Trust and loyalty used to be my main focus... I trusted that those stock options i was offered instead of a chunk of salary would be good, and the company trusted that i would deliver good software, on-time.
I fulfilled my part of the bargain, but when it came to stock option maturity time, I got laid-off.. The company is still in business interestingly enough, and now posting profits even.
Who do you trust, and how is that trust repaid? I can tell you I no longer have the same sense of loyalty and trust in my employer. Companies are paying on average HALF of what they were for the same work 2 years ago.. Trust... works both ways or it doesn't work at all...
I've been in the software engineer game for over 10 years now... almost all of my collegues have either switched fields or taken a 30-40% paycut to stay in it. (Switching fields takes a paycut too btw)
the market is FIERCE now with out of work software engineers.. What makes you think your odds are so good Mr. No-Professional-Experience? I sadly think you're in for a rude awakening once you hit the market.
nerds feel it necessary to lord their supposedly superior intellect over others... they do it in their inner circles as well. This is the reason they get stuffed in lockers... You may have a bigger brain, but they got bigger arms... And don't give me that innocence crap, you KNOW you're guilty of looking down your nose at whomever because you thought you were smarter than they....
and see them fail miserably because they wasted 6 hours arguing over whether to use the MIG/MAG or TIG welding torch, or spending all the time trying to get linux to boot on their handheld so they can run some simulation calculations....
MS would LOVE to polarize the argument here.. give governments and companies a clear definite black and white choice, then demonize the hell out of the opposition.
Of course the kids looking for the quick +5 will jump on the anti-MS bandwagon in a hurry, the fundamentalist linux zealots will rush in to bash MS like a kid facing off in his first at-bat in tee-ball, but they're just serving MS purpose of polarizing the choices available....
man, i thought ATI was going to take over nVidia, but with this crazy open-source support nVidia is doing, it's going to be difficult to NOT support them in turn.
Scratching my back is a damn good way to get me to scratch yours, WTG NVIDIA!
In colder climates, the heat could be dumped into hand warmers rather than undesirably into fabric and the flesh beneath.
colder clients being the 66F computer room? i know 66F isn't that cold, but when you're drinking a code red, my hands get quite numb in there. be nice to be able to flip a switch and redirect that heat up into the keyboard instead of the edge...
keep in mind, we had the full $2k/year MSDN subscription for each developer, paid each year, as well as some very experienced staff on hand... MS charged us $150/h to talk to us about a problem that we were pointing out in their CMutex MFC class (a bug they later admitted to) This was back in 1995 or so before MS jumped on the newsgroup bandwagon. At any rate, i wonder if these kinds of fees factored into the TCO?
8 hours a day easily.... it was common for me to come home friday night from work, 5-6pm, and not log off until monday morning at 2-3am, continuously... 50-60 hours was the norm for my guild on the weekend..
weeknights were hit and miss, but usually you were on for 4-6 hours a night...
I don't think the point of the post was that EETimes is going "online only"...it's that they're in financial trouble and are (slowly) shutting things down.
of course they are... if the public weren't so slow, MOST if not ALL print publications would be in financial trouble. This is the way things are heading, and publication companies are realizing that you can publish the equivelant of an online newsletter or magazine with a MUCH smaller staff and MUCH cheaper costs than a dead tree version.
Pull out the horse-drawn carraige similies if you must, but technology and human advancement marches on..
That cover looks like billy forgot his sock puppet or something.. What on earth is he doing with that hand?? AND WHERE IS THE OTHER HAND!? I BET HE'S FEELING TUX UP!!!!!!!!
history lessons..
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hehe design patterns remind me of the quote "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." or something like that...
if a problem has been solved, and well thought through, the pattern published and peer-reviewed, it probably will hold up for a good long while.
Opening up your monitor should always come with some sort of DEATH IS EMMINANT warning.
geeze, i guess Apple Mac Tech coursework was an exercize in assisted suicide then... Geeze, I wonder how they put them together without KILLING THEMSELVES?!
root schmoot... if the roots went down, IP addressing still works, and BIND still supports the good old HOSTS file...
IF all of the authoritative roots were nuked, I bet it would be a matter of hours before small networks bounced back up using HOSTS files, and soon had an alternative in place... and IF all the authoritative roots were targeted and taken out, it's going to be pretty obvious what's going on in the world, and thereby easily worked around.
It doesn't have to be all automagic, we're still smart people behind these screens.
Slashdot Mirror
a fairly well thought out, educated, concise, relevant comment on the article..
WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH SLASHDOT!?
uh... chances are MS has already out-bid you...
Trust and loyalty used to be my main focus... I trusted that those stock options i was offered instead of a chunk of salary would be good, and the company trusted that i would deliver good software, on-time.
I fulfilled my part of the bargain, but when it came to stock option maturity time, I got laid-off.. The company is still in business interestingly enough, and now posting profits even.
Who do you trust, and how is that trust repaid? I can tell you I no longer have the same sense of loyalty and trust in my employer. Companies are paying on average HALF of what they were for the same work 2 years ago.. Trust... works both ways or it doesn't work at all...
yeah, why nto? the US seems to be trying to take care of everything else internationally..
I know I know, prolly flamebait, but i gots the karma to burn
I've been in the software engineer game for over 10 years now... almost all of my collegues have either switched fields or taken a 30-40% paycut to stay in it. (Switching fields takes a paycut too btw)
the market is FIERCE now with out of work software engineers.. What makes you think your odds are so good Mr. No-Professional-Experience?
I sadly think you're in for a rude awakening once you hit the market.
nerds feel it necessary to lord their supposedly superior intellect over others... they do it in their inner circles as well. This is the reason they get stuffed in lockers... You may have a bigger brain, but they got bigger arms... And don't give me that innocence crap, you KNOW you're guilty of looking down your nose at whomever because you thought you were smarter than they....
at least virgin sacrifice won't be that difficult to come by....
on the bright side, all those slashdot posters will suddenly become uniquely qualified!
and see them fail miserably because they wasted 6 hours arguing over whether to use the MIG/MAG or TIG welding torch, or spending all the time trying to get linux to boot on their handheld so they can run some simulation calculations....
MS would LOVE to polarize the argument here.. give governments and companies a clear definite black and white choice, then demonize the hell out of the opposition.
Of course the kids looking for the quick +5 will jump on the anti-MS bandwagon in a hurry, the fundamentalist linux zealots will rush in to bash MS like a kid facing off in his first at-bat in tee-ball, but they're just serving MS purpose of polarizing the choices available....
yeah, Blue Screen of Death would be really appropriately named then...
Now the diamond conglomerates will face extreme pressure to quit artificially inflating and regulating the cost of diamonds..
WOOOT!!!!!!!!
man, i thought ATI was going to take over nVidia, but with this crazy open-source support nVidia is doing, it's going to be difficult to NOT support them in turn.
Scratching my back is a damn good way to get me to scratch yours, WTG NVIDIA!
In colder climates, the heat could be dumped into hand warmers rather than undesirably into fabric and the flesh beneath.
colder clients being the 66F computer room? i know 66F isn't that cold, but when you're drinking a code red, my hands get quite numb in there. be nice to be able to flip a switch and redirect that heat up into the keyboard instead of the edge...
keep in mind, we had the full $2k/year MSDN subscription for each developer, paid each year, as well as some very experienced staff on hand... MS charged us $150/h to talk to us about a problem that we were pointing out in their CMutex MFC class (a bug they later admitted to) This was back in 1995 or so before MS jumped on the newsgroup bandwagon. At any rate, i wonder if these kinds of fees factored into the TCO?
8 hours a day easily.... it was common for me to come home friday night from work, 5-6pm, and not log off until monday morning at 2-3am, continuously... 50-60 hours was the norm for my guild on the weekend..
weeknights were hit and miss, but usually you were on for 4-6 hours a night...
I don't think the point of the post was that EETimes is going "online only"...it's that they're in financial trouble and are (slowly) shutting things down.
of course they are... if the public weren't so slow, MOST if not ALL print publications would be in financial trouble. This is the way things are heading, and publication companies are realizing that you can publish the equivelant of an online newsletter or magazine with a MUCH smaller staff and MUCH cheaper costs than a dead tree version.
Pull out the horse-drawn carraige similies if you must, but technology and human advancement marches on..
Fortunately, if anything goes wrong with the robot, the human surgeons can jump right in and pick up where the robot has stopped.
unless it has stopped after impaling itself thru your heart i guess..
I don't mind having a surgeon drive, but totally automated makes me a bit nervous.
That cover looks like billy forgot his sock puppet or something.. What on earth is he doing with that hand?? AND WHERE IS THE OTHER HAND!? I BET HE'S FEELING TUX UP!!!!!!!!
hehe design patterns remind me of the quote "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." or something like that...
if a problem has been solved, and well thought through, the pattern published and peer-reviewed, it probably will hold up for a good long while.
Opening up your monitor should always come with some sort of DEATH IS EMMINANT warning.
geeze, i guess Apple Mac Tech coursework was an exercize in assisted suicide then... Geeze, I wonder how they put them together without KILLING THEMSELVES?!
Many 'advisors' shall be mislead, blinded by buzzwords such as XML as they are, and actually believe that this solves the issue.
I don't think Timothy Bray is looking at XML as just a "buzzword"
wine doesn't skunk... beer skunks when it's left in sunlight due to the hop oils reacting with the ultraviolet radiation.
wine can get bacteria that will turn it into tart vinegar (lacto or acetic), or slimy or whatever, but i've not yet seen a "skunky" wine
What do you do when you've hacked the game to the point that it's not longer fun to play.
IF all of the authoritative roots were nuked, I bet it would be a matter of hours before small networks bounced back up using HOSTS files, and soon had an alternative in place... and IF all the authoritative roots were targeted and taken out, it's going to be pretty obvious what's going on in the world, and thereby easily worked around.
It doesn't have to be all automagic, we're still smart people behind these screens.
bigger faster better more, the endless pursuit "just because we can."
This just sucks... when can i buy it?