The only real success I can think of in the Star Trek gaming world would be the Starfleet Command series. It's only slightly less complex than flying a 747, but it's as close to operating a real starship in combat as anyone will ever get.
Personally, I always have them code at a whiteboard, however I also ask for a code sample if available.
The level of coding question to ask them during the interview.
The quality of what they think their best code is. We've all worked with people who were smart enough to solve whiteboard problems but wrote unmaintainable garbage when it came time to code.
What they claim (emphasis on claim) to be able to do. If there's a discrepancy with the skills at the whiteboard, then it's feedback for the next person interviewing to probe deeper. Either we're catching the person in a lie (valuable information) or s/he's one of those people that just don't do well standing at a whiteboard, in which case we do it a slightly different way.
I don't think anybody is advocating code samples as the sole factor in deciding to hire. It's just a valuable piece of the bigger picture.
More often, the high-power device will simply not function, or will simply its battery much slower, or won't be able to charge at all while in-use...
Incorrect, I believe you are thinking of voltage. The adapter would overheat for the same reason as an overloaded extension cord would overheat, excessive current draw.
>I have a question for you... Has everyone in the world forgotten about universal AC adapters?
Don't do this. The ones I've seen are rated for less than 1000mA (usually only 500mA for the cheap ones) which isn't even close to enough for any recent gadget. For example, my MP3 player draws 1500mA, my PDA draws 2400mA. If it is not rated for the current necessary, the adapter may overheat, possibly enough to start a fire.
The universal laptop adapter is a safe bet, but, as the parent poster pointed out, is kind of pricey.
>Actually, I see a much bigger need to be able to access information than to be able to run old applications. The big problem in all of this is that a lot (if not all) legacy applications have closed data repositories so being able to run those applications in a modern OS is imperative.
Oh, sure, because the investment in writing and testing the app, refining it over years of use, and learning it by the users can be replaced for free...not.
Might as well say that leveling a city is no big deal since the land is still there.
>The problem will go away immediately if ISPs turn off flat pricing and users start to pay for bandwidth used.
A lot of a people posting here should be careful what they wish for.
The RIAA/MPAA would absolutely love this. If people actually paid by the MB, it would increase broadband prices a *lot* for heavy P2P users. It would put a significant dent in P2P traffic indefinitely.
>How is it even possible to use 11,000 different type faces?? They have to be adding up all the fonts on all the PCs. 500 PCs with unlicensed Adobe Garamond = 500 fonts.
Bzzt, wrong. As TFA says, the audit was conducted by a representative of Monotype, which alone lists 2230 distinct fonts in its catalog. I'd think they would properly know how to account for usage. And there are a lot of foundries.
>Looking at this statement in those terms, things become more clear. The free software project can be resurrected by somebody else, the non-free project cannot be resurrected. So it's definitely better to have free software here, because then you've got a chance, instead of having no chance.
The same argument is offered by people selling lottery tickets, and we all know what the odds of winning the lottery is.
Open source has its advantages, but let's not be disingenuous about it.
I've been reading/. since February 1999, and this headline has gone further over my head than any other headline in the intervening seven years.
It isn't exactly rocket science. Now that they have method for building a nanotube ring oscillator, they can test new chip fabrication processes for using nanotubes for building chips by putting this structure on the chip and using it to measure the electrical characteristics changed. According to the article, they had no way to make these types of measurements directly before.
The reason they're interested in trying to integrate nanotubes onto the chip is because it has better electrical characteristics than the copper currently used for interconnects (i.e. the wiring between transistors). This means less heat and better switching times.
>Can a blind person install and configure windows, iis, SQL server, exchange, and active directory?
Except for the OS install, the answer is yes. All of the text and other elements in an ordinary window are automatically hooked into the standard OS-wide accessibility API. Screen readers like JAWS can then pull out the text without any problem.
>It seems to me that you have to draw the line someplace. If somebody wants to put forth the effort then great but honestly why don't we concentrate on getting the documentation so that a reasonably intelligent non disabled person can use it first.
There are a couple of little things like the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508 that you might want to consider. Similar requirements exist for state goverments as well as other national and provincial governments across the world.
Without support for accessibility at least as good as other commercial OSes and software, OSS is going to have a harder time getting a foothold in goverment and industry. Not supporting accessibility is not an option.
>Then we can worry about the blind.
Given the rise in age-related diseases that cause vision degeneration, I sincerely hope those words never come back to haunt you.
If you want to attempt it, MOSIS does small run fabrication by batching up small runs onto a single wafer and running them through commercial fabs like IBM and TSMC. The prices aren't out of reach.
However, you should remember from the VLSI class you've taken that it may take several runs before getting anything usable. Unless your design has some aspect that makes using a FPGA infeasible, you'd probably be better off with the FPGA. As I recall, a couple of FPGA vendors can also do conversions from FPGAs to hard-wired ASICs if you desire it later.
"Mr. Gates, we have used Windows, and we are not amused! The screen turned blue, before we could save our document."
Great, now you've got me visualizing Queen Elizabeth II replacing Ellen Feiss in that Apple switch commercial.
"It devoured my royal proclamation. It was a really good proclamation." "And then I had to do it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as stately."
Project Gutenberg is my charity of choice. What could be greater than giving the world access to the collected works of the worlds great thinkers and writers?
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The only real success I can think of in the Star Trek gaming world would be the Starfleet Command series. It's only slightly less complex than flying a 747, but it's as close to operating a real starship in combat as anyone will ever get.
- The level of coding question to ask them during the interview.
- The quality of what they think their best code is. We've all worked with people who were smart enough to solve whiteboard problems but wrote unmaintainable garbage when it came time to code.
- What they claim (emphasis on claim) to be able to do. If there's a discrepancy with the skills at the whiteboard, then it's feedback for the next person interviewing to probe deeper. Either we're catching the person in a lie (valuable information) or s/he's one of those people that just don't do well standing at a whiteboard, in which case we do it a slightly different way.
I don't think anybody is advocating code samples as the sole factor in deciding to hire. It's just a valuable piece of the bigger picture.More often, the high-power device will simply not function, or will simply its battery much slower, or won't be able to charge at all while in-use...
Incorrect, I believe you are thinking of voltage. The adapter would overheat for the same reason as an overloaded extension cord would overheat, excessive current draw.
>I have a question for you... Has everyone in the world forgotten about universal AC adapters?
Don't do this. The ones I've seen are rated for less than 1000mA (usually only 500mA for the cheap ones) which isn't even close to enough for any recent gadget. For example, my MP3 player draws 1500mA, my PDA draws 2400mA. If it is not rated for the current necessary, the adapter may overheat, possibly enough to start a fire.
The universal laptop adapter is a safe bet, but, as the parent poster pointed out, is kind of pricey.
If:
- your team can't say yes to nearly all of the points on the Joel test
- if you spend more time fighting fires than working on your project
- if you couldn't honestly say your team is better than average
- if your managment is more focused on getting it out the door than getting it right
then Agile is not going to solve your problems. The basics of good software development have to be there first.Agile helps a good team become excellent, it doesn't fix the problems in a dysfunctional team.
>You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear.
With all due respect to Mr. Jobs, my mother taught me not to accept earwax from strangers.
>Actually, I see a much bigger need to be able to access information than to be able to run old applications. The big problem in all of this is that a lot (if not all) legacy applications have closed data repositories so being able to run those applications in a modern OS is imperative.
Oh, sure, because the investment in writing and testing the app, refining it over years of use, and learning it by the users can be replaced for free...not.
Might as well say that leveling a city is no big deal since the land is still there.
>Nit: "Ready! Fire! Aim. Aim. Aim. Aim. Aim."
:)
Hey, I didn't have enough story points left to implement the rest of the "Aim."s in this iteration. It's still a potentially shippable comment.
>That kind of attitude is prevalent in a bad work place with low moral.
Well, it's lucky Google has a "Don't be evil" motto then.
(rimshot)
>Agile Development: You scream, then you leap
No.
Agile is best described as "Ready! Fire! Aim!". You are more likely to hit your target if you're able to correct your course in mid-flight.
If they succeed, does this meen the tera-rists have won?
The closest thing I can think of is a MSN TV device. Apparently, they still make them(!).
http://www.msntv.com/pc/
>The problem will go away immediately if ISPs turn off flat pricing and users start to pay for bandwidth used.
A lot of a people posting here should be careful what they wish for.
The RIAA/MPAA would absolutely love this. If people actually paid by the MB, it would increase broadband prices a *lot* for heavy P2P users. It would put a significant dent in P2P traffic indefinitely.
>How is it even possible to use 11,000 different type faces?? They have to be adding up all the fonts on all the PCs. 500 PCs with unlicensed Adobe Garamond = 500 fonts.
Bzzt, wrong. As TFA says, the audit was conducted by a representative of Monotype, which alone lists 2230 distinct fonts in its catalog. I'd think they would properly know how to account for usage. And there are a lot of foundries.
>Looking at this statement in those terms, things become more clear. The free software project can be resurrected by somebody else, the non-free project cannot be resurrected. So it's definitely better to have free software here, because then you've got a chance, instead of having no chance.
The same argument is offered by people selling lottery tickets, and we all know what the odds of winning the lottery is.
Open source has its advantages, but let's not be disingenuous about it.
>This is why posting from behind a proxy server that you have no attachment to is helpful. =)
Saying you can't be traced by using a proxy server is like saying you can't be followed home because you stopped at a convenience store on the way.
Unless there is also a levy that compensates shopkeepers for stolen goods, the levy on CD writers and media should now be immediately revoked.
There already is one. It's built right into the price.
I've been reading /. since February 1999, and this headline has gone further over my head than any other headline in the intervening seven years.
It isn't exactly rocket science. Now that they have method for building a nanotube ring oscillator, they can test new chip fabrication processes for using nanotubes for building chips by putting this structure on the chip and using it to measure the electrical characteristics changed. According to the article, they had no way to make these types of measurements directly before.
The reason they're interested in trying to integrate nanotubes onto the chip is because it has better electrical characteristics than the copper currently used for interconnects (i.e. the wiring between transistors). This means less heat and better switching times.
>Can a blind person install and configure windows, iis, SQL server, exchange, and active directory?
Except for the OS install, the answer is yes. All of the text and other elements in an ordinary window are automatically hooked into the standard OS-wide accessibility API. Screen readers like JAWS can then pull out the text without any problem.
>It seems to me that you have to draw the line someplace. If somebody wants to put forth the effort then great but honestly why don't we concentrate on getting the documentation so that a reasonably intelligent non disabled person can use it first.
There are a couple of little things like the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508 that you might want to consider. Similar requirements exist for state goverments as well as other national and provincial governments across the world.
Without support for accessibility at least as good as other commercial OSes and software, OSS is going to have a harder time getting a foothold in goverment and industry. Not supporting accessibility is not an option.
>Then we can worry about the blind.
Given the rise in age-related diseases that cause vision degeneration, I sincerely hope those words never come back to haunt you.
>Companies are now beholden ONLY to their owners
I fixed it for you. In case you've forgotten, the stockholders are the owners of the company.
Even if that weren't the case, *you* are not their customer. Your clicks are what they sell to their customers, advertising companies.
If you want to attempt it, MOSIS does small run fabrication by batching up small runs onto a single wafer and running them through commercial fabs like IBM and TSMC. The prices aren't out of reach.
However, you should remember from the VLSI class you've taken that it may take several runs before getting anything usable. Unless your design has some aspect that makes using a FPGA infeasible, you'd probably be better off with the FPGA. As I recall, a couple of FPGA vendors can also do conversions from FPGAs to hard-wired ASICs if you desire it later.
>This is not only original (as far as major players are concerned) as far as I can see, but seems like a great ide.
As somebody else pointed out, M$ already has it in beta, and, unlike Google, it's an open beta.
http://domains.live.com/
>Would you feel comfortable at a game conference surrounded by scantily clad men flexing their muscles?
Sure.
In all seriousness, please tell me why I shouldn't.
"Mr. Gates, we have used Windows, and we are not amused! The screen turned blue, before we could save our document."
Great, now you've got me visualizing Queen Elizabeth II replacing Ellen Feiss in that Apple switch commercial.
"It devoured my royal proclamation. It was a really good proclamation."
"And then I had to do it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as stately."
Project Gutenberg is my charity of choice. What could be greater than giving the world access to the collected works of the worlds great thinkers and writers?