I always wondered - if you had a body that was just under the mass of a black hole, and then put another star nearby such that it was a binary star, could the resulting gravitational effect be a partial black hole? From all angles except opposite the smaller star, it would appear to be a black hole.
It was really great stuff... I remember that my games were never fast enough and I knew I needed to learn about assembly language, but that was like the "Dark Arts", and since there were no adults that knew any more than me - and like you said no internet - there was no way for me to figure it out.
Hot Coco and Rainbow - great stuff. I also remember having a book of programs from a model 1 or a model 3 and trying to get those to run on the coco was a great learning experience too.
If you haven't played around with the emulator, download it! It'll bring back great memories. I first played around with it back when there were still 5.25" floppy drives around and I was able to load and run some of the software that I wrote when I was pre-teen. Damn I was clever.
poke 65495,0 !
More to the authors point, I don't really know how a kid would figure out that he's into coding when it's so far removed from what shows up when you turn the computer on these days. I think I'd run the TRS80 Color Computer emulator and show the kid how a few simple programs work. If he wants to know more, then I'd try to find the original programming books, Basic, Extended Basic and Disk Basic if they still exist in some form. They were easy to read for a 10 year old and allowed me to teach myself programming - of course, I was extremely interested.
If they had passed this months ago, the health care industry would have poured so much money into Martha Coakley's campaign that it would have changed the result of the Massachusetts Senate vote, and allowed the Democrats - fully aligned with their new partners - the health care industry - to shove whatever system they wanted right up your ass.
If I had the time I'd work on a tool that was geared towards helping developers find APIs to accomplish some idea. Often, I have a task to perform, but it's difficult to find the right functions or objects to use to do the job - or if one even exists. Generally, I google or use MSDN search, but I find it's difficult to find keywords that will lead me to APIs instead of generic discussions or procedures. If there were a tool that contained a database of every export from every DLL with instructions on how to use it, and some intelligent way to drill down and help find what you're looking for - I think that would be amazingly helpful.
Thanks for replying, but no one really got my point...
I understand what's good about open source when it comes to a bunch of people collaborating and reusing code to all contribute and create something.
I don't understand how companies seeking profit and open source coexist - because it would seem to me that success would have to be based upon something other than the software itself. My second point was to say that - as a software engineer, (about the superior, whatever I try to do I try to do well) why is the above good for me?
I've been struggling lately to understand why I should believe that Open Source projects are a good thing for a business that wants to profit, and also for a talented developer (such as myself) that wants to make some money in his career.
From a company point of view, when you decide to market a product that's based on open source, it would seem that you're saying - my company isn't going to provide value based in software that any other company can't deliver. I see this as leading to products that rely on support contracts and a strong sales force in order to be profitable. Is this really a winning idea? What ever happened to the idea of building a product that is successful because it's simply better than the competition's product? I can't help but see open source as a path to mediocrity. Along the lines of the article - why would a large company buy a small company that has it's technology based in open source? What do you gain by paying for something that you already get for free?
As a talented developer, I see open source as a bad thing - it reduces the value of a developer. Writing good software is hard - not a lot of people can do it. Again, why does a company want to pay for top notch developers when that same developer can contribute to it's products while someone else foots the bill? If an open source product is a companies bread and butter, and the strategy is to make money off of support contracts, well doesn't a developer just become more or less a bug fixer? In that world, if success is based upon who gives the best support, a developer is really support for support.
I always thought I'd make a buck in this business because I consider myself a superior engineer, and I'd take that skill and use it to help a company create a product that other people don't have the skills to create. In short, I can't help but see open source as something that devalues software engineers. Tell me why I'm wrong. Explain why other professions don't go out of their way to make the product of their hard work 'free'.
I've been watching TV on my WM phones for years now for free. Well - not for free - I mean I already pay for the internet connection... I was living out in Seattle for a short contract and needed to see the patriots games. Back home I have a XP box in the basement with an old ATI TV card in it. The flow goes like this:
CATV from Boston
ATI TV Wonder card
Windows Media Encoder (free download from MS)
Internet connection to phone
Windows media player
What's so complicated? I could even use Remote Desktop to log in and switch channels.
You can push kids towards math and science careers all you want - but it's not going to work when they realize that it's the mortgage brokers and recruiters that are the ones driving around the BMWs.
There are several problems:
1) Math and science people tend to be terrible business people. As such, they don't command the salaries that they deserve. Some of us that tend to be a bit more business savy are ineffective because when we try to play hardball, we get pushed aside because the next idiot is more easily manipulated.
2) People in other careers get supplimented on other ways. What do I mean by that? If I want a nice car, I pay for it with after tax dollars. If I want a nice steak and some wine, I go out and pay for it with after tax dollars - if I want to join a country club and play golf - yea it's on my own bill. My friends that work in sales don't really pay for any of these things - either their company absorbs the cost of their entertainment, or they have some way to write things off with tax laws. Yeah - my salary is pretty good - but I have to foot the bill for all of my lifestyle expenses, it makes a big difference
Word. I refused to ever buy into inkjet technology simply because of the scam nature of the ink - plus the idea that the ink dries up if you don't use it frequently enough. Once the color lasers came down to a reasonable price (last year), I bought a Xerox Phaser 6130 for less than $200 and I am extremely satisfied with it. "Just say NO" to inkjet.
Assuming your non-technical supportees are using windows (like all of mine) why would you use anything other than RDP or Remote Assistance? Both work perfectly and have drive sharing and clipboard integrated, and work well over less than optimal bandwidth connections.
The hardest part now is helping them bypass the seemingly hundreds of firewalls that they've installed - which is generally indicative of the problem that I'm connecting to fix in the first place.
It would be nice in the future if they'd make remote assistance work in the reverse direction...
The author has managed to underscore why the state of American engineering is such a disaster. The people who are generally good at the things that the author suggests are typically also NOT the same people that are good at actual development. I worked for a company a couple jobs back that was a great example of this... The better engineers would focus and get the job done - picking up the slack for the vast majority of poor developers without bothering to mention it. Some of these poor developers spend most of their time documenting what everyone else is doing, and constantly summarizing and sending out emails to wide lists and to their managers. The sick thing is, these are the people that tend to get promoted because they give their managers a warm fuzzy feeling. Then those people become managers, and start making technical decisions which they were never qualified to make in the first place. Then they themselves start to hire and promote people in their own image - of suckage and crap enginnering, but also of great time wasting and BSing.
It's really like a disease, because once it's taken a hold within a company, it spreads and you can't get rid of it.
Going 66 MPH on a Massachusetts highway is in fact illegal. If we have technology that can bring these criminals to justice, than perhaps it should be mandatory equipment for a vehicle that is in control of anyone suspected to be capable of committing such a crime. If it's OK to violate someone's constitutional right to be innocent until proven guilty, then let's jump right to the logical conclusion and make the world a safer place for everyone. I don't see the slope that you refer to.
While it might seem like a reasonable law at first glance, realize that unreasonable things usually come to pass in small increments.
In five years, you'll have a GPS planted on your car because you've had a speeding ticket at some point in the past, and some day you'll receive a number of citations automatically generated from a computer that used the GPS tracking info to record every time you exceed 65 MPH on route 93.
I built a machine around the time Vista came out and have been running Ultimate on it ever since. Initially I built it with 1GB of DDR3 and it's true that Vista was terrible. Soon after I bumped it up to 3GB, and I have to say that for all the bad press Vista gets, all you have to do is feed it like a pig and it performs. I can say that it's been nothing short of superb on this machine and I don't know if I'll be able to justify upgrading to Win7 to myself.
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I always wondered - if you had a body that was just under the mass of a black hole, and then put another star nearby such that it was a binary star, could the resulting gravitational effect be a partial black hole? From all angles except opposite the smaller star, it would appear to be a black hole.
It was really great stuff... I remember that my games were never fast enough and I knew I needed to learn about assembly language, but that was like the "Dark Arts", and since there were no adults that knew any more than me - and like you said no internet - there was no way for me to figure it out. Hot Coco and Rainbow - great stuff. I also remember having a book of programs from a model 1 or a model 3 and trying to get those to run on the coco was a great learning experience too. If you haven't played around with the emulator, download it! It'll bring back great memories. I first played around with it back when there were still 5.25" floppy drives around and I was able to load and run some of the software that I wrote when I was pre-teen. Damn I was clever. poke 65495,0 !
More to the authors point, I don't really know how a kid would figure out that he's into coding when it's so far removed from what shows up when you turn the computer on these days. I think I'd run the TRS80 Color Computer emulator and show the kid how a few simple programs work. If he wants to know more, then I'd try to find the original programming books, Basic, Extended Basic and Disk Basic if they still exist in some form. They were easy to read for a 10 year old and allowed me to teach myself programming - of course, I was extremely interested.
If they had passed this months ago, the health care industry would have poured so much money into Martha Coakley's campaign that it would have changed the result of the Massachusetts Senate vote, and allowed the Democrats - fully aligned with their new partners - the health care industry - to shove whatever system they wanted right up your ass.
If I had the time I'd work on a tool that was geared towards helping developers find APIs to accomplish some idea. Often, I have a task to perform, but it's difficult to find the right functions or objects to use to do the job - or if one even exists. Generally, I google or use MSDN search, but I find it's difficult to find keywords that will lead me to APIs instead of generic discussions or procedures. If there were a tool that contained a database of every export from every DLL with instructions on how to use it, and some intelligent way to drill down and help find what you're looking for - I think that would be amazingly helpful.
Thanks for replying, but no one really got my point... I understand what's good about open source when it comes to a bunch of people collaborating and reusing code to all contribute and create something. I don't understand how companies seeking profit and open source coexist - because it would seem to me that success would have to be based upon something other than the software itself. My second point was to say that - as a software engineer, (about the superior, whatever I try to do I try to do well) why is the above good for me?
I've been struggling lately to understand why I should believe that Open Source projects are a good thing for a business that wants to profit, and also for a talented developer (such as myself) that wants to make some money in his career. From a company point of view, when you decide to market a product that's based on open source, it would seem that you're saying - my company isn't going to provide value based in software that any other company can't deliver. I see this as leading to products that rely on support contracts and a strong sales force in order to be profitable. Is this really a winning idea? What ever happened to the idea of building a product that is successful because it's simply better than the competition's product? I can't help but see open source as a path to mediocrity. Along the lines of the article - why would a large company buy a small company that has it's technology based in open source? What do you gain by paying for something that you already get for free? As a talented developer, I see open source as a bad thing - it reduces the value of a developer. Writing good software is hard - not a lot of people can do it. Again, why does a company want to pay for top notch developers when that same developer can contribute to it's products while someone else foots the bill? If an open source product is a companies bread and butter, and the strategy is to make money off of support contracts, well doesn't a developer just become more or less a bug fixer? In that world, if success is based upon who gives the best support, a developer is really support for support. I always thought I'd make a buck in this business because I consider myself a superior engineer, and I'd take that skill and use it to help a company create a product that other people don't have the skills to create. In short, I can't help but see open source as something that devalues software engineers. Tell me why I'm wrong. Explain why other professions don't go out of their way to make the product of their hard work 'free'.
I've been watching TV on my WM phones for years now for free. Well - not for free - I mean I already pay for the internet connection... I was living out in Seattle for a short contract and needed to see the patriots games. Back home I have a XP box in the basement with an old ATI TV card in it. The flow goes like this: CATV from Boston ATI TV Wonder card Windows Media Encoder (free download from MS) Internet connection to phone Windows media player What's so complicated? I could even use Remote Desktop to log in and switch channels.
You can push kids towards math and science careers all you want - but it's not going to work when they realize that it's the mortgage brokers and recruiters that are the ones driving around the BMWs. There are several problems: 1) Math and science people tend to be terrible business people. As such, they don't command the salaries that they deserve. Some of us that tend to be a bit more business savy are ineffective because when we try to play hardball, we get pushed aside because the next idiot is more easily manipulated. 2) People in other careers get supplimented on other ways. What do I mean by that? If I want a nice car, I pay for it with after tax dollars. If I want a nice steak and some wine, I go out and pay for it with after tax dollars - if I want to join a country club and play golf - yea it's on my own bill. My friends that work in sales don't really pay for any of these things - either their company absorbs the cost of their entertainment, or they have some way to write things off with tax laws. Yeah - my salary is pretty good - but I have to foot the bill for all of my lifestyle expenses, it makes a big difference
Word. I refused to ever buy into inkjet technology simply because of the scam nature of the ink - plus the idea that the ink dries up if you don't use it frequently enough. Once the color lasers came down to a reasonable price (last year), I bought a Xerox Phaser 6130 for less than $200 and I am extremely satisfied with it. "Just say NO" to inkjet.
Assuming your non-technical supportees are using windows (like all of mine) why would you use anything other than RDP or Remote Assistance? Both work perfectly and have drive sharing and clipboard integrated, and work well over less than optimal bandwidth connections. The hardest part now is helping them bypass the seemingly hundreds of firewalls that they've installed - which is generally indicative of the problem that I'm connecting to fix in the first place. It would be nice in the future if they'd make remote assistance work in the reverse direction...
I mean will Lunar Springs really be able to compete in the bottled water sector? Will I be able to choose between filtered and "Some Regolith"?
The author has managed to underscore why the state of American engineering is such a disaster. The people who are generally good at the things that the author suggests are typically also NOT the same people that are good at actual development. I worked for a company a couple jobs back that was a great example of this... The better engineers would focus and get the job done - picking up the slack for the vast majority of poor developers without bothering to mention it. Some of these poor developers spend most of their time documenting what everyone else is doing, and constantly summarizing and sending out emails to wide lists and to their managers. The sick thing is, these are the people that tend to get promoted because they give their managers a warm fuzzy feeling. Then those people become managers, and start making technical decisions which they were never qualified to make in the first place. Then they themselves start to hire and promote people in their own image - of suckage and crap enginnering, but also of great time wasting and BSing. It's really like a disease, because once it's taken a hold within a company, it spreads and you can't get rid of it.
Going 66 MPH on a Massachusetts highway is in fact illegal. If we have technology that can bring these criminals to justice, than perhaps it should be mandatory equipment for a vehicle that is in control of anyone suspected to be capable of committing such a crime. If it's OK to violate someone's constitutional right to be innocent until proven guilty, then let's jump right to the logical conclusion and make the world a safer place for everyone. I don't see the slope that you refer to.
While it might seem like a reasonable law at first glance, realize that unreasonable things usually come to pass in small increments. In five years, you'll have a GPS planted on your car because you've had a speeding ticket at some point in the past, and some day you'll receive a number of citations automatically generated from a computer that used the GPS tracking info to record every time you exceed 65 MPH on route 93.
I built a machine around the time Vista came out and have been running Ultimate on it ever since. Initially I built it with 1GB of DDR3 and it's true that Vista was terrible. Soon after I bumped it up to 3GB, and I have to say that for all the bad press Vista gets, all you have to do is feed it like a pig and it performs. I can say that it's been nothing short of superb on this machine and I don't know if I'll be able to justify upgrading to Win7 to myself.