"I used to listen to them on the radio, and I was in Cincinnati when they actually signed off (they no longer have a terrestrial broadcast). Now I'm living in Europe and listening over the internet. Its much cleaerer than it ever was in the FM days:D."
Wow, that's kinda sad in a way. I grew up listening to Dr. Demento and what I guess they call "alternative rock" these days on that station, though I'm old enough to remember a few bands they played then show up on classic rock stations today!:-)
"How about yourself?"
I lived outside of Oxford from the time I was 9 to the time I was 22, then moved to Oxford in 1993 to finish school, then I worked for Miami for a little over three years before leaving Ohio in '99. I haven't been back in over 7 years.
I notice, of course, that you couldn't refute his actual point. Is that why you reverted to the lame-ass attack on the word "alas", the still yet lamer spelling flame, and just to cover your tracks a bit more, went for the trifecta with the tried-and-true-slashdot-whine about idiotic mods?
Since passing out points seems to be the rage, can I give you 4 or 5 "obnoxious asshole" points?
It's interesting, because I've been in this field for 16 years, and I've never met a pure "software architect" or a pure "programmer", except for a junior level programmer, fresh from school with less than 2 years of on-the-job experience. Sure, when I started out, I mostly just programmed, but as I learned more about business needs, and got to see many examples of good design and bad design, I wound up working in places where I did both architecture and programming, among many other things. This period didn't last long for me, either, in part because before I started working in IT (we called it DP then), my first semi-professional job was as an outside sales rep for a distribution company, that gave me some useful domain knowledge for my first programming job, working for a contract company that helped distributors with computing needs.
This is also a point to consider. Don't just be a "programmer" or a "software architect". Make an effort to learn about a business that interests you, whether manufacturing, distribution, rocket science, geology, whatever you find interesting, and meld that knowledge with your IT skills. Software developers are relatively easy to find. Developers who have domain specific knowledge, while the opportunities are narrower, are generally the last to go during downsizing and offshoring events. Be prepared to renew more than just your computer technical knowledge.
IT means different things in different places. I work at a place where my primary roles are software design and development, but I'm part of the IT department. It's a small shop, as I'm the only full time developer. My boss is the other developer, and he's the IT director, so he's got other fish to fry.
I'm going to reply to your message, but it's really addressed to everyone who replied to me.
I was very specifically avoiding politics in my message, because I knew it would open a can of worms that I really didn't want to go into. I went so far as to have a paragraph that was basically, "on the other hand, if you leave a big toy like that laying around, someday someone's gonna want to play with it.", but my focus was on general war doctrine vis a vis technology. For the record, I oppose action against Iran, I opposed the war in Iraq from the start, and I opposed our military operations in Yugoslavia.
I neglected to take into account that on slashdot, the politics can of worms is pretty much self-opening these days.
Oh, absolutely! This is in line with US military doctrine. Create a force so overwhelming it never needs to fight. This is why we have things like Trophy, Land Warrior, and other superiority systems.
The ideal of these systems is to reduce the passive armor content of armored vehicles so that things like main battle tanks could be made lighter and therefore A) easier to deploy in quantity by airlift and B) faster and longer-ranged.
If they could put such systems on HMMWVs, that would certainly be a plus. Humvees weren't really designed to be APCs (though uparmor kits are available), though, as we've found out much to our dismay. Even with the armor kits, they would still be vulnerable to roadside bombs.
Calling this a "force field" is a bit of a misnomer. It looks more
like a point defense system for tanks and other armored vehicles. Very
cool, but not as cool as a real force field.
As much as we might like to blame the summary, but the term occurs in the FA, too.
An AC suggested putting ? on the end of the URL, but you don't even need to do that. If you just go up to the URL, put your cursor in it and hit enter, that works too.
pico (well, nano really) for editing text files. I do not see what so many of my fellow geeks have against this program. It does a wonderful job in this niche.
vi for quick editing, light to medium-duty programming, and sysadmin tasks. It's fast, easy-to-use once you get over the learning curve, and it's installed everywhere.
emacs or jEdit for heavy-duty software construction. When I am in heads down major software development mode, nothing else will do. Well, I like Komodo from ActiveState and WingIDE for Python stuff, but those aren't free-as-in-beer and I'm a right cheap bastard so I'm not apt to part with the cash.
Short of Sony and them putting an armed robot guard to follow every one us around to make sure we don't violate their restrictions, I don't see how any DRM scheme can be totally secure.
Of course, this puts a somewhat alarming spin on why Japanese technology companies seem to be obsessed with robotics...
Y'know, I really get tired of this right-wing bashing of Al Gore. Of course he didn't invent pants, but he was instrumental in getting funding for the original ARPANTS which is what our modern high-speed pants derived from. So, while he of course doesn't know the technical underpinnings of interfacing, serging, hemming, and button-holing needed to make pants, he can, in some sense, take credit for our modern pants.
God, after looking at that first link for a just a minute, everything else is shaded green/blue. Why don't the aliens ever kidnap people with even basic design skills?
$ python Python 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 22 2005, 22:13:23) [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 1 + 1 = 2 SyntaxError: can't assign to operator >>>
$ cat test.c int main() { 1+1=2; return; } $ gcc -o test test.c test.c: In function 'main': test.c:2: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
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"I used to listen to them on the radio, and I was in Cincinnati when they actually signed off (they no longer have a terrestrial broadcast). Now I'm living in Europe and listening over the internet. Its much cleaerer than it ever was in the FM days :D."
Wow, that's kinda sad in a way. I grew up listening to Dr. Demento and what I guess they call "alternative rock" these days on that station, though I'm old enough to remember a few bands they played then show up on classic rock stations today! :-)
"How about yourself?"
I lived outside of Oxford from the time I was 9 to the time I was 22, then moved to Oxford in 1993 to finish school, then I worked for Miami for a little over three years before leaving Ohio in '99. I haven't been back in over 7 years.
Lucky for me, you ain't paying my shit, so I can tell you to take this job and shove it. :-D
So, do you live in and around Oxford, or are you just a fan of their internet music broadcast?
Maybe it's not too late to petition the Queen to let us back in.
I notice, of course, that you couldn't refute his actual point. Is that why you reverted to the lame-ass attack on the word "alas", the still yet lamer spelling flame, and just to cover your tracks a bit more, went for the trifecta with the tried-and-true-slashdot-whine about idiotic mods?
Since passing out points seems to be the rage, can I give you 4 or 5 "obnoxious asshole" points?
It's interesting, because I've been in this field for 16 years, and I've never met a pure "software architect" or a pure "programmer", except for a junior level programmer, fresh from school with less than 2 years of on-the-job experience. Sure, when I started out, I mostly just programmed, but as I learned more about business needs, and got to see many examples of good design and bad design, I wound up working in places where I did both architecture and programming, among many other things. This period didn't last long for me, either, in part because before I started working in IT (we called it DP then), my first semi-professional job was as an outside sales rep for a distribution company, that gave me some useful domain knowledge for my first programming job, working for a contract company that helped distributors with computing needs.
This is also a point to consider. Don't just be a "programmer" or a "software architect". Make an effort to learn about a business that interests you, whether manufacturing, distribution, rocket science, geology, whatever you find interesting, and meld that knowledge with your IT skills. Software developers are relatively easy to find. Developers who have domain specific knowledge, while the opportunities are narrower, are generally the last to go during downsizing and offshoring events. Be prepared to renew more than just your computer technical knowledge.
IT means different things in different places. I work at a place where my primary roles are software design and development, but I'm part of the IT department. It's a small shop, as I'm the only full time developer. My boss is the other developer, and he's the IT director, so he's got other fish to fry.
When everything is going my way and I don't have a care in the world I like to bitch about not having anything to bitch about.
I'm going to reply to your message, but it's really addressed to everyone who replied to me.
I was very specifically avoiding politics in my message, because I knew it would open a can of worms that I really didn't want to go into. I went so far as to have a paragraph that was basically, "on the other hand, if you leave a big toy like that laying around, someday someone's gonna want to play with it.", but my focus was on general war doctrine vis a vis technology. For the record, I oppose action against Iran, I opposed the war in Iraq from the start, and I opposed our military operations in Yugoslavia.
I neglected to take into account that on slashdot, the politics can of worms is pretty much self-opening these days.
Oh, absolutely! This is in line with US military doctrine. Create a force so overwhelming it never needs to fight. This is why we have things like Trophy, Land Warrior, and other superiority systems.
The ideal of these systems is to reduce the passive armor content of armored vehicles so that things like main battle tanks could be made lighter and therefore A) easier to deploy in quantity by airlift and B) faster and longer-ranged.
If they could put such systems on HMMWVs, that would certainly be a plus. Humvees weren't really designed to be APCs (though uparmor kits are available), though, as we've found out much to our dismay. Even with the armor kits, they would still be vulnerable to roadside bombs.
Which healthcare position maps to which IT position is an exercise left to the reader. :-)
Calling this a "force field" is a bit of a misnomer. It looks more like a point defense system for tanks and other armored vehicles. Very cool, but not as cool as a real force field.
As much as we might like to blame the summary, but the term occurs in the FA, too.
Duck? Do you mean those menacing dragons that swim in the pond across the street?
Is that who we vote for when we get tired of voting for the lesser of two evils?
An AC suggested putting ? on the end of the URL, but you don't even need to do that. If you just go up to the URL, put your cursor in it and hit enter, that works too.
Oh, it's all good. I caught your sarcasm. I was in agreement with you, just spelling it out to those who may have missed it.
"Then do you also believe that Homosapien is the final product of Creation? Are we the zenith of Evolution?"
Well, I don't know about this we business, but I know I am... :-D
s/good parents/fucking stoopid parents/
I have four editors I like for different tasks:
pico (well, nano really) for editing text files. I do not see what so many of my fellow geeks have against this program. It does a wonderful job in this niche.
vi for quick editing, light to medium-duty programming, and sysadmin tasks. It's fast, easy-to-use once you get over the learning curve, and it's installed everywhere.
emacs or jEdit for heavy-duty software construction. When I am in heads down major software development mode, nothing else will do. Well, I like Komodo from ActiveState and WingIDE for Python stuff, but those aren't free-as-in-beer and I'm a right cheap bastard so I'm not apt to part with the cash.
Short of Sony and them putting an armed robot guard to follow every one us around to make sure we don't violate their restrictions, I don't see how any DRM scheme can be totally secure.
Of course, this puts a somewhat alarming spin on why Japanese technology companies seem to be obsessed with robotics...
Y'know, I really get tired of this right-wing bashing of Al Gore. Of course he didn't invent pants, but he was instrumental in getting funding for the original ARPANTS which is what our modern high-speed pants derived from. So, while he of course doesn't know the technical underpinnings of interfacing, serging, hemming, and button-holing needed to make pants, he can, in some sense, take credit for our modern pants.
God, after looking at that first link for a just a minute, everything else is shaded green/blue. Why don't the aliens ever kidnap people with even basic design skills?
Sorry, you lose. :-)
For some reason, everytime I see the second one I actually giggle. A Zerg named "Murray". That just really hits my funny-bone. Why, I don't know.
"And the zerg...cries...Murray."
Oh, nevermind.