I have an idea I'm pitching to the RIAA. I am going to suggest that they devise a scheme in which a seperate license is needed for every nanometer that a given sound wave travels. That should make them plenty of money, while at the same time encouraging consumers to keep the volume down low enough that no one that isn't paying will hear the music!
I have to say that if you go into application programming, then the math definitely does seem like overkill.
However, Computer Science as a dicipline is much more involved than application programming (or even software engineering).
Take cryptography for instance: I defy you to "unlearn" all the math you have been tought, and then try to understand the DES (or AES or TwoFish) algorithm...
Where in the midwest specifically? I know the greater St. Louis area is a hotbed of activity right now. However, I know all too well the concerns that you have about finding proper candidates. Most of the highly technical people that I assoicate with do not have incredible "soft-skills" and therefore aren't very suited to a client-facing position. On the other hand, I know of several charismatic individuals who have the perfect skillset for that type of position (personable, smart, good business sense, excellent common sense), but these indiiduals are lacking the technical expertise (not to say that cannot be trained). As has been said already, the "soft-skills" are the skills that are difficult to train...
However, most of the time with Amazon.com (and others) there is a significant cost savings involved with the wait. Word is these downloads will actually be MORE expensive than buying the physical copy. Want to wager a guess as to what would happen to Amazon.com if they had been MORE expensive than your local Barnes & Nobles?
For usability purposes, sudo is nice because the user only has to enter their own password. However, this can also be detrimental... Users have been socially engineered to just enter their password whenever the box asks for it, and to the "average" user this may mask the fact that they are upping the privileges of the process asking for it... If they had to actually type in (and remember) the actual root password it may be a little more clear. All in all, I think it's really a matter of personal preference.
I think what we might find is that it costs a certain amount to produce a CD over the amount to produce ONLY the digital meadia. However, the reproduction cost of a CD is much lower (just burning multiple copies of the produced CD).
What I mean is that the cost to produce the MASTER CD is high compared to the cost of burning multiple copes of it (20K, 200K, whatever).
Since they don't plan to get rid of CDs all together, they have to carefully choose the amount to produce in order to maximize profits. Providing only the physicial CD for a period of time will assure that MORE of the CDs are sold (seems obvious) thus increasing the OVERALL profit margin.
IANAL either, but the way I understand it as as follows:
Depending on "Kirby's" actions and the jurisdiction, the stalking charge could be possible, but probably not. However, there is no invasion of privacy when going through someone's garbage. When someone discards something, they give up the rights to it. Unless he went through their garbage on private property (i.e. not on the street corner) then there is no possible charge there.
...with the story? I RTFA and was unable to see any connection other than the media hyping "D & D and Violent Video Games" as some sort of cause or precursor. In reality, I think that it was merely just a coincidence. I may try to catch this just to see the negative spin that is put on games...
Aside from the DIRECT quote in the article summary, the article consists of only three more sentences.
So trust me when I say that nobody seems to have any idea when that second shipment will even arrive. It was supposed to be a week after launch, then two weeks... Where are they?
I mod you up but I already posted (the SAME reply):)
I'd hire you on the spot, no way there is a better C++ implementation.
Dirty tricks, register hacks, imbedded ASM aside, if you want your other developers to be able to READ AND UNDERSTAND the code, this is the hands down winner.
Actually, the registry entries provide some interesting problems (as to their removal).
The latest way to make an install package (using MSI) makes it relatively easy to add/remove registry entries. This is automated and the registry settings are removed (for the most part).
Occassionally, the MSI will leave the company name (registry key) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, for reasons that I do not know.
A bigger problem is user registry entries that the application may put in the user's registry when the application is run. Since the installation did not create these registry entries, it cannot be expected to (automatically) remove them. This falls on the developers to properly clean the registry entries.
The entries I've mentioned so far aren't really the issue though. The Windows installer creates a LOT of registry keys based upon installed components of the application, shared DLL's, etc. These keys are not always properly cleaned up, and since the developers of the install didn't create them, they don't really have a way to remove them. This is the major failing of the Windows registry (in my opinion).
Another problem is registration of COM components. This isn't really the fault of the registry, but of COM registration as a whole, it's a BIG UGLY MESS.
Am I seriously the only person that read your reply and picked up on the fact that you praised Metallica, while simultaneously calling Weezer and Radiohead "crap bands"?
Um, METALLICA?
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Cloud, is that you?
I have an idea I'm pitching to the RIAA. I am going to suggest that they devise a scheme in which a seperate license is needed for every nanometer that a given sound wave travels. That should make them plenty of money, while at the same time encouraging consumers to keep the volume down low enough that no one that isn't paying will hear the music!
I have to say that if you go into application programming, then the math definitely does seem like overkill.
However, Computer Science as a dicipline is much more involved than application programming (or even software engineering).
Take cryptography for instance: I defy you to "unlearn" all the math you have been tought, and then try to understand the DES (or AES or TwoFish) algorithm...
Where in the midwest specifically? I know the greater St. Louis area is a hotbed of activity right now. However, I know all too well the concerns that you have about finding proper candidates. Most of the highly technical people that I assoicate with do not have incredible "soft-skills" and therefore aren't very suited to a client-facing position. On the other hand, I know of several charismatic individuals who have the perfect skillset for that type of position (personable, smart, good business sense, excellent common sense), but these indiiduals are lacking the technical expertise (not to say that cannot be trained). As has been said already, the "soft-skills" are the skills that are difficult to train...
However, most of the time with Amazon.com (and others) there is a significant cost savings involved with the wait. Word is these downloads will actually be MORE expensive than buying the physical copy. Want to wager a guess as to what would happen to Amazon.com if they had been MORE expensive than your local Barnes & Nobles?
For usability purposes, sudo is nice because the user only has to enter their own password. However, this can also be detrimental... Users have been socially engineered to just enter their password whenever the box asks for it, and to the "average" user this may mask the fact that they are upping the privileges of the process asking for it... If they had to actually type in (and remember) the actual root password it may be a little more clear.
All in all, I think it's really a matter of personal preference.
Still others COULD care less, hence the fine.
I think what we might find is that it costs a certain amount to produce a CD over the amount to produce ONLY the digital meadia. However, the reproduction cost of a CD is much lower (just burning multiple copies of the produced CD).
What I mean is that the cost to produce the MASTER CD is high compared to the cost of burning multiple copes of it (20K, 200K, whatever).
Since they don't plan to get rid of CDs all together, they have to carefully choose the amount to produce in order to maximize profits. Providing only the physicial CD for a period of time will assure that MORE of the CDs are sold (seems obvious) thus increasing the OVERALL profit margin.
It's ironic that you sited wikipedia as a source in your comment... If I had mod points today, you'd have been +1 funny....
IANAL either, but the way I understand it as as follows: Depending on "Kirby's" actions and the jurisdiction, the stalking charge could be possible, but probably not. However, there is no invasion of privacy when going through someone's garbage. When someone discards something, they give up the rights to it. Unless he went through their garbage on private property (i.e. not on the street corner) then there is no possible charge there.
...with the story? I RTFA and was unable to see any connection other than the media hyping "D & D and Violent Video Games" as some sort of cause or precursor. In reality, I think that it was merely just a coincidence. I may try to catch this just to see the negative spin that is put on games...
Aside from the DIRECT quote in the article summary, the article consists of only three more sentences.
So trust me when I say that nobody seems to have any idea when that second shipment will even arrive. It was supposed to be a week after launch, then two weeks... Where are they?
ABCDE A Better CD Encoder....
That's really only 7 reasons.
I mod you up but I already posted (the SAME reply) :)
I'd hire you on the spot, no way there is a better C++ implementation.
Dirty tricks, register hacks, imbedded ASM aside, if you want your other developers to be able to READ AND UNDERSTAND the code, this is the hands down winner.
Are we talking about C or C++?
void reverse_string(std::string& r)
{
std::reverse(r.begin(), r.end());
}
If you're talking about STANDARD C++, this is probably the BEST answer that you can get, but somehow, I think it's not what you're looking for...
If Aeris shoots first before Sephiroth attempts to stab her, it will completely change her character!!!
Actually, the registry entries provide some interesting problems (as to their removal).
The latest way to make an install package (using MSI) makes it relatively easy to add/remove registry entries. This is automated and the registry settings are removed (for the most part).
Occassionally, the MSI will leave the company name (registry key) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, for reasons that I do not know.
A bigger problem is user registry entries that the application may put in the user's registry when the application is run. Since the installation did not create these registry entries, it cannot be expected to (automatically) remove them. This falls on the developers to properly clean the registry entries.
The entries I've mentioned so far aren't really the issue though. The Windows installer creates a LOT of registry keys based upon installed components of the application, shared DLL's, etc. These keys are not always properly cleaned up, and since the developers of the install didn't create them, they don't really have a way to remove them. This is the major failing of the Windows registry (in my opinion).
Another problem is registration of COM components. This isn't really the fault of the registry, but of COM registration as a whole, it's a BIG UGLY MESS.
Am I seriously the only person that read your reply and picked up on the fact that you praised Metallica, while simultaneously calling Weezer and Radiohead "crap bands"? Um, METALLICA?
if (!(strFilter == R996 && NoChanges(pStruct))) { ...
}
Perhaps not, but if they do provide Newsweek, I would prefer that they don't remove pages from it that they (arbitrarily) find offensive.
Grammar and spelling are ALWAY important!
Oh my god! You've never taken eith grade health class! You've never seen the propaganda film! DON'T DATE ROBOTS!!!!!1
I just map *.com, *.net, *.org, *.uk, *.cx to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file. I hardly ever see anything offensive...
Porn FTP server, eh? Did you at least have access to it? ;)