Funny, I get the same sort of thing with iTunes 6.4 under Windows 2000 (or whatever the last version that's supposed to work with Win2K). It borks my USB stack and BSODs me.
You do realize that many blogs have some kind of advertising to help pay for the costs of running the website, right?
You bet. I also realize that many of them like doughnuts, have siblings, and read books. Further, I concede that they often have heartfelt opinions about matters of punctuation and some (but not all) of them did well in algebra.
Blogs have donut and siblings, and read books? I knew bloggers had those, but didn't know that blogs did!
The term "risk" has many meanings, risk to life, schedule risk, technical risk, etc...
The example given is perfect. Think of the engine as a the compiler in his example.
LOX/Kerosine and LOX/Hydrogen engines are essentially debugged. They're a known factor, just like the example's "well-established programming language".
Methane engines are still under development and the bugs haven't been worked out ("new half-developed (but really nifty one where you're playing debug the compiler").
PlaysForSure* was an illustration of the OP's argument that MS only supported DRM for the "Content Producers" (except that the xxAA doesn't produce content...).
The meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, as measured along the line of longitude passing through Paris.
It got redefined various times over the years (including a bar kept in a temperature regulated environment) until the current definition in terms of the speed of light has been arrived at.
Put in measurable terms (at least as much as possible), what you want it to do. This has the added benefit of making *YOU* think about what it needs to do, as opposed to having a "pretty good idea".
Second, the UI is king. Make sure the UI reflects what needs to be done, and not the internal architecture of the program. For example, I've been using a tool (which shall remain nameless, to protect the guilty), where to change a displayed value in a table, I can't just double-click the value -- I have to right click on the first column for that line, and select "Edit field N". Why? Because that's how the program does the change internally, and the UI reflect that instead of the task-based interface.
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Funny, I get the same sort of thing with iTunes 6.4 under Windows 2000 (or whatever the last version that's supposed to work with Win2K). It borks my USB stack and BSODs me.
Blogs have donut and siblings, and read books? I knew bloggers had those, but didn't know that blogs did!
Mod this guy up.
The term "risk" has many meanings, risk to life, schedule risk, technical risk, etc...
The example given is perfect. Think of the engine as a the compiler in his example.
LOX/Kerosine and LOX/Hydrogen engines are essentially debugged. They're a known factor, just like the example's "well-established programming language".
Methane engines are still under development and the bugs haven't been worked out ("new half-developed (but really nifty one where you're playing debug the compiler").
That means if you have 200 of these bad boys in your data center, on the average one of them will fail every year.
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EFIRA would be a good name for a Rock Band.
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You might want to look at the Transactional Interpretation instead.
OK, so it's an obvious joke. Sue me.
PlaysForSure* was an illustration of the OP's argument that MS only supported DRM for the "Content Producers" (except that the xxAA doesn't produce content...).
WGA, shows that MS likes DRM for itself.
*Except on Zune
Ditto.
At my current position,the IP clause included anything I develop during my employment, work related or not.
I explained that I have no problem with assigning work-related stuff to them, but non-work related, on my machine, on my own computer should be mine.
They agreed, we lined out the relevant clauses and initialed them.
Microsoft? They're not huge DRM supporters by nature
Say what? I have just three words for you.
Windows Genuine Advantage.
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Don't you know Vista is Free with purchase of a PC?
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El Diablo means "The Devil".
What about those who are laid off so their jobs could be sent to India? Someone above mentioned Intel as a case in point.
Those are flat-out job losses, as opposed to "potential job creation".
We need his report! Tripmaster Monkey, where are you?
What check from IBM? IBM has a fully paid, non-revocable, perpetual license.
Well, when my kid goes Wii, he says "iPP".
The real problem is, of course, the braindead x86 ISA that won't support full self-virtualization without special "extensions".
The 68K family was fully virtualizable back in the late '80s (from the 68020 on).
The meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, as measured along the line of longitude passing through Paris.
It got redefined various times over the years (including a bar kept in a temperature regulated environment) until the current definition in terms of the speed of light has been arrived at.
Yes it was. Thank you.
When I was at UCSC, I had friends who worked at oldSCO.
No, not royalties... ALL fees received. For acting as Novell's agent, Novell then kicks back 5% of the those monies to the SCOundrels.
SCO fudged and didn't pay Novell the money from the Sun and Microsoft licenses.
The current SCO is not, and has never been the Santa Cruz Organization.
The current SCO (newSCO) is what used to be Caldera. Santa Cruz (oldSCO) became Tarantella, and was bought by Sun.
What? Just put all sorts of porn META tags in, and you're set!
Write a requirements document.
Put in measurable terms (at least as much as possible), what you want it to do. This has the added benefit of making *YOU* think about what it needs to do, as opposed to having a "pretty good idea".
Second, the UI is king. Make sure the UI reflects what needs to be done, and not the internal architecture of the program. For example, I've been using a tool (which shall remain nameless, to protect the guilty), where to change a displayed value in a table, I can't just double-click the value -- I have to right click on the first column for that line, and select "Edit field N". Why? Because that's how the program does the change internally, and the UI reflect that instead of the task-based interface.
That's why they dumped the Antikythera Mechanism. It couldn't handle the Y0K change.
The cablecos/telcos are still running that incredibly deceptive anti-neutrality ad, too.