I know that much. The thing is that I can see the difference even in small groups between the good and bad coders; when I look at the few guys that REALLY know what they're doing, it's just a hands-down "They Do Lots More." If I enjoyed C++ like I enjoyed RA3 or Tsunami, I could have produced a HUGE amount of code by now. And I'd be able to hammer out large systems in a month or so. As it is, well, I'm disappointed with my performance.
I never said I was part of it. Not at all. In fact, I'm quite mediocre. Exceptionally good at some things, but only mediocre at the code part. And that's me cutting myself slack.
It's your freakin' civic duty. I'd suggest starting by listening to the news on your way to / from work. If you work at home, just use news to wake yourself up. No matter how much I hate it, I wake up to Our Fearless Leader talking about his latest brilliant idea once or twice a week.
I suggest NPR, but then I'm an ultra-left liberal commie. Perhaps you can find more neutral radio somewhere else, like Air America.
Honestly, I don't think free market forces apply to IT either. The really great coders I've ever known have loved their job to no end, and were exponentially better at it because of this love. The whole reason for the.com bubble being a bubble was because there was a huge bidding war for this tiny number of people, and the bubble popped when it turned out that the tiny number of really brilliant coders wasn't the core of the people making the money at the time.
Knowledge of monetary reward is not enough to drive people to greatness, and the difference between a great coder and a mediocre one when talking about productivity is tremendous. Same with a number of other fields.... It's a question of efficiency and competency being cross-productive and magnified many many times when looking at the overall picture.
This one's easy to explain:
Not everyone's participating.
Western governments have made an effort, and in response to that effort production has been moved elsewhere so fast economies have whiplash. Why do you think there are rivers it's virtually fatal to swim in in the third world? Not 'cause they have strict environmental regulation to match the anti-greenhous and pro-environment rules there are in the US and Europe.
Linux is only losing because of inertia. It's better all around. It's just a matter of time and interoperability. Many of the real reasons for decisions in the early design phases of Vista were more about blocking Linux out of the market by killing interoperability than about increasing functionality.
You missed the "truly major problem" part. Win doesn't come with a good enough hardware check program, and I can't find one for the life of me that's freeware. I keep looking with the same stupid search strings on google and getting nothing but junk. Any suggestions?
I honestly couldn't disagree with you more in so many ways I can't believe it... Comparing George Bush to our founding fathers is something I consider a travesty. Were Jefferson or Hamilton to read some of the laws he's signed into being, they would look for a rifle.
Add to that the fact that many of the founding fathers despised the idea of a professional military, and um... Yeah, no. Sorry, but I can't possibly disagree with you more on this one.
Heh. You're right. I'm not much of a hardware enthusiast. More of a gamer. My first step isn't QUITE to reinstall windows - but in case of major trouble, I do pull all my data to a different machine, reformat, and go from there.
So it's not the first line of reaction I take, but since it's a whole lot easier than monkeying about with my hardware setup, I try it first. And you know what? I've had 1 situation where it was not the case that it was simply some weird setting in my Win registry / setup / whatever that would have taken me days to not only diagnose, but find and fix. While my machine was wigging out on me. (when I only owned one) I've been building and rebuilding computers for ten years. Statistically, that's quite a large number of successes with one tact as opposed to failures.
I'm not much of a hardware enthusiast, I'm more of a hardware hater. But I enjoy it more than, say, someone who doesn't know anything about it.
And my first step, after I clean out viruses and check hard drive space and check for the really nasty signs of hardware failure, is to reinstall windows. It's boilerplate.
They're just covering their tails. When was the last version of Windows where your first step towards solving a truly major problem, "Reinstall Windows."
Every single hardware enthusiast that has ever built their own machine does this before checking their hardware. Why? First point of failure, well, um..... Gee. Wonder where it generally is. This has nothing to do with 'noticing an important market segment.' It just keeps in place the first solution everyone ever uses - reformat; reimage or reinstall.
That's already the case. You think that a population of 300 million people can't produce as many great leaders, statistically, as a population of 3-10 million did? The colonies produced Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Hamilton, and Lincoln. None of these people would ever touch public office now. I can't imagine that there aren't people something like them in modern society, but somehow either none of them are interested in acquiring leadership or they are weeded out of the system.
Now we have termite exterminators and unbelievably unqualified oil speculators running the show. Which is what it has become. Frustrating, or tragic?
Um.... Not really. But if they made them go through a bunch of unfavorable publicity every time they wanted something, well, that would make me feel a little better. Funnily enough, I would personally rather Google quit storing the data they have picked up on me without my asking them.
They are. I regularly buy software recommended to me by someone who isn't a programmer who has pirated it. I recommend it to the next fellow if it's any good. Sometimes, when I say I like software, people listen to me. I don't know why, really. Maybe I sound smrkt.
Um.... Google pays like a big company, has rewards like a startup's available, and has a startup's environment... The way I look at it, turning them down would be extremely hard no matter what your situation.
I'm bitter that I got an 'up yours' form letter turndown, though.
The funny thing is the question of, "Who pays for this?" I wouldn't think that it's much of a dent to either corporation, but it does mean less off-the-shelf copies of each movie will be bought. This means that a lot of the cost of distributing things for 'free' comes out of the pockets of the people basing their income on the royalties. So, by association, you shouldn't buy a PS3 for the free movie because you're helping terrorists and starving out stuntmen.
If it were not for the money, language, and responsibility issues, I'd move to a Scandanavian country in a heartbeat.
As it is, I believe that America is exporting its culture at an incredible rate, and the best way to stop what I see as an unbelievably bad world situation is by attempting to modify it from within the States. I'm not doing a great job, but just being here and dissenting my little piece has more of an impact than living outside the country and bitching to other people that aren't there about how much my country sucks.
I lived overseas, and found that there were a few things true about me personally - 1) wherever I went, I was the same person. Ergo, I was pissed off and unhappy because that's what I started out as. I've attempted to change that. 2) wherever I went, I was followed by the influence of the things I had left the country to avoid, one way or another. Thus I am back here to attempt to modify the things about both me and the world around me that irked me so much when I was not living in the States. I don't know if I'll manage to change the world enough to make any sort of difference should I leave again, but by the time I can afford to leave again for any extended period of time, I will be able to say that I'm at least trying to alleviate certain negative influential factors that result from our social structure.
One of the real downsides to the new comment system is that you can't read the title of the post you're responding to. If you haven't had your morning tea yet, well, you're kinda screwed sometimes.
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Noone else got the joke. How sad. :
I know that much. The thing is that I can see the difference even in small groups between the good and bad coders; when I look at the few guys that REALLY know what they're doing, it's just a hands-down "They Do Lots More." If I enjoyed C++ like I enjoyed RA3 or Tsunami, I could have produced a HUGE amount of code by now. And I'd be able to hammer out large systems in a month or so. As it is, well, I'm disappointed with my performance.
I never said I was part of it. Not at all. In fact, I'm quite mediocre. Exceptionally good at some things, but only mediocre at the code part. And that's me cutting myself slack.
Heh. Yeah, I guess if you count absorbing all of the sanctioned disinformation out there as informed you're right.
It's your freakin' civic duty. I'd suggest starting by listening to the news on your way to / from work. If you work at home, just use news to wake yourself up. No matter how much I hate it, I wake up to Our Fearless Leader talking about his latest brilliant idea once or twice a week.
I suggest NPR, but then I'm an ultra-left liberal commie. Perhaps you can find more neutral radio somewhere else, like Air America.
Honestly, I don't think free market forces apply to IT either. The really great coders I've ever known have loved their job to no end, and were exponentially better at it because of this love. The whole reason for the .com bubble being a bubble was because there was a huge bidding war for this tiny number of people, and the bubble popped when it turned out that the tiny number of really brilliant coders wasn't the core of the people making the money at the time.
Knowledge of monetary reward is not enough to drive people to greatness, and the difference between a great coder and a mediocre one when talking about productivity is tremendous. Same with a number of other fields.... It's a question of efficiency and competency being cross-productive and magnified many many times when looking at the overall picture.
This one's easy to explain:
Not everyone's participating.
Western governments have made an effort, and in response to that effort production has been moved elsewhere so fast economies have whiplash. Why do you think there are rivers it's virtually fatal to swim in in the third world? Not 'cause they have strict environmental regulation to match the anti-greenhous and pro-environment rules there are in the US and Europe.
They certainly help when getting your first job, though. Especially if you study hard. Or so I hear from a few people.
I guess I just enjoy it every time I nuke Windows to the waterline. I'm switching to Dapper when winter break rolls around, I think.
Linux is only losing because of inertia. It's better all around. It's just a matter of time and interoperability. Many of the real reasons for decisions in the early design phases of Vista were more about blocking Linux out of the market by killing interoperability than about increasing functionality.
You missed the "truly major problem" part. Win doesn't come with a good enough hardware check program, and I can't find one for the life of me that's freeware. I keep looking with the same stupid search strings on google and getting nothing but junk. Any suggestions?
I honestly couldn't disagree with you more in so many ways I can't believe it... Comparing George Bush to our founding fathers is something I consider a travesty. Were Jefferson or Hamilton to read some of the laws he's signed into being, they would look for a rifle.
Add to that the fact that many of the founding fathers despised the idea of a professional military, and um... Yeah, no. Sorry, but I can't possibly disagree with you more on this one.
Heh. You're right. I'm not much of a hardware enthusiast. More of a gamer. My first step isn't QUITE to reinstall windows - but in case of major trouble, I do pull all my data to a different machine, reformat, and go from there.
So it's not the first line of reaction I take, but since it's a whole lot easier than monkeying about with my hardware setup, I try it first. And you know what? I've had 1 situation where it was not the case that it was simply some weird setting in my Win registry / setup / whatever that would have taken me days to not only diagnose, but find and fix. While my machine was wigging out on me. (when I only owned one) I've been building and rebuilding computers for ten years. Statistically, that's quite a large number of successes with one tact as opposed to failures.
I'm not much of a hardware enthusiast, I'm more of a hardware hater. But I enjoy it more than, say, someone who doesn't know anything about it.
And my first step, after I clean out viruses and check hard drive space and check for the really nasty signs of hardware failure, is to reinstall windows. It's boilerplate.
They're just covering their tails. When was the last version of Windows where your first step towards solving a truly major problem, "Reinstall Windows."
Every single hardware enthusiast that has ever built their own machine does this before checking their hardware. Why? First point of failure, well, um..... Gee. Wonder where it generally is. This has nothing to do with 'noticing an important market segment.' It just keeps in place the first solution everyone ever uses - reformat; reimage or reinstall.
That's already the case. You think that a population of 300 million people can't produce as many great leaders, statistically, as a population of 3-10 million did? The colonies produced Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Hamilton, and Lincoln. None of these people would ever touch public office now. I can't imagine that there aren't people something like them in modern society, but somehow either none of them are interested in acquiring leadership or they are weeded out of the system.
Now we have termite exterminators and unbelievably unqualified oil speculators running the show. Which is what it has become. Frustrating, or tragic?
Um..... I now know more about both of you than I had ever wanted to. I'm now convinced - Google knows all, and noone cares.
Know what's cool about a flamewar? Chiming in at the end after rolling yourself in gasoline.
Um.... Not really. But if they made them go through a bunch of unfavorable publicity every time they wanted something, well, that would make me feel a little better. Funnily enough, I would personally rather Google quit storing the data they have picked up on me without my asking them.
They are. I regularly buy software recommended to me by someone who isn't a programmer who has pirated it. I recommend it to the next fellow if it's any good. Sometimes, when I say I like software, people listen to me. I don't know why, really. Maybe I sound smrkt.
I never kick myself for not being smart enough, just for wasting my time doing stuff that doesn't make me smarter.
Um.... Google pays like a big company, has rewards like a startup's available, and has a startup's environment... The way I look at it, turning them down would be extremely hard no matter what your situation.
I'm bitter that I got an 'up yours' form letter turndown, though.
The funny thing is the question of, "Who pays for this?" I wouldn't think that it's much of a dent to either corporation, but it does mean less off-the-shelf copies of each movie will be bought. This means that a lot of the cost of distributing things for 'free' comes out of the pockets of the people basing their income on the royalties. So, by association, you shouldn't buy a PS3 for the free movie because you're helping terrorists and starving out stuntmen.
A diamond is harder, too.
"When you punch him in the face for leaving you, she knows forever."
If it were not for the money, language, and responsibility issues, I'd move to a Scandanavian country in a heartbeat.
As it is, I believe that America is exporting its culture at an incredible rate, and the best way to stop what I see as an unbelievably bad world situation is by attempting to modify it from within the States. I'm not doing a great job, but just being here and dissenting my little piece has more of an impact than living outside the country and bitching to other people that aren't there about how much my country sucks.
I lived overseas, and found that there were a few things true about me personally - 1) wherever I went, I was the same person. Ergo, I was pissed off and unhappy because that's what I started out as. I've attempted to change that. 2) wherever I went, I was followed by the influence of the things I had left the country to avoid, one way or another. Thus I am back here to attempt to modify the things about both me and the world around me that irked me so much when I was not living in the States. I don't know if I'll manage to change the world enough to make any sort of difference should I leave again, but by the time I can afford to leave again for any extended period of time, I will be able to say that I'm at least trying to alleviate certain negative influential factors that result from our social structure.
One of the real downsides to the new comment system is that you can't read the title of the post you're responding to. If you haven't had your morning tea yet, well, you're kinda screwed sometimes.
I like the plant program. I would vote for the plant program, if I weren't too busy working to register on the forums.