(As opposed to attempting to reverse engineer Windows, which is against the terms of the agreement, even if I do it by myself and don't tell anyone.)
My company reverse engineers any competitor's products to know what their market focus is and then decides on what our product has to do... thats illegal?? i know a few other companies that do this as well.
Just a typical contract screw up. ....And a wonderful example of how to use screw ups to screw up others. I bet Transdyn has people just to find out holes in such contracts
Oh.. cool!! I dont have to get married at 30... I can stay bachelor till i am 950..:)... That does releive loads of tension... But, will i be able to do "it" after marriage??
Is this going to be another polygraph??. Cant these activities in the frontal brain happen anytime else, say when u r tensed?? Do these activities suggest a definite lie??
Using the phone is pretty fine if you have a P800 or something similar... not with the normal ones... I would prefer to go to a nearby net cafe to do the job.
One added advantage of emails is the formation of groups. U can stay in touch with all ur friends and similar-interests people without having to increase your friends list in IM grow unmanageably long. And when u have something to announce to somebody, mails are more convenient... and U certainly dont want to see a long offline message in ur IM... thats irritating.
These are some things i guess is necessary for good software
1) Reviews at all stages.(Reqs/design/dev)
2) While at development, u sure must know whats the most efficient way to code a design (which libraries are more suitable etc)
3) Unit testing and Integration testing (when the project is huge)
Some practices that managers can really use to take the pressure off the team
1) Try giving buffers to the team (seriously, it works)
2) Proper Code management (Lotsa rework and pressure come due to lack of this)
3) Proper tracking and status updates to the customers
Innovations that reach out to the poorer mass, especially in the developing and under-developed nations should be what must be concentrated on..
What about research on agriculture?? novel farmland efficiency increasing and cross-breeding techniques.
More on materials that could be useful in cutting costs of basic amenities (shelter especially) for the poor
Also on diseases like cancer and AIDS
It is only innovations like these which are going to make this world a better place to live in.
I guess the guy who invents a flying car wont be able to make immediate money selling it coz after all the research that would go into it, it would cost a fortune and it would take sometime for it to get mass produced and become cheap.
Thats exactly why u need prize money for this. After all, prize money is also a catalyst for the invention... isnt it??
What is the BPI going to do to stop british music download in other countries where there are no/very primitive piracy laws especially for music download from the net.
I guess not much. Piracy is not that easy a task to do away with that u sue a few percent and expect the whole to react.
One thing that they have to concentrate on in the future when the number of records grow fast is a nice search strategy. Time taken for search is one thing that can make the mass use this facility.
As far as i have tried it out in these few minutes, the search strategy is good... there are separate search that researchers can use to know historical data and the like... This is great.
One major thing that comes inbetween coding near-perfect software (Perfect software is never going to be possible) is also the demand the customers place on the team.Of course, they know very less about the technology and so cannot blame them totally.
In India, software companies treat the customer as God accepting his/her unreasonable targets.. I wouldnt blame the customers alone for it... the managers too are responsible. They agree to whatever the customer says even though the actual development team asks them not to. And then, the normal work timings stretch to 10 AM to 3-4 AM next day... Now, anybody think anyone can write quality code when they are working this timing??
Well, the only advantage that comes here is that we get to read all the/. stories
Other country laws..
Looks like many of the countries have already realized or are in the way to realizing that censoring the net is going to be an impossible task.
Yes... Right. How many of us now even login to Yahoo using the secure mode?? not me definitely
If not bringing in stronger encryption techniques, this is only going to increase the awareness of encryption.
While there are absurd patents on the rise, there is the other side of patenting too... Large corporations do not patent many worthwhile ideas because they do not bring in any revenue or because the ideas do not belong to the primary focus area of the company
Patenting is all about earning revenue. Can u really blame them for it??
well, here are some stuff that i did to my hardware
1) Kept in on a UPS and lost all data. The HD still worked after reformatting
2) In the process of data transfer, broke 6 pins (in a span of an year), the HD was working until last month
The last and the best thing that happened a week before was that i poured beer on my keyboard and it started acting drunk (pressing an A would register a Z)
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(As opposed to attempting to reverse engineer Windows, which is against the terms of the agreement, even if I do it by myself and don't tell anyone.)
My company reverse engineers any competitor's products to know what their market focus is and then decides on what our product has to do... thats illegal?? i know a few other companies that do this as well.
Just a typical contract screw up.
....And a wonderful example of how to use screw ups to screw up others. I bet Transdyn has people just to find out holes in such contracts
Oh.. cool!! I dont have to get married at 30 ... I can stay bachelor till i am 950.. :) ... That does releive loads of tension... But, will i be able to do "it" after marriage??
Is this going to be another polygraph??. Cant these activities in the frontal brain happen anytime else, say when u r tensed?? Do these activities suggest a definite lie??
Using the phone is pretty fine if you have a P800 or something similar... not with the normal ones... I would prefer to go to a nearby net cafe to do the job.
One added advantage of emails is the formation of groups. U can stay in touch with all ur friends and similar-interests people without having to increase your friends list in IM grow unmanageably long. And when u have something to announce to somebody, mails are more convenient ... and U certainly dont want to see a long offline message in ur IM... thats irritating.
The point isn't that WE aren't doing enough to protect ourselves from spam, but that we shouldn't HAVE to jump through hoops to avoid this shit.
You are looking at an idealistic scenario... Thats wont ever happen... it is much like dreaming about a world without crimes.
It is our responsiblity to shield ourselves from the shit.
These are some things i guess is necessary for good software
1) Reviews at all stages.(Reqs/design/dev)
2) While at development, u sure must know whats the most efficient way to code a design (which libraries are more suitable etc)
3) Unit testing and Integration testing (when the project is huge)
Some practices that managers can really use to take the pressure off the team
1) Try giving buffers to the team (seriously, it works)
2) Proper Code management (Lotsa rework and pressure come due to lack of this)
3) Proper tracking and status updates to the customers
Innovations that reach out to the poorer mass, especially in the developing and under-developed nations should be what must be concentrated on..
What about research on agriculture?? novel farmland efficiency increasing and cross-breeding techniques.
More on materials that could be useful in cutting costs of basic amenities (shelter especially) for the poor
Also on diseases like cancer and AIDS
It is only innovations like these which are going to make this world a better place to live in.
I guess the guy who invents a flying car wont be able to make immediate money selling it coz after all the research that would go into it, it would cost a fortune and it would take sometime for it to get mass produced and become cheap.
Thats exactly why u need prize money for this. After all, prize money is also a catalyst for the invention... isnt it??
Can they make the movie as real as the game is, especially doom 3?? I doubt it.
What is the BPI going to do to stop british music download in other countries where there are no/very primitive piracy laws especially for music download from the net.
I guess not much. Piracy is not that easy a task to do away with that u sue a few percent and expect the whole to react.
Here are some patents that have something to do with smell... But none are awarded to a smell itself. They are mostly devices that emit some smell.
One thing that they have to concentrate on in the future when the number of records grow fast is a nice search strategy. Time taken for search is one thing that can make the mass use this facility.
As far as i have tried it out in these few minutes, the search strategy is good... there are separate search that researchers can use to know historical data and the like... This is great.
One major thing that comes inbetween coding near-perfect software (Perfect software is never going to be possible) is also the demand the customers place on the team.Of course, they know very less about the technology and so cannot blame them totally.
/. stories
In India, software companies treat the customer as God accepting his/her unreasonable targets.. I wouldnt blame the customers alone for it... the managers too are responsible. They agree to whatever the customer says even though the actual development team asks them not to. And then, the normal work timings stretch to 10 AM to 3-4 AM next day... Now, anybody think anyone can write quality code when they are working this timing??
Well, the only advantage that comes here is that we get to read all the
Other country laws.. Looks like many of the countries have already realized or are in the way to realizing that censoring the net is going to be an impossible task.
They want us to pay so that we can help them in preventing us watching porn??
They must be nuts
Yes... Right. How many of us now even login to Yahoo using the secure mode?? not me definitely
If not bringing in stronger encryption techniques, this is only going to increase the awareness of encryption.
Kudos to government policies
While there are absurd patents on the rise, there is the other side of patenting too... Large corporations do not patent many worthwhile ideas because they do not bring in any revenue or because the ideas do not belong to the primary focus area of the company
Patenting is all about earning revenue. Can u really blame them for it??
well, here are some stuff that i did to my hardware 1) Kept in on a UPS and lost all data. The HD still worked after reformatting 2) In the process of data transfer, broke 6 pins (in a span of an year), the HD was working until last month The last and the best thing that happened a week before was that i poured beer on my keyboard and it started acting drunk (pressing an A would register a Z)