As a lead software developer at a major software company, I must say that Joel's comments are spot-on and that, contrary to his self-deprecating comments, following his advice will do you a great deal of good.
Please, please get the internships. I promise you they will improve your career tremendously.
Hmmm... so let's say I'm on a file-sharing network, minding my own business, searching for uncopyrighted (or free license) music. If an illegal song is 'offered' to me by turning up on my list when I wasn't explicitly looking for it in the first place, is it entrapment when I divert my normal behavior to download the tempting illegal file I didn't initially seek?
In real life, it might be like asking around for a Coca-cola when someone chimes in with "Hey, I have some coke. Oh, sorry, I meant cocaine, but do you still want it?"
Am I the only one who thinks they should make a reality TV show out of all of these 'Space Prizes'?
Perhaps some network could air 'The Astronaut', where someone is eventually chosen to go into space, and they'd use the advertisement proceeds to fund some space start-up.
Heh, it'd be the first show where being 'voted off' is a good thing.
In retrospect, this letter should be of no surprise to you. For years now I have stood by you despite the terrible things you have said about Microsoft. We have always managed to work through our serious problems but too many things have been swept under the table. I do not think I can stand (idly) by you any longer.
What's that? No, another DOOM3 review will not help, not this time.
I remember when we met, a warm April day, in 1999. For years I had been hearing about you, about your terrible green HTML of death, Open Source advocation, poor social skills, web server obliteration, and problems raising money... I had seen you here and there, but it was not until that fateful day, April 6, that our relationship became serious. I was almost knocked off my feet when I first saw you. Right then I knew it, you had to be mine. Who else could offer me what you could? I wanted, no, I needed, your Cowboy Neal polls, your Insightful comments, your great techno music...
As time progressed so did my needs. Our affair took its next serious step on August 24, 2001. At the time I thought our happiness would never end. You brought me places I never thought possible. How could I refuse your IOCCC results or your Napster articles? I mean, you gave up your best friend, financial independence, so our relationship could progress unhindered with OSDN. It hurts me to look back at us, two starry-eyed lovers wanting nothing more than each other's first posts.
Well, like I wrote, I have reached my limit. Its going to take more than mod points to fix our relationship. I just don't feel like I know you anymore. For example, do you know what I found on the site a few days ago? A dupe! I wonder who let that in...
Slashdot, I know you will try to change, but I have been hurt too many times. You should know that I have been seeing someone else for a few months now. She is fun, easy going, and will do something for me that you never even considered, oust the president.
I don't know what else to say- we had a good run, but now its over. Pack up your Beowulf cluster, your SCO stories, hell, take slashcode if you have to. I am sure we'll see each other from time to time but I know one thing, I'll never again have to depend on you.
I don't see standardization as a method to draw end users to a new technology. Sometimes it will draw developers, but I'd be surprised if anything as minor as getting a new ISO standard would hurt the MS Office market.
One unlikely problem could be capturing the public's imagination. "When we actually start launching this it's going to be kind of boring," Dr Edwards said. "There's no smoke, there's no pillars of fire and there's no loud rumbling noises. There's just this thing that slowly ascends the ribbon into space."
This just means we have to reverse the viewing of the 'launch' to be from a camera mounted from the object. It'd be really neat to see the world as this climbs up above it.
As for tourists, I imagine this could put that miniscule 'Space Needle' to shame.
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As a lead software developer at a major software company, I must say that Joel's comments are spot-on and that, contrary to his self-deprecating comments, following his advice will do you a great deal of good.
Please, please get the internships. I promise you they will improve your career tremendously.
Well, Duh! Everyone knows you have to use switch statements in that kind of project.
Hmmm... so let's say I'm on a file-sharing network, minding my own business, searching for uncopyrighted (or free license) music. If an illegal song is 'offered' to me by turning up on my list when I wasn't explicitly looking for it in the first place, is it entrapment when I divert my normal behavior to download the tempting illegal file I didn't initially seek?
In real life, it might be like asking around for a Coca-cola when someone chimes in with "Hey, I have some coke. Oh, sorry, I meant cocaine, but do you still want it?"
Donating Windows to third world schools shouldn't count, because there's no way they would have paid full price for it anyway.
You're surely a troll, but:
WTF? Would you make the same argument for microscopes, textbooks, or PhD-holding faculty?
Just because they would never be able to afford it does not make it any less of a charitable donation.
I know what you mean.
About half-way through the game, though, it becomes less linear. Hang in there.
Uh, this is an option. You can turn it off immediately upon installation. Please look into something before spouting off random quotes.
A legal-ese bot would be a bit difficult. I just think all click-throughs should include a link to an FAQ about that specific agreement.
On a similar note, I'm surprised there aren't more online arbitration sites (for EULA and other disputes). Anyone used one of those?
Has anyone used Voxilla or AT&T's VoIP services?
Any reason why someone would pay want to pay more for AT&T?
Didn't we just have an article about CSS?
Am I the only one who thinks they should make a reality TV show out of all of these 'Space Prizes'?
Perhaps some network could air 'The Astronaut', where someone is eventually chosen to go into space, and they'd use the advertisement proceeds to fund some space start-up.
Heh, it'd be the first show where being 'voted off' is a good thing.
"This release was made possible by our world-wide development community.
Oh, yeah, and ridiculously large settlement payments by Microsoft."
In retrospect, this letter should be of no surprise to you. For years now I have stood by you despite the terrible things you have said about Microsoft. We have always managed to work through our serious problems but too many things have been swept under the table. I do not think I can stand (idly) by you any longer.
What's that? No, another DOOM3 review will not help, not this time.
I remember when we met, a warm April day, in 1999. For years I had been hearing about you, about your terrible green HTML of death, Open Source advocation, poor social skills, web server obliteration, and problems raising money... I had seen you here and there, but it was not until that fateful day, April 6, that our relationship became serious. I was almost knocked off my feet when I first saw you. Right then I knew it, you had to be mine. Who else could offer me what you could? I wanted, no, I needed, your Cowboy Neal polls, your Insightful comments, your great techno music...
As time progressed so did my needs. Our affair took its next serious step on August 24, 2001. At the time I thought our happiness would never end. You brought me places I never thought possible. How could I refuse your IOCCC results or your Napster articles? I mean, you gave up your best friend, financial independence, so our relationship could progress unhindered with OSDN. It hurts me to look back at us, two starry-eyed lovers wanting nothing more than each other's first posts.
Well, like I wrote, I have reached my limit. Its going to take more than mod points to fix our relationship. I just don't feel like I know you anymore. For example, do you know what I found on the site a few days ago? A dupe! I wonder who let that in...
Slashdot, I know you will try to change, but I have been hurt too many times. You should know that I have been seeing someone else for a few months now. She is fun, easy going, and will do something for me that you never even considered, oust the president.
I don't know what else to say- we had a good run, but now its over. Pack up your Beowulf cluster, your SCO stories, hell, take slashcode if you have to. I am sure we'll see each other from time to time but I know one thing, I'll never again have to depend on you.
Yours no longer,
N I
Am I the only one who immediately thinks of debilitating diseases whenever this project is mentioned?
I, for one, don't get much enjoyment head-shotting AI, anyway.
Yes, it's soooo interesting to look at our own devices on other planets.
Maybe it's just me, but when I'm on an exotic vacation, I don't go out and start taking pictures of my car.
Anybody played these games and can recommend one? I haven't run into a single one of these before.
Will Google go south?
Why is this sectioned on Slashdot in 'Linux' and not 'Sun'?
I don't see standardization as a method to draw end users to a new technology. Sometimes it will draw developers, but I'd be surprised if anything as minor as getting a new ISO standard would hurt the MS Office market.
I'd start by trying to get the most touristy areas covered by wireless. Beaches, Main street, historic district, etc.
It's much more likely to happen there since most cities have no problem providing this sort of support to non-citizens.
Over time, this might grow to your local parks and hang-out areas.
then when one thinks a little, isn't all that big a deal...
I think you've summed-up just about every discussion point that ever existed.
Obviously the only additional force the spoiler would add to any stationary car would be the downward force from the weight of the spoiler.
You must not have seen the spoilers we have around here, or else you'd have mentioned the tidal effects caused by the sheer mass.
And all this time I thought it was spelled "edix0r".
One unlikely problem could be capturing the public's imagination. "When we actually start launching this it's going to be kind of boring," Dr Edwards said. "There's no smoke, there's no pillars of fire and there's no loud rumbling noises. There's just this thing that slowly ascends the ribbon into space."
This just means we have to reverse the viewing of the 'launch' to be from a camera mounted from the object. It'd be really neat to see the world as this climbs up above it.
As for tourists, I imagine this could put that miniscule 'Space Needle' to shame.