I'd do basically the same thing but instead of the CEO (who doesn't really do much real work), I'd give it to the following people: 1) my mom - who is computer illiterate, 2) the most senior "real" user, and 3) the most novice "real" user.
If my mom can figure it out, it's solid UI design. If the most senior user can use it, it's fully functional. If the most novice user can use it, it fits the task.
If it passes all three of those tests, you're done. Take two weeks off and start your next project.
I figured it had to do with piracy rates.....in Europe, they are a more likely to "keep offsite back-ups with frequent integrity checks."*** So one paying customer is subsidizing a couple of unpaying customers......
The assumption being that the facts you present don't incriminate you and thus the law will be on your side.
Judge: Were you speeding? You: No, your honor (+/- u for the Brits) Judge: And your take, officer? Officer who isn't present:
Judge: So, the facts show you weren't speeding and this ticket is dismissed.
At least, that's the idea......if you say, "Yes, I was" or if the officer shows up or you piss off the judge or what have you, it might go differently.
Did you not read any of the articles? Oh, wait, I'm on/. Basically the guy sees the writing on the wall and includes the password equivalent of a dead-man's switch......switch goes off and he's the only one with a key.
But I believe it's pretty standard. In a case of "your word against his", if his is silent, yours wins. I was told that you should always fight a ticket if you think that the officer won't show up (but more and more officers are being required to show up, so I think this is less true now)....it's basically the same thing. If Craigslist didn't care enough to show up, they didn't care enough about the outcome. Of course, there's also something to be said if notification was not properly handled.
Not sure about the "why" in scripting, but there are cases where for performace you might want to unroll a loop, but you have to know an awful lot about how and when the code is being used in order to justify unrolling it (since you are now locked to a specific number of iterations).
The other time that it's good to "unroll" a loop (I guess technically it isn't unrolling them, but eliminating them) is when you are using cursors in the database. If you can rewrite the logic into a SQL statement (or two) instead of using a cursor to iterate, you can (usually) gain a lot of performance. [In fact, seeing cursors overused at the DB level is one of my biggest pet peeves....they have their place, but too many developers rely on what works in their app level language which isn't always best in the DB.] SQL is an SIMD language unlike most languages that programmers deal with, which are SISD; if you can learn to take advantage of that, you can go a long way in the DB world.
You're already modded +5 insightful, but this post should be somewhere near +10 insightful. Anyone who complains about "oppressive" parents is likely not to be one. The world is a scary place out there full of all kinds of people who don't have your kids best interest at heart. These days, it is so much easier for them to find and contact your kids if you aren't careful.
My kids have complete freedom to go anywhere on the Internet they want until they abuse it (I have monitoring software installed and they are aware of it). When they abuse it, they lose priviledges. My oldest is of driving age and we strongly considered one of these tracking devices (most require a monthly service instead of broadcasting to the home computer).
It isn't about oppression; it's about protection. Monitor everything, just don't use it for spying but for protecting; there's a difference. When you are spying, you use the information to look at every little bit. When you are protecting, you use the information to scan for harmful items only.
I call LIAR! If you're that old school, you'd just be telnetting to port 80 and manually getting the file. Then you'd just read it as it streams to the screen. HJKL would be meaningless.
My e-mail goes through my domain, forwarded to Gmail, and then is downloaded to my computer via POP. Gmail is my offsite back-up (that is accessible from anywhere) and home is where I do most of my mail viewing/sending. All of those GB of space, local copies in case Gmail fails, remote copies in case my computer fails. And assuming Google is "not evil", then I should be ok.
I think the main concern is that of royalties to other companies.
Windows code includes the use of code licensed from various parties. MS can only release what they own as PD. You'd still need to pay a license to "whoever else" unless they also released the licensed code as PD.
How about the term "anonymous offsite back-up with frequent integrity testing"?
But honestly, I don't see much point in pirating the games. Most aren't good enough to be worth the effort and those that are should be bought just to support the companies that make good games. When I was younger (kid, had no money), I "acquired" some "back-ups" and frequently "tested the integrity" of those back-ups, but now that I'm older and have money, I just buy the ones I want.
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Actually, many Christian faith have as a fundamental belief the "Priesthood of the believer" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priesthood_of_all_believers which allows that the individual has the right to interpret the Bible as they see fit (and preach that interpretation). So, some will consider it adultery and others will consider it "admiring the works of God". So, there you go.....maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You need to search your own concscience and proceed from there.
The RAW image is the one straight from the camera (basically a RAW dump of the CCD output).
Photo Management includes more than just folders (a good example is tagging -- I want to find all images tagged "Outdoors" or tagged "Porn" or tagged both "Outdoor" and "Porn"). Of course, like folders, tags are only as good as you make them.
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PSX. Most newer BIOSes have this already. I used it to install Ubuntu on a laptop with no optical drive. Works fairly well.
Layne
I'd do basically the same thing but instead of the CEO (who doesn't really do much real work), I'd give it to the following people: 1) my mom - who is computer illiterate, 2) the most senior "real" user, and 3) the most novice "real" user.
If my mom can figure it out, it's solid UI design.
If the most senior user can use it, it's fully functional.
If the most novice user can use it, it fits the task.
If it passes all three of those tests, you're done. Take two weeks off and start your next project.
Layne
I figured it had to do with piracy rates.....in Europe, they are a more likely to "keep offsite back-ups with frequent integrity checks."*** So one paying customer is subsidizing a couple of unpaying customers......
*** for details, see this post and it's related thread: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=609993&cid=24139513
Layne
The assumption being that the facts you present don't incriminate you and thus the law will be on your side.
Judge: Were you speeding?
You: No, your honor (+/- u for the Brits)
Judge: And your take, officer?
Officer who isn't present:
Judge: So, the facts show you weren't speeding and this ticket is dismissed.
At least, that's the idea......if you say, "Yes, I was" or if the officer shows up or you piss off the judge or what have you, it might go differently.
Layne
Did you not read any of the articles? Oh, wait, I'm on /. Basically the guy sees the writing on the wall and includes the password equivalent of a dead-man's switch......switch goes off and he's the only one with a key.
Layne
And there was the whole DVD key series which they didn't squash until other sites.
Layne
They need to know who "Daniel" is so that they know whether to hire more or less security.
Daniel "Danny" Bonnaduce? Hire less because whoever goes in their place won't be that troublesome.
Daniel Craig? Hire more.
Layne
But I believe it's pretty standard. In a case of "your word against his", if his is silent, yours wins. I was told that you should always fight a ticket if you think that the officer won't show up (but more and more officers are being required to show up, so I think this is less true now)....it's basically the same thing. If Craigslist didn't care enough to show up, they didn't care enough about the outcome. Of course, there's also something to be said if notification was not properly handled.
Layne
Hear! Hear! The number one coding standard should be consistency. It is better to be consistent and wrong than to be inconsistent.
Layne
Not sure about the "why" in scripting, but there are cases where for performace you might want to unroll a loop, but you have to know an awful lot about how and when the code is being used in order to justify unrolling it (since you are now locked to a specific number of iterations).
The other time that it's good to "unroll" a loop (I guess technically it isn't unrolling them, but eliminating them) is when you are using cursors in the database. If you can rewrite the logic into a SQL statement (or two) instead of using a cursor to iterate, you can (usually) gain a lot of performance. [In fact, seeing cursors overused at the DB level is one of my biggest pet peeves....they have their place, but too many developers rely on what works in their app level language which isn't always best in the DB.] SQL is an SIMD language unlike most languages that programmers deal with, which are SISD; if you can learn to take advantage of that, you can go a long way in the DB world.
Layne
I thought those were midichlorians / mitichlorians.....
Layne
That was because she pulled "this thread". I guess now you're lying on the floor.....undone.
Layne
It doesn't take that long to become a superhero.....just look here: http://www.scifi.com/superhero/
Layne
You're already modded +5 insightful, but this post should be somewhere near +10 insightful. Anyone who complains about "oppressive" parents is likely not to be one. The world is a scary place out there full of all kinds of people who don't have your kids best interest at heart. These days, it is so much easier for them to find and contact your kids if you aren't careful.
My kids have complete freedom to go anywhere on the Internet they want until they abuse it (I have monitoring software installed and they are aware of it). When they abuse it, they lose priviledges. My oldest is of driving age and we strongly considered one of these tracking devices (most require a monthly service instead of broadcasting to the home computer).
It isn't about oppression; it's about protection. Monitor everything, just don't use it for spying but for protecting; there's a difference. When you are spying, you use the information to look at every little bit. When you are protecting, you use the information to scan for harmful items only.
Layne
I've seen pictures of Gabriel Anwar.......pretty hot (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000270/).....especially in certain scenes in Body Snatchers.
Layne
Apparently your karma isn't high enough to use the post editor......
Layne
I call LIAR! If you're that old school, you'd just be telnetting to port 80 and manually getting the file. Then you'd just read it as it streams to the screen. HJKL would be meaningless.
Layne
Why bother looking them up? We all know that 64.9% of all statistics are made up on the fly. The other 36.7% are erroneous.
Layne
My e-mail goes through my domain, forwarded to Gmail, and then is downloaded to my computer via POP. Gmail is my offsite back-up (that is accessible from anywhere) and home is where I do most of my mail viewing/sending. All of those GB of space, local copies in case Gmail fails, remote copies in case my computer fails. And assuming Google is "not evil", then I should be ok.
Layne
I used to drop back to DOS even under Windows 95/98.......I had a bootable floppy that I would use to do recovery for friends and relatives.
Layne
I think the main concern is that of royalties to other companies.
Windows code includes the use of code licensed from various parties. MS can only release what they own as PD. You'd still need to pay a license to "whoever else" unless they also released the licensed code as PD.
Layne
You Linux people and your cryptic commands.....
^Hworks just fine[TAB]functions the same as it did before the patch[ALT-A]
Much fewer keystrokes.
Layne
How about the term "anonymous offsite back-up with frequent integrity testing"?
But honestly, I don't see much point in pirating the games. Most aren't good enough to be worth the effort and those that are should be bought just to support the companies that make good games. When I was younger (kid, had no money), I "acquired" some "back-ups" and frequently "tested the integrity" of those back-ups, but now that I'm older and have money, I just buy the ones I want.
Layne
Actually, many Christian faith have as a fundamental belief the "Priesthood of the believer" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priesthood_of_all_believers which allows that the individual has the right to interpret the Bible as they see fit (and preach that interpretation). So, some will consider it adultery and others will consider it "admiring the works of God". So, there you go.....maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You need to search your own concscience and proceed from there.
Layne
The RAW image is the one straight from the camera (basically a RAW dump of the CCD output).
Photo Management includes more than just folders (a good example is tagging -- I want to find all images tagged "Outdoors" or tagged "Porn" or tagged both "Outdoor" and "Porn"). Of course, like folders, tags are only as good as you make them.
Layne