Maybe the iPod a large market share compared to any other single player, but I see a lot more people with portable CD players (discman) than with iPods. They aren't all specifically 1 brand or model, but they are a lot more prominent.
I've recently discovered password safe. You just have to remember 1 password, you have access to all your passwords. You can run it off a USB drive, so you can take your passwords with you anywhere. I used to use the same password for many sites, but now I have Password Safe generate a new password for each site.
If they want to base a game around user generated content, they need to make it easy for users to generate content. I designed a bunch of levels for Descent. Designing a simple level was very easy. You could even do very complex things very easily because of the way the editor worked. Everything was cubes (stretched and skewed as necessary, basically 6 sided shapes) but changing the dimensions, shape, and connection a bunch of cubes, you could make just about any level. I tried designing levels in Descent 3, but it wasn't easy. I don't think I ever got past building two adjoining rooms. Keep it simple, yet flexible, and people will generate lots of content.
About job descriptions. This is necessary because even if somebody is already doing the job, they still have to go through the same hiring process, at least thats the way it works in government and many other organizations. I knew a guy who was a contract for a couple years, and they decided to turn his position into a full time job. They had to hold interviews and everything. Even though they were perfectly happy with his work, and he would require no training or time to learn about how things worked, they still had to conduct interviews. Like you said, they made the job description such that he was guaranteed to get the job, but they still had problems hiring him. Other people from the same working group applied for the job, and then appealed the decision once they decided to hire him. I don't see how you could make a case against hiring the guy. If you hire him, you are 100% certain that you will be satisfied. If you hire someone else, no matter how good they are, there's always a chance that it won't work out, for whatever reason.
Please no cardboard tube ninjas. Am I the only one who hates those comics. I love Penny Arcade, but I'm always disappointed when they get into one of those cardboard ninja routines, and there's no good comics for 3 or 4 days.
I made the mistake twice of buying an integrated TV tuner. First it was an ATI TV card that only worked with other ATI Video cards, and then it was the Voodoo 3500. I now have a hauppauge 150, and I am happy to know that I won't have to buy another TV card for a long time to come. It's also nice to know that if I replace my video card, that I don't have to replace my TV Card.
Really I don't understand it either. Unless there's things like the Quake.exe hack all over their drive code, to make the cards seem better than they are, I don't see why source code has so much to do with it. They are in the business of selling hardware. They should ensure that their hardware works as well as possible, on as many platforms as possible. If that means open sourcing drivers, then I don't see the problem. I'm sure that they could even get a performance boost if they let millions of hackers with tons of free time optimize things for them.
First, how do you expect people to buy and make their own flash drive. Some people don't even have their own computers. Secondly, How do you ensure that the computer is actually booting from your flash drive, and running the code as you have verified it. Thirdly, How do you ensure that nobody else's flash drive has a program which allows them to add extra votes, or delete votes, from the system.
What about if someone sends radio waves from the next room to create interference and flip bits in your machine. I'm not sure if you could do anything predictable, but I'm pretty sure you could change the data from what it was supposed to be.
How much source code could there possibly be to count votes? Seriously. It's not like they'd be giving away any trade secrets. votes[candidateIndex] += 1. Yeah, better not let that leak.
I've always wondered why they voted for so many different positions in the United states. What is the point of voting for somebody if you can't delegate some of the decision making to them? Should I really have to vote for the school board? Shouldn't that be handled by someone else. I don't think that anybody has the time to familiarize themselves with hundreds of candidates to make the choices they make actually meaningful. Or do people just scan down the list of ballots, and choose democrat/republican all the way down? Because if that's the case, you might as well be voting once.
In Canada we use hand counted pen and paper ballots and the results make the 11 o'clock news. I don't see why the US can't do the same. It's not like vote counting is a serial process. It can be parallelized extremely well.
The problem is with billboards, and other advertisements like that, is that they're very expensive, and you can't really tell how well the ad did. Sure you can do things like analyze sales before and after the ad went up, but that doesn't really show that people are actually paying attention to the ad. Correlation vs. Causation. Anyway, I think that they want to know how many people are actually looking at these ads so that businesses can better justify the money they are spending on the advertising. If you've ever worked for anyone doing the advertising, you'd know that the numbers are the most important thing. If you can't put numbers as to how much money your ads are generating, then it's hard to justify to the higher ups why you are spending so much money.
At least it gives an option to those of us who have to carry around the other pieces information. It gives us something that can stay secret. Not like the Social Security Number, Date Of Birth, address, and all the other easily obtainable information. At least this is something that people who are interested in the security of their credit information can keep secret.
Not that you couldn't use credit, but that you couldn't open new credit accounts. I already have a credit card. I don't need another. If I want to buy a computer, or a TV, or a personal applicance, than I'll put it on the credit card I already have. If they don't accept my credit card, then they don't want my business. If my limit is maxed out on that credit card, I need to start paying that off before I buy new things, or have them raise my limit. I can count the number of times i've needed to open a new credit account on one hand. I think this is a very good solution. Also, the fact that you only use this secret number to unfreeze your account means that you can control access to the number. It's not like all the other information like SSN and DOB that are currently the only barriers or entry into your credit.
Even if your work environment required that you work upside down? I don't even think the effects would be something that most people would notice. More of a subconscious effect.
I hate the term "IT". It has lost all meaning. I've heard the work IT used from everything including factory workers where the product is somewhat computer related, to sys admins, to programmers, to project managers. Absolutely anything that relates to computers in any way is categorized as IT.
And I said if you installed from the wrong CD, then reinstall from the right CD. There shouldn't be much data to transfer if all you use it for is testing websites.
First, I think it's only specific versions of vista. Seconds, I think that it is only a restriction from installing the same license as both the host and virtualized OS. If you use Linux as the host OS, you should be able to use any version of Vista as the virtualized OS. The more expensive versions of vista allow you to run the same license for both the host and some number (4) of virtual computers. At least that's my understanding.
Why not just buy a copy of windows XP? If you're a web developer and you think it's important to test in IE, then you should pay for the required licenses to run it. It's not that expensive for XP Home. If you have a license, you should have no problem activating it. If you accidentally used the wrong cd, then install it again. All you're using the computer for is testing websites, so there shouldn't be that much data to transfer between the installations.
If you need more, then you should probably pay for a service that isn't for residential users. If the total bandwidth is Z, and they can give you X download, and Y upload, where X+Y = Z. Most people do not use equal upload and download, so they make X > Y, which means that you can't upload as fast, but that you get faster download speeds. Currently, I have 1 Mbit Down, and 128 Up. Which is about 8:1 ratio of download to upload. Other packages available are 5Mbit:384Kbit = 13.3:1, and 6MBit:800KBit. = 7.68:1. These ratios aren't too bad, and are probably pretty good for most home users. I'd certainly rather have 1M down and 128K up, then 576k down and 576k up. I don't even think you'd be able to get 6 MBit connections if they had to offer the same speed in both directions.
And maybe I'm not understanding, but I only have 1 cable line running into my house. So how does this help me? Does this require them to lay more lines? Because if it does, they may as well lay fibre-optics, which has much more potential for higher speeds.
You can still take down the questionable content without being responsible for it. It's like removing graffiti from a building meaning you are reponsible for the graffiti. If I own a photo hosting site, and I don't like the pictures that are being put up, I should be able to remove them, without feeling that I will get arrested if If some of the photos don't get removed.
Personally, the best and easiest to use site that I've ever found is Dropshots. Extremely easy to upload pictures. Just drag-and-drop them from your explorer window into the system tray applet, and it's done. Great for when you have lot upload lots of pictures. Just as a disclaimer I don't work for them, and am not affiliated with them in any way. I'm just a happy user.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe the iPod a large market share compared to any other single player, but I see a lot more people with portable CD players (discman) than with iPods. They aren't all specifically 1 brand or model, but they are a lot more prominent.
I've recently discovered password safe. You just have to remember 1 password, you have access to all your passwords. You can run it off a USB drive, so you can take your passwords with you anywhere. I used to use the same password for many sites, but now I have Password Safe generate a new password for each site.
If they want to base a game around user generated content, they need to make it easy for users to generate content. I designed a bunch of levels for Descent. Designing a simple level was very easy. You could even do very complex things very easily because of the way the editor worked. Everything was cubes (stretched and skewed as necessary, basically 6 sided shapes) but changing the dimensions, shape, and connection a bunch of cubes, you could make just about any level. I tried designing levels in Descent 3, but it wasn't easy. I don't think I ever got past building two adjoining rooms. Keep it simple, yet flexible, and people will generate lots of content.
About job descriptions. This is necessary because even if somebody is already doing the job, they still have to go through the same hiring process, at least thats the way it works in government and many other organizations. I knew a guy who was a contract for a couple years, and they decided to turn his position into a full time job. They had to hold interviews and everything. Even though they were perfectly happy with his work, and he would require no training or time to learn about how things worked, they still had to conduct interviews. Like you said, they made the job description such that he was guaranteed to get the job, but they still had problems hiring him. Other people from the same working group applied for the job, and then appealed the decision once they decided to hire him. I don't see how you could make a case against hiring the guy. If you hire him, you are 100% certain that you will be satisfied. If you hire someone else, no matter how good they are, there's always a chance that it won't work out, for whatever reason.
Please no cardboard tube ninjas. Am I the only one who hates those comics. I love Penny Arcade, but I'm always disappointed when they get into one of those cardboard ninja routines, and there's no good comics for 3 or 4 days.
Does Ghostbusters even have guitar in it? I seem to recall all the music being from a synthesizer. Although I may not be thinking of the same song.
I made the mistake twice of buying an integrated TV tuner. First it was an ATI TV card that only worked with other ATI Video cards, and then it was the Voodoo 3500. I now have a hauppauge 150, and I am happy to know that I won't have to buy another TV card for a long time to come. It's also nice to know that if I replace my video card, that I don't have to replace my TV Card.
Really I don't understand it either. Unless there's things like the Quake.exe hack all over their drive code, to make the cards seem better than they are, I don't see why source code has so much to do with it. They are in the business of selling hardware. They should ensure that their hardware works as well as possible, on as many platforms as possible. If that means open sourcing drivers, then I don't see the problem. I'm sure that they could even get a performance boost if they let millions of hackers with tons of free time optimize things for them.
First, how do you expect people to buy and make their own flash drive. Some people don't even have their own computers. Secondly, How do you ensure that the computer is actually booting from your flash drive, and running the code as you have verified it. Thirdly, How do you ensure that nobody else's flash drive has a program which allows them to add extra votes, or delete votes, from the system.
What about if someone sends radio waves from the next room to create interference and flip bits in your machine. I'm not sure if you could do anything predictable, but I'm pretty sure you could change the data from what it was supposed to be.
How much source code could there possibly be to count votes? Seriously. It's not like they'd be giving away any trade secrets. votes[candidateIndex] += 1. Yeah, better not let that leak.
I've always wondered why they voted for so many different positions in the United states. What is the point of voting for somebody if you can't delegate some of the decision making to them? Should I really have to vote for the school board? Shouldn't that be handled by someone else. I don't think that anybody has the time to familiarize themselves with hundreds of candidates to make the choices they make actually meaningful. Or do people just scan down the list of ballots, and choose democrat/republican all the way down? Because if that's the case, you might as well be voting once.
In Canada we use hand counted pen and paper ballots and the results make the 11 o'clock news. I don't see why the US can't do the same. It's not like vote counting is a serial process. It can be parallelized extremely well.
The problem is with billboards, and other advertisements like that, is that they're very expensive, and you can't really tell how well the ad did. Sure you can do things like analyze sales before and after the ad went up, but that doesn't really show that people are actually paying attention to the ad. Correlation vs. Causation. Anyway, I think that they want to know how many people are actually looking at these ads so that businesses can better justify the money they are spending on the advertising. If you've ever worked for anyone doing the advertising, you'd know that the numbers are the most important thing. If you can't put numbers as to how much money your ads are generating, then it's hard to justify to the higher ups why you are spending so much money.
At least it gives an option to those of us who have to carry around the other pieces information. It gives us something that can stay secret. Not like the Social Security Number, Date Of Birth, address, and all the other easily obtainable information. At least this is something that people who are interested in the security of their credit information can keep secret.
Not that you couldn't use credit, but that you couldn't open new credit accounts. I already have a credit card. I don't need another. If I want to buy a computer, or a TV, or a personal applicance, than I'll put it on the credit card I already have. If they don't accept my credit card, then they don't want my business. If my limit is maxed out on that credit card, I need to start paying that off before I buy new things, or have them raise my limit. I can count the number of times i've needed to open a new credit account on one hand. I think this is a very good solution. Also, the fact that you only use this secret number to unfreeze your account means that you can control access to the number. It's not like all the other information like SSN and DOB that are currently the only barriers or entry into your credit.
Even if your work environment required that you work upside down? I don't even think the effects would be something that most people would notice. More of a subconscious effect.
I hate the term "IT". It has lost all meaning. I've heard the work IT used from everything including factory workers where the product is somewhat computer related, to sys admins, to programmers, to project managers. Absolutely anything that relates to computers in any way is categorized as IT.
And I said if you installed from the wrong CD, then reinstall from the right CD. There shouldn't be much data to transfer if all you use it for is testing websites.
First, I think it's only specific versions of vista. Seconds, I think that it is only a restriction from installing the same license as both the host and virtualized OS. If you use Linux as the host OS, you should be able to use any version of Vista as the virtualized OS. The more expensive versions of vista allow you to run the same license for both the host and some number (4) of virtual computers. At least that's my understanding.
Why not just buy a copy of windows XP? If you're a web developer and you think it's important to test in IE, then you should pay for the required licenses to run it. It's not that expensive for XP Home. If you have a license, you should have no problem activating it. If you accidentally used the wrong cd, then install it again. All you're using the computer for is testing websites, so there shouldn't be that much data to transfer between the installations.
If you need more, then you should probably pay for a service that isn't for residential users. If the total bandwidth is Z, and they can give you X download, and Y upload, where X+Y = Z. Most people do not use equal upload and download, so they make X > Y, which means that you can't upload as fast, but that you get faster download speeds. Currently, I have 1 Mbit Down, and 128 Up. Which is about 8:1 ratio of download to upload. Other packages available are 5Mbit:384Kbit = 13.3:1, and 6MBit:800KBit. = 7.68:1. These ratios aren't too bad, and are probably pretty good for most home users. I'd certainly rather have 1M down and 128K up, then 576k down and 576k up. I don't even think you'd be able to get 6 MBit connections if they had to offer the same speed in both directions.
And maybe I'm not understanding, but I only have 1 cable line running into my house. So how does this help me? Does this require them to lay more lines? Because if it does, they may as well lay fibre-optics, which has much more potential for higher speeds.
You can still take down the questionable content without being responsible for it. It's like removing graffiti from a building meaning you are reponsible for the graffiti. If I own a photo hosting site, and I don't like the pictures that are being put up, I should be able to remove them, without feeling that I will get arrested if If some of the photos don't get removed.
Personally, the best and easiest to use site that I've ever found is Dropshots. Extremely easy to upload pictures. Just drag-and-drop them from your explorer window into the system tray applet, and it's done. Great for when you have lot upload lots of pictures. Just as a disclaimer I don't work for them, and am not affiliated with them in any way. I'm just a happy user.