I checked that book out of the library this year, thinking, "It might be old, but surely it must have some useful infformation." I mean, it was entitled, Network Programming in C, tcp/ip has been around forever. It couldn't be too bad. I died laughing when I read that comment.
Now I only wish that Taco Bell would win the fast food wars. All we have here in Prague is McDonald's and KFC. We just got a Subway, but I've not been blessed yet. I miss the great Toxic Hell. T'was my favorite fast food restaurant.
Since the OSI model has been required by law for implementation in government systems, TCP/IP will very shortly become outdated and therefore is not discussed in this book....... Network Programming in C, 1989
Tie this little puppy into a speach recoginition system then jack your DVD jukebox into your computer. Now you have suddenly obtained the ability to search all your pr0n the exact type of scene you like, or your woman likes, to see.
Identify, "I like X"; "Give it to me from X"; "You like that X, don't you?";
Seems like a perfect application to me.
Broadband is getting very available now. I'm on a 512/128 dsl line. UPC has cable broadband available but they must have a contract with your building owner before they can install you which basically means if you own the building or if you are in a brand new appartment complex then you can have cable. I can't say a lot about the public education system here. College is currently free to all those accepted, however, they are going to set fees on it soon. It can't be worse than a cheap community college in the US. They have both four year and five year high schools and begin additional language training in the fourth grade, I believe. The five year high schools are for the university bound but not a requirement since there are only a few. I wish I could say more but I only really know what my girlfriend has told me about the educational system. I think it's a decent one. If you don't meet standards, you don't stay in school. That keeps the motivated motivated and the unmotivated in the trade schools.
Actually, I'm in the Czech Republic right now, a slavic nation. The only obstacle here, other than the language itself, is that you must have a job before you can apply for your work visa. Companies can still hire foreigners and they do. They must justtify their reason to do so, ie. educated programmer with native english skills. The programming market in Prague is huge. Jobs are everywhere. You won't make more than 2000 USD per month but the cost of living here is so low that you could easily save 1000 USD per month off of only your income and supporting another as well. Now, I won't say that Russia isn't difficult about work visa's, since I've never been there, but I will say that the rules are not bad everywhere and you just have to look before you decide to go somewhere.
The only thing I can say is that humans migrated for years and years either following their food or finding another. Your food is moving, either follow it, or find another. Pick up a language (read: not computer language) and move to another country. You'd be surprised what value a native english programmer has in another country. No you won't make the same amount of money as in the US, based on currency exchanges, but you'll never wonder where your next meal is going to come from and you'll probably even be happy. If you really mess it up, you may even pick up some culture because we are not all that is to be in the world. Those of you that don't want to move, you are doomed to an inevitable fate. Start taking those management courses because your job is on its way out the door. If you want to code for a living you'll do what it takes to do so but whining about it will get you nothing.
Now if I can just get the woman to let me buy a DVD burner and a nice DV camcorder I can get started on that professional homemade pron I've been waiting so long to make.
On the contrary, I am being responsible. I'm going where jobs are plentiful and I'm going to work rather than sitting on my duff as more and more jobs get outsourced. If it continues to happen, I'll be established elsewhere. If it doesn't, then I'll have plenty of experience to grab another job in the US where the pay is much better. Until the economy is better here, I'd rather be where it's easy to get experience.
I'm in exactly the same position as you are and that, my friend, is why I'm so willing to leave and get a job elsewhere. Experience is far more important than pay. Work somewhere else while the US economy is bad, come back with years of experience when it isn't.
Maybe I'm biased because I don't have children but I don't care how much money I'm making. As long as I'm eating and have a roof over my head, I really don't ask for much. I'm leaving for Eastern Europe next week and I'll find a job that will pay me less than $7 an hour. I don't care; I want to do what I love and get paid for it; that is all that matters to me. Maybe my desires are misaligned; maybe everyone else needs to realign theirs.
unfortunately, i won't have the money to be able to make the trip and accomodations to go. i was hoping it would be closer to the czech border, but my girlfriend's parents live in moravia,cz, so maybe i can shack up with them for the week:o)
firewalls protect you from outside connections. if you have an open port to use your kazaa client, then you have little portection. unless you are part of a large organization with multiple machines behind your firewall, you still have virtually no anonymity
My view is this: Make a system accessible and people will use it. I have no doubt that the systems you use have mature software that is very reliable, however very few people have access to it. I agree with you that just because something is free does not mean that it is better, however, you neglect the possiblity that just because something is free doesn't mean it can't be better. This is an opportunity for the little guy to produce more of his own music, cheaper. I know quite a few people producing their own music. And you are right, they can't compete with even a mild project studio, but that doesn't mean that given the right developments in the free software world that they wouldn't be able to do so. Those developments still need to happen, but wouldn't it be nice if a dedicated artist could produce a high quality recording without selling away his/her soul?
professional rendering has been on linux for a while, mostly under proprietary apps, but they recognized the need to support more than just the proprietary OSs. It's good to see professional audio begin to make its slice available to the free world. this could be the beginning of the end of the large recording studios.
They couldn't possibly have reliable code without stealing from Unix. I mean look at the only operating system that hasn't ->Windows. It runs like crap. And don't say that BSD never stole from Unix. AT&T just had crappy lawyers. They should have won that case. IBM and Linux are going down and QNX will soon follow. As soon as SCO wins the IBM case they will go after QNX. The discontent of many companies will then follow. IP thieves will pay!!!
The major problem with the lack of originality in games is that it's an artform that has yet to move away from its technical base. It takes a musician many years to master an instrument so that the music can just "flow". It's a technical base that we as humans fully understand and once mastered can be ignored. When we have gotten the technology to a point where any pot-head artist can make a game(no offense to pot-heads), just like pot-heads can write very pleasing music(no offense to musicians), then the art will truly take off.
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I checked that book out of the library this year, thinking, "It might be old, but surely it must have some useful infformation." I mean, it was entitled, Network Programming in C, tcp/ip has been around forever. It couldn't be too bad. I died laughing when I read that comment.
Now I only wish that Taco Bell would win the fast food wars. All we have here in Prague is McDonald's and KFC. We just got a Subway, but I've not been blessed yet. I miss the great Toxic Hell. T'was my favorite fast food restaurant.
Since the OSI model has been required by law for implementation in government systems, TCP/IP will very shortly become outdated and therefore is not discussed in this book....... Network Programming in C, 1989
Tie this little puppy into a speach recoginition system then jack your DVD jukebox into your computer. Now you have suddenly obtained the ability to search all your pr0n the exact type of scene you like, or your woman likes, to see. Identify, "I like X"; "Give it to me from X"; "You like that X, don't you?"; Seems like a perfect application to me.
I agree entirely............ WAIT..... Did I just say that????
Broadband is getting very available now. I'm on a 512/128 dsl line. UPC has cable broadband available but they must have a contract with your building owner before they can install you which basically means if you own the building or if you are in a brand new appartment complex then you can have cable. I can't say a lot about the public education system here. College is currently free to all those accepted, however, they are going to set fees on it soon. It can't be worse than a cheap community college in the US. They have both four year and five year high schools and begin additional language training in the fourth grade, I believe. The five year high schools are for the university bound but not a requirement since there are only a few. I wish I could say more but I only really know what my girlfriend has told me about the educational system. I think it's a decent one. If you don't meet standards, you don't stay in school. That keeps the motivated motivated and the unmotivated in the trade schools.
Actually, I'm in the Czech Republic right now, a slavic nation. The only obstacle here, other than the language itself, is that you must have a job before you can apply for your work visa. Companies can still hire foreigners and they do. They must justtify their reason to do so, ie. educated programmer with native english skills. The programming market in Prague is huge. Jobs are everywhere. You won't make more than 2000 USD per month but the cost of living here is so low that you could easily save 1000 USD per month off of only your income and supporting another as well. Now, I won't say that Russia isn't difficult about work visa's, since I've never been there, but I will say that the rules are not bad everywhere and you just have to look before you decide to go somewhere.
The only thing I can say is that humans migrated for years and years either following their food or finding another. Your food is moving, either follow it, or find another. Pick up a language (read: not computer language) and move to another country. You'd be surprised what value a native english programmer has in another country. No you won't make the same amount of money as in the US, based on currency exchanges, but you'll never wonder where your next meal is going to come from and you'll probably even be happy. If you really mess it up, you may even pick up some culture because we are not all that is to be in the world. Those of you that don't want to move, you are doomed to an inevitable fate. Start taking those management courses because your job is on its way out the door. If you want to code for a living you'll do what it takes to do so but whining about it will get you nothing.
Now if I can just get the woman to let me buy a DVD burner and a nice DV camcorder I can get started on that professional homemade pron I've been waiting so long to make.
On the contrary, I am being responsible. I'm going where jobs are plentiful and I'm going to work rather than sitting on my duff as more and more jobs get outsourced. If it continues to happen, I'll be established elsewhere. If it doesn't, then I'll have plenty of experience to grab another job in the US where the pay is much better. Until the economy is better here, I'd rather be where it's easy to get experience.
I'm in exactly the same position as you are and that, my friend, is why I'm so willing to leave and get a job elsewhere. Experience is far more important than pay. Work somewhere else while the US economy is bad, come back with years of experience when it isn't.
Maybe I'm biased because I don't have children but I don't care how much money I'm making. As long as I'm eating and have a roof over my head, I really don't ask for much. I'm leaving for Eastern Europe next week and I'll find a job that will pay me less than $7 an hour. I don't care; I want to do what I love and get paid for it; that is all that matters to me. Maybe my desires are misaligned; maybe everyone else needs to realign theirs.
unfortunately, i won't have the money to be able to make the trip and accomodations to go. i was hoping it would be closer to the czech border, but my girlfriend's parents live in moravia,cz, so maybe i can shack up with them for the week :o)
firewalls protect you from outside connections. if you have an open port to use your kazaa client, then you have little portection. unless you are part of a large organization with multiple machines behind your firewall, you still have virtually no anonymity
My view is this: Make a system accessible and people will use it. I have no doubt that the systems you use have mature software that is very reliable, however very few people have access to it. I agree with you that just because something is free does not mean that it is better, however, you neglect the possiblity that just because something is free doesn't mean it can't be better. This is an opportunity for the little guy to produce more of his own music, cheaper. I know quite a few people producing their own music. And you are right, they can't compete with even a mild project studio, but that doesn't mean that given the right developments in the free software world that they wouldn't be able to do so. Those developments still need to happen, but wouldn't it be nice if a dedicated artist could produce a high quality recording without selling away his/her soul?
professional rendering has been on linux for a while, mostly under proprietary apps, but they recognized the need to support more than just the proprietary OSs. It's good to see professional audio begin to make its slice available to the free world. this could be the beginning of the end of the large recording studios.
hurray for europeans!!! first they gave us culture, then they gave us linux, now they give us some common sense
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They couldn't possibly have reliable code without stealing from Unix. I mean look at the only operating system that hasn't ->Windows. It runs like crap. And don't say that BSD never stole from Unix. AT&T just had crappy lawyers. They should have won that case. IBM and Linux are going down and QNX will soon follow. As soon as SCO wins the IBM case they will go after QNX. The discontent of many companies will then follow. IP thieves will pay!!!
Two things we all like that work very well together. What a man!!
The major problem with the lack of originality in games is that it's an artform that has yet to move away from its technical base. It takes a musician many years to master an instrument so that the music can just "flow". It's a technical base that we as humans fully understand and once mastered can be ignored. When we have gotten the technology to a point where any pot-head artist can make a game(no offense to pot-heads), just like pot-heads can write very pleasing music(no offense to musicians), then the art will truly take off.