More importantly, what exactly does this prove? So my copy was ripped and shared, now what? In order to convict and fine me, one would need to prove that *I shared* the copy, not that my copy merely got shared. Good luck with that, a lot of things could've happen - my computer hacked, my phone lost, etc.
On another note, how is that happened that punctuation is not important anymore?
Yes. If I as a customer can't find any problems with the s/w within a predetermined period of time, then I sign off the project, and all the bugs discovered further down the road will have to be fixed for a fee.
No amount of acceptance test will guarantee bug free software for any non-trivial project. Creating automatic acceptance test for a piece of software might take as much or more time than the project itself. And it still will not give you 100% guarantee.
You are correct, with one exception - if I hire a contractor on a per-project-fee basis, then I'd fully expect to have bugs I find to be fixed for free. Not forever, but give me a couple of weeks for testing. The problem with this approach is that not a lot of people are experienced in pricing per-project work. It can be a really guessing game with outcome varying from 1x to 3x, for larger projects even more. So closer towards the end when they realized how much more work there actually is than what they anticipated, you can see them lose their motivation.
However, if you hire them to do bits and pieces of the project and pay per hour, then no, bug fixing can't be included.
So I would never recommend hiring people on per-project-fee.
Under some systems, if you want the results of my skills, you owe me the full value of those skills, not "as little as you can get away with at labor market prices because you are rich and I am desperate".
Then simply don't sell your skills for less than what you think the value of such is. However, I have to remind you that you don't get to decide the value of your skills, market set it.
I was thinking the same. Bitcoins reached the point where they are barely interesting. Why not just take entire bitcoin software, modify it slightly to separate the to 'money' systems, and then start everything all over. Naturally, keeping the first 100K of new 'coins' for myself.
What other tasks? The only task of the professor is to teach students. Anyway, this is probably at least third submission about automated grading systems over last 6 months, and it really is getting tired.
To any sane person it is obvious that the idea is retarded, so why do we keep discussing it?
Yes, miswiring is strange. I would imaging they do have have coded connectors, and use pre-built and tested wire harness rather than individual cables to wire equipment in an adhoc fashion. Anybody heard of a car being "mis-wired"? It does not happen because it is designed not to allow that to happen.
Yes, I was gonna say that. Apparently in Canada layman can't represent a corporation in a court, it has to be a lawyer. So immediately I'm at disadvantage as I have to spend actual $$ on the lawsuit, while they only waste their own time. If they had to hire another lawyer to represent them it would be entirely different matter.
I'll try... I was not aware of that setting. However I'm most of the time on WiFi, and really don't use network data as I don't have a data plan until next week.
I did not want any smartphones because of their size, however, took galaxy s3. Although it is kind of big, it also very very thin, and very very light so even when I carry it in front pant's pocket, I barely feel it.
Holding it could be a bit awkward, but big screen allows for big ass buttons, which makes interaction easier.
Nah-ah. I just got the Galaxy SIII, which has fairly advanced power management - it can tell where the power is going. Most of it goes to cell standby, the screen takes about half of that, in my usage mode. Even then, I get a lousy two days max run time. Taking into account screen, I could get just under 3 days max run time, which is considerably worse than the phone I had before. So it feels plausible that cell standby does take more power than before.
I nearly jumped out of my seat, as just recently I was making a prediction that animated holograms will not possible for... long time, and now this.
But this is not a hologram! Even then, as an invention it is embarrassingly underwhelming. You have to stand inside a claustrophobic tube for it work? really? Please take back all your "visual cues", I prefer plain old LCD monitor.
why not make a small reservoir of Oxy so as to give at least some time of breathing to the pilot? It's like he has zero time to react to the failure of oxy supply. Bad design from many aspects.
I think this is a bullshit result. My understanding of million monkey theory is that in a million years ONE monkey will produce ENTIRE Romeo and Juliet in ONE go. To assemble the poem out of 9 characters chunks is just ridiculous and is not impressive at all.
So you think the ribbon is an improvement? It looks like a mess to me. I'll offer you a counter-challenge: memorize all common keyboard shortcuts for the functions that you use the most in word and other applications that you use, until you don't have to think twice ctrl-what is "select all". Then see if you even need the freaking ribbon.
If anything, if the are really concerned about productivity, they should concentrate on forcing users to learn the keyboard shortcuts.
I think the research is bullshit and the professor is an idiot. What the hell "shortly after means"? Some time in future? Yeah there is a certain probability that I'll add some of my friend's friends in future. Pick a random one. It's not hard to be correct half the times.
That's what it looks like. They can come up with fancy names like 'morphological AA', but the fact remains that they are simply apply blur filter, which is no replacement for proper AA. And when I say 'not a replacement' I mean NOT BY A LONG SHOT.
Yet I think some MBA in marketing earned a pat on a shoulder for coming up with the BS term.
It's like they are forgetting that AA is not just about blurred edges. Imaging looking at an infinite chess-board. At certain distance more than one field will appear in EVERY pixel, and, if no proper AA is done, it will look horrible. It will look just as horrible with ML'AA'.
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More importantly, what exactly does this prove? So my copy was ripped and shared, now what? In order to convict and fine me, one would need to prove that *I shared* the copy, not that my copy merely got shared. Good luck with that, a lot of things could've happen - my computer hacked, my phone lost, etc.
On another note, how is that happened that punctuation is not important anymore?
Yes. If I as a customer can't find any problems with the s/w within a predetermined period of time, then I sign off the project, and all the bugs discovered further down the road will have to be fixed for a fee.
No amount of acceptance test will guarantee bug free software for any non-trivial project. Creating automatic acceptance test for a piece of software might take as much or more time than the project itself. And it still will not give you 100% guarantee.
You are correct, with one exception - if I hire a contractor on a per-project-fee basis, then I'd fully expect to have bugs I find to be fixed for free. Not forever, but give me a couple of weeks for testing. The problem with this approach is that not a lot of people are experienced in pricing per-project work. It can be a really guessing game with outcome varying from 1x to 3x, for larger projects even more. So closer towards the end when they realized how much more work there actually is than what they anticipated, you can see them lose their motivation.
However, if you hire them to do bits and pieces of the project and pay per hour, then no, bug fixing can't be included.
So I would never recommend hiring people on per-project-fee.
Gartner.
And I'm not a psychic. Who else could come with a study as ridiculous as this and conclusion so pointless? Why is this on a slashdot?
Under some systems, if you want the results of my skills, you owe me the full value of those skills, not "as little as you can get away with at labor market prices because you are rich and I am desperate".
Then simply don't sell your skills for less than what you think the value of such is. However, I have to remind you that you don't get to decide the value of your skills, market set it.
I was thinking the same. Bitcoins reached the point where they are barely interesting. Why not just take entire bitcoin software, modify it slightly to separate the to 'money' systems, and then start everything all over. Naturally, keeping the first 100K of new 'coins' for myself.
I even came up with a new name - bytecoins.
What other tasks? The only task of the professor is to teach students. Anyway, this is probably at least third submission about automated grading systems over last 6 months, and it really is getting tired.
To any sane person it is obvious that the idea is retarded, so why do we keep discussing it?
Yes, miswiring is strange. I would imaging they do have have coded connectors, and use pre-built and tested wire harness rather than individual cables to wire equipment in an adhoc fashion. Anybody heard of a car being "mis-wired"? It does not happen because it is designed not to allow that to happen.
Precisely. They have to build the case, i.e. collect evidence of infringement etc.
Yes, I was gonna say that. Apparently in Canada layman can't represent a corporation in a court, it has to be a lawyer. So immediately I'm at disadvantage as I have to spend actual $$ on the lawsuit, while they only waste their own time. If they had to hire another lawyer to represent them it would be entirely different matter.
I'll try... I was not aware of that setting. However I'm most of the time on WiFi, and really don't use network data as I don't have a data plan until next week.
I did not want any smartphones because of their size, however, took galaxy s3. Although it is kind of big, it also very very thin, and very very light so even when I carry it in front pant's pocket, I barely feel it.
Holding it could be a bit awkward, but big screen allows for big ass buttons, which makes interaction easier.
Battery life time sucks.
Nah-ah. I just got the Galaxy SIII, which has fairly advanced power management - it can tell where the power is going. Most of it goes to cell standby, the screen takes about half of that, in my usage mode. Even then, I get a lousy two days max run time. Taking into account screen, I could get just under 3 days max run time, which is considerably worse than the phone I had before. So it feels plausible that cell standby does take more power than before.
My thoughts precisely. They see app store as a new revenue stream, and they want to use it.
I have to say this one is an actual invention, very clever. First invention I've come across in several years.
Really? In Canada Legal min wage is 10.75 or so. Did not know we have it so much better than you guys.
No wait, math is a proper science. There is nothing un-scientific about its methods. CS, on the hand, is more like engineering, for the most part.
computer science is an oxymoon. There is no science in computer science.
I nearly jumped out of my seat, as just recently I was making a prediction that animated holograms will not possible for... long time, and now this.
But this is not a hologram! Even then, as an invention it is embarrassingly underwhelming. You have to stand inside a claustrophobic tube for it work? really? Please take back all your "visual cues", I prefer plain old LCD monitor.
why not make a small reservoir of Oxy so as to give at least some time of breathing to the pilot? It's like he has zero time to react to the failure of oxy supply. Bad design from many aspects.
I think this is a bullshit result. My understanding of million monkey theory is that in a million years ONE monkey will produce ENTIRE Romeo and Juliet in ONE go. To assemble the poem out of 9 characters chunks is just ridiculous and is not impressive at all.
So you think the ribbon is an improvement? It looks like a mess to me.
I'll offer you a counter-challenge: memorize all common keyboard shortcuts for the functions that you use the most in word and other applications that you use, until you don't have to think twice ctrl-what is "select all". Then see if you even need the freaking ribbon.
If anything, if the are really concerned about productivity, they should concentrate on forcing users to learn the keyboard shortcuts.
I think the research is bullshit and the professor is an idiot. What the hell "shortly after means"? Some time in future? Yeah there is a certain probability that I'll add some of my friend's friends in future. Pick a random one. It's not hard to be correct half the times.
That's what it looks like. They can come up with fancy names like 'morphological AA', but the fact remains that they are simply apply blur filter, which is no replacement for proper AA. And when I say 'not a replacement' I mean NOT BY A LONG SHOT.
Yet I think some MBA in marketing earned a pat on a shoulder for coming up with the BS term.
It's like they are forgetting that AA is not just about blurred edges. Imaging looking at an infinite chess-board. At certain distance more than one field will appear in EVERY pixel, and, if no proper AA is done, it will look horrible. It will look just as horrible with ML'AA'.