That may be true, but at the same time divided projects bring about divided ways of accomplishing things. What's that stupid acronym for perl? TMTOWTDT? There's more than one way to do things.
Being in college at the moment one of the buzz-items to do is group projects within a class. Guess what. Every group produces a differnet projects and solves the problem or issue a differnet way.
I've seen diversity claimed to be a strong point of Linux. Don't like this window manager? No problem, try a differnet one.
While i'm sure cooperation could bring about added efficiency, having talented people with differnet ideas solve the same problem could reveal multiple solutions, which, in the end affect the overall success of solving the problem.
I'm guessing the idea is to combine the sound produced by the firecrackers with the sound produced by the gun, thus inscreasing the "signal to noise" ratio in hopes that the gun sound will be so muddled by the firecrackers that it won't "see" it.
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Consider, for example, if you developed a camera that looked for a specific color of green. If you had a light that produced that exact color, but carried with you lights that produced all of the other colors in the spectrum, so that the camera ended up seeing white, would the camera still pick out your exact green? I'm guessing that's the idea the original poster was refering to.
(PS. i'm making no claims to be a sound engineer here. Such expierments would invovle just that, a controled lab setup.)
Yes, Google is an extreme example, but it still illustrates an important point (which you alluded to):
You have a another good example, Photoshop. Photoshop is actually rather well orgnaized (well, version CS that is, 7.0 still feels awkward). Not every button is displayed on the interface. When a tool is selected from the tool pallette additional options appear at the top in a context sensative tool option toolbar.
Contrast that to Word. In Word you open it up and to create a new document (i know it does it by default, this is only an example). You can choose File > New or click the button on the toolbar or click "Blank Document" in the taskpane on the right. Three visual ways to do the same task, but they all end up being different. The buton on the toolbar will create a New "Blank Document" (but of course, the only way you would know that is by testing. Clicking File > New only reveales the task pan giving you the option of what kind of new File you'd like to create. Of course, the problem here is if the taskpane is already open then choosing File > New appears to do nothing. But it gets better. Once the user notices the taskpan they are then barraged by a selection of options which include a list of thier most recently acceesed documents, a list of templates, links to microsoft, and of course "Blank Document" (though most beginning Word users never choose Blank Document as thier first choice from my observations).
You see the difference I'm referring to though? A system can contain many buttons but still be layed out in a logocal work flow, presenting users with the options they expect. The same system can also be strewn about a confusing maze of dialog windows or different ways to do things with no visual distinguishing between them. (i don't know how many users i've had click the Print button on the toolbar then complain to me that it didn't let them choose the network printer they wanted to send thier document to.)
I've had a similar discussion with my previous CTO about this topic. He argued that software needed to be designed to in such a way that it did not require training. My opposing point was that software is already designed that way and has proven to not work as easy as it should (think MS Word). Instead consider a bicycle. It's a simple but efficient design that requires a minimal amount of training, yet, once the training is received, a very large amount of utility can be drawn from it. Software like Photoshop requires a minimal amount of training (as compared to Word) but yet can yield very high results within that small amount of training. (Even though it's easy to drive a car we'd never let individuals w/o training out on the road!)
Good for you. Continue to use and enjoy your GameCube.
There are a few among us however that feel the need to disassemble things and look at them and attempt to study them, then enjoy tweaking what and how they do it. Irrational? Perhaps. But then again, what is art? Is it necessary?
Not everyone's cup of tea, but some people enjoy things like this as a hobby.
Yea I spent about 20 seconds looking at the client and already knew what it was doing. Closed it. Went to FilePlanet. Waited in line for 3 hours. Downloaded the client for another 12. Didn't worry about the stupid psuedo-bt client ever again.:)
I know what you mean. Sometimes a simple but well-defined project is just worth doing, unlike the un-thought-through drivel that is often passed off as a "project" for the IT folks. When management still thinks technology is a shiny toy projects tend to over-focus on media and be poorly defined, leaving most individuals drifting about on meaningless tasks.
Additionally the nice thing is that you never flip burgers for the sake of "being up with the times" or a host of other meaningless reasons. You flip burgers because, as you said, you're feeding people. Reason needs to be restored to IT, just as competant mangagers do.
Mmm vxd. I've always had a twisted respect for virus authors who spend enough time to learn how to create a virtual device driver. None of this VBA drivel...
Not nutrition but just a few things i thought of...
- 1000MB vs 1024MB in a hard drive
- the issue with USB 1.1 devices being reported as USB 2.0
- the phrase "wireless internet" used to refer to an 802.11a/b/g card
...to name a few. In the tech world if your product isn't as good as your competitors, just change the standard for yourself and use a differnet measurement!
Those early PS2's and thier disk problems left a sour taste in my mouth though. True, the extra year did allow a host more games to be developed than any other platform (a lot of which are crap), but was it worth the cost of leaving the first year of adoptors shy of new Sony consoles? PS3? I'll wait and see what fun technical problems people have and maybe consider a 4th or 5th generation console...
I think the reason the Gamboy over took Sega as far as the handheld gaming market went was because it came bundled with Tetris. When was the last time you saw a game so accepted by such a wide range of people? Sonic while fun and exicitng, only appealed to a fraction of the age group that Tetris did. I remember being in Elementary school and having to ask for my Gameboy back from my mom (who incidentally liked the "puzzle game" on it).
I've always held that the key to any game system is the games that run on it; simple, fun, and open ended games. I think Tetris is a really good example of a hit title booming a certain market.
If there wasn't a market for a battle.net alternative, would bnetd have ever been written? Battle.net for Starcraft, if i remember correctly, had two primary problems: (1.) lag and lots of it (2.) immature jackasses. If battle.net had worked like it should have, and at least had some moderation to it, i wonder if a market for bnetd would have ever arisen.
That's not to shift away blame from those who used bnetd to run a pirated copy of the game, but bnetd did provide a service to Starcraft clubs and leagues who just wanted to play Starcraft lag free and without interruption.
From reading the article it seems as if Blizzard's main beef with bnetd was the fact that it ignored the CD checking algorithm of the login sequence (largly because that algorithm was probably proprietary). Sadly it seems as if all the code is now illegal instead of just the module used for authentication. I wonder if.NET's web services (or whatever Java or linux's equivalent are) would ever aid 3rd party developers maintain anti-piracy within thier applications. I supose you'll always have someone who wants to be "free" by leaving it out...
hahahha. That's great. I've always wondered about the stupid "My" labels on things. At one point we ventured about the office, sticking post-it notes on various items. The file cabinet wore a note reading "My Documents", monitors "My Computer", the switch hanging on the wall "My Network Places", and of cousre the trash can "Recycle Bin".
Bravo. Very insightful reply, but i believe the parent still has a good point. Not in the fact that the average-joe can develop his/her own client, but in the fact that development has less red tape that proprietary solutions.
I think we've seen in the past that developer support is a very big, if not deciding issue for the evolution of technologies. Let me throw this into a scenario. Because of the red tape and licensing required to use the "oscar" protocol, or because of the crippled "toc" companies may opt to include jabber support in next generation cellphones. As phones roll out with Jabber (and GIM) support users will be downloading and installing those clients to chat live with thier cellphone-carrying peers. Keep in mind this is an example
History has also proven that software on the user's desktop is the slowest to change, but it's also shown us that it's not impossible. Take for example Netscape and Internet Explorer.
Switching IM clients isn't impossible. Just don't expect it to happen overnight.
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That may be true, but at the same time divided projects bring about divided ways of accomplishing things. What's that stupid acronym for perl? TMTOWTDT? There's more than one way to do things.
Being in college at the moment one of the buzz-items to do is group projects within a class. Guess what. Every group produces a differnet projects and solves the problem or issue a differnet way.
I've seen diversity claimed to be a strong point of Linux. Don't like this window manager? No problem, try a differnet one.
While i'm sure cooperation could bring about added efficiency, having talented people with differnet ideas solve the same problem could reveal multiple solutions, which, in the end affect the overall success of solving the problem.
I'm guessing the idea is to combine the sound produced by the firecrackers with the sound produced by the gun, thus inscreasing the "signal to noise" ratio in hopes that the gun sound will be so muddled by the firecrackers that it won't "see" it. br>
Consider, for example, if you developed a camera that looked for a specific color of green. If you had a light that produced that exact color, but carried with you lights that produced all of the other colors in the spectrum, so that the camera ended up seeing white, would the camera still pick out your exact green? I'm guessing that's the idea the original poster was refering to.
(PS. i'm making no claims to be a sound engineer here. Such expierments would invovle just that, a controled lab setup.)
Yes, Google is an extreme example, but it still illustrates an important point (which you alluded to):
You have a another good example, Photoshop. Photoshop is actually rather well orgnaized (well, version CS that is, 7.0 still feels awkward). Not every button is displayed on the interface. When a tool is selected from the tool pallette additional options appear at the top in a context sensative tool option toolbar.
Contrast that to Word. In Word you open it up and to create a new document (i know it does it by default, this is only an example). You can choose File > New or click the button on the toolbar or click "Blank Document" in the taskpane on the right. Three visual ways to do the same task, but they all end up being different. The buton on the toolbar will create a New "Blank Document" (but of course, the only way you would know that is by testing. Clicking File > New only reveales the task pan giving you the option of what kind of new File you'd like to create. Of course, the problem here is if the taskpane is already open then choosing File > New appears to do nothing. But it gets better. Once the user notices the taskpan they are then barraged by a selection of options which include a list of thier most recently acceesed documents, a list of templates, links to microsoft, and of course "Blank Document" (though most beginning Word users never choose Blank Document as thier first choice from my observations).
You see the difference I'm referring to though? A system can contain many buttons but still be layed out in a logocal work flow, presenting users with the options they expect. The same system can also be strewn about a confusing maze of dialog windows or different ways to do things with no visual distinguishing between them. (i don't know how many users i've had click the Print button on the toolbar then complain to me that it didn't let them choose the network printer they wanted to send thier document to.)
I've had a similar discussion with my previous CTO about this topic. He argued that software needed to be designed to in such a way that it did not require training. My opposing point was that software is already designed that way and has proven to not work as easy as it should (think MS Word). Instead consider a bicycle. It's a simple but efficient design that requires a minimal amount of training, yet, once the training is received, a very large amount of utility can be drawn from it. Software like Photoshop requires a minimal amount of training (as compared to Word) but yet can yield very high results within that small amount of training. (Even though it's easy to drive a car we'd never let individuals w/o training out on the road!)
"Scanning it twice" refers to nmap i assume?
Good for you. Continue to use and enjoy your GameCube. There are a few among us however that feel the need to disassemble things and look at them and attempt to study them, then enjoy tweaking what and how they do it. Irrational? Perhaps. But then again, what is art? Is it necessary? Not everyone's cup of tea, but some people enjoy things like this as a hobby.
Or maybe use weed to out fake computer art
Yea I spent about 20 seconds looking at the client and already knew what it was doing. Closed it. Went to FilePlanet. Waited in line for 3 hours. Downloaded the client for another 12. Didn't worry about the stupid psuedo-bt client ever again. :)
The same year 2600 was first published!
Reminds me of the part in Doom3 where the scientist is like "we've been having earthquakes... erm.. marsquakes..."
Just be sure to not get mad and kick it out the window...
by longhorn do you mean the features describe by ms as "longhorn" or just another repainted version of windows?
Ignore the donut for a second and consider the defense provided by 2 state troopers versus the defense provided by a relativly big wall.
Haha so i wasn't the only one who read it that way...
Ever see the movie "Equilibrium"?
I wonder if this will ever be used for authentication. Maybe a mouse or keyboard that reads your RFID "tag"? Eh just a thought.
I know what you mean. Sometimes a simple but well-defined project is just worth doing, unlike the un-thought-through drivel that is often passed off as a "project" for the IT folks. When management still thinks technology is a shiny toy projects tend to over-focus on media and be poorly defined, leaving most individuals drifting about on meaningless tasks.
Additionally the nice thing is that you never flip burgers for the sake of "being up with the times" or a host of other meaningless reasons. You flip burgers because, as you said, you're feeding people. Reason needs to be restored to IT, just as competant mangagers do.
Mmm vxd. I've always had a twisted respect for virus authors who spend enough time to learn how to create a virtual device driver. None of this VBA drivel...
Not nutrition but just a few things i thought of...
...to name a few. In the tech world if your product isn't as good as your competitors, just change the standard for yourself and use a differnet measurement!
- 1000MB vs 1024MB in a hard drive
- the issue with USB 1.1 devices being reported as USB 2.0
- the phrase "wireless internet" used to refer to an 802.11a/b/g card
Those early PS2's and thier disk problems left a sour taste in my mouth though. True, the extra year did allow a host more games to be developed than any other platform (a lot of which are crap), but was it worth the cost of leaving the first year of adoptors shy of new Sony consoles? PS3? I'll wait and see what fun technical problems people have and maybe consider a 4th or 5th generation console...
I think the reason the Gamboy over took Sega as far as the handheld gaming market went was because it came bundled with Tetris. When was the last time you saw a game so accepted by such a wide range of people? Sonic while fun and exicitng, only appealed to a fraction of the age group that Tetris did. I remember being in Elementary school and having to ask for my Gameboy back from my mom (who incidentally liked the "puzzle game" on it).
I've always held that the key to any game system is the games that run on it; simple, fun, and open ended games. I think Tetris is a really good example of a hit title booming a certain market.
If there wasn't a market for a battle.net alternative, would bnetd have ever been written? Battle.net for Starcraft, if i remember correctly, had two primary problems: (1.) lag and lots of it (2.) immature jackasses. If battle.net had worked like it should have, and at least had some moderation to it, i wonder if a market for bnetd would have ever arisen.
.NET's web services (or whatever Java or linux's equivalent are) would ever aid 3rd party developers maintain anti-piracy within thier applications. I supose you'll always have someone who wants to be "free" by leaving it out...
That's not to shift away blame from those who used bnetd to run a pirated copy of the game, but bnetd did provide a service to Starcraft clubs and leagues who just wanted to play Starcraft lag free and without interruption.
From reading the article it seems as if Blizzard's main beef with bnetd was the fact that it ignored the CD checking algorithm of the login sequence (largly because that algorithm was probably proprietary). Sadly it seems as if all the code is now illegal instead of just the module used for authentication. I wonder if
...and make sure that if the lockers have a password, to conviniently leave a PDA with an email detailing the password nearby.
I was thinking the same thing. Not sure if i want to visit Mars now... ***whispers follow me***
hahahha. That's great. I've always wondered about the stupid "My" labels on things. At one point we ventured about the office, sticking post-it notes on various items. The file cabinet wore a note reading "My Documents", monitors "My Computer", the switch hanging on the wall "My Network Places", and of cousre the trash can "Recycle Bin".
Bravo. Very insightful reply, but i believe the parent still has a good point. Not in the fact that the average-joe can develop his/her own client, but in the fact that development has less red tape that proprietary solutions.
I think we've seen in the past that developer support is a very big, if not deciding issue for the evolution of technologies. Let me throw this into a scenario. Because of the red tape and licensing required to use the "oscar" protocol, or because of the crippled "toc" companies may opt to include jabber support in next generation cellphones. As phones roll out with Jabber (and GIM) support users will be downloading and installing those clients to chat live with thier cellphone-carrying peers. Keep in mind this is an example
History has also proven that software on the user's desktop is the slowest to change, but it's also shown us that it's not impossible. Take for example Netscape and Internet Explorer.
Switching IM clients isn't impossible. Just don't expect it to happen overnight.