Programming, Technical work, Networking, DBA, Whatever you want to do with computers, education doesn't really matter.
Don't get me wrong, it looks nice on a resume, but if you insist on attaching sample code, or insist on demonstrating your skills during an interview - it'll be more impressive than any degree you get from any university. Just because most people in IT know that a majority of it is self taught. You only ever go to school to get a piece of paper that says you can do it and show you can see something through. Some employers, that doesn't matter, as long as you can do what you claim you can. Which is where demonstration works better than a degree.
Well I imagine a swampy environment is different than that of the environment on Mars. Perhaps its just Hollywood that's lead me to believe its much more dustier than it is wet, and that most if any water was closer to frozen. And that it's not so much an issue that they get into a pit of sand, or anything like a swamp, but that a dust storm comes up, buries the thing half way deep, and then they have trouble getting it out.
Oh, don't be sour. We're just jesting that the article was about a bug in Google's Code and you went off about China. I mean in an article about Apple's App Store, we don't make serious long posts about the iPhone 4's reception problems.
What's this? China is mentioned on a slashdot article! Oh boy! I've been saving up a nice big rant-post since the last article, keeping it on my desktop so I can copy and paste the very second this moment comes up! People will be in awe and wonder about how much I have the world political perspective in such a clear and defined view. I shall be modded to infinite and beyond!
What happens when someone else uses the keyboard though?
I often have other people read text messages aloud to me while driving and then dictate the response. I don't think this "amazing keyboard of the future" is for me. Next thing you know its either trying to account for someone else's waggling on your device, or its entirely unusable to someone else because it accounts for your waggling too much
Saying that emulation doesn't cut it is kind of like saying that project to digitize the Titanic is pointless because we can't take a crane and pick it up and put it in a museum.
You work with what you got, and what makes practical sense.
Thing about PC's is that they are built so abstractly that they can emulate older PC's. You'll notice its no longer really a DOS prompt it's just a Command prompt - despite emulating the behavior, they really could make the console any way they wish but they keep it the same old DOS looking prompt.
I'm not too familiar with Mac's, but I'm not sure there is an issue so long as you have virtualization. You look up the specs of old Macs, plop that into a virtualization client, run the proper boot disk and you're good to go, you've emulated an old Mac on a new mac. Same goes for PC's.
If people can still own old automobiles that are drivable, they can still own old gaming consoles kept in tip-top shape.
What was the last car you saw that was OLDER than the Model T?
They are very very very few and very very very far between. Video games in the 80's and 90's were only just starting to penetrate the market broad enough to be considered a household item. When you look at Cars older than those that were mass produced, you have trouble finding a collector for them.
Older consoles might share the same fate - replacement parts for the crazy collector require an equally crazy technician to create the parts that have been now rendered obsolete.
Lost amidst all of the desire to permanently archive and hold on to every bit of past memory is the idea that we're supposed to forget. It's built into our DNA. [...] I don't feel there's any sense pining over this eventuality.
Wow - way to attack every single historian, archaeologist, paleontologist, archivist, librarian, and anyone interested in history in the planet by basically boiling it down to "It doesn't matter". If thats what you think, your history teacher wasn't very good. We learn from the past, we learn from history. Not just the mistakes, but also the successes. Not just the massive events, but also the mundane.
To say that "Forgetting" is in our DNA does not make a connection that "It is meant to happen" - that correlation needs to be shut down right away. Cancer is in your DNA. Ironically fitting, so is Alzheimers, which you may or may not get, which affects your memory. In fact, one of the greatest attributes humans have that give them an advantage over every other species is our memory.
If you don't care about your heritage, than you basically don't value your society. If you don't care that your grandparents fought in a war for YOUR freedom, you wouldn't value your freedom, because you wouldn't know you had it. Keeping Super Mario Bros. 3 in its original state might seem like a ridiculous goal now - but 3 or 4 generations from now, people will ask "What did people do with all their spare time?". It'd be great if we had that stuff in a museum for them to research, so that they can care about their heritage.
And like someone else said - let them decide what's important. Perhaps entertainment will be the main industry in the future, once industries are farmed out to robots.
It's actually a kinda funny story. To really get it all, you have to understand the culture around Calgary and Edmonton, the two big cities that occupy Alberta, (Up here in Canada, just above Montana and Idaho). Anyways, so some Calgarians have a full on hate for Edmontonians and vice versa, whereas everyone else just plays along with the whole subculture and makes fun of each other, regardless if they really mean it.
Part of the reason is that Calgary is on the Trans-Canada Highway - so you'd think we'd be more of a centerpoint in the Nation. However, Edmonton is the Capital of the province. We'd think that because we're just a couple hours from the mountains and Drumheller is less than that, being on the highway would probably bolster our tourism a bit more - but damnit those Edmontonians one up'd us by building the world's largest mall, which features a massive waterpark and a theme park. (Yes, all indoors). They have their hockey team the oilers, we have ours the flames - neither of which have won a stanley cup in years.
So you get the gist of it - rivalry between these two cities. Earlier this month* I drive up there to meet my girlfriend, who went up there for some work thing, and we decided a long time ago that since she was going up there, I might as well as come up after work and we'll make a mini vacation out of it by visiting West Edmonton Mall. A couple of our friends want to come along too, and so we say, why not? The more the merrier! Friday we drive up to Edmonton, eat in a fancy restaurant, I park my car in the hotel parkade and we check in. 10:16 PM was the last I saw my car.
After checking out in the morning, I return to the parkade at around 10:45 AM Saturday, ready to hit the waterpark in the mall for a fantastic getaway. Odd, my car doesn't appear to be in the same spot that it was before. However, I KNOW that's where I parked because right next to me was a purple mini-van, with some catering logo decal on the back window. Check all the levels, it's not there. I go to the hotel Lobby, they tell me they don't technically own the parking lot, it's by a private parking company that works with the city police. Anyways, they call over to the impound lot, maybe it got towed on accident, despite registering my car plates with the hotel last night.
Okay, the friends we drove out with, they have a strange sense of humour. My girlfriend goes "What if this is Andrew's idea of a prank?". I doubt it, but we approach him anwyways. "Okay, Andrew, if you DID move my car, it was a great joke, but it's over now." and he goes "While I have done that to my room mate, especially after a night of drinking, to be honest: I couldn't drive a standard. I wouldn't have made it out of the parkade with your car."
My Car is stolen, I'm from out of town, all my plans pretty much out the window. The kicker? This is the first and only time I've ever parked overnight in Edmonton. I've always just had a ride or made day trips before. The first time I've parked overnight in Edmonton my car gets stolen. Damn it makes me hate that city.
One of our friend's has a brother who lives in Edmonton, and he offered to drive us home. To keep my sanity, we decide to go to Waterpark and have fun anyways, you know, lets not make this the worst day of my life kind of thing. And it worked. Afterwards we all squished into the car (I'm the only one off my GDL so I had to drive, but I'm not complaining, I got home, and I wasn't squished in the back seat).
So yeah - Driving a Standard, didn't work for me. At least, it doesn't deter the damn car theives in Edmonton.
*I am not kidding, it was July 9th, it's like Slashdot lines these stories up with my life.
Preservation of artifacts today is as big a deal as discovering them in the first place. It wouldn't do us a heck of a lot of good if we went and bulldozed all of our historical culture to set up a new strip mall or waterpark. Keeping this stuff around is no easy task.
The Titanic is no different, it is an antiquity of a very rare nature: It's not just an ocean liner, it's THE ocean liner from the 1900's that every one knows and remembers, it's story makes it a celebrity.
Now, Given that it's under a league or two of water, that makes it particularily difficult to catalogue and record their findings. While digitizing the whole thing is not the ideal solution, given the circumstances I'd say its the most practical one.
Just like we don't need to study the pyramids to figure out what civilization was like in ancient Egypt, but I'd still consider that civilization as lost in this context. I'd consider the terms almost synonymous when dealing with great historic monuments. And a Disaster site is just as monumental as a structure, just see Pompei
Its not like the Titanic is a remnant of a lost civilization.
I'm not sure if you were referring to the ship or the movie. But actually it is. One is a remnant of civilization in the early 1900's and the other is a remnant of civilization in the 1990's.
Perhaps our definitions of "lost" mean different things though, in which case I'd just agree to disagree.
Nonono, that's not the case. You're thinking of language levels. Low Level programming is very close to the hardware and thus, since you are using the very specific instructions, so you don't lose any efficiency unless you wrote your code illogically. A higher level language abstracts it from the hardware, so your commands have to find the proper opcodes to execute.
Techniques however, are not languages. I can use the same technique I would in C as I would in Assembly or C# or possibly some other very-high level language.
The idea they try to convey here is You are trying to efficiently thread for a multicore machine. You can either A)Use Java's Asynchronous IO (NIO) or B) Use regular Java IO, with a modern threading library (like Linux NPTL!) to achieve this.
Why are you looking at a product that is three versions old and was dropped from support five years ago?
You don't work for a cheap company, do you.
We are up on 10g now, looking to jump up again - but that doesn't make removing 8i off the old machines any easier. When you keep a computer running for longer than 4 years, these sort of things happen.
Oracle hasn't done anything with MySQL, despite hiring their leads and axing the rest, MySQL is just as much an OS solution today as it was last year. It's only a matter of time before new developers pick up where MySQL left off under some other fork. Maybe MariaDB?
It's no doubt that Oracle wanted to do this so that Oracle's slow progress will be ahead of what their lead competitor was at - their product becoming clearly superior so boosting sales.
The problem is that it only takes a few bright minds to pick up the project, hurl it back into view, and everything is back to how it was a few years ago.
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If he is engineering, he sure as pants can.
I could call myself a sentence engineer if I wanted to. I just designed, tested, and implemented one just now!
Well thats why I enjoy the IT field so much.
Programming, Technical work, Networking, DBA, Whatever you want to do with computers, education doesn't really matter.
Don't get me wrong, it looks nice on a resume, but if you insist on attaching sample code, or insist on demonstrating your skills during an interview - it'll be more impressive than any degree you get from any university. Just because most people in IT know that a majority of it is self taught. You only ever go to school to get a piece of paper that says you can do it and show you can see something through. Some employers, that doesn't matter, as long as you can do what you claim you can. Which is where demonstration works better than a degree.
Well I imagine a swampy environment is different than that of the environment on Mars. Perhaps its just Hollywood that's lead me to believe its much more dustier than it is wet, and that most if any water was closer to frozen. And that it's not so much an issue that they get into a pit of sand, or anything like a swamp, but that a dust storm comes up, buries the thing half way deep, and then they have trouble getting it out.
Why not?
I mean, assuming the food was free - what more could you want?
Oh, don't be sour. We're just jesting that the article was about a bug in Google's Code and you went off about China. I mean in an article about Apple's App Store, we don't make serious long posts about the iPhone 4's reception problems.
Same here. I actually prefered T9 over my smartphone keyboard, but I definately prefer the physical thing over any touch interface I've encountered.
*Perks up*
What's this? China is mentioned on a slashdot article! Oh boy! I've been saving up a nice big rant-post since the last article, keeping it on my desktop so I can copy and paste the very second this moment comes up! People will be in awe and wonder about how much I have the world political perspective in such a clear and defined view. I shall be modded to infinite and beyond!
Oh... Wait... Not relevant? Damn.
What happens when someone else uses the keyboard though?
I often have other people read text messages aloud to me while driving and then dictate the response. I don't think this "amazing keyboard of the future" is for me. Next thing you know its either trying to account for someone else's waggling on your device, or its entirely unusable to someone else because it accounts for your waggling too much
Additively or Subtractively?
Saying that emulation doesn't cut it is kind of like saying that project to digitize the Titanic is pointless because we can't take a crane and pick it up and put it in a museum.
You work with what you got, and what makes practical sense.
just a bit overrated?
Bills, less vacation time, consequences for failure... I'd say adulthood bytes!
It would make Linux Environments less scary.
You might chuckle at this notion, but the longer the thought sits there, the more it creeps in and you know it's right.
Thing about PC's is that they are built so abstractly that they can emulate older PC's. You'll notice its no longer really a DOS prompt it's just a Command prompt - despite emulating the behavior, they really could make the console any way they wish but they keep it the same old DOS looking prompt.
I'm not too familiar with Mac's, but I'm not sure there is an issue so long as you have virtualization. You look up the specs of old Macs, plop that into a virtualization client, run the proper boot disk and you're good to go, you've emulated an old Mac on a new mac. Same goes for PC's.
If people can still own old automobiles that are drivable, they can still own old gaming consoles kept in tip-top shape.
What was the last car you saw that was OLDER than the Model T?
They are very very very few and very very very far between. Video games in the 80's and 90's were only just starting to penetrate the market broad enough to be considered a household item. When you look at Cars older than those that were mass produced, you have trouble finding a collector for them.
Older consoles might share the same fate - replacement parts for the crazy collector require an equally crazy technician to create the parts that have been now rendered obsolete.
Lost amidst all of the desire to permanently archive and hold on to every bit of past memory is the idea that we're supposed to forget. It's built into our DNA. [...] I don't feel there's any sense pining over this eventuality.
Wow - way to attack every single historian, archaeologist, paleontologist, archivist, librarian, and anyone interested in history in the planet by basically boiling it down to "It doesn't matter". If thats what you think, your history teacher wasn't very good. We learn from the past, we learn from history. Not just the mistakes, but also the successes. Not just the massive events, but also the mundane.
To say that "Forgetting" is in our DNA does not make a connection that "It is meant to happen" - that correlation needs to be shut down right away. Cancer is in your DNA. Ironically fitting, so is Alzheimers, which you may or may not get, which affects your memory. In fact, one of the greatest attributes humans have that give them an advantage over every other species is our memory.
If you don't care about your heritage, than you basically don't value your society. If you don't care that your grandparents fought in a war for YOUR freedom, you wouldn't value your freedom, because you wouldn't know you had it. Keeping Super Mario Bros. 3 in its original state might seem like a ridiculous goal now - but 3 or 4 generations from now, people will ask "What did people do with all their spare time?". It'd be great if we had that stuff in a museum for them to research, so that they can care about their heritage.
And like someone else said - let them decide what's important. Perhaps entertainment will be the main industry in the future, once industries are farmed out to robots.
I do. Well I did - that was until it was stolen.
It's actually a kinda funny story. To really get it all, you have to understand the culture around Calgary and Edmonton, the two big cities that occupy Alberta, (Up here in Canada, just above Montana and Idaho). Anyways, so some Calgarians have a full on hate for Edmontonians and vice versa, whereas everyone else just plays along with the whole subculture and makes fun of each other, regardless if they really mean it.
Part of the reason is that Calgary is on the Trans-Canada Highway - so you'd think we'd be more of a centerpoint in the Nation. However, Edmonton is the Capital of the province. We'd think that because we're just a couple hours from the mountains and Drumheller is less than that, being on the highway would probably bolster our tourism a bit more - but damnit those Edmontonians one up'd us by building the world's largest mall, which features a massive waterpark and a theme park. (Yes, all indoors). They have their hockey team the oilers, we have ours the flames - neither of which have won a stanley cup in years.
So you get the gist of it - rivalry between these two cities. Earlier this month* I drive up there to meet my girlfriend, who went up there for some work thing, and we decided a long time ago that since she was going up there, I might as well as come up after work and we'll make a mini vacation out of it by visiting West Edmonton Mall. A couple of our friends want to come along too, and so we say, why not? The more the merrier! Friday we drive up to Edmonton, eat in a fancy restaurant, I park my car in the hotel parkade and we check in. 10:16 PM was the last I saw my car.
After checking out in the morning, I return to the parkade at around 10:45 AM Saturday, ready to hit the waterpark in the mall for a fantastic getaway. Odd, my car doesn't appear to be in the same spot that it was before. However, I KNOW that's where I parked because right next to me was a purple mini-van, with some catering logo decal on the back window. Check all the levels, it's not there. I go to the hotel Lobby, they tell me they don't technically own the parking lot, it's by a private parking company that works with the city police. Anyways, they call over to the impound lot, maybe it got towed on accident, despite registering my car plates with the hotel last night.
Okay, the friends we drove out with, they have a strange sense of humour. My girlfriend goes "What if this is Andrew's idea of a prank?". I doubt it, but we approach him anwyways. "Okay, Andrew, if you DID move my car, it was a great joke, but it's over now." and he goes "While I have done that to my room mate, especially after a night of drinking, to be honest: I couldn't drive a standard. I wouldn't have made it out of the parkade with your car."
My Car is stolen, I'm from out of town, all my plans pretty much out the window. The kicker? This is the first and only time I've ever parked overnight in Edmonton. I've always just had a ride or made day trips before. The first time I've parked overnight in Edmonton my car gets stolen. Damn it makes me hate that city.
One of our friend's has a brother who lives in Edmonton, and he offered to drive us home. To keep my sanity, we decide to go to Waterpark and have fun anyways, you know, lets not make this the worst day of my life kind of thing. And it worked. Afterwards we all squished into the car (I'm the only one off my GDL so I had to drive, but I'm not complaining, I got home, and I wasn't squished in the back seat).
So yeah - Driving a Standard, didn't work for me. At least, it doesn't deter the damn car theives in Edmonton.
*I am not kidding, it was July 9th, it's like Slashdot lines these stories up with my life.
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Preservation of artifacts today is as big a deal as discovering them in the first place. It wouldn't do us a heck of a lot of good if we went and bulldozed all of our historical culture to set up a new strip mall or waterpark. Keeping this stuff around is no easy task.
The Titanic is no different, it is an antiquity of a very rare nature: It's not just an ocean liner, it's THE ocean liner from the 1900's that every one knows and remembers, it's story makes it a celebrity.
Now, Given that it's under a league or two of water, that makes it particularily difficult to catalogue and record their findings. While digitizing the whole thing is not the ideal solution, given the circumstances I'd say its the most practical one.
Just like we don't need to study the pyramids to figure out what civilization was like in ancient Egypt, but I'd still consider that civilization as lost in this context. I'd consider the terms almost synonymous when dealing with great historic monuments. And a Disaster site is just as monumental as a structure, just see Pompei
Its not like the Titanic is a remnant of a lost civilization.
I'm not sure if you were referring to the ship or the movie. But actually it is. One is a remnant of civilization in the early 1900's and the other is a remnant of civilization in the 1990's.
Perhaps our definitions of "lost" mean different things though, in which case I'd just agree to disagree.
Of course old school techniques are faster
Ha! Hahaha!
Nonono, that's not the case. You're thinking of language levels. Low Level programming is very close to the hardware and thus, since you are using the very specific instructions, so you don't lose any efficiency unless you wrote your code illogically. A higher level language abstracts it from the hardware, so your commands have to find the proper opcodes to execute.
Techniques however, are not languages. I can use the same technique I would in C as I would in Assembly or C# or possibly some other very-high level language.
The idea they try to convey here is You are trying to efficiently thread for a multicore machine. You can either
A)Use Java's Asynchronous IO (NIO)
or
B) Use regular Java IO, with a modern threading library (like Linux NPTL!)
to achieve this.
Turns out - B is faster.
Why are you looking at a product that is three versions old and was dropped from support five years ago?
You don't work for a cheap company, do you.
We are up on 10g now, looking to jump up again - but that doesn't make removing 8i off the old machines any easier. When you keep a computer running for longer than 4 years, these sort of things happen.
It's not so much a set back as it is a delay.
Oracle hasn't done anything with MySQL, despite hiring their leads and axing the rest, MySQL is just as much an OS solution today as it was last year. It's only a matter of time before new developers pick up where MySQL left off under some other fork. Maybe MariaDB?
It's no doubt that Oracle wanted to do this so that Oracle's slow progress will be ahead of what their lead competitor was at - their product becoming clearly superior so boosting sales.
The problem is that it only takes a few bright minds to pick up the project, hurl it back into view, and everything is back to how it was a few years ago.
That's funny, all I want is a decent UNINSTALL package for the Oracle Client and Servers.
I'm looking at you, Oracle 8
We'll start the bidding at -$5.00
(Yes, you pay us to take you over)