It's not so bad. The application I'm working on at work is backed by a database, and all we do is keep around a bunch of precooked databases, take a copy of the database (copying the files is enough) and run all the tests on that.
One of the ways you can cheat the system is if you have the capability to control the transactions from the unit tests, you can set a save point before the unit test and roll back to it after the unit test, so that the next tests don't get trash data from the previous ones.
And yeah, we don't touch DBUnit... that thing is satanic.
So anyone who happens to have a web site is up for being sued by someone in another country who made something with the same name? It seems like it would just be easier to create an international trademark registry and do everything once instead of almost 200 times.
I bought a mobile phone (actually a smartphone) off ebay a couple of months ago.
Left on the phone were...
a full contact list
passwords for several online banking sites;
passwords for a couple of other finance-related web sites;
passwords for several phone services;
enough personal details to impersonate the person.:-)
What they did wrong was not only that they sold the phone without resetting the settings. They also failed to use the built-in feature where you can encrypt the sensitive information.
About the only thing they did right was to sell it to someone who wouldn't make use of this kind of information.
Apple aren't exactly short on advertising funds themselves. For the past year or longer, I haven't been able to get from one place to another without seeing an iPod ad.
I'm hoping you're right though, that the unofficial installs will grow. Because there's no way I'm paying $2X for $X worth of hardware, no matter what OS I can run on it. First person to crack it will have a lot of fans.
Just a quick question on the side of all this... why do Google need to register GMail as a trademark in the UK if the web site is in the US? Are they planning to introduce a gmail.co.uk in the future?
IMDb has been full of ads, and not so fun to use for some time now. In addition to this, it seems that you can't even add missing pictures without paying them money, so there are a crapload of missing pictures.
Just so that less people are confused, can we please make sure that only the Ultimate edition gets leaked onto BitTorrent? That will avoid most of the confusion.:-)
The largest Quetzalcoatlus found had a wingspan of around 12m, although there was a bigger, incomplete specimen which *in theory* had an 18m wingspan. Nobody really knows, but either way this latest find is much bigger than the largest Q found.:-)
Even better if they implemented the Pictochat protocol in that same program. Then you could join pictochats and send pictures of your photo with a penis drawn on it.:-)
Come on, people. This device has a top screen and a bottom screen. It has a built-in clock with an alarm, and you're trying to tell me I can't play old-school Donkey Kong on it?
Nope, having read it 3 more times, I see that I was still perfectly correct.
Yet you missed a word. I guess it's just selective blindness, then.
That might be true in some limited situations, such as if you are playing an unrealistic game or seated at a chair unlike any a driver could use. Both of those conditions are fairly common, but they invalidate your experience as being predictive for how real cars might behave with a joystick.
Well, I never said that it was mandatory for future cars to have seats shaped the same way as present.
Only the passenger door mirror. The other two mirrors should be constantly within the FOV of a non-impaired driver.
They're in your FOV, but there is a big difference between something in your FOV and something in focus.
Often?
I actually said "reasonably often." Perhaps you should try reading more carefully the second time through.
The steering wheel means that extreme turns require big motions, and this is a critical safety feature.
To me, that sounds like excusing the slowness of the QWERTY keyboard because slowing things down is always better.
NASCAR drivers could have joysticks in their cars if they preferred (it would even shave off 2 lbs), but the lack of precision would kill them.
Sure. Next time I'm driving NASCAR, I'll let you know. But the reality is that most people aren't NASCAR drivers.
I wonder what games you've played to give the impression that thumbsicks are better than steering wheels?
Incidentally, I said "easier", not "better". Again, a big difference, and perhaps an indication that you should read what you're replying to. But to answer the question, a steering wheel impedes every car game in existence. Except, allegedly, real life driving. If you could consider that a game.
You can't use a car without understanding what the brake and accellerator (and sometimes a clutch) do. When you take it in for repairs, even if you don't know how to fix it yourself, you want to know if you need a spark plug or a timing belt (not just "it broke, please pay $xxxx for the next 20,000 miles...").
Let's take a look at cars, though.
You have to tilt your head further to see the indicators or mirrors, much further than you'd ever have to tilt it to see any corner of a computer monitor.
For basically every control in the car, including the steering wheel and the pedals, you have to move body parts significant distances to do things. The automatic has largely improved the situation with the gear stick, but you still have a stick which you need to touch reasonably often. Cars which put the gears as buttons on the steering wheel are starting to get the right idea here. A car which combined the accelerator and brake as a single pedal would really get things moving.
The blind spot. Nuff said. Cameras are cheap these days, and cars don't seem to be taking advantage of that.
From experience in gaming, I've always found a joystick or controller pad easier to use than a steering wheel. Why, then, do we still use steering wheels in cars?:-)
But despite all this, people don't write massive essays (where "essays" is taken to mean "uninformed bitching") about how cars are in the stone age. Maybe someone needs to address the usability problems in cars, before they start with more recent developments like computers.
This guy has obviously been tortured by Apple too long. If he thinks that there's no way to scroll without aiming for tiny scrollbar icons, it's obvious that he's never owned or even seen a mouse with a scrollwheel.
The only way this could possibly occur is if he's a graduate from the Apple School of One Button.
Maybe we should send him a link to the Mighty Mouse page so that he can catch up with the rest of the world.
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It's not so bad. The application I'm working on at work is backed by a database, and all we do is keep around a bunch of precooked databases, take a copy of the database (copying the files is enough) and run all the tests on that.
One of the ways you can cheat the system is if you have the capability to control the transactions from the unit tests, you can set a save point before the unit test and roll back to it after the unit test, so that the next tests don't get trash data from the previous ones.
And yeah, we don't touch DBUnit... that thing is satanic.
...especially when spelled with a "z" instead of the proper "s"...
Oh yeah. These guys even had a short recorded video on it, it was great. Nothing perverse, though.
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So anyone who happens to have a web site is up for being sued by someone in another country who made something with the same name? It seems like it would just be easier to create an international trademark registry and do everything once instead of almost 200 times.
I bought a mobile phone (actually a smartphone) off ebay a couple of months ago.
Left on the phone were...
What they did wrong was not only that they sold the phone without resetting the settings. They also failed to use the built-in feature where you can encrypt the sensitive information.
About the only thing they did right was to sell it to someone who wouldn't make use of this kind of information.
Apple aren't exactly short on advertising funds themselves. For the past year or longer, I haven't been able to get from one place to another without seeing an iPod ad.
I'm hoping you're right though, that the unofficial installs will grow. Because there's no way I'm paying $2X for $X worth of hardware, no matter what OS I can run on it. First person to crack it will have a lot of fans.
You're right... they'll have to make 20 versions of the new one, just to keep up!
Just a quick question on the side of all this... why do Google need to register GMail as a trademark in the UK if the web site is in the US? Are they planning to introduce a gmail.co.uk in the future?
IMDb has been full of ads, and not so fun to use for some time now. In addition to this, it seems that you can't even add missing pictures without paying them money, so there are a crapload of missing pictures.
So... let's replace IMDb too.
Well, you could tell this was going to happen as soon as they incorporated socket code from BSD. It's a slippery slope...
Just so that less people are confused, can we please make sure that only the Ultimate edition gets leaked onto BitTorrent? That will avoid most of the confusion. :-)
The largest Quetzalcoatlus found had a wingspan of around 12m, although there was a bigger, incomplete specimen which *in theory* had an 18m wingspan. Nobody really knows, but either way this latest find is much bigger than the largest Q found. :-)
I know a few fonts where "0" and "o" look the same. :-)
Still, if they open up the ability to extend MSN Messenger, maybe someone can go and add support for a better protocol.
What's that? Is it something to do with Subversion?
Even better if they implemented the Pictochat protocol in that same program. Then you could join pictochats and send pictures of your photo with a penis drawn on it. :-)
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Because they're both gadget-related, it's really easy to slip up.
Come on, people. This device has a top screen and a bottom screen. It has a built-in clock with an alarm, and you're trying to tell me I can't play old-school Donkey Kong on it?
When Apple released the shuffle, practically everyone bitched that it had no screen. I accept their apology. :-)
Nope, having read it 3 more times, I see that I was still perfectly correct.
Yet you missed a word. I guess it's just selective blindness, then.
That might be true in some limited situations, such as if you are playing an unrealistic game or seated at a chair unlike any a driver could use. Both of those conditions are fairly common, but they invalidate your experience as being predictive for how real cars might behave with a joystick.
Well, I never said that it was mandatory for future cars to have seats shaped the same way as present.
Only the passenger door mirror. The other two mirrors should be constantly within the FOV of a non-impaired driver.
They're in your FOV, but there is a big difference between something in your FOV and something in focus.
Often?
I actually said "reasonably often." Perhaps you should try reading more carefully the second time through.
The steering wheel means that extreme turns require big motions, and this is a critical safety feature.
To me, that sounds like excusing the slowness of the QWERTY keyboard because slowing things down is always better.
NASCAR drivers could have joysticks in their cars if they preferred (it would even shave off 2 lbs), but the lack of precision would kill them.
Sure. Next time I'm driving NASCAR, I'll let you know. But the reality is that most people aren't NASCAR drivers.
I wonder what games you've played to give the impression that thumbsicks are better than steering wheels?
Incidentally, I said "easier", not "better". Again, a big difference, and perhaps an indication that you should read what you're replying to. But to answer the question, a steering wheel impedes every car game in existence. Except, allegedly, real life driving. If you could consider that a game.
I've noticed a huge void on TV however, there are no ongoing Super-Hero shows I'm aware of.
Only if you discriminate against animated titles.
You can't use a car without understanding what the brake and accellerator (and sometimes a clutch) do. When you take it in for repairs, even if you don't know how to fix it yourself, you want to know if you need a spark plug or a timing belt (not just "it broke, please pay $xxxx for the next 20,000 miles...").
Let's take a look at cars, though.
But despite all this, people don't write massive essays (where "essays" is taken to mean "uninformed bitching") about how cars are in the stone age. Maybe someone needs to address the usability problems in cars, before they start with more recent developments like computers.
This guy has obviously been tortured by Apple too long. If he thinks that there's no way to scroll without aiming for tiny scrollbar icons, it's obvious that he's never owned or even seen a mouse with a scrollwheel.
The only way this could possibly occur is if he's a graduate from the Apple School of One Button.
Maybe we should send him a link to the Mighty Mouse page so that he can catch up with the rest of the world.