Surely that's the point the MPA is what you linked to, but the MPAA is what he was asking about. The MPAA would have no jurisdiction in Canada (I assume) and so you would have to contact the CMPDA, though not the CRIA.
Yeah, I got bored of adding Wikipedia links by the time I got to the CRIA =)
The fact that you and Scalzi replied are enough to humble me into retraction, I feel like a 15 year old schoolboy who just got reprimanded by someone he respects.
Don't post comments about favourite authors after a 'few' glasses of Laphroaig is the moral I guess.
There are a number of authors who I respect, who are members of the SWFA. I love Charles Stross' work. I can understand why they are members of the SWFA. Before today I didn't even know the SWFA existed, let alone that these authors were members.
As of today however I will not buy books from people who I know are SWFA members, until the idiots in charge are no longer in charge. Guilt by association I guess, which is bad, but... there ya go.
Either get rid of the nutter (and from what I have read you actually are the person who should be in charge), or leave, or I won't buy your books any more.
Change, change fast, or lose at least one paying customer.
I didn't have suitcases checked for anything, the two books i remember having were the Dirty Havana Trilogy (Pedro Juan Gutierrez), and Our Man in Havana. I had a load of others (I read a lot), but I couldn't tell you what. Sorry.
Must be a different Cuba from the one I travelled round, the one I took a stack of books to (you can't take DVD players there though, weirdly - and that can mean problems with laptops, but if the drive can be removed, not a problem).
Discussing politics with the people there didn't seem to be a problem either - some didn't like Castro, some did, some didn't like how a small number of families were getting wealthy, and recreating the class system, some didn't see it as a huge issue. Kinda like people everywhere.
Didn't really eat much rice and the place is a nightmare for vegetarians though:(
Best thing about Cuba though - you see hardly any Americans - that has to make it about the best destination in the world...
Quantum - definition - "The smallest physically realizable unit of something.", "The smallest discrete amount of any quantity (plural: quanta)." and various others
Why do people say quantum leap thinking it means a huge jump, when it should in fact be the smallest movement possible? Am I just being cranky?
yeah yeah, I know that google page has a link to;quantum jump' one defn of which is a huge leap. So mod me redundant or something.
I used to think this, but apparently they do not DRM the received track (in the normal sense), they just delete everything after three plays or days (or whatever it is).
Which seemed a pretty sneaky way round drm'ing something that they are not allowed to. But... if they let you 'unpirate' something, then what they do is more arguably drm'ing, meaning potential rights issues (maybe).
Which is kinda interesting after a few shots of whisly.
The advantage of Bugzilla is that you can easily change large chunks of it, it is far easier to customise than TD...
I would say that if you want to use the other parts of TD (Test Plan, Test Lab et cetera), then it is just about the best thing since sliced bread (even given that it *can* be fucking annoying to use, and reporting is a bit shit). BUT - if you just want bug tracking then I do think Bugzilla is the way to go, even if only due to the price:) As said, you can customise it a lot, and perhaps their new templating system will help out with usability issues?
I forget which, but don't Archos or iRiver pretty much support 3rd party apps (well, 3rd party OS). As far as DRM is concerned, it looks like either it can be there and totally ignored (i.e. as per most mp3 players - if you don't buy music online then it shouldn't affect you), or add restrictions on receive (only one I can think of is the Zune and it's WiFi restrictions). So DRM really shouldn't be that much of a deal breaker, should it (apart from using WiFi).
And before y'all call me a DRM apologist - no, I don't think it is a *good thing*. I have no DRM-ed music on my music player - it's just the fact that my music player supports DRM doesn't really affect me, as far as I can tell. (Okay - it does in that the machine is more complex than it need be, potentially, I do accept that).
So I guess the question is - why is the fact that a music player supports DRM a deal breaker? For me the more DRM formats supported the better! Much as I hate wma files in general, and protected 'fair play' AAC, I wish I had a player that supported both - I actually like the idea of a subscription music service (I'm not sure what download amount restrictions apply, but I'd happily spend £10 a month to just download and try different types of music, if it were an unlimited amount of downloads. I do understand that as soon as I stop subscribing I lose the music - but 2 months in a year I'd happily subscribe, to get a lot of tracks from artists I don't really know and from types of music I don't normally listen to. Play them, sort out which artists appeal, then trash the lot and buy some CD's...
Anyway - that turned into a longer reply than I intended.
(And offtopic - I noticed that your sig seems to be in support of an American band that look dangerously like they support the IRA - do they? And if so do you find that offensive?)
I have seen this a lot recently, and it seems strange, is MS redefining what an RC is?
An RC is a Release Candidate - it is not by definition a public beta, it is something the project team thinks is good enough to release to manufacturing. Yes, the reason to ship it to people willing to test it is that 2 million testers are better than a hundred (no, I have no idea how many testers MS had on Vista, I would assume more than 100, and I have no idea how many people downloaded the RC, and how many of those installed it, and how many of *those* actually tried using it for more than 1/2 hour).
If a particular build only satisfies it's main use cases then it should not be an RC - unless you are going to release it in a "main cases only the rest may be broken but this is software so we can probably fix it later" state. That state isn't necessarily a bad one to release in, of course, but that state is one where it is generally better to start to go into final QA, and final UAT, rather than to decide to release to manufacturing.
I'm interested in what the advantages of having the OS's on different drives are?
I have always found that two hard drives are good for the OS on one and data on the other, and that that is the case even when I have multiple OS's (i.e. all my various OS's on hda, and all my data partitions on hdb, hdc &c).
The advantage I have always thought was to separate app / OS access and data access (and move swap file to the second drive too, to take that out of the OS / app access path). All I see the other way is that it becomes easier to pull a drive. Other advantages? I'm always interested on ways I could be doing this better.
Someone above recommended Edward Kit's book. Definitely worth reading, imo.
But the biggest reason I see for developers not being so good at testing, is that they are of the mind set that they try to show how the SUT does work. Not really in the least bit helpful, that is what your unit tests should have been doing. No, the mind set is 'In what ways does this fail?'. All software fails, you just have to find out how. That is probably one of the reasons you think so much of the literature is of a philosophical bent, because it is. There are techniques that can help you find the places where it'll break (wikipedia - boundary value analysis, equivalence partitions and software testing may help), but ultimately it is just a form of scientific method. Your SUT is a hypothesis, the only way to show validity is by attempting all you can to disprove it.
You may want to have a quick read of James Bach's site, and may even see if you can get yourself along to one of his trainings.
GUI test automation (Mercury, Compuware et al) - they are potentially useful, but you need to be able to understand how to test before you can write good automated tests. Unfortunately this is often not the case, hence the oft heard saying "Test automation, enabling you to test badly, quicker." Test automation is not the same as manual testing, you need to understand how it is different for it to be of value (beyond unit testing - you probably know how to unit test, hence you probably have at least an initial idea of how to automtate unit tests).
Feel free to ask more, or disagree, or just curse me some:)
And just to own up to my own bias, I've been a tester for around 15 years.
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But i do hate having to hoover up the kleenex i used after xeroxing too much...
I was going to reply, but the answer became too off-topic, and rambled a little, so I posted an entry to my slashdot journal (first time i have used that feature). That journal has some more of my thoughts on this (I don't think they are necessarily against your views), and I would love to continue this conversation there.
Is it impolite to ask what films you have watched with bits cut out?
I had no idea services like that existed. On the one hand it seems really cool that someone will take a film and edit out the bits you don't want to see. But... on the other hand why on earth would you watch a film where you already know there are segements you don't like?
This is going off-topic I know, sorry, but I find this interesting. If a film has violence, sex, drug use or bad language as one of the core artistic drivers to it's message (Irreversible or Audition, for example), would those things be removed? I guess it is a moot point, as you'd choose not to watch those films, but they are just extreme examples. Let's use The Little mermaid as an example - this contains a scene where a chef wants to cook one of the main characters, which to me seems to fall under the disturbing violence category, do these services remove such a scene, even where it is relevant to the story? (I know, 'The Little Mermaid', but hell, it's about the only Disney film I have seen more than once, and would choose to watch again, I can live with the social stigma of that).
I guess it may be equated to buying an album, and not listening to tracks you don't like? Maybe.
Even cooler though, would be a hacked version of clearplay's filters which let you choose to see only violence, disturbing scenes, sex, bad language and drug use. (Ha, only joking there - I'd probably be happy to dump any unnecessary violence).
Okay, replying to myself, I went to Kinkos website and had a quick look at their T&C's.
To Quote: You also warrant and confirm that You own the copyright or have permission to copy any documents or Materials You submit online for printing or processing, and agree to defend, indemnify and hold FedEx Kinko's, its parent and its parent's subsidiary companies and their respective officers, directors, agents and employees, harmless from any suit, demand, or claim arising out of any breach of this warranty and agree to pay any judgment or reasonable settlement offer resulting from any such suit, demand or claim, and to pay any attorney's fees incurred by FedEx Kinko's in defending against such suit, demand or claim. KInko's T&C's (This is for electronic submission - I assume in store the same rules apply, but they may not, and I am bored of checking there legal docs)
So it looks like Kinkos demand that you either are the copyright owner or have the copyright owners permission (but don't seem to ask for proof of that). And that in either case you take on any legal burden.
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But... does netcraft confirm it? (Sorry, couldn't resist)
Off topic I know, but aren't you tempted to upgrade to pro, still save money, and get a faster upload speed?
Surely that's the point the MPA is what you linked to, but the MPAA is what he was asking about. The MPAA would have no jurisdiction in Canada (I assume) and so you would have to contact the CMPDA, though not the CRIA.
Yeah, I got bored of adding Wikipedia links by the time I got to the CRIA =)
Kinda off-topic, and whilst the saying is a good one, if you put frogs in cold water and slowly heat, they will jump out before they boil.
Frog boiling according to Victor H. Hutchison the George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus of Zoology.
The fact that you and Scalzi replied are enough to humble me into retraction, I feel like a 15 year old schoolboy who just got reprimanded by someone he respects.
Don't post comments about favourite authors after a 'few' glasses of Laphroaig is the moral I guess.
There are a number of authors who I respect, who are members of the SWFA. I love Charles Stross' work. I can understand why they are members of the SWFA. Before today I didn't even know the SWFA existed, let alone that these authors were members.
As of today however I will not buy books from people who I know are SWFA members, until the idiots in charge are no longer in charge. Guilt by association I guess, which is bad, but... there ya go.
Either get rid of the nutter (and from what I have read you actually are the person who should be in charge), or leave, or I won't buy your books any more.
Change, change fast, or lose at least one paying customer.
I didn't have suitcases checked for anything, the two books i remember having were the Dirty Havana Trilogy (Pedro Juan Gutierrez), and Our Man in Havana. I had a load of others (I read a lot), but I couldn't tell you what. Sorry.
Must be a different Cuba from the one I travelled round, the one I took a stack of books to (you can't take DVD players there though, weirdly - and that can mean problems with laptops, but if the drive can be removed, not a problem).
:(
Discussing politics with the people there didn't seem to be a problem either - some didn't like Castro, some did, some didn't like how a small number of families were getting wealthy, and recreating the class system, some didn't see it as a huge issue. Kinda like people everywhere.
Didn't really eat much rice and the place is a nightmare for vegetarians though
Best thing about Cuba though - you see hardly any Americans - that has to make it about the best destination in the world...
Quantum - definition - "The smallest physically realizable unit of something.", "The smallest discrete amount of any quantity (plural: quanta)." and various others
;quantum jump' one defn of which is a huge leap. So mod me redundant or something.
Why do people say quantum leap thinking it means a huge jump, when it should in fact be the smallest movement possible? Am I just being cranky?
yeah yeah, I know that google page has a link to
I used to think this, but apparently they do not DRM the received track (in the normal sense), they just delete everything after three plays or days (or whatever it is).
Which seemed a pretty sneaky way round drm'ing something that they are not allowed to. But... if they let you 'unpirate' something, then what they do is more arguably drm'ing, meaning potential rights issues (maybe).
Which is kinda interesting after a few shots of whisly.
Not sure if that is funny, weird as fucking or just disturbing.
I thought OS/2 Warp 4 (or whatever it was called), was released around 1996, he didn't say he stayed on the original OS/2 'till OS X...
Hmm, I have moderator points, where is my WTF? moderation option?
I think you may actually mean raison du jour
I just have to add a big 'Me too!" here.
The advantage of Bugzilla is that you can easily change large chunks of it, it is far easier to customise than TD...
:) As said, you can customise it a lot, and perhaps their new templating system will help out with usability issues?
I would say that if you want to use the other parts of TD (Test Plan, Test Lab et cetera), then it is just about the best thing since sliced bread (even given that it *can* be fucking annoying to use, and reporting is a bit shit). BUT - if you just want bug tracking then I do think Bugzilla is the way to go, even if only due to the price
Or, you could try the article translated into english by Der Spiegel.
I forget which, but don't Archos or iRiver pretty much support 3rd party apps (well, 3rd party OS). As far as DRM is concerned, it looks like either it can be there and totally ignored (i.e. as per most mp3 players - if you don't buy music online then it shouldn't affect you), or add restrictions on receive (only one I can think of is the Zune and it's WiFi restrictions). So DRM really shouldn't be that much of a deal breaker, should it (apart from using WiFi).
And before y'all call me a DRM apologist - no, I don't think it is a *good thing*. I have no DRM-ed music on my music player - it's just the fact that my music player supports DRM doesn't really affect me, as far as I can tell. (Okay - it does in that the machine is more complex than it need be, potentially, I do accept that).
So I guess the question is - why is the fact that a music player supports DRM a deal breaker? For me the more DRM formats supported the better! Much as I hate wma files in general, and protected 'fair play' AAC, I wish I had a player that supported both - I actually like the idea of a subscription music service (I'm not sure what download amount restrictions apply, but I'd happily spend £10 a month to just download and try different types of music, if it were an unlimited amount of downloads. I do understand that as soon as I stop subscribing I lose the music - but 2 months in a year I'd happily subscribe, to get a lot of tracks from artists I don't really know and from types of music I don't normally listen to. Play them, sort out which artists appeal, then trash the lot and buy some CD's...
Anyway - that turned into a longer reply than I intended.
(And offtopic - I noticed that your sig seems to be in support of an American band that look dangerously like they support the IRA - do they? And if so do you find that offensive?)
(Increasingly off topic, sorry)
I have seen this a lot recently, and it seems strange, is MS redefining what an RC is?
An RC is a Release Candidate - it is not by definition a public beta, it is something the project team thinks is good enough to release to manufacturing. Yes, the reason to ship it to people willing to test it is that 2 million testers are better than a hundred (no, I have no idea how many testers MS had on Vista, I would assume more than 100, and I have no idea how many people downloaded the RC, and how many of those installed it, and how many of *those* actually tried using it for more than 1/2 hour).
If a particular build only satisfies it's main use cases then it should not be an RC - unless you are going to release it in a "main cases only the rest may be broken but this is software so we can probably fix it later" state. That state isn't necessarily a bad one to release in, of course, but that state is one where it is generally better to start to go into final QA, and final UAT, rather than to decide to release to manufacturing.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest...
I'm interested in what the advantages of having the OS's on different drives are?
I have always found that two hard drives are good for the OS on one and data on the other, and that that is the case even when I have multiple OS's (i.e. all my various OS's on hda, and all my data partitions on hdb, hdc &c).
The advantage I have always thought was to separate app / OS access and data access (and move swap file to the second drive too, to take that out of the OS / app access path). All I see the other way is that it becomes easier to pull a drive. Other advantages? I'm always interested on ways I could be doing this better.
Cheers.
Someone above recommended Edward Kit's book. Definitely worth reading, imo.
:)
But the biggest reason I see for developers not being so good at testing, is that they are of the mind set that they try to show how the SUT does work. Not really in the least bit helpful, that is what your unit tests should have been doing. No, the mind set is 'In what ways does this fail?'. All software fails, you just have to find out how. That is probably one of the reasons you think so much of the literature is of a philosophical bent, because it is. There are techniques that can help you find the places where it'll break (wikipedia - boundary value analysis, equivalence partitions and software testing may help), but ultimately it is just a form of scientific method. Your SUT is a hypothesis, the only way to show validity is by attempting all you can to disprove it.
You may want to have a quick read of James Bach's site, and may even see if you can get yourself along to one of his trainings.
GUI test automation (Mercury, Compuware et al) - they are potentially useful, but you need to be able to understand how to test before you can write good automated tests. Unfortunately this is often not the case, hence the oft heard saying "Test automation, enabling you to test badly, quicker." Test automation is not the same as manual testing, you need to understand how it is different for it to be of value (beyond unit testing - you probably know how to unit test, hence you probably have at least an initial idea of how to automtate unit tests).
Feel free to ask more, or disagree, or just curse me some
And just to own up to my own bias, I've been a tester for around 15 years.
But i do hate having to hoover up the kleenex i used after xeroxing too much...
I was going to reply, but the answer became too off-topic, and rambled a little, so I posted an entry to my slashdot journal (first time i have used that feature). That journal has some more of my thoughts on this (I don't think they are necessarily against your views), and I would love to continue this conversation there.
:)
Is it impolite to ask what films you have watched with bits cut out?
Thanks for making me think
Wow.
I had no idea services like that existed. On the one hand it seems really cool that someone will take a film and edit out the bits you don't want to see. But... on the other hand why on earth would you watch a film where you already know there are segements you don't like?
This is going off-topic I know, sorry, but I find this interesting. If a film has violence, sex, drug use or bad language as one of the core artistic drivers to it's message (Irreversible or Audition, for example), would those things be removed? I guess it is a moot point, as you'd choose not to watch those films, but they are just extreme examples. Let's use The Little mermaid as an example - this contains a scene where a chef wants to cook one of the main characters, which to me seems to fall under the disturbing violence category, do these services remove such a scene, even where it is relevant to the story? (I know, 'The Little Mermaid', but hell, it's about the only Disney film I have seen more than once, and would choose to watch again, I can live with the social stigma of that).
I guess it may be equated to buying an album, and not listening to tracks you don't like? Maybe.
Even cooler though, would be a hacked version of clearplay's filters which let you choose to see only violence, disturbing scenes, sex, bad language and drug use. (Ha, only joking there - I'd probably be happy to dump any unnecessary violence).
Okay, replying to myself, I went to Kinkos website and had a quick look at their T&C's.
:)
To Quote:
You also warrant and confirm that You own the copyright or have permission to copy any documents or Materials You submit online for printing or processing, and agree to defend, indemnify and hold FedEx Kinko's, its parent and its parent's subsidiary companies and their respective officers, directors, agents and employees, harmless from any suit, demand, or claim arising out of any breach of this warranty and agree to pay any judgment or reasonable settlement offer resulting from any such suit, demand or claim, and to pay any attorney's fees incurred by FedEx Kinko's in defending against such suit, demand or claim.
KInko's T&C's
(This is for electronic submission - I assume in store the same rules apply, but they may not, and I am bored of checking there legal docs)
So it looks like Kinkos demand that you either are the copyright owner or have the copyright owners permission (but don't seem to ask for proof of that). And that in either case you take on any legal burden.
Not sure if this is really relevant though