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Reasonable people understand that PJ works for IBM. Reasonable people understand that there is no "PJ", that IBM spun up a screen name and went to town.
Yes, but intelligent people at least look stuff up before spouting unsubstantiated claims.
You have yet to experience driving through fog so thick you cannot see past the front hood of your car or rain pouring so quickly the wipers do nothing.
It wasn't anti-technology in any way. For the Na'vi, the animals and trees around them functioned well as their technology,
despite being completely biological.
The movie portrayed paramilitary/mercenary and stockholder-driven corporate interests as the primary antagonists, to
both the scientists, the Na'vi, and Pandora itself.
Our workplace is such that everything has to be easy to follow and understandable with a glance.
This is not necessarily because someone else will be working on our code so much as that we
almost certainly end up coming back to it 6-12 months later, or that the person writing it won't
be the person maintaining it or porting it.
If it isn't easy to follow, you can usually fix this by spreading out the code and inserting more
comments, and avoiding shorthand statements like inline ternary that save typing, but don't
enhance readability. Inline comments are uncommon, instead varying kinds of flower-boxes
before a section of code. In general, it ends up that being clever requires much more commenting
in the flower box to explain functionality, so in the end it becomes a wasted effort.
A few days ago I saw someone going around with this sig from Brian Kernighan;
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
although it's not clear how Facebook can validate the death of a member if neither of those pieces of information is published on the internet.
Well, in America there is this thing called the Social Security Death Master File
if you need to verify that someone has died. Its not immediate, but its better than nothing at all.
Seriously, building more towers is the only sensible thing to do. I mean, 10 years ago in Japan, I could go just about anywhere; including in the subway, without ever losing a signal; The transmitters were everywhere.
I have to agree. The developers really do not understand how big a problem this really is. Unless they fix this, the game will die a slow death, or at least sputter along until they do add it.
I figure i'll play it now for a couple months. Then give up if they don't fix LFG. Maybe in a year I'll check back if its still around.
Right, a full, as in "make this character *completely* different in every way, from the ground up" - it's supposed to encourage people to make alts when they want to try new builds.
Except that most players only have 8 character slots total. See whats wrong with this thinking.
So the complexity of the problem is probably an order of magnitude beyond 22 billion neurones and 220 trillion connections.
Its probably worse than that. Texts disagree on the total number of neurons, varying between 10 and 200 billion, depending on the text. Although its possible that this a normal range of variance of the brain.
This is a great idea... If nothing else, it might help induce certain monopolies to become more competitive and re-focus on creating better software, rather than spending its resources trying to crush its opponents.
I have to agree with the competition thing, but it also goes deeper. It would allow my employer to open source some of our projects, continue working on them, and then make money off of the support contracts.
For me, it would mean I would still have a job next month.
It can easily be argued that there is no evidence to support that the universe lacking -any- aspect of logic or computability has any bearing on thought or concept at all. Even more, the term feature complete could be argued as a quality relating to the universe itself.
To me however, the term seems to be a non sequitur, as the brain itself does -not- operate upon logic or computability any more than a banana does, and while a Turing machine does operate upon these principles, general emulations of aspects of the physical universe have mostly just taken more time to execute than reality itself.
Why does the US have a civil space program?... I have to say this is because Congress has had too much interest in it as a political tool than in advancement of science and mankind itself.
"I don't think I would particularly love to write code all day for a living either. "
You may be in the wrong major. Computer Science is no more IT than automotive engineering is auto maintenance. Without that love of coding, which by the way, you should already have by now, I can't say you'll get very far.
Perhaps you should be taking IT classes (if offered) or MIS or some variant, but then your faculty adviser should have pointed this out already.
If it already hasn't been done, the first thing I would do is to see what software engineering methodologies they are all familiar with, and figure out what you're going to use. Anything will usually be better than nothing at all.
Then agree on some common method of documentation, and a minimal style guideline.
Maybe set some policy for when and how often something must be committed to CVS (or your favorite storage method)
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Look at the government. They dont have a stable OS to use for any military operations.
This is not always true. Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens New Opportunities for Linux Clusters and IBM G5 servers
Reasonable people understand that PJ works for IBM. Reasonable people understand that there is no "PJ", that IBM spun up a screen name and went to town.
Yes, but intelligent people at least look stuff up before spouting unsubstantiated claims.
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7673520174.html
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/IBM-621-E19.pdf
buwahahaha! It does now! http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/2009-04/msg00012.html
You have yet to experience driving through fog so thick you cannot see past the front hood of your car or rain pouring so quickly the wipers do nothing.
Yes, we need this.
Seals do not have tear ducts.
getting nuclear waste into space scares the nimby crowd too much with thoughts of re-entry accidents.
my personal favorite however, is dumping it into a volcano in relatively minuscule amounts and letting nature recycle it for us.
It's not a bug.... Its a feature!
I've found its only realistic to base a time estimate on how long it took to make a component (or something similar) the first time around.
Yep, it happens so much our workplace standardized on 3 space indentation; absolutely no tabs in the code.
It wasn't anti-technology in any way. For the Na'vi, the animals and trees around them functioned well as their technology, despite being completely biological.
The movie portrayed paramilitary/mercenary and stockholder-driven corporate interests as the primary antagonists, to both the scientists, the Na'vi, and Pandora itself.
Our workplace is such that everything has to be easy to follow and understandable with a glance. This is not necessarily because someone else will be working on our code so much as that we almost certainly end up coming back to it 6-12 months later, or that the person writing it won't be the person maintaining it or porting it.
If it isn't easy to follow, you can usually fix this by spreading out the code and inserting more comments, and avoiding shorthand statements like inline ternary that save typing, but don't enhance readability. Inline comments are uncommon, instead varying kinds of flower-boxes before a section of code. In general, it ends up that being clever requires much more commenting in the flower box to explain functionality, so in the end it becomes a wasted effort.
A few days ago I saw someone going around with this sig from Brian Kernighan;
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
although it's not clear how Facebook can validate the death of a member if neither of those pieces of information is published on the internet.
Well, in America there is this thing called the Social Security Death Master File if you need to verify that someone has died. Its not immediate, but its better than nothing at all.
Same problem here. I just kind of stopped playing since it was impossible to get a group going.
Seriously, building more towers is the only sensible thing to do. I mean, 10 years ago in Japan, I could go just about anywhere; including in the subway, without ever losing a signal; The transmitters were everywhere.
I have to agree. The developers really do not understand how big a problem this really is. Unless they fix this, the game will die a slow death, or at least sputter along until they do add it. I figure i'll play it now for a couple months. Then give up if they don't fix LFG. Maybe in a year I'll check back if its still around.
First of all, the cell shading can be turned off, but I do have to agree that they could have quite easily put better quality textures in it.
Right, a full, as in "make this character *completely* different in every way, from the ground up" - it's supposed to encourage people to make alts when they want to try new builds.
Except that most players only have 8 character slots total. See whats wrong with this thinking.
Of course we're willing to try windows 7. This is because we have no idea as a group that windows 7 is descended directly from windows vista...
So the complexity of the problem is probably an order of magnitude beyond 22 billion neurones and 220 trillion connections.
Its probably worse than that. Texts disagree on the total number of neurons, varying between 10 and 200 billion, depending on the text. Although its possible that this a normal range of variance of the brain.
This is a great idea... If nothing else, it might help induce certain monopolies to become more competitive and re-focus on creating better software, rather than spending its resources trying to crush its opponents.
I have to agree with the competition thing, but it also goes deeper. It would allow my employer to open source some of our projects, continue working on them, and then make money off of the support contracts.
For me, it would mean I would still have a job next month.
Why not? They do it in Japan.... http://blog.japundit.com/archives/2008/02/17/7904/
It can easily be argued that there is no evidence to support that the universe lacking -any- aspect of logic or computability has any bearing on thought or concept at all. Even more, the term feature complete could be argued as a quality relating to the universe itself.
To me however, the term seems to be a non sequitur, as the brain itself does -not- operate upon logic or computability any more than a banana does, and while a Turing machine does operate upon these principles, general emulations of aspects of the physical universe have mostly just taken more time to execute than reality itself.
Why does the US have a civil space program? ... I have to say this is because Congress has had too much interest in it as a political tool than in advancement of science and mankind itself.
"I don't think I would particularly love to write code all day for a living either. " You may be in the wrong major. Computer Science is no more IT than automotive engineering is auto maintenance. Without that love of coding, which by the way, you should already have by now, I can't say you'll get very far. Perhaps you should be taking IT classes (if offered) or MIS or some variant, but then your faculty adviser should have pointed this out already.
If it already hasn't been done, the first thing I would do is to see what software engineering methodologies they are all familiar with, and figure out what you're going to use. Anything will usually be better than nothing at all. Then agree on some common method of documentation, and a minimal style guideline. Maybe set some policy for when and how often something must be committed to CVS (or your favorite storage method)