Since I moved down to NoVA over 2 years ago, I've seen a hurricane larger than Floyd and an earthquake and just missed a massive snow storm. The trees decided to have a massive orgy leading to one of the worse allergy seasons ever and now we've got a pretty bad flu season. Nothing surprises me anymore.
This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon.
This is the second ispyce article I've seen show up on Slashdot in the last few days. I didn't think it was possible for an editor to be worse than kdawson... The site is a known link spammer and the editors here should known better than to send them any traffic.
And we wonder why in this jaded age of short attention spans it's difficult to prove anything scientifically. Damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
“...Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.” - Churchill
Next they'll say you can't operate the phone near a kitchen or bathroom since they contain water. And public restrooms, completely out of the question.
When I think of game development, I think of milestones. I think of (relatively) set targets. This is more true for console games than PC game, but lately when I think of games I think console first.
Iterative style development? Maybe that might work for an MMO where the customers don't mind being permanent beta testers. The gap in QA between professional and game software development already feels pretty vast, but add to that yet another style that promotes a more aggressive, less strict regimen of development just sounds like a recipe of disaster.
I'm not sure when Agile became the silver bullet buzzword for programming. I have participated in it, attended Ken Schwaber's talks on managing scrums. I can see its positives and negatives, and it's difficult for me to see how game software development could benefit from being agile unless you're coming up with the next big project with a bunch of friends in your 'garage'. Designing your own game engine and concepts from the ground up where nearly every member of your team is a software architect level and the lightweight methods help. Otherwise if you're a code jockey working on a pre-existing engine then project management and deadlines are likely more effective.
And try pairing up agile software development with offshoring. It reminds me of the old "don't do drugs" commercials with the eggs.
*holds up an egg* this is your software development *cracks egg* this is going agile *opens egg over stove* this is agile offshoring *ignores the fact that there is no pan to catch the egg* any questions?
I have been carving large blocks of Chinese owned IP blocks and putting them into the iptable INPUT DROP. Why? Because 90% of ssh probing have been from those IP addresses. If this keeps up, China won't need a Great Firewall since more and more people will just refuse to peer with them.
If you worked for any length of time in or with big business, you'd be surprised to find that someone is actually saying "the emperor has no clothes on".
It may seem like common sense, but there are reasons why Officespace and Dilbert are so popular. In some cases truth is stranger than fiction.
I thought bandwidth hogs had a name already. They were called spammers.
Unlike streaming technology that is consistent and less likely to impact other users on the same network (unless they're attempting to stream the same thing from the same sites), spam tends to be bursty and disruptive for other network users.
He was the man considered responsible for some of the largest cuts within IBM's STG (Systems & Technology Group). A lot of programs were cut locally in order to add to the globalization effort, which is just the politically correct way of saying off-shoring. He was considered the standard bearer to what a lot of workers felt was the increased feeling of greed among the current IBM executives. A lot of good programs and people were axed during his tenure which added to the short term bottom line but have shown in the last 4 years to hurt their long term objectives. It's difficult when you ask your top performers to do more for less, until they either leave or you cast them off.
To be honest the newer ps3 slim is much more quiet than the older model, and it's a better "media station" for the purposes of streaming video from a windows machine, or just copying avi files from a DVD to the hard drive.
I think of the 360 as a gaming machine (due to the number of games) trying to be a media station, while the ps3 is a media station that tries to play games. The controls for watching videos in the ps3 are a lot nicer than the xbox.
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Since I moved down to NoVA over 2 years ago, I've seen a hurricane larger than Floyd and an earthquake and just missed a massive snow storm. The trees decided to have a massive orgy leading to one of the worse allergy seasons ever and now we've got a pretty bad flu season. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Until I see a Corporation executed by the state of Texas, I refuse to acknowledge that Corporations are truly liable for their actions.
Unfortunately Google's ability to spin doctor is about as good as their attention span. Which is to say neither is anything to write home about...
From the youtube video description:
This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74mhQyuyELQ
Well at least they didn't include a beta tag. They couldn't make it look too obvious.
Wifi won't bypass ISP caps. It will only bypass cellular caps.
Granted it gives you 2 buckets to overflow instead of just one.
It's not true until netcraft confirms.
This is the second ispyce article I've seen show up on Slashdot in the last few days.
I didn't think it was possible for an editor to be worse than kdawson...
The site is a known link spammer and the editors here should known better than to send them any traffic.
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Cue CSI: Miami intro?
How about a simpler solution.
A piece of paper and a pencil.
Heck, I'm sure there's an app for that...
And we wonder why in this jaded age of short attention spans it's difficult to prove anything scientifically. Damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
“...Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.” - Churchill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_nuevo_sol
Anyone notice that its currency sign = S/. (aka Slashdot?)
To publicly publish names of people who watched Uwe Boll movies? Aren't there laws against cruel and unusual punishment?
Could be worse, you could invoke spongebob references. Not sure if an order of magnitude is equivalent to additional dimensions.
You must not follow politics. :)
This admission of guilt seemed more gloating than sincere.
the phone shouldn't be used in humid air where water can condensate
So I guess both the Pacific Northwest and the UK are screwed.
And the previous article on Slashdot - http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/16/2146227/A-Warming-Planet-Can-Mean-More-Snow
Means even more humidity.
Next they'll say you can't operate the phone near a kitchen or bathroom since they contain water. And public restrooms, completely out of the question.
When I think of game development, I think of milestones. I think of (relatively) set targets. This is more true for console games than PC game, but lately when I think of games I think console first.
Iterative style development? Maybe that might work for an MMO where the customers don't mind being permanent beta testers. The gap in QA between professional and game software development already feels pretty vast, but add to that yet another style that promotes a more aggressive, less strict regimen of development just sounds like a recipe of disaster.
I'm not sure when Agile became the silver bullet buzzword for programming. I have participated in it, attended Ken Schwaber's talks on managing scrums. I can see its positives and negatives, and it's difficult for me to see how game software development could benefit from being agile unless you're coming up with the next big project with a bunch of friends in your 'garage'. Designing your own game engine and concepts from the ground up where nearly every member of your team is a software architect level and the lightweight methods help. Otherwise if you're a code jockey working on a pre-existing engine then project management and deadlines are likely more effective.
And try pairing up agile software development with offshoring. It reminds me of the old "don't do drugs" commercials with the eggs.
*holds up an egg* this is your software development
*cracks egg* this is going agile
*opens egg over stove* this is agile offshoring
*ignores the fact that there is no pan to catch the egg* any questions?
Blame the editors.
Or blame dem edit'rs in true backwoods vernacular.
And start blocking Chinese IP Blocks?
I have been carving large blocks of Chinese owned IP blocks and putting them into the iptable INPUT DROP. Why? Because 90% of ssh probing have been from those IP addresses. If this keeps up, China won't need a Great Firewall since more and more people will just refuse to peer with them.
If you worked for any length of time in or with big business, you'd be surprised to find that someone is actually saying "the emperor has no clothes on".
It may seem like common sense, but there are reasons why Officespace and Dilbert are so popular. In some cases truth is stranger than fiction.
I thought bandwidth hogs had a name already. They were called spammers.
Unlike streaming technology that is consistent and less likely to impact other users on the same network (unless they're attempting to stream the same thing from the same sites), spam tends to be bursty and disruptive for other network users.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5191040/Astronomers-find-Milky-Way-could-taste-of-raspberries.html
I'd like to see you try to get a Microchannel card out of a system without a screwdriver. :)
He was the man considered responsible for some of the largest cuts within IBM's STG (Systems & Technology Group). A lot of programs were cut locally in order to add to the globalization effort, which is just the politically correct way of saying off-shoring. He was considered the standard bearer to what a lot of workers felt was the increased feeling of greed among the current IBM executives. A lot of good programs and people were axed during his tenure which added to the short term bottom line but have shown in the last 4 years to hurt their long term objectives. It's difficult when you ask your top performers to do more for less, until they either leave or you cast them off.
To be honest the newer ps3 slim is much more quiet than the older model, and it's a better "media station" for the purposes of streaming video from a windows machine, or just copying avi files from a DVD to the hard drive.
I think of the 360 as a gaming machine (due to the number of games) trying to be a media station, while the ps3 is a media station that tries to play games. The controls for watching videos in the ps3 are a lot nicer than the xbox.