Yeah, its too bad someone made such a thing as scripting languages. They are all ultra evil agents of Microsoft. Which scripting language do we abolish first? Perl? [c|ba|k]sh? ECMA? VBScript?
Maybe if scripting languages are abolished, all the laid off techies that actually have real skills will have an easier time finding work.
Do scripting languages prove or disprove the statement, "People are basically good?"
Who sponsored the study? Were the people teaching the kids IT professionals or a bunch of teachers that already knew music that attended a few seminars about computers?
I've used computers since about age 7. When the elementary school decided to get a few TRS80 Model III computers and teach basic, I knew more than the teacher. I learned more through the years on my own outside of school by basically using the computer every moment I could. I learned a lot by trying to bypass the rudimentary protection schemes on C64 video games. I went to college, got a CS degree, and now make more money than my parents put together. I can also assure you I don't lack in creativity or formal reasoning.
I worked in the entertainment industry and got to be around those "creative" people with musical talent. Everyone romaticizes the artistic icons we see on TV and hear on the radio. The truth is that these people are bloody idiots! They have no concept of how anything works in the world around them; they are generally the first to form an opinion of something and the last to know any facts about it. If these are desirable qualities, then I am ever more happy to be the un-creative, un-reasoning, and un-interesting person I am today.
Heh.....go ask your nearest music major to come to linear algebra class with you. See for yourself if musicians have better formal reasoning than anyone else.
1. We have just discovered most journalists don't generally have a console feed to plug into this thing.
2. Most line input levels from broadcast equipment is at +4 or +8 dB, while we do -20 to 0 dB.
3. The majority of professional equipment is going to need an XLR, 1/4" stereo, or TT to the consumer size mini-stereo plug adapter. This is not easily made in the field.
4. Most artists don't know jack about input/output line levels or how to make a cable that interfaces with their mix of consumer and broadcast equipment.
Note to self: Hire an audio/broadcast engineer to work on the development team.
They would probably have to be pretty selective in trimming frames in places where PAL is the video standard (Europe). It might make the show look like a bad Wang Chung video.
If the show is running in NTSC, they could probably get a lot more out of it than 30 seconds.
The problem with these types of "automagic" machines is that it can never do it perfectly. HP has a device that fits in 1U on a rack and it will force video into your programmed specifications. We used to use it when transferring rented videos into an online editor so that we could cut preview spots together for DTV. The problem is that the video usually looked like crap after it was transferred. I'm sure it didn't make a good case for purchasing the pay-per-view version of it.
When I think about any sort of organized group specifically for direct marketing, I get this strange vision of all its members. If they were to have a convention, an outsider would probably see a bunch of guys that all looked the same exhibiting. They would probably all be about 4'9" tall, have a balding crown with wisps of unkempt hair, hunchback, and constantly walking around wringing their hands and repeating, "Yes, my precious," while breathing heavily.
Oh, and all their names are "Igor" or something and they refer to themselves in the third person. "Igor like licking stamps." "Igor has good marketing strategy." etc.
This could put a whole new twist on toys in the genre of Sea Monkeys and Chia pets. Can I grow my boss or my professor in a petri dish and then torture them without any legal ramifications?
The problem is that Garden Grove is not a town, it is a city. It is a city of mostly poor Asian immigrants. It is not a nice area. The scumbag that installed my mini-blinds and went shopping on kencole.com with my credit card lives there.
They have many Asian gangs there, and the violence is most likely related to their activities more than anything. If they put a moratorium on the internet cafes, it is just limiting a place for the gangs to hang out, not some sort of attack on internet usage.
I grew up in an LA suburb that was pretty much gang free until the early 90s. They opened a minature golf/arcade/car racing park there probably about 1995. The gangs drove for OVER AN HOUR just to come there and cause trouble. This included gangs from Garden Grove.
Garden Grove is not an area I would want to hang out in after dark. The fact that the kids are playing games probably has nothing to do with the violence. If you simply have a bunch of hoodlums haning out, there will be a problem, no matter what it is that they are doing.
On the other hand, if you want to go to Garden Grove during the day, you can get some tasty Chinese or Vietnamese food. It is actually a cool place to go shopping at as long as you are in a well lighted area.
I wonder why a newspaper in Sacramento is running a story about it....I doubt they could accuratly report about any happenings in GG since Sacramento has to be about 700+ miles away.
AOL may not hold a monopoly by itself, but I'm betting non-TW companies aren't going to be able to buy pop-up ads on AOL. They don't have a monopoly yet, but they have the capability to make sure that the news you see, both online and on TV, comes from a single source. In short, you have to believe what they want you to believe.
I guess one corporate strategy is to sue people when your product can't compete in the market. Netscape chose a different path for the evolution of their product, and it appears it was the wrong one.
Is it just me, or does it seem like a total waste of time to develop a program that checks to see if your employees are copying code from each other? You said it won't be publicly released, so what is the point? I can check out code from the repository here that I never worked on, include it in a project I worked on, and I'll be cosidered better for it since I didn't waste my time re-doing what someone else already did.
Silly boy, there are no cute blonds in CS classes. The cute blonds usually give up after college algebra.
Now, of course, if you consider blond Bertha Battleaxe as cute....you know, the big ogre-type chick that sits in the front of the class with an un-combed blond mop of hair and a blond beard that can output code like no one you've ever met before? I guess then letting the cute blond copy works for you.
Well, there is one better solution. A mob of people carry pitchforks and shovels could march on AOL's headquarters and pull the plug.
Then I guess all those high-paid type people that sit on standards comittees would have to find something else just as worthless to fill the big gap in their schedule.
The AES/EBU digital audio output standard already includes protection bits in the stream. Since this is pretty much the standard for all professional audio equipment, I wonder why they just don't adapt the content to this. My guess is that people don't want to pay for the expensive D-A it requires to listen to the stream.
An interesting note is that most professional audio systems totally ignore this protection bit. I believe most store-bought CDs have this bit set in their stream if you use a CD player capable of AES/EBU output. We used to plug it direct digital into a professional mixing console, which should have not read it since the bit was set. I think someone didn't have the insight to know that the honor system rarely works.
No wonder no one wanted to buy my Oracle stock an hour before the market closed on 12/31/01! The government let all the top level capitalists know Larry was about to be aced out of the picture!
I am uncertain of how people wandering agency-to-agency and filling out the same forms even closely relates to a Microsoft-centric problem. What, MS donates stuff and anything that doesn't work is their fault?
Think about it. No one wrote software to handle the tasks needed to reunite victims of 9/11. I don't care what OS got plopped down on the doorsteps of relief agencies. Kludged software is kludged software, and it will never work right.
Your problem in the Fortune 500 company is a similar problem I have seen in many small companies. The problem is also not the chosen OS. The problem is the software being used. I have seen an entire company's Mac-networked File Maker pro database get trashed because someone with an older version on their personal laptop opened the company database. I've also seen it trashed when someone got the bright idea to remove fields from forms that they don't use. This was obviously not a MacOS problem, it was a problem with the software chosen to run the company.
I know of one instance where a university tried to profit off a grad student's work. This grad student made a program that would aggregate web search engine results (which is a common thing now, but it wasn't then). Apparently, his PhD advisor was walking the halls with $$ permanently embedded in his vision. Basically, they kept negotiating to try to get him to sign it all over to the university and his advisor. He basically got disgusted and just took his degree and walked.
I've been thinking about going back for the grad degree, and I don't want to get into this situation either. I think what I'd do is keep the code away from where people at the university could get to it right up to the point where I need to give it up in exchange for a diploma. Of course, I think right before that I'd release it open source. They can try to profit from it then, but good luck.
I believe Gamespot had an article come out right after Daikatana was released that chronicled what was going on at id and Ion Storm up to the release. I believe the lessons learned at Ion Storm are actually quite valuable, especially when someone is thinking about starting up *ANY* type of software company.
I believe it was Carmack that made the observation that, "I can write software on a computer set on a cheap desk just as well as one set on an expensive desk." (I'm sure its not an exact quote, but the this is the gist of what he said.) As I have been going through negotiations to spin off a product from my current employer into another company run by a few of us employees, this type of wisdom was really needed. All the engineers are for renting a hole-in-the-wall and putting banquet tables in the cubicles, and the marketing person wants to rent a posh execuive office suite. Nevermind that our clients would never come to visit us or that we can't afford to employee anyone at a market wage. I'm sure she didn't read the story, even though I sent the URL.
I think the bottom line is that software's largest cost is labor, and it should remain the largest cost. Making the company support the lifestyle of the employees or the partners is a mistake.
Well, Satan obviously was considerate enough to lead her to buy 32MB GeoForces on systems with built-in video adapters. He probably thought that they would be a nice "tip" to the IT department for their trouble. Maybe he should have included Quake 3 pre-installed so that it would have been more obvious.
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Maybe if scripting languages are abolished, all the laid off techies that actually have real skills will have an easier time finding work.
Do scripting languages prove or disprove the statement, "People are basically good?"
I've used computers since about age 7. When the elementary school decided to get a few TRS80 Model III computers and teach basic, I knew more than the teacher. I learned more through the years on my own outside of school by basically using the computer every moment I could. I learned a lot by trying to bypass the rudimentary protection schemes on C64 video games. I went to college, got a CS degree, and now make more money than my parents put together. I can also assure you I don't lack in creativity or formal reasoning.
I worked in the entertainment industry and got to be around those "creative" people with musical talent. Everyone romaticizes the artistic icons we see on TV and hear on the radio. The truth is that these people are bloody idiots! They have no concept of how anything works in the world around them; they are generally the first to form an opinion of something and the last to know any facts about it. If these are desirable qualities, then I am ever more happy to be the un-creative, un-reasoning, and un-interesting person I am today.
Heh.....go ask your nearest music major to come to linear algebra class with you. See for yourself if musicians have better formal reasoning than anyone else.
Gee, now I know what to do with my 20 days of vacation I have saved up.....heh, I'll have to break the news to my wife tonight.
CAN YOU SPEAK LOUDER? I'm blind and my web-page reader is being drowned out by my elcomsoft e-book reader. That thing sure is a bag of wind!
2. Most line input levels from broadcast equipment is at +4 or +8 dB, while we do -20 to 0 dB.
3. The majority of professional equipment is going to need an XLR, 1/4" stereo, or TT to the consumer size mini-stereo plug adapter. This is not easily made in the field.
4. Most artists don't know jack about input/output line levels or how to make a cable that interfaces with their mix of consumer and broadcast equipment.
Note to self: Hire an audio/broadcast engineer to work on the development team.
If the show is running in NTSC, they could probably get a lot more out of it than 30 seconds.
The problem with these types of "automagic" machines is that it can never do it perfectly. HP has a device that fits in 1U on a rack and it will force video into your programmed specifications. We used to use it when transferring rented videos into an online editor so that we could cut preview spots together for DTV. The problem is that the video usually looked like crap after it was transferred. I'm sure it didn't make a good case for purchasing the pay-per-view version of it.
Oh, and all their names are "Igor" or something and they refer to themselves in the third person. "Igor like licking stamps." "Igor has good marketing strategy." etc.
If you consider submitting resumes to a bunch of company's on monster.com until I got a job, then I win.
But, if you're only counting sending out bulk emails directly from me to a bunch of people, then I guess I don't.
That sounds like an ok idea. I think if I did that to any of my machines I'd have to go bail my wife out of jail every night.
This could put a whole new twist on toys in the genre of Sea Monkeys and Chia pets. Can I grow my boss or my professor in a petri dish and then torture them without any legal ramifications?
They have many Asian gangs there, and the violence is most likely related to their activities more than anything. If they put a moratorium on the internet cafes, it is just limiting a place for the gangs to hang out, not some sort of attack on internet usage.
Garden Grove is not an area I would want to hang out in after dark. The fact that the kids are playing games probably has nothing to do with the violence. If you simply have a bunch of hoodlums haning out, there will be a problem, no matter what it is that they are doing.
On the other hand, if you want to go to Garden Grove during the day, you can get some tasty Chinese or Vietnamese food. It is actually a cool place to go shopping at as long as you are in a well lighted area.
I wonder why a newspaper in Sacramento is running a story about it....I doubt they could accuratly report about any happenings in GG since Sacramento has to be about 700+ miles away.
I guess one corporate strategy is to sue people when your product can't compete in the market. Netscape chose a different path for the evolution of their product, and it appears it was the wrong one.
Do you cut their hands off if a match is found?
Now, of course, if you consider blond Bertha Battleaxe as cute....you know, the big ogre-type chick that sits in the front of the class with an un-combed blond mop of hair and a blond beard that can output code like no one you've ever met before? I guess then letting the cute blond copy works for you.
Then I guess all those high-paid type people that sit on standards comittees would have to find something else just as worthless to fill the big gap in their schedule.
An interesting note is that most professional audio systems totally ignore this protection bit. I believe most store-bought CDs have this bit set in their stream if you use a CD player capable of AES/EBU output. We used to plug it direct digital into a professional mixing console, which should have not read it since the bit was set. I think someone didn't have the insight to know that the honor system rarely works.
I think I need to find a Jar-Jar Sims model and set him on fire or something.
So does this mean that Max Headroom could be counsel for the defendant or what? He seems like a dot-com corporate type.
Yes, it is a stupid attempt at humor.
Maybe we'll get lucky and that big silver law-enforcement robot thing will vaporize their lawyers.
Think about it. No one wrote software to handle the tasks needed to reunite victims of 9/11. I don't care what OS got plopped down on the doorsteps of relief agencies. Kludged software is kludged software, and it will never work right.
Your problem in the Fortune 500 company is a similar problem I have seen in many small companies. The problem is also not the chosen OS. The problem is the software being used. I have seen an entire company's Mac-networked File Maker pro database get trashed because someone with an older version on their personal laptop opened the company database. I've also seen it trashed when someone got the bright idea to remove fields from forms that they don't use. This was obviously not a MacOS problem, it was a problem with the software chosen to run the company.
I've been thinking about going back for the grad degree, and I don't want to get into this situation either. I think what I'd do is keep the code away from where people at the university could get to it right up to the point where I need to give it up in exchange for a diploma. Of course, I think right before that I'd release it open source. They can try to profit from it then, but good luck.
I believe it was Carmack that made the observation that, "I can write software on a computer set on a cheap desk just as well as one set on an expensive desk." (I'm sure its not an exact quote, but the this is the gist of what he said.) As I have been going through negotiations to spin off a product from my current employer into another company run by a few of us employees, this type of wisdom was really needed. All the engineers are for renting a hole-in-the-wall and putting banquet tables in the cubicles, and the marketing person wants to rent a posh execuive office suite. Nevermind that our clients would never come to visit us or that we can't afford to employee anyone at a market wage. I'm sure she didn't read the story, even though I sent the URL.
I think the bottom line is that software's largest cost is labor, and it should remain the largest cost. Making the company support the lifestyle of the employees or the partners is a mistake.
Well, Satan obviously was considerate enough to lead her to buy 32MB GeoForces on systems with built-in video adapters. He probably thought that they would be a nice "tip" to the IT department for their trouble. Maybe he should have included Quake 3 pre-installed so that it would have been more obvious.