As for that standing fad, there's plenty of evidence that prolonged standing causes problems.
I'd love to see that evidence, if you've got links. I'm working for a company at the moment that has pushed me into it, and would rather go back to my nice, comfortable chair, thank you very much.
I would also love to know how it affects productivity. I'm pretty sure it prevents me from concentrating to my best ability, so I'd imagine it does the same for others and statistics are probably known. Google, however, fails me in this regard. Too many people suckered in by the fad, I think, and google scholar isn't showing up much of relevance either (I can't believe nobody's published anything on this subject, but if they have I can't find it!).
Fortunately you don't actually need one. A jury may be composed of unreasonable people, but they're likely to all be unreasonable in different ways. Taken in aggregate, they can approximate a reasonable person pretty well.
you have a different definition of violence if giving someone a red piece of paper with writing on it qualifies
Different to yours, perhaps. That card contains a plausible threat of violence. Handing it out to somebody could be legally considered to be assault in most common law jurisdictions, as I understand it.
One definition of "grammar" is (roughly) "the structure of relationships between words in sentences". Note that there is no reference in that definition to any particular language or formal standard. By this definition, there are no external standards of grammar to which a piece of writing can be held, as each writer is free to use their own grammar, perhaps even varying it from moment to moment as they see fit. As long as they understand the relationships between the words they use (i.e. they are not writing nonsense), no writing can be ungrammatical by this definition.
The cause & effect may be opposite to what you're thinking. My thoughts are that there's less of an expectation of "business-like" behaviour applied to IT workers than developers, which pushes those who don't like forcing themselves to behave that way (i.e. the geekiest) towards the IT jobs rather than the development jobs. Most companies I've worked with hold their developers to similar standards to their managers, but the IT dept is often allowed to do basically whatever it likes.
I'd be interesting to see whether this applied to pure development companies. I'd expect to see a more relaxed attitude there, which would probably attract the geekier developers.
The future is probably delivering to your local supermarket.
I did the back end implementation for a system that did pretty much exactly this circa 2002. Well, convenience stores and petrol stations -- the big supermarkets value their space too highly to dedicate enough of it to holding customer packages, while the smaller ones are willing to pay the cost in order to get people into their shops. They had a trial in Reading which was pretty successful, and then they looked for venture funding to take it national. Nobody was interested.
I find an increasing number of retailers won't deliver anywhere other than the registered cardholder's address. Apparently, it's a condition that's imposed by Visa/Mastercard on businesses with more than a certain percentage of chargebacks.
You're not keeping up to date with your conspiracy theories. It's to stop us from using freedom of information requests to piece together enough random information to prove the alien-base-on-the-moon theory.
Besides, the judges didn't state what flavour of Linux they run. I just provided basic instructions on what dependencies were needed, and a suggestion that loading my eclipse project files was probably the easiest way to get everything working.:)
And most of the entrants are professional or at least experienced game developers, and the rules do not exclude non open-source platforms, which opens up the use of many tools that make writing the entries much easier.
Plus the entries to LPC have been much more complex than most LD entries. I know, for instance, that there have been MMORPGs entered into LD before (e.g. http://0fps.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/making-an-mmo-in-48-hours/ ) but they tend to be extremely simplistic. LPC had 3 entered, by my reading of the list, and they seem to be much more complete than the one I linked there. As in, they have actual things to do.
LD games tend to be exteremely basic. The last one was one by this. And sure, it's a fun little and kind-of cool game that I enjoyed playing for 5 minutes. But it only takes 5 minutes to play to conclusion. Many of the LPC games have much, much more content. They are all much more graphically appealing. Many of them are as fun.
...why there's a trend to retro gaming. Indie developers are putting out more and more titles with retro-styled graphics, and games such as Fantasy Online (an orthographic projection 16x16 tile-based MMORPG with graphics that would have looked old-hat in 1990) draw in millions of players.
Let's make this simple. There are two possibilities:
1. The device looks for residues of nitrocellulose. If it does, then handling any of a number of common objects that contain nitrocellulose will leave enough of a residue of it on you to set off the detector. 2. The device does not look for residues of nitrocellulose. If this is the case, it will not detect nitrocellulose-based bombs.
Yes, or at least you can achieve something similar. It may or may not be possible in this case, but it is always worth putting an application to the judge of your case to see whether he thinks it would be beneficial. The relevant rule is this one:
20. (2) Defendants. Persons—as well as a vessel, cargo, or other property subject to admiralty process in rem—may be joined in one action as defendants if:
(A) any right to relief is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative with respect to or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences; and
(B) any question of law or fact common to all defendants will arise in the action.
(B) is clearly true. (A) may or may not be, depending how one interprets "series of transactions or occurrences".
And I disagree again due the fact that I can hack any hardware I own, but I can be (theoretically) prosecuted if I do reverse engineering on a software.
Come to the EU. We have legally-mandated rights to reverse engineer for the purpose of implementing interoperable systems.
I can find wifi dead zones by wandering around with my phone. Why would I need an expensive, dedicated piece of equipment to perform the same job as one I already own?
and how much will the insurance cost to cover your 200$ shit homebrew shoebox power strip when it burns a multi-million dollar factory down.
A recent quote from an EE company that I just happen to have on my desk right now puts cost of compliance with CE & similar electrical safety rules for a short-run product (a device my client is considering installing at a few hundred of their clients' sites) at about $70 per piece. I'm convinced that this "power strip" is being manufactured in much larger quantities than that, so costs should be reduced: so again, where is the money going? It doesn't do anything innovative, plus it's had government funding for its development, so it should have had lower development costs than if one of us were to make it.
This is very true. The problem I had in my latest project, however, is a little trickier: objects containing lists of objects of polymorphic type. You can't have a foreign key that can reference rows in multiple tables.
Err.. XP has had On-site Customer as part of its method from the very beginning. And the Whole Team practice, which means the customer should be involved in all decisions.
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As for that standing fad, there's plenty of evidence that prolonged standing causes problems.
I'd love to see that evidence, if you've got links. I'm working for a company at the moment that has pushed me into it, and would rather go back to my nice, comfortable chair, thank you very much.
I would also love to know how it affects productivity. I'm pretty sure it prevents me from concentrating to my best ability, so I'd imagine it does the same for others and statistics are probably known. Google, however, fails me in this regard. Too many people suckered in by the fad, I think, and google scholar isn't showing up much of relevance either (I can't believe nobody's published anything on this subject, but if they have I can't find it!).
Fortunately you don't actually need one. A jury may be composed of unreasonable people, but they're likely to all be unreasonable in different ways. Taken in aggregate, they can approximate a reasonable person pretty well.
If I don't talk about penises, how will you know that I'm not gay?
Frankly, if you talk about penises too much (i.e. at all), I'll probably assume it's because you *are* gay.
you have a different definition of violence if giving someone a red piece of paper with writing on it qualifies
Different to yours, perhaps. That card contains a plausible threat of violence. Handing it out to somebody could be legally considered to be assault in most common law jurisdictions, as I understand it.
One definition of "grammar" is (roughly) "the structure of relationships between words in sentences". Note that there is no reference in that definition to any particular language or formal standard. By this definition, there are no external standards of grammar to which a piece of writing can be held, as each writer is free to use their own grammar, perhaps even varying it from moment to moment as they see fit. As long as they understand the relationships between the words they use (i.e. they are not writing nonsense), no writing can be ungrammatical by this definition.
The cause & effect may be opposite to what you're thinking. My thoughts are that there's less of an expectation of "business-like" behaviour applied to IT workers than developers, which pushes those who don't like forcing themselves to behave that way (i.e. the geekiest) towards the IT jobs rather than the development jobs. Most companies I've worked with hold their developers to similar standards to their managers, but the IT dept is often allowed to do basically whatever it likes.
I'd be interesting to see whether this applied to pure development companies. I'd expect to see a more relaxed attitude there, which would probably attract the geekier developers.
The future is probably delivering to your local supermarket.
I did the back end implementation for a system that did pretty much exactly this circa 2002. Well, convenience stores and petrol stations -- the big supermarkets value their space too highly to dedicate enough of it to holding customer packages, while the smaller ones are willing to pay the cost in order to get people into their shops. They had a trial in Reading which was pretty successful, and then they looked for venture funding to take it national. Nobody was interested.
That's why I have things shipped to my office.
I find an increasing number of retailers won't deliver anywhere other than the registered cardholder's address. Apparently, it's a condition that's imposed by Visa/Mastercard on businesses with more than a certain percentage of chargebacks.
That's 'cos you're not Irish. If you were, you'd know the toinspire is what you find on top of the toin church.
I think that's actually a general exception: source is a British paper, subject is a question about American culture, answer is yes.
Although I just turned up a few negatives. Particularly "Is America addicted to cannibalism?".
You're not keeping up to date with your conspiracy theories. It's to stop us from using freedom of information requests to piece together enough random information to prove the alien-base-on-the-moon theory.
Besides, the judges didn't state what flavour of Linux they run. I just provided basic instructions on what dependencies were needed, and a suggestion that loading my eclipse project files was probably the easiest way to get everything working. :)
..and why not have playable links to the html5/js entries instead of .tar.gz's and zips?
Some of them do, but not all. Speaking for my own entry, which is an HTML5 one, it relies on server-side support, so you'll need the archive.
And most of the entrants are professional or at least experienced game developers, and the rules do not exclude non open-source platforms, which opens up the use of many tools that make writing the entries much easier.
Plus the entries to LPC have been much more complex than most LD entries. I know, for instance, that there have been MMORPGs entered into LD before (e.g. http://0fps.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/making-an-mmo-in-48-hours/ ) but they tend to be extremely simplistic. LPC had 3 entered, by my reading of the list, and they seem to be much more complete than the one I linked there. As in, they have actual things to do.
LD games tend to be exteremely basic. The last one was one by this. And sure, it's a fun little and kind-of cool game that I enjoyed playing for 5 minutes. But it only takes 5 minutes to play to conclusion. Many of the LPC games have much, much more content. They are all much more graphically appealing. Many of them are as fun.
...why there's a trend to retro gaming. Indie developers are putting out more and more titles with retro-styled graphics, and games such as Fantasy Online (an orthographic projection 16x16 tile-based MMORPG with graphics that would have looked old-hat in 1990) draw in millions of players.
You don't know what the new device looks for.
Let's make this simple. There are two possibilities:
1. The device looks for residues of nitrocellulose. If it does, then handling any of a number of common objects that contain nitrocellulose will leave enough of a residue of it on you to set off the detector.
2. The device does not look for residues of nitrocellulose. If this is the case, it will not detect nitrocellulose-based bombs.
then you have an RF meter, did I say expensive, dedicated piece of equipment dumbshit?
Except it won't work for this application. It can only do it for networks that have an access point broadcasting their SSID.
I would love to see Uniloc take on IBM over the Rational license server.
Ah, but did you use it on a mobile device? Over the Internet? No? So clearly it can't be the same idea recycled, then, can it?
Is it possible to use Class Action for defense?
Yes, or at least you can achieve something similar. It may or may not be possible in this case, but it is always worth putting an application to the judge of your case to see whether he thinks it would be beneficial. The relevant rule is this one:
(B) is clearly true. (A) may or may not be, depending how one interprets "series of transactions or occurrences".
And I disagree again due the fact that I can hack any hardware I own, but I can be (theoretically) prosecuted if I do reverse engineering on a software.
Come to the EU. We have legally-mandated rights to reverse engineer for the purpose of implementing interoperable systems.
I can find wifi dead zones by wandering around with my phone. Why would I need an expensive, dedicated piece of equipment to perform the same job as one I already own?
and how much will the insurance cost to cover your 200$ shit homebrew shoebox power strip when it burns a multi-million dollar factory down.
A recent quote from an EE company that I just happen to have on my desk right now puts cost of compliance with CE & similar electrical safety rules for a short-run product (a device my client is considering installing at a few hundred of their clients' sites) at about $70 per piece. I'm convinced that this "power strip" is being manufactured in much larger quantities than that, so costs should be reduced: so again, where is the money going? It doesn't do anything innovative, plus it's had government funding for its development, so it should have had lower development costs than if one of us were to make it.
This is very true. The problem I had in my latest project, however, is a little trickier: objects containing lists of objects of polymorphic type. You can't have a foreign key that can reference rows in multiple tables.
But $(CHOICE) doesn't use a textual query language, so you can't have an injection vulnerability. ;)
Err.. XP has had On-site Customer as part of its method from the very beginning. And the Whole Team practice, which means the customer should be involved in all decisions.