My 12" iBook really does get almost 8 hours on a charge, no problem.
And if I'm near enough to civilization to have the wireless work, I'm near enough to just plug it in anyway. And if I'm not in wireless range, it's intentional and I don't want to be on a computer at all.
But maybe you have one of those "portable" desktop systems, heavily promoted by chiropractors since they are great for business.
Sorry, the whole premise of this article is false.
These sites exist ONLY to fulfill an employers legal requirement to "post" jobs publicly for a certain time period (varies by state) before they can hire whoever the heck they want to. Of course, you still have to hire the federal quota of women and minorities, but that's not an issue these days, since women and minorities have the skills too, and you can always just offshore.
So if you're looking for a job on these sites, instead of networking through friends and relatives... well, you're just a fool, sorry but you're going to have to go outside and get some friends.
Why is there such a fundamental disconnect between the engineers and *everyone* else in a business environment?
Because it's the only way to get any work done.
Every group usually has one person that does all the work, the rest just have meetings all day and pretend to be useful. If you're smart about it, you can sacrifice a member of the group, and they go do all the meeting stuff, and the other n-1 can actually do something. Those are the companies that win.
I don't see one post rated above 2 that isn't a language flame.
How about the same it's always been.
1. Design it well. 2. Hire good people (yes this rules out outsourcing of any kind, they dont give a damn about your code, only your money). 3. Test it. 4. Test it again.
Language doesn't matter, testing does. But testing costs money, and that's bad, so just use Java, noone EVER makes an error in Java - or Python/.Net/Ruby or whatever the hype of the day is when you read this.
Wikipedia is only of any use for things that are purely factual/scientific, and in no way about a person/company, or worst of all history.
Any entry that's about anyone or anything that's "interesting" is going to suffer from edit mania, and revisionism to a great degree. But that's what it is, we all accept that, and assume any entry that's "interesting" is pure crap.
Article on science are awesome, and tend to be detailed and updated with all the newest findings and theories.
Overall Wikipedia rocks, as long as you know what NOT to look for:)
To really use it properly, you have to download a commercial bittorrent client. You have to use a commercial client to download commercial stuff, or you're really only going half way now aren't you. All the other pirates would laugh at you and laugh *Arrr Arrr Arrr*
But how do you download the first bittorrent client, since you don't yet have bittorrent? Hmmmmmmmm...;)
This looks exactly like something I saw at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in about 1996... freakily similar in fact - that won an award too.
Of course that looked kinda like something I had seen in an article from the 80's....
Which looked alot like the stuff they played with tin the 70's...
Oh screw it, it wont be commercially successful this time either. Those connections last about 13 seconds around a 3 year old kid, or a clumsy adult.
Not worried about Linux much, I'm sure that one is already ported.
But unless I can tri-boot the big-3 (or more to the point, VM them), we're all gonna have to keep the Windows XP boxen around for Development (read: games). This is not acceptable, PC's are just too loud and power hungry.
Apple knows this, so does everyone else. By the time they ship, the "problem" will be solved.
People that NEED displays that big all have access to the education or developer discount. Most people can build a dual monitor system cheaper, and get the same pixels.
So all Dell did was match Apples prices - and add shitty quality, tech support in some place far far away, and a "don't-give-a-damn" attitude about anyone that's not gov or large business account. Oh and a $5 USB hub - ooooooooo, big spenders.
99% of job postings are custom written for the person they already plan to hire. They only post at all to comply with federal posting requirements. So even reading such things is a waste of your time, I've never gotten a job that way, and dont know anyone who has. I have had a few job postings composed from my resume tho:)
Thats just reality.
The most critical skill in 2006 is the same as it was in 2006BC - people skills. Or in the context of IT jobs, just more people skills then the next guy, which is probably next to zero.
I don't give a rats ass about gigahertz anymore, nor about megabytes of cache. Every CPU they still sell has "plenty" of both, and everyone is using clusters in the real world.
What I do care about is the watts, heat and JigaDollars that it costs to power and cool the thing. Especially with rooms of 100's of them.
Just got the parents both Mac Mini systems. Cheap, quiet, AND cool. No more IE Virus Engine® or Outlook Spam Engine® is just an added bonus.
Patents were great when I was an inventor or researcher. But now that I'm a VC whose job is to takeover companies and screw the inventors out of all the money, patents are a pain. They take too long which is slowing down my screwing, please speed things up...
I think that cuts throught the BS and gets at what he means.
Yea, because what you want is to play with all the kids too young to have a credit card. It's well known that the freaks all disappear once the credit card is needed, happens in all MMORPG.
I do not update mine because I do not want the 1-2k spams a day for 6 months every time you update your domain info. The 1k I already get (all nuked by Thunderbird) is plenty.
I recently had no choice but to update my student loan info and now I get 1-2 loan consolidations and 3-4 credit card offers in the snailmail EVERY DAY for the last 3 months. Thats easily a large trash can full of paper because I updated in a government database.
The environmental effects alone should make it illegal for anyone to ever update anything.
If you want visitors/customers you have to pay off Google. If you don't pay Google 99.9% of your profits, someone else will, and you will get no visitors.
Welcome to a search engine driven internet. If it wasn't Google, it would be Microsoft
Good news is, this applies to your competitors too, so the long term end result is, people get sick of Google and just give everything away for free, because all profits would have to goto Google anyway. Middlemen will all cease to exist, and you will just order directly from the people that make the stuff, and pick a shipping method. Only like 3 plants on Earth make CRTs anymore, but you can buy one from at least 100,000 stores - not for long.
Bad news is, most free stuff is crap, and because smart people will all turn their time and attention to making things they can make a living off of, the free stuff will be even more crap-tacular. Leaving us with nothing but the blogs *shivers*
Those 10 things applied at every job I've ever had, except for the laundry. Maybe you have just worked for really bad or disorganized companies, but there is nothing new on that list. I think every last one of them is part of even a basic business course from the 1800's, even "pack them in".
And they are an advertising company. The second most evil thing humans can do to each other (right behind lawyering) without actually killing them, so do no evil is a joke. Also as a publicly traded company they are legally required to do any and all evil neccesary to maximize profits, else they get to goto jail, where the third most evil thing will happen to them.
And once again, Slashdot eats the dogfood. *laughs*
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My 12" iBook really does get almost 8 hours on a charge, no problem.
And if I'm near enough to civilization to have the wireless work, I'm near enough to just plug it in anyway. And if I'm not in wireless range, it's intentional and I don't want to be on a computer at all.
But maybe you have one of those "portable" desktop systems, heavily promoted by chiropractors since they are great for business.
Sorry, the whole premise of this article is false.
These sites exist ONLY to fulfill an employers legal requirement to "post" jobs publicly for a certain time period (varies by state) before they can hire whoever the heck they want to. Of course, you still have to hire the federal quota of women and minorities, but that's not an issue these days, since women and minorities have the skills too, and you can always just offshore.
So if you're looking for a job on these sites, instead of networking through friends and relatives... well, you're just a fool, sorry but you're going to have to go outside and get some friends.
Shocking huh.
Why is there such a fundamental disconnect between the engineers and *everyone* else in a business environment?
Because it's the only way to get any work done.
Every group usually has one person that does all the work, the rest just have meetings all day and pretend to be useful. If you're smart about it, you can sacrifice a member of the group, and they go do all the meeting stuff, and the other n-1 can actually do something. Those are the companies that win.
I don't see one post rated above 2 that isn't a language flame.
How about the same it's always been.
1. Design it well.
2. Hire good people (yes this rules out outsourcing of any kind, they dont give a damn about your code, only your money).
3. Test it.
4. Test it again.
Language doesn't matter, testing does. But testing costs money, and that's bad, so just use Java, noone EVER makes an error in Java - or Python/.Net/Ruby or whatever the hype of the day is when you read this.
Good grief.
Wikipedia is only of any use for things that are purely factual/scientific, and in no way about a person/company, or worst of all history.
:)
Any entry that's about anyone or anything that's "interesting" is going to suffer from edit mania, and revisionism to a great degree. But that's what it is, we all accept that, and assume any entry that's "interesting" is pure crap.
Article on science are awesome, and tend to be detailed and updated with all the newest findings and theories.
Overall Wikipedia rocks, as long as you know what NOT to look for
An evil minior of the cookie mafia?
;)
I wouldn't call him that
There is a bootstrapping problem with BT...
;)
To really use it properly, you have to download a commercial bittorrent client. You have to use a commercial client to download commercial stuff, or you're really only going half way now aren't you. All the other pirates would laugh at you and laugh *Arrr Arrr Arrr*
But how do you download the first bittorrent client, since you don't yet have bittorrent? Hmmmmmmmm...
We have a new winner...
The old king was a 45 year old 350lb man who spent his days in his parents basement watching porn and playing WoW pretending to be a 16 year old girl.
But these guys that built an 11 tuner PVR becasue they just couldnt get enough porn blow right past 11 on the loser scale.
Please find your nearest suicide booth, ASAP.
Wow, that's almost 12U of rack space. Oh my *yawn*
Now the fact that that's all genetic data, that's amazing considering a human is only ~1GB so 22,000 humans worth.
This looks exactly like something I saw at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in about 1996... freakily similar in fact - that won an award too.
Of course that looked kinda like something I had seen in an article from the 80's....
Which looked alot like the stuff they played with tin the 70's...
Oh screw it, it wont be commercially successful this time either. Those connections last about 13 seconds around a 3 year old kid, or a clumsy adult.
Not worried about Linux much, I'm sure that one is already ported.
But unless I can tri-boot the big-3 (or more to the point, VM them), we're all gonna have to keep the Windows XP boxen around for Development (read: games). This is not acceptable, PC's are just too loud and power hungry.
Apple knows this, so does everyone else. By the time they ship, the "problem" will be solved.
God is saying...
"You're screwing up my planet, I'm going to kick your ass now."
And you dont know anyone in college?
People that NEED displays that big all have access to the education or developer discount. Most people can build a dual monitor system cheaper, and get the same pixels.
So all Dell did was match Apples prices - and add shitty quality, tech support in some place far far away, and a "don't-give-a-damn" attitude about anyone that's not gov or large business account. Oh and a $5 USB hub - ooooooooo, big spenders.
Anyone with any sense will go with the Apple.
Oh hush. Noone needs to be reminded we're 5 years behind Europe and 10 behind Japan, no matter how true it is.
Why I hear just last year in Alabama they got these boxes with moving pictures, called a telleovishun.
99% of job postings are custom written for the person they already plan to hire. They only post at all to comply with federal posting requirements. So even reading such things is a waste of your time, I've never gotten a job that way, and dont know anyone who has. I have had a few job postings composed from my resume tho :)
Thats just reality.
The most critical skill in 2006 is the same as it was in 2006BC - people skills. Or in the context of IT jobs, just more people skills then the next guy, which is probably next to zero.
Where do you think you are? This is Slashdot... yes, it's advertising.
I don't give a rats ass about gigahertz anymore, nor about megabytes of cache. Every CPU they still sell has "plenty" of both, and everyone is using clusters in the real world.
What I do care about is the watts, heat and JigaDollars that it costs to power and cool the thing. Especially with rooms of 100's of them.
Just got the parents both Mac Mini systems. Cheap, quiet, AND cool. No more IE Virus Engine® or Outlook Spam Engine® is just an added bonus.
In summary...
Patents were great when I was an inventor or researcher. But now that I'm a VC whose job is to takeover companies and screw the inventors out of all the money, patents are a pain. They take too long which is slowing down my screwing, please speed things up...
I think that cuts throught the BS and gets at what he means.
Yea, because what you want is to play with all the kids too young to have a credit card. It's well known that the freaks all disappear once the credit card is needed, happens in all MMORPG.
Avoid "stress test" time like the plague.
I do not update mine because I do not want the 1-2k spams a day for 6 months every time you update your domain info. The 1k I already get (all nuked by Thunderbird) is plenty.
I recently had no choice but to update my student loan info and now I get 1-2 loan consolidations and 3-4 credit card offers in the snailmail EVERY DAY for the last 3 months. Thats easily a large trash can full of paper because I updated in a government database.
The environmental effects alone should make it illegal for anyone to ever update anything.
bloggers:tech_world_elite :: script_kiddies:security _world_elite
Perfect.
And just like the script kiddies, everyone tells them how cool they are while laughing once they walk away.
Already happened. China is rapidly taking business away from India.
Next are Microsoft Congo, and Microsoft slave camp.
If you want visitors/customers you have to pay off Google. If you don't pay Google 99.9% of your profits, someone else will, and you will get no visitors.
Welcome to a search engine driven internet. If it wasn't Google, it would be Microsoft
Good news is, this applies to your competitors too, so the long term end result is, people get sick of Google and just give everything away for free, because all profits would have to goto Google anyway. Middlemen will all cease to exist, and you will just order directly from the people that make the stuff, and pick a shipping method. Only like 3 plants on Earth make CRTs anymore, but you can buy one from at least 100,000 stores - not for long.
Bad news is, most free stuff is crap, and because smart people will all turn their time and attention to making things they can make a living off of, the free stuff will be even more crap-tacular. Leaving us with nothing but the blogs *shivers*
Those 10 things applied at every job I've ever had, except for the laundry. Maybe you have just worked for really bad or disorganized companies, but there is nothing new on that list. I think every last one of them is part of even a basic business course from the 1800's, even "pack them in".
And they are an advertising company. The second most evil thing humans can do to each other (right behind lawyering) without actually killing them, so do no evil is a joke. Also as a publicly traded company they are legally required to do any and all evil neccesary to maximize profits, else they get to goto jail, where the third most evil thing will happen to them.
And once again, Slashdot eats the dogfood. *laughs*