Managers want the duct tape solution. Get it out of the door quick. Who cares if it works, that's what version 2.0 is for.
Developers want the elegant solution. A developers bridge would be very pretty, do exactly what was needed (plus loads of stuff you wouldn't expect of bridges, like free blowjobs halfway across) but cost 500* as much and take 30 years to build.
An ideal software engineer is somewhere between the two - sucking up to management just enough to get a project that actually works, and avoiding running over and not have any extraneous features. It's as much 'engineering' people as software. That's why the job pays more.. as TFA said, it's multifaceted.
I always thought that was either Douglas Adams: "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves elected should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Or Frank Herbert: "Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it. We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to wield it, and only then under conditions that increase the reluctance."
It's one of those circular definitions you hear from time to time, like 'the suicide bombers aren't true muslims, therefore no true muslims are suicide bombers'.
So we get 'the neocons aren't true republicans, so no true republicans are neocons'.
In general that's not true - starting a war before an election is an extremely efficient way of getting more votes... people come over all patriotic and start liking the incumbent leader again.
Ask Margaret Thatcher.. the falklands was a gift to her election campaign (and for Galtieri, as Argentina at the time was a mess.. a war was just what they needed to take the populations' mind off their problems).
The problem is you have to run a Nuclear power plant for 5 years + beyond its useful life to decomission it (and they only last about 40 years).. during that time it's consuming resources (manpower and cash at the mimimum - Sizewell A needs 100 employees on site 24/7), and after decomssioning renders the site uninhabitable for 100 years.
Nuclear has become an option due to CO2 concerned after it was largely abandoned in the 90's, but it's not because it's cheaper.
The sad part is that if this church served anything stronger than Communion wine (to people who will be driving home after the game) and charged for it, the NFL would have no problem with them showing the game!
I'd be really surprised if they didn't - believe me I've been in enough churches (and that's a lot, over the years) to know that they probably drink at least as much if not more than the average population (especially the clergy).
Hell, in this country we have a number of churches based *inside* pubs. Those that aren't usually have a favourite local just around the corner, who are glad of the business every sunday afternoon.
It's been 100 years since 'a cup of tea' was all you got after a service. OTOH maybe in the US there are still churches like that..
I was a bit confused at the headline myself.. 56 inch is nowhere near big enough to show to a church (definately not the huge monstrosity churches you have in the US)... THX viewing distance on that is about 9 feet? That's one small church. 100" in a home isn't that uncommon any more - on a large site I'd expect at least double that.
Can't see why churches are being singled out. They're big public buildings, with lots of people, and a reasonable percentage would be interested in watching. Break out the beers, sit down with a couple of hundred of your friends, and have fun. Sounds good to me.
Try just about any country in the world except the US. The a lot of phones are sold that way (and those that aren't can be released from their network for a nominal fee). You can walk into a shop and buy a SIM on its own (often they're free these days - worth it to the companies to get you on board) and sign up for a plan with no minimum contract or just go pay-as-you-talk.
I still don't get why the iphone is considered so revolutionary, except it's the only one that's permanently locked to a single carrier and has a ludicrously long minimum contract.
That has lot of errors though... I just looked up an independent artist I know of and it listed one of his albums as published by the RIAA which is just plain wrong.. he hates record companies, after a brief fling with them about 10 years ago, and so publishes under his own label (and does quite well in fact).
This has already been through the courts. Someone tried exactly your argument and failed.
The ISPs successfully argued 'unlimited' means unlimited *access* not unlimited service. As long as they're not saying you can long use the internet at certain times they're safe.
From the ISPs point of view they're going to be prioritising HTTP and probably POP3. If itunes isn't that much bandwidth it'll generally escape. Bittorrent is the real target, using 90% of off peak bandwidth for 5% of users.
They're not going after apple specifically, but when they announce a bandwidth sucking HD download service the ISPs have two possible responses:
1. Charge more for their service so they can afford to significantly upgrade their pipes. 2. Throttle itunes.
My own ISP doesn't even currently need to throttle bittorrent, but then I pay 2-3 times the average for that level of service.
They don't need to - you can triangulate the position of any mobile phone to within a few feet if it's switched on.. it just needs someone with access to that data to be able to work out the speeds that they're travelling.
They've pretty much proven that both gender and sexual preference are hardwired into the brain (lots of studies, some quite good, one or two quite unethical (I read a story about one where they cut a babies penis off at birth and raised him as a girl.. of course as soon as he got the chance he reverted to being male - he 'knew' he was male despite nobody ever telling him)).
If course there's two ways that a 'reverse' preference could happen... either it's genetic, or something happens during the development of the foetus.
I seem to remember a pair of identical twins, one gay one straight, though (can't provide a link as it's too vague for even google to help) which would count against the genetic theory.
Most churches I've seen have macbooks rather than anything else - they're popular because they do presentations and 'arty stuff' well.
The missionaries and charitable arms have whatever is donated to them.. things like Windows 95 are not uncommon. Vista is probably 10 years in the future for these kind of organisations.
The quantum physicist would merely point out that there's a small possibility of the tiger merely passing through the enclosure fence, so the height is irrelevant.
It's getting better... you can get a gb/month or so (subject to the usual restrictions, like no voip, msn, etc.) whereas a couple of years ago you were lucky if you got 4mb/month.
I still remember the £300 bill I got from connecting my laptop to the phone one day and leaving windows update still enabled.. aargh. That was when the excess was something like £5/mb.
Mobile data will become useful to me when it's at about the rate of DSL.. or even in the same ballpark would be nice.
I suspect a few images are a break compared to slashdot itself, which has such an insanely complex javascript dependency that firefox keeps popping up complaining about it hanging?
I've found the same... XP Running under VMWare under Vista is faster than the same app running directly under Vista. Seems completely counterintuitive (especially given the VMWare overhead) but I've seen it on multiple machines now.
I've yet to find a readyboost compatible memory stick - even the ones sold as 'readyboost certified' (sandisk ones, not unbranded cheap rubbish) don't work on any of 4 different test machines we have setup here - so don't know what difference readyboost would make (but testing with registry hacks to make the sticks we have work has shown no difference tha I can see).
Personally I'm leaning towards the meaningless random number theory unless some actual use for this 'key' other than uninformed speculation actually gets talked about.
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You're confusing developers with managers.
Managers want the duct tape solution. Get it out of the door quick. Who cares if it works, that's what version 2.0 is for.
Developers want the elegant solution. A developers bridge would be very pretty, do exactly what was needed (plus loads of stuff you wouldn't expect of bridges, like free blowjobs halfway across) but cost 500* as much and take 30 years to build.
An ideal software engineer is somewhere between the two - sucking up to management just enough to get a project that actually works, and avoiding running over and not have any extraneous features. It's as much 'engineering' people as software. That's why the job pays more.. as TFA said, it's multifaceted.
I always thought that was either Douglas Adams: "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves elected should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Or Frank Herbert: "Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it. We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to wield it, and only then under conditions that increase the reluctance."
It's one of those circular definitions you hear from time to time, like 'the suicide bombers aren't true muslims, therefore no true muslims are suicide bombers'.
So we get 'the neocons aren't true republicans, so no true republicans are neocons'.
In general that's not true - starting a war before an election is an extremely efficient way of getting more votes... people come over all patriotic and start liking the incumbent leader again.
Ask Margaret Thatcher.. the falklands was a gift to her election campaign (and for Galtieri, as Argentina at the time was a mess.. a war was just what they needed to take the populations' mind off their problems).
The problem is you have to run a Nuclear power plant for 5 years + beyond its useful life to decomission it (and they only last about 40 years).. during that time it's consuming resources (manpower and cash at the mimimum - Sizewell A needs 100 employees on site 24/7), and after decomssioning renders the site uninhabitable for 100 years.
Nuclear has become an option due to CO2 concerned after it was largely abandoned in the 90's, but it's not because it's cheaper.
The sad part is that if this church served anything stronger than Communion wine (to people who will be driving home after the game) and charged for it, the NFL would have no problem with them showing the game!
I'd be really surprised if they didn't - believe me I've been in enough churches (and that's a lot, over the years) to know that they probably drink at least as much if not more than the average population (especially the clergy).
Hell, in this country we have a number of churches based *inside* pubs. Those that aren't usually have a favourite local just around the corner, who are glad of the business every sunday afternoon.
It's been 100 years since 'a cup of tea' was all you got after a service. OTOH maybe in the US there are still churches like that..
I was a bit confused at the headline myself.. 56 inch is nowhere near big enough to show to a church (definately not the huge monstrosity churches you have in the US)... THX viewing distance on that is about 9 feet? That's one small church. 100" in a home isn't that uncommon any more - on a large site I'd expect at least double that.
Can't see why churches are being singled out. They're big public buildings, with lots of people, and a reasonable percentage would be interested in watching. Break out the beers, sit down with a couple of hundred of your friends, and have fun. Sounds good to me.
I always thought it was something like:
while(1) {
if(lever==REPUBLICAN) republican++;
if(lever==DEMOCRATIC) democratic++;
total=republican+democratic;
cout << "Republicans: " << (total*0.51) << " " << "Godless, pussy liberals: " << (total*0.49) << end;
}
Try just about any country in the world except the US. The a lot of phones are sold that way (and those that aren't can be released from their network for a nominal fee). You can walk into a shop and buy a SIM on its own (often they're free these days - worth it to the companies to get you on board) and sign up for a plan with no minimum contract or just go pay-as-you-talk.
I still don't get why the iphone is considered so revolutionary, except it's the only one that's permanently locked to a single carrier and has a ludicrously long minimum contract.
That has lot of errors though... I just looked up an independent artist I know of and it listed one of his albums as published by the RIAA which is just plain wrong.. he hates record companies, after a brief fling with them about 10 years ago, and so publishes under his own label (and does quite well in fact).
This has already been through the courts. Someone tried exactly your argument and failed.
The ISPs successfully argued 'unlimited' means unlimited *access* not unlimited service. As long as they're not saying you can long use the internet at certain times they're safe.
From the ISPs point of view they're going to be prioritising HTTP and probably POP3. If itunes isn't that much bandwidth it'll generally escape. Bittorrent is the real target, using 90% of off peak bandwidth for 5% of users.
They're not going after apple specifically, but when they announce a bandwidth sucking HD download service the ISPs have two possible responses:
1. Charge more for their service so they can afford to significantly upgrade their pipes.
2. Throttle itunes.
My own ISP doesn't even currently need to throttle bittorrent, but then I pay 2-3 times the average for that level of service.
They don't need to - you can triangulate the position of any mobile phone to within a few feet if it's switched on.. it just needs someone with access to that data to be able to work out the speeds that they're travelling.
Here's at least one link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
They've pretty much proven that both gender and sexual preference are hardwired into the brain (lots of studies, some quite good, one or two quite unethical (I read a story about one where they cut a babies penis off at birth and raised him as a girl.. of course as soon as he got the chance he reverted to being male - he 'knew' he was male despite nobody ever telling him)).
If course there's two ways that a 'reverse' preference could happen... either it's genetic, or something happens during the development of the foetus.
I seem to remember a pair of identical twins, one gay one straight, though (can't provide a link as it's too vague for even google to help) which would count against the genetic theory.
Most churches I've seen have macbooks rather than anything else - they're popular because they do presentations and 'arty stuff' well.
The missionaries and charitable arms have whatever is donated to them.. things like Windows 95 are not uncommon.
Vista is probably 10 years in the future for these kind of organisations.
The quantum physicist would merely point out that there's a small possibility of the tiger merely passing through the enclosure fence, so the height is irrelevant.
Nobody is saying he deserved to die. If you take risks with your life and the risk doesn't pay off.. well tough.
It's getting better... you can get a gb/month or so (subject to the usual restrictions, like no voip, msn, etc.) whereas a couple of years ago you were lucky if you got 4mb/month.
I still remember the £300 bill I got from connecting my laptop to the phone one day and leaving windows update still enabled.. aargh. That was when the excess was something like £5/mb.
Mobile data will become useful to me when it's at about the rate of DSL.. or even in the same ballpark would be nice.
I suspect a few images are a break compared to slashdot itself, which has such an insanely complex javascript dependency that firefox keeps popping up complaining about it hanging?
I've found the same... XP Running under VMWare under Vista is faster than the same app running directly under Vista. Seems completely counterintuitive (especially given the VMWare overhead) but I've seen it on multiple machines now.
I've yet to find a readyboost compatible memory stick - even the ones sold as 'readyboost certified' (sandisk ones, not unbranded cheap rubbish) don't work on any of 4 different test machines we have setup here - so don't know what difference readyboost would make (but testing with registry hacks to make the sticks we have work has shown no difference tha I can see).
They're hosted where you put them.
If you mean the activation servers, I believe they're geographically distributed.. but you only need to contact those once, when you install the OS.
It reminds me of the old (possibly apocryphal) story of the Times headline:
"Fog on the Thames. Continent cut off."
I deliberately pay more for a decent ISP and it is something like two times the price of the cheapest.
So the answer to your question is yes.
Publicity?
It seemed to work... everyone fell for it.
Personally I'm leaning towards the meaningless random number theory unless some actual use for this 'key' other than uninformed speculation actually gets talked about.