What a cutie troll, that is not aware of US history. These companies ride on ingorance of people like you, and there seems to be awful alot of them at this time. What you should know is that america started off as a anti-corporate country, specificaly breaking ties with UK. Laws were written to protect regular joes at the time. Not everyone's life counted, but freedom was valued the most. Now look at yourself you fucking burger eater, embarrasment of what america was to be, compared to what it had become because of people like you. Weep america, weep because you have become a whore to corporate imperializm you were trying so hard to run away from.
there can be caches, proxies, to-multicast gateways and god knows what else, per single user. I assume that logic in getting web streamers to pay twice as much, because they can be certain of who is listening to them. They have probably presented idea to judge that, oh look, all computers on internet have IPs. - wrong! Few places I have worked at had local mirrors of many shoutcast streams. Cutting on bandwith significantly. See, right now streaming is *EXTREMELY EXPESIVE*. RIAA is so fucking afraid of multicast, that it is not even funny. All they are doing is trying to set forth rules of the game, because they have the most cash, so when multicast and IPv6 hits the streets, regular joe casting 31337 mp3z out of his basement, to million people for same 0(1) times bandwidth he will not have interfere with anyone.
Radio as it stands is dead when full blown multicast arrives. Whats more is that there is *UNLIMITED* amount of stations to be had *ANYWHERE*, for pretty much nothing compared to current streaming costs. This will strangle RIAA to no extent, unless they kill everyone on IPv6 comittee and annouce a coup of internet standards: All your standards are belong to us!
every place has them, every company, organization. too bad these got up this high. as in our compnay other division bitches and complains how slow and incompetent we are and raises false alerts all the time. So do we. these noise makers are way at the top, trying to earn a better place for themselves.
besides when you go that far you want to: 1. maintain presence 2. look like you actually doing something neither take great intelligence, but brawn.
Internet is paradigm shift, people always complain about new things, if they don't help them right away, like learning computers, unsing phone. Phones were a controversy in their own time, just like internet is now.
So I say not to pay attention loudmoths, but those who develop, create technology and enlighten the world with it.
Keep the information flowing. If./ users to become customers and it is a community site you really have to be careful on what you are doing. I secod the cash-o-meter that will indicate what was sepent on what and how much is required for months ahead. If all it is a salary raises to mr taco and others, then we can veto that and not pay the money next time aroud, leave the site.
But accountability will be too painful for VA, so I doubt they will ever do that. It will never happen, so expect./ to become a shit site just like everyone elses.
so what now we will pay just little. then there will be managers that don't fell comfortable buying *cheap* alternatives. Will we flex towards those two? Sorry your logic is not based on any good facts, I think free software is great. Whats more, often free software is often used by its creators, and has alot of performnace enhancing features, that are not suitable for beginners - vim, emacs. Businesses figure out what is good for customer and can those features into menu items, icons etc, so it is easy to access, and see those features. Most people do not use scripting features of word like programs.
My point is, that Star office is end user program, not made for programmers or other folks who want to learn three stroke key patterns that will do this, that and more with plain text. End user programs are not fun to develop, because of wetware factor - you have to predict what jane and joe would like to see when they pull down a menu - spell checker? Minesweeper shortcut? I'd leave to marketing to do the dull work, and myself I will design flexible architectures with languages glued like python and perl, in which I can add dumbass features at will and in short time and no effort.
I never liked start office anyway, so I think it is good idea that sun is going to make some $$$ off the end users who don't care or don't want to learn computing.
Re:Keep the net free and make banners less intrusi
on
End of the Free Internet
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Contrary to your belief that net is composed of well educated people who see pressure and are not subdued by it, you are wrong. Advertisements DO work, like spam, capturing small population slice.
This is unfortunate, and i think most major providers must attempt to block such nonsense. I do not mind unobtrusive ads, like on google, that actually flow along with your query, and sometimes help find extra information!
I think barrier will be broken once ads will offer something to user in exchange for paying attention to it. Have you seen shoot, zap smash the monkey ads?(duh!) Well that ad provides entertainment for web user that surfs very rigid content.
Ad that offers something to the user, may catch attention of one , pass the threshold of filtering and annoyance ad dismissal, may bring magnitude large set of audience than otherwise large square pop up ads about sun and oracle bits they are willing to sell for a small fortune.
Ad must say, here is something free, that you might need, in return of taking it(enteratinment, info), learn about our product and maybe have a deal.
As for websites turning to subscription models, they have clearly have not grasped what the net, is. Perhaps they will capture some people who transalete from newspaper world into webworld, but those are not the futre of the net. New media distribution models will be coming to lower the cost of distribution, such as multicast(I assume with IPv6, cuz one for IPv4 is dead). Once that is everywhere, one may be able to cast from garage to everyone in the world, and take exactly 1 times bandwiths, as unicasting to a buddy. Leveraging smart ways of technology is what internet is all about. Its about being able to take new stuff, maybe make your own and do one man show that will make drone megacorporations silly.
If you do that though, you might fall under many laws promoted by corporations into power, that attempt to raise barrier to market entry trying to cut out joes with super cool ideas that can embarrass their multimillion IT departments, with flick of a finger, few key strokes and some ingenuity.
Fuck isn't it whats all america was all about, not a pathetic piece of (s.h*i-t), manned by mighty dollar and interest for profit. Not even a human being! But I digress.
Its all in people. Theoretically these companies can be source of unlimited good for the sake of humanity. But since they got there by screwing (with) people for every penny, brainshare, I doubt much will come out of it. Why? Because people are lazy and incompetent. They are subject to external conditions, so are unreliable leaders.
If that large company was to put all the money it gets into researching new forms of communications, entertainment that will enrich this society, albeit they are in business, not reasearch or education sphere. Most money for the length of time is their ultimate goal. Nevermind *ANY* conseqences. Thus all money will be used to extend the stanglehold of revenue streams, instead of creating the and nurturing enviroments where new ones created. It will go only as far as creating a micro managed artist group, that suppose to release frequent reports and justify their existence in terms of money they have brought into the monster. Ain't gonna happen.
If such thing happens, it will be worse then soviet union. The monster will try to make you watch TV day and night. They will attempt to maximize revenue from advertising. I doubt they will be stopping at anything, including 'labelling' the screen with miniadvertisements.
Whats more, is that it would be easier for us to daemonize the monster and fight it with vengeance, for it will be evil, and we will strike down up on them, and thus they will know that we are the lord.
BTW, I might as well go back to my country and watch TV there. At least there will be a message delivered via TV, maybe to manipulate citizens for better of government and themselves, instead of delivering drivel and random bits of sensationalism by a busload, inteleaved with advertisements to sacrifice my children for Macdonals burgers.
People who were not going to spend $$$ on thing generally do not. As such, saying Micheal Jackson and Brintey Spears were hurt by Napster is nonsence. I have know lots and lots of people in hightschools that had this CD -> tape trader networks. I doubt kids who have no money will go buy that oh so latest CD, because it will be overplayed on radio anyway.
Same goes for software piracy et al. What it MP3 did for me, is open horizons to music that I would not listen otherwise. Napster threw proportionality equasion out of balance, whereby one album will be a definete hit if its driven int heads of youngsters like a silver nail, keeping them spending more of those hard earned , parents' money. Now I know kid listening to phish and other bands, just because of the net.
As for incorporated artists who sold their sould to RIAA, all you can mumble to them: I told you so. Now that napster is gone, they think they can fuck everyone over, by buying judges and installing system as de facto standard. Everyone else will be a pirate.
ALSO: this case reeks of abuse of copyright law, so recording companys may loose all of their copyrights if challenged properly.
I worked with a guy who was manager there, told impressive stories how they manage their installations. They have many mainframes in the offices. They licence compaq and IBM to do the hardware, so they don't have to deal with that inhouse.
I think matter is irrelevant, they have a system that works well, adheres to strictest guidelines on safe data warehousing. Besides linux is not really a mainframe os. for gods sake you >2GB files are not standard in kernel options.
Thousands of these small tiny bits that make linux good for small to medium enviroments, turn ugly in highly scaled database/raid environments. Afraid to say it, linux distributions and support is not up to the ante to deal with big boys.
Relating to that, patent system that is being battered by slashdot , shall employ these practices:
1. give copies of documents on court orders *BUT* with dates blotched out.
2. proceed with defacement of patents as to obliterate all dates on each patent, thus restoring the system to it original status - knowlege repository.
Lawyers will use the system no more, because of ambiguity of use an undated patent system. So it would not matter who and when submitted a patent,
its just there as many others, and neither will take precedence, one add to all and all add to one.
If you really want no one to have records of you, but bank, use cash. Surely they will know when you bought a book, but not who you are and what is going on. Cameras too were proven deterrent of crime many times.
I would be getting weary if they decide to do a database archive of all videos and do indexing on time and location, but sheer size of the data will make it impossible to be used on daily basis by police/feds, thus impractical to implement.
There maybe honey pot experements where they put books into stores on bomb making and how to expunge bush out of his seat, but thats too far of a long shot, I may as well wear tin foil hat!
And flame I will... what you are talking is fair, considering that rogers/shaw does not have any sort of caching servers. How do you know what share of OC3 is really being used and not user to user interaction. See if @home was here, business blunders aside, if they were to build closed loop network and encourage people to do P2P, like
@home only gnutella. Cost would be marginal if they have all trafic inbound.
A.L.S.O. if they were to set up decent farm of
ftp/shoutcast mirror/otherstream servers then they could escape almost altogether using telco's expensive services. well there will be dozen OC3s but margin will much smaller. It is already done with news service.
All they have to be is creative:
1. determine practical bandwidth eaters (aka ISOs,
gnutella, shoutcast/napster)
2. eliminated them one by one, offering those services to users
3.put forth informational email to all of your users, explaining where they can download their Isos @ 1.5MB/s and other services...
but corporate heads are the *axis of dullness* hurried to fill their pockets with money...Not solve user's problems and improve overall service. See, creativity is beyond them so even explaining to them that they can give more value to their users and save a bunch will not get through. I am not criticising them, just stating this is a fact of interacting and depending on people.
2c,
p
There is far too much prior art on this soft of thing. There is:
mirror.pl
rsync
rcp (cronned up)
They don't have a chance if they are to sue anyone.
p.
Whats more is that pirates will not buy unchippable console, and those who were going to buy it will still buy it. Still chineese pirated copies will prolifierable at 10$ a pop, and sony won't be able to do anything about that, because it is grass roots.
Point is, Sony just had put a kleen into its foot just now. With stiff competition in the market and XBox to be chippable, so is Nintendo these chumps will get their PS/2 failed in no time.
Whats more is Xact copies will proliferate from Eastern Bloc and other countries, driving the price down of the games, making iso burning ineffective use of hard earned cash. That plus a bad taste of relationship with piraters, will reduce market share of PS/2 in the market.
on second note, I think using windows/macintosh as a first OS is GOOD thing. Simply because you build yourself to be more versatile IT person. If you are to use windows second, you would be rather tortured while using it, as so few of my friends who were hacking BSD early days, found Windows unworkable and quite counterproductive. It is brain damaged, but by me using it first, I can still use it if I have to. I am feel not attached to any particular platform, as each has its own very cool things about it. Unix is rather unfriendly to average joe, just like chainsaw is.
Windows like a house fridge has more 'known' interface, and one that was thought over by many people. Notwithstanding freezer catching fire most are more friendly to casual user then chainsaw is.
And no you don't get to know how computers really work, as I know few windows coders that have really good grip on architecture of PC as compared to many linux coders.
Linux is wonderful, because it is build on top of so many abstract ideas, so few of them are related to hardware... that does not mean many linux coders are familiar with ix86 arch, because they are linux coders...
You are right software is more like culinary art, than engeneering or manufacturing.
Lewises paper is highly academical and disproves theories, created by Carnegie's professors. It goes on the edge, trying to get people to see that not ever software estimation dates should be taken to be as hard as granit, and build companys whole being around them. I have skipped few companies last 2 years, many of them thought that they can expect certain things by a date while taking software architect's estimates and handing them to software developers.
There is general concensus in the industry, that if you don't finish a task by a given date, you ass will be in the hot water. What is often missed is fact that date is often more like a wish than something mathematically fixed or composed of intuitively simple pieces each as easy to make as lego toy.
My critique on yours is that you propogate the fact that its possible to stake certain dates and be ready by them.
So often it goes, that people will design a system from nice flow charts, hand pieces of charts to programmers, who will return estimates based on which a target data will be made. What often is not realised, is that each one of the plans may be 2,3 even 10 times bigger on timescale.
Then there is integration timelines.
What I am trying to say here is that some people who are not skilled in art of software development, may expect programmers to create dates and push software by given date out, without bugs if they read your paper.
I agree with you. I however, have managed to keep myself out of shitjobs, my friends with degrees were getting. Like ones with ton of politics in offices, where they have to report to two or more bosses, etc, etc. Most often companies will choose you by the degree are ones who would not care how good your are, but wether you can get work, done keep low profile and be less of a person, more of a drone. It always works both ways. If you have deep knowlege in field, consider bribing and getting a degree that way. If you have $$$ to pay for full education, three years might be just the rest you need away from routine, that is if you are a bright person.
Switching routine might present you with some rest. And since you will be secure in funds you will have leg up from students who are getting into those silly loans. Not that anything is wrong with them, it will be one, or few less things to worry about while doing school.
I suggest removing the fact from resume and doing job search, survey the companies that will be contacting you, see what you like, maybe getting degree to have leg up is not worth it.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Removing yourself from emotions related to your carrer progress will give you best results...
cheers,
p
Many people now will run to the stores and buy the thing. Suckers. The internal format in the card is 16 bit so when it says 24 bit it really upsamples your stream. If you want REAL 24 bit sound I would highly disadvise you from buying this card. Its sort of like Platinum Rip off, where there was some analog mixing going on in the chip, when incoming and outgoing were digital formats. Bleh. If you have computer speakers, of course you wouldn't notice the difference, so there may be some value to windowsish features glitter.
What kind of powers do you have to stop microsoft from making its decisions? If they don't listen to you do they go to jail, or fined on personal basis?
Slashdot Mirror
What a cutie troll, that is not aware of US history. These companies ride on ingorance of people like you, and there seems to be awful alot of them at this time. What you should know is that america started off as a anti-corporate country, specificaly breaking ties with UK. Laws were written to protect regular joes at the time. Not everyone's life counted, but freedom was valued the most.
Now look at yourself you fucking burger eater, embarrasment of what america was to be, compared to what it had become because of people like you. Weep america, weep because you have become a whore to corporate imperializm you were trying so hard to run away from.
there can be caches, proxies, to-multicast gateways and god knows what else, per single user.
I assume that logic in getting web streamers to pay twice as much, because they can be certain of who is listening to them. They have probably presented idea to judge that, oh look, all computers on internet have IPs. - wrong! Few places I have worked at had local mirrors of many shoutcast streams. Cutting on bandwith significantly. See, right now streaming is *EXTREMELY EXPESIVE*. RIAA is so fucking afraid of multicast, that it is not even funny. All they are doing is trying to set forth rules of the game, because they have the most cash, so when multicast and IPv6 hits the streets, regular joe casting 31337 mp3z out of his basement, to million people for same 0(1) times bandwidth he will not have interfere with anyone.
Radio as it stands is dead when full blown multicast arrives. Whats more is that there is *UNLIMITED* amount of stations to be had *ANYWHERE*, for pretty much nothing compared to current streaming costs. This will strangle RIAA
to no extent, unless they kill everyone on IPv6 comittee and annouce a coup of internet standards:
All your standards are belong to us!
every place has them, every company, organization. too bad these got up this high. as in our compnay other division bitches and complains how slow and incompetent we are and raises false alerts all the time. So do we. these noise makers are way at the top, trying to earn a better place for themselves.
besides when you go that far you want to:
1. maintain presence
2. look like you actually doing something
neither take great intelligence, but brawn.
Internet is paradigm shift, people always complain about new things, if they don't help them right away, like learning computers, unsing phone.
Phones were a controversy in their own time, just
like internet is now.
So I say not to pay attention loudmoths, but those who develop, create technology and enlighten the world with it.
Keep the information flowing. If ./ users to become customers and it is a community site you really have to be careful on what you are doing.
./ to become a shit site just like everyone elses.
I secod the cash-o-meter that will indicate what was sepent on what and how much is required for
months ahead. If all it is a salary raises to mr taco and others, then we can veto that and not pay
the money next time aroud, leave the site.
But accountability will be too painful for VA, so I doubt they will ever do that. It will never happen, so expect
so what now we will pay just little. then there will be managers that don't fell comfortable buying *cheap* alternatives. Will we flex towards those two?
Sorry your logic is not based on any good facts, I think free software is great. Whats more, often free software is often used by its creators, and has alot of performnace enhancing features, that are not suitable for beginners - vim, emacs. Businesses figure out what is good for customer and can those features into menu items, icons etc,
so it is easy to access, and see those features. Most people do not use scripting features of word like programs.
My point is, that Star office is end user program, not made for programmers or other folks who want to learn three stroke key patterns that will do this, that and more with plain text. End user programs are not fun to develop, because of wetware factor - you have to predict what jane and joe would like to see when they pull down a menu - spell checker? Minesweeper shortcut? I'd leave to marketing to do the dull work, and myself I will design flexible architectures with languages glued like python and perl, in which I can add dumbass features at will and in short time and no effort.
I never liked start office anyway, so I think it is good idea that sun is going to make some $$$ off the end users who don't care or don't want to learn computing.
Contrary to your belief that net is composed of well educated people who see pressure and are not subdued by it, you are wrong. Advertisements DO work, like spam, capturing small population slice.
This is unfortunate, and i think most major providers must attempt to block such nonsense.
I do not mind unobtrusive ads, like on google, that actually flow along with your query, and sometimes help find extra information!
I think barrier will be broken once ads will offer something to user in exchange for paying attention to it. Have you seen shoot, zap smash the monkey ads?(duh!) Well that ad provides entertainment for web user that surfs very rigid content.
Ad that offers something to the user, may catch attention of one , pass the threshold of filtering and annoyance ad dismissal, may bring magnitude large set of audience than otherwise large square pop up ads about sun and oracle bits they are willing to sell for a small fortune.
Ad must say, here is something free, that you might need, in return of taking it(enteratinment, info), learn about our product and maybe have a deal.
As for websites turning to subscription models, they have clearly have not grasped what the net, is. Perhaps they will capture some people who transalete from newspaper world into webworld, but those are not the futre of the net.
New media distribution models will be coming to lower the cost of distribution, such as multicast(I assume with IPv6, cuz one for IPv4 is dead). Once that is everywhere, one may be able to cast from garage to everyone in the world, and take exactly 1 times bandwiths, as unicasting to a buddy. Leveraging smart ways of technology is what internet is all about. Its about being able to take new stuff, maybe make your own and do one man show that will make drone megacorporations silly.
If you do that though, you might fall under many laws promoted by corporations into power, that attempt to raise barrier to market entry trying to cut out joes with super cool ideas that can embarrass their multimillion IT departments, with flick of a finger, few key strokes and some ingenuity.
Fuck isn't it whats all america was all about, not a pathetic piece of (s.h*i-t), manned by mighty dollar and interest for profit. Not even a human being! But I digress.
Its all in people. Theoretically these companies can be source of unlimited good for the sake of humanity. But since they got there by screwing (with) people for every penny, brainshare, I doubt much will come out of it. Why? Because people are lazy and incompetent. They are subject to external conditions, so are unreliable leaders.
If that large company was to put all the money it gets into researching new forms of communications, entertainment that will enrich this society, albeit they are in business, not reasearch or education sphere. Most money for the length of time is their ultimate goal. Nevermind *ANY* conseqences. Thus all money will be used to extend the stanglehold of revenue streams, instead of creating the and nurturing enviroments where new ones created. It will go only as far as creating a micro managed artist group, that suppose to release frequent reports and justify their existence in terms of money they have brought into the monster.
Ain't gonna happen.
If such thing happens, it will be worse then
soviet union. The monster will try to make you watch TV day and night. They will attempt to maximize revenue from advertising. I doubt they will be stopping at anything, including 'labelling' the screen with miniadvertisements.
Whats more, is that it would be easier for us to daemonize the monster and fight it with vengeance, for it will be evil, and we will strike down up on them, and thus they will know that we are the lord.
BTW, I might as well go back to my country and watch TV there. At least there will be a message delivered via TV, maybe to manipulate citizens for better of government and themselves, instead of delivering drivel and random bits of sensationalism by a busload, inteleaved with advertisements to sacrifice my children for Macdonals burgers.
No thank you.
People who were not going to spend $$$ on thing generally do not. As such, saying Micheal Jackson and Brintey Spears were hurt by Napster is nonsence. I have know lots and lots of people in hightschools that had this CD -> tape trader networks. I doubt kids who have no money will go buy that oh so latest CD, because it will be overplayed on radio anyway.
Same goes for software piracy et al.
What it MP3 did for me, is open horizons to music that I would not listen otherwise. Napster threw proportionality equasion out of balance, whereby one album will be a definete hit if its driven int heads of youngsters like a silver nail, keeping them spending more of those hard earned , parents' money. Now I know kid listening to phish and other bands, just because of the net.
As for incorporated artists who sold their sould to RIAA, all you can mumble to them: I told you so.
Now that napster is gone, they think they can fuck everyone over, by buying judges and installing system as de facto standard. Everyone else will be a pirate.
ALSO:
this case reeks of abuse of copyright law, so recording companys may loose all of their copyrights if challenged properly.
I worked with a guy who was manager there, told impressive stories how they manage their installations. They have many mainframes in the offices. They licence compaq and IBM to do the hardware, so they don't have to deal with that inhouse.
I think matter is irrelevant, they have a system that works well, adheres to strictest guidelines on safe data warehousing. Besides linux is not really a mainframe os. for gods sake you >2GB files are not standard in kernel options.
Thousands of these small tiny bits that make linux good for small to medium enviroments, turn ugly in highly scaled database/raid environments. Afraid to say it, linux distributions and support is not up to the ante to deal with big boys.
Relating to that, patent system that is being battered by slashdot , shall employ these practices:
1. give copies of documents on court orders *BUT* with dates blotched out.
2. proceed with defacement of patents as to obliterate all dates on each patent, thus restoring the system to it original status - knowlege repository.
Lawyers will use the system no more, because of ambiguity of use an undated patent system. So it would not matter who and when submitted a patent,
its just there as many others, and neither will take precedence, one add to all and all add to one.
trust me, everyone will be happy, except lawyers.
If you really want no one to have records of you, but bank, use cash. Surely they will know when you bought a book, but not who you are and what is going on. Cameras too were proven deterrent of crime many times.
I would be getting weary if they decide to do a database archive of all videos and do indexing on time and location, but sheer size of the data will make it impossible to be used on daily basis by police/feds, thus impractical to implement.
There maybe honey pot experements where they put books into stores on bomb making and how to expunge bush out of his seat, but thats too far of a long shot, I may as well wear tin foil hat!
salut!
And flame I will... what you are talking is fair, considering that rogers/shaw does not have any sort of caching servers. How do you know what share of OC3 is really being used and not user to user interaction. See if @home was here, business blunders aside, if they were to build closed loop network and encourage people to do P2P, like
@home only gnutella. Cost would be marginal if they have all trafic inbound.
A.L.S.O. if they were to set up decent farm of
ftp/shoutcast mirror/otherstream servers then they could escape almost altogether using telco's expensive services. well there will be dozen OC3s but margin will much smaller. It is already done with news service.
All they have to be is creative:
1. determine practical bandwidth eaters (aka ISOs,
gnutella, shoutcast/napster)
2. eliminated them one by one, offering those services to users
3.put forth informational email to all of your users, explaining where they can download their Isos @ 1.5MB/s and other services...
but corporate heads are the *axis of dullness* hurried to fill their pockets with money...Not solve user's problems and improve overall service. See, creativity is beyond them so even explaining to them that they can give more value to their users and save a bunch will not get through. I am not criticising them, just stating this is a fact of interacting and depending on people.
2c,
p
Smoke and mirrors... they have done it once, twice... and more ... and will doit again.
p.
There is far too much prior art on this soft of thing. There is:
mirror.pl
rsync
rcp (cronned up)
They don't have a chance if they are to sue anyone.
p.
Whats more is that pirates will not buy unchippable console, and those who were going to buy it will still buy it. Still chineese pirated copies will prolifierable at 10$ a pop, and sony won't be able to do anything about that, because it is grass roots.
Point is, Sony just had put a kleen into its foot just now. With stiff competition in the market and XBox to be chippable, so is Nintendo these chumps will get their PS/2 failed in no time.
Whats more is Xact copies will proliferate from Eastern Bloc and other countries, driving the price down of the games, making iso burning ineffective use of hard earned cash. That plus a bad taste of relationship with piraters, will reduce market share of PS/2 in the market.
Go korea go!
on second note, I think using windows/macintosh as a first OS is GOOD thing. Simply because you build yourself to be more versatile IT person. If you are to use windows second, you would be rather tortured while using it, as so few of my friends who were hacking BSD early days, found Windows unworkable and quite counterproductive. It is brain damaged, but by me using it first, I can still use it if I have to. I am feel not attached to any particular platform, as each has its own very cool things about it. Unix is rather unfriendly to average joe, just like chainsaw is.
Windows like a house fridge has more 'known' interface, and one that was thought over by many people. Notwithstanding freezer catching fire most are more friendly to casual user then chainsaw is.
And no you don't get to know how computers really work, as I know few windows coders that have really good grip on architecture of PC as compared to many linux coders.
Linux is wonderful, because it is build on top of so many abstract ideas, so few of them are related to hardware... that does not mean many linux coders are familiar with ix86 arch, because they are linux coders...
thats all IMO.
you mean until problem is solved? =)
You are right software is more like culinary art, than engeneering or manufacturing.
Lewises paper is highly academical and disproves theories, created by Carnegie's professors. It goes on the edge, trying to get people to see that not ever software estimation dates should be taken to be as hard as granit, and build companys whole being around them. I have skipped few companies last 2 years, many of them thought that they can expect certain things by a date while taking software architect's estimates and handing them to software developers.
There is general concensus in the industry, that if you don't finish a task by a given date, you ass will be in the hot water. What is often missed is fact that date is often more like a wish than something mathematically fixed or composed of intuitively simple pieces each as easy to make as lego toy.
My critique on yours is that you propogate the fact that its possible to stake certain dates and be ready by them.
So often it goes, that people will design a system from nice flow charts, hand pieces of charts to programmers, who will return estimates based on which a target data will be made. What often is not realised, is that each one of the plans may be 2,3 even 10 times bigger on timescale.
Then there is integration timelines.
What I am trying to say here is that some people who are not skilled in art of software development, may expect programmers to create dates and push software by given date out, without bugs if they read your paper.
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I agree with you. I however, have managed to keep myself out of shitjobs, my friends with degrees were getting. Like ones with ton of politics in offices, where they have to report to two or more bosses, etc, etc. Most often companies will choose you by the degree are ones who would not care how good your are, but wether you can get work, done keep low profile and be less of a person, more of a drone. It always works both ways. If you have deep knowlege in field, consider bribing and getting a degree that way. If you have $$$ to pay for full education, three years might be just the rest you need away from routine, that is if you are a bright person.
Switching routine might present you with some rest. And since you will be secure in funds you will have leg up from students who are getting into those silly loans. Not that anything is wrong with them, it will be one, or few less things to worry about while doing school.
I suggest removing the fact from resume and doing job search, survey the companies that will be contacting you, see what you like, maybe getting degree to have leg up is not worth it.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Removing yourself from emotions related to your carrer progress will give you best results...
cheers,
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Many people now will run to the stores and buy the thing. Suckers. The internal format in the card is 16 bit so when it says 24 bit it really upsamples your stream. If you want REAL 24 bit sound I would highly disadvise you from buying this card. Its sort of like Platinum Rip off, where there was some analog mixing going on in the chip, when incoming and outgoing were digital formats. Bleh. If you have computer speakers, of course you wouldn't notice the difference, so there may be some value to windowsish features glitter.
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What kind of powers do you have to stop microsoft from making its decisions? If they don't listen to you do they go to jail, or fined on personal basis?
Have you seen fines for high rate of chargebacks?You'd be astonished. go over 1% and you will owe to VISA , Mastercard or others.
thats problem, if your rate of chargebacks is over 1% then you get fined like a gazillion dollars. This is not rumor, it is true.
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