Its not so much that people drive too slow, its that people like to ride their brakes, or brake for stupid fender benders on the side of the road. Try this little applet out for size to see the effects of it.
Gawkers should have their driving privileges revoked.
I read through the entire blurb and half the comments until I realize the guy works at a "yarn" store and not a "yam" store. I was trying to wrap my mind around the business logic of selling nothing but yams.
Do you feel any guilt what-so-ever buying a 50 cent candy bar knowing the people involved in getting it to you work 40 hours a week and still don't make enough to live on? How about the CEO taking a paycut from their million dollar a year salary instead of always passing the costs down to the customer. They don't want you to know they make millions while the poor man suffers below the poverty line working for him.
We're talking about a living wage, not getting rich doing menial labor. $5.15 here in michigan is just pathetic (I believe it went up, but I'm not positive on that), and it never includes any kind of health insurance.
This is a travesty in a country as rich as the US.
Proof? Or is this just hyperbole. We all know they like to vote themselves raises every year, take bribes from lobbyists, and what not, but last I checked congress wasn't a bankruptcy-bound company fudging the books to look like a multi-billion dollar company. Congress is exempt from sox because they aren't a for-profit company.
How, may I ask, do you develop? Do you even develop for a living? If you don't, then you can't really make any criticism on agile methods.
Traditional methods (waterfall, prototyping, etc) are just a carry-over from physical manufacturing. You specify requirements, design the product, produce it, sell it to customers, and provide regular maintenance. No one ever stops the assembly line in the middle of an automobile plant saying "whooooaaa hold up, our customers want 4 more square feet in the trunk and the steering wheel on the right side, back it up!." However, this scenario happens all too often in software. Make the wrong design decisions early, and requirements changes later in development can potentially be very costly. In fact, some projects just start over because it's cheaper. Software is a different beast because it is intangible.
Agile methods aren't "planning to not have a plan." Agile's plan is to prepare for future change, and involve the customer in the development process to make sure they are getting exactly what they want. This helps ensure much higher quality in software.
Agile is new, and it's still an immature science with less research behind it than other methods. Is it the silver bullet to software quality problems? Probably not, but then looking for one is a pipe dream. I personally believe a combination of traditional design and agile is the best way to go.
I think you missed the point of the study. 55 grad students reviewed articles. Some Biology Ph.D. candidates reviewed biology articles ( expert reviewing something in their field) while other Biology Ph.D. candidates reviewed astronomy articles (someone not an expert in the article's domain).
All people in the study are presumable smart and well educated.
Know why this view is always the case? Because "computer nerds" or technology geeks in general are always criticized for being disconnected from reality. Technology is our hobby, and most people have lives outside of their hobby.
Why is it that you don't hear about NBA stars disconnected from reality? All they do is live in their celebrity. They live, breathe, and eat basketball. When the day is done, they go out to clubs in expensive cars and live the life of a celebrity. Are these people just as disconnected from reality? Absolutely. Are all NBA stars like this? Nope, because its a generalization.
I'm sure there are some computer geeks disconnected from reality, but so are plenty of other people, who are into plenty of other things.
It all comes down to O'Reilly being an idiot and looking to generate some publicity with off-the-wall statements.
He did not claim to invent the internet. All he did was say he and the Clinton administration were responsible for pushing legislation and public awareness about the internet (more specifically the web) when it was still an emerging technology in the early 90's. All we can really blame Gore for is the Information Superhighway buzzword.
Stop listening to right-wingers and stop believing their libelous claims. This is just a mudslinging attempt to make Bush look better during the 2000 election.
Have you read the An Inconvenient Trush. Very well written and loaded with facts. Say what you will, but Gore is a very intelligent person and would not dedicate this much time and effort in something he knew was a lie.
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stuff !> life. They could have had knives or guns, that was a stupid risk. This story just feels fabricated anyway.
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Ballmer then reportedly munbled over and over, "Damned pinguins, damned pinguins," until police took him away.
I think you meant "I'm gonna f***ing kill FreeGeek!!! muhahahahah!!!!
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I get a chair that has the height-adjust lever broken off, I get to pay for M&M's out of the vending machine, lunch consists of a brown bag at my desk, my computer only has 256Mb's of RAM to run bloated IDE's on, and I have a 17 inch dell CRT.
Where do you work, and where can I submit my resume??;)
I think there were also a few other changes. If I am not mistaken, Arwen acutally left on the boat and Aragorn ended up with Eowyn. I wish they had put Bobadil in there though. They would have had to find a rare hottie to play Honeyberry! ~AR
You are very mistaken. Aragorn doesn't end up with Eowyn, and her name is Goldberry.
The scouring of the shire is the one scene from the book that I was really disappointed me for being omitted. I think it really adds to the story, showing that evil can reach anywhere in the world, even the shire. It also showed how much the four hobbits grew in terms of character and bravery during the story.
I can't imagine the silmarillion being made into a movie of any value. The stories are simply too involved and too mythologically based. Its hard enough to read through them and I'm a huge LotR fan. I did enjoy the book, just took a couple of rereads to completely understand.
I just hope LotR doesn't become a cash cow where new line takes any material they can get their hands on and makes it into a movie.
A software engineering course shouldn't be teaching any sort of programming language. They should be teaching concepts such as refactoring, requirements engineering, etc. that can be applied to software in any language.
In fact, does it really matter what language a given comp sci course is being taught in? The computer science concepts can be applied to any other language. Anyone can sit down with a book and learn syntax. However, algorithm design and what not need to be taught. Most university classes I've taken in comp sci assume you have knowledge of a modern programming language or require you to learn it on the side because thats not what they're teaching.
Notoriety. Who wouldn't want to be a well-known figurehead in the community like Linus Torvolds. There is a certain amount of pride and "bragging rights" you can take in the OSS community by creating the "next big thing" or solving a large open problem in a current project.
Some people do it because they love to code and are passionate about programming or the OSS movement. Not everything needs to be about money. Most OSS coders do it on the side along with a regular job.
This is why I threw in the "damn near highest quality" statement. After a good month of tweaking and various texture mods, Oblivion looks extremely nice in my opinion wiht acceptable framerates (30 outside and 80-100 inside). It isn't perfect, but the game does render miles of terrain with practically no limit to the view distance.
Agreed, my next upgrade will be a complete overhaul, but if I can get 5 good years out of a rig with a few upgrades in between, I'm happy.
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You think they're working to get 5 car lengths ahead? They're so engrossed in their cell phone conversation, they don't even know where they are.
Its not so much that people drive too slow, its that people like to ride their brakes, or brake for stupid fender benders on the side of the road. Try this little applet out for size to see the effects of it.
Gawkers should have their driving privileges revoked.
I read through the entire blurb and half the comments until I realize the guy works at a "yarn" store and not a "yam" store. I was trying to wrap my mind around the business logic of selling nothing but yams.
What is this, the SAT or slashdot?
Do you feel any guilt what-so-ever buying a 50 cent candy bar knowing the people involved in getting it to you work 40 hours a week and still don't make enough to live on? How about the CEO taking a paycut from their million dollar a year salary instead of always passing the costs down to the customer. They don't want you to know they make millions while the poor man suffers below the poverty line working for him.
We're talking about a living wage, not getting rich doing menial labor. $5.15 here in michigan is just pathetic (I believe it went up, but I'm not positive on that), and it never includes any kind of health insurance.
This is a travesty in a country as rich as the US.
Proof? Or is this just hyperbole. We all know they like to vote themselves raises every year, take bribes from lobbyists, and what not, but last I checked congress wasn't a bankruptcy-bound company fudging the books to look like a multi-billion dollar company. Congress is exempt from sox because they aren't a for-profit company.
How, may I ask, do you develop? Do you even develop for a living? If you don't, then you can't really make any criticism on agile methods.
Traditional methods (waterfall, prototyping, etc) are just a carry-over from physical manufacturing. You specify requirements, design the product, produce it, sell it to customers, and provide regular maintenance. No one ever stops the assembly line in the middle of an automobile plant saying "whooooaaa hold up, our customers want 4 more square feet in the trunk and the steering wheel on the right side, back it up!." However, this scenario happens all too often in software. Make the wrong design decisions early, and requirements changes later in development can potentially be very costly. In fact, some projects just start over because it's cheaper. Software is a different beast because it is intangible.
Agile methods aren't "planning to not have a plan." Agile's plan is to prepare for future change, and involve the customer in the development process to make sure they are getting exactly what they want. This helps ensure much higher quality in software.
Agile is new, and it's still an immature science with less research behind it than other methods. Is it the silver bullet to software quality problems? Probably not, but then looking for one is a pipe dream. I personally believe a combination of traditional design and agile is the best way to go.
I think you missed the point of the study. 55 grad students reviewed articles. Some Biology Ph.D. candidates reviewed biology articles ( expert reviewing something in their field) while other Biology Ph.D. candidates reviewed astronomy articles (someone not an expert in the article's domain).
All people in the study are presumable smart and well educated.
+1 freakin' hysterical
So now we programmers have to fear being burned at the stake? Great...
Just in case you don't know, and from your post it seems you don't, Pure Pwnage is a fictional web-show, not a documentary.
btw, FPS_Doug FTW
Know why this view is always the case? Because "computer nerds" or technology geeks in general are always criticized for being disconnected from reality. Technology is our hobby, and most people have lives outside of their hobby.
Why is it that you don't hear about NBA stars disconnected from reality? All they do is live in their celebrity. They live, breathe, and eat basketball. When the day is done, they go out to clubs in expensive cars and live the life of a celebrity. Are these people just as disconnected from reality? Absolutely. Are all NBA stars like this? Nope, because its a generalization.
I'm sure there are some computer geeks disconnected from reality, but so are plenty of other people, who are into plenty of other things.
It all comes down to O'Reilly being an idiot and looking to generate some publicity with off-the-wall statements.
He did not claim to invent the internet. All he did was say he and the Clinton administration were responsible for pushing legislation and public awareness about the internet (more specifically the web) when it was still an emerging technology in the early 90's. All we can really blame Gore for is the Information Superhighway buzzword.
Stop listening to right-wingers and stop believing their libelous claims. This is just a mudslinging attempt to make Bush look better during the 2000 election.
Have you read the An Inconvenient Trush. Very well written and loaded with facts. Say what you will, but Gore is a very intelligent person and would not dedicate this much time and effort in something he knew was a lie.
stuff !> life. They could have had knives or guns, that was a stupid risk. This story just feels fabricated anyway.
Ballmer then reportedly munbled over and over, "Damned pinguins, damned pinguins," until police took him away.
I think you meant "I'm gonna f***ing kill FreeGeek!!! muhahahahah!!!!
I get a chair that has the height-adjust lever broken off, I get to pay for M&M's out of the vending machine, lunch consists of a brown bag at my desk, my computer only has 256Mb's of RAM to run bloated IDE's on, and I have a 17 inch dell CRT.
;)
Where do you work, and where can I submit my resume??
I think there were also a few other changes. If I am not mistaken, Arwen acutally left on the boat and Aragorn ended up with Eowyn. I wish they had put Bobadil in there though. They would have had to find a rare hottie to play Honeyberry! ~AR
You are very mistaken. Aragorn doesn't end up with Eowyn, and her name is Goldberry.
The scouring of the shire is the one scene from the book that I was really disappointed me for being omitted. I think it really adds to the story, showing that evil can reach anywhere in the world, even the shire. It also showed how much the four hobbits grew in terms of character and bravery during the story.
I can't imagine the silmarillion being made into a movie of any value. The stories are simply too involved and too mythologically based. Its hard enough to read through them and I'm a huge LotR fan. I did enjoy the book, just took a couple of rereads to completely understand.
I just hope LotR doesn't become a cash cow where new line takes any material they can get their hands on and makes it into a movie.
A software engineering course shouldn't be teaching any sort of programming language. They should be teaching concepts such as refactoring, requirements engineering, etc. that can be applied to software in any language.
In fact, does it really matter what language a given comp sci course is being taught in? The computer science concepts can be applied to any other language. Anyone can sit down with a book and learn syntax. However, algorithm design and what not need to be taught. Most university classes I've taken in comp sci assume you have knowledge of a modern programming language or require you to learn it on the side because thats not what they're teaching.
Apparently sony was right about that $600 price point.. hell they could have charged the full $800 that the thing costs to make ;)
Notoriety. Who wouldn't want to be a well-known figurehead in the community like Linus Torvolds. There is a certain amount of pride and "bragging rights" you can take in the OSS community by creating the "next big thing" or solving a large open problem in a current project.
Some people do it because they love to code and are passionate about programming or the OSS movement. Not everything needs to be about money. Most OSS coders do it on the side along with a regular job.
This is why I threw in the "damn near highest quality" statement. After a good month of tweaking and various texture mods, Oblivion looks extremely nice in my opinion wiht acceptable framerates (30 outside and 80-100 inside). It isn't perfect, but the game does render miles of terrain with practically no limit to the view distance.
Agreed, my next upgrade will be a complete overhaul, but if I can get 5 good years out of a rig with a few upgrades in between, I'm happy.
Sorry this post is a bit late, I'm using the AGP verions of the XFX Geforce 7800GS. Very nice card.
Why make it? Just wait till next Christmas.
You don't think Mr. Lucas is done milking his cash cow, do you?