Ah... how trivial it is depends very much on the environment you're riding in, the horse you're riding (is it a good horse? used to the environment? does it spook easily?...)...:)
As best I can tell, the 120 year thing wasn't actually a limit on man's lifespan in general, but 120 years to when the flood occurred. It doesn't make sense that God would look down, see incredible wickedness in the current population, and say "that's it, everyone in the future is only getting 120 years." It does make sense that He would say "120 years and this current wicked population will be judged."
But it's difficult to predict. I'm guessing it's be extremely expensive to actually presume everyone is going to utilize their bandwidth fully 100% of the time.
While a lot of testing is repetitive, the repetitive stuff can often be automated. For example, there's functionality that exists in every release... so automating those testcases such that they are easy to run hands-off is good. This automation is often something the tester will be doing.
For new features, what typically happens in my group is that the developers will explain how they implemented a given feature and how it should work. We are responsible for testing this feature - with any tips that dev gives us - as well as trying to put it through various scenarios that cause it to break.
In my product's line, for example, we do clean reboot and power cycle/crash testing. What happens to our product when the power goes out? What happens to the data that was being moved? Does it recover? That sort of thing. This requires thought - and, contrary to some comments here, since we all want our business to SUCCEED and make money, which means customers need to be happy with the product, development is happy when we find errors or scenarios that they did not plan for in their coding. The earlier we find them, the better.
Day to day activities? Well, I'd break it into two major sections.
Planning
The test group, in my case, is responsible for reading through the planned product's features and changes and coming up with a test plan accordingly. This is then reviewed by developers, the test group, etc. Usually, during this time period is when a lot of work on automating previously-manual testcases can be done, in preparation for the next release. Also, planning for what testing environments will need to be setup and starting to set them up... it depends how big your group is I guess. Since mine is relatively small, all the testers help out with setting up various machines for testing, too.
Testing
During testing, the test plan is executed. Day to day activities include test environment setup, manual testing, automated testing, discussing potential issues with developers and opening work requests (WRs) if it's decided that it is really an issue and not a weird environmental problem etc.
Why replace all the equipment in conference rooms if they still work just fine for what they are used for (boring presentations:) )? Why does it need to be updated if it doesn't have HDMI?
It seems like this is almost like arguing that if your school uses Edition 15 and Edition 16 comes out, you need to update. Because the publisher doesn't keep getting money otherwise...
Given how much I've failed to love God with all my being, or to love my neighbor as myself, I expect to burn.
Salvation is not based on how much you love God or your neighbor. It's given based on the realization that you *can't* love God and your neighbor perfectly and that you *do* need something else to afford salvation. That is why trusting that Christ has the power to, and will, save you is important... and furthermore, that He will not only forgive but also give you a "new birth" - or, as Paul puts it, transform your mind, make you a new creation, etc. "Take out this heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh" idea.
I reiterate. Being saved by God is not based on how much you can do, or no one would be saved. It's based on how much Christ has already done and the willingness of one to realize that what Christ has done is entirely sufficient and to trust in that alone for salvation... and to furthermore, continue to pursue after God, truth, and righteousness. (see the book of James, where he discusses the deadness of a faith that has no works to show that it is a real faith).
Enough people already buy AV software. MS's would be free. Arguments whether or not it's a good thing the OS needs it in the first place and why MS is doing that instead of trying to make the OS itself more secure... how is this "selling" an application? I would not consider MS Paint or Notepad as "part of the OS." I view those as free tools. Just as HP-UX has vi included yet I don't consider it part of the OS. If Solaris included a Sun [errrr Oracle] provided antivirus or malware scanner of some sort, I would not consider it part of the OS.... nor would I really say that I was paying for it - especially if it was available in an older version for free already and they just decided that it would be more useful to be more closely linked to the OS itself, rather than an add-on of some sort..
I can see how one might argue that leaving it separate might encourage better AV stuff... but I don't see how that's a legal argument about monopolies nor how we can say that MS can't do something because in the long run, we think it'd be better this or that way...
So making an OS more secure (I know, they could get rid of security holes... but...) is also monopolistic?
To me, this is kinda like saying IrfanView should sue because MS includes Paint or Picture Viewer or whatever they include.
IE was a bit trickier, because they did their own thing with HTML and stuff and you HAD to use IE in order to view some stuff, so it was a bit nastier. But a virus detector? What are they going to do, write viruses that only their software can find... but then they wouldn't work on other OSes... so it wouldn't be much of a lock-in.
So, they changed some of the leveling. I haven't played it yet... but, as an example, when you enter a dungeon/cave/area/whatever, as I understand it, your level is "locked." Bad guys are generated/leveled/whatever to match your current level when you *first* enter. If you come back later with +5 levels, the bad guys are still at your original level.
This seems like, on paper, it'd work as a nice little compromise. The bandit cave you enter at level 5 will be a piece of cake if you go back at level 15.
Yeah, any emergency alert thingy really should go through cell phones as well. Just (and as a relatively conservative free-market-ish libertarian-ish person, I can't believe I'm saying this) make the cell carriers not charge for the emergency call/text message (especially text message). If nothing else, you'll reach pretty much everyone aged 40 and below... and many above that since older people want to communicate with their families, too.
... KDE 4, Windows 7, Windows Vista... some people hate ALL GUIs.
Me? I like Windows 7. I find it nicer and faster than XP's interface, actually. I also like gnome better than KDE in general, but I preferred KDE 3x or 4x. I have not tried gnome3/unity yet, so can't comment there.
I sometimes wonder how long this debate has gone on. I'm guessing people hated Windows 95 when compared to 3.1 (or equivalent Mac OS version changes). People probably tried to show how a monitor was a disadvantage from the teletype; afterall, with teletypes you had a permanent hard copy and didn't risk losing it!... (I have no source for this, I'm just speculating;) )
I do think there are some things that don't make sense though - such as touch-screen-GUIs used on non-touch-screens, or the other way around.
This. I had an English writing course at a junior college. I had done a fair amount of writing in high school, wrote tolerably well, knew how to use proper grammar and punctuation, etc. Most of the students could just barely put together a proper sentence on paper; most of them could not write a full paragraph that actually made a distinct point. Most of the time, I heard that the students felt like the class was a waste of time. I guess they figured they would never need to communicate in a correctly written fashion.
There were a few in the class that did know how to write and did so effectively. Interestingly, those who could write and reason in writing were the ones who were the best at class discussions... as well as the ones who were actually able to rationally and critically think about a different viewpoint that had not occurred to them before. Those who could not typically dismissed foreign ideas with something along the lines of "well duh, everyone knows that's not right."
Sports: athletes use [illegal, or at the very least, not allowed in the league] drugs to improve their performance. Only problems occur if they get caught.
Kids follow sports. And drug usage things. Apparently, it's ok - unless you get caught. Why NOT use them in academics then?
Perhaps the real issue is that we don't value "work" and "learning" and such. I went through school; I took no drugs, I was extremely busy, and I got good grades. I learned a lot. I didn't just practice test taking.
The people I knew that used caffeine a lot either (1) worked all the time to support themselves while going to school or (2) generally partied/goofed off until the night before the test, at which time they pulled an all-nighter. Group #2 was significantly larger than #1. I actually only knew one person I'd put into group #1.
I don't think we can simply assume that students are doing the drug thing in order to "keep up" because they can't otherwise. I have met tons of students who pass off education as unnecessary, worthless, stupid, and a waste of time. It's not shocking that grades would be lower and drugs would be used as "study aids"... as a substitute for the real "study aid," known as "time."
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Ah... how trivial it is depends very much on the environment you're riding in, the horse you're riding (is it a good horse? used to the environment? does it spook easily? ...)... :)
As best I can tell, the 120 year thing wasn't actually a limit on man's lifespan in general, but 120 years to when the flood occurred. It doesn't make sense that God would look down, see incredible wickedness in the current population, and say "that's it, everyone in the future is only getting 120 years." It does make sense that He would say "120 years and this current wicked population will be judged."
But it's difficult to predict. I'm guessing it's be extremely expensive to actually presume everyone is going to utilize their bandwidth fully 100% of the time.
... who wrote the book of love?
I'm a software tester for data moving products.
While a lot of testing is repetitive, the repetitive stuff can often be automated. For example, there's functionality that exists in every release ... so automating those testcases such that they are easy to run hands-off is good. This automation is often something the tester will be doing.
For new features, what typically happens in my group is that the developers will explain how they implemented a given feature and how it should work. We are responsible for testing this feature - with any tips that dev gives us - as well as trying to put it through various scenarios that cause it to break.
In my product's line, for example, we do clean reboot and power cycle/crash testing. What happens to our product when the power goes out? What happens to the data that was being moved? Does it recover? That sort of thing. This requires thought - and, contrary to some comments here, since we all want our business to SUCCEED and make money, which means customers need to be happy with the product, development is happy when we find errors or scenarios that they did not plan for in their coding. The earlier we find them, the better.
Day to day activities? Well, I'd break it into two major sections.
Planning
The test group, in my case, is responsible for reading through the planned product's features and changes and coming up with a test plan accordingly. This is then reviewed by developers, the test group, etc. Usually, during this time period is when a lot of work on automating previously-manual testcases can be done, in preparation for the next release. Also, planning for what testing environments will need to be setup and starting to set them up... it depends how big your group is I guess. Since mine is relatively small, all the testers help out with setting up various machines for testing, too.
Testing
During testing, the test plan is executed. Day to day activities include test environment setup, manual testing, automated testing, discussing potential issues with developers and opening work requests (WRs) if it's decided that it is really an issue and not a weird environmental problem etc.
Why replace all the equipment in conference rooms if they still work just fine for what they are used for (boring presentations :) )? Why does it need to be updated if it doesn't have HDMI?
It seems like this is almost like arguing that if your school uses Edition 15 and Edition 16 comes out, you need to update. Because the publisher doesn't keep getting money otherwise...
Yes, it is clearly naive to not automatically assume that coincidence (with no other evidence) = conspiracy.
"Making up arbitrary emotionally motivated "this should be illegal" arguments on the fly."
That should be illegal.
Given how much I've failed to love God with all my being, or to love my neighbor as myself, I expect to burn.
Salvation is not based on how much you love God or your neighbor. It's given based on the realization that you *can't* love God and your neighbor perfectly and that you *do* need something else to afford salvation. That is why trusting that Christ has the power to, and will, save you is important ... and furthermore, that He will not only forgive but also give you a "new birth" - or, as Paul puts it, transform your mind, make you a new creation, etc. "Take out this heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh" idea.
I reiterate. Being saved by God is not based on how much you can do, or no one would be saved. It's based on how much Christ has already done and the willingness of one to realize that what Christ has done is entirely sufficient and to trust in that alone for salvation... and to furthermore, continue to pursue after God, truth, and righteousness. (see the book of James, where he discusses the deadness of a faith that has no works to show that it is a real faith).
It creates jobs! ;)
and it has always taken M$
I sense bias. :)
at least one major release to fix a major departure.
Windows 7 had an SP before it was "useful to serious users?"
mammoth clones you.
Clearly due to monopolistic business practices by Google with Chrome...
a power plant? even worse. we all know nuclear power is Super Dangerous (tm).
Because the UN handles so many highly controversial* issues so well as it is.
* Humanitarian aid is not really a controversial issue. Nuclear power is.
You explained what I wanted to... but a lot better than I did. ;) :)
Enough people already buy AV software. MS's would be free. Arguments whether or not it's a good thing the OS needs it in the first place and why MS is doing that instead of trying to make the OS itself more secure... how is this "selling" an application? I would not consider MS Paint or Notepad as "part of the OS." I view those as free tools. Just as HP-UX has vi included yet I don't consider it part of the OS. If Solaris included a Sun [errrr Oracle] provided antivirus or malware scanner of some sort, I would not consider it part of the OS.... nor would I really say that I was paying for it - especially if it was available in an older version for free already and they just decided that it would be more useful to be more closely linked to the OS itself, rather than an add-on of some sort..
I can see how one might argue that leaving it separate might encourage better AV stuff... but I don't see how that's a legal argument about monopolies nor how we can say that MS can't do something because in the long run, we think it'd be better this or that way...
So making an OS more secure (I know, they could get rid of security holes... but...) is also monopolistic?
To me, this is kinda like saying IrfanView should sue because MS includes Paint or Picture Viewer or whatever they include.
IE was a bit trickier, because they did their own thing with HTML and stuff and you HAD to use IE in order to view some stuff, so it was a bit nastier. But a virus detector? What are they going to do, write viruses that only their software can find... but then they wouldn't work on other OSes... so it wouldn't be much of a lock-in.
That would mean it's 99.99% filled with air, no? Which means it's .9 + .99*weightOfAir...
So, they changed some of the leveling. I haven't played it yet... but, as an example, when you enter a dungeon/cave/area/whatever, as I understand it, your level is "locked." Bad guys are generated/leveled/whatever to match your current level when you *first* enter. If you come back later with +5 levels, the bad guys are still at your original level.
This seems like, on paper, it'd work as a nice little compromise. The bandit cave you enter at level 5 will be a piece of cake if you go back at level 15.
Yeah, any emergency alert thingy really should go through cell phones as well. Just (and as a relatively conservative free-market-ish libertarian-ish person, I can't believe I'm saying this) make the cell carriers not charge for the emergency call/text message (especially text message). If nothing else, you'll reach pretty much everyone aged 40 and below... and many above that since older people want to communicate with their families, too.
Even garbage is private property.
... KDE 4, Windows 7, Windows Vista... some people hate ALL GUIs.
Me? I like Windows 7. I find it nicer and faster than XP's interface, actually. I also like gnome better than KDE in general, but I preferred KDE 3x or 4x. I have not tried gnome3/unity yet, so can't comment there.
I sometimes wonder how long this debate has gone on. I'm guessing people hated Windows 95 when compared to 3.1 (or equivalent Mac OS version changes). People probably tried to show how a monitor was a disadvantage from the teletype; afterall, with teletypes you had a permanent hard copy and didn't risk losing it! ... (I have no source for this, I'm just speculating ;) )
I do think there are some things that don't make sense though - such as touch-screen-GUIs used on non-touch-screens, or the other way around.
This. I had an English writing course at a junior college. I had done a fair amount of writing in high school, wrote tolerably well, knew how to use proper grammar and punctuation, etc. Most of the students could just barely put together a proper sentence on paper; most of them could not write a full paragraph that actually made a distinct point. Most of the time, I heard that the students felt like the class was a waste of time. I guess they figured they would never need to communicate in a correctly written fashion.
There were a few in the class that did know how to write and did so effectively. Interestingly, those who could write and reason in writing were the ones who were the best at class discussions... as well as the ones who were actually able to rationally and critically think about a different viewpoint that had not occurred to them before. Those who could not typically dismissed foreign ideas with something along the lines of "well duh, everyone knows that's not right."
Those are unrelated?
Sports: athletes use [illegal, or at the very least, not allowed in the league] drugs to improve their performance. Only problems occur if they get caught.
Kids follow sports. And drug usage things. Apparently, it's ok - unless you get caught. Why NOT use them in academics then?
Perhaps the real issue is that we don't value "work" and "learning" and such. I went through school; I took no drugs, I was extremely busy, and I got good grades. I learned a lot. I didn't just practice test taking.
The people I knew that used caffeine a lot either (1) worked all the time to support themselves while going to school or (2) generally partied/goofed off until the night before the test, at which time they pulled an all-nighter. Group #2 was significantly larger than #1. I actually only knew one person I'd put into group #1.
I don't think we can simply assume that students are doing the drug thing in order to "keep up" because they can't otherwise. I have met tons of students who pass off education as unnecessary, worthless, stupid, and a waste of time. It's not shocking that grades would be lower and drugs would be used as "study aids" ... as a substitute for the real "study aid," known as "time."