I am not supporting the release of crappy software and I didn't buy BF4 on day one. But I did buy it fairly early on and honestly I have never experienced any game or enjoyment destroying issues. Yes there were bugs and yes the servers were down sometimes but I have been playing for many months now with no significant issues at all. As far as I can tell just about everyone else is as bad as EA and yes we as the consumer seem to be willing to accept pretty shoddy product. And I do think the answer is simply to not buy until there is some level of stability.
First off the original article is so inconsistent as to be laughable. First it is Marines then the Army. Second there is no reliable evidence or report that Saddam was even shown the movie, much less repeatedly. The original article certainly doesn't offer any and the only indication is Trey saying he was told they did it. But/.ers will still throw a hissy fit about something that probably didn't happen in the first place and if it did is so secondary and trivial compared to all that did happen that it makes me want to puke.
As I read it no not "a couple minutes with common construction equipment". No common construction equipment can dig through 25-30 feet of compacted soil in a few minutes, not to mention breach the containment vessel. Maybe a day. But part of the plan, as strange as it seems, is to locate these in populated areas. That way the local population forms a type of security system. If I see guys digging around my local nuke site you can bet I am going to check up on it!
I've had very good luck with the Disc Repair Pro (got mine from Cyberguys). Just an automated polisher that uses a pair of polishing discs and a polishing compound. Pretty cheap too.
Yes, yes, yes. Try to go to Yahoo and find out who and how to actually contact anyone real. I dare you. You can type whatever you want into their little feedback form and hope someday someone sees it.
I am a computer/networking professional. I don't need detailed help. I was primarily looking for specific info on what geolocation service Yahoo uses for instance. Or a short list of the major geolocation services (google lists hundreds). Certainly specific contact info would be helpful. But I think giving out my IP address would be a hugely stupid thing to do. At least at this point. If I get desperate then maybe I will reconsider.
Did you read the post? Oh no I forgot this is/. The WHOIS information is correct, at least insofar as it points to my ISPs headquarters 60 miles away. The problem isn't coming from the WHOIS info.
Both MaxMinds and IP2Location have it correct. MaxMinds has it down to my (very little) town. IP2Location only has it down to the country but it has it correctly.
Tivo doesn't prohibit you from modifying the software. They prevent you from running the modified software on their hardware. This seems perfectly reasonable. You can modify their software and run it on any other device.
I don't think "users" give a crap about "freedom". What they care about is that the software meets their needs, is reasonably priced and has good support. Developers may care about freedom to a certain extent but for many, many users it is a non-issue. In almost every application space there are multiple vendors so there are ample opportunities for "freedom".
And I think you have an extremely naive view of how science works. I have spent my entire career working with scientists, including a couple of Nobel prize winners. Bias, ego and simple ass covering do play a huge part in science. I am simply amazed that so many so-called scientists aren't aware of this. Every major scientific endeavor I have been involved with has been full of such stuff and it has a major affect on what gets explored and what gets reported and communicated. Every academic department I have been in that was involved in anything even close to controversial or in question was full of ego battles and just really, really nasty politics. Maybe my experience is unusual but I don't think so. And in fact it is much, much worse in fields, like global climatology, where you can't do experiments to physically prove your point.
So if you think that some scientist who has made a career of a certain position or even just published a few papers with a certain stance is going to stand up and say "sorry I was wrong" you are way off base. That would be a career killer and very few have the courage to do that. Especially if the evidence that they were "wrong" is unclear, impossible to prove or based on a computer model.
My basic tenant is if they can't predict the weather next week (which they still can't do very accurately) why should I believe they can predict the weather 20 years from now?
Really dude? Where would that be in your post? You say European Union and EU. You never say central or northern Europe. The countries I listed are in the EU. I repeat my question about what you are smoking since now you seem to remember writing things that you actually didn't. And your flame bait bullshit at the end of your post was out of line too. Saying "no insult intended" doesn't excuse the insult. Once you start comparing folks to Nazis you generally lose all credibility.
Everyone in "Europe" get's "great healthcare" and superior education? Do you really have any clue? Yes in some of the most developed European countries you can definitely get excellent healthcare, equivalent or even better in some areas, than you can get in the US. But do you honestly believe that Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, etc have better health care than the US? What are you smoking? And as to superior education one might question that given that most European countries don't have a college/university that can even crack the top 100 in the world.
Stop talking about Europe like it was all Germany or France. Comparing Europe to the US there are rich states and poor states but even the poorest US states outshine the poor European states. Europe is very, very far from being some kind of homogeneous wonderland with gumdrops on every corner and fairies to take care of your every need.
Broadband connections are not cheap and ubiquitous. There are many, many, many places in this country where you still cannot get a broadband connection at any reasonable cost. Most of the state of New Mexico for instance. Or rural Colorado. Or rural anywhere.
This is the big difference. The users of most of Google's software are not their customers. The advertisers are their customers. The other big difference is the delivery mechanism - services through the web. These two things create special circumstances for software development (not product development, Google's product is not software) that do not exist in most software development organizations. None of the users has to be sold to. There is no delivery, installation, configuration, setup. No sales/support cycle at all. No customers who will move to another product if you don't get that release out in a reasonable time frame. No marketing demos that need to be in place to sell customers. No commitment to any kind of schedule at all in fact. In addition even if a bunch of Google's "products" (gmail, maps, etc.) start to suck people will probably still use Google search and it is advertising on Google search that makes them all that money.
So you simply can't compare Google to any kind of software development company because it isn't.
It's not. The regulations require trading to be supervised and controlled. You can satisfy these regulations by certain software and system development and validation processes and by using independent monitoring systems, which are themselves automated. In general automated systems make less mistakes then humans and commit far less crimes.
And in fact those of us who build these systems are very aware of this. It is clear that a lot of posters really don't understand the financial markets at all. It is a game. The players all treat it as a game and know they are playing AGAINST someone else. Hiding your intentions, being aware of the possibility you are being gamed, feints, dodges, etc. are all part of the game and have been forever. Any significant trading system has to be aware of market impact and the possibility of being detected and gamed by someone/something else.
No offense but you are full of it. Fully automated trading is not even slightly illegal. There is a regulatory requirement to "supervise" but that can be interpreted many ways. Nor is it irresponsible. Is it irresponsible to let software control medical devices? Is it irresponsible for software to control airplanes? There is certainly a burden to construct and test the software such that it adheres to the regulations but other than that I fail to see anything irresponsible about it. Black Tuesday was caused by an unfortunate confluence of events but none of the players was being irresponsible.
No. Religious fundamentalism and religiousity in general has been dropping in this country rather radically in the past 50 years. National leaders didn't need to pander to the religious in the past because EVERYONE was religious. It was just assumed. Religion has always asserted a massive influence over US politics. Religion used to just be an assumed part of everyone's life. What has changed is not that the religious have more influence but exactly the opposite. It is the rise of the non-religious and their influence on culture, politics and daily life that has made the contrast between the two more obvious and more of a political issue. Just 50 or so years ago there was no debate on this issue because the religious were such a massive majority that the non-religious, while they did in fact exist, had no power and were thus no threat to the religious. So the issue is not the rise of the religious but in fact the rise of the non-reglious.
Exactly. Who gives a damn? Whether or not someone believes in evolution or creationism doesn't matter in the least. Hell even if they outlawed the teaching of evolution it wouldn't make a bit of difference to 99.9% of the population. I have yet to find any use for evolution in my daily life and I could care less what others believe in this particular area. Maybe people should stop worrying about what other people believe and worry about how they act?
This isn't an "anti-mosquito" device. The device in question is used to disperse loiterers and in general make an area uncomfortable for human beings. It is called a mosquito because it makes a high pitched noise, like a mosquito, that is very annoying and drives people away. It is used outside of 7-11s and the like to keep the riff-raff from hanging around. It has no other purpose except to annoy people. That may make a difference to the answer here but a lot of folks didn't actually read the relevant info (nothing new for/.).
The choice of language really has nothing to do with FDA approval, or at least not much. I have been through an FDA approval of a software driven device from the ground up. What matters is your development process, not your implementation language. It seems that no one in your organization really understands what they are doing vis a vis FDA approval. Rewriting the code in java may or may or may not be helpful to your end goal but it is not the real issue.
Dump the offshore consultants, who probably know nothing of the FDA approval process, and hire some consultants who do. You need people who understand the process and who understand the development of safety critical software.
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I am not supporting the release of crappy software and I didn't buy BF4 on day one. But I did buy it fairly early on and honestly I have never experienced any game or enjoyment destroying issues. Yes there were bugs and yes the servers were down sometimes but I have been playing for many months now with no significant issues at all. As far as I can tell just about everyone else is as bad as EA and yes we as the consumer seem to be willing to accept pretty shoddy product. And I do think the answer is simply to not buy until there is some level of stability.
First off the original article is so inconsistent as to be laughable. First it is Marines then the Army. Second there is no reliable evidence or report that Saddam was even shown the movie, much less repeatedly. The original article certainly doesn't offer any and the only indication is Trey saying he was told they did it. But /.ers will still throw a hissy fit about something that probably didn't happen in the first place and if it did is so secondary and trivial compared to all that did happen that it makes me want to puke.
As I read it no not "a couple minutes with common construction equipment". No common construction equipment can dig through 25-30 feet of compacted soil in a few minutes, not to mention breach the containment vessel. Maybe a day. But part of the plan, as strange as it seems, is to locate these in populated areas. That way the local population forms a type of security system. If I see guys digging around my local nuke site you can bet I am going to check up on it!
I've had very good luck with the Disc Repair Pro (got mine from Cyberguys). Just an automated polisher that uses a pair of polishing discs and a polishing compound. Pretty cheap too.
Yes, yes, yes. Try to go to Yahoo and find out who and how to actually contact anyone real. I dare you. You can type whatever you want into their little feedback form and hope someday someone sees it.
They have it correct.
Not that far east. Begins with P.
I am a computer/networking professional. I don't need detailed help. I was primarily looking for specific info on what geolocation service Yahoo uses for instance. Or a short list of the major geolocation services (google lists hundreds). Certainly specific contact info would be helpful. But I think giving out my IP address would be a hugely stupid thing to do. At least at this point. If I get desperate then maybe I will reconsider.
Did you read the post? Oh no I forgot this is /. The WHOIS information is correct, at least insofar as it points to my ISPs headquarters 60 miles away. The problem isn't coming from the WHOIS info.
Both MaxMinds and IP2Location have it correct. MaxMinds has it down to my (very little) town. IP2Location only has it down to the country but it has it correctly.
It's been about a year now and still no fix.
Tivo doesn't prohibit you from modifying the software. They prevent you from running the modified software on their hardware. This seems perfectly reasonable. You can modify their software and run it on any other device.
I don't think "users" give a crap about "freedom". What they care about is that the software meets their needs, is reasonably priced and has good support. Developers may care about freedom to a certain extent but for many, many users it is a non-issue. In almost every application space there are multiple vendors so there are ample opportunities for "freedom".
And I think you have an extremely naive view of how science works. I have spent my entire career working with scientists, including a couple of Nobel prize winners. Bias, ego and simple ass covering do play a huge part in science. I am simply amazed that so many so-called scientists aren't aware of this. Every major scientific endeavor I have been involved with has been full of such stuff and it has a major affect on what gets explored and what gets reported and communicated. Every academic department I have been in that was involved in anything even close to controversial or in question was full of ego battles and just really, really nasty politics. Maybe my experience is unusual but I don't think so. And in fact it is much, much worse in fields, like global climatology, where you can't do experiments to physically prove your point. So if you think that some scientist who has made a career of a certain position or even just published a few papers with a certain stance is going to stand up and say "sorry I was wrong" you are way off base. That would be a career killer and very few have the courage to do that. Especially if the evidence that they were "wrong" is unclear, impossible to prove or based on a computer model. My basic tenant is if they can't predict the weather next week (which they still can't do very accurately) why should I believe they can predict the weather 20 years from now?
Really dude? Where would that be in your post? You say European Union and EU. You never say central or northern Europe. The countries I listed are in the EU. I repeat my question about what you are smoking since now you seem to remember writing things that you actually didn't. And your flame bait bullshit at the end of your post was out of line too. Saying "no insult intended" doesn't excuse the insult. Once you start comparing folks to Nazis you generally lose all credibility.
Everyone in "Europe" get's "great healthcare" and superior education? Do you really have any clue? Yes in some of the most developed European countries you can definitely get excellent healthcare, equivalent or even better in some areas, than you can get in the US. But do you honestly believe that Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, etc have better health care than the US? What are you smoking? And as to superior education one might question that given that most European countries don't have a college/university that can even crack the top 100 in the world. Stop talking about Europe like it was all Germany or France. Comparing Europe to the US there are rich states and poor states but even the poorest US states outshine the poor European states. Europe is very, very far from being some kind of homogeneous wonderland with gumdrops on every corner and fairies to take care of your every need.
Broadband connections are not cheap and ubiquitous. There are many, many, many places in this country where you still cannot get a broadband connection at any reasonable cost. Most of the state of New Mexico for instance. Or rural Colorado. Or rural anywhere.
This is the big difference. The users of most of Google's software are not their customers. The advertisers are their customers. The other big difference is the delivery mechanism - services through the web. These two things create special circumstances for software development (not product development, Google's product is not software) that do not exist in most software development organizations. None of the users has to be sold to. There is no delivery, installation, configuration, setup. No sales/support cycle at all. No customers who will move to another product if you don't get that release out in a reasonable time frame. No marketing demos that need to be in place to sell customers. No commitment to any kind of schedule at all in fact. In addition even if a bunch of Google's "products" (gmail, maps, etc.) start to suck people will probably still use Google search and it is advertising on Google search that makes them all that money. So you simply can't compare Google to any kind of software development company because it isn't.
It's not. The regulations require trading to be supervised and controlled. You can satisfy these regulations by certain software and system development and validation processes and by using independent monitoring systems, which are themselves automated. In general automated systems make less mistakes then humans and commit far less crimes.
And in fact those of us who build these systems are very aware of this. It is clear that a lot of posters really don't understand the financial markets at all. It is a game. The players all treat it as a game and know they are playing AGAINST someone else. Hiding your intentions, being aware of the possibility you are being gamed, feints, dodges, etc. are all part of the game and have been forever. Any significant trading system has to be aware of market impact and the possibility of being detected and gamed by someone/something else.
No offense but you are full of it. Fully automated trading is not even slightly illegal. There is a regulatory requirement to "supervise" but that can be interpreted many ways. Nor is it irresponsible. Is it irresponsible to let software control medical devices? Is it irresponsible for software to control airplanes? There is certainly a burden to construct and test the software such that it adheres to the regulations but other than that I fail to see anything irresponsible about it. Black Tuesday was caused by an unfortunate confluence of events but none of the players was being irresponsible.
No. Religious fundamentalism and religiousity in general has been dropping in this country rather radically in the past 50 years. National leaders didn't need to pander to the religious in the past because EVERYONE was religious. It was just assumed. Religion has always asserted a massive influence over US politics. Religion used to just be an assumed part of everyone's life. What has changed is not that the religious have more influence but exactly the opposite. It is the rise of the non-religious and their influence on culture, politics and daily life that has made the contrast between the two more obvious and more of a political issue. Just 50 or so years ago there was no debate on this issue because the religious were such a massive majority that the non-religious, while they did in fact exist, had no power and were thus no threat to the religious. So the issue is not the rise of the religious but in fact the rise of the non-reglious.
Exactly. Who gives a damn? Whether or not someone believes in evolution or creationism doesn't matter in the least. Hell even if they outlawed the teaching of evolution it wouldn't make a bit of difference to 99.9% of the population. I have yet to find any use for evolution in my daily life and I could care less what others believe in this particular area. Maybe people should stop worrying about what other people believe and worry about how they act?
This isn't an "anti-mosquito" device. The device in question is used to disperse loiterers and in general make an area uncomfortable for human beings. It is called a mosquito because it makes a high pitched noise, like a mosquito, that is very annoying and drives people away. It is used outside of 7-11s and the like to keep the riff-raff from hanging around. It has no other purpose except to annoy people. That may make a difference to the answer here but a lot of folks didn't actually read the relevant info (nothing new for /.).
The choice of language really has nothing to do with FDA approval, or at least not much. I have been through an FDA approval of a software driven device from the ground up. What matters is your development process, not your implementation language. It seems that no one in your organization really understands what they are doing vis a vis FDA approval. Rewriting the code in java may or may or may not be helpful to your end goal but it is not the real issue. Dump the offshore consultants, who probably know nothing of the FDA approval process, and hire some consultants who do. You need people who understand the process and who understand the development of safety critical software.