Particularly it annoyed me that I couldn't get a feeling for what was happening. I tried uploading a few files, none came through. I tried looking for some files, but it seems like that was before it was useful at all.
All in all I think that shows that a static web interface is not suitable for this type of app.
The data isn't stored in only one place. It is stored redundantly.
So even if half the people in the office shut down their computers you could restore the data.
And there is a simple way to get around the problem you described BTW. Just have the computer techs disconnect the power button.;-)
Get the right desk too.
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The chair isn't everything. I have never gotten pains from working at my desk at home, but I have sometimes experienced it at school.
Just by comparing how friends who do get aches sit compared to me I'd say the most important part isn't the chair. Most people tend to have their keyboard so close to the edge of the desk that they can't rest anything on the desk surface. Personally I have a desk with a "corner" for the monitor, it supports even a 21" with lots of room to spare.
This allows me to have a keyboard 10-20cm from the edge of the desk. Since it's a natural type keyboard this let's me rest my elbows on the desk.
I've found that those times I get aches from school I it's because their setup doesn't allow me to rest my arms.
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I'll second this. I have one at home and although it cost an arm and a leg it was worth it. People that come visit generallly remark that it's a "cool chair" and when they try it out they get interested in getting one. (Naturally then I tell them about the price and they're not so keen anymore. But note that here in Sweden they'll set you back about $1,200.)
The most expensive item in my room, but also the thing I use the most. (Well besides my glasses.;-)
We don't need cell phones when we have our land lines. If you break down in a city, walk to the nearest house and ask to use their phone. 9 times out of 10 the person will let you, usually hand a cordless through the door crack.
Yes, but when I said that the mayority of people have cellphones I didn't mean "To call when their cars break down." If that happens and you're out of battery for you cellphone I'm sure you won't have any problem borrowing a phone to call for help.
But it's a bit harder to go in and say "Hi! Could I borrow your phone? I need to let my friend know that I won't make it to the movie." Not to mention having to call complete strangers who live close to where you desided to meet your friend and say. "Would you be so kind as to give a message outside by the busstop that I'll take the train instead - thankyouverymuch."
Cellphone networks should today be taken for granted just as landlines are. Having good landlines (And there's nothing wrong with the Swedish telephone system, it's just too expensive.;-) is not an excuse to have insufficient cellphone covering. (Well, it's an excuse, just a rather poor one.)
Sourcefire is/not/ about selling a shrink wrapped box in the store. They get money from selling IDS system. They sell the rack boxes with snort installed and configured. They sell the normal boxes with admininistration tools. They sell training and expertise.
They aim for the customers that "don't want OSS" in the first place. (I bet you can download a whole bunch of GUI's for Snort if you want them.) And from the article is seems like they charge quite a bit from the servers.
Reading the article would let you read amongst other things this:
In a twist that would have been considered insane only a few years ago, Marty, his new CEO, and their venture capital backers have decided to wait until they have ramped up sales enough to cover the company's newly-increased expenses before they ramp up hiring.
VS's are in it for the money, but they make more money if they let the company grow at a non-destructive rate.
If you're interested in a job why don't you just fire off a mail to them? It's not too uncommon these days (with the market a bit down) for companys to hire because they have heard of you before.
They said they wanted forward people after all, contacting them before they ask you too is rather forward. (Just don't be pushy about it, just ask them to add your CV to their pile.)
You could also do as someone said and download the source and start poking around. (And the two are not mutually exclusive, of course.)
Everyone's gotta have the latest DoCoMo or J-Phone with the 64k color screen and built-in camera, which will no doubt be discarded for a trade-up within six months.
Meanwhile everyone in the US and Europe/has/ to have a new computer. (for mailing, and stuff, oh and some video thing...) I don't think getting the latest and greatest has much to do about conforming, more like wanting to be hip. (Which is in many ways the opposite of conforming.)
I haven't been to Japan though, so it could be more too it than I think.
And I'm sure you're a representative part of the population. It's not as if laptops/802.11b doesn't work in Japan. You just need to bring your base station for the wireless.
OTOH if you brought your neat phone which can take pictures from Japan to the US you couldn't even use it as a door stop. (They are generally too light.)
Here is Sweden over 50% of the population has mobile phones, when over 50% of the population in the US has laptops and 802.11b then call again. (And Japan has an even higher market penetration of phones IIRC.)
Swarmcast use a rather more advanced way of distributing the files than eDonkey. Instead of just downloading a part of the file the file is coded to make it easier to get all the parts you need.
It's been GPL'd now, (mostly for my own personal safety). But please people, don't all do your own versions of it until I've had time to add some of the refinements I want to put in. Volunteer coders wanted please:-).
1) If you are close to a ship when it sinks, you will get dragged down. (I assume the same would be if you were clinging on to some barely floating deckchairs.) At least that "common knowledge", perhaps it's not true though.
2) If you have so much alcohol in your blood so that it can act as an antifreeze then your already dead because of the alcohol. A human is generally dead when she reaches 0.5% alcohol in the blood. Antifreeze generally has more than 90% alcohol.
The baker apparently survived, but I doubt it was because of the alcohol, more like despite the alcohol. Unfortunately I really lack the medical training to debunk it.
Yeah, that doesn't sound as something found in the archives of alt.urban.legends. (Actually I looked for it, but couldn't find it. That doesn't make it true though.;-)
Naturally, but these symptoms are not really of engineers any more than that not listening to advice is typical behaviour for managers.
It is typical for people with bad attitudes though. And they might very well get in that attitude by dealing with the wrong type of manager/engineer in the past.
But I think that if this type of behaviour is common for engineers or managers (or any other employee) where you're working then it could be time to start looking for a new job. It seems like the company is soon to appear on "fuckedcompany.com". Because it's quite apparent that nothing good will come out of the situation.
And the more you push the people (managers or engineers) the more set they will become in their bad attitudes. Either someone has to make a cleansing happen. Let people air their problems and try to get to the bottom of it. Otherwise the situation will only get worse, and the only people left will be the incompetent and those that are "loyal" enough to go down with the ship. (And there is nothing good about that.)
Sure, there are a lot of things we can use but don't know exactly how they operate. Noone is saying that everyone needs to take a test before they heat things in the microwave.
But you can't have the captain of a ship not knowing anything about the ship. They need to know how fast it can go. How long it can go on a full tank. What tolerances and safty margins there are for bad weather. And a lot of similar stuff.
Likewise a project manager should know how to code and have some experience with it. Even if they don't know the details they need to know what they can expect the "guys in the trenches" to do for them. And at the very least they should know enough to know that they don't know as much as the coders.
Well my guess is that they were just taking a stab at the fact that id software has pretty much left it up to other developers to make interesting games of their engines in the past. (And past here refers to Quake 1-3, basically.)
Personally I've always enjoyed their games though.
And if you'd read anything about the game then you'd know that it's not a DM FPS. It's more similar to Half-Life in style it seems.
BTW, the PA guys only did a one block strip of the game. They never did comment on it in their "E3 experiences" diaries. (Or at least I couldn't find it if they did.) Seems to me that this implies that they only got a chance to look at the monitors outside.
An really, who gives a fuck what people think now? When it's realeased we'll get some real reviews of the game, and can try it out for ourselves. That is people will make up their minds about buying the game or not.
And not hyping it too much is probably better for id. Then they won't have to waste so much time on fan-boys. (And girls naturally.);-)
Probably it's more like a peon at Matrox doing a slipup and the guys at H-OCP taking themselves a bit too seriously in their role as "last defenders of the free gamers".
That said, pixel/vertex shaders are in the Parhelion, at least according to the specs. But Matrox has never been know for creating excellent gamer boards, quality has generally been top notch though.
And BTW, all those online reviewers do anyways is to post a big fat load of game benchmarks. Not all that interesting to most. (Although H-OCP is one of the better ones.)
Well it's basically the same thing, but with different agenda.
A diary generally tells you about the person writing it. A portal generally tells you about other sites.
Blogs are something of a mixture of the two.
So if you're writing a sort-of diary with links to fun places, then isn't that a Blog? Not a very new idea in any case. (The name is rather new AFAIK.)
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Yeah, this was pretty much my experience as well.
Particularly it annoyed me that I couldn't get a feeling for what was happening. I tried uploading a few files, none came through. I tried looking for some files, but it seems like that was before it was useful at all.
All in all I think that shows that a static web interface is not suitable for this type of app.
The data isn't stored in only one place. It is stored redundantly.
;-)
So even if half the people in the office shut down their computers you could restore the data.
And there is a simple way to get around the problem you described BTW. Just have the computer techs disconnect the power button.
The chair isn't everything. I have never gotten pains from working at my desk at home, but I have sometimes experienced it at school.
Just by comparing how friends who do get aches sit compared to me I'd say the most important part isn't the chair. Most people tend to have their keyboard so close to the edge of the desk that they can't rest anything on the desk surface. Personally I have a desk with a "corner" for the monitor, it supports even a 21" with lots of room to spare.
This allows me to have a keyboard 10-20cm from the edge of the desk. Since it's a natural type keyboard this let's me rest my elbows on the desk.
I've found that those times I get aches from school I it's because their setup doesn't allow me to rest my arms.
I'll second this. I have one at home and although it cost an arm and a leg it was worth it. People that come visit generallly remark that it's a "cool chair" and when they try it out they get interested in getting one. (Naturally then I tell them about the price and they're not so keen anymore. But note that here in Sweden they'll set you back about $1,200.)
;-)
The most expensive item in my room, but also the thing I use the most. (Well besides my glasses.
Yes, but when I said that the mayority of people have cellphones I didn't mean "To call when their cars break down." If that happens and you're out of battery for you cellphone I'm sure you won't have any problem borrowing a phone to call for help.
But it's a bit harder to go in and say "Hi! Could I borrow your phone? I need to let my friend know that I won't make it to the movie." Not to mention having to call complete strangers who live close to where you desided to meet your friend and say. "Would you be so kind as to give a message outside by the busstop that I'll take the train instead - thankyouverymuch."
Cellphone networks should today be taken for granted just as landlines are. Having good landlines (And there's nothing wrong with the Swedish telephone system, it's just too expensive.
Sourcefire is /not/ about selling a shrink wrapped box in the store. They get money from selling IDS system. They sell the rack boxes with snort installed and configured. They sell the normal boxes with admininistration tools. They sell training and expertise.
They aim for the customers that "don't want OSS" in the first place. (I bet you can download a whole bunch of GUI's for Snort if you want them.) And from the article is seems like they charge quite a bit from the servers.
VS's are in it for the money, but they make more money if they let the company grow at a non-destructive rate.
If you're interested in a job why don't you just fire off a mail to them? It's not too uncommon these days (with the market a bit down) for companys to hire because they have heard of you before.
They said they wanted forward people after all, contacting them before they ask you too is rather forward. (Just don't be pushy about it, just ask them to add your CV to their pile.)
You could also do as someone said and download the source and start poking around. (And the two are not mutually exclusive, of course.)
Meanwhile everyone in the US and Europe
I haven't been to Japan though, so it could be more too it than I think.
And I'm sure you're a representative part of the population. It's not as if laptops/802.11b doesn't work in Japan. You just need to bring your base station for the wireless.
OTOH if you brought your neat phone which can take pictures from Japan to the US you couldn't even use it as a door stop. (They are generally too light.)
Here is Sweden over 50% of the population has mobile phones, when over 50% of the population in the US has laptops and 802.11b then call again. (And Japan has an even higher market penetration of phones IIRC.)
Because in 5-10 years when the CD will need to be replaced I bet the old art of bitmaps will be lost to human civilization.
But what do you do if you can't archaic version of English used in the description?
That's why we need a open alternative to languages. A language that is easy to "reverse engineer" for future needs.
And the "Overnet" link is just a placeholder graphic. Is there any information on the project besides three guys in ninja suits looking moronic? ;-)
Swarmcast use a rather more advanced way of distributing the files than eDonkey. Instead of just downloading a part of the file the file is coded to make it easier to get all the parts you need.
It just seems like
1) If you are close to a ship when it sinks, you will get dragged down. (I assume the same would be if you were clinging on to some barely floating deckchairs.) At least that "common knowledge", perhaps it's not true though.
2) If you have so much alcohol in your blood so that it can act as an antifreeze then your already dead because of the alcohol. A human is generally dead when she reaches 0.5% alcohol in the blood. Antifreeze generally has more than 90% alcohol.
The baker apparently survived, but I doubt it was because of the alcohol, more like despite the alcohol. Unfortunately I really lack the medical training to debunk it.
Yeah, that doesn't sound as something found in the archives of alt.urban.legends. (Actually I looked for it, but couldn't find it. That doesn't make it true though. ;-)
Naturally, but these symptoms are not really of engineers any more than that not listening to advice is typical behaviour for managers.
It is typical for people with bad attitudes though. And they might very well get in that attitude by dealing with the wrong type of manager/engineer in the past.
But I think that if this type of behaviour is common for engineers or managers (or any other employee) where you're working then it could be time to start looking for a new job. It seems like the company is soon to appear on "fuckedcompany.com". Because it's quite apparent that nothing good will come out of the situation.
And the more you push the people (managers or engineers) the more set they will become in their bad attitudes. Either someone has to make a cleansing happen. Let people air their problems and try to get to the bottom of it. Otherwise the situation will only get worse, and the only people left will be the incompetent and those that are "loyal" enough to go down with the ship. (And there is nothing good about that.)
Sure, there are a lot of things we can use but don't know exactly how they operate. Noone is saying that everyone needs to take a test before they heat things in the microwave.
But you can't have the captain of a ship not knowing anything about the ship. They need to know how fast it can go. How long it can go on a full tank. What tolerances and safty margins there are for bad weather. And a lot of similar stuff.
Likewise a project manager should know how to code and have some experience with it. Even if they don't know the details they need to know what they can expect the "guys in the trenches" to do for them. And at the very least they should know enough to know that they don't know as much as the coders.
Well my guess is that they were just taking a stab at the fact that id software has pretty much left it up to other developers to make interesting games of their engines in the past. (And past here refers to Quake 1-3, basically.)
;-)
Personally I've always enjoyed their games though.
And if you'd read anything about the game then you'd know that it's not a DM FPS. It's more similar to Half-Life in style it seems.
BTW, the PA guys only did a one block strip of the game. They never did comment on it in their "E3 experiences" diaries. (Or at least I couldn't find it if they did.) Seems to me that this implies that they only got a chance to look at the monitors outside.
An really, who gives a fuck what people think now? When it's realeased we'll get some real reviews of the game, and can try it out for ourselves. That is people will make up their minds about buying the game or not.
And not hyping it too much is probably better for id. Then they won't have to waste so much time on fan-boys. (And girls naturally.)
Probably it's more like a peon at Matrox doing a slipup and the guys at H-OCP taking themselves a bit too seriously in their role as "last defenders of the free gamers".
That said, pixel/vertex shaders are in the Parhelion, at least according to the specs. But Matrox has never been know for creating excellent gamer boards, quality has generally been top notch though.
And BTW, all those online reviewers do anyways is to post a big fat load of game benchmarks. Not all that interesting to most. (Although H-OCP is one of the better ones.)
Well it's basically the same thing, but with different agenda.
A diary generally tells you about the person writing it. A portal generally tells you about other sites.
Blogs are something of a mixture of the two.
So if you're writing a sort-of diary with links to fun places, then isn't that a Blog? Not a very new idea in any case. (The name is rather new AFAIK.)
Resistence is futile!
And my XP Pro box crashes if I try to play a music CD in it.
It's a "new" problem though, it didn't appear in the beginning. (And I'm not trying to play protected CDs.)
A problem with reading a CD should never be able to crash the entire system. Good sign that something is seriously wrong.
Sounds like squash. :-)