Try flying outside of the key cities that Microsoft designates as important and you'll quickly realize their city databases aren't any better than anyone elses.
They are all getting significantly better on each release though.
My father just purchased X-plane recently (last week). There is no way Flight SIm has more terrain, it MAY have more detailed terrain, but X-plane + Scenery has 90-100% of the world for terrain. And includes an editor to modify it if you want. (Note: the scenery portion is handled as an external project and many people around the world are updating the scenery to be more accurate where they fly, or live.).
I am thoroughly impressed with the functionality and the attention to relevent detail in X-plane. And have to admire the developers intent.
X-plane is inherently extensible too, supports UDP for updating/changing a large number of things so you can use multiple computers for interfacing with it. Microsoft hasn't a chance in the long run if X-plane continues to advance at it's current rate.
It is my understanding that it isn't all that uncommon to have new flight students close their eyes while flying a plane. They are then put into a dive, or some other orientation and asked to correct it, without opening their eyes. They fail. Why? Because you don't have as much feeling as you think and they are told to trust, and use their instruments. (And yes, looking is important as well.)
Don't know what car you refer to but, studies have shown that headlights on REDUCE accidents (atleast up until virtually all cars have them on.) Even in the day time. But, most newer cars I have seen have day-time running lights. NOT HEADLIGHTS. They are not focused like headlights and they do not turn on the tail-lights. (My petpeve is all the idiots driving during blizzards without their lights on. Very hard to see the back of a car when it is covered in snow and no lights.)
What's the problem? You sign over the rights to use, or modify the code. You don't sign over the rights to distrubute it.
*OR* Sign it over to him under the GPL and restrict yourself from distributing it.
Any body he hires to modify it is restrained by the contract they sign with him as it is an internal project (to his company), and -if- he ever decides to release it he can do so.
And no future developers can take any rights away from him on the code, or modifications to the code. (ie: they couldn't hand him binaries without sourcecode).
If you want to get paid to develop something you have to expect that you won't have full rights to it when your done. If you client says 'sure, no problem', great. Otherwise you won't have a choice.
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We call that "Drunks on Main Street". Best viewing around 11pm and 2am.
The biggest step backwardsd microsoft took with the help files was converting over the IE. It's improved since, but initially they lost significant functionality.
By the wy, the markup language used by the help engine BEFORE switching to IE was actually very similar to HTML, retaining the old engine, updating the help compiler without losing functionality could have been down with minimal effort.
Find a small company that wants to hire a programmer, doesn't want to spend the cash for a Univ. grad and is willing to take the risk. You might not get paid much better than the help desk, but it will get you in the door. That counts for more than a diploma in many cases.
And as much as you don't think nightschool is an option, if you really want to be a programmer you might have to go that route. The good thing is, most of the nightschool courses related to programming shouldn't take up too much of your time. Most people spend the time trying to figure out why printf keeps crashing their program. You won't have that problem.
98% of Windows -is- modular. THe 2% that isn't has been carefully co-ordinated to prevent removal of modules. This would generally be considered bad design if it were indeed a mistake.
Occasionally all developers (Microsoft, etc) will accidentally create a non-modular design decision, but up until Microsoft figured it would be an advantage to NOT have a modular version of windows it was their goal. It makes applying changes easier, not harder for the entire system to be modular.
According to Microsoft there are NOT significant structural differences between Windows XP and Windows XP Embeded. Oh, there are differences, mostly because the intended platforms are not identical. But the majority of it is shared code. (prior version of their embeded system shared less than the current, they are progressing towards MORE modular design).
Obviously you haven't been paying attention the the recent details of Microsoft trying to charge people for using Hotmail... They keep sending me mail informing me I should (for various reasons) elect to pay for their service.
You should try dealing with services in a country other than your own, even for neighbors with close ties it can be a royal pain in the ass (Canada and the U.S. in my case). Never mind that the exchange rate puts a significant damper on things. (Ironic twist: I can buy most music cheaper in Canada than you can in the U.S., but the Canadian dollar is worth a fraction of the U.S. dollar...)
I personally know Gord, can't say he's a friend of mine, but I don't hate him either. I just dislike his politics when it comes to SPAM.
I'd rather see the judge in this case declair the whole list void and deny either party from using it.:>
I had dinner with Gord back in about 1998 just after he relocated to Manitoba from B.C. and we discussed the DUL. I didn't like the fact that during the discussion he indicated that my server, running attached to a cablemodem, would be on his list. At the time my Internet provider was having problems sending mail, my solution was to setup my Linux box (firewall, etc) to send outgoing mail. (Relaying explicitly PREVENTED) For me it was the perfect solution, Shaw/@home was not having significant problems receiving mail. Even if there mail server was down mail intended for me would eventually make it through, outgoing mail was an issue because my Windows based mail program would not try repeatedly to send mail. (And I liked what I was using).
My solution allowed me to continue using the software I wanted to use, and I didn't have to go overboard trying to configure sendmail. (That program is almost scary, but thats a discussion for another day).
The amusing, to me, thing about the DUL list is that any provider that feels they should use the list should, in that view, filter outgoing traffic intedned for port 25. Thereby making it impossible for their users to send the same type of email they are filtering on incoming. If all providers which used DUL did that there would probably be less span, and even less of a need for DUL, and it would be *OBVIOUS* your ISP was the issue. Not the ISP at the other end you have no control of.
Personally I find the various balcklists on the net for dealing with SPAM amusing. They don't work 100%, and as such they (in my mind) discourage a proper solution to the problem as they limit it, without remivng it. Enough spam gets through that spammers continue with it, and providers don't get fed up to the point of declaring all out war on SPAM.
Very few experts will say something is impossible. If they are truely experts they may have seen the impossible done repeatedly. Sure, they may be able to understand it after it is done, but people do come up with new things and most Experts acknowledge they don't know EVERYTHING about a subject.
That said, I still can't believe people fell for it.
The correct trick is to actually have the lights for the entire intersection eb red for.5 seconds. Lengthening the yellow causes a slight decrease in iccidences until drivers adapt. And they will adapt.
Here we train people to drive through red-lights by installing straight-arrow lights. The straight arrows, hard to see because the lights are dirty, sun glare etc are a pale green (often), with a RED light above it you can see for miles.
It's such a brilliant method that is causes all kinds of tourists to get rear-ended every year.
Actually your partly mistaken. In *CANADA* you are expected to enter an intersection on a green light *UNLESS* the Interesection is blocked. This means for instance that if the cars on the other side of the insersection would make it impossible to clear the intersection then you are in fact violating the law, BUT if you are making a left turn and the light is green you are REQUIRED to enter the intersection to make the turn. Even if that means you cannot complete the turn until the yellow light. As long as traffic is flowing you are required to enter the intersection.
Here atleast, the result is: you have a monetary fine, but you are not considered guilty of a traffic violation. Your car is. And you are responsible for any fines on your car. The same as you would be responsible for any parking tickets your car gets while someone you lent the car to it parks illegally.
People who defend peoples rights to run RED LIGHTS deserve to be shot. Here the light is Yellow for far longer than is necessary to clear an intersection on a typical day, yet people se the yellow light and speed up to make it.
Note: red light camera rules here are: No ticket will be issued unless the car ENTERS the Intersection on a Red Light. The speed of the vehicle will be recorded on the picture as well. A 3 person panel will determine if a ticket is appropriate, in the event any 1 party disagrees no ticket will be issued.
I have NEVER had an intelligent conversation about this topic where everyone didn't conceed that any valid reason to run a red light would make the fine anything other than a nuisance.
If you run the red light because your rushing someone to the hopsital that is bleeding to death in the backseat of your car, tell me, do you give a shit about the fine? I doubt it.
If you roll through the light to get out of the way of an emergency vehicle you arn't likely to get a ticket since your speed will be signifantly less than usual.
People who run red-lights risk my life, and yours, not just their own. I watch people run red lights EVERY DAY. At some intersections I have been nearly hit by people running redlights while I was a pedestrian. I don't expect I would have survived had I been hit.
(As for if your car is 'stolen'; you arn't reposnible if you car is reported stolen. You'll have to sue the individual yourself if it isn't reported stolen. What would you do for a parking ticket issued when you didn't have the car?)
$50,000 is a lot of money, do you make enough money to pay off that debt if you left?
Would you be allowed to pay it back over time. What timeline?
It sounds to me like someone is pulling a stunt. $50,000 is a heck of a lot of training.
Will they sign an agreement saying you will be paid for 3 years work and cannot be laid off. (Ie: they would be forced to pay out the contract).
I've signed an agreement in the past for $5,000. It expired 1 year later. By happenstance I never had the privledge of applying any of it. I later found out my employer paid virtually nothing for the training. They only paid for the trip itself. No training costs. (Trip expenses accounted for about $2000.).
To me it sounds like your employer is attempting to get people 'dedicated' to the company. This may not be a good sign. Evaluate the value of the training to yourself. Would you be able to leave the company and make $50,000 a year more? If so then it might be understandable your employer is reluctant.
Depending on the sophistication of the system in use it won't do you any good. An interview with the head designer of such a system from 3 years ago indicated their system could differentiate between a live, attached finger and an amputated finger.
Aside from it taking me 3 months to get my ATI card working as it SHOULD...
(All-in-Wonder Rage 128) I finally can get the TV-tuner working and watch TV while I use dual monitors.
Never did figure out HOW I GOT IT WORKING. (This under Win2K)
ATI drivers *SUCK*. Their DVD support SUCKS (I have a standalone MPEG2 decoder card, I've had it since I was using a Pentium 166, it has always played DVDs flawlessly.) On my Pentium III ATI's DVD support glitches now and then.
I was better off under W95 with my Pentium 166, & creative Labs decoder.
I will not consider an ATI card again until they improve their driver support and pull their head out of their ass. (Mpeg2 encoding should be done in hardware, it takes a Pentium III to do it in software, and you can't do much else...)
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Try flying outside of the key cities that Microsoft designates as important and you'll quickly realize their city databases aren't any better than anyone elses.
They are all getting significantly better on each release though.
My father just purchased X-plane recently (last week). There is no way Flight SIm has more terrain, it MAY have more detailed terrain, but X-plane + Scenery has 90-100% of the world for terrain. And includes an editor to modify it if you want. (Note: the scenery portion is handled as an external project and many people around the world are updating the scenery to be more accurate where they fly, or live.).
I am thoroughly impressed with the functionality and the attention to relevent detail in X-plane. And have to admire the developers intent.
X-plane is inherently extensible too, supports UDP for updating/changing a large number of things so you can use multiple computers for interfacing with it.
Microsoft hasn't a chance in the long run if X-plane continues to advance at it's current rate.
It is my understanding that it isn't all that uncommon to have new flight students close their eyes while flying a plane. They are then put into a dive, or some other orientation and asked to correct it, without opening their eyes. They fail. Why? Because you don't have as much feeling as you think and they are told to trust, and use their instruments. (And yes, looking is important as well.)
Never mind having to bundle up when it's -35C.
Don't know what car you refer to but, studies have shown that headlights on REDUCE accidents (atleast up until virtually all cars have them on.) Even in the day time. But, most newer cars I have seen have day-time running lights. NOT HEADLIGHTS.
They are not focused like headlights and they do not turn on the tail-lights. (My petpeve is all the idiots driving during blizzards without their lights on. Very hard to see the back of a car when it is covered in snow and no lights.)
What's the problem? You sign over the rights to use, or modify the code. You don't sign over the rights to distrubute it.
*OR* Sign it over to him under the GPL and restrict yourself from distributing it.
Any body he hires to modify it is restrained by the contract they sign with him as it is an internal project (to his company), and -if- he ever decides to release it he can do so.
And no future developers can take any rights away from him on the code, or modifications to the code. (ie: they couldn't hand him binaries without sourcecode).
If you want to get paid to develop something you have to expect that you won't have full rights to it when your done. If you client says 'sure, no problem', great. Otherwise you won't have a choice.
We call that "Drunks on Main Street". Best viewing around 11pm and 2am.
The biggest step backwardsd microsoft took with the help files was converting over the IE. It's improved since, but initially they lost significant functionality.
By the wy, the markup language used by the help engine BEFORE switching to IE was actually very similar to HTML, retaining the old engine, updating the help compiler without losing functionality could have been down with minimal effort.
Find a small company that wants to hire a programmer, doesn't want to spend the cash for a Univ. grad and is willing to take the risk. You might not get paid much better than the help desk, but it will get you in the door. That counts for more than a diploma in many cases.
And as much as you don't think nightschool is an option, if you really want to be a programmer you might have to go that route. The good thing is, most of the nightschool courses related to programming shouldn't take up too much of your time. Most people spend the time trying to figure out why printf keeps crashing their program. You won't have that problem.
Some of us don't agree. I don't enjoy Shakespeare, and I think some of it IS crap. Not because I don't like it, but because I think it is crap.
(Lots of stuff I don't like isn't crap, but then, lots of art isn't art...)
What the hell planet are you from?
98% of Windows -is- modular. THe 2% that isn't has been carefully co-ordinated to prevent removal of modules. This would generally be considered bad design if it were indeed a mistake.
Occasionally all developers (Microsoft, etc) will accidentally create a non-modular design decision, but up until Microsoft figured it would be an advantage to NOT have a modular version of windows it was their goal. It makes applying changes easier, not harder for the entire system to be modular.
According to Microsoft there are NOT significant structural differences between Windows XP and Windows XP Embeded. Oh, there are differences, mostly because the intended platforms are not identical. But the majority of it is shared code. (prior version of their embeded system shared less than the current, they are progressing towards MORE modular design).
Obviously you haven't been paying attention the the recent details of Microsoft trying to charge people for using Hotmail... They keep sending me mail informing me I should (for various reasons) elect to pay for their service.
:>
You should try dealing with services in a country other than your own, even for neighbors with close ties it can be a royal pain in the ass (Canada and the U.S. in my case). Never mind that the exchange rate puts a significant damper on things. (Ironic twist: I can buy most music cheaper in Canada than you can in the U.S., but the Canadian dollar is worth a fraction of the U.S. dollar...)
I personally know Gord, can't say he's a friend of mine, but I don't hate him either. I just dislike his politics when it comes to SPAM.
I'd rather see the judge in this case declair the whole list void and deny either party from using it.
I had dinner with Gord back in about 1998 just after he relocated to Manitoba from B.C. and we discussed the DUL. I didn't like the fact that during the discussion he indicated that my server, running attached to a cablemodem, would be on his list. At the time my Internet provider was having problems sending mail, my solution was to setup my Linux box (firewall, etc) to send outgoing mail. (Relaying explicitly PREVENTED) For me it was the perfect solution, Shaw/@home was not having significant problems receiving mail. Even if there mail server was down mail intended for me would eventually make it through, outgoing mail was an issue because my Windows based mail program would not try repeatedly to send mail. (And I liked what I was using).
My solution allowed me to continue using the software I wanted to use, and I didn't have to go overboard trying to configure sendmail. (That program is almost scary, but thats a discussion for another day).
The amusing, to me, thing about the DUL list is that any provider that feels they should use the list should, in that view, filter outgoing traffic intedned for port 25. Thereby making it impossible for their users to send the same type of email they are filtering on incoming. If all providers which used DUL did that there would probably be less span, and even less of a need for DUL, and it would be *OBVIOUS* your ISP was the issue. Not the ISP at the other end you have no control of.
Personally I find the various balcklists on the net for dealing with SPAM amusing. They don't work 100%, and as such they (in my mind) discourage a proper solution to the problem as they limit it, without remivng it. Enough spam gets through that spammers continue with it, and providers don't get fed up to the point of declaring all out war on SPAM.
I still haven't figured out how a site gets 'Slashdotted', I mean it's not like anybody on Slashdot actually READS THE ARTICLES. but I digress...
Here in Winnipeg we have white LED's for Walk lights at a few intersections.
Here the ticket will not affect insurance.
As far as I know, nowhere in Canada does a ticket from a photoradar or redlight camera affect insurance.
Very few experts will say something is impossible. If they are truely experts they may have seen the impossible done repeatedly. Sure, they may be able to understand it after it is done, but people do come up with new things and most Experts acknowledge they don't know EVERYTHING about a subject.
That said, I still can't believe people fell for it.
The correct trick is to actually have the lights for the entire intersection eb red for .5 seconds. Lengthening the yellow causes a slight decrease in iccidences until drivers adapt. And they will adapt.
Here we train people to drive through red-lights by installing straight-arrow lights. The straight arrows, hard to see because the lights are dirty, sun glare etc are a pale green (often), with a RED light above it you can see for miles.
It's such a brilliant method that is causes all kinds of tourists to get rear-ended every year.
Actually your partly mistaken. In *CANADA* you are expected to enter an intersection on a green light *UNLESS* the Interesection is blocked. This means for instance that if the cars on the other side of the insersection would make it impossible to clear the intersection then you are in fact violating the law, BUT if you are making a left turn and the light is green you are REQUIRED to enter the intersection to make the turn. Even if that means you cannot complete the turn until the yellow light.
As long as traffic is flowing you are required to enter the intersection.
Here atleast, the result is: you have a monetary fine, but you are not considered guilty of a traffic violation. Your car is. And you are responsible for any fines on your car. The same as you would be responsible for any parking tickets your car gets while someone you lent the car to it parks illegally.
People who defend peoples rights to run RED LIGHTS deserve to be shot. Here the light is Yellow for far longer than is necessary to clear an intersection on a typical day, yet people se the yellow light and speed up to make it.
Note: red light camera rules here are:
No ticket will be issued unless the car ENTERS the Intersection on a Red Light. The speed of the vehicle will be recorded on the picture as well. A 3 person panel will determine if a ticket is appropriate, in the event any 1 party disagrees no ticket will be issued.
I have NEVER had an intelligent conversation about this topic where everyone didn't conceed that any valid reason to run a red light would make the fine anything other than a nuisance.
If you run the red light because your rushing someone to the hopsital that is bleeding to death in the backseat of your car, tell me, do you give a shit about the fine? I doubt it.
If you roll through the light to get out of the way of an emergency vehicle you arn't likely to get a ticket since your speed will be signifantly less than usual.
People who run red-lights risk my life, and yours, not just their own.
I watch people run red lights EVERY DAY. At some intersections I have been nearly hit by people running redlights while I was a pedestrian. I don't expect I would have survived had I been hit.
(As for if your car is 'stolen'; you arn't reposnible if you car is reported stolen. You'll have to sue the individual yourself if it isn't reported stolen. What would you do for a parking ticket issued when you didn't have the car?)
$50,000 is a lot of money, do you make enough money to pay off that debt if you left?
Would you be allowed to pay it back over time. What timeline?
It sounds to me like someone is pulling a stunt. $50,000 is a heck of a lot of training.
Will they sign an agreement saying you will be paid for 3 years work and cannot be laid off. (Ie: they would be forced to pay out the contract).
I've signed an agreement in the past for $5,000. It expired 1 year later. By happenstance I never had the privledge of applying any of it. I later found out my employer paid virtually nothing for the training. They only paid for the trip itself. No training costs. (Trip expenses accounted for about $2000.).
To me it sounds like your employer is attempting to get people 'dedicated' to the company. This may not be a good sign. Evaluate the value of the training to yourself. Would you be able to leave the company and make $50,000 a year more? If so then it might be understandable your employer is reluctant.
Depending on the sophistication of the system in use it won't do you any good. An interview with the head designer of such a system from 3 years ago indicated their system could differentiate between a live, attached finger and an amputated finger.
except for the odd bad batch (it happens) all MAC id's are supposed to be absolutly unique.
The level of detail analysed on finger prints probably doesn't approach the same level of uniqueness.
Enabled or disabled DMA the DVD playback to ATI cards is no-where near as good as the seperate card I bought with my DVD drive.
I had very good results with the MPEG2 decoder and my DVD drive on a Pentium 166mmx -without- DMA enabled.
On my Pentium III 500Mhz with the ATI card and DMA enabled it isn't as good.
Aside from it taking me 3 months to get my ATI card working as it SHOULD...
(All-in-Wonder Rage 128) I finally can get the TV-tuner working and watch TV while I use dual monitors.
Never did figure out HOW I GOT IT WORKING.
(This under Win2K)
ATI drivers *SUCK*. Their DVD support SUCKS (I have a standalone MPEG2 decoder card, I've had it since I was using a Pentium 166, it has always played DVDs flawlessly.) On my Pentium III ATI's DVD support glitches now and then.
I was better off under W95 with my Pentium 166, & creative Labs decoder.
I will not consider an ATI card again until they improve their driver support and pull their head out of their ass. (Mpeg2 encoding should be done in hardware, it takes a Pentium III to do it in software, and you can't do much else...)