Another long winded and hard to read review for Drupal that alternates between explaining the table of contents and talking about how terrible the book is.
You are actually wrong. In my state at least the cameras at every tollbooth do automatic license plate recognition, both as a means of issuing tickets, or so that you can register a temporary car and drive through the ez tag lanes without your tag.
So you are being watched and noted regardless of what you are paying with.
They also put up ez tag readers along even non-toll routes as a means of collecting traffic (including speed) data. Despite reassurances I can't imagine this goldmine of tracking and potential ticketing will go untapped forever.
It is worth the small monthly fee to not have to deal with downloading and retagging files.
I mostly just use the "to go" Rhapsody service. I don't have any complaints about it. It is equivalent to Netflix streaming if you could dump as many movies as you wanted to your hard drive whenever you wanted and they had basically every movie every created available.
I've switched to SRWare Iron for a large chunk of my personal browsing, mostly forums. It is Chrome with all the Google removed. There is a noticeable improvement in speed over Firefox.
I still use Firefox for most of my work, mostly because I like Firebug, and I use it for browsing sites that I don't already have accounts with because there is no Chrome equivalent for NoScript that I've seen, and there are a few other plugins I don't want to give up entirely. If there was I would probably switch to it at home for pretty much everything.
In most of the sci-fi featuring near-future space travel in the era before we actually went to space it was rare to find an author who even considered that it would be a government monopoly that got us there.
My point is that by using velocity and the closing of tasks as the metric of efficiency, it just encourages developers to create ever more pointlessly explicit tasks, while also rewarding overestimating them.
In every scrum group I've been in, this has ended up happening. Nobody wants to be the velocity killer, so there is an unspoken trend to allocate increasing amounts of time to things as the project drags on.
The iterative process has some strong points, but they are mostly obliterated by reality of corporate project management and requirements. Refactoring turns into rewriting and progress becomes impossible when you are depending on other scrum teams to complete things that you need when they are on a different schedule with different priorities.
Taco makes an ill thought out post that ignores important facts (like this being an optional service), slashdot readers work themselves into a frenzy arguing the minutiae of a scenario that isn't true, and then the rest of us just not reading the article and posting snide comments.
Most of my experience is with scrum and XP, both of which are considered "agile" development methodologies, and both of which have the problems of which I speak.
The main reason that Agile has become so popular with developers is that it gives the appearance and metric generation for a clueless management of an impressive amount of work being accomplished, while actually just providing cover for an entire team of developers to systematically learn to overestimate tasks.
An Agile project to tie your shoes would consist of no less than two full walls of tasks written on notecards, not one of which would be estimated at less than one hour. Velocity will be through the roof this go-round fellas!
Most of the sports leagues offer a way to purchase seasons of streaming games. Basically Sunday Ticket without having to have a dish subscription. Some of them will even stream to your PS3.
The biggest killer for me is that what once made cable and satellite a decent proposition was that subscriptions to the popular channels helped to support a large number of niche channels that wouldn't otherwise be able to exist.
Unfortunately, years ago, advertising started to pop up on cable channels. I'm sure a lot of people don't remember that it wasn't always like that. As channels increasingly compete for ad dollars, they all dumb down to the same target demographic. The one that sells the most ads. So now you have shows on the History channel that aren't history, shows on MTV that aren't music, shows on "SyFy" that aren't science fiction. They are all basically interchangeable because they are all aiming at the same market and trying to do it as cheaply as possible.
Well, too bad for them. If they want to make their programming interchangeable, fine, but I'm not going to pay outrageous subscription fees for special access to your programs. The fees are no longer subsidizing the production of original niche content that isn't avaiable elsewhere, so why pay it?
Technology has already zoomed past the need for concepts like "channels" and "timeslots."
The cable companies trying to cling to this as a model will just produce ever more convoluted business plans attempting to delay the obvious and inevitable, much like the music industry before them, and the e-book industry now.
If their offerings don't compare favorably with ease of use, convenience, and features of the latest version of whatever the pirates and hackers have cooked up (xbmc, sickbeard, couch potato, etc) then they are going to have increasing trouble convincing people that their service is worth the ever inflating prices they are charging for it. I think that most people gravitate towards what is easiest and best before what is free, as evidenced by the success of itunes and other paid music and television services.
Everytime I see someone complaining about people annoying them on Facebook it cracks me up, because the people that are annoying you are people you intentionally befriended. These are your peers. Perhaps turning away from your computer screen for a few minutes for a nice long gaze into the mirror would be useful.
For the same cost they could have filled a warehouse with medical records and hired a bunch of dropouts to ride around on Segways pulling files and using a high-tech fax machine to deliver medical records on demand to doctors the world over for the next hundred years until a system of electronic medical records that isn't fraught with problems was invented.
If colleges had waited another five years to start teaching Java as the default "learn programming" language, the middle aged programmers turned IT managers who fanatically clung to java in a bid to stay relevant would have moved out of the language decision making pipeline and we could be rid of it by now.
Unfortunately that was not the case, and now we are stuck with it forever.
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Another long winded and hard to read review for Drupal that alternates between explaining the table of contents and talking about how terrible the book is.
8/10
Hey dummy, I specified my state, where even the cash lanes have tag readers.
p.s. kill yourself
You are actually wrong. In my state at least the cameras at every tollbooth do automatic license plate recognition, both as a means of issuing tickets, or so that you can register a temporary car and drive through the ez tag lanes without your tag.
So you are being watched and noted regardless of what you are paying with.
They also put up ez tag readers along even non-toll routes as a means of collecting traffic (including speed) data. Despite reassurances I can't imagine this goldmine of tracking and potential ticketing will go untapped forever.
If only your tears were nutritious. No one would go hungry again.
It is worth the small monthly fee to not have to deal with downloading and retagging files.
I mostly just use the "to go" Rhapsody service. I don't have any complaints about it. It is equivalent to Netflix streaming if you could dump as many movies as you wanted to your hard drive whenever you wanted and they had basically every movie every created available.
I would respond to that but you will surely just change your argument again.
It has already been fixed. The time to warn all the IT guys would have been when it was first reported.
Although at least it was only posted a few hours late instead of days late like usual.
Even if the problem wasn't so completely lacking in newsworthiness, it was already fixed before the article got posted, so why even bother posting it?
You have to press the keys with your finger. HTH.
Hm, thanks for the tip. I just installed FF7 a few minutes ago, so I haven't really had a chance to compare.
I've switched to SRWare Iron for a large chunk of my personal browsing, mostly forums. It is Chrome with all the Google removed. There is a noticeable improvement in speed over Firefox.
I still use Firefox for most of my work, mostly because I like Firebug, and I use it for browsing sites that I don't already have accounts with because there is no Chrome equivalent for NoScript that I've seen, and there are a few other plugins I don't want to give up entirely. If there was I would probably switch to it at home for pretty much everything.
Oh, no, I, missed, a, comma.
(You missed an entire word, though.)
(And you are garbage.)
In most of the sci-fi featuring near-future space travel in the era before we actually went to space it was rare to find an author who even considered that it would be a government monopoly that got us there.
My point is that by using velocity and the closing of tasks as the metric of efficiency, it just encourages developers to create ever more pointlessly explicit tasks, while also rewarding overestimating them.
In every scrum group I've been in, this has ended up happening. Nobody wants to be the velocity killer, so there is an unspoken trend to allocate increasing amounts of time to things as the project drags on.
The iterative process has some strong points, but they are mostly obliterated by reality of corporate project management and requirements. Refactoring turns into rewriting and progress becomes impossible when you are depending on other scrum teams to complete things that you need when they are on a different schedule with different priorities.
Taco makes an ill thought out post that ignores important facts (like this being an optional service), slashdot readers work themselves into a frenzy arguing the minutiae of a scenario that isn't true, and then the rest of us just not reading the article and posting snide comments.
It's like he never left.
1) Can bitcoins be minted from graphene?
2) How does this affect the Packt constant?
Most of my experience is with scrum and XP, both of which are considered "agile" development methodologies, and both of which have the problems of which I speak.
Your post doesn't even make sense.
The main reason that Agile has become so popular with developers is that it gives the appearance and metric generation for a clueless management of an impressive amount of work being accomplished, while actually just providing cover for an entire team of developers to systematically learn to overestimate tasks.
An Agile project to tie your shoes would consist of no less than two full walls of tasks written on notecards, not one of which would be estimated at less than one hour. Velocity will be through the roof this go-round fellas!
Most of the sports leagues offer a way to purchase seasons of streaming games. Basically Sunday Ticket without having to have a dish subscription. Some of them will even stream to your PS3.
The biggest killer for me is that what once made cable and satellite a decent proposition was that subscriptions to the popular channels helped to support a large number of niche channels that wouldn't otherwise be able to exist.
Unfortunately, years ago, advertising started to pop up on cable channels. I'm sure a lot of people don't remember that it wasn't always like that. As channels increasingly compete for ad dollars, they all dumb down to the same target demographic. The one that sells the most ads. So now you have shows on the History channel that aren't history, shows on MTV that aren't music, shows on "SyFy" that aren't science fiction. They are all basically interchangeable because they are all aiming at the same market and trying to do it as cheaply as possible.
Well, too bad for them. If they want to make their programming interchangeable, fine, but I'm not going to pay outrageous subscription fees for special access to your programs. The fees are no longer subsidizing the production of original niche content that isn't avaiable elsewhere, so why pay it?
Technology has already zoomed past the need for concepts like "channels" and "timeslots."
The cable companies trying to cling to this as a model will just produce ever more convoluted business plans attempting to delay the obvious and inevitable, much like the music industry before them, and the e-book industry now.
If their offerings don't compare favorably with ease of use, convenience, and features of the latest version of whatever the pirates and hackers have cooked up (xbmc, sickbeard, couch potato, etc) then they are going to have increasing trouble convincing people that their service is worth the ever inflating prices they are charging for it. I think that most people gravitate towards what is easiest and best before what is free, as evidenced by the success of itunes and other paid music and television services.
Meh.
Everytime I see someone complaining about people annoying them on Facebook it cracks me up, because the people that are annoying you are people you intentionally befriended. These are your peers. Perhaps turning away from your computer screen for a few minutes for a nice long gaze into the mirror would be useful.
For the same cost they could have filled a warehouse with medical records and hired a bunch of dropouts to ride around on Segways pulling files and using a high-tech fax machine to deliver medical records on demand to doctors the world over for the next hundred years until a system of electronic medical records that isn't fraught with problems was invented.
If colleges had waited another five years to start teaching Java as the default "learn programming" language, the middle aged programmers turned IT managers who fanatically clung to java in a bid to stay relevant would have moved out of the language decision making pipeline and we could be rid of it by now.
Unfortunately that was not the case, and now we are stuck with it forever.
Does it really matter if it can't?