Fact of the matter is, money really isn't the driving factor for getting into this field. In my case, there's a TON of headaches that goes with the territory. But there's also a lot of really great things about my career. But the salary isn't likely compensation for the good things.
Business majors know this.;)
Starting in the very first courses, we learn that salary actually has very little to do with job satisfaction and employee performance.
People are happier and work harder if you give them a better light at their desk than an extra $1 an hour. Rationally, you'd think people would take the $1 an hour, buy themselves a lamp, and keep the added income. Just a weird thing about people, as much as they complain about money.
And I can think of lots of reasons to write applications in Excel. The best one being that you probably already have it on your machine (no need to purchase a development environment).
Eek! People purchase development environments?!
Only teasing, but I guess the point could be made that you already HAVE purchased one if you're using excel.:)
I expect this will manifest itself as a widespread drop of the particular RBL, not AOL changing their policies. People want to email companies, and companies want to be able to get legitimate email. AOL and the RBL service are in the middle, and the vocal ones are going to point at the RBL.
This is really just a guess, though. I'd certainly prefer if someone at AOL got their head out of their ass.
I have noticed the heavier domain name ranking in practice with MSN regarding some of my own sites. One is clearly the best match for search terms that are similar to our domain name, and yet google has the site somewhere around slot 6 or 7. MSN has it at #1 with a bullet. Nobody using our domain name for the search terms is looking for the first 5 or 6 listings google serves, they are looking for us.
At least in this case (and as much as it pains me to say it) MSN was far more accurate. I'm not terribly concerned about this sites pagerank, so not a whole lot of bitching about google here, but I could see how some people might be pissed.
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Google's primary responsibility now is to it's shareholders, which means increasing the chance that you and I find exactly what we are trying to look for
I think what you meant was "stakeholders". Modern Business schools now teach that you're just as responsible to stakeholders other than shareholders. And yes, in Googles case, this mostly means QoS.
I realize all new technology comes in baby steps, but its somehow disappointing to hear that they "have taken a step toward the development of quantum computers" by making one little piece.
With all the talk of quantum computers on/., one would have thought they were so much closer.:(
Debian is the only maintained distro I'm aware of that still supports Alpha, let alone MIPS or other "non-standard" CPUs. I can appreciate the "let's light a fire under the developer's asses" rhetoric, but that doesn't solve pressing problems, like a lack of builds for "orphan" architectures. There are people out there that still want a Linux distro that works for their machine, and they don't always run x86;
Or perhaps find some competant people to fork Debian into a distro for bizarre, dead arches? Hell, give em 10k in startup. Then this wide support won't choke Debian to death anymore, and we get another distro to focus on archane systems.
Exactly. I hear everyone yelling to just use testing/unstable. But seriously, if those are really that solid, make a new release! If they're not, then the entire process is indeed painfully slow and the distro will likely wither and die.
I'm also reading here that the guy didn't actually say they're "broke". Which is good, because I'd choke if I heard about a volunteer project with no expenses crying elephant tears over only 40k.
He also developed a number of "stock answer" files, for ease of dealing with standard issues like duplicate bugs, insufficient information ("X is broken"), and requests for when the next version will be available.
Seems to me that this should have been the FIRST response. Its a good thing Debian is a volunteer project. Anywhere else, his ass would have been shit-canned with extreme prejudice. Hell, I think even most volunteer projects would can you for something like that.
Sure, there will be cracks for this, but I see it as something to help parents manage what their kids are exposed to. Doesn't mean anyone should rely on it as the first and last line of defense. Like you were saying, you should be monitoring your children too.
On a slightly different note, I think games are WAY down the list of things I'd worry about. As far as I'm concerned, instant messengers are the really scary portal to your children. These can be managed as well, but I suspect they are mostly disregarded by parents.
So uh, if there's a public source of ESRB ratings, wouldn't it be really easy to knock together an OSS version?
They've got nothing on the Kea, which is a Parrot native to New Zealand.
These are sufficienly curious and smart that they are capable of opening a zipped up bag, pulling out a lunch box, opening that lunchbox and eating what it finds inside.
Yeah, but Yogi Bear had this beat HANDS DOWN!
On a more serious note, I was watching some PBS or Discovery special on the Kea. They developed all sorts of puzzles. One was a big tube with all kinds of pegs and levers that the bird had to figure out to get food to drop to the bottom. They figured it all out, and even more impressive was their memory retention. They could see a puzzle solved once and do it over and over.
Actually, when I unpacked it, I noticed all the data was just xml. If you can compile the source data for other countries, the program should work with that.
Except they only provided instructions for windows users, as far as I can see.
Linux: 1) unzip archive 2) export STEM_HOME=/location/of/stem 3) Obviously the batch file isn't gunna work, but if you've exported STEM_HOME, this should work fine "java -Xmx768M -Duser.dir=$STEM_HOME -jar $STEM_HOME\bin\stem.jar"
Just got it running in FC3, lickety split... and it already looks intimidating!
most components of their programs can be released in a free/open-source format (especially the file format) and then you can sell a more complex version with the real things
I think you're right. But something frightens me about companies using open source as a loss leader. It makes me think they're missing the point.
But, who's to complain. If its something or nothing, I'll take something.:)
I'm just playing with yah. Yeah, I feel your pain on the occasional difficulties. I'd have to say though, I don't think there are 3000 distros. I think there are 10 real ones, the rest are bizarro projects with varying degrees of popularity.
The good thing is, people have made some serious strides towards making the major ones play nice. I think we're on the cusp of a serious breakthrough where a good number of the major distros will be virtually indistinguishable from each other, at least to the novice user. Maybe I'm just optimistic.
If you haven't already seen it, take a look at autopackage, as an example.
I think it depends entirely on the situation. On days when I had to pull cable, I wore jeans and a polo. On days when I was just going to be in my office messing around with machines, I wore khakis and a polo or button down. However, on days when I knew I was going to be in important meetings, or have VIP's in the building, I wore dress slacks, dress shirt, and a tie.
The right tool for the right job, as we so often say.
Slashdot's very own straight-eye for the [unlaid/unpaid] guy:
What?! Suspenders never left! You just have to have the right ones. The cajun chef ones just won't cut it anymore (unless you're in sales), and FORGET the rainbow ones. Why do you even have those?
Hats are great too, if you can afford to buy a nice one. This means its time to throw out that cheap faux cowboy hat. Seriously, knock it off with the black cowboy hats and dusters. You don't look like a gun slinger, you might as well look like a potential date!:)
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Fact of the matter is, money really isn't the driving factor for getting into this field. In my case, there's a TON of headaches that goes with the territory. But there's also a lot of really great things about my career. But the salary isn't likely compensation for the good things.
Business majors know this.
Starting in the very first courses, we learn that salary actually has very little to do with job satisfaction and employee performance.
People are happier and work harder if you give them a better light at their desk than an extra $1 an hour. Rationally, you'd think people would take the $1 an hour, buy themselves a lamp, and keep the added income. Just a weird thing about people, as much as they complain about money.
You are "very definately the most bestest writer that doesn't not post on slashdot"!
And I can think of lots of reasons to write applications in Excel. The best one being that you probably already have it on your machine (no need to purchase a development environment).
:)
Eek! People purchase development environments?!
Only teasing, but I guess the point could be made that you already HAVE purchased one if you're using excel.
hoot!
/. users they shouldn't be zealots."
I see it like this...
"Post counts are down, how can we get them up?"
"Hahaha... lets post something telling
"Oh no, you actually did it?! The DB server is on fire! Get the extinguisher!"
I expect this will manifest itself as a widespread drop of the particular RBL, not AOL changing their policies. People want to email companies, and companies want to be able to get legitimate email. AOL and the RBL service are in the middle, and the vocal ones are going to point at the RBL.
This is really just a guess, though. I'd certainly prefer if someone at AOL got their head out of their ass.
I have noticed the heavier domain name ranking in practice with MSN regarding some of my own sites. One is clearly the best match for search terms that are similar to our domain name, and yet google has the site somewhere around slot 6 or 7. MSN has it at #1 with a bullet. Nobody using our domain name for the search terms is looking for the first 5 or 6 listings google serves, they are looking for us.
At least in this case (and as much as it pains me to say it) MSN was far more accurate. I'm not terribly concerned about this sites pagerank, so not a whole lot of bitching about google here, but I could see how some people might be pissed.
Google's primary responsibility now is to it's shareholders, which means increasing the chance that you and I find exactly what we are trying to look for
I think what you meant was "stakeholders". Modern Business schools now teach that you're just as responsible to stakeholders other than shareholders. And yes, in Googles case, this mostly means QoS.
Then again, Google has a great track record for testing their ideas before committing them to general service...
:)
Is that why everything google is constantly in beta?!
I realize all new technology comes in baby steps, but its somehow disappointing to hear that they "have taken a step toward the development of quantum computers" by making one little piece.
With all the talk of quantum computers on
I'm gunna hazard a guess and throw Hong Kong out there. I know its ridiculous.
We had charts of this in our IB class, but I don't remember where to find them.
Debian is the only maintained distro I'm aware of that still supports Alpha, let alone MIPS or other "non-standard" CPUs. I can appreciate the "let's light a fire under the developer's asses" rhetoric, but that doesn't solve pressing problems, like a lack of builds for "orphan" architectures. There are people out there that still want a Linux distro that works for their machine, and they don't always run x86;
Or perhaps find some competant people to fork Debian into a distro for bizarre, dead arches? Hell, give em 10k in startup. Then this wide support won't choke Debian to death anymore, and we get another distro to focus on archane systems.
Just an idea. Seems like everyone wins.
Exactly. I hear everyone yelling to just use testing/unstable. But seriously, if those are really that solid, make a new release! If they're not, then the entire process is indeed painfully slow and the distro will likely wither and die.
I'm also reading here that the guy didn't actually say they're "broke". Which is good, because I'd choke if I heard about a volunteer project with no expenses crying elephant tears over only 40k.
He also developed a number of "stock answer" files, for ease of dealing with standard issues like duplicate bugs, insufficient information ("X is broken"), and requests for when the next version will be available.
Seems to me that this should have been the FIRST response. Its a good thing Debian is a volunteer project. Anywhere else, his ass would have been shit-canned with extreme prejudice. Hell, I think even most volunteer projects would can you for something like that.
Wait, then what's all the JIMO stuff on NASA's Prometheus site for? Did they just forget to take it all down? Or haven't gotten to it yet?
http://prometheus.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm?pageL1
Sure, there will be cracks for this, but I see it as something to help parents manage what their kids are exposed to. Doesn't mean anyone should rely on it as the first and last line of defense. Like you were saying, you should be monitoring your children too.
On a slightly different note, I think games are WAY down the list of things I'd worry about. As far as I'm concerned, instant messengers are the really scary portal to your children. These can be managed as well, but I suspect they are mostly disregarded by parents.
So uh, if there's a public source of ESRB ratings, wouldn't it be really easy to knock together an OSS version?
They've got nothing on the Kea, which is a Parrot native to New Zealand.
These are sufficienly curious and smart that they are capable of opening a zipped up bag, pulling out a lunch box, opening that lunchbox and eating what it finds inside.
Yeah, but Yogi Bear had this beat HANDS DOWN!
On a more serious note, I was watching some PBS or Discovery special on the Kea. They developed all sorts of puzzles. One was a big tube with all kinds of pegs and levers that the bird had to figure out to get food to drop to the bottom. They figured it all out, and even more impressive was their memory retention. They could see a puzzle solved once and do it over and over.
Maybe, but it might also explain how that smartass Owl can tell us how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop.
Actually, when I unpacked it, I noticed all the data was just xml. If you can compile the source data for other countries, the program should work with that.
If you're using firefox, go get the bugmenot plugin. Worked fine for me. Just right click > bugmenot > bang, you're ready to go.
So I just ran the Flu1, and this is actually cool, despite being mostly over my head.
Does someone know where we can find the properties of other contagions so we can punch those in and see the visuals?
Except they only provided instructions for windows users, as far as I can see.
Linux:
1) unzip archive
2) export STEM_HOME=/location/of/stem
3) Obviously the batch file isn't gunna work, but if you've exported STEM_HOME, this should work fine "java -Xmx768M -Duser.dir=$STEM_HOME -jar $STEM_HOME\bin\stem.jar"
Just got it running in FC3, lickety split... and it already looks intimidating!
most components of their programs can be released in a free/open-source format (especially the file format) and then you can sell a more complex version with the real things
:)
I think you're right. But something frightens me about companies using open source as a loss leader. It makes me think they're missing the point.
But, who's to complain. If its something or nothing, I'll take something.
Sir, I think you might like a Mac. :)
I'm just playing with yah. Yeah, I feel your pain on the occasional difficulties. I'd have to say though, I don't think there are 3000 distros. I think there are 10 real ones, the rest are bizarro projects with varying degrees of popularity.
The good thing is, people have made some serious strides towards making the major ones play nice. I think we're on the cusp of a serious breakthrough where a good number of the major distros will be virtually indistinguishable from each other, at least to the novice user. Maybe I'm just optimistic.
If you haven't already seen it, take a look at autopackage, as an example.
I think it depends entirely on the situation. On days when I had to pull cable, I wore jeans and a polo. On days when I was just going to be in my office messing around with machines, I wore khakis and a polo or button down.
However, on days when I knew I was going to be in important meetings, or have VIP's in the building, I wore dress slacks, dress shirt, and a tie.
The right tool for the right job, as we so often say.
Slashdot's very own straight-eye for the [unlaid/unpaid] guy:
:)
What?! Suspenders never left! You just have to have the right ones. The cajun chef ones just won't cut it anymore (unless you're in sales), and FORGET the rainbow ones. Why do you even have those?
Hats are great too, if you can afford to buy a nice one. This means its time to throw out that cheap faux cowboy hat. Seriously, knock it off with the black cowboy hats and dusters. You don't look like a gun slinger, you might as well look like a potential date!