Not yet, however I own all my cars, I own my house outright and my bills in Oklahoma (very inexpensive to live here) are around $800/mo. I'd be willing to bet I could make it work with kids.
BTW my mother made 11K/year in the late 80's early 90's in KC, MO and we survived just fine, poor as shit but fine.
I'm not saying you can't. Everything is definitively possible, but I'd say when you have kids, you can't help it, you want the best for them. Of course you can't pay the best...
I've sorked for 4 companies so far. Two were crap, one was probably too big and inhuman and the last one is (at last) good. I'm making $100k/year and I enjoy going to work on the morning. (Well, there is some mornings... but oh well, 100% fun is no fun anymore;-)
I guess my point is to demonstrate that there is such companies out there. That's all, just have to look for it - If there is one next to where you live - or start one as you mentionned.
My first job was at Arthur Andersen and I've worked at 4 or 5 (memory?) companies since then. Some private, govt and consulting. I've found one thing in common at all places. You plan together, you implement alone. I've yet to find a keyboard where two people can type at the same time in the same program.
We would obviously have some core hours 10-12 or 11-1 for short meetings and we would schedule any large ones. Where I work now we never meet (bad) but my parent company is the opposite, ALL they do is have meetings (bad). I'm looking for a middle ground.
too many meetings is as bad as too few. The middle ground is definitely the best, as everything else. I remember this famous doctor (I just don't remember who) who had his family write on his grave: "Everything is toxic. Nothing is toxic. It just depends how much you take."
OTOH, of course, you implement alone. But I can't hardly see how you can implement module A without having at hand the guy that implements module B from time to time...
There is a difference. Its the attitude. I guess you've never worked at a place that isn't axe to the grindstone. Until you've worked someplace like what I'm describing it's difficult to describe the difference in workers morale, the amount of work that gets completed and the ability to make deadlines without stress.
I guess we just differ in what we call boss. The ones you call "boss" I call "assholes". And the one you call "coworker that can fire you" I call "boss"...
OTOH though, I don't think you can define yourself as a coworker if you have the righ to fire anyone. That won't just work... If you have the power, you have the respect/fear/fake smiles associated with it. Don't make this mistake!
So you have never experienced it. I hope your cynicism evaporates over time.
If you think an engineering team can build anything without leader (or anyone that gives specific tasks - whatever you call it) and a QA, and... then just go and try it. But I'm warning you, this is typically the companies that release an excellent/revolutionary/awsome product and can't make one cent out of it.
I was not trying to criticise your whole idea, just the "peace and love" part. That's what I detected in your first post...
That won't work IMO, and you need some kind of hierarchy/authority, even if the guys up in the hierarchy are not necessarily assholes!
No offense but you're exactly the person I would avoid hiring.
None taken. That's to bad because I'm working in a company very close to what you describe (except the "peace and love" part) and really enjoy it! I'm way more productive and ready to invest myself than in my last "dotcom" where everything was threat or worse.
I'm certainly working in the best engineering team I've seen so far (I'm not including me in this judgement;-) and they do a great job,... because thay have strong directives!
No offense either, I like your idea very much, and I was just trying to help you out with my $.02 advices, which are worth probably not more that.02...
I'd rather make 24K/year and be my own boss than make 100k/year and have to put up with bullshit everyday.
You certainly don't have kids or care to have any. 24k/year would never be enough if you care for them.
There is something to be said for Quality of Life.
That is true.
My future co-workers will be able to set their own schedules (with the exception of support).
If you're looking for a bunch of geeks that walk and code around, that's fine. If you're looking for a team, there should be some common hours where everyone has to be there - would it be only for meetings.
There's nothing more irritating than coming there in the morning and seeing your mailbox empty when you expected something from a coworker and you don't know what state it's in...
Don't forget also that rules and standards are what makes a bunch of people a team.
I'm not going to be the boss
??!!?
I'm going to be a co-worker (that can fire people)
Ah, ok, you're going to be the boss.
As long as my teams are achieving their goals persuant to the companies goals I don't care if they work 20 hours a week. Just get the shit done and go live your life.
Again, a team needs communication and that is not something that comes naturally if you don't do anything to enforce it (even gently). At least in the companies I've worked for.
I am also going to require 16 hours of community service a month (2 paid days off to do something the co-workers care about). There was nothing worse at my first job than them riding your ass about not doing shit in the community but turning around and making you work 80+ hours a week and work on weekends.
I don't think the author meant anything in a technical way. The minitel is a huge piece of crap!
The point is that 20 years ago, every french people or so had a terminal in his own house where he could search for a phone number, order a pizza, buy tickets (movie, plane...), see the weather forecast and all the crap.
In this sense is really was a proto-web (rather than a proto-internet).
If they are dogs, you can add one more obstacle: Just put lamp post on the side of the field and the dogs that stop to pee are the winners since they really implement the AI of a dog!!!!
Well, you see, Java syntax is based off of C syntax (at least for most of it) and the only difference in this case is that there is a boolean type in Java. So if(foo="bar") is not valid since it's a String.
If you remove an operator (here assignmnt) from the list of valid operators in boolean expression (I think you would like that also for while, for....), the question is then where to stop? Why banning this one and not another one ?
That is no true. See, I don't recall the formula exactly but I know that the sum of an infinite number of strictly positive numbers can be finite.
For example, let's take the rabbit and the turtle. The turtle goes slower but gets some advance. It'll take the rabbit n seconds to reach the starting point of the turtle. During this time the turtle has moved. So it'll take the rabbit some more seconds to reach the point where the turtle was at second n. But the turtle has moved....
You can repeat that indefinitely to compute how much time the rabbit will need to reach the turtle but it will not be an infinite time.
Another example would be that the surface of the (1/x) curve is finite even though the curve is not.
I'm afraid that you have not experienced French 'culture' to its fullest extent.
It's really sad to hear crap like that. Do you mean by going a week to France as a tourist you did experience French culture in its fullest extent? You're just sickening.
The French have carry a strong resentment of the US and its citizens. It's so pervasive in their culture that US tourists expect to be treated with rudeness and discourtesy.
It just feels wrong, specially since you take a French Canadian as an example in your post. The same thing is felt by all tourists, not only US. Once again, stop thinking as yourself as the center of the world. There are almost 6 billion people out there that are not americans. You sound like a French !!!;-)
Of course, the response of the ignorant is that the French are simply intolerant of American tourists who simply assume that everyone speaks English. This is simply untrue.
The French are simply arrogant bigots. Your French could be linguistically perfect, and you will be treated like trash, especially if you look like you are from somewhere other than France.
The french reaction is basically closer to shyness than anything else. You'll find out that the average French citizen speak an awfull english, and is aware of it. What is behind the perceived arrogance is very often an unwillingness to reveal their "weakness" to a stranger / unknown people.
The Parisians are the worst, believing that even the non-Parisians are second-class citizens.
Sure. NYC people think only good of Californians girls and Californians think only good things about East coast people. You're damn right, the parisians are the only people on earth to have this behavior (You know, friendly hating their neighbors). Look around dude!
I was vacationing in Paris, watching the news. On came a story about the separatist movement in Quebec. The news was playing back the story from a French-Canadian news show, and was subtitling it! This would be analagous to England subtitling CNN...
You'll probably find that very difficult to believe, but the Canadian accent is _very_ disturbing to a french listener, sometimes to a point where it's difficult to understand.
That is perhaps due to the fact that far less people speak french than english and so French people are less used to hear different accents.
I once heard an interview of a farmer from a very rural part of France and I was glad it was subtitled.
putting assignments in if statements in Java gives you a compile error
That is not true, you can put any assigmnent (actually any expression, the assignment being one of these) in a if. As long as it resoves into a boolean.
I already have a digital Camera and ripped all my CDs. All that resides on a 80Gig RAID-1 Array on a server in my garage. I can stream anything to anywhere in my house.
I build an HTPC in my living room to access my MP3s/pictures/internet and everything is fine.
The only thing is I can't store my DVDs and my digital video camera movies in there, it just takes too much space.
So I'm waiting for one thing: 1TB-RW drive. CD=0.7GB, DVD=4.5GB, XYD will be 40GB and ZD will be 1/2 TB. Then I have all my data (songs+movies+pics+mails+...) on ONE disc I carry around and on another one in my bank vault.
My point is different and maybe I didn't express it very well in my parent post.
My point is that SCO is suing IBM. We'll know if they are right sooner or later (and don't get me wrong, I don't think they are). If we let justice do its job, they are going to get their face slapped pretty soon (since IBM is counter-suing) and that will be enough punishment.
In the meantime, DDOSing their website is a puerile answer and a stupid thing to do. If that is what you call "while the adults are talking" then you suck too, but I hope that is not what you meant.
Don't worry about my Linux skills, I installed my first distro in 94 and I've learned to love and use it since then. Thanks for your concern though.
RV9 and WMV9 have the most visible tendency to smooth out details
I don't know where he got that (the end of the matrix page) but all the screenshots shows the opposite for WMV9: it shows a lot more details than *ALL* the others codecs.
If your screenshots shows the opposite of what you say, then I just don't know what to believe! Don't show them!
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This just proves one thing. The linux enthusiasts are just a bunch of nerds with no respect for laws, freedom of speech or anything else.
It just removes some credit to the free software community and points out it's not mature yet.
If you plan to go to France, you'll be surprised to see that this tax is already there and a lot more expensive :.50Euros per CD. So get your CDs some place else!
By having a monopoly they have an obligation of fairness. That said, thay are not allowed to select their ads on any other argument than any other public service would.
They may not have monopoly of advertisement but they have monopoly ot TV. TV should then be considered as a public service offered by them. That is not the case.
This is just plain stupid. I *really* don't hink that economic superiority is the reason why these people hates the US...
Does black africans hates the US? No. Does middle east people hates the US? Yes.
Why is that? Don't you think the US foreign policy of monkeying with different governments in Afghanistan has nothing to do with it? The wole russia-afghanistan war wouldn't have existed without the US support to Afghans people. So it is fair to say that a *lot* of afghans died because of the US government (like a lot of vietnam people died because of russia).
Now don't get me wrong, I don't say that the US shoudn't have supported afghan people at this time, but the side effect of this (and plenty of other things like US helping talibans to take power) is the main reason why terrorism existed in the first place.
Do these people hate japan (and japanses) ? No, because the Japanese government mind its own business.
That's the point. If you want to be intrusive, face the consequences.
The main thing is the MPEG consortium has shown a good consistency with their standards in the past already. They are a "serious" organization. Not mentioning that their standard is pretty much frozen so far and is reaching a good acceptance already.
Ogg is just this brand new thing that no one has ever heard of (but geeks like us). Who wants to bet on that for the next 10 years or so, just to save some kbps?
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Not yet, however I own all my cars, I own my house outright and my bills in Oklahoma (very inexpensive to live here) are around $800/mo. I'd be willing to bet I could make it work with kids.
;-)
... then just go and try it. But I'm warning you, this is typically the companies that release an excellent/revolutionary/awsome product and can't make one cent out of it.
;-) and they do a great job, ... because thay have strong directives!
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BTW my mother made 11K/year in the late 80's early 90's in KC, MO and we survived just fine, poor as shit but fine.
I'm not saying you can't. Everything is definitively possible, but I'd say when you have kids, you can't help it, you want the best for them. Of course you can't pay the best...
I've sorked for 4 companies so far. Two were crap, one was probably too big and inhuman and the last one is (at last) good. I'm making $100k/year and I enjoy going to work on the morning. (Well, there is some mornings... but oh well, 100% fun is no fun anymore
I guess my point is to demonstrate that there is such companies out there. That's all, just have to look for it - If there is one next to where you live - or start one as you mentionned.
My first job was at Arthur Andersen and I've worked at 4 or 5 (memory?) companies since then. Some private, govt and consulting. I've found one thing in common at all places. You plan together, you implement alone. I've yet to find a keyboard where two people can type at the same time in the same program.
We would obviously have some core hours 10-12 or 11-1 for short meetings and we would schedule any large ones. Where I work now we never meet (bad) but my parent company is the opposite, ALL they do is have meetings (bad). I'm looking for a middle ground.
too many meetings is as bad as too few. The middle ground is definitely the best, as everything else. I remember this famous doctor (I just don't remember who) who had his family write on his grave: "Everything is toxic. Nothing is toxic. It just depends how much you take."
OTOH, of course, you implement alone. But I can't hardly see how you can implement module A without having at hand the guy that implements module B from time to time...
There is a difference. Its the attitude. I guess you've never worked at a place that isn't axe to the grindstone. Until you've worked someplace like what I'm describing it's difficult to describe the difference in workers morale, the amount of work that gets completed and the ability to make deadlines without stress.
I guess we just differ in what we call boss. The ones you call "boss" I call "assholes". And the one you call "coworker that can fire you" I call "boss"...
OTOH though, I don't think you can define yourself as a coworker if you have the righ to fire anyone. That won't just work... If you have the power, you have the respect/fear/fake smiles associated with it. Don't make this mistake!
So you have never experienced it. I hope your cynicism evaporates over time.
If you think an engineering team can build anything without leader (or anyone that gives specific tasks - whatever you call it) and a QA, and
I was not trying to criticise your whole idea, just the "peace and love" part. That's what I detected in your first post...
That won't work IMO, and you need some kind of hierarchy/authority, even if the guys up in the hierarchy are not necessarily assholes!
No offense but you're exactly the person I would avoid hiring.
None taken. That's to bad because I'm working in a company very close to what you describe (except the "peace and love" part) and really enjoy it! I'm way more productive and ready to invest myself than in my last "dotcom" where everything was threat or worse.
I'm certainly working in the best engineering team I've seen so far (I'm not including me in this judgement
No offense either, I like your idea very much, and I was just trying to help you out with my $.02 advices, which are worth probably not more that
I'd rather make 24K/year and be my own boss than make 100k/year and have to put up with bullshit everyday.
You certainly don't have kids or care to have any. 24k/year would never be enough if you care for them.
There is something to be said for Quality of Life.
That is true.
My future co-workers will be able to set their own schedules (with the exception of support).
If you're looking for a bunch of geeks that walk and code around, that's fine. If you're looking for a team, there should be some common hours where everyone has to be there - would it be only for meetings.
There's nothing more irritating than coming there in the morning and seeing your mailbox empty when you expected something from a coworker and you don't know what state it's in...
Don't forget also that rules and standards are what makes a bunch of people a team.
I'm not going to be the boss
??!!?
I'm going to be a co-worker (that can fire people)
Ah, ok, you're going to be the boss.
As long as my teams are achieving their goals persuant to the companies goals I don't care if they work 20 hours a week. Just get the shit done and go live your life.
Again, a team needs communication and that is not something that comes naturally if you don't do anything to enforce it (even gently). At least in the companies I've worked for.
I am also going to require 16 hours of community service a month (2 paid days off to do something the co-workers care about). There was nothing worse at my first job than them riding your ass about not doing shit in the community but turning around and making you work 80+ hours a week and work on weekends.
That's good.
Spent a lot of time in NYC, which has one of the "best" public transportation systems in the world.
You've obviously not spend a lot of time outside the US... Paris, London and Venice beats that by a long run!
What would that buy them? They have absolutely no interest in doing such a thing... Already too many formats out there!
Ask yourself the question in another way:
Would you put your head in your microwave, for just a second? That's what happend to your brain after 3 hours of a phone call.
I don't think the author meant anything in a technical way. The minitel is a huge piece of crap!
...), see the weather forecast and all the crap.
The point is that 20 years ago, every french people or so had a terminal in his own house where he could search for a phone number, order a pizza, buy tickets (movie, plane
In this sense is really was a proto-web (rather than a proto-internet).
If they are dogs, you can add one more obstacle: Just put lamp post on the side of the field and the dogs that stop to pee are the winners since they really implement the AI of a dog!!!!
ok, I have to give up on this one. If the probability is a constant you'll get it an infinite number of times....
ok, thanks, I forgot about this meaning of the word...
Well, you see, Java syntax is based off of C syntax (at least for most of it) and the only difference in this case is that there is a boolean type in Java. So if(foo="bar") is not valid since it's a String.
....), the question is then where to stop? Why banning this one and not another one ?
If you remove an operator (here assignmnt) from the list of valid operators in boolean expression (I think you would like that also for while, for
That is no true. See, I don't recall the formula exactly but I know that the sum of an infinite number of strictly positive numbers can be finite.
For example, let's take the rabbit and the turtle. The turtle goes slower but gets some advance. It'll take the rabbit n seconds to reach the starting point of the turtle. During this time the turtle has moved. So it'll take the rabbit some more seconds to reach the point where the turtle was at second n. But the turtle has moved....
You can repeat that indefinitely to compute how much time the rabbit will need to reach the turtle but it will not be an infinite time.
Another example would be that the surface of the (1/x) curve is finite even though the curve is not.
I'm afraid that you have not experienced French 'culture' to its fullest extent.
;-)
It's really sad to hear crap like that. Do you mean by going a week to France as a tourist you did experience French culture in its fullest extent? You're just sickening.
The French have carry a strong resentment of the US and its citizens. It's so pervasive in their culture that US tourists expect to be treated with rudeness and discourtesy.
It just feels wrong, specially since you take a French Canadian as an example in your post. The same thing is felt by all tourists, not only US. Once again, stop thinking as yourself as the center of the world. There are almost 6 billion people out there that are not americans. You sound like a French !!!
Of course, the response of the ignorant is that the French are simply intolerant of American tourists who simply assume that everyone speaks English. This is simply untrue.
The French are simply arrogant bigots. Your French could be linguistically perfect, and you will be treated like trash, especially if you look like you are from somewhere other than France.
The french reaction is basically closer to shyness than anything else. You'll find out that the average French citizen speak an awfull english, and is aware of it. What is behind the perceived arrogance is very often an unwillingness to reveal their "weakness" to a stranger / unknown people.
The Parisians are the worst, believing that even the non-Parisians are second-class citizens.
Sure. NYC people think only good of Californians girls and Californians think only good things about East coast people. You're damn right, the parisians are the only people on earth to have this behavior (You know, friendly hating their neighbors). Look around dude!
I was vacationing in Paris, watching the news. On came a story about the separatist movement in Quebec. The news was playing back the story from a French-Canadian news show, and was subtitling it! This would be analagous to England subtitling CNN...
You'll probably find that very difficult to believe, but the Canadian accent is _very_ disturbing to a french listener, sometimes to a point where it's difficult to understand.
That is perhaps due to the fact that far less people speak french than english and so French people are less used to hear different accents.
I once heard an interview of a farmer from a very rural part of France and I was glad it was subtitled.
Heck, FRANCE , the word itself, means FREE , as free from slavery.
Hmmm, I didn't know that.
I thought FRANCE came from the FRANC people. And Franc means honest in French, not free.
But I am not an ethymologist. I'll leave that to you if you can elaborate
That is not true, you can put any assigmnent (actually any expression, the assignment being one of these) in a if. As long as it resoves into a boolean.
For example, the following code is valid:
I want!!!
I already have a digital Camera and ripped all my CDs. All that resides on a 80Gig RAID-1 Array on a server in my garage. I can stream anything to anywhere in my house.
I build an HTPC in my living room to access my MP3s/pictures/internet and everything is fine.
The only thing is I can't store my DVDs and my digital video camera movies in there, it just takes too much space.
So I'm waiting for one thing: 1TB-RW drive. CD=0.7GB, DVD=4.5GB, XYD will be 40GB and ZD will be 1/2 TB. Then I have all my data (songs+movies+pics+mails+...) on ONE disc I carry around and on another one in my bank vault.
That's all I need and all I'm waiting for.
I agree to that, but my point is that if your pictures doesn't follow your points, why showing them?
All over I did see this comment "The image doesn't do justice to the codec": Then don't show it or show a better one!
Actually, the success of any app/infrastructure is due in majority to the synchronization of both.
Good Infrastructure + No Apps = Failure
No Infrastructure + Apps = Failure
Infrasctucture + Apps = Success.
If there is no app, there is no money to sustain the infrastructure and everything fails pretty quickly.
My point is different and maybe I didn't express it very well in my parent post.
My point is that SCO is suing IBM. We'll know if they are right sooner or later (and don't get me wrong, I don't think they are). If we let justice do its job, they are going to get their face slapped pretty soon (since IBM is counter-suing) and that will be enough punishment.
In the meantime, DDOSing their website is a puerile answer and a stupid thing to do. If that is what you call "while the adults are talking" then you suck too, but I hope that is not what you meant.
Don't worry about my Linux skills, I installed my first distro in 94 and I've learned to love and use it since then. Thanks for your concern though.
This test is amazing:
RV9 and WMV9 have the most visible tendency to smooth out details
I don't know where he got that (the end of the matrix page) but all the screenshots shows the opposite for WMV9: it shows a lot more details than *ALL* the others codecs.
If your screenshots shows the opposite of what you say, then I just don't know what to believe! Don't show them!
This just proves one thing. The linux enthusiasts are just a bunch of nerds with no respect for laws, freedom of speech or anything else.
It just removes some credit to the free software community and points out it's not mature yet.
What a pity, but we already knew it.
5 miles in my case (France)
.50Euros per CD. So get your CDs some place else!
If you plan to go to France, you'll be surprised to see that this tax is already there and a lot more expensive :
By having a monopoly they have an obligation of fairness. That said, thay are not allowed to select their ads on any other argument than any other public service would.
They may not have monopoly of advertisement but they have monopoly ot TV. TV should then be considered as a public service offered by them. That is not the case.
This is just plain stupid. I *really* don't hink that economic superiority is the reason why these people hates the US...
Does black africans hates the US? No.
Does middle east people hates the US? Yes.
Why is that? Don't you think the US foreign policy of monkeying with different governments in Afghanistan has nothing to do with it? The wole russia-afghanistan war wouldn't have existed without the US support to Afghans people. So it is fair to say that a *lot* of afghans died because of the US government (like a lot of vietnam people died because of russia).
Now don't get me wrong, I don't say that the US shoudn't have supported afghan people at this time, but the side effect of this (and plenty of other things like US helping talibans to take power) is the main reason why terrorism existed in the first place.
Do these people hate japan (and japanses) ? No, because the Japanese government mind its own business.
That's the point. If you want to be intrusive, face the consequences.
Same thing here. My cable provider sucks and doesn't provide Internet, Modem is not an option and the dish... well let's say I have no choice...
That is weird for a country that have such strong anti-trust laws to enforce local monopolies like that...
Life sucks
The main thing is the MPEG consortium has shown a good consistency with their standards in the past already. They are a "serious" organization. Not mentioning that their standard is pretty much frozen so far and is reaching a good acceptance already.
Ogg is just this brand new thing that no one has ever heard of (but geeks like us). Who wants to bet on that for the next 10 years or so, just to save some kbps?