I figured loc may mean lines of code, given the context, but that still doesn't give us enough information. Is this a single application being patched? Is this all the applications support by one team? Currently supported by the company?
You really have to supply some more detail to get any useful answer. And what is ~20 Mloc? About 20 million locations?
What kind of software? What classifies an urgent request? Do you make games, and an urgent request means your bug just made front page/.? Do you make internet-facing apps, and an urgent request means your customers just formed a spamming bot-net? Are in the medical/health care field, and an urgent request means folks might die?
I think a better question is, how do you classify bugs? How do you make that trade-off between fixing a bug ASAP and taking the time to make sure the bug fix is done right?
Who is involved in the decision process? Is it just the technical & regulatory folks? Do you pull in business folks to help gage customer impact? Do you pull in sales and support to see if they can push a work around before the final fix is ready?
Those are all better questions than, "How fast do you do this task of unspecified scope."
The nice thing about printing the vote is that you get the electronic tally right away, so the world can know a "tentative" result by that evening, while a full count could take all night, or or maybe even a few days to certify.
That sounds horrible. Of course the media will make projections--based on exit polls. But the only vote tally announced should be the final certified count. Why would you want a system where a "tentative" result is announced before the final count? Just to add to any confusion?
Why do we need any result 5 minutes after the polls close? In the USA we're talking about 300 million people across 6 time zones plus absentee votes and service members around the world, (I know it isn't much compared to the geography of Russia or the population of India, but still) will the republic fall if SOP has us going to bed on election night without knowing the winner?
We made it through the 2000 election. The worst of that was not not knowing the outcome, but the back and forth over the outcome. Announcing a "tentative" result is an awful idea.
I was wondering the same thing--it's a parasite that makes mice fearless of predators. The parasite spreads when the mouse is eaten. Wish I could remember more details off hand. I don't recall if the mechanism by which the parasite affects the mouse's behavior was determined.
IANAL, but generally if no one is taking any money from the gambling operation you're legal. Wagers between private parties are okay, but if the host is taking a rake from the pot there could be trouble.
And I'd be less concerned about the state coming after you for use of the internet and more concerned with the Feds and using the telephone.
Yeah. I wish the monkey could tell them, 'You know what? Did it ever occur to you I just don't like blue fucking M&M's? They're just unnatural.'
The point is, since the monkey can't just tell us why they pick one M&M over another, the conclusion in TFA is a wild-ass guess. Perhaps the monkey prefers blue M&Ms and is saving them. He covets them.
When everyone is asleep and I'm in the middle of an all-night code-session and want a break, I can thrown in a movie and actually LISTEN to it without having to worry about waking the 2 year old.
Shouldn't the 2-yr old be coding? At least making wallets or macrame key chains or something. Kids today have it so easy;)
the makers say it's more responsive than Vista is, even on more powerful computers
Not to go off on a rant but my #1 pet peeve with software, especially anything from Microsoft, is all the hardware gains of the past 20 years are lost of bad software. Whether due to bad design (feature bloat) or bad execution, Vista and MS Office on current consumer hardware aren't any more responsive than Win 3 and Word or AmiPRO or whatever was running back in the day.
There was a/. story recently linking to a web log article about security analysis. The author, an employee of Microsoft, made a ridiculously inane comment about developers responding to users' requests. Really made me want to kick the guy in the nads. Does he really think users want to upgrade to faster CPUs and larger hard drives to benefit developers rather than themselves?
When MS Office 2k7 was in beta and the PR push was on for the new menu system, I read an analysis by MS of MS Office apps and their menus over the years. The space taken up by menu bars was listed as number of pixels and as a percentage of the typical screen size. The message was, although menus had grown in absolute size, the percentage of the typical screen had stayed the same. Like that was a good thing.
For the obligatory automotive analogy, would people take advantage of the improvements in engine design, lighter materials, etc. by buying large trucks rather than getting improved fuel efficiency with cars of the same size?
You know that a lot of people go swimming in shark-infested waters all the time and you can count the number of annual shark attacks with your fingers.
Yes, but that's due to my fingers still being on the end of my intact hands and arms because I don't go swimming in shark-infested waters.
If we need to take a little initiative and lookup these initalisms ourselves, perhaps the editors can take a little initiative and at least be consistent with the initialisms they use.
Well, I bothered to RTFA. It mentions both mixed tapes for hip hop and trading tapes for the Grateful Dead. Both well established, time tested schemes.
You can't make money giving away music...except for taper/trader friendly bands like the Grateful Dead. And I doubt 50 Cent got any royalties from mix tapes with his early stuff, but the bling comes from somewhere.
It's kinda like saying, everyone complains about Microsoft but there are only vague suggestions about alternatives.
Flying is so much safer than driving to the airport it is not even funny.
1) Say's who? The folks who don't want eveyone to know just how 'safe' air travel is?
2) And does that mean there's no point in trying make it safer? Why update decades-old computers? Heck, why even train new ait traffic controlers? Everything's cool until flying is more dangerous than driving, right?
Slashdot Mirror
You can say that again.
But do grits have DNA, and can they be cloned?
I figured loc may mean lines of code, given the context, but that still doesn't give us enough information. Is this a single application being patched? Is this all the applications support by one team? Currently supported by the company?
You really have to supply some more detail to get any useful answer. And what is ~20 Mloc? About 20 million locations?
/.? Do you make internet-facing apps, and an urgent request means your customers just formed a spamming bot-net? Are in the medical/health care field, and an urgent request means folks might die?
What kind of software? What classifies an urgent request? Do you make games, and an urgent request means your bug just made front page
I think a better question is, how do you classify bugs? How do you make that trade-off between fixing a bug ASAP and taking the time to make sure the bug fix is done right?
Who is involved in the decision process? Is it just the technical & regulatory folks? Do you pull in business folks to help gage customer impact? Do you pull in sales and support to see if they can push a work around before the final fix is ready?
Those are all better questions than, "How fast do you do this task of unspecified scope."
So where do we get these trusted machines that will design and build the voting machines for us?
That sounds horrible. Of course the media will make projections--based on exit polls. But the only vote tally announced should be the final certified count. Why would you want a system where a "tentative" result is announced before the final count? Just to add to any confusion?
Why do we need any result 5 minutes after the polls close? In the USA we're talking about 300 million people across 6 time zones plus absentee votes and service members around the world, (I know it isn't much compared to the geography of Russia or the population of India, but still) will the republic fall if SOP has us going to bed on election night without knowing the winner?
We made it through the 2000 election. The worst of that was not not knowing the outcome, but the back and forth over the outcome. Announcing a "tentative" result is an awful idea.
I was wondering the same thing--it's a parasite that makes mice fearless of predators. The parasite spreads when the mouse is eaten. Wish I could remember more details off hand. I don't recall if the mechanism by which the parasite affects the mouse's behavior was determined.
IANAL, but generally if no one is taking any money from the gambling operation you're legal. Wagers between private parties are okay, but if the host is taking a rake from the pot there could be trouble.
And I'd be less concerned about the state coming after you for use of the internet and more concerned with the Feds and using the telephone.
The point is, since the monkey can't just tell us why they pick one M&M over another, the conclusion in TFA is a wild-ass guess. Perhaps the monkey prefers blue M&Ms and is saving them. He covets them.
Hopefully it will come with a warning label for any species between us and the receiver.
"Do not look into data stream with remaining 42 eyes."
"The only winning move is not to play"
Shouldn't the 2-yr old be coding? At least making wallets or macrame key chains or something. Kids today have it so easy ;)
Not to go off on a rant but my #1 pet peeve with software, especially anything from Microsoft, is all the hardware gains of the past 20 years are lost of bad software. Whether due to bad design (feature bloat) or bad execution, Vista and MS Office on current consumer hardware aren't any more responsive than Win 3 and Word or AmiPRO or whatever was running back in the day.
There was a /. story recently linking to a web log article about security analysis. The author, an employee of Microsoft, made a ridiculously inane comment about developers responding to users' requests. Really made me want to kick the guy in the nads. Does he really think users want to upgrade to faster CPUs and larger hard drives to benefit developers rather than themselves?
When MS Office 2k7 was in beta and the PR push was on for the new menu system, I read an analysis by MS of MS Office apps and their menus over the years. The space taken up by menu bars was listed as number of pixels and as a percentage of the typical screen size. The message was, although menus had grown in absolute size, the percentage of the typical screen had stayed the same. Like that was a good thing.
For the obligatory automotive analogy, would people take advantage of the improvements in engine design, lighter materials, etc. by buying large trucks rather than getting improved fuel efficiency with cars of the same size?
Nevermind.
Yes, but that's due to my fingers still being on the end of my intact hands and arms because I don't go swimming in shark-infested waters.
Did UAT just pay to be slashdotted? Did they factor in the cost of the melting server into their bid?
Ever try to roll a joint on a CD case?
If that's your king, you're just another subject.
Yeah, about 4 hours later I'm driving to dinner and I think, "y-flu-k" as in y2k.
Now that I have it, I don't want it.
I don't get it. What's a "yfluk"?
Well, half a black hole.
You mean this, the first result for IMSL Project. Or this, the first result for IMSL?
If we need to take a little initiative and lookup these initalisms ourselves, perhaps the editors can take a little initiative and at least be consistent with the initialisms they use.
Well, I bothered to RTFA. It mentions both mixed tapes for hip hop and trading tapes for the Grateful Dead. Both well established, time tested schemes.
So what's "vague" about these "suggestions"?
You can't make money giving away music...except for taper/trader friendly bands like the Grateful Dead. And I doubt 50 Cent got any royalties from mix tapes with his early stuff, but the bling comes from somewhere.
It's kinda like saying, everyone complains about Microsoft but there are only vague suggestions about alternatives.
Not really. A breathalyser is not an artifical nose for smelling alcohol.
A person who cannot smell is anosmic, or is an anosmiac.
What do you think natural "nose" tech does?
1) Say's who? The folks who don't want eveyone to know just how 'safe' air travel is?
2) And does that mean there's no point in trying make it safer? Why update decades-old computers? Heck, why even train new ait traffic controlers? Everything's cool until flying is more dangerous than driving, right?