When I saw the word "compensate", my first thought was that it could automatically decide who to sue for damaging it. This could be based on a fuzzy logic system for calculating angles & velocities of potentially colliding objects and/or a pocket depth sensor.
In which case, I for one welcome our new robot lawyer overlords. YMMV. VWP. Other conditions may apply.
You're assuming the person is above the ground so the meteorite would hit him first. What if you were in, I dunno, some kind of underground chamber and the meteorite passed through the earths's surface on its way to striking you?
Far fetched, I know. But there must be some slashdotters who are speleologists.
Quoth TFAS: "Redmond should issue a software upgrade to every computer running Microsoft Windows worldwide to adjust each machine's energy-saving settings for maximum efficiency."
Except it probably wouldn't work. Ever since XP came out, when I try to save a new power management profile I get garbage like "revision levels incompatible" or it seems to save, but the new profile isn't there. I get similar problems on 2 very different laptops by two different manufacturers.
And there's the fact that it's only recently that hibernation works reliably if you have more than 1 Gig of RAM.
I wonder how many PC-hours of unnecessary on time there's been because MS made it such a pain in the ass to do anything else?
Let the person who knows their code best (or one of his/her peers) double-check their own work.
Sounds great in theory. The problem is that if a developer forgets to code a particular case he'll probably forget to test it. If he codes on the assumption that the spec means X, he'll test on that assumption.
He says he has four months at the company. He might have ten years experience before that. On the other hand, he might not. Because, as you rightly point out, the question has more information omitted than supplied.
iamdjsamba would do well to read this before he asks anything online again.
They absolutely need to agree to a license (i.e. the GPL) to distribute the software. Nobody ever has to agree to anything whatsoever to merely use GPL software.
How can I use it without distributing it? Does the act of getting it in the first place (such as by downloading) constitute distribution, or does the term only refer to "outbound" situations when I then pass it to someone else?
Anyone else read that as balming? Definition: the act of stating or claiming that an unfavourable outcome is someoene's fault, then threatening to fucking kill them. With a chair.
Today you have RAD tools and languages with functions for every single possible calucation you might want to do, so the "common man" can write programs that were considered the task of highly specialized programmers only 20 years ago. But you also have new problems that require people with additional skills and good understanding of logic and math
... such as developing those RAD tools and high level languages?
I sort of half agree with you about non-programmers being able to "program" these days, but I half agree with Brooks too.
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I just asked the president of my company about what it'd cost to import a blu-ray DVD player and he tells me it'd be around 2-3%.
Can you go back and ask him what that's 2-3 percent of?
And don't forget about the application area too. If you're interested in the business side (deity help you), working on an accounting system might be better than writing shiny activeX controls.
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Did the userID field wrap round like the thread index did? Because I swear I see only 5 digits, and yet the evidence proves that you must be new here.
Seems like you're still running WHOOOOSH 1.4 - you really need to upgrade.
In which case, I for one welcome our new robot lawyer overlords. YMMV. VWP. Other conditions may apply.
Far fetched, I know. But there must be some slashdotters who are speleologists.
Quoth TFAS: "Redmond should issue a software upgrade to every computer running Microsoft Windows worldwide to adjust each machine's energy-saving settings for maximum efficiency."
Except it probably wouldn't work. Ever since XP came out, when I try to save a new power management profile I get garbage like "revision levels incompatible" or it seems to save, but the new profile isn't there. I get similar problems on 2 very different laptops by two different manufacturers.
And there's the fact that it's only recently that hibernation works reliably if you have more than 1 Gig of RAM.
I wonder how many PC-hours of unnecessary on time there's been because MS made it such a pain in the ass to do anything else?
# Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose...
Surely you mean "film at 11, brought to you by [insert name of sponsor here]"?
Maybe he just types really fast?
Can't beat a fresh pair of eyes.
Your analogy is bad, unless it's a bad editor you're describing.
iamdjsamba would do well to read this before he asks anything online again.
Dnt wrry, thyll mk spcl vrsn wtht ny vwls.
True ... and for the majority of other stuff - boring business crap like accounts and inventory - there's plenty of fine apps that run on unix.
I think the word you're looking for is "uninstallation". And if it isn't a word, it should be.
And don't forget about the application area too. If you're interested in the business side (deity help you), working on an accounting system might be better than writing shiny activeX controls.