I reckon a city council would find lots of uses for their 400 USD google Earth license. Thats about one third the price of a single copy of Visio anyway.
My wife paid 600 AUD for Google Sketchup and 6000 for Autodesk revit. Sketchup was a bargain by comparison.
My sons primary school teacher sometimes organizes the kids into a game she calls pac man. Its basically Tag with kids organized on a grid in the playground. Its real pac man in real life. I hope they don't get sued.
A coder cannot avoid focusing on tools, by definition of the job. It's a kind where you have what it takes to keep up with the new stuff, or you fall by the wayside eventually.
Well, or you could end up like one of those COBOL programmers today ~
Yeah this is partly why I have avoided becoming a short term coder for hire. I don't contract. I spend enough time to understand the area I am working in. Where I work we have employed plenty of coders, particularly when there was bulk "code creation" to be done, but those people are gone now.
In my wife's field the equivalent is the CAD operator. The problem with both types of work is that you are only as good as your recent history and if you drop out for a while it can be hard to get back into the industry.
Non Australian voters might be confused by this article because it gives the impression that you need a HOWTO to be able to vote. But thats not true. Just give people you don't like high numbers, and people you do like low numbers. Its still pretty simple.
You can tell from my sig. Labour candidates are getting high numbers from me in the senate this year.
Okay thats the physicists point of view. But what about movement in the actual materials? Some will blow away, some will get incorporated into living things and move some distance away before they get excreted or the animal dies. Others will be covered up by the normal deposition of material from elsewhere.
My wife is an Architect and she has a friend who started in the same business at a time when drafting was done with pencils and rulers. In early middle age he took a comfortable sideways step in the business. Now the work is all high pressure CAD drafting and he can't get back in to work.
I am 44, I have been working in the transportation field for 22 years. I work for a big engineering firm and the pay isn't fantastic. The advantage is that employees are valued for domain knowledge and the tools you know aren't so important. My main business now is configuration management and for me this is a field where your experience can be valued, without you understanding all the latest wiz-bang tools.
I don't have any easy answers except don't focus on the tools (Java, C#, etc). Thats a game you are going to lose. Focus on your domain knowledge. Do you know banking? Look for work there. That kind of thing.
Under the UN convention on human rights its not appropriate to punish children for the crimes of their parents.
I don't necessarily think you are wrong but I do think that the provisioning of alcohol to people who have no innate tolerance for it could be construed as chemical warfare. Thats pretty much the situation with Australian aborigines.
My first 3 computers hooked up to an old SDTV. In fact as I recall it was a Black & White TV.
But did you tie an onion to your belt?;-)
Of course, because that was the style at the time.
My system was called the Ohio scientific super board 2. It had a 6502, audio cassette interface and video modulator. Software was a little boot menu which you got after reset. The menu said D/C/W/M. D was for mysterious disk drives and I believe it would load a sector from a disk and jump to it. We weren't millionaires so we never used it. C reset RAM and jumped to BASIC. W Just jumped to BASIC. M jumped to a machine code monitor in a 256 byte ROM. The system came as a single PCB, with the keyboard soldered to the card. My dad sourced a power supply and built a timber case for it.
It might be handy to do that through the suspension. That way you could at least measure increase in weight while filling. Sensors for that purpose could be used for traction control (force on each wheel).
Native Americans get benefits. Australian aborigines get subsidies for housing, education, land. All of this is payback for all the raping and pillaging which went on when Europeans were colonizing their land. Its not specific to NZ, though the Maoris are probably in a better state than the other examples I gave. The way they are going, Australian aborigines will hardly exist in a couple of generations.
Its actually a really nice place. Without a doubt the best place I have been outside Australia. Their government is small scale, but it seems to work better that way.
No, it was in hand assembled machine code. The CPU ran at 1Mhz but I think it was the bubble sort algorithm which made it slow. For each iteration it looped through the full 256 bytes.
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I reckon a city council would find lots of uses for their 400 USD google Earth license. Thats about one third the price of a single copy of Visio anyway.
My wife paid 600 AUD for Google Sketchup and 6000 for Autodesk revit. Sketchup was a bargain by comparison.
My sons primary school teacher sometimes organizes the kids into a game she calls pac man. Its basically Tag with kids organized on a grid in the playground. Its real pac man in real life. I hope they don't get sued.
A coder cannot avoid focusing on tools, by definition of the job. It's a kind where you have what it takes to keep up with the new stuff, or you fall by the wayside eventually.
Well, or you could end up like one of those COBOL programmers today ~
Yeah this is partly why I have avoided becoming a short term coder for hire. I don't contract. I spend enough time to understand the area I am working in. Where I work we have employed plenty of coders, particularly when there was bulk "code creation" to be done, but those people are gone now.
In my wife's field the equivalent is the CAD operator. The problem with both types of work is that you are only as good as your recent history and if you drop out for a while it can be hard to get back into the industry.
Non Australian voters might be confused by this article because it gives the impression that you need a HOWTO to be able to vote. But thats not true. Just give people you don't like high numbers, and people you do like low numbers. Its still pretty simple.
You can tell from my sig. Labour candidates are getting high numbers from me in the senate this year.
Well its definitely the year of linux so far down in the guts of your cellphone that you don't know its there..
Linus sez
So 2.6.35 is out, go check
it out.
in the other TFA so I suppose it is out.
Yeah it would be a great place to set a Low Budget HDV Filipino Horror Movie....
Its possible she faked it but nobody really knows.
Okay thats the physicists point of view. But what about movement in the actual materials? Some will blow away, some will get incorporated into living things and move some distance away before they get excreted or the animal dies. Others will be covered up by the normal deposition of material from elsewhere.
My wife is an Architect and she has a friend who started in the same business at a time when drafting was done with pencils and rulers. In early middle age he took a comfortable sideways step in the business. Now the work is all high pressure CAD drafting and he can't get back in to work.
I am 44, I have been working in the transportation field for 22 years. I work for a big engineering firm and the pay isn't fantastic. The advantage is that employees are valued for domain knowledge and the tools you know aren't so important. My main business now is configuration management and for me this is a field where your experience can be valued, without you understanding all the latest wiz-bang tools.
I don't have any easy answers except don't focus on the tools (Java, C#, etc). Thats a game you are going to lose. Focus on your domain knowledge. Do you know banking? Look for work there. That kind of thing.
Under the UN convention on human rights its not appropriate to punish children for the crimes of their parents.
I don't necessarily think you are wrong but I do think that the provisioning of alcohol to people who have no innate tolerance for it could be construed as chemical warfare. Thats pretty much the situation with Australian aborigines.
Broadband is faster than dialup.
My first 3 computers hooked up to an old SDTV. In fact as I recall it was a Black & White TV.
But did you tie an onion to your belt? ;-)
Of course, because that was the style at the time.
My system was called the Ohio scientific super board 2. It had a 6502, audio cassette interface and video modulator. Software was a little boot menu which you got after reset. The menu said D/C/W/M. D was for mysterious disk drives and I believe it would load a sector from a disk and jump to it. We weren't millionaires so we never used it. C reset RAM and jumped to BASIC. W Just jumped to BASIC. M jumped to a machine code monitor in a 256 byte ROM. The system came as a single PCB, with the keyboard soldered to the card. My dad sourced a power supply and built a timber case for it.
It was the best toy a kid could have, bar none.
Yeah horseless carriages and space planes never really worked out. But they do help people with their thought processes during the transition.
It might be handy to do that through the suspension. That way you could at least measure increase in weight while filling. Sensors for that purpose could be used for traction control (force on each wheel).
Native Americans get benefits. Australian aborigines get subsidies for housing, education, land. All of this is payback for all the raping and pillaging which went on when Europeans were colonizing their land. Its not specific to NZ, though the Maoris are probably in a better state than the other examples I gave. The way they are going, Australian aborigines will hardly exist in a couple of generations.
So you've just been there and Australia then?
I live in Australia but I have been to NZ on holiday.
FYI, you can use the blockquote html element on slashdot,
Sadly I cannot show the exact code since pre does not work.
<blockquote>some stuff</blockquote>
Okay but how can you make a non-technical customer pay for security? They will go to the cheapest vendor and pay later when it stuffs up.
I wish they'd open a franchise here in California.
Go ahead and make an order. Your pizza may require reheating on arrival though.
Its actually a really nice place. Without a doubt the best place I have been outside Australia. Their government is small scale, but it seems to work better that way.
the "celebrity" (quotes because we are talking about New Zealand)
Its obviously Russell Crowe
"I'd like to order a large, thin crust, double cheese, pepperoni and drop table..."
No clear the table before you place your order so your pizza gets the priority it deserves.
No, it was in hand assembled machine code. The CPU ran at 1Mhz but I think it was the bubble sort algorithm which made it slow. For each iteration it looped through the full 256 bytes.
Which is roughly as surprising and unexpected as the Sun coming up in the East in the morning.
When you are 12, lots of things can be fun.