There are companies that do this. I'm fortunate enough to work for one.

It could, or it could not.

The question is whether it will save you at least the overhead, where the overhead is a scrum master + 6.25% of the total project. Let's call that 10% total overhead.

If SCRUM doesn't save you 10%, it wasn't worth it--you should've used something else or nothing at all.

I see. On your PC that you bought from Best Buy 11 years ago, you were able to have your shows recorded to a digital medium from any arbitrary analog source? You could both watch a show and record something else, simultaneously? You had software that utilized a control scheme that realized you were human and it took you some time from the time you saw what you wanted to watch to when you pressed the button and adjusted accordingly? You had software that kept up with the shows you were watching, scheduling recordings based on a priority list, adjusted recording times when schedule changes occurred and warned you about conflicts when you recorded new shows? And you managed to do all of this for ~$450 (with no future expenditure required)?

Calling all of that innovation trivial is remarkably disingenuous.

What you're talking about is not particularly a good idea though, and would be done only by specific programs where they know that they need to have very large (> 2GB) data sets available, in memory, all at once, and that they are to be deployed on 32-bit systems--and was written entirely by masochists.

In order to take advantage of this functionality, the application would need to manage its own page table. Or instead of doing so, they could continue to allow the OS to manage it for them by either:

1) Targeting a 64-bit platform (easiest)
2) Providing a multi-process solution where each process provides access to no more than 2 Gb each, and then use a handle-based approach to access data in other processes.

Either of these solutions is both easier to implement (the first case in fact is trivial, but reduces your potential market footprint) than managing your own page table with the OS--which is error prone. Oh, and note that the second solution will take advantage of something else you're likely trying to do: scale versus the number of cores.

I don't suffer the lag you're talking about. I run a gtx260+ at 2560x1600 with 8xAA and every option turned up. I'm usually at 60, and never below 30.

I don't get network lag either, except when my cable is acting up. I run 25-mans and have no problems in Dalaran even when it's packed.

Moreover, I find the graphics and effects in WoTLK to be quite good. Sure they're not EQ2, but that's not the art style they're going for, so that's fine with me.

Shrug, to each their own I suppose.

Usually at the end of the interview, I ask if I can speak with someone I'll be directly working with. Then I ask them questions like:

How do you like the work you're doing? Do you find it engaging and interesting? Is there a lot of red-tape to getting things done?

And my personal favorite. "What is your least favorite thing about this place?"

Answers like "my boss" or "work environment" are typically red flags to me. I'm looking for companies that wow me, though.

Oh you newbies, reading articles before submitting them.

Why would anyone think that paying by the mile would reduce the amount I'm driving?

I don't go on long jaunts around the town just for the hell of it, I go because I need to get somewhere, or pick something up.

So pretty much what this would do is either be a savings for me--because it'd be less than my buffet style policy--or it'd be more expensive for me. I'm guessing that the majority of people, myself included, would fall into the latter category.

He mentioned terrorism and the war on drugs in a positive manner.

That would make his post rightist, not leftist.

Just sayin'.

But at least it's not redirecting me to a page offering me other helpful links.

Maybe I'm not in one of the test areas. (Austin).

This is laughably false if you stick to ANSI/ISO SQL. SQL is itself vendor-agnostic, it's a promise for an api.

Don't use vendor specific queries and you'll be completely portable. I've migrated many applications and DBs between postgresql, mysql, sqllite and oracle with little difficulty.

More importantly, I don't care what happens to someone who willfully takes drugs in a non-prescribed manner. If you want to suicide by drugs, please make sure your living will is up to date.

This is great advice, although I don't particularly agree that a pharmacist will have better knowledge of the drug interactions. My wife is an ob/gyn, and apart from the fact that she spent most of her second year of medical school learning about drugs and their interactions, she also has to continue to educate herself on new medications (including their interactions).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking pharmacists--they're good people and they know what they know.

He's not trolling. Did you read the article?

Their emulator is capable of executing arbitrary BASIC code. That's like complaining that you spent a bunch of time writing a Java emulator for the iphone but then it was rejected. It's clearly disallowed, and that's not unreasonable--if they didn't disallow it, it would basically make the app store completely useless. People could write apps that were specifically intended to run on your execution platform, and completely bypass the app store. While you may not agree with this decision, it's reasonable as-is.

What I'm certain they'll be able to do is what Sega and others have done, and release a game pack that has a few games, but doesn't support downloadable content, or release one (or a few) game(s) at a time that uses their emulator backend for $0.99 each. I suspect as long as they don't expose their emulator directly, they'll be fine.

(And frankly, if you're going to argue that a programmable calculator or even a chip-8 emulator is in the same category as a BASIC interpreter, you're simply wrong).

A complete dismissal by the general population is likely appropriate, though.

You should be doing the same things you always do to avoid illness: wash your hands frequently, cover your mouth when you sneeze/cough, stay home when you're sick. If you're in a position where you're likely to encounter the disease (medical profession, travelling to areas that have seen high numbers of infections), then you should definitely study up on what you can do to promote general health (both others and your own).

It's wrong that the media cries wolf every time anything remotely "scary" happens, just like they did with Avian Flu, and just like they were doing a few months ago. It desensitizes the population in a very real way.