It won't help. And based on your comment, I'd be willing to bet you never tried it.
It's pretty easy to go to these meetings. In my town, it's even pretty easy to get on the board. There are more spots than willing volunteers. However any time you try to make any real changes, Comcast will offer a bigger discount to seniors (who make up the majority of almost any of these committees), and they'll raise your rates $1 so that your 65 year old neighbors can save a nickel, all while avoiding any changes.
The only way to solve the problem is to find another company that is willing to build out infrastructure in your area. It's a common misconception that there are local monopolies by government mandate. Most localities are willing to give as many franchise licenses as are requested as long as they get a cut of the revenue. The problem really is that once there is an incumbent provider, no other company is willing to invest to build a network in a town.
Unless you're stealing power, or many of your utilities are on your landlord's bill, I just plain don't believe you. 1,100 kWh means that you are using 125 watts. Let's say you're posting from a laptop in a room lit by a single CFL. You're at quota. You can't use any other electricity.
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What you're calling "cheats", I would consider to be "hacks". You can cheat without exploiting bugs or security holes.
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It also automates parts of the game that directly impact other players.... Keeping the resources in an area farmed out... "Ninja skinning" (their words, read the FAQ) where it automatically skins other player's kills... Even PvP to an extent.
How would more muscle for the servers and connections fix any of that? This is just as much a cheat as an aim-bot in an FPS.
It sucks to go get some herbs or ore for something you want to make, only to find that somebody running a bot cleared the whole area out repeatedly. Going to get a few materials and crafting an item is fun. Spending an hour failing to get the materials only to find that somebody with a bot cleared the area repeatedly for the entire day, then listed hundreds or thousands of that material on the auction house isn't fun.
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Without the existing bot prevention mechanisms (and probably even with them, though I don't have the desire to try), it would be relatively easy to write bot software to control a complete 25-man raid to take down some end-game bosses. Changing the game to make this impossible would essentially require making a lot less information available to the user during these fights. It would prevent the bot, but make the game less fun.
Blizzard is really stuck here. People cheating is bad for their revenue, and for their customer's overall enjoyment... But this lawsuit is a bad thing too. The law basically requires them to take action against the end-users who are cheating, but that would have negative public-relations consequences even if there weren't any innocent people inadvertently targeted. (You know that at least some actual cheaters would claim to be unfairly targeted, and may people would believe them). Making the game less open may prevent some cheating, but it would also block a lot of the allowed modifications that many players enjoy.
Sitting up straight and doing some core exercises prevent repetitive strain injuries to your wrists too. Best part? They're free and you don't need to wait for the technology to be developed.
How cute! You actually believe that gas taxes are used to build and repair roads, rather than going into the general fund for congress to spend on whatever they please!
That last comment wasn't trying to persuade him, because he wasn't looking to engage in a discussion. He was looking to stir the pot. If I thought I could persuade him of something I would have been nicer about it.
Look at his last post.
"other languages which have frameworks coded in their native language seem to scale just fine. Hmmm.... 2+2, genius."
"RUBY developers still haven't processed this and it seems they are in an infinite loop of denial."
And look at his posting history.
So I was just a dick right back at him. Doesn't matter anyway... His incorrect, trolling comment got modded up to +5, so he has a karma bonus with which to troll in other threads now.
If I wanted to be persuasive, I'd have mentioned how you can code inefficiently in any language, and how there are bad frameworks in the other languages he's mentioned, and how Rails itself has been copied by other languages. But there's no point. He wanted to sling mud. My mistake was replying to his post in the first place.
What do trolls eat, exactly? Logic? Should I keep pointing the faults in yours out to keep you well fed?
Why bother. I'll just call you an idiot and forget about this thread... Enjoy, and make sure your last-word response is sufficiently clever. I wouldn't want you to miss out on that happy feeling you'll get when you imagine me struggling not to quip back.
For every one startup founded by a 20-something year old within 40 miles of MIT, there are 25 started by somebody aged 40+.
I don't have any official statistics on the success of these companies, but it seems to me that both types are just as likely to be successful. The older engineers have just had more time to come up with good ideas, and more experience to judge them by.
The younger founders get more press though. "25 year old makes millions!" is a better headline than: "Person works whole life. Finally pays off". There are top ten lists of young entrepreneurs, but no "Top 10 old innovators" lists... Etc..
Even Dunkin' has two types of roasts, decaf, and flavored beans. I understand that you were trying to make a joke, but you actually made an insightful comment. How can you bitch that you don't like something, yet refuse to make even a basic attempt to understand why?
I find it difficult to believe that you find all of Starbucks coffee to be "bad". They have dozens of types. Some of them suck, and some of them are really good. Which ones don't you like? Did you even realize that there was more than one type?
People bitch, bitch, bitch about how shitty the economy is (even when it was good), but they don't expect a reduction in government services during the hard times?
Honestly, I don't buy it. If our local governments stood up and said: "We're in a recession. Tax revenues are down. We're making cuts in non-essential, non-infrastructure services until things pick up", people would understand. Yeah, politicians don't want to be the ones to break the bad news to the public in fears that they won't get re-elected. Tough. That's the job of the public servant. To do what's right for the greater good, not to do what's popular for their own personal gain.
We can't go on forever having the economy go through cycles, but the government behaving like everything is always up. Otherwise we'll be back to paying over half our income in taxes, and businesses and investors will move on to sane countries.
You pay tax when you receive the money. You pay tax when you spend the money. - Sales tax The business that profited off the sale pays tax on the profit. The business that employs the cashier that took your money pays payroll taxes on the wage. The cycle starts again.
I'm not sure how you can say that it's a tax on the business, and not the consumer, when there is also yet another tax for that...
Those features are only as good as the applications implemented on them. Internal to Iris/Lotus development, for example, they had the best CRM/Bug tracking system I've ever used built on top of the system. Like any other programming tool, though, you can build crappy things with it too.
Is it the fact that the two most recent farm subsidy bills (and probably earlier ones, but I don't have time to verify) were sponsored by Democrats, and faced veto threats from the Bush administration what makes the tax credits and subsidies "Republican style"? Or is it that you oppose them and consider yourself a Democrat, so you assumed they were Republican things?
If you don't use a testing framework, what do you do? Do you write a single executable and hope it works? Do you develop a new executable for every idea? Do you evolve one executable? With a test framework its like having a hundred main() functions in one executable. Why would you assume that simply because somebody didn't write tests before implementation that they can't use a testing framework? If you are writing in a language or for an execution environment where a quality testing framework is readily available, you can use that framework whether or not your development is test-driven. You'd be a fool to write your own. For environments where there isn't a "framework" there are many techniques that have been used for ages to test small portions of your code in the scope of a larger project without unmanageable development overhead. There are too many to enumerate here, and if you are sufficiently skilled in the art you should know what they are already anyway. (Unfortunately, many zealots for a particular methodology don't have a solid understanding of the alternatives, even though there is more than one right way to develop software.)
So I use it all the time when I'm figuring out what I'm doing, and in fact lean on it a lot to get me through tricky problems. It's especially helpful there because I can radically change key pieces and my tests tell me where I've gone wrong. Your tests don't have to be the starting point for you to gain that benefit. I didn't say "don't write tests". I said that it doesn't make sense to start with tests when you understand the problem, but don't understand what the solution looks like yet.
That also doesn't mean I'm entirely opposed to test driven development. In fact there are some situations where it is essential. For example when you are outsourcing much of your development, or when you have a straightforward problem with thorough design completed before you begin implementation.
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It won't help. And based on your comment, I'd be willing to bet you never tried it.
It's pretty easy to go to these meetings. In my town, it's even pretty easy to get on the board. There are more spots than willing volunteers. However any time you try to make any real changes, Comcast will offer a bigger discount to seniors (who make up the majority of almost any of these committees), and they'll raise your rates $1 so that your 65 year old neighbors can save a nickel, all while avoiding any changes.
The only way to solve the problem is to find another company that is willing to build out infrastructure in your area. It's a common misconception that there are local monopolies by government mandate. Most localities are willing to give as many franchise licenses as are requested as long as they get a cut of the revenue. The problem really is that once there is an incumbent provider, no other company is willing to invest to build a network in a town.
Unless you're stealing power, or many of your utilities are on your landlord's bill, I just plain don't believe you. 1,100 kWh means that you are using 125 watts. Let's say you're posting from a laptop in a room lit by a single CFL. You're at quota. You can't use any other electricity.
What you're calling "cheats", I would consider to be "hacks". You can cheat without exploiting bugs or security holes.
It also automates parts of the game that directly impact other players.... Keeping the resources in an area farmed out... "Ninja skinning" (their words, read the FAQ) where it automatically skins other player's kills... Even PvP to an extent.
How would more muscle for the servers and connections fix any of that? This is just as much a cheat as an aim-bot in an FPS.
It sucks to go get some herbs or ore for something you want to make, only to find that somebody running a bot cleared the whole area out repeatedly. Going to get a few materials and crafting an item is fun. Spending an hour failing to get the materials only to find that somebody with a bot cleared the area repeatedly for the entire day, then listed hundreds or thousands of that material on the auction house isn't fun.
Without the existing bot prevention mechanisms (and probably even with them, though I don't have the desire to try), it would be relatively easy to write bot software to control a complete 25-man raid to take down some end-game bosses. Changing the game to make this impossible would essentially require making a lot less information available to the user during these fights. It would prevent the bot, but make the game less fun.
Blizzard is really stuck here. People cheating is bad for their revenue, and for their customer's overall enjoyment... But this lawsuit is a bad thing too. The law basically requires them to take action against the end-users who are cheating, but that would have negative public-relations consequences even if there weren't any innocent people inadvertently targeted. (You know that at least some actual cheaters would claim to be unfairly targeted, and may people would believe them). Making the game less open may prevent some cheating, but it would also block a lot of the allowed modifications that many players enjoy.
I don't know what I'd do if I were them...
Sitting up straight and doing some core exercises prevent repetitive strain injuries to your wrists too. Best part? They're free and you don't need to wait for the technology to be developed.
Now they just need to get it down to .5mm resolution...
In other words, it needs at least a 10x improvement to be a mouse replacement with current UIs.
How cute! You actually believe that gas taxes are used to build and repair roads, rather than going into the general fund for congress to spend on whatever they please!
$299?
Sorry, I was going to say more in this post, but I was too busy laughing.
The 360 Elite is $450. There's no way the Elite+BluRay is going to be less than $450.
They only removed it from the cheapest model. If you want it, just go get the one that has it.
And it's worth it, too. The software emulation upscales the games. Lots of PS2 games look *fantastic* upscaled.
That last comment wasn't trying to persuade him, because he wasn't looking to engage in a discussion. He was looking to stir the pot. If I thought I could persuade him of something I would have been nicer about it.
Look at his last post.
"other languages which have frameworks coded in their native language seem to scale just fine. Hmmm.... 2+2, genius."
"RUBY developers still haven't processed this and it seems they are in an infinite loop of denial."
And look at his posting history.
So I was just a dick right back at him. Doesn't matter anyway... His incorrect, trolling comment got modded up to +5, so he has a karma bonus with which to troll in other threads now.
If I wanted to be persuasive, I'd have mentioned how you can code inefficiently in any language, and how there are bad frameworks in the other languages he's mentioned, and how Rails itself has been copied by other languages. But there's no point. He wanted to sling mud. My mistake was replying to his post in the first place.
What do trolls eat, exactly? Logic? Should I keep pointing the faults in yours out to keep you well fed?
Why bother. I'll just call you an idiot and forget about this thread... Enjoy, and make sure your last-word response is sufficiently clever. I wouldn't want you to miss out on that happy feeling you'll get when you imagine me struggling not to quip back.
If the language were a problem, then Ruby without Rails wouldn't be an option, now would it? Think about that, genius.
And actually, I'm not a ruby developer. Nice try though.
You've basically nailed it.
For every one startup founded by a 20-something year old within 40 miles of MIT, there are 25 started by somebody aged 40+.
I don't have any official statistics on the success of these companies, but it seems to me that both types are just as likely to be successful. The older engineers have just had more time to come up with good ideas, and more experience to judge them by.
The younger founders get more press though. "25 year old makes millions!" is a better headline than: "Person works whole life. Finally pays off". There are top ten lists of young entrepreneurs, but no "Top 10 old innovators" lists... Etc..
Even Dunkin' has two types of roasts, decaf, and flavored beans. I understand that you were trying to make a joke, but you actually made an insightful comment. How can you bitch that you don't like something, yet refuse to make even a basic attempt to understand why?
They're complaining that the framework can't scale. Not the language.
Please refrain from commenting when you don't know what you're talking about. The desire to stir up a flamewar is not sufficient justification.
I find it difficult to believe that you find all of Starbucks coffee to be "bad". They have dozens of types. Some of them suck, and some of them are really good. Which ones don't you like? Did you even realize that there was more than one type?
People bitch, bitch, bitch about how shitty the economy is (even when it was good), but they don't expect a reduction in government services during the hard times?
Honestly, I don't buy it. If our local governments stood up and said: "We're in a recession. Tax revenues are down. We're making cuts in non-essential, non-infrastructure services until things pick up", people would understand. Yeah, politicians don't want to be the ones to break the bad news to the public in fears that they won't get re-elected. Tough. That's the job of the public servant. To do what's right for the greater good, not to do what's popular for their own personal gain.
We can't go on forever having the economy go through cycles, but the government behaving like everything is always up. Otherwise we'll be back to paying over half our income in taxes, and businesses and investors will move on to sane countries.
You pay tax when you receive the money.
You pay tax when you spend the money. - Sales tax
The business that profited off the sale pays tax on the profit.
The business that employs the cashier that took your money pays payroll taxes on the wage.
The cycle starts again.
I'm not sure how you can say that it's a tax on the business, and not the consumer, when there is also yet another tax for that...
Those features are only as good as the applications implemented on them. Internal to Iris/Lotus development, for example, they had the best CRM/Bug tracking system I've ever used built on top of the system. Like any other programming tool, though, you can build crappy things with it too.
Exchange supports a small fraction of the functionality of Notes. As long as you only use Notes for e-mail and scheduling, moving to Exchange is fine.
It's really too bad that most organizations running Notes don't understand all of the other things they can do with it.
Is it the fact that the two most recent farm subsidy bills (and probably earlier ones, but I don't have time to verify) were sponsored by Democrats, and faced veto threats from the Bush administration what makes the tax credits and subsidies "Republican style"? Or is it that you oppose them and consider yourself a Democrat, so you assumed they were Republican things?
The vast majority of production filesystems only grow.
Sure, this is a limitation of XFS, but I'd call it a minor limitation.
That also doesn't mean I'm entirely opposed to test driven development. In fact there are some situations where it is essential. For example when you are outsourcing much of your development, or when you have a straightforward problem with thorough design completed before you begin implementation.