But couldn't the "Microsoft Certified" part be interpretted as a disclaimer?
At least, such a claim saved me from sending companies my resume. I probably saved several dollars worth of stamps. To me "Microsoft Certified" at an IT shop reads like "Sales Associate" at a car dealership (in both job quality and the level of integrity towards clients--i.e., none).
The term 'Software Engineering' is bantered about in the software industry.
When I was young and dumb, I thought it was neat to have "Software Engineer" on my business cards. After a few years of seeing just how inept/underfunded/constrained nearly all software developers are, I changed my job title. Calling a typical programmer a "Software Engineer" is sort of like calling a convict in prison a "Legal Countermeasures Engineer."
Things are the way they are because that's how various market pressures make them.
The market is slowly changing, thankfully. A good example of a maturing market would our good old friend: home electrical wiring. How long did it take before every new home since probably the early 1980s is wired pretty much identically. They went through several different types of wire and insulation, grounded and ungrounded outlets, fuses and circuit breakers, etc. In a lot of ways, the software world is no different, and I'd say were at the aluminum wire stage with the various incarnations of systems we have and accompanying reliability and security problems.
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I have *never* heard so many people explode with laughter. It was classic...
Another classic is seeing a father walk into the theater with his 12-year-old son. "It's just a cartoon, right...am I right?...oh dear god!!!"
When the PS2 hit it was a big selling point for it, but the next Nintendo machine doesn't need it at ALL. When the PS2 hit a DVD player was $100+ but now a new system isn't really needing DVD playback due to the cheapness of DVD players.
One thing the PS2 did do was to contribute millions of DVD players to the market. This helped the whole adoption drives cheap players drives adoption chicken-n-egg deal. By helping make DVDs ubiquitous and with that job done, it can be argued that even the PS3 doesn't need DVD-playing capability, except as backwards compatibility for the PS2.
Thanks, but no. I'm wary of catching Human Nerfoform Enchiladosis. It's a disease where you eat non-stop and have nightmares about being shot out of little guns. A terrible way to die, IMO.
The pmap command in Solaris 9 (8, too, perhaps) will give you both the size and mapped address of the program plus every individual shared library. I'd figure out exactly what Mozilla consumes excluding every system library, but I don't feel like writing a script to add up all 200 entries returned by pmap (this is after grepping out non-Mozzilla stuff -- the grand total is 370 segments reported, yuck). Who would have thought that loading Mozilla into a debugger would be an act of masochism?
There are plenty of good reasons to learn history; the most obvious reason being that it helps you understand why we are where we are. But your question assumes people are actually learning history, and I must make a serious objection.
I agree with what you said (and in no way do I intend to criticise historians at all). I remember my state history class in junior high, where more time was spent memorizing the rivers and counties in the state than on why that state formed, what was it's relationship to other states, what role did it play in forming the US, etc. There would be very little loss in just trashing the state history course in favor of a finance requirement.
History, in general, is fascinating, but everything significant I have learned was exlusively on my own--school was just a time-sink. It seems that well-made documentaries and digests of books are much more accessible and practical to non-professional-historians than the book-shaped bricks that schools heave onto students.
Also, since the USA is revolves so much around money, I'd even go as far to say that finance is more important than calculus in high school. Leave calculus to the engineering, science, and math programs at universities. AP tests are mostly overrated, anyway.
...unless your webpage is specifically targeting The *nix or Mac crowd why code for anything except IE 6?
This again? Geezus, why is it that in the computer business that history is doomed to repeat itself every freakin' six months?!? You know, I used to work for a company with an all IE all the time policy. First, even they couldn't do it right, then! They fell into the trap of using all sorts of nifty IE scripting novelties, and, guess what, it sucked! Even worse, it wasn't uncommon for people in the company to need to access websites from a Sun workstation, for example, only to be left cussing from here to the moon.
Unless you can find a niche to fill with your Internet cafe...
How about an adult cyber cafe with a T1 connection to each booth? The only difference between this and a regular cyber cafe is you go through more mops.
However, in recent years many many Americans have taken to paying for most things with their credit card (to get the cash back/miles/etc...), and then paying off the credit card at the end of each month.
Of course, this is a very good use for a credit card. However, there seems to be a lot more stores pushing short-term financing and extended warranties, meaning there are really people gullible enough to fall for them (if it didn't sell, they wouldn't bother trying to sell it). There also seems to be a lot of growth in the cash loan/title loan stores, especially in poorer parts of cities. These stores pup up right next to the cell phone and rent-to-own stores to suck in people who are strapped for money. I have a feeling that the information you cite is accurate for middle to upper-middle class people, but somehow exludes the debt-riddled poor or youth populations.
I coded to their C API and found it to be a horrible mess.
Is there a C API that isn't a mess? Combine two of them and hell on earth is achieved. It just seems the C community never really did settle the debate over whether functions callees or callers handle malloc() and free(). My favorite APIs are the ones that use both conventions in inconsistent ways along with vendor-provided replacements to malloc() and free(). Sheer joy.
I wonder what else american public schools forgot to teach me...
Finance for protection from unwise debt. Scientifically-grounded health and fitness.
Now, Americans are both fat and floating in their own debt.
What's with teaching state history, when teaching the present and future values of a loan is so much much more important towards quenching the blind ambition of college-bound students. It's not like people learn much from history--at least they don't show it (citing all the presidential debates from now until November).
The only humane thing is very agressive education about birth control. It seems it is the better-off people who put off reproducing for some reason; I guess sex is entertainment among poorer people. Perhaps, it is fashionable for a high-school-age girl to be lugging two infants through a grocery store in some places? I really don't know.
For such a highly concentrated group of supposedly educated people, Slashdotters sure don't seem to know a thing about economics.
I've heard that the majority of techies are Democrats. That may explain it. If this isn't true, then I'm baffled why California managed to screw itself up so much.
But the American Middle Class most certainly does not benefit in the long run. Remember that thirty years ago a person could get a job in a factory or a machine shop and buy a house and a car and raise a family on his earnings.
Since we're playing the blame game, why not blame Realtors, whose absurd commissions help drive a real estate market that prices most people out of even entry-level homes. Homes that used to sell for $80,000 now sell for $140,000+, and they are real pieces of crap (built by ex-cons with crappy drywall and water pipes with 20-year life spans). Oh, and Realtors make their money based on the thousands of regulations put in place by our friendly legislators that make home-buying so damn complex. I've even heard lawyers complaining about the contracts. Further, with so much fine print, it is now trivial to slip in arbitration clauses--more fuel for the fire, I must say.
Ah yes. We witness this every day with the overwhelming competition for Microsoft, the oil companies, the HMO's and such entities.
Microsoft: Linux, GNOME, KDE, Sun JDE, IBM Linux-on-mainframe, etc. Just wait.
Oil: Only government back patting is keeping alternative energies from our homes. You must think companies are evil in isolation?
HMOs: I'm pretty sure there is a trend away from HMOs. In fact, the last company I worked for was phasing out its HMO option. They said that they found both patients and doctors hated HMOs. HMOs were created by the government, anyway.
I really wish people would look around and see why businesses are the way they are. You might find that it is not uncommon for regulations to be the source of the perverse business models we see. People are always complaining about health care, saying the free market failed. Well, there hasn't been a free market in health care in my lifetime, because all the good-intentioned-yet-naive politicians thought they knew how to fix it all. Yeah, right. All the people who felt god-like enough to meddle are to blame. The businesses are just doing what they can with the tools they are given. Set up 1000 rules and laws, and suddenly it becomes profitable to break the law--go figure.
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But couldn't the "Microsoft Certified" part be interpretted as a disclaimer?
At least, such a claim saved me from sending companies my resume. I probably saved several dollars worth of stamps. To me "Microsoft Certified" at an IT shop reads like "Sales Associate" at a car dealership (in both job quality and the level of integrity towards clients--i.e., none).
The term 'Software Engineering' is bantered about in the software industry.
When I was young and dumb, I thought it was neat to have "Software Engineer" on my business cards. After a few years of seeing just how inept/underfunded/constrained nearly all software developers are, I changed my job title. Calling a typical programmer a "Software Engineer" is sort of like calling a convict in prison a "Legal Countermeasures Engineer."
Things are the way they are because that's how various market pressures make them.
The market is slowly changing, thankfully. A good example of a maturing market would our good old friend: home electrical wiring. How long did it take before every new home since probably the early 1980s is wired pretty much identically. They went through several different types of wire and insulation, grounded and ungrounded outlets, fuses and circuit breakers, etc. In a lot of ways, the software world is no different, and I'd say were at the aluminum wire stage with the various incarnations of systems we have and accompanying reliability and security problems.
I have *never* heard so many people explode with laughter. It was classic...
...oh dear god!!!"
Another classic is seeing a father walk into the theater with his 12-year-old son. "It's just a cartoon, right...am I right?
When the PS2 hit it was a big selling point for it, but the next Nintendo machine doesn't need it at ALL. When the PS2 hit a DVD player was $100+ but now a new system isn't really needing DVD playback due to the cheapness of DVD players.
One thing the PS2 did do was to contribute millions of DVD players to the market. This helped the whole adoption drives cheap players drives adoption chicken-n-egg deal. By helping make DVDs ubiquitous and with that job done, it can be argued that even the PS3 doesn't need DVD-playing capability, except as backwards compatibility for the PS2.
Thanks, but no. I'm wary of catching Human Nerfoform Enchiladosis. It's a disease where you eat non-stop and have nightmares about being shot out of little guns. A terrible way to die, IMO.
The pmap command in Solaris 9 (8, too, perhaps) will give you both the size and mapped address of the program plus every individual shared library. I'd figure out exactly what Mozilla consumes excluding every system library, but I don't feel like writing a script to add up all 200 entries returned by pmap (this is after grepping out non-Mozzilla stuff -- the grand total is 370 segments reported, yuck). Who would have thought that loading Mozilla into a debugger would be an act of masochism?
imagine my swell of first shock, then pride
1) He found out his girlfriend had a dick.
2) He found out his is bigger.
The title omits units, so perhaps both?
The T1 is totally obsolete as a unit of "wow that's a lot of bandwidth". It offers 1.5MBps which is often beat by common DSL and cable services.
Yes, but a T1 is 1.5Mbps both ways. DSL is a recipe for unrequited love...
There are plenty of good reasons to learn history; the most obvious reason being that it helps you understand why we are where we are. But your question assumes people are actually learning history, and I must make a serious objection.
I agree with what you said (and in no way do I intend to criticise historians at all). I remember my state history class in junior high, where more time was spent memorizing the rivers and counties in the state than on why that state formed, what was it's relationship to other states, what role did it play in forming the US, etc. There would be very little loss in just trashing the state history course in favor of a finance requirement.
History, in general, is fascinating, but everything significant I have learned was exlusively on my own--school was just a time-sink. It seems that well-made documentaries and digests of books are much more accessible and practical to non-professional-historians than the book-shaped bricks that schools heave onto students.
Also, since the USA is revolves so much around money, I'd even go as far to say that finance is more important than calculus in high school. Leave calculus to the engineering, science, and math programs at universities. AP tests are mostly overrated, anyway.
...unless your webpage is specifically targeting The *nix or Mac crowd why code for anything except IE 6?
This again? Geezus, why is it that in the computer business that history is doomed to repeat itself every freakin' six months?!? You know, I used to work for a company with an all IE all the time policy. First, even they couldn't do it right, then! They fell into the trap of using all sorts of nifty IE scripting novelties, and, guess what, it sucked! Even worse, it wasn't uncommon for people in the company to need to access websites from a Sun workstation, for example, only to be left cussing from here to the moon.
DON'T CODE ONLY FOR IE, EVER!!!
Unless you can find a niche to fill with your Internet cafe...
How about an adult cyber cafe with a T1 connection to each booth? The only difference between this and a regular cyber cafe is you go through more mops.
However, in recent years many many Americans have taken to paying for most things with their credit card (to get the cash back/miles/etc...), and then paying off the credit card at the end of each month.
Of course, this is a very good use for a credit card. However, there seems to be a lot more stores pushing short-term financing and extended warranties, meaning there are really people gullible enough to fall for them (if it didn't sell, they wouldn't bother trying to sell it). There also seems to be a lot of growth in the cash loan/title loan stores, especially in poorer parts of cities. These stores pup up right next to the cell phone and rent-to-own stores to suck in people who are strapped for money. I have a feeling that the information you cite is accurate for middle to upper-middle class people, but somehow exludes the debt-riddled poor or youth populations.
I coded to their C API and found it to be a horrible mess.
Is there a C API that isn't a mess? Combine two of them and hell on earth is achieved. It just seems the C community never really did settle the debate over whether functions callees or callers handle malloc() and free(). My favorite APIs are the ones that use both conventions in inconsistent ways along with vendor-provided replacements to malloc() and free(). Sheer joy.
Anyone know whether the Russians ever sent a manned mission to Venus? I remember reading something about Nostradamus predicting it.
cat parent_post.txt | sed -e "s/school/day care/g"
I wonder what else american public schools forgot to teach me...
Finance for protection from unwise debt.
Scientifically-grounded health and fitness.
Now, Americans are both fat and floating in their own debt.
What's with teaching state history, when teaching the present and future values of a loan is so much much more important towards quenching the blind ambition of college-bound students. It's not like people learn much from history--at least they don't show it (citing all the presidential debates from now until November).
I don't see this project getting very far.
The only humane thing is very agressive education about birth control. It seems it is the better-off people who put off reproducing for some reason; I guess sex is entertainment among poorer people. Perhaps, it is fashionable for a high-school-age girl to be lugging two infants through a grocery store in some places? I really don't know.
For such a highly concentrated group of supposedly educated people, Slashdotters sure don't seem to know a thing about economics.
I've heard that the majority of techies are Democrats. That may explain it. If this isn't true, then I'm baffled why California managed to screw itself up so much.
if you're rich, you buy from Japan and Germany
Make the world wealthier, and the USA could be in that list, too.
But the American Middle Class most certainly does not benefit in the long run. Remember that thirty years ago a person could get a job in a factory or a machine shop and buy a house and a car and raise a family on his earnings.
Since we're playing the blame game, why not blame Realtors, whose absurd commissions help drive a real estate market that prices most people out of even entry-level homes. Homes that used to sell for $80,000 now sell for $140,000+, and they are real pieces of crap (built by ex-cons with crappy drywall and water pipes with 20-year life spans).
Oh, and Realtors make their money based on the thousands of regulations put in place by our friendly legislators that make home-buying so damn complex. I've even heard lawyers complaining about the contracts. Further, with so much fine print, it is now trivial to slip in arbitration clauses--more fuel for the fire, I must say.
What is left in the US?
Overpopulation.
Ah yes. We witness this every day with the overwhelming competition for Microsoft, the oil companies, the HMO's and such entities.
Microsoft: Linux, GNOME, KDE, Sun JDE, IBM Linux-on-mainframe, etc. Just wait.
Oil: Only government back patting is keeping alternative energies from our homes. You must think companies are evil in isolation?
HMOs: I'm pretty sure there is a trend away from HMOs. In fact, the last company I worked for was phasing out its HMO option. They said that they found both patients and doctors hated HMOs. HMOs were created by the government, anyway.
I really wish people would look around and see why businesses are the way they are. You might find that it is not uncommon for regulations to be the source of the perverse business models we see. People are always complaining about health care, saying the free market failed. Well, there hasn't been a free market in health care in my lifetime, because all the good-intentioned-yet-naive politicians thought they knew how to fix it all. Yeah, right. All the people who felt god-like enough to meddle are to blame. The businesses are just doing what they can with the tools they are given. Set up 1000 rules and laws, and suddenly it becomes profitable to break the law--go figure.