This would be the advanced ward that a Tremere can cast upon any weapon providing lethal damage to anything affected by gravity. This differs from ward vs kindred in that instead of use of blood the caster spends 45 minutes rubbing magnets all over the weapon.
Uhmm, infared equipment is cheaper than normal video and easier to parse out for some applications as I recall... Hell, in Robot Builders Bonanza they explain how to build a relatively sophisticated system for maybe 40, and that's paying top dollar for major parts. Surely they can replicate this behavior in mass production for pennies on the dollar.
Pizza: When I use it to make pizza, I usually substitute the butter for the oil that I would normally use in pizza dough. Never thought of adding oregano though. Good call.
Perhaps buttering the edges of the crust just before it comes out would be a good idea as well, and doing the whole parmesan number. (IE, how one would normally do oil and parmesan if they like that sort of thing. I only do if I really want messy fingers).
Another valid question is why the hell you would want all of your traffic lights and everything hooked up to the internet. There ARE networks separate from the internet. Why are we working to combine them all? So we can sell more buzzwords?
This would drive people away from open source. How can you say that your software is better if it sucks more? I know that when I load up my system, I want the best software possible running on it. Not just software with communist ideals.
That works fine for me. I use Linux because it doesn't suck, and even most distributions do. I couldn't give a hoot if M$ wants to enter in it or not. All that means is that I'll be able to run IE and Office under Linux, which is fine for me. I'm not a GPL biggot.
apt-get is cool, but it has 1 problem. If you let apt solve your dependencies, you have the problem of breaking it when you start installing things from source. You also have the problem of breaking it when you install anything in a manner OTHER than apt. So if you run dselect, have it solve all of your dependencies, it's going to start screaming. Yeah, you can use apt without that, or force it, but then you just might break something else!
The mainstream solution? Ironically I think that MS probably has it right in some ways... Have installers that check for the.so's that you need so you don't check for the package. Then people like me who want to compile the kernel from source and an handful of other goodies don't get errors complaining about missing kernel packages.
Programmers hate this too. You take something that's an old hat that can be done really well, and then you come up with a new way to do it that isn't really good. We do like BETTER stuff though, but rarely is it better.
Sometimes code REQURES a rewrite, or it's quicker to do so. In these cases, a rewrite is CERTAINLY meritted, rather than bashing your head against a wall trying to get code to do something it was never intended to do.
Uhmm. I agree with most of this, but he is taking a few leaps and bounds with the "falls" one. Yes, you hit with the same momentum as a.45 cal bullet, but a 1 meter fall will not hurt like a.45 cal bullet will. Why? Because there is much more of you to dissipate it. Ok, so, he says this, but a 6 meter fall, is not like being shot six times, and a 1000 meter fall would almost certainly have you hitting your terminal velocity, so this doesn't scale terribly well.
For everyone who doesn't get the joke, it's because XP stands for eXtreme Programming, a means by which you can generate assloads of documentation and spend lots of time in meetings... Er, program more efficiently, that's right. This has nothing to do with Windows.
If the company would go with the company that had the resources to provide an adequate FTP server. There are, I am pretty darn sure, few companies who pay to help aggrandize another's product.
No offense, but I can see why people would shy away from supporting a product that causes the end user to support the distribution medium of the company in terms of server bandwidth. Not only is is quite possibly a good way to spread viruses, but also it puts undue burden on the customer.
If I had to chose between Visio and Rational Rose (ick on both), but Rational required me to mirror their software on my machine as a distribution medium, I would go with Visio.
As much as I enjoyed writing perl CGI in my day. I find that PHP is much more suited to my current purposes and produces quicker, more readable prototypes. I mean, how am I to explain web page generation in perl to someone? Now I grab someone's pre-existing page with all of the art and stuff in tact, and add in a couple dynamically generated fields that pull data from a database.
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This would be the advanced ward that a Tremere can cast upon any weapon providing lethal damage to anything affected by gravity. This differs from ward vs kindred in that instead of use of blood the caster spends 45 minutes rubbing magnets all over the weapon.
Uhmm, infared equipment is cheaper than normal video and easier to parse out for some applications as I recall... Hell, in Robot Builders Bonanza they explain how to build a relatively sophisticated system for maybe 40, and that's paying top dollar for major parts. Surely they can replicate this behavior in mass production for pennies on the dollar.
This is more like one of those video games with like, 2 seconds of game play between 6 hours of sketchy plot clips.
Hope it's better than most of those out there, because most of them suck.
Pizza:
When I use it to make pizza, I usually substitute the butter for the oil that I would normally use in pizza dough. Never thought of adding oregano though. Good call.
Perhaps buttering the edges of the crust just before it comes out would be a good idea as well, and doing the whole parmesan number. (IE, how one would normally do oil and parmesan if they like that sort of thing. I only do if I really want messy fingers).
Beer Bread is a VERY simple recipe. I will share it here.
3 Cups of Flour
2 Tablespoons of Sugar
1 Packet Yeast
1 Stick of butter
1 Can of Beer
Let the beer sit until warm. Open it and pour in the yeast. Add the sugar. Stir. Let sit for a minute.
Melt 1/2 stick of butter.
Pour flour, beer mixture, and melted butter into a bowl. Stir into batter. Kneed with additional flour until it forms a nice ball.
Let rise. (an hour or 2)
Put into greased bread pan.
Melt other half of stick of butter, pour over dough.
Cook at 300 for a hour or until a knife stuck in comes out clean.
(Note: Amount of sugar and rising time can vary, but use this unless you have got the hang of making bread. It's not hard.)
Another valid question is why the hell you would want all of your traffic lights and everything hooked up to the internet. There ARE networks separate from the internet. Why are we working to combine them all? So we can sell more buzzwords?
Basically, does the Open Source Community need new tools in this aspect of development?
Why only ask about the open source community. Do programmers need new configuration management tools?
CVS works fine for me. BitKeeper seems nice too. What I hate is that there's so much controversy just because BitKeeper isn't open source.
Ironically, the layer at which my application specific needs are met? Yes, I am still writing that particular layer.
I was thinking more along the lines of the processors. Way better than the PC equivalents.
Mac hardware is better too :-/
This would drive people away from open source. How can you say that your software is better if it sucks more? I know that when I load up my system, I want the best software possible running on it. Not just software with communist ideals.
but it's still nice to see a major car audio manufacturer delivering what the public wants.
;-)
Yes, just what I want to do on the way to work... Rip CD's. That's what I do AT work, not on the way
That works fine for me. I use Linux because it doesn't suck, and even most distributions do. I couldn't give a hoot if M$ wants to enter in it or not. All that means is that I'll be able to run IE and Office under Linux, which is fine for me. I'm not a GPL biggot.
apt-get...
.so's that you need so you don't check for the package. Then people like me who want to compile the kernel from source and an handful of other goodies don't get errors complaining about missing kernel packages.
apt-get is cool, but it has 1 problem. If you let apt solve your dependencies, you have the problem of breaking it when you start installing things from source. You also have the problem of breaking it when you install anything in a manner OTHER than apt. So if you run dselect, have it solve all of your dependencies, it's going to start screaming. Yeah, you can use apt without that, or force it, but then you just might break something else!
The mainstream solution? Ironically I think that MS probably has it right in some ways... Have installers that check for the
Programmers hate this too. You take something that's an old hat that can be done really well, and then you come up with a new way to do it that isn't really good. We do like BETTER stuff though, but rarely is it better.
Sometimes code REQURES a rewrite, or it's quicker to do so. In these cases, a rewrite is CERTAINLY meritted, rather than bashing your head against a wall trying to get code to do something it was never intended to do.
Uhmm. I agree with most of this, but he is taking a few leaps and bounds with the "falls" one. Yes, you hit with the same momentum as a .45 cal bullet, but a 1 meter fall will not hurt like a .45 cal bullet will. Why? Because there is much more of you to dissipate it. Ok, so, he says this, but a 6 meter fall, is not like being shot six times, and a 1000 meter fall would almost certainly have you hitting your terminal velocity, so this doesn't scale terribly well.
For everyone who doesn't get the joke, it's because XP stands for eXtreme Programming, a means by which you can generate assloads of documentation and spend lots of time in meetings... Er, program more efficiently, that's right. This has nothing to do with Windows.
Yes... My humor seems to have escaped some.
Did everybody read the comparison between writing in CG and writing hand-optimized assembly code?
Thank GOD they wrote CG, because now I won't have to write all of my programs in assembly anymore.
What is this "compiler" technology that they keep talking about? This might revolutionize computer science!
I'm not slamming on the program and all, I'm just saying that that is what many people would take on that situation.
My company would not pay for another company's bandwidth. It doesn't make economic sense.
Nope.
If the company would go with the company that had the resources to provide an adequate FTP server. There are, I am pretty darn sure, few companies who pay to help aggrandize another's product.
No offense, but I can see why people would shy away from supporting a product that causes the end user to support the distribution medium of the company in terms of server bandwidth. Not only is is quite possibly a good way to spread viruses, but also it puts undue burden on the customer.
If I had to chose between Visio and Rational Rose (ick on both), but Rational required me to mirror their software on my machine as a distribution medium, I would go with Visio.
As much as I enjoyed writing perl CGI in my day. I find that PHP is much more suited to my current purposes and produces quicker, more readable prototypes. I mean, how am I to explain web page generation in perl to someone? Now I grab someone's pre-existing page with all of the art and stuff in tact, and add in a couple dynamically generated fields that pull data from a database.