I thought it was cows. Ya know, there's more cows on earth now than there ever was in the history of cow-kind. They generate a lot of the gases the contribute to global warming.
My technique is to do nothing and then complain at the weekly meetings that I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. It's called learned helplessness.
Does any other programmers suffer from the paralysis caused by "design staff"? For every project my company starts, someone inevitably gets assigned the task of "designing it". The result is a bunch of incoherent scribbles, quasi-UML documents and vague ideas that us programmers are expected to work from. When we ask for more detail we get an insufficient answer. When we just go ahead and use our own initiative the design dude will moan that we havn't done it exactly how he wanted us to. The whole time I feel like smacking the design guy in the face and saying "why don't YOU fuckin' code it?"
A programmer should know how to administer his own machine. Umm.. hell no! admin is a job for admin. As a wise man once said to me: you do your job and I'll do mine.
The most interesting thing about Linux, aside from the social movement aspect, is the fact that it is the first Unix to run on x86. So we put Solaris on the x86. Now we have well over a million licenses of Solaris running on Intel and on the AMD Opteron.
- Jonathan Schwartz, President and Chief Operating Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Wow, for some reason that's not the kind of well informed opinion I'd want to be hearing from the company I'm buying a unix solution from.
does not an open source project make. Sun best get their act together and encourage active open development of their platform if they ever want to catch up to the momentum of Linux. Of course, maybe they're going the way of the BSD operating systems and think they can get by with a closed team of developers.
Errr, there's a big difference between "see" and "resolve". You can use radio waves to detect aircraft (we call it radar) even though the wavelength of the radiation used is much much bigger than the plane.
Uhhh no. The difference between a rocket and a jet is that a jet is a mechanical device which creates a pressure differential between the front and the back of it. A rocket expels propellant to cause an opposite reaction.
The fastest jet plane in the world is still the SR71 Blackbird. It flew at Mach 3.35 or 2,275 mph (3,660 km/h). The circumference of the earth is 24,859.82 miles (40,008 km). So that means the Blackbird would do a flight around the world in 11 hours. Unfortunately it only had a range of 2,590 nm (4,800 km), so it would have to refuel at least 9 times. In a way, it's amazing that someone can build a plane that can carry enough fuel and still do the trip in less than 8x the time.
Next time you go a store who has a clerk who wishes to blame a higher authority, just take a cam corder. When he asks you to stop filming in the store tell him that your insurance policy requires that you film all altercations with store staff. The clerk will immediately call his manager, who will call his manager, who will call the regional manager, who will call whoever. They can't throw you out, cause that would just give you something to film. If they try to call you on your bluff you can just get your "manager" on the phone to explain to their manager that yes, you are required to film the argument about their store policy. Eventually someone will be called that you can actually ask about the issue it is you wanted to ask them about. And you'll get a reply that isn't coming from a clerk defering to a higher authority.
I'm sorry, wtf are you talking about? You have to have ID to drive a car. You also have to have ID to get on a bus or a train these days. Without ID you have two ways to travel: walk, or hire someone else to drive you (taxi, or limo).
Unfortunately the legal page hasn't been updated since November 2004. So what's happenin' John? Has things stalled? Has there been any more progress? If so, can you update the legal page? We are listening, and we do care. Our attention spans are longer than the average person. Why the silence?
Uhhh, you don't need to "look for a reason", the simple fact that no evidence, what-so-ever, can prove or disprove the existance of god is more than enough reason to not bother talking about it.
Wow the necessity is the mother of inventory (or scratching the itch) explaination for open source is still popular? I've found that the vast majority of open source projects are started by people who had "some interest" in coding what they started coding. It's not because they've got work to do and can't find anything to do it (if you've got work to do you do the damn the work, you don't sit down and write tools so you can do it better), it's because they wanted to enjoy themselves coding something that they hadn't coded before. Or, like an artist, they had a vision in their head how a piece of software could be written so they laboured to bring that vision into the real world, purely for the joy of "getting it out" to other human beings.
Sure, after these pioneers have produced what they produce people often come along and hack on it so they can get real work done with it, but in the case of a sound driver, we're not talking about getting work done here, we're talking about the artifacts of intellectual curiousity that us programmers hate to see "go to waste", so we share it.
or talent, or artistic merit, or quality. This says more about the audience than it does about the film makers. Due to hollywood the vast majority of us wouldn't know a good film if it bit us in the ass. We have no critical asthetic for film so we're willing to accept anything.
Wanna say that word one more time? What's the deal? I mean you are aware this show is a remake right? I still can't believe they made Starbucks a chick.
What I find funny about Fermi's Paradox is no-one seems to consider the most obvious answer. Maybe the aliens havn't shown up here yet because our civilization is one of the first.
To hell with religion, the impact on the life sciences is what we're talking about. The effect of having a completely different organism to study would be phenomonal. Of course, if it turns out that earth was seeded by metorites thrown up from mars (or visa-versa) the effect will not be so great. Of course, now that I mention that I've given the religous a way to save their creationist theories.
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I thought it was cows. Ya know, there's more cows on earth now than there ever was in the history of cow-kind. They generate a lot of the gases the contribute to global warming.
yep, and that doesn't make you an open source project. So maybe Sun should stop claiming they are making Solaris open source.
My technique is to do nothing and then complain at the weekly meetings that I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. It's called learned helplessness.
Does any other programmers suffer from the paralysis caused by "design staff"? For every project my company starts, someone inevitably gets assigned the task of "designing it". The result is a bunch of incoherent scribbles, quasi-UML documents and vague ideas that us programmers are expected to work from. When we ask for more detail we get an insufficient answer. When we just go ahead and use our own initiative the design dude will moan that we havn't done it exactly how he wanted us to. The whole time I feel like smacking the design guy in the face and saying "why don't YOU fuckin' code it?"
A programmer should know how to administer his own machine.
Umm.. hell no! admin is a job for admin. As a wise man once said to me: you do your job and I'll do mine.
- Jonathan Schwartz, President and Chief Operating Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Wow, for some reason that's not the kind of well informed opinion I'd want to be hearing from the company I'm buying a unix solution from.
does not an open source project make. Sun best get their act together and encourage active open development of their platform if they ever want to catch up to the momentum of Linux. Of course, maybe they're going the way of the BSD operating systems and think they can get by with a closed team of developers.
Errr, there's a big difference between "see" and "resolve". You can use radio waves to detect aircraft (we call it radar) even though the wavelength of the radiation used is much much bigger than the plane.
So, far example, you could use this technology to be invisible to light in the radio bands, which have wavelengths measured in meters?
Uhhh no. The difference between a rocket and a jet is that a jet is a mechanical device which creates a pressure differential between the front and the back of it. A rocket expels propellant to cause an opposite reaction.
It's an air breathing rocket. The two work completely different.
not a jet.
The fastest jet plane in the world is still the SR71 Blackbird. It flew at Mach 3.35 or 2,275 mph (3,660 km/h). The circumference of the earth is 24,859.82 miles (40,008 km). So that means the Blackbird would do a flight around the world in 11 hours. Unfortunately it only had a range of 2,590 nm (4,800 km), so it would have to refuel at least 9 times. In a way, it's amazing that someone can build a plane that can carry enough fuel and still do the trip in less than 8x the time.
Next time you go a store who has a clerk who wishes to blame a higher authority, just take a cam corder. When he asks you to stop filming in the store tell him that your insurance policy requires that you film all altercations with store staff. The clerk will immediately call his manager, who will call his manager, who will call the regional manager, who will call whoever. They can't throw you out, cause that would just give you something to film. If they try to call you on your bluff you can just get your "manager" on the phone to explain to their manager that yes, you are required to film the argument about their store policy. Eventually someone will be called that you can actually ask about the issue it is you wanted to ask them about. And you'll get a reply that isn't coming from a clerk defering to a higher authority.
I'm sorry, wtf are you talking about? You have to have ID to drive a car. You also have to have ID to get on a bus or a train these days. Without ID you have two ways to travel: walk, or hire someone else to drive you (taxi, or limo).
The irony. That's beautiful man.
Unfortunately the legal page hasn't been updated since November 2004. So what's happenin' John? Has things stalled? Has there been any more progress? If so, can you update the legal page? We are listening, and we do care. Our attention spans are longer than the average person. Why the silence?
Uhhh, you don't need to "look for a reason", the simple fact that no evidence, what-so-ever, can prove or disprove the existance of god is more than enough reason to not bother talking about it.
Sure, after these pioneers have produced what they produce people often come along and hack on it so they can get real work done with it, but in the case of a sound driver, we're not talking about getting work done here, we're talking about the artifacts of intellectual curiousity that us programmers hate to see "go to waste", so we share it.
or talent, or artistic merit, or quality. This says more about the audience than it does about the film makers. Due to hollywood the vast majority of us wouldn't know a good film if it bit us in the ass. We have no critical asthetic for film so we're willing to accept anything.
This is the end of cinema.
What, dumb luck isn't a good enough reason? Maybe no-one has invented FTL travel yet (assuming it is possible).
Wanna say that word one more time? What's the deal? I mean you are aware this show is a remake right? I still can't believe they made Starbucks a chick.
What I find funny about Fermi's Paradox is no-one seems to consider the most obvious answer. Maybe the aliens havn't shown up here yet because our civilization is one of the first.
To hell with religion, the impact on the life sciences is what we're talking about. The effect of having a completely different organism to study would be phenomonal. Of course, if it turns out that earth was seeded by metorites thrown up from mars (or visa-versa) the effect will not be so great. Of course, now that I mention that I've given the religous a way to save their creationist theories.