2 years ago I went wakeboarding with one of those blue blackberry's in my pocket. In salt water. Took it completely apart, rinsed in fresh water, dried it out and it was fine for a few months but gradually the screen degraded.
Hi All,
living outside the US but anxious to watch the Obama Inaguration in all its glory I installed the octoshape application and used CNN, which was the most reliable video I found on my 1Mb DSL circuit.
A few days later I noticed that my P2P would shut down after an hour or so, and I could not repair the internet connection. Have to reboot.
I had not connected Octoshape with this behavior, but it started at about the same time and until this/. article I had not thought about Octoshape at all. (Thanks to FuturePower!).
Wondered if anyone else had seen this...? I googled and did not spot anything.
Thanks,
YJ14
APEX and C&H in Pasadena were my favorite places to hunt for robot parts in the 70s. Really miss it. Nothing comparable that I have seen in Singapore, where I now live.
Just wondering if you teach at HMC. I graduated a bit over 20 years ago and then went on to law school after working as an engineer for a few years. Interestingly, I found legal analysis and drafting contracts quite similar to the programming and debugging process.
My suggestions would parrellel those of several below: treat writing as an engineering problem. Determine purpose, audience, space available, and desired outcome; but I'd add 'error handling'. By this last item I mean a writer should assume that the reader will not read carefully. There should be entry points and road signs to get the reader back on track to the goal. Most often in professional writing this means subheadings and short intro statements at strategic points. Of course this does not apply to fiction.
The only other point I'd add is to remind writers to vary sentence structure.
From Wikipedia:
Characteristics of art
1. Requires creative perception both by the artist and by the audience
2. Elusive (as in "tending to evade cut-and-dried definitions or being fixedly grasped")
3. Communicates on many levels and is open to many interpretations
4. Connotes a sense of ability
5. Interplay between the conscious and unconscious part of our being, between what is real and what is an illusion
6. Any human creation which contains an idea other than its utilitarian purpose.
7. That which is created with intention to be experienced as art
8. Search of different forms of beauty
Trying to be charitable, I suppose the superhero suits fulfil Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 7. That being said my overall reaction is, jeeze, get a life!
"The companies writing the large systems usually have contracts which mean they are liable for damages, and this increases both the cost and the reliability of the resulting programs."
As an IP attorney working in the industry for the last 14 years, this statement is just so....amazingly....stupid I would have thought the editors of the BBC would have caught it. It is wrong on so many levels. No non-on-the-ropes software developer will bet the company on error-free code. At the most, a developer will agree to correct errors. And MAYBE some limited liability for intentional errors.
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2 years ago I went wakeboarding with one of those blue blackberry's in my pocket. In salt water. Took it completely apart, rinsed in fresh water, dried it out and it was fine for a few months but gradually the screen degraded.
Hi All, living outside the US but anxious to watch the Obama Inaguration in all its glory I installed the octoshape application and used CNN, which was the most reliable video I found on my 1Mb DSL circuit. A few days later I noticed that my P2P would shut down after an hour or so, and I could not repair the internet connection. Have to reboot. I had not connected Octoshape with this behavior, but it started at about the same time and until this /. article I had not thought about Octoshape at all. (Thanks to FuturePower!).
Wondered if anyone else had seen this...? I googled and did not spot anything.
Thanks,
YJ14
APEX and C&H in Pasadena were my favorite places to hunt for robot parts in the 70s. Really miss it. Nothing comparable that I have seen in Singapore, where I now live.
Just wondering if you teach at HMC. I graduated a bit over 20 years ago and then went on to law school after working as an engineer for a few years. Interestingly, I found legal analysis and drafting contracts quite similar to the programming and debugging process. My suggestions would parrellel those of several below: treat writing as an engineering problem. Determine purpose, audience, space available, and desired outcome; but I'd add 'error handling'. By this last item I mean a writer should assume that the reader will not read carefully. There should be entry points and road signs to get the reader back on track to the goal. Most often in professional writing this means subheadings and short intro statements at strategic points. Of course this does not apply to fiction. The only other point I'd add is to remind writers to vary sentence structure.
From Wikipedia: Characteristics of art 1. Requires creative perception both by the artist and by the audience 2. Elusive (as in "tending to evade cut-and-dried definitions or being fixedly grasped") 3. Communicates on many levels and is open to many interpretations 4. Connotes a sense of ability 5. Interplay between the conscious and unconscious part of our being, between what is real and what is an illusion 6. Any human creation which contains an idea other than its utilitarian purpose. 7. That which is created with intention to be experienced as art 8. Search of different forms of beauty Trying to be charitable, I suppose the superhero suits fulfil Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 7. That being said my overall reaction is, jeeze, get a life!
"The companies writing the large systems usually have contracts which mean they are liable for damages, and this increases both the cost and the reliability of the resulting programs." As an IP attorney working in the industry for the last 14 years, this statement is just so....amazingly....stupid I would have thought the editors of the BBC would have caught it. It is wrong on so many levels. No non-on-the-ropes software developer will bet the company on error-free code. At the most, a developer will agree to correct errors. And MAYBE some limited liability for intentional errors.