A good place to find Go sets is your local Korean or Japanese store. Korean sets tend to be slightly smaller, but much cheaper. Glass "stones" are preferable to plastic ones, although you probably don't want to splash out on a slate & shell set until you are already addicted:-)
the internet is anarchy because it trancends national borders. I know the current US administration would like to think it is the "One World Government (TM)", but it aint.
well it might have been once, but now it cant find its script directory:( But there's plenty of info to be found searching the delphi newsfroups tho...
The freebie I got was Delphi 6 Personal Edition (you may still find it hiding on their ftp site) - missing a bunch of features from the commercial edition (mostly DB stuff), but still damned useful. Yes you have to re-register everytime you load it onto a new machine, but thats just an email to their support dept.
I'd like to freeware the tools I've created with it, but my employers may think they own a piece:(
I've on the receiving end of what you say - I bawled out an incompetent "team leader", and got the shove for my pains. Solution? I got the client to provide my next reference (since they were aware of the situation, and happy with my work), not my employer. I was happy to be out of there...
No source control? It helps make it obvious who f*cked up. Aside from that just bawl him out for it, preferable in front of his boss. But seriously, argue for source control - and keep your own backups, in case they give the idiot sysadmin authority.
From a pure programming standpoint,.NET may be great. From a business and user standpoint, it's a pain because of no backward compatiblity. Microsoft's decision to drop Win32 support in Longhorn is dumb, because I don't want to have to rebuy software that I'm already happy with, and software producers want to improve their product, not rewrite it for Bill's new platform. These are Joels main gripes, and they are perfectly valid.
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It's a shame the other reply to this is AC, as he has some valid points. Where I work, we have three stages of specs:
1) Customer requirements spec
written by the Client/User/Business Analyst/consultant. Provided what they request is feasable, we go to:
2) Functional spec
prepared by the Systems Analyst, gives a high level overview of how the solution will work. If this is approved by the Client, and the solution is sufficiently complex, we go to:
3) Techincal spec
prepared by the Systems Analyst, updated by the programmer as required. Defines the nuts and bolts of the solution. May be skipped for simple problems. May be seen by the Client, but usually of little interest to them.
This might seem like overkill, but knowing who signed off what features and when can save you and your companies ass. You still get clients trying to "backdoor" extra features in by talking directly to the coder or raising it during the testing phase, but if you have a record of what they requested and approved, its more difficult to be abused in that manner. I've left out the quoting and estimate process, but you get the idea.
Don't you think that giving rapists the same penalty as murderers is likely to result in more rapists killing their victims? The old "hung for a sheep" problem, that took a few centuries to fix. If you use the ultimate penalty for less than ultimate crime, the offender has nothing to loose by commiting the ultimate crime.
Not dissimilar to the prohibition of drugs problem, where by criminalising the user, commiting crime to support the habit becomes more common, because they are already categorised as criminal.
Some nouns describe things that have a physical existence, other describe concepts. "Ownership" and "right" are both concepts that have no physical existence. You may think you have a "right" to "own" a given rock. I may:
a) laugh at you for being silly
b) "steal" the rock from you, depriving you of "ownership"
c) hit you over the head with the rock, depriving you of the ability of "owning" anything
d) claim that the rock is "public domain" and "owned" by all
e) claim that the rock is "owned by the great Ooger-Booger", and that he has instructed me to hit you over the head with it for your blasphemy
Each of the above examples has been played out in human history. As to which is "factually" correct, only Ooger-Booger knows.
You do realise that "copyright", "right", "ownership", "public domain" are artificial constructs, right? They are only "real" by common consent. Outside of our minds (and hence our behaviour) they do not exist. Quite a few folks in this thread think you are mistaken in your assumptions about that common consent. You seem to think they are "wrong" in "fact".
That's what Microsoft would like you to think. While their lawyers may be able to bully the likes of Ebay into dropping such sales, when did you hear of Microsoft winning a court case for such a sale? I thought not.
What the parent was referring to however, was where older software is remaindered when later versions appear.
Thus speaks someone who I suspect has not created anything of aesthetic value in his life.
Anybody who has understands that we let you access/use our output on our terms or not at all. The government may think they write the rules, but if the creators don't release their product, the legislation remains just so much hot air.
the cost of heating an oven (especially inefficient ones favored by cheap-skate landlords) can eat away at those cost savings. More so if you are cooking for one.
I'm sick of hearing about "single-quote" and "double-quote". One is an "apostrophe", the other is a "quote". I can only assume that the originators of computer languages which use apostrophes as quotes were illiterate.
So how does my potential sales compare between the two platforms? Apple cannot afford to put ANY roadblocks in the path of potential developers.
As you may have noticed, most developers don't even bother with Apple.
While Pentax make better lenses than Kodak, when I studied photography at college (quite a while ago) we did resolution tests between various 35mm SLR cameras. While Pentax and Nikon did quite respectably, an Olympus with a Zeiss-Ikon lens was streets ahead, with comparable quality to 2 1/4 inch cameras.
sorry no mod points, you get a +5 Insightful in my books. Microsoft give plenty away to encourage developers - Apple expect you to pay to provide more software for their minority OS? Wow, they must so elete they don't care if nobody buys their computers.
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A good place to find Go sets is your local Korean or Japanese store. Korean sets tend to be slightly smaller, but much cheaper. Glass "stones" are preferable to plastic ones, although you probably don't want to splash out on a slate & shell set until you are already addicted :-)
No, no, no!
You must chant the DNS address in hex to your CowboyNeal doll before clicking again.
Works like a charm.
so who is going to stick up for you after you have sabotaged the ACLU, and the government make FASCISM illegal?
the internet is anarchy because it trancends national borders. I know the current US administration would like to think it is the "One World Government (TM)", but it aint.
well it might have been once, but now it cant find its script directory :( But there's plenty of info to be found searching the delphi newsfroups tho...
The freebie I got was Delphi 6 Personal Edition (you may still find it hiding on their ftp site) - missing a bunch of features from the commercial edition (mostly DB stuff), but still damned useful. Yes you have to re-register everytime you load it onto a new machine, but thats just an email to their support dept.
:(
I'd like to freeware the tools I've created with it, but my employers may think they own a piece
Still the best damn RAD IDE I've worked with!
I've on the receiving end of what you say - I bawled out an incompetent "team leader", and got the shove for my pains. Solution? I got the client to provide my next reference (since they were aware of the situation, and happy with my work), not my employer. I was happy to be out of there...
No source control? It helps make it obvious who f*cked up. Aside from that just bawl him out for it, preferable in front of his boss. But seriously, argue for source control - and keep your own backups, in case they give the idiot sysadmin authority.
From a pure programming standpoint, .NET may be great. From a business and user standpoint, it's a pain because of no backward compatiblity. Microsoft's decision to drop Win32 support in Longhorn is dumb, because I don't want to have to rebuy software that I'm already happy with, and software producers want to improve their product, not rewrite it for Bill's new platform. These are Joels main gripes, and they are perfectly valid.
It's a shame the other reply to this is AC, as he has some valid points. Where I work, we have three stages of specs:
1) Customer requirements spec written by the Client/User/Business Analyst/consultant. Provided what they request is feasable, we go to:
2) Functional spec prepared by the Systems Analyst, gives a high level overview of how the solution will work. If this is approved by the Client, and the solution is sufficiently complex, we go to:
3) Techincal spec prepared by the Systems Analyst, updated by the programmer as required. Defines the nuts and bolts of the solution. May be skipped for simple problems. May be seen by the Client, but usually of little interest to them.
This might seem like overkill, but knowing who signed off what features and when can save you and your companies ass. You still get clients trying to "backdoor" extra features in by talking directly to the coder or raising it during the testing phase, but if you have a record of what they requested and approved, its more difficult to be abused in that manner. I've left out the quoting and estimate process, but you get the idea.
From my experience, they also spend alot more time around the water cooler/coffee machine boasting about how many hours they did yesterday.
Don't you think that giving rapists the same penalty as murderers is likely to result in more rapists killing their victims? The old "hung for a sheep" problem, that took a few centuries to fix. If you use the ultimate penalty for less than ultimate crime, the offender has nothing to loose by commiting the ultimate crime.
Not dissimilar to the prohibition of drugs problem, where by criminalising the user, commiting crime to support the habit becomes more common, because they are already categorised as criminal.
Some nouns describe things that have a physical existence, other describe concepts. "Ownership" and "right" are both concepts that have no physical existence. You may think you have a "right" to "own" a given rock. I may: a) laugh at you for being silly b) "steal" the rock from you, depriving you of "ownership" c) hit you over the head with the rock, depriving you of the ability of "owning" anything d) claim that the rock is "public domain" and "owned" by all e) claim that the rock is "owned by the great Ooger-Booger", and that he has instructed me to hit you over the head with it for your blasphemy Each of the above examples has been played out in human history. As to which is "factually" correct, only Ooger-Booger knows.
Oh joy, an opinionated troll.
You do realise that "copyright", "right", "ownership", "public domain" are artificial constructs, right? They are only "real" by common consent. Outside of our minds (and hence our behaviour) they do not exist. Quite a few folks in this thread think you are mistaken in your assumptions about that common consent. You seem to think they are "wrong" in "fact".
That's what Microsoft would like you to think. While their lawyers may be able to bully the likes of Ebay into dropping such sales, when did you hear of Microsoft winning a court case for such a sale? I thought not.
What the parent was referring to however, was where older software is remaindered when later versions appear.
Thus speaks someone who I suspect has not created anything of aesthetic value in his life.
Anybody who has understands that we let you access/use our output on our terms or not at all. The government may think they write the rules, but if the creators don't release their product, the legislation remains just so much hot air.
the cost of heating an oven (especially inefficient ones favored by cheap-skate landlords) can eat away at those cost savings. More so if you are cooking for one.
I'm sick of hearing about "single-quote" and "double-quote". One is an "apostrophe", the other is a "quote". I can only assume that the originators of computer languages which use apostrophes as quotes were illiterate.
yeah, I knew those Extreme Programming loonies^H^H^H^H^H^H^H advocates were bent on world domination. One too many "rah-rah" workshop..
yeah, it's right up there with MICROS~1 Word in terms of feature bloat...
surely you meant
"writing more cryptic COBOL programs in C"?
So how does my potential sales compare between the two platforms? Apple cannot afford to put ANY roadblocks in the path of potential developers. As you may have noticed, most developers don't even bother with Apple.
While Pentax make better lenses than Kodak, when I studied photography at college (quite a while ago) we did resolution tests between various 35mm SLR cameras. While Pentax and Nikon did quite respectably, an Olympus with a Zeiss-Ikon lens was streets ahead, with comparable quality to 2 1/4 inch cameras.
yeah, I think Bill employs him as a foil - he makes so many idiotic statements that Bill looks smart & friendly by comparison!
sorry no mod points, you get a +5 Insightful in my books. Microsoft give plenty away to encourage developers - Apple expect you to pay to provide more software for their minority OS? Wow, they must so elete they don't care if nobody buys their computers.