Your analogy is flawed. It's not a company. It's a semi-government organization. Have you worked in one of those? The directors basically spend their time calling, writing, meeting, lobbying, everything they have to do to get that funding in.
And I don't know enough about the circumstances, but the satellite isn't comparable to luxurious offices or even a salary raise for his people. You're hyperboling to get your point across, but it's
The only thing this blog writer concentrates on, is whether the precise quote of Proenza is correct or not.
It's not important. Proenza probably dumbed down/oversimplified on his statement and that's a good thing, because he is the main fundraiser for his institute. It should be slightly over the top. He's a fucking salesman, and Congress damn well knows this.
It's not important at all to say "yeah well, it's not quite accurate and why didn't he give a measure of uncertainty" blah blah.
Point is, the QuickSCAT satellite is used for lots of things, among them crossreferencing data of other satellites when the accuracy of those isn't up to snuff.
Satellites get older. Sensors decay due to cosmic rays damaging sensor pixels. Models use multiple inputs of data and when one satellite heavily degrades, that's a loss for science.
Since I'm the one-man-team drafting the new XGPL, I'm taking your comment into account.
*clock ticks one second*
We've decided that the XGPL cannot be released without your comment. In fact, we're retroactively updating all drafts as if this comment has always been there.
Now we should write some killer app and license it under the XGPL...
Yes, web developers are quite talented. But web developers are rarely well versed in C or C++.
What are you trying to say? Is one better than the other?
I'm in a dev team that does C. I'm pretty well versed in Perl and PHP as well, but my colleagues aren't. So, should I say something snobby like: "Yes, C developers are quite talented. But C developers are rarely well versed in PHP or Perl."
Of course not. It implies one is better than the other. And it's NOT.
So, here I am thinking about an appropriate reply. So I go to bash.org to find a good quote. I search for girlfriend and -- totally offtopic -- here's the first quote:
<+darthpony> geez dude <+darthpony> with my last gf <+darthpony> I made the most terrible fruedian slip <+darthpony> we were sitting at breakfast the one day, and I wanted to ask her "pass the sugar please" <+darthpony> instead I said "you're ruining my life, you fucking bitch"
After the machine was brought to a grinding halt by all that crapware and she had to pay the PC shop $100 for a reinstall, did she still install unknown software?
What sort of black/white world view do you have? The main point of a lobbyist is to talk to a politician to make sure he/she understands whatever the lobbyist is trying to get across. Now campaign funding might look like paying off said politician and there are rules about that. And I'm not saying these rules work or not, but the main point is TALKING.
And believe it or not, YOU can talk to your congressman as well. The other day, I read in the news that my congressman (a woman) was spouting off what I thought nonsense about how windenergy can't be stored. I wrote her an e-mail saying, yes, it can actually be stored and here's a wikipedia link to a great project in Scotland which does that. I got back a nice reply with a thanks, but she had heard of lots of problems in said project, so didn't see it as a viable solution.
On their channel listing, they indicate that with their most basic digital cable package, the HD versions of the broadcast networks (NBC, FOX, CBS, ABC, and PBS) should be accessible. What they don't tell you in that listing, is that currently the only way for you to decode the HD signal transmitted by Comcast is to get their tuner
I can't believe that people take this crap. I'd take the following steps:
Order most basic digital cable package
Don't receive channels in HD
Write a letter (with reception confirmation) and stop paying
When I moved from the previous city, I had to cancel my ADSL. I called them and asked the procedure. The lady said, "You started the 6th of the month when you subscribed. So, we will bill the full month and will pay back the remainder the next month."
I said: "You don't seriously think that I'm going to give you money and wait for it to come back?"
She got irritated saying "Everybody does it, it's procedure". I hung up, then paid the remainder and not the full month of course.
These big companies try to dick you around like there's no tomorrow, but it's MY goddamn money and you're not getting it if I don't want to.
Jeeebus, I'm sorry and I don't wish to insult you, but what happened to Slashdot being a techie place with lots of nerdy stuff? Whole stories are filled with political discussions not related to tech at all... I'm disappointed.
I had a teacher that gave C++. He had long, unkept curly hair and seldom bathed. He gave his lessons like his coding: in subroutines.
He'd jump from one subject to another and you had to take notes just to follow the flow of the class. He was called Joop and the famous command "rm -rf/" was named the "Joop Maneuver" at my college.
One time he appeared a bit late in class and I asked him honestly, hey you're never late, how come?
He admitted he got so drunk in the weekend that on Sunday evening he decided to take a swim in the ditch behind his house. In the morning he had to take an unexpected shower so he was a bit late:-D
About the single developer point; I suggest good old IRC as a semi-replacement for the coffee chat. OK it's not good, but it's better than nothing. The trick would be to find a decent channel. Freenode offers some good ones.
I accidentally linked to HTML_Form instead of HTML_QuickForm. It will automatically quote your values so as to stop XSS and will also make sure that magic_quotes_gpc isn't corrupting your values.
I totally agree, presenting forms should be part of the toolkit. And exactly because it's not rocket science, this toolkit is quite stable and hasn't changed the last two years; it's not like XSS is anything new.
What HTML_Forms does, is the following:
You describe the form including validation rules, with easy to use HTML_Forms functions
Then that description is used for both printing the form as well as checking a submitted form
Works flawlessly and integrates with the templating classes that PEAR offers.
Slashdot Mirror
... over the top. (Pressed submit too quickly.
Your analogy is flawed. It's not a company. It's a semi-government organization. Have you worked in one of those? The directors basically spend their time calling, writing, meeting, lobbying, everything they have to do to get that funding in.
And I don't know enough about the circumstances, but the satellite isn't comparable to luxurious offices or even a salary raise for his people. You're hyperboling to get your point across, but it's
HP? You mean that same company that releases printer drivers which can't run as restricted user in Windows 2000?
Yeah, I had REALLY expected them to release Vista drivers on time.
The only thing this blog writer concentrates on, is whether the precise quote of Proenza is correct or not.
It's not important. Proenza probably dumbed down/oversimplified on his statement and that's a good thing, because he is the main fundraiser for his institute. It should be slightly over the top. He's a fucking salesman, and Congress damn well knows this.
It's not important at all to say "yeah well, it's not quite accurate and why didn't he give a measure of uncertainty" blah blah.
Point is, the QuickSCAT satellite is used for lots of things, among them crossreferencing data of other satellites when the accuracy of those isn't up to snuff.
Satellites get older. Sensors decay due to cosmic rays damaging sensor pixels. Models use multiple inputs of data and when one satellite heavily degrades, that's a loss for science.
[[quote of staggering line of bollocks]]
Excuse me, what have you been smoking?
Since I'm the one-man-team drafting the new XGPL, I'm taking your comment into account.
*clock ticks one second*
We've decided that the XGPL cannot be released without your comment. In fact, we're retroactively updating all drafts as if this comment has always been there.
Now we should write some killer app and license it under the XGPL...
OK, sorry -- I don't mean to put words in your mouth. I should've read the whole comment more carefully.
I'm in a dev team that does C. I'm pretty well versed in Perl and PHP as well, but my colleagues aren't. So, should I say something snobby like:
"Yes, C developers are quite talented. But C developers are rarely well versed in PHP or Perl."
Of course not. It implies one is better than the other. And it's NOT.
To clarify: the newly drafted XGPL is an extension of the recently released GPL3. It now includes sharing the wife as well as the sourcecode.
Yeah well, that completely depends on which distribution you're tinkering with. :-)
Because I'm a Linux user!
:-(
Uuuh, except I'm not... The gf desperately wanted Bill's OS.
Actually I'm both a Debian and a RedHat fan. However, looking at what RedHat currently does with Xen, I'd rather not have everyone switch :-)
Debian? You mean the Linux distribution that recently came out with a graphical installer?
*ducks* *runs*
Don't call this number, everyone! It's not his ex-girlfriend, it's his mother!
After the machine was brought to a grinding halt by all that crapware and she had to pay the PC shop $100 for a reinstall, did she still install unknown software?
What sort of black/white world view do you have? The main point of a lobbyist is to talk to a politician to make sure he/she understands whatever the lobbyist is trying to get across. Now campaign funding might look like paying off said politician and there are rules about that. And I'm not saying these rules work or not, but the main point is TALKING.
And believe it or not, YOU can talk to your congressman as well. The other day, I read in the news that my congressman (a woman) was spouting off what I thought nonsense about how windenergy can't be stored. I wrote her an e-mail saying, yes, it can actually be stored and here's a wikipedia link to a great project in Scotland which does that. I got back a nice reply with a thanks, but she had heard of lots of problems in said project, so didn't see it as a viable solution.
And you can run it using Xen, so everyone can try it out and see what's it about.
When I moved from the previous city, I had to cancel my ADSL. I called them and asked the procedure. The lady said, "You started the 6th of the month when you subscribed. So, we will bill the full month and will pay back the remainder the next month."
I said: "You don't seriously think that I'm going to give you money and wait for it to come back?"
She got irritated saying "Everybody does it, it's procedure". I hung up, then paid the remainder and not the full month of course.
These big companies try to dick you around like there's no tomorrow, but it's MY goddamn money and you're not getting it if I don't want to.
Or getting a better price if you call and haggle.
Jeeebus, I'm sorry and I don't wish to insult you, but what happened to Slashdot being a techie place with lots of nerdy stuff? Whole stories are filled with political discussions not related to tech at all... I'm disappointed.
Oh yeah, teacher stories!
/" was named the "Joop Maneuver" at my college.
:-D
:-)
I had a teacher that gave C++. He had long, unkept curly hair and seldom bathed. He gave his lessons like his coding: in subroutines.
He'd jump from one subject to another and you had to take notes just to follow the flow of the class. He was called Joop and the famous command "rm -rf
One time he appeared a bit late in class and I asked him honestly, hey you're never late, how come?
He admitted he got so drunk in the weekend that on Sunday evening he decided to take a swim in the ditch behind his house. In the morning he had to take an unexpected shower so he was a bit late
Lousy teacher, great amusement
About the single developer point; I suggest good old IRC as a semi-replacement for the coffee chat. OK it's not good, but it's better than nothing. The trick would be to find a decent channel. Freenode offers some good ones.
I accidentally linked to HTML_Form instead of HTML_QuickForm. It will automatically quote your values so as to stop XSS and will also make sure that magic_quotes_gpc isn't corrupting your values.
What HTML_Forms does, is the following:
- You describe the form including validation rules, with easy to use HTML_Forms functions
- Then that description is used for both printing the form as well as checking a submitted form
Works flawlessly and integrates with the templating classes that PEAR offers.