Database programming is one of those things that is simple enough, at first glance, to be attempted by every college sophomore on the planet, but complex enough, in reality, to make people who hired those college sophomores look foolish.
Unfortunately, I can relate. When I explained the difficulties of designing a web-based reservation system for my department to my boss, he said, "We'll just have to have someone do it for a class project."
Because Micron has an actual fab in this country and Micron's subsidiary Crucial has given me good prices, I would like to say "Buy American". Unfortunately, I know that the Dells and Gateways of the world are always looking for the cheapest parts and that many IT Managers would rather get new computers when the service contract runs out than upgrade the older machines. Its common lingo today to even refer to getting an entirely new computer as an upgrade. Micron is out of the bidding process for these suck-ass companies unless they want move the fabs to another country to lower their costs (including labor). As for my office, we don't have a huge budget for brand new computers every couple of years, so I upgrade them with Micron memory.
I'm only 27, but I am just now taking undergraduate Computer Science courses. I find that 18 and 19 year olds have greater cognitive abilities than the older students in the classes. They notice mistakes in lecture, but may not necessarily be able to explain why those mistakes cause problems. In an environment with both older and younger programmers, it might look to an outsider that the young people have greater aptitude when they start correcting the older programmers, who may actually understand the program in greater detail but made a simple mistake. Of course, there are incredible programmers of all ages.
Imagine paying a few hundred thousand dollars after having chosen Peoplesoft, only to have Oracle call you up one day, and say, 'hey, you're our new customer!'
Few hundred thousand? Talk about getting off light. We have a PeopleSoft implementation at our university that cost millions of dollars. Oracle has said that they will support existing PeopleSoft implementations but that they would kill PeopleSoft's product line. Fine by me. The education product line is a contorted piece of crap that is obviously HR software. Students have Employee IDs, their majors are Career Plans, and they have Program Actions. On top of that, seeing 6 figure consultants who fly to France on the weekends to get haircuts and buy cookware lose marketable job skills will make my day.
Do you really want 3D rendering developers who make >$1000 per sale to become fans of DRM?
Yeah, I hope not also, but I can think of one situation where DRM proponents might win an argument. A Computer Animation school that my friend is attending had a guest lecturer who had worked on several movies. The lecturer brought up the fact that her company had done its work on cracked copies of Maya. I've heard similar stories about Adobe products. Its sickening when professional design and computer animation companies pulling down millions in revenue won't pay for their software.
The US Supreme Court, as always, chose between "you go fix it" and "not our problem" (which is what they've always done since 1789 or so).
That's why its shocking that the SCOTUS ordered the manual recount stopped on December 9th, 3 days before the Florida State Supreme Court's deadline of December 12.
The people they told to "fix it" were the democratically elected members of the Florida Supreme Court, interpreting Florida laws written and ratified by democratically elected state legislators and signed into law by a democratically elected governor. The issue in question were the election results that a democratically elected secretary of state signed off on.
I agree. The law regarding recounts sucked, however. "Clear intent of the voter" just didn't cut it when there was so much at stake. The Secretary of State attempted numerous times to get the Florida Supreme Court to stop the recount.
And even then there was very little the US Supreme Court could have done. All they could do is say whether or not what the State of Florida was doing violated parts of the Fourteenth Amendment or not.
Aside from stopping the recount, the SCOTUS said that the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Ammendment was not violated, including eldery Jewish citizens in Palm Beach voting for Pat Buchanan and the abundance of older, often broken, voting machines in some of the black districts.
And don't forget that appointments to all federal courts have to be cleared by a democratically elected Congress, which also has the power to remove them from their bench.
The same US Congress that's now serving "Freedom Fries" in their cafeteria. I'm so ashamed.
Dick Cheney's last employer, Halliburton, has had the contract for repairing oil well damage in Iraq since 1995. If there's any tears on our side, its tears of joy.
If voting were like crawling over broken glass, only those who really really were interested would do it, and we'd get a better product.
That's one economic argument. Here's another: Concentrated beneficiaries hold a natural advantage over dispersed stakeholders. For example, insurance companies have a specific agenda to pay out as little as possible. Therefore, by putting a few thousand dollars into fancy dinners and presents for your state legislature, they can get a number of different state laws restricting any halfway fun activity passed. Can you imagine how much effort it then takes people dispersed throughout the population to organize against it? Voting should be made easier to offset special interests, not harder to encourage it.
Thanks for at least giving me something to go on this time. I was responding to "Anime is for guys who can't get laid." I thought that you meant there was a lack of resources, mainly members of the opposite sex. That's what I was responding to. Where are your age requirements? The girls I refer to are mostly from animation clubs in colleges and are at least 18. Also, would your cat suit phobia rule out a young Eartha Kitt or Julie Newmar?
Your first post was pointless, and you didn't make any arguments until this post. Why not just say what you thought the first time? Its closed-minded and inept to assume that everyone will understand your position. Its also cowardice to hide behind insults.
Have you been to any anime conventions lately? Yes, there are a lot of guys (most presumably are more interested in toys than girls). But, my goodness, as anime catches on in the mainstream, there are a lot more cute girls looking very hot in their little cat-girl outfits.
Games like this (and Tetris, and Solitaire, and so many others) are simply antisocial and psychologically crippling. You play for hours, not because you're "enjoying" it, but because your brain is too numbed to stop.
I think it depends on the environment. Where I work, a student development office at a university, the student assistants got hooked on Snood. They engaged in friendly competition and shared strategies for beating the different levels. True, some did spend hours at home to get better, but they most enjoyed having the high score on the computer where their friends would
be playing next.
Say what you will about Quake 3 and its tendency to provoke violence in children, but at least people who obsess over it are communicating with other people, albeit over the Internet.
As far as communication and fantasy violence in online games is concerned, I prefer direct communication by the very real violence of throwing a pillow at a friend during a Mario Kart 64 marathon! Take that bastard!
Then there are the usual stalker types who get their jollies sending out creepy emails and eyeballing girls in the class -- my friend decided to work rather than go to grad school at Madison because this happened *twice* (on the level of restrining order), fer chrissake.
Really? I've had girls bail on me in both my Business and Comp Sci courses after friendly conversations. At the end of class, they stared blankly ahead like a deer caught in headlights and their voice quickened as they said goodbye. Never saw them again. I think that people who are attracted to Comp Sci are usually NOT easy to stereotype, and don't fit into a girl's long-term plans (years in the making). Of course, rejection brings out the worst in people.
I've heard that the music and sound for Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty had to occur in some tiny amount of memory, like 1MB of RAM. So there are some game studios that can fully utilize the PS2 hardware, but not that many.
Is it just me, or were the first several pages of this "article" written by cutting and pasting directly from Seagate's own product description and SATA white papers?
Even worse, the article is probably from a press release, that was also cut and paste from product description.
That they then split the article out over a zillion "pages" to pump up their ad impression numbers is insult on top of injury.
Agreed. Read the printer-friendly version instead by clicking on the "Print" button to the right of the article.
As far as these inevidable [sic] US invasions, you didn't say the word, but essentialy [sic] you're accusing us of imperialism, which is complete, utter, delusional nonsense.
But he didn't say. Imperialism is a straw man. Parent is right in that, since Kissinger was Secretary of State, we have empasized capitalism over democracy and human rights in the countries that we are involved with.
As long as there are humans left, there will be war and violence. Your utopia will never exist, and besides, I wouldn't want to live there.
The parent post never mentioned becoming a Marxist society, just disarmanent. If this is possible, why wouldn't you want to live there?
Throughout the 90s they kept escalating their attacks, but Bill Clinton never retaliated quickly or decisively enough. The most he ever did was lob a few cruise missiles at empty training camps and pharmeceutical factories.
Clinton never got support from Congress, who said that there was no terrorist threat and accused him of distracting the country from the multimillion dollar Whitewater and Lewinsky/Zippergate investigations. Reading newspaper headlines from 1998 can make you ill in light of 9/11.
Games take much longer to develop (24 months) and cost a great deal more to make today than when they sold for $30-40 (Pac Man on the Atari 2600). If price kept pace with the costs of the manufacturer, like the auto industry, games should retail for several hundred dollars. Its only through economies of scale (lower average cost through mass production) that some games can be sold as classics for $19.
Microsoft's Equation Editor symbols do not properly display in OpenOffice, and many professors will only post assignments this way.
My current professor posts grades in.pdf, but the syllabus and all assignments are in Word.
Xanadros has some industry experience, namely Corel Linux.
From their corporate background,
In August 2001, Xandros acquired the Corel Linux Business Division's award winning software development team with the objective of creating the Xandros Desktop.
Super Smash Brothers Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube lets you somewhat adjust antialising as a game option. I'd like to see other console 3D games with this option.
How about Buffy: TVS stealing ideas from "Devil Hunter Yohko?" Manga authors freely steal ideas from each other, but at least they're usually up front about it.
"All artists are thieves and magpies." - Elvis Costello
I'm not surprised. I interviewed for a junior programming position with CLCS as a subcontractor subcontracting through a subcontractor through yet another subcontactor. I interviewed at the subcontractor's house, where I nervously (1st programming interview) proceeded to screw up a simple "Hello, world!" program. After questioning me on what I would do to sort a list, the guy told me that I was hired (I didn't get the position because the hiring managers were looking for someone with more experience). My interviewer informed me that most of the contractors didn't like the work itself, and that there were a number of restrictions set on the project by KSC engineers who wanted to keep positive control devices (mechanical switches, buttons, etc). I guess I should feel lucky that I didn't get the job.
I rode Orlando's Lynx system for several years. Some routes are at the bus stops every 30 minutes, but most take an hour. The fares are too low for them to improve the service and increase the number of stops, but they're working on it.
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Database programming is one of those things that is simple enough, at first glance, to be attempted by every college sophomore on the planet, but complex enough, in reality, to make people who hired those college sophomores look foolish.
Unfortunately, I can relate. When I explained the difficulties of designing a web-based reservation system for my department to my boss, he said, "We'll just have to have someone do it for a class project."
I work at a college.
Because Micron has an actual fab in this country and Micron's subsidiary Crucial has given me good prices, I would like to say "Buy American". Unfortunately, I know that the Dells and Gateways of the world are always looking for the cheapest parts and that many IT Managers would rather get new computers when the service contract runs out than upgrade the older machines. Its common lingo today to even refer to getting an entirely new computer as an upgrade. Micron is out of the bidding process for these suck-ass companies unless they want move the fabs to another country to lower their costs (including labor). As for my office, we don't have a huge budget for brand new computers every couple of years, so I upgrade them with Micron memory.
I'm only 27, but I am just now taking undergraduate Computer Science courses. I find that 18 and 19 year olds have greater cognitive abilities than the older students in the classes. They notice mistakes in lecture, but may not necessarily be able to explain why those mistakes cause problems. In an environment with both older and younger programmers, it might look to an outsider that the young people have greater aptitude when they start correcting the older programmers, who may actually understand the program in greater detail but made a simple mistake. Of course, there are incredible programmers of all ages.
Imagine paying a few hundred thousand dollars after having chosen Peoplesoft, only to have Oracle call you up one day, and say, 'hey, you're our new customer!'
Few hundred thousand? Talk about getting off light. We have a PeopleSoft implementation at our university that cost millions of dollars. Oracle has said that they will support existing PeopleSoft implementations but that they would kill PeopleSoft's product line. Fine by me. The education product line is a contorted piece of crap that is obviously HR software. Students have Employee IDs, their majors are Career Plans, and they have Program Actions. On top of that, seeing 6 figure consultants who fly to France on the weekends to get haircuts and buy cookware lose marketable job skills will make my day.
Do you really want 3D rendering developers who make >$1000 per sale to become fans of DRM?
Yeah, I hope not also, but I can think of one situation where DRM proponents might win an argument. A Computer Animation school that my friend is attending had a guest lecturer who had worked on several movies. The lecturer brought up the fact that her company had done its work on cracked copies of Maya. I've heard similar stories about Adobe products. Its sickening when professional design and computer animation companies pulling down millions in revenue won't pay for their software.
I'm often getting resumes from hopefull applicants
Hopeful, not hopefull. Hope that's helpfull.
The US Supreme Court, as always, chose between "you go fix it" and "not our problem" (which is what they've always done since 1789 or so).
That's why its shocking that the SCOTUS ordered the manual recount stopped on December 9th, 3 days before the Florida State Supreme Court's deadline of December 12.
The people they told to "fix it" were the democratically elected members of the Florida Supreme Court, interpreting Florida laws written and ratified by democratically elected state legislators and signed into law by a democratically elected governor. The issue in question were the election results that a democratically elected secretary of state signed off on.
I agree. The law regarding recounts sucked, however. "Clear intent of the voter" just didn't cut it when there was so much at stake. The Secretary of State attempted numerous times to get the Florida Supreme Court to stop the recount.
And even then there was very little the US Supreme Court could have done. All they could do is say whether or not what the State of Florida was doing violated parts of the Fourteenth Amendment or not.
Aside from stopping the recount, the SCOTUS said that the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Ammendment was not violated, including eldery Jewish citizens in Palm Beach voting for Pat Buchanan and the abundance of older, often broken, voting machines in some of the black districts.
And don't forget that appointments to all federal courts have to be cleared by a democratically elected Congress, which also has the power to remove them from their bench.
The same US Congress that's now serving "Freedom Fries" in their cafeteria. I'm so ashamed.
Dick Cheney's last employer, Halliburton, has had the contract for repairing oil well damage in Iraq since 1995. If there's any tears on our side, its tears of joy.
If voting were like crawling over broken glass, only those who really really were interested would do it, and we'd get a better product.
That's one economic argument. Here's another: Concentrated beneficiaries hold a natural advantage over dispersed stakeholders. For example, insurance companies have a specific agenda to pay out as little as possible. Therefore, by putting a few thousand dollars into fancy dinners and presents for your state legislature, they can get a number of different state laws restricting any halfway fun activity passed. Can you imagine how much effort it then takes people dispersed throughout the population to organize against it? Voting should be made easier to offset special interests, not harder to encourage it.
Thanks for at least giving me something to go on this time. I was responding to "Anime is for guys who can't get laid." I thought that you meant there was a lack of resources, mainly members of the opposite sex. That's what I was responding to. Where are your age requirements? The girls I refer to are mostly from animation clubs in colleges and are at least 18. Also, would your cat suit phobia rule out a young Eartha Kitt or Julie Newmar?
Your first post was pointless, and you didn't make any arguments until this post. Why not just say what you thought the first time? Its closed-minded and inept to assume that everyone will understand your position. Its also cowardice to hide behind insults.
May be troll, but still funny.
I'll bite.
Have you been to any anime conventions lately? Yes, there are a lot of guys (most presumably are more interested in toys than girls). But, my goodness, as anime catches on in the mainstream, there are a lot more cute girls looking very hot in their little cat-girl outfits.
Games like this (and Tetris, and Solitaire, and so many others) are simply antisocial and psychologically crippling. You play for hours, not because you're "enjoying" it, but because your brain is too numbed to stop.
I think it depends on the environment. Where I work, a student development office at a university, the student assistants got hooked on Snood. They engaged in friendly competition and shared strategies for beating the different levels. True, some did spend hours at home to get better, but they most enjoyed having the high score on the computer where their friends would be playing next.
Say what you will about Quake 3 and its tendency to provoke violence in children, but at least people who obsess over it are communicating with other people, albeit over the Internet.
As far as communication and fantasy violence in online games is concerned, I prefer direct communication by the very real violence of throwing a pillow at a friend during a Mario Kart 64 marathon! Take that bastard!
Then there are the usual stalker types who get their jollies sending out creepy emails and eyeballing girls in the class -- my friend decided to work rather than go to grad school at Madison because this happened *twice* (on the level of restrining order), fer chrissake.
Really? I've had girls bail on me in both my Business and Comp Sci courses after friendly conversations. At the end of class, they stared blankly ahead like a deer caught in headlights and their voice quickened as they said goodbye. Never saw them again. I think that people who are attracted to Comp Sci are usually NOT easy to stereotype, and don't fit into a girl's long-term plans (years in the making). Of course, rejection brings out the worst in people.
I've heard that the music and sound for Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty had to occur in some tiny amount of memory, like 1MB of RAM. So there are some game studios that can fully utilize the PS2 hardware, but not that many.
Is it just me, or were the first several pages of this "article" written by cutting and pasting directly from Seagate's own product description and SATA white papers?
Even worse, the article is probably from a press release, that was also cut and paste from product description.
That they then split the article out over a zillion "pages" to pump up their ad impression numbers is insult on top of injury.
Agreed. Read the printer-friendly version instead by clicking on the "Print" button to the right of the article.
As far as these inevidable [sic] US invasions, you didn't say the word, but essentialy [sic] you're accusing us of imperialism, which is complete, utter, delusional nonsense.
But he didn't say. Imperialism is a straw man. Parent is right in that, since Kissinger was Secretary of State, we have empasized capitalism over democracy and human rights in the countries that we are involved with.
As long as there are humans left, there will be war and violence. Your utopia will never exist, and besides, I wouldn't want to live there.
The parent post never mentioned becoming a Marxist society, just disarmanent. If this is possible, why wouldn't you want to live there?
Throughout the 90s they kept escalating their attacks, but Bill Clinton never retaliated quickly or decisively enough. The most he ever did was lob a few cruise missiles at empty training camps and pharmeceutical factories.
Clinton never got support from Congress, who said that there was no terrorist threat and accused him of distracting the country from the multimillion dollar Whitewater and Lewinsky/Zippergate investigations. Reading newspaper headlines from 1998 can make you ill in light of 9/11.
Games take much longer to develop (24 months) and cost a great deal more to make today than when they sold for $30-40 (Pac Man on the Atari 2600). If price kept pace with the costs of the manufacturer, like the auto industry, games should retail for several hundred dollars. Its only through economies of scale (lower average cost through mass production) that some games can be sold as classics for $19.
Microsoft's Equation Editor symbols do not properly display in OpenOffice, and many professors will only post assignments this way. My current professor posts grades in .pdf, but the syllabus and all assignments are in Word.
It found a driver for my Extigy. Not sure if this helps.
Xanadros has some industry experience, namely Corel Linux. From their corporate background, In August 2001, Xandros acquired the Corel Linux Business Division's award winning software development team with the objective of creating the Xandros Desktop.
Super Smash Brothers Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube lets you somewhat adjust antialising as a game option. I'd like to see other console 3D games with this option.
How about Buffy: TVS stealing ideas from "Devil Hunter Yohko?" Manga authors freely steal ideas from each other, but at least they're usually up front about it. "All artists are thieves and magpies." - Elvis Costello
I'm not surprised. I interviewed for a junior programming position with CLCS as a subcontractor subcontracting through a subcontractor through yet another subcontactor. I interviewed at the subcontractor's house, where I nervously (1st programming interview) proceeded to screw up a simple "Hello, world!" program. After questioning me on what I would do to sort a list, the guy told me that I was hired (I didn't get the position because the hiring managers were looking for someone with more experience). My interviewer informed me that most of the contractors didn't like the work itself, and that there were a number of restrictions set on the project by KSC engineers who wanted to keep positive control devices (mechanical switches, buttons, etc). I guess I should feel lucky that I didn't get the job.
I rode Orlando's Lynx system for several years. Some routes are at the bus stops every 30 minutes, but most take an hour. The fares are too low for them to improve the service and increase the number of stops, but they're working on it.