And fourthly, it provides probably one of your last opportunities to immerse yourself in a diverse sea of peers, meet people, establish friendships, and find a girl without fear of a sexual harrassment lawsuit. I was a total shut-in when I started college, and over the course of three years I really learned how to relax and socialize. I have lots of friends, lots to do, and I'm really enjoying myself.
But do get as much experience as you can on the side. After my sophomore year I started working full time in the morning as a Java Developer and going to school part time at night. I'll graduate this fall (only 2 semesters late!) with 3 years of Enterprise Java development experience and 10 or so major projects under my belt.
But then again, the people I work with are all 10-15 years older than me and totally out of my peer group both socially and culturally.
So go to college, if only for social reasons. Network. Join a frat. It's one of the last chances you'll have to hang out with people you like and have fun.
2 communicative, accessible programmers are much more productive than 6 noncommunicative ones. We hired someone from China and someone from India and doubled our team size. Our productivity as a department hasn't changed one iota, because a lot of their time is spent trying to communicate ideas, make their documentation readable, and in general trying to cope with a foreign language and culture. We're no better off than we were before.
If you had an entire team from one country, that would be different. Even more so if they had a spokesman who spoke english well. But mixing and matching with people that don't speak English well is really stresfull.
My advice is to take your money and hire a starving college student or two. Hell, set up an internship and have them work for free (or give them ~$10/hr. They'll still love you). You'll get about the same quality code, much better documentation, and a lot less headaches.
According to Penny Arcade, Sony accelerated their price drop plans leaving Microsoft with no choice but to follow suit. This is a real kick to the groin for Microsoft, whose consoles haven't been doing as well as they thought and cost more to produce. Sony's probably recouped their initial losses, but I doubt Microsoft has.
Hurricanes rarely even come near the northeast. And you have a good week of prior notice before they land. When I lived in Cali we had mudslides, wildfires, earthquakes, riots, and the occasional typhoon heading in from the Pacific. I live in Florida and I'll take sunny skies and the occasional cat-3 hurricane over that any day.
As stated in this and other reviews, heat really isn't that much of a problem beyond the psychological impact of constantly worrying about your expensive components. The P4 is designed to throttle, and the heatsink used in the review is a fairly good one (copper core with aluminum fins). It's got two fans plus the power supply fan up top, and the ribbon cabbles used were the round kind, so airflow seems to be adequate. I would host Slashdot with this, as hard drive heat would eventually become a factor, but for most uses it seems pretty safe. I think when they reviewed the Shuttle P4 box they actually tried overclocking, but didn't notice any difference one way or the other.
I think it will fix itself, in time. Really we've only been dealing with this for the last 10 years, which isn't that long. Sure, today's adults will take offense to just about every dissenting view on the internet, but their children will spend their whole lives amidst dissenting views and grow accustomed to the fact that not everyone has the same opinion. I think in this respect technology and integration is a good thing. We just have to phase out conservative, myopic viewpoints and usher in a new era of peace and understanding.
That may sound like sugar-coated crap, but I've already seen evidence of this on IRC. Virtually nobody has the same ideas about anything, so in order to have any kind of meaningful interaction you pretty much have to compromise. At times it's a bit harsh, but overall it seems positive.
Actually you're right. It's not really a dumb move, but still, a $10 discount on an otherwise free product is kind of silly. That and I don't relish ripping off the cover of my nice installation guide to prove I purchased a product from another vendor.
Oh it's come down a few times, but we've never lost any data. The tables have become corrupt too, but mysql bundles a fix utility that saved it. But you're right--user authentication data is pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things. If this was billing data I'd be worried...
But then one has to wonder, how long to the germans plan to store the election data? Indefinitely? If so, wouldn't it be better to archive it?
(And that opens up a whole new can of worms. Say 10 years later a bug surfaced and they re-ran the archived data, showing a different victor--would legislation passed in that time become invalid due to a flawed election?)
please share with us your compelling reasons for using Suse
It's "SuSE", by the way.
I use it primarily because it conforms to the Linux Standard Base. I also like the fact that it is KDE-centric rather than Gnome-centric, and the YaST2 configuration tools (particularly the one for printers, SANE, and runtime level editing) have saved me a tremendous amount of time.
Not to mention that SuSE was the first to provide USB support for Linux and they are a driving force behind driving ALSA. Didn't they also have something to do with getting gcc/linux running on AMDs new 64-bit processor? And before all of that they wrote XFree86 servers for numerous unsupported cards. Back in 1998 they were the first and only distro to have support for my offbrand Trident 3D card.
They give me a great, easy to use distribution and they keep Linux cutting edge. I don't know about yall, but to me that's worth a few greenbacks.
I paid $80 for SuSE. I don't have to do that with RedHat--the ISOs are already free. Why would I want to switch? Obviously I have compelling reasons to use SuSE, or I wouldn't have forked over $80. Dumb move by RedHat in my opinion--just gives me one less reason to use their distro.
MySQL is fairly reliable; the process on our mail server has been up for hundreds of days (and it is a 3.x beta version I believe). We have something like 50,000 E-mail users and it holds up pretty well.
It does occansionally suffer some performance drawbacks due to lack of subselects and row-level locking (Some of which is addressed in the 4.x series, but we're too chicken to upgrade). In this respect, yes, Postgres would be much better. But I can't imagine any seriously complicated queries being used in a simple election process.
Also, probably most importantly, MySQL has (IMO) a better security model than Postgres. That's not to say that MySQL's implementation is better than Postgres' (I doubt it is), but in theory it's great:)
My big question is why use JBoss and Tomcat? Is the former dependent on the latter? What kind of benefit is there in running both?
Paperbacks and to some extent mass-produced hardcover fiction are affordable because they sell in high volumes. Textbook publishers usually only sell a fixed volume to a fixed number of students at a fixed number of schools for a fixed duration. They also do not have the benefit of marketing (Barnes and Noble displays). Thus, in order to cover their initial costs (research, printing, etc), they have to sell at a higher price. Since eBooks don't incur printing costs, it doesn't matter how many sell, and competition will drive the prices lower.
For instance, suppose an author submits 2 chapters of an unfinished textbook to a publisher. Suppose the publisher cuts him a check for $100 thousand and the eventual printing costs will be $10 per book. If they sell 10,000 books, that's $200,000 they have to come up with, on top of salaries and miscellaneous expenditures (electricity, etc). That's > $20 per book to meet costs.
Compare that to say, Wheel of Time, which costs less per book to print (and ship!) than an everage textbook, and sells in much higher quantities. $100,000 plus, lets say 250,000 copies at $5 apiece, equals $1,350,000. Divide by 250,000 and you get a little over $5.40 apiece to cover costs.
With eBooks, production costs are $.25 apiece, and there will be a gazillion competing authors. Upfront payments to authors will probably dwindle and there is virtuall no production cost, so you can expect the price of "texts" to drop dramatically.
Personally, I'm very interested in this device. It makes a lot more sense than having 2 bookshelves of books I only read occasionally.
Perhaps, but the timing is supsect. And this may be slightly off topic, but what I see here is a poker chip Hollings can use to get his other bill passed. A few people really interested in seeing this thing become law, but that aren't too crazy about the CBDTPA, may be persuaded to compromise.
And besides all that, how are they going to enforce this?
I'm not interested in trying to justify music piracy as a means of marketing. Sure, it doesn't really hurt the artists and the RIAA is being a bunch of babies about it, but the bottom line is this: it's still against the law. What I am against is more legislation that makes it even more illegal to do illegal things, especially if that legislation costs me money.
...stop buying music, robbing the RIAA of the capital they need to buy politicians? I buy only used CDs and music I can get online from people that are in no way associated with the RIAA. It's all legit, I get what I want, and the labels don't get a penny. Win-win.
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Bundling SPYWARE (the world "HELPWARE" is so much horseshit) is not problematic, so long as you clearly state, in understandable terms, what software is being installed, what it does, how much disk space it will consume, how much bandwidth it will use, what information it collects, where that information is going to be transmitted, and under what circumstances that information will be shared. Then let the user decide if the program is helpful or not.
And never, under any circumstances, remove anything that you did not put their in the first place. I do not want you to HELP me get rid of software I paid for.
Vague licensing agreements and shady installation procedures are not helpful. They are deceitful and they harm the consumer. How about DECEITWARE, or HARMWARE? Until you come clean, this bundled software will always be looked upon with scorn.
To my knowledge the ATI drivers are included with XFree86, and support for other features (TV in, etc) can be achieved by downloading source or binary packages for other applications (since neither the kernel nor X can really do that stuff). I believe you have to download NVidia driver binaries from their website and agree to some sort of EULA. It's six of one and half a dozen of the other. Someone somewhere is always going to take a source package and make it easy to install, whether it's a distribution maintainer (RedHat) or some industrious software developer.
It wasn't my intention to criticize NVidia; I was trying to point out that both companies support Linux actively in different forms. Call it compare and contrast.
But, to be perfectly fair NVidia has had a jump on ATI as far as Linux drivers and X goes. The GeForce series has been around a lot longer than the Radeon. It would be nice if ATI was more active and open as far as the development process is concerned, but I have faith in the people who are currently working on it.
I remember reading somewhere that ATI developers are allowed and I think encouraged to participate in Open Source projects. This is hearsay of course, but it would be nice if it was true.
Circa 1998, this was all anyone ever wanted. Remember the OSS (sound for linux) project? They claimed that if someone bought them a board, or gave them the specs, then they would write a driver for it. And they did, too. I suppose it's reasonable to expect a company to produce drivers for Linux, but remember, there are umpteen billion operating systems out there, and these companies don't have the time or resources to develop for all of them.
Personally, I'd rather have the specs and free drivers that anyone could hack on. I'll bet the NVidia/AMD issue wouldn't have lasted a week (hell maybe not even a day), and with time people will hopefully no longer have a reason to bitch about drivers for ATI hardware.
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And fourthly, it provides probably one of your last opportunities to immerse yourself in a diverse sea of peers, meet people, establish friendships, and find a girl without fear of a sexual harrassment lawsuit. I was a total shut-in when I started college, and over the course of three years I really learned how to relax and socialize. I have lots of friends, lots to do, and I'm really enjoying myself.
But do get as much experience as you can on the side. After my sophomore year I started working full time in the morning as a Java Developer and going to school part time at night. I'll graduate this fall (only 2 semesters late!) with 3 years of Enterprise Java development experience and 10 or so major projects under my belt.
But then again, the people I work with are all 10-15 years older than me and totally out of my peer group both socially and culturally.
So go to college, if only for social reasons. Network. Join a frat. It's one of the last chances you'll have to hang out with people you like and have fun.
I'm in the gaming biz and I can tell you that this is not the case.
Perhaps, but do you have a link to a purely speculative article written by an obscure web comic scriptwriter to back up your statement?
That's right. Who da man.
2 communicative, accessible programmers are much more productive than 6 noncommunicative ones. We hired someone from China and someone from India and doubled our team size. Our productivity as a department hasn't changed one iota, because a lot of their time is spent trying to communicate ideas, make their documentation readable, and in general trying to cope with a foreign language and culture. We're no better off than we were before.
If you had an entire team from one country, that would be different. Even more so if they had a spokesman who spoke english well. But mixing and matching with people that don't speak English well is really stresfull.
My advice is to take your money and hire a starving college student or two. Hell, set up an internship and have them work for free (or give them ~$10/hr. They'll still love you). You'll get about the same quality code, much better documentation, and a lot less headaches.
According to Penny Arcade, Sony accelerated their price drop plans leaving Microsoft with no choice but to follow suit. This is a real kick to the groin for Microsoft, whose consoles haven't been doing as well as they thought and cost more to produce. Sony's probably recouped their initial losses, but I doubt Microsoft has.
Yay Sony, I guess.
:~( *SOB*
Hurricanes rarely even come near the northeast. And you have a good week of prior notice before they land. When I lived in Cali we had mudslides, wildfires, earthquakes, riots, and the occasional typhoon heading in from the Pacific. I live in Florida and I'll take sunny skies and the occasional cat-3 hurricane over that any day.
Ack, make that "wouldn't host Slashdot..."
As stated in this and other reviews, heat really isn't that much of a problem beyond the psychological impact of constantly worrying about your expensive components. The P4 is designed to throttle, and the heatsink used in the review is a fairly good one (copper core with aluminum fins). It's got two fans plus the power supply fan up top, and the ribbon cabbles used were the round kind, so airflow seems to be adequate. I would host Slashdot with this, as hard drive heat would eventually become a factor, but for most uses it seems pretty safe. I think when they reviewed the Shuttle P4 box they actually tried overclocking, but didn't notice any difference one way or the other.
I think it will fix itself, in time. Really we've only been dealing with this for the last 10 years, which isn't that long. Sure, today's adults will take offense to just about every dissenting view on the internet, but their children will spend their whole lives amidst dissenting views and grow accustomed to the fact that not everyone has the same opinion. I think in this respect technology and integration is a good thing. We just have to phase out conservative, myopic viewpoints and usher in a new era of peace and understanding.
That may sound like sugar-coated crap, but I've already seen evidence of this on IRC. Virtually nobody has the same ideas about anything, so in order to have any kind of meaningful interaction you pretty much have to compromise. At times it's a bit harsh, but overall it seems positive.
We had probably better consider the ramifications. For instance, will this mean a mandatory return of Geeks in Space?
*shudder*
Actually you're right. It's not really a dumb move, but still, a $10 discount on an otherwise free product is kind of silly. That and I don't relish ripping off the cover of my nice installation guide to prove I purchased a product from another vendor.
Oh it's come down a few times, but we've never lost any data. The tables have become corrupt too, but mysql bundles a fix utility that saved it. But you're right--user authentication data is pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things. If this was billing data I'd be worried...
But then one has to wonder, how long to the germans plan to store the election data? Indefinitely? If so, wouldn't it be better to archive it?
(And that opens up a whole new can of worms. Say 10 years later a bug surfaced and they re-ran the archived data, showing a different victor--would legislation passed in that time become invalid due to a flawed election?)
It's "SuSE", by the way.
I use it primarily because it conforms to the Linux Standard Base. I also like the fact that it is KDE-centric rather than Gnome-centric, and the YaST2 configuration tools (particularly the one for printers, SANE, and runtime level editing) have saved me a tremendous amount of time.
Not to mention that SuSE was the first to provide USB support for Linux and they are a driving force behind driving ALSA. Didn't they also have something to do with getting gcc/linux running on AMDs new 64-bit processor? And before all of that they wrote XFree86 servers for numerous unsupported cards. Back in 1998 they were the first and only distro to have support for my offbrand Trident 3D card.
They give me a great, easy to use distribution and they keep Linux cutting edge. I don't know about yall, but to me that's worth a few greenbacks.
I paid $80 for SuSE. I don't have to do that with RedHat--the ISOs are already free. Why would I want to switch? Obviously I have compelling reasons to use SuSE, or I wouldn't have forked over $80. Dumb move by RedHat in my opinion--just gives me one less reason to use their distro.
MySQL is fairly reliable; the process on our mail server has been up for hundreds of days (and it is a 3.x beta version I believe). We have something like 50,000 E-mail users and it holds up pretty well.
:)
It does occansionally suffer some performance drawbacks due to lack of subselects and row-level locking (Some of which is addressed in the 4.x series, but we're too chicken to upgrade). In this respect, yes, Postgres would be much better. But I can't imagine any seriously complicated queries being used in a simple election process.
Also, probably most importantly, MySQL has (IMO) a better security model than Postgres. That's not to say that MySQL's implementation is better than Postgres' (I doubt it is), but in theory it's great
My big question is why use JBoss and Tomcat? Is the former dependent on the latter? What kind of benefit is there in running both?
Isn't this the very nature of "enterprise" software?
Paperbacks and to some extent mass-produced hardcover fiction are affordable because they sell in high volumes. Textbook publishers usually only sell a fixed volume to a fixed number of students at a fixed number of schools for a fixed duration. They also do not have the benefit of marketing (Barnes and Noble displays). Thus, in order to cover their initial costs (research, printing, etc), they have to sell at a higher price. Since eBooks don't incur printing costs, it doesn't matter how many sell, and competition will drive the prices lower.
For instance, suppose an author submits 2 chapters of an unfinished textbook to a publisher. Suppose the publisher cuts him a check for $100 thousand and the eventual printing costs will be $10 per book. If they sell 10,000 books, that's $200,000 they have to come up with, on top of salaries and miscellaneous expenditures (electricity, etc). That's > $20 per book to meet costs.
Compare that to say, Wheel of Time, which costs less per book to print (and ship!) than an everage textbook, and sells in much higher quantities. $100,000 plus, lets say 250,000 copies at $5 apiece, equals $1,350,000. Divide by 250,000 and you get a little over $5.40 apiece to cover costs.
With eBooks, production costs are $.25 apiece, and there will be a gazillion competing authors. Upfront payments to authors will probably dwindle and there is virtuall no production cost, so you can expect the price of "texts" to drop dramatically.
Personally, I'm very interested in this device. It makes a lot more sense than having 2 bookshelves of books I only read occasionally.
Perhaps, but the timing is supsect. And this may be slightly off topic, but what I see here is a poker chip Hollings can use to get his other bill passed. A few people really interested in seeing this thing become law, but that aren't too crazy about the CBDTPA, may be persuaded to compromise.
And besides all that, how are they going to enforce this?
I'm not interested in trying to justify music piracy as a means of marketing. Sure, it doesn't really hurt the artists and the RIAA is being a bunch of babies about it, but the bottom line is this: it's still against the law. What I am against is more legislation that makes it even more illegal to do illegal things, especially if that legislation costs me money.
...stop buying music, robbing the RIAA of the capital they need to buy politicians? I buy only used CDs and music I can get online from people that are in no way associated with the RIAA. It's all legit, I get what I want, and the labels don't get a penny. Win-win.
Bundling SPYWARE (the world "HELPWARE" is so much horseshit) is not problematic, so long as you clearly state, in understandable terms, what software is being installed, what it does, how much disk space it will consume, how much bandwidth it will use, what information it collects, where that information is going to be transmitted, and under what circumstances that information will be shared. Then let the user decide if the program is helpful or not.
And never, under any circumstances, remove anything that you did not put their in the first place. I do not want you to HELP me get rid of software I paid for.
Vague licensing agreements and shady installation procedures are not helpful. They are deceitful and they harm the consumer. How about DECEITWARE, or HARMWARE? Until you come clean, this bundled software will always be looked upon with scorn.
To my knowledge the ATI drivers are included with XFree86, and support for other features (TV in, etc) can be achieved by downloading source or binary packages for other applications (since neither the kernel nor X can really do that stuff). I believe you have to download NVidia driver binaries from their website and agree to some sort of EULA. It's six of one and half a dozen of the other. Someone somewhere is always going to take a source package and make it easy to install, whether it's a distribution maintainer (RedHat) or some industrious software developer.
It wasn't my intention to criticize NVidia; I was trying to point out that both companies support Linux actively in different forms. Call it compare and contrast.
But, to be perfectly fair NVidia has had a jump on ATI as far as Linux drivers and X goes. The GeForce series has been around a lot longer than the Radeon. It would be nice if ATI was more active and open as far as the development process is concerned, but I have faith in the people who are currently working on it.
I remember reading somewhere that ATI developers are allowed and I think encouraged to participate in Open Source projects. This is hearsay of course, but it would be nice if it was true.
Circa 1998, this was all anyone ever wanted. Remember the OSS (sound for linux) project? They claimed that if someone bought them a board, or gave them the specs, then they would write a driver for it. And they did, too. I suppose it's reasonable to expect a company to produce drivers for Linux, but remember, there are umpteen billion operating systems out there, and these companies don't have the time or resources to develop for all of them.
Personally, I'd rather have the specs and free drivers that anyone could hack on. I'll bet the NVidia/AMD issue wouldn't have lasted a week (hell maybe not even a day), and with time people will hopefully no longer have a reason to bitch about drivers for ATI hardware.