I have been in the CS field for 3 decades now as everything from Programmer to sysadmin to CTO. Your estimation is off by a factor of 10. The average programmer writes 10-12 valid usable lines of code per day. Everything else is debugging, rewriting, documenting, etc.
Of course my job when I have the higher end positions is to find programmers who beat that by a large margin, and often I can. To find those programmers you ask nothing about the languages they know. You ask them about the systems they have built at home and the projects which they have coded in their free time. The only programmer worth hiring is the one for whom programming and computers are also a hobby. This programmer will, out of necessity, already know shell scripting, some system and network administration, at least 3 languages and have a general grasp of what a program should do, what a script should do and what database should do.
Agreed. We use Agile and XP (Extreme Programming) at our company. I was part of the pilot group, and having the micro and story tests in place before you write the code helps you write code quicker, better, and with far less stress on your QA group.
I have been getting books from the Science Fiction Book Club for almost a year now and I am quite happy with their selection and with their customer service.
I have gotten books from old favorites and tried several new authors, some of which I have been very happy with.
I work for a large company that is 95% Windows and 5% Mac based. They never had a Linux box on their internal network, although they do have some linux-deployed servers.
When I first started the hel-desk person assigned to where I was sitting said "no linux. period." I lived with it for the 2 months I was there because I knew I was moving to a different location.
When I got to the new location, I explained to my boss's boss that I was hired as a Linux expret and that I would not use Windows as my primary desktop. She told me to use my laptop until they could get all the permissions to bring up linux. Eventually it was decided that I, and the person directly under me, would have 2 machines, 1 with Windows for the corporate email (exchange/outlook) and one that would be ours to load linux on.
Since then I have administered my own machine. I run rdesktop to check my mail. Also, I am frequently answering Linux questions asked by all of the helpdesk people who have installed LInux on their home machines after seeing all of the things I can easily do that they cannot.
I have done all of it, from Junior programmer to Systems/Network admin to consultant to CTO. The higher up you go, the less happy you are with your job. However some people would rather make more money than do the thing they love... so be it. I am now a senior developer with a 6-figure salary, a boss above me to take the heat and someone below me to get the programming tasks that I don't want to do. I winning combination, but it took me 20 years to get here.
Make your choice now - either improve your skills and change your job and be a happy techie-type guy, or decide you want the money and move up to management.
You have bought into the record companys' BS. Copying a song (or data or anything else) is not stealing, it is unauthorized copying. Stealing is when you take someone's possession and deprive them of it. If I was somehow able to transfer the copyright ownership of a song to myself, then I will have stolen it. Until then when I have done is potentially deprive someone of income from that song. They still own the song.
Why potentially? Because if I had to pay what they are charging, I might not have bought it.
With the exception of a very small number of bands, nobody but the record company and the distributor makes money anyway. I have many friends in the music industry, from Artists to engineers and mixers and just about everything else across the board. They copy music.
Almost all artists make money on performances and merchandise. Some make money on music, but it is the exception. See King Crimson and Porcupine Tree for examples.
Stop buying into the RIAA's re-definition of stealing.
A few years ago a friend told me to check out the band Porcupine Tree. I checked them out and saw them in concert. I bought everything I could from their merchandise table. While there I found out about http://www.burningshed.com/ - they are a small label, but they do a lot of direct sales. Check them out.
I have found that judges will look at the law, but ONLY if it is given to him as a proper citation. You cannot say "The law says this", but rather "State law 123.34a4c states 'blah blah blah' which compels you to decide 'blah blah blah' as the judge in smith vs. jones (123 ST 5617) decided."
Which is why it seems like the guy who hires the lawyer usually wins in small claims court over the guy who does not have the lawyer. The lawyer knows how to properly present what the judge is looking for.
This was a decision by a district court judge. It still can be appealed. Don't hold your breath for this ruling to be upheld. Just look at the makeup of the current Supreme Court...
It did seem that he really had something interesting going at the beginning of The Number of the Beast, but where he had laid the foundation for some great writing in the future, he seems to have been overcome with a massive bout of.... well I'm not sure of exactly what, but everything from the 1980s until his death was questionable.
I guess that the fucked-up american medical system is the reason that so many canadians and europeans come here to get the procedures done that they can't have done in their own country, because if they waited on those ridiculously long lists they would be dead before they got the treatment they need.
Don't believe movies made by fat self-hating assholes for your only view of the system that brings in all of the best doctors in the world and gets all of the research done for the cures that you want to get from your useless socialist system.
Until it became massively profitable, why sue? The idea of a lawsuit is to get damages. As long as you do not pass the statute of limitations, waiting is not counted against you.
Actually, some of your assumptions are wrong. It is not that the 4th amendment can be overturned because he is president or head of the executive branch, but rather because he is conducting a war. It is a war that is legal, that was voted for by almost as many democrats as republicans, a war that even a democratic congress has decided to continue funding.
How sad that you do not even know the true facts. Congress did not ask Clinton anything. It was a case where he was being sued civilly for damages. Clinton lied - that is a fact. He had his law license suspended as a result. Whether his personal life or not, it is still a lie under oath. You are such an anti-bush democrat partisan that you are willing to overlook the head of the executive branch committing perjury,
If you live in NY, $100k per year pays the mortgage and the bills - barely. If you want to send your kids to camp, or better yet, college, you had better be making a hell of a lot more than that!
That number is not a patent number. This patent has been applied for and published not not granted yet. As long as it is a year (4-digits) followed by a 7-digit serial number, the patent has not yet been granted.
You seem to have missed the point here. All of those things exist. They are just not being enofrced properly. You are not supposed to be able to patent "common sense", such as the patent on creating a cursoe on a 1-bot field by XORing the bits. The problem is that the people in the patent office aree not qualified to look at that and say "duh, of course that's how you would do that".
If you look at a patent application, it actually works the opposite of the way you showed above. It would look like this:
Patent of the nail as: (1) A piece of metal (2) The claims in (1) where it has a sharp edge. (3) The claims in (2) where it is inserted into other objects. (4) The claims in (3) where the purpose is to hold them together.
Then you would have three things after that talking about other similar things. Generally if you read the claims in a patent it is the claim right in the center that they really care about. Anything other than that is gravy. The patent is written expecting that certain claims will be thrown out. Unfortunately the idiots at the Patent office just rubber stamp these thing, after a short wait of 3 years these days.
Patents are 17 years renewable for another 17.
As for the drug companies. In the large majority of cases, by the time they actually get the drugs to market, 15 years have passed. Reduce the patent time and you will cease to see R&D done. They will find other places to put their money.
Every CD that is released DOES have a unique number. That is part of the way that CDDB works. That fact that the lame-ass execs at the music company have not figured out a way to market anything using that nuumber is amazing, but not too unexpected.
Are you saying that in England you (1) have to pay for calls to people on the same mobile carrier as you and that (2) you pay extra to call a mobile phone?
OK, maybe it's a bit of bias here, but that seems more ridiculous to me. Here in the US, all incoming and outgoing calls to or from anywhere in the US are free on a landline for a flat fee, and with a cell phone all calls within the US are free, you just pay for your airtime during peak hours (5AM-9PM M-F) unless the call is to someone else on your carrier - then you do not even pay for the airtime.
Similarly, here in the US, we pay taxes to keep the police departments running, but this doesn't give us the right to commit crimes.
So you are comparing a CD to a policeman? The last time I checked, the police were doing a real job - a dangerous one that I wouldn't want to do myself.
This tax on the other hand is a penalty for which no crime has been proven, just assumed.
You are calling Al-Reuters unbiased? It is probably the single most anti-US news agency out there short of Al-Jazeera. The problem is that with almost everything out there being so boased it is hard to find unbiased news at all any more.
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I have been in the CS field for 3 decades now as everything from Programmer to sysadmin to CTO. Your estimation is off by a factor of 10. The average programmer writes 10-12 valid usable lines of code per day. Everything else is debugging, rewriting, documenting, etc. Of course my job when I have the higher end positions is to find programmers who beat that by a large margin, and often I can. To find those programmers you ask nothing about the languages they know. You ask them about the systems they have built at home and the projects which they have coded in their free time. The only programmer worth hiring is the one for whom programming and computers are also a hobby. This programmer will, out of necessity, already know shell scripting, some system and network administration, at least 3 languages and have a general grasp of what a program should do, what a script should do and what database should do.
Agreed. We use Agile and XP (Extreme Programming) at our company. I was part of the pilot group, and having the micro and story tests in place before you write the code helps you write code quicker, better, and with far less stress on your QA group.
Who says TPB does not host porn? http://thepiratebay.org/browse/500 Just look for yourselves. W
You might want to check out the Jewish writer Josephus. He independently correlates that Jesus did in fact live.
I have been getting books from the Science Fiction Book Club for almost a year now and I am quite happy with their selection and with their customer service.
I have gotten books from old favorites and tried several new authors, some of which I have been very happy with.
I would say to give them a try
WI work for a large company that is 95% Windows and 5% Mac based. They never had a Linux box on their internal network, although they do have some linux-deployed servers.
When I first started the hel-desk person assigned to where I was sitting said "no linux. period." I lived with it for the 2 months I was there because I knew I was moving to a different location.
When I got to the new location, I explained to my boss's boss that I was hired as a Linux expret and that I would not use Windows as my primary desktop. She told me to use my laptop until they could get all the permissions to bring up linux. Eventually it was decided that I, and the person directly under me, would have 2 machines, 1 with Windows for the corporate email (exchange/outlook) and one that would be ours to load linux on.
Since then I have administered my own machine. I run rdesktop to check my mail. Also, I am frequently answering Linux questions asked by all of the helpdesk people who have installed LInux on their home machines after seeing all of the things I can easily do that they cannot.
W
You, like many others, are confusing Republicans with Conservatives.
Hillary Clinton is a Conservative Democrat.
John McCain is a Liberal Republican.
Conservatives seem to be finding a lot more that they like in Hillary than in John.
I have done all of it, from Junior programmer to Systems/Network admin to consultant to CTO. The higher up you go, the less happy you are with your job. However some people would rather make more money than do the thing they love... so be it. I am now a senior developer with a 6-figure salary, a boss above me to take the heat and someone below me to get the programming tasks that I don't want to do. I winning combination, but it took me 20 years to get here.
Make your choice now - either improve your skills and change your job and be a happy techie-type guy, or decide you want the money and move up to management.
You have bought into the record companys' BS. Copying a song (or data or anything else) is not stealing, it is unauthorized copying. Stealing is when you take someone's possession and deprive them of it. If I was somehow able to transfer the copyright ownership of a song to myself, then I will have stolen it. Until then when I have done is potentially deprive someone of income from that song. They still own the song.
Why potentially? Because if I had to pay what they are charging, I might not have bought it.
With the exception of a very small number of bands, nobody but the record company and the distributor makes money anyway. I have many friends in the music industry, from Artists to engineers and mixers and just about everything else across the board. They copy music.
Almost all artists make money on performances and merchandise. Some make money on music, but it is the exception. See King Crimson and Porcupine Tree for examples.
Stop buying into the RIAA's re-definition of stealing.
W
A few years ago a friend told me to check out the band Porcupine Tree. I checked them out and saw them in concert. I bought everything I could from their merchandise table. While there I found out about http://www.burningshed.com/ - they are a small label, but they do a lot of direct sales. Check them out.
I have found that judges will look at the law, but ONLY if it is given to him as a proper citation. You cannot say "The law says this", but rather "State law 123.34a4c states 'blah blah blah' which compels you to decide 'blah blah blah' as the judge in smith vs. jones (123 ST 5617) decided."
Which is why it seems like the guy who hires the lawyer usually wins in small claims court over the guy who does not have the lawyer. The lawyer knows how to properly present what the judge is looking for.
W
This was a decision by a district court judge. It still can be appealed. Don't hold your breath for this ruling to be upheld. Just look at the makeup of the current Supreme Court...
It did seem that he really had something interesting going at the beginning of The Number of the Beast, but where he had laid the foundation for some great writing in the future, he seems to have been overcome with a massive bout of.... well I'm not sure of exactly what, but everything from the 1980s until his death was questionable.
I guess that the fucked-up american medical system is the reason that so many canadians and europeans come here to get the procedures done that they can't have done in their own country, because if they waited on those ridiculously long lists they would be dead before they got the treatment they need.
Don't believe movies made by fat self-hating assholes for your only view of the system that brings in all of the best doctors in the world and gets all of the research done for the cures that you want to get from your useless socialist system.
Until it became massively profitable, why sue? The idea of a lawsuit is to get damages. As long as you do not pass the statute of limitations, waiting is not counted against you.
Actually, some of your assumptions are wrong. It is not that the 4th amendment can be overturned because he is president or head of the executive branch, but rather because he is conducting a war. It is a war that is legal, that was voted for by almost as many democrats as republicans, a war that even a democratic congress has decided to continue funding.
How sad that you do not even know the true facts. Congress did not ask Clinton anything. It was a case where he was being sued civilly for damages. Clinton lied - that is a fact. He had his law license suspended as a result. Whether his personal life or not, it is still a lie under oath. You are such an anti-bush democrat partisan that you are willing to overlook the head of the executive branch committing perjury,
Cat-5e, not Cat-5. The difference is 1gbps vs 100mbps.
If you live in NY, $100k per year pays the mortgage and the bills - barely. If you want to send your kids to camp, or better yet, college, you had better be making a hell of a lot more than that!
That number is not a patent number. This patent has been applied for and published not not granted yet. As long as it is a year (4-digits) followed by a 7-digit serial number, the patent has not yet been granted.
You seem to have missed the point here. All of those things exist. They are just not being enofrced properly. You are not supposed to be able to patent "common sense", such as the patent on creating a cursoe on a 1-bot field by XORing the bits. The problem is that the people in the patent office aree not qualified to look at that and say "duh, of course that's how you would do that".
If you look at a patent application, it actually works the opposite of the way you showed above. It would look like this:
Patent of the nail as:
(1) A piece of metal
(2) The claims in (1) where it has a sharp edge.
(3) The claims in (2) where it is inserted into other objects.
(4) The claims in (3) where the purpose is to hold them together.
Then you would have three things after that talking about other similar things. Generally if you read the claims in a patent it is the claim right in the center that they really care about. Anything other than that is gravy. The patent is written expecting that certain claims will be thrown out. Unfortunately the idiots at the Patent office just rubber stamp these thing, after a short wait of 3 years these days.
Patents are 17 years renewable for another 17.
As for the drug companies. In the large majority of cases, by the time they actually get the drugs to market, 15 years have passed. Reduce the patent time and you will cease to see R&D done. They will find other places to put their money.
Every CD that is released DOES have a unique number. That is part of the way that CDDB works. That fact that the lame-ass execs at the music company have not figured out a way to market anything using that nuumber is amazing, but not too unexpected.
Ummm.... Hang on...
Are you saying that in England you (1) have to pay for calls to people on the same mobile carrier as you and that (2) you pay extra to call a mobile phone?
OK, maybe it's a bit of bias here, but that seems more ridiculous to me. Here in the US, all incoming and outgoing calls to or from anywhere in the US are free on a landline for a flat fee, and with a cell phone all calls within the US are free, you just pay for your airtime during peak hours (5AM-9PM M-F) unless the call is to someone else on your carrier - then you do not even pay for the airtime.
Which seems fairer to you?
W
So you are comparing a CD to a policeman? The last time I checked, the police were doing a real job - a dangerous one that I wouldn't want to do myself.
This tax on the other hand is a penalty for which no crime has been proven, just assumed.
W
You are calling Al-Reuters unbiased? It is probably the single most anti-US news agency out there short of Al-Jazeera. The problem is that with almost everything out there being so boased it is hard to find unbiased news at all any more.