1: WE LIKE BEING DIFFERENT. The fact that is irrational is only a bonus.
2: We like the fact that our system is hard for those who didn't grow up with it to understand. Ditto for language.
3: It's not hard if you've grown up with it. Sorry, but I can do division of inches and parts of inchees( I do woodworking. I do things like 'divide 12' 5/8" into 4 equal parts" in my head all the time. (answer 3' 5/32").
4. We don't give a shit.
5: we Like that we like sports other countries don't.
6: We don't really care that everyone else uses metric.
they didn't OFFER one without those "extras". Period. even ordering one (although at least I could have gotten one with a manual in the color I want). Problem was, I found that dealers were less inclined to deal on those.
a person after my own heart. I once had a nissan sentra with 270K miles when the odometer stopped, and I drove it for another year.
Best thing was when I took it to the shop to get the breaks fixed (got a cheap break dude who would do it for $40, so why do it myself). He said "you know you head gasket is leaking oil right? you should get that fixed, but it's like $600-$800. You'll blow the engine and get stranded" (he knew I had a long commute). My response " guess it's time to get that cell phone I've been thinking about.."
I guess there must be consumer demand... Last year my wife and I were all set to purchase our first new car (we're 35 and consider cars a horrid waste of money), but we simply could not find a "base" model. Everything has power windows, locks, CD player (actually wanted that).
God forbid you want a car that doesn't have all the crap or *GASP* not an automatic transmission (I'll take the lower gas milage and increased service problems for $800 alex!").
Anway, when we could only find ONE manual, base moodel subaru Forester in the entire STATE and we didn't like that color, we bought a used one at an auction threw a friend for $7k less, 2 years old 28K miles (this is why I don't buy new!).
I didn't say it necessarily sucks. I just think it has a bunch of stuff that seems to be "we're making you do it the harder way because it's the RIGHT way".. also on the list is not being able to do stringVar == "this", instead doing stringVar.equals("this").. I must confess, I don't know c or c++, but even PL/SQL and on oracle stored procedures and javascript let you do a switch on a string!
sounds a lot like oracle.. sell extremely expensive, exremely powerful products which are poorly documented and often littered with bugs. Then sell support and consulting, not to mention spawn an industry of full time DBA's to understand the intracies.
Troll ebay for a used Panasonic showstopper. They are a replayTV unit with lifetime subscription. I bought a used one for line $160, upgraded the drive to a 120 gig for another $80 or so. For $240 (less than the $299 sub. on a new replayTv unit), you get a 120-hour (extended, i.e., low, quality) unit with lifetime sub. Sure, doesn't have the new broadband features, but it works great. Wife and son LOVE the thing...
would help those running pokerbots for the online poker sites... currently, the largest online poker site is blocking a bot program by not letting you log in (or kicking you off) by scanning for a window with the program name in the title. You can even go to the program's home page, and because the title bar switches, it will kill it.
If I acutally wanted to USE this bot, it would be pretty trivial to hack it's resources to change the titlebar (actually, I'm sure the author has already randomized the title). We're going to see an increasing battle between 'bot programs for online gambling and those who run online gambling sites.
If you're curious, to a google groups search on rec.gambling.poker for "WinHoldEm"
that was my thought. University usually means State. If it is anything like federal jobs, they have to go thru the motions of listing, interviewing, etc, but 99% of the time, they know the contractor they are going to hire ahead of time. Notice any strange little, highly specific items buried in the job listing like "ideal applicant will be knowledgable in the UCXLAQD education initiative #14 requirements"... that's because the job description has been reverse-engineered from the desired hireee.
Indeed. most people don't understand there processes. Most organizations don't really have a process. I work on a workflow project. After 3 failures, we're the fourth contractor. We spent six months doing interviews and documenting (this is before I got here) writing the spec. Only to change a lot of stuff once we got in beta. One year later, we rewrote the app (and the workflow) entirely.
I'd say 2/3 of this was due to the users not listing out like 15 "assumptions" to us. Even watching them do there jobs and document it for several weeks (which they all HATED and said wasn't necessary), we still didn't get it right (because all the special cases didn't come up in that small amount of time) and will be changing it again. We have joked that this software ulitmately is meant to replace the physical passing of large envelopes of information from one person/group to another.
What we should have done is just put RFID tags or something in the packets for a year or so, track them nationwide, put them in a database and ask questions based on that. "So, why did you send packet 2517 back to Bob in Chicago if you said that type XXX always goes straight to the home office? OH, that was an XXX-extra special with GRAVY, so it goes to chicago for gravy certification. I forgot those!"
My favorite saying in this busines is "we can't automate a process for you until you have a process."
The cololary to this is: "If you're saying you want to reengineer your process by automating parts of it with software tools, I think you're putting the cart before the horse."
personally, I'd say "why don't you give me a real business problem, and I'll solve it."
The hardest thing to do in this business is understand the problem and come up with a solution that is maintainable, easy to code and scalable. If I want to know how to solve a specific algorithm like that, I'll google. Someone, somewhere has already solved it. I should waste my time trying to find the best solution. Instead, I should spend time trying to understand the business.
I have an exchange server at home and use outlook and have never had a virus/worm/trojan that infected anyone else or lost me any data. Am I THAT good or THAT lucky? All I do is run windows update, a firewall, and a free anti-virus program (AVG) that checks all email.
It's almost impossible to run as non-admin. I've tried. Too many things.
sometimes, you can turn on security auditing and figure out which keys/files it needs access to, but there are too many programs that simply kick you out if you aren't in the admin group (like AOEII).
One time it overheated and blew a head gasket. I took it to the mechanice and he showed me this little thermostat that turned the electric fan on when it got too hot "this thing blows out all the time, 'yer lucky it didn't warp the cheap head!"
so I go to the radio shack, run some wiring to the battery straight to the fan and ran it to a little toggle switch under mounted under the dash. Best part was manual temperature control. I could leave the fan off when it was cold to let the engine heat up real quick, then kick it on.
Eventually ( after leaving the switch on too many times and killing the battery, or forgetting to turn it on and then noticiing the "engine temperature" light), I just wired it permanently to a hot ignition wire so it was always on when the car was started.... good times.
I'm sure these types of comments will get echoed a lot. My 10-year-old son has a GameCube and we play some stuff on that (the light saber duels on Jedi Knight II are pretty damn fun), but we enjoy playing MAME games more on the PC. wizard of Wor and Mario Brothers (not super, the first one, where two played at once and it didn't scroll) are our current favorites.
maybe because actually playing and singing a version of a song requires real, honest-to-goodness musical talent, as opposed to P. Diddy going "uh-huh, yeah." over a song of Sting's?
Mod me flamebait, I don't care. it's not "art" and if someone did it to a song I wrote, I'd sue the pants off of him.
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Here's my guide to American's for non-americans:
1: WE LIKE BEING DIFFERENT. The fact that is irrational is only a bonus.
2: We like the fact that our system is hard for those who didn't grow up with it to understand. Ditto for language.
3: It's not hard if you've grown up with it. Sorry, but I can do division of inches and parts of inchees( I do woodworking. I do things like 'divide 12' 5/8" into 4 equal parts" in my head all the time. (answer 3' 5/32").
4. We don't give a shit.
5: we Like that we like sports other countries don't.
6: We don't really care that everyone else uses metric.
7: Did I mention we don't give a shit?
but if the linux users were on the corporate network (inside the firewall), you could go ahead and acess OWA with this connector right?
they didn't OFFER one without those "extras". Period. even ordering one (although at least I could have gotten one with a manual in the color I want). Problem was, I found that dealers were less inclined to deal on those.
a person after my own heart. I once had a nissan sentra with 270K miles when the odometer stopped, and I drove it for another year.
Best thing was when I took it to the shop to get the breaks fixed (got a cheap break dude who would do it for $40, so why do it myself). He said "you know you head gasket is leaking oil right? you should get that fixed, but it's like $600-$800. You'll blow the engine and get stranded" (he knew I had a long commute). My response " guess it's time to get that cell phone I've been thinking about.."
I guess there must be consumer demand... Last year my wife and I were all set to purchase our first new car (we're 35 and consider cars a horrid waste of money), but we simply could not find a "base" model. Everything has power windows, locks, CD player (actually wanted that).
God forbid you want a car that doesn't have all the crap or *GASP* not an automatic transmission (I'll take the lower gas milage and increased service problems for $800 alex!").
Anway, when we could only find ONE manual, base moodel subaru Forester in the entire STATE and we didn't like that color, we bought a used one at an auction threw a friend for $7k less, 2 years old 28K miles (this is why I don't buy new!).
I agree. From looking at 1.5, I'm impressed with some of the stuff they are adding.
I didn't say it necessarily sucks. I just think it has a bunch of stuff that seems to be "we're making you do it the harder way because it's the RIGHT way".. also on the list is not being able to do stringVar == "this", instead doing stringVar.equals("this").. I must confess, I don't know c or c++, but even PL/SQL and on oracle stored procedures and javascript let you do a switch on a string!
I just have to laugh at these posts of jva being so real world. Yeah, a "real world" language that will only let you do a select-case on an int.
sounds a lot like oracle.. sell extremely expensive, exremely powerful products which are poorly documented and often littered with bugs. Then sell support and consulting, not to mention spawn an industry of full time DBA's to understand the intracies.
I was in the same boat.. do what I did.
Troll ebay for a used Panasonic showstopper. They are a replayTV unit with lifetime subscription. I bought a used one for line $160, upgraded the drive to a 120 gig for another $80 or so. For $240 (less than the $299 sub. on a new replayTv unit), you get a 120-hour (extended, i.e., low, quality) unit with lifetime sub. Sure, doesn't have the new broadband features, but it works great. Wife and son LOVE the thing...
only on slashdot would writing a program to send a windows API call to change the titlebar text not be considered worthy of the term "hack"!
most online poker sites are. Some have a java applet.
You're right in that I don't think it would be possible in a web browser.
I think the design is to let you program starting hands/betting patterns into it. so it is "adjustable"
would help those running pokerbots for the online poker sites... currently, the largest online poker site is blocking a bot program by not letting you log in (or kicking you off) by scanning for a window with the program name in the title. You can even go to the program's home page, and because the title bar switches, it will kill it.
If I acutally wanted to USE this bot, it would be pretty trivial to hack it's resources to change the titlebar (actually, I'm sure the author has already randomized the title). We're going to see an increasing battle between 'bot programs for online gambling and those who run online gambling sites.
If you're curious, to a google groups search on rec.gambling.poker for "WinHoldEm"
that was my thought. University usually means State. If it is anything like federal jobs, they have to go thru the motions of listing, interviewing, etc, but 99% of the time, they know the contractor they are going to hire ahead of time. Notice any strange little, highly specific items buried in the job listing like "ideal applicant will be knowledgable in the UCXLAQD education initiative #14 requirements"... that's because the job description has been reverse-engineered from the desired hireee.
Indeed. most people don't understand there processes. Most organizations don't really have a process. I work on a workflow project. After 3 failures, we're the fourth contractor. We spent six months doing interviews and documenting (this is before I got here) writing the spec. Only to change a lot of stuff once we got in beta. One year later, we rewrote the app (and the workflow) entirely.
I'd say 2/3 of this was due to the users not listing out like 15 "assumptions" to us. Even watching them do there jobs and document it for several weeks (which they all HATED and said wasn't necessary), we still didn't get it right (because all the special cases didn't come up in that small amount of time) and will be changing it again. We have joked that this software ulitmately is meant to replace the physical passing of large envelopes of information from one person/group to another.
What we should have done is just put RFID tags or something in the packets for a year or so, track them nationwide, put them in a database and ask questions based on that. "So, why did you send packet 2517 back to Bob in Chicago if you said that type XXX always goes straight to the home office? OH, that was an XXX-extra special with GRAVY, so it goes to chicago for gravy certification. I forgot those!"
My favorite saying in this busines is "we can't automate a process for you until you have a process."
The cololary to this is: "If you're saying you want to reengineer your process by automating parts of it with software tools, I think you're putting the cart before the horse."
personally, I'd say "why don't you give me a real business problem, and I'll solve it."
The hardest thing to do in this business is understand the problem and come up with a solution that is maintainable, easy to code and scalable. If I want to know how to solve a specific algorithm like that, I'll google. Someone, somewhere has already solved it. I should waste my time trying to find the best solution. Instead, I should spend time trying to understand the business.
I have an exchange server at home and use outlook and have never had a virus/worm/trojan that infected anyone else or lost me any data. Am I THAT good or THAT lucky? All I do is run windows update, a firewall, and a free anti-virus program (AVG) that checks all email.
how about microsoft's own Age Of Empires II?
It's almost impossible to run as non-admin. I've tried. Too many things.
sometimes, you can turn on security auditing and figure out which keys/files it needs access to, but there are too many programs that simply kick you out if you aren't in the admin group (like AOEII).
... some guy slams out a straw man attack without really refuting one point in the parent post and it hasn't been modded out of my sight yet? Unreal.
My thoughts exactly. Before that was my first thought "who the hell, exactly, has time for this in a real job?"
.. my this car was a P.O.S.
... good times.
One time it overheated and blew a head gasket. I took it to the mechanice and he showed me this little thermostat that turned the electric fan on when it got too hot "this thing blows out all the time, 'yer lucky it didn't warp the cheap head!"
so I go to the radio shack, run some wiring to the battery straight to the fan and ran it to a little toggle switch under mounted under the dash. Best part was manual temperature control. I could leave the fan off when it was cold to let the engine heat up real quick, then kick it on.
Eventually ( after leaving the switch on too many times and killing the battery, or forgetting to turn it on and then noticiing the "engine temperature" light), I just wired it permanently to a hot ignition wire so it was always on when the car was started.
I'm sure these types of comments will get echoed a lot. My 10-year-old son has a GameCube and we play some stuff on that (the light saber duels on Jedi Knight II are pretty damn fun), but we enjoy playing MAME games more on the PC. wizard of Wor and Mario Brothers (not super, the first one, where two played at once and it didn't scroll) are our current favorites.
security auditing. It's under the "policies" thing. Set it to log all failures and It will write fails to the event log under the "security" section .
maybe because actually playing and singing a version of a song requires real, honest-to-goodness musical talent, as opposed to P. Diddy going "uh-huh, yeah." over a song of Sting's?
Mod me flamebait, I don't care. it's not "art" and if someone did it to a song I wrote, I'd sue the pants off of him.