And what happens if you have a neurological problem or disease. Suppose you have alzheimers before your brain gets downloaded, what use is a program that cant rememeber what it was doing. And if you were happily on your way to insanity before downloading would the desent into madness or senility continue in the downloaded version, ie would the data be so mangled it would gradually corrupt itself beyond salvation or would some sysadmin have to keep rolling you back to version 1.
I am setting up a new chain of Opticians to cater for all the people who damage their eyesight while trying to watch tv on their mobile.
I also expect to be recruiting medical staff shortly to cater for all the people who get injured becase they were watching their mobile when they should really have been watching where they were going.
I will be interesting to see alright. LogicBlaze was formerly ActiveMQ a JMS implementation which while not bad has no compelling features in what is quite a competive arena. Mergere (what a stupid name) was formerly Maven, a tool which as far as I could see had a small vocal support group but engendered pathological hatred in most people who used it (disclaimer I tried it a while ago and despised it).
Of course they are people, but they are not the community or people as a whole which is what public means.
If you are in a position to be able to drop a quarter mill on a trip then good for you but dont try and market it as something available to the public when clearly it is beyond the means of all but a tiny elite.
Dont be silly and look at his name, obviously its some sort of human powered flying contraption. I believe the company is especially interested in hiring someone to fill the Icarus position to replace the previous incumbent who left the company in rather unfortunate circumstances.
Actually it does improve the situation because it shows the populace are not prepared to accept a bunch of puppets foisted on them in a rushed and incomplete election because the political leadership of an occuping force wanted brownie points for their own election campaign.
In Gavin De Beckers book 'The Gift of Fear' he says that an effective way to stop assassins topping off high profile people is not to give them glorious media write ups.
Well I have long held the opinion we spend far too much money particularly protecting politicians. I think we should spend less and if a few of them get knocked off they it will help to filter out the self serving interest bastards. They are supposed to be public servants, not divine personages and its not like they are irreplacable now is it.
I dont think less media coverage will affect anything. Most assassins are not attention seekers. Some are professionals acting for vested interests, some are politically motivated, some act out of rage and some are just crazy. Few are interested in the media coverage.
Microsoft try and help users by providing easily accessible patches and they get blasted for it. I installed this patch yesterday and my machine works just fin^&*%^$%#%&^ [NO CARRIER SIGNAL]
One of the things I find interesting about this is that Gates holds the exact opposite paradigm about work that Plato holds in the Republic
Is that a real paradigm, a corporate speak paradigm, a metaphysical paradigm or does the sentence create a new paradigm in and of itself by pushing the paradigm envelope?
Hrm, I don't think you are well suited to be performing interviews then.
Unfortunately for me, I am. I have a very broad knowledge base, I'm good with people and I cant abide bullshit.
I think you need to re-read my comment, and do not become so personally offended by its truthful nature!
I'm not offended by bullshit. I just dont have time for it.
I live for this industry
See theres your problem right there. As soon as those words were out of your mouth I would kick you out of an interview for being a totally unbalanced individual with no perspective. Yes theres lots to learn and places to apply this learning but its not the be all and end all of life.
Lets dwell on this a little..
Hire 20 "java programmers" to work on a project (surely out of 20, 2 have to be somewhat useful).
Hire 2 "real programmers" (shouldn't take much to think about this inference, hint: its not a direct dig at Java) pay them properly, perhaps even exorbidently.
I wish I actually had the funds to carry out the above "expiriment" because I'd like to believe the two "real programmers" would likely not only get it done as fast or faster, it would probably cost less, and likely be more efficient, have less bugs, be more robust, take up less space, . . .
So while saying you are not picking on Java developers you are insulting Java developers and trudging up an argument that was probably valid 30 years ago but really does not hold in most cases today. A project requiring 20 developers these days depends on way more than coding skills, so clearly larger team based projects are just not your thing, again no hire. Whats probably most disturbing to me here though is your criteria for success. The fact that 'works properly and meets customer requirements fully' is not your no 1 criteria would also lead to pretty abrupt interview termination with me.
I found that to be particularly disturbing. Since I never said anything even close to warranting that response. For the record 'x is a destiny' is crap. However, there are those who just do it better with less effort. Where is the next Wayne Gretzky?
I am not disputing the fact that some people are born to do certain things, neither am I overlooking the fact that said people work very hard to achieve the level of excellence they do. The fact you state something like
I didn't see him for a couple of years and then ran into him downtown where he told me he was learning C++ and Java, at which point I suddenly felt the urge to vommit.
indicates several things to me. You seem to have a problem with people trying to improve themselves, that or its the 'its a calling' you cant learn it attitude again. Perhaps you know deep down that your friend will make a better coder than you if he applies himself and will make a more attractive hiring proposition without your elitist attitude. I dont dispute some people are natually brilliant coders, what I do argue is that way too may people round here think that 2 lines of Perl or C puts them in that bracket and entitles them to an ego their abilities cant match. Secondly that fact you would feel such a response indicates to me that you really are an asshole and I dont like assholes on my teams.
I really can't fathom why anyone would ever want a job that doesn't inspire them to continually better themselves, broaden their skillset/knowledge or learn at their own expense/time because doing so enthralls them.
The words children, wife, mortgage, bills and food obviously dont exist in your reality.
Tell you what, if you walked into an interview with me with that sort of attitude theres is not a snowballs chance in fucking hell of you getting hired.
This 'coding is a destiny' and cant be learned crap is just a self comforting excuse for saddos who dont have the requisite skillset to actually get a job or compete in the job market.
Its not that simple. The IT business has not shown itself to be very stable over the last few years. Not exactly encouraging as career choice and source of stable income if you have ambitions to get married, buy a house in the burbs etc.
I think outsourcing is a factor currently as well. Even most non techies are aware of what has and more importantly what could happen to them should they enter IT. The prospect of suddenly being replaced by an alternative you cannot compete with economically does not engender confidence.
If I was leaving school now I have to say I would probably be looking at alternative diciplines as a career choice myself. I doubt the thought of a few quick bucks in an unstable rapidly fluctuating IT market would change that.
You obviously have not looked at yahoo for a while. Google is cleaner but displays less and their colour scheme chould do with some work. The edit option displays very poorly against a similar shade background.
I love comemnts like these. One of the values of Open Source is choice but as soon as a decent Open Source version of something comes along suddenly theres no need for anything else. Choice is still good which is why I want to to see Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Konq, Safari and even IE compete to build something better.
Isn't there already some sort of tacit agreement in place regarding this? I believe Spielberg was extremely keen to direct one of the current trilogy but Lucas refused (claimed has some sort of story to tell apparently) but that in lieu, a further trilogy would be more probable than possible and Spielberg could have one of them.
wait till you see my gerbil powered mini. I'm having a small problem with it though, it runs just fine in my test harness but the power seems to tail off and then die shortly after I hermetically seal the case.
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And what happens if you have a neurological problem or disease. Suppose you have alzheimers before your brain gets downloaded, what use is a program that cant rememeber what it was doing. And if you were happily on your way to insanity before downloading would the desent into madness or senility continue in the downloaded version, ie would the data be so mangled it would gradually corrupt itself beyond salvation or would some sysadmin have to keep rolling you back to version 1.
that the 'Buy American' scam is really just an attempt to protect American companies from cheaper competitors under the guise of 'security'
I am setting up a new chain of Opticians to cater for all the people who damage their eyesight while trying to watch tv on their mobile.
I also expect to be recruiting medical staff shortly to cater for all the people who get injured becase they were watching their mobile when they should really have been watching where they were going.
I will be interesting to see alright. LogicBlaze was formerly ActiveMQ a JMS implementation which while not bad has no compelling features in what is quite a competive arena. Mergere (what a stupid name) was formerly Maven, a tool which as far as I could see had a small vocal support group but engendered pathological hatred in most people who used it (disclaimer I tried it a while ago and despised it).
Anyway good look to them.
Slashdot is really not the place to be discussing your fart inhaling fetish.
Dear NASA
I have a small team, and I do mean small team that is quite good at extracting things from the ground. Does it matter if they are not scientists?
Yours etc.
Snow White
Of course they are people, but they are not the community or people as a whole which is what public means.
If you are in a position to be able to drop a quarter mill on a trip then good for you but dont try and market it as something available to the public when clearly it is beyond the means of all but a tiny elite.
Dont be silly and look at his name, obviously its some sort of human powered flying contraption. I believe the company is especially interested in hiring someone to fill the Icarus position to replace the previous incumbent who left the company in rather unfortunate circumstances.
But charging 250,000 dollars for something is not bringing it to the public, its bringing it to a wealthy elite.
Mom is Dad ever coming back from the store? It cant possibly take 6 months to get some bread can it?
Actually it does improve the situation because it shows the populace are not prepared to accept a bunch of puppets foisted on them in a rushed and incomplete election because the political leadership of an occuping force wanted brownie points for their own election campaign.
In Gavin De Beckers book 'The Gift of Fear' he says that an effective way to stop assassins topping off high profile people is not to give them glorious media write ups.
Well I have long held the opinion we spend far too much money particularly protecting politicians. I think we should spend less and if a few of them get knocked off they it will help to filter out the self serving interest bastards. They are supposed to be public servants, not divine personages and its not like they are irreplacable now is it.
I dont think less media coverage will affect anything. Most assassins are not attention seekers. Some are professionals acting for vested interests, some are politically motivated, some act out of rage and some are just crazy. Few are interested in the media coverage.
Microsoft try and help users by providing easily accessible patches and they get blasted for it. I installed this patch yesterday and my machine works just fin^&*%^$%#%&^ [NO CARRIER SIGNAL]
They are always waving. The Queens waves are a bit feeble though, dunno if I would want her powering the electric shower in the morning.
One of the things I find interesting about this is that Gates holds the exact opposite paradigm about work that Plato holds in the Republic
Is that a real paradigm, a corporate speak paradigm, a metaphysical paradigm or does the sentence create a new paradigm in and of itself by pushing the paradigm envelope?
That xp notification is really annoying. You end up reboot just to stop the damn messages appearing.
The only drawback with whats coming with Longhorn is that it will bring us another step closer to subscription based MS software.
Hrm, I don't think you are well suited to be performing interviews then.
Unfortunately for me, I am. I have a very broad knowledge base, I'm good with people and I cant abide bullshit.
I think you need to re-read my comment, and do not become so personally offended by its truthful nature!
I'm not offended by bullshit. I just dont have time for it.
I live for this industry
See theres your problem right there. As soon as those words were out of your mouth I would kick you out of an interview for being a totally unbalanced individual with no perspective. Yes theres lots to learn and places to apply this learning but its not the be all and end all of life.
Lets dwell on this a little.. Hire 20 "java programmers" to work on a project (surely out of 20, 2 have to be somewhat useful). Hire 2 "real programmers" (shouldn't take much to think about this inference, hint: its not a direct dig at Java) pay them properly, perhaps even exorbidently. I wish I actually had the funds to carry out the above "expiriment" because I'd like to believe the two "real programmers" would likely not only get it done as fast or faster, it would probably cost less, and likely be more efficient, have less bugs, be more robust, take up less space, . . .
So while saying you are not picking on Java developers you are insulting Java developers and trudging up an argument that was probably valid 30 years ago but really does not hold in most cases today. A project requiring 20 developers these days depends on way more than coding skills, so clearly larger team based projects are just not your thing, again no hire. Whats probably most disturbing to me here though is your criteria for success. The fact that 'works properly and meets customer requirements fully' is not your no 1 criteria would also lead to pretty abrupt interview termination with me.
I found that to be particularly disturbing. Since I never said anything even close to warranting that response. For the record 'x is a destiny' is crap. However, there are those who just do it better with less effort. Where is the next Wayne Gretzky?
I am not disputing the fact that some people are born to do certain things, neither am I overlooking the fact that said people work very hard to achieve the level of excellence they do. The fact you state something like
I didn't see him for a couple of years and then ran into him downtown where he told me he was learning C++ and Java, at which point I suddenly felt the urge to vommit.
indicates several things to me. You seem to have a problem with people trying to improve themselves, that or its the 'its a calling' you cant learn it attitude again. Perhaps you know deep down that your friend will make a better coder than you if he applies himself and will make a more attractive hiring proposition without your elitist attitude. I dont dispute some people are natually brilliant coders, what I do argue is that way too may people round here think that 2 lines of Perl or C puts them in that bracket and entitles them to an ego their abilities cant match. Secondly that fact you would feel such a response indicates to me that you really are an asshole and I dont like assholes on my teams.
I really can't fathom why anyone would ever want a job that doesn't inspire them to continually better themselves, broaden their skillset/knowledge or learn at their own expense/time because doing so enthralls them.
The words children, wife, mortgage, bills and food obviously dont exist in your reality.
Tell you what, if you walked into an interview with me with that sort of attitude theres is not a snowballs chance in fucking hell of you getting hired.
This 'coding is a destiny' and cant be learned crap is just a self comforting excuse for saddos who dont have the requisite skillset to actually get a job or compete in the job market.
Its not that simple. The IT business has not shown itself to be very stable over the last few years. Not exactly encouraging as career choice and source of stable income if you have ambitions to get married, buy a house in the burbs etc. I think outsourcing is a factor currently as well. Even most non techies are aware of what has and more importantly what could happen to them should they enter IT. The prospect of suddenly being replaced by an alternative you cannot compete with economically does not engender confidence. If I was leaving school now I have to say I would probably be looking at alternative diciplines as a career choice myself. I doubt the thought of a few quick bucks in an unstable rapidly fluctuating IT market would change that.
You obviously have not looked at yahoo for a while. Google is cleaner but displays less and their colour scheme chould do with some work. The edit option displays very poorly against a similar shade background.
is how the Bay of Penguins incident began...
I love comemnts like these. One of the values of Open Source is choice but as soon as a decent Open Source version of something comes along suddenly theres no need for anything else. Choice is still good which is why I want to to see Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Konq, Safari and even IE compete to build something better.
Isn't there already some sort of tacit agreement in place regarding this? I believe Spielberg was extremely keen to direct one of the current trilogy but Lucas refused (claimed has some sort of story to tell apparently) but that in lieu, a further trilogy would be more probable than possible and Spielberg could have one of them.
You sir fail to respect the right of this PDA to run Linux if it wants to. Ya bloody splitter
wait till you see my gerbil powered mini. I'm having a small problem with it though, it runs just fine in my test harness but the power seems to tail off and then die shortly after I hermetically seal the case.