I'd like to see this happen at coffee shops as well. A handful of coffee shops I know of have plenty of AC ports avaiable to plug into, but only 1 or 2 I know of have an ethernet port nearby to plug into. To narrow it down further, there's only 1 coffee shop that'll let you plug in(and pay the hourly fee) to surf the web and sip coffee on.
I've been to one coffee shop where an unofficial Quake deathmatch took place, and we had cords all over the place. This could be greatly simplified with wireless, where you wouldn't run into restrictions of how far your network cables go nor how many ports you have in your battery-operated hub. You could have all the customers in the shop just join in on the fraggin'.
Your statements are wrong. You can't just rely on unit testing alone to fix all the bugs or "suckiness" in an app. It takes a lot of time to test the simplest app, time usually the programmer doesn't have. Envision "Quality Assurance" that does a helluva lot more than "unit testing".
How about usability testing? While the coder may make a program that he/she finds logical to use(not necessarily easy to use), the general public(unless you're just writing the software for yourself) may find it extremely difficult or impossible.
Your statements about non-coders should stay away from the coding process(or perhaps I should say development process) sounds a bit elitist.
You obviously didn't look at the OTHER use for the cordless phone gun, cold-blooded murder:
"TERMINATED EMPLOYEE: Have you been fired recently by a idiotic boss? Mail him a ShotCaller2000 in a "plain brown wrapper" with a phone number attached. When your phone rings and it's your ex-boss on the other end saying, "What's this all about?" simply reply, "Your REALLY fired!" and punch in your pre-programmed 3-digit code and BLAM!...problem solved!"
Who writes the spiel for this site, a bunch of 15 year olds?
Those soup bowl toys reminded me of all the cheap gobot and Transformer knockoffs during the transformer craze of the mid-80s. Even Coke had a can that transformed into a robot(search for it on www.x-entertainment.com). I personally had a knockoff toy that was a little camera that turned into a robot, that shot little plastic bullets out of its "flash". No, it was not the ultra-rare Decepticon Reflector.
I miss those kinda toys. I guess I should scour the asian supermarkets to find any remnants of cheap asian knockoff toys. Forget Beast Wars.
I like the screw idea. I remember having 5-sided star(torx?) head bits on my car's bumper. I broke several screw bits trying to unscrew them. After dremeling the heads as to use a normal screwdriver on it(and failing), I eventually had a machine shop extract them and re-thread them so I can use regular bolts.
I find the keyboard mentioned in the article to be the least interesting of all the gadgets.
That exoskeleton's real cool, but after seeing the AVI of it, how does he stop walking? Does it sit back on its hind legs(the endmost leg laying flat) like a dog?
Compared to THe Net, this movie was great. The scene I enjoyed the most took place in the day care center(no, I wont go further). The music was perfect for when he makes the revelations.
As for keeping all the incriminating evidence(avis, changed records, etc)? I'm assuming he's doing that so he can blackmail his employees. Dare to turn your back on me? I'll just give the cops all this evidence. Easy way to control your evil employees.
I noticed there was quite a few open source jabs here and there, making me think that Slashdot's zealots had a hand in this movie.
The work environment at NURV makes my place look like a dungeon.
The computer screenshots and all that blabber was lot less inaccurate than any other movie I've seen. yes, I was trying to parse the HTML in the opening credits, seeing if I could find out what website it went to. It looked like a typical corporate index.html, where there was a link mentioning "download our latest beta!".
I loved the source code detector they had rigged. If you saw the screenshots quickly it had labels for changed source code and new code.
I'm assuming the source code that they were working with in the movie was all BS code. Anyone with quick eyes care to comment on it?
I enjoyed it. It was fun. I wasn't looking for technical accuracy.
Would you care to list some examples of better quality, more solid open source apps that are not alphas and betas?
Look on the bright side of having these opensource Outlook lookalikes being exact. If you have a company with x employees that were raised on Outlook and switch them to this, it'll be easy for them to figure it out without asking on newsgroups, reading through FAQs, and dinking around. Time is money, and not everyone has the time to goof off with an app when there's work to be done.
Nono, it's on the same platform. You just have to install a small required library called "linux" to get it to work correctly. You just have to be patient with the install.
And if you think a bit harder, you can blame this on Linux. All that power being used up from Linux zealots just for the braggning right of having the world's longest uptime for their servers, even if the servers they have serve no purpose whatsoever.
I shut down MY machine at the end of the day. Do you? Reminds me of the Domino's Pizza commercial where Bad Andy is getting a backrub, watching TV, and doing about 20 other things involving electricity.
Resist the temptation to go down telco manholes tho. A friend of mine went down one 5 years ago(while I was on lookout), and didn't realize all the gases and such down there. Fortunately, he didn't die, or get injured for that matter.
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That is a good question. Are there renegade open source programmers out there working on projects WITHOUT approval?
I'd like to see this happen at coffee shops as well. A handful of coffee shops I know of have plenty of AC ports avaiable to plug into, but only 1 or 2 I know of have an ethernet port nearby to plug into. To narrow it down further, there's only 1 coffee shop that'll let you plug in(and pay the hourly fee) to surf the web and sip coffee on.
I've been to one coffee shop where an unofficial Quake deathmatch took place, and we had cords all over the place. This could be greatly simplified with wireless, where you wouldn't run into restrictions of how far your network cables go nor how many ports you have in your battery-operated hub. You could have all the customers in the shop just join in on the fraggin'.
Your statements are wrong. You can't just rely on unit testing alone to fix all the bugs or "suckiness" in an app. It takes a lot of time to test the simplest app, time usually the programmer doesn't have. Envision "Quality Assurance" that does a helluva lot more than "unit testing".
How about usability testing? While the coder may make a program that he/she finds logical to use(not necessarily easy to use), the general public(unless you're just writing the software for yourself) may find it extremely difficult or impossible.
Your statements about non-coders should stay away from the coding process(or perhaps I should say development process) sounds a bit elitist.
What are the domain names, subhosts, etc for doubleclick? I'd like to just opt out completely with a little editing of the hosts file.
You obviously didn't look at the OTHER use for the cordless phone gun, cold-blooded murder:
...problem solved!"
"TERMINATED EMPLOYEE: Have you been fired recently by a idiotic boss? Mail him a ShotCaller2000 in a "plain brown wrapper" with a phone number attached. When your phone rings and it's your ex-boss on the other end saying, "What's this all about?" simply reply, "Your REALLY fired!" and punch in your pre-programmed 3-digit code and BLAM!
Who writes the spiel for this site, a bunch of 15 year olds?
I didn't even think of looking at that site/article, but after what you just described, I am now!
Those soup bowl toys reminded me of all the cheap gobot and Transformer knockoffs during the transformer craze of the mid-80s. Even Coke had a can that transformed into a robot(search for it on www.x-entertainment.com). I personally had a knockoff toy that was a little camera that turned into a robot, that shot little plastic bullets out of its "flash". No, it was not the ultra-rare Decepticon Reflector.
I miss those kinda toys. I guess I should scour the asian supermarkets to find any remnants of cheap asian knockoff toys. Forget Beast Wars.
This is just great. Now with the snip of your wires at the demarc, you will now:
1. won't have internet access
2. won't have telephone access
3. won't be able to watch tv.
Might as well just go outside at that point.
I like the screw idea. I remember having 5-sided star(torx?) head bits on my car's bumper. I broke several screw bits trying to unscrew them. After dremeling the heads as to use a normal screwdriver on it(and failing), I eventually had a machine shop extract them and re-thread them so I can use regular bolts.
I find the keyboard mentioned in the article to be the least interesting of all the gadgets.
That exoskeleton's real cool, but after seeing the AVI of it, how does he stop walking? Does it sit back on its hind legs(the endmost leg laying flat) like a dog?
Color gradients (from color A to B) have artifacts show up quite a bit on DVDs. Would your solution clear that up as well?
You can get that Triumph the insult comic dog hand puppet like on Conan O'brien dirt cheap!
http://www.oshealtd.com/puppets.htm
I would not recommend that since they have ANI. You'd get busted for "theft of services"
I never thought I would see the day where the goatse.cx guy sold out. Wow, the trolls have gone corporate.
I bought the comp-u-geek shirt, but when I opened the box, 8000 shirts spawned out.
I can just see it now: amipornornot.com
Hey! It's an alpha release of their review! Just submit the errors in, and wait for the next release!
Compared to THe Net, this movie was great. The scene I enjoyed the most took place in the day care center(no, I wont go further). The music was perfect for when he makes the revelations.
As for keeping all the incriminating evidence(avis, changed records, etc)? I'm assuming he's doing that so he can blackmail his employees. Dare to turn your back on me? I'll just give the cops all this evidence. Easy way to control your evil employees.
I noticed there was quite a few open source jabs here and there, making me think that Slashdot's zealots had a hand in this movie.
The work environment at NURV makes my place look like a dungeon.
The computer screenshots and all that blabber was lot less inaccurate than any other movie I've seen. yes, I was trying to parse the HTML in the opening credits, seeing if I could find out what website it went to. It looked like a typical corporate index.html, where there was a link mentioning "download our latest beta!".
I loved the source code detector they had rigged. If you saw the screenshots quickly it had labels for changed source code and new code.
I'm assuming the source code that they were working with in the movie was all BS code. Anyone with quick eyes care to comment on it?
I enjoyed it. It was fun. I wasn't looking for technical accuracy.
Would you care to list some examples of better quality, more solid open source apps that are not alphas and betas?
Look on the bright side of having these opensource Outlook lookalikes being exact. If you have a company with x employees that were raised on Outlook and switch them to this, it'll be easy for them to figure it out without asking on newsgroups, reading through FAQs, and dinking around. Time is money, and not everyone has the time to goof off with an app when there's work to be done.
Nono, it's on the same platform. You just have to install a small required library called "linux" to get it to work correctly. You just have to be patient with the install.
And if you think a bit harder, you can blame this on Linux. All that power being used up from Linux zealots just for the braggning right of having the world's longest uptime for their servers, even if the servers they have serve no purpose whatsoever.
I shut down MY machine at the end of the day. Do you? Reminds me of the Domino's Pizza commercial where Bad Andy is getting a backrub, watching TV, and doing about 20 other things involving electricity.
Hmm, UNIX core, with an easy-to-use GUI? It sounds like the best of both worlds.
And no matter how many times I punch/zap the monkey, I never get 20 actual real US dollars. False advertising at its finest.
Free gift? I'd hate to have to purchase a gift someone is giving me.
I still giggle when I think back to when he said "Eat a bag of hell!"
Resist the temptation to go down telco manholes tho. A friend of mine went down one 5 years ago(while I was on lookout), and didn't realize all the gases and such down there. Fortunately, he didn't die, or get injured for that matter.