Clarification: When I say Dodd-Frank passed during the Clinton's, it was when Hillary was a Senator, I'm assuming you are including that as part of the "Clinton Administration". At least when I deal with most people who hate the Clinton's anything done while either one of them was in office that they don't like was a Clinton's fault...
Interesting. That hasn't been my experience at all. I work at a major investement bank and the majority of the middle tier of our trading systems are now written in Java. Have been for years. I'm not talking web based apps either. These days the back ends of a lot of the trading systems are a collection of Java apps running on Linux servers (usuall Red Hat) using using pub/sub messaging for communication and jdbc to connect to Oracle, Sybase or DB2.
I've been doing this for a while (10+ years) and went through the progression of doing everything in C, then C++, then Java. When told to start using Java to say I was skeptical would be an understatement. But over the years Java has become great for this purpose. We experience no random memory growth (leaked memory) from our processes. We leave them up for weeks on end processing large volumes of trades with no issues. Since we run our programs for long periods of time startup time isn't an issue and really doesn't take that long anymore anyway. The time saved coding in Java instead of C++ is also beneficial. No more having to learn every vendor's version of their C++ threading library and trying to stitch it all together in one app. Too many times would I have to write an app using serveral vedor libs that I would need to modify and they all implemented threading, logging, etc. their own way. So as you jump from one file to another there is no consistency on how things are being done. Maintenance nightmare and the learning curve is huge for new members of the team.
Plus, as a manager trying to hire competent C++ programmers out of college is almost impossible. Seems like many schools just don't teach it anymore. So if HR only gives you a junior programmer budget and you need a C++ programmer you end up getting the guy nobody else would hire.
Disclaimer: Above experience anecdotal. I'm sure there are people out there who have had really bad experiences.
I always thought Lego James Bond would be cool. Lot of good villians over the years, plus all the different gadgets James Bond gets. Would be similar to the different suits and suit upgrades in Lego Batman...
MicroProse. Wow! I remember them. I spent way too much time playing Darklands back in the day even though it was buggy as hell. I recently felt nostalgic and played in again using DOSBox. Aside from the graphics it still holds up pretty good. I'm still pissed that they never came out with any sequels or add-ons.
I don't buy it. I've got two friends who work as Cell Technicians. Basically their job is to drive around all day fixing broken cell towers, providing routine maintenance or installing hardware upgrades. They've both been doing this going on almost 10 years. Neither have had any health issues.
There is one odd thing though. Between the two of them, they have had six children. All girls. I made a joke to them about the radiation from the towers affecting their Y sperm and they told me they wouldn't be surprised. Amongst their coworkers' children there are about six more girls and only one boy.
It's most likely a coincidence and unrelated to their job though. I'm sure something like this on a large scale would have been noticed. Then again I could be wrong.
All this is anecdotal so take with necessary grain of salt.
I just got the pixelation problem a week ago. I hadn't heard of the problem either and assumed my cables were bad. I tried different cables and when I still had the issue I googled the problem and found out about the overheating. I called tech support and they confirmed the Wii most likely overheated and the graphics card got damaged. Apparently this is very common. I got my Wii Jan. '07 so it's not under warranty anymore. I have to pay to get it fixed. To make matters worse, they fix them in upstate NY and since I live in NY I have to pay sales tax on having them fix it. It will cost ~$85.
I used to love Nintendo products but they have handled this poorly. It has left me with such a bad feeling that this will most likely be the last Nintendo product I will ever buy. I'm considering not getting it fixed and just selling my games on ebay, then using the money to buy an XBox 360 or PS3. At least MS admitted they made a mistake and extend the XBox warranty to 3 years.
I've been trying to figure out the people who think this is a war for oil? I personally think the war is over Weapons of Mass Distruction and Saddam Hussein's failure to give them up. The US is scared Saddam might use these weapons as leverage or sell these weapons to terrorist organizations. A fear I think is valid after 9/11/01.
So, I did some research. I found this: http://www.afa.org/magazine/June2002/0602ch art.pdf It was the first thing that came up when I googled for "US Oil Suppliers". I also learned that Iraq only produces 2% of the worlds oil.
I went to OPEC's website (www.opec.org) and found this on their FAQ: Which countries produce the most oil?
Country Crude oil production (million barrels per day)
Saudi Arabia* 7.889
Russia 6.730
United States 5.801
Iran 3.572
China 3.297
* Including share of production from Neutral Zone.
Iraq isn't even on the list. If you don't agree with the war, that's fine, but it doesn't seem to be over oil so maybe you should have a different chant.
How about "I Don't Like War!" or "The US is being a big Bully" or "War SUCKS!". Shouting "No War for Oil!" doesn't seem to be a valid argument.
Quote from Dennis Miller: If your only anti-war slogan is "No war for oil," sue your school district for allowing you to slip through the cracks and robbing you of the education you deserve.
Ok, MS says you can put a tag in your page to disable smart tags. This forces thousands of people who don't want to be effected by smart tags to add extra tags to their html.
I think it should be the other way around. If somebody wants smart tags to be allowed on their site, they should have to put a tag to enable it. This way, people who don't want to be effected by smart tags don't have to change a thing. I also think MS would take less heat over this "feature" if that was the case.
Question is, who's attention should I bring this too to have the argument brought up to MS. Somehow I don't think MS would take a personal email from me seriously...
I had a stable job at a large brokerage firm, but felt I was missing out on the chance to get rich quick by not working at a dot com. So four months ago I left the stable job for a job at a pre-IPO dot com startup. I received a decent salary jump and options. I knew it was a gamble, but I kept hearing stories of 25 year old millionaires and I wanted to be one of them. Well, about a month ago my company laid off almost half of its employees (not me though), and the future here doesn't look much better.
In the long run I guess it worked out for me. The brokerage firm I worked for asked me to come back and I agreed. I'm currently finishing up my two weeks notice at the dot com. I'm getting another bump in pay and a promotion to go back. No, I didn't become a millionaire, but I got two large increases in pay and a promotion in 5 months and will be back in a stable job.
"and the only social disease I've contracted is bitterness!" - Collider
Ok. People need to read the article before posting, or read it more closely. The problem isn't that Sun didn't distribute the source to the driver. The problem comes with the fact that GPL'd source can't be linked with non GPL'd code. Solaris, isn't GPL'd. The author of the driver feels that once the kit is used to compile the dirver to a solaris binary, and the Solaris kernel loads the driver, the GPL'd driver is being linked with a non GPL'd program since it is being loaded into the non GPL'd kernel. Sun feels that the source isn't being linked. Sun feels that loading the GPL'd binary driver into the kernel at runtime is just like running a GPL'd application on a non GPL OS, which is of course allowed. I hate to burst all of your bubbles, but Sun didn't do anything illegal here. Even Peren's said the GPL's language allows this, because the drivers are being loaded as modules at runtime. If the writers of the GPL didn't want people to be able to do this, they should have stated it. Remember, in law nothing can be assumed. The language has to say exactly what you mean, not just capture the spirit of what you mean.
I have 3 computers sharing my cablemodem at home using a Cable/DSL Router from Linksys. It's a 4 port switch with a built in router. It does NAT based translation and has a firewall built in. It also supports port forwarding, can be used as a dhcp server, and also lets you configure a computer as a DMZ if you like. You can find it from places like buy.com for about $150. I also like it becaue I don't have to leave a computer on all the time.
Didn't that teacher with the crypto code on his website just win a case in which a federal judge said that source code is expresive, and therefore free speech? If source code is free speech, then the DeCSS source is free speech and anybody who wants to put it on a web site should be able too. Stopping somebody from posting the source code is a violation of that person's first amendment rights.
Do you think directors and actors should be able to sue the IMDB is somebody put a bad review there? No, of course not. And this is the same thing. The site operator should not be responsible.
I actually had a friend who went to Beaver college for a year. And one time when I was visiting, I noticed that one of the schools main signs had been altered by some students to read Beavis College.
Heh, I've been a minister of the ULC for years. Before the internet was big. In those days you had to send them a postcard, and they mailed you back a really nice certificate saying you were an ordained minister. You also go a small booklet that told you what you needed to perform weddings, funerals and such. The book also had a list of some famous people who were ordained ministers of the ULC.
The best way to go about convincing companies to port games is probably to make petitions. Somebody will make a list of all the people who want a game ported, then the list can be emailed to the company. The company won't feel like they are being harrased because they are only recieving one email, and at the same time they can see that there is a demand for the port.
I've seen several petitions like this for linux ports around the net. Sometimes multiple sites have petitions for the same game. It might be more productive to have a central site for generating petitions. If I was a company I would rather recieve one petition with thousands of names, than 10 petitions with hundreds of names.
I'm really getting sick of Slashdot's Linux only attitude. Several months ago I submited and article about a press release made by Monolith and Be. It stated that they were going to be working together to make Shogo Mobile Armor Division available for BeOS. But, it wasn't slashdot worthy because the press release didn't have the word linux in it...
So, all you BeOS users out there, this game will be available for BeOS too!
Come at me with that baseball bat and I'll drop you at 50 yards. I got 500 rounds of ammo saved up. Get real close to me, or I run out of ammo, and I will use my recently sharpened 440 staneless steel blade Katana. Swords are better than bats!
Didn't Nostrodamus predict that New York City was going to be the first place to go during the end of the world. The 3rd anti-christ (some guy in a blue turban) supposedly nukes it. Why would you put the bunker under the city that is supposed to get nuked first...
Talk about getting screwed. These are that taxes I have to pay because I live on Long Island.
1)Federal Income Tax (% depends on income level) 2)New York State Income Tax (% depends on income level) 3)NYC Non-Resident Tax (Because I work in the city but live on LI) 4)When I go shopping I pay 8.5% tax in Nassau County and 8.25% in Suffolk County on everything including clothes and food.
You get SHAFTED big time for living in New York. Property taxes are really high too. It sucks here. I think they ended the NYC non-resident tax part way through this year though, but I still get taxed way too much.
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Clarification: When I say Dodd-Frank passed during the Clinton's, it was when Hillary was a Senator, I'm assuming you are including that as part of the "Clinton Administration". At least when I deal with most people who hate the Clinton's anything done while either one of them was in office that they don't like was a Clinton's fault...
Interesting. That hasn't been my experience at all. I work at a major investement bank and the majority of the middle tier of our trading systems are now written in Java. Have been for years. I'm not talking web based apps either. These days the back ends of a lot of the trading systems are a collection of Java apps running on Linux servers (usuall Red Hat) using using pub/sub messaging for communication and jdbc to connect to Oracle, Sybase or DB2.
I've been doing this for a while (10+ years) and went through the progression of doing everything in C, then C++, then Java. When told to start using Java to say I was skeptical would be an understatement. But over the years Java has become great for this purpose. We experience no random memory growth (leaked memory) from our processes. We leave them up for weeks on end processing large volumes of trades with no issues. Since we run our programs for long periods of time startup time isn't an issue and really doesn't take that long anymore anyway. The time saved coding in Java instead of C++ is also beneficial. No more having to learn every vendor's version of their C++ threading library and trying to stitch it all together in one app. Too many times would I have to write an app using serveral vedor libs that I would need to modify and they all implemented threading, logging, etc. their own way. So as you jump from one file to another there is no consistency on how things are being done. Maintenance nightmare and the learning curve is huge for new members of the team.
Plus, as a manager trying to hire competent C++ programmers out of college is almost impossible. Seems like many schools just don't teach it anymore. So if HR only gives you a junior programmer budget and you need a C++ programmer you end up getting the guy nobody else would hire.
Disclaimer: Above experience anecdotal. I'm sure there are people out there who have had really bad experiences.
I always thought Lego James Bond would be cool. Lot of good villians over the years, plus all the different gadgets James Bond gets. Would be similar to the different suits and suit upgrades in Lego Batman...
I'll third this. I'm using eeebuntu base on my 701. Works like a charm and still leaves some room on the tiny drive.
Almost everything worked out of the box. Only thing I had to fix was the wireless on/off hotkey.
Haven't tried the webcam but I usually use my eee offline on the train.
Before switching to eeebuntu I tried easy peasy, stock ubuntu and eeeXubuntu. All had many issues and needed quite a bit of tinkering after install.
MicroProse. Wow! I remember them. I spent way too much time playing Darklands back in the day even though it was buggy as hell. I recently felt nostalgic and played in again using DOSBox. Aside from the graphics it still holds up pretty good. I'm still pissed that they never came out with any sequels or add-ons.
I don't buy it. I've got two friends who work as Cell Technicians. Basically their job is to drive around all day fixing broken cell towers, providing routine maintenance or installing hardware upgrades. They've both been doing this going on almost 10 years. Neither have had any health issues.
There is one odd thing though. Between the two of them, they have had six children. All girls. I made a joke to them about the radiation from the towers affecting their Y sperm and they told me they wouldn't be surprised. Amongst their coworkers' children there are about six more girls and only one boy.
It's most likely a coincidence and unrelated to their job though. I'm sure something like this on a large scale would have been noticed. Then again I could be wrong.
All this is anecdotal so take with necessary grain of salt.
I just got the pixelation problem a week ago. I hadn't heard of the problem either and assumed my cables were bad. I tried different cables and when I still had the issue I googled the problem and found out about the overheating. I called tech support and they confirmed the Wii most likely overheated and the graphics card got damaged. Apparently this is very common. I got my Wii Jan. '07 so it's not under warranty anymore. I have to pay to get it fixed. To make matters worse, they fix them in upstate NY and since I live in NY I have to pay sales tax on having them fix it. It will cost ~$85.
I used to love Nintendo products but they have handled this poorly. It has left me with such a bad feeling that this will most likely be the last Nintendo product I will ever buy. I'm considering not getting it fixed and just selling my games on ebay, then using the money to buy an XBox 360 or PS3. At least MS admitted they made a mistake and extend the XBox warranty to 3 years.
I've been trying to figure out the people who think this is a war for oil? I personally think the war is over Weapons of Mass Distruction and Saddam Hussein's failure to give them up. The US is scared Saddam might use these weapons as leverage or sell these weapons to terrorist organizations. A fear I think is valid after 9/11/01.
h art.pdf
So, I did some research. I found this:
http://www.afa.org/magazine/June2002/0602c
It was the first thing that came up when I googled for "US Oil Suppliers".
I also learned that Iraq only produces 2% of the worlds oil.
I went to OPEC's website (www.opec.org) and found this on their FAQ:
Which countries produce the most oil?
Country
Crude oil production
(million barrels per day)
Saudi Arabia*
7.889
Russia
6.730
United States
5.801
Iran
3.572
China
3.297
* Including share of production from Neutral Zone.
Iraq isn't even on the list. If you don't agree with the war, that's fine, but it doesn't seem to be over oil so maybe you should have a different chant.
How about "I Don't Like War!" or "The US is being a big Bully" or "War SUCKS!". Shouting "No War for Oil!" doesn't seem to be a valid argument.
Quote from Dennis Miller:
If your only anti-war slogan is "No war for oil,"
sue your school district for allowing you to slip
through the cracks and robbing you of the
education you deserve.
Actually, the Iraqi's outnumber us 2 to 1.
g raphi cs/attack/zone_35.html
a li tion/index.html
Look at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/
and
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/co
You can see the breakdown of all the forces on both sides. The US is outnumbered almost 2 to 1, but the technology more than makes up for that.
Ok, MS says you can put a tag in your page to disable smart tags. This forces thousands of people who don't want to be effected by smart tags to add extra tags to their html.
I think it should be the other way around. If somebody wants smart tags to be allowed on their site, they should have to put a tag to enable it. This way, people who don't want to be effected by smart tags don't have to change a thing. I also think MS would take less heat over this "feature" if that was the case.
Question is, who's attention should I bring this too to have the argument brought up to MS. Somehow I don't think MS would take a personal email from me seriously...
Bah, this line is here because the lameness filter said I was using all caps, when in reality, I originally had only numbers in my post...
2001-03-14 14:30:00
I had a stable job at a large brokerage firm, but felt I was missing out on the chance to get rich quick by not working at a dot com. So four months ago I left the stable job for a job at a pre-IPO dot com startup. I received a decent salary jump and options. I knew it was a gamble, but I kept hearing stories of 25 year old millionaires and I wanted to be one of them. Well, about a month ago my company laid off almost half of its employees (not me though), and the future here doesn't look much better.
In the long run I guess it worked out for me. The brokerage firm I worked for asked me to come back and I agreed. I'm currently finishing up my two weeks notice at the dot com. I'm getting another bump in pay and a promotion to go back. No, I didn't become a millionaire, but I got two large increases in pay and a promotion in 5 months and will be back in a stable job.
"and the only social disease I've contracted is bitterness!" - Collider
Of course Bush is going to bash the net, Gore claimed to invent it!
Ok. People need to read the article before posting, or read it more closely. The problem isn't that Sun didn't distribute the source to the driver. The problem comes with the fact that GPL'd source can't be linked with non GPL'd code. Solaris, isn't GPL'd. The author of the driver feels that once the kit is used to compile the dirver to a solaris binary, and the Solaris kernel loads the driver, the GPL'd driver is being linked with a non GPL'd program since it is being loaded into the non GPL'd kernel. Sun feels that the source isn't being linked. Sun feels that loading the GPL'd binary driver into the kernel at runtime is just like running a GPL'd application on a non GPL OS, which is of course allowed. I hate to burst all of your bubbles, but Sun didn't do anything illegal here. Even Peren's said the GPL's language allows this, because the drivers are being loaded as modules at runtime. If the writers of the GPL didn't want people to be able to do this, they should have stated it. Remember, in law nothing can be assumed. The language has to say exactly what you mean, not just capture the spirit of what you mean.
I have 3 computers sharing my cablemodem at home using a Cable/DSL Router from Linksys. It's a 4 port switch with a built in router. It does NAT based translation and has a firewall built in. It also supports port forwarding, can be used as a dhcp server, and also lets you configure a computer as a DMZ if you like. You can find it from places like buy.com for about $150. I also like it becaue I don't have to leave a computer on all the time.
Didn't that teacher with the crypto code on his website just win a case in which a federal judge said that source code is expresive, and therefore free speech? If source code is free speech, then the DeCSS source is free speech and anybody who wants to put it on a web site should be able too. Stopping somebody from posting the source code is a violation of that person's first amendment rights.
Source code is free speech. Post it everywhere.
Do you think directors and actors should be able to sue the IMDB is somebody put a bad review there? No, of course not. And this is the same thing. The site operator should not be responsible.
I actually had a friend who went to Beaver college for a year. And one time when I was visiting, I noticed that one of the schools main signs had been altered by some students to read Beavis College.
Guess you had to be there for it to be funny...
Heh, I thought a cracker was a white guy...
Heh, I've been a minister of the ULC for years. Before the internet was big. In those days you had to send them a postcard, and they mailed you back a really nice certificate saying you were an ordained minister. You also go a small booklet that told you what you needed to perform weddings, funerals and such. The book also had a list of some famous people who were ordained ministers of the ULC.
And yes, I did perform a wedding once.
The best way to go about convincing companies to port games is probably to make petitions. Somebody will make a list of all the people who want a game ported, then the list can be emailed to the company. The company won't feel like they are being harrased because they are only recieving one email, and at the same time they can see that there is a demand for the port.
I've seen several petitions like this for linux ports around the net. Sometimes multiple sites have petitions for the same game. It might be more productive to have a central site for generating petitions. If I was a company I would rather recieve one petition with thousands of names, than 10 petitions with hundreds of names.
I'm really getting sick of Slashdot's Linux only attitude. Several months ago I submited and article about a press release made by Monolith and Be. It stated that they were going to be working together to make Shogo Mobile Armor Division available for BeOS. But, it wasn't slashdot worthy because the press release didn't have the word linux in it...
So, all you BeOS users out there, this game will be available for BeOS too!
Come at me with that baseball bat and I'll drop you at 50 yards. I got 500 rounds of ammo saved up. Get real close to me, or I run out of ammo, and I will use my recently sharpened 440 staneless steel blade Katana. Swords are better than bats!
Didn't Nostrodamus predict that New York City was going to be the first place to go during the end of the world. The 3rd anti-christ (some guy in a blue turban) supposedly nukes it. Why would you put the bunker under the city that is supposed to get nuked first...
Talk about getting screwed. These are that taxes I have to pay because I live on Long Island.
1)Federal Income Tax (% depends on income level)
2)New York State Income Tax (% depends on income level)
3)NYC Non-Resident Tax (Because I work in the city but live on LI)
4)When I go shopping I pay 8.5% tax in Nassau County and 8.25% in Suffolk County on everything including clothes and food.
You get SHAFTED big time for living in New York. Property taxes are really high too. It sucks here. I think they ended the NYC non-resident tax part way through this year though, but I still get taxed way too much.