In the 80's I worked for a small (~ 40 person) software company. Back then all software was sold in boxes, with each box having a unique serial number.
The president of the company (I'll call him 'Richard', since that was his name) was sort of a nerd, and he liked to play head games. First, he bought one box / quarter from each of our competitors. From the (sequential) serial numbers, he could reliably estimate their sales rate. Also, all of our competitors started their serial numbers at 1, so he could estimate everyone's total sales.
Not satisfied at gathering intel on our competitors, Richard decided to plant some false intel of his own. Our serial numbers were strictly increasing, but they were not sequential. Richard could adjust the apparent sales rate of our product by choosing the interval between serial numbers. Also, the first box of each of our products was always serial #8386. And the first version of our products was always 1.4.
It is amazing what you can do with people's unstated assumptions about numbers. When a customer receives version 1.4, serial number 8386, he assumes that he has received a mature product. And when a competitor sees your serial number go from 8400 to 9000, he assumes you have sold 600 boxes.
So, we get to blame the editors for an incorrect summary, AND blame moderation for your incorrect response being more informative than my correct response?
While that may be true, TFA says that the open sarcasm mark is U+00A1, an upside-down exclamation point, to be used at the end of a sentence.
Graphically indistinguishable from U+00A1 () Temherte Slaqî differs in semantic use in Ethiopia. Temherte Slaqî will come at the end of a sentence (vs at the beginning in Spanish use) and is used to indicate an unreal phrase, often sarcastical in editorial cartoons. Temherte Slaqî is also important in children’s literature and in poetic use.
Which, for those of you not in the know, is less than car silly, but more than boat silly. Still, I think that method of comparing silly levels is plain silly.
No, you misunderstand. Plane silly is less than space silly, but more than line silly.
In fact, there is only one thing less then line silly, and beyond that there is no point.
Whether or not it's a "great idea" it's the newspaper's right as a private business
Whether or not it is the newspaper's right as a private business, it is everyone else's right to comment on whether or not it is a great idea.
Whether or not it is everyone else's right to comment on whether or not it is the newspaper's right as a private business to charge for comments, it is my right to comment on your comment commenting on everyone else's right to comment on whether or not it is the newspaper's right as a private business to charge for comments.
Seriously, I can't do it. I can give you any of these:
Accurate Task Estimate.
Wildly inaccurate Time Estimate.
Accurate Time Post-mortem.
But, I have never, in 25 years of programming and project management, found a way to tell you accurately, in advance, how long a non-trivial task would take.
Writing computer programs (at least in my experience) is not like building a house. Every new project is a voyage of discovery in which we invent a brand new thing. You may as well ask Edison how long it will take to invent the light bulb.
LaserMotive's two principals, Jordin Kare and Thomas Nugent, said they were relieved after two years of work. They said their real goal is to develop a business based on the idea of beaming power, not the futuristic idea of accessing space via an elevator climbing a cable.
Should someone come and take all the pavement and street lighting etc up at your your house?
It's interesting that you should ask. In my neighborhood (and, in my experience, every neighborhood I've seen developed in the last 25 years), the pavement and street lighting weren't installed by the city -- they were installed by the developer. Part of the purchase price of my house was the cost of creating the roads, sidewalks, storm drains, and other infrastructure.
In fact, in all the recent (again, younger than 25 years or so) neighborhoods around here, there are no street lights, per se. Each resident is required to keep lit a 75-watt bulb in their front yard, on their own electric bill.
So, at least in this part of the world (central Illinois), the government has already given up investing in new streets and new street lighting.
Oh, gee. Welcome to/. Uh, dude, you have to get out more.
Is it fun?
Yep, for approximately 90% of the male population.
Is there multiplayer, and how is it?
Multiplayer is an advanced feature, and only available in some versions. The massively-multiplayer games are fairly rare (and, in my opinion, less fun.)
Is it fun to play with friends?
Personally, I find it more fun to play with friends than with strangers. YMMV.
This sounds like a fun stunt. And now it continues on slashdot too. Someone is going to get a nice christmas bonus!
Not really sure I want to see this sort of thing on slashdot. *shudder*
If there's one wikipedia page (and in reality there's 10,000s), that sums up the inadequacies of wikipedia, it's that Hollywood Accounting one. That page is 100% hearsay, gossip column and TMZ-esque gossip presented as fact and wikiality.
Phew, thank God a random Slashdot user saved us from that evil Wikipedia page, because of course, since we can fully trust Slashdot users always check their facts before posting.
Finally, an Anonymous Coward has stepped forward to put an end to this pointless bickering, warning us not to trust random Slashdot users. Because of course, we can fully trust Anonymous Cowards. They are anonymous, what would they have to gain by lying?
At last, a long-standing member of the community with a reputation at stake... Oh crap, that's not right. Never mind.
In the US, pay in large companies is pretty much determined by pay reference points (PRP)
Fixed that for you. In small-to-medium businesses pay is determined by market pressure, negotiating skills, and individual circumstance. That's one reason I prefer working for family-owned businesses (even if the failure rate is higher.)
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I also remember my first days as a teenager using C, but this was in the days of Unix, before MS-DOS. Wonderful! Yes, my programs would constantly print the wrong answer, core dump, and (mysteriously to me) produce strange errors when run from "make".
But I never overwrote system memory, and I never had to reboot the machine. (Good thing -- it would have annoyed the hell out of the other 40 people using it!)
Don't blame C that DOS reboots -- blame DOS.
Did the lawyers for both sides stipulate to these "facts"? Or were they somehow proven in the trial court?
The appellate decision says this:
Since the appeal is from the sustaining of a demurrer without leave to amend, the
facts are derived from the complaint. This court must give the complaint a reasonable
interpretation and assume the truth of all material facts properly pleaded.
I don't know what that means, but I presume it answers your question.
It would be very interesting to close off part of a disused city or even a whole city and leave it as it is to see how nature would take over without human influences. Would it decay as some predict?. Would nature take over tower blocks for high rise living?
As far as safe bets go, a Pixar film is a safer bet than a sequel. Have they ever failed?
I'm not sure what "fail" means, but no, they have never failed. Excluding Up, every Disney-Pixar movie has grossed at least 3x their production budget. Toy Story had the best return at 10x, Wall-E the least at 3x.
In absolute numbers, Toy Story and A Bug's Life grossed the least at about $360,000,000 each. The worst take this decade was Ratatouille at $450,000,000, but it still grossed 6x its budget.
Over the course of 10 movies, Disney/Pixar has grossed $5,000,000,000 on a budget of $1,000,000,000.
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In the 80's I worked for a small (~ 40 person) software company. Back then all software was sold in boxes, with each box having a unique serial number.
The president of the company (I'll call him 'Richard', since that was his name) was sort of a nerd, and he liked to play head games. First, he bought one box / quarter from each of our competitors. From the (sequential) serial numbers, he could reliably estimate their sales rate. Also, all of our competitors started their serial numbers at 1, so he could estimate everyone's total sales.
Not satisfied at gathering intel on our competitors, Richard decided to plant some false intel of his own. Our serial numbers were strictly increasing, but they were not sequential. Richard could adjust the apparent sales rate of our product by choosing the interval between serial numbers. Also, the first box of each of our products was always serial #8386. And the first version of our products was always 1.4.
It is amazing what you can do with people's unstated assumptions about numbers. When a customer receives version 1.4, serial number 8386, he assumes that he has received a mature product. And when a competitor sees your serial number go from 8400 to 9000, he assumes you have sold 600 boxes.
I'm sorta glad that Richard wasn't a Nazi.
Am I the only one?
Atomic batteries to power. Turbines to speed.
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U0161 is Latin Small Letter S With Caron
While that may be true, TFA says that the open sarcasm mark is U+00A1, an upside-down exclamation point, to be used at the end of a sentence.
Graphically indistinguishable from U+00A1 () Temherte Slaqî differs in semantic use in Ethiopia. Temherte Slaqî will come at the end of a sentence (vs at the beginning in Spanish use) and is used to indicate an unreal phrase, often sarcastical in editorial cartoons. Temherte Slaqî is also important in children’s literature and in poetic use.
Giving it a robotic leg is just plane silly.
Which, for those of you not in the know, is less than car silly, but more than boat silly. Still, I think that method of comparing silly levels is plain silly.
No, you misunderstand. Plane silly is less than space silly, but more than line silly.
In fact, there is only one thing less then line silly, and beyond that there is no point.
Whether or not it is the newspaper's right as a private business, it is everyone else's right to comment on whether or not it is a great idea.
Whether or not it is everyone else's right to comment on whether or not it is the newspaper's right as a private business to charge for comments, it is my right to comment on your comment commenting on everyone else's right to comment on whether or not it is the newspaper's right as a private business to charge for comments.
... bike lanes attracted female cyclists with huge boobies.
Where can I buy some paint?
aren't there only 2 or 3 urban areas in canada?
Yep -- Detroit and Buffalo.
Accurate. Time. Estimate. Pick Two.
Seriously, I can't do it. I can give you any of these:
But, I have never, in 25 years of programming and project management, found a way to tell you accurately, in advance, how long a non-trivial task would take.
Writing computer programs (at least in my experience) is not like building a house. Every new project is a voyage of discovery in which we invent a brand new thing. You may as well ask Edison how long it will take to invent the light bulb.
"horse manure was the catalyst for the automobile"
Just because it couldn't be more off-topic, The Horse & the Urban Environment describes this relationship quite well.
LaserMotive's two principals, Jordin Kare and Thomas Nugent, said they were relieved after two years of work. They said their real goal is to develop a business based on the idea of beaming power, not the futuristic idea of accessing space via an elevator climbing a cable.
Should someone come and take all the pavement and street lighting etc up at your your house?
It's interesting that you should ask. In my neighborhood (and, in my experience, every neighborhood I've seen developed in the last 25 years), the pavement and street lighting weren't installed by the city -- they were installed by the developer. Part of the purchase price of my house was the cost of creating the roads, sidewalks, storm drains, and other infrastructure.
In fact, in all the recent (again, younger than 25 years or so) neighborhoods around here, there are no street lights, per se. Each resident is required to keep lit a 75-watt bulb in their front yard, on their own electric bill.
So, at least in this part of the world (central Illinois), the government has already given up investing in new streets and new street lighting.
... We were hanging around up at the top of the Stratosphere,
In a balloon?
As Vice President, [Dick Cheney] had no authority over the military.
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More than 70.
So what kind of game it is?
RTFS: "win a date with a booth babe"
Does it look good?
Most do. Depends upon your standards, I suppose.
What features are there?
Oh, gee. Welcome to /. Uh, dude, you have to get out more.
Is it fun?
Yep, for approximately 90% of the male population.
Is there multiplayer, and how is it?
Multiplayer is an advanced feature, and only available in some versions. The massively-multiplayer games are fairly rare (and, in my opinion, less fun.)
Is it fun to play with friends?
Personally, I find it more fun to play with friends than with strangers. YMMV.
This sounds like a fun stunt. And now it continues on slashdot too. Someone is going to get a nice christmas bonus!
Not really sure I want to see this sort of thing on slashdot. *shudder*
If there's one wikipedia page (and in reality there's 10,000s), that sums up the inadequacies of wikipedia, it's that Hollywood Accounting one. That page is 100% hearsay, gossip column and TMZ-esque gossip presented as fact and wikiality.
Phew, thank God a random Slashdot user saved us from that evil Wikipedia page, because of course, since we can fully trust Slashdot users always check their facts before posting.
Finally, an Anonymous Coward has stepped forward to put an end to this pointless bickering, warning us not to trust random Slashdot users. Because of course, we can fully trust Anonymous Cowards. They are anonymous, what would they have to gain by lying?
At last, a long-standing member of the community with a reputation at stake ... Oh crap, that's not right. Never mind.
In the US, pay in large companies is pretty much determined by pay reference points (PRP)
Fixed that for you. In small-to-medium businesses pay is determined by market pressure, negotiating skills, and individual circumstance. That's one reason I prefer working for family-owned businesses (even if the failure rate is higher.)
That's great. Care to explain when Boston, Massachusetts became part of Europe?
September 17, 1630
I also remember my first days as a teenager using C, but this was in the days of Unix, before MS-DOS. Wonderful! Yes, my programs would constantly print the wrong answer, core dump, and (mysteriously to me) produce strange errors when run from "make". But I never overwrote system memory, and I never had to reboot the machine. (Good thing -- it would have annoyed the hell out of the other 40 people using it!) Don't blame C that DOS reboots -- blame DOS.
Did the lawyers for both sides stipulate to these "facts"? Or were they somehow proven in the trial court?
The appellate decision says this:
Since the appeal is from the sustaining of a demurrer without leave to amend, the facts are derived from the complaint. This court must give the complaint a reasonable interpretation and assume the truth of all material facts properly pleaded.
I don't know what that means, but I presume it answers your question.
Please stop with the outlandish displays of ignorance.
Ewe muss bee gnu hear.
It would be very interesting to close off part of a disused city or even a whole city and leave it as it is to see how nature would take over without human influences. Would it decay as some predict?. Would nature take over tower blocks for high rise living?
Welcome to Gary, Indiana.
As far as safe bets go, a Pixar film is a safer bet than a sequel. Have they ever failed?
I'm not sure what "fail" means, but no, they have never failed. Excluding Up, every Disney-Pixar movie has grossed at least 3x their production budget. Toy Story had the best return at 10x, Wall-E the least at 3x.
In absolute numbers, Toy Story and A Bug's Life grossed the least at about $360,000,000 each. The worst take this decade was Ratatouille at $450,000,000, but it still grossed 6x its budget.
Over the course of 10 movies, Disney/Pixar has grossed $5,000,000,000 on a budget of $1,000,000,000.
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/Pixar.php