>>..Everybody knows that good code is self documenting...
This is a really bad myth that only stays alive as an attempt to justify either a sloppy development approach, or a purposeful attempt at job security through obscurity.
Good comments let you know what the developer was thinking, i.e. what design philosophy/mental model/pattern he was working to. Even the best uncommented code is only an abstraction of the thought process.
Uncommented code only tells you what it is actually doing ('correct' or not). It doesn't provide any information that allows you to determine original design intent.
The motivation of all these groups is just power, control & money. What is there to say that WANAND won't turn out to be equally bad or worse than ICANN?
This is about as likely as that guy hacking the mothership main computer in the movie "Independence Day".
Gee isn't it lucky that a totally alien civilisation also happened to independently invent a Von-Neumann architecture running an 80x86 instruction set also with buffer-overflow vulnerabilities.
The RIAA's total arrogance is a blatant slap in the face for consumers. We all need to unite and vote with our wallets because they've made it obvious that the ONLY thing they respect is the almighty dollar. They certainly don't respect OUR rights.
Please everyone, make a New Year's Resolution to NEVER buy another Sony CD.
>> It baffles me why so many people in IT rebel so strongly against common sense wisdom to dress like a professional
1) I'd rather be judged on the quality my work than my current compliance with someone elses nebulous and undefined idea of style.
2) Define what 'dress like a professional' means. Many professionals appropriately wear diving gear, space suits or military uniforms. All of which would be more innapropriate than jeans at my place of work.
3) Your arrogant statement about 'common sense' bugs me.
4) I'd rather work somewhere where I can be acknolwedged as a human individual than a conformist prole.
5) The times in my life I have been most screwed over has always been by someone in professional clothing. I don't trust people that need to hide behind their appearance, and don't wish to appear to be one of those types of people.
If you work in a cube all day and never see a client, whats the problem? I hate these beaurocratic types that have nothing to do but invent stupid rules, such as expecting everyone to dress to their standard even though there's no practical benefit. Its what I DO when I'm at work that should matter, NOT what I wear.
>> Besides, with all the awful video DRM that's on the way, isn't having an analog option a good thing?
Only if you never want to play/see any DRM-encrypted media.
Anything DRM-encrypted will not be decryptable (therefore viewable) by hardware that doesn't support DRM en/decryption end-to-end. Meaning your analog-only card and monitor.
is that they didn't include DVI. This alone is enough to make me not buy one. I hope Sony doesn't make the same mistake with the PS3, although I'm now loathed to give Sony any money since that whole CD Protection rootkit thing.
>> good Catholics who moved into Communist neighbourhoods were more likely to become communists than non-Catholics.
Why are you making this sensational? Communism is a political point of view, catholicism is a religious point of view. Neither are intrinsically correct or mutually exclusive in their purest forms.
People generally move to neighborhoods of similar socio-economic backgrounds to themselves. if you move to an area that has a certain political or religious bias, you would probably be pre-inclined towards that view anyway.
Ozzies memo says >>> smaller, emerging companies that are developing software and services that use the Internet, rather than Windows, as their base platform.
His implication is that the internet itself is somehow a ccompetitor to windows, which is totally wrong.
The truth that he dare not speak is that most developers realise that making a windows-only app might have been ok a few years ago, but Linux and OS/X hare taking market share away from Microsoft at an accelerating rate. Furthermore Microsoft's OS's are going ever more bloated, expensive and limiting that even non-techincal people are starting to see Windows as the crazy option.
The real issue is that the easiest way to develop an app to support multiple and even future platforms is to make it browser-based rather than code for every OS natively. Ergo, if you're Microsoft, embrace and extend and assimilate.
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>> Condoleezza Rice, said, 'The president acted lawfully in every step that he has taken.'"
Oh well thats all right then.
In other news, Bush made himself a law that says he can do what he likes.
fly anywhere near cats or cheese.
>> ..Everybody knows that good code is self documenting...
This is a really bad myth that only stays alive as an attempt to justify either a sloppy development approach, or a purposeful attempt at job security through obscurity.
Good comments let you know what the developer was thinking, i.e. what design philosophy/mental model/pattern he was working to. Even the best uncommented code is only an abstraction of the thought process.
Uncommented code only tells you what it is actually doing ('correct' or not). It doesn't provide any information that allows you to determine original design intent.
The motivation of all these groups is just power, control & money.
What is there to say that WANAND won't turn out to be equally bad or worse than ICANN?
This is about as likely as that guy hacking the mothership main computer in the movie "Independence Day".
Gee isn't it lucky that a totally alien civilisation also happened to independently invent a Von-Neumann architecture running an 80x86 instruction set also with buffer-overflow vulnerabilities.
I wonder if they run Windows XP?
Why do they make these usb key drives so friggin' big? THe electronics inside is probably like 1cm square.
Whats with all the redundant plastic?
The RIAA's total arrogance is a blatant slap in the face for consumers.
We all need to unite and vote with our wallets because they've made it obvious that the ONLY thing they respect is the almighty dollar. They certainly don't respect OUR rights.
Please everyone, make a New Year's Resolution to NEVER buy another Sony CD.
I think a hardware keylogger would be a lot easier to spot than a software keylogger to the average 'non-tech' user.
Furthermore, you can't remotely install hardware keyloggers.
>> It baffles me why so many people in IT rebel so strongly against common sense wisdom to dress like a professional
1) I'd rather be judged on the quality my work than my current compliance with someone elses nebulous and undefined idea of style.
2) Define what 'dress like a professional' means. Many professionals appropriately wear diving gear, space suits or military uniforms. All of which would be more innapropriate than jeans at my place of work.
3) Your arrogant statement about 'common sense' bugs me.
4) I'd rather work somewhere where I can be acknolwedged as a human individual than a conformist prole.
5) The times in my life I have been most screwed over has always been by someone in professional clothing. I don't trust people that need to hide behind their appearance, and don't wish to appear to be one of those types of people.
Thats a hygenie not a style issue. You could wear the same 3-piece suit for weeks too.
If you work in a cube all day and never see a client, whats the problem?
I hate these beaurocratic types that have nothing to do but invent stupid rules, such as expecting everyone to dress to their standard even though there's no practical benefit.
Its what I DO when I'm at work that should matter, NOT what I wear.
>> Besides, with all the awful video DRM that's on the way, isn't having an analog option a good thing?
Only if you never want to play/see any DRM-encrypted media.
Anything DRM-encrypted will not be decryptable (therefore viewable) by hardware that doesn't support DRM en/decryption end-to-end. Meaning your analog-only card and monitor.
is that they didn't include DVI.
This alone is enough to make me not buy one.
I hope Sony doesn't make the same mistake with the PS3, although I'm now loathed to give Sony any money since that whole CD Protection rootkit thing.
One of Microsoft's main business principles even from way back is "Embrace and Extend"...
This would appear to be the "Embrace" part.
>> good Catholics who moved into Communist neighbourhoods were more likely to become communists than non-Catholics.
Why are you making this sensational? Communism is a political point of view, catholicism is a religious point of view. Neither are intrinsically correct or mutually exclusive in their purest forms.
People generally move to neighborhoods of similar socio-economic backgrounds to themselves. if you move to an area that has a certain political or religious bias, you would probably be pre-inclined towards that view anyway.
>>There is speculation that the project is really an "effort to develop ways to jam the electronics of incoming missiles from Russia and/or China"
Bush (after succeful missile attack): Why didn't my 4 jigga watt nukular deterrent stop the bad guys?
Scientist: well... they err... avoided flying high over Alaska.
Bush: Damn those sneaky commies.
From the Sony Statement: "As a precautionary measure, Sony BMG is temporarily suspending the manufacture of CDs containing XCP technology,"
Notice the word "Temporarily" in there?
that the author should consider Quake 4 to be oldschool gameplay.
I guess I'm showing my age by considering the definition of oldschool gaming to cover games like Pacman and Atari 'Star Raiders'.
Yeah... thats another reason I use Linux...
I guess you could launch an empty (i.e. relatively lightweight) container which once in orbit could fill up with 'space debris' to increase its mass.
.. as long as it isn't from Sony. With their new DRM rootkit I'm never buying another Sony product again.
Ozzies memo says >>> smaller, emerging companies that are developing software and services that use the Internet, rather than Windows, as their base platform.
His implication is that the internet itself is somehow a ccompetitor to windows, which is totally wrong.
The truth that he dare not speak is that most developers realise that making a windows-only app might have been ok a few years ago, but Linux and OS/X hare taking market share away from Microsoft at an accelerating rate. Furthermore Microsoft's OS's are going ever more bloated, expensive and limiting that even non-techincal people are starting to see Windows as the crazy option.
The real issue is that the easiest way to develop an app to support multiple and even future platforms is to make it browser-based rather than code for every OS natively. Ergo, if you're Microsoft, embrace and extend and assimilate.
you have to stick stakes in the ground you're claiming don't you?
I understood thats where the phrase comes from...
I guess that means NASA already owns the moon on the basis that they stuck a flag in it first.
*Laugh*
Since when did any Microsoft OS have good performance?
to make Microsoft withdraw from the rest of the world too...