Unless they have been horizontally adjusted, many benchmarks are not at the coordinates that are posted for them.
Also, if you're using different datums for the benchmark vs. GMaps, or even a bad conversion between degrees/minutes/seconds to degrees/minutes/decimal minutes, you'll be "off".
PLUS, the georeferencing on satellite imagery isn't always correct.
I had my first experience with IE7 earlier this week while setting up my wife's new Vista laptop. I thought something was wrong with the computer because of how slow IE was to open a tab. I feel better now know that it's just because IE is crap.
I only used IE long enough to get Firefox downloaded. I should have just put it on a flash drive from another computer.
imagine what Javascript could do if it had libraries that weren't utter shite
It's certainly not the exact opposite of "utter shite" but JavaScript on Windows via Windows Script Host has lots of libraries immediately available which makes a lot of tasks on Windows (including administration) much easier via the FileSystemObject, WMI, etc.
Beats the crap out of cobbling things together with BAT files.
They might be, they might not be. Which is why you set up your security measures as if they aren't known, you set up your operational procedures as if they are known - thus giving yourself a reserve.
A large helicopter is not going to have a "reserve" that lets it fly to 30,000 feet and reach 250 MPH.
A 747-200, no matter how much you modify it, will not ever be capable of supersonic flight, nor a significantly higher ceiling than its civilian counterpart.
Keeping the blueprints secret means keeping the capabilities (range, speed, altitude) secret as well as keeping the nature of any active or passive defenses secret.
The capabilities of the aircraft which * One (Marine One, Air Force One, etc.) are based upon are pretty well known by anyone with an interest in them. Range, speed & altitude capabilities aren't changed significantly for these modified versions, aside from adding midair refueling to the 747-200 (which is widely distributed information).
My cats were never taught how to catch mice by their respective parents, yet they've managed to catch 3 of them. The first one they weren't quite sure what to do with, the second they killed cleanly, the third I got to before they finished the job.
I think that's the case in most states now. Combination of kids getting high on various OTC medications and original recipe Sudafed being a key ingredient in making crystal meth. "They" think that keeping track of who's got the sniffles will somehow stop people from getting high.
The people who worked on that one project had been there for years, some of them are the best of the best. Great people and great coders
If those people are great coders and "best of the best", then they'd be a tremendous asset to the remaining product team and the low-performing people from that team let go, to make room for the really excellent people from the dead product's team.
So we're left with 2 main possibilities: 1) Someone in management wanted those people gone due to personality/power conflicts or just plain "I didn't bring them in, so I want them gone" mentality, made sure they were on a single product team, and then conveniently eliminated the product. 2) Those individuals weren't as good as you perceived them to be, which may have contributed to the non-profitability of the product.
This is like Elliott Spitzer, the crusading Attorney General of New York who parlayed a number of high-profile prosecutions into a successful bid to become Governor... then pissed it all away
Asking for 10% of the profits is interesting but theres an old saying in business that the 20% owner gets paid what the 80% owner wants them to. Its hard to stop the owner (say) takinga big salary and depleting the profits that way.
You don't ask for 10% of profit, because the numbers can be manipulated to where you're getting 10% of $10. You arrange it for a percentage of gross revenues (how much money came in, before it was all spent) instead of net profit.
Or maybe you don't really need to replace it. Maybe just put Ubuntu on it. It will probably be good for quite awhile longer.
No OS can save a laptop from degenerating hardware.
Besides, if I could talk her into something like Ubuntu, I'd have her using a MacBook. She's actually ticked that she can't get XP anymore, she's resistant to the Vista UI changes.
Can't wait to not buy it, just like I didn't buy Vista. Unfortunately one or the other will find its way into my house when my wife's laptop gets replaced.
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Geocachers don't dig. If the hole wasn't already there to put a cache into, you're not supposed to make your own.
Unless they have been horizontally adjusted, many benchmarks are not at the coordinates that are posted for them.
Also, if you're using different datums for the benchmark vs. GMaps, or even a bad conversion between degrees/minutes/seconds to degrees/minutes/decimal minutes, you'll be "off".
PLUS, the georeferencing on satellite imagery isn't always correct.
I use fries to make dark matter.
I had my first experience with IE7 earlier this week while setting up my wife's new Vista laptop. I thought something was wrong with the computer because of how slow IE was to open a tab. I feel better now know that it's just because IE is crap.
I only used IE long enough to get Firefox downloaded. I should have just put it on a flash drive from another computer.
There's still slavery in lots of places in the world. Even in the US.
One word: Thundercougarfalconbird.
But they take up more hard drive space.
It's certainly not the exact opposite of "utter shite" but JavaScript on Windows via Windows Script Host has lots of libraries immediately available which makes a lot of tasks on Windows (including administration) much easier via the FileSystemObject, WMI, etc.
Beats the crap out of cobbling things together with BAT files.
A large helicopter is not going to have a "reserve" that lets it fly to 30,000 feet and reach 250 MPH.
A 747-200, no matter how much you modify it, will not ever be capable of supersonic flight, nor a significantly higher ceiling than its civilian counterpart.
The capabilities of the aircraft which * One (Marine One, Air Force One, etc.) are based upon are pretty well known by anyone with an interest in them. Range, speed & altitude capabilities aren't changed significantly for these modified versions, aside from adding midair refueling to the 747-200 (which is widely distributed information).
The GP didn't say he didn't get paid.
Unless you opt not to play.
And then you get thousands of calls from people screaming "but I clicked Yes, why doesn't it work? Yes means 'make it work'!"
And what about those who can't upgrade beyond IE6 for at least 2 more years?
Do you blank out your plates while you're driving? That's on show to the public all the time.
My cats were never taught how to catch mice by their respective parents, yet they've managed to catch 3 of them. The first one they weren't quite sure what to do with, the second they killed cleanly, the third I got to before they finished the job.
I'm pretty sure that someone from id stated exactly that - 10 years ago.
I think that's the case in most states now. Combination of kids getting high on various OTC medications and original recipe Sudafed being a key ingredient in making crystal meth. "They" think that keeping track of who's got the sniffles will somehow stop people from getting high.
If those people are great coders and "best of the best", then they'd be a tremendous asset to the remaining product team and the low-performing people from that team let go, to make room for the really excellent people from the dead product's team.
So we're left with 2 main possibilities:
1) Someone in management wanted those people gone due to personality/power conflicts or just plain "I didn't bring them in, so I want them gone" mentality, made sure they were on a single product team, and then conveniently eliminated the product.
2) Those individuals weren't as good as you perceived them to be, which may have contributed to the non-profitability of the product.
It's a nation founded by Puritans and presently populated with 200+ million prudes which has a multi-billion-dollar pr0n industry.
What's so hard to understand?
Right organ, wrong fluid.
You don't ask for 10% of profit, because the numbers can be manipulated to where you're getting 10% of $10. You arrange it for a percentage of gross revenues (how much money came in, before it was all spent) instead of net profit.
No OS can save a laptop from degenerating hardware.
Besides, if I could talk her into something like Ubuntu, I'd have her using a MacBook. She's actually ticked that she can't get XP anymore, she's resistant to the Vista UI changes.
Caddy didn't do that for fuel economy - that was strictly an "oh shit the engine's overheating/lost coolant" limp-home mode.
Can't wait to not buy it, just like I didn't buy Vista. Unfortunately one or the other will find its way into my house when my wife's laptop gets replaced.