IMHO, testing ought to be done by the vendor and calibration ought to be done by cognizant, technical individuals who have a minor amount of ethics. For a test person to fill in "sample data" is evidence that (a) these things don't work, or (b) the test person was either incompetent or unethical (and neither of these is acceptable in an industry related to the security of the public like law enforcement).
When having disposable income becomes as admirable as hard work, something is wrong from my leftist point of view.
Presumably the player with more disposable income is creating something that's worth considerably more in the real world than the person putting many hours of "hard work" into a video game. Both are admirable. In this case, the person who is seemingly worth more in the real world is potentially subsidizing the gaming experience for the real gamer. I think that's a good thing. What's more... I'd rather have video game companies sell-out to "non-gamers" who want the gaming experience than to advertisers who want your eyeballs to pay the bills. At the end of the day, if making video games doesn't pay the bills there will be fewer people making video games. So... while it doesn't suit my tastes, the fact that the "fremiuim" model works is a good thing.
If you are lazy, you can pay. If you don't want to pay, you can work a little for it. Sounds good to me!
Sounds like: If you want a challenge, you can play the game. If you just want to get through the game, you can pay.
It does seem perfectly rational that there are people who get enjoyment from doing it the hard (time consuming) way and other people who get just as much enjoyment out of doing it the easy (expedited) way.
When electronic calculators started surfacing back in the 1960's/1970's, students stop memorizing the multiplication tables
False. I was in 4th grade in 1992. We were forced to memorize our multiplication tables up to 12x12.
Used to be that we know the address of a friend of ours
False. Rolodex was invented in 1956. Also, knowledge of addresses is more a factor of living in tight, geographically close locations. The geographical distribution of the modern "civilized" world is much to broad for actual addresses. Knowing which highways to take to get from place to place is much more useful. During previous centuries, there were few roads and the choices of how to get from one city to another were few. During previous centuries, you probably would rarely make visits to addresses that was 10 miles away from where you lived. So now, you know, you need to keep a rolodex for extended friends and family.
I *own* a Droid. All I do with it these days is use it to play Pandora over a Wifi connection. The "phone" network refuses to talk to it because I "upgraded" to a "simple phone" a few months ago since $30/month got to be too much to pay for access to the Verizon data-network. My wife owns a Droid (also "wifi-only") and a Galaxy Nexus (paid data-network access).
Between the 2 of us, we're probably counted as 3 smartphone owners for the purposes of the "survey" instead of the more-correct-count which would be 1 out of 2.
You can't have both privacy and accountability over the Internet. You need accountability to ensure that votes are counted correctly and that nobody votes more than once. You need privacy because people have to be able to feel safe voting against individuals or groups who have the means to assert unlawful control over a particular jurisdiction. I can't see how you could ensure both privacy and accountability through purely electronic means.
Simple example: I could easily commit fraud by submitting a vote for my wife if I knew she hadn't voted yet. Complex example: I could hack the voter database with ten minutes until the polls close... find out everybody who hadn't already voted... and use a botnet to cast their votes a particular way. Slightly less Complex example: I could use a botnet to cast everybody's vote a particular way within the first 17 seconds of the polls opening -- Election Over... Landslide Victory for Kodos!
Unless I'm mistaken, the system you describe REQUIRES a Wifi network to operate as a Phone. I want a Phone that has an added Wifi (when it's available) data connection. Big difference. One can get calls ALL THE TIME. One only gets calls when the Wifi network is present. Unless I'm mistaken (which is entirely possible).
You mean give the customer what they want? Seriously, I would love to have a Wifi-only Smartphone that can't access a 3G Data network. Though, FFS, $30/month for a data plan ought to be enough for them to beef up their goddamned network. Where is all that money going?
trend of companies giving coupons out and requiring you to LIKE them
I actually don't come across this except from my one Facebook Friend who owns his own small business. Every week or so his company offers some new "Like this to Enter a Contest" offer. I avoid them, but I respect that this behavior is a GOOD way for little people to create word-of-mouth advertizing for their products. OTOH, I've seen huge companies who doing the same thing. I guess I have no specific problem with that either... because ads like those let me know that those companies DON'T GET SOCIAL MEDIA plain and simply. Que sera sera.
Could a professor put questions on the test that he or she knows aren't easily solved by using the Internet? Though, the effort to find these sorts of questions might be more trouble than it's worth. Also, some subject require memorization. As an engineer, I have little need to know where Darfur is... but a political scientist better not need to Google that information so if a search engine is allowed a much deeper question must be asked.
If you "Like" something on Facebook, Facebook has every right to let your Facebook Friends know you liked that thing. This is crazy to say this specific thing is a privacy invasion. Don't "Like" things that you don't want your Friends knowing you like!
Power cycling becomes an option when redundancy is part of the design. If there are 2, 3, or 4 computers doing the same calculations it decreases the likelihood that a hardware problem will compromise the mission.
In my experience... hardware problems are acceptable if there's a software work-around. Special acknowledgement isn't given to software for fixing hardware bugs... it's just expected since hardware is arguably more expensive to change.
7) Develop methods to test the products you're developing so that each release can be painlessly tested.
8) When new faults develop, add new tests that will repeat them before fixing the code... then fix the code.
9) Consciously sort your testing into two bins... ones to run for every release and ones to run for every major release.
10) Ensure that 3 or 4 peers have had the opportunity to review the code you've written*.
11) Go out to lunch with your team. Learn their interests. Learn their spouses names.
* This is very much an organizational thing that may or may not be hoisted on you. If it isn't hoisted on you, find out if there is a reason why you aren't doing code reviews at your organization. Code reviews find faults that testing misses (and vice versa) but, more importantly, code reviews find code that isn't maintainable and forces you to name your variables better and comment better (i.e. the common issue, "I'm not sure what this function is supposed to be doing").
Another nickel... this time spelled correctly. And more wishes of luck.
Distinguished packaging... discs then can be "copied and resold without loss of features" versus "exclusive use licenses" would be fine with me as long as they are priced accordingly. There is a parallel here in the "bulk foods" market where it isn't uncommon for items to be labeled "Not for Resale". This theoretically prevents a retailer from buying boxes with lots of individual products for the discount rate and reselling the individual products for a normal rate. Though... to my knowledge nobody has ever been prosecuted for reselling something labeled "Not for Resale"... so this might not be a good analogy.
The Death Star wasn't technically a moon, but it served the same purpose. Are we suggesting that the Republicans was to build a Death Star because that would be awesome. So many jobs in the "Space Construction" industry will need to be created for this "giant laser". That's a good thing.
At least, not the people old enough to have jobs to waste on 3D crap.
Hey... I've had a 3D TV and PS3 for almost a year and still haven't "used" the feature. I'm offended that your implying people who have the money to waste of 3D crap care about it. Frankly, I'm interested in it for the novelty of it... but content creators have put virtually no money behind any respectable 3D games or movies that I've actually wanted to experience (with the possible exception of Avatar... which I saw in a non-3D theater because paying the extra $3 to see it in the 3D theater didn't seem worth it).
When content creators start caring... maybe people with the money to waste of 3D crap will start caring.
Be honest, though, Sony's competition in the console video game market is Microsoft. It's a lesser of two evils decision... and since Microsoft and Sony are both working quite hard to be slightly less evil than the other -- the end user is backed into a corner.
If you don't have a theory that's related to your study, just post your data and spare us your fantasies.
Posting datasets and the theories that do NOT fit is also valid... though the publication should note that it's main purpose is to get the data out there and show that some work was done to "figure out" the data but no conclusions were drawn.
After seeing these filings I can't help but note the irony (and hubris) of a company choosing to name itself Oracle when it seems to be incapable of "giving wise or authoritative decisions or opinions."
After watching Super Size-Me, it's not too much of a stretch to think of McDonald's as either a drug or a poison because of the supposed addictive qualities of deliciously-unhealthy food combined with the argument that too much makes you obese.
That said, three meals a day at a gourmet restaurant everyday for a month might not be as bad for your body, but your pocketbook would be suffering. So if your definition of "food" excludes things that are not sustainable week-to-week then neither McDonalds, nor gourmet restaurants fit the bill.:)
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IMHO, testing ought to be done by the vendor and calibration ought to be done by cognizant, technical individuals who have a minor amount of ethics. For a test person to fill in "sample data" is evidence that (a) these things don't work, or (b) the test person was either incompetent or unethical (and neither of these is acceptable in an industry related to the security of the public like law enforcement).
When having disposable income becomes as admirable as hard work, something is wrong from my leftist point of view.
Presumably the player with more disposable income is creating something that's worth considerably more in the real world than the person putting many hours of "hard work" into a video game. Both are admirable. In this case, the person who is seemingly worth more in the real world is potentially subsidizing the gaming experience for the real gamer. I think that's a good thing. What's more... I'd rather have video game companies sell-out to "non-gamers" who want the gaming experience than to advertisers who want your eyeballs to pay the bills. At the end of the day, if making video games doesn't pay the bills there will be fewer people making video games. So... while it doesn't suit my tastes, the fact that the "fremiuim" model works is a good thing.
If you are lazy, you can pay. If you don't want to pay, you can work a little for it. Sounds good to me!
Sounds like: If you want a challenge, you can play the game. If you just want to get through the game, you can pay.
It does seem perfectly rational that there are people who get enjoyment from doing it the hard (time consuming) way and other people who get just as much enjoyment out of doing it the easy (expedited) way.
Any suggestions of a couple of "simple games" that are available as source would be warmly welcomed!
When electronic calculators started surfacing back in the 1960's/1970's, students stop memorizing the multiplication tables
False. I was in 4th grade in 1992. We were forced to memorize our multiplication tables up to 12x12.
Used to be that we know the address of a friend of ours
False. Rolodex was invented in 1956. Also, knowledge of addresses is more a factor of living in tight, geographically close locations. The geographical distribution of the modern "civilized" world is much to broad for actual addresses. Knowing which highways to take to get from place to place is much more useful. During previous centuries, there were few roads and the choices of how to get from one city to another were few. During previous centuries, you probably would rarely make visits to addresses that was 10 miles away from where you lived. So now, you know, you need to keep a rolodex for extended friends and family.
I *own* a Droid. All I do with it these days is use it to play Pandora over a Wifi connection. The "phone" network refuses to talk to it because I "upgraded" to a "simple phone" a few months ago since $30/month got to be too much to pay for access to the Verizon data-network. My wife owns a Droid (also "wifi-only") and a Galaxy Nexus (paid data-network access).
Between the 2 of us, we're probably counted as 3 smartphone owners for the purposes of the "survey" instead of the more-correct-count which would be 1 out of 2.
You can't have both privacy and accountability over the Internet. You need accountability to ensure that votes are counted correctly and that nobody votes more than once. You need privacy because people have to be able to feel safe voting against individuals or groups who have the means to assert unlawful control over a particular jurisdiction. I can't see how you could ensure both privacy and accountability through purely electronic means.
Simple example: I could easily commit fraud by submitting a vote for my wife if I knew she hadn't voted yet. Complex example: I could hack the voter database with ten minutes until the polls close... find out everybody who hadn't already voted... and use a botnet to cast their votes a particular way. Slightly less Complex example: I could use a botnet to cast everybody's vote a particular way within the first 17 seconds of the polls opening -- Election Over... Landslide Victory for Kodos!
Unless I'm mistaken, the system you describe REQUIRES a Wifi network to operate as a Phone. I want a Phone that has an added Wifi (when it's available) data connection. Big difference. One can get calls ALL THE TIME. One only gets calls when the Wifi network is present. Unless I'm mistaken (which is entirely possible).
So let them have the cheaper plans if they want.
You mean give the customer what they want? Seriously, I would love to have a Wifi-only Smartphone that can't access a 3G Data network. Though, FFS, $30/month for a data plan ought to be enough for them to beef up their goddamned network. Where is all that money going?
trend of companies giving coupons out and requiring you to LIKE them
I actually don't come across this except from my one Facebook Friend who owns his own small business. Every week or so his company offers some new "Like this to Enter a Contest" offer. I avoid them, but I respect that this behavior is a GOOD way for little people to create word-of-mouth advertizing for their products. OTOH, I've seen huge companies who doing the same thing. I guess I have no specific problem with that either... because ads like those let me know that those companies DON'T GET SOCIAL MEDIA plain and simply. Que sera sera.
Could a professor put questions on the test that he or she knows aren't easily solved by using the Internet? Though, the effort to find these sorts of questions might be more trouble than it's worth. Also, some subject require memorization. As an engineer, I have little need to know where Darfur is... but a political scientist better not need to Google that information so if a search engine is allowed a much deeper question must be asked.
If you "Like" something on Facebook, Facebook has every right to let your Facebook Friends know you liked that thing. This is crazy to say this specific thing is a privacy invasion. Don't "Like" things that you don't want your Friends knowing you like!
power cycling in not an option
Power cycling becomes an option when redundancy is part of the design. If there are 2, 3, or 4 computers doing the same calculations it decreases the likelihood that a hardware problem will compromise the mission.
In my experience... hardware problems are acceptable if there's a software work-around. Special acknowledgement isn't given to software for fixing hardware bugs... it's just expected since hardware is arguably more expensive to change.
It's a trap!
7) Develop methods to test the products you're developing so that each release can be painlessly tested.
8) When new faults develop, add new tests that will repeat them before fixing the code... then fix the code.
9) Consciously sort your testing into two bins... ones to run for every release and ones to run for every major release.
10) Ensure that 3 or 4 peers have had the opportunity to review the code you've written*.
11) Go out to lunch with your team. Learn their interests. Learn their spouses names.
* This is very much an organizational thing that may or may not be hoisted on you. If it isn't hoisted on you, find out if there is a reason why you aren't doing code reviews at your organization. Code reviews find faults that testing misses (and vice versa) but, more importantly, code reviews find code that isn't maintainable and forces you to name your variables better and comment better (i.e. the common issue, "I'm not sure what this function is supposed to be doing").
Another nickel... this time spelled correctly. And more wishes of luck.
Distinguished packaging... discs then can be "copied and resold without loss of features" versus "exclusive use licenses" would be fine with me as long as they are priced accordingly. There is a parallel here in the "bulk foods" market where it isn't uncommon for items to be labeled "Not for Resale". This theoretically prevents a retailer from buying boxes with lots of individual products for the discount rate and reselling the individual products for a normal rate. Though... to my knowledge nobody has ever been prosecuted for reselling something labeled "Not for Resale"... so this might not be a good analogy.
The Death Star wasn't technically a moon, but it served the same purpose. Are we suggesting that the Republicans was to build a Death Star because that would be awesome. So many jobs in the "Space Construction" industry will need to be created for this "giant laser". That's a good thing.
At least, not the people old enough to have jobs to waste on 3D crap.
Hey... I've had a 3D TV and PS3 for almost a year and still haven't "used" the feature. I'm offended that your implying people who have the money to waste of 3D crap care about it. Frankly, I'm interested in it for the novelty of it... but content creators have put virtually no money behind any respectable 3D games or movies that I've actually wanted to experience (with the possible exception of Avatar... which I saw in a non-3D theater because paying the extra $3 to see it in the 3D theater didn't seem worth it).
When content creators start caring... maybe people with the money to waste of 3D crap will start caring.
I will never trust Sony again.
Be honest, though, Sony's competition in the console video game market is Microsoft. It's a lesser of two evils decision... and since Microsoft and Sony are both working quite hard to be slightly less evil than the other -- the end user is backed into a corner.
If you don't have a theory that's related to your study, just post your data and spare us your fantasies.
Posting datasets and the theories that do NOT fit is also valid... though the publication should note that it's main purpose is to get the data out there and show that some work was done to "figure out" the data but no conclusions were drawn.
the joys of integration or release management
I do not believe that word means what you think it means.
From TFA:
After seeing these filings I can't help but note the irony (and hubris) of a company choosing to name itself Oracle when it seems to be incapable of "giving wise or authoritative decisions or opinions."
Is Groklaw usually this funny?
After watching Super Size-Me, it's not too much of a stretch to think of McDonald's as either a drug or a poison because of the supposed addictive qualities of deliciously-unhealthy food combined with the argument that too much makes you obese.
That said, three meals a day at a gourmet restaurant everyday for a month might not be as bad for your body, but your pocketbook would be suffering. So if your definition of "food" excludes things that are not sustainable week-to-week then neither McDonalds, nor gourmet restaurants fit the bill. :)
I'm not sure how much NASA does in-house. I assume a whole bunch of the interesting bits are done by contractors and are ITAR restricted.