Something as simple as DNS should have been "right" after about version 3.
Version 10 being a complete rewrite and still "inefficient, difficult to work with, and riddled with bugs" is funniest thing I've heard this month. I can only imagine what the committee meetings for this are like.
Ummm...this "database" isn't relational, there's no inner joins or anything like that (at least there shouldn't be), it's a one-to-one lookup (text string to IP address).
It's not the sort of thing which takes ten revisions just to get to a state where it's "inefficient, difficult to work with, and riddled with bugs".
A roll can easily last a few weeks without female presence. With a female in the house a roll lasts a couple of days, max (don't ask me where it goes, I don't know). I have no direct experience but I assume the effect scales with multiple females.
Seems like a small price to pay to get the MAFIAA off the case and out of the legal system (I'm sure they're already draining more money from you in taxes than you'll ever pay on mp3 player tax).
Which artists will it go to? Who gets to decide how the money is divided up?...or is it all spent on fancy part^H^H^H^Hmeetings where people sit around deciding how to divide up the money?
Hint: Your eyes don't have any absolute color reference, not even from one part of the visual field to another. The brain constantly adjusts things.
You might say that in an A/B test you prefer one color but we also find in A/B audio tests that people say that music which is 10% louder is 'better' even when it's played on the exact same hardware (ie. you tell them you're switching to different amp/speakers but all you do is change the volume level).
You found one particular wavelength which is present in both sunlight and incandescent but not CFL?
Big deal... sunlight isn't a continuous spectrum and neither is incandescent. I bet there's a similar wavelength which shows incandescent as feeble compared to CFL (or LED).
If you'd been brought up on CFLs or LEDs and they were trying to get you to switch to incandescents you'd be all, "It's horrible it makes everything look yellow!!!"
>"Eve online has stacks of code written in python. If that isn't "published" enough for you, then Civ4 runs a stack of python code as well. "
I don't mean that kind of "published". I mean getting Joe Sixpack to install a Python app on his machine.
If I Google for "Python deployment" the first hit is this: "One of the most-frequently asked questions of all time is this: "I have a Python application I've developed; how do I deliver it to my customer/friend/...?" "
If the 'typical answer' is this: "tar up the source and send it. It's reasonable to expect that the end-user's host will have Python installed." then I'm not so sure Python is ready for the big time.
You think corporations should be allowed to drag people through the legal system and fine them millions for sharing half a dozen mp3s? To drag 8-year-olds out of school for questioning about their parents? Are you happy with laws such as the DMCA which was rushed, ill-worded and is now being used far beyond it's intended scope (to nobody's surprise)....all in the name of preserving an obsolete business model?
"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
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Something as simple as DNS should have been "right" after about version 3.
Version 10 being a complete rewrite and still "inefficient, difficult to work with, and riddled with bugs" is funniest thing I've heard this month. I can only imagine what the committee meetings for this are like.
Ummm...this "database" isn't relational, there's no inner joins or anything like that (at least there shouldn't be), it's a one-to-one lookup (text string to IP address).
It's not the sort of thing which takes ten revisions just to get to a state where it's "inefficient, difficult to work with, and riddled with bugs".
If they didn't get it right after nine versions then it's probably time to move on.
"...is known to be inefficient, difficult to work with, and riddled with bugs"
Make that "definitely".
They could have done the diligence and said "We'll have to clean that up after the purchase".
Pretty soon we'll be swiping them to open our cares/houses. Consumer nirvana!
A roll can easily last a few weeks without female presence. With a female in the house a roll lasts a couple of days, max (don't ask me where it goes, I don't know). I have no direct experience but I assume the effect scales with multiple females.
Seems like a small price to pay to get the MAFIAA off the case and out of the legal system (I'm sure they're already draining more money from you in taxes than you'll ever pay on mp3 player tax).
Which artists will it go to? Who gets to decide how the money is divided up? ...or is it all spent on fancy part^H^H^H^Hmeetings where people sit around deciding how to divide up the money?
Are you also not fooled by the checkerboard illusion?
Hint: Your eyes don't have any absolute color reference, not even from one part of the visual field to another. The brain constantly adjusts things.
You might say that in an A/B test you prefer one color but we also find in A/B audio tests that people say that music which is 10% louder is 'better' even when it's played on the exact same hardware (ie. you tell them you're switching to different amp/speakers but all you do is change the volume level).
Psychovisual models ... it's all in the head.
Ummm...you get the mercury by eating stuff, not by breathing. It gets in the food chain.
You found one particular wavelength which is present in both sunlight and incandescent but not CFL?
Big deal... sunlight isn't a continuous spectrum and neither is incandescent. I bet there's a similar wavelength which shows incandescent as feeble compared to CFL (or LED).
If you'd been brought up on CFLs or LEDs and they were trying to get you to switch to incandescents you'd be all, "It's horrible it makes everything look yellow!!!"
>"Eve online has stacks of code written in python. If that isn't "published" enough for you, then Civ4 runs a stack of python code as well. "
I don't mean that kind of "published". I mean getting Joe Sixpack to install a Python app on his machine.
If I Google for "Python deployment" the first hit is this: "One of the most-frequently asked questions of all time is this: "I have a Python application I've developed; how do I deliver it to my customer/friend/...?" "
If the 'typical answer' is this: "tar up the source and send it. It's reasonable to expect that the end-user's host will have Python installed." then I'm not so sure Python is ready for the big time.
It would be just as secure and applying for an ID card would be a real hoot.
C++ is definitely the best language in the world but half-learned C++ is worse than no C++ at all.
C shouldn't even be on the list, neither should Pascal.
C++ is my favorite language but there's no way you can learn it in that time scale.
VB is almost obsolete and too much tied into to MS APIs.
That really only leaves Python or PHP.
Python is cute but it's not really very good for writing software that has to be published/deployed.
I'd go with PHP because it's much more useful for getting jobs, etc., after the competition.
You think corporations should be allowed to drag people through the legal system and fine them millions for sharing half a dozen mp3s? To drag 8-year-olds out of school for questioning about their parents? Are you happy with laws such as the DMCA which was rushed, ill-worded and is now being used far beyond it's intended scope (to nobody's surprise). ...all in the name of preserving an obsolete business model?
"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea
that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the
public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged
with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing
circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is
supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or
individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock
of history be stopped, or turned back."
- Heinlein, Life Line, 1939
It could work ... you'd take lots of closeups and stitch the results together.
all by itself
Is it wise to own something which denies access to your house/car/bank if it's dropped or runs out of battery?
This plan seems more worthy of Baldrick than a supposedly smart company.
If you're going to link to XKCD, link to the page so we can see the mouse-over comments...
http://xkcd.com/488/
Presumably they want to sell people a *second* game a year from now and angry customers usually aren't repeat customers
...which would have cost them more than the game will earn in profits.
100wpm isn't fast enough? What exactly are you typing?
"Proper technique" positions the hands much more rigidly and is more likely to lead to sore hands.