I don't want to publicly disparage my employer by name (actually I think my employment agreement says I can't), but telecom usually means: Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent, Motorola, Nortel, Nokia or Siemens. Probably not too rosy at most of these.
Never said Kloc counting was new. It has just become part of the corp religion. We are ridiculously short staffed, yet they take people off projects and get them to count kloc deltas from Four releases ago...
To write 1 Kloc, I probably have to write/review 6 documents, 3 different levels of testplans X 3 levels of approvals, and take about 4 months doing it?
My thoughts right now for anyone is unless you are a stellar talent and think you have what it takes to work for a google. Stay far far away from CompSci.
This is so far from the problem solving that got me interested in software engineering, that I now dread every day of work.
Throw in the outsourcing and who could possibly recommend working for Big Corp Software (or should I say accounting) sweatshop.
Corporations that live for this Quarters profits can't seem to manage a simple extrapolation of the resut of outsourcing and destroying their local brainforce.
I work for a tech corp that has laid of 60 000 people (or about 60% of the brainforce). Those that remain are in hell for a few reasons:
1: We are expected to get double the work done. 2: We spend most days interacting with Indian Contractors. Makes #1 harder. 3:Coding we used to enjoy has be replaced by draconian productivity sapping process. We metric our coders to death. Klocs is the new religion. I am in the invite list for several doc reviews and code reviews per day. Makes #1 harder.
I really wonder when the have outsourced most of this where they think the next generation of tech leaders will come from. It is not hard to imagine that India/China will stop serving our interests and instead compete with us. Already happening in my industry (telecom).
"To what extent does (Tools - Quick Preferences - Identify as Internet Explorer) cause those pages to stop being stupid?"
Essentially not at all as Operas spoofing is extremely transparent. Most pages that check, identify Opera as Opera, regardless of what the current spoof setting is.
This is why I mention the need for better spoofing. To get served the better pages.
Mind you this is something the Opera comunity is against. The mantra there is change the world, not Opera, that is why I am now a Firefox user after Years of dedicated Opera Usage. Tilting at windmills gives you a sore back after a while.
Opera was my primary browser for quite a while, and it is faster/slicker with a better features set (especially MDI tabbing).
But once you escape the comparison on pages that work, the stark reality is that many pages don't work.
I switched to firefox a few months back and while not as slick as Opera, it is good enough, and for the pages I visit gives me the better experience. So I can do my banking for instance.
Since switching to Firefox, I seldom have to call up an IE session anymore.
Also plugins offer fucntionality I can't live without, like selective flash blocking.
Pre-empting those who say it is the fault of poor web coding and not Opera, in that some pages block or serve poor code to Opera.
Yes that is correct, But it just doesn't matter! It doesn't matter where you point the finger, the result is an inferior browsing experience.
I'll try Opera again (if ever) when they get better spoofing modes, better flash blocking.
An informercial made to look like MTV. Note that there were no disclaimers stating this was advertising. It was not microsoft present xbox, it was MTV presents xbox.
They are always trying to give out a free cellphone (tether) at work (only works in radius to the campus) I always say no thanks, but I suspect some day they will remove our desk phones and require them.
Here are my observations of those who have them, they take calls at lunch, when in in the Bathroom, walking in the halls.
When I am at lunch, I am at lunch, same with the bathroom or walking in the hallway. I dont' need the interruption.
Now on my personal time. When I am driving, I am driving don't need phone calls. When I am out hiking up mountains, I am enjoying nature, don't need phone calls. When I am out, I am already doing something and will check my messages when I get home. I survive just fine cell phone free.
I do have a digital camera and mp3 player, but I have no desire to combine them into a single device mediocre at both tasks and I certainly dont' think adding a cellphone would help.
"Actually it is. But feel free to believe that if it makes you feel better."
If it is out of the question, I would like to know why.
It certainly doesn't make me feel better to see them use monopoly power to leverage another market takeover. So I don't know what you are talking about there.
She is not complaining about DRM, she is complaining that Apple doesn't support Microsoft DRM. Why would they? They have the number one player and the number one service. Now if there was an Open DRM they might support that. But they are certainly not going to pay microsoft a licence fee for each IPOD.
Does anyone really think she is interested in using all these other music services. Or is she just acting as a paid mouth piece?
I wonder who is paying for her opinions these days.
I would say microsoft is attacking everywhere. They are leveraging money and monopoloy into new markets all the time. Yeah there is some competition nipping at their heels, but it is hard to stand in the way of an unchecked monopoly with a huge wad of cash.
PDAs/Smartphones: They keep respinning this and getting better and getting more market share. Any prediction when they hit #1?
Game Consoles/SW: Jan 2007: It is not out of the question to consider that Xbox2 will be the number one gaming console in North America. MS will probably also be a significant publisher (having bought out a pile of gaming companies)
Next Gen DVD: Microsoft had its own compression format placed as one of the mandatory codecs in both formats..
The list could probably go on an on, but anwhere money is being made in large amount MS will be there and eventually will be a significant if not dominant player.
The outbreak started at the town's Rehoboth Christian School. Many students there belong to a religious denomination that doesn't endorse or objects to vaccinations.
Another point is Fossil record is based on the opportunity of the find, it will never be complete. We have just a few tiny snapshots from the millions of generations that preceeded us.
Note the recently found Raptor caught in what is believed to be a transition between Carnivore and Herbivore:
I have nothing against tastefull ads, that is what supports the net after all. But I have flashblock and anidisable installed, so all my pages are static. I have adblock installed, but so seldom use it that I didn't notice any difference when enabling the google acellerator, then again, I also notice no benefit.
The odd thing was I was repeatedly clicking on the same two pages. It should be done with the pre-fetching. The interesting thing for me will be how it works with slashdotting effect.
Need GooNux, Goofice, Goohouse...
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These guys have a great model, they seem to hire the best people and empower them. They probably have the best moral of just about any development company out there. The pace of innovation is fantastic.
Think what a Google Linux Disto could provide as a boost to FOSS. Go GooNux. The Same for open office or Goofice.
Data warehousing (goohousing)is probably inevitable. Let me use that 2 Gig email space for storing my important docs, online pic galleries etc. I would be there in a second.
It will then be much easier to get Bill G's scaly hand out of my pants pocket...
So I installed it and watched a bandwidth graph with it on off. Here are my observations:
1: Speed difference seem infintesimal. On the order of.1 sec reported by thier own tool on a page hit.
2: Actual amount transferred actually seems larger with the cache on! Every page load actually seems to grab way more bandwidth peak, now this might be great if you are really getting the page that much quicker but this doesn't seem to be the case. Looking at the visual bandwidth track it seems the same width, just higher on the Google cache transfer.
"And these were mostly tech jobs I was applying for. It was kind of scary. Now I have a copy of Microsoft Word which I own seemingly solely so that I can create my resume in it, and my resume is sent out as.doc, always."
Will create a doc file just fine and I didn't have to pay monopolistic prices for it. Kind of scary that you didn't realize that before spending your money.
"I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will--and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain." -Gene Roddenberry
Slashdot Mirror
HP is in Telecom??
I don't want to publicly disparage my employer by name (actually I think my employment agreement says I can't), but telecom usually means: Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent, Motorola, Nortel, Nokia or Siemens. Probably not too rosy at most of these.
Point Taken. :-)
So why should anyone waste 4 years of university to become a Janitor? I was suckered. I certainly don't recommend others follow this path.
Never said Kloc counting was new. It has just become part of the corp religion. We are ridiculously short staffed, yet they take people off projects and get them to count kloc deltas from Four releases ago...
To write 1 Kloc, I probably have to write/review 6 documents, 3 different levels of testplans X 3 levels of approvals, and take about 4 months doing it?
My thoughts right now for anyone is unless you are a stellar talent and think you have what it takes to work for a google. Stay far far away from CompSci.
This is so far from the problem solving that got me interested in software engineering, that I now dread every day of work.
Throw in the outsourcing and who could possibly recommend working for Big Corp Software (or should I say accounting) sweatshop.
Corporations that live for this Quarters profits can't seem to manage a simple extrapolation of the resut of outsourcing and destroying their local brainforce.
I work for a tech corp that has laid of 60 000 people (or about 60% of the brainforce). Those that remain are in hell for a few reasons:
1: We are expected to get double the work done.
2: We spend most days interacting with Indian Contractors. Makes #1 harder.
3:Coding we used to enjoy has be replaced by draconian productivity sapping process. We metric our coders to death. Klocs is the new religion. I am in the invite list for several doc reviews and code reviews per day. Makes #1 harder.
I really wonder when the have outsourced most of this where they think the next generation of tech leaders will come from. It is not hard to imagine that India/China will stop serving our interests and instead compete with us. Already happening in my industry (telecom).
We are led by short sighted morons.
Kind of a glimmer of the possability a lot of us have been waiting for.
But it would really be nice if they let things be two or 3 columns wide. The gmail preview is pretty useless at one column wide.
This is also the first time I ever used Adblock on Google. The big Google logo was wasting to much space on an info page....
Thanks,
That is a step in the right direction. It works on the autotrader site, still doesn't work with my bank though.
I had been using Opera steadily since about 3.51 or something, right until firefox came along. I may give it a try again with ua.ini.
My bank works in IE and Firefox, doesn't in Opera no matter which setting you give it:
www.trader.ca.
Search for a car. In IE and Firefox you can select the make and model.
In Opera it doesn't matter which Identify as string you set, it doesn't work.
After years of dealing with this, Firefox to the rescue.
"To what extent does (Tools - Quick Preferences - Identify as Internet Explorer) cause those pages to stop being stupid?"
Essentially not at all as Operas spoofing is extremely transparent. Most pages that check, identify Opera as Opera, regardless of what the current spoof setting is.
This is why I mention the need for better spoofing. To get served the better pages.
Mind you this is something the Opera comunity is against. The mantra there is change the world, not Opera, that is why I am now a Firefox user after Years of dedicated Opera Usage. Tilting at windmills gives you a sore back after a while.
If you don't get a smooth ride, do you try to change the highway or your car?
Firefox has more features and more compatability and could care less why.
I used opera for years until something more usable came along. Bonus that it is free and open source.
Opera was my primary browser for quite a while, and it is faster/slicker with a better features set (especially MDI tabbing).
But once you escape the comparison on pages that work, the stark reality is that many pages don't work.
I switched to firefox a few months back and while not as slick as Opera, it is good enough, and for the pages I visit gives me the better experience. So I can do my banking for instance.
Since switching to Firefox, I seldom have to call up an IE session anymore.
Also plugins offer fucntionality I can't live without, like selective flash blocking.
Pre-empting those who say it is the fault of poor web coding and not Opera, in that some pages block or serve poor code to Opera.
Yes that is correct, But it just doesn't matter! It doesn't matter where you point the finger, the result is an inferior browsing experience.
I'll try Opera again (if ever) when they get better spoofing modes, better flash blocking.
I don't recieve these, so I have been torrenting them, and here we are losing the torrent sites on the same day as the Finale.
A well timed attack I guess.
An informercial made to look like MTV. Note that there were no disclaimers stating this was advertising. It was not microsoft present xbox, it was MTV presents xbox.
They are always trying to give out a free cellphone (tether) at work (only works in radius to the campus) I always say no thanks, but I suspect some day they will remove our desk phones and require them.
Here are my observations of those who have them, they take calls at lunch, when in in the Bathroom, walking in the halls.
When I am at lunch, I am at lunch, same with the bathroom or walking in the hallway. I dont' need the interruption.
Now on my personal time. When I am driving, I am driving don't need phone calls. When I am out hiking up mountains, I am enjoying nature, don't need phone calls. When I am out, I am already doing something and will check my messages when I get home. I survive just fine cell phone free.
I do have a digital camera and mp3 player, but I have no desire to combine them into a single device mediocre at both tasks and I certainly dont' think adding a cellphone would help.
"Actually it is. But feel free to believe that if it makes you feel better."
If it is out of the question, I would like to know why.
It certainly doesn't make me feel better to see them use monopoly power to leverage another market takeover. So I don't know what you are talking about there.
She is not complaining about DRM, she is complaining that Apple doesn't support Microsoft DRM. Why would they? They have the number one player and the number one service. Now if there was an Open DRM they might support that. But they are certainly not going to pay microsoft a licence fee for each IPOD.
Does anyone really think she is interested in using all these other music services. Or is she just acting as a paid mouth piece?
I wonder who is paying for her opinions these days.
I would say microsoft is attacking everywhere. They are leveraging money and monopoloy into new markets all the time. Yeah there is some competition nipping at their heels, but it is hard to stand in the way of an unchecked monopoly with a huge wad of cash.
PDAs/Smartphones: They keep respinning this and getting better and getting more market share. Any prediction when they hit #1?
Game Consoles/SW: Jan 2007: It is not out of the question to consider that Xbox2 will be the number one gaming console in North America. MS will probably also be a significant publisher (having bought out a pile of gaming companies)
Next Gen DVD: Microsoft had its own compression format placed as one of the mandatory codecs in both formats..
The list could probably go on an on, but anwhere money is being made in large amount MS will be there and eventually will be a significant if not dominant player.
Under-estimate them at your folly.
Last week when they dropped support, the daily show showed the Steve Balmer explanation being typed, up pops "Clipy":
Clipy says: You seem to be composing a lame cop out, would you like some help??
You probably had to see it, but it was funny. It was the LOL moment in the show for me.
I thought I was safe from most of this stuff up here:
w s/1115386370756_110795570/?hub=TopStories
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNe
Ont. rubella outbreak described as 'God's will'
The outbreak started at the town's Rehoboth Christian School. Many students there belong to a religious denomination that doesn't endorse or objects to vaccinations.
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Another point is Fossil record is based on the opportunity of the find, it will never be complete. We have just a few tiny snapshots from the millions of generations that preceeded us.
Note the recently found Raptor caught in what is believed to be a transition between Carnivore and Herbivore:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/05/dino_miss
I have nothing against tastefull ads, that is what supports the net after all. But I have flashblock and anidisable installed, so all my pages are static. I have adblock installed, but so seldom use it that I didn't notice any difference when enabling the google acellerator, then again, I also notice no benefit.
The odd thing was I was repeatedly clicking on the same two pages. It should be done with the pre-fetching. The interesting thing for me will be how it works with slashdotting effect.
These guys have a great model, they seem to hire the best people and empower them. They probably have the best moral of just about any development company out there. The pace of innovation is fantastic.
Think what a Google Linux Disto could provide as a boost to FOSS. Go GooNux. The Same for open office or Goofice.
Data warehousing (goohousing)is probably inevitable. Let me use that 2 Gig email space for storing my important docs, online pic galleries etc. I would be there in a second.
It will then be much easier to get Bill G's scaly hand out of my pants pocket...
I figured what the heck.
.1 sec reported by thier own tool on a page hit.
So I installed it and watched a bandwidth graph with it on off. Here are my observations:
1: Speed difference seem infintesimal. On the order of
2: Actual amount transferred actually seems larger with the cache on! Every page load actually seems to grab way more bandwidth peak, now this might be great if you are really getting the page that much quicker but this doesn't seem to be the case. Looking at the visual bandwidth track it seems the same width, just higher on the Google cache transfer.
Very odd. I look forward to what others measure.
"And these were mostly tech jobs I was applying for. It was kind of scary. Now I have a copy of Microsoft Word which I own seemingly solely so that I can create my resume in it, and my resume is sent out as .doc, always."
Will create a doc file just fine and I didn't have to pay monopolistic prices for it. Kind of scary that you didn't realize that before spending your money.
This is widely known:
"I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will--and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain." -Gene Roddenberry