"Honey, when did they add the Goatsex guy to the cast of Friends?"
That's just the season finale, where the whole cast, production staff, and the set get pulled by a raging vortex into Hell's Anus, where everyone is enslaved to work in the corn fields by their new Gerbil Lords.
Thank you for your insightful feedback. My future is brighter for it. However, please see that you were moderated offtopic, for the same reason you cited for me. Good day.
"Have you smoked marijuana more than three times in your life?"
Why does the government care? Because marijuana has been arbitrarily deemed immoral by lawmakers? Why not the questions "Have you consumed more than three beers in your life?" "Have you smoked more than three tobacco cigarettes in your life?" "Have you looked at a woman who isn't your wife more than three times in your life?" "Did you speed while passing another vehicle more than three times in your life?"
At least if an OSS project fails the code is available for other projects to scavenge and incorporate.
Only other GPL projects. This is important to note, as the code is still not public domain, unless the previous maintainers change the license before dissolving the project.
Why not? At under $100, I think I'll probably get a GC in the next year or so. Being able to run the original Zelda on a several-hundred-megahertz modern RISC CPU is just the icing on the cake. The original Zelda was one of the few games that had tremendous replay value...but I'm really not sure why (story, characters, simplicity, I suppose).
In an economic system where quarterly reports are king you did not expect long term vision, or did you?
Only fake businessmen and managers think month-to-month. Unfortunately, more is fake than real. That is reality, and we must live with it, because no scheme to "fix" it will work.
Re: Everything, including tools, in moderation!
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People like to call it 'engineering' and compare it with areas of physical construction, but it's too different - whereas one bridge or building is likely to be the same order of magnitude in size and complexity as another, and have similar technical challenges, software developers are constantly dealing with new ideas, greater complexity, new techniques, and greater demands.
While your points are generally valid, your dismissal of other engineering disciplines is not justified.
So, are the people who build the next manned space transport going to have no need to invent new materials, fabrication methods, physical models, etc.? What about things like movable 400-foot spans over stadiums? Fuel Cells? Even more mundane things like tires are wonders of engineered polymers. Think about what engineers have done when you can drive a car reliably in winter on porous snow tires.
How about the Skunk Works, where entire airframes breaking the rules of aerodynamics were designed in timeframes that would put even small software projects to shame.
The problem with comparing software to traditional engineering is that in traditional engineering there a public awareness of the non-trivial aspect of things like municipal water systems or cars or an airplane. People have no problem paying an auto mechanic $40/hour to diagnose and fix problems in their car, but people have yet to understand that software has an order of magnitude more moving "parts" than a car, whose interactions can often be arbitrary and unpredictable, yet the IT industry is still truly a complete joke.
Software engineering will be a real discipline, one day, where there will be a real separation between professionals (rare today) and amateurs (95% of IT "professionals"). What we see today with trash like RUP, XP, CMM, UML, XML, etc. etc. etc. etc. is that we are still flailing about trying to find our own ass in the dark. When we eventually find it, we'll still be sticking our thumb up it for another few decades, and perhaps we'll get lucky and our culture will have finally accepted that software isn't for high-school students any longer.
...medical testing...automating of chemical lab tests...Both are using VB 6.0...
So, do I sue your friends or Microsoft when their system fails and provides the wrong results from a test? Do they use computers with ECC in RAM and the datapaths? Are they sure there are no implementation bugs in VisualBasic itself, such as a mis-managed pointer, where data structures can take on any form without the operator's knowledge?
The complacency in the medical industry is sickening. I've even seen medical lab servers, billing, and bookkeeping all done on Windows 95. Just thinking about it makes me turn red.
You know, if the hospitals weren't so heavily regulated, perhaps they could actually afford an AS/400 or a Sun for their new systems. But no, the politicians would rather keep people feeling warm and fuzzy about a medical system that is being driven into the ground.
Uh, South Carolinians wouldn't know the word "Hungarian", unless that's how they describe the feeling they get before dinner. I think you're a fake!
Re:LOL, Struts is right on target.
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Using modular design leads to more complex code...
This is true only for very small projects. If struts doesn't provide a complexity benefit for even large projects, then people should question its value.
Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service in April 2002.
Probably because they couldn't figure out how to shovel ads down people's throats over POP. Yahoo! Mail is nice and all, but I wonder if they could still do well with just a few fewer big skyscraper ads choking my 33K modem to death.
The candidate declined from any comments, but his political carreer seems to be over for good.
This is why centralization of information is always a mixed blessing. Journalists are always trying to dig up whatever superfluous dirt they can on canidates they don't agree with (journalism is a joke, BTW), so their job is only easier if they can pay off a single person at Google, Equifax, IRS, etc. for as much data as they want. It's one-stop shopping for political ruin and can very easily destroy a representative democracy by furthering the false moral superiority often projected onto our leaders by people who agree with their agendas. Basically, it is a good argument for privacy, where every person can and should have an opportunity to run for public office without fearing that people will judge them based on trivial purchases or actions from years ago.
I hear those words about spam and proposed solutions all the time. But the fact is, and will always remain so, that you cannot get absolutely everyone to do so...without tyranny. Therefore, the fallacy of the Democratic platform.
Remote shocking device to allow the victim of telemarketing to send a 4000amp charge down the line to the person at the call centre.
IIRC, the resistence in the body is on the order of tens of kilo-ohms, so you would need several hundred thousand volts to drive 4000 amps through the telemarketer. I believe the best word to describe the result is "well done".
Just asking people to name the major canidates and the referendums on the ballot for would make a big difference. People should at least have given some thought to voting before actually arriving at the polls. With some thought, I think a test could be made without discriminating against anyone unfairly or compromising the anonymity of voting.
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No self respecting manager should EVER allow juniors like this guy to decide how development should progress.
Unfortunately, most managers were either junior programmers who weren't any good at it or non-programmers with MBAs.
"Honey, when did they add the Goatsex guy to the cast of Friends?"
That's just the season finale, where the whole cast, production staff, and the set get pulled by a raging vortex into Hell's Anus, where everyone is enslaved to work in the corn fields by their new Gerbil Lords.
Pair programming is uncomfortable on our reduced space. And it's noisy.
Are the inconveniences worth it?
If your partner is really hot, then yes.
What does being a lamb have anything to do with moderation?
Thank you for your insightful feedback. My future is brighter for it. However, please see that you were moderated offtopic, for the same reason you cited for me. Good day.
"Have you smoked marijuana more than three times in your life?"
Why does the government care? Because marijuana has been arbitrarily deemed immoral by lawmakers? Why not the questions "Have you consumed more than three beers in your life?" "Have you smoked more than three tobacco cigarettes in your life?" "Have you looked at a woman who isn't your wife more than three times in your life?" "Did you speed while passing another vehicle more than three times in your life?"
The markets reacted as expected. I'm breathless.
Does anybody know where I might acquire a poster of Mr. Torvalds?
Make your own. Now your only question remaining is "Bunny suit or S&M leather?"
At least if an OSS project fails the code is available for other projects to scavenge and incorporate.
Only other GPL projects. This is important to note, as the code is still not public domain, unless the previous maintainers change the license before dissolving the project.
Are these effective?
Why not? At under $100, I think I'll probably get a GC in the next year or so. Being able to run the original Zelda on a several-hundred-megahertz modern RISC CPU is just the icing on the cake. The original Zelda was one of the few games that had tremendous replay value...but I'm really not sure why (story, characters, simplicity, I suppose).
In an economic system where quarterly reports are king you did not expect long term vision, or did you?
Only fake businessmen and managers think month-to-month. Unfortunately, more is fake than real. That is reality, and we must live with it, because no scheme to "fix" it will work.
People like to call it 'engineering' and compare it with areas of physical construction, but it's too different - whereas one bridge or building is likely to be the same order of magnitude in size and complexity as another, and have similar technical challenges, software developers are constantly dealing with new ideas, greater complexity, new techniques, and greater demands.
While your points are generally valid, your dismissal of other engineering disciplines is not justified.
So, are the people who build the next manned space transport going to have no need to invent new materials, fabrication methods, physical models, etc.? What about things like movable 400-foot spans over stadiums? Fuel Cells? Even more mundane things like tires are wonders of engineered polymers. Think about what engineers have done when you can drive a car reliably in winter on porous snow tires.
How about the Skunk Works, where entire airframes breaking the rules of aerodynamics were designed in timeframes that would put even small software projects to shame.
The problem with comparing software to traditional engineering is that in traditional engineering there a public awareness of the non-trivial aspect of things like municipal water systems or cars or an airplane. People have no problem paying an auto mechanic $40/hour to diagnose and fix problems in their car, but people have yet to understand that software has an order of magnitude more moving "parts" than a car, whose interactions can often be arbitrary and unpredictable, yet the IT industry is still truly a complete joke.
Software engineering will be a real discipline, one day, where there will be a real separation between professionals (rare today) and amateurs (95% of IT "professionals"). What we see today with trash like RUP, XP, CMM, UML, XML, etc. etc. etc. etc. is that we are still flailing about trying to find our own ass in the dark. When we eventually find it, we'll still be sticking our thumb up it for another few decades, and perhaps we'll get lucky and our culture will have finally accepted that software isn't for high-school students any longer.
...medical testing...automating of chemical lab tests...Both are using VB 6.0...
So, do I sue your friends or Microsoft when their system fails and provides the wrong results from a test? Do they use computers with ECC in RAM and the datapaths? Are they sure there are no implementation bugs in VisualBasic itself, such as a mis-managed pointer, where data structures can take on any form without the operator's knowledge?
The complacency in the medical industry is sickening. I've even seen medical lab servers, billing, and bookkeeping all done on Windows 95. Just thinking about it makes me turn red.
You know, if the hospitals weren't so heavily regulated, perhaps they could actually afford an AS/400 or a Sun for their new systems. But no, the politicians would rather keep people feeling warm and fuzzy about a medical system that is being driven into the ground.
Uh, South Carolinians wouldn't know the word "Hungarian", unless that's how they describe the feeling they get before dinner. I think you're a fake!
Using modular design leads to more complex code...
This is true only for very small projects. If struts doesn't provide a complexity benefit for even large projects, then people should question its value.
Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service in April 2002.
Probably because they couldn't figure out how to shovel ads down people's throats over POP. Yahoo! Mail is nice and all, but I wonder if they could still do well with just a few fewer big skyscraper ads choking my 33K modem to death.
The candidate declined from any comments, but his political carreer seems to be over for good.
This is why centralization of information is always a mixed blessing. Journalists are always trying to dig up whatever superfluous dirt they can on canidates they don't agree with (journalism is a joke, BTW), so their job is only easier if they can pay off a single person at Google, Equifax, IRS, etc. for as much data as they want. It's one-stop shopping for political ruin and can very easily destroy a representative democracy by furthering the false moral superiority often projected onto our leaders by people who agree with their agendas. Basically, it is a good argument for privacy, where every person can and should have an opportunity to run for public office without fearing that people will judge them based on trivial purchases or actions from years ago.
When I can cash in Google searches for free air travel... then I'll be impressed.
Given that searches more or less equate to advertising revenue for Google, this sort of program just might work.
"Other people who searched for a, also searched for b, c and d."
"and were supoenaed and interrogated, so watch out."
You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles.
Hmmm, I find that LA just bites back. Einstein is a stooge (just joking, folks).
"If everyone would just ..."
...without tyranny. Therefore, the fallacy of the Democratic platform.
I hear those words about spam and proposed solutions all the time. But the fact is, and will always remain so, that you cannot get absolutely everyone to do so
give John Ashcroft a sperm sample to get a license to run a mail server
Please don't cast Mr. Ashcroft with the money shot. The reason porn works is that people want to watch it.
"My fellow Americans, our country is under attack by spam, telemarketing and faxes. This group constitutes a Triangle of Trash.
If you add junk mail, we'll have a problem when GWB stumbles at "quadrilateral" on the teleprompter.
Remote shocking device to allow the victim of telemarketing to send a 4000amp charge down the line to the person at the call centre.
IIRC, the resistence in the body is on the order of tens of kilo-ohms, so you would need several hundred thousand volts to drive 4000 amps through the telemarketer. I believe the best word to describe the result is "well done".
There's no good test to find these individuals
Just asking people to name the major canidates and the referendums on the ballot for would make a big difference. People should at least have given some thought to voting before actually arriving at the polls. With some thought, I think a test could be made without discriminating against anyone unfairly or compromising the anonymity of voting.