If you can survive by working 8 hours a day , 5 days a week, you must be subsidized in some way. Either:
You live in the sticks, in which case my tax dollars subsidize your electricity, your phone service, your roads and your house-purchasing incentives.
You have a government or academic job, in which case my tax dollars pay your salary more directly.
You were born rich or were given your job by family. Thank daddy.
I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week as a software developer and system admin. If you work less than that, chances are you're being subsidized, so don't knock it unless you really do work for a living and aren't on some 9 to 5 vaction your whole life.
Exactly right, it works fine with something complicated like an Excel document, but when it comes to something very simple like a tab-delimited text document, it doesn't work.
Thanks for the link to Gnumeric. I'm going to give it a try.
At work, I have two workstations. One runs Linux and the other runs Windows (with Cygwin, of course). The main reason I have a Windows workstation is so I can run Excel.
The reason I need Excel is not to open Excel documents or use Visual Basic or anything like that, it's to quickly and easily edit tab-delimited text documents. Opening these with Open Office on a Linux box is like pulling teeth. If only I could type something like
oocalc filename
and get the expected result. Instead, I get filename opened in the Writer (the Word equivalent). If I type
excel filename
I get my tab-delimited text document opened with Excel, not Word. This is crucial for doing things like
find . -name *.foo | xargs excel
when I need to examine lots of data quickly.
It's not like it's complicated things that hold Open Office back for me, it's simple little things that keep me using Excel.
Have you been living under a rock or what? I don't think anyone actually likes Kerry. I don't because as a Senator he voted to give Bush the power to go to war. I'll vote for him, and you should too, because he's not a complete idiot. I also believe our president should be a respectable person who is honest, especially when people's lives are at stake. Maybe Kerry will do this and maybe he won't, but the one thing we know for sure is that Bush doesn't even care.
I'm a C++/Java developer for a structured finance company. Our front end is web-based and uses Java servlets. Our backend engines that do calculations manipulating a huge amount of data are written in C++.
For me, it's been like that throughout my programming career. Java isn't that great for serious computational work, but it is a very nice language that I use where ever I can. Perfect for anything client-server or for user interfaces.
Between Java and C++ I might just be able to take over the world....bwa ha ha!
Wow. That's actually a really intelligent thing to say. I wish there were people like you who wanted to be politicians.The world would definitely be a better place.
Actually, suppose we follow the example above and need to copy a file. Try
man -k copy
and you get too many possibilities. Try
man -k copy | grep file
and you get a much more useful list.
The only problem as I see it is that the basic ideas are a little more complicated than if using a GUI for finding help and searching for what you want.
That's not even true. Sun is the real loser in the marketplace. Sun servers are being replaced not with just Linux servers, but with Microsoft servers as well. I learned this on a recent interview for a company that does a lot of business with banks, mutual funds, etc. They're replacing Sun with Microsoft at customers' requests.
I think the transaction costs here are the cost of showing sporting events on TV. In order to pay for higher player salaries, content providers have raised prices. Those higher prices then have to be paid by distribution companies like Comcast. By acquiring Disney, who owns ESPN etc.(?), they'll have more say in cost reduction as well as one less link in the chain.
You're right to some degree: the cost of living is the driving factor behind outsourcing. You're wrong in thinking that Silicon Valley is the only place with programmers and that $70k a year is a reasonable amount to pay them.
I live in Pittsburgh and can live comfortably as a programmer on $25k a year if I had a stable job. Since I basically had to go into business as a consultant to make any money with zero job secutity, I decided to go back to school to get a master's in financial math. Before I could even graduate, those jobs have been moved to India as well. Education is not the solution. You can know all the math and all the science there is to know and it's not going to help you get a job. The only thing that can do that is being lucky enough to somehow know the right people.
That's what I was thinking. I'm writing this on a Windows laptop while my Linux desktop is running a trinomial tree-based interest rate option pricing program. Two computers is the way to go if you're serious about increasing productivity, especially if you do anything that's CPU intensive. If I had only one computer, I'd much rather have another CPU than another monitor.
I've been working on a proposal to implement a paperless office for a doctor in a hospital. After quite a bit of research, I decided that Sun was the way to go. They have some really cheap Intel severs right now, which is important because I'm trying to underbid competitors. The OS is already installed out of the box, which saves me time for real stuff like coding, and since one of the requirements for this was to last and be supportable for the forseable future, the fact that Solaris is not going to be phased out for something like Linux sold me. Of course military grade security is nothing to sneeze at when you're talking about a wireless network of private patient information.
Actually, I was using Sun workstations at the universities I attended before I even knew what Linux was. When I found out that I could run Unix at home, I was sold on Linux.
That being said, I think that a year or two ago, KDE on Linux surpased the usability of CDE on Solaris. They need to move over to KDE based workstations, based either on Solaris or Linux -- I don't see that it really matters which since they have a linux emulator for Solaris.
Emacs is my favorite editor, but during finals week last semester when I was coding until 3 or 4 in the morning, I developed serious cramps in my left hand. This was from typing ctr-x-s to save. Once I started holding down the control key with my right hand and hitting x-s with the fingers on my left hand, the cramps disapeared. Never underestimate how you type in contributing to these sorts of things.
Not many people want to listen to streaming music on their computer.
I would say that I'm addicted to internet radio. Ever try out Live 365? Stuff like Musical Starstreams is really good. The thing is that these services are free with the option to donate, and I do donate $20 whenever I have some extra money.
The fact of the matter is that these services will eventually start to offer more and more independent artists. The RIAA artists will draw initial customers, but after customers discover real artists, the RIAA will no longer be necessary. What's going to happen is what they were trying to avoid by charging internet radio stations rediculous fees for playing their songs: the music industry will eventually become decentralized. I don't care what kind of spin you put on it, but selling music for money online will lead to the downfall of the RIAA unless they refuse to license their songs to distributors that offer independent artists.
Oh, and message boards are so helpful that there's no way the RIAA will allow that. Think about audiogalaxy. That was the perfect service because it had some sense of community to it, but even though they blocked songs that the RIAA told them to, they were shut down. Anything that's good for us is bad for them. They have to know this. They're a cartel and any competition will bring about their downfall. It's just a question of education. As long as people don't know about the alternatives, the RIAA will keep their position in the market, but it doesn't make sense for either us or the distributors to be happy with the status quo.
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If you can survive by working 8 hours a day , 5 days a week, you must be subsidized in some way. Either:
- You live in the sticks, in which case my tax dollars subsidize your electricity, your phone service, your roads and your house-purchasing incentives.
- You have a government or academic job, in which case my tax dollars pay your salary more directly.
- You were born rich or were given your job by family. Thank daddy.
I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week as a software developer and system admin. If you work less than that, chances are you're being subsidized, so don't knock it unless you really do work for a living and aren't on some 9 to 5 vaction your whole life.Eat the rich.
Jack dey beats.
Press up dublates.
And burn CDs...
Never seen that video before. Thanks for posting something resembling a link.
Thanks for the link to Gnumeric. I'm going to give it a try.
The reason I need Excel is not to open Excel documents or use Visual Basic or anything like that, it's to quickly and easily edit tab-delimited text documents. Opening these with Open Office on a Linux box is like pulling teeth. If only I could type something like
and get the expected result. Instead, I get filename opened in the Writer (the Word equivalent). If I type I get my tab-delimited text document opened with Excel, not Word. This is crucial for doing things like when I need to examine lots of data quickly. It's not like it's complicated things that hold Open Office back for me, it's simple little things that keep me using Excel.No, they aren't. In fact S&P and Fitch rating agencies have lowered Ford and GM to junk bond status to because sales have fallen 30 considerably.
My Civic Hybrid's batteries are covered by an 8 year warranty.
Have you been living under a rock or what? I don't think anyone actually likes Kerry. I don't because as a Senator he voted to give Bush the power to go to war. I'll vote for him, and you should too, because he's not a complete idiot. I also believe our president should be a respectable person who is honest, especially when people's lives are at stake. Maybe Kerry will do this and maybe he won't, but the one thing we know for sure is that Bush doesn't even care.
For me, it's been like that throughout my programming career. Java isn't that great for serious computational work, but it is a very nice language that I use where ever I can. Perfect for anything client-server or for user interfaces.
Between Java and C++ I might just be able to take over the world....bwa ha ha!Wow. That's actually a really intelligent thing to say. I wish there were people like you who wanted to be politicians.The world would definitely be a better place.
The only problem as I see it is that the basic ideas are a little more complicated than if using a GUI for finding help and searching for what you want.
That's not even true. Sun is the real loser in the marketplace. Sun servers are being replaced not with just Linux servers, but with Microsoft servers as well. I learned this on a recent interview for a company that does a lot of business with banks, mutual funds, etc. They're replacing Sun with Microsoft at customers' requests.
I think even Microsoft announced 35 million lines of code for Windows 2000 when it came out. How many lines of code could have been in SP1?
I think the transaction costs here are the cost of showing sporting events on TV. In order to pay for higher player salaries, content providers have raised prices. Those higher prices then have to be paid by distribution companies like Comcast. By acquiring Disney, who owns ESPN etc.(?), they'll have more say in cost reduction as well as one less link in the chain.
I actually spoke to a software salesman from Microsoft. He refered to what he did as evangelism. No kidding.
I live in Pittsburgh and can live comfortably as a programmer on $25k a year if I had a stable job. Since I basically had to go into business as a consultant to make any money with zero job secutity, I decided to go back to school to get a master's in financial math. Before I could even graduate, those jobs have been moved to India as well. Education is not the solution. You can know all the math and all the science there is to know and it's not going to help you get a job. The only thing that can do that is being lucky enough to somehow know the right people.
That's what I was thinking. I'm writing this on a Windows laptop while my Linux desktop is running a trinomial tree-based interest rate option pricing program. Two computers is the way to go if you're serious about increasing productivity, especially if you do anything that's CPU intensive. If I had only one computer, I'd much rather have another CPU than another monitor.
Actually, I think it's more likely that they're just throwing out as much random stuff that they can in hopes of scaring people.
I've been working on a proposal to implement a paperless office for a doctor in a hospital. After quite a bit of research, I decided that Sun was the way to go. They have some really cheap Intel severs right now, which is important because I'm trying to underbid competitors. The OS is already installed out of the box, which saves me time for real stuff like coding, and since one of the requirements for this was to last and be supportable for the forseable future, the fact that Solaris is not going to be phased out for something like Linux sold me. Of course military grade security is nothing to sneeze at when you're talking about a wireless network of private patient information.
That being said, I think that a year or two ago, KDE on Linux surpased the usability of CDE on Solaris. They need to move over to KDE based workstations, based either on Solaris or Linux -- I don't see that it really matters which since they have a linux emulator for Solaris.
Emacs is my favorite editor, but during finals week last semester when I was coding until 3 or 4 in the morning, I developed serious cramps in my left hand. This was from typing ctr-x-s to save. Once I started holding down the control key with my right hand and hitting x-s with the fingers on my left hand, the cramps disapeared. Never underestimate how you type in contributing to these sorts of things.
I would say that I'm addicted to internet radio. Ever try out Live 365? Stuff like Musical Starstreams is really good. The thing is that these services are free with the option to donate, and I do donate $20 whenever I have some extra money.
The fact of the matter is that these services will eventually start to offer more and more independent artists. The RIAA artists will draw initial customers, but after customers discover real artists, the RIAA will no longer be necessary. What's going to happen is what they were trying to avoid by charging internet radio stations rediculous fees for playing their songs: the music industry will eventually become decentralized. I don't care what kind of spin you put on it, but selling music for money online will lead to the downfall of the RIAA unless they refuse to license their songs to distributors that offer independent artists.Oh, and message boards are so helpful that there's no way the RIAA will allow that. Think about audiogalaxy. That was the perfect service because it had some sense of community to it, but even though they blocked songs that the RIAA told them to, they were shut down. Anything that's good for us is bad for them. They have to know this. They're a cartel and any competition will bring about their downfall. It's just a question of education. As long as people don't know about the alternatives, the RIAA will keep their position in the market, but it doesn't make sense for either us or the distributors to be happy with the status quo.
Can't you run abobe stuff on linux using code weavers?