It's a diagram. It's not useful at the highest level of zoom; indeed, you can't note anything useful from the first five levels of zoom. Maps are used to allow you to pick out useful information about terrain from a high-level overview; this simply doesn't do that, due to having too few recognizibale symbols to serve as landmarks.
I hope somebody eventually comes up with a good way to map source code; unfortunately this isn't it.
Do what everyone else does, market to their bosses, to VPs, purchasing depts, etc. The developers don't have purchasing authority anyway; you don't have to convince them unless you're giving your tool away, and if you're giving your tool away you aren't likely to make money at it anyway.
Will this turn out as well as the Gateway retail stores [didn't]? i.e. when acting more like every other company out there, eliminate any competitive advantage?
Why can't a company ever take a good hard look at itself, decide it's doing basically the right thing the right way, and leave well enough alone? Is the temptation to reorganize truly irresistable?
TiVo offers lifetime subscriptions if you prefer to think of it as a one time investment.
How do you plan on getting the subscription data (show schedules) onto your home-built PVR forever without paying anyone anything? Whatever screen-scraper scripts you write will be broken by the content provider if they become popular.
Of course it's there. The TiVo and Replay both do PC based PVR very very well. They just happen to bundle their software with some hardware and charge for it. The real question is, why ignore this solution, since it seems to work so well?
How is this a threat to JPEG use? Does anyone believe that people use JPEG because of the ISO? Or do they use it because it's a great and convenient way to store images?
I'm afraid far more than this is necessary to fix the problem, unfortunately this threat doesn't even amount to a slap on the wrist.
Ada is also *great* for memory mapped I/O. You explicitly tell it where every bit and byte is, what they are and what they can be, and it will always enforce that. No moving your bits around to byte boundaries to optimize memory access, no unchecked bounds, no secretly using extra memory to store a virtual function lookup table. Needless to say, when interfacing with external systems, rigid memory specification is extremely useful, can't be done in Java, and isn't the default and requires caution in C or C++.
Isn't this throw-more-chips-at-the-problem, require-more-power-produce-more-heat-slow-down-inn ovation-in-everything-but-raw-speed idea a good part of what killed 3dfx?
I have received 3 telemarketers in the past 2 years on my cellphone (e.g. so-and-so calling on behalf of First Union... man do I regret doing business with them). Every time all I say is "Are you aware you are illegally telemarketing to a cellphone? Do not call this number again."
They then tell me it takes a month for their no-call list to work, and say "is that ok?". The "is that ok" part is key for them - they make it seem like it's the only option, and you have to say yes. Obvious solution: say no, inform them once more that they are breaking the law, and hang up.
Sure, you could follow a script and get lots of info and try to go for money - but I'd rather minimize time spent on telemarketers, and I'd say 1 minute a year total is pretty good.
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??? The article is by the director of TiVo, about "having a PVR's really big hard disk in many living rooms creates a massively distributed system", but he's not talking about PVRs? Yep. Sure. Right. Nothing to see here, move along. These are not the file sharing devices you are looking for.
Edit, please, editors. This submission had everything but a mention of a Beowulf Cluster, Microsoft, and how the Anonymous Reader wanted a pony.
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They have already sued over file-sharing TV; specifically, the Replay4500. It's been on Slashdot *several* times already.
Your gloating about how dumb the allegedly-don't-get-technology busineses are would be better placed if you at least demonstrated the ability to use a search box or scan an archive list.
When considering advice, always consider the motivations of the giver.
In this case, you post a 'why not to take a counteroffer' list, from somebody who benefits from people looking for jobs. No offense, but Duh. It's in their best interests to encourage people to take the listed positions rather than sticking w/ their existing jobs. In general, very few people on the web will benefit from you sticking with your existing job. But, many people (headhunters, job listing sites, new employers) would benefit from you being willing to switch. So, expect lots of advice that you should be willing to switch jobs.
In general, you can live life according to the script others try to get you to perform, or you can write your own script. Remember who has your best interests at heart - only you.
Does going gold have meaning anymore? Don't we live in a world where we *expect* to have to wait a month *after* we buy something for it to work, and the chief effect the CD seems to have is slightly lowering the users' initial startup time and the publisher's bandwidth costs? Why still call it "going gold"? Why not say "started pressing the patching/update client"?
I'm thrilled they finally got around to this. By all means, fight within the rules, don't try to buy new rules to make the game illegal. This is the closest thing to a clue any anti-MP3-piracy "advocate"/corporation has demonstrated yet.
Hmm, from the 'BAD REQUEST' message I get on perl.com, I'd say they set out to intentionally break the Apache web serving culture we're used to also...:)
Who wants LESS gadgets? I'm only at two cell phones, blackberry, and PalmPilot, so I'm trying to come up with *more* things I need to complete the full bat-belt effect. And besides, if I got rid of one of them, the weight distribution would be off and my pants would be crooked all the time.:)
Payola isn't the problem.
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If payola was the reason for the dullness and sameness of broadcast radio, then why is it that you only hear the same 10 songs on 80s channels? Ditto classic rock stations? If paying for playtime on top hits stations explains why they're dull and the same, then there must be a *different* reason for the dullness and sameness on every other kind of commercial station...
Or, perhaps it's all just due to corporate conservatism and a 'stick-with-what-has-worked' do-nothing take-no-risks attitude. Look at network television and reality series #4232, or the computer games industry and RTS FPS game #2189, or the movie industry and stupid action flick #12092. Occam's razor, people. It's not payola.
It's not a matter of 'can't get', it's a matter of 'can't afford' or 'can't get to the store' or 'didn't think to buy'. Ignoring traditional gender roles, what would be really useful for college: 4-in-1 Screwdriver. Hammer. Simple voltmeter. Drill. Electrical tape. Towel (a really really nice fluffy new one, the kind your parents would have a heart attack if you used to wash the car or clean up a spill since it wasn't an old beat up towel. Write on it with permanent marker, something like "use for stuff your parents would cringe at you using a nice towel for" or something like that).
Yes, with cleaning supplies. Generally if you are clear enough, along the lines of "I DO NOT AUTHORIZE YOU TO SEND ME ANYTHING", they go away. I think it's pretty common with all forms of office supplies and equipment. Some companies have a fun habit of separating the person receiving stuff enough from the person paying for it that the person paying for it just pays whatever legit-looking bill they get.
So more people like a fun comic book hero than a space western. Why is that some big revelation about "post-9/11 America", rather than just some big revelation about market share?
I think the best thing the success of Spider-Man indicates is that we'll see Spider-Man 2, 3, 4, 5,... followed by Green Lantern and Silver Surfer on the big screen. Not that Lucas should give up and go home.
Another vote for the Kinesis Classic. About 6 months ago my hand pain became unbearable. I visited a doctor, got drugs and (temporary use only) wrist splints, and was finally inspired to learn to use the Kinesis keyboard my co-workers were typing on. Spent two weeks of feeling like an idiot getting my typing speed back, and am thrilled that I did so - I still experience occasional pain, but it's nothing like I used to.
I doubt this sort of thing is necessary for the average user - I tended to work 8-12 hour days 6-7 days a week, then go home and play video games. It's not a particularly smart lifestyle, but if it's what you're doing, a Kinesis can make it a good bit less painful.
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It's a diagram. It's not useful at the highest level of zoom; indeed, you can't note anything useful from the first five levels of zoom. Maps are used to allow you to pick out useful information about terrain from a high-level overview; this simply doesn't do that, due to having too few recognizibale symbols to serve as landmarks.
I hope somebody eventually comes up with a good way to map source code; unfortunately this isn't it.
Do what everyone else does, market to their bosses, to VPs, purchasing depts, etc. The developers don't have purchasing authority anyway; you don't have to convince them unless you're giving your tool away, and if you're giving your tool away you aren't likely to make money at it anyway.
Will this turn out as well as the Gateway retail stores [didn't]? i.e. when acting more like every other company out there, eliminate any competitive advantage?
Why can't a company ever take a good hard look at itself, decide it's doing basically the right thing the right way, and leave well enough alone? Is the temptation to reorganize truly irresistable?
TiVo offers lifetime subscriptions if you prefer to think of it as a one time investment.
How do you plan on getting the subscription data (show schedules) onto your home-built PVR forever without paying anyone anything? Whatever screen-scraper scripts you write will be broken by the content provider if they become popular.
Of course it's there. The TiVo and Replay both do PC based PVR very very well. They just happen to bundle their software with some hardware and charge for it. The real question is, why ignore this solution, since it seems to work so well?
How is this a threat to JPEG use? Does anyone believe that people use JPEG because of the ISO? Or do they use it because it's a great and convenient way to store images?
I'm afraid far more than this is necessary to fix the problem, unfortunately this threat doesn't even amount to a slap on the wrist.
Ada is also *great* for memory mapped I/O. You explicitly tell it where every bit and byte is, what they are and what they can be, and it will always enforce that. No moving your bits around to byte boundaries to optimize memory access, no unchecked bounds, no secretly using extra memory to store a virtual function lookup table.
Needless to say, when interfacing with external systems, rigid memory specification is extremely useful, can't be done in Java, and isn't the default and requires caution in C or C++.
Isn't this throw-more-chips-at-the-problem, require-more-power-produce-more-heat-slow-down-inn ovation-in-everything-but-raw-speed idea a good part of what killed 3dfx?
I have received 3 telemarketers in the past 2 years on my cellphone (e.g. so-and-so calling on behalf of First Union... man do I regret doing business with them). Every time all I say is "Are you aware you are illegally telemarketing to a cellphone? Do not call this number again."
They then tell me it takes a month for their no-call list to work, and say "is that ok?". The "is that ok" part is key for them - they make it seem like it's the only option, and you have to say yes. Obvious solution: say no, inform them once more that they are breaking the law, and hang up.
Sure, you could follow a script and get lots of info and try to go for money - but I'd rather minimize time spent on telemarketers, and I'd say 1 minute a year total is pretty good.
Bug. Reparent Highly Rated Comments does not work if you have 'Hard Threshold' mode on to get rid of those annoying "X replies below current threshold" message.
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??? The article is by the director of TiVo, about "having a PVR's really big hard disk in many living rooms creates a massively distributed system", but he's not talking about PVRs? Yep. Sure. Right. Nothing to see here, move along. These are not the file sharing devices you are looking for .
Edit, please, editors. This submission had everything but a mention of a Beowulf Cluster, Microsoft, and how the Anonymous Reader wanted a pony.
They have already sued over file-sharing TV; specifically, the Replay4500. It's been on Slashdot *several* times already.
Your gloating about how dumb the allegedly-don't-get-technology busineses are would be better placed if you at least demonstrated the ability to use a search box or scan an archive list.
When considering advice, always consider the motivations of the giver.
In this case, you post a 'why not to take a counteroffer' list, from somebody who benefits from people looking for jobs. No offense, but Duh. It's in their best interests to encourage people to take the listed positions rather than sticking w/ their existing jobs. In general, very few people on the web will benefit from you sticking with your existing job. But, many people (headhunters, job listing sites, new employers) would benefit from you being willing to switch. So, expect lots of advice that you should be willing to switch jobs.
In general, you can live life according to the script others try to get you to perform, or you can write your own script. Remember who has your best interests at heart - only you.
Does going gold have meaning anymore? Don't we live in a world where we *expect* to have to wait a month *after* we buy something for it to work, and the chief effect the CD seems to have is slightly lowering the users' initial startup time and the publisher's bandwidth costs? Why still call it "going gold"? Why not say "started pressing the patching/update client"?
Sorry, I just find this depressing.
I'm thrilled they finally got around to this. By all means, fight within the rules, don't try to buy new rules to make the game illegal. This is the closest thing to a clue any anti-MP3-piracy "advocate"/corporation has demonstrated yet.
Hmm, from the 'BAD REQUEST' message I get on perl.com, I'd say they set out to intentionally break the Apache web serving culture we're used to also... :)
If superstition is dead, how is John Edwards so popular?
Who wants LESS gadgets? :)
I'm only at two cell phones, blackberry, and PalmPilot, so I'm trying to come up with *more* things I need to complete the full bat-belt effect. And besides, if I got rid of one of them, the weight distribution would be off and my pants would be crooked all the time.
If payola was the reason for the dullness and sameness of broadcast radio, then why is it that you only hear the same 10 songs on 80s channels? Ditto classic rock stations? If paying for playtime on top hits stations explains why they're dull and the same, then there must be a *different* reason for the dullness and sameness on every other kind of commercial station...
Or, perhaps it's all just due to corporate conservatism and a 'stick-with-what-has-worked' do-nothing take-no-risks attitude. Look at network television and reality series #4232, or the computer games industry and RTS FPS game #2189, or the movie industry and stupid action flick #12092. Occam's razor, people. It's not payola.
Abhor all you want. Some of us just want to get work done, in which case Apache rocks.
It's not a matter of 'can't get', it's a matter of 'can't afford' or 'can't get to the store' or 'didn't think to buy'. Ignoring traditional gender roles, what would be really useful for college:
4-in-1 Screwdriver. Hammer. Simple voltmeter. Drill. Electrical tape.
Towel (a really really nice fluffy new one, the kind your parents would have a heart attack if you used to wash the car or clean up a spill since it wasn't an old beat up towel. Write on it with permanent marker, something like "use for stuff your parents would cringe at you using a nice towel for" or something like that).
s/little more Natalie Portman/a little more (& then less) of that white outfit on Natalie Portman/g
Yes, with cleaning supplies. Generally if you are clear enough, along the lines of "I DO NOT AUTHORIZE YOU TO SEND ME ANYTHING", they go away. I think it's pretty common with all forms of office supplies and equipment. Some companies have a fun habit of separating the person receiving stuff enough from the person paying for it that the person paying for it just pays whatever legit-looking bill they get.
So more people like a fun comic book hero than a space western. Why is that some big revelation about "post-9/11 America", rather than just some big revelation about market share?
... followed by Green Lantern and Silver Surfer on the big screen. Not that Lucas should give up and go home.
I think the best thing the success of Spider-Man indicates is that we'll see Spider-Man 2, 3, 4, 5,
Another vote for the Kinesis Classic. About 6 months ago my hand pain became unbearable. I visited a doctor, got drugs and (temporary use only) wrist splints, and was finally inspired to learn to use the Kinesis keyboard my co-workers were typing on. Spent two weeks of feeling like an idiot getting my typing speed back, and am thrilled that I did so - I still experience occasional pain, but it's nothing like I used to.
I doubt this sort of thing is necessary for the average user - I tended to work 8-12 hour days 6-7 days a week, then go home and play video games. It's not a particularly smart lifestyle, but if it's what you're doing, a Kinesis can make it a good bit less painful.