I wouldn't. I don't have a Facebook API client, whatever that is. (Not intended to diss Facebook, just to point out that whomever you wish to deal with may not be on the same social network).
The problem that none of the instant messaging "solutions" can solve is that People do not live in the same timezone, nor are (always) online at the same time.
Email, with its inherently asynchronous nature will always be the killer internet app.
Or that we all appreciate Lucille Ball because she provided the required funding and sponsorship to Gene Roddenberry to get Star Trek on commercial TV.
I can't really see dissing Monty Python on/., but OK. If you are dissing Star Trek, then maybe you are on the wrong forum.
Monty Python has influence too, but it hasn't really spawned a lot of copycats.
So what? I mean really, so what?
SNL and SCTV were kinda sorta copycats, but were fail in the long run.
Look at all of the posters in this thread who remember fondly Monty Python. You will not find that with any other comedy group.
It assumes an educated or smarter audience, or at least an audience that isn't afraid of that.
I don't think that's necessarily the case, but...
Listen, Mr. 7 digit id, until us oldtimers get assigned to Obama death panels, you're going to have to put up with us and our sense of humor. Monty Python, just like the Jargon File are Required Knowledge in IT.
Can you show how most sitcoms were not in some way influenced by them
Irrelevant. Monty Python is now a basic part of (English language) culture.
Today is the final day of Brewfest in World Of Warcraft. It includes periodic raids on the beer kegs prefaced by a yell "No one expects the Dark Iron Dwarves!".
I suppose I'm curious too, not that I'm going to sell it...
Bridgekeeper: Hee hee heh. Stop. What... is your name? King Arthur: It is 'Arthur', King of the Britons. Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest? King Arthur: To seek the Holy Grail. Bridgekeeper: What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow? Bridgekeeper: Huh? I... I don't know that. [he is thrown over]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king. Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Dennis: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Dennis: Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away. Dennis: Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed! King Arthur: Bloody peasant! Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn't you?
may I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism in Slashdot. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all new accounts are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find toothmarks at all anywhere on their bodies, they're to tell Cmdr Taco immediately so that he can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up.
The reason being is that in the near future the people in your instance may not be on the same server as you, and may have a different daily heroic quest than you.
I think you're confusing server, realm and battle group, but I'm not sure.
At 5.5 mil LOC, you'd be lucky if you could even *find* the source of one bug a day.
That's what a defect tracking system is for...
I'm talking out of my ass. I just want to see the code that causes Hunter's pets to go into Prowl when Prowl isn't assigned to the pet bar. Uber annoying.
If more people doesn't equal more productivity then why isn't WoW coded by one neckbeard locked in a server closet?
You miss the point. Productivity does not scale linearly with the number of people. 9 people can not do 9 times the work of a single person. It's somewhere in between. How close you can get to a linear increase depends upon how much the job can be compartmentalized and how much communication is required between each individual. The famous Brooks example is the extreme - you can assign 9 women to give birth to a baby, but it's still going to take 9 months to produce a baby. Software isn't like that.
It's not all or nothing, it's somewhere in between.
They really need to hire some cheap programmer to start at the bottom of the bug list and work their way up. Hell if they were to simply give me the source and tell me to 'fix what I can' I guarantee I'd find and fix at least one annoying glitch per day.
Heh. If I were younger and not married, I'd sign up for the same thing if it existed.
They could also hire someone to simply copy every popular user add-on and make an 'official' Blizzard version.
That's a good idea but... what makes you think they're not already doing this? I think they are, they're just doing it at a (very) conservative pace. At least that's what I've noticed.
I support an enterprise software project at roughly the same personnel per user that Blizzard does. I think they do pretty good.
All things considered... 68 people doesn't sound like an absurd number to me.
Nor to me. The obvious division of labor would be to have a handful of people on shifts monitoring the whole thing from a central location and the rest divided into the datacenters on 24x7 standby.
Based on my previous experience, there probably isn't a larger team doing the care & feeding of the servers behind the NYSE, for example. There was only about 10 in my group in Tokyo, but we managed to have it back up and running from the offshore tapes remarkably quickly after 9/11.
I think they split the instance server. Realms previously consisted of at least three servers, one for the old world, one for instances and one for Outlands/Northrend[1]. I suspect they'll be splitting Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms for Cataclysm.
[1] I think Outlands and Northrend are on the same server, but I'm not sure.
Most DoD applications are pretty simple in comparison to a modern video game.
Um, no. The big difference is that the incoming crap on the screen will kill the operator and there will not be a quick run back to the corpse from a nearby graveyard.
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I wouldn't. I don't have a Facebook API client, whatever that is. (Not intended to diss Facebook, just to point out that whomever you wish to deal with may not be on the same social network).
The problem that none of the instant messaging "solutions" can solve is that People do not live in the same timezone, nor are (always) online at the same time.
Email, with its inherently asynchronous nature will always be the killer internet app.
Why would anyone confuse Facebook or Twitter with professional tools.
http://www.dilbert.com/2009-10-04/
Brian K. was co-author of the seminal book Elements of Programming Style http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Style-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0070342075 - one of the most important computer programming books ever written.
Now that's hard time you can believe in. Force prisoners to use Microsoft Windows.
All that said I don't believe the GNU/Linux thing is very relevant any more.
It never was relevant. Never. Only a hijacking of the name ("Linux") that we chose for ourselves.
Waiter!!!! I require a bucket!
Or that we all appreciate Lucille Ball because she provided the required funding and sponsorship to Gene Roddenberry to get Star Trek on commercial TV.
I can't really see dissing Monty Python on /., but OK. If you are dissing Star Trek, then maybe you are on the wrong forum.
Monty Python has influence too, but it hasn't really spawned a lot of copycats.
So what? I mean really, so what?
SNL and SCTV were kinda sorta copycats, but were fail in the long run.
Look at all of the posters in this thread who remember fondly Monty Python. You will not find that with any other comedy group.
It assumes an educated or smarter audience, or at least an audience that isn't afraid of that.
I don't think that's necessarily the case, but ...
Listen, Mr. 7 digit id, until us oldtimers get assigned to Obama death panels, you're going to have to put up with us and our sense of humor. Monty Python, just like the Jargon File are Required Knowledge in IT.
Now, get off my lawn!
Albatross. Albatross?
Can you show how most sitcoms were not in some way influenced by them
Irrelevant. Monty Python is now a basic part of (English language) culture.
Today is the final day of Brewfest in World Of Warcraft. It includes periodic raids on the beer kegs prefaced by a yell "No one expects the Dark Iron Dwarves!".
Now begone, or I shall taunt you again!
It's memorable, its lasting, its humor that never ends.
I have watched Monty Python humor a ton over the last 30 years and there's plenty of stuff that I *still* laugh at.
The closest TV I've seen since then would be Home Improvement, but that is at best a deci-python.
I suppose I'm curious too, not that I'm going to sell it ...
Bridgekeeper: Hee hee heh. Stop. What... is your name?
King Arthur: It is 'Arthur', King of the Britons.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?
King Arthur: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
Bridgekeeper: Huh? I... I don't know that.
[he is thrown over]
No! Oh, no! Bad, bad Kozar!
Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Kozar!
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Dennis: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
Dennis: Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.
Dennis: Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
King Arthur: Bloody peasant!
Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn't you?
may I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism in Slashdot. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all new accounts are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find toothmarks at all anywhere on their bodies, they're to tell Cmdr Taco immediately so that he can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up.
The reason being is that in the near future the people in your instance may not be on the same server as you, and may have a different daily heroic quest than you.
I think you're confusing server, realm and battle group, but I'm not sure.
At 5.5 mil LOC, you'd be lucky if you could even *find* the source of one bug a day.
That's what a defect tracking system is for ...
I'm talking out of my ass. I just want to see the code that causes Hunter's pets to go into Prowl when Prowl isn't assigned to the pet bar. Uber annoying.
If more people doesn't equal more productivity then why isn't WoW coded by one neckbeard locked in a server closet?
You miss the point. Productivity does not scale linearly with the number of people. 9 people can not do 9 times the work of a single person. It's somewhere in between. How close you can get to a linear increase depends upon how much the job can be compartmentalized and how much communication is required between each individual. The famous Brooks example is the extreme - you can assign 9 women to give birth to a baby, but it's still going to take 9 months to produce a baby. Software isn't like that.
It's not all or nothing, it's somewhere in between.
They really need to hire some cheap programmer to start at the bottom of the bug list and work their way up. Hell if they were to simply give me the source and tell me to 'fix what I can' I guarantee I'd find and fix at least one annoying glitch per day.
Heh. If I were younger and not married, I'd sign up for the same thing if it existed.
They could also hire someone to simply copy every popular user add-on and make an 'official' Blizzard version.
That's a good idea but ... what makes you think they're not already doing this? I think they are, they're just doing it at a (very) conservative pace. At least that's what I've noticed.
I support an enterprise software project at roughly the same personnel per user that Blizzard does. I think they do pretty good.
In the MMO world, WoW serves one good purpose, and that is keeping the bad players there, and not bothering the better players elsewhere.
I LOVE the smell of nerd rage in the morning ...
All things considered... 68 people doesn't sound like an absurd number to me.
Nor to me. The obvious division of labor would be to have a handful of people on shifts monitoring the whole thing from a central location and the rest divided into the datacenters on 24x7 standby.
Based on my previous experience, there probably isn't a larger team doing the care & feeding of the servers behind the NYSE, for example. There was only about 10 in my group in Tokyo, but we managed to have it back up and running from the offshore tapes remarkably quickly after 9/11.
I think they split the instance server. Realms previously consisted of at least three servers, one for the old world, one for instances and one for Outlands/Northrend[1]. I suspect they'll be splitting Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms for Cataclysm.
[1] I think Outlands and Northrend are on the same server, but I'm not sure.
Most DoD applications are pretty simple in comparison to a modern video game.
Um, no. The big difference is that the incoming crap on the screen will kill the operator and there will not be a quick run back to the corpse from a nearby graveyard.
You figure it out. In China you have people dropping dead from overplaying. How many people in the US have you ever heard suffered that?
I would imagine it is possible Malaysia also receives this version.
Perhaps. I do know that one of my guild leaders plays from Malaysia and we play on a US/Pacific TZ realm.
They have 180k bugs in their tracking system. That's not the same thing. Considering their size and longevity, that's a remarkably low number ...