I have two of the HHK2 USB, one for home, one for work.
Works like a charm and they're not that expensive. The only upgrade would be if they did a buckling spring version but that's probably too much to hope for.
What the hell are you doing choosing ERP software for your company?
I'm in a similar position, my current employer is evaluating ERP packages and then I'll get told which one we're going to. We currently run BPCS on AS/400 (iSeries). We're probably going to SAP on AIX using DB/2.
As a dev I don't get to make business decisions. I get to do the tech stuff my employer deems suitable.
As for this Windows/Unix/iSeries question, it should not be yours to make. Your job is to make what they buy work reliably. If can't or don't want to do the job then find another one pronto.
It's wasn't meant to be bragging although yes I can see how that comes across. I wanted to point out that my points weren't some idle pontification but rather the sum of my experiences.
By the way it was 160 on a bke, I never raced cars at more than about 110.
What I tried to point out was my hatred of people who wish to impose 'safe' things on me. If things are dangerous there's a group of people who wish to make it safe and if they can't make it safe they wish to ban it! At no point in my post did I say I would force anyone else to do something dangerous, in fact towards the end I went out my way to point this out.
My points to evolution were not meant as a mandatory test, which it already is, but rather an aside as to how we are ignoring evolution, personally I do not feel this is a wise choice given how dependent we are on nature. Natural events prove just how thin a vener civilisation is.
Of course direct contamination is not a good idea, interestingly enough there's now a conjecture that people immune to the plague are also immune to HIV?
F1 in 67-68 was I believe it's most lethal age and yet most people point to this as an era in which F1 was at it's best. They stayed alive in general because they were very good and nothing broke. Jack Brabham commented that if they got a hot head in F1 more than likely nature would take it's course. Personally, my hero was Jim Clark. Dies in '68 at Hockenheim in an F2 race. Tyre failure is generally seen as the cause.
Please stop capitlising stuff I don't like being shouted at! Typing big letters doesn't make your point any better in fact rather the oppisite.
If you weant to see trees at the edge of the road take a look at rallying or indeed Nascar where they place a solid concrete wall at the edge of the road. If 67-68 was the killing years for F1 look up the GroupB cars of the early 80s in rallying.
I hadn't heard that story about Nuvolari. The question I think your asking is should we deliberately allow danger in motor racing that we couild remove? My answer is an un-qualified yes. Nobody in racing is forced to race, everybody chooses it. Why is Eau Rouge and 130R praised by drivers? Because it still a test of skill with consequences. After Ratzenburg and Senna died there was a huge number of changes made to circuits in the name of safety, Coulthard and Villneuve have come out and publicly stated that safety has gone to far. Think about Villneuve with his loss coming out and saything this.
If you like racing and you don't want to die that's fine. I have the same criteria. The simple solution is to slow down, not destroy the challenge for others.
After I wrecked at Paddock Hill Bend and modified my leg I found the corner more of a challenge than before. Did I ask they change the curcuit because I'd hurt myself? No, why should another driver be denied the challenge because I'd failed? Eventually, I was able to take the corner at the same speed as before but it took about 9 months and many laps to achieve it.
I've driven the Norshclife and it was like going to mecca, a circuit that still maims and kills, unchanged since Lauda in '76. Do you wish to close it down or ban me from using it? How about 'Andrea Doria' a wreck that routinelly kills divers, want to put it off limits? Racing yachts around the world? The high himalaya? Running with scissors?
It's not a problem to me if you want a nice safe life. Fate may have something else planned for you, but you want to minimise risk as far a possible for yourself. That's fine, but what gives you the right to decide for me what is acceptable risk?
Am I insane, no. Do I have a love of life, yes. Death is part of life to run from death at every oppurtunity is to deny living.
The whole idea of racing is there's meant to be a penalty for getting it wrong. I hate it when people talk of making racing safe or for that matter anything safe. How are young people meant to find an outlet for their natural agression when we board up all the windows? How is natural selection meant to take care of the un-lucky or un-skilled? Why is death/injury seen as a tragedy rather than a natural progession?
In my youth, I'm now confirmed tog, I raced cars, rode fast, 160mph, bikes on public roads, scuba dived well below the safe limits 60m+++, rock climed, whitewater kayaked, played rugby, Ju Jitsu etc etc etc I was lucky not to end up in a coffin like a number of my friends, I came damn close more than once. But I was over 14 and had a clear understanding of the risks and consequences.
The question to answer is what would I have done to feed my adrenaline habit if I had not had those outlets?
An extreme example of this is Formula1. The safer they made it the worse the drivers beghaviour became. Senna and Schumacher both forced other drivers off the track at 150mph+. If they still raced at the Norschcliffe you wouldn't see them survive long if they played those games.
I'm still liable to exceed the speed limit, I still climb and sail. But now I no longer need the rush to feel alive, although I'm not completely cured.
My neck, shoulders, lower back and knees are pretty all in poor shape and hurt when the weather turns cold thanks mostly to rugby and scuba. My left leg has been shortened by about an inch due to thinking paddock hill bend was flat, it mostly surely is not.
An extreme example of this is Formula1. The safer they made it the worse the drivers behaviour became. Senna and Schumacher both forced other drivers off the track at 150mph+. If they still raced at the Norschcliffe you wouldn't see them survive long if they played those games.
I have a body not so much lived in as vandalised. But my body was given to me by my parents and when I turned 14 they told me it was mine to do with as I saw fit. I don't tell you how to treat your body, I don't impose on others and I'll be damned if I 'm going to let you impose on me!
I wonder if the definitive book has been written yet on this?
Basically, it sounds like you're smart enough to read code but would like to know the why not the how. You don't want to learn all about design/editing/debugging but rather why is there a iteration used here.
Programming is abstractions, prgrammers take reality and then model that within the computer. The more types of abstractions available to a programmer the closer he can model reality. The easier the abstraction can be used the more likely a programmer will use it.
So your task would be to go and learn about abstractions and then learn how to recognise them when they're being used! Good luck! As an example Object Orientation is an abstraction, iteration is an abstraction, type systems are abstractions. These abstractions are at such a level as to provide the programmmer with many chances/ways to use them. Also one abstraction can be used within another.
You would probably want to look up some of the Open MIT coursework. Most CS books will be written in such a way as to gurantee the reader rarely understands the authors intent. The coursework stuff usually gives you a chance to grasp the ideas without having to know the language.
Personally I think you're nuts, if you want to become a programmer then become a programmer. If you want to read code then read code. Rather like an author and a critic the two jobs are far apart and require differing skills. Programmers are artisans slowing being brought kicking and screaming into the world of mass production.
If somebody has a good record and is seen to be trying most people will give them the benefit of the doubt on most things.
The current POTUS is a POS, always has been always will be. The difference is that more and more Americans are now willing to say this in public.
Personally, I blame the US public, I think they rcvd the goverment they deserved. I find it hard to have any remorse for a country whose people long ago gave up on each other and self reliance.
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I thought it was "OK we'll let her drive..."
I am running, I am running and dodging, I am runnning, dodging and ducking... it ain't easy in this nomex suit.
I have two of the HHK2 USB, one for home, one for work.
Works like a charm and they're not that expensive. The only upgrade would be if they did a buckling spring version but that's probably too much to hope for.
What the hell are you doing choosing ERP software for your company?
I'm in a similar position, my current employer is evaluating ERP packages and then I'll get told which one we're going to. We currently run BPCS on AS/400 (iSeries). We're probably going to SAP on AIX using DB/2.
As a dev I don't get to make business decisions. I get to do the tech stuff my employer deems suitable.
As for this Windows/Unix/iSeries question, it should not be yours to make. Your job is to make what they buy work reliably. If can't or don't want to do the job then find another one pronto.
There's an easily implementable solution, repeal the murder laws. Murder is no longer a crime.
If you really want to have some fun mandate that everybody must carry a serviceable firearm at all times.
Prefer PG Tips myself.
Careful now...
STFW
ERP
SAP released there DB under an open source licesnse and MySQL picked up the good bits? SAP DB
Bad employee != Bad programmer
Sorry about your inferority complex :-)
It's wasn't meant to be bragging although yes I can see how that comes across. I wanted to point out that my points weren't some idle pontification but rather the sum of my experiences.
By the way it was 160 on a bke, I never raced cars at more than about 110.
What I tried to point out was my hatred of people who wish to impose 'safe' things on me. If things are dangerous there's a group of people who wish to make it safe and if they can't make it safe they wish to ban it! At no point in my post did I say I would force anyone else to do something dangerous, in fact towards the end I went out my way to point this out.
My points to evolution were not meant as a mandatory test, which it already is, but rather an aside as to how we are ignoring evolution, personally I do not feel this is a wise choice given how dependent we are on nature. Natural events prove just how thin a vener civilisation is.
Of course direct contamination is not a good idea, interestingly enough there's now a conjecture that people immune to the plague are also immune to HIV?
F1 in 67-68 was I believe it's most lethal age and yet most people point to this as an era in which F1 was at it's best. They stayed alive in general because they were very good and nothing broke. Jack Brabham commented that if they got a hot head in F1 more than likely nature would take it's course. Personally, my hero was Jim Clark. Dies in '68 at Hockenheim in an F2 race. Tyre failure is generally seen as the cause.
Please stop capitlising stuff I don't like being shouted at! Typing big letters doesn't make your point any better in fact rather the oppisite.
If you weant to see trees at the edge of the road take a look at rallying or indeed Nascar where they place a solid concrete wall at the edge of the road. If 67-68 was the killing years for F1 look up the GroupB cars of the early 80s in rallying.
I hadn't heard that story about Nuvolari. The question I think your asking is should we deliberately allow danger in motor racing that we couild remove? My answer is an un-qualified yes. Nobody in racing is forced to race, everybody chooses it. Why is Eau Rouge and 130R praised by drivers? Because it still a test of skill with consequences. After Ratzenburg and Senna died there was a huge number of changes made to circuits in the name of safety, Coulthard and Villneuve have come out and publicly stated that safety has gone to far. Think about Villneuve with his loss coming out and saything this.
If you like racing and you don't want to die that's fine. I have the same criteria. The simple solution is to slow down, not destroy the challenge for others.
After I wrecked at Paddock Hill Bend and modified my leg I found the corner more of a challenge than before. Did I ask they change the curcuit because I'd hurt myself? No, why should another driver be denied the challenge because I'd failed? Eventually, I was able to take the corner at the same speed as before but it took about 9 months and many laps to achieve it.
I've driven the Norshclife and it was like going to mecca, a circuit that still maims and kills, unchanged since Lauda in '76. Do you wish to close it down or ban me from using it? How about 'Andrea Doria' a wreck that routinelly kills divers, want to put it off limits? Racing yachts around the world? The high himalaya? Running with scissors?
It's not a problem to me if you want a nice safe life. Fate may have something else planned for you, but you want to minimise risk as far a possible for yourself. That's fine, but what gives you the right to decide for me what is acceptable risk?
Am I insane, no. Do I have a love of life, yes. Death is part of life to run from death at every oppurtunity is to deny living.
The whole idea of racing is there's meant to be a penalty for getting it wrong. I hate it when people talk of making racing safe or for that matter anything safe. How are young people meant to find an outlet for their natural agression when we board up all the windows? How is natural selection meant to take care of the un-lucky or un-skilled? Why is death/injury seen as a tragedy rather than a natural progession?
In my youth, I'm now confirmed tog, I raced cars, rode fast, 160mph, bikes on public roads, scuba dived well below the safe limits 60m+++, rock climed, whitewater kayaked, played rugby, Ju Jitsu etc etc etc I was lucky not to end up in a coffin like a number of my friends, I came damn close more than once. But I was over 14 and had a clear understanding of the risks and consequences.
The question to answer is what would I have done to feed my adrenaline habit if I had not had those outlets?
An extreme example of this is Formula1. The safer they made it the worse the drivers beghaviour became. Senna and Schumacher both forced other drivers off the track at 150mph+. If they still raced at the Norschcliffe you wouldn't see them survive long if they played those games.
I'm still liable to exceed the speed limit, I still climb and sail. But now I no longer need the rush to feel alive, although I'm not completely cured.
My neck, shoulders, lower back and knees are pretty all in poor shape and hurt when the weather turns cold thanks mostly to rugby and scuba. My left leg has been shortened by about an inch due to thinking paddock hill bend was flat, it mostly surely is not.
An extreme example of this is Formula1. The safer they made it the worse the drivers behaviour became. Senna and Schumacher both forced other drivers off the track at 150mph+. If they still raced at the Norschcliffe you wouldn't see them survive long if they played those games.
I have a body not so much lived in as vandalised. But my body was given to me by my parents and when I turned 14 they told me it was mine to do with as I saw fit. I don't tell you how to treat your body, I don't impose on others and I'll be damned if I 'm going to let you impose on me!
So you want to work at a large company, in a boring job that fails to make use of your talents?
WAKE UP!
So where are Oracles roots?
My understanding was they came out of the same Berkeley roots?
Back in the day Burroughs had a 4gl called LINC, 'Language Interface Network Compiler'. Most devs substituted 'Laugh I Nearly Cried'.
Prehaps MS meant 'Laugh I Never Queried' or 'Laugh I Nearly Quit'
I thnk I just split my sides laughing.
Sounds like you need to go watch Fox News.
CNN anti Bush, that's a good one.
As long as a couple of other million people are as well.
No use fixing symptoms go after the root cause.
This was going to be my answer.
Organized Labour = Paying for tyrant who tells you to stop work.
I lived through the 70s & 80s in the UK. Unions help nobdy but those elected to an office within the union.
I'd rather join the bloody masons than a union and I consider the masons scum.
I wonder if the definitive book has been written yet on this?
Basically, it sounds like you're smart enough to read code but would like to know the why not the how. You don't want to learn all about design/editing/debugging but rather why is there a iteration used here.
Programming is abstractions, prgrammers take reality and then model that within the computer. The more types of abstractions available to a programmer the closer he can model reality. The easier the abstraction can be used the more likely a programmer will use it.
So your task would be to go and learn about abstractions and then learn how to recognise them when they're being used! Good luck! As an example Object Orientation is an abstraction, iteration is an abstraction, type systems are abstractions. These abstractions are at such a level as to provide the programmmer with many chances/ways to use them. Also one abstraction can be used within another.
You would probably want to look up some of the Open MIT coursework. Most CS books will be written in such a way as to gurantee the reader rarely understands the authors intent. The coursework stuff usually gives you a chance to grasp the ideas without having to know the language.
Personally I think you're nuts, if you want to become a programmer then become a programmer. If you want to read code then read code. Rather like an author and a critic the two jobs are far apart and require differing skills. Programmers are artisans slowing being brought kicking and screaming into the world of mass production.
In the US you have never had democracy to lose!
Lack of proportional voting, Electoral college, Two party system etc etc etc
Myself, I want all public positions decided by lotto. Pull the SSN out of a hat, Ms. Brown welcome to the white house.
This way the government is a true representation of the country as a whole not some old rich wasp guy clique.
Because then you'd be filthy rich as well as digustingly ignorant.
If somebody has a good record and is seen to be trying most people will give them the benefit of the doubt on most things.
The current POTUS is a POS, always has been always will be. The difference is that more and more Americans are now willing to say this in public.
Personally, I blame the US public, I think they rcvd the goverment they deserved. I find it hard to have any remorse for a country whose people long ago gave up on each other and self reliance.