I'm another one of those apparently "arrogant" folks who practice safe browsing habits and somehow have never gotten an infection. Take basic precautions, run everything in a non-Administrative account, and you'll likely have no problems.
Some of you guys sound like those extreme alarmist sex-ed teachers: "EVERYONE'S AT RISK OF AN STD!!! Be afraid!! You think you're so smart because you use a CONDOM during sex??? How about oral? What about pubic lice? What about crabs? That toilet seat you sat on?? That person you shook hands with, did you wash afterward?? See! You're so arrogant to think you're safe! The only way to be truly safe is to WRAP YOURSELF IN PLASTIC WRAP EVERY DAY AND HAVE NO CONTACT WITH ANYONE, EVER!!!!!!"
Practice safe, common-sense browsing, run a scanner periodically (weekly should be enough), and don't run with administrative privileges, and your chances of a system-destroying virus infestation are incalculably small.
I wouldn't call this an event worthy of celebration. These billion mice (along with the billions of other plastic mass-produced products out there) will one day end up in a landfill somewhere, and will take hundreds of years to break down. The major consequence of mass-production is mass-consumption, and the drawback of mass-consumption is mass-disposal.
I find it a bit sad that a device which, essentially, hasn't changed in 20 years isn't re-used more often. I have 10 year old keyboards and mice I still use.
I guess it's just part of our "throw away, buy a new one" culture that seems to ignore what happens to things once they're in the bin. Out of sight, out of mind.
Looks like we're simply talking about abstraction, software reuse, and components, just painted over with a little formal language. You're right--nothing new. I've just never heard anyone in the industry talk like that. Nobody I know sits in their cube talking about software design theory. Nice to know this class of concepts has a name, I guess.
Can we have a glossary or something? I've been programming (C, Assembly, some C++) for 10+ years and I have no idea what the author is talking about or any of the commenters here. Patterns? Templates??
Now, imagine what things will be like in 15 MORE years!
2022:
Buy game X.
* Buying game X legally obligates you to buy the next three versions, sight unseen. * No media. You are required to mail your PC to the publisher so THEY can install it. * Game is only playable by the person who bought it. Each family member must purchase their own license. * Require criminal background check and credit check every time you wish to run the game. * Require constantly running software that scans your PC for unapproved programs, even when not playing the game. * Patches cost almost as much as the game, and are mandatory. * Game becomes no longer functional once the next version is released. * Publisher has the right to enter your home at any time to inspect your PC. * Publishers authorized to remotely disable your PC whenever they suspect you might have pirated software. * License forbids you from telling anyone about the game or writing a negative review of it. * If any part of the license is violated or if the protection schemes are circumvented, publisher may seize and auction off your PC
Not just Texans. A great portion of small-town "red state" America lives in constant self-induced fear that their oh-so-strategic water tower and corn silo are minutes away from being nuked by the rooskies or bombed by the Ay-rabs. Too much watching FOXnews if you ask me...
What would really be nice is for such a system to integrate with your in-car navigation system. I'd love to have a list of known speed traps overlaid geographically on the moving map, perhaps with a warning 5 minutes before you approach one.
Such a system could probably pay for itself within months, in the same way a good RADAR detector pays for itself.
I find your signature pretty amusing, considering your comment. So which is it? Should the Department of Employment come in and raid your middle-class business-owner's wallet or not?
XBMC can act as a front-end to MythTV. Recent builds have very good MythTV support. Just add a video source called myth://whatever and browse away. It doesn't support all of the MythTV frontend's advanced features, but basic browse/playback works fine.
I have a machine in the closet running the MythTV backend, and my XBMC in the living room for playback. I never have to touch the (IMHO) horrible MythTV GUI interface, except to configure the backend*
*Side note: The fact that you NEED the MythTV gui (running on X) to configure the backend is an awfully lame design decision on MythTV's part. Whatever happened to editing text files or a simple command-line based configurator?
I'd still go with serving coffee at the big company. You'll probably make better contacts at the bigger company, and you'll certainly have a more recognizable name on the resume. It's not what you know but who you know and being able to name-drop.
Most of the jobs I've ever gotten (or gotten very far through the interview process with) have been either through knowing the right person, not by having the right skills or the right experience. This is one of the things I wish I had known 15 years ago.
Jeez, people! So many negative responses. "Ha! Ha! Get a life and go outside!!" Real constructive, real classy, guys.
The article submitter is clearly passionate about the election, probably has gathered lots of feeds already, and wants to know if anyone has any he/she hasn't thought of. This person has probably been following the election headline by headline for the past several months, and is very excited about it. Way to rain on his/her parade!
Just because you're passionate about something different, or, likely not passionate about anything at all, doesn't give you the right to shit all over someone who is.
Piracy has a percieved negative impact on PC gaming. It has never actually been proven. However, any business man will tell you that making your product less interesting will not increase its sales.
Not to mention putting in "features" specifically designed to frustrate your customers and make it more difficult for them to enjoy the product they bought.
DRM only affects legitimate buyers. Pirates are just going to download the non-DRM version and be done with it. So any company that chooses DRM is doing it knowing that they are frustrating only their legitimate customers.
The worldwide inter-connectedness of business is a strong argument AGAINST the 9-5 schedule. What good is standardizing on "9-5" when your customer on the west coast and your partners in India, Japan, and England all have their own, different 9-5?
Who the hell even picked 9 and 5, and what makes those particular numbers so special that everyone has to change our entire time system twice a year to make sure those are always work hours?
If every business adopted a very simple "go to work when you have to and leave when you have to" policy, we wouldn't care what the damn clock said, and would need neither time zones nor daylight saving time.
I can only imagine how people would react if their homebuilders decided that they were allowed to come in and re-paint your walls if you changed them to a color they didn't like. Oh, don't worry, we'll only do it if you install REALLY UGLY colors!
If you are taking a year to look for one programmer, either:
1. Your expectations are too high or 2. Your HR person or hiring manager is overworked and doesn't have time to do a proper search.
This country is simply overflowing with average-and-above programmers. You probably think you need THE BEST PROGRAMMER IN THE WHOLE WORLD and are trying to attract them with a salary of less than $150k/yr.
Yea, yea, boo hoo, the wealthy have to fund the government. The wealthy make use of a disproportionately large portion of government benefits.
The wealthy benefit more than anyone from all the various business subsidies and giveaways.
The wealthy benefit more than anyone from corporate welfare and business bailouts.
The wealthy benefit more than anyone from government guaranteed business loans.
The wealthy benefit more than anyone from DOD spending - Our soldiers haven't defended our soil since Pearl harbor. Their primary purpose is defending "U.S. interests abroad" which is code word for "corporate interests" or, put bluntly, the wealthy's interests.
The wealthy benefit more than anyone from DOT, DOE, DHS, and other "infrastructure" department spending, where Congress essentially acts as a giant corporate money funnel.
Sure, the poor benefit from Social Security and Medicare, and a few other aid-related government programs that haven't yet been gutted, but don't pretend the rich don't receive a WINDFALL from our tax money.
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Your post (and those like it) is FUD.
I'm another one of those apparently "arrogant" folks who practice safe browsing habits and somehow have never gotten an infection. Take basic precautions, run everything in a non-Administrative account, and you'll likely have no problems.
Some of you guys sound like those extreme alarmist sex-ed teachers: "EVERYONE'S AT RISK OF AN STD!!! Be afraid!! You think you're so smart because you use a CONDOM during sex??? How about oral? What about pubic lice? What about crabs? That toilet seat you sat on?? That person you shook hands with, did you wash afterward?? See! You're so arrogant to think you're safe! The only way to be truly safe is to WRAP YOURSELF IN PLASTIC WRAP EVERY DAY AND HAVE NO CONTACT WITH ANYONE, EVER!!!!!!"
Practice safe, common-sense browsing, run a scanner periodically (weekly should be enough), and don't run with administrative privileges, and your chances of a system-destroying virus infestation are incalculably small.
All embedded. C++ has made its way into embedded devices but often only to glue on libraries that expose C++ interfaces.
I wouldn't call this an event worthy of celebration. These billion mice (along with the billions of other plastic mass-produced products out there) will one day end up in a landfill somewhere, and will take hundreds of years to break down. The major consequence of mass-production is mass-consumption, and the drawback of mass-consumption is mass-disposal.
I find it a bit sad that a device which, essentially, hasn't changed in 20 years isn't re-used more often. I have 10 year old keyboards and mice I still use.
I guess it's just part of our "throw away, buy a new one" culture that seems to ignore what happens to things once they're in the bin. Out of sight, out of mind.
Looks like we're simply talking about abstraction, software reuse, and components, just painted over with a little formal language. You're right--nothing new. I've just never heard anyone in the industry talk like that. Nobody I know sits in their cube talking about software design theory. Nice to know this class of concepts has a name, I guess.
Can we have a glossary or something? I've been programming (C, Assembly, some C++) for 10+ years and I have no idea what the author is talking about or any of the commenters here. Patterns? Templates??
Now, imagine what things will be like in 15 MORE years!
2022:
Buy game X.
* Buying game X legally obligates you to buy the next three versions, sight unseen.
* No media. You are required to mail your PC to the publisher so THEY can install it.
* Game is only playable by the person who bought it. Each family member must purchase their own license.
* Require criminal background check and credit check every time you wish to run the game.
* Require constantly running software that scans your PC for unapproved programs, even when not playing the game.
* Patches cost almost as much as the game, and are mandatory.
* Game becomes no longer functional once the next version is released.
* Publisher has the right to enter your home at any time to inspect your PC.
* Publishers authorized to remotely disable your PC whenever they suspect you might have pirated software.
* License forbids you from telling anyone about the game or writing a negative review of it.
* If any part of the license is violated or if the protection schemes are circumvented, publisher may seize and auction off your PC
Not just Texans. A great portion of small-town "red state" America lives in constant self-induced fear that their oh-so-strategic water tower and corn silo are minutes away from being nuked by the rooskies or bombed by the Ay-rabs. Too much watching FOXnews if you ask me...
SO, if the speed limit was changed to 5MPH, it's unreasonable to believe you're entitled to drive faster?
Speed limits are set arbitrarily and have absolutely nothing to do with safety.
Wow, I must be behind the times then. Thanks for the info!
What would really be nice is for such a system to integrate with your in-car navigation system. I'd love to have a list of known speed traps overlaid geographically on the moving map, perhaps with a warning 5 minutes before you approach one.
Such a system could probably pay for itself within months, in the same way a good RADAR detector pays for itself.
Next up: AT&T, Sprint, Verizon sued because criminals sometimes use mobile phones to plan and execute crimes!
Steve Jobs could piss down their throats and the Apple fanboys would just argue, "Hey, urine's sterile! Have fun drinking your germy PC fruit punch!"
I find your signature pretty amusing, considering your comment. So which is it? Should the Department of Employment come in and raid your middle-class business-owner's wallet or not?
Do what I do: Use both!
XBMC can act as a front-end to MythTV. Recent builds have very good MythTV support. Just add a video source called myth://whatever and browse away. It doesn't support all of the MythTV frontend's advanced features, but basic browse/playback works fine.
I have a machine in the closet running the MythTV backend, and my XBMC in the living room for playback. I never have to touch the (IMHO) horrible MythTV GUI interface, except to configure the backend*
*Side note: The fact that you NEED the MythTV gui (running on X) to configure the backend is an awfully lame design decision on MythTV's part. Whatever happened to editing text files or a simple command-line based configurator?
Great news. It's about time! I'm curious if they have plans to release a Windows 64-bit version for Firefox's "Minefield" releases.
This is a great point. An important question for any company you'll work for is, "How much exposure to the higher-ups will my work get me?"
I'd still go with serving coffee at the big company. You'll probably make better contacts at the bigger company, and you'll certainly have a more recognizable name on the resume. It's not what you know but who you know and being able to name-drop.
Most of the jobs I've ever gotten (or gotten very far through the interview process with) have been either through knowing the right person, not by having the right skills or the right experience. This is one of the things I wish I had known 15 years ago.
I keep hearing about those do nothing freeloaders, but somehow, I've NEVER met one.
That's why it's a strawman.
Jeez, people! So many negative responses. "Ha! Ha! Get a life and go outside!!" Real constructive, real classy, guys.
The article submitter is clearly passionate about the election, probably has gathered lots of feeds already, and wants to know if anyone has any he/she hasn't thought of. This person has probably been following the election headline by headline for the past several months, and is very excited about it. Way to rain on his/her parade!
Just because you're passionate about something different, or, likely not passionate about anything at all, doesn't give you the right to shit all over someone who is.
Piracy has a percieved negative impact on PC gaming. It has never actually been proven. However, any business man will tell you that making your product less interesting will not increase its sales.
Not to mention putting in "features" specifically designed to frustrate your customers and make it more difficult for them to enjoy the product they bought.
DRM only affects legitimate buyers. Pirates are just going to download the non-DRM version and be done with it. So any company that chooses DRM is doing it knowing that they are frustrating only their legitimate customers.
The worldwide inter-connectedness of business is a strong argument AGAINST the 9-5 schedule. What good is standardizing on "9-5" when your customer on the west coast and your partners in India, Japan, and England all have their own, different 9-5?
Who the hell even picked 9 and 5, and what makes those particular numbers so special that everyone has to change our entire time system twice a year to make sure those are always work hours?
If every business adopted a very simple "go to work when you have to and leave when you have to" policy, we wouldn't care what the damn clock said, and would need neither time zones nor daylight saving time.
I can only imagine how people would react if their homebuilders decided that they were allowed to come in and re-paint your walls if you changed them to a color they didn't like. Oh, don't worry, we'll only do it if you install REALLY UGLY colors!
If you are taking a year to look for one programmer, either:
1. Your expectations are too high
or
2. Your HR person or hiring manager is overworked and doesn't have time to do a proper search.
This country is simply overflowing with average-and-above programmers. You probably think you need THE BEST PROGRAMMER IN THE WHOLE WORLD and are trying to attract them with a salary of less than $150k/yr.
Not all companies need a top-1%er.
Yea, yea, boo hoo, the wealthy have to fund the government. The wealthy make use of a disproportionately large portion of government benefits.
The wealthy benefit more than anyone from all the various business subsidies and giveaways.
The wealthy benefit more than anyone from corporate welfare and business bailouts.
The wealthy benefit more than anyone from government guaranteed business loans.
The wealthy benefit more than anyone from DOD spending - Our soldiers haven't defended our soil since Pearl harbor. Their primary purpose is defending "U.S. interests abroad" which is code word for "corporate interests" or, put bluntly, the wealthy's interests.
The wealthy benefit more than anyone from DOT, DOE, DHS, and other "infrastructure" department spending, where Congress essentially acts as a giant corporate money funnel.
Sure, the poor benefit from Social Security and Medicare, and a few other aid-related government programs that haven't yet been gutted, but don't pretend the rich don't receive a WINDFALL from our tax money.
It's only a nightmare to people who don't understand the difference between NAT and a firewall.