This is just like the electric car that supposedly recycles energy when you press the brakes... I'll reserve judgement until I can see this chip in action.
I'm sure that the IRS and the evil company that didn't pay their taxes will come to some agreement, and it will be way less than a billion dollars. Companies always find a way out of messes like this. Of course, it'd be neat if Symantec were to declare that they were bankrupt, and then reopen under the name Norton, without paying a dime... Only in America...:P
I remember when the standards were defined by Netscape and IE, basically any new feature one implemented, the other copied, and voila, a standard... Whatever happend to that type of development? It benefited everyone. Now we have a bunch of lame ass intellects defining standards but not actually implementing them, resulting in any app that does follow these new standard features to have massive memory leaks, and hacked code to get it to work...
Just lately here in Ontario (Canada), a bunch of manufacturing jobs disappeared. I am unaffected by it, since I work as a software developer. When the local politicians spin it as opportunity to grow towards more of a service workforce from a manufacturing one, I listen and agree... but when the bubble burst for dot-coms, I couldn't care less what they said, I was worried about my future employment.
Long story short, those unaffected by outsourcing directly will agree with Bush's view that there is a market to sell other goods (that are not already outsourced to India), and that is good for the country. Those affected by the outsourcing won't give a shit about a new market, and only care about their lost job/income/life.
I'm an avid Need for Speed fan... every recent release comes out at $70 (Canadian) and then a week later it's down to $60, then a month later it's $50... then about 2 months after that it's in the bargain bin for $20.
If they started pricing games more reasonably, based on length, quality, and quantity of game play, then maybe they'd make money, and a much better return on investment... but instead, I just sit around waiting for a month before buying the game.
Then again, if you can sell a crap game for 4 times as much as the reasonable market value, why not!?
Same as people who buy a super sweet hi-def set, and watch crappy analog cable on it, and then tell you that they're watching hi-def.
These are the same people that put premium gasoline in their 'optimized for 87 octane' car, and then claim they can feel the extra performance.
Yup... but at the end of the day, the important thing is that the person who paid the money for the thing they got are happy with it. Doesn't matter if they don't actually know they're not getting what they thought, so long as they like it, who cares!
Next is proper anchor texting. I fix the hyper text on the vast majority of submissions. People link the word 'Here' or 'Article' or 'CNN' and I find that very frustrating. I want the hypertext to be the most appropriate 2-3 words that tell you exactly what you're clicking on. I think that is absolutely essential. Every URL should matter, and every bit of hypertext should tell you exactly what it is you're going to get when you click that mouse button.
This is the single most frustrating thing I hate about the modification of stories submitted to slashdot. Half the time a link of 'Here', or the website name would be much better than you trying to make it part of the context of the sentence. I've clicked on links that lead to nothing at all pretaining to the word you anchored it against. Heck, I'd even be happier if the links were just a list at the end of the story, not embedded within it. It's supposed to be a summary, not a webpage.
You're right, it doesn't taste like McDonald's... more like Taco Bell... I think their beef has about as much bacteria and fungi per square centimetre.
If you feel the need to defend your story submission criteria/methods, then that means you yourself feel that it isn't up to snuff. So stop being a hypocrit, and actually fix the problem instead of trying to justify the crazy coincidences when it comes to story acceptance...
And doctors go out and run people down in their cars so that they can then save lives and make a living... Health inspectors plant e.coli in the food they inspect... Firemen set fires randomly in the middle of the night so they have something to put out... Cops give gangs guns so they have gang violence to fight... Yeah... okay... and Microsoft purposefully pirates Windows for better market penetration...
Sorry, but MTV proved to me that shooting a bunch of ugly young kids blabbing about crap in a still frame shot works... Either that or MTV is just a big money laundering operation, cuz after 20 years they're still on the air...
The problem may be that all 60 driver developers are sub par.. but having worked at a contract house that created custom drivers for ATI chips, I can safely say that with the hardware register references that were given to us by ATI, I was amazed to even get the video card to switch resolutions properly. The engineers doing the hardware over at ATI might be awesome, but they can't document worth shit!
As a software developer, I'll take responsiblity for bugs in my code and the damages they may cause, the day that politicians take responsiblity for their campain promises and the crap they end up passing as law later...
Did I miss something? I thought that in space there is no 'drag', so once something is in orbit, it stays in orbit... or are they not in 'space' per-se, but still in some very very low density part of the earth's atmosphere?
Think IRC for those people who don't get it. Oh, why am I bothering, all you young kids are using Instant messaging now... It's the equivelent to me trying to explain how a rotary phone works in this day and age. ugh.
I think you gave away a little too much. Besides, I was under the impression that if a developer checks in code that breaks the build they are put into 'developer jail' to prevent them from screwing up more of the code. Did this not happen in your example? If not, it defeats the purpose of 'gates' in the first place. I used to work for a company that was contracted out to do work at your former company. Needless to say the 'gate' system was totally stupid, as the person in charge of integration simply changed the requirements until our buggy code passed through the gate (redefined the requirements until the bugs were in code not mandatory). Go figure. Took me a few months to find another job and quit, but I know exactly how you feel.
It's usually poor management that forces the product to be out the door 6 months before it's ready. Either keep your job and release a buggy product or stick to your guns and get fired. I think it should be the company, not the individual developer held accountable. How the company handles things internally is up to them.
No, "they" are more into dumping their crap American content on other nations and destroying other countries' cultural industries
Why not let free market decide? As in, give me the choice of watching the CBC, or FOX. Let's see what I *choose* to watch, and let the lesser watched channel die a horrible death.
But no, our government decides for us that we will watch canadian content and we will like it. Obviously it is crap since we are *Forced* to watch it, they won't let us decide what we want to watch...
The real complaint is the dangerous attitude the US government has shown lately. Everything is fine right now, but the US has made unilateral decisions in the past (Hello world, we'd like to attack Iraq. What do you mean you won't support us? Screw you, we're doing it anyway!). If they decide to do something like that with the internet, there's nothing stopping them. That's scary.
Maple syrup? No... we're more into buying rabbit ears and attempting to watch the forbidden American television stations (They don't have the government mandated 95% crap canadian content forced down our throats)...
I doubt we'll ever know who the most powerful is/was. While the person is still alive, no one will know of their exploits. Once the person retires, the people affected by said hacker will never acknowledge it.
Indeed, I totally agree with you that lyrics are rather important to music. I was simply trying to make a joke, but I guess my sarcasm didn't quite make it through... this is why I'm a software developer and not a comedian.;)
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This is just like the electric car that supposedly recycles energy when you press the brakes... I'll reserve judgement until I can see this chip in action.
I'm sure that the IRS and the evil company that didn't pay their taxes will come to some agreement, and it will be way less than a billion dollars. Companies always find a way out of messes like this. Of course, it'd be neat if Symantec were to declare that they were bankrupt, and then reopen under the name Norton, without paying a dime... Only in America... :P
I remember when the standards were defined by Netscape and IE, basically any new feature one implemented, the other copied, and voila, a standard... Whatever happend to that type of development? It benefited everyone. Now we have a bunch of lame ass intellects defining standards but not actually implementing them, resulting in any app that does follow these new standard features to have massive memory leaks, and hacked code to get it to work...
I want the old 'standards' war back.
Just lately here in Ontario (Canada), a bunch of manufacturing jobs disappeared. I am unaffected by it, since I work as a software developer. When the local politicians spin it as opportunity to grow towards more of a service workforce from a manufacturing one, I listen and agree... but when the bubble burst for dot-coms, I couldn't care less what they said, I was worried about my future employment.
Long story short, those unaffected by outsourcing directly will agree with Bush's view that there is a market to sell other goods (that are not already outsourced to India), and that is good for the country. Those affected by the outsourcing won't give a shit about a new market, and only care about their lost job/income/life.
I'm an avid Need for Speed fan... every recent release comes out at $70 (Canadian) and then a week later it's down to $60, then a month later it's $50... then about 2 months after that it's in the bargain bin for $20.
If they started pricing games more reasonably, based on length, quality, and quantity of game play, then maybe they'd make money, and a much better return on investment... but instead, I just sit around waiting for a month before buying the game.
Then again, if you can sell a crap game for 4 times as much as the reasonable market value, why not!?
Same as people who buy a super sweet hi-def set, and watch crappy analog cable on it, and then tell you that they're watching hi-def.
These are the same people that put premium gasoline in their 'optimized for 87 octane' car, and then claim they can feel the extra performance.
Yup... but at the end of the day, the important thing is that the person who paid the money for the thing they got are happy with it. Doesn't matter if they don't actually know they're not getting what they thought, so long as they like it, who cares!
Next is proper anchor texting. I fix the hyper text on the vast majority of submissions. People link the word 'Here' or 'Article' or 'CNN' and I find that very frustrating. I want the hypertext to be the most appropriate 2-3 words that tell you exactly what you're clicking on. I think that is absolutely essential. Every URL should matter, and every bit of hypertext should tell you exactly what it is you're going to get when you click that mouse button.
This is the single most frustrating thing I hate about the modification of stories submitted to slashdot. Half the time a link of 'Here', or the website name would be much better than you trying to make it part of the context of the sentence. I've clicked on links that lead to nothing at all pretaining to the word you anchored it against. Heck, I'd even be happier if the links were just a list at the end of the story, not embedded within it. It's supposed to be a summary, not a webpage.
You're right, it doesn't taste like McDonald's... more like Taco Bell... I think their beef has about as much bacteria and fungi per square centimetre.
If you feel the need to defend your story submission criteria/methods, then that means you yourself feel that it isn't up to snuff. So stop being a hypocrit, and actually fix the problem instead of trying to justify the crazy coincidences when it comes to story acceptance...
And doctors go out and run people down in their cars so that they can then save lives and make a living... Health inspectors plant e.coli in the food they inspect... Firemen set fires randomly in the middle of the night so they have something to put out... Cops give gangs guns so they have gang violence to fight... Yeah... okay... and Microsoft purposefully pirates Windows for better market penetration...
If you believe any of that... I'm very worried...
Sorry, but MTV proved to me that shooting a bunch of ugly young kids blabbing about crap in a still frame shot works... Either that or MTV is just a big money laundering operation, cuz after 20 years they're still on the air...
The problem may be that all 60 driver developers are sub par.. but having worked at a contract house that created custom drivers for ATI chips, I can safely say that with the hardware register references that were given to us by ATI, I was amazed to even get the video card to switch resolutions properly. The engineers doing the hardware over at ATI might be awesome, but they can't document worth shit!
It's not April 1st is it?
But I thought microsoft didn't get rich writing cheques... (Simpson's quote)
Yeah, but that's not the kicker, the kicker is that these asswipes let the 18 million spams get sent! Totally irresponsible!
As a software developer, I'll take responsiblity for bugs in my code and the damages they may cause, the day that politicians take responsiblity for their campain promises and the crap they end up passing as law later...
Did I miss something? I thought that in space there is no 'drag', so once something is in orbit, it stays in orbit... or are they not in 'space' per-se, but still in some very very low density part of the earth's atmosphere?
Think IRC for those people who don't get it. Oh, why am I bothering, all you young kids are using Instant messaging now... It's the equivelent to me trying to explain how a rotary phone works in this day and age. ugh.
I think you gave away a little too much. Besides, I was under the impression that if a developer checks in code that breaks the build they are put into 'developer jail' to prevent them from screwing up more of the code. Did this not happen in your example? If not, it defeats the purpose of 'gates' in the first place. I used to work for a company that was contracted out to do work at your former company. Needless to say the 'gate' system was totally stupid, as the person in charge of integration simply changed the requirements until our buggy code passed through the gate (redefined the requirements until the bugs were in code not mandatory). Go figure. Took me a few months to find another job and quit, but I know exactly how you feel.
It's usually poor management that forces the product to be out the door 6 months before it's ready. Either keep your job and release a buggy product or stick to your guns and get fired. I think it should be the company, not the individual developer held accountable. How the company handles things internally is up to them.
No, "they" are more into dumping their crap American content on other nations and destroying other countries' cultural industries
Why not let free market decide? As in, give me the choice of watching the CBC, or FOX. Let's see what I *choose* to watch, and let the lesser watched channel die a horrible death.
But no, our government decides for us that we will watch canadian content and we will like it. Obviously it is crap since we are *Forced* to watch it, they won't let us decide what we want to watch...
The real complaint is the dangerous attitude the US government has shown lately. Everything is fine right now, but the US has made unilateral decisions in the past (Hello world, we'd like to attack Iraq. What do you mean you won't support us? Screw you, we're doing it anyway!). If they decide to do something like that with the internet, there's nothing stopping them. That's scary.
Maple syrup? No... we're more into buying rabbit ears and attempting to watch the forbidden American television stations (They don't have the government mandated 95% crap canadian content forced down our throats)...
I doubt we'll ever know who the most powerful is/was. While the person is still alive, no one will know of their exploits. Once the person retires, the people affected by said hacker will never acknowledge it.
Indeed, I totally agree with you that lyrics are rather important to music. I was simply trying to make a joke, but I guess my sarcasm didn't quite make it through... this is why I'm a software developer and not a comedian. ;)