Does anyone pay any frickin' attention around here? TWO SEPARATE POSTERS said the exact same thing before you. TWO SEPARATE TIMES I pointed out the flaws in their calculations and logic, linking to an article with actual information.
Come on... this is Slashdot! Reading articles just takes time away from posting comments!
What are "CPAN docs"? If you can figure out how to install one module you can figure out how to install them all. Also since you know how to read the docs for XML::Simple you know how to read them for the other one as well.
Perhaps XML::Simple is easier to use, but your line of reasoning is like saying it is harder to buy a Ford than a Chevy so buy the Chevy. Built on extremely flawed reasoning.
I'm not saying buy anything or use anything or whatever. I'm just saying the article is pointless.
CPAN docs are the documentation that goes along with a module. In this case:
Yes, if you can install one perl module, you can install any other (to a degree). So what's the point in explaining how to install a perl module? Point the reader to one of the millions of other places that already explain it.
But more importantly, the XML::Simple documentation is very good and very easy to understand. Why is there an article that basically regurgitates the documentation? Just point the reader to the documentation instead!
I'm afraid I don't understand your analogy at all.
Ignoring the YAML/XML thing, this is still pointless. How many people using Perl don't know how to use CPAN? How many people using Perl can't understand CPAN docs? How many people reading the XML::Simple docs need further help?
It's called XML::Simple for a reason! It really IS simple.
No, your goal is to not lose money from your employer while they are still your employer.:)
Being a professional and finishing up your projects is a good way to encourage goodwill should you choose to come back, and also to get good references.
It's more than that. Helping them out doesn't need to be for selfish reason. There are a host of reasons why you might leave a company you care about, and if you care about the company, it makes sense to finish up projects. For their sake, not for the sake of a good reference or just in case you might want to come back.
Lot of people seem to think that because Wikipedia isn't "worse" than other encyclopedias that somehow it is therefore reasonable to cite. No one should be citing encyclopedias, except maybe second graders. (Even then, I'd argue it's probably important to get them started doing research the right way... but that's beside the point.)
As has been mentioned way too many times by now, Wikipedia is fine for getting started on research. The nature of Wikipedia is such that it is a collection of information from other sources (sometimes, unfortunately, that source is only the mind of some random internet user). Those sources should (maybe) be cited. Wikipedia should not. (Feel free to use it as a works consulted, though!)
The important thing is not whether anyone will ever call support, it's whether anyone can ever call support. It may not be an argument that holds water, but since when did a boss's argument ever have to hold water?
This article made me recall a great All Things Considered story from a few years back about Akin Fernandez's 'Numbers' CD, a CD compilation of some of the most interesting strings of randomly read numbers reaching out across the airwaves.
So... who's the guy that determines which strings are more interesting than others? That's what I want to know...
Wikipedia might be a novel human achievement, it might be the best they could do, but at the end of the day, it's a boat that almost floats; not good enough to be put to practical use.
I agree with you up until this point. Wikipedia does have a practical use, and it does serve as an encyclopedia of sorts. I don't feel that I can use it for "important" matters (i.e. things I really care about), but it does work for checking little things.
One of the problems I run into is that every time I go look at something I have any knowledge about, I find one or more errors that I feel need to be corrected. And I have absolutely no desire to spend my time contributing to the site. So it just bugs me. Oh well.
A "short sample creatively integrated into a new song" is most definitely not covered by fair use. Artists/producers need to get permission to use (copyrighted) samples.
I'm sorry, do you have any hard fact about what you advance, or you just flame? most humans don't have computer? By that, you say that more than 50% don't? Is that even true? Maybe for Internet (and I'm not even sure of that).
And sorry, but today's cemeteries contain mostly pots of human ashes, or decayed corpses (with 1 set of "cheap" clothing). There are no books, stories, news, tools, history and anything that could hint about the technology, science, or anything interesting at all, for that matter.
You are horribly mistaken. I can only assume you live an extraordinarily sheltered life. Last I heard any actually numbers, it was less than 3% of the world's population that owned a computer. In any case, I can assure you that the number of computer owners in the world is FAR FAR FAR less than 50% of the population.
Furthermore, it is not uncommon for people to bury items with their deceased loved ones. And once you get outside suburban white America, you might find that your idea of "today's cemetaries" is even more horribly misguided.
I suppose I shouldn't be, but I am always suprised by people who are this ignorant.
I don't think it's just annoyance, I think most (all?) meters have a limit, beyond which you must move your car (or get fined). I don't think I've ever seen a meter that didn't have a maximum time limit.
So this idea certainly wouldn't work anywhere I've been, unless they changed the law. Though, granted, I've only ever been two or three places where they seemed to actually enforce a maximum time limit...
The problem with the "bid the maximum you will pay" line of thought is that it assume there is a hard maximum you are willing to pay. In reality "the maxmimum you are willing to pay" is a fuzzy line.
It's the same problem with the pile of pennies. If someone is poor, adding a penny won't make someone rich... but eventually they will have a pile of a 100 trillion pennies. Likewise, if an auction end price isn't too much for me, adding 5 cents to it wouldn't make is too much either. But at some point it WILL be too much. There just isn't some hard line (i.e. a maximum price) that makes it too much.
This is not to say Ebay needs to control sniping. I don't think they do.
The bean counters need to worry solely about the quality of the game, and not the overall frequency of purchase for gamers in general.... If you build it (and it's good) they will come.
This is a lovely picture of how the world ought to be, but it is not an accurate one. As in pretty much every other area in the world, a high quality product is neither necessary nor sufficient to generate profit.
Quality costs money, and people are willing to sacrifice quality to save money. This is true in the game industry, just as it is true in all other aspects of life.
Every new computer I have ever purchased - Dells included (Inspiron laptop was the last Dell) -- The FIRST thing I do is reformat the drive.
Yes, this is exactly what I do. Honestly, it is faster (not to mention more reliable) to reformat/reinstall than to hunt through everything that was preinstalled trying to weed out what I don't want.
Even as a sysadmin, the first thing I do in most cases when setting up a new Windows computer for someone is reformat/reinstall. It also saves me trouble down the line when something goes wrong... I don't have to look through the Windows/CurrentVersion/Run and try to figure out which of the thirty executables isn't supposed to be there...
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Come on... this is Slashdot! Reading articles just takes time away from posting comments!
Thank God. I thought we'd never get Christmas 2008 back after I heard they'd taken it.
I'm not sure I want them to change anything else after being told
syntax error: unexpected end of file
Oh, we are. We're fucking enraged. We just don't know why.
You're just frustrated because you can't beat NetHack.
And is OLED ever even going to actually come out?
Mr. Van Winkle? Is that you?
so opposed to the last x years where these kinds of devices have been not available, they are now ... not available?
Yeah, but they are almoster available!
What are "CPAN docs"? If you can figure out how to install one module you can figure out how to install them all. Also since you know how to read the docs for XML::Simple you know how to read them for the other one as well.
b /XML/Simple.pm
Perhaps XML::Simple is easier to use, but your line of reasoning is like saying it is harder to buy a Ford than a Chevy so buy the Chevy. Built on extremely flawed reasoning.
I'm not saying buy anything or use anything or whatever. I'm just saying the article is pointless.
CPAN docs are the documentation that goes along with a module. In this case:
http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-Simple-2.16/li
Yes, if you can install one perl module, you can install any other (to a degree). So what's the point in explaining how to install a perl module? Point the reader to one of the millions of other places that already explain it.
But more importantly, the XML::Simple documentation is very good and very easy to understand. Why is there an article that basically regurgitates the documentation? Just point the reader to the documentation instead!
I'm afraid I don't understand your analogy at all.
Ignoring the YAML/XML thing, this is still pointless. How many people using Perl don't know how to use CPAN? How many people using Perl can't understand CPAN docs? How many people reading the XML::Simple docs need further help? It's called XML::Simple for a reason! It really IS simple.
No, your goal is to not lose money from your employer while they are still your employer. :)
Being a professional and finishing up your projects is a good way to encourage goodwill should you choose to come back, and also to get good references.
It's more than that. Helping them out doesn't need to be for selfish reason. There are a host of reasons why you might leave a company you care about, and if you care about the company, it makes sense to finish up projects. For their sake, not for the sake of a good reference or just in case you might want to come back.
Lot of people seem to think that because Wikipedia isn't "worse" than other encyclopedias that somehow it is therefore reasonable to cite. No one should be citing encyclopedias, except maybe second graders. (Even then, I'd argue it's probably important to get them started doing research the right way... but that's beside the point.)
As has been mentioned way too many times by now, Wikipedia is fine for getting started on research. The nature of Wikipedia is such that it is a collection of information from other sources (sometimes, unfortunately, that source is only the mind of some random internet user). Those sources should (maybe) be cited. Wikipedia should not. (Feel free to use it as a works consulted, though!)
The important thing is not whether anyone will ever call support, it's whether anyone can ever call support. It may not be an argument that holds water, but since when did a boss's argument ever have to hold water?
This article made me recall a great All Things Considered story from a few years back about Akin Fernandez's 'Numbers' CD, a CD compilation of some of the most interesting strings of randomly read numbers reaching out across the airwaves.
So... who's the guy that determines which strings are more interesting than others? That's what I want to know...
Does this look like Microsoft back to its old "embrace and extend" tricks to anyone else?
Why, those dirty forkers...
Wikipedia might be a novel human achievement, it might be the best they could do, but at the end of the day, it's a boat that almost floats; not good enough to be put to practical use.
I agree with you up until this point. Wikipedia does have a practical use, and it does serve as an encyclopedia of sorts. I don't feel that I can use it for "important" matters (i.e. things I really care about), but it does work for checking little things.
One of the problems I run into is that every time I go look at something I have any knowledge about, I find one or more errors that I feel need to be corrected. And I have absolutely no desire to spend my time contributing to the site. So it just bugs me. Oh well.
A "short sample creatively integrated into a new song" is most definitely not covered by fair use. Artists/producers need to get permission to use (copyrighted) samples.
I'm sorry, do you have any hard fact about what you advance, or you just flame? most humans don't have computer? By that, you say that more than 50% don't? Is that even true? Maybe for Internet (and I'm not even sure of that).
And sorry, but today's cemeteries contain mostly pots of human ashes, or decayed corpses (with 1 set of "cheap" clothing). There are no books, stories, news, tools, history and anything that could hint about the technology, science, or anything interesting at all, for that matter.
You are horribly mistaken. I can only assume you live an extraordinarily sheltered life. Last I heard any actually numbers, it was less than 3% of the world's population that owned a computer. In any case, I can assure you that the number of computer owners in the world is FAR FAR FAR less than 50% of the population.
Furthermore, it is not uncommon for people to bury items with their deceased loved ones. And once you get outside suburban white America, you might find that your idea of "today's cemetaries" is even more horribly misguided.
I suppose I shouldn't be, but I am always suprised by people who are this ignorant.
I don't think it's just annoyance, I think most (all?) meters have a limit, beyond which you must move your car (or get fined). I don't think I've ever seen a meter that didn't have a maximum time limit.
So this idea certainly wouldn't work anywhere I've been, unless they changed the law. Though, granted, I've only ever been two or three places where they seemed to actually enforce a maximum time limit...
Ghostbusters?
Supermodel Computes Sun's Corona Dynamics
The problem with the "bid the maximum you will pay" line of thought is that it assume there is a hard maximum you are willing to pay. In reality "the maxmimum you are willing to pay" is a fuzzy line. It's the same problem with the pile of pennies. If someone is poor, adding a penny won't make someone rich... but eventually they will have a pile of a 100 trillion pennies. Likewise, if an auction end price isn't too much for me, adding 5 cents to it wouldn't make is too much either. But at some point it WILL be too much. There just isn't some hard line (i.e. a maximum price) that makes it too much. This is not to say Ebay needs to control sniping. I don't think they do.
The bean counters need to worry solely about the quality of the game, and not the overall frequency of purchase for gamers in general.... If you build it (and it's good) they will come.
This is a lovely picture of how the world ought to be, but it is not an accurate one. As in pretty much every other area in the world, a high quality product is neither necessary nor sufficient to generate profit.
Quality costs money, and people are willing to sacrifice quality to save money. This is true in the game industry, just as it is true in all other aspects of life.
While she may appreciate the support, support in the form of slashdotting her email address may be less than ideal.
Every new computer I have ever purchased - Dells included (Inspiron laptop was the last Dell) -- The FIRST thing I do is reformat the drive.
Yes, this is exactly what I do. Honestly, it is faster (not to mention more reliable) to reformat/reinstall than to hunt through everything that was preinstalled trying to weed out what I don't want.
Even as a sysadmin, the first thing I do in most cases when setting up a new Windows computer for someone is reformat/reinstall. It also saves me trouble down the line when something goes wrong... I don't have to look through the Windows/CurrentVersion/Run and try to figure out which of the thirty executables isn't supposed to be there...
Duplicates? On Slashdot? Surely you jest, sir!
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Whoops, there goes your home directory!