I always thought this one was pretty simple. Dinosaurs laid eggs. Birds are directly descended from dinosaurs. The chicken is a bird. The egg came before the chicken.
Step 1: When carping about not being able to find a job on slashdot, remember to tell people what programming languages you know.
Step 2: Make sure the name attached to your post links to something besides a couple of pages that haven't been updated in 2 years
Step 3: When fixing the above - start writing essays or blog entries on technology stuff that you know, so that when the quasi-decent HR rep googles your name, he'll be impressed with what he finds. In this day and age, that's one of the few ways you can "submit" a sample of your code.
Good advice was already stated about volunteering for OSS. Even if it doesn't help get you in the door somewhere, it'll at least hone your chops, which will help once you do get a job.
He's a troll because the article specifically mentions at one point exactly what to do if you want a 64-bit player. You keep pounding the adobe wish list with requests.
I totally disagree. In most cases, when I see "I will be moderated down" it is often followed by a thoughtful, critical analysis filled with reason and supporting evidence. I almost always end up modding them up if I have points.
And in any case, I don't see how the grandparent was flaimbait - I didn't see anything incendiary in the post.
The real problem is with the media check. I swear sometimes you get media check failed not when the media is bad but when there's a problem with the check itself.
I used to get this all the time, and proceed with the install anyway. Never had a problem. Now I just skip the media check as an uneccessary waste of time.
By educating and training the users, there should be a minimum amount of confusion.
IMHO, this is just asking for trouble. And having daily backups only ensures that you'll spend most of your day restoring backups when things start to get really messed up. Getting a signature doesn't do you squat, unless there is a real policy of enforcement. But once mangaement realizes they're going to have to discipline everyone because your security policy is lame, who do you think is going to get it in the end.
Yes, but IMHO this is the responsibility of Dell, HP, etc. The OS deveopment should develop the OS. The PC Manufacturer should be the one that makes sure all the correct programs are installed and working, and that things happen automagically when you insert a CD, click on a link, etc.
First of all, whether or not you've found a faster way to do it needs to be compared to the amount of time it took to complete the task from assignment to finish. At the end of the day, most of us are rated on performance, and most of the managers I've ever worked for solicit feedback from clients. If you are able to do it in 4 hours instead of 8 becomes irrelevant if you waited 40 hours to start the project.
The second issue is covered heavily in the book. Limoncelli gives a pretty good analogy of the brain compared to CPU cycles and memory. The point of righting stuff down on your list constantly is so that you get it out of your head. The more stuff you are trying to remember, the more memory and processing power you aren't allocating to the task at hand. Psychologists will tell you that humans are incapable of true multitasking - I'm not sure that's entirely true. But if you are constantly thinking about task B in the back of your head, you aren't going to be able to focus 100% on task A at hand. And you either have to actively try to remember something, or your brain is going to push it off to long-term while you're concentrating on something else. For short-term assignments this can be evil. The point of righting it down is so that you don't even have to try to remember it, and thus free up your focus.
Now for automatic tasks, this is pretty irrelevant. I can wash my hair and scrub my armpits in the shower while I come up with the perfect SQL cross-tab query to get my clients data into a format they can understand. The problem comes when I've negotiated coffee, breakfast, walking the dog, a hellish commute to work, and the queue of people waiting outside my office when I get in at 8:00 AM. If I didn't have a notepad on the dresser, it's as good as gone by the time I'm ready to use it.
I do agree that sometimes clients will find a more efficient, faster way to achieve something. You can increase your perceived performance even more if you take the first 15 minutes working on the task to discover it first and report it to the client. Think about it. In case A, the client has the attitude "I asked [insert name] for this, but it was taking so long to do it that I figured out a better way myself." In case B, the client attitude would be "I asked [insert name] for this, and almost immediately he came up with a better solution that took 1/2 the time".
Of course, the real trick to this is to get the client to stop telling you what they want, and get down to what they really need. That's a whole different topic altogether.
I didn't have particularly great time management skills before - they weren't horrid or anything, but I started to get really stressed out and started to forget things alot. The book did a lot for me. I'm getting a lot more done and feeling a lot less stressed out about it.
I realize to people who've had time management classes some of it might seem redundant. I would suggest that before you disregard the book, you at least go to the bookstore and skim the forward and maybe even the first chapter. The author makes a point about time managements systems and courses in general, and how they generally don't fully apply to systems administrators (from his personal experience in taking those courses and reading those books).
In particular, I found the section about interrupt shielding very important.
Also the idea of prioritizing task items along "perceived" priorities. That is, if you have two tasks that are at highest priority and one takes 10 minutes and the other takes 4 hours, you do the ten minute task first. There's a good chance that someone else is unable to complete something until that task is done. You still get both done in 4:10 minutes, but to the guy who was waiting on the 10 minute task, you're a hero. A great way to increase your perceived value without doing anything extra at all.
First of all, just recouping what you spent does not count as an incentive. You want people to make an "investment" in R&D. If there's no ROI, there will be no I.
Second, it would be very difficult to calculate revenue over the patent - particular on products containing multiple patents. It would be a nightmare, and widely subject to fraud and abuse. Think of the way record contracts work - they loan the band money to make an album, and all the royalties go directly to the record company until the advance is recouped. Then they say promotional copies are not included, then they give a copy to every radio station in the nation for free, and they throw in 1000 of your CDs as an "incentive" when a distributor buys a bunch of other CDs at an inflated price. There are reasons why bands can have 3 consecutive gold albums and never see a cent on royalties or ever even recoup their original recording costs. If you tie patents to how much a company makes off them, you're going to achieve nothing but an explosion in creative accounting techniques. It will end up exacerbating the situation as large corporations figure out how to stretch patents infinitely by never recouping.
I tried those BOSE noise cancellation headphones on an airplane recently, and after about 2 hours, my ears were really killing me. Not the outside part of the ear (lobe) but my actual eardrums.
If you're going to have the things on all day long, then think about professionals whose job requires they where headphones all day, every day - studio musicians, engineers, radio announcers, etc.
When I was in Recording School, I bought a pair of the Ubiquitous AKG K240s. At that time, most recording studios had these in large supply. They are fairly durable, comfortable, and you can listen on them a very long time. I've been using mine over 10 years and they're still in great shape.
They may look a bit dorky, and they don't fold, but they've survived my cluttered backback on many a trip.
At just under $100, they fit in your price range.
One other thing that's really nice about them... they have an 1/8" jack, and come with a threaded 1/4" adapter. The threaded adapter is priceless if you're contantly plugging your headphones in and out of studio gear.
You obviously don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Looking right at the layer tab in GIMP 2.2.8 I see the following modes:
Normal
Dissolve
Multiply
Divide
Screen
Overlay
Dodge
Burn
Hard Light
Soft Light
Grain Extract
Grain Merge
Difference
Addition
Subtract
Darken Only
Lighten Only
Hue
Saturation
Color
Value
Not to mention the opacity slider, which is also helpful.
I don't know about you, but when I'm stacking layers, that's usually about all I need. That and a few layer masks, which happen to work well in GIMP.
About the only thing I missed from Photoshop for the first week was the ability to apply an affect to a layer non-destructively. That's a big plus, yes, but once you live without it for a couple of weeks, you forget about it.
Why can't you install RedHat on your iBook? The synopsis states that RedHats focus on getting on the Intel Mac machines is because they already support PowerPC.
Thank god I didn't buy one of those. I was going to, but I wasn't sure of support. Then I thought carefully about it and I decided I wouldn't be able to make adequate use of the SATA architecture since the device has a fixed read/write speed anyway.
Just because you can... doesn't always mean that you should
Putting the rest of the argument aside, there's just something fundamentally unfair about your "Basic" service being 16 times faster than mine. I'm too far from the telco to get 1.5 mbps out my DSL.
While I do think you have a very valid point, I think you're maybe taking it to an extreme.
If you were printing on a 3x5 picture printer or a 48" plotter, one would hope that you know what you're doing and you've got the right document size.
And I think that's what this argument is missing. Seriously... no mention of document size... If I choose A4, it should print out on any printer using A4 paper stock and should have the same margins, same line breaks, same pagination, etc. that I see on my screen.
That's not true. That would be illegal. There are often rebates associated with prescriptions, but those almost always go to the managed care organizations, there are also admin fees and other reimbursements that the pharmaceuticals offer to wholesalers, group purchasing organizations, etc, but there are no kickbacks. Your physician was either pulling your leg or distorting the truth.
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Exactly! I wasn't knocking OO... it definitely has it's place(s). It's just what I perceive as an over-abundance of people using OO anywhere and everywhere regardless of what they are trying to do.
Look, I'm not trying to get into a pissing match over which WM is better or anything. The parent subject indicated that E17 was vapourware, and you and I both know that's not true. He also wanted to know what was significant about it besides the eye-candy. Obviously high performance on a small footprint is significant - particularly if you take into account that it actually looks half decent.
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I always thought this one was pretty simple. Dinosaurs laid eggs. Birds are directly descended from dinosaurs. The chicken is a bird. The egg came before the chicken.
Step 1: When carping about not being able to find a job on slashdot, remember to tell people what programming languages you know.
Step 2: Make sure the name attached to your post links to something besides a couple of pages that haven't been updated in 2 years
Step 3: When fixing the above - start writing essays or blog entries on technology stuff that you know, so that when the quasi-decent HR rep googles your name, he'll be impressed with what he finds. In this day and age, that's one of the few ways you can "submit" a sample of your code.
Good advice was already stated about volunteering for OSS. Even if it doesn't help get you in the door somewhere, it'll at least hone your chops, which will help once you do get a job.
He's a troll because the article specifically mentions at one point exactly what to do if you want a 64-bit player. You keep pounding the adobe wish list with requests.
I totally disagree. In most cases, when I see "I will be moderated down" it is often followed by a thoughtful, critical analysis filled with reason and supporting evidence. I almost always end up modding them up if I have points.
And in any case, I don't see how the grandparent was flaimbait - I didn't see anything incendiary in the post.
The real problem is with the media check. I swear sometimes you get media check failed not when the media is bad but when there's a problem with the check itself.
I used to get this all the time, and proceed with the install anyway. Never had a problem. Now I just skip the media check as an uneccessary waste of time.
IMHO, this is just asking for trouble. And having daily backups only ensures that you'll spend most of your day restoring backups when things start to get really messed up. Getting a signature doesn't do you squat, unless there is a real policy of enforcement. But once mangaement realizes they're going to have to discipline everyone because your security policy is lame, who do you think is going to get it in the end.
Yes, but IMHO this is the responsibility of Dell, HP, etc. The OS deveopment should develop the OS. The PC Manufacturer should be the one that makes sure all the correct programs are installed and working, and that things happen automagically when you insert a CD, click on a link, etc.
Where did you say you were an honour student?
I take a couple of issues with this.
First of all, whether or not you've found a faster way to do it needs to be compared to the amount of time it took to complete the task from assignment to finish. At the end of the day, most of us are rated on performance, and most of the managers I've ever worked for solicit feedback from clients. If you are able to do it in 4 hours instead of 8 becomes irrelevant if you waited 40 hours to start the project.
The second issue is covered heavily in the book. Limoncelli gives a pretty good analogy of the brain compared to CPU cycles and memory. The point of righting stuff down on your list constantly is so that you get it out of your head. The more stuff you are trying to remember, the more memory and processing power you aren't allocating to the task at hand. Psychologists will tell you that humans are incapable of true multitasking - I'm not sure that's entirely true. But if you are constantly thinking about task B in the back of your head, you aren't going to be able to focus 100% on task A at hand. And you either have to actively try to remember something, or your brain is going to push it off to long-term while you're concentrating on something else. For short-term assignments this can be evil. The point of righting it down is so that you don't even have to try to remember it, and thus free up your focus.
Now for automatic tasks, this is pretty irrelevant. I can wash my hair and scrub my armpits in the shower while I come up with the perfect SQL cross-tab query to get my clients data into a format they can understand. The problem comes when I've negotiated coffee, breakfast, walking the dog, a hellish commute to work, and the queue of people waiting outside my office when I get in at 8:00 AM. If I didn't have a notepad on the dresser, it's as good as gone by the time I'm ready to use it.
I do agree that sometimes clients will find a more efficient, faster way to achieve something. You can increase your perceived performance even more if you take the first 15 minutes working on the task to discover it first and report it to the client. Think about it. In case A, the client has the attitude "I asked [insert name] for this, but it was taking so long to do it that I figured out a better way myself." In case B, the client attitude would be "I asked [insert name] for this, and almost immediately he came up with a better solution that took 1/2 the time".
Of course, the real trick to this is to get the client to stop telling you what they want, and get down to what they really need. That's a whole different topic altogether.
I didn't have particularly great time management skills before - they weren't horrid or anything, but I started to get really stressed out and started to forget things alot. The book did a lot for me. I'm getting a lot more done and feeling a lot less stressed out about it.
I realize to people who've had time management classes some of it might seem redundant. I would suggest that before you disregard the book, you at least go to the bookstore and skim the forward and maybe even the first chapter. The author makes a point about time managements systems and courses in general, and how they generally don't fully apply to systems administrators (from his personal experience in taking those courses and reading those books).
In particular, I found the section about interrupt shielding very important.
Also the idea of prioritizing task items along "perceived" priorities. That is, if you have two tasks that are at highest priority and one takes 10 minutes and the other takes 4 hours, you do the ten minute task first. There's a good chance that someone else is unable to complete something until that task is done. You still get both done in 4:10 minutes, but to the guy who was waiting on the 10 minute task, you're a hero. A great way to increase your perceived value without doing anything extra at all.
2 reasons this won't work.
First of all, just recouping what you spent does not count as an incentive. You want people to make an "investment" in R&D. If there's no ROI, there will be no I.
Second, it would be very difficult to calculate revenue over the patent - particular on products containing multiple patents. It would be a nightmare, and widely subject to fraud and abuse. Think of the way record contracts work - they loan the band money to make an album, and all the royalties go directly to the record company until the advance is recouped. Then they say promotional copies are not included, then they give a copy to every radio station in the nation for free, and they throw in 1000 of your CDs as an "incentive" when a distributor buys a bunch of other CDs at an inflated price. There are reasons why bands can have 3 consecutive gold albums and never see a cent on royalties or ever even recoup their original recording costs. If you tie patents to how much a company makes off them, you're going to achieve nothing but an explosion in creative accounting techniques. It will end up exacerbating the situation as large corporations figure out how to stretch patents infinitely by never recouping.
I don't know about the Slashdot orthodoxy, but if the question gets sent to Jimmy, I hope they at least try some spelling "correctnenss" on it.
"with enough participants, you converge on correctnenss".
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I tried those BOSE noise cancellation headphones on an airplane recently, and after about 2 hours, my ears were really killing me. Not the outside part of the ear (lobe) but my actual eardrums.
If you're going to have the things on all day long, then think about professionals whose job requires they where headphones all day, every day - studio musicians, engineers, radio announcers, etc.
When I was in Recording School, I bought a pair of the Ubiquitous AKG K240s. At that time, most recording studios had these in large supply. They are fairly durable, comfortable, and you can listen on them a very long time. I've been using mine over 10 years and they're still in great shape.
They may look a bit dorky, and they don't fold, but they've survived my cluttered backback on many a trip. At just under $100, they fit in your price range.
One other thing that's really nice about them... they have an 1/8" jack, and come with a threaded 1/4" adapter. The threaded adapter is priceless if you're contantly plugging your headphones in and out of studio gear.
You obviously don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Looking right at the layer tab in GIMP 2.2.8 I see the following modes:
Normal
Dissolve
Multiply
Divide
Screen
Overlay
Dodge
Burn
Hard Light
Soft Light
Grain Extract
Grain Merge
Difference
Addition
Subtract
Darken Only
Lighten Only
Hue
Saturation
Color
Value
Not to mention the opacity slider, which is also helpful.
I don't know about you, but when I'm stacking layers, that's usually about all I need. That and a few layer masks, which happen to work well in GIMP.
About the only thing I missed from Photoshop for the first week was the ability to apply an affect to a layer non-destructively. That's a big plus, yes, but once you live without it for a couple of weeks, you forget about it.
Took me a few seconds to get that, but yes... definitely +10 funny.
Why can't you install RedHat on your iBook? The synopsis states that RedHats focus on getting on the Intel Mac machines is because they already support PowerPC.
Thank god I didn't buy one of those. I was going to, but I wasn't sure of support. Then I thought carefully about it and I decided I wouldn't be able to make adequate use of the SATA architecture since the device has a fixed read/write speed anyway.
Just because you can... doesn't always mean that you should
Putting the rest of the argument aside, there's just something fundamentally unfair about your "Basic" service being 16 times faster than mine. I'm too far from the telco to get 1.5 mbps out my DSL.
Amen.
And Thank you!
While I do think you have a very valid point, I think you're maybe taking it to an extreme.
If you were printing on a 3x5 picture printer or a 48" plotter, one would hope that you know what you're doing and you've got the right document size.
And I think that's what this argument is missing. Seriously... no mention of document size... If I choose A4, it should print out on any printer using A4 paper stock and should have the same margins, same line breaks, same pagination, etc. that I see on my screen.
Thanks. Your single slashdot thread was more insightful than TFA.
That's not true. That would be illegal. There are often rebates associated with prescriptions, but those almost always go to the managed care organizations, there are also admin fees and other reimbursements that the pharmaceuticals offer to wholesalers, group purchasing organizations, etc, but there are no kickbacks. Your physician was either pulling your leg or distorting the truth.
Exactly! I wasn't knocking OO... it definitely has it's place(s). It's just what I perceive as an over-abundance of people using OO anywhere and everywhere regardless of what they are trying to do.
Look, I'm not trying to get into a pissing match over which WM is better or anything. The parent subject indicated that E17 was vapourware, and you and I both know that's not true. He also wanted to know what was significant about it besides the eye-candy. Obviously high performance on a small footprint is significant - particularly if you take into account that it actually looks half decent.