But when all this was happening, the internet wasn't as "important" as it is today, it's even being considered as a human right. Capitalism is somewhat to blame here for providing the model that made it possible, but that's not all that's in play here: rapid semi-predicted growth, private owners of what should be a public resource, and the critical necessity of the service provided have all played a part towards the situation we're in. And everybody who's bent over and taking it from their ISP isn't helping either. I hate both major ISPs in my area (century & comcast), but am finding I can't switch to something else and still be able to vpn smoothly into work, that's a monopoly if I've ever seen one.
why not do it for a living? who do you think beginner programming jobs are for?
Dunno if I'd start in mobile development, especially something as fragmented as android (Sorry android 3), mobile development without understanding usability and other UI concepts is an utter waste of time. Most people don't start off their programming careers by writing games, eh nvm... I'm not talking to anything resembling a dev here (both OPs).
First of all, I feel like I'm wasting my time writing this because I have no idea what kind of learner you are.
Your type largely determines your approach to learning... anything, especially something more complicated like programming. I'm a kinesthetic & how I've picked up new computer concepts and programming languages either by jumping right into them (work related and situational mostly), or by reading a book and doing the examples. I'm dead serious, it's that simple (+/- motivation), read the chapter, put what you learned into a compiler, debug it (if you need to), play with it, try new methods, whatever... I picked up jquery & ajax mostly this way, the latter mostly through implementing on business systems, the former I read a "missing manual" series book on.
If you're feeling cocky, you can fake it till you make it, land a beginner programming job and get paid to learn it! I know it would work for me, but that's largely cause I'm a hands on learner (kinesthetic) and I learn by doing. If you're an auditory learner, you'd probably get chased out with fire with this kind of approach and would benefit more from online, or class lectures.
Rofl, a tape measure might've helped too, but everybody has their thing:)
But ya, I remember folks in college wanting to become programmers and just not being able to adapt their style of thinking to it. I'm curious as to what makes a programmer a programmer, book smarts have a lot to do with it, but there's plenty of people out there that have failed at coding and succeeded at something else. Critical thinking is a part of it too, but it's almost like you have to tailor your thoughts a certain way to understand it and not everybody is capable, kind of like learning foreign languages almost.
So this is something that big brother is there to help us out with, there's a real simple solution imho: the government owns the backbone and leases it to the ISPs, fuck level 3, fuck comcast, give it to uncle sam. Comcast can lease from sam, so can Syn, Syn doesn't like comcast, I lease the backbone all the way to a public gateway and comcast needs to be competitive or Syn will charge less (A LOT less in current market state) and take all it's customers.
Now the problem with this is that ISP's install their own backbone, so they own it, the government would have to lay down a backbone of similar nature house to house costing billions.
so having a wider margin of acceptable error on a higher producing product line doesn't make sense to you? lol
I don't even know why I'm trying to explain this to you, this business concept is obviously way over your head and an excellent example of how statistics can be warped to prove a not-so-correct point to a sucker.
Stop associating open source with buzzwords, Point .
These are essentially reporting tools, and I saw mention of ETL, which seemed conceptually similar to DTS/SSIS packages. Reporting is a part of business intelligence sure, but if it's the only intelligence your business has, you probably don't have one, or won't have one for long.
Also, I started my IT career writing reports, I don't miss it, if I was to even consider writing reports for a business, I'd require BIDS & SSRS period, then again probably I probably wouldn't do it anyways:)
quantity goes up this gains a higher margin with higher quantities. This is why you don't term your 10m a year product line with a 5% return rate. But on a 500k a year product line, 5% may not be as acceptable. So, if OCZ sold 1m drives and crucial 100k... and OCZ's failure rate is 5% and crucial's is 2%, your chances are still higher to get a working drive with OCZ.
Let's think about who the primary user affected by this is: the computer builder / tinkerer. There's ssds that come as a feature on higher end laptops / desktops and I'm sure those are affected by the price drop too, but the OEM will probably pocket those profits.
So, yes SSD space is more expensive than even inflated disk drives, but the performance difference is significant in the 4-5x range. Most people that this applies to probably already know this, but what you do is buy an SSD that fits all your mission critical games / apps (those game take up A LOT of space very quickly and are a major decision when deciding how big of an ssd you need) and everything else: data, movies, music goes on a spinning disk, preferably encrypted. You can install your apps / games on the disk drive, but you're kind of missing the main performance boost for those things. So buy a bit more than you need to future proof it and couple it with a spinning disk to actually store data. Doing it this way makes buying an ssd make a lot more sense.
Cpt. obvious strikes again, but reading some of the discussion, maybe not for everyone.
We've been over this at some point... OCZ has a greater volume of sales generating higher return rates, it's a rule of QC. Crucial (#1 lowest returns) has relatively minor sales in comparison so not as many are shipping out that can fail.
Haha, I feel your pain, I've been slowly crawling around for a deal to replace my smaller ssd with a larger one as I'm completely out of space on that OS / apps drive. I saw some good deals on woot for refurbs , but the one (240gb corsair $125) I would've wanted most sold out before I could get it:(
Having said that, we're probably stuck till January, this time of year isn't known for it's bargains post-black friday. Also, stores get pretty unpleasant around this time of year, unless long lines and cramped isles are preferred.
P.S. the series matters more than the brand with ssds, normally you typically get what you pay for, but searching for a deal, you should keep this fact in mind. A 400mb read performs a lot worse than a 500mb read if only cause of the underlying components involved (IOPS, NAND)
1. upgrading IE is free in regards to licensing, proper WSUS probably puts it at several thousand in regards to man hours at best.
2. you can't stop people from being retarded, if you don't know how to upgrade your browser from IE 6, you probably don't care about css3 shadowing on my web page either.
3. There is no compelling reason to make an intranet app follow w3c, and certain older versions of Visual Studio were well known to produce IE only friendly code that was never to standard to begin with (upper case tags ex) . An international website... a bit more compelling to do so for obvious reasons.
Seeing and doing are two different things, however we live in a nation of retards, so every time something bad happens, the tards come out in force with their "ideas".
My thoughts are it's a tragedy, there was a time you could walk into a school without a visitor badge to pick somebody up, it's not the guns that are to blame, it's the fact that we as a society are producing people who go out into their neighborhoods and do such things. I don't hear anybody proposing a solution for that.
How is this different from past revisions? That's just how it is, if you don't read the spec, and go to use a datetime input and wonder why it doesn't work in ie7, well... hopefully you can google the answer. I remember when css3 first rolled around, it featured tons of almost mission critical enhancements, and about 10% of browsers actually took advantage of it, so you had a bit of double coding going on: css3 code for newer browsers, same / similar / lack of design feature in older browsers. Since then, support has gone to more like 95% or so with new versions of firefox, chrome, safari, IE that are all css3 compliant.
AC, I've got a rule for this, and it seems to have worked fine so far... In the workplace, I try and treat everybody I meet with a clean slate, not everybody is going to like me, and me them, but the goal is to go home in the evening. I have no problem talking to people in person or on the phone, but the moment somebody steps out of line... is rude, a liar (probably chronic), says something / does something else, etc... I make a mental note, have a quick meeting with management to establish that there is an issue, and switch that person over to text only communication, if they call me, I'll talk to them, but ask that they reiterate everything in a ticket and I never commit anything verbally to those people. I've met too many of these types of people in corporate, the question I've always wondered is this how they choose to act, or do they not know any better?
Also when you say boss & India, it's time to... not put in your 2 weeks, not walk out... RUN OUT OF THAT HOLE. I wouldn't hire somebody from India to work under me, the language barrier alone would make it not worth it.
Actually I have, a senior manager will typically accept recommendations from technical staff unless that person themselves is technical and feels confident that they can estimate the skill of the candidate. So there's a chance, but it's pretty slim that senior management would sway the techies decision on a candidate.
We started out hunting/gathering moved into farming moved into industry into tech. I'm willing to bet that people have the exact same fears when something like the cotton picker machine came out. But the truth is, we'll just move on to something else. Some people support the infrastructure, but we have plenty of jobs outside of the factory, automating construction would cost far more than hiring people for example, and the infrastructure stateside isn't in the best of shape. And let's picture the money flow, that's what's most concerning to me because the guy who owns the robots is making all the money off those robots and has no motivation to put it back into the economy through say wages. That's more or less what happened during the great depression and it took a world war to break out of that. Hopefully we catch out pitfalls as a society before we drop into them.
AC, i didn't take the promo cause I'd be directly under the owner, whom I never had nice things to say about. However, what I consider is that it opens up the door for other management jobs at other companies, so I would've picked up 1-2 years of experience, told her to f' off and went off to make bank elsewhere. Also, people deal with pencil pushing in different ways, for all you know, your boss goes home and uses all that dough to snort coke off a hooker's ass or something:)
If you don't think you can deal with boredom... IT can be pretty boring in general when stuff isn't breaking, so in self-reflection I don't think the level of intensity would've been that different.
The simple solution here is to have the senior manager in the room WHILE he's interviewing the candidate if that was the case. I guess the guy would have to clarify his question to know for sure. It's possible they'll just take his word for it and hire whoever he recommends, especially if sr. management is not involved in the interview process themselves.
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But when all this was happening, the internet wasn't as "important" as it is today, it's even being considered as a human right. Capitalism is somewhat to blame here for providing the model that made it possible, but that's not all that's in play here: rapid semi-predicted growth, private owners of what should be a public resource, and the critical necessity of the service provided have all played a part towards the situation we're in. And everybody who's bent over and taking it from their ISP isn't helping either. I hate both major ISPs in my area (century & comcast), but am finding I can't switch to something else and still be able to vpn smoothly into work, that's a monopoly if I've ever seen one.
why not do it for a living? who do you think beginner programming jobs are for?
Dunno if I'd start in mobile development, especially something as fragmented as android (Sorry android 3), mobile development without understanding usability and other UI concepts is an utter waste of time. Most people don't start off their programming careers by writing games, eh nvm... I'm not talking to anything resembling a dev here (both OPs).
First of all, I feel like I'm wasting my time writing this because I have no idea what kind of learner you are.
Your type largely determines your approach to learning... anything, especially something more complicated like programming. I'm a kinesthetic & how I've picked up new computer concepts and programming languages either by jumping right into them (work related and situational mostly), or by reading a book and doing the examples. I'm dead serious, it's that simple (+/- motivation), read the chapter, put what you learned into a compiler, debug it (if you need to), play with it, try new methods, whatever... I picked up jquery & ajax mostly this way, the latter mostly through implementing on business systems, the former I read a "missing manual" series book on.
If you're feeling cocky, you can fake it till you make it, land a beginner programming job and get paid to learn it! I know it would work for me, but that's largely cause I'm a hands on learner (kinesthetic) and I learn by doing. If you're an auditory learner, you'd probably get chased out with fire with this kind of approach and would benefit more from online, or class lectures.
Rofl, a tape measure might've helped too, but everybody has their thing :)
But ya, I remember folks in college wanting to become programmers and just not being able to adapt their style of thinking to it. I'm curious as to what makes a programmer a programmer, book smarts have a lot to do with it, but there's plenty of people out there that have failed at coding and succeeded at something else. Critical thinking is a part of it too, but it's almost like you have to tailor your thoughts a certain way to understand it and not everybody is capable, kind of like learning foreign languages almost.
So this is something that big brother is there to help us out with, there's a real simple solution imho: the government owns the backbone and leases it to the ISPs, fuck level 3, fuck comcast, give it to uncle sam. Comcast can lease from sam, so can Syn, Syn doesn't like comcast, I lease the backbone all the way to a public gateway and comcast needs to be competitive or Syn will charge less (A LOT less in current market state) and take all it's customers.
Now the problem with this is that ISP's install their own backbone, so they own it, the government would have to lay down a backbone of similar nature house to house costing billions.
So, Jasper source missed the point then?
so having a wider margin of acceptable error on a higher producing product line doesn't make sense to you? lol
I don't even know why I'm trying to explain this to you, this business concept is obviously way over your head and an excellent example of how statistics can be warped to prove a not-so-correct point to a sucker.
If only cause we can get another one of these.
Pentaho & Jaspersoft are open source retard.
Stop associating open source with buzzwords, Point .
:)
These are essentially reporting tools, and I saw mention of ETL, which seemed conceptually similar to DTS/SSIS packages. Reporting is a part of business intelligence sure, but if it's the only intelligence your business has, you probably don't have one, or won't have one for long.
Also, I started my IT career writing reports, I don't miss it, if I was to even consider writing reports for a business, I'd require BIDS & SSRS period, then again probably I probably wouldn't do it anyways
quantity goes up this gains a higher margin with higher quantities. This is why you don't term your 10m a year product line with a 5% return rate. But on a 500k a year product line, 5% may not be as acceptable. So, if OCZ sold 1m drives and crucial 100k... and OCZ's failure rate is 5% and crucial's is 2%, your chances are still higher to get a working drive with OCZ.
More than you do of how quality control works lol. Statistics too for that matter.
Let's think about who the primary user affected by this is: the computer builder / tinkerer. There's ssds that come as a feature on higher end laptops / desktops and I'm sure those are affected by the price drop too, but the OEM will probably pocket those profits.
So, yes SSD space is more expensive than even inflated disk drives, but the performance difference is significant in the 4-5x range. Most people that this applies to probably already know this, but what you do is buy an SSD that fits all your mission critical games / apps (those game take up A LOT of space very quickly and are a major decision when deciding how big of an ssd you need) and everything else: data, movies, music goes on a spinning disk, preferably encrypted. You can install your apps / games on the disk drive, but you're kind of missing the main performance boost for those things. So buy a bit more than you need to future proof it and couple it with a spinning disk to actually store data. Doing it this way makes buying an ssd make a lot more sense.
Cpt. obvious strikes again, but reading some of the discussion, maybe not for everyone.
We've been over this at some point... OCZ has a greater volume of sales generating higher return rates, it's a rule of QC. Crucial (#1 lowest returns) has relatively minor sales in comparison so not as many are shipping out that can fail.
Haha, I feel your pain, I've been slowly crawling around for a deal to replace my smaller ssd with a larger one as I'm completely out of space on that OS / apps drive. I saw some good deals on woot for refurbs , but the one (240gb corsair $125) I would've wanted most sold out before I could get it :(
Having said that, we're probably stuck till January, this time of year isn't known for it's bargains post-black friday. Also, stores get pretty unpleasant around this time of year, unless long lines and cramped isles are preferred.
P.S. the series matters more than the brand with ssds, normally you typically get what you pay for, but searching for a deal, you should keep this fact in mind. A 400mb read performs a lot worse than a 500mb read if only cause of the underlying components involved (IOPS, NAND)
Rofl, for a troll you sound new....00b. To see flash player crash, try this: windows key + right arrow + enter.
1. upgrading IE is free in regards to licensing, proper WSUS probably puts it at several thousand in regards to man hours at best.
:)
2. you can't stop people from being retarded, if you don't know how to upgrade your browser from IE 6, you probably don't care about css3 shadowing on my web page either.
3. There is no compelling reason to make an intranet app follow w3c, and certain older versions of Visual Studio were well known to produce IE only friendly code that was never to standard to begin with (upper case tags ex) . An international website... a bit more compelling to do so for obvious reasons.
And just because I thought this was cool: Test your browser's HTML5 compatibility
Keep learning, you'll get it one day
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Seeing and doing are two different things, however we live in a nation of retards, so every time something bad happens, the tards come out in force with their "ideas".
My thoughts are it's a tragedy, there was a time you could walk into a school without a visitor badge to pick somebody up, it's not the guns that are to blame, it's the fact that we as a society are producing people who go out into their neighborhoods and do such things. I don't hear anybody proposing a solution for that.
How is this different from past revisions? That's just how it is, if you don't read the spec, and go to use a datetime input and wonder why it doesn't work in ie7, well... hopefully you can google the answer. I remember when css3 first rolled around, it featured tons of almost mission critical enhancements, and about 10% of browsers actually took advantage of it, so you had a bit of double coding going on: css3 code for newer browsers, same / similar / lack of design feature in older browsers. Since then, support has gone to more like 95% or so with new versions of firefox, chrome, safari, IE that are all css3 compliant.
I for one, won't miss flash player in the slightest. I've never had anything crash on me so much & I used to play Duke Nukem on win 95.
AC, I've got a rule for this, and it seems to have worked fine so far... In the workplace, I try and treat everybody I meet with a clean slate, not everybody is going to like me, and me them, but the goal is to go home in the evening. I have no problem talking to people in person or on the phone, but the moment somebody steps out of line... is rude, a liar (probably chronic), says something / does something else, etc... I make a mental note, have a quick meeting with management to establish that there is an issue, and switch that person over to text only communication, if they call me, I'll talk to them, but ask that they reiterate everything in a ticket and I never commit anything verbally to those people. I've met too many of these types of people in corporate, the question I've always wondered is this how they choose to act, or do they not know any better?
Also when you say boss & India, it's time to... not put in your 2 weeks, not walk out... RUN OUT OF THAT HOLE. I wouldn't hire somebody from India to work under me, the language barrier alone would make it not worth it.
Actually I have, a senior manager will typically accept recommendations from technical staff unless that person themselves is technical and feels confident that they can estimate the skill of the candidate. So there's a chance, but it's pretty slim that senior management would sway the techies decision on a candidate.
so let's think about this...
We started out hunting/gathering moved into farming moved into industry into tech. I'm willing to bet that people have the exact same fears when something like the cotton picker machine came out. But the truth is, we'll just move on to something else. Some people support the infrastructure, but we have plenty of jobs outside of the factory, automating construction would cost far more than hiring people for example, and the infrastructure stateside isn't in the best of shape. And let's picture the money flow, that's what's most concerning to me because the guy who owns the robots is making all the money off those robots and has no motivation to put it back into the economy through say wages. That's more or less what happened during the great depression and it took a world war to break out of that. Hopefully we catch out pitfalls as a society before we drop into them.
AC, i didn't take the promo cause I'd be directly under the owner, whom I never had nice things to say about. However, what I consider is that it opens up the door for other management jobs at other companies, so I would've picked up 1-2 years of experience, told her to f' off and went off to make bank elsewhere. Also, people deal with pencil pushing in different ways, for all you know, your boss goes home and uses all that dough to snort coke off a hooker's ass or something :)
If you don't think you can deal with boredom... IT can be pretty boring in general when stuff isn't breaking, so in self-reflection I don't think the level of intensity would've been that different.
The simple solution here is to have the senior manager in the room WHILE he's interviewing the candidate if that was the case. I guess the guy would have to clarify his question to know for sure. It's possible they'll just take his word for it and hire whoever he recommends, especially if sr. management is not involved in the interview process themselves.