Any coder here will know that weird little feeling inside when a shortcut has to be made to make deadline. A comment in the code, or a note in the documentation to come back to it later. You know the assumptions you made. You can hope the situation won't come up, but you know that it will.
And MacPlaymate, on the first macs, which had drag-n-drop playtools for a line-drawn nudie. God, the audio in that kicked arse at the time. Of course, the boss screen was a plain old spreadsheet. Unfortunately, I was at school at the time, and we didn't use the macs for spreadsheets, so it was pretty useless.
I think you can either write a library or an application, but it is hard to do both at the same time. The goals and attitudes required to do both well are not inclusive.
A copyright extension is named in his honor, and then he ruins his good work by ending his life years early. Will he make up his mind? oh, nevermind...
Even these days, companies hire people unskilled in the language/situation you are coding in. Not sure why, but once they've been around as long as a perm is going to be, there is no difference... except the ability to get rid of them with maybe less nastiness on their part.
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You still get windows behind windows, and windows far in the distance are only useful for images, not text. Then again, I can't read the article until it is available. Must be a 3D web server.
The guy that develops Air War and other heady board war games, I'm thinking is a nice middle aged man with a moustache and a hobby. Sort of like a Paul Davies, rather than a Denis Leary. But I like having my illusions shattered.
My OS of choice tends to lean towards the BSD side (simply due to my background as a CS Ph.D. student, I suppose)
Does the CS stand for Cash-Strapped, or Computer Science, or both? Because if it meant both, it would a nice geeky meld of two or more meanings in the one acronym, thus proving you were at least studying Computer Science, and possibly poor.
There is a radio show in Australia that has been going for 20-30 years called The Science Show. It has covered just about every scientific advance and debate during the period, including surviving an atomic war and creationism.
Xboxes aren't sold in Australia's largest electrical chain stores?
These guys have them:
Myer Harvey Norman Dick Smith Toys'R'Us
Have I left any out? Maybe Tandy, but they are kinda beholden to their own product line (Radio Shack).
Oops. Forgot to take AC's word with a grain of salt. Hey, there! take off your cloak and drop some names. No-one will get done here for defamation before it's a site of opinions, and not facts.
The limited term on the patent ensures that the technology is eventually shared.. The protection encourages a company to spend a lot of money in research and development, in the understanding that they will receive a return on their investment. The problem is that lots of money gets spent on the process of protection that should be spent on research and development, and the term of a patent for software is way too long.
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Any coder here will know that weird little feeling inside when a shortcut has to be made to make deadline. A comment in the code, or a note in the documentation to come back to it later. You know the assumptions you made. You can hope the situation won't come up, but you know that it will.
The submitter put SO MUCH editorial in his submission that no further comment was needed.
Now you know how to stop the editorializing, stop bitching about it and let the rest of us enjoy it.
And MacPlaymate, on the first macs, which had drag-n-drop playtools for a line-drawn nudie.
God, the audio in that kicked arse at the time. Of course, the boss screen was a plain old spreadsheet.
Unfortunately, I was at school at the time, and we didn't use the macs for spreadsheets, so it was pretty useless.
I think you can either write a library or an application, but it is hard to do both at the same time. The goals and attitudes required to do both well are not inclusive.
A copyright extension is named in his honor, and then he ruins his good work by ending his life years early. Will he make up his mind? oh, nevermind...
My God! That's where it came from! I just thought is was some wanky ROT13 when I saw it in the demo website in NetObjects Fusion.
(although budding chemistry nerds may be out of luck,)
budding chem nerds can be shit out of luck with some things you'd find in the home...
Soak some steak in hydrochloric acid and a few enzymes for a couple of days.
Why Vendors, I hear you ask? Some IT Departments also like to purchase hardware and stationery.
I believe the penal enlargement scheme is government funded. More people in the western world are incarcerated every year.
Even these days, companies hire people unskilled in the language/situation you are coding in. Not sure why, but once they've been around as long as a perm is going to be, there is no difference... except the ability to get rid of them with maybe less nastiness on their part.
You still get windows behind windows, and windows far in the distance are only useful for images, not text. Then again, I can't read the article until it is available. Must be a 3D web server.
The guy that develops Air War and other heady board war games, I'm thinking is a nice middle aged man with a moustache and a hobby. Sort of like a Paul Davies, rather than a Denis Leary. But I like having my illusions shattered.
Can someone post the story in reply to this comment, so I can get it by email notification?
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Are you the Adam Rightmann of Adequacy.org? If so, what happened to the site? Is it's spirit somewhere else? I miss it... badly.
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These must be the sources that are open.
*ducks*
My OS of choice tends to lean towards the BSD side (simply due to my background as a CS Ph.D. student, I suppose)
Does the CS stand for Cash-Strapped, or Computer Science, or both? Because if it meant both, it would a nice geeky meld of two or more meanings in the one acronym, thus proving you were at least studying Computer Science, and possibly poor.
There is a radio show in Australia that has been going for 20-30 years called The Science Show. It has covered just about every scientific advance and debate during the period, including surviving an atomic war and creationism.
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But I think it's their fault if they have to get online to activate their own igloos.
If I think homophones are gay, does that make me homophonic?
Xboxes aren't sold in Australia's largest electrical chain stores?
These guys have them:
Myer
Harvey Norman
Dick Smith
Toys'R'Us
Have I left any out? Maybe Tandy, but they are kinda beholden to their own product line (Radio Shack).
Oops. Forgot to take AC's word with a grain of salt. Hey, there! take off your cloak and drop some names. No-one will get done here for defamation before it's a site of opinions, and not facts.
Yeah, you could get Microsoft Bob updated without ever installing it.
In Australia, IIRC, you can lose your trademark if you don't actively protect it (e.g. send in the clowns).
Not in Australia you didn't :)
S.18(2) of the Patents Act provides that "Human beings and the biological processes for their generation are not patentable inventions".
The limited term on the patent ensures that the technology is eventually shared.. The protection encourages a company to spend a lot of money in research and development, in the understanding that they will receive a return on their investment. The problem is that lots of money gets spent on the process of protection that should be spent on research and development, and the term of a patent for software is way too long.
You remember the job you worked to get money in college as a real job.
People refer to the "good old days" and in your mind it was a a long while ago.
You mathematically proved the NP completeness of the universal Turing machine with a paper and pencil.
In Engineering lounges, they just installed a complete library of books on steam boiler design.
Your final paper in Business Machine Construction was on Babbage's Analytical Engine
You read Slashdot in between giving free lectures to fellow veterans at the University of the Third Age.