This is _exactly_ the point. I know I used to think that the main challenge of software engineering was technical. Ha. Surprise! It most definitely is not.
Learning a new computer language, by comparison, easy. Dealing with a protocol, by comparison, easy. Getting 5 or 6 people from different continents to not be completely disfunctional? Damn hard.
One team member always wants to do something "new", no matter what he/she gets assigned they'll use some latest feature of language x. Another is a procrastinator, he/she does everything in back to back all nighters the weekend before. Another is extremely disciplined and wants to kill the procrastinator. Another is very quality oriented and wants to kill the "new" feature team member. And on and on it goes. Welcome to the working world my friend, its a gas gas gas:)
I wish I had a link to the full paper. What they were trying to show (I think) was that by necking down the fuselage at just the right place, the expansion fan from the fuselage mixes with the wing's leading edge compression wave and to a small extent cancel each other out. The goal was to try to reduce some of the peaks in the N wave, and thus reduce the perceived sonic boom. In other words, try to turn a bang (or two) into a rumble so to speak.
This is not about writers getting paid for their work. The writers are getting paid. Its about them getting additional royalties as the medium changes. Am I the only one here who thinks this is a really bad idea?
Personally I'm fed up with _paying_ royalties to copyright owners every time I _buy_ the same damn thing but on a different medium. Does it seem right to you to pay to use a newspaper on the web even if you own a subscription to that newspaper? Does it seem right to you to have to pay full price for a CD that you own on record? Or DVD vs. tape?
No offence to writers, but give me a friggin' break.
I love the part about academians are pro-sharing. Sorry, no. They are most definitely not. When an academic has posted a complete set of audio/video files containing their lecture series, then they can talk about sharing. Until then, professors, please keep your mouths shut.
I agree to some extent. A good storyteller in that situation could and would simply read the reactions of the audience and adjust the pace and tone accordingly. To say that art is a one way trip is, well, IMHO, wrong.
I'm told this is how Homer was recounted. If the crowd was on the edge of their seat during a battle scene... it would be lengthended and elaborated. If they weren't then it would quickly wrap up and so on.
Hopefully not straying too far from the subject, but I wonder if there's something to the Finnish social/political structure that we're either adopting or trying to emulate here in the US and elsewhere.
I can't help but wonder if there would be more hackers (using the good sense of the word) in the world if there were free health coverage and low cost or free higher education.
I think you've hit on real convergence. A cell phone/PDA is not convergence. A PDA/Digital camera is not convergence. A PDA that lets you control those other devices, now THAT's convergence. Ok, sure, currently I can keep my appointments in the darn things etc etc. But you know what, I can keep (and do) my appointments in a notebook and it works just fine.
Show me a PDA that can _talk_ to my digital camera and allow me to bypass the clunky UI on the back and we're getting somewhere. Even better, give me some hooks into the exposure alg., maybe a light meter plug in and you're really talking.
Show me a PDA that can itemize the calls I've made this month on my cell phone, instead of trying to be IN the phone, and the thing might actually be useful. Or if I could program my watch with a PDA, set the alarm, adjust time zones etc etc. Wow, that would be great!
If we could program our VCRs, home heating systems, sprinklers, security systems and every other programmable device that gives us one line and two buttons on a PDA instead with a nice GUI, shoot, I couldn't live without it.
Until SOME convergence, even a little happens, I'll stick to my paper notebook, its cheaper and more useful.
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This is _exactly_ the point. I know I used to think that the main challenge of software engineering was technical. Ha. Surprise! It most definitely is not.
:)
Learning a new computer language, by comparison, easy. Dealing with a protocol, by comparison, easy. Getting 5 or 6 people from different continents to not be completely disfunctional? Damn hard.
One team member always wants to do something "new", no matter what he/she gets assigned they'll use some latest feature of language x. Another is a procrastinator, he/she does everything in back to back all nighters the weekend before. Another is extremely disciplined and wants to kill the procrastinator. Another is very quality oriented and wants to kill the "new" feature team member. And on and on it goes. Welcome to the working world my friend, its a gas gas gas
- Ordinarius
The only thing stopping it these days is Linux's smaller marketshare.
Bah. One thing I'll say for Microsoft, they don't publish toolkits on how to build Linux worms.
Not that this directly relates to "length" but there are other games you can play. Check out ...
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http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Pubs/TechSums/9293/10.htm
I wish I had a link to the full paper. What they were trying to show (I think) was that by necking down the fuselage at just the right place, the expansion fan from the fuselage mixes with the wing's leading edge compression wave and to a small extent cancel each other out. The goal was to try to reduce some of the peaks in the N wave, and thus reduce the perceived sonic boom. In other words, try to turn a bang (or two) into a rumble so to speak.
- Ordinarius
- Ordinarius
- Ordinarius
Personally I'm fed up with _paying_ royalties to copyright owners every time I _buy_ the same damn thing but on a different medium. Does it seem right to you to pay to use a newspaper on the web even if you own a subscription to that newspaper? Does it seem right to you to have to pay full price for a CD that you own on record? Or DVD vs. tape?
No offence to writers, but give me a friggin' break.
- Ordinarius
- Ordinarius
- Ordinarius.
I can't help but wonder if there would be more hackers (using the good sense of the word) in the world if there were free health coverage and low cost or free higher education.
- ordinarious
Show me a PDA that can _talk_ to my digital camera and allow me to bypass the clunky UI on the back and we're getting somewhere. Even better, give me some hooks into the exposure alg., maybe a light meter plug in and you're really talking.
Show me a PDA that can itemize the calls I've made this month on my cell phone, instead of trying to be IN the phone, and the thing might actually be useful. Or if I could program my watch with a PDA, set the alarm, adjust time zones etc etc. Wow, that would be great!
If we could program our VCRs, home heating systems, sprinklers, security systems and every other programmable device that gives us one line and two buttons on a PDA instead with a nice GUI, shoot, I couldn't live without it.
Until SOME convergence, even a little happens, I'll stick to my paper notebook, its cheaper and more useful.