Diff King James version and some of the more recent Methodist texts for a good example of use of clever editing.
Got any links to the differences? I have been invited to a Bible study group and noticed that we're using different versions. I am not a fundie, nor do I even identify as a Christian, but I like the idea of discussing the stories from an intellectual point of view without the religion clouding the interpretation. So I'd definately like to find something that points out the differences.
Humbled? More like excited this stuff is actually coming true! Even more excited after reading the world's smallest refridgerator article. I bet I can get my aging XP2200+ up to a good 10Ghz with that thing. Extreme overclocking, here I come!
I couldn't help but notice that you've built systems for as long as you've dated. Are these two things related somehow?
Sorry...seriously not trying to troll, but as a single geek who has never lived with a woman outside of family before, I'd honestly like to know. I could never think of giving up my project computers...
Uh...so what happens when you want to rewatch that last part because the phone rang? Or you forgot the popcorn? Or because your roommate was talking through that last part? Or because you missed something at the beginning that was really important to the ending? Or you watched the movie but your roommate wants to watch it when they get home from work? I can do all that if I rent a movie...
Having recently been part of a mass exodus after a substantial layoff, there might be another scenario to play. He may say "I went up against Yahoo!. They got horribly dirty and tried to raid us. They succeeded in raiding 92% of the staff. But seeing as we were totally screw, we sold the company and the investors were happy. The only reason we didn't lose everything was due to my nerves of steel." Anyone left with the company below top brass will be screwed, but the investors will be happy and the boss will get a nice big bonus for salvaging a bad situation. It's a sad event to see, but all the signs are there for people to take a hint. Anyone who doesn't get out of that situation has only themselves to blame. I really hope anyone left at that company has plans to move on.
Most internal combustion engines operate at about 35 per cent efficiency. This means that only 35 per cent of the fuel is fully burned.
Ok...I may not be a chemical engineer, or a mechanic, or even really know much about the efficiency of the ICE. And yeah, I know I shouldn't take information from an journalist. But I do know that even the modern ICE is horribly inefficent. And after looking at the price of gas lately, it's hard to not believe it's all a conspierancy.
I'm not blaming my lack of success in career development on other people. Actually, I took this job because I was told that there were opportunities to move on, and I'm perfectly willing to pay my dues in support. That's where a new programmer *should* go in any company. BUT...after being here for 5 months I see a lot of discouraging things. The number one fact being that Systems Development is filled with university CS grads and Support is filled with Conestoga College CP/A grads, which is what I am. So I probably won't be here much longer. I am taking my career development in my own hands. It just pisses me off that I was lead to believe there was room to advance here, and that I could voice my opinions. Appearantly not, on both accounts...
Oh...I'm sorry, this is/. so I need to put the IANACE (I Am Not A Chemical Engineer) at the end of my post...
I don't mind being corrected, but you don't need to be a dick about it. And you know what...what I said is true. Not all the gas is burnt, and therefore not all the gas that goes into the combustion chamber is actually used to move you forward. We can get into the energy equations in another thread, but here we are talking about the gas that your car uses. The ICE is incredibly inefficent, and made even more inefficient by the fact that it doesn't completely burn it's fuel. So if you'd like to up real numbers up, go ahead. Otherwise...DON'T BE A DICK!
I've seen the tech behind this on Discovery before, but not in this form. It's true that adding hydrogen to the combustion cycle will burn the gas more efficently, leading to less pollution going out the tailpipe because it's all burned in the chamber. Don't know if it would reach 100% efficency, but it'll get pretty damn close. The only problem with the Discovery story was that they were using an actual tank of hydrogen, which can be dangerous.
Pollution comes from the fact that only about a third of the fuel that goes into the combustion chamber is actually burned. The rest is spit out as exhaust. And that's in a properly tuned and maintained car, which many cars are not. Really it's closer to about 25%, leaving 75% go out the tailpipe as hydrocarbons and other lovely stuff that we get to breathe in. Think about that...for every 4 liters of gas you buy, only 1 liter actually moves you forward. This means you have to buy more gas. And then you wonder why the oil companies don't want this kind of tech to come out.
You got that right, bud. The people in upper management are NOT technical, instead relying on their technical people to give them good advice. The technical people in management are all Microsoft fanboys, and promote Microsoft because it's all they know instead of looking around and finding the best tool for the job at the best price. Unfortunately they are also University of Waterloo CS grads and look at college grads with distain, DESPITE THE FACT that this type of programming is what we are trained for. That's why I'm stuck in support at this company, because they need technical people to debug their crap when users call up with a problem. And yes, it is possible to have intelligent knowledgable people in a support position. Some people actually strive for and do well in this role. I do well in support, but I strive for a programming. Don't think I'm going to get there at this place though...
My company is currently converting all their software from VB6 to C#. We aren't a big company, but we are switching. Of course I see this as a colossal mistake and believe that this will further delegate us to only a small margin of our target audience (hospitals in need of document management and archiving). Honestly I'd like to see this become a secure web-based product built on an open platform. Paying the Microsoft tax is one of our biggest expenses, and we're currently in a tight cashflow situation. Divorcing Microsoft would be a good step, but no one listens to the guy in support...
For your requirements, a CP/A grad is not what you would be looking for. It's also not a job I would apply for. For that type of work, you may legitamately need someone with a lot of math experience and computer theory, which a UW grad is taught. You probably want to consider someone from the Computer Engineering Technology course as well, since that course gets into the really technical aspects of programming. I wasn't taught any of the points you mentioned, although we did learn best practices in programming, i.e. the differences in efficiency between certain routines. Most of what I was taught concerned building full systems from the ground up based on information gathered in the initial stages of a project. For example, I can walk into any retail business and be able to build them a point-of-sale system, including inventory tracking, etc. Or, as I did for my final year project, walk into a police station and build a complete scheduling system in 4 months where 2 professional companies had failed in the past. I won't argue that in some situations my skills are not desired. But many companies don't understand where my skills are desired, and simply dismiss me because I'm not a university grad.
University will give you lots of theory based studies. College gives you more hands-on studies. Normally colleges also don't give you a degree, just a diploma, but even that's changing. Think of it as the difference between going to a big name university and going to community college. I think that's the proper analogy for the US anyways.
I've seem some university material for UW's CS program, and it's mostly math theories from what I can tell. There isn't much actual coding, or much else of the whole process. Conestoga teached you how to get the information you need from the people that want a piece of software, how to structure it into design specs, write the code based on the specs, how to document and write help manuals for users, and finally how to properly support the thing once you've installed it. If you've done everything properly, you shouldn't need to do much support afterwards. Learning how to program is a large part of the course, but they give you all the supporting skills too. And they start you out coding from day one. I didn't fully realise it until year 2 of the 3 year course that I wasn't learning languages, I was learning how to build systems. Sure...I may not have the skills to write an OS, although if I really wanted to learn I'm sure I could. And that's a different course at Conestoga anyways...Electronics Engineering with a specialization in computers. I'm not sure what advantage going to university gives you, other then an appearantly highly-prized piece of paper...
Try explaining that to the numerous companies in and around Canada's "Tech Triangle" (which happens to include Waterloo, Ontario, the home of the supposedly famous University of Waterloo's CS program). I went to Conestoga College, which has a very good, very relevent Computer Programmer/Analyst course. While it's a programming course and gives you a very good basis, it also relates it to the business aspect of the world. I came out knowing how to program complete systems end-to-end regardless of the language, and can pick up most languages fairly quickly. Even the evil RPG . And I've had extreme difficulties getting a programming position outside of insurance companies.
The one incident that really burned me was at a job fair. I walked up to a booth for Business Objects, a company that creates add-on tools for other software. From what I saw, they used VB. I thought to myself, "I think I could do really well here". So I went up to the guy. The *FIRST THING* he asks..."Where did you go to school?" I say "Conestoga College" proudly. He says "Sorry, we don't take college students. University only." I spent the next 5 minutes pointing out all the experience I had creating software relevent to his company. He simply dismissed it. There are many other examples of the bias towards university students, but that was the one that pissed me off the most. Most companies, even software companies, have the idea the if you went to university, them you simply *MUST* be better then a lowly college grad.
I didn't know the WinKey-Pause thing before. As a geek, I should know things like that. But I usually know how to get to that information on my own. Still, that's handy.
As for Velcro, "The hook and loop fastener was invented in 1948 by Georges de Mestral, a Swiss engineer. The idea came to him after he took a close look at the seed pod burrs which kept sticking to his dog on their daily walk in the Alps."
No it wasn't. It was sold to a businessman in a big city near Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania, by a strange woman with pointy ears in the late 50's.
Yup, I know I'm going to get modded down for referencing that, but I've got karma to burn...
1.) Yes. It still has some issues, but it's a very nice addition to Eclipse.
2.) CVS integrates well with Eclipse. I've used it for hobby projects, and even set up my own CVS server. It will do what you want it to.
3.) It doesn't seem too difficult. Check this out.
Apologies to the guy you responded to if he wanted to do all this himself. I've been on a kick to champion Eclipse, but it's never nice to step on a geeks toes...
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Diff King James version and some of the more recent Methodist texts for a good example of use of clever editing.
Got any links to the differences? I have been invited to a Bible study group and noticed that we're using different versions. I am not a fundie, nor do I even identify as a Christian, but I like the idea of discussing the stories from an intellectual point of view without the religion clouding the interpretation. So I'd definately like to find something that points out the differences.
Humbled? More like excited this stuff is actually coming true! Even more excited after reading the world's smallest refridgerator article. I bet I can get my aging XP2200+ up to a good 10Ghz with that thing. Extreme overclocking, here I come!
I couldn't help but notice that you've built systems for as long as you've dated. Are these two things related somehow?
Sorry...seriously not trying to troll, but as a single geek who has never lived with a woman outside of family before, I'd honestly like to know. I could never think of giving up my project computers...
You have nothing to worry about until Netcraft confirms it...
At least he remembered to yell "He's coming straight for us!" before he shot it...
On a serious note, how do you hit an animal behind the shoulder and blow it's head off? Wouldn't that mean the cat was running away?
Uh...so what happens when you want to rewatch that last part because the phone rang? Or you forgot the popcorn? Or because your roommate was talking through that last part? Or because you missed something at the beginning that was really important to the ending? Or you watched the movie but your roommate wants to watch it when they get home from work? I can do all that if I rent a movie...
Having recently been part of a mass exodus after a substantial layoff, there might be another scenario to play. He may say "I went up against Yahoo!. They got horribly dirty and tried to raid us. They succeeded in raiding 92% of the staff. But seeing as we were totally screw, we sold the company and the investors were happy. The only reason we didn't lose everything was due to my nerves of steel." Anyone left with the company below top brass will be screwed, but the investors will be happy and the boss will get a nice big bonus for salvaging a bad situation. It's a sad event to see, but all the signs are there for people to take a hint. Anyone who doesn't get out of that situation has only themselves to blame. I really hope anyone left at that company has plans to move on.
Funny, I thought Kevin Sorbo would be signing that...
Flipper??? I knew him as James, the Nigger-Hating Dolphin...
I like Newt too. The picture is a little old, but she turned into a cute chick.
From TFA:
Most internal combustion engines operate at about 35 per cent efficiency. This means that only 35 per cent of the fuel is fully burned.
Ok...I may not be a chemical engineer, or a mechanic, or even really know much about the efficiency of the ICE. And yeah, I know I shouldn't take information from an journalist. But I do know that even the modern ICE is horribly inefficent. And after looking at the price of gas lately, it's hard to not believe it's all a conspierancy.
I'm not blaming my lack of success in career development on other people. Actually, I took this job because I was told that there were opportunities to move on, and I'm perfectly willing to pay my dues in support. That's where a new programmer *should* go in any company. BUT...after being here for 5 months I see a lot of discouraging things. The number one fact being that Systems Development is filled with university CS grads and Support is filled with Conestoga College CP/A grads, which is what I am. So I probably won't be here much longer. I am taking my career development in my own hands. It just pisses me off that I was lead to believe there was room to advance here, and that I could voice my opinions. Appearantly not, on both accounts...
Oh...I'm sorry, this is /. so I need to put the IANACE (I Am Not A Chemical Engineer) at the end of my post...
I don't mind being corrected, but you don't need to be a dick about it. And you know what...what I said is true. Not all the gas is burnt, and therefore not all the gas that goes into the combustion chamber is actually used to move you forward. We can get into the energy equations in another thread, but here we are talking about the gas that your car uses. The ICE is incredibly inefficent, and made even more inefficient by the fact that it doesn't completely burn it's fuel. So if you'd like to up real numbers up, go ahead. Otherwise...DON'T BE A DICK!
I've seen the tech behind this on Discovery before, but not in this form. It's true that adding hydrogen to the combustion cycle will burn the gas more efficently, leading to less pollution going out the tailpipe because it's all burned in the chamber. Don't know if it would reach 100% efficency, but it'll get pretty damn close. The only problem with the Discovery story was that they were using an actual tank of hydrogen, which can be dangerous.
Pollution comes from the fact that only about a third of the fuel that goes into the combustion chamber is actually burned. The rest is spit out as exhaust. And that's in a properly tuned and maintained car, which many cars are not. Really it's closer to about 25%, leaving 75% go out the tailpipe as hydrocarbons and other lovely stuff that we get to breathe in. Think about that...for every 4 liters of gas you buy, only 1 liter actually moves you forward. This means you have to buy more gas. And then you wonder why the oil companies don't want this kind of tech to come out.
You got that right, bud. The people in upper management are NOT technical, instead relying on their technical people to give them good advice. The technical people in management are all Microsoft fanboys, and promote Microsoft because it's all they know instead of looking around and finding the best tool for the job at the best price. Unfortunately they are also University of Waterloo CS grads and look at college grads with distain, DESPITE THE FACT that this type of programming is what we are trained for. That's why I'm stuck in support at this company, because they need technical people to debug their crap when users call up with a problem. And yes, it is possible to have intelligent knowledgable people in a support position. Some people actually strive for and do well in this role. I do well in support, but I strive for a programming. Don't think I'm going to get there at this place though...
My company is currently converting all their software from VB6 to C#. We aren't a big company, but we are switching. Of course I see this as a colossal mistake and believe that this will further delegate us to only a small margin of our target audience (hospitals in need of document management and archiving). Honestly I'd like to see this become a secure web-based product built on an open platform. Paying the Microsoft tax is one of our biggest expenses, and we're currently in a tight cashflow situation. Divorcing Microsoft would be a good step, but no one listens to the guy in support...
Remember swinging your arms in the air like a moron, as if the movement of the controller was actually going to do something?
Remeber when??? Hell, I STILL do that...
For your requirements, a CP/A grad is not what you would be looking for. It's also not a job I would apply for. For that type of work, you may legitamately need someone with a lot of math experience and computer theory, which a UW grad is taught. You probably want to consider someone from the Computer Engineering Technology course as well, since that course gets into the really technical aspects of programming. I wasn't taught any of the points you mentioned, although we did learn best practices in programming, i.e. the differences in efficiency between certain routines. Most of what I was taught concerned building full systems from the ground up based on information gathered in the initial stages of a project. For example, I can walk into any retail business and be able to build them a point-of-sale system, including inventory tracking, etc. Or, as I did for my final year project, walk into a police station and build a complete scheduling system in 4 months where 2 professional companies had failed in the past. I won't argue that in some situations my skills are not desired. But many companies don't understand where my skills are desired, and simply dismiss me because I'm not a university grad.
University will give you lots of theory based studies. College gives you more hands-on studies. Normally colleges also don't give you a degree, just a diploma, but even that's changing. Think of it as the difference between going to a big name university and going to community college. I think that's the proper analogy for the US anyways.
I've seem some university material for UW's CS program, and it's mostly math theories from what I can tell. There isn't much actual coding, or much else of the whole process. Conestoga teached you how to get the information you need from the people that want a piece of software, how to structure it into design specs, write the code based on the specs, how to document and write help manuals for users, and finally how to properly support the thing once you've installed it. If you've done everything properly, you shouldn't need to do much support afterwards. Learning how to program is a large part of the course, but they give you all the supporting skills too. And they start you out coding from day one. I didn't fully realise it until year 2 of the 3 year course that I wasn't learning languages, I was learning how to build systems. Sure...I may not have the skills to write an OS, although if I really wanted to learn I'm sure I could. And that's a different course at Conestoga anyways...Electronics Engineering with a specialization in computers. I'm not sure what advantage going to university gives you, other then an appearantly highly-prized piece of paper...
Try explaining that to the numerous companies in and around Canada's "Tech Triangle" (which happens to include Waterloo, Ontario, the home of the supposedly famous University of Waterloo's CS program). I went to Conestoga College, which has a very good, very relevent Computer Programmer/Analyst course. While it's a programming course and gives you a very good basis, it also relates it to the business aspect of the world. I came out knowing how to program complete systems end-to-end regardless of the language, and can pick up most languages fairly quickly. Even the evil RPG . And I've had extreme difficulties getting a programming position outside of insurance companies.
The one incident that really burned me was at a job fair. I walked up to a booth for Business Objects, a company that creates add-on tools for other software. From what I saw, they used VB. I thought to myself, "I think I could do really well here". So I went up to the guy. The *FIRST THING* he asks..."Where did you go to school?" I say "Conestoga College" proudly. He says "Sorry, we don't take college students. University only." I spent the next 5 minutes pointing out all the experience I had creating software relevent to his company. He simply dismissed it. There are many other examples of the bias towards university students, but that was the one that pissed me off the most. Most companies, even software companies, have the idea the if you went to university, them you simply *MUST* be better then a lowly college grad.
I didn't know the WinKey-Pause thing before. As a geek, I should know things like that. But I usually know how to get to that information on my own. Still, that's handy.
As for Velcro, "The hook and loop fastener was invented in 1948 by Georges de Mestral, a Swiss engineer. The idea came to him after he took a close look at the seed pod burrs which kept sticking to his dog on their daily walk in the Alps."
No it wasn't. It was sold to a businessman in a big city near Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania, by a strange woman with pointy ears in the late 50's.
Yup, I know I'm going to get modded down for referencing that, but I've got karma to burn...
Bah...I was writing it like Doc Brown said it.
But I like the user name, BTW...
That's 1.21 Jiggawatts...and you call yourself a geek...
1.) Yes. It still has some issues, but it's a very nice addition to Eclipse.
2.) CVS integrates well with Eclipse. I've used it for hobby projects, and even set up my own CVS server. It will do what you want it to.
3.) It doesn't seem too difficult. Check this out.
Apologies to the guy you responded to if he wanted to do all this himself. I've been on a kick to champion Eclipse, but it's never nice to step on a geeks toes...