It's a clear vicious cycle. They demand an urgent fix. So you fix it urgently-- and hastily, circumventing the normal test process.
Why is the fix so urgent? It's because the custoemr is being hosed by the defect that's in the software in production. The test process is (should be) designed and improved over time to be a proven way to turn out code that won't mess put your customer into a desperate situation. So you do this 48 hour fix, and before long there's another customer that's got a desparate situation caused by this fix. And it may not be this fix that causes the problem, or it may not be the same customer that has a problem with this fix.
The software development organization needs to take a step back and release changes only after they are tested. Alternatively, the development organization needs to be clear with the customer that this is an unstable version, and don't be too surprised if it messes you up a little. The reality is there's only two scenarios you can realistically offer your customers: either take the stable version that we only update once per quarter or whatever; or take the leading edge version that can have lots of changes and customizations, but realize that you may be bitten by issues with it. Should issues pop up, we'll do our best to get the changes to you rapidly, but the changes will go through our test process.
It is not yet known if it will be possible to emulate the required hardware to run the OS.
Surely it's possible, it just may not be much fun or very practical. Unless perhaps that old hardware has some black boxes that talk to spirits or do other magic things.
Does it show the execution path of the query so I can optimize it? Can I use it to generate a printable schema of the database tables? Will it help me do a export of a database (including schema) into a new database on the same, or a different, server without touching any SQL? If so, does it then let me schedule that to run at 3:00 AM every third Tuesday? Does it handle all kinds of collations/character sets?
The answer to every one of your questions there is yes, except for the printable schema of tables. But all the other things you mentioned, yes.
phpmyadmin is what you need. Seriously, it's ever bit as good as enterprise manager and query analyzer. Enterprise manager doers a better job of building queries, sure. (But seriously, if you're using a gui to build your queries then there's no hope for you as a database developer.) Import/export create new tables, enter/edit data... phpmyadmin is seriously very nice and quite practical to use for day-to-day software development. I use it for my software development on my local machines, and as an added bonus, I'm not crippled when I'm working on a remote machine behind a firewall.
Perhaps it meant the write-only database has only 1 machine that is a reader for it, and the rest of the slaves all use that one reader as their source for replication. So the master writing database only has a single client, and all the other readers read from the "master" reader.
What's stopping them from compiling the important our-eyes-only stuff into an executable and putting the rest of the magic in a library which is released?
More improtantly, what's there to motivate them to do that? It's extra work for development, extra work for support, longer time to market, more risk of malfunction compared to just writing the code naturally. And what's the benefit? If I were managing a programming that wanted to do that, I'd ask him what the benefit is for this extra work and complexity, and if he didn't have an answer, I'd tell him to focus on what's important and get this product out the door without goofing off.
Users can create objects, and put scripts into those objects. They routinely do this. All those scripts run concurrently. So while it might not really be 'necessary' to run those scripts, they make the world what it is. Say I have a dragon avatar. It might seem silly to have 80 scripts running on my avatar's body at a time, but those scripts let me move like a dragon, blow smoke rings out of my nose at regular intervals, and so on. The content is created by the users, so that reduces the kind of optimization that can be done. But it also opens up a tremendous world of possibility.
Well said. Besides, you'll be more valuable if you can also hang with.NET instead of merely railing against it. After your learn the ropes, if you still can't stand it, then you can quit, and have a better resume afterwards. And who knows, you may even find that there are certain kinds of situations where you like.NET better. And if you don't, then you're probably just as blind as the bosses you complain about.
Exactly, spot on. Sadly though many people around here are too up tight to even have a rational discussion about GPL3, much less cybersex, so you'll probably get flamed;)
Here's an article that summarizes the rift. This article, at least, talks about Linus Torvalds refusing to go GPL3 because of the provision in GPL3 that discourages or prohibits DRM. Richard Stallman is on the other side: "The foundation believes that free software--that is, software that can be freely studied, copied, modified, reused, redistributed and shared by its users--is the only ethically satisfactory form of software development, as free and open scientific research is the only ethically satisfactory context for the conduct of mathematics, physics or biology."
No, he's a sculpter. You are far more arguably a talentless loser, AC. Your argument that his SL scultiping amounts to nothing is similar to saying that anyone who does activities using a computer is not actually doing something. For example, a novelist who writes using a computer has accomplished nothing, a stock broker who trades stocks using a computer is doing nothing...
The parent poster is not funny, he's ignorant, rude, and narrow minded.
maybe marketing sportsware or fashionware to geeks playing Second Life all day, instead of going outside and doing some sports or going to real life parties, may just not be the most cost-effective idea?
Certainly you're correct. But Second Life is an excellent way to reach all kinds of demographics. For example, if I were selling a gorean roleplay/vampire roleplaying tabletop game, I can't think of a better place to get super cost-effective targeted advertising that goes directly to my target demographic. Same thing with lots of other subcultures that are active in Second Life. A few that come to mind are pirates, sailing enthusiasts, music lovers, stay-at-home moms... cruise around in there for a couple of weeks and see who's there. There are a lot of active communities there who you can reach pretty easily. A few thousand USD can go a very long way towards reaching certain kinds of people in Second Life. Not all demographics in the world are well represented there, but certain demographics are represented better in SL than just about anywhere else.
So to me the question to ask is why does the model not work, and why do people attack the brands.
The model works fine. People attack brands in SL because griefers attack everything online that they can, generally speaking. From Forums to wiki's to you name it, griefers attack it, for whatever reason.
I don't think Second Life people are any more hostile to marketing than the general population of the real world. But it's way easier to be naughty and get away with it and avoid jail in Second Life. So the "attacks" mentioned are more like griefing and should not be likened to what it'd mean in real life if someone firebombed a business.
No, it was God's Will not to stop him. Get with the program! The official line seems to be that God is omnipotent but chooses through His wisdom to never do anything, ever.
Yes, there seriously is. The big areas where I love Photoshop and hate Gimp revolve around layer properties, layer blending, transparent backgrounds, and grouping and copying layers.
Actually let me amend that. It was working great until I tried to read the contents of those 1200 emails in a loop. The suspension seems to be traffic oriented. So the drive extension may be fine as long as you don't do something really outlandish like try to actually read the contents of too many of your emails.
I was doing some development a couple days ago with a library for accessing Google mail under program control, and Google did in fact suspend my account for 24 hours. It happened after I tried to read about 1200 email addresses from a particular tag. The gmail drive extension is probably dead now, unless I'm mistaken. Perhaps that extension has a different way of doing it than what I was using?
realizing it was something similar to Flash, I was expecting an explanation that would clearly outline why it was better than what already exists.
People asked the same thing of.NET vs. Java. I love C# better than Java, and the.NET framework, and Visual Studio. Sure, people will flame me, but it's top quality stuff. I haven't used Silverlight. And yes, Flash already exists and I hear Adobe's tools are terrific. But just because Microsoft is a me too competitor is no reason to discount the quality or importance of their products. Maybe Microsoft will have some awesome development tools. And the power of the.NET framework is immense. What I saw of Silverlight looks great. And I for one would rather code in a.NET language than ActionScript, for many reasons.
Agreed. Could it be that grandparent was more interested in bashing Microsoft than learning what Silverlight is? Surely not; we're all such an enlightened bunch here.
That's interesting. But let's not forget that in most walks of life, it's not raw IQ that is most important. Emotional stability, discipline, dedication, passion, and communication skills are at least as important to success. I wonder if the other siblings get an advantage in those areas?
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You're absolutely right. Perhaps it's the "phone company" at heart, still, and not so much the network company.
Why is the fix so urgent? It's because the custoemr is being hosed by the defect that's in the software in production. The test process is (should be) designed and improved over time to be a proven way to turn out code that won't mess put your customer into a desperate situation. So you do this 48 hour fix, and before long there's another customer that's got a desparate situation caused by this fix. And it may not be this fix that causes the problem, or it may not be the same customer that has a problem with this fix.
The software development organization needs to take a step back and release changes only after they are tested. Alternatively, the development organization needs to be clear with the customer that this is an unstable version, and don't be too surprised if it messes you up a little. The reality is there's only two scenarios you can realistically offer your customers: either take the stable version that we only update once per quarter or whatever; or take the leading edge version that can have lots of changes and customizations, but realize that you may be bitten by issues with it. Should issues pop up, we'll do our best to get the changes to you rapidly, but the changes will go through our test process.
A beowulf cluster of these bad boys running on emulated hardware running COBOL.NET applications under Mono!
Surely it's possible, it just may not be much fun or very practical. Unless perhaps that old hardware has some black boxes that talk to spirits or do other magic things.
Does it show the execution path of the query so I can optimize it? Can I use it to generate a printable schema of the database tables? Will it help me do a export of a database (including schema) into a new database on the same, or a different, server without touching any SQL? If so, does it then let me schedule that to run at 3:00 AM every third Tuesday? Does it handle all kinds of collations/character sets?
The answer to every one of your questions there is yes, except for the printable schema of tables. But all the other things you mentioned, yes.phpmyadmin is what you need. Seriously, it's ever bit as good as enterprise manager and query analyzer. Enterprise manager doers a better job of building queries, sure. (But seriously, if you're using a gui to build your queries then there's no hope for you as a database developer.) Import/export create new tables, enter/edit data... phpmyadmin is seriously very nice and quite practical to use for day-to-day software development. I use it for my software development on my local machines, and as an added bonus, I'm not crippled when I'm working on a remote machine behind a firewall.
Perhaps it meant the write-only database has only 1 machine that is a reader for it, and the rest of the slaves all use that one reader as their source for replication. So the master writing database only has a single client, and all the other readers read from the "master" reader.
More improtantly, what's there to motivate them to do that? It's extra work for development, extra work for support, longer time to market, more risk of malfunction compared to just writing the code naturally. And what's the benefit? If I were managing a programming that wanted to do that, I'd ask him what the benefit is for this extra work and complexity, and if he didn't have an answer, I'd tell him to focus on what's important and get this product out the door without goofing off.
Users can create objects, and put scripts into those objects. They routinely do this. All those scripts run concurrently. So while it might not really be 'necessary' to run those scripts, they make the world what it is. Say I have a dragon avatar. It might seem silly to have 80 scripts running on my avatar's body at a time, but those scripts let me move like a dragon, blow smoke rings out of my nose at regular intervals, and so on. The content is created by the users, so that reduces the kind of optimization that can be done. But it also opens up a tremendous world of possibility.
Well said. Besides, you'll be more valuable if you can also hang with .NET instead of merely railing against it. After your learn the ropes, if you still can't stand it, then you can quit, and have a better resume afterwards. And who knows, you may even find that there are certain kinds of situations where you like .NET better. And if you don't, then you're probably just as blind as the bosses you complain about.
Exactly, spot on. Sadly though many people around here are too up tight to even have a rational discussion about GPL3, much less cybersex, so you'll probably get flamed ;)
Get a grip, fanboys. It's not offtopic at all. He topic is GCC and GPL 3. Someone was asking what the controversey is about, and I told them. Losers
Here's an article that summarizes the rift. This article, at least, talks about Linus Torvalds refusing to go GPL3 because of the provision in GPL3 that discourages or prohibits DRM. Richard Stallman is on the other side: "The foundation believes that free software--that is, software that can be freely studied, copied, modified, reused, redistributed and shared by its users--is the only ethically satisfactory form of software development, as free and open scientific research is the only ethically satisfactory context for the conduct of mathematics, physics or biology."
The parent poster is not funny, he's ignorant, rude, and narrow minded.
Certainly you're correct. But Second Life is an excellent way to reach all kinds of demographics. For example, if I were selling a gorean roleplay/vampire roleplaying tabletop game, I can't think of a better place to get super cost-effective targeted advertising that goes directly to my target demographic. Same thing with lots of other subcultures that are active in Second Life. A few that come to mind are pirates, sailing enthusiasts, music lovers, stay-at-home moms... cruise around in there for a couple of weeks and see who's there. There are a lot of active communities there who you can reach pretty easily. A few thousand USD can go a very long way towards reaching certain kinds of people in Second Life. Not all demographics in the world are well represented there, but certain demographics are represented better in SL than just about anywhere else.
The model works fine. People attack brands in SL because griefers attack everything online that they can, generally speaking. From Forums to wiki's to you name it, griefers attack it, for whatever reason.
I don't think Second Life people are any more hostile to marketing than the general population of the real world. But it's way easier to be naughty and get away with it and avoid jail in Second Life. So the "attacks" mentioned are more like griefing and should not be likened to what it'd mean in real life if someone firebombed a business.
No, it was God's Will not to stop him. Get with the program! The official line seems to be that God is omnipotent but chooses through His wisdom to never do anything, ever.
Yes, there seriously is. The big areas where I love Photoshop and hate Gimp revolve around layer properties, layer blending, transparent backgrounds, and grouping and copying layers.
Haha, good stuff...
"Oh and look, right after trying to figure out transparency layers, 80% of our user base launched Wine and Photoshop"
Actually let me amend that. It was working great until I tried to read the contents of those 1200 emails in a loop. The suspension seems to be traffic oriented. So the drive extension may be fine as long as you don't do something really outlandish like try to actually read the contents of too many of your emails.
I was doing some development a couple days ago with a library for accessing Google mail under program control, and Google did in fact suspend my account for 24 hours. It happened after I tried to read about 1200 email addresses from a particular tag. The gmail drive extension is probably dead now, unless I'm mistaken. Perhaps that extension has a different way of doing it than what I was using?
People asked the same thing of .NET vs. Java. I love C# better than Java, and the .NET framework, and Visual Studio. Sure, people will flame me, but it's top quality stuff. I haven't used Silverlight. And yes, Flash already exists and I hear Adobe's tools are terrific. But just because Microsoft is a me too competitor is no reason to discount the quality or importance of their products. Maybe Microsoft will have some awesome development tools. And the power of the .NET framework is immense. What I saw of Silverlight looks great. And I for one would rather code in a .NET language than ActionScript, for many reasons.
Agreed. Could it be that grandparent was more interested in bashing Microsoft than learning what Silverlight is? Surely not; we're all such an enlightened bunch here.
That's interesting. But let's not forget that in most walks of life, it's not raw IQ that is most important. Emotional stability, discipline, dedication, passion, and communication skills are at least as important to success. I wonder if the other siblings get an advantage in those areas?