I think it's more content then quality. I watch a lot of stuff but the really good movies are only available on DVD. If there's something I want to watch streaming I'll watch it unless the quality is so bad I get a choppy looking slideshow.
I long since moved to Spybot Search and Destory. That thing was ass even back then, it would slow down my old pentium to an unusable state. Doesn't sounds like they've gotten better in the past 5 years.
I've sat in on several United States Armed Forces meeting where they were writing documentation for the software I was working on. A bunch of GS-12+ civilian employees arguing for half an hour over where the place the word 'the'. It's not just academics, you get any large enough group trying to compile a document at the same time and it's going to be a clusterfuck.
There are a couple of scenarios here.
1. They want to scare people away, seriously people bullshit their resumes and employers want to herd out the douchebags. This is by far the most common according to my HR resources.
2. The hiring manager is an idiot, and simply stuck as many buzz words as possible on the list.
3. They have a candidate they want to hire, but must post the position to be fair to everyone (ties into number 1).
These policies are dictated by a bevy of state and federal laws. The threats of civil lawsuits and the state/federal agencies auditing you keeps companies in compliance with these laws. My spouse does HR for a large company and there is a lot of accountability in their HR department. Maybe at shit-co the 2 person chop house where your boss is the HR manager you get power mongers in the HR dept. But any good company will follow the regulations and should be able to point you to a guidance on why they do what they do. And if they can't you should seriously consider a new employer.
I was going to echo the same thing. I signed up when they first started and noticed quite quickly there was a lot of work for a nickel. And it doesn't seem to have gotten any better. Over the course of a year I think I earned less than $2 USD. Lately it seems there was a lot of SPAM/Pr0n attacks going on as well.
I don't know about Java but C# does this. Supposedly it's not noticeable but in a large Server app we're seeing massive amounts of time being spent in GC. Some of this is object churn and burn, but to stop all code execution while GC runs is a bad design IMO..Net 4.0 is now supposed to be different and does differential GC in the background all the time so your apps don't stop running completely while the GC runs.
Maybe it's just me but I see paying over 500 dollars for a cell phone no matter how cool, bending over. I would never buy an iPhone for the same reason.
But after looking at buying a Nexus One there were 2 primary options. Bend over and pay full price or bend over to T-Mobile and pay their price and lock in. And they only had two plans that were complete shit. I support as many new phones as possible but this wasn't priced well and the plan options they did offer just plain sucked.
Just for shits and giggles I looked at applying to NASA until I realized my starting pay grade was around 45,000 USD per year. It would be a huge pay cut and even if the cost of living was lower that's a big blow to the wallet.
And I'm glad I did. Besides Goo (which was worth the price of admission) the rest of the games were lackluster at best. They were indie games but for stuff meant to run on lower end hardware I was pretty surprised by the hardware reqs for the games. I guess my old rig can't even do indie games at this point in time.
I was going to MOD this up as super informative but I had to pipe in myself;)
Having worked in a small startup, a major Fortune 500, and in between companies this kind of thing is by far the best approach over the long run. The places where the DB/Code guys are separate always end up with a better product. Simply because it allows people who excel at something to really apply that benefit to what their doing. I love writing code but hate writing SQL and maintaining databases. So I tend to focus on the code and the DB stuff gets done but pretty half assed. Now people could say you should do it all equally well but in real life that never happens. Let the database go do his thing and the programmer guy do his thing. Get them talking together and your product will benefit greatly.
Also when logic is in procs, views, whatever you don't need to redeploy anything to achieve results. Simply change the database and it's done.
"Choose freedom first and interested parties will take care of attributes like security, ease-of-use, and compatibility over time."
That's his entire point, OSS doesn't have enough people looking at the code who can actually do something to fix security problems. I'm a developer but I don't know jack shit about the linux kernel so I stand a small chance of being able to help it. Maybe I should hunker down and spend the next 6 months learning the code and then the next 6 months getting commit access and then finally I might be able to make linux more secure. MS has an army of well paid and highly talented folks who are working on these issues every day. And guess what it shows in their products. Sorry folks but it's been Linx the year of the desktop! for waaaaay too long now. People here bash MS but they put out highly polished products that get the job done for a lot of users every day. Competition is good and I wish the OSS people out there the best but man they got some work ahead of them.
Has it now moved the 2000s in terms of features now? Or can I still poke fun at for being the kid on the bus who is just a little slower than the rest of us.
I have to agree 100%. I have several desktop based applications that I wrote in C#. I found getting users to download and install the.net framework was a huge PITA. You can guard against this if you have a decent installer solution that required the user to download the framework and the smallest framework redistributable is 25 MB I believe. Because of this I have pretty much given up on.net for the desktop. I'm moving back to native code only so users don't have to download entire frameworks to run my apps. With windows 7 this might change since the OS has the latest framework. And I heard somewhere MS is now going to distribute the.net framework via windows update (why they didn't do this from day 1 I have no idea). Java IMO has the same issues users still have to download a runtime and deal with different versions of said runtime. Servers are a different matter entirely, code whatever best suites you and your needs there.
What's the crime rate like now? I'm seriously on the fence about this one. They put in new cameras in Pioneer Park (SLC, Utah) and supposedly the drug/gang/prostitution rate dropped dramatically. Of course now everyone pisses and moans because they just moved over a few blocks to the residential neighborhood. So I'm curious how a city wide effort would work and what its results are.
But my wife received a letter from her Employer asking her to lobby her congress/senate folks on behalf of the health care debate. She didn't feel comfortable doing it at all and told her boss so. What you do at your home should be purely divorced from your work. I'm sure there are some places where this doesn't hold, but I think most office drone jobs don't apply. I think it's pure bullshit and someone should call their sorry asses on the carpet for it. I'll vote or lobby whoever the fuck I want and however I see fit.
Most parents send their children to either a public or private institution. According to government data, one-tenth of students are enrolled in private schools. Approximately 85% of students enter the public schools,[14] largely because they are "free" (tax burdens by school districts vary from area to area). Most students attend school for around six hours per day, and usually anywhere from 175 to 185 days per year. Most schools have a summer break period for about two and half months from June through August. This break is much longer than in many other nations. Originally, "summer vacation," as it is colloquially called, allowed students to participate in the harvest period during the summer.[citation needed] However, this remains largely by tradition. The other option available and being taken up by some schools is Year-round school.
I don't know about OO.org (sorry but it just doesn't compete with MS Office) but a lot of places are still running office 2000/2003 simply because it works well for them.
'The people that are stupid and dont read the bottle that says" DO NOT TAKE MORE THAN XXX in a 24 hour period." It's clear as day on the fricking bottle.'
Not really look at a tylenol bottle. Yeah it says no more then 6 or 12 in a day but it's incredibly tiny and hard to read. And nowhere does it talk about using it with other drugs of that type other then a generic consult your doctor blah blah blah. And who talks about tylenol with your doctor? I means it's been on the market a while and is 100% safe right? I agree there is a lot of stupid shit out there but I feel this case isn't one of them.
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I think it's more content then quality. I watch a lot of stuff but the really good movies are only available on DVD. If there's something I want to watch streaming I'll watch it unless the quality is so bad I get a choppy looking slideshow.
I long since moved to Spybot Search and Destory. That thing was ass even back then, it would slow down my old pentium to an unusable state. Doesn't sounds like they've gotten better in the past 5 years.
I've sat in on several United States Armed Forces meeting where they were writing documentation for the software I was working on. A bunch of GS-12+ civilian employees arguing for half an hour over where the place the word 'the'. It's not just academics, you get any large enough group trying to compile a document at the same time and it's going to be a clusterfuck.
I had a good run, too much effort to get up and go outside.
There are a couple of scenarios here. 1. They want to scare people away, seriously people bullshit their resumes and employers want to herd out the douchebags. This is by far the most common according to my HR resources. 2. The hiring manager is an idiot, and simply stuck as many buzz words as possible on the list. 3. They have a candidate they want to hire, but must post the position to be fair to everyone (ties into number 1).
These policies are dictated by a bevy of state and federal laws. The threats of civil lawsuits and the state/federal agencies auditing you keeps companies in compliance with these laws. My spouse does HR for a large company and there is a lot of accountability in their HR department. Maybe at shit-co the 2 person chop house where your boss is the HR manager you get power mongers in the HR dept. But any good company will follow the regulations and should be able to point you to a guidance on why they do what they do. And if they can't you should seriously consider a new employer.
I was going to echo the same thing. I signed up when they first started and noticed quite quickly there was a lot of work for a nickel. And it doesn't seem to have gotten any better. Over the course of a year I think I earned less than $2 USD. Lately it seems there was a lot of SPAM/Pr0n attacks going on as well.
to say fuck you AOL. Seriously quit being a dick.
I don't know about Java but C# does this. Supposedly it's not noticeable but in a large Server app we're seeing massive amounts of time being spent in GC. Some of this is object churn and burn, but to stop all code execution while GC runs is a bad design IMO. .Net 4.0 is now supposed to be different and does differential GC in the background all the time so your apps don't stop running completely while the GC runs.
The tried and true method of doing things that is known to work outdid the new shiny?
Amazing......
So rape using GHB isn't violent? I would say rape is rape and to bring up the old adage no does mean no; no matter what the situation is.
Maybe it's just me but I see paying over 500 dollars for a cell phone no matter how cool, bending over. I would never buy an iPhone for the same reason.
But after looking at buying a Nexus One there were 2 primary options. Bend over and pay full price or bend over to T-Mobile and pay their price and lock in. And they only had two plans that were complete shit. I support as many new phones as possible but this wasn't priced well and the plan options they did offer just plain sucked.
Just for shits and giggles I looked at applying to NASA until I realized my starting pay grade was around 45,000 USD per year. It would be a huge pay cut and even if the cost of living was lower that's a big blow to the wallet.
And I'm glad I did. Besides Goo (which was worth the price of admission) the rest of the games were lackluster at best. They were indie games but for stuff meant to run on lower end hardware I was pretty surprised by the hardware reqs for the games. I guess my old rig can't even do indie games at this point in time.
I was going to MOD this up as super informative but I had to pipe in myself ;)
Having worked in a small startup, a major Fortune 500, and in between companies this kind of thing is by far the best approach over the long run. The places where the DB/Code guys are separate always end up with a better product. Simply because it allows people who excel at something to really apply that benefit to what their doing. I love writing code but hate writing SQL and maintaining databases. So I tend to focus on the code and the DB stuff gets done but pretty half assed. Now people could say you should do it all equally well but in real life that never happens. Let the database go do his thing and the programmer guy do his thing. Get them talking together and your product will benefit greatly.
Also when logic is in procs, views, whatever you don't need to redeploy anything to achieve results. Simply change the database and it's done.
"Choose freedom first and interested parties will take care of attributes like security, ease-of-use, and compatibility over time."
That's his entire point, OSS doesn't have enough people looking at the code who can actually do something to fix security problems. I'm a developer but I don't know jack shit about the linux kernel so I stand a small chance of being able to help it. Maybe I should hunker down and spend the next 6 months learning the code and then the next 6 months getting commit access and then finally I might be able to make linux more secure. MS has an army of well paid and highly talented folks who are working on these issues every day. And guess what it shows in their products. Sorry folks but it's been Linx the year of the desktop! for waaaaay too long now. People here bash MS but they put out highly polished products that get the job done for a lot of users every day. Competition is good and I wish the OSS people out there the best but man they got some work ahead of them.
Has it now moved the 2000s in terms of features now? Or can I still poke fun at for being the kid on the bus who is just a little slower than the rest of us.
You sit there long enough and a big mac and fries start to look pretty good.......
I have to agree 100%. I have several desktop based applications that I wrote in C#. I found getting users to download and install the .net framework was a huge PITA. You can guard against this if you have a decent installer solution that required the user to download the framework and the smallest framework redistributable is 25 MB I believe. Because of this I have pretty much given up on .net for the desktop. I'm moving back to native code only so users don't have to download entire frameworks to run my apps. With windows 7 this might change since the OS has the latest framework. And I heard somewhere MS is now going to distribute the .net framework via windows update (why they didn't do this from day 1 I have no idea). Java IMO has the same issues users still have to download a runtime and deal with different versions of said runtime. Servers are a different matter entirely, code whatever best suites you and your needs there.
What's the crime rate like now? I'm seriously on the fence about this one. They put in new cameras in Pioneer Park (SLC, Utah) and supposedly the drug/gang/prostitution rate dropped dramatically. Of course now everyone pisses and moans because they just moved over a few blocks to the residential neighborhood. So I'm curious how a city wide effort would work and what its results are.
But my wife received a letter from her Employer asking her to lobby her congress/senate folks on behalf of the health care debate. She didn't feel comfortable doing it at all and told her boss so. What you do at your home should be purely divorced from your work. I'm sure there are some places where this doesn't hold, but I think most office drone jobs don't apply. I think it's pure bullshit and someone should call their sorry asses on the carpet for it. I'll vote or lobby whoever the fuck I want and however I see fit.
Most parents send their children to either a public or private institution. According to government data, one-tenth of students are enrolled in private schools. Approximately 85% of students enter the public schools,[14] largely because they are "free" (tax burdens by school districts vary from area to area). Most students attend school for around six hours per day, and usually anywhere from 175 to 185 days per year. Most schools have a summer break period for about two and half months from June through August. This break is much longer than in many other nations. Originally, "summer vacation," as it is colloquially called, allowed students to participate in the harvest period during the summer.[citation needed] However, this remains largely by tradition. The other option available and being taken up by some schools is Year-round school.
From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States
It doesn't mean it's more quality but I think it's a start.
I don't know about OO.org (sorry but it just doesn't compete with MS Office) but a lot of places are still running office 2000/2003 simply because it works well for them.
'The people that are stupid and dont read the bottle that says" DO NOT TAKE MORE THAN XXX in a 24 hour period." It's clear as day on the fricking bottle.'
Not really look at a tylenol bottle. Yeah it says no more then 6 or 12 in a day but it's incredibly tiny and hard to read. And nowhere does it talk about using it with other drugs of that type other then a generic consult your doctor blah blah blah. And who talks about tylenol with your doctor? I means it's been on the market a while and is 100% safe right? I agree there is a lot of stupid shit out there but I feel this case isn't one of them.