Well if you weren't so keen on being a team player, I do have an amusing idea that involves an old hub, TCP Dump, a welder's torch, some manicles and a lot of duct tape.
All of my great improvements as a programmer have been on side projects, personal quests, or oddball ventures. I code for fun, it is a hobby. Yes, I program a lot at work, but work is time critical. It draws on the experience I get programming on my own. And I can't tell you how many times a side project has solved a problem on the shop floor.
Pick a favorite language, and just code for fun. The skills will come later.
I'm just curious how they are going to handle site licensed places like our network. We just buy license seats from a reseller. Our copies aren't individually licensed.
No, the MacBooks are FABBED by Quanta Computing and Asustek. To order. Considering that DELL also uses those same companies to make their high end lines, are you saying Dell is not a hardware company?
A value-added reseller is very different from a firm that outsources production. Apple controls it's brand, designs the product, works through distribution channels, and puts funny pictures of silloutes with ear buds on TV and billboards.
A VAR takes Product X and makes it Product X+Y. An auto dealer is a VAR. Most software consultants are VAR. Apple is not.
We have 2 developers put in about a 25% of their time, when not otherwise nursing ailing network switches or coddling servers.
Granted, that's just for our in-house apps.
Our public website has, and I kid ye not, an entire department with a director. As well they should, because it's a million hit a day website. It helps to be a grant funded non-profit in that regard.
I've got my suspicions that whoever our next mystical figure is will have his or her words compiled from usenet and blog postings and fed into some sort of Expert System that would answer "What would Skippy do?"
Hell, just look what they've done to the Apostle Paul. Everything he wrote is more or less a "Dear Abbey" column, only we don't have the questions or any of the background.
I'm also working on the theory that in 75 years time or so people will be collecting digital images of people BEFORE they were famous. You know, shots where someone who grows up to be president was in the background of a family photo in disneyland, etc.
Oh the material I can come up with if I just had the time to write it all down...
I remember seeing that on Penn and Teller's "Bullshit." They were doing a segment on "The Best", and were covering the rediculous hype at Tech Expos:
So we'll program in a cooling cycle, than (beep beep) we enter in to heat at 300 degreess for (beep beep), and (5 minutes of heating and cooling cycles later) and now we are ready to start cooking.
According to the article, the gene only slows things down.
Considering that the major problem with cancer is that it rapily multiplies and spreads, I dare say that slowing it down is virtually a cure by itself. To take a rapidly metatisizing tumor and cut it down from ITS GOING TO KILL YOU to, well, you have a nasty lump is big.
Especially if it can be used in place, or to lessen the duration, of radiation or chemotherapy for follow up care. My brother had a tumor in his neck removed 6 months ago. He is undergoing radiation to clear out any cancer that might have spread. The man is in misery. He can't taste anything anymore, everything smells funny, and he looks like half his face has been stuck under a sun lamp.
I undersood perfectly what the grand(^n)parent was talking about. The fact of the matter is that several intel products (the P4 anyone?) were notorious running benchmarks and not much else. Odds are the AMD chip would have been at a disadvantage on the quarter mile, so they decided to run a distance match.
Considering I was there when all this history was going down, and I've heard comments from execs of both companies state this in so many words, I'd say the issue is pretty much settled.
(I worked in the semiconductor industry back in the 90s.)
PC's today really aren't PC's. PC's haven't been PC's since the introduction of USB and the PCI bus. Haven't you wondered what all these "Legacy Free" PC's were selling?
Well Duh. They used the average rather than the peak because that rating is what made their stuff look better than Intel's. What, are they going to publish a stat they makes their stuff look bad? No you just keep changing the test parameters until your stuff looks better.
From what I understand, Apple has no intentions of supporting the PPC for very long. By the end of this year they will no longer sell machines that run on a PPC chip. They will probably continue to support Rosetta for backward compadibility, but gradually let PPC binary support die off.
Apple practically gives away Xcode to software producers, and x86 native support only requires a recompile. It's not like the move from MacOS to X where the architecture had changed. Artsy types are going to buy the new Macs, and if vendors don't want their stuff to run like crap they are going to release a FAT version sooner than later.
Er, did they try using the "Startup Disk" control panel to tell it to boot off the optical? How about holding down the right key, namely "C"? (The Option Key... it does nothing...)
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Well if you weren't so keen on being a team player, I do have an amusing idea that involves an old hub, TCP Dump, a welder's torch, some manicles and a lot of duct tape.
On second thought, nevermind.
Pick a favorite language, and just code for fun. The skills will come later.
So what's wrong with Linux. (Says me who is on an Ubuntu box only because his new MacBook has been delayed in the mail.)
I'm just curious how they are going to handle site licensed places like our network. We just buy license seats from a reseller. Our copies aren't individually licensed.
No, the MacBooks are FABBED by Quanta Computing and Asustek. To order. Considering that DELL also uses those same companies to make their high end lines, are you saying Dell is not a hardware company?
A value-added reseller is very different from a firm that outsources production. Apple controls it's brand, designs the product, works through distribution channels, and puts funny pictures of silloutes with ear buds on TV and billboards.
A VAR takes Product X and makes it Product X+Y. An auto dealer is a VAR. Most software consultants are VAR. Apple is not.
Granted, that's just for our in-house apps.
Our public website has, and I kid ye not, an entire department with a director. As well they should, because it's a million hit a day website. It helps to be a grant funded non-profit in that regard.
Hell, just look what they've done to the Apostle Paul. Everything he wrote is more or less a "Dear Abbey" column, only we don't have the questions or any of the background.
I'm also working on the theory that in 75 years time or so people will be collecting digital images of people BEFORE they were famous. You know, shots where someone who grows up to be president was in the background of a family photo in disneyland, etc.
Oh the material I can come up with if I just had the time to write it all down...
1) You are right.
2) Unfortunately most jobs availabel today are with large impersonal companies that are about as enlightened as a flat black wall in a power outage.
BUT TEH TRIK IS DAT HE RITES IN AL CAPS
And cleans.
So why am I married again? Oh the sex.
So why...
So we'll program in a cooling cycle, than (beep beep) we enter in to heat at 300 degreess for (beep beep), and (5 minutes of heating and cooling cycles later) and now we are ready to start cooking.
And I don't trust a crock pot to go unattended. Having a full blown oven going with nobody to watch it is asking to come home to a smouldering ruin.
Considering that the major problem with cancer is that it rapily multiplies and spreads, I dare say that slowing it down is virtually a cure by itself. To take a rapidly metatisizing tumor and cut it down from ITS GOING TO KILL YOU to, well, you have a nasty lump is big.
Especially if it can be used in place, or to lessen the duration, of radiation or chemotherapy for follow up care. My brother had a tumor in his neck removed 6 months ago. He is undergoing radiation to clear out any cancer that might have spread. The man is in misery. He can't taste anything anymore, everything smells funny, and he looks like half his face has been stuck under a sun lamp.
That explains the relative success of Episode II and III as well...
Considering I was there when all this history was going down, and I've heard comments from execs of both companies state this in so many words, I'd say the issue is pretty much settled.
(I worked in the semiconductor industry back in the 90s.)
PC's today really aren't PC's. PC's haven't been PC's since the introduction of USB and the PCI bus. Haven't you wondered what all these "Legacy Free" PC's were selling?
Well Duh. They used the average rather than the peak because that rating is what made their stuff look better than Intel's. What, are they going to publish a stat they makes their stuff look bad? No you just keep changing the test parameters until your stuff looks better.
From what I understand, Apple has no intentions of supporting the PPC for very long. By the end of this year they will no longer sell machines that run on a PPC chip. They will probably continue to support Rosetta for backward compadibility, but gradually let PPC binary support die off. Apple practically gives away Xcode to software producers, and x86 native support only requires a recompile. It's not like the move from MacOS to X where the architecture had changed. Artsy types are going to buy the new Macs, and if vendors don't want their stuff to run like crap they are going to release a FAT version sooner than later.
Er, did they try using the "Startup Disk" control panel to tell it to boot off the optical? How about holding down the right key, namely "C"? (The Option Key... it does nothing...)
Oh Geiger, Giger whatever
Bah! How are you planning on feeding the sync cable to it through your House Mod?
I still like the MP3 player knitted into an altoids tin better.
Now, integrate an iPod into a travel mug. Now we are talking. Or a Swiss Army Knife.
Ha! I have you beat. I'm going to make an MP3 player out of a discarded shipping container. Using Vacuum tubes baby, vacuum tubes!
Quick, someone photoshop the silhouette of a hazmat suit with the goofy white headphones. iPocalypse!
Only if you can come up with a novel way to operate the iPod without your head up your ass as well.