While not a standard metric, consider the amount of time you spend planning and implementing upgrades to your infrastructure, as opposed to the amount of time spent supporting it. In a healthy company, the weight is towards planning and implementing upgrades to your infrastructure, where not a day passes that a new piece of equipment isn't being delivered. Why, you ask? Because it shows that there are enough people to handle the daily problems adequately, freeing up others to plan for several months (or years) into the future...to deliver a feature before it is requested, to move the network to a faster speed before you hit bottlenecks, to ensure that people spend more time completing their work on their machines than waiting for their machine to finish a task or complete an upload / download. To take time consuming, menial tasks away from the workers, and free them up to pursue tasks that might bring in more money for the company.
In an unhealthy company, you spend more of your time dreaming about upgrades. You end up taking care of old, inefficient equipment, and are stuck in meetings, trying to explain why a minor upgrade can have a large impact to a group of people who are 'too busy' to learn anything more technical than messaging on their Blackberrys / iPhones, which they do while you speak. You don't have enough people to perform adequate daily support, and plan for future upgrades (which may require several hours of research, and speaking with vendors on the phone, to get a proper quote; on top of studying new technology or attending a training course). If you've hit a bottleneck in the last several months for any feature on a computer / network, and you're not Google / IBM / someone playing with a supercomputer, you're doing it wrong.
But then, you get what you pay for. If you are a company like this, leave. The company isn't going to grow, the culture is dead, and you have a chance to short the stock before the collapse. They'll keep switching CEOs / figureheads, and merging, but that kind of corporate culture is like a virus. See what happened to HP when Compaq merged with them.
McCain lost any possibility with me when he flew back to Washington, in the middle of his campaign, to work on a bailout bill. Up until that moment, I allowed for the possibility, as with Obama, and all the other candidates, of convincing me of their worthiness to run this country.
The two major party candidates, both promising bailouts that the populace neither wanted, nor could afford, proved to be so far out of touch with reality, that come election night, no further consideration of their virtues could be found. In a bitter sense, McCain, the self-proclaimed maverick of his own party, having supposedly fought for years to change the Republicans, failed his singular test when the moment allowed for itself.
As with any group of people who offer me only bad choices, and expect me to choose from among them, I ultimately end up leaving that group. I am not speaking of the Republicans here, but of this society as a whole. If the legislation coming out of DC these days does not make you stand aghast at its implications, if the fact that the judicial branch of our society is too busy overriding our most cherished laws with newer ones of a worse design, if an executive branch which currently serves the purpose of a third wheel on a bicycle does not concern you, or that the various law-enforcement / intelligent agencies need to be reminded that they serve the public, not the other way around, you are already lost. I have no interest in remaining as a part or as it may be, an accomplice, to a society which is hell-bent on destroying itself. If everyone wishes to remain as lemmings, rushing off the cliff into oblivion, so be it; I will not be joining you on that journey.
Does anyone with any amount of technical training actually think this bill is a good idea? No.
Why do they think this isn't a good idea? Because they understand the internet, its design, and the people affected better than these lawmakers. Sadly, these lawmakers only here the sound of "bling bling and clink clink" as they sell out their constituents for what must be the thirteen-thousandth time. Someone should sit them down, use small words, and explain to them just how badly they're selling out their own offspring. But I digress, our culture is one of being wealthy for one day, and poor for the rest of time.
Won't ever happen. If we tried that, Britain would come tapping us on the shoulder, and presenting a bill for all the trade secrets we lifted during the Industrial Revolution from them.
What China is doing to us is the same thing we've been done to other nations, albeit when this country was younger.
Give up while you're ahead. Getting useful diagnostic information from someone trained in the art of programming can be a trial in of itself; from someone not trained in the art, it's all but impossible.
If anything, make your software grab all relevant information.
We need a search engine for websites that do not use ads. One which doesn't crawl blogs. A few other things.
Yeah. I think I'll create one. Going to make its operational expenses very simple -> it'll use BitCoins to pay for the monthly traffic. So long as the balance remains positive, the site stays up.
I favor this approach, as Google / Bing / Yahoo are already unusable to me. If I am doing CS work, searching for information on an algorithm, I don't want 300 sites trying to sell me a book on that very algorithm. I already own the book, and the information I want is not in it.
And I block them because their presence makes me write off sites.
Much like TV commercials, web ads have become so annoying that I am distracted from why I came to a website to begin with.
Let me explain: if I click the link to your website, and the content that I am looking for is not immediately in front of my face, I write off your entire site. With video ads, 30-60 second ads is far too long for my 3-second attention span.
The only TV advertisement I can actually stomach these days is what I find in anime, where they have a "sponsored by" section immediately following the titles. And I tolerate it because it's more effort to re-position the slider 5 seconds into the future than watching the damn thing. But yes, if I ever visit Japan, then I will certainly be checking out King Records.
The upside of entertainment without ads is an extra 3 hours a week to read, watch TV, or any number of a billion different activities.
And no, these sites are not losing any revenue, because I have no intention of ever-clicking one of those ads. I am in none of their focus groups, trust me. If that means I can't view your content, I can live with that.
Nonsense. This article only serves as a warning for everyone to prepare 'new' prices for when it actually does IPO. Read the article...these people speak of trickle-down economics, but they're really salivating at the prospect of luring an idiot into their store with waaaay too much money and apparently very little common sense. Long-lost relatives and forgotten friends will come running with their hats in their hands, doing what they can to get some of that money.
A fool and his money, soon parted. And you've got the cream of the crop of thieves reporting in here...let's see...real-estate agents...car salesmen....home contractors....all we're missing are some dead-end charities and a handful of political operatives, and that money will be gone.
Fun on two levels: 1.) there's only one IPO, not a dozen of them in quick succession (don't expect the good times to last) 2.) I still question what Facebook's worth will be in 3 years.
I'm going to give you a 6/10. I can sense some angst in your writings, but I feel you're holding back on me. Now, think about some the tasks you will perform at work on Monday, or when someone asks you to come over and 'help' them with some sort of program that will kill your Tuesday night. Focus...focus...and go!
Oh yes. Have the screen zoom out until the program is a window on the Tardis. Then have the Tardis do a little twirl, and get sucked through a wormhole.
I can do this...maybe. How is 7 for programming advanced program closing sequences?
Even I am kind of curious to see what would happen if we set a week in the future to switch everyone over. I say a week, not a day, because vendors will need at least 72 hours to issue emergency firmware upgrades after sections of the internet disappear, and allowing for different time zones and what not, of course.
Does anyone know if all the major service providers have upgraded their equipment to ipv6 yet? Any laggards?
Meh, the additional screen-space is so minimal that it didn't bother me. The browser bars that everyone ships their software with take up much more space than those corners.
And a computer is useful for many things, work just being one thing. Visual Studio on one monitor, Doctor Who on the other. I could code for hours / days like that. But we're out of Doctor Who...
A well-designed GUI is fast, efficient, user-friendly, and conveys the maximum amount of information possible to the user without overloading the user's senses.
Many GUIs these days fail to do this. Why? Many reasons, which I will now list:
1.) The CLI Guys -> these people believe the command-line interface is that cat's ass. Anything that can be done with a GUI can be done with a CLI, plus it works with pipes! What's not to like? 2.) The Artists -> these people think that a GUI is a social commentary on the growth of the computing industry and mankind's adjustment to technology. They treat every GUI like it should belong in an art gallery somewhere, and their work tends to resize like sh*t. Elements are not anchored correctly, discerning what is an clickable element and what is just an image / background may take several moments and a careful read of the online help manual. Look for navy blue text (size 8) on a royal blue background. 3.) The LCDs -> these people create GUIs for the lowest common denominator. They assume that the user is an absolute idiot, and make even the smallest configuration changes go through a 15-page wizard. The greatest experience an IT professional can feel is setting this program up correctly once, and never having to run one of those wizards again. 4.) The Minimalists -> these people are like the CLI guys, but they decided to include a half-broken GUI just to tease you into thinking that you won't be spending several hours looking through various usenet posts looking for the proper flag to launch the GUI with. The GUI will be extremely simple, with a poor design and badly labeled elements (the checkbox with a non-descriptive name or in a few instances, no name), which includes a link to the manual explaining a highly comprehensive scripting system for anything more complex.
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Nonsense. I like my eye-candy, and the silver Luna theme in XP was awesome.
If I'm going to be staring at my computer screen all-day, it might as well be pretty.
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Would it be possible to file parts inside an area, such as a fume hood?
While not a standard metric, consider the amount of time you spend planning and implementing upgrades to your infrastructure, as opposed to the amount of time spent supporting it. In a healthy company, the weight is towards planning and implementing upgrades to your infrastructure, where not a day passes that a new piece of equipment isn't being delivered. Why, you ask? Because it shows that there are enough people to handle the daily problems adequately, freeing up others to plan for several months (or years) into the future...to deliver a feature before it is requested, to move the network to a faster speed before you hit bottlenecks, to ensure that people spend more time completing their work on their machines than waiting for their machine to finish a task or complete an upload / download. To take time consuming, menial tasks away from the workers, and free them up to pursue tasks that might bring in more money for the company.
In an unhealthy company, you spend more of your time dreaming about upgrades. You end up taking care of old, inefficient equipment, and are stuck in meetings, trying to explain why a minor upgrade can have a large impact to a group of people who are 'too busy' to learn anything more technical than messaging on their Blackberrys / iPhones, which they do while you speak. You don't have enough people to perform adequate daily support, and plan for future upgrades (which may require several hours of research, and speaking with vendors on the phone, to get a proper quote; on top of studying new technology or attending a training course). If you've hit a bottleneck in the last several months for any feature on a computer / network, and you're not Google / IBM / someone playing with a supercomputer, you're doing it wrong.
But then, you get what you pay for. If you are a company like this, leave. The company isn't going to grow, the culture is dead, and you have a chance to short the stock before the collapse. They'll keep switching CEOs / figureheads, and merging, but that kind of corporate culture is like a virus. See what happened to HP when Compaq merged with them.
Some place where the indigenous people eat politicians. With BBQ sauce.
McCain lost any possibility with me when he flew back to Washington, in the middle of his campaign, to work on a bailout bill. Up until that moment, I allowed for the possibility, as with Obama, and all the other candidates, of convincing me of their worthiness to run this country.
The two major party candidates, both promising bailouts that the populace neither wanted, nor could afford, proved to be so far out of touch with reality, that come election night, no further consideration of their virtues could be found. In a bitter sense, McCain, the self-proclaimed maverick of his own party, having supposedly fought for years to change the Republicans, failed his singular test when the moment allowed for itself.
As with any group of people who offer me only bad choices, and expect me to choose from among them, I ultimately end up leaving that group. I am not speaking of the Republicans here, but of this society as a whole. If the legislation coming out of DC these days does not make you stand aghast at its implications, if the fact that the judicial branch of our society is too busy overriding our most cherished laws with newer ones of a worse design, if an executive branch which currently serves the purpose of a third wheel on a bicycle does not concern you, or that the various law-enforcement / intelligent agencies need to be reminded that they serve the public, not the other way around, you are already lost. I have no interest in remaining as a part or as it may be, an accomplice, to a society which is hell-bent on destroying itself. If everyone wishes to remain as lemmings, rushing off the cliff into oblivion, so be it; I will not be joining you on that journey.
Only if you're experiencing duress, which in all honesty guarantees a disaster further down the road.
Does anyone with any amount of technical training actually think this bill is a good idea? No.
Why do they think this isn't a good idea? Because they understand the internet, its design, and the people affected better than these lawmakers. Sadly, these lawmakers only here the sound of "bling bling and clink clink" as they sell out their constituents for what must be the thirteen-thousandth time. Someone should sit them down, use small words, and explain to them just how badly they're selling out their own offspring. But I digress, our culture is one of being wealthy for one day, and poor for the rest of time.
One constant of humanity is their ever willingness to look for any metric with which to divide themselves into lessers and greaters.
Won't ever happen. If we tried that, Britain would come tapping us on the shoulder, and presenting a bill for all the trade secrets we lifted during the Industrial Revolution from them.
What China is doing to us is the same thing we've been done to other nations, albeit when this country was younger.
Not to be picky, but there are a number of places other than Europe right now that aren't really suffering during this global depression.
It does.
Give up while you're ahead. Getting useful diagnostic information from someone trained in the art of programming can be a trial in of itself; from someone not trained in the art, it's all but impossible.
If anything, make your software grab all relevant information.
Perhaps dust particles of sufficient size might suffice?
I am tempted to say something common, like carbon, might be worthy of consideration. Of course, it would require some research, but might be worth it.
We need a search engine for websites that do not use ads. One which doesn't crawl blogs. A few other things.
Yeah. I think I'll create one. Going to make its operational expenses very simple -> it'll use BitCoins to pay for the monthly traffic. So long as the balance remains positive, the site stays up.
I favor this approach, as Google / Bing / Yahoo are already unusable to me. If I am doing CS work, searching for information on an algorithm, I don't want 300 sites trying to sell me a book on that very algorithm. I already own the book, and the information I want is not in it.
And I block them because their presence makes me write off sites.
Much like TV commercials, web ads have become so annoying that I am distracted from why I came to a website to begin with.
Let me explain: if I click the link to your website, and the content that I am looking for is not immediately in front of my face, I write off your entire site. With video ads, 30-60 second ads is far too long for my 3-second attention span.
The only TV advertisement I can actually stomach these days is what I find in anime, where they have a "sponsored by" section immediately following the titles. And I tolerate it because it's more effort to re-position the slider 5 seconds into the future than watching the damn thing. But yes, if I ever visit Japan, then I will certainly be checking out King Records.
The upside of entertainment without ads is an extra 3 hours a week to read, watch TV, or any number of a billion different activities.
And no, these sites are not losing any revenue, because I have no intention of ever-clicking one of those ads. I am in none of their focus groups, trust me. If that means I can't view your content, I can live with that.
Failed presidential candidates.
Nonsense. This article only serves as a warning for everyone to prepare 'new' prices for when it actually does IPO. Read the article...these people speak of trickle-down economics, but they're really salivating at the prospect of luring an idiot into their store with waaaay too much money and apparently very little common sense. Long-lost relatives and forgotten friends will come running with their hats in their hands, doing what they can to get some of that money.
A fool and his money, soon parted. And you've got the cream of the crop of thieves reporting in here...let's see...real-estate agents...car salesmen....home contractors....all we're missing are some dead-end charities and a handful of political operatives, and that money will be gone.
Fun on two levels: 1.) there's only one IPO, not a dozen of them in quick succession (don't expect the good times to last) 2.) I still question what Facebook's worth will be in 3 years.
Ah, puppet...
I'm going to give you a 6/10. I can sense some angst in your writings, but I feel you're holding back on me. Now, think about some the tasks you will perform at work on Monday, or when someone asks you to come over and 'help' them with some sort of program that will kill your Tuesday night. Focus...focus...and go!
Hmm. I thought B. Gate's future wife headed up that project...
Oh yes. Have the screen zoom out until the program is a window on the Tardis. Then have the Tardis do a little twirl, and get sucked through a wormhole.
I can do this...maybe. How is 7 for programming advanced program closing sequences?
Been working my ways backward through Doctor Who. The question marks, here and there, are somewhat charming.
On a separate note, I heard they are coming out with more Red Dwarf.
Even I am kind of curious to see what would happen if we set a week in the future to switch everyone over. I say a week, not a day, because vendors will need at least 72 hours to issue emergency firmware upgrades after sections of the internet disappear, and allowing for different time zones and what not, of course.
Does anyone know if all the major service providers have upgraded their equipment to ipv6 yet? Any laggards?
Meh, the additional screen-space is so minimal that it didn't bother me. The browser bars that everyone ships their software with take up much more space than those corners.
And a computer is useful for many things, work just being one thing. Visual Studio on one monitor, Doctor Who on the other. I could code for hours / days like that. But we're out of Doctor Who...
That appears to be the focus of GUIs these days.
A well-designed GUI is fast, efficient, user-friendly, and conveys the maximum amount of information possible to the user without overloading the user's senses.
Many GUIs these days fail to do this. Why? Many reasons, which I will now list:
1.) The CLI Guys -> these people believe the command-line interface is that cat's ass. Anything that can be done with a GUI can be done with a CLI, plus it works with pipes! What's not to like?
2.) The Artists -> these people think that a GUI is a social commentary on the growth of the computing industry and mankind's adjustment to technology. They treat every GUI like it should belong in an art gallery somewhere, and their work tends to resize like sh*t. Elements are not anchored correctly, discerning what is an clickable element and what is just an image / background may take several moments and a careful read of the online help manual. Look for navy blue text (size 8) on a royal blue background.
3.) The LCDs -> these people create GUIs for the lowest common denominator. They assume that the user is an absolute idiot, and make even the smallest configuration changes go through a 15-page wizard. The greatest experience an IT professional can feel is setting this program up correctly once, and never having to run one of those wizards again.
4.) The Minimalists -> these people are like the CLI guys, but they decided to include a half-broken GUI just to tease you into thinking that you won't be spending several hours looking through various usenet posts looking for the proper flag to launch the GUI with. The GUI will be extremely simple, with a poor design and badly labeled elements (the checkbox with a non-descriptive name or in a few instances, no name), which includes a link to the manual explaining a highly comprehensive scripting system for anything more complex.
Nonsense. I like my eye-candy, and the silver Luna theme in XP was awesome.
If I'm going to be staring at my computer screen all-day, it might as well be pretty.
Show me where in my post I mentioned 'stolen credit card numbers.'
I'm going to need some proof that you're not a bot.