If the kid needs this, the info is still widely available, just not throught the public library. School libraries, university libraries, a friends house......oh, and God forbid....he could *gasp* ASK A HUMAN!
The best thing that could happen is if the industry went the way that Apple did with it's music service. Like a song? Download that for a buck. Like the whole album? Download that too for a few more bucks. Heck, I've been wanting to get an MP3 player, and the IPOD is the thing that'll probably push me over the edge to do it. They just need to get Windows or Linux service to work.
I read today that Apple's sold more than 2 million songs this way so far, and that's just to Mac people (since the service is currently Mac only). When it goes Windows, they'll probably be a lot more.
Not as many as P2P, but then, those people don't pay anyway. They're just leaching off the people that end up buying music in the stores.
Good advice about adaware. I have a PC here that didn't have it installed, so I just did. It identified 14 registry keys, 2 registry values, 44 files and 4 folders. Doh!
Anyway, please keep your unions to yourself. I like being independent and being judged and paid according to my own work. If I can avoid it, I'll never join a union. It's one of the worst things that could happen to my long-term career and compensation prospects.
Man, I wish I had some mod point right now, because this deserves a LOT of them.
And, on top of everything else, if that place was unionized, no matter now good of job he did, he wouldn't ever get bonuses for doing better work, or get a hefty salary increase when he was promoted. Certainly not if he was low guy on the seniority scale when he hired in.
Unions are for people that want lifetime jobs they can't be fired from. Look at the auto industry... people drink on the job, and they can't get fired, short of killing someone or stealing.
I was in a similiar situation at one of my previous jobs. There's really nothing you can do about it, short of quitting. The most you'll likely get is some sort of comp-time after it's all over, but don't expect more than a couple of days.
A couple of other things:
Once they've gotten away with this once, they'll do it again, and not just for customers like you describe.
If you decide to quit, don't make a big deal about how unhappy you are at your current job. They might need you until the deadline, but if you make a big deal about what's going on, they'll get rid of you soon after the deadline is over.
This might be a little weird to hear, but don't work more than those 12 hours. After you get used to those hours, you might have a tendency to work a bit longer to just get some part of the project completely before you leave...don't do it.
And btw, in case you haven't realized it yet, all that extra work for no salary increase has just effectively cut your salary by more than half.
Finally, start looking for a new job now. The new one will pay you more, and you might be appreciated a bit more. Do it quietly as possible, but do it. You'll end up happier in the end.
Actually, there probably is a random number generator....the thing is, it's always being initialized with the same seed. That's how they can be sure of what will happen in each spin of the game in the examples.
The place where it isn't being used is the "high-low" pick (and other places). That's the kicker.
Mobile games are still an evolving area, and J2ME is already dying out in favour of C++ SDK's for specific platforms.
You're completely high, but keep spreading the word, because it keeps others from entering the market, and means more profits for us.
Next thing you'll be saying is that the N-gage has gotten rave reviews (it hasn't) that Brew is gonna take over (sorry, been three years, and they haven't done squat), and MS phone are the next big thing (despite companies dropping it).
I own one of their MP3 players. It worked briefly for me, and when it broke I was never able to get them to answer me, either via phone (no call back) or e-mail (and a lot of those).
Games now are any of: 1) jump around to collect coins/stars/whatever 2) pretend to kick box/karate/judo something in an arena 3) FPS 4) hack and slash.
BORING
The good thing about Atari in the day was one of the basic requirements: A new game had to look like nothing else that had come before it.
If you work in an enviroment where XYZZY is the local speak, then it's insane not to communicate the same way.
The point I was making was, a lot of manager impose "standards" on project for no other reason than it's the latest buzzword they heard someone else use, like the KQML example I gave.
Artima has been/.-ed, so I can't answer the question in how Jim's using the word in this discussion.
XML syntax is a standard. Agreed upon DTDs might be a standard, but I don't know too many of those.
The Java lanuage itself is a standard.
I would say that CORBA is a standard....And btw, Jim Waldo was one of the originators of that standard, so he knows that the hell he's talking about.
W3C....well, unfortunately, I don't consider them standards body. They tried to get their act together too long after the Web revolution happened, tried to muster the push to make everyone play together, and now they're used as more of a tool by companies trying to prove what THEY'RE doing is the right thing, as opposed to another company, just because of a standard they are pushing throught W3C.
Design by committee, which I think he's talking about here, is an evil evil thing.
I've seen many projects where some manager said something like "You should use XYZZY to send messages". When asked "Why", the answer was always, "Because it's a standard!"
Well, news flash....sending messages between to programs that'll never hook up to anything else doesn't require an existing bloated standard. Sometimes it's better just to use your own messages.
Look at KQML... sure, it's a standard, but hardly any agent systems use it. Too damn bloated, and the agents don't need to talk to other agent systems anyway.
It wasn't building x86 stuff the wiped out SGI into what it is today. It was trying to build NT workstations, and not realizing they couldn't ride the graphics gravy train forever.
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If anyone "corrupts" Java so it can't pass the conformance tests (ie, adds keywords, stupid C# stuff, or anything like that) it's not Java.
If the kid needs this, the info is still widely available, just not throught the public library. School libraries, university libraries, a friends house... ...oh, and God forbid....he could *gasp* ASK A HUMAN!
One of them. The other part of that ruling was 6-3
The best thing that could happen is if the industry went the way that Apple did with it's music service. Like a song? Download that for a buck. Like the whole album? Download that too for a few more bucks. Heck, I've been wanting to get an MP3 player, and the IPOD is the thing that'll probably push me over the edge to do it. They just need to get Windows or Linux service to work.
I read today that Apple's sold more than 2 million songs this way so far, and that's just to Mac people (since the service is currently Mac only). When it goes Windows, they'll probably be a lot more.
Not as many as P2P, but then, those people don't pay anyway. They're just leaching off the people that end up buying music in the stores.
Someone investigated further, and found this:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=68266&cid=6
So, who knows what's going on now...
Good advice about adaware. I have a PC here that didn't have it installed, so I just did. It identified 14 registry keys, 2 registry values, 44 files and 4 folders. Doh!
The bad things unions do for the industry as well as those they "represent" far outweight the good they do.
Man, I wish I had some mod point right now, because this deserves a LOT of them.
Well said.
And, on top of everything else, if that place was unionized, no matter now good of job he did, he wouldn't ever get bonuses for doing better work, or get a hefty salary increase when he was promoted. Certainly not if he was low guy on the seniority scale when he hired in.
Unions are for people that want lifetime jobs they can't be fired from. Look at the auto industry... people drink on the job, and they can't get fired, short of killing someone or stealing.
I was in a similiar situation at one of my previous jobs. There's really nothing you can do about it, short of quitting. The most you'll likely get is some sort of comp-time after it's all over, but don't expect more than a couple of days.
A couple of other things:
Once they've gotten away with this once, they'll do it again, and not just for customers like you describe.
If you decide to quit, don't make a big deal about how unhappy you are at your current job. They might need you until the deadline, but if you make a big deal about what's going on, they'll get rid of you soon after the deadline is over.
This might be a little weird to hear, but don't work more than those 12 hours. After you get used to those hours, you might have a tendency to work a bit longer to just get some part of the project completely before you leave...don't do it.
And btw, in case you haven't realized it yet, all that extra work for no salary increase has just effectively cut your salary by more than half.
Finally, start looking for a new job now. The new one will pay you more, and you might be appreciated a bit more. Do it quietly as possible, but do it. You'll end up happier in the end.
Actually, there probably is a random number generator....the thing is, it's always being initialized with the same seed. That's how they can be sure of what will happen in each spin of the game in the examples.
The place where it isn't being used is the "high-low" pick (and other places). That's the kicker.
Hey, it's not the conservatives that wanted to keep Sadaam around so he could do that. It was liberals. Pat yourself on the back.
It's liek "Compassionate Liberalism" Letting tyrants kill children and dump them into mass graves.
Yeah, that pesky error checking will get you every time....
You're completely high, but keep spreading the word, because it keeps others from entering the market, and means more profits for us.
Next thing you'll be saying is that the N-gage has gotten rave reviews (it hasn't) that Brew is gonna take over (sorry, been three years, and they haven't done squat), and MS phone are the next big thing (despite companies dropping it).
Yeah, you just keep it up.
I own one of their MP3 players. It worked briefly for me, and when it broke I was never able to get them to answer me, either via phone (no call back) or e-mail (and a lot of those).
I'll never buy a product from this company again.
Games now are any of: 1) jump around to collect coins/stars/whatever 2) pretend to kick box/karate/judo something in an arena 3) FPS 4) hack and slash.
BORING
The good thing about Atari in the day was one of the basic requirements: A new game had to look like nothing else that had come before it.
If only more companies would do that today...
If you work in an enviroment where XYZZY is the local speak, then it's insane not to communicate the same way.
The point I was making was, a lot of manager impose "standards" on project for no other reason than it's the latest buzzword they heard someone else use, like the KQML example I gave.
This is like hoping they'll give you time to go back and fix things in a manager-rushed design cycle. Never happens.
Artima has been /.-ed, so I can't answer the question in how Jim's using the word in this discussion.
....well, unfortunately, I don't consider them standards body. They tried to get their act together too long after the Web revolution happened, tried to muster the push to make everyone play together, and now they're used as more of a tool by companies trying to prove what THEY'RE doing is the right thing, as opposed to another company, just because of a standard they are pushing throught W3C.
XML syntax is a standard. Agreed upon DTDs might be a standard, but I don't know too many of those.
The Java lanuage itself is a standard.
I would say that CORBA is a standard....And btw, Jim Waldo was one of the originators of that standard, so he knows that the hell he's talking about.
W3C
Design by committee, which I think he's talking about here, is an evil evil thing.
"the right approach to ALL problems"
Note the ALL. Some do, but not all.
I've seen many projects where some manager said something like "You should use XYZZY to send messages". When asked "Why", the answer was always, "Because it's a standard!"
Well, news flash....sending messages between to programs that'll never hook up to anything else doesn't require an existing bloated standard. Sometimes it's better just to use your own messages.
Look at KQML... sure, it's a standard, but hardly any agent systems use it. Too damn bloated, and the agents don't need to talk to other agent systems anyway.
Ah...the famous quote from Andy Tannenbaum's Networking book.
Look through this
There's a show going in Baltimore this week that has other vendors of this sort of technology too.
How do you get that Sun needs RedHat? RedHat's the one adding Java to their distribution....
It wasn't building x86 stuff the wiped out SGI into what it is today. It was trying to build NT workstations, and not realizing they couldn't ride the graphics gravy train forever.