Or you accept that MVC doesn't work too well with high latency comms and come up with a different pattern - it's not dogma. Model/Client/Controller with Client doing view + some datascrubbing would work pretty well here. I'm not really comfortable with biz logic in the client, so let's not have that.
Building a check on your production line is very expensive. It automatically slows down the line. It comes with the overhead of modifying the production line, re-instructing the people on the line, etc.
And yet, Toyota does just that. But why are you talking about production lines in the context of software?
I went to GMU and RPI, and neither school had specific language classes saves as a throwaway 1 credit course (which I used because I needed a credit hour to graduate). CS degrees cover a whole lot more than just languages - things like O(n), the common data structures and algorithms that you use over and over again, and basic theory. I don't spend much time on tech forums (mostly this one and the seattle startup one), but that does sound like a good idea.
The obama personality cult meme is just Rovian politics spinning our first really popular guy since Clinton (Sorry Howard Dean) into something negative.
Where does a person become certified to decide if a situation is a lethal threat?
you get certified after the fact, when cops (and possibly a judge) decide if what you did was warranted or not.
Wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if you were shot by an individual because they misinterpreted your actions?
It happens; that's why most places use the 'reasonable person' doctrine. It probably won't happen to me because I don't do stupid shit like waving a fake gun at real cops.
No, it should be legal to kill people because it's often the only practical way to stop an aggressor. Sure, I could knock someone down or restrain them, but I'm 200 lbs, and it's hard to do (try it some time). If the other guy has a knife or a gun, I'm going to shoot him.
Meh, it's all a function of how much crap you have hanging off that menu. More stuff = slower menus, and you can add any old thing to the windows context menu.
No, HP built one with a better chipset because that was the requirement. After they spent all that money, MS relaxed the requirement so intel could sell the 915 as vista capable or whatever they called it.
My computer burns about 150W idling away (displays eat another 100W, but they turn off after 5 minutes). At a nominal rate of about $.06/kWH, that's 12.6c/day (14H idling) - my free soda costs more. Never mind that most places pay on something like peak usage during the day, so a bit of power wasted at night costs nothing at all.
They apparently relaxed the vista requirements to help intel out so they could sell 915 video chipsets as 'vista capable', well after HP had spent a lot of money upgrading their stuff to meet the higher bar. Basically, HP wouldn't have had to spend nearly as much on upgrades if they'd known the requirement would be lower.
What's to prevent them from doing this every few months and leaving a trail of dead service providers in the wake of our new definition of "justice" as the botnet owners simply hop from one provider to the next?
That's simple - ISPs that value their continued existence will enforce their anti-spam/botnet policies rather than look the other way and take money from anyone who can pay. This isn't vigilantism, it's the upstream ISP dropping connectivity for contract violations when informed of the situation at one of their downstreams.
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Well, the number is currently around 100/year, so I don't see this as a major issue.
if law enforcement can use metallurgic analysis to determine the exact batch of bullets a particular round came from
Who told you that fairy tale? Bullet lead analysis has been debunked for years and has no scientific basis.
Or you accept that MVC doesn't work too well with high latency comms and come up with a different pattern - it's not dogma. Model/Client/Controller with Client doing view + some datascrubbing would work pretty well here. I'm not really comfortable with biz logic in the client, so let's not have that.
That's not a production line - production lines produce large numbers of similar items, which you almost never do in software.
Building a check on your production line is very expensive. It automatically slows down the line. It comes with the overhead of modifying the production line, re-instructing the people on the line, etc.
And yet, Toyota does just that. But why are you talking about production lines in the context of software?
Sometimes poor implementations of good ideas spurn enough innovation and demand that its marginal quality is irrelevant.
Just because something is valuable in spurring innovation doesn't make it good code.
I went to GMU and RPI, and neither school had specific language classes saves as a throwaway 1 credit course (which I used because I needed a credit hour to graduate). CS degrees cover a whole lot more than just languages - things like O(n), the common data structures and algorithms that you use over and over again, and basic theory. I don't spend much time on tech forums (mostly this one and the seattle startup one), but that does sound like a good idea.
Says the guy posting as AC. If there are better ways, I'd love to see them. Mind, we may not have the same idea of better.
Nah, this is different because the boss man wants pretty charts to baffle guests with bullshit, or something. He apparently realizes this is for show.
What I'm saying is the state needed to punish her, so the state found a way. It was about her, not about using a false name.
And the fallout from that misguided deed will be far worse than what was gained today.
Maybe they shouldn't be in a customer facing role if they can't speak the local lingo.
The obama personality cult meme is just Rovian politics spinning our first really popular guy since Clinton (Sorry Howard Dean) into something negative.
Where does a person become certified to decide if a situation is a lethal threat?
you get certified after the fact, when cops (and possibly a judge) decide if what you did was warranted or not.
Wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if you were shot by an individual because they misinterpreted your actions?
It happens; that's why most places use the 'reasonable person' doctrine. It probably won't happen to me because I don't do stupid shit like waving a fake gun at real cops.
uh huh, I'd just tell congress that I was removing irrelevant stuff; that's hardly unusual.
No, Frank Herbert came up with the idea 50 years ago - read Dune for some real education.
No, he's allowed to kill them because they pose a direct lethal threat. Nothing more.
No, it should be legal to kill people because it's often the only practical way to stop an aggressor. Sure, I could knock someone down or restrain them, but I'm 200 lbs, and it's hard to do (try it some time). If the other guy has a knife or a gun, I'm going to shoot him.
Parts of America are dangerous - Philly and South Central LA, for instance - stay away from the bad parts and the other 95% is just fine.
Meh, it's all a function of how much crap you have hanging off that menu. More stuff = slower menus, and you can add any old thing to the windows context menu.
No, HP built one with a better chipset because that was the requirement. After they spent all that money, MS relaxed the requirement so intel could sell the 915 as vista capable or whatever they called it.
My computer burns about 150W idling away (displays eat another 100W, but they turn off after 5 minutes). At a nominal rate of about $.06/kWH, that's 12.6c/day (14H idling) - my free soda costs more. Never mind that most places pay on something like peak usage during the day, so a bit of power wasted at night costs nothing at all.
It does if it's a call center computer - woefully underspecced box running 3 kinds of spyware and a bunch of support apps required for your job.
innocent people can be harmed when this course of action is taken.
So what? This always happens. If we stopped doing things every time it could harm an innocent, we wouldn't do anything.
we are implying then that our personal ethics are more important than our legal obligations.
What you mean we, paleface? Anyway, what of McColo's legal obligations to its upstream? Oh yeah, they blew them off and got turned off.
They apparently relaxed the vista requirements to help intel out so they could sell 915 video chipsets as 'vista capable', well after HP had spent a lot of money upgrading their stuff to meet the higher bar. Basically, HP wouldn't have had to spend nearly as much on upgrades if they'd known the requirement would be lower.
What's to prevent them from doing this every few months and leaving a trail of dead service providers in the wake of our new definition of "justice" as the botnet owners simply hop from one provider to the next?
That's simple - ISPs that value their continued existence will enforce their anti-spam/botnet policies rather than look the other way and take money from anyone who can pay. This isn't vigilantism, it's the upstream ISP dropping connectivity for contract violations when informed of the situation at one of their downstreams.