So I have 2 comments. First I think Apple is a victim of its own success. Firs the tablets last a long time, and well they are the things I tell my very non-tech savvy relatives to buy. They have something that is working for a lot of people, so it’s hard to change or do anything too revolutionary because if you change it too much, you will alienate this huge base. For me personally, I like the Surface 3 and that type of device. The power and freedom of a laptop, with the ability pull it off the doc and have a pretty good tablet. Sometimes you just need a freaking keyboard and mouse. Also I really like the freedom of the non-locked down tablet. I would be surprised if we don’t see a surface-esk ipad/macbook air in the future.
In years past I've used XBMC on the Xbox and Linux, then more recently Boxee and MediaPortal. I started wanting something that just worked, and was a bit easier to setup. I really like many of the Linux media programs, but they do take a bit of maintenance. So when the RC of Windows 7 came out I figured I'd give it a go. Once I found Media Browser (www.mediabrowser.tv), I was sold.
So reasons I think Windows 7 is the way to go.
1. Media Browser - Fantastic plug-in for media center. Almost as good as XMBC in it's prettiness and useability. Very impressive to show off to your friends and high Wife Acceptance Factor. 2. Easy - It took me about a week of fiddling after work to get it setup the way I wanted.. and I had no issues getting DTS HD or pass-through audio to work. Very easy to get hardware accelerated video to work with ATI. If you use windows 7, check out the antipack, gets your hardware accelerated video working fast, along with all your audio. (http://babgvant.com/blogs/andyvt/archive/2009/08/02/antipack-get-your-videos-working-without-destroying-your-pc.aspx) 3. Cheap Video card - I bought a Radeon 4350 off of Newegg, with passive cooling. Does 1080p video with 1 - 5% cpu usage. 4. NetFlix , Media Center has a NetFlix plugin, no HD video, yet. 5. Easy TV - Has a nice TV Guide, easy to make it work right. I do not have a cable card tuner for it yet, but Ati has on you can get off of ebay, and new models are coming out next year. Cable card tuner would eliminate your ir blaster issue. In the mean time there are a few MS Media Center remotes that come with ir blasters. Also TV shows go right into Media Browser.
As this is slashdot I bet I will get spammed for saying so, but IMHO it is the best all around system out there right now.
Now I don't want to criticize to harshly, but I think he could have done been much more green for less money. Now the obvious thing he could do would be to downsize his house once his kids are a ways. How big of a house do two people need.
Apart from that there are several other cheaper things you can do. I have tried to "Green" up my house a lot too, however I live in Minnesota so solar panels are even a worst investment. But here goes.. list of cheaper green things that I do.
1. When a bulb goes out I replace it with a CFL. hen can be expensive so when I see them on sale for a $1 each I grab a few. I do not recommend replacing all you light bulbs at once because that gets expensive, but when one goes out, go for it.
2. New windows - this was my most expensive energy improvement. $9,000, but it did make my house quieter and drop my heating bill by 45%... My old windows will really bad.
3. My furnace and A/C.... probably don't need that efficient of a furnace where he lives, but in Minnesota, I am rocking the 95% efficient furnace. The furnace and new windows dropped my worst heating bill (January) from $240 to $105. I save between 500 and 600 a year in heating. (Again my windows were REALLY bad)
4. Whole House Fan.. I got one from http://www.airscapefans.com/
You turn off your A/C at night, and pull in fresh air. It uses much less power than you A/C, on low the smallest model only uses 38 watts. And for a cost between $500 - $1300, they do not hurt the wallet too much.
I have to agree.. the body scans go over the line.
But as other people have pointed out, it is a very inefficient use of "safety money".
How many people have died in the last 30 years because of hijacked airplanes in this country. While the 9/11 attacks we horrible, how does seeing me naked help keep us safe (though I am devilishly hansom!)
Would it not do more to spend this "safety money" on things that a much more likely to kill us? How many people died last year in car accidents because our roads systems are old and unable to handle the current traffic, or how many people died from cancer cause by dirty industry? How many kids turned to crime because the education system failed them?
Just think we need to focus on what really can kill us.. stop worrying about the edge cases.
First I want to say that several of the comments that came before are very good. There is a wide variety of experience and can help you get started.
I would say start as small as you can and expect to not get it right. Take your big project and break in into a few smaller easier to digest sections. You are going to make mistakes, but as you practice and you get you company more used the process will evolve and work better.
I won't give you specific examples of process, because I am not familiar with your organization and the process will have to be tailored for you company to work well. I will give you two books I feel are good to help. I read a lot of books on project management and I think these two are very good starter book.
Information Technology Project Management , Kathy Schwalbe
and
Managing Software Development Projects: Formula for Success , Neal Whitten
Not sure if this is anything, but I use Google Web Accelerator on Comcast at home. Lately, I have been getting a lot of DNS issues at home with it. When I take my laptop to school, I do not get any DNS issues.
Hopefully this is just the first step. C#.Net is a good programming language, if it had been developed by anyone but Microsoft slashdotters would love it. And Microsoft did not even have to open it up this much. I know the license sucks now, but give it time. As Confucius says "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Let's hope this is just the first step to a full open source.Net.
What you are forgetting is geeks like the shinny top of the line. I mean really, if we can't brag about our gear, what can we brag about. Take that buddy, your TV only does 720p, HA!
Besides you can always pair your 1080p with this (http://www.oppodigital.com/dv981hd/dv981hd_index. html).
I bought a Inspiron E1505 at the end of November. I have this same issue. I have not contacted Dell yet, because I live in Minnesota, on the humidity is so low, I was not sure if that was the issue. I get shocked when I touch the screws. I sorta hurts. Well, now that I know I am not the only one, I will be contacting Dell support tonight.
Well I have been using it for about 2 months. I am a developer and have it on my laptop, so I got it from MSDN.
It's pretty good. Nothing too wrong with it, I have had some issues with drives and a few program not working but that is to be expected. I guess I would say it you get it for free or if you get a new computer it's worth it. The instant search is the coolest "New" feature. It is prettier to look at. One thing I do have to say, I bring my laptop home, my wife, who is a non-technical person like it a lot. She likes the pretty interface, and instant search.
It does have a few annoying prompt screens, and they changed the control panel again, so I can't find anything again:)
I give it a good 7/10. I would not actively avoid it or pursue it. Is it better than Xp, probably, worth spending money on, probably not yet.
I graduated in 2003, and have been working since. I was also overwhelmed in what I did not know when I graduated. My suggestion would be to learn as much as you can about software in business. You graduated in C.S. so you probably have the skill you need to learn, which in my opinion is the most important skill you can pick up in school. Volunteer to work on the tough projects if you can.
Software in the business world is very different. I have worked for 4 places since I graduated(Yes, that is a lot, but I kept getting big raises:) The most important thing I picked up is how important the process is to software development. Once you understand this and start to learn what work and want does with the process, you will start to distinguish yourself from the coders. I think the biggest part missing from current C.S. education is the almost total neglect of actual software engineering.
I found once I started to understand software engineering all these project seemed much more doable. You start to move to a content neutral way of development. While the project and the language may change, you become more able to see the project in terms of "What process do I need to archive it", and not in terms of "What code do I need to write to do this".
Mainly, never stop learning and don't be afraid of failing. You will get to were you want to be.
It looks like they finally got a clue! It appears from the picture that it uses a standard Computer power cable. Sweet, you know how many extras I have in the box in my basement!!
So for me I think of it this way. My parents and grand parents have only a few pics of the gererations that came before. Some really old picutres we have came from around 1910. The pictures are for the most part not in very good share. I see these pictures of these people who were loved deeply by the people I love and I wish I could know them better.
Now I have a nice digital camera(Canon Digital Rebel) that was expensive, but I got it for a good reason. I am about to get married and do the whole family thing. I hope someday that a great-grand kids over maybe even a further down the line will be able to look at all the pictures I will take and maybe understand a little better where they came from, what the world was like, and how pretty there great grandma was:)
This really annoys me, for a few reasons. When people say how bad video games are they always pull the Maude Flanders "What about the Children!!!"
A Few Points.
1. The average age a video game player is 28. 2. The video games have a clear and easy rating system. 3. Video games are expensive. ~$50 bucks 4. The video game systems have parental controls
So here it is, first the majority of people playing theses games are over 18 and should be allowed to play them. Then with each game costing about 50 bucks most kids can't afford to buy them, the parents have to. All video games are rated now, so parents can easily see if the game is age appropriate. If not the parents don't have to spend the money on the game. After this the parent's can allows turn on the parental controls, to protect against kids sneaking a game in.
The problem is 100% the parents fault. Then need to monitor what their kids are doing. They need to read about the video game system them they are buying for their kids and how to protect the kids. I was in Best Buy the other day, and the Kid, must have been around 10, behind me brought up GTA: San Andreas and gave it to his dad to buy. His dad did not even look at it before he bought it.
I am really tired of people blaming others for their kids being messed up. Video games are the favorite target these days, but it was not to long ago it was violent movies, and before that is was heavy metal. The truth is if you are involved in you kids life and instill in them real values, when they do finally play the violent video games, it will not affect them; they will still be OK. Too many parents let T.V., video games, and other kids, raise their kids. This is the problem, not a violent video game. Really, people just need to park their SUV, get home from work on time, turn off the T.V, and spend a ½ hour having dinner with their family.
Ok, Microsoft Is evil, this I will give you, but C# rocks. After years in C and C++, I moved to Java, and It was good, then about 2 years ago I moved to C# and it was better. Now I program in both, for work and graduate school. I have to say they are very similar, but when I am doing a program in Java, I always miss a few of the C# features (virtual keyword for functions, Get/Set are better in C#, etc)
The only problem I have with C# was that it was not as portable as Java, but Mono came to my rescue. I was surprised how many of my program just worked in Mono (after removing winforms that is). I can't wait for version 2.0.
Really, Mono should be embraced/.ers . If we can start making programs for the general population that run on *nix systems, but look just like they do on windows, more people will use *nix. What we have to realize is that most people in the world(not on this website J) don't have 4 computers in their basement running different operations systems, they just have the one running windows.
P.S. And for some reason, they still have the sides on their computer case.......
I am Dyslexic and a very bad speller as well. Back when I was in elementary school one teacher tried something that worked very well. I played games like kings quest and space quest, the old ones, before they used the mouse. I learned to spell all the words need in the game.
The second thing that helped me was books on tape. My parents went to the library and got me a book on tape and I would listen to it once or twice. Then I would read the book, sometimes with the tape sometimes with out. This helped me understand what the words should have been.
The last tool I used, and I came up with this one myself, is I started watching T.V. with the Closed Captioning on. I heard the words people said and saw them spelled out. Helped me a lot. I still suck at spelling, but I read very well.
The most important thing is to keep the person interested, and almost hide from them what they are learning. When I had to try a learn spelling by sounding things out or the other traditional methods, I shut down and it did not work, but when I had it intergraded into fun activates I was able to learn.
I know, I know, MS is the evil empire and Open Source is the rebellion trying to free the universe and all that but I got to say that.Net is a fantastic language. I have programmed in C, C++, Java, and.Net and I have to say.Net is currently the best. Java 5 is close but it in missing a few things I like from.Net. I love Mono, and I think it works great. I have only had a few problems with it, but nothing major. It really is nice to develop server applications that can run on Windows and Linux, which is really nice for people who develop for enterprise level deployments. One company will want to use you server in a 2003 domain, the next wants it to run on Red Hat. With C++ and to some extent even Java this just does not work.
On top of that as someone who studied programming languages for my masters project I have to say the.Net system is just the best-designed environments I have seen. I would expect that you will start to see it taught in the colleges, because It allows you to teach people programming that is not language specific. Hopefully you can then get people to know VB, Managed C++ and C# by the end on college, not just Java. Then you can take the importance off learning the syntax and place it on to learning structures and algorithms. Most importantly you then teach the skill of being to switch to new languages and adapt you knowledge, to teach people ho to learn, which in the most important skill I learned in college
Well, I live in Minnesota, and before we cursed with the current governor this was a really nice place to live. Anyway, January 2 I have to go get a new license (Mine is about to expire, so I have no choice). So I would like to find out if it does have a RFID. Anyone know how I could check, or want to help me find out. Until I know for sure, I think I am going to wrap my license in tin foil.
It is a sad day indeed. My First computer I got at the end of 1983 was the IBM PC Junior. 4.77 MHz, 64k of memory, Dos 2.1, 16 Colors, and a 300 bps modem. Man, that computer rocked!!!!! I was young then, but I still remember playing Jump Man, and the original Castle Wolfenstein. Several years later (about 1990) my dad traded it for a Gas Grill.... Too bad, I could really play some Jump Man right now.
I have the real reason for the 3-person car. I know this because, until August, I worked and Taxi 2000. There are several reasons but 3 that are the big ones. First, Weight, the bigger the car the more energy it takes to move the car. 2. The width of the track in only 3 feet to keep it a low profile. You would have to make the track bigger to accommodate the extra weight and width of the vehicle. And 3, probably the most important; on average a Car only carries about 1.4 people; so for the most part extra space would be wasted on most trips.
Really, who gets hurt the most? Well, yes the programmers get screwed, but really the long hours lead to bad code. I mean after 8 hours of programming your code can get a little messy. These work conditions lead to bad bugs and bad games. We sometimes hear stories about big bugs in software and wonder how they got passed QA, it's because the employees are over worked and don't care.
I know of several software companies that actually discourage working over 40 hours a week most of the time. It is because they have learned that the overall cost in the extra bug fixes and employee turnover negates the bonus of making these people work extra hours.
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So I have 2 comments. First I think Apple is a victim of its own success. Firs the tablets last a long time, and well they are the things I tell my very non-tech savvy relatives to buy. They have something that is working for a lot of people, so it’s hard to change or do anything too revolutionary because if you change it too much, you will alienate this huge base.
For me personally, I like the Surface 3 and that type of device. The power and freedom of a laptop, with the ability pull it off the doc and have a pretty good tablet. Sometimes you just need a freaking keyboard and mouse. Also I really like the freedom of the non-locked down tablet. I would be surprised if we don’t see a surface-esk ipad/macbook air in the future.
Did the world end, or are we good?
In years past I've used XBMC on the Xbox and Linux, then more recently Boxee and MediaPortal. I started wanting something that just worked, and was a bit easier to setup. I really like many of the Linux media programs, but they do take a bit of maintenance. So when the RC of Windows 7 came out I figured I'd give it a go. Once I found Media Browser (www.mediabrowser.tv), I was sold.
So reasons I think Windows 7 is the way to go.
1. Media Browser - Fantastic plug-in for media center. Almost as good as XMBC in it's prettiness and useability. Very impressive to show off to your friends and high Wife Acceptance Factor.
2. Easy - It took me about a week of fiddling after work to get it setup the way I wanted.. and I had no issues getting DTS HD or pass-through audio to work. Very easy to get hardware accelerated video to work with ATI. If you use windows 7, check out the antipack, gets your hardware accelerated video working fast, along with all your audio. (http://babgvant.com/blogs/andyvt/archive/2009/08/02/antipack-get-your-videos-working-without-destroying-your-pc.aspx)
3. Cheap Video card - I bought a Radeon 4350 off of Newegg, with passive cooling. Does 1080p video with 1 - 5% cpu usage.
4. NetFlix , Media Center has a NetFlix plugin, no HD video, yet.
5. Easy TV - Has a nice TV Guide, easy to make it work right. I do not have a cable card tuner for it yet, but Ati has on you can get off of ebay, and new models are coming out next year. Cable card tuner would eliminate your ir blaster issue. In the mean time there are a few MS Media Center remotes that come with ir blasters. Also TV shows go right into Media Browser.
As this is slashdot I bet I will get spammed for saying so, but IMHO it is the best all around system out there right now.
Now I don't want to criticize to harshly, but I think he could have done been much more green for less money. Now the obvious thing he could do would be to downsize his house once his kids are a ways. How big of a house do two people need.
Apart from that there are several other cheaper things you can do. I have tried to "Green" up my house a lot too, however I live in Minnesota so solar panels are even a worst investment. But here goes.. list of cheaper green things that I do.
1. When a bulb goes out I replace it with a CFL. hen can be expensive so when I see them on sale for a $1 each I grab a few. I do not recommend replacing all you light bulbs at once because that gets expensive, but when one goes out, go for it.
2. New windows - this was my most expensive energy improvement. $9,000, but it did make my house quieter and drop my heating bill by 45%... My old windows will really bad.
3. My furnace and A/C.... probably don't need that efficient of a furnace where he lives, but in Minnesota, I am rocking the 95% efficient furnace. The furnace and new windows dropped my worst heating bill (January) from $240 to $105. I save between 500 and 600 a year in heating. (Again my windows were REALLY bad)
4. Whole House Fan.. I got one from http://www.airscapefans.com/
You turn off your A/C at night, and pull in fresh air. It uses much less power than you A/C, on low the smallest model only uses 38 watts. And for a cost between $500 - $1300, they do not hurt the wallet too much.
Well anyway..
I have to agree.. the body scans go over the line.
But as other people have pointed out, it is a very inefficient use of "safety money".
How many people have died in the last 30 years because of hijacked airplanes in this country. While the 9/11 attacks we horrible, how does seeing me naked help keep us safe (though I am devilishly hansom!)
Would it not do more to spend this "safety money" on things that a much more likely to kill us? How many people died last year in car accidents because our roads systems are old and unable to handle the current traffic, or how many people died from cancer cause by dirty industry? How many kids turned to crime because the education system failed them?
Just think we need to focus on what really can kill us.. stop worrying about the edge cases.
First I want to say that several of the comments that came before are very good. There is a wide variety of experience and can help you get started.
I would say start as small as you can and expect to not get it right. Take your big project and break in into a few smaller easier to digest sections. You are going to make mistakes, but as you practice and you get you company more used the process will evolve and work better.
I won't give you specific examples of process, because I am not familiar with your organization and the process will have to be tailored for you company to work well. I will give you two books I feel are good to help. I read a lot of books on project management and I think these two are very good starter book.
Information Technology Project Management , Kathy Schwalbe
and
Managing Software Development Projects: Formula for Success , Neal Whitten
Not sure if this is anything, but I use Google Web Accelerator on Comcast at home. Lately, I have been getting a lot of DNS issues at home with it. When I take my laptop to school, I do not get any DNS issues.
Hopefully this is just the first step. C# .Net is a good programming language, if it had been developed by anyone but Microsoft slashdotters would love it. And Microsoft did not even have to open it up this much. I know the license sucks now, but give it time. As Confucius says "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Let's hope this is just the first step to a full open source .Net.
What you are forgetting is geeks like the shinny top of the line. I mean really, if we can't brag about our gear, what can we brag about. Take that buddy, your TV only does 720p, HA!
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Besides you can always pair your 1080p with this (http://www.oppodigital.com/dv981hd/dv981hd_index
Ohhh Shiny!
One thing I forgot to point out. I have a 15 inch Dell, and I get shocked. So the issue is not just with the 17 inch model.
I bought a Inspiron E1505 at the end of November. I have this same issue. I have not contacted Dell yet, because I live in Minnesota, on the humidity is so low, I was not sure if that was the issue. I get shocked when I touch the screws. I sorta hurts. Well, now that I know I am not the only one, I will be contacting Dell support tonight.
Well I have been using it for about 2 months. I am a developer and have it on my laptop, so I got it from MSDN.
:)
It's pretty good. Nothing too wrong with it, I have had some issues with drives and a few program not working but that is to be expected. I guess I would say it you get it for free or if you get a new computer it's worth it. The instant search is the coolest "New" feature. It is prettier to look at. One thing I do have to say, I bring my laptop home, my wife, who is a non-technical person like it a lot. She likes the pretty interface, and instant search.
It does have a few annoying prompt screens, and they changed the control panel again, so I can't find anything again
I give it a good 7/10. I would not actively avoid it or pursue it. Is it better than Xp, probably, worth spending money on, probably not yet.
I graduated in 2003, and have been working since. I was also overwhelmed in what I did not know when I graduated. My suggestion would be to learn as much as you can about software in business. You graduated in C.S. so you probably have the skill you need to learn, which in my opinion is the most important skill you can pick up in school. Volunteer to work on the tough projects if you can.
:) The most important thing I picked up is how important the process is to software development. Once you understand this and start to learn what work and want does with the process, you will start to distinguish yourself from the coders. I think the biggest part missing from current C.S. education is the almost total neglect of actual software engineering.
Software in the business world is very different. I have worked for 4 places since I graduated(Yes, that is a lot, but I kept getting big raises
I found once I started to understand software engineering all these project seemed much more doable. You start to move to a content neutral way of development. While the project and the language may change, you become more able to see the project in terms of "What process do I need to archive it", and not in terms of "What code do I need to write to do this".
Mainly, never stop learning and don't be afraid of failing. You will get to were you want to be.
When we outlaw encryption keys, only criminals will have encryption keys.
Get your stinking hands off my encryption keys, you damn dirty apes!!!
Ya, but when I move again and lose the cord, which I will because that's what I do, I will at least have extra:)
It looks like they finally got a clue! It appears from the picture that it uses a standard Computer power cable. Sweet, you know how many extras I have in the box in my basement!!
So for me I think of it this way. My parents and grand parents have only a few pics of the gererations that came before. Some really old picutres we have came from around 1910. The pictures are for the most part not in very good share. I see these pictures of these people who were loved deeply by the people I love and I wish I could know them better.
Now I have a nice digital camera(Canon Digital Rebel) that was expensive, but I got it for a good reason. I am about to get married and do the whole family thing. I hope someday that a great-grand kids over maybe even a further down the line will be able to look at all the pictures I will take and maybe understand a little better where they came from, what the world was like, and how pretty there great grandma was:)
This really annoys me, for a few reasons. When people say how bad video games are they always pull the Maude Flanders "What about the Children!!!"
A Few Points.
1. The average age a video game player is 28.
2. The video games have a clear and easy rating system.
3. Video games are expensive. ~$50 bucks
4. The video game systems have parental controls
So here it is, first the majority of people playing theses games are over 18 and should be allowed to play them. Then with each game costing about 50 bucks most kids can't afford to buy them, the parents have to. All video games are rated now, so parents can easily see if the game is age appropriate. If not the parents don't have to spend the money on the game. After this the parent's can allows turn on the parental controls, to protect against kids sneaking a game in.
The problem is 100% the parents fault. Then need to monitor what their kids are doing. They need to read about the video game system them they are buying for their kids and how to protect the kids. I was in Best Buy the other day, and the Kid, must have been around 10, behind me brought up GTA: San Andreas and gave it to his dad to buy. His dad did not even look at it before he bought it.
I am really tired of people blaming others for their kids being messed up. Video games are the favorite target these days, but it was not to long ago it was violent movies, and before that is was heavy metal. The truth is if you are involved in you kids life and instill in them real values, when they do finally play the violent video games, it will not affect them; they will still be OK. Too many parents let T.V., video games, and other kids, raise their kids. This is the problem, not a violent video game. Really, people just need to park their SUV, get home from work on time, turn off the T.V, and spend a ½ hour having dinner with their family.
Ok, Microsoft Is evil, this I will give you, but C# rocks. After years in C and C++, I moved to Java, and It was good, then about 2 years ago I moved to C# and it was better. Now I program in both, for work and graduate school. I have to say they are very similar, but when I am doing a program in Java, I always miss a few of the C# features (virtual keyword for functions, Get/Set are better in C#, etc)
/.ers . If we can start making programs for the general population that run on *nix systems, but look just like they do on windows, more people will use *nix. What we have to realize is that most people in the world(not on this website J) don't have 4 computers in their basement running different operations systems, they just have the one running windows.
The only problem I have with C# was that it was not as portable as Java, but Mono came to my rescue. I was surprised how many of my program just worked in Mono (after removing winforms that is). I can't wait for version 2.0.
Really, Mono should be embraced
P.S. And for some reason, they still have the sides on their computer case.......
I am Dyslexic and a very bad speller as well. Back when I was in elementary school one teacher tried something that worked very well. I played games like kings quest and space quest, the old ones, before they used the mouse. I learned to spell all the words need in the game.
The second thing that helped me was books on tape. My parents went to the library and got me a book on tape and I would listen to it once or twice. Then I would read the book, sometimes with the tape sometimes with out. This helped me understand what the words should have been.
The last tool I used, and I came up with this one myself, is I started watching T.V. with the Closed Captioning on. I heard the words people said and saw them spelled out. Helped me a lot. I still suck at spelling, but I read very well.
The most important thing is to keep the person interested, and almost hide from them what they are learning. When I had to try a learn spelling by sounding things out or the other traditional methods, I shut down and it did not work, but when I had it intergraded into fun activates I was able to learn.
I know, I know, MS is the evil empire and Open Source is the rebellion trying to free the universe and all that but I got to say that .Net is a fantastic language. I have programmed in C, C++, Java, and .Net and I have to say .Net is currently the best. Java 5 is close but it in missing a few things I like from .Net. I love Mono, and I think it works great. I have only had a few problems with it, but nothing major. It really is nice to develop server applications that can run on Windows and Linux, which is really nice for people who develop for enterprise level deployments. One company will want to use you server in a 2003 domain, the next wants it to run on Red Hat. With C++ and to some extent even Java this just does not work.
.Net system is just the best-designed environments I have seen. I would expect that you will start to see it taught in the colleges, because It allows you to teach people programming that is not language specific. Hopefully you can then get people to know VB, Managed C++ and C# by the end on college, not just Java. Then you can take the importance off learning the syntax and place it on to learning structures and algorithms. Most importantly you then teach the skill of being to switch to new languages and adapt you knowledge, to teach people ho to learn, which in the most important skill I learned in college
On top of that as someone who studied programming languages for my masters project I have to say the
Well, I live in Minnesota, and before we cursed with the current governor this was a really nice place to live. Anyway, January 2 I have to go get a new license (Mine is about to expire, so I have no choice). So I would like to find out if it does have a RFID. Anyone know how I could check, or want to help me find out. Until I know for sure, I think I am going to wrap my license in tin foil.
It is a sad day indeed. My First computer I got at the end of 1983 was the IBM PC Junior. 4.77 MHz, 64k of memory, Dos 2.1, 16 Colors, and a 300 bps modem. Man, that computer rocked!!!!! I was young then, but I still remember playing Jump Man, and the original Castle Wolfenstein. Several years later (about 1990) my dad traded it for a Gas Grill.... Too bad, I could really play some Jump Man right now.
I have the real reason for the 3-person car. I know this because, until August, I worked and Taxi 2000. There are several reasons but 3 that are the big ones. First, Weight, the bigger the car the more energy it takes to move the car. 2. The width of the track in only 3 feet to keep it a low profile. You would have to make the track bigger to accommodate the extra weight and width of the vehicle. And 3, probably the most important; on average a Car only carries about 1.4 people; so for the most part extra space would be wasted on most trips.
Really, who gets hurt the most? Well, yes the programmers get screwed, but really the long hours lead to bad code. I mean after 8 hours of programming your code can get a little messy. These work conditions lead to bad bugs and bad games. We sometimes hear stories about big bugs in software and wonder how they got passed QA, it's because the employees are over worked and don't care.
I know of several software companies that actually discourage working over 40 hours a week most of the time. It is because they have learned that the overall cost in the extra bug fixes and employee turnover negates the bonus of making these people work extra hours.