I second that. I have run internal training at my company. It's been a bit less formal, I don't get paid, and there is no limit on attendance, but it's run after hours.
There was a real benifit for me as I got time to run through the subject (.NET & C#) in detail and learn all the basic concepts in detail. Explaining stuff I normally just did without thinking was a great way of enforcing my knowkedge, and answering technical questons made me think of the concepts in different ways.
It is also a great way of improving communication skills, which tend to suffer when sat infront of a screen 14/7.
If you want to try it, just get it organised. The management will be keen that you take an initiative and help improve the knowledge within the company.
The DNA for Linus, the well known operating system developer is now available as open source. This has taken the open source movement by storm as the possibilities of Linus clones become fully realised.
"Normal operating system developers suffer greatly from obsessive compulsive disorders, which causes many problems with other team members. Now we have access to the DNA for Linus, we are able to determine the causes of these disorders, and develop a fix" said Dr Jeckal, a leading expert in developer cloning.
Microsoft, who have no plan to make Bill Gates DNA available to the public have been strongly opposed to this idea.
"Imagine a world where every operating system was designed by a slightly different Bill Gates, each with its own quirks and eccentricities. It would be total chaos."
Microsoft are currently fighting a court case in which Sun, Oracle, Netscape and RedHat are all demanding access to Bill Gates DNA.
"How can we possibly compete with Microsoft unless we are able to clone our own version of Bill to run on our projects."
Why not?
Being Java based, C# has great networking capabilities, and there's a lot of Java code out there that could be ported to C# easily. It also has the performance advantage over Java, which is important in a network game.
With.NET you can create a distributed application, where the app is hosted on the server. So if you make a change to the client code, the clients automatically get updates.
C# is an excellent choice for this project.
Check out the Terrarium game at www.gotdotnet.com, they use quite a bit of this technology.
Good luck, and ignore the Linux Jihad!
I was originally very sceptical of subscribing to software as a service. The tools I use every day (Dev Studio etc), I would like to buy on CD, install on my box, and keep.
I am starting to move towards the idea now. A couple of weeks ago I wanted to play around with some images in Photoshop. I had to find the CD, install it, use it for an hour or so, then uninstall it. It's not worth paying several hundreds dollars to do this, so most people won't bother. There are quite a few apps that I will want to use a couple of times a year, or once a month.
With a subscription based system my company could have an account with say, Adobe. When I need to use Photoshop, I go to the website, and use it as a service, and the company gets a bill at the end of the month. It's simple.
Ever tried it?
Just grab a web cam, or a digital camera, and start snapping.
Once you have a numbered sequence of JPEGs, there are plenty of utilities to produce an MPEG (or whatever you use).
Can't be too hard can it?
Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, payed me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned having recently installed Windows 98 on my PC and that I am very happy with this operating system. I also showed him the Windows 98 CD, to my surprise he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned on the oven. Instantly I got very upset, because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: 'Do not worry, it is unharmed.' After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: 'Take a close look at it.' To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but then on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription; an inscription finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
'I cannot understand the fiery letters,' I said.
'No,' he said 'but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
I think the target demographic for these films has changed a little since the original trilogy.
Do you think so?
I saw the original when I was nine years old, and I thought it was fantastic. My dad was in his 30's and I think he enjoyed watching it with me, but he did not get obsessed, and go out and spend loads of money on plastic figures, chat with all his mates about it all the time, and spend all night queuing for tickets for The Empire Strikes Back.
I am now in my 30s, if I had a nine year old son, I would take him to see Attack of the Clones, and enjoy watching it with him.
It's not the target demographic that has changed. People have grown up..
I think I will create my own "Microsoft Passport" website, it's simple, all you do is take the graphics, build a form authentication system that saves the username and password in a database, then grants access to the site.
As the usernames and passwords can be used for multiple sites I can then have a great time accessing everyone's Hotmail, Gaming, MSDN accounts.
Madonna presented the £20,000 ($30,000) Turner prize to Martin Creed for a work of 'art' entitled "The Lights Going On and Off" which basically consists of an empty gallery, and two lights that do indeed go on and off. Other winners have included dirty underwear and an unmade bed.
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This would look excellent with a time-lapse movie. It can't be too hard to generate MPEGs automativally and have the latest available for download.
Any commend line JPG -> MPG converters out there???
I second that. I have run internal training at my company. It's been a bit less formal, I don't get paid, and there is no limit on attendance, but it's run after hours.
There was a real benifit for me as I got time to run through the subject (.NET & C#) in detail and learn all the basic concepts in detail. Explaining stuff I normally just did without thinking was a great way of enforcing my knowkedge, and answering technical questons made me think of the concepts in different ways.
It is also a great way of improving communication skills, which tend to suffer when sat infront of a screen 14/7.
If you want to try it, just get it organised. The management will be keen that you take an initiative and help improve the knowledge within the company.
The DNA for Linus, the well known operating system developer is now available as open source. This has taken the open source movement by storm as the possibilities of Linus clones become fully realised.
"Normal operating system developers suffer greatly from obsessive compulsive disorders, which causes many problems with other team members. Now we have access to the DNA for Linus, we are able to determine the causes of these disorders, and develop a fix" said Dr Jeckal, a leading expert in developer cloning.
Microsoft, who have no plan to make Bill Gates DNA available to the public have been strongly opposed to this idea.
"Imagine a world where every operating system was designed by a slightly different Bill Gates, each with its own quirks and eccentricities. It would be total chaos."
Microsoft are currently fighting a court case in which Sun, Oracle, Netscape and RedHat are all demanding access to Bill Gates DNA.
"How can we possibly compete with Microsoft unless we are able to clone our own version of Bill to run on our projects."
I've dabbled with Terrarium. It's pretty neat I think.
Don't try the "NakedBabe" option though, you'll just get surrounded by hungry carivores...
Why not? .NET you can create a distributed application, where the app is hosted on the server. So if you make a change to the client code, the clients automatically get updates.
Being Java based, C# has great networking capabilities, and there's a lot of Java code out there that could be ported to C# easily. It also has the performance advantage over Java, which is important in a network game.
With
C# is an excellent choice for this project.
Check out the Terrarium game at www.gotdotnet.com, they use quite a bit of this technology.
Good luck, and ignore the Linux Jihad!
Just hope the /. effect dosn't end up shagging their server...
...and why us Brits find sites like this so amusing...
I was originally very sceptical of subscribing to software as a service. The tools I use every day (Dev Studio etc), I would like to buy on CD, install on my box, and keep.
I am starting to move towards the idea now. A couple of weeks ago I wanted to play around with some images in Photoshop. I had to find the CD, install it, use it for an hour or so, then uninstall it. It's not worth paying several hundreds dollars to do this, so most people won't bother. There are quite a few apps that I will want to use a couple of times a year, or once a month.
With a subscription based system my company could have an account with say, Adobe. When I need to use Photoshop, I go to the website, and use it as a service, and the company gets a bill at the end of the month. It's simple.
Ever tried it?
Just grab a web cam, or a digital camera, and start snapping.
Once you have a numbered sequence of JPEGs, there are plenty of utilities to produce an MPEG (or whatever you use).
Can't be too hard can it?
Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, payed me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned having recently installed Windows 98 on my PC and that I am very happy with this operating system. I also showed him the Windows 98 CD, to my surprise he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned on the oven. Instantly I got very upset, because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: 'Do not worry, it is unharmed.' After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: 'Take a close look at it.' To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but then on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription; an inscription finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
C 20 4F6E65204F5320746 F2066696E64207468656D2CDA4F6E65204F5320746F2062726 96E67207468656D20 616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062 696E64207468656D
4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2
'I cannot understand the fiery letters,' I said.
'No,' he said 'but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Not everyone wants their PC to run in English.
So, do they ship a Flemish version of Linux? (They don't speek dutch, as was stated in the story post).
I think the target demographic for these films has changed a little since the original trilogy.
Do you think so?
I saw the original when I was nine years old, and I thought it was fantastic. My dad was in his 30's and I think he enjoyed watching it with me, but he did not get obsessed, and go out and spend loads of money on plastic figures, chat with all his mates about it all the time, and spend all night queuing for tickets for The Empire Strikes Back.
I am now in my 30s, if I had a nine year old son, I would take him to see Attack of the Clones, and enjoy watching it with him. It's not the target demographic that has changed. People have grown up..
S T A R W A R S I S F O R K I D S ! ! ! !.
I think I will create my own "Microsoft Passport" website, it's simple, all you do is take the graphics, build a form authentication system that saves the username and password in a database, then grants access to the site.
As the usernames and passwords can be used for multiple sites I can then have a great time accessing everyone's Hotmail, Gaming, MSDN accounts.
Cool eh!
Madonna presented the £20,000 ($30,000) Turner prize to Martin Creed for a work of 'art' entitled "The Lights Going On and Off" which basically consists of an empty gallery, and two lights that do indeed go on and off. Other winners have included dirty underwear and an unmade bed.
Read about it here...
Shame us Nerds never enter these competitions, my exhibit "Servers in Various States of Disrepair" is surly a strong contender.
Do you ever see a BSOD on a cashpoint - I haven't?
It happens sometimes in Sweden check this out.
Do you do vodo?
No, but I do know judo.
Fisking MS spell checker. I'm not homophonic, I'm a hay thrasher!
"Nancy"? Was it named after some coders girlfriend or something?
Can't decide if you are sexist, assuming coders cannot be female, or I am homophonic, assuming coders cannot be lesbians.
The folks at ID software should pick up on this. I think QuakeOS would be a nice operating system, we would all be used to the concepts involved.
Imagine the following features.
Virtual Conferencing:
Walk into the room where you wish to have the meeting, see the others present, and interact in real time.
Choose your own skin:
The boss could be an Ogre, the marketing manager a snake etc.
Security:
You need the red key to get into the room with the accounts files.
Office Furniture:
The "Aaron Chars" upgrade would only be $9.99.
Delete files:
With the rocket launcher.
Intrusion Detection:
And imagine the fun you could have chasing a hacker thought the system!
...until the team of medics breaks down the rest room door to find you in an embarising situation with some chick...
It's about the latest robot 'toys'.
They introduce one of those Sony robotic dogs to a real dog, guess which one won!
Check it out here...
Windows XP is a desktop OS, Win2K Server is what they are pushing...
We've got pretty much every OS under the sun running on different test servers.
You have to run everything under Sun? Sheesh.
I wonder how much taxpayer dollars the Coast Guard will spend to fish these guys out of the sea?
Thay are taking off from England. I don't think they plan to cross the atlantic too.
Don't assume that all the nutters in the world are American, we have our fair share of them too!
For the real scoop...
Go to the Sun (UK) newspapar.
The article is here...
Packed with insightful scientific observarions such as:
"Their vast balloon -- 400 times bigger than normal ones -- should be visible from the ground as it ascends."