One of the reasons I'm thinking that people don't look at error messages is that alot of the time they're terrible. You know error 47719 and that's the end of it. (Or worse, the "Error Error" which is what I call it when a program or whatever tells you an error has occured and then nothing else.) So I'd expect alot of people don't look since it's often a waste of time. Then coders turn around and realize nobody gives a shit so they make the error reporting even less useful. (Sometime you run across an app that does a good job of reporting error, that's awesome when it occurs.)
than a VCR. Look I have a Tivo and find it difficult to watch TV with out it after having one. The thing is before I got one I really didn't understand how much of a difference it makes. The Tivo basically solves every issue I've ever had with time shifting on a VCR. But it's hard to really understand how much of a difference that makes when you're watching TV. After you have one for a couple of weeks you understand and you realize you almost always watch everything time shifted because it's so convenient but if somebody was looking at it in the store they probably look at it like a VCR that you can't change tapes. (It's not, all us Tivo owners know that but most people arn't going to understand how much better a self programming, self organizing VCR that can play and record at the same time really is.)
efficient. I mean if you consider any unit of computation vs energy expended. I bet my current desktop computer would compare from a computation point of view to a super computer from the late 80's. (GFLOP to GFLOP) However my current computer pulls about 300W, I'm pretty sure that's alot better than any super computer from the 80's that would compare to it.
Right, I understand that. But you can see how if lockers are the schools property and they can do shit like that it probably didn't take much rationalization for a school official to think "Well the laptop is school property so there's no expectation of privacy if you use it." (Yeah, I admit literal spying is way overboard but on the other hand I had personal experience of a school official literally looking for excuses to give people detention because he was a dick so I'm not really surprised.)
What I mean is this attitude with schools has been around for a long time. We had the vice principal sneaking around while classes were in session because he wanted to personally do locker checks and that was 20 years ago. He definitely didn't consider your locker personal space. What's worse is my school wasn't even one that had trouble, just a completely boring suburb school in a boring town. (How bad was he looking for anything? I got detention from one of those trips because he claimed I didn't push my locker completely shut. Yeah, he was a dick.) I'm sure other slash dotters could bring up instances of their high school doing similar shit.
that he didn't deny climate change was happening. He was of the opinion that there was nowhere near the evidence for the standard Gore-esque position of "Oh my god we're all gonna die. We need to stop doing everything right now and drastically cut back on everything right now." Admittedly that comes from an episode of BullShit!
How full of bullshit your superiors are. I mean you'll deal with professors and administrators who are completely full of shit. This will prepare you for your bosses who will be so full of shit that the only way they could be more full of shit would require the use of a pump, a hose, and a bag of manure.
Oh I think everybody has done this and had their "Duh" moment when they figure out the problem.(Well ok, those of us that do C++ coding. I know I've done it and palm to my forehead when I figured out the problem.) Also I'd tended to only update function locally and if I had to update function definitions or class definitions use the build system so it could worry about that stuff. But like I wrote earlier the guy never figured it out even while I was talking to him about it. (It took me half way through the conversation to realize he didn't get it at all and was literally that clueless. It was mind blowing anybody could work as a SE that long and not known about it.) Anyway I hope I never get like that especially the whole thing about not listening to anybody.
We had a build system. So you check your code into your branch in source control and request a build. The system would then rebuild everything from scratch in the right order and put it on a server where you could just copy back to your local system. (All of this was automated.) The guy didn't even try that. (I mean all he had to do was check in his code at the end of the day, request the build when he left and the next morning it'd be done.)
I worked with a guy who had been a software engineer for so long that he used to be a cobol programmer. He had been with my last company for almost 10 years doing C++ work. He didn't understand that if he updated a C++ class to add a new function anything that used that class had to be recompiled so it would "know" about the new version of the class. I mean literally, he was stuck for days and couldn't figure out why he was getting access violations.
What's worse is he had no idea how to tackle the issue. He started thinking that his system was screwed up completely and wanted to use memory management tools to figure out the problem. He didn't even bother to see the time stamp on his various files to see if they were old and could use a recompile. (Let alone use a program to check dependencies.)
I helped him and figured it out fairly quickly and then started talking to him about recompiling the other stuff. (Since I've done that before. Updated a class and then missed recompiling another class or 2.) He had no idea what I was talking about or why this made a difference. Of course the absolute worst part is he thought he was a very good coder and wouldn't listen to what anybody else said about his code. (After that I avoided working on things with him. Clueless and essentially unteachable.)
From what I remember in a cell bio class the B-Cells arn't programmed to make any specific antibody at first.(They're naive) When a new molecule shows up in the body some of those cells will edit their DNA to produce a specific antibody to that antigen. The ones that don't really match well die off and the ones that have editted their DNA to produce a good match live on to produce that antibody. If I remember right that process is kind of random so it takes quite a few naive B-Cells before one of them edits their DNA to make a good match. You could skip this step by having someone do the editting of the B-Cell by "hand" so to speak.
Have you seen how much bestbuy charges for a HDMI cable? Never mind the nonsense of selling Monster Cable HDMI cables to get the "best picture".(Never mind that a $5 cable from monoprice has the same picture.) I can't imagine how much more ripping off there's going to be.
Like I wrote before those same righteous teachings that let them do all those wonderful things. (Slavery, judging people by birth right, yadda yadda yadda.)
To you know leave people in slavery let alone having no problem with anybody creating a race of slaves, intentionally tricking civilians into a war zone, judging people in large part on accidents of birth and on top of this their opinion that feelings aren't worth the trouble? (Ok, so I thought Lucas made the light side seem coldly brutal at times but I don't think that was his intention since he's not that good of a writer.)
I mean in RotS. In that last fight Ben says he wins because he's higher but it made no sense that it would make that much of a difference. (Especially given how much they're flipping around and everything.) I'd expect being higher makes a difference with distance weapons. (Since you'd be able to shoot farther.) Also if reality is anything like a FPS it's easier to hide if you're above your opponent for sniper shots. Finally I could seen that with a weapon with weight being above would have gravity help drive your weapon through your opponent. Unfortunately none of those were true and I'd think the fact Ben would have to reach down to get to Anakin's head yet Ben's legs were rather vulnerable would mean you're better of being low in that case.
Of Anakin Vs. Obi Wan. I mean when I was watching it the first time I figured he was going to have an allusion to Othello or something. (Ben tricking what's her face to bring him to Anakin. Anakin loses because he goes batshit crazy at what he thinks is the betrayal of his wife by his best friend which is just the last step in a long line of things that tried to manipulate him. Later Ben realizes the folly of blindly following the light side of the force since his actions were ok as far as the light was concerned yet gets one person killed and twists another into an agent of the dark.) Nope, we get that stupid thing "Oh I'm 2 feet higher so I win" nonsense. (And Darth feeling bad right afterwards.) A decent writer could have done that scene far better than Lucas.
I mean the first time they had guys running around in sand wearing wet suits. The SciFi redo had the Arabian Ninjas so I can't imagine what this remake will have. (I guess they come out dressed up like clowns.)
Just looking at that wiki article you posted I saw the reaction that the author of Forrest Gump had. He wouldn't give the rights to the sequel since he "cannot in good conscience allow money to be wasted on a failure". (Guess the film company kind of shot themselves in the foot over that one.)
Information. Well I mean besides the states of the 2 entangled particles. (You look at one, it's state is set and therefore the entangled particle gets it state set.)
an XBox 360 that doesn't RRoD after a year or 2. (Why do I get the feeling there's going to be a long line of "Hey maybe they can use this to make" examples as replies?)
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One of the reasons I'm thinking that people don't look at error messages is that alot of the time they're terrible. You know error 47719 and that's the end of it. (Or worse, the "Error Error" which is what I call it when a program or whatever tells you an error has occured and then nothing else.) So I'd expect alot of people don't look since it's often a waste of time. Then coders turn around and realize nobody gives a shit so they make the error reporting even less useful. (Sometime you run across an app that does a good job of reporting error, that's awesome when it occurs.)
than a VCR. Look I have a Tivo and find it difficult to watch TV with out it after having one. The thing is before I got one I really didn't understand how much of a difference it makes. The Tivo basically solves every issue I've ever had with time shifting on a VCR. But it's hard to really understand how much of a difference that makes when you're watching TV. After you have one for a couple of weeks you understand and you realize you almost always watch everything time shifted because it's so convenient but if somebody was looking at it in the store they probably look at it like a VCR that you can't change tapes. (It's not, all us Tivo owners know that but most people arn't going to understand how much better a self programming, self organizing VCR that can play and record at the same time really is.)
efficient. I mean if you consider any unit of computation vs energy expended. I bet my current desktop computer would compare from a computation point of view to a super computer from the late 80's. (GFLOP to GFLOP) However my current computer pulls about 300W, I'm pretty sure that's alot better than any super computer from the 80's that would compare to it.
Right, I understand that. But you can see how if lockers are the schools property and they can do shit like that it probably didn't take much rationalization for a school official to think "Well the laptop is school property so there's no expectation of privacy if you use it." (Yeah, I admit literal spying is way overboard but on the other hand I had personal experience of a school official literally looking for excuses to give people detention because he was a dick so I'm not really surprised.)
What I mean is this attitude with schools has been around for a long time. We had the vice principal sneaking around while classes were in session because he wanted to personally do locker checks and that was 20 years ago. He definitely didn't consider your locker personal space. What's worse is my school wasn't even one that had trouble, just a completely boring suburb school in a boring town. (How bad was he looking for anything? I got detention from one of those trips because he claimed I didn't push my locker completely shut. Yeah, he was a dick.) I'm sure other slash dotters could bring up instances of their high school doing similar shit.
Then which side are us slashdot'ers supposed to hate?
You know the one, DHMO
that he didn't deny climate change was happening. He was of the opinion that there was nowhere near the evidence for the standard Gore-esque position of "Oh my god we're all gonna die. We need to stop doing everything right now and drastically cut back on everything right now." Admittedly that comes from an episode of BullShit!
Romania was a colony the Romans set up in eastern europe (hence the name) after wiping out the Dacians.
How full of bullshit your superiors are. I mean you'll deal with professors and administrators who are completely full of shit. This will prepare you for your bosses who will be so full of shit that the only way they could be more full of shit would require the use of a pump, a hose, and a bag of manure.
Wow, wonder if the guy ever met Larry King. (Yes, I'm a Conan fan.)
Oh I think everybody has done this and had their "Duh" moment when they figure out the problem.(Well ok, those of us that do C++ coding. I know I've done it and palm to my forehead when I figured out the problem.) Also I'd tended to only update function locally and if I had to update function definitions or class definitions use the build system so it could worry about that stuff. But like I wrote earlier the guy never figured it out even while I was talking to him about it. (It took me half way through the conversation to realize he didn't get it at all and was literally that clueless. It was mind blowing anybody could work as a SE that long and not known about it.) Anyway I hope I never get like that especially the whole thing about not listening to anybody.
We had a build system. So you check your code into your branch in source control and request a build. The system would then rebuild everything from scratch in the right order and put it on a server where you could just copy back to your local system. (All of this was automated.) The guy didn't even try that. (I mean all he had to do was check in his code at the end of the day, request the build when he left and the next morning it'd be done.)
I worked with a guy who had been a software engineer for so long that he used to be a cobol programmer. He had been with my last company for almost 10 years doing C++ work. He didn't understand that if he updated a C++ class to add a new function anything that used that class had to be recompiled so it would "know" about the new version of the class. I mean literally, he was stuck for days and couldn't figure out why he was getting access violations. What's worse is he had no idea how to tackle the issue. He started thinking that his system was screwed up completely and wanted to use memory management tools to figure out the problem. He didn't even bother to see the time stamp on his various files to see if they were old and could use a recompile. (Let alone use a program to check dependencies.) I helped him and figured it out fairly quickly and then started talking to him about recompiling the other stuff. (Since I've done that before. Updated a class and then missed recompiling another class or 2.) He had no idea what I was talking about or why this made a difference. Of course the absolute worst part is he thought he was a very good coder and wouldn't listen to what anybody else said about his code. (After that I avoided working on things with him. Clueless and essentially unteachable.)
From what I remember in a cell bio class the B-Cells arn't programmed to make any specific antibody at first.(They're naive) When a new molecule shows up in the body some of those cells will edit their DNA to produce a specific antibody to that antigen. The ones that don't really match well die off and the ones that have editted their DNA to produce a good match live on to produce that antibody. If I remember right that process is kind of random so it takes quite a few naive B-Cells before one of them edits their DNA to make a good match. You could skip this step by having someone do the editting of the B-Cell by "hand" so to speak.
Have you seen how much bestbuy charges for a HDMI cable? Never mind the nonsense of selling Monster Cable HDMI cables to get the "best picture".(Never mind that a $5 cable from monoprice has the same picture.) I can't imagine how much more ripping off there's going to be.
Like I wrote before those same righteous teachings that let them do all those wonderful things. (Slavery, judging people by birth right, yadda yadda yadda.)
To you know leave people in slavery let alone having no problem with anybody creating a race of slaves, intentionally tricking civilians into a war zone, judging people in large part on accidents of birth and on top of this their opinion that feelings aren't worth the trouble? (Ok, so I thought Lucas made the light side seem coldly brutal at times but I don't think that was his intention since he's not that good of a writer.)
I mean in RotS. In that last fight Ben says he wins because he's higher but it made no sense that it would make that much of a difference. (Especially given how much they're flipping around and everything.) I'd expect being higher makes a difference with distance weapons. (Since you'd be able to shoot farther.) Also if reality is anything like a FPS it's easier to hide if you're above your opponent for sniper shots. Finally I could seen that with a weapon with weight being above would have gravity help drive your weapon through your opponent. Unfortunately none of those were true and I'd think the fact Ben would have to reach down to get to Anakin's head yet Ben's legs were rather vulnerable would mean you're better of being low in that case.
Of Anakin Vs. Obi Wan. I mean when I was watching it the first time I figured he was going to have an allusion to Othello or something. (Ben tricking what's her face to bring him to Anakin. Anakin loses because he goes batshit crazy at what he thinks is the betrayal of his wife by his best friend which is just the last step in a long line of things that tried to manipulate him. Later Ben realizes the folly of blindly following the light side of the force since his actions were ok as far as the light was concerned yet gets one person killed and twists another into an agent of the dark.) Nope, we get that stupid thing "Oh I'm 2 feet higher so I win" nonsense. (And Darth feeling bad right afterwards.) A decent writer could have done that scene far better than Lucas.
I mean the first time they had guys running around in sand wearing wet suits. The SciFi redo had the Arabian Ninjas so I can't imagine what this remake will have. (I guess they come out dressed up like clowns.)
Just looking at that wiki article you posted I saw the reaction that the author of Forrest Gump had. He wouldn't give the rights to the sequel since he "cannot in good conscience allow money to be wasted on a failure". (Guess the film company kind of shot themselves in the foot over that one.)
Information. Well I mean besides the states of the 2 entangled particles. (You look at one, it's state is set and therefore the entangled particle gets it state set.)
an XBox 360 that doesn't RRoD after a year or 2. (Why do I get the feeling there's going to be a long line of "Hey maybe they can use this to make" examples as replies?)
In contrast to "AI" which is "Artificial Intelligence" I call the thing you're talking about "RC" which stands for "Real Cheating"