Actually, a book I read mentioned that even for most full time traders, their success probability was not significantly greater than 50%. Unfortunately I forget the title of the book, I think the author was Greek or Turkish.
Sure, copyright legislation is getting stricter, but that's only because it's trying to combat the increasing cases of infringement. It's a fight that's about to end, and there can only be one winner. When the rivals are the governments vs the entire world, my money isn't on the governments...
The issue is more general than that. The usability experts who can't code *can* improve usability, by telling the developers what to do.
It's more of an issue of *just* criticising, instead of offering constructive opinions. If all you can do is say "this sucks" but not say why or how it can be improved, then I agree, you have no business in software. If, on the other hand, you can find a way to improve it, I'm sure many people will welcome your advice and implement it.
Hmm... Center of gravity... For space... These days I'm more and more convinced that these scientists are just pulling our leg.
"Hey Mort, let's ask them for billions so we can build something to send to space!" "Haha, space? Where do you come up with this stuff?" "Yeah, it'll be great!"
...months pass...
"I have another idea, let's tell them we need to determine the center of gravity!" "The center of *gravity* for *spacecraft*? Right after we told them we found water on Mars? Isn't it a bit obvious?" "No man, it'll be great, you'll see! They actually think we sent a robot to Mars, they'll easily fall for this."
The duration of the laser is a gross underestimation, it's nowhere near that short. In reality, it's about 100 attoseconds long, and we all know 100 > 0.1...
The site has brought in millions in advertising revenue, but there has been a hefty cost. Bloggers are complaining that making millions wasn't as easy as they'd like? Cry me a river...
That's bunk, the last time I tried Opera on my 100 MHz, 16 MB RAM PC it thrashed like crazy. To be fair, it probably needed 32 MB because I had some other apps open...
Who cares about the shortage? I lament the fact that we still use IPv4 whenever I try to send a file to a friend and we're both behind a NAT, or when I have to tell my friend he has to take three extra steps in his configuration to be able to play a game with me through the internet.
Or the fact that you haven't gotten used to them. I have one of the softest keyboards I've ever used, and I barely touch the keys. I have yet to complain about it, I type pretty fast (70-80 WPM) and I haven't missed a keypress AFAIK.
Shameless plug: I have created a finance management site (www.moneygement.com) which uses OpenID for signins, and Verisign's PIP isn't working with my site. I have contacted them and verified that this is a bug on their end, but it still seems to be broken. It's too bad, because people assume it's my site that's broken, but everyone else is able to log in fine (it's probably an odd combination of my library and theirs), but I would not recommend them. Personally, I've been using MyOpenID and even recommend them for signups, they're quite good.
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Actually, a book I read mentioned that even for most full time traders, their success probability was not significantly greater than 50%. Unfortunately I forget the title of the book, I think the author was Greek or Turkish.
Satisfying dependencies is...
Sure, copyright legislation is getting stricter, but that's only because it's trying to combat the increasing cases of infringement. It's a fight that's about to end, and there can only be one winner. When the rivals are the governments vs the entire world, my money isn't on the governments...
Well, it *has* technically been *almost* a decade. It's more than five years later, so I guess it would qualify, without being very informative.
The issue is more general than that. The usability experts who can't code *can* improve usability, by telling the developers what to do.
It's more of an issue of *just* criticising, instead of offering constructive opinions. If all you can do is say "this sucks" but not say why or how it can be improved, then I agree, you have no business in software. If, on the other hand, you can find a way to improve it, I'm sure many people will welcome your advice and implement it.
I know, I'm an engineer myself, it's just funnier to think that all this is just an elaborate prank :P
Hmm... Center of gravity... For space... These days I'm more and more convinced that these scientists are just pulling our leg.
"Hey Mort, let's ask them for billions so we can build something to send to space!"
"Haha, space? Where do you come up with this stuff?"
"Yeah, it'll be great!"
"I have another idea, let's tell them we need to determine the center of gravity!"
"The center of *gravity* for *spacecraft*? Right after we told them we found water on Mars? Isn't it a bit obvious?"
"No man, it'll be great, you'll see! They actually think we sent a robot to Mars, they'll easily fall for this."
On the other hand, Spirit and Opportunity *are* running around on Mars.
So, we did :)
I still can't believe we sent a small robot and let it run around on *Mars*. It seems so unfathomably far away that I find it hard to even imagine...
Next stop: Bacteria.
Close sourcing is never good news for anyone...
It was a joke.
The duration of the laser is a gross underestimation, it's nowhere near that short. In reality, it's about 100 attoseconds long, and we all know 100 > 0.1...
What idiot decided this was good policy anyway? What happened to donotreply@companydomain.com?
Next thing you know, you'll ask them to start making movies/songs that don't suck! Oh the nerve, the nerve!
That's bunk, the last time I tried Opera on my 100 MHz, 16 MB RAM PC it thrashed like crazy. To be fair, it probably needed 32 MB because I had some other apps open...
Ah, Opera 4... Those were the days...
No, it's measuring both dinki with the same ruler and saying "You must be this long to procreate" (not to scale).
Heh, you just probably got confused with "ELectron", it's not that rare a mistake.
Who cares about the shortage? I lament the fact that we still use IPv4 whenever I try to send a file to a friend and we're both behind a NAT, or when I have to tell my friend he has to take three extra steps in his configuration to be able to play a game with me through the internet.
Well, I suppose I did end up getting too technical!
Or the fact that you haven't gotten used to them. I have one of the softest keyboards I've ever used, and I barely touch the keys. I have yet to complain about it, I type pretty fast (70-80 WPM) and I haven't missed a keypress AFAIK.
In a folder view, press backspace.
Shameless plug: I have created a finance management site (www.moneygement.com) which uses OpenID for signins, and Verisign's PIP isn't working with my site. I have contacted them and verified that this is a bug on their end, but it still seems to be broken. It's too bad, because people assume it's my site that's broken, but everyone else is able to log in fine (it's probably an odd combination of my library and theirs), but I would not recommend them. Personally, I've been using MyOpenID and even recommend them for signups, they're quite good.