The time it takes to change depends on what the change is. On some monitors, it will take longer to go from white to black than blank to white. The manufacturer will run a gamut of tests and determine which one was fastest and print that as the spec. I don't know what this monitor's specific colour change is. It could be black to white, it could be blue to red, it could be dark grey to light black.
Response speed is not the predominant factor, but it's one that the manufacturers sell because it's easy to quantify. It's easiest for the folks at Best Buy to say, "Uh, 3ms is faster than 13ms, so the 3ms is better." It's garbage, it's rubbish, it's bunk. Buy the monitor that looks the best to you.
Bugs in the code are not repeat NOT the fault of the guy (or girl) who put them there in the first place.
The fault lies with the company that didn't test the software correctly. You can't test your own code to failure. If you think you can, then you're either wrong or sloppy. By definition, you can't think of something you haven't thought of. You will find bugs in my code and I will find bugs in yours. That is because we think differently. If you didn't account for possibilities that you could think of, then you're being sloppy.
You have to have someone else test your code to FAIL. Anything less is going to have bugs and leaks. You can not get around this.
As for the proposal, you get what you pay for. If you want a bug-free operating system and software, then pay the extra cash for a military-grade version. Otherwise, pay the $200 (or $0) and live with the crashes. Don't buy the cheapest power supply you can get your hands on and pair it with the cheapest hard drive money can buy.
If you want to be an Engineer, talk to the governing body. Tell them that software that works and works well is Engineering, and that you think that some responsibility and accountability would be great for your profession. Bring up how much more money they could bring in from the extra 1000 or so Software Programmers who could be Engineers.
In Canada, you can be a Software Engineer - you get the ring, the B.Eng, EIT restrictions, and P.Eng potential. You're an Engineer in the real sense of the word, not some mail-order alphabet soup "engineering" certificate from nortel or microsoft. (I'm an EE, but some of my friends are SE.)
If you're going to metagame, you'd better make sure that your DM isn't a rules lawyer!
I can't imagine why nobody has realized that unwanted and unauthorized use of someone else's private property is illegal! If I ate out of your fridge every day just because I knew how to unlock your door, you'd call the police.
Basically, Paul Martin (the Prime Minister) is incredibly wealthy. You just don't have enough cash to bribe him. He's a slimy dickhead, but at least you know he can't be bought. I don't like the Liberals, but they're better than some of the alternatives. Basically, our parties can be summed up like this: Liberals (left of center): White men, dark suits, red ties. PC(right wing): White men, dark suits, blue ties. NDP(left wing): White men, look uncomfortable in dark suits, various tie colours BQ(seperatists): hommes blancs, costumes foncés, cravates de bleu avec fleur-de-lis Green: Unknown. No members have been sighted on Parliament Hill. Probably white men, look uncomfortable in dark suits, green ties.
We've got a multi-party system and have people whose job is to criticize the government at every step. We call them Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Our leaders can't just say "If you question this, then you hate Canada" since that's what they do. Right now, we have a minority government, so the parties are forced to work together to pass any piece of legislation whatsoever.
One other thing we have is a loser-pay system in our courts. The CRIA can't sue just to bankrupt someone because if they lost, they'd have to pay all the court costs plus all the time it would take me. If I got sued by them, I'd just get my lawyer to take care of it and she'd end up getting paid by CRIA as mandated by the court. (Since I haven't done anything illegal, they'd lose.) I probably wouldn't have to miss much work.
As for the document, the purpose of the 600 page argument is to give judges a reference for their judgements. Without it, all they'd have to go on is what the CRIA tells them. Judges are humans too, and they are prone to mistakes and emotional appeals just like the rest of us.
You can get solar-powered lights, genius. You get a solar cell, hook it up to a supercapacitor or a rechargable battery, and hook that up to an LED. Control the whole thing with a switch or a phototransistor and you've got a solar-powered light.
I guess you haven't heard about Carmanah Technologies (who make solar-powered lights for bus stops, navigation bouys, etc.) or Engineers without Borders (who provide solar-powered lights for kids in impovershed countries so they can read at night).
Or were you trying to be funny? Old carrot-top routines from 20 years ago just don't cut it once technology improves.
Polycarbonate is a tough material. It's bullet-resistant when it's 2mm thick. (22 gauge from 100m, but I don't know if a 22 is considered a bullet by Americans.)
It scratches very, very easily unless you put a scratch-resistant coating on it. That costs a few more cents, and uncoated is available for internal applications or when the end user wants to finish it.
I'll bet the guy who picked the material doesn't wear glasses.
Technically, you don't eat a dick unless you're a cannibal. I think the word you're looking for is "suck".
Further, you indicate that you had you dick sucked by a guy last night, yet are using the derogatory "faggot". Perhaps you are confused about your own sexuality. This isn't the best place to ask for help; I'd suggest Dan Savage over at Savage Love.
Keep trying, eventually you'll get the hang of trolling.
If money truly is no object, then HIRE MORE STAFF and LEARN TO DELEGATE. If you can't trust your staff to do the work correctly, then you hired the wrong staff. If you truly are a professional, you'd be able to leave on time and still get the job done.
If you're building a super workstation designed for putting in long hours, I'll wager than anything you're going to write is going to be bug-filled and undocumented. That's hardly professional.
It acts as the salt bridge for the anode and cathode. I also didn't see the point until I read the article.
The idea is to have non-powered devices like pregnancy tests and diabetic testers that don't cosume power until you use them.
I don't know how they'll get a computer-operated pregnancy test down to the price of a multi-pack of dipstrips, but hey, I'm not the one pissing away a government grant.
You make your money on the plans. You give away the phones with a long enough plan. Thus, if you decrease the cost of the giveaway phones, the company makes more money. It was a statement of fact. Re-reading my comment, I can see that you'd think I was wearing a tinfoil hat. (I don't even wear sunscreen, for crying out loud.)
There's nothing wrong with having higher margins. There's also nothing wrong with me for never having any desire for a cell phone. I do not think that anyone should have free cell service unless they have to call 911 / 999.
It's more like the rebate "fuckualater". I refuse to buy anything with a rebate anymore.
Once I got a cheque that was sent expired. That's right; they put an expiry date on it that was eariler than the postmark. They then "lost the paperwork" when I wanted a new cheque. Of course, they wouldn't accept a copy - only originals, so I couldn't send them any other data.
No, not every "good" programmer has a degree. A degree means nothing except that you have a degree. I say that as someone who has a degree. In my field (EE) I have to go through an additional 4 years of documented hands-on work before I'm truly able to call myself an Engineer.
An average programmer can become a good programmer by gaining experience and making mistakes. Some people may think that they have an inherent understanding of machines; their abilities border on the psychic. That's garbage. It's experience that tells you what works, what's fast, and what's crap. No "good" programmer was born with an inherent greater ability to code better than anyone else. Did you write useful programs when you were 2 years old?
As for the article and Apple making the iPod a huge success via design, don't forget that it also spent a huge fuckload of money marketing the bloody thing. The ads were on every channel, every hour of the day. If they did the same thing with the Mac Mini, they'd have more than 50% market share by the end of the year.
I'm going home. It's late, I'm tired, and I'm hungry.
I'm just wondering here if the guy they talked to took physics at any time.
Do things like Gaussian theory and Faraday cages not work in space? In a vacuum, does net flux through a closed object stop becoming zero? Does lead no longer stop gamma radiation? Do our long-held laws and theories simply cease to apply at the boundaries of our atmosphere?
I'm just wondering. It sounds to me like he could use a little remedial instruction.
I read the article yesterday on fark. I'm not going to re-read it to get his name.
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The time it takes to change depends on what the change is. On some monitors, it will take longer to go from white to black than blank to white. The manufacturer will run a gamut of tests and determine which one was fastest and print that as the spec. I don't know what this monitor's specific colour change is. It could be black to white, it could be blue to red, it could be dark grey to light black.
Response speed is not the predominant factor, but it's one that the manufacturers sell because it's easy to quantify. It's easiest for the folks at Best Buy to say, "Uh, 3ms is faster than 13ms, so the 3ms is better." It's garbage, it's rubbish, it's bunk. Buy the monitor that looks the best to you.
Bugs in the code are not repeat NOT the fault of the guy (or girl) who put them there in the first place.
The fault lies with the company that didn't test the software correctly. You can't test your own code to failure. If you think you can, then you're either wrong or sloppy. By definition, you can't think of something you haven't thought of. You will find bugs in my code and I will find bugs in yours. That is because we think differently. If you didn't account for possibilities that you could think of, then you're being sloppy.
You have to have someone else test your code to FAIL. Anything less is going to have bugs and leaks. You can not get around this.
As for the proposal, you get what you pay for. If you want a bug-free operating system and software, then pay the extra cash for a military-grade version. Otherwise, pay the $200 (or $0) and live with the crashes. Don't buy the cheapest power supply you can get your hands on and pair it with the cheapest hard drive money can buy.
If you want to be an Engineer, talk to the governing body. Tell them that software that works and works well is Engineering, and that you think that some responsibility and accountability would be great for your profession. Bring up how much more money they could bring in from the extra 1000 or so Software Programmers who could be Engineers.
In Canada, you can be a Software Engineer - you get the ring, the B.Eng, EIT restrictions, and P.Eng potential. You're an Engineer in the real sense of the word, not some mail-order alphabet soup "engineering" certificate from nortel or microsoft. (I'm an EE, but some of my friends are SE.)
I took one biology class in 1994. I don't remember much.
Thanks for the correction!
Technically, sodium is kind of essential too. Check out "sodium / potassium pump" next time you've got a few minutes on google.
No, that's just the combined assaults of slashdot and fark.
Google has trouble with that.
If you're going to metagame, you'd better make sure that your DM isn't a rules lawyer!
I can't imagine why nobody has realized that unwanted and unauthorized use of someone else's private property is illegal! If I ate out of your fridge every day just because I knew how to unlock your door, you'd call the police.
By the way, your milk's expired.
Soy milk expires too.
Of course, he could drink soy milk and be using that as the deadline.
"Uh, we have until June 2006 to get this stable. That's when my soy milk expires."
Basically, Paul Martin (the Prime Minister) is incredibly wealthy. You just don't have enough cash to bribe him. He's a slimy dickhead, but at least you know he can't be bought. I don't like the Liberals, but they're better than some of the alternatives. Basically, our parties can be summed up like this:
Liberals (left of center): White men, dark suits, red ties.
PC(right wing): White men, dark suits, blue ties.
NDP(left wing): White men, look uncomfortable in dark suits, various tie colours
BQ(seperatists): hommes blancs, costumes foncés, cravates de bleu avec fleur-de-lis
Green: Unknown. No members have been sighted on Parliament Hill. Probably white men, look uncomfortable in dark suits, green ties.
We've got a multi-party system and have people whose job is to criticize the government at every step. We call them Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Our leaders can't just say "If you question this, then you hate Canada" since that's what they do. Right now, we have a minority government, so the parties are forced to work together to pass any piece of legislation whatsoever.
One other thing we have is a loser-pay system in our courts. The CRIA can't sue just to bankrupt someone because if they lost, they'd have to pay all the court costs plus all the time it would take me. If I got sued by them, I'd just get my lawyer to take care of it and she'd end up getting paid by CRIA as mandated by the court. (Since I haven't done anything illegal, they'd lose.) I probably wouldn't have to miss much work.
As for the document, the purpose of the 600 page argument is to give judges a reference for their judgements. Without it, all they'd have to go on is what the CRIA tells them. Judges are humans too, and they are prone to mistakes and emotional appeals just like the rest of us.
I have no problems with the links here. There is no "smiling man".
Perhaps you have a rootkit installed.
You can get solar-powered lights, genius. You get a solar cell, hook it up to a supercapacitor or a rechargable battery, and hook that up to an LED. Control the whole thing with a switch or a phototransistor and you've got a solar-powered light.
I guess you haven't heard about Carmanah Technologies (who make solar-powered lights for bus stops, navigation bouys, etc.) or Engineers without Borders (who provide solar-powered lights for kids in impovershed countries so they can read at night).
Or were you trying to be funny? Old carrot-top routines from 20 years ago just don't cut it once technology improves.
Polycarbonate is a tough material. It's bullet-resistant when it's 2mm thick. (22 gauge from 100m, but I don't know if a 22 is considered a bullet by Americans.)
It scratches very, very easily unless you put a scratch-resistant coating on it. That costs a few more cents, and uncoated is available for internal applications or when the end user wants to finish it.
I'll bet the guy who picked the material doesn't wear glasses.
That's hard liquor.
Technically, you don't eat a dick unless you're a cannibal. I think the word you're looking for is "suck".
Further, you indicate that you had you dick sucked by a guy last night, yet are using the derogatory "faggot". Perhaps you are confused about your own sexuality. This isn't the best place to ask for help; I'd suggest Dan Savage over at Savage Love.
Keep trying, eventually you'll get the hang of trolling.
Sometimes beer is the only thing that makes opera tolerable.
Quick! Open this First Choice document.
What do you mean, "You've never heard of it?" Okay, don't worry, I've got the installation program on this 5 1/4 disk.
What do you mean, "You don't have a 5 1/4 drive?"
If money truly is no object, then HIRE MORE STAFF and LEARN TO DELEGATE. If you can't trust your staff to do the work correctly, then you hired the wrong staff. If you truly are a professional, you'd be able to leave on time and still get the job done.
If you're building a super workstation designed for putting in long hours, I'll wager than anything you're going to write is going to be bug-filled and undocumented. That's hardly professional.
Like it or not, nuclear weapons are of the most advanced pieces of technology humans have.
It's not like on 24. You actually have to be kind of brilliant to put one together.
If OBL was downloading music and burning it onto CD, they'd catch that fucker pretty fast.
Since he apparently hasn't broken any law, he's not worth catching.
What? I'm sure that if there's a case for several thousand cases of 1st degree murder, there would be something about it on TV every now and then.
It acts as the salt bridge for the anode and cathode. I also didn't see the point until I read the article.
The idea is to have non-powered devices like pregnancy tests and diabetic testers that don't cosume power until you use them.
I don't know how they'll get a computer-operated pregnancy test down to the price of a multi-pack of dipstrips, but hey, I'm not the one pissing away a government grant.
Yuk, yuk. I'm so funny.
You make your money on the plans. You give away the phones with a long enough plan. Thus, if you decrease the cost of the giveaway phones, the company makes more money. It was a statement of fact. Re-reading my comment, I can see that you'd think I was wearing a tinfoil hat. (I don't even wear sunscreen, for crying out loud.)
There's nothing wrong with having higher margins. There's also nothing wrong with me for never having any desire for a cell phone. I do not think that anyone should have free cell service unless they have to call 911 / 999.
I think the submitter meant to say, cellphone costs can be dramatically reduced, thus increasing the margins and profits of the cell-phone companies.
It's more like the rebate "fuckualater". I refuse to buy anything with a rebate anymore.
Once I got a cheque that was sent expired. That's right; they put an expiry date on it that was eariler than the postmark. They then "lost the paperwork" when I wanted a new cheque. Of course, they wouldn't accept a copy - only originals, so I couldn't send them any other data.
No, not every "good" programmer has a degree. A degree means nothing except that you have a degree. I say that as someone who has a degree. In my field (EE) I have to go through an additional 4 years of documented hands-on work before I'm truly able to call myself an Engineer.
An average programmer can become a good programmer by gaining experience and making mistakes. Some people may think that they have an inherent understanding of machines; their abilities border on the psychic. That's garbage. It's experience that tells you what works, what's fast, and what's crap. No "good" programmer was born with an inherent greater ability to code better than anyone else. Did you write useful programs when you were 2 years old?
As for the article and Apple making the iPod a huge success via design, don't forget that it also spent a huge fuckload of money marketing the bloody thing. The ads were on every channel, every hour of the day. If they did the same thing with the Mac Mini, they'd have more than 50% market share by the end of the year.
I'm going home. It's late, I'm tired, and I'm hungry.
I'm just wondering here if the guy they talked to took physics at any time.
Do things like Gaussian theory and Faraday cages not work in space? In a vacuum, does net flux through a closed object stop becoming zero? Does lead no longer stop gamma radiation? Do our long-held laws and theories simply cease to apply at the boundaries of our atmosphere?
I'm just wondering. It sounds to me like he could use a little remedial instruction.
I read the article yesterday on fark. I'm not going to re-read it to get his name.