I'd like to see you run Linux,
Check knit a sweater,
Check and fix a car.
check play a musical instrument,
You got me there, I'm just a drummer (Or used to be)
Only one thing I will argue with you about.
You say:
There is a good reason for this. Democratic government is meant to be by and for "the people". Government has a monopoly on some things, so they need the restraint/
The actual main reason is that we live in a Republic not a Democracy, and it is to prevent "Tyranny of the Masses".
The theory, anyway, is that the government WILL listen to the people. It is to prevent the majority of the people (via the government) from imposing their will on a minority
There is a partial answer to that credit card problem - Don't use them! Yep, I have one credit card, BUT, it's balance is paid off, IN FULL, every month, and has been, even when I was an electronics tech, back in the days when the "electronics" downturn hit.
Yeah, I may not have as many "toys" as the next guy, but guess what? Except for my mortgage, I don't have any debt, and haven't had any in years.
I remember my parents stories about the Depression, and have always taken them to heart.
I work for a VB house, and now, MAYBE, we can hire some good programmers - maybe.
Yep, I've seen those 1 year of VB guys too, and we wouldn't hire them either.
GOOD work CAN be done in any language, and the basics are the same in all of them. ALL the Sr guys in our group can do C and or C++ and HAVE, we all do at least some SQL work, and some are full fleged DBAs in their own right.
There were too many programmers out there (and I'll admit, way to many of them we "VB Programmers") who thought they could program because they could write "Hello, World", and had taken the shrink wrap off the box.
With 10+ years of various experience (DOS Basic, DOS C, MASM, VB,C++, T-SQL, XML etc) including design from the ground up of some "Non-trivial" systems, I'm not TOO worried. I'm being a bit cautious in buying a new house, but that's about it
The problem is that almost all the comparisons you see talk about the Federal tax VS European Federal taxes. Our taxes are lower on that level, BUT MOST European countries have almost no state and local taxes
If you live in a "High Tax" state, like NY, by the time you get done with Federal and State Income taxes, you can hit the 50% mark, and often do! You see, to make up for the high cost of living in NY, they pay you more, so that the average income is higher. It leads to "Bracket Creep"
Then you have to add in Local taxes, and various excise taxes. For instance, why does Gas in NY cost 10 cents a gallon more than gas 100 yds aweay in NJ? State taxes. Want to know what you pay in property taxes around here? Got 8k a year?
Don't forget 8.25% Sales tax, your "Phone Tax", your "Heating Oil Tax", your WWII Emergency Tire Tax (Hidden in the price of tires), if you buy sporting goods, your Pittman Roberts tax, etc - There are a LOT of taxes hidden in the price of goods
OK,
It doesn't answer the original question (Factory floor keyboard, unless it's LIGHT industry), but If you follow the IBM Keyboard saga, IBM spun off their keyboards to Lexmark, who eventually decided to leave the keyboard business, so they spun off a company called Unicomp, who still makes IBM style keyboards, plus 'Others". Their web address is
http://www.pckeyboard.com
EVERY one of my PCs (Including the one at work that my boss owns) has a Unicomp keyboard
The classic 101 key buckling spring IBM Branded keyboard costs $49. If you WANT the windows keys (and a IBM stick type pointer), it's $59
Drafting is one of those skills (Like woodworking) where learning to do it by HAND, first, is an important skill. There will be many times where you have to lay out a print etc on a physical item. Your NOT going to fit a slab of sheet metal in your laser printer.
The skill you learn, like what the different line types mean, and HOW to do a layout carries over just fine, and in fact, rapidly shows you the real limitations of most of the lower end CAD programs out there - and I count AutoCAD as a lower end cad! AutoCAD, and a LOT of the other CAD programs out there are great for architectural CAD by stink to mechanical CAD
That said, there is a AutoCAD clone, called Intellicad, that is available free, from http://www.cadopia.com
Heck,
I still work in the same town, but 3 years ago I took a 7% cut in pay to take a job that was more compatable with my lifestyle. We all make those kind of choices
Let's see,
As others have said - They have the US Military - The interesting one is your comment about Japan having a small Military. They do and don't
Japan technically doesn't have any military, just the Home Defense Forces, but here is a trivia question for you - What country has the SECOND largest Navy? Yep, Japan. The Japanese military is actually surprisingly large, and we won't count how much of the American military is in Japan. There are HUGE problems with this right now. The people of Okinawa are kinda pissed at the US right now
OK,
Back when I was starting my own company, I had a client that had a non compete clause about working for competitors. My Lawyer explained that Non-compete clauses are ALMOST non-enforcable
How enforcable a clause is depends on HOW the company treated you, and compensated you. If they claim that your idea was "vital to their business", they had better have 1)Given you a title that refected that, and 2)Compensated you to match. If they missed either one, it is evidence that you were NOT vital.
They also can NOT word a non compete in such a way that
1)Prevents you from working in your field
2)Requires you to move your household
The CAN require you to commute 2 hours or so each way, but if the distance gets so long that you can't make a living - bye bye
YES, C++ does cut it, for building an OS. Business don't WANT to build an OS.
OK, Let's look at what is really done in the corporate world. What percentage of apps are written in, say VC++ vs VB? Answer? About 99% VB.
Remember the triangle, Good, Quick, Cheap - Pick two! Well most of corporate America has picked Quick and Cheap as the main parts - That leads to RAD tools. The few places you see GOOD, Quick are places like brokerages, where you see UNIX and/or VC++ development
C++ is probably the most powerful tool out there. Perfect for writing an OS, and yes, you can write the best Insurance Claims app with it. The problem is that it'll take longer to do than companies are willing to wait, and cost more
OK, First an admission, I'm a Linux Newbee, but have been around/. and computers a LONG time
I don't know how many of you were doing professional computer work back when the IBM PC was new, and were programmers when Windows 3.0 came out, but I was.
Here is a little history lesson, from MY point of view.
Windows 2.x and 3.0 were niche market products. In many ways, Linux today (market wise) reminds me of Windows 3.0. A lot of people and particularly businesses are interested, but there is NO reason to change, and some real reasons not to. Even though web based apps are all the rage, MOST business apps are still N Tier client/server. Right_NOW_ (stop - don't tell me about Kylix - I'll get there) there is no GOOD way to right business apps for the Linux desktop, just like there was no tool except C to write Windows apps back during the early Windows 3.0 days
Then something happened - Microsoft came out with VB 1.0, and did there best to make sure that any developer who wanted it, got it. The gave good tech support. All of a sudden, there was a way for companies to write their own custom in house programs. A few companies took the risk (I was hired by one of them), and we succeeded. By the time Win 3.1 came out 6-9 months later, we had apps. But the big thing was, not only did Microsoft show of Windows, the dragged developers who were writing in VB to places like Comdex, and showed off those in house apps, and allowed people to talk to them. Awards for developers, nice parties etc. Why? It showed businesses that there was a way to write apps. Windows took off
Linux has not had that. Yeah, we have Perl, and C++, but they don't cut it.
We are about to have that - Kylix.
Want to bet that there will be companies that buy Linux now, because there is a GOOD RAD tool? I'll tell you what - I'm hedging MY bets, and learning Linux as fast as I can, and you had better believe that there is a copy of Kylix coming my way.
I don't know of any bank which allows any person, even the president, full access to everything. There has to be a system of human checks and balances whenever there is something of high value to be protected.
You are SO right it's not funny. I've done a bunch of development work for a couple of banks. I'll tell you a typical setup
We had three identical systems
Development
Test
Production
The Development group had Read/write to the development server, and full read, and VERY limited write permissions to test - we could put stuff in a drop box. We had LIMITED read privileges on the production servers - like WHO was on the server, and what the bin files looked like, so that we could audit the system, but NOT the data - we could NOT read the data
The Production admins had read only permissions on the development server (again, admin reasons), could read/write to the test server, BUT had read only to the drop box, and were full admins on the production box.
ANY changes made to the software were tested fully on the development box, and a script was written to apply these changes to the test/development boxes. A copy of the production database from the PREVIOUS month was loaded on the test database, and the script applied. ALL the transactions for the previous month were entered, and if the results on the test box matched the results for end of month on the production server, THEN, and ONLY then would the production admins take the script from the test box, and apply it to the production server. We would then audit production against test, to make sure that no one changed the script.
You know, it's fairly easy to talk bosses into this when they know that if they screw up, they will be spending time behind bars
I have it (on fairly good authority) that the best (worst) thing you can do to a junk mailer is send back those postage paid envelopes with an oz or so of the "sparkles" you can get in most craft shops.
They are stick tenaciously to EVERYTHING, including the scan heads of the mail sorters, and jam up the works. Word has it that it takes about 1/2 hour to clean up after this happens
Re:does this break the theory of relativity?
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Stop, Light.
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That's what I was saying. The original poster said "I thought Light always moved at C" and I replied "No, light moves at a MAXIMUM of C, and can move slower" - Now, stopped IS slower, right?
Yep,
Outpatient - That's how they did mine, and then your told "Stay home for a week".
BTW It's actually 4 incisions, the longest being one CM, 2 being punctures about 1/8" in diameter, and the 3rd being about 1/2 CM. The operation is called a Laproscopic choleocystectomy (spelling?). The guy who did mine was the inventor of the technique.
Like I said, your still out over a week. I had mine done on a Friday, and came back on the Monday after missing the whole next week.
Trust me. Your sore enough moving around for the first few days that you won't be back MUCH sooner than that. You might get in some terminal time, but you won't be lifting any boxes.
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I'd like to see you run Linux,
Check
knit a sweater,
Check
and fix a car.
check
play a musical instrument,
You got me there, I'm just a drummer (Or used to be)
Anyone else notice them in the background?
We're a republic because of the Constitution
BTW
That sentence no sentence
There is a partial answer to that credit card problem - Don't use them! Yep, I have one credit card, BUT, it's balance is paid off, IN FULL, every month, and has been, even when I was an electronics tech, back in the days when the "electronics" downturn hit.
Yeah, I may not have as many "toys" as the next guy, but guess what? Except for my mortgage, I don't have any debt, and haven't had any in years.
I remember my parents stories about the Depression, and have always taken them to heart.
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be.."
I work for a VB house, and now, MAYBE, we can hire some good programmers - maybe.
Yep, I've seen those 1 year of VB guys too, and we wouldn't hire them either.
GOOD work CAN be done in any language, and the basics are the same in all of them. ALL the Sr guys in our group can do C and or C++ and HAVE, we all do at least some SQL work, and some are full fleged DBAs in their own right.
There were too many programmers out there (and I'll admit, way to many of them we "VB Programmers") who thought they could program because they could write "Hello, World", and had taken the shrink wrap off the box.
With 10+ years of various experience (DOS Basic, DOS C, MASM, VB,C++, T-SQL, XML etc) including design from the ground up of some "Non-trivial" systems, I'm not TOO worried. I'm being a bit cautious in buying a new house, but that's about it
Yeah, in parts of the US, we do!
The problem is that almost all the comparisons you see talk about the Federal tax VS European Federal taxes. Our taxes are lower on that level, BUT MOST European countries have almost no state and local taxes
If you live in a "High Tax" state, like NY, by the time you get done with Federal and State Income taxes, you can hit the 50% mark, and often do! You see, to make up for the high cost of living in NY, they pay you more, so that the average income is higher. It leads to "Bracket Creep"
Then you have to add in Local taxes, and various excise taxes. For instance, why does Gas in NY cost 10 cents a gallon more than gas 100 yds aweay in NJ? State taxes. Want to know what you pay in property taxes around here? Got 8k a year?
Don't forget 8.25% Sales tax, your "Phone Tax", your "Heating Oil Tax", your WWII Emergency Tire Tax (Hidden in the price of tires), if you buy sporting goods, your Pittman Roberts tax, etc - There are a LOT of taxes hidden in the price of goods
Blame Canada
OK,
It doesn't answer the original question (Factory floor keyboard, unless it's LIGHT industry), but If you follow the IBM Keyboard saga, IBM spun off their keyboards to Lexmark, who eventually decided to leave the keyboard business, so they spun off a company called Unicomp, who still makes IBM style keyboards, plus 'Others". Their web address is
http://www.pckeyboard.com
EVERY one of my PCs (Including the one at work that my boss owns) has a Unicomp keyboard
The classic 101 key buckling spring IBM Branded keyboard costs $49. If you WANT the windows keys (and a IBM stick type pointer), it's $59
Call me old school, BUT
Drafting is one of those skills (Like woodworking) where learning to do it by HAND, first, is an important skill. There will be many times where you have to lay out a print etc on a physical item. Your NOT going to fit a slab of sheet metal in your laser printer.
The skill you learn, like what the different line types mean, and HOW to do a layout carries over just fine, and in fact, rapidly shows you the real limitations of most of the lower end CAD programs out there - and I count AutoCAD as a lower end cad! AutoCAD, and a LOT of the other CAD programs out there are great for architectural CAD by stink to mechanical CAD
That said, there is a AutoCAD clone, called Intellicad, that is available free, from http://www.cadopia.com
When working in windoes I use the old standby - Fixedsys - The font is bold enough to be read
Charlie
(also an old school programmer)
Heck,
I still work in the same town, but 3 years ago I took a 7% cut in pay to take a job that was more compatable with my lifestyle. We all make those kind of choices
Let's see, As others have said - They have the US Military - The interesting one is your comment about Japan having a small Military. They do and don't Japan technically doesn't have any military, just the Home Defense Forces, but here is a trivia question for you - What country has the SECOND largest Navy? Yep, Japan. The Japanese military is actually surprisingly large, and we won't count how much of the American military is in Japan. There are HUGE problems with this right now. The people of Okinawa are kinda pissed at the US right now
OK,
Back when I was starting my own company, I had a client that had a non compete clause about working for competitors. My Lawyer explained that Non-compete clauses are ALMOST non-enforcable
How enforcable a clause is depends on HOW the company treated you, and compensated you. If they claim that your idea was "vital to their business", they had better have 1)Given you a title that refected that, and 2)Compensated you to match. If they missed either one, it is evidence that you were NOT vital.
They also can NOT word a non compete in such a way that
1)Prevents you from working in your field
2)Requires you to move your household
The CAN require you to commute 2 hours or so each way, but if the distance gets so long that you can't make a living - bye bye
Thad,
What ever happed to the clip I saw WAY back when at NYIT with the Ants (one and was driving an ant like machine...)
YES, C++ does cut it, for building an OS. Business don't WANT to build an OS.
OK, Let's look at what is really done in the corporate world. What percentage of apps are written in, say VC++ vs VB? Answer? About 99% VB.
Remember the triangle, Good, Quick, Cheap - Pick two! Well most of corporate America has picked Quick and Cheap as the main parts - That leads to RAD tools. The few places you see GOOD, Quick are places like brokerages, where you see UNIX and/or VC++ development
C++ is probably the most powerful tool out there. Perfect for writing an OS, and yes, you can write the best Insurance Claims app with it. The problem is that it'll take longer to do than companies are willing to wait, and cost more
Interesting premise
/. and computers a LONG time
Of course, equilibrium CAN be shifted.
OK, First an admission, I'm a Linux Newbee, but have been around
I don't know how many of you were doing professional computer work back when the IBM PC was new, and were programmers when Windows 3.0 came out, but I was.
Here is a little history lesson, from MY point of view.
Windows 2.x and 3.0 were niche market products. In many ways, Linux today (market wise) reminds me of Windows 3.0. A lot of people and particularly businesses are interested, but there is NO reason to change, and some real reasons not to. Even though web based apps are all the rage, MOST business apps are still N Tier client/server. Right_NOW_ (stop - don't tell me about Kylix - I'll get there) there is no GOOD way to right business apps for the Linux desktop, just like there was no tool except C to write Windows apps back during the early Windows 3.0 days
Then something happened - Microsoft came out with VB 1.0, and did there best to make sure that any developer who wanted it, got it. The gave good tech support. All of a sudden, there was a way for companies to write their own custom in house programs. A few companies took the risk (I was hired by one of them), and we succeeded. By the time Win 3.1 came out 6-9 months later, we had apps. But the big thing was, not only did Microsoft show of Windows, the dragged developers who were writing in VB to places like Comdex, and showed off those in house apps, and allowed people to talk to them. Awards for developers, nice parties etc. Why? It showed businesses that there was a way to write apps. Windows took off
Linux has not had that. Yeah, we have Perl, and C++, but they don't cut it.
We are about to have that - Kylix.
Want to bet that there will be companies that buy Linux now, because there is a GOOD RAD tool? I'll tell you what - I'm hedging MY bets, and learning Linux as fast as I can, and you had better believe that there is a copy of Kylix coming my way.
Actually Adid was trained in the US, by the US Army
You are SO right it's not funny. I've done a bunch of development work for a couple of banks. I'll tell you a typical setup
We had three identical systems
The Development group had Read/write to the development server, and full read, and VERY limited write permissions to test - we could put stuff in a drop box. We had LIMITED read privileges on the production servers - like WHO was on the server, and what the bin files looked like, so that we could audit the system, but NOT the data - we could NOT read the data
The Production admins had read only permissions on the development server (again, admin reasons), could read/write to the test server, BUT had read only to the drop box, and were full admins on the production box.
ANY changes made to the software were tested fully on the development box, and a script was written to apply these changes to the test/development boxes. A copy of the production database from the PREVIOUS month was loaded on the test database, and the script applied. ALL the transactions for the previous month were entered, and if the results on the test box matched the results for end of month on the production server, THEN, and ONLY then would the production admins take the script from the test box, and apply it to the production server. We would then audit production against test, to make sure that no one changed the script.
You know, it's fairly easy to talk bosses into this when they know that if they screw up, they will be spending time behind bars
>Juvenal delinquent
OUCH GROAN BAD
Quis custodiet ipso custodes?
Who shall guard the guards?
The sorters are at the junk mailer, not the PO. The get sliced open and the INSIDE sorted.
A bit of inside scoop - the reason the ALL have you afix some sort of stamp is that they usually have magnetic ink, so the can autosort
I have it (on fairly good authority) that the best (worst) thing you can do to a junk mailer is send back those postage paid envelopes with an oz or so of the "sparkles" you can get in most craft shops.
They are stick tenaciously to EVERYTHING, including the scan heads of the mail sorters, and jam up the works. Word has it that it takes about 1/2 hour to clean up after this happens
That's what I was saying. The original poster said "I thought Light always moved at C" and I replied "No, light moves at a MAXIMUM of C, and can move slower" - Now, stopped IS slower, right?
Yep,
Outpatient - That's how they did mine, and then your told "Stay home for a week".
BTW It's actually 4 incisions, the longest being one CM, 2 being punctures about 1/8" in diameter, and the 3rd being about 1/2 CM. The operation is called a Laproscopic choleocystectomy (spelling?). The guy who did mine was the inventor of the technique.
Like I said, your still out over a week. I had mine done on a Friday, and came back on the Monday after missing the whole next week.
Trust me. Your sore enough moving around for the first few days that you won't be back MUCH sooner than that. You might get in some terminal time, but you won't be lifting any boxes.