I had a fun one where one of my scripts would cause a segmentationfault, after hours of debug I found that they don't check the return from malloc when you call a function, so a very deep recursive function will result in a segfault. Now I had the problem with an actual system with 1000s of lines, so I made the simplest possible:
function foo($a){
echo $a . "\n";
foo($a+1); } foo(1);
Now this is of course a stupid function since it will never terminate, but it illustrates the point of the segmentation fault, I don't mind that deep recursive functions can exhaust the memory available, but I do mind the way the system handles the problem.
The bug got rejected, and that was that. I don't do PHP anymore, so I don't really care about that any more.
does the autoupdater insist on nagging me every 15 minuttes about restarting???? It's so bloody annoying, I know you just updated some of my software, but I'm working so shut the f*** up!
Anyways, you can ask it to bugger off by going to control panel -> administrative tools -> services, find automatic updates, right click and press stop, that will stop it from nagging you about restarting.
I'm supporting about 100 users, and we hardly ever see any drives fail. Over the last year I've had 2 dead drives (both on the users personal machines), and today we had a user with a failing drive (laptop - not dead yet, but it's going to fail within one or two months). So yeah, the guy is obviously buying junk (or very unlucky).
In a game you got a controlled enviroment, you can pick out anything you need information about and calculate it's position precisely. In the real world small things like change in lighting condition or wind can seriously screw with your ability to figure out where you are, the math behind staying on course during windy conditions or cleaning up pictures is very tough and can be very hard to do on a robot.
Also you have to take into consideration what the servers you are talking to are doing. The serverpark I'm playing CS at varies greatly in ping depending on how many players are playing, across all the CS servers the physical server is hosting. (Greatly as in, I got a ping of 9-10 when there isn't that many playing, and I get up to 40-50 when the servers are filled).
I remember a few years back when we had a blackout here in Denmark. A datacenter a friend of mine was working for was somewhat proud that they managed to stay up during the blackout - only thing is, none of their peers stayed up, so they where not actually connected to anything:)
Here in Denmark they raised the speedlimit on some of our freeways, lowered it on others and put a hefty fine on speeding and the accidents wen't down.
You got that right. Yesterday I installed a PC for one of our retired profs. Since he isn't on payroll he hasn't been up for upgrade for quite some time, when I went by him he was working on a 80486sx, using dos and WordPerfect 5.1. The main reason for upgrade is that I fear his old box will quit if someone sneezes at it, but upgrading meant giving him a windows XP box. Now this is the first time he has used windows, ever! That man was scared of the new stuff he had to learn. (And I cant blame him).
Ohh and why not just put in a Dos with wp 5.1? Well do you still have the install discs lying around?
I've worked in an open plan office and currently work in an open door office - the open plan was horrible - yes someone might gain productivity by interrupting me, but when I'm on a tight deadline, I'm going to do overtime to get my work done if they interrupt me.
In the open door office I'm currently at, if the door is open, you can come in and ask, if it's closed you email. It works very well.
Not sure about newer versions, but I once recovered files from an iBook with a gentoo livecd. You have to point the mount in the right direction but from there on it was an easy ride.
I was thinking the same thing - I read an article where someone said he was hopeing the PS3 would pay for all his christmas gifts. I bet alot of people where thinking that, and I bet they are going to get burned...
So you are saying that they will overtake the DVD market since DVD looks better at 1080p and you aren't buying Blu-Ray discs... WHAT?
As you so smartly put it, a good player can convert an existing DVD to higher quality - that is to show it on a higher resolution (my computer already does that, so woupty doo if your Blu-Ray comes with something I take for granted). So why on earth would anyone swap their collection of DVD's for Blu-Ray? As I pointed out above, people will take less quality for ease of use anytime - so if they get good quality with DVD, why the hell should they pay more for a crippled product? (You won't even do that yourself as you pointed out).
Yeah, the only way to succeed is to make something that seems better than DVD's - the reason I dropped my VHS collection for DVD's was the storage space. The reason people drop CD's for mp3's isn't quality, but ease of use. Blu-ray and HD-DVD has afaik nothing that gives the user any advantage - either in terms of usage or storage. They are doomed...
Here in Denmark we got more parties to vote for, granted it's mostly a twoish side, just a matter on how far left/right you wan't it. When you vote you either vote for a party or a person, the vote for a person gets counted towards the party, it's easy and it works. Ohh and we do the paper ballot thing, get the result within 24 hours.
You know, people like you give programmers a bad rep. You just dive in for the fix without knowing the cause - and on top of that add a few bugs that are even harder to iron out if you happen to be the only person knowing that code segment.
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Amen to that.
I had a fun one where one of my scripts would cause a segmentationfault, after hours of debug I found that they don't check the return from malloc when you call a function, so a very deep recursive function will result in a segfault. Now I had the problem with an actual system with 1000s of lines, so I made the simplest possible:
function foo($a){
echo $a . "\n";
foo($a+1);
}
foo(1);
Now this is of course a stupid function since it will never terminate, but it illustrates the point of the segmentation fault, I don't mind that deep recursive functions can exhaust the memory available, but I do mind the way the system handles the problem.
The bug got rejected, and that was that. I don't do PHP anymore, so I don't really care about that any more.
does the autoupdater insist on nagging me every 15 minuttes about restarting???? It's so bloody annoying, I know you just updated some of my software, but I'm working so shut the f*** up!
Anyways, you can ask it to bugger off by going to control panel -> administrative tools -> services, find automatic updates, right click and press stop, that will stop it from nagging you about restarting.
For 500 times the speed I'd switch my 300GB for 40GB in a heartbeat.
I'm supporting about 100 users, and we hardly ever see any drives fail. Over the last year I've had 2 dead drives (both on the users personal machines), and today we had a user with a failing drive (laptop - not dead yet, but it's going to fail within one or two months). So yeah, the guy is obviously buying junk (or very unlucky).
In a game you got a controlled enviroment, you can pick out anything you need information about and calculate it's position precisely. In the real world small things like change in lighting condition or wind can seriously screw with your ability to figure out where you are, the math behind staying on course during windy conditions or cleaning up pictures is very tough and can be very hard to do on a robot.
Also you have to take into consideration what the servers you are talking to are doing. The serverpark I'm playing CS at varies greatly in ping depending on how many players are playing, across all the CS servers the physical server is hosting. (Greatly as in, I got a ping of 9-10 when there isn't that many playing, and I get up to 40-50 when the servers are filled).
Heh, for some reason this makes me think of yesterdays dilbert:
dilbert.comI remember a few years back when we had a blackout here in Denmark. A datacenter a friend of mine was working for was somewhat proud that they managed to stay up during the blackout - only thing is, none of their peers stayed up, so they where not actually connected to anything :)
Here in Denmark they raised the speedlimit on some of our freeways, lowered it on others and put a hefty fine on speeding and the accidents wen't down.
Putting the sticky stuff on paper is obvious, figureing out how to make it stick repeatedly is not obvious.
Crysis. Have you seen the eyecandy in that game?
(Crysis is based on directx 10, and last I heard there wasn't going to be any upgrades to XP - granted if I can get directx 10 Ill stay with XP)
Why does it need a horrible death?
I would never _EVER_ wish upon even my greatest of enemies to die a horrible death. Let it be swift and let the world move on.
(Yeah I'm reading The Dark Tower right now, and I'm loving every word of it)
Also do remember, you can just move the software to some part of the planet that isn't insane (yet) and let people work on it there.
You got that right. Yesterday I installed a PC for one of our retired profs. Since he isn't on payroll he hasn't been up for upgrade for quite some time, when I went by him he was working on a 80486sx, using dos and WordPerfect 5.1. The main reason for upgrade is that I fear his old box will quit if someone sneezes at it, but upgrading meant giving him a windows XP box. Now this is the first time he has used windows, ever! That man was scared of the new stuff he had to learn. (And I cant blame him).
Ohh and why not just put in a Dos with wp 5.1? Well do you still have the install discs lying around?
I've worked in an open plan office and currently work in an open door office - the open plan was horrible - yes someone might gain productivity by interrupting me, but when I'm on a tight deadline, I'm going to do overtime to get my work done if they interrupt me.
In the open door office I'm currently at, if the door is open, you can come in and ask, if it's closed you email. It works very well.
Is that you Ballmer?
Not sure about newer versions, but I once recovered files from an iBook with a gentoo livecd. You have to point the mount in the right direction but from there on it was an easy ride.
Patent was filed in 2000 - thats way before Skype came to existance.
I was thinking the same thing - I read an article where someone said he was hopeing the PS3 would pay for all his christmas gifts. I bet alot of people where thinking that, and I bet they are going to get burned...
So you are saying that they will overtake the DVD market since DVD looks better at 1080p and you aren't buying Blu-Ray discs... WHAT?
As you so smartly put it, a good player can convert an existing DVD to higher quality - that is to show it on a higher resolution (my computer already does that, so woupty doo if your Blu-Ray comes with something I take for granted). So why on earth would anyone swap their collection of DVD's for Blu-Ray? As I pointed out above, people will take less quality for ease of use anytime - so if they get good quality with DVD, why the hell should they pay more for a crippled product? (You won't even do that yourself as you pointed out).
Yeah, the only way to succeed is to make something that seems better than DVD's - the reason I dropped my VHS collection for DVD's was the storage space. The reason people drop CD's for mp3's isn't quality, but ease of use. Blu-ray and HD-DVD has afaik nothing that gives the user any advantage - either in terms of usage or storage. They are doomed...
Here in Denmark we got more parties to vote for, granted it's mostly a twoish side, just a matter on how far left/right you wan't it. When you vote you either vote for a party or a person, the vote for a person gets counted towards the party, it's easy and it works. Ohh and we do the paper ballot thing, get the result within 24 hours.
Just like this quick fix huh?
Hope you guys never program anything I drive/fly!
You know, people like you give programmers a bad rep. You just dive in for the fix without knowing the cause - and on top of that add a few bugs that are even harder to iron out if you happen to be the only person knowing that code segment.
Perhaps the goverment has put up a robot.txt file that forbids google to index it?