It is a shame RMS seems to spend a lot of time talking about Linus and Linux in a manner that is divisive rather than collaborative.
RMS comes across to me as having a bruised ego because Linux has powerful brand recognition, while GNU doesn't. Also it may be because Linus is better at collaboration than RMS.
Perhaps he did not start the controversy, but he definitely keeps it alive, although fortunately Linus doesn't feed it.
Think your specialized knowledge really is useful and people just don't realize it? Then you shouldn't be looking for employment, you should be looking to start a consultancy business. Convince people that you can use Physics to save them money, ask for 30% of their savings over the first year.
I hate that argument... you don't sound to me like a business owner or self-employed consultant.
Most people can't make a business out of their specialist skills because they lack other essential business skills. As per your example: the skills required to ask people for money are not common (selling is hard to learn for many; just as Physics is hard to learn for many).
Even if you can save a business x% you would still need to: agree to a way to measure savings; convince the management to pay for the savings made; convince management to invest their time and other risks in scoping the project; and to have the personal fortune and fortitude to take on external risks (business ownership change, sickness, business bankrupcy, market vagaries); plus all the other skills required to be a self-employed consultant.
That is why we become employees - so we don't have to be good at all the other skills required to work for ourselves.
...there are probably 10 more copies of that file and previous versions of that file floating around in unallocated sectors, swap space, file slack, hibernation files, etc.
Your reply sounded good until I reached your "ten copies" exaggeration. Do most hard drives only use 10% of their disk space?
Also the numbers of copies would not be the same for all files; instead there would be some distribution. I would guess that some active files have many copies while many files have no copies (not a normal distribution.) Even with compression, 10x just does not appear realistic. Comments?
The reason used video game stores exist is that many people aren't willing to pay $50 to $60 for a new game.
The reason games cost $50 to $60 is because people *are* willing to pay that much for a game.
In micro-economics, if the maximum price you are willing to pay is $30 for a game, then the game publisher would like to sell it to you at your maximum price (given that the marginal cost to make, sell and support the game is less than $30) . The used game market exists because game publishers have trouble implementing price discrimination. This 2003 article about adaptive pricing gives some good examples of why it is difficult to implement price discrimination.
Now if PC game companies were more aggressive with their pricing then they could compete with the used market.
Game companies could compete - but could they do so profitably?
Game companies reduce their price to the point they are "competing" with second hand dealers.
i.e. second hand dealers stop trading because their overheads leave them without enough profit.
Game companies have approximately same overheads, but they also have high dev costs and risks.
Except that if Danowskyâ's law firm expected all the payments to be reversed were the fine overturned, the law firm would have an extra financial incentive to win their case against pirate bay.
But strange that in the 20 years I've been using Microsoft OSes, I've never had a virus or trojan or malware. I must be doing something wrong.
I am sure you have had to deal with the effects of viruses/trojans/malwares with your friends/family/workmates using Microsoft OSes... or do you have another peculiarly anomalous anecdote?
Also after a disk failure, there is significant correlation of a second failure (failures are not independent - some risk analyses presume they are): Usenix: Disk failures in the real world.
Also I wouldn't ignore anecdotes that the rebuild process thrashes disks hard and can cause a second failure (or that the rebuild can take longer than you thought).
Buy micro-SDHC cards and use an adapter (adapters are very cheap, and often come free with micro-SDHC cards).
I now only buy micro-SDHC cards and use an adapter when necessary with older devices. (All my devices are SDHC compatible, not SD which is limited to 2GB and won't work with larger capacities).
Bonus 1: Get a small USB<->micro-SD adapter for a few dollars and you don't need a USB key anymore either.
Bonus 2: Can easily carry multiple micro-SD cards on you - normal SD cards are too bulky.
I messed around with VirtualBox, which works fine except that it runs in a window and you can't run it NOT in a window and attach/detach from the console at will.
VirtualBox has supported headless operation using rdp for about a year - google for VBoxHeadless or vrdp
They are only drawing heat away from the *hottest* small areas (not cooling the whole chip) - the spot temperatures can still be well above room temp.
Also it seems obvious (for power efficiency reasons under low loads) they would integrate temperature sensing with each cooling element so that the cooling is only activated when that particular part of the chip is generating heat i.e. not cool anything below the dew point.
Both IE6 and IE7 leakmemory even after you close the page. Most well known Ajax apps don't leak memory because they have spent plenty of man-hours working through the problems and designing the libraries around the issues by using leak detection tools. I personally have spent weeks and weeks resolving leaks.
Stability? You what?! It bloody crashes all the time. Their own web outlook client completely crashes IE regularly (and no, I am not talking about ActiveX plugins crashing IE - I have been forces to implement many hacks to work around plenty of horrid crashes in IE.)
On second thought perhaps you have just trolled me - although I try not to underestimate an IE user.
couldn't you use IETab with Firebug to actually figure out how to fix all of the stupid rendering problems caused by IE (read: screw with the CSS via Firebug until it works)?
If you want to screw with the CSS, do it for free at an element level using the Microsoft devtoolbar (google for it). Also AFAIK there are other non-free tools that allow you to fiddle at the CSS rule level. Your suggestion doesn't work because Firebug is integrated with the Gecko engine. IETab just uses the firefox tab purely as a rendering area using ActiveX so Firebug knows nothing about the IE CSS.
Alternatively you can dynamically add css changes for IE by pasting into the address bar:
javascript:(function() { var src = 'http://localhost:8000/Files/ggg.css'; var link = document.createElement('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="'+src+'"/>'); link.src = src; document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(link);})()
Similarly you can insert javascript into any page cross-browser using:
javascript:(function() { var src = 'http://localhost:8000/Files/my.js'; var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = src; document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(script);})()
or you can dynamically change the css using the IE stylesheet rules DOM manually too.
When things are busy, it's a more-than-full-time job, and if you're not willing to work more than full time when it's busy, then you won't keep getting work.
Bullshit. Just selectively put up your prices. Significantly overprice jobs that you don't want to do, or which are not helping you or your business.
To make a youtube link which immediately jumps to a particular place, start with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= , append the video_id (i.e. BucIjXZVxXo for the url from the article http://www.youtube.com/v/BucIjXZVxXo&hl=en&fs=1), then append #t=XmYYs replacing X with the number of minutes and YY with the number of seconds. See http://scriptingenabled.org/2008/10/youtube-now-allows-linking-to-a-certain-time/
Personally I have found your list neither necessary nor sufficient.
!necessary: The three best developers I have known just concentrate on delivering software to the clients needs. They all used their favorite language, and squeezed the most out of that language.
!sufficient: I have also worked with useless developers that know plenty, but deliver squat.
At least one imperative programming language (Prolog/etc)
I think you meant logic or declarative programming.
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Easy... Having Children that breed is the only thing that matters. i.e. commiting suicide after breeding could be fine.
It is a shame RMS seems to spend a lot of time talking about Linus and Linux in a manner that is divisive rather than collaborative.
RMS comes across to me as having a bruised ego because Linux has powerful brand recognition, while GNU doesn't. Also it may be because Linus is better at collaboration than RMS.
Perhaps he did not start the controversy, but he definitely keeps it alive, although fortunately Linus doesn't feed it.
Any long-time snow-sports participant ends up with a large vocab of words for various types of snow.
Here is a list of 182 words for snow -- and the list doesn't contain many words I use with friends, so I would guess there are *a lot* more.
Think your specialized knowledge really is useful and people just don't realize it? Then you shouldn't be looking for employment, you should be looking to start a consultancy business. Convince people that you can use Physics to save them money, ask for 30% of their savings over the first year.
I hate that argument... you don't sound to me like a business owner or self-employed consultant.
Most people can't make a business out of their specialist skills because they lack other essential business skills. As per your example: the skills required to ask people for money are not common (selling is hard to learn for many; just as Physics is hard to learn for many).
Even if you can save a business x% you would still need to: agree to a way to measure savings; convince the management to pay for the savings made; convince management to invest their time and other risks in scoping the project; and to have the personal fortune and fortitude to take on external risks (business ownership change, sickness, business bankrupcy, market vagaries); plus all the other skills required to be a self-employed consultant.
That is why we become employees - so we don't have to be good at all the other skills required to work for ourselves.
...there are probably 10 more copies of that file and previous versions of that file floating around in unallocated sectors, swap space, file slack, hibernation files, etc.
Your reply sounded good until I reached your "ten copies" exaggeration. Do most hard drives only use 10% of their disk space?
Also the numbers of copies would not be the same for all files; instead there would be some distribution. I would guess that some active files have many copies while many files have no copies (not a normal distribution.) Even with compression, 10x just does not appear realistic. Comments?
The reason used video game stores exist is that many people aren't willing to pay $50 to $60 for a new game.
The reason games cost $50 to $60 is because people *are* willing to pay that much for a game.
In micro-economics, if the maximum price you are willing to pay is $30 for a game, then the game publisher would like to sell it to you at your maximum price (given that the marginal cost to make, sell and support the game is less than $30) . The used game market exists because game publishers have trouble implementing price discrimination. This 2003 article about adaptive pricing gives some good examples of why it is difficult to implement price discrimination.
Now if PC game companies were more aggressive with their pricing then they could compete with the used market.
Game companies could compete - but could they do so profitably?
Except that if Danowskyâ's law firm expected all the payments to be reversed were the fine overturned, the law firm would have an extra financial incentive to win their case against pirate bay.
But strange that in the 20 years I've been using Microsoft OSes, I've never had a virus or trojan or malware. I must be doing something wrong.
I am sure you have had to deal with the effects of viruses/trojans/malwares with your friends/family/workmates using Microsoft OSes ... or do you have another peculiarly anomalous anecdote?
Also after a disk failure, there is significant correlation of a second failure (failures are not independent - some risk analyses presume they are): Usenix: Disk failures in the real world.
Also I wouldn't ignore anecdotes that the rebuild process thrashes disks hard and can cause a second failure (or that the rebuild can take longer than you thought).
Buy micro-SDHC cards and use an adapter (adapters are very cheap, and often come free with micro-SDHC cards).
I now only buy micro-SDHC cards and use an adapter when necessary with older devices. (All my devices are SDHC compatible, not SD which is limited to 2GB and won't work with larger capacities).
Bonus 1: Get a small USB<->micro-SD adapter for a few dollars and you don't need a USB key anymore either.
Bonus 2: Can easily carry multiple micro-SD cards on you - normal SD cards are too bulky.
I messed around with VirtualBox, which works fine except that it runs in a window and you can't run it NOT in a window and attach/detach from the console at will.
VirtualBox has supported headless operation using rdp for about a year - google for VBoxHeadless or vrdp
They are only drawing heat away from the *hottest* small areas (not cooling the whole chip) - the spot temperatures can still be well above room temp.
Also it seems obvious (for power efficiency reasons under low loads) they would integrate temperature sensing with each cooling element so that the cooling is only activated when that particular part of the chip is generating heat i.e. not cool anything below the dew point.
Both IE6 and IE7 leak memory even after you close the page. Most well known Ajax apps don't leak memory because they have spent plenty of man-hours working through the problems and designing the libraries around the issues by using leak detection tools. I personally have spent weeks and weeks resolving leaks.
Stability? You what?! It bloody crashes all the time. Their own web outlook client completely crashes IE regularly (and no, I am not talking about ActiveX plugins crashing IE - I have been forces to implement many hacks to work around plenty of horrid crashes in IE.)
On second thought perhaps you have just trolled me - although I try not to underestimate an IE user.
couldn't you use IETab with Firebug to actually figure out how to fix all of the stupid rendering problems caused by IE (read: screw with the CSS via Firebug until it works)?
If you want to screw with the CSS, do it for free at an element level using the Microsoft devtoolbar (google for it). Also AFAIK there are other non-free tools that allow you to fiddle at the CSS rule level. Your suggestion doesn't work because Firebug is integrated with the Gecko engine. IETab just uses the firefox tab purely as a rendering area using ActiveX so Firebug knows nothing about the IE CSS.
Alternatively you can dynamically add css changes for IE by pasting into the address bar:
javascript:(function() { var src = 'http://localhost:8000/Files/ggg.css'; var link = document.createElement('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="'+src+'" />'); link.src = src; document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(link);})()
Similarly you can insert javascript into any page cross-browser using:
javascript:(function() { var src = 'http://localhost:8000/Files/my.js'; var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = src; document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(script);})()
or you can dynamically change the css using the IE stylesheet rules DOM manually too.
Why not use the standard 20 foot container for your analogy? Sounds like you wanted to write a straw man argument.
When things are busy, it's a more-than-full-time job, and if you're not willing to work more than full time when it's busy, then you won't keep getting work.
Bullshit. Just selectively put up your prices. Significantly overprice jobs that you don't want to do, or which are not helping you or your business.
Do you realize that China had something like 10% of GDP in Freddie Mac and Frannie Mae?
Are'nt you are saying that China used its money to help start the financial crisis?
Google "gsm module" "at command"
The GSM module is often literally a black box that accepts AT commands over a serial link.
Except if you care about Unicode support. Last I looked Haskell and O'Caml require the programmer to use special libraries for Unicode.
To make a youtube link which immediately jumps to a particular place, start with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= , append the video_id (i.e. BucIjXZVxXo for the url from the article http://www.youtube.com/v/BucIjXZVxXo&hl=en&fs=1), then append #t=XmYYs replacing X with the number of minutes and YY with the number of seconds. See http://scriptingenabled.org/2008/10/youtube-now-allows-linking-to-a-certain-time/
Resulting link to the video starting at 2:28:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BucIjXZVxXo#t=1m54s
for example
You are wrong!
<disclaimer>Also, just because I don't point out how you are wrong, doesn't mean you are right.</disclaimer>
* Mac users who have never needed to interoperate with Windows MSOffice users who have VBA macros in their documents/spreadsheets.
Didn't MS drop support for VBA for Macs?
Google F# bad
Although it used to be worse:
Google F#
!necessary: The three best developers I have known just concentrate on delivering software to the clients needs. They all used their favorite language, and squeezed the most out of that language.
!sufficient: I have also worked with useless developers that know plenty, but deliver squat.
At least one imperative programming language (Prolog/etc)
I think you meant logic or declarative programming.