I find it a tad bit hard to believe that Sun was later in it's definition of write-once-run-anywhere.
but it was their "Monopoly" on said practice he was describing. which is an arbitrary judgement call, since they don't really have a monopoly on it in practice, but maybe a trademark on the phrase.
Why do many projects choose not to use exceptions or even templates
This is due to the way C++ is generally taught or learned on ones own. Everyone and their mother seems to teach C++ as a C. They might throw in some small sections on classes and encapsulation, and if your lucky virtual methods. But STL? Exceptions? Christ, I didn't even know C++ had exceptions until way after I had read 2 different books on C++ and taken a C++ course. At that point, still no knowledge of C++ exceptions. Then I eventually bought "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne and have been completely enlightened by his examples and insight into the language.
You can't learn C++ by reading K&R.
Your other points are valid I think, I just wanted to make this point.
On the flip side, if you're coming out of high school and you haven't been designing games or layouts (even on paper) by now, it's likely that you don't have the spark to make it, at least as far as doing it for a living.
This seems like a horrible thought to me. What if I'm 25 years old, or 55 for that matter, and never heard of some career or field. Then someone mentions it to me in passing and I determine that this is what I could love, this is what I want to do with my life. Your theory tells me that I probably won't be able to do what I love doing. This is almost as bad as saying your life is predetermined by god and you have no free will.
To all the naysayers, I say go for it. Who cares if people have been doing it for years before you. Maybe they are all conditioned to think in one certain way. Maybe your freshness will allow you to see some new quality in level design that explodes in popularity. After all, your life experiences accumulate inside your head as a different perspective on things. Apply that different perspective to whatever you do and you might just come up with something original.
If everyone decided not to do things just because other people have been doing it longer, we would have stopped producing art centuries ago. How many millions of still life paintings of fruit had been produced before Paul Cezanne used such bold colors next to each other? Whatever his life experiences, he used them well. Anyone can do the same.
does midi allow for sheet music or tabliture to be rendered in a browser window? not that i've heard of. i guess a plugin could be created to handle midi in a visual way instead of starting up your midi music player, rendering the sheet music within your browser.
you said: If they'd only been traveling at 1,568 mph, it would have been almost survivable (at least the breakup portion). RTFA - they were traveling at 15,800 mph (I think you missed a zero there), and that was almost 10 minutes after beginning their descent.
I did RTFA. You go read it again. At the time the foam impacted the shuttle, they were travelling at 1,568 mph. That is when I was talking about. I know at break up it was much faster. My point was that if they detected the problem at impact, and were able to redirect out of descent, that it probably would have been difficult to slow back down so they don't go hurtling out into space.
From the article, "Before the foam separated, the shuttle -- and the foam -- had a velocity of 1,568 mph"
As for the existing sensors, the article suggested that they didn't pick anything up until several minutes later when the atmosphere was thick enough for enough molecules to get into the wing and really heat it up.
How can a hole being ripped in the wing, or any other part of the shuttle not be picked up by some sensor?
though, what could be done 81 seconds after beginning re-entry? anything besides acknowledge that you're going to die? if you level your course, instead of going down into the atmosphere will you just gradually burn up? I'm thinking, skim the outter atmosphere, since the air is thin it isn't having a drastic effect on the structure (compared with a few minutes later the change in atmosphere rips into the shuttle a lot more). skip out of the atmosphere and resume some sort of drift through space. try to control the drift so you're not hurtling into nothingness, although if your travelling at 1,568 mph maybe that is a little far fetched. then, assess the damage, and deal with it somehow (emergency rescue mission, repairs if at all possible?).
i am not a rocket scientist. but at what point of re-entry is it too late to do any sort of constructive abort?
I've heard some internships are unpayed these days.:-)
Yes, how do companies get away with this? If the internship is part of a college degree/coursework then that is one thing, since you get course credit. However, unpaid labor? Aren't there labor laws? I hear a lot of the movie industry uses unpaid internships because people, apparently rich kids, really want to be in the movie industry and can afford to use ma & pa's bank account to float their boats for a while until they move up to a real job.
Can you waive your rights that are protected under labor laws? Is that what these "unpaid internships" have you do by signing a contract? Whatever happened to minimum wage laws?
I do realize that back in the olden days, apprenticeships were used regularly. But even these, didn't they offer housing and food in return for work?
i think people assume the insides are held together with scotch tape or just thrown in their without any thought. mention of "not being able to run with iPods", based on friends experience, should be modded troll.
not owning any mp3 type player, I would agree. this "market" that apple wants 20% more of, why does it exist? does it exist purely because people want a device that is smaller than the palm of their hand? Or is it that flash based players have fewer moving parts and less chance for damage? Quicker transfer times? It seems like the iPod and other large capacity players are a real market, where this "high-end flash-based market" is irrelevant. i mean, who would buy a Creative Muvo TX for $269 only to get 512MB?
ah, thanks. his response in "that sounds ok" was a little misleading. Having a 2GB increase would seem to evoke a better reaction than just being "ok".
Fine I'll troll. Your response is typical of a republican response. I give specific examples of positive accomplishments when said there were none. They you come back saying, "Yeah, could have been worse, imagine if such and such happened...". But "such and such" didn't happen. What did happen were positives. Your response is straight out of Bush Jr.'s book. Always shifting the focus to something else, in this case Perot. Perot was a non issue in this conversation, your bringing him is a cheap distraction.
Where are the jobs, Bush? "Oh I caught Saddam."
bleh. forgive me, but sidestepping the issue annoys the hell out of me.
I think we're much better off with his people than with Gore's (but I'm pretty much a Republican, so I'm kind of bias ^_^), which would've had us sit back on our heels and do nothing productive at all (just like the 8-year span of Clinton's years)
Clinton did nothing productive? You mean he didn't pay off $360 billion of the national debt between 1998-2000? He didn't lead the way to dismantling over 1700 nuclear warheads from the former soviet union? And after falling for years before his term, the mediam family income didn't increase by over $6000 (after adjusting for inflation) since he entered office in 1993? Not to forget African American family income rose even more, over $7000 (again after adjusting for inflation). He didn't enact the 1994 Crime Bill for funding over 100,000 community police officers?
IBM holds zillions of patents they don't enforce. Take a look at some of the lame ones they pulled out in reference to the SCO case. Really, it's just fodder for when you really piss them off.
Of course you are right. But just how long until the open source community pisses off IBM? I say 2 years, then "all your source code are belong to us".
and all these communications connection and netwrok transmissions can be thought of as snail mail like people mentioned previously in snail mail chess matches. even the "game speed of play control for allowing the first user to control the pace.." can be thought of as "1st class mail", "express", "express ground", or "express air", etc.
The Lawyers better notify the post office that they are infringing on IP and must cease all mail routes until they, in SCO fashion, show The Lawyers where they are infringing.
Without an actual implementation in the flesh then hasn't a fundamental issue with patents been missed i.e. it has to have a working implementation at the time of filing.
Some time ago, says a patent attorney i've spoken with, the USPTO did away with requiring working prototypes on submission.
# In the olden days resumes were sent out in the mail and included a cover sheet on top which explained why the resume was being sent. Now that we use email, there is no reason whatsoever to send the cover letter as an attachment and then write a "cover cover" letter in the body of the email. It's just senseless. # Even stupider is submitting two big Word documents with no body text in the email. This just gets you spam filtered. I don't even SEE these.
There so many, seemingly endless ways of doing things, that getting stuff like this shouldn't be an issue for people hiring. The first part above, I see no problem having text in the body of the email that is a cover letter, then attaching a PDF or something of the same cover letter. Why? Text if they can't read a PDF, and PDF if they want a nice printout of it. It's not senseless as Joel puts it.
The next quote above, about 2 attachments and no body. This is something you as the recruiter, HR, or drone in charge of the first round of hiring should have stated in your advertisement. Maybe not if it is a newspaper ad for lack of space, but online definately. Say that you don't accept word documents, or say that you must put your cover letter as plain text in the body of the email, etc. Give the applicants some rules to follow. If they cannot do that, it's a good first filter... not a reason for ranting.
My bigest pet peeve in my 9 months of unemployment before finally getting a job, is that the ads hardly ever stated what kind of documents they wanted. If they didn't say, I usually sent the stuff as plain text, hoping that it would be legible on their end. Other times based on the company, I would try to make a judgement as to whether they would know what to do with a PDF and would send the resume as that. Sometimes with cover letter attached as plain text with a brief note in the body of the email say why i'm sending this email. Sometimes with the cover letter as text in the body. If they said "WORD DOC ONLY" I would usually reconsider sending them anything.
Everyone should just say how they want it, and it would minimize these wastefull rants from Joel.
The worst part about resumes, is that you never get feedback from the company you sent it to. And by never I mean 1 out of 50 might send you back a canned, automated email response. Fog Creek does this if I remember correctly, I applied there last summer. Atleast it felt canned. Which was great though, because it was the first response I got back from anyone or anything over the course of many months. That after having my resume and and cover letters reviewed by english majors, parents, people in the software industry and former coworkers.
Seriously, BBS days have to be considered a network suitable for prior art. TradeWars anyone? Name your favorite door game, and it probably had a ranking system. The only thing might be this phrase, "where multiple instances of a game are transmitted". The game isn't transmitted, but only game data I assume. That, and BBS door games didn't display popup ads or other garbage.
Does the game being "attacked" in this nonsense transmit the game over the network of just ingame data? They seem to not be displaying ads, thats for sure.
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I just pictured Homer Simpson standing in a computer store drooling over a Mac. "MMmmm, Candy Computer" and then he tries to eat it.
maybe, but good use of the kama sutra is definately good karma.
I find it a tad bit hard to believe that Sun was later in it's definition of write-once-run-anywhere.
but it was their "Monopoly" on said practice he was describing. which is an arbitrary judgement call, since they don't really have a monopoly on it in practice, but maybe a trademark on the phrase.
Why do many projects choose not to use exceptions or even templates
This is due to the way C++ is generally taught or learned on ones own. Everyone and their mother seems to teach C++ as a C. They might throw in some small sections on classes and encapsulation, and if your lucky virtual methods. But STL? Exceptions? Christ, I didn't even know C++ had exceptions until way after I had read 2 different books on C++ and taken a C++ course. At that point, still no knowledge of C++ exceptions. Then I eventually bought "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne and have been completely enlightened by his examples and insight into the language.
You can't learn C++ by reading K&R.
Your other points are valid I think, I just wanted to make this point.
how long until token ring around the collar is implemented?
sorry, awful joke. i'll save you a mod point and not post with karma bonus.
SCO has prior art for "Method of using lawyers to stimulate the male organ to orgasm"
On the flip side, if you're coming out of high school and you haven't been designing games or layouts (even on paper) by now, it's likely that you don't have the spark to make it, at least as far as doing it for a living.
This seems like a horrible thought to me. What if I'm 25 years old, or 55 for that matter, and never heard of some career or field. Then someone mentions it to me in passing and I determine that this is what I could love, this is what I want to do with my life. Your theory tells me that I probably won't be able to do what I love doing. This is almost as bad as saying your life is predetermined by god and you have no free will.
To all the naysayers, I say go for it. Who cares if people have been doing it for years before you. Maybe they are all conditioned to think in one certain way. Maybe your freshness will allow you to see some new quality in level design that explodes in popularity. After all, your life experiences accumulate inside your head as a different perspective on things. Apply that different perspective to whatever you do and you might just come up with something original.
If everyone decided not to do things just because other people have been doing it longer, we would have stopped producing art centuries ago. How many millions of still life paintings of fruit had been produced before Paul Cezanne used such bold colors next to each other? Whatever his life experiences, he used them well. Anyone can do the same.
does midi allow for sheet music or tabliture to be rendered in a browser window? not that i've heard of. i guess a plugin could be created to handle midi in a visual way instead of starting up your midi music player, rendering the sheet music within your browser.
i said: although if your travelling at 1,568 mph
you said: If they'd only been traveling at 1,568 mph, it would have been almost survivable (at least the breakup portion). RTFA - they were traveling at 15,800 mph (I think you missed a zero there), and that was almost 10 minutes after beginning their descent.
I did RTFA. You go read it again. At the time the foam impacted the shuttle, they were travelling at 1,568 mph. That is when I was talking about. I know at break up it was much faster. My point was that if they detected the problem at impact, and were able to redirect out of descent, that it probably would have been difficult to slow back down so they don't go hurtling out into space.
From the article, "Before the foam separated, the shuttle -- and the foam -- had a velocity of 1,568 mph"
As for the existing sensors, the article suggested that they didn't pick anything up until several minutes later when the atmosphere was thick enough for enough molecules to get into the wing and really heat it up.
"I know you think you have a full house, but you only have 2 cards in your hand"
:)
-That 70s show, Hyde to a stoned Kelso
I thought it was appropriate to bring up
How can a hole being ripped in the wing, or any other part of the shuttle not be picked up by some sensor?
though, what could be done 81 seconds after beginning re-entry? anything besides acknowledge that you're going to die? if you level your course, instead of going down into the atmosphere will you just gradually burn up? I'm thinking, skim the outter atmosphere, since the air is thin it isn't having a drastic effect on the structure (compared with a few minutes later the change in atmosphere rips into the shuttle a lot more). skip out of the atmosphere and resume some sort of drift through space. try to control the drift so you're not hurtling into nothingness, although if your travelling at 1,568 mph maybe that is a little far fetched. then, assess the damage, and deal with it somehow (emergency rescue mission, repairs if at all possible?).
i am not a rocket scientist. but at what point of re-entry is it too late to do any sort of constructive abort?
I've heard some internships are unpayed these days.:-)
Yes, how do companies get away with this? If the internship is part of a college degree/coursework then that is one thing, since you get course credit. However, unpaid labor? Aren't there labor laws? I hear a lot of the movie industry uses unpaid internships because people, apparently rich kids, really want to be in the movie industry and can afford to use ma & pa's bank account to float their boats for a while until they move up to a real job.
Can you waive your rights that are protected under labor laws? Is that what these "unpaid internships" have you do by signing a contract? Whatever happened to minimum wage laws?
I do realize that back in the olden days, apprenticeships were used regularly. But even these, didn't they offer housing and food in return for work?
someone please enlighten me.
i think people assume the insides are held together with scotch tape or just thrown in their without any thought. mention of "not being able to run with iPods", based on friends experience, should be modded troll.
not owning any mp3 type player, I would agree. this "market" that apple wants 20% more of, why does it exist? does it exist purely because people want a device that is smaller than the palm of their hand? Or is it that flash based players have fewer moving parts and less chance for damage? Quicker transfer times? It seems like the iPod and other large capacity players are a real market, where this "high-end flash-based market" is irrelevant. i mean, who would buy a Creative Muvo TX for $269 only to get 512MB?
ah, thanks. his response in "that sounds ok" was a little misleading. Having a 2GB increase would seem to evoke a better reaction than just being "ok".
anyway, thanks for the clarification
will hold 4GB of music,"
4GB? We were expecting maybe 2GB, but that sounds ok
should that be "We were expecting 20GB"?
Fine I'll troll. Your response is typical of a republican response. I give specific examples of positive accomplishments when said there were none. They you come back saying, "Yeah, could have been worse, imagine if such and such happened...". But "such and such" didn't happen. What did happen were positives. Your response is straight out of Bush Jr.'s book. Always shifting the focus to something else, in this case Perot. Perot was a non issue in this conversation, your bringing him is a cheap distraction.
Where are the jobs, Bush? "Oh I caught Saddam."
bleh. forgive me, but sidestepping the issue annoys the hell out of me.
Oh wait, he can't use a computer!
<nelson laugh>ha haa</nelson laugh>
I think we're much better off with his people than with Gore's (but I'm pretty much a Republican, so I'm kind of bias ^_^), which would've had us sit back on our heels and do nothing productive at all (just like the 8-year span of Clinton's years)
Clinton did nothing productive? You mean he didn't pay off $360 billion of the national debt between 1998-2000? He didn't lead the way to dismantling over 1700 nuclear warheads from the former soviet union? And after falling for years before his term, the mediam family income didn't increase by over $6000 (after adjusting for inflation) since he entered office in 1993? Not to forget African American family income rose even more, over $7000 (again after adjusting for inflation). He didn't enact the 1994 Crime Bill for funding over 100,000 community police officers?
Well he did.
IBM holds zillions of patents they don't enforce. Take a look at some of the lame ones they pulled out in reference to the SCO case. Really, it's just fodder for when you really piss them off.
Of course you are right. But just how long until the open source community pisses off IBM? I say 2 years, then "all your source code are belong to us".
and all these communications connection and netwrok transmissions can be thought of as snail mail like people mentioned previously in snail mail chess matches. even the "game speed of play control for allowing the first user to control the pace.." can be thought of as "1st class mail", "express", "express ground", or "express air", etc.
The Lawyers better notify the post office that they are infringing on IP and must cease all mail routes until they, in SCO fashion, show The Lawyers where they are infringing.
Without an actual implementation in the flesh then hasn't a fundamental issue with patents been missed i.e. it has to have a working implementation at the time of filing.
Some time ago, says a patent attorney i've spoken with, the USPTO did away with requiring working prototypes on submission.
He should take his own advice and put two spaces after periods.
2 spaces after a period? That was NEVER taught to me in any of my 26 years on this earth. Those years included atleast 3 university writting courses.
I have to mention whenever I see that convention used by people, it looks awful.
# In the olden days resumes were sent out in the mail and included a cover sheet on top which explained why the resume was being sent. Now that we use email, there is no reason whatsoever to send the cover letter as an attachment and then write a "cover cover" letter in the body of the email. It's just senseless.
# Even stupider is submitting two big Word documents with no body text in the email. This just gets you spam filtered. I don't even SEE these.
There so many, seemingly endless ways of doing things, that getting stuff like this shouldn't be an issue for people hiring. The first part above, I see no problem having text in the body of the email that is a cover letter, then attaching a PDF or something of the same cover letter. Why? Text if they can't read a PDF, and PDF if they want a nice printout of it. It's not senseless as Joel puts it.
The next quote above, about 2 attachments and no body. This is something you as the recruiter, HR, or drone in charge of the first round of hiring should have stated in your advertisement. Maybe not if it is a newspaper ad for lack of space, but online definately. Say that you don't accept word documents, or say that you must put your cover letter as plain text in the body of the email, etc. Give the applicants some rules to follow. If they cannot do that, it's a good first filter... not a reason for ranting.
My bigest pet peeve in my 9 months of unemployment before finally getting a job, is that the ads hardly ever stated what kind of documents they wanted. If they didn't say, I usually sent the stuff as plain text, hoping that it would be legible on their end. Other times based on the company, I would try to make a judgement as to whether they would know what to do with a PDF and would send the resume as that. Sometimes with cover letter attached as plain text with a brief note in the body of the email say why i'm sending this email. Sometimes with the cover letter as text in the body. If they said "WORD DOC ONLY" I would usually reconsider sending them anything.
Everyone should just say how they want it, and it would minimize these wastefull rants from Joel.
The worst part about resumes, is that you never get feedback from the company you sent it to. And by never I mean 1 out of 50 might send you back a canned, automated email response. Fog Creek does this if I remember correctly, I applied there last summer. Atleast it felt canned. Which was great though, because it was the first response I got back from anyone or anything over the course of many months. That after having my resume and and cover letters reviewed by english majors, parents, people in the software industry and former coworkers.
Seriously, BBS days have to be considered a network suitable for prior art. TradeWars anyone? Name your favorite door game, and it probably had a ranking system. The only thing might be this phrase, "where multiple instances of a game are transmitted". The game isn't transmitted, but only game data I assume. That, and BBS door games didn't display popup ads or other garbage.
Does the game being "attacked" in this nonsense transmit the game over the network of just ingame data? They seem to not be displaying ads, thats for sure.
peace,
frog