I went to purchase one of those little bad boys at Best Buy and they said they are no longer going to sell them. Is this PDAgoing to share the same fate as my agenda VR3?
We have been looking for a Java Programmer for some time, and to alleviate the riff raff we typically give them a Java Test, and SQL Test. The SQL Test is more knowledge base with very little thinking and the Java test is mostly developing algorithms. The sad thing is a lot of the people come in asking for a starting salary twice as high as mine, and can't even pass my fscking test. Sad thing is no one has passed the test yet, so we haven't hired anyone...
I would say this test is on par with a 2nd semester programming class midterm.
Say you are successful, and I hope you are. What's next? Do you try it again only higher? Also any plans of donating your rocket to the Smithsonian? This would definitely be considered Air & Space history and be worthy for all to view. Or on the other hand after are you looking for monetary gain? Something like pay 12 bucks to see Rocket guy's Rocket?
A pet store where you can buy some frickin' sharks with lasers on their forehead. Or at least some ill tempered bass with the lasers. Or a clone 1/8th your size.
I understand they are trying to get momentum for this distro, before its released. However it seems that they are getting more negative press than they can chew. Hype can't carry a company's product as well as it could 2-4 years ago.
At a LAN party you only get to brag until the next bunch of laptops with the GeForce 5XX comes out. However if your luggin' around your desktop, and a new video card comes out you don't have to change your whole system to replace the video card.
That is if you are that kind of gamer that needs to show off the most FPS on his computer. Or the kind of gamer who possibly owned the GeForce 2, 3, and 4 all in the same year. But of course there's no one here like that.
haven't you noticed that web sites are becoming more and more standards compliant? if you keep scripting for an IE only audience, then soon your web sites will be considered 'broken' and your employer (or customers) will be asking you why their website looks/acts screwy.
Besides there is nothing worse in the world than writing in some form of clientscripting anything that resembles the following line
The evils of web development. Customers often ask for a lot to be done, that other browsers cannot provide, or if they can with a lot more hours coding to make them both compliant. Most coporate environments choose to use IE, therefore you make it a specification to develop for IE only. This does save time and money, especially when you are building weblications for their company Intranets that support various things like Remote Scripting.
But here is where the evil-ness comes in. What happens when the sites become broken? Well the first question you ask the customer is well what browser are you using? If they answer something else other than what is listed in the specification, which often is a legal binding contract, then you don't have to support it and if you choose to support it you can make a couple extra bucks consulting. (The constant circular life cycle of web development)
I mean why should they spend money porting SCO Unix to the IA-64, instead they should spend that effort porting United Linux to the IA-64, plus they have the capital behind them to do it with SuSe, Turbo and Connectiva behind them now. My question is are the 4 companies going to become one now?
That's cause they have all their technical people working on something real worthy. A free video game, well semi free. I'm sure I'll get a call from my local recruiter after he sees me play.
It has individual chapters that goes over tools like vi, grep, using Korn and C Shells. As well as setting up printers. I enjoyed the book and it spells everything out for you. As well as example questions at the end of each chapter. I don't think it had a testbank though. You got to make that up yourself.
I have a connection that works at Fox and often I get to go to premeires or media screenings, so when I was offered to see AOTC a week and half before everyone else I leapt at the chance. The only problem was I sat next to a newspaper movie critic who wouldn't shut up. I came this close to crushing his larynx while quoting, "A find your lack a faith disturbing."
Not giving anything away, it is awesome. There are more lightsabers in this movie that you can shake a errr... lightsaber at. The problem I can forsee that people would have is the acceptance of Anakin being Anakin. Well nobody really liked the first kid so why should we like the second. They are probably going to be some complaints about this movie, but I didn't have any. AOTC definetly has the best land war of any of the Star Wars movies including EOB. Anyway great movie, I just wonder if it would be any better seeing it in one of the digital theatres.
I'm not going to say Sun should open source Java, but for heaven's sake, make a GUI toolkit that doesn't suck. You can't cite Java's 'newness' as an excuse anymore.
I love hearing this argument. Yeah Java's AWT is somewhat heavyweight. But it is old, it's been around since JDK 1.0. JDK 1.2 Swing still has a ways to go but has made some significant improvements. However the problem that people neglect is that these Windowing toolkits are cross platform. I guarantee that my Java applications will out perform your VB, with the exception on Win32, on every other platform. Java gives people choice of where you can run those applications.
However with the advent of.NET and J2EE becoming a larger API, it really isn't going to be about windowing anymore. It's all about Web Services. What can you do networking. Programming VB Data Collection forms will still be important, but soon you will see more and more drag and drop collections similar to VB with Java IDE's. That is once Sun really starts standardizing reusable JavaBeans.
Actually you bring up a good point and a lot of people seem to have already posted. I agree with you, it does some seem sweet, Web Services, XML Platform. However the compile once, run anywhere is limited to machines that are able to run the.NET CRI or CRL(Common Runtime Interface / Language) I can't remember which one it was. Instead of a Java VM interpreting the compiled Java Bytecode,.NET actually compiles your already compiled.NET code and optimizes it for that machine whether it's 2000, XP, or 9x. It's very interesting, however I don't forsee it being run anywhere unless M$ actually takes over the direction of the MONO project to keep it even with the development of the Win platform. Miguel Icaza and company will probably fail, for they are 6-12 months behind, and the gap will keep expanding until M$ helps out.
** CREAK ** Wife: (Gathers Manual) Dear it says right here not to exceed 10,000 Feet or the...
Captain: That's just what they say, I know this baby can take a few more thousand feet, I paid 75+ Mill for this baby, besides it's pretty down here...
Wife: I can't see a thing...
Captain: Look harder... Anyway not to worry... remember Crimson Tide they went like 13,000... ** CRUNCH SPLASH **
The only Warning labels people listen to is Dry Cleaning Only labels...
Well my friend the glass may not know how much the person has had, but the device it will be signaling to might.
Then if you want to get real crazy maybe we can put a little device in the stool that sends a signal of how much the person weighs, then we can match his/her weight with the amount of drink he/she has had and have an intelligent idea whether they have had too much to drink or not.
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I went to purchase one of those little bad boys at Best Buy and they said they are no longer going to sell them. Is this PDAgoing to share the same fate as my agenda VR3?
You test, test, test....
We have been looking for a Java Programmer for some time, and to alleviate the riff raff we typically give them a Java Test, and SQL Test. The SQL Test is more knowledge base with very little thinking and the Java test is mostly developing algorithms. The sad thing is a lot of the people come in asking for a starting salary twice as high as mine, and can't even pass my fscking test. Sad thing is no one has passed the test yet, so we haven't hired anyone...
I would say this test is on par with a 2nd semester programming class midterm.
GRACE runs Linux or she runs on Linux?
I just bought an iMac free lunch woohoo...
Too bad I bought it two weeks before the stupid 17" came out.
Wait I don't get it...
Ooohh look Warcraft III!
Whaddya mean I ain't paying attention you $*%#&!
Say you are successful, and I hope you are. What's next? Do you try it again only higher? Also any plans of donating your rocket to the Smithsonian? This would definitely be considered Air & Space history and be worthy for all to view. Or on the other hand after are you looking for monetary gain? Something like pay 12 bucks to see Rocket guy's Rocket?
A pet store where you can buy some frickin' sharks with lasers on their forehead. Or at least some ill tempered bass with the lasers. Or a clone 1/8th your size.
Waking up one morning and finding out that you XBox which you left online playing HALO was turned into an FTP server, by a couple of script kiddies.
Well it's a sure fire way to test a server. I can see it now:
Guy1: Hey can you help me. I need to load test the server.
Guy2: Sorry I don't have the time. ( Jokingly ) Heh, why don't you submit your city line model to Slashdot, it's a pretty cool hack.
Guy1: Hey thanks, (Thinking to himself) That's not a bad idea...
The next morning...
Guy2: (To Guy1) HEY IDIOT I DIDN'T THINK YOU WERE GOING TO TAKE ME SERIOUSLY!!!
Well it's a sure fire way to test a server. I can see it know:
Guy1: Hey can you help me. I need to load test the server.
Guy2: Sorry I don't have the time. ( Jokingly ) Heh, why don't you submit your city line model to Slashdot, it's a pretty cool hack.
Guy1: ( Thinking to himself) That's not a bad idea...
The next morning...
Guy2: (To Guy1) HEY IDIOT I DIDN'T THINK YOU WERE GOING TO TAKE ME SERIOUSLY!!!
Has United Linux been developed?
I understand they are trying to get momentum for this distro, before its released. However it seems that they are getting more negative press than they can chew. Hype can't carry a company's product as well as it could 2-4 years ago.
At a LAN party you only get to brag until the next bunch of laptops with the GeForce 5XX comes out. However if your luggin' around your desktop, and a new video card comes out you don't have to change your whole system to replace the video card.
That is if you are that kind of gamer that needs to show off the most FPS on his computer. Or the kind of gamer who possibly owned the GeForce 2, 3, and 4 all in the same year. But of course there's no one here like that.
Besides there is nothing worse in the world than writing in some form of clientscripting anything that resembles the following lineThe evils of web development. Customers often ask for a lot to be done, that other browsers cannot provide, or if they can with a lot more hours coding to make them both compliant. Most coporate environments choose to use IE, therefore you make it a specification to develop for IE only. This does save time and money, especially when you are building weblications for their company Intranets that support various things like Remote Scripting.
But here is where the evil-ness comes in. What happens when the sites become broken? Well the first question you ask the customer is well what browser are you using? If they answer something else other than what is listed in the specification, which often is a legal binding contract, then you don't have to support it and if you choose to support it you can make a couple extra bucks consulting. (The constant circular life cycle of web development)
To sum the above in two words: Job Security.
I mean why should they spend money porting SCO Unix to the IA-64, instead they should spend that effort porting United Linux to the IA-64, plus they have the capital behind them to do it with SuSe, Turbo and Connectiva behind them now. My question is are the 4 companies going to become one now?
That's cause they have all their technical people working on something real worthy. A free video game, well semi free. I'm sure I'll get a call from my local recruiter after he sees me play.
It's actually just 'HA'
SPOON!
I can't spell.
Our professor aloud us to do assignments on our own Linux boxes using for our Intro to Unix class. We used this book:
UNIX MADE Easy
It has individual chapters that goes over tools like vi, grep, using Korn and C Shells. As well as setting up printers. I enjoyed the book and it spells everything out for you. As well as example questions at the end of each chapter. I don't think it had a testbank though. You got to make that up yourself.
I have a connection that works at Fox and often I get to go to premeires or media screenings, so when I was offered to see AOTC a week and half before everyone else I leapt at the chance. The only problem was I sat next to a newspaper movie critic who wouldn't shut up. I came this close to crushing his larynx while quoting, "A find your lack a faith disturbing."
Not giving anything away, it is awesome. There are more lightsabers in this movie that you can shake a errr... lightsaber at. The problem I can forsee that people would have is the acceptance of Anakin being Anakin. Well nobody really liked the first kid so why should we like the second. They are probably going to be some complaints about this movie, but I didn't have any. AOTC definetly has the best land war of any of the Star Wars movies including EOB. Anyway great movie, I just wonder if it would be any better seeing it in one of the digital theatres.
I'm not going to say Sun should open source Java, but for heaven's sake, make a GUI toolkit that doesn't suck. You can't cite Java's 'newness' as an excuse anymore.
.NET and J2EE becoming a larger API, it really isn't going to be about windowing anymore. It's all about Web Services. What can you do networking. Programming VB Data Collection forms will still be important, but soon you will see more and more drag and drop collections similar to VB with Java IDE's. That is once Sun really starts standardizing reusable JavaBeans.
I love hearing this argument. Yeah Java's AWT is somewhat heavyweight. But it is old, it's been around since JDK 1.0. JDK 1.2 Swing still has a ways to go but has made some significant improvements. However the problem that people neglect is that these Windowing toolkits are cross platform. I guarantee that my Java applications will out perform your VB, with the exception on Win32, on every other platform. Java gives people choice of where you can run those applications.
However with the advent of
.NET offers "compile once, run anywhere.")
.NET CRI or CRL(Common Runtime Interface / Language) I can't remember which one it was. Instead of a Java VM interpreting the compiled Java Bytecode, .NET actually compiles your already compiled .NET code and optimizes it for that machine whether it's 2000, XP, or 9x. It's very interesting, however I don't forsee it being run anywhere unless M$ actually takes over the direction of the MONO project to keep it even with the development of the Win platform. Miguel Icaza and company will probably fail, for they are 6-12 months behind, and the gap will keep expanding until M$ helps out.
Actually you bring up a good point and a lot of people seem to have already posted. I agree with you, it does some seem sweet, Web Services, XML Platform. However the compile once, run anywhere is limited to machines that are able to run the
Even if it does who is going to read it?
... ** CRUNCH SPLASH **
** CREAK **
Wife: (Gathers Manual) Dear it says right here not to exceed 10,000 Feet or the...
Captain: That's just what they say, I know this baby can take a few more thousand feet, I paid 75+ Mill for this baby, besides it's pretty down here...
Wife: I can't see a thing...
Captain: Look harder... Anyway not to worry... remember Crimson Tide they went like 13,000
The only Warning labels people listen to is Dry Cleaning Only labels...
Well my friend the glass may not know how much the person has had, but the device it will be signaling to might.
Then if you want to get real crazy maybe we can put a little device in the stool that sends a signal of how much the person weighs, then we can match his/her weight with the amount of drink he/she has had and have an intelligent idea whether they have had too much to drink or not.
All this talk is making me thirsty...
You wake up in the middle of the night to some distressing news...
'I was patching the web server, and uh I was like playing a CD and uhhh... the server's down.'
Then suddenly you realize your so ready for IBM, (Or at least an admin that has better music tastes)
I don't remember ever getting anything useful done while reading Slashdot...