Well yeah. But that is not a problem with the book exactly. The problem permeates the software development space in many other ways and the problem is...Many employers and many in the general public think that a weekend with the gang of four, Java in a nutshell and a complete lack of social skills are the definition of a complete programmer. Welders get more training and mentoring that the average programmer. Employers simply point to a goofy looking kid with bad motor skills and say get to it. Of course simply reading a book won't make you a good programmer. We need to develop apprenticeship and mentoring as standard models of how developers become REAL developers. As long a employers and the public equate bad social skills and the ability to type something that compiles with good developer we will have issues. It is not the patterns book that is the problem. It is in fact a very good book.
I DON'T want my computer to read to me every time I open you page. I can read it myself. I want to read it myself. If I wanted it to be read to me I would go to CNN.
Unless, it is from something you don't like to something you do (for instance from "IT Guy" to "Developer" or vice versa depending on your likes). Even then lowering your pay is simply the one of the options open to you. With a little more looking you might find that you can change and increase you pay. You have to be VERY careful because an employer is looking to minimize his expense and maximize your productivity. So, always bargain hard and start high. You can always move your price down, but you can't really move it up.
The above is the best of all the ideas. Puts the onus on the owner. Makes it much harder to push a fake update and allows the car company to always be up to date; it being the owners responsibility to apply the update. I like it.
But, the kitty that they are paid from is soooo large that from the corporate perspective they are not all that expensive. And free enterprise etc. So, paid too much yes. Anything we can really do about it no.
We have all recognized security breaches or system vulnerabilities and been given the brush off. Nobody in the business world wants to be proactive. If a business has never been hacked then security will remain lax until that company is finally hacked. Even then most companies will just do enough to take away (or make it seem that they have taken away) that particular attack vector. (Hope nobody minds that I spoke for all of us).
Wrong I see comment #46185253 in both places. Are you wearing a tinfoil slash hat TWiTfan? Cause you post is still there. Or maybe they put it back. Or maybe they have just deleted it so only you can't see it.
"The Greatest Generation" is a term coined by journalist Tom Brokaw to describe the generation[1] who grew up in the United States during the deprivation of the Great Depression, and then went on to fight in World War II, as well as those whose productivity within the war's home front made a decisive material contribution to the war effort, for which the generation is also termed the G.I. Generation - Wikipedia
Just cause it is/. and we a required to respond: I would think that "The Greatest Generation" would include a whole lot of people who were in their 40's in 1954. The average age of a solider in WWII was 26 which meant that there must have been a bunch of 30 and 40 year olds in the army. So, Yeah a lot of vets in congress in 1954, JFK a WWII vet was in the senate at the time.
In response to your final thought - your generation and mine are responsible for the spying, use of torture, extraordinary rendition etc. You have been able to vote for more than 17 years. You, me and everyone else in this country are responsible.
The "Greatest Generation" is a polite fiction my friend. The "Greatest Generation" did (for the good of all) fight and win WWII and I thank them for it. Let's not get too proud of them though. Their parents won WWI and their ancestors won the Civil War and theirs gave us our independence. So, They are not the first or last generation to go to bat for their country. And then let's really see what they did when they came home from the war.
-Nuclear Proliferation
-The Red Scare
-The McCarthy Hearings
-The continuation of the American version of Apartheid.
-No action taken to give voice and rights to women.
-A blind and bland national narrative based around a lifestyle that never existed ("Leave It to Beaver" anyone).
Now I am not so strident and inflexible in my views as to say that they were a "bad" generation, but the whole "Greatest Generation" thing is a little overblown.
WTF that makes no sense. A 10 billion dollar loss on a company they really just purchased. And they are moving aggressively into the hardware space on all other fronts. Google seems to be a churn and burn company. If it isn't paying off right now they close it or sell it.
And Pete Seeger had the balls to stand up for what he believed and did not lie or change his story. Politicians and bureaucrats lie instinctively, but will happily repudiate themselves at a later date if it keeps them in power.
Sorry but you are wrong. At least in the sense that because a person is guilty he must be sentenced to the prescribed penalty. People rarely say it, but a large part of trying someone before a jury of their peers is that they can be found innocent even though the actually perpetrated the crime. The south used to find this a nifty way to get away with lynching. But, it also happens all the time for good reasons. It may get you ire up to hear it but it is true. If Snowden were tried and I was on the jury I would vote for acquittal.
You should make it a place with Books that the kids can take home for some period of time and read. Then they return them so others can also use them. The idea is revolutionary.
I think maybe you miss the point. The 3D printing vision is not that manufacturing will go away (at least not for now), it is that I can get the one off item even if I don't have access to the marketplace, or the item is no longer being made, or the price is higher than if I just made it myself or I want to customize it. For instance, I broke one of the clip-on shelves in my refrigerator. They make the part but they want $65.00 dollars for it. Now I have four more just like it, so if I 3d scan one of them and then print the replacement even if it takes a couple of hours and $10.00 or $20.00 worth of material I've saved both time and money. Even more so if the replacement weren't being sold anymore or if I wanted it to have dividers and added those after the scan.
A bit off topic to the article, I know. But, I don't think I understand some peoples instant negativity to this particular technology. I don't think it will end manufacturing as we know it, but I do think it can become a useful and normal technology. Can't you just hear it - "Hey honey, can you run off a couple more Monster-High dolls for Betty. She really liked the Frankie Stein you printed and wants Draculaura and Deuce Gorgon. I looked at the store, but couldn't find either of them."
Really? Really? You don't see any danger in all this. From the 20's until the early 70's J Edgar used his organization to collect information about citizens of the United States. He used that information to blackmail and criminalize people whom he did not agree with or had personal issues with. That really happened. Now assume that the directory of the NSA starts to have a personal agenda like of J Edgar. Maybe he doesn't like Jews or Atheists. He starts to get his minions to use all this data to fight Atheist terrorists (or whatever). Anyone yes even you can be blackmailed or criminalized with enough access to their personal lives. And we don't know about because it is all a big secret and for our own good.
So, I'm not a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy nut, but I have read enough history to know that what they are doing at the NSA will not have a good long term outcome. We need as Americans to put a stop to it now. It is already out of hand.
There are ways to make sure (or pretty damn sure) that the compiled binary came from the source. Since it is "open source" everyone could examine the source to verify that it was trustworthy. That would then make the machine more trustworthy.
However I tend to agree that we have to actually trust our government. We cannot live in a society that claims to be free and democratic and still have an adversarial relationship with those in power. We are coming to the point where there is an active movement against those in power, but because of intrenched interest and the two party system we cannot remove them through the "democratic" process. This is a bad thing.
The English system of measurements has the exact same problem with the pound because...Here it comes a pound is defined as 0.45359237 kg. And we are back to the bar sitting just outside of Paris.
Yes but to flog the dead horse just a little more...IT DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. If you are using a balance to compare the mass of two objects and the objects have the same mass, they will balance on the moon or in the upper atmosphere or on a neutron star. But, the question of the amount of mass still hasn't been solved without a reference mass and that (the one outside of Paris) keeps changing a little bit all the time.
Slashdot Mirror
Well yeah. But that is not a problem with the book exactly. The problem permeates the software development space in many other ways and the problem is...Many employers and many in the general public think that a weekend with the gang of four, Java in a nutshell and a complete lack of social skills are the definition of a complete programmer. Welders get more training and mentoring that the average programmer. Employers simply point to a goofy looking kid with bad motor skills and say get to it. Of course simply reading a book won't make you a good programmer. We need to develop apprenticeship and mentoring as standard models of how developers become REAL developers. As long a employers and the public equate bad social skills and the ability to type something that compiles with good developer we will have issues. It is not the patterns book that is the problem. It is in fact a very good book.
They have lost all credibility in the last year. They are no longer a news outlet but the paid shills of their network an their sponsors.
I DON'T want my computer to read to me every time I open you page. I can read it myself. I want to read it myself. If I wanted it to be read to me I would go to CNN.
Unless, it is from something you don't like to something you do (for instance from "IT Guy" to "Developer" or vice versa depending on your likes). Even then lowering your pay is simply the one of the options open to you. With a little more looking you might find that you can change and increase you pay. You have to be VERY careful because an employer is looking to minimize his expense and maximize your productivity. So, always bargain hard and start high. You can always move your price down, but you can't really move it up.
The above is the best of all the ideas. Puts the onus on the owner. Makes it much harder to push a fake update and allows the car company to always be up to date; it being the owners responsibility to apply the update. I like it.
But, the kitty that they are paid from is soooo large that from the corporate perspective they are not all that expensive. And free enterprise etc. So, paid too much yes. Anything we can really do about it no.
Damn but that posted before I fixed it speak not speek.
We have all recognized security breaches or system vulnerabilities and been given the brush off. Nobody in the business world wants to be proactive. If a business has never been hacked then security will remain lax until that company is finally hacked. Even then most companies will just do enough to take away (or make it seem that they have taken away) that particular attack vector. (Hope nobody minds that I spoke for all of us).
Wrong I see comment #46185253 in both places. Are you wearing a tinfoil slash hat TWiTfan? Cause you post is still there. Or maybe they put it back. Or maybe they have just deleted it so only you can't see it.
Look at reddit.com sometime. They drive way more traffic than you and they don't "look" all 2014.
To say fuckity fuck fuck fucking /. you used to be so kind.
First post
Who here was ever saying Slashdot Beta is superior? It SUCKS.
"The Greatest Generation" is a term coined by journalist Tom Brokaw to describe the generation[1] who grew up in the United States during the deprivation of the Great Depression, and then went on to fight in World War II, as well as those whose productivity within the war's home front made a decisive material contribution to the war effort, for which the generation is also termed the G.I. Generation - Wikipedia
Just cause it is /. and we a required to respond: I would think that "The Greatest Generation" would include a whole lot of people who were in their 40's in 1954. The average age of a solider in WWII was 26 which meant that there must have been a bunch of 30 and 40 year olds in the army. So, Yeah a lot of vets in congress in 1954, JFK a WWII vet was in the senate at the time.
In response to your final thought - your generation and mine are responsible for the spying, use of torture, extraordinary rendition etc. You have been able to vote for more than 17 years. You, me and everyone else in this country are responsible.
ROTFLMAO somebody mod up this AC.
Now I am not so strident and inflexible in my views as to say that they were a "bad" generation, but the whole "Greatest Generation" thing is a little overblown.
WTF that makes no sense. A 10 billion dollar loss on a company they really just purchased. And they are moving aggressively into the hardware space on all other fronts. Google seems to be a churn and burn company. If it isn't paying off right now they close it or sell it.
And Pete Seeger had the balls to stand up for what he believed and did not lie or change his story. Politicians and bureaucrats lie instinctively, but will happily repudiate themselves at a later date if it keeps them in power.
Sorry but you are wrong. At least in the sense that because a person is guilty he must be sentenced to the prescribed penalty. People rarely say it, but a large part of trying someone before a jury of their peers is that they can be found innocent even though the actually perpetrated the crime. The south used to find this a nifty way to get away with lynching. But, it also happens all the time for good reasons. It may get you ire up to hear it but it is true. If Snowden were tried and I was on the jury I would vote for acquittal.
You should make it a place with Books that the kids can take home for some period of time and read. Then they return them so others can also use them. The idea is revolutionary.
I think maybe you miss the point. The 3D printing vision is not that manufacturing will go away (at least not for now), it is that I can get the one off item even if I don't have access to the marketplace, or the item is no longer being made, or the price is higher than if I just made it myself or I want to customize it. For instance, I broke one of the clip-on shelves in my refrigerator. They make the part but they want $65.00 dollars for it. Now I have four more just like it, so if I 3d scan one of them and then print the replacement even if it takes a couple of hours and $10.00 or $20.00 worth of material I've saved both time and money. Even more so if the replacement weren't being sold anymore or if I wanted it to have dividers and added those after the scan.
A bit off topic to the article, I know. But, I don't think I understand some peoples instant negativity to this particular technology. I don't think it will end manufacturing as we know it, but I do think it can become a useful and normal technology. Can't you just hear it - "Hey honey, can you run off a couple more Monster-High dolls for Betty. She really liked the Frankie Stein you printed and wants Draculaura and Deuce Gorgon. I looked at the store, but couldn't find either of them."
Really? Really? You don't see any danger in all this. From the 20's until the early 70's J Edgar used his organization to collect information about citizens of the United States. He used that information to blackmail and criminalize people whom he did not agree with or had personal issues with. That really happened. Now assume that the directory of the NSA starts to have a personal agenda like of J Edgar. Maybe he doesn't like Jews or Atheists. He starts to get his minions to use all this data to fight Atheist terrorists (or whatever). Anyone yes even you can be blackmailed or criminalized with enough access to their personal lives. And we don't know about because it is all a big secret and for our own good.
So, I'm not a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy nut, but I have read enough history to know that what they are doing at the NSA will not have a good long term outcome. We need as Americans to put a stop to it now. It is already out of hand.
There are ways to make sure (or pretty damn sure) that the compiled binary came from the source. Since it is "open source" everyone could examine the source to verify that it was trustworthy. That would then make the machine more trustworthy.
However I tend to agree that we have to actually trust our government. We cannot live in a society that claims to be free and democratic and still have an adversarial relationship with those in power. We are coming to the point where there is an active movement against those in power, but because of intrenched interest and the two party system we cannot remove them through the "democratic" process. This is a bad thing.
The English system of measurements has the exact same problem with the pound because...Here it comes a pound is defined as 0.45359237 kg. And we are back to the bar sitting just outside of Paris.
Yes but to flog the dead horse just a little more...IT DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. If you are using a balance to compare the mass of two objects and the objects have the same mass, they will balance on the moon or in the upper atmosphere or on a neutron star. But, the question of the amount of mass still hasn't been solved without a reference mass and that (the one outside of Paris) keeps changing a little bit all the time.