Whether on StackOverflow, microsoft.com, or ANY OTHER WEBSITE OR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION, please for the sanity of everyone involved clearly state up front:
1. what date it is now, when you write it 2. what version of the immediate software (API, etc.) and supporting software (language, runtime and OS at minimum!)
These will help the rest of humanity to understand the context in which you're proposing your documentation, question, or solution. If it is on a wiki, then create a new page for the new version and leave the previous one(s) up!
I think you've got it right - for some ideal world lacking other impetuses.
A more interesting question in my mind is: how to predict business' push for one type of app over the other(s)?
Microsoft is in some respects falling by the wayside, so they've jumped on the subscription bandwagon for applications - not just support/service - which seems to contradict all of their previous practices as they nix MSDN subscriptions and forbid Windows versions of some Xbox games...
Concurrently Google has been removing many services people like and charging more for things like map-related services while they play around with YouTube and other websites many netizens seem to love. But they're also pushing their own OS, browser, and now hardware...
From paralyzation and death from "accidents" for participants through nigh-typical gameplay, to soccer hooligans and riots when men's college, national, and international teams win (or lose!), to a figure skater having a competitor's leg(s?) broken...
I think you can see the violence inherent in the system.
You can thank the SpringSource people for that xml configuration POS.
They even thought they'd make their own version of Rails (even they already have SpringMVC) and came up with Grails - which is actually much, much worse than you might expect when it *cannot* produce a stack trace less than 150 lines long, and it makes all the problems with all of their other frameworks (which Grails relies on, even though it is rumored to have been based on Groovy) that much worse - imagine the lack of implicit configuration and frameworks you've experienced so far, except that *if you're lucky* you get less informative error messages than you've seen before. Typically instead of that something simply doesn't work as you would expect and you have to research it for a couple hours (or in the case of one of my colleagues, a couple WEEKS) to figure out why it doesn't work. And then use Groovy to change class behaviour to work around SS's POS.
I remember the whole class getting stumped on how to use variables - in Algebra in 6th grade. It took a lot for us to finally wrap our heads around it. Unfortunately I'm not sure how it finally happened - Eureka moment or not.
Who are you referring to? Do you actually think *anyone* voted in as POTUS has a better chance doing something counter to the current establishment?
Even if they did, how/why would people believe them during the election season (2 years now?)
Politics has won: humans can't believe anything anyone says so all you have are the *grunt*grunt* political parties - mobs voting for mobs, and no one is accountable, responsible, or worthy of respect.
Do tell: what is the alternative in this modern age?
Hey, for personal interest an edification, do you have any favorites or pointers as far as academia's ideas about better desktops and what they consist of?
Thanks!
Well, can you answer that question: what would a demo need to provide for you to decide to purchase the game?
I've had the same conundrum for quite a long time with every other game system, including PCs: demos can be pretty cool - for the first 10 minutes, then it becomes more and more obvious what the UI and game rule limitations are, and usually also the design principles and goal of their... playability. Typically the only way they get my money after a demo is if they hook into some previous game commonality rather than showing they've innovated or otherwise proven their case that I should buy their game. ):
Thank you, KGIII, for bringing up as good of points as you have.
Since I am also not in the circumstances of feeling transgendered, I can only wonder - and since it seems to be an extremely sensitive topic for people I shy away from interviewing people in that state to gain a better sense of what is going on for them: what they feel, think, what their internal tensons and conflicts are... I would love to do such a study if it could bring about any better understanding for myself (and perhaps their selves).
I don't have much experience with transgendered people - the one I met a few years ago was socially/personally a jerk (an ex says that change in personality coincided with testosterone treatments), while another ftm appears to me to be quite a wonderful person, and it makes me very sad to think they will be going through with surgery to, with current medical technology, what seems to me to amount to mangling their body - especially when they've so creatively dealt with their gender conflict so far.
My least favourite is #3 - the truth is that many packages/apps/what-the-hell-ever on Linux have their own upgrade process once you have to start dealing with all the friggin' dependencies. I haven't seen any clean way to keep 10 versions of the same dependent libraries on a Linux system (sometimes necessary) to allow me to upgrade any single application without worry about breaking other applications and sometimes more importantly without requiring me to spend a full day deconstructing the dependency trees - if that is even possible!
So I will posit that Linux is actually pretty damn far from having #2 proper package management. While it tracks things and can tell you what needs to be upgraded, it cannot tell you if it is even possible on your current system let alone in what order you will need to upgrade apps/packages/drivers/etc. for everything you currently have installed to work once you're done.
Besides crap multi-monitor/video card support, that is my biggest peeve as a developer and user of Linux.
A couple years ago I purchased Disney's "The Little Mermaid" from amazon.com to replace a friend's stolen copy. As soon as the intended recipient saw it they said, "That's not from Disney!" The DVD had a poorly printed cover and DVD art, and significant problems playing.
I reported it to Amazon - not only the problems with the purchase but also the fact that it was obviously a copy and not an original. I've never heard back.
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My favorite IDC appeared in my favorite comic Barry Ween (this isn't quite it, but in the same facility: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Barry+ween+boy+genius+comic&qpvt=Barry+ween+boy+genius+comic&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=FE11423851C2FA77D4FBA87252DBB38532D0C4EF&selectedIndex=51)
Whether on StackOverflow, microsoft.com, or ANY OTHER WEBSITE OR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION, please for the sanity of everyone involved clearly state up front:
1. what date it is now, when you write it
2. what version of the immediate software (API, etc.) and supporting software (language, runtime and OS at minimum!)
These will help the rest of humanity to understand the context in which you're proposing your documentation, question, or solution. If it is on a wiki, then create a new page for the new version and leave the previous one(s) up!
Thanks, people!
I wonder why they don't help out with the Lithium-Sulphur battery idea and start from there...
Done and done: see Demolition Man
I think you've got it right - for some ideal world lacking other impetuses.
A more interesting question in my mind is: how to predict business' push for one type of app over the other(s)?
Microsoft is in some respects falling by the wayside, so they've jumped on the subscription bandwagon for applications - not just support/service - which seems to contradict all of their previous practices as they nix MSDN subscriptions and forbid Windows versions of some Xbox games...
Concurrently Google has been removing many services people like and charging more for things like map-related services while they play around with YouTube and other websites many netizens seem to love. But they're also pushing their own OS, browser, and now hardware...
We live in interesting times, my friend.
8-PP
> without resorting to violence
From paralyzation and death from "accidents" for participants through nigh-typical gameplay, to soccer hooligans and riots when men's college, national, and international teams win (or lose!), to a figure skater having a competitor's leg(s?) broken...
I think you can see the violence inherent in the system.
8-PP
Joda is not the solution to anything, except another academic's ego.
You can thank the SpringSource people for that xml configuration POS.
They even thought they'd make their own version of Rails (even they already have SpringMVC) and came up with Grails - which is actually much, much worse than you might expect when it *cannot* produce a stack trace less than 150 lines long, and it makes all the problems with all of their other frameworks (which Grails relies on, even though it is rumored to have been based on Groovy) that much worse - imagine the lack of implicit configuration and frameworks you've experienced so far, except that *if you're lucky* you get less informative error messages than you've seen before. Typically instead of that something simply doesn't work as you would expect and you have to research it for a couple hours (or in the case of one of my colleagues, a couple WEEKS) to figure out why it doesn't work. And then use Groovy to change class behaviour to work around SS's POS.
Yeah, like that.
So when is Nokia going to release a phone?
frak the fracking?!
I remember the whole class getting stumped on how to use variables - in Algebra in 6th grade. It took a lot for us to finally wrap our heads around it. Unfortunately I'm not sure how it finally happened - Eureka moment or not.
I hate that. And it started in high school! Except for Calculus: good book + good teacher + dedicated student = edification!
Who are you referring to? Do you actually think *anyone* voted in as POTUS has a better chance doing something counter to the current establishment? Even if they did, how/why would people believe them during the election season (2 years now?) Politics has won: humans can't believe anything anyone says so all you have are the *grunt*grunt* political parties - mobs voting for mobs, and no one is accountable, responsible, or worthy of respect.
Do tell: what is the alternative in this modern age?
mod parent up! Do *not* welcome your lawyer overlords!
This. Mod parent through the roof!
Naive question perhaps, but: what are the alternatives to a central bank? Past, fiction, theoretical, etc. example apprecitiated!
Apologies, but: hiring? 40yo dev looking for the corporate environment you're describing...
Hey, for personal interest an edification, do you have any favorites or pointers as far as academia's ideas about better desktops and what they consist of? Thanks!
Awww, never played Spy Hunter in your Excel spreadsheet?
Well, can you answer that question: what would a demo need to provide for you to decide to purchase the game? I've had the same conundrum for quite a long time with every other game system, including PCs: demos can be pretty cool - for the first 10 minutes, then it becomes more and more obvious what the UI and game rule limitations are, and usually also the design principles and goal of their... playability. Typically the only way they get my money after a demo is if they hook into some previous game commonality rather than showing they've innovated or otherwise proven their case that I should buy their game. ):
8-PP
Would you like a tasty serving of irony with your patented GM beans?
Disclaimer: only the irony is free!
Thank you, KGIII, for bringing up as good of points as you have.
Since I am also not in the circumstances of feeling transgendered, I can only wonder - and since it seems to be an extremely sensitive topic for people I shy away from interviewing people in that state to gain a better sense of what is going on for them: what they feel, think, what their internal tensons and conflicts are... I would love to do such a study if it could bring about any better understanding for myself (and perhaps their selves).
I don't have much experience with transgendered people - the one I met a few years ago was socially/personally a jerk (an ex says that change in personality coincided with testosterone treatments), while another ftm appears to me to be quite a wonderful person, and it makes me very sad to think they will be going through with surgery to, with current medical technology, what seems to me to amount to mangling their body - especially when they've so creatively dealt with their gender conflict so far.
- looking forward to better days.
My least favourite is #3 - the truth is that many packages/apps/what-the-hell-ever on Linux have their own upgrade process once you have to start dealing with all the friggin' dependencies. I haven't seen any clean way to keep 10 versions of the same dependent libraries on a Linux system (sometimes necessary) to allow me to upgrade any single application without worry about breaking other applications and sometimes more importantly without requiring me to spend a full day deconstructing the dependency trees - if that is even possible!
So I will posit that Linux is actually pretty damn far from having #2 proper package management. While it tracks things and can tell you what needs to be upgraded, it cannot tell you if it is even possible on your current system let alone in what order you will need to upgrade apps/packages/drivers/etc. for everything you currently have installed to work once you're done.
Besides crap multi-monitor/video card support, that is my biggest peeve as a developer and user of Linux.
Just sell it through Amazon: They don't care.
A couple years ago I purchased Disney's "The Little Mermaid" from amazon.com to replace a friend's stolen copy. As soon as the intended recipient saw it they said, "That's not from Disney!" The DVD had a poorly printed cover and DVD art, and significant problems playing.
I reported it to Amazon - not only the problems with the purchase but also the fact that it was obviously a copy and not an original. I've never heard back.