If it were true this would be the single greatest thing MS could do for the open source community. Unfortunately I think they'll stick with the current "drug dealer" model of giving it away until they've got you hooked and then changing for it.
I often have to wonder what some of these advertisers could be smoking to think that their annoying and obnoxious ads are going to get someone to buy their product. If anything they make me want to boycott them. The advertiser that manages to create informative and persuasive ads that are delivered in a way that doesn't bother potential customers will be the winner in this war.
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Oh good, it will be international. That means the US taxpayer gets to foot the bill, and whole world gets to use it. Maybe Russia can sell trips to it for $20 M a pop while we pay to maintain it. Yeah, that's the ticket....
Do you realize just using that word is so dangerous they had to turn NMRI's into MRI's so that people wouldn't get hurt. You must be crazy!! Nuclear battery!!
Run for your life.... Ahhhhhh
Stick with the safe, clean, tried and true way to get electricity. Burn something......
Documentation is a good place to start and it may give a reasonable overview (sometimes) but I've found the best place to start is with the people that are still on the project that have written what already exists. Use their knowledge and their experience with the specification to first get a feel for how things lie and where they need to go next.
Written docs vary so much in accuracy and detail. It's too easy to read docs and think you know how things work just to find out that's where things started but now they're completely different. Sometimes the docs you have can really mislead you and waste your time. Start with the people, then do a quick once over of the docs, then start reading code. That's the way to get an accurate picure as quickly as possible.
You know what sweetheart? As I guy I'd much rather hire a female to work with. How this leads to women LEAVING IT, I don't know. My professionalism and plain old decency forces me to hire the best PERSON for the job no matter what they look like. It's just too bad there's a lot of incompetents out there that depend on their sex or the courts to get a job.... You use your sex as an excuse for your poor ability and blame those that are more skilled than you for your problems. Grow up and learn to run with the big dogs or go play with your dolly.
"Hey just because I can't code doesn't mean it isn't sexist not to hire me to work as a programmer!!!". It's amazing this country can function at all between the idiots and lawyers that represent them.
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I worked for 5 years as a manager in my previous position and I always made a huge effort to hire the most qualified person, man or woman. In that time I hired 2 men and 2 women. In general I have to agree with you that most of the guys in IT have an attitude and or ego problem. Only the very best seem to be easy going. I had far fewer issues with the ladies but I got more work out of the guys.
I've never tolerated battles of will over who's better than whom and certainly would not have allowed the type of situation you describe (wouldn't talk to you) to continue. That was your management's problem and they should have solved it for you.
You should try working with Americans. It sounds like we're a little easier to get along with (or less tolerant of bad behaviour).
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As much as I love women (after all, I'm a man) why is it a concern that women might prefer work that's a little less tedious and a little more rewarding. Maybe we should worry a little bit more about improving the quality of IT jobs and software engineering jobs in particular rather than sexist or racist issues of why we don't have equal numbers of every sexual and ethnic group in IT jobs. Is it a concern that most garbage collectors are men????
"There was an uptrun in tempratures. Species are suffering, the ice caps are melting, the glaciers have all but gone away"...
Uhhhh no. Not exactly. As a matter of fact the tempertures were actually colder (where I'm at) than they were last year at this time and, AFIK, there are over 60,000 (yes, 60,000) glaciers around the world and they seem to be doing just fine.
Try checking on your facts before you start yelling about calamity. The only calamity we face are scientists that play their data to match what their funding agency wants to see. It doesn't take co-operation just common behaviour (pandering to your support) for a common purpose (money).
Geez, take the main male character of a previous series, remove his testicles, while simultainiously injecting him/her/it with large quantities of testosterone and what do you get? A politically corrected version of a show that sucked 25 years ago.
Been doing software for 25 years, 2 kids (teenagers) and married for 17 years. Every day on the job sucks more than the last. Get out NOW while you still can! Do something else. ANYTHING ELSE..... Who hell could have known that working with technology that Mr Spock would have envied could be so drab and pedestrian after the MBA's got through with it. Man I hate business....... We need a good alien invasion (as in Alpha Centauri, not Mexico and India) to make people appreciate us again.....
OK guys, throw away all that ugly old (insert favorite language here) and (lets code it again in | lets make all our old code talk to ) (insert newest buzzword here). Now what do we make here again??
You CAN run MPI (and PVM) on Windows. You can even run a processes that share cycles between a Windows and a Linux machine. MPI and PVM are both capable of working on a heterogenius network (though MPI didn't start out that way).
I really, really (really) hope these guys are on the up and up.
However it seems very unlikely to me that after 20 years this poor lady's leg muscles COULD be revived enough to allow her to walk. I know of a documented case of a man that was in a comma for 20 years before regaining consciousness and, with no neurological issues, is still bed ridden years later. I smell something rotten here (unfortunately).
I remember reading about another 90 days to Mars proposal (acutally 120 days there and back, in Scientific American or IEEE Spectrum) that used a plasma beam over a year ago (maybe two). This one kept the beam generator on the ship and was nuclear powered (horrors!!!). That seems a lot more reasonable than building two power supplies and positioning them prior to a launch. Not to mention all the problems that could occur if you lost your deceleration beam on the way out.
I've read a few of these laser, plasma beam propulsion ideas and I'll just never be comfortable unless I can reach back there and check the spark plugs myself.
Oh that's rich. Steven Ballmer calling other people thieves. That's like OJ Simpson calling Charles Manson a killer.
Maybe we should get Ballmer, Ellison, Gates, Scott McNeally and Steven Jobs all in a celebrity death match free for all. The last man standing gets it all. Linus Torvalds and Robert X Cringely can host it.... I'm betting on McNeally, he's a scrappy looking fellow. Of course Torvalds could kick whatever's left of his butt after all that...
This is off topic but I just downloaded Eclipse and I've been using NetBeans. So far I like NetBeans better. What's the advantage of Eclipse. It seems, sort of, awkward and ugly.
Not flamebait, just the opinion of someone that's been using it for all of 15 minutes. Any insites?
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.ht ml
If you like C#, VB and.NET that's fine. Unfortunately MS's revenue stream requires that they change your environment on a regular basis. In my opinion that's the worst thing in the world for professional developers. Proficiency comes with experience and if you shift the syntax and grammer around on me every couple of years it's pretty hard to get really good at anything. At least Java is, pretty much, the same now as it's always been for nearly 10 years. Can you say that about VB?
I used to know a guy, like your friend, who was the maintenance man at a thermometer company. He checked for natural gas leaks with his lighter. Notice I said "used to"...
Your buddy interested in checking for radioactivity in old Nuc boat reactors? It's good money for the right suc.. er, I mean guy!!
"I'm still amazed that 90% of consumers are completely oblivious"
I'm amazed you're amazed. 98% of consumers probably wouldn't know what a video connection standard is if it fell out of the sky, landed on their face and started to squirm. Let's find out:
Interview guy: Hey you! We're here asking people on the street, what do YOU think of the DVI video connection standard?
Consumer: Uhhhhh, uhhhh, uhhhh, do have some change? I haven't eaten in three days...
After that "lets create a new keyboard" thing, nobody listens to Dvorak. Besides, what the heck kind of name is Dvorak? Sounds like a new German car company.....
"First, kill all the lawyers".. then we can do the marketing dept and then, just for fun, lets go after the accountants. They're like fish in a barrel anyway.
I've done a lot of things in Java and C# looks like it's just a MS'd version of Java. I live in the *nix world anyway so C# wouldn't do me much good anyway.
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If it were true this would be the single greatest thing MS could do for the open source community. Unfortunately I think they'll stick with the current "drug dealer" model of giving it away until they've got you hooked and then changing for it.
Here here! Well said!
I often have to wonder what some of these advertisers could be smoking to think that their annoying and obnoxious ads are going to get someone to buy their product. If anything they make me want to boycott them. The advertiser that manages to create informative and persuasive ads that are delivered in a way that doesn't bother potential customers will be the winner in this war.
Oh good, it will be international. That means the US taxpayer gets to foot the bill, and whole world gets to use it. Maybe Russia can sell trips to it for $20 M a pop while we pay to maintain it. Yeah, that's the ticket....
Geez did I get the wrong article!! I thought this was about Bill Gates....
Nuclear!!!
Do you realize just using that word is so dangerous they had to turn NMRI's into MRI's so that people wouldn't get hurt. You must be crazy!! Nuclear battery!!
Run for your life.... Ahhhhhh
Stick with the safe, clean, tried and true way to get electricity. Burn something......
Brought to you by YOUR GOOD FRIENDS at OPEC
Documentation is a good place to start and it may give a reasonable overview (sometimes) but I've found the best place to start is with the people that are still on the project that have written what already exists. Use their knowledge and their experience with the specification to first get a feel for how things lie and where they need to go next.
Written docs vary so much in accuracy and detail. It's too easy to read docs and think you know how things work just to find out that's where things started but now they're completely different. Sometimes the docs you have can really mislead you and waste your time. Start with the people, then do a quick once over of the docs, then start reading code. That's the way to get an accurate picure as quickly as possible.
Here, here. Couldn't have said it better myself,
Cheers..
You know what sweetheart? As I guy I'd much rather hire a female to work with. How this leads to women LEAVING IT, I don't know. My professionalism and plain old decency forces me to hire the best PERSON for the job no matter what they look like. It's just too bad there's a lot of incompetents out there that depend on their sex or the courts to get a job.... You use your sex as an excuse for your poor ability and blame those that are more skilled than you for your problems. Grow up and learn to run with the big dogs or go play with your dolly.
"Hey just because I can't code doesn't mean it isn't sexist not to hire me to work as a programmer!!!". It's amazing this country can function at all between the idiots and lawyers that represent them.
I worked for 5 years as a manager in my previous position and I always made a huge effort to hire the most qualified person, man or woman. In that time I hired 2 men and 2 women. In general I have to agree with you that most of the guys in IT have an attitude and or ego problem. Only the very best seem to be easy going. I had far fewer issues with the ladies but I got more work out of the guys.
I've never tolerated battles of will over who's better than whom and certainly would not have allowed the type of situation you describe (wouldn't talk to you) to continue. That was your management's problem and they should have solved it for you.
You should try working with Americans. It sounds like we're a little easier to get along with (or less tolerant of bad behaviour).
As much as I love women (after all, I'm a man) why is it a concern that women might prefer work that's a little less tedious and a little more rewarding. Maybe we should worry a little bit more about improving the quality of IT jobs and software engineering jobs in particular rather than sexist or racist issues of why we don't have equal numbers of every sexual and ethnic group in IT jobs. Is it a concern that most garbage collectors are men????
"There was an uptrun in tempratures. Species are suffering, the ice caps are melting, the glaciers have all but gone away"...
Uhhhh no. Not exactly. As a matter of fact the tempertures were actually colder (where I'm at) than they were last year at this time and, AFIK, there are over 60,000 (yes, 60,000) glaciers around the world and they seem to be doing just fine.
Try checking on your facts before you start yelling about calamity. The only calamity we face are scientists that play their data to match what their funding agency wants to see. It doesn't take co-operation just common behaviour (pandering to your support) for a common purpose (money).
ALSO SEE: Lemmings.
You must be joking!!
Geez, take the main male character of a previous series, remove his testicles, while simultainiously injecting him/her/it with large quantities of testosterone and what do you get? A politically corrected version of a show that sucked 25 years ago.
Best SciFi indeed....
Been doing software for 25 years, 2 kids (teenagers) and married for 17 years. Every day on the job sucks more than the last. Get out NOW while you still can! Do something else. ANYTHING ELSE..... Who hell could have known that working with technology that Mr Spock would have envied could be so drab and pedestrian after the MBA's got through with it. Man I hate business....... We need a good alien invasion (as in Alpha Centauri, not Mexico and India) to make people appreciate us again.....
Another language paradigm....
OK guys, throw away all that ugly old (insert favorite language here) and (lets code it again in | lets make all our old code talk to ) (insert newest buzzword here). Now what do we make here again??
You CAN run MPI (and PVM) on Windows. You can even run a processes that share cycles between a Windows and a Linux machine. MPI and PVM are both capable of working on a heterogenius network (though MPI didn't start out that way).
I really, really (really) hope these guys are on the up and up.
However it seems very unlikely to me that after 20 years this poor lady's leg muscles COULD be revived enough to allow her to walk. I know of a documented case of a man that was in a comma for 20 years before regaining consciousness and, with no neurological issues, is still bed ridden years later. I smell something rotten here (unfortunately).
I remember reading about another 90 days to Mars proposal (acutally 120 days there and back, in Scientific American or IEEE Spectrum) that used a plasma beam over a year ago (maybe two). This one kept the beam generator on the ship and was nuclear powered (horrors!!!). That seems a lot more reasonable than building two power supplies and positioning them prior to a launch. Not to mention all the problems that could occur if you lost your deceleration beam on the way out.
I've read a few of these laser, plasma beam propulsion ideas and I'll just never be comfortable unless I can reach back there and check the spark plugs myself.
Oh that's rich. Steven Ballmer calling other people thieves. That's like OJ Simpson calling Charles Manson a killer.
Maybe we should get Ballmer, Ellison, Gates, Scott McNeally and Steven Jobs all in a celebrity death match free for all. The last man standing gets it all. Linus Torvalds and Robert X Cringely can host it.... I'm betting on McNeally, he's a scrappy looking fellow. Of course Torvalds could kick whatever's left of his butt after all that...
This is off topic but I just downloaded Eclipse and I've been using NetBeans. So far I like NetBeans better. What's the advantage of Eclipse. It seems, sort of, awkward and ugly.
Not flamebait, just the opinion of someone that's been using it for all of 15 minutes. Any insites?
Here's why:
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.NET that's fine. Unfortunately MS's revenue stream requires that they change your environment on a regular basis. In my opinion that's the worst thing in the world for professional developers. Proficiency comes with experience and if you shift the syntax and grammer around on me every couple of years it's pretty hard to get really good at anything. At least Java is, pretty much, the same now as it's always been for nearly 10 years. Can you say that about VB?
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.h
If you like C#, VB and
I used to know a guy, like your friend, who was the maintenance man at a thermometer company. He checked for natural gas leaks with his lighter. Notice I said "used to"...
Your buddy interested in checking for radioactivity in old Nuc boat reactors? It's good money for the right suc.. er, I mean guy!!
"I'm still amazed that 90% of consumers are completely oblivious"
I'm amazed you're amazed. 98% of consumers probably wouldn't know what a video connection standard is if it fell out of the sky, landed on their face and started to squirm. Let's find out:
Interview guy: Hey you! We're here asking people on the street, what do YOU think of the DVI video connection standard?
Consumer: Uhhhhh, uhhhh, uhhhh, do have some change? I haven't eaten in three days...
After that "lets create a new keyboard" thing, nobody listens to Dvorak. Besides, what the heck kind of name is Dvorak? Sounds like a new German car company.....
"First, kill all the lawyers" .. then we can do the marketing dept and then, just for fun, lets go after the accountants. They're like fish in a barrel anyway.
Why do you think so?
I've done a lot of things in Java and C# looks like it's just a MS'd version of Java. I live in the *nix world anyway so C# wouldn't do me much good anyway.