I actually find public transport to be expensive (far above the combined costs of owning and using a car), highly inconvenient (unless you happen to live near the busstop, always want to go near a busstop and everything runs on time; which is almost never) and -most importantly- physically and mentally draining; it's not enjoyable to be packed like a sardine in a can in a subway or train. Traffic jams aren't fun either, but atleast I have some room to move.
Probably the most reliably movie ratings are the recommendations given by sites selling DVD/BluRays, as they have a financial interest in actually providing accurate results. Sites paid for by movie advertising have a financial interest in recommending whatever movie has the biggest advertising budget.
Sounds more like a library issue to me. It is a hallmark of a badly designed library though. Making common things easy is good, making common things easy while making uncommon things impossible is bad.
The default TCP settings may be perfect for 99% of the time. For the remaining 1%, this library is useless. If you think this may be fine, let me ask you this; have you ever created a program which didn't have atleast one uncommon "1%" thing in it?
A programmer who believes there is no possible way some particular feature would ever need to be used, is a programmer who is too unexperienced and entirely unqualified for his job.
Star Trek's world is one where status and wealth is achieved through ability. The combined baseless egos of managers and business execs won't allow this to happen.
In response to the "preferred possible outcomes" poll some week ago, I made some predictions on what would actually happen, including the "blaming rogue employee" bit; http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
The mistake is thinking ANYTHING is a silver bullet. If you think you know a solution that will fix all problems, you haven't seen enough problems yet.
Too bad, because the book constantly references OS360, whose development was the inspiration for the book. It's been a while since I've read it, but I don't remember it mentioning Unix, atleast not in any significant way.
Back in those days you typically has many small, single-purpose programs "piped" using files, regardless of the specific OS. Given the small memory sizes available, this was pretty much the only way to handle large jobs.
Ironically, the "3mm" markers use a font that is roughly 3x the size of the strangely un-anti-aliassed fonts rendered in the image. Zoom your browser to ~50% and imagine the characters are even smaller than that; do you consider text of that size to be reasonably readable even from a 4800dpi print?
I'm sure if you studied still images, trying to find the differences, you'll find some. But what if it's a moving picture or you're just trying to read text; does it make any difference in real-world use?
Are you sure those evil people weren't acting out of some extreme "survival of the fittest, and I decide who's fittest" principle they thought right, instead of intentionally and knowingly being evil? Minds can become horribly twisted and self-justifying, you know.
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It may be evil, but it's also "The Right* Thing".
* "right" as in "far-right extremist".
Wow, your e-bike is allowed on highways?
I actually find public transport to be expensive (far above the combined costs of owning and using a car), highly inconvenient (unless you happen to live near the busstop, always want to go near a busstop and everything runs on time; which is almost never) and -most importantly- physically and mentally draining; it's not enjoyable to be packed like a sardine in a can in a subway or train. Traffic jams aren't fun either, but atleast I have some room to move.
Law enforcement will use any means possible, no matter how unlawful.
Probably the most reliably movie ratings are the recommendations given by sites selling DVD/BluRays, as they have a financial interest in actually providing accurate results.
Sites paid for by movie advertising have a financial interest in recommending whatever movie has the biggest advertising budget.
Sounds more like a library issue to me. It is a hallmark of a badly designed library though. Making common things easy is good, making common things easy while making uncommon things impossible is bad.
The default TCP settings may be perfect for 99% of the time. For the remaining 1%, this library is useless.
If you think this may be fine, let me ask you this; have you ever created a program which didn't have atleast one uncommon "1%" thing in it?
A programmer who believes there is no possible way some particular feature would ever need to be used, is a programmer who is too unexperienced and entirely unqualified for his job.
Seems you just want to get rid of the C++ library, which is pretty easy; simply don't use it.
Star Trek's world is one where status and wealth is achieved through ability.
The combined baseless egos of managers and business execs won't allow this to happen.
Other than having to wait on the phone for an hour to lodge a complaint, assuming you even know the right number to dial?
And only the worst will remain. The best people can get something better.
In response to the "preferred possible outcomes" poll some week ago, I made some predictions on what would actually happen, including the "blaming rogue employee" bit; http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
I thought I was making a joke.
The mistake is thinking ANYTHING is a silver bullet.
If you think you know a solution that will fix all problems, you haven't seen enough problems yet.
If you're doing projects where you don't have to do anything you haven't already done before, you should automate it.
Too bad, because the book constantly references OS360, whose development was the inspiration for the book.
It's been a while since I've read it, but I don't remember it mentioning Unix, atleast not in any significant way.
Back in those days you typically has many small, single-purpose programs "piped" using files, regardless of the specific OS.
Given the small memory sizes available, this was pretty much the only way to handle large jobs.
Sure, it'll still be readabe, but not in any comfortable way.
You say you did it to fit more on the paper, which means you'd normally print larger.
Those people just zoom into images, which is much easier and clearer.
If you need to lean into your screen to see details, you're doing it wrong.
The example image given by grandparent renders fonts at the equivalent of ~3pt; unreadably at any dpi.
Ironically, the "3mm" markers use a font that is roughly 3x the size of the strangely un-anti-aliassed fonts rendered in the image.
Zoom your browser to ~50% and imagine the characters are even smaller than that; do you consider text of that size to be reasonably readable even from a 4800dpi print?
I'm sure if you studied still images, trying to find the differences, you'll find some.
But what if it's a moving picture or you're just trying to read text; does it make any difference in real-world use?
Until we get down to Planck-scale, the pixels are still too "digital".
Perhaps they understood that for-profit companies DO default to evil.
Dentists default to keeping patient alive enough to keep paying dentist bills.
I agree with GP.
Are you sure those evil people weren't acting out of some extreme "survival of the fittest, and I decide who's fittest" principle they thought right, instead of intentionally and knowingly being evil? Minds can become horribly twisted and self-justifying, you know.
It's the right thing to do for more profit.
A sense of moral responsibility?
Nah, I'm just kidding! :)
And how exactly does this solve the problem of hardware manufacturers not updating locked firmware?