So what about [can't remeber the title]? It's built on Halflife, but it puts a team leader in a coordinating, top down view, ordering the rest around. The teammates then run around in the 3d view, building bases, defenses and moving into position (as directed by the teamleader) to mow down the opposition. Think a cross between an rts and a fps, but with more tactics involved.
Or you can support multiple standards and talk to any client. Nobody ever said that supporting one standard means that you can't support others at the same time.
They're just trying to increase their potential market to include all the kids that are just getting their first computer. That's nothing to be worried about right now. It'll be at least 6 months till they launch needlepoint.slashdot.org, that's when I'm jumping ship.
It's ok to be old as long as you still don't hang out at the arcade all day long, otherwise you're just the "old freaky guy that hangs out in the arcade braggin about his high score on Defender".
No, you should have detailed logging on, and be keeping those logs for 100 years in case law enforcement needs to look at them, except in the cases when people are hacking your system, then you should turn off the logging.
Uh duh, did you ever think that maybe the self-taught people actually know just as much as the CS grads because they love it enough to spend their time learning real-world practices instead of spending 4 years learning what some professor thinks is important? I've worked with CS grads before and I'd consider recommending them for writing documentation or being a liason between the real programmers and the customers, but the ones I've worked with suck at writing code.
There's 3,000 miles between coasts. Lets assume that somebody jumps on board for every 1 mile stretch. How far would 3,000 people scattered across different service areas for cable and phone service get in petitioning for broadband?
Lets take an article where we could possibly discuss the technical merits of specific software and the evolution of the recording process and turn it into a pointless discussion over RIAA business strategy that can be answered with a "duh, what are you stupid?" response.
As soon as I saw the headline here I immediately thought about who does the testing for open source software. When is it decided that a "gold" version has been reached?
Does oss generally go through a formal testing process, or do a majority of large projects just rely on enough people downloading the beta to find all the bugs?
everybody files because just about everything can get one
Now we've all seen plenty of stories where stupid patents have been granted. But I don't think we're getting the entire picture. If they grant thousands of patents a year and we only see 20 stupid patent articles, then maybe they aren't doing the terrible job we're assuming they are. Maybe they are rejecting patents but we just don't hear about it because companies don't publicize their rejections.
I'm not claiming to have first-hand knowledge of the USPO but it's food for thought.
Imagine the savings if they tested the update on one machine first before deploying it company wide. Sounds like all the testing that was needed was trying to open the program after installing the update.
Nice. Can't wait to see the news editorials in 5 years:
"Kids Can't Add, 8 + 5 = D" A new study released today shows that kids with glasses are suffering from a strange syndrome which affects the brain. The syndrome, named DDD (decimal defecit disorder), causes children to include the first 6 letters of the alphabet into mathematical answers, making the answer completely wrong. What else is disturbing is that even the answers that don't contain letters are still completely wrong. The most common answer for the problem 8 + 8 was 10. Researchers are looking into finding ways of early diagnosis and ways of treating this illness. Pharmacutical companies are already developing a new drug called 0xRitalin that will hopefully rid our youth of this terrifying handicap.
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So what about [can't remeber the title]? It's built on Halflife, but it puts a team leader in a coordinating, top down view, ordering the rest around. The teammates then run around in the 3d view, building bases, defenses and moving into position (as directed by the teamleader) to mow down the opposition. Think a cross between an rts and a fps, but with more tactics involved.
Microsoft Headquarters?
Or you can support multiple standards and talk to any client. Nobody ever said that supporting one standard means that you can't support others at the same time.
They're just trying to increase their potential market to include all the kids that are just getting their first computer. That's nothing to be worried about right now. It'll be at least 6 months till they launch needlepoint.slashdot.org, that's when I'm jumping ship.
It's ok to be old as long as you still don't hang out at the arcade all day long, otherwise you're just the "old freaky guy that hangs out in the arcade braggin about his high score on Defender".
You forgot one:
You must not have ever lived with a woman for 30 consecutive days.
Reading instructions? Do you know what website you're posting on right now?
What, you're not going to have a smoke?
Sarcasm? How much exactly are you paying for the free software that runs on Linux?
No, you should have detailed logging on, and be keeping those logs for 100 years in case law enforcement needs to look at them, except in the cases when people are hacking your system, then you should turn off the logging.
Uh duh, did you ever think that maybe the self-taught people actually know just as much as the CS grads because they love it enough to spend their time learning real-world practices instead of spending 4 years learning what some professor thinks is important? I've worked with CS grads before and I'd consider recommending them for writing documentation or being a liason between the real programmers and the customers, but the ones I've worked with suck at writing code.
artificial gravity
replicators
warp speed
photon torpedoes
holodecks
There's 3,000 miles between coasts. Lets assume that somebody jumps on board for every 1 mile stretch. How far would 3,000 people scattered across different service areas for cable and phone service get in petitioning for broadband?
Only on the 3 days of the year it's actually visible.
Lets take an article where we could possibly discuss the technical merits of specific software and the evolution of the recording process and turn it into a pointless discussion over RIAA business strategy that can be answered with a "duh, what are you stupid?" response.
Is anybody else surprised at the number of posters that had the link to an ASCII version of Deep Throat readily available?
As soon as I saw the headline here I immediately thought about who does the testing for open source software. When is it decided that a "gold" version has been reached?
Does oss generally go through a formal testing process, or do a majority of large projects just rely on enough people downloading the beta to find all the bugs?
Karma whore
That's fine for MP3s, but where am I suppose to store my DivX "backups"?
You've obviously never played Sim City 3000. A software company puts out as much pollution as a sludge factory.
everybody files because just about everything can get one
Now we've all seen plenty of stories where stupid patents have been granted. But I don't think we're getting the entire picture. If they grant thousands of patents a year and we only see 20 stupid patent articles, then maybe they aren't doing the terrible job we're assuming they are. Maybe they are rejecting patents but we just don't hear about it because companies don't publicize their rejections.
I'm not claiming to have first-hand knowledge of the USPO but it's food for thought.
Imagine the savings if they tested the update on one machine first before deploying it company wide. Sounds like all the testing that was needed was trying to open the program after installing the update.
the site referenced by the parent of my post has a "count in hex" section for kids.
Nice. Can't wait to see the news editorials in 5 years:
"Kids Can't Add, 8 + 5 = D"
A new study released today shows that kids with glasses are suffering from a strange syndrome which affects the brain. The syndrome, named DDD (decimal defecit disorder), causes children to include the first 6 letters of the alphabet into mathematical answers, making the answer completely wrong. What else is disturbing is that even the answers that don't contain letters are still completely wrong. The most common answer for the problem 8 + 8 was 10. Researchers are looking into finding ways of early diagnosis and ways of treating this illness. Pharmacutical companies are already developing a new drug called 0xRitalin that will hopefully rid our youth of this terrifying handicap.
My boss is going to be so pissed that you stole the latest product specs he wrote!
Haven't you heard of Verizon?