One to change it and two to talk about how much better the old one was.
The use of a conventional computer mouse requires continuous lifting of the fingers.
The first mouse I ever used, on the AT&T 5620 terminal, didn't have this problem. Your hand draped naturally over the mouse, and you could relax your fingers completely rather than having to hold them up to keep from clicking. Even though it was perfectly symmetric, there was no handedness problem either.
Some day I may try to take the guts of a modern mouse and fab up a new one in this form factor.
I can't believe how many people here have asked why the person needs a 16GB RAM machine in the first place.
There are hundreds of applications that need that kind of RAM, and some that require terabytes. But what makes me scratch my head is that it's only eight times the RAM you'd get in a reasonably equipped desktop PC. Is it that hard to think of a shared resource that might need to scale up a bit?
it's time to throw away traditional filesystems and use database management systems
That's what ClearCase does. Although it does use regular files for its data containers, all metadata is stored in a database. MVFS is just a fancy view into that database. It wouldn't surprise me if at some point they brought the data containers into the database, too.
Word is ubiquitous whether we like it or not. Thus, a requirement that your resume/CV be in Word format is not an effective litmus test as to whether it's ultimately someone you want to work for.
A much better litmus test is to put something in your resume that won't get picked up by a blind keyword match. For example, I have a section, in bold type right at the top, that says I cannot relocate. If someone contacts me for a job out of state, then I know they didn't really read my resume. They're just trying to pick up a commission in as few mouse clicks as possible.
I know that recruiters get inundated with resumes, most of which are crap. I've written mine keeping in mind that it might be the 100th that the person has read that morning. But I still don't think it's unreasonable to want it to be read.
One of my memories from the mid 70's is the proliferation of games in those days that were of the "least loser" variety. Most of these had names starting with "Don't", like "Don't Break the Ice" (one of my five-year-old's favorites right now). You never won these games--the object was to go the longest without doing the thing that made you lose.
I'm not sure why, but for some reason this made the games less fun for me. Maybe it was because most of those games (DBtI being a notable exception) had no way of forcing your opponent to lose, so there wasn't much strategy involved.
Doesn't matter where the battery came from if you "insulate" it with tin foil. I prefer something with a slightly higher dielectric constant like electrical tape or heat shrink, but to each their own.
That's why my Nokia 8260 looks like an antique in desperate need of restoration, but I plan on keeping it until AT&T/Cingular/Whatever-they're-called-this-wee k pries it from my cold dead fingers (or completely pulls the plug on CDMA). It has no protruding antenna, fits in my pocket, sounds good in both directions, and Just Works.
No, ninety hour weeks are NOT an inevitable consequence of working in this industry.
45-50 hours, maybe. But >80 hour workweeks are usually seen only at startups where if a major deadline is missed, the company fails. And in those cases, the people put up with it because there's usually more than just a wage involved--working long hours at a startup can make you millions in the end.
Established companies pushing their staff that hard is not only morally wrong, it's bad business. Sure, EA makes a lot of money, but how much more could they make if they didn't have such high turnover?
I tried out for Jeopardy a long time ago in a "cattle call" in Atlantic City. There was a ten-question test designed to be passed by 100-150 of the 5000+ people they expected to try out over three days. After years of running entire Jeopardy boards, I got TWO of the ten questions right. It was the hardest test I've ever taken anywhere.
OTOH, last week I auditioned for Millionaire, passed the 30-question test, interviewed, and am now waiting to hear if I've made it to the contestant pool or not.
I'm not sure how Together does their profiling compared to other services, but my sister-in-law met her husband through them, and they've been married for several years now and have two kids.
What's odd is that they're VERY different people--sometimes I think the only thing they have in common is being of Irish descent. Yet somehow it works, and I don't see them having to work any harder than the average married couple to keep it going.
(Oh and congrats on the second kid--our second is due in April.)
For pity's sake, just sell me a phone that fits in my jeans pocket, costs less than a car payment, gets a descent signal in metro areas, and last for more than a year or two.
This one fits in my jeans pocket, cost me next to nothing, and gets a decent signal everywhere except in the bowels of office buildings. I've used it for almost three years, so it may be discontinued.
There's always the infamous S1 operating system from the 80's, which consisted solely of a bunch of ads in Byte with the tagline "Unix is a dinosaur, MS-DOS is a toy." I don't think they ever shipped.
...which means that statistically, about 400 people are at this precise moment accusing their opponents of cheating for playing SATINE bingos.
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I was once one letter away from a triple-triple (or "nine-timer" in British parlance) JONQUILS through the O, but I had an A instead of the I. That would have been worth 356 points.
The highest triple-triple I've actually played was REDWOoDS through the first D (the second O was a blank) for 194.
Another high play came with its own poem:
The first blank is an N The second a U The word is UnQuOTED For one twenty-two
(It was a double word score with the Q on the triple letter score.)
No, I think they've done it to keep themselves *indemnified*. Think about it: They change the policy so that you have to change your password to some new stream of line-noise every time the wind blows. You write it down, and then it gets compromised. But that's not IT's fault, that's YOUR fault.
What worries me about this is that Penguin is a worldwide corporation. Would they have to trademark katie.com in every country where Penguin does or could do business?
If your mother was in the intensive care unit, and you found out that all of the equipment around her, heart monitor, ventilator, dialysis machine, etc., were running 100% OSS, how would you feel?
Not to mention the $150/month it cost to rent an answering machine in the mid 70's.
OTOH, those extortionate prices the government allowed them to charge came with a catch: universal phone service. AT&T had to wire every home and business that wanted phone service, anywhere in the country, no matter how much it cost. If the phone system was always the anarchic mosh pit it is today, large amounts of the country would never have been wired.
(Think of the places that still don't have cable, both remote areas too far from anything, and inner cities where the cable company isn't willing to dig up the streets to wire up the last few buildings.)
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The use of a conventional computer mouse requires continuous lifting of the fingers.
The first mouse I ever used, on the AT&T 5620 terminal, didn't have this problem. Your hand draped naturally over the mouse, and you could relax your fingers completely rather than having to hold them up to keep from clicking. Even though it was perfectly symmetric, there was no handedness problem either.
Some day I may try to take the guts of a modern mouse and fab up a new one in this form factor.
I can't believe how many people here have asked why the person needs a 16GB RAM machine in the first place.
There are hundreds of applications that need that kind of RAM, and some that require terabytes. But what makes me scratch my head is that it's only eight times the RAM you'd get in a reasonably equipped desktop PC. Is it that hard to think of a shared resource that might need to scale up a bit?
I'm sure the irony of the acronym is not lost on them!
That's what ClearCase does. Although it does use regular files for its data containers, all metadata is stored in a database. MVFS is just a fancy view into that database. It wouldn't surprise me if at some point they brought the data containers into the database, too.
[points to huge email archive and Google desktop search]
Word is ubiquitous whether we like it or not. Thus, a requirement that your resume/CV be in Word format is not an effective litmus test as to whether it's ultimately someone you want to work for.
A much better litmus test is to put something in your resume that won't get picked up by a blind keyword match. For example, I have a section, in bold type right at the top, that says I cannot relocate. If someone contacts me for a job out of state, then I know they didn't really read my resume. They're just trying to pick up a commission in as few mouse clicks as possible.
I know that recruiters get inundated with resumes, most of which are crap. I've written mine keeping in mind that it might be the 100th that the person has read that morning. But I still don't think it's unreasonable to want it to be read.
One of my memories from the mid 70's is the proliferation of games in those days that were of the "least loser" variety. Most of these had names starting with "Don't", like "Don't Break the Ice" (one of my five-year-old's favorites right now). You never won these games--the object was to go the longest without doing the thing that made you lose.
I'm not sure why, but for some reason this made the games less fun for me. Maybe it was because most of those games (DBtI being a notable exception) had no way of forcing your opponent to lose, so there wasn't much strategy involved.
Doesn't matter where the battery came from if you "insulate" it with tin foil. I prefer something with a slightly higher dielectric constant like electrical tape or heat shrink, but to each their own.
That's why my Nokia 8260 looks like an antique in desperate need of restoration, but I plan on keeping it until AT&T/Cingular/Whatever-they're-called-this-wee k pries it from my cold dead fingers (or completely pulls the plug on CDMA). It has no protruding antenna, fits in my pocket, sounds good in both directions, and Just Works.
You'll also want to insulate your belt clip with a bit of Kevlar. And go back and read that earlier Smokey the Bear post.
No, ninety hour weeks are NOT an inevitable consequence of working in this industry.
45-50 hours, maybe. But >80 hour workweeks are usually seen only at startups where if a major deadline is missed, the company fails. And in those cases, the people put up with it because there's usually more than just a wage involved--working long hours at a startup can make you millions in the end.
Established companies pushing their staff that hard is not only morally wrong, it's bad business. Sure, EA makes a lot of money, but how much more could they make if they didn't have such high turnover?
Oh, never mind.
I think what they meant was that in a few years, the only MP3 players will be in pickup trucks playing country & western.
I tried out for Jeopardy a long time ago in a "cattle call" in Atlantic City. There was a ten-question test designed to be passed by 100-150 of the 5000+ people they expected to try out over three days. After years of running entire Jeopardy boards, I got TWO of the ten questions right. It was the hardest test I've ever taken anywhere.
OTOH, last week I auditioned for Millionaire, passed the 30-question test, interviewed, and am now waiting to hear if I've made it to the contestant pool or not.
I'm not sure how Together does their profiling compared to other services, but my sister-in-law met her husband through them, and they've been married for several years now and have two kids.
What's odd is that they're VERY different people--sometimes I think the only thing they have in common is being of Irish descent. Yet somehow it works, and I don't see them having to work any harder than the average married couple to keep it going.
(Oh and congrats on the second kid--our second is due in April.)
This one fits in my jeans pocket, cost me next to nothing, and gets a decent signal everywhere except in the bowels of office buildings. I've used it for almost three years, so it may be discontinued.
Wasn't it supposed to be sometime in January, 2038?
There's always the infamous S1 operating system from the 80's, which consisted solely of a bunch of ads in Byte with the tagline "Unix is a dinosaur, MS-DOS is a toy." I don't think they ever shipped.
...which means that statistically, about 400 people are at this precise moment accusing their opponents of cheating for playing SATINE bingos.
I was once one letter away from a triple-triple (or "nine-timer" in British parlance) JONQUILS through the O, but I had an A instead of the I. That would have been worth 356 points.
The highest triple-triple I've actually played was REDWOoDS through the first D (the second O was a blank) for 194.
Another high play came with its own poem:
The first blank is an N
The second a U
The word is UnQuOTED
For one twenty-two
(It was a double word score with the Q on the triple letter score.)
No, I think they've done it to keep themselves *indemnified*. Think about it: They change the policy so that you have to change your password to some new stream of line-noise every time the wind blows. You write it down, and then it gets compromised. But that's not IT's fault, that's YOUR fault.
What worries me about this is that Penguin is a worldwide corporation. Would they have to trademark katie.com in every country where Penguin does or could do business?
If your mother was in the intensive care unit, and you found out that all of the equipment around her, heart monitor, ventilator, dialysis machine, etc., were running 100% OSS, how would you feel?
Not to mention the $150/month it cost to rent an answering machine in the mid 70's.
OTOH, those extortionate prices the government allowed them to charge came with a catch: universal phone service. AT&T had to wire every home and business that wanted phone service, anywhere in the country, no matter how much it cost. If the phone system was always the anarchic mosh pit it is today, large amounts of the country would never have been wired.
(Think of the places that still don't have cable, both remote areas too far from anything, and inner cities where the cable company isn't willing to dig up the streets to wire up the last few buildings.)
Some things aqre truly universal.
Like whining users, for instance.