They can eliminate recording artists completely and make 100% profit by having a machine pump out songs every now and then that are in 4/4 timing with a computer generated voice of a hot 20-something girl singing about sex.
I would like to contribute to Open Source Projects and support the community in this fashion. I am a Developer I and I don't have a great deal of experience, and I am not familiar with the way Open Source projects progress.
I have looked a little at Sourceforge, but am really unsure where exactly to begin. Any ideas?
I'm behind a firewall so I can't see the pics right now, but Xbox modding is something that is a really interesting topic right now. The whole thing of MS not wanting you to do things to your own system etc. It is refreshing to see someone actually mod their Xbox and not just paint the plastic X on the top red and call it modding or hacking.
I think any management team that would look down upon a solution that could possibly save time and therefore money is a bad management team.
All possible resources on hand should be evaluated before beginning a project. That's what a project plan's for!
If they are just rejecting a language out of hand because of the reputation of the language, they're not doing their collective jobs as one of the core components of systems design happens to be evaluation of all alternative solutions - both pros and cons.
Now if they actually did honestly evaluate to the full extent and still rejected your perl script.. well that's another thing entirely.
There are many indicators throughout history that have shown that patents and greedy people behind those patents have actually inhibited the progress of our society and culture.
Take for example Tesla. Without the many inventions he created, all patentless, we would be in dire straits indeed. He did not believe in making money from his inventions.
By patenting everything on the face of the earth, you increase cost, piracy/theft rates, and you effectively remove certain technologies from lower income households. Finally, it stagnates the future of that invention, because it cannot be used and matured without paying fee upon fee.
Probably because degassed water is really hydrogen and the oil industry can't have you using it as an alternative and cheaper energy source could they? But they can certainly use it to cut costs and raise the price of gas.
However I do know people with over-inflated egoes because they can install a Red Hat server..
You know, pop in the CD, and click on the Server button when you are given a choice of install choices.
I almost fell out of my chair when the guy showed me that this was how he installs his server that he rants and raves about. He did absolutely no package choosing of his own.
I know a certain few people that really do believe these movies and I think they did go into school to become programmers because of movies like Hackers.
It is laughable to think that anyone in their sane mind would believe that you could hack stop lights in 5 seconds especially on a Mac.
But alas, I do know people that bought these movies and watch them repetitively, and probably believe that real hacking is like that.
To me, I haven't seen Office Space, but the only realistic portrayal of programmers I know of is in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
I don't see why anyone has to do these kinds of things. It's like they do it for the attention. Cell phones going off in classrooms really pisses me off, and I'm sure it makes the instructor quite angry.
I have a cell phone but I have never had it ring anywhere inappropriate because I turn off the damn ringer and put it on vibration mode. Why is it that nobody else can do this?
We could try and figure out why some people just have to have their phone on the ring mode instead of the vibration mode during every single important event where a phone call would be unappreciated.
I had a friend in college that would never turn his phone to silent mode. He interrupted the teacher, students, presentations, and exams with that stupid thing.
How can someone not know they are irritating everyone with their annoying phone? Or is it a ploy to show how 'popular' or 'important' you think you are?
Every company wants customers to buy all their crap. Microsoft is no different. You just feel slighted by them for some rediculous reason. There's not a company out there that won't rob you blind while your back is turned.
I think this is the perfect opportunity to insert crypto into the email process.
The crypto keys could be exchanged as the proof that you know the person and then the acceptance would automatically put the user into your 'white list'..
I'd use this if someone made it. It could probably even be a plugin to Outlook Express
this may be useful for those old video cards that you never use anymore. I've got a 16MB Voodoo Banshee I don't use anymore.. I wonder if it would be possible to install it for an extra 16MB of RAM? I wouldn't be wasting a good video card then, and I have another one that I use as my primary.
"They claim that the location, length and number of embedded keys can vary making it more difficult to hack."
The operative words here are "more difficult". It will be "more difficult" to the guys breaking the copy protection for about the first few hours. Then when a program is released across the internet that everyone can use by clicking a button, it doesn't become so difficult..:)
1. Do most or all of your homework 2. Attend every single class possible - even one missed class can impact your comprehension of the subject. 3. Don't hang out with self-destructive people (these are the people that want to go drinking every night) - They WILL drag you down. This also goes for the people that want to play UT every night after class. 4. Don't be the self-destructive person. 5. Spend your spare time learning about other aspects of your subjects that are not taught in class.
Honestly though, the self-destructive person is just usually someone that's taking the courses for the wrong reason. I know a lot of people that tried to take computer programmer/analyst 'for the money' and have now been long since gone.
I'm in my final semester of a 3 1/2 year course, and I don't believe anyone is left that is 'doing it for the money'. The money will be nice, but you still have to put in 40+ hours a week.
I have an excellent method of keeping my windows system running well.
I have a small hard drive (30 GB) that I have divided into several partitions (9 to be exact).
The first partition is where I install the OS. The second is where I install all the 'Program Files'. The third is where I install all my programming stuff (like visual studio.net, etc). Finally, the rest just store whatever, like mp3s, backup files etc.
Now, whenever my system does end up going to hell (which it seems to last longer using this method), I just copy my user's data over to 4th partition or higher, and then I wipe the first 3 partitions and reinstall.
Yeah I know I still have to reinstall everything, and I should probably be using ghost. But it's still much better than making one or even 2 giant patitions.
Linux installs seem to use this same method as well anyway, where/usr is a different partition or a different drive. However, I have read that Linux will handle each partition differently based on what's on the partition. Windows does not do that.
But if you do want to use windows, this is the way I'd suggest going about it.
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They can eliminate recording artists completely and make 100% profit by having a machine pump out songs every now and then that are in 4/4 timing with a computer generated voice of a hot
20-something girl singing about sex.
After all, that America's Army game must cost them a ton in development fees and distribution fees
I would like to contribute to Open Source Projects and support the community in this fashion. I am a Developer I and I don't have a great deal of experience, and I am not familiar with the way Open Source projects progress.
I have looked a little at Sourceforge, but am really unsure where exactly to begin. Any ideas?
I'm behind a firewall so I can't see the pics right now, but Xbox modding is something that is a really interesting topic right now. The whole thing of MS not wanting you to do things to your own system etc. It is refreshing to see someone actually mod their Xbox and not just paint the plastic X on the top red and call it modding or hacking.
I would imagine it's the first thing the patent office did when it came into existence
I think any management team that would look down upon a solution that could possibly save time and therefore money is a bad management team.
All possible resources on hand should be evaluated before beginning a project. That's what a project plan's for!
If they are just rejecting a language out of hand because of the reputation of the language, they're not doing their collective jobs as one of the core components of systems design happens to be evaluation of all alternative solutions - both pros and cons.
Now if they actually did honestly evaluate to the full extent and still rejected your perl script.. well that's another thing entirely.
There are many indicators throughout history that have shown that patents and greedy people behind those patents have actually inhibited the progress of our society and culture.
Take for example Tesla. Without the many inventions he created, all patentless, we would be in dire straits indeed. He did not believe in making money from his inventions.
By patenting everything on the face of the earth, you increase cost, piracy/theft rates, and you effectively remove certain technologies from lower income households. Finally, it stagnates the future of that invention, because it cannot be used and matured without paying fee upon fee.
Probably because degassed water is really hydrogen and the oil industry can't have you using it as an alternative and cheaper energy source could they? But they can certainly use it to cut costs and raise the price of gas.
If you take all of the dissolved gas out of water (which would be the oxygen of the h2o), wouldn't you just end up with hydrogen?
Then you just announce you have found a way to mix 'water' with oil. But really you're mixing hydrogen with oil.
Or maybe there is more to this?
A> Documentation
B> Wait for your team members to complete work that you need in order to start your work
C> Wait more
do you know people like this? I don't...
However I do know people with over-inflated egoes because they can install a Red Hat server..
You know, pop in the CD, and click on the Server button when you are given a choice of install choices.
I almost fell out of my chair when the guy showed me that this was how he installs his server that he rants and raves about. He did absolutely no package choosing of his own.
Who remembers this one?
I know a certain few people that really do believe these movies and I think they did go into school to become programmers because of movies like Hackers.
It is laughable to think that anyone in their sane mind would believe that you could hack stop lights in 5 seconds especially on a Mac.
But alas, I do know people that bought these movies and watch them repetitively, and probably believe that real hacking is like that.
To me, I haven't seen Office Space, but the only realistic portrayal of programmers I know of is in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
I don't see why anyone has to do these kinds of things. It's like they do it for the attention. Cell phones going off in classrooms really pisses me off, and I'm sure it makes the instructor quite angry.
I have a cell phone but I have never had it ring anywhere inappropriate because I turn off the damn ringer and put it on vibration mode. Why is it that nobody else can do this?
We could try and figure out why some people just have to have their phone on the ring mode instead of the vibration mode during every single important event where a phone call would be unappreciated.
I had a friend in college that would never turn his phone to silent mode. He interrupted the teacher, students, presentations, and exams with that stupid thing.
How can someone not know they are irritating everyone with their annoying phone? Or is it a ploy to show how 'popular' or 'important' you think you are?
Every company wants customers to buy all their crap. Microsoft is no different. You just feel slighted by them for some rediculous reason. There's not a company out there that won't rob you blind while your back is turned.
I think this is the perfect opportunity to insert crypto into the email process.
The crypto keys could be exchanged as the proof that you know the person and then the acceptance would automatically put the user into your 'white list'..
I'd use this if someone made it. It could probably even be a plugin to Outlook Express
that business-people worldwide will be beating their chests like so many banana deprived apes. Bow your head!
this may be useful for those old video cards that you never use anymore. I've got a 16MB Voodoo Banshee I don't use anymore.. I wonder if it would be possible to install it for an extra 16MB of RAM? I wouldn't be wasting a good video card then, and I have another one that I use as my primary.
You're splitting a T1 with a HUB??
Dude, you should be using a router or at least a switch!
"They claim that the location, length and number of embedded keys can vary making it more difficult to hack."
:)
The operative words here are "more difficult". It will be "more difficult" to the guys breaking the copy protection for about the first few hours. Then when a program is released across the internet that everyone can use by clicking a button, it doesn't become so difficult..
Just because you don't know what .NET does doesn't mean nobody else does.
1. Do most or all of your homework
2. Attend every single class possible - even one missed class can impact your comprehension of the subject.
3. Don't hang out with self-destructive people (these are the people that want to go drinking every night) - They WILL drag you down. This also goes for the people that want to play UT every night after class.
4. Don't be the self-destructive person.
5. Spend your spare time learning about other aspects of your subjects that are not taught in class.
Honestly though, the self-destructive person is just usually someone that's taking the courses for the wrong reason. I know a lot of people that tried to take computer programmer/analyst 'for the money' and have now been long since gone.
I'm in my final semester of a 3 1/2 year course, and I don't believe anyone is left that is 'doing it for the money'. The money will be nice, but you still have to put in 40+ hours a week.
likely any woman you try this on will instantly identify you as a cheap SOB looking for an excuse to not have to buy one. Sadly, I'd have to agree.
I have an excellent method of keeping my windows system running well.
.net, etc). Finally, the rest just store whatever, like mp3s, backup files etc.
/usr is a different partition or a different drive. However, I have read that Linux will handle each partition differently based on what's on the partition. Windows does not do that.
I have a small hard drive (30 GB) that I have divided into several partitions (9 to be exact).
The first partition is where I install the OS. The second is where I install all the 'Program Files'. The third is where I install all my programming stuff (like visual studio
Now, whenever my system does end up going to hell (which it seems to last longer using this method), I just copy my user's data over to 4th partition or higher, and then I wipe the first 3 partitions and reinstall.
Yeah I know I still have to reinstall everything, and I should probably be using ghost. But it's still much better than making one or even 2 giant patitions.
Linux installs seem to use this same method as well anyway, where
But if you do want to use windows, this is the way I'd suggest going about it.