Or, without any real offense intended to the potential users, "Dumb Terminals"??? As so many millions of people want simple easy-to-use, safe, God-please-don't-bother-me-with-details machines, your foresight shall come to pass. Yea, verily, and the unconscious prescience of our society will have predicted the phenomenon of having a display from that dumb terminal heads-up-displayed in front of their face, and they shall truly be... (wait for it!)
Resolve the red-shift effect inherent in long-term constant application of acceleration of, say, 1g, as velocity of point b away from point a approaches any appreciable fraction of 'c': Quantum communication. Maybe? No? When physicists catch up to Master Heinlein's (R.I.P.) work, *then* wake me. "Fact is a place Fiction's already been!"
We *are* much more than what we *do*, though what we do can help us shape ourselves. Although you did not discuss such things as whether a family looks to you for support, or whether you had been fiscally resposible during your employment and now have a cushion of savings to rest on, in the end, the only person that *must* be content with your decision and its consequences is... you.
I applaud your bravery in opening your decision for discussion, especially in *this* forum, but I must question your use of resources - would not the time spent agonizing over this decision be better spent in the now, creating the best for yourself and those around you that you can?
Either way, that decision has been made. Future decisions may be well considered against a classic quote: "Death is certain. The time of death is uncertain. Therefore, how shall I live?"
(P.S. - if you ever find a definitive answer to that question that can be stated in less than 50 words, please email me? Thanks)
Re:QA, in other industries....
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QA *Does* equal testing: In order to Assure Quality, someone must use and observe (TEST!) the product in order to ensure that it does what it's supposed to do.
The only nit I have to pick is that each and every iteration of a product *must* be tested prior to release to customer, in as many different end-use environments as are probable/possible/financially feasible: The testing department is the *last* chance to save the entire firm's product's reputation, and each member of the testing department should be armed with a very large red pen that has the authority to BLOCK shipment/release until the product meets whatever specifications/standards were previously agreed to before production began. (The business practices reputation is outside the scope of this discussion).
Companies that do the above (or used to) usually do much better than those who do not.
(The "used to" is directed towards those firms that have cut their testing departments and are coasting on prior earned reputations)
A well-written design specifications document ideally should be robust enough to generate test cases from. Now, if only we testers could get that idea into the heads of the coders and designers... "Sigh" is such an apt place for this...
There *are* alternatives, places bands can get their stuff hosted and get paid direct by customers willing to purchase. Don't like any of those? Do it better.
In the (forever-in-planning) self-publishing site I'll be launching, I was considering adding a music section, only to be told: "It's being done". That means (to me) investigate what's out there and see if I can do it better. After, of course, actually establishing the main site.
Speaking of duplication, I wonder how long it will be until one of the duplicate-complaint posters gets it into their head to try to build a better/. - ???
World population estimated at, what, 4 billion people? lessee, divide 81 by 4, and you honestly expect anybody to believe you can sustain healthy human diet, hell, even subsistence diet, at US$20.25/person/year? Where do they buy *their* groceries? Nevermind that, where do these "estimators" buy their *drugs*?
I know I'm not s'posed to, but... YEA, VERILY, AMEN!!!! I've used Firefox and Open Office long enough to know that my next computer will be (at the worst) dual boot, and, at best, completely Linux environment (I like FPS games): your comment "from all the elitist snobs who's answers to newbie questions is RTFA." hit the proverbial nail dead on the head.
Thank you for the post about the "tree-burning neighbor" - I now have something to do with the south-facing steep-sloped portion of my property.
Re:Bad reviews on Vampire: Bloodlines the cause?
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Let this be a lesson, game companies: Hire *two* sets of testers, segregate them, and make sure they know what they're testing, and what they're testing it *for*: don't cry about budget, either, most would work for relatively low pay and make up the difference in equity.
Although the suit in its existence is distasteful, it may prove useful in providing actual legal precedent and legal definitions of what constitutes spyware, malware, foistware, data miner, etc..., rather than the fallback argument: "It's like art: I don't define it in words, but I know it when I see it." It may prove very useful indeed, especially in drawing lines between legitimate competition and outright libel as verious anti-spyware and anti-virus software firms attempt to gain market share.
Most, if not all, supposedly legitimate businesses that offer compensation to third-party referring "Independent Contractors" or "Affiliates" have language in their contracts/agreements specifically forbidding spamming and other such illegal means or methods of creating contacts - basically, as soon as the affiliate is accused, he's no longer within his contract and thus on his own in defending his actions.
Now, some folks might be cynical enough to suppose that as long as these supposedly legitimate businesses are profiting from such illegitimate activities, they'll turn a blind eye to how said profits are generated (assuming any affiliates spamming, spimming, or otherwise illegally advertising are GETTING AWAY WITH IT), but that is outside the scope of the article.
Words are usually described as vehicles for thoughts or concepts. When a new thought or concept arises, whether actually new or synthesized from two or more formerly distinct thoughts or concepts, it is convenient to have a new, distinct word to label and, if possible, initially describe the concept. This is evolution of language. Nationalistic hubris aside, languages that grow in utility will supplant languages that do not. Next?
Are also investors/traders in the US stock markets? I wonder if there's enough disapproval to register with the corporation where they live via selling short LXK.... Personally, I'm purchasing put options, although IANAFA and TINIA (I Am Not A Financial Advisor and This Is Not Invesment Advice).
"display them to someone else who does want to see them. If they can find anyone like that."
All you're accomplishing with the above is moving the battle to the search engines, where these irritants use various tricks to get their crap-tacular sites placed ahead of people who don't stoop to trickery, but just want to get their sites legitimately listed.
As long as there are people willing to buy from companies that use pop-up ads, as long as there are webmasters willing to whore their sites out for a few extra bucks in revenues for "serving" pop-up ads, this set of problems will persist.
Eventually, there will be competing "White-list" search directories, who only list sites relevant to directory terms and who do not link to unsafe sites nor serve popups, popunders, nor gateway pages/links to places that do...
How long would it take to re-do dmoz.org?
Slashdot Mirror
The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell - check it out at youir nearest public library.
This is not an endorsement - I didn't much like the book.
1. Close the state's electronic borders.
2. Close the physical borders.
3. Posture as the last refuge of decency.
4. Charge immigrants.
5. PROFIT!!!
Is there a polite term for the compulsive sharing of ideas that make one shudder with revulsion and fear?
Or, without any real offense intended to the potential users, "Dumb Terminals"??? As so many millions of people want simple easy-to-use, safe, God-please-don't-bother-me-with-details machines, your foresight shall come to pass.
Yea, verily, and the unconscious prescience of our society will have predicted the phenomenon of having a display from that dumb terminal heads-up-displayed in front of their face, and they shall truly be... (wait for it!)
*Google-eyed*
O, the wonder of it all.
Fortunately, installing 1.0.1 does retain/transfer links/bookmarks,/etc...,
(jes' did it ma own self)
Resolve the red-shift effect inherent in long-term constant application of acceleration of, say, 1g, as velocity of point b away from point a approaches any appreciable fraction of 'c': Quantum communication.
Maybe? No? When physicists catch up to Master Heinlein's (R.I.P.) work, *then* wake me.
"Fact is a place Fiction's already been!"
Here ya go - the rest is up to you. http://eacceleration.com/jobs/jobs_list.php
We *are* much more than what we *do*, though what we do can help us shape ourselves.
Although you did not discuss such things as whether a family looks to you for support, or whether you had been fiscally resposible during your employment and now have a cushion of savings to rest on, in the end, the only person that *must* be content with your decision and its consequences is... you.
I applaud your bravery in opening your decision for discussion, especially in *this* forum, but I must question your use of resources - would not the time spent agonizing over this decision be better spent in the now, creating the best for yourself and those around you that you can?
Either way, that decision has been made. Future decisions may be well considered against a classic quote: "Death is certain. The time of death is uncertain. Therefore, how shall I live?"
(P.S. - if you ever find a definitive answer to that question that can be stated in less than 50 words, please email me? Thanks)
QA *Does* equal testing: In order to Assure Quality, someone must use and observe (TEST!) the product in order to ensure that it does what it's supposed to do. The only nit I have to pick is that each and every iteration of a product *must* be tested prior to release to customer, in as many different end-use environments as are probable/possible/financially feasible: The testing department is the *last* chance to save the entire firm's product's reputation, and each member of the testing department should be armed with a very large red pen that has the authority to BLOCK shipment/release until the product meets whatever specifications/standards were previously agreed to before production began. (The business practices reputation is outside the scope of this discussion). Companies that do the above (or used to) usually do much better than those who do not. (The "used to" is directed towards those firms that have cut their testing departments and are coasting on prior earned reputations)
Facial recognition? Or, was this a by-product of same?
A well-written design specifications document ideally should be robust enough to generate test cases from.
Now, if only we testers could get that idea into the heads of the coders and designers...
"Sigh" is such an apt place for this...
There *are* alternatives, places bands can get their stuff hosted and get paid direct by customers willing to purchase. Don't like any of those? Do it better. /. - ???
In the (forever-in-planning) self-publishing site I'll be launching, I was considering adding a music section, only to be told: "It's being done". That means (to me) investigate what's out there and see if I can do it better. After, of course, actually establishing the main site.
Speaking of duplication, I wonder how long it will be until one of the duplicate-complaint posters gets it into their head to try to build a better
World population estimated at, what, 4 billion people? lessee, divide 81 by 4, and you honestly expect anybody to believe you can sustain healthy human diet, hell, even subsistence diet, at US$20.25/person/year? Where do they buy *their* groceries?
Nevermind that, where do these "estimators" buy their *drugs*?
Oops, too late: a default install currently includes viewpoint, weatherbug, and ezula.
Thank you very much. It definitely helps.
I know I'm not s'posed to, but...
YEA, VERILY, AMEN!!!!
I've used Firefox and Open Office long enough to know that my next computer will be (at the worst) dual boot, and, at best, completely Linux environment (I like FPS games): your comment "from all the elitist snobs who's answers to newbie questions is RTFA." hit the proverbial nail dead on the head.
Thank you for the post about the "tree-burning neighbor" - I now have something to do with the south-facing steep-sloped portion of my property.
Let this be a lesson, game companies: Hire *two* sets of testers, segregate them, and make sure they know what they're testing, and what they're testing it *for*: don't cry about budget, either, most would work for relatively low pay and make up the difference in equity.
Isn't that the range that melts flesh?
Searched the site, no mention of MSRP.
"various", even - durn my clumsy fingers.
Although the suit in its existence is distasteful, it may prove useful in providing actual legal precedent and legal definitions of what constitutes spyware, malware, foistware, data miner, etc..., rather than the fallback argument: "It's like art: I don't define it in words, but I know it when I see it."
It may prove very useful indeed, especially in drawing lines between legitimate competition and outright libel as verious anti-spyware and anti-virus software firms attempt to gain market share.
Most, if not all, supposedly legitimate businesses that offer compensation to third-party referring "Independent Contractors" or "Affiliates" have language in their contracts/agreements specifically forbidding spamming and other such illegal means or methods of creating contacts - basically, as soon as the affiliate is accused, he's no longer within his contract and thus on his own in defending his actions. Now, some folks might be cynical enough to suppose that as long as these supposedly legitimate businesses are profiting from such illegitimate activities, they'll turn a blind eye to how said profits are generated (assuming any affiliates spamming, spimming, or otherwise illegally advertising are GETTING AWAY WITH IT), but that is outside the scope of the article.
Words are usually described as vehicles for thoughts or concepts.
When a new thought or concept arises, whether actually new or synthesized from two or more formerly distinct thoughts or concepts, it is convenient to have a new, distinct word to label and, if possible, initially describe the concept.
This is evolution of language.
Nationalistic hubris aside, languages that grow in utility will supplant languages that do not.
Next?
Are also investors/traders in the US stock markets? I wonder if there's enough disapproval to register with the corporation where they live via selling short LXK.... Personally, I'm purchasing put options, although IANAFA and TINIA (I Am Not A Financial Advisor and This Is Not Invesment Advice).
"display them to someone else who does want to see them. If they can find anyone like that." All you're accomplishing with the above is moving the battle to the search engines, where these irritants use various tricks to get their crap-tacular sites placed ahead of people who don't stoop to trickery, but just want to get their sites legitimately listed. As long as there are people willing to buy from companies that use pop-up ads, as long as there are webmasters willing to whore their sites out for a few extra bucks in revenues for "serving" pop-up ads, this set of problems will persist. Eventually, there will be competing "White-list" search directories, who only list sites relevant to directory terms and who do not link to unsafe sites nor serve popups, popunders, nor gateway pages/links to places that do... How long would it take to re-do dmoz.org?