For those that don't know- 802.3 ethernet made a minor change from DIX- they just changed the MAC header format, nothing big! [sarcasm]
DIX had a header layout of: [destination mac address][source mac address][frame type].... [crc]
where 802.3 has [dest mac addr][src mac addr][frame length]....[crc] ( combine with 802.2 and you don't need a type field, you have SAPs!)
Now both formats are compatible by mutually exclusive Length/type field values: Since the ethernet frames are limited to 1500 bytes, all Types have to be values greater than that.
IEEE has a nasty habbit of ignoring backwards compatability when taking over a standard (we didnt design it, so who cares).
A good example of this is DIX ethernet vs. 802.3 ethernet- the idea is that if IEEE just rubber stamped DIX ethernet and said "This is the standard" the playing field would have been sharply tilted towards Digital,Xerox and Intel.
So my understanding is that inevitably IEEE standards a changed just a little bit to put all vendors on an even playing field for product conformance.
You had (nearly)the same post for the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome article! (sorry, I'm a little slow this morning- I realize this is probably part of a larger tend for you but I'm just now putting the pieces together.)
I assume you lost your eye shortly after replacing the hand with a hook.
from your previous parent post: My main goal is to help humanity by finding a job that does medical research.
From this parent post I'm working on a MMORPG now, and I plan on doing it for 2-5 years before release
Gee, you sure are working HARD on that main goal, aren't ya?! [/sarcasrm] Whatever kid.
Throwing in "ported mozilla to amiga" would trivialize my qualifications Okay, good point. So for you, the only pay off would be the 3 grand, and thats not a sure thing.
I know who you are, you're just a self assured prick DAMN STRAIGHT, mutherfucker!;) I'll Wayne Gretzky on any MC.
How am I supposed to "risk it" when I have nothing but my life to gamble with. Well, your answer is right there- YOUR LIFE. Gamble with that. Oh, but how? And how to do it without completely compromising your principles, etc? Thats the eternal question. If you can't see the answers, then DON'T risk it. However, if you'd like some help, Ask Rustin.
One last thing: So you're getting all out of control on a ton of false assumptions of who I am.
I can make one true assumption about you. You are afraid. And that's not even an assumption, thats something that screams out in your writing; from these messages on slashdot to your webpage.
You are right that porting is an important skill, but porting to Amiga?
You pose a good point, however this is all about spin.
You are presenting this to your potential employer as "Hey, I took a large Software Engineering project and ported it to a platform on which I had little previous experience. So if you hire me and you have porting work to do, even if it is on a platform that is brand new, I have overall experience in the act of replatforming."
Maybe the guy who has experience in the platform they are porting to will get hired before you do, but what if the issue is that they have the legacy system which NO ONE KNOWS how it works, and the want to port FROM it? Something like this would be a perfect project to prove that you are the guy to do it.
I keep people safe. That is my job. I make the world a better place. I work on real-time human grade systems. And I make money.
OHMIGOD! Did I just blow your mind!?;)
Listen- YOUR initial argument was "Hey, this money sucks if you don't win!"
Myself and some others point out that there is a lot to gain financially even if you don't win, by leveraging this experience in system integration and getting a job based upon it.
NOW you are changing your tune and saying "well, MOney doesn't matter!"
But this is, at worst, in direct contradiction to your FIRST argument, and at best, completely changing the subject (The new topic being Money != Hapiness). And you call ME and idiot?;)
I'm glad you actually read the Journal Entry. At least we are on the same page. I'm very much so advocating the "risk it" entrepreneurial spirit. If you have a calling from God (or whatever) to help humanity, then by all means, go to it! But don't complain about people making a buck or two- you chose your path, they chose their path.
I also don't see how making a buck or two precludes one from using that money for good service and the benefit of humanity. Lesse, you graduate from where? CARNEGIE mellon U? DO you know about Andrew Carnegie? He was a captain of industry. He was, for his time, most likely the richest man in the world. And he gave money for libraries, education, and in general, the betterment of man. But be damn sure that he faced challenges, took risks, and made a fat wad of cash.
Combined with other people's comments that "You are replaceable" You and your team might as well critique each other's resumes and start applying for jobs.
If you are walking out, its because you don't want to come back- not because you want them to treat you with respect. If you want to be treated with respect, ASK that you be treated with respect. If the response is a lot of Management BS (hopeful language but nothing concrete) you know that they aren't going to do anything about it. So send those resumes, line up a better jorb (homestar runner typo!) and then LEAVE.
SOrry kid, if you want to play it safe submit your resume to Microsoft, or IBM. OR the government- you get a great pension.
I understand that your cost benefit/risk analysis leads you to the unknown- that you could get nothing.
BUt if you are saying that you'd take a $10 an hour job, you are obviously more than a little hungry for some new opportunity.
Opportunity costs upfront; you have to risk it. No you can't count on winning, so make sure you have some contingency plan.
However As my buddy sielwolf pointed out America is about risk and opportunity. America awards mavericks- and to be one you have to have the skills to back it up and the audacity to pull it off.
If you aren't brave enough to risk a months effort for a potential gain of NOT only $3 grand but REAL experience porting an enormous software project- basically being an integrator. Integration is where the market is AT right now.
From a CS CMU graduate, I would expect a lot more.
And sorry Mr. or Ms. EU Citizen, your website subscription now costs 15% to 25% more, starting July 1. Hope you like this added value
Did you need another reason to keep your money in your pocket? Now you have one.
How can this behoove (sp?) the US? Isn't everyone complaining about the economy? Isn't foreign purchases a great way to get much needed dollars? And doesn't the US regularly ignore the demands of the rest of the world anyway? (last sentence not meant as a troll)
customers who act like brats. Management IGNORES metrics on previous performance. Incomplete specifications and requirements. Coding begins before any design work is done. High level design is so high level as to be useless. Code inspections where inspectors have no idea what the code does, how it fits into the system, or how it works, so they just look for typos in comments and check that {} match. Process is ignored by the grunts and there is no one auditing until waaaay after the fact (like, after the coder has LEFT the company).
Everyone says they want to have the best business process, and everyone knows that finding bugs in the field costs ten times as much as finding them at code inspections,
however I don't think modern management practice supports true software engineering principles. They simply make a half-assed attempt and are trying to push a few more features out a few weeks ahead of schedule.
P.S.- you can argue with me till you are blue in the face, but the amount of anecdotal evidence and publicly reported fabulous disasters of systems begs to differ.
Fight RIAA on grounds of barattry and have the lawyers fees be the one time 12 grand and whatever else they can get from the Judge (the Judge can award attorneys fees for frivolous cases at their own discretion. )
IANAL, but my wife is. That make my legal advice WORTHLESS. However that may explain why I advocate giving 12 grand to the lawyers (read: my wife).
The only thing this person seems to be doing is sitting on his butt all week; telling the students to just follow the syllabus for reading; and occasionally surfing the discussions groups to see who is there. That sounds like a very good deal for them, but I am not getting much out of this.
Yup, that sounds like pretty much every professor I had! Infact, there was one "intro to unix class" where the guy just printed off MAN pages right before class and used those to "teach"! Couple that with people who have TAs do the grading, and the fact that at research oriented uni's (like mine) the professor is busy trying to get grants, screw the kids!
A lot of university classes are like that- and in those cases you are either paying for a "name" university, or you are paying less for a non-name uni.
Now I just finished my masters from the Part Time Engineering program and I had some friends take the same classes but the on-line versions: its a mixed bag. If the professor has a set of slides that they teach from and they are top-nothc quality, then you don't even need to go to class! (this was true in undergrad for my CIRCUITS course- the text book blew, but his bound class notes were INCREDIBLE. start studying 6 hours before the final, walk out with an A)
So I'm sorry your professors stink. Its the SAME in person.
YES. My wife just got through law school taking notes on a toshiba portege- super light weight. From her years as a legal assistant she can type WAY faster than most people can scratch answer with a pencil or pen. Also, she was allowed to type all of her finals (using examsoft).
since she can touch-type I remember her gloating about how the review for hte final in the last class for corporations was so content-packed, that she felt bad for anyone who had to handwrite all that and still follow along.
Slashdot Mirror
For those that don't know- 802.3 ethernet made a minor change from DIX- they just changed the MAC header format, nothing big! [sarcasm]
DIX had a header layout of: [destination mac address][source mac address][frame type].... [crc]
where 802.3 has [dest mac addr][src mac addr][frame length]....[crc] ( combine with 802.2 and you don't need a type field, you have SAPs!)
Now both formats are compatible by mutually exclusive Length/type field values: Since the ethernet frames are limited to 1500 bytes, all Types have to be values greater than that.
IEEE has a nasty habbit of ignoring backwards compatability when taking over a standard (we didnt design it, so who cares).
A good example of this is DIX ethernet vs. 802.3 ethernet- the idea is that if IEEE just rubber stamped DIX ethernet and said "This is the standard" the playing field would have been sharply tilted towards Digital,Xerox and Intel.
So my understanding is that inevitably IEEE standards a changed just a little bit to put all vendors on an even playing field for product conformance.
Except on slashdot.
[RIM-SHOT!]
Dewd, you are awesome!
You had (nearly)the same post for the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome article!
(sorry, I'm a little slow this morning- I realize this is probably part of a larger tend for you but I'm just now putting the pieces together.)
I assume you lost your eye shortly after replacing the hand with a hook.
Yr right- this is not knowledge for HR, this is for AFTER you have the interview with someone ( a technical manager) who is already on the project.
Despite coming in handy on my current project, I'm not sure if I would advertise my assembly expertise, either!
from your previous parent post: My main goal is to help humanity by finding a job that does medical research.
;) I'll Wayne Gretzky on any MC.
From this parent post I'm working on a MMORPG now, and I plan on doing it for 2-5 years before release
Gee, you sure are working HARD on that main goal, aren't ya?! [/sarcasrm]
Whatever kid.
Throwing in "ported mozilla to amiga" would trivialize my qualifications
Okay, good point. So for you, the only pay off would be the 3 grand, and thats not a sure thing.
I know who you are, you're just a self assured prick
DAMN STRAIGHT, mutherfucker!
How am I supposed to "risk it" when I have nothing but my life to gamble with. Well, your answer is right there- YOUR LIFE. Gamble with that. Oh, but how? And how to do it without completely compromising your principles, etc?
Thats the eternal question. If you can't see the answers, then DON'T risk it. However, if you'd like some help, Ask Rustin.
One last thing:
So you're getting all out of control on a ton of false assumptions of who I am.
I can make one true assumption about you. You are afraid. And that's not even an assumption, thats something that screams out in your writing; from these messages on slashdot to your webpage.
You are right that porting is an important skill, but porting to Amiga?
You pose a good point, however this is all about spin.
You are presenting this to your potential employer as "Hey, I took a large Software Engineering project and ported it to a platform on which I had little previous experience. So if you hire me and you have porting work to do, even if it is on a platform that is brand new, I have overall experience in the act of replatforming."
Maybe the guy who has experience in the platform they are porting to will get hired before you do, but what if the issue is that they have the legacy system which NO ONE KNOWS how it works, and the want to port FROM it? Something like this would be a perfect project to prove that you are the guy to do it.
Is that too much of a long shot for you?
I keep people safe. That is my job. I make the world a better place. I work on real-time human grade systems. And I make money.
;)
;)
OHMIGOD! Did I just blow your mind!?
Listen- YOUR initial argument was "Hey, this money sucks if you don't win!"
Myself and some others point out that there is a lot to gain financially even if you don't win, by leveraging this experience in system integration and getting a job based upon it.
NOW you are changing your tune and saying "well, MOney doesn't matter!"
But this is, at worst, in direct contradiction to your FIRST argument, and at best, completely changing the subject (The new topic being Money != Hapiness). And you call ME and idiot?
I'm glad you actually read the Journal Entry. At least we are on the same page. I'm very much so advocating the "risk it" entrepreneurial spirit.
If you have a calling from God (or whatever) to help humanity, then by all means, go to it! But don't complain about people making a buck or two- you chose your path, they chose their path.
I also don't see how making a buck or two precludes one from using that money for good service and the benefit of humanity. Lesse, you graduate from where? CARNEGIE mellon U? DO you know about Andrew Carnegie? He was a captain of industry. He was, for his time, most likely the richest man in the world. And he gave money for libraries, education, and in general, the betterment of man. But be damn sure that he faced challenges, took risks, and made a fat wad of cash.
Really, before you walk out you owe it to yourself to bargain for more.
oh shut up chacham! ;)
(or should I say "please close your mouth, chacham!")
Good point TopShelf.
Combined with other people's comments that "You are replaceable"
You and your team might as well critique each other's resumes and start applying for jobs.
If you are walking out, its because you don't want to come back- not because you want them to treat you with respect. If you want to be treated with respect, ASK that you be treated with respect. If the response is a lot of Management BS (hopeful language but nothing concrete) you know that they aren't going to do anything about it. So send those resumes, line up a better jorb (homestar runner typo!) and then LEAVE.
Oh, thats "Babylon 5 Bites", a service for automatic trolls on why Bab5 is dying.
SOrry kid, if you want to play it safe submit your resume to Microsoft, or IBM. OR the government- you get a great pension.
I understand that your cost benefit/risk analysis leads you to the unknown- that you could get nothing.
BUt if you are saying that you'd take a $10 an hour job, you are obviously more than a little hungry for some new opportunity.
Opportunity costs upfront; you have to risk it. No you can't count on winning, so make sure you have some contingency plan.
However As my buddy sielwolf pointed out America is about risk and opportunity. America awards mavericks- and to be one you have to have the skills to back it up and the audacity to pull it off.
If you aren't brave enough to risk a months effort for a potential gain of NOT only $3 grand but REAL experience porting an enormous software project- basically being an integrator. Integration is where the market is AT right now.
From a CS CMU graduate, I would expect a lot more.
Get the point?
NOW I do! Thanks for you enlightening post.
And sorry Mr. or Ms. EU Citizen, your website subscription now costs 15% to 25% more, starting July 1. Hope you like this added value
Did you need another reason to keep your money in your pocket? Now you have one.
How can this behoove (sp?) the US? Isn't everyone complaining about the economy? Isn't foreign purchases a great way to get much needed dollars?
And doesn't the US regularly ignore the demands of the rest of the world anyway? (last sentence not meant as a troll)
Ditto. DITTO DITTO DITTO.
customers who act like brats.
Management IGNORES metrics on previous performance.
Incomplete specifications and requirements.
Coding begins before any design work is done.
High level design is so high level as to be useless.
Code inspections where inspectors have no idea what the code does, how it fits into the system, or how it works, so they just look for typos in comments and check that {} match.
Process is ignored by the grunts and there is no one auditing until waaaay after the fact (like, after the coder has LEFT the company).
Everyone says they want to have the best business process, and everyone knows that finding bugs in the field costs ten times as much as finding them at code inspections,
however I don't think modern management practice supports true software engineering principles. They simply make a half-assed attempt and are trying to push a few more features out a few weeks ahead of schedule.
P.S.- you can argue with me till you are blue in the face, but the amount of anecdotal evidence and publicly reported fabulous disasters of systems begs to differ.
why not give it to your own Lawyers! ;)
Fight RIAA on grounds of barattry and have the lawyers fees be the one time 12 grand and whatever else they can get from the Judge (the Judge can award attorneys fees for frivolous cases at their own discretion. )
IANAL, but my wife is. That make my legal advice WORTHLESS. However that may explain why I advocate giving 12 grand to the lawyers (read: my wife).
First- disclaimer: IANAL, my wife is. What does that make me and my legal advice? WORTHLESS!
That being said:
At the discretion of the judge, based upon how frivolous the suit was, they can award attorney's fees.
The only thing this person seems to be doing is sitting on his butt all week; telling the students to just follow the syllabus for reading; and occasionally surfing the discussions groups to see who is there. That sounds like a very good deal for them, but I am not getting much out of this.
Yup, that sounds like pretty much every professor I had! Infact, there was one "intro to unix class" where the guy just printed off MAN pages right before class and used those to "teach"!
Couple that with people who have TAs do the grading, and the fact that at research oriented uni's (like mine) the professor is busy trying to get grants, screw the kids!
A lot of university classes are like that- and in those cases you are either paying for a "name" university, or you are paying less for a non-name uni.
Now I just finished my masters from the Part Time Engineering program and I had some friends take the same classes but the on-line versions: its a mixed bag.
If the professor has a set of slides that they teach from and they are top-nothc quality, then you don't even need to go to class! (this was true in undergrad for my CIRCUITS course- the text book blew, but his bound class notes were INCREDIBLE. start studying 6 hours before the final, walk out with an A)
So I'm sorry your professors stink. Its the SAME in person.
nice user name!
Its truly sad how far slint members have fallen. I guess once yr on top, the only place to go is down...
I don't agree- I think the Handspring are a lot more attractive.
But then again, I have a Neo in my pocket!
Do kids just type faster now?
YES. My wife just got through law school taking notes on a toshiba portege- super light weight. From her years as a legal assistant she can type WAY faster than most people can scratch answer with a pencil or pen. Also, she was allowed to type all of her finals (using examsoft).
since she can touch-type I remember her gloating about how the review for hte final in the last class for corporations was so content-packed, that she felt bad for anyone who had to handwrite all that and still follow along.
DEWD- where have you been? (I guess the most obvious answer is "VT, dummy!", but you know what I mean)
My calendar says its my birthday,
;)
so happy birthday to me.
(maybe not april fools, but commemorating the birth of a fool?