agreed, to an extent... I think the problem is, however... they've touched on a lot of exploring. they've saved entire populations from problems both local and galactic. what's left that SG1 hasn't covered, Atlantis hasn't tried to cover, Star Trek never covered? The series is 10 years old... I think it's hard to come up with truly new material, week after week after week, all revolving around the Stargate concept. They're in a box, and they've done a good job of filling it up, now it's starting to feel like it's bursting at the seams.
Mmmmmm... sorry... but not so much. There has been no SG1 specific movie. Stargate the series, wherein SG1 first existed, grew out of the original movie's (Stargate) storyline, it picks up a year or so after the movie... there have been public plans in the works for a movie for at least 6 months now, but no movie has been released to date that is SG1 specific.
The SG-1 story is played out. Season after season, it had grown repetitive -- defeat seemingly invincible evil empire of bad guys after impending doom scenario, wash, repeat. At first, despite being a hardcore sci fi buff, and enjoying the movie as an adolescent, I found the series campy, and almost unwatchable, even with RDA (old school MacGyver fan here too) in a leading role. A year or two into it, it finally grabbed my interest. The Go'auld plot line was original, I finally had a replacement for ST: TNG. Then along came the Replicators, and deja vu set in. The Ori were the final straw for me -- more all-powerful bad guys who, in 10-15 episodes, are suddenly not so all-powerful anymore. SG: Atlantis has been a disappointment as well. The franchise is beat, let this horse be dead in peace already.
Sequel? What sequel? The original movie, not a sequel, was parlayed into the series on Showtime for the first five seasons, then picked up for syndication by... for some reason I want to say ABC, but NBC makes more sense, (though I think Showtime is owned by CBS?) who played it late night until it was pawned off on SciFi, where it enjoyed booming success. The first sequel movie will be one of the two discussed here...
If those inflammatory substances are _metabolized by_ the liver... that would make symptoms go away as the level of the substances is reduced... if my liver had failed, then the substances would be in my bloodstream longer (possibly forever) continuing to cause the symptoms that I'm not experiencing to begin with... yes?
That said, my liver IS stressed, my triglyceride level is waaay too high.
Totally irrelevant and/or redundant, but thanks for posting... a majority of attacks exploit overflows, no doubt there, but does a single worm rely on multiple overflows?
"the majority"... "used in about two-thirds"... forgive my ignorance, but do worm attacks typically use multiple buffer overruns to do their dirty deeds, or is this simply poorly written?
As someone who came of age early in the ASP era, and got rocked by the OO reality of.Net, (having programmed BASICA, GW-BASIC and QBasic since the age of 7) I used to feel like this about Microsoft. However, I think your post lacks perspective and depth of experience. Microsoft, a relatively young company, was in a highly transitional phase. Their support for C++ however hasn't changed much, and that technology is still in wide use. Yes, the other languages in.Net are, for the most part, pretty new, but.Net 1.0/1.1 --> 2.0 represented little significant change in the basics of the languages involved. We can expect the same moving forward into 3.0..NET is here to stay, and I don't believe Microsoft is going to risk shaving their developer base by making any drastic changes to the fundamentals of the languages currently in use, now, or anytime in the foreseeable future.
I've worked for Gannett. I've worked for Xerox. I currently work for another large corporation. Music (headphones) wasn't, and isn't, forbidden. Yes, you have to pay attention to your phone, it's a matter of being responsible and professional.
Gannett used to give me a "blackout" period where I could spend several hours a day ignoring the phone, keeping my office door closed and ignoring anyone knocking, and just rocking out while coding crazy. At Gannett and Xerox I had full admin rights to my machine, and to many others, servers, other desktops, etc. At my current position, I am a local admin (my machine), and admin on the servers I work with. Xerox had some of the best equipment I could ever have asked for. My current employer, my box rocks, and my monitor, while a CRT, is 21", as was my monitor at Gannett (though the box was iffy).
I've worked for several large (50,000+) corporations, and I've worked for startups. I've done most of my work in MS technologies. Several times, including my current position, I've been lucky to be working in an MS environment with all the security of a large corporation, with a group of people who are just as fired up about what they do as the guys were at the small shops I worked in. Don't forgo the money of the.NET position just because it's for a large, impersonal corporation. DO forgo it if the environment SUCKS. You should be able to tell what kind of place it is from the interview -- did fellow developers spend time with you? What were their attitudes like? Large corporations aren't necessarily boring and evil.
Self-educate and self-employ. Read the relevant industry magazines and journals. Read the important (current AND classic) books in the tech you're interested in working with. Most importantly, and perhaps most difficulty, WORK WITH THOSE TECHNOLOGIES. Linux is fairly cheap to step into as a hobbyist... Windows/MS technologies, not so cheap, but with BitTorrent, anything is possible. (I don't advocate piracy, but I also don't advocate an industry or field pricing itself beyond being learned by a hobbyist or amateur.) Run a database server. Run a web server. Run a network with as much stuff, as many devices, as you can afford to put on it. Write applications for your desktop, your mobile phone, your toaster, or anything else you can slap code on. Do the IT support thing, as a sideline, if nothing else... however, doing IT support usually, in my experience, can lead to bigger and better things, like solving a company's problems with a new server environment or a custom application. Once you've got some actual experience, it's pretty easy, in the economy of the moment, to get an interview -- if HR blows you off because you don't have a degree, the company wasn't worth your time anyways. Market yourself. Also, try using a recruiter.
yet another sign of the death of the newspaper. Gannett has been attempting to mine the "local data machine" for a couple years now, stumbling every step of the way. Like most of their "initiatives," it will be too little, far too late. Innovativeness is not their trademark -- as a former webmaster and software engineer for Gannett, I can attest to this. They don't understand the technology, and beyond marketing demographics, they don't understand the general public. They understand margins and budgets, and that's where it ends.
One Gannetteer is quoted by the article as saying the future of journalism will require more programmers than copy editors... too bad Gannett has never understood technology people, much less the tech itself. It's tech staff are underpaid, and treated very poorly in comparison with newsroom-sitting reporters and editors. Tech staff have, typically, been segregated from the news process, their roles marginalized by an industry that sees the Internet as a necessary evil.
amen to that! I wish more HR departments really understood that. Xerox is pretty good about ergonomics, other major corporations I've worked for have pinched pennies in that department. company I now work for, the chairs are debatable at best...
and if so... where the heck are you coming from on this one?
stagnant technology with little power but with a huge knowledge base vs. overly dynamic technologies with lots of power and a varying knowledge base...
Slashdot Mirror
AMEN to that! (And I mean that in a totally non-religious way ... religion and fanboydom are too much the same ...)
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Steve Jobs+backdated options==APPLE IS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER CORPORATION
If THAT isn't enough to prove the point, I don't know what is. I guess I might as well bring up sweatshops producing iPods while we're at it though
agreed, to an extent ... I think the problem is, however ... they've touched on a lot of exploring. they've saved entire populations from problems both local and galactic. what's left that SG1 hasn't covered, Atlantis hasn't tried to cover, Star Trek never covered? The series is 10 years old ... I think it's hard to come up with truly new material, week after week after week, all revolving around the Stargate concept. They're in a box, and they've done a good job of filling it up, now it's starting to feel like it's bursting at the seams.
Mmmmmm ... sorry ... but not so much. There has been no SG1 specific movie. Stargate the series, wherein SG1 first existed, grew out of the original movie's (Stargate) storyline, it picks up a year or so after the movie ... there have been public plans in the works for a movie for at least 6 months now, but no movie has been released to date that is SG1 specific.
The SG-1 story is played out. Season after season, it had grown repetitive -- defeat seemingly invincible evil empire of bad guys after impending doom scenario, wash, repeat. At first, despite being a hardcore sci fi buff, and enjoying the movie as an adolescent, I found the series campy, and almost unwatchable, even with RDA (old school MacGyver fan here too) in a leading role. A year or two into it, it finally grabbed my interest. The Go'auld plot line was original, I finally had a replacement for ST: TNG. Then along came the Replicators, and deja vu set in. The Ori were the final straw for me -- more all-powerful bad guys who, in 10-15 episodes, are suddenly not so all-powerful anymore. SG: Atlantis has been a disappointment as well. The franchise is beat, let this horse be dead in peace already.
Sequel? What sequel? The original movie, not a sequel, was parlayed into the series on Showtime for the first five seasons, then picked up for syndication by ... for some reason I want to say ABC, but NBC makes more sense, (though I think Showtime is owned by CBS?) who played it late night until it was pawned off on SciFi, where it enjoyed booming success. The first sequel movie will be one of the two discussed here ...
mo' money, mo' money, mo' money. Apple, greedy? Say it ain't so!
... I'm not a fanboy ... and they're just like any other corporation ...
Oh wait
nor 'a' billboard trigger for that matter.
Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not an billboard trigger.
If those inflammatory substances are _metabolized by_ the liver ... that would make symptoms go away as the level of the substances is reduced ... if my liver had failed, then the substances would be in my bloodstream longer (possibly forever) continuing to cause the symptoms that I'm not experiencing to begin with ... yes?
That said, my liver IS stressed, my triglyceride level is waaay too high.
Every morning since I started drinking regularly ... but at the same time, I haven't had a cold since then either.
Totally irrelevant and/or redundant, but thanks for posting ... a majority of attacks exploit overflows, no doubt there, but does a single worm rely on multiple overflows?
"the majority" ... "used in about two-thirds" ... forgive my ignorance, but do worm attacks typically use multiple buffer overruns to do their dirty deeds, or is this simply poorly written?
As someone who came of age early in the ASP era, and got rocked by the OO reality of .Net, (having programmed BASICA, GW-BASIC and QBasic since the age of 7) I used to feel like this about Microsoft. However, I think your post lacks perspective and depth of experience. Microsoft, a relatively young company, was in a highly transitional phase. Their support for C++ however hasn't changed much, and that technology is still in wide use. Yes, the other languages in .Net are, for the most part, pretty new, but .Net 1.0/1.1 --> 2.0 represented little significant change in the basics of the languages involved. We can expect the same moving forward into 3.0. .NET is here to stay, and I don't believe Microsoft is going to risk shaving their developer base by making any drastic changes to the fundamentals of the languages currently in use, now, or anytime in the foreseeable future.
I've worked for Gannett. I've worked for Xerox. I currently work for another large corporation. Music (headphones) wasn't, and isn't, forbidden. Yes, you have to pay attention to your phone, it's a matter of being responsible and professional.
Gannett used to give me a "blackout" period where I could spend several hours a day ignoring the phone, keeping my office door closed and ignoring anyone knocking, and just rocking out while coding crazy. At Gannett and Xerox I had full admin rights to my machine, and to many others, servers, other desktops, etc. At my current position, I am a local admin (my machine), and admin on the servers I work with. Xerox had some of the best equipment I could ever have asked for. My current employer, my box rocks, and my monitor, while a CRT, is 21", as was my monitor at Gannett (though the box was iffy).
I've worked for several large (50,000+) corporations, and I've worked for startups. I've done most of my work in MS technologies. Several times, including my current position, I've been lucky to be working in an MS environment with all the security of a large corporation, with a group of people who are just as fired up about what they do as the guys were at the small shops I worked in. Don't forgo the money of the .NET position just because it's for a large, impersonal corporation. DO forgo it if the environment SUCKS. You should be able to tell what kind of place it is from the interview -- did fellow developers spend time with you? What were their attitudes like? Large corporations aren't necessarily boring and evil.
Self-educate and self-employ. Read the relevant industry magazines and journals. Read the important (current AND classic) books in the tech you're interested in working with. Most importantly, and perhaps most difficulty, WORK WITH THOSE TECHNOLOGIES. Linux is fairly cheap to step into as a hobbyist ... Windows/MS technologies, not so cheap, but with BitTorrent, anything is possible. (I don't advocate piracy, but I also don't advocate an industry or field pricing itself beyond being learned by a hobbyist or amateur.) Run a database server. Run a web server. Run a network with as much stuff, as many devices, as you can afford to put on it. Write applications for your desktop, your mobile phone, your toaster, or anything else you can slap code on. Do the IT support thing, as a sideline, if nothing else ... however, doing IT support usually, in my experience, can lead to bigger and better things, like solving a company's problems with a new server environment or a custom application. Once you've got some actual experience, it's pretty easy, in the economy of the moment, to get an interview -- if HR blows you off because you don't have a degree, the company wasn't worth your time anyways. Market yourself. Also, try using a recruiter.
yet another sign of the death of the newspaper. Gannett has been attempting to mine the "local data machine" for a couple years now, stumbling every step of the way. Like most of their "initiatives," it will be too little, far too late. Innovativeness is not their trademark -- as a former webmaster and software engineer for Gannett, I can attest to this. They don't understand the technology, and beyond marketing demographics, they don't understand the general public. They understand margins and budgets, and that's where it ends.
... too bad Gannett has never understood technology people, much less the tech itself. It's tech staff are underpaid, and treated very poorly in comparison with newsroom-sitting reporters and editors. Tech staff have, typically, been segregated from the news process, their roles marginalized by an industry that sees the Internet as a necessary evil.
One Gannetteer is quoted by the article as saying the future of journalism will require more programmers than copy editors
amen to that! I wish more HR departments really understood that. Xerox is pretty good about ergonomics, other major corporations I've worked for have pinched pennies in that department. company I now work for, the chairs are debatable at best ...
???
... where the heck are you coming from on this one?
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classic VB?
and if so
stagnant technology with little power but with a huge knowledge base vs. overly dynamic technologies with lots of power and a varying knowledge base
thx for mirroring
reading the article itself might clue you in ... just a thought ...
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Sleep is for those who can't afford a maintenance routine of methamphetamine
This guy's right on -- moderators, maybe you could see your way to recognizing that fact?
And what if you're a "criminal" only as defined by an unjust law? This only further exacerbates the potential harm that can be caused...
fizz -- tell me you're trolling.
because of course we've never heard of Echelon.
So when will we see "Hypocritical" and "Child-like" added to the list of descriptive terms moderators have access to?