I agree that they should adapt or die. Most of them are adapting by cutting back. I don't think we'll ever see the end of newspapers, but their readership is going to be tiny. So they get to adapt to having far fewer readers, or they can fail appropriately.
I hate it when obsolete business models are artificially propped up.
Not a drudge fan. But do like reddit and techdirt.
I read that it's largely due to the fact that the Japanese like to watch tv on their phones, and they're really into texting, which the lack of a tactile keyboard makes more slower. And so phones TV capability with full keyboards do much better than the iPhone with its total lack of keyboard and apparently an inability to double as a TV.
Any open source project of reasonable complexity has at least 2-3 release candidates,
A release candidate is exactly that. A candidate for release. That is, to the best of your knowledge it's ready for release, the code is frozen and you're doing a final course of testing on it. If everybody did their job well prior to declaring a build a release candidate, there won't be a second candidate. The candidate becomes the actual release. If you're just making a build you think is ready, then dubbing it release candidate, you're doing it wrong. Habitually having multiple release candidates is a sign that you're not doing enough testing prior to declaring a build a release candidate.
Yes, there still seems to be ageism, but not in the way you expect.
There's an older gent I work with, perhaps in his early 40s at the oldest, who was promoted to "Principal Software Engineer" even though he writes worse code than our greenest newbie. Turns out he was an electrical engineer and has something like 5 years of software experience.
Compare that with one of my friends who is only 27 but has about 11 years of experience if you count hobbyist stuff starting in junior high. Nine if you're only counting professional experience. But at the same company he's not a "Principal", yet is one of the best software engineers I know or have ever met.
So just act like you've got the experience (but don't lie) and you'll probably get more promotions, faster, and more pay than a more experienced younger man.
I eagerly await the benefits of my own age discrimination.
Isn't the carbon just in a bunch of new animals now?
I realize those animals probably produce carbon too, but a great deal of it went into creating them. At what point does their increased population produce enough carbon to put us back where we started? Ever?
If you bolt it together securely enough shouldn't it shake & vibe at all the same frequency?
I mean, the only reason the video card and the motherboard could be said to have a single frequency each is that all of their components are securely connected (right down to the atomic level in some cases), and they're not very flexible.
So in theory, if you simply held the two components together strongly enough (you probably don't need to achieve the strength of molecular bonds), wouldn't they act as a unified body and thus have the same resonating frequency? If they don't run too hot you could just fill the damn thing with epoxy and be done with it.
I'm pretty sure you can have an outdated business model and that's what most hard copy publishers have.
They take intangible valuable information and make a hard copy of it that they then sell. And they try and keep anyone else from moving in on their business with copyrights (this party worked pretty well for a long time). That way they get a monopoly on making copies of that stuff. The profit margins of a monopoly shouldn't need elaboration.
This model was very viable and even beneficial to consumers prior to the internet, and especially prior to broadband. There weren't many convenient ways of distributing a book, cd, or movie other than a hard copy. And the publishers were initially the only ones with the equipment, and always, the only ones with the legal rights.
But now the situation is different. It's now easier, to the point of being trivial, to rebuild the intangible version from one of their hard copies (this used to be considered fair use, but that right is being encroached on thanks to the DMCA), and then distribute it (often illegally). Thus the original need that their business served - being a middleman/physical copier/physical distributer that connected artist works to fans, scientific articles from scientists to other scientists, and movies from the studios to the movie fans - is no longer the optimal way of doing things. The internet is a faster, cheaper distribution method than what they offer. Thus their business model (making hard copies of intangibles and distributing them) is indeed outdated. They should have seen this coming and should have done was add a line of business that included digital distribution through some means that wasn't so customer hostile. But instead most of them chose to try and prop up their outdated models through the legal system. Amazon, and eventually the iTunes Music store were among the first to actually deliver what the consumers wanted. Digital copies that could be played pretty much anywhere (no DRM). Something the copyright holders/distributers should have offered immediately. The consumers were inevitably going to find a way to get what they wanted, and the copyright holders didn't offer it because they saw it as a threat to their profits. Their mistake.
Databases at a very abstract level are just data structures. Choosing a relational database when you don't need that much functionality is just as wrong as choosing a flat file when you need a database.
Knowing the ins & outs of your data structures is still a vital skill of programming.
an independent coffee shop owner who should not have to be a networking guru
I disagree.
If you're going to offer a free new service to your customers, you should know what you're doing to some degree. Otherwise you're just jumping on the bandwagon like the next mouth breather.
It would be like a oil change shop offering free coffee to customers (and many do), but reusing the same disposable paper filter over and over (none do this, in my experience).
Securing your network is a basic responsibility of using one just as using fresh filters or a reusable one is a basic responsibility of a coffee pot operation.
This sounds like it will be more irritating and resource wasteful than the context menu icon loading currently in windows XP.
To reproduce: Use your system for a while with some memory intensive app. Then, right click a folder or the desktop to bring up the context menu and you get to wait several seconds while listening to your HD seek all over the place to load the icons before you can access the menu.
This is even worse with the control panel icons/applets and the start menu itself. Those things should be kept in the system cache and never swapped to disk, or not used in the menus in the first place.
Those who wonder if astronauts could hang in a mission to Mars should simply hire sailors - they are out in a ship for nearly as long.
While I admire your enthusiasm and loyalty this is a very brain dead statement embodies what makes many people think "military intelligence" is an oxymoron.
Astronauts are typically masters of multiple scientific fields in addition to being excellent jet pilots.
Pulling a sailor off a sub that was starry eyed enough to be suckered into enlisting (we haven't had a draft in decades) that was barely out of high school is never, ever, ever, ever going to happen. Most astronauts (not would-be astronauts) are so highly qualified (and rare) that it's roughly equivalent to being selected to be the quarterback that plays the entire superbowl by the winning team.
The ability to stand being cooped up for months or years at a stretch is a qualification, but it's one of the least significant since so many people can do it.
It's due to the fact that the very people in charge of messing up so badly they needed government help - are getting bonuses as though they had done exceptionally well.
It's an expression of the injustice that all of us grunts feel when the executives get all the credit when things go well, and the grunts get laid off when things go poorly.
Only in this case the overpaid executives are being rewarded as though they had done extremely well when in fact they've done so poorly they should be fired if not hanged.
Personally, I'd like to know how I could score a contract that will reward me with multi million dollar bonuses when things go horribly even after I'm no longer even employed by them. That sounds like about the sweetest gig imaginable.
I got my current job as a Java programmer with zero professional Java experience. What I did have was (a year of) C experience on some antique systems (government contracting!) and a willingness and ability to learn - along with a BSCS. If you can demonstrate that, along with some high quality* code samples, and some from the hip design to prove that you really are capable and didn't just memorize the typical interview questions, you should be OK.
*Think readable, well commented/documented, not clever or efficient.
How much more useful can one make an address bar? It's sole purpose is to provide a place to type in a web address. If by useful, do they mean that horrid Awesome Bar?
I love the awesome bar.
Between that and tagging bookmarks I rarely have to use the mouse to get to a site anymore, and it takes me about half as long as using the mouse to navigate & hunt bookmarks. I just wish it worked as quickly as Winamp's jump-to function and was auto correcting like a Google search.
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The FBI is investigating this, why?
Do they have nothing better to do?
You'd think this kind of PR would be good for the movie.
I'd happily volunteer my services.
I'm blunt, hypercritical and am allergic to excuses, stupidity, bullshit, and responsibility cop-outs.
I'll even give a couple for free:
If I have to tinker with it to make it work, it's crap and needs improvement.
If I have to edit a text file instead of using a configuration GUI, it's crap and needs improvement.
And yes, I use Linux at work, but Windows XP at home because game support is crap (see #1 above).
I agree that they should adapt or die. Most of them are adapting by cutting back. I don't think we'll ever see the end of newspapers, but their readership is going to be tiny. So they get to adapt to having far fewer readers, or they can fail appropriately.
I hate it when obsolete business models are artificially propped up.
Not a drudge fan. But do like reddit and techdirt.
I read that it's largely due to the fact that the Japanese like to watch tv on their phones, and they're really into texting, which the lack of a tactile keyboard makes more slower. And so phones TV capability with full keyboards do much better than the iPhone with its total lack of keyboard and apparently an inability to double as a TV.
According to Wired, the Japanese prefer the Panasonic Panasonic P905i.
A release candidate is exactly that. A candidate for release. That is, to the best of your knowledge it's ready for release, the code is frozen and you're doing a final course of testing on it. If everybody did their job well prior to declaring a build a release candidate, there won't be a second candidate. The candidate becomes the actual release. If you're just making a build you think is ready, then dubbing it release candidate, you're doing it wrong. Habitually having multiple release candidates is a sign that you're not doing enough testing prior to declaring a build a release candidate.
Yes, there still seems to be ageism, but not in the way you expect.
There's an older gent I work with, perhaps in his early 40s at the oldest, who was promoted to "Principal Software Engineer" even though he writes worse code than our greenest newbie. Turns out he was an electrical engineer and has something like 5 years of software experience.
Compare that with one of my friends who is only 27 but has about 11 years of experience if you count hobbyist stuff starting in junior high. Nine if you're only counting professional experience. But at the same company he's not a "Principal", yet is one of the best software engineers I know or have ever met.
So just act like you've got the experience (but don't lie) and you'll probably get more promotions, faster, and more pay than a more experienced younger man.
I eagerly await the benefits of my own age discrimination.
You can go ahead and mod this flamebait now.
That's what I was thinking.
Isn't the carbon just in a bunch of new animals now?
I realize those animals probably produce carbon too, but a great deal of it went into creating them. At what point does their increased population produce enough carbon to put us back where we started? Ever?
If you bolt it together securely enough shouldn't it shake & vibe at all the same frequency?
I mean, the only reason the video card and the motherboard could be said to have a single frequency each is that all of their components are securely connected (right down to the atomic level in some cases), and they're not very flexible.
So in theory, if you simply held the two components together strongly enough (you probably don't need to achieve the strength of molecular bonds), wouldn't they act as a unified body and thus have the same resonating frequency? If they don't run too hot you could just fill the damn thing with epoxy and be done with it.
I bookmarked that.
We'll be laughing at you in 10 years or so!
I'm pretty sure you can have an outdated business model and that's what most hard copy publishers have.
They take intangible valuable information and make a hard copy of it that they then sell. And they try and keep anyone else from moving in on their business with copyrights (this party worked pretty well for a long time). That way they get a monopoly on making copies of that stuff. The profit margins of a monopoly shouldn't need elaboration.
This model was very viable and even beneficial to consumers prior to the internet, and especially prior to broadband. There weren't many convenient ways of distributing a book, cd, or movie other than a hard copy. And the publishers were initially the only ones with the equipment, and always, the only ones with the legal rights.
But now the situation is different. It's now easier, to the point of being trivial, to rebuild the intangible version from one of their hard copies (this used to be considered fair use, but that right is being encroached on thanks to the DMCA), and then distribute it (often illegally). Thus the original need that their business served - being a middleman/physical copier/physical distributer that connected artist works to fans, scientific articles from scientists to other scientists, and movies from the studios to the movie fans - is no longer the optimal way of doing things. The internet is a faster, cheaper distribution method than what they offer. Thus their business model (making hard copies of intangibles and distributing them) is indeed outdated. They should have seen this coming and should have done was add a line of business that included digital distribution through some means that wasn't so customer hostile. But instead most of them chose to try and prop up their outdated models through the legal system. Amazon, and eventually the iTunes Music store were among the first to actually deliver what the consumers wanted. Digital copies that could be played pretty much anywhere (no DRM). Something the copyright holders/distributers should have offered immediately. The consumers were inevitably going to find a way to get what they wanted, and the copyright holders didn't offer it because they saw it as a threat to their profits. Their mistake.
This should probably be added to units.
You misspelled "lying". Very common these days.
I do not understand why this stuff is voted on. Science is not democratic and voting will not change reality.
A majority vote that water should freeze at 10 degrees Celsius will not make it do so.
Why would anyone think the origins of life would be any different? All science thus far has pointed at evolution.
Voting otherwise will change nothing. This fact has a fascinating and unsurprising parallel in prayer.
Databases at a very abstract level are just data structures. Choosing a relational database when you don't need that much functionality is just as wrong as choosing a flat file when you need a database.
Knowing the ins & outs of your data structures is still a vital skill of programming.
I disagree.
If you're going to offer a free new service to your customers, you should know what you're doing to some degree. Otherwise you're just jumping on the bandwagon like the next mouth breather.
It would be like a oil change shop offering free coffee to customers (and many do), but reusing the same disposable paper filter over and over (none do this, in my experience).
Securing your network is a basic responsibility of using one just as using fresh filters or a reusable one is a basic responsibility of a coffee pot operation.
This sounds like it will be more irritating and resource wasteful than the context menu icon loading currently in windows XP.
To reproduce: Use your system for a while with some memory intensive app. Then, right click a folder or the desktop to bring up the context menu and you get to wait several seconds while listening to your HD seek all over the place to load the icons before you can access the menu.
This is even worse with the control panel icons/applets and the start menu itself. Those things should be kept in the system cache and never swapped to disk, or not used in the menus in the first place.
You keep using that word. I do not think it mea.....wait a second. I think it does mean what you think it means!
Inconceivable!
And less competition for women.
Which of them worked in a submarine?
Or did you miss the part where I said they're usually excellent jet pilots?
While I admire your enthusiasm and loyalty this is a very brain dead statement embodies what makes many people think "military intelligence" is an oxymoron.
Astronauts are typically masters of multiple scientific fields in addition to being excellent jet pilots.
Pulling a sailor off a sub that was starry eyed enough to be suckered into enlisting (we haven't had a draft in decades) that was barely out of high school is never, ever, ever, ever going to happen. Most astronauts (not would-be astronauts) are so highly qualified (and rare) that it's roughly equivalent to being selected to be the quarterback that plays the entire superbowl by the winning team.
The ability to stand being cooped up for months or years at a stretch is a qualification, but it's one of the least significant since so many people can do it.
I think you're misunderstanding the outrage.
It's due to the fact that the very people in charge of messing up so badly they needed government help - are getting bonuses as though they had done exceptionally well.
It's an expression of the injustice that all of us grunts feel when the executives get all the credit when things go well, and the grunts get laid off when things go poorly.
Only in this case the overpaid executives are being rewarded as though they had done extremely well when in fact they've done so poorly they should be fired if not hanged.
Personally, I'd like to know how I could score a contract that will reward me with multi million dollar bonuses when things go horribly even after I'm no longer even employed by them. That sounds like about the sweetest gig imaginable.
Bingo.
I got my current job as a Java programmer with zero professional Java experience. What I did have was (a year of) C experience on some antique systems (government contracting!) and a willingness and ability to learn - along with a BSCS. If you can demonstrate that, along with some high quality* code samples, and some from the hip design to prove that you really are capable and didn't just memorize the typical interview questions, you should be OK.
*Think readable, well commented/documented, not clever or efficient.
This will never happen.
How can you tip a stripper in a cashless society?
Please, think of the children (and their single mothers).
I love the awesome bar.
Between that and tagging bookmarks I rarely have to use the mouse to get to a site anymore, and it takes me about half as long as using the mouse to navigate & hunt bookmarks. I just wish it worked as quickly as Winamp's jump-to function and was auto correcting like a Google search.
Doesn't work nearly so well as adblock.
And with a big enough hosts file windows can take an extra 30 seconds to boot while it loads all that into the DNS cache.
And you can't wildcard hosts, so it's a pretty kludgey workaround actually.