Double the estimate, and move to the next higher unit of time measurement.
Funny you should say that: I had a professor in college who suggested that very strategy for coding estimates. His theory was that until you really learned how to estimate properly, you could do this and still find yourself rubbing up against the deadline.
I'd like to add something to that, AFAIK the patents on MP3 only apply to the encoder so if you already have the MP3 file, there's no problem for decoding.
Actually, the patent is on the file format itself, so it does apply to players, however the patent holder has said that decoders will not have a royalty charged. I still intend to spend a large fraction of the weekend re-ripping my collection just on general principle, though.
"The reality of life in the US in the 21st century is that without ID checks and other security measures at airports, someone may fly the plane that you have a right to travel on into a building."
The reality of life in the US in the 21st century is that with ID checks and other security measures at airports, someone did fly the plane that you have a right to travel on into a building.
Well, we have to admit not all of those using our travel means in this country are honest citizens. The bulk probably are, but not all of them. So there has to be some form of verification/weeding out.
So, what? They look at your ID, see the "honest" box has a check mark in it, and let you on the plane?
Now, instead of health/strength making one "fit", it's money/looks/social grace.
Money doesn't make you more likely to survive. We have welfare.
My bad.
sed s/money/access to money/
Welfare gives you access to someone else's money (or more precisely, the services their money buys). Ditto charity.
Social grace doesn't make you more likely to survive. We have unemployment.
I'm confused. Are you saying only the socially graceful should be employed? I think being properly socialized will definitely improve one's ability to win the job interview. Please clarify, and I'll be happy to continue our debate.
Hence the lack of application of the pseudo-Darwinian "survival of the fittest".
Well, "survival of the fittest" refers to the fittest species, not individual. I.e., a species better adapted to its environment is more likely to survive than one that is ill-suited. Is it this species/individual misapplication the reason you write "pseudo"? I guess I'm getting confused again.
I like the idea given that people should be required to make public claim to something within a set amount of time.
They made a public claim when they were awarded the patent. You just got it off a public Web site for your own post. All patents are, by definition, public knowledge.
...man is... the only animal that the Darwin-esque "survival of the fittest" does not apply to.
I disagree. What's happened is that we've managed to so completely manipulate the environment that we've redefined "fittest". Now, instead of health/strength making one "fit", it's money/looks/social grace. "Fit" is whatever manages to perpetuate your genome.
Is there any compelling reason for UniCode identifiers?... What the hell do they think you gain?
My first guess is the ability to code in your native alphabet (assuming that isn't Latin-1). If you follow the link I posted, you'll see they give an example in Greek. Granted, this doesn't avoid the need to represent keywords and literals with ASCII, but it seems to me that international users might appreciate it.
Good catch! (You still left out the zero, though.)
[_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*
Of course, now that I'm interested, I've looked it up, and even this isn't correct. As you can see here, we completely forgot '$', and the fact that Java supports Unicode, so it's really too complicated to display briefly. (Also, we didn't address the subject of keywords, but that seems nitpicky.)
So what does this do, exactly? (no, I'm not stupid enough to just simply run it)
I am! It prints out an email address on my machine (omitted for the sake of avoiding harvesters).
Besides, what exactly is it that you're worried about? It's an echo piped to a calculator. About the worst that could happen is it prints something obscene.
I disagree. Yes, it qualifies as re-inventing the wheel, but that sort of thing might lead to the prover having a better understanding of astronomy. You almost seem to be suggesting that once person A understands something, it's unnecessary for anyone else to ever understand it; they should just accept it as truth and move on.
Surely there are fundamentals that projects like XMMS and FreeAmp could share.
Unfortunately, this seems unlikely. I read on Zinf's site last week that they have no intention of using pluggable modules. I've used FreeAmp almost exclusively for nearly two years now (assuming pluggable modules would be ready RSN), but when I saw this, it seriously gave me pause. I realize this is just emacs vs. vi in a multimedia guise, but I think this can seriously slow progress on Zinf.
The only reason I haven't ditched them for XMMS yet is that XMMS keeps dying whenever I play Ogg Vorbis files.
But then again, how can I ditch an MP3/Ogg player with an ncurses UI?
Unfortunately, it *seems* all too common to *me* that supervisors don't know jack about the people working under them.
Tell me about it. I was hired under manager A, working for tech lead B. Manager A was discovered to have 30 people reporting to him, when the corp. average for his level is < 10. To correct this, tech lead B is promoted to manager, and I (among others) am transferred so as to report to him.
However, office politics being what they are, I am told to finish working on manager A's project (can't miss that deadline, can we?). Once that's done, I'm then told to work on manager A's next project, because it's essentially an upgrade to the last project, and I already know the system. Lather; rinse; repeat.
Fast-forward one year, and I don't even know what manager B works on anymore. I only talk to him when I need to ask for vacation time, which I do moreso out of politeness than anything else. My performance evaluation was almost comical; he basically told me what manager A had said about me (and quite frankly, manager A doesn't know anything about me except that I seem to meet deadlines more often than not).
Hi. My nick is Prior Restraint, and I'm a Magic addict. ("Hi, Prior!")
It's been four years since my last game, (applause) but I still have to take it one day at a time. ("Amen!")
I can still remember how it all started: I joined a gaming club in college because -- surprise! -- I'm not a very sociable person. At first, it was all RPGs, which was "okay". I mean, I had dabbled a little in high school, even ran a campaign once, and it didn't affect me, right?
Then, suddenly, I found myself going to cons. Talk about your unwashed masses! (cynical laughter) That's where I met The Pusher. He was doing free demos, trying to set up tourneys with the con coordinator, that kind of thing.
And I ignored it. I mean, it's a card game; it was beneath me, you know? But not everyone did, ("That's right!") and you know what? I started seeing it in my club's office.
Show of hands: How many here got their first deck for free? Quite a few, I see. That's how I got pulled in. My former S.O. had been into this... this "game" -- and don't think that word wasn't carefully chosen to make you think it's safer than it really is. ("Preach on!") My very own S.O. handed me a deck after I asked what all the fuss was about. Blue-green, as I recall. Even came with a Sol Ring and a Wall of Flesh.
I got in at the worst possible time: revised edition had only been out for a little while, and popularity was sky-rocketing. I began learning strategies, and we all know where that leads -- say it with me, now: "I just need one... specific... card".
Oh, but those... Pushers... at WotC know better than that. Oh, yes they do. Suddenly, revised is going out of print, and fourth ed. is on the way. Now what do you do, my friends? I'll tell you what I did: I found myself debating the merits of doing without a couple of textbooks in order buy a full set of dual lands! That is what Magic does to people, ladies and gentlemen. First, you give up certain luxuries, like eating on campus instead of ordering pizza. But it's a slippery slope, my friends, ("That's right!") and pretty soon, you're eating ramen noodles twice a day; drinking Pabst, or worse yet, Milwaukee's Best; and living in contested gang territory for the lower rent! ("Don't hold back!")
And the rule changes! Cumulative upkeep? Of course! Cooler cards need that sort of balancing. Buried vs. destroyed? Sure! I can probably muddle my way through it.
I stuck by my new master all through fourth edition. This time, it was green-black. I joined a group that played for ante. When I lost my Sorceress Queen to a rookie mistake (I failed to make good use of my Pestilence), I knew I had hit rock-bottom.
But, my friends, that was the turning point for me. For the first time, I was truly seeing my situation as it was. Now, I'd like to tell you I tossed out my cards and never looked back, but... we know that only happens in the movies. ("Tell it like it is, Prior!")
*sigh* And so, I kept playing. I stopped with the ante; I no longer considered going to tournaments, and that was good. But I kept playing, anyway. I couldn't shake it, because I kept telling myself I could control it. Despite everything, I still said to myself, "Self: you've got a decent deck. Nothing too fancy, but it can hold its own. You can play with it 'just for fun', and still avoid the treadmill that has you chasing after cards".
Does anyone know what lesson I failed to learn? Oh! I think I heard it in the back: I forgot about WotC's plans for me. I forgot about new editions, and new rules. So, all of a sudden, fifth edition comes out, and my deck can't stand up to the phasing and flanking bullshit cards people throw down at me. I'm right back at square one. It was the day I caught myself at the comic book store fondling the fifth ed. boosters that I knew I had to go cold-turkey, or not at all.
To this day, though, I find myself tempted. I have co-workers into their thirties who still play. Last week, I caught a glimpse of some seventh edition cards: everything's about the graveyard now. "How appropriate," I thought, and yet I was tempted. Right this minute, as I type, I know that in a box in the closet behind me are some cards I was too weak to throw out back then, and too weak to dig out right now. Perhaps someday, I'll have the strength to face them down. Until then, they are a constant reminder of the daily struggle to lead a normal life.
Speaking of which, is there anything approximating a Themes HOWTO? I'd like to play with making a custom theme, but would rather not stumble through the process of learning via minor tweaks to existing ones (especially since that might not reveal all available options).
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Double the estimate, and move to the next higher unit of time measurement.
Funny you should say that: I had a professor in college who suggested that very strategy for coding estimates. His theory was that until you really learned how to estimate properly, you could do this and still find yourself rubbing up against the deadline.
I'd like to add something to that, AFAIK the patents on MP3 only apply to the encoder so if you already have the MP3 file, there's no problem for decoding.
Actually, the patent is on the file format itself, so it does apply to players, however the patent holder has said that decoders will not have a royalty charged. I still intend to spend a large fraction of the weekend re-ripping my collection just on general principle, though.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I will now blaspheme the name of Slashdot and fully concede the point to you.
"The reality of life in the US in the 21st century is that without ID checks and other security measures at airports, someone may fly the plane that you have a right to travel on into a building."
The reality of life in the US in the 21st century is that with ID checks and other security measures at airports, someone did fly the plane that you have a right to travel on into a building.
Well, we have to admit not all of those using our travel means in this country are honest citizens. The bulk probably are, but not all of them. So there has to be some form of verification/weeding out.
So, what? They look at your ID, see the "honest" box has a check mark in it, and let you on the plane?
Money doesn't make you more likely to survive. We have welfare.
My bad.
sed s/money/access to money/Welfare gives you access to someone else's money (or more precisely, the services their money buys). Ditto charity.
Social grace doesn't make you more likely to survive. We have unemployment.
I'm confused. Are you saying only the socially graceful should be employed? I think being properly socialized will definitely improve one's ability to win the job interview. Please clarify, and I'll be happy to continue our debate.
Hence the lack of application of the pseudo-Darwinian "survival of the fittest".
Well, "survival of the fittest" refers to the fittest species, not individual. I.e., a species better adapted to its environment is more likely to survive than one that is ill-suited. Is it this species/individual misapplication the reason you write "pseudo"? I guess I'm getting confused again.
I like the idea given that people should be required to make public claim to something within a set amount of time.
They made a public claim when they were awarded the patent. You just got it off a public Web site for your own post. All patents are, by definition, public knowledge.
I disagree. What's happened is that we've managed to so completely manipulate the environment that we've redefined "fittest". Now, instead of health/strength making one "fit", it's money/looks/social grace. "Fit" is whatever manages to perpetuate your genome.
like the crackers you probably doesn't not eat too.
No way, dude; it's the 1337 crackers that can bite me.
On an unrelated note, anyone else notice the karma system has changed?
I wondered about this last night. I just want to know why no one told us.
Slashdot could learn a lot from this guy.
No we can't, you dumbass! You're completely full of shit!
Is there any compelling reason for UniCode identifiers? ... What the hell do they think you gain?
My first guess is the ability to code in your native alphabet (assuming that isn't Latin-1). If you follow the link I posted, you'll see they give an example in Greek. Granted, this doesn't avoid the need to represent keywords and literals with ASCII, but it seems to me that international users might appreciate it.
Good catch! (You still left out the zero, though.)
[_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*Of course, now that I'm interested, I've looked it up, and even this isn't correct. As you can see here, we completely forgot '$', and the fact that Java supports Unicode, so it's really too complicated to display briefly. (Also, we didn't address the subject of keywords, but that seems nitpicky.)
Java's token regex is, iirc, [_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z1-9]+
What, no zero?
Mozilla appears to support them. I use Galeon, which is built on Gecko, and they seem to work okay.
You're definitely right about them being under-utilized. Sometimes, it seems like Web sites stopped evolving past what IE 4.0 can handle.
And how long do you reckon it would be untill MS mods the xbox itself so this cant happen?
Whenever XBox 2 is slated to come out, I would guess.
So what does this do, exactly? (no, I'm not stupid enough to just simply run it)
I am! It prints out an email address on my machine (omitted for the sake of avoiding harvesters).
Besides, what exactly is it that you're worried about? It's an echo piped to a calculator. About the worst that could happen is it prints something obscene.
Encouraging such wastes of time helps no one.
I disagree. Yes, it qualifies as re-inventing the wheel, but that sort of thing might lead to the prover having a better understanding of astronomy. You almost seem to be suggesting that once person A understands something, it's unnecessary for anyone else to ever understand it; they should just accept it as truth and move on.
Surely there are fundamentals that projects like XMMS and FreeAmp could share.
Unfortunately, this seems unlikely. I read on Zinf's site last week that they have no intention of using pluggable modules. I've used FreeAmp almost exclusively for nearly two years now (assuming pluggable modules would be ready RSN), but when I saw this, it seriously gave me pause. I realize this is just emacs vs. vi in a multimedia guise, but I think this can seriously slow progress on Zinf.
The only reason I haven't ditched them for XMMS yet is that XMMS keeps dying whenever I play Ogg Vorbis files.
But then again, how can I ditch an MP3/Ogg player with an ncurses UI?
Unfortunately, it *seems* all too common to *me* that supervisors don't know jack about the people working under them.
Tell me about it. I was hired under manager A, working for tech lead B. Manager A was discovered to have 30 people reporting to him, when the corp. average for his level is < 10. To correct this, tech lead B is promoted to manager, and I (among others) am transferred so as to report to him.
However, office politics being what they are, I am told to finish working on manager A's project (can't miss that deadline, can we?). Once that's done, I'm then told to work on manager A's next project, because it's essentially an upgrade to the last project, and I already know the system. Lather; rinse; repeat.
Fast-forward one year, and I don't even know what manager B works on anymore. I only talk to him when I need to ask for vacation time, which I do moreso out of politeness than anything else. My performance evaluation was almost comical; he basically told me what manager A had said about me (and quite frankly, manager A doesn't know anything about me except that I seem to meet deadlines more often than not).
(anyone out there *ever* got overtime for programming?)
I did. The consulting firm I used to work for paid us $SALARY/2080 per hour when we worked over forty a week.
When you register a Windows product, doesn't it record your CPU's serial number?
It was my understanding that the Pentium III was the only CPU with a serial number. If so, it makes this scheme fairly useless.
Hi. My nick is Prior Restraint, and I'm a Magic addict.
("Hi, Prior!")
It's been four years since my last game, (applause) but I still have to take it one day at a time.
("Amen!")
I can still remember how it all started: I joined a gaming club in college because -- surprise! -- I'm not a very sociable person. At first, it was all RPGs, which was "okay". I mean, I had dabbled a little in high school, even ran a campaign once, and it didn't affect me, right?
Then, suddenly, I found myself going to cons. Talk about your unwashed masses! (cynical laughter) That's where I met The Pusher. He was doing free demos, trying to set up tourneys with the con coordinator, that kind of thing.
And I ignored it. I mean, it's a card game; it was beneath me, you know? But not everyone did, ("That's right!") and you know what? I started seeing it in my club's office.
Show of hands: How many here got their first deck for free? Quite a few, I see. That's how I got pulled in. My former S.O. had been into this... this "game" -- and don't think that word wasn't carefully chosen to make you think it's safer than it really is. ("Preach on!") My very own S.O. handed me a deck after I asked what all the fuss was about. Blue-green, as I recall. Even came with a Sol Ring and a Wall of Flesh.
I got in at the worst possible time: revised edition had only been out for a little while, and popularity was sky-rocketing. I began learning strategies, and we all know where that leads -- say it with me, now: "I just need one... specific... card".
Oh, but those... Pushers... at WotC know better than that. Oh, yes they do. Suddenly, revised is going out of print, and fourth ed. is on the way. Now what do you do, my friends? I'll tell you what I did: I found myself debating the merits of doing without a couple of textbooks in order buy a full set of dual lands! That is what Magic does to people, ladies and gentlemen. First, you give up certain luxuries, like eating on campus instead of ordering pizza. But it's a slippery slope, my friends, ("That's right!") and pretty soon, you're eating ramen noodles twice a day; drinking Pabst, or worse yet, Milwaukee's Best; and living in contested gang territory for the lower rent!
("Don't hold back!")
And the rule changes! Cumulative upkeep? Of course! Cooler cards need that sort of balancing. Buried vs. destroyed? Sure! I can probably muddle my way through it.
I stuck by my new master all through fourth edition. This time, it was green-black. I joined a group that played for ante. When I lost my Sorceress Queen to a rookie mistake (I failed to make good use of my Pestilence), I knew I had hit rock-bottom.
But, my friends, that was the turning point for me. For the first time, I was truly seeing my situation as it was. Now, I'd like to tell you I tossed out my cards and never looked back, but... we know that only happens in the movies.
("Tell it like it is, Prior!")
*sigh* And so, I kept playing. I stopped with the ante; I no longer considered going to tournaments, and that was good. But I kept playing, anyway. I couldn't shake it, because I kept telling myself I could control it. Despite everything, I still said to myself, "Self: you've got a decent deck. Nothing too fancy, but it can hold its own. You can play with it 'just for fun', and still avoid the treadmill that has you chasing after cards".
Does anyone know what lesson I failed to learn? Oh! I think I heard it in the back: I forgot about WotC's plans for me. I forgot about new editions, and new rules. So, all of a sudden, fifth edition comes out, and my deck can't stand up to the phasing and flanking bullshit cards people throw down at me. I'm right back at square one. It was the day I caught myself at the comic book store fondling the fifth ed. boosters that I knew I had to go cold-turkey, or not at all.
To this day, though, I find myself tempted. I have co-workers into their thirties who still play. Last week, I caught a glimpse of some seventh edition cards: everything's about the graveyard now. "How appropriate," I thought, and yet I was tempted. Right this minute, as I type, I know that in a box in the closet behind me are some cards I was too weak to throw out back then, and too weak to dig out right now. Perhaps someday, I'll have the strength to face them down. Until then, they are a constant reminder of the daily struggle to lead a normal life.
Thank you for your time.
Cool. Now, just change "thing" to "think", "mute" to "moot", "one" to "on", and "P.S.S" to "P.P.S.", and everything will be peachy. ;-)
Sorry. I'm in a silly mood today.
Okay, Theme People, get busy! :)
Speaking of which, is there anything approximating a Themes HOWTO? I'd like to play with making a custom theme, but would rather not stumble through the process of learning via minor tweaks to existing ones (especially since that might not reveal all available options).