Sorry, I can't agree. When conversing with a passenger, I don't turn my head from the road to watch their face, and I think that's true of most of us. Hands free works fine for me without impairing my driving. But it's a matter of priorities, the driving has to come first and if I'm in a tricky part of town (road construction, stop and go traffic, etc.) I'll often tell the person I'm speaking to that I have to go and they'll understand.
And you really think that Verizon will give up the advantage it has right now so that the smaller players are on an even playing field? I don't think so.
No, eventually this will sort itself out, the cell system in still a young industry ( 20 years) and is rapidly becoming the primary phone for most people. Let competition keep going and see where it leads. Where I live, AT&T has decent coverage and so they need to concentrate their improvements in more crowded urban areas.
They (ATT) need to work toward unlimited calling as well as data, IMO. It seems silly to limit calls and practically give away the data stream.
As a gay programmer myself, it often amazed the people I worked with that the two parts of my personality weren't in conflict. I very seldom ran into predjudice, though. In fact, often I was recognized as a good teacher and the other employees felt free to come and ask my help when they had a tough coding problem.
Alan Turing has been an idol of mine for a long time, and he was treated badly, yes. But more important than the apology is the recognition that there have been contributions of significance to the world by gay men and women and transgendered persons. Our history has been actively suppressed for centuries, but we are finally being recognized as having value in the modern age.
God bless Alan Turing, and Gordon Brown. Every little bit of kindness and generosity makes the world a better place for all of mankind.
Lots of non-programmers think that the only thing programmers do all day is type code. And often, if they're your boss, they will not understand if you are sitting at your desk, eyes glazed, thinking. But "prior proper planning prevents piss-poor performance."
Thinking counts as part of your job. But don't think abstractly, put thoughts down on paper, maybe write some pseudocode to get the structure of the program down. Then begin (as a previous poster suggested) with a small task from the pseudocode, and code it up.
Seriously, if you can show that you're working on the problem (with pseudocode or other notes), often your boss will leave you alone and leave you get the coding done.
Not sure I agree with their pick of Lotus 1-2-3, as Visicalc was the app that made Apple computers suddenly "useful" for something other than hobbying. And granted they mentioned Visicalc, but it was Visicalc that convinced IBM that there might be something to this "personal computer" craze.
Not sure if operating systems count, either, but both Unix and the Mac GUI should count as "killer" - Unix for its longevity and hardiness some 40 yrs later, and the Mac GUI for proving that people would use a GUI rather than a command line.
I'd agree with a previous post that MacPaint (and later Photoshop and Illustrator) should be in there.
Hypercard, while a huge hit on the Mac, never translated to the PC, so I'm afraid it doesn't make the cut.
I agree with their inclusion of Quark XPress, though again it was another app that led to its creation - Framemaker, originally written for Sun, was later paired with the Mac and Adobe's Postscript printers to create desktop publishing.
I also disagree with Minesweeper. I'd vote for one of the earlier computer games, like, say Zork or the Hitchhiker's Guide. There were lots of folks like me spending their nights mapping Zork or trying to figure out what the pocket fluff in Arthur's pocket was for.
On balance, it seemed their picks were very PC-centric.
I'd label each one "Do Not Use This Drive." I'd put a program on it labelled, "Do Not Open This Program." Create the program so that it causes their mail client to email you from their email account. See how many emails you get. This would be a good opportunity to teach them how they can protect themselves from data theft, trojans, etc.
You must not live in the midwest (or the south) where the local cops can (and will) do whatever they can get away with, esp. in small towns and out in the county. It can be as simple as, "We knew your daddy and he was a bad apple."
Here in Kansas City we had a sheriff whose son pleaded guilty to indecent liberties with a child as well as child rape.
The "law" is only as fair as those who enforce it.
Au contraire mon frere! I just recently bought a 2002 dual processor Powermac G4 for 275 bucks. It runs the latest version of Mac OS X, runs great, and I paid about 10% of its original price.
You should qualify your statement - "Used computers aren't good value for your money UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR."
If you're a saavy bargain-hunter you can find real gems on eBay or in the classifieds.
"Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over "I love you." --Capt. Kirk to Edith Keeler
Currently my home machine is Ghostwheel. Previous machines have been named Morpheus (from the Matrix, not mythology), Kermit (it was green), Batman (and Robin), and HAL 9000.
..a "stay" is just like hitting the pause button. Perhaps we're all jumping the gun here. It may be that (like so many things Bush left) Obama hasn't had time to review this case and filed to keep it paused until the Justice Dept. can give him an opinion.
Or, I could be totally wrong and DOOM is around the corner...;)
Geez! For people who are fortunate enough to work in the field they love, some of them sure complain a lot! Y'all sound like a gaggle of old crones kvetching about the new butcher in town.
Having worked for a "cowboy coder" (someone who wasn't trained in programming) in the past, I recommend you take some programming classes at your local university. There are subjects covered there that won't be in your company-sponsored classes. You need to understand the implications of large sorts, relational databases, writing modular and reusable code, etc.
The reason why they do this is because they haven't a clue what we do and they're trying to put some qualitative or objective number on each person to help guide them to hire someone. It's human nature to try and analyze what we don't understand.
That being said, I, too, would feel insulted if someone asked me to submit to a silly test. It depends on what sort of job you're interviewing for, I suppose. If you're going to manage the IT department, testing your skill set is less important, since you'll be delegating most of the work anyway..
We should not trust Microsoft, no matter how nice their liaison to the FOSS community, until they drop their claims that Linux distros infringe their patents. Either they need to specify WHICH patents or withdraw the claim entirely.
If we give in to anything less, we're selling out and lending cred to M$, not to mention allowing them to make money off of FOSS through their "licensing" program.
In the "good old days" (which weren't all that, truthfully) we paid by the hour for AOL, Compuserve, and Delphi. Then flat rates per month came along! And God saw that it was good.
This metering is a step backward. I certainly wouldn't stay with an ISP that used these rules, and I hope others will also dump stupid ISP's.
Next they'll want to charge you based on the actual size of the files in that zip file you downloaded instead of the size of the zip file. Where does it end?
Surprisingly, one of the best "investments" I've made was a Ronco Showtime Oven. It really is "set it and forget it." And this rotisserie oven turns out the juiciest chicken I've ever eaten. Shortly after buying it I asked the guy at the butcher counter at the store for some suggestions, only to find out that he has one of these ovens also!
While I've never made homemade rootbeer, there used to be a small diner here in Kansas City that made their own and it was unlike any I've ever had - sweet and the flavors were very rich! Sadly, the diner closed several years ago and the root beer is no more.
Mom always taught me that anything you could buy at the store or a restaurant could be made cheaper at home. In the late 60's and early 70's I watched her make cheese, can jelly and pickles, bake bread, and try winemaking.
Because of that, I sometimes bake bread, love to cook, and have started making my own pickles.
I think the idea of applying the FOSS method to recipes is brilliant!
The complaints I have about apple: 1) Highway robbery for RAM/HDs from their website No Mac user with any intelligence buys RAM or HD's from Apple, that's common knowledge.
2) Bank robbery for their hard drive prices for XServe See #1 above, though I'm not an XServe owner and can't testify that outside drives would work.
3) Spreadsheet performance (Excel 2008, OOo 2.4, Numbers '08) What? Each product you mention has a different code base, I don't see how ALL of them could have similar performance? Are you implying that Apple's processors don't do math fast enough? (oh, wait, they're using Intel, the same as everyone else)
4) Closed, shitty file formats for their iWork and iLife products Agreed. You got me here.
5) Pain in the ass to install free *nix software It's no harder to use Fink or Port than it is apt-get or aptitude. If you use the GUI's (FinkCommander and Porticus), then you get the same functionality with a Mac UI. Either way, this comment is junk.
Their computers are over priced, but are perfect for casual, non-technical yuppy types, or people who have to use Final Cut / Logic Pro. Or for IT types (me included) who get tired of using Windows at work and dealing with blue screens and drivers that don't work (or that Windows "can't find") or software that "just breaks." My Mac has always been a calm oasis in the desert that is Windows, where I can focus on what I'm doing, not how to fix something that's broken.
This country isn't a country anymore. We're all owned by Jennings & Rall.
The idea is that (folks in the) US Government are _supposed_ to be making decisions that are best for the _rest_ of us (i.e. - the country as a whole) and not just their campaign contributors.
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Sorry, I can't agree. When conversing with a passenger, I don't turn my head from the road to watch their face, and I think that's true of most of us. Hands free works fine for me without impairing my driving. But it's a matter of priorities, the driving has to come first and if I'm in a tricky part of town (road construction, stop and go traffic, etc.) I'll often tell the person I'm speaking to that I have to go and they'll understand.
And you really think that Verizon will give up the advantage it has right now so that the smaller players are on an even playing field? I don't think so.
No, eventually this will sort itself out, the cell system in still a young industry ( 20 years) and is rapidly becoming the primary phone for most people. Let competition keep going and see where it leads. Where I live, AT&T has decent coverage and so they need to concentrate their improvements in more crowded urban areas.
They (ATT) need to work toward unlimited calling as well as data, IMO. It seems silly to limit calls and practically give away the data stream.
As a gay programmer myself, it often amazed the people I worked with that the two parts of my personality weren't in conflict. I very seldom ran into predjudice, though. In fact, often I was recognized as a good teacher and the other employees felt free to come and ask my help when they had a tough coding problem.
Alan Turing has been an idol of mine for a long time, and he was treated badly, yes. But more important than the apology is the recognition that there have been contributions of significance to the world by gay men and women and transgendered persons. Our history has been actively suppressed for centuries, but we are finally being recognized as having value in the modern age.
God bless Alan Turing, and Gordon Brown. Every little bit of kindness and generosity makes the world a better place for all of mankind.
Yes, not using CSS is crazy. Especially since CSS includes the concept of media types. A simple "media='print'" in the CSS spec should hand that.
Right on. Wish I'd said that.
Lots of non-programmers think that the only thing programmers do all day is type code. And often, if they're your boss, they will not understand if you are sitting at your desk, eyes glazed, thinking. But "prior proper planning prevents piss-poor performance."
Thinking counts as part of your job. But don't think abstractly, put thoughts down on paper, maybe write some pseudocode to get the structure of the program down. Then begin (as a previous poster suggested) with a small task from the pseudocode, and code it up.
Seriously, if you can show that you're working on the problem (with pseudocode or other notes), often your boss will leave you alone and leave you get the coding done.
Not sure I agree with their pick of Lotus 1-2-3, as Visicalc was the app that made Apple computers suddenly "useful" for something other than hobbying. And granted they mentioned Visicalc, but it was Visicalc that convinced IBM that there might be something to this "personal computer" craze.
Not sure if operating systems count, either, but both Unix and the Mac GUI should count as "killer" - Unix for its longevity and hardiness some 40 yrs later, and the Mac GUI for proving that people would use a GUI rather than a command line.
I'd agree with a previous post that MacPaint (and later Photoshop and Illustrator) should be in there.
Hypercard, while a huge hit on the Mac, never translated to the PC, so I'm afraid it doesn't make the cut.
I agree with their inclusion of Quark XPress, though again it was another app that led to its creation - Framemaker, originally written for Sun, was later paired with the Mac and Adobe's Postscript printers to create desktop publishing.
I also disagree with Minesweeper. I'd vote for one of the earlier computer games, like, say Zork or the Hitchhiker's Guide. There were lots of folks like me spending their nights mapping Zork or trying to figure out what the pocket fluff in Arthur's pocket was for.
On balance, it seemed their picks were very PC-centric.
I agree, this is the best idea I've seen in this thread. Now, about next year....?
I'd label each one "Do Not Use This Drive." I'd put a program on it labelled, "Do Not Open This Program." Create the program so that it causes their mail client to email you from their email account. See how many emails you get. This would be a good opportunity to teach them how they can protect themselves from data theft, trojans, etc.
You must not live in the midwest (or the south) where the local cops can (and will) do whatever they can get away with, esp. in small towns and out in the county. It can be as simple as, "We knew your daddy and he was a bad apple."
Here in Kansas City we had a sheriff whose son pleaded guilty to indecent liberties with a child as well as child rape.
The "law" is only as fair as those who enforce it.
To the mods - this isn't flamebait. It's just a joke. The previous post is more vicious than this post.
Au contraire mon frere! I just recently bought a 2002 dual processor Powermac G4 for 275 bucks. It runs the latest version of Mac OS X, runs great, and I paid about 10% of its original price.
You should qualify your statement - "Used computers aren't good value for your money UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR."
If you're a saavy bargain-hunter you can find real gems on eBay or in the classifieds.
"Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over "I love you."
--Capt. Kirk to Edith Keeler
Currently my home machine is Ghostwheel. Previous machines have been named Morpheus (from the Matrix, not mythology), Kermit (it was green), Batman (and Robin), and HAL 9000.
..a "stay" is just like hitting the pause button. Perhaps we're all jumping the gun here. It may be that (like so many things Bush left) Obama hasn't had time to review this case and filed to keep it paused until the Justice Dept. can give him an opinion.
Or, I could be totally wrong and DOOM is around the corner... ;)
Geez! For people who are fortunate enough to work in the field they love, some of them sure complain a lot! Y'all sound like a gaggle of old crones kvetching about the new butcher in town.
Having worked for a "cowboy coder" (someone who wasn't trained in programming) in the past, I recommend you take some programming classes at your local university. There are subjects covered there that won't be in your company-sponsored classes. You need to understand the implications of large sorts, relational databases, writing modular and reusable code, etc.
The reason why they do this is because they haven't a clue what we do and they're trying to put some qualitative or objective number on each person to help guide them to hire someone. It's human nature to try and analyze what we don't understand.
That being said, I, too, would feel insulted if someone asked me to submit to a silly test. It depends on what sort of job you're interviewing for, I suppose. If you're going to manage the IT department, testing your skill set is less important, since you'll be delegating most of the work anyway..
We should not trust Microsoft, no matter how nice their liaison to the FOSS community, until they drop their claims that Linux distros infringe their patents. Either they need to specify WHICH patents or withdraw the claim entirely.
If we give in to anything less, we're selling out and lending cred to M$, not to mention allowing them to make money off of FOSS through their "licensing" program.
In the "good old days" (which weren't all that, truthfully) we paid by the hour for AOL, Compuserve, and Delphi. Then flat rates per month came along! And God saw that it was good.
This metering is a step backward. I certainly wouldn't stay with an ISP that used these rules, and I hope others will also dump stupid ISP's.
Next they'll want to charge you based on the actual size of the files in that zip file you downloaded instead of the size of the zip file. Where does it end?
Surprisingly, one of the best "investments" I've made was a Ronco Showtime Oven. It really is "set it and forget it." And this rotisserie oven turns out the juiciest chicken I've ever eaten. Shortly after buying it I asked the guy at the butcher counter at the store for some suggestions, only to find out that he has one of these ovens also!
While I've never made homemade rootbeer, there used to be a small diner here in Kansas City that made their own and it was unlike any I've ever had - sweet and the flavors were very rich! Sadly, the diner closed several years ago and the root beer is no more.
Mom always taught me that anything you could buy at the store or a restaurant could be made cheaper at home. In the late 60's and early 70's I watched her make cheese, can jelly and pickles, bake bread, and try winemaking.
Because of that, I sometimes bake bread, love to cook, and have started making my own pickles.
I think the idea of applying the FOSS method to recipes is brilliant!
1) Highway robbery for RAM/HDs from their website No Mac user with any intelligence buys RAM or HD's from Apple, that's common knowledge. 2) Bank robbery for their hard drive prices for XServe See #1 above, though I'm not an XServe owner and can't testify that outside drives would work. 3) Spreadsheet performance (Excel 2008, OOo 2.4, Numbers '08) What? Each product you mention has a different code base, I don't see how ALL of them could have similar performance? Are you implying that Apple's processors don't do math fast enough? (oh, wait, they're using Intel, the same as everyone else) 4) Closed, shitty file formats for their iWork and iLife products Agreed. You got me here. 5) Pain in the ass to install free *nix software It's no harder to use Fink or Port than it is apt-get or aptitude. If you use the GUI's (FinkCommander and Porticus), then you get the same functionality with a Mac UI. Either way, this comment is junk. Their computers are over priced, but are perfect for casual, non-technical yuppy types, or people who have to use Final Cut / Logic Pro. Or for IT types (me included) who get tired of using Windows at work and dealing with blue screens and drivers that don't work (or that Windows "can't find") or software that "just breaks." My Mac has always been a calm oasis in the desert that is Windows, where I can focus on what I'm doing, not how to fix something that's broken.
Seems to be /.'d as of 3am CDT.
This country isn't a country anymore. We're all owned by Jennings & Rall.
The idea is that (folks in the) US Government are _supposed_ to be making decisions that are best for the _rest_ of us (i.e. - the country as a whole) and not just their campaign contributors.