I'm not much of a programmer, so take what I say here with a grain of salt. When I wrote programs (and when I reviewed others), I noticed that the "cleanest" were generally the most bug-free (of course, with whitespace you can have clean code that doesn't do anything, but that doesn't count).
Just like a clean report, clean code has thought put into it and is well organized with few errors. I'm guessing that he is basing his comment on his experience with Opera bugs (or lack of the same). Of course, it could be kludge after kludge of exceptions to keep it from crashing or keep it rendering properly, but that seems unlikely.
I think Apple would object to being referred to as "the toyota of the desktop computing world". They might prefer BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Bentley, or Aston-Martin.
Linux is the Toyota/Honda: cheap, reliabile, and infinitely modifyable.
Historically, Sony has been a never-ending battle between the hardware divisions wanting to make products that don't suck and the content divisions not letting them. If they spin off BMG, the engineers might grow a pair and start making cool products again, which might even mean drm free.
...because when I was in high school (when I got into D&D), Barnes & Noble refused to sell D&D books. Something about kids on acid playing D&D and killing someone, I think.
After discussing it with my co-workers, I decided to place an order. Imagine my surprise when they told me they wouldn't ship to the US! I guess the world really doesn't revolve around us after all.
Anyone know a reseller who will ship these to the States? Or does this violate some sort of weapons export restriction(s)?
This 4th of July we salute you Mr. Xbox Alpha Tester (Mr. Xbox Alpha Tester) Not content to play with just three video game consoles, you need the latest and greatest to validate your elite game playing skills to your friends. (Vrooom! Bang!) Ah, the sounds of summer... Crickets chirping, birds singing, the blood curdling scream of a diseased hooker being run over by a 2005 Hummer H2. (Music to my ears) Every night, a magical environment of blue-screens, wireless controllers thrown against the walls, and overheating can only mean one thing.. summer's here (Die whores die) So crack open an ice cold Bud Light Mr. Unpaid Microsoft Employee Then sit back and watch the fireworks (Mr. Xbox Alpha Tester)
I noticed this the most on the the shark week "Jaws" episode. To determine how big great whites can get, they didn't talk to a single marine biologist. Instead, mythbusters took three data points, two of which were unverified, and came up with a "conclusion" which didn't match the third one. I.e. it was pulled from their butts.
This totally wrecked the show for me, because I felt like they misinterpreted the myth. The myth isn't whether a great white shark can be 25 feet long. After all, its a MONSTER MOVIE. The myth is whether such a shark could do the things it did. And using the math used in the show, it was proven pretty conclusively.
I haven't been a mechanical engineer for very long, but in my experience industrial designers are pretty bright. They're certainly very creative. Unfortunately, their heads are in the clouds. They come up with clever ideas but give no thought to how to solve the problems they create, nor do they care to consider other solutions.
I do not believe for a second that industrial designers could have created this. This is a thermal problem and requires clever mechanical engineering. I think its more likely that the industrial designers contracted that part out, taking the credit for themselves.
For some reason, people like to hear that one or two people can do something this complicated by themselves. It's the same mentality that causes Time Magazine to interview Jonathan Ive about the creation of every new mac, even though its a massive team effort with EE's, MechE's, industrial designers, packaging engineers, programmers, and supply chain managers.
The problem (for Sony and other DRM-vendors) is that, AFAIK, Macs don't have auto-run. You can even set it up so that putting in a music CD automatically loads iTunes and rips it. So much for using a special Sony-approved music player to listen to your CD and so much for Sony DRM preventing you from putting it on your iPod.
Even if macs have (or had) auto-run, you'd be prompted for a password when it tried to install those kernel extensions. I would not let any music CD install software *anywhere*, and I've advised my mac-using family to do the same.
FYI, starcraft runs on OS X. They even release bug fixes from time to time. The last one was just a couple weeks ago, in fact. Now there's NOTHING stopping them! BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Welcome to mechanical design/engineering. I started a year ago and I love my job. One recent ME graduate I know actually interviewed at FUCKINGMACHINES.com (NSFW, duh). He didn't get the job, but it shows what endless possibilities their are for people who actually want to build things rather than just punch keys all day.
Toilet paper should be deployed ABOVE the roll, not below, so there should be a law prohibiting this, with roaming teams of toilet-paper inspectors
GOD YES! I grew up in a household where toilet paper was always deployed as you describe. I continue the tradition in my own home. Why would you even bother the other way? Can't we all just get along...and do it my way?
The same reason living in a nudist colony isn't as satisfying as watching dirty movies.
Go outside. Look around. Aren't you glad those people aren't wearing spandex (except for maybe that one cute girl, but think about the signal/noise ratio)?
My mistake, thanks for correcting me. In any case, the sequence of events is real. So it was a misguided reason to buy a mac...but I did anyway and I've stuck with them.
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Here, I'll help them out.
(in matlab)
input p1;
input p2;
[1 p1 p2 p1*p2]
Viola! Sony will have to add the rootkit code, though, because I don't know how to write those.
I'm not much of a programmer, so take what I say here with a grain of salt. When I wrote programs (and when I reviewed others), I noticed that the "cleanest" were generally the most bug-free (of course, with whitespace you can have clean code that doesn't do anything, but that doesn't count).
Just like a clean report, clean code has thought put into it and is well organized with few errors. I'm guessing that he is basing his comment on his experience with Opera bugs (or lack of the same). Of course, it could be kludge after kludge of exceptions to keep it from crashing or keep it rendering properly, but that seems unlikely.
Didn't they just do that this morning? What are they gonna do with TWO sets of data?
I think this is the part where the parent poster says "I rest my case."
I think Apple would object to being referred to as "the toyota of the desktop computing world". They might prefer BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Bentley, or Aston-Martin.
Linux is the Toyota/Honda: cheap, reliabile, and infinitely modifyable.
Historically, Sony has been a never-ending battle between the hardware divisions wanting to make products that don't suck and the content divisions not letting them. If they spin off BMG, the engineers might grow a pair and start making cool products again, which might even mean drm free.
I wouldn't hold my breath, though.
...because when I was in high school (when I got into D&D), Barnes & Noble refused to sell D&D books. Something about kids on acid playing D&D and killing someone, I think.
After discussing it with my co-workers, I decided to place an order. Imagine my surprise when they told me they wouldn't ship to the US! I guess the world really doesn't revolve around us after all.
Anyone know a reseller who will ship these to the States? Or does this violate some sort of weapons export restriction(s)?
This 4th of July we salute you Mr. Xbox Alpha Tester
(Mr. Xbox Alpha Tester)
Not content to play with just three video game consoles, you need the latest and greatest to validate your elite game playing skills to your friends.
(Vrooom! Bang!)
Ah, the sounds of summer... Crickets chirping, birds singing, the blood curdling scream of a diseased hooker being run over by a 2005 Hummer H2.
(Music to my ears)
Every night, a magical environment of blue-screens, wireless controllers thrown against the walls, and overheating can only mean one thing.. summer's here
(Die whores die)
So crack open an ice cold Bud Light Mr. Unpaid Microsoft Employee
Then sit back and watch the fireworks
(Mr. Xbox Alpha Tester)
Thanks to Budweiser
I noticed this the most on the the shark week "Jaws" episode. To determine how big great whites can get, they didn't talk to a single marine biologist. Instead, mythbusters took three data points, two of which were unverified, and came up with a "conclusion" which didn't match the third one. I.e. it was pulled from their butts.
This totally wrecked the show for me, because I felt like they misinterpreted the myth. The myth isn't whether a great white shark can be 25 feet long. After all, its a MONSTER MOVIE. The myth is whether such a shark could do the things it did. And using the math used in the show, it was proven pretty conclusively.
I haven't been a mechanical engineer for very long, but in my experience industrial designers are pretty bright. They're certainly very creative. Unfortunately, their heads are in the clouds. They come up with clever ideas but give no thought to how to solve the problems they create, nor do they care to consider other solutions.
I do not believe for a second that industrial designers could have created this. This is a thermal problem and requires clever mechanical engineering. I think its more likely that the industrial designers contracted that part out, taking the credit for themselves.
For some reason, people like to hear that one or two people can do something this complicated by themselves. It's the same mentality that causes Time Magazine to interview Jonathan Ive about the creation of every new mac, even though its a massive team effort with EE's, MechE's, industrial designers, packaging engineers, programmers, and supply chain managers.
"It is recommended to disconnect the computer from the internet and reinstall the operating system."
::ducks::
Isn't that same as any other windows fix?
The problem (for Sony and other DRM-vendors) is that, AFAIK, Macs don't have auto-run. You can even set it up so that putting in a music CD automatically loads iTunes and rips it. So much for using a special Sony-approved music player to listen to your CD and so much for Sony DRM preventing you from putting it on your iPod.
Even if macs have (or had) auto-run, you'd be prompted for a password when it tried to install those kernel extensions. I would not let any music CD install software *anywhere*, and I've advised my mac-using family to do the same.
No, they blow up abortion clinics. [sarcasm] That's *much* better [/sarcasm].
FYI, starcraft runs on OS X. They even release bug fixes from time to time. The last one was just a couple weeks ago, in fact. Now there's NOTHING stopping them! BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Welcome to mechanical design/engineering. I started a year ago and I love my job. One recent ME graduate I know actually interviewed at FUCKINGMACHINES.com (NSFW, duh). He didn't get the job, but it shows what endless possibilities their are for people who actually want to build things rather than just punch keys all day.
Toilet paper should be deployed ABOVE the roll, not below, so there should be a law prohibiting this, with roaming teams of toilet-paper inspectors
GOD YES! I grew up in a household where toilet paper was always deployed as you describe. I continue the tradition in my own home. Why would you even bother the other way? Can't we all just get along...and do it my way?
USPS: When it absolutely, positively, has to be destroyed overnight.
Yes, I know this is from a Fedex advertisement.
Alternatively, replace USPS with your (least-) favorite carrier.
My big concern is that they named it after a weatherman.
Come on, I can't be the only one that read "Roker" when they saw the name!
Yes, my father's company, Ad Industries, is not thinking about buying Skype.
Yes, this was a shameless plug.
I'd ask for six bullets. Why would you want to risk getting the empty chamber?
Ahem. I'd like to disprove that theory.
Bush = Monkey
No, no, no. Next bought apple...for negative 430 million. A deal at twice the price!
The same reason living in a nudist colony isn't as satisfying as watching dirty movies.
Go outside. Look around. Aren't you glad those people aren't wearing spandex (except for maybe that one cute girl, but think about the signal/noise ratio)?
My mistake, thanks for correcting me. In any case, the sequence of events is real. So it was a misguided reason to buy a mac...but I did anyway and I've stuck with them.