how about this - try to have a conversation without bringing up the fantasy land that is television.
go one entire day without talking about television to your coworkers/classmates/whoever.
i'll bet that you cant.
most of the time, with most people, the conversation will eventually turn to television. all that i say is "i dont watch television". i dont proletyze in my conversations, but i dont want to hear about people talking about their imaginary friends.
yeh, whatever dude... i did this "just to be different", for the same reasons that i lead an extremely normal, respectable life in just about every other aspect.... wife, 6 bedroom house, boring engineering job, drive a buick.
but yeh - i chose to stop watching tv because i'm such a rebel and an extrovert that i needed to be different, and i revel in my being different than you....
or, it could be that i decided that there was exactly 0 value to be gained from an activity that would suck up 20+ hours of my life every week, and taught me to care about imaginary friends and predicaments.
you know what caused it? i caught myself racing home from work so i could watch the A-Team re-runs at 3:00 on tbs.
quite an odd set of priorities.
i get far more enjoyment out of real activities now, be it excercizing, fixing up my house, making music, working longer, reading, whatever. but - its all things that i control. i am not a slave to passive entertainment.
how sad your life must be that you must live vicariously through mass-marketted crap. sorry if i dont know who got voted off the island this week, or what rachel did to ross. but, i do know what is happening to my family, my friends, my neighborhood and the world in which i live.
but, ya know what - if you choose to sit in front of a tv and be programmed to talk, think, and feel the exact same way as millions of other people, watching the same programming are, feel free, knock your socks off. they dont call it programming for nothing.
you are giving up your free will, and subverting it for the opinions, feelings, thoughts, and ideas that are being spoon fed to you through the television.
but - as i said - if your happy sleep walking through life, have fun. me - i'm awake and happy.
exactly - my wife and i are in the process of setting up our new house, and our living room is going to be a truly traditiojnal formal living room. no tv, furniture arranged for conversation.
people come over to our house, and are a little surprised that we dont have a tv in the LR. then they get over it, and we play card games, chat, and have some real fun interacting with each other.
you honestly believe that DirectX is using the hardware to its full potential? christ, you're a loon.
its a lowest-common denominator game library - sure its ok performance wise, but there is no way that you can optimize to the hardware any better than MS did.
familiarity breeds performance. if you look back at well-documented and understood systems that had ample lifetimes, such as the C-64, you will notice that because developers were able to mash at a low level on a non-changing platform, that the performance gotten out of these systems was absolutely amazing.
The XBox hardware isnt being utilized fully - how can it? everyone writes to common libraries, and relies on a generalized set of operations to do everything.
the dreamcast ranks pretty much as a 3.5 generation console... it was pretty much the xbox-beta... nearly identical API, runs CE, same damn controller as the xbox...
and, using an array of silly little casting tricks, you can emulate every feature of C++ in C... (though, i have a sneaky feeling you knew that already:-) )
look - the thing about C/C++ is that they are mature languages that havent changed all that much in decades. you can find people who know tricks and techniques that maximize the language.
"Younger" languages, such as Java and VB have not had time to mature in order to truly take advantage that comes with experience. Your tools need to stay the same in order to gain true proficiency with them.
I think that the educational background can have more to do with this type of a hiring decision than job experience. if you get a candidate that has an engineering-school background who has been using VB in his work life, I think that you should definitely consider him, as he probably had sufficient exposure to "real" programming.
However, if you get an IT-background person, their techniques simply wont transfer into a more rigorous programming environment.
i've worked in both environments (system engineering now), and can tell you that the movement from an IT->Engineering organization is not a step that the average IT programmer is capable of.
me, i'm a persistent, annoying SOB, and i almost always got to the hiring manager.
as for the references thing, i find that companies use references as a due-diligence excersize after they've interviewed, but before they hire you.
i stick by my opinion that it is more effective than shotgunning out 100's of email resumes, hoping to win the HR lotto, and have the computer select yours.
face-to-face you can change the odds, something that is incredibly hard to do over email.
get your head out of your ass man - there is nothing inherent about C++ that makes it any harder/easier than any other mid/high level language to master.
maybe if you're doing a ton of low-level/real time stuff you may have a point, but christ - you're quite the C++ snob!
i'll disagree - anybody who stops by and takes the initiative of dropping it off in person is going to stand out in the minds of the people you've given it to.
the object is to get around the annoying databases, and HR screeners. you are trying to get direct face time with the hiring manager, and avoid the filters.
just because someone says that they dont accept paper resumes doesnt mean that they wont.
think outside the box, and you're liable to actually land a job.
when trying to get a job, if the company in question is within driving distance, drop the resume and cover letter off in person, dressed for an interview.
be sure to follow up with a call, and a snail mail letter.
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i'll defer to you on the numbers... i'm just a dumb software eng, and not an ee :-)
what the hell do i know, i probably got the units wrong.
it was a big ass transmission line, and FE wasnt clear cutting as they should.
but - as i said before, my source is impeccible on this, but now, i'm sure i screwed the units up.
whats funny is that the RCA didnt point to software at all...
here's what happened:
a 50 MV line arc'd to a 12" diameter tree.
and yes, there is no reason that a 12" tree should be anywhere CLOSE to a 50 MV line.
or, they'll scare you away with the whips chains, and butter....
ever notice a slight bdsm theme on tribe.net?
ask your family. someone in your area probably has a lawyer.
ask your friends. one of them probably has a lawyer.
word of mouth is KEY when getting a lawyer.
a companies best interest is to pay you the absolute bare minimum that it takes to keep you around, and not a dime more.
you need to negotiatie up front for the best compensation possible. all future raises will be based on that going forward.
Keynes arguing for protectionism furing the Great Depression
Adam Smith didnt like "free trade", either
you are being incredibly naive here - the sony playstation 1 games offer a huge library of "good enough" games at a reduced price.
in short, it is far easier for someone who has yet to buy a console to collect a library with good games.
err... yeh... giving up tv is just like firebombing a car dealership...
how many hours of tv do you watch a week, and why are you so violent in defending it?
how about this - try to have a conversation without bringing up the fantasy land that is television.
go one entire day without talking about television to your coworkers/classmates/whoever.
i'll bet that you cant.
most of the time, with most people, the conversation will eventually turn to television. all that i say is "i dont watch television". i dont proletyze in my conversations, but i dont want to hear about people talking about their imaginary friends.
yeh, whatever dude... i did this "just to be different", for the same reasons that i lead an extremely normal, respectable life in just about every other aspect.... wife, 6 bedroom house, boring engineering job, drive a buick.
but yeh - i chose to stop watching tv because i'm such a rebel and an extrovert that i needed to be different, and i revel in my being different than you....
or, it could be that i decided that there was exactly 0 value to be gained from an activity that would suck up 20+ hours of my life every week, and taught me to care about imaginary friends and predicaments.
you know what caused it? i caught myself racing home from work so i could watch the A-Team re-runs at 3:00 on tbs.
quite an odd set of priorities.
i get far more enjoyment out of real activities now, be it excercizing, fixing up my house, making music, working longer, reading, whatever. but - its all things that i control. i am not a slave to passive entertainment.
how sad your life must be that you must live vicariously through mass-marketted crap. sorry if i dont know who got voted off the island this week, or what rachel did to ross. but, i do know what is happening to my family, my friends, my neighborhood and the world in which i live.
but, ya know what - if you choose to sit in front of a tv and be programmed to talk, think, and feel the exact same way as millions of other people, watching the same programming are, feel free, knock your socks off. they dont call it programming for nothing.
you are giving up your free will, and subverting it for the opinions, feelings, thoughts, and ideas that are being spoon fed to you through the television.
but - as i said - if your happy sleep walking through life, have fun. me - i'm awake and happy.
exactly - my wife and i are in the process of setting up our new house, and our living room is going to be a truly traditiojnal formal living room. no tv, furniture arranged for conversation.
people come over to our house, and are a little surprised that we dont have a tv in the LR. then they get over it, and we play card games, chat, and have some real fun interacting with each other.
I own Seasons 1-3 on DVD, as well as the treehouse of horror eps.
its about control. i dont have to be home at 8pm on sunday to watch the simpsons.
you still think that you're the one "choosing" television?
have fun with that, and your imaginary "Friends (tm)".
I mean - you do realize that those images on the television, arent real, right?
>It gets the channels you really need.
there are absolutely *zero* channels that you *need*.
none, zero, zippo, zilch.
Come on slashbots, and set yourself free - Kill your TV!
I've been tv free for 4 years now - and would never consider going back.
there is much more to life than watching a piece of furniture.
you honestly believe that DirectX is using the hardware to its full potential? christ, you're a loon.
its a lowest-common denominator game library - sure its ok performance wise, but there is no way that you can optimize to the hardware any better than MS did.
familiarity breeds performance. if you look back at well-documented and understood systems that had ample lifetimes, such as the C-64, you will notice that because developers were able to mash at a low level on a non-changing platform, that the performance gotten out of these systems was absolutely amazing.
The XBox hardware isnt being utilized fully - how can it? everyone writes to common libraries, and relies on a generalized set of operations to do everything.
the dreamcast ranks pretty much as a 3.5 generation console... it was pretty much the xbox-beta... nearly identical API, runs CE, same damn controller as the xbox...
christ man - those are from the last millenium...
geez....
C++ added what - 4 more keywords than C?
:-) )
and, using an array of silly little casting tricks, you can emulate every feature of C++ in C... (though, i have a sneaky feeling you knew that already
look - the thing about C/C++ is that they are mature languages that havent changed all that much in decades. you can find people who know tricks and techniques that maximize the language.
"Younger" languages, such as Java and VB have not had time to mature in order to truly take advantage that comes with experience. Your tools need to stay the same in order to gain true proficiency with them.
I think that the educational background can have more to do with this type of a hiring decision than job experience. if you get a candidate that has an engineering-school background who has been using VB in his work life, I think that you should definitely consider him, as he probably had sufficient exposure to "real" programming.
However, if you get an IT-background person, their techniques simply wont transfer into a more rigorous programming environment.
i've worked in both environments (system engineering now), and can tell you that the movement from an IT->Engineering organization is not a step that the average IT programmer is capable of.
maybe your technique wasnt correct.
me, i'm a persistent, annoying SOB, and i almost always got to the hiring manager.
as for the references thing, i find that companies use references as a due-diligence excersize after they've interviewed, but before they hire you.
i stick by my opinion that it is more effective than shotgunning out 100's of email resumes, hoping to win the HR lotto, and have the computer select yours.
face-to-face you can change the odds, something that is incredibly hard to do over email.
get your head out of your ass man - there is nothing inherent about C++ that makes it any harder/easier than any other mid/high level language to master.
maybe if you're doing a ton of low-level/real time stuff you may have a point, but christ - you're quite the C++ snob!
you'd be surprised how well it works.
while you wont be able to get on lockheed's campus, you can certainly manage to get on most sites, at least in the reception area.
you would be surprised how well it works. i've done it in the philadelphia area a couple times, and it has definitely worked well.
i'll disagree - anybody who stops by and takes the initiative of dropping it off in person is going to stand out in the minds of the people you've given it to.
the object is to get around the annoying databases, and HR screeners. you are trying to get direct face time with the hiring manager, and avoid the filters.
just because someone says that they dont accept paper resumes doesnt mean that they wont.
think outside the box, and you're liable to actually land a job.
here's a big tip:
when trying to get a job, if the company in question is within driving distance, drop the resume and cover letter off in person, dressed for an interview.
be sure to follow up with a call, and a snail mail letter.
i think you're mixing up terms here... softare has economic calue, but its marginal cost to produce the next copy is asymptotically close to zero.