Give the post some mod points!!! Most bigger projects have found that empowering a few highly talented developers (aka the way Google does things) gives you more then a roomfull of group circle jerks (aka meetings about meetings).
Kinda like the old saying "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
Isn't the solution to at least the format readability problem pretty simple? Print out schematics for a reading device on a format that will last the longest. Store said format with all media.
Of course that doesn't fix the problem of archive stability. Tapes are supposed to be relatively long-lived compared, say to a simple CD-R, but haven't we all had one or many more fail on us?
I run two largish Vbulletin forums - and we get at least 1-2 spammers a day. I haven't found a way to prevent them yet, but I have found a way to stop em from getting any traffic or money for the unsuspecting idiot that clicks on them.
I use an anti-spam e-mail technique: blacklist.
Vbulletin has a censoring system where words you choose can be replaced with your choice of characters - by default it's an *. www.clickmeforspam.com, where I would use the "clickmeforspam.com" as the censored word, shows up as www.******************.
It's quite hilarious to see the humans behind the spam, who have registered, gotten through a human image trap, clicked on a link e-mailed to them, logged in and posted their spam re-post it like 2-3 times only to realize they got owned by my filter. They get all pissed off, and by that time a user has reported the post or we've seen it and banned them. It's very fun to make fun of them in their spam posts filled with ***s.:)
Well except for the fact that most Candidates seem more interested in HIDING their views these days and bashing the other person, I'd agree with you.
I live in NE Florida and I voted today for only 3 of the candidates on my ballot - governor, House seat, and Senator. I had no clue who the other people or the seats they held were, even after studying the local paper's attempt at educating me. I have a TiVo so I skip commercials (come on fellow geeks, admit it, we skip the damn commercials!) so I only see a few of the smear campaigns every day. If it were not for the local paper's run-down of what the candidates say they are for, I'd have no clue to vote for. Crist seems loathe to give any points he wishes to address, except for a smattering of crap along party principles. Davis extolls his virtuous run as a US Representative, nails a few things I'm concerned with (environmental restoration, insurance rate protections, reducing property taxes) so I voted Davis. I wanted to give them a fair shake at each other, but try as I did, I couldn't figure out what Crist was for. Of all the political ads I saw, not a one dealt with the issues the candidate wanted to make a difference for - they only slammed the other guy in some see I told ya so way.
The FL Governor race reminded me of the 04 election - I voted for the most capable scumbag.:(
It seems the great overloard Adams was in fact inflicted by the great malady. Rejoice at his miraculous recovery!
PS - I was quite confused at first as to the authenticity of this until I got goog-learned. It seems it really does exist, he very well may have had it, and if he recovered was indeed a miracle. However, it could also be an elaborate ruse, as I would expect from a satirist of his pedigree.:)
As others have stated, it is definitely your stunning acumen for the written word and fascinating hold on perfecting grammar and punctuation that definitely got you hired. They had nothing to do with your termination.
>Perhaps so. But please keep in mind that it IS possible for a person NOT "in your shoes" to reach a rational conclusion on the subject. If you believe that for a person to have *SOME* insight on what it takes to have a good marriage, they must be married; then you are the idiot. Granted, many things are learned from experience, but some things can be reasoned through by just being... a REASONABLE PERSON. At the same time, simply because a person has experience with marriege, does not make them an authority. Would you say that a person that has been married 5 times, to be experienced and therefore be able to relate to you and your experiences more than myself(not married)?
You got it all wrong bub. Many (myself included) believes they know what it means to be married before they're married. I wondered why people said it was so hard - I mean, hell, I lived with my GF for 5-6 years. I sure as hell FELT married!
It's just different. Add in a kid or kids, and wow - hello alternate reality, now I understand what all those people said about how damned hard it is to raise a kid. It's just - well, it sounds crappy, but you just can't relate to it until you do it. Take the hardest job you've ever had, but no days off, randomly long hours in the middle of the night, and you always, always have to be your best because it's someone's future you're shaping. You don't get to have bad days and just shrug it off. Do that for 18 years or more. Straight. When you do have a bad day, sometimes you go home and they look at you and you forget all about what's wrong with the world. It's just the hardest to explain thing.
Marriage is much like that - except harder because they are already an adult and you should hopefully have to live with them for decades, and they come with their own life experience - you don't get to "shape" them - much. So I guess what I'm saying is I disagree with you - you can come to a rational conclusion, but it won't be a realistic conclusion because those life experiences have to be part of it. It isn't scientific - it's psychological. Can you tell me what I feel when I feel love? Of course not. It's the same thing, really.
The issue I had really was the tone of what you said. It had authority - "My dad did this so therefore it can be done". He can be an outlier, remember?
You sir are an idiot. First off, stop trying to answer for those of us who ARE married with kid(s) - you can't relate. Don't try. Second, one good marriage doesn't mean a damn thing. If he's been in IT for 40 years, he got in and may have the kush job at IBM with the awesome retirement, etc. I've been in IT for 12 years, married for almost 6. It almost ruined my marriage because of the IT bomb post-20001 / post-9/11. I took a job where I hated the job and the boss hated me because I knew more then him.
And whoever said it otherwise - the wife always comes first. Kids are perfect 2nd - and they will want to be lower then the dog by the time they're teenagers.
I believe that the person you replied to meant the "new sorta-kinda original, sorta-kinda remastered" instead of the true original shown in theaters.:)
You said it right - it's the DEFAULT config. It's a bit of a hack work around, but you can make it so that different "types" of contacts for the same person are accessible via the right or left arrow in the address book. First you have to save everything on the phone, NOT THE SIM (in my SLVR L7), and then have the name identical for each contact of the same person - ie "Bob" and "Bob" and not "Bob mobile" and "Bob home", then you set the type - ie home, mobile, pager, etc - for each different contact type for that person. Works great for me. I personally like the Motorola interface. It may be a bit like S&M to some, but I find it to be obvious where things are. The SLVR interface is even much improved over my RAZR that unfortunately decided to try swimming. ^_^
I know that one of the hardest things to do in a business - and digg and/. are businesses - is to let the customers choose their product all by themselves - even if they find out about that product from your business. That shows morals and ethics, and by putting this story on the front page,/. shows it's taken the moral high road. Cheers!
(Interestingly, I stopped going to digg about 3-4 weeks ago because it takes FOREVER to render when I swich to its tab in FF)
I dunno - I've used both Python and PERL and am an avid PERL user. I find that with good practices ( create both { and } in series then insert properly indented code inbetween ), the presence of {} around code snippets allows for EASY debugging. I just couldn't get used to the indention FORCING marriage to a block of code. As has been stated before, proper programming techniques means you're already indenting code with nested loops, but what about the ol' copy-paste from a block one level deeper that would throw everything off. I'm not talking about a situation where a subroutine should be used either - I'm talking about "Oh I remember coding that for xyz project - I'll just swipe 80% of that code and insert the rest for my current project".
We don't buy AMD because they're "better" than Intel - a clock is a clock. They're no more or less stable, no better supported. We buy them because they're cheaper.
Wrong - you're a victim to Intel's marteting.
Take, for example, the highest-end Athlon single core, compared to the highest-end Intel single core - the FX-57 vs the EE 3.73Ghz. The FX-57 runs at 2.8Ghz. The EE at 3.73 Ghz - the FX-57 running some 25% slower - in pure clock speed. Let's say they have identical performance (they don't) - then the AMD would perform better - significantly so - per "clock" as you say. Based on results from spec.org - the FX-57 runs between 1929 and 1970 for SPECint2000 scores and between 1894 and 2261 in SPECfp2000 (the higher of the SPECfp score is on a 64-bit linux distro with a high-end compiler - the low-end on a Windows XP system, presumably 32-bit). The Intel EE gets 1796 on SPECint2000 (xp SP2) and 2016 on SPECfp2000 (xp SP2). So the AMD beats it by 10% in SPECint2000 (using the average of the FX-57's scores) and gets beat on the Intel-preferred platform by 10%. I call it a draw in terms of performance and the AMD does it with a 50% slower clock.
Why SHOULDN'T I wear comfortable, doesn't-show-all-the-crap-I-find-under-your-desk wear? I mean - I have nice clothes like the next guy - even 5-6 suits when I was a traveling consultant. However, why should I pay the mega $$$ to get my pants and shirts dry-cleaned when I'm just going to get them FILTHY crawling under the desks because the lazy #$%#^## maids don't VACUUM under the desks!!!??? Add to that the inevitable dirt from opening a case (you may need a hermetically sealed anti-chemical-weapon suit for some of those darn things!!!) or digging around the IT storeroom and yeah - sorry, I wear jeans.
Aren't you missing the point though? It's not that the AMD systems are prevailing on the merits of their amazing vector math (they aren't) - it's that they do a PRETTY good job of both vector and scalar math, but at the prices you can get them, your cost per computation is SIGNIFICANTLY lower then it would be with one of the massive vector systems.
The research / development arm of the organization I work for just got a 4000+ CPU XT3. Last I checked, they planned on using the PGI compiler for most stuff.
You express your anger with abuse of arbitrary power in a virtual realm by abusing your own arbitrary power, in your own personal virtual realm?
I am disappointed in you. Please keep the petty bitching confined to livejournal.
Wait - so he has spent time, probably a bit(or a lot) of his own money to build this site initially, and this is an abuse of power? That's bullshit. Mod me down if you must - I will not stand behind the cloak of anonymity to voice my disapproval of this rediculous statement. I won't even use my KB.
If you build a site from the ground like/., you deserve to use it to opine on topics. It's his work capital, if you will. Those complaining about abuse of power are just jealous of that power. And based on my short time (har har) on/. (look at my number) I'd say he rarely uses that capital so he has a lot saved up.
Unfortunately it weighs 3.7 pounds, it is too heavy.
Are you honestly trying to say that a difference of a pound makes that big of a damn difference? Have you ever put in 100,000+ air miles in one year, lugging a laptop? One damned pound hardly matters. The laptop cases most morons with lightweight laptops (read: executives, sales dorks) carry around weigh 10x more then the laptop, thus negating any benefit of weight savings.
Take a (non-existant) Unix only user and give them Windows. They have the same issues. Take someone fluent in spanish and transport them to India. Same problems.
Think of this without bias. If you had been thrown into Windows XP for the first time and asked to do the same thing, would you know that Outlook is a frigging e-mail program!!!??? Its icon doesn't even have anything to DO with e-mail. Changing a date - woo-hoo! Right-click the date. Thank GOD they got that right!
UI design is flailing in the OSS community because the resources M$ throws at UI design don't exist - especially in the FOSS subset of the OSSers. Do you have millions of dollars to do user usability testing - as in the people who wouldn't volunteer freely to "beta" something - the ones that outnumber the beta testers 50 to 1. Do you have millions of dollars for focus groups and other UI related tasks?
The difference is money. Give the same efforts that M$ puts into UI usability and testing to the FOSS folks and you'd have - well a better Windows, but definitely a much better UI.
Timecards reflect essential truth, if not literal truth of when work is done.
That, unfortunately, is a load of so much horseypoop. I've worked for MANY companies that believed that, and all you had was useless middle managers working late who said they worked their butts off, but just wandered the halls shooting the shit during the day and did god-only-knows-what during the "late shift".
I did 10x more work then they did in the 8 hours I was there, but was chastized for not working more hours, thus lowering my effictive hourly wage since said company also did not believe in overtime.
Needless to say I got the hell out of dodge (the place, not the company) as soon as I could.
Was one of the most general, non-specific, didn't quote any numbers piece of crap that I've wasted 2 minutes reading in a long time. Not once did the author compare these stats from "various on-line resources". Not once did he show any shard of evidence.
However, he is of course correct - but it's a useless read without any references.
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Give the post some mod points!!! Most bigger projects have found that empowering a few highly talented developers (aka the way Google does things) gives you more then a roomfull of group circle jerks (aka meetings about meetings).
Kinda like the old saying "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
Isn't the solution to at least the format readability problem pretty simple? Print out schematics for a reading device on a format that will last the longest. Store said format with all media.
Of course that doesn't fix the problem of archive stability. Tapes are supposed to be relatively long-lived compared, say to a simple CD-R, but haven't we all had one or many more fail on us?
I run two largish Vbulletin forums - and we get at least 1-2 spammers a day. I haven't found a way to prevent them yet, but I have found a way to stop em from getting any traffic or money for the unsuspecting idiot that clicks on them.
.
:)
I use an anti-spam e-mail technique: blacklist.
Vbulletin has a censoring system where words you choose can be replaced with your choice of characters - by default it's an *. www.clickmeforspam.com, where I would use the "clickmeforspam.com" as the censored word, shows up as www.******************
It's quite hilarious to see the humans behind the spam, who have registered, gotten through a human image trap, clicked on a link e-mailed to them, logged in and posted their spam re-post it like 2-3 times only to realize they got owned by my filter. They get all pissed off, and by that time a user has reported the post or we've seen it and banned them. It's very fun to make fun of them in their spam posts filled with ***s.
Well except for the fact that most Candidates seem more interested in HIDING their views these days and bashing the other person, I'd agree with you.
:(
I live in NE Florida and I voted today for only 3 of the candidates on my ballot - governor, House seat, and Senator. I had no clue who the other people or the seats they held were, even after studying the local paper's attempt at educating me. I have a TiVo so I skip commercials (come on fellow geeks, admit it, we skip the damn commercials!) so I only see a few of the smear campaigns every day. If it were not for the local paper's run-down of what the candidates say they are for, I'd have no clue to vote for. Crist seems loathe to give any points he wishes to address, except for a smattering of crap along party principles. Davis extolls his virtuous run as a US Representative, nails a few things I'm concerned with (environmental restoration, insurance rate protections, reducing property taxes) so I voted Davis. I wanted to give them a fair shake at each other, but try as I did, I couldn't figure out what Crist was for. Of all the political ads I saw, not a one dealt with the issues the candidate wanted to make a difference for - they only slammed the other guy in some see I told ya so way. The FL Governor race reminded me of the 04 election - I voted for the most capable scumbag.
I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre
Do none of you find any irony in the choosing of a double-entendre topic / icon and a condition like this???
Fellow Dilbertites,
:)
It seems the great overloard Adams was in fact inflicted by the great malady. Rejoice at his miraculous recovery!
PS - I was quite confused at first as to the authenticity of this until I got goog-learned. It seems it really does exist, he very well may have had it, and if he recovered was indeed a miracle. However, it could also be an elaborate ruse, as I would expect from a satirist of his pedigree.
As others have stated, it is definitely your stunning acumen for the written word and fascinating hold on perfecting grammar and punctuation that definitely got you hired. They had nothing to do with your termination.
>Perhaps so. But please keep in mind that it IS possible for a person NOT "in your shoes" to reach a rational conclusion on the subject. If you believe that for a person to have *SOME* insight on what it takes to have a good marriage, they must be married; then you are the idiot. Granted, many things are learned from experience, but some things can be reasoned through by just being... a REASONABLE PERSON. At the same time, simply because a person has experience with marriege, does not make them an authority. Would you say that a person that has been married 5 times, to be experienced and therefore be able to relate to you and your experiences more than myself(not married)?
:)
You got it all wrong bub. Many (myself included) believes they know what it means to be married before they're married. I wondered why people said it was so hard - I mean, hell, I lived with my GF for 5-6 years. I sure as hell FELT married!
It's just different. Add in a kid or kids, and wow - hello alternate reality, now I understand what all those people said about how damned hard it is to raise a kid. It's just - well, it sounds crappy, but you just can't relate to it until you do it. Take the hardest job you've ever had, but no days off, randomly long hours in the middle of the night, and you always, always have to be your best because it's someone's future you're shaping. You don't get to have bad days and just shrug it off. Do that for 18 years or more. Straight. When you do have a bad day, sometimes you go home and they look at you and you forget all about what's wrong with the world. It's just the hardest to explain thing.
Marriage is much like that - except harder because they are already an adult and you should hopefully have to live with them for decades, and they come with their own life experience - you don't get to "shape" them - much. So I guess what I'm saying is I disagree with you - you can come to a rational conclusion, but it won't be a realistic conclusion because those life experiences have to be part of it. It isn't scientific - it's psychological. Can you tell me what I feel when I feel love? Of course not. It's the same thing, really.
The issue I had really was the tone of what you said. It had authority - "My dad did this so therefore it can be done". He can be an outlier, remember?
But at least we agree on one thing.
You sir are an idiot. First off, stop trying to answer for those of us who ARE married with kid(s) - you can't relate. Don't try. Second, one good marriage doesn't mean a damn thing. If he's been in IT for 40 years, he got in and may have the kush job at IBM with the awesome retirement, etc. I've been in IT for 12 years, married for almost 6. It almost ruined my marriage because of the IT bomb post-20001 / post-9/11. I took a job where I hated the job and the boss hated me because I knew more then him.
And whoever said it otherwise - the wife always comes first. Kids are perfect 2nd - and they will want to be lower then the dog by the time they're teenagers.
I believe that the person you replied to meant the "new sorta-kinda original, sorta-kinda remastered" instead of the true original shown in theaters. :)
You said it right - it's the DEFAULT config. It's a bit of a hack work around, but you can make it so that different "types" of contacts for the same person are accessible via the right or left arrow in the address book. First you have to save everything on the phone, NOT THE SIM (in my SLVR L7), and then have the name identical for each contact of the same person - ie "Bob" and "Bob" and not "Bob mobile" and "Bob home", then you set the type - ie home, mobile, pager, etc - for each different contact type for that person. Works great for me. I personally like the Motorola interface. It may be a bit like S&M to some, but I find it to be obvious where things are. The SLVR interface is even much improved over my RAZR that unfortunately decided to try swimming. ^_^
The point TFA makes is not that a RAID5 setup would be used on a desktop, but that real-world performance seems to suffer on this chip.
Am I halucinating to recall something happening like this a long time ago with Intel?
I know that one of the hardest things to do in a business - and digg and /. are businesses - is to let the customers choose their product all by themselves - even if they find out about that product from your business. That shows morals and ethics, and by putting this story on the front page, /. shows it's taken the moral high road. Cheers!
(Interestingly, I stopped going to digg about 3-4 weeks ago because it takes FOREVER to render when I swich to its tab in FF)
I dunno - I've used both Python and PERL and am an avid PERL user. I find that with good practices ( create both { and } in series then insert properly indented code inbetween ), the presence of {} around code snippets allows for EASY debugging. I just couldn't get used to the indention FORCING marriage to a block of code. As has been stated before, proper programming techniques means you're already indenting code with nested loops, but what about the ol' copy-paste from a block one level deeper that would throw everything off. I'm not talking about a situation where a subroutine should be used either - I'm talking about "Oh I remember coding that for xyz project - I'll just swipe 80% of that code and insert the rest for my current project".
We don't buy AMD because they're "better" than Intel - a clock is a clock. They're no more or less stable, no better supported. We buy them because they're cheaper.
:)
Wrong - you're a victim to Intel's marteting. Take, for example, the highest-end Athlon single core, compared to the highest-end Intel single core - the FX-57 vs the EE 3.73Ghz. The FX-57 runs at 2.8Ghz. The EE at 3.73 Ghz - the FX-57 running some 25% slower - in pure clock speed. Let's say they have identical performance (they don't) - then the AMD would perform better - significantly so - per "clock" as you say. Based on results from spec.org - the FX-57 runs between 1929 and 1970 for SPECint2000 scores and between 1894 and 2261 in SPECfp2000 (the higher of the SPECfp score is on a 64-bit linux distro with a high-end compiler - the low-end on a Windows XP system, presumably 32-bit). The Intel EE gets 1796 on SPECint2000 (xp SP2) and 2016 on SPECfp2000 (xp SP2). So the AMD beats it by 10% in SPECint2000 (using the average of the FX-57's scores) and gets beat on the Intel-preferred platform by 10%. I call it a draw in terms of performance and the AMD does it with a 50% slower clock.
Unless you mean some other clock.
One comment I haven't seen yet...
:D )
Why SHOULDN'T I wear comfortable, doesn't-show-all-the-crap-I-find-under-your-desk wear? I mean - I have nice clothes like the next guy - even 5-6 suits when I was a traveling consultant. However, why should I pay the mega $$$ to get my pants and shirts dry-cleaned when I'm just going to get them FILTHY crawling under the desks because the lazy #$%#^## maids don't VACUUM under the desks!!!??? Add to that the inevitable dirt from opening a case (you may need a hermetically sealed anti-chemical-weapon suit for some of those darn things!!!) or digging around the IT storeroom and yeah - sorry, I wear jeans.
( I guess I just wore out my "-" key too
Aren't you missing the point though? It's not that the AMD systems are prevailing on the merits of their amazing vector math (they aren't) - it's that they do a PRETTY good job of both vector and scalar math, but at the prices you can get them, your cost per computation is SIGNIFICANTLY lower then it would be with one of the massive vector systems.
The research / development arm of the organization I work for just got a 4000+ CPU XT3. Last I checked, they planned on using the PGI compiler for most stuff.
You express your anger with abuse of arbitrary power in a virtual realm by abusing your own arbitrary power, in your own personal virtual realm?
/., you deserve to use it to opine on topics. It's his work capital, if you will. Those complaining about abuse of power are just jealous of that power. And based on my short time (har har) on /. (look at my number) I'd say he rarely uses that capital so he has a lot saved up.
I am disappointed in you. Please keep the petty bitching confined to livejournal.
Wait - so he has spent time, probably a bit(or a lot) of his own money to build this site initially, and this is an abuse of power? That's bullshit. Mod me down if you must - I will not stand behind the cloak of anonymity to voice my disapproval of this rediculous statement. I won't even use my KB.
If you build a site from the ground like
Unfortunately it weighs 3.7 pounds, it is too heavy.
Are you honestly trying to say that a difference of a pound makes that big of a damn difference? Have you ever put in 100,000+ air miles in one year, lugging a laptop? One damned pound hardly matters. The laptop cases most morons with lightweight laptops (read: executives, sales dorks) carry around weigh 10x more then the laptop, thus negating any benefit of weight savings.
Take a (non-existant) Unix only user and give them Windows. They have the same issues. Take someone fluent in spanish and transport them to India. Same problems.
Think of this without bias. If you had been thrown into Windows XP for the first time and asked to do the same thing, would you know that Outlook is a frigging e-mail program!!!??? Its icon doesn't even have anything to DO with e-mail. Changing a date - woo-hoo! Right-click the date. Thank GOD they got that right!
UI design is flailing in the OSS community because the resources M$ throws at UI design don't exist - especially in the FOSS subset of the OSSers. Do you have millions of dollars to do user usability testing - as in the people who wouldn't volunteer freely to "beta" something - the ones that outnumber the beta testers 50 to 1. Do you have millions of dollars for focus groups and other UI related tasks?
The difference is money. Give the same efforts that M$ puts into UI usability and testing to the FOSS folks and you'd have - well a better Windows, but definitely a much better UI.
Timecards reflect essential truth, if not literal truth of when work is done.
That, unfortunately, is a load of so much horseypoop. I've worked for MANY companies that believed that, and all you had was useless middle managers working late who said they worked their butts off, but just wandered the halls shooting the shit during the day and did god-only-knows-what during the "late shift".
I did 10x more work then they did in the 8 hours I was there, but was chastized for not working more hours, thus lowering my effictive hourly wage since said company also did not believe in overtime.
Needless to say I got the hell out of dodge (the place, not the company) as soon as I could.
Was one of the most general, non-specific, didn't quote any numbers piece of crap that I've wasted 2 minutes reading in a long time. Not once did the author compare these stats from "various on-line resources". Not once did he show any shard of evidence.
However, he is of course correct - but it's a useless read without any references.
One word: Referrer.