The only reason Apple would release a workstation-class box without a screen is because it hooks up to a screen you already have... your TV.
Apple is all about the out-of-box experience. They're not going to require customers to have to purchase a separate monitor. If this is real, I guarantee it's their long-anticipated Media Center device (aka TiVo on steroids)... I'll be really surprised if they don't include DVD burning, though...
Anyways, XP doesn't work. Proponents like to say that XP is high throughput, but I just don't see it. At my last job (where XP was employed) programmers had to put in long hours, despite this being against XP tenet. This resulted from abbreviated design cycles and hit-and-run feature development.
I'm not an XP expert who has experienced radical success with this methodology. I'm just a developer that tries to maintain a broad perspective on software development. However, I have yet to meet a person who claims to have done XP that actually did XP when you got right down to it.
The XP methodology is a package deal. You can't just pick and choose a few ideas from it and call it XP. One company I worked with claimed to be doing XP because they didn't spend any time on design...nevermind the fact that they didn't practice test-driven development, refactoring, pair programming, or user stories.
In XP, implementation is cheap up to a certain point where suddenly refactoring becomes imperative. Refactoring is then a very painful process given a very short iteration cycle. You won't find an XP shop that will encourage modularity over implementation time. But, like anything, the biggest gains come from pacing and managing, not from writing as much code as possible in a short amount of time.
Ok, so now you say that pair programming compensates for the short design cycles. Get real - no one really does this because this, too, does not work. Most programmers are like any other people - they can be tempermental, stubborn, selfish, and proud. The worst part is, the younger and more inexperienced the engineer, the less willing he is to accept other points of view. Try working with that. You can't.
So now you're telling me that refactoring was not a priority on your team and that you didn't practice pair programming. Let me also assume that you didn't practice test-driven development, either. You might even have written a few tests, but I'm willing to bet that you didn't develop a full test suite. Did you practice continuous integration? Did you run your unit tests after each build, and did you consider your task complete when your tests passed? My guess is no because it's pretty clear that you tossed out key fundamental aspects of XP because you didn't think they could work in the "real world".
Here's a new reality for you:
Any developer who can't get over his stubborn, selfish, and proud nature to work closely with another peer is not worth hiring.
I'm not saying it won't be difficult for some people, but anyone that wants to can make it work (much like marriage). As to accepting other points of view, my experience is quite the contrary. The younger, inexperienced engineers that desire to improve look to the experienced engineers for advice, and they seek opportunities to work with them. The sad reality is that the more experienced someone is, the less likely that they'll accept the input of others. They've already decided how things work. Clearly, you've arrived.
depends if the contract is assignable or not. It probably has wording in it that prevents that sort of thing. Anyhow, you can bet the code in question wasn't under a GPL-happy license, so it couldn't be used anyhow.
This is where a happy medium is important...not everything has to be GPL. There are other licenses that may be able to be reconciled with a theoretical situation such as this.
I don't want to sound like a bearer of bad news - and I'm not, just noting an issue that could prevent some projects (given an ideal world where the opensource community can run around buying old software) from being fully usable as open source. One of these affects what would otherwise be a free download from Apple - Mac OS 7.1, and Apple QuickTake driver software.
6.0.8, 7.0 and 7.5.3 are free downloads, but apparently 7.1 isn't, as Apple only licensed, but doesn't -own- the patents to some technologies included, but which were later not used. Similarly, it's apparently Fuji who own the patents to parts of the QuickTake software - meaning ftp.apple.com has an excellent library of older downloadable software, with a few notable exceptions.
Just out of curiosity...if a company purchases the rights to some software that uses some patented bits, do the rights to use those patented bits transfer to the purchaser (and those under its employ)? If so, would it be possible to create some sort of open-source corporation, and then make it easy for developers to join the company, thus having full access to everything?
I'm trying to figure out the hook for this product. It isn't the smallest Palm PDA. It isn't the highest resolution Palm PDA. It isn't the most expandable Palm PDA. It isn't the cheapest Palm PDA. ... All I can come up with is: it is the only Palm PDA that has the built-in thumb keyboard. Will this hook be enough to sell lots of these?
Apparently, you haven't seen the Sony NR70. You're missing out.
The Bat! has IMAP support, but it sucks. It sucks so bad, that if you're IMAP only, there is no way I could recommend this email client for you.
However, if you use POP3 and Windows, I have yet to find a better email client than The Bat!. The threading support, quick templates, per-folder identity settings, per account filtering, etc. is top-notch.
I had two complaints about The Bat!...IMAP support and newsgroup support. I've tried various newsreaders, but I didn't like any of them, and they seemed more difficult to use than The Bat! for filtering, etc. However, someone posted a link to MailTraq on one of The Bat! mailing lists, and with the free version of MailTraq, you can setup a news-to-mail/mail-to-news gateway that allows reading and responding to newsgroup postings in The Bat! I assume there are some alternatives to MailTraq on Linux, but it was easy to setup and as free as I needed it to be for my purposes.
Yes, if we could get.NET working on non-Microsoft platforms, it would be a good thing, but I don't think that the Redmond Redwood will roll over and let this happen without a fight. How difficult would it be to port.NET, if Microsoft is free to add, extend and modify the underlying protocol to break any third-party implementation that may rear its head?
How difficult do you think it would be if Microsoft kept changing the language and the Base Class Library to keep developers on board (just to maintain sufficient incompatibility with any open-source implementation)? How exactly could they modify an "underlying" protocol to such an extent that they'd break it when everything is XML and IL? Remember, they have to maintain compatibility between all of those languages that.NET supports, so if they even want to screw with one thing, they have to update them all...unless they're just extending the Base Class Library, which, again, doesn't break anything. I don't see any reason why people shouldn't get working on this immediately.
Oh yeah, it's a human face all right - stuck between two of the HUGEST cheekbones you've ever seen.
Yes, they very well could be the hugest cheekbones I've ever seen. Of course, I was born in this lifetime, so I can only compare it to what I know. Perhaps, if I was born in that lifetime, it would seem fairly normal to me. Big cheekbones don't make a human more or less of a human.
It's very impressive that they can differentiate between human and gorilla skulls, and I'm sure they're trying their best to identify what is presented them, but it's been my experience that it's rare (at best) to find people who can put aside their preconceived notions of how the world is to in order to determine how things really are.
The analogy is that they can identify a vehicle they've never seen before from a time period that's never been documented, give it a name, and then call every other thing that looks similar and appears to be from the same time period by the same name...except, whatever you do, don't call it a vehicle, because everyone knows that they didn't have vehicles back then. It is, however, surprisingly "vehicle-like".
"and yet with all this evidence we still have people claiming evolution is impossible and wrong"
Umm...unless I'm misunderstanding something, this "evidence" just muddied up the water. It didn't provide any sort of concrete evidence for evolution. Quotes like this one from the Nature article really irk me:
"The most striking thing about this face is how human it looks."
Here's a new thought...maybe it was a human face. I hate it when people dismiss the obvious because it doesn't make sense in their limited view of the world.
I would...if they could prove to me that they knew what they were doing. Do you think that having a piece of paper that says your an architect makes you a *good* architect? It's experience, talent, and the ability to continually improve that makes the difference between a great architect and a mediocre one. To suggest that college is what makes one a good architect is ludicrous. College merely gives one the opportunity to learn about architecture. It's the individual learning about architecture that makes the difference.
I'm a software developer by trade, and I am continually working on learning more and improving my skill set. I'm actively studying software design and architecture, and I'm a associate member of WWISA (World-wide Institute of Software Architects) whose goal is to turn software architecture into a more professional discipline like building architecture. I also don't have a college degree, but I have surpassed others I've worked with who do have one. College is great for teaching you how to learn. College is great for exposing you to things you may not have otherwise been exposed to. That doesn't mean college is great for everything or a reliable indicator of one's work quality.
Let's reword your question to be more appropriate:
Will anyone have an architect with the appropriate background and skill set design a house you would then live in?
A new gnutella-like system of lookup could be defined that allowed *any* tld (except the ones ICANN already holds), and then modify BIND to hit that interconnected system for all non-ICANN sponsored TLDs. It would eliminate the name server issue by working around the problem. Eventually, enough people would be using the new BIND, that ICANN dominance wouldn't be an issue.:)
Since they can't seem to auction off the satellites, they should auction off the cool light show when they throw 'em into the atmosphere! How much do you think someone would pay to see a once-in-a-lifetime show above their house/tropical resort/hidden fortress?:)
The problem with the whole industry right now is that they're wasting all of their money trying to fight battles in court. Things have changed. They should be spending all of their money on business analysts to determine how to make money off of this new market paradigm. The companies that realize this in time will be wildly successful.
See what Microsoft has to say for questions about the vulnerability. They have found (or been informed of) another vulnerability with the same file and the same remedy (delete the file). The link says that there isn't a backdoor, but it doesn't proclaim the whole security issue as bunk. Obviously, there *are* security issues involved here.
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The only reason Apple would release a workstation-class box without a screen is because it hooks up to a screen you already have... your TV.
Apple is all about the out-of-box experience. They're not going to require customers to have to purchase a separate monitor. If this is real, I guarantee it's their long-anticipated Media Center device (aka TiVo on steroids)... I'll be really surprised if they don't include DVD burning, though...
Here's a new reality for you:
Any developer who can't get over his stubborn, selfish, and proud nature to work closely with another peer is not worth hiring.
I'm not saying it won't be difficult for some people, but anyone that wants to can make it work (much like marriage). As to accepting other points of view, my experience is quite the contrary. The younger, inexperienced engineers that desire to improve look to the experienced engineers for advice, and they seek opportunities to work with them. The sad reality is that the more experienced someone is, the less likely that they'll accept the input of others. They've already decided how things work. Clearly, you've arrived.Apparently, you haven't seen the Sony NR70. You're missing out.
The Bat! has IMAP support, but it sucks. It sucks so bad, that if you're IMAP only, there is no way I could recommend this email client for you.
However, if you use POP3 and Windows, I have yet to find a better email client than The Bat!. The threading support, quick templates, per-folder identity settings, per account filtering, etc. is top-notch.
I had two complaints about The Bat!...IMAP support and newsgroup support. I've tried various newsreaders, but I didn't like any of them, and they seemed more difficult to use than The Bat! for filtering, etc. However, someone posted a link to MailTraq on one of The Bat! mailing lists, and with the free version of MailTraq, you can setup a news-to-mail/mail-to-news gateway that allows reading and responding to newsgroup postings in The Bat! I assume there are some alternatives to MailTraq on Linux, but it was easy to setup and as free as I needed it to be for my purposes.
For IMAP, you might want to take a look at Becky
This might be a stupid question, but does any know if the guy that has to do community service will have this on his criminal record?
It's very impressive that they can differentiate between human and gorilla skulls, and I'm sure they're trying their best to identify what is presented them, but it's been my experience that it's rare (at best) to find people who can put aside their preconceived notions of how the world is to in order to determine how things really are.
The analogy is that they can identify a vehicle they've never seen before from a time period that's never been documented, give it a name, and then call every other thing that looks similar and appears to be from the same time period by the same name...except, whatever you do, don't call it a vehicle, because everyone knows that they didn't have vehicles back then. It is, however, surprisingly "vehicle-like".
I would...if they could prove to me that they knew what they were doing. Do you think that having a piece of paper that says your an architect makes you a *good* architect? It's experience, talent, and the ability to continually improve that makes the difference between a great architect and a mediocre one. To suggest that college is what makes one a good architect is ludicrous. College merely gives one the opportunity to learn about architecture. It's the individual learning about architecture that makes the difference.
I'm a software developer by trade, and I am continually working on learning more and improving my skill set. I'm actively studying software design and architecture, and I'm a associate member of WWISA (World-wide Institute of Software Architects) whose goal is to turn software architecture into a more professional discipline like building architecture. I also don't have a college degree, but I have surpassed others I've worked with who do have one. College is great for teaching you how to learn. College is great for exposing you to things you may not have otherwise been exposed to. That doesn't mean college is great for everything or a reliable indicator of one's work quality.
Let's reword your question to be more appropriate:
Will anyone have an architect with the appropriate background and skill set design a house you would then live in?
My answer is a resounding YES.
Come on...you know you all want one!
A new gnutella-like system of lookup could be defined that allowed *any* tld (except the ones ICANN already holds), and then modify BIND to hit that interconnected system for all non-ICANN sponsored TLDs. It would eliminate the name server issue by working around the problem. Eventually, enough people would be using the new BIND, that ICANN dominance wouldn't be an issue. :)
Isn't Slashdot considered a member of the press? If so, why should it have to reveal its sources (for example)? What happened to freedom of the press?
Since they can't seem to auction off the satellites, they should auction off the cool light show when they throw 'em into the atmosphere! How much do you think someone would pay to see a once-in-a-lifetime show above their house/tropical resort/hidden fortress? :)
The problem with the whole industry right now is that they're wasting all of their money trying to fight battles in court. Things have changed. They should be spending all of their money on business analysts to determine how to make money off of this new market paradigm. The companies that realize this in time will be wildly successful.
See what Microsoft has to say for questions about the vulnerability. They have found (or been informed of) another vulnerability with the same file and the same remedy (delete the file). The link says that there isn't a backdoor, but it doesn't proclaim the whole security issue as bunk. Obviously, there *are* security issues involved here.
Plus it'll help them ace their college entrance exam!!!