Virtual work? Do I get virtual tips? Do I pay virtual taxes? Are there virtual dooche nozzles that order everything that is not on the menu then not leave a tip?
Well being a surfer for the last 20+ years I can see only one good use for this.
The sea bottom at great breaks around the world changes very little over short perids of time. Granted tides and current move them around a bit at different times in the year but for the most part bottom features stay pretty much the same.
Give a computer a good map of the bottom features, 2 floating buoys and a land locked marker to triangulate you could messure swell speed, size, and direction as they pass 1/2 mile out. Using your handy dandy waterproof tandy to figure out how big the next set of waves are going to be, where they are going to peak and peal, and which way to pattle to catch them.
WAIT!!! hush my mouth I have a product.... It would be like auto pilot for catching waves.
Not only did the guy have a bogus degree. He claimed to have a MCSE, CCNA, and RHCE. Retired from the Military with 8 years in as well as 8+ years of Solaris, +2 linux, +4 SQL/MySQL. Turns out when I asked him what to expect from "ps-e | grep sendmail" on our solaris box he kind of just blinked and said "I did more coding on it than anything".
Turns out he has +3 years of C. Which he can't code in, no solaris exp, no linux exp, no SQL exp, and did not know how to put together a computer from scratch. Let alone, no Certs at all and a bogus degree.
The kicker? They hired him, then found all this out. Did they fire him? Nope cut his pay in 1/2 and put him in customer service.....I am amazed to this day.
The justification quote "We could get him for 1/2 of what we pay you."
Come on dude. Think about what the game is doing. Do you really think that the game will stream the audio. A more realistic approach would be to have this in the full install and just load it up on a trigger command from the interaction with the NPC(non player character or MOB from the old mud days). Much like the music you start to hear when you enter a town, or the chirp of a bird, of the grunt of a peon.
They don't stream the voice overs, I am sure it is just a file like any other music source that it just tied to the encounter. Nothing new to see here, move along....move along.
Life is experiences, that is all you have. Rack one up and add to "lifes resume" instead of your "work resume".
Which would you rather tell a story about in 10 years, your 6 month tour overseas or the day they called you in at 3am without overtime to fix a nimda like worm?
Dude, if you don't go you deserve your crappy day job. I don't know how else to say it besides stop reading these posts right now, turn off your computer, pick up your shit, blow mom a kiss goodbye, get a 24 pack of condoms and run out the damn door.
This is not a finished product your downloading. This is a "beta" that they are giving out to specific users that requested to beta test the product. You are not paying for anything, if you don't want to play the beta don't use BT to download it. This is not a "we are selling you something and using your bandwidth". This is a "you requested to beta test and get a sneak peak at the game, if you wish to download it.".
10,000 beta testers downloading at the same time. The only logical way was BT. If you don't like the deal just don't participate.
"You will need to upgrade to windows 2003 to be more secure now that the source code has been leaked for NT and 2000.", said marketing expect Haywood Jablowme.
When people ask me what I do know. I am a janitor. If they push, I am a high tech janitor.
The moment a prase like "I work computers" comes out of your mouth. Or "I work on Cisco stuff" you get a nice carpet bombing of questions and requests for help.
Just lie, it is not worth the fight. Fun/Pain ratio is way out of wack on this one.
Not everything is about tech, sometimes it all comes down to style. This goes for watches.
Sometimes it is about the way it works. I can't wear a battery driven watch, as they stop working within 6 months. The record was 2 days before one stoped. I take them off put them on the counter. Then they start working within about 2 hours. Put them back on, I might get anouther couple of days....they stop again.
So I stick with a self wineding(spl?) match that never gives me an issue. I must have some kind of freaky electrostatic field around me or something.
Or it could be that I have been struck by lightning...6666666..66666...66669 times.
This is a Ratio of what I get out of something as to what I put into it.
Your fun would be that you have your speakers back, you have spent a couple of bucks on it to bring back to life old ass speakers.
Fun = 5 on a scale of 1 to 10
Pain, is you have to do it. It might not come out as planned. You have old ass speakers you have now sunk more money into.
Pain in your ass = 6
If your p > f just buck up and do what is more fun. IE- buy some new speakers.
In this case if you don't have the money, and it would cause you to not eat for a week. Well then the F/P Raito is scewed.
Your fun just went up, it is always fun to eat.
F = 6 P = 5
f > P = Fix the damn things, food is more important.
Figure out what your f/p ratio is. This is a life lesson. The f/p ratio is what keeps me sane.
Just recently I had a f/p ratio for going surfing.
3 foot, semi glassy surf. Fun = 7
58f water temp, cloudy, hole in wetsuit. Pain = 7.5
Had I been 23 again, the pain raito would have been about 5.5. Thus I would have hit the waves, as it is now...screw it. I am going to get a game of WarcraftIII in with beer and wait for the florida sun to heat up the water a bit.
Who profits? Who will regulate the size and the postage on that? Would they still agree that this is a great Idea is the US postal service was the one that made a profit?
I am still surprised to this day that there is not a better solution to e-mail. Maybe that is the next killer app....the race is on boys they are just trying to figure out how to make the most money on it.
So let me get this straight. A guild, in games that thrive of male ego and boasting, is getting blasted on slashdot. How ironic.
I am not in this guild, but I have played in a number of games that they circulate in. They are very well organized, also float to the top, and on average are nice guys.
I think it is funny and ironic that some of you would look at a website, which I looked at, and realize it is a spoof of sorts.
Anyway, good on them. They just got sponsered to play games. Hell, most people can't get sponsered to work....just look at a large portion of slashdot.
That is pretty much it, plenty of very smart people everywhere. You just don't know what you getting when you outsource like you do when you have them in house.
1000 a month for what? Where? Could I stick you stick a 4 people in that place? He has kids and a wife.
5 bucks for a crown and coke? Hell I can't hardly find a crown and coke in Florida for 5 dollars.
You must be living in a 700sq box, drinking sparkling water called beer.
Not trying to rag ya, but I don't want to live that way and I am sure he does not either.
Find me a 1500sq apartment in south of the GWB for 1000 buck that I don't have to worry about someone cutting my arm off to get to my watch and I will stand corrected.
Lived there for 3 years. Although this does not make me and expert, I do know a little more that the visiting tourist. Yea I got a 7.50 crown and coke now and then, but I have never had one for 5 bucks.
I know the best programmer I have ever had the chance to work with made 112k a year. Keep in mind these are "New York City" rates, where he was paying 2200 a month in rent. 1600 a year for car insurance, and 10.50 for a mixed drink at your downtown bar. Lets not get into the fact that he was working 75+ hours a week on average either.
Down here in Florida senior programmers are lucky to see 1/2 that at best.
Big numbers make for big headlines. No one ever puts 2 and 2 together.
My friend, could program a circle around 10 of the best offshore programmers you could throw at him. The problem is, they(management) only sees dollar signs, not quality, not the fact you are here on the spot, and not the kind of job your doing....so what if 6 programmers offshore can't do his job, they like the way the numbers work and are not bright enough to understand that they are actually hurting the company.
Again, what do I know. I am just your average government worker now, but I can zap you from space!
---typed for speed, did not check spelling or grammer. In fact I did not even read over it.
I agree, if you have no other solution besides "free" you have a winner in linux.
I was not really pointing at this story. As his needs and resources are the driving force here. If money is a major issue in the project then of course you are going with "the best tool for the job" in picking linux. Unless linux in the long wrong will cost you more man hours to support, eclipsing your savings on the free OS. This happens everyday, I know because I see it.
The "best tool for the job" of course has to take money into consideration. But if you save 200 bucks on the OS, but then spend 10 hours trying to make it work with a windows domain what good has it done you. Unless management has no concept of TOS(total cost of ownership) this is a loosing battle. I will agree that most everything you do on Windows will cost you, but does it cost so much to get "ease of use", that you will to support it with you man hours?
I guess if your time is worth nothing, then linux will always be the solution.
This is just a question to the linux public, this maybe be just a little off topic but here we go anyway. I have karma to burn.
Why do so many linux guys ignore "best tool for the job" and just force linux into a solution? I mean it is clear that linux has very good uses, just as windows does. Yet I have watched time and time again someone force linux or solaris into a job that would have worked better as a windows machine.
Before you get on your high horse and scream that there is nothing that windows can do that linux can not do better just save it. Your wrong, dead wrong. In an all windows shop running.net and nothing but microsoft on the workstations there is no good reason to try to force them to program on linux/apache. There is not a good reason to try to force them to use samba, and there is not a good reason for DNS to be run on Linux in that shop.
There are plenty of awesome reasons to use linux, but for petes sake your shooting yourself in the collective foot when you try to force linux in. You end up having management hear "integration" issues...The linux DNS is not talking to the ADS correctly....the Syslog server is not responding....that damn linux.....I could go on and on on this because someone forced linux into a shop that was all windows. Then did it poorly on top of that.
I guess what I am trying to say is that Linux is not always the answer. Sometimes, you have to pick the best tool for the job, and sometimes that is not linux. Pick your battles my friends, and put linux in where it will shine like a white knight if your looking to change minds. Don't just take on every job with the idea that your going to "make them use linux". Find that perfect high profile job that linux will shine at, not the problem child job that you know is going to have issues.
You want more linux in the shop? Start by putting it in the right place and follow up on it like you should. Don't just 1/2 ass force it.
Just my 2 bits...I may just be bitter cleaning up after 1/2 assed linux imps that have gone wrong this week.
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Virtual work? Do I get virtual tips? Do I pay virtual taxes? Are there virtual dooche nozzles that order everything that is not on the menu then not leave a tip?
Just wondering, virtual...
Well being a surfer for the last 20+ years I can see only one good use for this.
The sea bottom at great breaks around the world changes very little over short perids of time. Granted tides and current move them around a bit at different times in the year but for the most part bottom features stay pretty much the same.
Give a computer a good map of the bottom features, 2 floating buoys and a land locked marker to triangulate you could messure swell speed, size, and direction as they pass 1/2 mile out. Using your handy dandy waterproof tandy to figure out how big the next set of waves are going to be, where they are going to peak and peal, and which way to pattle to catch them.
WAIT!!! hush my mouth I have a product.... It would be like auto pilot for catching waves.
Not only did the guy have a bogus degree. He claimed to have a MCSE, CCNA, and RHCE. Retired from the Military with 8 years in as well as 8+ years of Solaris, +2 linux, +4 SQL/MySQL. Turns out when I asked him what to expect from "ps-e | grep sendmail" on our solaris box he kind of just blinked and said "I did more coding on it than anything".
Turns out he has +3 years of C. Which he can't code in, no solaris exp, no linux exp, no SQL exp, and did not know how to put together a computer from scratch. Let alone, no Certs at all and a bogus degree.
The kicker? They hired him, then found all this out. Did they fire him? Nope cut his pay in 1/2 and put him in customer service.....I am amazed to this day.
The justification quote "We could get him for 1/2 of what we pay you."
Classic, just classic.
It is not that big a deal, buy a book. Get on it.
Just do all the outside pieces first, and work your way in.
You mean Pking will become a Political Stance?
Come on dude. Think about what the game is doing. Do you really think that the game will stream the audio. A more realistic approach would be to have this in the full install and just load it up on a trigger command from the interaction with the NPC(non player character or MOB from the old mud days). Much like the music you start to hear when you enter a town, or the chirp of a bird, of the grunt of a peon.
They don't stream the voice overs, I am sure it is just a file like any other music source that it just tied to the encounter. Nothing new to see here, move along....move along.
Life is experiences, that is all you have. Rack one up and add to "lifes resume" instead of your "work resume".
Which would you rather tell a story about in 10 years, your 6 month tour overseas or the day they called you in at 3am without overtime to fix a nimda like worm?
Dude, if you don't go you deserve your crappy day job. I don't know how else to say it besides stop reading these posts right now, turn off your computer, pick up your shit, blow mom a kiss goodbye, get a 24 pack of condoms and run out the damn door.
This is not a finished product your downloading. This is a "beta" that they are giving out to specific users that requested to beta test the product. You are not paying for anything, if you don't want to play the beta don't use BT to download it. This is not a "we are selling you something and using your bandwidth". This is a "you requested to beta test and get a sneak peak at the game, if you wish to download it.".
10,000 beta testers downloading at the same time. The only logical way was BT. If you don't like the deal just don't participate.
"You will need to upgrade to windows 2003 to be more secure now that the source code has been leaked for NT and 2000.", said marketing expect Haywood Jablowme.
How do you feel about outsourcing the programing done on medical record programs?
When people ask me what I do know. I am a janitor. If they push, I am a high tech janitor.
The moment a prase like "I work computers" comes out of your mouth. Or "I work on Cisco stuff" you get a nice carpet bombing of questions and requests for help.
Just lie, it is not worth the fight. Fun/Pain ratio is way out of wack on this one.
Not everything is about tech, sometimes it all comes down to style. This goes for watches.
Sometimes it is about the way it works. I can't wear a battery driven watch, as they stop working within 6 months. The record was 2 days before one stoped. I take them off put them on the counter. Then they start working within about 2 hours. Put them back on, I might get anouther couple of days....they stop again.
So I stick with a self wineding(spl?) match that never gives me an issue. I must have some kind of freaky electrostatic field around me or something.
Or it could be that I have been struck by lightning...6666666..66666...66669 times.
I don't know why he climbs like that, or the fact that he loves cheese. Sometimes I wonder where that sperm bank got their inventory!
This is a Ratio of what I get out of something as to what I put into it.
Your fun would be that you have your speakers back, you have spent a couple of bucks on it to bring back to life old ass speakers.
Fun = 5 on a scale of 1 to 10
Pain, is you have to do it. It might not come out as planned. You have old ass speakers you have now sunk more money into.
Pain in your ass = 6
If your p > f just buck up and do what is more fun. IE- buy some new speakers.
In this case if you don't have the money, and it would cause you to not eat for a week. Well then the F/P Raito is scewed.
Your fun just went up, it is always fun to eat.
F = 6
P = 5
f > P = Fix the damn things, food is more important.
Figure out what your f/p ratio is. This is a life lesson. The f/p ratio is what keeps me sane.
Just recently I had a f/p ratio for going surfing.
3 foot, semi glassy surf. Fun = 7
58f water temp, cloudy, hole in wetsuit. Pain = 7.5
Had I been 23 again, the pain raito would have been about 5.5. Thus I would have hit the waves, as it is now...screw it. I am going to get a game of WarcraftIII in with beer and wait for the florida sun to heat up the water a bit.
Live by the f/p ratio!
Who profits? Who will regulate the size and the postage on that? Would they still agree that this is a great Idea is the US postal service was the one that made a profit?
I am still surprised to this day that there is not a better solution to e-mail. Maybe that is the next killer app....the race is on boys they are just trying to figure out how to make the most money on it.
"We will give you 3 dollars wholesale for that book, we have enough."
I would rather burn this 72.50 book for warmth in the middle of the summer stuck in the fucking sahara desert than give it to your for 3 bucks.
---I later sold it for 40 bucks to a girl buying the same book in line. Everyone wins, sort of.
So let me get this straight. A guild, in games that thrive of male ego and boasting, is getting blasted on slashdot. How ironic.
I am not in this guild, but I have played in a number of games that they circulate in. They are very well organized, also float to the top, and on average are nice guys.
I think it is funny and ironic that some of you would look at a website, which I looked at, and realize it is a spoof of sorts.
Anyway, good on them. They just got sponsered to play games. Hell, most people can't get sponsered to work....just look at a large portion of slashdot.
yea little over the top.
My problem is with not knowing what your getting.
That is pretty much it, plenty of very smart people everywhere. You just don't know what you getting when you outsource like you do when you have them in house.
Sure, you could shop around for a drink.
1000 a month for what? Where? Could I stick you stick a 4 people in that place? He has kids and a wife.
5 bucks for a crown and coke? Hell I can't hardly find a crown and coke in Florida for 5 dollars.
You must be living in a 700sq box, drinking sparkling water called beer.
Not trying to rag ya, but I don't want to live that way and I am sure he does not either.
Find me a 1500sq apartment in south of the GWB for 1000 buck that I don't have to worry about someone cutting my arm off to get to my watch and I will stand corrected.
Lived there for 3 years. Although this does not make me and expert, I do know a little more that the visiting tourist. Yea I got a 7.50 crown and coke now and then, but I have never had one for 5 bucks.
I know the best programmer I have ever had the chance to work with made 112k a year. Keep in mind these are "New York City" rates, where he was paying 2200 a month in rent. 1600 a year for car insurance, and 10.50 for a mixed drink at your downtown bar. Lets not get into the fact that he was working 75+ hours a week on average either.
Down here in Florida senior programmers are lucky to see 1/2 that at best.
Big numbers make for big headlines. No one ever puts 2 and 2 together.
My friend, could program a circle around 10 of the best offshore programmers you could throw at him. The problem is, they(management) only sees dollar signs, not quality, not the fact you are here on the spot, and not the kind of job your doing....so what if 6 programmers offshore can't do his job, they like the way the numbers work and are not bright enough to understand that they are actually hurting the company.
Again, what do I know. I am just your average government worker now, but I can zap you from space!
---typed for speed, did not check spelling or grammer. In fact I did not even read over it.
You would think I would have put TCO...ho well...can't win them all.
Peace out and all the hippy stuff, this is just a flame war waiting to happen.
I think we are both right.
Happy Holidays, and best wishes Johnny.
I agree, if you have no other solution besides "free" you have a winner in linux.
I was not really pointing at this story. As his needs and resources are the driving force here. If money is a major issue in the project then of course you are going with "the best tool for the job" in picking linux. Unless linux in the long wrong will cost you more man hours to support, eclipsing your savings on the free OS. This happens everyday, I know because I see it.
The "best tool for the job" of course has to take money into consideration. But if you save 200 bucks on the OS, but then spend 10 hours trying to make it work with a windows domain what good has it done you. Unless management has no concept of TOS(total cost of ownership) this is a loosing battle. I will agree that most everything you do on Windows will cost you, but does it cost so much to get "ease of use", that you will to support it with you man hours?
I guess if your time is worth nothing, then linux will always be the solution.
This is just a question to the linux public, this maybe be just a little off topic but here we go anyway. I have karma to burn.
.net and nothing but microsoft on the workstations there is no good reason to try to force them to program on linux/apache. There is not a good reason to try to force them to use samba, and there is not a good reason for DNS to be run on Linux in that shop.
Why do so many linux guys ignore "best tool for the job" and just force linux into a solution? I mean it is clear that linux has very good uses, just as windows does. Yet I have watched time and time again someone force linux or solaris into a job that would have worked better as a windows machine.
Before you get on your high horse and scream that there is nothing that windows can do that linux can not do better just save it. Your wrong, dead wrong. In an all windows shop running
There are plenty of awesome reasons to use linux, but for petes sake your shooting yourself in the collective foot when you try to force linux in. You end up having management hear "integration" issues...The linux DNS is not talking to the ADS correctly....the Syslog server is not responding....that damn linux.....I could go on and on on this because someone forced linux into a shop that was all windows. Then did it poorly on top of that.
I guess what I am trying to say is that Linux is not always the answer. Sometimes, you have to pick the best tool for the job, and sometimes that is not linux. Pick your battles my friends, and put linux in where it will shine like a white knight if your looking to change minds. Don't just take on every job with the idea that your going to "make them use linux". Find that perfect high profile job that linux will shine at, not the problem child job that you know is going to have issues.
You want more linux in the shop? Start by putting it in the right place and follow up on it like you should. Don't just 1/2 ass force it.
Just my 2 bits...I may just be bitter cleaning up after 1/2 assed linux imps that have gone wrong this week.
For christ sake "Don't Cross the Streams!"