then I hope that you're a very junior coder, or that you're unemployed.
Standard practice in a company I used to work for was to add 50% to any time estimate a designer quoted.
People always seem to think they can work faster than they really can, usually because they don't include lunch, or holidays, or weekends, or toliet breaks in estimates for thier own work.
I actually preferred Call to Power II over all the other Civs except SMAC. I havn't played Civ III but I think that the lack of "Public Works" is a step back.
These I think are the releases and what I thought of them :
Civ - The orginal, with flat tiles. I had the Amiga version. Probably the most addictive because it was so new. I don't know if it ws unique to the Amiga, but cities would join your empire if you were better that thier current owners wow new feature for CivII - I don't think so. Colonisation - Dunno if I can include this, but it was very similar, but the trade was a pain. CivII - Improved wonders, upgrades and Isometric views. CivNet - Networked version of the first game, but also introduced the Isometric view. Never really played it that much. CivII:CtP - The first not Sid one, some improvements over Civ II but seemed to lose its sparkle. Alpha Centuri - Definately an upgrade from civ II, I always assumed it as the continuation of the story. Should have taken a few things from CtP though. CivII Test of Time - Basically an update to Civ II with multiple maps (ie 4 planes so you can have undersea etc) and new graphics. Call to Power II - The best "real World" civ clone that I have played.
Hmmm, Its been a nightmare where I work, I moved from an NT4 Admin type roll where I was able to do anything I wanted.
It came as a shock when I got to the new job and couldn't even run chkdsk, it took 2 months for me to explain how to give me local admin rights on my workstation.
Ive been here 6 months now and they finally gave me access to the server room - put not a password that can log me onto my server, so I still have to call IT if I need to reboot it. (Hey, its NT4 you gotta reboot)
Thing is they made it quite plain that I am not IT, therefore I won't get any admin rights...
I don't really have much respect for my IT department - mainly because they are not very good. IT are there to provide a service, but thet are not providing a good one. Things like adding a network printer to a workstation should not require a helpdesk call and 3 weeks wait.
Just as an example of thier style - I offered to help install Veritas Backup Exec (Trying to make an impression) as I had to run and use it at my last job. What's the first thing you do if you install software that needs to log in as a service? You create a new user account.
Converstaion went like this
me: We'll need to create a new user account and restrict what servers it can login to.
IT: Why?
me: Helps with security and helps with admining
IT: Nah, we just use the Administrator account.
me: What happens when you change the password? Your going to have to go through all the services on the servers and change it there too.
IT: No we won't, We don't change the Administrator password....
me: !
...from smaller companies or state/government agencies, there are a lot of machines still running NT 4.0.
The place I previosly worked in was a wholly NT4 place - they decided that it would be 5 years before they upgrade again. The last upgrade was 1998 from win3.1/OS2, so it will be 2003 before they upgrade.
I currently work in a Hospital (NHS) and guess what... we still have 3.11 computers in production use, infact the IT department only stopped supporting the hardware they run on (IBMs for the most part) 2 months ago.
98, 98SE, ME (God was that ever a mistake) or 2000.
You bought a copy of all those OS's? I still use 98. I can play games on it, type letters on it, run dreamweaver on it and browse the Internet on it. What more do I need?
Thats amazing, when I started my degree there was a compulsary module we had to take called "The History of Computing". It covered many topics from Babbage to Gates, I would have though every Uni would have had to have something like that - we even got to watch a video series "The Dream Machine" - the highlight of the first year:-)
Doesn't these sort of cancellations show that the terrorists are winning.
Surely the best thing to do would have been to carry on and show the murders that you are not afraid of them, that they won't disrupt your life, that things *will* carry on?
... where an upstart low fare competitor had the nerve to advertise they were cheaper than Sabena.
I don't know anything about said case but I am always weary of these "price comparisons" or "Product Comparisons", they are invaribaly skewed by the fact that they are an advertisement.
People do not read the Silmarillion - they struggle through it
The Silmarillion certainly is hard to read, I think because it is unfinished, but also the scope that it covers. I think there must be at least 40 different stories - From the making of the jewels, the meeting of men, Fingolfin the high king, Tuor, Melian and the grey elves, the fall of Gondolin.
And nearly everyone dies - Galadrial being the only major exception.
But then to cap it all off the whole land of where the silmarillion is based sinks.
I think its is one of the most tragic tales ever written.
This also applies to the Candidate - I remember talking to one MD about interviews, he said the candidate that had impressed him the most was the one who took the time to do a bit of research, and walked in with a notebook full of questions.
So prepare yourself - ask questions about the current structure of the organisation, ask who you will be working with, ask about test systems, ask about backups, ask about software/hardware used, ask about the future and the past. And if they drop something in that it looks like they shouldn't have, ask about that too.
And finally ask about pay, working hours, pension schemes, holidays etc
As much as you are being interviewed, you have to interview them. Make sure they are on the recieving end of thinking on thier feet - would you want to work for a Boss or company who couldn't?
For those readers
in the United States, that is 7:00 PM Eastern and 4:00 PM Pacific time on Tuesday, July 31.
Does that mean readers in the United States wouldn't have been able to work the time out and everyone else could? Or Cringely thinks there are only 3 timezones - Eastern, Pacific and GMT?
> Any child who plays video games 18 hours a week probably owns a computer.
Or a playstation? Or a N64? Or even a Gameboy.
> Thus his family is most likely to be upper-middle class or higher, socially speaking
Bloody hell, spending £45 on a secondhand playstation means you are upper-middle class?
Here is one for you
Brother 1 - Played lots of games when at school, probably to excess, had a computer from age 12+ - Went to college, then University - Now works in Computers.
Brother 2 - Played games now and again, when his other brother loaded them, lost access to games when older brother moved out. Went to college - Now in the forces.
Brother 3 - Never played games, didn't really have access to a computer at all. Left School - Now unemployed.
I am sure we already have amubulances with the noise on.... You still get the siren (its load and gets attention) but inbetween there is the white noise and it really does help you locate where the siren is coming from.
I think you couls call it the "I'm alright Jack" syndrome.
The 80s were a classic example where you were told "you can have what you want - its yours" (As long as you pay for it) this bread the attitude that you can take what you want without respect to others.
Now its turned again into get as much as you can - the "You owe me, but I don't owe you" attitude.
No doubt the first people to complain if you made noise would be the "assholes with thier 110db subwoofer"s
> Myriad examples: the assholes with their 110dB subwoofer ripping through residential neighbourhoods at 2AM. The pissant little fuck who takes 30 items through the 10 items or less till. People who don't hold doors open when you both arrive at the same time. Dangerous fucking assholes running red lights. Ah, it's aggravating just thinking of all the examples.
Okay, each of our branches had a 64k leased line, and depenfing on what branch a minimum of 3 or maximum of 12 computers on that leased line.
VNC we found was fine if you connected as 8 bit colour. Connecting through a web brower seemed faster than using the client.
Although I never used it, others did through RAS (so basically a 33k modem connection) to access other PCs at the head office. They said it was okay there too.
We have
1) A point of sale location
2) A Material Object
3) Information
4) Remote Location
5) Request Code
6) Authorisation Code
And the following processes
1) Providing a request code
2) Requesting an authorisation code
3) Providing an authorisation code
4) Reproducing information in a material form
so
A Point of sale location provides a request code to a remote location the remote location requests an authorisation code. The Point of Sale location provides an authoristaion code and the information is reproduced in a material object at the point of sale location.
"Microsoft will do everything that it can to ensure that Windows remains the best place to run Windows applications. That said, if someone wants to write Windows-based applications for other platforms, we're not opposed to the idea".
If Mono becomes better than the Windows version Microsoft will do everything it can to make sure the Windows version is the best system to use.... now how will they do that I wonder? Innovate, change the specs or slap a lawsuit down?
> I doubt you have any idea of what you don't know.
I was told by a Professor at my University that "You won't ever know everything, but what you need to know is what you don't know, and more importantly you need to know where to go to get what you don't know."
So he gave me a list of authors, and I had to go to the library and do some reading.
I think what he meant was "Know your limitations as they are then easier to overcome."
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Standard practice in a company I used to work for was to add 50% to any time estimate a designer quoted.
People always seem to think they can work faster than they really can, usually because they don't include lunch, or holidays, or weekends, or toliet breaks in estimates for thier own work.
These I think are the releases and what I thought of them :
Civ - The orginal, with flat tiles. I had the Amiga version. Probably the most addictive because it was so new. I don't know if it ws unique to the Amiga, but cities would join your empire if you were better that thier current owners wow new feature for CivII - I don't think so.
Colonisation - Dunno if I can include this, but it was very similar, but the trade was a pain.
CivII - Improved wonders, upgrades and Isometric views.
CivNet - Networked version of the first game, but also introduced the Isometric view. Never really played it that much.
CivII:CtP - The first not Sid one, some improvements over Civ II but seemed to lose its sparkle.
Alpha Centuri - Definately an upgrade from civ II, I always assumed it as the continuation of the story. Should have taken a few things from CtP though.
CivII Test of Time - Basically an update to Civ II with multiple maps (ie 4 planes so you can have undersea etc) and new graphics.
Call to Power II - The best "real World" civ clone that I have played.
Hmmm, Its been a nightmare where I work, I moved from an NT4 Admin type roll where I was able to do anything I wanted.
...
....
It came as a shock when I got to the new job and couldn't even run chkdsk, it took 2 months for me to explain how to give me local admin rights on my workstation.
Ive been here 6 months now and they finally gave me access to the server room - put not a password that can log me onto my server, so I still have to call IT if I need to reboot it. (Hey, its NT4 you gotta reboot)
Thing is they made it quite plain that I am not IT, therefore I won't get any admin rights
I don't really have much respect for my IT department - mainly because they are not very good. IT are there to provide a service, but thet are not providing a good one. Things like adding a network printer to a workstation should not require a helpdesk call and 3 weeks wait.
Just as an example of thier style - I offered to help install Veritas Backup Exec (Trying to make an impression) as I had to run and use it at my last job. What's the first thing you do if you install software that needs to log in as a service? You create a new user account.
Converstaion went like this
me: We'll need to create a new user account and restrict what servers it can login to.
IT: Why?
me: Helps with security and helps with admining
IT: Nah, we just use the Administrator account.
me: What happens when you change the password? Your going to have to go through all the services on the servers and change it there too.
IT: No we won't, We don't change the Administrator password
me: !
The place I previosly worked in was a wholly NT4 place - they decided that it would be 5 years before they upgrade again. The last upgrade was 1998 from win3.1/OS2, so it will be 2003 before they upgrade.
I currently work in a Hospital (NHS) and guess what ... we still have 3.11 computers in production use, infact the IT department only stopped supporting the hardware they run on (IBMs for the most part) 2 months ago.
You bought a copy of all those OS's? I still use 98. I can play games on it, type letters on it, run dreamweaver on it and browse the Internet on it. What more do I need?
Oh yes, and why not. Your just jealous.
The videos were not actually compulsary, but they were fun, and allowed you to get a bit of quality time (oo-er) with the lecturer.
Thats amazing, when I started my degree there was a compulsary module we had to take called "The History of Computing". It covered many topics from Babbage to Gates, I would have though every Uni would have had to have something like that - we even got to watch a video series "The Dream Machine" - the highlight of the first year :-)
Surely the best thing to do would have been to carry on and show the murders that you are not afraid of them, that they won't disrupt your life, that things *will* carry on?
I don't know anything about said case but I am always weary of these "price comparisons" or "Product Comparisons", they are invaribaly skewed by the fact that they are an advertisement.
It was suggested that after 3 hours only 50% of the people in the building would have left.
If that is true I would say she has been very lucky.
Funny "Strange" or Funny "Ha Ha"
Maybe they should change the "Funny" tag to "Humourous" to avoid that confusion.
And the one for "Futureistic Fantasy", oh and "Best supporting Character", what about "Best Editor" and "Best Cover illustration".
And your not alone in adults liking them either
Harry Potter manages to span across generations, and hats off to JK Rowling for writing a readable, fun and interesting series of books.
The Silmarillion certainly is hard to read, I think because it is unfinished, but also the scope that it covers. I think there must be at least 40 different stories - From the making of the jewels, the meeting of men, Fingolfin the high king, Tuor, Melian and the grey elves, the fall of Gondolin.
And nearly everyone dies - Galadrial being the only major exception.
But then to cap it all off the whole land of where the silmarillion is based sinks.
I think its is one of the most tragic tales ever written.
Elite.
'Nuff Said.
So prepare yourself - ask questions about the current structure of the organisation, ask who you will be working with, ask about test systems, ask about backups, ask about software/hardware used, ask about the future and the past. And if they drop something in that it looks like they shouldn't have, ask about that too.
And finally ask about pay, working hours, pension schemes, holidays etc
As much as you are being interviewed, you have to interview them. Make sure they are on the recieving end of thinking on thier feet - would you want to work for a Boss or company who couldn't?
For those readers in the United States, that is 7:00 PM Eastern and 4:00 PM Pacific time on Tuesday, July 31.
Does that mean readers in the United States wouldn't have been able to work the time out and everyone else could? Or Cringely thinks there are only 3 timezones - Eastern, Pacific and GMT?
Or a playstation? Or a N64? Or even a Gameboy.
> Thus his family is most likely to be upper-middle class or higher, socially speaking
Bloody hell, spending £45 on a secondhand playstation means you are upper-middle class?
Here is one for you
Brother 1 - Played lots of games when at school, probably to excess, had a computer from age 12+ - Went to college, then University - Now works in Computers.
Brother 2 - Played games now and again, when his other brother loaded them, lost access to games when older brother moved out. Went to college - Now in the forces.
Brother 3 - Never played games, didn't really have access to a computer at all. Left School - Now unemployed.
Hmmmmmm?
I am sure we already have amubulances with the noise on .... You still get the siren (its load and gets attention) but inbetween there is the white noise and it really does help you locate where the siren is coming from.
I think you couls call it the "I'm alright Jack" syndrome.
The 80s were a classic example where you were told "you can have what you want - its yours" (As long as you pay for it) this bread the attitude that you can take what you want without respect to others.
Now its turned again into get as much as you can - the "You owe me, but I don't owe you" attitude.
No doubt the first people to complain if you made noise would be the "assholes with thier 110db subwoofer"s
> Myriad examples: the assholes with their 110dB subwoofer ripping through residential neighbourhoods at 2AM. The pissant little fuck who takes 30 items through the 10 items or less till. People who don't hold doors open when you both arrive at the same time. Dangerous fucking assholes running red lights. Ah, it's aggravating just thinking of all the examples.
Okay, each of our branches had a 64k leased line, and depenfing on what branch a minimum of 3 or maximum of 12 computers on that leased line.
VNC we found was fine if you connected as 8 bit colour. Connecting through a web brower seemed faster than using the client.
Although I never used it, others did through RAS (so basically a 33k modem connection) to access other PCs at the head office. They said it was okay there too.
We have
1) A point of sale location
2) A Material Object
3) Information
4) Remote Location
5) Request Code
6) Authorisation Code
And the following processes
1) Providing a request code
2) Requesting an authorisation code
3) Providing an authorisation code
4) Reproducing information in a material form
so
A Point of sale location provides a request code to a remote location the remote location requests an authorisation code. The Point of Sale location provides an authoristaion code and the information is reproduced in a material object at the point of sale location.
*phew*
"Microsoft will do everything that it can to ensure that Windows remains the best place to run Windows applications. That said, if someone wants to write Windows-based applications for other platforms, we're not opposed to the idea".
If Mono becomes better than the Windows version Microsoft will do everything it can to make sure the Windows version is the best system to use .... now how will they do that I wonder? Innovate, change the specs or slap a lawsuit down?
I was told by a Professor at my University that "You won't ever know everything, but what you need to know is what you don't know, and more importantly you need to know where to go to get what you don't know."
So he gave me a list of authors, and I had to go to the library and do some reading.
I think what he meant was "Know your limitations as they are then easier to overcome."
Designed by the British - exploited by no one.
And the patents have now expired so go make yourself one.