Agree. There is too much emphasis on "making the numbers" in the current quarter. Boards of Directors don't have patience for investing for future and sustaining profits. Training the workforce will not pay off this quarter.
Sounds good. Also, I'd like to see some of the Versioning file system installed by default
Sooner or later, everyone re-invents VMS.
Yes, VMS did this really well! The versions were invisible to a running application unless you needed to revert then they were a lifesaver. This is kind of a "trash" or "recycle bin" except better because are automatic and were created when file was modified for any reason (rather than the "recycle bin" where the previous version is created only when a file is deleted through the gui).
Sounds good. Also, I'd like to see some of the Versioning file system installed by default, and built into the GUI so that it is accessible and easy for even the common user. Maybe use Subversion as a back-end to make it work, and it could look a little like Tortoise SVN.
Ha Ha, I've seen an entire huge web site programmed in Oracle Packages using PL/SQL (a lot of heavy string concatenation everywhere, which in plsql is the double pipe "||"). The Oracle salesman must have been really effective for this client, because they were planning on scraping even more of the non-oracle technology. There was a tiny bit of jsp that was the shell that would just request the finished page from the database.
Gases are compressible. Gallon is a measure of volume. Theoretically, highly compressed hydrogen would give you liquid hydrogen.
Hydrogen compressed occupies 3 times more volume than gasoline for the same energy.
http://www.planetforlife.com/h2/h2swiss.html
Agreed. It is liberating managing a team. They are an extension allowing me to achieve my technical goals faster. Bid on larger and larger projects. An older technical person has the wisdom to know what works, and can easily keep up with technology because it just keeps getting more interesting! Just keep yourself too valuable to be let go. Grow a grey beard if you can.
I came back from Australia two weeks ago, and Qantas entertainment system spent about half the time broken down. They even apologized for it in their announcement. Now I know why!
That's an interesting opinion you have, and to for the most part it's true. But, think of the everyday blue collar worker who simply doesn't have the time or patience to farm lets say a netherdrake mount, that costs hundreds of thousands of WoW gold and that as you can imagine takes lots of time. It isn't like a beginning player is going to spend $30 for 2,000 gold to tweak his level one character; most of the people who buy gold have as I've come to learn have indeed their own max level character on their account(s). Players simply don't want to spend the time grinding for gold and better gear, so they purchase gold and power levelling, or known as (PL) in the gaming world. In power leveling someone levels your character or the whole account for a set fee, and has total control over your account; yet players still take the risk, and they will keep taking the risks and there's nothing we can do about it. What players do can't be helped, if they choose to play a game, and in some ways cheat, there is very little we and Blizzard can do about it but to hand out temporary account bans, as Blizzard would prefer not to lose customers as any other company would.
While gold-farming does go against the game's policies, there is not much that Blizzard can legally do about it. Gold-farmers are stationed mostly in China and Japan, and players are willing to buy buy their products such as gold / armor and items. it is disappointing but I don't see how that should affect gameplay, as some people do not have the time to farming gold and armor. Players use their virtual money to enhance their character, yet Blizzard feels that this is against the game's policies, which in many ways it is, but people do what they want, no MMORPG has ever been perfect, and i seriously doubt that blizzard can do much about stopping the spread of gold farming and gold selling. Players do what makes them happy, even if it may violate the GUI's and so forth.
javascript is a "macro language for browsers" and has all the benefits and drawbacks of any other macro language.
If you need tight and responsive interraction among standard html form elements, and need cross-browser compatibility, then javascript rules.
One issue I rarely see address is that e-voting is susceptible to vote selling. Imagine a trailer parked downtown with a sign "Free $20 for voting" Inside is a bank of PC's. People come in and vote under the watchful eye of a guy who tells them if they vote the right way, they get the money. Cost of the trailer and the money would be paid for by wealthy interests who could stand to benefit by the corrupt politician who would be elected under this scheme. It is common for politicians to spend even more than this per vote http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/08/straw-poll-fall.html
The conventional voting booth (with the curtain) on the other hand prevents vote selling because there is no way for a voter to prove he voted the "right way" to get the money.
Hey, if you have something negative to say, why say it? I mean, why
spend the time complaining when you could have already gone and
bought/downloaded another game to play? I like what Blizzard has to
offer. It's new, compared to what they've done before. This in my
opinion is a great add-on to the games already great story/gameplay
'Grats Blizzard, another great addon to the game!
Cheers
They could encrypt their OS (and patches) with Windows Media DRM. Then it would be illegal to decrypt and backwards-engineer the patches. The RIAA would enforce.
Any commercial product that isn't as good as a free OSS project may fail. However, maybe it deserves to fail. Products for sale have an advantage that there is a cash flow to hire programmers to do the boring and tedious but necessary part of the code, and also to bribe^h^h^h^h^h lobby politicians to smooth adoption, and also to advertise the product. A well-managed OSS project may also be able to inspire programmers to supply the code for free, and may be able to become known to consumers without the need to advertise.
Blackberry gives you the freedom to check your messages during meeting breaks. You can deal with issues at the time most convenient to you.
The alternative is to be chained to your PC during the same time period.
Software becomes hard when heavy-handed
management decisions are made to give too much emphasis to a
particular software tool or methodology.
An expert programmer (working with human factors experts) can
prototype the new system in a cross-platform scripting language
(doesn't matter which one), then can identify the objects
a software team can refactor
the system once again in an object-oriented language (doesn't matter
which one).
Finally, a period of benchmarking can identify the
bottlenecks which can be refactored one last time, plus the hardware
and Operating System decisions can be made based on the available
hardware at the end of the software development cycle.
An approach like this would probably have been helpful in FBI's failed $100 million debacle the Virtual Case File system
There was a time in late 1999 (after the Red Hat IPO) that any company could get an enormous 'pop' on their stock value by even merely announcing the word "linux" in a title of a any press release. It was disappointing that Cowpland didn't simply continue to provide good native apps for Linux (WordPerfect 8 for Linux was quite good) but instead went with a competing distribution.
Founder Technology President Qi Dongfeng said the company would buy $250 million worth of licenses for a Chinese version of Windows over the next three years, to be used on computers sold in China. The two companies also agreed to work together to promote the use of genuine versions of Windows.
The agreement, which company officials signed at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters, follows high-level talks Tuesday between U.S. and Chinese officials in which China pledged to crack down on piracy and require computers to use legal software. Piracy is thought to be extremely widespread in China, hampering Microsoft's efforts to make money in the vast and growing market.
The signing ceremony also comes ahead of a visit next week by Chinese President Hu Jintao, who will visit Microsoft headquarters and dine at the home of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
For completness of discussion, a product that deserves mention is
PC Anywhere.
It has some additional features not found in TermServ, like X11 compatibility
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Agree. There is too much emphasis on "making the numbers" in the current quarter. Boards of Directors don't have patience for investing for future and sustaining profits. Training the workforce will not pay off this quarter.
Maybe give time to move to Linux!
Sooner or later, everyone re-invents VMS.
Yes, VMS did this really well! The versions were invisible to a running application unless you needed to revert then they were a lifesaver. This is kind of a "trash" or "recycle bin" except better because are automatic and were created when file was modified for any reason (rather than the "recycle bin" where the previous version is created only when a file is deleted through the gui).
Sounds good. Also, I'd like to see some of the Versioning file system installed by default, and built into the GUI so that it is accessible and easy for even the common user. Maybe use Subversion as a back-end to make it work, and it could look a little like Tortoise SVN.
Ha Ha, I've seen an entire huge web site programmed in Oracle Packages using PL/SQL (a lot of heavy string concatenation everywhere, which in plsql is the double pipe "||"). The Oracle salesman must have been really effective for this client, because they were planning on scraping even more of the non-oracle technology. There was a tiny bit of jsp that was the shell that would just request the finished page from the database.
Gases are compressible. Gallon is a measure of volume. Theoretically, highly compressed hydrogen would give you liquid hydrogen. Hydrogen compressed occupies 3 times more volume than gasoline for the same energy. http://www.planetforlife.com/h2/h2swiss.html
Agreed. It is liberating managing a team. They are an extension allowing me to achieve my technical goals faster. Bid on larger and larger projects. An older technical person has the wisdom to know what works, and can easily keep up with technology because it just keeps getting more interesting! Just keep yourself too valuable to be let go. Grow a grey beard if you can.
I came back from Australia two weeks ago, and Qantas entertainment system spent about half the time broken down. They even apologized for it in their announcement. Now I know why!
That's an interesting opinion you have, and to for the most part it's true. But, think of the everyday blue collar worker who simply doesn't have the time or patience to farm lets say a netherdrake mount, that costs hundreds of thousands of WoW gold and that as you can imagine takes lots of time. It isn't like a beginning player is going to spend $30 for 2,000 gold to tweak his level one character; most of the people who buy gold have as I've come to learn have indeed their own max level character on their account(s). Players simply don't want to spend the time grinding for gold and better gear, so they purchase gold and power levelling, or known as (PL) in the gaming world. In power leveling someone levels your character or the whole account for a set fee, and has total control over your account; yet players still take the risk, and they will keep taking the risks and there's nothing we can do about it. What players do can't be helped, if they choose to play a game, and in some ways cheat, there is very little we and Blizzard can do about it but to hand out temporary account bans, as Blizzard would prefer not to lose customers as any other company would.
While gold-farming does go against the game's policies, there is not much that Blizzard can legally do about it. Gold-farmers are stationed mostly in China and Japan, and players are willing to buy buy their products such as gold / armor and items. it is disappointing but I don't see how that should affect gameplay, as some people do not have the time to farming gold and armor. Players use their virtual money to enhance their character, yet Blizzard feels that this is against the game's policies, which in many ways it is, but people do what they want, no MMORPG has ever been perfect, and i seriously doubt that blizzard can do much about stopping the spread of gold farming and gold selling. Players do what makes them happy, even if it may violate the GUI's and so forth.
javascript is a "macro language for browsers" and has all the benefits and drawbacks of any other macro language. If you need tight and responsive interraction among standard html form elements, and need cross-browser compatibility, then javascript rules.
The conventional voting booth (with the curtain) on the other hand prevents vote selling because there is no way for a voter to prove he voted the "right way" to get the money.
Hey, if you have something negative to say, why say it? I mean, why spend the time complaining when you could have already gone and bought/downloaded another game to play? I like what Blizzard has to offer. It's new, compared to what they've done before. This in my opinion is a great add-on to the games already great story/gameplay
'Grats Blizzard, another great addon to the game! Cheers
They could encrypt their OS (and patches) with Windows Media DRM. Then it would be illegal to decrypt and backwards-engineer the patches. The RIAA would enforce.
You obviously have never heard his show.
Any commercial product that isn't as good as a free OSS project may fail. However, maybe it deserves to fail.
Products for sale have an advantage that there is a cash flow to hire programmers to do the boring and tedious but necessary part of the code, and also to bribe^h^h^h^h^h lobby politicians to smooth adoption, and also to advertise the product.
A well-managed OSS project may also be able to inspire programmers to supply the code for free, and may be able to become known to consumers without the need to advertise.
Blackberry gives you the freedom to check your messages during meeting breaks. You can deal with issues at the time most convenient to you.
The alternative is to be chained to your PC during the same time period.
One recommended extension for reducing bandwidth usage: Adblock
An approach like this would probably have been helpful in FBI's failed $100 million debacle the Virtual Case File system
Most firewalls will reassemble fragmented packets in order to perform content analysis. How to do it is in the TCP/IP RFC's.
There was a time in late 1999 (after the Red Hat IPO) that any company could get an enormous 'pop' on their stock value by even merely announcing the word "linux" in a title of a any press release. It was disappointing that Cowpland didn't simply continue to provide good native apps for Linux (WordPerfect 8 for Linux was quite good) but instead went with a competing distribution.
There is already so much Dark fiber overcapacity that I think the ISP could easily supply bandwidth to grow with the demand.
For completness of discussion, a product that deserves mention is PC Anywhere. It has some additional features not found in TermServ, like X11 compatibility
Too many people have seen The China Syndrome and confused it with real life.