I think the reason many keep hiring older coders to handle COBOL is that the kids freak out when asked to program in anything that's not a trendy buzzword
When every hiring manager skims your resume looking for the latest trendy buzzwords, a thinking person who wants to be hired will quickly realize that experience with those tools is a necessity if you want a career in software development. "Kids" (really now, we're talking about most developers) do not want to maintain or program COBOL because they know they will not be hireable after a several year stint at a COBOL shop.
It often did, but they would have several going in parallel. The major reason is it takes a few days for oil paint to fully dry and you need it dry before painting the next layer. Also the paintings were usually heavily designed and planned out in advance, which requires time to do sketches and studies.
Ehhh... I've been to art school. Most students couldn't paint a paper bag. I'd consider 10% of those students "good" and maybe 1% "great". I think the rest either get good after working years in a commercial setting or totally wash out and do something else. It's rare you will find modern art as detailed or meaningful as the best work produced by renaissance masters. Of course, the photorealists are an exception with respect to detail, but those artists essentially copy photos of real scenes: not much allegory or deep meaning in those pieces. I would not make generalities regarding who's better--modern artists (including students) or painters of antiquity. Human ability and talent is the same today as it was then, so the work of any time period will reflect a broad spectrum from crap to great. Also remember that today's students have an enormous advantage: high quality paints and artist tools, cameras, printed photos, libaries, computers, illustration software, and the internet. Plus the understanding of perspective drawing was very poor prior to 1700ish, not to mention students today don't even have to gather materials and make their own paints. It's my opinion today's students should be light years better than the masters but they're not. It's probably because we value quantity and speed of production over quality and meaning.
In USA we also have photo ID cards issued by your state of residence (essentially passports due to interstate linking of databases and air travel restrictions) and to do anything useful, you need your ID card. Yet, identify theft is still a terrible problem here. I don't think it's your photo ID card keeping you safe in Germany. It's your credit and lending regulation because ID cards can always be purchased. If there is no monetary incentive or a means to gain access to credit using a forged ID, then identify theft would be a waste of time for criminals.
Is it a game if you watch someone else play? In my quake days, I used to go into spectator mode and watch the top player for the purpose of picking up new tricks or figuring out his play patterns (or just resting/chatting). There are also times I've watched a chess game play out in "Computer versus Computer" mode. I felt I was still involved in the game because I was learning how to play better for the next match. Nintendo's feature isn't any different than those two scenarios
They eat a lot of fish (omega fish oils), sushi (low in fat/salt/sugar), soup (low carb), tea (antioxidents), and fruit (antioxidents, vitamins, fiber). Food is a major factor.
I hope so because network IO is the major bottleneck on the majority of webservers, not raw processing. You could write insanely inefficient code with all compiler optimization flags turned off and the timing difference would still be nothing compared to the network latencies with the database or internal/external web service calls. The second bottleneck is generally disk IO.
It's more than hard; it's impossible. Consensus cannot be achieved in any group of decisions makers > 1. It's a problem that will never be solved completely--only to a percentage.
No, the grey area is in regards to weapons whose sole usefulness is in harming other people
And why would it matter if a weapon's designed purpose is to kill humans instead of animals? Hand-guns are designed to kill humans, not animals, yet they are legal and limited in destructive capability, range, and accuracy. If there is a grey area, it's due to you clouding the legality issue by attaching an appeal to emotion by assuming the intended target of a weapon (animal or human) makes a difference. Americans have the right to own a weapon for both purposes: hunting animals as well as killing any human who is threatening one's life, so your point is invalid.
Things like bans on fully automatic rifles fall into that category. Since this country was founded (or a few might say "since the Civil War"), we have never seen a single situation in which an assault rifle was legitimately necessary to defend against foreign invasion or tyranny.
Thanks to our right to bear arms. It was the threat that kept tyranny at bay.
A militia armed with rifles is more effective than one armed with handguns, therefore if we are safe from tyranny due to gun ownership, then our safety against government sponsored tyranny will increase with the increasing potency of weapons in the hands of citizens. What you should be arguing is would powerful weapons in the hands of militias cause citizen sponsored tyrannies to erupt? (Taliban anyone?)
You don't. You either: file for bankruptcy and wreck your credit history, or they pursue withholding out of your paycheck (say $200 a month), or you plead with the public for donations.
"Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from failure scenarios"
"you can protect your applications from failure of a single location"
You still have to design your apps to be distributed in some manner. You can't just throw your single process server code onto the cloud and expect it to be failure resistant without giving it any thought. You have to purchase extra capacity and decide which locations they should reside in. Any user purchasing 1 or 2 instances and expecting it to be fault tolerant is begging for a wake-up call.
If you're a developer throwing your code onto a cloud and none of this ever occurs to you, then you should quit now and re-train yourself with a new career because this is not a field for you.
There was a time when NES was the system to have. What kind of games were popular on it? Hmm.. games with cutesy graphics and childish themes such as Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Duck Tales, Dr. Mario, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Kirby's Adventure, R.C. Pro-Am. There were some serious games yes (Ninja Gaiden, Contra, Double Dragon II, Commando, many sports games), but no hardcore gamer would have been without an NES during its prime. Categorizing the Wii as a childish toy is ignoring Nintendo's history and place among the gamer community.
If this topic was about playing chess, why would I bother to pay $58/hr to play chess?? I'd have to be a fool!! Umm. Maybe I like playing chess in my spare time. Same goes for DIY'ers who like to build their PC.
Oh and as others have said, what in the world would take u that long to put a machine together? Do you make $200-300/hr or somethin?
And square would argue distributing a patch counts as distributing a derived work.
How would that work when the patch differences are original creations? A derived work must contain some element from the original, and these patch files would not contain such. The patch files alone in a vaccuum, would be copyrighted by their respective authors, which in this case are the mod developers.
Patch modifications are legally sold everywhere for all sorts of products. If I wrote a set of instructions for how to turn your NES console into an x86 PC, I'm not violating your copyright because my instructions constitute an original piece of work. http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Nintendo-NES-PC/
I think the real issue here is how these mod developers went about announcing their work. They were loud and proud. Big mistake. Going by their page, they made it very confusing as to what they were distributing and who owns what and what's official and what's not. The liberal use of Square Enix trademarks was also a bad idea. Posting trailer videos on Youtube with title lines blurring ownership was an even worse idea. A boring link to a boring file share to a boring ASCII patch file named "CE.2009.patch" on a boring fan message board would have been the way to go.
These guys got slapped with a C&D because they were conducting business like kids jumping in a puddle splattering mud all over the place. Square Enix was forced to assert their non-association with these guys as well as continue to assert their ownership. The way I see it, they had no choice.
The mass and volume of a space ship are substantially smaller than an expanding universe (even a few nanoseconds after time 0), so the energy requirement would probably be substantially less also.
It all comes down to what has been said before, if you don't want the world to know, don't put it on the internet.
A naive way of thinking. Gary goes to a gay pride event. He's gay, but closeted and living in hisksville, usa. He's got interviews coming up but he knows he has no online presence so things should be fine. Lisa, ever the shutterbug, is also at the event and takes photos of the day and puts them on her blog. She writes about she made a new friend Gary. A few weeks later, Gary interviews at Acme, Inc. The interviewer scans the web and finds Lisa's blog about Gary. Subsequently, Gary doesn't get the job despite having perfect qualifications. Apparently the interviewer is a mormon with an ax to grind.
Moral of the story: you have no control what people post about you on the web.
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When every hiring manager skims your resume looking for the latest trendy buzzwords, a thinking person who wants to be hired will quickly realize that experience with those tools is a necessity if you want a career in software development. "Kids" (really now, we're talking about most developers) do not want to maintain or program COBOL because they know they will not be hireable after a several year stint at a COBOL shop.
Which.. is appears to be an excellent way to get out of jury duty without sounding like you're intentionally trying to get out of jury duty. :D
Don't forget to add "victim" to your list of problems.
It often did, but they would have several going in parallel. The major reason is it takes a few days for oil paint to fully dry and you need it dry before painting the next layer. Also the paintings were usually heavily designed and planned out in advance, which requires time to do sketches and studies.
Ehhh... I've been to art school. Most students couldn't paint a paper bag. I'd consider 10% of those students "good" and maybe 1% "great". I think the rest either get good after working years in a commercial setting or totally wash out and do something else. It's rare you will find modern art as detailed or meaningful as the best work produced by renaissance masters. Of course, the photorealists are an exception with respect to detail, but those artists essentially copy photos of real scenes: not much allegory or deep meaning in those pieces. I would not make generalities regarding who's better--modern artists (including students) or painters of antiquity. Human ability and talent is the same today as it was then, so the work of any time period will reflect a broad spectrum from crap to great. Also remember that today's students have an enormous advantage: high quality paints and artist tools, cameras, printed photos, libaries, computers, illustration software, and the internet. Plus the understanding of perspective drawing was very poor prior to 1700ish, not to mention students today don't even have to gather materials and make their own paints. It's my opinion today's students should be light years better than the masters but they're not. It's probably because we value quantity and speed of production over quality and meaning.
who can't afford it.
In USA we also have photo ID cards issued by your state of residence (essentially passports due to interstate linking of databases and air travel restrictions) and to do anything useful, you need your ID card. Yet, identify theft is still a terrible problem here. I don't think it's your photo ID card keeping you safe in Germany. It's your credit and lending regulation because ID cards can always be purchased. If there is no monetary incentive or a means to gain access to credit using a forged ID, then identify theft would be a waste of time for criminals.
It does 10 seconds before it crashes.
Is it a game if you watch someone else play? In my quake days, I used to go into spectator mode and watch the top player for the purpose of picking up new tricks or figuring out his play patterns (or just resting/chatting). There are also times I've watched a chess game play out in "Computer versus Computer" mode. I felt I was still involved in the game because I was learning how to play better for the next match. Nintendo's feature isn't any different than those two scenarios
They eat a lot of fish (omega fish oils), sushi (low in fat/salt/sugar), soup (low carb), tea (antioxidents), and fruit (antioxidents, vitamins, fiber). Food is a major factor.
You're joking right?
I hope so because network IO is the major bottleneck on the majority of webservers, not raw processing. You could write insanely inefficient code with all compiler optimization flags turned off and the timing difference would still be nothing compared to the network latencies with the database or internal/external web service calls. The second bottleneck is generally disk IO.
It's more than hard; it's impossible. Consensus cannot be achieved in any group of decisions makers > 1. It's a problem that will never be solved completely--only to a percentage.
I read that as I was watching the movie Valkyrie with Tom Cruise. That will be my response to you.
And why would it matter if a weapon's designed purpose is to kill humans instead of animals? Hand-guns are designed to kill humans, not animals, yet they are legal and limited in destructive capability, range, and accuracy. If there is a grey area, it's due to you clouding the legality issue by attaching an appeal to emotion by assuming the intended target of a weapon (animal or human) makes a difference. Americans have the right to own a weapon for both purposes: hunting animals as well as killing any human who is threatening one's life, so your point is invalid.
Thanks to our right to bear arms. It was the threat that kept tyranny at bay.
A militia armed with rifles is more effective than one armed with handguns, therefore if we are safe from tyranny due to gun ownership, then our safety against government sponsored tyranny will increase with the increasing potency of weapons in the hands of citizens. What you should be arguing is would powerful weapons in the hands of militias cause citizen sponsored tyrannies to erupt? (Taliban anyone?)
You don't. You either: file for bankruptcy and wreck your credit history, or they pursue withholding out of your paycheck (say $200 a month), or you plead with the public for donations.
A region consists of multiple datacenters. 99.93% would be for 1 datacenter, not the region.
You still have to design your apps to be distributed in some manner. You can't just throw your single process server code onto the cloud and expect it to be failure resistant without giving it any thought. You have to purchase extra capacity and decide which locations they should reside in. Any user purchasing 1 or 2 instances and expecting it to be fault tolerant is begging for a wake-up call.
If you're a developer throwing your code onto a cloud and none of this ever occurs to you, then you should quit now and re-train yourself with a new career because this is not a field for you.
There was a time when NES was the system to have. What kind of games were popular on it? Hmm.. games with cutesy graphics and childish themes such as Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Duck Tales, Dr. Mario, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Kirby's Adventure, R.C. Pro-Am. There were some serious games yes (Ninja Gaiden, Contra, Double Dragon II, Commando, many sports games), but no hardcore gamer would have been without an NES during its prime. Categorizing the Wii as a childish toy is ignoring Nintendo's history and place among the gamer community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#Nintendo_Entertainment_System
If this topic was about playing chess, why would I bother to pay $58/hr to play chess?? I'd have to be a fool!! Umm. Maybe I like playing chess in my spare time. Same goes for DIY'ers who like to build their PC.
Oh and as others have said, what in the world would take u that long to put a machine together? Do you make $200-300/hr or somethin?
The standard order at Panera is sandwich, coke, and potato chips. Essentially the same item wise--cept Panera gives u a pickle wedge.
How would that work when the patch differences are original creations? A derived work must contain some element from the original, and these patch files would not contain such. The patch files alone in a vaccuum, would be copyrighted by their respective authors, which in this case are the mod developers.
Patch modifications are legally sold everywhere for all sorts of products. If I wrote a set of instructions for how to turn your NES console into an x86 PC, I'm not violating your copyright because my instructions constitute an original piece of work. http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Nintendo-NES-PC/
I think the real issue here is how these mod developers went about announcing their work. They were loud and proud. Big mistake. Going by their page, they made it very confusing as to what they were distributing and who owns what and what's official and what's not. The liberal use of Square Enix trademarks was also a bad idea. Posting trailer videos on Youtube with title lines blurring ownership was an even worse idea. A boring link to a boring file share to a boring ASCII patch file named "CE.2009.patch" on a boring fan message board would have been the way to go.
These guys got slapped with a C&D because they were conducting business like kids jumping in a puddle splattering mud all over the place. Square Enix was forced to assert their non-association with these guys as well as continue to assert their ownership. The way I see it, they had no choice.
The mass and volume of a space ship are substantially smaller than an expanding universe (even a few nanoseconds after time 0), so the energy requirement would probably be substantially less also.
You have several cures. Money, beer, and plastic surgery.
Sigh. I never bothered to click on the Comments header. It doesn't look like a link.
A naive way of thinking. Gary goes to a gay pride event. He's gay, but closeted and living in hisksville, usa. He's got interviews coming up but he knows he has no online presence so things should be fine. Lisa, ever the shutterbug, is also at the event and takes photos of the day and puts them on her blog. She writes about she made a new friend Gary. A few weeks later, Gary interviews at Acme, Inc. The interviewer scans the web and finds Lisa's blog about Gary. Subsequently, Gary doesn't get the job despite having perfect qualifications. Apparently the interviewer is a mormon with an ax to grind.
Moral of the story: you have no control what people post about you on the web.