I can fully accept that the police can't come running to everything somebody would like to call in, but I can't help thinking that "people have been attacked in the street, and the people who did it are still in exactly the same spot" should make them think that turning up quietly, and picking them up would be a good idea so they can't do the same thing later.
Feel free to tell me I'm over reacting, but I'd like to think mobs of teenagers attacking people in the street should be a fairly high priority.
I've had the same sort of response from the Police. Whilst walking home from the pub with friends we walked past a bunch of kids drinking on the corner, who decided they wanted some cigarettes, and deserved ours for some reason.
When we decided we'd rather not hand them over to a mouthy little shit, they started attacking us - nothing major, but only because one of the girls with them decided it would be a good idea to stop the one causing the trouble before we stopped walking away and turned around.
At the top of the road we stopped, and called the police, letting them know what had happened and that the kids were still stood on the same corner. We were told to stay where we were, and someone would be sent out... half an hour later we called again, and were told that there had been something else on the other side of the city which was more important (do they really only have one police car in the city?). Go home, we'll call you tomorrow to take a statement.
And people wonder why nobody bothers to report crimes anymore. Unless you're bleeding to death in the gutter, they just don't give a shit anymore.
It was dominated by the X series of games, most recently X3: The Threat - if you're looking for something like Elite, then X3 is the game you should go out and buy. Or don't go out, you can get it on Steam as well.
The UI is possibly one of the worst I've seen in a long time, but if you can get over that (and you will eventually) it'll suck away your life.
Of course the Gentoo users are off recompiling there whole system for the extra performance. It's what they do - why use your computer when you can make it.242% faster with only 15 hours of compiling?
You're right in saying that waiting staff over here are paid by the hour, but generally they still rely on tips to make a decent wage - most of them are working minimum wage, at least in the UK.
However, we also have the good sense not to pay a tip if the service was crap - although we do offset that by paying a good tip if the service was excellent. I never managed to understand the theory that people somehow "deserve" a tip just for doing their job.
Starbucks coffee is indeed consistant. It's consistantly a huge jug of muddy piss, which contains next to no actual coffee.
Really, what is it with the Americans and their "quantity is better then quality" attitude to anything you can consume?
Re:ethics require education
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Maybe you should think about using a slightly more intelligent method of assigning passwords - a randomly generated one maybe.
Or you could just tick the box that forces them to change their password on first login. Remember - your users will always take the easiest possible route you give them.
It was his fault because whenever he bought some stocks, he was meant to buy the opposite as well. So if he bought 500 MSFT shares, he should also have bought 500 APPL shares to balance them, on the grounds that if one of them goes down, the other will probably go up. He instead went and bought 1000 MSFT shares, and promptly lost all the money.
Yes, he should have been properly supervised and never allowed to do so in the first place, but in the end it was his responsibility to do his job, not somebody elses.
I'd really like to see *all* people who are currently on trial given anonymity, because trial by public opinion is becoming far to common place.
Even if you've been cleared at trial, there's still too much potential to be "that guy that was in the news as a serial killer", and probably won't get a job again because whoever interviews you will probably remember what a monster you were made out to be by the press.
You make a very good point about development models, and think that the commercial world is starting to catch up with F/OSS now.
Agile Development is by and large just taking the open source development model, and applying it to commercial projects. Iterations are much the same thing as the age old mantra of "Release early, release often", and everything else about Agile seems to come from the principle that your code should always be in a releasable state.
Whether Agile will really take of depends on the willingness of managers to let go of some their control, and letting developers do the development, but I think we're in for some interesting years.
Unless you did all the cables at once, we'd barely notice.
Now if you were to take out Telehouse, that would probably cause a few heads to turn, since most of the UK's Internet traffic goes through there at some point or another.
so i got to thinking.. if i got a t-shirt that said "i kill babies for fun" and didn't bath (basicly making NO one want to employ me).. i could sit at home most of the time and get 50% of what i make..
I'm in the UK, and our unemployment works much the same (except you get a flat rate per week, instead of x% of pay). You also have to prove you've been looking for work and interviewing, and the agency that runs it will contact the people you have interviewed with to check you really did - and that also includes checking you didn't turn up stinking to high heaven, and tell the employer you didn't really want to work there.
Finally - someone else who seems to be seeing some sense.
I read through some of the document describing differences between HTML 4 & 5, and my jaw nearly hit the floor. This spec means that at some point in the future I can stop pissing about with Javascript to create basic UI elements, and actually write applications instead.
I'm also looking forward to the video tag, which apparently will recommend ogg/theora as the default format. More open formats on the web sounds like an excellent idea, especially if it can break the stranglehold Flash seems to have on providing (poor quality) video across the web.
SMS is a wonderful invention over here in Europe, where we're not stupid enough to let the providers charge us for receiving.
In the states I'd want it turned off as well - the thought of paying because *somebody else* wanted to get in touch with me makes me shudder... what happens if some nut job gets your number and you didn't even want the messages. Can I then call up my provider and ask for a refund?
I know you're joking, but its time to fight the "geeks can't get laid" stereotype.
I don't know if I'm just not in the truly geeky end of the spectrum, but certainly in the area of "professional geeks" (developers, sysadmins, network admins etc.) I know very few who are single, and most of the ones who are don't have much trouble finding women, they just can't really be bothered with the dating game.
There was once a time when geeks were kinda freaky people you'd steer clear of, but that seems to have changed as more people get computers and an Internet connection, and start to find out that we were right about it being useful all along. Sure, it's still almost impossible to explain the job of a software developer to the average computer user, but then I can't comprehend what a professional accountant must do all day.
I'm not sure if you're joking there - if you are, well done, you got me.
Otherwise, do you your customers know about this, if not I imagine you could be sued for penetrating their network without permission. How hard is it to provide the option to open a tunnel for you, if the customer asks you to, and until they ask you to stop. I'd be furious if I found out the developers of some random application are connecting my network to some random server on the Internet, which may or may not be secured.
#0000000 is an invalid hex code for a color to start with. I think what you were aiming for was #00000000 (that's eight zeroes for those who are counting), which is black, with a 0 alpha component (fully transparent). Which means that it absorbs no light at all, and is therefore equally dark as #ffffff00, which also absorbs no light.
They're going on about the education market, because that's where this sort of technology is already in use - several of my relatives are teachers, and even primary schools are using interactive whiteboards now, and apart from the times when the laptop running it gets broken by one of the kids, they love the things, because they can do things like preparing their notes before a lesson, and just loading them at the appropriate time.
That means they can spend more time teaching their students, instead of writing the same set of example questions on the board every time they do a lesson. It also means they can use their whiteboard for projecting DVDs (something they used to book a seperate TV for), running Powerpoint presentations, or even letting the kids play games as a reward - and trust me, bejewelled takes on a new dimension when being played on a 6 foot touch screen:P
Your point is entirely valid, it's always possible for bad teachers to cause distraction with superfluous animations and the like, but that's why teacher training courses include modules on how to effectively use Powerpoint and friends in a lesson, without sending everyone to sleep. And anyway, the average 6 year old child actually enjoys clipart bouncing around the place now and again.
I'm actually really looking forward to seeing what the current generation of primary school kids manage to do with computers when they grow up, because from what I've been told most of them are completely comfortable with computers already, having spent their entire lives being exposed to them.
I havn't heard of most of them, but World in Conflict had the best plot I've ever seen in an RTS, and possibly one of the best I've seen in a game at all. It's certainly one of the few RTS games I've played where I actually cared about the characters, and felt that I was fighting for a reason beyond "because I am".
Or you could just Jailbreak your 1.1.2 touch, and install the same suite of apps from an iPhone firmware image... it takes a little bit more work, but it does result in the nicest PDA I've ever used. And yes, Apple are being unbelievably cheap about things on that front - it's like the charge for upgrading your wireless firmware for n support.
Re:Developers, developers, developers, developers?
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Take a look at the Visual Studio Express range - it's not full featured, but they are given away for free. These days the only people paying for Visual Studio are people who want the Pro features, and software shops, who can usually afford to pay for the software that drives their business anyway.
That's almost identical to how Rails works - so I assume you're just saying that there's no need to panic, and I'm inclined to agree.
Sure, it takes a bit more work to set up a Mongrel cluster and proxy back to it, but once your done you have a more reliable infrastructure to work with. For example if your application goes down, it's not likely to take everything else on the same server with it, because you're not running within the proxying server.
You still need someone who knows how to optimally configure your compute nodes and resilient architectures though, because as a developer my learning time goes into new development techniques, rather then setting up redundant MySQL clusters.
For a small scale application you're right. I'm competant enough to set up a web server that will host an application so long as it doesn't end up under heavy load, at which point I'll hand the server admin off to somebody who knows how to keep a heavily loaded web server running, and hopefully has the good sense to tell me when I need a new box to handle some of the load.
Which particular "Decent Standard" would that be? SVG isn't really ready to take on Flash, and Flash itself is more or less undocumented outside Adobe, so the only application that will edit Flash reliably is... Flash.
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I can fully accept that the police can't come running to everything somebody would like to call in, but I can't help thinking that "people have been attacked in the street, and the people who did it are still in exactly the same spot" should make them think that turning up quietly, and picking them up would be a good idea so they can't do the same thing later.
Feel free to tell me I'm over reacting, but I'd like to think mobs of teenagers attacking people in the street should be a fairly high priority.
I've had the same sort of response from the Police. Whilst walking home from the pub with friends we walked past a bunch of kids drinking on the corner, who decided they wanted some cigarettes, and deserved ours for some reason.
When we decided we'd rather not hand them over to a mouthy little shit, they started attacking us - nothing major, but only because one of the girls with them decided it would be a good idea to stop the one causing the trouble before we stopped walking away and turned around.
At the top of the road we stopped, and called the police, letting them know what had happened and that the kids were still stood on the same corner. We were told to stay where we were, and someone would be sent out... half an hour later we called again, and were told that there had been something else on the other side of the city which was more important (do they really only have one police car in the city?). Go home, we'll call you tomorrow to take a statement.
And people wonder why nobody bothers to report crimes anymore. Unless you're bleeding to death in the gutter, they just don't give a shit anymore.
It was dominated by the X series of games, most recently X3: The Threat - if you're looking for something like Elite, then X3 is the game you should go out and buy. Or don't go out, you can get it on Steam as well.
The UI is possibly one of the worst I've seen in a long time, but if you can get over that (and you will eventually) it'll suck away your life.
Of course the Gentoo users are off recompiling there whole system for the extra performance. It's what they do - why use your computer when you can make it .242% faster with only 15 hours of compiling?
You're right in saying that waiting staff over here are paid by the hour, but generally they still rely on tips to make a decent wage - most of them are working minimum wage, at least in the UK.
However, we also have the good sense not to pay a tip if the service was crap - although we do offset that by paying a good tip if the service was excellent. I never managed to understand the theory that people somehow "deserve" a tip just for doing their job.
Starbucks coffee is indeed consistant. It's consistantly a huge jug of muddy piss, which contains next to no actual coffee.
Really, what is it with the Americans and their "quantity is better then quality" attitude to anything you can consume?
Maybe you should think about using a slightly more intelligent method of assigning passwords - a randomly generated one maybe.
Or you could just tick the box that forces them to change their password on first login. Remember - your users will always take the easiest possible route you give them.
And which lucky bastard got to syphon off the rounding errors?
It was his fault because whenever he bought some stocks, he was meant to buy the opposite as well. So if he bought 500 MSFT shares, he should also have bought 500 APPL shares to balance them, on the grounds that if one of them goes down, the other will probably go up. He instead went and bought 1000 MSFT shares, and promptly lost all the money.
Yes, he should have been properly supervised and never allowed to do so in the first place, but in the end it was his responsibility to do his job, not somebody elses.
I'd really like to see *all* people who are currently on trial given anonymity, because trial by public opinion is becoming far to common place.
Even if you've been cleared at trial, there's still too much potential to be "that guy that was in the news as a serial killer", and probably won't get a job again because whoever interviews you will probably remember what a monster you were made out to be by the press.
You make a very good point about development models, and think that the commercial world is starting to catch up with F/OSS now.
Agile Development is by and large just taking the open source development model, and applying it to commercial projects. Iterations are much the same thing as the age old mantra of "Release early, release often", and everything else about Agile seems to come from the principle that your code should always be in a releasable state.
Whether Agile will really take of depends on the willingness of managers to let go of some their control, and letting developers do the development, but I think we're in for some interesting years.
Unless you did all the cables at once, we'd barely notice.
Now if you were to take out Telehouse, that would probably cause a few heads to turn, since most of the UK's Internet traffic goes through there at some point or another.
I'm in the UK, and our unemployment works much the same (except you get a flat rate per week, instead of x% of pay). You also have to prove you've been looking for work and interviewing, and the agency that runs it will contact the people you have interviewed with to check you really did - and that also includes checking you didn't turn up stinking to high heaven, and tell the employer you didn't really want to work there.
Finally - someone else who seems to be seeing some sense.
I read through some of the document describing differences between HTML 4 & 5, and my jaw nearly hit the floor. This spec means that at some point in the future I can stop pissing about with Javascript to create basic UI elements, and actually write applications instead.
I'm also looking forward to the video tag, which apparently will recommend ogg/theora as the default format. More open formats on the web sounds like an excellent idea, especially if it can break the stranglehold Flash seems to have on providing (poor quality) video across the web.
SMS is a wonderful invention over here in Europe, where we're not stupid enough to let the providers charge us for receiving.
In the states I'd want it turned off as well - the thought of paying because *somebody else* wanted to get in touch with me makes me shudder... what happens if some nut job gets your number and you didn't even want the messages. Can I then call up my provider and ask for a refund?
I know you're joking, but its time to fight the "geeks can't get laid" stereotype.
I don't know if I'm just not in the truly geeky end of the spectrum, but certainly in the area of "professional geeks" (developers, sysadmins, network admins etc.) I know very few who are single, and most of the ones who are don't have much trouble finding women, they just can't really be bothered with the dating game.
There was once a time when geeks were kinda freaky people you'd steer clear of, but that seems to have changed as more people get computers and an Internet connection, and start to find out that we were right about it being useful all along. Sure, it's still almost impossible to explain the job of a software developer to the average computer user, but then I can't comprehend what a professional accountant must do all day.
I'm not sure if you're joking there - if you are, well done, you got me.
Otherwise, do you your customers know about this, if not I imagine you could be sued for penetrating their network without permission. How hard is it to provide the option to open a tunnel for you, if the customer asks you to, and until they ask you to stop. I'd be furious if I found out the developers of some random application are connecting my network to some random server on the Internet, which may or may not be secured.
You lose the thread I'm afraid.
#0000000 is an invalid hex code for a color to start with. I think what you were aiming for was #00000000 (that's eight zeroes for those who are counting), which is black, with a 0 alpha component (fully transparent). Which means that it absorbs no light at all, and is therefore equally dark as #ffffff00, which also absorbs no light.
They're going on about the education market, because that's where this sort of technology is already in use - several of my relatives are teachers, and even primary schools are using interactive whiteboards now, and apart from the times when the laptop running it gets broken by one of the kids, they love the things, because they can do things like preparing their notes before a lesson, and just loading them at the appropriate time.
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That means they can spend more time teaching their students, instead of writing the same set of example questions on the board every time they do a lesson. It also means they can use their whiteboard for projecting DVDs (something they used to book a seperate TV for), running Powerpoint presentations, or even letting the kids play games as a reward - and trust me, bejewelled takes on a new dimension when being played on a 6 foot touch screen
Your point is entirely valid, it's always possible for bad teachers to cause distraction with superfluous animations and the like, but that's why teacher training courses include modules on how to effectively use Powerpoint and friends in a lesson, without sending everyone to sleep. And anyway, the average 6 year old child actually enjoys clipart bouncing around the place now and again.
I'm actually really looking forward to seeing what the current generation of primary school kids manage to do with computers when they grow up, because from what I've been told most of them are completely comfortable with computers already, having spent their entire lives being exposed to them.
I havn't heard of most of them, but World in Conflict had the best plot I've ever seen in an RTS, and possibly one of the best I've seen in a game at all. It's certainly one of the few RTS games I've played where I actually cared about the characters, and felt that I was fighting for a reason beyond "because I am".
Or you could just Jailbreak your 1.1.2 touch, and install the same suite of apps from an iPhone firmware image... it takes a little bit more work, but it does result in the nicest PDA I've ever used. And yes, Apple are being unbelievably cheap about things on that front - it's like the charge for upgrading your wireless firmware for n support.
Take a look at the Visual Studio Express range - it's not full featured, but they are given away for free. These days the only people paying for Visual Studio are people who want the Pro features, and software shops, who can usually afford to pay for the software that drives their business anyway.
That's almost identical to how Rails works - so I assume you're just saying that there's no need to panic, and I'm inclined to agree.
Sure, it takes a bit more work to set up a Mongrel cluster and proxy back to it, but once your done you have a more reliable infrastructure to work with. For example if your application goes down, it's not likely to take everything else on the same server with it, because you're not running within the proxying server.
You still need someone who knows how to optimally configure your compute nodes and resilient architectures though, because as a developer my learning time goes into new development techniques, rather then setting up redundant MySQL clusters.
For a small scale application you're right. I'm competant enough to set up a web server that will host an application so long as it doesn't end up under heavy load, at which point I'll hand the server admin off to somebody who knows how to keep a heavily loaded web server running, and hopefully has the good sense to tell me when I need a new box to handle some of the load.
Which particular "Decent Standard" would that be? SVG isn't really ready to take on Flash, and Flash itself is more or less undocumented outside Adobe, so the only application that will edit Flash reliably is... Flash.