That is a valid question for a first time install, because the filter is REQUIRED to get the service to work in the first place.
But if you've been up and running for months, and the service suddenly goes out, and the user changed nothing on his end, it's an absolutely brain-dead question to ask.
That does not even require ANY technical knowledge to understand, it's BASIC TROUBLESHOOTING, which anyone hired as a phone rep or working in the tech industry should have a firm grasp of. These concepts step from logic, and apply to working with any system. Not just computers.
Unfortunately, I've dealt with seasoned C++ programmers who don't have a clue about the basics of troubleshooting.
Yup, lessee. Car running a little sluggish? Pop the hood, spin that old 10mm box-end, twist the distributor clockwise a few degrees, now I'm humming right along. Oops, getting a little hot - turn a screw on the carb - now I'm running so rich I can smell the gasoline in the exhuast.
I drive past the smog-check stations and scoff.
There has to be a reason why lots of people don't mind putting the time and effort into maintaining 40 year old econoboxes.
Maybe because everything that's been offered since then has been lacking.
so, you're saying that, because math is an imperfect tool for deriving the particle's exact location, that the particle is not in an exact location?
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better type some random text in here to dodge the lameness filter -
disclaimer: this post really was not intended as a troll or a flame - but if you're going to criticise people for not understanding Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, maybe you should help those who don't to do so.
Y'all seem to be missing the point here.
Engineering practices do come into play, I'm sure. Commenting code, etc. yadda yadda, all very important.
Let's just assume you have competent engineers (and managers) who know how to do their jobs.
Then, how do you make a software project fail?
Turn over engineering decisions to marketing and sales people so that the engineers CAN'T do their jobs.
I've been in this business for 10 years, and I work for a fairly large software company, and I'm telling you, this is the #1 problem we all face.
If you have a sales guy who's the golfing buddy of the CEO - you'll get features, MAJOR features, added to a project 2 weeks from the ship date.
And if the CEO's OTHER golfing buddy is the head of marketing, that ship date WILL NOT SLIP, because hell, you don't want to piss off the trade rags who are all lined up to do reviews on your product and publish on that date. Otherwise the next trade show will be awkward.
These are pretty simple examples of what goes on - and the fallout from this is, code changes happen - after beta testing is finished, features are slapped in without code review. Testing suffers - if you do a complete regression pass prior to actually shipping.
Then you end up either shipping late (which most companies do anyway) - or shipping on time, and in both cases, you end up with a buttload of field issues that didn't appear in your abbreviated beta testing, or in your QA lab.
Buggy software makes for poor sales (unless there's no competition). In addition, 9 times out of 10, the feature that the sales guy asked for gets in, but it doesn't work the way he imagined it worked, so this absolute drop-dead feature he needed to make that $10million deal isn't what the customer wanted, and so that sale falls through.
I've seen this happen again and again. When you throw out careful engineering practices, and let the marketing and sales guys design a product that should be designed by engineers - the end result is - just what you'd expect.
Sure - you MUST give a product a certain feature set in order to have market appeal. You MUST make target dates in order to synch with the marketing strategy.
But these non-engineering influences need to adopt some better practices.
1) Do REAL market research. Study the feasibility, keep engineering in the loop from day one.
2) Make REAL detailed descriptions of new, requested features. (including "performance enhancements") Figure out what problem the customer is trying to solve with this feature, and why. See if alternate approaches can solve the same problem more elegantly. (this is how GREAT software is written, as opposed to the hobbled-together crap that's being sold by most companies today).
3) Write the engineering spec for the product IN STONE - set a date. From this point on, unless there is a technical problem - NOTHING about this product changes. Any new features have to go into the next version. Sorry charly. That last great whizbang idea missed the boat. Trying to get engineering to put it into your product at the last minute to save your ass in that ONE big deal that's going to get you that christmas bonus.
4) provide adequate time for testing. I can't stress this enough. If you're hitting problems in the field due to diverse customer environments, then expand your beta testing.
IIRC a missile will be triggered to explode when it's range to target is within a certain range and begins to increase (so it will detonate in a flyby).
Multiple passes? No way. however, most SAMs can turn at like 15 g's where a fighter plane can turn at like 7-8 max before the pilot blacks out. Plus they fly at like Mach 3+ (as a previous poster said), and most fighter planes have a top speed of 1.5, and that's full afterburners. They can sustain such a speed for only a few minutes at a time, draining all their fuel reserves.
I only hope that when they showed the prerelease of this movie to our troops on the ships in the far east, the commanders gave them a talk beforehand;
"Troops, listen up. Watch this movie carefully, spot the mistakes. There will be a written exam after the movie. Afterwards, you'll be going ashore - and there will be a REAL exam. If you act like this in country, you'll be coming home in a body bag."
He's not talking about hicks in Tennesee breeding black slaves. He's talking about the intentional, and very controlled breeding of nubian slaves that went on for thousands of years in Northern Africa (there is documented evidence of this in ancient Egypt, and not JUST with black slaves either).
Still, you take well bred dogs and turn them loose into the wild, and the mutts you get in 3 generations have pretty much lost most of the specialized traits.
Rat terriers were bred to kill rats.
The thing is, it's the same moral issues. Look at Greyhounds. As racers, their carreers are usually over with in about 2 years. Most are euthenized after that. The ones that make it as pets have tons of healt problems and special needs that other dogs don't have. And what if a Greyhound had a mind of human proportions. What if that Greyhound actually wanted to be a retriever, but he's stuck racing because of his genetic heritage, and can't catch a tennis ball in his mouth to save his life? Or what if an accident brings a severe injury that makes him unsuitable for racing? Call the vet, time for doggy to go to sleep. Apply these same standards to humans, and you start to see the creepiness of genetic engineering. It's all fine and dandy when you're talking about making it so your kids don't grow up to be obese, or need glasses, or be prone to cancer. Or even have blue eyes and blonde hair. But when you consider some of these "occupation-oriented" traits into the mix, it's pretty frightening.
I have a Rio Volt, and it's pretty nice. Skipping is nearly non-existant, it's buffered all the way to timbuktu.
However, if you find yourself changing mp3 cd's often, this player has a weakness. When you change cd's the thing powers off - and powering it back on, you'd think it's running Windows CE or something, because it takes a good two minutes before it boots, reads the CD index, and starts playing music. It's very slow, so instead of playing your favorite 5 tunes from one cd, then your favorite 3 from another, and favorite 6 from another, it's best to just make a single compilation disk of those 14 songs. Otherwise you do a LOT of waiting for the thing to spin up.
I can see tits on my television any time. It's called cable or satellite PayPerView, the Playboy channel.
Actually, the "decency" movement that got Titties banned from broadcast TV was a ploy to constrain the supply of titties so people would pay the outrageous PPV fees to watch the Playboy Channel.
And the StarTac phone is really the ONLY decent cell phone "form factor" out there. All the others store too large, and deploy too small.
There were earlier "flip phones" - that had a useless piece of plastic that flipped out, but did nothing (but break). Looking at those I just had to laugh. But the StarTac stores small, that is, doesn't stick out of my pocket, but it deploys (unfolds) large enough to actually cover the distance between my ear and mouth. And the actual piece that unfolds has actual working electronic parts in it.
As an added bonus, the antenna actually points AWAY from the user's head, which, if nothing else, keeps down the incidence of fear of brain cancer. (though it actually DOES reduce the amount of energy that is transmitted to the brain compared to other designs).
What do you call Microsoft Installer (MSI) or Add/Remove Programs?
Of course, the only guaranteed way to get a system into it's last known working state is to fdisk and reinstall the OS. That's par for the course in the wonderful world of Windows, because "uninstall" doesn't REALLY uninstall everything.
You can't argue with the fact that a great many linux-heads out there are linux-heads out of spite for microsoft.
Without them, Linux would be "just another" interesting graduate student's science project.
holy fuck! I thought those things were made of polycarbonate! What did they do? Salvage it out of the WTC wreckage? You have to hit it with some pretty serious force to get polycarbonate to shear like that.
I don't know how readily available these are to mere mortals, but when I was working for a tape library company, we used to ship them out with these little sticky things glued to the box. It was a tiny clear plastic device, filled with fluid, and a very thin glass vial of dye. If subjected to a shock, the vial would rupture, and the whole thing would turn red, and you knew it was subjected to abuse.
Once we started shipping with shock-guards (and outlined the policy with the shipper) - incidence of DOA units fell 95%.
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To verify your claim about Halo being too much hype - one only needs to look at Oni: expectations vs. reality.
Sigh.
The thing is - in BOTH of these games, demos had much touted awesome features, that the final versions did not.
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That is a valid question for a first time install, because the filter is REQUIRED to get the service to work in the first place.
But if you've been up and running for months, and the service suddenly goes out, and the user changed nothing on his end, it's an absolutely brain-dead question to ask.
That does not even require ANY technical knowledge to understand, it's BASIC TROUBLESHOOTING, which anyone hired as a phone rep or working in the tech industry should have a firm grasp of. These concepts step from logic, and apply to working with any system. Not just computers.
Unfortunately, I've dealt with seasoned C++ programmers who don't have a clue about the basics of troubleshooting.
Yup, lessee. Car running a little sluggish? Pop the hood, spin that old 10mm box-end, twist the distributor clockwise a few degrees, now I'm humming right along. Oops, getting a little hot - turn a screw on the carb - now I'm running so rich I can smell the gasoline in the exhuast.
I drive past the smog-check stations and scoff.
There has to be a reason why lots of people don't mind putting the time and effort into maintaining 40 year old econoboxes.
Maybe because everything that's been offered since then has been lacking.
I'm the same as you with cigarettes.
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Unfortunately, the same is not true with the Demon Caffeine. . .
OCD and having a personality predisposed to obsession (or addiction) are two different things.
so, you're saying that, because math is an imperfect tool for deriving the particle's exact location, that the particle is not in an exact location?
better type some random text in here to dodge the lameness filter -
disclaimer: this post really was not intended as a troll or a flame - but if you're going to criticise people for not understanding Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, maybe you should help those who don't to do so.
good theory.
Except they quietly reintroduced the low-price iMac two months after they removed it.
20th Anniversary Mac had integrated form factor with a (tiny) LCD screen. It runs Mac OS.
Y'all seem to be missing the point here.
Engineering practices do come into play, I'm sure. Commenting code, etc. yadda yadda, all very important.
Let's just assume you have competent engineers (and managers) who know how to do their jobs.
Then, how do you make a software project fail?
Turn over engineering decisions to marketing and sales people so that the engineers CAN'T do their jobs.
I've been in this business for 10 years, and I work for a fairly large software company, and I'm telling you, this is the #1 problem we all face.
If you have a sales guy who's the golfing buddy of the CEO - you'll get features, MAJOR features, added to a project 2 weeks from the ship date.
And if the CEO's OTHER golfing buddy is the head of marketing, that ship date WILL NOT SLIP, because hell, you don't want to piss off the trade rags who are all lined up to do reviews on your product and publish on that date. Otherwise the next trade show will be awkward.
These are pretty simple examples of what goes on - and the fallout from this is, code changes happen - after beta testing is finished, features are slapped in without code review. Testing suffers - if you do a complete regression pass prior to actually shipping.
Then you end up either shipping late (which most companies do anyway) - or shipping on time, and in both cases, you end up with a buttload of field issues that didn't appear in your abbreviated beta testing, or in your QA lab.
Buggy software makes for poor sales (unless there's no competition). In addition, 9 times out of 10, the feature that the sales guy asked for gets in, but it doesn't work the way he imagined it worked, so this absolute drop-dead feature he needed to make that $10million deal isn't what the customer wanted, and so that sale falls through.
I've seen this happen again and again. When you throw out careful engineering practices, and let the marketing and sales guys design a product that should be designed by engineers - the end result is - just what you'd expect.
Sure - you MUST give a product a certain feature set in order to have market appeal. You MUST make target dates in order to synch with the marketing strategy.
But these non-engineering influences need to adopt some better practices.
1) Do REAL market research. Study the feasibility, keep engineering in the loop from day one.
2) Make REAL detailed descriptions of new, requested features. (including "performance enhancements") Figure out what problem the customer is trying to solve with this feature, and why. See if alternate approaches can solve the same problem more elegantly. (this is how GREAT software is written, as opposed to the hobbled-together crap that's being sold by most companies today).
3) Write the engineering spec for the product IN STONE - set a date. From this point on, unless there is a technical problem - NOTHING about this product changes. Any new features have to go into the next version. Sorry charly. That last great whizbang idea missed the boat. Trying to get engineering to put it into your product at the last minute to save your ass in that ONE big deal that's going to get you that christmas bonus.
4) provide adequate time for testing. I can't stress this enough. If you're hitting problems in the field due to diverse customer environments, then expand your beta testing.
I suspect we'll all feel the same way about LOTR.
IIRC a missile will be triggered to explode when it's range to target is within a certain range and begins to increase (so it will detonate in a flyby).
Multiple passes? No way. however, most SAMs can turn at like 15 g's where a fighter plane can turn at like 7-8 max before the pilot blacks out. Plus they fly at like Mach 3+ (as a previous poster said), and most fighter planes have a top speed of 1.5, and that's full afterburners. They can sustain such a speed for only a few minutes at a time, draining all their fuel reserves.
I only hope that when they showed the prerelease of this movie to our troops on the ships in the far east, the commanders gave them a talk beforehand;
"Troops, listen up. Watch this movie carefully, spot the mistakes. There will be a written exam after the movie. Afterwards, you'll be going ashore - and there will be a REAL exam. If you act like this in country, you'll be coming home in a body bag."
not many Jamaican bobsledders either. . .
He's not talking about hicks in Tennesee breeding black slaves. He's talking about the intentional, and very controlled breeding of nubian slaves that went on for thousands of years in Northern Africa (there is documented evidence of this in ancient Egypt, and not JUST with black slaves either).
Still, you take well bred dogs and turn them loose into the wild, and the mutts you get in 3 generations have pretty much lost most of the specialized traits.
Rat terriers were bred to kill rats.
The thing is, it's the same moral issues. Look at Greyhounds. As racers, their carreers are usually over with in about 2 years. Most are euthenized after that. The ones that make it as pets have tons of healt problems and special needs that other dogs don't have. And what if a Greyhound had a mind of human proportions. What if that Greyhound actually wanted to be a retriever, but he's stuck racing because of his genetic heritage, and can't catch a tennis ball in his mouth to save his life? Or what if an accident brings a severe injury that makes him unsuitable for racing? Call the vet, time for doggy to go to sleep. Apply these same standards to humans, and you start to see the creepiness of genetic engineering. It's all fine and dandy when you're talking about making it so your kids don't grow up to be obese, or need glasses, or be prone to cancer. Or even have blue eyes and blonde hair. But when you consider some of these "occupation-oriented" traits into the mix, it's pretty frightening.
Star Trek 4, 3.5 stars? You're sick man, get help.
I have a Rio Volt, and it's pretty nice. Skipping is nearly non-existant, it's buffered all the way to timbuktu.
However, if you find yourself changing mp3 cd's often, this player has a weakness. When you change cd's the thing powers off - and powering it back on, you'd think it's running Windows CE or something, because it takes a good two minutes before it boots, reads the CD index, and starts playing music. It's very slow, so instead of playing your favorite 5 tunes from one cd, then your favorite 3 from another, and favorite 6 from another, it's best to just make a single compilation disk of those 14 songs. Otherwise you do a LOT of waiting for the thing to spin up.
I can see tits on my television any time. It's called cable or satellite PayPerView, the Playboy channel.
Actually, the "decency" movement that got Titties banned from broadcast TV was a ploy to constrain the supply of titties so people would pay the outrageous PPV fees to watch the Playboy Channel.
And the StarTac phone is really the ONLY decent cell phone "form factor" out there. All the others store too large, and deploy too small.
There were earlier "flip phones" - that had a useless piece of plastic that flipped out, but did nothing (but break). Looking at those I just had to laugh. But the StarTac stores small, that is, doesn't stick out of my pocket, but it deploys (unfolds) large enough to actually cover the distance between my ear and mouth. And the actual piece that unfolds has actual working electronic parts in it.
As an added bonus, the antenna actually points AWAY from the user's head, which, if nothing else, keeps down the incidence of fear of brain cancer. (though it actually DOES reduce the amount of energy that is transmitted to the brain compared to other designs).
What do you call Microsoft Installer (MSI) or Add/Remove Programs?
Of course, the only guaranteed way to get a system into it's last known working state is to fdisk and reinstall the OS. That's par for the course in the wonderful world of Windows, because "uninstall" doesn't REALLY uninstall everything.
Well, Macintosh is pretty good (Classic) but every app tries to dump itself on your desktop.
You can't argue with the fact that a great many linux-heads out there are linux-heads out of spite for microsoft.
Without them, Linux would be "just another" interesting graduate student's science project.
So, what you're saying is that if I assasinate Bill Gates right now, I'll be doing the world's poor the greatest favor in history?
holy fuck! I thought those things were made of polycarbonate! What did they do? Salvage it out of the WTC wreckage? You have to hit it with some pretty serious force to get polycarbonate to shear like that.
I don't know how readily available these are to mere mortals, but when I was working for a tape library company, we used to ship them out with these little sticky things glued to the box. It was a tiny clear plastic device, filled with fluid, and a very thin glass vial of dye. If subjected to a shock, the vial would rupture, and the whole thing would turn red, and you knew it was subjected to abuse.
Once we started shipping with shock-guards (and outlined the policy with the shipper) - incidence of DOA units fell 95%.
To verify your claim about Halo being too much hype - one only needs to look at Oni: expectations vs. reality.
Sigh.
The thing is - in BOTH of these games, demos had much touted awesome features, that the final versions did not.