The first is self-evident, the second is quite improbable.
Look, you sound like a kid I used to know (me) so let me offer you some helpful advice. This whole thing about "business value generation" is why you have a job in the first place, and until you understand it you're going to spend the rest of your life going from one de-.com-posed job to another. The days when companies would keep people around on the theory that they would somehow, someday make the company money are long since gone. On the other hand, if you really, consistently, solve your bosses' (note the plural) problems, you will never lack for work and never get fired.
I speak from experience. In 1998-2000, I was a consultant (UNIX systems, Networks, perl programmming.) In 2000, I read the tea-leaves, looked at the business cycle (you know, the thing Clinton claimed to have defeated) and came to the conclusion that it would be a good time to work for a major corporation who/might/ keep paying me through the recession. So, I looked at my clients - people who knew and would appreciate my abilities and compensate appropriately - and picked one to go to work at. Had no problem getting a job there, even though I suspect I was the highest salary in my group.
Unfortunately, the company I chose was WorldCom. I spent two years looking over my shoulder, waiting for the axe to fall, while it hit people all around me. But I also spent that two years fixing the problems that my bosses' wanted fixed -- and making sure that when I had an initiative or something I wanted to do, I explained it to them in terms of/their/ problems, not mine. So, it wasn't "this mail server setup is a huge kludge and I'm sick of messing with it and its obsolete and I want to replace it with something better" but "I'm fixing this mail server now, but we could've prevented this crash with a small investment of hardware and free software, thereby avoiding client downtime." At the end of the day, I was one of the lucky few who kept their jobs.
Why did I keep my job? Because, in the minds of my management and their management, I was a "highly effective business value generator." The people who lost their jobs didn't necessarily have fewer technical skills than me (although, frankly, a lot of them actually needed to go), and they certainly weren't disliked or unloved. What they didn't know was how to connect their job to the interests of the corporation. (N.B. Don't stab people in the back trying to get noticed. In fact, you should try to make them look good just as hard as you try to make you look good.)
So learn this lesson and learn it well: despite what 100 years of syndicalism, liberalism, socialism, and -- dare I say it -- labor unions may have led you to expect, your job as an employee is to produce business value that can ultimately be translated into money. The company does not exist for the purpose of caring for its employees or establishing a social safety net - it exists for the purpose of increasing shareholder value. If you can do that - increase shareholder value and make sure your boss knows you do it - you will/always/ land on your feet, even if you do happen to lose your job for a while.
That's part one of getting rich. Part 2 is "always saved 20% of your gross income in quality stocks." Part 3 is "don't be a jerk. Take care of people and they'll take care of you." Part 4 is, "have fun, whatever you do, because nobody likes a whiner."
While you're at it, you could rub his legs together to make a fire for the coming ice age caused by a 62,000 mile long cable giving earth a massive whiplash.
Something to bear in mind folks: the court will likely be much more impressed with "significant speech" issues that with games and the like. (I know that many consider games and entertainment to be quite significant - and I agree with them. But the court will be much more impressed with academic, religious, or political examples.)
in that vein, here's what I contributed. Not much, but the best I've got.
Beginning Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek
originally submitted by Patrick Narkinsky:
This work is a frankly revolutionary New Testament Greek Grammar published in the 70's. It has been out of print for many years, but is still widely appreciated. I spent the past several years trying to locate a copy to buy at any reasonable price. (A copy on Ebay recently went for $222). The publisher is not interested in republishing it. However, very recently they have allowed that if someone else paid to transfer it to a modern computerized format (Unicode/MSWORD) they would consider making it available on their own terms. The value of this grammar is such that a number of people are working on it, but requiring us to convert the work to their format so that they'll distribute is a pretty onerous version. There are certainly many other Greek students who would be willing to contribute their stories on this work.
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Patrick Narkinsky:
First, read it. Second, have it on hand as a reference. It contains revolutionary ideas on the categorization of BIblical Greek that are simply unavailable elsewhere.
Not all of these provide any tools for graphical development, so you'll need to look to see which meets your needs. One other option might be to use Jython and swing/awt/swt.
At this point, all Microsoft has to do to keep things proprietary is not implement the new standard. Why should they want to implement it when they can do some crazy com/.net solution that nobody can use except on a Windows PC?
What this article ignores is that, at least in theory, the value of the first sale of the game is enhanced by the fact that I can resell it used. Simply, I am willing to pay more for it because I know that I can resell it for some fraction of that when I'm done. Yes, the publishers would make more if I never bought a game that wasn't new, but that's simply not the economic system we operate under.
Instead of whining, publishers should work on making games that continue to be interesting after you've played them through once. Consider books, or movies, CD's. Although there is a used market for each, the market is not nearly as robust as the used games market. This is attributable to a couple of factors: first, the ridiculously high cost of games and, second, the fact that most games are worth playing only once if that. If games, like movies and books, were enjoyable to reuse and were not quite so expensive, people would be much less inclined to trade them in.
"Interesting to note that 1kg of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of energy as 10,000,000kg of fossil fuels."
Be expecting the environmental types to scream. One of the things I think environmentalist groups often miss is that, while nuclear waste is undoubtedly toxic, it also does not come in large quantities. I'd much rather have 1kg of incredibly toxic stuff in a sealed container than 10,000,000kg of fossil fuel residues in the air I have to breathe.
Of course, fusion is better than fission in this regard, but the same arguments hold in either case.
You're probably right - my experience with campus conduit systems consists primarily of a system that was run in the seventies and had many, many wires in it. Fortunately, we were able to use one of the sets of wires to pull. (The wires were originally installed for a campus-wide computer-controlled HVAC system that ran on a PDP-11!) But the conduits were not empty, and they were often curved.
This goes for both the "MAN" distribution and the "LAN" distribution: run conduit, and make sure that the conduit has a pull-string. This will future-proof you, since you will be able to easily and cheaply run any kind of cable that you may need in the future. For now, I would recommend running at least 4 pair twisted pair all over the place, back to a central location. You can then run DSL or ethernet (if distance allows - maximum for 10Mbps is 100 meters) as you please, and can also run POTS/ISDN lines as needed. Run coax for TV.
I would recommend against wireless: while it may seem attractive, you will not be able to deliver the quality of TV service that people expect over most wireless systems. Wireless is still pretty expensive (for commercial-grade kit) and it's not very mature.
Yeah, you're right to a point. But the thing is that in the extra improbable possibility that this thing actually turns out to be there, it's not just any boat. It's a boat on top of the mountain predicted, presumably of the size predicted, with a colossal variety of scat on it. Presumably, no human remains.
That being said, i think the chances of them finding anything are at least 100 to 1 *against*. So I wouldn't get too worked up about it.
Actually, I do know some programming, just not enough to make a professional-quality port.
But.... I thought we were talking about producing a professional quality port? There's a huge difference between hacking a quick perl script and porting a complex, professional quality application.
Of all the non threatening social situations, I can't imagine a less threatening atmosphere than a church.
I have to wonder when the last time was that you were IN one!
Churches can be downright mean, especially if you manage to violate the mores of a particular congregation in some heinous fashion such as wearing a short-sleeved shirt or singing off key. Where else do you go where, when you come in, you're asked to stand up in front of a couple of hundred people so they can all get a good look at you?
Note - I love the church. In fact, I'm an itinerant preacher and may be a pastor pretty soon (i.e. as soon as God forces me to give up my rather nice salary in tech in order to serve his people full-time.) But let's not try to pretend that churches are non-threatening.
It would cost them a great deal of money to port iTunes to Linux, and it is not immediately clear that such a port would provide them with any tangible financial benefit. duh.
OSX *is* NextSTEP for all intents and purposes. It is not even a total rewrite of NextSTEP - it is just an evolution of NeXT with new eye-candy and a MacOS 9 compatibility layer bundled. Go read some 'man' pages - half of the weird little commands in OSX (such as 'open') were first created in NeXT.
Pumping it electrically will get you into some conservation of energy problems, whereas a hydraulic ram uses the flow of the water to pump it. You're still harnessing the flow of the water, just indirectly this way.
One advantage of the ram approach is that whatever tank you store the water in (maybe just an above ground swimming pool?) will also provide you with a storage system, which means no batteries. (You will have to buy an hydraulic regulator of some kind though).
Indeed - I am told that the best computer players are only ranked around 1Kyu. Go ranks range from 30kyu - 1kyu, with 1kyu being the best, followed by 1dan-7dan (with 7d being the best). Dan is more or less exactly like degrees in a black belt in Karate. Professionals are rated only on the Dan scale, and most any professional can beat most any amateur player.
One thing I've noticed when playing GNU go is that the moves required to beat a computer are different. The computer is relentlessly correct in counting stones, but quickly fails when it runs out of its joseki library.
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Look, you sound like a kid I used to know (me) so let me offer you some helpful advice. This whole thing about "business value generation" is why you have a job in the first place, and until you understand it you're going to spend the rest of your life going from one de-.com-posed job to another. The days when companies would keep people around on the theory that they would somehow, someday make the company money are long since gone. On the other hand, if you really, consistently, solve your bosses' (note the plural) problems, you will never lack for work and never get fired.
I speak from experience. In 1998-2000, I was a consultant (UNIX systems, Networks, perl programmming.) In 2000, I read the tea-leaves, looked at the business cycle (you know, the thing Clinton claimed to have defeated) and came to the conclusion that it would be a good time to work for a major corporation who /might/ keep paying me through the recession. So, I looked at my clients - people who knew and would appreciate my abilities and compensate appropriately - and picked one to go to work at. Had no problem getting a job there, even though I suspect I was the highest salary in my group.
Unfortunately, the company I chose was WorldCom. I spent two years looking over my shoulder, waiting for the axe to fall, while it hit people all around me. But I also spent that two years fixing the problems that my bosses' wanted fixed -- and making sure that when I had an initiative or something I wanted to do, I explained it to them in terms of /their/ problems, not mine. So, it wasn't "this mail server setup is a huge kludge and I'm sick of messing with it and its obsolete and I want to replace it with something better" but "I'm fixing this mail server now, but we could've prevented this crash with a small investment of hardware and free software, thereby avoiding client downtime." At the end of the day, I was one of the lucky few who kept their jobs.
Why did I keep my job? Because, in the minds of my management and their management, I was a "highly effective business value generator." The people who lost their jobs didn't necessarily have fewer technical skills than me (although, frankly, a lot of them actually needed to go), and they certainly weren't disliked or unloved. What they didn't know was how to connect their job to the interests of the corporation. (N.B. Don't stab people in the back trying to get noticed. In fact, you should try to make them look good just as hard as you try to make you look good.)
So learn this lesson and learn it well: despite what 100 years of syndicalism, liberalism, socialism, and -- dare I say it -- labor unions may have led you to expect, your job as an employee is to produce business value that can ultimately be translated into money. The company does not exist for the purpose of caring for its employees or establishing a social safety net - it exists for the purpose of increasing shareholder value. If you can do that - increase shareholder value and make sure your boss knows you do it - you will /always/ land on your feet, even if you do happen to lose your job for a while.
That's part one of getting rich. Part 2 is "always saved 20% of your gross income in quality stocks." Part 3 is "don't be a jerk. Take care of people and they'll take care of you." Part 4 is, "have fun, whatever you do, because nobody likes a whiner."
That's sick dude.
While you're at it, you could rub his legs together to make a fire for the coming ice age caused by a 62,000 mile long cable giving earth a massive whiplash.
Boy Scouts are better than duct tape.
Translation: "Hi. I'm Hans, and I am here to 'Pump you Up!'"
Looking at OpenBeos' website, I can't find anything to download. What's the point of a new name with no code? Am I missing something?
Something to bear in mind folks: the court will likely be much more impressed with "significant speech" issues that with games and the like. (I know that many consider games and entertainment to be quite significant - and I agree with them. But the court will be much more impressed with academic, religious, or political examples.) in that vein, here's what I contributed. Not much, but the best I've got. Beginning Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek originally submitted by Patrick Narkinsky: This work is a frankly revolutionary New Testament Greek Grammar published in the 70's. It has been out of print for many years, but is still widely appreciated. I spent the past several years trying to locate a copy to buy at any reasonable price. (A copy on Ebay recently went for $222). The publisher is not interested in republishing it. However, very recently they have allowed that if someone else paid to transfer it to a modern computerized format (Unicode/MSWORD) they would consider making it available on their own terms. The value of this grammar is such that a number of people are working on it, but requiring us to convert the work to their format so that they'll distribute is a pretty onerous version. There are certainly many other Greek students who would be willing to contribute their stories on this work. Stifled uses Patrick Narkinsky: First, read it. Second, have it on hand as a reference. It contains revolutionary ideas on the categorization of BIblical Greek that are simply unavailable elsewhere.
Consider doing an affiliate program with Amazon or someone like them. In the past, I did fairly well doing book reviews with affiliate links.
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- Kimodo
- IDLE (included with Python).
- Black Adder ($$)
- Wing IDE ($$)
Not all of these provide any tools for graphical development, so you'll need to look to see which meets your needs. One other option might be to use Jython and swing/awt/swt.At this point, all Microsoft has to do to keep things proprietary is not implement the new standard. Why should they want to implement it when they can do some crazy com/.net solution that nobody can use except on a Windows PC?
Instead of whining, publishers should work on making games that continue to be interesting after you've played them through once. Consider books, or movies, CD's. Although there is a used market for each, the market is not nearly as robust as the used games market. This is attributable to a couple of factors: first, the ridiculously high cost of games and, second, the fact that most games are worth playing only once if that. If games, like movies and books, were enjoyable to reuse and were not quite so expensive, people would be much less inclined to trade them in.
Of course, fusion is better than fission in this regard, but the same arguments hold in either case.
You're probably right - my experience with campus conduit systems consists primarily of a system that was run in the seventies and had many, many wires in it. Fortunately, we were able to use one of the sets of wires to pull. (The wires were originally installed for a campus-wide computer-controlled HVAC system that ran on a PDP-11!) But the conduits were not empty, and they were often curved.
I would recommend against wireless: while it may seem attractive, you will not be able to deliver the quality of TV service that people expect over most wireless systems. Wireless is still pretty expensive (for commercial-grade kit) and it's not very mature.
Not to pick nits, but the Oxford Concise Definitions are more detailed than Webster's unabridged.
That being said, i think the chances of them finding anything are at least 100 to 1 *against*. So I wouldn't get too worked up about it.
Churches can be downright mean, especially if you manage to violate the mores of a particular congregation in some heinous fashion such as wearing a short-sleeved shirt or singing off key. Where else do you go where, when you come in, you're asked to stand up in front of a couple of hundred people so they can all get a good look at you?
Note - I love the church. In fact, I'm an itinerant preacher and may be a pastor pretty soon (i.e. as soon as God forces me to give up my rather nice salary in tech in order to serve his people full-time.) But let's not try to pretend that churches are non-threatening.
It would cost them a great deal of money to port iTunes to Linux, and it is not immediately clear that such a port would provide them with any tangible financial benefit. duh.
I just found out today that DSL appears to now be available at my address. Woot!
OSX *is* NextSTEP for all intents and purposes. It is not even a total rewrite of NextSTEP - it is just an evolution of NeXT with new eye-candy and a MacOS 9 compatibility layer bundled. Go read some 'man' pages - half of the weird little commands in OSX (such as 'open') were first created in NeXT.
Pumping it electrically will get you into some conservation of energy problems, whereas a hydraulic ram uses the flow of the water to pump it. You're still harnessing the flow of the water, just indirectly this way.
One advantage of the ram approach is that whatever tank you store the water in (maybe just an above ground swimming pool?) will also provide you with a storage system, which means no batteries. (You will have to buy an hydraulic regulator of some kind though).
One thing I've noticed when playing GNU go is that the moves required to beat a computer are different. The computer is relentlessly correct in counting stones, but quickly fails when it runs out of its joseki library.
A zen master was once asked, "What is the greatest game ever invented by man?"
He replied, "Chess, of course."
His chela asked, "But, what of Go?"
The master replied, "There was go before there were men."
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