And are you seriously suggesting that the US at large is culpable for the actions of William Calley, Jesse England, and any other rapist, murderer, or degenerate who manages to make it into the uniformed service.
How do you know its not the same thing with Chinese army? They even have hundreds of thousands larger army so theres probably more such immoral persons.
Just like China, US also has detention camps and is one of few countries in the world who still have a death penalty (like China).
And just like China the US govt throws people in prison for criticizing the government. That's why Obama had Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck thrown in prison.
I have worked in IT for 30 years. To me, you sound like a staffing company recruiter.
if you want to make more money, you need to ALWAYS be thinking on what skills you could acquire to achieve that goal.
Of course recruiters will always say that, no skin off their noses. Truth is: you can acquire all the skills you want, if you don't have recent, paid, professional, enterprise-level, verifiable, experience, in those skills, then your skills count for nothing. Don't take my word for it, look at the job ads.
Don't sit on your ass in the same job for a decade. Change teams, companies, industries, roles.
Yeah, great advice, employers just love job hoppers - ask any employer about what they think of job hoppers. IMO: one of the key reasons that US employers have such a strong preference for offshore guest workers is that offshore quest workers can not easily change loves.
Guess what?
Offshore resources job hop as well. Ever in your 30 years of IT hear of a Bangalore lunch? That's where they offshore resource is fed up, goes to lunch, gets a job and doesn't call back.
We had a guy in Mexico do exactly the same thing, he was fed up, and just walked.
Back in the 80, under Greenspan, employees got used to the cyclic nature of business, they stopped feeling safe. Because the figured that as soon as there was a downturn, their job was toast. Now us peons have taken our lesson from the people at the top and have the balls to walk and find another job once management starts bringing in less experienced peons for more money than we're making; because that's what the market is paying. We have taken a lesson, from the people at the top.
Job hopping will be a way of life as long as employees don't feel comfortable and raises don't at least equal the market. And that doesn't take domain specific knowledge into account. It takes a long time to bring engineers up to speed on the enterprise specifics, yet most companies don't value that. They're quite happy to give out 2 and 4% raises, when the market is good, but pay the guy coming in 10% more than they were paying last year.
So yeah, we're not going to stick around, when the market is good, deal. The sharp guys are smart enough to know when we're getting the shaft.
Getting the fundamentalist nutjobs out of the public schools and into their own little inbred communities where they can't do any harm to the rest of society would just be a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.
They already have this, its called home schooling.
Normally I like pulp; but I never made it far enough into that doorstop to get interested or care. I think I made it through about the first 5 chapters before getting bored and chucking it. It was highly unmemorable.
Bernie Madoff stole 50 billion dollars right under the SEC and FINRA's noses. Unlike private agencies like the UL that face the threat of extinction if they ruin their brand, government agencies routinely screw up, screw the people they're supposed to protect and get more money for their failures.
That's because the free market Republicans and Libertarians want to make sure the government can't do anything; because the market is self regulating.
When the head of the SEC doesn't believe in regulation, you can be certain that very little will be regulated.
Absolutely wrong. TFA even states this means nothing for dark matter, we knew that these galaxies were out there, we just hadn't spotted them yet. Besides, we've seen dark matter much closer to home. When galaxies collide, the gas pressure stops the regular matter, while the dark matter keeps moving along at the same speed. The dark matter has mass, so it creates a gravatic lens. We have seen these lenses, with no visible matter to create them, when galaxies collide.
That article gave me flashbacks on studying Boltzman distributions and the hydrogen atom. Strangely enough, if was only painful at first, I may have to go back review them.
... is the same figure used to justify the initial claims for dark matter.
Several initial sources claimed that there had to be abundant non-baryonic matter making up much of the universe, as otherwise, there would have to be about ten times as much normal matter as we were observing, and that, of course was absurd. So quite possibly this is so long to dark matter! Next question is, is there still any reason to postulate dark energy with the new values for average density and so on this will produce? Don't say goodbye to dark energy just yet, but expect some significant revisions.
Since only 10% of the universe is made up of baryons, that would make the other 90% bosons. Coincidence with the dark matter postings here?
People like to harp on Massachusetts as Taxachusetts, especially after Mitt Romney(R) forced the people of his state to buy insurance whether they wanted it or not, thus creating a new expense people had to pay, but now the federal government has seen fit to follow the Republicans down the social/fascist rabbit hole.
The biggest problem is no one has ever given me an answer as to why my money has to go to pay the medical bills of my neighbor who smokes half a pack a day, or my neighbor on the other side who thinks it's funny to drink a case of beer each weekend by themselves.
What about my coworkers who refuse to walk up one flight of stairs or drink a liter of Pepsi every day? Why should I have to pay for their medical expenses when they can't be bothered to take care of themselves?
Further, why should I have to buy something I don't want? Are you next going to force me to go to a store and buy something to keep the store alive?
The ONLY winners in this whole fiasco are the insurance companies who will reap huge profits from the influx of money and still, despite the wording of the bill, will not cover everyone or every procedure.
While the Republicans can try to claim they stood their ground on this bill, they shouldn't be too smug as their party started this nonsense.
I'll go paperless when I get a CRT that supports 3 or 4 8 1/2x 11 documents at one time, at 8 1/2x 11 with 300+ dpi resolution, and lets me take notes on any document format, in any way I see fit, highlighter, drawing lines, whatever.
Stick to law, not biology Mr. Seringhaus (and honestly, I'm not too hot on you entering law). The genetic fingerprint works OK for identifying the guilty person out of several suspects, but it does not work if you have everyone on a database. If the chance of two unrelated people having the same fingerprint is (and I don't know the actual number) one in ten million and if you have every American in a database then given a DNA sample you'll get thirty people, twenty nine of which will be dragged into court through no fault of their own. Put simply, this is a profoundly stupid idea.
Of course its profoundly stupid; he's in Yale.
That means he's never actually going to have to work for a living because his family has plenty of $$$, and enough connections to get him a high paying job as a partner is a law firm where just has to make nice with his country club golf buddies, and get contracts signed.
My guess would be he already has money or connections someplace to make a huge amount of money from this; if he isn't already.
Term appointments can be up to five years and workers get state benefits. Proponents of this change said a state IT worker might earn an average of $55 an hour, including benefits, while the state pays its contractors an average of $128 an hour for workers in similar jobs.
Of course, some of that $128/hour the contractor gets goes toward employee benefits... and the cost to the state will be more than $55/hour including benefits...
More like $50/hour goes to the peon doing the actual job, and $78/hour goes to the contract holder.
It's been so long since I have used Windows for a server. I can see my last Windows server, a whopping 300 MHz killing machine, sitting at the bottom of a shelf in my office, waiting for the day I finally blank the hard drive and send it off to the Solid Waste Authority.
There was that inkling in the back of my head, but I had to read on for it to move forward in my brain.
The difference between the "new programmers" and the "real programmers" is that later were still taught math and computer architecture - former were taught only syntax of a sandboxed programming language. Later know why/how software/hardware works at least in general, former have to rely on book which tell them that it would works.
But I'm not paying your ass to recreate the STL, Boost, or java.util.Collections. I'm paying your ass because you know how to use the functionality that's already out there.
For example a project needs an API that makes SOAP calls out to a remote client; because that's the kind of interface they're providing. There isn't enough time to write custom XML parsers and https clients. In addition to taking care of all the business logic and translations that are required to support the back-end infrastructure.
While I expect developers to know how to implement Algorithms when necessary, Even more so I expect them to what is provided in the numerous SDKs.
I saw one developer re-implement the spring dependency injection and jdbc template for a project. It was an awful, buggy piece of shit. And the project was already using both APIs. What makes things worse was that even then he didn't even code correctly to his own API.
I'll tell you what, this bozo sounds just like the 'real-programmers' I see here, bragging about their skillz implementing algorithms.
I had to read the article to see it was Windows only . . . whew.
I may be a little out of date, but I thought isapi was the IIS interface, meaning it was inherently Windows only. And isapi was mentioned as part of the summary.
Programming is becoming nothing more than cutting and pasting, especially with languages like java, that provide libraries that do "the hard stuff" and let programmers concentrate on "programming".
I really need to worry about opening and closing JDBC connections, parsing SOAP calls by hand or writing socket listeners. Sure its interesting, the first 4 or 5 times you do it. But I have better things to do with my time that rewriting the wheel for every fucking application. That shit is already there; learn to fucking us it.
And sure this crap boils down to pushing tokens between multiple apps, and CRUD database apps. The banging out of code is rarely the tough part.
The tough part squeezing the requirements out some dumb-ass business analyst, who can barely speak the language, much less actually put something in writing and doesn't even know or care about the fucking applications they're writing requirements against.
Or perhaps you don't care about getting your airline reservations, airfare and seat assignments correct when you book them.
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And are you seriously suggesting that the US at large is culpable for the actions of William Calley, Jesse England, and any other rapist, murderer, or degenerate who manages to make it into the uniformed service.
How do you know its not the same thing with Chinese army? They even have hundreds of thousands larger army so theres probably more such immoral persons.
Just like China, US also has detention camps and is one of few countries in the world who still have a death penalty (like China).
And just like China the US govt throws people in prison for criticizing the government. That's why Obama had Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck thrown in prison.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/12/04/1516204/Gran-Turismo-Gamer-Becomes-Pro-Race-Driver Granted in his case the main thing that helped him was practicing consistency in hitting braking points and adherence to a proper racing line. I doubt the game actually improved his physical ability behind the wheel.
Okay, that's one guy. How many copies of the game have been sold?
I have worked in IT for 30 years. To me, you sound like a staffing company recruiter.
if you want to make more money, you need to ALWAYS be thinking on what skills you could acquire to achieve that goal.
Of course recruiters will always say that, no skin off their noses. Truth is: you can acquire all the skills you want, if you don't have recent, paid, professional, enterprise-level, verifiable, experience, in those skills, then your skills count for nothing. Don't take my word for it, look at the job ads.
Don't sit on your ass in the same job for a decade. Change teams, companies, industries, roles.
Yeah, great advice, employers just love job hoppers - ask any employer about what they think of job hoppers. IMO: one of the key reasons that US employers have such a strong preference for offshore guest workers is that offshore quest workers can not easily change loves.
Guess what?
Offshore resources job hop as well. Ever in your 30 years of IT hear of a Bangalore lunch? That's where they offshore resource is fed up, goes to lunch, gets a job and doesn't call back.
We had a guy in Mexico do exactly the same thing, he was fed up, and just walked.
Back in the 80, under Greenspan, employees got used to the cyclic nature of business, they stopped feeling safe. Because the figured that as soon as there was a downturn, their job was toast. Now us peons have taken our lesson from the people at the top and have the balls to walk and find another job once management starts bringing in less experienced peons for more money than we're making; because that's what the market is paying. We have taken a lesson, from the people at the top.
Job hopping will be a way of life as long as employees don't feel comfortable and raises don't at least equal the market. And that doesn't take domain specific knowledge into account. It takes a long time to bring engineers up to speed on the enterprise specifics, yet most companies don't value that. They're quite happy to give out 2 and 4% raises, when the market is good, but pay the guy coming in 10% more than they were paying last year.
So yeah, we're not going to stick around, when the market is good, deal. The sharp guys are smart enough to know when we're getting the shaft.
/. is geek central, so counts a professional development/software engineering research. :-)
Getting the fundamentalist nutjobs out of the public schools and into their own little inbred communities where they can't do any harm to the rest of society would just be a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.
They already have this, its called home schooling.
Normally I like pulp; but I never made it far enough into that doorstop to get interested or care. I think I made it through about the first 5 chapters before getting bored and chucking it. It was highly unmemorable.
I mean, he did the best he could. Do you really think someone else would have come up with a better screen play from the same source material?
From TFA, the final product was nothing like his original screenplay.
Ever hear of Laissez-faire?
Bernie Madoff stole 50 billion dollars right under the SEC and FINRA's noses. Unlike private agencies like the UL that face the threat of extinction if they ruin their brand, government agencies routinely screw up, screw the people they're supposed to protect and get more money for their failures.
That's because the free market Republicans and Libertarians want to make sure the government can't do anything; because the market is self regulating.
When the head of the SEC doesn't believe in regulation, you can be certain that very little will be regulated.
Absolutely wrong. TFA even states this means nothing for dark matter, we knew that these galaxies were out there, we just hadn't spotted them yet. Besides, we've seen dark matter much closer to home. When galaxies collide, the gas pressure stops the regular matter, while the dark matter keeps moving along at the same speed. The dark matter has mass, so it creates a gravatic lens. We have seen these lenses, with no visible matter to create them, when galaxies collide.
That article gave me flashbacks on studying Boltzman distributions and the hydrogen atom. Strangely enough, if was only painful at first, I may have to go back review them.
... is the same figure used to justify the initial claims for dark matter. Several initial sources claimed that there had to be abundant non-baryonic matter making up much of the universe, as otherwise, there would have to be about ten times as much normal matter as we were observing, and that, of course was absurd. So quite possibly this is so long to dark matter! Next question is, is there still any reason to postulate dark energy with the new values for average density and so on this will produce? Don't say goodbye to dark energy just yet, but expect some significant revisions.
Since only 10% of the universe is made up of baryons, that would make the other 90% bosons. Coincidence with the dark matter postings here?
Are you telling me that TSA security officers are forbidden to spank the monkey?
That duty is left to the handler, who is probably required to spank the monkey on command.
Microsoft's idea of cross platform is one of their platforms; like Windows 2000, XP, Vist and 7.
Really, if being a whore was about getting great sex while being paid, more women would do it.
This has to be the most insightful thing I've heard about that, ever.
If you are in a combat zone and working with the enemy, you have the right to be a target.
People like to harp on Massachusetts as Taxachusetts, especially after Mitt Romney(R) forced the people of his state to buy insurance whether they wanted it or not, thus creating a new expense people had to pay, but now the federal government has seen fit to follow the Republicans down the social/fascist rabbit hole.
The biggest problem is no one has ever given me an answer as to why my money has to go to pay the medical bills of my neighbor who smokes half a pack a day, or my neighbor on the other side who thinks it's funny to drink a case of beer each weekend by themselves.
What about my coworkers who refuse to walk up one flight of stairs or drink a liter of Pepsi every day? Why should I have to pay for their medical expenses when they can't be bothered to take care of themselves?
Further, why should I have to buy something I don't want? Are you next going to force me to go to a store and buy something to keep the store alive?
The ONLY winners in this whole fiasco are the insurance companies who will reap huge profits from the influx of money and still, despite the wording of the bill, will not cover everyone or every procedure.
While the Republicans can try to claim they stood their ground on this bill, they shouldn't be too smug as their party started this nonsense.
Because you are already paying for it now.
I'll go paperless when I get a CRT that supports 3 or 4 8 1/2x 11 documents at one time, at 8 1/2x 11 with 300+ dpi resolution, and lets me take notes on any document format, in any way I see fit, highlighter, drawing lines, whatever.
That's fine, we don't have to use the drones for precision attacks, we can keep them in a surveillance only role.
We can just go back to daisy cutters and carpet bombing once the target has been spotted.
Stick to law, not biology Mr. Seringhaus (and honestly, I'm not too hot on you entering law). The genetic fingerprint works OK for identifying the guilty person out of several suspects, but it does not work if you have everyone on a database. If the chance of two unrelated people having the same fingerprint is (and I don't know the actual number) one in ten million and if you have every American in a database then given a DNA sample you'll get thirty people, twenty nine of which will be dragged into court through no fault of their own. Put simply, this is a profoundly stupid idea.
Of course its profoundly stupid; he's in Yale.
That means he's never actually going to have to work for a living because his family has plenty of $$$, and enough connections to get him a high paying job as a partner is a law firm where just has to make nice with his country club golf buddies, and get contracts signed.
My guess would be he already has money or connections someplace to make a huge amount of money from this; if he isn't already.
Of course, some of that $128/hour the contractor gets goes toward employee benefits... and the cost to the state will be more than $55/hour including benefits...
More like $50/hour goes to the peon doing the actual job, and $78/hour goes to the contract holder.
I believe that you answered your own question.
Before installing an unknown application, do a little research first; such as google for the app + malware.
It's been so long since I have used Windows for a server. I can see my last Windows server, a whopping 300 MHz killing machine, sitting at the bottom of a shelf in my office, waiting for the day I finally blank the hard drive and send it off to the Solid Waste Authority.
There was that inkling in the back of my head, but I had to read on for it to move forward in my brain.
Do yourself a favor and try to forget, again. :-)
But I'm not paying your ass to recreate the STL, Boost, or java.util.Collections. I'm paying your ass because you know how to use the functionality that's already out there.
For example a project needs an API that makes SOAP calls out to a remote client; because that's the kind of interface they're providing. There isn't enough time to write custom XML parsers and https clients. In addition to taking care of all the business logic and translations that are required to support the back-end infrastructure.
While I expect developers to know how to implement Algorithms when necessary, Even more so I expect them to what is provided in the numerous SDKs.
I saw one developer re-implement the spring dependency injection and jdbc template for a project. It was an awful, buggy piece of shit. And the project was already using both APIs. What makes things worse was that even then he didn't even code correctly to his own API.
I'll tell you what, this bozo sounds just like the 'real-programmers' I see here, bragging about their skillz implementing algorithms.
I had to read the article to see it was Windows only . . . whew.
I may be a little out of date, but I thought isapi was the IIS interface, meaning it was inherently Windows only. And isapi was mentioned as part of the summary.
OTOH, at least it means you actually RTFA.
Programming is becoming nothing more than cutting and pasting, especially with languages like java, that provide libraries that do "the hard stuff" and let programmers concentrate on "programming".
I really need to worry about opening and closing JDBC connections, parsing SOAP calls by hand or writing socket listeners. Sure its interesting, the first 4 or 5 times you do it. But I have better things to do with my time that rewriting the wheel for every fucking application. That shit is already there; learn to fucking us it.
And sure this crap boils down to pushing tokens between multiple apps, and CRUD database apps. The banging out of code is rarely the tough part.
The tough part squeezing the requirements out some dumb-ass business analyst, who can barely speak the language, much less actually put something in writing and doesn't even know or care about the fucking applications they're writing requirements against.
Or perhaps you don't care about getting your airline reservations, airfare and seat assignments correct when you book them.