I played HUNT a lot in my college days ('88-90 something) and constantly find myself describing playing a real-time multiplayer game on an 80x24 screen with a 300 baud connection, and loving it. Eventually had to compile the source myself to keep it on our GOULD.
Hunt Rocked. Couse it sucks now, but then, it was great.
Saw this expierement, professor has a rope with a bowling ball tied to the end suspended from a high ceiling. Stand at one end of the room with the ball pulled back and just touching his nose. Professer them lets go of the ball and it swings across the room and returns just missing his nose.
Of course, then stupid studnet comes back later that night to show a friend, holds the ball against his nose and gives it a sold PUSH...
The time it takes to learn a new piece of software is an investment. I don't really feel like spending the time learning something, then spending MORE if I like it. Granted, the developer doesn't get anything if I invest that time... UNLESS: I invest the time and find I like this particular UNLIMITED SHAREWARE APPLICATION and send the $15 'recommended' fee the developer asked for. Which I have in many cases.
Better than 30day trial is nag-ware type thing. How many people registered ACDSee just to get rid of that? It's AWSOME software, that's why you do it.
<flame reard> Yes, we are a microsoft shop. Hence source safe. I am curious about all the talk about TOOLS in this thread and not as much attention to process. </flame retard>
I imagine it is possible to manage the process without any real off the shelf tools... keeping a backup or huge levels of cascading directories. Couple with a REALLY good, well defined, and well followed process, couldn't this work? I'm not suggesting it be done, but explored as a hypothetical allowing one to discover the nature of the beast much better.
And RE: "Source Safe Sucks", it's just a tool... it should be possible to use it correctly coupled with process to solve the problems.
BTW: I'm very glad to see this thread... I dunno how many times I've searched for this information.
I'll be checking out (no pun intended) SourceForge, but I'd like to hear mention of maybe more books (chekcing out the extreme programming as well)
Once you start walking around with a system that shares the information, then there are privicy issues. And I see this being inevitable. You can't stop people from noticing that you're smoking a butt, and you note it, and share that info... where can you disconnect this? It's kind of like a P2P rumor/gossip implmentation. You can no sooner stop people from gossiping than restrict technology which makes it more widespread.
Typically, when a book is released as an eBook it is in addition to the print version.
Orson Scott Card released _Shadow of the Hegemon_ as a eBook and a treeBook. I own the whole Ender series in paper except this one.
Hemmingway, Faulkner and Melville are all available for download to your Palm *FOR FREE* at Memoware
I have read several longer books from cover-to-cover on the palm. It's actually MORE comfortable than a real book.
Biggest bonus: It's difficult to sneak a hard cover into the stall at work, but the Palm is invisible. (Especially with the ultra geeky palm enabled dockers) [Palm in the bathroom... that's a troll]
"Humans are seldom more irrational then when you are attacking their prejudices" (?Tpa'u - Enterprise?)
I asked Orson Scott Card to sign my Palm Pilot (in the Diddle Application) and he refused, saying something about "Reproduceable Signature." Like it's that hard to scan the real signature he put on my Tree-Book version of Ender's Game.
BTW: Orson Scott Card Rocks!
I agree with the EBooks Rock opion though. I've read over 20 books on my PalmV.
PeanutPress has been around for a couple years and has all the new release e-books, but it'll cost ya.
Memoware has a TON of free stuff, classics and the like from the Guetenburg project.
Top 12 things likely to be overheard if you had a Klingon programmer in your company.
12. Specifications are for the weak and timid!
11. This machine is a piece of GAGH! I need dual Pentium processors if I am to do battle with this code!
10. You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless you've heard it read in the original Klingon.
9. Indentation?! -- I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!!
8. What is this talk of "release"? Klingons do not make software "releases." Our software "escapes," leaving a bloody trail of designers and testers in its wake.
7. Klingon function calls do not have "parameters"- they have "arguments"- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM!
6. Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
5. I have challenged the entire testing team to a Bat-Lath contest. They will not concern us again.
4. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code
3. By filing this incident report you have challenged the honour of my family. Prepare to die!
2. You question the worthiness of my code?! I should kill you where you stand!
1. Our users will know fear and cower before our software. Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
The article ends by saying "it does constitute a kind of dependence and should be taken seriously", which is a far cry from "undoing of young americans"
Just because somebody has a PhD in back of their name doesn't give them any special insight.
I do think having a PhD in the back of your name does give you a special insight, becuase you can trust that the person actually read what they were talking about.
That's 12% of your active life, but more like 19% of your waking life, and if you count work/school as another third your looking at 36% of your FREE TIME (article says Leisure Time.)
So more than one third of the time you have an easy CHOICE on how to spend it, and your blowing one out of every three hours watching Jerry Springer.
BTW: As the Simpsons' activly parodies itself, it does not count.
I personally found the article not quite up to SciAm's usual snuff. Typically there is a lot of science and you come away with some stuff to think about... this one just grazed on a couple interesting habits and mentioned a couple studies without really posing any dramatic questions.
The one thing I learned in college that seems to place me above other programmers is the Math. I went to Clarkson, which is a heavy EE school, and the dif-EQ and statistics classes taught me things that I use in everyday programming that other devlopers just do NOT understand. Mostly in analyizing performance statistics etc...
Scientists Decode the First Message From an Alien Civilization...
Simply send 6 x 10^50 atoms of hydrogen to the star system at the top of the list, cross off that star system, then put your star system at the bottom of the list and send it to 100 other star systems. Within one-tenth of a galactic rotation you will receive enough hydrogen to power your civilization until entropy reaches its maximum! IT REALLY WORKS!
Scenerio 1:
Q: It has to do *this*, how long?
A: X days (Not very accurate)
Scenerio 2:
Q: Find out what it has to do, spend TIME specifiying it, then tell me how long.
A: X days (Can be very accurate)
The Problem I (10+ yrs pro developer) keep running into, is that you figure out what it is to do, specify it very well, and then as you start developing it and delievering pieces for review, that specification is changed and you are plopped solidy back into Scnerio 1. Worse is when you think you're done, and begin QA and get SLAPPED back into Scenerio 1... or even Scnenerio -1 where you are trying to hack your guess at how it works into how it really should work.
It would be very complicated to make a robot for the battlefield that obeys Asimov's laws.
The zeroth law does allow them to kill people to save other people, but for modern battles you're gonna have to teach them religon to get them to kill some people.
"The entertainment of the many outweighs the safty of the few, or the one"
The APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), has a picture of what this MIGHT have looked like... in natural and false-colouring... and as always, tons of informational links.
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I played HUNT a lot in my college days ('88-90 something) and constantly find myself describing playing a real-time multiplayer game on an 80x24 screen with a 300 baud connection, and loving it. Eventually had to compile the source myself to keep it on our GOULD.
Hunt Rocked. Couse it sucks now, but then, it was great.
And then my wife to be found Wolfstien...
Saw this expierement, professor has a rope with a bowling ball tied to the end suspended from a high ceiling. Stand at one end of the room with the ball pulled back and just touching his nose. Professer them lets go of the ball and it swings across the room and returns just missing his nose.
Of course, then stupid studnet comes back later that night to show a friend, holds the ball against his nose and gives it a sold PUSH...
Beautiful.
The time it takes to learn a new piece of software is an investment. I don't really feel like spending the time learning something, then spending MORE if I like it. Granted, the developer doesn't get anything if I invest that time... UNLESS: I invest the time and find I like this particular UNLIMITED SHAREWARE APPLICATION and send the $15 'recommended' fee the developer asked for. Which I have in many cases.
Better than 30day trial is nag-ware type thing. How many people registered ACDSee just to get rid of that? It's AWSOME software, that's why you do it.
(ramble off)
M@
Major Underground Letter Campaign == Astro-Turf Fertilizer.
M@
My Names's M@, and I use Source Safe... *Hi M@!*
<flame reard>
Yes, we are a microsoft shop. Hence source safe. I am curious about all the talk about TOOLS in this thread and not as much attention to process.
</flame retard>
I imagine it is possible to manage the process without any real off the shelf tools... keeping a backup or huge levels of cascading directories. Couple with a REALLY good, well defined, and well followed process, couldn't this work? I'm not suggesting it be done, but explored as a hypothetical allowing one to discover the nature of the beast much better.
And RE: "Source Safe Sucks", it's just a tool... it should be possible to use it correctly coupled with process to solve the problems.
BTW: I'm very glad to see this thread... I dunno how many times I've searched for this information.
I'll be checking out (no pun intended) SourceForge, but I'd like to hear mention of maybe more books (chekcing out the extreme programming as well)
M@
You wanna get everyone looking over our shoulders all day long!
M@
Once you start walking around with a system that shares the information, then there are privicy issues. And I see this being inevitable. You can't stop people from noticing that you're smoking a butt, and you note it, and share that info... where can you disconnect this? It's kind of like a P2P rumor/gossip implmentation. You can no sooner stop people from gossiping than restrict technology which makes it more widespread.
M@
Typically, when a book is released as an eBook it is in addition to the print version.
... that's a troll]
Orson Scott Card released _Shadow of the Hegemon_ as a eBook and a treeBook. I own the whole Ender series in paper except this one.
Hemmingway, Faulkner and Melville are all available for download to your Palm *FOR FREE* at Memoware
I have read several longer books from cover-to-cover on the palm. It's actually MORE comfortable than a real book.
Biggest bonus: It's difficult to sneak a hard cover into the stall at work, but the Palm is invisible. (Especially with the ultra geeky palm enabled dockers) [Palm in the bathroom
"Humans are seldom more irrational then when you are attacking their prejudices" (?Tpa'u - Enterprise?)
M@
I asked Orson Scott Card to sign my Palm Pilot (in the Diddle Application) and he refused, saying something about "Reproduceable Signature." Like it's that hard to scan the real signature he put on my Tree-Book version of Ender's Game.
BTW: Orson Scott Card Rocks!
I agree with the EBooks Rock opion though. I've read over 20 books on my PalmV.
PeanutPress has been around for a couple years and has all the new release e-books, but it'll cost ya.
Memoware has a TON of free stuff, classics and the like from the Guetenburg project.
M@
After VT passed the same sex marriage law recognition thing, there were people opposing it and putting big signs on their lawns reading:
TAKE VERMONT BACK
The folks who supported the decision wouldn't be out done, and started putting signs up which read
TAKE VERMONT FORWARD
I dunno what view this guy was supporting, probably a comment on the whole thing, he had a bumper sticker which read
TAKE VERMONT FROM BEHIND
Maybe the new slogan for this political move could be:
TAKE VERMONT WITH PERMISSION
Top 12 things likely to be overheard if you had a Klingon programmer in your company.
12. Specifications are for the weak and timid!
11. This machine is a piece of GAGH! I need dual Pentium processors if I am to do battle with this code!
10. You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless you've heard it read in the original Klingon.
9. Indentation?! -- I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!!
8. What is this talk of "release"? Klingons do not make software "releases." Our software "escapes," leaving a bloody trail of designers and testers in its wake.
7. Klingon function calls do not have "parameters"- they have "arguments"- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM!
6. Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
5. I have challenged the entire testing team to a Bat-Lath contest. They will not concern us again.
4. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code
3. By filing this incident report you have challenged the honour of my family. Prepare to die!
2. You question the worthiness of my code?! I should kill you where you stand!
1. Our users will know fear and cower before our software. Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Klingon Programs are not released, they escape.
Gives a new meaning to the "custom ring" for your cell phone.
The article ends by saying "it does constitute a kind of dependence and should be taken seriously", which is a far cry from "undoing of young americans"
Just because somebody has a PhD in back of their name doesn't give them any special insight.
I do think having a PhD in the back of your name does give you a special insight, becuase you can trust that the person actually read what they were talking about.
That's 12% of your active life, but more like 19% of your waking life, and if you count work/school as another third your looking at 36% of your FREE TIME (article says Leisure Time.)
So more than one third of the time you have an easy CHOICE on how to spend it, and your blowing one out of every three hours watching Jerry Springer.
BTW: As the Simpsons' activly parodies itself, it does not count.
I personally found the article not quite up to SciAm's usual snuff. Typically there is a lot of science and you come away with some stuff to think about... this one just grazed on a couple interesting habits and mentioned a couple studies without really posing any dramatic questions.
The one thing I learned in college that seems to place me above other programmers is the Math. I went to Clarkson, which is a heavy EE school, and the dif-EQ and statistics classes taught me things that I use in everyday programming that other devlopers just do NOT understand. Mostly in analyizing performance statistics etc...
I got a Makita 14.4v cordless Drill. MMMmmm... power tools. Got anything I can screw?
Scientists Decode the First Message From an Alien Civilization...
Simply send 6 x 10^50 atoms of hydrogen to the star system at the top of the list, cross off that star system, then put your star system at the bottom of the list and send it to 100 other star systems. Within one-tenth of a galactic rotation you will receive enough hydrogen to power your civilization until entropy reaches its maximum! IT REALLY WORKS!
M@
Get one of these and you'll look bigger.
M@
Is burnout a work related injury? Can you get reimbursed if you can prove you have it?
M@
Scenerio 1:
Q: It has to do *this*, how long?
A: X days (Not very accurate)
Scenerio 2:
Q: Find out what it has to do, spend TIME specifiying it, then tell me how long.
A: X days (Can be very accurate)
The Problem I (10+ yrs pro developer) keep running into, is that you figure out what it is to do, specify it very well, and then as you start developing it and delievering pieces for review, that specification is changed and you are plopped solidy back into Scnerio 1. Worse is when you think you're done, and begin QA and get SLAPPED back into Scenerio 1... or even Scnenerio -1 where you are trying to hack your guess at how it works into how it really should work.
M@
It would be very complicated to make a robot for the battlefield that obeys Asimov's laws.
The zeroth law does allow them to kill people to save other people, but for modern battles you're gonna have to teach them religon to get them to kill some people.
"The entertainment of the many outweighs the safty of the few, or the one"
M@
t++@($)
Sweet. Very sweet.
M@
The APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), has a picture of what this MIGHT have looked like... in natural and false-colouring... and as always, tons of informational links.
M@