One time, I was at Best Buy and saw an 80 gb HD from Matrox at around $90. With rebates. It was on sale anyways, so I decided to buy it. I was in the mood to actually send that rebate slip and reciept in.
So, I went through the register and realized that not only did I not get the rebate form, I didn't even get the item at the sales price. I went to the CS counter, and asked them to fix it. I walked the lady at the counter back to the item to "prove" the price. No problem there, she credited my card and was going to make another debit. I told her to make sure to print the rebate form, so she did. The form she printed was an expired offer that ran a month previous for the same product, and it wasn't even for the same amount of money. I brought this to her attention, and she called her manager and spoke to him for a bit. They eventually just knocked the actual price of the item down to $90, so I didn't have to mail in the stupid rebate after all.
I hate rebates though. It is a scam. My co-worker buddy bought some stuff with rebates at Best Buy. He's the type that always follows through on rebates in a meticulous manner. He's very concerned about getting his money. Anyway, when one of his rebates was rejected, he actually went to Best Buy to complain and possibly return the product. They ended up cashing out the amount of the rebate to him. It's more important that BB gets the sale than to have the extra cost of re-stocking + a missed sale.
It's amusing too. The serbs were participating in ethnic cleansing only because the Bosnians were doing it first. Of course, they could have chosen a better method of handling the Bosnians, but it was the Bosnians that, in fact, started the whole mess. They started killing Serbs, and once the Serbs turned around and started killing them, they cried to the U.S. for help.
The U.S., of course, turned a blind eye to the original actions of the Bosnians. It's a shame that so many had to die on both sides, but it's an even worse shame that most people don't realize who was being bad first.
I usually take issue with the dissenters that do not have a rational argument. The majority of those that were against the war seemed to froth at the mouth as much as Michael Moore, who seemed to think that 20% of America was the majority. They're arguments are based more upon emotion, and how they feel about this or that.
The main point is that war sucks. Yeah, I'm for it, but I feel the same pain for those that get hurt and die. Why am I not opposed to it then?
Understand that there's a difference between leniency and negligence. It's been shown that those countries that spoke loudest against the war were actually violating a NATO pact, going against something that they kept calling the U.S. and England to honor when the war came around. This is one strike against those against the war, as hypocrisy does not do well in the public opinion. It is unfortunate that most Americans are unable to articulate it, but this is mostly the result of the modern American tendancy to shirk responsibility (different rant).
The biggest issue, though, is if we had been lenient, what would we do then? If we had extended the deadline, for instance, and allowed the Hussein regime more time, and then have them fail yet again to remove WMD... what would we do? This is the equivalent of bending over and letting Saddam spank you, mostly because you've lost the respect (read fear) of Saddam. I won't try to be too religious here, but you can equivocate this to the acts of God described in the Bible. I'm not saying that the U.S. is God, but when God sent prophets to warn people to change, and they didn't change, God wasn't in the business of giving second chances. This instilled the fear of God into the people, for they knew that he was not to be crossed.
Thus, it shows up in foriegn policy. The U.S. has decided to play the role of playground monitor, and as such must command the respect of all of the playing children. If the U.S. warns someone to stop what they're doing, and that someone gives the U.S. the equivalent of the finger, it's the dury of the U.S. to act out the rest of their role.
Now, you could argue about whether or not the U.S. has the right to play such a role. I can't give you the answer to that, but I can give you evidence. It goes to show that most of the world does not mind of the U.S. plays the role of policeman. In fact, when a country is really falling into desparate times, and we ignore, people look at us and say "You're heartless, how could you ignore the rest of the world?" It's a catch-22, we're stuck because if we don't help, we're killing people that others say that we're responsible for, but if we take responsibility and kill people as a result, we get labelled as killers.
There are numerous cases of Saddam's regime torturing and killing people at will... innocent people. In fact, the U.S. has released Kuwaiti hostages from as far back as '92, who were held in Iraq. Go figure, a country attacks a smaller country, and then takes hostages and hangs on to them indefinitely.
Saddam is not innocent, as most dissenters would have us believe. Saddam had no fear of the U.S., because of the lax pursuance of the Clinton regime. Saddam had no real limitations put upon him. He got weapons, he could have recieved food, water, and everything necessary for his citizens. He could have complied with the terms of the original treaty. He could have done a lot of things to make Iraq a better place for his people. Instead, he concentrated on gathering arms, non-compliance, and working for the appearance that the sanctions were causing undue suffering of the Iraqi people.
You know... it should be phrased more like "How has your view changed?"
It assumes that it has changed, but everything changes, so it's a safe bet. The difference, though, is a detailed answer vs. a "Yes" or "No." Lately, I've seen interviews (william shatner, others) where the questions have promoted short answers that completely fulfilled the question.
Judging by one of the first screens that pop up in UT 2K3, you'd think that nVidia and EA are in cahoots. I hardly ever see any other graphics company prominently displayed on a startup screen for a game.
This could also be the result of Nvidia's failure to be king in the vid-card market. There's been enough mud flying back and forth between them and ATI to eclipse the sun. Seriously, I think that this won't really help Nvidia in the long run.
Funny, but most broadband services offer digital telephone over the cable line. Now isn't that something? It's only a signal carried at a certain frequency, much like your cable modems and your cable television. Three different techs, but you can fit them all harmoniously into one big fat cable pipe.
Phone lines should die some time. They're really only good as bird perches.
Heh. "Doing so would increase costs, and not help competition."
Whatever dude. Doing this would be so much easier for the consumer, because then we could stick with just one number for the rest of our lives. It also improves competition, because then the consumer doesn't have to care about having to stay with a particular company to retain a phone number.
Stupid rich fucktards trying to make even more money by lying out of their asses.:-)
That's because you've run into the definition barrier. On one hand, you have the American definition of "Liberal" and "Conservative," and on the other hand you have the real definition of "Liberal" and "Conservative."
The American "Liberal" is closer to the classical definition of a "Socialist," while the American "Conservative" is closer to the classical definition of "Liberal." American Liberals are more fans of big government (as far as I see), yet are big fans of relaxed social views. They seem to want government to take over the responsibility that every dutiful American should have.
The American Conservative is a proponent of "Every man for himself." This includes smaller government, as well as little help for those that are in need, or little care about what other people are doing that may affect what you're doing. They are a bit more concerned about social issues though, and tend to be more strict with the social rules.
The classical Conservative, however, is a rarity within American culture. This individual holds the philosophy that every man and woman has a responsibility to uphold and ensure the well-being of the community. This is completely different from just letting the government take care of everything. This revolves more around personally taking care of the sick and shattered in your community, as well as pitching in to help someone out. This view sometimes springs up among the Christians and the Muslims, and also in the small neighborhood where everyone knows everyone else.
The U.S. was founded on classically Liberal ideals, but don't let the American version of the Liberal take credit for it. The philosophy that they preach usually is a crime against the bill of rights and the constitution. When it comes to the American version, think in terms of money. "Liberal with the money" means willing to spend and spread around in Gov't. "Conservative with the money," shows that conservatives are in favor in spending less money, and limiting government power.
The difference sprang up between them with the interpretation of the unmentioned power clauses in the constitution.
The hope is that a supersonic or hypersonic bomber will be ready by then.
The B1-B is a supersonic bomber. I remember standing on an airfield up in Marquette, MI while one flew over. I watched it coming, but couldn't hear it. It was completely silent until after it had passed. Once it passed, though, I was shaking.
That was one LOUD mofo. The B1-B is an awesome aircraft.
but since the speed of sound slows down in thinner air, I would fly them at around 20-25,000 feet, pedal-to-the-metal.
Are you saying that your plane is the same as a concussion wave, or that it even follows the same rules? You wouldn't really be going any faster at 20,000 feet than you would be going at 15,000, you would just be saying "I'm going 2x the speed of sound up here, but I'm actually travelling with the same velocity."
The speed of sound may be variable, but it doesn't really have an bearing upon the speed of your aircraft.
I see Iraq as a great oppurtunity to experiment. You've got this large area of land that isn't infected with shitty phone lines, yet full of people that could use the internet. I'd say lay plans for an extensive cable network, or perhaps try out a wireless mesh / hive method.
After that, at least one country is not going to be held back by crappy monopolies, technology-wise at least. It'd be great to point at Iraq and say, "See, this works. We should do this." At the same time, the Iraqi people are gonna have a piping fast internet connection, or at least one that can handle a load of 20 million people hitting the porn sites all at once.
MTU has got a buttload of NRA members, being up in the U.P. and all. It's my understanding that the NRA is one of only two lobbying organizations that can effectually push legislation through.
So, how about we ask the NRA to come to bat for it's yooper members, and push some legislation through that compromises the integrity of the RIAA? Something to the effect of "Thou shalt not be a middle-man in industries that don't require it..." or "If you write the song, you own the copyright to both the song and any recording thereof done by you."
I figure that the RIAA would bitch and moan about such a bill, but eventually die when it's passed.
Don't get the software politics involved here. Just because AMD doesn't do what you want them to do doesn't mean that they are a bad or unreliable company. In this market, you absolutely need support from MS, otherwise you die on the vine. Think of it... 98% of the desktop share, with the majority of business users only using MS software. As a processor maker, I'm not going to hold to software ideologies of freedom or non-freedom when going to the market. I would absolutely love, however, a release of an NT kernel that's built specifically for a 64bit x86 platform. That's what I would be thinking if I were Mr. Sanders.
Sometimes, you have to accept the nature of business for what it is... mainly business.
Yeah, similar experience here. I have an SiS mobo at home (fully integrated everything, very cheap). It's extremely upgradable though. It came with PC133 DIMM slots, as well as PC266 DDR-DRAM slots. I can upgrade the memory if I want, the processor, it has an AGP slot so I can do the video too.
Socket A is great. Does that kind of upgradability exist for say, the Pentium 2/3 socket? Can you stick a pentium 4 in a pentium 3 socket? No. I can stick a Barton or Mustang or T-bred or T-bird in a socket A. That's a range of 800Mhz to around 3 Ghz... all that's needed is probably a bios flash.
"in fact, very few engineers are proficient in machine language."
Why is it that everyone just assumes that it's the engineers that do software design? Most of the BIOS programming is probably done by the CS guys, as most of them are proficient in machine language.
Have you ever heard a CS guy rant about the quality of an engineer's code? It's some of the most humorous, yet completely rational and founded stuff in the world. Engineers (mainly EE) should stick with the circuits and logic gates. Maybe they should even take more classes in CS.
There's prior art described in C.S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength". It's book three of the sci-fi series including: "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra".
The premise is based on "The Saracen's head," which is kept alive through mechanical and biological means, although the brain has been grown past the bounds of the head itself. It's a really creepy picture that Lewis creates, but the books were printed in the 60's, a full 20-30 years before this particular patent was filed/granted.
Heh. Everyone should go hit the button for the dude that wants to pay off his loans, say "hi" to his mother, and maybe get a sammitch. I'd rather see MS pay through the ass for this guy to perform his mundane tasks, while MS gets absolutely no value.
I should've patented the method of obtaining a sandwich.
I think Ireland has got some kind of deal where the Government subsidizes the artists. I wouldn't mind if the U.S. set up something like that. We'd just have to ensure that the real talent is the one that gets the money, I can see a whole lot of deadbeats draining the resources really quick. It seems that the U.S. isn't as adept at detecting bullshit as Ireland is.
I would love to pay some amount for the real artists though. I know a few people that struggle, even though they can do things that no one else could ever do.
I read that sentance, and I was looking for the second thing you'd cringe from. Spaghetti Code is a maintenance nightmare, and modifying it is horrific.
The gilette razor is inexpensive, yes. It's also kickass. The blades are made on the cheap by the company, yes. But, hell... buying a razor, and a pack of 6 blades is still cheaper than buying 8 seperate razor packages.
You're left with the conundrum: do you spend money on lots of shitty razors, use once or twice, slice your face and throw away... do you use the mach 3, or do you plop down $60-$100 for an electric that doesn't get as close a shave.
I know plenty of older guys (my dad included) that need jobs. My dad can do mainframe stuff, but he used to do primarily embedded work. The shortage will last only as long as companies insist on hiring young people instead of older ones. Sure, I'm young, but I've noticed that the young ones tend to be very arrogant, ignorant, and sometimes downright stupid. When you see the median age at Microsoft, you shouldn't have to wonder why they have so many problems with buffer overruns, and bounds checking.
My dad's been coding for years and years and years. He had trouble trimming his resume down to 2 pages, having been a consultant. People still won't hire him, mostly because he's pushing 60. Sure, he'll cause higher insurance premiums, he may not last 40 years with the company (as if many young ones would), but he can still contribute skills that have had 30 years of refining...
The company I work for happens to do all development in-house. We have an IT department that probably codes more than some software companies. Some of our software is licensed out to other companies, with some of my co-workers providing consulting on it.
Our business is out to make money, and selling software and services is just another way to do so, though it may not be what the company is acually based on.
I'd say that our actual IT department is about half the size of the actual IT/development department.
There are benefits to the new AMD chip that go beyond addressable space. And no, we aren't talking about 64 bit ints or anything like that (even though 64 bit ints in place of most floats will really speed things up). The major benefit is the elimination of the current front side bus. The Sledge and Clawhammers have the memory controller built into the chip, eliminating the need for a memory controller on the Mobo. The use of AMD's new bus technology will be incredible too.
The bandwidth will be very useful for the 3D gamers, the film editors, the music composers, basically anything that has to do with media. Running an FPS that has higher polygon counts than Doom 3 at really high framerates will not be a problem.
If you want bandwidth, you'd probably want to go with the AMD solution.
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One time, I was at Best Buy and saw an 80 gb HD from Matrox at around $90. With rebates. It was on sale anyways, so I decided to buy it. I was in the mood to actually send that rebate slip and reciept in.
So, I went through the register and realized that not only did I not get the rebate form, I didn't even get the item at the sales price. I went to the CS counter, and asked them to fix it. I walked the lady at the counter back to the item to "prove" the price. No problem there, she credited my card and was going to make another debit. I told her to make sure to print the rebate form, so she did. The form she printed was an expired offer that ran a month previous for the same product, and it wasn't even for the same amount of money. I brought this to her attention, and she called her manager and spoke to him for a bit. They eventually just knocked the actual price of the item down to $90, so I didn't have to mail in the stupid rebate after all.
I hate rebates though. It is a scam. My co-worker buddy bought some stuff with rebates at Best Buy. He's the type that always follows through on rebates in a meticulous manner. He's very concerned about getting his money. Anyway, when one of his rebates was rejected, he actually went to Best Buy to complain and possibly return the product. They ended up cashing out the amount of the rebate to him. It's more important that BB gets the sale than to have the extra cost of re-stocking + a missed sale.
It's amusing too. The serbs were participating in ethnic cleansing only because the Bosnians were doing it first. Of course, they could have chosen a better method of handling the Bosnians, but it was the Bosnians that, in fact, started the whole mess. They started killing Serbs, and once the Serbs turned around and started killing them, they cried to the U.S. for help.
The U.S., of course, turned a blind eye to the original actions of the Bosnians. It's a shame that so many had to die on both sides, but it's an even worse shame that most people don't realize who was being bad first.
I usually take issue with the dissenters that do not have a rational argument. The majority of those that were against the war seemed to froth at the mouth as much as Michael Moore, who seemed to think that 20% of America was the majority. They're arguments are based more upon emotion, and how they feel about this or that.
The main point is that war sucks. Yeah, I'm for it, but I feel the same pain for those that get hurt and die. Why am I not opposed to it then?
Understand that there's a difference between leniency and negligence. It's been shown that those countries that spoke loudest against the war were actually violating a NATO pact, going against something that they kept calling the U.S. and England to honor when the war came around. This is one strike against those against the war, as hypocrisy does not do well in the public opinion. It is unfortunate that most Americans are unable to articulate it, but this is mostly the result of the modern American tendancy to shirk responsibility (different rant).
The biggest issue, though, is if we had been lenient, what would we do then? If we had extended the deadline, for instance, and allowed the Hussein regime more time, and then have them fail yet again to remove WMD... what would we do? This is the equivalent of bending over and letting Saddam spank you, mostly because you've lost the respect (read fear) of Saddam. I won't try to be too religious here, but you can equivocate this to the acts of God described in the Bible. I'm not saying that the U.S. is God, but when God sent prophets to warn people to change, and they didn't change, God wasn't in the business of giving second chances. This instilled the fear of God into the people, for they knew that he was not to be crossed.
Thus, it shows up in foriegn policy. The U.S. has decided to play the role of playground monitor, and as such must command the respect of all of the playing children. If the U.S. warns someone to stop what they're doing, and that someone gives the U.S. the equivalent of the finger, it's the dury of the U.S. to act out the rest of their role.
Now, you could argue about whether or not the U.S. has the right to play such a role. I can't give you the answer to that, but I can give you evidence. It goes to show that most of the world does not mind of the U.S. plays the role of policeman. In fact, when a country is really falling into desparate times, and we ignore, people look at us and say "You're heartless, how could you ignore the rest of the world?" It's a catch-22, we're stuck because if we don't help, we're killing people that others say that we're responsible for, but if we take responsibility and kill people as a result, we get labelled as killers.
There are numerous cases of Saddam's regime torturing and killing people at will... innocent people. In fact, the U.S. has released Kuwaiti hostages from as far back as '92, who were held in Iraq. Go figure, a country attacks a smaller country, and then takes hostages and hangs on to them indefinitely.
Saddam is not innocent, as most dissenters would have us believe. Saddam had no fear of the U.S., because of the lax pursuance of the Clinton regime. Saddam had no real limitations put upon him. He got weapons, he could have recieved food, water, and everything necessary for his citizens. He could have complied with the terms of the original treaty. He could have done a lot of things to make Iraq a better place for his people. Instead, he concentrated on gathering arms, non-compliance, and working for the appearance that the sanctions were causing undue suffering of the Iraqi people.
Those people are way better off without him.
You know... it should be phrased more like "How has your view changed?"
It assumes that it has changed, but everything changes, so it's a safe bet. The difference, though, is a detailed answer vs. a "Yes" or "No." Lately, I've seen interviews (william shatner, others) where the questions have promoted short answers that completely fulfilled the question.
Judging by one of the first screens that pop up in UT 2K3, you'd think that nVidia and EA are in cahoots. I hardly ever see any other graphics company prominently displayed on a startup screen for a game.
This could also be the result of Nvidia's failure to be king in the vid-card market. There's been enough mud flying back and forth between them and ATI to eclipse the sun. Seriously, I think that this won't really help Nvidia in the long run.
Hah. The data they would get would/could be limited by the user permissions of whoever's using the box.
Also, I'd expect MS to get a lot of people named "Jazz Jackrabbit" downloading their media player.
Funny, but most broadband services offer digital telephone over the cable line. Now isn't that something? It's only a signal carried at a certain frequency, much like your cable modems and your cable television. Three different techs, but you can fit them all harmoniously into one big fat cable pipe.
Phone lines should die some time. They're really only good as bird perches.
Heh. "Doing so would increase costs, and not help competition."
Whatever dude. Doing this would be so much easier for the consumer, because then we could stick with just one number for the rest of our lives. It also improves competition, because then the consumer doesn't have to care about having to stay with a particular company to retain a phone number.
Stupid rich fucktards trying to make even more money by lying out of their asses. :-)
That's because you've run into the definition barrier. On one hand, you have the American definition of "Liberal" and "Conservative," and on the other hand you have the real definition of "Liberal" and "Conservative."
The American "Liberal" is closer to the classical definition of a "Socialist," while the American "Conservative" is closer to the classical definition of "Liberal." American Liberals are more fans of big government (as far as I see), yet are big fans of relaxed social views. They seem to want government to take over the responsibility that every dutiful American should have.
The American Conservative is a proponent of "Every man for himself." This includes smaller government, as well as little help for those that are in need, or little care about what other people are doing that may affect what you're doing. They are a bit more concerned about social issues though, and tend to be more strict with the social rules.
The classical Conservative, however, is a rarity within American culture. This individual holds the philosophy that every man and woman has a responsibility to uphold and ensure the well-being of the community. This is completely different from just letting the government take care of everything. This revolves more around personally taking care of the sick and shattered in your community, as well as pitching in to help someone out. This view sometimes springs up among the Christians and the Muslims, and also in the small neighborhood where everyone knows everyone else.
The U.S. was founded on classically Liberal ideals, but don't let the American version of the Liberal take credit for it. The philosophy that they preach usually is a crime against the bill of rights and the constitution. When it comes to the American version, think in terms of money. "Liberal with the money" means willing to spend and spread around in Gov't. "Conservative with the money," shows that conservatives are in favor in spending less money, and limiting government power.
The difference sprang up between them with the interpretation of the unmentioned power clauses in the constitution.
The hope is that a supersonic or hypersonic bomber will be ready by then.
The B1-B is a supersonic bomber. I remember standing on an airfield up in Marquette, MI while one flew over. I watched it coming, but couldn't hear it. It was completely silent until after it had passed. Once it passed, though, I was shaking.
That was one LOUD mofo. The B1-B is an awesome aircraft.
but since the speed of sound slows down in thinner air, I would fly them at around 20-25,000 feet, pedal-to-the-metal.
Are you saying that your plane is the same as a concussion wave, or that it even follows the same rules? You wouldn't really be going any faster at 20,000 feet than you would be going at 15,000, you would just be saying "I'm going 2x the speed of sound up here, but I'm actually travelling with the same velocity."
The speed of sound may be variable, but it doesn't really have an bearing upon the speed of your aircraft.
I see Iraq as a great oppurtunity to experiment. You've got this large area of land that isn't infected with shitty phone lines, yet full of people that could use the internet. I'd say lay plans for an extensive cable network, or perhaps try out a wireless mesh / hive method.
After that, at least one country is not going to be held back by crappy monopolies, technology-wise at least. It'd be great to point at Iraq and say, "See, this works. We should do this." At the same time, the Iraqi people are gonna have a piping fast internet connection, or at least one that can handle a load of 20 million people hitting the porn sites all at once.
MTU has got a buttload of NRA members, being up in the U.P. and all. It's my understanding that the NRA is one of only two lobbying organizations that can effectually push legislation through.
So, how about we ask the NRA to come to bat for it's yooper members, and push some legislation through that compromises the integrity of the RIAA? Something to the effect of "Thou shalt not be a middle-man in industries that don't require it..." or "If you write the song, you own the copyright to both the song and any recording thereof done by you."
I figure that the RIAA would bitch and moan about such a bill, but eventually die when it's passed.
Don't get the software politics involved here. Just because AMD doesn't do what you want them to do doesn't mean that they are a bad or unreliable company. In this market, you absolutely need support from MS, otherwise you die on the vine. Think of it... 98% of the desktop share, with the majority of business users only using MS software. As a processor maker, I'm not going to hold to software ideologies of freedom or non-freedom when going to the market. I would absolutely love, however, a release of an NT kernel that's built specifically for a 64bit x86 platform. That's what I would be thinking if I were Mr. Sanders.
Sometimes, you have to accept the nature of business for what it is... mainly business.
Yeah, similar experience here. I have an SiS mobo at home (fully integrated everything, very cheap). It's extremely upgradable though. It came with PC133 DIMM slots, as well as PC266 DDR-DRAM slots. I can upgrade the memory if I want, the processor, it has an AGP slot so I can do the video too.
Socket A is great. Does that kind of upgradability exist for say, the Pentium 2/3 socket? Can you stick a pentium 4 in a pentium 3 socket? No. I can stick a Barton or Mustang or T-bred or T-bird in a socket A. That's a range of 800Mhz to around 3 Ghz... all that's needed is probably a bios flash.
"in fact, very few engineers are proficient in machine language."
Why is it that everyone just assumes that it's the engineers that do software design? Most of the BIOS programming is probably done by the CS guys, as most of them are proficient in machine language.
Have you ever heard a CS guy rant about the quality of an engineer's code? It's some of the most humorous, yet completely rational and founded stuff in the world. Engineers (mainly EE) should stick with the circuits and logic gates. Maybe they should even take more classes in CS.
There's prior art described in C.S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength". It's book three of the sci-fi series including: "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra".
The premise is based on "The Saracen's head," which is kept alive through mechanical and biological means, although the brain has been grown past the bounds of the head itself. It's a really creepy picture that Lewis creates, but the books were printed in the 60's, a full 20-30 years before this particular patent was filed/granted.
Heh. Everyone should go hit the button for the dude that wants to pay off his loans, say "hi" to his mother, and maybe get a sammitch. I'd rather see MS pay through the ass for this guy to perform his mundane tasks, while MS gets absolutely no value.
I should've patented the method of obtaining a sandwich.
I think Ireland has got some kind of deal where the Government subsidizes the artists. I wouldn't mind if the U.S. set up something like that. We'd just have to ensure that the real talent is the one that gets the money, I can see a whole lot of deadbeats draining the resources really quick. It seems that the U.S. isn't as adept at detecting bullshit as Ireland is.
I would love to pay some amount for the real artists though. I know a few people that struggle, even though they can do things that no one else could ever do.
I read that sentance, and I was looking for the second thing you'd cringe from. Spaghetti Code is a maintenance nightmare, and modifying it is horrific.
What was the second point?
I look at it from this perspective:
The gilette razor is inexpensive, yes. It's also kickass. The blades are made on the cheap by the company, yes. But, hell... buying a razor, and a pack of 6 blades is still cheaper than buying 8 seperate razor packages.
You're left with the conundrum: do you spend money on lots of shitty razors, use once or twice, slice your face and throw away... do you use the mach 3, or do you plop down $60-$100 for an electric that doesn't get as close a shave.
I know plenty of older guys (my dad included) that need jobs. My dad can do mainframe stuff, but he used to do primarily embedded work. The shortage will last only as long as companies insist on hiring young people instead of older ones. Sure, I'm young, but I've noticed that the young ones tend to be very arrogant, ignorant, and sometimes downright stupid. When you see the median age at Microsoft, you shouldn't have to wonder why they have so many problems with buffer overruns, and bounds checking.
My dad's been coding for years and years and years. He had trouble trimming his resume down to 2 pages, having been a consultant. People still won't hire him, mostly because he's pushing 60. Sure, he'll cause higher insurance premiums, he may not last 40 years with the company (as if many young ones would), but he can still contribute skills that have had 30 years of refining...
God Damn H-R departments.
No, dude... The OS is going to be Postfix
The company I work for happens to do all development in-house. We have an IT department that probably codes more than some software companies. Some of our software is licensed out to other companies, with some of my co-workers providing consulting on it.
Our business is out to make money, and selling software and services is just another way to do so, though it may not be what the company is acually based on.
I'd say that our actual IT department is about half the size of the actual IT/development department.
There are benefits to the new AMD chip that go beyond addressable space. And no, we aren't talking about 64 bit ints or anything like that (even though 64 bit ints in place of most floats will really speed things up). The major benefit is the elimination of the current front side bus. The Sledge and Clawhammers have the memory controller built into the chip, eliminating the need for a memory controller on the Mobo. The use of AMD's new bus technology will be incredible too.
The bandwidth will be very useful for the 3D gamers, the film editors, the music composers, basically anything that has to do with media. Running an FPS that has higher polygon counts than Doom 3 at really high framerates will not be a problem.
If you want bandwidth, you'd probably want to go with the AMD solution.