You do realize you just said that one programmer, working 40 hour weeks, couldn't accomplish the task in 5 years?
Yes. No doubt. It would probably take one programmer several months of time just to create a decent version of CGI.pm . Maybe I underestimated the hours, maybe it should be around 35,400.
I used to know a contractor that sounds like you... He personally went through and edited "Two Thousand Five Hundred" HTML files instead of running a parser on them and expected to be praised for his work.
I used to know, and still know, dozens of contractor's like you. You are the type of contractor that estimates you can do anything in one weeks time. Then you have to keep pushing back your deadlines until the entire project goes under.
I've contracted for multiple fortune 100 companies and personally installed 1000's (literally) of GPL'd modules onto their server machines. Those modules are all critical components of their mission critical software. It would have cost tens of thousands of hours to make the software function without the GPL'd software. But you know what? These companies don't have a clue what GPL even means. As far as they are concerned, the GPL software is just free.
I'm imagining the enemy hacking into the system...
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Mood-Sensing Computer
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· Score: 4, Funny
Enemy hacks in and watches the moods of our combatants:
Enemy Underling:Sir, the allied forces are very nervous, should we attack? Enemy Commander:Not yet. Enemy Underling:Sir, the allied forces are extremely pissed off, should we attack? Enemy Commander:Not yet. Enemy Underling:Sir, the allied forces are extremely happy and some appear inebriated, should we attack? Enemy Commander:ATTTTTAAAACK!!!!
Ok. So I need to delete all of the data on my hard drive at least 7 times before it is *really* deleted, and now I need to pulverize all real life garbage just to make sure the cops (or reporters, or neighbors) don't use it as evidence? Jeesh.
When I try to watch it on my DVD in 10 years,
all I'll get is the first couple chapters, and then the DVD will completely freeze (if I even have a DVD player, which is doubtful).
I didn't have a clue what serial ATA was (I'm not a hardware person), so I did a search and found
The Serial ATA Working Group web site. That site has an interesting picture showing the difference in cables between parallel and serial cables here.
The benefit (with the smaller cables), is that it is easier to maneuver the drives in PC cases. Other benefits of serial ATA are discussed at the web site.
Of course they were. The subjects are always extremely enthusiastic about new things they've never seen before. I would have a better chance of believing the paper if they would have had a few "extremely UNenthusiastic"s thrown in. As the paper stands, everyone liked pretty much everything that was thrown at them. That is BOGUS.
I thought this article was going to be about
shameful "names" of video games. That's what the description led me to believe. I immediately
thought of "Pucman". "Pucman" was "Pacman"s original title. Some clever American exec's figured out that it would be too easy for vandal's to scribble out part of the "P" for hilarious results. That would'a been the most shameful video game title of all time.
With apologies to those that have already looked at the place in my.sig... you can find your sex here, but there is no nudity: your sex.
And the parent's post's.sig was almost relavent. If only it said "Beware of all enterprises that require *no* clothes.".
Hardback, Paperback, and now...
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First comes hardback, and if the book is successful enough, they'll release a paperback version. And now, if a paperback is successful enough, they'll release the plastic-back. Sounds like a good idea to me.
In most cases, there probably isn't a good ROI on releasing the "plastic-back"s. But these types of books might work well:
The Bathroom reader series.
Kid's books.
Reference books (that have a lot of regular use).
Porn (duh). And if you could stretch the porn, that could be interesting.
Why do manufacturers think people want to run MS-Windows on a teeny-tiny screen? I think they'd be better off adding the cell-phone functionality to the Tablet-PC, then they are adding Microsoft-technology to a cell phone.
On some levels, Linux is better, but from most perspectives it is summarized as "not quite as good but a lot cheaper."
... Believe me, buddy. I wouldn't be using linux right now if it wasn't quite as good as Windows. Windows came with this computer, and I'm not using it. That isn't because I'm some kind of linux religious freak. It's because I'm more productive on a linux box.
... Yet we get the same old command line and WIMP (windows, icons, mouse, and pointer) interfaces in Linux.
The same old command line? Somebody go tell this guy that linux (or any unix variant) doesn't have the same old command line as Windows. It's so obvious that they are different that I'm not going to type about it anymore
I'm getting the feeling that linux and windows are the same because they both run on computers. So they must be the same, right?
I don't think there is any relation. Sure, both are currently on the rise, but there is no direct cause and effect. We have unemployment right now because of 9/11, GWB, Republicans, Democrats, the Tech Bubble, Overinflated Stocks, and Strawberry Shortcake Returning. Ok, the last item is just a coincidence (the others are not coincidence:)).
So why is blogging popular? I think it's the latest "not it your face" communication. First was snail mail, then came the phone, then e-mail, and IM. Whenever I communicate with you using one of those methods, I assume that *you* must be interested. But the problem is, how do I know if you are interested about a particular topic that I may want to rant about? I could just spam you with every idea in my head... or I can start a blog. A blog is an extremely passive communication system. If you are interested, just come on back and read my rants. If you are not interested, just don't come back.
Unemployment will come and go. And blogging? Well... the time for blogging has just come. It's the next step.
If you use any of the peer-to-peer file services listed below without disabling the file sharing option, the entire Internet can access the files on your hard drive.
If they would have said "some files", or even just "files", then that would have been more truthful. "the files" means the same as "all files".
Ok. I sent the guy 50 bucks, he sent me the
URL and then I go to the web site and wait for "my turn". I hit reload every once and a while and it still tells me it's not my turn. After about 15 hours, the computer beeps at me and says: "She's all yers buddy, you get the controls for 60 minutes. Starting NOW"! But by then it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon!
How in the world can they fight this? They
are really going to need to invest some money in their legal department, now. They may need to increase their number of lawyers from 2 to 3.
The problem with Kazaa-Lite is that when you are installing it, it says: "This software is illegal". No joke. If you install the software and use it, then you are breaking the law.
I'm not sure where you got that idea. There is no connection, whatsoever, to my knowledge. Here is a comparison page provided by the Perforce folks: comparison chart.
Something that is great about Subversion
is that it has atomic checkins. That
means if something goes wrong while
you are checking in a file, then your
checkin is rolled back. That is
super-handy, and brings it up to par
with Perforce (a commercial revision control system
that I've used in the past).
If something goes wrong during a CVS checkin, then all hell can break loose.
Dude. I went there looking for the goatse.cx link, and all i found was the google cache of the
page mentioned in the summary. MOD THE PARENT
DOWN. The parent said it was a goatse.cx link and it isn't:(.
Slashdot Mirror
This is much better than the latest Star Trek movie. And I bet it'll even be more profitable!
Yes. No doubt. It would probably take one programmer several months of time just to create a decent version of CGI.pm . Maybe I underestimated the hours, maybe it should be around 35,400.
I used to know a contractor that sounds like you... He personally went through and edited "Two Thousand Five Hundred" HTML files instead of running a parser on them and expected to be praised for his work.
I used to know, and still know, dozens of contractor's like you. You are the type of contractor that estimates you can do anything in one weeks time. Then you have to keep pushing back your deadlines until the entire project goes under.
I've contracted for multiple fortune 100 companies and personally installed 1000's (literally) of GPL'd modules onto their server machines. Those modules are all critical components of their mission critical software. It would have cost tens of thousands of hours to make the software function without the GPL'd software. But you know what? These companies don't have a clue what GPL even means. As far as they are concerned, the GPL software is just free.
Ok. So I need to delete all of the data on my hard drive at least 7 times before it is *really* deleted, and now I need to pulverize all real life garbage just to make sure the cops (or reporters, or neighbors) don't use it as evidence? Jeesh.
+1 Redundant
When I try to watch it on my DVD in 10 years, all I'll get is the first couple chapters, and then the DVD will completely freeze (if I even have a DVD player, which is doubtful).
I didn't have a clue what serial ATA was (I'm not a hardware person), so I did a search and found The Serial ATA Working Group web site. That site has an interesting picture showing the difference in cables between parallel and serial cables here . The benefit (with the smaller cables), is that it is easier to maneuver the drives in PC cases. Other benefits of serial ATA are discussed at the web site.
Of course they were. The subjects are always extremely enthusiastic about new things they've never seen before. I would have a better chance of believing the paper if they would have had a few "extremely UNenthusiastic"s thrown in. As the paper stands, everyone liked pretty much everything that was thrown at them. That is BOGUS.
I thought this article was going to be about shameful "names" of video games. That's what the description led me to believe. I immediately thought of "Pucman". "Pucman" was "Pacman"s original title. Some clever American exec's figured out that it would be too easy for vandal's to scribble out part of the "P" for hilarious results. That would'a been the most shameful video game title of all time.
And the parent's post's .sig was almost relavent. If only it said "Beware of all enterprises that require *no* clothes.".
In most cases, there probably isn't a good ROI on releasing the "plastic-back"s. But these types of books might work well:
I neither agree or disagree with that statement. But Microsoft sure does dominans the hot gritz.
Why do manufacturers think people want to run MS-Windows on a teeny-tiny screen? I think they'd be better off adding the cell-phone functionality to the Tablet-PC, then they are adding Microsoft-technology to a cell phone.
... Believe me, buddy. I wouldn't be using linux right now if it wasn't quite as good as Windows. Windows came with this computer, and I'm not using it. That isn't because I'm some kind of linux religious freak. It's because I'm more productive on a linux box.
The same old command line? Somebody go tell this guy that linux (or any unix variant) doesn't have the same old command line as Windows. It's so obvious that they are different that I'm not going to type about it anymore
I'm getting the feeling that linux and windows are the same because they both run on computers. So they must be the same, right?
So why is blogging popular? I think it's the latest "not it your face" communication. First was snail mail, then came the phone, then e-mail, and IM. Whenever I communicate with you using one of those methods, I assume that *you* must be interested. But the problem is, how do I know if you are interested about a particular topic that I may want to rant about? I could just spam you with every idea in my head... or I can start a blog. A blog is an extremely passive communication system. If you are interested, just come on back and read my rants. If you are not interested, just don't come back.
Unemployment will come and go. And blogging? Well... the time for blogging has just come. It's the next step.
If they would have said "some files", or even just "files", then that would have been more truthful. "the files" means the same as "all files".
just kidding
For that type of data, I would imagine that the reduced bandwidth will be just fine.
How in the world can they fight this? They are really going to need to invest some money in their legal department, now. They may need to increase their number of lawyers from 2 to 3.
The problem with Kazaa-Lite is that when you are installing it, it says: "This software is illegal". No joke. If you install the software and use it, then you are breaking the law.
I'm not sure where you got that idea. There is no connection, whatsoever, to my knowledge. Here is a comparison page provided by the Perforce folks: comparison chart.
If something goes wrong during a CVS checkin, then all hell can break loose.
Shame on you, moderators.