I haven't seen anyone else post comments as CYA yet.
I have lots of functions that look like:// "The X indicator must always be true in all situations" - Jim of Partner Company X, 02-11-2006// "The X indicator must always be false if this is not the first one in the file" - Jane of Supplier Y, 2-26-2006// "The X indicator is true if the value of Y is 3, 6, 7 or 9 and this is not the first indicator in the file" - Jim of Partner Co X, 6-23-2007// "X is always false, everyone else is smoking crack." - Dave of Partner Z, 7-01-2007
Most of the time I get by on doing what I'm told. If I think the solution is wrong, but office politics is forcing me to do it another way then I'll document in code who told me to do it, and the when. That way when someone else looks at it years later and it looks like crap, they'll know why. I get particularly wordy when I know that the spec I'm working from is likely to change 4 times before, and 6 times after the projects deadline.
iTunes/Amazon didn't come around till well after the rise of digital music sharing. People wanted to get their music song by song instead of paying $18 bucks for a CD with one good song on it. The RIAA refused for the longest time because they were making so much money forcing people to pay $18 bucks for a single good song and 8 cents of pressed plastic. People didn't like it and turned to the internet where they received everything for free. Then half a decade later iTunes came out with a limited selection of music, and had to fight tooth and nail to get the RIAA to let them compete. I was watching TV online long before Netflix and Hulu ever came out and fought tooth and nail to let the MPAA to let them show tv over the internet.
You say that buisness models take time to change, and it would be impossible to react to Napster once it came out, but the fact is that Napster was such a hit because there was such a strong demand for digital music. The business models should have adopted to what customers wanted; cheap singles instead of albums full of crap, and also digital downloads. If they would have pulled their heads out, they would've seen the demand for this and had something setup back in the mid 90's. But instead they waited till about 2005 before they grudgingly let iTunes become the success it is today, but by that time they were 10 years too late. People had been wanting it for so long they went somewhere else to get it. And then gotten used to going there.
I'm guessing that everyone here has a favorite place to get their video/audio. I know I do. It wasn't till about a year ago that Amazon became that favorite place for me to get my music. I also always buy my games off Steam now. I have my habits and a feeling of 'brand loyalty'. Even if that brand was just a specific community that hosted all the stuff I wanted. A smart buisness would have seen the popularity of digital music/games/video and created a community around paying for it. Amazon, Steam, and Hulu seem to be my first choice now, but back in the mid 90's? There was nothing, and it took me a long time to 'go legit'. You could also argue that, the ones I call early adopters, just wanted free stuff, but I'd say that the overwhelming success of all these companies show that it's more than people wanting free audio/video/games. They also wanted digital distribution. They wanted them enough to pay for them, and they still do. If they didn't these huge success stories would never have happened.
Lets even look at current circumstance. I know a lot of people that have cable. They actually pay for the ability to see shows, but they end up torrenting them. Why? They're 'stealing' something they've already paid for. Why would they go through the trouble of breaking the law to steal something they already own? It's because it's more convenient to watch when you actually have time to sit down with it. Now the content industry can go one of two ways here. Compete by letting users watch shows on demand and selling DVR's, or they can fight the consumer and try to 'plug the analog hole' and legislating DVR's out of existence. All evidence shows that these idiots haven't learned a damn thing. They're fighting the users again while companies like Netflix and TiVo are fighting tooth and nail to get content to users. Just like iTunes did before them.
They can fight and whine and complain all they want, but they never seem to figure it out. Their customers have options, just because you've paid off senators to make them illegal doesn't take them away. They will always be there and you can compete or fight a loosing battle over it. Video on demand will become commonplace for everything (not just movies), it's just a matter of how much money they want to throw away fighting the inevitable. Also the more they spend fighting it, the more people will turn to piracy to get it, and the more brand loyalty they give to the pirates, and the more they are placed in situations
99% sure that the admins at Brown thought the response was acceptable because the 'small glitch' was actually operator error on the part of said admins. I'd try to downplay the whole situation if it was my fault, and that seems to be what the admins at Brown are doing.
From the article. They're buying up abandoned property. Because we're smart kids we know 'abandoned' means that no one lives there. Therefor no one will be relocated.
Also they're bulldozing the land and offering to sell it to neighbors for cheap on the outskirts of town, and restoring the properties near downtown, in an effort to get people to willingly move closer together.
In most cases that means that they're bulldozing the suburbs (property on the outskirts) and restoring the ghettos (inner city housing).
Any valve game with a server browser crashed my stock AT&T Speedstream modem. When I complained to AT&T they stated that it was actually a known issue, and they were willing to sell me a 'high performance' modem for 90 bucks. I went to the local Best Buy and bought a $30 Motorola modem and never had the problem again.
(The AT&T rep seemed convinced that I was really just a heavy torrenter.)
If you watched the blog yesterday you'd have seen valve doing a lot of fun things for the fans.
Over the course of the day the unlock for a sniper shield got darker and darker, then at around 3pm people on the forums started freaking out because there was a spy behind the sniper in the picture. The pictures were swapped in and out randomly till the actual announcement.
They put a note on the blog saying, "When the Pyro hears about this she'll be inconsolable." There's been a debate over the Pyros gender for a long time on the forums. The post was left up for about an hour before it was stealth edited back to the masculine form. Still there was a lot of people going nuts on the forum over this.
They trolled us pretty hard with a lot of this stuff, but overall it shows that they are paying close enough attention to the community to do so. They knew all the right buttons to press to get people talking and started mashing. I know of no other company that is this dedicated to having fun.
Wow, I thought I was the only one that was weird like that.
I definitely need jazz-trance-classical for coding and something with a fast paced rhythm and lyrics for drawing.
Hurray for us mixed up left/right brain types.
It's more due to trying to save as much money in this economy as possible, but I don't think I'm the only one that's ditching cable in favor of antenna.
My cable rates went up to $38 bucks a month, and when my wife and I sat down and looked at it we realized that we only really watch about 4 hours of TV a week, and half of that was channels we could get over antenna. It just didn't make sense to pay that much for the crap that they have on.
I have an app that's currently a stand alone, but the licensing for each app has to include a license for a ocr. That makes each install at minimum $50 bucks.
We're taking a hard look at a web interface that runs a 'lite' version of our software for clients of ours that only push low volumes around, and wouldn't be profitable if we had to eat a $50 deployment cost.
According to the games system requirements you fall somewhere between minimum requirements and recommended. You should be able to play with the graphics on low to maybe medium and get about 30fps.
Your system is not a middle tier system. It is a low tier system. Thus you need to turn all the bells and whistles off. Keep in mind, right now TF2 only runs on a single core. Your dual core isn't helping you at all here.
There is hope for you though. Valve has stated that they are bringing over the multicore support that they implemented for Left4Dead to Team Fortress 2. Give it another month and things should start speeding up.
I spent 3 years after college living on $18-20k a year washing dishes. I didn't collect a dime of welfare or use any form of government support, or receive support from family members. Lets make this perfectly clear.
I did it from 2004 to 2007. You sir are full of crap.
My secret was not racking up massive credit card debt. Also working my way through college so I wouldn't have to take out student loans helped.
Not saying that I didn't work with the girl that got pregnant and used it to get a full ride through school, free apartment, and a new suv, while her parents took care of her kid so she could go out and party. She even rubbed it in the face of all the single white moms there because she was black and therefor got a lot more money than they did. Yeah, those people need to go DIAF, but the one person to ever say that to her face got written up after she played the race card.
The point that I'm really trying to get accost here is that it's very possible to live off $20k in 90% of the US. The people that have problems, are having problems due to their own stupidity.
My Chevy Cavalier has a 12 gallon tank and gets about 25 mpg. That's a 375 mile range. Since he's driving in the UK chances are he's doing a lot more city driving than we in the US are and getting about 17 mpg. That's just over 200 miles.
That's not really what the factor is here.
Winter in Michigan includes plowing through large snow drifts, spinning out on the ice slicked roads every time you try to accelerate, and constant driving through deep slush and pot holes.
My little 4 cylinder cavalier gets about 25 mpg average (my commute to work and back) during the summer and about 18 mpg during the winter. That's real driving conditions. And I would expect a stock sunrise to do even worse than 100 miles due to it's low ground clearance.
I'm sure the cube monkey that coded up the gun knows this and accounts for it. However the slower the percieved speed is the harder it is to get a good measurement on how fast it really is going.
Example: Try guessing the speed of a vehicle that's driving at you, vs a vehicle that's driving past you.
In the example of the car driving at you all you have to judge by is the growing image of the car.
Past you and you can actually see the movement.
Where I am AT&T offers 768 down 64 up for $15 a month. I was offered a free month if I upgraded to 1.5 down 384 up so now I pay $20 a month.
Of course where I live I have the option between Jasnet, Iserve, Comcast, WMIS, and AT&T. We used to have SBC and Ameritech in the area too until they got bought out. Weird how prices are so low in our little neighborhood.
Your thermodynamics argument does not take into account one thing.
People poop.
Your horomone levels (and by extension the genes that regulate them) determine how much energy gets converted to food and how much gets converted to poop.
Now who has the bad math jackass.
Calorie for calorie fast food is cheaper than buying food from the store. Also your idea that you can shop on your way home is offset by the fact that it takes less time to roll through a drive thru on your way home than it does to get out of your car and head to the store. YMWV (your mileage WILL vary), but on my way home from work I drive past Burger King, 2 McDonalds, Taco Bell, Wendys, Subway, Long John Silvers, BW3, Logans, Fridays, Bennigans, 2 Applebees, IHOP, Perkins, Russ', Zoup, 2 All You Can Eat Buffet places, 2 different Chinese places, and probably a few other ones that I forgot . And I only have a 20 minute commute. There are zero grocery stores (although I could get to one if I took a 10 minute detour). The time and effort required to get fast food is way lower than the time it takes to make it yourself.
When I was single and poor fast food was the best option, if you could moderate yourself. No one is getting fat because they're eating one value meal a day. It's when you think you need to eat a value meal and 3 meals a day that you start packing it on.
Then again I'm 6'4" and naturally stocky. The doctor told me my ideal weight was 230-240lbs.
I haven't had an ATI since my 4meg all-in-wonder pro burned itself out.
I said I wouldn't ever buy again, but this has brought me back. Good job ATI. When I go to replace my aging 7600gt, it will be with an ATI product.
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Yeah, pretty much this.
I run flashblock and script block and that eliminates 95% of ads.
Bonus is that when I white-list scripts on pages that I trust I also see some of the nonintrusive ads.
I haven't seen anyone else post comments as CYA yet.
I have lots of functions that look like: // "The X indicator must always be true in all situations" - Jim of Partner Company X, 02-11-2006 // "The X indicator must always be false if this is not the first one in the file" - Jane of Supplier Y, 2-26-2006 // "The X indicator is true if the value of Y is 3, 6, 7 or 9 and this is not the first indicator in the file" - Jim of Partner Co X, 6-23-2007 // "X is always false, everyone else is smoking crack." - Dave of Partner Z, 7-01-2007
Most of the time I get by on doing what I'm told. If I think the solution is wrong, but office politics is forcing me to do it another way then I'll document in code who told me to do it, and the when. That way when someone else looks at it years later and it looks like crap, they'll know why. I get particularly wordy when I know that the spec I'm working from is likely to change 4 times before, and 6 times after the projects deadline.
Anyone else CYA in your comments?
I disagree to your disagreement.
iTunes/Amazon didn't come around till well after the rise of digital music sharing. People wanted to get their music song by song instead of paying $18 bucks for a CD with one good song on it. The RIAA refused for the longest time because they were making so much money forcing people to pay $18 bucks for a single good song and 8 cents of pressed plastic. People didn't like it and turned to the internet where they received everything for free. Then half a decade later iTunes came out with a limited selection of music, and had to fight tooth and nail to get the RIAA to let them compete. I was watching TV online long before Netflix and Hulu ever came out and fought tooth and nail to let the MPAA to let them show tv over the internet.
You say that buisness models take time to change, and it would be impossible to react to Napster once it came out, but the fact is that Napster was such a hit because there was such a strong demand for digital music. The business models should have adopted to what customers wanted; cheap singles instead of albums full of crap, and also digital downloads. If they would have pulled their heads out, they would've seen the demand for this and had something setup back in the mid 90's. But instead they waited till about 2005 before they grudgingly let iTunes become the success it is today, but by that time they were 10 years too late. People had been wanting it for so long they went somewhere else to get it. And then gotten used to going there.
I'm guessing that everyone here has a favorite place to get their video/audio. I know I do. It wasn't till about a year ago that Amazon became that favorite place for me to get my music. I also always buy my games off Steam now. I have my habits and a feeling of 'brand loyalty'. Even if that brand was just a specific community that hosted all the stuff I wanted. A smart buisness would have seen the popularity of digital music/games/video and created a community around paying for it. Amazon, Steam, and Hulu seem to be my first choice now, but back in the mid 90's? There was nothing, and it took me a long time to 'go legit'. You could also argue that, the ones I call early adopters, just wanted free stuff, but I'd say that the overwhelming success of all these companies show that it's more than people wanting free audio/video/games. They also wanted digital distribution. They wanted them enough to pay for them, and they still do. If they didn't these huge success stories would never have happened.
Lets even look at current circumstance. I know a lot of people that have cable. They actually pay for the ability to see shows, but they end up torrenting them. Why? They're 'stealing' something they've already paid for. Why would they go through the trouble of breaking the law to steal something they already own? It's because it's more convenient to watch when you actually have time to sit down with it. Now the content industry can go one of two ways here. Compete by letting users watch shows on demand and selling DVR's, or they can fight the consumer and try to 'plug the analog hole' and legislating DVR's out of existence. All evidence shows that these idiots haven't learned a damn thing. They're fighting the users again while companies like Netflix and TiVo are fighting tooth and nail to get content to users. Just like iTunes did before them.
They can fight and whine and complain all they want, but they never seem to figure it out. Their customers have options, just because you've paid off senators to make them illegal doesn't take them away. They will always be there and you can compete or fight a loosing battle over it. Video on demand will become commonplace for everything (not just movies), it's just a matter of how much money they want to throw away fighting the inevitable. Also the more they spend fighting it, the more people will turn to piracy to get it, and the more brand loyalty they give to the pirates, and the more they are placed in situations
99% sure that the admins at Brown thought the response was acceptable because the 'small glitch' was actually operator error on the part of said admins. I'd try to downplay the whole situation if it was my fault, and that seems to be what the admins at Brown are doing.
From the article. They're buying up abandoned property. Because we're smart kids we know 'abandoned' means that no one lives there. Therefor no one will be relocated.
Also they're bulldozing the land and offering to sell it to neighbors for cheap on the outskirts of town, and restoring the properties near downtown, in an effort to get people to willingly move closer together.
In most cases that means that they're bulldozing the suburbs (property on the outskirts) and restoring the ghettos (inner city housing).
This problem is just more apparent in some games.
Any valve game with a server browser crashed my stock AT&T Speedstream modem. When I complained to AT&T they stated that it was actually a known issue, and they were willing to sell me a 'high performance' modem for 90 bucks. I went to the local Best Buy and bought a $30 Motorola modem and never had the problem again.
(The AT&T rep seemed convinced that I was really just a heavy torrenter.)
If you watched the blog yesterday you'd have seen valve doing a lot of fun things for the fans.
Over the course of the day the unlock for a sniper shield got darker and darker, then at around 3pm people on the forums started freaking out because there was a spy behind the sniper in the picture. The pictures were swapped in and out randomly till the actual announcement.
They put a note on the blog saying, "When the Pyro hears about this she'll be inconsolable." There's been a debate over the Pyros gender for a long time on the forums. The post was left up for about an hour before it was stealth edited back to the masculine form. Still there was a lot of people going nuts on the forum over this.
They trolled us pretty hard with a lot of this stuff, but overall it shows that they are paying close enough attention to the community to do so. They knew all the right buttons to press to get people talking and started mashing. I know of no other company that is this dedicated to having fun.
Wow, I thought I was the only one that was weird like that. I definitely need jazz-trance-classical for coding and something with a fast paced rhythm and lyrics for drawing. Hurray for us mixed up left/right brain types.
It's more due to trying to save as much money in this economy as possible, but I don't think I'm the only one that's ditching cable in favor of antenna. My cable rates went up to $38 bucks a month, and when my wife and I sat down and looked at it we realized that we only really watch about 4 hours of TV a week, and half of that was channels we could get over antenna. It just didn't make sense to pay that much for the crap that they have on.
It doesn't even have to be non-repeating users.
I have an app that's currently a stand alone, but the licensing for each app has to include a license for a ocr. That makes each install at minimum $50 bucks.
We're taking a hard look at a web interface that runs a 'lite' version of our software for clients of ours that only push low volumes around, and wouldn't be profitable if we had to eat a $50 deployment cost.
According to the games system requirements you fall somewhere between minimum requirements and recommended. You should be able to play with the graphics on low to maybe medium and get about 30fps.
Your system is not a middle tier system. It is a low tier system. Thus you need to turn all the bells and whistles off. Keep in mind, right now TF2 only runs on a single core. Your dual core isn't helping you at all here.
There is hope for you though. Valve has stated that they are bringing over the multicore support that they implemented for Left4Dead to Team Fortress 2. Give it another month and things should start speeding up.
I spent 3 years after college living on $18-20k a year washing dishes. I didn't collect a dime of welfare or use any form of government support, or receive support from family members. Lets make this perfectly clear.
I did it from 2004 to 2007. You sir are full of crap.
My secret was not racking up massive credit card debt. Also working my way through college so I wouldn't have to take out student loans helped.
Not saying that I didn't work with the girl that got pregnant and used it to get a full ride through school, free apartment, and a new suv, while her parents took care of her kid so she could go out and party. She even rubbed it in the face of all the single white moms there because she was black and therefor got a lot more money than they did. Yeah, those people need to go DIAF, but the one person to ever say that to her face got written up after she played the race card.
The point that I'm really trying to get accost here is that it's very possible to live off $20k in 90% of the US. The people that have problems, are having problems due to their own stupidity.
Your analogy doesn't stand up to this circumstance because guns are used for target practice a lot more than they are to kill things.
I don't know what version of the wii you have, but all my SD cards work. I'm using the one that came with my camera (a 512) in there right now.
Really? This is in every EULA. Who cares.
My Chevy Cavalier has a 12 gallon tank and gets about 25 mpg. That's a 375 mile range. Since he's driving in the UK chances are he's doing a lot more city driving than we in the US are and getting about 17 mpg. That's just over 200 miles.
That's not really what the factor is here.
Winter in Michigan includes plowing through large snow drifts, spinning out on the ice slicked roads every time you try to accelerate, and constant driving through deep slush and pot holes.
My little 4 cylinder cavalier gets about 25 mpg average (my commute to work and back) during the summer and about 18 mpg during the winter. That's real driving conditions. And I would expect a stock sunrise to do even worse than 100 miles due to it's low ground clearance.
I'm sure the cube monkey that coded up the gun knows this and accounts for it. However the slower the percieved speed is the harder it is to get a good measurement on how fast it really is going.
Example: Try guessing the speed of a vehicle that's driving at you, vs a vehicle that's driving past you.
In the example of the car driving at you all you have to judge by is the growing image of the car.
Past you and you can actually see the movement.
I'll believe it when they ship... wait this isn't how vaporware is supposed to work.
Next thing you know they'll be telling me that these solar panel thingys are real too.
Where I am AT&T offers 768 down 64 up for $15 a month. I was offered a free month if I upgraded to 1.5 down 384 up so now I pay $20 a month.
Of course where I live I have the option between Jasnet, Iserve, Comcast, WMIS, and AT&T. We used to have SBC and Ameritech in the area too until they got bought out. Weird how prices are so low in our little neighborhood.
Competition is for communists... wait.
Your thermodynamics argument does not take into account one thing.
People poop.
Your horomone levels (and by extension the genes that regulate them) determine how much energy gets converted to food and how much gets converted to poop.
Now who has the bad math jackass.
Calorie for calorie fast food is cheaper than buying food from the store.
Also your idea that you can shop on your way home is offset by the fact that it takes less time to roll through a drive thru on your way home than it does to get out of your car and head to the store.
YMWV (your mileage WILL vary), but on my way home from work I drive past Burger King, 2 McDonalds, Taco Bell, Wendys, Subway, Long John Silvers, BW3, Logans, Fridays, Bennigans, 2 Applebees, IHOP, Perkins, Russ', Zoup, 2 All You Can Eat Buffet places, 2 different Chinese places, and probably a few other ones that I forgot . And I only have a 20 minute commute. There are zero grocery stores (although I could get to one if I took a 10 minute detour). The time and effort required to get fast food is way lower than the time it takes to make it yourself.
When I was single and poor fast food was the best option, if you could moderate yourself. No one is getting fat because they're eating one value meal a day. It's when you think you need to eat a value meal and 3 meals a day that you start packing it on.
Then again I'm 6'4" and naturally stocky. The doctor told me my ideal weight was 230-240lbs.
I haven't had an ATI since my 4meg all-in-wonder pro burned itself out. I said I wouldn't ever buy again, but this has brought me back. Good job ATI. When I go to replace my aging 7600gt, it will be with an ATI product.
Don't forget the article a few weeks ago about them suing a university lazer jet printer.
I feel his pain, those extensions take like 10 seconds to download and install. Woe is me.