After all these years I still think the original Final Fantasy is still my favorite video game of all time. Two Fighters, a Black Mage and a White Mage.
Saying Iran is not responsible for 9/11, and most Al-Qaeda operations is ridiculous. Whether directly or indirectly (funding, religion, etc) they are the puppet masters, and anyone who has had dealings in the middle east knows this. They have given good and peaceful arabs a very bad name. Israel has always been under attack, it is simply a matter of time before the morons in the middle east try to attack her again. Nuclear weapons bring a whole new dilemma, that conventional do not. They cannot under any circumstances be allowed to have any nuclear abilities what-so-ever. If we let them, who next, Cuba? Venezuela? etc.. Gotta draw the line in the sand...
I think the time is up. This is ridiculous, they hid it, they violated every rule in the book. They could easily have a nuclear weapon we do not know about, and use it on Israel, or sneak it into the US. This is like playing russian roulette with suicidal maniacs. The idiot president before Obama invaded iraq, mistake from the beginning. He should have invaded Iran, Iraq was never a threat. I am very liberal, alwasy vote dem etc, but enough is enough. Being Liberal, and having balls are two seperate things. They should give them an ultimatum to shutdown all nuclear plants or face a constant barrage of bombing across the entire country. No Ground troops, just bomb them back to the stone age.
My angry two cents from someone who worked in WTC, and really would not like to see it happen again...
I think people are missing the point. Like most projects that need funding you need a selling point, and a true point. And rarely are they the same. In this case the selling point is that digitizing the records will help reduce costs and save money. While this may be partially true I doubt the true reason behind the project is this, and that this is simply the selling point to get approval from the public and congress.
I believe the true reason behind the digitizing of the records is for research. Think about the large scale research that can be done on these records, it is amazing just to contemplate. A perfect example would be Autism. Does the MMR shot actually give a child autism. Does autism ever develop before the shots? What is the average time after the shot? Does the shot not have anything to do with autism? You can extract such large amounts of data to target your smaller studies from, instead of taking guesses as they do today and where to start.
C++should be FIRST, second Java, then C#! Now with that said let *Attempt* me back that up. I work currently in all 3, I would say about 60% of my time is in JAVA, 30% in C# and 10% in C/C++. I am also not a typical Slashdot user as I don't HATE Windows and just love linux. To be honest I love and hate both of them and use each of them for what they are good at. So...
C++ first: So why C++ first, isn't it OLD and outdated? Well Yes to some extent and No to another. C++ is like learning how to bake a cake from scratch u learn the lowest of the low in details. Why things work and all the different ways they work and why things were designed the way they were in Java and C#. C++ is a beautiful and ugly language at the same time but also has an ENOURMOUS amount of power in the right hands. I equate learning C++ to learning how to bake a cake, You don't use the duncen hines mix the first time, u actually use all the basic ingredients like flower, etc. This gives u an understanding of what exactly does what in the cake.
Java Second: Why Java second? FIrst because it's easier to learn in a more CORRECT manor that C#. NOw let me clarify that before I get flamed. I don't care who u are or what u know but Sun's Java Docs whip the ass of microsoft documentation. THis little ignored but yet so important thing means a LOT when it comest to learning a language. Now I've been programming for many years and when I learned C# tracking down what the [] operator does for each different MS class was a total BITCH. Java is also proably the most popular language right now and is not goign anywhere. Anyone that says it is knows nothing abotu server programming. There is not MAJOR financial bank that does the bulk of it's trading on Windows or C# backends, it's all either UNIX or LINUX with JAVA or C++ and at some of the older banks, COBOL. Windows is not great for servers, it has many drawbacks... but that is a debate for another time.
C# third: C# is Java, anyone that says it's not does not know both. But what C# has is the ability to integrate easy with Windows, and this means a lot. This to me is it's only Advantage, as I like to use windows as my primary desktop. As for a language, it's OK, I personally like java Better, but it's a 6 half a dozzen split to be honest. My pet peeve though is the [] operator and the delegate/event mechanisms, I truely don't like those, but that's just personal. I think those lead to bad programming and less OO design. As for MONO, I hope is succeeds and does well, but for now it's just a joke, u can't use it in an enterprise environment, they just don't have it workign well enough unfortunatly.
So in closing I would learn in that order, I like all three, I use all three. My personal favorite is Java but that might have more to do with IntelliJ than anything else. Visual Studio is a piece of shit in comparison. I hope they get it right the next time, I here the new one is slightly better than the 2003 version I use.
So they asked u to create standards? Well basically they put u in one hell of a shitty position since most people are no longer going to like you. From the sounds of it u work for a company where IT is a supporting role, not a Money Making role. If i were u I would create the simplest standards to get the job done. The most important thing to do is be PRODUCTIVE! if you are not productive who cares what standards you have, cause u ain't gonna have a job. So if I were u, make is SIMPLE. ONLY put commects in areas of code that are NOT intuitive. put all code in same place, have a testing environment and production environment. Anything else the tradeoff is time used will not be worth it to the time away from pure development. Any coders worth there salt will perform very well with minimal standards. Besides the previously mentions, on a need only basis for everything else, such as backtesting etc... in non software shop they are of VERY VERY limited value. Productivity is what matters... and beisdes, no one likes the guy who makes lots of standards and makes there lives miserable.
Thinking about it again though I should probably reconsider my advice, the more standards you guys put in the more of a chance you wont deliver and the company will get desperate and hire a high priced whore like me to come in and get shit done and pay me lots!:)
OK the one piece of advice I can give is BE A WHORE and go wherever the money is. Money = Happyness in anything unless u are doing what u truely love (and come on, who is reallllly doing what they truley love?) . Anyone who tell u otherwise is a poor son-of-a-bitch trying to make himself feel better about his situation. GO AFTER MONEY, that is it. You will be happier, wealthier and have more fun toys to play with in long run!
OK the canceling of Star Trek is complete Bullshit. This was such a expected and cheap move on UPN's side, lets look at the facts...
1) Nielson Ratings - They are total bullshit, the way those boxes are given out is ridiculous, and the way they sample is crazy. I would put money on it they have a 300 % margin of error.
2) The move to Friday night - This was like saying u die now but we will let it be slow and painful. The core fandom will watch but the people that channel surf will not be home so they will not and ratings are guaranteed to fall, and cancelation is guaranteed. Wonder what brilliant Coporate Exec came up with this... Fridays should be a night for re-runs only.
3) Today all we do is market to the majority of morons (AKA the South and Midwest) no offens if u are from these places but most of the uneducated, Brittney Spears music loving, watch TV all day an do nothing with there lives people are from here. THey should not even be included in the tallies as on manhattite probably earns more money in a week that 30 of them in a year put together( ok exaggeration but has some truth to it)
In Closing, I admit Season 2 was not great, but Season 3 was good, and this season rocks. Somone should DDOS the damn UPN site, they deserve it...
And a last thought.. yeah my grammer and spelling suck, and I don't care cause I'm angry... so dont' be a smart ass and think u are funny by pointing it out...
Well I don't know about everyone else but Firefox v1.0 gives me 10 times less problems than IE so I use it, and I'm a liker of some of MS stuff...
The only BIG problem I encountered was when hitting back on the PR version that it did not alwasy go to where u were scrolled to on the previous page and took you to the top of the screen... surfing porn becomes very annoying with this... lol
Not to be rude but in your last sentence you completely summed up the problems I have had with doctors and what is wrong with doctors, which is "They are just as egotystical as programmers". I'll never understand how doctors think they actually understand the human body, they always think they are right... it drives me nuts. If I say it hurts.. it really hurst! it's not mental!
A perfect examples of my last run in with dr is... I'm 25 years old with the problems of a 50 year old and everytime a new one hits me the doctors take forever to believe me and then I usually end up having to figure out what I have and force it down there throats until they come to the same conclusion themselves... The latest one in my shitty annoying illnesesses is a herniated Disk in my back between L1-L2... Since the pain was in my back and front, the doctors (not just one, but many) all assumed I had intestinal problems, or kidney problems... no one wanted to listen to me that it hurt more depending on the way I moved until they stuck enough poles up my ass and could not find a thing and did an MRI on my Lumbar spine. This took (9 months!)
One bit of advice for Doctors (and Programmers). STOP BEING SO DAMN EGOTYSTICAL! computers and the human body are very very complicated machines, u ain't always gonna be right and shoudl look at all the syptoms of the problem and LISTEN to the patients (or users)...
SO that is my little rant as I sit here high on pain killers trying ot make the pain go away from my screwed up disc...
I have to admit the most important lesson I ever learned about being an engenieer came from Scotty in episode he appeared on The Next Generation.
He said (paraphrased) "Never tell the captain how long it's really gonna take you, always tell him it will take you a lot longer. How else are u going to become known as miracle worker?"
So mabey it may be considered fear to run from a guy who is looking to kill you, and mabey it may be braver to just stand up, but I prefer to be a coward, live another day, and come up with a strategy, than be dead and buried just cause I had to stand up to be brave and look tough...
This is a great move by Real. I will definatly be a buyer since there are many albums that I have been on the fringe of buying but have now wanted to spend 12-15 bucks on, but would def be wiling to spend 5.
This move will help increase competition in the market and I think will be beneficial to the consumers in the long run. As much as I like Apple, I like good old competition more cause it means better products at lower prices! Gotta Love Capatalism!
I have to admit reading such an article by someone so revered does upset me. It almost makes me feel that the writer has forgotten what it means to be human, and has attached himself so much to his work that he can only quantitativly see existance and usefullness though the lenses of percieved productivity. To me manned space flight is simply an extension of the human condition which most have to explore and learn, for if it were not for this same condition we would not be where we were.
If someone did not bother to care to explore, we may still not have re-discovered america...
I have to admnit, I am not a fan of our current president, but he really did have a good idea! His space initiative, while lacking in details and funding it really was well placed and showed great direction. It just amazes me that people in congress are so pety over such a small amount of money that can do so much good and insteady use it as a political weapon. It just amazes me that they cannot even get along on an issue like this that is so bipartison... it truely is depressing...
There is an interesting Book out now called Lost in Space : The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375 421505/qid=1089999998/sr=8-6/ref=pd_ka_6/002-29955 58-2684827?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 ) which deals with this time in the history as well as the current time. I've been hearing that it is rather good and gives you an understanding of how NASA came to be the great beurocracy it is now...
Hopefully, god knows the only way to make money on the internet is porn! I just hope they make a shitload of it cause it's my almamata and I loved it there!
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After all these years I still think the original Final Fantasy is still my favorite video game of all time. Two Fighters, a Black Mage and a White Mage.
Saying Iran is not responsible for 9/11, and most Al-Qaeda operations is ridiculous. Whether directly or indirectly (funding, religion, etc) they are the puppet masters, and anyone who has had dealings in the middle east knows this. They have given good and peaceful arabs a very bad name. Israel has always been under attack, it is simply a matter of time before the morons in the middle east try to attack her again. Nuclear weapons bring a whole new dilemma, that conventional do not. They cannot under any circumstances be allowed to have any nuclear abilities what-so-ever. If we let them, who next, Cuba? Venezuela? etc .. Gotta draw the line in the sand ...
I think the time is up. This is ridiculous, they hid it, they violated every rule in the book. They could easily have a nuclear weapon we do not know about, and use it on Israel, or sneak it into the US. This is like playing russian roulette with suicidal maniacs. The idiot president before Obama invaded iraq, mistake from the beginning. He should have invaded Iran, Iraq was never a threat. I am very liberal, alwasy vote dem etc, but enough is enough. Being Liberal, and having balls are two seperate things. They should give them an ultimatum to shutdown all nuclear plants or face a constant barrage of bombing across the entire country. No Ground troops, just bomb them back to the stone age.
My angry two cents from someone who worked in WTC, and really would not like to see it happen again ...
I think people are missing the point. Like most projects that need funding you need a selling point, and a true point. And rarely are they the same. In this case the selling point is that digitizing the records will help reduce costs and save money. While this may be partially true I doubt the true reason behind the project is this, and that this is simply the selling point to get approval from the public and congress.
I believe the true reason behind the digitizing of the records is for research. Think about the large scale research that can be done on these records, it is amazing just to contemplate. A perfect example would be Autism. Does the MMR shot actually give a child autism. Does autism ever develop before the shots? What is the average time after the shot? Does the shot not have anything to do with autism? You can extract such large amounts of data to target your smaller studies from, instead of taking guesses as they do today and where to start.
Just my two cents...
After this long would this not be considered a feature? :)
Call in sick ...
C++should be FIRST, second Java, then C#! Now with that said let *Attempt* me back that up. I work currently in all 3, I would say about 60% of my time is in JAVA, 30% in C# and 10% in C/C++. I am also not a typical Slashdot user as I don't HATE Windows and just love linux. To be honest I love and hate both of them and use each of them for what they are good at. So ...
C++ first: So why C++ first, isn't it OLD and outdated? Well Yes to some extent and No to another. C++ is like learning how to bake a cake from scratch u learn the lowest of the low in details. Why things work and all the different ways they work and why things were designed the way they were in Java and C#. C++ is a beautiful and ugly language at the same time but also has an ENOURMOUS amount of power in the right hands. I equate learning C++ to learning how to bake a cake, You don't use the duncen hines mix the first time, u actually use all the basic ingredients like flower, etc. This gives u an understanding of what exactly does what in the cake.
Java Second: Why Java second? FIrst because it's easier to learn in a more CORRECT manor that C#. NOw let me clarify that before I get flamed. I don't care who u are or what u know but Sun's Java Docs whip the ass of microsoft documentation. THis little ignored but yet so important thing means a LOT when it comest to learning a language. Now I've been programming for many years and when I learned C# tracking down what the [] operator does for each different MS class was a total BITCH. Java is also proably the most popular language right now and is not goign anywhere. Anyone that says it is knows nothing abotu server programming. There is not MAJOR financial bank that does the bulk of it's trading on Windows or C# backends, it's all either UNIX or LINUX with JAVA or C++ and at some of the older banks, COBOL. Windows is not great for servers, it has many drawbacks... but that is a debate for another time.
C# third: C# is Java, anyone that says it's not does not know both. But what C# has is the ability to integrate easy with Windows, and this means a lot. This to me is it's only Advantage, as I like to use windows as my primary desktop. As for a language, it's OK, I personally like java Better, but it's a 6 half a dozzen split to be honest. My pet peeve though is the [] operator and the delegate/event mechanisms, I truely don't like those, but that's just personal. I think those lead to bad programming and less OO design. As for MONO, I hope is succeeds and does well, but for now it's just a joke, u can't use it in an enterprise environment, they just don't have it workign well enough unfortunatly.
So in closing I would learn in that order, I like all three, I use all three. My personal favorite is Java but that might have more to do with IntelliJ than anything else. Visual Studio is a piece of shit in comparison. I hope they get it right the next time, I here the new one is slightly better than the 2003 version I use.
Hope that Helps!
So they asked u to create standards? Well basically they put u in one hell of a shitty position since most people are no longer going to like you. From the sounds of it u work for a company where IT is a supporting role, not a Money Making role. If i were u I would create the simplest standards to get the job done. The most important thing to do is be PRODUCTIVE! if you are not productive who cares what standards you have, cause u ain't gonna have a job. So if I were u, make is SIMPLE. ONLY put commects in areas of code that are NOT intuitive. put all code in same place, have a testing environment and production environment. Anything else the tradeoff is time used will not be worth it to the time away from pure development. Any coders worth there salt will perform very well with minimal standards. Besides the previously mentions, on a need only basis for everything else, such as backtesting etc... in non software shop they are of VERY VERY limited value. Productivity is what matters ... and beisdes, no one likes the guy who makes lots of standards and makes there lives miserable.
:)
Thinking about it again though I should probably reconsider my advice, the more standards you guys put in the more of a chance you wont deliver and the company will get desperate and hire a high priced whore like me to come in and get shit done and pay me lots!
OK the one piece of advice I can give is BE A WHORE and go wherever the money is. Money = Happyness in anything unless u are doing what u truely love (and come on, who is reallllly doing what they truley love?) . Anyone who tell u otherwise is a poor son-of-a-bitch trying to make himself feel better about his situation. GO AFTER MONEY, that is it. You will be happier, wealthier and have more fun toys to play with in long run!
OK the canceling of Star Trek is complete Bullshit. This was such a expected and cheap move on UPN's side, lets look at the facts ...
... Fridays should be a night for re-runs only.
...
.. yeah my grammer and spelling suck, and I don't care cause I'm angry ... so dont' be a smart ass and think u are funny by pointing it out ...
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1) Nielson Ratings - They are total bullshit, the way those boxes are given out is ridiculous, and the way they sample is crazy. I would put money on it they have a 300 % margin of error.
2) The move to Friday night - This was like saying u die now but we will let it be slow and painful. The core fandom will watch but the people that channel surf will not be home so they will not and ratings are guaranteed to fall, and cancelation is guaranteed. Wonder what brilliant Coporate Exec came up with this
3) Today all we do is market to the majority of morons (AKA the South and Midwest) no offens if u are from these places but most of the uneducated, Brittney Spears music loving, watch TV all day an do nothing with there lives people are from here. THey should not even be included in the tallies as on manhattite probably earns more money in a week that 30 of them in a year put together( ok exaggeration but has some truth to it)
In Closing, I admit Season 2 was not great, but Season 3 was good, and this season rocks. Somone should DDOS the damn UPN site, they deserve it
And a last thought
My two angry cents
Well I don't know about everyone else but Firefox v1.0 gives me 10 times less problems than IE so I use it, and I'm a liker of some of MS stuff ...
... surfing porn becomes very annoying with this ... lol
The only BIG problem I encountered was when hitting back on the PR version that it did not alwasy go to where u were scrolled to on the previous page and took you to the top of the screen
Not to be rude but in your last sentence you completely summed up the problems I have had with doctors and what is wrong with doctors, which is "They are just as egotystical as programmers". I'll never understand how doctors think they actually understand the human body, they always think they are right... it drives me nuts. If I say it hurts .. it really hurst! it's not mental!
... The latest one in my shitty annoying illnesesses is a herniated Disk in my back between L1-L2 ... Since the pain was in my back and front, the doctors (not just one, but many) all assumed I had intestinal problems, or kidney problems ... no one wanted to listen to me that it hurt more depending on the way I moved until they stuck enough poles up my ass and could not find a thing and did an MRI on my Lumbar spine. This took (9 months!)
...
A perfect examples of my last run in with dr is... I'm 25 years old with the problems of a 50 year old and everytime a new one hits me the doctors take forever to believe me and then I usually end up having to figure out what I have and force it down there throats until they come to the same conclusion themselves
One bit of advice for Doctors (and Programmers). STOP BEING SO DAMN EGOTYSTICAL! computers and the human body are very very complicated machines, u ain't always gonna be right and shoudl look at all the syptoms of the problem and LISTEN to the patients (or users)...
SO that is my little rant as I sit here high on pain killers trying ot make the pain go away from my screwed up disc
damn euler! I wish my cell phone didn't work, then work coudl not call me at 2 in the morning! :)
Well I'm from manhattan, and we call it the only good thing in the arm pit state ... :) jk
Normal is a relative term ;)
Now why didnt they do a study on Win 3.1? I mean that was the only good windows version! :)
This was by far the most important Rule I ever learned about being and software developer (or any engenieer) for that matter ...
I have to admit the most important lesson I ever learned about being an engenieer came from Scotty in episode he appeared on The Next Generation.
He said (paraphrased) "Never tell the captain how long it's really gonna take you, always tell him it will take you a lot longer. How else are u going to become known as miracle worker?"
So mabey it may be considered fear to run from a guy who is looking to kill you, and mabey it may be braver to just stand up, but I prefer to be a coward, live another day, and come up with a strategy, than be dead and buried just cause I had to stand up to be brave and look tough ...
:)
Vote Kerry!
This is a great move by Real. I will definatly be a buyer since there are many albums that I have been on the fringe of buying but have now wanted to spend 12-15 bucks on, but would def be wiling to spend 5.
This move will help increase competition in the market and I think will be beneficial to the consumers in the long run. As much as I like Apple, I like good old competition more cause it means better products at lower prices! Gotta Love Capatalism!
I have to admit reading such an article by someone so revered does upset me. It almost makes me feel that the writer has forgotten what it means to be human, and has attached himself so much to his work that he can only quantitativly see existance and usefullness though the lenses of percieved productivity. To me manned space flight is simply an extension of the human condition which most have to explore and learn, for if it were not for this same condition we would not be where we were.
...
If someone did not bother to care to explore, we may still not have re-discovered america
Can someone please tell me where I can buy this special insulation ... my damn electric bill is high as shit!
I have to admnit, I am not a fan of our current president, but he really did have a good idea! His space initiative, while lacking in details and funding it really was well placed and showed great direction. It just amazes me that people in congress are so pety over such a small amount of money that can do so much good and insteady use it as a political weapon. It just amazes me that they cannot even get along on an issue like this that is so bipartison... it truely is depressing ...
There is an interesting Book out now called Lost in Space : The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375 421505/qid=1089999998/sr=8-6/ref=pd_ka_6/002-29955 58-2684827?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 ) which deals with this time in the history as well as the current time. I've been hearing that it is rather good and gives you an understanding of how NASA came to be the great beurocracy it is now ...
Hopefully, god knows the only way to make money on the internet is porn! I just hope they make a shitload of it cause it's my almamata and I loved it there!