A dead battery and suddenly all is "Dark"!
I liked that vindicated braille comment too.
Considering the dubious quality of some folk's driving it could be a future historical irony for them to find that blind drivers in these cars are safer drivers than sighted drivers.
Might try street-view... it's amazing!!
I can well imagine it might vary according to where you live.
What I would like to see is a deal where I could navigate down the street to where I need to look for.
I use it mostly for finding addresses I need to drive to.. helps to know what a building looks like when you haven't been there before, and street-view sure works for that.
Yeah there are many time sinks and risks associated with having to group.
1. Time spent waiting for groups to get together.
2. Time sinks when someone is taking care of a baby or some other thing they should not be trying to do while raiding.
3. Time sink and risk of loss due to group members being disconnected. The chances of this seem to go up exponentially the more players there are in the group especially during key events of a raid.
4. Playing with strangers who are poor players or suddenly abandon the group in a fit of rage or ninja loot.
5. The parent trap... one or more group members who have parents who walk in suddenly and demand they quit playing at once and go to bed.
6. Ending up playing longer than I wish to. Games aren't the only thing in my life, and sometimes I am not feeling well and I don't wish to spend that much time playing.
I could go on and on, but one of the reasons I quit games is when I reach a level that there is no more meaningful solo content left.
The last person I ever saw using this test was a complete idiot! He had the exact manner and bearing of that teacher on Ferris Beueler's Day off, the one that kept saying Beauler?... Beauler?
Every single image reminded me of sex or women.
It got embarrassing, so I started making up stuff.
I said one looked like something I spilled on my shirt last week and that the other looked like my grandmother before her first cup of coffee on a bad hair day on a Monday!
The guy started sadly scribbling on his note pad furiously. I said I was just kidding but Later I got his diagnosis that I was Schizophrenic... all based on these two jokes alone..
So two weeks later, I am called before a panel of three psychologists who all said I didn't have Schizophrenia or any other psychoses, and they asked me why I thought his diagnosis could be so far off. I said it was because he was humor impaired!
They about fell out of their seats laughing their asses off. One called me to ask me if he could use that saying because he wanted to use it on all the snooty staff at the reunion of his graduating class at Berkley.
Many psychologists get into it to try to find out what's wrong with themselves.
The road to recovery isn't paved with pretty white pills, and goofy tests, the road is paved with hard work at learning common sense and patience and not thinking we are better than others.
Often the frustration and pressures they feel, often get translated into rash acts, but they are people and as with many people, they respond to those they sense have empathy for them.
People tend to respect those who respect them, not as inferior but as co-workers.
Cultivating such an attitude, will also make it less stressful on you in turn.
Also, when I was in a similar situation, I made known to the some four folks who were giving work to me, of the work the others also were asking. As a result, one person was assigned to regulate and prioritize the work given me, so they all knew where they stood, and it made things a lot easier.
I dearly miss working for that company after awhile and in the end, when it was taken over and shut down, I felt great sadness, to see that company of some 100 workers go. I was there some eight years, and I would wish for nothing better than to find a similar job but am yet to find other work.
Make friends among your co-workers, care about them, watch them as they interact with the program you are maintaining, and come up with new ways to make their job easier, and you may also find, that its not you verses them any more, but a team now working to accomplish something worthy.
Its a terrible time to be out of work, but I remember, that when I was the sole IT/Programmer there, I did not know the value of what I had and I wish I had it back.
Treasure those times, its better than you think.
I am going to sue you. I ate some of the toner and it didn't taste like cherry at all! My teeth are black and worst of all, I smiled at my dog and ran away screaming.
Ps: I love that cherry sundae comparison. Reminded me of the guy who said he was suing because he laughed so hard be busted his gut.:)
I accidentally deleted every file and directory trying to back it up using gZip which unlike zip, DELETES the source tree and files after compressing it into the zip file.
Oops!
Why are they publishing source code for malware? That's like someone opening a vault of guns and inviting everyone to to come get one.
I refuse to look at code to make a virus for the same reason I don't go looking to learn how to make a bomb... I am not interested in harming others.
They should not be publishing code to malware because some dunderhead will emulate it and make his own malware and swath of destruction.
Why did you include that link?
Yeah, like the idea I had years ago. Write "Viruses" that act like antiviruses.. which remove or disable bad code after asking the user permission.
There are all kinds of things that can be done to help people instead of hurt them or ruin their lives.
I put those who write malware in the same class as people who poison a water supply or taking potshots at people with a scope rifle. They are playing with people's lives by creating havoc. How many companies went under or how many people lost their jobs because some virus was the straw that broke the camel's back, and unemployment is a disaster that many are suffering. How many have committed suicide, or lost their lives or family members because they could no longer afford medical care, and a healthy standard? Creeps that write viruses are in my opinion one step short of murder, if not actual blood guiltiness.
Few users really would bother to go through the process of claiming a refund weeks after unless the program is severely flawed. Often the time involved isn't worth it, or they have asked for a refund sooner than that. If it's really a glaring fault, the maker will probably be on making an upgrade for it.
However
My opinion has dropped due to the difficulty of programming for iPhone. It is so frustrating as to bring me to tears literally. One is forced to scatter like tasks all over the place instead of having it in one place. To resize a font or to make it bold has to be done in code instead of interface builder, which means you have to align things in a funky manner to compensate for it.
I is very impressive in some ways and exhaustingly depressive in others.
In short, bugs are often caused by the system instead of the programmer, and yet it's the developer who has to foot the entire amount of the bill for this.
I totally agree. When programming concepts started out I thought I was some hot stuff, I thought I had some good ideas when they were probably ideas everyone and their hampster's room mate had in common. Some two decades of programming has taught me some common sense but I still think I got a long ways to go.
University programming rarely reflects the real world. In the university they give young budding programers the impression that programming is done by fully thinking out a software solution for a specific need, and that need never changes.
In reality the needs the program is supposed to meet, is a swiftly moving target much of the time. You find often that you end up being required to code instantly without sufficient time. Often you find when you give the client what they ask for, they find out its not what they want.
If the client can't fully describe what they need, and do not have the vision to see how that need might change over the next few years, the program is in for a rough start.
Programs typically end up being a monolithic maze of rushed coding unless they try to do just one thing and do that one thing good, and then end up being a monster that does too many things and tries to be the jack of all desired (Trades).
Some years ago there was a piece of software that was the best on the market for burning CD's and DVD's and I was happy with it. Over the next 4 years, it has expanded from that to something that looks just one step short of a mulimedia operating system. I can burn a cd, or dvd with it and the verify says it is perfectly burned, but it does not work, the resulting media fails the crc checksum. I won't buy from them because as soon as I plunk down money for the new fixed version, they want me to plunk down more money for another.
Here's the point. Chances are you don't have anything to worry about, somewhere out there is probably half a dozen folks with the same idea.
What is of greater value is your attitude. If you like the work you do, if you enjoy the challenge, if you view your field as opportunities instead of something I got to do to put bread on the table then good ideas will come naturally. Ideas are fine, but they need to be fueled by folks who are both talented and excited and who have the sense to know a good thing and stay with it and not sacrifice their clear vision for the confusion so many projects seem to devolve into.
I think not so much dead as its all follow the leader down the beaten path and the result is games that are either for small children, shoot em ups or strategy.
After the end of my work day spent trying to puzzle out something that isn't working or feeling stressed and pressured, strategy games feel like work and shoot em ups wind me up when I need to wind down.
I recently bought Crysis thinking it was mostly about shooting aliens but instead I ended up having to shoot virtual people where the aliens didn't make more than a cameo apperance till the extremely stressfull end game full of timed quests where I got to rush rush rush. It wasn't relaxing nor the mindless shoot the aliens that I sometimes like.
How I might have better enjoyed a game with the graphics of Crysis but where I might be able to actually play tennis or pool or some other game with another perhaps real person rather than trading bullets where these games in a game are plugins or features the customers could buy to expand the selection of activities that could be done with other players who have the same plugin. Imagine it, being able to play games within a virtual world with the kind of graphics of Crysis and Farcry 2 and others.
They could release an API where developers could make these add ons and the possibilities would be quite exciting in my opinion.
There would be a big demand for the ability to run OS X and apple stuff on PC's. I understand there are ramifications like maybe an upgrade breaking things, but there still is opportunity here as well where Apple could gain from.
Even if it were foolproof, what about a passenger who has some remotely controlled bomb for example planted on them? They would not even know.
I don't think it so wise to eliminate the metal detector yet.
I totally agree and want to add what I told Safecount.com one of the most annoying offenders for making ads that get in your face track your mouse and try to trick you or force you to click on them.
"Imagine someone in a big vehicle who cuts you off on the road and won't let you pass till you hear their sales pitch.
How would you feel? What would you feel like doing to them? Would you buy from them? Nope? I thought not."
Yep, I have this same issue with a current program. There is a constant clash between what the library the program was written to, and what the customer demands.
Customers don't have a clue what is easy and what is hard.
You can save a lot of time by thorough designing and specifying what the program is wanted to do.
Using a library can often transform programming into a circus of porkbarrelers, where functions don't do simply one thing, they have side-effects, that can drive a programmer nuts.
The thing is, that being off-target and having difficulties matching what the customer wants is a foregone conclusion in most jobs. It is extremely difficult to know what you might need of a program even 3 months down the line, let alone three years. Matching this moving target is like trying to shoot flies with a cannon, is going to take a lot of effort and its a never-ending job.
Just be glad that you are not working for my customer... No matter what terrible data eating, bug I find, no matter what I tell them about money they are letting slip through their fingers, they consistantly just come up with new "Emergency" features, the want yesterday and to hell with my concerns.
Its exactly like being forced to add rooms to a burning building. I got to keep building so fast, I stay ahead of the fire, but oh God, what horrible results can happen when one is not allowed sufficient time for great coding, and are not allowed to fix new bugs.
I remember when my boss demanded that I lie to customers.
I said if I were willing to lie to the customers, I would have to be willing to lie to him and asked him if he really wanted to have a dishonest employee?
I would bring up concerns about the reaction of folks if folks recognize the content as being from another site, and what might happen if an opportunistic lawyer noticed this, how this might ruin the reputation of the company and all that work there when things start hitting the fan.
I bet it's more than a small chance that those who would be buying his software, would also be researching other sites and would find the duplication and become aware of what was happening here.
PS: Keeping your integrity is a good job getter.
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A dead battery and suddenly all is "Dark"! I liked that vindicated braille comment too. Considering the dubious quality of some folk's driving it could be a future historical irony for them to find that blind drivers in these cars are safer drivers than sighted drivers.
Might try street-view ... it's amazing!!
I can well imagine it might vary according to where you live.
What I would like to see is a deal where I could navigate down the street to where I need to look for.
I use it mostly for finding addresses I need to drive to .. helps to know what a building looks like when you haven't been there before, and street-view sure works for that.
We don't need no more rodents.
Yeah there are many time sinks and risks associated with having to group. 1. Time spent waiting for groups to get together. 2. Time sinks when someone is taking care of a baby or some other thing they should not be trying to do while raiding. 3. Time sink and risk of loss due to group members being disconnected. The chances of this seem to go up exponentially the more players there are in the group especially during key events of a raid. 4. Playing with strangers who are poor players or suddenly abandon the group in a fit of rage or ninja loot. 5. The parent trap ... one or more group members who have parents who walk in suddenly and demand they quit playing at once and go to bed.
6. Ending up playing longer than I wish to. Games aren't the only thing in my life, and sometimes I am not feeling well and I don't wish to spend that much time playing.
I could go on and on, but one of the reasons I quit games is when I reach a level that there is no more meaningful solo content left.
The last person I ever saw using this test was a complete idiot! He had the exact manner and bearing of that teacher on Ferris Beueler's Day off, the one that kept saying Beauler? ... Beauler?
Every single image reminded me of sex or women.
It got embarrassing, so I started making up stuff.
I said one looked like something I spilled on my shirt last week and that the other looked like my grandmother before her first cup of coffee on a bad hair day on a Monday!
The guy started sadly scribbling on his note pad furiously. I said I was just kidding but Later I got his diagnosis that I was Schizophrenic ... all based on these two jokes alone..
So two weeks later, I am called before a panel of three psychologists who all said I didn't have Schizophrenia or any other psychoses, and they asked me why I thought his diagnosis could be so far off. I said it was because he was humor impaired!
They about fell out of their seats laughing their asses off. One called me to ask me if he could use that saying because he wanted to use it on all the snooty staff at the reunion of his graduating class at Berkley.
Many psychologists get into it to try to find out what's wrong with themselves.
The road to recovery isn't paved with pretty white pills, and goofy tests, the road is paved with hard work at learning common sense and patience and not thinking we are better than others.
Three rules of music ...
1. The world does not owe us free songs.
2. We don't owe the world free music.
3. We own what we create.
-- Me ... July 14-2009
Often the frustration and pressures they feel, often get translated into rash acts, but they are people and as with many people, they respond to those they sense have empathy for them. People tend to respect those who respect them, not as inferior but as co-workers. Cultivating such an attitude, will also make it less stressful on you in turn. Also, when I was in a similar situation, I made known to the some four folks who were giving work to me, of the work the others also were asking. As a result, one person was assigned to regulate and prioritize the work given me, so they all knew where they stood, and it made things a lot easier. I dearly miss working for that company after awhile and in the end, when it was taken over and shut down, I felt great sadness, to see that company of some 100 workers go. I was there some eight years, and I would wish for nothing better than to find a similar job but am yet to find other work. Make friends among your co-workers, care about them, watch them as they interact with the program you are maintaining, and come up with new ways to make their job easier, and you may also find, that its not you verses them any more, but a team now working to accomplish something worthy. Its a terrible time to be out of work, but I remember, that when I was the sole IT/Programmer there, I did not know the value of what I had and I wish I had it back. Treasure those times, its better than you think.
I experience the beginnings of artificial intelligence every time I wake up. it's nothing new.
Corporational punishment?
I am going to sue you. I ate some of the toner and it didn't taste like cherry at all! My teeth are black and worst of all, I smiled at my dog and ran away screaming. Ps: I love that cherry sundae comparison. Reminded me of the guy who said he was suing because he laughed so hard be busted his gut. :)
One weed sadly said to the other.... Hair today gone tomorrow!
I accidentally deleted every file and directory trying to back it up using gZip which unlike zip, DELETES the source tree and files after compressing it into the zip file. Oops!
Why are they publishing source code for malware? That's like someone opening a vault of guns and inviting everyone to to come get one. I refuse to look at code to make a virus for the same reason I don't go looking to learn how to make a bomb ... I am not interested in harming others.
They should not be publishing code to malware because some dunderhead will emulate it and make his own malware and swath of destruction.
Why did you include that link?
Yeah, like the idea I had years ago. Write "Viruses" that act like antiviruses .. which remove or disable bad code after asking the user permission.
There are all kinds of things that can be done to help people instead of hurt them or ruin their lives.
I put those who write malware in the same class as people who poison a water supply or taking potshots at people with a scope rifle. They are playing with people's lives by creating havoc. How many companies went under or how many people lost their jobs because some virus was the straw that broke the camel's back, and unemployment is a disaster that many are suffering. How many have committed suicide, or lost their lives or family members because they could no longer afford medical care, and a healthy standard? Creeps that write viruses are in my opinion one step short of murder, if not actual blood guiltiness.
I doubt they would see anything the dead don't see. It would suck.
Few users really would bother to go through the process of claiming a refund weeks after unless the program is severely flawed. Often the time involved isn't worth it, or they have asked for a refund sooner than that. If it's really a glaring fault, the maker will probably be on making an upgrade for it. However My opinion has dropped due to the difficulty of programming for iPhone. It is so frustrating as to bring me to tears literally. One is forced to scatter like tasks all over the place instead of having it in one place. To resize a font or to make it bold has to be done in code instead of interface builder, which means you have to align things in a funky manner to compensate for it. I is very impressive in some ways and exhaustingly depressive in others. In short, bugs are often caused by the system instead of the programmer, and yet it's the developer who has to foot the entire amount of the bill for this.
Composer - brain - heart + Computer = Songsmith
I totally agree. When programming concepts started out I thought I was some hot stuff, I thought I had some good ideas when they were probably ideas everyone and their hampster's room mate had in common. Some two decades of programming has taught me some common sense but I still think I got a long ways to go. University programming rarely reflects the real world. In the university they give young budding programers the impression that programming is done by fully thinking out a software solution for a specific need, and that need never changes. In reality the needs the program is supposed to meet, is a swiftly moving target much of the time. You find often that you end up being required to code instantly without sufficient time. Often you find when you give the client what they ask for, they find out its not what they want. If the client can't fully describe what they need, and do not have the vision to see how that need might change over the next few years, the program is in for a rough start. Programs typically end up being a monolithic maze of rushed coding unless they try to do just one thing and do that one thing good, and then end up being a monster that does too many things and tries to be the jack of all desired (Trades). Some years ago there was a piece of software that was the best on the market for burning CD's and DVD's and I was happy with it. Over the next 4 years, it has expanded from that to something that looks just one step short of a mulimedia operating system. I can burn a cd, or dvd with it and the verify says it is perfectly burned, but it does not work, the resulting media fails the crc checksum. I won't buy from them because as soon as I plunk down money for the new fixed version, they want me to plunk down more money for another. Here's the point. Chances are you don't have anything to worry about, somewhere out there is probably half a dozen folks with the same idea. What is of greater value is your attitude. If you like the work you do, if you enjoy the challenge, if you view your field as opportunities instead of something I got to do to put bread on the table then good ideas will come naturally. Ideas are fine, but they need to be fueled by folks who are both talented and excited and who have the sense to know a good thing and stay with it and not sacrifice their clear vision for the confusion so many projects seem to devolve into.
I think not so much dead as its all follow the leader down the beaten path and the result is games that are either for small children, shoot em ups or strategy. After the end of my work day spent trying to puzzle out something that isn't working or feeling stressed and pressured, strategy games feel like work and shoot em ups wind me up when I need to wind down. I recently bought Crysis thinking it was mostly about shooting aliens but instead I ended up having to shoot virtual people where the aliens didn't make more than a cameo apperance till the extremely stressfull end game full of timed quests where I got to rush rush rush. It wasn't relaxing nor the mindless shoot the aliens that I sometimes like. How I might have better enjoyed a game with the graphics of Crysis but where I might be able to actually play tennis or pool or some other game with another perhaps real person rather than trading bullets where these games in a game are plugins or features the customers could buy to expand the selection of activities that could be done with other players who have the same plugin. Imagine it, being able to play games within a virtual world with the kind of graphics of Crysis and Farcry 2 and others. They could release an API where developers could make these add ons and the possibilities would be quite exciting in my opinion.
There would be a big demand for the ability to run OS X and apple stuff on PC's. I understand there are ramifications like maybe an upgrade breaking things, but there still is opportunity here as well where Apple could gain from.
Even if it were foolproof, what about a passenger who has some remotely controlled bomb for example planted on them? They would not even know. I don't think it so wise to eliminate the metal detector yet.
Yep ... "If the remaining spider is female the spider my be inside her. ... and soon to see if there are spiders in the computer, and on the rail!"
I totally agree and want to add what I told Safecount.com one of the most annoying offenders for making ads that get in your face track your mouse and try to trick you or force you to click on them. "Imagine someone in a big vehicle who cuts you off on the road and won't let you pass till you hear their sales pitch. How would you feel? What would you feel like doing to them? Would you buy from them? Nope? I thought not."
Yep, I have this same issue with a current program. There is a constant clash between what the library the program was written to, and what the customer demands.
Customers don't have a clue what is easy and what is hard.
You can save a lot of time by thorough designing and specifying what the program is wanted to do.
Using a library can often transform programming into a circus of porkbarrelers, where functions don't do simply one thing, they have side-effects, that can drive a programmer nuts.
The thing is, that being off-target and having difficulties matching what the customer wants is a foregone conclusion in most jobs. It is extremely difficult to know what you might need of a program even 3 months down the line, let alone three years. Matching this moving target is like trying to shoot flies with a cannon, is going to take a lot of effort and its a never-ending job.
Just be glad that you are not working for my customer ... No matter what terrible data eating, bug I find, no matter what I tell them about money they are letting slip through their fingers, they consistantly just come up with new "Emergency" features, the want yesterday and to hell with my concerns.
Its exactly like being forced to add rooms to a burning building. I got to keep building so fast, I stay ahead of the fire, but oh God, what horrible results can happen when one is not allowed sufficient time for great coding, and are not allowed to fix new bugs.
I remember when my boss demanded that I lie to customers. I said if I were willing to lie to the customers, I would have to be willing to lie to him and asked him if he really wanted to have a dishonest employee? I would bring up concerns about the reaction of folks if folks recognize the content as being from another site, and what might happen if an opportunistic lawyer noticed this, how this might ruin the reputation of the company and all that work there when things start hitting the fan. I bet it's more than a small chance that those who would be buying his software, would also be researching other sites and would find the duplication and become aware of what was happening here. PS: Keeping your integrity is a good job getter.