Welcome to the real world. You could always work in a car factory for half the money. Strike that, not a good example. You could always work in another non-unionized job for half the money, and have to work just as hard, and with the same or even less job security. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. But I will agree that if you have the knack, know-how, drive and determination to be an entrepreneur, your reward potential is much higher.
And the guys who created Crysis got the idea from someone earlier who got the idea from someone earlier and so on. As soon as someone figures out how to perfect a ceramic based superconductor, these things will be common place. And will be very light and orders of magnitude more powerful. Right now at 7.5 pounds this one isn't that heavy considering it is home built. I know it's supposed to be a sort of pistol, but I used to lug around a 10 pound FN rifle. 7.5 pounds isn't so bad. And in comparison to a Sterling SMG (around 6 pounds empty... probably around 7 pounds loaded) it isn't that much heavier. FWIW, the Sterling was used as the Star Wars storm troopers main weapons in the original Star Wars. They put a fake sight on top and used the 10 round magazine that truck drivers could load (since the curved 30 round side mounted magazine would be impeded by the door/window frame). Of course they made them extra high power with special effects 'blaster bolts'.
Ah for the days of Duke Nukem 3D, Diablo, and Quake LAN games. Back then at work the development floor would stop for one hour at lunch. By 12:01 the email was out, "servers are up (multiple servers some of the games had a limit of 4... but Quake, that was a whole new ballgame... I loved my blue spotted rocket firing cow player skin)". By 12:55, "servers down in 5." And that is not to say only the development guys were in on it. Players on serveral floors of the company. The "good ol' days." Man that was a long time ago. Another great idea that for the majority of games likely allowed them to sell as many games if not far more than if they force people online.
Exactly. By that philosophy we can conclude that while we are drinking all the good with a glass of water, we are also drinking a glass of pure cancer, since at one time it must have been in contact with a host of natural and man made carcinogens. By the way, you shouldn't have ate so much garlic last night.
Fallout 3. Game of the year for several years by several groups. Massively successful. And a completely single player game. For the first time since Mech Warrior, I actually want to see a game I play/played put online (but inside I know it would likely fuck it right up). Many people obviously enjoy single player games. You aren't alone.
So you're saying it's OK to be a self absorbed self centred misanthrope? Or that whatever someone works on doesn't need to work with anything else. Then what is its point. It is pointless to everyone and everything else. I'm trying to understand what your sophomoric bullshit is really saying. Here is another overused line: No Man Is An Island. woot! Whatever.
Send a tap up there with the next supply run (or better yet a set of them) to clean out the threads. And then use some blue locktite. It's a big machine. They should have a full set of tools to fix it. It shouldn't be all components. One of the things the space station should be for is to learn how to do these kinds of things (mechanical maintenance). Installing some monolithic component sent from earth really isn't the same thing as doing mechanical work. In the future people will need to be able to really fix shit say halfway between here and Mars, or Titan, or Europa. No one is going to be able to just send up a new power module and have guys on earth adequately handle your power for you while you're orbiting Jupiter. Send them some real tools and tell them to fix it. Start learning how so they teach the lucky ones who will follow.
I watched a documentary one time on the sex toy industry. They showed an assembly line where they made silicone dildos. At the end of the line before packaging they had them standing on their bases on this really large table, as many as could fit on the table. Whenever the table would get bumped they would all kind of sway together. It looked like an obscene flower garden in a mild wind. Just bizarre.
They get American mustard from babies. To be fair, they sell the same crap up here in Canada. Difference is we also, or used to, have a tradition of hot mustard on our roasts etc, so know other kinds i.e. Coles, except we don't have Coles but instead of Keans Mustard which has almost exactly the same packaging. But the younger generation is falling into the elitist Dijon syndrome. Probably aided and abetted by Obama, the communist. I prefer hot mustard on everything except maybe a hamburger and hotdog... then Dijon will do. The baby poo mustard if I have to but sometimes I'll just opt out. And I think sir you are disparaging mayonnaise far too much.
:) I hope you tell people right up front down at the DMV or any other place you need to get government workers to help you that they have no expectation of having time to themselves since they work for the government/public. Is that what you are saying? As for not expecting privacy when he says something publicly... what? Was there a point there?
For those who bitch about this, if the president spent his money collecting stamps or collecting guitars I doubt you would you beat him up over it. But maybe you would: Oh sure he does or doesn't do XYZ, but he buys a Fender amp? You're evil Mr President; what a scumbag. Forget about it. So brewing beer, good for him. There are many people in America who like to brew their own beer. There's nothing wrong with it and nothing wrong with the president doing it on his own time either.
Tuxedo Server has been been around since the 1980s and is the C/C++ analog to JEE servers. From my understanding it started out for use with C and COBOL and then C++ to solve the same issues JEE back end containers are meant to solve. I have seen it used with other languages as well (as clients) including Visual Pascal, Visual Basic, and Visual C++, as well as tying into JEE systems and other web based clients. It started with AT&T, moved to BEA, which was then bought by Oracle. So you have come back full circle to the Oracle cunnundrum. And it isn't open source and it isn't free. But it works very well and scales massively. I have seen it run systems that handle tens and hundreds of millions of customer accounts, and highly complex and incredibly high volume of transactions.
I knew a guy who preferred to right web apps in C as opposed to servlets, php, perl, whatever. This was in 2005. He did them for the corporate internal site, and they were pretty good. Not saying I would, but it does break the mold on what people think can or should be done.
For Kubuntu/Ubuntu, this "part of the official family" is pure cynical corporate marketing to Kubuntu's disadvantage. It is only good for Canonical and this thinking can and will hurt Kubuntu in the long run. They have been cast adrift and must admit it, and not just intellectually. In the corporate world you will really ONLY see what "officially part of the family" means when it comes to money.
Mandriva started from Redhat 5.1, is it part of the "official" Redhat family? No? Why? The money thing. Suse adopted the Redhat file structure and RPM package management system. Does that make it part of the Redhat family? Obviously no. If not, why not, for both Mandriva and Suse? Is it because it writes it's own installer and package manager even though for the most part they both can install pretty much the same RPMs? No, that's not it. Having similar and/or compatible package managers doesn't make systems part of the family except manybe for marketing. Taking ownership or spending time and money on it does. You are really only part of the official family if you are part of the corporate family. Otherwise you are part of the "we'll milk this as long as it gives us good marketing benefit" family. And again, that still comes back to money. Marketing is to make money.
And that's the crux. Right now the Kubuntu community is still in the, "we can still be friends stage." Later when it is understood that Canonical doesn't give a flying fuck about Kubuntu financially (and that means no free help or declining free help over time until reality sets in). And BTW, I don't blame Canonical, it is business. The now all volunteer Kubuntu needs to get that through their heads too. They should start with a name change to make it readily apparent in heads and in hearts.
I thiink right now there is still some warmth between kunbuntu and canonical. But as time goes by and less or no support comes from Canonical the rose will come off the bloom.
FWIW, when I use Linux (on my VM guest on Windows 7) I use Kubuntu.
How is it for employers in England compared to Germany (don't know much of Germany's labour and business laws etc)? It's the biggest economy in Europe or so I am lead to believe, so it would be interesting to hear about how they fair on that count. Having said Germany is the biggest economy, perhaps that is only in the Eurozone?
And then there is Russia. I have to figure in Russia, the other big economy in Europe (not saying Eurozone), the perspective I've seen says employers can get away with a lot more than here. And if you can pay off the mafia only when you're successful will the oligarcs bother to sue you with trumped up charges aided by the government to steal your company. They say they use the same judges as the ones used to give Pussy Riot a fair trial. Yeah yeah, possibly/probably unfair but that is the perception I get anyway, especially if you are a non-mega-corp foreinger trying to run a company there.
Anyway, how is it for employers in Germany compared to England? Both Eurozone so presumabley similar ground rules for business and labour.
The car. London. Yeah. I worked on a project for the DFT a couple years ago (one of the pilots for road charging). As part of the research I was looking through one of the DFT publications. Average speed of traffic in London from sun up to past sun down: something less than 10mph across all streets. If that. Commuting just sucks anywhere. I don't know why anyone would live in the suburbs if it weren't for the cost of housing in the city. And London housing prices are fucking ridiculous. The question is, other than the price of housing (once housing is decided), for those who live there and know where to shop, what are the rest of the expenses like comparitively speaking to other places in the country/world. Food, electricity, internet (OK leave that out, talked to death here), general costs? In Toronto, while not as expensive as London, England (we have our own city of London just down the road) housing prices are still bloody expensive. But everything else is too. Some cities housing is expensive but everything else is reasonable. Anyway...
Devils advocate: People with a lot of money who have no problem spending more money than necessary to satisfy image while gaining little or nothing in functionality are not as affected by current economic times. These are Apple's main customers. Average people who normally need to or prefer to get value for their money are much more severely affected by the current economic times, and buy less expensive machines that do the same job as Apple's. These are PCs. Because they are more severely affected, they must make do with older machines and don't upgrade as often.
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Welcome to the real world. You could always work in a car factory for half the money. Strike that, not a good example. You could always work in another non-unionized job for half the money, and have to work just as hard, and with the same or even less job security. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. But I will agree that if you have the knack, know-how, drive and determination to be an entrepreneur, your reward potential is much higher.
And the guys who created Crysis got the idea from someone earlier who got the idea from someone earlier and so on. As soon as someone figures out how to perfect a ceramic based superconductor, these things will be common place. And will be very light and orders of magnitude more powerful. Right now at 7.5 pounds this one isn't that heavy considering it is home built. I know it's supposed to be a sort of pistol, but I used to lug around a 10 pound FN rifle. 7.5 pounds isn't so bad. And in comparison to a Sterling SMG (around 6 pounds empty... probably around 7 pounds loaded) it isn't that much heavier. FWIW, the Sterling was used as the Star Wars storm troopers main weapons in the original Star Wars. They put a fake sight on top and used the 10 round magazine that truck drivers could load (since the curved 30 round side mounted magazine would be impeded by the door/window frame). Of course they made them extra high power with special effects 'blaster bolts'.
Ah for the days of Duke Nukem 3D, Diablo, and Quake LAN games. Back then at work the development floor would stop for one hour at lunch. By 12:01 the email was out, "servers are up (multiple servers some of the games had a limit of 4... but Quake, that was a whole new ballgame... I loved my blue spotted rocket firing cow player skin)". By 12:55, "servers down in 5." And that is not to say only the development guys were in on it. Players on serveral floors of the company. The "good ol' days." Man that was a long time ago. Another great idea that for the majority of games likely allowed them to sell as many games if not far more than if they force people online.
Exactly. By that philosophy we can conclude that while we are drinking all the good with a glass of water, we are also drinking a glass of pure cancer, since at one time it must have been in contact with a host of natural and man made carcinogens. By the way, you shouldn't have ate so much garlic last night.
Fallout 3. Game of the year for several years by several groups. Massively successful. And a completely single player game. For the first time since Mech Warrior, I actually want to see a game I play/played put online (but inside I know it would likely fuck it right up). Many people obviously enjoy single player games. You aren't alone.
Another Asperger victim heard from, along with the moderator.
So you're saying it's OK to be a self absorbed self centred misanthrope? Or that whatever someone works on doesn't need to work with anything else. Then what is its point. It is pointless to everyone and everything else. I'm trying to understand what your sophomoric bullshit is really saying. Here is another overused line: No Man Is An Island. woot! Whatever.
Send a tap up there with the next supply run (or better yet a set of them) to clean out the threads. And then use some blue locktite. It's a big machine. They should have a full set of tools to fix it. It shouldn't be all components. One of the things the space station should be for is to learn how to do these kinds of things (mechanical maintenance). Installing some monolithic component sent from earth really isn't the same thing as doing mechanical work. In the future people will need to be able to really fix shit say halfway between here and Mars, or Titan, or Europa. No one is going to be able to just send up a new power module and have guys on earth adequately handle your power for you while you're orbiting Jupiter. Send them some real tools and tell them to fix it. Start learning how so they teach the lucky ones who will follow.
I watched a documentary one time on the sex toy industry. They showed an assembly line where they made silicone dildos. At the end of the line before packaging they had them standing on their bases on this really large table, as many as could fit on the table. Whenever the table would get bumped they would all kind of sway together. It looked like an obscene flower garden in a mild wind. Just bizarre.
They get American mustard from babies. To be fair, they sell the same crap up here in Canada. Difference is we also, or used to, have a tradition of hot mustard on our roasts etc, so know other kinds i.e. Coles, except we don't have Coles but instead of Keans Mustard which has almost exactly the same packaging. But the younger generation is falling into the elitist Dijon syndrome. Probably aided and abetted by Obama, the communist. I prefer hot mustard on everything except maybe a hamburger and hotdog... then Dijon will do. The baby poo mustard if I have to but sometimes I'll just opt out. And I think sir you are disparaging mayonnaise far too much.
:) I hope you tell people right up front down at the DMV or any other place you need to get government workers to help you that they have no expectation of having time to themselves since they work for the government/public. Is that what you are saying? As for not expecting privacy when he says something publicly... what? Was there a point there?
For those who bitch about this, if the president spent his money collecting stamps or collecting guitars I doubt you would you beat him up over it. But maybe you would: Oh sure he does or doesn't do XYZ, but he buys a Fender amp? You're evil Mr President; what a scumbag. Forget about it. So brewing beer, good for him. There are many people in America who like to brew their own beer. There's nothing wrong with it and nothing wrong with the president doing it on his own time either.
Tuxedo Server has been been around since the 1980s and is the C/C++ analog to JEE servers. From my understanding it started out for use with C and COBOL and then C++ to solve the same issues JEE back end containers are meant to solve. I have seen it used with other languages as well (as clients) including Visual Pascal, Visual Basic, and Visual C++, as well as tying into JEE systems and other web based clients. It started with AT&T, moved to BEA, which was then bought by Oracle. So you have come back full circle to the Oracle cunnundrum. And it isn't open source and it isn't free. But it works very well and scales massively. I have seen it run systems that handle tens and hundreds of millions of customer accounts, and highly complex and incredibly high volume of transactions.
And what about on Android devices. Since Android is basically a Java based technology.
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Join the army. Travel the world. Meet new and interesting people. Then kill them. (saw it on a t-shirt... in the army)
I knew a guy who preferred to right web apps in C as opposed to servlets, php, perl, whatever. This was in 2005. He did them for the corporate internal site, and they were pretty good. Not saying I would, but it does break the mold on what people think can or should be done.
But I think the phrase there was, "It's a piece of work."
Yeah black is the new white and 'security through obscurity' is the new Godwin's law.
For Kubuntu/Ubuntu, this "part of the official family" is pure cynical corporate marketing to Kubuntu's disadvantage. It is only good for Canonical and this thinking can and will hurt Kubuntu in the long run. They have been cast adrift and must admit it, and not just intellectually. In the corporate world you will really ONLY see what "officially part of the family" means when it comes to money.
Mandriva started from Redhat 5.1, is it part of the "official" Redhat family? No? Why? The money thing. Suse adopted the Redhat file structure and RPM package management system. Does that make it part of the Redhat family? Obviously no. If not, why not, for both Mandriva and Suse? Is it because it writes it's own installer and package manager even though for the most part they both can install pretty much the same RPMs? No, that's not it. Having similar and/or compatible package managers doesn't make systems part of the family except manybe for marketing. Taking ownership or spending time and money on it does. You are really only part of the official family if you are part of the corporate family. Otherwise you are part of the "we'll milk this as long as it gives us good marketing benefit" family. And again, that still comes back to money. Marketing is to make money.
And that's the crux. Right now the Kubuntu community is still in the, "we can still be friends stage." Later when it is understood that Canonical doesn't give a flying fuck about Kubuntu financially (and that means no free help or declining free help over time until reality sets in). And BTW, I don't blame Canonical, it is business. The now all volunteer Kubuntu needs to get that through their heads too. They should start with a name change to make it readily apparent in heads and in hearts.
I thiink right now there is still some warmth between kunbuntu and canonical. But as time goes by and less or no support comes from Canonical the rose will come off the bloom.
FWIW, when I use Linux (on my VM guest on Windows 7) I use Kubuntu.
How is it for employers in England compared to Germany (don't know much of Germany's labour and business laws etc)? It's the biggest economy in Europe or so I am lead to believe, so it would be interesting to hear about how they fair on that count. Having said Germany is the biggest economy, perhaps that is only in the Eurozone?
And then there is Russia. I have to figure in Russia, the other big economy in Europe (not saying Eurozone), the perspective I've seen says employers can get away with a lot more than here. And if you can pay off the mafia only when you're successful will the oligarcs bother to sue you with trumped up charges aided by the government to steal your company. They say they use the same judges as the ones used to give Pussy Riot a fair trial. Yeah yeah, possibly/probably unfair but that is the perception I get anyway, especially if you are a non-mega-corp foreinger trying to run a company there.
Anyway, how is it for employers in Germany compared to England? Both Eurozone so presumabley similar ground rules for business and labour.
Old. Who cares? That was awesome.
The car. London. Yeah. I worked on a project for the DFT a couple years ago (one of the pilots for road charging). As part of the research I was looking through one of the DFT publications. Average speed of traffic in London from sun up to past sun down: something less than 10mph across all streets. If that. Commuting just sucks anywhere. I don't know why anyone would live in the suburbs if it weren't for the cost of housing in the city. And London housing prices are fucking ridiculous. The question is, other than the price of housing (once housing is decided), for those who live there and know where to shop, what are the rest of the expenses like comparitively speaking to other places in the country/world. Food, electricity, internet (OK leave that out, talked to death here), general costs? In Toronto, while not as expensive as London, England (we have our own city of London just down the road) housing prices are still bloody expensive. But everything else is too. Some cities housing is expensive but everything else is reasonable. Anyway...
Devils advocate: People with a lot of money who have no problem spending more money than necessary to satisfy image while gaining little or nothing in functionality are not as affected by current economic times. These are Apple's main customers. Average people who normally need to or prefer to get value for their money are much more severely affected by the current economic times, and buy less expensive machines that do the same job as Apple's. These are PCs. Because they are more severely affected, they must make do with older machines and don't upgrade as often.
The root cause of this belief is what allows companies to sell cloud computing.