I think it funny that Mr. "Stop America Now" is Mr. "Pay Me Now". Not a truer American sentiment was ever spoken, and exactly why we are where we are at in every respect.
That's the point. If a company has both Architects and Developers there is an EXPLICIT role definition of decision maker and decision executor. Sure the Architect WAS a developer at one point, but isn't any longer.
If you have BOTH, then of course you only listen to the architect for design/process changes, and the developer for execution level changes.
If you have both, and listen to both equally, you simply shouldn't have both. You aren't getting your money's worth from the architect, and there is no chain of responsibility, a lot of chaos.
Although this isn't as obvious as most people will immediately think it is, it is worth a "duh".
The is basically "Cost Accounting". As the first poster pointed out, this has been done for centuries. Using computer models will make it better and/or faster, but that is the same reason we use computers for just about any computationally boring process.
What you fail to realize is that this technology is available to everyone. Even if i have a technological advantage for a short period of time, my car driver, sled driver, swimmer, runner, or whatever still have to perform with the new equipment or training techniques.
Then, when everyone else has the same technology, it falls back solely on the shoulders of the competitors. Sure technology has them going 100% faster, but everyone is going the same 100% faster. And the new breed of competitor has to be better to deal with the new tech.
And if they turn into remote control cars, then the comptetitors are still human, and still have to be good at something, have fast reflexes, etc.
The human will never just be along for the ride. A lot more, or different, things will be required from them, but they won't be just along for the ride.
Yet we learn from the very top of the article that the national press, including UPI, wrote articles about this.
They lied.
Either they lied about what was said, lied about who they were to gain access, or lied about being denied access.
For the purposes of this post, to lie does not necessarily mean to decieve. If it is all hearsay it is all worthless, and mostly false, and no ressponsible journalist would report it as fact.
I thought the write up said ESR was studying waves.
Maybe he could write a configuration script editor for the waves, and then claim he invented the waves, if no maintainer is ever found, or it ceases to be maintained.
I could have got really rude about him causing the waves, but thought better of it.
Although I take your point, I disagree almost entirely.
No one is more complacent than IE users. The fact that people are using Moz is they are more aware that there may be problems. Non-technical users might not check as often as they should, but they aren't totally complacent.
No one is worse off than the IE users who refuse to believe they did anything, downloaded anything, or hit any site that could have fowled their machine. "My kids/grandkids/wife did something. Can you fix it,"{ is my most common call for personal support.
What you are failing to see is that MMORPG's aren't just about your experience, they are about everybody's experience.
If I sepnd $200 for a level 245 Necromancer, that is probably because I can't get there myself, either because I am a dumbass, or whatever. I haven't experienced enough of the game to have attained that level (in general). I am going ot make bumbling, stupid mistakes that the original player wouldn't have. I don't care, I am having fun.
Until I start routing newbie areas out of frustration, so the the real newbies can never get any XP, because I have killed an entire zone by looking crosseyed at it.
And then there are the people that would buy this character, again, because they could never get one of their own that high, but with malicious intent. They want to exact revenge on someone they think wronged them.
They ruin the game for other people. I don't think they physically should be shot, but I think roving gangs of high level PK'ers should identify these characters, and make their life hell.
One of the other replies to this comment doesn't fully appreciate what you are saying, I think.
I have a friend that got a huge raise last year. His team was also shrunk form 5 people to 1 person. His salary jump was less than the total cost of the other 4 people, but quite significant for him.
So the question is, is the increase in the average attributed to all the layoffs, where all the worst, lower paid, positions cut? This would raise the average salary, while reducing the total salaries paid out by a company.
These two technologies combined will make instrusion detection as snazy as hacking looks in movies. The next step will be putting these types of visualizations on the cracking tools.
Once that happens, we won't be able to laugh at how stupid hackers come off in movies... Well, we will have a harder time explaining why they come off stupid.
Bill Gates asks, on behalf of the RIAA, "Is there a way that/. readers could think of to upgrade our present efforts at DRM? We'd like to be able to impliment some security that wouldn't get cracked in a matter of days. We thought/. would be the perfect place to find such help."
Now I know why I never leveled up past 20. I always hung around home, trying to return before logging out.
I had started talking about moving my home, but then I would get concerned that friends I had made wouldn't know where to find me. The online chatting became more important to me than leveling, but most people I met were all about leveling. Makes for short lived friendships. And not worth $12/mo.
The patent for the proximity card was just issued. It isn't expired. Which is why all the previous posts are addressing the story submitter's hopes for better luck with the new patent.
Yes, I bought the 2000 Platinum edition from the bargain bin just becaue it came with Streets, and Copter (never played copter).
I was very disappointed. I had grand visions of getting caught in traffic jams if I had bad traffic, seeing the grand facades of my large buildings, etc. I guess I just had too grand of visions. I know I expected entirely too much, but still I felt let down.
The street map was correct. All the buildings looked alike. There were very few models for the buildings, and the models that were there were pretty boring. The streets only had traffice pertaining to the 'Streets of SimCity" game, nothing to do with SimCity's traffic problems.
It might be cool to have a client server type setup someday. Have the game engine running, and then as Mayor, jump in a copter, and fly over it a bit closer than the management interface, or get in a car, and see if the traffic problems are as insufferable as they say. Maybe even invite other "Mayors" from outside, to tour your city.
I can always imagine a lot more than I could ever deliver as a programmer. But I guess that is where most innovation comes from.
This is an unpopular idea here, but I will voice it anyway.
If all you want is to back a winner, then get your self a Microsoft box. Why does Linux need to win?
Worry about how usable it is. Worry about whether you like it. Don't worry about how to convince the world to use it.
Personal choice, and expirimental platforms that are easy to change is what Linux has always been about to me. Gnome is playing with some new ideas, and always has. KDE just tries to make the transition to Linux easier.
If I want to work in an environment that looks almost exactly like an MS product, why don't I just work in an MS product. They have more experience making MS-like products.
Some people don't even use KDE or Gnome. some people still use mwm. This is GOOD. Choice is GOOD. More choices is always better.
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I see dreaded pictures from goatse.cx in the future. This will break the nice convenient domain name clues that Slashdot gives us, so we don't accidently do things like that.
He could accomplish exactly what he is claiming to try to do by doing what my company does.
It matches donations made by employees to acceptable non-profits and charities. This promotes the workers to donate, helps the causes, and reflects the concerns of the company (as a collection of employees).
We have several operational branches. So my branch, located in BFE, donates money to my fellow colleagues charities, most of them local. The San Antonio branch donates to the charities that the employees down there support. A lot of these donations have a little bit of publicity behind them, making the company look better in the community, but actually helping them.
This, to me, is a better way to accomplish the same thing, than donating 1% of paid time.
I don't know why this was modded as funny. When I first clicked on comments I thought I was going to see nothing but a slew of "and in other news..." posts.
"And in other news, can Wal-Mart really stay in business without offering any service. People won't stand for no service, even if they only pay a fraction of what they'd pay elsewhere"
Something like that is what I expected. Just stating the obvious isn't funny, is it? Insightful, maybe.
You missed the whole point of the parent of my post, and my post.
If you don't want to use Debian because it doesn't have certain packages, then don't. It won't hurt anyone if the entire user base leaves.
This is a perfect place to be unwaiveringly principled. Their commitment to the principles is what they are contributing for, not to be great and successful.
If no one ever downloads 7 iso images from one of their mirrors again, no one is hurt. These volunteers don't suffer any damages. They don't lose anything. Most of all they don't lose self respect by compromising their ideals.
These are volunteers developing a freely distributed OS and other software bundle.
It hurts no one in that group if people stop downloading Debian.
Who better to stick strictly to ideals?
Why should they compromise?
Buy SuSE if you want a big, commercially viable, compromise. Buy Windows for that matter. They are giving you the fruits of their labor. It isn't their job to coddle you. It is their job to not compromise their ethics.
I always struck me as a quible. But come on, go some where else if you want something else. They don't want you, you don't want them.
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Actually, you only thought she fell for your charm spell.
She enchanted you into desiring her. It was all part of her dastardly plan.
If you want to talk about ease of character creation and combat resolution, you couldn't beat Inner City. Two d* rolls, one fore HP and one for money, and you were in business.
That game was all about imagination. You could be as stupidly silly, or as in depth as you wanted. It really wasn't set up for long campaigns, but how often did you have a loose group of friends together, and wanted something a little less permanent than a 5 hour character generation party?
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I think it funny that Mr. "Stop America Now" is Mr. "Pay Me Now". Not a truer American sentiment was ever spoken, and exactly why we are where we are at in every respect.
That's the point. If a company has both Architects and Developers there is an EXPLICIT role definition of decision maker and decision executor. Sure the Architect WAS a developer at one point, but isn't any longer.
If you have BOTH, then of course you only listen to the architect for design/process changes, and the developer for execution level changes.
If you have both, and listen to both equally, you simply shouldn't have both. You aren't getting your money's worth from the architect, and there is no chain of responsibility, a lot of chaos.
GURPS has a generic space edition, and quite a bit for Traveller(tm), but I don't think anything specificlly branded "Star Wars(tm)".
Although this isn't as obvious as most people will immediately think it is, it is worth a "duh".
The is basically "Cost Accounting". As the first poster pointed out, this has been done for centuries. Using computer models will make it better and/or faster, but that is the same reason we use computers for just about any computationally boring process.
What you fail to realize is that this technology is available to everyone. Even if i have a technological advantage for a short period of time, my car driver, sled driver, swimmer, runner, or whatever still have to perform with the new equipment or training techniques.
Then, when everyone else has the same technology, it falls back solely on the shoulders of the competitors. Sure technology has them going 100% faster, but everyone is going the same 100% faster. And the new breed of competitor has to be better to deal with the new tech.
And if they turn into remote control cars, then the comptetitors are still human, and still have to be good at something, have fast reflexes, etc.
The human will never just be along for the ride. A lot more, or different, things will be required from them, but they won't be just along for the ride.
Yet we learn from the very top of the article that the national press, including UPI, wrote articles about this.
They lied.
Either they lied about what was said, lied about who they were to gain access, or lied about being denied access.
For the purposes of this post, to lie does not necessarily mean to decieve. If it is all hearsay it is all worthless, and mostly false, and no ressponsible journalist would report it as fact.
I thought the write up said ESR was studying waves.
Maybe he could write a configuration script editor for the waves, and then claim he invented the waves, if no maintainer is ever found, or it ceases to be maintained.
I could have got really rude about him causing the waves, but thought better of it.
Although I take your point, I disagree almost entirely.
No one is more complacent than IE users. The fact that people are using Moz is they are more aware that there may be problems. Non-technical users might not check as often as they should, but they aren't totally complacent.
No one is worse off than the IE users who refuse to believe they did anything, downloaded anything, or hit any site that could have fowled their machine. "My kids/grandkids/wife did something. Can you fix it,"{ is my most common call for personal support.
What you are failing to see is that MMORPG's aren't just about your experience, they are about everybody's experience.
If I sepnd $200 for a level 245 Necromancer, that is probably because I can't get there myself, either because I am a dumbass, or whatever. I haven't experienced enough of the game to have attained that level (in general). I am going ot make bumbling, stupid mistakes that the original player wouldn't have. I don't care, I am having fun.
Until I start routing newbie areas out of frustration, so the the real newbies can never get any XP, because I have killed an entire zone by looking crosseyed at it.
And then there are the people that would buy this character, again, because they could never get one of their own that high, but with malicious intent. They want to exact revenge on someone they think wronged them.
They ruin the game for other people. I don't think they physically should be shot, but I think roving gangs of high level PK'ers should identify these characters, and make their life hell.
One of the other replies to this comment doesn't fully appreciate what you are saying, I think.
I have a friend that got a huge raise last year. His team was also shrunk form 5 people to 1 person. His salary jump was less than the total cost of the other 4 people, but quite significant for him.
So the question is, is the increase in the average attributed to all the layoffs, where all the worst, lower paid, positions cut? This would raise the average salary, while reducing the total salaries paid out by a company.
Is it just me, or does everyone you know that looks at these things, complain that they are below average?
Is it because the only people that read these things aren't happy with their jobs/compensation?
Is it because the people that answer the surveys report too high, so going to be below the average?
Or, are they just useless?
You realize what this means, don't you?
These two technologies combined will make instrusion detection as snazy as hacking looks in movies. The next step will be putting these types of visualizations on the cracking tools.
Once that happens, we won't be able to laugh at how stupid hackers come off in movies... Well, we will have a harder time explaining why they come off stupid.
Bill Gates asks, on behalf of the RIAA, "Is there a way that /. readers could think of to upgrade our present efforts at DRM? We'd like to be able to impliment some security that wouldn't get cracked in a matter of days. We thought /. would be the perfect place to find such help."
Now I know why I never leveled up past 20. I always hung around home, trying to return before logging out.
I had started talking about moving my home, but then I would get concerned that friends I had made wouldn't know where to find me. The online chatting became more important to me than leveling, but most people I met were all about leveling. Makes for short lived friendships. And not worth $12/mo.
The patent for the proximity card was just issued. It isn't expired. Which is why all the previous posts are addressing the story submitter's hopes for better luck with the new patent.
Yes, I bought the 2000 Platinum edition from the bargain bin just becaue it came with Streets, and Copter (never played copter).
I was very disappointed. I had grand visions of getting caught in traffic jams if I had bad traffic, seeing the grand facades of my large buildings, etc. I guess I just had too grand of visions. I know I expected entirely too much, but still I felt let down.
The street map was correct. All the buildings looked alike. There were very few models for the buildings, and the models that were there were pretty boring. The streets only had traffice pertaining to the 'Streets of SimCity" game, nothing to do with SimCity's traffic problems.
It might be cool to have a client server type setup someday. Have the game engine running, and then as Mayor, jump in a copter, and fly over it a bit closer than the management interface, or get in a car, and see if the traffic problems are as insufferable as they say. Maybe even invite other "Mayors" from outside, to tour your city.
I can always imagine a lot more than I could ever deliver as a programmer. But I guess that is where most innovation comes from.
Isn't that the name of the space ship Andy Griffith made to go get the garbage off the moon?
This is an unpopular idea here, but I will voice it anyway.
If all you want is to back a winner, then get your self a Microsoft box. Why does Linux need to win?
Worry about how usable it is. Worry about whether you like it. Don't worry about how to convince the world to use it.
Personal choice, and expirimental platforms that are easy to change is what Linux has always been about to me. Gnome is playing with some new ideas, and always has. KDE just tries to make the transition to Linux easier.
If I want to work in an environment that looks almost exactly like an MS product, why don't I just work in an MS product. They have more experience making MS-like products.
Some people don't even use KDE or Gnome. some people still use mwm. This is GOOD. Choice is GOOD. More choices is always better.
I see dreaded pictures from goatse.cx in the future. This will break the nice convenient domain name clues that Slashdot gives us, so we don't accidently do things like that.
He could accomplish exactly what he is claiming to try to do by doing what my company does.
It matches donations made by employees to acceptable non-profits and charities. This promotes the workers to donate, helps the causes, and reflects the concerns of the company (as a collection of employees).
We have several operational branches. So my branch, located in BFE, donates money to my fellow colleagues charities, most of them local. The San Antonio branch donates to the charities that the employees down there support. A lot of these donations have a little bit of publicity behind them, making the company look better in the community, but actually helping them.
This, to me, is a better way to accomplish the same thing, than donating 1% of paid time.
I don't know why this was modded as funny. When I first clicked on comments I thought I was going to see nothing but a slew of "and in other news..." posts.
"And in other news, can Wal-Mart really stay in business without offering any service. People won't stand for no service, even if they only pay a fraction of what they'd pay elsewhere"
Something like that is what I expected. Just stating the obvious isn't funny, is it? Insightful, maybe.
You missed the whole point of the parent of my post, and my post.
If you don't want to use Debian because it doesn't have certain packages, then don't. It won't hurt anyone if the entire user base leaves.
This is a perfect place to be unwaiveringly principled. Their commitment to the principles is what they are contributing for, not to be great and successful.
If no one ever downloads 7 iso images from one of their mirrors again, no one is hurt. These volunteers don't suffer any damages. They don't lose anything. Most of all they don't lose self respect by compromising their ideals.
These are volunteers developing a freely distributed OS and other software bundle.
It hurts no one in that group if people stop downloading Debian.
Who better to stick strictly to ideals?
Why should they compromise?
Buy SuSE if you want a big, commercially viable, compromise. Buy Windows for that matter. They are giving you the fruits of their labor. It isn't their job to coddle you. It is their job to not compromise their ethics.
I always struck me as a quible. But come on, go some where else if you want something else. They don't want you, you don't want them.
Actually, you only thought she fell for your charm spell.
She enchanted you into desiring her. It was all part of her dastardly plan.
If you want to talk about ease of character creation and combat resolution, you couldn't beat Inner City. Two d* rolls, one fore HP and one for money, and you were in business.
That game was all about imagination. You could be as stupidly silly, or as in depth as you wanted. It really wasn't set up for long campaigns, but how often did you have a loose group of friends together, and wanted something a little less permanent than a 5 hour character generation party?