There's a product called JMP. It's relatively inexpensive. It's great at visualizing (especially statistical) data. They've got a 30-day trial. Check it out.
__ disclosure: I have an association JMP's parent company.
You're absolutely right. Almost every member of the US Congress voted to give the President a blank check on this issue. Regardless of declarations, they granted him the power to mobilize soldiers and conduct combat as he saw fit. The President took us into a needless war. Boo on him. Congress allowed him to do it, boo on everybody.
Great ideas, Elliott. Scripting and running your scripts as a batch is great for initial testing and better for integration testing when you have to test the same features as before to make sure they didn't break. Unfortunately, I mostly work with web applications, and as soon as the customer requests a javascript solution, my "spidering" test scripts stop being up to it. So I end up doing a lot of things by hand.
I've used auto-test thingies, ones that I've written, and packaged ones. Some situations call for them. Most of the time, though, it's just a matter of doing it by hand. Here's what I do.
Create a list of inputs that includes two or three normal cases as well as the least input and the most input (boundaries). Then make a list of states the application can be in when you put these values into it. Then create a graph with inputs as X and states as Y. Print your graph and have it handy as you run through the tests. As each test works, pencil in a check mark in the appropriate place.
Now that you've automated the system to the point where you don't need higher brain functions for it, get an account on http://www.audible.com, buy an audio book, and listen to it while you run through your grid. It still takes a long time, but your brain doesn't have to be around for it.
This is going to sound incredibly elementary to people who already have test methodologies in place, but when you need to be thorough, nothing beats an old fashioned test matrix. And audiobooks are a gift from God.
(I'm not affiliated with Audible, I just like their service. I'm currently listening to _Stranger in a Strange Land_ unabridged. Fun stuff.)
Here in Raleigh, NC we have a few nice game stores. I like All Fun and Games in Cary best. As for the actual games, Carcassone can't be beat. It's a map building tile game with intrigue and guile.
Also, Bang is nice group fun. Scotland Yard is a favorite of my family's. San Juan is card-tastic. Bohnanza is a really cute, easy to pick up game. Once Upon a Time is a neat storytelling game for little kids to share with adults.
Sounds like your computer does fit that description in its barest sense. Good on you for actually going to small claims court, though. Good use of the system. Hope it was a neat experience. Unfortunately, yeah, Apple does screw people in a couple of places. It's unfortunate, but they don't have huge margins for their hardware, and they are hell bent on turning a buck. As far as consumer rights go, you got screwed, but at the same time, you could have read the terms of the sale beforehand.
Yes. Piggly-Wiggly. A slightly local flavor in an otherwise homogeneous nation. Besides, childish word-play like WalFart holds nothing to what you can do with a name like Piggly Wiggly. It's wonderful.
I thought of the same thing, but it appears that the ridges are actually trapezoidal to show the three images. The tops would be flat and not sharp, so while they would wear over time, it wouldn't be as bad as two image sharp ridges.
Not ironic, just an unforseen occurance. It would only be ironic if it were a complete reverse of the expected order. For instance, if by saying she would never take it down she in fact caused its demise, that would be an ironic situation.
Can corporate horn-blowing get any more blatant. Microsoft made this deal with NBC because it was cheaper than printing up their own press releases. Of all the people to write this piece of tripe, a freaking Sr. Producer! His job is specifically to keep NBC and Microsoft happy. This means: A) Make money. B) Say whatever MS and NBC want. This is just intolerable.
Negative. Evil Dead is a trilogy. It's fine that way. Leave it. Bruce Campbell has said often that he wouldn't care to do another one, and honestly AoD was not that great a movie. The chainsaw, the shotgun, the one-liners: they were great. Let them just be a great three movies, and don't overdo it, I say.
90% are focused on getting new + corporate customers. The other 10% are working on sustaining old customers and making things nicer for new non-corporate customers.
I assure you, no one is napping. My friends at Red Hat barely get any sleep at all.
CYBERSPACE, USA - In a freak accident at Transmeta World Headquarters this afternoon, famed programmer Linus Torvalds -- creator of the Linux operating system kernel -- accidentally merged himself into the kernel's dev tree. When reached for comment, Torvalds seemed only able to respond with "Power overwhelming."
Alan Cox, another prominent GNU/Linux programmer said he thought the merging -- though accidental -- was a good thing. "Now that [Linus]is actually in the kernel he can take advantage of Linux's multitasking and actually handle the work-load that he has. This is a really good thing for the community." Added Cox, "It's also pretty [freaking] weird."
When people are in bad times, they want to divert their attention. (Hence, I write this from work.) They also want to blow things up....and not just infatable things.
$9.4 billion is a far nicer figure than the already fun $8.1 billion that was purported earlier (beating the domestic US motion picture gross by $100 million).
Never charge people to read. I would be willing to pay $0.50 per month to post on Slashdot and stay active in the community, but I would never pay money to read it. That sort of thing people fully expect for free, and wouldn't pay for it. It would kill.
And really, on this site, if even minimal payment were mandated, about four fifths of the (trolls) accounts would drop off.
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There's a product called JMP. It's relatively inexpensive. It's great at visualizing (especially statistical) data. They've got a 30-day trial. Check it out.
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disclosure: I have an association JMP's parent company.
Are they hosting CS servers and running ads that way, or do they just have a custom spray paint logo that they go into games and spray with?
You're absolutely right. Almost every member of the US Congress voted to give the President a blank check on this issue. Regardless of declarations, they granted him the power to mobilize soldiers and conduct combat as he saw fit. The President took us into a needless war. Boo on him. Congress allowed him to do it, boo on everybody.
Great ideas, Elliott. Scripting and running your scripts as a batch is great for initial testing and better for integration testing when you have to test the same features as before to make sure they didn't break. Unfortunately, I mostly work with web applications, and as soon as the customer requests a javascript solution, my "spidering" test scripts stop being up to it. So I end up doing a lot of things by hand.
I've used auto-test thingies, ones that I've written, and packaged ones. Some situations call for them. Most of the time, though, it's just a matter of doing it by hand. Here's what I do.
Create a list of inputs that includes two or three normal cases as well as the least input and the most input (boundaries). Then make a list of states the application can be in when you put these values into it. Then create a graph with inputs as X and states as Y. Print your graph and have it handy as you run through the tests. As each test works, pencil in a check mark in the appropriate place.
Now that you've automated the system to the point where you don't need higher brain functions for it, get an account on http://www.audible.com, buy an audio book, and listen to it while you run through your grid. It still takes a long time, but your brain doesn't have to be around for it.
This is going to sound incredibly elementary to people who already have test methodologies in place, but when you need to be thorough, nothing beats an old fashioned test matrix. And audiobooks are a gift from God.
(I'm not affiliated with Audible, I just like their service. I'm currently listening to _Stranger in a Strange Land_ unabridged. Fun stuff.)
Here in Raleigh, NC we have a few nice game stores. I like All Fun and Games in Cary best. As for the actual games, Carcassone can't be beat. It's a map building tile game with intrigue and guile.
Also, Bang is nice group fun. Scotland Yard is a favorite of my family's. San Juan is card-tastic. Bohnanza is a really cute, easy to pick up game. Once Upon a Time is a neat storytelling game for little kids to share with adults.
the use of the word milleniums in this article? Milleniums?
Those are very interesting numbers. Where do you get these sort of figures? Do they just show up in the news every once in a while?
Sounds like your computer does fit that description in its barest sense. Good on you for actually going to small claims court, though. Good use of the system. Hope it was a neat experience. Unfortunately, yeah, Apple does screw people in a couple of places. It's unfortunate, but they don't have huge margins for their hardware, and they are hell bent on turning a buck. As far as consumer rights go, you got screwed, but at the same time, you could have read the terms of the sale beforehand.
Yes. Piggly-Wiggly. A slightly local flavor in an otherwise homogeneous nation. Besides, childish word-play like WalFart holds nothing to what you can do with a name like Piggly Wiggly. It's wonderful.
I thought of the same thing, but it appears that the ridges are actually trapezoidal to show the three images. The tops would be flat and not sharp, so while they would wear over time, it wouldn't be as bad as two image sharp ridges.
Not ironic, just an unforseen occurance. It would only be ironic if it were a complete reverse of the expected order. For instance, if by saying she would never take it down she in fact caused its demise, that would be an ironic situation.
Actually, there is quite a glut. I say the more the merrier!
List of MMOGs
Can corporate horn-blowing get any more blatant. Microsoft made this deal with NBC because it was cheaper than printing up their own press releases. Of all the people to write this piece of tripe, a freaking Sr. Producer! His job is specifically to keep NBC and Microsoft happy. This means: A) Make money. B) Say whatever MS and NBC want. This is just intolerable.
Negative. Evil Dead is a trilogy. It's fine that way. Leave it. Bruce Campbell has said often that he wouldn't care to do another one, and honestly AoD was not that great a movie. The chainsaw, the shotgun, the one-liners: they were great. Let them just be a great three movies, and don't overdo it, I say.
90% are focused on getting new + corporate customers. The other 10% are working on sustaining old customers and making things nicer for new non-corporate customers.
I assure you, no one is napping. My friends at Red Hat barely get any sleep at all.
CYBERSPACE, USA - In a freak accident at Transmeta World Headquarters this afternoon, famed programmer Linus Torvalds -- creator of the Linux operating system kernel -- accidentally merged himself into the kernel's dev tree. When reached for comment, Torvalds seemed only able to respond with "Power overwhelming."
Alan Cox, another prominent GNU/Linux programmer said he thought the merging -- though accidental -- was a good thing. "Now that [Linus]is actually in the kernel he can take advantage of Linux's multitasking and actually handle the work-load that he has. This is a really good thing for the community." Added Cox, "It's also pretty [freaking] weird."
When people are in bad times, they want to divert their attention. (Hence, I write this from work.) They also want to blow things up. ...and not just infatable things.
$9.4 billion is a far nicer figure than the already fun $8.1 billion that was purported earlier (beating the domestic US motion picture gross by $100 million).
Wil Wheaton, the EFF, gobs and gobs of money.
I agree. pb is funny as hell.
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That's some funny shit. Is it just you posting this, or is there a concerted team effort? I'm serious. Top notch work.
Slashdot - tecthnorbaboblell for the new millenium-the Pedro Picasso
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Got DeCSS?
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For what it's worth: (sourceCode == freeSpeech)
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And really, on this site, if even minimal payment were mandated, about four fifths of the (trolls) accounts would drop off.
-the Pedro Picasso
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