The project managers will do all the tedious work... (snip)
You are so lucky te be able to create a structure like that. My guess is that 99% of the development units around the world have the same programmers vs. managers ratio, but have a net result of managers dumping work & shit on the developers' head. A slashdot poll would no doubt result in 99% of us calling managers 'crap' and only 1% (or less) calling them 'useful for levelling the workload'
On the other hand : work without managers is a waste too, since you'll get the clients in your neck, which is even a bigger pain.
I'll print it and give it to my wife. If she ever needs directions again on the web, I'll give her the map, slap my forhead and mumble 'oh yeah, that's right : women can't read maps'
for us europeans, the US legal system is like a free TV channel : mostly crap, but sometimes a true gem is broadcasted.
On the other hand, i feel for those who live in it
okay, i can agree with that, but explain me why they can not come up with a decent network configuration assistant ????
You have NO IDEA what fucking pain it is to switch a machine from modem-connected to LAN-connected without getting the fucker to stop searching for his modem !
It's so insanely counter-intuitive ! If they'd spend 0.001% of their 6.8billion on some straightforward thinking and monkey-testing with newbie users, they would by now have found out their entire network configuration interface sucks square ducks. That's why I call it staggering : spending obscene amounts of money with zero advance in 'evident software usability' on even the most common fronts
The biggest Q that bothers me is : why hasn't anyone come up with a serious alternative for google ? I mean : the concept of pagerank might be pattented & hidden, but investors should know by now that there's loads of cash to be made with searchengines. Hardware isn't so much of a deal anymore too, and neither is bandwith.
I find it amazing that other searchengines are not capable of copying google's keywords to success (pagerank + simple & clean interface). It's astounding actually... now where's that $100M when you need it ?
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said Microsoft will spend about $6.8 billion on research and development this year.
Amazing... they can spend all this money (without hardware R&D like Apple) and still don't get anywhere near MacOSX in terms of userfriendlyness.
I always wondered : do MS programmers/unit managers get a bonus for every feature they come up with ? In the past 10 years, bloat has been the only constant in redmond IMHO
anyone out there who can shoot some decent photographs ? The stuff on reuters is tiny. The Other link has onl y3 pictures which do not really depict the size of the construction... It doesn't seem all that huge.
THis really really rocks : Allowance accounts and gift certificates
Now you can give your kids a legal way to download their favorite songs with music allowance accounts, which give them access to the store without requiring a credit card and set a limit on how much they can spend. It's easy to set up recurring allowances which refresh every month, and you can establish different allowance accounts for each of your children. You can also buy music gift certificates -- just the thing for your favorite college student or birthday friend. A counter in the iTunes Music Store shows how much credit is left in allowances and gift certificates.
it's fast on my Athlon 1700XP with 1GB Ram. But you sure need a shitlmoad of ram : in the taskmanager, iTunes itself gobs up a whopping 26MB when browsin. qtask takes another 13MB and iPodservices another 7.
After a while (and when in bakground) those numbers drop to a more reasonable 9+4+3 so it's feasible on a lesser machine. But prepare for some heavy trashing on launch.
Music sharing between OSX & XP works like a charm, even with dynamic playlists. I still gotta try out how my iPod responds when connected to the firewire port on the PC.
Right now i' mgonna do a little stresstesting with iTunes+media player + warcraft, playing all together. The wife sure is going to love that sound:-)
can anyone confirm/deny that Apple has expanded ftp support in the finder ? (preferable expanded to sftp also) Right now, the jaguar finder has built in read only ftp, which plain sux
I know : there are many excellent ftp clients available, but being able to mount a volume over ftp as with the iDisk would be extremely user-friendly.
1. Even if they give them away for free, I don't think I'll play on a console : I'm used to playing with a mouse + used to switch between work & play for 5 minutes of fun between hours of stress. So I'll play on my PC for quite some time to come.
2. Folks who bought a PS2 at $499 must really feel screwed now. And they say Apple has large profit margins !
you've given your personal example. Let me give a counter example : I remember a few years back when our youngest son (then 3 years old) had been playing in potted plants we have in the corner of our hall. I had a very long, tiring day at work, my wife was sick, and we had told him a few times before we didn't want him to play with those.
In a reflex I still regret, I grabbed him (he saw me coming, so it was not an unexpcected grab from behind) and gave him a single, solid clap on his bottom while i said in a loud voice : you know you're not supposed ot touch these !
The results frightened me completely : he freaked out, cryed his heart out and peed is pants (which he hadn't done since he was 2) There was a total, insane panic in his eyes and he yelled for his mom like as if i was cutting his balls of...
but that was not the scariest part. That was when it took days for him to be sweet again to me. I had (and now have again) a very very good bond with my kids. I can talk to them about everything even some stuff that they don't tell their mom (and vice versa:-)
During those days, he did nothing wrong, didn't touch those plants, didn't break anything, didn't do anything naughty, finished his plate... pefect... He was like an angel. But an angel that was prety damd scared of me and wouldn't let me hug him.
Dude : it has cost me blood, sweat and tears to bring our relation back to normal, and I have NEVER ever hit our kids again.
Now when he does something fancy, I take him apart and talk it through. Okay, he looks at me with a "oh comeon dad I got the message, stop preaching man". But quite often, a few hours or even days later, he comes over to me and admits "yeah, I was pretty stupid back then." and we can both laugh about it.
I don't expect him to say "sheesh, thanks for pointing out to me how stupid I am and how smart you are, dad" but then again, I guess you never said that to your dad either after he put his belt back on ? Hitting is the easy way. Talking to your kids every day, even when you're tired and they're a royal pain in the ass is the most rewarding way.
How about both a physical punishment and a discussion? Children learn quickly that a time-out is of no consequence (as well as the discussion). The physical punishment is not desired and will lead to a better memory.
(My wife is defending her doctoral thesis next monday about psychological conditioning, so I try to talk out of her book here) You're confusing 2 things : punishment versus a negative prime. What you want is for your kid to associate the timeout with something negative. While a physical stimulus (pavlov used electroshocks on his dogs) is by far the most strong and most persistent prime, you're also running the risk of over-exposing, and overreaction.
One of the imporant factors in conditioning are consistency and connectability (I think. dunno the proper word in english): your negative stimulus (a slap on the butt) should be about the same intensisty at all times (which is VERY hard for a parent : when you're freaked out over somthing you often slap harder than u intended) at about the same time interval after the facts and in proportion to the seriousness of the facts (no 2 'crimes' are equal) It is soooo difficult to do this right, that you ight as well not slap at all. It's far too risky that the kid will connect the spanking with something else than what u intended.
And hitting them first, with an explanation afterwards is difficult too : when hitting, you start a whole chemical process of adrenaline and shit (literally sometimes:-)
I think many people try to make an analogy with the animal world, where parents physically scentence their offspring. But we're so far off from that darwinistic perspective (in an infinitely more complex world where you expect kids to do a lot of counter-intuitive things form an animal-point-of-view) that it's almost impossible to do it in a controlled way...
Hmm.. I'm losing myself here. Better submit it before the wife reads it:-)
Anyway, my point being : hitting kids is a reflex, an instinct. Often, the kid's wrongdoing wasn't all that calculated either. More often than not, your hit comes unexpected and has more bad results than good ones.
Umpf... dude : u have kids ? If I want to make it easy on myself, I don't go calling time-outs. I slap'em a bit here, I slap'em a bit there and they'll shutup. Timeouts are by far more stressing to the parent than to the kids.
The difference between a timeout and a spanking session is that, after the spanking session, kids won't do whatever-they-were-punished-for again when you're around. Instead they'll do it behind your back. With a timeout session, I talk things through with my children. I try to explain them what they did wrong and why. It doesn't always work, but if it does, they understand the punishment, and I'm far more sure they won't do it again.
omfg... even if they work with 600 programmers, that's still a whopping $100.000 per programmer in one single year
HL2 better be damd good for such an insane amount of cash. Considering that they've been working on it for what, 5 years ? They've drained a staggering $300.000.000 or so. At 40$ per copy, they'd need to sell 7.5million copies of the game to get break even. And that's not counting money spent on advertising, distribution, and the cost of setting up a central network server that can handle 7.5 million players connecting to play online.
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The project managers will do all the tedious work ... (snip)
You are so lucky te be able to create a structure like that. My guess is that 99% of the development units around the world have the same programmers vs. managers ratio, but have a net result of managers dumping work & shit on the developers' head. A slashdot poll would no doubt result in 99% of us calling managers 'crap' and only 1% (or less) calling them 'useful for levelling the workload'
On the other hand : work without managers is a waste too, since you'll get the clients in your neck, which is even a bigger pain.
Tortillas are favored over sandwich bread, because they create fewer crumbs and are easier to handle in microgravity.
doh ? Anyone exprienced with this term ? I though space was zero gravity...
I'll print it and give it to my wife. If she ever needs directions again on the web, I'll give her the map, slap my forhead and mumble 'oh yeah, that's right : women can't read maps'
:-)
ooh i'm so bad
woohoo. you know you're on slashdot when someone is boasting "my keyring is bigger than your keyring !"
oh puhlease !
Let me counter that with this or this or even fucking this !
you do know what ORACLE stands for, right ?
"One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison"
The current king of sprinters is Petacci. He'll wipe Mario's ass any time. He won stages in all 3 tours (italy, france, spain) :
looook here
for us europeans, the US legal system is like a free TV channel : mostly crap, but sometimes a true gem is broadcasted.
On the other hand, i feel for those who live in it
okay, i can agree with that, but explain me why they can not come up with a decent network configuration assistant ????
You have NO IDEA what fucking pain it is to switch a machine from modem-connected to LAN-connected without getting the fucker to stop searching for his modem !
It's so insanely counter-intuitive ! If they'd spend 0.001% of their 6.8billion on some straightforward thinking and monkey-testing with newbie users, they would by now have found out their entire network configuration interface sucks square ducks. That's why I call it staggering : spending obscene amounts of money with zero advance in 'evident software usability' on even the most common fronts
The biggest Q that bothers me is : why hasn't anyone come up with a serious alternative for google ? I mean : the concept of pagerank might be pattented & hidden, but investors should know by now that there's loads of cash to be made with searchengines. Hardware isn't so much of a deal anymore too, and neither is bandwith.
I find it amazing that other searchengines are not capable of copying google's keywords to success (pagerank + simple & clean interface). It's astounding actually... now where's that $100M when you need it ?
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said Microsoft will spend about $6.8 billion on research and development this year.
Amazing... they can spend all this money (without hardware R&D like Apple) and still don't get anywhere near MacOSX in terms of userfriendlyness.
I always wondered : do MS programmers/unit managers get a bonus for every feature they come up with ? In the past 10 years, bloat has been the only constant in redmond IMHO
anyone out there who can shoot some decent photographs ? The stuff on reuters is tiny. The Other link has onl y3 pictures which do not really depict the size of the construction... It doesn't seem all that huge.
The best part about the pepsi deal is when u try to imagine the look on John Sculley's face when he reads that shit :-)
:-)
Although I can't imagine they did it for such glorious reason. I think they did it to spawn a flamewar about pepsi vs cocacola taste.
Pepsi tastes like shit. No hit me with your flames
wtf ? job??? what do you do all day? download the newest toys? i wish i had your life, consider yourself lucky.
Ehm, dude it's 20:00 here. most folks don't work at that hour. Tomorrow at 7:30 I'll be on the job again.
THis really really rocks :
Allowance accounts and gift certificates Now you can give your kids a legal way to download their favorite songs with music allowance accounts, which give them access to the store without requiring a credit card and set a limit on how much they can spend. It's easy to set up recurring allowances which refresh every month, and you can establish different allowance accounts for each of your children. You can also buy music gift certificates -- just the thing for your favorite college student or birthday friend. A counter in the iTunes Music Store shows how much credit is left in allowances and gift certificates.
it's fast on my Athlon 1700XP with 1GB Ram. But you sure need a shitlmoad of ram : in the taskmanager, iTunes itself gobs up a whopping 26MB when browsin. qtask takes another 13MB and iPodservices another 7.
:-)
After a while (and when in bakground) those numbers drop to a more reasonable 9+4+3 so it's feasible on a lesser machine. But prepare for some heavy trashing on launch.
Music sharing between OSX & XP works like a charm, even with dynamic playlists. I still gotta try out how my iPod responds when connected to the firewire port on the PC.
Right now i' mgonna do a little stresstesting with iTunes+media player + warcraft, playing all together. The wife sure is going to love that sound
can anyone confirm/deny that Apple has expanded ftp support in the finder ? (preferable expanded to sftp also)
Right now, the jaguar finder has built in read only ftp, which plain sux
I know : there are many excellent ftp clients available, but being able to mount a volume over ftp as with the iDisk would be extremely user-friendly.
1. Even if they give them away for free, I don't think I'll play on a console : I'm used to playing with a mouse + used to switch between work & play for 5 minutes of fun between hours of stress. So I'll play on my PC for quite some time to come.
2. Folks who bought a PS2 at $499 must really feel screwed now. And they say Apple has large profit margins !
Guiness: if you can't spell it, you've drank enough already
:
hoping u read this before it goes to -1(offtopic) : your sig is blatantly wrong and should read
Guiness: if you can spell it, you haven't drank enough yet
ehm, you don't use resource forks do you ?
The ftp client built-in in the finder is still read-only.
Shame on you Apple...
you've given your personal example. Let me give a counter example : I remember a few years back when our youngest son (then 3 years old) had been playing in potted plants we have in the corner of our hall. I had a very long, tiring day at work, my wife was sick, and we had told him a few times before we didn't want him to play with those.
:-)
In a reflex I still regret, I grabbed him (he saw me coming, so it was not an unexpcected grab from behind) and gave him a single, solid clap on his bottom while i said in a loud voice : you know you're not supposed ot touch these !
The results frightened me completely : he freaked out, cryed his heart out and peed is pants (which he hadn't done since he was 2) There was a total, insane panic in his eyes and he yelled for his mom like as if i was cutting his balls of...
but that was not the scariest part. That was when it took days for him to be sweet again to me. I had (and now have again) a very very good bond with my kids. I can talk to them about everything even some stuff that they don't tell their mom (and vice versa
During those days, he did nothing wrong, didn't touch those plants, didn't break anything, didn't do anything naughty, finished his plate... pefect... He was like an angel. But an angel that was prety damd scared of me and wouldn't let me hug him.
Dude : it has cost me blood, sweat and tears to bring our relation back to normal, and I have NEVER ever hit our kids again.
Now when he does something fancy, I take him apart and talk it through. Okay, he looks at me with a "oh comeon dad I got the message, stop preaching man". But quite often, a few hours or even days later, he comes over to me and admits "yeah, I was pretty stupid back then." and we can both laugh about it.
I don't expect him to say "sheesh, thanks for pointing out to me how stupid I am and how smart you are, dad" but then again, I guess you never said that to your dad either after he put his belt back on ? Hitting is the easy way. Talking to your kids every day, even when you're tired and they're a royal pain in the ass is the most rewarding way.
How about both a physical punishment and a discussion? Children learn quickly that a time-out is of no consequence (as well as the discussion). The physical punishment is not desired and will lead to a better memory.
:-)
:-)
(My wife is defending her doctoral thesis next monday about psychological conditioning, so I try to talk out of her book here) You're confusing 2 things : punishment versus a negative prime. What you want is for your kid to associate the timeout with something negative. While a physical stimulus (pavlov used electroshocks on his dogs) is by far the most strong and most persistent prime, you're also running the risk of over-exposing, and overreaction.
One of the imporant factors in conditioning are consistency and connectability (I think. dunno the proper word in english): your negative stimulus (a slap on the butt) should be about the same intensisty at all times (which is VERY hard for a parent : when you're freaked out over somthing you often slap harder than u intended) at about the same time interval after the facts and in proportion to the seriousness of the facts (no 2 'crimes' are equal) It is soooo difficult to do this right, that you ight as well not slap at all. It's far too risky that the kid will connect the spanking with something else than what u intended.
And hitting them first, with an explanation afterwards is difficult too : when hitting, you start a whole chemical process of adrenaline and shit (literally sometimes
I think many people try to make an analogy with the animal world, where parents physically scentence their offspring. But we're so far off from that darwinistic perspective (in an infinitely more complex world where you expect kids to do a lot of counter-intuitive things form an animal-point-of-view) that it's almost impossible to do it in a controlled way...
Hmm.. I'm losing myself here. Better submit it before the wife reads it
Anyway, my point being : hitting kids is a reflex, an instinct. Often, the kid's wrongdoing wasn't all that calculated either. More often than not, your hit comes unexpected and has more bad results than good ones.
A time-out is really a time-out for the parent
Umpf... dude : u have kids ? If I want to make it easy on myself, I don't go calling time-outs. I slap'em a bit here, I slap'em a bit there and they'll shutup. Timeouts are by far more stressing to the parent than to the kids.
The difference between a timeout and a spanking session is that, after the spanking session, kids won't do whatever-they-were-punished-for again when you're around. Instead they'll do it behind your back. With a timeout session, I talk things through with my children. I try to explain them what they did wrong and why. It doesn't always work, but if it does, they understand the punishment, and I'm far more sure they won't do it again.
omfg... even if they work with 600 programmers, that's still a whopping $100.000 per programmer in one single year
HL2 better be damd good for such an insane amount of cash. Considering that they've been working on it for what, 5 years ? They've drained a staggering $300.000.000 or so. At 40$ per copy, they'd need to sell 7.5million copies of the game to get break even. And that's not counting money spent on advertising, distribution, and the cost of setting up a central network server that can handle 7.5 million players connecting to play online.