Amen. I pay for metered bandwidth for a couple of sites. I recently wrote a Windows installer that sets up Apache/PHP/MySQL. I'm SO glad I put it up on sourceforge instead of on the hosting I'm paying for. In the past 60 days or so, the 9MB package has been downloaded almost 30,000 times. I'm glad I only have to imagine the bandwidth bill for that and that was without the/. effect.
P.S. in case anyone's curious, the installer is called PHPTriad.
And being an English major doesn't make you an idiot unworthy of lofty programmer admiration and equality. If you're going to attack stereotypes, don't use them to back your arguement. There are a suprising number of liberal arts majors writing efficient and intelligent code.
3. Leave at 3:30. No more without extra pay at higher than normal rates. 40 hours a week solid. Any more and your high salary is an illusion. $75000 a year at 60 hours is equiv. to $50000 a year at 40. Anything beyond 40 hours should be paid as overtime.
4. Your 3 and 4 clash. If IT is not the be-all and end-all why are you only spending 3 hours per day awake and doing non-IT activities? Leave after 8 hours and ACTUALLY have a life. If you think 1 1/2 hours per day of non-IT is refreshing, try a few more. You might like it. Getting home at 4 gives you 6 hours awake and away from work. That's almost as much time as you're spending at work.
Wrong. My subscription expired over 3 months ago and they still sent me one. I have no contractual or subscription agreement with either magazine, haven't for over 3 months, and yet, I still was sent one.
That ultra-fast speed is a lot higher than 45 wpm. Do the math. In fact, to prove a point, I read your post aloud (approx 86 words including sig give or take) at a fairly slow pace. It took about 30 seconds. Thats 172 wpm. At a speed closer to your reference to ultra-fast, it only took 17 seconds. That's 303 wpm. So, using your post as a base, I'd speak at 172 to 300 wpm, but setting a base for constant flowing text at at least 150 wpm.
Consider: When learning how to touch-type most folks start out at approx 10-15 wpm. If you started at the same pace with voice training, and focused on learning how to speak so that the computer could understand you (After all, you have to work on how to hit the keys so that the proper words show up on the screen). I guarantee you'd be able to reach some pretty high speeds of dictation, even with existing software.
Well, my company just blocks all of them. Looking at a white paper that happens to be hosted on geocities? "This site has been blocked in the category SEX" in about 36 point font.
Which was ironically, written in a library on a rented typewriter. Would all local jurisdictions approve of writing controversial books on library resources?
Because some people watch both VHS tapes they already own or record in addition to DVD. These same people have stereos with surround sound that only have one auxilary input. That means for easy wiring, they desire to put the DVD into the VCR's AUX inputs and output the VCR's outputs to the stereo and TV. Macrovision screws that idea up. It only allows DVD --> TV connections. That means our ficticious(sp) consumer either has to switch the video and audio cables each time they switch between the VCR and DVD or they need to buy a stereo and TV with multiple inputs. All because of Macrovision.
Nowadays, under a modern GUI-only OS, you have to pay several hundered dollars for a compiler/degger/editor suite, then you have to work your way through several textbook sized tomes just to make a simple GUI app with no functionality other than the GUI. It's a lot tougher now.
Which is exactly why interpreted web scripting languages like PHP are taking off. You can build the GUI in HTML and PHP is fairly simple. You can get something useful in one learning session.
You don't have to "buy into 'everyone does it so it is right'" because it's not something you have to agree with. It's just the way things are. Linguistically, grammars and dictionaries are DEscriptive *not* PROscriptive. When a new edition of a dictionary comes out it is based on studying how the language is being used: in other words, what everyone is doing. They don't make mandates on usage, but merely say, "If you want to make sure that the highest number of English speakers understand you, use these words this way." As far as using "they" as a 3rd person gender neutral, I have several points. First, if that's what people are doing, it WILL become the standard. Second, English already uses pronouns with some ambiguity. "You" is used for both singular and plural. "He" carries a specific meaning to most folks in most situations. Currently is is still used for non-specific individuals, but most people still identify the use of "he" with maleness. Try this experiment. Take 100 or so people and give them statements like this, "A person walked into the store and headed to the clothing department. As he walked he remembered he needed shoes too." Now ask for a description of the "person". If the problem is "imaginary" you should get an equal number of descriptions of women as men. If not, the problem exists. Now try the same statement again with a different group and replace all instances of "he" with "they". See if that doesn't remove the male slant to the descriptions.
Exactly. At 120 hours per week, ANYONE can make a lot of money. As a matter of fact, at 120 hours per week, and $100,000 per year salary, you're only making $16.67/hour. That means that each hour of your work is worth LESS than the guy making $35K per year and only working 40 hours per week. I'd rather have my work valuable.
This new license frees me up. I've been working on a book on building intranets with PHP and I wanted the code to be cross platform, but PostgreSQL doesn't come in binary form for Windows, Access/MSSQL weren't available for UNIX, MySQL had a restrictive license for Windows. Now I can use MySQL with no problems. Woohoo.
Actually, they might not know to put the plate on themselves. Last week, I took my car in for its 15,000 mile service and there was a woman with her license plates in her hand. She had set an appointment to get them put on. Nothing else. That makes your statement even more sad.
"Getting a first-time novel picked up by a publishing house is quite rare. Going into the publishing business yourself, count on an expenditure of $30,000 to get you 5,000 and a place with a distributor."
$30,000 or $99 through Iuniverse.com and your distributers are Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Online, and any bookstore that orders from the Ingram catalog in whatever size runs they want. The books are printed on demand and available as quickly as most other books. Limited to 6" x 9" paperback format, but that's not much of a restriction. You may not be on the shelves in the local Borders by default, but no other publishing method guarantees that either. I've seen several of the titles published in this program on endcaps in my local B&N.
Titles can not be copyrighted. If an element in the name can be trademarked, that's a separate issue. For instance, a title like "Understanding Linux" can not be copyrighted, but your use of LinuxTM falls under trademark law.
Particularly when referring to song titles it'd quickly grow out of control to allow copyrighting titles. If I right a song called "Bleed" and could copyright the title, then NO ONE could call a song "Bleed" until almost a hundred years after I was dead. That's nuts.
Go read Robert Reich's "The Work of Nations". He classifies jobs as being producers, repetative or symbolic analysts. Producers create or grow things. Repetative workers do the same thing over and over. Factory workers are the obvious example, but he also classifies managers who repetatively check up on employees. Some programming could easily fall into this category. Just code exactly what this very detailed spec says to. The third category consists of people who solve problems. Some other types of programming would fall into this category. The first two categories of workers are the ones in trouble in the new economy.
I don't necessarily agree with everything in the book nor do I think my synopsis is entirely accurate, but it is a different perspective from blue collar/white collar on classifying workers.
What is the biggest advantage of Internet-based education? It's not tied to location, right? When you're not tied by location, you can end up with people from across the world in the class which makes IRC impractical for most folks. Forums let anyone participate on their own time. I don't want to take a class and find that if I can't be up at 3:00 am to be online in IRC, I will only be able to be a passive participant reading what happens. Remember, there is life outside your timezone. There are also a host of other factors that make forums better. Ever try to "chat" when your dog decides to chew on your entertainment center? Or your child starts screaming and needs to be taken care of? If the class is based on forums, you can come back and you will not only not miss anything, but you can participate at any point in the logged discussion. On IRC, the discussion passes you by. Sure you can read the transcripts, but then you aren't really participating in the class, you're going to a digital library.
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Amen. I pay for metered bandwidth for a couple of sites. I recently wrote a Windows installer that sets up Apache/PHP/MySQL. I'm SO glad I put it up on sourceforge instead of on the hosting I'm paying for. In the past 60 days or so, the 9MB package has been downloaded almost 30,000 times. I'm glad I only have to imagine the bandwidth bill for that and that was without the /. effect.
P.S. in case anyone's curious, the installer is called PHPTriad.
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Ummm. They GPL'd all of MySQL a while back. It's completely free in all ways for all platforms now. Really. Go check. I'll wait. See?
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And being an English major doesn't make you an idiot unworthy of lofty programmer admiration and equality. If you're going to attack stereotypes, don't use them to back your arguement. There are a suprising number of liberal arts majors writing efficient and intelligent code.
LetterJ
1. Come in at 7 (YES)
Take 30 min lunch
3. Leave at 3:30. No more without extra pay at higher than normal rates. 40 hours a week solid. Any more and your high salary is an illusion. $75000 a year at 60 hours is equiv. to $50000 a year at 40. Anything beyond 40 hours should be paid as overtime.
4. Your 3 and 4 clash. If IT is not the be-all and end-all why are you only spending 3 hours per day awake and doing non-IT activities? Leave after 8 hours and ACTUALLY have a life. If you think 1 1/2 hours per day of non-IT is refreshing, try a few more. You might like it. Getting home at 4 gives you 6 hours awake and away from work. That's almost as much time as you're spending at work.
LetterJ
Wrong. My subscription expired over 3 months ago and they still sent me one. I have no contractual or subscription agreement with either magazine, haven't for over 3 months, and yet, I still was sent one.
LetterJ
Cool sig. Don't see many VOL fans around. You could probably come up with hundreds of sigs from what he's written. Really interesting lyricist.
LetterJ
That ultra-fast speed is a lot higher than 45 wpm. Do the math. In fact, to prove a point, I read your post aloud (approx 86 words including sig give or take) at a fairly slow pace. It took about 30 seconds. Thats 172 wpm. At a speed closer to your reference to ultra-fast, it only took 17 seconds. That's 303 wpm. So, using your post as a base, I'd speak at 172 to 300 wpm, but setting a base for constant flowing text at at least 150 wpm.
Consider: When learning how to touch-type most folks start out at approx 10-15 wpm. If you started at the same pace with voice training, and focused on learning how to speak so that the computer could understand you (After all, you have to work on how to hit the keys so that the proper words show up on the screen). I guarantee you'd be able to reach some pretty high speeds of dictation, even with existing software.
LetterJ
Well, my company just blocks all of them. Looking at a white paper that happens to be hosted on geocities? "This site has been blocked in the category SEX" in about 36 point font.
LetterJ
"Time to reread Fareheit 451".
Which was ironically, written in a library on a rented typewriter. Would all local jurisdictions approve of writing controversial books on library resources?
LetterJ
Because some people watch both VHS tapes they already own or record in addition to DVD. These same people have stereos with surround sound that only have one auxilary input. That means for easy wiring, they desire to put the DVD into the VCR's AUX inputs and output the VCR's outputs to the stereo and TV. Macrovision screws that idea up. It only allows DVD --> TV connections. That means our ficticious(sp) consumer either has to switch the video and audio cables each time they switch between the VCR and DVD or they need to buy a stereo and TV with multiple inputs. All because of Macrovision.
LetterJ
Which is exactly why interpreted web scripting languages like PHP are taking off. You can build the GUI in HTML and PHP is fairly simple. You can get something useful in one learning session.
LetterJ
You don't have to "buy into 'everyone does it so it is right'" because it's not something you have to agree with. It's just the way things are. Linguistically, grammars and dictionaries are DEscriptive *not* PROscriptive. When a new edition of a dictionary comes out it is based on studying how the language is being used: in other words, what everyone is doing. They don't make mandates on usage, but merely say, "If you want to make sure that the highest number of English speakers understand you, use these words this way." As far as using "they" as a 3rd person gender neutral, I have several points. First, if that's what people are doing, it WILL become the standard. Second, English already uses pronouns with some ambiguity. "You" is used for both singular and plural. "He" carries a specific meaning to most folks in most situations. Currently is is still used for non-specific individuals, but most people still identify the use of "he" with maleness. Try this experiment. Take 100 or so people and give them statements like this, "A person walked into the store and headed to the clothing department. As he walked he remembered he needed shoes too." Now ask for a description of the "person". If the problem is "imaginary" you should get an equal number of descriptions of women as men. If not, the problem exists. Now try the same statement again with a different group and replace all instances of "he" with "they". See if that doesn't remove the male slant to the descriptions.
LetterJ
Exactly. At 120 hours per week, ANYONE can make a lot of money. As a matter of fact, at 120 hours per week, and $100,000 per year salary, you're only making $16.67/hour. That means that each hour of your work is worth LESS than the guy making $35K per year and only working 40 hours per week. I'd rather have my work valuable.
LetterJ
This new license frees me up. I've been working on a book on building intranets with PHP and I wanted the code to be cross platform, but PostgreSQL doesn't come in binary form for Windows, Access/MSSQL weren't available for UNIX, MySQL had a restrictive license for Windows. Now I can use MySQL with no problems. Woohoo.
LetterJ
Not necessarily the deleted ones, but there's a searchable database of expired domains over at Whois.net.
LetterJ
Written words on a bathroom wall,
staring at the letters,
ink stained tiles beg you to call.
You scratch the number
in your palm.
Get to a phone and call her right now.
See if you can guess the form. The content is a clue.
LetterJ
Where around MPLS? Though I have an unobstructed view of the sky from my backyard, there are a lot of streetlights polluting the view.
LetterJ
Just thought I'd point out that, IIRC, GAP and Old Navy are actually the same company. :)
LetterJ
Actually, they might not know to put the plate on themselves. Last week, I took my car in for its 15,000 mile service and there was a woman with her license plates in her hand. She had set an appointment to get them put on. Nothing else. That makes your statement even more sad.
LetterJ
$30,000 or $99 through Iuniverse.com and your distributers are Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Online, and any bookstore that orders from the Ingram catalog in whatever size runs they want. The books are printed on demand and available as quickly as most other books. Limited to 6" x 9" paperback format, but that's not much of a restriction. You may not be on the shelves in the local Borders by default, but no other publishing method guarantees that either. I've seen several of the titles published in this program on endcaps in my local B&N.
LetterJ
Particularly when referring to song titles it'd quickly grow out of control to allow copyrighting titles. If I right a song called "Bleed" and could copyright the title, then NO ONE could call a song "Bleed" until almost a hundred years after I was dead. That's nuts.
LetterJ
I don't necessarily agree with everything in the book nor do I think my synopsis is entirely accurate, but it is a different perspective from blue collar/white collar on classifying workers.
LetterJ
What is the biggest advantage of Internet-based education? It's not tied to location, right? When you're not tied by location, you can end up with people from across the world in the class which makes IRC impractical for most folks. Forums let anyone participate on their own time. I don't want to take a class and find that if I can't be up at 3:00 am to be online in IRC, I will only be able to be a passive participant reading what happens. Remember, there is life outside your timezone. There are also a host of other factors that make forums better. Ever try to "chat" when your dog decides to chew on your entertainment center? Or your child starts screaming and needs to be taken care of? If the class is based on forums, you can come back and you will not only not miss anything, but you can participate at any point in the logged discussion. On IRC, the discussion passes you by. Sure you can read the transcripts, but then you aren't really participating in the class, you're going to a digital library.
LetterJ
You mean like Emusic.com? $0.99 per track for some major acts. $8.99 or so for entire albums.
LetterJ
Minneapolis, MN
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