But, unlike the author of that article, I believe that you can decide against the moves for playing along with the popularity game.
Actually, I understood the article to say that you could decide against the popularity moves, but that it's a bad idea. Which is absolutely correct, of course -- unless you want to live as a hermit, you've got to get along with people. If you want someone's help or affection, you have to make them like you. "Just leave me alone" is a two-edged sword -- nice in study hall, but a bummer on the weekend. Of course, if you're different enough not to be taken in with the US's consumer culture, things are a lot easier (read: if it's not important to you to have the biggest TV, the fastest car/biggest SUV, and the nicest house, then you don't need to Rico Suave the HR folks to get the mega-$ job).
"If you want to play in the Real World, you've got to learn Real World moves" -- TNHD
I just read the article referred to in the story, and I didn't get the impression that MS was "afraid" of Linux at all. Rather, they were treating it as a serious platform. My take is that they're porting IE as an experiment, and planning on leveraging the tools they come up with to port the Office apps.
Hmmm, on second thought, the only reason people use Windows is so that they can use Word and Excel, so forget about porting them to a competing OS (and yes, I don't consider MacOS a "competing" OS).
Wow, that reminds me of the old Altos 3068 I used on my first job out of college. It had a discrete logic MMU on a separate (big!) board. I never really thought about it, but I wonder if there was some problem with the 68[48]51 chips (the system was a 16MHz 68020).
I never said that CASE & tools were ineffective. I have personally used several of the low-end CASE tools (Rational's Rose, Powersoft's ProcessAnalyst, Cadre) and found them quite useful. But the comment to which I was replying strongly suggested that no knowledge of software construction was necessary if one had proper tools.
Someday I'm going to have a display the size and shape of a drafting table. I'll be able to use a stylus with it, and I'll be able to hang another one just like it on the wall next to it, and be able to flick windows from one to the other at will. Like a cross between a Palm Pilot and a white board, but better than either...
Heh. Ever had to try to salvage a project designed by someone using a CASE tool and prototyping environment who had no idea how a system should be designed? And who's manifest lack of skills weren't apparent because all his/her work looked so good? Garbage in, gospel out -- and then some.
If you really want to change people's lives, you'll have to approach them through their religion. On/., the line between technology and religion may be blurred (if it exists at all;), but in many, many areas of the world people take their cues from the (insert place of worship here). Sure, new technologies CAN help, but unless you can help the priesthood that these new technologies won't upset the balance of power (i.e., won't get people thinking for themselves), you're going to have a long uphill road to acceptance.
Yes, there are incremental garbage collectors which don't try to collect *all* abandoned objects, they instead just try to keep some fraction of the allocation space free. They get called more often, but do less work, so the GC time is spread out over the execution. Of course, when they fail, they have to call a more serious GC routine, which will often cause a "burp" in performance.
Wow, I didn't think I'd ever do this, but I just edited my preferences so I don't have to read anything by Katz again. His bash on Gates' book seemed to be driven by the fact that Gates doesn't write anything personal, anything that helps the reader get to know him. But I doubt that _The Seven Minute Manager_ or _The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People_ or whatever crap Tom Peters is pushing this week offer in-depth angst-ridden sagas about their authors either. His (Katz's) comment about "if he doesn't need the money, why does he write" pretty much invalidates his credentials as an author to me, too. I write code and I write fiction and I do both because I love it, not because I get paid for it. Sure I'm familiar with S. Johnson's quote on writing for money, but coupled with Katz's comments on opportunism and his comparison of himself to William Bennet (no difference but in degree), he's run through all the slack I'm willing to give him. I'm afraid I can't be bothered to pay attention to someone whose deepest thoughts I could walk through without getting my ankles wet.
"I don't know what this is, but an 'F' would only dignify it."
I found this paper full of blatant grammar, historical and conceptual errors. IT personnel that don't (didn't) listen to end users? Yeah, they're just going to turn this multi-million dollar machine over to a bunch of techies and trust that they're going to "do the right thing" and get those paychecks/invoices/quarterly reports generated. A little common sense, please!
Oracle's latest results on TPC-D are reported as 0.71 seconds (using materialized views).
TPC-D has been sussed & superseded as a reliable benchmark, they're talking about splitting it into TPC-R (just like current TPC-D) and TPC-H (which is truer to the ad hoc nature of the original test).
I'm on my sixth job in almost twenty years, and I can't remember the last time I was asked about my current salary. The question I always hear is "What are you looking for, salary-wise?". Which is tricky, because nothing knots my stomach up quicker than telling them $N where N is 25-30% more than my current salary and hearing them say "Oh, that won't be a problem".
That said, don't forget that salary is only one part of the whole package. If the company isn't offering at least a basic medical plan (with dental) and some form of retirement benefits (401k or the like) then ask yourself what's the difference between working for this company and being an independent consultant? Besides having someone suck out 40-60% of your billing rate...
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$2049 for a machine with a 250MHz PPC604, 16M RAM and a 2.1G disk (the PIOS Magna 250? I don't fscking think so! Not when I could get a 400MHz K6-2 with 64M RAM, 8.4G disk, DVD-ROM (w/MPEG decoder), 56K modem & a (wimpy 15") monitor (the Boldata Challeng er II DVD). Not that I'm buying one of those, either, but I'd pick it over the PIOS in a heartbeat! I like the PPC & all (esp. the 604e), but I want one that can compete, price/performance-wise.
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I thought one of the advantages of PCI was that it did permit multiple devices to share an IRQ...
as idiotic as our 'intelligence agencies' seem to be
Heh. That's just what they want you to think...
But, unlike the author of that article, I believe that you can decide against the moves for playing along with the popularity game.
Actually, I understood the article to say that you could decide against the popularity moves, but that it's a bad idea. Which is absolutely correct, of course -- unless you want to live as a hermit, you've got to get along with people. If you want someone's help or affection, you have to make them like you. "Just leave me alone" is a two-edged sword -- nice in study hall, but a bummer on the weekend. Of course, if you're different enough not to be taken in with the US's consumer culture, things are a lot easier (read: if it's not important to you to have the biggest TV, the fastest car/biggest SUV, and the nicest house, then you don't need to Rico Suave the HR folks to get the mega-$ job).
"If you want to play in the Real World, you've got to learn Real World moves" -- TNHD
I just read the article referred to in the story, and I didn't get the impression that MS was "afraid" of Linux at all. Rather, they were treating it as a serious platform. My take is that they're porting IE as an experiment, and planning on leveraging the tools they come up with to port the Office apps.
Hmmm, on second thought, the only reason people use Windows is so that they can use Word and Excel, so forget about porting them to a competing OS (and yes, I don't consider MacOS a "competing" OS).
Wow, that reminds me of the old Altos 3068 I used on my first job out of college. It had a discrete logic MMU on a separate (big!) board. I never really thought about it, but I wonder if there was some problem with the 68[48]51 chips (the system was a 16MHz 68020).
I never said that CASE & tools were ineffective. I have personally used several of the low-end CASE tools (Rational's Rose, Powersoft's ProcessAnalyst, Cadre) and found them quite useful. But the comment to which I was replying strongly suggested that no knowledge of software construction was necessary if one had proper tools.
Someday I'm going to have a display the size and shape of a drafting table. I'll be able to use a stylus with it, and I'll be able to hang another one just like it on the wall next to it, and be able to flick windows from one to the other at will. Like a cross between a Palm Pilot and a white board, but better than either...
what about CASE tools and code generation?
Heh. Ever had to try to salvage a project designed by someone using a CASE tool and prototyping environment who had no idea how a system should be designed? And who's manifest lack of skills weren't apparent because all his/her work looked so good? Garbage in, gospel out -- and then some.
If you really want to change people's lives, you'll have to approach them through their religion. On /., the line between technology and religion may be blurred (if it exists at all ;), but in many, many areas of the world people take their cues from the (insert place of worship here). Sure, new technologies CAN help, but unless you can help the priesthood that these new technologies won't upset the balance of power (i.e., won't get people thinking for themselves), you're going to have a long uphill road to acceptance.
Yes, there are incremental garbage collectors which don't try to collect *all* abandoned objects, they instead just try to keep some fraction of the allocation space free. They get called more often, but do less work, so the GC time is spread out over the execution. Of course, when they fail, they have to call a more serious GC routine, which will often cause a "burp" in performance.
Wow, I didn't think I'd ever do this, but I just edited my preferences so I don't have to read anything by Katz again. His bash on Gates' book seemed to be driven by the fact that Gates doesn't write anything personal, anything that helps the reader get to know him. But I doubt that _The Seven Minute Manager_ or _The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People_ or whatever crap Tom Peters is pushing this week offer in-depth angst-ridden sagas about their authors either. His (Katz's) comment about "if he doesn't need the money, why does he write" pretty much invalidates his credentials as an author to me, too. I write code and I write fiction and I do both because I love it, not because I get paid for it. Sure I'm familiar with S. Johnson's quote on writing for money, but coupled with Katz's comments on opportunism and his comparison of himself to William Bennet (no difference but in degree), he's run through all the slack I'm willing to give him. I'm afraid I can't be bothered to pay attention to someone whose deepest thoughts I could walk through without getting my ankles wet.
I think the fortune file says it best:
"I don't know what this is, but an 'F' would only dignify it."
I found this paper full of blatant grammar, historical and conceptual errors. IT personnel that don't (didn't) listen to end users? Yeah, they're just going to turn this multi-million dollar machine over to a bunch of techies and trust that they're going to "do the right thing" and get those paychecks/invoices/quarterly reports generated. A little common sense, please!
Oracle's latest results on TPC-D are reported as 0.71 seconds (using materialized views).
TPC-D has been sussed & superseded as a reliable benchmark, they're talking about splitting it into TPC-R (just like current TPC-D) and TPC-H (which is truer to the ad hoc nature of the original test).
I'm on my sixth job in almost twenty years, and I can't remember the last time I was asked about my current salary. The question I always hear is "What are you looking for, salary-wise?". Which is tricky, because nothing knots my stomach up quicker than telling them $N where N is 25-30% more than my current salary and hearing them say "Oh, that won't be a problem".
That said, don't forget that salary is only one part of the whole package. If the company isn't offering at least a basic medical plan (with dental) and some form of retirement benefits (401k or the like) then ask yourself what's the difference between working for this company and being an independent consultant? Besides having someone suck out 40-60% of your billing rate...
$2049 for a machine with a 250MHz PPC604, 16M RAM and a 2.1G disk (the PIOS Magna 250? I don't fscking think so! Not when I could get a 400MHz K6-2 with 64M RAM, 8.4G disk, DVD-ROM (w/MPEG decoder), 56K modem & a (wimpy 15") monitor (the Boldata Challeng er II DVD). Not that I'm buying one of those, either, but I'd pick it over the PIOS in a heartbeat! I like the PPC & all (esp. the 604e), but I want one that can compete, price/performance-wise.
Actually, AltaVista has been running on 8G machines for awhile (couple of years) now.