I won't go quite that far, but I've noticed that in interviews where my "give a damn" quotient and general interest in the position is low, I tend to get job offers. That might have something to do with the display of confidence,
Or it may have to do with the fact that it's harder to find good people for these positions (as the good people also have low interest in the job). So with less competition, there are more offers.
Most of the girls on the Chinese team don't look like they've finished puberty - childish faces, no hips, scrawny. Even for Chinese, these athletes would be extreme cases if they were even close to their 'official' age. Cheng Fei is the only one that does. I can't wait to see what they look like in 3 or 4 years.. I guarantee they will all be taller, heavier, and curvier.
While that is probably true, most adult women in China look young compared to what we Westerners are used to. (I lived there for a few years, and I always thought that many of my adult coworkers looked like they were 16 or 17) They are just, in general, shorter, thinner, and less curvey than their western counterparts. So it's hard to judge.
Great idea....alert box appears once, user looks at it blankly, clicks "don't tell this to me anymore", and goes one with their life, without understanding the issues, and getting their credit cards stolen because they went to www.cidybank.com and saw the httpS, so they figured it was secure enough.
the vast majority Chinese nationals respect their leaders and believe that their leaders are doing their best to protect and promote the interests of China and its citizens.
Do you really think so? That doesn't match the people I knew from my experience after living in China for 2 years. Even the Communist party members that I was friends with had a quite cynical view of the government and its policies.
Shameless self-promotion, but as a counter-example, my homebrew Nintendo GBA game Anguna has received pretty good reviews, and thousands of people downloading it to play it. Sure, it's not quite up to par with a commercial release, but I like to think it's pretty good.
Hmmm...I lived in China for 2 years, and I've had trouble with it. Numerous sites that I was interested in were blocked (a gameboy advance homebrew development forum, for crying out loud!), and most open and free proxy servers were blocked as well.
That's how ebay works. People place their MAXIMUM bid, but it only bids them up enough to beat the other competition. So if only one other person had bid on the toy, and placed a maximum bid of $10, it may still be listed at $1. If you come along and place a maximum bid of $20, it will jump to $10.50 or something, and you'll be the winner. Unless someone comes along and places a bid for $25, at which point it will sell for $20.50 or something like that.
Why would a build process dictate those? Choosing which files get compiled and which libraries get linked is as easy as adding files to a list of files and libraries to a list of libraries, and then the IDE writes out the makefile from the template that you have chosen for the platform, not the project. (That is, unless you mean a "process" in this sense.)
This is true if you are doing a simple compile of your source files and libraries, and linking them. Not all projects are this simple, and may require their own build process. Yes, they could all use make, and yes, they may all use a fairly standard template, but there are all sorts of things that your build process might do other than compiling source files (such as generating code, converting assets, compiling multiple versions with different settings, running automated tests, various deployments and packagings, etc), which don't always fall under a standard template for a particular platform.
Hey, I didn't say windows was any better (although honestly, I've always had great luck with XP laptops by downloading everything from the OEM's website). I just get really annoyed when people get defensive about anyone saying they had trouble getting linux working. It IS sometimes hard to get working, and sometimes moreso than windows. Now let's quit arguing about that fact, and do something more productive with our time.
You call someone a liar because they said that the different linux installs didn't work for them? What kind of world do you live in? I have multiple linux machines that I use regularly (Ubuntu at work and on my laptop, FC at home running mythtv). And I've have PLENTY of times that various linux distributions wouldn't install properly. The ubuntu installer would repeatedly crash on my work machine. Fedora on my myth box worked relatively flawlessly, on the othe rhand. Laptops are a whole different story, and I had plenty of problems with stuff not working on them.
Get out of your cloud and off your high-horse, and come back to reality, please.
Because the amount of code that's paid for (to be written, not necessarily for distribution) FAR outweighs the code that was written for free. Most open source software that's well known (linux, firefox, etc) has had a good bit of funding behind it. And there's plenty of software that nobody is going to write for fun.
I used Eclipse for about a week when I did Java development. After suffering insanely bad performance, upgrading my video drivers, downgrading them, rebuilding Eclipse from source, etc, I just gave up.
I had nearly the same experience at first. I hated on Eclipse for years (I'm a vim fan). But if you have a fast machine, nowadays, the trade off is much better. There's still some bad performance, and some stupidities, but some of Eclipse's features can really speed up development in large java projects.
ET really wasn't that horrible of a game. I had plenty of Atari 2600 games as a kid, and I had plenty that were less fun than ET. Sure, it was a mediocre game, but all the modern whining about it is mostly a result of the game magazine industry swapping stories about how bad it was (mostly because of the overproduction and landfill fiasco).
The game itself, once you figured out what was going on, was mediocre but ok. The pit thing was tiresome (especially until you learned not to exit them on the top side), but the overall gameplay, with managing your energy, calling Elliot to scare off the FBI guy, locating all the pieces and significant places before making a mad dash to grab them, wasn't too bad.
Paint.net falls way short of the Gimp when dealing with large images. While any image editor will have slowdown with extremely large images, Gimp does a good job of remaining responsive, showing progress, etc when dealing with these images. Paint.net just freezes for long periods of time.
I found this out while my wife was trying to get into digital scrapbooking. They make these images that print to 12x12 sheets of paper, with zillions of layers. Paint.net failed the task miserably, while the Gimp did surprisingly well. Even more surprisingly, my wife, who is non-techy and hates learning new programs, had very little trouble with the Gimp's UI.
In the cases where you do have to jump through some hoops due to an exotic hardware configuration, there are practically always equivalent hooops on Windows. People like you either have never jumped through them on Windows because you rarely install, or you're so used to them by now that you don't realize how ridiculous they sound.
Are you really serious?
In the past few months, I've installed XP from a standard windows install cd on 3 computers (a packard bell piece of junk, a toshiba laptop, and a generic desktop pc with 2 video cards).
On the packard bell and toshiba, Windows automatically installed to full resolution. Not all the hardware worked correctly, but I could go to a single web site for each of them (the company's support page) and download EVERY driver that I needed. Double click the "setup.exe" for each one, click next a few times, and they were all working like a charm. The desktop installation was just as easy.
I also tried installing Ubuntu on each of them:
On the packard bell, the wireless card would never work. I fussed with ndiswrapper and other nonsense, but it never worked.
On the toshiba, things mostly worked, although the keyboard never worked exactly right, and the touchpad only half-worked. I spent hours reading forum posts looking for solutions, but found nothing.
On the desktop, I spent hours fighting to get Ubuntu to work with my multiple video cards. Used the alternate text installer to at least get going, but it never worked, no matter how much I messed with xorg.conf.
My coworker who uses Ubuntu just got 2 new monitors today. Funny, he's spent the ENTIRE DAY trying to get the resolution to work right on them. That doesn't happen in windows.
I want to like Linux, I really do. But almost every time I try installing it (about twice a year for the past 10 years), I end up having some show-stopping problem that makes it not worthwhile. (not every time...I do have a mythtv box that is working perfectly for me, but it DID take a good bit of messing with xorg.conf) Posts like yours just sound absolutely crazy after the amounts of non-trivial work that is needed to make Linux work on most of the machines I've used, where I don't have nearly the trouble with Windows.
I'm not a windows fanboy by any means, which is why I keep trying linux time after time. But things will get better only if people actually acknowledge Linux's weaknesses instead of burying their heads in the sand and pretending they don't exist.
Just as a matter of interest, do they pirate things like Linux distros? I can see that people might sell convincing fakes of Redhat boxed distros, but I don't know if they'd sell. Perhaps if someone was getting what they thought was a support contract that turned out to be bogus?
Oh yeah, the little quick-stop right outside my office in Shenzhen, China, sold pirated boxed copies of Redhat for about $1 each. I always wondered what the point was....
Looks like vapor to me. From an update to the article:
Amanda Collins, director of communications for Warner Music Group, said, "Warner Music Group has not authorized the use of our content on Qtrax's recently announced service." Silicon Alley Insider says no deals have been struck, and the LA Times agrees that deals have not been struck with UMG, EMI, and Warner (it describes the state of the Sony/BMG deal as "unclear").
QTrax does not appear to have other major label deals the company's top executive, Allan Klepfisz, told me it had:
A QTrax spokesperson maintained that certain deals are in place, and that QTrax staff "still feel they have the backing of the industry."
A picture is emerging that while QTrax is in talks with the labels and may have made progress in some cases, deals have not actually been signed. The company appears to have misrepresented the state of the deals in order to make its announcement during the Midem conference. As a result, it may end up paying the labels a lot more than it would have otherwise (this sort of stunt hardly strengthens one's bargaining position).
I definitely agree with not wanting to take the stress of work home, but what's wrong with making friends at work? Isn't it more enjoyable to have friends there when you have to go to work? Would you rather spend 8 hours every day with people you like, or people you don't like?
[i]If you don't need high performance then you can do USB full speed with a single not too expensive microcontroller that is availible in a DIP package and for which the firmware is freely downloadable from the manufacturers website. Hell you can even get free samples of this chip.[/i]
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I won't go quite that far, but I've noticed that in interviews where my "give a damn" quotient and general interest in the position is low, I tend to get job offers. That might have something to do with the display of confidence,
Or it may have to do with the fact that it's harder to find good people for these positions (as the good people also have low interest in the job). So with less competition, there are more offers.
Most of the girls on the Chinese team don't look like they've finished puberty - childish faces, no hips, scrawny. Even for Chinese, these athletes would be extreme cases if they were even close to their 'official' age. Cheng Fei is the only one that does. I can't wait to see what they look like in 3 or 4 years.. I guarantee they will all be taller, heavier, and curvier.
While that is probably true, most adult women in China look young compared to what we Westerners are used to. (I lived there for a few years, and I always thought that many of my adult coworkers looked like they were 16 or 17) They are just, in general, shorter, thinner, and less curvey than their western counterparts. So it's hard to judge.
Great idea....alert box appears once, user looks at it blankly, clicks "don't tell this to me anymore", and goes one with their life, without understanding the issues, and getting their credit cards stolen because they went to www.cidybank.com and saw the httpS, so they figured it was secure enough.
If you can afford to leave the country, HIRE A BABYSITTER!!!
And the people that are relocating their families should just, what, Fedex the kids?
the vast majority Chinese nationals respect their leaders and believe that their leaders are doing their best to protect and promote the interests of China and its citizens.
Do you really think so? That doesn't match the people I knew from my experience after living in China for 2 years. Even the Communist party members that I was friends with had a quite cynical view of the government and its policies.
Shameless self-promotion, but as a counter-example, my homebrew Nintendo GBA game Anguna has received pretty good reviews, and thousands of people downloading it to play it. Sure, it's not quite up to par with a commercial release, but I like to think it's pretty good.
Hmmm...I lived in China for 2 years, and I've had trouble with it. Numerous sites that I was interested in were blocked (a gameboy advance homebrew development forum, for crying out loud!), and most open and free proxy servers were blocked as well.
That's how ebay works. People place their MAXIMUM bid, but it only bids them up enough to beat the other competition. So if only one other person had bid on the toy, and placed a maximum bid of $10, it may still be listed at $1. If you come along and place a maximum bid of $20, it will jump to $10.50 or something, and you'll be the winner. Unless someone comes along and places a bid for $25, at which point it will sell for $20.50 or something like that.
Why would a build process dictate those? Choosing which files get compiled and which libraries get linked is as easy as adding files to a list of files and libraries to a list of libraries, and then the IDE writes out the makefile from the template that you have chosen for the platform, not the project. (That is, unless you mean a "process" in this sense.)
This is true if you are doing a simple compile of your source files and libraries, and linking them. Not all projects are this simple, and may require their own build process. Yes, they could all use make, and yes, they may all use a fairly standard template, but there are all sorts of things that your build process might do other than compiling source files (such as generating code, converting assets, compiling multiple versions with different settings, running automated tests, various deployments and packagings, etc), which don't always fall under a standard template for a particular platform.
The sad part was that that wasn't the dumbest part of the movie.
Hey, I didn't say windows was any better (although honestly, I've always had great luck with XP laptops by downloading everything from the OEM's website). I just get really annoyed when people get defensive about anyone saying they had trouble getting linux working. It IS sometimes hard to get working, and sometimes moreso than windows. Now let's quit arguing about that fact, and do something more productive with our time.
You call someone a liar because they said that the different linux installs didn't work for them? What kind of world do you live in? I have multiple linux machines that I use regularly (Ubuntu at work and on my laptop, FC at home running mythtv). And I've have PLENTY of times that various linux distributions wouldn't install properly. The ubuntu installer would repeatedly crash on my work machine. Fedora on my myth box worked relatively flawlessly, on the othe rhand. Laptops are a whole different story, and I had plenty of problems with stuff not working on them.
Get out of your cloud and off your high-horse, and come back to reality, please.
Because the amount of code that's paid for (to be written, not necessarily for distribution) FAR outweighs the code that was written for free. Most open source software that's well known (linux, firefox, etc) has had a good bit of funding behind it. And there's plenty of software that nobody is going to write for fun.
But sales for neither of those things would likely qualify as "gazillions of copies."
I used Eclipse for about a week when I did Java development. After suffering insanely bad performance, upgrading my video drivers, downgrading them, rebuilding Eclipse from source, etc, I just gave up.
I had nearly the same experience at first. I hated on Eclipse for years (I'm a vim fan). But if you have a fast machine, nowadays, the trade off is much better. There's still some bad performance, and some stupidities, but some of Eclipse's features can really speed up development in large java projects.
ET really wasn't that horrible of a game. I had plenty of Atari 2600 games as a kid, and I had plenty that were less fun than ET. Sure, it was a mediocre game, but all the modern whining about it is mostly a result of the game magazine industry swapping stories about how bad it was (mostly because of the overproduction and landfill fiasco).
The game itself, once you figured out what was going on, was mediocre but ok. The pit thing was tiresome (especially until you learned not to exit them on the top side), but the overall gameplay, with managing your energy, calling Elliot to scare off the FBI guy, locating all the pieces and significant places before making a mad dash to grab them, wasn't too bad.
Paint.net falls way short of the Gimp when dealing with large images. While any image editor will have slowdown with extremely large images, Gimp does a good job of remaining responsive, showing progress, etc when dealing with these images. Paint.net just freezes for long periods of time.
I found this out while my wife was trying to get into digital scrapbooking. They make these images that print to 12x12 sheets of paper, with zillions of layers. Paint.net failed the task miserably, while the Gimp did surprisingly well. Even more surprisingly, my wife, who is non-techy and hates learning new programs, had very little trouble with the Gimp's UI.
Are you really serious?
In the past few months, I've installed XP from a standard windows install cd on 3 computers (a packard bell piece of junk, a toshiba laptop, and a generic desktop pc with 2 video cards).
On the packard bell and toshiba, Windows automatically installed to full resolution. Not all the hardware worked correctly, but I could go to a single web site for each of them (the company's support page) and download EVERY driver that I needed. Double click the "setup.exe" for each one, click next a few times, and they were all working like a charm. The desktop installation was just as easy.
I also tried installing Ubuntu on each of them:
On the packard bell, the wireless card would never work. I fussed with ndiswrapper and other nonsense, but it never worked.
On the toshiba, things mostly worked, although the keyboard never worked exactly right, and the touchpad only half-worked. I spent hours reading forum posts looking for solutions, but found nothing.
On the desktop, I spent hours fighting to get Ubuntu to work with my multiple video cards. Used the alternate text installer to at least get going, but it never worked, no matter how much I messed with xorg.conf.
My coworker who uses Ubuntu just got 2 new monitors today. Funny, he's spent the ENTIRE DAY trying to get the resolution to work right on them. That doesn't happen in windows.
I want to like Linux, I really do. But almost every time I try installing it (about twice a year for the past 10 years), I end up having some show-stopping problem that makes it not worthwhile. (not every time...I do have a mythtv box that is working perfectly for me, but it DID take a good bit of messing with xorg.conf) Posts like yours just sound absolutely crazy after the amounts of non-trivial work that is needed to make Linux work on most of the machines I've used, where I don't have nearly the trouble with Windows.
I'm not a windows fanboy by any means, which is why I keep trying linux time after time. But things will get better only if people actually acknowledge Linux's weaknesses instead of burying their heads in the sand and pretending they don't exist.
Except that you can easily go to the laptop manufacturer's support page, and download every driver you would possibly need.
Just as a matter of interest, do they pirate things like Linux distros? I can see that people might sell convincing fakes of Redhat boxed distros, but I don't know if they'd sell. Perhaps if someone was getting what they thought was a support contract that turned out to be bogus?
Oh yeah, the little quick-stop right outside my office in Shenzhen, China, sold pirated boxed copies of Redhat for about $1 each. I always wondered what the point was....
I definitely agree with not wanting to take the stress of work home, but what's wrong with making friends at work? Isn't it more enjoyable to have friends there when you have to go to work? Would you rather spend 8 hours every day with people you like, or people you don't like?
Thanks.
[i]If you don't need high performance then you can do USB full speed with a single not too expensive microcontroller that is availible in a DIP package and for which the firmware is freely downloadable from the manufacturers website. Hell you can even get free samples of this chip.[/i]
Can I get a link?