Among other things, my primary OS is Windows because of the development tools. People who have not used Visual Studio (or people who have only touched the surface) have no idea how excellent Microsoft's development tools are.
TAKE NOTE: Before my current job, I was only using Linux, writing Lisp and C code in emacs... so don't write me off as some Windows goober who needs fancy widgets to get by.
Anyway, back to my point.. Visual Studio is some smart software. The layout is intuitive, the toolboxes are the kind of toolboxes you want to keep around and not hide. The dynamic help is wonderful. The tool tips that show various function argument completions are a huge timesaver. The debugger is powerful and easy, built in beautifully with the editor.
VS is just a wonderfully put together development suite that has won me over. There are no open or free tools that even come close.. and believe me, I have used them. Even the commercial development suites for linux/unix don't come close.
Anywho, that is my two cents.
I still run Linux at home.. I need the command line;) But when it comes to my professional activities -- I will be sticking to Windows for some time to come.
Fine, the equipment may be cheap -- and it sounds like you get what you pay for. But what about the cost of man hours it takes to get this up and running. Not to mention the man hours it will take to support some hodge-podge solution to wireless. For all the trouble you will have to go to to get this crappy solution going, you could afford 802.11b that works out of the box on most distros anymore.
If you want to save some money cutting corners, then build some cheap pringles cantennas or something.
I don't think this has much to do with group dynamics. I think it is a classic case of our natural fight or flight response to stress. If you think your head is on the chopping block, you have two options.. power through, work hard and try to stay alive.. or you are going to go the other route and give up and start looking for the next opportunity because you figure this one is over.
Oh this is just terrible news.. you see, I recently had my name legally changed to "Ford Sucks" so that I could sue Ford for squatting on fordsucks.com.
Yeah, Microsoft is going to open the source to Windows for a country that has a 98% software piracy rate. A country where the latest version of Windows will run you $5 on any street corner.
Assume that every American buys 10 disposable DVDs per year. That's 3 billion of these things that wind up in the landfill, for a total of around 41000 cubic meters.
Not every American owns a DVD player. HOWEVER.. most Americans do have a mailbox, and where there is a mailbox there is an AOL CD every freaking month (but hey.. maybe some people just don't realize how great AOL 8.0 is yet).
My real point is.. don't worry about the prospect of the added trash these DVDs MIGHT create.. why not worry about all the trash we are already creating with all of our other disposable goods.
The voice-mail indicator requires that you stay on the call an additional 2-3 seconds longer than you used to, when picking up voice mail, in order for the indicator icon to disappear on your phone. If you hang up too soon, you'll have to call back to listen to "No new messages" before it disappears.
Every Sprint phone has a reset for the voicemail notification -- so in the case that you know you don't have voicemail, you can hit the reset option to get rid of the little mail icon. Its not Sprint's fault that you don't know how to use your phone.
2) Jason Newstead leaving the group, for various reasons. (What, you think I listened to Metallica for Lars' drumming?)
... but you listened to them for Jason's bass playing? Kirk, Lars and James are the core talent behind Metallica -- not to mention the only three original members. Don't forget that Jason was just Cliff Burton's replacement after his death.
At the last two companies I've worked for, managers are told to consider a developer's time as costing about $130/hour after overhead (benefits, office space, support personnelle, equipment, etc.).
Oh yeah? Did they tell you that right after turning you down for a raise?
Then you obviously don't keep up on things. Lets see.. in the past 7 months their stock has fallen 88%, from 72.66 to 8.69.
They expected their second-quarter revenue to be up 1 percent to 3 percent, instead it declined by about 30%. (Causing the stock to tumble 31% in after hours trading two weeks ago) Nvidia said it would have to take a "significant" write-off of inventory in the quarter.
Man.. it was slow here. Here at the Columbus meet, it was just me and 10 strippers. These girls were complete sluts. The problem was, they were all Redhat users, it was so lame. I wish there would have been some more nerdy Debian types there... maybe next time.
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Vive la differance and all that, but Segway will be as popular as American tourists in Paris.
I have a more fitting analogy for you...
Segway will be as popular as a Jew in Paris.
racist bastards.
-gerbik
This is why I run Windows 3.11. No worries about falling behind and not installing the latest fixes.
Among other things, my primary OS is Windows because of the development tools. People who have not used Visual Studio (or people who have only touched the surface) have no idea how excellent Microsoft's development tools are.
;) But when it comes to my professional activities -- I will be sticking to Windows for some time to come.
TAKE NOTE: Before my current job, I was only using Linux, writing Lisp and C code in emacs... so don't write me off as some Windows goober who needs fancy widgets to get by.
Anyway, back to my point.. Visual Studio is some smart software. The layout is intuitive, the toolboxes are the kind of toolboxes you want to keep around and not hide. The dynamic help is wonderful. The tool tips that show various function argument completions are a huge timesaver. The debugger is powerful and easy, built in beautifully with the editor.
VS is just a wonderfully put together development suite that has won me over. There are no open or free tools that even come close.. and believe me, I have used them. Even the commercial development suites for linux/unix don't come close.
Anywho, that is my two cents.
I still run Linux at home.. I need the command line
-gerbik
Fine, the equipment may be cheap -- and it sounds like you get what you pay for. But what about the cost of man hours it takes to get this up and running. Not to mention the man hours it will take to support some hodge-podge solution to wireless. For all the trouble you will have to go to to get this crappy solution going, you could afford 802.11b that works out of the box on most distros anymore.
If you want to save some money cutting corners, then build some cheap pringles cantennas or something.
-gerbik
I don't think this has much to do with group dynamics. I think it is a classic case of our natural fight or flight response to stress. If you think your head is on the chopping block, you have two options.. power through, work hard and try to stay alive.. or you are going to go the other route and give up and start looking for the next opportunity because you figure this one is over.
Why does the US spend millions and millions of dollars on expensive spy satellites when they could just use kites??
-gerbik
Oh this is just terrible news.. you see, I recently had my name legally changed to "Ford Sucks" so that I could sue Ford for squatting on fordsucks.com.
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http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=
-gerbik
So, then, what's the loss to Microsoft in this case?
Because once Microsoft releases the source to anyone, we will all have it.
Yeah, Microsoft is going to open the source to Windows for a country that has a 98% software piracy rate. A country where the latest version of Windows will run you $5 on any street corner.
-gerbik
Now the list of 101 Mozilla features that IE doesn't have can be amended to 102 features! :)
Yeah.. but those 102 features are nothing when you compare them to the one major feature IE has over Mozilla, w3 compliance with HTML, CSS and XSL.
-gerbik
oh please you are a slashdot no lady except maybe your mom (who is not really a lady anyhow) has ever seen your junit
Its possible that your Mom has caught a glimpse of my JUnit.. but its unlikely as it is always in her mouth.
-gerbik
I don't know about you guys, but all the fine Java ladies dig my JUnit.
-gerbik
Joel should write an article about his leaky hosting company... or maybe his leaky colo-ed box.
Since I can't get to the site and read the article, I'll tell some jokes.
"Leaky Abstractions?! Is this guy talking about Proctology??"
"Leaky Abstractions?! Someone get this guy a plumber!"
"Leaky Abstractions?! I knew we should have used the pill!"
-gerbik
Assume that every American buys 10 disposable DVDs per year. That's 3 billion of these things that wind up in the landfill, for a total of around 41000 cubic meters.
Not every American owns a DVD player. HOWEVER.. most Americans do have a mailbox, and where there is a mailbox there is an AOL CD every freaking month (but hey.. maybe some people just don't realize how great AOL 8.0 is yet).
My real point is.. don't worry about the prospect of the added trash these DVDs MIGHT create.. why not worry about all the trash we are already creating with all of our other disposable goods.
-gerbik
inexpensive PPC system
OXYMORON ALERT!
>> BZZZ, Wrong. There is no such option anywhere on my SCH-3500.
> Press the OK/[Envelop picture] button
> Select Voice
> Select Reset
DING DING DING! WE HAVE A NUMBNUT!
What you should have said was Only a drugged up lesbian designer who has no children would think Gluing hay on a wall was a good idea
;)
No way.. paint chips & hay are a great afterschool snack!
Hahaha. Those are the best two episodes EVER! If you could reply with a link to the behind the scenes article, I would love to read it.
The voice-mail indicator requires that you stay on the call an additional 2-3 seconds longer than you used to, when picking up voice mail, in order for the indicator icon to disappear on your phone. If you hang up too soon, you'll have to call back to listen to "No new messages" before it disappears.
Every Sprint phone has a reset for the voicemail notification -- so in the case that you know you don't have voicemail, you can hit the reset option to get rid of the little mail icon. Its not Sprint's fault that you don't know how to use your phone.
2) Jason Newstead leaving the group, for various reasons. (What, you think I listened to Metallica for Lars' drumming?)
... but you listened to them for Jason's bass playing? Kirk, Lars and James are the core talent behind Metallica -- not to mention the only three original members. Don't forget that Jason was just Cliff Burton's replacement after his death.
is this going to be the future of warez? i think i'll start working on my bon jovi serial generator now.
-gerbik
Is it near Kioto? North of Iokohama maybe? Ies, I think that must be it.
At the last two companies I've worked for, managers are told to consider a developer's time as costing about $130/hour after overhead (benefits, office space, support personnelle, equipment, etc.).
Oh yeah? Did they tell you that right after turning you down for a raise?
-gerbik
"I don't see Nvidia doing too badly right now..."
Then you obviously don't keep up on things. Lets see.. in the past 7 months their stock has fallen 88%, from 72.66 to 8.69.
They expected their second-quarter revenue to be up 1 percent to 3 percent, instead it declined by about 30%. (Causing the stock to tumble 31% in after hours trading two weeks ago) Nvidia said it would have to take a "significant" write-off of inventory in the quarter.
Yeah, I would say they are hurting right now.
-gerbik
Man.. it was slow here. Here at the Columbus meet, it was just me and 10 strippers. These girls were complete sluts. The problem was, they were all Redhat users, it was so lame. I wish there would have been some more nerdy Debian types there... maybe next time.
-gerbik