... I start to use Google Maps. Panning around and zooming in and out quickly bring the amount of memory used from 78mb to over 300mb on my machine. I've seen it as high as 500mb before it starts to impact response times and I restart it.
Is this a problem with Firefox or Google then???
Maybe we aren't reading the same article. The one I read said this:
Last month, researchers at Finjan stumbled onto a cache of stolen FTP server administrative credentials that put nearly 9,000 FTP servers at some major global companies at risk, demonstrating just how widespread the old-school FTP remains at many organizations. Cybercriminals were selling a new crimeware package that would automatically infect those servers, some of which were from the world's top 100 domains.
So... that link grandma just clicked didn't go to hallmark.com.rm, it went to hallmark.com and just downloaded malware.
I agree can really lock down FTP to be resistant to hacks. Until someone gets your credentials. Then it's Duck Season!
Hiring someone to work on a system does not require them to be a 'master' of a system on day one. Experience in C++ doe not make someone not want to write Java, it is a comfort zone issue, not skills. Sure, someone can point out all of the areas where C++ is superior. I can point out all kinds of reasons to not use C++, Java, COBOL, FORTRAN and many other languages. But many of those reasons are preferences, not reasons to pass on a well paying job at an interesting company with great benefits.
I can't count how many languages I've written code in, yet only mastered a couple. It doesn't mean I couldn't hold down a job tomorrow in C#. Sure, some things may take longer. Debugging skills are partly experience based in a language, so that will take longer. Learning which classes to use for which task take time. But so does understanding a company's existing code base and architecture.
One of the comments that attracted me to the company I work for was a discussion about migrating some C++ code to Java. I asked this question 'Why?'. The interviewer sat back, and realized there wasn't a good reason other than no one had touched it in 6 years, and it was fragile and difficult to recover from aborts, and she was more comfortable with Java. Based on the type of work it did, I told her that it doesn't really make any difference whether it is in C++ or Java or even SQL stored procedures, there are no speed requirements since it is restricted by database response times. So either one would be fine. It comes down to what direction the company wants to go in. These programs are more easily maintained in Java, and don't need the complex capabilities of C++. They tend to be stand alone without lots of shared libraries. But I also didn't see any reason not to rewrite them in C++, or to put the meat into stored procedures and only have the program act as a traffic cop.
She responded that I was what they were looking for, a software developer that could easily shift skills depending on what the requirements were. Not some C++/Java/C#/Python/Ruby expert who only wanted to work in the one they were the most comfortable with.
That's why I have a 6 figure salary and only had to interview at one company before I shifted jobs.
It sounds like that 'trusted' sites have been hacked, and that nefarious forces may place files on those trusted sites, then send emails that look authentic. That is, the email looks like it is from a responsible site and has an FTP URL for that site, but the file on the trusted site contains malware of some type.
I have gotten fake hallmark cards in the past, and only because the URLs were obviously not hallmark did I check the headers. Transform this into a malware that installs a back door, grabs your address book, then sends the address book full of trusted names back to the originator. Now you have an email from a trusted source that has URLs to a trusted site to help spread it.
So.. you can't find someone with the right 'skill set'.
Maybe what you really need are smarter programmers. Anyone who has talent can pick up new languages, especially when they need to maintain an existing system and not create a new one from scratch. Ignoring C++ developers simply because one has a Java web platform (or WebSphere because one has a JBOSS environment) is just plain ignorant. All languages share common elements, and good developers use those elements to pick up the nuances of syntax. All application servers share common elements, and good application support staff can learn new ones.
Every time I hear a developer or app support person say 'I don't know that', I just want to reach across the room and ask them how stupid they are. The smart ones get online, research, and learn it very quickly, the non-as-smart ones use their ignorance to stay in their comfort zone. I'd rather find the smart ones, because in 6 months there are going to be more changes in the computer industry and I would want staff that can adapt.
So... go find some smart people and let them loose. They'll take care of it.
Then, once you get those smart people that have experience in other areas, work with them to determine what platform to go to, or if you even need to.
I needed to find a Bank of America branch close to where I work so I can run out at lunch. Google maps showed me were it was, but I knew that area was a strip mall, and didn't know which side of the street it was on or where in the malls it was. Was it next to the street, did it have a street entrance, etc. The satellite view only showed the malls and a few buildings that might be banks.
Using street view I found the branch, then reversed a little down the street to see where I needed to turn to get into the mall. I could see where the drive up ATMs were, and the stores around where I needed to turn for reference. I even found out there was a right turn only lane and a 'right lane ends' sign where I needed to turn.
Now, for most of you cagers out there, who cares. But I ride a motorcycle, I have a hard enough time watching out for cars, since I don't know which ones are not watching out for me. Watching for addresses and stores along the side while in traffic adds to the risk of riding and driving.
Another example... A few weeks ago my wife was going to an event in a part of the town she wasn't familiar with. I was able to use street view to call up the intersections so she could get a visual reference where the turns were, kind of like a little pre-ride. I was able to show her the front gate of where she needed to turn into. She doesn't do well with 'drive 1.3 miles and turn left' directions. She likes to have 'There will be a Shell station on one corner, turn left and go past the Starbucks.
Granted, we can't depend on the data being 100% accurate. Things change, and in Phoenix they change a lot.
This service may take a little privacy away from very few, but I can see where it would make a lot more people's lives easier, and add some measure of safety. I don't have the definitive answer about which is best overall, but I know which I prefer. I could see how future home buying sites could utilize this feature for virtual drive-bys of homes and neighborhoods.
If you are that concerned about your privacy, look up your house and make sure. I already have to go online periodically to opt-out of credit-card offers and telemarketing. Not to mention my three free credit reports a year. Add it to the list of things you need to do once or twice a freakin' year.
I checked my house... I always keep the front shutters closed.
I haven't had to 'look' for a job (i.e. interview with more than one company) since the early 90s. I have a network, and if I want to change jobs, I ask the people I respect the most (and who I think have respect for me) if there is anything out there. (Changed job 5 times due to corporate changes such as mergers, acquisitions and startup failures.) Usually my income went up, but I took a cut in pay for the last one because the company appears to be that much fun to work for.
People who are truly superstars are probably working at a job they like and you won't be able to budge them *unless* you have an open pocketbook or something 'Google-like' that would appeal to someone who can get a job anywhere. Or something has changed (or their patience has just run out) and in a month or two will have another one through people they already know.
My suggestion is if you want a superstar, start networking with the people YOU know and respect the most. Maybe your network and a prospective employee's network will connect somewhere. That's how I got this one. A guy I know knew about this job and let me know about it because he thought it was something I would be interested in and knew that my company was going through an acquisition and thought I might be looking.
This is the same principle casinos use. 96% of the money you spend is returned in prize money.
This only make sense IF: * Solar power becomes cheap enough (or gas becomes expensive enough) to justify purchasing your own station. I spend about $400/month on gas today. * Electricity is cheaper/cleaner to produce and deliver than gasoline so I don't need the solar arrays
If this doesn't have a two year ROI, then it won't make it. I could justify the initial cost to purchase the generator/fueling system/solar arrays if the entire cost for two years was about $10K for the equivilant fuel for 30K miles the next time I need to buy a car (4-8 years from now).
I could see car dealers coming up with financing packages like this: Car: $20K Fuel system installed: $10K No gas purchase for two years: Priceless
Thanks for posting the Obama/McCain links. I didn't make up my mind until I read the links. McCain it is for me now.
Just because two people read the same thing doesn't mean they come away with the same opinion. I still find Obama naive and without the political clout to do anything other than be a puppet for someone else. It's nice saying all the nice words, but I don't see in him the ability to lead and make anything happen. And I won't fault someone for not having a patent reform agenda on their web site. There are more important things that a President needs to work on.
If it comes down to the two of them, I will vote for McCain, but won't be upset if Obama gets elected. They are both intelligent and moral people who I think would do well.
As long as it's not Hillary, I'll be just fine. She scares the crap out of me.
I've got news for everyone... scientific research is not the unbiased bastion that everyone thinks it is. There are many books that document the sagas (and if I could get into the room where my step-son is sleeping I'd get you a couple of titles) of how scientists and politics go hand-in-hand. Backstabbing, lying, and downright blackmail have been going on for hundreds of years. It's popular to blame the current administration, but they weren't the first and won't be the last to try and craft scientific theories to fit their beliefs.
Everyone does it.. everyone likes to quote the facts that support their favorite belief and don't offer up the evidence that refutes it. Be it arguments for and against cloning, genetic engineering, global warming, power generation, and on and on.
Recognize the conflicts exist, do your own sanity check, then move on. It's never going to change until our unemotional robot overlords take control. As long as people do the research, there will always be biased contamination in the reporting of the results.
Thank you!! I was wondering when someone would realize this. Multi-tasking doesn't necessarily mean doing several things at one time. It can also mean that I have several tasks in process. I'll work on one task, when I reach a point where I need some input from someone, I'll go work on another one based on the priorities I've been given.
This is how one keeps busy. The alternative would be to just sit at your desk and wait for someone to get you the information you need. Lazy people might like that, and I have known people to use this as an excuse not to get things done.
But people that know how to multi-task also know how to set priorities and only work on one thing at a time.
Not much different from computers really. A computer with only one CPU can only do one thing at a time. It does it until something tells it to stop doing it (a task with higher priority, waiting for I/O, or just a timer) and move on. There is a penalty to do this, a little context switching, but the end result is the computer gets more work done over the same time period.
My first job as an operator was on a Burroughs B1700 using punched card decks. The prior operator ran a deck in, sat and waited for the printout, then ran the next one in. While waiting for printouts one day, I read the manual and learned the machine could do more than one thing at a time. I validated with my development team which jobs I could run together, and turned a 40 hour/week job with a lot of waiting around into a 28 hour/week job with very little waiting around. At which time I was given some non-computer work to do and started to learn more things and become a more productive employee. There was no burn out because I still only did one thing at a time.
I have seen the roads in India, specifically Chennai and Mumbai, and cars like this can improve safety. I saw many little 150cc motorcycles with 3, 4, even 5 people on them tooling around. Many of the bikes with only two people had a woman on the back with a sari, just waiting to get caught in the rear wheel. In fact, one of the accessories for Indian motorcycles is a sari guard, designed just for this purpose.
These new cars are probably a lot safe than the auto-rickshaws running everywhere also.
$2,500 may not seem much to a USA citizen, but it is a huge mount to many Indians. Motorycles are in the $700 range, so this is a 400-500 percent increase when factoring in taxes, etc. New USA motorcycles above 650cc are in the $5,000 and up range, new cars are only about 2.5 to 3 times more expensive.
I applaud Tata motors for bringing to India an automobile that addresses safety and pollution concerns. Would I buy one?? If I could commute completely on city streets, which I can, then yes. You can't buy a used motorcycle of any size in the US for $2,500. Right now, I ride my motorcycle to work as often as I can (probably at least 4 out of 5 days), but even in Phoenix it rains sometimes. For those days, I have to depend on a truck that gets 20 mpg. What a waste for one person, I would rather look into one of these.
And don't tell me about SmartCars. They cost over $20K. I'm not spending that for a car I would use 10 or 15 times a year.
Making a 6 figure income without pointers is possible. I haven't used pointers since the days of NEAT/3 in the early 80s, and good riddance. For the majority of work out there, they aren't needed and for those that need them, the smart ones will pick them up quickly. I know I did.
Learning how to code without a GUI is the fault of the teacher. I write most of my Java without a GUI, some of it running 24x7x52 and surviving through database resets. Others were very sophisticated monitoring scripts, web page scrapers, data manipulation programs (both database and flat file), and even reports. I write them because developers coming out of school have not been taught skills surrounding the operationalization of programs, such as adequate error checking and messages and code that is able to recognize external failures (such as database shutdowns) an react with anything but an abort.
It's not the language, it's the course material that is at fault. And the teacher who hasn't had any experience in the business world and understands that learning syntax, classes, and algorithms is only step one through three of a many step program.
I used to download and read books on my Sony Treo. Especially the free ones, I had a huge library of text that was perfectly legible in most areas so I could turn off the backlight and read for hours. It was small enough I could carry it in my pocket, and was useful enough that I could justify taking it with me everywhere
iPhone/Google phone... you paying attention????
Too bad I carried it around in my pocket... eventually bent it slightly and it would reset all the time.
I am an overweight over 40 man who has played DDR for many years, often in heavy mode, thanks to competition with my 20 year old daughter who always kicks my ass at it. It seems to be an excellent source of cardio excercise. But as a calorie burner, not so much. Most of the time your arms are not really used. Once I got good at it, the jumping tended to be mostly from my calves, not any of the larger muscle groups. I tend to be on my toes during the game, not really doing deep knee bends.
My daughter and I noticed that when we play, our upper bodies almost remain motionless, only moving our shoulders as we shift positions.
For a couple of years, I would play at least 30-45 minutes 3 or 4 times a week but sometimes every day depending on my work schedule. I found that my heart rate and breathing benefited from DDR, and my blood pressure dropped. I remained the same weight for the most part over that period. It wasn't until I reduced my DDR time and added in regular calisthenics that I began to reduce my weight.
But my calves got hard as a rock....
I'm sure my daughter will get the WII version. It should be interesting to see if the addition of arm movements adds any significant exertion. I used to juggle quite a bit, and discovered that holding your arms out in front of you and moving them up and down was not trivial. I remember speaking to a physical therapist who suggested it was an excellent therapy for carpel tunnel rather than simple stretching because it increases the blood flow.
And those that are producing are constantly facing lawsuits from eco-nuts to shut them down because a few fish can't swim upstream.
I remember in Maine a hydroelectric dam being decommissioned to make way for fish. They discovered shortly before it was to be breached that a certain type of rare frog had made it's home around the banks in the ecosystem created by the dam. They had to go around and manually relocate the frogs before the dam was breached.
Sometimes I think only real solution is to push for negative population growth. Get us down to 2-3B people.
So if the local newspaper refuses to print every single editorial letter that comes their way, then they are censoring. If the local cable company refuses to let everyone air their own TV show, they are censoring.
Opie and Anthony are still free to go stand on any street corner and tell everyone who will listen about their political and personal beliefs. In some places, they will have to filter the words they use, but they can talk about just anything that is not libelous or false. In fact, they are still free to spout any political view on any radio station that will hire them under the same guidelines. They have a history of getting into trouble, so the number of stations willing to hire them is probably very small.
As I recall, they were suspended, not fired. I don't know if that has changed, I don't listen to their show as I find talk radio boring. I did think their homeless shopping spree was wicked funny.
To me, this is just a business decision that time will tell is either good or bad.
I still had to drive to work every day, which meant the driveway had to be cleared, sometimes at midnight if it was snowing hard. It also meant I had to shovel a path to the oil fill nozzle and propane tanks. Or deal with the car not starting, etc. I have found that my personal preference is I would rather change a dead battery when it is 110F out than when it is -10F. Your fingers don't freeze, although drinking a quart or two of water before starting is probably a good idea.
But, it's not for everyone. Just stating what my preference is.
I used to think it was easier to get warm than to keep cool when I lived in Maine for 20 years and had to deal with high humidity. I now live in Arizona and find that I would rather deal with afternoon temps in the 100F-110F degree range for three months than morning temps in the -10-0 degree range. It is far easier to keep cool when you have low humidity than go keep warm when its just fucking cold out. Sitting outside every evening in the shade sipping a lemonade under a mister when it's above 100F is much more enjoyable than shoveling snow every damn week.
Global warming??? Bring it on!!!! That means I get another month to swim in my pool, and one month less that I need to use the hot tub.
(The previous paragraph is light humor and should not be construed as the poster really wanting to bring on global warming and the supposed deaths of many people.)
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... I start to use Google Maps. Panning around and zooming in and out quickly bring the amount of memory used from 78mb to over 300mb on my machine. I've seen it as high as 500mb before it starts to impact response times and I restart it. Is this a problem with Firefox or Google then???
I agree can really lock down FTP to be resistant to hacks. Until someone gets your credentials. Then it's Duck Season!
Hiring someone to work on a system does not require them to be a 'master' of a system on day one. Experience in C++ doe not make someone not want to write Java, it is a comfort zone issue, not skills. Sure, someone can point out all of the areas where C++ is superior. I can point out all kinds of reasons to not use C++, Java, COBOL, FORTRAN and many other languages. But many of those reasons are preferences, not reasons to pass on a well paying job at an interesting company with great benefits.
I can't count how many languages I've written code in, yet only mastered a couple. It doesn't mean I couldn't hold down a job tomorrow in C#. Sure, some things may take longer. Debugging skills are partly experience based in a language, so that will take longer. Learning which classes to use for which task take time. But so does understanding a company's existing code base and architecture.
One of the comments that attracted me to the company I work for was a discussion about migrating some C++ code to Java. I asked this question 'Why?'. The interviewer sat back, and realized there wasn't a good reason other than no one had touched it in 6 years, and it was fragile and difficult to recover from aborts, and she was more comfortable with Java. Based on the type of work it did, I told her that it doesn't really make any difference whether it is in C++ or Java or even SQL stored procedures, there are no speed requirements since it is restricted by database response times. So either one would be fine. It comes down to what direction the company wants to go in. These programs are more easily maintained in Java, and don't need the complex capabilities of C++. They tend to be stand alone without lots of shared libraries. But I also didn't see any reason not to rewrite them in C++, or to put the meat into stored procedures and only have the program act as a traffic cop.
She responded that I was what they were looking for, a software developer that could easily shift skills depending on what the requirements were. Not some C++/Java/C#/Python/Ruby expert who only wanted to work in the one they were the most comfortable with.
That's why I have a 6 figure salary and only had to interview at one company before I shifted jobs.
It sounds like that 'trusted' sites have been hacked, and that nefarious forces may place files on those trusted sites, then send emails that look authentic. That is, the email looks like it is from a responsible site and has an FTP URL for that site, but the file on the trusted site contains malware of some type.
I have gotten fake hallmark cards in the past, and only because the URLs were obviously not hallmark did I check the headers. Transform this into a malware that installs a back door, grabs your address book, then sends the address book full of trusted names back to the originator. Now you have an email from a trusted source that has URLs to a trusted site to help spread it.
Maybe I shouldn't have typed all that out.....
So .. you can't find someone with the right 'skill set'.
... go find some smart people and let them loose. They'll take care of it.
Maybe what you really need are smarter programmers. Anyone who has talent can pick up new languages, especially when they need to maintain an existing system and not create a new one from scratch. Ignoring C++ developers simply because one has a Java web platform (or WebSphere because one has a JBOSS environment) is just plain ignorant. All languages share common elements, and good developers use those elements to pick up the nuances of syntax. All application servers share common elements, and good application support staff can learn new ones.
Every time I hear a developer or app support person say 'I don't know that', I just want to reach across the room and ask them how stupid they are. The smart ones get online, research, and learn it very quickly, the non-as-smart ones use their ignorance to stay in their comfort zone. I'd rather find the smart ones, because in 6 months there are going to be more changes in the computer industry and I would want staff that can adapt.
So
Then, once you get those smart people that have experience in other areas, work with them to determine what platform to go to, or if you even need to.
I needed to find a Bank of America branch close to where I work so I can run out at lunch. Google maps showed me were it was, but I knew that area was a strip mall, and didn't know which side of the street it was on or where in the malls it was. Was it next to the street, did it have a street entrance, etc. The satellite view only showed the malls and a few buildings that might be banks.
... A few weeks ago my wife was going to an event in a part of the town she wasn't familiar with. I was able to use street view to call up the intersections so she could get a visual reference where the turns were, kind of like a little pre-ride. I was able to show her the front gate of where she needed to turn into. She doesn't do well with 'drive 1.3 miles and turn left' directions. She likes to have 'There will be a Shell station on one corner, turn left and go past the Starbucks.
... I always keep the front shutters closed.
Using street view I found the branch, then reversed a little down the street to see where I needed to turn to get into the mall. I could see where the drive up ATMs were, and the stores around where I needed to turn for reference. I even found out there was a right turn only lane and a 'right lane ends' sign where I needed to turn.
Now, for most of you cagers out there, who cares. But I ride a motorcycle, I have a hard enough time watching out for cars, since I don't know which ones are not watching out for me. Watching for addresses and stores along the side while in traffic adds to the risk of riding and driving.
Another example
Granted, we can't depend on the data being 100% accurate. Things change, and in Phoenix they change a lot.
This service may take a little privacy away from very few, but I can see where it would make a lot more people's lives easier, and add some measure of safety. I don't have the definitive answer about which is best overall, but I know which I prefer. I could see how future home buying sites could utilize this feature for virtual drive-bys of homes and neighborhoods.
If you are that concerned about your privacy, look up your house and make sure. I already have to go online periodically to opt-out of credit-card offers and telemarketing. Not to mention my three free credit reports a year. Add it to the list of things you need to do once or twice a freakin' year.
I checked my house
I find you....
Seriously.
I haven't had to 'look' for a job (i.e. interview with more than one company) since the early 90s. I have a network, and if I want to change jobs, I ask the people I respect the most (and who I think have respect for me) if there is anything out there. (Changed job 5 times due to corporate changes such as mergers, acquisitions and startup failures.) Usually my income went up, but I took a cut in pay for the last one because the company appears to be that much fun to work for.
People who are truly superstars are probably working at a job they like and you won't be able to budge them *unless* you have an open pocketbook or something 'Google-like' that would appeal to someone who can get a job anywhere. Or something has changed (or their patience has just run out) and in a month or two will have another one through people they already know.
My suggestion is if you want a superstar, start networking with the people YOU know and respect the most. Maybe your network and a prospective employee's network will connect somewhere. That's how I got this one. A guy I know knew about this job and let me know about it because he thought it was something I would be interested in and knew that my company was going through an acquisition and thought I might be looking.
This is the same principle casinos use. 96% of the money you spend is returned in prize money.
This only make sense IF:
* Solar power becomes cheap enough (or gas becomes expensive enough) to justify purchasing your own station. I spend about $400/month on gas today.
* Electricity is cheaper/cleaner to produce and deliver than gasoline so I don't need the solar arrays
If this doesn't have a two year ROI, then it won't make it. I could justify the initial cost to purchase the generator/fueling system/solar arrays if the entire cost for two years was about $10K for the equivilant fuel for 30K miles the next time I need to buy a car (4-8 years from now).
I could see car dealers coming up with financing packages like this:
Car: $20K
Fuel system installed: $10K
No gas purchase for two years: Priceless
Everyeone is against all Political Action Committees except for the ones they agree with.
Thanks for posting the Obama/McCain links. I didn't make up my mind until I read the links. McCain it is for me now.
Just because two people read the same thing doesn't mean they come away with the same opinion. I still find Obama naive and without the political clout to do anything other than be a puppet for someone else. It's nice saying all the nice words, but I don't see in him the ability to lead and make anything happen. And I won't fault someone for not having a patent reform agenda on their web site. There are more important things that a President needs to work on.
If it comes down to the two of them, I will vote for McCain, but won't be upset if Obama gets elected. They are both intelligent and moral people who I think would do well.
As long as it's not Hillary, I'll be just fine. She scares the crap out of me.
I've got news for everyone ... scientific research is not the unbiased bastion that everyone thinks it is. There are many books that document the sagas (and if I could get into the room where my step-son is sleeping I'd get you a couple of titles) of how scientists and politics go hand-in-hand. Backstabbing, lying, and downright blackmail have been going on for hundreds of years. It's popular to blame the current administration, but they weren't the first and won't be the last to try and craft scientific theories to fit their beliefs.
.. everyone likes to quote the facts that support their favorite belief and don't offer up the evidence that refutes it. Be it arguments for and against cloning, genetic engineering, global warming, power generation, and on and on.
Everyone does it
Recognize the conflicts exist, do your own sanity check, then move on. It's never going to change until our unemotional robot overlords take control. As long as people do the research, there will always be biased contamination in the reporting of the results.
I prefer to only belive the considerable studies that say there are links between disease and EMF and South Pole fields.
You ignore one side, I'll ignore the other. Then we can all get together and whine about global warming too!!!
Thank you!! I was wondering when someone would realize this. Multi-tasking doesn't necessarily mean doing several things at one time. It can also mean that I have several tasks in process. I'll work on one task, when I reach a point where I need some input from someone, I'll go work on another one based on the priorities I've been given.
This is how one keeps busy. The alternative would be to just sit at your desk and wait for someone to get you the information you need. Lazy people might like that, and I have known people to use this as an excuse not to get things done.
But people that know how to multi-task also know how to set priorities and only work on one thing at a time.
Not much different from computers really. A computer with only one CPU can only do one thing at a time. It does it until something tells it to stop doing it (a task with higher priority, waiting for I/O, or just a timer) and move on. There is a penalty to do this, a little context switching, but the end result is the computer gets more work done over the same time period.
My first job as an operator was on a Burroughs B1700 using punched card decks. The prior operator ran a deck in, sat and waited for the printout, then ran the next one in. While waiting for printouts one day, I read the manual and learned the machine could do more than one thing at a time. I validated with my development team which jobs I could run together, and turned a 40 hour/week job with a lot of waiting around into a 28 hour/week job with very little waiting around. At which time I was given some non-computer work to do and started to learn more things and become a more productive employee. There was no burn out because I still only did one thing at a time.
I have seen the roads in India, specifically Chennai and Mumbai, and cars like this can improve safety. I saw many little 150cc motorcycles with 3, 4, even 5 people on them tooling around. Many of the bikes with only two people had a woman on the back with a sari, just waiting to get caught in the rear wheel. In fact, one of the accessories for Indian motorcycles is a sari guard, designed just for this purpose.
These new cars are probably a lot safe than the auto-rickshaws running everywhere also.
$2,500 may not seem much to a USA citizen, but it is a huge mount to many Indians. Motorycles are in the $700 range, so this is a 400-500 percent increase when factoring in taxes, etc. New USA motorcycles above 650cc are in the $5,000 and up range, new cars are only about 2.5 to 3 times more expensive.
I applaud Tata motors for bringing to India an automobile that addresses safety and pollution concerns. Would I buy one?? If I could commute completely on city streets, which I can, then yes. You can't buy a used motorcycle of any size in the US for $2,500. Right now, I ride my motorcycle to work as often as I can (probably at least 4 out of 5 days), but even in Phoenix it rains sometimes. For those days, I have to depend on a truck that gets 20 mpg. What a waste for one person, I would rather look into one of these.
And don't tell me about SmartCars. They cost over $20K. I'm not spending that for a car I would use 10 or 15 times a year.
Making a 6 figure income without pointers is possible. I haven't used pointers since the days of NEAT/3 in the early 80s, and good riddance. For the majority of work out there, they aren't needed and for those that need them, the smart ones will pick them up quickly. I know I did.
Learning how to code without a GUI is the fault of the teacher. I write most of my Java without a GUI, some of it running 24x7x52 and surviving through database resets. Others were very sophisticated monitoring scripts, web page scrapers, data manipulation programs (both database and flat file), and even reports. I write them because developers coming out of school have not been taught skills surrounding the operationalization of programs, such as adequate error checking and messages and code that is able to recognize external failures (such as database shutdowns) an react with anything but an abort.
It's not the language, it's the course material that is at fault. And the teacher who hasn't had any experience in the business world and understands that learning syntax, classes, and algorithms is only step one through three of a many step program.
I used to download and read books on my Sony Treo. Especially the free ones, I had a huge library of text that was perfectly legible in most areas so I could turn off the backlight and read for hours. It was small enough I could carry it in my pocket, and was useful enough that I could justify taking it with me everywhere iPhone/Google phone ... you paying attention????
Too bad I carried it around in my pocket ... eventually bent it slightly and it would reset all the time.
My wife has tons of WMA files. When she went to load them into iTunes, it merrily converted them to mp3s, then loaded them into the iPod. WTF???
So you enjoyed all of the hijackings that took place in the 60s and 70s.....
Those that whine will call just as fast when they need help. Freakin' hypocrite.
I am an overweight over 40 man who has played DDR for many years, often in heavy mode, thanks to competition with my 20 year old daughter who always kicks my ass at it. It seems to be an excellent source of cardio excercise. But as a calorie burner, not so much. Most of the time your arms are not really used. Once I got good at it, the jumping tended to be mostly from my calves, not any of the larger muscle groups. I tend to be on my toes during the game, not really doing deep knee bends.
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My daughter and I noticed that when we play, our upper bodies almost remain motionless, only moving our shoulders as we shift positions.
For a couple of years, I would play at least 30-45 minutes 3 or 4 times a week but sometimes every day depending on my work schedule. I found that my heart rate and breathing benefited from DDR, and my blood pressure dropped. I remained the same weight for the most part over that period. It wasn't until I reduced my DDR time and added in regular calisthenics that I began to reduce my weight.
But my calves got hard as a rock
I'm sure my daughter will get the WII version. It should be interesting to see if the addition of arm movements adds any significant exertion. I used to juggle quite a bit, and discovered that holding your arms out in front of you and moving them up and down was not trivial. I remember speaking to a physical therapist who suggested it was an excellent therapy for carpel tunnel rather than simple stretching because it increases the blood flow.
Then no one that has cooked it for you knows how to do it right.
And those that are producing are constantly facing lawsuits from eco-nuts to shut them down because a few fish can't swim upstream. I remember in Maine a hydroelectric dam being decommissioned to make way for fish. They discovered shortly before it was to be breached that a certain type of rare frog had made it's home around the banks in the ecosystem created by the dam. They had to go around and manually relocate the frogs before the dam was breached. Sometimes I think only real solution is to push for negative population growth. Get us down to 2-3B people.
So if the local newspaper refuses to print every single editorial letter that comes their way, then they are censoring. If the local cable company refuses to let everyone air their own TV show, they are censoring.
Opie and Anthony are still free to go stand on any street corner and tell everyone who will listen about their political and personal beliefs. In some places, they will have to filter the words they use, but they can talk about just anything that is not libelous or false. In fact, they are still free to spout any political view on any radio station that will hire them under the same guidelines. They have a history of getting into trouble, so the number of stations willing to hire them is probably very small.
As I recall, they were suspended, not fired. I don't know if that has changed, I don't listen to their show as I find talk radio boring. I did think their homeless shopping spree was wicked funny.
To me, this is just a business decision that time will tell is either good or bad.
I still had to drive to work every day, which meant the driveway had to be cleared, sometimes at midnight if it was snowing hard. It also meant I had to shovel a path to the oil fill nozzle and propane tanks. Or deal with the car not starting, etc. I have found that my personal preference is I would rather change a dead battery when it is 110F out than when it is -10F. Your fingers don't freeze, although drinking a quart or two of water before starting is probably a good idea.
But, it's not for everyone. Just stating what my preference is.
I used to think it was easier to get warm than to keep cool when I lived in Maine for 20 years and had to deal with high humidity. I now live in Arizona and find that I would rather deal with afternoon temps in the 100F-110F degree range for three months than morning temps in the -10-0 degree range. It is far easier to keep cool when you have low humidity than go keep warm when its just fucking cold out. Sitting outside every evening in the shade sipping a lemonade under a mister when it's above 100F is much more enjoyable than shoveling snow every damn week.
Global warming??? Bring it on!!!! That means I get another month to swim in my pool, and one month less that I need to use the hot tub.
(The previous paragraph is light humor and should not be construed as the poster really wanting to bring on global warming and the supposed deaths of many people.)