But at the end of the day, a bridge is still a bridge no matter what parameters you throw at it. If all software was a web browser, we'd have solved the problem a long time ago. But it's not. It's like expecting someone to build a bridge this week, and then next week do some shoring up of the design of the Eiffel Tower, then maybe an undersea tunnel between America and Europe... a software engineer is expected to understand many different disciplines and rules and change those at the whim of management, not just a single, set endpoint they're aiming at, like getting people across a span.
And actually, I am one of those people that would LOVE to know if store X is within 5 or 10 miles (I know CircuitBuy has what I want in stock, where's the nearest one?), or somewhere along a route I am taking anyway. The author is smoking crack if he doesn't think that stuff is useful.
3 has too many little details to pay attention to. Especially your neighbors who don't respect your "get the fuck out" statements. No common passage agreements? They'll keep trying, and it won't declare war like it would if you go into their territory. Civ3 had horrible play mechanics that Civ4 has rectified for the most part, without regressing any of the good parts. Not to mention many more options for game types, and faster (or slower) play.
not an exploit, but I've seen it take press releases to get ATI to fix bugs in it's drivers. They get them rolled out quite quickly when they're pressured by the media, but couldn't give two shits if it's just a person saying "Your OpenGL is broken".
Check the OpenSceneGraph development list archives if you don't believe me.
Dude, and that moon landing? I heard from my brother's cousin that it was totally done on a soundstage! And I also heard that the government has totally hidden an alien crash at Area51, and they've got all kinds of technology that we don't know about! The Army has no need to use civilian technology or research...
Ok. How about for field engineers who are already hard on equipment? I'd bet that the hard drive is one of the more common failure of Toughbooks. Take that out of the equation, and you can keep your guys in the field working longer, without the downtime of repairs. Backups are good, but they don't solve every problem.
And when you start looking at how many registers x86_64 provides, you get the best of both worlds, and the engineers can go on crying since it's the compilers that really matter;)
Man... just the other day, I stuck a Ubuntu CD in my notebook, which I specifically selected for Linux-compatibility, and everything just worked! I have bluetooth, sound, accelerated graphics, everything! It even connected to a nearby unencrypted wireless network automatically.
I also installed Windows from scratch... what a pain, I had to go and download each driver, then restart the machine at least 5 times to get them all installed and up and running, and then I had to install my programs which all took restarts as well. Such a pain.
My point? Get the correct machine, and Linux IS easy, and works out of the box. Just like you can't run Windows on a PowerPC, and wouldn't even try, get crappy hardware like a cheap laptop with no Linux support, and it won't work.
"Toned down"? They pulled audio off of a ceramic freakin' pot in an episode. There isn't anything worthwhile in CSI if you don't turn off your "I know what it's like to live in the real world" sense.
"If Audiodesk does not lose this case on..." Audiodesk? You keep using that word, even though the name "Autodesk" was used to describe the plaintiff multiple times, in both the article and other posts above yours. I'd really like to think you have a valid argument, but if you can't even figure out who you're talking about, what makes your opinion worth the electrons it was transmitted on?
Or, you can stop charging for content that is cheaply, infinitely replicable, and start having artists and others actually work for their pay, rather than feeling entitled to obscene profits in perpetuity from one-off recordings.
Does it bother anyone else that they use the word "authentificate" on that Trackmania site, rather than the more accepted for hundreds of years version "authenticate"?
You were talking about Botulism toxin being used in a non-toxic way. Then you used the unspecified "it" hurting when stinging, which you apparently meant the snail toxin, but in context, appeared to refer to the botulism toxin being injected through a sting.
Basically, you need to take a course on written communication and be better able to express your thoughts without causing confusion.
Nor is driving. But they don't check whether I'm a terrorist to see if I can drive, and they don't consider whether I have a driver's license when considering me for a job (when it's not germane to the job). They should not consider some random score used by airlines and the government, secretly and uncontestably in any kind of serious fashion such as for hiring, or for flying. This is someone's life you're messing with here... it's well within their rights (IMNSHO) to want to be able to review the information you have on them, and contest it if it's incorrect.
The cost of switching from google is next to nothing. That alone forces Google to remain competitive, because if it stops providing what customers want, it's trivial to switch. They may become a natural monopoly of sorts because of the amount of data they have, but nothing (except funding and time, which is to be expected) is preventing any other competitor from indexing the Internet like Google does and competing with them. Google is a "level" playing field insomuch as it is providing a service people want (search), and doing it well enough that more people search it than any other place, so they can command the advertising dollars. But their position is only as good as their results. If someone else provides a better service than Google on search, people can (and will) switch. Google has their "monopoly" only because they do what they do better than anyone else.
I'm running a 14", Core 2 Duo T7400 with 2GB of RAM, everything (including OpenGL/Beryl and wireless, bluetooth is detected but I haven't tested it) running perfectly and natively under Kubuntu 6.10 on a Compal HGL-30 from powernotebooks.com.
If you do that, I salute you, and have no problem with you (except if you're barely passing the person, or going more than 2-5mph below the speed limit in the left hand lane in good conditions). There are still too many fucktards that think the left hand lane (in the US, I know it's different elsewhere) is the driving lane.
Wow. Everything that you're espousing is currently on my Linux box except for the per-application sound management. Way to be behind the curve, Microsoft.
And if someone gave me a pickup, I'd have to learn to drive the pickup truck, and get a license. I think I'll just keep running back and forth with this wheelbarrow. I know how to pay the manufacturer to change the tire on it, and buy a new one every few years. Why change the way things are done and get a vehicle that's more efficient and free in all senses of the word?
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Using VW parts on Paul McCartney? What do you do, just shove them up an open orifice? Seems a little medieval to me...
A Beetle is the bug or the car. A Beatle was a member of the most famous band the western world has ever known.
How many accidents will happen when building a LEO sky cable system, using untested materials, techniques and machinery?
But at the end of the day, a bridge is still a bridge no matter what parameters you throw at it. If all software was a web browser, we'd have solved the problem a long time ago. But it's not. It's like expecting someone to build a bridge this week, and then next week do some shoring up of the design of the Eiffel Tower, then maybe an undersea tunnel between America and Europe... a software engineer is expected to understand many different disciplines and rules and change those at the whim of management, not just a single, set endpoint they're aiming at, like getting people across a span.
And actually, I am one of those people that would LOVE to know if store X is within 5 or 10 miles (I know CircuitBuy has what I want in stock, where's the nearest one?), or somewhere along a route I am taking anyway. The author is smoking crack if he doesn't think that stuff is useful.
3 has too many little details to pay attention to. Especially your neighbors who don't respect your "get the fuck out" statements. No common passage agreements? They'll keep trying, and it won't declare war like it would if you go into their territory. Civ3 had horrible play mechanics that Civ4 has rectified for the most part, without regressing any of the good parts. Not to mention many more options for game types, and faster (or slower) play.
not an exploit, but I've seen it take press releases to get ATI to fix bugs in it's drivers. They get them rolled out quite quickly when they're pressured by the media, but couldn't give two shits if it's just a person saying "Your OpenGL is broken".
Check the OpenSceneGraph development list archives if you don't believe me.
Dude, and that moon landing? I heard from my brother's cousin that it was totally done on a soundstage! And I also heard that the government has totally hidden an alien crash at Area51, and they've got all kinds of technology that we don't know about! The Army has no need to use civilian technology or research...
/sarcasm
Ok. How about for field engineers who are already hard on equipment? I'd bet that the hard drive is one of the more common failure of Toughbooks. Take that out of the equation, and you can keep your guys in the field working longer, without the downtime of repairs. Backups are good, but they don't solve every problem.
And when you start looking at how many registers x86_64 provides, you get the best of both worlds, and the engineers can go on crying since it's the compilers that really matter ;)
Man... just the other day, I stuck a Ubuntu CD in my notebook, which I specifically selected for Linux-compatibility, and everything just worked! I have bluetooth, sound, accelerated graphics, everything! It even connected to a nearby unencrypted wireless network automatically.
I also installed Windows from scratch... what a pain, I had to go and download each driver, then restart the machine at least 5 times to get them all installed and up and running, and then I had to install my programs which all took restarts as well. Such a pain.
My point? Get the correct machine, and Linux IS easy, and works out of the box. Just like you can't run Windows on a PowerPC, and wouldn't even try, get crappy hardware like a cheap laptop with no Linux support, and it won't work.
"Toned down"? They pulled audio off of a ceramic freakin' pot in an episode. There isn't anything worthwhile in CSI if you don't turn off your "I know what it's like to live in the real world" sense.
You haven't observed him, have you?
What year is your Corolla? Because I've had my '04 up over 100, and it's still perfectly stable ;)
Or, you can stop charging for content that is cheaply, infinitely replicable, and start having artists and others actually work for their pay, rather than feeling entitled to obscene profits in perpetuity from one-off recordings.
Does it bother anyone else that they use the word "authentificate" on that Trackmania site, rather than the more accepted for hundreds of years version "authenticate"?
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You were talking about Botulism toxin being used in a non-toxic way. Then you used the unspecified "it" hurting when stinging, which you apparently meant the snail toxin, but in context, appeared to refer to the botulism toxin being injected through a sting.
Basically, you need to take a course on written communication and be better able to express your thoughts without causing confusion.
Nor is driving. But they don't check whether I'm a terrorist to see if I can drive, and they don't consider whether I have a driver's license when considering me for a job (when it's not germane to the job). They should not consider some random score used by airlines and the government, secretly and uncontestably in any kind of serious fashion such as for hiring, or for flying. This is someone's life you're messing with here... it's well within their rights (IMNSHO) to want to be able to review the information you have on them, and contest it if it's incorrect.
DHS = Department of Homeland Surveillance^WSecurity
Hopefully, they do get busted.
The cost of switching from google is next to nothing. That alone forces Google to remain competitive, because if it stops providing what customers want, it's trivial to switch. They may become a natural monopoly of sorts because of the amount of data they have, but nothing (except funding and time, which is to be expected) is preventing any other competitor from indexing the Internet like Google does and competing with them. Google is a "level" playing field insomuch as it is providing a service people want (search), and doing it well enough that more people search it than any other place, so they can command the advertising dollars. But their position is only as good as their results. If someone else provides a better service than Google on search, people can (and will) switch. Google has their "monopoly" only because they do what they do better than anyone else.
I'm running a 14", Core 2 Duo T7400 with 2GB of RAM, everything (including OpenGL/Beryl and wireless, bluetooth is detected but I haven't tested it) running perfectly and natively under Kubuntu 6.10 on a Compal HGL-30 from powernotebooks.com.
If you do that, I salute you, and have no problem with you (except if you're barely passing the person, or going more than 2-5mph below the speed limit in the left hand lane in good conditions). There are still too many fucktards that think the left hand lane (in the US, I know it's different elsewhere) is the driving lane.
Wow. Everything that you're espousing is currently on my Linux box except for the per-application sound management. Way to be behind the curve, Microsoft.
And if someone gave me a pickup, I'd have to learn to drive the pickup truck, and get a license. I think I'll just keep running back and forth with this wheelbarrow. I know how to pay the manufacturer to change the tire on it, and buy a new one every few years. Why change the way things are done and get a vehicle that's more efficient and free in all senses of the word?