I saw a few people touch on this, but to me, this is a really cool innovation and may serve as a truely digital method to talk to computers. Speech recognition software has always been hampered by different dialects... but do you think with a Southern drawl, etc?
Man, I could be writing this post with such a device... now that would be cool!
Find out what it is that you really love to do. While I was unemployed, I took up cooking and watching the Food Network. Then I got a job back into programming and wondered if I would rather be a chef. So then I took some cooking classes at nights and even interned a night at a fine dining restaurant that's highly rated by AAA (US Locale-centric, I believe... sorry).
Getting that behind-the-scenes look at the job I thought I wanted was SO valuable! Chefs work hard (12 hour days or more, 6 days a week) and don't get paid all that much (I guess there are exceptions) - it really gave me the chance to see how good I had it as a programmer and that's what I really loved to do - to solve puzzles and write the code to solve 'em. My urges to cook are satisfied by cooking at home on a hobbyist basis.
So that's what I would say... do some research into what you're thinking of switching to on an extra-curricular basis. Don't leave your job until you're sure... well, that is, if you have a job. There is some truth to the adage "the grass is greener on the other side of the pasture." You don't want to find out after switching sides that the side you were on was already pretty green.
Mount Dragon, by Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston, where they are hard at work on X-FLU... very cool book - two thumbs up, as well as most of their other books.
And it's quite nice... new UI look & feel and what I've been waiting for: envelope icons that update to a status that reflects when you've forwarded or replied to an e-mail already.
Wary of the new Firebird^H^H^H^Hfox -- not sure if I'm ready for a release that seems just to be a marketing name change (their changes don't seem all that relevant to me, but YMMV).
This doesn't answer the submitter's question, but I've made it a daily workday routine to start off with 3 cups of coffee and it gives me the caffiene fix for the rest of the day (tho a good mocha latte calls me from time to time... Mmmmm... Chocolate).
You're one of those guys who sees the glass half empty, aren't you?;)
So you think Jean-Marc offshores b/c he's too small, but I still see him offshoring it, even if he gets bigger. I guess I'm having trouble with why he would support his own box-making factory - I don't have access to the #'s, but I'm thinking the upkeep of a factory alone would negate any cost savings of making his own box.
No trolling intended... I just thought it was relevant.
This was posted on/. before and there's a great analogy that we should all read & understand:
Recently, I bought some chocolates as a gift for some friends from a specialty shop. These chocolates are remarkable. Owner Jean-Marc Gorce makes them by-hand and his small shop has been rated as one of the top ten in the United States. In addition to being a chef, Jean-Marc is also an entrepreneur and an innovator.
Jean-Marc recently started selling his chocolates in gold and blue boxes. I told him I liked the new boxes. He explained that his wife designed the boxes and he found a company in the Philippines that could produce the boxes in the small volume they needed for a good price.
Jean-Marc's gold and blue boxes are an example of successful outsourcing. Jean-Marc sells chocolates, not boxes. The design and production of chocolates is his core competency. Jean-Marc can outsource box production to improve his operational efficiency without sacrificing his reputation as a maker of superlative chocolates.
While outsourcing boxes improves chocolatier Jean-Marc's operational effectiveness, he would never consider outsourcing chocolate production because he would lose his core differentiation advantage. Yet, in their enthusiasm for cost savings, several US technology companies have done precisely that-- outsourcing their core technology and key strategic differentiator.
There are two common motivations to develop a free program. One is that there is no program to do the job. Unfortunately, accepting the use of a non-free program eliminates that motivation.
I'm not following this... if there's no program to do the job, then how can one accept the use of a non-free (and non-existent) program?
He goes on further to say that the one true motivation for writing free programs is to replace non-free programs.
That only goes so far, though. Why must the free software folks resign themselves to coding clones of popular products? Why can't they be innovative themselves?
Maybe I'm not fully comprehending the whole free software mantra. I recently saw the OmniWeb Browser movie and was quite impressed with the whole tab/dock functionality. Why couldn't something like that come out of the Mozilla Firebird group? Instead, we're gonna have to duplicate that functionality (I hope) if we want it.
So OmniGroup was innovative and I'm sure they'll be rewarded with their sales. They also have a company structure for R&D to come up with these type of innovations. Same can be said of many other corporations, too. With those types of innovations and associated costs, the companies recoup them (& profit, too) by making them non-free. Unless the free software community becomes more innovative, I'm not entirely satisfied with relying on a completely free software world to keep progress moving.
Seems to me the author is making a moral judgement disguised as business advice.
Yeah, I agree - this article seems heavily weighted towards the morality of the situation, but one cannot ignore an SEC investigation, no matter what side of the moral argument you're on.
As for the rest of your comment, I hope you're not seriously relying on Simpsons logic to lessen the threat of desensitization towards (random acts) of violence.;)
I guess my point is that society as a whole does have a responsibility to define right vs. wrong to a scant aspect (i.e. laws), leaving the greater burden upon the parents/guardians. Left unchecked, movies, songs, videogames or whatever media channel the kids dig into can impose a new (& contrary) social worldview that can do irreparable harm.
The author is not only addressing the immorality aspect of this game, but also the financial aspects of the company. He's warning you to stay away from buying (or holding) its stock b/c an SEC investigation is looming in the near future.
Mod me how you want, but I agree w/ the author to an extent - these type of games can act as a desensitization (that a word?;)) of violence and its reprocussions (or lack thereof in this situation;)).
There was a thread on SlickDeals' Forums, linking to a scan of an upcoming post-Thanksgiving special at Wal-Mart. $80 USD for GameCube, Zelda game and a game carrying case... oh how the temptation rises!
Have you tried Firebird (I ask b/c you mention features it does have)? I've completely switched from IE to Firebird - it's an awesome Web browser, great look & feel, fast and has features you mention (popup blocks, cookie controls), plus some more to boot. Plus, you can extend its functionality with third-party plugins.
My only beef is that it crashes some times when it tries to auto-complete a form and there are some sites out there that just won't work with it.
... hard drive or long-term archival of broadcast programming on DVD-R/RW discs.
Does that mean just the stuff that comes over the airwaves, or will it include cable transmissions, too?
*yawn* - could be too early... my coffee hasn't been fully-absorbed yet.:)
<theory>I'm sure that Hollywood (MPAA, etc) will force this device to comply with the flag system they'll use with digital cable (flag for no record at all, flag for record short-term only or a flag for full record -- guess which one will be the default?;)).</theory>
Download PDF Creator off of SourceForge, which even has an easy Windows installer, which will setup a printer from which any application you can 'Print', will be an option to Print to, which will kick up a "Save as" dialog, asking where you'd like your PDF.
One side note: It will set itself up as your default printer, so you may need to reset your default printer after it's done w/ its installation.
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Man, I could be writing this post with such a device ... now that would be cool!
Sorry ... had to be said. ;)
Getting that behind-the-scenes look at the job I thought I wanted was SO valuable! Chefs work hard (12 hour days or more, 6 days a week) and don't get paid all that much (I guess there are exceptions) - it really gave me the chance to see how good I had it as a programmer and that's what I really loved to do - to solve puzzles and write the code to solve 'em. My urges to cook are satisfied by cooking at home on a hobbyist basis.
So that's what I would say ... do some research into what you're thinking of switching to on an extra-curricular basis. Don't leave your job until you're sure ... well, that is, if you have a job. There is some truth to the adage "the grass is greener on the other side of the pasture." You don't want to find out after switching sides that the side you were on was already pretty green.
I'd also recommend a good book: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question, by Po Bronson ... we've talked about it before. I've read most (if not all -- I forget) of it. It doesn't answer your questions, but it does offer some insights into people who have done similar things.
Than when the judge ordered them to do this back in December? Then SCO put up some 60 page doc?
Mount Dragon, by Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston, where they are hard at work on X-FLU ... very cool book - two thumbs up, as well as most of their other books.
Wary of the new Firebird^H^H^H^Hfox -- not sure if I'm ready for a release that seems just to be a marketing name change (their changes don't seem all that relevant to me, but YMMV).
This doesn't answer the submitter's question, but I've made it a daily workday routine to start off with 3 cups of coffee and it gives me the caffiene fix for the rest of the day (tho a good mocha latte calls me from time to time ... Mmmmm ... Chocolate).
So you think Jean-Marc offshores b/c he's too small, but I still see him offshoring it, even if he gets bigger. I guess I'm having trouble with why he would support his own box-making factory - I don't have access to the #'s, but I'm thinking the upkeep of a factory alone would negate any cost savings of making his own box.
No trolling intended... I just thought it was relevant.
Resisting the urges to be more sarcastic ;)
1.5 * 100,000 != 1,500,000
1.5 * 100,000 == 150,000
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I'm not following this... if there's no program to do the job, then how can one accept the use of a non-free (and non-existent) program?
He goes on further to say that the one true motivation for writing free programs is to replace non-free programs.
That only goes so far, though. Why must the free software folks resign themselves to coding clones of popular products? Why can't they be innovative themselves?
Maybe I'm not fully comprehending the whole free software mantra. I recently saw the OmniWeb Browser movie and was quite impressed with the whole tab/dock functionality. Why couldn't something like that come out of the Mozilla Firebird group? Instead, we're gonna have to duplicate that functionality (I hope) if we want it.
So OmniGroup was innovative and I'm sure they'll be rewarded with their sales. They also have a company structure for R&D to come up with these type of innovations. Same can be said of many other corporations, too. With those types of innovations and associated costs, the companies recoup them (& profit, too) by making them non-free. Unless the free software community becomes more innovative, I'm not entirely satisfied with relying on a completely free software world to keep progress moving.
Pointing out spammer's mistakes and helping them evolve/correct the problem.
Yeah, I agree - this article seems heavily weighted towards the morality of the situation, but one cannot ignore an SEC investigation, no matter what side of the moral argument you're on.
As for the rest of your comment, I hope you're not seriously relying on Simpsons logic to lessen the threat of desensitization towards (random acts) of violence. ;)
I guess my point is that society as a whole does have a responsibility to define right vs. wrong to a scant aspect (i.e. laws), leaving the greater burden upon the parents/guardians. Left unchecked, movies, songs, videogames or whatever media channel the kids dig into can impose a new (& contrary) social worldview that can do irreparable harm.
Mod me how you want, but I agree w/ the author to an extent - these type of games can act as a desensitization (that a word? ;)) of violence and its reprocussions (or lack thereof in this situation ;)).
# isolating relevant Perl code
@row_data = $database_handle->selectrow_array( 'SELECT * FROM customers_table WHERE lname=? AND email=? LIMIT 1', undef, $input1, $input2 );
$statement_handle = $database_handle->prepare( 'INSERT INTO customers_table (lname,email) VALUES (?,?)' );
$statement_handle->execute( $input1, $input2 );
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I'm calling dibs on a one-click flying machine that swings sideways! ;)
1, 2, 3, 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 ... then they give up and start using letters like Me and XP.
There was a thread on SlickDeals' Forums, linking to a scan of an upcoming post-Thanksgiving special at Wal-Mart. $80 USD for GameCube, Zelda game and a game carrying case... oh how the temptation rises!
What? Surely you jest...
My only beef is that it crashes some times when it tries to auto-complete a form and there are some sites out there that just won't work with it.
Does that mean just the stuff that comes over the airwaves, or will it include cable transmissions, too?
*yawn* - could be too early ... my coffee hasn't been fully-absorbed yet. :)
<theory>I'm sure that Hollywood (MPAA, etc) will force this device to comply with the flag system they'll use with digital cable (flag for no record at all, flag for record short-term only or a flag for full record -- guess which one will be the default? ;)).</theory>
One side note: It will set itself up as your default printer, so you may need to reset your default printer after it's done w/ its installation.
*laugh* - it may not be as bad as you think, though - reactivation may just mean to resend the product key code, but no further charges.