Decent pay and pay-rises. Sensible hours. Reasonable benefits. Extra pay/time in lieu for overtime. Honest managers. If the work is interesting, so much the better.
It's not rocket science, but in 30 years I've yet to find a company that has all the above.
...about 10 years ago, we had some performance issues related to the NVidia cards included with a large batch of HP workstation-class PCs purchased by the investment bank I worked for.
We had sufficient clout to drag in the local NVidia reps to answer our questions... after a bit of a grilling, and discussion of the reference numbers on the various bits of silicon soldered to the cards, they admitted that the total RAM claimed to be on these cards (64Mb IIRC) was actually half on the card and half from system RAM, and required a specific version of the driver to make work. Without that driver, you had half the video RAM you had expected... and paid for.
Since then, none of the unscrupulously weaselly behaviour of this company has surprised me, and they've not had a penny of my money nor of any company I worked for since.
NVidia has always been fabless, but AMD owned its own fabrication plants until a few years ago... when they were spun off into a separate company called Global Foundries.
switch to another modern operating system, such as OS X...
Oh yes, because that would be such a simple and painless transition, with no legal or software-compatibility issues whatsoever...
To be honest, I'm having trouble determining who should win the "Stupid Cunt of the Year" prize - the "author" of TFA for not being able to perceive the difference between an OS and an application, or the "editor" for letting such drivel onto/.
Or, I suppose, myself for expecting any better from/. nowadays...
Which bit of the above did you not bother to read and/or understand?
Or perhaps I could suggest that creating electricity by wind and/or water power is trivially achievable, once you know it can be done and that the requirement exists...
... which is why I have no qualms about my place in a post-apocalypse world. I can sow, reap, hew, sew and, in such an environment, come up with at least two answers to any question beginning with "How can we...?"
"GUIs are walled gardens in that features available in one piece of software is not available to other pieces of software.
Never mind it should be "are" not "is", under what circumstances would you ever be surprised that the features provided by Excel are not available in PhotoShop... with the exception of cut/copy/paste?
Did I miss a meeting where meretricious twaddle on this site became de rigour?
Ceterus parabus, many corporate senior management being toured around a volcano-lair-datacentre will pay a bit over the odds for co-lo when the alternative is some random industrial park warehouse.
"The Russians put our camera made by *our* German scientists and your film made by *your* German scientists into their satellite made by *their* German scientists."
While the Apple ][ documentation was so complete that it included Woz's annotated 6502 assembler source listings (I still have my copies in storage), the provided documentation was less extensive for the Atari 400/800 and Vic-20/C-64...
However, that's not really the point.
Those old-school bits of tin had no abstraction layers, so for coders to make any use of them beyond the basic (pardon the pun), they needed to address the hardware directly. I still remember having to load assembler routines on the Apple in order to toggle the speaker port sufficiently often to get actual musical tones (as I am equally old-school).
This really is not the case today - you only *need* that level of *hardware* documentation if you're going to write low-level OS drivers, and that's really beyond the scope of the project in question. The documentation of the abstraction platforms that sit on top of this Pi hardware are extensively... extensive, and are more than sufficient for most educational situations.
In addition, part of the learning process is discovering and understanding the limitations of the platform you're using, and deciding if you want to progress your learning further...
The 70 year restriction is based on when he died... presuming, of course, that it was actually *his* body in the bunker and he didn't escape to South America as some of his henchmen did.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/do... So... maybe it's just management of the site content is bollocks...
The VideoLan website still says VLC for Android is a beta at version 0.9.10.
Someone is talking bollocks and, this time, it's not me...
I imagine that the the suggestion of trepanning ones extended family using 9mm hollow-points might act as an incentive...
xkcd.com/927/
Decent pay and pay-rises. Sensible hours. Reasonable benefits. Extra pay/time in lieu for overtime. Honest managers. If the work is interesting, so much the better.
It's not rocket science, but in 30 years I've yet to find a company that has all the above.
...about 10 years ago, we had some performance issues related to the NVidia cards included with a large batch of HP workstation-class PCs purchased by the investment bank I worked for.
We had sufficient clout to drag in the local NVidia reps to answer our questions... after a bit of a grilling, and discussion of the reference numbers on the various bits of silicon soldered to the cards, they admitted that the total RAM claimed to be on these cards (64Mb IIRC) was actually half on the card and half from system RAM, and required a specific version of the driver to make work. Without that driver, you had half the video RAM you had expected... and paid for.
Since then, none of the unscrupulously weaselly behaviour of this company has surprised me, and they've not had a penny of my money nor of any company I worked for since.
FWIW, in the UK the chain was named Tandy.
NVidia has always been fabless, but AMD owned its own fabrication plants until a few years ago... when they were spun off into a separate company called Global Foundries.
.04 to .07 WHAT per GiB, you worthless fuck?
Fortunately, The Benny Hill Show was shown on ITV (specifically, produced by Thames Television)...
switch to another modern operating system, such as OS X...
Oh yes, because that would be such a simple and painless transition, with no legal or software-compatibility issues whatsoever...
To be honest, I'm having trouble determining who should win the "Stupid Cunt of the Year" prize - the "author" of TFA for not being able to perceive the difference between an OS and an application, or the "editor" for letting such drivel onto /.
Or, I suppose, myself for expecting any better from /. nowadays...
at the cost of suns rays.
Which bit of the above did you not bother to read and/or understand?
Or perhaps I could suggest that creating electricity by wind and/or water power is trivially achievable, once you know it can be done and that the requirement exists...
The downside, of course: if Amazon has an outage, you have an outage and you won't be able to do anything about it.
Not just Amazon - what if your ISP has an outage? Checked your connectivity SLA recently?
What's your plan if some joker puts a back-hoe through a fibre trunk 10 miles away? Road-trip to Starbucks?
"GUIs are walled gardens in that features available in one piece of software is not available to other pieces of software.
Never mind it should be "are" not "is", under what circumstances would you ever be surprised that the features provided by Excel are not available in PhotoShop... with the exception of cut/copy/paste?
Did I miss a meeting where meretricious twaddle on this site became de rigour?
Maybe I should resign my ID...
Is it really too much to ask for the "summary" to actually provide even the tiniest morsel of context?
"Arcology" is the term of reference...
We never do that...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
New customers.
Ceterus parabus, many corporate senior management being toured around a volcano-lair-datacentre will pay a bit over the odds for co-lo when the alternative is some random industrial park warehouse.
It's called marketing & presentation.
"The Russians put our camera made by *our* German scientists and your film made by *your* German scientists into their satellite made by *their* German scientists."
Local government has control over local on-street parking management, so access to DVLA is not unreasonable in the first instance...
On the other hand, as I live in Brighton and the local Green council have fucked the parking costs, I'm delighted that B&H have been blocked...
The Babelfish resided in the ear canal, ingested the thought waves created by the process of speaking, and excreted translations...
While the Apple ][ documentation was so complete that it included Woz's annotated 6502 assembler source listings (I still have my copies in storage), the provided documentation was less extensive for the Atari 400/800 and Vic-20/C-64...
However, that's not really the point.
Those old-school bits of tin had no abstraction layers, so for coders to make any use of them beyond the basic (pardon the pun), they needed to address the hardware directly. I still remember having to load assembler routines on the Apple in order to toggle the speaker port sufficiently often to get actual musical tones (as I am equally old-school).
This really is not the case today - you only *need* that level of *hardware* documentation if you're going to write low-level OS drivers, and that's really beyond the scope of the project in question. The documentation of the abstraction platforms that sit on top of this Pi hardware are extensively... extensive, and are more than sufficient for most educational situations.
In addition, part of the learning process is discovering and understanding the limitations of the platform you're using, and deciding if you want to progress your learning further...
...by any means.
WinPho 7 (and above) have explicitly never supported alternative browsers either.
... it was first published in 1925/6.
The 70 year restriction is based on when he died... presuming, of course, that it was actually *his* body in the bunker and he didn't escape to South America as some of his henchmen did.