Big public companies are chock full of nasty politics and can be frustrating at times. They are secure, and promotions are easier, but being someone the company cherishes is harder.
Small private companies keeps you free of politics and its easier to be recognized, although, it is usually more difficult to move up the chain (promotions) when in a smaller company.
Personally, I enjoy the small companies, because I hate company politics. I do plan on changing in a few years (after my MBA and some project management experience) to get more responsibility and more cash.
Instead of inflating the price of the products, how about the companies spend that excess money on making the product easier to assemble?
Most of the time, its just improving the instruction manual. Instead of hiring a tech company to put all this technology in, how about you just hire a few good writers to make a nice and easy to understand manual?
Congrats on the waste of money. Honestly, this is pretty and all, but hardly useful, and, most likely, not worth the money spent on the project.
What is the point of this? To sell it as posters and make a profit?
Who, in their right mind, would use this to change design, or track a bug?
This project is a waste of money that would be better off spent on the kernel itself, not a pretty picture of the kernel.
Imagine all the lonely AI cyber-sex sessions that will happen in this world...
Seriously, though, there has to be a line drawn here. Sure, it'll be good for parents to get the kids off the machine for dinner, but won't it eventually lead to being an all-AI game? Isn't the point of big games, like MMORPGs to be that the people with no life and play 800 hours a week to have better characters than the casual gamer? With this system, you teach the AI to practice blacksmithing, let it run day and night for a few days, and come back with a master blacksmith. Just seems like you are taking out the challenge of the game...
This makes it sound like Cocoon is the first Linux based PVR, or the fact that it is Linux makes it newsworthy (this may not be the case, but its how I percieved it). TiVo is a linux-based PVR.
I was fully prepared to argue points with you, until I read this:
Ah, now I get it. Mickeysoft's PR/marketing person making a fake appearance in Slashdot
Now I know that this comment is a troll, and you are a anti-MS fanatic, so there is no point in arguing with you. If MS opened up all their sources, and open source gurus made it the perfect OS, secure, user friendly, and everything, you still wouldn't use it, would you?
J# is for backward compatability with J++ (which isn't "exactly" java). The goal of MS is to get Java users to run C# (honestly, being a J2EE developer, if I was to write in a.NET language, it would be C#).
Now, C# is a pretty language. MS looked at Java and started on their list... "This is good in Java, lets include it. This isn't, lets either not include it or make a nicer alternative." They made quite a nice, competitive language.
But I think C# will be used to convert the C, C++, and Java crowd into the.NET framework. Now, once you are in the framework, you'll see that VB.NET is easier to use, has the OO that Java/C++ people desire, and can make the deadlines easier to make.
Yeah, I think C# is MS's way to convert everyone to VB.NET.
Luckily,.NET isn't as platform independent as Java atm, so I'll stick with my cup-of-joe.
People are too busy wondering who's going to win American Idol or how Ross and Rachel will finally get together or who will win the next wrestling pay-per-view to "understand" that their rights are being slowly eroded away in the name of "security."
You are overreacting[1]. Remember prohibition? People sometimes let the government take something away, but, sooner or later, the people speak out and everything reverses (look at the 60s and freedom). Someone wrote a comment entitled 'ebb and flow' which describes this better than this. Check it out.
[1] - Overreacting is -not- a bad thing. People that overreact in times like this are ones that get heard to get the people to see what is happening, so please don't take that as an insult (just don't go too overboard);-)
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I know this was said in jest, but if %50 of american's have below average intelligence, wouldn't that make their level of intelligence, average??;-)
The fact that we have these 'ups' and 'downs' is proof that the system works.
9/11 boosted the security/oppression to rise, and the freedom to fall. Give it a few years and it will reverse.
What we should not do is put on our tinfoil hats and rushing to DC with machine guns. Wait a little bit for everything to flip. Do you think your average joe will sit and let the government take everything?
Surprisingly, Tomcat is used in his example setup.
Surprised? Most Java developers use Tomcat for a servlet app server (not a full blown app server, but you can have that if you tie-in JBoss). Tomcat is great for development if you aren't dealing with EJBs.
Most Java developers I know use Tomcat before an app server is chosen so they can get stuff working, and will stay with tomcat unless the customer has a license for an expensive appserver or they are using EJBs.
'PlanetQuake3: Will it be possible to adjust the speed of the game for between single player and multiplayer play?' 'Tim Willits: Yes, most of the game logic is outside the main executable, this gives us great flexibility in changing basic game parameters between single and multiplayer.
After reading this, I have a sour taste in my mouth. I'm thinking its one of two things:
1.) This is to prep you all for an ad they will be running about how Dr.Educators employer has GOOD training, unlike the examples of bad training that will come up in the posts (or to determine if slashdot IS a good place to advertise).
2.) Dr.Educator has been assigned to poll professionals, and is using you to get the results.
Now don't tell me that you can look back and say "well, it isn't napsters fault".
You CAN'T. You need a study that shows what happened when Napster came around. We have plenty of those. Now you need a study that shows what happened, in the exact same time period as napster, without napster. Anyone got a time machine?
Napster (and other file sharing programs/piracy) MAY OF done the music industry bad. Napster (and other file sharing programs/piracy) MAY OF done the music industry good.
But there is no possible way you can say it is one way for sure. File sharing still exists and is still widely used (KaZaA and Morpheus come to mind), so there is no possible way we can look at stats and compare.
So take this article with a grain of salt, not with absolute conviction.
There's an issue here that's hit me several times. The questions get moderated right away, except some clever moderator waits until it the 'ask interviewee questions' article gets down to the bottom of the page. Then they go in and mod there non-favorite questions that were 5 down to 4, so they don't get asked. Is this fair to the people that modded it up and ensured it stayed at 5?
Next time you have mod points during an interview story, make sure you wait until it gets down far to look for abuse. It happens a LOT.
This is the major disadvantage to the/. moderation system. It'd be better to switch to a scoop-like moderation method.
Well, in the book review guidelines it states (under 'pick your poison'): Depending on circumstances, we may run more than one review of a single book. If more than one reviewer submits a review, we may only the one we think is better, run both in full, or excerpt to present elements of both
I was just pointing to the other article to have multiple reviews to compare.
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Big public companies are chock full of nasty politics and can be frustrating at times. They are secure, and promotions are easier, but being someone the company cherishes is harder.
Small private companies keeps you free of politics and its easier to be recognized, although, it is usually more difficult to move up the chain (promotions) when in a smaller company.
Personally, I enjoy the small companies, because I hate company politics. I do plan on changing in a few years (after my MBA and some project management experience) to get more responsibility and more cash.
Instead of inflating the price of the products, how about the companies spend that excess money on making the product easier to assemble?
Most of the time, its just improving the instruction manual. Instead of hiring a tech company to put all this technology in, how about you just hire a few good writers to make a nice and easy to understand manual?
Sheesh
Congrats on the waste of money. Honestly, this is pretty and all, but hardly useful, and, most likely, not worth the money spent on the project.
What is the point of this? To sell it as posters and make a profit?
Who, in their right mind, would use this to change design, or track a bug?
This project is a waste of money that would be better off spent on the kernel itself, not a pretty picture of the kernel.
If you've designed your game with lots of boring repetitious stuff which is well-suited for a machine, then you've gone the wrong direction.
I think it should be said that if your game CAN have macros to accomplish a lot, you've done something wrong.
Imagine all the lonely AI cyber-sex sessions that will happen in this world...
Seriously, though, there has to be a line drawn here. Sure, it'll be good for parents to get the kids off the machine for dinner, but won't it eventually lead to being an all-AI game? Isn't the point of big games, like MMORPGs to be that the people with no life and play 800 hours a week to have better characters than the casual gamer? With this system, you teach the AI to practice blacksmithing, let it run day and night for a few days, and come back with a master blacksmith. Just seems like you are taking out the challenge of the game...
For the record, I don't play MMORPGs.
New Linux-based PVR from Sony
This makes it sound like Cocoon is the first Linux based PVR, or the fact that it is Linux makes it newsworthy (this may not be the case, but its how I percieved it).
TiVo is a linux-based PVR.
I was fully prepared to argue points with you, until I read this:
Ah, now I get it. Mickeysoft's PR/marketing person making a fake appearance in Slashdot
Now I know that this comment is a troll, and you are a anti-MS fanatic, so there is no point in arguing with you. If MS opened up all their sources, and open source gurus made it the perfect OS, secure, user friendly, and everything, you still wouldn't use it, would you?
J# is for backward compatability with J++ (which isn't "exactly" java). The goal of MS is to get Java users to run C# (honestly, being a J2EE developer, if I was to write in a .NET language, it would be C#).
which is why I added 'atm' meaning "at the moment". .net is being ported to Linux and BSD.
Yes,
Now, C# is a pretty language. MS looked at Java and started on their list... "This is good in Java, lets include it. This isn't, lets either not include it or make a nicer alternative." They made quite a nice, competitive language.
.NET framework. Now, once you are in the framework, you'll see that VB.NET is easier to use, has the OO that Java/C++ people desire, and can make the deadlines easier to make.
.NET isn't as platform independent as Java atm, so I'll stick with my cup-of-joe.
But I think C# will be used to convert the C, C++, and Java crowd into the
Yeah, I think C# is MS's way to convert everyone to VB.NET.
Luckily,
Although you are joking, I'd like to point out my disagreement with your statement.
;-)
Is it bad when you can hear the offtopic mods coming??
People are too busy wondering who's going to win American Idol or how Ross and Rachel will finally get together or who will win the next wrestling pay-per-view to "understand" that their rights are being slowly eroded away in the name of "security."
;-)
You are overreacting[1]. Remember prohibition? People sometimes let the government take something away, but, sooner or later, the people speak out and everything reverses (look at the 60s and freedom). Someone wrote a comment entitled 'ebb and flow' which describes this better than this. Check it out.
[1] - Overreacting is -not- a bad thing. People that overreact in times like this are ones that get heard to get the people to see what is happening, so please don't take that as an insult (just don't go too overboard)
I know this was said in jest, but if %50 of american's have below average intelligence, wouldn't that make their level of intelligence, average?? ;-)
I entirely agree.
The fact that we have these 'ups' and 'downs' is proof that the system works.
9/11 boosted the security/oppression to rise, and the freedom to fall. Give it a few years and it will reverse.
What we should not do is put on our tinfoil hats and rushing to DC with machine guns. Wait a little bit for everything to flip. Do you think your average joe will sit and let the government take everything?
And consumer software written in Java? Nope.
Ever used JBuilder?
D/L JBuilder 7 from borland. Yeah, your thinking its in C++, or at least mostly in C++. The whole thing's written in Java.
Java in consumer products have been invaiding, and you've thought it was C++ the whole time...
Surprisingly, Tomcat is used in his example setup.
Surprised? Most Java developers use Tomcat for a servlet app server (not a full blown app server, but you can have that if you tie-in JBoss). Tomcat is great for development if you aren't dealing with EJBs.
Most Java developers I know use Tomcat before an app server is chosen so they can get stuff working, and will stay with tomcat unless the customer has a license for an expensive appserver or they are using EJBs.
I am no longer filtering spam. I'll make those suckers wish they didn't monitor my email!!
'PlanetQuake3: Will it be possible to adjust the speed of the game for between single player and multiplayer play?' 'Tim Willits: Yes, most of the game logic is outside the main executable, this gives us great flexibility in changing basic game parameters between single and multiplayer.
Is this the same multiplayer that you haven't started yet.
- 1.) This is to prep you all for an ad they will be running about how Dr.Educators employer has GOOD training, unlike the examples of bad training that will come up in the posts (or to determine if slashdot IS a good place to advertise).
- 2.) Dr.Educator has been assigned to poll professionals, and is using you to get the results.
You won't get an answer from me. Sorry.Trolltalk? Link?
Now don't tell me that you can look back and say "well, it isn't napsters fault".
You CAN'T. You need a study that shows what happened when Napster came around. We have plenty of those. Now you need a study that shows what happened, in the exact same time period as napster, without napster. Anyone got a time machine?
Napster (and other file sharing programs/piracy) MAY OF done the music industry bad. Napster (and other file sharing programs/piracy) MAY OF done the music industry good.
But there is no possible way you can say it is one way for sure. File sharing still exists and is still widely used (KaZaA and Morpheus come to mind), so there is no possible way we can look at stats and compare.
So take this article with a grain of salt, not with absolute conviction.
There's an issue here that's hit me several times. The questions get moderated right away, except some clever moderator waits until it the 'ask interviewee questions' article gets down to the bottom of the page. Then they go in and mod there non-favorite questions that were 5 down to 4, so they don't get asked. Is this fair to the people that modded it up and ensured it stayed at 5?
/. moderation system. It'd be better to switch to a scoop-like moderation method.
Next time you have mod points during an interview story, make sure you wait until it gets down far to look for abuse. It happens a LOT.
This is the major disadvantage to the
why an alternative to jbuilder? You can d/l it and use it for free (unless you are building a commercial product).
Well, in the book review guidelines it states (under 'pick your poison'):
Depending on circumstances, we may run more than one review of a single book. If more than one reviewer submits a review, we may only the one we think is better, run both in full, or excerpt to present elements of both
I was just pointing to the other article to have multiple reviews to compare.
FYI, I'm not complaing about it being a redundant story, rather that there are two reviews on slashdot you can use to compare.