Just go ahead and grab a new round of $BEVERAGE and maybe pick one station that's not on your floor but another floor so you get some stair exercise at the same thing. A walkabout is sometimes useful to straighten out the lines of thoughts and even get a chat on the way with someone.
Work is more than just looking forward - work is a lot like driving in traffic - you need to pay attention to your surroundings too in order to catch the flow. Organized meetings appear only when the tide has turned, the small informal meetings are the important ones.
Ballmer is doing a bull run full ahead and don't care a bit about what the customers think. Not only the Xbox live account requirement is evidence of that but also the fact that the Windows 8 UI is something that's best useful for three year old kids and not useful for the advanced users.
I suspect that Microsoft has had it's peak and now they are into the process and business model that we saw that many big computer corporations were following during the 70's and 80's where you locked the systems through obscurity. Next step would be a CPU class based licensing of Windows.
The reason why M$ did grow big was that there was not much heavy copy-protection and license key mess in the beginning. People copied the OS from work to run at home as well and so on. It may have been a lost sale, but not many home users would have purchased the full license anyway.
But often the progress bar is thrown in and never tested to see if it's reasonable. I would say that what would be useful for the user is to provide more than just a progress bar - also provide information about which task that's executed.
Even if it was wrong it was at least pretty obvious that it wasn't a real emergency. No need to bust people like that hard, it was highlighting a problem in the system that could have been abused in a lot worse manner.
Better to have a modem with some obnoxious BBS software behind.
In one way - the best way is to have an answering machine saying "Please hold - your call will be answered in a moment" but then you just don't provide more and don't hang up until later. That will keep the robocall line blocked longer.
On the contrary - lithium interacts very much with oxygen, and if oxygen did enter the battery cells due to pressure changes then it may still be the culprit.
And pressure changes are normal on an aircraft - especially at take-off and landing.
Consider the fact that batteries are experiencing pressure changes, vibration, temperature changes in addition to being charged/discharged and the fact that lithium interacts aggressively with oxygen and water as well I would say that the choice of that battery type is risky.
Pressure changes may cause oxygen to penetrate the batteries and make them fail.
That leads to the fact that the OP may be more right than funny.
Start with teaching the employees the importance of writing good code.
Also teach them how to refactor code in the IDE they use to avoid gigantic monolitic methods/functions/classes.
Then provide them with the tools. In addition to compile at the highest warning level and using the built-in support in the IDEs they should look at Stylecop for C# (even though it's more about style than finding potential bugs), Splint for C, FindBugs for Java.
People that are willing to take in and understand the importance of writing good code will end up being better.
And don't forget that people are competitive to some degree - so if you find a way to measure the quality of the code produced it's fine, and let it come with a small advantage. A movie ticket, a box of chocolate or something similar.
Just look at it this way - the site owner should only care about legal matters if it's clearly illegal at both ends. Otherwise a lot of site owners in the US may have to report on Chinese citizens discussing democracy.
If the violation of ToS is due to an illegal action like posting things that are illegal both for the location of the site and the poster it should still land into the legal system, but the large volume of ToS violations should at most render the offender a permanent banning from that site or in milder cases a temporary ban.
If you play against a computer you may be able to do really well if you have memorized the moves that someone else has made in a successful game against that computer or a similar computer. If you do memorize a whole chess game from both sides you are of course good, so maybe it's not cheating, but it's a way to rig the game into what's hopefully your favor. As long as the computer responds with known responses you can stick to the memorized moves, if the computer doesn't you have to re-evaluate what's needed to get back on track.
It's not going to be easy, but it's certainly doable.
As a side note I heard of two blokes that had memorized a classic chess game and then started to replay it in a park. It was quite a show for the people around that chess board. (or shall I say pavement).
When you are at that age you have enough knowledge to know that your parents don't know everything and you also realize that "can't be done" is not always true.
The problem today is that many thinks that kids aren't smart enough to provide a useful contribution. Reality is that some kids are playing on a completely different field than many adults. If a kid shows interest in something let then tinker with it. You never know if that kid is going to get hooked or not and in some fields that kid can be a candidate for the Nobel Prize later.
There are too many cases today where things aren't done because there's too much administrative trouble around it.
The Mafia (the Sicilian one, not the "MAFIAA") also provides a "clean-up" service that might be useful here....
Any of them would be successful. Depends on the country. In some countries you can also make the system work against your target - like filing information to the local variant of the IRS stating that mr Soandso has been paid a salary of X dollars, to be taxed in his home country. That can cause him to be responsible to pay additional tax - or fight it, but the tax authorities are by default right until proven wrong.
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I'm sticking to the 2003 version that I run at home until they pry it from my cold dead hands...
Just go ahead and grab a new round of $BEVERAGE and maybe pick one station that's not on your floor but another floor so you get some stair exercise at the same thing. A walkabout is sometimes useful to straighten out the lines of thoughts and even get a chat on the way with someone.
Work is more than just looking forward - work is a lot like driving in traffic - you need to pay attention to your surroundings too in order to catch the flow. Organized meetings appear only when the tide has turned, the small informal meetings are the important ones.
Ballmer is doing a bull run full ahead and don't care a bit about what the customers think. Not only the Xbox live account requirement is evidence of that but also the fact that the Windows 8 UI is something that's best useful for three year old kids and not useful for the advanced users.
I suspect that Microsoft has had it's peak and now they are into the process and business model that we saw that many big computer corporations were following during the 70's and 80's where you locked the systems through obscurity. Next step would be a CPU class based licensing of Windows.
The reason why M$ did grow big was that there was not much heavy copy-protection and license key mess in the beginning. People copied the OS from work to run at home as well and so on. It may have been a lost sale, but not many home users would have purchased the full license anyway.
Or one for each sub-task if you need one.
But often the progress bar is thrown in and never tested to see if it's reasonable. I would say that what would be useful for the user is to provide more than just a progress bar - also provide information about which task that's executed.
Even if it was wrong it was at least pretty obvious that it wasn't a real emergency. No need to bust people like that hard, it was highlighting a problem in the system that could have been abused in a lot worse manner.
Yes - buy another is definitely going to make you buy one of their products again.
Just tell them that you will look at competitors. And there are a few around to select between.
But I can't figure out what the translator has used to name it in my native language.
So from one perspective - not using English in the tool you use may cause more confusion than help. Especially for programmers.
Better to have a modem with some obnoxious BBS software behind.
In one way - the best way is to have an answering machine saying "Please hold - your call will be answered in a moment" but then you just don't provide more and don't hang up until later. That will keep the robocall line blocked longer.
On the contrary - lithium interacts very much with oxygen, and if oxygen did enter the battery cells due to pressure changes then it may still be the culprit.
And pressure changes are normal on an aircraft - especially at take-off and landing.
Consider the fact that batteries are experiencing pressure changes, vibration, temperature changes in addition to being charged/discharged and the fact that lithium interacts aggressively with oxygen and water as well I would say that the choice of that battery type is risky.
Pressure changes may cause oxygen to penetrate the batteries and make them fail.
That leads to the fact that the OP may be more right than funny.
No need for yearly progress reports, just make patents horribly expensive after the first year they are granted.
And make the patent office liable if a patent was granted that later was considered too broad.
Start with teaching the employees the importance of writing good code.
Also teach them how to refactor code in the IDE they use to avoid gigantic monolitic methods/functions/classes.
Then provide them with the tools. In addition to compile at the highest warning level and using the built-in support in the IDEs they should look at Stylecop for C# (even though it's more about style than finding potential bugs), Splint for C, FindBugs for Java.
People that are willing to take in and understand the importance of writing good code will end up being better.
And don't forget that people are competitive to some degree - so if you find a way to measure the quality of the code produced it's fine, and let it come with a small advantage. A movie ticket, a box of chocolate or something similar.
And those running 32-bit embedded systems can just use a new baseline for the time presentation.
But even if you have a 32-bit system you can still handle 64-bit numbers, just not as efficient.
If we even are alive by then.
Just look at it this way - the site owner should only care about legal matters if it's clearly illegal at both ends. Otherwise a lot of site owners in the US may have to report on Chinese citizens discussing democracy.
If the violation of ToS is due to an illegal action like posting things that are illegal both for the location of the site and the poster it should still land into the legal system, but the large volume of ToS violations should at most render the offender a permanent banning from that site or in milder cases a temporary ban.
If you play against a computer you may be able to do really well if you have memorized the moves that someone else has made in a successful game against that computer or a similar computer. If you do memorize a whole chess game from both sides you are of course good, so maybe it's not cheating, but it's a way to rig the game into what's hopefully your favor. As long as the computer responds with known responses you can stick to the memorized moves, if the computer doesn't you have to re-evaluate what's needed to get back on track.
It's not going to be easy, but it's certainly doable.
As a side note I heard of two blokes that had memorized a classic chess game and then started to replay it in a park. It was quite a show for the people around that chess board. (or shall I say pavement).
Linux with MLS enabled, but it will require you to learn how MLS works, and it's something that can cause dandruff just by reading the first page.
Using random unusual operating system can also work.
At least it will cause them to scratch their heads for a while.
Continental Drift comes to mind. It was seen earlier as being impossible, but it really exists.
When you are at that age you have enough knowledge to know that your parents don't know everything and you also realize that "can't be done" is not always true.
The problem today is that many thinks that kids aren't smart enough to provide a useful contribution. Reality is that some kids are playing on a completely different field than many adults. If a kid shows interest in something let then tinker with it. You never know if that kid is going to get hooked or not and in some fields that kid can be a candidate for the Nobel Prize later.
There are too many cases today where things aren't done because there's too much administrative trouble around it.
And stupid enough to use something that gives a hangover. I wonder what they used.
Add to it the fact that Sony actually is in trouble together with Panasonic. They trying to make money by any means possible.
And I too avoid Sony due to their attitude against customers. Not that it's possible to do in every situation, but as far as it's possible.
Just post phone/address on 4chan with info like "cheap grass" and similar stuff.
"Hey I got some cheap grass - call me at XXXXX"
And post tits - that will get the attention of most /b/-tards.
But wasn't the original problem that the person pursuing her was outside the US?
The Mafia (the Sicilian one, not the "MAFIAA") also provides a "clean-up" service that might be useful here....
Any of them would be successful. Depends on the country. In some countries you can also make the system work against your target - like filing information to the local variant of the IRS stating that mr Soandso has been paid a salary of X dollars, to be taxed in his home country. That can cause him to be responsible to pay additional tax - or fight it, but the tax authorities are by default right until proven wrong.