But if there are 10,000 people who respond to the Java position, and only 1,000 who respond to the COBOL one, the COBOL programmers will more than likely have better luck getting hired.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on your comments about VB.net.
Since the.Net framework was released, VB is now every bit as powerful as the "real" languages. It supports threading, inheritance and is fully object oriented.
Yes, it is simple to whip up a poorly written program using VB.net, but if given to someone who knows what they are doing, it is an extremely powerful & flexable language.
Also, like it or not, there are quite a few jobs with.Net now. I would imagine there are a lot more jobs for VB than there are for the languages you listed as should be required (Eiffel, Lisp, Icon).
Yeah, I read the whole article, and I do realize that there are other possible benificial uses. There is still no chance in hell that I'm sticking my head in this thing though. If you want to, thats great. I guess your post answers my question about who would actually want to have this thing tested on them!
magnetic stimulators charge up to a whopping 3,000 volts and produce peak currents of up to 8,000 amps - powers similar to those of a small nuclear reactor.
Ok, seriously... Who would volunteer to have this tested on them?
Tester: Hey, would you mind if I strap this 3,000 volt & 8,000 amp electromagnet to your head?
Idiot: What's in it for me?
Tester: It'll make you go deaf & mute for a few minutes.
Idiot: Cool! When can we start?
Thanks, so I was pretty close when I thought it meant Really Soon.
On a side note, whats up with the new moderation totals?
Moderations: 50% Funny, 50% Overrated
Did they finally get tired of Slashdot math? Or did the editors decide to complicate things even more by going to a system based on percentages instead of addition & subtraction?
I for one would love to see some good PowerPC based PDAs on the market.
Why? Aren't PowerPC chips more expensive? Is there a major benefit that I'm not seeing? Why wouldn't they run a Linux version on it with a regular PC chip and be able to sell the device cheaper?
the environmental damage caused by junking cars (which as noted above by other posters are recycled at a rate of over 80%) is far less than the damage caused by letting old dirty 7 MPG (that's no joke) Galaxie 500s drive around.
I'm going to have to disagree with you here. Up until last year, I had a 1957 Ford Custom 500 with well over 100,000 miles on it. With the 312ci engine (5.1 liters for everyone outside the US) and a 3 speed manual transmission, I routinely got 15-20mpg. And I drove it like a maniac, so its not like I babied the thing. I currently have a 1979 Mercedes 450SEL6.9. It's got a 6.9 liter V8 (418ci for everyone in the US) and right around 300 horsepower. The car has just over 100,000 miles on it, and I get around 15mpg in that. My mom used to have a 1978 diesel Mercedes with over 300,000 miles on it. It routinely got around 30mpg.
My wife has a 2001 Focus with under 30,000 miles. It routinely gets 15-18mpg, and leaks oil like you wouldn't beleive. All of the other cars I have (And have had in the past) get nearly as good or better mileage as the new Focus, and they dont leak oil.
So, my old cars get as good mileage as the Focus, are much more reliable reliable, don't leak oil, and cost me a whole lot less to own and operate. So how is owning that nice new Suburban that gets 11mpg better for me or the environment than my old cars?
I've got one of these little death traps, and besides it being on it's thrid set of brake pads (Front AND rear!) with 30,000 miles on the car, its transmission is going out, fuel pump was going out and causing the car to stall on the freeway, seatbelts undoing themselves, several rattles, and a shock absorber in the front that came loose. Not to mention the 7 safety recalls it has had. Ford should work on building a reliable car instead of one that is meant to be thrown away.
That is a good point. What they need to do is focus on a reliable car, that will last for a few decades (Much like the older diesel Mercedes have, older VW Bugs, Hondas, etc...) that get good mileage and is easily recyclable once the car reaches the end of it's useful life.
Of course that goes against the American mentality of "I have to have a brand new huge SUV every two years". I think if people really want to help the environment they would buy something like a Civic and keep that until it falls apart instead of buying something that is huge and unneccesary for them.
Imagine if we could identify everyone who was close to the scene of a murder or rape?
Cool! Instant suspects! Who cares if the people were actually involved. They were close to the area, so they must have been up to no good. Bring 'em in!
Ok, this looks really cool, but I wonder how they will hold up? I used to have an old car stereo made by Blaupunkt, which used a smartcard like this instead of a removeable faceplate for security. After about a year of use, the microprocessor had pretty much seperated from the card and was about to fall out. I also was never comfortable with the card being able to flex like a credit card like they promise because it was actually a little stiffer, and felt more brittle than a credit card.
Of course, a years worth of use on a card like that for under $15 still isn't bad, I would just hope that I would be able to get my data from the card before it came apart. This also has the added complexity of moving parts inside, so it might be even less reliable than my stereo's card was. That is some really cool technology though.
I've been asked to assist a consultant on a project using VMS and basically have four days to figure out enough that I'm actually of some use.
I seriously doubt that you will learn enough in 4 days to be of any use. You will probably slow down the others who do know what they're doing. I would just admit that I didn't know anything about the OS, but would like to work along with the others to learn.
I've always thought consultants were overpaid. This proves it. See this week's Dilbert strip for proof.
The article would have been far more interesting if it was titled "linux hacker flies balloon and joins mile high club."
And even more interesting that that is if he includes pictures! Of course, the server would get/.ed and only a few people would get to actually see the pictures.
The point isn't that it is running Linux, the point is that he made a really cool project that floated to 80,000 feet and took pictures, AND he got the whole thing back to retrieve the pictures. To me that is awfully impressive. The fact that it runs Linux was just one cool part of the project.
The story says jet fuel, but the article says rocket fuel. There's a big difference, isn't there?
If it was jet fuel, and it was cheap enough to make Nasa could sell the rights to produce it and become more self sufficient. If it's rocket fuel though, there would be much less of a market and would really only benefit them.
Agent is simple to use. There are several dozen "agents" you can easily download that are ready to use, or you can make your own fairly easily. Here is a module I created to use the Agent in Visual Basic almost 4 years ago. Notice how easy it is to animate the Agent, and make it interactive. Once the character is loaded, you can make it do almost anything with a single line of code.
Unfortunately, if they change the name to something such that "extreme" contains a capital "X" in the form of "eXtreme" or "Xtreme," everyone and their mom will want to ride it. After all, it's Xtreme!!!
Yeah, the prototype for this ride is at Knott's Berry Farm, and is named of all things, Xcelerator.
Only Apple would put forth a "revolutionary" new product which offers a measly 2x improvement. Note to technologists: please offer an order of magnitude (give or take) before making us by everything over again.
The bandwidth of firewire is extremely high, especially compared to other competing technologies like USB1.0. I think doubling the bandwidth is pretty impressive.
I do agree with you however that they should have tried to keep the original plugs for compatibility, but who knows, they probably had a good reason to use a new style.
Besides, how much would it cost to go out and get a new IEEE1394b daughterboard for your computer? A USB2.0 card can be had for under $50, so I would imagine the new IEEE1394b will be around there pretty soon anyways. It's not like you will have to go replace your entire computer and perephials to use the new technology.
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Maybe they were using a pirated copy of XP and they couldn't upgrade :)
Now wouldn't that be ironic???
But if there are 10,000 people who respond to the Java position, and only 1,000 who respond to the COBOL one, the COBOL programmers will more than likely have better luck getting hired.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on your comments about VB.net.
.Net framework was released, VB is now every bit as powerful as the "real" languages. It supports threading, inheritance and is fully object oriented.
.Net now. I would imagine there are a lot more jobs for VB than there are for the languages you listed as should be required (Eiffel, Lisp, Icon).
Since the
Yes, it is simple to whip up a poorly written program using VB.net, but if given to someone who knows what they are doing, it is an extremely powerful & flexable language.
Also, like it or not, there are quite a few jobs with
Yeah, I read the whole article, and I do realize that there are other possible benificial uses. There is still no chance in hell that I'm sticking my head in this thing though. If you want to, thats great. I guess your post answers my question about who would actually want to have this thing tested on them!
magnetic stimulators charge up to a whopping 3,000 volts and produce peak currents of up to 8,000 amps - powers similar to those of a small nuclear reactor.
Ok, seriously... Who would volunteer to have this tested on them?
Tester: Hey, would you mind if I strap this 3,000 volt & 8,000 amp electromagnet to your head?
Idiot: What's in it for me?
Tester: It'll make you go deaf & mute for a few minutes.
Idiot: Cool! When can we start?
Thanks, so I was pretty close when I thought it meant Really Soon.
On a side note, whats up with the new moderation totals?
Moderations: 50% Funny, 50% Overrated
Did they finally get tired of Slashdot math? Or did the editors decide to complicate things even more by going to a system based on percentages instead of addition & subtraction?
But what does RSN mean when they say their death is predicted RSN?
Does it mean Really SooN?
I for one would love to see some good PowerPC based PDAs on the market.
Why? Aren't PowerPC chips more expensive? Is there a major benefit that I'm not seeing? Why wouldn't they run a Linux version on it with a regular PC chip and be able to sell the device cheaper?
the environmental damage caused by junking cars (which as noted above by other posters are recycled at a rate of over 80%) is far less than the damage caused by letting old dirty 7 MPG (that's no joke) Galaxie 500s drive around.
I'm going to have to disagree with you here. Up until last year, I had a 1957 Ford Custom 500 with well over 100,000 miles on it. With the 312ci engine (5.1 liters for everyone outside the US) and a 3 speed manual transmission, I routinely got 15-20mpg. And I drove it like a maniac, so its not like I babied the thing. I currently have a 1979 Mercedes 450SEL6.9. It's got a 6.9 liter V8 (418ci for everyone in the US) and right around 300 horsepower. The car has just over 100,000 miles on it, and I get around 15mpg in that. My mom used to have a 1978 diesel Mercedes with over 300,000 miles on it. It routinely got around 30mpg.
My wife has a 2001 Focus with under 30,000 miles. It routinely gets 15-18mpg, and leaks oil like you wouldn't beleive. All of the other cars I have (And have had in the past) get nearly as good or better mileage as the new Focus, and they dont leak oil.
So, my old cars get as good mileage as the Focus, are much more reliable reliable, don't leak oil, and cost me a whole lot less to own and operate. So how is owning that nice new Suburban that gets 11mpg better for me or the environment than my old cars?
And here... http://www.fordfocusbrakeproblems.com
I've got one of these little death traps, and besides it being on it's thrid set of brake pads (Front AND rear!) with 30,000 miles on the car, its transmission is going out, fuel pump was going out and causing the car to stall on the freeway, seatbelts undoing themselves, several rattles, and a shock absorber in the front that came loose. Not to mention the 7 safety recalls it has had. Ford should work on building a reliable car instead of one that is meant to be thrown away.
That is a good point. What they need to do is focus on a reliable car, that will last for a few decades (Much like the older diesel Mercedes have, older VW Bugs, Hondas, etc...) that get good mileage and is easily recyclable once the car reaches the end of it's useful life.
Of course that goes against the American mentality of "I have to have a brand new huge SUV every two years". I think if people really want to help the environment they would buy something like a Civic and keep that until it falls apart instead of buying something that is huge and unneccesary for them.
Imagine if we could identify everyone who was close to the scene of a murder or rape?
Cool! Instant suspects! Who cares if the people were actually involved. They were close to the area, so they must have been up to no good. Bring 'em in!
Ok, this looks really cool, but I wonder how they will hold up? I used to have an old car stereo made by Blaupunkt, which used a smartcard like this instead of a removeable faceplate for security. After about a year of use, the microprocessor had pretty much seperated from the card and was about to fall out. I also was never comfortable with the card being able to flex like a credit card like they promise because it was actually a little stiffer, and felt more brittle than a credit card.
Of course, a years worth of use on a card like that for under $15 still isn't bad, I would just hope that I would be able to get my data from the card before it came apart. This also has the added complexity of moving parts inside, so it might be even less reliable than my stereo's card was. That is some really cool technology though.
Thats just one more reason to not use frames in HTML...
There must be something about products whose name ends with 'indows'...
I've been asked to assist a consultant on a project using VMS and basically have four days to figure out enough that I'm actually of some use.
I seriously doubt that you will learn enough in 4 days to be of any use. You will probably slow down the others who do know what they're doing. I would just admit that I didn't know anything about the OS, but would like to work along with the others to learn.
I've always thought consultants were overpaid. This proves it. See this week's Dilbert strip for proof.
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He's even madder than the poor guy whose home computer got slashdotted after posting the barcode key!
I can't really say that I blame either of them thoguh...
The article would have been far more interesting if it was titled "linux hacker flies balloon and joins mile high club."
/.ed and only a few people would get to actually see the pictures.
And even more interesting that that is if he includes pictures! Of course, the server would get
The point isn't that it is running Linux, the point is that he made a really cool project that floated to 80,000 feet and took pictures, AND he got the whole thing back to retrieve the pictures. To me that is awfully impressive. The fact that it runs Linux was just one cool part of the project.
The story says jet fuel, but the article says rocket fuel. There's a big difference, isn't there?
If it was jet fuel, and it was cheap enough to make Nasa could sell the rights to produce it and become more self sufficient. If it's rocket fuel though, there would be much less of a market and would really only benefit them.
Wouldn't that make their name expand to "Federal Express Express"? Is that like KFC chicken?
No, it wouldn't. Everyone knows Kentucky Fried Chicken changed their name to KFC because it's not really chicken anymore!
It's the avatar that gets me, though. Just can't see how (or even why) it's there.
That would be the Microsoft Agent.
Agent is simple to use. There are several dozen "agents" you can easily download that are ready to use, or you can make your own fairly easily. Here is a module I created to use the Agent in Visual Basic almost 4 years ago. Notice how easy it is to animate the Agent, and make it interactive. Once the character is loaded, you can make it do almost anything with a single line of code.
The code for the agent module can be found here.
Unfortunately, if they change the name to something such that "extreme" contains a capital "X" in the form of "eXtreme" or "Xtreme," everyone and their mom will want to ride it. After all, it's Xtreme!!!
Yeah, the prototype for this ride is at Knott's Berry Farm, and is named of all things, Xcelerator.
Only Apple would put forth a "revolutionary" new product which offers a measly 2x improvement. Note to technologists: please offer an order of magnitude (give or take) before making us by everything over again.
The bandwidth of firewire is extremely high, especially compared to other competing technologies like USB1.0. I think doubling the bandwidth is pretty impressive.
I do agree with you however that they should have tried to keep the original plugs for compatibility, but who knows, they probably had a good reason to use a new style.
Besides, how much would it cost to go out and get a new IEEE1394b daughterboard for your computer? A USB2.0 card can be had for under $50, so I would imagine the new IEEE1394b will be around there pretty soon anyways. It's not like you will have to go replace your entire computer and perephials to use the new technology.
they are taking the thing one step further
So was the pun intended?