If the tests are deep enough, yes. Of course, you get plenty of bugs along the way, but at least you know where they are and don't have to spend "days" hunting them down.
In the video they mention an instance where a bug crept in and screwed up their program. "We finally traced it down to one tiny little bug." "No developer likes a bug to show up in their code, it's just a way of life." Not heard of agile test driven development?
human life tends to follow similar patterns. In your system, if I try buying something at 1500 hours, I'll get a strange look from people and they'll say 'you're not from around here, are you?'
I agree with your points, but that problem exists with the current system too.
Most societies have differing shut down times. Heck, here in the United Kingdom most towns have differing "half closing" days where the stores generally close half way through the day. Most European countries have similar arrangements. It's also common practice to be able to drop into a French bakery at 6.30am, but in the UK a bakery may not open till 8.30, and so on.
I don't quite understand why 9 to 5 ever became the norm anyway.. considering how "energy inefficient" it is:)
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That's a good point, but that's not the official definition of a dependent. Being dependent on a wife is miles away from being dependent on a company.. since being dependent on a company is really being dependent on yourself, since you can't keep a job without working properly.
When the wife leaves/goes broke/whatever, it's going to be hard to go and find another one willing to keep you, but when you lose a job, finding another isn't an impossibility.
Besides, of course corporations want to make a lot more than your salary.. if they didn't, they wouldn't bother hiring anyone at all.
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got married, and most of my concerns were eliminated...because my wife's father (who died when she was young) left her some money, I am able to work without having to submit to the most lucrative job--I teach interactive multimedia design and spend the rest of my time working on my own projects.
Great story, but I don't think the message it gives off is all that useful. You mean, you were totally flat broke, but luckily you married someone who was willing to support you.. and, well, it's not all that bad now? While you got lucky, this isn't really a practical situation for most people.
You make it sound like giving up the corporate world is the best thing in the world, and sure.. it can be.. but since it turned you into a dependent, it's not really the best way out, is it?
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But on a per capita basis, western Europe's productivity is close to (or possibly exceeding) that of the US. The US just has a lot more people. On an hour-per-hour basis, western Europe is significantly more productive.
"Vint Cerf is also working on the Interplanetary Protocol, which will be a new standard to communicate from planet to planet, which will be radio/laser communications that are highly tolerant to signal degradation."
This guy is amazing.
He'll be even more amazing if he can do it in his 20% spare time given by Google;-)
Okay, I suck. I read this story and thought it was referring to the other type of player. Admittedly I like quite a lot of feedback when doing that sort of playing too;-) Oops, sorry babe.
WeblogsInc makes a million a year on AdSense alone (Google for the interview). Gawker Media makes very good money and was entirely bootstrapped. These two companies are making it, and making a nice pile of money to boot.
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Whoa, this is cool. I can actually hold a direct conversation with someone from 1999 if I wanted to:)
Australia has a VERY vibrant gambling scene. There are areas of the country where people pile most of their monthly salary into slot machines (which they call "pokies"). Australia has one of the highest concentration of poker machines in the world, and a high percentage of gambling addicts per capita.
Australia isn't interested in banning gambling as it brings in so much money. They just want to ban online gambling, as the money is likely to leave the country and not get taxed by the Australian government! This is protectionism, not some moral judgement on the part of the Australian government.
I wonder how long it'll be till Bush passes a law so that non-US companies can no longer advertise to US customers. It'll stop money leaving the US economy after all, and reduce the gaping trade deficit.
I don't get it. She's nice and all, but it seems so forced and "wow, look at me". I guess that's the whole thing about vlogging though. I think if TV were like that, though, I'd go nuts. It's like watching a valley girl's diary.
Weird. Just a "start" header and then a text box with a submit button. Really exciting. Oh, hang on.. it must be just like their old version which also doesn't do anything on Safari.
And why, oh, why, does MSN always give me results pages in Spanish? I'm in the UK darn it.
It's extremely familiar to sci-fi writer, J G Ballard's novel Crash, which looks at the warped connection between automotive accidents and sexuality. That sentence reads like it could have been straight from Crash.
Your blog isn't that bad, but could you stop shilling it using inappropriate off-topic posts and links? Why isn't it in your signature? I'm not usually one to complain, but I think you could do a lot better, and, well, if I notice something several times in a few days, it must be pretty prevalent.
If you want to get proper blog traffic (Slashdot is hardly full of blog-friendly folk) then buy some BlogAds, go comment on hundreds of blogs, and make friends with other bloggers who'll link you. Slashdot is the worst place to promote a non-tech blog that I can think of.
Are we allowed any screenshots? The ones that have leaked out so far have been crappy, but screenshots of FireFox/Thunderbird/etc in this new environment would be sweet.
With the advent of "Web 2.0", AJAX, and the prevalence of various CSS and JavaScript tricks, might it be possible to bring a popular text game to the masses via the Web?
MUDs have always seemed like the reserve of techies or people "in the know". With the aforementioned technologies, you could have MUD style games, even with graphics and avatars, on the Web and able to be played by anyone. Has anyone already started to make moves in that direction? Perhaps even Flash could used as the client technology. Anything that loads on a Web page quickly and easily.
I read this yesterday when it did its round through the blogosphere, and from my understanding he simply made the judge doubt the memory of the police officer and not prove his innocence. There is a big difference between taking advantage of a loophole and actually having done no wrong. He simply found a flaw in the police officer's story and proved it, although the flaw, from what I could tell, was not directly related to whether the offense was committed or not.
I ran an "Acer Sucks" campaign for my father a few months ago. His machine broke, he sent it in.. and it took them seven weeks to fix and return it, under threat of lawsuit.
Not a one-off either, it seems most people who go through their UK support operation (which isn't even part of Acer) have similar complaints. Even if it's just a UK thing, it still reflects on Acer, and they should invest the money to make their support worthwhile in every country they want to work with. Other than that, the machine was cheap and is very well featured, but.. things are only as good as the weakest part of the chain.
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If the tests are deep enough, yes. Of course, you get plenty of bugs along the way, but at least you know where they are and don't have to spend "days" hunting them down.
In the video they mention an instance where a bug crept in and screwed up their program. "We finally traced it down to one tiny little bug." "No developer likes a bug to show up in their code, it's just a way of life." Not heard of agile test driven development?
I'd love to see The Matrix with Bill Gates as Neo.. "Don't interrupt me!".. I almost crapped my pants at that line.
human life tends to follow similar patterns. In your system, if I try buying something at 1500 hours, I'll get a strange look from people and they'll say 'you're not from around here, are you?'
I agree with your points, but that problem exists with the current system too.
Most societies have differing shut down times. Heck, here in the United Kingdom most towns have differing "half closing" days where the stores generally close half way through the day. Most European countries have similar arrangements. It's also common practice to be able to drop into a French bakery at 6.30am, but in the UK a bakery may not open till 8.30, and so on.
I don't quite understand why 9 to 5 ever became the norm anyway.. considering how "energy inefficient" it is :)
That's a good point, but that's not the official definition of a dependent. Being dependent on a wife is miles away from being dependent on a company.. since being dependent on a company is really being dependent on yourself, since you can't keep a job without working properly.
When the wife leaves/goes broke/whatever, it's going to be hard to go and find another one willing to keep you, but when you lose a job, finding another isn't an impossibility.
Besides, of course corporations want to make a lot more than your salary.. if they didn't, they wouldn't bother hiring anyone at all.
got married, and most of my concerns were eliminated...because my wife's father (who died when she was young) left her some money, I am able to work without having to submit to the most lucrative job--I teach interactive multimedia design and spend the rest of my time working on my own projects.
Great story, but I don't think the message it gives off is all that useful. You mean, you were totally flat broke, but luckily you married someone who was willing to support you.. and, well, it's not all that bad now? While you got lucky, this isn't really a practical situation for most people.
You make it sound like giving up the corporate world is the best thing in the world, and sure.. it can be.. but since it turned you into a dependent, it's not really the best way out, is it?
But on a per capita basis, western Europe's productivity is close to (or possibly exceeding) that of the US. The US just has a lot more people. On an hour-per-hour basis, western Europe is significantly more productive.
"Vint Cerf is also working on the Interplanetary Protocol, which will be a new standard to communicate from planet to planet, which will be radio/laser communications that are highly tolerant to signal degradation."
;-)
This guy is amazing.
He'll be even more amazing if he can do it in his 20% spare time given by Google
Okay, I suck. I read this story and thought it was referring to the other type of player. Admittedly I like quite a lot of feedback when doing that sort of playing too ;-) Oops, sorry babe.
WeblogsInc makes a million a year on AdSense alone (Google for the interview). Gawker Media makes very good money and was entirely bootstrapped. These two companies are making it, and making a nice pile of money to boot.
Whoa, this is cool. I can actually hold a direct conversation with someone from 1999 if I wanted to :)
bioengineering organisms to do specific tasks such as produce hydrogen or ethenol
Isn't this a form of slavery?
Australia has a VERY vibrant gambling scene. There are areas of the country where people pile most of their monthly salary into slot machines (which they call "pokies"). Australia has one of the highest concentration of poker machines in the world, and a high percentage of gambling addicts per capita.
Australia isn't interested in banning gambling as it brings in so much money. They just want to ban online gambling, as the money is likely to leave the country and not get taxed by the Australian government! This is protectionism, not some moral judgement on the part of the Australian government.
I wonder how long it'll be till Bush passes a law so that non-US companies can no longer advertise to US customers. It'll stop money leaving the US economy after all, and reduce the gaping trade deficit.
She recently received a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology Management
I highly doubt she can program.
I don't get it. She's nice and all, but it seems so forced and "wow, look at me". I guess that's the whole thing about vlogging though. I think if TV were like that, though, I'd go nuts. It's like watching a valley girl's diary.
Why don't they just drop the garbage into the atmosphere and let it burn up?
Well here's another one then.
Weird. Just a "start" header and then a text box with a submit button. Really exciting. Oh, hang on.. it must be just like their old version which also doesn't do anything on Safari.
And why, oh, why, does MSN always give me results pages in Spanish? I'm in the UK darn it.
It's extremely familiar to sci-fi writer, J G Ballard's novel Crash, which looks at the warped connection between automotive accidents and sexuality. That sentence reads like it could have been straight from Crash.
Your blog isn't that bad, but could you stop shilling it using inappropriate off-topic posts and links? Why isn't it in your signature? I'm not usually one to complain, but I think you could do a lot better, and, well, if I notice something several times in a few days, it must be pretty prevalent.
If you want to get proper blog traffic (Slashdot is hardly full of blog-friendly folk) then buy some BlogAds, go comment on hundreds of blogs, and make friends with other bloggers who'll link you. Slashdot is the worst place to promote a non-tech blog that I can think of.
Are we allowed any screenshots? The ones that have leaked out so far have been crappy, but screenshots of FireFox/Thunderbird/etc in this new environment would be sweet.
With the advent of "Web 2.0", AJAX, and the prevalence of various CSS and JavaScript tricks, might it be possible to bring a popular text game to the masses via the Web?
MUDs have always seemed like the reserve of techies or people "in the know". With the aforementioned technologies, you could have MUD style games, even with graphics and avatars, on the Web and able to be played by anyone. Has anyone already started to make moves in that direction? Perhaps even Flash could used as the client technology. Anything that loads on a Web page quickly and easily.
I read this yesterday when it did its round through the blogosphere, and from my understanding he simply made the judge doubt the memory of the police officer and not prove his innocence. There is a big difference between taking advantage of a loophole and actually having done no wrong. He simply found a flaw in the police officer's story and proved it, although the flaw, from what I could tell, was not directly related to whether the offense was committed or not.
I ran an "Acer Sucks" campaign for my father a few months ago. His machine broke, he sent it in.. and it took them seven weeks to fix and return it, under threat of lawsuit.
Not a one-off either, it seems most people who go through their UK support operation (which isn't even part of Acer) have similar complaints. Even if it's just a UK thing, it still reflects on Acer, and they should invest the money to make their support worthwhile in every country they want to work with. Other than that, the machine was cheap and is very well featured, but.. things are only as good as the weakest part of the chain.