Fellow atheist here. Although, I prefer to say "I don't believe in God." instead. Yeah, I'm an atheist but atheism is developing its own dogmatism and I'm not interested, so I'm trying to distance myself from it.
Anyway, getting in people's faces about their religion is as bad as when religious folks get in ours about our lack of belief. If we show more respect for one another,maybe,just maybe most folks will chill.
Sure, there still will be the Phelps crowd and others who will have a problem, but if you'll notice, even folks of the same faith consider them (Phelps' crowd) to be kooks.
Can't anybody design any piece of hardware or software that does not have some lame vulnerability?
I have. The program is called One.
Basically, it's an NPN transistor that has a voltage that goes to its base. Its collector is connected to 6V and its emitter is connected to ground. There's a 1K resistor connected to the base and emitter.
It's a binary one and it's hack proof.
Genius huh?
Next, I'll be showing my 1 pixel digital image called: One.
What this world needs is competent programmers. C++ too hard for you? You shouldn't be programming. It's that simple.
Look, C++ is my programming language of choice: I like programming down to metal, having the OS load my program and run it without any intermediary like an interpreter or some sort of runtime (no I don't do CLI), and I like the ability to go down and do old school 'C' when I need to. But these days, it's like Stroustrup is adding features for the sake of adding features - trying to be "modern"? I don't know. It's making the language bulkier, adds even more chances for obfuscation, and it's getting to the point where even C++ fanboys like myself are reevaluating our relationship with the language.
Good god, when he first added templates (a great feature just see the STL), I had to deal with programmers who made template classes for everything and used it once for one data type. Plah-ease! Just because the feature is there doesn't mean you gotta use it. There's a time and place for everything. C++ is turning into the Word of programming languages: adding esoteric features that less than 1% of users will ever use.
C++ is turning into a bloated slow fat pig and I'm thinking of getting a divorce.
Every film has its own color palette and many folks out there really love Kodachrome's.(There's quite a few sites out there that compares films if you want to see for yourself.) Personally, I never saw what the big deal was and I prefer Elite Chrome or Sensia when shooting slides and Portra VC for print.
There's also a big fanatical following with FUJI Velvia 50 - all those really saturated sunsets that you never have seen in real life are many times shot with that stuff. Of course today, you just run your raw image through PS and get the same effect.
It's not just designers: there's a supply and demand problem with all forms of labor.
There are 7 billion people on this planet, it's nothing to move ideas around the planet and there's hardly any barriers to entry. As one Slashdotter said many moons ago, these countries will export their poverty and we'll consume it. There's no going back now.
No one and no profession will be immune - except for the owning class. And as labor of all types becomes more and more of a cheap commodity, it will become harder and harder to move into the owning class. Our real wages will continue to decline while our cost of living continues its rise and as a result, it will become harder and harder to save to own: stocks, bonds, real estate, businesses, etc...
Sure, people's standard of living in other countries will increase slightly - which is a good thing - but we in the US will see ours decimated.
The economists' argument that the pie is getting bigger? That may be. But many of us are not going to get a piece. My case: our real wages have been in decline since the 90s but yet, corporate profits are growing like gang busters. Who's getting that wealth? It's not me.
A bill that passed the senate that reinforces some portion of our individual liberties. I'm having trouble seeing where the corporate benefit is here.
I know you're being facetious, but most magazines, radio stations & tv stations are owned by corporations, they can't just have foreigners suing them for their dramatic, yet wildly inaccurate and poorly researched news stories.
Actually, it's the other way around.
Where this law came from is because of England. Basically, journalists would publish something about a dictator and regardless of how true it was or where it was published (they always found a way to sue in the UK), the dictator would sue and many times win (England's liable laws are idiotic) - costing the newspaper millions in the process and then they have to retract what they said.
The Economist reports on this every once in a while.
Actually, that'd be a trip of the Economist/Financial Times move over here.
The Government mouth piece is talking out of his ass.
There are plenty of people who know how is just that the knowledge leads to suspicion by law enforcement and practice of said skills are illegal.
It's the same thing if this guy said, "There aren't enough people who know how to murder and our spy agencies are having a hard time finding assassins! "
Law has been always cyclical. Back in 1990, I dated a newly graduated law student and she had a horrible time getting a job and she graduated top quintile.
Take heart. One of the biggest specialties in career counciling is helping lawyers get out of law. At one time, there were just as many lawyers leaving law as entering.
I developed retail POS software years ago and I don't doubt what your saying. The system I worked on was real bare bones and so were the competitor's systems and I can't say too much more than that other than it was DOS right on top of Ethernet - no TCP/IP. Retail software has to work in a very small memory footprint on the cheapest machines you can imagine. Stores have to buy hundreds or thousands of them at a time and retailers want cheap, cheap, cheap!
That company was rather stupid for canning you. Actually, very stupid. They should have brought up the security risk to the vendor. We used to talk to retailer's IT people all the time.
But here's the thing, way back when I was working on that stuff (1996-1998), the regional office would have phones lines that the store server called: yep a modem. There wasn't anything over the internet - then anyway because they couldn't: no TCP/IP. Some companies had leased lines. Then again, considering how cheap retailers are, I wouldn't put it past them to move all that data and everything over the internet to save on the cost of phone lines or leased lines. That's assuming that the POS vendors have incorporated TCP/IP stacks into their systems.
Many military scholars believe it was targeting the Patriot missile defense system that Taiwan was trying to buy from the US at that time
Orbital rendezvous has been done since the early 60s and that's pretty much all "shooting down" a satellite is - put something in the path of the satellite in an opposite orbit and they hit each other at 36,000 miles per hour (18,000 mph one way and 18,000 mph the other way)- woop tee doo.
Intercepting a missile with another missile in the atmosphere is still something that's not quite there yet - consider all the misses that the Patriot system has at least based upon its performance in the first Gulf War in 1991 (19 years ago!). In other words, the Chinese are just proving that they're willing to put shit in orbit in the way of one of their satellites and they think that's competition for the Patriot system? It that how we're supposed to take it?
First I would like to add that the author is also the author of Baseball Hacks [oreilly.com], which might not sound like a popular title for Slashdot but if you are a nerd and techie/programmer then this book is for you!
I once developed baseball software for collecting data and then reporting the stats. I could never understand why all that data was collected and why those stats were calculated for the players. I guess it's part of the game to watch someone hit another home run or steal a base or strike out and imagine the stats changing - I seems to be a waste of time.
If folks who follow all those stats put that time and effort to the stock market, they'd all be millionaires.
spend a Month at the Museum, to live and breathe science 24/7 for 30 days. From October 20 to November 18, 2010, this person's mission will be to experience all the fun and education that fits in this historic 14-acre building, living here full-time and reporting your findings to the outside world.'
Touched a dinosaur: man! those things are delicate!
The U-Boat was awesome!
Farm equipment was pretty good. Drove the tractor around a little bit before it ran out of gas.
At the baby chick hatchery. They're so cute! Awe shit! I left the door open! brb...
What does the community at large have for modern resources for constant streaming internet at sea?
You spent all that money on a sailboat and you're going out to sea for an adventure to....stream content...sit on your ass and watch Youtube videos? To surf the web?!?
Email: How about go into port?
For voice (there are family emergencies ) there's satellite phones.
Entertainment out at sea and if you really have to have stuff, how about ust getting DVDs or Blu-Ray?
Well, rest assured that you're right and at least I know it.
My wife is in medical and it's a HUGE problem among kids because they're not getting enough exercise and the biggest culprits are video games and lack of greenspace for kids to run around - suburban American life is making kids fat. She asks the kids what they do all day: sit in school, go home and do home work and then sit and play video games - all of them have that story.
And being fat at such a young age leads to horrible health consequences later on: diabetes and all the issues with that, heart disease, high blood pressure and all the issue with that, etc....
Our health costs are just going to continue to balloon because of this and we're, of course, going to blame the insurance companies, big pharma, and everyone else but ourselves.
They're not marketing them to the kids: they're marketing them to the parents. The parents will buy "Blubber Blaster" and "encourage" their kids to use it. Of course, it'll probably stay on the shelf but the parents will feel good that they "did" something - kind of like the folks who buy the exercise equipment, use it once or twice, and give up.
In the meantime, the parents still buy the kids Coke, potato chips, crap from fast food joints (if it has a takeout window, it's crap), and they watch their parents sit in front of the TV all night.
I saw this guy buy his little pudgeball one of those 20oz Cokes the other day. She was 8 years old and already a fatty.
During that time, RIM has avoided designs like the one Apple used in the iPhone 4 and instead has used innovative designs which reduce the risk for dropped calls, especially in areas of lower coverage.
RIM's market are business people and others who really use their phone for calling, email, and other communications. They bought it to do a function.
People bought the iPhone because it was Apple and they wanted to have a stylish phone. They wanted to look marvelous.
If it wasn't the case, then why did the iPhone sell like hot cakes in markets where AT&T was known to have shitty service? Consumer Reports have been tracking that for years.
Most of these peeps have Analyst in thier title and many came from other areas of the organization (nursing, med techs, etc). I think there are maybe 3 or 4 of us with a realistic IT background that have actual skills to solve problems..
My wife is currently using this iPhone/iTouch medical app for her NP program. Long story short, the UI and the selections make absolutely no sense from a practitioner's standpoint. Once, after swearing at it, she asked what the fuck they were thinking. I answered, "Honey, it was probably designed and developed by programmers that have no clue what a practitioner needs or uses in a system." I know, I've worked on some medical systems for a very large medical software company that everyone in the business would know who they are and I've had to rework a few things myself because they didn't work from a practitioner's perspective.
So, it's a good thing that at least some of the practitioners are involved.
Enough angry constituents and things will start to change.
No. From what I see, all the sites were allegedly related to copyright infringement.
Your typical constituent won't give a shit. They will be told that the sites engaged in illegal activity and as far as they're concerned, law enforcement is always right, honest, and fights for Truth, Justice and the American way.
You sir or madam, have way too much faith in The People.
Now, if Rush, Hannity, Beck or O'Reilly were to get all pissed, then you'll see people in the streets saying "Save those sites, lower our taxes, stop Obama from spending and stop killing babies!"
Yes, I'm extremely cynical. The other day, I talked to a woman who was terrified that all her money was going to be worthless because the US dollar was going to collapse! She heard from "reliable" people who know!
Guess who those people in the "know" were. She also wanted to put her life savings into gold because of someone who's advertising some sort of gold company.
Why the acronyms? Are you really going to be using those concepts or are you just using them to weed people out?
When UML first came out, it was this HUGE thing with many IT managers. They wanted it in a candidate and they wanted 2+ years experience. As anyone who started out in OOP with designing and implementing without UML, we basically thought in the OOP language of our choice and designed and implemented from there: UML seemed redundant and overly complex - it was easier to design it in C++ or Java and then translate it to UML for the people who gave a shit about it and the designs came out better that way.
My point is that many folks may have years and year of experience and be very good at what they do but are not very familiar with "MVC" or any other models or acronyms or buzzwords that were created (usually by academics after the fact) BUT, they know the concepts intuitively. For example, when C++ first hit the market, we C programmers looked at it and thought, "OK, putting code into a structure with the data. I can see how that can tighten up development but it won't make anything better."
You want to weed people out? Do this. Grab the candidates that you like and then sit them down and ask them how they would implement something.
Anyone can memorize buzzwords and parrot them and sound like they know what they're doing.
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However, we do think you are all delusional.
Fellow atheist here. Although, I prefer to say "I don't believe in God." instead. Yeah, I'm an atheist but atheism is developing its own dogmatism and I'm not interested, so I'm trying to distance myself from it.
Anyway, getting in people's faces about their religion is as bad as when religious folks get in ours about our lack of belief. If we show more respect for one another,maybe,just maybe most folks will chill.
Sure, there still will be the Phelps crowd and others who will have a problem, but if you'll notice, even folks of the same faith consider them (Phelps' crowd) to be kooks.
Can't anybody design any piece of hardware or software that does not have some lame vulnerability?
I have. The program is called One.
Basically, it's an NPN transistor that has a voltage that goes to its base. Its collector is connected to 6V and its emitter is connected to ground. There's a 1K resistor connected to the base and emitter.
It's a binary one and it's hack proof.
Genius huh?
Next, I'll be showing my 1 pixel digital image called: One.
I'm gonna be rich!
I keep trying to make my Fedora 12 look and act like Windows 7 - I get beaten up a lot at the local LUG meetings.
No,
What this world needs is competent programmers. C++ too hard for you? You shouldn't be programming. It's that simple.
Look, C++ is my programming language of choice: I like programming down to metal, having the OS load my program and run it without any intermediary like an interpreter or some sort of runtime (no I don't do CLI), and I like the ability to go down and do old school 'C' when I need to. But these days, it's like Stroustrup is adding features for the sake of adding features - trying to be "modern"? I don't know. It's making the language bulkier, adds even more chances for obfuscation, and it's getting to the point where even C++ fanboys like myself are reevaluating our relationship with the language.
Good god, when he first added templates (a great feature just see the STL), I had to deal with programmers who made template classes for everything and used it once for one data type. Plah-ease! Just because the feature is there doesn't mean you gotta use it. There's a time and place for everything. C++ is turning into the Word of programming languages: adding esoteric features that less than 1% of users will ever use.
C++ is turning into a bloated slow fat pig and I'm thinking of getting a divorce.
There's also a big fanatical following with FUJI Velvia 50 - all those really saturated sunsets that you never have seen in real life are many times shot with that stuff. Of course today, you just run your raw image through PS and get the same effect.
There are 7 billion people on this planet, it's nothing to move ideas around the planet and there's hardly any barriers to entry. As one Slashdotter said many moons ago, these countries will export their poverty and we'll consume it. There's no going back now.
No one and no profession will be immune - except for the owning class. And as labor of all types becomes more and more of a cheap commodity, it will become harder and harder to move into the owning class. Our real wages will continue to decline while our cost of living continues its rise and as a result, it will become harder and harder to save to own: stocks, bonds, real estate, businesses, etc...
Sure, people's standard of living in other countries will increase slightly - which is a good thing - but we in the US will see ours decimated.
The economists' argument that the pie is getting bigger? That may be. But many of us are not going to get a piece. My case: our real wages have been in decline since the 90s but yet, corporate profits are growing like gang busters. Who's getting that wealth? It's not me.
A bill that passed the senate that reinforces some portion of our individual liberties. I'm having trouble seeing where the corporate benefit is here.
I know you're being facetious, but most magazines, radio stations & tv stations are owned by corporations, they can't just have foreigners suing them for their dramatic, yet wildly inaccurate and poorly researched news stories.
Actually, it's the other way around.
Where this law came from is because of England. Basically, journalists would publish something about a dictator and regardless of how true it was or where it was published (they always found a way to sue in the UK), the dictator would sue and many times win (England's liable laws are idiotic) - costing the newspaper millions in the process and then they have to retract what they said.
The Economist reports on this every once in a while.
Actually, that'd be a trip of the Economist/Financial Times move over here.
There are plenty of people who know how is just that the knowledge leads to suspicion by law enforcement and practice of said skills are illegal.
It's the same thing if this guy said, "There aren't enough people who know how to murder and our spy agencies are having a hard time finding assassins! "
Take heart. One of the biggest specialties in career counciling is helping lawyers get out of law. At one time, there were just as many lawyers leaving law as entering.
You may be dodging a bullet.
So here's a quick question, who on earth thought it would be a good idea to even *allow* javascript to run in an email?
Software engineers who are even dumber than the users.
That company was rather stupid for canning you. Actually, very stupid. They should have brought up the security risk to the vendor. We used to talk to retailer's IT people all the time.
But here's the thing, way back when I was working on that stuff (1996-1998), the regional office would have phones lines that the store server called: yep a modem. There wasn't anything over the internet - then anyway because they couldn't: no TCP/IP. Some companies had leased lines. Then again, considering how cheap retailers are, I wouldn't put it past them to move all that data and everything over the internet to save on the cost of phone lines or leased lines. That's assuming that the POS vendors have incorporated TCP/IP stacks into their systems.
Many military scholars believe it was targeting the Patriot missile defense system that Taiwan was trying to buy from the US at that time
Orbital rendezvous has been done since the early 60s and that's pretty much all "shooting down" a satellite is - put something in the path of the satellite in an opposite orbit and they hit each other at 36,000 miles per hour (18,000 mph one way and 18,000 mph the other way)- woop tee doo.
Intercepting a missile with another missile in the atmosphere is still something that's not quite there yet - consider all the misses that the Patriot system has at least based upon its performance in the first Gulf War in 1991 (19 years ago!). In other words, the Chinese are just proving that they're willing to put shit in orbit in the way of one of their satellites and they think that's competition for the Patriot system? It that how we're supposed to take it?
First I would like to add that the author is also the author of Baseball Hacks [oreilly.com], which might not sound like a popular title for Slashdot but if you are a nerd and techie/programmer then this book is for you!
I once developed baseball software for collecting data and then reporting the stats. I could never understand why all that data was collected and why those stats were calculated for the players. I guess it's part of the game to watch someone hit another home run or steal a base or strike out and imagine the stats changing - I seems to be a waste of time.
If folks who follow all those stats put that time and effort to the stock market, they'd all be millionaires.
spend a Month at the Museum, to live and breathe science 24/7 for 30 days. From October 20 to November 18, 2010, this person's mission will be to experience all the fun and education that fits in this historic 14-acre building, living here full-time and reporting your findings to the outside world.'
Touched a dinosaur: man! those things are delicate!
The U-Boat was awesome!
Farm equipment was pretty good. Drove the tractor around a little bit before it ran out of gas.
At the baby chick hatchery. They're so cute! Awe shit! I left the door open! brb...
Went to Jim Hensen's Fantastic World and had a threesome with Kermit and Miss Piggy.
What does the community at large have for modern resources for constant streaming internet at sea?
You spent all that money on a sailboat and you're going out to sea for an adventure to ....stream content...sit on your ass and watch Youtube videos? To surf the web?!?
Email: How about go into port?
For voice (there are family emergencies ) there's satellite phones.
Entertainment out at sea and if you really have to have stuff, how about ust getting DVDs or Blu-Ray?
This is why freaks like RMS end up achieving something and the rest of us "sensible" people just end up as corporate drones.
Now, for the first time in a long time, I don't feel so bad about being a corporate America reject.
I just need to find some great thing to do....
Wow, $100million dollars and STILL couldn't afford to include LAN play. No worries, someone will do it for them free ;)
Could someone explain why that's an issue? Is there some sort of central server needed for game play?
Well, rest assured that you're right and at least I know it.
My wife is in medical and it's a HUGE problem among kids because they're not getting enough exercise and the biggest culprits are video games and lack of greenspace for kids to run around - suburban American life is making kids fat. She asks the kids what they do all day: sit in school, go home and do home work and then sit and play video games - all of them have that story.
And being fat at such a young age leads to horrible health consequences later on: diabetes and all the issues with that, heart disease, high blood pressure and all the issue with that, etc....
Our health costs are just going to continue to balloon because of this and we're, of course, going to blame the insurance companies, big pharma, and everyone else but ourselves.
In the meantime, the parents still buy the kids Coke, potato chips, crap from fast food joints (if it has a takeout window, it's crap), and they watch their parents sit in front of the TV all night.
I saw this guy buy his little pudgeball one of those 20oz Cokes the other day. She was 8 years old and already a fatty.
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("hello, world");
return 0;
}
During that time, RIM has avoided designs like the one Apple used in the iPhone 4 and instead has used innovative designs which reduce the risk for dropped calls, especially in areas of lower coverage.
RIM's market are business people and others who really use their phone for calling, email, and other communications. They bought it to do a function.
People bought the iPhone because it was Apple and they wanted to have a stylish phone. They wanted to look marvelous.
If it wasn't the case, then why did the iPhone sell like hot cakes in markets where AT&T was known to have shitty service? Consumer Reports have been tracking that for years.
Most of these peeps have Analyst in thier title and many came from other areas of the organization (nursing, med techs, etc). I think there are maybe 3 or 4 of us with a realistic IT background that have actual skills to solve problems..
My wife is currently using this iPhone/iTouch medical app for her NP program. Long story short, the UI and the selections make absolutely no sense from a practitioner's standpoint. Once, after swearing at it, she asked what the fuck they were thinking. I answered, "Honey, it was probably designed and developed by programmers that have no clue what a practitioner needs or uses in a system." I know, I've worked on some medical systems for a very large medical software company that everyone in the business would know who they are and I've had to rework a few things myself because they didn't work from a practitioner's perspective.
So, it's a good thing that at least some of the practitioners are involved.
Suspension of disbelief, dude.
Enough angry constituents and things will start to change.
No. From what I see, all the sites were allegedly related to copyright infringement.
Your typical constituent won't give a shit. They will be told that the sites engaged in illegal activity and as far as they're concerned, law enforcement is always right, honest, and fights for Truth, Justice and the American way.
You sir or madam, have way too much faith in The People.
Now, if Rush, Hannity, Beck or O'Reilly were to get all pissed, then you'll see people in the streets saying "Save those sites, lower our taxes, stop Obama from spending and stop killing babies!"
Yes, I'm extremely cynical. The other day, I talked to a woman who was terrified that all her money was going to be worthless because the US dollar was going to collapse! She heard from "reliable" people who know!
Guess who those people in the "know" were. She also wanted to put her life savings into gold because of someone who's advertising some sort of gold company.
When UML first came out, it was this HUGE thing with many IT managers. They wanted it in a candidate and they wanted 2+ years experience. As anyone who started out in OOP with designing and implementing without UML, we basically thought in the OOP language of our choice and designed and implemented from there: UML seemed redundant and overly complex - it was easier to design it in C++ or Java and then translate it to UML for the people who gave a shit about it and the designs came out better that way.
My point is that many folks may have years and year of experience and be very good at what they do but are not very familiar with "MVC" or any other models or acronyms or buzzwords that were created (usually by academics after the fact) BUT, they know the concepts intuitively. For example, when C++ first hit the market, we C programmers looked at it and thought, "OK, putting code into a structure with the data. I can see how that can tighten up development but it won't make anything better."
You want to weed people out? Do this. Grab the candidates that you like and then sit them down and ask them how they would implement something.
Anyone can memorize buzzwords and parrot them and sound like they know what they're doing.