Now using CGI for the backgrounds instead of matte painting works nicely, but for foreground elements it just looks much better with models.
Bah. I've had people insist that money from France (let alone the Neitherlands) looked 'like monopoly money' and that they'd hate it if the USA changed. That the USA's money is only now becomming somewhat sophisticated is largely because of this attitude against change.
It's jarring to see the glitches in the space battle scenes for Jedi -- let alone the ancient Ewok costumes. They both work aginst the movie for me -- and I remember seeing Star Wars when it came out in the theaters the first time.
Then I RTFA (Articles / Advertisements) and realized that they are in fact talking about inductive coupling.
Inductive charging cradles have been used by Sonicare® for several years to charge their cordless toothbrushes.
It pretty cool anyway!
Braun does this too. I've had a cordless toothbrush with this for about 3 years. There
s a way to recycle the battery (put handle in the charging stand and twist) though I don't know if there are replacement batteries. The only issue has nothing to do with the battery; the brush heads crack easily if dropped (what can I say, I'm clumsy).
Back at you. I don't see anything in your response that is aided by a firewall. Proper setup of the services and isolation of the web/db/... severs from each other would do the trick. The firewall wouldn't do jack extra.
As for your Apache example...the web server itself is both stable and secure. The apps on it have to be chosen with care, though. One of the reasons why I try and stay away from PHP apps...they tend to have poor default security. (Not all PHP, though I've noticed it too many times to give a PHP app an early nod.)
Note that I am talking *only* about multi-user or multi-process systems.
Upgrading a PC so the games play faster is not an example of scaleability.
A MMORPG that runs on a server farm is scaleable if adding more boxes allows more players in the same instance of a virtual world. If it only allows more isolated games, it's not scaleable.
"Scalability" is a pure and meaningless buzzword, unless specific metrics of the precise scale is provided. That's the point.
No, it's not. A word processor is not scalable; you can only have 1 person using 1 instance at a time. If a software package can be used on modest hardware -- and tossing more hardware at it makes that one instance more capable -- it's scalable.
I agree that throwing hardware at poorly designed software can be a mistake if other similar software doesn't need the extra gear. How well it scales does matter...though at the point you start asking those types of questions you're often dealing with a specific environment.
I would say most of what he sites is pretty silly, but "Scalable?"
It's not the words. The words are good. It's how they are used, misunderstood, and misused.
Fortunately, I mostly deal with people who admit they don't know much of what's out there -- it's silly to claim you do since there's so much tech out there it's just not possible.
The people who cover up what they do/do not know in an attempt to look "smart" are a big problem. These people either think they know it all or don't want anyone to know that they don't. They don't listen. They aren't curious. They get angry or dismissive or just talk right past you as if "we're all in agreement". Meanwhile, they don't know what you're talking about -- and don't want you to know it. The worst ones are actively ignorant -- pushing bad opinions around and acting on them unilaterally.
These folks never ask questions like "What is that?", "How does it work?", "What's it like?", or "Can you give me an example?". If you ask them these types of questions, they will look at you strange. It's like middleschool all over again.
Had a guy the other day tell me "Good! You're using an all Microsoft solution!" when I mentioned that the web site was developed using Coldfusion. Having delt with this guy a few dozen times, I knew it was useless to correct him. While it's true that you can run Coldfusion on Windows, in this case it wasn't running under Windows...let alone CF being a Macromedia product not a Microsoft one.
Unfortunately, I have to deal with this guy because he has his claws in the small business I'm helping out. Part of his stupidity might be from the panic I feel talking to him; he knows I could take his business away. That I don't care to doesn't seem to matter to him -- I *could do it*. You can bet I'm going to limit my exposure to him.
Do you take any days off? If not, 10 hours/day is possible (70 hours/week), 12 is a pain, at 14 not much else can be done, and 16 nothing else can be done. You're claiming to work an average of over 14 hours/day, 7 days a week. If you take a day or two off each week, your per-day load goes up quite a bit if you really hit that 100+ hours/week limit.
I've worked 16 hour days for some projects -- just under 2 hours more than you claim per day -- and I barely had enough time to woof down food, shower, hit the hotel, and sleep. In many cases, I've snuck away and slept 1/2 an hour here and there just to keep from really making bad decisions or really screwing up the project just because I can't think anymore. Special nutrition is necessary -- including vitimin coctails -- to keep from completely wrecking your health if you keep up at that pace. Sure, the first week is OK...the second is possible...the weeks that follow are much less productive.
16 hour work days can last for about a month if you are on a tight schedule, forget everything else, and don't have to travel much to get to the job. The extra 1.8 hours you say you are getting isn't enough to even keep up with basic socializing...let alone posting on/. or paying your bills. If you work out of your house to avoid the overhead of travel, you probably have to order in for food, have someone else tend to you, or eat food from a machine, otherwise you will starve. There's not enough time to leisurely sit down and eat at the 16 hour mark.
... you still have to pay the windows licenses over the 250000 units you shipped last month. Linux can be shipped without having to pay those license costs.
No doubt, and I'll add;
...or pay for the extra hardware needed to run embedded Windows over embedded Linux.
...or, if you decide that even embedded Linux is too heavy, your Linux app can be much more easily ported to one of the other open or propriatory *nix clones out there (*bsd, QNX,...)^
^ mini rant: Except for Microsoft, it seems that *EVERYONE* is using unix-like operating systems. Palm was one of the last holdouts, and even they are switching. What's it going to take to have them cave in entirely and not just as a crufty though sometimes handy add-on layer?
Get a cheap PC, dump that to a 55 gallon drum, punch a few holes for the cables to come out, pour lubricant oil to the cover the PC and cross your finger...
In all seriousness, mineral oil is non-conductive and shouldn't eat away plastic. If the holes are sealed, the PC does not require alot of cooling, and there aren't any metal filings, it would work. Not the best solution, though IMNSHO.
I like the 'old PC for cheap' idea better; when it breaks, get a new one. The only modern suggestion I'd make is to use the workshop system as a display-only device; run the programs elsewhere and export the display to the workshop. PCs will work fine for quite a while even with metal filings and rat piss in them.
They are trying to show off new technology, which is always a risk.
It isn't if you have a clue and the tech is even moderately stable. Your steps through the product should be scripted *BECAUSE* bad things happen with alpha products. If you test beforehand, and follow the !@$!@$ script, it's not going to bomb on you -- you've tested it!
Anyone who's given a demo -- even on a released product -- doesn't stray too far unless they are exceedingly confident of how well the program works.
My wife does marketing and likes to label this class of people as "stupid rich".
While I agree, there's more to it than that. I'm constantly asked my opinion on what tech to buy, while my answer is ignored. The people who ask already have an answer, so they don't like mine...and buy what they want anyway. (Example: Everyone outside of business who I've installed Linux for has asked me -- none were talked into it.)
Case in point: My brother in law is a smart, frugle guy. Getting sick of his desk being dominated by a spare 17 inch tube Dell (Sony) monitor I gave him last year, he calls me up and asks if now is the time to buy a 17 inch flat screen. I told him 'Get a cheap monitor stand now, in 6 months get a real nice flat panel for less'.
He already made up his mind, though. Knowing I love tech he thought I'd agree with him. Guess what he did?
Hilarious sketch, but of course a real geek would have no problem reading a windows disk with mac or linux, a linux disk on mac, etc. Unless you just are feeling lazy. And a good geek could probably come up with a more BOFHish excuse anyhow.
True, though most non-geeks wouldn't know that.
Chapelle even mentioning Linux was a hoot...definately mainstream.
If I remark a check, the bank cashes it, and you don't notice the difference on your statement, does the money magically appear -- leaving nobody with a loss?
Fraud is theft. I even gave you dictionary quotes, so if you continue to argue otherwise... well, I've never argued anyone into thinking they were wrong, so I don't think you'll change your mind either. Experience seems to be a better teacher.
If you're caught stealing outright, you probably will not get a fellony conviction. If you're caught commiting fraud, the chances you'll get a fellony mark are much higher.
The only way the economy works is if there is a level of trust. When that trust is removed -- and fraud is one of those ways -- you've just broken the relationship. People have to make up the difference. In fraud and theft the end results are damn similar; they are one and part of the same tree, blending together.
Just print off the UPC code onto a sticker, and go into a competitor (like Walmart) a week before it goes on sale. Put the sticker onto another game, and ask the cashier for a price check. The scanner computer already has the pricing information in it, so the price that they are going to charge shows up on the register!
Online, sometimes it's simpler. The static pages for some store specials are usually generated days and weeks before the supplement goes out. Just browse to the current fliers, change the URL to match the likely date of the next flyer (or some other guessable key), and you know what is for sale without having to be sneaky.
Doesn't work with most DB generated pages, though it does occasionally.
Theft? You gave them money. The person at the register should have noticed that the bike rang up as "JuicyFruit" instead of "Huffy" and I would call that an error in your favor.
If one of the store's employees acting on the store's behalf entered the bike's barcode into the computers as a pack of gum, I'd agree. Screw'em; they should have treated the inventory system more seriouly. This, on a small scale, happens all the time. I catch this at the grocery store 1 out of 3 times, usually in my favor.
Yet, that's not the case we're talking about. In this case, someone who is not a store employee working on the store's behalf either swaps barcodes or intentionally places a barcode on a more expensive item. And, here's the important part, that person uses that new barcode to defraud the store; it's fraud; a very serious crime.
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Bah. I've had people insist that money from France (let alone the Neitherlands) looked 'like monopoly money' and that they'd hate it if the USA changed. That the USA's money is only now becomming somewhat sophisticated is largely because of this attitude against change.
It's jarring to see the glitches in the space battle scenes for Jedi -- let alone the ancient Ewok costumes. They both work aginst the movie for me -- and I remember seeing Star Wars when it came out in the theaters the first time.
Well, that explains why the Cylons did so well.
Braun does this too. I've had a cordless toothbrush with this for about 3 years. There s a way to recycle the battery (put handle in the charging stand and twist) though I don't know if there are replacement batteries. The only issue has nothing to do with the battery; the brush heads crack easily if dropped (what can I say, I'm clumsy).
As for your Apache example...the web server itself is both stable and secure. The apps on it have to be chosen with care, though. One of the reasons why I try and stay away from PHP apps...they tend to have poor default security. (Not all PHP, though I've noticed it too many times to give a PHP app an early nod.)
Why?
What you say is phrased as if it is wisdom, though I can't think of a technical or practical reason for it.
If the machine is a server, you've already stripped it down to the base functions, audited it, and know just how it could be exploited.
You know that most of those methods are social not technical.
You know the remaining ones -- if any -- are imposed by management.
You know that a firewall that plugs any remaining hole will anger the manager(s)...so you let that traffic through.
So...how will a firewall help? It looks like comfort food to me.
Upgrading a PC so the games play faster is not an example of scaleability.
A MMORPG that runs on a server farm is scaleable if adding more boxes allows more players in the same instance of a virtual world. If it only allows more isolated games, it's not scaleable.
No, it's not. A word processor is not scalable; you can only have 1 person using 1 instance at a time. If a software package can be used on modest hardware -- and tossing more hardware at it makes that one instance more capable -- it's scalable.
I agree that throwing hardware at poorly designed software can be a mistake if other similar software doesn't need the extra gear. How well it scales does matter...though at the point you start asking those types of questions you're often dealing with a specific environment.
It's not the words. The words are good. It's how they are used, misunderstood, and misused.
Fortunately, I mostly deal with people who admit they don't know much of what's out there -- it's silly to claim you do since there's so much tech out there it's just not possible.
The people who cover up what they do/do not know in an attempt to look "smart" are a big problem. These people either think they know it all or don't want anyone to know that they don't. They don't listen. They aren't curious. They get angry or dismissive or just talk right past you as if "we're all in agreement". Meanwhile, they don't know what you're talking about -- and don't want you to know it. The worst ones are actively ignorant -- pushing bad opinions around and acting on them unilaterally.
These folks never ask questions like "What is that?", "How does it work?", "What's it like?", or "Can you give me an example?". If you ask them these types of questions, they will look at you strange. It's like middleschool all over again.
Had a guy the other day tell me "Good! You're using an all Microsoft solution!" when I mentioned that the web site was developed using Coldfusion. Having delt with this guy a few dozen times, I knew it was useless to correct him. While it's true that you can run Coldfusion on Windows, in this case it wasn't running under Windows...let alone CF being a Macromedia product not a Microsoft one.
Unfortunately, I have to deal with this guy because he has his claws in the small business I'm helping out. Part of his stupidity might be from the panic I feel talking to him; he knows I could take his business away. That I don't care to doesn't seem to matter to him -- I *could do it*. You can bet I'm going to limit my exposure to him.
You too, eh?
I've worked 16 hour days for some projects -- just under 2 hours more than you claim per day -- and I barely had enough time to woof down food, shower, hit the hotel, and sleep. In many cases, I've snuck away and slept 1/2 an hour here and there just to keep from really making bad decisions or really screwing up the project just because I can't think anymore. Special nutrition is necessary -- including vitimin coctails -- to keep from completely wrecking your health if you keep up at that pace. Sure, the first week is OK...the second is possible...the weeks that follow are much less productive.
16 hour work days can last for about a month if you are on a tight schedule, forget everything else, and don't have to travel much to get to the job. The extra 1.8 hours you say you are getting isn't enough to even keep up with basic socializing...let alone posting on /. or paying your bills. If you work out of your house to avoid the overhead of travel, you probably have to order in for food, have someone else tend to you, or eat food from a machine, otherwise you will starve. There's not enough time to leisurely sit down and eat at the 16 hour mark.
Set cookies to be purged when closing Firefox.
Use the built-in password manager to handle what persistant cookies are mainly useful for.
No doubt, and I'll add;
...or pay for the extra hardware needed to run embedded Windows over embedded Linux.
...or, if you decide that even embedded Linux is too heavy, your Linux app can be much more easily ported to one of the other open or propriatory *nix clones out there (*bsd, QNX, ...)^
In all seriousness, mineral oil is non-conductive and shouldn't eat away plastic. If the holes are sealed, the PC does not require alot of cooling, and there aren't any metal filings, it would work. Not the best solution, though IMNSHO.
I like the 'old PC for cheap' idea better; when it breaks, get a new one. The only modern suggestion I'd make is to use the workshop system as a display-only device; run the programs elsewhere and export the display to the workshop. PCs will work fine for quite a while even with metal filings and rat piss in them.
It isn't if you have a clue and the tech is even moderately stable. Your steps through the product should be scripted *BECAUSE* bad things happen with alpha products. If you test beforehand, and follow the !@$!@$ script, it's not going to bomb on you -- you've tested it!
Anyone who's given a demo -- even on a released product -- doesn't stray too far unless they are exceedingly confident of how well the program works.
While I agree, there's more to it than that. I'm constantly asked my opinion on what tech to buy, while my answer is ignored. The people who ask already have an answer, so they don't like mine...and buy what they want anyway. (Example: Everyone outside of business who I've installed Linux for has asked me -- none were talked into it.)
Case in point: My brother in law is a smart, frugle guy. Getting sick of his desk being dominated by a spare 17 inch tube Dell (Sony) monitor I gave him last year, he calls me up and asks if now is the time to buy a 17 inch flat screen. I told him 'Get a cheap monitor stand now, in 6 months get a real nice flat panel for less'.
He already made up his mind, though. Knowing I love tech he thought I'd agree with him. Guess what he did?
$2.57 to France? BAH! Try $0.30 or less. $0.18-0.14 is competitive according to a friend with family in France (he's in the US; Maryland).
True, though most non-geeks wouldn't know that.
Chapelle even mentioning Linux was a hoot...definately mainstream.
Fraud is theft. I even gave you dictionary quotes, so if you continue to argue otherwise ... well, I've never argued anyone into thinking they were wrong, so I don't think you'll change your mind either. Experience seems to be a better teacher.
If you're caught stealing outright, you probably will not get a fellony conviction. If you're caught commiting fraud, the chances you'll get a fellony mark are much higher.
The only way the economy works is if there is a level of trust. When that trust is removed -- and fraud is one of those ways -- you've just broken the relationship. People have to make up the difference. In fraud and theft the end results are damn similar; they are one and part of the same tree, blending together.
"A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain."
"To take (the property of another) without right or permission."
Seems like you're arguing shades of blue.
Online, sometimes it's simpler. The static pages for some store specials are usually generated days and weeks before the supplement goes out. Just browse to the current fliers, change the URL to match the likely date of the next flyer (or some other guessable key), and you know what is for sale without having to be sneaky.
Doesn't work with most DB generated pages, though it does occasionally.
Actually, I'm entirely serious. Consider Wikipedia. OSS documentation is not much different.
If one of the store's employees acting on the store's behalf entered the bike's barcode into the computers as a pack of gum, I'd agree. Screw'em; they should have treated the inventory system more seriouly. This, on a small scale, happens all the time. I catch this at the grocery store 1 out of 3 times, usually in my favor.
Yet, that's not the case we're talking about. In this case, someone who is not a store employee working on the store's behalf either swaps barcodes or intentionally places a barcode on a more expensive item. And, here's the important part, that person uses that new barcode to defraud the store; it's fraud; a very serious crime.
How about the "01101100 01100101 01100101 01110100" or "00110001 00110011 00110011 00110111"?
You can spend time on /. and not do it yourself?
That's just evil. I'll have to remember that one.