us mad.
Oh well, this discussion is good but I know that I have culture. I live in the Chesapeake Bay Area of Maryland and that has basically defined my culture. I could show any outsider things that they have never seen and would enjoy that are distinctly ours just as easily as they could show me their country/culture. We are not Britney Spears, we are not Coke, we are not McDonalds.
For all those that talk of the wasted money: If NASA did it for research it would be a worthy scientific endeavor using US tax dollars, but If a man wants to spend his own money he is "wasting it"? I don't get it. I agree that this money could be used to feed needy children, to improve the ecology, etc,etc. BUT the same could be said of all the tax dollars given to NASA. Why are we sending people into space when there are poor children starving all over the world?
I bet most of you talking about wasted money are sitting in front of your computer(s) in your home with two cars out front. You could have not bought that computer and instead helped someone eat. But you didn't did you? Take a good look at all the money you've spent on pure crap and tell me it couldn't have been used to help others. Get a grip.
So maybe GM should innovate in the car by using a stick instead of a steering wheel? Some things could certainly be done better. But yet they don't. Why? (A rehetorical question obviously) Because people are used to a certain paradigm and when you change that it feels awkward. That's why you see windows in linux and almost every other OS, because people are used to it. I'm all for making the GUIs in more appealing and easy to use but I'm not so sure a radical departure from the current desktop standard will lead to a supposed GUI nirvana.
Why is it that as soon as some on mentions people that are layed off someone automagically ASSumes that those people are incompetent. I know plenty of competent developers that simply cannot find work because the market has gone to shit. So keep looking down your nose at them oh condescending one because you might ne next.
Are you gonna deny that this is an actual problem that needs to be addressed? Who do you feed first? The ones you are supposed to be protecting or others that are just as needy? Both are needy, both are hungry. You feed your own because that's what you've been appointed to do as a politician. No one said it was an easy choice but there's a lot more to it than just "the bottom line" of corporate profits. If the politicians don't keep their people happy then they get a big dose of reality in the form of an unemployed boot up their ass.
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Nant doesn't favor one language, I just happen to use mainly c#. You could easily modify either ant or nant to build projects in other languages. Actually Nant has a task built in to compile using the VB.net and C++ compiler along with various other tasks just like make. Our builds include c++, c#, MS help files, and an MS installer.
Make is fine, but like I said we are searching for something a little more friendly.
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Nant has also caught on in the c# world. It's basically a.net port of ant.
We are moving our visual studio build to Nant because it works with our Nunit tests and can do everything we need automatically. We have used both nmake (make) and VS to accomplish builds in the past but have had to overcome a few difficulties in large builds that hopefully this will solve. We'll see but using ant in the past for my java projects I am hopeful. Using nmake simply was to error prone on large builds, we don't like finding that our build failed because of whitespace problems, and VS was simply to unreliable for us (your own results may vary). We still use vs.net to build our custom installer, but we call it from the cmd line using Nant.
Tying the whole process in to a source control app like subversion or cvs (which we currently use) would benefit us. Hopefully someone will write a.Net cruise control or it' equal for the.Net platform. That would allow the build process to get the latest files from our repository for the build.
Actually democracy is majority rule. Im not sure which definition you use but mine differs:
Your failure to understand our own Constitution is... depressing. But understandable, since virtually every Congressman similarly misunderstands the Constitution (either that, or believes in mob rule and religiously follows the polls).
Then perhaps you will enlighten me to what the Constitution really means. BTW, Your condescending tone does nothing for your argument. It puts me in a automatic defensive position, instead of one of reason.
While you should be (and are) free to be a Christian, and think gays are, well, gay, don't you think the same should be true of these "PC" groups you despise so? Shouldn't atheists be free to go about their lives without having Christianity shoved down their throats? Shouldn't gay people be allowed to live their lives? I say yes.
Yes, gays and atheists should be allowed to live their lives as freely as any American. They contribute just as much to society as any other group. I agree wholheartedly. And I don't disagree that they have legit arguments. BUT I don't think a very vocal minority should be the cause of change. It's like the more vocal a group is the more they get attention because the squeeky wheel gets the oil. One person bitches, loudly, and change happens regardless of what the majority feels is right. Back to my original point - This is the same attitude highlighted in Bradbury's 451 that caused the eventual outlawing of books. Too many people took offense to a particular book or phrase in a book and wanted it banned. Eventually all books were banned because they were deemed offensive.
I think your points are valid. I just feel that our system is flawed. Too often decisions are made based on offending the least amount of people, regardless of merit.
The point I was trying to make was the fact that we are suffocated by political correctness and minority rule. A few people stand up and shout "I don't like that so we all should not like it. What you are saying offends me so I think you should stop saying it." I'm very democratic and The fact that I could say "such drivel" is a testament to it. The pledge of allegiance is wrong not because it hurts atheists, but because it disregards separation of church and state.
We better reprint our money then. And every building in DC will need a face lift to remove those references to god. We might as well go the extra mile and demand politicians to remove any references to god in political speeches We can edit the ones from the past also. Because Xenu knows we can't have any references to church.
What do you suggest about homosexuality? To pretend it does not exist and jail the people that are homosexuals?
I suggest that they accept the fact that I do not accept their way and think it is not normal. Why must I accept their viewpoint? PS - A very close family member is a homosexual and I accept him as a human being and I love him. BUT I do not condone what he does and he accepts that. We agree to disagree.
-How would you call targetting people for how they look and not for intelligence information you may have? If all the intelligence information you have is "muslims are terrorists" that is called racism, plain and simple.
QUIZ who bombed the world trade center in the parking garage? militant male muslims
who flew planes into the world trade center? militant male muslims
who bombed the US embassies in East Africa? militant male muslims
who bombed the USS Cole? militant male muslims
who blew up the US embassy in west beirut? militant male muslims
I think the point is made. Instead of looking for militant male muslims wanting to destroy us we should instead target old white folks from Florida? You wouldn't be much of a protector if you did. The gov't gets so caught up in trying to appear fair to appease the left wing hand wringers that our protection suffers.
-You are also suggesting that if your relatives break the law, the family should shoulder in support and ignore it. WHo are you? The Goodfather? Yes I smoke blunts so I am the godfather. Turn me in because I am a threat to society.
I always thought Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 hit a little more closer to the target - A society of the future self enslaved through political correctness, the need to conform, and technology enabled diversions from real life.
I don't think the pledge of allegiance is right so we should ban it. The money in the US says "under god" and that offends my atheist beliefs, remove it! I think having homo sex is ok and I'm gonna cram it down your throat MTV style to make sure you know it's ok. I don't think we should target young muslims at the airport as potential terrorists because that would be racist. We should check grandma in the wheelchair instead to show that we are "being fair".
Watch your neighbor! They may be terrorists. Children, do your parents smoke an occasional joint? They are contributing to terrorists! Turn them in. Everyone watching for the inevitable attack by evil doers.
Self enslaved by our willingness to finance any and every shiny bubble that comes along this week. Working check to check to support our conformity. TV, radio, Internet, Mp3 players, walkman, car stereo, cd player, dvd in the SUV, movies, shiny clothes, and $4 quad-frapaccinno lattes laced with happiness prozac pills all working to remove you from reality. Citizen! look up here at these shiny bubbles! Now insert your debit card to see more.
Kinda glad i read this post now. I am also interested in building a wooden case with watercooling for the cpu and other internals. I hope you post your process/results somewhere so we can see them. I hope to work with a couple local woodworkers for the case and I'll roll my own water cooling setup.
From the article: "Who gets hurt by free downloads? Save a handful of super-successes like Celine Dion, none of us. We only get helped. "
I think this is exactly why the RIAA doesn't care about the tiny musician that consistently makes and sells music, but never hitting the astronomical numbers that Super stars like Celine Dion hit. Just like a casino can stay open because of the money it brings in from entertaining rich players that spend millions in a weekend (aka whales), the music industry looks for musicians that appeal to the broadest possible market, selling such high numbers that all others are ignored.
I could be wrong but I would like to see any person's perspective that views the music industry as anything other than greedy slicksters trying to milk talent for all it's worth. Their self serving image precedes them and predates this entire argument.
I think it would be analogous to compare it to other encryption, being a way to communicate secretly. Yes, bad people can use it, but that does not make encryption bad. The general good of the people will be served if they can keep what they want to keep private. Just as you wouldn't want anyone looking through your room in your house, you don't want people snooping through information you deem personal.
I believe that people are born with inalienable rights and one of those rights is privacy. Yes, people will abuse their rights, but for the general good of the people we must uphold those rights. Just as weapons can be used for hunting, they can also be used for killing. Media can be used to spread the word of truth, or it can be used to spread propaganda. I could go on and on but the point is this - creations are not evil, it takes the will of men to make them evil.
I agree that naming it extreme programming might not have been the best choice considering the images it conjurs up(picture Mountain Dew commercials with "narly d00ds" snowboarding yelling "Get Vertical!")
BUT, that being said the XP name came from the fact that everything is done to the extreme. If testing is good then test everything. If integration helps find problems then integrate continuously. etc, etc.
I say to any developer - take a look at XP. It's simply a set of industry proven techniques done to the extreme. It does work and even if you don't use everything you can still bring good practices to your coding from it. You don't have to accept any cult, take the red pill, or claim allegiance to xenu to take advantage of good techniques. If you don't like them or find they don't work then say so, but don't judge a book by it's cover (for lack of a more fitting cliche).
When reading about XP, I see a lot of mentions of Ant, XUnit, and cactus, but not much mention of Cruise Control. It builds upon Ant to allow continuous integration, one of the important piece of XP that should and can be automated.
Amen, for those of us who have worked on open source projects it's disheartening for me to see email from people telling me that something is broken but offer no suggestions or help, just demands of better software.
But hey it's free and simple and I think people just don't really care. They might take it and alter it to fit their own needs, I'm not sure. After 3000 downloads you'd think I'd have gotten some code from someone hacking something on it.
I think you hit the nail on the head, one developer sees an obvious gap in software and decides to roll their own solution. They then release this code to the public and it grows over time, sometimes bringing in others who want to contribute or branch the code to fit their own needs, but I think it generally starts from one person and works it way out. Not that that person had an idea that no one else ever thought of, just that they decided to take action and act on the idea. Not all of these ideas ever make it past day one or release code, which could account for all of the dead projects on sourceforge. Even Linux was started by one person, Linus. Not that he didn't build on other's work or ideas, but it took him to get the ball rolling.
Another thing to note: I released an open source project on sourceforge and have had numerous offers to help. But when I follow up I usually don't get any response or the people change their minds or have something else to do, etc. I don't get mad because I can relate to this as having done the same thing myself with the Jabber.net project and an attempt to help convert HttpUnit to c#. I found that my excitement alone was not enough and it required more time than I was willing to give.
But my experience is limited to small open source projects and many large projects are now having great success such as Apache, Linux, Mono, etc. I bet most of those started with one person also.
Every college kid should have a good assortment of stash boxes. I have one in my vehicle, put in by a local custom car shop, and a few in my house that I built myself. They are great for hiding stuff that you might want to keep out of normal view A decent safe never hurt but given the tight spaces that usually confines college kids I'd suggest a small fire box with a simple key or number lock.
here's a cheapie stash example: http://www.pentagondefense.com/booksafe1 .html
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doh, it ripped out the include tag in my post above for obvious reasons. The C# include comment tag is what I was talking about.
I agree with the idea of having it both hinder and help at the same time. When you see 30-50 lines of comments for each method it can sometimes get in the way. I (partially) like the way Microsoft has handled this with their C# compiler, allowing the developer to generate xml a meta document similiar to JavaDoc or the developer can choose to place the comments in an external file and reference them from within the code comments using the tag. But I did not like the way it outputs only xml, so if I want an html document I have to either use VisualStudio's tool to output html comments based on their templates (poo poo) or parse the xml myself.
A standard for Literate Programming certainly wouldn't kill any of us.
In the sales industry they refer to this as being column fodder. You are merely there to bid so they can put your bid in a spreadsheet and show why they shouldn't choose you. A lot of times if you don't have contacts on the inside of the target organization then you will be doomed from the start, merely used to show that they made an "informed decision" by investigating alternatives. Sales are deteremined by not just price, but perceived value and they will go with the company they know. Get inside contacts that have influence over the decision to make the sale.
There are many good suggestions in previous posts such as well documented API's, source code, examples, good help files, good support, direct contact with your developers, servers to use (such as the strong arm servers compaq opens to developers to write for that processor/platform)
.Net applications. That article shed some light on Mono and cast aside the FUD that propogates when you have a void of information. If people don't know your position on the advantages of your platform then they will assume things.
One suggestion - I've noticed that platform creators like to write about their sdks in trade magazines, on websites, and newsgroups about the details of their sdks and why developers should use them. One good example is Miguel De Icaza and the Mono project. He wrote in detail about it in Dr Dobbs about the technical merits of using the Mono framework on Linux to run
This is just another Disaster type of Preparedness/Emergency Management (DP/EM) software. I had the chance to see similiar software used by large government installations/institutions. This particular one was purchased by Camp LeJeune developed by Applied Ordanance Technology. The typical scenario use was either for prepardness, running simulations of disasters (everything from terror attacks to floods), or for Emergency Management where emergency professionals would use the software on site at an emergency location to help plan their efforts. Usually all of this was tied into GIS/Mapping software compiled with all kinds of information. You could program the software to raise the water levels by X feet in one area, or map out affected areas depending on a WMD you specify, weather, social events, population, season, etc. It would even allow you to get all the way down into the nitty gritty getting detailed architectural plans of any building you specify. This is great for emergency personel who need to know what type of materials are stored in a building at a location before they enter.
I agree that this should not be a substitute for trust. On the other hand I have never felt such an awful feeling as losing track of where your child is. They are so curious and care free that they wander/run off, especially when they are young.
To try and use one of these with my daughter when she turns 16 is a joke. She's only 9 now and thinks she knows everything and doesn't need any help. I couldn't imagine trying something like that with a teenager.
I guess it would use the .Disable() method on the exposed zone alarm api?
I also suggest running a firewall on its own box (as I do myself) but disabling a built in firewall would be both difficult(anything is possible though) and possibly illegal. There is no exposed API so they would have to reverse engineer is, thereby opening themselves up to legal action under the DCMA, the very thing they are trying to uphold. Kind of a paradox.
Maybe it's because we are constantly told that we are evil and our culture is not actual culture. Everytime we want something for ourselves it's labeled as either: a. Stolen or b. Not actual culture. Then when we get into this mode of self loathing and self hate. We start to believe that maybe we are doing something wrong, maybe our culture is not culture at all but just stolen ideas or fluff, maybe we are evil at the root. But I fail to see how we are so different from any other culture in history.
Britney Spears gets on the stage to entertain the masses. William Shakespeare wrote plays to entertain the masses. Yet one is placed on the pedestal of "culture" and admired, while the other is deemed fluff. The value of both art works could be argued infinitely, but my point is that we are forged from birth to be self loathing Americans and it's hard to shake that. We constantly question ourselves and our actions (that can be a good thing) to the point that it drives us mad.
Oh well, this discussion is good but I know that I have culture. I live in the Chesapeake Bay Area of Maryland and that has basically defined my culture. I could show any outsider things that they have never seen and would enjoy that are distinctly ours just as easily as they could show me their country/culture. We are not Britney Spears, we are not Coke, we are not McDonalds.
That's all I'm asking. I don't want to "rub my junk" just to get my cursor moving.
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,etc. BUT the same could be said of all the tax dollars given to NASA. Why are we sending people into space when there are poor children starving all over the world?
For all those that talk of the wasted money: If NASA did it for research it would be a worthy scientific endeavor using US tax dollars, but If a man wants to spend his own money he is "wasting it"? I don't get it. I agree that this money could be used to feed needy children, to improve the ecology, etc
I bet most of you talking about wasted money are sitting in front of your computer(s) in your home with two cars out front. You could have not bought that computer and instead helped someone eat. But you didn't did you? Take a good look at all the money you've spent on pure crap and tell me it couldn't have been used to help others. Get a grip.
So maybe GM should innovate in the car by using a stick instead of a steering wheel? Some things could certainly be done better. But yet they don't. Why? (A rehetorical question obviously)
Because people are used to a certain paradigm and when you change that it feels awkward. That's why you see windows in linux and almost every other OS, because people are used to it. I'm all for making the GUIs in more appealing and easy to use but I'm not so sure a radical departure from the current desktop standard will lead to a supposed GUI nirvana.
Why is it that as soon as some on mentions people that are layed off someone automagically ASSumes that those people are incompetent. I know plenty of competent developers that simply cannot find work because the market has gone to shit. So keep looking down your nose at them oh condescending one because you might ne next.
Are you gonna deny that this is an actual problem that needs to be addressed? Who do you feed first? The ones you are supposed to be protecting or others that are just as needy? Both are needy, both are hungry. You feed your own because that's what you've been appointed to do as a politician. No one said it was an easy choice but there's a lot more to it than just "the bottom line" of corporate profits. If the politicians don't keep their people happy then they get a big dose of reality in the form of an unemployed boot up their ass.
Nant doesn't favor one language, I just happen to use mainly c#. You could easily modify either ant or nant to build projects in other languages. Actually Nant has a task built in to compile using the VB.net and C++ compiler along with various other tasks just like make. Our builds include c++, c#, MS help files, and an MS installer.
Make is fine, but like I said we are searching for something a little more friendly.
Nant has also caught on in the c# world. It's basically a .net port of ant.
.Net cruise control or it' equal for the .Net platform. That would allow the build process to get the latest files from our repository for the build.
We are moving our visual studio build to Nant because it works with our Nunit tests and can do everything we need automatically. We have used both nmake (make) and VS to accomplish builds in the past but have had to overcome a few difficulties in large builds that hopefully this will solve. We'll see but using ant in the past for my java projects I am hopeful. Using nmake simply was to error prone on large builds, we don't like finding that our build failed because of whitespace problems, and VS was simply to unreliable for us (your own results may vary). We still use vs.net to build our custom installer, but we call it from the cmd line using Nant.
Tying the whole process in to a source control app like subversion or cvs (which we currently use) would benefit us. Hopefully someone will write a
Actually democracy is majority rule. Im not sure which definition you use but mine differs:
... depressing. But understandable, since virtually every Congressman similarly misunderstands the Constitution (either that, or believes in mob rule and religiously follows the polls).
Your failure to understand our own Constitution is
Then perhaps you will enlighten me to what the Constitution really means. BTW, Your condescending tone does nothing for your argument. It puts me in a automatic defensive position, instead of one of reason.
While you should be (and are) free to be a Christian, and think gays are, well, gay, don't you think the same should be true of these "PC" groups you despise so? Shouldn't atheists be free to go about their lives without having Christianity shoved down their throats? Shouldn't gay people be allowed to live their lives? I say yes.
Yes, gays and atheists should be allowed to live their lives as freely as any American. They contribute just as much to society as any other group. I agree wholheartedly. And I don't disagree that they have legit arguments. BUT I don't think a very vocal minority should be the cause of change. It's like the more vocal a group is the more they get attention because the squeeky wheel gets the oil. One person bitches, loudly, and change happens regardless of what the majority feels is right. Back to my original point - This is the same attitude highlighted in Bradbury's 451 that caused the eventual outlawing of books. Too many people took offense to a particular book or phrase in a book and wanted it banned. Eventually all books were banned because they were deemed offensive.
I think your points are valid. I just feel that our system is flawed. Too often decisions are made based on offending the least amount of people, regardless of merit.
The point I was trying to make was the fact that we are suffocated by political correctness and minority rule. A few people stand up and shout "I don't like that so we all should not like it. What you are saying offends me so I think you should stop saying it." I'm very democratic and The fact that I could say "such drivel" is a testament to it.
The pledge of allegiance is wrong not because it hurts atheists, but because it disregards separation of church and state.
We better reprint our money then. And every building in DC will need a face lift to remove those references to god. We might as well go the extra mile and demand politicians to remove any references to god in political speeches We can edit the ones from the past also. Because Xenu knows we can't have any references to church.
What do you suggest about homosexuality? To pretend it does not exist and jail the people that are homosexuals?
I suggest that they accept the fact that I do not accept their way and think it is not normal. Why must I accept their viewpoint? PS - A very close family member is a homosexual and I accept him as a human being and I love him. BUT I do not condone what he does and he accepts that. We agree to disagree.
-How would you call targetting people for how they look and not for intelligence information you may have? If all the intelligence information you have is "muslims are terrorists" that is called racism, plain and simple.
QUIZ
who bombed the world trade center in the parking garage?
militant male muslims
who flew planes into the world trade center?
militant male muslims
who bombed the US embassies in East Africa?
militant male muslims
who bombed the USS Cole?
militant male muslims
who blew up the US embassy in west beirut?
militant male muslims
I think the point is made. Instead of looking for militant male muslims wanting to destroy us we should instead target old white folks from Florida? You wouldn't be much of a protector if you did. The gov't gets so caught up in trying to appear fair to appease the left wing hand wringers that our protection suffers.
-You are also suggesting that if your relatives break the law, the family should shoulder in support and ignore it. WHo are you? The Goodfather?
Yes I smoke blunts so I am the godfather. Turn me in because I am a threat to society.
I always thought Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 hit a little more closer to the target - A society of the future self enslaved through political correctness, the need to conform, and technology enabled diversions from real life.
I don't think the pledge of allegiance is right so we should ban it. The money in the US says "under god" and that offends my atheist beliefs, remove it! I think having homo sex is ok and I'm gonna cram it down your throat MTV style to make sure you know it's ok. I don't think we should target young muslims at the airport as potential terrorists because that would be racist. We should check grandma in the wheelchair instead to show that we are "being fair".
Watch your neighbor! They may be terrorists. Children, do your parents smoke an occasional joint? They are contributing to terrorists! Turn them in. Everyone watching for the inevitable attack by evil doers.
Self enslaved by our willingness to finance any and every shiny bubble that comes along this week. Working check to check to support our conformity. TV, radio, Internet, Mp3 players, walkman, car stereo, cd player, dvd in the SUV, movies, shiny clothes, and $4 quad-frapaccinno lattes laced with happiness prozac pills all working to remove you from reality. Citizen! look up here at these shiny bubbles! Now insert your debit card to see more.
Kinda glad i read this post now. I am also interested in building a wooden case with watercooling for the cpu and other internals. I hope you post your process/results somewhere so we can see them. I hope to work with a couple local woodworkers for the case and I'll roll my own water cooling setup.
From the article: "Who gets hurt by free downloads? Save a handful of super-successes like Celine Dion, none of us. We only get helped. "
I think this is exactly why the RIAA doesn't care about the tiny musician that consistently makes and sells music, but never hitting the astronomical numbers that Super stars like Celine Dion hit. Just like a casino can stay open because of the money it brings in from entertaining rich players that spend millions in a weekend (aka whales), the music industry looks for musicians that appeal to the broadest possible market, selling such high numbers that all others are ignored.
I could be wrong but I would like to see any person's perspective that views the music industry as anything other than greedy slicksters trying to milk talent for all it's worth. Their self serving image precedes them and predates this entire argument.
I think it would be analogous to compare it to other encryption, being a way to communicate secretly. Yes, bad people can use it, but that does not make encryption bad. The general good of the people will be served if they can keep what they want to keep private. Just as you wouldn't want anyone looking through your room in your house, you don't want people snooping through information you deem personal.
I believe that people are born with inalienable rights and one of those rights is privacy. Yes, people will abuse their rights, but for the general good of the people we must uphold those rights. Just as weapons can be used for hunting, they can also be used for killing. Media can be used to spread the word of truth, or it can be used to spread propaganda. I could go on and on but the point is this - creations are not evil, it takes the will of men to make them evil.
I agree that naming it extreme programming might not have been the best choice considering the images it conjurs up(picture Mountain Dew commercials with "narly d00ds" snowboarding yelling "Get Vertical!")
BUT, that being said the XP name came from the fact that everything is done to the extreme. If testing is good then test everything. If integration helps find problems then integrate continuously. etc, etc.
I say to any developer - take a look at XP. It's simply a set of industry proven techniques done to the extreme. It does work and even if you don't use everything you can still bring good practices to your coding from it. You don't have to accept any cult, take the red pill, or claim allegiance to xenu to take advantage of good techniques. If you don't like them or find they don't work then say so, but don't judge a book by it's cover (for lack of a more fitting cliche).
When reading about XP, I see a lot of mentions of Ant, XUnit, and cactus, but not much mention of Cruise Control. It builds upon Ant to allow continuous integration, one of the important piece of XP that should and can be automated.
Amen, for those of us who have worked on open source projects it's disheartening for me to see email from people telling me that something is broken but offer no suggestions or help, just demands of better software.
But hey it's free and simple and I think people just don't really care. They might take it and alter it to fit their own needs, I'm not sure. After 3000 downloads you'd think I'd have gotten some code from someone hacking something on it.
I think you hit the nail on the head, one developer sees an obvious gap in software and decides to roll their own solution. They then release this code to the public and it grows over time, sometimes bringing in others who want to contribute or branch the code to fit their own needs, but I think it generally starts from one person and works it way out. Not that that person had an idea that no one else ever thought of, just that they decided to take action and act on the idea. Not all of these ideas ever make it past day one or release code, which could account for all of the dead projects on sourceforge. Even Linux was started by one person, Linus. Not that he didn't build on other's work or ideas, but it took him to get the ball rolling.
Another thing to note: I released an open source project on sourceforge and have had numerous offers to help. But when I follow up I usually don't get any response or the people change their minds or have something else to do, etc. I don't get mad because I can relate to this as having done the same thing myself with the Jabber.net project and an attempt to help convert HttpUnit to c#. I found that my excitement alone was not enough and it required more time than I was willing to give.
But my experience is limited to small open source projects and many large projects are now having great success such as Apache, Linux, Mono, etc. I bet most of those started with one person also.
Every college kid should have a good assortment of stash boxes. I have one in my vehicle, put in by a local custom car shop, and a few in my house that I built myself. They are great for hiding stuff that you might want to keep out of normal view A decent safe never hurt but given the tight spaces that usually confines college kids I'd suggest a small fire box with a simple key or number lock.
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~trust no one, always roll your own tin foil hats