I finished my masters in spring '04, and my experience has been the following. I started work at a Fortune 500 company, one of the biggest companies in the U.S.. My position is a Software Engineer level 1. Mind you folks with a B.S. in Engineering or Computer Science at this level as well. So this is a junior position basically.
I get paid more than a fresh out with a B.S., but I was expected to basically perform like I don't know what I'm doing, just like someone fresh with a B.S. is. So far I've been able to adapt to the work environment quickly. I studied TQM, software processes, PSP/TSP, CMM as an undergrad. I know UML, actually designed applications using patterns in the past. I've been a linux and CS geek for a while, and had varied experiences with languages and platforms. So I had good past experiences that helped me a lot with my job.
I was able to perform above what they expect me to. I was lucky enough that I worked on a project that is brand spanking new, that runs on Linux, uses all this new technology and software development methodologies, that I was able to accel quickly and show folks I was capable. At the same time I was learning, and focused on learning how to operate in this corporate culture. I'm fortunate I work with good people too, that are willing to teach me.
Bottom line, every fresh-out, no matter what the degree, has learning to do. Chances are, you will work with shit people in a corporate culture, and there's plenty of them. Just because you have a masters, doesn't mean you know everything, there's always learning to do, but knowing more than you should doesn't hurt. Don't expect to go to a company, attempt to learn these corporate-culture-skills and *then* go get the senior job within a year. If you manage to pull this off, you're no longer a fresh out, and if you didn't learn your life lessons you're screwed. No one will respect you, unless you are the super-nice guy who delegates everything! Try to find a place where you can grow, and try to grow as much as possible in skills (people, corporate, political, technical). Then go the for senior position.
If you work at a good company, you will be rewarded if you deserve it. I stepped up a few times, and got more responsibility and more visiblity. I got a a nice raise after 4 months, and I think if I can keep this up and maybe manage to participate in more tasks, I can get a promotion in another year.
Yeah, I would like more money, I'd like move out of my parents house and buy a new car, and switching to a new job by claiming "real world" experience may help me attain this but I'm not ready for it, and its almost a year I've been working there.
Good luck dude, just don't think you're entitled anything. I felt entitled to shit when I finished my B.S., when I saw how sour the job market was in '03, I went back to school, learned more lessons in life before I went back out there. There's more to a job than working, I've learned this much so far.
People are really forgetting that this is the 21st century, and the protectionism of this century is through Intellectual Property. The federal government is doing everything it can to make sure US companies own absolutely all intellectual property. The US government also makes sure that this is enforced strictly.
These new protectionists hide behind the US Patent Office. Their intentions are governed by dominance, while the workers are only looking for a job and a living. The 21st Century version of protectionism is all making sure rich people and companies keep their wealth on top of taking advantage of foreign workforces. The older form of protectionism just wanted to keep working people working, which I think is more genuine at least.
Maybe you can bypass all the crap your mega-corp employer is doing to monitor your internet surfing by just using this google proxy. Ok, google is monitoring you now, but what's worse. If you visit Ars Technica and browse forums all day, you're employer could catch on and repremand you. What if you're browing google all damn day long. You can claim you're doing research.
Of course, no one (well maybe no one), really browses the web all day, but sometimes when you have nothing to do, you'd like to be able to pass time by without drawing heat to yourself from those damn corporate types.
Any ideas if this is basically a free proxy that essentially masks what you're doing as just traffic to and from google? That's what I'm assuming it could do.
Cutting taxes deprives state funding for the various programs they have, like education. (The Fed does give public universities lots of money you know.) I was directly addressing college education. So tuition is increased to make up for the lack of federal funds. Pretty simple.
Taking your money from you at gun point? Nice hyperbole. I never said it was moral, I said it was the intelligent thing to do. Educating people is the only way you're going to strengthen your country and its economy.
Every time college tuitions rise 1000 dollars, 4% of all would-be students in highschool don't go to college. 4% compounds pretty quickly, especially when college tuition is rising faster than inflation.
Its not a matter of morality. If you want a stupid country than Bush is your man. If you don't want a stupid country just look to any other Republican (maybe...) or a Democrat.
Do you think India would be taking so many jobs from the U.S. if English was spoken widely, but they were as dumb as a rock? No they wouldn't.
You can consider this Bush bashing, but Bush isn't an intellectual and doesn't appreciate the consequence of educating people. He thinks people spending that $300 bucks at Wallmart is good for America. When we have to invent the next world-changing WMD for America, who's going do it? Are we going to outsource it or let another country get it first?
You're a Republican, strong defense is one of your primary platforms. Please explain how we're going keep our defenses up when the country isn't doing anything to keep young people interested in science, and not doing anything to continue to encourage people, through lower tuitions, scholarships, grants, to become educated in these areas?
Since you're implying that "far to the left" is a *bad* thing, would you consider the right-wing paramilitaries in Nicaragua who introduced the term Death-Squad to our vocabulary, a *good* thing.
Letting gays have rights similar to those that married doesn't create thousands of dead bodies. Invading a country for money in every sense, from military contracts, cheap oil, new free trades zone, cheap labor, etc.., kills thousands as we are witness to it in Iraq. Don't forget, we didn't find WMD, or ties to Al Queda. And yes, those who pay attention to the news know it was Karl Rove's way to sell the war, but that implies there was no imminent danger and the war required selling for people to buy into it. Unlike World War 2.
If you need to sell to a war to your people, its either because they lacked so information that they can't make the decision on what they know, which could be case with our poor news media in the U.S., or its not altruistic as they made it seem. Bush has already shifted his democratic vision of Iraq to an Iraq with a democracy but it'll be influence by religion and a majority with no intentions to protect the minority, which is opposite to what we were hearing when there was no WMD. Flippity-Floppity.
Your party has good ideals, like smaller government, like lower taxes. It may have attempted to serve those ideals honesty in the past but it does not today. What future do you see in the Republican party? It's bleak. One of the primary reasons for government expansion in the Bush administration is more administrative positions introduced to the government. These are positions for political supporters of the Bush administration and Republican party. So when you party falls back on one of your primary ideals you would still support your party? Not only that, these positions cost us more tax money, so instead of letting people keep their money or invest it in working people in this country we're giving to away to political supports. How patriotic!
I'm not saying that because I'm a Democrat, but because I'm an American and I think the best potential of success we can try to give to all Americans is more important that Democrat/Republican party lines. You seem to toe your party line because you think its giving you something in return, when its not.
The Republicans have made college tuition more expensive by lowering taxes for rich people, and depriving states of more funding. Ok, I got a tax cut too, $300 bucks. So I can choose between two pairs of sneakers, or I can give up my tax cut, and thousands more Americans go to 4 year universities, that earn degrees, that invent more technology, or participate in the invention of new technology. More jobs are created, more tax revenues go the government and if we're lucky we can do it again for another generation. We could also help businesses of all sizes control health care costs while we try to fix the problem of expensive health care while relieve the burden and not stifle businesses or jeopardize our countrymen's health.
This is what Democrats want. What are the Republicans answer to these problems? They cut taxes, people suffer, business saves, and they're solutions are never solvent since they do make any honest attempt of helping the average American.
Howard Dean isn't a demi-god, and he may not have any good ideas (I think he does and I think he will be an excellent DNC char), but what he does do is appeal to young people, who will find their own direction in politics. Young people who find there way through the Democratic party don't get on TV and suggest we should nuke Canada except Vancouver (since they have nice shopping malls) as Ann Coulter has suggested. She was a Young Republican.
I'm eager to see the Democrat party grow in the next few years. For all the nay-sayers about the Democrats, listen to the Republicans delve into nostalgic musings about how they were small and insignificant.
Send republicans. They are doing a great job ensuring that Earth stays roasty-toasty, imagine what they can do with a planet that doesn't have a liberal media.
Try to get a job at Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics, Boeing or Lockheed. There's no indication that the economy will become less militarized, so these are places where you have a chance of staying there until retirement. Not only that, these places are process intensive because the government and military branches require them to document, measure report the effectiveness of their process.
These companies need people with the ability to understand software engineers, know how to work, compromise and ease them into these new software processes. You can be a technical manager, a software quality assurance guy or part of the always omnious SEPG (the software gestapo).
These companies also spend 100's of millions of process. So they are opportunities.
Here is some advice. Even though there are many ads online for jobs at these kind of companies, your best way to get in is with someone already at one of these places.
How can you meet these people? Go to embedded conferences and software process conferences. To make yourself more marketable, learn PSP/TSP, learn Six Sigma; and get certificates. Knowing is great for the interview, but either pay the money or get your current employer to pay for this.
Also, try to make yourself savy with Integrity, VX Works, Linux and XML. Try to gather up what you can on at least 1 of the OS's, and for sure understand XML and know which programming tools are out there you can use. Why? XML is the golden cow of file handling right now. (I think its over done but you will find out why later in this msg.)
These companies are primes, so only the really big contracts, like 10-15 year contracts go to them. But the government expects them to sub-contract a lot of the work. Getting in with a small company that is currently working on the big contracts out there is a good way of finding work at the primes. Most subs will send their people to process and software training at the primes site, its a great opportunity to make contacts and build your network.
Granted most people don't like the idea of working for a defense company. I'm a progressive, and yes, these places house a majority of fact-ignorant republicans. It might be lame, but that was something I thoguht a lot about, but I got over it quickly. These places also keep a lot of ancient, useless and lazy dinosaurs. If you destroy a million dollar project, what usually happens is that you're put on another million dollar project. So if you're a great software engineer, the sky is the limit for you.
So if everyone were to live 1000 years. What would we do with people who had mental or physical disabilities? We would have to take care of them for a long ass time. Would it be worth it?
Perhaps we would leave them out for the wolves, but how could our society handle politics and political correctness. Fortunately, people die rather quickly, 50-75 years. So our enemies change at least once or twice every century. Imagine being at the throats of the Soviet Union for thousand years.
I think living that long, or even something like 200 years, would seriously give us enough time in one's lifetime to make destroying the world, in a non-religious sense, more of a possibility.
Folks use some tools to simulate their UML models. Rhapsody is a tool that can do this, and it is impressive, but I hardly consider this type of capability similiar to a programming language. Perhaps a psedu-code-like language is more equivalent.
In either case, like all things, it can be what you want it to be or how you creatively apply an idea or use of a tool.
You could argue that all the other OO notation schemes, OOT, Booch, etc.. could be used as languages as well, I don't think the argument is particular to UML. Unfortunately, I don't think most folks would use UML for anything more than documentation and 'sketching'. You could think of UML as a language or dialect to communicate with. Is that what Mellor is suggesting?
I think the original author of this thread was referring to the actual application of UML as a programming language, and not as a dialect for materializing thoughts in a software process.
UML is used only for notation and documentation. UML isn't context-free. Unless we're talking about Natural Programming Languages, UML will never replace languages like C++, Java, etc...
UML is useful for when you're working on a large project, that may be used across sites or even across companies if you're sub-contracting the development of your system to outside firms. I think its better at giving new developers something easy to digest before looking at the code. If you're subbing out work, it allows you to create high-level interfaces and hand them out to your sub's development teams to ensure that integration is easy (i.e. everything compiles and only that). They have a reference to work with and you may be less bothered with questions from the sub.
UML, like most other other software engineering fads exist mostly because groups like OMG want to push new consulting fees to large commercial companies, publish more series of books and create forums for them to lecture to (and charge fees).
Most large companies are abusing the hell out of all this software engineering sugar. Business Analysts authoring UML diagrams, not knowing exactly how this will translate into system. This ignorance, which is not their fault, its their managements fault, can cause hell and resentment among the developers.
Overall, UML is useful, but its not a save-all. You need guidelines to make it useful, and you need to refine them constantly. Tools are another issue. There are few that bridge the programming with the designing intent that UML and these tools attempt to provide and do it well.
Umm... Why do you think most Christians support Isreal fervently? Its because all of Isreal needs to be controlled by Jews, and Jerusalem needs to be occupied completely by Jews.
Once this occurs, its ready for Jesus, since in Revelations, Isreal and Jerusalem must be ready before Jesus comes back to Earth to save the Christians. This of course means the slaughter of the Jews.
So the dogma regarding the murders of millions apparently sits well with Christians before The End. Why would national ids bother them? If its a step closer to the Beast, they would embrace as fervently as they support Isreal. Christians want the Rapture to happen, and they want it to happen in their lifetime. Why? Because that means they don't have to die. (The analog to the Rapture is that if you stood next to a Christian in an open field and Rapture happened, they would disappear if you looked the other way for a second while it occurs.)
Part of my reply is flamebait since most Christians simply want to be saved, and don't want any part of a massive slaughter, but this is what the Rapture of the Church is all about, so I will leave my post at that.
The end goal of google desktop is attach advertisements to information gathered from data all over your machine. I haven't downloaded it, so I'm not entirely sure of its capabilities or whether is does that or not (I only have a mac here). However, considering that something like this is more like spyware with vastly intelligent (patented) algorithsm, oppose to Gators strstr() algorithm.
Spotlights end goal is to help you find your files without using that crap Finder. Apple doesn't want you to use Safari to receive ads collected by Spotlight and then buy stuff, its another improvement to the steering wheel for your computer. Google wants to generate ad revenue and your data is part of their business model.
I personally don't like any company using my computer as an advertising platform, it just erks me. I don't want to be part of business model that doesn't profit me and doesn't guarantee my privacy and protection, which Google and no other company can.
The engineers even think their engines on a chip could be used in poor countries to bring electricity there.
And once the bright engineer from America finds he can help poorer countries have electricity, these poor folks will have access to more education, and will in a short time become "high quality technology workers."
Then we find the engineer who started all this loses their job, or their industry is purged, so we can send work to the "the zippies" (read Tom Friedman) and big multi-national corps win out, the original inventor is treated like an old useless animal, not even worth slaughtering since its tasteless now.
Ok, so maybe this is a bit dramatic, but isn't it almost creepy how you can see inventions like this come back to haunt us. Computers already fucked us science-friendly people after we thought we had it good. Let's be good to our fellow humans and just give them food and whatever else they need to be healthy. When it comes to education, technology and language, let them figure it out.
Give me a break, once an Indian guy gets a job whether its as an IT guy or as a software developer, any time there is a notion for a need for more help, the Indian guy tells his buddies and the hiring manager is flooded. Or, the Indian guy tells his buddy/cousin exactly what he needs to say and he then surreptitiously sends his resume with all the goodies on it to get him hired.
Yes, evil white Americans lie and cheat to get jobs too, but India and Indians pitch themselves as heavily educated, english speaking, motivated; just wonderful people. And Americans, well we're ignorant, we blow up other countries, we're racist, immoral; bad people essentially. So its not as bad as a moral dichotomy.
This is where the animosity is created. Lets be honest too, once an Indian guy, whether its full-time or a consultant, comes in, there's more to follow, there's a higher likelihood of work being sent to India, and a likelihood some America (white/black/latino/etc..) is going to lose their job.
So take your racism-waving comments and shove them up your ass Sanjay... I mean Sean.
I agree with this parent. On day one, if you find the "we own everything" clause. Give them an example of a situation where you, the genius inventor, invents the next generation of anal stimulation products that revolutionizes the sexual products industry.
See if they are willing to claim that this "IP" will belong to them, and they will claim it as their own. If you can deliver this is a joking way, and they say no, then ask them why anything else invested or worked on should also belong to them.
I've gone to grad school were the large majority of student, over 60%, where Indian with the rest of the student population mostly being dominated by Asians from China, Korea, Thailand and a small minority of whites, blacks and latinos.
I was never offered help once by foreign students. When I could give help, and was asked to help, I would not only be met with more questions but with more students, mostly foreign students.
Am I saintly? Hardly. I want to point out that these foreign companies, employees and students are competing against their US conterparts like Hell!! They're not letting pride blind them from interacting with us, working with us or befriending us.
They're leveraging our economic system and visa system to beat us. Believe me, the odds are stack highly against American workers. Its not just corporate America peddling for more profits.
The thinly veiled racism you suggest is not only inappropiate, its wrong.
Maybe you've been raised to feel superior to other, but lots of people made their own decisions how to feel about other people. This isn't a fight over who's intelligent and who's more creative. Our livelihoods are at risk because nations with incredible and irresponsible growth have the ability to commoditize their own people.
The US for a long time valued workmanship, and people still believe it still does, and some politicians believe it to. But somewhere along the way our leaders forgot to protect this ideal.
This is a failure of policy, not of American workers. If our leaders created laws to level the playing field with countries the size of India and China, this discussion wouldn't be nearly as heated, and we could avoid the type of discourse that attempts to measure the worthfullness of people. No one is better than another.
I really doubt that exokernels will bring about a new revolution in performance. Definitely design. You need to keep in mind that the HAL is very primitive, and operates mainly as a sophisticated multiplexor for the hardware. You will have to include protection for these resources and will also have to manage which services are accessing these resources.
In traditional operatings, because you have a sophiticated kernel managing applications, scheduling and memory, you have room to optimize how you execute your "jobs."
Scheduling similar to that of a traditional kernel would be non-existant in an exokernel. I may be wrong, but I don't think any of these new operating system fads will bring about anything new in speed.
I agree, the DS is pretty damn amazing. I'm hoping they release some kind of free developers kits, maybe a Java 2 Mobile VM or something. Hell, anything would be cool.
I have to agree with one of the other posters. Sony knows what's they're doing with that Metal Gear Acid title. They should call it Metal Gear Heroine, that series of titles is damn addictive, ; worse than cigarettes.
In either case, Nintendo DS will be released this year, maybe 1 year before Sony's PSP. So everyone who wants the *new* portable player, will go for the DS first. Sony will run their "wait for next year" propaganda, Nintendo needs to beat them down with their marketing strategy.
Initially, I thought the Sony PSP would have some serious damn horsepower, like the power of something a tad less than a PS2. From what I've read on DS though it has more power then a Nintendo 64, so I think both of them are gonna be pushing some serious power.
It's gonna come down to games, but Sony has those nice Metal Gear titles that comes out for it first, plus Final Fantasy; both are severely addictive series. But the DS is going to have an edge regarding online multiplayer games. Its going to have more online games than PSP when it debuts. Its weird that Nintendo is pushing online games for portable systems instead of home systems, but we've yet to see their new home console, so I should probably not criticize Nintendo on their progression to multi-play games.
Ask your pastor or local preacher if he feels the same way as you do. If he doesn't, than think twice about paying your tithe (if you pay a tithe). Funding these fundamentalist preachers need to stop.
When a nutty Christian preacher starts running his mouth about issues protected by the constitution, he needs to get a nudge to clam it up.
You don't want a few "bad apples" to create a controversial face to Christianity, nor do you want to support those individuals when their talking about usurping the idea of separation of church and state with their remarks about video games, censorship, etc...
What we need are a few cats who don't give a fuck, and just embarrass the hell out of the upper level management by slapping them around in front of everyone else. Give them the, "Fuck you, I'm not training any one" rant, and then let the beatings begin.
I'm not talking about any type of slapping around, I mean hitting them hard in the nose first, than putting them in a head lock and slapping them around, reminding them that tomorrow they will be the guy who got his ass beat in front of the indispensable working masses.
It takes a special person to inflict this type of embarrassment in the meanest way possible. To inflict enough personal disgrace that the people who is humiliated just isn't right anymore; their lives are completely fucked forever.
The people who accomplish this task, will be the hero's of the future. Godspeed!
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Thanks for the correction. I was seriously under the impression that they had national id's. Maybe I'm confusing them with another European country.
England has national id's. London has more survellience (sp?) than any other city in the world. Neither protected them from this attack.
So introducing national id's in the United States will provide us with what exactly?
I finished my masters in spring '04, and my experience has been the following. I started work at a Fortune 500 company, one of the biggest companies in the U.S.. My position is a Software Engineer level 1. Mind you folks with a B.S. in Engineering or Computer Science at this level as well. So this is a junior position basically.
I get paid more than a fresh out with a B.S., but I was expected to basically perform like I don't know what I'm doing, just like someone fresh with a B.S. is. So far I've been able to adapt to the work environment quickly. I studied TQM, software processes, PSP/TSP, CMM as an undergrad. I know UML, actually designed applications using patterns in the past. I've been a linux and CS geek for a while, and had varied experiences with languages and platforms. So I had good past experiences that helped me a lot with my job.
I was able to perform above what they expect me to. I was lucky enough that I worked on a project that is brand spanking new, that runs on Linux, uses all this new technology and software development methodologies, that I was able to accel quickly and show folks I was capable. At the same time I was learning, and focused on learning how to operate in this corporate culture. I'm fortunate I work with good people too, that are willing to teach me.
Bottom line, every fresh-out, no matter what the degree, has learning to do. Chances are, you will work with shit people in a corporate culture, and there's plenty of them. Just because you have a masters, doesn't mean you know everything, there's always learning to do, but knowing more than you should doesn't hurt. Don't expect to go to a company, attempt to learn these corporate-culture-skills and *then* go get the senior job within a year. If you manage to pull this off, you're no longer a fresh out, and if you didn't learn your life lessons you're screwed. No one will respect you, unless you are the super-nice guy who delegates everything! Try to find a place where you can grow, and try to grow as much as possible in skills (people, corporate, political, technical). Then go the for senior position.
If you work at a good company, you will be rewarded if you deserve it. I stepped up a few times, and got more responsibility and more visiblity. I got a a nice raise after 4 months, and I think if I can keep this up and maybe manage to participate in more tasks, I can get a promotion in another year.
Yeah, I would like more money, I'd like move out of my parents house and buy a new car, and switching to a new job by claiming "real world" experience may help me attain this but I'm not ready for it, and its almost a year I've been working there.
Good luck dude, just don't think you're entitled anything. I felt entitled to shit when I finished my B.S., when I saw how sour the job market was in '03, I went back to school, learned more lessons in life before I went back out there. There's more to a job than working, I've learned this much so far.
People are really forgetting that this is the 21st century, and the protectionism of this century is through Intellectual Property. The federal government is doing everything it can to make sure US companies own absolutely all intellectual property. The US government also makes sure that this is enforced strictly.
These new protectionists hide behind the US Patent Office. Their intentions are governed by dominance, while the workers are only looking for a job and a living. The 21st Century version of protectionism is all making sure rich people and companies keep their wealth on top of taking advantage of foreign workforces. The older form of protectionism just wanted to keep working people working, which I think is more genuine at least.
Maybe you can bypass all the crap your mega-corp employer is doing to monitor your internet surfing by just using this google proxy. Ok, google is monitoring you now, but what's worse. If you visit Ars Technica and browse forums all day, you're employer could catch on and repremand you. What if you're browing google all damn day long. You can claim you're doing research.
Of course, no one (well maybe no one), really browses the web all day, but sometimes when you have nothing to do, you'd like to be able to pass time by without drawing heat to yourself from those damn corporate types.
Any ideas if this is basically a free proxy that essentially masks what you're doing as just traffic to and from google? That's what I'm assuming it could do.
Cutting taxes deprives state funding for the various programs they have, like education. (The Fed does give public universities lots of money you know.) I was directly addressing college education. So tuition is increased to make up for the lack of federal funds. Pretty simple.
Taking your money from you at gun point? Nice hyperbole. I never said it was moral, I said it was the intelligent thing to do. Educating people is the only way you're going to strengthen your country and its economy.
Every time college tuitions rise 1000 dollars, 4% of all would-be students in highschool don't go to college. 4% compounds pretty quickly, especially when college tuition is rising faster than inflation.
Its not a matter of morality. If you want a stupid country than Bush is your man. If you don't want a stupid country just look to any other Republican (maybe...) or a Democrat.
Do you think India would be taking so many jobs from the U.S. if English was spoken widely, but they were as dumb as a rock? No they wouldn't.
You can consider this Bush bashing, but Bush isn't an intellectual and doesn't appreciate the consequence of educating people. He thinks people spending that $300 bucks at Wallmart is good for America. When we have to invent the next world-changing WMD for America, who's going do it? Are we going to outsource it or let another country get it first?
You're a Republican, strong defense is one of your primary platforms. Please explain how we're going keep our defenses up when the country isn't doing anything to keep young people interested in science, and not doing anything to continue to encourage people, through lower tuitions, scholarships, grants, to become educated in these areas?
Since you're implying that "far to the left" is a *bad* thing, would you consider the right-wing paramilitaries in Nicaragua who introduced the term Death-Squad to our vocabulary, a *good* thing.
Letting gays have rights similar to those that married doesn't create thousands of dead bodies. Invading a country for money in every sense, from military contracts, cheap oil, new free trades zone, cheap labor, etc.., kills thousands as we are witness to it in Iraq. Don't forget, we didn't find WMD, or ties to Al Queda. And yes, those who pay attention to the news know it was Karl Rove's way to sell the war, but that implies there was no imminent danger and the war required selling for people to buy into it. Unlike World War 2.
If you need to sell to a war to your people, its either because they lacked so information that they can't make the decision on what they know, which could be case with our poor news media in the U.S., or its not altruistic as they made it seem. Bush has already shifted his democratic vision of Iraq to an Iraq with a democracy but it'll be influence by religion and a majority with no intentions to protect the minority, which is opposite to what we were hearing when there was no WMD. Flippity-Floppity.
Your party has good ideals, like smaller government, like lower taxes. It may have attempted to serve those ideals honesty in the past but it does not today. What future do you see in the Republican party? It's bleak. One of the primary reasons for government expansion in the Bush administration is more administrative positions introduced to the government. These are positions for political supporters of the Bush administration and Republican party. So when you party falls back on one of your primary ideals you would still support your party? Not only that, these positions cost us more tax money, so instead of letting people keep their money or invest it in working people in this country we're giving to away to political supports. How patriotic!
I'm not saying that because I'm a Democrat, but because I'm an American and I think the best potential of success we can try to give to all Americans is more important that Democrat/Republican party lines. You seem to toe your party line because you think its giving you something in return, when its not.
The Republicans have made college tuition more expensive by lowering taxes for rich people, and depriving states of more funding. Ok, I got a tax cut too, $300 bucks. So I can choose between two pairs of sneakers, or I can give up my tax cut, and thousands more Americans go to 4 year universities, that earn degrees, that invent more technology, or participate in the invention of new technology. More jobs are created, more tax revenues go the government and if we're lucky we can do it again for another generation. We could also help businesses of all sizes control health care costs while we try to fix the problem of expensive health care while relieve the burden and not stifle businesses or jeopardize our countrymen's health.
This is what Democrats want. What are the Republicans answer to these problems? They cut taxes, people suffer, business saves, and they're solutions are never solvent since they do make any honest attempt of helping the average American.
Howard Dean isn't a demi-god, and he may not have any good ideas (I think he does and I think he will be an excellent DNC char), but what he does do is appeal to young people, who will find their own direction in politics. Young people who find there way through the Democratic party don't get on TV and suggest we should nuke Canada except Vancouver (since they have nice shopping malls) as Ann Coulter has suggested. She was a Young Republican.
I'm eager to see the Democrat party grow in the next few years. For all the nay-sayers about the Democrats, listen to the Republicans delve into nostalgic musings about how they were small and insignificant.
Now that you're possibly out of a job (voluntarily), I hope you don't feel your entitled to a new one, bitch!
Send republicans. They are doing a great job ensuring that Earth stays roasty-toasty, imagine what they can do with a planet that doesn't have a liberal media.
Try to get a job at Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics, Boeing or Lockheed. There's no indication that the economy will become less militarized, so these are places where you have a chance of staying there until retirement. Not only that, these places are process intensive because the government and military branches require them to document, measure report the effectiveness of their process.
These companies need people with the ability to understand software engineers, know how to work, compromise and ease them into these new software processes. You can be a technical manager, a software quality assurance guy or part of the always omnious SEPG (the software gestapo).
These companies also spend 100's of millions of process. So they are opportunities.
Here is some advice. Even though there are many ads online for jobs at these kind of companies, your best way to get in is with someone already at one of these places.
How can you meet these people? Go to embedded conferences and software process conferences. To make yourself more marketable, learn PSP/TSP, learn Six Sigma; and get certificates. Knowing is great for the interview, but either pay the money or get your current employer to pay for this.
Also, try to make yourself savy with Integrity, VX Works, Linux and XML. Try to gather up what you can on at least 1 of the OS's, and for sure understand XML and know which programming tools are out there you can use. Why? XML is the golden cow of file handling right now. (I think its over done but you will find out why later in this msg.)
These companies are primes, so only the really big contracts, like 10-15 year contracts go to them. But the government expects them to sub-contract a lot of the work. Getting in with a small company that is currently working on the big contracts out there is a good way of finding work at the primes. Most subs will send their people to process and software training at the primes site, its a great opportunity to make contacts and build your network.
Granted most people don't like the idea of working for a defense company. I'm a progressive, and yes, these places house a majority of fact-ignorant republicans. It might be lame, but that was something I thoguht a lot about, but I got over it quickly. These places also keep a lot of ancient, useless and lazy dinosaurs. If you destroy a million dollar project, what usually happens is that you're put on another million dollar project. So if you're a great software engineer, the sky is the limit for you.
So if everyone were to live 1000 years. What would we do with people who had mental or physical disabilities? We would have to take care of them for a long ass time. Would it be worth it?
Perhaps we would leave them out for the wolves, but how could our society handle politics and political correctness. Fortunately, people die rather quickly, 50-75 years. So our enemies change at least once or twice every century. Imagine being at the throats of the Soviet Union for thousand years.
I think living that long, or even something like 200 years, would seriously give us enough time in one's lifetime to make destroying the world, in a non-religious sense, more of a possibility.
Folks use some tools to simulate their UML models. Rhapsody is a tool that can do this, and it is impressive, but I hardly consider this type of capability similiar to a programming language. Perhaps a psedu-code-like language is more equivalent.
In either case, like all things, it can be what you want it to be or how you creatively apply an idea or use of a tool.
You could argue that all the other OO notation schemes, OOT, Booch, etc.. could be used as languages as well, I don't think the argument is particular to UML. Unfortunately, I don't think most folks would use UML for anything more than documentation and 'sketching'. You could think of UML as a language or dialect to communicate with. Is that what Mellor is suggesting?
I think the original author of this thread was referring to the actual application of UML as a programming language, and not as a dialect for materializing thoughts in a software process.
UML is used only for notation and documentation. UML isn't context-free. Unless we're talking about Natural Programming Languages, UML will never replace languages like C++, Java, etc...
UML is useful for when you're working on a large project, that may be used across sites or even across companies if you're sub-contracting the development of your system to outside firms. I think its better at giving new developers something easy to digest before looking at the code. If you're subbing out work, it allows you to create high-level interfaces and hand them out to your sub's development teams to ensure that integration is easy (i.e. everything compiles and only that). They have a reference to work with and you may be less bothered with questions from the sub.
UML, like most other other software engineering fads exist mostly because groups like OMG want to push new consulting fees to large commercial companies, publish more series of books and create forums for them to lecture to (and charge fees).
Most large companies are abusing the hell out of all this software engineering sugar. Business Analysts authoring UML diagrams, not knowing exactly how this will translate into system. This ignorance, which is not their fault, its their managements fault, can cause hell and resentment among the developers.
Overall, UML is useful, but its not a save-all. You need guidelines to make it useful, and you need to refine them constantly. Tools are another issue. There are few that bridge the programming with the designing intent that UML and these tools attempt to provide and do it well.
Umm... Why do you think most Christians support Isreal fervently? Its because all of Isreal needs to be controlled by Jews, and Jerusalem needs to be occupied completely by Jews.
Once this occurs, its ready for Jesus, since in Revelations, Isreal and Jerusalem must be ready before Jesus comes back to Earth to save the Christians. This of course means the slaughter of the Jews.
So the dogma regarding the murders of millions apparently sits well with Christians before The End. Why would national ids bother them? If its a step closer to the Beast, they would embrace as fervently as they support Isreal. Christians want the Rapture to happen, and they want it to happen in their lifetime. Why? Because that means they don't have to die. (The analog to the Rapture is that if you stood next to a Christian in an open field and Rapture happened, they would disappear if you looked the other way for a second while it occurs.)
Part of my reply is flamebait since most Christians simply want to be saved, and don't want any part of a massive slaughter, but this is what the Rapture of the Church is all about, so I will leave my post at that.
The end goal of google desktop is attach advertisements to information gathered from data all over your machine. I haven't downloaded it, so I'm not entirely sure of its capabilities or whether is does that or not (I only have a mac here). However, considering that something like this is more like spyware with vastly intelligent (patented) algorithsm, oppose to Gators strstr() algorithm.
Spotlights end goal is to help you find your files without using that crap Finder. Apple doesn't want you to use Safari to receive ads collected by Spotlight and then buy stuff, its another improvement to the steering wheel for your computer. Google wants to generate ad revenue and your data is part of their business model.
I personally don't like any company using my computer as an advertising platform, it just erks me. I don't want to be part of business model that doesn't profit me and doesn't guarantee my privacy and protection, which Google and no other company can.
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And once the bright engineer from America finds he can help poorer countries have electricity, these poor folks will have access to more education, and will in a short time become "high quality technology workers."
Then we find the engineer who started all this loses their job, or their industry is purged, so we can send work to the "the zippies" (read Tom Friedman) and big multi-national corps win out, the original inventor is treated like an old useless animal, not even worth slaughtering since its tasteless now.
Ok, so maybe this is a bit dramatic, but isn't it almost creepy how you can see inventions like this come back to haunt us. Computers already fucked us science-friendly people after we thought we had it good. Let's be good to our fellow humans and just give them food and whatever else they need to be healthy. When it comes to education, technology and language, let them figure it out.
You can dig a hole in a ground, and fill it with water, with shark that have frikkin' lasers on their heads and then toss that guy in it.
Give me a break, once an Indian guy gets a job whether its as an IT guy or as a software developer, any time there is a notion for a need for more help, the Indian guy tells his buddies and the hiring manager is flooded. Or, the Indian guy tells his buddy/cousin exactly what he needs to say and he then surreptitiously sends his resume with all the goodies on it to get him hired.
Yes, evil white Americans lie and cheat to get jobs too, but India and Indians pitch themselves as heavily educated, english speaking, motivated; just wonderful people. And Americans, well we're ignorant, we blow up other countries, we're racist, immoral; bad people essentially. So its not as bad as a moral dichotomy.
This is where the animosity is created. Lets be honest too, once an Indian guy, whether its full-time or a consultant, comes in, there's more to follow, there's a higher likelihood of work being sent to India, and a likelihood some America (white/black/latino/etc..) is going to lose their job.
So take your racism-waving comments and shove them up your ass Sanjay... I mean Sean.
I agree with this parent. On day one, if you find the "we own everything" clause. Give them an example of a situation where you, the genius inventor, invents the next generation of anal stimulation products that revolutionizes the sexual products industry.
See if they are willing to claim that this "IP" will belong to them, and they will claim it as their own. If you can deliver this is a joking way, and they say no, then ask them why anything else invested or worked on should also belong to them.
sup O, its my first name plus my last name, in one word, @earthlink.net
I've gone to grad school were the large majority of student, over 60%, where Indian with the rest of the student population mostly being dominated by Asians from China, Korea, Thailand and a small minority of whites, blacks and latinos.
I was never offered help once by foreign students. When I could give help, and was asked to help, I would not only be met with more questions but with more students, mostly foreign students.
Am I saintly? Hardly. I want to point out that these foreign companies, employees and students are competing against their US conterparts like Hell!! They're not letting pride blind them from interacting with us, working with us or befriending us.
They're leveraging our economic system and visa system to beat us. Believe me, the odds are stack highly against American workers. Its not just corporate America peddling for more profits.
The thinly veiled racism you suggest is not only inappropiate, its wrong.
Maybe you've been raised to feel superior to other, but lots of people made their own decisions how to feel about other people. This isn't a fight over who's intelligent and who's more creative. Our livelihoods are at risk because nations with incredible and irresponsible growth have the ability to commoditize their own people.
The US for a long time valued workmanship, and people still believe it still does, and some politicians believe it to. But somewhere along the way our leaders forgot to protect this ideal.
This is a failure of policy, not of American workers. If our leaders created laws to level the playing field with countries the size of India and China, this discussion wouldn't be nearly as heated, and we could avoid the type of discourse that attempts to measure the worthfullness of people. No one is better than another.
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Yes, I just finished the DNC finale.
I really doubt that exokernels will bring about a new revolution in performance. Definitely design. You need to keep in mind that the HAL is very primitive, and operates mainly as a sophisticated multiplexor for the hardware. You will have to include protection for these resources and will also have to manage which services are accessing these resources.
In traditional operatings, because you have a sophiticated kernel managing applications, scheduling and memory, you have room to optimize how you execute your "jobs."
Scheduling similar to that of a traditional kernel would be non-existant in an exokernel. I may be wrong, but I don't think any of these new operating system fads will bring about anything new in speed.
I agree, the DS is pretty damn amazing. I'm hoping they release some kind of free developers kits, maybe a Java 2 Mobile VM or something. Hell, anything would be cool.
I have to agree with one of the other posters. Sony knows what's they're doing with that Metal Gear Acid title. They should call it Metal Gear Heroine, that series of titles is damn addictive, ; worse than cigarettes.
In either case, Nintendo DS will be released this year, maybe 1 year before Sony's PSP. So everyone who wants the *new* portable player, will go for the DS first. Sony will run their "wait for next year" propaganda, Nintendo needs to beat them down with their marketing strategy.
Initially, I thought the Sony PSP would have some serious damn horsepower, like the power of something a tad less than a PS2. From what I've read on DS though it has more power then a Nintendo 64, so I think both of them are gonna be pushing some serious power.
It's gonna come down to games, but Sony has those nice Metal Gear titles that comes out for it first, plus Final Fantasy; both are severely addictive series. But the DS is going to have an edge regarding online multiplayer games. Its going to have more online games than PSP when it debuts. Its weird that Nintendo is pushing online games for portable systems instead of home systems, but we've yet to see their new home console, so I should probably not criticize Nintendo on their progression to multi-play games.
Ask your pastor or local preacher if he feels the same way as you do. If he doesn't, than think twice about paying your tithe (if you pay a tithe). Funding these fundamentalist preachers need to stop.
When a nutty Christian preacher starts running his mouth about issues protected by the constitution, he needs to get a nudge to clam it up.
You don't want a few "bad apples" to create a controversial face to Christianity, nor do you want to support those individuals when their talking about usurping the idea of separation of church and state with their remarks about video games, censorship, etc...
What we need are a few cats who don't give a fuck, and just embarrass the hell out of the upper level management by slapping them around in front of everyone else. Give them the, "Fuck you, I'm not training any one" rant, and then let the beatings begin.
I'm not talking about any type of slapping around, I mean hitting them hard in the nose first, than putting them in a head lock and slapping them around, reminding them that tomorrow they will be the guy who got his ass beat in front of the indispensable working masses.
It takes a special person to inflict this type of embarrassment in the meanest way possible. To inflict enough personal disgrace that the people who is humiliated just isn't right anymore; their lives are completely fucked forever.
The people who accomplish this task, will be the hero's of the future. Godspeed!