Do you hate yourself too? Your reluctance to capitalize "I" implies you have low self esteem. Perhaps if you learn to love trousers you will learn to love yourself.
You're completely right. Going after the advertiser is a waste of time. It would be much simpler to have the broadcasters or TV manufacturers install a simple limiter.
I have had many jobs, from supervising a call center to code-monkeying to serving double-skim-milk-decaf-caramel-lattes and training people at all levels in between. The most important thing i have learned about working with and managing people is that all of your employees needs are different, and while fairness is important, acknowledging the various strengths and weaknesses of your staff is essential as is trying to ensure that they all have work environments that promote productivity.
Some people have the ability to tune out background noise and focus themselves on their work. Other people are drawn to every conversation they hear. Some require absolute silence to work productively. Others, like myself, when engaging in code-monkeying or spreadsheet jockeying, find music to be a strong motivator to focus my attention and push me through the grind.
That said, I find vocal music very distracting. If I listen to 'songs', the part of my brain that should be working will start to focus on the lyrics. That's why I prefer instrumental and electronic music. Ideally drum and bass or IDM, or goa. Something with a driving beat, interesting sounds, and a pace that picks up my heart beat, but not mundane enough to shut out my brain. That's a personal preference. Obviously, the same is not true for everyone.
Some people are simply more productive while listening to music. To ignore this is bad management. If allowing the coders to listen to music at work is unfair to the accountants, marketing, and customer support, then perhaps some employees should be given the option to work from home. This is something else that generally increases productivity (of course, not for everyone).
Yes. Because George Lucas never made any movies in the star wars universe apart from the original trilogy. He never made prequels about Menacing Phantoms, Clones Attacking or Avenging Siths. No spin-offs about Ewoks Battling for Endor or Courageous Caravans and definitely no tv-series about warring clones.
OMG, yes. Yes it really is worse. I mean, I was able to sit through Ewoks: Battle for Endor all the way through. I couldn't finish watching the Christmas special. I would liken it to being digested in the sarlacc pit (pre-special edition) for thousands of years.
Agreed about the joke, but does GNOME and Ubuntu rely on GIMP? I doubt it. Anybody who needs it can still install it, and it will still top most searches as being the only viable free alternative to photoshop.
I've been told my friends that do effects that shaky cam is harder because animating 3D and tracking camera motion is more difficult than just animating something in 3D for a non-moving camera.
Agreed. This thread is nothing but an opportunity for developers to whine about the 'poor working conditions' of their jobs. Of course, that isn't going to stop me from reading it.
That sounds a lot like T.I.M, The Incredible Machine. A game they used to make us play at geek camp. Little did we know, we were actually learning something...
Also, apparently Steve Jobs was pretty vocal about the uselessness of DRM for a couple of years before Apple dropped it. Unfortunately, since Apple doesn't own the music, it wasn't their decision.
As an anglophone living in Quebec, I can say that while historically, some of the language laws did help improve a situation ripe with prejudice against French, in the last 25 or so years, the tides have turned and the laws are now oppressive, prejudice against English, and more importantly, counterproductive. It is clear that the intent of this law is to promote French language video games in Quebec. It is also obvious that this will fail.
Punishing noncompliance will have an adverse effect on French video games. Let's see some incentive. Tax breaks or grants to companies that release in French at the same time as English. Money talks, bigotry walks.
It is well known that the power generated at a site greatly exceeds the amount of power that can be delivered over a distance. While there is enough wind to generate the US's power consumption needs, how much extra would we need to generate to ensure that the required amount actually reaches the US?
Everybody seems to jump at opportunities to generate seemingly limitless amounts of energy, however more attention and research should go into making systems more efficient and operate with lower power. Also, with the distance factor in mind, it is clear that if I were to plant solar cells on my roof, I would reap a much higher percentage of the energy generated than if I were to use power generated from wind in the Oceans.
Throttling generally causes pretty large customer backlashes and a lot of resentment, as it is generally an unfair method of controlling bandwidth.
In my own experience, customers have an easier time dealing with Bandwidth Caps, as they can grok that bandwidth costs ISP's money, but they don't feel discriminated against. Extra fees for over-usage charges can help finance a larger bandwidth pipeline in the future.
Also, looking at the usage stats, can you actually determine that P2P is a major cause of congestion? The last time I saw a breakdown of types of traffic, HTTP still took up the largest portion of bandwidth even in peak hours, on account of sites like youtube and google video.
Continue with the self teaching. It's an important tool. More important than the languages you learn is the ability to learn new languages. Sure, that.Net certification will get you far in your Miscro$oft friendly workplace, until one day somebody says, "shit, this legacy system we need you to maintain was written in PERL". At which point, your self-teaching skills will be your WIN.
I know a number of people who stopped reading the comic strip Dilbert because although it would make them laugh, from time to time a strip would address something remarkably specific to their workplace... and they would just die a little inside.
The arrogance of educated workers isn't anything particularly new however it is something that seems to drift from field to field along with educational trends.
A couple of years ago I read an article on how something like over 60% of CEO's would not hire anyone with an MBA on account of how disastrous former employees had been. At the time, and as a generality (no I'm not talking about you, Mr. MBA who happens to read slashdot) MBA graduates tended to assume that because of their diploma, they knew how to run a department or company better than people without the equivalence in education, but many years of experience.
Now this trend is starting to apply to programmers. They expect that with their degrees and certifications, they will be better workers, and thus given better opportunities than people many years their senior. Now I'm not saying we are all supposed to LIKE Bill Gates, or anything, but his high school diploma has certainly gotten him far. No amount of education will ever replace work experience. Learning new or even old out-dated languages is part of any intense IT job, and only with experience will you be good at troubleshooting and reverse engineering the kind of poorly documented stuff that you will be expected to do.
Personally, I have the same level of education as Bill Gates and have dropped out of college twice, but that hasn't prevented glamourous opportunities from coming my way. On account of my skill, experience, and knowledge of my companies products, I've been flown to Edmonton (okay... it's really not THAT glamourous), while some of my colleagues have been to Vancouver several times.
Now I'm not saying higher education won't get me farther in life, but not having higher education has certainly not prevented hard work and experience from contributing to an interesting career. Any college graduate should know that your education will get you nowhere without hard work and level headedness, and that an inflated ego will only hold you back.
I don't think it's necessarily fair to entirely blame the baby-boomers for this scourge of arrogant graduates, but as a trend, I certainly suspect they didn't help. The boomers did grow up in a time where education guaranteed a more exciting career and life. Then 'everybody' went to school and we wound up with Generation X. You'd somehow hope that this younger generation (of which I am pretty much a part) would have caught on. Let's just blame videogames and short-attention span TV instead.
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Do you hate yourself too? Your reluctance to capitalize "I" implies you have low self esteem. Perhaps if you learn to love trousers you will learn to love yourself.
CTO: "So you stopped doing SVN commits and you just make changes on the production server?" Developer: "Yes." CTO: "Why?" Developer: "..."
You're completely right. Going after the advertiser is a waste of time. It would be much simpler to have the broadcasters or TV manufacturers install a simple limiter.
I have had many jobs, from supervising a call center to code-monkeying to serving double-skim-milk-decaf-caramel-lattes and training people at all levels in between. The most important thing i have learned about working with and managing people is that all of your employees needs are different, and while fairness is important, acknowledging the various strengths and weaknesses of your staff is essential as is trying to ensure that they all have work environments that promote productivity. Some people have the ability to tune out background noise and focus themselves on their work. Other people are drawn to every conversation they hear. Some require absolute silence to work productively. Others, like myself, when engaging in code-monkeying or spreadsheet jockeying, find music to be a strong motivator to focus my attention and push me through the grind. That said, I find vocal music very distracting. If I listen to 'songs', the part of my brain that should be working will start to focus on the lyrics. That's why I prefer instrumental and electronic music. Ideally drum and bass or IDM, or goa. Something with a driving beat, interesting sounds, and a pace that picks up my heart beat, but not mundane enough to shut out my brain. That's a personal preference. Obviously, the same is not true for everyone. Some people are simply more productive while listening to music. To ignore this is bad management. If allowing the coders to listen to music at work is unfair to the accountants, marketing, and customer support, then perhaps some employees should be given the option to work from home. This is something else that generally increases productivity (of course, not for everyone).
Wired had a couple good suggestions in this video: http://www.wired.com/video/gadgets/gadget-lab/46211877001/wish-list-5-toys-that-will-bring-out-your-inner-geek/50864036001
Yes. Because George Lucas never made any movies in the star wars universe apart from the original trilogy. He never made prequels about Menacing Phantoms, Clones Attacking or Avenging Siths. No spin-offs about Ewoks Battling for Endor or Courageous Caravans and definitely no tv-series about warring clones.
OMG, yes. Yes it really is worse. I mean, I was able to sit through Ewoks: Battle for Endor all the way through. I couldn't finish watching the Christmas special. I would liken it to being digested in the sarlacc pit (pre-special edition) for thousands of years.
Visit Canada.
Agreed about the joke, but does GNOME and Ubuntu rely on GIMP? I doubt it. Anybody who needs it can still install it, and it will still top most searches as being the only viable free alternative to photoshop.
You're not thinking of James Callis?
No. It should have been called Law & Order: Intergalactic Unit, or better yet CSI: Space
I've been told my friends that do effects that shaky cam is harder because animating 3D and tracking camera motion is more difficult than just animating something in 3D for a non-moving camera.
Agreed. This thread is nothing but an opportunity for developers to whine about the 'poor working conditions' of their jobs. Of course, that isn't going to stop me from reading it.
That sounds a lot like T.I.M, The Incredible Machine. A game they used to make us play at geek camp. Little did we know, we were actually learning something...
Anybody else craving a Sea Breeze?
Also, apparently Steve Jobs was pretty vocal about the uselessness of DRM for a couple of years before Apple dropped it. Unfortunately, since Apple doesn't own the music, it wasn't their decision.
As an anglophone living in Quebec, I can say that while historically, some of the language laws did help improve a situation ripe with prejudice against French, in the last 25 or so years, the tides have turned and the laws are now oppressive, prejudice against English, and more importantly, counterproductive. It is clear that the intent of this law is to promote French language video games in Quebec. It is also obvious that this will fail.
Punishing noncompliance will have an adverse effect on French video games. Let's see some incentive. Tax breaks or grants to companies that release in French at the same time as English. Money talks, bigotry walks.
It is well known that the power generated at a site greatly exceeds the amount of power that can be delivered over a distance. While there is enough wind to generate the US's power consumption needs, how much extra would we need to generate to ensure that the required amount actually reaches the US? Everybody seems to jump at opportunities to generate seemingly limitless amounts of energy, however more attention and research should go into making systems more efficient and operate with lower power. Also, with the distance factor in mind, it is clear that if I were to plant solar cells on my roof, I would reap a much higher percentage of the energy generated than if I were to use power generated from wind in the Oceans.
Remember... "it' doesn't like to be called God.
That's really quite brilliant. That would be metered kind of like cell phone plans.
Throttling generally causes pretty large customer backlashes and a lot of resentment, as it is generally an unfair method of controlling bandwidth. In my own experience, customers have an easier time dealing with Bandwidth Caps, as they can grok that bandwidth costs ISP's money, but they don't feel discriminated against. Extra fees for over-usage charges can help finance a larger bandwidth pipeline in the future.
Also, looking at the usage stats, can you actually determine that P2P is a major cause of congestion? The last time I saw a breakdown of types of traffic, HTTP still took up the largest portion of bandwidth even in peak hours, on account of sites like youtube and google video.
Continue with the self teaching. It's an important tool. More important than the languages you learn is the ability to learn new languages. Sure, that .Net certification will get you far in your Miscro$oft friendly workplace, until one day somebody says, "shit, this legacy system we need you to maintain was written in PERL". At which point, your self-teaching skills will be your WIN.
I know a number of people who stopped reading the comic strip Dilbert because although it would make them laugh, from time to time a strip would address something remarkably specific to their workplace... and they would just die a little inside.
The arrogance of educated workers isn't anything particularly new however it is something that seems to drift from field to field along with educational trends. A couple of years ago I read an article on how something like over 60% of CEO's would not hire anyone with an MBA on account of how disastrous former employees had been. At the time, and as a generality (no I'm not talking about you, Mr. MBA who happens to read slashdot) MBA graduates tended to assume that because of their diploma, they knew how to run a department or company better than people without the equivalence in education, but many years of experience. Now this trend is starting to apply to programmers. They expect that with their degrees and certifications, they will be better workers, and thus given better opportunities than people many years their senior. Now I'm not saying we are all supposed to LIKE Bill Gates, or anything, but his high school diploma has certainly gotten him far. No amount of education will ever replace work experience. Learning new or even old out-dated languages is part of any intense IT job, and only with experience will you be good at troubleshooting and reverse engineering the kind of poorly documented stuff that you will be expected to do. Personally, I have the same level of education as Bill Gates and have dropped out of college twice, but that hasn't prevented glamourous opportunities from coming my way. On account of my skill, experience, and knowledge of my companies products, I've been flown to Edmonton (okay... it's really not THAT glamourous), while some of my colleagues have been to Vancouver several times. Now I'm not saying higher education won't get me farther in life, but not having higher education has certainly not prevented hard work and experience from contributing to an interesting career. Any college graduate should know that your education will get you nowhere without hard work and level headedness, and that an inflated ego will only hold you back. I don't think it's necessarily fair to entirely blame the baby-boomers for this scourge of arrogant graduates, but as a trend, I certainly suspect they didn't help. The boomers did grow up in a time where education guaranteed a more exciting career and life. Then 'everybody' went to school and we wound up with Generation X. You'd somehow hope that this younger generation (of which I am pretty much a part) would have caught on. Let's just blame videogames and short-attention span TV instead.
LOOK AT THE MONKEY!!!