My condolences. We recently went from offices to cubes, and it's a real challenge to keep focus.
Two of the biggest problems I have with cube farms are noise and visual distractions. Being at the end of a row of cubes where through traffic is rare helps with the visual distraction somewhat. Try and be sure that the cubes aren't just laid out in an open grid where people wander every which way. If you can get them formed into halls of cuves with ends to them and you can get into one of the end cubes, you've got a leg up.
It's also possible to get walls that are as much as seven feet high. This helps too, as you don't see people's heads floating by all day.
Most of the users who seem to take a lot of abuse come in for quick answers without having done any of their own research.
Ask an intelligent question and include a little about what you've tried or where you've looked thus far. If you're utterly lost and don't even know where to begin, ask for pointers to things you can read, don't ask for the quick answer.
Any geek worth his DSL line respects and likes helping a body who's making a good and honest effort. But if you come in wanting others to do more work than you've already done on your own, then it's good, honest fun to toy with you a little.
As a bonus: if you take a little abuse without going all non-linear and share a laugh with folks after, you'll probably still get your help in the end.:-)
We're hoping to see Derek introduce 30,000 musicians and 200,000 customers at CD Baby to the advantages of Ogg Vorbis. When CD Baby moves to Ogg Vorbis, or at least offers it as an alternative to RealAudio, you'll certainly read about it in another Ogg Traffic!
Oh, and hey -- The president of CDBaby visited my journal at one point and chimed in with tips when we were chatting over how to get the best MP3 encodes out of lame & CDEx.
Indie labels nothing. The best stuff comes from the struggling self-published artists!
Thanks to CD burners costing dirt these days, you can find individual bands all over the net who are publishing on their own. CDBaby.com offers a storefront and listening booth for hundreds of these bands. Dig around a little and listen with an open mind. You will find something you like.
If they still offer it, try and get your hands on one of the sampler discs (100 MP3 tunes from different bands, broken down by genre) and see if you don't find a dozen albums you want.
There's a HUGE amount of good stuff here, and the bulk of the cash goes to the band. You pay less than you pay for most mainstream commercial music, and sometimes the band even writes directly to ask what you thought of the disc afterward. Virtually all of the bands are accessible and love it when you write them to chat as well.
After the band, the rest of the cash goes to the guys you see on the CDBaby website. NO RIAA GOUGING HERE. No subsidizing bastard lawyer cabals. They even run OpenBSD and Apache. It's ALL good!:-)
No, I don't work for them, I'm just a very happy customer. I've bought over a hundred discs, and I don't miss pouring through the old over-hyped and mass-produced sludge to find the rare gem one bit!
And I wonder how Linux would run on one of these [apple.com]. Anyone? Anyone?:-D
It's a dual 1.4Gz configuration on a non-segmented 133MHz bus. Until compilers are better at using the G4's unique instructions, for general purpose software you'd be better off with a single 2GHz P4. Even with hand-crafted assembly, you'll still be better off with a dual 1.8GHz Xeon: You'll save a few bucks and have a much, much, much faster bus. And for even money, you can probably go for a quad 2.2GHz Xeon configuration.
Actually, if you know anything about the American prison system, he'll spend little - if no time in jail.
Laymen (people without deep pockets or preexisting public sympathy) who are prosecuted in high-profile cases rarely serve less than the full sentence. What you say is true when a case hasn't seen much publicity.
This is related to a recent situation in Iraq which has involved the confiscation of quite a few journalists' phones.:-)
I suppose when your enemy is trying to figure out where you are so they can drop bombs and grenades on you, it's best not to have a beacon broadcasting your GPS location!
No, it is like buying food, taking it home, and then demanding to get to decide yourself how you are going to cook it.
The analogy was given to the gentleman trying to steer efforts away from the XBox Linux project and toward more desktop development. Buying an XBox has nothing to do with getting anything for free, and two thumbs up to the people making unsigned code use possible!:-)
The problem is that, to my knowledge, no one in the Debian project is really qualified (a law degree, or significant experience in the field) to make these kinds of legalistic judgements when it comes down to some of the really weird cases
It's all iffy. Has the GPL ever been put to the test in the courts? I don't believe a case has gone to trial yet.
Sorry all, although this is a great showing of skill, Linux's battlefield isn't the XBox, it's the Desktop. IMHO we would be better served to pour those energies into making a Desktop/Gaming/Application worthy OS.
The analogy I heard was that of being invited to a free dinner at someone's house and ending up demanding to supervise the cooking.
I write games for a living. And let me tell you... when we're bearing down on release, and you're the dude who's making the lists that keep me from going home nights, you don't want to be a game tester. What you do may well be important, but I'm still going to hate you for it. And I'm going to let you know. Loudly.:-)
Seriously, though. It's one of those positions where the best thing you can do is find a friend who's already connected with the company, however remotely. You need good written English skills, to be able to play through a few well-known games and talk about them, and sometimes you'll need to pass a drug test. If you've got those three covered, you just need to know somebody (anybody!) or be in the right place at the right time. No other magic required.
Honest question for the folks who believe the Mac should be faster...
These are bus bandwidth-intensive operations. Given that the fastest Mac has DDR266 memory and it's not banked for parallel access or otherwise arranged for additional benefit, what aspect of the G4 architecture do you believe should be giving it an edge in these bandwidth-constrained tasks?
I look forward to the increased stability and security the new stack protection offers
I think you'll enjoy a whole lot more security, but I wouldn't be surprised if the stack protection ended up costing a little stability for a while. The stack protection reveals a whole lot of "usually harmless" bugs in other projects, and until this excellent tool is in more users' hands, OpenBSD users may have to bear the burden of discovery for a while.
I wouldn't rush to be the first to put the new release on a critical server machine, but if you're a user who wants to give something back, then now's an excellent time. Get current on OpenBSD, see if any of your favorite apps show stack violations, and let the authors of those apps know ASAP!
Do we know the physical size or the particle density of black holes?
I'm curious as to whether black holes are compacted so much that most of the space between atoms (and even subatomic particles?) is gone, or whether the repulsions keeping them apart are even stronger than the force of the black hole's gravity.
Now that they have a measure of the weight, if they know anything about the density or the size, they've got the other value as well.
The fool who ruled that corporations are the same thing as persons should be dug up and shot a few times. Someone please explain to me how this is supposed to benefit individuals?
And that's it in a nutshell. STL produces far, far better code in most cases if you use instantiations against void* and create your own inline functions to thunk your kind of pointer into the STL container's void*. This eliminates huge amounts of senselessly redundant code.
You are forgetting one of the biggest advantages to generics such as templates, speed. When templates are used much if not all of the binding is accomplished statically at compile time, when inheritance is used much if not all of the binding occurs at runtime.
On the flip side, STL leads to massive code redundancy and scattered data locality. In real-world use, STL tends to be slower than generic containers dealing with void pointers and passed accessors for the sorting/hashing or a generic base type with virtual functions for the sorting, etc.
IMHO, STL's only real advantages are its offering of standardized representation for many generic algorithms, and the way it's renewed some otherwise bad programmers' interest in the same. It's more of a memetic advance than a technological one.
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Two of the biggest problems I have with cube farms are noise and visual distractions. Being at the end of a row of cubes where through traffic is rare helps with the visual distraction somewhat. Try and be sure that the cubes aren't just laid out in an open grid where people wander every which way. If you can get them formed into halls of cuves with ends to them and you can get into one of the end cubes, you've got a leg up.
It's also possible to get walls that are as much as seven feet high. This helps too, as you don't see people's heads floating by all day.
Ask an intelligent question and include a little about what you've tried or where you've looked thus far. If you're utterly lost and don't even know where to begin, ask for pointers to things you can read, don't ask for the quick answer.
Any geek worth his DSL line respects and likes helping a body who's making a good and honest effort. But if you come in wanting others to do more work than you've already done on your own, then it's good, honest fun to toy with you a little.
As a bonus: if you take a little abuse without going all non-linear and share a laugh with folks after, you'll probably still get your help in the end. :-)
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WE LOVE YOU, DEREK!@!!
See if Hillary Rosen ever does that for you. ;-)
Thanks to CD burners costing dirt these days, you can find individual bands all over the net who are publishing on their own. CDBaby.com offers a storefront and listening booth for hundreds of these bands. Dig around a little and listen with an open mind. You will find something you like.
If they still offer it, try and get your hands on one of the sampler discs (100 MP3 tunes from different bands, broken down by genre) and see if you don't find a dozen albums you want.
There's a HUGE amount of good stuff here, and the bulk of the cash goes to the band. You pay less than you pay for most mainstream commercial music, and sometimes the band even writes directly to ask what you thought of the disc afterward. Virtually all of the bands are accessible and love it when you write them to chat as well.
After the band, the rest of the cash goes to the guys you see on the CDBaby website. NO RIAA GOUGING HERE. No subsidizing bastard lawyer cabals. They even run OpenBSD and Apache. It's ALL good! :-)
No, I don't work for them, I'm just a very happy customer. I've bought over a hundred discs, and I don't miss pouring through the old over-hyped and mass-produced sludge to find the rare gem one bit!
Can you tell I like CDBaby?
It's a dual 1.4Gz configuration on a non-segmented 133MHz bus. Until compilers are better at using the G4's unique instructions, for general purpose software you'd be better off with a single 2GHz P4. Even with hand-crafted assembly, you'll still be better off with a dual 1.8GHz Xeon: You'll save a few bucks and have a much, much, much faster bus. And for even money, you can probably go for a quad 2.2GHz Xeon configuration.
How fast are modern FPGAs? Can you actually run data through and get the result back in a clock cycle? If not, can you pipeline?
Are these clocked as fast as modern CPUs?
Laymen (people without deep pockets or preexisting public sympathy) who are prosecuted in high-profile cases rarely serve less than the full sentence. What you say is true when a case hasn't seen much publicity.
I suppose when your enemy is trying to figure out where you are so they can drop bombs and grenades on you, it's best not to have a beacon broadcasting your GPS location!
The analogy was given to the gentleman trying to steer efforts away from the XBox Linux project and toward more desktop development. Buying an XBox has nothing to do with getting anything for free, and two thumbs up to the people making unsigned code use possible! :-)
It's all iffy. Has the GPL ever been put to the test in the courts? I don't believe a case has gone to trial yet.
I have never seen that put better! Thank you!
The analogy I heard was that of being invited to a free dinner at someone's house and ending up demanding to supervise the cooking.
Half way through "HATE" I would've grabbed your list and stormed off. You'd be inverted in a trash can with said coffee on top.
Seriously, though. It's one of those positions where the best thing you can do is find a friend who's already connected with the company, however remotely. You need good written English skills, to be able to play through a few well-known games and talk about them, and sometimes you'll need to pass a drug test. If you've got those three covered, you just need to know somebody (anybody!) or be in the right place at the right time. No other magic required.
Courts may not agree, but mine wasn't a legal answer.
These are bus bandwidth-intensive operations. Given that the fastest Mac has DDR266 memory and it's not banked for parallel access or otherwise arranged for additional benefit, what aspect of the G4 architecture do you believe should be giving it an edge in these bandwidth-constrained tasks?
I think you'll enjoy a whole lot more security, but I wouldn't be surprised if the stack protection ended up costing a little stability for a while. The stack protection reveals a whole lot of "usually harmless" bugs in other projects, and until this excellent tool is in more users' hands, OpenBSD users may have to bear the burden of discovery for a while.
I wouldn't rush to be the first to put the new release on a critical server machine, but if you're a user who wants to give something back, then now's an excellent time. Get current on OpenBSD, see if any of your favorite apps show stack violations, and let the authors of those apps know ASAP!
I'm opening a betting pool. My cash says it'll go for $30 plus the resulting moderation level of this post.
Point taken :)
I'm curious as to whether black holes are compacted so much that most of the space between atoms (and even subatomic particles?) is gone, or whether the repulsions keeping them apart are even stronger than the force of the black hole's gravity.
Now that they have a measure of the weight, if they know anything about the density or the size, they've got the other value as well.
Of course they wouldn't. Such a group would not be insightful in the US. It wouldn't even be appropriate. Wouldn't make sense.
In the United States, corporations have the right to lie to you. God bless 'em! Yee ha!
The fool who ruled that corporations are the same thing as persons should be dug up and shot a few times. Someone please explain to me how this is supposed to benefit individuals?
We had a guy using templates to convert quaternions to matrices at compile time. Your joke did not make me laugh! :(
And that's it in a nutshell. STL produces far, far better code in most cases if you use instantiations against void* and create your own inline functions to thunk your kind of pointer into the STL container's void*. This eliminates huge amounts of senselessly redundant code.
On the flip side, STL leads to massive code redundancy and scattered data locality. In real-world use, STL tends to be slower than generic containers dealing with void pointers and passed accessors for the sorting/hashing or a generic base type with virtual functions for the sorting, etc.
IMHO, STL's only real advantages are its offering of standardized representation for many generic algorithms, and the way it's renewed some otherwise bad programmers' interest in the same. It's more of a memetic advance than a technological one.