Can you enlighten the group with your reasons why?
Hmm, let's see:
- No more vendor branch initial import silliness - Even easier, faster branching - Can point someone directly to a specific branch via URL - Built-in repository browsing (via http) - No lockfile headaches - In general: faster, cleaner, more polished, slightly more streamlined workflow.
You are exactly correct. I think it's ludicrous that large companies can make blatant blunders like improper use of 'there' and 'their' in promotional materials intended for general consumption. If you want to impress me with your marketing, that's the #1 way not to do it.
Although I think I am getting tired of that sig. Perhaps it's time to change it.
(For the people viewing this thread later on, the sig in question refers to an ad on Hotmail which reads: "Help stop spam and pop-ups in there tracks with MSN Premium".)
really? you really think your more important to the world than say, the mona lisa or something like that?
Who isn't? Maybe that homeless guy on the street who calls me names. Other than that though, all people will over the course of their lives perform some action that will further the human race in some miniscule way. That is more than can be said about the Mona Lisa. It may inspire someone, perhaps, but there is little evidence that it would do so more than any other painting or piece of artwork.
There are some things worth dying for. A single piece of art isn't one of them. What if Picasso had died young while trying to save someone else's prized painting? It makes absolutely no sense to value a thing above a person. A person is what creates things.
Hey, you never know. One of the heavier elements might turn out to be a room temperature semiconducting superconductor, which will naturally be very useful in building a cold fusion perpetual motion machine.
Seriously though, anything's possible. I have no problem with research for the sake of research.
Or are there other limiting factors in the amount of power that is useable in such circumstances?
For a boat? Sure, cavitation. Propeller blades can only spin so fast (that is, push a certain amount of fluid) before they begin to create destructive turbulence in the fluid that cripples their pushing power. The same basic problem exists in aviation, which is why propeller-engine planes can only go so fast regardless of how big and numerous the engines and blades are. Jet engines, rockets, or some other form of propulsion are needed to go any faster.
What is to be done about this? Ask for a different partner, maybe? Pair programming is useless if you can't work with your partner. This should be obvious. Not everyone is compatible, not with each other, and some people probably aren't even compatible with pair programming at all. That's fine, everyone's different.
Nothing will ever be a magic bullet. Pair programming, agile methods, and all that other crazy marketing-speak, it's just a procedure. If it works for you, use it, if not, try a different approach.
Strategic voting is a tradeoff. It is sacrificing the future, long-term goals of balance and healthy democracy for the immediate goals. Always remember that. I don't care if you vote strategically, but always remember there's a price.
Personally, I'd rather throw my vote away than throw my future away.
Especially right now, when the two people that strategic voting offers you are essentially clones of one another. "Don't blame me, I voted for Kang!"
No. Without a patent system, industry has no point to develop a product.
Surely you don't actually *believe* that. There were companies long before there was a patent system, and there will continue to be companies for a long, long time afterwards. Patents were intended as an incentive to help foster innovation. It is not the foundation of the whole economy, and it never will be, despite what the companies would prefer you believe.
Of these, Neverwinter Nights is probably the most graphically advanced. None of them hold a candle to Doom 3, or Far Cry, or any of the other engines you mentioned.
I dunno about you, but for me gameplay comes first. If I really want eye candy, I'll go look at 3D Renderings. Yes, the masses can indeed enjoy games with weak graphics, and it does open your game to a wider audience. If you need any convincing of that, I implore you to check out the sales figures for any of the Sims games.
If EV Nova had been 3D rendered with dynamic lighting and reflections and all the other goodies, it would not have played on my laptop very well, and I never would've purchased it.
And don't forget the wipe-out-nearly-all-life gamma ray bursts! No advance warning on those puppies.
Although that's only because we don't know anything about them.
If one started happening near enough for it to bother us, I suspect we'd notice *something* going on beforehand. Energy can't just appear suddenly and randomly, it has to come from some source. And gamma ray bursts are a LOT of energy. I'm way too lazy to actually look it up, but I think it's at least on the scale of like, if an antimatter star collided with a matter star and they instantly turned each other into 100% pure energy at e=mc^2 (m is enormous, c^2 is enormous, guess how big their product will be), it still wouldn't be enough.
I mean, I'm with you on the whole "they're astoundingly big and powerful" thing, but I suspect for that very reason one wouldn't just pop up nearby without us noticing something weird well beforehand.
Have you ever unlocked old teams before? It's almost always like this for all sports games. I'm pretty sure games sign contracts with the player unions (NHLPA?) for likeness and name rights, so if they aren't active players they don't even try.
No, I haven't. I haven't been interested in Hockey until the recent Flames Stanley Cup run. And their last decent playoffs was in 1989, when we were lucky enough to have Pong and pretend it was hockey.;)
In any case, I don't think there's any point in having the vintage teams if they're not going to have player names, or at least provide me with a way to enter the player names. If they can't trademark infringe (or whatever kind of IP a player's name is) I will do so more than happily for them. What a waste.
I switched to OS X 10.2 from Linux, and aside from Finder (which was replaced in 10.3) and mounting Windows SMB-shared drives (which I replaced with using scp instead), I was as happy as a clam.
Besides, the terminal application gives you access to the NetBSD core underneath. If you know UNIX, isn't anything else just gravy? Perhaps the transition from Windows is more painful. I don't know. All OS changes are painful in my opinion.
Oh, and also, if you think OS X isn't very good for someone trying to develop an app, you obviously never tried very hard. AppleScript, Project Builder, XCode, Interface Builder, and the hordes of other stuff included in the developer tools (not to mention all your standard UNIX tools like gcc, cvs, svn, autotools, ant, etc, which all of the GUI tools are generally based on) make a developer's life dreamy.
If you want to dive into the GUI, Mac-specific world of coding, then yes it is a whole different paradigm of developing, it takes some getting used to. But it's worth it. If you don't, there's always the UNIX (commandline or X11) way.
Sorry if I come across like a zealot, but those are my honest feelings as a fellow developer.
After re-reading it it's not very bad in a technical sense, but it's really hard to parse. The way everything was worded made it scream to me of fission/nuclear reaction rather than covalence/chemical reaction, which didn't make sense given the context of the specific nouns being used (chemical, physical, molecules, 75 eV, etc). The phrase that particularly bothered me was "split a molecule of deuterium into its basic components". I think it would be clearer to say something like "break apart a molecule of deuterium into ions". "Splitting" is a dangerous word to use when you're talking about nuclei, and it's unusual to refer to atoms and ions to be the "basic components" of a molecule, as it can actually be a pretty ambiguous term -- in a scientific context, basic components *really* means basic, when I read it. Like we're talking quarks, and those other odd little subatomic particles.
The reference to quantum effects later on didn't help much either.
But that's just one guy's opinion, and I haven't gotten much sleep in the past 36 hours, so I am probably perceiving things through the eyes of a crack addict, right now.
Well, if you think EA NHL sucks, don't even bother with ESPN NHL. What it wins with decent graphics and marginally improved AI, it loses by crashing. Often. And 100% reproducably. In the middle of franchise mode. There's one save game down the toilet. And that's out of the box. It apparently gets much more unstable if you are crazy enough to do things like tweak the in-game soundtrack settings.
Oh, yeah, that and the fantasy teams like the '89 Calgary Flames lose much of their luster when their names get replaced with "C. Center" and "R. Defenseman"
Despite being the worst writeup EVER (Hello, could we get this submitted by someone who has more than a 1st grade science class under their belt?) after reading the article it's clear what they were doing.
You seem to be confusing the meaning of 'nuclei' with 'subatomic particle'. Nuclei is the plural form of nucleus. They're talking about two seperate "nucleuses" which are flying apart, because both have an overall positive charge thanks to the proton, so both repel each other.
To clarify what actually happened here: They started with a single molecule of deuterium. A molecule of deuterium is simply two deuterium atoms (deuterium is just like hydrogen, only it has a neutron in the nucleus as well) in a covalent bond, the exact same way hydrogen is normally found as an H2 molecule.
Then they shot a photon at their molecule, which knocked the two electrons being shared by the two atoms away. Since the sharing of electrons is what causes a covalent bond to be happen in the first place, the bond breaks up, and they measure exactly what happened.
For example, getting people to use "sudo" with a limited account makes sense to you and me, but might confuse the heck out of some newbie in Tennessee.
That hasn't stopped Mac OS X from doing exactly that. You know, Apple, the guys who are all about usability to the point of having a set of UI design guidelines for all developers to abide by.
I second this. Allofmp3.com rocks. I invested $15 when I first heard of it a month ago and have yet to use more than $5 of that. Game soundtracks, pop music, movie soundtracks, classical, all in OGG. It's great.
Don't bother using their web interface to download. Clicking to download sucks. Just grab their Allofmp3 Explorer program, it automatically downloads everything that is on your download list on the website.
In the first case, you say you blame the guy who didn't reboot the server. Yet in the second, you say you're not surprised that the lunatic fired the gun. Well, here's some news for you: According to your analogy, they're the same guy.
The person who's really responsible in both cases is the person in the middle, who decided to in the first case to use a Windows 95 box for a mission critical server, and in the second case to give a known psychopath a gun.
If rebooting a server is not either pre-planned maintenance or a random unexpected hardware failure, something's fucking wrong. No one has any right to blame the poor techie who is trying to nurse it along for as long as he can when it finally fails.
PS2 developers have the comfort that their games will be compatible with the PS3 once it's released
Where've you heard that, and is it official or just a rumor? I've only heard rumors that there will not be any backward compatibility, considering the whacked out things Sony plans to do with the PS3. Granted, I don't keep up to date on consoles much. My Gamecube and PC has plenty to tide me over for quite some time now. I only bought a PS2 for the Final Fantasy games.
Put your email address on one website, either on your own domain or get linked by some other website, and you're boned.
Domain name registration is another big one for me, but it gets a very limited range of spam. No Viagra or porn spam, it's primarily cheap software, print toner, and "5 million email addresses on a CD!"
But yeah, web-trawling continues to be far and away the most effective way to gather email addresses to date, even despite the various poison scripts out there.
Seriously though, I could easily socially engineer anyone. How hard to you have to try to get someone to click on a link? Just tell them it's a really cool site.
Do you click on unsolicited links from strangers? Wow, I guess IM Spam *is* effective after all.
The FA says that it now opens a finder window to where the program is. A user could tell a person to click on a "link" and the click on a "link" in the resulting window.
What? This is not Windows, where Internet Explorer == Windows Explorer. Finder is a completely distinct application from Safari or any other web browser. It does not display links, it displays files. This is extremely clear to even a poor, intellectually challeged 'Mac-user'.
You're assuming that in the next (70 + x) yearsthere will be no more copyright extensions. Unless Disney ceases to exist, I find that hard to believe. Given the current climate, copyright may as well be for an infinite time.
because my employer doesn't offer SMTP services to the outside world.
So, your company may have to provide those services after all, using some exotic method like SMTP Auth. They can't just turn a blind eye to change. Or are they still connecting to the internet using UUCP?
Slashdot Mirror
Can you enlighten the group with your reasons why?
Hmm, let's see:
- No more vendor branch initial import silliness
- Even easier, faster branching
- Can point someone directly to a specific branch via URL
- Built-in repository browsing (via http)
- No lockfile headaches
- In general: faster, cleaner, more polished, slightly more streamlined workflow.
You are exactly correct. I think it's ludicrous that large companies can make blatant blunders like improper use of 'there' and 'their' in promotional materials intended for general consumption. If you want to impress me with your marketing, that's the #1 way not to do it.
Although I think I am getting tired of that sig. Perhaps it's time to change it.
(For the people viewing this thread later on, the sig in question refers to an ad on Hotmail which reads: "Help stop spam and pop-ups in there tracks with MSN Premium".)
really? you really think your more important to the world than say, the mona lisa or something like that?
Who isn't? Maybe that homeless guy on the street who calls me names. Other than that though, all people will over the course of their lives perform some action that will further the human race in some miniscule way. That is more than can be said about the Mona Lisa. It may inspire someone, perhaps, but there is little evidence that it would do so more than any other painting or piece of artwork.
There are some things worth dying for. A single piece of art isn't one of them. What if Picasso had died young while trying to save someone else's prized painting? It makes absolutely no sense to value a thing above a person. A person is what creates things.
Hey, you never know. One of the heavier elements might turn out to be a room temperature semiconducting superconductor, which will naturally be very useful in building a cold fusion perpetual motion machine.
Seriously though, anything's possible. I have no problem with research for the sake of research.
Or are there other limiting factors in the amount of power that is useable in such circumstances?
For a boat? Sure, cavitation. Propeller blades can only spin so fast (that is, push a certain amount of fluid) before they begin to create destructive turbulence in the fluid that cripples their pushing power. The same basic problem exists in aviation, which is why propeller-engine planes can only go so fast regardless of how big and numerous the engines and blades are. Jet engines, rockets, or some other form of propulsion are needed to go any faster.
What is to be done about this? Ask for a different partner, maybe? Pair programming is useless if you can't work with your partner. This should be obvious. Not everyone is compatible, not with each other, and some people probably aren't even compatible with pair programming at all. That's fine, everyone's different.
Nothing will ever be a magic bullet. Pair programming, agile methods, and all that other crazy marketing-speak, it's just a procedure. If it works for you, use it, if not, try a different approach.
Strategic voting is a tradeoff. It is sacrificing the future, long-term goals of balance and healthy democracy for the immediate goals. Always remember that. I don't care if you vote strategically, but always remember there's a price.
Personally, I'd rather throw my vote away than throw my future away.
Especially right now, when the two people that strategic voting offers you are essentially clones of one another. "Don't blame me, I voted for Kang!"
No. Without a patent system, industry has no point to develop a product.
Surely you don't actually *believe* that. There were companies long before there was a patent system, and there will continue to be companies for a long, long time afterwards. Patents were intended as an incentive to help foster innovation. It is not the foundation of the whole economy, and it never will be, despite what the companies would prefer you believe.
Of the games that I have enjoyed most lately, the following top the list:
Neverwinter Nights
Morrowind
Chromatron
Tales of Symphonia
E.V. Nova
Advance Wars 2
Of these, Neverwinter Nights is probably the most graphically advanced. None of them hold a candle to Doom 3, or Far Cry, or any of the other engines you mentioned.
I dunno about you, but for me gameplay comes first. If I really want eye candy, I'll go look at 3D Renderings. Yes, the masses can indeed enjoy games with weak graphics, and it does open your game to a wider audience. If you need any convincing of that, I implore you to check out the sales figures for any of the Sims games.
If EV Nova had been 3D rendered with dynamic lighting and reflections and all the other goodies, it would not have played on my laptop very well, and I never would've purchased it.
And don't forget the wipe-out-nearly-all-life gamma ray bursts! No advance warning on those puppies.
Although that's only because we don't know anything about them.
If one started happening near enough for it to bother us, I suspect we'd notice *something* going on beforehand. Energy can't just appear suddenly and randomly, it has to come from some source. And gamma ray bursts are a LOT of energy. I'm way too lazy to actually look it up, but I think it's at least on the scale of like, if an antimatter star collided with a matter star and they instantly turned each other into 100% pure energy at e=mc^2 (m is enormous, c^2 is enormous, guess how big their product will be), it still wouldn't be enough.
I mean, I'm with you on the whole "they're astoundingly big and powerful" thing, but I suspect for that very reason one wouldn't just pop up nearby without us noticing something weird well beforehand.
Have you ever unlocked old teams before? It's almost always like this for all sports games. I'm pretty sure games sign contracts with the player unions (NHLPA?) for likeness and name rights, so if they aren't active players they don't even try.
;)
No, I haven't. I haven't been interested in Hockey until the recent Flames Stanley Cup run. And their last decent playoffs was in 1989, when we were lucky enough to have Pong and pretend it was hockey.
In any case, I don't think there's any point in having the vintage teams if they're not going to have player names, or at least provide me with a way to enter the player names. If they can't trademark infringe (or whatever kind of IP a player's name is) I will do so more than happily for them. What a waste.
I switched to OS X 10.2 from Linux, and aside from Finder (which was replaced in 10.3) and mounting Windows SMB-shared drives (which I replaced with using scp instead), I was as happy as a clam.
Besides, the terminal application gives you access to the NetBSD core underneath. If you know UNIX, isn't anything else just gravy? Perhaps the transition from Windows is more painful. I don't know. All OS changes are painful in my opinion.
Oh, and also, if you think OS X isn't very good for someone trying to develop an app, you obviously never tried very hard. AppleScript, Project Builder, XCode, Interface Builder, and the hordes of other stuff included in the developer tools (not to mention all your standard UNIX tools like gcc, cvs, svn, autotools, ant, etc, which all of the GUI tools are generally based on) make a developer's life dreamy.
If you want to dive into the GUI, Mac-specific world of coding, then yes it is a whole different paradigm of developing, it takes some getting used to. But it's worth it. If you don't, there's always the UNIX (commandline or X11) way.
Sorry if I come across like a zealot, but those are my honest feelings as a fellow developer.
After re-reading it it's not very bad in a technical sense, but it's really hard to parse. The way everything was worded made it scream to me of fission/nuclear reaction rather than covalence/chemical reaction, which didn't make sense given the context of the specific nouns being used (chemical, physical, molecules, 75 eV, etc). The phrase that particularly bothered me was "split a molecule of deuterium into its basic components". I think it would be clearer to say something like "break apart a molecule of deuterium into ions". "Splitting" is a dangerous word to use when you're talking about nuclei, and it's unusual to refer to atoms and ions to be the "basic components" of a molecule, as it can actually be a pretty ambiguous term -- in a scientific context, basic components *really* means basic, when I read it. Like we're talking quarks, and those other odd little subatomic particles.
The reference to quantum effects later on didn't help much either.
But that's just one guy's opinion, and I haven't gotten much sleep in the past 36 hours, so I am probably perceiving things through the eyes of a crack addict, right now.
By far the best (ie, most fun) hockey game I've played: "Ice Hockey" for the NES.
:) Skinny guys vs. Fat guys! Oh no!
At least it didn't pretend to be an accurate simulation in any way, shape or form.
Well, if you think EA NHL sucks, don't even bother with ESPN NHL. What it wins with decent graphics and marginally improved AI, it loses by crashing. Often.
And 100% reproducably. In the middle of franchise mode. There's one save game down the toilet. And that's out of the box. It apparently gets much more unstable if you are crazy enough to do things like tweak the in-game soundtrack settings.
Oh, yeah, that and the fantasy teams like the '89 Calgary Flames lose much of their luster when their names get replaced with "C. Center" and "R. Defenseman"
Despite being the worst writeup EVER (Hello, could we get this submitted by someone who has more than a 1st grade science class under their belt?) after reading the article it's clear what they were doing.
You seem to be confusing the meaning of 'nuclei' with 'subatomic particle'. Nuclei is the plural form of nucleus. They're talking about two seperate "nucleuses" which are flying apart, because both have an overall positive charge thanks to the proton, so both repel each other.
To clarify what actually happened here: They started with a single molecule of deuterium. A molecule of deuterium is simply two deuterium atoms (deuterium is just like hydrogen, only it has a neutron in the nucleus as well) in a covalent bond, the exact same way hydrogen is normally found as an H2 molecule.
Then they shot a photon at their molecule, which knocked the two electrons being shared by the two atoms away. Since the sharing of electrons is what causes a covalent bond to be happen in the first place, the bond breaks up, and they measure exactly what happened.
For example, getting people to use "sudo" with a limited account makes sense to you and me, but might confuse the heck out of some newbie in Tennessee.
That hasn't stopped Mac OS X from doing exactly that. You know, Apple, the guys who are all about usability to the point of having a set of UI design guidelines for all developers to abide by.
I second this. Allofmp3.com rocks. I invested $15 when I first heard of it a month ago and have yet to use more than $5 of that. Game soundtracks, pop music, movie soundtracks, classical, all in OGG. It's great.
Don't bother using their web interface to download. Clicking to download sucks. Just grab their Allofmp3 Explorer program, it automatically downloads everything that is on your download list on the website.
Who the hell is running in 49bpp mode?
Probably the same guy who uses a "ValveIsGreat" brand processor.
Someone figured out how to send a fake response, it seems.
Uh, your analogy sucks.
In the first case, you say you blame the guy who didn't reboot the server. Yet in the second, you say you're not surprised that the lunatic fired the gun. Well, here's some news for you: According to your analogy, they're the same guy.
The person who's really responsible in both cases is the person in the middle, who decided to in the first case to use a Windows 95 box for a mission critical server, and in the second case to give a known psychopath a gun.
If rebooting a server is not either pre-planned maintenance or a random unexpected hardware failure, something's fucking wrong. No one has any right to blame the poor techie who is trying to nurse it along for as long as he can when it finally fails.
PS2 developers have the comfort that their games will be compatible with the PS3 once it's released
Where've you heard that, and is it official or just a rumor? I've only heard rumors that there will not be any backward compatibility, considering the whacked out things Sony plans to do with the PS3. Granted, I don't keep up to date on consoles much. My Gamecube and PC has plenty to tide me over for quite some time now. I only bought a PS2 for the Final Fantasy games.
You left out the big one: Websites.
Put your email address on one website, either on your own domain or get linked by some other website, and you're boned.
Domain name registration is another big one for me, but it gets a very limited range of spam. No Viagra or porn spam, it's primarily cheap software, print toner, and "5 million email addresses on a CD!"
But yeah, web-trawling continues to be far and away the most effective way to gather email addresses to date, even despite the various poison scripts out there.
Seriously though, I could easily socially engineer anyone. How hard to you have to try to get someone to click on a link? Just tell them it's a really cool site.
Do you click on unsolicited links from strangers? Wow, I guess IM Spam *is* effective after all.
The FA says that it now opens a finder window to where the program is. A user could tell a person to click on a "link" and the click on a "link" in the resulting window.
What? This is not Windows, where Internet Explorer == Windows Explorer. Finder is a completely distinct application from Safari or any other web browser. It does not display links, it displays files. This is extremely clear to even a poor, intellectually challeged 'Mac-user'.
You're assuming that in the next (70 + x) yearsthere will be no more copyright extensions. Unless Disney ceases to exist, I find that hard to believe. Given the current climate, copyright may as well be for an infinite time.
because my employer doesn't offer SMTP services to the outside world.
So, your company may have to provide those services after all, using some exotic method like SMTP Auth. They can't just turn a blind eye to change. Or are they still connecting to the internet using UUCP?