He lives in the USA. He could live pretty good on 2.4M in cash. Get a nice house and cars, invest the other 1.2M in something safe and tax-free making a 5% annual return. Typically lawyers get and taxes 40%. So he ends up with 27% of 8.1M or about 2.2M. Not enough to be lavish but 60K a yr tax free is not too bad to go along with whatever his income is now. If he is as briliant as it appears, he is not hurting for a job so he could just let the money be his retirement fund.
Unless you are hooked onto a V6 network (there are a few like 6Bone) you can't get to a V6 ONLY address.
V6 sites are listed at ipv6.org. Try your research again and let me know what happens. Maybe your ISP is one of the few who ARE on a V6 network.
The "greatly improved Security" of IE just had another critical flaw discovered yesterday. However MS did BUY this technology so maybe it will be OK until they mess it up in a few releases.
...I know that at least some of the web is accessible, and there are supposedly several EFnet servers you can reach with IPv6..
Wanta explain that one? An IPv6 TCP/IP stack or IP v6 Web address won't work with IPv4 on the Internet routers. However, IPv6 is backward compatiable. Perhaps you happened to hit some routers that can handle v6 over v4 with tunneling. (See http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/759/ipj_3-1/ipj_3 -1_routing.html)
However with all the fees for that and this on my phone bill I wouldn't miss another one. The damn things are even on my cell phone too! It might be fun to see who doesn't notice a $1.99 fee with some fancy nonsensical name like, Federal IP Network Useage Packet Toll Surcharge Recovery Fee.
If that's the case, then it's just another tool on the market. Now if MS starts "integrating" it into the OS that's another issue. I'm really not too keen to download it and find out, could be I can't remove it! I like my Ad-Aware just fine, so why switch.
ROTFL-/. finally gets some female participation and she gets flamed! FWIW, I looked up her bio and she seems to be very legit. Don't know if she is 14 though;)
There ARE some very smart ladies in the IT area these days, unlike 20+ yrs ago when there were TWO in my CS graduating class. But those two were REALLY sharp, I hated thier guts for blowing the curve!:)
Hint to LL..ya might get more respect from these teenagers if ya posted under LongIslandLolita;)
Do you trust MS tools to scan your PC and actually do a GOOD job of it? I think Ad-Aware and others will still be around for those of us who think that is like letting the fox guard the chicken coop. If they start to get stomped, they can always sue. I haven't seen if the tool actually lets the other tools run and if they discover things it does not,and vice versa. I did hear it doesn't tell ya what it removed, and THAT is NOT good.
Hubble is going to be replaced (assuming NASA get's it act together) with the James Webb Space Telescope. It will live out at L-2 about 1.5Million Km from earth. See http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ for more.
I just hope it gets there before HST dies. IIRC, the HST "rescue" mission has been cancelled as too risky for the STS and too expensive for robotic technology.
The movement of the magnetic poles has been known for many years. They used to be much further South a few million years ago. There is only one physical pole, The South, the North Pole is water (which just happens to be frozen). The physical poles are defined by latitude and longitude measurements which the earthquake didn't change enough to matter.
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I hope you mean this sarcasticly. I see folks who have coded for years with high numbers, they are just new to the/. community. And don't forget those who post as ACs, we know nada about them. Just because someone does NOT write code anymore does not mean they forgot all they ever knew.
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Your answer affirms mine, the looping had to be done via a MACRO. It's not a built-in feature such as in C. I programmed expert systems in Prolog early in the 1980s so I think I know a bit about it. Perhaps the language has evolved since then, but it was very hard to work with as I recall.
Try writing something like an embedded system in Prolog, or a payroll application. And contra-wise try writing a logic program in COBOL or C. Different languages are better at different things.
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Which is why all of the better languages (Lisp, Prolog, Smalltalk) get thrown on the scrap-heap..
ROTFL..those languages were developed as RESEARCH tools, and were never intended for mainstream use. I am one of those people who HAS written in each of those languages (and many others). The languages you mention are very non-intuitive (Lisp has no control structure such as looping) have strange syntax (so..did I nest my parens right) and have specialized domains (AI and Logic Programming). They are very much unsuited to mainstream IT type applications.
Not 100% true. It depends on the school. If you go to say MIT or CMU you get very little of anything but science. however if you go to a "liberal arts" university that happens to also offer degrees in a Science you get a good dose of things outside Science. My experience as a manager has been the latter approach produces people who are better employees in the long run. Maybe it's just the type of people who prefer each type of education that is the difference. But, there are not any absolutes, each type of education can produce great and lousy employees.
...They are the ones that look towards the longer term, they value their employees as contributing to the bottom line rather than costing it. Even a big company can be like this, if they are significantly family owned. Having a family aspect is probably the most important part...
WRONG! Family ownership (or employee ownership) has nothing to do with it. Look at the 100 Best Companies to work for and few if any are family owned. Family owned firms tend to be small to mid-szied businesses, and as such the sense of "team" and "ownership" is often more prevalent (which is NOT a bad thing). Good managers at any type of firm or any type of ownership understand that happy, well-treated, empowered employees are MUCH more productive and thus increase the bottom line by doing more work, or doing it better. I have worked for family owned, public, and employee owned firms and have found lots of poor managers at each and a few good managers at each. It has been my experience that larger firms tend to have better managers as they can provide training, mentorship and have plenty of projects to provide opportunity for the managers to grow. But there are exceptions.
Perormance is NOT important? Now that IS insane. To handle a large transaction volume any application has to have been designed with SOME performance goals. The web response time for Internet applications is usually set at a 7 second maximum so the code has to be allocated some of this time and must perform to that allocation.
In some cases, such as hard real-time systems performance is life and death, in that domain the language you chose DOES matter just as does the hardware and the algorithm). I did some studies about 5 yrs ago that showed C outperformed C++ and Ada by 40% in real-time benchmarks.
If you don't trust yourself/your programmers in using malloc and free for a large application, just write your own garbage collector/memory manager that wraps the calls just like Java does. It's not that hard. Also, depending on the OS, you can use that built in memory manager and call it instead. If you want the benefits of OO and are willing to take some performance hits, then C++ is a decent choice. I've yet to see a Java based real-time system, primarily because there are certain things about the language that are non-deterministic (garbage collection comes to mind). If your systems does not have hard deadlines then just about any language that is maintainable could be used, so pick your favorite.
The risk of bugs/flaws in C is no more or no less than any other language. In fact, I'd argue the that a good C programmer can write just as good of code as a Java programmer. Last time I looked C ran faster than Java as there isn't the overhead of the JVM and all the other stuff in J2EE. If you really want kick butt performance you write it in Assembly code. Been there, done it..does ANYONE even learn Assembler in college these days? Doing Assembler lets you really learn how the processor architecture really works and take advantage of it in some cases.
Device drivers are inherent in Win and UNIX. Windows just hides all this way deep down, UNIX puts it out there and you can find out how it works. Disk drives are still serial devices just very fast ones! You gotta move to the track and sector with the heads to read or write, the only improvement has been faster totation speeds and multiple heads that move fast but each head still writes serially, there cab be some parallelization if you are doing block writes. I also like the fact that I can mount/unmount a disk. If you get right down to it Windows has copied a LOT for Unix as it has moved from Win3.11 to XP. I recall reading someewhere that the TCP/IP code in Windows was actually lifted verbatim from BSD Unix.
Any sysadmin that lets users install any old program on ANY flavor UNIX box should be in deep trouble. A good sysadmin can put things where they belong and make things easy to manage. With the powerful scripting tools and other utilities available to manage UNIX boxes it makes the sysadmin job a lot easier. Of course if you have you own UNIX box, then you are free to do what you want but corporate boxes should have rules and the sysadmins should enforce them.
I architect systems now and often manage OTHER programmers. I have high standards for their code, not many meet it. But all I really expect is sound logic, good error checking and solid documentation but in many cases this seems like I am asking the impossible.
junk science (n.): Any science based on unsound science principles and/or false results in an attempt to make the conclusion support the researcher's political position.
Global Warming is as junk Science as Cold Fusion and I don't think there was ever any political issues to Cold Fusion. Go look at http://junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Warming_Glance.ht m
Hey, I was going from memory! I haven't written OS code in probably 10 yrs and ANY code in 5 yrs. I would have looked it up to refresh my memory before I wrote the code.
Which again makes me wonder if the guys at M$ can read a manual? MS programmer: "Manual? We don't need no steenking manual, We are Microsoft, we WROTE the manual and know what it says. Code it and ship it!"
"Seriously, the world is on collision course with greenhouse gases and the chance of disaster is actually close to 1/1".
Junk Science. Global Warning is way too poorly understood to say CO2 has that much of an effect. We also may be going thru a normal upwards deviation in the temperature of the Earth, as has happened before when there were NO "greenhouse gases" emitted by Man since Man was not around. It's all a hypothesis, nothing can be proven. It's a bunch of eco-freak scientists run amuck yelling the sky is falling. It's all about getting funding you get the attention of the press with wild claims, the public hears the "news" and jumps on board then starts pressuring the Gov't for a fix, whether or not the problem is real..it is PERCEIVED to be real.
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He lives in the USA. He could live pretty good on 2.4M in cash. Get a nice house and cars, invest the other 1.2M in something safe and tax-free making a 5% annual return. Typically lawyers get and taxes 40%. So he ends up with 27% of 8.1M or about 2.2M. Not enough to be lavish but 60K a yr tax free is not too bad to go along with whatever his income is now. If he is as briliant as it appears, he is not hurting for a job so he could just let the money be his retirement fund.
Unless you are hooked onto a V6 network (there are a few like 6Bone) you can't get to a V6 ONLY address. V6 sites are listed at ipv6.org. Try your research again and let me know what happens. Maybe your ISP is one of the few who ARE on a V6 network.
The "greatly improved Security" of IE just had another critical flaw discovered yesterday. However MS did BUY this technology so maybe it will be OK until they mess it up in a few releases.
...I know that at least some of the web is accessible, and there are supposedly several EFnet servers you can reach with IPv6.. Wanta explain that one? An IPv6 TCP/IP stack or IP v6 Web address won't work with IPv4 on the Internet routers. However, IPv6 is backward compatiable. Perhaps you happened to hit some routers that can handle v6 over v4 with tunneling. (See http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/759/ipj_3-1/ipj_3 -1_routing.html)
I think that is called Fraud!
However with all the fees for that and this on my phone bill I wouldn't miss another one. The damn things are even on my cell phone too! It might be fun to see who doesn't notice a $1.99 fee with some fancy nonsensical name like, Federal IP Network Useage Packet Toll Surcharge Recovery Fee.
If that's the case, then it's just another tool on the market. Now if MS starts "integrating" it into the OS that's another issue. I'm really not too keen to download it and find out, could be I can't remove it! I like my Ad-Aware just fine, so why switch.
ROTFL- /. finally gets some female participation and she gets flamed! FWIW, I looked up her bio and she seems to be very legit. Don't know if she is 14 though ;)
There ARE some very smart ladies in the IT area these days, unlike 20+ yrs ago when there were TWO in my CS graduating class. But those two were REALLY sharp, I hated thier guts for blowing the curve! :)
Hint to LL..ya might get more respect from these teenagers if ya posted under LongIslandLolita ;)
Do you trust MS tools to scan your PC and actually do a GOOD job of it? I think Ad-Aware and others will still be around for those of us who think that is like letting the fox guard the chicken coop. If they start to get stomped, they can always sue. I haven't seen if the tool actually lets the other tools run and if they discover things it does not,and vice versa. I did hear it doesn't tell ya what it removed, and THAT is NOT good.
Hubble is going to be replaced (assuming NASA get's it act together) with the James Webb Space Telescope. It will live out at L-2 about 1.5Million Km from earth. See http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ for more. I just hope it gets there before HST dies. IIRC, the HST "rescue" mission has been cancelled as too risky for the STS and too expensive for robotic technology.
The movement of the magnetic poles has been known for many years. They used to be much further South a few million years ago. There is only one physical pole, The South, the North Pole is water (which just happens to be frozen). The physical poles are defined by latitude and longitude measurements which the earthquake didn't change enough to matter.
I hope you mean this sarcasticly. I see folks who have coded for years with high numbers, they are just new to the /. community. And don't forget those who post as ACs, we know nada about them. Just because someone does NOT write code anymore does not mean they forgot all they ever knew.
Your answer affirms mine, the looping had to be done via a MACRO. It's not a built-in feature such as in C. I programmed expert systems in Prolog early in the 1980s so I think I know a bit about it. Perhaps the language has evolved since then, but it was very hard to work with as I recall. Try writing something like an embedded system in Prolog, or a payroll application. And contra-wise try writing a logic program in COBOL or C. Different languages are better at different things.
Which is why all of the better languages (Lisp, Prolog, Smalltalk) get thrown on the scrap-heap.. ROTFL..those languages were developed as RESEARCH tools, and were never intended for mainstream use. I am one of those people who HAS written in each of those languages (and many others). The languages you mention are very non-intuitive (Lisp has no control structure such as looping) have strange syntax (so..did I nest my parens right) and have specialized domains (AI and Logic Programming). They are very much unsuited to mainstream IT type applications.
Not 100% true. It depends on the school. If you go to say MIT or CMU you get very little of anything but science. however if you go to a "liberal arts" university that happens to also offer degrees in a Science you get a good dose of things outside Science. My experience as a manager has been the latter approach produces people who are better employees in the long run. Maybe it's just the type of people who prefer each type of education that is the difference. But, there are not any absolutes, each type of education can produce great and lousy employees.
Now we know why he didn't get the Google job..he used bad grammar a time or two!
...They are the ones that look towards the longer term, they value their employees as contributing to the bottom line rather than costing it. Even a big company can be like this, if they are significantly family owned. Having a family aspect is probably the most important part...
WRONG! Family ownership (or employee ownership) has nothing to do with it. Look at the 100 Best Companies to work for and few if any are family owned. Family owned firms tend to be small to mid-szied businesses, and as such the sense of "team" and "ownership" is often more prevalent (which is NOT a bad thing). Good managers at any type of firm or any type of ownership understand that happy, well-treated, empowered employees are MUCH more productive and thus increase the bottom line by doing more work, or doing it better. I have worked for family owned, public, and employee owned firms and have found lots of poor managers at each and a few good managers at each. It has been my experience that larger firms tend to have better managers as they can provide training, mentorship and have plenty of projects to provide opportunity for the managers to grow. But there are exceptions.
Perormance is NOT important? Now that IS insane. To handle a large transaction volume any application has to have been designed with SOME performance goals. The web response time for Internet applications is usually set at a 7 second maximum so the code has to be allocated some of this time and must perform to that allocation. In some cases, such as hard real-time systems performance is life and death, in that domain the language you chose DOES matter just as does the hardware and the algorithm). I did some studies about 5 yrs ago that showed C outperformed C++ and Ada by 40% in real-time benchmarks. If you don't trust yourself/your programmers in using malloc and free for a large application, just write your own garbage collector/memory manager that wraps the calls just like Java does. It's not that hard. Also, depending on the OS, you can use that built in memory manager and call it instead. If you want the benefits of OO and are willing to take some performance hits, then C++ is a decent choice. I've yet to see a Java based real-time system, primarily because there are certain things about the language that are non-deterministic (garbage collection comes to mind). If your systems does not have hard deadlines then just about any language that is maintainable could be used, so pick your favorite.
The risk of bugs/flaws in C is no more or no less than any other language. In fact, I'd argue the that a good C programmer can write just as good of code as a Java programmer. Last time I looked C ran faster than Java as there isn't the overhead of the JVM and all the other stuff in J2EE. If you really want kick butt performance you write it in Assembly code. Been there, done it..does ANYONE even learn Assembler in college these days? Doing Assembler lets you really learn how the processor architecture really works and take advantage of it in some cases.
Device drivers are inherent in Win and UNIX. Windows just hides all this way deep down, UNIX puts it out there and you can find out how it works. Disk drives are still serial devices just very fast ones! You gotta move to the track and sector with the heads to read or write, the only improvement has been faster totation speeds and multiple heads that move fast but each head still writes serially, there cab be some parallelization if you are doing block writes. I also like the fact that I can mount/unmount a disk. If you get right down to it Windows has copied a LOT for Unix as it has moved from Win3.11 to XP. I recall reading someewhere that the TCP/IP code in Windows was actually lifted verbatim from BSD Unix.
Any sysadmin that lets users install any old program on ANY flavor UNIX box should be in deep trouble. A good sysadmin can put things where they belong and make things easy to manage. With the powerful scripting tools and other utilities available to manage UNIX boxes it makes the sysadmin job a lot easier. Of course if you have you own UNIX box, then you are free to do what you want but corporate boxes should have rules and the sysadmins should enforce them.
I architect systems now and often manage OTHER programmers. I have high standards for their code, not many meet it. But all I really expect is sound logic, good error checking and solid documentation but in many cases this seems like I am asking the impossible.
junk science (n.): Any science based on unsound science principles and/or false results in an attempt to make the conclusion support the researcher's political position. Global Warming is as junk Science as Cold Fusion and I don't think there was ever any political issues to Cold Fusion. Go look at http://junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Warming_Glance.ht m
GRINCH!!!
Hey, I was going from memory! I haven't written OS code in probably 10 yrs and ANY code in 5 yrs. I would have looked it up to refresh my memory before I wrote the code. Which again makes me wonder if the guys at M$ can read a manual? MS programmer: "Manual? We don't need no steenking manual, We are Microsoft, we WROTE the manual and know what it says. Code it and ship it!"
"Seriously, the world is on collision course with greenhouse gases and the chance of disaster is actually close to 1/1".
Junk Science. Global Warning is way too poorly understood to say CO2 has that much of an effect. We also may be going thru a normal upwards deviation in the temperature of the Earth, as has happened before when there were NO "greenhouse gases" emitted by Man since Man was not around. It's all a hypothesis, nothing can be proven. It's a bunch of eco-freak scientists run amuck yelling the sky is falling. It's all about getting funding you get the attention of the press with wild claims, the public hears the "news" and jumps on board then starts pressuring the Gov't for a fix, whether or not the problem is real..it is PERCEIVED to be real.