Although most likely true, this just goes to show that adjectives follow fashion and fall out of favor.
The bible of software engineering algorithms?--The Art of Computer Programming (vol. 1-4) by Donald Knuth. I'm pretty sure that the humble Knuth wouldn't have a problem describing himself as a Programmer.
The Sci-Fi channel bought the rights, had the show on for a few years and then apparently grew uncomfortable with the fact that technological improvements always make old sci-fi movies look hilarious. And so they killed it. I guess they couldn't stand to have a great show continue to ridicule their current programming.
Interestingly, they have been adamant about defending the trademark of the show they killed: http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=55
"In its filing, Best Brains Inc., which owns the âoeMystery Science Theater 3000â trademark, claims âoeMr. Sinus,â which was previously known as âoeMr. Sinus Theater 3000â and in which Pollet, Egerton and Erler sit in the cinemaâ(TM)s front row, poking fun at bad movies, is infringing on its trademark.
The show has run since September 2002, and regularly sells out."
The sides of the game are not equal: white, making the first move has a slight statistical and tactical advantage whereby he is first to propose the layout; inherently, in the beginning, white acts and black reacts. Of course, as soon as white makes an unnecessary or throwaway move, the odds even up.
A large part of the strategy of playing black is devising a trap where white gets to feel overconfident, throws away moves, and hopefully loses pieces.
The most versatile employees are axed last: the sys admin who can put up a web page showing disk usage stats and his schedule and task list (and keep it full) will keep his job over the one who doesn't.
The developer who knows an extra language the company wants to use/has bought a software package dependent on the language, etc--will keep his job longer. Also, productivity and experience counts.
Of course all things aren't always equal and never forget that while you may be a creative techie, work is still politics, may I recommend:
The 48 Laws of Power
(no, I'm not the author)
As for potential industries, I'd have to pick three: security, health care, and small businesses. Lot of people may say/think biotech, but it's already a crowded house with an uphill challenge. Even by the best estimates 1 in 10 biotech companies will survive/make anything. Pfizer has a hit with a boner pill and everyone thinks they're going to strike it rich. Zeesh! looks like nothing has been learned from the dot.com idiots.
You have an excellent point, and it's a magnanimous effort to try and broaden the content scope of/. (The motto "news for nerds..." is tongue-in-cheek, right?--Of course "geeks" need more than chips and bytes).
Did you get any budget money from your publisher for doing your own marketing? I sure hope so, the publising industry is legalized rape.
Cooker (Soon to publish a mammoth JSP tome)
p.s. I'm curious, with your older books, are you going to rewrite them, resell the rights, or--gasp!--make copies available online?
That's just it, Oracle has made it's name by staking it's reputation on data integrity and rock solid redo logs, locking and supporting utilities.
What this means is that they have stood up in court numerous times, "If the Oracle database is setup and properly configured, YOU WILL NOT LOSE ANY DATA." Surely the argument does get fine-grained, i.e. "you won't lose any data up to the milisecond of the catastrophe, etc" but basically the guarantee is of NASA proportions, and that is why Oracle has the lion's share of banks, governments and serious businesses. I don't recall ANY other vendor making such promises. If you know of any, please inform me; it's about time Software makers be held to the same industry standards as everybody else.
--Of course Oracle has the worst command SQL interface, crappy extensions (Forms bullshit, web DB etc) but KaChing is more than a city...
Cooker
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Although most likely true, this just goes to show that adjectives follow fashion and fall out of favor.
The bible of software engineering algorithms?--The Art of Computer Programming (vol. 1-4) by Donald Knuth.
I'm pretty sure that the humble Knuth wouldn't have a problem describing himself as a Programmer.
MST should still be on the air.
The Sci-Fi channel bought the rights, had the show on for a few years and then apparently grew uncomfortable with the fact that technological improvements always make old sci-fi movies look hilarious. And so they killed it. I guess they couldn't stand to have a great show continue to ridicule their current programming.
Interestingly, they have been adamant about defending the trademark of the show they killed:
http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=55
"In its filing, Best Brains Inc., which owns the âoeMystery Science Theater 3000â trademark, claims âoeMr. Sinus,â which was previously known as âoeMr. Sinus Theater 3000â and in which Pollet, Egerton and Erler sit in the cinemaâ(TM)s front row, poking fun at bad movies, is infringing on its trademark.
The show has run since September 2002, and regularly sells out."
The sides of the game are not equal: white, making the first move has a slight statistical and tactical advantage whereby he is first to propose the layout; inherently, in the beginning, white acts and black reacts. Of course, as soon as white makes an unnecessary or throwaway move, the odds even up.
A large part of the strategy of playing black is devising a trap where white gets to feel overconfident, throws away moves, and hopefully loses pieces.
The most versatile employees are axed last: the sys admin who can put up a web page showing disk usage stats and his schedule and task list (and keep it full) will keep his job over the one who doesn't.
The developer who knows an extra language the company wants to use/has bought a software package dependent on the language, etc--will keep his job longer. Also, productivity and experience counts.
Of course all things aren't always equal and never forget that while you may be a creative techie, work is still politics, may I recommend: The 48 Laws of Power (no, I'm not the author)
As for potential industries, I'd have to pick three: security, health care, and small businesses. Lot of people may say/think biotech, but it's already a crowded house with an uphill challenge. Even by the best estimates 1 in 10 biotech companies will survive/make anything. Pfizer has a hit with a boner pill and everyone thinks they're going to strike it rich. Zeesh! looks like nothing has been learned from the dot.com idiots.
peace,
Cooker
Mr. Katz,
/. (The motto "news for nerds..." is tongue-in-cheek, right?--Of course "geeks" need more than chips and bytes).
You have an excellent point, and it's a magnanimous effort to try and broaden the content scope of
Did you get any budget money from your publisher for doing your own marketing? I sure hope so, the publising industry is legalized rape.
Cooker
(Soon to publish a mammoth JSP tome)
p.s. I'm curious, with your older books, are you going to rewrite them, resell the rights, or--gasp!--make copies available online?
That's just it, Oracle has made it's name by staking it's reputation on data integrity and rock solid redo logs, locking and supporting utilities. What this means is that they have stood up in court numerous times, "If the Oracle database is setup and properly configured, YOU WILL NOT LOSE ANY DATA." Surely the argument does get fine-grained, i.e. "you won't lose any data up to the milisecond of the catastrophe, etc" but basically the guarantee is of NASA proportions, and that is why Oracle has the lion's share of banks, governments and serious businesses. I don't recall ANY other vendor making such promises. If you know of any, please inform me; it's about time Software makers be held to the same industry standards as everybody else. --Of course Oracle has the worst command SQL interface, crappy extensions (Forms bullshit, web DB etc) but KaChing is more than a city... Cooker