Even more interesting is Faggin's own website where he explains some of the details of his relationship with Intel. This man literally changed Intel into a microprocessor company!! Without his development of the 4004 Intel would have probably died on the vine as a memory manufacturer. http://www.intel4004.com/
As a developer I don't like the thought of developing for any specific mobile platform. When I think mobile, I think web-based; as-in accessible from any device. Still though, apps will be built because of device specific functionality like sensors and cameras. Hopefully this stuff can be addressed from a web app in the future. Java Applets anyone? I guess Java was to far ahead of its time, and no one wants to play well with it (Apple) because they lose control over the user that way.
They're just big scardy-cat companies. It's fun to be small, nimble, and innovative; big lumbering and always on the ropes is just downright.....well, you see the results.
Being a Linux "novice" I find that these package managers are unnerving for a former Windows user. After 15 years I still hate the god damned registry and the fact that software depends on it. I just want to download, unzip, and run my fucking software. Is that really too much to ask? Package managers strike me as another barrier to getting shit done at times. True, they work pretty good when they work, and I understand the reasons for both windows registry and package managers. It is like a god damned treasure hunt sometimes though to find the "right" package I need to install some software. In Windows if a program has dependencies it is up to the distributor to check and provide (download, link, install) or notify the user so they can install the dependency themselves. How much is this really a problem though? It would be nice if the "packages" would just execute, do what needs done, and let the user get down to business. Is this that hard of a concept? I thought it was figured out twenty five fucking years ago, but progress seems to take a wave form on this one. By the way, Mint 11 is buggy (compiz issues, crappy usb blacklist bullshit ---also Ubuntu issues), but I wouldn't go back to Ubuntu if you paid me (I was VERY happy with 10.04). You know what sealed it, Shuttleworths' attitude/response to his user community. Customer service is a big deal to me, he blew it (yeah, I know it's free but he left a seriously bad taste in my mouth) . It is called "alienated."
Yeah, no more wholesale stock prices. Everyone pays the same price for stock, period. There are currently unadvertised prices that are paid by brokerages who buy stock and resell it at a profit. This causes a great deal of speculation.
It's not just about wages. The rights of workers are much more of a pain-in-the-ass than just paying wages. Many people will cough up money to make their problems go away. Dealing with intangible rights which cause you to change your operations or way of life is a bigger hurdle. Accommodating people's rights can incur costs that far eclipse their puny wages.
We forget that the people who "invented" democracy, the Greeks, didn't invite the countryside peasant farmer to vote on matters of state. It was left to educated people who were capable of dealing with these issues. The birth of america saw some proponents of this model, but it was shot down. I would argue for this model again, but for the inclusion of educated people who are not necessarily of the inherited class.
Trust me, they are literally stupid. I tried beating around that bush by surmising that everyone is capable. Maybe they were capable at one time (soon after birth ?) of thinking objectively through any issue, but the reality is that the masses cannot. Maybe freeing the flow of information for a few generations may change that, but right now we have the majority of the western world who is fed a one-way stream of information from age zero to death with the agenda of "do what you are told"--a paradigm necessary to produce a steady stream of factory and farm workers. We still live in an old system, and the backwards thinking is still prevalent. You will notice the change because churches will begin to drop like flies--right now they are going strong.
The videos need to be professionally produced. The ad hoc nature is very distracting and time consuming--missing coverage etc. The range and amount of videos is a good specification however. The reversal of homework/instruction times is much needed.
True. At the college where I work (and I can only assume this is the norm for any state school), adjunct (part time non-union) cannot "fail" students, hell they can't even give them a D a lot of times. The politics are such that they will not be employed if their students fail. The students also get to file anon surveys at the end of every other quarter. Bad reviews == reduced chances of employment. The only teachers that can give proper marks are union tenured professors--because they cannot be fired. Even they still curve the grades because of the politics.
Reminds me of my early days working at a very busy tire shop in the nice part of town. At the end of my first day I was busy diligently working on someone's car and everyone had disappeared. They were in the back stock room; my supervisor yelled my name, asking me to come over there. I got back to the stock room and everyone had a twelve pack busted open in front of them. The "smokers" had scurried up to the top of the tire racks and were smoking a J by the exhaust fan. The funny thing is, we still had a couple of hours to go! This was a normal every day thing, several of the guys couldn't function unless they were baked out of their gourds. Our boss would take us out in a limo to go bar hopping all around Cincinnati every once in a while (all paid at every stop). I would get so hammered I would literally disconnect and be completely out of control--all I could remember the next day were faint glimpses of Cincinnati police officers, various streets and intersections, the inside of the limo and certain bars or clubs. I later learned that all of this was paid for by selling used tires (wholesale) to some guys that came up from Kentucky. On top of these outings the used tires were also financing the store manager's retirement plan. Great times. To this day I will not let anyone work on my cars though.
Code completion/suggestion is a productivity enhancer. Counting all the distractions, bouncing between frameworks, languages, and IDEs; most people forget stuff. Anyways, a lot of these development frameworks are huge and code completion can help you rifle through a bunch of libraries or classes to find what you need. Some people will do things the "wrong way" just because they do not want to look something up or simply because they do not know, code suggestions/completion can help with that too. As a lone developer it helps me get more done in less time.
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Huh? Freeware, Open Source? I'm the product?
Yeah, but do you have a girlfriend?
Football field? Nah....probably bigger.
Even more interesting is Faggin's own website where he explains some of the details of his relationship with Intel. This man literally changed Intel into a microprocessor company!! Without his development of the 4004 Intel would have probably died on the vine as a memory manufacturer. http://www.intel4004.com/
As a developer I don't like the thought of developing for any specific mobile platform. When I think mobile, I think web-based; as-in accessible from any device. Still though, apps will be built because of device specific functionality like sensors and cameras. Hopefully this stuff can be addressed from a web app in the future. Java Applets anyone? I guess Java was to far ahead of its time, and no one wants to play well with it (Apple) because they lose control over the user that way.
They're just big scardy-cat companies. It's fun to be small, nimble, and innovative; big lumbering and always on the ropes is just downright.....well, you see the results.
The only distro I ever had fun with.
Being a Linux "novice" I find that these package managers are unnerving for a former Windows user. After 15 years I still hate the god damned registry and the fact that software depends on it. I just want to download, unzip, and run my fucking software. Is that really too much to ask? Package managers strike me as another barrier to getting shit done at times. True, they work pretty good when they work, and I understand the reasons for both windows registry and package managers. It is like a god damned treasure hunt sometimes though to find the "right" package I need to install some software. In Windows if a program has dependencies it is up to the distributor to check and provide (download, link, install) or notify the user so they can install the dependency themselves. How much is this really a problem though? It would be nice if the "packages" would just execute, do what needs done, and let the user get down to business. Is this that hard of a concept? I thought it was figured out twenty five fucking years ago, but progress seems to take a wave form on this one. By the way, Mint 11 is buggy (compiz issues, crappy usb blacklist bullshit ---also Ubuntu issues), but I wouldn't go back to Ubuntu if you paid me (I was VERY happy with 10.04). You know what sealed it, Shuttleworths' attitude/response to his user community. Customer service is a big deal to me, he blew it (yeah, I know it's free but he left a seriously bad taste in my mouth) . It is called "alienated."
I have a Thinkpad x220 in front of me with 13h batter life. This thing will not die.
Seriously, why would this be needed?
What OS do you run? AOL.
That is funny as hell. Because it is true.
Yeah, no more wholesale stock prices. Everyone pays the same price for stock, period. There are currently unadvertised prices that are paid by brokerages who buy stock and resell it at a profit. This causes a great deal of speculation.
I would be happy taxing brokerages on their purchase of wholesale stock, above 1% too.
"cell phone bill being several dollars higher than it should be"....that is not a tax, it is a fee levied by your carrier worded to appear as a tax.
It's not just about wages. The rights of workers are much more of a pain-in-the-ass than just paying wages. Many people will cough up money to make their problems go away. Dealing with intangible rights which cause you to change your operations or way of life is a bigger hurdle. Accommodating people's rights can incur costs that far eclipse their puny wages.
We forget that the people who "invented" democracy, the Greeks, didn't invite the countryside peasant farmer to vote on matters of state. It was left to educated people who were capable of dealing with these issues. The birth of america saw some proponents of this model, but it was shot down. I would argue for this model again, but for the inclusion of educated people who are not necessarily of the inherited class.
Trust me, they are literally stupid. I tried beating around that bush by surmising that everyone is capable. Maybe they were capable at one time (soon after birth ?) of thinking objectively through any issue, but the reality is that the masses cannot. Maybe freeing the flow of information for a few generations may change that, but right now we have the majority of the western world who is fed a one-way stream of information from age zero to death with the agenda of "do what you are told"--a paradigm necessary to produce a steady stream of factory and farm workers. We still live in an old system, and the backwards thinking is still prevalent. You will notice the change because churches will begin to drop like flies--right now they are going strong.
The videos need to be professionally produced. The ad hoc nature is very distracting and time consuming--missing coverage etc. The range and amount of videos is a good specification however. The reversal of homework/instruction times is much needed.
It is not that simple. People do what is interesting to them. If all they are interested in is money then they will not stick with STEM anyway. http://www.amazon.com/Facts-Dangerous-Half-Truths-Total-Nonsense/dp/1591398622/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320685917&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320685949&sr=1-1
True. At the college where I work (and I can only assume this is the norm for any state school), adjunct (part time non-union) cannot "fail" students, hell they can't even give them a D a lot of times. The politics are such that they will not be employed if their students fail. The students also get to file anon surveys at the end of every other quarter. Bad reviews == reduced chances of employment. The only teachers that can give proper marks are union tenured professors--because they cannot be fired. Even they still curve the grades because of the politics.
There is nothing wrong with Java. It is all in your head.
Reminds me of my early days working at a very busy tire shop in the nice part of town. At the end of my first day I was busy diligently working on someone's car and everyone had disappeared. They were in the back stock room; my supervisor yelled my name, asking me to come over there. I got back to the stock room and everyone had a twelve pack busted open in front of them. The "smokers" had scurried up to the top of the tire racks and were smoking a J by the exhaust fan. The funny thing is, we still had a couple of hours to go! This was a normal every day thing, several of the guys couldn't function unless they were baked out of their gourds. Our boss would take us out in a limo to go bar hopping all around Cincinnati every once in a while (all paid at every stop). I would get so hammered I would literally disconnect and be completely out of control--all I could remember the next day were faint glimpses of Cincinnati police officers, various streets and intersections, the inside of the limo and certain bars or clubs. I later learned that all of this was paid for by selling used tires (wholesale) to some guys that came up from Kentucky. On top of these outings the used tires were also financing the store manager's retirement plan. Great times. To this day I will not let anyone work on my cars though.
Everything at a smaller company is more productive.
Code completion/suggestion is a productivity enhancer. Counting all the distractions, bouncing between frameworks, languages, and IDEs; most people forget stuff. Anyways, a lot of these development frameworks are huge and code completion can help you rifle through a bunch of libraries or classes to find what you need. Some people will do things the "wrong way" just because they do not want to look something up or simply because they do not know, code suggestions/completion can help with that too. As a lone developer it helps me get more done in less time.