Guns are considerably harder to get hold of in Australia than the USA. A considerably smaller percentage of the Australian population gets offed by some lunatic with a handgun than happens in the USA. Work it out.
We used a theme too - beers of the world. We're unlikely to run out in a hurry (one of the user support blokes downloaded a listing which is about 1" thick), but there could be a problem with name lengths.
Unfortunately, that's been changed, and we're moving over to something really lame (I forget what).
Software startups generally fail because the principals of the company did a poor risk assessment (ie they _thought_ the venture was low-risk, but they were mistaken). Games sell poorly because they suck (generally), and that's also in a sense a result of poor risk assessment. The statement, "... software that has a low risk of paying off is only developed as Open Source", still holds, although, as I've said, risk is often perceived as being lower than it actually is.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that GIS _still_ means Geographic Information System (at least, it does around these parts), but the term is deprecated. The preferred term is now _Spatial_ Information System, as this is rather more general.
I'd have to agree. Also, seeing as C# runs only on a platform that is known to not scale well to large problems, I'd suggest you'd be better off writing it in C++ to run on Solaris (or HP-UX or...), as you're going to need a _lot_ of grunt once you get past about 6 players.
I'd have to agree here. I did a couple of numerical analysis units at university, and we used Matlab extensively. It's a great prototyping language for engineering-type problems, and debugged scripts can be easily converted to FORTRAN programs for real problems (as the two languages have similar syntax - or did at least).
Even though I can't justify the money for a _valve_ amp (I'm no longer a working musician), I prefer my real amplifier with its real (analogue) speakers (I've owned it for about 20 years, after all) and my real guitar (a damn fine Maton (TM) built in about 1960) plugged into it. I honestly don't think this'll run.
Much as I hate ASN.1 ('cause it's so damn complicated), I'm not sure that the previous poster is strictly correct. ASN.1 is pretty extensible, and software to read it can be table-driven to take care of those extensions without a re-compile, IIRC. Of course, this isn't trivial...
Not only is it hideously complicated, I don't believe it could produce 100:1 compression ratios either (I've worked with it). Put it this way, I'd like to see the evidence rather than a promotional article in a trade comic.
You libertarians _never_ get the point. In fact Government services (at least in established democracies) are neither inefficient nor corrupt. We've just (over the last 15 years or so) moved towards the kind of system you propose in Australia and the poor are worse off (by comparison) and services which were once provided by the Government and are now private are more expensive and less efficient (I won't mention any corruption here because I don't want to get sued). So don't try to tell me that private enterprise runs these services better: it doesn't. The market (which is what I think you are proposing) is a totally inapproriate model for the functions of a civil society.
So maybe you need two cars. One, a tool, to get you to work and the other, a toy, to go to the beach. That'd satisfy the author of the original post, surely.
Actually he _did_ mean Plato. The only reason we think we know what Socrates said is because Plato told us he said it. By writing it down, I might add.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that this was first noticed (if that's the right word) amongst salespersons in Japan. Now, salespersons generally aren't too bright anyway as we all know, and since the Japanese business world is rumoured to run mostly on crank and cheap whiskey, I'd be looking for a pharmocological cause...
I'm not a big fan of intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces. The first time I ever used a Mac it took me about 20 minutes to work out how to save a file to a floppy disc. It was only that quick because I swallowed my pride (as an IT perfeshunl I know all about these things) and asked someone. Something like "mount/dev/fd0/floppy; cp file/floppy" is so much more obvious, useful and efficient.
The reason you went nuts trying to figure out the syntax for WHILE is because the only way to do WHILE loops in FORTRAN77 is with GOTO and IF. FORTRAN 5 had WHILE, but it wasn't widely implemented.
IIRC, publishing something requires only that you share it with one other person (thus making it public). There are a number of ways of sharing your genetic material including (but not limited to) shedding skin cells.
I get really sick of you stupid Americans whining about your god-given right to carry large guns and kill each other. For a start, your Constitution guarantees no such thing (read it very carefully sometime - oh, you can't read - I'm sorry). In Australia, we've been quite successful at removing most semi-automatic weapons from circulation - civilians have never been allowed to own fully automatic weapons, and it's always been reasonably difficult to own a weapon of any kind here anyway, not like your stupid country where you can buy the damn things at a corner grocery. Even though there are still some criminals who have them now, they generally only use them on each other, so who cares? The only reason that your country is so bloody dangerous to live in that you all think you need guns to protect yourselves, is because you don't have an effective social safety net - no welfare for the poor and unemployed == an increase in (usually violent) crime. Unfortunately, we've caught the American disease in this country, so things aren't as good as they used to be, but they're still heaps better than in the USA.
As a previous post said, we don't much care for Americans here as a rule, but if you want somewhere safe, clean, reasonably cheap and reasonably civilised to live, you could do a lot worse than move to Australia.
Actually, metres _aren't_ entirely arbitrary - IIRC the metre was originally intended to be some tiny negative power of ten fraction of the length of the meridian of Paris (only they fucked it up).
It's a pity you don't know how a slide rule works - it gives you enormous insight into logarithms. And you'll actually see (or at least experience in some fashion) the consequences of logarithmic relationships all the time - you probably just don't know enough to realise it. Queueing theory for instance depends on it heavily, and most real operating systems depend on queueing theory.
About 2 years ago, I spent the 3 longest months of my life working on an exciting insurance application. (It's just about the only business-type app I've ever worked on, and reinforced my opinion that, while business problems may be quite difficult, they are not even slightly interesting - these days I only do technical and scientific programming.) The point I'm making, slowly, is that 47 days is probably actually too high. The place rolling out the exciting insurance app had a design and QC process and set of policies, but these were almost never actually applied. I would receive a tech. spec. to code from which didn't generally make sense, so I'd go back to the original analysis which also usually didn't make sense, so I'd try and locate the business analyst who had produced that (and he often didn't make much sense either). So I'd spend 80 hrs reanalysing, coding and testing something that the project manager (speaking loosely) had allowed maybe 5 hrs for. And no, I'm not a particularly slow coder, I just like my stuff to work. It's an integrity thing.
Interestingly, the Arabs (from whom we acquired our number system) read both script and numbers right-to-left (that is, least significant digit to the right) - it only just occurred to me how sensible this is, 'coz I used to think it looked pretty weird. OTOH, I prefer to encounter the most significant digit first, although this is probably only habit.
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Bullshit.
Guns are considerably harder to get hold of in Australia than the USA. A considerably smaller percentage of the Australian population gets offed by some lunatic with a handgun than happens in the USA. Work it out.
I guess they'll code-name it yaff (yet another file format).
We used a theme too - beers of the world. We're unlikely to run out in a hurry (one of the user support blokes downloaded a listing which is about 1" thick), but there could be a problem with name lengths.
Unfortunately, that's been changed, and we're moving over to something really lame (I forget what).
Software startups generally fail because the principals of the company did a poor risk assessment (ie they _thought_ the venture was low-risk, but they were mistaken). Games sell poorly because they suck (generally), and that's also in a sense a result of poor risk assessment. The statement, "... software that has a low risk of paying off is only developed as Open Source", still holds, although, as I've said, risk is often perceived as being lower than it actually is.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that GIS _still_ means Geographic Information System (at least, it does around these parts), but the term is deprecated. The preferred term is now _Spatial_ Information System, as this is rather more general.
I'd have to agree. Also, seeing as C# runs only on a platform that is known to not scale well to large problems, I'd suggest you'd be better off writing it in C++ to run on Solaris (or HP-UX or ...), as you're going to need a _lot_ of grunt once you get past about 6 players.
I'd have to agree here. I did a couple of numerical analysis units at university, and we used Matlab extensively. It's a great prototyping language for engineering-type problems, and debugged scripts can be easily converted to FORTRAN programs for real problems (as the two languages have similar syntax - or did at least).
Even though I can't justify the money for a _valve_ amp (I'm no longer a working musician), I prefer my real amplifier with its real (analogue) speakers (I've owned it for about 20 years, after all) and my real guitar (a damn fine Maton (TM) built in about 1960) plugged into it. I honestly don't think this'll run.
Much as I hate ASN.1 ('cause it's so damn complicated), I'm not sure that the previous poster is strictly correct. ASN.1 is pretty extensible, and software to read it can be table-driven to take care of those extensions without a re-compile, IIRC. Of course, this isn't trivial...
Not only is it hideously complicated, I don't believe it could produce 100:1 compression ratios either (I've worked with it). Put it this way, I'd like to see the evidence rather than a promotional article in a trade comic.
You libertarians _never_ get the point. In fact Government services (at least in established democracies) are neither inefficient nor corrupt. We've just (over the last 15 years or so) moved towards the kind of system you propose in Australia and the poor are worse off (by comparison) and services which were once provided by the Government and are now private are more expensive and less efficient (I won't mention any corruption here because I don't want to get sued). So don't try to tell me that private enterprise runs these services better: it doesn't. The market (which is what I think you are proposing) is a totally inapproriate model for the functions of a civil society.
So maybe you need two cars. One, a tool, to get you to work and the other, a toy, to go to the beach. That'd satisfy the author of the original post, surely.
Actually he _did_ mean Plato. The only reason we think we know what Socrates said is because Plato told us he said it. By writing it down, I might add.
Everyone seems to be forgetting that this was first noticed (if that's the right word) amongst salespersons in Japan. Now, salespersons generally aren't too bright anyway as we all know, and since the Japanese business world is rumoured to run mostly on crank and cheap whiskey, I'd be looking for a pharmocological cause ...
I'm not a big fan of intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces. The first time I ever used a Mac it took me about 20 minutes to work out how to save a file to a floppy disc. It was only that quick because I swallowed my pride (as an IT perfeshunl I know all about these things) and asked someone. Something like "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy; cp file /floppy" is so much more obvious, useful and efficient.
Do you know how they make Hawaiian shirts?
Printable == Wearable
The reason you went nuts trying to figure out the syntax for WHILE is because the only way to do WHILE loops in FORTRAN77 is with GOTO and IF. FORTRAN 5 had WHILE, but it wasn't widely implemented.
IIRC, publishing something requires only that you share it with one other person (thus making it public). There are a number of ways of sharing your genetic material including (but not limited to) shedding skin cells.
I get really sick of you stupid Americans whining about your god-given right to carry large guns and kill each other. For a start, your Constitution guarantees no such thing (read it very carefully sometime - oh, you can't read - I'm sorry). In Australia, we've been quite successful at removing most semi-automatic weapons from circulation - civilians have never been allowed to own fully automatic weapons, and it's always been reasonably difficult to own a weapon of any kind here anyway, not like your stupid country where you can buy the damn things at a corner grocery. Even though there are still some criminals who have them now, they generally only use them on each other, so who cares? The only reason that your country is so bloody dangerous to live in that you all think you need guns to protect yourselves, is because you don't have an effective social safety net - no welfare for the poor and unemployed == an increase in (usually violent) crime. Unfortunately, we've caught the American disease in this country, so things aren't as good as they used to be, but they're still heaps better than in the USA.
As a previous post said, we don't much care for Americans here as a rule, but if you want somewhere safe, clean, reasonably cheap and reasonably civilised to live, you could do a lot worse than move to Australia.
Actually, metres _aren't_ entirely arbitrary - IIRC the metre was originally intended to be some tiny negative power of ten fraction of the length of the meridian of Paris (only they fucked it up).
It's a pity you don't know how a slide rule works - it gives you enormous insight into logarithms. And you'll actually see (or at least experience in some fashion) the consequences of logarithmic relationships all the time - you probably just don't know enough to realise it. Queueing theory for instance depends on it heavily, and most real operating systems depend on queueing theory.
I'd rather have a short black ...
About 2 years ago, I spent the 3 longest months of my life working on an exciting insurance application. (It's just about the only business-type app I've ever worked on, and reinforced my opinion that, while business problems may be quite difficult, they are not even slightly interesting - these days I only do technical and scientific programming.) The point I'm making, slowly, is that 47 days is probably actually too high. The place rolling out the exciting insurance app had a design and QC process and set of policies, but these were almost never actually applied. I would receive a tech. spec. to code from which didn't generally make sense, so I'd go back to the original analysis which also usually didn't make sense, so I'd try and locate the business analyst who had produced that (and he often didn't make much sense either). So I'd spend 80 hrs reanalysing, coding and testing something that the project manager (speaking loosely) had allowed maybe 5 hrs for. And no, I'm not a particularly slow coder, I just like my stuff to work. It's an integrity thing.
Interestingly, the Arabs (from whom we acquired our number system) read both script and numbers right-to-left (that is, least significant digit to the right) - it only just occurred to me how sensible this is, 'coz I used to think it looked pretty weird. OTOH, I prefer to encounter the most significant digit first, although this is probably only habit.
Ah ... that's three things ... isn't it?