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... and I'm surprised that anyone is surprised by any of this. Frankly... If I'm braindead, or even slightly above braindead so that I can breathe myself, just kill me, mm'kay? There is no way in hell that I'll ever be "me" again. The "me" is dead, and that zombie-corpse-thing is not "me" anymore. Help others, save the financial cost and emotional burden to my family (even though I live in Europe, I expect the financial cost to be low... )... Take them, help someone. I am dead if my neocortex is not functioning correctly anymore.
I knew about these dots and I was not all that surprised when I bought my Ricoh Aficio CL2000N that the yellow and black cartridges were larger than the cyan and magenta cartridges.
iTunes? That's easy... everyone one account... Done. Netflix doesn't exist in my country. DRM data? What DRM data? If there is any, it's hers, not mine. Humiliating photographs? Well, that's a problem all by itself. Why do they exist in the first place?
Shared accounts?!?
I'm married, and as a principle, we have no shared accounts. All other data can be simply duplicated, as that is the nature of data. You have this problem because of sloppy identity management. Talk it over with the Ex, if that still is an option.
As for domains and hosting, well, also a talking point, I'd say.
No, they will react (late) and revert the decisions they made. Look at how they got their act together with 7. That said, from what I've seen, 7 is just Vista with a thin layer of veneer. If XP had a good 64 bit version, I'd consider it superior.
Pretty hard to find. Microsofts tentacles are everywhere and even the shops that are as much open source as possible, get infected somehow. We're pretty much a Debian shop, but accounting needed a Windows 2008 server for their proprietary accounting package and left and right there were supporting servers for little tasks where it was best suited. However, now developers are requesting a MSSQL server for a real production platform. Why? I don't know... Doesn't make much sense.
Pure open source jobs are very very rare. It's the level of Microsoftism that you want to accept, that opens some jobs. It is, alas, reality. I'd say: suck it up. I have no choice either. Well, except for the choice of starving and not being able to pay the rent.
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That's the simplistic way bank works. They actually don't work that way. The Goldsmith Tale (Which is part of "Money as Debt - Fractional Reserve Banking", but it's enough to understand what's going on.
Well, believe me, that you do have the right mindset to be a programmer. Something that with the younger kids is lacking. Yes, I do realize you're probably older than me given your Apple II reference. When it went on sale, I was still filling diapers.
No, sorry... I didn't see that. I flew over the comment, which means stuff between brackets gets ignored, and said "No-no-no" and shook my head. Look, I apologize if I seemed rude to you, but I'm and oldtimer (I don't say so, the industry says so) and I've seen this mistake been made so many times it disgusts me. I've also seen it made by people who should know better.
As a matter of fact, I ran into it while I was a teenager. A long time ago, I played around trying to graph mathematical stuff we had in school. I thought it would enhance my comprehension or so and I programmed it myself as I didn't have programs that did it for me. I ran into this back then already, and I didn't understand how this could be as I had no real concept of floating point numbers. It was only years later, at university, that I got the explanation how they work and how they work and in what line of applications you can use them.
So, my excuses to you. You couldn't know. However, take this as an example why oldtimers matter: At the first sign of going wrong, I disregarded who you are, what you are and how good your are... I said: "Stop right there, your understanding is not right... It's not even wrong!" We "old" guys do this because it's a very efficient way of working. Not always friendly, but efficient.
Oh, $DIETY.... Not taken Scientific Programming in College, I assume? Okay, I'm 35, and I have known about this shit since College, and frankly, even young whippersnappers should know about it. But.. Here's some reading for you
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic If you don't want to read, but I really URGE you to: it's the "non-precision" is intrinsic to the representation of floats and the errors propagate quite quickly. This has absolutely nothing to do with the example you give, because that is pretty much irrelevant. Besides, it's just illustrates your limited vision due to your local currency. Pennies? How quaint... Yens (for example) don't know these fractional units. My currency before the euro didn't either. (That's one thing, I'd like most programmers to have: get involved in a real international project, with multiple locales, multiple currencies, multiple translations... You'll immediately see how badly most programs are on that level).
Money in Java is the article I usually point programmer rookies to if the above article goes above their head.
I don't think that... Problem is, there are very few developers capable of doing good front ends and it is indeed a pain in the ass, especially when you're no good at it. So, senior developers (who did their share on front-end code when they were junior) are all too happy to get rid of that part for themselves. A secondary problem is that those developers who can do good front ends often don't want to do it either as it's not really all that interesting. When they become more senior, they drop it like a hot potato too.
On top of that, putting pure designers on front-ends (I've been in projects like that) is ripe for disaster too.
Don't worry. You don't seriously think you'll get to do any "software engineering" when you start, do you. You'll start -like everyone- programming fontends/GUIs, and let the more interesting parts to the more senior people.
Some of those not so old "slow" computers that were simply suffering from malware certainly are good candidates for recycling. It's always good to know just what some are capable of.
That is exactly what my dumpster diving experience tells me, yes. Well, that and often not enough memory. The two older laptops I referred to came with 256MB RAM, respectively 512MB RAM. Both were very infected. Just upgrading the RAM to 2GB and reinstalling the machine gave capable machine on-par with current netbook offerings. One was even lower, I'd say: a P-IV 1.6GHz Mobile. It makes a damned fine email and surfing machine. I guess that even 1GB would have sufficed, but at the prices of RAM, why skimp?
I'm not familiar enough with MacBook (Pros) to talk about them. You never find those in dumpsters, but if I find one I'm surely going to take it... By now, I stopped bothering with anything lower than later AMD64 or Core (2) Duo. Sure, a good old P-IV does the trick, but I find nobody who takes them out of my hands, especially you get new machines (with warranty) for so cheap these days. Proof, I'm typing this on a consumer-end-router-sized Atom D525/2GB RAM/320GB HDD. Whopping 199€ and I could mount it behind my old LCD panel. Not a powerhouse, but space saving is worth something too and the monitor has a way better resolution than what most netbooks give you.
Actually, many people have tried and 4GB works, but you only get 3.5GB because of chipset limitations. I've got a few machines like that. Not MacBooks, but just recently I had one of those early MacBooks on my workbench and I checked the possibility of upgrade online for that particular model. Official is 2GB, non-official 4GB.
It really is hit 'n miss. For example, the dumpster-sourced machine my sister uses based on a Intel D945CGCCR. According to the manual it supports 2GB. Yet, I found an older manual where it claims 4GB. This was corrected in a later manual. I suspect, that it's because the chipset doesn't allow more than 3.5GB even in 64-bit mode. (it's an E6600, it can do 64-bit). Online forums came to the consensus that 4GB works (again, with the 3.5GB limit).
My 2003 purchased AMD Athlon 2400+ MP on a Tyan Tiger 2466MPX also does this. 4GB allowed, but only 3.5GB usable *whatever you do*. As this isn't a 64-bit machine, you'd expect PAE to give you access to more. It doesn't, it is -again- a chipset limitation.
Also, older DDR1 latops are often rated 1GB... In all those I tried, replacing with 2x1GB instead of 2x512GB, worked just fine. You cannot be certain, of course, but by now I just have test modules lying around...
There is exactly one machine where I didn't manage to get it through the limit. It's a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pa 1510. It's rated 2GB (DDR2) and it really doesn't want to do more. I tried 2x2GB with it (I had those lying around from another unfinished project), and it booted up with... 2.4GB. A bit more than the usual 1.8GB (~256MB for integrated graphics). So there was a win, but not really as much as a 2GB to 3.5GB upgrade.
Now, of course, I admit I'm at an advantage because I'm a dumpster diver and have parts lying around I can test before buying anything online. Still, check what is being said about such upgrades "on the street". A good starting point is here. Good luck.
Where is "here"? I just bought 16GB (4x4GB) of RAM for a new machine and it cost a whopping 61.82€. Sure it's "value RAM", but whatever... I've always been lucky with "value RAM". I order this stuff in Germany and not in my home country because my home country sucks for anything technological at reasonable prices.
Now, of course, this is modern DDR3 RAM and anything older you pay a premium. DDR2 and DDR RAM is more expensive per GB. That's why, for the last 5 years, I've always told: buy as much RAM as you can matching one of the following condition: a) can/are willing to afford or b) the machine accepts. When DDR4 (or whatever) becomes standard on desktop machines, expect a surge in price for DDR3.
Getting back to the 16GB RAM I just bought. The motherboard can accept 64GB RAM. Now, the price for 32GB would be around 220€ and for 64GB around 1036€. Either of those two options were a bit too much for my wallet, but it might be fully affordable in a few years. Unless a new RAM technology takes over, then the prices goes up again. Regardless, 16GB is plenty and the machine isn't going to be doing all that much.
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No way his mom got the money. Unless the US works significantly different from other civilised western countries.
Not exactly as you describe it....
That was beautifully said. Thank you!
... and I'm surprised that anyone is surprised by any of this. Frankly... If I'm braindead, or even slightly above braindead so that I can breathe myself, just kill me, mm'kay? There is no way in hell that I'll ever be "me" again. The "me" is dead, and that zombie-corpse-thing is not "me" anymore. Help others, save the financial cost and emotional burden to my family (even though I live in Europe, I expect the financial cost to be low... )... Take them, help someone. I am dead if my neocortex is not functioning correctly anymore.
I knew about these dots and I was not all that surprised when I bought my Ricoh Aficio CL2000N that the yellow and black cartridges were larger than the cyan and magenta cartridges.
I was talking about online accounts. Bank accounts is an other thing all together and (unless you divorce in friendship) is a matter for the lawyers.
iTunes? That's easy... everyone one account... Done. Netflix doesn't exist in my country. DRM data? What DRM data? If there is any, it's hers, not mine. Humiliating photographs? Well, that's a problem all by itself. Why do they exist in the first place?
Shared accounts?!? I'm married, and as a principle, we have no shared accounts. All other data can be simply duplicated, as that is the nature of data. You have this problem because of sloppy identity management. Talk it over with the Ex, if that still is an option. As for domains and hosting, well, also a talking point, I'd say.
No, they will react (late) and revert the decisions they made. Look at how they got their act together with 7. That said, from what I've seen, 7 is just Vista with a thin layer of veneer. If XP had a good 64 bit version, I'd consider it superior.
Obviously... That's why I said "and not touch WOA with a 10-feet pole."
If Vista is any indication, no, that won't happen. People will simply stick to an older version of Windows and not touch WOA with a 10-feet pole.
Pretty hard to find. Microsofts tentacles are everywhere and even the shops that are as much open source as possible, get infected somehow. We're pretty much a Debian shop, but accounting needed a Windows 2008 server for their proprietary accounting package and left and right there were supporting servers for little tasks where it was best suited. However, now developers are requesting a MSSQL server for a real production platform. Why? I don't know... Doesn't make much sense.
Pure open source jobs are very very rare. It's the level of Microsoftism that you want to accept, that opens some jobs. It is, alas, reality. I'd say: suck it up. I have no choice either. Well, except for the choice of starving and not being able to pay the rent.
That's the simplistic way bank works. They actually don't work that way. The Goldsmith Tale (Which is part of "Money as Debt - Fractional Reserve Banking", but it's enough to understand what's going on.
Well, believe me, that you do have the right mindset to be a programmer. Something that with the younger kids is lacking. Yes, I do realize you're probably older than me given your Apple II reference. When it went on sale, I was still filling diapers.
No, sorry... I didn't see that. I flew over the comment, which means stuff between brackets gets ignored, and said "No-no-no" and shook my head. Look, I apologize if I seemed rude to you, but I'm and oldtimer (I don't say so, the industry says so) and I've seen this mistake been made so many times it disgusts me. I've also seen it made by people who should know better.
As a matter of fact, I ran into it while I was a teenager. A long time ago, I played around trying to graph mathematical stuff we had in school. I thought it would enhance my comprehension or so and I programmed it myself as I didn't have programs that did it for me. I ran into this back then already, and I didn't understand how this could be as I had no real concept of floating point numbers. It was only years later, at university, that I got the explanation how they work and how they work and in what line of applications you can use them.
So, my excuses to you. You couldn't know. However, take this as an example why oldtimers matter: At the first sign of going wrong, I disregarded who you are, what you are and how good your are... I said: "Stop right there, your understanding is not right... It's not even wrong!" We "old" guys do this because it's a very efficient way of working. Not always friendly, but efficient.
Oh, $DIETY.... Not taken Scientific Programming in College, I assume? Okay, I'm 35, and I have known about this shit since College, and frankly, even young whippersnappers should know about it. But.. Here's some reading for you
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic If you don't want to read, but I really URGE you to: it's the "non-precision" is intrinsic to the representation of floats and the errors propagate quite quickly. This has absolutely nothing to do with the example you give, because that is pretty much irrelevant. Besides, it's just illustrates your limited vision due to your local currency. Pennies? How quaint... Yens (for example) don't know these fractional units. My currency before the euro didn't either. (That's one thing, I'd like most programmers to have: get involved in a real international project, with multiple locales, multiple currencies, multiple translations... You'll immediately see how badly most programs are on that level).
Money in Java is the article I usually point programmer rookies to if the above article goes above their head.
... alternatively, you can use the hammer on sales. ;-)
Nothing wrong with a hammer if Sales sold the feature and it had to be rolled out yesterday....
I don't think that... Problem is, there are very few developers capable of doing good front ends and it is indeed a pain in the ass, especially when you're no good at it. So, senior developers (who did their share on front-end code when they were junior) are all too happy to get rid of that part for themselves. A secondary problem is that those developers who can do good front ends often don't want to do it either as it's not really all that interesting. When they become more senior, they drop it like a hot potato too.
On top of that, putting pure designers on front-ends (I've been in projects like that) is ripe for disaster too.
Don't worry. You don't seriously think you'll get to do any "software engineering" when you start, do you. You'll start -like everyone- programming fontends/GUIs, and let the more interesting parts to the more senior people.
Beware of your words... Saying stuff like that is just prone to get them out of their kitchens.
That is exactly what my dumpster diving experience tells me, yes. Well, that and often not enough memory. The two older laptops I referred to came with 256MB RAM, respectively 512MB RAM. Both were very infected. Just upgrading the RAM to 2GB and reinstalling the machine gave capable machine on-par with current netbook offerings. One was even lower, I'd say: a P-IV 1.6GHz Mobile. It makes a damned fine email and surfing machine. I guess that even 1GB would have sufficed, but at the prices of RAM, why skimp?
I'm not familiar enough with MacBook (Pros) to talk about them. You never find those in dumpsters, but if I find one I'm surely going to take it... By now, I stopped bothering with anything lower than later AMD64 or Core (2) Duo. Sure, a good old P-IV does the trick, but I find nobody who takes them out of my hands, especially you get new machines (with warranty) for so cheap these days. Proof, I'm typing this on a consumer-end-router-sized Atom D525/2GB RAM/320GB HDD. Whopping 199€ and I could mount it behind my old LCD panel. Not a powerhouse, but space saving is worth something too and the monitor has a way better resolution than what most netbooks give you.
Holy fuck... Want me to order RAM for you? I'm sure we can arrange something.
Actually, many people have tried and 4GB works, but you only get 3.5GB because of chipset limitations. I've got a few machines like that. Not MacBooks, but just recently I had one of those early MacBooks on my workbench and I checked the possibility of upgrade online for that particular model. Official is 2GB, non-official 4GB.
It really is hit 'n miss. For example, the dumpster-sourced machine my sister uses based on a Intel D945CGCCR. According to the manual it supports 2GB. Yet, I found an older manual where it claims 4GB. This was corrected in a later manual. I suspect, that it's because the chipset doesn't allow more than 3.5GB even in 64-bit mode. (it's an E6600, it can do 64-bit). Online forums came to the consensus that 4GB works (again, with the 3.5GB limit).
My 2003 purchased AMD Athlon 2400+ MP on a Tyan Tiger 2466MPX also does this. 4GB allowed, but only 3.5GB usable *whatever you do*. As this isn't a 64-bit machine, you'd expect PAE to give you access to more. It doesn't, it is -again- a chipset limitation.
Also, older DDR1 latops are often rated 1GB... In all those I tried, replacing with 2x1GB instead of 2x512GB, worked just fine. You cannot be certain, of course, but by now I just have test modules lying around...
There is exactly one machine where I didn't manage to get it through the limit. It's a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pa 1510. It's rated 2GB (DDR2) and it really doesn't want to do more. I tried 2x2GB with it (I had those lying around from another unfinished project), and it booted up with... 2.4GB. A bit more than the usual 1.8GB (~256MB for integrated graphics). So there was a win, but not really as much as a 2GB to 3.5GB upgrade.
Now, of course, I admit I'm at an advantage because I'm a dumpster diver and have parts lying around I can test before buying anything online. Still, check what is being said about such upgrades "on the street". A good starting point is here. Good luck.
Where is "here"? I just bought 16GB (4x4GB) of RAM for a new machine and it cost a whopping 61.82€. Sure it's "value RAM", but whatever... I've always been lucky with "value RAM". I order this stuff in Germany and not in my home country because my home country sucks for anything technological at reasonable prices.
Now, of course, this is modern DDR3 RAM and anything older you pay a premium. DDR2 and DDR RAM is more expensive per GB. That's why, for the last 5 years, I've always told: buy as much RAM as you can matching one of the following condition: a) can/are willing to afford or b) the machine accepts. When DDR4 (or whatever) becomes standard on desktop machines, expect a surge in price for DDR3.
Getting back to the 16GB RAM I just bought. The motherboard can accept 64GB RAM. Now, the price for 32GB would be around 220€ and for 64GB around 1036€. Either of those two options were a bit too much for my wallet, but it might be fully affordable in a few years. Unless a new RAM technology takes over, then the prices goes up again. Regardless, 16GB is plenty and the machine isn't going to be doing all that much.