Irony: In order to escape wireless emissions, people move to a place where a bunch of massive radio telescopes stand next door as proof that wireless emissions are everywhere.
Correlation isn't causality: moving from a populated area to the middle of nowhere and having your symptoms "disappear" proves that wireless emissions were the root of the problem.
I can hear CRTs when they are 3 rooms away, with the sound off. it's not a myth. as for wi fi, I am not sensitive to it but I wouldn't categorically say no one else is.
Get this straight. MLK was not a "fee-good, let's all respect each other" civil-rights version of Barney the dinosaur.
He was mobilising and uniting the underprivileged, black and white, in ways that were threatening to the war-mongering coproratist kleptocrats. They didn't kill him 'cos he wanted people to drink from the same fountain.
Now, they are killing him with artificial praise. It's like the moneylenders in the Temple, now selling "Jesus Slept Here" t-shirts.
Excuse me.. is this a racial slur or have I missed something? because this dribble got +5 points...
Anyone in the field who hasn't figured this out yet needs to be let go. Programming requires long nights staring blankly at mind-muddling objective languages. Experienced directors/designers have the foresight to be able to properly direct all that youthful energy to the most worthwhile pursuits, rather than just letting them wander aimlessly through some other other geek's code.
There's probably a good amount of truth to this.
Coding, to a large degree, is grunt work. No, this isn't universally true... But a lot of it is.
You want your more experienced people to be supervising the grunt coders - not wasting their time actually turning out line after line of code.
Its sad that you think that. Coding can be grunt work but the same piece of code can be art, it all depends on who does the coding.
I have worked in cubicles, alone and in the horrible "two large desk, 8 people" configuration.
For programmers, I think the best thing is put each programmer in a room by him/herself. alone. let people concentrate.
You see, when everyone are in the same room the strongest programmers get drawn to help the weakest, which does not help anybody, and certainly does not help you weed out the good from the bad. It becomes a social thing instead of being a work thing. and I don't want to talk about the loud people, freaks, people who decided to live under your desk and the whole "lets go to lunch" in the middle of coding thing. leave me alone, I'll call you if I need you.
In anticipation of the Vista jokes, the following excerpt from an article on the subject may help shed some light on the matter:
The direct impact of falling personal-computer sales, which roiled Intel last week, were evident in Microsoft's results, as sales of its PC operating-system software dove 8 percent to $3.98 billion from $4.33 billion last year... Blaming market uncertainty, Microsoft declined to issue a revenue or earnings forecast for the rest of its fiscal year.
I think a fair translation of the above would be that the economy is in the toilet no one knows if Vista will sell. Err... Windows 7.
On the other hand, with people being put out of work, it's a lot less fun to bash Microsoft.
This article is rubbish. I can blame anything on the down market but the fact is people need OSs and M$ has done a lousy job with Vista. It didn't sell MUCH BEFORE the market went down.
This , if true , will have HUGE implications - we'll be able to see what people THINK. I don't know if you actually grasp the monument dimensions of this. Checking for terrorism, knowing if you are really loved, truth telling machines, like the internet, something like this can level the plain field for a long long time...
I've recently been to apple store at 5th avenue and went to the restroom.
There was a guy there who opened bags, at first I didn't understand what he was doing but after a further inspection he was *checking employees to see if they have stolen anything* before leaving their post.
So, a huge corporate, making billions, and having no trust in their employees. Great.
I don't know if anyone mentioned this first because of all the ajax hoopla we have in/. these days but for the love of god:
*** Make a backup of everything before starting ***
No matter what, these are the last things his family will have of him, and even if its painful to the level of not caring right now, they will want it in the future.
In that case, I agree - this whole post is stupid - never laugh on someone competencies!
Anyway, the number of people who are knowledgeable in assembler, for example, these days is very small; that probably mean that if you think its not a lost art and it will live on you should find a job at it:) because it's going to worth a lot in the next couple of decades.
.. I didn't say anyone is going to do it, I didn't even say it's going to be done by a language other than C if it's done. What I said was that *if* anyone will choose to create an open source OS *without using C* and it will be as successful as linux *then* we need to think about C.
As for interpreters and compilers are concerned , lots of them are not using C per say, they bootstrap from their own language, so find another strawman to hang your claims on.
p.s. I really like C and wouldn't like to see it vanish.
So you actually say that assembler is needed and not obsolete like tfsdp says ?
If you do - that's a valid opinion as well, if you think the list is correct - why not add C in the mix (and I'm not saying it should, just raising the question)
As a middle manager with programming and design experience and CS degree in my 30s I'd much rather know what *is going to become obsolete* in the next 10 years, and have that list updated each.. say.. month.
Why? because then I'll be able to make educated guesses about where I'm going next. Hell, for a western culture manager the answer may be "you are going to be out of work next" because managerial skills are going to be very inexpensive (I don't know , but that may be the case).
So - predicting the future is not that hard for the most part - for example, C - will it survive or not? I'd say that seeing linux popularity and the things people do with C today its going to stick around for at least the time it takes to build a new open source OS - something like 4 years at least. C++ - some people like it, others hate it, if Java will continue getting better, who knows?. PCs - will probably get easier to use, less technical to operate and more friendly. Managers - who needs them anyway:-) ?
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Ouch, I tried to use "<tags>" where it says "we have..."... sorry again
Ah, I see now.
My bad, "voices" doesn't go through well in text form, that's why we have ...
Irony: In order to escape wireless emissions, people move to a place where a bunch of massive radio telescopes stand next door as proof that wireless emissions are everywhere.
Correlation isn't causality: moving from a populated area to the middle of nowhere and having your symptoms "disappear" proves that wireless emissions were the root of the problem.
you mean "doesn't prove", right ?
I can hear CRTs when they are 3 rooms away, with the sound off. it's not a myth. as for wi fi, I am not sensitive to it but I wouldn't categorically say no one else is.
"It's like the moneylenders in the Temple, now selling "Jesus Slept Here" t-shirts."
??
Apparently, Mr. King had a dream, but it wasn't Richard Stallman's...
The group building the memorial are PISSING on King's grave.
Harry E. Johnson Sr., president of the foundation, made $265,085 in 2008.
They built the "memorial" with uncompensated (read "slave") labour from China.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/26/305092/mlk-jr-memorial-statue-completed-using-unpaid-chinese-laborers/
Get this straight. MLK was not a "fee-good, let's all respect each other" civil-rights version of Barney the dinosaur.
He was mobilising and uniting the underprivileged, black and white, in ways that were threatening to the war-mongering coproratist kleptocrats. They didn't kill him 'cos he wanted people to drink from the same fountain.
Now, they are killing him with artificial praise. It's like the moneylenders in the Temple, now selling "Jesus Slept Here" t-shirts.
Excuse me.. is this a racial slur or have I missed something? because this dribble got +5 points...
Anyone in the field who hasn't figured this out yet needs to be let go. Programming requires long nights staring blankly at mind-muddling objective languages. Experienced directors/designers have the foresight to be able to properly direct all that youthful energy to the most worthwhile pursuits, rather than just letting them wander aimlessly through some other other geek's code.
There's probably a good amount of truth to this.
Coding, to a large degree, is grunt work. No, this isn't universally true... But a lot of it is.
You want your more experienced people to be supervising the grunt coders - not wasting their time actually turning out line after line of code.
Its sad that you think that. Coding can be grunt work but the same piece of code can be art, it all depends on who does the coding.
It would be more interesting to turn off the school's WiFi, not tell anyone, and see if the symptoms go away.
Yeah.. good luck with that.. it's a public wifi network, don't you think someone will notice... ?
HUH!! My thoughts exactly :-)
I wonder if antidepressants have anything to do with different levels of susceptibility to this stuff...
Thank god there is someone sane here.
I have worked in cubicles, alone and in the horrible "two large desk, 8 people" configuration.
For programmers, I think the best thing is put each programmer in a room by him/herself. alone. let people concentrate.
You see, when everyone are in the same room the strongest programmers get drawn to help the weakest, which does not help anybody, and certainly does not help you weed out the good from the bad. It becomes a social thing instead of being a work thing. and I don't want to talk about the loud people, freaks, people who decided to live under your desk and the whole "lets go to lunch" in the middle of coding thing. leave me alone, I'll call you if I need you.
... just remember, that while you bing your friend's sister, someone is binging you...
I'll stay with google thanks the same M$..
... which is a biggy... if the digital stenography will be good, valve/steam will know exactly who created an illegal version of their software.
*exactly*
In anticipation of the Vista jokes, the following excerpt from an article on the subject may help shed some light on the matter:
I think a fair translation of the above would be that the economy is in the toilet no one knows if Vista will sell. Err ... Windows 7.
On the other hand, with people being put out of work, it's a lot less fun to bash Microsoft.
This article is rubbish. I can blame anything on the down market but the fact is people need OSs and M$ has done a lousy job with Vista. It didn't sell MUCH BEFORE the market went down.
Off the top of my head:
Tim Berners-Lee
Elton John
paul mccartney
and now Sir Terry Pratchet!!
This is very, very cool. It's a shame Douglas adams didn't get one..
This , if true , will have HUGE implications - we'll be able to see what people THINK. I don't know if you actually grasp the monument dimensions of this. Checking for terrorism, knowing if you are really loved, truth telling machines, like the internet, something like this can level the plain field for a long long time...
Is the point of the big boobs to work sort of like air bags in case she trips again?
Slashdotters, when will you learn?! - The point is obviously so she can float away using them as giant lighter-than-air balloons!
Steven from bluesnews been to a demo, this is his recap: http://bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=90547
I've recently been to apple store at 5th avenue and went to the restroom.
There was a guy there who opened bags, at first I didn't understand what he was doing but after a further inspection he was *checking employees to see if they have stolen anything* before leaving their post.
So, a huge corporate, making billions, and having no trust in their employees. Great.
I am starting to hate apple.
I don't know if anyone mentioned this first because of all the ajax hoopla we have in /. these days but for the love of god:
*** Make a backup of everything before starting ***
No matter what, these are the last things his family will have of him, and even if its painful to the level of not caring right now, they will want it in the future.
What do you mean by frickin' ? Very cool? F&^*^$ing ? is it a word that lowers the lasers or heighten their importance?
In that case, I agree - this whole post is stupid - never laugh on someone competencies!
:) because it's going to worth a lot in the next couple of decades.
Anyway, the number of people who are knowledgeable in assembler, for example, these days is very small; that probably mean that if you think its not a lost art and it will live on you should find a job at it
.. I didn't say anyone is going to do it, I didn't even say it's going to be done by a language other than C if it's done. What I said was that *if* anyone will choose to create an open source OS *without using C* and it will be as successful as linux *then* we need to think about C.
As for interpreters and compilers are concerned , lots of them are not using C per say, they bootstrap from their own language, so find another strawman to hang your claims on.
p.s. I really like C and wouldn't like to see it vanish.
So you actually say that assembler is needed and not obsolete like tfsdp says ? If you do - that's a valid opinion as well, if you think the list is correct - why not add C in the mix (and I'm not saying it should, just raising the question)
As a middle manager with programming and design experience and CS degree in my 30s I'd much rather know what *is going to become obsolete* in the next 10 years, and have that list updated each .. say.. month.
:-) ?
Why? because then I'll be able to make educated guesses about where I'm going next. Hell, for a western culture manager the answer may be "you are going to be out of work next" because managerial skills are going to be very inexpensive (I don't know , but that may be the case).
So - predicting the future is not that hard for the most part - for example, C - will it survive or not? I'd say that seeing linux popularity and the things people do with C today its going to stick around for at least the time it takes to build a new open source OS - something like 4 years at least. C++ - some people like it, others hate it, if Java will continue getting better, who knows?. PCs - will probably get easier to use, less technical to operate and more friendly. Managers - who needs them anyway