There's also the fact that a variety of modern PCs don't yet come with USB 2.0 out of the box versus the elder Firewire which is built into my 2+ yo x86 mobo. It would be great if they could make an existing install base happy!
I wonder how many people use their iPod as a sink for their digital video recorders...
I'd also like to know the playback time with the backlight on continuously - that should have been given so we know the other end of that spectrum. Unless, of course, everyone knows what music they want to listen to over a 16 hour period when they program the playlist back at home while the battery is charging...
Other alternative definitions I've heard pseudo-jokingly are:
"an exercise left to the reader" "the rest is obvious" "And magic happens"
typically because the person ending with QED is an academic with their head in the sky whose steps they did give don't even make much sense to the viewers.
No references on this, but some PBS program was saying that there are still secrets kept from WWII which would make them longer than 50 years old. They mentioned that since a few had been released a year or two ago.
...short for "Marvel Multiverse". Text-mining all the comic books in existence to find out which timelines conflict with the others would be an excellent research project.
Eh, exploring is exploring no matter the game. For the 3D games only rough terrain features show up in the distance (mountains, lakes, etc.) which I like more than having no idea there's an impassible mountain there until it appears on my 2D HUD. If you're talking about being surprised by monsters, I suggest closing your eyes and wandering around:)
I hate the lack of peripheral vision, though, and the control schemes are never what I want. No one quite has the controls right for their particular game. I also hate when they hide items and you need to click everywhere to find it. That happens too much in single-player games, too.
Load times are only at area boundaries for EQ but AO only loads if you're entering a special area/dungeon through a doorway, and those are pretty quick. Makes sense they can't pre-load that since too many variables make that indeterminant.
Sorry, too many ideas and not enough continuity. But here's what I threw together:
Don't add new employees. Yet. That can be the hardest part of a company - and after a point you have more and different rules to follow for your business. Er, so I've heard.
I don't have any resources for this, but I hope others chime in with them because I've been interested in it since I first heard about it but lost whatever links I had along the way.
The idea to pass along to you is to have a dynamic company. Some website(s?) list projects and pay for completion and people accept or bid on them. Another had professionals register then when a project came up the group was chosen (how?!) and they worked together (usually from across the world) to complete the assignment, then after it finished they would have their own time until something else came along and another group would be formed, etc.
The idea I would promote from all this is to combine these and the open source model: If people like your project, they'll come. If there's $$ involved it can be even better. If your company can deal with people who have their own schedules, it's a bonus. And if your company can react quickly to people not carrying the weight they said they could, the project has a much better chance of thriving. And skip your overhead.
I haven't had much personal experience with a distributed development group, but the idea is attractive. After some standard questions you figure out what portion you're willing to risk on each new person and assign something to them with a gift or whatever upon completion. Depending on the seriousness of time constraints you can add bonuses and also retain the ability if there is no progress to drop them and reassign the work to another person.
Those who are the good worker bees get access to more work-portions to complete, then more complex ones, etc.
That's if you can manage to divide up the work properly which would require planning and possibly even (oh!) design.
I don't remember what the wording was in the ones which I did see, but basically you have a short agreement with each person for each piece of work... or, um, do a reverse e-bay to more clearly convey that there is no employer/employee nor contractor/contracted relationship. Just work to do and gifts (whatever) to give.
Again, I don't have experience with this, but I find it attractive (with the right mechanisms) and would like to participate in such a venture.
I'll even write the website for the mechanism if you want to host it:)
I'd go with what others have suggested and have a friends system especially for the attitude portion: You get to rate them yourself, and people can see how you've rated them. But nothing absolute in game terms.
You could even have "total-blackout" rating for players you never want to interact with again. But *you* decide that wrt yourself.
When I started reading other posters about this, what came to my mind was net news. Same thing happened.
Is this the way of everything on the Internet?
1) It is introduced, brand-spanking new 2) It has it's heyday as people are open, friendly, learn the environment and get to know other users, commands, etc. 3) Everyone else crashes the party and makes it so bad the people from the beginning either bow-out or try keeping a corner of the world for themselves.
Is this how every new environment will develop when introduced to the Internet?
The temerity of your statement leaves much to be desired.
The magnanimity of your accepting mine own proposition in insouciance will establish the temperament with which I approbate your further articulations.
You seemed to list them in least to most common usage - I've seen insouciance the least, but the others are fairly common. Especially when making fun of medieval/fantasy stories:) Unfortunately I didn't get 750+ on SAT:(
Obviously Sony has perfected the Invincible Forcefield Technology. IFT may require every piece of silicon to be centrally registered, tagged, and isolated from all other pieces of silicon, but it has been known for millenia that sandboxes are unsanitary locations.
It's not just EXT2, though, unless you're speaking of some particular use for that reservation (the journalling perhaps?). Every FS formatting takes away space from the full amount for their internal structures that users never see - as other have pointed out with the various notes from the companies being sued.
I remember creating multiple partitions on my huge 540MB HD for my Apple 520c so I could keep a small block size. I never did go back and do the analysis, but I filled that partition up with tiny files and I think I came out ahead on space savings/usage.
I wish I could find an FS which could flexibly handle differing file sizes and so the File Size vs. Space Used were always within a small amount, able to handle 10-byte files and 100+MB files without leaving lots of unused HD space. That would make the FS work harder though, right?, plus make it more difficult if you ever tried defragging. Um, do ext2 and such need to defrag?
Then again if the FS engine is a journaling database, the system could do anything behind the scenes...
Um... all the spec's I've read (granted not many, but I've been HD shopping recently) have the minimum block-sizes on hard drives at 512 bytes. Seems like there should be a logical multiplication going on (eg. 512^x) instead of dropping some random decimal places to get a purely decimal value.
Then again it's marketing: Why are hot dogs sold in packages of 10 and buns sold in 8-packs? And how dare we try to force science and logic (and truthfulness?) into marketing...
I also just learned about the 137.x GB limitation of certain Windows OSes, too. It seems like everytime I shop for HDs I learn about another OS/FS limitation. Wierd.
Seemed to me to be another promise of new tech (support) to investors/users/large corportations/etc. so people will put off using the existing tools/skip switching OSes until MS's solution hits the streets and saves them "In the near future".
The hierarchical portion would be a view on the relational portion (if I were designing it). If they want that view to be a View, I'm not yet sure how they would do that as a reliable, unique transformation.
Your website link doesn't seem to have e-mail/questions/etc., so I'm responding to your post;)
Have you *really* written scripts for parsing those file types? Any way I could beg, borrow, or steal them from you? Getting my preciouses out of Outlook Express has been one of the larger unaddressed banes of my computing existence. I know someone else with a similar problem, but he's got an IMAP source instead of the files themselves.
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There's also the fact that a variety of modern PCs don't yet come with USB 2.0 out of the box versus the elder Firewire which is built into my 2+ yo x86 mobo. It would be great if they could make an existing install base happy!
I wonder how many people use their iPod as a sink for their digital video recorders...
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It disturbs me that someone else thinks it can use only Musicmatch as a source for songs, though. I wonder how that could be with the HD ability.
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...because it's missing a second interface: 1394
I'd also like to know the playback time with the backlight on continuously - that should have been given so we know the other end of that spectrum. Unless, of course, everyone knows what music they want to listen to over a 16 hour period when they program the playlist back at home while the battery is charging...
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Other alternative definitions I've heard pseudo-jokingly are:
"an exercise left to the reader"
"the rest is obvious"
"And magic happens"
typically because the person ending with QED is an academic with their head in the sky whose steps they did give don't even make much sense to the viewers.
8-PP
Are you certain there's no cell phone in the electric car?
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No references on this, but some PBS program was saying that there are still secrets kept from WWII which would make them longer than 50 years old. They mentioned that since a few had been released a year or two ago.
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I can relate to that...
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...short for "Marvel Multiverse". Text-mining all the comic books in existence to find out which timelines conflict with the others would be an excellent research project.
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Eh, exploring is exploring no matter the game. For the 3D games only rough terrain features show up in the distance (mountains, lakes, etc.) which I like more than having no idea there's an impassible mountain there until it appears on my 2D HUD. If you're talking about being surprised by monsters, I suggest closing your eyes and wandering around :)
I hate the lack of peripheral vision, though, and the control schemes are never what I want. No one quite has the controls right for their particular game. I also hate when they hide items and you need to click everywhere to find it. That happens too much in single-player games, too.
Load times are only at area boundaries for EQ but AO only loads if you're entering a special area/dungeon through a doorway, and those are pretty quick. Makes sense they can't pre-load that since too many variables make that indeterminant.
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How about a big, established non-profit?
And how do you judge "big"? > 1,000 employees? >5,000?
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Sorry, too many ideas and not enough continuity. But here's what I threw together:
:)
Don't add new employees. Yet. That can be the hardest part of a company - and after a point you have more and different rules to follow for your business. Er, so I've heard.
I don't have any resources for this, but I hope others chime in with them because I've been interested in it since I first heard about it but lost whatever links I had along the way.
The idea to pass along to you is to have a dynamic company. Some website(s?) list projects and pay for completion and people accept or bid on them. Another had professionals register then when a project came up the group was chosen (how?!) and they worked together (usually from across the world) to complete the assignment, then after it finished they would have their own time until something else came along and another group would be formed, etc.
The idea I would promote from all this is to combine these and the open source model: If people like your project, they'll come. If there's $$ involved it can be even better. If your company can deal with people who have their own schedules, it's a bonus. And if your company can react quickly to people not carrying the weight they said they could, the project has a much better chance of thriving. And skip your overhead.
I haven't had much personal experience with a distributed development group, but the idea is attractive. After some standard questions you figure out what portion you're willing to risk on each new person and assign something to them with a gift or whatever upon completion. Depending on the seriousness of time constraints you can add bonuses and also retain the ability if there is no progress to drop them and reassign the work to another person.
Those who are the good worker bees get access to more work-portions to complete, then more complex ones, etc.
That's if you can manage to divide up the work properly which would require planning and possibly even (oh!) design.
I don't remember what the wording was in the ones which I did see, but basically you have a short agreement with each person for each piece of work... or, um, do a reverse e-bay to more clearly convey that there is no employer/employee nor contractor/contracted relationship. Just work to do and gifts (whatever) to give.
Again, I don't have experience with this, but I find it attractive (with the right mechanisms) and would like to participate in such a venture.
I'll even write the website for the mechanism if you want to host it
8-PP
Yeah, but then what do all the Trolls rate you?
I'd go with what others have suggested and have a friends system especially for the attitude portion: You get to rate them yourself, and people can see how you've rated them. But nothing absolute in game terms.
You could even have "total-blackout" rating for players you never want to interact with again. But *you* decide that wrt yourself.
8-PP
When I started reading other posters about this, what came to my mind was net news. Same thing happened.
Is this the way of everything on the Internet?
1) It is introduced, brand-spanking new
2) It has it's heyday as people are open, friendly, learn the environment and get to know other users, commands, etc.
3) Everyone else crashes the party and makes it so bad the people from the beginning either bow-out or try keeping a corner of the world for themselves.
Is this how every new environment will develop when introduced to the Internet?
8-PP
The temerity of your statement leaves much to be desired.
:) Unfortunately I didn't get 750+ on SAT :(
The magnanimity of your accepting mine own proposition in insouciance will establish the temperament with which I approbate your further articulations.
You seemed to list them in least to most common usage - I've seen insouciance the least, but the others are fairly common. Especially when making fun of medieval/fantasy stories
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Maybe title was supposed to be:
Phillip Greenspun, Phd == SUV
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Obviously Sony has perfected the Invincible Forcefield Technology. IFT may require every piece of silicon to be centrally registered, tagged, and isolated from all other pieces of silicon, but it has been known for millenia that sandboxes are unsanitary locations.
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"Keep honest people honest"
This has the same possible success as "Keeping people in love in love"
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It's not just EXT2, though, unless you're speaking of some particular use for that reservation (the journalling perhaps?). Every FS formatting takes away space from the full amount for their internal structures that users never see - as other have pointed out with the various notes from the companies being sued.
I remember creating multiple partitions on my huge 540MB HD for my Apple 520c so I could keep a small block size. I never did go back and do the analysis, but I filled that partition up with tiny files and I think I came out ahead on space savings/usage.
I wish I could find an FS which could flexibly handle differing file sizes and so the File Size vs. Space Used were always within a small amount, able to handle 10-byte files and 100+MB files without leaving lots of unused HD space. That would make the FS work harder though, right?, plus make it more difficult if you ever tried defragging. Um, do ext2 and such need to defrag?
Then again if the FS engine is a journaling database, the system could do anything behind the scenes...
8-PP
I thought you could catch a Giglibite in the new Sapphire Pokemon...
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Um... all the spec's I've read (granted not many, but I've been HD shopping recently) have the minimum block-sizes on hard drives at 512 bytes. Seems like there should be a logical multiplication going on (eg. 512^x) instead of dropping some random decimal places to get a purely decimal value.
Then again it's marketing: Why are hot dogs sold in packages of 10 and buns sold in 8-packs? And how dare we try to force science and logic (and truthfulness?) into marketing...
I also just learned about the 137.x GB limitation of certain Windows OSes, too. It seems like everytime I shop for HDs I learn about another OS/FS limitation. Wierd.
8-PP
Seemed to me to be another promise of new tech (support) to investors/users/large corportations/etc. so people will put off using the existing tools/skip switching OSes until MS's solution hits the streets and saves them "In the near future".
8-PP
The hierarchical portion would be a view on the relational portion (if I were designing it). If they want that view to be a View, I'm not yet sure how they would do that as a reliable, unique transformation.
8-PP
Your website link doesn't seem to have e-mail/questions/etc., so I'm responding to your post ;)
Have you *really* written scripts for parsing those file types? Any way I could beg, borrow, or steal them from you? Getting my preciouses out of Outlook Express has been one of the larger unaddressed banes of my computing existence. I know someone else with a similar problem, but he's got an IMAP source instead of the files themselves.
Thanks,
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Hmm, when I try clicking on it I get this place of work's ACCESS DENIED banner page.
I guess you can't access it *anywhere*
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Finally!
Truth in advertising!
Or, er, is that the minimum specs?
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