Shrug. I/T is union in certain parts of the industry I work in (Mass Media). Doesn't mean I think it's a good idea.
If you can't hold a job simply because you're more competent and qualified than the rest of the jokers who want it, then you shouldn't be allowed to hold on to it. And if management wants to fire you and hire unskilled, unqualified workers to replace you, then the consequences will be on their heads...and if they can get away with it, then you probably aren't as skilled as you thought you were. It's happened to me before, and I doubt I'm alone.
Don't attribute to me what I didn't say. There is a world of difference between skilled labor and unskilled labor, whether the skill is programming, brain surgery, or carpentry. If you can't walk off the street and pick it up in a matter of weeks, then it's skilled.
Besides, what carpenter worth his salt only uses a hammer anyway? If I'd said, "Picked up a hammer, chisel, and 20,000 dollars worth of specialty woodworking tools..." then you would have had a better point.
Coincidentally, the article was written by the whiniest, least productive member of the Wired Staff, the guy who writes the "Luddite" column, and who, on a site full of people who often make me grit my teeth, stands out as a clear leader in the spouting of irrational crap.
I'm in an industry that is very heavily unionized, and all I see is crap coming out of it. It is a system that rewards inertia, inefficency, and placeholding. And I'm speaking as a guy with a wife and family, and as someone whose department has been hacked in half in the last year, so don't give me crap about me "not understanding the plight of the american IT worker".
It's a cutthroat, high stress business, and we're competitive because we're cutthroat high stress people...Turn that into a system of sinecures and self-important jackasses who think they're entitled to excellent treatment just because their fat ass is already in the spot? The idea makes me sick.
This isn't a business where you can just walk in off the street, pick up a hammer, and get to work. You have to study, you have to work, you have to be skilled. If you are those things, you may still not find a job...But at least it won't be because some less skilled, less dilligent, less educated person can't be fired because of his union connections.
Talk socialism? Right now, today, in this business, we're actually in a position to create value from powerful, freely available tools. The workers control the means of production! It's the fricking socialist dream! You want that and free doughnuts too?
Yea, faction + raid is ridiculous. I couldn't agree more. However, plain old faction is pretty cool for a lot of reasons. First off, if it's not raid faction, you can actually solo yourself up to Exalted. It'll take for-fricking-ever, but you can do it, and it'll give you access to stuff that other people will lust after.
Faction is just a way to add something cool, open up new quest trees, and crafting abilities, all without forcing the player to have 20+ friends who are willing to help them along.
I'm in it with a decent sized group of geographically-seperated friends, and I'm a pvp guy which helps as well, but, I admit, I get seriously tired of raid content.
I think they could do a lot more with the faction stuff...too many factions are just a killing grind, and the ones that aren't a killing grind are a resource grind. They need some faction stuff that is long term and hardcore, that involves a bunch of quests, and provides decent rewards. Wouldn't mind them expanding crafting either.
Hmmm. Renew and Regrowth are substantial at higher levels. Wonder what the casting time/cooldown is on it?
Not that it matters that much. It annoys me when they release dribs and drabs of info, because it leads to tons of pointless speculation a la cable news.
Well, I haven't played a non-pvp server since forever ago, but they definitely do a lot of camping at Tarren Mill.
One of the things they did fix with the honor system is giving people dishonorable kills for killing non-pvp flagged quest givers, so that's not much of a problem anymore.
The bulk of physical piracy happens in Asia, not in the US or the UK. The only physical piracy I've ever even seen was small time stuff at flea markets.
I'd be real interested in seeing the RIAA trying to pull the "DVD Sniffing Dogs" show on the Chinese government.
a) I don't have authority to make that purchasing descision (which technically isn't true)
b) All software descisions are made at the corporate level, so they;ll need to talk to corporate first. (It's like the proton meeting the anti-proton...Who cares who wins?)
c) I don't have any free money in the budget for this period (sometimes they call back after this one, so it's a last resort)
For god's sake don't stay on the phone with the jokers. Only bad things will come of that.
Yea, I have to admit, that's my personal theory as well. People who play Horde tend to be more agressive and pvp-centric. My supporting evidence is the amount of alliance high-level content guilds in all the servers I've played on, vs the number of horde guilds. It's not just a difference in raw numbers...Alliance proportionally gets together more lvl 60 raid guilds in my experience. It just seems to suggest some mental divergence in game focus.
I remember Hunter specifically, because I want to play one. I think they're trying to give them a kind of dark racial personality, so you end up with a lot of damage dealing classes, and no healers.
Agreed. The php online manual is one of the best features of the language. I also like how it's presented; simple and esaily searchable.
I went and picked up O'Reilly's Safari Service, and while it is perfectly sufficient for slogging through an entire book, it's pretty inadequate the day-to-day function reference stuff, mainly due to its clunky interface. Fine, you need to split the pages up, but if I have to load a new page more than once a chapter, I'm going to be pissed. I'm not pleasure reading here, I want an answer and I want it now.
Yea, I agree, those are all wretchedly abused pieces of IP.
The thing about Shadowrun that makes this really funny, is that the most unique thing about it was the actualy game mechanics, which will in no way translate to a console system, leaving them with a backstory that's much less fully developed than a lot of competitors (or was the last time I played it, which has been 10 years or more, so don't flame me too hard).
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If they write SQL like most people write PHP...yeesh.
In my experience, the people who generally most need SQL books like this are the report guys...You know, not really IT, just kinda work on the fringes of things with Access and Crystal Reports...Don't know much about code, but are good with the data. I can see one of these being really useful. I have the Java Cookbook (and the Php cookbook, as it happens. =P), and they're pretty handy, though they fill a niche that I usually fill with google.
Blood elf classes, if I remember correctly, are Hunter, Rogue, Mage, Warlock, Warrior. That was from a gamespot preview I read a few weeks ago.
I doubt they'll move the faction specific classes around...that's one of the few things that will drive you to play one side or the other. I was wondering for a while if we'd get new options for druid, but that seems to not be the case either.
Having played both of the "ZOMG SO OVER POWERED NERF NERF" classes to 60, I can confidently say that people who honestly believe that one class causes all the swing are completely wrong. For every alliance player who swears Shammys are unbeatable, there is a horde player who's frothing at the mouth because Pallys are unkillable.
Yea sure, 1 on 1 a shammy can beat a pally, I'd say 3 times out of 5 easily, all other things being equal. At the same time, 2 pallys in a pvp group is just fricking WRONG.
Considering that I've been playing for a looong time, on multiple servers, for both factions, the one thing I have noticed is that there is always a population imbalance favoring the alliance. At the same time, there is often a battleground win/loss ratio that favors the horde. Now why this is the case, I have no idea. But I have noticed that when the alliance organizes, they tend to clean up, because they generally have better equipment.
So why do they not do as well in even contests? I have no idea. Probably does have something to do with the differing mindsets though, people who would choose one side over another. What that says about the various sides, I have no idea.
This totally sums up all the "problems" people have with the paladin.
On the one hand, they only need to push one button.
On the other hand, everybody thinks its the wrong damn button.
There is no way to win. I stopped playing my pally because I could never get any pvp respect. Jacked criticals using a fast two-hander and laying down the hate about as well as a paladin possibly can, and what do I get? "OMG Duud why ar3nt joo healing m3?! N00B! U suck wtf" People would whine and whine because I had no interest in gimping myself and following them around healing. I'd duel them, win and they still wouldn't shut up about what my job was.
If there was a way to change your name to "IamNotYerHealBitch" I'd still be playing that character.
Oh yea: Gnomes are the second best at escaping crowd control, with their "Get out of Root free" card.
You knew it had to be that way...So far Alliance have gotten all the types who were interested in pretty characters, and Horde have gotten all the types that were interested in pure carnage, so by flipping the expansion races they're hoping to even out the players between the factions.
A lot of the time it's not the same prosecutor, so the integrity of one is not necessarily the integrity of the other.
Additionally, this sort of action is morally indefensible, and no doubt the company took a great deal of flack from it's customers over it. It is entirely possible that the company asked the prosecutor to quietly drop charges, so it wouldn't be brought back to the forefront of its customers minds.
Or it could be that the court district is running out of money, and doesn't want to waste money on another trial...There is a district in N.C that is letting first and second degree murderers plead manslaughter because they can't afford murder trials.
Or it could just be that the public is getting more savvy, and the prosecutor felt uneasy about the jury selection.
The cardinal rule is to avoid extra writes. Even in CPU cache memory, writes take up a decent amount of time.
The reason monolithic kernels are faster is because they don't have any kind of overhead on that kind of memory manipulation. In a monolithic kernel, there is no process A or B...There is only process A1, A2, A3, and they're all dealing with the kernel. The kernel says, "Run, there's your data" and the process works on data that is already available.
A good analogy would be an assembly line. In the monolithic assembly line, a worker is given the go-ahead, walks out, and does his job on a product that's sitting in the middle of a bunch of products that other workers are working on. There is no overhead, but there is a security risk...The worker may be malicious, and screw with everyone else's products.
In the micro assembly line, the worker is given the go-ahead, he walks to his own room, and tells the guy there the number of the product that he's supposed to be working on. The guy goes and gets the product, and then the worker works on it. When the worker is done working on it, the product is put away. See, there is a whole extra level of management there, and extra read/write operations dealing with the memory (product) that the process (worker) is dealing with.
It's more secure, sure, but the overhead is going to be deemed unacceptable by many applications. To be honest, I don't think microkernel is suitable for every application. It definitely has its place, but I don't think most users will care. I mean, half the linux servers I use are single function boxes with EXTREMELY tight access controls. If they get hacked, I rebuild 'em from the ground up. I'm not worried about kernel security half as much as I'm worried about performance.
Meh. He didn't start off as an albino, that was a post-death sort of thing, and the rest of the story is hugely divergent. I'm willing to give 'em the benefit of the doubt on that one, just because the story elements add up on both, and only incidentally intersect on that one point before flying off into the wilderness again on either side.
It seems pretty clear that you can be predisposed to get cancer, so why not the reverse? Surely having the reverse of whatever factor (or combination of factors) that would cause person X to be more likely to get cancer would make you less likely to get the same cancer.
The problem, as always, is finding those people. Nobody goes to the doctor because they *don't* have cancer. Or you could end up with people like my mother, who smoked her whole life and died of a cancer that can't be aquired from smoking. Was she resistant to cancer, or not resistant to cancer? Or both, seeing as how a predisposition to get, for example, brain cancer, doesn't preclude a predisposition to not get skin cancer.
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Shrug. I/T is union in certain parts of the industry I work in (Mass Media). Doesn't mean I think it's a good idea.
If you can't hold a job simply because you're more competent and qualified than the rest of the jokers who want it, then you shouldn't be allowed to hold on to it. And if management wants to fire you and hire unskilled, unqualified workers to replace you, then the consequences will be on their heads...and if they can get away with it, then you probably aren't as skilled as you thought you were. It's happened to me before, and I doubt I'm alone.
Don't attribute to me what I didn't say. There is a world of difference between skilled labor and unskilled labor, whether the skill is programming, brain surgery, or carpentry. If you can't walk off the street and pick it up in a matter of weeks, then it's skilled.
Besides, what carpenter worth his salt only uses a hammer anyway? If I'd said, "Picked up a hammer, chisel, and 20,000 dollars worth of specialty woodworking tools..." then you would have had a better point.
Coincidentally, the article was written by the whiniest, least productive member of the Wired Staff, the guy who writes the "Luddite" column, and who, on a site full of people who often make me grit my teeth, stands out as a clear leader in the spouting of irrational crap.
I'm in an industry that is very heavily unionized, and all I see is crap coming out of it. It is a system that rewards inertia, inefficency, and placeholding. And I'm speaking as a guy with a wife and family, and as someone whose department has been hacked in half in the last year, so don't give me crap about me "not understanding the plight of the american IT worker".
It's a cutthroat, high stress business, and we're competitive because we're cutthroat high stress people...Turn that into a system of sinecures and self-important jackasses who think they're entitled to excellent treatment just because their fat ass is already in the spot? The idea makes me sick.
This isn't a business where you can just walk in off the street, pick up a hammer, and get to work. You have to study, you have to work, you have to be skilled. If you are those things, you may still not find a job...But at least it won't be because some less skilled, less dilligent, less educated person can't be fired because of his union connections.
Talk socialism? Right now, today, in this business, we're actually in a position to create value from powerful, freely available tools. The workers control the means of production! It's the fricking socialist dream! You want that and free doughnuts too?
Yea, faction + raid is ridiculous. I couldn't agree more. However, plain old faction is pretty cool for a lot of reasons. First off, if it's not raid faction, you can actually solo yourself up to Exalted. It'll take for-fricking-ever, but you can do it, and it'll give you access to stuff that other people will lust after.
Faction is just a way to add something cool, open up new quest trees, and crafting abilities, all without forcing the player to have 20+ friends who are willing to help them along.
I think they should stay where they are...It's enough to be the cheapest modern console without being suspiciously cheap.
I'm in it with a decent sized group of geographically-seperated friends, and I'm a pvp guy which helps as well, but, I admit, I get seriously tired of raid content.
I think they could do a lot more with the faction stuff...too many factions are just a killing grind, and the ones that aren't a killing grind are a resource grind. They need some faction stuff that is long term and hardcore, that involves a bunch of quests, and provides decent rewards. Wouldn't mind them expanding crafting either.
Hmmm. Renew and Regrowth are substantial at higher levels. Wonder what the casting time/cooldown is on it?
Not that it matters that much. It annoys me when they release dribs and drabs of info, because it leads to tons of pointless speculation a la cable news.
Well, I haven't played a non-pvp server since forever ago, but they definitely do a lot of camping at Tarren Mill.
One of the things they did fix with the honor system is giving people dishonorable kills for killing non-pvp flagged quest givers, so that's not much of a problem anymore.
The bulk of physical piracy happens in Asia, not in the US or the UK. The only physical piracy I've ever even seen was small time stuff at flea markets.
I'd be real interested in seeing the RIAA trying to pull the "DVD Sniffing Dogs" show on the Chinese government.
I always just tell them that:
a) I don't have authority to make that purchasing descision (which technically isn't true)
b) All software descisions are made at the corporate level, so they;ll need to talk to corporate first. (It's like the proton meeting the anti-proton...Who cares who wins?)
c) I don't have any free money in the budget for this period (sometimes they call back after this one, so it's a last resort)
For god's sake don't stay on the phone with the jokers. Only bad things will come of that.
Yea, I have to admit, that's my personal theory as well. People who play Horde tend to be more agressive and pvp-centric. My supporting evidence is the amount of alliance high-level content guilds in all the servers I've played on, vs the number of horde guilds. It's not just a difference in raw numbers...Alliance proportionally gets together more lvl 60 raid guilds in my experience. It just seems to suggest some mental divergence in game focus.
I remember Hunter specifically, because I want to play one. I think they're trying to give them a kind of dark racial personality, so you end up with a lot of damage dealing classes, and no healers.
Agreed. The php online manual is one of the best features of the language. I also like how it's presented; simple and esaily searchable.
I went and picked up O'Reilly's Safari Service, and while it is perfectly sufficient for slogging through an entire book, it's pretty inadequate the day-to-day function reference stuff, mainly due to its clunky interface. Fine, you need to split the pages up, but if I have to load a new page more than once a chapter, I'm going to be pissed. I'm not pleasure reading here, I want an answer and I want it now.
Yea, I agree, those are all wretchedly abused pieces of IP.
The thing about Shadowrun that makes this really funny, is that the most unique thing about it was the actualy game mechanics, which will in no way translate to a console system, leaving them with a backstory that's much less fully developed than a lot of competitors (or was the last time I played it, which has been 10 years or more, so don't flame me too hard).
If they write SQL like most people write PHP...yeesh.
In my experience, the people who generally most need SQL books like this are the report guys...You know, not really IT, just kinda work on the fringes of things with Access and Crystal Reports...Don't know much about code, but are good with the data. I can see one of these being really useful. I have the Java Cookbook (and the Php cookbook, as it happens. =P), and they're pretty handy, though they fill a niche that I usually fill with google.
I think you mean: iWii
Goddamn that's a lot of I. There is no "i" in team, but there is one in "win" and there are fricking three in iWii...
*walks off shaking his head and muttering to himself*
Blood elf classes, if I remember correctly, are Hunter, Rogue, Mage, Warlock, Warrior. That was from a gamespot preview I read a few weeks ago.
I doubt they'll move the faction specific classes around...that's one of the few things that will drive you to play one side or the other. I was wondering for a while if we'd get new options for druid, but that seems to not be the case either.
Having played both of the "ZOMG SO OVER POWERED NERF NERF" classes to 60, I can confidently say that people who honestly believe that one class causes all the swing are completely wrong. For every alliance player who swears Shammys are unbeatable, there is a horde player who's frothing at the mouth because Pallys are unkillable.
Yea sure, 1 on 1 a shammy can beat a pally, I'd say 3 times out of 5 easily, all other things being equal. At the same time, 2 pallys in a pvp group is just fricking WRONG.
Considering that I've been playing for a looong time, on multiple servers, for both factions, the one thing I have noticed is that there is always a population imbalance favoring the alliance. At the same time, there is often a battleground win/loss ratio that favors the horde. Now why this is the case, I have no idea. But I have noticed that when the alliance organizes, they tend to clean up, because they generally have better equipment.
So why do they not do as well in even contests? I have no idea. Probably does have something to do with the differing mindsets though, people who would choose one side over another. What that says about the various sides, I have no idea.
This totally sums up all the "problems" people have with the paladin.
On the one hand, they only need to push one button.
On the other hand, everybody thinks its the wrong damn button.
There is no way to win. I stopped playing my pally because I could never get any pvp respect. Jacked criticals using a fast two-hander and laying down the hate about as well as a paladin possibly can, and what do I get? "OMG Duud why ar3nt joo healing m3?! N00B! U suck wtf" People would whine and whine because I had no interest in gimping myself and following them around healing. I'd duel them, win and they still wouldn't shut up about what my job was.
If there was a way to change your name to "IamNotYerHealBitch" I'd still be playing that character.
Oh yea: Gnomes are the second best at escaping crowd control, with their "Get out of Root free" card.
You knew it had to be that way...So far Alliance have gotten all the types who were interested in pretty characters, and Horde have gotten all the types that were interested in pure carnage, so by flipping the expansion races they're hoping to even out the players between the factions.
I'm all for it if it lowers the bg queues.
A lot of the time it's not the same prosecutor, so the integrity of one is not necessarily the integrity of the other.
Additionally, this sort of action is morally indefensible, and no doubt the company took a great deal of flack from it's customers over it. It is entirely possible that the company asked the prosecutor to quietly drop charges, so it wouldn't be brought back to the forefront of its customers minds.
Or it could be that the court district is running out of money, and doesn't want to waste money on another trial...There is a district in N.C that is letting first and second degree murderers plead manslaughter because they can't afford murder trials.
Or it could just be that the public is getting more savvy, and the prosecutor felt uneasy about the jury selection.
The cardinal rule is to avoid extra writes. Even in CPU cache memory, writes take up a decent amount of time.
The reason monolithic kernels are faster is because they don't have any kind of overhead on that kind of memory manipulation. In a monolithic kernel, there is no process A or B...There is only process A1, A2, A3, and they're all dealing with the kernel. The kernel says, "Run, there's your data" and the process works on data that is already available.
A good analogy would be an assembly line. In the monolithic assembly line, a worker is given the go-ahead, walks out, and does his job on a product that's sitting in the middle of a bunch of products that other workers are working on. There is no overhead, but there is a security risk...The worker may be malicious, and screw with everyone else's products.
In the micro assembly line, the worker is given the go-ahead, he walks to his own room, and tells the guy there the number of the product that he's supposed to be working on. The guy goes and gets the product, and then the worker works on it. When the worker is done working on it, the product is put away. See, there is a whole extra level of management there, and extra read/write operations dealing with the memory (product) that the process (worker) is dealing with.
It's more secure, sure, but the overhead is going to be deemed unacceptable by many applications. To be honest, I don't think microkernel is suitable for every application. It definitely has its place, but I don't think most users will care. I mean, half the linux servers I use are single function boxes with EXTREMELY tight access controls. If they get hacked, I rebuild 'em from the ground up. I'm not worried about kernel security half as much as I'm worried about performance.
Meh. He didn't start off as an albino, that was a post-death sort of thing, and the rest of the story is hugely divergent. I'm willing to give 'em the benefit of the doubt on that one, just because the story elements add up on both, and only incidentally intersect on that one point before flying off into the wilderness again on either side.
It seems pretty clear that you can be predisposed to get cancer, so why not the reverse? Surely having the reverse of whatever factor (or combination of factors) that would cause person X to be more likely to get cancer would make you less likely to get the same cancer.
The problem, as always, is finding those people. Nobody goes to the doctor because they *don't* have cancer. Or you could end up with people like my mother, who smoked her whole life and died of a cancer that can't be aquired from smoking. Was she resistant to cancer, or not resistant to cancer? Or both, seeing as how a predisposition to get, for example, brain cancer, doesn't preclude a predisposition to not get skin cancer.
Heh. I do that too. Make's my wife hit me, when we're sitting together...Now I have a good excuse!
"But dear, if I stop doing this I may get DVT, and be in excrutiating pain, and on blood thinners for the rest of my life!"