Pay should NEVER NEVER NEVER be a motivating factor in your job decision (beyond making enough to live of course).
That said - I have had a few friends drop out of corprate programming jobs to take jobs for various gaming companies. Lets just say the paycuts were extreme (of course their happiness increase was extreme as well).
If you are after high paying jobs - this isn't the field for you. If you think all you will do is play games all day - don't even think that... If you want to work hard (very hard) and play harder - the job might just be right for you
You are correct - I did not correctly say that there was a 100^1000 chance that the result page that I was presented would be generated randomly. This is such a huge percentage that I gladly bow to your superior knowledge of statistics and probability.
What would be much more interesting would be if intel/AMD started including a random number generator directly on processors which allowed you to get some random numbers via some random process on chip.
Don't know about AMD, but this has been in Intel's chipsets since at least the 815 (I am pretty sure it was in the 810 chipset). They use a noisy diode and read the the value across it. I know it is certified, but I have never seen the operating range of the certification (I assume it is between x & y degrees Celcius - and at some point the diode starts to read more 0's than 1's or the other way around)
Many 3rd party crypto companies have other RNGs built into their hardware - it is rather important for various security purposes.
of course I just asked for 1000 random numbers between 1-100. I got 1000 50's, I wonder how many bits/sec they can generate - and what happens if they have to "reuse" a little bit of that quantum state ???
Ok, let me get this right - you are expected to "trust" a source of randomness to be purely random, and to correctly destroy all of the information between here and there.
Plus I just asked for 1000 (the most allowed) numbers between 1 - 100. I was scared by what I got back.
50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 (repeated quite a bit - cut to pass the poster comment compression filter)
I was amazed. Any sane person will NOT outsource the generation of their source of randomness - it is WAY to critical.
Well you might end up paying sales taxes on top of the purchase price.
Also depending on the value - and your opinion of smuggling of course - you might have to declare the laptop as a foriegn purchase on returning to England. In that case you might have to play duties on the laptop.
I would hate for all of your "profit" to be eaten up in random taxes - so find out what taxes, duties, shipping, etc. you will end up paying. As I recall England has a VAT tax rather than a sales tax - might be where much of the 900 dollar difference lies
I can't even remember when I used a floppy last. Bought the last two of my computers without a floppy.
Floppies are dead at the enthusiast level (hell keychain dongles are cool - but of course I don't have one of those), I think they are dropping out of the home market, and have no idea what is going on in the corprate market in general (I guess I have a couple floppy drives on machines buried somewhere in my office)
Quit accepting work calls on your personal cell phone. When pages/text messages/important calls aren't followed up on until the next day (because you get the calls at home, and will dutifully handle them when you get back to work) they might see that it is a useful thing for you to have - and provide you an employer sponsored cell phone.
Yeah - it is a stupid policy, the other thing is depending on company culture can you just sit down with your (hopefully) sane manager and say what it is used for and ask to get a waiver from the policy (I worked at a company that had really weird rules, that first line managers could ignore if they didn't apply to their workers).
Wrong - you got the division wrong
PCI Bus 127 MBytes = ~1Gbit/sec
T3 = ~45 Mbits/sec
Are you telling me the fastest a PC bus can go is 15 MBits a second ??? I know of Intel class hardware that can keep 100 MByte going over a Gbit NIC. Lets not even go into shipping PCI-X busses and soon to be shipping PCI-Express busses that are significantly higher throughput than this.
Now that we have that problem solved, what you will run across with multiple 100Mbit network cards running into your system is a higher latency than your low end cisco router, and lower reliability potentially (all though in both cases, I suspect software reliability is orders of magnitude lower than hardware reliability). If you can live with the higher latency going through a PC based router - go for it, you might save a few bucks...
Basically as a small vendor (or hell Dell for that matter) choices = more inventory loads = lower profit margins.
I would expect smaller vendors to survive by providing services outside of the "buy the cheapest white box from me". By providing excellent customer service, training, handholding, integration, something - you can provide a high margin service that will keep your business running.
If you think you can compete against Dell on price, you will get yourself in trouble - if you can help the Small Office/Home Office market (that isn't that well served by Dell - especially at the low tech end) by providing networking/setup services and the like - you might be able to carve out a niche.
By the way - as a small vendor, let your customers buy what they want/need. Be snobish and don't sell Windows even when your customers ask for it - expect to go out of business pretty quickly
I am so proud when my 4 1/2 year old daughter sees a comercial for a "cool new toy" on TV and turns to me and says - "Daddy, they are just trying to sell cheap plastic junk, aren't they ?"
Anyone remember the old days when you would mailbomb someone until their mailbox filled up so the mail server would bounce the message back
So then you forged a message so that it looked like it came from a second victim - and when their mailbox filled up it would bounce them back to the first victim
A fun way to take down T-1 lines back in the day when that was considered more bandwidth than any large university could ever use... Not that I have ever done anything like this
An interesting statistic for people in their mid-30s now...
More people in this age bracket believe in UFOs than believe that they will ever see a penny of social security money.
When will the government get us out of this Ponzi Scheme - But wait, it must be true, I get a statement every year from the government telling me what is in my "account"
What I expect Microsoft to do is wait until later this summer when many of the contracts start expiring. When many companies don't bother to renew because "They didn't get anything LAST time" - they wait, then release the upgraded version.
This of course causes all of the people who fell off of maintenance to have to buy the new version at full retail price, rather than as an upgrade.
Finally, you should consider that finances are a vital part of running a business; the accounting and tax work you will do will be useful experience for later on when you start the next great software company or whatever you end up in.
So you want to do your own taxes/accounting. Accounting I might believe, but taxes - no way. First off - read the rules... Oh wait - I don't have time to read feet of small print annually to determine if I am allowed to deduct expenses, or if they are capital expenses so have to be amortized over a "useful lifetime"
By the way - what is your structure going to be, LLC, incorperated, partnership, sole proprieter ?
Each with their own quirky tax problems, filing requirements, and expeses.
Frankly - the idea of not creating a paper trail and not paying the taxes (of which for the ammount of money you are talking here - you shouldn't be paying taxes on anyway) sounds good.
So the police dept. unwisely used a free service. At this point - make contracts that guarantee that the site is up and useful.
Where it is nice to get things started on a shoestring, at some point SOMEONE should have thought "Hmmmm... We are spending real dollars here to advertise this site - we should spend the dollars now to make sure that we can have access to this site at all times"
Not sure how to read this - how was this data gathered ? 41% of people have HT technologies (is HT even available on AMD) and only about 25% of people had a processor fast enough to have HT enabled.
Is this a user feedback form - or does it gather the data directly from the system ?
If you have the time - go to your county courthouse - get the paperwork filled out to get a small claim. Put the maximum allowed in small claims court for damages, get it delivered to godaddy's local lawyer in your state (they are doing business there aren't they ) and wait for THEM to contact you.
If they don't take the claim against them and get it collected. You should not be out money for something that they did
And this is exactly what monopoly microsoft was accused of abusing the market for Windows PCs. The DOJ didn't even bother to say the PC market, or heaven forbid the computer market - where microsoft isn't even a dominant player (look at the OSes running routers, microwaves, and cars - lots more of those than PCs isn't there)
So yes, if Ford defined a market that was Ford vehicles - the DOJ could rightfully go after them for dominating that market. Most companies are smarter than that (I dare you to get an Intel employee to say Market Share - you will always hear Market Segment Share) and so don't have a problem because they define their markets broadly enough. Microsoft defined their market as PCs running Windows and became a monopoly in that market
Apple since they have less then 3% of the desktop market
I hate to be cynical - but apple has 100% of the Macintosh desktop market - a true monopoly. (since you didn't define a market segment - let me do it for you).
This is a horible idea - for those of us that bounce through different MTAs during our life based on where we are (work/home/travelling/etc.) to send mail out, but still wanting all of our mail to come to our trusty inbox.
I guess I will have to put up my OWN MTA (against the TOS for my ISP now) - SSH into it and deliver mail from that. What a pain to get around spam filters. This might make it slightly harder for the spammers - but it will make it infinitely harder for people like me that just want e-mail to work. Oh for the days when it was considered rude to close off access to your MTA. (Damned spammers ruined everything)
Had fun last weekend trying to e-mail my room mates work account. I wanted him to see an URL that he would be intereted in
Subject: Check this out
Response - This subject is commonly used in Virus e-mail, bounced back to me.
Three attempts later and I finally found a subject that I could use to send him e-mail. What a pain.
Of course my opinion is why not use as large of a -j as you can, and distribute the problem. Take a server farm and turn your compile into ccache and distcc (look up the projects on samba.org CCachedistcc)
The first one performs semi-miracles on repetative build times where you aren't doing "incremental" builds. The second lets you distribute your compile to multiple build servers on the network (beware - there be deamons here)
Build times went from hours to minutes - it was great
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That said - I have had a few friends drop out of corprate programming jobs to take jobs for various gaming companies. Lets just say the paycuts were extreme (of course their happiness increase was extreme as well).
If you are after high paying jobs - this isn't the field for you. If you think all you will do is play games all day - don't even think that... If you want to work hard (very hard) and play harder - the job might just be right for you
You are correct - I did not correctly say that there was a 100^1000 chance that the result page that I was presented would be generated randomly. This is such a huge percentage that I gladly bow to your superior knowledge of statistics and probability.
Swings the cluebat for the fences
Don't know about AMD, but this has been in Intel's chipsets since at least the 815 (I am pretty sure it was in the 810 chipset). They use a noisy diode and read the the value across it. I know it is certified, but I have never seen the operating range of the certification (I assume it is between x & y degrees Celcius - and at some point the diode starts to read more 0's than 1's or the other way around)
Many 3rd party crypto companies have other RNGs built into their hardware - it is rather important for various security purposes.
Inquiring minds want to know
Plus I just asked for 1000 (the most allowed) numbers between 1 - 100. I was scared by what I got back.
I was amazed. Any sane person will NOT outsource the generation of their source of randomness - it is WAY to critical.
Also depending on the value - and your opinion of smuggling of course - you might have to declare the laptop as a foriegn purchase on returning to England. In that case you might have to play duties on the laptop.
I would hate for all of your "profit" to be eaten up in random taxes - so find out what taxes, duties, shipping, etc. you will end up paying. As I recall England has a VAT tax rather than a sales tax - might be where much of the 900 dollar difference lies
Floppies are dead at the enthusiast level (hell keychain dongles are cool - but of course I don't have one of those), I think they are dropping out of the home market, and have no idea what is going on in the corprate market in general (I guess I have a couple floppy drives on machines buried somewhere in my office)
Yeah - it is a stupid policy, the other thing is depending on company culture can you just sit down with your (hopefully) sane manager and say what it is used for and ask to get a waiver from the policy (I worked at a company that had really weird rules, that first line managers could ignore if they didn't apply to their workers).
T3 = ~50mbps
Wrong - you got the division wrong
PCI Bus 127 MBytes = ~1Gbit/sec
T3 = ~45 Mbits/sec
Are you telling me the fastest a PC bus can go is 15 MBits a second ??? I know of Intel class hardware that can keep 100 MByte going over a Gbit NIC. Lets not even go into shipping PCI-X busses and soon to be shipping PCI-Express busses that are significantly higher throughput than this.
Now that we have that problem solved, what you will run across with multiple 100Mbit network cards running into your system is a higher latency than your low end cisco router, and lower reliability potentially (all though in both cases, I suspect software reliability is orders of magnitude lower than hardware reliability). If you can live with the higher latency going through a PC based router - go for it, you might save a few bucks...
I would expect smaller vendors to survive by providing services outside of the "buy the cheapest white box from me". By providing excellent customer service, training, handholding, integration, something - you can provide a high margin service that will keep your business running.
If you think you can compete against Dell on price, you will get yourself in trouble - if you can help the Small Office/Home Office market (that isn't that well served by Dell - especially at the low tech end) by providing networking/setup services and the like - you might be able to carve out a niche.
By the way - as a small vendor, let your customers buy what they want/need. Be snobish and don't sell Windows even when your customers ask for it - expect to go out of business pretty quickly
Makes me proud to be a Dad
Ok... the cynic in me can now rest
So then you forged a message so that it looked like it came from a second victim - and when their mailbox filled up it would bounce them back to the first victim
A fun way to take down T-1 lines back in the day when that was considered more bandwidth than any large university could ever use... Not that I have ever done anything like this
More people in this age bracket believe in UFOs than believe that they will ever see a penny of social security money.
When will the government get us out of this Ponzi Scheme - But wait, it must be true, I get a statement every year from the government telling me what is in my "account"
This of course causes all of the people who fell off of maintenance to have to buy the new version at full retail price, rather than as an upgrade.
More money for microsofts pocket.
So you want to do your own taxes/accounting. Accounting I might believe, but taxes - no way. First off - read the rules... Oh wait - I don't have time to read feet of small print annually to determine if I am allowed to deduct expenses, or if they are capital expenses so have to be amortized over a "useful lifetime"
By the way - what is your structure going to be, LLC, incorperated, partnership, sole proprieter ? Each with their own quirky tax problems, filing requirements, and expeses.
Frankly - the idea of not creating a paper trail and not paying the taxes (of which for the ammount of money you are talking here - you shouldn't be paying taxes on anyway) sounds good.
So the police dept. unwisely used a free service. At this point - make contracts that guarantee that the site is up and useful.
Where it is nice to get things started on a shoestring, at some point SOMEONE should have thought "Hmmmm... We are spending real dollars here to advertise this site - we should spend the dollars now to make sure that we can have access to this site at all times"
Is this a user feedback form - or does it gather the data directly from the system ?
If they don't take the claim against them and get it collected. You should not be out money for something that they did
So yes, if Ford defined a market that was Ford vehicles - the DOJ could rightfully go after them for dominating that market. Most companies are smarter than that (I dare you to get an Intel employee to say Market Share - you will always hear Market Segment Share) and so don't have a problem because they define their markets broadly enough. Microsoft defined their market as PCs running Windows and became a monopoly in that market
I hate to be cynical - but apple has 100% of the Macintosh desktop market - a true monopoly. (since you didn't define a market segment - let me do it for you).
I guess I will have to put up my OWN MTA (against the TOS for my ISP now) - SSH into it and deliver mail from that. What a pain to get around spam filters. This might make it slightly harder for the spammers - but it will make it infinitely harder for people like me that just want e-mail to work. Oh for the days when it was considered rude to close off access to your MTA. (Damned spammers ruined everything)
Had fun last weekend trying to e-mail my room mates work account. I wanted him to see an URL that he would be intereted in
Subject: Check this out
Response - This subject is commonly used in Virus e-mail, bounced back to me.
Three attempts later and I finally found a subject that I could use to send him e-mail. What a pain.
I'm really waiting to see what these vendors will do when true Multicore CPUs are popular with the unwashed masses.
Especially when there are 4-16 cores per CPU
The first one performs semi-miracles on repetative build times where you aren't doing "incremental" builds. The second lets you distribute your compile to multiple build servers on the network (beware - there be deamons here)
Build times went from hours to minutes - it was great