I completely failed. In fact I think I 'Petered Out'.
I bailed on that life, and found an organization willing to match my salary- back down at a developer position.
Kudos to you for realising this. Understanding that you are not suited to a role or position in any organisation (or life for that matter) is an insight that many people in higher positions refuse to accept. Thereby continuing the cycle.
I see this as an issue with the environment they're using. Currently - the way they are trying to communicate has *way* too many barriers and risks. In my opinion, the risks outweigh the limited benefits that their "ISP" provides.
So....write a letter. Communicate over snail mail. No viruses, no Nigerian princes trying to dupe your relations out of their posessions. This of course, is assuming that regular snail mail is not also blocked.
I'm trying to see Sony's angle on this and my opinion is that they're about to drop the entire kaboodle that is the PS3 after failing so miserably against giants like the Wii and the XBox 360.
They don't want the extra work involved in maintaining what is in essence, a virtual machine on their flagging games console.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not an anti-PS3 fanboy, it's the only games console I own.
I would advise reading "The Mythical Man Month" by Frederick P. Brooks. It is considered "The Bible" of the human elements of Software Engineering by many. By "human elements" I mean to include your request for information on estimating project time.
Here is a quote from page 20 of the book based on one portion of a software engineering project:
"In examining conventionally scheduled projects, I have found that few allowed one-half of the projected schedule for testing, but that most did indeed spend half of the actual schedule for that purpose. Many of these were on schedule until and except in system testing." (Brooks, 1995)
Citation:
Brooks, Frederick P. (1995) The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering: Addison-Wesley Professional, p. 20
I like to have a choice in how I store my music and what quality I store it at if I have it online.
Professional Audio CD's are sampled and encoded at a much higher rate than MP3's - thus if I want to store my music in a lossless or a lossy format, I can.
I am a trainee pilot and this has struck a huge nerve with me.
There is NO substance in the article mentioned and the summary is basically a troll. Slashdot - please do not descend to the level of a tabloid newspaper reporting on emotions.
What a stupid, stupid article.
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Or to make it a little more posix... cd my_lawn; find . -depth -print -name kids\* -exec rm -rf {} \;
You can look forward to becoming slower, weaker and more passive if you like. To be honest, that sounds like giving up. Me....well, I'm going to continue working and hoping towards a better quality of life with the aid of science and technology. (Just in case your claim that there *is* an afterlife is somewhat flawed).
From the article: "If there were an obvious interaction between a superconducting films and gravitational waves, wouldn't Gravity Probe B have picked them up somehow?.....As it turns out, the experiment has been throwing out anomalous results ever since it was launched......The team has puzzled over them for years now....."
I really do love those moments in science when something you have puzzled over for years may have an elegant answer after all.
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Basic on a Commodore Vic-20
Someone's been reading John Ringo :)
Either way, it's terrible leaving all that energy go to waste. Let's start bootstrapping ourselves up the Kardashev scale.
CPU: Intel Core i5
RAM: 8GB DDR3
Video: Nvidia GeForce GT705
HDD1: 512MB SSD
HDD2: 1TB SATA
Windows 8.1
I completely failed. In fact I think I 'Petered Out'.
I bailed on that life, and found an organization willing to match my salary- back down at a developer position.
Kudos to you for realising this. Understanding that you are not suited to a role or position in any organisation (or life for that matter) is an insight that many people in higher positions refuse to accept. Thereby continuing the cycle.
Apologies for bringing down the tone of the conversation, but I read this as "Myths and Realities of Synthetic Blowjobs". 0_0
I really need to get out more.
I see this as an issue with the environment they're using. Currently - the way they are trying to communicate has *way* too many barriers and risks.
In my opinion, the risks outweigh the limited benefits that their "ISP" provides.
So....write a letter. Communicate over snail mail. No viruses, no Nigerian princes trying to dupe your relations out of their posessions.
This of course, is assuming that regular snail mail is not also blocked.
Interesting....I hadn't seen this.
I'll make sure to do more research in future before opening my mouth ;-)
I'm trying to see Sony's angle on this and my opinion is that they're about to drop the entire kaboodle that is the PS3 after failing so miserably against giants like the Wii and the XBox 360.
They don't want the extra work involved in maintaining what is in essence, a virtual machine on their flagging games console.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not an anti-PS3 fanboy, it's the only games console I own.
I would advise reading "The Mythical Man Month" by Frederick P. Brooks. It is considered "The Bible" of the human elements of Software Engineering by many. By "human elements" I mean to include your request for information on estimating project time.
Here is a quote from page 20 of the book based on one portion of a software engineering project:
"In examining conventionally scheduled projects, I have found that few allowed one-half of the projected schedule for testing, but that most did indeed spend half of the actual schedule for that purpose. Many of these were on schedule until and except in system testing." (Brooks, 1995)
Citation:
Brooks, Frederick P. (1995) The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering: Addison-Wesley Professional, p. 20
This is why exercise is good for you, people. Look at all the stuff its eating and it still manages to stay slim.
LOL Absolutely brilliant :)
I agree to the above....except the London Eye.
It costs approx. £17 pounds sterling (about $30 dollars) to go on a ferris wheel for 20 minutes. Daylight robbery.
Classic! I was just checking out the zoom feature on that very same piece of a...streeview earlier :)
I like to have a choice in how I store my music and what quality I store it at if I have it online.
Professional Audio CD's are sampled and encoded at a much higher rate than MP3's - thus if I want to store my music in a lossless or a lossy format, I can.
Small piece of advice.
We geeks find it hard to "get in touch with our emotional side" sometimes...
Concentrate on enjoying each other's company. Enjoy being with each other. Stop trying to analyse the hell out of it and just ENJOY it :)
I am a trainee pilot and this has struck a huge nerve with me.
There is NO substance in the article mentioned and the summary is basically a troll. Slashdot - please do not descend to the level of a tabloid newspaper reporting on emotions.
What a stupid, stupid article.
Or to make it a little more posix...
cd my_lawn; find . -depth -print -name kids\* -exec rm -rf {} \;
You can look forward to becoming slower, weaker and more passive if you like. To be honest, that sounds like giving up.
Me....well, I'm going to continue working and hoping towards a better quality of life with the aid of science and technology. (Just in case your claim that there *is* an afterlife is somewhat flawed).
OMGPONIES!!
From the article:
"If there were an obvious interaction between a superconducting films and gravitational waves, wouldn't Gravity Probe B have picked them up somehow?.....As it turns out, the experiment has been throwing out anomalous results ever since it was launched......The team has puzzled over them for years now....."
I really do love those moments in science when something you have puzzled over for years may have an elegant answer after all.
If I had mod points, I'd give you all 5. Very insightful post.
I've noticed the same thing over nearly 15 years in IT.
Good lord, I read this as "he explains his dream to build autonomous breasts from PVC conduits.
I need to sort myself out :)
Rest in peace, you were one of us and we will miss you.
With the correct knowledge, it should not be too difficult to get back door access to their system again.
This seems to be more of a PR excercise on making an example (as they should) of this guy.
More and more reasons why people like us should have a recognised code of ethics.
I could make money from this....
1) Show article to constantly rained upon and miserably wet Irish population
2) Go catch some fish (Vit D) and sell it
3) Profit!!!!
4) Get rained on