Since I'm not union I don't appear to have any way of trying to get myself compensated appropriately, is there anything in the California labor laws that I can pull into play?
You are a commodity, if you think your more valuable to your company then they currently pay you, negotiate with them. You'll find out real quick. Why do you need laws or some Union to do this for you? Maybe if your inept and just trying to milk your company you need those things. Or if the talent coming into your company was being paid _less_ and was 12 year old nigerian workers... then go looking for laws. But you even state the people being hired now are paid _more_ not less, then you.
Seniority should mean crap imo. I think this concept of seniority is blown to shreds when the less senior member of a department is more valuable and know more then the senior ranking member.
Talk about value. You have a value to this company. If you guess that value, and believe you should be paid more then act on it. If you are wrong (over inflated ego) be prepared to be slapped down.
It simply needs broadband. By dedicated connection they mean plug it into your home's hub. And before someone says that Home Users don't have access to broadband at the scales needed to pull this off:
The FCC released their biannual report (.pdf file) today, which reported 16.2 million broadband customers (households) in the U.S. as of June 2002, up from 9.6 million one year earlier. The report also indicates that most users should be well within the range of a broadband option. "Our analysis indicates that 98 percent of the country's population lives in the 84 percent of zip codes where a provider reports having at least one high-speed service subscriber."
Can't wait for RFID to be deployed (embedded) in everything. Can't wait to walk through my room and take an inventory of what the hell is in there.
Can't wait to grab what I want from a store, walk through a detector, slide in my credit card, and ok the purchase as I walk out.
Can't wait for sooooo many cool uses of the technology to come from it.
But most of all, I can't wait for it to be so widespread and accepted that it STOPS BEING PUT IN THE YRO COLUMN OF SLASHDOT!
Come on your wannabe geeks. This is cool technology. This is 10x more of an enabler than a privacy loss.
I don't want to remove the RFID tags in things I buy. I want to be able to track crap in my house like Walmart can in their warehouse. I don't care if I walk into a store and they know I bought the shirt i'm wearing at Banna Republic. The sales people could prolly guess that by the style anyhow. I want this in my tires, hell I want this stuff in every individual part of my car. If something breaks or screws up and I take it into the mechanic, I want ford to get a detail readout that says RFID:XXX-XX-XXXX-XXXXX was found on a hose clamp that gave way. Take that data and build a better hose clamp.
This technology will enable statistics that will make all industries more productive and efficent. It's mind boggling if you extrapolate this out. What a fountain of information.
I know that last paragraph scares the hell out of 50% of you, but you know what? Don't buy the stuff then. I want it, and I don't need you scaring the crap out innovators of cool technology like this. Get off _my_ liberty.
Walmart had very little impact on the UPC bar-code standard. In fact, it took until 1988 for 90% of Walmart's stores to use barcode/scanner technology. Many other chains at that point were 100% scanner driven.
IBM fought the UPC battle, but the industry as a whole was starving for it (everyone had their own standard up to that point). Kroger was the first large scale test of scanners in supermarkets, and a small store in Ohio I believe was the first to use the new UPC standard. A pack of gum was the first thing scanned.
Don't think DeVito and Michael Douglas, think Richard III vs Henery VII. This book is essentially that tale be playing out in a fantasy setting
I did enjoy them. As you can imagine the political strategies in the book are numerous. It's also a nice read because good guys don't generally come out on top. They don't come back from the dead. An all powerfull wizard doesn't make it all right. And a lone wolf doesn't come in from the cold and fix everything use talents he didn't know he had. This book is harsh, but a good read.
Hey I live here and I'll be first to say that this event is friggin huge. Sure they could have picked a bigger city, but
what city has loose enough power restrictions, fire regulation standards, and a big enough convention hall to allow all these people???
umm, NYC, Orlando, New Orleans, LA all have convention centers that dwarf your expo center. Power and Fire are not an issue as long as it's done correctly.
ciroknight says:
Lousville, Ky. Add in on top of that Kentucky has one of the largest nerd populations short of Cali and Florida (per capita that is).
so have it in Cali or Florida. And where does this number come from?
ciroknight says:
Just about 70% of the people I know here are nerds. Not to mention the city I live in (Berea Ky) has about 7 computer stores (all within like 4 miles of each other, and this is a pretty small town).
Oh well, why didn't you say 70% of your friends are nerds and you have 7 computer stores. This proves KY is the perfect spot.
ciroknight says:
Plus the temperature is just perfect,
and all the bawls you can drink.
umm, not sure what even your attending, but according to the FAQ on MillonManLan:
Bawls - Burden, 4/14/2003 2:47:06 PM
Unfortunately do to regulations, we will not have Bawls at the event. You can not bring cases in to sell. You can not sell them out in the lot. Doing so will get you removed from the event. You can bring some for your personal consumption, meaning you can bring one in for yourself. Note we say one, not a case or two. they must remain in your car/hotel.
You're state prolly outlawed it or something.
ciroknight says:
Just because we are in Kentucky means nothing. Oh yeah and did we forget to mention,
Kentucky's schools have one of the largest networks in the world, almost every computer in every school in Kentucky is hooked into it. Maybe this is why we have so many computer nerds here.....
Your schools are tied together with a network. Congradulations. Welcome to 2003. Look, this has nothing to do with whether a million person lan event should be in your state. I think it's rather obvious that an event like this, if it truly hopes to become large (1k is not large) needs to move to bigger name state/city/area.
I don't know who you think is on the other end of your bang stick in most computer games, but it's not all swm 18yos. There are a lot of 25-40 with families and play these games. Lots of LAN parties i've gone to, i've been the only one w/o a family.
Hell, pick Orlando so people can do a theme park or something else that makes the trip more worthwhile. Or those with families can let the kids go do something while they hang out geeking.
LA, NYC, Orlando, New Orleans... the places are well known. All major events occur at them. They are picked for good reason....
Louisville, KY??? what are they smoking. No wonder they can barely break 1k people.
The effects this game uses the older game on 680? could only dream of. And a wet dream at that.
Using 3d to do 2d or iso is extremly beneficial. But you must design your 3d engine to take into account your fixed perspective to get the added performance increase. Then you get best of both worlds. Your effects can make change based on 3d data, whereas if it was straight 2d, the only other data you'd have aside for coordinates and color value would be (maybe) height data.
If i recall correctly Total Annihilation did this back in 97? The game was 2d top down, but the data was 3d. It allowed complicated line of sight and other 'neat' things (AA guns blasting your buildings if you didn't give them enough clearance)..
Where do you see that AOL/MSN threatened "smal" ISPs (i guess COX high speed internet is small in your opinion) to block SMTP for a competivie reason?
What's the competivie reason for the other ports in your link being blocked (Netbios, SQL, SubSeven). Seems if I was microsoft and throwing around my weight I wouldn't want you to block my SQL communication paths nor Netbios.
Look that fact is your post is major troll. ISPs have been blocking port 25 because spammers have been causing them tremendous pain. Yeah, if 2billion emails from from a COX ip block, I'm thinking AOL or Microsoft is going to bitch at COX. And they SHOULD. COX and any other ISP are the second line of defense against SPAM (The first being the moron who left an open relay, or machine got compromised). But they aren't forcing them for some super evil plan. You make monsters out of gerbils man.
MSN and Eathlink and 90% of the other ISP block port 25 now. They were not 'forced' too, they did this because it was the only way to stop the spam. And it worked, for those networks, althought Spammers have found other places to go.
On my mail servers, to get around these blocks, I run SMTP on alternative ports. I have my users configured to use those ports in addition to the basic 25. I'm willing to deal with this 'hassle' as long as it kicks the spammers in the nuts for awhile.
I play Tribes 2 to this day. There's no more than a few thousand of us on during the night, but the gameplay and maps is awesome.
I thought Tribes 2 team got completely shafted by the company/owner. I seem to recall their little gorup being bought out by a big group, and then discontinued. The developers somehow managed to take the source and sell it (Torque engine) for 100 bucks to anyone who wanted (so long as you make less than.5mill with it).
This was one of the first games that allowed 60 people on a server in an open terrain evrionment with realtime mesh level of detail, and a properly coded engine that allowed structures to sit on the terrain and not let the LOD pull triangles that supported the strucutre when you were at a distance (causing things like bridges to float in other poorly written terrain LOD system).
Nothing sense came close the the "dogfights" you have against other players as you not only ran around, but used your jet back for 6DOF. After playing tribes, any other game I play I constantly am jamming the right mouse button in reflex to 'jet out' of a situation (i do this in ET and get annoyed when i switch to an alternate fire mode).
Tribes two was a killer game, and the engine was so easy to mod. You could inherit and override any of the base graphics through a simple script system. Do like your default hud? make your own in seconds. A little more time if you want graphics. Yet somehow it fell under the radars of most games. I don't really understand it.
I'm really kinda upset Tribes 3 isn't using a torque engine... I don't trust that unreal can handle the massive outdoor areas, and put 60 people on a map.
802.15.3 is the logical successor, if the backwards compatbility works. But really, what comes after Bluetooth is more up to the Bluetooth SIG, who owns the branding..etc.
They both focuse on low power, low cost. 802.15.3 should cost pennies to implement into a device.
Security is pretty high. You can trust your keyboard to this sort of WPN, and not worry about a guy in a truck stealing your passwords.
802.15.3 last I heard wasn't really "approved" by the Bluetooth SIG. In fact, the whole 802.15 working group was trying to take over engineering aspects of Bluetooth from the Bluetooth SIG and leave the SIG to handle marketing, compliance, branding..etc.
But that didn't apparently happen because Bluetooth didn't want to wait X years for the next standard. Also, IEEE has a nasty habbit of ignoring backwards compatability when taking over a standard (we didnt design it, so who cares).
So, now we have this new, high rate, low power, WPN, that is supposed to be backwards compatabile with 802.15.1 (which is IEEE code word for Bluetooth. They built the 802.15.1 around the existing Bluetooth spec, but _changed_ it a bit).
Yet, no where, have i seen, an engineer say " 802.15.3 IS COMPATIBLE WITH Bluetooth". Maybe i missed that somewhere. Anyone know if this WPN will work with the present day number 1 WPN on the market?
Either way, this is really cool technology. High bandwidth, cheap, low power WPN means wireless KVM switchs among lots of other cool gadgets.
I wouldn't hire you because you can't seem to find enough of a clue to beat out 90% of the other morons looking for a programming job right now.
If you have such talent as you claim to have, getting a job should be no problem. I have known people in the last 4 months that got well paying jobs and in my expert opinion write shitty code.
Whats really sad is you can honestly do this from your chair. I would normally say "get off your ass and go meet people" to network your carreer. But you don't have to. Keep all the usual places with up to date resumes (monster, techies..etc). Join opensource projects you have an intrest in. Add those open source projects to your resume (AFTER YOU ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE MORE THAN A SPELLING FIX CVS UPDATE). Write some goofy application that saves you time for something, and sourceforge it.
ADD ALL THIS TO YOUR RESUME. Show me you know how to communicate (open source mailing lists), that you know politics (open source mailing lists), that you can code (i'll search the projects you participated on and see how many times you got flamed for shitty code), show me you can manage the basics of a project (your own sourceforge project, i'll see how you kept it up to date, if you used the features, how you tracked the bugs and grew your application).
This is the stuff you SHOULD have been doing the past 4 years (if you are graduating now).
If your resume is empty, who's fault that?
And buddy, the least you could have done for yourself is stick your resume on your slashdot homepage. I've seen people beg for jobs on slashdot before, and it normally works. How long they last in that job, i'm going to guess not long.
What's even more funny about this reply is his signature:
...And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.? - Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
So, who's speaking up for the 112k accounts that just got terminated? You think Blizzard was 100% accurate in numbers that massive? Some poor little kid just lost 4 months of hard earned levels/items.
on-line, in public, after taunting a crowd "you can't kill me". The online character of lord british was actively being played by Richard Gariott.
Classic moment in online history. I remeber the kid who used the fire-scroll on him to that day "Rainz". Lord British (Richard Garriott), Blackthorn (Starr Long), and a few others were on a balcony as LB gave a 'speech' for the end of beta. Next thing you know, the balcony is incased in a fire 'field'. Then LB taunts that fire doesn't hurt him (""nice try..."). 2s later his corpse is on the ground.
Someone responds to LB's death by summoning 4 powerfull deamons, who slaughter the innocent crowd.
A developer had made a mistake and not flipped his invlunerability flag (Developer name: "Grimli" what ever happened to that kid).
Ahh the good old days.
Rainz was banned for it, but it was the end of Beta.
google for "Rainz" "Lord British" for pictures. -malakai
I'm getting a little annoyed at refering to references that refer to referenes that refer to a source article.
The content on Roland Piquepaille blog is always worthless. This is at least the third story he submitted (and was approved) that links you to his site, where they quotes from the article, and then says a very obvious sentance about that quote.
I don't get it. If you find something intresting, and you want to submit it to slash dot, then do so. Why make a blog, so you can submit, so you can refer to your blog.
I'm not getting into conspiracies about money or ads or anything. Near as I can tell none of that is involved here.
I just get annoyed going to his blogs to find he just quots the article, and has no real insight or other information.
. If some dipshit fanboy loser hadn't shared songs that weren't even finshed by Metallica, Madonna, Dr.Dre, et cetera, the RIAA would never have bothered about P2P and Napster would still be king
Holy cow what are you smoking. There is no way in hell RIAA would have ignored Napster regardless of whether or not 'beta' music had been released.
And a beta of a Metallica/modonna/dre..etc song is hardly going to impact their sales. All mediums suffer from that. Books, software, music, videos..etc. -7days warez exists for all entertainment mediums and are hardly cause for distress from artist. God forbid people want your stuff so bad they are willing to risk their job for it.
No, i'm not cutting any slack here. Only thing that had a chance of stopping the RIAA would have been the artist themselves. Electing leadership that was pro-technology, pro-free distribution..etc..etc. They would have had to have shown faith in their fans by proxy votes in RIAA.
They didn't, they suck, except those that do their own releases online. I liked the fact one of the Beck albulms was completely available (albeit via annoying FLASH) online. I listened to it for days while working and on the way home picked up the CD.
There is indeed a middle-ground which involves having other hobbies at home, raising a family, brewing beer, etc., that is indeed a profitable, enjoyable life
I prefix my statment with: "I feel there are at a minimum two kind of coders out there right now". And then choose variable A and variable X, leaving a lot of variables in between.
I simply feel it's an upside down bell curve. I'm not a statistician, I could be wrong, but this is my instinct from my experiences.
Yes i've met succesfull, happy coders that have a family and balance/manage time effectively, but none of them are lead coders on anything. And they are rare.
Burnout is a fact we all live with. It's one morning away. Its solvable though, taking minimum 2 months vacation each year helps. Or spending half the year working on light, simple, few days at the most projects.
In the end though, you are an addict or you are not. If you are not an addict, then you can draw distinctions between Type A and (Type B to Type W).
Seriously, I was a big Metallica fan. During the Napster days I initially defended them. Then I saw one too many interviews with Lars, and I realized what a prick he was.
They burned bridges with a lot of my friends. I wouldn't doubt if it's statistically significant to their bottom line.
The fans needed Metallica's faith back in the day, and they didn't give it to us. We bought their CD's, AND we ripped them to our harddrives. People at work would play my Metallica songs and then go out and but some of their CD's for their car. If Metallica had stood up for it's fans, at the hay day of the Napster witch hunt, I think the RIAA and DMCA and a lot of other things could have been altered.
Instead they showed us loud and clear, they are the enemy.
can't imagine that he was being paid that badly, either. Most people would kill to get bought out by AOL (or Microsoft for that matter), so what's wrong with taking the money and leaving it to the college students to write the piracy apps?
seriously. Money is great, I like money, it pays the rent and lets me do what i want half the year. But if all I did was "nothing" I would not be happy. Coding makes me happy. I'm sure coding a app like WASTE for Justin made him happy.
I feel there are at minimum two kind of coders out there right now. Type A joined the ranks because they want to make money. They could have easily done something else. Most were drawn into the big bright light of the Internet boom. They want to code from 9 to 5pm, and then be done. They expect to move into mangement at some point, and consider coding a menial task that can be pushed down the ranks.
Type X started coding because someting intially didn't do what they wanted it to do. This led to coding addiction, consuming massive amounts of dry reading material, working crazy hours, but always coming back to the keyboard like the crack head to his pipe. The irony is, in present economy, Type X makes the money, and the Type A is trying to learn another skill, move to project management, go back to school and get a degress in business...etc..etc.
When you can afford most of the things you want, why is WASTE so important?
It's his baby. You'll understand if you ever code a baby of your own.
Having said all this, I think I would have fought it out until they fired me. but not knowing his legal/contractual situation resigning may be his best bet.
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Seniority should mean crap imo. I think this concept of seniority is blown to shreds when the less senior member of a department is more valuable and know more then the senior ranking member.
Talk about value. You have a value to this company. If you guess that value, and believe you should be paid more then act on it. If you are wrong (over inflated ego) be prepared to be slapped down.
-Malakai
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Can't wait for RFID to be deployed (embedded) in everything. Can't wait to walk through my room and take an inventory of what the hell is in there.
Can't wait to grab what I want from a store, walk through a detector, slide in my credit card, and ok the purchase as I walk out.
Can't wait for sooooo many cool uses of the technology to come from it.
But most of all, I can't wait for it to be so widespread and accepted that it STOPS BEING PUT IN THE YRO COLUMN OF SLASHDOT!
Come on your wannabe geeks. This is cool technology. This is 10x more of an enabler than a privacy loss.
I don't want to remove the RFID tags in things I buy. I want to be able to track crap in my house like Walmart can in their warehouse. I don't care if I walk into a store and they know I bought the shirt i'm wearing at Banna Republic. The sales people could prolly guess that by the style anyhow. I want this in my tires, hell I want this stuff in every individual part of my car. If something breaks or screws up and I take it into the mechanic, I want ford to get a detail readout that says RFID:XXX-XX-XXXX-XXXXX was found on a hose clamp that gave way. Take that data and build a better hose clamp.
This technology will enable statistics that will make all industries more productive and efficent. It's mind boggling if you extrapolate this out. What a fountain of information.
I know that last paragraph scares the hell out of 50% of you, but you know what? Don't buy the stuff then. I want it, and I don't need you scaring the crap out innovators of cool technology like this. Get off _my_ liberty.
Walmart had very little impact on the UPC bar-code standard. In fact, it took until 1988 for 90% of Walmart's stores to use barcode/scanner technology. Many other chains at that point were 100% scanner driven.
IBM fought the UPC battle, but the industry as a whole was starving for it (everyone had their own standard up to that point). Kroger was the first large scale test of scanners in supermarkets, and a small store in Ohio I believe was the first to use the new UPC standard. A pack of gum was the first thing scanned.
-malakai
Don't think DeVito and Michael Douglas, think Richard III vs Henery VII. This book is essentially that tale be playing out in a fantasy setting
I did enjoy them. As you can imagine the political strategies in the book are numerous. It's also a nice read because good guys don't generally come out on top. They don't come back from the dead. An all powerfull wizard doesn't make it all right. And a lone wolf doesn't come in from the cold and fix everything use talents he didn't know he had. This book is harsh, but a good read.
-malakai
umm, NYC, Orlando, New Orleans, LA all have convention centers that dwarf your expo center. Power and Fire are not an issue as long as it's done correctly.
ciroknight says:
so have it in Cali or Florida. And where does this number come from?
ciroknight says:
Oh well, why didn't you say 70% of your friends are nerds and you have 7 computer stores. This proves KY is the perfect spot.
ciroknight says:
umm, not sure what even your attending, but according to the FAQ on MillonManLan:
You're state prolly outlawed it or something.
ciroknight says:
Your schools are tied together with a network. Congradulations. Welcome to 2003. Look, this has nothing to do with whether a million person lan event should be in your state. I think it's rather obvious that an event like this, if it truly hopes to become large (1k is not large) needs to move to bigger name state/city/area.
I don't know who you think is on the other end of your bang stick in most computer games, but it's not all swm 18yos. There are a lot of 25-40 with families and play these games. Lots of LAN parties i've gone to, i've been the only one w/o a family.
-malakai
why?
Hell, pick Orlando so people can do a theme park or something else that makes the trip more worthwhile. Or those with families can let the kids go do something while they hang out geeking.
LA, NYC, Orlando, New Orleans... the places are well known. All major events occur at them. They are picked for good reason....
Louisville, KY??? what are they smoking. No wonder they can barely break 1k people.
-malakai
The effects this game uses the older game on 680? could only dream of. And a wet dream at that.
Using 3d to do 2d or iso is extremly beneficial. But you must design your 3d engine to take into account your fixed perspective to get the added performance increase. Then you get best of both worlds. Your effects can make change based on 3d data, whereas if it was straight 2d, the only other data you'd have aside for coordinates and color value would be (maybe) height data.
If i recall correctly Total Annihilation did this back in 97? The game was 2d top down, but the data was 3d. It allowed complicated line of sight and other 'neat' things (AA guns blasting your buildings if you didn't give them enough clearance)..
-malakai
Where do you see that AOL/MSN threatened "smal" ISPs (i guess COX high speed internet is small in your opinion) to block SMTP for a competivie reason?
What's the competivie reason for the other ports in your link being blocked (Netbios, SQL, SubSeven). Seems if I was microsoft and throwing around my weight I wouldn't want you to block my SQL communication paths nor Netbios.
Look that fact is your post is major troll. ISPs have been blocking port 25 because spammers have been causing them tremendous pain. Yeah, if 2billion emails from from a COX ip block, I'm thinking AOL or Microsoft is going to bitch at COX. And they SHOULD. COX and any other ISP are the second line of defense against SPAM (The first being the moron who left an open relay, or machine got compromised). But they aren't forcing them for some super evil plan. You make monsters out of gerbils man.
MSN and Eathlink and 90% of the other ISP block port 25 now. They were not 'forced' too, they did this because it was the only way to stop the spam. And it worked, for those networks, althought Spammers have found other places to go.
On my mail servers, to get around these blocks, I run SMTP on alternative ports. I have my users configured to use those ports in addition to the basic 25. I'm willing to deal with this 'hassle' as long as it kicks the spammers in the nuts for awhile.
-malakai
i can fully agree with this guys conclusions.
I've felt like shit since ET was released.
-malakai
I play Tribes 2 to this day. There's no more than a few thousand of us on during the night, but the gameplay and maps is awesome.
.5mill with it).
I thought Tribes 2 team got completely shafted by the company/owner. I seem to recall their little gorup being bought out by a big group, and then discontinued. The developers somehow managed to take the source and sell it (Torque engine) for 100 bucks to anyone who wanted (so long as you make less than
This was one of the first games that allowed 60 people on a server in an open terrain evrionment with realtime mesh level of detail, and a properly coded engine that allowed structures to sit on the terrain and not let the LOD pull triangles that supported the strucutre when you were at a distance (causing things like bridges to float in other poorly written terrain LOD system).
Nothing sense came close the the "dogfights" you have against other players as you not only ran around, but used your jet back for 6DOF. After playing tribes, any other game I play I constantly am jamming the right mouse button in reflex to 'jet out' of a situation (i do this in ET and get annoyed when i switch to an alternate fire mode).
Tribes two was a killer game, and the engine was so easy to mod. You could inherit and override any of the base graphics through a simple script system. Do like your default hud? make your own in seconds. A little more time if you want graphics. Yet somehow it fell under the radars of most games. I don't really understand it.
I'm really kinda upset Tribes 3 isn't using a torque engine... I don't trust that unreal can handle the massive outdoor areas, and put 60 people on a map.
We'll see...
-malakai
Here's a list of DIGITAL CAMERA ACC-Stand Alone Data Storage devices from B&H.
You don't want firewall, most cameras do the USB 2.0 thing.
In addition to storing pictures, many of these Devices are MP3 players as well. 10,20,30 even 60 gig drives with rechargable batteries..etc.
have fun.
-malakai
Bluetooth: 1Mbps
802.15.3: 11, 22, 33, 44, or 55 Mbps (5 selectable rates).
802.15.3 is the logical successor, if the backwards compatbility works. But really, what comes after Bluetooth is more up to the Bluetooth SIG, who owns the branding..etc.
They both focuse on low power, low cost. 802.15.3 should cost pennies to implement into a device.
Security is pretty high. You can trust your keyboard to this sort of WPN, and not worry about a guy in a truck stealing your passwords.
-malakai
802.15.3 last I heard wasn't really "approved" by the Bluetooth SIG. In fact, the whole 802.15 working group was trying to take over engineering aspects of Bluetooth from the Bluetooth SIG and leave the SIG to handle marketing, compliance, branding..etc.
But that didn't apparently happen because Bluetooth didn't want to wait X years for the next standard. Also, IEEE has a nasty habbit of ignoring backwards compatability when taking over a standard (we didnt design it, so who cares).
So, now we have this new, high rate, low power, WPN, that is supposed to be backwards compatabile with 802.15.1 (which is IEEE code word for Bluetooth. They built the 802.15.1 around the existing Bluetooth spec, but _changed_ it a bit).
Yet, no where, have i seen, an engineer say " 802.15.3 IS COMPATIBLE WITH Bluetooth". Maybe i missed that somewhere. Anyone know if this WPN will work with the present day number 1 WPN on the market?
Either way, this is really cool technology. High bandwidth, cheap, low power WPN means wireless KVM switchs among lots of other cool gadgets.
-malakai
I wouldn't hire you because you can't seem to find enough of a clue to beat out 90% of the other morons looking for a programming job right now.
If you have such talent as you claim to have, getting a job should be no problem. I have known people in the last 4 months that got well paying jobs and in my expert opinion write shitty code.
Whats really sad is you can honestly do this from your chair. I would normally say "get off your ass and go meet people" to network your carreer. But you don't have to. Keep all the usual places with up to date resumes (monster, techies..etc). Join opensource projects you have an intrest in. Add those open source projects to your resume (AFTER YOU ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE MORE THAN A SPELLING FIX CVS UPDATE). Write some goofy application that saves you time for something, and sourceforge it.
ADD ALL THIS TO YOUR RESUME. Show me you know how to communicate (open source mailing lists), that you know politics (open source mailing lists), that you can code (i'll search the projects you participated on and see how many times you got flamed for shitty code), show me you can manage the basics of a project (your own sourceforge project, i'll see how you kept it up to date, if you used the features, how you tracked the bugs and grew your application).
This is the stuff you SHOULD have been doing the past 4 years (if you are graduating now).
If your resume is empty, who's fault that?
And buddy, the least you could have done for yourself is stick your resume on your slashdot homepage. I've seen people beg for jobs on slashdot before, and it normally works. How long they last in that job, i'm going to guess not long.
-malakai
So, who's speaking up for the 112k accounts that just got terminated? You think Blizzard was 100% accurate in numbers that massive? Some poor little kid just lost 4 months of hard earned levels/items.
mmmm... smell that hypocrisy...
-malakai
Very cool.
:P
sounds like you guys, Carmack, and the ERPS flight control project have a lot of commonality.
I would say you all should join forces, but we know that never works out.
-malakai
on-line, in public, after taunting a crowd "you can't kill me". The online character of lord british was actively being played by Richard Gariott.
Classic moment in online history. I remeber the kid who used the fire-scroll on him to that day "Rainz". Lord British (Richard Garriott), Blackthorn (Starr Long), and a few others were on a balcony as LB gave a 'speech' for the end of beta. Next thing you know, the balcony is incased in a fire 'field'. Then LB taunts that fire doesn't hurt him (""nice try..."). 2s later his corpse is on the ground.
Someone responds to LB's death by summoning 4 powerfull deamons, who slaughter the innocent crowd.
A developer had made a mistake and not flipped his invlunerability flag (Developer name: "Grimli" what ever happened to that kid).
Ahh the good old days.
Rainz was banned for it, but it was the end of Beta.
google for "Rainz" "Lord British" for pictures.
-malakai
... have been doing this for awhile. The PC104 stack in their VTVL rockets/crafts have always been linux kernels.
He's also been using 802.11 for communications.
His laptop control station is win32 though.
ArmadilloAerospace
-malakai
I'm getting a little annoyed at refering to references that refer to referenes that refer to a source article.
The content on Roland Piquepaille blog is always worthless. This is at least the third story he submitted (and was approved) that links you to his site, where they quotes from the article, and then says a very obvious sentance about that quote.
This all started back in Nov of 2002 see: for his articles
I don't get it. If you find something intresting, and you want to submit it to slash dot, then do so. Why make a blog, so you can submit, so you can refer to your blog.
I'm not getting into conspiracies about money or ads or anything. Near as I can tell none of that is involved here.
I just get annoyed going to his blogs to find he just quots the article, and has no real insight or other information.
-Malakai
Holy cow what are you smoking. There is no way in hell RIAA would have ignored Napster regardless of whether or not 'beta' music had been released.
And a beta of a Metallica/modonna/dre..etc song is hardly going to impact their sales. All mediums suffer from that. Books, software, music, videos..etc. -7days warez exists for all entertainment mediums and are hardly cause for distress from artist. God forbid people want your stuff so bad they are willing to risk their job for it.
No, i'm not cutting any slack here. Only thing that had a chance of stopping the RIAA would have been the artist themselves. Electing leadership that was pro-technology, pro-free distribution..etc..etc. They would have had to have shown faith in their fans by proxy votes in RIAA.
They didn't, they suck, except those that do their own releases online. I liked the fact one of the Beck albulms was completely available (albeit via annoying FLASH) online. I listened to it for days while working and on the way home picked up the CD.
morons, morons, morons.
-malakai
I prefix my statment with: "I feel there are at a minimum two kind of coders out there right now".
And then choose variable A and variable X, leaving a lot of variables in between.
I simply feel it's an upside down bell curve. I'm not a statistician, I could be wrong, but this is my instinct from my experiences.
Yes i've met succesfull, happy coders that have a family and balance/manage time effectively, but none of them are lead coders on anything. And they are rare.
Burnout is a fact we all live with. It's one morning away. Its solvable though, taking minimum 2 months vacation each year helps. Or spending half the year working on light, simple, few days at the most projects.
In the end though, you are an addict or you are not. If you are not an addict, then you can draw distinctions between Type A and (Type B to Type W).
-malakai
... by Lars Ulrich.
Seriously, I was a big Metallica fan. During the Napster days I initially defended them. Then I saw one too many interviews with Lars, and I realized what a prick he was.
They burned bridges with a lot of my friends. I wouldn't doubt if it's statistically significant to their bottom line.
So recently we see shit like this Metallica Make Peace With Digital Downloaders -- Sort Of. Wow they are so hip to this new medium. My ass.
The fans needed Metallica's faith back in the day, and they didn't give it to us. We bought their CD's, AND we ripped them to our harddrives. People at work would play my Metallica songs and then go out and but some of their CD's for their car. If Metallica had stood up for it's fans, at the hay day of the Napster witch hunt, I think the RIAA and DMCA and a lot of other things could have been altered.
Instead they showed us loud and clear, they are the enemy.
-malakai
seriously. Money is great, I like money, it pays the rent and lets me do what i want half the year. But if all I did was "nothing" I would not be happy. Coding makes me happy. I'm sure coding a app like WASTE for Justin made him happy.
I feel there are at minimum two kind of coders out there right now. Type A joined the ranks because they want to make money. They could have easily done something else. Most were drawn into the big bright light of the Internet boom. They want to code from 9 to 5pm, and then be done. They expect to move into mangement at some point, and consider coding a menial task that can be pushed down the ranks.
Type X started coding because someting intially didn't do what they wanted it to do. This led to coding addiction, consuming massive amounts of dry reading material, working crazy hours, but always coming back to the keyboard like the crack head to his pipe. The irony is, in present economy, Type X makes the money, and the Type A is trying to learn another skill, move to project management, go back to school and get a degress in business...etc..etc.
It's his baby. You'll understand if you ever code a baby of your own.
Having said all this, I think I would have fought it out until they fired me. but not knowing his legal/contractual situation resigning may be his best bet.
-malakai