it looks like everyone is buying up all the copies. i'm sure amazon uk will be selling out soon too, but it cost me $13 including shipping to california.
and as an added bonus you get to read everything with an english accent.
I've been a PHP programmer working under several different project managers depending on the client for about a year now. I should mention that our art dept. does the HTML because it might be relevant later. Some key Project Managers are as follows:
A - Completely clueless. Asks the same questions over and over again. Gives the design projects (HTML) to programming and the programming projects to design. Has to repeatedly be told what a form action is. Doesn't know a database from a cheese sandwich. Often forwards us URLs that he requested asking what they are instead of clicking on them.
He's the least knowledgable of them all and the worst to work with for obvious reasons. We're constantly having to tell him what we can and can't do and constantly having to redo things because he doesn't get his point across correctly. I had to bill about 3 hours to a client to put a simple counter on 6 pages because 2 hours were explaining things to him and half an hour was redoing the counter because he gave me incorrect instructions. He's technically useless, unwilling (incapable?) to learn and also an incompetant project manager.
B - When I first started working with him he was very competant in relaying what the client wanted but wasn't as good with understanding databases and general programming stuff. After working on a major site redesign I explained how databases worked in order for him to provide me with CSV which I could correctly import. It was important he knew the reasons because he had to explain them to the client. I explained a lot of what can and can't be done and by the end of the project he was entering data himself saving me hours of work.
This guy is a pleasure to work with. He knows enough to be helpful but not enough to be dangerous. He'll ask us how long something takes to do and will accept our answer without questioning it. He'll give us plenty of notice when things are due and listen to our suggestions about due dates. He doesn't always know if something is possible or impossible, but he'll believe us when we tell him we can't do it.
C - This guy claims he used to be a programmer. He's new, so I have less experience working with him. I just started a new site with him and because he claims to know programming and design he wants to play a big part in all 3 roles. He knows enough to be dangerous and is always asking "why?" and wanting to see my database table structure.
This guy is a pain in the ass to work with. He seems to know what's possible and impossible, which is important, but unfortunately he doesn't take suggestions because "he's a programmer". He knows enough to be dangerous and his curiosity is time consuming.
After working with these project managers for a while, this is the conclusion that I've come up with.
Clueless morons will always be clueless morons.
Just because someone knows programming, doesn't mean they'll be a good project manager. It depends on the person, of course, but this could actually be a detriment if they insist on sticking their noses into things too much.
A project manager that you can teach and mold seems to be the most important. If they're competant and willing to learn they'll be the biggest asset. They don't need to understand for loops, but if they listen to you and trust you then you'll do well. The 5 minutes that it takes to quote them a time estimate is not a big deal. The hour it takes to explain to them why that's the case is a big deal.
Most importantly in my job is the fact that the project managers have to listen us and when they do question us our boss will resolve the situation.
from her site: It contains approximately 75,000 pieces, including almost 4000 windows, seats 1372 minifigs and is about 7 feet long by 5 1/2 feet wide.
How long until the Lego church folk start to attack the Harry Potter lego for evil wizardry? Or until little Lego missionaries try to convert the pirates and the spacemen to their side?
What will happen in the future when there's all kinds of ancient satellites and spacecrafts and junk in space? Will there be weekly warnings of old stuff re-entering the atmosphere and possibly crashing to earth if it doesn't break up?
No wonder there are so many security errors. You can't program right if you're brainwashed.
Seriously, though, you have to be able to think for yourself and work things out, it's not about watching a lecture for 2 months and all of a sudden getting it.
Or are they trying to say they've figured out Artificial Intelligence now too?
It's all about cargo pants. Sure, I get laughed at going to through metal detectors and I have to wear a belt, but I've got my cell phone in my left leg pocket, PDA in the right, pager in my upper left pocket and, uh, silly putty in the upper right pocket.
As much as it would be convenient to carry just one item, it still seems like 3 is the way to go for a little while longer. Being able to feel the phone keys is a big plus, and being able to lookup and enter something on my Palm while I'm on the phone is key. Breaking one item won't cripple the others, and changing services is much easier that way.
I have enough trouble avoiding all the rich folk in their massive SUVs and now we have to watch out for them in submarines too? All those fishermen better keep an eye out for a submarine with a "My child is Citizen of the Month" bumper sticker on it.
I wasn't suggesting they have GPS. Good lord that would be ridiculous for many reasons. I was just trying to illustrate that it's not a very good idea.
Unless this has a GPS embedded in it, how are the waitresses going to find the glass to refill it? People wander around at bars so the glass probably won't be in the same place that it was filled. It's too much to keep track of.
A better use of this would be at a restaurant where there's assigned seating and people stay in the same place.
How does it know when to refill? How much beer has to be left? Is it adjustable? What about us folk that want another beer on its way halfway through the current one? In my experience it takes a while to get another beer. Possibly because I'm an ugly geek, but still. If it activates when there's only a few drops left we could be beerless for minutes on end!
It's bad enough that everytime I look at my SlashApp when my boss is at my desk it says "Your Sexual Performance", but now my number one procrastination is making me actually want to do work to escape the jokes.
After having to figure out which stories are real and which stories are April Fool's jokes in my half asleep state, I must say this one has me confused. If it's real, then April Fool's day isn't the best time to post it. If it's a joke then "ha ha". I guess I've learned my lesson about posting before I'm fully awake.
At Matsushita's research center in Tokyo, scientists explain how they are working on embedding technology in the porcelain that will catch a urine sample, shoot it full of lasers and in short order test it for glucose, kidney disease and eventually even cancer. One of the researchers, Tatsuro Kawamura, says future smart toilets will compile and compare medical results day by day, allowing doctors to spot important changes.
I'd be interested in hearing more about this. Will it store the information locally or be hooked up to a network? How will it know who's using the toilet? Who's to say they won't test for drugs or something in the future? This could get pretty invasive.
I really like Mozilla. It's got a lot of excellent features, it looks good, it's come a long way, etc. But unfortunately it (v. 0.9.9) brings my work computer (Linux, 128MB RAM) grinding to a halt. It takes over 30 seconds to load, and there's a several second delay between when I highlight text or try to type anything.
Opera, on the other hand, loads in a flash, now supports all the plugins I need, has tabbed browsing, renders things very well, and aside from the JavaScript console has everything I ever needed from Mozilla and more. In fact, I even paid for Opera and have had no regrets.
At work I mostly only use Mozilla when I get to a site that assumes I have a lame browser that supports nothing because it's not Netscape or IE. Unfortunately it's a painfully long process to get to a page. I'm not flaming it, I love the browser, but I just can't use it on my low end work system.
Wow. That thing is sweet. It's unfortunate that I already have a decent functioning PDA otherwise I'd think about getting one. I wonder how many other people feel the same way? Upgrading your computer is one thing, but upgrading handhelds seems less of a priority for people. Most people who want PDAs have them, and most who don't probably aren't going to jump for a $600 one. Are they hoping that geeks and rich folk will find this too good to pass up? Are these killer new PDAs selling well? Just wondering.
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a flaming webserver? now that's a sweet case mod.
careful, that's linux socket programming.
it looks like everyone is buying up all the copies. i'm sure amazon uk will be selling out soon too, but it cost me $13 including shipping to california.
and as an added bonus you get to read everything with an english accent.
It was Eisenhower who added the "under God" part of the Pledge of Allegiance. You can read about it here.
I've been a PHP programmer working under several different project managers depending on the client for about a year now. I should mention that our art dept. does the HTML because it might be relevant later. Some key Project Managers are as follows:
A - Completely clueless. Asks the same questions over and over again. Gives the design projects (HTML) to programming and the programming projects to design. Has to repeatedly be told what a form action is. Doesn't know a database from a cheese sandwich. Often forwards us URLs that he requested asking what they are instead of clicking on them.
He's the least knowledgable of them all and the worst to work with for obvious reasons. We're constantly having to tell him what we can and can't do and constantly having to redo things because he doesn't get his point across correctly. I had to bill about 3 hours to a client to put a simple counter on 6 pages because 2 hours were explaining things to him and half an hour was redoing the counter because he gave me incorrect instructions. He's technically useless, unwilling (incapable?) to learn and also an incompetant project manager.
B - When I first started working with him he was very competant in relaying what the client wanted but wasn't as good with understanding databases and general programming stuff. After working on a major site redesign I explained how databases worked in order for him to provide me with CSV which I could correctly import. It was important he knew the reasons because he had to explain them to the client. I explained a lot of what can and can't be done and by the end of the project he was entering data himself saving me hours of work.
This guy is a pleasure to work with. He knows enough to be helpful but not enough to be dangerous. He'll ask us how long something takes to do and will accept our answer without questioning it. He'll give us plenty of notice when things are due and listen to our suggestions about due dates. He doesn't always know if something is possible or impossible, but he'll believe us when we tell him we can't do it.
C - This guy claims he used to be a programmer. He's new, so I have less experience working with him. I just started a new site with him and because he claims to know programming and design he wants to play a big part in all 3 roles. He knows enough to be dangerous and is always asking "why?" and wanting to see my database table structure.
This guy is a pain in the ass to work with. He seems to know what's possible and impossible, which is important, but unfortunately he doesn't take suggestions because "he's a programmer". He knows enough to be dangerous and his curiosity is time consuming.
After working with these project managers for a while, this is the conclusion that I've come up with.
Clueless morons will always be clueless morons.
Just because someone knows programming, doesn't mean they'll be a good project manager. It depends on the person, of course, but this could actually be a detriment if they insist on sticking their noses into things too much.
A project manager that you can teach and mold seems to be the most important. If they're competant and willing to learn they'll be the biggest asset. They don't need to understand for loops, but if they listen to you and trust you then you'll do well. The 5 minutes that it takes to quote them a time estimate is not a big deal. The hour it takes to explain to them why that's the case is a big deal.
Most importantly in my job is the fact that the project managers have to listen us and when they do question us our boss will resolve the situation.
from her site: It contains approximately 75,000 pieces, including almost 4000 windows, seats 1372 minifigs and is about 7 feet long by 5 1/2 feet wide.
How long until the Lego church folk start to attack the Harry Potter lego for evil wizardry? Or until little Lego missionaries try to convert the pirates and the spacemen to their side?
What will happen in the future when there's all kinds of ancient satellites and spacecrafts and junk in space? Will there be weekly warnings of old stuff re-entering the atmosphere and possibly crashing to earth if it doesn't break up?
doh. slashdotted already. http://store.yahoo.com/zapmedia/ is a direct link to buy the zapstation since their site seems to be slashdotted.
http://www.zapmedia.com/ just fyi.
No wonder there are so many security errors. You can't program right if you're brainwashed.
Seriously, though, you have to be able to think for yourself and work things out, it's not about watching a lecture for 2 months and all of a sudden getting it.
Or are they trying to say they've figured out Artificial Intelligence now too?
There's supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom.
It's all about cargo pants. Sure, I get laughed at going to through metal detectors and I have to wear a belt, but I've got my cell phone in my left leg pocket, PDA in the right, pager in my upper left pocket and, uh, silly putty in the upper right pocket.
As much as it would be convenient to carry just one item, it still seems like 3 is the way to go for a little while longer. Being able to feel the phone keys is a big plus, and being able to lookup and enter something on my Palm while I'm on the phone is key. Breaking one item won't cripple the others, and changing services is much easier that way.
I have enough trouble avoiding all the rich folk in their massive SUVs and now we have to watch out for them in submarines too? All those fishermen better keep an eye out for a submarine with a "My child is Citizen of the Month" bumper sticker on it.
I wasn't suggesting they have GPS. Good lord that would be ridiculous for many reasons. I was just trying to illustrate that it's not a very good idea.
But everyone knows KDE 3 is the best. I saw it on the poll. It must be true.
Unless this has a GPS embedded in it, how are the waitresses going to find the glass to refill it? People wander around at bars so the glass probably won't be in the same place that it was filled. It's too much to keep track of.
A better use of this would be at a restaurant where there's assigned seating and people stay in the same place.
How does it know when to refill? How much beer has to be left? Is it adjustable? What about us folk that want another beer on its way halfway through the current one? In my experience it takes a while to get another beer. Possibly because I'm an ugly geek, but still. If it activates when there's only a few drops left we could be beerless for minutes on end!
We seem to be running away from the world, and much of the world hates us for it.
Funny, I thought they hated us for sticking our noses in their business.
It's bad enough that everytime I look at my SlashApp when my boss is at my desk it says "Your Sexual Performance", but now my number one procrastination is making me actually want to do work to escape the jokes.
After having to figure out which stories are real and which stories are April Fool's jokes in my half asleep state, I must say this one has me confused. If it's real, then April Fool's day isn't the best time to post it. If it's a joke then "ha ha". I guess I've learned my lesson about posting before I'm fully awake.
At Matsushita's research center in Tokyo, scientists explain how they are working on embedding technology in the porcelain that will catch a urine sample, shoot it full of lasers and in short order test it for glucose, kidney disease and eventually even cancer. One of the researchers, Tatsuro Kawamura, says future smart toilets will compile and compare medical results day by day, allowing doctors to spot important changes.
I'd be interested in hearing more about this. Will it store the information locally or be hooked up to a network? How will it know who's using the toilet? Who's to say they won't test for drugs or something in the future? This could get pretty invasive.
If you're using Opera, set it to identify itself as MSIE 5 and the Sharp site should work for you. It did for me.
I really like Mozilla. It's got a lot of excellent features, it looks good, it's come a long way, etc. But unfortunately it (v. 0.9.9) brings my work computer (Linux, 128MB RAM) grinding to a halt. It takes over 30 seconds to load, and there's a several second delay between when I highlight text or try to type anything.
Opera, on the other hand, loads in a flash, now supports all the plugins I need, has tabbed browsing, renders things very well, and aside from the JavaScript console has everything I ever needed from Mozilla and more. In fact, I even paid for Opera and have had no regrets.
At work I mostly only use Mozilla when I get to a site that assumes I have a lame browser that supports nothing because it's not Netscape or IE. Unfortunately it's a painfully long process to get to a page. I'm not flaming it, I love the browser, but I just can't use it on my low end work system.
Wow. That thing is sweet. It's unfortunate that I already have a decent functioning PDA otherwise I'd think about getting one. I wonder how many other people feel the same way? Upgrading your computer is one thing, but upgrading handhelds seems less of a priority for people. Most people who want PDAs have them, and most who don't probably aren't going to jump for a $600 one. Are they hoping that geeks and rich folk will find this too good to pass up? Are these killer new PDAs selling well? Just wondering.