Please set up so all account creations are done through website. Takes Credit Card, bills it $19.95 a month. Make sure not to implement an account cancellation program or hire any customer service, or we're dead after the first week.
I gave away my Myst CD after watching it collect dust since the week after I bought it. It took that long to solve the thing. I skipped 2 and bought 3, and I am on the last world only a week after buying that too. Sheesh.
(No, I didn't download the cheats...heh)
Well, I don't know that an engineer is chuckling about this. I'm sure someone came to work swinging a battle-axe the morning this story broke. My guess was that they did the equivalent of throwing a team of VB programmers at an enterprise application project. Generally, they can prove that VB is the tool for making programs quickly and cheaply. It is usually AFTER the program is made and in production that the catastrophic failures are found.
What about "Sim Manhatten Project"? Add that as a mod to Black & White.....
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Plop down $5k or so (with maybe a little extra for the filing clerk) and j00 R 0wn3d! My house needs cleaning, so get over here. You have to work for the right to procreate since you need to buy a license from me.
So, you see, the patent process is just that easy.
(Yes, this is a lame attempt at humor, so don't mod me as flamebait if you don't get it.)
I can listen to the radio in my car? Wow, I thought my unit only played CDs and MP3s! Someone told me that they don't play anything but commercials on the radio anymore, so I guess I just never bothered to look and see if it had a tuner.
That logic doesn't work very well if you're just an aspiring artist that wants to play with it. There are a lot of things people don't NEED, but they WANT it because they might NEED it in the future.
I totally agree with you. Now if I could just figure out an easy way to help my wife learn the UI of it....oh, wait, then she would be using the computer all the time when I want to do Everquest. Nevermind.
Not true! He could open up one of those little burn-your-own mix kiosks that you find all over the streets in China. I'm sure he has just a few gigs of mp3s these days.
People can't drive in the rain, and you want them to fly?!?! Yikes!
I can just see....no more gunman rampages in lawyers offices on the 10th floor of a high-rise. They just fly the car through the window when they seek the ass-licking lawyer walk into his office. A whole new definition of stalking.
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In my opinion, design patterns are set there by "engineers" who can conceptualize what it would take to let a "programmer" produce something that works without having to think about what to do with the stuff in the future. I don't mean this as any sort of label to demean anyone, but it is a fact I have seen repeatedly in places I've worked. The line between "designer" and "implementer" is non-existant in most places. What you get is implementers doing the design, which they tend to do as they go. Build and fix only works until the program gets really big and you have tons of customers requesting features. Then it starts to break down. Global variables abound.
That whole paragraph about the over-engineered OO design is big time true. There are many cases where the divide-and-conquer methods that drive most OO design descisions are just too costly in terms of time and memory. This is something that only experience can open your eyes to.
I guess nobody figures in the price of travel, communication, and coordination it would take to hire these 10 programmers. It is also risky since India is a third world country, and its neighbor is about to launch a nuke at it. I bet it will take a year or longer to deliver it just due to the coordination difficulty.
The project manager at the place I work said he had to manage an Indian team while working at a previous company. He said it ran him ragged. If I were you, I'd tell management to just get the 2 guys back and forget the India idea. If they only care about the $, you might as well quit because you'll either die of a heart attack or will likely miss the deadline and get fired anyway.
Or set it up so the management has to move to India....now that would be fun.
How would I know if I was downloading porn or not? Kind of hard to see details in that tiny little screen. Lets see....white dot surrounded by a lot of black dots. Hey! Thats a.... oh, nevermind, it was a picture of mickey mouse.
Is it just a coincidence that Kalamazoo rhymes with Captain Kangaroo?
What, did they meet at the Dairy Queen that also serves as the town hall? Kalamazoo sure is a bustling place where all sorts of people have easy access to show up and voice their opinions.
Especially since all this bacteria on your workstation is probably your own
And you're sure that no one stays late at the office to download porn from BearShare? Using your workstation? Better make sure there are no skid marks on your chair each morning.
Once upon a time, before Sept 11, I brought about 300 feet of Cat5 wire in a backpack on a plane as a carry on. You can imagine the excitment it caused as it went through the security check. I can only see them searching me with their guns drawn if I ever tried to do that again.
I believe the echo he is referring to is the echo that happens in the latency from the time their voice is spoken to the time it makes the round trip from the other side.
The term "Mix Minus" does not apply here. It is generally used in post production where you lay off your audio mix minus the voice over. You probably also don't need echo cancellation software. Just put a mixing board on each side of the conference call. Mix the local side's voice with the remote side's voice on each side. So they hear themselves as they speak and don't hear themselves from the remote side. Use directional microphones so that the loud speaker on the remote side can't be heard in the remote microphones. You could also require everyone to wear headphones I suppose. (Probably wouldn't be popular.)
Man, I just had an image of RoboCop inserting his dataprobe into the company's computer. (Remember the big spike that went into the little hole?) *shudder*
Sorry, beating a live animal with a newspaper until they do what you want doesn't constitute "programming."
My sister had a credit card before she was 18. Sears will issue it to anyone without any sort of credit check. No co-signer or anything.
Sometimes they find out that the family dog is registered to vote and did in fact vote. If they can, why can't minors vote? I'm sure it happens.
You can own a house, no matter how old you are. Financing it might be a problem if you're too young though. You can be emancipated when you are under 18, which pretty much means your parent's relinquish their rights to all your assets. At 18, you automatically are emancipated.
I'd also like to know when gibbing some big old monster became a violent felony. All this started because those Columbine punks went on a Doom-inspired rampage. I'm sure they got a healthy dose of playing against the monsters before they even played deathmatch.
But at least Davis will be out as governor. Now that I've moved out of California, its not such a big deal to me, but his role in the energy crisis there just can't be overlooked.
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I gave away my Myst CD after watching it collect dust since the week after I bought it. It took that long to solve the thing. I skipped 2 and bought 3, and I am on the last world only a week after buying that too. Sheesh.
(No, I didn't download the cheats...heh)
Well, I don't know that an engineer is chuckling about this. I'm sure someone came to work swinging a battle-axe the morning this story broke. My guess was that they did the equivalent of throwing a team of VB programmers at an enterprise application project. Generally, they can prove that VB is the tool for making programs quickly and cheaply. It is usually AFTER the program is made and in production that the catastrophic failures are found.
What about "Sim Manhatten Project"? Add that as a mod to Black & White.....
So, you see, the patent process is just that easy.
(Yes, this is a lame attempt at humor, so don't mod me as flamebait if you don't get it.)
I can listen to the radio in my car? Wow, I thought my unit only played CDs and MP3s! Someone told me that they don't play anything but commercials on the radio anymore, so I guess I just never bothered to look and see if it had a tuner.
That logic doesn't work very well if you're just an aspiring artist that wants to play with it. There are a lot of things people don't NEED, but they WANT it because they might NEED it in the future.
I totally agree with you. Now if I could just figure out an easy way to help my wife learn the UI of it....oh, wait, then she would be using the computer all the time when I want to do Everquest. Nevermind.
...but only if they let me have the controls on re-entry. I would love to buzz the neighborhoods where a few people from my past live.
Comments in code? The poster must not be a Jedi, for real Jedi do not need comments. They can feel the purpose of the code.
Not true! He could open up one of those little burn-your-own mix kiosks that you find all over the streets in China. I'm sure he has just a few gigs of mp3s these days.
I can just see....no more gunman rampages in lawyers offices on the 10th floor of a high-rise. They just fly the car through the window when they seek the ass-licking lawyer walk into his office. A whole new definition of stalking.
That whole paragraph about the over-engineered OO design is big time true. There are many cases where the divide-and-conquer methods that drive most OO design descisions are just too costly in terms of time and memory. This is something that only experience can open your eyes to.
I like that quote. I might just use it. haha
The project manager at the place I work said he had to manage an Indian team while working at a previous company. He said it ran him ragged. If I were you, I'd tell management to just get the 2 guys back and forget the India idea. If they only care about the $, you might as well quit because you'll either die of a heart attack or will likely miss the deadline and get fired anyway.
Or set it up so the management has to move to India....now that would be fun.
How would I know if I was downloading porn or not? Kind of hard to see details in that tiny little screen. Lets see....white dot surrounded by a lot of black dots. Hey! Thats a .... oh, nevermind, it was a picture of mickey mouse.
What, did they meet at the Dairy Queen that also serves as the town hall? Kalamazoo sure is a bustling place where all sorts of people have easy access to show up and voice their opinions.
And you're sure that no one stays late at the office to download porn from BearShare? Using your workstation? Better make sure there are no skid marks on your chair each morning.
Once upon a time, before Sept 11, I brought about 300 feet of Cat5 wire in a backpack on a plane as a carry on. You can imagine the excitment it caused as it went through the security check. I can only see them searching me with their guns drawn if I ever tried to do that again.
RMS I still don't know about.
I feel sorry for the flight testers that work for Carmack's company.
The term "Mix Minus" does not apply here. It is generally used in post production where you lay off your audio mix minus the voice over. You probably also don't need echo cancellation software. Just put a mixing board on each side of the conference call. Mix the local side's voice with the remote side's voice on each side. So they hear themselves as they speak and don't hear themselves from the remote side. Use directional microphones so that the loud speaker on the remote side can't be heard in the remote microphones. You could also require everyone to wear headphones I suppose. (Probably wouldn't be popular.)
Man, I just had an image of RoboCop inserting his dataprobe into the company's computer. (Remember the big spike that went into the little hole?) *shudder*
Sorry, beating a live animal with a newspaper until they do what you want doesn't constitute "programming."
On this day in 1950, it was raining. The rain was as pure as Evian.
On this day in 1980, it was raining. The rain was as pure as the innards of a Duracell battery.
Sometimes they find out that the family dog is registered to vote and did in fact vote. If they can, why can't minors vote? I'm sure it happens.
You can own a house, no matter how old you are. Financing it might be a problem if you're too young though. You can be emancipated when you are under 18, which pretty much means your parent's relinquish their rights to all your assets. At 18, you automatically are emancipated.
I'd also like to know when gibbing some big old monster became a violent felony. All this started because those Columbine punks went on a Doom-inspired rampage. I'm sure they got a healthy dose of playing against the monsters before they even played deathmatch.
But at least Davis will be out as governor. Now that I've moved out of California, its not such a big deal to me, but his role in the energy crisis there just can't be overlooked.