"At times, you have to face the truth of what you didn't get and what you hoped for," McCallum said. "The second stage is that you're amazed by all the things you did get that you didn't even think you got. And then the third stage is that you see certain things are infinitely better than you could have even imagined."
Well, let's see. If you have all your corporate documents for 2001 1n Word v.10 format and the lease expires... how are you going to use your data?
This amounts to forced upgrading, and presumably, clients should not be required to pay repeatedly for using data they generated themselves.
For sure, if the *only* option was to lease and you could no longer buy, then it's not leasing so much as some kind of slave contract. This hasn't occured yet...
Being told ``you can pay us so much now, or you can pay us the same amount each year" is not a choice. Unless you are braindead & need more than 5 seconds to decide between the two options.
The announcement clearly states that the subscription fee will be lower. I don't see any difference between this and a lease. Presumably a customer that would upgrade every year anyway stands to benefit. There may be other concerns, but we'll have to see what they do.
What drives many workers to be more productive, Ciulla argues, isn't loyalty, a fierce work ethos or new tools of the booming hi-tech economy, but fear.
I know it's not fear that drives me but maybe I'm just wierd... but I don't think so. Besides, as someone else mentioned, working obscene overtime and in hostile environments has been shown to decrease productivity, not increase it.
The standard advice to tech workers stuck in situations like this is the Martin Fowler quote:
If you can't change your organization, change your organization.
Re: Could this pose a threat to other satellites (e.g. communications satellite)
No. There would be nothing for the fungus to eat on an unmanned satellite and therefore no metabolic byproducts to "eat" the metal, glass, plastic, etc.
From the space.com article:
Subsistence for the microorganisms was certainly not the metal, glass and plastic of those devices, said Natalia Novikova, a deputy chief of the Department at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow.
"They consume organic stuff which consists of skin epithelia, lipids and other products of human activity," Novikova said. "These products get into the station atmosphere from human breath, sweat etc....and stick to the station's surfaces."
"Bacteria and fungi eat this stuff and generate products of metabolism, particularly organic acids which can corrode steel, glass and plastic."
Given this http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/18/165524 6&mode=thread, how feasible would it be to sustain any kind of colony on the moon? How often do meteorites impact the moon?
Read underneath apdokxxas.com. It says "That host does not exist"
The flag and IP address that appears underneath probably has something to do with how they're searching their database. Probably would have been more user friendly to not display any flag or IP if the host doesn't exist.
"Unauthorized duplication, although sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing."
Sure it's an interesting position to take but it's an inaccurate statement. What happens when the duplication is just "as good as the real thing"? I'd say we're already pretty close and at least good enough.
While I got bored of D&D pretty quick because there seemed to be no point except to acquire wealth and moved to other RPGs, I still have some nostalgia for the simplicity of beating stuff up and grabbing gold. It may be because I tended to be the game master and complicated games took too long to develop... In any case, Magic the Gathering is NOT a successor to D&D though they are now owned by the same company. Roleplaying is alive, probably under threat by computer games, but then again, please refer to Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Deus Ex (sort of), etc. And IMO competitive sports is more at risk in teaching dangerous morals than D&D.
I also had a lot of problems trying to setup JavaSpaces. Once it is setup, it's pretty straight forward. Apparently TSpaces is a bit more "out-of-the-box" but I prefer JavaSpace's simplicity once it is setup. The following link appeared at Sun after I had figured it out myself but should be useful for novices. http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalA rticles/Programming/javaspaces/index.htm l
The justification is that the anthropomorphic design provides a more intuitive control. I actually don't think having five fingers is that bad but making the robot look like a human seems kind of pointless. I would think you could still get intuitive control with a more skeletal, simpler (read: easier to produce and maintain) design.
The general consensus is that it's better to unit test the model behind the UI rather than the view. Keep the view simple until the end and then you can use "screen scrapers". Remember that if any widget moves, your "screen scraper" test fails, so I wouldn't bother until I'm reasonably sure the GUI is relatively stable.
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"At times, you have to face the truth of what you didn't get and what you hoped for," McCallum said. "The second stage is that you're amazed by all the things you did get that you didn't even think you got. And then the third stage is that you see certain things are infinitely better than you could have even imagined."
For sure, if the *only* option was to lease and you could no longer buy, then it's not leasing so much as some kind of slave contract. This hasn't occured yet...
The announcement clearly states that the subscription fee will be lower. I don't see any difference between this and a lease. Presumably a customer that would upgrade every year anyway stands to benefit. There may be other concerns, but we'll have to see what they do.
I know it's not fear that drives me but maybe I'm just wierd... but I don't think so. Besides, as someone else mentioned, working obscene overtime and in hostile environments has been shown to decrease productivity, not increase it.
The standard advice to tech workers stuck in situations like this is the Martin Fowler quote:
If you can't change your organization, change your organization.
Re: Could this pose a threat to other satellites (e.g. communications satellite)
No. There would be nothing for the fungus to eat on an unmanned satellite and therefore no metabolic byproducts to "eat" the metal, glass, plastic, etc.
From the space.com article:
Subsistence for the microorganisms was certainly not the metal, glass and plastic of those devices, said Natalia Novikova, a deputy chief of the Department at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow.
"They consume organic stuff which consists of skin epithelia, lipids and other products of human activity," Novikova said. "These products get into the station atmosphere from human breath, sweat etc....and stick to the station's surfaces."
"Bacteria and fungi eat this stuff and generate products of metabolism, particularly organic acids which can corrode steel, glass and plastic."
Given this http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/18/165524 6&mode=thread, how feasible would it be to sustain any kind of colony on the moon? How often do meteorites impact the moon?
Read underneath apdokxxas.com. It says "That host does not exist"
The flag and IP address that appears underneath probably has something to do with how they're searching their database. Probably would have been more user friendly to not display any flag or IP if the host doesn't exist.
"Unauthorized duplication, although sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing." Sure it's an interesting position to take but it's an inaccurate statement. What happens when the duplication is just "as good as the real thing"? I'd say we're already pretty close and at least good enough.
While I got bored of D&D pretty quick because there seemed to be no point except to acquire wealth and moved to other RPGs, I still have some nostalgia for the simplicity of beating stuff up and grabbing gold. It may be because I tended to be the game master and complicated games took too long to develop... In any case, Magic the Gathering is NOT a successor to D&D though they are now owned by the same company. Roleplaying is alive, probably under threat by computer games, but then again, please refer to Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Deus Ex (sort of), etc. And IMO competitive sports is more at risk in teaching dangerous morals than D&D.
I also had a lot of problems trying to setup JavaSpaces. Once it is setup, it's pretty straight forward. Apparently TSpaces is a bit more "out-of-the-box" but I prefer JavaSpace's simplicity once it is setup. The following link appeared at Sun after I had figured it out myself but should be useful for novices. http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalA rticles/Programming/javaspaces/index.htm l
The justification is that the anthropomorphic design provides a more intuitive control. I actually don't think having five fingers is that bad but making the robot look like a human seems kind of pointless. I would think you could still get intuitive control with a more skeletal, simpler (read: easier to produce and maintain) design.
The general consensus is that it's better to unit test the model behind the UI rather than the view. Keep the view simple until the end and then you can use "screen scrapers". Remember that if any widget moves, your "screen scraper" test fails, so I wouldn't bother until I'm reasonably sure the GUI is relatively stable.