>>Additionally, MapQuest has added aerial maps as an option (enter address, retreive regular map, then click the "Aerial Photo" tab... these are in color, and might be a year old.
I've got a story about the fantastic entity called Mapquest. Though it's offtopic.
Bout' a year after 911, I went to mapquest to find a buddies office in downtown Manhattan. I got the location, and started scrolling around till' I got to the World Trade Center site. It wasn't labeled as anything (in the past it was named). Then I switched over to picture mode... I was curious what was there, hoping for yet another picture of my beloved towers.
They had a picture of the destruction. No joke. It looked to be about 4-5 weeks after the strike.
I was pretty pissed, having been there on Sept 11, and I sent a message to them explaining how inappropriate I thought the pictures were.
All I ever got back from them was a cold form letter explaining how photos in general couldn't be changed. Not even an acknowledgement of the subject of the photos.
The picture was updated this past January, with the less shocking '16 acre hole in the ground'.
I saved a screenshot & named it 'mapquest_sucks'. If anyone wants a copy, drop me a line and I'll send it to you.
I've heard it straight from the horse's mouth...From Indian Nationals working in my shop.
>>Who the fuck do you think manages the Indian employees on the American multinationals? The White, Republican, American managers.
And on my project, we have an Indian liason working in Bangladore. She manages the programmers, and reports to me. I manage her, from wonderful downtown NYC, 1 mile north of Ground Zero.
>>Oh, and since you brought it up, I'm 31. Nice to be smart, eh?
You better believe it brother. Anyway, good luck to you with your investments.:)
I'm not doing well enough to own more than 1 property. (Not now anyway, besides I like having the equity and value, it feels like security to me). But unless I cash out first, I'm planning to have this house paid off by the time I'm 50. Pre-paying prinicipal is the way to go.
It's confirmed... I'm a little disturbed
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1. a space creature taking a dump 2. fat chick wearing tights and doing a split 3. a squished Cacodemon 4. blue and grey podracer 5. podracer nacelles that have lost their pod 6. lady about to rip off her red top 7. a dead and bloated green skinned gardner lying in a pool of green blood as pictured on rotten.com 8. a bird just took a purple dump on 2 guys 9. batman takes a piss while being attacked by 2 pickles 10 . batman in flight humping a purple creature
>>Really? Do you know anyone who owns their home? I don't.
Not 100%. Nope. But they own the portion that they've paid off.
In my case: (my equity + (value of house - remaining morgage) = more than my remaining mortgage amount)
In other words, I can sell this house, pay off the bank with the proceeds and go buy a smaller place and own it. If I wanted to.
This is what can happen when you think constructively, logically and reach for a goal. And work like hell to make money to actually make the payments.
So while guys like you are fighting the system by refusing to play, guys like me are figuring out how to use the system to an advantage. Think about it.
>>I buy everything with the cash I have earned. Fuck credit and fuck you for telling me its somehow important. What do you know.
Except when you want a big ticket item like a car or a house. Good luck trying to get a mortgage with bad/no credit. You'll be living in other people's property for the rest of your life.
After doing some reading about how easy it was to put documents back together after they'd been shredded I did a little bit of testing.
The unit tested was a Fellowes DM-3. I think I paid $50 for this thing at Staples a few years ago.
Out of a waste basket that had about 50 shredded items in it, I was able to put 2 documents back together before I quit.... the first 2 I tried.
It's ridiculously easy. Advertisements usually come artwork on them... it was trivial to match up one of those. I just found all the strands that were (in this case) predominantly blue and orange, and arranged them. Easy.
In the second case, I went for something more like plain paper, a greyscale bank statement. The type of paper.. slightly grey, and the bank logo helped me identify those strands. After a few minutes, there were my transactions and balance. Not cool.
Part of what made this so easy is that the shredder doesn't seperate the strands after shredding. They just kind of fall on the pile more or less in linear order.
I've heard that bi-directional shredders are better, I haven't gotten around to buying one yet.
>>Reality is that if you didn't study comp sci in college, you probably shouldn't expect to get another job in IT.
Hmm. So my company taught me COBOL and JCL in 1985. While I worked as a junior programmer maintaining 15 year old batches I taught myself C and C++. I worked up my level of responsibility at my job and was trusted with new development for a major mainframe implementation. So I learned DB2 and CICS along the way.
After that, my boss at the time started to talk to me about webifying some of the mainframe systems. He knew that I was learning C*. So I wrote a couple of big C++ based CGI systems that talk to DB2 on the 390.
I have fantastic relationships with my users. They call me when they have trouble, because they know that I'll listen to them and help them.
I have good relationships with developers all over my firm. I believe in sharing knowledge, and working together to brainstorm and solve problems. This I learned over the years is important towards getting projects done.
These days I'm a j2ee guy and an architect for a $10 million dollar system.
I took only 1 computer class in college before dropping out in 1987.
The parent's comment indicate that because I don't have schooling, I don't deserve my job. Is this true even though this is what I've always wanted to do, and I love it?
BTW, I'm working to get out of straight coding, and into project technical leadership.
Nobody in my shop uses it, but the current compilers support it, and the manuals are there in our Bookmanager. Been seeing this for the last 4 or 5 years.
I don't know about features, or why you'd want to use OO in COBOL, but IBM must've had a reason to do this and contnue to provide it.
I haven't read all the proposals, hence my early post, but the subjects look interesting. It'll be cool to see what makes it to the final standard.
But that's not why I'm posting.
It's nice to read about all the standards processes, and I can appreciate all the great work that these bodies perform. But after the standards are completed, and everyone goes home, it seems to take years for the compiler writers to implement the standards properly.
I'm not trying to slam the poor developers who have to implement the changes. But yet, it seems that the standards bodies don't seem to take acutual usage of the last set of changes into account before proposing the next set of standards.
What I mean is this: Take C++ 97. OK? How many of us have actually used a 100% compliant compiler, and used the latest features? Not too many. I know I haven't. But it seems to me that the language masters want to go ahead and move C++ along without getting real feedback from developers about how useful the language changes are.
It's almost like the big boys are saying "well, it'd be nice to have X, Y, and Z in the language" instead of "you know, everybody hates the way we did A, B, and C back in 97. Lets think about fixing that". The language masters, IMHO are basing the next round of changes on their experiences, not the experiences of the developer community at large.
C++ is already a big complicated language. Maybe the standards process should slow down a bit and give us ordinary developers a few more years to catch up.
As president Ronnie used to do a weekly radio show. A couple of minutes before one of these shows started, he was joking around and uttered the line that I posted above. What he didn't know is that the microphone was on, and his words were broadcast to some markets.
>>Well, is the game installed on any of their computers?
Well even though the game is browser based, it shouldn't be too hard for any potential investigators to figure out if these 3 whackos were playing it. Besides keeping remnants of online sessions in the browser cache, Windows stores lists of visited sites in some pretty interesting places.
In case anyone cares, the site has been renamed microsuck. Personally I prefer the old name.
>>And besides, don't you think that NASA of all people would have been able to figure out some math like that? It's what they do for a living for Christ's sake. It's not like they're pulling this number of of their collective ass.
It's almost impossible to keep up with every new technology or acronym. Especially when you're working and have your head in one or two particular technologies.
I wouldn't gotten everything on that test. DVR for example. Before reading the article I had no idea what this meant. However if someone asked me how a Tivo worked, I'd explain that it's basicly a feature rich device that stores video on a disk. As opposed to an old fashioned VCR. So am I out of touch because I don't know an acronym?
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>>Additionally, MapQuest has added aerial maps as an option (enter address, retreive regular map, then click the "Aerial Photo" tab ... these are in color, and might be a year old.
I've got a story about the fantastic entity called Mapquest. Though it's offtopic.
Bout' a year after 911, I went to mapquest to find a buddies office in downtown Manhattan. I got the location, and started scrolling around till' I got to the World Trade Center site. It wasn't labeled as anything (in the past it was named). Then I switched over to picture mode... I was curious what was there, hoping for yet another picture of my beloved towers.
They had a picture of the destruction. No joke. It looked to be about 4-5 weeks after the strike.
I was pretty pissed, having been there on Sept 11, and I sent a message to them explaining how inappropriate I thought the pictures were.
All I ever got back from them was a cold form letter explaining how photos in general couldn't be changed. Not even an acknowledgement of the subject of the photos.
The picture was updated this past January, with the less shocking '16 acre hole in the ground'.
I saved a screenshot & named it 'mapquest_sucks'. If anyone wants a copy, drop me a line and I'll send it to you.
wbs.
>>Utter and complete bull sh*t.
I've heard it straight from the horse's mouth...From Indian Nationals working in my shop.
>>Who the fuck do you think manages the Indian employees on the American multinationals? The White, Republican, American managers.
And on my project, we have an Indian liason working in Bangladore. She manages the programmers, and reports to me. I manage her, from wonderful downtown NYC, 1 mile north of Ground Zero.
>>Are you willing to live in Bangalore, Pune or Delhi for $12-14k/yr?
Forget it. India has laws barring non-Indians from working there.
Yet the US is cool with H1-B's. Weird.
>>Oh, and since you brought it up, I'm 31. Nice to be smart, eh?
:)
You better believe it brother. Anyway, good luck to you with your investments.
I'm not doing well enough to own more than 1 property. (Not now anyway, besides I like having the equity and value, it feels like security to me). But unless I cash out first, I'm planning to have this house paid off by the time I'm 50. Pre-paying prinicipal is the way to go.
>>And the taxes/interest on the property you're renting? You really think the owner isn't passing those costs on to you?
:)
That's the thing I've left out of my post. I rent out the apartment in my house.
So my mortgage, including property tax is about $1475 per month. The apartment currently brings in $1000. So I'm paying $475 a month for a house.
The plan is to eventually have the rent pay my mortgage. So by the time I'm 40 - 42 this should be the case.
You also forgot:
They post the same inkblot more than once.
1. a space creature taking a dump
2. fat chick wearing tights and doing a split
3. a squished Cacodemon
4. blue and grey podracer
5. podracer nacelles that have lost their pod
6. lady about to rip off her red top
7. a dead and bloated green skinned gardner lying in a pool of green blood as pictured on rotten.com
8. a bird just took a purple dump on 2 guys
9. batman takes a piss while being attacked by 2 pickles
10 . batman in flight humping a purple creature
I think I just lost my job.....
I'm planning on cracking this nut when I buy my next house with a fireplace. :)
I've considered the backyard fire angle.... I figure that my neighbors might not appreciate it.
>>Really? Do you know anyone who owns their home? I don't.
Not 100%. Nope. But they own the portion that they've paid off.
In my case:
(my equity + (value of house - remaining morgage) = more than my remaining mortgage amount)
In other words, I can sell this house, pay off the bank with the proceeds and go buy a smaller place and own it. If I wanted to.
This is what can happen when you think constructively, logically and reach for a goal. And work like hell to make money to actually make the payments.
So while guys like you are fighting the system by refusing to play, guys like me are figuring out how to use the system to an advantage. Think about it.
BTW, I'm only 36.
>>I buy everything with the cash I have earned. Fuck credit and fuck you for telling me its somehow important. What do you know.
Except when you want a big ticket item like a car or a house. Good luck trying to get a mortgage with bad/no credit. You'll be living in other people's property for the rest of your life.
Ihave no confidence in straight line shredders.
After doing some reading about how easy it was to put documents back together after they'd been shredded I did a little bit of testing.
The unit tested was a Fellowes DM-3. I think I paid $50 for this thing at Staples a few years ago.
Out of a waste basket that had about 50 shredded items in it, I was able to put 2 documents back together before I quit.... the first 2 I tried.
It's ridiculously easy. Advertisements usually come artwork on them... it was trivial to match up one of those. I just found all the strands that were (in this case) predominantly blue and orange, and arranged them. Easy.
In the second case, I went for something more like plain paper, a greyscale bank statement. The type of paper.. slightly grey, and the bank logo helped me identify those strands. After a few minutes, there were my transactions and balance. Not cool.
Part of what made this so easy is that the shredder doesn't seperate the strands after shredding. They just kind of fall on the pile more or less in linear order.
I've heard that bi-directional shredders are better, I haven't gotten around to buying one yet.
>>If it is a goodie that won't work on Windows, why would they care?
I doubt that there exists a browser component that won't work on Windows.
Say what you will about MSFT, but the Windows API's (networking,gui, whatever) are very robust.
>>Hmm. So my company taught me COBOL and JCL in 1985
Should say 1995.
>>Reality is that if you didn't study comp sci in college, you probably shouldn't expect to get another job in IT.
Hmm. So my company taught me COBOL and JCL in 1985. While I worked as a junior programmer maintaining 15 year old batches I taught myself C and C++. I worked up my level of responsibility at my job and was trusted with new development for a major mainframe implementation. So I learned DB2 and CICS along the way.
After that, my boss at the time started to talk to me about webifying some of the mainframe systems. He knew that I was learning C*. So I wrote a couple of big C++ based CGI systems that talk to DB2 on the 390.
I have fantastic relationships with my users. They call me when they have trouble, because they know that I'll listen to them and help them.
I have good relationships with developers all over my firm. I believe in sharing knowledge, and working together to brainstorm and solve problems. This I learned over the years is important towards getting projects done.
These days I'm a j2ee guy and an architect for a $10 million dollar system.
I took only 1 computer class in college before dropping out in 1987.
The parent's comment indicate that because I don't have schooling, I don't deserve my job. Is this true even though this is what I've always wanted to do, and I love it?
BTW, I'm working to get out of straight coding, and into project technical leadership.
Works for me. :)
IBM offers an Object Oriented COBOL on MVS.
Nobody in my shop uses it, but the current compilers support it, and the manuals are there in our Bookmanager. Been seeing this for the last 4 or 5 years.
I don't know about features, or why you'd want to use OO in COBOL, but IBM must've had a reason to do this and contnue to provide it.
Someone out there is using it....
I haven't read all the proposals, hence my early post, but the subjects look interesting. It'll be cool to see what makes it to the final standard.
But that's not why I'm posting.
It's nice to read about all the standards processes, and I can appreciate all the great work that these bodies perform. But after the standards are completed, and everyone goes home, it seems to take years for the compiler writers to implement the standards properly.
I'm not trying to slam the poor developers who have to implement the changes. But yet, it seems that the standards bodies don't seem to take acutual usage of the last set of changes into account before proposing the next set of standards.
What I mean is this: Take C++ 97. OK? How many of us have actually used a 100% compliant compiler, and used the latest features? Not too many. I know I haven't. But it seems to me that the language masters want to go ahead and move C++ along without getting real feedback from developers about how useful the language changes are.
It's almost like the big boys are saying "well, it'd be nice to have X, Y, and Z in the language" instead of "you know, everybody hates the way we did A, B, and C back in 97. Lets think about fixing that". The language masters, IMHO are basing the next round of changes on their experiences, not the experiences of the developer community at large.
C++ is already a big complicated language. Maybe the standards process should slow down a bit and give us ordinary developers a few more years to catch up.
You don't get the joke. Let me explain.
As president Ronnie used to do a weekly radio show. A couple of minutes before one of these shows started, he was joking around and uttered the line that I posted above. What he didn't know is that the microphone was on, and his words were broadcast to some markets.
Millions of people heard him say this.
>>as well as the mess that is NASA.
I think that JFK got NASA started with the best of intentions. And it worked out quite well. We were on the Moon by the end of the decade.
It's not his fault that NASA turned into the sloppy mess that it is today. Though I don't know who to blame.... where to begin?
It cannot recall.
But it knows that legislation outlawing the Soviet Union has been signed, and that bombing will commence in 10 minutes.
>>Well, is the game installed on any of their computers?
Well even though the game is browser based, it shouldn't be too hard for any potential investigators to figure out if these 3 whackos were playing it. Besides keeping remnants of online sessions in the browser cache, Windows stores lists of visited sites in some pretty interesting places.
In case anyone cares, the site has been renamed microsuck. Personally I prefer the old name.
>>I'm afraid to ask what kind of probe well be using on Uranus
Klingons.
The Klingons will be circling Uranus.
>>or is there genuine evidence here?
Well, is the game installed on any of their computers? If so, then maybe the game has something to do with the group's name. If not, then move along.
>>And besides, don't you think that NASA of all people would have been able to figure out some math like that? It's what they do for a living for Christ's sake. It's not like they're pulling this number of of their collective ass.
Are you sure about that?
It's almost impossible to keep up with every new technology or acronym. Especially when you're working and have your head in one or two particular technologies.
I wouldn't gotten everything on that test. DVR for example. Before reading the article I had no idea what this meant. However if someone asked me how a Tivo worked, I'd explain that it's basicly a feature rich device that stores video on a disk. As opposed to an old fashioned VCR. So am I out of touch because I don't know an acronym?
Not everyone can know everything.