Two things: First, your customers don't want to shell out another $1000, so they will buy your competitor's product, which they perceive as less "bloated" than yours. Second, if you are programming for a non-PC device, you probably can't replace it every year.
It's your customer's time that matters. If I have to spend an hour to save my customers five seconds, and I have one million customers then I have spent one hour to save my customers two man months of time. That's worthwhile.
Your customers don't use the language. They just use the binaries. The beautiful language is meaningless to them.
Whoever wrote this "IQ" test is apparently not smart enough to understand how an IQ test works.
You can debate whether a real IQ test measures anything other than the ability to do well on IQ tests, however, real IQ tests don't depend on real world knowledge. That's the whole point of them. By my measure, 8 of the 10 questions it gave me are not even remotely worthy of being on an IQ test. For instance, knowing the date of the first olympiad is pretty much the definition of a question requiring real world knowledge.
It depends on what you mean by "caught on". Touch screens have been used in kiosk systems and ATMs for decades. They've been in PDAs for many years. The only place they haven't caught on is in the PC and I see no indication that this is changing. "Surface" is not being sold.
Touch didn't catch on for personal monitors because it is inferior as an input device to a mouse. It works for kiosks or ATMs because people don't use them for long periods and are in a better posture for touch screens and because they are obviously much sturdier than mice. They've been used for PDAs for decades, so the "iPod Touch" is hardly an instance of "catching on". The original Palm had a touch screen as did the Newton. (Though ones designed for a stylus.)
No! Don't do this! The absolute key is to not hide anything but to make everything look entirely innocent. The way to do it is not to make it hard for them to find the card. What you want is for them to just take a cursory glance and decide it is to much trouble.
If they decide you've got something, you are essentially fucked and if they discover that you've overtly tried to hide something, they'll just pile on legal charges. If you just use misdirection, then not only are you more likely to avoid trouble in the first place but it also gives you plausible deniability.
Get a laptop with a built-in flash card reader. Put everything important on the flash card. Before you get off the plane, put the flash card in whatever bag is full of random power adaptors/books/cell phones/other random crap. Put another clean card in the reader. Flash cards are so small these days that it is very unlikely anyone will even notice.
The eee is particular good for this since it can boot off of a removable flash card.
The important thing is that you never lie. Helpfully give them the machine, let them boot it without argument, make general polite conversation. Also, don't overtly hide the flash card. Just drop it in a pile of other crap. Better yet, have five cards in your bag. Make sure that the "clean" card has some random stuff on it. Put your save games here, or whatever. The important thing is to make sure your equipment tells a story like "game machine used to pass time". As long as it does, *you* don't have to lie because they won't ask any questions that would force you to. Just make sure you don't lie, as *that* can get you in massive trouble.
Basically, you want to look innocent enough to avoid anything but a cursory search while making anything you don't want found require more than a cursory search. If they do a real search, you are pretty much doomed.
Or, of course, you could just make sure not to have anything you don't want found on your person. That's what I do.
I don't have this problem because I am willing to pay more for service from an ISP like Speakeasy that does not do this. If you want these companies to change, you need to be willing to hurt their bottom line even if it costs you more.
Hot graphics don't make good gameplay, nor does it create market dominance. Nintendo is proving that quite handily. You might also have noticed that this year's DS has outsold the technically superior PSP.
I gave up on the PC gaming treadmill...though I am still quite happy playing 2004/2002/2000 era PC games. The graphics may be mediocre, but the gameplay is great.
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People forget that the whole issue with an authoritarian regime is that the vast bulk of the population *doesn't* have any control over what happens.
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Being a native Californian, living in the Bay Area, having had friends who had their house damaged in the Northridge quake in '94, it is real easy to say "that could have been me".
Very unlikely. It isn't given that often, and when it is, you're as likely to die of old age while waiting. There are people who've been on "death row" since the eighties.
I put out a GPL'd plugin for Winamp about seven years ago. For various reasons, mostly lack of time due to the birth of a child, I stopped working on it, and the project languished.
If I read this right, some big company could say they couldn't find me, put up some notice with the copyright office that I likely wouldn't notice, and then later take the software I wrote and put it in a proprietary app against my will by giving me some low cash payment.
Now my particular software wasn't great shakes, but isn't this in general a problem with GPL'd code?
Ghastly modern fantasy usually takes place in a universe based on Tolkien's...it has unfortunately become the refuge the hack writer. The top fantasists tend to take their inspiration from elsewhere.
Personally, I prefer fantastic literature by people who took after Mervyn Peake. Most of the Tolkien derivatives are ghastly. Tolkien has had far less influence on modern fantasy than you imply.
You could have removed all of the fantasy elements and still had the core of a damn good historical movie. The last time I can remember such a well dome melding of fantasy and harsh reality was Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures".
Not to minimize the problem, because it is quite real, but this sort of behavior is often the result of poor design. There are ways to code (like pimpl) that move most actual implementation changes into cpp files, or at worst headers that are only included in a few places that minimize this. Of course, this does take discipline that is not necessary in other languages.
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Two things: First, your customers don't want to shell out another $1000, so they will buy your competitor's product, which they perceive as less "bloated" than yours. Second, if you are programming for a non-PC device, you probably can't replace it every year.
It's your customer's time that matters. If I have to spend an hour to save my customers five seconds, and I have one million customers then I have spent one hour to save my customers two man months of time. That's worthwhile.
Your customers don't use the language. They just use the binaries. The beautiful language is meaningless to them.
Yes...I used to have floppies that said "Microsoft OS/2 1.0". I really wish I'd kept them...
Paradigm shifter!? NT 4.0 was *based* *on* OS/2.
And Win2k was *much* better than Windows 98. Win2K was the first Microsoft OS to be a real OS. It was the last one before the bloat.
You wanna know what's really funny? People arguing about humor as if it is objectively determinable.
Yes, well, the editors likely didn't think about bell curves and statistics when they suggested that.
Whoever wrote this "IQ" test is apparently not smart enough to understand how an IQ test works.
You can debate whether a real IQ test measures anything other than the ability to do well on IQ tests, however, real IQ tests don't depend on real world knowledge. That's the whole point of them. By my measure, 8 of the 10 questions it gave me are not even remotely worthy of being on an IQ test. For instance, knowing the date of the first olympiad is pretty much the definition of a question requiring real world knowledge.
Or even spell "intelligence"!
It depends on what you mean by "caught on". Touch screens have been used in kiosk systems and ATMs for decades. They've been in PDAs for many years. The only place they haven't caught on is in the PC and I see no indication that this is changing. "Surface" is not being sold.
Touch didn't catch on for personal monitors because it is inferior as an input device to a mouse. It works for kiosks or ATMs because people don't use them for long periods and are in a better posture for touch screens and because they are obviously much sturdier than mice. They've been used for PDAs for decades, so the "iPod Touch" is hardly an instance of "catching on". The original Palm had a touch screen as did the Newton. (Though ones designed for a stylus.)
No! Don't do this! The absolute key is to not hide anything but to make everything look entirely innocent. The way to do it is not to make it hard for them to find the card. What you want is for them to just take a cursory glance and decide it is to much trouble.
If they decide you've got something, you are essentially fucked and if they discover that you've overtly tried to hide something, they'll just pile on legal charges. If you just use misdirection, then not only are you more likely to avoid trouble in the first place but it also gives you plausible deniability.
Better to hide in plain site. A flash drive in a pile of other flash drives doesn't indicate guilt. A flash drive up the ass does.
True. But sadly rare.
Get a laptop with a built-in flash card reader. Put everything important on the flash card. Before you get off the plane, put the flash card in whatever bag is full of random power adaptors/books/cell phones/other random crap. Put another clean card in the reader. Flash cards are so small these days that it is very unlikely anyone will even notice.
The eee is particular good for this since it can boot off of a removable flash card.
The important thing is that you never lie. Helpfully give them the machine, let them boot it without argument, make general polite conversation. Also, don't overtly hide the flash card. Just drop it in a pile of other crap. Better yet, have five cards in your bag. Make sure that the "clean" card has some random stuff on it. Put your save games here, or whatever. The important thing is to make sure your equipment tells a story like "game machine used to pass time". As long as it does, *you* don't have to lie because they won't ask any questions that would force you to. Just make sure you don't lie, as *that* can get you in massive trouble.
Basically, you want to look innocent enough to avoid anything but a cursory search while making anything you don't want found require more than a cursory search. If they do a real search, you are pretty much doomed.
Or, of course, you could just make sure not to have anything you don't want found on your person. That's what I do.
I don't have this problem because I am willing to pay more for service from an ISP like Speakeasy that does not do this. If you want these companies to change, you need to be willing to hurt their bottom line even if it costs you more.
Hot graphics don't make good gameplay, nor does it create market dominance. Nintendo is proving that quite handily. You might also have noticed that this year's DS has outsold the technically superior PSP.
I gave up on the PC gaming treadmill...though I am still quite happy playing 2004/2002/2000 era PC games. The graphics may be mediocre, but the gameplay is great.
People forget that the whole issue with an authoritarian regime is that the vast bulk of the population *doesn't* have any control over what happens.
Being a native Californian, living in the Bay Area, having had friends who had their house damaged in the Northridge quake in '94, it is real easy to say "that could have been me".
Haven't you heard? Copyrights are never going to expire as long as the Disney lobby exists.
That some people don't want a full blown laptop with a larger screen and hard drive.
I'm constantly amazed at the difficulty some people have comprehending that not everyone wants exactly the machine they do.
Very unlikely. It isn't given that often, and when it is, you're as likely to die of old age while waiting. There are people who've been on "death row" since the eighties.
I put out a GPL'd plugin for Winamp about seven years ago. For various reasons, mostly lack of time due to the birth of a child, I stopped working on it, and the project languished.
If I read this right, some big company could say they couldn't find me, put up some notice with the copyright office that I likely wouldn't notice, and then later take the software I wrote and put it in a proprietary app against my will by giving me some low cash payment.
Now my particular software wasn't great shakes, but isn't this in general a problem with GPL'd code?
Ghastly modern fantasy usually takes place in a universe based on Tolkien's...it has unfortunately become the refuge the hack writer. The top fantasists tend to take their inspiration from elsewhere.
Personally, I prefer fantastic literature by people who took after Mervyn Peake. Most of the Tolkien derivatives are ghastly. Tolkien has had far less influence on modern fantasy than you imply.
You could have removed all of the fantasy elements and still had the core of a damn good historical movie. The last time I can remember such a well dome melding of fantasy and harsh reality was Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures".
Not to minimize the problem, because it is quite real, but this sort of behavior is often the result of poor design. There are ways to code (like pimpl) that move most actual implementation changes into cpp files, or at worst headers that are only included in a few places that minimize this. Of course, this does take discipline that is not necessary in other languages.