Does the University recognize the acediting body of the jr. college. If so - then the courses transfer. The problem is that most jr. colleges are acedited by a state body, and therefor don't cross state lines because California is likely not to recognize the legitimacy of a Texas body saying what has to be in a Political Science class
The first L10N effort involves having to do all the I18N work (ie. moving string resources out of things so that you can just have a translator work on it).
If the code has never been I18N'd - it is a huge horrible task. If it has, just bring an English/Japaneese translation book and do the translation (he he he - if only it really was that easy though)
Now I just go to Dell.com and pick out what I want. Easier, cheaper (you build me a system for the 229 I got my server for yesterday - I dare you), and frankly more stable than most of the crap I see out there with random motherboards bought as returns from Fry's (all at 5 dollars off)
If your game is doing any significant I/O (think network, keyboard, mouse, etc. here) then all of the Interupt processing can be handed off to the second processor - leaving a processor to handle just "User" processes.
In reality games tend not to be I/O bound (except for graphics that tend not to be interupt driven anyway) - but many other workloads (think heavy HEAVY network) are rather I/O bound and they are bound in the Interupt processing. Freeing a CPU up to handle just Interupt processing will help the other CPU do the important User level work
I believe Apple has 100% market share of the Mac OS. That is a monopoly on that important market. Would you care to explain how they aren't a monopoly in the Mac OS market ?
Your ignorance of the monopoly laws is showing as well, I (or the government) can define a market, and show that Apple has a monopoly in it...don't you understand ?
Apple has always been the biggest monopoist in the computer world. Don't like Microsoft for its strong arm tactics - how about apple shutting down several businesses that were setup to sell clone apple boxes with the OS purchased (by agreement) from Apple. Steve Jobs decides he doesn't like the deal (because you could get a much cheaper MUCH faster clone from one of several places) and pulls the plug.
The only thing that stopped apple from being a monopolist is they didn't give the value to their custommers that Microsoft did - had they done that, we would be bitching about the monopolists from Cupertino and those brave renegade tools developers up in Redmond
If we ever work at the same place, I'll trade ya.:-)
Not a problem. I did it where I am now - engineers at my grade are "supposed" to have a window office - when mine became available, I told my manager to give it to a junior co-worker that wanted the window... Win Win for both of us
The large system there has 4 GB RAM (4 1Gig memory sticks - substitute 8 2 GB RAM sicks gets you 16 GB memory). True, these don't have PCIe - Sun won't be getting PCIe until later this year, but the IO on this system isn't to be beatten.
If you want even more memory, try the 40z and 16 2GB RAM sticks for even more memory.
Don't expect Intel systems with Dual memory controllers to get you there - you need real systems.
I have an office - a door, good music - and no window.
I learned a long time ago that for my work windows just don't work for me... Either the monitor faces the window and gets a ton of glare, or the monitor faces away from the window and you get bright lights (the sun) in your eyes while trying to type. Either way - I prefer an interior office, no lights, and take a walk in the big blue room in the afternoon.
My personal printer that I bought for 100 bucks sucks...
However there is this one that someone bought years ago for thousands of dollars (several hundred in todays market) and it works great.
What is wrong with the printer market
I'll tell you what is wrong - consumer printers are crap - it is cheaper to replace the printer than the toner when it runs out (not quite, but almost) - these things are engineered to be CHEAP.
If you want a printer that will last - fork out the 1500 bucks (give or take a bit - or play the eBay discount and hope you get lucky) for a high end printer - you buy it and keep it for 10 years rather than pay 150 bucks a year for a disposable printer
Looking at some of the pre-auction estimates,
no one person, and very few institutions, will have the scratch that it would take to keep the collection together
What do you mean - I know people that this would be chump change for (ever go on a drinking spree with someone with more money than sense and get a sip of whiskey out of a multi-thousand dollar bottle ?)
Bill G easily has this kind of money - heck the brothers google do as well.
I could see Andy B from Sun, Steve Jobs from Apple, and maybe the Woz kicking out this kind of money if it were important enough to them.
Now I agree, I would like to see a collection like this kept together - however the owners of the property in question, value its worth much more than the collection as a whole... and frankly selling it off piecemeal like this will probably raise the price (a LOT of people would pay 2000-3000 for their favorite historical book - not many people could pay 1/2M for the whole thing). Frankly they own it and have the right to do what ever they want with it.
Just because you don't have the money doesn't mean quite a few people don't. I would expect historically interesting documents to fetch a decent price. Someone will want them, hopefully for a museum (A tech museum somewhere) - I could see Bill J, Scott M, Bill G, Steve J. putting bids on documents that particularly inspired them.
3 or 4 generations ahead ??? I don't think so. Was in the army late 80's - Did communications, what did I do - basically a digital mobile phone network.
What was the computer that drove this in 1989? Well to start with it had 64K of Iron Core memory and a 8 MB tape drive. My 486 of the day kicked its ass for processing power, memory (20 MB), and had a 120 MB hard drive.
What were the links ?
Basically wireless T-1 links, quite a bit behind the T-3 lines that were common at the time.
Would I call this generations ahead ?
I don't think so - Cell networks weren't mobile - but mounting all the equipment on the back of a Humvee isn't all that radical
Cell networks weren't digital at the time either - but it wasn't long until they were
And frankly the phones were huge compared to the brick phones you could buy in Radio Shack at the time.
Advanced - sure, cutting edge - I'll buy, 3 generations ahead - not a chance in hell
Ok - why is it only the ladies that don't want their picture taken in the locker room. Frankly - I don't want my picture taken in the mens locker room either.
Actually, Gentoo borrowed the ports system from BSD. We've already had ports since FreeBSD 2.0 (perhaps even earlier). Gentoo didn't even exist back then:)
I know - I was giving a Linux reference for the unwashed masses that don't realize that BSD has been around for a little more than a decade more than Linux. I have never successfully been able to upgrade a significant subsystem with RPM (as in update X) without reinstalling the next RH distro... With ports - VERY easy... all though I must admit I have only done a make world ONCE.
Ports is the coolest part of BSD, and if you aren't going to take advantage of it - you might as well run RedHat and use RPM. I will only use a Linux box where I can install it and leave it - continuously updating - forget about it.
However FreeBSD has a much better maintained ports tree.
Oh yeah - if you are going to go into BSD, learn the ports update mechanisms. This is the way FOSS should be handled - I love ports - my understanding is it is much like Gentoo (Never used it, but I like the idea of compiling the whole distribution from scratch - takes a while, but many things are much easier that way)
Guess you had better tell the British that... Of course I guess that is just a holiday. Or for that matter, many religions consider Sunday to be a holy day - so it was on Sunday.
Well, it is quite easy to give "20%" time to outside projects.
Start with a 40 hour week.
Subtract out meeting overhead, junk/whatever (5 hours)
Subtract out misc. process overhead (5 hours)
leave you with 30 hours.
Now subtract out 20% (6 hours)
Schedule developers for 24 hours of work a week
As for progress reviews/etc.
The simple rule is leave it to the developer to tell you when there is progress to review. Plan on adding incentive awards for people that do good "idependant" work.
The idea is there is a huge number of people that will read slashdot for an approved 6 hours a week, but a few will get very interesting results - and those FEW projects will make it worth the companies time overall (oh and by the way - the few people will get good raises, the others won't)
If you try to force regular reviews/progress reports, you are mearly adding overhead that will slow projects down, and might make longer term projects impossible (if I feel I have to show progress once every review period, I'll only do things that I can fit into a review period)
It all boils down to this - do you trust your people ?
If you do it is simple
If you don't - why do you employ them ?
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Does the University recognize the acediting body of the jr. college. If so - then the courses transfer. The problem is that most jr. colleges are acedited by a state body, and therefor don't cross state lines because California is likely not to recognize the legitimacy of a Texas body saying what has to be in a Political Science class
The first L10N effort involves having to do all the I18N work (ie. moving string resources out of things so that you can just have a translator work on it).
If the code has never been I18N'd - it is a huge horrible task. If it has, just bring an English/Japaneese translation book and do the translation (he he he - if only it really was that easy though)
Now I just go to Dell.com and pick out what I want. Easier, cheaper (you build me a system for the 229 I got my server for yesterday - I dare you), and frankly more stable than most of the crap I see out there with random motherboards bought as returns from Fry's (all at 5 dollars off)
Adult supervision
That used to be a lot funnier before the National Guard proved it at Abu Grabe
In reality games tend not to be I/O bound (except for graphics that tend not to be interupt driven anyway) - but many other workloads (think heavy HEAVY network) are rather I/O bound and they are bound in the Interupt processing. Freeing a CPU up to handle just Interupt processing will help the other CPU do the important User level work
You will be working there soon enough anyway - might as well speak the language
I believe Apple has 100% market share of the Mac OS. That is a monopoly on that important market. Would you care to explain how they aren't a monopoly in the Mac OS market ?
Your ignorance of the monopoly laws is showing as well, I (or the government) can define a market, and show that Apple has a monopoly in it...don't you understand ?
The only thing that stopped apple from being a monopolist is they didn't give the value to their custommers that Microsoft did - had they done that, we would be bitching about the monopolists from Cupertino and those brave renegade tools developers up in Redmond
The large system there has 4 GB RAM (4 1Gig memory sticks - substitute 8 2 GB RAM sicks gets you 16 GB memory). True, these don't have PCIe - Sun won't be getting PCIe until later this year, but the IO on this system isn't to be beatten.
If you want even more memory, try the 40z and 16 2GB RAM sticks for even more memory.
Don't expect Intel systems with Dual memory controllers to get you there - you need real systems.
Never had problems with my solaris installations... Linux on the other hand, I can't RPM upgrade a major component without doing a forklift upgrade.
Oh, and give me application stability while you are at it (as in I'd like my apps to run without recompiling for at least a couple of years)
No - but I used to be able to install a rootkit by simply sending mail to the server... Pretty much the same thing.
I learned a long time ago that for my work windows just don't work for me... Either the monitor faces the window and gets a ton of glare, or the monitor faces away from the window and you get bright lights (the sun) in your eyes while trying to type. Either way - I prefer an interior office, no lights, and take a walk in the big blue room in the afternoon.
However there is this one that someone bought years ago for thousands of dollars (several hundred in todays market) and it works great.
What is wrong with the printer market
I'll tell you what is wrong - consumer printers are crap - it is cheaper to replace the printer than the toner when it runs out (not quite, but almost) - these things are engineered to be CHEAP.
If you want a printer that will last - fork out the 1500 bucks (give or take a bit - or play the eBay discount and hope you get lucky) for a high end printer - you buy it and keep it for 10 years rather than pay 150 bucks a year for a disposable printer
What do you mean - I know people that this would be chump change for (ever go on a drinking spree with someone with more money than sense and get a sip of whiskey out of a multi-thousand dollar bottle ?)
Bill G easily has this kind of money - heck the brothers google do as well.
I could see Andy B from Sun, Steve Jobs from Apple, and maybe the Woz kicking out this kind of money if it were important enough to them.
Now I agree, I would like to see a collection like this kept together - however the owners of the property in question, value its worth much more than the collection as a whole... and frankly selling it off piecemeal like this will probably raise the price (a LOT of people would pay 2000-3000 for their favorite historical book - not many people could pay 1/2M for the whole thing). Frankly they own it and have the right to do what ever they want with it.
I know, it is getting harder and harder for Microsoft to find ideas.
Just because you don't have the money doesn't mean quite a few people don't. I would expect historically interesting documents to fetch a decent price. Someone will want them, hopefully for a museum (A tech museum somewhere) - I could see Bill J, Scott M, Bill G, Steve J. putting bids on documents that particularly inspired them.
What was the computer that drove this in 1989? Well to start with it had 64K of Iron Core memory and a 8 MB tape drive. My 486 of the day kicked its ass for processing power, memory (20 MB), and had a 120 MB hard drive.
What were the links ?
Basically wireless T-1 links, quite a bit behind the T-3 lines that were common at the time.
Would I call this generations ahead ?
I don't think so - Cell networks weren't mobile - but mounting all the equipment on the back of a Humvee isn't all that radical
Cell networks weren't digital at the time either - but it wasn't long until they were
And frankly the phones were huge compared to the brick phones you could buy in Radio Shack at the time.
Advanced - sure, cutting edge - I'll buy, 3 generations ahead - not a chance in hell
This is a Linux distribution How ???
I know - I was giving a Linux reference for the unwashed masses that don't realize that BSD has been around for a little more than a decade more than Linux. I have never successfully been able to upgrade a significant subsystem with RPM (as in update X) without reinstalling the next RH distro... With ports - VERY easy... all though I must admit I have only done a make world ONCE.
Ports is the coolest part of BSD, and if you aren't going to take advantage of it - you might as well run RedHat and use RPM. I will only use a Linux box where I can install it and leave it - continuously updating - forget about it.
Oh yeah - if you are going to go into BSD, learn the ports update mechanisms. This is the way FOSS should be handled - I love ports - my understanding is it is much like Gentoo (Never used it, but I like the idea of compiling the whole distribution from scratch - takes a while, but many things are much easier that way)
Guess you had better tell the British that... Of course I guess that is just a holiday. Or for that matter, many religions consider Sunday to be a holy day - so it was on Sunday.
Start with a 40 hour week.
Subtract out meeting overhead, junk/whatever (5 hours)
Subtract out misc. process overhead (5 hours)
leave you with 30 hours.
Now subtract out 20% (6 hours)
Schedule developers for 24 hours of work a week
As for progress reviews/etc.
The simple rule is leave it to the developer to tell you when there is progress to review. Plan on adding incentive awards for people that do good "idependant" work.
The idea is there is a huge number of people that will read slashdot for an approved 6 hours a week, but a few will get very interesting results - and those FEW projects will make it worth the companies time overall (oh and by the way - the few people will get good raises, the others won't)
If you try to force regular reviews/progress reports, you are mearly adding overhead that will slow projects down, and might make longer term projects impossible (if I feel I have to show progress once every review period, I'll only do things that I can fit into a review period)
It all boils down to this - do you trust your people ?
If you do it is simple
If you don't - why do you employ them ?