Lately I've been developing.Net code on OS X using TextMate over a samba mount, and then using remote desktop to command line compile. Running a VMWare copy of Windows on my laptop would allow me to continue developing like this when my laptop isn't in my house. I'm sure I'm in the minority on that though.
The main reason I still have windows pcs around in the first place (besides the Media Center Edition PC) is to be able to play PC games. I would love to just have Macs that dual boot when I want to play a game.
If you don't think I have experience with someone cracked out on a game, you should talk to my wife.:) She also reports the same responses you described above from me when I'm programming.
Considering those studies that say the tech industry has around an 80% drug use rate, it would be hard to believe that someone going to work stoned with blow juice dripping down to their chin can't get the job done. The world would have fell apart years ago if that was the case.
... she's wasting her time and not advancing herself during that time, which is probably the biggest downside to drug addition at first, but at least when she's over it, she won't have brain or liver damage. Also has the advantage of being able to "sober-up" at any point in time if an important interruption comes along. Try having work call after a couple of bong hits and compare that with having them call during a video game.
It's cool that you genuinely care about your girlfriend's well-being, but go watch an episode of Jerry Springer and see if you've got it so bad. Everyone needs their vice... at least she's chose one of the better ones.
Interesting reply. From your comment I'm not sure we disagree as strongly as you think. Definitely don't have the answers, but I think this topic is interesting.
Perhaps it's not the genious of Einstein that made him special, but his persistance and leadership (not leadership in the CEO sort of since... more the role model sort of sense).
Is it the ideas that make all the difference? I've read many times of other scientists that had pieces of Einstiein's scientific puzzle many years before him, but he had put them together into concrete principals that worked together. Is it that he was able to digest and piece it all together in a new package that make him special?
In this brave new world we live in, do you think someone have this very specialize gift without having the be the master physisist that Einstein was? Obviously such a person would need to know what their talking about (ie, not a sales executive), but that doesn't mean that person would neccessarily need to do the scientific research him or herself to be able to bring forth fundamental change.
"The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest"
I don't think we need great scientists so much anymore, since the Internet has allowed mankind to collaborate and specialize on levels never known before. Most change in science is evolutionary with many small breakthroughs and others tying them together and explaining what they all mean.
Way I see it, 1 million independent minds half as strong as Einstein collaborating and conducting peer-reviews on each others work and learning more about their specialties has and will continue to generate the best science ever known to man. However, this does not lead to an science celebrities on the scale of Einstein or Newton or even Bohr.
Too bad though, because these sorts of role models inspire more people to study the sciences.
I'm about to shell out the $45 for it. Regular expressions for defining your own custom syntax and tabbed file viewing and scripting galore. I don't use the snippets so much yet, but that's a favorite feature among most of my friends.... basically lets you pated a block of code and tab through the fields within that snippet to edit them.
I'm using this for developing a webapp in VB.Net (yeah, I shivered when I got the project too, but I'm pleasantly surprised how much better it is than VB6) over a samba mount and it's fantastic. Had to create my own syntax coloring though *shrug*. Python support is built in however.
I love it. Expose` between the tabbed windows of both TextMate and Safari. It's extremely productive for me.
XBox360 has an extender built into it. I haven't gotten my hands on the 360, but I have a hardware media center extender, and some of the points made in this article are fixed by simply having a MediaCenter somewhere in the house (I recently read that 50% of new home PCs sold now run Media Center Edition)
#2 - MSN Music is on MCE. #6 - Seems like it would be easy to write an MCE HTML app to make browsing reasonable on an xbox. I've been planning on getting around to writing this myself, just haven't wanted it THAT bad. #7 - WMV-HDs are DVDs with a WMV file on them. I'm curious to find out Media Center can play that video directly off the DVD like it was in your My Videos folder. #8 - Playing around with VLC to convert these files to mpeg or WMV would make this work
If you're unemployed and in dire need of cash, your goal may be to just find ANY job. Often times though, you're looking for a job that's a better match for your skill sets, or a better match to the work environment you would prefer, or would have projects that are more up your alley, or maybe it's just a job closer to home.
I'm a programmer, not a member of human resources, so my advice may only be applicable when talking to another engineer. Whenever I have done interviews, I was looking for someone that was the best fit for the position, and a someone who the position is a good fit for that developer, since I would like this person to enjoy his or her time working with me, and might actually stick around a while.
The questions that interviewees asked me offered more insight into how good of a fit this job is for the candidate, rathen than the resumes. The resume tended to tell me if this person would be a good fit for the job, which is why this interview is happening in the first place.
No it is very not cool. In a past life, I ran across these at work, and being curious of course I went to check them out. You can see every little hair and pimple on these people's asses, and the makeup covering up the models' imperfections.
Ever heard someone talk about meeting a celebrity in person and being disappointed by how they looked? Well this would be like hanging out in the bedroom while they're doing the nasty. Kinda loses some of the fantasy elements.
I'm with you on using very old Basic for teaching programming to newbies. As a teaching assistant I watched so many frustrated people drop out because they just couldn't ignore the details like what exactly "public static final void" meant.
But dropping out doesn't stop after the first semester anyway. I started with 200 people in the computer science program. When I went to my graduation 4 years later, there were 7 of us.
This idea was pretty neat, since Media Center Extenders can display hosted html pages, but embedded flash, etc, runs extremely choppy since the actual webpages run over Remote Desktop. The video stream is on a separate channel with extenders, so what they are suggesting should be possible, however the lag would be around 3-5 seconds I'm sure.
I didn't dig too deep into this and IANAL, but it looked to me like they paid rights similar to a streaming radio station, meaning you're allowed to listen (legally) to the songs one time each.
Since the user probably doesn't run out of Russia, the user is probably breaking laws, even though the server is not.
Odds of getting caught are infinitesimal unless the US and Russia got together to fight piracy.
Has anyone played with any solutions that are open-source (or cheaper than Windows) that has a very short buffering time? I'm getting ready to invest in Windows 2003 Enterprise, but I would rather save myself the ~$1500/server if I could.
Here's my experience with a couple of versions of Windows streaming a 1mbps video in wmv format:
2003 Standard - buffering time 2-5 secs 2003 Enterprise - essentially 0, much faster than running the file locally anyway (you've gotta try this software out if you get the chance)
fast-forward and rewind functionality takes about the same amount of time.
This buffering time is important to me due to the nature of some of the projects I am thinking about taking on... does anything open source have comparable results?
Since you brough up CCBill, Microsoft came to us to create a DRM service, not the other way around. The product became known as DRM Networks, and is now a mainstream provider, although the first two years was 100% porn.
The one reason I would like to see research like this done is to eventually see if we can create life through chemical processes. The results would probably raise far more questions than it answers if such a process was discovered or was ruled out as impossible for some unknown reason.
That's assuming this article is refering to trying to take the chemicals that make up DNA to create organisms, rather than playing around with DNA. The latter would not be particular useful for insight into philosophical questions about life.
If they are just playing around with DNA, what's the difference between "synthetic biology" and "genetic engineering"? That would really make this old news if they're splicing DNA.
I've been reading that the developers who received Intel Macs are reporting a performance improvement over their previous workstations. Apple has always been good with their emulation layers. I can run old 680x0 software through an emulator that I believe sits inside the Classic OS9 environment.
I don't think this will be a problem. Maybe they'll call it G6 and G6.1 or something.
I'm with you there. I think perl is great as a scripting language. I strongly prefer strongly typed languages for system development, although I wish one of them handled regular expressions with the elegance of perl.
All of my complaints with Perl are really complaints with scripting, and 'use strict' and packages really take care of most of that.
Where do you work where you get to have "at work" and "off work" anyway? I haven't had that since I was a junior developer. And I don't think I've had a "productive" day at the office in 6 months. Can't see how working at home could be any worse.
Applications I thought of off the top of my head when I first saw it:
1. Go get a wireless media center extender in every room of my house. 2. Start using file servers more for my documents
but I'm sure this will open up the door to some more interesting stuff in the future. 540MB/s will streaming 100 HDTV movies simultaneously. Why would we want that is a question I can't answer at the moment.
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Lately I've been developing .Net code on OS X using TextMate over a samba mount, and then using remote desktop to command line compile. Running a VMWare copy of Windows on my laptop would allow me to continue developing like this when my laptop isn't in my house. I'm sure I'm in the minority on that though.
The main reason I still have windows pcs around in the first place (besides the Media Center Edition PC) is to be able to play PC games. I would love to just have Macs that dual boot when I want to play a game.
If you don't think I have experience with someone cracked out on a game, you should talk to my wife. :) She also reports the same responses you described above from me when I'm programming.
Considering those studies that say the tech industry has around an 80% drug use rate, it would be hard to believe that someone going to work stoned with blow juice dripping down to their chin can't get the job done. The world would have fell apart years ago if that was the case.
... she's wasting her time and not advancing herself during that time, which is probably the biggest downside to drug addition at first, but at least when she's over it, she won't have brain or liver damage. Also has the advantage of being able to "sober-up" at any point in time if an important interruption comes along. Try having work call after a couple of bong hits and compare that with having them call during a video game.
It's cool that you genuinely care about your girlfriend's well-being, but go watch an episode of Jerry Springer and see if you've got it so bad. Everyone needs their vice... at least she's chose one of the better ones.
It's pretty hard to make a living writing for an operating system that 90% of Americans use, or do I not understand the definition of Pro :)
Interesting reply. From your comment I'm not sure we disagree as strongly as you think. Definitely don't have the answers, but I think this topic is interesting.
Perhaps it's not the genious of Einstein that made him special, but his persistance and leadership (not leadership in the CEO sort of since... more the role model sort of sense).
Is it the ideas that make all the difference? I've read many times of other scientists that had pieces of Einstiein's scientific puzzle many years before him, but he had put them together into concrete principals that worked together. Is it that he was able to digest and piece it all together in a new package that make him special?
In this brave new world we live in, do you think someone have this very specialize gift without having the be the master physisist that Einstein was? Obviously such a person would need to know what their talking about (ie, not a sales executive), but that doesn't mean that person would neccessarily need to do the scientific research him or herself to be able to bring forth fundamental change.
"The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest"
I don't think we need great scientists so much anymore, since the Internet has allowed mankind to collaborate and specialize on levels never known before. Most change in science is evolutionary with many small breakthroughs and others tying them together and explaining what they all mean.
Way I see it, 1 million independent minds half as strong as Einstein collaborating and conducting peer-reviews on each others work and learning more about their specialties has and will continue to generate the best science ever known to man. However, this does not lead to an science celebrities on the scale of Einstein or Newton or even Bohr.
Too bad though, because these sorts of role models inspire more people to study the sciences.
I have had 3 different numbers for one of my credit cards in 2005. Huge pain, but didn't cost me a dime (directly).
Only fraudulent charge was from a merchant who took my card in person and ran it for $1300 again the next day.
I'm about to shell out the $45 for it. Regular expressions for defining your own custom syntax and tabbed file viewing and scripting galore. I don't use the snippets so much yet, but that's a favorite feature among most of my friends.... basically lets you pated a block of code and tab through the fields within that snippet to edit them.
I'm using this for developing a webapp in VB.Net (yeah, I shivered when I got the project too, but I'm pleasantly surprised how much better it is than VB6) over a samba mount and it's fantastic. Had to create my own syntax coloring though *shrug*. Python support is built in however.
I love it. Expose` between the tabbed windows of both TextMate and Safari. It's extremely productive for me.
XBox360 has an extender built into it. I haven't gotten my hands on the 360, but I have a hardware media center extender, and some of the points made in this article are fixed by simply having a MediaCenter somewhere in the house (I recently read that 50% of new home PCs sold now run Media Center Edition)
#2 - MSN Music is on MCE.
#6 - Seems like it would be easy to write an MCE HTML app to make browsing reasonable on an xbox. I've been planning on getting around to writing this myself, just haven't wanted it THAT bad.
#7 - WMV-HDs are DVDs with a WMV file on them. I'm curious to find out Media Center can play that video directly off the DVD like it was in your My Videos folder.
#8 - Playing around with VLC to convert these files to mpeg or WMV would make this work
If you're unemployed and in dire need of cash, your goal may be to just find ANY job. Often times though, you're looking for a job that's a better match for your skill sets, or a better match to the work environment you would prefer, or would have projects that are more up your alley, or maybe it's just a job closer to home.
I'm a programmer, not a member of human resources, so my advice may only be applicable when talking to another engineer. Whenever I have done interviews, I was looking for someone that was the best fit for the position, and a someone who the position is a good fit for that developer, since I would like this person to enjoy his or her time working with me, and might actually stick around a while.
The questions that interviewees asked me offered more insight into how good of a fit this job is for the candidate, rathen than the resumes. The resume tended to tell me if this person would be a good fit for the job, which is why this interview is happening in the first place.
No it is very not cool. In a past life, I ran across these at work, and being curious of course I went to check them out. You can see every little hair and pimple on these people's asses, and the makeup covering up the models' imperfections.
Ever heard someone talk about meeting a celebrity in person and being disappointed by how they looked? Well this would be like hanging out in the bedroom while they're doing the nasty. Kinda loses some of the fantasy elements.
I'm with you on using very old Basic for teaching programming to newbies. As a teaching assistant I watched so many frustrated people drop out because they just couldn't ignore the details like what exactly "public static final void" meant.
But dropping out doesn't stop after the first semester anyway. I started with 200 people in the computer science program. When I went to my graduation 4 years later, there were 7 of us.
I have a lot of wall worts, so I found the power squid handy. Picked one up at Fry's for $15.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/77e6/
This idea was pretty neat, since Media Center Extenders can display hosted html pages, but embedded flash, etc, runs extremely choppy since the actual webpages run over Remote Desktop. The video stream is on a separate channel with extenders, so what they are suggesting should be possible, however the lag would be around 3-5 seconds I'm sure.
And since when are parents buy $300 portable music devices for their kids? I had to save money to buy myself a $25 walkman when I was a kid :P
Probably the same parents giving their 11 year olds cell phones.
I didn't dig too deep into this and IANAL, but it looked to me like they paid rights similar to a streaming radio station, meaning you're allowed to listen (legally) to the songs one time each.
Since the user probably doesn't run out of Russia, the user is probably breaking laws, even though the server is not.
Odds of getting caught are infinitesimal unless the US and Russia got together to fight piracy.
Has anyone played with any solutions that are open-source (or cheaper than Windows) that has a very short buffering time? I'm getting ready to invest in Windows 2003 Enterprise, but I would rather save myself the ~$1500/server if I could.
Here's my experience with a couple of versions of Windows streaming a 1mbps video in wmv format:
2003 Standard - buffering time 2-5 secs
2003 Enterprise - essentially 0, much faster than running the file locally anyway (you've gotta try this software out if you get the chance)
fast-forward and rewind functionality takes about the same amount of time.
This buffering time is important to me due to the nature of some of the projects I am thinking about taking on... does anything open source have comparable results?
Since you brough up CCBill, Microsoft came to us to create a DRM service, not the other way around. The product became known as DRM Networks, and is now a mainstream provider, although the first two years was 100% porn.
The one reason I would like to see research like this done is to eventually see if we can create life through chemical processes. The results would probably raise far more questions than it answers if such a process was discovered or was ruled out as impossible for some unknown reason.
That's assuming this article is refering to trying to take the chemicals that make up DNA to create organisms, rather than playing around with DNA. The latter would not be particular useful for insight into philosophical questions about life.
If they are just playing around with DNA, what's the difference between "synthetic biology" and "genetic engineering"? That would really make this old news if they're splicing DNA.
Is there a definitive test for determining whether a creature has a mind in addition to having a brain?
Is there a way to rule out that a particular animal does not have a mind?
Is there a way to show that all or even most humans possess a mind?
OMG that's a good point.
:D
I wonder if we can get it to switch to playstation processor mode to emulate that too
I've been reading that the developers who received Intel Macs are reporting a performance improvement over their previous workstations. Apple has always been good with their emulation layers. I can run old 680x0 software through an emulator that I believe sits inside the Classic OS9 environment.
I don't think this will be a problem. Maybe they'll call it G6 and G6.1 or something.
I'm with you there. I think perl is great as a scripting language. I strongly prefer strongly typed languages for system development, although I wish one of them handled regular expressions with the elegance of perl.
All of my complaints with Perl are really complaints with scripting, and 'use strict' and packages really take care of most of that.
Where do you work where you get to have "at work" and "off work" anyway? I haven't had that since I was a junior developer. And I don't think I've had a "productive" day at the office in 6 months. Can't see how working at home could be any worse.
Applications I thought of off the top of my head when I first saw it:
1. Go get a wireless media center extender in every room of my house.
2. Start using file servers more for my documents
but I'm sure this will open up the door to some more interesting stuff in the future. 540MB/s will streaming 100 HDTV movies simultaneously. Why would we want that is a question I can't answer at the moment.