Re:So how does one calculate power requirements...
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Thanks, thats useful even though its not up to date. As I thought, with 8 drives and SLI, by the time I factor in cooling etc Im pushing even a 650W PSU (only just though and its doubtful peak load would even be reached but still...). That said Id have trouble justifying this beast over a 680W/700W at 1/3 of the price...still nice to kow its out there;)
So how does one calculate power requirements...
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Its always confused me slightly and its coming back to bite me on the ass since I now need to build a dual core SLI system (A-4800) with EIGHT hard drives. Given that SLI systems are often advised to have a 480W PSU minimum Im not quite sure a 650W even is going to be sufficient. Any pointers for an ignoramous while were on the topic of PSUs....am I actually a potential customer for one of these?
Actually, one of the things Ive wanted to figure out with GIMP (just aint had the time) was if it was possible to call/access some of its image manipulation functions from the command line (e.g. resize 50 infile.jpg outfile.jpg to resize an image to 50% of its old size). I know its (GIMP) scriptable, I know there are libraries out there for image maniplation...Id just like to have otherways to access the programs functionality OTHER than via a GUI...
That is one of the most incredibly dimiwitted thought processes Ive seen in...well, seen today. If a global pandemic killed off 99% of the population it would also kill off at LEAST 99% of a companies consumers for their other products. DOH!! Not to mention that money would probably cease to have any value and we'd probably have an extended period of anarchy.
I suspect your comment is meant to be witty in some way, shape of form though. Id mod you up as funny if I had points....
Shadow of Colossus and We Love Katamari would possily have gained my vote except THEY ARNT OUT IN THE UK YET!!
I SERIOUSLY hope that the PS3 and Rev arnt region coded since having to wait forever for releases from other territories really IS rediculous. Whats worse is quite a few really good titles never make it over here; and for the bad titles, it would increase their sales. My 8 year old seriously wanted the Neopets game but Santa has had to tell him no becase daddy was a good little consumer and never chipped his PS2...come to think about it though daddy hasnt got a PSP because he was ***** off at Sony trying to ban the import so they could rise the price a few quid (*****).
Its been a terrible year for games though with very little managing to grab my attention (Guild Wars and Day of Defeat has been about it) and I in fact have spent more time retrogaming on my X-arcade (Magic Drop 3 rocks!!!).
Cant wait for next year where the best game is going to be watching Sony and Microsoft go WTF as the Rev outsells them both;)
Im going to chime in with complete agreement with this. A single person providing services to @100 users is insane. Take a week off work ill (I think something stress related would be appropriate) and if they arnt phoning you on the Friday begging for you to come back and sort out issue X on Monday, take another week off. When you return, if they STILL dont realise the requirement for a properly manned department, start sending CVs out and let it become someone elses problem.
I am most certainly not your buddy. Anyone who refers to someone with such a severe disability using the words, whining leech, most deservedly should be sworn at, right before being hit by a clue-by-4. Im not trolling. Im ANGRY! Not just with you, but with the number of people who share your attitude to people with disabilities. To be FORCED to leave your home and family (and quite possibly any form of independence you have established within those limited confines) is somewhat more than a SLIGHT drop in quality of life. "Boring"? Id personally consider that to be extremely traumatic.
Remember it costs money to leave people with disabilities unsterilized (Oh, yes! The USA beat Germany to THAT one); it costs money to provide the medical aid to help a disabled child to survive; It costs money to help people with disabilities to live outside of institutions; and it costs money to give disabled people equal rights as those enjoyed by the able bodied.
At the end of the day ALL the legislation Dupree fought for did was to remove the REQUIREMENT that at the age of 21 people with severe disabilities would be institutionalized. Did YOU have to worry about that happening to you at 21? Of course you didnt. Do you think its right that people with severe disabilities should have to?
Sweet deal? Im sorry I called you an idiot. "Moronic fuckwit" would seem a more apt description.
I was tempted to just mod you down, instead I thought Id reply.
Youre not being un-PC...youre just an idiot. Consider any geek credentials withdrawn; your lack of reading comprehension and understanding of just how a severe disability such as his (he requires a portable ventilator as well as only having 2 digit mobility) would prohibit him from entering a working environment (hint 1: no company would be able to justify the insurance premium hike) places YOU squarely in the WTF (http://thedailywtf.com/) coding category.
To quote the article:- "Now the NGE has the mouse solely for combat and movement solely reserved for the WASD keys, no customization possible. So since left click is a basic attack and right click is a special, how do I move forward? Now I can't even walk my character to the starport."
Please note what he is complaining about. That no customization is possible so he cant play the game that he used to be able to play. As a developer who has had to consider disability access in the past I know it isnt necessarily easy to do but with what is comparably little effort, access for those with disabilities can be vastly improved. It would have probably taken one coder under 2 weeks to have provided sufficient customization to the UI to have accommodated disabled access AND give additional options to others who dislike their control layout. Usability work on a UI usually benefits EVERYONE!
Anyways, It isnt your genetic defect that prevents you having sexual intercourse. Its the fact that you are such a fucking worthless peace of shit that no woman in her right mind would give the time of fucking day to. But if you do ever successfully breed just consider for a moment what would happen if YOU had a child with a severe disability (god forbid, even for you I pray they are all healthy)...wouldnt YOU rather that the state/government had the heart to provide a sufficient level of care to ensure that your child lived as comfortable and satisfying life as was possible within the confines of their disability? Or would you rather watch your child slowly suffer and possibly die while you go bankrupt and your marriage disintegrates because youre worthless insurance provider tries everything and anything to minimize the amount of money they have to pay out in order to meet the letter of the contract?
It aint flopped....its just that there arnt any companies which have successfully adapted to the internet to launch a successful, commercial *legal* service. In terms of VOD (if you have a large enough pipe), if you know where to look for it and how to do it there is just about any program you might like to think of available. Theres also a lot of material on services such as PPLive (mainly foreign language/sports though atm)...basically internet TV is alive and kicking!
However on the legitimate side are the forthcoming services from Aol/Time Warners (In2TV) and the BBCs...2 companies who seem to have finally "got" the idea with the internet. Personally if the quality is good enough (VHS will do me but HD will be available from the BBC) I can see both of these being fantastically successful and spawning many imitators (and given that the BBCs software will be open-source that is one huge barrier to entry that will be removed for smaller broadcasters).
Anyways, re this patent...what if I use a button? What if I use Javascript? An XML-RPC post? A form post/get? Mouse-over? Areamap?
STUPID patent with so many ways around it, its hardly worth the discussion......
Heh many of the CURRENT cheaper flat panels and plasmas with HD resolutions dont support HDCP. There are going to be a lot of ***** off consumers when they find out their 1 or 2 year old panels will only display degraded video. In fact given the litigous state of the US, I strongly expect to hear of numerous class action lawsuits against retail chains and electronics manufacturers (Weeeelll the sales man toooooooll me it waaas a ach-dee tee-vee!).
This is going to be messy. VERY messy!
Personall though Im looking forward to a strong second hand market in high-res non-HDCP panels. I sure as hell can find content to play on those:)
1) Someone takes the lyrics/score as written in a book/CD case, copies it and publishes it on a web page. 2) Someone listens to a song several times, transposes the lyrics/score as they hear it and transposes it on a web page.
Now 1) is a clear breach of copyright (and should be settled in a civil court as such) but 2)...I cant help but think of that as a derivitive work and as such NOT in breach of copyright.
I dont know though - could someone enlighten me please?
Ive had FAR too many problems with windows that would MAGICALLY fix themselves after a reboot. Rather than expect these to disappear under Vista Id expect these incidences to raise drastically. Nice feature but too litle too late for me.
"And then, you have the Pits, the mass-produced 500 episode with no art, no voice actors, no animation, no spirit. Pokemon, Naruto and Digimon are fine examples of these."
Having 2 young lads (8+10) Ive had the luck to watch most of big imported animes. While its easy to knock Pokemon and Digimon they are GREAT *KIDS* entertainment - and Naruto *in its original form* is actually FAR FAR *FAR* better than I would ever have imagined (I downloaded the fansubs for my kids and they watched eps 1-110 over a couple of months and loved it...even though they were subtitled. GREAT speed reading practice for them [although that said, they have learned how to spell some of the swear words that they knew from school *sigh*]). Seriously *I* was bloody-well crying after Choji took the red-pill ; Ive constantly been amazed that what is essentially a kids/young teens program has touched on some of the issues that it has, AND done it so sensitively!
And dont get me started on Bleach....*grin*.
Anyways, Bleach, One Piece, Pokemon, Naruto, Digimon, Bedaman (Blegh!)...they arnt meant for you. They arnt meant for me either and I wont say I like all of them but SOME of them I download weekly (for myself)!! Guilty pleasures or WHAT!!??
P.S. "Futakoi Alternative" Id recommend as one of those "Too Good To Be True".
Yes, most industries suffer during economic down swings but when was the last time a company decided to lay off 1/2 its lawyers during one?;) Considering the work that is required to maintain ones ability to compete within the marketplace, the profession tends to suffer disproportionately to others during a downturn. Dont get me wrong, for the most part Ive enjoyed the last 15 years working in the industry. I just now believe that there are many other professions with better job security, easier requirements to maintain ones ability to do the job, similiar (if not better) levels of pay and perhaps most importantly, will still be around in 20 years. With hindsite I wouldnt have touched IT as a profession and would have kept it as a hobby - hence Id advise others to do likewise.
My apologies, Id assumed (incorrectly) given your tone that you were the same poster to whom I had replied.
Or in other words you see a requirement to build a bridge, pull out your trusty cookie cutter bridge building pattern, and promptly proceed to build an arch bridge, where a suspension bridge was needed, because the two lines of vague description ("pattern to build a link between two pieces of land isolated by water") was too vague for you to see that it shouldn't be applied in this case (you or the pattern author forgot to include a pre-requisit that the span of the bridge should be under a certain length).
Im rather certain it was you who formed this analogy. If you do understand patterns then you will also KNOW that your analogy is misleading. Rather patterns would be used to specify certain parts of the bridge and NOT the bridge itself. If one gets an arch bridge where a suspension bridge is called for thats poor requirements analysis and not per se a design issue. If this is how you have used patterns, or have seen them applied in the past then I am unsuprised at your hostility towards them.
Anyways, Im not here to champion design patterns - like any tool they can be over/poorly used and one size, of course, does not fit all. I personally though am more comfortable when I see a design couched in terms that I can understand and using techniques that I know have worked in the past. Do I see them as the be all and end all to solve all our problems? No.
Im sorry, from the above its apparent you dont understand what design patterns are and Im not about to try and teach you. You say that there is no substitute for analysis but analysis is NOT a substitute for design, and design is where patterns live. I somehow suspect though, given your earlier comments regarding UML that you think designs should live in ones head, in pseudo code or maybe even that flow charts are sufficient or maybe you know of an even better set of methodologies to apply for (OO) design and documentation? Please share your secrets.........
Much as I hate to admit it, reading and studying some books on design patterns actually did make me a better programmer. I know exactly what you mean (***** AJAX...I'll take CIF anyday of the week *grin*) but design patterns are well worth taking a look at.
Q. How do you reset the root password on a server when you don't know the current root password
A. Id ask someone what the password was.
Alterate Answer. When was it last patched? *grin*
Sorry Id be pissing my sides if asked that in an interview (probably the reason Im unemployed again though). Oh and Ive only a vague idea of the actual answer to this if posed as a real problem (probably the right idea but Ive never lost a password so never had this issue). But it would take me what....5 minutes to google for the answer? Its a crap question is part of the problem - youve probably passed a lot of very good people with it.
I somehow suspect though that there is a reason you need people to be able to answer it though....lose your passwords often eh? *grin*
Actually Id advise them to do the plumbing course.
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Having, since 1988, seen 2 major down swings in the IT job market which have lasted several years; retained myself AT LEAST 3 times in order to have current marketable skills; twice had to take jobs on a lower salary than I was on 5 years previosuly; and lost a job recently due to it being outsourced....there is abolutely no chance in hell Id advise anyone to enter IT as a profession. Academia...fine. Profession. No way. If I had known what I would go through working in IT as a young man Id have done something worthwhile, well paid and easy in comparison ( like becoming a GP ). Instead...well lets just say Im retraining again (and it isnt in IT).
Im in the UK and we tend to view Winter as starting sometime early in November. Admitedly the leaves have still been on the trees (and are still even now) rather late this year (Rather late? FRIGHTENINGLY late if you ask me matey pips) but still, to me, its winter.
Aye, and from what Ive heard the 360 runs hot and loud. If a significant (and I dont know that it is) number of these are having issues in the middle of winter just WAIT till you see the failior rate 6 months down the line with summer heat and dust-clogged fans!
I had a 6800 die on me this summer from overheating and that was despite the fact the thing was rated to be able to run at upto 120 C - when Id checked the core temp it was hitting only a little over 80 deg C but in a well ventillated case so I wasnt worried about it. Bt after a few weeks hot weather I had several crashes and then it just died on me. Given that the 360s card is in a smaller case Im betting its running VERY hot.........
Aye agreed (although I may get a PS3 as well).
I doubt the Rev will be $99 at lanch though. $199 I can see, $149....maybe. $99 and Nintendo just wouldnt be taken seriously!
Indeed, I dont think MS are going to benefit from launching first. The Dreamcast had a similar advantage (in being first to market) and it didnt realy help it....it also lacked DVD capabilities (The BIGGEST mistake on Segas part IMO).
For me, the lack of a good RPG (Oblivion), the fact that I already own a reasonably good (6800GT) PC and a media PC (6800 vanilla) but dont have a Hi-Def TV; all have conspired to leave me feeling rather unexcited regarding this launch. Although the 360s graphics are good I expect they will look rather last generation within 18 months (about when I'll next be upgrading my graphics card..8800 or 9800 I wonder?) and while I might be tempted by a PS3 since, although I dont like the DRM encumerance of Blue-ray having a player may be worthwhile and WILL be getting a revolution (I dont own a GC so will have access to a nice back catalogue of games I hant played before and that controller just looks FUN)....well the 360 just has nothing to tempt me. Nothing! The games, the media functionality (the DRM)....its all just so much of the same.
The above said, while I wont be getting a 360 I can well see it being a huge success in the US (mabe even becoming the market leading console over there).
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Thanks, thats useful even though its not up to date. As I thought, with 8 drives and SLI, by the time I factor in cooling etc Im pushing even a 650W PSU (only just though and its doubtful peak load would even be reached but still...). That said Id have trouble justifying this beast over a 680W/700W at 1/3 of the price...still nice to kow its out there ;)
Its always confused me slightly and its coming back to bite me on the ass since I now need to build a dual core SLI system (A-4800) with EIGHT hard drives. Given that SLI systems are often advised to have a 480W PSU minimum Im not quite sure a 650W even is going to be sufficient. Any pointers for an ignoramous while were on the topic of PSUs....am I actually a potential customer for one of these?
Actually, one of the things Ive wanted to figure out with GIMP (just aint had the time) was if it was possible to call/access some of its image manipulation functions from the command line (e.g. resize 50 infile.jpg outfile.jpg to resize an image to 50% of its old size). I know its (GIMP) scriptable, I know there are libraries out there for image maniplation...Id just like to have otherways to access the programs functionality OTHER than via a GUI...
I thought Id give it a shot....only to find this listed as a title thats "coming soon". Am I missing a link here?
That is one of the most incredibly dimiwitted thought processes Ive seen in...well, seen today. If a global pandemic killed off 99% of the population it would also kill off at LEAST 99% of a companies consumers for their other products. DOH!! Not to mention that money would probably cease to have any value and we'd probably have an extended period of anarchy. I suspect your comment is meant to be witty in some way, shape of form though. Id mod you up as funny if I had points....
Shadow of Colossus and We Love Katamari would possily have gained my vote except THEY ARNT OUT IN THE UK YET!!
;)
I SERIOUSLY hope that the PS3 and Rev arnt region coded since having to wait forever for releases from other territories really IS rediculous. Whats worse is quite a few really good titles never make it over here; and for the bad titles, it would increase their sales. My 8 year old seriously wanted the Neopets game but Santa has had to tell him no becase daddy was a good little consumer and never chipped his PS2...come to think about it though daddy hasnt got a PSP because he was ***** off at Sony trying to ban the import so they could rise the price a few quid (*****).
Its been a terrible year for games though with very little managing to grab my attention (Guild Wars and Day of Defeat has been about it) and I in fact have spent more time retrogaming on my X-arcade (Magic Drop 3 rocks!!!).
Cant wait for next year where the best game is going to be watching Sony and Microsoft go WTF as the Rev outsells them both
Im going to chime in with complete agreement with this. A single person providing services to @100 users is insane. Take a week off work ill (I think something stress related would be appropriate) and if they arnt phoning you on the Friday begging for you to come back and sort out issue X on Monday, take another week off. When you return, if they STILL dont realise the requirement for a properly manned department, start sending CVs out and let it become someone elses problem.
I am most certainly not your buddy. Anyone who refers to someone with such a severe disability using the words, whining leech, most deservedly should be sworn at, right before being hit by a clue-by-4. Im not trolling. Im ANGRY! Not just with you, but with the number of people who share your attitude to people with disabilities. To be FORCED to leave your home and family (and quite possibly any form of independence you have established within those limited confines) is somewhat more than a SLIGHT drop in quality of life. "Boring"? Id personally consider that to be extremely traumatic.
Remember it costs money to leave people with disabilities unsterilized (Oh, yes! The USA beat Germany to THAT one); it costs money to provide the medical aid to help a disabled child to survive; It costs money to help people with disabilities to live outside of institutions; and it costs money to give disabled people equal rights as those enjoyed by the able bodied.
At the end of the day ALL the legislation Dupree fought for did was to remove the REQUIREMENT that at the age of 21 people with severe disabilities would be institutionalized. Did YOU have to worry about that happening to you at 21? Of course you didnt. Do you think its right that people with severe disabilities should have to?
Sweet deal? Im sorry I called you an idiot. "Moronic fuckwit" would seem a more apt description.
I was tempted to just mod you down, instead I thought Id reply.
:- "Now the NGE has the mouse solely for combat and movement solely reserved for the WASD keys, no customization possible. So since left click is a basic attack and right click is a special, how do I move forward? Now I can't even walk my character to the starport."
Youre not being un-PC...youre just an idiot. Consider any geek credentials withdrawn; your lack of reading comprehension and understanding of just how a severe disability such as his (he requires a portable ventilator as well as only having 2 digit mobility) would prohibit him from entering a working environment (hint 1: no company would be able to justify the insurance premium hike) places YOU squarely in the WTF (http://thedailywtf.com/) coding category.
To quote the article
Please note what he is complaining about. That no customization is possible so he cant play the game that he used to be able to play. As a developer who has had to consider disability access in the past I know it isnt necessarily easy to do but with what is comparably little effort, access for those with disabilities can be vastly improved. It would have probably taken one coder under 2 weeks to have provided sufficient customization to the UI to have accommodated disabled access AND give additional options to others who dislike their control layout. Usability work on a UI usually benefits EVERYONE!
Anyways, It isnt your genetic defect that prevents you having sexual intercourse. Its the fact that you are such a fucking worthless peace of shit that no woman in her right mind would give the time of fucking day to. But if you do ever successfully breed just consider for a moment what would happen if YOU had a child with a severe disability (god forbid, even for you I pray they are all healthy)...wouldnt YOU rather that the state/government had the heart to provide a sufficient level of care to ensure that your child lived as comfortable and satisfying life as was possible within the confines of their disability? Or would you rather watch your child slowly suffer and possibly die while you go bankrupt and your marriage disintegrates because youre worthless insurance provider tries everything and anything to minimize the amount of money they have to pay out in order to meet the letter of the contract?
It aint flopped....its just that there arnt any companies which have successfully adapted to the internet to launch a successful, commercial *legal* service. In terms of VOD (if you have a large enough pipe), if you know where to look for it and how to do it there is just about any program you might like to think of available. Theres also a lot of material on services such as PPLive (mainly foreign language/sports though atm)...basically internet TV is alive and kicking!
However on the legitimate side are the forthcoming services from Aol/Time Warners (In2TV) and the BBCs...2 companies who seem to have finally "got" the idea with the internet. Personally if the quality is good enough (VHS will do me but HD will be available from the BBC) I can see both of these being fantastically successful and spawning many imitators (and given that the BBCs software will be open-source that is one huge barrier to entry that will be removed for smaller broadcasters).
Anyways, re this patent...what if I use a button? What if I use Javascript? An XML-RPC post? A form post/get? Mouse-over? Areamap?
STUPID patent with so many ways around it, its hardly worth the discussion......
Heh many of the CURRENT cheaper flat panels and plasmas with HD resolutions dont support HDCP. There are going to be a lot of ***** off consumers when they find out their 1 or 2 year old panels will only display degraded video. In fact given the litigous state of the US, I strongly expect to hear of numerous class action lawsuits against retail chains and electronics manufacturers (Weeeelll the sales man toooooooll me it waaas a ach-dee tee-vee!).
:)
This is going to be messy. VERY messy!
Personall though Im looking forward to a strong second hand market in high-res non-HDCP panels. I sure as hell can find content to play on those
Consider these 2 scenarios :-
1) Someone takes the lyrics/score as written in a book/CD case, copies it and publishes it on a web page.
2) Someone listens to a song several times, transposes the lyrics/score as they hear it and transposes it on a web page.
Now 1) is a clear breach of copyright (and should be settled in a civil court as such) but 2)...I cant help but think of that as a derivitive work and as such NOT in breach of copyright.
I dont know though - could someone enlighten me please?
Ive had FAR too many problems with windows that would MAGICALLY fix themselves after a reboot. Rather than expect these to disappear under Vista Id expect these incidences to raise drastically. Nice feature but too litle too late for me.
Whats a "n00b"?
"And then, you have the Pits, the mass-produced 500 episode with no art, no voice actors, no animation, no spirit. Pokemon, Naruto and Digimon are fine examples of these."
Having 2 young lads (8+10) Ive had the luck to watch most of big imported animes. While its easy to knock Pokemon and Digimon they are GREAT *KIDS* entertainment - and Naruto *in its original form* is actually FAR FAR *FAR* better than I would ever have imagined (I downloaded the fansubs for my kids and they watched eps 1-110 over a couple of months and loved it...even though they were subtitled. GREAT speed reading practice for them [although that said, they have learned how to spell some of the swear words that they knew from school *sigh*]). Seriously *I* was bloody-well crying after Choji took the red-pill ; Ive constantly been amazed that what is essentially a kids/young teens program has touched on some of the issues that it has, AND done it so sensitively!
And dont get me started on Bleach....*grin*.
Anyways, Bleach, One Piece, Pokemon, Naruto, Digimon, Bedaman (Blegh!)...they arnt meant for you. They arnt meant for me either and I wont say I like all of them but SOME of them I download weekly (for myself)!! Guilty pleasures or WHAT!!??
P.S. "Futakoi Alternative" Id recommend as one of those "Too Good To Be True".
Hmmmm lets see. GP, plumber, electrician, roofer, train driver, dentist, veterinarian, accountant, lawyer, academic, teacher, psychiatrist, taxi driver etc etc.
;) Considering the work that is required to maintain ones ability to compete within the marketplace, the profession tends to suffer disproportionately to others during a downturn. Dont get me wrong, for the most part Ive enjoyed the last 15 years working in the industry. I just now believe that there are many other professions with better job security, easier requirements to maintain ones ability to do the job, similiar (if not better) levels of pay and perhaps most importantly, will still be around in 20 years. With hindsite I wouldnt have touched IT as a profession and would have kept it as a hobby - hence Id advise others to do likewise.
Yes, most industries suffer during economic down swings but when was the last time a company decided to lay off 1/2 its lawyers during one?
My apologies, Id assumed (incorrectly) given your tone that you were the same poster to whom I had replied.
Or in other words you see a requirement to build a bridge, pull out your trusty cookie cutter bridge building pattern, and promptly proceed to build an arch bridge, where a suspension bridge was needed, because the two lines of vague description ("pattern to build a link between two pieces of land isolated by water") was too vague for you to see that it shouldn't be applied in this case (you or the pattern author forgot to include a pre-requisit that the span of the bridge should be under a certain length).
Im rather certain it was you who formed this analogy. If you do understand patterns then you will also KNOW that your analogy is misleading. Rather patterns would be used to specify certain parts of the bridge and NOT the bridge itself. If one gets an arch bridge where a suspension bridge is called for thats poor requirements analysis and not per se a design issue. If this is how you have used patterns, or have seen them applied in the past then I am unsuprised at your hostility towards them.
Anyways, Im not here to champion design patterns - like any tool they can be over/poorly used and one size, of course, does not fit all. I personally though am more comfortable when I see a design couched in terms that I can understand and using techniques that I know have worked in the past. Do I see them as the be all and end all to solve all our problems? No.
Im sorry, from the above its apparent you dont understand what design patterns are and Im not about to try and teach you. You say that there is no substitute for analysis but analysis is NOT a substitute for design, and design is where patterns live. I somehow suspect though, given your earlier comments regarding UML that you think designs should live in ones head, in pseudo code or maybe even that flow charts are sufficient or maybe you know of an even better set of methodologies to apply for (OO) design and documentation? Please share your secrets.........
Much as I hate to admit it, reading and studying some books on design patterns actually did make me a better programmer. I know exactly what you mean (***** AJAX...I'll take CIF anyday of the week *grin*) but design patterns are well worth taking a look at.
A. Id ask someone what the password was.
Alterate Answer. When was it last patched? *grin*
Sorry Id be pissing my sides if asked that in an interview (probably the reason Im unemployed again though). Oh and Ive only a vague idea of the actual answer to this if posed as a real problem (probably the right idea but Ive never lost a password so never had this issue). But it would take me what....5 minutes to google for the answer? Its a crap question is part of the problem - youve probably passed a lot of very good people with it.
I somehow suspect though that there is a reason you need people to be able to answer it though....lose your passwords often eh? *grin*
Having, since 1988, seen 2 major down swings in the IT job market which have lasted several years; retained myself AT LEAST 3 times in order to have current marketable skills; twice had to take jobs on a lower salary than I was on 5 years previosuly; and lost a job recently due to it being outsourced....there is abolutely no chance in hell Id advise anyone to enter IT as a profession. Academia...fine. Profession. No way. If I had known what I would go through working in IT as a young man Id have done something worthwhile, well paid and easy in comparison ( like becoming a GP ). Instead...well lets just say Im retraining again (and it isnt in IT).
Im in the UK and we tend to view Winter as starting sometime early in November. Admitedly the leaves have still been on the trees (and are still even now) rather late this year (Rather late? FRIGHTENINGLY late if you ask me matey pips) but still, to me, its winter.
Aye, and from what Ive heard the 360 runs hot and loud. If a significant (and I dont know that it is) number of these are having issues in the middle of winter just WAIT till you see the failior rate 6 months down the line with summer heat and dust-clogged fans!
I had a 6800 die on me this summer from overheating and that was despite the fact the thing was rated to be able to run at upto 120 C - when Id checked the core temp it was hitting only a little over 80 deg C but in a well ventillated case so I wasnt worried about it. Bt after a few weeks hot weather I had several crashes and then it just died on me. Given that the 360s card is in a smaller case Im betting its running VERY hot.........
Aye agreed (although I may get a PS3 as well). I doubt the Rev will be $99 at lanch though. $199 I can see, $149....maybe. $99 and Nintendo just wouldnt be taken seriously!
Indeed, I dont think MS are going to benefit from launching first. The Dreamcast had a similar advantage (in being first to market) and it didnt realy help it....it also lacked DVD capabilities (The BIGGEST mistake on Segas part IMO).
For me, the lack of a good RPG (Oblivion), the fact that I already own a reasonably good (6800GT) PC and a media PC (6800 vanilla) but dont have a Hi-Def TV; all have conspired to leave me feeling rather unexcited regarding this launch. Although the 360s graphics are good I expect they will look rather last generation within 18 months (about when I'll next be upgrading my graphics card..8800 or 9800 I wonder?) and while I might be tempted by a PS3 since, although I dont like the DRM encumerance of Blue-ray having a player may be worthwhile and WILL be getting a revolution (I dont own a GC so will have access to a nice back catalogue of games I hant played before and that controller just looks FUN)....well the 360 just has nothing to tempt me. Nothing! The games, the media functionality (the DRM)....its all just so much of the same.
The above said, while I wont be getting a 360 I can well see it being a huge success in the US (mabe even becoming the market leading console over there).