If there is a fear of social failure, then wouldn't people avoid Facebook if they suspected that other hold a low opinion of them?
As for the 300 "friends" argument - I have little time in real life for people outside work who aren't good friends. I certainly don't have time to maintain tenuous relationships electronically with people I barely know or barely remember. It's the quality of your friendships, not the quantity.
You are making the assumption that people in Vancouver, Canada are willing to work long hours for low wages. Let me divest you of that opinion.
Vancouver has the most expensive housing in Canada - $758,000 CDN for a detached bungalow, and $837,500 CDN for a 2-story house. The second most expensive city (out of province) is about half that.
Vancouver has a very hot job market, especially in the trades, health care and IT.
We can't find the people we need, and you have to pay people a decent salary so that they can afford to live here.
they are just opening another Research/Software Development center.
"Other centres exist in North Carolina, Ireland, Denmark and Israel, while full research-and-development locations exist in the U.K., India, China and California's Silicon Valley."
It's really not that big a deal. Microsoft probably can't hire enough people in the US, and opening development centers in other countries make sense. Not that great a story....
They also drink far too much to be in charge of such an important project. Which brings me to my point - as nice as the Russians may be, we already have Quebec - one dissatisfied non-English speaking nation at a time, please.
As a parent of two young girls (and I would be that the same could be found in female offspring) aged 4 and 2, I know for a fact that we had more time to read books and play with our firstborn.
When our second daughter was born, time got much tighter (two young kids requires more than twice the effort of one - here's a classic case of the whole being more than the sum of the parts). We don't read her books one-on-one (we read to both of them at the same time), we don't play with her as much by herself, because her older sister needed attention.
Our eldest had two years of two parents teaching her to count, to speak, to recite the alphabet, and whatever else you impart to your kids during those highly formative years.
The youngest gets no such benefit, sharing her parents time with the eldest.
That said, our youngest is more logical, and our oldest more artistic. I am not sure who would come out on top in an IQ test.
My impression is that this is one of those, "The ice is cold because it's frozen water" studies.
The two 'Pirates' flicks sold an estimated 47,000 units, while the 'Matrix' sets sold just about 13,900 units. Is this an indication of movie quality, or another notch in the belt for the Blu-ray format?"
The Pirates series has a hot new movie that just opened up. The Matrix trilogy finished back in 2003. There is more hype around the 'Pirates' movies, as the latest is in the theater now. More hype means more sales.
People have had more time to acquire the Matrix on DVD, which isn't the case for the Pirates flicks. People are probably less likely to purchase a movie in a new format if they have it on DVD. More people probably have the Matrix on DVD equals less purchases of the HD-DVD.
Note: I don't own an XBox 360, and HD-DVD player, or a Blu Ray player, and don't plan to get either in the foreseeable future.
The story is public domain, but the characters are IP. Disney, however, should have lost copyright on these a while back, but thanks to the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, Disney still has them. They would have lost the trademark on Mickey Mouse back in 2000. Russia did not extend the copyright, so Mickey Mouse is considered public domain there.
I watch Metacritic, and the PS3 is showing more highly-rated games than the Wii (lowest score to make the top-20 is 76, and the highest score is 93 - all "green" games). For the Wii, only 11 of the games have gotten a 75 or better - the rest are "so-so-yellow" games.
If I were the developer of a Wii game that I didn't think was that great, I'd be releasing it ASAP rather than improve it to take advantage of the huge number of consoles relative to the meager offering of games - my game would fit right in with alot of the crap that's out there for the Wii.
I don't think the situation will improve - thanks to the success of the Wii, all the big studios have announced ports of their existing games to the Wii, and it's going to make the Wii look bad - watch for some really bad control-schemes for the wireless controller in upcoming games.
All that said, the Wii is the only console that has a chance of making it in the front door of our house. But that's going to wait till I can find one, and there are some decent games.
Yes, the are pretty good about that. If you pay $10 more for the Extreme edition, you get a second IP address, faster downloads (I've gotten a megabit per second), faster uploads (150K/second) and they tend to be more relaxed about their caps.
And she hates computer/console games (with one notable exception - she played Grim Fandango for a couple of hours). She asked me today when I was going to grab one. She thought I we should get one for her parents.
"Wonder over on Groklaw and you'll see a lot of legal experts, a few months back I corresponded with one. His legal "expertise" came for a class on contracts, and I'm not kidding, he took in high school."
should be,
"WANDER OVER TO Groklaw... His legal expertise came FROM a class on contracts...".
Obviously the proof-reading was done by a spell-checker, which was backed up by a grammar-checker of dubious quality.
It's a blog, so that's slightly more forgivable than if it were published on the main itbusinessedge.com site, but if proofing the article was so poorly done, what about proofing the facts contained in the article?
Harper is (ideologically) close to George Bush (but infinitely smarter).
That said, they'd need do something about the fair-use rights consumers have (you can make a private copy of a music CD that you borrowed) and stop charging the tariff on the blank media we currently pay. That or work it into the system.
Canada does a lot of things to keep the US happy. Most Canadians aren't against marijuana, and while there are laws in place, being caught we substantial quantities rarely amounts to much more than a slap on the wrist.
Unfortunately, the only thing more diverse than our respective takes on guns, drugs and fair-use-media is the size of the two economies. Sometimes Canada has to pay lip service to something that we'll never take action on. This is probably going to end up as one of those issues.
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I think you're mis-interpreting what ASM is being used for:
From the URL you posted:
"ASM is a Java bytecode manipulation framework. It can be used to dynamically generate stub classes or other proxy classes, directly in binary form, or to dynamically modify classes at load time, i.e., just before they are loaded into the Java Virtual Machine."
I believe BeanShell makes some dummy stubs that are then dynamically modified at run time to the contents of the BeanShell script. Thus ASM. I found a reference to this once, but I can't locate it now.
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Question: Does BeanShell reparse scripted methods on each invocation? Answer: No. Scripted methods are parsed once and stored in a parse tree. Reparsing can be forced by calling the source command.
Question: Can I compile my beanshell scripts? Answer: There is currently no full bytecode compiler for BeanShell scripts, although one may exist in the future. In the mean time, there are ways to compile BeanShell scripts to Java classes that use the interpreter at runtime and also ways to get BeanShell to pre-parse scripted methods for performance.
The are parsed, but not compiled to byte code, or run through a Just-In-Time compiler.
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I'm not familiar with Groovy - I was came across Bean Shell first, and the reviews at the time found it better than Groovy. Not sure if that has changed or not.
That said, Groovy and Bean Shell are interpreted scripts written in Java. No compiling to byte code. I look at a Bash script (or PERL script) and often wonder what the developer was smoking when they wrote it. Bean Shell/Groovy are a way to get the power of Java without the overhead (no "static void main (String[] args)") - you can do all those handy little scripting tasks in it. You can pull in all your existing Hibernate libraries, core-components, reusable code quickly and easily.
Ruby is great, but (to paraphrase Bruce Tate's "From Java to Ruby"), it's not applicable for the hard problems (things that those powerful, compliated frameworks like Hibernate, Spring, EJB, JMX, etc solve).
Here, you get to solve the small problems in Java without the overhead of writing a full blown program, and you can still access the technology for the difficult problems.
That said, it's still not Ruby (or Ruby on Rails).
Ya, I'm surprised as well; I guess because it's a service with a low-level interface (rather than some nifty Web 2.0 UI).
I am considering writing a small app to manage an S3 account to store our digital photos. It's cheap, and unlike all the small, new companies listed in the ExtremeTech article, unlikely to be going anywhere soon. They also state a 99.99% up-time, and I suspect they could hit that mark pretty easily.
I also want the ability to be able to sync a local directory to a remote one (only upload what's changed) automatically; all of these services require hands-on to select and upload photos. Some simple small tool that could do all that should be easily coded, and could be used my Luddite parents-in-law.
That said, I wonder why Google hasn't gotten into this market?
There are, but most SUVs seem to live in an urban environment.
We got a Subaru Forester (for the space - two kids, and for safety), which is 21/27 mpg according to the EPA. We need something bigger, so I think we'll get an older diesel Toyota Landcruiser which will actually get slightly better mileage but give us a bit more space for hauling kids and stuff.
So there are better choices for SUVs; that said, neither one can tow anything substantial.
4) Eat the environmentalists; less SUV use, less air travel, less hot air, less sewage. Yuck!
By SUV, I assume you are implying that they get poor gas mileage, and therefore produce more greenhouse gases. Not all do, of course. That said, someone who drives a Yukon is a hypocrite if they claim to be an environmentalist.
6) End Socialism. Economic prosperity will allow people to adjust to the changing climate better. More socialism is more death and misery.
The US, one of the least socialist countries in the world (I saw a picture of a cardboard shanty town in Florida earlier this week that definitely made me think of death and misery) produces a huge amount of greenhouse gas (per person).
Developing communist countries do as well, but compare the CO2 production per person from the US to China shows that capitalism generates more (using your logic). Canada is more socialist than the US, and Canadians generate more greenhouse gas than Americans do. Is it because of socialism? No, it's because it's colder and not as densely populated.
The western industrial democracies are quite capitalist, and we generate per-person more greenhouse gases than many of the poorer, "socialist" countries. Making more like us will make solve the problem? If we are relatively so much wealthier, then why aren't we willing to clean up our act, seeing as you claim the willingness to fix the problem seems to be related to wealth?
7) "repeal" Kyoto protocols. They don't work, they are counter productive, they will cause more global warming.
The US did not sign Kyoto. George Bush did not believe in global warming, so he reneged on the agreement made by Clinton to sign the protocol.
Eco-Nazi talking about spending money
It's his money. You are a big fan of capitalism, and he's a capitalist (that's how he made his money). Who are you to criticize how he spends it? That sounds very socialist to me.
That's how old theories get replaced with better ones. That said, a dissenting opinion by someone who's funding comes with fewer strings would be less questionable.
But on the other side of the coin, a dissenting opinion slows down action; the tobacco industry proved this over the last 30 years; I am sure they are still trying to fund studies saying tobacco isn't addictive, and cigarettes aren't bad for you.
Because the funding is coming from a party heavily invested in disproving global warming, the studies are going to be valueless.
I propose that any study by "independent" scientists list in the header of their paper,
1) Where they got their funding from 2) If the funding is from a little-known institute (like the American Enterprise Institute), then the source of the institutes money should be listed clearly as well.
Part of the reason that these studies work is that the source of the money isn't widely know.
It sounds like his issue was more Windows and Linux interoperability. It's great that you got to roll out Linux company wide, but this guy was working with Dell, and the are heavily invested in Microsoft (try to buy a PC without Windows on the Dell site) and very large.
System administration, or embedded programming? Or just challenging programming in C, or C++?
If your close to finishing your degree, I'd go for it. Typically, our company hires more on experience and skills than education, but that said, we have a tough time finding people in general.
You might want to do some functional interviews - find companies that do what you are interested in, and go in and talk to them. Find out if it's really what you are interested.
Once you find what you are interested in, tailor your courses to make you a good candidate for the position. IE if you are interested in embedded, real-time development, avoid "Ethics in Computer Science" and take the real-time programming courses. If your school is any good, they'll be very challenging.
A degree also gives you management potential; as you get older, you might want to get out of the grind, get an MBA. I keep reading that business+technology is very in-demand.
One final benefit of a degree - if you want to travel and work (ie move to Australia and work there for a year), a degree is almost mandatory for getting the visa.
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If there is a fear of social failure, then wouldn't people avoid Facebook if they suspected that other hold a low opinion of them?
As for the 300 "friends" argument - I have little time in real life for people outside work who aren't good friends. I certainly don't have time to maintain tenuous relationships electronically with people I barely know or barely remember. It's the quality of your friendships, not the quantity.
You are making the assumption that people in Vancouver, Canada are willing to work long hours for low wages. Let me divest you of that opinion.
Vancouver has the most expensive housing in Canada - $758,000 CDN for a detached bungalow, and $837,500 CDN for a 2-story house. The second most expensive city (out of province) is about half that.
Vancouver has a very hot job market, especially in the trades, health care and IT.
We can't find the people we need, and you have to pay people a decent salary so that they can afford to live here.
This isn't China.
they are just opening another Research/Software Development center.
"Other centres exist in North Carolina, Ireland, Denmark and Israel, while full research-and-development locations exist in the U.K., India, China and California's Silicon Valley."
It's really not that big a deal. Microsoft probably can't hire enough people in the US, and opening development centers in other countries make sense. Not that great a story....
The Arctic is a very fragile ecosystem that is already feeling the effects of toxic chemicals used elsewhere in the world - I'd have serious concerns that it would be safe to extract gas and oil in that sort of environment. The Russians have had other catastrophic technological that significantly reduces my faith in their ability to do this properly.
They also drink far too much to be in charge of such an important project. Which brings me to my point - as nice as the Russians may be, we already have Quebec - one dissatisfied non-English speaking nation at a time, please.
right here.
They seemed to like it as well.
As a parent of two young girls (and I would be that the same could be found in female offspring) aged 4 and 2, I know for a fact that we had more time to read books and play with our firstborn.
When our second daughter was born, time got much tighter (two young kids requires more than twice the effort of one - here's a classic case of the whole being more than the sum of the parts). We don't read her books one-on-one (we read to both of them at the same time), we don't play with her as much by herself, because her older sister needed attention.
Our eldest had two years of two parents teaching her to count, to speak, to recite the alphabet, and whatever else you impart to your kids during those highly formative years.
The youngest gets no such benefit, sharing her parents time with the eldest.
That said, our youngest is more logical, and our oldest more artistic. I am not sure who would come out on top in an IQ test.
My impression is that this is one of those, "The ice is cold because it's frozen water" studies.
The two 'Pirates' flicks sold an estimated 47,000 units, while the 'Matrix' sets sold just about 13,900 units. Is this an indication of movie quality, or another notch in the belt for the Blu-ray format?"
The Pirates series has a hot new movie that just opened up. The Matrix trilogy finished back in 2003. There is more hype around the 'Pirates' movies, as the latest is in the theater now. More hype means more sales.
People have had more time to acquire the Matrix on DVD, which isn't the case for the Pirates flicks. People are probably less likely to purchase a movie in a new format if they have it on DVD. More people probably have the Matrix on DVD equals less purchases of the HD-DVD.
Note: I don't own an XBox 360, and HD-DVD player, or a Blu Ray player, and don't plan to get either in the foreseeable future.
The story is public domain, but the characters are IP. Disney, however, should have lost copyright on these a while back, but thanks to the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, Disney still has them. They would have lost the trademark on Mickey Mouse back in 2000. Russia did not extend the copyright, so Mickey Mouse is considered public domain there.
I watch Metacritic, and the PS3 is showing more highly-rated games than the Wii (lowest score to make the top-20 is 76, and the highest score is 93 - all "green" games). For the Wii, only 11 of the games have gotten a 75 or better - the rest are "so-so-yellow" games.
If I were the developer of a Wii game that I didn't think was that great, I'd be releasing it ASAP rather than improve it to take advantage of the huge number of consoles relative to the meager offering of games - my game would fit right in with alot of the crap that's out there for the Wii.
I don't think the situation will improve - thanks to the success of the Wii, all the big studios have announced ports of their existing games to the Wii, and it's going to make the Wii look bad - watch for some really bad control-schemes for the wireless controller in upcoming games.
All that said, the Wii is the only console that has a chance of making it in the front door of our house. But that's going to wait till I can find one, and there are some decent games.
Yes, the are pretty good about that. If you pay $10 more for the Extreme edition, you get a second IP address, faster downloads (I've gotten a megabit per second), faster uploads (150K/second) and they tend to be more relaxed about their caps.
I happily pay it.
And she hates computer/console games (with one notable exception - she played Grim Fandango for a couple of hours). She asked me today when I was going to grab one. She thought I we should get one for her parents.
"Wonder over on Groklaw and you'll see a lot of legal experts, a few months back I corresponded with one. His legal "expertise" came for a class on contracts, and I'm not kidding, he took in high school."
should be,
"WANDER OVER TO Groklaw... His legal expertise came FROM a class on contracts...".
Obviously the proof-reading was done by a spell-checker, which was backed up by a grammar-checker of dubious quality.
It's a blog, so that's slightly more forgivable than if it were published on the main itbusinessedge.com site, but if proofing the article was so poorly done, what about proofing the facts contained in the article?
He has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Calgary, and spent time in Edmonton as (gasp) a computer programmer.
I don't agree with his politics, but I think he's a smart guy.
Harper is (ideologically) close to George Bush (but infinitely smarter).
That said, they'd need do something about the fair-use rights consumers have (you can make a private copy of a music CD that you borrowed) and stop charging the tariff on the blank media we currently pay. That or work it into the system.
Canada does a lot of things to keep the US happy. Most Canadians aren't against marijuana, and while there are laws in place, being caught we substantial quantities rarely amounts to much more than a slap on the wrist.
Unfortunately, the only thing more diverse than our respective takes on guns, drugs and fair-use-media is the size of the two economies. Sometimes Canada has to pay lip service to something that we'll never take action on. This is probably going to end up as one of those issues.
I think you're mis-interpreting what ASM is being used for:
From the URL you posted:
"ASM is a Java bytecode manipulation framework. It can be used to dynamically generate stub classes or other proxy classes, directly in binary form, or to dynamically modify classes at load time, i.e., just before they are loaded into the Java Virtual Machine."
I believe BeanShell makes some dummy stubs that are then dynamically modified at run time to the contents of the BeanShell script. Thus ASM. I found a reference to this once, but I can't locate it now.
Sorry, you are wrong about BeanShell:
From the wiki:
Question: Does BeanShell reparse scripted methods on each invocation?
Answer: No. Scripted methods are parsed once and stored in a parse tree. Reparsing can be forced by calling the source command.
Question: Can I compile my beanshell scripts?
Answer: There is currently no full bytecode compiler for BeanShell scripts, although one may exist in the future. In the mean time, there are ways to compile BeanShell scripts to Java classes that use the interpreter at runtime and also ways to get BeanShell to pre-parse scripted methods for performance.
The are parsed, but not compiled to byte code, or run through a Just-In-Time compiler.
I'm not familiar with Groovy - I was came across Bean Shell first, and the reviews at the time found it better than Groovy. Not sure if that has changed or not.
That said, Groovy and Bean Shell are interpreted scripts written in Java. No compiling to byte code. I look at a Bash script (or PERL script) and often wonder what the developer was smoking when they wrote it. Bean Shell/Groovy are a way to get the power of Java without the overhead (no "static void main (String[] args)") - you can do all those handy little scripting tasks in it. You can pull in all your existing Hibernate libraries, core-components, reusable code quickly and easily.
Ruby is great, but (to paraphrase Bruce Tate's "From Java to Ruby"), it's not applicable for the hard problems (things that those powerful, compliated frameworks like Hibernate, Spring, EJB, JMX, etc solve).
Here, you get to solve the small problems in Java without the overhead of writing a full blown program, and you can still access the technology for the difficult problems.
That said, it's still not Ruby (or Ruby on Rails).
Ya, I'm surprised as well; I guess because it's a service with a low-level interface (rather than some nifty Web 2.0 UI).
I am considering writing a small app to manage an S3 account to store our digital photos. It's cheap, and unlike all the small, new companies listed in the ExtremeTech article, unlikely to be going anywhere soon. They also state a 99.99% up-time, and I suspect they could hit that mark pretty easily.
I also want the ability to be able to sync a local directory to a remote one (only upload what's changed) automatically; all of these services require hands-on to select and upload photos. Some simple small tool that could do all that should be easily coded, and could be used my Luddite parents-in-law.
That said, I wonder why Google hasn't gotten into this market?
It was the females making the tools, not the males. A woman's body-building competition might be more apt here.
There are, but most SUVs seem to live in an urban environment.
We got a Subaru Forester (for the space - two kids, and for safety), which is 21/27 mpg according to the EPA. We need something bigger, so I think we'll get an older diesel Toyota Landcruiser which will actually get slightly better mileage but give us a bit more space for hauling kids and stuff.
So there are better choices for SUVs; that said, neither one can tow anything substantial.
4) Eat the environmentalists; less SUV use, less air travel, less hot air, less sewage. Yuck!
By SUV, I assume you are implying that they get poor gas mileage, and therefore produce more greenhouse gases. Not all do, of course. That said, someone who drives a Yukon is a hypocrite if they claim to be an environmentalist.
6) End Socialism. Economic prosperity will allow people to adjust to the changing climate better. More socialism is more death and misery.
The US, one of the least socialist countries in the world (I saw a picture of a cardboard shanty town in Florida earlier this week that definitely made me think of death and misery) produces a huge amount of greenhouse gas (per person).
Developing communist countries do as well, but compare the CO2 production per person from the US to China shows that capitalism generates more (using your logic). Canada is more socialist than the US, and Canadians generate more greenhouse gas than Americans do. Is it because of socialism? No, it's because it's colder and not as densely populated.
The western industrial democracies are quite capitalist, and we generate per-person more greenhouse gases than many of the poorer, "socialist" countries. Making more like us will make solve the problem? If we are relatively so much wealthier, then why aren't we willing to clean up our act, seeing as you claim the willingness to fix the problem seems to be related to wealth?
7) "repeal" Kyoto protocols. They don't work, they are counter productive, they will cause more global warming.
The US did not sign Kyoto. George Bush did not believe in global warming, so he reneged on the agreement made by Clinton to sign the protocol.
Eco-Nazi talking about spending money
It's his money. You are a big fan of capitalism, and he's a capitalist (that's how he made his money). Who are you to criticize how he spends it? That sounds very socialist to me.
That's how old theories get replaced with better ones. That said, a dissenting opinion by someone who's funding comes with fewer strings would be less questionable.
But on the other side of the coin, a dissenting opinion slows down action; the tobacco industry proved this over the last 30 years; I am sure they are still trying to fund studies saying tobacco isn't addictive, and cigarettes aren't bad for you.
Because the funding is coming from a party heavily invested in disproving global warming, the studies are going to be valueless.
I propose that any study by "independent" scientists list in the header of their paper,
1) Where they got their funding from
2) If the funding is from a little-known institute (like the American Enterprise Institute), then the source of the institutes money should be listed clearly as well.
Part of the reason that these studies work is that the source of the money isn't widely know.
He did by providing a URL - it's a hosting site called @ http://www.theplanet.com/
It sounds like his issue was more Windows and Linux interoperability. It's great that you got to roll out Linux company wide, but this guy was working with Dell, and the are heavily invested in Microsoft (try to buy a PC without Windows on the Dell site) and very large.
"more advanced, system-level type stuff" is.
System administration, or embedded programming? Or just challenging programming in C, or C++?
If your close to finishing your degree, I'd go for it. Typically, our company hires more on experience and skills than education, but that said, we have a tough time finding people in general.
You might want to do some functional interviews - find companies that do what you are interested in, and go in and talk to them. Find out if it's really what you are interested.
Once you find what you are interested in, tailor your courses to make you a good candidate for the position. IE if you are interested in embedded, real-time development, avoid "Ethics in Computer Science" and take the real-time programming courses. If your school is any good, they'll be very challenging.
A degree also gives you management potential; as you get older, you might want to get out of the grind, get an MBA. I keep reading that business+technology is very in-demand.
One final benefit of a degree - if you want to travel and work (ie move to Australia and work there for a year), a degree is almost mandatory for getting the visa.