And you won't have to keep patching it, would you? Of course that would mean spending money and time up front, rather than being able to hide the costs of the continuous maintenance cycles.
It would also mean forcing more programers to do their jobs right, and more managers to learn what they're doing as well (And that code doesn't fix itself because you lit a candle for it the night before).
Brillant Satire? Hardly, he obviously didn't understand the book, and just as obviously sees facism under his pillow.
Notice he made Rico a blond blue eyed WASP, instead of the Fillipino he was supposed to be. He made the soldiers out to be pretty much idiots, rather than highly trained specialists.
The only thing that came thru in this movie about the director is that he hates the military and spared no opportunity to ridicule it and its members.
Actually the LEM did not entirely disintegrate, a former boss of mine had a piece of it (set in lucite). I would not be surprised to find out that the RTG was recovered too.
No, everyone is worried about terrorists running around and blowing everything up. Carry a gun, then you won't be afriad of anything. You also won't be afraid to go up to that guy digging a hole and asking 'what the H*ll are you up to?'
And for those of you who are going to reply 'but then the terrorists will be armed too', I'll just say that if you see a bunch of armed men digging a hole -Call the Police-.
It's not really that big a deal, people HAVE to know where the wires are, where the pipelines are, etc, so they DON'T DIG INTO THEM AND DIE!
Ever see a gas pipe explosion because someone dug in the wrong spot and the crew burned to death? Or how about a town losing all of it's emergency and other communication because a cable got accidentally cut?
We have a 2nd amendment for a reason. Try using it and stop living in fear.
Ny Girlfriend is a best selling author for a major publishing house. Sells out the first print run. It takes her about one YEAR to write a book. She makes less than 20K a year.
No one gets paid worse than writers. Especially not when you break it down by the hours invested. All musicians who are willing to play clubs make more, hell even a halfway decent 'Fan Artist' at cons makes more money.
Gee, 100K to 300K a year umps. Of course everyone else out there on the field is making 3 million to 300 million or more. Hard to feel like the umps are being overpaid.
So why not robotic players? Lets get people totally out of the game.
Actually, Niven didn't have a legal leg to stand on. Remember Copyright law allow's parody among other things.
However, I seem to recall that there was an agreement between Niven and Elf to pull the story from the internet on the contingency that Niven never speak of it again. Niven reneged when he blasted Elf in that book's editorial section, so Elf reposted the story. Notice the story is still there. (What's also funny is that Niven and Elf have several friends in common.)
Last of all, someone I knew (who sadly was murdered by some gangbangers in LA in a case of mistaken identity) wrote a story based on Niven's work sent it to Niven and asked for Niven's opinion, etc. Niven basically crushed him. Told him not to write in his world, etc, and wouldn't give him any help or pointers. Niven even made fun of this person (not by name) in one of his editorial sections (Same one he blasted Elf in, if I recall properly).
I lost all respect for Niven when I heard about that. He could have let the guy down gently and offered some constructive criticisms. Maybe encouraged him to keep trying, though on a different track. Making comments about it however in his editoral was pretty low.
All extreme programming does is hide your mistakes cause you write the code to pass the test case, but nothing else.
I've been doing test and QA longer than any of you have been doing programming (or the guy who wrote the book) and before that I was programming and designing circuits.
Reading the comments it's clear that most of you don't really know how to write code, you just hack on it till you think you have something that works and leave the problems to be patched by others after the release.
Coding is easy, ANYBODY can do it. Designing and planning are hard. Not a single line of code should ever be written until the ENTIRE design has been laid out and planned. People who feel they have to code before the product has been defined and designed always code in hundreds of bugs and errors. Letting your coders do all your own testing of course never finds the mistakes either. After all, if you could see the mistake would you code it in the first place? Of course not.
All these 'programming fads' are just that, fads. They won't deliver the goods. The way to do software projects was laid out over a decade ago, if companies would just FOLLOW THEM, we wouldn't see so much buggy crap turned out by companies.
Actually the President gets billed for these, and has to pay for them (or his party does). Of course it doesn't always happen that way, but it usually does. (I forget when they started cracking down on this, think it was the 60's).
Oh? Toyota doesn't do this, and they will sue you if you try and make your own machine to read the codes.
On the other hand GM released their codes and some guy wrote a nifty program (WinADLD) that allows you to hook right up to the computer for the cost of a home made cable (about a buck).
The Space effort in this country was killed in the 60's, before we even got to the Moon, by policians who wanted to spend the money on welfare where it could buy them more votes. A rather revealing book was just published on this subject. If it wasn't for the momentum already achieved, they probably would have cut it all before we even got to the Moon! As it was they cut a bunch of Apollo missions, and any real follow on efforts. The -only- way the space race will pick back up here is if politicians believe it will win them more votes then welfare, or if some private company picks it up. Otherwise, you can pretty much forget it.
Anythin gyou put over the airwaves is gonna get hacked sooner or later, because you've just eliminated the ONE thing that makes hacking the hardest: ACCESS.
Getting access to the data is always the most difficult step, hence Social Engineering, breaking and entering, etc. Putting all your stuff on the air so anybody can drive be in a car, or set up a nice antenna across the street now lets them suck down all your data and take all the time they want to crack it.
So if you want really good security on those airwaves, well you're going to need something that wasn't put together by a bunch of geeks working on their lunchbreaks. (At least right now, in the future as security because more developed this might change). You're going to need something that a reputable company puts out and will back up with patches and changes and won't put in backdoors because they're too worried about lawsuits. Someone with an excellent track record, and who will personally answer your security questions.
You just don't get those kinds of things or assurances with today's level of Open Source Developers. Besides, if you're not willing to fork out some major cash to secure your data in a highly insecure environment, then maybe you shouldn't go there!
What are you going to do when someone shots you because you answered your phone in the middle of a movie? I've seen people beaten for answering their phone in a movie theater, and have read news stories about worse things.
You can find out if your GF has been hurt in the course of due time like most people. Finding out sooner ISN'T going to change the world.
And personally I DON'T CARE about your GF, and my being bothered by you so you can find out is very low on my list of priorities. My world (in fact 'THE' world) doesn't revolve around you. Maybe you shouldn't go to movies, in case something should happen while you are in there.
yes, but this case isn't taking place in the US, so in the court/country mentioned, there is no right to free speech. As far as I know only the US has the right of free speech granted to it's citizens.
Does cause some people to panic. And this article is about nuclear terrorism, like it or not. 'Stopping' those trains is the first phase in robbing them. And robbing them is the first phase in building bombs.
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Running Slackware? ;-)
I have to agree that for people in your position regular release schedules for patches and the like are probably a great idea.
And you won't have to keep patching it, would you? Of course that would mean spending money and time up front, rather than being able to hide the costs of the continuous maintenance cycles.
It would also mean forcing more programers to do their jobs right, and more managers to learn what they're doing as well (And that code doesn't fix itself because you lit a candle for it the night before).
That so many think this is a 'good idea'.
Just goes to show that most people here don't drive, or if they do, drive poorly.
Brillant Satire? Hardly, he obviously didn't understand the book, and just as obviously sees facism under his pillow.
Notice he made Rico a blond blue eyed WASP, instead of the Fillipino he was supposed to be. He made the soldiers out to be pretty much idiots, rather than highly trained specialists.
The only thing that came thru in this movie about the director is that he hates the military and spared no opportunity to ridicule it and its members.
Actually the LEM did not entirely disintegrate, a former boss of mine had a piece of it (set in lucite). I would not be surprised to find out that the RTG was recovered too.
Anyone notice a -bias- in these stories?
*sheesh*
No, everyone is worried about terrorists running around and blowing everything up. Carry a gun, then you won't be afriad of anything. You also won't be afraid to go up to that guy digging a hole and asking 'what the H*ll are you up to?'
And for those of you who are going to reply 'but then the terrorists will be armed too', I'll just say that if you see a bunch of armed men digging a hole -Call the Police-.
EXACTLY.
It's not really that big a deal, people HAVE to know where the wires are, where the pipelines are, etc, so they DON'T DIG INTO THEM AND DIE!
Ever see a gas pipe explosion because someone dug in the wrong spot and the crew burned to death? Or how about a town losing all of it's emergency and other communication because a cable got accidentally cut?
We have a 2nd amendment for a reason. Try using it and stop living in fear.
Yeah, I could beat this system pretty easily. It's stupid.
Worse yet I could use this system to shut down any airport and cause all the planes to run out of gas and crash. It's stupid.
Get rid of the doors to the cockpit, then no one can hi-jack the plane.
Ny Girlfriend is a best selling author for a major publishing house. Sells out the first print run. It takes her about one YEAR to write a book. She makes less than 20K a year.
No one gets paid worse than writers. Especially not when you break it down by the hours invested. All musicians who are willing to play clubs make more, hell even a halfway decent 'Fan Artist' at cons makes more money.
Gee, 100K to 300K a year umps. Of course everyone else out there on the field is making 3 million to 300 million or more.
Hard to feel like the umps are being overpaid.
So why not robotic players? Lets get people totally out of the game.
Wow, somebody here on Slashdot actually gets it.
I'm very impressed.
You're right on the mark, and I bet happier than most.
title says it all
Actually, Niven didn't have a legal leg to stand on. Remember Copyright law allow's parody among other things.
However, I seem to recall that there was an agreement between Niven and Elf to pull the story from the internet on the contingency that Niven never speak of it again.
Niven reneged when he blasted Elf in that book's editorial section, so Elf reposted the story. Notice the story is still there. (What's also funny is that Niven and Elf have several friends in common.)
Last of all, someone I knew (who sadly was murdered by some gangbangers in LA in a case of mistaken identity) wrote a story based on Niven's work sent it to Niven and asked for Niven's opinion, etc. Niven basically crushed him. Told him not to write in his world, etc, and wouldn't give him any help or pointers. Niven even made fun of this person (not by name) in one of his editorial sections (Same one he blasted Elf in, if I recall properly).
I lost all respect for Niven when I heard about that. He could have let the guy down gently and offered some constructive criticisms. Maybe encouraged him to keep trying, though on a different track. Making comments about it however in his editoral was pretty low.
All extreme programming does is hide your mistakes cause you write the code to pass the test case, but nothing else.
I've been doing test and QA longer than any of you have been doing programming (or the guy who wrote the book) and before that I was programming and designing circuits.
Reading the comments it's clear that most of you don't really know how to write code, you just hack on it till you think you have something that works and leave the problems to be patched by others after the release.
Coding is easy, ANYBODY can do it. Designing and planning are hard. Not a single line of code should ever be written until the ENTIRE design has been laid out and planned. People who feel they have to code before the product has been defined and designed always code in hundreds of bugs and errors. Letting your coders do all your own testing of course never finds the mistakes either. After all, if you could see the mistake would you code it in the first place? Of course not.
All these 'programming fads' are just that, fads. They won't deliver the goods. The way to do software projects was laid out over a decade ago, if companies would just FOLLOW THEM, we wouldn't see so much buggy crap turned out by companies.
Actually the President gets billed for these, and has to pay for them (or his party does). Of course it doesn't always happen that way, but it usually does. (I forget when they started cracking down on this, think it was the 60's).
Oh? Toyota doesn't do this, and they will sue you if you try and make your own machine to read the codes.
On the other hand GM released their codes and some guy wrote a nifty program (WinADLD) that allows you to hook right up to the computer for the cost of a home made cable (about a buck).
The Space effort in this country was killed in the 60's, before we even got to the Moon, by policians who wanted to spend the money on welfare where it could buy them more votes. A rather revealing book was just published on this subject.
If it wasn't for the momentum already achieved, they probably would have cut it all before we even got to the Moon! As it was they cut a bunch of Apollo missions, and any real follow on efforts. The -only- way the space race will pick back up here is if politicians believe it will win them more votes then welfare, or if some private company picks it up.
Otherwise, you can pretty much forget it.
Because the Liberal Philosophy is Government Control and Central Authority. DUH!!
Anythin gyou put over the airwaves is gonna get hacked sooner or later, because you've just eliminated the ONE thing that makes hacking the hardest: ACCESS.
Getting access to the data is always the most difficult step, hence Social Engineering, breaking and entering, etc. Putting all your stuff on the air so anybody can drive be in a car, or set up a nice antenna across the street now lets them suck down all your data and take all the time they want to crack it.
So if you want really good security on those airwaves, well you're going to need something that wasn't put together by a bunch of geeks working on their lunchbreaks. (At least right now, in the future as security because more developed this might change). You're going to need something that a reputable company puts out and will back up with patches and changes and won't put in backdoors because they're too worried about lawsuits. Someone with an excellent track record, and who will personally answer your security questions.
You just don't get those kinds of things or assurances with today's level of Open Source Developers. Besides, if you're not willing to fork out some major cash to secure your data in a highly insecure environment, then maybe you shouldn't go there!
Why not do what people used to do? Leave your Babysitter the number of the theater.
G-D, how DID people ever survive before there were cell phones?
This response is Extremely Lame.
What are you going to do when someone shots you because you answered your phone in the middle of a movie? I've seen people beaten for answering their phone in a movie theater, and have read news stories about worse things.
You can find out if your GF has been hurt in the course of due time like most people. Finding out sooner ISN'T going to change the world.
And personally I DON'T CARE about your GF, and my being bothered by you so you can find out is very low on my list of priorities. My world (in fact 'THE' world) doesn't revolve around you. Maybe you shouldn't go to movies, in case something should happen while you are in there.
yes, but this case isn't taking place in the US, so in the court/country mentioned, there is no right to free speech.
As far as I know only the US has the right of free speech granted to it's citizens.
Does cause some people to panic.
And this article is about nuclear terrorism, like it or not. 'Stopping' those trains is the first phase in robbing them. And robbing them is the first phase in building bombs.