Business Driven Development. The little I know is you write out in English the business rules you need a piece of software to operate on. Then you program around these requirements. I mainly see it in testing/QA right now and it's my only experience with it. Those business requirements get compiled into a class with empty method that I fill in and test the dev code with. Basically unit testing but at a higher level that covers the business rules. I'm working with SpecFlow right now if you're curious. http://www.specflow.org/
I wish I had some mod points for you, alas I don't so I'll reply. I could not agree more with what you said about knowledge helping you understand the world. I have a CS degree, but my interests are much broader than that. I wound up minoring in history, have music classes, sociology, psychology and extra math under my belt in addition to all the normal mandatory classes a degree requires. It has helped me tremendously in that I have context for what is happening now in the world, and understanding people/behaviour. I would not trade that for anything. Even if I have forgot most of my calculus now haha. I wish more people would be open to this, too many have blinders up, often forced by attitudes within their own faculties. My academic adviser even questioned me on my choices of extra classes as it was not 'CS' enough. Still got my degree, I am good at what I do professionally, but I know more now than I would have if I would have listen to them... Although I know this is a big topic of debate, especially with some of my engineer friends haha.
To what end? 'They' can also click on that link to see what it's about. 'They' can also figure out what ip address the click came from, then it's short work to figure who is behind that IP address. HTTPS is not an anonymizer...
On the second point, I agree, that's a silly move from Mozilla.
I've shot some projects on 16mm with both an old Aaton camera and a small Bolex. The Bolex was quite small and handy, but has some major drawbacks. (Although cool as hell to play with.) One of the issues most people seem to gloss over or ignore is the effective resolution of the film stock itself. Namely 16mm will give you a good 1080p conversion, 35mm somewhat higher than 1080p and 70mm, I'm not entirely sure, but greater than 4k. Notice all those WWII in HD footage on the history channel? That was all 16mm news footage transfered to HD. I ramble a little, but the point is, there is an element of future proofing what you've shot when you do it on film. Don't want >1080p now, no problem, but shoot it on a 1080p camera now and you're screwed later. Shoot it on 35mm and your good for 2K later. Trouble is, it's expensive, not that renting a Red camera that shoots at 4k is cheap either.
Have a look at the CANDU reactor. It's a heavy water reactor that fissions natural uranium, which cannot sustain a chain reaction if things go terribly wrong. Low pressure heavy water (deuterium-oxide) is the moderator and coolant, and again, if the primary coolant loop stops and it evaporates away, the reaction stops because it's the moderator. It is an inherently safe design, much safer than the light water reactors that seem to be used by Japan in those plants. The CANDU is not without its problems, but name a large industrial process with no problems.
Nope. You can't get legal fines discharged, nor secured loans, like student loans. I've looked into it in the past, bankruptcy in Canada isn't the holy grail people think it is. At least thats whats been explained to me in the past.
I agree with this. I was quite surprised, and relieved, that it *didn't* destroy the bridge. It would have been cliche and pointless. I respected that decision. Sort of a "look at what we could have done, but didn't" moment.
We also have a nuclear power plant in the province, undergoing a retrofit at the moment. It is one of the larger base load plants in the province. (Second largest I think.)
Well... I work for a film coop as a volunteer, and we're all volunteers, so none of us get paid.:p So maybe its different in the pro-circle, I don't really know. But as far as sound goes, if you have bad location sound, you have to rebuild the scene in post, and that usually requires scheduling all the actors in that scene to come back and redub the sound. So even from a money standpoint, I think its expensive, but also in the volunteer circle, people move and post can happen months after the actual shoot so you may never be able to get the original actor back in because he/she moved to a different city or province. I've seen it happen. (I've heard of peoples voices being redone by someone else because they could not schedule the original actor back, and you would have to do it for the entire movie. That usually upsets the original actor...)
The solution is NOT to fix it in post. The solution is to spend 5 minutes, think it through, and fix it while you're filming.
Thank you. A little OT, but I do location sound for indie films, and that is the most horrible thing a director can say.... "Fix it in post". 5 minutes on set, or 3 days in editing. To me thats an easy choice, but apparently not to everyone.
I second this. This is the reason that soldiers train shooting at human shaped silhouettes. This habituates soldiers to fire at human shaped things rather than at abstract bullseye. This way there is less hesitation when the time comes to do it for real.
It is not a coincidence that IBM's Lotus Notes product, which IBM is actively promoting in the marketplace, fails to support the Open XML international standard.
Does Microsoft not do the same in not supporting ODF? A little hypocritical to me.
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Business Driven Development. The little I know is you write out in English the business rules you need a piece of software to operate on. Then you program around these requirements. I mainly see it in testing/QA right now and it's my only experience with it. Those business requirements get compiled into a class with empty method that I fill in and test the dev code with. Basically unit testing but at a higher level that covers the business rules. I'm working with SpecFlow right now if you're curious. http://www.specflow.org/
I wish I had some mod points for you, alas I don't so I'll reply. I could not agree more with what you said about knowledge helping you understand the world. I have a CS degree, but my interests are much broader than that. I wound up minoring in history, have music classes, sociology, psychology and extra math under my belt in addition to all the normal mandatory classes a degree requires. It has helped me tremendously in that I have context for what is happening now in the world, and understanding people/behaviour. I would not trade that for anything. Even if I have forgot most of my calculus now haha. I wish more people would be open to this, too many have blinders up, often forced by attitudes within their own faculties. My academic adviser even questioned me on my choices of extra classes as it was not 'CS' enough. Still got my degree, I am good at what I do professionally, but I know more now than I would have if I would have listen to them... Although I know this is a big topic of debate, especially with some of my engineer friends haha.
Cheers!
Sorry, mis-modded you... Meant to mod you insightful. Undoing negative mod.
To what end? 'They' can also click on that link to see what it's about. 'They' can also figure out what ip address the click came from, then it's short work to figure who is behind that IP address. HTTPS is not an anonymizer...
On the second point, I agree, that's a silly move from Mozilla.
Not to be argumentative, but executions deter who exactly? By this logic Ohio should have an exceptionally low crime rate...
I'm one of those... if I lost 150lbs, 20lbs would have to dissapear from the universe! Which would have been cool to see, if I were still alive...
I'd mod you up if I could. I've dealt with this attitude many times. Useless and idle are very different things!
I've shot some projects on 16mm with both an old Aaton camera and a small Bolex. The Bolex was quite small and handy, but has some major drawbacks. (Although cool as hell to play with.) One of the issues most people seem to gloss over or ignore is the effective resolution of the film stock itself. Namely 16mm will give you a good 1080p conversion, 35mm somewhat higher than 1080p and 70mm, I'm not entirely sure, but greater than 4k. Notice all those WWII in HD footage on the history channel? That was all 16mm news footage transfered to HD. I ramble a little, but the point is, there is an element of future proofing what you've shot when you do it on film. Don't want >1080p now, no problem, but shoot it on a 1080p camera now and you're screwed later. Shoot it on 35mm and your good for 2K later. Trouble is, it's expensive, not that renting a Red camera that shoots at 4k is cheap either.
Have a look at the CANDU reactor. It's a heavy water reactor that fissions natural uranium, which cannot sustain a chain reaction if things go terribly wrong. Low pressure heavy water (deuterium-oxide) is the moderator and coolant, and again, if the primary coolant loop stops and it evaporates away, the reaction stops because it's the moderator. It is an inherently safe design, much safer than the light water reactors that seem to be used by Japan in those plants. The CANDU is not without its problems, but name a large industrial process with no problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU
Nope. You can't get legal fines discharged, nor secured loans, like student loans. I've looked into it in the past, bankruptcy in Canada isn't the holy grail people think it is. At least thats whats been explained to me in the past.
And Java and JavaScript are completely unrelated. JavaScript is to Java as fish is to phishing.
Great analogy!
I agree with this. I was quite surprised, and relieved, that it *didn't* destroy the bridge. It would have been cliche and pointless. I respected that decision. Sort of a "look at what we could have done, but didn't" moment.
That's a great picture.
We also have a nuclear power plant in the province, undergoing a retrofit at the moment. It is one of the larger base load plants in the province. (Second largest I think.)
Point Lepreau
Wars have been started over less....
My thoughts exactly. I wish I had mod points right now...
"sudo: mod: command not found"
Sorry bud, I tried...
Well... I work for a film coop as a volunteer, and we're all volunteers, so none of us get paid. :p So maybe its different in the pro-circle, I don't really know. But as far as sound goes, if you have bad location sound, you have to rebuild the scene in post, and that usually requires scheduling all the actors in that scene to come back and redub the sound. So even from a money standpoint, I think its expensive, but also in the volunteer circle, people move and post can happen months after the actual shoot so you may never be able to get the original actor back in because he/she moved to a different city or province. I've seen it happen. (I've heard of peoples voices being redone by someone else because they could not schedule the original actor back, and you would have to do it for the entire movie. That usually upsets the original actor...)
The solution is NOT to fix it in post. The solution is to spend 5 minutes, think it through, and fix it while you're filming.
Thank you. A little OT, but I do location sound for indie films, and that is the most horrible thing a director can say.... "Fix it in post". 5 minutes on set, or 3 days in editing. To me thats an easy choice, but apparently not to everyone.
Why not? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_jamming
See THATS the problem with click through licensing...
I second this. This is the reason that soldiers train shooting at human shaped silhouettes. This habituates soldiers to fire at human shaped things rather than at abstract bullseye. This way there is less hesitation when the time comes to do it for real.
Does Microsoft not do the same in not supporting ODF? A little hypocritical to me.
Since we're on the topic of UID, and your sig stated your UID is prime, so is mine.
Cheers!
Here is a neat little proof of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.999