well i was gonna mod but I guess I'll respond instead.
not everything has to be about War, Debt, Iraq, OBL, world being filled with tragedy etc.
some things can be just for fun you know. like poems based on fibonacci sequences.
its really kind of sad that you have this stuff on your mind 24-7
cause having it on your mind 24-7 isn't doing anyone any good, especially you... unless you're actively doing something about it, and given that you're posting on slashdot, i'm guessing you're not (as I also am not).
worry about what you can control, and don't worry too much about the things you cannot. you will find yourself much happier that way.
that was my first thought
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how completely useless. if you want to be a hacker, you go learn how to be a hacker on your own, on the internets. if you have to go to a school for it, you probably weren't meant to hack into much of anything in the first place.
Well since you are in a position to be doing the scrutinizing wouldn't it be refreshing if you had people come to you without all the BS that you recommended the OP take part in, and just give you an honest assessment of what it takes to get the job done?
You must be new here...
Oh and congratulations on being in the "IT Industry" for nearly/almost/not quite 20 years
Thanks. I wasn't bragging, hell I'd give my left nut to be a 19 year old 'n00b' again. I'm just pointing out to you that there is the way things should work, and the way that things do work. More often than not they are not the same. This is something that will be pounded into you over and over and over in life. I can't change the behavior patterns of 3 trillion people. So until you manage to accomplish that, I'll be playing BF2 on my big fat laptop.
this might be the case at your well-mananaged company
and the part about the problem with IT is everyone trying to show each other how smart they are and looking like lost little idiots?
thats not just IT. infact that applies fourfold to most anyone wearing a tie.
i've been at my current job for 8 years and in the IT industry for nearly 20. my purchases were scrutinized when I was young and green. now? not at all. if anything now i'm the one doing the scrutinizing.
I just got myself a shiny new Dell M70 laptop, 256mb video, 2gb RAM. Reading around on the internet, its comparable with Alienware stuff as far as gaming goes.
I need it to.... um.... work on that big project coming up.... yeah thats it.....
Seriously, ask for as much as possible. The worst that will happen is they say no, most of the time you will bargain down to a compromise point which is still way more than you need anyways.... and at most places I've seen, the person doing the approving really doesn't understand the computer stuff....
or I guess you can clip coupons instead, if you're into that...
I've heard that too, and we really do try to talk 'adult' to the child as much as possible. Outside of 'mama' which isn't so bad, we really don't do it at all.... we say 'bottle' and he starts going 'babababababa' so 'baba' will also happen.....
My son is 6 months old and he certainly understands 'mama', you say that and he looks around for her. Don't know if he understands 'dada' or 'father dear' yet....
We think he also understands 'baba' or 'bottle', as you say that and he expects food......
Why do companies do this? Doesn't it cost about the same for them to make a 'cheap chip' as it would an expensive one? Is the manufacturing process really that much simpler? All the other costs would be the same, distribution, administration, marketing, whatever.
Something I've been wondering since the first 'celeron'
well if you want to go set it up for them, for free, i'm sure they'd take a look at it and maybe get around to letting you install it sometime within the next 10 years.
i'm guessing you don't work with government agencies much.
You're going to get everyone throwing in their personal favorite reasons why C# is better or Java is better or haskell is better or whatever.
I reason it like this: What kind of beginner are you?
If you're a beginning CS student, no, VB is not the direction you want to go. There's many other languages that may have a steeper learning curve, but will reward you further in the long run.
If you're a forklift operator at a small company that gets forced into writing a small app to do this or that, simply because you're the most computer literate out of those of you working there, then yes, VB is designed for you.
I know many cases of programmers that never really intended to be, they got forced into it one way or another. If you don't have a full CS background, if you have no interest in computers outside of accomplishing the task at hand, if you just need to get something done quickly and don't have the background to do it properly..... then VB is the best choice.
I know there are plenty of advantages to doing things the 'right way', but out in the real world sometimes you just need to get things done yesterday and don't have the time or resources to do it the way a university professor would approve of. I'm not talking about writing shrink-wrapped retail software, but more things like internal apps and data transformation.
And, just to sound like a paid astroturfer (which I'm not), I must say that I have not seen anything anywhere ever that comes remotely close to the programming environment that Visual Studio provides. I'm usually on the anti-Microsoft side of the fence, but when it comes to the programming environment, again I haven't seen any other product OSS or otherwise that is even playing in the same ballpark.
burn karma burn!
RTFA much?
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Not only does it contain a transmitter, but the article says it will burn up on re-entry in 3 to 4 years.
The odds of this being a problem for 'space entrepreneurs' is probably comparable to me winning powerball within the same timeframe. Space is big. Really big.
so what you are saying is that some data is flagged 'personal' while other data is flagged 'public'.
in most cases I suppose, it is pretty easy to determine how the data should be flagged.
what about the cases where the line is not so black and white?
one could make arguments for both sides regarding something like the formula for a new drug. or source code. heck, even your medical records would be valuable public data when aggregated with large amounts of other records.
my only point is that i don't think it's as clear cut as you describe, and i think its odd in an article titled 'Chinese, US Condemn Censorship' to have it say the US is worried about data privacy protections.
when it comes to falun gong, taiwanese independance, etc, china wants the data to be private, IE not in the hands of the public. to the US that is censorship. there may also be data that china allows and the US doesn't, though I certainly couldn't give an example off the top of my head...
Do you really believe that during WW2 that suspicious citizenry were not required to prove their identities in order to prove they weren't German spies?
British counter-intelligence was incredible during WW2. There are reasons for that. Many, many times 'privacy concerns' were flatly ignored by both the Brits and the US. Stuff that would make this current 'wiretapping' business, or ID cards look like nothing.
It's easy to look back on WW2 as a battle of freedom vs dictatorship, but in reality it was far more complex than that, and basic human rights regarding privacy, torture, etc were broken on all sides, not just by the nazis.
With so much discussion regarding ID, FSM, Kansas, etc.... The 'religious crazies' that believe that crap really are in the vast minority. Most religious people don't have any problem with science, though when ID comes up all religious people get bashed.
i think grandparent post was kind of dumb, but i dont have any modpoints so i guess i'll respond.
as much as everyone (myself included) wants it to be, linux is not ready for the corporate desktop. and thats where it needs to be.
and as much as i love the open source model, linux is not going to be on the corporate desktop without backing from someone like microsoft, IBM, or google. heck, even IBM lost the OS market with what was at the time a superior product.
as a linux fan I view this as a very very very good thing.
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mostly assembly, probably wrapped in C. anything else wouldn't make a whole lot of sense at that level.
well i was gonna mod but I guess I'll respond instead.
not everything has to be about War, Debt, Iraq, OBL, world being filled with tragedy etc.
some things can be just for fun you know. like poems based on fibonacci sequences.
its really kind of sad that you have this stuff on your mind 24-7
cause having it on your mind 24-7 isn't doing anyone any good, especially you... unless you're actively doing something about it, and given that you're posting on slashdot, i'm guessing you're not (as I also am not).
worry about what you can control, and don't worry too much about the things you cannot. you will find yourself much happier that way.
how completely useless. if you want to be a hacker, you go learn how to be a hacker on your own, on the internets. if you have to go to a school for it, you probably weren't meant to hack into much of anything in the first place.
Well since you are in a position to be doing the scrutinizing wouldn't it be refreshing if you had people come to you without all the BS that you recommended the OP take part in, and just give you an honest assessment of what it takes to get the job done?
You must be new here...
Oh and congratulations on being in the "IT Industry" for nearly/almost/not quite 20 years
Thanks. I wasn't bragging, hell I'd give my left nut to be a 19 year old 'n00b' again. I'm just pointing out to you that there is the way things should work, and the way that things do work. More often than not they are not the same. This is something that will be pounded into you over and over and over in life. I can't change the behavior patterns of 3 trillion people. So until you manage to accomplish that, I'll be playing BF2 on my big fat laptop.
this might be the case at your well-mananaged company
and the part about the problem with IT is everyone trying to show each other how smart they are and looking like lost little idiots?
thats not just IT. infact that applies fourfold to most anyone wearing a tie.
i've been at my current job for 8 years and in the IT industry for nearly 20. my purchases were scrutinized when I was young and green. now? not at all. if anything now i'm the one doing the scrutinizing.
im guessing you're under 25. yes?
I just got myself a shiny new Dell M70 laptop, 256mb video, 2gb RAM. Reading around on the internet, its comparable with Alienware stuff as far as gaming goes.
I need it to.... um.... work on that big project coming up.... yeah thats it.....
Seriously, ask for as much as possible. The worst that will happen is they say no, most of the time you will bargain down to a compromise point which is still way more than you need anyways.... and at most places I've seen, the person doing the approving really doesn't understand the computer stuff....
or I guess you can clip coupons instead, if you're into that...
I've heard that too, and we really do try to talk 'adult' to the child as much as possible. Outside of 'mama' which isn't so bad, we really don't do it at all.... we say 'bottle' and he starts going 'babababababa' so 'baba' will also happen.....
My son is 6 months old and he certainly understands 'mama', you say that and he looks around for her. Don't know if he understands 'dada' or 'father dear' yet....
We think he also understands 'baba' or 'bottle', as you say that and he expects food......
linky
Why do companies do this? Doesn't it cost about the same for them to make a 'cheap chip' as it would an expensive one? Is the manufacturing process really that much simpler? All the other costs would be the same, distribution, administration, marketing, whatever.
Something I've been wondering since the first 'celeron'
well if you want to go set it up for them, for free, i'm sure they'd take a look at it and maybe get around to letting you install it sometime within the next 10 years.
i'm guessing you don't work with government agencies much.
Comic_timing
I shred it, then I set it on fire. I then take the ashes and compress them into a diamond-like form. Then I smash it apart, and put the crystal shards inside the event horizon of a black hole, beyond which no information about the black hole's interior can escape to the outer universe.
its the only way to be completely sure.
Can you make them with the cheese already inside?
That would really save me a lot of trouble...
I prefer Mozzerella.
Thanks in advance.
You're going to get everyone throwing in their personal favorite reasons why C# is better or Java is better or haskell is better or whatever.
I reason it like this: What kind of beginner are you?
If you're a beginning CS student, no, VB is not the direction you want to go. There's many other languages that may have a steeper learning curve, but will reward you further in the long run.
If you're a forklift operator at a small company that gets forced into writing a small app to do this or that, simply because you're the most computer literate out of those of you working there, then yes, VB is designed for you.
I know many cases of programmers that never really intended to be, they got forced into it one way or another. If you don't have a full CS background, if you have no interest in computers outside of accomplishing the task at hand, if you just need to get something done quickly and don't have the background to do it properly..... then VB is the best choice.
I know there are plenty of advantages to doing things the 'right way', but out in the real world sometimes you just need to get things done yesterday and don't have the time or resources to do it the way a university professor would approve of. I'm not talking about writing shrink-wrapped retail software, but more things like internal apps and data transformation.
And, just to sound like a paid astroturfer (which I'm not), I must say that I have not seen anything anywhere ever that comes remotely close to the programming environment that Visual Studio provides. I'm usually on the anti-Microsoft side of the fence, but when it comes to the programming environment, again I haven't seen any other product OSS or otherwise that is even playing in the same ballpark.
burn karma burn!
Not only does it contain a transmitter, but the article says it will burn up on re-entry in 3 to 4 years.
The odds of this being a problem for 'space entrepreneurs' is probably comparable to me winning powerball within the same timeframe. Space is big. Really big.
I remember on my original 8 bit nintendo, most of the games I had were not made by nintendo..... Konami, Data East, Square etc...
... if the mogul course is anywhere near where they do the biathalon. accidents can happen....
This would describe about 30 hours out of my 40 hour work week.
so what you are saying is that some data is flagged 'personal' while other data is flagged 'public'.
in most cases I suppose, it is pretty easy to determine how the data should be flagged.
what about the cases where the line is not so black and white?
one could make arguments for both sides regarding something like the formula for a new drug. or source code. heck, even your medical records would be valuable public data when aggregated with large amounts of other records.
my only point is that i don't think it's as clear cut as you describe, and i think its odd in an article titled 'Chinese, US Condemn Censorship' to have it say the US is worried about data privacy protections.
when it comes to falun gong, taiwanese independance, etc, china wants the data to be private, IE not in the hands of the public. to the US that is censorship. there may also be data that china allows and the US doesn't, though I certainly couldn't give an example off the top of my head...
wouldnt the 'protection of privacy and data' be 'censorship' ?
but I believe I've seen the movie
Do you really believe that during WW2 that suspicious citizenry were not required to prove their identities in order to prove they weren't German spies?
British counter-intelligence was incredible during WW2. There are reasons for that. Many, many times 'privacy concerns' were flatly ignored by both the Brits and the US. Stuff that would make this current 'wiretapping' business, or ID cards look like nothing.
It's easy to look back on WW2 as a battle of freedom vs dictatorship, but in reality it was far more complex than that, and basic human rights regarding privacy, torture, etc were broken on all sides, not just by the nazis.
With so much discussion regarding ID, FSM, Kansas, etc.... The 'religious crazies' that believe that crap really are in the vast minority. Most religious people don't have any problem with science, though when ID comes up all religious people get bashed.
i think grandparent post was kind of dumb, but i dont have any modpoints so i guess i'll respond.
as much as everyone (myself included) wants it to be, linux is not ready for the corporate desktop. and thats where it needs to be.
and as much as i love the open source model, linux is not going to be on the corporate desktop without backing from someone like microsoft, IBM, or google. heck, even IBM lost the OS market with what was at the time a superior product.
as a linux fan I view this as a very very very good thing.