>> Every sale on eBay is insured up to a certain amount..
I believe eBay's fraud insurance coverage is limited to $200, plus another $200 from PayPal if you pay a verified PayPal user through that service. If you pay with a credit card you may have recourse through the card vendor (but PayPal takes it out of your bank acct by default). For a high-value item, eBay suggests you use an escrow service.
I used to live near a Catholic church in downtown San Jose, Every year they had a church festival, with a carnival, complete with hard-bitten carnie types, and stands selling tamales and beer. It was fun to visit, and appealing because of the weird mix of people - the few priests and nuns wandering around looked a bit out of place in their own church yard.
I think it would be real hard to spend $40K on audio at Best Buy.
I was in another mass-market store and you could listen to any equipment they had.. with the sound routed through the same pair of cheap in-the-wall speakers, conveniently next to their big rack of gear. The weak link in the chain theory definitely applies here: you won't hear any difference when the output device is crap. (I didn't buy anything there, and would up spending major audiophile $$$ on high-end speakers - which I'm still very happy with. I'm not sure I buy the idea that digital formats sound radically different, but speakers sure do).
Very well put. I work in a company with hundreds of developers of different backgrounds and skill levels. Making sure they all know what they are doing with CVS would not be a small task. So would cleaning up after the ones who do clueless things with it. Some shops get around this by building script layers on top of CVS. Right now we use a non-free alternative (but are looking at subversion).
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SunOS version's 4.x and below were derived from BSD. SunOS version 5.X and Solaris are based on SVR5.
FYI while the original designation "Deep Thought" comes from Douglas Adams, most chess programs that now have the "Deep" prefix use it to indicate that they run on multiprocessor machines (as Deep Thought did). It used to be only a few programs could make use of multiple processors, but now several of the popular commercial chess programs and some amateur chess programs support SMP.
English is commonly used as the language of instruction in Indian universities. Assuming you are hiring college graduates, they will likely get along ok in English.
India has 14 official languages. Hindi is widely used but is not the native language of many Indians and is not even related to the languages spoken in South India.
So, while it would be commendable if you learned an Indian language to communicate better with your staff, you might have to learn several if they come from different regions of India. Not very practical IMO.
One of the most depressing things about being a coder is just the lack of progress in the software engineering profession. It's 40 years or so since IBM's System/360, which was ultimately successful as software but also massively late and over cost. And still we have schedule misses, having to hack stuff together at the last minute to avoid schedule misses, software shipping with gross bugs because it was done too fast and too sloppily, emergency fixes needed to fix buggy software that customers are screaming about, and so on. After a while you get tired of it. And it doesn't seem like just a few bad software shops have these problems. It's pervasive in the industry.
The HP books revolve around English people who just happen to also be witches and wizards, and the magic school that HP goes to is a warped but somewhat recognizable version of an English public school. LOTR on the other hand is set in a completely invented landscape that doesn't very directly evoke or parody or relate to anything in the real world, which is part of what makes it such an impressive feat of fantasy.
They're very different. And as another thread says, the HP books are suitable for smaller kids (my 6-year old loves it) while LOTR (or even the Hobbit) may be a bit too complex and scary.
Spam used to be pretty much exclusively abusive drivel from riffraff - stuff like porn ads, cable descramblers, get rich quick schemes, and so on.
But lately more and more legitimate companies are deciding it's ok to mass-mail their customers, subscribers, or random prospects from a mail list, despite their preferences. Sometimes it's almost as impossible to get off their list as it is to get off a traditional scumbag spam list.
This stuff still counts as spam in my book. And it seems to me like it's an increasing percentage of the total spam. These outfits need to get the message that it's not an ok practice.
By the way, you can download
TIB/Rendezvous software, which is what most of the big trading floors use to deliver market data to professional traders (the download is a limited
version). This is a good way to experiment with multicasting (but you don't get the market data - you have to pay big $ for that).
You can install JRE 1.3 as a plugin but IMO it isn't wise to assume your whole user base is going to do that. Plus, in many cases, you still have to code for the least common denominator of network client. And often that means a dialup user on a 28.8K line, which pretty much rules out applets, unless they're very small.
Do not confuse Java on the client with server-side Java. Java on the client is practically a dead technology, seeing that it's slow and it doesn't run reliably on Microsoft Internet Explorer, which is what 85% or so of the desktops out there are running. Microsoft of course has no interest in making this situation any better.
But Java on the server is a different story. Big businesses buy giant multiprocessor Sun boxes and run enterprise-class Java software (like Sun's iPlanet app server) on them. This is where the real growth in Java usage is taking place.
I know a guy who used to spend half of each year working in Sweden (guess which half) and half in the U.S. He thought that he was doing about equally well working in Sweden. Taxes are high, cost of living is pretty high, but benefits and wages are pretty good, too (I've got some direct experience, having worked there for briefer periods).
http://www.xcomputing.com - has a variety of
1U Intel machines, great prices, very fast delivery. I have a couple in my basement.
http://www.aslab.com also looks like they have
nice stuff but I haven't bought any from them (yet).
Yeah, I was way above grade level on a lot of things, too (mostly math). But I did it without getting much formal instruction or direction from adults.
My dad got a card at a university library (I was too young to have my own), took me there regularly, and let me check out anything I wanted. H. Rider Haggard, philosophy, math, lots of things. He didn't tell me what to read. It's not clear I would have listened if he had.
A neighbor also helped out by giving me a lot of surplus electronic gear to take apart, break, repair, and generally mess with. He didn't tutor me much either. Just gave me some raw material to work with, like my dad. I picked up the EE stuff from some library books and a lot of hands-on experience.
Self-directed learning is absolutely the best kind, IMO.
You've only got to compare stock charts for
companies like I2 (ITWO) and BEA Systems
(BEAS) with ones for Beyond.com (BYND) and
Dr. Koop (KOOP) to see that not all Internet-
related stocks are being treated the same
by the market. Some are in the 90% down club
and some are up quite a bit from the start of
this year.
The strong are surviving and the weak are
getting killed, like always. Although the
valuations of some of the winning stocks
are still quite high and I do worry some
that maybe they have a crash in their future.
Personally I sold a bunch while the selling
was good and diversified, but I still have
a big tech stock position.
Gore is just grasping for straws. If by 5 pm we have the answer, both men should stick to that decision and who ever the loser is
should concede.
This is the crux of it. No matter what your
political persuasion, it isn't good for the
country to have a long-running lawsuit over
who is going to be the next President. One
of these guys has to take over in January and
we'd all better be ready at that point. It's
not very long from now.
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>> Every sale on eBay is insured up to a certain amount ..
I believe eBay's fraud insurance coverage is limited to $200, plus another $200 from PayPal if you pay a verified PayPal user through that service. If you pay with a credit card you may have recourse through the card vendor (but PayPal takes it out of your bank acct by default). For a high-value item, eBay suggests you use an escrow service.
I used to live near a Catholic church in
downtown San Jose, Every year they had
a church festival, with a carnival, complete
with hard-bitten carnie types, and stands
selling tamales and beer. It was fun to
visit, and appealing because of the weird
mix of people - the few priests and nuns
wandering around looked a bit out of place
in their own church yard.
Right. I got it (at least).
.. with the sound routed through the same pair of cheap in-the-wall speakers, conveniently next to their big rack of gear. The weak link in the chain theory definitely applies here: you won't hear any difference when the output device is crap. (I didn't buy anything there, and would up spending major audiophile $$$ on high-end speakers - which I'm still very happy with. I'm not sure I buy the idea that digital formats sound radically different, but speakers sure do).
I think it would be real hard to spend $40K on audio at Best Buy.
I was in another mass-market store and you could listen to any equipment they had
>cvs works for developers with a clue about cvs
Very well put. I work in a company with hundreds of developers of different backgrounds and skill levels. Making sure they all know what they are doing with CVS would not be a small task. So would cleaning up after the ones who do clueless things with it. Some shops get around this by building script layers on top of CVS. Right now we use a non-free alternative (but are looking at subversion).
SunOS version's 4.x and below were derived from BSD.
SunOS version 5.X and Solaris are based on SVR5.
FYI while the original designation "Deep Thought" comes from Douglas Adams, most chess programs that now have the "Deep" prefix use it to indicate that they run on multiprocessor machines (as Deep Thought did). It used to be only a few programs could make use of multiple processors, but now several of the popular commercial chess programs and some amateur chess programs support SMP.
English is commonly used as the language of instruction in Indian universities. Assuming you are hiring college graduates, they will likely get along ok in English.
India has 14 official languages. Hindi is widely used but is not the native language of many Indians and is not even related to the languages spoken in South India.
So, while it would be commendable if you learned an Indian language to communicate better with your staff, you might have to learn several if they come from different regions of India. Not very practical IMO.
One of the most depressing things about being a coder is just the lack of progress in the software engineering profession. It's 40 years or so since IBM's System/360, which was ultimately successful as software but also massively late and over cost. And still we have schedule misses, having to hack stuff together at the last minute to avoid schedule misses, software shipping with gross bugs because it was done too fast and too sloppily, emergency fixes needed to fix buggy software that customers are screaming about, and so on. After a while you get tired of it. And it doesn't seem like just a few bad software shops have these problems. It's pervasive in the industry.
The HP books revolve around English people who just happen to also be witches and wizards, and the magic school that HP goes to is a warped but somewhat recognizable version of an English public school. LOTR on the other hand is set in a completely invented landscape that doesn't very directly evoke or parody or relate to anything in the real world, which is part of what makes it such an impressive feat of fantasy.
They're very different. And as another thread says, the HP books are suitable for smaller kids (my 6-year old loves it) while LOTR (or even the Hobbit) may be a bit too complex and scary.
Spam used to be pretty much exclusively abusive drivel from riffraff - stuff like porn ads, cable descramblers, get rich quick schemes, and so on.
But lately more and more legitimate companies are deciding it's ok to mass-mail their customers, subscribers, or random prospects from a mail list, despite their preferences. Sometimes it's almost as impossible to get off their list as it is to get off a traditional scumbag spam list.
This stuff still counts as spam in my book. And it seems to me like it's an increasing percentage of the total spam. These outfits need to get the message that it's not an ok practice.
By the way, you can download TIB/Rendezvous software, which is what most of the big trading floors use to deliver market data to professional traders (the download is a limited version). This is a good way to experiment with multicasting (but you don't get the market data - you have to pay big $ for that).
You can install JRE 1.3 as a plugin but IMO it isn't wise to assume your whole user base is going to do that. Plus, in many cases, you still have to code for the least common denominator of network client. And often that means a dialup user on a 28.8K line, which pretty much rules out applets, unless they're very small.
But Java on the server is a different story. Big businesses buy giant multiprocessor Sun boxes and run enterprise-class Java software (like Sun's iPlanet app server) on them. This is where the real growth in Java usage is taking place.
I know a guy who used to spend half of each year working in Sweden (guess which half) and half in the U.S. He thought that he was doing about equally well working in Sweden. Taxes are high, cost of living is pretty high, but benefits and wages are pretty good, too (I've got some direct experience, having worked there for briefer periods).
http://www.xcomputing.com - has a variety of 1U Intel machines, great prices, very fast delivery. I have a couple in my basement. http://www.aslab.com also looks like they have nice stuff but I haven't bought any from them (yet).
My dad got a card at a university library (I was too young to have my own), took me there regularly, and let me check out anything I wanted. H. Rider Haggard, philosophy, math, lots of things. He didn't tell me what to read. It's not clear I would have listened if he had.
A neighbor also helped out by giving me a lot of surplus electronic gear to take apart, break, repair, and generally mess with. He didn't tutor me much either. Just gave me some raw material to work with, like my dad. I picked up the EE stuff from some library books and a lot of hands-on experience.
Self-directed learning is absolutely the best kind, IMO.
You've only got to compare stock charts for companies like I2 (ITWO) and BEA Systems (BEAS) with ones for Beyond.com (BYND) and Dr. Koop (KOOP) to see that not all Internet- related stocks are being treated the same by the market. Some are in the 90% down club and some are up quite a bit from the start of this year.
The strong are surviving and the weak are getting killed, like always. Although the valuations of some of the winning stocks are still quite high and I do worry some that maybe they have a crash in their future.
Personally I sold a bunch while the selling was good and diversified, but I still have a big tech stock position.
This is the crux of it. No matter what your political persuasion, it isn't good for the country to have a long-running lawsuit over who is going to be the next President. One of these guys has to take over in January and we'd all better be ready at that point. It's not very long from now.