I see this a lot with developers who have worked in one language for a long time (while others are invented/evolved around them).
My Father-in-law was a UNIX C developer for 24 years before being laid off and facing a very soft marketplace. He asked me (a java programmer of about 8 years at the time) if I could give him some pointers on getting started on a more marketable skill.
I said "I can't give you any pointers, but I can pass on a good reference or two" *rimshot*
In all seriousness after about a week he was like "I don't know what I was so afraid of."
Just remember a language does not make you write bad code or good code, the language is just a way to express the concepts that you have down, the conceptualizition of the process is the actual hard part.
Geeks care about better hardware, regular users (i.e. the actual profit base) don't give a shit. Regular users care about 1) Brand recognition and reputation (Marketing) 2) Application availability 3) perceived ease of use 4) Black turtlenecks 5) Price, except when they can finance it over 2 years through a cellphone carrier.
Nobody actually cares about HD, even if they think they do, except a few geeks and a lot of MPAA profit-center members. People have been taught through very careful advertising that the way to distinguish HD from other things is to look for the letters "HD" and that seven twenty of your Peas is vastly inferior to ten eighty of real HD. If you were to tell the average viewer that the difference between DVD and VHS is that DVD is HD, they would probably agree. There are a million stories like this.
Personally even on my decent 42 inch 1080p display I prefer non-HD streams because HD looks weird. I prefer for the background to be a soft blur instead of a crisp detail of unimportant shit that takes my attention away from the action. In video games, for some reason I don't have this problem and really enjoy the enhanced resolution.
Living in a town where the entire police force is out to get you isn't freedom. This guy will lose, no matter if he wins. He lost when the search warrant was issued.
Toll roads in Texas are privately funded and constructed, privately maintained. That is why they are so fucking awesome. Because if there is a pothole it is magically fixed overnight, instead of shutting down part of the highway for 10 years to fix it. If someone has a blowout, the privately funded "courtesy patrol" comes and gets the traffic blocking car off the road within 10 minutes. It is amazing. Texas funded roads take 15 years to build, toll funded roads take a year.
The private sector is just way more effective than the state government at this, so I gladly pay to drive on a private road, even though public ones are available.
We have boothless tolling now, and here are the directions to get anywhere: First, find the shortest route to the tollway, then go wherever you want. It is amazing, cut my commute from 1.5 hours to 24 minutes. Speaking as an entitled middle class asshole, I 3 tollways.
It is actually from my fiscal 2009 budget, which included about 15% of all development resources going toward TARP related audit requests.
Annually every employee from the janitor up in a large bank has to take Anti-money laundering/terrorist funding training, that alone accounts for 250,000 hours of money *spent* to this particular cause, which is close to that figure without even triggering an audit... So I guess you are right, my figure is probably a bit low.
If Federal regulators even SUSPECT you have been allowing terrorists to receive payment, you are subject to an audit with a cost of about 50 million dollars to support (you have to pay all of your people to deal with the audit instead of their normal job responsibilities). The fines and reprecussions are on top of that initial cost, and can include being barred from the FDIC, which basically shuts down a bank forever.
My guess is that bank of america merely has the inside scoup and wikileaks is about to be declared official terrorists.
Only with Drugs. The FDA, HHS, and DEA have this exact power, completely unchecked by the legal system to basically make laws on the fly about individual substances by changing their classification.
If they wanted to make Asprin a felony tomorrow, they could... and stores would have to comply in a hurry. It is not subject to Judicial review
Although on the surface it would seem like the two have not much to do with each other, drug convictions are a great way to imprison people and deny them their right to vote, which is perhaps more powerful than merely limiting free speech online.
Exactly,
When 14 year olds are making realistic ligthsabre fights using a 50 dollar camcorder it just isn't that impressive when George Lucas does it. Even if he did it first.
The claims of the finding are not Arsenic dependant bacteria, which wouldn't be particularly impressive. The paper claims a Phosphorus INDEPENDENT form of life (one that can use arsenic instead of phosphorus), something which has never been observed before, and is way different than something that is merely Arsenic dependant.
less hardware more "logical servers" but worse reliability to be sure. Any time we tank the SAN by over utilization or any time out "redundant" SAN controller has to fail over we have massive reboots...
I understand that it can be done better, but it can also be done worse. I am just whining because all of my servers suck now, as a direct result of the virtualization path that was handed to me. I support the software, which always gets the blame, regardless of the hardware issues.
At the beginning of every movie and the fast forward and skip disabled, there is a FBI warning about copyright.
That's why I rip all of my DVDs to straight video files and/or prefer downloaded movies. They don't have 10 minutes of unskippable commercials/warnings, some stupid menu that takes 60 seconds to load, then a bunch of stupid "extra features" that my kid can accidentally select instead of the movie.
IMO if you watch a legit movie, you get a worse experience. I have downloaded movies which I own DVDs for, just because it was faster than ripping it myself, and I was tired of shitty dvd menus.
...Virtualization, in my server/workstation experience, has three major benefits: 1. Migration: Assuming a decent SAN setup and some fastish interconnects, your VM can float merrily from physical server to physical server with periods of unresponsiveness under.1 second. Allows you to skip some of the really expensive "zOMG this particular piece of hardware must never, ever, ever die even once in the next decade" add-ons without compromising uptime...
Virtualization = What's Single point of failure?
Now you have a box that can kill 10 servers instead of 1
Now you have a SAN that can kill 100 servers.
Virtualization was a corporate directive at my job. Our incident numbers did not change, but the impact of every outage was orders of magnitude worse after virtualization. It has not been very fun:-/. HP sold our executive management on it, so the path is set... But we have 4x as many servers now because we need multi-site and same site redundancy, and that means we need 2 different "server image" SANs at each site, each with all the redundancy and backup that go with it. The cost has been much higher than our previous "hardware model", and less reliable. But of course reliability is our bonus metric, not his.
> Netflix is simply the best legal streaming video service on the internet now,
I wouldn't know. They use some proprietary protocol which only runs on a handful of systems. It doesn't appear to work with mine.
That's true it only works on 98.5% of desktops and laptops. Mac, iOS, and Windows. Not to mention WiiWare, PS3, and Xbox360. Or Roku, which is a $59 set-top box. But that's true... Besides all current game consoles, 17% of smartphones, and 98.5% of computers, netflix streaming hardly works on anything.
I misspoke; they don't limit devices, just computers. I can have the Wii, the Roku, and 3 computers going, but I cannot have 4 computers going. We could only do 2 computers at once before we upgraded to 3 dvd.
I have not used the mail service from netflix in 2 years, and I just expanded my account to 3 dvds at a time (because it also allows me 3 devices streaming at a time). Most everyone I know is the same way, and Netflix corroborates my story, because they just now started offering a streaming only service.
Netflix is simply the best legal streaming video service on the internet now, sometimes I forget that they do DVDs at all.
I have heard a lot of people say this, and I am not completely convinced all of them are joking... But I would be willing to bet you could get prosecuted for sexual assault for that. Since the poor groper is just doing their job, a process to which you "consented"
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I see this a lot with developers who have worked in one language for a long time (while others are invented/evolved around them).
My Father-in-law was a UNIX C developer for 24 years before being laid off and facing a very soft marketplace. He asked me (a java programmer of about 8 years at the time) if I could give him some pointers on getting started on a more marketable skill.
I said "I can't give you any pointers, but I can pass on a good reference or two" *rimshot*
In all seriousness after about a week he was like "I don't know what I was so afraid of."
Just remember a language does not make you write bad code or good code, the language is just a way to express the concepts that you have down, the conceptualizition of the process is the actual hard part.
Geeks care about better hardware, regular users (i.e. the actual profit base) don't give a shit. Regular users care about
1) Brand recognition and reputation (Marketing)
2) Application availability
3) perceived ease of use
4) Black turtlenecks
5) Price, except when they can finance it over 2 years through a cellphone carrier.
Nobody actually cares about HD, even if they think they do, except a few geeks and a lot of MPAA profit-center members. People have been taught through very careful advertising that the way to distinguish HD from other things is to look for the letters "HD" and that seven twenty of your Peas is vastly inferior to ten eighty of real HD. If you were to tell the average viewer that the difference between DVD and VHS is that DVD is HD, they would probably agree. There are a million stories like this.
Personally even on my decent 42 inch 1080p display I prefer non-HD streams because HD looks weird. I prefer for the background to be a soft blur instead of a crisp detail of unimportant shit that takes my attention away from the action. In video games, for some reason I don't have this problem and really enjoy the enhanced resolution.
Living in a town where the entire police force is out to get you isn't freedom. This guy will lose, no matter if he wins. He lost when the search warrant was issued.
Toll roads in Texas are privately funded and constructed, privately maintained. That is why they are so fucking awesome. Because if there is a pothole it is magically fixed overnight, instead of shutting down part of the highway for 10 years to fix it. If someone has a blowout, the privately funded "courtesy patrol" comes and gets the traffic blocking car off the road within 10 minutes. It is amazing. Texas funded roads take 15 years to build, toll funded roads take a year.
The private sector is just way more effective than the state government at this, so I gladly pay to drive on a private road, even though public ones are available.
We have boothless tolling now, and here are the directions to get anywhere: First, find the shortest route to the tollway, then go wherever you want. It is amazing, cut my commute from 1.5 hours to 24 minutes. Speaking as an entitled middle class asshole, I 3 tollways.
at least firefox can handle it (I mean as much as firefox can handle anything since it broke a few years ago)
Wow, I have to use IE7 on my corporate laptop. Slashdot doesn't work at all. Pegs my dual core processor, doesn't render even close, etc.
yeah yeah IE7, but it's not like I am the only one who has to use it.
I don't really consider wikileaks to be terrorists, but my opinions don't really matter to the US government.
It is actually from my fiscal 2009 budget, which included about 15% of all development resources going toward TARP related audit requests.
Annually every employee from the janitor up in a large bank has to take Anti-money laundering/terrorist funding training, that alone accounts for 250,000 hours of money *spent* to this particular cause, which is close to that figure without even triggering an audit... So I guess you are right, my figure is probably a bit low.
since when do facts get in the way of the U.S. declaring "war" on something?
If Federal regulators even SUSPECT you have been allowing terrorists to receive payment, you are subject to an audit with a cost of about 50 million dollars to support (you have to pay all of your people to deal with the audit instead of their normal job responsibilities). The fines and reprecussions are on top of that initial cost, and can include being barred from the FDIC, which basically shuts down a bank forever.
My guess is that bank of america merely has the inside scoup and wikileaks is about to be declared official terrorists.
Only with Drugs. The FDA, HHS, and DEA have this exact power, completely unchecked by the legal system to basically make laws on the fly about individual substances by changing their classification.
If they wanted to make Asprin a felony tomorrow, they could... and stores would have to comply in a hurry. It is not subject to Judicial review
Although on the surface it would seem like the two have not much to do with each other, drug convictions are a great way to imprison people and deny them their right to vote, which is perhaps more powerful than merely limiting free speech online.
Exactly,
When 14 year olds are making realistic ligthsabre fights using a 50 dollar camcorder it just isn't that impressive when George Lucas does it. Even if he did it first.
It also had breasts, which in male geek (and partial female geek) culture, makes a reasonable substitute for plot and character development.
And THAT is what I am calling Angelina's breasts from now on. As in: "Did you see the Plot and Character Development in Cyborg 2, classic."
The claims of the finding are not Arsenic dependant bacteria, which wouldn't be particularly impressive. The paper claims a Phosphorus INDEPENDENT form of life (one that can use arsenic instead of phosphorus), something which has never been observed before, and is way different than something that is merely Arsenic dependant.
less hardware more "logical servers" but worse reliability to be sure. Any time we tank the SAN by over utilization or any time out "redundant" SAN controller has to fail over we have massive reboots...
I understand that it can be done better, but it can also be done worse. I am just whining because all of my servers suck now, as a direct result of the virtualization path that was handed to me. I support the software, which always gets the blame, regardless of the hardware issues.
I wish I had control over it, it is all HP contracts. I didn't even get a vote, I just have to support the software on it.
At the beginning of every movie and the fast forward and skip disabled, there is a FBI warning about copyright.
That's why I rip all of my DVDs to straight video files and/or prefer downloaded movies. They don't have 10 minutes of unskippable commercials/warnings, some stupid menu that takes 60 seconds to load, then a bunch of stupid "extra features" that my kid can accidentally select instead of the movie.
IMO if you watch a legit movie, you get a worse experience. I have downloaded movies which I own DVDs for, just because it was faster than ripping it myself, and I was tired of shitty dvd menus.
...Virtualization, in my server/workstation experience, has three major benefits: 1. Migration: Assuming a decent SAN setup and some fastish interconnects, your VM can float merrily from physical server to physical server with periods of unresponsiveness under .1 second. Allows you to skip some of the really expensive "zOMG this particular piece of hardware must never, ever, ever die even once in the next decade" add-ons without compromising uptime...
Virtualization = What's Single point of failure?
:-/. HP sold our executive management on it, so the path is set... But we have 4x as many servers now because we need multi-site and same site redundancy, and that means we need 2 different "server image" SANs at each site, each with all the redundancy and backup that go with it. The cost has been much higher than our previous "hardware model", and less reliable. But of course reliability is our bonus metric, not his.
Now you have a box that can kill 10 servers instead of 1
Now you have a SAN that can kill 100 servers.
Virtualization was a corporate directive at my job. Our incident numbers did not change, but the impact of every outage was orders of magnitude worse after virtualization. It has not been very fun
> Netflix is simply the best legal streaming video service on the internet now,
I wouldn't know. They use some proprietary protocol which only runs on a handful of systems. It doesn't appear to work with mine.
That's true it only works on 98.5% of desktops and laptops. Mac, iOS, and Windows. Not to mention WiiWare, PS3, and Xbox360. Or Roku, which is a $59 set-top box. But that's true... Besides all current game consoles, 17% of smartphones, and 98.5% of computers, netflix streaming hardly works on anything.
I misspoke; they don't limit devices, just computers. I can have the Wii, the Roku, and 3 computers going, but I cannot have 4 computers going. We could only do 2 computers at once before we upgraded to 3 dvd.
It's too bad we already built cities and housing for 6.7 billion people. Maybe next time we could re-start with this in mind.
I have not used the mail service from netflix in 2 years, and I just expanded my account to 3 dvds at a time (because it also allows me 3 devices streaming at a time). Most everyone I know is the same way, and Netflix corroborates my story, because they just now started offering a streaming only service.
Netflix is simply the best legal streaming video service on the internet now, sometimes I forget that they do DVDs at all.
I have heard a lot of people say this, and I am not completely convinced all of them are joking... But I would be willing to bet you could get prosecuted for sexual assault for that. Since the poor groper is just doing their job, a process to which you "consented"