The guy who posted this article, John Comeau, took "legal action" against Sal Wise sometime last year. You would think that he might mention that fact in his article, eh? It looks to me like he's out for more revenge. The following is taken from Comeau's blog (http://jcomeau.blogspot.com/)
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
The list of individuals and companies that have screwed me over, in one way or another, over the past 12 months is growing and growing. TGI Fridays, UPS, PayPal, Wachovia, Salvatore Wise Jr. of Philadelphia (or someone pretending to be him), and others I can't think of at the moment. Every entity that gets money from me without reciprocating in the form of goods and services loses. Either they lose by having me take my business to their competitors (TGI Friday's mistake has cost them at least $3000 since March) or they lose by having me initiate legal action against them (Sal Wise now has a record with the FBI and the US Postal Inspection Service). I am merciless to people who take my money, but so far I stay within the law. God help everyone if I decide to move beyond that limitation.
The keyboard on the i-opener (I bought my Mom one of these) had a pizza button that would send you to the nearest pizza website. Screw the command line. Pizza buttons rule.
I'm testing an X server and I need to get my hands on a wide range of OpenGL 1.3 and 1.4 test clients. From what I can tell, the OpenGL conformance tests (conform, covgl, primtest, etc...) haven't been updated since 1.2 and are only available to a select group of people.
Can anybody point me to a stash of 1.3 and 1.4 clients? Thanks.
QA as a chore? You've got to be kidding. Finding bugs is challenging and rewarding, intellectually as well as monetarily. I've met many testers that couldn't test their way out of a paper bag. That being said, the best testers (a very rare breed) are more creative and insightful than even the best programmers.
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The guy who posted this article, John Comeau, took "legal action" against Sal Wise sometime last year. You would think that he might mention that fact in his article, eh? It looks to me like he's out for more revenge. The following is taken from Comeau's blog (http://jcomeau.blogspot.com/)
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
The list of individuals and companies that have screwed me over, in one way or another, over the past 12 months is growing and growing. TGI Fridays, UPS, PayPal, Wachovia, Salvatore Wise Jr. of Philadelphia (or someone pretending to be him), and others I can't think of at the moment. Every entity that gets money from me without reciprocating in the form of goods and services loses. Either they lose by having me take my business to their competitors (TGI Friday's mistake has cost them at least $3000 since March) or they lose by having me initiate legal action against them (Sal Wise now has a record with the FBI and the US Postal Inspection Service). I am merciless to people who take my money, but so far I stay within the law. God help everyone if I decide to move beyond that limitation.
The keyboard on the i-opener (I bought my Mom one of these) had a pizza button that would send you to the nearest pizza website. Screw the command line. Pizza buttons rule.
I'm testing an X server and I need to get my hands on a wide range of OpenGL 1.3 and 1.4 test clients. From what I can tell, the OpenGL conformance tests (conform, covgl, primtest, etc...) haven't been updated since 1.2 and are only available to a select group of people.
Can anybody point me to a stash of 1.3 and 1.4 clients? Thanks.
QA as a chore? You've got to be kidding. Finding bugs is challenging and rewarding, intellectually as well as monetarily. I've met many testers that couldn't test their way out of a paper bag. That being said, the best testers (a very rare breed) are more creative and insightful than even the best programmers.
The webcast is now archived. BTW, it was encoded at 610Kbps. That's right. 610. Good luck watching it.