Once in a while, sure - long hours do happen unexpectedly. Long hours don't create themselves on a regular basis though...poor management causes that.
Hire someone who works nights or split someone's schedule if possible. Problem solved.
First they modeled the.NET application on the old client-server app, but the network chatter was 20x the capacity of the network because the MS-trained app architects could not wrap their heads around the idea of a constrained WAN
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So, because you had poor engineers and a poorly implemented solution, the technology sucks? How do you rationally reach that conclusion when you admit in your own argument that the solution was poorly engineered? Shouldn't you be blaming the engineers / consultants rather than the technology used? I guarantee there are similar examples of poorly implemented solutions based around apache.
If you're going to be spouting off about how IIS is a bicycle and apache is a locomotive, perhaps you could give us examples of equally implemented solutions that compare performance. Don't cop out that they had "Microsoft consultants" either, since the majority of/. users (and from your arguments, you particularly) consider every person connected to Microsoft to be an especially inept Satan incarnate.
I suppose at least you qualified this as your "subjective opinion"...but still
Quite a few people are operating under the assumption that it isn't in the theater's best interest to make a big deal out of this. From his perspective it was probably a great opportunity to do just that.
Then his perspective is incorrect. Look at the statements being issued here for proof: "the day they stop allowing me to take my [device with video recording capabilities] is the day I stop seeing movies there" and the like. I would argue that this type of story on the front page of a newspaper and on/. may have some of the expected impression on people, to stop taking video cameras, phones, etc. into that theater, but is more likely to stir up the emotional reaction against the theater for railroading some poor girl for grabbing a twenty second clip to show her little brother.
Sure. Mozart had an impact. Then he died when he was thirty five. We'll never know if he was really any good
Ummm...you do know that you're talking about one of the most beloved classical composers in history, right? I guarantee this: he did more in his 35 years than 99% of the worlds population will do in their entire life. Did he die too soon? Yep. So did a lot of people in the late 1700's. Could he have done much more if he lived longer? Yep. Would it have changed how we look at him? Possibly, but only to enhance a body of work that some people consider to be the most genius ever created.
Well, I hope Firefox doesn't loose too much ground. It gets nasty when the mud starts flying.
I wish people would RTFA. It states that Firefox didn't lose ground but IE did. and I hope to god that you are really referring to IE with the nastiness. In fact Firefox, between March's dates and July's dates has gained 3.7%. I don't mean to be hating on anyone, but please, for god-sake, RTFA and make sure you get your facts right.
Uh...reread parent and think to yourself what he or she was trying to say. "loose" ground...mud... (hint: look up the definition of "loose"). Perhaps you should understand the intent of a post prior to verbally jumping up and down on it.
Aside from initial installation, never, NEVER let Windows Update do ANYTHING with your hardware. It's pure evil. I have NEVER had a good experience letting windows update do anything by itself, but I flat out refuse to let it update drivers. Reasoning is exactly the same problem you had - I had it trash the drivers for and hard drive running off a card meant to let the OS see all of a large drive. Since then, never.
If you're running a M$ OS, do yourself a favor: get the machine to a complete installation state (updates, drivers installed, basics, etc.) and then make an image of the drive using Drive Image or something like that. Then use the box and NEVER keep your data the same hard drive. Then you can wipe the drive and re-image it anytime you want without worrying about your data.
While on average you're right of course, there are (obviously) plenty of exceptions to that rule. I'm only 35 and my grandfather was born in 1895. He served in WWI and was easily old enough to be working on this...although he was in law enforcement.
"There will be great progress when the nicotine sister drugs come to market," he says. "About half the cigarettes in this country are bought by people with psychiatric problems -- high percentages of people with depression and schizophrenia smoke, for example.
Wow, about a quarter of people smoke so 12% of people have psychiatric problems.
According to the quote, half the cigarettes that are purchased are done so by people with psychiatric problems, but they don't say what percentage of people who don't purchase cigarettes have psychiatric problems, so your figure of 12% is actually incorrect...probably by a lot.
I curse Microsoft's products on a daily basis just as most of us who work in that environment do, but aren't we all sick of these weedy MS-hate articles thinly disguised as news and clinging to reality in some stupid attempt at being relevant? I'm so sick of reading not only the articles but the entire "MS sux because x, y and z" responses from the lemmings who readily follow anything anti-Microsoft off the cliff.
It's a given that Microsoft's software sucks for numerous reasons. There - it's been said. Now can we have some real geek news please?
There are plenty of us non-"literal-read" types around. I'm a Christian and I hold Darwin in extremely high regard. Anyone with half a brain does (note the non-literal statement...see - eh? see). I'm as frustrated as anyone with the cro-mag reactionists who don't bother to learn anything and know only what's been spoon fed them by some church or group or whatever. God gave you a brain, kids, and the ability to reason with it. Why would you for one minute think that He also didn't give Darwin a brain and the ability to reason out what he did and contribute to humanity? Silly kids.
Besides, no non-lawyer in their right mind would move to a class action suit if they have even a glimmer of a chance of a settlement or actually getting judgment in their favor. There are two people/entities that make money from a class action suit...the defense attorney (because, hey, they get paid regardless, right...) and the prosecuting attorney. Everyone else involved either a) gets nothing (they lose) or, b) gets a check 16 months later for $1.72.
uh...because it doesn't move at 100,000,000 m/s possibly? I mean, I'm sure we'd like it all to come to nice multiples of 10, but it's not like there's a phone we can pick up and ask the universe to change the speed of light...scientists have this little foible that they all seem to want numbers to mean something and relate correctly to the observed universe. silly folk
Holy crap...the main body of that patent is 14,596 words long. 15k words to describe "one-click purchase". Is it any wonder they're having problems chewing this up and figuring it out? I'd like to think of myself as relatively intelligent (cue jokes here) and I got angry reading the first section of that stupid patent. It makes me want to hit someone.
Yeah! Let's round up all the guns and confiscate all the gun owner's licenses! They're all a bunch of toothless rednecks anyway.
Hey, I know - while we're at it, we can round up all the sharp knives and anything made of wood that's over 3' in length or more than 1" around! Alcohol - that's another big contributor to crime - let's confiscate all the alcohol. Oh, and it's proven that most crimes happen after dark - a national curfew is in order!
Oh, and those damn cars...man, they kill people all the time - let's confiscate all the cars and replace them with rickshaws. People will have to get jobs that aren't as far away from their homes - hell, that's going to piss off the corporations. I know, we'll just confiscate the ownership of all the corporations and make the government one big employer so we can control that too.
I don't believe he asked how long it would be until it got here, I believe he asked how much of a warning we would have.
Granting that the matter continues at the observed speed discussed in TFA (and therefore isn't traveling at the full speed of light), we would have a only small warning (relatively...no pun intended) prior to the matter hitting us.
We wouldn't have 100 years because the light from the explosion is only traveling slightly (again, relatively) faster than the matter from said explosion.
However, the truth is that the lack of an SDK means that there won't be a killer application for the iPhone. It also means the iPhone's potential as an amazing computing and communication platform will never be realized. And because of this and no matter how Apple tries to sell it, the iPhone won't make a revolution happen.
Yep! Just like the iPod didn't cause any kind of revolution without an SDK...oh, wait...
While I would argue with you that dealing drugs is a non-violent offense, I agree with you that violence shouldn't be some kind of litmus test for jail time. That being said, violence should definitely be taken into account for the argument of repaying society - violent offenders are usually not redeemable, but those who commit "white-collar" crimes should be made to repay society by working it off. It's an offense to me and every other tax payer that these offenders are just shoved into some cell somewhere and we get to pay for them to live there until they get out - they should be put to work bettering society or shipped over to some outsourced jail in Russia somewhere to save money.
Spoke like someone who wasn't around then. Sure, the term "gamer" hadn't been coined yet, but there are plenty of us who spent every day, day and night (during the summer...weekends only during the school year) of the mid 80's playing computer games like Alternate Reality on the Atari 800/800xl/130xe or Commodore 64 (had it on both platforms). We may not have been called gamers in magazines, but we definitely considered ourselves gamers.
My school was also behind the times on programming classes. When I was a junior in 1988 all we had for the "Computer Programming" class was a room full of Apple ][s. We had one IBM clone but some other kid spoke up first about using it so the rest of us programmed in BASIC while he got to do hangman in assembly:(
Meanwhile, we had state of the art Mac's with laser printers in the "media" room and state-of-the-art clones in the "accounting" room. Even in 1988 they didn't realize that programming would be such a huge industry.
I call for a moratorium on Apple fluff pieces during finals week.
You think it's bad now, wait until you're in the workforce. EVERY week is finals week in the real world. *sigh*
Besides, this isn't necessarily an Apple fluff piece. Those of us who were around "back in the day" find this a great piece of nostalgia. In a time when everyone in our industry seems to be at "the other sides'" throats over OS and vision and all that crap, it's nice to have something that we can ALL look back on and acknowledge the impact of such a product. Whether you love Linux or Windows (there is someone who loves it, right?), you loved the Apple ][ if you got a chance to use it.
Excellent and thoughtful response to an attempted lashing by someone afraid and angry that just doesn't get it. My particular frustration with his post is the statement "I'm an American. I'm not very PROUD of that fact recently, but it is there" you responded to beautifully. "I'm very proud to be an American. I'm not very proud of what my country has been doing lately. There's a difference."
I especially appreciate your restraint - I would have felt much more like lashing out a bit.
If any of you were even remotely as "experienced" as you say, you will of course remember when WoW came out, and you couldn't do half the things you guys are bitching and moaning about...and the client crashed at least once every time you played...and the servers were down at LEAST once a day, if not multiple times...most of the classes were hopelessly broken...
It's interesting to see people comparing an MMO right out of the gate to one that's had 2+ years of bug fixes, patches, etc. applied to it (read: WoW).
If you take into account how all of these MMOs were in their first month, then yes, "polished" is aptly used in regards to LOTRO.
Have a complaint? Post it on their developer forums and I'm sure you and (hopefully) thousands of others posting on there will garner attention from the development staff. DDO seems to be a bad word in MMO circles, but honestly, Turbine did a fine job of implementing / fixing items requested by players. I'd expect nothing less from the LOTRO staff.
Combine that with the fact that Turbine actually releases new content more often than Blizzard does and it should not take long before a lot of the foibles pointed out here will be fixed...hopefully
One could also argue whether all that money spent by the industry in this race will be worth the results and how long it would take for a return on investment.
No. One absolutely can NOT argue. I can't believe that any rational, sane individual would look at this situation and come to the conclusion that it is worth spending even one THIN DIME on furthering this effort. Why, on God's green earth do these imbeciles believe that they can come out with something that no one can break? Are these people really that conceded and sport such a God complex that they somehow believe that their team of what, 10 developers maybe, versus THE ENTIRE WORLD are going to come out on top?
Who are these idiots? What we all need for a good laugh is a video of these guys being told time after time, day after day that their crap has been hacked yet again. It will certainly have diminishing results, but it should be a good laugh five or ten times and then also that final time when they come to the realization that they are, in fact, NEVER going to win. Look at my quote people who are doing this...I'm looking directly at you >:|
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Once in a while, sure - long hours do happen unexpectedly. Long hours don't create themselves on a regular basis though...poor management causes that.
Hire someone who works nights or split someone's schedule if possible. Problem solved.
So, because you had poor engineers and a poorly implemented solution, the technology sucks? How do you rationally reach that conclusion when you admit in your own argument that the solution was poorly engineered? Shouldn't you be blaming the engineers / consultants rather than the technology used? I guarantee there are similar examples of poorly implemented solutions based around apache.
If you're going to be spouting off about how IIS is a bicycle and apache is a locomotive, perhaps you could give us examples of equally implemented solutions that compare performance. Don't cop out that they had "Microsoft consultants" either, since the majority of
I suppose at least you qualified this as your "subjective opinion"...but still
I attended one of these previews a couple weeks ago, and yes. They do check the contents of purses and bags at the door.
Uh...reread parent and think to yourself what he or she was trying to say. "loose" ground...mud... (hint: look up the definition of "loose"). Perhaps you should understand the intent of a post prior to verbally jumping up and down on it.
Aside from initial installation, never, NEVER let Windows Update do ANYTHING with your hardware. It's pure evil. I have NEVER had a good experience letting windows update do anything by itself, but I flat out refuse to let it update drivers. Reasoning is exactly the same problem you had - I had it trash the drivers for and hard drive running off a card meant to let the OS see all of a large drive. Since then, never. If you're running a M$ OS, do yourself a favor: get the machine to a complete installation state (updates, drivers installed, basics, etc.) and then make an image of the drive using Drive Image or something like that. Then use the box and NEVER keep your data the same hard drive. Then you can wipe the drive and re-image it anytime you want without worrying about your data.
While on average you're right of course, there are (obviously) plenty of exceptions to that rule. I'm only 35 and my grandfather was born in 1895. He served in WWI and was easily old enough to be working on this...although he was in law enforcement.
According to the quote, half the cigarettes that are purchased are done so by people with psychiatric problems, but they don't say what percentage of people who don't purchase cigarettes have psychiatric problems, so your figure of 12% is actually incorrect...probably by a lot.
I curse Microsoft's products on a daily basis just as most of us who work in that environment do, but aren't we all sick of these weedy MS-hate articles thinly disguised as news and clinging to reality in some stupid attempt at being relevant? I'm so sick of reading not only the articles but the entire "MS sux because x, y and z" responses from the lemmings who readily follow anything anti-Microsoft off the cliff.
It's a given that Microsoft's software sucks for numerous reasons. There - it's been said. Now can we have some real geek news please?
There are plenty of us non-"literal-read" types around. I'm a Christian and I hold Darwin in extremely high regard. Anyone with half a brain does (note the non-literal statement...see - eh? see). I'm as frustrated as anyone with the cro-mag reactionists who don't bother to learn anything and know only what's been spoon fed them by some church or group or whatever. God gave you a brain, kids, and the ability to reason with it. Why would you for one minute think that He also didn't give Darwin a brain and the ability to reason out what he did and contribute to humanity? Silly kids.
Besides, no non-lawyer in their right mind would move to a class action suit if they have even a glimmer of a chance of a settlement or actually getting judgment in their favor. There are two people/entities that make money from a class action suit...the defense attorney (because, hey, they get paid regardless, right...) and the prosecuting attorney. Everyone else involved either a) gets nothing (they lose) or, b) gets a check 16 months later for $1.72.
Please...go to Cuba. Really - we don't want you here.
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Fuck people who say "Fuck the Army"
uh...because it doesn't move at 100,000,000 m/s possibly? I mean, I'm sure we'd like it all to come to nice multiples of 10, but it's not like there's a phone we can pick up and ask the universe to change the speed of light...scientists have this little foible that they all seem to want numbers to mean something and relate correctly to the observed universe. silly folk
Holy crap...the main body of that patent is 14,596 words long. 15k words to describe "one-click purchase". Is it any wonder they're having problems chewing this up and figuring it out? I'd like to think of myself as relatively intelligent (cue jokes here) and I got angry reading the first section of that stupid patent. It makes me want to hit someone.
Yeah! Let's round up all the guns and confiscate all the gun owner's licenses! They're all a bunch of toothless rednecks anyway.
...from my cold, dead hands
Hey, I know - while we're at it, we can round up all the sharp knives and anything made of wood that's over 3' in length or more than 1" around! Alcohol - that's another big contributor to crime - let's confiscate all the alcohol. Oh, and it's proven that most crimes happen after dark - a national curfew is in order!
Oh, and those damn cars...man, they kill people all the time - let's confiscate all the cars and replace them with rickshaws. People will have to get jobs that aren't as far away from their homes - hell, that's going to piss off the corporations. I know, we'll just confiscate the ownership of all the corporations and make the government one big employer so we can control that too.
yeah - I know...I'm a crank...incrementalism
I don't believe he asked how long it would be until it got here, I believe he asked how much of a warning we would have.
Granting that the matter continues at the observed speed discussed in TFA (and therefore isn't traveling at the full speed of light), we would have a only small warning (relatively...no pun intended) prior to the matter hitting us.
We wouldn't have 100 years because the light from the explosion is only traveling slightly (again, relatively) faster than the matter from said explosion.
Yep! Just like the iPod didn't cause any kind of revolution without an SDK...oh, wait...
While I would argue with you that dealing drugs is a non-violent offense, I agree with you that violence shouldn't be some kind of litmus test for jail time. That being said, violence should definitely be taken into account for the argument of repaying society - violent offenders are usually not redeemable, but those who commit "white-collar" crimes should be made to repay society by working it off. It's an offense to me and every other tax payer that these offenders are just shoved into some cell somewhere and we get to pay for them to live there until they get out - they should be put to work bettering society or shipped over to some outsourced jail in Russia somewhere to save money.
Spoke like someone who wasn't around then. Sure, the term "gamer" hadn't been coined yet, but there are plenty of us who spent every day, day and night (during the summer...weekends only during the school year) of the mid 80's playing computer games like Alternate Reality on the Atari 800/800xl/130xe or Commodore 64 (had it on both platforms). We may not have been called gamers in magazines, but we definitely considered ourselves gamers.
My school was also behind the times on programming classes. When I was a junior in 1988 all we had for the "Computer Programming" class was a room full of Apple ][s. We had one IBM clone but some other kid spoke up first about using it so the rest of us programmed in BASIC while he got to do hangman in assembly :(
Meanwhile, we had state of the art Mac's with laser printers in the "media" room and state-of-the-art clones in the "accounting" room. Even in 1988 they didn't realize that programming would be such a huge industry.
Besides, this isn't necessarily an Apple fluff piece. Those of us who were around "back in the day" find this a great piece of nostalgia. In a time when everyone in our industry seems to be at "the other sides'" throats over OS and vision and all that crap, it's nice to have something that we can ALL look back on and acknowledge the impact of such a product. Whether you love Linux or Windows (there is someone who loves it, right?), you loved the Apple ][ if you got a chance to use it.
Excellent and thoughtful response to an attempted lashing by someone afraid and angry that just doesn't get it. My particular frustration with his post is the statement "I'm an American. I'm not very PROUD of that fact recently, but it is there" you responded to beautifully. "I'm very proud to be an American. I'm not very proud of what my country has been doing lately. There's a difference."
I especially appreciate your restraint - I would have felt much more like lashing out a bit.
If any of you were even remotely as "experienced" as you say, you will of course remember when WoW came out, and you couldn't do half the things you guys are bitching and moaning about...and the client crashed at least once every time you played...and the servers were down at LEAST once a day, if not multiple times...most of the classes were hopelessly broken...
It's interesting to see people comparing an MMO right out of the gate to one that's had 2+ years of bug fixes, patches, etc. applied to it (read: WoW).
If you take into account how all of these MMOs were in their first month, then yes, "polished" is aptly used in regards to LOTRO.
Have a complaint? Post it on their developer forums and I'm sure you and (hopefully) thousands of others posting on there will garner attention from the development staff. DDO seems to be a bad word in MMO circles, but honestly, Turbine did a fine job of implementing / fixing items requested by players. I'd expect nothing less from the LOTRO staff.
Combine that with the fact that Turbine actually releases new content more often than Blizzard does and it should not take long before a lot of the foibles pointed out here will be fixed...hopefully
No. One absolutely can NOT argue. I can't believe that any rational, sane individual would look at this situation and come to the conclusion that it is worth spending even one THIN DIME on furthering this effort. Why, on God's green earth do these imbeciles believe that they can come out with something that no one can break? Are these people really that conceded and sport such a God complex that they somehow believe that their team of what, 10 developers maybe, versus THE ENTIRE WORLD are going to come out on top?
Who are these idiots? What we all need for a good laugh is a video of these guys being told time after time, day after day that their crap has been hacked yet again. It will certainly have diminishing results, but it should be a good laugh five or ten times and then also that final time when they come to the realization that they are, in fact, NEVER going to win. Look at my quote people who are doing this...I'm looking directly at you >:|