And all the other bizarre flash that lives HERE
Without Flash we'd be living in a world on Animated GIFS or worse yet ASCII art. Sure Flash is proprietary, has a less than optimal IDE, and costs way to much just to make screwy videos, but it sure has brightened up the web. Additionally, Flash has given me more than one much needed side-splitting laugh. Long live FLASH!
Our company pays for broadband or a landline if you live out in the boonies. They also pay for cell phones.
If you company wants support 24x7, then they need to provide you the tools to make that happen. It's in their own best interest since it puts you in a position to respond and engage corrective action. Use the simple equation time=money. If the company isn't willing to invest in tools for remote support then obviously the offhours downtime isn't worth worrying about or costs very little in terms of productivity. Where I work, 5 minutes of downtime = $850, so responding quickly is somewhat important to the bottom line.
Does the company expect people to bring their own office supplies, computers, phones, desks, and office furniture when they come to work?
If you get off hours support calls don't answer the phone (invest in caller-id) or if you accidentally answer the phone, tell them your computer is not working and you are waiting from a callback from Dell technical support and need to hang up and to call back in a few hours.
Like my daddy always says, "Boy you want to play dumb? I can play dumber."
Excerpt from Viperlair
It looks like the ATI does do H/W MPEG.
Usually found in high end pro-sumer video cards, the AIW 9600 Pro brings hardware MPEG-2 decoding and MPEG-2 encoding to the consumer level. The Cobra Engine is capable of Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (iDCT), which is really a fancy way of saying it can decode MPEG-2 streams with minimal CPU usage. This can make a difference when viewing DVDs on your PC, as you no longer have to shop for a dedicated DVD decoder, and no longer have to rely on software based decoding.
Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), or MPEG-2 encoding, is done in hardware, which for casual video editing buffs, means less work on your CPU. ATI claims a maximum of 20-25% of the encoding process can be taken off the CPU, which could result in less time needed to encode a movie file, or at least, more CPU processing power to perform other tasks.
Videosoap is a feature found within the Cobra Engine that cleans up the image. It isn't designed for MPEGs you already have, but rather, it uses four filters to clean up the signal coming in from the input video. Other than cleaning up the image, it also serves to reduce the file size since noise isn't something that can easily be compressed, so with less noise, you'll end up with smaller files.
I was hoping to see more discussion on this thread. I have an XPC and am borrowing a PVR-250 and it works really well. Only a 10-20% hit on a 3.0GHz CPU when recording at DVD quality. To stress the system I started 3 FTP downloads (3 MB/s), started burning a CD, streamied a 128k station with Winamp, editing pics with Adobe Photoshop, watched previously recorded show, and recorded TV with the Hauppage card. The system worked fine. I thought for sure that the single IDE disk would bottleneck, but no problems.
IMHO, the ATI AIW 9600XT is out because it doesn't have hardware MPEG compression and it has another fan to make noise. I think the playback with the AIW is easier on the CPU since the overlay happens on the card, however recording must hammer the system CPU . Can anyone tell us what CPU/Disk I/O look like while recording at DVD quality on the ATI?
Yes, but this doesn't prove anything. All we know is that the clocks in the scenario you mentioned are different, but we don't know "the why". We need to know "why".
Physics is great at explaining the affect of an effect, but not why something occurs. We have physics equations for the acceleration of gravity, but physics doesn't explain "the why" of gravity. There are also equations for "time dialation", but again, know one knows "why" time dialates in the first place.
Even with all of brilliant mathematical equations, various scientific disciplines, and Phd's we actually know very little about how God designed the Universe and "why the Universe works the way it does". All we can say for sure is that the relative scale on the universe, from the smallest particle to the distance of the farthest star is beyond our comprehension. Another thing we know for sure is that as of last week, with a $1,000,000 on the line and some really smart people, we as a species are unable to get an unmanned vehicle to follow a course for more than 10 miles (DARPA Desert Challenge). The problem with complex systems, is that the more you "find out" the "less you know for sure" and the more new problems and questions pop up. It's just not fair. We should all be allowed at least one peek behind the magic curtain .
I think that exposure to politics can help develop social skills. Is there any "situation" which you might be able to create that would force him to participate in a political organization?
If you can structure the political involvement so that is a means to a worthy end then that may motivate him. He may view the participation as a game, but it will force analysis and self reflection which of course will cause him to learn how to function with lesser beings (comb hair, brush teeth, wear clean clothes etc...) .
The problem isn't that he is incapable, the problem is that he choses not to focus on social skills. I am not convinced that this behavior is always as simple as a lack of self confidence or poor self image. Sometimes it's simply a "lack of caring problem". I know other have suggested the old standards, "Dale Carnegie", "Martial Arts".... Let us know how it goes and what worked.
Yes, you should fear geeks with guns. At last years Penguicon, ESR (Eric Raymond, keeper of the Halloween doc) hosted a geeks and guns session at the local gun range. The highlight of the session was that I got to shoot ESR's colt 45 commander which also shot by Linus himself.
So my advice is to take threats from geeks with guns seriously. I saw their targets and their shot groups were tight.
As the son of a plumber who does plumbing jobs as a hobby, not as a profession, I can tell you that this is DEFINATELY NOT the first rule of plumbing. The first rule of plumbing does have to do with shit, but also involves cash.
The first rule of plumbing is this: "Your shit's my bread and butter."
I know it sounds gross, but that's the mantra in the plumbing and pipefitting biz. BTW, plumbing isn't going to be outsourced to India anytime soon. To me plumbing is a fallback career if IT jobs completely vanish from the USA. If I ever do become a plumber I am only going to work on Saturday and Sunday and charge emergency weekend rates! WHA HA HA!:)
Is there some rule that requires slashdot to cover every article they print? I think nearly everyone who reads slashdot also subscribes to Wired. I just don't understand the point of continuing to publish every Wired article... however, I don't understand how the moderators can post duplicate messages so frequently either. Sorry, maybe it's just me.
We are in the middle of a jobless recovery, nearly 50 million don't have health insurance, and people are starting to roll off of unemployemnt benefits. Not to mention, college grads are having a really tough time finding jobs.
Gee....... why don't we go to mars? Maybe someone on Mars has the answer to our economic problems. Are these people in the same reality?
This just goes to show that if you surf around long enough, you can indeed find everyone and everything on the Internet. Additionally, I can't tell you how many database search forms I found that suffer from simple SQL injection problems. Next time you run into a cheesy web form, try putting a '%' in instead of search text. You may get a dump of the whole database. It is amazing to me how bad and insecure some web apps are and, how much personal data is stored in them.
Who is Jon von Neumann? If you don't know and are planning on programming you should find out. Worse, if you already have a CS degree and don't know about "von Neumann" architecture then you missed am important topic.
If you want high performance code, you must understand procedural programming and assembly language. You must understand the
components of the modern "von Neumann" architecture like RAM, Registeres, L1 cache, L2 cache, ALU etc....
While everyone has gone OOP (Object Oriented) crazy, the "von Neumann" architecture is NOT optimized for OOP programming. Because modern CPU's have lots of cache, the latency that exists between the CPU and Memory is reduced. This is called "faking" memory bandwidth, read this article on the
von Nuemann bottleneck.
Serious coders should learn ASM, then move to a higher level language like 'C' then see how the 'C' statements compile in ASM and then analyze efficiency.
Modern wisdom says, be wasteful, vendors will make bigger/faster machines and we won't have to care that our code is slow, inefficient, and not optimized for the architecture. Keep in mind, you can save substantially on hardware expenditures by hiring good coders that know how to tune and optimize code but, if you don't want to be bothered, just plan on large capital expenditures every couple of years. Also write everything is JAVA and make sure you create indexes on every column of every table in your database for faster lookups.. ( I am joking, don't really do this. )
Microsoft probably would have implemented 1-Click Virus install, however the one click patent is already owned by Amazon. Maybe they could go double-click for attachments and triple-click for virus installation. That would definately keep grandma from installing it since she can barely eek out two clicks.
Don't blame Andy. Blame all the idiots that ran his program. Andy's program is doesn't exploit a network buffer overflow but requires a user to consciously run the program. Andy's program exploits ignorance and carelessness.
I am just glad that Andy's attachement wasn't named "format_my_c_drive.exe"... I know people who received the attachment, couldn't open it, and forwarded to to others to see if they could open it. Absolutely Amazing. I would like to thank Andy for helping us give the user community a wake-up call. I think Andy should include a license agreement in with his next version so that there isn't so much fuss.
I say let Microsoft and Yahoo go shake down it's customers for E-Stamp fees. Better yet, let them make the new protocol which they refer to as "caller id" proprietary and, only run on Microsoft products.
This is just the break AOL needs to get back in the game. AOL can offer SPAM blockage without the fees. I am not a fan or proponent of AOL, but my point is that the market is going to quickly sort this out. I wish Microsoft and Yahoo all the best and hope they go full speed ahead with this plan. After all, taking something that's FREE and charging money for it in a down economy is brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! These companies must be full of MBA's from the finest schools. I wonder if I could be successful selling the FREE MSN CD's:)
While MSFT and Yahoo are inventing "caller id" for email. Maybe they could figure out if the email is "long distance", "intra-lata", or "near-zone". Next, they could invent a whole wacked out billing system just like SBC/Ameritech in which I can call across the country for 3 cents a minute, but calling outside of a 20 mile radius costs 10 cents a minute or more depending on the time of time. And there's another idea. Invent a rate plan based on the time of day the email is sent. What if you use a laptop? Will there be email roaming charges!? The possibilities are limitless. Go get'em boys, put those MBA's to good use, just don't expect a check from me, but do send me a copy of your rate plan so I can laugh!
Yes, I saw a lot of this in EverQuest as well. Couples would play online together. However, be warned, there was at least one real world meeting and affair in my guild which broke up two marriages. As you can imagine that led to a lot of drama later on in the game.
In EQ there is a lot of downtime so you have time to chat. Addtionally, other women play EQ which makes it a more female friendly. First person online shooters are probably not real female friendly.
Good luck and keep an eye on your gal or she may find someone more interesting. You always run the risk:)
So let me get this straight, the low end of the American job market should do to the Mexicans since they are taking "jobs no American's will do", according to the President.
On the high end of the pay scale, Manufacturing and Skilled Labor, we should let all those jobs go to India, China, Singapore and anywhere else labor is cheap.
So that leaves the middle, where companies are currently not hiring and slashing middle management by the thousands.
Now, toss in skyrocketing energy prices. Natural Gas (up 25% from 2003), Gasoline ($1.60/gal). Follow that up with increased health insurance costs which have gone up another 50% or more in 2004 because employers have no incentive to absorb costs in a tight labor market.
What's the result? DEFLATION! Yes, that's right, that means prices will stagnate as the number of people with disposable income become fewer and fewer. If you kill off the USA economy (#1 economy on the planet) who will buy all products and services from out of the country. No Jobs = No Spending Power.
Until workers in other countries can afford to buy SUV's, computers, cars, homes, digital cameras, health care, Disney vacations, and daily food the lifestlye and quality of life of the American worker will continue to erode. We need to ditch Free-Trade before the world economy ends up in a ditch.
UPN had better consult with the makers of TiVO and Replay TV. This of the ripple effect when thousands of techies realize that Star Trek is over and start cancelling their monthly subscriptions. Ebay will be flooded with uber-modded PVR's.
If Enterprise is cancelled I will seriously consider selling my ReplayTV, since the Daily Show with Jon Stewart will easily fit on a videocassette. There really isn't much high quality content to watch on TV anymore. Too bad, another era has ended. However, I still look forward to getting crap content in HD format.
Give me a break. The president's speech was ripped from the history books and was borrowed from
JFK's
famous "moon speech". GWB's Mars speech was nothing more than spin and diversion to take our attention off the war in Iraq, crappy economy, gay marriage, and war profiteering being done Haliburton, the company where Cheney was the ex-CEO.
If the Mars mission would have failed, there never would have been speech. However, check out the shocking pictures from the rover. Looks like the corporations have already taken over Mars too.
To me it is becoming apparent that the SCO fiasco against IBM and Linux is a diversion, which is covering up something even more insidious. SCO isn't even trying with respect to the court case and is focused mostly on making as much noise and involving as many parties as possible? Anyone have any guesses or insights as to what we might be missing?
Could it be as simple as ego? Is Bill Gates paying Daryl to replace him as the most hated man in high tech or, is this simply a scam to scare people away from using Linux? I just have a sinking feeling that the true enemy is about to sneak up behind us. Maybe I'm just paranoid but maybe, just maybe, I'm not paranoid enough.
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Don't worry, IIS gets stopped either by memory leaks, MS Patches, or worms at least once a month. What I found amazing was that so many decided to let MS IIS touch the public Internet. I've learned my lesson, nothing made by MS touches the public Internet and must be protected by a circle of Linux boxes.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
-Thomas Jefferson 1816
Comparing Perl to Java is foolish, Perl is more like Awk than a general purpose programming language
If 'C' were a person, he'd be hardworking, fast, organized, efficient, smart, and flexible enough to solve nearly any type of problem. He'd also live a quiet simple live, eat right, excercise, and go to Church on Sunday.
If Perl were a person, he'd be C's fat, lazy, but brilliant son. Able to complete most any task with minimal effort, so he could go back to being fat and lazy. He would also borrow largely from the accomplishments of his father, but not work as hard to achieve the same result. Perl would party on the weekend, cosume large amounts of high fat food, drive a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and only attend Church on Christmas eve, just to make dad happy.
When Java and.NET finally die. Guess who will attend the funeral? Yep, C and PERL (Father and son) will still be going strong and C (at least) will still be working hard.
Perl like Python is a swiss army chain-saw. You're right in saying Perl shouldn't be compared to Java. PERL is much more high level and can reduce development time from weeks to days. Perl can be used for large projects as long as you establish a dialect among the coders. Using Java for a large project can turn into a disaster quickly, especially if all the developers start writing all their own classes and doing platform specific things like OS specific system calls. I often use Perl to do mockups for Java projects since I can go from concept to working prototype in mere hours.
Do not underestimate the power of Perl, especially for web development and back-end development work. Perl is my absolute favorite programming language and I write in many including C/C++, VB, Java, PHP, but never.NET...
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People, give Macromedia some credit. Without Flash we wouldn't have some of the movies that defined a generation. Some of the classics are:
All Your Base
Yatta
Eat Your Oatmeal
This Land is Your Land
And all the other bizarre flash that lives HERE Without Flash we'd be living in a world on Animated GIFS or worse yet ASCII art. Sure Flash is proprietary, has a less than optimal IDE, and costs way to much just to make screwy videos, but it sure has brightened up the web. Additionally, Flash has given me more than one much needed side-splitting laugh. Long live FLASH!
Our company pays for broadband or a landline if you live out in the boonies. They also pay for cell phones.
If you company wants support 24x7, then they need to provide you the tools to make that happen. It's in their own best interest since it puts you in a position to respond and engage corrective action. Use the simple equation time=money. If the company isn't willing to invest in tools for remote support then obviously the offhours downtime isn't worth worrying about or costs very little in terms of productivity. Where I work, 5 minutes of downtime = $850, so responding quickly is somewhat important to the bottom line.
Does the company expect people to bring their own office supplies, computers, phones, desks, and office furniture when they come to work?
If you get off hours support calls don't answer the phone (invest in caller-id) or if you accidentally answer the phone, tell them your computer is not working and you are waiting from a callback from Dell technical support and need to hang up and to call back in a few hours.
Like my daddy always says, "Boy you want to play dumb? I can play dumber."
Excerpt from Viperlair It looks like the ATI does do H/W MPEG.
Usually found in high end pro-sumer video cards, the AIW 9600 Pro brings hardware MPEG-2 decoding and MPEG-2 encoding to the consumer level. The Cobra Engine is capable of Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (iDCT), which is really a fancy way of saying it can decode MPEG-2 streams with minimal CPU usage. This can make a difference when viewing DVDs on your PC, as you no longer have to shop for a dedicated DVD decoder, and no longer have to rely on software based decoding.
Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), or MPEG-2 encoding, is done in hardware, which for casual video editing buffs, means less work on your CPU. ATI claims a maximum of 20-25% of the encoding process can be taken off the CPU, which could result in less time needed to encode a movie file, or at least, more CPU processing power to perform other tasks.
Videosoap is a feature found within the Cobra Engine that cleans up the image. It isn't designed for MPEGs you already have, but rather, it uses four filters to clean up the signal coming in from the input video. Other than cleaning up the image, it also serves to reduce the file size since noise isn't something that can easily be compressed, so with less noise, you'll end up with smaller files.
For a Dual Display with Video Capture, get this combo.
For triple display, Dual VGA and TV Set, with FM radio get this combo.
I was hoping to see more discussion on this thread. I have an XPC and am borrowing a PVR-250 and it works really well. Only a 10-20% hit on a 3.0GHz CPU when recording at DVD quality. To stress the system I started 3 FTP downloads (3 MB/s), started burning a CD, streamied a 128k station with Winamp, editing pics with Adobe Photoshop, watched previously recorded show, and recorded TV with the Hauppage card. The system worked fine. I thought for sure that the single IDE disk would bottleneck, but no problems.
IMHO, the ATI AIW 9600XT is out because it doesn't have hardware MPEG compression and it has another fan to make noise. I think the playback with the AIW is easier on the CPU since the overlay happens on the card, however recording must hammer the system CPU . Can anyone tell us what CPU/Disk I/O look like while recording at DVD quality on the ATI?
Yes, but this doesn't prove anything. All we know is that the clocks in the scenario you mentioned are different, but we don't know "the why". We need to know "why".
Physics is great at explaining the affect of an effect, but not why something occurs. We have physics equations for the acceleration of gravity, but physics doesn't explain "the why" of gravity. There are also equations for "time dialation", but again, know one knows "why" time dialates in the first place.
Even with all of brilliant mathematical equations, various scientific disciplines, and Phd's we actually know very little about how God designed the Universe and "why the Universe works the way it does". All we can say for sure is that the relative scale on the universe, from the smallest particle to the distance of the farthest star is beyond our comprehension. Another thing we know for sure is that as of last week, with a $1,000,000 on the line and some really smart people, we as a species are unable to get an unmanned vehicle to follow a course for more than 10 miles (DARPA Desert Challenge). The problem with complex systems, is that the more you "find out" the "less you know for sure" and the more new problems and questions pop up. It's just not fair. We should all be allowed at least one peek behind the magic curtain .
I think that exposure to politics can help develop social skills. Is there any "situation" which you might be able to create that would force him to participate in a political organization?
If you can structure the political involvement so that is a means to a worthy end then that may motivate him. He may view the participation as a game, but it will force analysis and self reflection which of course will cause him to learn how to function with lesser beings (comb hair, brush teeth, wear clean clothes etc...) .
The problem isn't that he is incapable, the problem is that he choses not to focus on social skills. I am not convinced that this behavior is always as simple as a lack of self confidence or poor self image. Sometimes it's simply a "lack of caring problem". I know other have suggested the old standards, "Dale Carnegie", "Martial Arts".... Let us know how it goes and what worked.
Yes, you should fear geeks with guns. At last years Penguicon, ESR (Eric Raymond, keeper of the Halloween doc) hosted a geeks and guns session at the local gun range. The highlight of the session was that I got to shoot ESR's colt 45 commander which also shot by Linus himself.
So my advice is to take threats from geeks with guns seriously. I saw their targets and their shot groups were tight.
Frist rule of plumbing: shit don't run up hill.
:)
As the son of a plumber who does plumbing jobs as a hobby, not as a profession, I can tell you that this is DEFINATELY NOT the first rule of plumbing. The first rule of plumbing does have to do with shit, but also involves cash.
The first rule of plumbing is this: "Your shit's my bread and butter."
I know it sounds gross, but that's the mantra in the plumbing and pipefitting biz. BTW, plumbing isn't going to be outsourced to India anytime soon. To me plumbing is a fallback career if IT jobs completely vanish from the USA. If I ever do become a plumber I am only going to work on Saturday and Sunday and charge emergency weekend rates! WHA HA HA!
Is there some rule that requires slashdot to cover every article they print? I think nearly everyone who reads slashdot also subscribes to Wired. I just don't understand the point of continuing to publish every Wired article... however, I don't understand how the moderators can post duplicate messages so frequently either. Sorry, maybe it's just me.
Every descent OS comes with one - it's called sys admin.
MS doesn't want you to pay for a SysAdmin. MS would much rather have you write the check to them for SysAdmin services.
We are in the middle of a jobless recovery, nearly 50 million don't have health insurance, and people are starting to roll off of unemployemnt benefits. Not to mention, college grads are having a really tough time finding jobs.
Gee....... why don't we go to mars? Maybe someone on Mars has the answer to our economic problems. Are these people in the same reality?
This just goes to show that if you surf around long enough, you can indeed find everyone and everything on the Internet. Additionally, I can't tell you how many database search forms I found that suffer from simple SQL injection problems. Next time you run into a cheesy web form, try putting a '%' in instead of search text. You may get a dump of the whole database. It is amazing to me how bad and insecure some web apps are and, how much personal data is stored in them.
Who is Jon von Neumann? If you don't know and are planning on programming you should find out. Worse, if you already have a CS degree and don't know about "von Neumann" architecture then you missed am important topic.
....
If you want high performance code, you must understand procedural programming and assembly language. You must understand the components of the modern "von Neumann" architecture like RAM, Registeres, L1 cache, L2 cache, ALU etc
While everyone has gone OOP (Object Oriented) crazy, the "von Neumann" architecture is NOT optimized for OOP programming. Because modern CPU's have lots of cache, the latency that exists between the CPU and Memory is reduced. This is called "faking" memory bandwidth, read this article on the von Nuemann bottleneck.
Serious coders should learn ASM, then move to a higher level language like 'C' then see how the 'C' statements compile in ASM and then analyze efficiency.
Modern wisdom says, be wasteful, vendors will make bigger/faster machines and we won't have to care that our code is slow, inefficient, and not optimized for the architecture. Keep in mind, you can save substantially on hardware expenditures by hiring good coders that know how to tune and optimize code but, if you don't want to be bothered, just plan on large capital expenditures every couple of years. Also write everything is JAVA and make sure you create indexes on every column of every table in your database for faster lookups.. ( I am joking, don't really do this. )
Microsoft probably would have implemented 1-Click Virus install, however the one click patent is already owned by Amazon. Maybe they could go double-click for attachments and triple-click for virus installation. That would definately keep grandma from installing it since she can barely eek out two clicks.
Don't blame Andy. Blame all the idiots that ran his program. Andy's program is doesn't exploit a network buffer overflow but requires a user to consciously run the program. Andy's program exploits ignorance and carelessness.
... I know people who received the attachment, couldn't open it, and forwarded to to others to see if they could open it. Absolutely Amazing. I would like to thank Andy for helping us give the user community a wake-up call. I think Andy should include a license agreement in with his next version so that there isn't so much fuss.
I am just glad that Andy's attachement wasn't named "format_my_c_drive.exe"
I say let Microsoft and Yahoo go shake down it's customers for E-Stamp fees. Better yet, let them make the new protocol which they refer to as "caller id" proprietary and, only run on Microsoft products.
:)
This is just the break AOL needs to get back in the game. AOL can offer SPAM blockage without the fees. I am not a fan or proponent of AOL, but my point is that the market is going to quickly sort this out. I wish Microsoft and Yahoo all the best and hope they go full speed ahead with this plan. After all, taking something that's FREE and charging money for it in a down economy is brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! These companies must be full of MBA's from the finest schools. I wonder if I could be successful selling the FREE MSN CD's
While MSFT and Yahoo are inventing "caller id" for email. Maybe they could figure out if the email is "long distance", "intra-lata", or "near-zone". Next, they could invent a whole wacked out billing system just like SBC/Ameritech in which I can call across the country for 3 cents a minute, but calling outside of a 20 mile radius costs 10 cents a minute or more depending on the time of time. And there's another idea. Invent a rate plan based on the time of day the email is sent. What if you use a laptop? Will there be email roaming charges!? The possibilities are limitless. Go get'em boys, put those MBA's to good use, just don't expect a check from me, but do send me a copy of your rate plan so I can laugh!
Do you have a Nikon Coolpix? If so, there is a program that will map out the bad or stuck pixels.
Yes, I saw a lot of this in EverQuest as well. Couples would play online together. However, be warned, there was at least one real world meeting and affair in my guild which broke up two marriages. As you can imagine that led to a lot of drama later on in the game.
:)
In EQ there is a lot of downtime so you have time to chat. Addtionally, other women play EQ which makes it a more female friendly. First person online shooters are probably not real female friendly.
Good luck and keep an eye on your gal or she may find someone more interesting. You always run the risk
So let me get this straight, the low end of the American job market should do to the Mexicans since they are taking "jobs no American's will do", according to the President.
On the high end of the pay scale, Manufacturing and Skilled Labor, we should let all those jobs go to India, China, Singapore and anywhere else labor is cheap.
So that leaves the middle, where companies are currently not hiring and slashing middle management by the thousands.
Now, toss in skyrocketing energy prices. Natural Gas (up 25% from 2003), Gasoline ($1.60/gal). Follow that up with increased health insurance costs which have gone up another 50% or more in 2004 because employers have no incentive to absorb costs in a tight labor market.
What's the result? DEFLATION! Yes, that's right, that means prices will stagnate as the number of people with disposable income become fewer and fewer. If you kill off the USA economy (#1 economy on the planet) who will buy all products and services from out of the country. No Jobs = No Spending Power.
Until workers in other countries can afford to buy SUV's, computers, cars, homes, digital cameras, health care, Disney vacations, and daily food the lifestlye and quality of life of the American worker will continue to erode. We need to ditch Free-Trade before the world economy ends up in a ditch.
1. Are you hot?
2. No, really, are you hot?
3. Do you have any interesting tattoos?
4. Do you dress hot?
UPN had better consult with the makers of TiVO and Replay TV. This of the ripple effect when thousands of techies realize that Star Trek is over and start cancelling their monthly subscriptions. Ebay will be flooded with uber-modded PVR's.
If Enterprise is cancelled I will seriously consider selling my ReplayTV, since the Daily Show with Jon Stewart will easily fit on a videocassette. There really isn't much high quality content to watch on TV anymore. Too bad, another era has ended. However, I still look forward to getting crap content in HD format.
Give me a break. The president's speech was ripped from the history books and was borrowed from JFK's famous "moon speech". GWB's Mars speech was nothing more than spin and diversion to take our attention off the war in Iraq, crappy economy, gay marriage, and war profiteering being done Haliburton, the company where Cheney was the ex-CEO.
If the Mars mission would have failed, there never would have been speech. However, check out the shocking pictures from the rover. Looks like the corporations have already taken over Mars too.
To me it is becoming apparent that the SCO fiasco against IBM and Linux is a diversion, which is covering up something even more insidious. SCO isn't even trying with respect to the court case and is focused mostly on making as much noise and involving as many parties as possible? Anyone have any guesses or insights as to what we might be missing?
Could it be as simple as ego? Is Bill Gates paying Daryl to replace him as the most hated man in high tech or, is this simply a scam to scare people away from using Linux? I just have a sinking feeling that the true enemy is about to sneak up behind us. Maybe I'm just paranoid but maybe, just maybe, I'm not paranoid enough.
Don't worry, IIS gets stopped either by memory leaks, MS Patches, or worms at least once a month. What I found amazing was that so many decided to let MS IIS touch the public Internet. I've learned my lesson, nothing made by MS touches the public Internet and must be protected by a circle of Linux boxes.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
-Thomas Jefferson 1816
Comparing Perl to Java is foolish, Perl is more like Awk than a general purpose programming language
.NET finally die. Guess who will attend the funeral? Yep, C and PERL (Father and son) will still be going strong and C (at least) will still be working hard.
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If 'C' were a person, he'd be hardworking, fast, organized, efficient, smart, and flexible enough to solve nearly any type of problem. He'd also live a quiet simple live, eat right, excercise, and go to Church on Sunday.
If Perl were a person, he'd be C's fat, lazy, but brilliant son. Able to complete most any task with minimal effort, so he could go back to being fat and lazy. He would also borrow largely from the accomplishments of his father, but not work as hard to achieve the same result. Perl would party on the weekend, cosume large amounts of high fat food, drive a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and only attend Church on Christmas eve, just to make dad happy.
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Perl like Python is a swiss army chain-saw. You're right in saying Perl shouldn't be compared to Java. PERL is much more high level and can reduce development time from weeks to days. Perl can be used for large projects as long as you establish a dialect among the coders. Using Java for a large project can turn into a disaster quickly, especially if all the developers start writing all their own classes and doing platform specific things like OS specific system calls. I often use Perl to do mockups for Java projects since I can go from concept to working prototype in mere hours.
Do not underestimate the power of Perl, especially for web development and back-end development work. Perl is my absolute favorite programming language and I write in many including C/C++, VB, Java, PHP, but never