A living testament to the value of picking the right horse career-wise, I make $85k doing Java/J2EE/XML stuff about half an hour outside of Boston. I jumped on the J2EE bandwagon before it really got rolling, and will forever have just that much more experience than the next guy.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Meme: "a unit of cultural inheritance, hypothesized as analogous to the particulate gene and as naturally selected by virtue of its 'phenotypic' consequences on its own survival and replication in the cultural environment."
Agreed, this is good news for the P2P community, and the illegal file sharing community too. The wording is such that the writers of a given piece of software are liable only if they intended for the software to be used for illegal purposes when they wrote it. This means that software like BitTorrent will never be illegal, even if it subsequently used for drowning puppies or passing information to Communists, because it was written with good intentions.
Intent (within a given time span) is so hard to prove that, with this ruling, you could get away with darn near anything. Just keep a diary of your intentions to use your new P2P software to cure world hunger.
Our dev lead specs out to our manager how long a task should take, and he consistently underestimates, basing everything on his 11-hour-a-day work schedule. The rest of our team usually just half-asses it. I tend to just tell my boss right up front that it's going to take 10-20% longer, at which point the usual response is, "Work late, slacker". Our lead was off for a month, during which time I put in my own estimate for a new project. The manager bitched about the time, but thankfully my coworkers backed me up on the estimate. I was about 3 days from finishing on schedule when the dev lead came back (from India, if you must know), and decided to redesign my project. Now my ass is in the fire for his whimsy, and my manager's general assholeishness. </bitchfest>
It's a whole different ballgame when your accurate estimates and detailed specs are "re-tooled" right out from under you. After a year and a half of this crap, the tech economy's finally good enough that I'm interviewing Friday with a competitor down the street. Wish me luck!
Wow, gotta love them finicky mods. How many other comments have been to both +5 *and* -1 in the space of 8 hours? America, vhaat a caantry!
Back on topic, the dean was probably just trying to avoid a hassle by denying the prof use of their lecture halls. Most likely, he, personally, didn't feel like dealing with the publicity. The dumbass professor went behind the dean's back and held the lecture anyway, bringing exactly the publicity the dean was trying to avoid. This was a real two-fer: pissing off the dean *and* insubordination. The prof effectively got himself fired, and I'm sure he wasn't surprised in the least.
The prof was making himself into a martyr, which is the last thing any cause needs. It's also the last thing the world needs.
First, the dude resigned. Sure, maybe he was "pressured" into it, but if you intend to make a big fscking deal about it, you might as well make sure the other side flinches first.
Second, the administration had every right to fire him anyway. He made unauthorized use of their facilities by holding what amounted to a rally in their cafeteria, after he was denied use of the proper venues. The University was simply protecting its interests, and this guy was intent on raising a stink. Heck, he even "contacted SGAE, National Police, and the Attorney General in advance to inform them about it."
Yes, some laws are ridiculous, but don't expect your employer to pay you to rail against those laws on their property.
So, the rate of growth of the number of Firefox users is slowing, or for you calculus geeks out there, the second time derivative of the number of Firefox users is presently negative.
The good news is, the *third* derivative is positive, which means that the change rate of the growth rate is increasing. Soon enough, the growth rate will even out and eventually start increasing again!
Oh, and don't even get me started about the 5th derivative...
I'll ask the first guy to fly into the "hidden" tower why the fsck he was flying so damn low over my property in the first place. Planes overhead will bring down property values way faster than decent cell phone reception.
Wow, if only there were a moderation "Doesn't know what the hell he's talking about"...
1) The ability to allocate more memory space to Java apps.
From the command line, run "java -X". Note the -Xmx and -Xms options to allow you to control initial and maximum heap space. These options have been around for years.
2) 64 bit support.
Ever heard of the SPARC processor? You know, the one Sun produces, one of the first mass-market 64-bit platforms available?
Assuming you're talking about AMD64, there's already a JVM that supports it. Linux-only at the moment, but if you insist on using platforms that suck, there're already AMD64 Windows JRE release candidates up too.
3) Ability to/Easier implementation of hardware specific calls to speed calculations.
Now you're just missing the point entirely. One of the major goals of Java is that the same compiled binary can run on any machine with a compliant JVM written for it. When you start making calls to specific hardware, you lose that. Besides, if you *do* want to sacrifice the platform portability of your program, you can always just write a JNI module for it, but then I suppose you don't have a clue about that one either...
Nope, sorry. You're assuming that the government only spends money while you personally are working, which is an obviously false assumption. I don't know about you, but the last time *I* was out of work, the national debt continued to grow unabated.
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second. -JF
I call shenannigans on that one. Ya figure, people nowadays are living 2 or 3 billion seconds (60 to 100 years). If each of the ~275 million Americans alive today only paid for 1 of the seconds of your life, you'd have to die by age 10 for the math to work out.
Then again, maybe the US gov't really *is* spending money 10 times as fast as it's coming in...time to cash out my bonds!
So, you're saying you'd be unemployed if it weren't for nepotism?
Yes, I understand that this is the way the world works. It doesn't mean I have to like some of the sleazeball stuff that goes on around the hiring process sometimes.
So, this is just another hacking challenge. Like the hundreds of others out there (many/most of which are on Linux). What qualifies this to make it to slashdot?
The main difference is that this one was announced on a slow news day.
Yes, I demand more information on the tests. Specifically, what security vulnerabilities were found on what public-facing systems, and have they been patched yet?
To continue your analogy, it's true that most people don't give a flying fsck about their fridge, but you've got to expect to see a slightly different take at the Maytag fanboy web site.
average rises of average temperatures of up to 11K...
Wow! I suspected that global warming might be getting out of hand, but 11000 degrees is pretty big increase if you ask me. I mean, the Eskimos will have saunas where their igloos used to be. Spit will sizzle when it hits the sidewalk. The children won't have a snowball's chance in Hell of finishing their popsicles before they melt! Won't someone please think of the children?!?
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A living testament to the value of picking the right horse career-wise, I make $85k doing Java/J2EE/XML stuff about half an hour outside of Boston. I jumped on the J2EE bandwagon before it really got rolling, and will forever have just that much more experience than the next guy.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Meme: "a unit of cultural inheritance, hypothesized as analogous to the particulate gene and as naturally selected by virtue of its 'phenotypic' consequences on its own survival and replication in the cultural environment."
They've unwittingly discovered Melmac, a planet that fans of NBC's ALF have known about for years.
We tried that, but all these people with funny headwear (cowboy hats, towels) keep getting in the way.
Agreed, this is good news for the P2P community, and the illegal file sharing community too. The wording is such that the writers of a given piece of software are liable only if they intended for the software to be used for illegal purposes when they wrote it. This means that software like BitTorrent will never be illegal, even if it subsequently used for drowning puppies or passing information to Communists, because it was written with good intentions.
Intent (within a given time span) is so hard to prove that, with this ruling, you could get away with darn near anything. Just keep a diary of your intentions to use your new P2P software to cure world hunger.
Our dev lead specs out to our manager how long a task should take, and he consistently underestimates, basing everything on his 11-hour-a-day work schedule. The rest of our team usually just half-asses it. I tend to just tell my boss right up front that it's going to take 10-20% longer, at which point the usual response is, "Work late, slacker". Our lead was off for a month, during which time I put in my own estimate for a new project. The manager bitched about the time, but thankfully my coworkers backed me up on the estimate. I was about 3 days from finishing on schedule when the dev lead came back (from India, if you must know), and decided to redesign my project. Now my ass is in the fire for his whimsy, and my manager's general assholeishness.
</bitchfest>
It's a whole different ballgame when your accurate estimates and detailed specs are "re-tooled" right out from under you. After a year and a half of this crap, the tech economy's finally good enough that I'm interviewing Friday with a competitor down the street. Wish me luck!
Wow, gotta love them finicky mods. How many other comments have been to both +5 *and* -1 in the space of 8 hours? America, vhaat a caantry!
Back on topic, the dean was probably just trying to avoid a hassle by denying the prof use of their lecture halls. Most likely, he, personally, didn't feel like dealing with the publicity. The dumbass professor went behind the dean's back and held the lecture anyway, bringing exactly the publicity the dean was trying to avoid. This was a real two-fer: pissing off the dean *and* insubordination. The prof effectively got himself fired, and I'm sure he wasn't surprised in the least.
The prof was making himself into a martyr, which is the last thing any cause needs. It's also the last thing the world needs.
First, the dude resigned. Sure, maybe he was "pressured" into it, but if you intend to make a big fscking deal about it, you might as well make sure the other side flinches first.
Second, the administration had every right to fire him anyway. He made unauthorized use of their facilities by holding what amounted to a rally in their cafeteria, after he was denied use of the proper venues. The University was simply protecting its interests, and this guy was intent on raising a stink. Heck, he even "contacted SGAE, National Police, and the Attorney General in advance to inform them about it."
Yes, some laws are ridiculous, but don't expect your employer to pay you to rail against those laws on their property.
So, the rate of growth of the number of Firefox users is slowing, or for you calculus geeks out there, the second time derivative of the number of Firefox users is presently negative.
The good news is, the *third* derivative is positive, which means that the change rate of the growth rate is increasing. Soon enough, the growth rate will even out and eventually start increasing again!
Oh, and don't even get me started about the 5th derivative...
I'll ask the first guy to fly into the "hidden" tower why the fsck he was flying so damn low over my property in the first place. Planes overhead will bring down property values way faster than decent cell phone reception.
Wow, if only there were a moderation "Doesn't know what the hell he's talking about"...
1) The ability to allocate more memory space to Java apps.
From the command line, run "java -X". Note the -Xmx and -Xms options to allow you to control initial and maximum heap space. These options have been around for years.
2) 64 bit support.
Ever heard of the SPARC processor? You know, the one Sun produces, one of the first mass-market 64-bit platforms available?
Assuming you're talking about AMD64, there's already a JVM that supports it. Linux-only at the moment, but if you insist on using platforms that suck, there're already AMD64 Windows JRE release candidates up too.
3) Ability to/Easier implementation of hardware specific calls to speed calculations.
Now you're just missing the point entirely. One of the major goals of Java is that the same compiled binary can run on any machine with a compliant JVM written for it. When you start making calls to specific hardware, you lose that. Besides, if you *do* want to sacrifice the platform portability of your program, you can always just write a JNI module for it, but then I suppose you don't have a clue about that one either...
Nope, sorry. You're assuming that the government only spends money while you personally are working, which is an obviously false assumption. I don't know about you, but the last time *I* was out of work, the national debt continued to grow unabated.
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
-JF
I call shenannigans on that one. Ya figure, people nowadays are living 2 or 3 billion seconds (60 to 100 years). If each of the ~275 million Americans alive today only paid for 1 of the seconds of your life, you'd have to die by age 10 for the math to work out.
Then again, maybe the US gov't really *is* spending money 10 times as fast as it's coming in...time to cash out my bonds!
Wouldn't it not be the same size, though?
Hell, I bet they can come up with a collision of the exact same size. Same content, too.
So, you're saying you'd be unemployed if it weren't for nepotism?
Yes, I understand that this is the way the world works. It doesn't mean I have to like some of the sleazeball stuff that goes on around the hiring process sometimes.
So, this is just another hacking challenge. Like the hundreds of others out there (many/most of which are on Linux). What qualifies this to make it to slashdot?
The main difference is that this one was announced on a slow news day.
But for how much longer will local restaurants let people suck up all the bandwidth that is supposed to be serving all of the customers?
For that matter, how much bandwidth does a Skype VoIP call actually use?
Yes, I demand more information on the tests. Specifically, what security vulnerabilities were found on what public-facing systems, and have they been patched yet?
Inquiring minds want to know.
You new here?
To continue your analogy, it's true that most people don't give a flying fsck about their fridge, but you've got to expect to see a slightly different take at the Maytag fanboy web site.
Wouldn't there be some sort of technical limitations on how small a sat radio could get?
The radio itself can be pretty tiny. The tough part is finding room for the dish.
Score one for us dumb folks. All you nerds think you're all cool, but when the pressure's mounting you know you can rely on us idiots!
Also, how light bulbs are killing off gas lamps.
average rises of average temperatures of up to 11K...
Wow! I suspected that global warming might be getting out of hand, but 11000 degrees is pretty big increase if you ask me. I mean, the Eskimos will have saunas where their igloos used to be. Spit will sizzle when it hits the sidewalk. The children won't have a snowball's chance in Hell of finishing their popsicles before they melt! Won't someone please think of the children?!?
Patents and Open Source, Biotch!
Point of order: You'd actully need 33% more workers. 3/4 the output per workers means you need 4/3 as many of 'em.
Yeah, math's a bitch like that.