No, he's a programmer, writes apps for mainframes. That's about all I know about it- he leaves work at work. I think he bought his first computer like 5 years ago.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"Our new shading model captures the soft appearance of many natural materials such as skin."
Well, maybe materials such as really thick makeup. Pretty face, but there wasn't any exposed skin. Maybe the next generation rendering model will be able to handle real people's faces.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Some things never age. My father is turning 59 soon, and he's never wanted for work. Every couple of years he's on a different project, usually with a different company, and he's always got a project lined up well before the one he's on ends. He had a gap, once. The project he wanted to work on didn't start until a couple of months after the last one ended. That was 10 years ago, and it was his choice.
I know that companies want young programmers who see nothing wrong with devoting their lives to the company, but there are a lot out there who value experience- knowing that people with a few decades under their belts don't need to stay until 3 in the morning every night. This is just what I've observed about one programmer, but there are a lot of others like him out there.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Hey, this is amazing! A box was scanned, probed and exploited within 15 minutes of being put up on the net. The blackhats are really aggressive, all right.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
And 95 of every 100 SUVs never go off road. There is nowhere this side of a racetrack to properly enjoy a Ferrari. Of the millions of guns, how many (other than cops') have actually been needed?
Clusters are truly amazing computers that ordinary geeks can have. What more reason do you need?
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Not that most of us need more availability hardware than a UPS, that is the biggest low-end use for clusters. If you have a computing need that can't go down, cluster it. With a UPS and a back up generator, nothing short of an earthquake is going to shut you down. One, maybe even two nodes might go down, but 8 or 16 won't, and they can pick up the slack without missing a beat. If I were an ISP, I'd have one for the reliability and make damn sure I advertised it.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Tell me why, anonymous man, these features that sound to me like OS level tasks are found only in one app. Maybe simply so M$ could say that IE was integral to the OS and had to be bundled with it. "We're not trying to create a monopoly, your honor, it has to be there."
A feature that is vital for every other app that M$ writes belongs in... the operating system, not the damn web browser! That is where your OS-wide uniform standards that developers can RELY upon should be placed. Did you actually read your comment before submitting it? You seem to mean that M$ is doing the best thing here, but none of your arguments support that.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Who was it that said that it was naive to assume that, without any training, a person could properly use a computer, power tools, a gun or a car?
I think another part of the problem is that around 70% of all americans think they are more intelligent than average. This in a country where half of our high school students can't find the US on a map. Unfortuantely, in addition to our God-given right to do 50 in the left lane, we've got one to be on the information superhighway. Bleah.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
It's not that computers are really unreliable, it's that it costs less to staff phone banks than to have repair guys at every store. The phone people can diagnose problems "at" the home. A 70 year old woman is not going to pack her new PC into her car and drive it on back to the store, except to demand her money back. If a problem cannot be diagnosed over the phone, then there's a really good chance that it is a hardware problem, worth shipping the box in for.
So many computer problems are conflicts or user error that every effort to avoid having it sent back more than pays for itself. It is under warranty, and charging customers penalties for non-hardware related issues would lose their business and the business of everyone they know. Bad PR is the kiss of death in a commodity market, when all you really have to sell is your company.
I do feel sorry for the poor folks who have to suffer for this- taking people whose VCRs are still blinking 12:00 and trying to get something constructive done is brutal. I can't even talk someone through configuring a box when I'm in the room with them.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
On the whole, I agree with you. I do, however, take issue with your calling tech a relatively new field. Relative compared to a lot of things, but my dad has been programming since the early '60s. He's not a forerunner, not a groundbreaker or a pioneer. He's just a really smart guy who works with computers.
Anyone born after ENIAC can't call coding new; it is a pre-existing condition to our lives. The fact that our grandparents can't do it doesn't change the fact that we've got second generation coders out there- hell, probably some third, too. So there's been a boom, thanks to the web. I'm with you on point 2- techies need to recognise it as a boom. Pretty soon (like, in the last year) the job market will even out some. Techies, as a whole, are no more inherently valuable to a company than any other class of employees.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Guess what? A great programmer can fit him(or her)self into the overall scheme of things, resulting in a better final product. A mediocre one, a mere hack whose egotism leads him to think that his shit doesn't stink, is a liability. A Programmer with more limited coding skills who understands he is part of a team, working on a project not his own but the company's, is far more valuable. You know, someone worth being invested in so he can become a good programmer. Maybe there aren't many worth doing that for these days.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
It doesn't matter how late you stay up coding- your head is still solidly on your shoulders. Despite the fact that teams can work very well, "Unity of command" is a principle that has proven itself too mant times to be ignored, as is "Too many cooks spoil the broth." You can have all the people you want contributing to the project, but the overall scheme of things needs to be in as few hands as possible.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
My wife uses those tools to break into our own computers, so she can make them more secure. If everyone with cable/DSL has to re-invent the wheel with security, nothing will be secure.
If you outlaw cracking tools, only outlaws will have them. I don't want my boxes 0wn3d, so I'm glad for downloadable tools.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
This reminds me of the time Bush Sr. went to Japan with an entourage of auto industry execs.
Now Bush Jr. is following in Daddy's footsteps, doing everything but racking up the miles on Air Force One, except that he's the MPAA's whore instead of Detroit's. God, this is embarassing.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
We all know that compuuters do have legitimate uses, but the thought that some kiddie can buy one without an ID, without even a waiting period, chills me to the bone.
I can't stand these jackasses trying to extend regulation everywhere when there are already laws in place that can put the perps in jail for quite some time. But no, they need to expand the definition of crime past injuring someone or something to simple posession. Posession of tools that can help you secure your computer? Publication of information to warn people that their computers are not secure? Burying your head in the sand makes you capable only of burying it deeper.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Open Source government doesn't exist here. Look at the building codes- they are not written by lawmakers, but by the building associations. They are adopted as law, but remain copyright of the building people. We have laws on the books that are not a part of the public record.
What part of that system do you think is going to make it easy for you to pay taxes accurately? They'd rather have you too scared of mistakes to try deducting anything.
And we keep voting them back into office- "Congress sucks, but my rep is great."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Says who? You can derive code from any GPLed app and use it to your heart's content.
Do you not mean "use GNUCash code in a closed source, proprietary app?" Riiiiight. Even if you can talk a bunch of Linux developers into using a less free license, you'd have to get them to start from scratch. The code is already under the GPL. Nobody can take back what rights you already have to code that you already have.
Do you simply not understand the GPL, or do you need to RTFL before you troll?
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
I used a squirt gun to teach my cats not to scratch the couch. Unfortunately, what I taught them was to not scratch it when I was around. The squirt gun was more effective than the thrown TV Guides, though. Those just taught them that I didn't like them. After I switched to water, they learned what they had to learn, unfortunately not quite what I was trying to teach them. Oh well, failure on my part.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
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"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Well, maybe materials such as really thick makeup. Pretty face, but there wasn't any exposed skin. Maybe the next generation rendering model will be able to handle real people's faces.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
I know that companies want young programmers who see nothing wrong with devoting their lives to the company, but there are a lot out there who value experience- knowing that people with a few decades under their belts don't need to stay until 3 in the morning every night. This is just what I've observed about one programmer, but there are a lot of others like him out there.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Not that most of us need more availability hardware than a UPS, that is the biggest low-end use for clusters. If you have a computing need that can't go down, cluster it. With a UPS and a back up generator, nothing short of an earthquake is going to shut you down. One, maybe even two nodes might go down, but 8 or 16 won't, and they can pick up the slack without missing a beat. If I were an ISP, I'd have one for the reliability and make damn sure I advertised it.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
A feature that is vital for every other app that M$ writes belongs in... the operating system, not the damn web browser! That is where your OS-wide uniform standards that developers can RELY upon should be placed. Did you actually read your comment before submitting it? You seem to mean that M$ is doing the best thing here, but none of your arguments support that.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
I think another part of the problem is that around 70% of all americans think they are more intelligent than average. This in a country where half of our high school students can't find the US on a map. Unfortuantely, in addition to our God-given right to do 50 in the left lane, we've got one to be on the information superhighway. Bleah.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
So many computer problems are conflicts or user error that every effort to avoid having it sent back more than pays for itself. It is under warranty, and charging customers penalties for non-hardware related issues would lose their business and the business of everyone they know. Bad PR is the kiss of death in a commodity market, when all you really have to sell is your company.
I do feel sorry for the poor folks who have to suffer for this- taking people whose VCRs are still blinking 12:00 and trying to get something constructive done is brutal. I can't even talk someone through configuring a box when I'm in the room with them.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Anyone born after ENIAC can't call coding new; it is a pre-existing condition to our lives. The fact that our grandparents can't do it doesn't change the fact that we've got second generation coders out there- hell, probably some third, too. So there's been a boom, thanks to the web. I'm with you on point 2- techies need to recognise it as a boom. Pretty soon (like, in the last year) the job market will even out some. Techies, as a whole, are no more inherently valuable to a company than any other class of employees.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
If you outlaw cracking tools, only outlaws will have them. I don't want my boxes 0wn3d, so I'm glad for downloadable tools.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Now Bush Jr. is following in Daddy's footsteps, doing everything but racking up the miles on Air Force One, except that he's the MPAA's whore instead of Detroit's. God, this is embarassing.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
I can't stand these jackasses trying to extend regulation everywhere when there are already laws in place that can put the perps in jail for quite some time. But no, they need to expand the definition of crime past injuring someone or something to simple posession. Posession of tools that can help you secure your computer? Publication of information to warn people that their computers are not secure? Burying your head in the sand makes you capable only of burying it deeper.
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
What part of that system do you think is going to make it easy for you to pay taxes accurately? They'd rather have you too scared of mistakes to try deducting anything.
And we keep voting them back into office- "Congress sucks, but my rep is great."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
Do you not mean "use GNUCash code in a closed source, proprietary app?" Riiiiight. Even if you can talk a bunch of Linux developers into using a less free license, you'd have to get them to start from scratch. The code is already under the GPL. Nobody can take back what rights you already have to code that you already have.
Do you simply not understand the GPL, or do you need to RTFL before you troll?
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."
"You know, the golf course is the only place he isn't handicapped."