Thomas Covenant is probably the most depressing high fantasy I've ever read, not really sci-fi though.
I thought Accelerando was kinda depressing, not for what happens to the individual characters, more for what happens to mankind overall.
I was just thinking the same thing, since I'm in the middle of re-reading it.
Watching what we think of as humanity drowning under a tsunami of progress. Everyone ending up virtualized with the solar system being dismantled for computronium and surrounded by entities too vast and complicated to fathom is very depressing to me.
No, you're reversing the roles. Romero is Lennon, and his Yoko was Daikatana.
Carmack is more like McCartney, a brilliant craftsman, but rather uninspired in the creative department. He, like McCartney, went on to churn out tons of serviceable but not very exciting stuff. Lennon is the one who went out into weirdoville to give us "songs" "featuring" Yoko shrieking atonally into a microphone, so yeah. Totally Daikatana.
Damn, I wish I had mod points right now. This is spot on.
Major rewrites should only come when the cost of adding necessary new features exceeds the rewrite by some margin.
If you're lucky, you can build something with an identical interface that lends itself well to automated and manual testing of features to ensure all of the features get implemented. If you're not, you have to dredge up requirements from years of bugfixes and enhancements to ensure that you're covering all your bases.
Stepwise refactoring is usually much easier and safer than rewriting something.
For a better idea of what could happen if you have total control over sensory overlays, there are muchbetterexamples that don't require unspecified, magical leaps in brain manipulation.
The closest thing I use to a "website design tool" these days is jsfiddle. Hand-coding but with a tight loop between editing something and seeing how it looks.
Who's vigilant of the free market other than government regulators?
Misdeeds done at the corporate level (c.f. Enron) generally only come to light through governmental regulatory investigations, since companies can tell you to sod off. The government reports to the people and we have a number of tools to ferret out misdeeds within government. Government also investigates itself regularly.
I suspect you're thinking of the brachistochrone problem, posed by Johann Bernoulli in 1696, and solved the next day by Newton (also by several other mathematical giants of the time, very quickly).
Totally agree. Having an open environment with multiple agile teams having sequential daily scrums, the pigs and chickens start yakking post-scrum and make it difficult to hear in the following scrums.
I think the best would probably be a small room per agile team, not a big open area.
Which would be perfect if these glasses ran Android and had some of the same kinds of functionality, searching for images based on where your eyes targeted. Popping up Terminator-style narratives for things you see would be awesome.
It won't be long before your wall ends up being nothing but dozens of "posts" from your friends breathlessly raving about cheese-stuffed-something-or-other, or toilet bowl cleaner.
If friends start barking ads, they'll soon find themselves friendless.
Depends on how specifically Brøderbund acquired the original rights to the game back in 1989, and how subsequent holders acquired their rights. I'm not a lawyer, but I would expect that if the agreements included source code, they might have expected transfer of copyright ownership.
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Thomas Covenant is probably the most depressing high fantasy I've ever read, not really sci-fi though.
I thought Accelerando was kinda depressing, not for what happens to the individual characters, more for what happens to mankind overall.
I was just thinking the same thing, since I'm in the middle of re-reading it.
Watching what we think of as humanity drowning under a tsunami of progress. Everyone ending up virtualized with the solar system being dismantled for computronium and surrounded by entities too vast and complicated to fathom is very depressing to me.
No, you're reversing the roles. Romero is Lennon, and his Yoko was Daikatana.
Carmack is more like McCartney, a brilliant craftsman, but rather uninspired in the creative department. He, like McCartney, went on to churn out tons of serviceable but not very exciting stuff. Lennon is the one who went out into weirdoville to give us "songs" "featuring" Yoko shrieking atonally into a microphone, so yeah. Totally Daikatana.
Damn, I wish I had mod points right now. This is spot on.
Major rewrites should only come when the cost of adding necessary new features exceeds the rewrite by some margin.
If you're lucky, you can build something with an identical interface that lends itself well to automated and manual testing of features to ensure all of the features get implemented. If you're not, you have to dredge up requirements from years of bugfixes and enhancements to ensure that you're covering all your bases.
Stepwise refactoring is usually much easier and safer than rewriting something.
Where's Manfred Macx when you need him?
For a better idea of what could happen if you have total control over sensory overlays, there are much better examples that don't require unspecified, magical leaps in brain manipulation.
The closest thing I use to a "website design tool" these days is jsfiddle. Hand-coding but with a tight loop between editing something and seeing how it looks.
the Free Market (peace be upon it)
At first I laughed because of the juxtaposition, then I was sad because of how true it is.
I wouldn't want anything bigger than my Droid X. It's big enough to use the screen for maps and browsing but small enough to hold for phone purposes.
If I had anything significantly bigger, I'd likely have to rely on a Bluetooth accessories all the time.
Who's vigilant of the free market other than government regulators?
Misdeeds done at the corporate level (c.f. Enron) generally only come to light through governmental regulatory investigations, since companies can tell you to sod off. The government reports to the people and we have a number of tools to ferret out misdeeds within government. Government also investigates itself regularly.
Thanks for the debilitating flashbacks. *twitch*
If the client is aware that the design is in flux, they will insist on changing the requirements at every possible opportunity.
In my experience, clients do not need this excuse to constantly change requirements.
I suspect you're thinking of the brachistochrone problem, posed by Johann Bernoulli in 1696, and solved the next day by Newton (also by several other mathematical giants of the time, very quickly).
Sounds a bit like crowdsourcing to me.
I just wanted to say that I LOVE Coq.
Coq sucks.
Somehow, I think you have that backwards.
Not in Soviet Russia.
Totally agree. Having an open environment with multiple agile teams having sequential daily scrums, the pigs and chickens start yakking post-scrum and make it difficult to hear in the following scrums.
I think the best would probably be a small room per agile team, not a big open area.
Which would be perfect if these glasses ran Android and had some of the same kinds of functionality, searching for images based on where your eyes targeted. Popping up Terminator-style narratives for things you see would be awesome.
If it's a "jury of your peers", and you're a corporation, shouldn't other corporations be the jury?
After all, corporations are people, too.
For the jurors' sake, I hope they don't choose process termination to resolve the deadlock.
It won't be long before your wall ends up being nothing but dozens of "posts" from your friends breathlessly raving about cheese-stuffed-something-or-other, or toilet bowl cleaner.
If friends start barking ads, they'll soon find themselves friendless.
I'd never heard of a "spruiker" before. Had to google it. Still have no idea how to say it.
Where is Father Guido Sarducci when we need him?
And here I was thinking of Father Captain Federico de Soya.
Remember, a whole bunch of stuff uses ssl. Have fun fixing your Java jars.
I greatly doubt Java's baked-in SSL functionality uses OpenSSL.
If they find hidden messages in my spam, I hope they don't blame me for receiving it. I sure as hell didn't ask for it.
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Depends on how specifically Brøderbund acquired the original rights to the game back in 1989, and how subsequent holders acquired their rights. I'm not a lawyer, but I would expect that if the agreements included source code, they might have expected transfer of copyright ownership.
Wow, this is just amazing and surprising news...that people still use GIMP. One word...Pixelmator.
I wonder why everyone doesn't run this, then?
Built exclusively for Mac OS X
Oh, that's why.