"I'm guessing this is par for the course at this level of "leadership" in most companies.
I disagree. I mean, I could be wrong, but most of the ceos I've met over the years, aside from the odd quirk, were very stand-up people, they had to be, otherwise no one would ever be able to do business, unless you buy that ALL ceos are sexual harasser. Clearly not so.. Also, Hurd Was Not CEO during the pretexting scandal, that was Patricia Dunn.
If they want to stay in the business of selling books they need to start selling the books I want in eBook format, which they often don't, and not charge a ridiculous $10 per title. I know it doesn't cost them that to produce the damn format . I usually either find the book I want in that format already for free or I go without. It can be any format; pdf, e-Ink, I don't care. I refuse now to do without the convenience of being able to carry my entire library in my pocket, being able to book mark electronically, do searches... etc. Clinging to to the old paper format is a losing idea..
In my opinion its not much of an effort to simply burn the driver directory on to a cd or dvd, Its really not THAT BIG a deal. And even if you aren't diligent, then there's always the device manufacturer's web site. I'm in an even better position because I blow off Windows and run Linux anyway; it has all its own drivers.
Cutting down on the clutter is a good thing. I already have to attack consumer electronics items with a very sharp knife to open the packaging, often cutting my self in the process, and leaving behind the guts of several layers of plastic packaging. I recently bought a new asus netbook; the entire product took the form of the netbook and a wall power adapter. Even so I ended up with like 7 boxes or cardboard forms. I could do with less dvds at least.
I guess Intuit knows which side of the bread their butter is on. Too bad they repeatedly drop it in the dirt and then cram it down our throats. I wonder if they can indefinitely stave off the hue and cry for a simpler tax code? My guess, knowing the thieves in Washington... yes!
"You don't measure every day macro object... *blah blah more bad English blah blah*
Everything you are saying in your reply is covered by my use of "measure... macro world... to an arbitrary degree." I didn't say to a precise degree, but an arbitrary one.
That it's not possible to *PRECISELY* measure an attribute of something?
Not exactly. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states precise inequalities that certain PAIRS of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot simultaneously be known to arbitrary precision. You seem to be implying that any observable SINGLE quality can't be precisely known. And its not the the attribute of *something*. The principal is specifically relegated to the region of quantum phenomena. We can, and do, measure both position and velocity of objects in the macro world every day to an arbitrary degree.
Yeah, I agree. Once a month is a little too anal but I do it maybe twice a year, or when the mood strikes me. I tell my friends, the ones who are -geeks there's one thing you can do to prolong the life
of your rig and that's dust it out once in a while. Yet the #1 problem when something goes bad is a fan has stopped spinning because of dust build-up. No spin: no cool. No cool: no working component.
Ok, but its not bs. Let me clarify that when I lived there it was from 1977- 1980, when I was 16-19.
That's right, they can't speak foreign languages to save their lives, yet their desire to learn other languages for whatever reason explains... what? The bonanza for ESL teachers such as yourself, which has continued unabated since the late 70's, I can assure you, has not abated.
I'm not quite sure what your main point is. If it was to counter mine, well, as I said, this comes from my experience in the late 70's. My imperfect understanding is however that Asian children still out perform American ones in the hard science, the disciplines, necessary for success in the technology age. Not too sure what your main point is.
"...Americans are impermeable to the reality of global warming..."
I guess your talking to the wrong Americans. Everyone I talk to (being an American I'm surrounded by them, can't help it) seems to have convinced themselves of your "reality" as well. Don't know what Americans your talking to, it certainly isn't the ones I know and work with. We've all pretty much had a drink out of your kool-aid bucket.
Indeed. Everyone overcharges the Gov; why? Because the Gov doesn't give a shit what they do WITH OUR MONEY. Why are the suddenly zeroing in on Oracle? If the gov. were serious about keeping track of OUR MONEY they would audit all their contracts.
"It never ceases to amaze me how smart people seem to achieve greatness in spite of the many failings of our education system."
The reason for this is quite simple: a diploma gets you in the door, but your particular qualities, if any, pave the way to greatness.
/* soapbox */ in spite of our horrible primary education system. So we have to breed high achievers, American's aren't willing to teach greatness to children any more.. Having spent many of my formative years in Asia I know first hand that the situation exactly is. The issues we have with our primary schools are our real problems. K through 12 aged children come of age in and must excel despite a primary system that frankly teaches them shit about the reality of life and learning in the modern age. Children are indoctrinated into thinking about being accepting of other cultures, "valuing" and fostering their own fragile egos and at the same time that winning isn't really the right thing to strive for and how global warming is a hideous result of modern civilization and all manner of politically correct nonsense, none of which is taught in any other country that I've ever lived in.
Japanese school children on the other hand are given the basic tools of rational and critical thought, drilled constantly to master both mathematical and lexical (language) skills, and everything is done to prepare them for secondary education. Japan has many 2ndary schools, but any Japanese person will tell you that only 3 count; Tokyo, Todai, and a third whose name escapes me. If you are a Japanese citizen of means and you can't get your child into one of those three, that's when you consider sending your child to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc. And fortunately for those foreign students there's plenty of room because American children are off doing anything but achieving. Foreigners send their children to western schools because they don't have enough room in their own schools.
Meanwhile we're teaching our children to hug trees which they can presumably use to ultimately flip burgers with their liberal arts degrees. Are we really casting a critical enough eye at our primary education system?
Microsoft's penis envy is lame, old, and disingenuous to its share holders. Grabbing the iPad's market share is job one... pheh. Here's Apple buzz "I wonder what Jobs will do next?" Here's Microsoft's: "I wonder what Ballmer's excuse will be this time?"
Rather than chasing after Apple, RIM, Adobe,..
Message to Ballmer: Try some of that. Do. Execute. Create. I N N O V A T E. Stop being lame. Ya big tard.
"If you think that you can do any better, go out and start your own firm."
Programmers are not business people, that's why business people hire programmers. And you simply don't "start your own firm", it doesn't work that way. Unlike today's children a financial firm isn't born with some nebulous "respect" quality already built-in (or whatever children today think they have that they haven't earned... they way I hear them talk sometimes.) Trading & financial firms require trust with their customers, something that should be very obvious to everyone (you included) since the last 2 years or so.
I will agree, if the offered salary isn't enough, then one should move on to the next offer, but what if all the offers are the same? Also, living in the trading capitols of Manhattan and Chicago require lots of capital. Manhattan is one of the most expensive places IN THE WORLD to live in, the condos around Wall & Water streets are some of the most expensive real estate in the world. I recently heard report that a Park ave. condo was sold to an investment banker (Mexican national) for 40 million. Commuting to and from a job that can take up 60% of your time (and you need to squeeze in sleep and regular life in the other 40%) from Queens or Brooklyn is simply draining. If an investment firm makes 100K a DAY from the code a programmer writes surly they can squeeze of a doubling of that guys yearly pay. Not realizing that your undercutting such valuable staff to that degree is simply arrogance and greed.
We need to face facts; the patent system, like almost all other legal systems here, is ridiculously broken. The patent system was supposed to grow creativity but instead has become a tool for quick profits. Its ridiculous and needs to go.
Slashdot Mirror
...But why the hell is the demo avi on the web page (cube20.org) showing the process in reverse?
"I'm guessing this is par for the course at this level of "leadership" in most companies.
I disagree. I mean, I could be wrong, but most of the ceos I've met over the years, aside from the odd quirk, were very stand-up people, they had to be, otherwise no one would ever be able to do business, unless you buy that ALL ceos are sexual harasser. Clearly not so.. Also, Hurd Was Not CEO during the pretexting scandal, that was Patricia Dunn.
Or if you're using ff 3.6....; View->Page Style->No Style.
If they want to stay in the business of selling books they need to start selling the books I want in eBook format, which they often don't, and not charge a ridiculous $10 per title. I know it doesn't cost them that to produce the damn format . I usually either find the book I want in that format already for free or I go without. It can be any format; pdf, e-Ink, I don't care. I refuse now to do without the convenience of being able to carry my entire library in my pocket, being able to book mark electronically, do searches... etc. Clinging to to the old paper format is a losing idea..
Find Windows Essentials. You don't need a key. Just the iso image.
In my opinion its not much of an effort to simply burn the driver directory on to a cd or dvd, Its really not THAT BIG a deal. And even if you aren't diligent, then there's always the device manufacturer's web site. I'm in an even better position because I blow off Windows and run Linux anyway; it has all its own drivers.
Cutting down on the clutter is a good thing. I already have to attack consumer electronics items with a very sharp knife to open the packaging, often cutting my self in the process, and leaving behind the guts of several layers of plastic packaging. I recently bought a new asus netbook; the entire product took the form of the netbook and a wall power adapter. Even so I ended up with like 7 boxes or cardboard forms. I could do with less dvds at least.
I guess Intuit knows which side of the bread their butter is on. Too bad they repeatedly drop it in the dirt and then cram it down our throats. I wonder if they can indefinitely stave off the hue and cry for a simpler tax code? My guess, knowing the thieves in Washington... yes!
Stop playing with that Sun, you'll put your eye out!
"You don't measure every day macro object... *blah blah more bad English blah blah*
Everything you are saying in your reply is covered by my use of "measure ... macro world ... to an arbitrary degree." I didn't say to a precise degree, but an arbitrary one.
That it's not possible to *PRECISELY* measure an attribute of something?
Not exactly. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states precise inequalities that certain PAIRS of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot simultaneously be known to arbitrary precision. You seem to be implying that any observable SINGLE quality can't be precisely known. And its not the the attribute of *something*. The principal is specifically relegated to the region of quantum phenomena. We can, and do, measure both position and velocity of objects in the macro world every day to an arbitrary degree.
Ralphie, dressed up as a podium so the school could save money: "I'm a furniture!"
Yeah, I agree. Once a month is a little too anal but I do it maybe twice a year, or when the mood strikes me. I tell my friends, the ones who are -geeks there's one thing you can do to prolong the life of your rig and that's dust it out once in a while. Yet the #1 problem when something goes bad is a fan has stopped spinning because of dust build-up. No spin: no cool. No cool: no working component.
"...I have to call bs on this one..."
Ok, but its not bs. Let me clarify that when I lived there it was from 1977- 1980, when I was 16-19.
That's right, they can't speak foreign languages to save their lives, yet their desire to learn other languages for whatever reason explains... what? The bonanza for ESL teachers such as yourself, which has continued unabated since the late 70's, I can assure you, has not abated.
I'm not quite sure what your main point is. If it was to counter mine, well, as I said, this comes from my experience in the late 70's. My imperfect understanding is however that Asian children still out perform American ones in the hard science, the disciplines, necessary for success in the technology age. Not too sure what your main point is.
"...most of them on the internet...
Ah, no.
...but I got the +5 mod.
High School/Jr.High
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 END
First year in College
program Hello(input, output)
begin
writeln('Hello World')
end.
Senior year in College
(defun hello
(print
(cons 'Hello (list 'World))))
New professional
#include
void main(void)
{
char *message[] = {"Hello ", "World"};
int i;
for(i = 0; i = 0) {
while(defined($arg=shift(@ARGV))) {
$outfilename = $arg;
open(FILE, ">" . $outfilename) || die "Can't write $arg: $!\n";
print (FILE $msg);
close(FILE) || die "Can't close $arg: $!\n";
}
} else {
print ($msg);
}
1;
Experienced Hacker
#include
#define S "Hello, World\n"
main(){exit(printf(S) strlen(S) ? 0 : 1);}
Seasoned Hacker
% cc -o a.out ~/src/misc/hw/hw.c
% a.out
Guru Hacker
% cat
Hello, world.
^D
New Manager
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 END
Middle Manager
mail -s "Hello, world." bob@b12
Bob, could you please write me a program that prints "Hello, world."?
I need it by tomorrow.
^D
Senior Manager
% zmail jim
I need a "Hello, world." program by this afternoon.
Chief Executive
% letter
letter: Command not found.
% mail
To: ^X ^F ^C
% help mail
help: Command not found.
% damn!
!: Event unrecognized
% logout
Don't know what you're talking about, and don't really care Apu.
Well, you might as well name the third then.
"...Americans are impermeable to the reality of global warming..."
I guess your talking to the wrong Americans. Everyone I talk to (being an American I'm surrounded by them, can't help it) seems to have convinced themselves of your "reality" as well. Don't know what Americans your talking to, it certainly isn't the ones I know and work with. We've all pretty much had a drink out of your kool-aid bucket.
Indeed. Everyone overcharges the Gov; why? Because the Gov doesn't give a shit what they do WITH OUR MONEY. Why are the suddenly zeroing in on Oracle? If the gov. were serious about keeping track of OUR MONEY they would audit all their contracts.
"It never ceases to amaze me how smart people seem to achieve greatness in spite of the many failings of our education system."
The reason for this is quite simple: a diploma gets you in the door, but your particular qualities, if any, pave the way to greatness.
/* soapbox */ in spite of our horrible primary education system. So we have to breed high achievers, American's aren't willing to teach greatness to children any more.. Having spent many of my formative years in Asia I know first hand that the situation exactly is. The issues we have with our primary schools are our real problems. K through 12 aged children come of age in and must excel despite a primary system that frankly teaches them shit about the reality of life and learning in the modern age. Children are indoctrinated into thinking about being accepting of other cultures, "valuing" and fostering their own fragile egos and at the same time that winning isn't really the right thing to strive for and how global warming is a hideous result of modern civilization and all manner of politically correct nonsense, none of which is taught in any other country that I've ever lived in.
Japanese school children on the other hand are given the basic tools of rational and critical thought, drilled constantly to master both mathematical and lexical (language) skills, and everything is done to prepare them for secondary education. Japan has many 2ndary schools, but any Japanese person will tell you that only 3 count; Tokyo, Todai, and a third whose name escapes me. If you are a Japanese citizen of means and you can't get your child into one of those three, that's when you consider sending your child to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc. And fortunately for those foreign students there's plenty of room because American children are off doing anything but achieving. Foreigners send their children to western schools because they don't have enough room in their own schools.
Meanwhile we're teaching our children to hug trees which they can presumably use to ultimately flip burgers with their liberal arts degrees. Are we really casting a critical enough eye at our primary education system?
Microsoft's penis envy is lame, old, and disingenuous to its share holders. Grabbing the iPad's market share is job one... pheh. Here's Apple buzz "I wonder what Jobs will do next?" Here's Microsoft's: "I wonder what Ballmer's excuse will be this time?" Rather than chasing after Apple, RIM, Adobe, ..
Message to Ballmer: Try some of that. Do. Execute. Create. I N N O V A T E. Stop being lame. Ya big tard.
"If you think that you can do any better, go out and start your own firm."
Programmers are not business people, that's why business people hire programmers. And you simply don't "start your own firm", it doesn't work that way. Unlike today's children a financial firm isn't born with some nebulous "respect" quality already built-in (or whatever children today think they have that they haven't earned... they way I hear them talk sometimes.) Trading & financial firms require trust with their customers, something that should be very obvious to everyone (you included) since the last 2 years or so.
I will agree, if the offered salary isn't enough, then one should move on to the next offer, but what if all the offers are the same? Also, living in the trading capitols of Manhattan and Chicago require lots of capital. Manhattan is one of the most expensive places IN THE WORLD to live in, the condos around Wall & Water streets are some of the most expensive real estate in the world. I recently heard report that a Park ave. condo was sold to an investment banker (Mexican national) for 40 million. Commuting to and from a job that can take up 60% of your time (and you need to squeeze in sleep and regular life in the other 40%) from Queens or Brooklyn is simply draining. If an investment firm makes 100K a DAY from the code a programmer writes surly they can squeeze of a doubling of that guys yearly pay. Not realizing that your undercutting such valuable staff to that degree is simply arrogance and greed.
We need to face facts; the patent system, like almost all other legal systems here, is ridiculously broken. The patent system was supposed to grow creativity but instead has become a tool for quick profits. Its ridiculous and needs to go.