We've all heard the horror stories coming out of companies like EA, with programmers working sweatshop hours and driven to burnout. How are the working conditions at Firaxis? Do you guys get time to stop and smell the roses? Or at least time to play other games?
Schools shouldn't be teaching languages. They should be teaching programming.
PL/I, Cobal and Fortran are not hard to pick up. Unfortunately, too many kids graduate having learned Java instead of programming (or almost as bad, learning only Object Oriented programming and nothing else), and so are helpless when confronted with anything that doesn't conform to the narrow view of programming that they learned in school.
Nice to see that with modern 21st technology, we can make it to the moon in only thirteen years, as opposed to the long eight year program it took forty years ago.
Someone ought to create a box where the OS binaries and frequently used apps are kept on a flash drive but where a secondary harddrive is used for temporary files, settings, documents, etc.
In other words, put/bin/lib/usr/bin/usr/lib and/boot on the flash drive and/etc/tmp/var and/home on a hard drive.
Note to those who may not realize: The Bay Bridge is currently not even close to completion. When the parent poster says "fifteen years to replace", he means, "fifteen years so far". It'll probably be twenty in the end, assuming they ever get the damn thing built.
The trouble is that the fossil record only shows certain types of traits. There may have been a trait that Homo Sapiens acquired that is not visible in the fossil record that gave it a big advantage. (For instance, a change in brain structure that did not change the size and shape of the skull cavity.) The fact that "humans" had a small range for a hundred thousand years and then exploded out of Africa in a fairly short time frame implies that something changed, even if we can't see it in the bones.
You seem to have reading comprehension problems. I'm talking about countries and not individuals.
I am an American and as an individual, I certain intend to help. And also I think my government, the American government, the richest government in the world, ought to help.
But I don't see why a poorer country like, say, Mexico, should help. Individual rich mexicans, yes, but the country? That country has it's own troubles to deal with.
Umm...so how does launching massively expensive satellites without a clear plan concerning how to sell a service cheap enough for people to buy compare with buying up fiber-optic cable that is useful today at a cost far lower than it cost to install?
The real moneymakers come out of nowhere. If it sounds like something you've heard of, but with maybe a tiny twist...look elsewhere.
The really amusing thing is that the biggest success in recent times, Google, was simply "we want to do search engines just like everyone else. But we'll do it better".
What makes real money isn't a hot new idea. It's doing something well. Quality. If I were a VC, that's what I'd be looking for. Competence and pragmatism.
Exactly. I worked for a dotcom. I suspect the investors lost a substantial part of their investment. On the other hand, I got a good salary and free snacks. Sure, I'd have much rather we succeeded, but all I lost was hours worked and potential stock options.
Interesting as it reminds me of working for startups in the late eighties. There was a definite fear that if you came up with something good, Microsoft would just swoop in and steal your market. It certainly did act as a drag on startups. Who wants to put in blood, sweat and tears only to see someone come in at the last minute, steal your ideas and leave you poor?
The startup I worked for? We had an email package that got a rave review in LAN Times. Not that we ever got big enough for anyone to actively steal it.
Though one difference is that Microsoft did it with mediocre products whereas Google seems to do it by actually creating a superior product.
According to this, computers and peripherals used 21 billion kWh in 2001, out of a total of 1,140 billion kWh in the US. which means that residential computer use is 1.8% of the total. Probably gone up a bit since then, but I doubt to 10%.
If you include all electronics (including TVs and stereos, etc.) it reaches about 10%.
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We've all heard the horror stories coming out of companies like EA, with programmers working sweatshop hours and driven to burnout. How are the working conditions at Firaxis? Do you guys get time to stop and smell the roses? Or at least time to play other games?
When loki games rises from the dead, most likely.
Bottom line is that the last time someone tried to make a profit creating Linux ports, they failed miserably. The market isn't there.
Schools shouldn't be teaching languages. They should be teaching programming.
PL/I, Cobal and Fortran are not hard to pick up. Unfortunately, too many kids graduate having learned Java instead of programming (or almost as bad, learning only Object Oriented programming and nothing else), and so are helpless when confronted with anything that doesn't conform to the narrow view of programming that they learned in school.
Yes, and that's the way the web has operated since 1994. The default is "share all data".
"1GB = 1024 MB = 1048576 KB"
Unless you write harddrive press releases.
Alas, they killed their PDA a couple years ago.
You'd probably want to mount it on a platform that can tip in all directions so that you can stand on inclines in VR.
They ask for permission every time they read your robots.txt file.
Nice to see that with modern 21st technology, we can make it to the moon in only thirteen years, as opposed to the long eight year program it took forty years ago.
In other words, put /bin /lib /usr/bin /usr/lib and /boot on the flash drive and /etc /tmp /var and /home on a hard drive.
Note to those who may not realize: The Bay Bridge is currently not even close to completion. When the parent poster says "fifteen years to replace", he means, "fifteen years so far". It'll probably be twenty in the end, assuming they ever get the damn thing built.
The trouble is that the fossil record only shows certain types of traits. There may have been a trait that Homo Sapiens acquired that is not visible in the fossil record that gave it a big advantage. (For instance, a change in brain structure that did not change the size and shape of the skull cavity.) The fact that "humans" had a small range for a hundred thousand years and then exploded out of Africa in a fairly short time frame implies that something changed, even if we can't see it in the bones.
You realize that if a "CD boycott" was successful, the RIAA would just blame the lost sales on evil pirates, right?
Now I have to move the base again.
You seem to have reading comprehension problems. I'm talking about countries and not individuals.
I am an American and as an individual, I certain intend to help. And also I think my government, the American government, the richest government in the world, ought to help.
But I don't see why a poorer country like, say, Mexico, should help. Individual rich mexicans, yes, but the country? That country has it's own troubles to deal with.
Nope. I'm an American who realizes that his own country is by far the richest in the world.
If Bill Gates' den collapses, do the residents of Redmond take up a collection?
Umm...so how does launching massively expensive satellites without a clear plan concerning how to sell a service cheap enough for people to buy compare with buying up fiber-optic cable that is useful today at a cost far lower than it cost to install?
None of those ideas come to anything.
The real moneymakers come out of nowhere. If it sounds like something you've heard of, but with maybe a tiny twist...look elsewhere.
The really amusing thing is that the biggest success in recent times, Google, was simply "we want to do search engines just like everyone else. But we'll do it better".
What makes real money isn't a hot new idea. It's doing something well. Quality. If I were a VC, that's what I'd be looking for. Competence and pragmatism.
Exactly. I worked for a dotcom. I suspect the investors lost a substantial part of their investment. On the other hand, I got a good salary and free snacks. Sure, I'd have much rather we succeeded, but all I lost was hours worked and potential stock options.
So you're saying that in prior wars, the enemy didn't try to blow up vehicles with boobie traps?
Yes, we have rules of morality for war. You can only blind someone if you must do so in order to destroy their brain by making a hole in their face.
Only a barbarian would try to blind them on purpose.
Interesting as it reminds me of working for startups in the late eighties. There was a definite fear that if you came up with something good, Microsoft would just swoop in and steal your market. It certainly did act as a drag on startups. Who wants to put in blood, sweat and tears only to see someone come in at the last minute, steal your ideas and leave you poor?
The startup I worked for? We had an email package that got a rave review in LAN Times. Not that we ever got big enough for anyone to actively steal it.
Though one difference is that Microsoft did it with mediocre products whereas Google seems to do it by actually creating a superior product.
According to this, computers and peripherals used 21 billion kWh in 2001, out of a total of 1,140 billion kWh in the US. which means that residential computer use is 1.8% of the total. Probably gone up a bit since then, but I doubt to 10%.
If you include all electronics (including TVs and stereos, etc.) it reaches about 10%.
As good a theory as any!