You're right offcourse. But JS will go for a plain DVD recorder (maybe even including a hard disk) in stead of Media PC. Preferably a cheap, no-brand one because most of those come with region-free, also-plays-divx/xvid embedded software.
I assume you are a developer. If you have more than 2+ years experience, you really shouldn't be saying this.
Lots of projects have a history and start with an itch. And when starting with, say, 15 screens in mind, I'm not going to set up a database abstraction layer. However, the project can grow beyond those initial 15 screens. In that case, yeah it might have been better to layer the DB away. But that's history.
Wrong! You just gave the best argument one can think of to ALWAYS write a database abstraction layer.
It doesn't even have to be all that abstract either. Just make sure all data access is done in a separate replacable layer (your 'data access layer'). If the application needs to support another dbms in the future just write a new dal and that's it.
Or... you could use an orm thingy like (n)hibernate, but thats a completely different story.
Wrong question! The real question is: "Does the UK count itself a part of Europe?"
Some extra questions: - Why are they still using their 'Great' Brittish Pounds in stead of Euros? - What was _their_ business in Iraq (backing up Bush)?
Besides, as has been stated by some other repliers to your post: The UK has some of the best consumer protection laws.
So the grand parent was right on topic!
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Hermits, by nature, are anti-social beings. And they have always been so.
They make a clear choice to live outside of society. In the past they had to support their basic needs by hunting, fishing, agriculture... or perhaps even trade their 'deviner-abilities' with a few commoners (for food or money). Now they have the option to earn their living through the internet.
The article however describes a totally different kind of person (one who lives in the parental basement and such). Though there is some truth in the fact that there probably is a kind of hermit that lives through the use of the internet, without being addicted to it, and without trying to substitute his real life.
Albeit that people that medidate alot, another possible hermit habbit, tend to use that as a real life substitution.
"Why not download MAME and the relevant ROM? it's only a few clicks away anyway. And it is not piracy in any way, since this is a 17 year old game which players will find boring after a while anyway."
_that_ doesn't make it LEGAL?!
Downloading a street fighter ROM sure _is_ piracy. Especially now, since it's commercially available again for the 360.
Besides, you wouldn't get to kick ass or be kicked your ass online with the MAME thing.
I would've done exactly the same thing. Scamming, vandalising, stealing, etc.. all pisses me off pretty bad. (I might regret doing so afterwards... but revenge can taste so sweeeeet.)
I think that Amir dude learned a valuable lesson (the hard way). I bet he'll think twice before trying to scam someone again. And who knows, this story may even scare of some potential future scammer.
it's a softmod because the start-up sequence is exploited (by replacing some font files)
you are referring to a hotswap or a harddrive upgrade
the hard drive's firmware isn't altered in any way... so it's still a softmod hooking the drive up to your pc is just a way of altering the drive's content (if you have any other means of getting an exploited gamesave onto to xbox, and if you're happy with the size of the original drive you can do the same thing through an ftp connection)
sure... i haven't had any problems with Oblivion at all since i bought my MSI AGP 6600GT (with 128Mb DDR3 memory)
I've shut down 2 Oblivion gates and I'm archmage of the mages guild so I've had to pull through quite some action scenes
the rest of my systems specs are: Asus K8V Deluxe mobo (socket 754) AMD 64 3200+ (the first generation at 2Ghz with 1Mb level 2 cache in stead of 2.2Ghz and 512Kb) 1 Gb PC3200 (2x512Mb) Apacer memory 80Gb S-ATA 7200tpm 8Mb cache
Oblivion is why I upgraded my graphics card. It was practically impossible to play with my GF FX5700. Now I have a 6600GT AGP card. Still not the best of the best but Oblivion runs very smooth 800x600 medium detail.
Not exactly budget either... mid-range is the word i guess.
easy for you to say... what if it's not up to you to fire/hire people, but it's up to you to make every inhouse developer (bad, mediocre or good) able to work on any new (and in the future existing) project
i'd say the 'pick two' option the grandparent suggests doesn't sound too bad afterall
if you standardize and get it approved by whatever steering organization there is (committees, upper management), then you have something you can use to fence with against unwilling/unqualified existing staff (i.e. have them fired or transferred to another division if they won't/can't follow the standards)
it all depends on the size of the company, the position you're in, the quality of the existing personnel, unions, friends in high places, politics, etc...
i've got a dedicated dual core amd64 4000 with 4 gigabytes of ram at home constantly generating new GUIDs and storing them in an oracle database on a 10 gigabytes storrage array (expandable if necessary)
that way, when the world runs out of GUIDs i'll make a fortune selling them
otoh i hope the G stands for global and not for galaxy, or i could be in big trouble using up the GUIDs from the other side of the universe... i wouldn't want to provoke an intergalactic war because of entire nations running out of GUIDs or something
maybe i should start looking into this IPv6 thing too? afterall, if nobody really wants them, they're bound to be cheap for the time being
"be born with outstanding talent and in an environment that fosters that talent during your childhood.
Reality is as easy and unjust as that: everything/everyone else gets drowned in the dull bulk of the bell curve!"
now that's a really depressing statement...
it doesn't have to be all that outstanding; a bit of talent is enough and most environments foster those (bits of) talents, or at least try to (relatively spoken, you're posting on slashdot so i don't think you're in a 3rd world country)
maybe that Graham dude is a bit naieve trying to solve the problem for everyone but that doesn't mean reality is the complete opposite and only the happy few are granted a life in which they can only do what they love
to quote the milliondollarscript page: "The idea for the million dollar script derived from the highly successful "Million Dollar Homepage", started by Alex Tew."
the milliondollarscript page team? created a script that does the same and they try to sell it for $50
some braindead numbnuts actually bought the damned thing too *figures*
i think Alex should have pattented the idea, then he would have made way more than a million
They have a link page to a bunch of pathetical sites that are running the script.
What's wrong with these guys?! I mean, the kid had a great idea, it worked... leave it at that. Don't loose your dignity by trying to squeeze the last bit of money (you won't even get rich) out of it.
Agreed! When I was 12-17 (early 90's) my parents constantly bugged me about the time I spent on my computer(s)... they just didn't understand my enthousiasm and dedication to the subject. Yeah, maybe there where times I overdid it a bit, but my grades where good and I had a normal social life.
There was no internet in those days, and I had no modem (wasn't allowed to hook up a phone line) to log on to my friends BBS.
Despite the fact they were against it, I kept experimenting, programming, installing different OS's (MS/DR-DOS, OS/2, Slackware, SCO System V,...) and playing games... this caused a lot of tension between them and me and basically shed a bit of a shadow on my relationship with them.
I still love 'm, but nowadays they have to put up with an occasional sarcastic remark when I'm at their place fixing _their_ computer.
Little extra story: my dad once installed an old pulse phone (yep, one with a dialing disc) just to be able to put a _lock_ on it! He never knew I could still make phone calls by 'pulsing in' the numbers;-)
Anyway, I guess the point is to not try to control your kids life too much. If you observe them, and interact with them like a good parent you'll know when something is wrong and only then you will have to take such extreme measures.
As for me: The first Jr. is on its way now;-) And I hope he/she finds something in which he/she can put the same passion and dedication that I had for computers...
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You're right offcourse. But JS will go for a plain DVD recorder (maybe even including a hard disk) in stead of Media PC. Preferably a cheap, no-brand one because most of those come with region-free, also-plays-divx/xvid embedded software.
As long as he can record and share all he wants.
The biggest drawback is DRM.
If JS (Joe Sixpack) can't record what he wants, while he could do that with a normal VCR, he's not going to buy it.
JS also wants to share his recordings or the media he bought with his friends (again, this could be done with a VCR).
Offcourse, there are DRM-less solutions (like MythTV 'n stuff) but that's just too complex for JS.
I assume you are a developer. If you have more than 2+ years experience, you really shouldn't be saying this.
Lots of projects have a history and start with an itch. And when starting with, say, 15 screens in mind, I'm not going to set up a database abstraction layer. However, the project can grow beyond those initial 15 screens. In that case, yeah it might have been better to layer the DB away. But that's history.
Wrong! You just gave the best argument one can think of to ALWAYS write a database abstraction layer.
It doesn't even have to be all that abstract either. Just make sure all data access is done in a separate replacable layer (your 'data access layer'). If the application needs to support another dbms in the future just write a new dal and that's it.
Or... you could use an orm thingy like (n)hibernate, but thats a completely different story.
"Do you count the UK as Europe?"
Wrong question! The real question is: "Does the UK count itself a part of Europe?"
Some extra questions:
- Why are they still using their 'Great' Brittish Pounds in stead of Euros?
- What was _their_ business in Iraq (backing up Bush)?
Besides, as has been stated by some other repliers to your post: The UK has some of the best consumer protection laws.
So the grand parent was right on topic!
AMEN!
Hermits, by nature, are anti-social beings. And they have always been so.
They make a clear choice to live outside of society. In the past they had to support their basic needs by hunting, fishing, agriculture... or perhaps even trade their 'deviner-abilities' with a few commoners (for food or money). Now they have the option to earn their living through the internet.
The article however describes a totally different kind of person (one who lives in the parental basement and such). Though there is some truth in the fact that there probably is a kind of hermit that lives through the use of the internet, without being addicted to it, and without trying to substitute his real life.
Albeit that people that medidate alot, another possible hermit habbit, tend to use that as a real life substitution.
"Why not download MAME and the relevant ROM? it's only a few clicks away anyway. And it is not piracy in any way, since this is a 17 year old game which players will find boring after a while anyway."
_that_ doesn't make it LEGAL?!
Downloading a street fighter ROM sure _is_ piracy. Especially now, since it's commercially available again for the 360.
Besides, you wouldn't get to kick ass or be kicked your ass online with the MAME thing.
Oooowwwhh yes! It's worth it!
I would've done exactly the same thing. Scamming, vandalising, stealing, etc.. all pisses me off pretty bad. (I might regret doing so afterwards... but revenge can taste so sweeeeet.)
I think that Amir dude learned a valuable lesson (the hard way). I bet he'll think twice before trying to scam someone again. And who knows, this story may even scare of some potential future scammer.
it's a softmod because the start-up sequence is exploited (by replacing some font files)
:-)
you are referring to a hotswap or a harddrive upgrade
the hard drive's firmware isn't altered in any way... so it's still a softmod
hooking the drive up to your pc is just a way of altering the drive's content
(if you have any other means of getting an exploited gamesave onto to xbox, and if you're happy with the size of the original drive you can do the same thing through an ftp connection)
this isn't a softmod... it's a flashmod
sure... i haven't had any problems with Oblivion at all since i bought my MSI AGP 6600GT (with 128Mb DDR3 memory)
I've shut down 2 Oblivion gates and I'm archmage of the mages guild so I've had to pull through quite some action scenes
the rest of my systems specs are:
Asus K8V Deluxe mobo (socket 754)
AMD 64 3200+ (the first generation at 2Ghz with 1Mb level 2 cache in stead of 2.2Ghz and 512Kb)
1 Gb PC3200 (2x512Mb) Apacer memory
80Gb S-ATA 7200tpm 8Mb cache
Oblivion is why I upgraded my graphics card. It was practically impossible to play with my GF FX5700. Now I have a 6600GT AGP card. Still not the best of the best but Oblivion runs very smooth 800x600 medium detail.
Not exactly budget either... mid-range is the word i guess.
too bad i don't have any mod points...
Yeah... but do they store big endian or little endian?
easy for you to say... what if it's not up to you to fire/hire people, but it's up to you to make every inhouse developer (bad, mediocre or good) able to work on any new (and in the future existing) project
i'd say the 'pick two' option the grandparent suggests doesn't sound too bad afterall
if you standardize and get it approved by whatever steering organization there is (committees, upper management), then you have something you can use to fence with against unwilling/unqualified existing staff (i.e. have them fired or transferred to another division if they won't/can't follow the standards)
it all depends on the size of the company, the position you're in, the quality of the existing personnel, unions, friends in high places, politics, etc...
right on the dot
and that reminds me of something i recently saw on thedailywtf: The Perils of Error-free Code
it all comes down to being competent or not
If protection of productivity was their motive, I think they'd block /.
shhhhh! don't give 'm any ideas!
Reminds me of a coworkers job on file access in vb6. I think it had something to do with parsing and writing config files...
When i asked him where his error handling routines were he replied: "I don't program errors!"
I know, nothing to do with unit testing; but still worth a mention.
there an open source alternative: #Develop
;-)
and you can still choose between c# and vb.net
but c# would be the way to go offcourse
i for one can't wait for the GUIDs to run out
i've got a dedicated dual core amd64 4000 with 4 gigabytes of ram at home constantly generating new GUIDs and storing them in an oracle database on a 10 gigabytes storrage array (expandable if necessary)
that way, when the world runs out of GUIDs i'll make a fortune selling them
otoh i hope the G stands for global and not for galaxy, or i could be in big trouble using up the GUIDs from the other side of the universe... i wouldn't want to provoke an intergalactic war because of entire nations running out of GUIDs or something
maybe i should start looking into this IPv6 thing too? afterall, if nobody really wants them, they're bound to be cheap for the time being
"be born with outstanding talent and in an environment that fosters that talent during your childhood.
Reality is as easy and unjust as that: everything/everyone else gets drowned in the dull bulk of the bell curve!"
now that's a really depressing statement...
it doesn't have to be all that outstanding; a bit of talent is enough
and most environments foster those (bits of) talents, or at least try to (relatively spoken, you're posting on slashdot so i don't think you're in a 3rd world country)
maybe that Graham dude is a bit naieve trying to solve the problem for everyone
but that doesn't mean reality is the complete opposite and only the happy few are granted a life in which they can only do what they love
no it's not... i was *his* idea
to quote the milliondollarscript page:
"The idea for the million dollar script derived from the highly successful "Million Dollar Homepage", started by Alex Tew."
the milliondollarscript page team? created a script that does the same
and they try to sell it for $50
some braindead numbnuts actually bought the damned thing too *figures*
i think Alex should have pattented the idea, then he would have made way more than a million
No shit... it's already happening!
Look at this.
\The million dollar script people!\
They have a link page to a bunch of pathetical sites that are running the script.
What's wrong with these guys?! I mean, the kid had a great idea, it worked... leave it at that. Don't loose your dignity by trying to squeeze the last bit of money (you won't even get rich) out of it.
I don't even know if I should laugh or cry.
-bbb
Agreed! When I was 12-17 (early 90's) my parents constantly bugged me about the time I spent on my computer(s)... they just didn't understand my enthousiasm and dedication to the subject. Yeah, maybe there where times I overdid it a bit, but my grades where good and I had a normal social life.
;-)
;-) And I hope he/she finds something in which he/she can put the same passion and dedication that I had for computers...
There was no internet in those days, and I had no modem (wasn't allowed to hook up a phone line) to log on to my friends BBS.
Despite the fact they were against it, I kept experimenting, programming, installing different OS's (MS/DR-DOS, OS/2, Slackware, SCO System V,...) and playing games... this caused a lot of tension between them and me and basically shed a bit of a shadow on my relationship with them.
I still love 'm, but nowadays they have to put up with an occasional sarcastic remark when I'm at their place fixing _their_ computer.
Little extra story: my dad once installed an old pulse phone (yep, one with a dialing disc) just to be able to put a _lock_ on it! He never knew I could still make phone calls by 'pulsing in' the numbers
Anyway, I guess the point is to not try to control your kids life too much. If you observe them, and interact with them like a good parent you'll know when something is wrong and only then you will have to take such extreme measures.
As for me: The first Jr. is on its way now
"When IBM lost the clone battles..."
Hmmz... I thought episode II was named "The clone wars" not battles..
and what part did IBM take in it again?
Very puzzled i am, indeed...
the verb you are looking for is
refactoring
thus the phrase becomes:
People use the 'you should comment your code' excuse because they are lazy and don't want to take the time to refactor their code.