Its official name is simplyhockey, and this is the common name for it in many countries. However, the name field hockey is used in countries where the word hockey is usually reserved for another form of hockey, such as ice hockey or street hockey.
I am sure her royal highness is the best hip checker in that team and if the Pakistan hockey team wants to win, pass it to the Queen who is so skilled she can shoot a puck past any goalie due to all the hockey practice she took in the UK to get ready to join the Pakistan hockey team to help them win.
Pakistan plays regular hockey (also called as field hockey) - there are no pucks in hockey.
Do you have experience rewriting huge enterprise software which started small, got lot of features added over the years & now has 5-10 teams of developers working fulltime on it? This kind of software is a disaster to rewrite. Yeah, if you want to rewrite something mid-size like a browser, it would probably not be as bad. If you want rewrite huge software, do it in small chunks across different releases after adding a lot of automated test suites & bug fix verification tests.
For this kind of approach, you really need to hear about your customers, and write the scenarios that they need, and it's obviously impossible when you start your company.
The project is now radically different, but not yet released, since it's really a subset of the previous project.
When you release it you will find the following things guaranteed - Customers have forgotten to mention 20% of the scenarios they need which is present in your current release. - 20% more have been misunderstood by you. - Your new software may be a little more flexible for adding features as compared to the old one, but as much as you had wanted it to be when you decided on a rewrite. - There are a lot of obscure, difficult to reproduce & difficult to fix bugfixes hidden in your old software, which will not be carried over to your rewrite. You will end up spending a lot of time on these once your rewrite is released.
That old crappy code has undecipherable bug fixes for 100's of obscure difficult to reproduce bugs. Many of them which could be hit only under really strange customer usage scenarios & which tooks days to reproduce, days to fix & many more days to fix whatever the fixes broke.
So unless you original software fully automated testsuites covering every functionality & you have added a bug fix verification test for each bug which has been fixed since then, do not rewrite something from scratch.
This is standard stuff. People have been doing this for years for using regular SIMs in dual SIM adaptors. Take a look here There are even special cutters available to make this job easier.
Oh - I so agree. Java is portable on Windows & Solaris (haven't used Java on Linux, so no idea). Most other OS's you will get 90% of your stuff working. But chasing down the remaining 10% OS specific issues will take 90% of your time.
Thankfully, I think that this could be circumvented easily, by transferring video files to another country in an encrypted form, then getting friends in the other country to unencrypt and upload it for you
Italy Floats Official Permission Requirement for sending stuff in encrypted form - Slashdot headlines few months down the line.
HP's bignum is based on regular numbers which I patented a few years back. So HP would have to license my patent to do anything useful with their patent.
In a secret ballot, you don't get bribed to vote for a particular person because you can always say you voted for him while voting for him . Likewise, about getting pressured about voting for someone.
If your country really is free (something that Brazil is good at) there is no problem telling everybody who you voted on.. Vote's anonymity only makes it easier to fake elections.
Don't be silly. Secret ballot is one of the cornerstones of democracy.
In a secret ballot, you don't get bribed to vote for a particular person because you can always say you voted for him while voting for him. Likewise, about getting pressured about voting for someone.
Plus you can change settings like language and subtitles via the player's menu; always at the same place, you don't have to stop the movie, go to the menu, find the settings, etc.
I own a 50$ Philips DVD Player & I can change subtitles etc through the remote without going to the main menu!
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Well, they could have got the web for free - http://www.free-web.org/
From the wikipedia page for Field Hockey
Its official name is simply hockey, and this is the common name for it in many countries. However, the name field hockey is used in countries where the word hockey is usually reserved for another form of hockey, such as ice hockey or street hockey.
Pakistan plays regular hockey (also called as field hockey) - there are no pucks in hockey.
Kate is 21 years older than her son Tom.
In 6 years from now, Kate will be 5 times as old as Tom.
Where is Tom's father?
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Ans : Tom's father is inside Kate now concieving Tom.
Do you have experience rewriting huge enterprise software which started small, got lot of features added over the years & now has 5-10 teams of developers working fulltime on it? This kind of software is a disaster to rewrite. Yeah, if you want to rewrite something mid-size like a browser, it would probably not be as bad.
If you want rewrite huge software, do it in small chunks across different releases after adding a lot of automated test suites & bug fix verification tests.
When you release it you will find the following things guaranteed
- Customers have forgotten to mention 20% of the scenarios they need which is present in your current release.
- 20% more have been misunderstood by you.
- Your new software may be a little more flexible for adding features as compared to the old one, but as much as you had wanted it to be when you decided on a rewrite.
- There are a lot of obscure, difficult to reproduce & difficult to fix bugfixes hidden in your old software, which will not be carried over to your rewrite. You will end up spending a lot of time on these once your rewrite is released.
That old crappy code has undecipherable bug fixes for 100's of obscure difficult to reproduce bugs. Many of them which could be hit only under really strange customer usage scenarios & which tooks days to reproduce, days to fix & many more days to fix whatever the fixes broke.
So unless you original software fully automated testsuites covering every functionality & you have added a bug fix verification test for each bug which has been fixed since then, do not rewrite something from scratch.
This is standard stuff. People have been doing this for years for using regular SIMs in dual SIM adaptors.
Take a look here
There are even special cutters available to make this job easier.
If Jimi Hendrix covering Lady Gaga is not PAIN, then what is?
My father used to say the same thing with computer keyboards as compared to typewriters.
Don't worry the next generation will adjust fine.
Oh - I so agree.
Java is portable on Windows & Solaris (haven't used Java on Linux, so no idea).
Most other OS's you will get 90% of your stuff working. But chasing down the
remaining 10% OS specific issues will take 90% of your time.
Italy Floats Official Permission Requirement for sending stuff in encrypted form - Slashdot headlines few months down the line.
Why is a GMail id better than a Yahoo id?
They first violate the rats dignity before doing testing on it!!
What are they testing here anyway - Viagra & stuff like that?
I, for one, welcome this.
HP's bignum is based on regular numbers which I patented a few years back.
So HP would have to license my patent to do anything useful with their patent.
This is my biggest grouse with both CDs & DVDs.
I have old audio & VHS tapes which play fine while newer CDs & DVDs have become unusable.
Not everyone believes SETI is real science - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI#Criticism
My Ping times
- ISP's DNS server - 23 ms
- OpenDNS - 264 ms
- Google DNS - 367 ms
For me.
- ISP's DNS server - 23 ms
- OpenDNS - 264 ms
- Google DNS - 367 ms
Maybe you could return the sticker & get a refund on the sticker?
Meant to write - "while voting for someone else".
Don't be silly.
Secret ballot is one of the cornerstones of democracy.
In a secret ballot, you don't get bribed to vote for a particular person because you can
always say you voted for him while voting for him.
Likewise, about getting pressured about voting for someone.
Sure - this is bad news for the record companies.
But how is this good news for anyone except the artists?
I own a 50$ Philips DVD Player & I can change subtitles etc through the remote without going to the main menu!
Isn't that good?
http://www.amiright.com/artists/mistermister.shtml