I would not do any of those. Desktop programming sucks. Embedded systems programming allows you to work with cool stuff, interface level, and you dont have to throw your designs in the trash because some moron in marketing wants you to rip out all your privacy crap so they can make more money on ad's.
Plus embedded programmers get a whole lot more money than a desktop app jockey. And the glorified IT guy that can code in VB for the company get's even less.
Embedded programming is where the fun and excitement is at.
which makes me question the reality of the "article" Has this guy been unplugged cince 1990? He does not know how to use google to answer 90% of what he is asking?
Honestly all it takes is a few moments searching google to find every resource needed to learn all these "new" languages and learn that knowing only one is how you fail. You need to know several and master a couple to be a high value programmer. Look at current job listings and see what is being asked for. Hell write a script to scrape the job sites and aggregate the averages of languages desired to get a day to day picture of what is hot right now.
He whole question sounds like he in 1990 retired and built a time statis chamber and put himself in it for the past 20 years.... Fishy.
Dear Ballmer: Take a note from the current crop of Android tablets.... Dont make it suck.
I have tried a ton of different android tablets and they all suck horribly because the hardware is sub par or garbage.
Note: if you make the giant Zune to combat the Giant Ipod... you had better make it cheaper or with upgradeable storage or Apple will continue to eat your cheerios... I wouldn't pay $299.00 for a Zune instead of an ipod, I certainly wont pay $600.00 for a GiantZune.
Oh and P.S. I siggest making the interface open and easily designed for. Apple is kicking your ass because I can buy 80,000 different devices to plug my iPod into... I cant find any car stereo outside of the Ford Sync that will work with the Zune...
Where? Around the midwest everyone considers management, specifically middle management positions to be where you put the ineffective idiots so they dont screw anything up.
A lot of people who get silly high salaries do that.
Live outside the city and ride the train with us nasty dirty people that make a paltry $85,000 a year. I know. we are dirty nasty icky poor people... But we promise we wont lick you on the train.....
That's the only way to get the superstars... I ALWAYS am the guy looking for the next job. Why? because asshole executives dont promote high skill tech people... they want to keep them where they are at. So I jump ship every 3-5 years to get my own promotion and pay raise. It is the way most sucessful people climb the ladder.
Honestly only a complete fool is loyal to the company. Because the company is never EVER loyal to you.
P.S. dominoes pizza is nasty. Try a real pizza place like a smaller mom and pop that wants to make quality instead of the cheapest high profit one they can.
Dominoes Pizza takes pride in the fact that the whore out, I mean sell every aspect of you over and over and over again. Collection agencies can get all your info from them on a subscription basis. Marketing companies also subscribe to their database as well as other companies. They are proud to throw their pizza customers info to the wind for anyone to buy.
Most pizza places do this, they whore out your data left and right.
Nope. you would need an area far larger than metro chicago to even start to dent the electrical draw of that town with solar. That far north solar power is horribly inefficient.
cover Illinois in Solar panels... then you will have enough.
Not like the DC. DC from panels to batteries.. then Inverter creates AC for the home. 1000 foot loss of the 220Vac is very low compared to the DC losses.
facebook is already pissing off the more techie users. I want RSS feeds that I can filter. Facebook wont give me that. I found my OWN rss feed that I have to pull down with my own server and parse like a madman, but I cant get all the data streams I want.
I want to do my own data mining to aggregate the ton of crud that facebook has in it. I also want to have friend tiers.. Friend tier 1, 2,3,4 and 5... Make each post have the ability to apply a tier X and above can see this.
AOl and Prodigy are the mee-too latecomers to the party as well. Compuserve was the king of them all and could not be de-throned...
Until Prodigy came along with their clever GUI and lower rates...
Then AOL ate prodigy's lunch with an even better dumbed down GUI and clicky interface as well as even lower rates..
Then the internet happened, delivering more content. People could get even lower rates and avoid the busy phone line..
Then broadband happened, this event ate AOL's lunch hard.
Then friendster, Myspace, Facebook, etc.... If you offer something better that people like they will leave. Facebook is a tower of cards waiting to topple just like all the rest of them were.
Nope. all the closed source war dialing apps have a list of all phone numbers to all the ATM's and refuse to dial them. They also have regular popups that ask you to confirm that you are not wardialing to do illegal activities...
Microsoft Bob was re purposed for this use. Microsoft BobDialer 6 is the most popular in the in crowd of casual wardialing.... Ohh BRB Mine has found a fax machine for me to listen to!
When I did solar at my home I wanted to be "neat" and ran the wires very clean and put the batteries in the basement 1000 feet from the panels. I increased my power generation 3X by moving the batteries to a shed at the base of the solar array.
I could have fixed that by selling all the panels and buying high voltage panels and then buying all new gear to handle them... It was massively cheaper to dig holes, pour concrete and build a battery shed that is 1/2 underground.
WE already do this for coal generated and nuclear generated power here in michigan to make up for daytime load surges.. night excess power pumps the lake full... Daytime they let it run the pumps backwards and generate a poopload of power.
or cloudy days... Oh and a solar electrical generation plant is 40X larger than a Nuclear plant. Just a few small details.. Great for the nevada desert, 100% useless for chicago...
I'm betting Nuclear is far FAR cheaper than solar for cities like NYC and Chicago... I'm thinking the "study" is ignoring the cost of land and the massive scaling up you have to do to the solar arrays the farther north you go. A solar plant in Texas is tiny compared to the one that you would have to build in northern minnesota to generate the same amount of electricity.
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I would not do any of those. Desktop programming sucks. Embedded systems programming allows you to work with cool stuff, interface level, and you dont have to throw your designs in the trash because some moron in marketing wants you to rip out all your privacy crap so they can make more money on ad's.
Plus embedded programmers get a whole lot more money than a desktop app jockey. And the glorified IT guy that can code in VB for the company get's even less.
Embedded programming is where the fun and excitement is at.
which makes me question the reality of the "article" Has this guy been unplugged cince 1990? He does not know how to use google to answer 90% of what he is asking?
Honestly all it takes is a few moments searching google to find every resource needed to learn all these "new" languages and learn that knowing only one is how you fail. You need to know several and master a couple to be a high value programmer. Look at current job listings and see what is being asked for. Hell write a script to scrape the job sites and aggregate the averages of languages desired to get a day to day picture of what is hot right now.
He whole question sounds like he in 1990 retired and built a time statis chamber and put himself in it for the past 20 years.... Fishy.
Yup...
Dear Ballmer: Take a note from the current crop of Android tablets.... Dont make it suck.
I have tried a ton of different android tablets and they all suck horribly because the hardware is sub par or garbage.
Note: if you make the giant Zune to combat the Giant Ipod... you had better make it cheaper or with upgradeable storage or Apple will continue to eat your cheerios... I wouldn't pay $299.00 for a Zune instead of an ipod, I certainly wont pay $600.00 for a GiantZune.
Oh and P.S. I siggest making the interface open and easily designed for. Apple is kicking your ass because I can buy 80,000 different devices to plug my iPod into... I cant find any car stereo outside of the Ford Sync that will work with the Zune...
If you dont pay the deckhands enough, or keep them comfortable... You will accdiently fall overboard with the anchor tied around your neck.
This kind of stuff needs to happen more.
How high he can get before he jumps and uses his golden parachute...
CEO's are worthless.
Where? Around the midwest everyone considers management, specifically middle management positions to be where you put the ineffective idiots so they dont screw anything up.
$29 bucks a year? Wow dude... you better panhandle better.
Also why do you carry it out to 3 decimal places?
A lot of people who get silly high salaries do that.
Live outside the city and ride the train with us nasty dirty people that make a paltry $85,000 a year. I know. we are dirty nasty icky poor people... But we promise we wont lick you on the train.....
That's the only way to get the superstars... I ALWAYS am the guy looking for the next job. Why? because asshole executives dont promote high skill tech people... they want to keep them where they are at. So I jump ship every 3-5 years to get my own promotion and pay raise. It is the way most sucessful people climb the ladder.
Honestly only a complete fool is loyal to the company. Because the company is never EVER loyal to you.
Nope
http://www.heluvagood.com/
makes only dips, condiments and cheese... No pizza
http://www.bluemaumau.org/police_and_collection_agencies_love_dominos_database_pizza_lovers
They store it and happily sell it.
P.S. dominoes pizza is nasty. Try a real pizza place like a smaller mom and pop that wants to make quality instead of the cheapest high profit one they can.
Dominoes Pizza takes pride in the fact that the whore out, I mean sell every aspect of you over and over and over again. Collection agencies can get all your info from them on a subscription basis. Marketing companies also subscribe to their database as well as other companies. They are proud to throw their pizza customers info to the wind for anyone to buy.
Most pizza places do this, they whore out your data left and right.
From the linked article, that Chinese satellite that got shot down has created sometrackable 2841 pieces
2841 trackable pieces = 80,000 actual pieces.
Nope and nope.
Most is aluminum and titanuim. Nobody has launched cast iron rockets cince the 30's.
A small black hole in orbit would do just fine. we have a better chance at making that before a "tractor beam"
Nope. you would need an area far larger than metro chicago to even start to dent the electrical draw of that town with solar. That far north solar power is horribly inefficient.
cover Illinois in Solar panels... then you will have enough.
Not like the DC. DC from panels to batteries.. then Inverter creates AC for the home. 1000 foot loss of the 220Vac is very low compared to the DC losses.
convert to AC and then back to DC for storage is bad. You simply Grid intertie.... far different setup. Great but different.
facebook is already pissing off the more techie users. I want RSS feeds that I can filter. Facebook wont give me that. I found my OWN rss feed that I have to pull down with my own server and parse like a madman, but I cant get all the data streams I want.
I want to do my own data mining to aggregate the ton of crud that facebook has in it. I also want to have friend tiers.. Friend tier 1, 2,3,4 and 5... Make each post have the ability to apply a tier X and above can see this.
same for privacy info...
AOl and Prodigy are the mee-too latecomers to the party as well. Compuserve was the king of them all and could not be de-throned...
Until Prodigy came along with their clever GUI and lower rates...
Then AOL ate prodigy's lunch with an even better dumbed down GUI and clicky interface as well as even lower rates..
Then the internet happened, delivering more content. People could get even lower rates and avoid the busy phone line..
Then broadband happened, this event ate AOL's lunch hard.
Then friendster, Myspace, Facebook, etc.... If you offer something better that people like they will leave. Facebook is a tower of cards waiting to topple just like all the rest of them were.
Nope. all the closed source war dialing apps have a list of all phone numbers to all the ATM's and refuse to dial them. They also have regular popups that ask you to confirm that you are not wardialing to do illegal activities...
Microsoft Bob was re purposed for this use. Microsoft BobDialer 6 is the most popular in the in crowd of casual wardialing.... Ohh BRB Mine has found a fax machine for me to listen to!
Shipping costs is gonna be a bitch on that one.
Try powering something off panels 1000 feet away.
When I did solar at my home I wanted to be "neat" and ran the wires very clean and put the batteries in the basement 1000 feet from the panels. I increased my power generation 3X by moving the batteries to a shed at the base of the solar array.
I could have fixed that by selling all the panels and buying high voltage panels and then buying all new gear to handle them... It was massively cheaper to dig holes, pour concrete and build a battery shed that is 1/2 underground.
WE already do this for coal generated and nuclear generated power here in michigan to make up for daytime load surges.. night excess power pumps the lake full... Daytime they let it run the pumps backwards and generate a poopload of power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power_Plant
It's very cool.
or cloudy days... Oh and a solar electrical generation plant is 40X larger than a Nuclear plant. Just a few small details.. Great for the nevada desert, 100% useless for chicago...
I'm betting Nuclear is far FAR cheaper than solar for cities like NYC and Chicago... I'm thinking the "study" is ignoring the cost of land and the massive scaling up you have to do to the solar arrays the farther north you go. A solar plant in Texas is tiny compared to the one that you would have to build in northern minnesota to generate the same amount of electricity.