I think the major obstacle to most engineers learning effective writing is that they have to be convinced it's a worthwhile goal.
In my experience, most engineers certainly have the ability to write competently (if not spectacularly) -- they just don't think it's worth the time to focus on, or they don't think it's as valuable as spending the time on technical pursuits, or they simply don't have an appreciation of what actually constitutes effective written communication.
Sell them on the value proposition of learning to communicate effectively in written form, and the rest is all easy. (At least in comparison:-)
Yeah, it is a cliche to have the villain gloat about his plan. But the difference is that Ozymandias did it AFTER his plan was completed.
Yeah, and in an exchange that some consider to be one of the best lines in all of superhero-dom (myself included). After the heroes discover the details of a plan that would involved the killing of millions of innocents, they confront the would-be perpetrator, who responds:
"Do it?" Dan, I'm not a republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome?
Surprised no one has mentioned 100 Bullets, by Azzarello and Risso. It's still an ongoing series, but the first few years are out in collected form, and have many excellent self-contained stories.
The initial conceit is that some figure with a ruined life is approached by a mysterious figure known as "Agent Graves", who presents them with an attache containing proof of who is responsible for their ruined life (e.g., framing them for kiddie porn), along with a gun and 100 "untraceable" bullets... and the promise that any action they choose to take with this evidence and weapon will have no legal consequences.
This may seem like a concept without much opportunity for diversity of plot, but they find many ways to take it in directions you don't expect. And -- this is crucial -- there's nothing supernatural going on ("Agent Graves" is just a clever name).
Cerebus is a fascinating work of art... 300 issues (exactly), all written and drawn by the same two guys, with the main writer/artist (Dave Sim) the main driving force. Unfortunately, while the first 200 or so issues had brilliant parts ("High Society" and "Church & State" in particular), the last part is... well... challenging. Not least because Dave Sim seems to have gone clinically insane at some part along the way. And no, I'm not exaggerating.
Bats are an incredibly misunderstood animal, with far more benefit to humans than generally thought. They're also incredibly interesting. Check out the Bat Conservation International website for a lot of interesting information.
Where's the flash player reference implimentation so that I can audit it and build native binaries for linux, X-BSD and other OS's running on PPC, XScale, ARM or Alpha?
Locked up inside Adobe. They'll be happy to provide it to you for the right amount of $$$.
Where do sites with flash content make the source code availiable
Some sites do, some don't. You'll have to ask the site.
do you expect the security concious to run remote executables behind their firewalls?
Yes, actually. Flash is at least as secure than most browsers, and in some ways, more so:
So what? The acceptable solution has to work for everybody.
No it doesn't. That's (a) impossible, and (b) dumb.
But, tell ya what: you come up with a solution that works just as well on, say, a Palm III, as it does on a dual Opteron, and then get back to us, mkay?
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You do know that broken APIs are easily cured just by re-compiling, yes?
Now that's Mom-friendly!
You are a useless faggot bitch! Go fuck yourself, mad fagg, er, I mean FROG!
The title "Anonymous Coward" was rarely so appropriate...
I mean, really, how many more times to these guys have to violate Constitutional rights before we get the picture?
I applaud their sentiment.
But, I gotta say:
musically, this video sucks.
Damn, wish I had mod points today :-)
'cuz it definitely needs to be run on a "TREMENDOUS machine" ...
Or better yet, turn on the "assignment statement in conditional" warning on your compiler, then write it like:
// way more readable, IMHO
if (a == 1)
Really need that assignment? Try this:
if ((foo = alloc()) != NULL)
I think the major obstacle to most engineers learning effective writing is that they have to be convinced it's a worthwhile goal.
:-)
In my experience, most engineers certainly have the ability to write competently (if not spectacularly) -- they just don't think it's worth the time to focus on, or they don't think it's as valuable as spending the time on technical pursuits, or they simply don't have an appreciation of what actually constitutes effective written communication.
Sell them on the value proposition of learning to communicate effectively in written form, and the rest is all easy. (At least in comparison
Yeah, it is a cliche to have the villain gloat about his plan. But the difference is that Ozymandias did it AFTER his plan was completed.
Yeah, and in an exchange that some consider to be one of the best lines in all of superhero-dom (myself included). After the heroes discover the details of a plan that would involved the killing of millions of innocents, they confront the would-be perpetrator, who responds:
"Do it?" Dan, I'm not a republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome?
I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
Oops. Even heroes make mistakes...
Surprised no one has mentioned 100 Bullets, by Azzarello and Risso. It's still an ongoing series, but the first few years are out in collected form, and have many excellent self-contained stories.
The initial conceit is that some figure with a ruined life is approached by a mysterious figure known as "Agent Graves", who presents them with an attache containing proof of who is responsible for their ruined life (e.g., framing them for kiddie porn), along with a gun and 100 "untraceable" bullets... and the promise that any action they choose to take with this evidence and weapon will have no legal consequences.
This may seem like a concept without much opportunity for diversity of plot, but they find many ways to take it in directions you don't expect. And -- this is crucial -- there's nothing supernatural going on ("Agent Graves" is just a clever name).
Bone is currently being reissued in colorized form by Scholastic. It's a FABULOUS read for all ages and highly recommended.
Hellboy is one of my current favorites. The stories are good, but the art (IMHO) is stupendous; Mignola is one of the top comic artists working today.
Cerebus is a fascinating work of art... 300 issues (exactly), all written and drawn by the same two guys, with the main writer/artist (Dave Sim) the main driving force. Unfortunately, while the first 200 or so issues had brilliant parts ("High Society" and "Church & State" in particular), the last part is... well... challenging. Not least because Dave Sim seems to have gone clinically insane at some part along the way. And no, I'm not exaggerating.
I mean, the man recorded an album titled "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar"...
No, dammit, NO!
If my browser can't access more than 4GB, then why is life worth living?
Bats are an incredibly misunderstood animal, with far more benefit to humans than generally thought. They're also incredibly interesting. Check out the Bat Conservation International website for a lot of interesting information.
http://www.batcon.org/home/default.asp
Based on the quality of the betas so far, I'd say that single-booting Vista is enough of a challenge...
I guess that phrase will have new meaning...
I have not RTFA, but here's a thought:
what if you added some "DRM" to Ogg to satisfy this?
Of course, it might not be very *good* DRM... something on the order of ROT-13?
Does the bill specify a particular DRM technique, or criteria it must satisfy? If not...
re: "big push" with fondness, yeah, me too... but not during my time at EA.
there, the "big push" started 6 months ahead of projected ship date.
if you figure on 6 months of "big push" as part of the scheduling, you're either incompetent or corrupt. or both.
Actually, at least one of the sites mentioned (goowy.com) isn't Ajax -- it's Flash.
Which will probably make it even more evil to most Slashdot readers, I guess.
But it's a pretty damn impressive piece of work.
Where's the flash player reference implimentation so that I can audit it and build native binaries for linux, X-BSD and other OS's running on PPC, XScale, ARM or Alpha?
c les/client_security.htmlp layer8_security.html
Locked up inside Adobe. They'll be happy to provide it to you for the right amount of $$$.
Where do sites with flash content make the source code availiable
Some sites do, some don't. You'll have to ask the site.
do you expect the security concious to run remote executables behind their firewalls?
Yes, actually. Flash is at least as secure than most browsers, and in some ways, more so:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flashplayer/arti
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/f
no executable web!
So, I take it you have JavaScript and cookies disabled?
How do I make an SWF?
There are dozens of true open-source tools for SWF creation.
A great source for them is here: http://www.osflash.org/
I don't know anyone with it.
o nymous+Coward&c=%23FF0000&t=Flash+Usage
Cue Scott Adams:
http://www.megat.co.uk/wrong/wrong.php?r=cfk&n=An
So what? The acceptable solution has to work for everybody.
No it doesn't. That's (a) impossible, and (b) dumb.
But, tell ya what: you come up with a solution that works just as well on, say, a Palm III, as it does on a dual Opteron, and then get back to us, mkay?
If, by "tiny", you mean "97.7%", then yeah.
f lashplayer/
Source: http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/
Look: no offense, but Linux-PPC doesn't exactly comprise a huge user base.