Digging through the references, I got here. Then I saw this
Slashdot introduced its notion of karma, earned for activities perceived to promote group effectiveness, an approach that has been very influential in later virtual communities.
So, to get paid more, you just say that Apple did it better and the Microsoft's version sucks and the best implementation is in Linux?
And to get vacation do you post stuff to get "Funny" ratings like; "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of e-editors" or "In Soviet Russia the e-Editor you!" and then there's the "All your e-Editors are belong to us!"
Yep, the Open Business, sounds like a great way for the Karma whore to make a living!
Well! I've started drinking early too, Ethanol-fueled! And I'm itching for message board fight!
I like Vista! Even better than that Horse dick you talked about. Vista plays much nicer with Samba than XP does. With XP, no matter how many times you get the permissions right or the shares or whatever, it won't work. Then after shutting down all the machines and bring them up, THEN XP sees the fucking machines. Vista - no problem.
And since Linux has been scaring the chairs out of Balmer, you can rest assured the Windows 7 will rock!
Now, if all of you remember from college, ALL of the physical effects were named after folks with obscure last names. There was never the Jones effect, or the Wang principle, it was always something the like "Heisenberg Principle" or something. Now, we'll have the Mosier-Boss effect to study. See? If she was named Jones, then it would definitely have been a fake because physical and chemical phenomena are never named after common surnames.
Which reduces the scope for innovation, standards and progress.
I keep hearing that; but yet, no one has offered any compelling evidence that this is true. All of the innovations that have occurred have been in proprietary software: F/OSS just copies commercial solutions.
So if you do care about free software on the desktop, it's reasonable that you should care about free software in your browser.
I was having trouble with a F/OSS app several months ago and I thought "Great! It's F/OSS! I can just get the software source and have a gander and solve my own problems!"
So, I downloaded the code, unzipped it, spent a couple of days getting the development environment right, and brought up the editor. A few days go by, and I'm trudging through uncommented PHP code, digging into class after class calling other classes that called other classes that just set global constants or read environment variables, and so on and so on...
I deleted the code because instead of "solving my problem" I was getting lost and not accomplishing the activity that the software was supposed to accomplish.
I went and got a package that did what I wanted.
In short, I have no desire to look at source code. I don't give a rat's ass. I have better things to do than to dig through other people's mess - thank-you-very-much.
F/OSS only appeals to people who LIKE to trudge through others code to see how it works or make it "better". To me, software is an end to a means and I don't really give a rat's ass how it works as long as it's not doing shit behind may back that I don't want; which I can find out by other means than looking at source code.
So, you patch in some code into the BIOS. Would you be overwriting some functionality to accomplish this? If so, by checking said functionality, could you tell if your BIOS has been corrupted? Such as something simple as seeing if some keyboard functionality still exists (CTRL-ALT-something) or a utility program that iterates through BIOS interrupts and sees if the proper return codes and values come back in the registers?
It's different. Those greenhouse gases are all natural; therefore, they're safe and healthy. Why I expect the next time I walk into Wholefoods, they'll have canisters with the gas output from the volcano.
I may even market it in an infomercial: "Volcano Gas! The natural male enhancement! For women too! You can have an Earth Shattering Happy moment with your partner!"
I'm on my way to film commercials with that smiling couple!
The real problem is that some programs are indeed badly written. In most cases, you just run lots of individual instances of them. Others, for grid, are well-written, and scale wonderfully.
The article refers to applications programmers so I am assuming you mean applications when referring to "programs".
Dealing with multiple cores is the operating system's problem - not the application's. If the programmer uses multiple threads or processes, then it should be the OS that worries about allocating resources among the cores.
The development tools aren't available and research is only starting."
Stupid programmers! Not able to develop software without the tools! In my day we wrote our own tools - in the snow, uphill, both ways! We didn't need no stink'n vendor to do it for us - and we liked it that way!
He has put out the word that he wants a dialogue with Iran.
He made changes with Guantanamo.
He's made changes in the tax system - albeit not enough for my tastes.
He's dealing with one of the worst economies in decades.
It looks like we're finally getting out of Iraq and maybe things in Afghanistan will improve too.
Maybe he is a tool of the RIAA. I don't know, but considering the other shit happening in this World, the RIAA and their actions are not exactly high on people's list.
I'm all for third parties myself - I voted for Barr - but I think Obama is getting much of his changes through. It's just not the "working in the system peaceful revolution" that I think many folks expected.
This is what happens. It is discovered that all of the survivors are Cylons (How else are they to reproduce with one another?!). Then then give up the war, sing Kumbaya, and live happily ever after. Execpt for Cmdr Adama; he commits suicide after discovering that he is what he most hates in the Universe.
Should one of these security bugs be made public, it wouldn't just be dangerous, it would also be expensive, costing utility companies big money as they went back and retrofitted their buggy systems, Pennell said.
Let me get this straight. Pennell wants the bug to kept undisclosed because it will be too expensive for the utilities to fix. Yet, someone whose clever, maybe those folks who hacked into the grids in other countries, may do it to the utilities here in the US; which will be vulnerable because the bug is "too expensive" to fix. Meaning, that the grid is vulnerable and subject to the damage that everyone is afraid might happen since the bugs exist. I guess if the bugs are kept secret, no one else is capable of discovering them because nobody is as smart as the researchers?
The hardware is significantly better than average PC hardware.
Um, no. Granted, they don't use the ultra cheap shit like Dell does on some of their models, but it's not better. They use the same hardware from the same companies that the PC makers use. It's all off the shelf components. As far as I know, the only thing that's strictly Apple are the cases and the OS. Apple just assembles the stuff.
But more significantly, the OS actually works.
My Vista machine is working quite well. I think MS did a pretty good job with it.
Apple had to rewrite their OS. Apple's OS before X was a piece of shit! Memory management sucked, it locked up all the time on me, and I could run only one app at a time because otherwise, the machine froze. This was one of those "flavor" Macs, btw.
Let me preface this post with: what I'm saying will only be relevant for a few more years and then things will be dramatically different.
I used to be a C/C++ programmer. I wrote OS code and then middleware. Then came the internet and Java EE. My expertise became irrelevant because no one wrote their own middleware layer anymore; especially in C++. With Java EE and all the Java based layers out there, there was no point in rolling your own. From what I can see is that Java is the language for business and that's where you going to get the work. Also, learn SQL and as someone mentioned above, VB and C# - Microsoft has a huge business base.
If it's not too late in your program, I would add some Accounting classes too. Minor in it, if you can or better yet change majors get your degree in Accounting.
As time goes on, the way we develop software is becoming more and more obsolete. As an example, BPEL. The business person, with a GUI, "draws" how the computer will handle any business process. No programmer needed.
Sure, there will be a need for programmers at some level, but a team of programmers for every large business? That's going the way of having a blacksmith in every town.
Reading the articles and whatnot, I see a lot of Indian names. I think those guys were having trouble adjusting to America: it was culture shock. I mean, in India and most other third world countries, bribery and other corruption is standard Government procedure.
I went to school with an Indian immigrant. He got pulled over and was about to pay off the cop until his American friend warned him not to.
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She was a screen writer, after all. The novels were side projects of hers.
So how's the pay over there at Microsoft?
I don't know. They just give us a cubicle and a frisge full of beer ans tell sus to goes at its.
Slashdot introduced its notion of karma, earned for activities perceived to promote group effectiveness, an approach that has been very influential in later virtual communities.
So, to get paid more, you just say that Apple did it better and the Microsoft's version sucks and the best implementation is in Linux?
And to get vacation do you post stuff to get "Funny" ratings like; "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of e-editors" or "In Soviet Russia the e-Editor you!" and then there's the "All your e-Editors are belong to us!"
Yep, the Open Business, sounds like a great way for the Karma whore to make a living!
I like Vista! Even better than that Horse dick you talked about. Vista plays much nicer with Samba than XP does. With XP, no matter how many times you get the permissions right or the shares or whatever, it won't work. Then after shutting down all the machines and bring them up, THEN XP sees the fucking machines. Vista - no problem.
And since Linux has been scaring the chairs out of Balmer, you can rest assured the Windows 7 will rock!
Now Pamela Mosier-Boss and colleagues...
Now, if all of you remember from college, ALL of the physical effects were named after folks with obscure last names. There was never the Jones effect, or the Wang principle, it was always something the like "Heisenberg Principle" or something. Now, we'll have the Mosier-Boss effect to study. See? If she was named Jones, then it would definitely have been a fake because physical and chemical phenomena are never named after common surnames.
QED.
Because while its motion may remain so perpetually, it still needs something to get it spinning :D
That's right! Modernize the scam with "Add-Ons"!
Thank you. That's right.
Which reduces the scope for innovation, standards and progress.
I keep hearing that; but yet, no one has offered any compelling evidence that this is true. All of the innovations that have occurred have been in proprietary software: F/OSS just copies commercial solutions.
So if you do care about free software on the desktop, it's reasonable that you should care about free software in your browser.
I was having trouble with a F/OSS app several months ago and I thought "Great! It's F/OSS! I can just get the software source and have a gander and solve my own problems!"
So, I downloaded the code, unzipped it, spent a couple of days getting the development environment right, and brought up the editor. A few days go by, and I'm trudging through uncommented PHP code, digging into class after class calling other classes that called other classes that just set global constants or read environment variables, and so on and so on...
I deleted the code because instead of "solving my problem" I was getting lost and not accomplishing the activity that the software was supposed to accomplish.
I went and got a package that did what I wanted.
In short, I have no desire to look at source code. I don't give a rat's ass. I have better things to do than to dig through other people's mess - thank-you-very-much.
F/OSS only appeals to people who LIKE to trudge through others code to see how it works or make it "better". To me, software is an end to a means and I don't really give a rat's ass how it works as long as it's not doing shit behind may back that I don't want; which I can find out by other means than looking at source code.
In the same way, few people are motivated to buy Ferraris...
There's a very strong correlation between penis size at least two standard deviations below average and the folks who buy the Ferraris.
Ferrari himself thought it was ridiculous that his race cars were driven on the road.
So, you patch in some code into the BIOS. Would you be overwriting some functionality to accomplish this? If so, by checking said functionality, could you tell if your BIOS has been corrupted? Such as something simple as seeing if some keyboard functionality still exists (CTRL-ALT-something) or a utility program that iterates through BIOS interrupts and sees if the proper return codes and values come back in the registers?
I may even market it in an infomercial: "Volcano Gas! The natural male enhancement! For women too! You can have an Earth Shattering Happy moment with your partner!"
I'm on my way to film commercials with that smiling couple!
The real problem is that some programs are indeed badly written. In most cases, you just run lots of individual instances of them. Others, for grid, are well-written, and scale wonderfully.
The article refers to applications programmers so I am assuming you mean applications when referring to "programs".
Dealing with multiple cores is the operating system's problem - not the application's. If the programmer uses multiple threads or processes, then it should be the OS that worries about allocating resources among the cores.
...programmers are to blame for that
The development tools aren't available and research is only starting."
Stupid programmers! Not able to develop software without the tools! In my day we wrote our own tools - in the snow, uphill, both ways! We didn't need no stink'n vendor to do it for us - and we liked it that way!
He made changes with Guantanamo.
He's made changes in the tax system - albeit not enough for my tastes.
He's dealing with one of the worst economies in decades.
It looks like we're finally getting out of Iraq and maybe things in Afghanistan will improve too.
Maybe he is a tool of the RIAA. I don't know, but considering the other shit happening in this World, the RIAA and their actions are not exactly high on people's list.
I'm all for third parties myself - I voted for Barr - but I think Obama is getting much of his changes through. It's just not the "working in the system peaceful revolution" that I think many folks expected.
This is what happens. It is discovered that all of the survivors are Cylons (How else are they to reproduce with one another?!). Then then give up the war, sing Kumbaya, and live happily ever after. Execpt for Cmdr Adama; he commits suicide after discovering that he is what he most hates in the Universe.
Should one of these security bugs be made public, it wouldn't just be dangerous, it would also be expensive, costing utility companies big money as they went back and retrofitted their buggy systems, Pennell said.
Let me get this straight. Pennell wants the bug to kept undisclosed because it will be too expensive for the utilities to fix. Yet, someone whose clever, maybe those folks who hacked into the grids in other countries, may do it to the utilities here in the US; which will be vulnerable because the bug is "too expensive" to fix. Meaning, that the grid is vulnerable and subject to the damage that everyone is afraid might happen since the bugs exist. I guess if the bugs are kept secret, no one else is capable of discovering them because nobody is as smart as the researchers?
OooooooKaaaaay. Riiiiiiight.
The hardware is significantly better than average PC hardware.
Um, no. Granted, they don't use the ultra cheap shit like Dell does on some of their models, but it's not better. They use the same hardware from the same companies that the PC makers use. It's all off the shelf components. As far as I know, the only thing that's strictly Apple are the cases and the OS. Apple just assembles the stuff.
But more significantly, the OS actually works.
My Vista machine is working quite well. I think MS did a pretty good job with it.
Apple had to rewrite their OS. Apple's OS before X was a piece of shit! Memory management sucked, it locked up all the time on me, and I could run only one app at a time because otherwise, the machine froze. This was one of those "flavor" Macs, btw.
At home, I'm a Mac.
I see. And at work, are you a Red Delicious or maybe even a banana?
Let me preface this post with: what I'm saying will only be relevant for a few more years and then things will be dramatically different.
I used to be a C/C++ programmer. I wrote OS code and then middleware. Then came the internet and Java EE. My expertise became irrelevant because no one wrote their own middleware layer anymore; especially in C++. With Java EE and all the Java based layers out there, there was no point in rolling your own. From what I can see is that Java is the language for business and that's where you going to get the work. Also, learn SQL and as someone mentioned above, VB and C# - Microsoft has a huge business base.
If it's not too late in your program, I would add some Accounting classes too. Minor in it, if you can or better yet change majors get your degree in Accounting.
As time goes on, the way we develop software is becoming more and more obsolete. As an example, BPEL. The business person, with a GUI, "draws" how the computer will handle any business process. No programmer needed.
Sure, there will be a need for programmers at some level, but a team of programmers for every large business? That's going the way of having a blacksmith in every town.
Who knows what the future will hold.
Why don't they just set the machine's system clock to 4/1 and see what happens? Maybe even do it to an entire isolated network?
Are you guys still drunk from last night?
Anybody want to hire a C programmer? I'll be available effective next Friday.
Really? That sucks!
There's going to be a lot more layoffs in the next couple of months. The worst isn't over.
I went to school with an Indian immigrant. He got pulled over and was about to pay off the cop until his American friend warned him not to.