If you are going to hire cheap MCSEs to manage all your systems, including the unix ones then it makes sense to be able to put those unix systems inside a little box on your screen with nice borders around it so you can easily see what connects to what.
Saving money on hardware will just cost you kickbacks from the supplier anyway. There is no advantage in that.
Too bad it's the Dingoo A320 and not the Airbus A320, which would have been considerably more impressive, if somewhat less practical. I'm not sure I would want to see what happens in the event of kernel panic, though.
I think that would result in a different type of panic.
Was it on his property? How deep was it? If Verizon ran a shallow cable across his land they should be liable. One farmer here in Victoria, Australia sued Telstra (a big telco) because they ran twisted pair inside his boundary. His equipment dug it up and now that land is useless for farming because his produce is full if little bits of copper wire. It took a while but he won the case.
In my experience the easiest and least costly to find out who owns a cable (or for that matter, if it is used at all) is to cut it then wait for the repair guy/police/black helicopters to show up.
Its much easier than dialing 1100 from a mobile phone in the air conditioned comfort of your digging machine.
And yes, I used to work in a job where we put a lot of cables in the ground around road construction sites, and had a lot of them dug up.
Visions from science fiction are always shown on a personal level. They almost never scale. Its like flying cars. Its would be great if you and I had them but I wouldn't want every dirtbag in my city to be flying them.
Actually calculations have been made and if every vehicle today could fly you wouldn't even need organized 'skyways' because the likelihood of collision would be equivalent to being struck by lightning.
Well we have them now and the chance of a collision is much greater than chance of being struck by lightening. Why do you think standard arrival and departure points are allocated around airport terminal areas?
But I am actually more concerned about being landed on by drunk drivers at terminal velocity, rather than the more usual 10km/h over the limit.
One last note - I recently overheard someone ranting about the usage of indenting in Python. All my code is properly indented, so it would be trivial to remove the {} brackets from my Java code, if Java supported it. Yet more evidence of what languages work for my mind.;)
Python programmers always seem to point to the IDEs which they use, which enforce indenting style. Where I work we often edit the code from wherever we are, using whatever tool is available, and we have hundreds of megabytes of the stuff in C and Ada. I would hate to think how that would work in Python.
One particular issue we have is how code is refactored. Big blocks of code might be moved into a function or put inside an if statement. The indenting is usually stuffed up in the process. I suppose one advantage in python is that doing that would more than likely break the code entirely. But I don't want to be the guy trying to fix a system on site with vi in a dos window with a hundred million dollars hanging on the outcome of a test in the middle of the night in nigeria with no idea where my blocks start and end.
Visions from science fiction are always shown on a personal level. They almost never scale. Its like flying cars. Its would be great if you and I had them but I wouldn't want every dirtbag in my city to be flying them.
The subject of interviewing came up during a coffee break at work the other day. Most of us who have hired people agreed that it takes about 30 seconds of conversation with a person to decide whether they can do the job or not. Hiring for tech jobs I have never paid much attention to resumes except to get an idea of what interests them.
The most useful person I have hired came to us as a part time student. When he graduated I took him on as a permanent because I could see that he learnt new stuff fast and had shown potential mentoring our new intern.
HR just want to cover their arses and keep costs down.
Looks like they are thinking along similar lines to the google wave thing. Its push rather than pull. Kind of like the control panel interfaces favoured by managers at my work place.
Probably very pre for me. I have never owned a smart phone but this one has me interested because I have been a palm owner for a long time. Unfortunately the European version with GSM looks like being delayed several months, then it will be the end of this year when it turns up in Australia.
By that time I will probably have bought a cheap Samsung android phone.
How about making window management not block when a modal dialog is open?
The whole *point* of a modal dialog is to block the application underneath it. Blame the application developers, for poor use of modal dialogs.
Say I get prompted to enter a password. I have the password in a text file under the application which has the dialog open. But I can't get to it. Modality for an application is fine but you should still be able to move it around the screen.
...Mainly, that is if animals were allowed to converse in a common language with humans, it would show us if they possess a consciousness, can reason, and what emotions that they can feel...
Cognitive linguistics suggests that consciousness is inextricably linked to language
A further study of slashdot posts suggests consciousness is linked to typing. You know we once had equally dogy and self serving reasons to believe that Africans weren't intelligent.
I didn't know there was a matrix MMO- and I'm pissed to hear it's shutting down, because I would've played it. No point in signing up now though. Shame.
Look at it this way: maybe you'll get lucky, and someone will fork OpenSim to create a clone.
Why would you want to fork it? OpenSim looks like you could build an MMO over the top of it without any adaptation at all.
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How the fuck is someone with (only) an MCSE supposed to manage a Unix system?
Easy.
That would do.
I really should have kept a copy of those "don't feed the trolls" ascii art pictures people used to post on usenet. It would have come in handy here.
If you are going to hire cheap MCSEs to manage all your systems, including the unix ones then it makes sense to be able to put those unix systems inside a little box on your screen with nice borders around it so you can easily see what connects to what.
Saving money on hardware will just cost you kickbacks from the supplier anyway. There is no advantage in that.
Too bad it's the Dingoo A320 and not the Airbus A320, which would have been considerably more impressive, if somewhat less practical. I'm not sure I would want to see what happens in the event of kernel panic, though.
I think that would result in a different type of panic.
If you haven't seen it you may me interested in the movie Time After Time, which explores similar themes.
Was it on his property? How deep was it? If Verizon ran a shallow cable across his land they should be liable. One farmer here in Victoria, Australia sued Telstra (a big telco) because they ran twisted pair inside his boundary. His equipment dug it up and now that land is useless for farming because his produce is full if little bits of copper wire. It took a while but he won the case.
In my experience the easiest and least costly to find out who owns a cable (or for that matter, if it is used at all) is to cut it then wait for the repair guy/police/black helicopters to show up.
Its much easier than dialing 1100 from a mobile phone in the air conditioned comfort of your digging machine.
And yes, I used to work in a job where we put a lot of cables in the ground around road construction sites, and had a lot of them dug up.
Visions from science fiction are always shown on a personal level. They almost never scale. Its like flying cars. Its would be great if you and I had them but I wouldn't want every dirtbag in my city to be flying them.
Actually calculations have been made and if every vehicle today could fly you wouldn't even need organized 'skyways' because the likelihood of collision would be equivalent to being struck by lightning.
Well we have them now and the chance of a collision is much greater than chance of being struck by lightening. Why do you think standard arrival and departure points are allocated around airport terminal areas?
But I am actually more concerned about being landed on by drunk drivers at terminal velocity, rather than the more usual 10km/h over the limit.
One last note - I recently overheard someone ranting about the usage of indenting in Python. All my code is properly indented, so it would be trivial to remove the {} brackets from my Java code, if Java supported it. Yet more evidence of what languages work for my mind. ;)
Python programmers always seem to point to the IDEs which they use, which enforce indenting style. Where I work we often edit the code from wherever we are, using whatever tool is available, and we have hundreds of megabytes of the stuff in C and Ada. I would hate to think how that would work in Python.
One particular issue we have is how code is refactored. Big blocks of code might be moved into a function or put inside an if statement. The indenting is usually stuffed up in the process. I suppose one advantage in python is that doing that would more than likely break the code entirely. But I don't want to be the guy trying to fix a system on site with vi in a dos window with a hundred million dollars hanging on the outcome of a test in the middle of the night in nigeria with no idea where my blocks start and end.
Code metrics where I work exclude comments, which I think is stupid. Managers say to me "but the comments don't do anything", but I don't agree.
If you get into that much trouble with pointers in C it is unlikely you will have something which compiles or runs, so I don't see the problem.
I am much more concerned about things which appear to work when they are not.
Exactly. As an example:
for item in list:
print list
Is that right?
Visions from science fiction are always shown on a personal level. They almost never scale. Its like flying cars. Its would be great if you and I had them but I wouldn't want every dirtbag in my city to be flying them.
I don't think a person from the 1930s would be disappointed by 2009.
Truthified that for you.
Well fair enough.
Why? Because someone offers you a job with absolutely no sense?
Just take the job, have a look around to see what sort of Twonky they make there, then start making more.
The subject of interviewing came up during a coffee break at work the other day. Most of us who have hired people agreed that it takes about 30 seconds of conversation with a person to decide whether they can do the job or not. Hiring for tech jobs I have never paid much attention to resumes except to get an idea of what interests them.
The most useful person I have hired came to us as a part time student. When he graduated I took him on as a permanent because I could see that he learnt new stuff fast and had shown potential mentoring our new intern.
HR just want to cover their arses and keep costs down.
Looks like they are thinking along similar lines to the google wave thing. Its push rather than pull. Kind of like the control panel interfaces favoured by managers at my work place.
Probably very pre for me. I have never owned a smart phone but this one has me interested because I have been a palm owner for a long time. Unfortunately the European version with GSM looks like being delayed several months, then it will be the end of this year when it turns up in Australia.
By that time I will probably have bought a cheap Samsung android phone.
How about making window management not block when a modal dialog is open?
The whole *point* of a modal dialog is to block the application underneath it. Blame the application developers, for poor use of modal dialogs.
Say I get prompted to enter a password. I have the password in a text file under the application which has the dialog open. But I can't get to it. Modality for an application is fine but you should still be able to move it around the screen.
...Mainly, that is if animals were allowed to converse in a common language with humans, it would show us if they possess a consciousness, can reason, and what emotions that they can feel...
Cognitive linguistics suggests that consciousness is inextricably linked to language
A further study of slashdot posts suggests consciousness is linked to typing. You know we once had equally dogy and self serving reasons to believe that Africans weren't intelligent.
Did you just type that in for us? Wow. I really hope that movie gets made BTW.
I didn't know there was a matrix MMO- and I'm pissed to hear it's shutting down, because I would've played it. No point in signing up now though. Shame.
Look at it this way: maybe you'll get lucky, and someone will fork OpenSim to create a clone.
Why would you want to fork it? OpenSim looks like you could build an MMO over the top of it without any adaptation at all.
This version is not for you or anyone you know.
Who is it for, street people?