I bought this (along with a few other O'Reilly titles) a couple months back, and I highly recommend Mastering Regular Expressions. Even though it's a dry technical topic, the presentation is awesome.
I read through the whole thing as if it were a novel, and picked up more than a few new things about regexes.
Very handy book, both to read through to really learn how regexes work, and as a day-to-day reference. The score of 11/10 given by the reviewer is bang on.
I have put a great deal of effort into consideration of your question, and I hope the following answers will be of use to you.
I don't have a finance degree No problem, it's not like it's *your* money you're spending. In fact, I personally use the "Bank of Joe" for all my financial transactions. It's run by this guy down the street, who has no formal training, or even a real vault, but he seems eager enough. His service fees are *killer* though.
have a permanent position with a good sized global bank Learning by osmosis, always the best way. It definitely helped several of my friends to succeed at university.
So I ask Slashdot As a career move, this ranks somewhere around "seppuku... with a butter knife".
if anyone has recommendations for courses, books, websites I recommend taking some courses in formal logic. I understand the curriculum is both interesting and enlightening.
Should I try to move towards a more trader-aligned tech group first and build relationships? Sure, but she might get mad when you take advantage of that plural relationship.
Should I try to go for Equities or Futures & Options trading? This is a tough call, but I'd have to say "yes".
What markets would be the best to start/learn with? Your options are, of course, varied; however, I recommend a local farmer's market. Their produce is far superior to those of bigger chains, and who better to learn from than the people who grow the crops?
You forget that something like 95% of supermarket employees are teenagers working for minimum wage who (a) don't give a shit, (b) don't give a shit, and (c) couldn't tell a ripe fruit from a basketball.
If someone is retarded enough to play a 'sport', repeatedly get kicked in the gonads (but keeps playing), then complain when he can't procreate, maybe it's a good thing he can't reproduce.
Continuing with the football example, the upfront costs are X consoles and X copies of the game. There are also X subscription fees (ISP/game service/etc), probably recurring monthly/yearly. To buy a football and go to a park to play has one cost: The price of the football. There are no recurring charges, and the initial capital investment is quite a bit lower.
Now consider your FPS example. The upfront and ongoing costs are similar to the football game on console. To physically go and play paintball, there is a significant initial capital investment (markers, masks, hoppers, ammo tubes, vests/gloves/etc). However, unlike physically playing football, there is also ongoing costs: CO2 refills and ammo. These costs are not negligible.:)
But, cost notwithstanding, paintball is WAY better than an FPS.:)
Have you tried it on a laptop recently? That article is fairly old (only covering up to FreeBSD 5.1). I would suggest you review the changelogsforrecentversions, as support has increased with every version...
I've always found support for hardware in FreeBSD to be far more painless than in Linux, and has supported almost everything I've thrown at it, including laptops, except cutting-edge consumer-grade hardware (i.e. maybe the sound on a brand-new Dell Dimension might not work).
So you think it's perfectly fair and reasonable to ask others, be it MS or random Joe Coder, to reinvent the wheel simply because the license on your software precludes their use of your code with theirs, possibly due to reasons outide their control. How was it, again, that you are better than MS?
If code authors want their code to be used in proprietary systems, they're free to release it under a BDS or LGPL license. The fact that a large majority of authors do not release under these licenses is an idealogical choice. You're free to write your own libraries if you don't agree to the terms, the same way you're free not to use a proprietary piece of software if you don't agree to the license.
I think GNU said it best: "Proprietary software developers have the advantage of money; free software developers need to make advantages for each other." (ref)
Is it perfectly fair and reasonable that companies are allowed to make money off of code that they didn't develop, and give nothing in return to the original author(s), against the authors' implicit (via the license model chosen) wishes?
There's a huge difference between saying "Here's some code, use it, or not, as you wish, but kindly release your changes to the public.", and saying "Give us your code, with no restrictions, so we can incorporate it into our product to make money." or "Here's some code, and oh, by the way, you owe us $10 per seat."
We have licensed copies of RAR (Windows & Linux) to create the archives, but there are many free unpackers available, one of which I included on the image.
Although, TBH, WinRAR really isn't that expensive if we wanted to license it... $5 per machine for 999 licences, would would probably buy 2000 or so, so probably an even better discount. $5 per machine is a very, very small cost compared to Windows license, Office license, Citrix CAL, Exchange CAL, antivirus, etc.
I work for a mid-size company (~1500 desktops at 40+ remote sites), and I've been working on exactly the same problem for the last 2 weeks. Our solution until now has been buiding a new 'base' system and using PowerQuest V2i to take a disk image. This works OK, except for the fact that we had to build a new image from scratch every time slightly new hardware came out, and since our current hardware list is HUGE (we're slowly phasing out old hardware with new standardized stuff), it was impossible to build an image for every permutation.
Over the last 2 weeks or so I've been building up an automated deployment suite -- I started first by figuring out how to do unattended installs of all our client software (this is different for each piece of software you'll deploy, so RTFM). Microsoft generally provides *great* tools for deployment (and usually anything using the Windows Installer is easy to customize), everything else is a mixed bag. Once I had applications installing properly in unattended mode, I turned my sights to the operating system.
I explored a couple of options, like Sysprep/Image. The sysprep method worked, but there were a couple things that weren't ideal in our environment (for one, we would have had to ship 3 CDs to each of our branches -- one for the V2i restore utility itself, then 2 or 3 for the spanned disk image. Not all our machines have DVD-ROMs yet, nor do they all have local servers). The disc duplication efforts alone were a time sink.
What I ended up doing was using nLite (http://www.nliteos.com) to customize the install process, including the unattended settings. I RARed up the unattended applications, and included the RAR file, a commandline UnRAR utility, and miscellaneous filesystem stuff in the $OEM$ folder on the Windows disc. Then I put some entries in RunOnceEx which automatically UnRARed the archive, then installs each application in turn.
The total install process involves two steps of user interaction -- the first is to select what partition to install Windows to during the text-based portion of the install, and again during the setup process to ask for a machine name (we use a structured machine naming convention). The machine is joined to the domain automatically, apps are set up automatically, and the machine reboots to its 'final' state automatically. About 20-30 minutes after popping in the disc, you have a complete, reimaged system, and you only need to pay attention to it for about 30 seconds.
After stripping the OS CD down with nLite, and RARing up our customized apps, my disc came out at a nice 664MB... small enough to fit on one CD, with room left over for future service packs, patches, and additional drivers.
Now all we have to do is add new drivers and roll in new service packs and patches as needed, which is a breeze with the nLite wizard. We plan a new 'release' of the disc every 2-3 months, with incremental OS and application patches pushed out as needed.
Best of luck; it takes a little while to really figure out the best approach, but once you do it's quite easy to maintain, and is definitely a huge time saver.
I didn't actually use 'thingy' strictly as a management buzzword -- it was a reference to concepts usually seen in tech cartoons like Dilbert or User Friendly (i.e. that management doesn't actually have a clue about the technologies they want to implement).
And yet for some reason, people still like having them, even when they know the numbers are totally wrong. I have yet to figure out why.
These metrics empower us by quantifying the effectiveness of our economic paradigm, and allows us to leverage synergies with other business divisions. Furthermore, we can collect empirical datums, which may allow us to project customer interactions with our portal, and allow our business methods to expand dynamically going forward. Oh, and it'll help with that Web 2.0 thingy project...
Bill's true innovations are many-fold, and remain largely uncredited. These include sending high-level windowing information to remote graphical clients, a practical use for LDAP, and my all-time favourite, and a powerful command-line interface.
I believe he also invented FTP shortly after Gore invented the Internet.
I almost went with dual 7900 GT's, but I figured by the time I need that much GPU power, the GTXs will have dropped enough for me to justify buying another one.:)
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If you can afford an Intel processor, you can afford Oracle licenses. :)
I bought this (along with a few other O'Reilly titles) a couple months back, and I highly recommend Mastering Regular Expressions. Even though it's a dry technical topic, the presentation is awesome.
I read through the whole thing as if it were a novel, and picked up more than a few new things about regexes.
Very handy book, both to read through to really learn how regexes work, and as a day-to-day reference. The score of 11/10 given by the reviewer is bang on.
Who looks at a piece of spam for the 17 seconds required to view the 'subliminal' advertising frames?
They probably need all the help they can get.
I have put a great deal of effort into consideration of your question, and I hope the following answers will be of use to you.
I don't have a finance degree
No problem, it's not like it's *your* money you're spending. In fact, I personally use the "Bank of Joe" for all my financial transactions. It's run by this guy down the street, who has no formal training, or even a real vault, but he seems eager enough. His service fees are *killer* though.
have a permanent position with a good sized global bank
Learning by osmosis, always the best way. It definitely helped several of my friends to succeed at university.
So I ask Slashdot
As a career move, this ranks somewhere around "seppuku... with a butter knife".
if anyone has recommendations for courses, books, websites
I recommend taking some courses in formal logic. I understand the curriculum is both interesting and enlightening.
Should I try to move towards a more trader-aligned tech group first and build relationships?
Sure, but she might get mad when you take advantage of that plural relationship.
Should I try to go for Equities or Futures & Options trading?
This is a tough call, but I'd have to say "yes".
What markets would be the best to start/learn with?
Your options are, of course, varied; however, I recommend a local farmer's market. Their produce is far superior to those of bigger chains, and who better to learn from than the people who grow the crops?
Did you hear that? That was the sound of a joke passing overhead.
You forget that something like 95% of supermarket employees are teenagers working for minimum wage who (a) don't give a shit, (b) don't give a shit, and (c) couldn't tell a ripe fruit from a basketball.
This just in! 13-year-old girls exposing the sordid details of their lives is NOT journalism! More at 11.
I'm not sure there's enough CPU power on Earth to do that.
Ever hear of 'survival of the fittest'?
If someone is retarded enough to play a 'sport', repeatedly get kicked in the gonads (but keeps playing), then complain when he can't procreate, maybe it's a good thing he can't reproduce.
The voltage is irrelevant.
:p
It's the amperage that helps you kill users when they ask you one too many times how to reset a view filter in Outlook.
That's kind of a flawed analogy.
:)
:)
Continuing with the football example, the upfront costs are X consoles and X copies of the game. There are also X subscription fees (ISP/game service/etc), probably recurring monthly/yearly. To buy a football and go to a park to play has one cost: The price of the football. There are no recurring charges, and the initial capital investment is quite a bit lower.
Now consider your FPS example. The upfront and ongoing costs are similar to the football game on console. To physically go and play paintball, there is a significant initial capital investment (markers, masks, hoppers, ammo tubes, vests/gloves/etc). However, unlike physically playing football, there is also ongoing costs: CO2 refills and ammo. These costs are not negligible.
But, cost notwithstanding, paintball is WAY better than an FPS.
Never fear. Had the Prophet met Christ, there would only be one of those religions around today -- that whose leader wasn't killed in the ensuing war.
Education is dangerous... Teaching people advanced technical skills... to solve problems and think for themselves...
I believe you made a minor typo there... I believe it should be "to solve problems by rote and do exactly what the prof expects".
Have you tried it on a laptop recently? That article is fairly old (only covering up to FreeBSD 5.1). I would suggest you review the changelogs for recent versions, as support has increased with every version...
I've always found support for hardware in FreeBSD to be far more painless than in Linux, and has supported almost everything I've thrown at it, including laptops, except cutting-edge consumer-grade hardware (i.e. maybe the sound on a brand-new Dell Dimension might not work).
I got it up now!
:)
Uh, congrats?
So you think it's perfectly fair and reasonable to ask others, be it MS or random Joe Coder, to reinvent the wheel simply because the license on your software precludes their use of your code with theirs, possibly due to reasons outide their control. How was it, again, that you are better than MS?
If code authors want their code to be used in proprietary systems, they're free to release it under a BDS or LGPL license. The fact that a large majority of authors do not release under these licenses is an idealogical choice. You're free to write your own libraries if you don't agree to the terms, the same way you're free not to use a proprietary piece of software if you don't agree to the license.
I think GNU said it best: "Proprietary software developers have the advantage of money; free software developers need to make advantages for each other." (ref)
Is it perfectly fair and reasonable that companies are allowed to make money off of code that they didn't develop, and give nothing in return to the original author(s), against the authors' implicit (via the license model chosen) wishes?
There's a huge difference between saying "Here's some code, use it, or not, as you wish, but kindly release your changes to the public.", and saying "Give us your code, with no restrictions, so we can incorporate it into our product to make money." or "Here's some code, and oh, by the way, you owe us $10 per seat."
We have licensed copies of RAR (Windows & Linux) to create the archives, but there are many free unpackers available, one of which I included on the image.
Although, TBH, WinRAR really isn't that expensive if we wanted to license it... $5 per machine for 999 licences, would would probably buy 2000 or so, so probably an even better discount. $5 per machine is a very, very small cost compared to Windows license, Office license, Citrix CAL, Exchange CAL, antivirus, etc.
I work for a mid-size company (~1500 desktops at 40+ remote sites), and I've been working on exactly the same problem for the last 2 weeks. Our solution until now has been buiding a new 'base' system and using PowerQuest V2i to take a disk image. This works OK, except for the fact that we had to build a new image from scratch every time slightly new hardware came out, and since our current hardware list is HUGE (we're slowly phasing out old hardware with new standardized stuff), it was impossible to build an image for every permutation.
Over the last 2 weeks or so I've been building up an automated deployment suite -- I started first by figuring out how to do unattended installs of all our client software (this is different for each piece of software you'll deploy, so RTFM). Microsoft generally provides *great* tools for deployment (and usually anything using the Windows Installer is easy to customize), everything else is a mixed bag. Once I had applications installing properly in unattended mode, I turned my sights to the operating system.
I explored a couple of options, like Sysprep/Image. The sysprep method worked, but there were a couple things that weren't ideal in our environment (for one, we would have had to ship 3 CDs to each of our branches -- one for the V2i restore utility itself, then 2 or 3 for the spanned disk image. Not all our machines have DVD-ROMs yet, nor do they all have local servers). The disc duplication efforts alone were a time sink.
What I ended up doing was using nLite (http://www.nliteos.com) to customize the install process, including the unattended settings. I RARed up the unattended applications, and included the RAR file, a commandline UnRAR utility, and miscellaneous filesystem stuff in the $OEM$ folder on the Windows disc. Then I put some entries in RunOnceEx which automatically UnRARed the archive, then installs each application in turn.
The total install process involves two steps of user interaction -- the first is to select what partition to install Windows to during the text-based portion of the install, and again during the setup process to ask for a machine name (we use a structured machine naming convention). The machine is joined to the domain automatically, apps are set up automatically, and the machine reboots to its 'final' state automatically. About 20-30 minutes after popping in the disc, you have a complete, reimaged system, and you only need to pay attention to it for about 30 seconds.
After stripping the OS CD down with nLite, and RARing up our customized apps, my disc came out at a nice 664MB... small enough to fit on one CD, with room left over for future service packs, patches, and additional drivers.
Now all we have to do is add new drivers and roll in new service packs and patches as needed, which is a breeze with the nLite wizard. We plan a new 'release' of the disc every 2-3 months, with incremental OS and application patches pushed out as needed.
Best of luck; it takes a little while to really figure out the best approach, but once you do it's quite easy to maintain, and is definitely a huge time saver.
Well, the breakdown at my company is something like:
:p
Windows Desktops: ~1,800
Linux Desktops: 1 (mine)
Mac OS(X) Desktops: 0
1 > 0. QED.
You can prove anything given a sufficiently small sample.
I didn't actually use 'thingy' strictly as a management buzzword -- it was a reference to concepts usually seen in tech cartoons like Dilbert or User Friendly (i.e. that management doesn't actually have a clue about the technologies they want to implement).
And yet for some reason, people still like having them, even when they know the numbers are totally wrong. I have yet to figure out why.
These metrics empower us by quantifying the effectiveness of our economic paradigm, and allows us to leverage synergies with other business divisions. Furthermore, we can collect empirical datums, which may allow us to project customer interactions with our portal, and allow our business methods to expand dynamically going forward. Oh, and it'll help with that Web 2.0 thingy project...
Did I miss any management buzzwords-du-jour?
No, no, Bill Gates stole Windows from the Lisa.
Bill's true innovations are many-fold, and remain largely uncredited. These include sending high-level windowing information to remote graphical clients, a practical use for LDAP, and my all-time favourite, and a powerful command-line interface.
I believe he also invented FTP shortly after Gore invented the Internet.
While a marvelous scientific breakthrough, with the current state of things, I'm just waiting for tomorrow's headline: "Human Genome Patented".
But don't worry; you can freely reproduce the genome for the low cost of $15,000 per pregnancy.
For now. :)
:)
I almost went with dual 7900 GT's, but I figured by the time I need that much GPU power, the GTXs will have dropped enough for me to justify buying another one.