I. You can always go back
II. Everything becomes boring after some time
III. Next career step might be training
IV....or management
V....or management of networks, not people.
...the most well-known example of pure science known to man is electricity. Why bother with something that can make frog's legs kick ?
Experience has shown that "pure" research often leads to applications the researchers never imagined.
Cutting research to areas with "immediate applicability" is quite in fashion in some circles. (The same circles, coincidentally, that do not usually do something for the benefit of mankind. Corporates come to mind.)
People living in direct vincinity to wind farms in Germany (a country under siege by an inept social democrat/econazi govt.) complain about the flickering shadows the propellers cast into their houses. Of course it's cool to see them when driving/walking by, to listen to the noise they make - but imagine having to live close to one of them.
Wind also tends to be unreliable and changing. Would you agree to only use electricity if the wind blew between 3 and 5 Beaufort only ?
Finally - anybody needing to fight wars to grab enough energy for domestic use seems to use way too much of it...
Coding is the beginning of the rest of your life.
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Ageism in IT?
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I started writing programs (in FORTRAN IV) in 1975.
Things have changed since then - and you follow the change for a while.
There was - and still is - a lot of money to be made coding. But sooner or later, spending your life coding is the last thing on your mind.
"Ah ! There's a new language to learn out there !" you say. And you find, one day, that it is hard to learn. So - why bother?
Get a management position if you can.
Management positions are underrated - but the best place to be in when you want to move things.
A couple of good folks working for you are the best, most efficient software development tool you can find anywhere...
And if you do it right, both the folks and you are even going to have fun.
Maximum paper format
How much paper can it store ?
How many pages/minute ?
Most important of all: What is the total click cost (cost per imprint.)
Consider asking a copier dealer about a pay per click.
Re:why didn't this window manager die LONG AGO?
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While we are at it - of course, modelines were something you calculated yourself.
It would at least allow you to run the NEC Multisync II at ALMOST 800x600...
(And yes, you are right, it started with SLS. And backups on a floppy streamer... And a VLB graphics card... And alt.os.linux... And kernel patches via Usenet...) *sigh*
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Aaah ! A troll !
Here's some food for ya !
How to explain FVWM to a troll ?
In the good old days, when THE distribution was something you downloaded as floppy images, when a 386 DX with 16 megs was considered a nice machine (with your file server being a 486/33), when you had a Minix FS and hex-edited your boot device on your boot floppy, in those old days you did not want a *huge* window manager.
But after downloading the slackware X series of floppy disks, you wanted SOME kind of WM.
And yes, it was cosidered a bonus to open an xterm without the system starting to swap.
What will keep Bonzi from "selling the idea" to another seemingly independent company?
Their scheme (not to be mistaken for the way more profitable, way more illegal Ponzi scheme) most likely made them enough money to be of value to a lot of other seedy companies.
So - what will happen in this case ?
Good money lost, nobody gains anything.
History shows that in other systems, like the long-dead Habitat or the - almost-as-dead - WorldsAway (http://www.vzones.com), users would always find and abuse security holes.
It was considered part of the game, the players hurt by the actions were given their old status back and noone was ever prosecuted.
This makes the hackers look bad. Prosecution makes them heroes instead.
Slashdot Mirror
II. Everything becomes boring after some time
III. Next career step might be training
IV.
V.
Enjoy ! :-)
Experience has shown that "pure" research often leads to applications the researchers never imagined.
Cutting research to areas with "immediate applicability" is quite in fashion in some circles. (The same circles, coincidentally, that do not usually do something for the benefit of mankind. Corporates come to mind.)
Nevertheless, the current file system they have is technically far behind any reasonable database.
As a matter of fact, it should not take long to create an Oracle-based file system...
Of course it's cool to see them when driving/walking by, to listen to the noise they make - but imagine having to live close to one of them.
Wind also tends to be unreliable and changing. Would you agree to only use electricity if the wind blew between 3 and 5 Beaufort only ?
Finally - anybody needing to fight wars to grab enough energy for domestic use seems to use way too much of it...
Things have changed since then - and you follow the change for a while.
There was - and still is - a lot of money to be made coding.
But sooner or later, spending your life coding is the last thing on your mind.
"Ah ! There's a new language to learn out there !" you say. And you find, one day, that it is hard to learn.
So - why bother?
Get a management position if you can.
Management positions are underrated - but the best place to be in when you want to move things.
A couple of good folks working for you are the best, most efficient software development tool you can find anywhere...
And if you do it right, both the folks and you are even going to have fun.
How much paper can it store ?
How many pages/minute ?
Most important of all: What is the total click cost (cost per imprint.)
Consider asking a copier dealer about a pay per click.
It would at least allow you to run the NEC Multisync II at ALMOST 800x600...
(And yes, you are right, it started with SLS. And backups on a floppy streamer... And a VLB graphics card... And alt.os.linux... And kernel patches via Usenet...) *sigh*
Here's some food for ya !
How to explain FVWM to a troll ?
In the good old days, when THE distribution was something you downloaded as floppy images, when a 386 DX with 16 megs was considered a nice machine (with your file server being a 486/33), when you had a Minix FS and hex-edited your boot device on your boot floppy, in those old days you did not want a *huge* window manager.
But after downloading the slackware X series of floppy disks, you wanted SOME kind of WM.
And yes, it was cosidered a bonus to open an xterm without the system starting to swap.
Can your stomach take more, little troll ?
Their scheme (not to be mistaken for the way more profitable, way more illegal Ponzi scheme) most likely made them enough money to be of value to a lot of other seedy companies.
Still - a milestone !
Good money lost, nobody gains anything.
History shows that in other systems, like the long-dead Habitat or the - almost-as-dead - WorldsAway (http://www.vzones.com), users would always find and abuse security holes.
It was considered part of the game, the players hurt by the actions were given their old status back and noone was ever prosecuted.
This makes the hackers look bad. Prosecution makes them heroes instead.