Well, there IS a stockpile of unused AOL CDs in the US, many of them in stylish metal jewel cases. (Which by the way if you spray paint to remove the offending logo, become useful and are quite durable).
So we move the ball along in creating a new police state at home during the same time we are overthrowing one abroad. The difference is our leaders have learned to control better with honey than vinegar.
I think the reason why tech support for family (and friends, and friends of familay, ad nausium) is so bad, is that, with a little over generalization, people seem to fall into two camps
A. Computers are technology.
B. Computers are magic.
For the A. crowd, tech suppport is not much of an issue. They generally have realistic expectation of what can and cannot be done. That's the kind of logic that it seems to take to drive home to the B crowd, what tech support can be like for all parties involved. And sometimes that does not even work.
For the B. crowd, they have no clue. They think that if you're a programmer, then you can diagnose their box over the phone. It doesn't matter that you are a Java programmer and you work with Linux, and you've only had to mess around with windows NT 4 and 2K in the past few years. That your Uncle has a Windows millenium discount clone built by the cheapest shop he could find in town and it won't boot.
Since you "know about computers", you can fix it, magically, over the phone.
Ask him if he would have his neighbor perform a vasectomy on him, as an ophthalmaligist gives the operating directions over the phone.
That
I use netscape 7 at work, and have multiple instances running with multiple tabs open for each for my api references. I usually have one instance for all my opened Oracle doc pages, and another for Java. I just keep them open and tab between document. Very handy.
How much of a role do you think peer review plays in software quality?
In proprietary source systems, there is generally formal peer review, as per CMMI. But I have seen this done rarely (almost exclusively for CMMI level 3+ projects). There seems to be a disincentive to do formal peer review. There seem to be various reasons for this, cost, workplace environment, and group dynamics. Which do you think are most significant?
Whereas in open source projects, there is not the formal peer review, but rather seems like a mass informal peer review. This seems to foster an enviroment of besting each other, trying to find the most and most obscure bugs.
What do you say?
Keeping this short, I've seen the most products fail in planning. There is not enough effort put into requirements gathering, analysis, and creating meaningful system requirements and software specifications.
Not to mention I see a general lack of putting enough time into architecture and design.
oh what is that old yarn? "You never plan to fail, you fail to plan"
You just wait.
When telerobotic control hits mainstream activities, people like Tony Robbins will be selling telerobot dentist in a box. Dentist in a box was also a mad tv skit
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After hearing that Microsoft is going to use it, and Now, Sun.
So when is Intel going to use Opteron?
Well, there IS a stockpile of unused AOL CDs in the US, many of them in stylish metal jewel cases. (Which by the way if you spray paint to remove the offending logo, become useful and are quite durable).
While the Blackbird may be faster, I'd say that the Concorde holds more passengers. So this is an apple and orange comparison.
So VisiCalc added speed to greed, eh?
So we move the ball along in creating a new police state at home during the same time we are overthrowing one abroad. The difference is our leaders have learned to control better with honey than vinegar.
I don't know about better shooting. Look at all the aweful shots that storm troopers made. They didn't have to account for ballistic arc.
A Machine that goes 'bang'? Is that like the machine that goes 'ping'?
Apple's board should have chosen Crazy Eddie
That way Apple would be insanely great at insane prices.
Do you know of any studies of lizards watching tv advertising?
I think the reason why tech support for family (and friends, and friends of familay, ad nausium) is so bad, is that, with a little over generalization, people seem to fall into two camps
A. Computers are technology.
B. Computers are magic.
For the A. crowd, tech suppport is not much of an issue. They generally have realistic expectation of what can and cannot be done. That's the kind of logic that it seems to take to drive home to the B crowd, what tech support can be like for all parties involved. And sometimes that does not even work.
For the B. crowd, they have no clue. They think that if you're a programmer, then you can diagnose their box over the phone. It doesn't matter that you are a Java programmer and you work with Linux, and you've only had to mess around with windows NT 4 and 2K in the past few years. That your Uncle has a Windows millenium discount clone built by the cheapest shop he could find in town and it won't boot.
Since you "know about computers", you can fix it, magically, over the phone.
Ask him if he would have his neighbor perform a vasectomy on him, as an ophthalmaligist gives the operating directions over the phone.
That
Are secret patents like double secret probabtion?
Doing customer and tech support for 50,000 adolescents who have free reign of their parents' credit cards.
I use netscape 7 at work, and have multiple instances running with multiple tabs open for each for my api references. I usually have one instance for all my opened Oracle doc pages, and another for Java. I just keep them open and tab between document. Very handy.
As long as it is not like those x3d googles
be wary of anything marketed "as seen on tv"
How much of a role do you think peer review plays in software quality?
In proprietary source systems, there is generally formal peer review, as per CMMI. But I have seen this done rarely (almost exclusively for CMMI level 3+ projects). There seems to be a disincentive to do formal peer review. There seem to be various reasons for this, cost, workplace environment, and group dynamics. Which do you think are most significant?
Whereas in open source projects, there is not the formal peer review, but rather seems like a mass informal peer review. This seems to foster an enviroment of besting each other, trying to find the most and most obscure bugs.
What do you say?
last but not least:
least bugs? *grins*
What do you mean by best?
Fastest?
smallest?
most portable?
best commented?
most readable?
most scalable?
other?
Keeping this short, I've seen the most products fail in planning. There is not enough effort put into requirements gathering, analysis, and creating meaningful system requirements and software specifications. Not to mention I see a general lack of putting enough time into architecture and design.
oh what is that old yarn? "You never plan to fail, you fail to plan"
Copying features from fark might not be a bad idea, /. does not adopt fark's "and hilarity ensues".
as long as
If you are flying, at least you would be able to recharge your laptop. Might even be healtier, tomato juice for you, vodka for your computer.
yeah, like for the past 20 years or so.
You just wait.
When telerobotic control hits mainstream activities, people like Tony Robbins will be selling telerobot dentist in a box.
Dentist in a box was also a mad tv skit
All your bandwidth are belong to us!
Looks like the Us has Total Information Awareness and the UK has total intrusiveness
This looks like just another step in the abolishment of privacy. It's a mad mad mad mad world...
Why is 25 cents always the magic number for people?
Probably because it may very well be a magic number. Microeconomics reference: Utility, Substitution and Demand.