Having worked in said industry long enough to know better, I can unequivocally say the one book I WISH I had read prior to taking said job is "Death March -- The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving 'Mission Impossible' Projects" by Edward Yourdon.
I don't know why I'm bothering to argue with an AC -- especially one who thinks that sprinkling the word "idiotic" liberally into his response will help his case -- but what the hell.
No, I'm not assuming option 2. That was a joke. Humor: it's a concept you should acquaint yourself with.
But yes, I *do* happen to think that the "approach that Debian is taking in terms of development and integration of Firefox into their distribution" is flawed. ("mindlessly stupid" is your phrase, not mine.)
If the Debian licensing terms prohibit the use of a trademarked name / artwork combination for Firefox, then IMHO those licensing terms are overly restrictive.
"Prop 87 would prohibit oil producers from passing along the cost of the tax to consumers at the pump."
Good luck with that.
An unenforceable requirement that goes contrary to any sensible economic principle.... uh, right.
I'm a Californian, and I'll be voting against this Proposition.
I'm all for more alternate energy, but if the statement above is an indication of the level of clear thinking present in the bill, it most be pretty awful...
Oh, I doubt it will fun to watch, unless the watcher is (also) a sick fuck.
Make no mistake -- this guy should get some serious smackdown in the civil court, and possibly jailtime in a PMITA prison.
But the guy has already (probably) ruined some people's lives (or at least assisted in such in a malicious way), and now probably will get his own ruined... the whole situation is sad. Not fun.
My point wasn't that C&C:G was better or cooler than C&C:R... but rather that I have a vague memory of hearing that C&C:G was EA's best-selling PC title that year (2003), which would have to put it on that list.
I agree, but only to a point... I find a trackpad almost unusable (which pretty much eliminates most laptops, including Apple, right there)... but the nipple-controller, while sorta-usable, still gives me only a fraction of the control I have with a mouse. If I have to do any nontrivial work on my laptop, I have to bring a mouse to plug in... full stop.
Oh, for someone to invent a pointer-controller for a laptop that TRULY rivals a mouse for speed and control...
There isn't 64-bit Flash Player for *any* platform yet. Linux isn't being picked on. 64-bit is being worked on.
The Flash Player is mostly core code. They *are* working from the same codebase on all platforms. The whole point of Flash Player is to have a runtime environment which is virtually identical on all platforms.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the comments in Mike's blog often consist of "please release an alpha, even if it's incomplete and buggy", while now we get "I wouldn't it past Adobe to release a half-baked Linux Flash 9 player"... ?
True that. 10-15 years ago, Dell made some very nice, solid computers, but their quality has gone downhill in my personal experience.
But even aside from that, I no longer recommend Dells to my friends for political reasons -- Michael Dell contributed the legal maximum to both of GWB's Presidential campaigns, and continues to be a solid supporter (references easy to find via google, thus omitted here).
(Yes, I realize that probably the other brands they end up buying are in bed with this guy too, and when I find similar egregious examples, I'll try to avoid their products too...)
I can only respond by saying that's the opposite of my experience, and of most of the folks that I know... I've never had a piece of Apple hardware fail or be lemon-ish; pretty much all of them worked fine up until they got retired due to being obsolete, performance-wise.
On raw specs, this is true, but my experience has been that Apple *systems* have generally been of higher quality over the years (compared with Dell). I've had several systems from each (mostly at work) over the years, and the random-crapout factor has been substantially lower on the Apple systems.
So yeah, you get better specs for the money with Dell, and if you plan on only keeping the system for short-term use, that's dandy. But in my experience the Apple price premium isn't *entirely* due to the brand-name factor; there does seems to be an overall better system quality.
The real question is, what happens if they run it on itself and it reports that it DOES have bugs? Suddenly we're in "this statement is false" territory...
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Having worked in said industry long enough to know better, I can unequivocally say the one book I WISH I had read prior to taking said job is "Death March -- The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving 'Mission Impossible' Projects" by Edward Yourdon.
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Am I the only one who saw this headline and wondered just who either of these companies were?
/. headline involve at least one company I've *heard* of...
Usually, company acquisitions worthy of a
Actually, no, I don't see where there's a problem.
Mozilla's requests seem reasonable enough to me.
I don't know why I'm bothering to argue with an AC -- especially one who thinks that sprinkling the word "idiotic" liberally into his response will help his case -- but what the hell.
No, I'm not assuming option 2. That was a joke. Humor: it's a concept you should acquaint yourself with.
But yes, I *do* happen to think that the "approach that Debian is taking in terms of development and integration of Firefox into their distribution" is flawed. ("mindlessly stupid" is your phrase, not mine.)
If the Debian licensing terms prohibit the use of a trademarked name / artwork combination for Firefox, then IMHO those licensing terms are overly restrictive.
You forgot option 3...
3. Because Debian is taking an unnecessarily hard-line approach about trademarking in this case.
Mozilla's request in this case seem completely and utterly reasonable to me.
To be sure, Debian can do what they want. But to this observer, this just makes 'em look silly.
After all, if there's an enemy to the FOSS movement, it's *definitely* the Mozilla Foundation...
"Prop 87 would prohibit oil producers from passing along the cost of the tax to consumers at the pump."
Good luck with that.
An unenforceable requirement that goes contrary to any sensible economic principle.... uh, right.
I'm a Californian, and I'll be voting against this Proposition.
I'm all for more alternate energy, but if the statement above is an indication of the level of clear thinking present in the bill, it most be pretty awful...
I'm trying to figure out how this got modded +5 Funny...
I don't know if there's a real programming language behind it
Flash 9 is coded using ActionScript 3, which is tracking the still-in-progress ECMAScript 4 standard.
This was a good article up until this point, which is utterly and completely wrong.
Flash has supported XML parsing back to version 6, I think.
Flash 9 includes E4X support as part of ActionScript 3, which puts it far ahead of most other solutions.
I don't personally feel its right to be gay nor do I think people are "born that way".
So how old were you when you decided to be heterosexual?
Oh, I doubt it will fun to watch, unless the watcher is (also) a sick fuck.
Make no mistake -- this guy should get some serious smackdown in the civil court, and possibly jailtime in a PMITA prison.
But the guy has already (probably) ruined some people's lives (or at least assisted in such in a malicious way), and now probably will get his own ruined... the whole situation is sad. Not fun.
My point wasn't that C&C:G was better or cooler than C&C:R... but rather that I have a vague memory of hearing that C&C:G was EA's best-selling PC title that year (2003), which would have to put it on that list.
Somehow, I find it really hard to believe that Command & Conquer: Renegade (#79) outsold
Command & Conquer: Generals (not on their list at all)...
I agree, but only to a point... I find a trackpad almost unusable (which pretty much eliminates most laptops, including Apple, right there)... but the nipple-controller, while sorta-usable, still gives me only a fraction of the control I have with a mouse. If I have to do any nontrivial work on my laptop, I have to bring a mouse to plug in... full stop.
Oh, for someone to invent a pointer-controller for a laptop that TRULY rivals a mouse for speed and control...
Is this the same Mike Melanson who contributes to ffmpeg and runs multimedia.cx?
Yes.
There isn't 64-bit Flash Player for *any* platform yet. Linux isn't being picked on. 64-bit is being worked on.
The Flash Player is mostly core code. They *are* working from the same codebase on all platforms. The whole point of Flash Player is to have a runtime environment which is virtually identical on all platforms.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the comments in Mike's blog often consist of "please release an alpha, even if it's incomplete and buggy", while now we get "I wouldn't it past Adobe to release a half-baked Linux Flash 9 player"... ?
And by "a lot", how many are we talking about, really? As in, hard numbers?
100's? 1000's? Maybe even 10000's?
(Linux PPC only, please... Mac PPC already has a perfectly good Flash Player)
Sadly, that's now "Adobe FreeHand"...
Really, what more can I say?
Or until their batteries run low.
Hopefully they'll have a "power-low" sensor that will alert them to extend training-wheels or some such...
True that. 10-15 years ago, Dell made some very nice, solid computers, but their quality has gone downhill in my personal experience.
But even aside from that, I no longer recommend Dells to my friends for political reasons -- Michael Dell contributed the legal maximum to both of GWB's Presidential campaigns, and continues to be a solid supporter (references easy to find via google, thus omitted here).
(Yes, I realize that probably the other brands they end up buying are in bed with this guy too, and when I find similar egregious examples, I'll try to avoid their products too...)
Dude, I feel your pain.
I can only respond by saying that's the opposite of my experience, and of most of the folks that I know... I've never had a piece of Apple hardware fail or be lemon-ish; pretty much all of them worked fine up until they got retired due to being obsolete, performance-wise.
On raw specs, this is true, but my experience has been that Apple *systems* have generally been of higher quality over the years (compared with Dell). I've had several systems from each (mostly at work) over the years, and the random-crapout factor has been substantially lower on the Apple systems.
So yeah, you get better specs for the money with Dell, and if you plan on only keeping the system for short-term use, that's dandy. But in my experience the Apple price premium isn't *entirely* due to the brand-name factor; there does seems to be an overall better system quality.
The real question is, what happens if they run it on itself and it reports that it DOES have bugs? Suddenly we're in "this statement is false" territory...