I preordered my copy of 18 from Amazon.com, and got it a few weeks ago. I can say after listening to it more than 5 times, this CD sucks. Really. Do not buy it. Do not copy it illegally. Do not listen to it.
I had to take the plunge due to my having many GB's of digicam
generated photos. My DLT backups were just using too many tapes.
Some random thoughts:
The second generation DVD+RW drives are just coming out. The only
one availasble is the HP 200i.
Here's
an overview of the 2nd gen
drives, and
here's
an overview of the 1st gen drives.
The 2nd generation drives support DVD+R, many of the 1st do not.
TheNerds.net have the best media
prices. I looked a lot and could find no better.
The HP drive, which I bought, comes with "drive letter access"
software. Basically, a packet writer so you can just use the Windows
explorer (yes, where I use the drive) to drag and drop files onto it.
I have the suspicion that my McAfee VirusScan 4.5.1 stopped working
when I installed the HP software. McAfee has not been able to figure
out why their software is not working (service error 5011, which is a
timeout of some sort).
I've been trying to author some DVD's, and I had good luck playing my
DVD+RW's in my DVD player. I used a trial of Uleads DVD Workshop.
I held off until the 2nd gen drives were available, and was forced to
purchase the HP because it's the only one out. I would have prefered
the Philips DVDRW228 over the HP, but no one has the Philips drive in
stock, that I could find.
So far, I'm happy, and I'm hoping HP will update their drivers and
VirusScan will start working again.
It would be very difficult for a non-technical person to be a project
manager. How would they, then, mediate technical disputes between
technical people? Often, during the course of a project, people come
to technical logger heads. Often, the only way to resolve this is by
the project manager facilitating a solution. I've done is hundreds of
times over the last 10 years.
A lot of project management is mundane stuff (tracking schedules,
informing people of changes, etc), but a lot of it is making informed
decisions about what to do. By this, I mean, there are always bumps
in the road to getting out any product. If there isn't one person
smoothing over the bumps, then the design will drift.
I think you're confusing the project manager with the visionary of the project (who could be anyone). Project managers are rarely visionaries, because the skills for both are very different (and I would posit that the skills are opposites and will rarely be found in the same person).
I agree that a good vision that pushes that boundary of what is possible (in the minds of the implementors) and is a really good thing. It is important, however, not to get too far out there, because that will have a negative effect on the people doing the work. It will either cause them to fail or distrust management (and the visionary).
Here's my "evidence". Remember the Clinton years? The media and the republicans would not leave him alone. I'm assuming you were not in a coma during those years and I don't have to give references.
Furthermore, witness the kissing of George W. Bush's ass since he was elected. That, if anything, should tell you the media is right wing. Speaking of which, there's the entire FoxNews staff, oh, and Rush. Yep, pretty damn right wing.
Don't forget to name call me a lefty, even though you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
OK, your case is comprimised. So what? What are they going to do, remove your hard drive while the power is on? Attach remote listening devices inside your case, so they can listen to your disks spinning?
If a thief breaks into your computer room they're going to hit the power switch. Then, if they don't carry away the entire computer, they'll open it up and remove what they want. AFTER the CIDS has been power disabled.
I've worked for almost 20 years under tight deadlines. Stress is the enemy of getting a good job done, not the friend. The smart programmer will learn how to work in a fast paced environment while not being stressed.
If you have, in fact, experienced this type of environment and lived with the stress, I feel sorry for you. You've missed the entire point.
Absurd. Where's why: if you do your job correctly and work for a responsible company, you will build confidence doing your job. When something goes wrong, you will be working with people you know doing a job you know.
In an interview situation, there very well might be a few people standing around watching you that you've never met.
The situations are very, very different.
I know a guy that was put on the spot to write code with 10 potential co-workers standing over his shoulder.
The times that I've had 10 co-workers standing over my shoulder were never tense situations, but always relaxed, fun times.
I've hired a lot of people over the years and I'm completely against this type of on the spot exam.
I find that people's performance over the long haul has nothing to do with a 30 minute interview coding session. Some people don't work their best when under pressure, especially when they are interviewing. A lot is riding on that interview, and the stress does very odd things to people.
Do you really think that the moms and pops out there update their software??? The only time their software gets updates is when I do it. I'd bet there are millions of people out there with 2 year old Outlooks.
Regarding W32.Klez.E@mm. You don't have to open the attachment, you just have to open the message. So it says here (third paragraph).
If "Show Preview Pane" is checked (don't know if it's the default), an Outlook virus can run.
With W32.Klez.E@mm, the message itself, and not the attachment, causes the infection. With all this focus on "don't open the attachment!", some people will forget the better "don't even read it!".
I see lots of poeple saying "take it". Well, what if the new company goes out of business in a few months, where'd you be then?
Given that you have two offers for the same money, it's obvious: analyze the situations not considering money. Add up the pros and cons and decide which is better. However, remember that you know little about the new company and a lot about your current one. Depending on your personality, you will either have tendencies to favor the new or old company.
There is no excuse for not doing automatic backups. There is software out there (Backup exec by Veritas, etc, etc) that will do backups of Windows machines. We use DLT autoloaders as they are the most reliable and cost effective.
Robert Rodriguez remade it, in a sense, because he wanted to do it the way he originally envisioned it. It was a matter of money, which he had the second time around.
He says nothing about monitoring, which is a big drawback to this approach. Did he ignore it because he intends anyone to build in massive over-capacity?
I hate spam not because I didn't ask for it. I hate it because I use email as a very important tool in my job. When I get mail, I look at it. That is, I context switch to read the email. If I get 100 pieces of spam a day, that's a lot of context switches (not 100, since sometimes I get other, good email at the same time I get the spam) a day. That's lost productivity. That's why I hate spam.
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I preordered my copy of 18 from Amazon.com, and got it a few weeks ago. I can say after listening to it more than 5 times, this CD sucks. Really. Do not buy it. Do not copy it illegally. Do not listen to it.
I had to take the plunge due to my having many GB's of digicam generated photos. My DLT backups were just using too many tapes.
Some random thoughts:
The second generation DVD+RW drives are just coming out. The only one availasble is the HP 200i. Here's an overview of the 2nd gen drives, and here's an overview of the 1st gen drives.
The 2nd generation drives support DVD+R, many of the 1st do not.
TheNerds.net have the best media prices. I looked a lot and could find no better.
The HP drive, which I bought, comes with "drive letter access" software. Basically, a packet writer so you can just use the Windows explorer (yes, where I use the drive) to drag and drop files onto it. I have the suspicion that my McAfee VirusScan 4.5.1 stopped working when I installed the HP software. McAfee has not been able to figure out why their software is not working (service error 5011, which is a timeout of some sort).
I've been trying to author some DVD's, and I had good luck playing my DVD+RW's in my DVD player. I used a trial of Uleads DVD Workshop.
I held off until the 2nd gen drives were available, and was forced to purchase the HP because it's the only one out. I would have prefered the Philips DVDRW228 over the HP, but no one has the Philips drive in stock, that I could find.
So far, I'm happy, and I'm hoping HP will update their drivers and VirusScan will start working again.
It would be very difficult for a non-technical person to be a project manager. How would they, then, mediate technical disputes between technical people? Often, during the course of a project, people come to technical logger heads. Often, the only way to resolve this is by the project manager facilitating a solution. I've done is hundreds of times over the last 10 years.
A lot of project management is mundane stuff (tracking schedules, informing people of changes, etc), but a lot of it is making informed decisions about what to do. By this, I mean, there are always bumps in the road to getting out any product. If there isn't one person smoothing over the bumps, then the design will drift.
I think you're confusing the project manager with the visionary of the project (who could be anyone). Project managers are rarely visionaries, because the skills for both are very different (and I would posit that the skills are opposites and will rarely be found in the same person).
I agree that a good vision that pushes that boundary of what is possible (in the minds of the implementors) and is a really good thing. It is important, however, not to get too far out there, because that will have a negative effect on the people doing the work. It will either cause them to fail or distrust management (and the visionary).
Let me be the first to point out that the parent poster is an idiot.... or just plain funny. You be the judge.
Does anyone else think Lem as a young man (seen in the right photo here) looks like George Clooney? Weird.
Here's my "evidence". Remember the Clinton years? The media and the republicans would not leave him alone. I'm assuming you were not in a coma during those years and I don't have to give references.
Furthermore, witness the kissing of George W. Bush's ass since he was elected. That, if anything, should tell you the media is right wing. Speaking of which, there's the entire FoxNews staff, oh, and Rush. Yep, pretty damn right wing.
Don't forget to name call me a lefty, even though you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Got any evidence the media is liberal?
I completely agree. I bought some Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers and they are amazing. I highly recommend them.
OK, your case is comprimised. So what? What are they going to do, remove your hard drive while the power is on? Attach remote listening devices inside your case, so they can listen to your disks spinning?
If a thief breaks into your computer room they're going to hit the power switch. Then, if they don't carry away the entire computer, they'll open it up and remove what they want. AFTER the CIDS has been power disabled.
I've worked for almost 20 years under tight deadlines. Stress is the enemy of getting a good job done, not the friend. The smart programmer will learn how to work in a fast paced environment while not being stressed.
If you have, in fact, experienced this type of environment and lived with the stress, I feel sorry for you. You've missed the entire point.
Absurd. Where's why: if you do your job correctly and work for a responsible company, you will build confidence doing your job. When something goes wrong, you will be working with people you know doing a job you know.
In an interview situation, there very well might be a few people standing around watching you that you've never met.
The situations are very, very different.
I know a guy that was put on the spot to write code with 10 potential co-workers standing over his shoulder.
The times that I've had 10 co-workers standing over my shoulder were never tense situations, but always relaxed, fun times.
I've hired a lot of people over the years and I'm completely against this type of on the spot exam.
I find that people's performance over the long haul has nothing to do with a 30 minute interview coding session. Some people don't work their best when under pressure, especially when they are interviewing. A lot is riding on that interview, and the stress does very odd things to people.
My course work goes way back (80-84). We never had to write anything other than small snipits of code at UC Berkeley.
Do you really think that the moms and pops out there update their software??? The only time their software gets updates is when I do it. I'd bet there are millions of people out there with 2 year old Outlooks.
Regarding W32.Klez.E@mm. You don't have to open the attachment, you just have to open the message. So it says here (third paragraph).
If "Show Preview Pane" is checked (don't know if it's the default), an Outlook virus can run.
With W32.Klez.E@mm, the message itself, and not the attachment, causes the infection. With all this focus on "don't open the attachment!", some people will forget the better "don't even read it!".
I see lots of poeple saying "take it". Well, what if the new company goes out of business in a few months, where'd you be then?
Given that you have two offers for the same money, it's obvious: analyze the situations not considering money. Add up the pros and cons and decide which is better. However, remember that you know little about the new company and a lot about your current one. Depending on your personality, you will either have tendencies to favor the new or old company.
There is no excuse for not doing automatic backups. There is software out there (Backup exec by Veritas, etc, etc) that will do backups of Windows machines. We use DLT autoloaders as they are the most reliable and cost effective.
Cringely says 802.11b is in trouble, and no one seems to care.
here and save $2.30.
Robert Rodriguez remade it, in a sense, because he wanted to do it the way he originally envisioned it. It was a matter of money, which he had the second time around.
Personally, I think Desperado is better.
Apparently you didn't understand my post.
I was talking about unsolicited email.
If I opt-in, I would be getting solicited email. Solicited email is no longer spam, because YOU ASKED FOR IT.
See the difference??
He says nothing about monitoring, which is a big drawback to this approach. Did he ignore it because he intends anyone to build in massive over-capacity?
Huh? How did they "write their own" by taking doing a (tags-query-replace "BSD" "SunOS") in GNU Emacs (which did exist at the time)??
I don't know what you're smoking, but it must be good.
I hate spam not because I didn't ask for it. I hate it because I use email as a very important tool in my job. When I get mail, I look at it. That is, I context switch to read the email. If I get 100 pieces of spam a day, that's a lot of context switches (not 100, since sometimes I get other, good email at the same time I get the spam) a day. That's lost productivity. That's why I hate spam.