Well, now you can't say that anymore.
I have seen beautiful Perl with my own two eyes. It was awesome.
/ I had been writing Perl regularly for a decade at that point. I did feel like I had found an unicorn.
For me, it always comes down to pro audio recording support.
I believe my main recording tool (Reaper, an awesome piece of software IMHO) works correctly with WINE, but last I checked there's no support for most of my software plugins and hardware (Line6 VSTs and interface, Sennheiser free drum VSi via Kontact, etc) for Linux. Everything else I do (mail, web surfing, coding in non-MS languages), I could be doing with linux or OsX. But I'm a cheap bastard, so OsX is mostly out of the question (I can't remember the last time I had a computer that was more than USD 500 brand new). So... still Windows.
All of this.
I'm now officially an old fart, but still I derive immense pleasure in cleaning up crap code. Which my younger colleagues provide generously. ENUMS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY DAMMIT!
It's a company that is staffed mostly by tech guys, who use a webmail client for corporate mail/calendar, are pushing their own office product, and use mostly web-based internal apps. This "switching to Linux" on Google isn't as difficult as a "switching to Linux" on a non-tech corporation where most people use windows.
All the guys I know over there already use Linux in both the desktop and laptop google computers.
Logo FTW!
I started on Logo when I was 10 or 11, at the new computer labs in my school. Then my father got us an Atari computer and we started doing basic (in between Montezuma marathons:) and... flash forward twenty-odd years, and I'm coding for a living.
I have, when I was a contractor for a major silicon valley tech firm, the VPN connection meant everything went through the VPN, and no way to disable it (Cisco VPN software). No access to the LAN, printers, etc., and all your traffic through the VPN, as evidenced by the location-aware advertisements on the web changing to $CLIENT_LOCATION instead of $HOME.
BTW, if you have a VPN like that, disable all your network drives, or Explorer will slow down to a crawl. Took us quite a while to figure it out...
Sure, we weren't filtered, because there was no internet to be filtered when we (most of us, at least) where growing up. I was born in the mid-70's, my parents had to worry about me somehow getting my hands on a skin mag or betamax video (both of them non-easy propositions), whereas these days there's more porn you can shake your stick at just a click away on the internet.
Other than the nitpick (this is slashdot, after all), I fully agree on education. I intend to educate my children - I don't want them to go learn by themselves like I did, my parents told me exactly jack shit.
And I will hammer the topics safe sex and birth control like crazy, the horrors of STDs and unwanted pregnancy. I have toyed with the idea of keeping tabs on how much I've been spending on my son to present him a complete report when he gets to sexually active age: "Son, this is how much not stopping for a condom can cost - bear in mind we had good jobs when we had you, how much do *you* make nowadays?".
For FPS? Sure, keyboard and mouse.
For stringing a complex combo in, say, any version of Streer fighter, Tekken, or King of Fighters? Can't beat the proper arcade joystick.
Same here - googling for my normal name will get you a ton of results, most of them a continent away from me. I appear around page six or so.
Googling with my full name in quotes will yield me - sadly most of the results will be flamewars from usenet-archiving websites, compounded with helpful and polite participation in tomcat support mailing lists. People googling me will think I'm a jekyll/hyde schizo:)
Those are taxes. Every country has import duties and tariffs in place (ask any agricultural produce exporter which has to face US taxes when exporting fruit to the states so that the local US growers can compete).
So Crisco can cry me a river - I guess they innocently set up dummy companies in tax havens and it *just* happened that the setup evaded brazilian import taxes? Mmmm-kay...
I hear Argentina is nice this time of year. I'm sure their blend of multiculturalism and straight forward laws will suit you tastes better.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Let me give you a few of examples on how good is Argentina for a foreign investor looking for a place to set up and do business:
Argentina sits on a shitload of natural gas pockets, but has to import it from Bolivia. Why, you ask? It's because the price fixing scheme imposed by the gov't on natural gas (and many other things, like public transport - huge deficits there) makes it unprofitable to drill for such gas, making the Bolivian imported gas more attractive. This results in Argentina continually breaching the gas export treaty they signed with Chile. The won't keep promises to another sovereign nation, you sure you want to get in there with your capital?
Meat prices start to go up. That's a no-no, you don't jack prices on beef in Argentina where the asado is a religion. What does the president do? Easy: Just issue a decree making meat exports illegal. Suddendly there's a huge surplus to sell in the local market, prices go down. Well done prez, sorry meat exporters.
President Kirchner keeps close ties and similar ideas with our favorite pro-investment president of the region, Hugo Chávez.
The main problem with Kirchner, as an acquaintance who is getting a phD in economics from Harvard told, was that he's too busy trying to abolish the law of supply and demand;)
Google "corralito argentina" and see the kind of stuff that the argentine gov't has no qualms in doing.
(Seriously, if you wanted a better base for foreign capitals, you could have said Chile - at least for a while longer, although I don't know how long, what with the labor minister doing his best to instigate industry-wide strikes and corruption rising steadily... not yet at the level of the rest of the continent, but still a cause of concern)
I hope Gibson will make those things reasonably expensive so that only professionals would consider buying one.
But the irony of it is that amateurs are the ones buying the multi-thousand dollar instruments and rigs while real professionals usually are playing on beaters that sound just right.
The guy who runs over a black person and shouts "Yeee-HAW! One less nigger!" is as guilty as the one who shouts "That will teach you to jaywalk" or "Nothing like the crunch of bone on your windshield" in my book - all these expressions give a reason to presume intention on the driver's part. I don't support that the first guy should face harsher charges than the other two.
Currently, in my country, there's a push to make a new law that makes "femicide" (the murder of a woman by her male former or current husband/partner/whatever) a crime with greater penalties than common murder. It sickens me, because of the fact that the word "femicidio" doesn't exist, that properly persecuting murder will result in proper punishment, and that I don't like discrimination. Suppose I have a son and a daughter, both get married, and both are murdered by their spouses. Why should the woman get less punishment for her crime, or why should the man get more punishment? But well, that's what politicians do - the answer is always "more laws" and "let's create a committee to study the problem", not enforce current laws properly.
When it comes to risk, it's better to approach it in terms of possibilities instead of likelihoods.
And just for anecdotal experience, I have had a condom break a couple of times. As I said, that something is unlikely does not mean that it will never happen.
(Of course, I might be influenced by the enforced abstinence due to my wife's pregnancy...;)
Exactly. Most of those first-get Mac users will have happily upgraded to whatever 64-bit chip Intel sells for next-get Macs a long time before Microsoft's next Windows incarnation hits beta.
Heh. I once got kicked off a central server (we were working with Sun Rays, nice enough thin clients) because our team needed to do java development, and four people running eclipse at the same time plus one jboss instance killed the server performance for everybody... we had to resort to our old desktop computers running linux under the desk, and using ssh -X for running eclipse with the diplay in our thin clients. All of this very hush-hush, because the PHB was in thin client ectasy and would have gone bonkers if he had seen a single beige box...
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Well, now you can't say that anymore. I have seen beautiful Perl with my own two eyes. It was awesome.
/ I had been writing Perl regularly for a decade at that point. I did feel like I had found an unicorn.
For me, it always comes down to pro audio recording support. I believe my main recording tool (Reaper, an awesome piece of software IMHO) works correctly with WINE, but last I checked there's no support for most of my software plugins and hardware (Line6 VSTs and interface, Sennheiser free drum VSi via Kontact, etc) for Linux. Everything else I do (mail, web surfing, coding in non-MS languages), I could be doing with linux or OsX. But I'm a cheap bastard, so OsX is mostly out of the question (I can't remember the last time I had a computer that was more than USD 500 brand new). So... still Windows.
All of this. I'm now officially an old fart, but still I derive immense pleasure in cleaning up crap code. Which my younger colleagues provide generously. ENUMS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY DAMMIT!
Well, in my case the IP-based location is accurate to 5 miles, while this guy's thingy placed me 50 miles away...
It's a company that is staffed mostly by tech guys, who use a webmail client for corporate mail/calendar, are pushing their own office product, and use mostly web-based internal apps. This "switching to Linux" on Google isn't as difficult as a "switching to Linux" on a non-tech corporation where most people use windows. All the guys I know over there already use Linux in both the desktop and laptop google computers.
I'd laugh... if I hadn't interviewed candidates claiming to be proficient in J2EE and J3EE.
Logo FTW! I started on Logo when I was 10 or 11, at the new computer labs in my school. Then my father got us an Atari computer and we started doing basic (in between Montezuma marathons :) and... flash forward twenty-odd years, and I'm coding for a living.
I have, when I was a contractor for a major silicon valley tech firm, the VPN connection meant everything went through the VPN, and no way to disable it (Cisco VPN software). No access to the LAN, printers, etc., and all your traffic through the VPN, as evidenced by the location-aware advertisements on the web changing to $CLIENT_LOCATION instead of $HOME.
BTW, if you have a VPN like that, disable all your network drives, or Explorer will slow down to a crawl. Took us quite a while to figure it out...
Sure, we weren't filtered, because there was no internet to be filtered when we (most of us, at least) where growing up. I was born in the mid-70's, my parents had to worry about me somehow getting my hands on a skin mag or betamax video (both of them non-easy propositions), whereas these days there's more porn you can shake your stick at just a click away on the internet.
Other than the nitpick (this is slashdot, after all), I fully agree on education. I intend to educate my children - I don't want them to go learn by themselves like I did, my parents told me exactly jack shit.
And I will hammer the topics safe sex and birth control like crazy, the horrors of STDs and unwanted pregnancy. I have toyed with the idea of keeping tabs on how much I've been spending on my son to present him a complete report when he gets to sexually active age: "Son, this is how much not stopping for a condom can cost - bear in mind we had good jobs when we had you, how much do *you* make nowadays?".
seriously.
I thought the same thing. And lol'd when I saw your message :)
When I saw the article in my RSS reader that was exactly what I thought of. :)
Indeed, not this shit again!
For FPS? Sure, keyboard and mouse. For stringing a complex combo in, say, any version of Streer fighter, Tekken, or King of Fighters? Can't beat the proper arcade joystick.
Same here - googling for my normal name will get you a ton of results, most of them a continent away from me. I appear around page six or so.
:)
Googling with my full name in quotes will yield me - sadly most of the results will be flamewars from usenet-archiving websites, compounded with helpful and polite participation in tomcat support mailing lists. People googling me will think I'm a jekyll/hyde schizo
So Crisco can cry me a river - I guess they innocently set up dummy companies in tax havens and it *just* happened that the setup evaded brazilian import taxes? Mmmm-kay...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Let me give you a few of examples on how good is Argentina for a foreign investor looking for a place to set up and do business:
(Seriously, if you wanted a better base for foreign capitals, you could have said Chile - at least for a while longer, although I don't know how long, what with the labor minister doing his best to instigate industry-wide strikes and corruption rising steadily... not yet at the level of the rest of the continent, but still a cause of concern)
Still the original. The only part with the different DNA will be the bone marrow and blood cells. Rest of the body works as usual.
Well said.
The guy who runs over a black person and shouts "Yeee-HAW! One less nigger!" is as guilty as the one who shouts "That will teach you to jaywalk" or "Nothing like the crunch of bone on your windshield" in my book - all these expressions give a reason to presume intention on the driver's part. I don't support that the first guy should face harsher charges than the other two.
Currently, in my country, there's a push to make a new law that makes "femicide" (the murder of a woman by her male former or current husband/partner/whatever) a crime with greater penalties than common murder. It sickens me, because of the fact that the word "femicidio" doesn't exist, that properly persecuting murder will result in proper punishment, and that I don't like discrimination. Suppose I have a son and a daughter, both get married, and both are murdered by their spouses. Why should the woman get less punishment for her crime, or why should the man get more punishment? But well, that's what politicians do - the answer is always "more laws" and "let's create a committee to study the problem", not enforce current laws properly.
My rant, I'm finished :)
Can I has grammr?
When it comes to risk, it's better to approach it in terms of possibilities instead of likelihoods.
And just for anecdotal experience, I have had a condom break a couple of times. As I said, that something is unlikely does not mean that it will never happen.
(Of course, I might be influenced by the enforced abstinence due to my wife's pregnancy... ;)
but watch out if he challenges you to a basketball game.
Exactly. Most of those first-get Mac users will have happily upgraded to whatever 64-bit chip Intel sells for next-get Macs a long time before Microsoft's next Windows incarnation hits beta.
Heh. I once got kicked off a central server (we were working with Sun Rays, nice enough thin clients) because our team needed to do java development, and four people running eclipse at the same time plus one jboss instance killed the server performance for everybody... we had to resort to our old desktop computers running linux under the desk, and using ssh -X for running eclipse with the diplay in our thin clients. All of this very hush-hush, because the PHB was in thin client ectasy and would have gone bonkers if he had seen a single beige box...
Because the one in Paris will be in french and the one in London will be in english? I know, I know, it sounds pretty farfetched...