Everyone send me $10, I'm going to acquire the rights to the Babbage Engine, and sue the crap out of the makers of mechanical cash registers, adding machines, and odometers. And we'll subpeona Hollerinth too, his cards tabulators are clearly derived work. We'll license the technology for $699 until the end of the month, when it doubles.
25 years ago "they" were saying we'd be at the "no more moores law" point RIGHT NOW. Here I read 2018, do a google & only use references from scientific or semiconductor engineering sites, and you'll see estimates like 2025 too. If we really push silicon, we'll just end up making quantum and/or optical devices with it (we are getting to understand doped silicon very very well compared to other semiconductor materials)
So you're right, anyone who says we're near exhausting our ability to make circuits smaller before any of us reach retirement age is full of it.
I would make a tiny modification to your list - everyone everywhere is exposed to "nuclear radiation" from natural sources, including our own bodies (C14 and other neat isotopes). Harmless below a certain level? Or would people living in an entirely radiation-free environment in fact have less health problems or longer life? We'll never no, for a radiation free place doesn't exist.
Since you had to bring up Star Trek classification, what about silicon based, hydroflouric acid oozing creatures like the Horta? Maybe they wouldn't mind the UV so much, tunneling through the bedrock
DON'T MINE THE HORTA EGGS - THE HORTA'S GOT A MEAN STREAK A MILE WIDE
many are prostitutes
Had to laugh at that part, it's all a form of prostitution -your superstar bombshell U.S. porn actress is just a whore. sex for money, just on film. Streetwalkers get picked up & thrown in jail, but then if you *film* it, why that's adult entertainment. hahahaha
The programming of such systems is by & large *very* archaic, usually mountains of tangled 3rd generation procedural noodles in a bowl, and if the machine in question is say 15 or more years old, the J2EE isn't going to run too nicely at say 10-20 mainframe MIPS or less, ditto for TCP/IP services or heaven help us a scripting language like Perl or Python. For that matter, a heavy query in a SQL DBMS can bring those old monsters to their knees (usually a query put in by a PHB).
Sure, new & cutting edge things are done in other systems and get contributed/ported/tried out in Linux and the *BSD. I have access to all kinds of new & cutting edge things with no barrier to the playing field other than box(es) built in the last 15 years and maybe for some things some network gear.
You haven't participated in ANY open source projects, have you? There's all manner of management styles, from comittees that move at the speed of molasses in January, to "authoritarian", to ones managed by companie. You have a problem with any kind of authority, for I can tell you things are much harsher in the business world, it's 100 times as "authoritarian" as any open source project. I know, for unlike you, I've done both. Now sprout some gonads appropriate for your gender, get a slashdot username, and try joining a discussion instead of saying that if anyone replies to you they prove your point.
other vendors around the world make mainframes too, though IBM has 85% of the market, with Unisys being the other U.S. based maker. Some japanese and european companies make them too. Other mainframe OS out there too besides the four main IBM ones of VM, MVS, TPF, & VSE - there's Unisys OS 2200 & MCP, for example.
These "boring" systems still contain most of the world's money & track a nice large chunk of its data (Unix and Windows and Linux continuing to erode that percentage, sure).
But even though we slashdot geeks prefer the cutting edge stuff, good to keep the moldy old stuff in mind because we might have to interface or migrate that stuff as time goes by.
well, there might be a couple other HUGE operating system camps out there - the ones that hold & move most of the worlds money, for instance. Ain't Unix, and it will never be anything Microsoft makes.
$160K per year!!!????? And I've been wasting my life in the Unix/Linux/World for 13 years? Dang, go Microsoft!!!! I'll be Bill Gates ass-rachet!!!
Seriously, I've found salaries like that to be very much the exception to the rule - most DBA's I know make less than half of that.
If you ever work with enterprise grade systems & data centers, you will find that packages are uaually REQUIRED. Required by contract, required by policy, required by QA...... If a million dollar database blows up, and there is any question that it *might* have been because you farqued up the configuration options being a "he-man" and compiling from source, guess what is going to happen to you & your company. Even if an rpm is corrupt, if you followed procedure & contract and can document that the rpm was at fault, that's a whole different ball game. Your point of view is fine for personal PC or small company running their own stuff, but wouldn't fly in an insurance company or bank or city datacenter.
2 years or more ago, yes....but things are quite sucky here with employment offers at many companies in the N. Illinois area at present. no buying out former training/education contracts, no relocation assistance, and my favorite, contributing $100-200 a month to healthcare plan of your choice, that's your "benefits".
I was told about that in psychology class, but such studies were not done with blind people - I wonder if a blind person might develop better short term memory for spoken words? does anyone know?
yes, they should be called "technicians" and "operators".....I've held the title of "software engineer" and "systems engineer" before, but that's baloney. I've also held real engineering jobs & have degree in "engineering physics", and that's a whole different world altogether.
hahah, I certainly have worked in production data centers & mostly used packages for those reasons. HOWEVER, if a SAN vendor tells you that YOU MUST COMPILE YOUR HBA DRIVER USING THESE STEPS TO MAINTAIN WARRANTY/SUPPORT, then that is what you will do. You will not make an rpm, or I will fire you.
Since the only *real* purpose of a cert is to give companies "good vibes" about you or get your foot in the door, who cares what the real training is? A person has good troubleshooting & admin skills, or they don't. Other than that, if your cert is printed on absorbent paper you could wipe your ass with it. I've worked with too many people who had more certs than Seymour Cray who were dumber & more useless than a bag of rocks. Anyway, if Novell/SuSE takes off, having this cert could open door for you, and it's then served its only purpose.
or for only $1250 you can sign up for *my* course where we even show you how to build your own software from source code with the magic of "configure, make, make install"
And the latest fad, having to work for a company for at least 18 months after they pay for your certification training, or you owe it back to them. And this place I'm talking to wants to have me take 4 or 5 certification courses at thousands each. Any of you remember the old movie called I think "angel city" about a southern "labor camp city", where everyone was made to be so indebted to the company for supplies, food & shelter that they could never work off the debt and couldn't leave??.....
Your sentences are far too well thought out & constructed. If you are to spew a steady stream of SCOX solicitor duckspeak, incoherence, bullcrap & FUD, I would suggest intoxication or a partial lobotomy.
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Everyone send me $10, I'm going to acquire the rights to the Babbage Engine, and sue the crap out of the makers of mechanical cash registers, adding machines, and odometers. And we'll subpeona Hollerinth too, his cards tabulators are clearly derived work. We'll license the technology for $699 until the end of the month, when it doubles.
heh, I would bet on $$$$ DRIVING the bending of moore's law, and smaller and smaller circuits throughout the 21st century
25 years ago "they" were saying we'd be at the "no more moores law" point RIGHT NOW. Here I read 2018, do a google & only use references from scientific or semiconductor engineering sites, and you'll see estimates like 2025 too. If we really push silicon, we'll just end up making quantum and/or optical devices with it (we are getting to understand doped silicon very very well compared to other semiconductor materials) So you're right, anyone who says we're near exhausting our ability to make circuits smaller before any of us reach retirement age is full of it.
I would make a tiny modification to your list - everyone everywhere is exposed to "nuclear radiation" from natural sources, including our own bodies (C14 and other neat isotopes). Harmless below a certain level? Or would people living in an entirely radiation-free environment in fact have less health problems or longer life? We'll never no, for a radiation free place doesn't exist.
Since you had to bring up Star Trek classification, what about silicon based, hydroflouric acid oozing creatures like the Horta? Maybe they wouldn't mind the UV so much, tunneling through the bedrock
DON'T MINE THE HORTA EGGS - THE HORTA'S GOT A MEAN STREAK A MILE WIDE
many are prostitutes
Had to laugh at that part, it's all a form of prostitution -your superstar bombshell U.S. porn actress is just a whore. sex for money, just on film. Streetwalkers get picked up & thrown in jail, but then if you *film* it, why that's adult entertainment. hahahaha
The programming of such systems is by & large *very* archaic, usually mountains of tangled 3rd generation procedural noodles in a bowl, and if the machine in question is say 15 or more years old, the J2EE isn't going to run too nicely at say 10-20 mainframe MIPS or less, ditto for TCP/IP services or heaven help us a scripting language like Perl or Python. For that matter, a heavy query in a SQL DBMS can bring those old monsters to their knees (usually a query put in by a PHB). Sure, new & cutting edge things are done in other systems and get contributed/ported/tried out in Linux and the *BSD. I have access to all kinds of new & cutting edge things with no barrier to the playing field other than box(es) built in the last 15 years and maybe for some things some network gear.
oh yes, and in 30 years, let's do the Boys from Brazil thing and make all manner of GNU & BSD-like clones to once again terrorize the world!
You haven't participated in ANY open source projects, have you? There's all manner of management styles, from comittees that move at the speed of molasses in January, to "authoritarian", to ones managed by companie. You have a problem with any kind of authority, for I can tell you things are much harsher in the business world, it's 100 times as "authoritarian" as any open source project. I know, for unlike you, I've done both. Now sprout some gonads appropriate for your gender, get a slashdot username, and try joining a discussion instead of saying that if anyone replies to you they prove your point.
other vendors around the world make mainframes too, though IBM has 85% of the market, with Unisys being the other U.S. based maker. Some japanese and european companies make them too. Other mainframe OS out there too besides the four main IBM ones of VM, MVS, TPF, & VSE - there's Unisys OS 2200 & MCP, for example.
These "boring" systems still contain most of the world's money & track a nice large chunk of its data (Unix and Windows and Linux continuing to erode that percentage, sure).
But even though we slashdot geeks prefer the cutting edge stuff, good to keep the moldy old stuff in mind because we might have to interface or migrate that stuff as time goes by.
I don't see anything in there about workplace communication, or privacy in the workplace....it seems the courts largely don't either
well, there might be a couple other HUGE operating system camps out there - the ones that hold & move most of the worlds money, for instance. Ain't Unix, and it will never be anything Microsoft makes.
$160K per year!!!????? And I've been wasting my life in the Unix/Linux/World for 13 years? Dang, go Microsoft!!!! I'll be Bill Gates ass-rachet!!! Seriously, I've found salaries like that to be very much the exception to the rule - most DBA's I know make less than half of that.
If you ever work with enterprise grade systems & data centers, you will find that packages are uaually REQUIRED. Required by contract, required by policy, required by QA...... If a million dollar database blows up, and there is any question that it *might* have been because you farqued up the configuration options being a "he-man" and compiling from source, guess what is going to happen to you & your company. Even if an rpm is corrupt, if you followed procedure & contract and can document that the rpm was at fault, that's a whole different ball game. Your point of view is fine for personal PC or small company running their own stuff, but wouldn't fly in an insurance company or bank or city datacenter.
well, we've recently even had dupe from a previous decade, being passed off as current event
2 years or more ago, yes....but things are quite sucky here with employment offers at many companies in the N. Illinois area at present. no buying out former training/education contracts, no relocation assistance, and my favorite, contributing $100-200 a month to healthcare plan of your choice, that's your "benefits".
I was told about that in psychology class, but such studies were not done with blind people - I wonder if a blind person might develop better short term memory for spoken words? does anyone know?
yes, they should be called "technicians" and "operators".....I've held the title of "software engineer" and "systems engineer" before, but that's baloney. I've also held real engineering jobs & have degree in "engineering physics", and that's a whole different world altogether.
1. someone who can design and build (or have someone else build) a device or system from scientific principles
2. someone who drives a choo-choo
man, are you are going to be unhappy in 2 months when this is duped
hahah, I certainly have worked in production data centers & mostly used packages for those reasons. HOWEVER, if a SAN vendor tells you that YOU MUST COMPILE YOUR HBA DRIVER USING THESE STEPS TO MAINTAIN WARRANTY/SUPPORT, then that is what you will do. You will not make an rpm, or I will fire you.
Since the only *real* purpose of a cert is to give companies "good vibes" about you or get your foot in the door, who cares what the real training is? A person has good troubleshooting & admin skills, or they don't. Other than that, if your cert is printed on absorbent paper you could wipe your ass with it. I've worked with too many people who had more certs than Seymour Cray who were dumber & more useless than a bag of rocks. Anyway, if Novell/SuSE takes off, having this cert could open door for you, and it's then served its only purpose.
or for only $1250 you can sign up for *my* course where we even show you how to build your own software from source code with the magic of "configure, make, make install"
And the latest fad, having to work for a company for at least 18 months after they pay for your certification training, or you owe it back to them. And this place I'm talking to wants to have me take 4 or 5 certification courses at thousands each. Any of you remember the old movie called I think "angel city" about a southern "labor camp city", where everyone was made to be so indebted to the company for supplies, food & shelter that they could never work off the debt and couldn't leave??.....
Your sentences are far too well thought out & constructed. If you are to spew a steady stream of SCOX solicitor duckspeak, incoherence, bullcrap & FUD, I would suggest intoxication or a partial lobotomy.