It would make more sense if it reacted to light than gases, and the bottom of the disc slowly darkened until it was unusable. Of course, you might very well be facetious, and I just don't have my boots on. >;^)
Hmmmm...I apologize. I must have misunderstood what you were saying. I go through DIR to make all our purchases and to get quotes, and we recently had to file a new disaster recovery plan.
I work as a computer operator for a datacenter which is mandated by Texas law, that all state agencies have to consider using our datacenter to outsource their IT, and provide proof they can do it cheaper.
I work for a very large state of texas agency, in charge of IT acquisitions, and I've never heard of what you're referring to.
That's a good point. The shop I work in is on a major college campus, and for our junior positions we typically hire from the pool of recent grads. They're usually only around for a couple of years, either because they're working on a grad degree in the meantime, or they get burned out working for the state for a couple of years and move on. If they hang around long enough to survive, they move up the ladder to a higher level position and we hire a new recent grad to fill their old position. In my comment, I really meant to refer to the fact that while our shop isn't that demanding as far as skillset is concerned as many others in the corporate world undoubtedly are, I hate to think of the difficulty these grads will undoubtedly face when moving on to corporate world where the ability to program with a specific language takes second place to being able to understand the programming paradigm to begin with. Obviously, specific languages, platforms, and APIs are important, by IMHO anyone who knows and understands "programming" can pick up any language, platform and API, because the concepts are the same.
I agree. Variety of experience is vital. We've got some really bright kids in my shop, but the problem is they're fresh out of school and they think that the VB class they took their junior year, and the Access class they took their senior year gives them this huge vast reservoir of knowledge from which to draw upon. It's not their fault, I don't think. Alot of college programs (especially MIS) try to rush their people out of school really quickly, and they (the students) are consequently taught to do, not to think. I mean, for Pete's sake, we've got programmers (VBScript, ASP) that have no idea what a strongly-typed language is. It's a shame. I really enjoy programming, and feel blessed I can make a living at it. IMHO, it's such a much more beautiful experience when you don't have to worry about repeatedly hammering out the only solution you know, but can weigh what you know and pick the most applicable solution.
Only experience and variety of experience can give you that.
Vision? There's a vision? I was pretty certain that crap like ep 1, 2, and prolly 3, COULDN'T possibly be planned. I was under the impression Lucas was making this shit up as he went along. And, IMHO, even though special effects have come a long way, most of what they're not so good yet they can make crap look good. I watched Empire the other day, and couldn't help but think how timeless it was, and how much better a movie it was than ep 1 & 2 rolled together.
It makes stuff... so trivial that you don't have to concern yourself with it
I suggest using the.Net compact framework & C#! OOP complex enough to make you happy, but clean enough and no memory management issues to make quick work of just about anything.
For Pete's sake, have a cup of Java (no pun intended) or something. It's not that damn early to make gratuitous spelling errors. (Christ, I hope I spelled that right, *yawn*).
On topic, I thought the comic was funny as hell. Had me spitting up my coke when I saw it. Go PA!
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It comes with a full featured scripting language (C basically)...
Uhm, no, it's not like C. It has C-like syntax, but so do 10 or 12 other programming languages. UnrealScript is more like Java than anything else around, it's object oriented nature more conducive to game content creation. Every try doing a mod in C before? If you've ever taken a decent look at the code for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I think you'll readily agree how difficult and undesirable it is to create mods or even total conversions using C. Although I cut my teeth on C, IMHO UnrealScript and the UnrealScript Programming Model are far superior in the realm of game creation.
Also, just my two cents, most games released that feature new graphics engines, are really just advertisements for the engine. I mean, c'mon. I don't expect UT2k3 or DOOM 3 to be the most representative models of what can be done with those respective graphics engines. It's just a demo that they make money off of. "Hey, here's this new engine we wrote, and here's an example of what you can do with it." And it just so happens that particular example costs $50.
those with an engineering background often write code dominated by boolean logic and switch statements very obviously describing a state machine, and those who have an abundance of programming courses don't.
I take offense to your to your boolean statement of programmers being one or the other. You may have to revise your logic to include an indeterminate state: those of us who have the same background as you and traditionally prefer to code the way you describe for the most part, but have to dumb our programs down so those business programmers (or power users, as I like to call them when I'm in a good mood; or fucktards when I'm feeling particulary nasty) who took an abundance of programming courses can understand them. Proof that the universe cannot be described strictly in states of true or false!
If you want.Net so bad, the.Net Framework SDK is free. Go download it @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/netdevframework.asp. If you needs docs, the.Net Framework SDK Documentation is online and free as well. Command line compiling has it's adavantages; ask any *nix person. Plus, VS.Net (the SDK) is way slow, IMHO. Too much of it is interpreted.
Even if you're not a D&D type guy (and really, who on/. isn't)...
In all seriousness, I've never played D&D. I've never even seen the game in person. The closest I ever came was to watching the D&D cartoon on Saturday mornings 20 or so years ago.
except to save some time. Truth be told, I'd rather wire the house myself. That's most of the fun of doing it, IMHO, is the hard part. But, it would be nice to have that fiber connection. I could run one helluva game server off that thing, plus a web server, etc....ok, I changed my mind...it would be pretty sweet!
Only part the really is unsettling is paying TAXES on that sort of thing being pre-setup. Speaking of which, what kind of value WOULD that add to the house?!?
COM Transaction Integrator on Microsoft SNA Server/Host Integration Server
There are a ton of products that do the same thing. There is no more advantage to using Host than any other. EntireX Broker is more easily configurable, and cheaper, IMHO.
I work at a University in south Texas somewhere within the near vicinity of UT Austin (*wink, *wink, *nudge, *nudge, *grin, *grin, say no more) in an IT department on campus. We've known for years that using someone's SSN was a bad idea, and we've tried time and time again to tell our clients (the departments within our office, and other offices across campus) this, but the business heads mostly turn a deaf ear, and our clients are too short-sighted (or stupid) to think of any way to associate data with a particular student with any other identifier other than an SSN. For any web applications we develop for these clients where students (prospective, current, alumni) can do whatever online, we have to butt heads every time when we inform them, "Hey, we can't require students to enter an SSN", but they still want the field on the form (if someone is signing up for something, for instance). We do what we can technologically to mask the data, but it's still there in one form or another. There's other problems too. We're a pretty big shop with a good budget, but there are a number of smaller shops on campus that have just enough budget to afford servers and software (gotta love those academic licensing prices!) but can't afford to hire someone to properly administer (secure) the environment. Shit, there are mails servers in colleges all over campus that aren't using SSL. Be afraid of the kid in his dorm who cracked a router and is sniffing traffic, or sitting in the library sniffing the wireless airwaves.
But, I digress: There's been talk for years of changing from SSNs to something else, but never any progress. I really hope this spurs the change.
The PS2 architecture... can also be put on one single chip.
This is just based on what I THINK I remember reading somewhere. I thought the one of the main reasons ps2 would run psx games was because ps2 included the psx processor as it's sound chip. I hope I'm not terribly wrong here. If I am, just clarify what exactly you're talking about being on "a single chip".
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Is the one left open by an Admin who has no business being an Admin....
For 99.997% (Manhattan Project, anyone?) of the cases, I'd agree wholeheartedly. The rest of them, like our Network Admin where I work, are under the thumb of some stupid BEEYOTCH of an IT Director who wants to continue to use the same passwords used by the old Network Administrator (who was shitcanned by her), and refuses to allow the new guy to set newer, more secure passwords. And believe me, it's not a matter of people just not getting along. For Pete's sake, she's even yelled at me for encrypting DSN strings and sticking them in the registry of the server, instead of plopping them in a text file like everyone else, open to the world. And she totally f*cking flipped (when she read the documentation I wrote about the procedure) upon hitting the section that described how every time the DSN was accessed, read, edited, or yelled at sternly the code modified and scrambled it with a new, different algorithm. She described it as "unsafe, and taking things to an extreme that was unnecessary". She also said made some asinine comment about how we would never be able to recover the passwords if the code were ever lost, to which I recall thinking "Well first, that's job security for me, second, don't forget your goddamn passwords, and third, that's what sa access is for, you dumb bitch."
Yep, this type of commentary coming from someone who not only has no business being an IT Director, but swears on a stack of bibles she can reverse engineer MD5 in her head (we have another application that uses MD5 to hash passwords, she simply recognizes the default password hash).
I swear to God I'm not making this shit up. I wish the nasty bitch would stick to pushing pencils and leave the real work to those of us who know.
Tell that to the ravenous VBScript/ASP f*cktards I work with. Jesus Christ, I think these guys have exhausted every possible variable name of all time in their code, in every application they write! The mere mention of instrinsic functions and they get that glassy-eyed stare. And, trying to get these people to write code using VBScript classes (for re-use) is like trying to pull teeth from a Gundark. MIS majors should NOT be allowed to code. (I didn't hire them).
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...US genetically modified barley ... (and unless you grow your own food, you are eating it).
Or, more likely, drinking it.
It would make more sense if it reacted to light than gases, and the bottom of the disc slowly darkened until it was unusable. Of course, you might very well be facetious, and I just don't have my boots on. >;^)
Hmmmm...I apologize. I must have misunderstood what you were saying. I go through DIR to make all our purchases and to get quotes, and we recently had to file a new disaster recovery plan.
I work as a computer operator for a datacenter which is mandated by Texas law, that all state agencies have to consider using our datacenter to outsource their IT, and provide proof they can do it cheaper.
I work for a very large state of texas agency, in charge of IT acquisitions, and I've never heard of what you're referring to.
That's a good point. The shop I work in is on a major college campus, and for our junior positions we typically hire from the pool of recent grads. They're usually only around for a couple of years, either because they're working on a grad degree in the meantime, or they get burned out working for the state for a couple of years and move on. If they hang around long enough to survive, they move up the ladder to a higher level position and we hire a new recent grad to fill their old position. In my comment, I really meant to refer to the fact that while our shop isn't that demanding as far as skillset is concerned as many others in the corporate world undoubtedly are, I hate to think of the difficulty these grads will undoubtedly face when moving on to corporate world where the ability to program with a specific language takes second place to being able to understand the programming paradigm to begin with. Obviously, specific languages, platforms, and APIs are important, by IMHO anyone who knows and understands "programming" can pick up any language, platform and API, because the concepts are the same.
*Whew* (takes deep breath)
I agree. Variety of experience is vital. We've got some really bright kids in my shop, but the problem is they're fresh out of school and they think that the VB class they took their junior year, and the Access class they took their senior year gives them this huge vast reservoir of knowledge from which to draw upon. It's not their fault, I don't think. Alot of college programs (especially MIS) try to rush their people out of school really quickly, and they (the students) are consequently taught to do, not to think. I mean, for Pete's sake, we've got programmers (VBScript, ASP) that have no idea what a strongly-typed language is. It's a shame. I really enjoy programming, and feel blessed I can make a living at it. IMHO, it's such a much more beautiful experience when you don't have to worry about repeatedly hammering out the only solution you know, but can weigh what you know and pick the most applicable solution.
Only experience and variety of experience can give you that.
whoooo-weeee! Dude, maybe you should try decaf?!? I hear there are alot of brands out there just as tasty as the real thing.
Lucas' new "vision."
Vision? There's a vision? I was pretty certain that crap like ep 1, 2, and prolly 3, COULDN'T possibly be planned. I was under the impression Lucas was making this shit up as he went along. And, IMHO, even though special effects have come a long way, most of what they're not so good yet they can make crap look good. I watched Empire the other day, and couldn't help but think how timeless it was, and how much better a movie it was than ep 1 & 2 rolled together.
It makes stuff ... so trivial that you don't have to concern yourself with it
.Net compact framework & C#! OOP complex enough to make you happy, but clean enough and no memory management issues to make quick work of just about anything.
I suggest using the
Without a serious lobbying group in DC, privacy will continue to be eroded.
Don't you mean, stealing will still be illegal?
For Pete's sake, have a cup of Java (no pun intended) or something. It's not that damn early to make gratuitous spelling errors. (Christ, I hope I spelled that right, *yawn*).
On topic, I thought the comic was funny as hell. Had me spitting up my coke when I saw it. Go PA!
It comes with a full featured scripting language (C basically)...
Uhm, no, it's not like C. It has C-like syntax, but so do 10 or 12 other programming languages. UnrealScript is more like Java than anything else around, it's object oriented nature more conducive to game content creation. Every try doing a mod in C before? If you've ever taken a decent look at the code for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I think you'll readily agree how difficult and undesirable it is to create mods or even total conversions using C. Although I cut my teeth on C, IMHO UnrealScript and the UnrealScript Programming Model are far superior in the realm of game creation.
Also, just my two cents, most games released that feature new graphics engines, are really just advertisements for the engine. I mean, c'mon. I don't expect UT2k3 or DOOM 3 to be the most representative models of what can be done with those respective graphics engines. It's just a demo that they make money off of. "Hey, here's this new engine we wrote, and here's an example of what you can do with it." And it just so happens that particular example costs $50.
those with an engineering background often write code dominated by boolean logic and switch statements very obviously describing a state machine, and those who have an abundance of programming courses don't.
I take offense to your to your boolean statement of programmers being one or the other. You may have to revise your logic to include an indeterminate state: those of us who have the same background as you and traditionally prefer to code the way you describe for the most part, but have to dumb our programs down so those business programmers (or power users, as I like to call them when I'm in a good mood; or fucktards when I'm feeling particulary nasty) who took an abundance of programming courses can understand them. Proof that the universe cannot be described strictly in states of true or false!
If you want .Net so bad, the .Net Framework SDK is free. Go download it @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /downloads/list/netdevframework.asp. If you needs docs, the .Net Framework SDK Documentation is online and free as well. Command line compiling has it's adavantages; ask any *nix person. Plus, VS.Net (the SDK) is way slow, IMHO. Too much of it is interpreted.
shit, what happens when THIS one crashes?!?
Even if you're not a D&D type guy (and really, who on /. isn't)...
In all seriousness, I've never played D&D. I've never even seen the game in person. The closest I ever came was to watching the D&D cartoon on Saturday mornings 20 or so years ago.
Really, seriously.
except to save some time. Truth be told, I'd rather wire the house myself. That's most of the fun of doing it, IMHO, is the hard part. But, it would be nice to have that fiber connection. I could run one helluva game server off that thing, plus a web server, etc....ok, I changed my mind...it would be pretty sweet!
Only part the really is unsettling is paying TAXES on that sort of thing being pre-setup. Speaking of which, what kind of value WOULD that add to the house?!?
Java by any other name...
What's this Java you speak of? Oh! Yes, I think I will have a cup; two sugars, no milk, please.
COM Transaction Integrator on Microsoft SNA Server/Host Integration Server
There are a ton of products that do the same thing. There is no more advantage to using Host than any other. EntireX Broker is more easily configurable, and cheaper, IMHO.
I work at a University in south Texas somewhere within the near vicinity of UT Austin (*wink, *wink, *nudge, *nudge, *grin, *grin, say no more) in an IT department on campus. We've known for years that using someone's SSN was a bad idea, and we've tried time and time again to tell our clients (the departments within our office, and other offices across campus) this, but the business heads mostly turn a deaf ear, and our clients are too short-sighted (or stupid) to think of any way to associate data with a particular student with any other identifier other than an SSN. For any web applications we develop for these clients where students (prospective, current, alumni) can do whatever online, we have to butt heads every time when we inform them, "Hey, we can't require students to enter an SSN", but they still want the field on the form (if someone is signing up for something, for instance). We do what we can technologically to mask the data, but it's still there in one form or another. There's other problems too. We're a pretty big shop with a good budget, but there are a number of smaller shops on campus that have just enough budget to afford servers and software (gotta love those academic licensing prices!) but can't afford to hire someone to properly administer (secure) the environment. Shit, there are mails servers in colleges all over campus that aren't using SSL. Be afraid of the kid in his dorm who cracked a router and is sniffing traffic, or sitting in the library sniffing the wireless airwaves.
But, I digress: There's been talk for years of changing from SSNs to something else, but never any progress. I really hope this spurs the change.
some frustration that a couple of the hacks that interested me used ASP or VB
Anyone can learn VB. You don't even have to be a programmer. There are 4 million VB programmers out there that prove my point!
The PS2 architecture ... can also be put on one single chip.
This is just based on what I THINK I remember reading somewhere. I thought the one of the main reasons ps2 would run psx games was because ps2 included the psx processor as it's sound chip. I hope I'm not terribly wrong here. If I am, just clarify what exactly you're talking about being on "a single chip".
You made your wife have sex with a chair?!?
Is the one left open by an Admin who has no business being an Admin....
For 99.997% (Manhattan Project, anyone?) of the cases, I'd agree wholeheartedly. The rest of them, like our Network Admin where I work, are under the thumb of some stupid BEEYOTCH of an IT Director who wants to continue to use the same passwords used by the old Network Administrator (who was shitcanned by her), and refuses to allow the new guy to set newer, more secure passwords. And believe me, it's not a matter of people just not getting along. For Pete's sake, she's even yelled at me for encrypting DSN strings and sticking them in the registry of the server, instead of plopping them in a text file like everyone else, open to the world. And she totally f*cking flipped (when she read the documentation I wrote about the procedure) upon hitting the section that described how every time the DSN was accessed, read, edited, or yelled at sternly the code modified and scrambled it with a new, different algorithm. She described it as "unsafe, and taking things to an extreme that was unnecessary". She also said made some asinine comment about how we would never be able to recover the passwords if the code were ever lost, to which I recall thinking "Well first, that's job security for me, second, don't forget your goddamn passwords, and third, that's what sa access is for, you dumb bitch."
Yep, this type of commentary coming from someone who not only has no business being an IT Director, but swears on a stack of bibles she can reverse engineer MD5 in her head (we have another application that uses MD5 to hash passwords, she simply recognizes the default password hash).
I swear to God I'm not making this shit up. I wish the nasty bitch would stick to pushing pencils and leave the real work to those of us who know.
as scripting languages require less total code
Tell that to the ravenous VBScript/ASP f*cktards I work with. Jesus Christ, I think these guys have exhausted every possible variable name of all time in their code, in every application they write! The mere mention of instrinsic functions and they get that glassy-eyed stare. And, trying to get these people to write code using VBScript classes (for re-use) is like trying to pull teeth from a Gundark. MIS majors should NOT be allowed to code. (I didn't hire them).