no matter what repository you're using, they all have issues when you have 200 people working in the same place at the same time
You know what this means? Your project's organization sucks! I don't care how big the thing is, it ought to be separated into independent modules with well-defined interfaces, each small enough for only a few programmers to work on at a time.
If you need 200 (or even 20!) people to change the same section at the same time, you already have spaghetti code.
What we really need is to promote the concept of the CodeSmith like a balcksmish, silversmith or whatever, coding is a skilled artisan occupation.
Or promote the concept of the title "Software Engineer" requiring a professional certification, the way real engineering does. Any slob off the street can't suddenly proclaim himself a "Professional Civil Engineer" and start building skyscrapers; why should he be allowed to proclaim himself a "Professional Software Engineer" and start coding medical databases?
That third button isn't a traditional middle button - it's a "turn on scrolling with the trackpoint instead of moving the mouse" button, or something like that.
Err... that's what the middle button tends to do in software not designed for X anyway. All my mice work that way. It still ought to be able to paste highlighted text into xterms and such, though.
That, BTW, is why there are only two buttons duplicated down to the trackpad.
Lucky for me, my X-series is too small to have a trackpad. It does have a digitizer instead, though. : )
That's just as well -- this kind of thing is better off non-commercial and distributed, just like every other major Internet protocol (with the notable exception of IM, unfortunately).
Wow, how freakin' naive can you be? Do you really think this is the only bit of malware on the computer? After all, if Acer installs one piece, it can install a hundred.
I say nuke it from orb...err, reformat and install Linux. It's the only way to be sure.
Just to nit-pick, if you read the article you linked, they do have transmissions just like the prius.. both the electric and piston drives are used to drive the bus.
Like he said, no transmission -- the Prius doesn't have one either. What it has is a planetary gearset, which, although it still "transmits" the power, is really a different kind of thing than a traditional "transmission."
Well, that all depends on your definition of "place." For example, is the meeting room a "place," or is the whole office building a "place?" If it's on the former scale, maybe you have the situation where you want to be reminded of the meeting if you're in your office, but not if you're in the meeting room. But if it's the latter, maybe you want to be reminded to go, say, get something from a particular coworker before you leave. Also, it can even depend on the transitions between places. For example, if you're transitioning from work to home maybe you want to be reminded to get milk on the way when you get near the grocery store, but if you're transitioning in the opposite direction (or to a different destination entirely) you don't.
In other words, it depends a lot on context. For a more detailed investigation of the kind of thing I'm talking about, read this (note: PDF).
I could see something like this being useful on a PDA or a cell phone (if you've got a data plan), so it might be a feature of the rumored "iPhone". However, looking at the prices for Bluetooth GPS units, I wonder whether the chipsets aren't too expensive to make them a default option.
You know what I see it useful in? A camera, so that it could automatically add the location to the EXIF data of each photo taken. I would think Google and Apple would be all over that kind of thing, since it would have really cool possibilities for iPhoto and Google Image Search. Too bad neither of them makes cameras...
I don't know about you, but what I'd want is a PC-card (or even mini-PCI) version that doesn't stick out, so that I could keep it in the laptop permanently
...if this is anything like the "sudden motion sensor," it's really exciting because of all the cool stuff third parties will do with it. For example, off the top of my head I can think of a few things that I'd like to see implemented: automatically switching the "location" (which is used for determining network settings) according to the actual GPS location, linking iCal events to locations so that I can get reminders when I'm in the right place, etc.
The downside of gold is that invading Conquistadors (or otherwise no-good people) might try to melt it down into bars or bullion, destroying your data.
Yes, I can -- I own an iBook too. However, I don't see how Linux really helps that situation much, since it's not as if it's that much more efficient than OS X.
Nothing, because they're elitist idiots. As a civil engineer and computer scientist, I'll tell you this: there is no such thing as "software engineering!" If there were, the liability settlements alone would have killed off the entire industry years ago.
Running Firefox on OS X and Linux makes it easy for her to download stuff on Kubuntu and then switch to Win2K to do whatever HAS to be done on Windows.
Wait, explain one more time why she couldn't run Virtual PC in OS X instead of Linux?
That's all there is to it for most people --- most people don't care about how forthcoming they are to the gaming press, how the launch titles aren't as good as current-gen 360 titles, etc.
Neither do we, for the most part. What we care about are the DRM, rootkit, proprietary formats, etc. and those are things "most people" should care about too because they will be burnt by it sooner or later.
if you are lucky enough to receive a Microsoft audit
I hate to break it to you, but contrary to popular opinion Microsoft isn't the government. The only way Microsoft can audit you is if you let it do so. So what's the solution? Don't let it!
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You know what this means? Your project's organization sucks! I don't care how big the thing is, it ought to be separated into independent modules with well-defined interfaces, each small enough for only a few programmers to work on at a time.
If you need 200 (or even 20!) people to change the same section at the same time, you already have spaghetti code.
Or promote the concept of the title "Software Engineer" requiring a professional certification, the way real engineering does. Any slob off the street can't suddenly proclaim himself a "Professional Civil Engineer" and start building skyscrapers; why should he be allowed to proclaim himself a "Professional Software Engineer" and start coding medical databases?
Err... that's what the middle button tends to do in software not designed for X anyway. All my mice work that way. It still ought to be able to paste highlighted text into xterms and such, though.
Lucky for me, my X-series is too small to have a trackpad. It does have a digitizer instead, though. : )
That's just as well -- this kind of thing is better off non-commercial and distributed, just like every other major Internet protocol (with the notable exception of IM, unfortunately).
Yep, and this is why TeX version numbers asymptotically approach pi : )
If you want flexibility and usefulness, why not skip C++ and go straight to Java or C#?
Practice instead of trolling on Slashdot, that's how!
Wow, how freakin' naive can you be? Do you really think this is the only bit of malware on the computer? After all, if Acer installs one piece, it can install a hundred.
I say nuke it from orb...err, reformat and install Linux. It's the only way to be sure.
Buy a Mac.
(Seriously.)
Uh, since when? My brand-new X60t damn well has (or will have, when it finally gets delivered) a three-button trackpoint!
Like he said, no transmission -- the Prius doesn't have one either. What it has is a planetary gearset, which, although it still "transmits" the power, is really a different kind of thing than a traditional "transmission."
Have you tried writing "return to sender" on it and stuffing it back in the mailbox? (Not that I've tried it...)
Well, that all depends on your definition of "place." For example, is the meeting room a "place," or is the whole office building a "place?" If it's on the former scale, maybe you have the situation where you want to be reminded of the meeting if you're in your office, but not if you're in the meeting room. But if it's the latter, maybe you want to be reminded to go, say, get something from a particular coworker before you leave. Also, it can even depend on the transitions between places. For example, if you're transitioning from work to home maybe you want to be reminded to get milk on the way when you get near the grocery store, but if you're transitioning in the opposite direction (or to a different destination entirely) you don't.
In other words, it depends a lot on context. For a more detailed investigation of the kind of thing I'm talking about, read this (note: PDF).
You know what I see it useful in? A camera, so that it could automatically add the location to the EXIF data of each photo taken. I would think Google and Apple would be all over that kind of thing, since it would have really cool possibilities for iPhoto and Google Image Search. Too bad neither of them makes cameras...
I don't know about you, but what I'd want is a PC-card (or even mini-PCI) version that doesn't stick out, so that I could keep it in the laptop permanently
...if this is anything like the "sudden motion sensor," it's really exciting because of all the cool stuff third parties will do with it. For example, off the top of my head I can think of a few things that I'd like to see implemented: automatically switching the "location" (which is used for determining network settings) according to the actual GPS location, linking iCal events to locations so that I can get reminders when I'm in the right place, etc.
The downside of gold is that invading Conquistadors (or otherwise no-good people) might try to melt it down into bars or bullion, destroying your data.
Yes, I can -- I own an iBook too. However, I don't see how Linux really helps that situation much, since it's not as if it's that much more efficient than OS X.
Nothing, because they're elitist idiots. As a civil engineer and computer scientist, I'll tell you this: there is no such thing as "software engineering!" If there were, the liability settlements alone would have killed off the entire industry years ago.
How about they just make drives that actually are 80GB (in the common reckoning -- i.e., 80*(2^30) bytes instead of 80*(10^9) bytes)?
Wait, explain one more time why she couldn't run Virtual PC in OS X instead of Linux?
Because the "standard" is turning into a locked-down DRM hellhole, that's why. I want my computer to obey me, not the other way around!
Neither do we, for the most part. What we care about are the DRM, rootkit, proprietary formats, etc. and those are things "most people" should care about too because they will be burnt by it sooner or later.
I hate to break it to you, but contrary to popular opinion Microsoft isn't the government. The only way Microsoft can audit you is if you let it do so. So what's the solution? Don't let it!
Okay, who's next?