i remember reading that north koreans are told the leaflets are poisened by 'those evil americans', the fear of dying part has little to do with the labor camps
even if coding is your most favorite thing in the whole wide world, you would probably prefer coding on your own project, rather then the boss' project, for the simple reason that he wants stuff you would do differently, or because his project isnt right up your alley of interest.
You are at the office to earn money, if they didnt pay you squat, or if you didnt need that money, you would be at home, coding your heart out on your own pie-in-the-sky project (or in my case, hardly coding at all)
You made a deal with your boss, you work x hours at y pay, they change the x parameter, i would expect a better then linear improvement in y. As for the job security, that goes both ways, in the time you spent there, you accumulated knowledge about your domain, you are as much a valuable asset to them, as your job security is to you
profit sharing is way to nebulous in this case, any CEO worth his christmass bonus knows about twenty ways to artificially reduce company profit in order to avoid paying dividents/profit sharing etc...
profit sharing promises are worthless, any company will react to actually reaching profit margin goals by setting them higher for the next year, regardless of what is actually happening, making it ever harder to reach those goals
dude, 100 hour weeks for four months straight, you should have quit after two weeks, that would give the bosses the proper case to evaluate, "we asked an employee to work 2,5 times as much on a (for this kind of shit) long project, he walked away and we lost all the knowledge he takes with him"
You better earned enough to buy a house in those four months, or you screwed yourself over bigtime
my old nokia n96 had dual arm9 cores, sure it were probably two seperate chips instead of 1 die, but the principle is the same
still, it absolutely SUCKED ASS compared to any phone of the day, i junked it and went back to my nokia 6120 classic, single cpu phone, which just worked way better (both symbian s60 phones by the way)
As all smartphones out today prove, you dont need two cpu cores to be a good phone
according to wikipedia, the numbers you pulled out are just for the vertex pipelines, it also has 24 pixel pipelines. i have no idea how those rate exactly on the GFLOP scale, but suffice to say, there is NO WAY zacate has more powerfull graphics then the RSX (which is basically an nvidia geforce 7900GT)
Interesting idea though, zacate would be a high end netbook, while the ps3 in gaming terms would be equivalent to a high end amd64 x2 with a 7900GT, now go to any computer forum and ask which system you would best use for HD (lets make it 720p to be safe) gaming...
That right there proves rather conclusively that there is no way psp2 could get near the ps3 in terms of raw performance, even if they made the device the size of a high-end netbook
not even that i would say, ARMs are nice, but they lack loads of features we take for granted on modern x86 cpu's
Stuff like windows and other bloatware makes us think any cpu older then a few years is dog-slow, run optimized software on the same thing and it will FLY, that is the way smartphones work
in all fairness, the PS2 did actually last ten years
where they get the nerve to still ask 100 euros for the thing AND require you to seperately spend 20 bucks on a few Meg memory card though, is beyond me.
if you think gameboys had excellent battery life, try a neo geo pocket color, games/graphics superior to a GBC, superior 8-way digital pad/stick and a 40 hour life on two penlite batteries
yup, although i have no trouble with my ipod touch, there are some tricks you have to learn to fully control an apple device
never mind how cumbersome i find OS X, i never used it for more then five minutes at a time, and most stuff is very cumbersome/counterintuitive somehow
I would think the 3G is (partially) supported, my 3rd gen ipod touch 8gb (so basically 2nd gen hardware, equal to the iphone 3G) is currently running iOS 4.x, obviously without the multi-tasking, but with the semi 3d dock effects and such..
i'd say go for the radius approach, make the radius dependant on the size of the base (number of permanent human inhabitants and effective range of the base-rovers are a factor, sort of a "all what you can survey in x days" rule), and REQUIRE significant human pressence for it to even count at all.
This would reward you for building faster/better rovers, expanding the base with more personel etc..
The article somehwat confusingly calls this a "heavy lift" booster, which is a term typically used for 20-40 metric ton designs like Falcon-9/Russian Proton-M etc...
The rocket being considered will lift somewhere around 180 metric ton, making it a super heavy lift/ultra heavy lift booster
Correct, the problem is that Ares I is axed, and this "new" heavy lifter is basically Ares V with a "safe for humans" sticker on the side.
I wonder how it would have been if NASA went with the two-rocket approach for apollo, a Saturn 1B for the CSM, and use the extra capacity on the Saturn V to expand the LM into a moon-trailer to facilitate a longer stay
he basically said "give me 2.5 Billion, if it ends up costing more, i'll foot the bill for the overruns", i'm pretty sure the US Govt would demand some type of contract before handing over that kind of money, so they could even formalize that.
when waiting for my adsl connection to finally be hooked up, i used the wifi hotspot on my htc desire for the occasional email-check with my laptop (before any screams "gmail APP!!!" that doesnt work for my work's lotus notes crap...)
It is incredibly easy, the app ships by default, easy peasy!
Not really. You're using up the lifespan of the semiconductors faster.
And if your equipment is cheaper to replace than paying for air-conditioning, it's still worth running them hot.
You also need to take to cost of recovering from those more frequent failures into account, transient failures might corrupt data, even without you noticing
ah i see, well i agree with you there, although MS seems right back on track for the two yearly OS cycle they had going before XP.
The whole apple thing also seems a bit expensive to me, i roll my own systems as well, and lately i've been skipping windows alltogether and just install some flavour of linux.
Anyway, seems like we sort of agree on the whole matter, paying for SPs the way apple demands it is idiotic, and good for you for getting the upgrade!
your story in its current form sounds a lot more reasonable then in your first post, complaining in a very load manner untill you got the upgrade for free. And if the store manager really did offer the upgrade without much coaxing, that is a credit to him.
But i stand by the point that you have no claim to that free upgrade, your fiancee paid apple 2000 dollars for a laptop, not a laptop + 6(or more) years of free updates/support, and there is no way apple could forsee what webbrowsing would go through in that time, if they had to calculate that in with the price, be prepared to pay 3000 instead of 2000 for your next macbook.
AFAIK they didnt know the full extent of the problem right away, if you check the com-logs, the first thing after "we've had a problem" is about a main bus undervolt, not exactly anything to prompt thought about being "fucking fucked", more along on the lines of "those fucking electrical engineers fucked up the fucking main bus wiring, fucking fuckers"
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i remember reading that north koreans are told the leaflets are poisened by 'those evil americans', the fear of dying part has little to do with the labor camps
or at the very least, install a half-decent browser on any system running windows (such as when the boss forces you to)
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work forse
apparently, thursdays after 5 pm isnt exactly your prime either ;)
you forgot the last step:
Run for the hills
even if coding is your most favorite thing in the whole wide world, you would probably prefer coding on your own project, rather then the boss' project, for the simple reason that he wants stuff you would do differently, or because his project isnt right up your alley of interest.
You are at the office to earn money, if they didnt pay you squat, or if you didnt need that money, you would be at home, coding your heart out on your own pie-in-the-sky project (or in my case, hardly coding at all)
You made a deal with your boss, you work x hours at y pay, they change the x parameter, i would expect a better then linear improvement in y. As for the job security, that goes both ways, in the time you spent there, you accumulated knowledge about your domain, you are as much a valuable asset to them, as your job security is to you
profit sharing is way to nebulous in this case, any CEO worth his christmass bonus knows about twenty ways to artificially reduce company profit in order to avoid paying dividents/profit sharing etc...
profit sharing promises are worthless, any company will react to actually reaching profit margin goals by setting them higher for the next year, regardless of what is actually happening, making it ever harder to reach those goals
dude, 100 hour weeks for four months straight, you should have quit after two weeks, that would give the bosses the proper case to evaluate, "we asked an employee to work 2,5 times as much on a (for this kind of shit) long project, he walked away and we lost all the knowledge he takes with him"
You better earned enough to buy a house in those four months, or you screwed yourself over bigtime
my old nokia n96 had dual arm9 cores, sure it were probably two seperate chips instead of 1 die, but the principle is the same
still, it absolutely SUCKED ASS compared to any phone of the day, i junked it and went back to my nokia 6120 classic, single cpu phone, which just worked way better (both symbian s60 phones by the way)
As all smartphones out today prove, you dont need two cpu cores to be a good phone
according to wikipedia, the numbers you pulled out are just for the vertex pipelines, it also has 24 pixel pipelines. i have no idea how those rate exactly on the GFLOP scale, but suffice to say, there is NO WAY zacate has more powerfull graphics then the RSX (which is basically an nvidia geforce 7900GT)
Interesting idea though, zacate would be a high end netbook, while the ps3 in gaming terms would be equivalent to a high end amd64 x2 with a 7900GT, now go to any computer forum and ask which system you would best use for HD (lets make it 720p to be safe) gaming...
That right there proves rather conclusively that there is no way psp2 could get near the ps3 in terms of raw performance, even if they made the device the size of a high-end netbook
you forgot:
- blase guy bitching about /. crowd
not even that i would say, ARMs are nice, but they lack loads of features we take for granted on modern x86 cpu's
Stuff like windows and other bloatware makes us think any cpu older then a few years is dog-slow, run optimized software on the same thing and it will FLY, that is the way smartphones work
in all fairness, the PS2 did actually last ten years
where they get the nerve to still ask 100 euros for the thing AND require you to seperately spend 20 bucks on a few Meg memory card though, is beyond me.
if you think gameboys had excellent battery life, try a neo geo pocket color, games/graphics superior to a GBC, superior 8-way digital pad/stick and a 40 hour life on two penlite batteries
awe-fricking-some!
yup, although i have no trouble with my ipod touch, there are some tricks you have to learn to fully control an apple device
never mind how cumbersome i find OS X, i never used it for more then five minutes at a time, and most stuff is very cumbersome/counterintuitive somehow
i agree, for me this is a new low in /. editing
FUCK you taco!
I would think the 3G is (partially) supported, my 3rd gen ipod touch 8gb (so basically 2nd gen hardware, equal to the iphone 3G) is currently running iOS 4.x, obviously without the multi-tasking, but with the semi 3d dock effects and such..
i'd say go for the radius approach, make the radius dependant on the size of the base (number of permanent human inhabitants and effective range of the base-rovers are a factor, sort of a "all what you can survey in x days" rule), and REQUIRE significant human pressence for it to even count at all.
This would reward you for building faster/better rovers, expanding the base with more personel etc..
The article somehwat confusingly calls this a "heavy lift" booster, which is a term typically used for 20-40 metric ton designs like Falcon-9/Russian Proton-M etc...
The rocket being considered will lift somewhere around 180 metric ton, making it a super heavy lift/ultra heavy lift booster
Correct, the problem is that Ares I is axed, and this "new" heavy lifter is basically Ares V with a "safe for humans" sticker on the side.
I wonder how it would have been if NASA went with the two-rocket approach for apollo, a Saturn 1B for the CSM, and use the extra capacity on the Saturn V to expand the LM into a moon-trailer to facilitate a longer stay
he basically said "give me 2.5 Billion, if it ends up costing more, i'll foot the bill for the overruns", i'm pretty sure the US Govt would demand some type of contract before handing over that kind of money, so they could even formalize that.
The wwan card isnt even needed
when waiting for my adsl connection to finally be hooked up, i used the wifi hotspot on my htc desire for the occasional email-check with my laptop (before any screams "gmail APP!!!" that doesnt work for my work's lotus notes crap...)
It is incredibly easy, the app ships by default, easy peasy!
Not really. You're using up the lifespan of the semiconductors faster.
And if your equipment is cheaper to replace than paying for air-conditioning, it's still worth running them hot.
You also need to take to cost of recovering from those more frequent failures into account, transient failures might corrupt data, even without you noticing
ah i see, well i agree with you there, although MS seems right back on track for the two yearly OS cycle they had going before XP.
The whole apple thing also seems a bit expensive to me, i roll my own systems as well, and lately i've been skipping windows alltogether and just install some flavour of linux.
Anyway, seems like we sort of agree on the whole matter, paying for SPs the way apple demands it is idiotic, and good for you for getting the upgrade!
your story in its current form sounds a lot more reasonable then in your first post, complaining in a very load manner untill you got the upgrade for free. And if the store manager really did offer the upgrade without much coaxing, that is a credit to him.
But i stand by the point that you have no claim to that free upgrade, your fiancee paid apple 2000 dollars for a laptop, not a laptop + 6(or more) years of free updates/support, and there is no way apple could forsee what webbrowsing would go through in that time, if they had to calculate that in with the price, be prepared to pay 3000 instead of 2000 for your next macbook.
AFAIK they didnt know the full extent of the problem right away, if you check the com-logs, the first thing after "we've had a problem" is about a main bus undervolt, not exactly anything to prompt thought about being "fucking fucked", more along on the lines of "those fucking electrical engineers fucked up the fucking main bus wiring, fucking fuckers"