On our Program Engineering class we were told that when a coder group becomes over 4 person in size, it will need one person dedicated to its bureaucratic needs. ie. handle interoperating with other such sub-groups, handle general paperwork etc.
Even then, at most 60% of workers time (of that 4) will be real work, not interoperation with other members and subgroups.
I'd say that's pretty good estimate. When I did my work in a team of 1-2, I coded or actively worked on a solution 90% of time, when team size grew more and more time was 'wasted' communicating. (Communication also paid off as some solutions we came together to were way better than what was my first estimation of correct action).
Hundreds of mobile trucks are harder to take out, especially if the transmitter's not actually on the truck and each truck has several spare transmiters
As a trained 'communication guy' (wiremonkey) from Finnish Army I can tell you than on one of those trucks my expected life time in case of war will be 8min 32sec after antenna goes up.
I thought you guys were keen on challenges like this? Like bouncing signal off the Jupiter or finding correct frequency for auntie Tilly's golden teeth or something..
It's the flash piece-of-shit -plugin. Just use the click-to-play extension and it won't bother you again (unless you leave some flash game/site on for a long time).
Now if only I could find a way to close that "server did not respond" window
Haven't done it on Windows, but I think I'd use urllib to grab google.com page and if it threw up an exception that indicates failed connection then i'd do whatever you do to reconnect DSL.
To stay on topic, I'd say that you're correct that scripted management can be done on Windows too, it's just that it's so damn hard. Endless installing and associated rebooting, while on most unix' reasonable tools are installed by default.
Then there are user interface issues, I can't figure out how anyone can get anything done using only one desktop. Sure there are multiple desktop programs for windows too, but those that i've tried either crash or flicker worse than 8bit ISA video card.
I heard a rumor awhile back that the PS3 will be running a stripped down version of Linux,...
Eh? Stripped down Linux? It's just customized linux. eg. they have it ported to Cell and have some weird periphernalia supported (likely half-assed and builtin as contra to modules). It may be that they don't have X running (though in theory they could be running Xgl if PS3 is really such an OpenGl bunny) and use plain OpenGl to draw all applications (eg. dvd-player + other non-game content).
Actually Xgl may be not such a bad idea. Nokia liked GTK+ well enough to use it on 711, (with nice polished theme of course). Using ready made UI libraries would save a great amount of time in development.
From what I've heard Skype's best (and so far unique) feature is that it has very good firewall+NAT penetration tech. It is (and should be) hard to pierce various multilevel NAT's that IPv4 address hoarding has imposed on average users.
Nope. Identical twins have identical DNA (at least in the very beginning), but don't replay into same person.
On the other hand, DNA, as molecular structure is only very small part of the whole organism. Even so, there's not that much living organisms and so DNA 'collision' is not that likely to be encountered. There's also the problem of DNA being highly structured to persevere at all, some instances of DNA are impossible as creature would die.
on the topic of story, i'd estimate that it won't work as 'only' heater, it uses energy to split molecules and generate visible light, so not everything is transferred into infrared spectrum.
FWIW, my wife only ever wished to play Lucas Arts -styled adventure games. ie. Atlantis, Monkey Island I&II, DOTT, Sam'n'Max. She is willing to look while other play some platform games, but not 3D-shooters. AFAIK she doesn't look much when I play NWN either, though FF5/FF9 seemed to interest her from looking-me-play point of view.
My mother liked to play MarioBros 1 and 3 on NES. She hadn't had console for a long time, but I suspect she'd still like them. Oh yes, she liked Vexed and Bejeweled very much when she had Palm. I think she'd like adventure games too, but her english isn't good enough to play comfortably.
I too delete mail from spam folder on every occasion. My reason is to catch false positives as I've had some (russian+finnish mails). Removing spam regularly is only way to keep up with 'seen those' -level. (You could 'select all' and 'mark read', but with same work one could just delete them, which I do.)
Try broadening your mind, think big-scale, something like automatic cleaner, chemical washers, etc. I don't think you want to take your garments there and get them back with nimh traces because some fucktard forgot his ipod in the pocket and underpaid illegal immigrant didn't bother checking the pockets.
I know jack shit about this but I'll take my chances..
It could be because of tech used in cameras. Some CCD's can take image 'fast' (and as satellite is moving fast, shutter time must be very short) but cannot transfer data off-sensor fast enough. So they would need two sensors to launch at a slightly different time. These are also likely big sensors.
Insofar that I understand this, tilting same sensor wouldn't achieve much, as earth is far, far away below, and difference in angle wouldn't really accomplish much.
Because of this I don't think they get much 3D effect in other dimension than path of the satellite, cameras should be meters away from each other to make result visible. Yeah, I'm talking out of my ass here, this is slashdot.
They don't show ads on new, so they're not getting any of that now.
Now, if they could feed 'feeds' to gmail, they could show ads there. A first report of rss-feeds in gmail said that they sometimes show ads (annotated) amids feeds.
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I use mouse gestures all the time... in Firefox.
Yes, and so do I. However, I suggest trying them in Opera, the whole feeling and responsiveness is like from another planet. On firefox they're sluggish and lag, Opera responds now.
There's also bunch of other little things that matter. Like going back/forward in history with Z/X, fast tab-switching with 1/2. The whole F12 menu with possibility to turn plug-ins off.
And then there's 'space' which is 'smart-forward' and is a real life-saver with those image-dumps.
Unfortunately not everything is good, adblock is completely missing, and is sofar opera's biggest failure.
If you can live without Flash entirely, why not use the Don't-Install-Flash-In-The-First-Place extension?
Because there was some sorry bitch in mozilla.org that decided that it's good to tell me 1000 time with popup box that I don't have an plugin installed.
Yeah, now it's mitigated (yellow bar on top of page), but I still don't like that yellow thingie.
And.. sometimes you just have to have those buggers on.
One easy exmplanation is that defect rate goes exponential with bigger die size. So multiple cores will be simpler and have bigger chance of survival than a multiplethreaded core, even if latter takes less total space.
The first half-hour of using Tiger might be noticeably slower because Spotlight's indexing the entire hard drive.
After the one-time full indexing, files will be indexed as they're created on-the-fly.
Come-on. Even Beagle in its infancy knows not to crawl the HD too aggressively. Google Desktop Search doesn't do the aggressive thing either. So there's very little reason to assume that Apple would do the quick&stupid thing.
Also, afaik most kernel code tries hard not to use any math/vectorization coprocessor. In Linux RAID is supposedly MMX/SSE -accelerated and tries hard not to botch everything, but most other aren't.
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On our Program Engineering class we were told that when a coder group becomes over 4 person in size, it will need one person dedicated to its bureaucratic needs. ie. handle interoperating with other such sub-groups, handle general paperwork etc.
Even then, at most 60% of workers time (of that 4) will be real work, not interoperation with other members and subgroups.
I'd say that's pretty good estimate. When I did my work in a team of 1-2, I coded or actively worked on a solution 90% of time, when team size grew more and more time was 'wasted' communicating. (Communication also paid off as some solutions we came together to were way better than what was my first estimation of correct action).
Umm.. because they left all the good stuff out?
I can understand announcing 1st, 5th, 10th, 25th, or 50th but 7th???
Hundreds of mobile trucks are harder to take out, especially if the transmitter's not actually on the truck and each truck has several spare transmiters
As a trained 'communication guy' (wiremonkey) from Finnish Army I can tell you than on one of those trucks my expected life time in case of war will be 8min 32sec after antenna goes up.
I thought you guys were keen on challenges like this? Like bouncing signal off the Jupiter or finding correct frequency for auntie Tilly's golden teeth or something..
It's the flash piece-of-shit -plugin. Just use the click-to-play extension and it won't bother you again (unless you leave some flash game/site on for a long time).
Now if only I could find a way to close that "server did not respond" window
Haven't done it on Windows, but I think I'd use urllib to grab google.com page and if it threw up an exception that indicates failed connection then i'd do whatever you do to reconnect DSL.
To stay on topic, I'd say that you're correct that scripted management can be done on Windows too, it's just that it's so damn hard. Endless installing and associated rebooting, while on most unix' reasonable tools are installed by default.
Then there are user interface issues, I can't figure out how anyone can get anything done using only one desktop. Sure there are multiple desktop programs for windows too, but those that i've tried either crash or flicker worse than 8bit ISA video card.
I heard a rumor awhile back that the PS3 will be running a stripped down version of Linux, ...
Eh? Stripped down Linux? It's just customized linux. eg. they have it ported to Cell and have some weird periphernalia supported (likely half-assed and builtin as contra to modules). It may be that they don't have X running (though in theory they could be running Xgl if PS3 is really such an OpenGl bunny) and use plain OpenGl to draw all applications (eg. dvd-player + other non-game content).
Actually Xgl may be not such a bad idea. Nokia liked GTK+ well enough to use it on 711, (with nice polished theme of course). Using ready made UI libraries would save a great amount of time in development.
Of course, China may just want to avoid a tragedy similar to the recent South Korean man's death covered on Slashdot.
That's not a tragedy, it's natural selection at work.
From what I've heard Skype's best (and so far unique) feature is that it has very good firewall+NAT penetration tech. It is (and should be) hard to pierce various multilevel NAT's that IPv4 address hoarding has imposed on average users.
Nope. Identical twins have identical DNA (at least in the very beginning), but don't replay into same person.
On the other hand, DNA, as molecular structure is only very small part of the whole organism. Even so, there's not that much living organisms and so DNA 'collision' is not that likely to be encountered. There's also the problem of DNA being highly structured to persevere at all, some instances of DNA are impossible as creature would die.
So are speeds in excess of 80-100km/h ;)
Sauna may feel a bit uncomfortable after first few minutes, but then you get used to it and staying for a longer while isn't that difficult.
wikipedia on finnish sauna.
on the topic of story, i'd estimate that it won't work as 'only' heater, it uses energy to split molecules and generate visible light, so not everything is transferred into infrared spectrum.
FWIW, Finnish electric sauna takes about 8kW/h. This usually means 8-16m^3 at 80-100C. (look for saunakiuas)
FWIW, my wife only ever wished to play Lucas Arts -styled adventure games. ie. Atlantis, Monkey Island I&II, DOTT, Sam'n'Max. She is willing to look while other play some platform games, but not 3D-shooters. AFAIK she doesn't look much when I play NWN either, though FF5/FF9 seemed to interest her from looking-me-play point of view.
My mother liked to play MarioBros 1 and 3 on NES. She hadn't had console for a long time, but I suspect she'd still like them. Oh yes, she liked Vexed and Bejeweled very much when she had Palm. I think she'd like adventure games too, but her english isn't good enough to play comfortably.
I have never had to do any regular maintenance on any appliance I have ever owned, nor have they ever needed it. The simply work.
That's all 'maintenance' and have-to-learn things.
I too delete mail from spam folder on every occasion. My reason is to catch false positives as I've had some (russian+finnish mails). Removing spam regularly is only way to keep up with 'seen those' -level. (You could 'select all' and 'mark read', but with same work one could just delete them, which I do.)
Try broadening your mind, think big-scale, something like automatic cleaner, chemical washers, etc. I don't think you want to take your garments there and get them back with nimh traces because some fucktard forgot his ipod in the pocket and underpaid illegal immigrant didn't bother checking the pockets.
I think this is where RFID could help a LOT. There's just no reason for electronics class device to be inside a washing machine.
I know jack shit about this but I'll take my chances..
It could be because of tech used in cameras. Some CCD's can take image 'fast' (and as satellite is moving fast, shutter time must be very short) but cannot transfer data off-sensor fast enough. So they would need two sensors to launch at a slightly different time. These are also likely big sensors.
Insofar that I understand this, tilting same sensor wouldn't achieve much, as earth is far, far away below, and difference in angle wouldn't really accomplish much.
Because of this I don't think they get much 3D effect in other dimension than path of the satellite, cameras should be meters away from each other to make result visible. Yeah, I'm talking out of my ass here, this is slashdot.
They don't show ads on new, so they're not getting any of that now.
Now, if they could feed 'feeds' to gmail, they could show ads there. A first report of rss-feeds in gmail said that they sometimes show ads (annotated) amids feeds.
I use mouse gestures all the time... in Firefox.
Yes, and so do I. However, I suggest trying them in Opera, the whole feeling and responsiveness is like from another planet. On firefox they're sluggish and lag, Opera responds now.
There's also bunch of other little things that matter. Like going back/forward in history with Z/X, fast tab-switching with 1/2. The whole F12 menu with possibility to turn plug-ins off.
And then there's 'space' which is 'smart-forward' and is a real life-saver with those image-dumps.
Unfortunately not everything is good, adblock is completely missing, and is sofar opera's biggest failure.
If you can live without Flash entirely, why not use the Don't-Install-Flash-In-The-First-Place extension?
Because there was some sorry bitch in mozilla.org that decided that it's good to tell me 1000 time with popup box that I don't have an plugin installed.
Yeah, now it's mitigated (yellow bar on top of page), but I still don't like that yellow thingie.
And.. sometimes you just have to have those buggers on.
One easy exmplanation is that defect rate goes exponential with bigger die size. So multiple cores will be simpler and have bigger chance of survival than a multiplethreaded core, even if latter takes less total space.
The first half-hour of using Tiger might be noticeably slower because Spotlight's indexing the entire hard drive. After the one-time full indexing, files will be indexed as they're created on-the-fly.
Come-on. Even Beagle in its infancy knows not to crawl the HD too aggressively. Google Desktop Search doesn't do the aggressive thing either. So there's very little reason to assume that Apple would do the quick&stupid thing.
Also, afaik most kernel code tries hard not to use any math/vectorization coprocessor. In Linux RAID is supposedly MMX/SSE -accelerated and tries hard not to botch everything, but most other aren't.