Don't blame the programmer, I for one spent 3 hours today telling an executive that the path he was choosing wouldn't work and lead to tons of headaches, as a programmer I can only give him my best advice, if he chooses to ignore it there's nothing I can do (other than keeping a paper trail).
If that was true why the **** would they choose wasd? Touch typing default position is with the index finger on the F making esdf much more "normal" (incidentally, I use esdf) - also esdf has the added bonus of more keys surrounding your hand giving you more buttons to panic with.
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I'm not sure about the entire EU, but EULA's won't cut it in Denmark, a contract requires both sides to be negotiating and there are quite a lot of rights you can't sign over.
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And just to add to my own post (give us a friggin edit slashdot!), EU is currently working on adding the same form of guarantee for software that hardware manufacturers has to supply, this means, any bug found within 6 months of purchase has to be fixed within a reasonable time (rule of thumb, 4 weeks), if not the customer has option of full refund.
This will probably mean: 1. Software is going to be a heck of a lot simpler, most stuff I've worked on where things didn't go according to plan is the scope of the project. 2. We are going to see a lot of specialized shops out there, when you build a building you will usually have a contractor with a lot of sub contractors for doing the actual construction - the same will hold for software.
I think this is a very good thing, this will require software to adhere to a common API (for the specific type of work you are doing), just like any other handyman work.
Now some specialists out there are going to claim BS, but think about it, construction was a maze until people settled on some key standards, the same will happen in our line of work, we are currently seeing the end of the wild west for computers.
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Not quite, you could do the same with a bridge, if parts of it collapse you can rebuild it.
The reason why software is so buggy is no one is being hold responsible. Software is the only product out there where catastrophic failures are accepted and people happily sit around waiting for new stuff.
If a bridge fails, some contractor is going to lose a lot of money, if someone is killed in the process they will be out of money (most likely). If software fails people just get a new update.
Where in my post do I claim you can survive by only breathing the exhaust? And we all on a daily basis "suck the exhaust of a internal combustion vehicle", be breathing air in a city so whats your point?
Just because air is cleaner (and you even agree on that) doesn't mean you can live by it, we do after all need oxygen and I have at no point claimed the air was magically converted into the right mixture of oxygen, I just said the air coming out was cleaner than the air going in, but hey, who am I to correct your so insightful rant?
Actually the Veyron is a pretty clean car, at low speeds only half the engine is turning and the emissions are as far as I remember cleaner than the air it breaths in most cities.
While your idea is fine, that only works for the 2-3 copies available. And some libraries only allows you to renew twice before you have to hand it in and wait for a period of time.
At DIKU they will often try to tell you how the newest version maps to the old one, but in the end most students end up just buying the new book rather than trying to keep up, often having to jump back and forth in the book.
1. Making that would be stupidly pricey. 2. It would go against the point of making this, you look at it the wrong way around. If everyone has a standard charger, that means no one needs a new charger with each phone, which means phones drop in price, which means higher handset turnover.
This is good news for the telecoms since they get a new chance at signing a customer.
"People expect 2.5 hours", speak for yourself. I expect at least 7-10 hours of battery time from a laptop, I usually don't need a laptop, but when I do I'm away from a usable outlet for quite some time. Having an additional battery is of course possible, but those can easily weigh in at 1 kg+, I got enough to log around as it is.
In saints row 2 I was stuck on a mission for hours, not because I didn't know how to finish it, but because the timing was just retarded. The mission forced me to use a simpler RPG than what I actually had available to me at the time to shoot down helicopters, they where on a fixed track circling a ship - so should be pretty easy to shoot them right?
Well as it happens, the amount of processing to do the scene was just slightly too high making the helicopters jitter just a bit, it was almost impossible to hit them - I would have loved to have a cheat after the first 30 minutes where I could just skip the rest of the crap.
Also the helicopters weren't even shooting back which makes the mission even more retarded since it's just one huge time sink.
BD will catch on when the price of a BD disc is competing with a DVD. I got a BD player in my PS3, but I'm hardly ever using it for watching movies simply because a BD movie here is $50, a DVD is $30.
Also DVD tend to drop in price rather quickly so I can usually pick up the movies I want for around $10 on DVD after half a year, BD however will still be around $30 after half a year.
I can see a noticeable difference between BD and DVD, the difference is just not worth $20.
No, the EC is not out of line, in fact they are acting well within their bounds.
They might not be doing stuff you appreciate, but definitely not out of line. Also what they are doing is the right thing, MS has repeatedly tried to apply US legal thoughts to what the EU said and tried to circumvent the ruling. This is just another stunt, MS has effectively tried to say "Well we weren't bundling IE with OS, we gave the OEM a choise and lo and behold they all chose IE." EC is responding with another red card.
Depending on where you are in the world shit can be quite easily acquired. For instance here in Denmark it is quite expensive to keep it around since there all sorts of rules and regulations, so the farmers in Jutland are more than happy to give shit away for free - so his analogy is one of the more insightful I've read around here in a long time.
The 500mbit pipe is 50.000 DKR a month ($1 USD = 5.6 DKR), each apartment pays 50DKR/month which includes internet, upkeep (network is controlled by volunteers) and phone (not calls, just the landline)
At home, I sit on a 100mbit switched network going to a 500mbit pipe (shared between 1200 apartments, but we can usually average 4-5 MB/s (byte, not bit), at work I sit on a 100mbit switched network going to a 1 gbit link - I fear the day I have to move and downgrade to 10 mbit, I don't need the super duper high speed around the clock, but the times when I do download some upgrade it suck having to wait hours when you are used to waiting minutes.
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Don't blame the programmer, I for one spent 3 hours today telling an executive that the path he was choosing wouldn't work and lead to tons of headaches, as a programmer I can only give him my best advice, if he chooses to ignore it there's nothing I can do (other than keeping a paper trail).
If that was true why the **** would they choose wasd? Touch typing default position is with the index finger on the F making esdf much more "normal" (incidentally, I use esdf) - also esdf has the added bonus of more keys surrounding your hand giving you more buttons to panic with.
I got to Java and was about to start the flame thrower, but then it said python and I thought.. Damn he's right.
So far they have dropped them with prejudice.
I'm not sure about the entire EU, but EULA's won't cut it in Denmark, a contract requires both sides to be negotiating and there are quite a lot of rights you can't sign over.
And just to add to my own post (give us a friggin edit slashdot!), EU is currently working on adding the same form of guarantee for software that hardware manufacturers has to supply, this means, any bug found within 6 months of purchase has to be fixed within a reasonable time (rule of thumb, 4 weeks), if not the customer has option of full refund.
This will probably mean:
1. Software is going to be a heck of a lot simpler, most stuff I've worked on where things didn't go according to plan is the scope of the project.
2. We are going to see a lot of specialized shops out there, when you build a building you will usually have a contractor with a lot of sub contractors for doing the actual construction - the same will hold for software.
I think this is a very good thing, this will require software to adhere to a common API (for the specific type of work you are doing), just like any other handyman work.
Now some specialists out there are going to claim BS, but think about it, construction was a maze until people settled on some key standards, the same will happen in our line of work, we are currently seeing the end of the wild west for computers.
Not quite, you could do the same with a bridge, if parts of it collapse you can rebuild it.
The reason why software is so buggy is no one is being hold responsible. Software is the only product out there where catastrophic failures are accepted and people happily sit around waiting for new stuff.
If a bridge fails, some contractor is going to lose a lot of money, if someone is killed in the process they will be out of money (most likely). If software fails people just get a new update.
While we can all laugh at the silly perl jokes, they should just implement it in APL and no one would be able to do anything with the code ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) )
Well you do need a flashlight when entering the Linux kernel developers lair, so in the dark they are kinda invisible.
Where in my post do I claim you can survive by only breathing the exhaust? And we all on a daily basis "suck the exhaust of a internal combustion vehicle", be breathing air in a city so whats your point?
Just because air is cleaner (and you even agree on that) doesn't mean you can live by it, we do after all need oxygen and I have at no point claimed the air was magically converted into the right mixture of oxygen, I just said the air coming out was cleaner than the air going in, but hey, who am I to correct your so insightful rant?
Actually the Veyron is a pretty clean car, at low speeds only half the engine is turning and the emissions are as far as I remember cleaner than the air it breaths in most cities.
While your idea is fine, that only works for the 2-3 copies available. And some libraries only allows you to renew twice before you have to hand it in and wait for a period of time.
At DIKU they will often try to tell you how the newest version maps to the old one, but in the end most students end up just buying the new book rather than trying to keep up, often having to jump back and forth in the book.
Odd, I never bring my laptop anywhere if I can avoid it.
I hate carrying around that thing - also I find them highly annoying at a meeting, much better with pen and paper.
Sex is a strange thing, sometimes it takes 2 minutes, at other times its over really fast.
No they wont.
1. Making that would be stupidly pricey.
2. It would go against the point of making this, you look at it the wrong way around. If everyone has a standard charger, that means no one needs a new charger with each phone, which means phones drop in price, which means higher handset turnover.
This is good news for the telecoms since they get a new chance at signing a customer.
Around here a BR is $40-50 when released. Get them to $15-$20 and I'd buy on a regular basis...
"People expect 2.5 hours", speak for yourself. I expect at least 7-10 hours of battery time from a laptop, I usually don't need a laptop, but when I do I'm away from a usable outlet for quite some time. Having an additional battery is of course possible, but those can easily weigh in at 1 kg+, I got enough to log around as it is.
In saints row 2 I was stuck on a mission for hours, not because I didn't know how to finish it, but because the timing was just retarded. The mission forced me to use a simpler RPG than what I actually had available to me at the time to shoot down helicopters, they where on a fixed track circling a ship - so should be pretty easy to shoot them right?
Well as it happens, the amount of processing to do the scene was just slightly too high making the helicopters jitter just a bit, it was almost impossible to hit them - I would have loved to have a cheat after the first 30 minutes where I could just skip the rest of the crap.
Also the helicopters weren't even shooting back which makes the mission even more retarded since it's just one huge time sink.
BD will catch on when the price of a BD disc is competing with a DVD. I got a BD player in my PS3, but I'm hardly ever using it for watching movies simply because a BD movie here is $50, a DVD is $30.
Also DVD tend to drop in price rather quickly so I can usually pick up the movies I want for around $10 on DVD after half a year, BD however will still be around $30 after half a year.
I can see a noticeable difference between BD and DVD, the difference is just not worth $20.
No, the EC is not out of line, in fact they are acting well within their bounds.
They might not be doing stuff you appreciate, but definitely not out of line. Also what they are doing is the right thing, MS has repeatedly tried to apply US legal thoughts to what the EU said and tried to circumvent the ruling. This is just another stunt, MS has effectively tried to say "Well we weren't bundling IE with OS, we gave the OEM a choise and lo and behold they all chose IE." EC is responding with another red card.
You know you would get a lot more attention if you didn't sling around some crap like "Even TPB claim its [sic] not them who are breaking any laws."
US law != Swedish law. TPB might have lost round one, but that doesn't mean it's illegal to do what they do in Sweden.
Depending on where you are in the world shit can be quite easily acquired. For instance here in Denmark it is quite expensive to keep it around since there all sorts of rules and regulations, so the farmers in Jutland are more than happy to give shit away for free - so his analogy is one of the more insightful I've read around here in a long time.
Ouch.
The 500mbit pipe is 50.000 DKR a month ($1 USD = 5.6 DKR), each apartment pays 50DKR/month which includes internet, upkeep (network is controlled by volunteers) and phone (not calls, just the landline)
At home, I sit on a 100mbit switched network going to a 500mbit pipe (shared between 1200 apartments, but we can usually average 4-5 MB/s (byte, not bit), at work I sit on a 100mbit switched network going to a 1 gbit link - I fear the day I have to move and downgrade to 10 mbit, I don't need the super duper high speed around the clock, but the times when I do download some upgrade it suck having to wait hours when you are used to waiting minutes.