Exactly, you hit the nail on the head and I 100% agree with your words.
PS: I know you are being sarcastic but the reality is the world is harsh and preventing kids from noticing this early causes permanent irreparable harm. A large segment of the population needs to wake up and stop abusing your kid's minds. EX: Santa is not real so why force your children to think otherwise. Ditto God and the Easter Bunny.
I thank the client, and do Y. A week or two later, they get Y. Then I hear a whine about B. So I write it, and and a week or two later, kick out the software with B enabled. A few bug reports later, and everybody's happy.
Notice that features A, C, and Y turned out to be unnecessary! This happens ALL THE TIME
So scope slippage and creeping featurism "happens ALL THE TIME" but yet "I find the exact opposite."
Look when you have a small number of clients say less than 20 using the same basic code then it's ok to have some slippage but if you want to make real money you need to sell the same thing a large number of times. Having played both sides of the coin I can say making 250$ / hour might seem like great money but it's much better to write a single piece of software and sell it to a large group of companies like Microsoft.
Net neutrality says nothing about protocol driven QOS. Net neutrality states you can't alter service due to the source or destination of a given packet.
PS: We had a form of net neutrality and EMAIL packets where downgraded vs. HTTP.
As a CS degree holder who started programming at age 8 I see where you are coming from. But, I think you're missing out on many high quality programmers who started in other areas. Personally I find the most useful questions to separate talented from the useless are:
"What are your thoughts on the mythical man month?"
and
"Outside of work and school what are some interesting projects you have worked on?"
I know a lot great programmers without formal education, but I also know several excellent people who discovered programming in collage and actually know what they are doing.
As someone that bought a PS3 and a 360, I think the PS3 is a much better system.
1) I have a 1080p screen and at that resolution the PS3's graphics are much better. 2) If you play online games the PS3 is much cheaper over several years. 3) Cross platform games are better on the PS3. 4) PS3 games have much more to work with aka a HDD, more processing power etc. 5) Blue-Ray 6) Up scaling DVD's 7) It plays enough PS2 games that I don't need a PS2 but I still need the Xbox for a lot of old games. 8) It upgrades the graphics on old PS2 games. (So it's better than just backwards compatible.) 9) The PS3 has a longer lifespan. (Xbox 1 came out a year after PS2 but the 360 came out a year before the PS3. People are still buying more PS2's than 360's.)
Granted as working adult I find the difference in price meaningless.
Bandwidth is cheep, fiber is cheep, networks are cheep and they are only getting cheaper.
The silly thing is all this network neutrality talk / bribery has cost the AT&T / Cox / etc more than doubling the current available US network backbone would. Ahh well let the old system rot and soon enough new players are going to take over.
EX: Dickens was paid by installment so like modern TV shows he had to add fluff to remind people what's going on and to keep each installment interesting.
When a big pile of rubber ducks floating around on the ocean can give oceanographers compelling new insights into how the earth works, and add a lot on top of modern instruments as quoted here, I am somewhat uncomfortable remaking world economic order on the basis of forecasts made on that data.
Thank you AC for pointing out that people who don't know what they are talking about should be ignored. Just because there are not a lot of blinking lights does not mean that you're collecting bad data. I think / feel / guess / hope / pray / have a vested interest (remaking world economic order) / etc should be ignored because they don't provide high quality quantitative data like thousands of rubber ducks in the ocean.
PS: How would you suggest building a better system? What is a better instrument for studding ocean currents (on the surface over time) than 10,000+ floating objects dropped from a specific point? Now we could make some floats with GPS etc but most electronics are not going to survive 17 years in the ocean and people are not going to notice big rubber balls so the classic duck is basically the prefect design for such an experiment because people will notice them and report large numbers of ducks suddenly showing up. Now we might want to have more drop sites but the novelty promotes people reporting as soon as the ducks show up so increasing the number of drops lowers the quality of the data.
Sorry, but as a former Max level(65 at the time+tuns of AA)/raiding EQ Enchanter I feel confidant that MMO's take vary minimal skills. Granted old school EQ had some "hard content" but, as a software developer I would suggest that scripting a character to grind though most content is easy. Go is a challenging game; CC in lower Guk was mostly about not fucking up.
Basically MMO boil down to long chains:
Try pulling this way... everyone dies. Try pulling that way and start nuking now... everyone dies. Try pulling that way, wait for tank Argo, start nuking mob dies repeat.
Granted their might be 200 steps but there is no real AI in MMO's so basically it's minimal skill vs RNG.
PS: OK playing the markets in EVE is fun but there is little real skill to it.
The problem with MMO's is they are designed to limit the amount of skill required to play them. A level 60 cleric played by a 12 year old is vastly more useful than a level 30 cleric played by the most skilled player in the world. But as they try and avoid the need for "skills" the only way to win is Time.
Let's face it grinding, grouping, and raiding are BORING. So when you can spend money to skip Time there is nothing left in the game. Or think of it like this...
Let's drop the concept of time from the game. Make an MMO where you can only level for 5 hours a week and there are no items. AKA at 10 weeks you can level a toon for a total of 50 hours. Now a new player can play 20 hours a week for a few months to catch up to the oldest player on the server at which point they get capped at 5 hours a week. Well what's the point? Basically you just built Guild Wars vs. a MMO.
The problem with your statement is 0 * any number = 0.
Assume: 1/x as x approaches infinity = 0
If 1/x as x approaches infinity = 0 then 1/x * x when x approaches infinity = 0 as 0 * x = 0 but 1/x * x = 1 and 1 as x approaches infinity = 1 so 1/x * x = 1 as x approaches infinity.
Easy way around it would be to use a database that does not use that method.
a database of information organized into a hierarchy of geographical areas wherein entries corresponding to each one of said hierarchy of geographical areas is further organized into topics;
EX: every point is a specific lat and longitude. DB has 2 indexes latitude and longitude.
Select * from loc where (lat loc_lat - 10) and (lon loc_long - 10)
EX2: Database of information organized into topics that are further organized into a hierarch of geographical areas.
Patents need to be specific enough not to be obvious and generic enough not to be easily circumvented.
No Windows can stay the same. The idea is they can sell windows with anything in it that helps them sell more copies of windows aka Note Pad but they can't add anything that helps them sell other products like Office, IIS etc.
So you have a windows company A that can only sell windows and windows server edition.
And you have windows company B that can sell IIS, XBOX, MS Word, MS Office, MS mouse, Visual Studio... but not windows.
The idea is that windows could include IE but if Microsoft is not selling IIS then they don't have any reason to care if some is using other tools. So Microsoft can include anything to sell more copies of windows but they have no reason to include things to crush the competition because they can't compete with other non OS companies.
PS: The problem with this is that they would go the Red Hat route and start including basic apps for most things like SSH, FTP, and over time they become the same company but force you to buy Note Pad XL their new crappy word processor.
The problem is there is no limit to the cost of the best health care possible, Now personally I am fine with the idea that the first 10k / year is free but what about the first million?
Let's take an extreme example. Say you have a 100% brain dead 18 year old. We could spend over 1 million a year to keep them alive for the next 70 years or not. Now if the family want's to spend their money to do so that's one thing but why should society? What about hypochondriacs? I don't mind paying for addiction counseling but what about pseudo medicine like homeopathy? Or something in between like marriage counseling?
People don't like admitting that unlike housing there are no clear cut reasonable levels. We could spend 75% of the GDP on healthcare for the next thousand years and people would still die because while modern medicine keeps improving people will decay over time so where do you place limits? I say split 10% of the GDP and then pay the first X$ per person but don't sign a blank check.
Yes, I was Assuming COX is the only high speed provider in your area so I was assuming a monopoly for that customer.
If Cox and MS want to build bigger pipes they can do that today. The issue is how COX would love to have MS pay so COX's routers give MS traffic priority. Which by definition means that MS is paying COX to downgrade Google traffic. Anyway, COX has already messed with VOIP traffic (see: Skype) and they are more than willing to mess with HTTP if they can get paid for doing so.
PS: There are no "bandwidth" issues on the internet's backbones. There are silly amounts of dark fiber just waiting to cheaply handle any increases required the problem is with this glut it's hard to get paid for bandwidth.
That is the way things are now but ISP's want to change things. We have net neutrality today but ISP's want to change things.
Assuming COX is the only high speed provider in your area and they charge you 40$ a month (now).
What if they could talk to Microsoft and say we can make MSN search faster than Google (1/10th the ping) if you pay US 100 million a year? From COX's perspective it's their network why can't they do what they want with it?
and improvement of (legally required) catalytic converters on cars, are contributors,
Catalytic converters on cars have NO effect on carbon emission
Overall Catalytic converters increase carbon emission's but I think he is talking about things like: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6840039.html So it's not the presence of catalytic converters that help carbon emissions as overall they still increase them, but by designing a better catalytic converter you rob the engine of less power and thus increase efficiency. Granted it's a minor effect but it does help.
PS: My 91 Volvo had a catalytic converter so it's hardly new tech.
There is a huge difference between 12 hour run-time @ half usage and a 24/7 workhorse for remote locations that may see 1 person every 6 months. Assuming this is significantly more reliable than a system with far more moving parts you might be able to replace 2 30k generators with this and get more fuel efficiency.
So where 175k may be way over the top at 50k these could sell like hot cakes.
Your assuming the level of detail = how close something is to human, but I can look at a clown or a PS1 level animation and the PS1 level animation is closer to human. QED your method is flawed.
Anyway, a low resolution painting can look vary human and can easily cross the valley as IMO did stills from the spirits within. However, moving 3d avatars bring a new level where they way things move and style of movement is more important than the number of polygons. The way cloth moves, how people look at things, their blink rate, etc. Are all factors outside the simple # of polygons.
You the thing about the uncanny valley is it's crossable and it moves depending on several things like lighting, and which actions are being preformed.
Archstone Smith owns all rental property in Crystal City, VA. Which across the river from DC.
Besides, you are free to return to him later and accept his offer, but he is not able to find you a week later and accept your offer. The renter has a tactical advantage.
Archstone changes their price every single day. You can get a 24 hour hold on a property but nobody in the rental office can change the price.
Not the USA - the country of Compassionate Conservatives and Democrats Determined To Stop The War, I suppose? (I don't know what happens in.nz where you appear to be from; it could be a True Democracy for all I know.)
The USA has no national property tax. Some states do and they will are more than willing to give this for up the right reason see: Florida and Disneyland.
You can't dissolve a "contract" with your government, and this gives the government more chances to affect your life against your wishes.
20 million Mexicans broke their contract with Mexico and some of them probably live vary close to you, chat with them and find out how hard it is to leave. You have one and only one contract with the government and you sign it by walking on their land when you don't like the deal you leave like 100's of millions of people before you. The US is a nice place to live but you can join another and they will do nothing unless you want to come back...
How much bandwith do you need?
Redundant GB network card per box = ~750Mbits/s.
5+1 x 12TB DB at 6k a pop = ~4.25Gbits/s on a 12TB DB for 36k.
Or you can get use more than 1 network card and double that...
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Exactly, you hit the nail on the head and I 100% agree with your words.
PS: I know you are being sarcastic but the reality is the world is harsh and preventing kids from noticing this early causes permanent irreparable harm. A large segment of the population needs to wake up and stop abusing your kid's minds. EX: Santa is not real so why force your children to think otherwise. Ditto God and the Easter Bunny.
leads to scope slippage and creeping featurism
I thank the client, and do Y. A week or two later, they get Y. Then I hear a whine about B. So I write it, and and a week or two later, kick out the software with B enabled. A few bug reports later, and everybody's happy.
Notice that features A, C, and Y turned out to be unnecessary! This happens ALL THE TIME
So scope slippage and creeping featurism "happens ALL THE TIME" but yet "I find the exact opposite."
Look when you have a small number of clients say less than 20 using the same basic code then it's ok to have some slippage but if you want to make real money you need to sell the same thing a large number of times. Having played both sides of the coin I can say making 250$ / hour might seem like great money but it's much better to write a single piece of software and sell it to a large group of companies like Microsoft.
A cheep DVD player or VCR does the same thing for 20-50$.
Net neutrality says nothing about protocol driven QOS. Net neutrality states you can't alter service due to the source or destination of a given packet.
PS: We had a form of net neutrality and EMAIL packets where downgraded vs. HTTP.
As a CS degree holder who started programming at age 8 I see where you are coming from. But, I think you're missing out on many high quality programmers who started in other areas. Personally I find the most useful questions to separate talented from the useless are:
"What are your thoughts on the mythical man month?"
and
"Outside of work and school what are some interesting projects you have worked on?"
I know a lot great programmers without formal education, but I also know several excellent people who discovered programming in collage and actually know what they are doing.
As someone that bought a PS3 and a 360, I think the PS3 is a much better system.
1) I have a 1080p screen and at that resolution the PS3's graphics are much better.
2) If you play online games the PS3 is much cheaper over several years.
3) Cross platform games are better on the PS3.
4) PS3 games have much more to work with aka a HDD, more processing power etc.
5) Blue-Ray
6) Up scaling DVD's
7) It plays enough PS2 games that I don't need a PS2 but I still need the Xbox for a lot of old games.
8) It upgrades the graphics on old PS2 games. (So it's better than just backwards compatible.)
9) The PS3 has a longer lifespan. (Xbox 1 came out a year after PS2 but the 360 came out a year before the PS3. People are still buying more PS2's than 360's.)
Granted as working adult I find the difference in price meaningless.
Bandwidth is cheep, fiber is cheep, networks are cheep and they are only getting cheaper.
The silly thing is all this network neutrality talk / bribery has cost the AT&T / Cox / etc more than doubling the current available US network backbone would. Ahh well let the old system rot and soon enough new players are going to take over.
Old age.
Yes, over 1/2 of Dickens and Tolstoy is fluff.
EX: Dickens was paid by installment so like modern TV shows he had to add fluff to remind people what's going on and to keep each installment interesting.
PS: IMO Tolstoy was just a wind bag.
When a big pile of rubber ducks floating around on the ocean can give oceanographers compelling new insights into how the earth works, and add a lot on top of modern instruments as quoted here, I am somewhat uncomfortable remaking world economic order on the basis of forecasts made on that data.
Thank you AC for pointing out that people who don't know what they are talking about should be ignored. Just because there are not a lot of blinking lights does not mean that you're collecting bad data. I think / feel / guess / hope / pray / have a vested interest (remaking world economic order) / etc should be ignored because they don't provide high quality quantitative data like thousands of rubber ducks in the ocean.
PS: How would you suggest building a better system? What is a better instrument for studding ocean currents (on the surface over time) than 10,000+ floating objects dropped from a specific point? Now we could make some floats with GPS etc but most electronics are not going to survive 17 years in the ocean and people are not going to notice big rubber balls so the classic duck is basically the prefect design for such an experiment because people will notice them and report large numbers of ducks suddenly showing up. Now we might want to have more drop sites but the novelty promotes people reporting as soon as the ducks show up so increasing the number of drops lowers the quality of the data.
Hmm, this still brings up other issues. If the format is not an issue you should be able to rip CD's to MP3's without issue.
AKA I have a CD and I want an MP3. The fact that I need to copy it as part of the change is ok because the goal is OK.
Sorry, but as a former Max level(65 at the time+tuns of AA)/raiding EQ Enchanter I feel confidant that MMO's take vary minimal skills. Granted old school EQ had some "hard content" but, as a software developer I would suggest that scripting a character to grind though most content is easy. Go is a challenging game; CC in lower Guk was mostly about not fucking up.
Basically MMO boil down to long chains:
Try pulling this way... everyone dies.
Try pulling that way and start nuking now... everyone dies.
Try pulling that way, wait for tank Argo, start nuking mob dies repeat.
Granted their might be 200 steps but there is no real AI in MMO's so basically it's minimal skill vs RNG.
PS: OK playing the markets in EVE is fun but there is little real skill to it.
The problem with MMO's is they are designed to limit the amount of skill required to play them. A level 60 cleric played by a 12 year old is vastly more useful than a level 30 cleric played by the most skilled player in the world. But as they try and avoid the need for "skills" the only way to win is Time.
Let's face it grinding, grouping, and raiding are BORING. So when you can spend money to skip Time there is nothing left in the game. Or think of it like this...
Let's drop the concept of time from the game. Make an MMO where you can only level for 5 hours a week and there are no items. AKA at 10 weeks you can level a toon for a total of 50 hours. Now a new player can play 20 hours a week for a few months to catch up to the oldest player on the server at which point they get capped at 5 hours a week. Well what's the point? Basically you just built Guild Wars vs. a MMO.
The problem with your statement is 0 * any number = 0.
Assume: 1/x as x approaches infinity = 0
If 1/x as x approaches infinity = 0 then 1/x * x when x approaches infinity = 0 as 0 * x = 0 but 1/x * x = 1 and 1 as x approaches infinity = 1 so 1/x * x = 1 as x approaches infinity.
This contradicts the original assumption.
QED 1/x as x approaches infinity is not 0.
Limits are useful tools in some areas of math but they don't mean what you think they do.
Limit as x approaches infinity for cos(x) is undefined.
Limit as x approaches infinity for 1/x is zero but 1/x is not zero at infinity.
Try this on an infinitely precise computer:
for (x = 1 ; x < infinity ; x ++){
if (0 == 1/x) cout << "It's Zero!";
}
Granted you would never reach infinity but you would also never get "It's Zero!"
Easy way around it would be to use a database that does not use that method.
a database of information organized into a hierarchy of geographical areas wherein entries corresponding to each one of said hierarchy of geographical areas is further organized into topics;
EX: every point is a specific lat and longitude.
DB has 2 indexes latitude and longitude.
Select * from loc where (lat loc_lat - 10) and (lon loc_long - 10)
EX2: Database of information organized into topics that are further organized into a hierarch of geographical areas.
Patents need to be specific enough not to be obvious and generic enough not to be easily circumvented.
No Windows can stay the same. The idea is they can sell windows with anything in it that helps them sell more copies of windows aka Note Pad but they can't add anything that helps them sell other products like Office, IIS etc.
So you have a windows company A that can only sell windows and windows server edition.
And you have windows company B that can sell IIS, XBOX, MS Word, MS Office, MS mouse, Visual Studio... but not windows.
The idea is that windows could include IE but if Microsoft is not selling IIS then they don't have any reason to care if some is using other tools. So Microsoft can include anything to sell more copies of windows but they have no reason to include things to crush the competition because they can't compete with other non OS companies.
PS: The problem with this is that they would go the Red Hat route and start including basic apps for most things like SSH, FTP, and over time they become the same company but force you to buy Note Pad XL their new crappy word processor.
The problem is there is no limit to the cost of the best health care possible, Now personally I am fine with the idea that the first 10k / year is free but what about the first million?
Let's take an extreme example. Say you have a 100% brain dead 18 year old. We could spend over 1 million a year to keep them alive for the next 70 years or not. Now if the family want's to spend their money to do so that's one thing but why should society? What about hypochondriacs? I don't mind paying for addiction counseling but what about pseudo medicine like homeopathy? Or something in between like marriage counseling?
People don't like admitting that unlike housing there are no clear cut reasonable levels. We could spend 75% of the GDP on healthcare for the next thousand years and people would still die because while modern medicine keeps improving people will decay over time so where do you place limits? I say split 10% of the GDP and then pay the first X$ per person but don't sign a blank check.
Yes, I was Assuming COX is the only high speed provider in your area so I was assuming a monopoly for that customer.
If Cox and MS want to build bigger pipes they can do that today. The issue is how COX would love to have MS pay so COX's routers give MS traffic priority. Which by definition means that MS is paying COX to downgrade Google traffic. Anyway, COX has already messed with VOIP traffic (see: Skype) and they are more than willing to mess with HTTP if they can get paid for doing so.
PS: There are no "bandwidth" issues on the internet's backbones. There are silly amounts of dark fiber just waiting to cheaply handle any increases required the problem is with this glut it's hard to get paid for bandwidth.
That is the way things are now but ISP's want to change things. We have net neutrality today but ISP's want to change things.
Assuming COX is the only high speed provider in your area and they charge you 40$ a month (now).
What if they could talk to Microsoft and say we can make MSN search faster than Google (1/10th the ping) if you pay US 100 million a year? From COX's perspective it's their network why can't they do what they want with it?
and improvement of (legally required) catalytic converters on cars, are contributors,
Catalytic converters on cars have NO effect on carbon emission
Overall Catalytic converters increase carbon emission's but I think he is talking about things like: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6840039.html So it's not the presence of catalytic converters that help carbon emissions as overall they still increase them, but by designing a better catalytic converter you rob the engine of less power and thus increase efficiency. Granted it's a minor effect but it does help.
PS: My 91 Volvo had a catalytic converter so it's hardly new tech.
There is a huge difference between 12 hour run-time @ half usage and a 24/7 workhorse for remote locations that may see 1 person every 6 months. Assuming this is significantly more reliable than a system with far more moving parts you might be able to replace 2 30k generators with this and get more fuel efficiency.
So where 175k may be way over the top at 50k these could sell like hot cakes.
Your assuming the level of detail = how close something is to human, but I can look at a clown or a PS1 level animation and the PS1 level animation is closer to human. QED your method is flawed.
Anyway, a low resolution painting can look vary human and can easily cross the valley as IMO did stills from the spirits within. However, moving 3d avatars bring a new level where they way things move and style of movement is more important than the number of polygons. The way cloth moves, how people look at things, their blink rate, etc. Are all factors outside the simple # of polygons.
You the thing about the uncanny valley is it's crossable and it moves depending on several things like lighting, and which actions are being preformed.
What weird area would that be, I wonder?
.nz where you appear to be from; it could be a True Democracy for all I know.)
Archstone Smith owns all rental property in Crystal City, VA. Which across the river from DC.
Besides, you are free to return to him later and accept his offer, but he is not able to find you a week later and accept your offer. The renter has a tactical advantage.
Archstone changes their price every single day. You can get a 24 hour hold on a property but nobody in the rental office can change the price.
Not the USA - the country of Compassionate Conservatives and Democrats Determined To Stop The War, I suppose? (I don't know what happens in
The USA has no national property tax. Some states do and they will are more than willing to give this for up the right reason see: Florida and Disneyland.
You can't dissolve a "contract" with your government, and this gives the government more chances to affect your life against your wishes.
20 million Mexicans broke their contract with Mexico and some of them probably live vary close to you, chat with them and find out how hard it is to leave. You have one and only one contract with the government and you sign it by walking on their land when you don't like the deal you leave like 100's of millions of people before you. The US is a nice place to live but you can join another and they will do nothing unless you want to come back...
How much bandwith do you need? Redundant GB network card per box = ~750Mbits/s. 5+1 x 12TB DB at 6k a pop = ~4.25Gbits/s on a 12TB DB for 36k. Or you can get use more than 1 network card and double that...