your idea might be usefull for a few people, but it will be a novelty for most. once they see what you have to offer, they'll just gripe about not being able to get to slashdot.org
i have no problem with an RFID tag on a product if it
1) displays a label saying "this product has an RFID tag", prior to purchasing and 2a) is removed at the time of purchasing -or- 2b) is easily removable after purchasing and doesn't void a warranty. (by easily, i mean no tools needed, just my two hands, or even no hands. hell if i can remove it with my toes, then it's easily removeable) 3) I can find out what information it is carrying. 4) no information is tied to me or my financial accounts.
if they want to find out that people are buying beer on thursdays in my zip code that's fine. any further and you've gone too far.
#3 is key. if i can't have #3 then they could just lie about the rest.
no where did it say "He was unlucky to have made $3M" or "It was his misfortune that he only made $3M"
get off your anti-american high horse.
the only thing i think is odd, is that it says (to paraphrase) "maybe he'll be luckier". however, maybe it wasn't bad luck that his patents expired shortly before RFID starts it's boom. Maybe RFID is on the rise because his patent expired. If that is the case, then to me it says that this Walton person wanted too much in terms of licensing pay, or wanted to much to be bought out. He could have capitolized(sp?) but didn't?
who knows. you are a troll either way, and i feel dirty for feeding you.
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no, it's that the journalists are on the same level as these college hacks
can't forget, when they say "Publically known flaws" does that mean flaws that they have released information about? or are they flaws that they know about but havn't released info about? or are they flaws that the entire public knows about regardless of microsofts "official public awareness" or them?
apples to apples, thats all i want. they just need to clarify this.
much like television channels do with movies they play. not only to they drag a 2 hour movie out over the course of 4 hours to throw in commercials, but they have the balls to say "edited to fit the alloted time" before hand. then during the movie they throw graphics all over the bottom or corners of the film, sometimes with sound effects too!
Morally, finding security holes has to be done. It doesn't matter what the percieved quality improvement is.
But instead of trying to plug the holes, it's better to understand why the holes pop up and what we can do to alter the behavior that leads to holes.
[insert plug for your favorite high level language here]
But even better development tools only gets you so far. The burden has to be laid square on the shoulders of the project leader and their managerial counterparts. You cannot continue to do the business side "favors" by including some technically unnecesary component after the specs and requirements are done, and expect it to get integrated seamlessly and without effecting everything else. once you say "yes" to something, it will be harder to say "no" the next time. Maybe you need to understand the business problem you are trying to solve better before you finish the design. Maybe the business folks need to better understand the development process, so they know they can't add features late in the game.
this is just my "2 years in the system" view of things, after time and again getting an email saying "so-and-so wants such-and-such done to this thing" after the thing's design has already been settled upon. when i ask why, it always comes down to someone not being able (yay office politics) to say no to someone for some reason or another.
want fewer security holes? start with better communication between different groups. end with a written in stone spec. leave out all feature creep until the next design phase.
way to jump to irrelevant conclusions. i have last years madden. you want to go back a few year too? i've had some madden on playstation. '97 on my computer. '94 on genesis (i think it was 94). Tecmo Super Bowl, and original Tecmo Football for nintendo. i think out of all those, only the original Tecmo didn't have names. but did have likenesses. i could be wrong, it's bee a long time.
even so, what does your statement have to do with my assumption on the NFL players association contract? Which as noted by someone else, was just an unsubstantiated rumor.
Isn't it true that EA has an exclusive contract with the NFL players union, so only Madden will have associated names of players? If so, then that may add to EA's price tag and also be a big selling point, if it is in fact exclusive.
Personally, if games were $20 or even $30, I would be more likely to try games that may not be that great, or are by a new company, or of a genre I don't particulary know. It seems that more game companies would end up making money, resulting in better developments in the future, instead of this "make or break" situation they are in.
So i just went to the server room, (ohh, nice and cool up there) and starting tipping over the servers. It was a real joy to destroy the servers running NT and coldfusion, the solaris racks just got a nice nudge and fell over mostly by themselves. As today is a national day of mourning or something, stock markets are closed and no managers are here. I expect not to have a job come monday:)
dynamically changing the traffic light patterns based on who is comming to the light is a bad idea. people get used to traffic light patterns after driving the same roads over and over. if all of the sudden they are changed without warning, you could have a potentially dangerous situation.
imagine a wanted criminal driving a stolen car. it triggers the upcomming traffic light and the next few lights to change to yellow then red quickly so the cops can catch up to him. sure, they might stop this guy, but it could cause a couple accidents as well.
I don't forsee any legitimate usage of this without invasive usage hiding behind the sheild of "we're protecting your rights"
And yet, somehow all those "features" on Linux, end up using more memory and requiring more CPU
It is a good thing to keep as many peices of as many programs in memory as possible. This reduces page faults, which in turn increases response time and performace.
If more peices of programs are in memory, then the CPU can be active more often, without having to wait for slow as hell disk IO to read and write pages into and out to the disk.
The jittery window dragging... that may be true for kde and gnome, i don't know. I do know that running Enlightenment (no kde or gnome) i get smooth moves. This is on a crappy rage mobility video card from 3 years ago, with something like 8 megs of shared video memory, and a modile duron 800MHz, with 128M RAM. So maybe it's the window manager acting as a bottleneck for redrawing. But as you said, that is why it is good to have separate layers that can be independantly improved.
Another thing, if something "seems slow" to the user, then for all intensive purposes you might as well say "it is slow". If it gets the task done faster, but leaves the system unusable for 2 seconds, who cares? thats 2 seconds that you are forced into "serial mode" instead of a "parallel mode" of work.
You make a good point, I just don't think it can be a general statement.
Testament to user stupidity: One company I worked for has an Eight Character long name...
Why is that stupidity on the end user? I've never called an 8 digit long number. I've seen them ocassionally as of late. I would assume that if you tried punching in all 8, it would start to call after 7, and the last would be discarded. But i don't know the specifications for the telephone system. If you see something for the first time and don't know what it is supposed to do, that isn't stupidity.
Maybe he didn't want to entertain curiosity and try it. Without knowing what will happen for sure, he could have thought it calls a $10/minute foreign number.
My point is, just because you know, and he doesn't know doesn't mean you are the epitome of brilliance and he is stupid.
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your idea might be usefull for a few people, but it will be a novelty for most. once they see what you have to offer, they'll just gripe about not being able to get to slashdot.org
i have no problem with an RFID tag on a product if it
1) displays a label saying "this product has an RFID tag", prior to purchasing
and
2a) is removed at the time of purchasing -or-
2b) is easily removable after purchasing and doesn't void a warranty. (by easily, i mean no tools needed, just my two hands, or even no hands. hell if i can remove it with my toes, then it's easily removeable)
3) I can find out what information it is carrying.
4) no information is tied to me or my financial accounts.
if they want to find out that people are buying beer on thursdays in my zip code that's fine. any further and you've gone too far.
#3 is key. if i can't have #3 then they could just lie about the rest.
good troll. i bit.
no where did it say "He was unlucky to have made $3M" or "It was his misfortune that he only made $3M"
get off your anti-american high horse.
the only thing i think is odd, is that it says (to paraphrase) "maybe he'll be luckier". however, maybe it wasn't bad luck that his patents expired shortly before RFID starts it's boom. Maybe RFID is on the rise because his patent expired. If that is the case, then to me it says that this Walton person wanted too much in terms of licensing pay, or wanted to much to be bought out. He could have capitolized(sp?) but didn't?
who knows. you are a troll either way, and i feel dirty for feeding you.
The end of days is near!
quick! everyone click reload on slashdot right.... NOW!
no, it's that the journalists are on the same level as these college hacks
1. football season
2. hockey season
3. gamecube
add to that, i have free basic cable with apartment lease.
anything else i watch on t.v. is usually secondary to what i'm actually doing.
there are very few trends that consumers still set, and the computer OS isn't one of them. welcome to the year 1998...
hold on a sec. Hmm, what's that? it's 2004? damnation hellfire. I gotta get out of this basement.
ever see the Simpsons where Homer designs a car? that's how Linux would end up if we let the newbies do it all.
can't forget, when they say "Publically known flaws" does that mean flaws that they have released information about? or are they flaws that they know about but havn't released info about? or are they flaws that the entire public knows about regardless of microsofts "official public awareness" or them?
apples to apples, thats all i want. they just need to clarify this.
much like television channels do with movies they play. not only to they drag a 2 hour movie out over the course of 4 hours to throw in commercials, but they have the balls to say "edited to fit the alloted time" before hand. then during the movie they throw graphics all over the bottom or corners of the film, sometimes with sound effects too!
and if the advertisement spans several pages it says "Paid Advertisement" on every page.
So i want a voice-over every 20 seconds saying, "This is a paid advertisement for Sh*tty Music of the Day"
hey, that way people won't Pirate(tm) the song off the radio.
um, what?
you can put kittens in the oven but that don't make 'em biscuits?
Morally, finding security holes has to be done. It doesn't matter what the percieved quality improvement is.
But instead of trying to plug the holes, it's better to understand why the holes pop up and what we can do to alter the behavior that leads to holes.
[insert plug for your favorite high level language here]
But even better development tools only gets you so far. The burden has to be laid square on the shoulders of the project leader and their managerial counterparts. You cannot continue to do the business side "favors" by including some technically unnecesary component after the specs and requirements are done, and expect it to get integrated seamlessly and without effecting everything else. once you say "yes" to something, it will be harder to say "no" the next time. Maybe you need to understand the business problem you are trying to solve better before you finish the design. Maybe the business folks need to better understand the development process, so they know they can't add features late in the game.
this is just my "2 years in the system" view of things, after time and again getting an email saying "so-and-so wants such-and-such done to this thing" after the thing's design has already been settled upon. when i ask why, it always comes down to someone not being able (yay office politics) to say no to someone for some reason or another.
want fewer security holes? start with better communication between different groups. end with a written in stone spec. leave out all feature creep until the next design phase.
good luck with that! ha!
way to jump to irrelevant conclusions. i have last years madden. you want to go back a few year too? i've had some madden on playstation. '97 on my computer. '94 on genesis (i think it was 94). Tecmo Super Bowl, and original Tecmo Football for nintendo. i think out of all those, only the original Tecmo didn't have names. but did have likenesses. i could be wrong, it's bee a long time.
even so, what does your statement have to do with my assumption on the NFL players association contract? Which as noted by someone else, was just an unsubstantiated rumor.
Isn't it true that EA has an exclusive contract with the NFL players union, so only Madden will have associated names of players? If so, then that may add to EA's price tag and also be a big selling point, if it is in fact exclusive.
Personally, if games were $20 or even $30, I would be more likely to try games that may not be that great, or are by a new company, or of a genre I don't particulary know. It seems that more game companies would end up making money, resulting in better developments in the future, instead of this "make or break" situation they are in.
maybe that wouldn't happen, but i feel it could.
Please tip your servers.
:)
So i just went to the server room, (ohh, nice and cool up there) and starting tipping over the servers. It was a real joy to destroy the servers running NT and coldfusion, the solaris racks just got a nice nudge and fell over mostly by themselves. As today is a national day of mourning or something, stock markets are closed and no managers are here. I expect not to have a job come monday
maybe i'll move to Portland too..
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
I ntents and purposes.
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All intents and purposes.
Learn to speak the language.
aahahah. i hope i'm driving you crazy. grammar, spelling, and vocabulary has it's place but for all intensive purposes it isn't
3... yeah, throw more people into the project who have to take considerable time learning the system. good idea!
5... developers shouldn't admin their own systems. game developers are not admin, admin are not game developers.
dynamically changing the traffic light patterns based on who is comming to the light is a bad idea. people get used to traffic light patterns after driving the same roads over and over. if all of the sudden they are changed without warning, you could have a potentially dangerous situation.
imagine a wanted criminal driving a stolen car. it triggers the upcomming traffic light and the next few lights to change to yellow then red quickly so the cops can catch up to him. sure, they might stop this guy, but it could cause a couple accidents as well.
I don't forsee any legitimate usage of this without invasive usage hiding behind the sheild of "we're protecting your rights"
And yet, somehow all those "features" on Linux, end up using more memory and requiring more CPU
It is a good thing to keep as many peices of as many programs in memory as possible. This reduces page faults, which in turn increases response time and performace.
If more peices of programs are in memory, then the CPU can be active more often, without having to wait for slow as hell disk IO to read and write pages into and out to the disk.
The jittery window dragging... that may be true for kde and gnome, i don't know. I do know that running Enlightenment (no kde or gnome) i get smooth moves. This is on a crappy rage mobility video card from 3 years ago, with something like 8 megs of shared video memory, and a modile duron 800MHz, with 128M RAM. So maybe it's the window manager acting as a bottleneck for redrawing. But as you said, that is why it is good to have separate layers that can be independantly improved.
Another thing, if something "seems slow" to the user, then for all intensive purposes you might as well say "it is slow". If it gets the task done faster, but leaves the system unusable for 2 seconds, who cares? thats 2 seconds that you are forced into "serial mode" instead of a "parallel mode" of work.
You make a good point, I just don't think it can be a general statement.
Testament to user stupidity:
One company I worked for has an Eight Character long name...
Why is that stupidity on the end user? I've never called an 8 digit long number. I've seen them ocassionally as of late. I would assume that if you tried punching in all 8, it would start to call after 7, and the last would be discarded. But i don't know the specifications for the telephone system. If you see something for the first time and don't know what it is supposed to do, that isn't stupidity.
Maybe he didn't want to entertain curiosity and try it. Without knowing what will happen for sure, he could have thought it calls a $10/minute foreign number.
My point is, just because you know, and he doesn't know doesn't mean you are the epitome of brilliance and he is stupid.
So you're telling me that IE and Firefox handle margin and padding for 's the same? I think not...
as much as I follow the w3c CSS1 documents, browser writers will still take it upon themselves to interpret them differently and render differently.
then the terrorists have already won.
go! click on the link! for liberty and freedom!
hey, you're the one who mentioned the name of the law. I just alluded to it ;)