You write as if the bearded-one mind-controlled everyone in the crowd, stripping them of all self-will. As much as you'd like for it to be true, it's not. So the "judge, jury, executioner" cliche doesn't fit at all.
A bunch of people chose to do this. One guy might have ignited it, but please stop acting like he's a corruptor that will consume your soul and force you to do his bidding.
Flash mobs have the potential to ensnare young participants in things they would normally not even dream of.
A revolution in portable power, where one can operate it continuously for 24 hours with a recharge. Sucky power has prevented me from buying any portable electronic device
Comes as an armband covering my entire lower left arm. I don't want to carry it, drop it. It should flip up so it's twice as wide as my arm. Upper half display, lower half interface. When closed, the other side is display on the left, interface on the right.
Can steady the muscular movements of my arm, project a HUD overlay into my optical nerve ir visual cortex, and grant me perfect pistol aim and targetting
I can't wait until your first person shooter stops and drinks a nice cold refreshing soda.
In Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, which came out for XBox's initial release, you do just that! Abe will walk up to a SoBe vending machine, tilt one back, and regain lost health. OK, not quite a soda and not quite a first-person shooter, but you get my point.
But can they withstand hail damage? I live in Dallas, which gets plenty of hot, bright days, but hail is prevalent. I wouldn't want to coat my roof with them if the first hailstorm is just going to take it all away.
Piers Anthony's Geodessey Series presents fictional accounts of a few different theories as to how bipedalism came about.
Those books have an extensive bibliography of anthropolgical works, so if you read a particular story that catches your eye, you have an excellent jumping point from which you can find out what he's basing it on.
I'm trying to remember off the top of my head, so I'm bound not to get all of this right:
1) In order to birth larger-head primates, the pelvic bones had to shift to bipedalism
2) In dryer times, bipedalism allowed greater roaming ranges, in order to find more food
3) When roaming so much out in the open with little protection from the sun, you absorb a lot less sunlight when upright since not as much surface area is perpendicular to the sun's rays
4) Our entire respiratory system is geared towards cooling off our heads, since our large brains produce so much heat. Changes to the lungs and chest cavity favored bipedalism.
These are just theories. I know in recent years, there has been a lot of evidence to show that areas thought to have been dry savannahs were actually quite lush in the time periods man was thought to have gone bipedal. Kinda throws a monkeywrench into it.
But bipedalism could have come about in a relatively small area, geographically secluded from the rest. When the primates finally did have the capacity to leave that area, they were able to quickly dominate the other humanoids across entire continents, trees or no trees.
However, I find it even more astonishing that the paying customer will find the Crap perfectly acceptable!
If customers started rejecting the crappy deliverables, the bad behavior of the software managers would never be rewarded. Adapt or die.
Customers rather have Crap sooner, than Quality later. Often, they have to have the software in place to meet some external requirement placed on them. Like doing the exact minimum amount of effort possible to comply with some law like HIPAA.
For example, if a business has the most Craptastic online presence ever conceived, well then, technically, they still do HAVE an online presence. So the PR department can start pumping out those brochures proudly proclaiming "Hey! You can do business with us online!" It doesn't matter if it's bug-ridden or virtually unusuable. The point is it's there and the brochure literature is legally sound.
The customer doesn't care. So the software provider doesn't care. And the deadlines given to the Good Programmer makes him unable to produce Quality, even if he DOES care!
Rhino is a JavaScript interpretter written in Java, but it is also a JavaScript-Java bridge. So it de facto does indeed allow you to script Java via JavaScript. I do it all the time. The Rhino site even suggests using Rhino for exactly this purpose.
Beanshell lets you script Java, as well. Those scripts just like Java, with some additional console-friendly global commands thrown in the mix.
Lucas laces the food the actors eat with powerful drugs so that they cannot emote. That way, the computer animated characters look that much more life-like in comparison.
My biggest gripe about website password is the lack of consistency in password rules.
Some let you use special characters.
Some don't.
The set of allowed special characters differs for those who do
Some are case sensitive
Some are smashcase
Some allow just numbers
Character length range is wildly variable
Some make you change your password and won't let you use your last X passwords
Some force you to do weird stuff like "at least one uppercase, at least one lowercase, at least one number"
It irks me, because even if I wanted to use a completly different password for every login, there is no pattern or strategy I can follow to appease all of them.
No, I don't find it interesting, since Slashdot previously posted the ESR sex tips article some years ago on an April Fool's Day. And secondly... hey wait... what day is today?
But why do we still consider it waste when the end product is 10,000 more times energetic than the start? Why can we not harness the radiation and convert it to a more palpable form? Isn't that how all human-use electricity works? If we can convert solar radiation, tides, and winds, why can't we convert gamma rays? Is anyone even trying to figure out a way?
If I get a loan from a bank to buy a house or a car, and I pay the loan back on time and in good faith, the bank doesn't keep my house or car. Not during the payback period and not after.
Now if I'm PAID to make a house or car, I don't get to keep the house or car I made.
If I don't like my employer, there are plenty of other cats to go to. The RIAA is a monopoly of the available employers for a particular industry. Smaller employers (indie labels) have a hard time breaking in.
For rewrites, Unit Integration Tests are doubly important. These tests the results of a process after going across a flow of components. They make sure the end expectations are being met by the current software.
Whenever a bug is found and fixed, the unit integration tests have to be changed too, so they accurately show what the end users will be expecting in the post-bugfix world.
As long as the unit integration tests are continuously used, ANY new or modified code cannot possible repropagate that bug -- cuz you would know immediately.
Now you can rewrite the code from scratch several times a day if you like. It doesn't matter as long as all the unit integration tests still pass
New bugs only occur when the unit integration tests aren't broad enough -- did you forget to write a test that test a new feature? Or a nuance of a particular feature? Did you test with enough iterations? Enough variance in testing environments? With multiple processors? Over heavy loads or network traffic and/or simultaneous users?
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You write as if the bearded-one mind-controlled everyone in the crowd, stripping them of all self-will. As much as you'd like for it to be true, it's not. So the "judge, jury, executioner" cliche doesn't fit at all.
A bunch of people chose to do this. One guy might have ignited it, but please stop acting like he's a corruptor that will consume your soul and force you to do his bidding.
Flash mobs have the potential to ensnare young participants in things they would normally not even dream of.
GOOD! It sure beats youthful apathy, doesn't it?
So you're going to jail ...
See #14
In Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, which came out for XBox's initial release, you do just that! Abe will walk up to a SoBe vending machine, tilt one back, and regain lost health. OK, not quite a soda and not quite a first-person shooter, but you get my point.
My vote for most nonsensical Slashdot story summary.
But can they withstand hail damage? I live in Dallas, which gets plenty of hot, bright days, but hail is prevalent. I wouldn't want to coat my roof with them if the first hailstorm is just going to take it all away.
The most intelligent thing I've read on /. in a very, very long time!
"It's never too late to reinvent yourself" -- Pet Shop Boys
Piers Anthony's Geodessey Series presents fictional accounts of a few different theories as to how bipedalism came about.
Those books have an extensive bibliography of anthropolgical works, so if you read a particular story that catches your eye, you have an excellent jumping point from which you can find out what he's basing it on.
I'm trying to remember off the top of my head, so I'm bound not to get all of this right:
1) In order to birth larger-head primates, the pelvic bones had to shift to bipedalism
2) In dryer times, bipedalism allowed greater roaming ranges, in order to find more food
3) When roaming so much out in the open with little protection from the sun, you absorb a lot less sunlight when upright since not as much surface area is perpendicular to the sun's rays
4) Our entire respiratory system is geared towards cooling off our heads, since our large brains produce so much heat. Changes to the lungs and chest cavity favored bipedalism.
These are just theories. I know in recent years, there has been a lot of evidence to show that areas thought to have been dry savannahs were actually quite lush in the time periods man was thought to have gone bipedal. Kinda throws a monkeywrench into it.
But bipedalism could have come about in a relatively small area, geographically secluded from the rest. When the primates finally did have the capacity to leave that area, they were able to quickly dominate the other humanoids across entire continents, trees or no trees.
I agree whole-heartedly.
However, I find it even more astonishing that the paying customer will find the Crap perfectly acceptable!
If customers started rejecting the crappy deliverables, the bad behavior of the software managers would never be rewarded. Adapt or die.
Customers rather have Crap sooner, than Quality later. Often, they have to have the software in place to meet some external requirement placed on them. Like doing the exact minimum amount of effort possible to comply with some law like HIPAA.
For example, if a business has the most Craptastic online presence ever conceived, well then, technically, they still do HAVE an online presence. So the PR department can start pumping out those brochures proudly proclaiming "Hey! You can do business with us online!" It doesn't matter if it's bug-ridden or virtually unusuable. The point is it's there and the brochure literature is legally sound.
The customer doesn't care. So the software provider doesn't care. And the deadlines given to the Good Programmer makes him unable to produce Quality, even if he DOES care!
Exactly! I want to see SpaceShipOne from different camera angles.
los furtive was correct in his statement.
Rhino is a JavaScript interpretter written in Java, but it is also a JavaScript-Java bridge. So it de facto does indeed allow you to script Java via JavaScript. I do it all the time. The Rhino site even suggests using Rhino for exactly this purpose.
Beanshell lets you script Java, as well. Those scripts just like Java, with some additional console-friendly global commands thrown in the mix.
Pay in blood, yes.
Lucas laces the food the actors eat with powerful drugs so that they cannot emote. That way, the computer animated characters look that much more life-like in comparison.
It's May 1st. Not April 1st.
It irks me, because even if I wanted to use a completly different password for every login, there is no pattern or strategy I can follow to appease all of them.
Yes. From the I-dont-know-how-these-things-get-into-terrorist-ha nds deptartment was my 1st thought.
Second thought was all those cheesy bank caper movies where they drill into vaults.
No, I don't find it interesting, since Slashdot previously posted the ESR sex tips article some years ago on an April Fool's Day. And secondly ... hey wait ... what day is today?
I first read this as Bong Cube Case.
... if there's one group as creative as case modders ... it's bong makers
Makes sense
Think Amish. Think horses.
But why do we still consider it waste when the end product is 10,000 more times energetic than the start? Why can we not harness the radiation and convert it to a more palpable form? Isn't that how all human-use electricity works? If we can convert solar radiation, tides, and winds, why can't we convert gamma rays? Is anyone even trying to figure out a way?
How come WinAMP can't play Enhanced CDs? Has this been fixed in a newer version?
If I get a loan from a bank to buy a house or a car, and I pay the loan back on time and in good faith, the bank doesn't keep my house or car. Not during the payback period and not after.
Now if I'm PAID to make a house or car, I don't get to keep the house or car I made.
If I don't like my employer, there are plenty of other cats to go to. The RIAA is a monopoly of the available employers for a particular industry. Smaller employers (indie labels) have a hard time breaking in.
For rewrites, Unit Integration Tests are doubly important. These tests the results of a process after going across a flow of components. They make sure the end expectations are being met by the current software.
Whenever a bug is found and fixed, the unit integration tests have to be changed too, so they accurately show what the end users will be expecting in the post-bugfix world.
As long as the unit integration tests are continuously used, ANY new or modified code cannot possible repropagate that bug -- cuz you would know immediately.
Now you can rewrite the code from scratch several times a day if you like. It doesn't matter as long as all the unit integration tests still pass
New bugs only occur when the unit integration tests aren't broad enough -- did you forget to write a test that test a new feature? Or a nuance of a particular feature? Did you test with enough iterations? Enough variance in testing environments? With multiple processors? Over heavy loads or network traffic and/or simultaneous users?
Are solar flares behind the damn annoying advertisement I saw today on the right margin?