nobodies life goal at any point in their life should be to be middle management and it's not a profession, its a stepping stone in their profession. Sure, some people may get stuck in that job because they aren't capable of doing anything higher than that, but it's not a goal profession. Middle management should be someone who is very familiar with the work their employees are doing, and can interact and keep them focused but ultimately wants to move on to a more leading role in the company.
also, when you're a teacher and a kid forgets his pencil for the final, don't refuse to give him a pencil till the last 10 minutes of class because he sleeps through your class every day. fucking asshole, i hated school and I'm glad i fucked up his stupid science experiment by snoring too loud during class one day.
oh just as a side note more related to the article and my experience. I would get A's on all my tests and finals but never did any homework so I would end up failing the classes with F's and D's for any class where homework counted as a large part of your grade which proves how much complete bullshit our education system is. It has nothing to do with what you learn and everything to do with how much work you put in. You can pass a class with proof that you didn't learn anything as long as you turn in your incorrect homework.
I was notorious for missing school and had lots of parent teacher meetings because of it. The end result would always be me getting kicked out. Well 6th grade they gave me an ultimatum which I ended up meeting, 7th grade I moved and went to another school then got kicked out of it, went to some continuation school for the rest of 7th and 8th. freshman year I went back to normal school and got kicked out (again wasn't in the school district). moved into the school district softmore year and the school tried everything to kick me out until i just said fuck it and decided to go to independent studies at the adult school. They kicked me out for not showing up enough so I went to the continuation school who semi kicked me out by making me do the independent studies at the continuation school instead of normal school. At that point I just said fuck it and dropped out.
So that's how schools enforce truancy. They always threatened things like calling the police department and/or child services but never did to my knowledge.
The problem is 2 fold. One as others have said web applications are cross platform (and have been for the past 10 years). Second is that the user doesn't have to install software. Either one of those on their own doesn't hold much ground but combined, it's hard to compete with. Cross platform languages such as JRE fails in that not only do you have to install software, but you also have to install JRE. If you could compile JRE applications so that they didn't need the whole java library installed as well, then it would be a much better competitor to web applications.
Of course all of this is just leading to a true thin client application which is just loaded into memory from a network server, but we're still at least 5 years away from that in a cross platform way.
uhmm, actually 100 people polling every 3 seconds is not a lot of processing. 300 people with open sockets sitting idle is a lot however. In 3 minutes you've got enough users to use all the open ports on a server while the server sits idle and does almost nothing. Then comes the problem with any sockets that weren't closed correctly and having to wait 2 minutes for the TIME_WAIT to finish so the port is usable again.
Of course if only 100 people in total are going to connect then sure open sockets may be unnoticeably faster, but it doesn't scale well at all.
wouldn't the best way to be smart about it be to allow users to grab more stuff when they wanted, kind of like a tug of war situation where you tug in order to get more stuff at which point it may tug back to take some of the no longer needed stuff. If only there was a name for this methodolgy. I think I'm going to have to patent this idea and call it the tug method! from hence point forward if any application grabs more stuff as needed it should be called the tug method. Perhaps I'll write up an RFC for this.
not making changes with how the user operates will cause stagnation. Just look at windows, there's really very little difference between win95 and vista (other than maybe networking). As it is, most linux distro's try not to change things too drastically but there is constant change which works out for the better. If you're worried about things not working, don't install a new distro version right when it comes out, wait until it's been out for 6 - 12 months before installing it (like everyone does with windows). Perhaps if you installed 10.4 now it would work out of the box better than it did 6 months ago?
And people complaining about things being easy like they are in windows, get over it. Windows wasn't easy to learn either however you've put in the time since most likely you started using computers to learn it, why should you be able to switch and be familiar enough to be an expert at it in 2 weeks?
All that being said, i'm not advocating linux and can't stand these dumb debate wars. If i'm going to take a side on this war, count me in on the plan9 side.
that's gotta be the worst red herring argument i've ever heard. If we're going to start stating things like that, lets go ahead and put democracy at the top since both the US and germany (as well as others) were democracies in world war 2; then we have all the other wars the US has fought as a democracy and all the other countries have fought as a democracy (including the roman empire). Next up i'd say christianity. Christianity cause the world to be in the dark ages for half a millennia plus the crusades and all the wars fought by countries in the name of (and against) the church. I could of course go on, but you get the point. To try and pin events in history strictly on idealism's is just a farce. Each event in history can only be attributed back to a large set of things that were going on at the time, take any one of them out and the even probably wouldn't have happened.
either way you look at it its a short term view. if you have a degree, it doesn't guarantee you a better mid/long term. Even if the company cared about your degree when they were considering hiring you, they definitely don't care about it once you're hired.
No manager is going to be like, hey we need to be able to put some foo on our bar's, lets go through the resume's of everyone we've hired and see which one of them got their degree in foo.
its $50 up to the first 2 days, $500 between 2 and i think its 60 days, then all of it after 60 days. I went through this hassle a couple months ago when someone cloned my debit card from when i used it at chevron (the internal receipts of debit card transactions store the entire card number). Luckily I happened to notice it the day it happened (after my bank acct was already down to -$1,200) and bank of america credited my money back within 2 days with no liability charge pending investigation. still fuck bank of america.
Actually the better starting position is just a facade. In reality, someone who didn't go to college got their starting position at 18 or 19 so by the time they would have got out of college they already have 4 years of real world experience which is worth way more than a degree. The single most useful result of college is the connections you can make there. When looking for a position in your 5 - 10 year mark they could be a great asset to a new job.
As for leveraging his experience into a new company, that's the way it goes with IT. You're most likely not ever going to get any sort of promotion at a company. Each company only has so many positions that need to be filled and after working there for say 2 years you may have way more knowledge/ability than when you started but not enough for a promotion so you're stuck at a job where you can do more than what you're getting paid to do but aren't likely to be able to learn enough staying at that company. Of course other companies are looking for people with your new level of experience and are willing to pay more than you're currently getting paid so you jump ship to them. Then the same thing happens again but now you have enough experience to do whatever job you couldn't get a promotion for at the last company so you jump ship again.
Of course, we watched gamecopyworld and friends for the first cracks to show up and literally the day the game got cracked, sales dropped like a rock.
That doesn't even make sense. The people who are following game cracks or whatever on a day by day basis are not the ones buying games. Therefore to say that "literally" the day the crack got released your sales significantly dropped because of it is just false. The only way this could possibly be close to true (and still wouldn't be the same day) is if people who weren't buying your game to begin with played the cracked version, realized it sucked and recommended to people not to play it because it's not worth the money. Even then I would say you would have to wait a week before you saw any change in sales.
Maybe next time you should try making a game that doesn't suck and people will actually recommend? because in reality you were the one(s) stealing money from individuals and providing them with something not worth the money.
I use a linux machine as my server and have two machines for the clients (1 in my room and 1 in the living room). The machine in my bedroom is a linux mythtv machine which mounts the media file system over nfs. The mythtv/nfs part has been great, the hardware it's on hasn't been so great. In the living room i have a ps3 (had an older mac mini and it sucked at playing the videos). I'm not too thrilled with the ps3 either, the video formats it accepts is bad and ps3 media server is kinda shitty. So my plan is to buy a small revo 3610 for about $350 and install mythtv on it to replace the ps3 (though the way the hardware has been acting up on my other machine i may replace that instead).
you contradicted yourself there. if game developers are developing for both platforms anyways, sony's security against piracy isn't really a selling point because the software can get pirated anyways through xbox. As for upgrading the firmware I still haven't and I also haven't bought any new games for the ps3 since it happened (even though there's at least 3 or 4 that I would like to purchase). I'm also fucked because I can't play games i bought (made by sony and other developers) for the sole purpose of playing online. I mildly use the system as a media console, but it's atrociously horrible at that (maybe its gotten better with the newer updates but i really doubt it) and I'm about to replace that with a revo. So now I use the system to do some cell development on and play old nes/snes games on (i also use my wii for that but there are quite a few games that the wii marketplace doesn't have and these games are way more entertaining than most modern games).
Fact is I bought the system while it was still at it's highest price for the benefit of being able to use it to do more than just play games. Now that I've paid for it they've given me the option of one or the other. Next console generation I'm not going to be buying sony which means there will probably be 3 others that I know who won't buy it if i'm using another system.
The point I see that you've made is driving slow causes more accidents. You said that the rest of traffic was driving at 15 miles above the speed limit, but no accidents happened, yet a driver comes onto the freeway at only 10 miles below the speed limit and he caused you to get in an accident. Maybe if you had of been paying more attention and realized there was an onramp next to you with cars traveling 30 miles an hour slower than you, you would have either got in the right lane or slowed down before the oncomers physically had a chance to merge.
This is just one of the many things you mentioned that had more to do with you crashing than your speeding did. Yah, if you happened to be driving 30 mph slower in that paticular instance, you wouldn't have had to swerve out of the way of that car, but there's a good chance someone would have crashed because you were going so much slower than traffic, plus what if the guy had of got on the freeway at 15mph when you were traveling 45? You'd still have had a good chance of hitting him.
Sure, the slower you drive, the more time you think you have to react, but hey, if thats the way you're thinking, you have an infinite time to react to peoples driving if you stay at home. Driving is about a lot more than reaction time, its about being aware of all the cars around you and how they're driving, having an escape route in case someone does something dumb where you need to get out of the way, and knowing the limitations of the vehicle you're driving.
Yah you can do this, you just put the write/dupe checking code in a seperate file then you have php fork a the new script in the background and direct stdout and stderr somewhere else like/dev/null. This will return and proceed to the next line of code without having to wait for your write/dupe check code to finish.
Also OSS has just a artificial restrictions as proprietary. As you pointed out "potentially" it can be shared and improved. But as Sourceforge and another "orphan project" awhile back showed.
This isn't true at all, theres plenty of people who get code similar to their needs from sourceforge, tweek it a little to suit their needs, add some functionality and, dont contribute the changes back to the project. This is what's meant by proprietary software having artificial limitations... that you can't change some feature of the program because the developer didn't add an option to change it and you don't have access to the code. With OSS if the developers didn't include something, you at least have the option of adding in the functionality to the code (whether this is done by yourself, your staff, or a programmer you contracted), without having to rewrite the entire program
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nobodies life goal at any point in their life should be to be middle management and it's not a profession, its a stepping stone in their profession. Sure, some people may get stuck in that job because they aren't capable of doing anything higher than that, but it's not a goal profession. Middle management should be someone who is very familiar with the work their employees are doing, and can interact and keep them focused but ultimately wants to move on to a more leading role in the company.
also, when you're a teacher and a kid forgets his pencil for the final, don't refuse to give him a pencil till the last 10 minutes of class because he sleeps through your class every day. fucking asshole, i hated school and I'm glad i fucked up his stupid science experiment by snoring too loud during class one day.
oh just as a side note more related to the article and my experience. I would get A's on all my tests and finals but never did any homework so I would end up failing the classes with F's and D's for any class where homework counted as a large part of your grade which proves how much complete bullshit our education system is. It has nothing to do with what you learn and everything to do with how much work you put in. You can pass a class with proof that you didn't learn anything as long as you turn in your incorrect homework.
I was notorious for missing school and had lots of parent teacher meetings because of it. The end result would always be me getting kicked out. Well 6th grade they gave me an ultimatum which I ended up meeting, 7th grade I moved and went to another school then got kicked out of it, went to some continuation school for the rest of 7th and 8th. freshman year I went back to normal school and got kicked out (again wasn't in the school district). moved into the school district softmore year and the school tried everything to kick me out until i just said fuck it and decided to go to independent studies at the adult school. They kicked me out for not showing up enough so I went to the continuation school who semi kicked me out by making me do the independent studies at the continuation school instead of normal school. At that point I just said fuck it and dropped out.
So that's how schools enforce truancy. They always threatened things like calling the police department and/or child services but never did to my knowledge.
The problem is 2 fold. One as others have said web applications are cross platform (and have been for the past 10 years). Second is that the user doesn't have to install software. Either one of those on their own doesn't hold much ground but combined, it's hard to compete with. Cross platform languages such as JRE fails in that not only do you have to install software, but you also have to install JRE. If you could compile JRE applications so that they didn't need the whole java library installed as well, then it would be a much better competitor to web applications.
Of course all of this is just leading to a true thin client application which is just loaded into memory from a network server, but we're still at least 5 years away from that in a cross platform way.
uhmm, actually 100 people polling every 3 seconds is not a lot of processing. 300 people with open sockets sitting idle is a lot however. In 3 minutes you've got enough users to use all the open ports on a server while the server sits idle and does almost nothing. Then comes the problem with any sockets that weren't closed correctly and having to wait 2 minutes for the TIME_WAIT to finish so the port is usable again.
Of course if only 100 people in total are going to connect then sure open sockets may be unnoticeably faster, but it doesn't scale well at all.
wouldn't the best way to be smart about it be to allow users to grab more stuff when they wanted, kind of like a tug of war situation where you tug in order to get more stuff at which point it may tug back to take some of the no longer needed stuff. If only there was a name for this methodolgy. I think I'm going to have to patent this idea and call it the tug method! from hence point forward if any application grabs more stuff as needed it should be called the tug method. Perhaps I'll write up an RFC for this.
You apparently don't understand what keepalive is for.
not making changes with how the user operates will cause stagnation. Just look at windows, there's really very little difference between win95 and vista (other than maybe networking). As it is, most linux distro's try not to change things too drastically but there is constant change which works out for the better. If you're worried about things not working, don't install a new distro version right when it comes out, wait until it's been out for 6 - 12 months before installing it (like everyone does with windows). Perhaps if you installed 10.4 now it would work out of the box better than it did 6 months ago?
And people complaining about things being easy like they are in windows, get over it. Windows wasn't easy to learn either however you've put in the time since most likely you started using computers to learn it, why should you be able to switch and be familiar enough to be an expert at it in 2 weeks?
All that being said, i'm not advocating linux and can't stand these dumb debate wars. If i'm going to take a side on this war, count me in on the plan9 side.
i've got a wrt54g behind my att uverse gateway in its DMZ and I can still download bittorrents just fine.
Without an atmosphere things can't "fly" so it's not all that interesting of a question.
that's gotta be the worst red herring argument i've ever heard. If we're going to start stating things like that, lets go ahead and put democracy at the top since both the US and germany (as well as others) were democracies in world war 2; then we have all the other wars the US has fought as a democracy and all the other countries have fought as a democracy (including the roman empire). Next up i'd say christianity. Christianity cause the world to be in the dark ages for half a millennia plus the crusades and all the wars fought by countries in the name of (and against) the church. I could of course go on, but you get the point. To try and pin events in history strictly on idealism's is just a farce. Each event in history can only be attributed back to a large set of things that were going on at the time, take any one of them out and the even probably wouldn't have happened.
either way you look at it its a short term view. if you have a degree, it doesn't guarantee you a better mid/long term. Even if the company cared about your degree when they were considering hiring you, they definitely don't care about it once you're hired.
No manager is going to be like, hey we need to be able to put some foo on our bar's, lets go through the resume's of everyone we've hired and see which one of them got their degree in foo.
its $50 up to the first 2 days, $500 between 2 and i think its 60 days, then all of it after 60 days. I went through this hassle a couple months ago when someone cloned my debit card from when i used it at chevron (the internal receipts of debit card transactions store the entire card number). Luckily I happened to notice it the day it happened (after my bank acct was already down to -$1,200) and bank of america credited my money back within 2 days with no liability charge pending investigation. still fuck bank of america.
Actually the better starting position is just a facade. In reality, someone who didn't go to college got their starting position at 18 or 19 so by the time they would have got out of college they already have 4 years of real world experience which is worth way more than a degree. The single most useful result of college is the connections you can make there. When looking for a position in your 5 - 10 year mark they could be a great asset to a new job. As for leveraging his experience into a new company, that's the way it goes with IT. You're most likely not ever going to get any sort of promotion at a company. Each company only has so many positions that need to be filled and after working there for say 2 years you may have way more knowledge/ability than when you started but not enough for a promotion so you're stuck at a job where you can do more than what you're getting paid to do but aren't likely to be able to learn enough staying at that company. Of course other companies are looking for people with your new level of experience and are willing to pay more than you're currently getting paid so you jump ship to them. Then the same thing happens again but now you have enough experience to do whatever job you couldn't get a promotion for at the last company so you jump ship again.
Of course, we watched gamecopyworld and friends for the first cracks to show up and literally the day the game got cracked, sales dropped like a rock.
That doesn't even make sense. The people who are following game cracks or whatever on a day by day basis are not the ones buying games. Therefore to say that "literally" the day the crack got released your sales significantly dropped because of it is just false. The only way this could possibly be close to true (and still wouldn't be the same day) is if people who weren't buying your game to begin with played the cracked version, realized it sucked and recommended to people not to play it because it's not worth the money. Even then I would say you would have to wait a week before you saw any change in sales. Maybe next time you should try making a game that doesn't suck and people will actually recommend? because in reality you were the one(s) stealing money from individuals and providing them with something not worth the money.
plan9 (its even got a nerdy name). developed by bell labs as a replacement to unix
that's only the case if gravity originates from this universe. It's possible matter was added to this universe by forces outside of this universe.
I use a linux machine as my server and have two machines for the clients (1 in my room and 1 in the living room). The machine in my bedroom is a linux mythtv machine which mounts the media file system over nfs. The mythtv/nfs part has been great, the hardware it's on hasn't been so great. In the living room i have a ps3 (had an older mac mini and it sucked at playing the videos). I'm not too thrilled with the ps3 either, the video formats it accepts is bad and ps3 media server is kinda shitty. So my plan is to buy a small revo 3610 for about $350 and install mythtv on it to replace the ps3 (though the way the hardware has been acting up on my other machine i may replace that instead).
you contradicted yourself there. if game developers are developing for both platforms anyways, sony's security against piracy isn't really a selling point because the software can get pirated anyways through xbox. As for upgrading the firmware I still haven't and I also haven't bought any new games for the ps3 since it happened (even though there's at least 3 or 4 that I would like to purchase). I'm also fucked because I can't play games i bought (made by sony and other developers) for the sole purpose of playing online. I mildly use the system as a media console, but it's atrociously horrible at that (maybe its gotten better with the newer updates but i really doubt it) and I'm about to replace that with a revo. So now I use the system to do some cell development on and play old nes/snes games on (i also use my wii for that but there are quite a few games that the wii marketplace doesn't have and these games are way more entertaining than most modern games). Fact is I bought the system while it was still at it's highest price for the benefit of being able to use it to do more than just play games. Now that I've paid for it they've given me the option of one or the other. Next console generation I'm not going to be buying sony which means there will probably be 3 others that I know who won't buy it if i'm using another system.
The point I see that you've made is driving slow causes more accidents. You said that the rest of traffic was driving at 15 miles above the speed limit, but no accidents happened, yet a driver comes onto the freeway at only 10 miles below the speed limit and he caused you to get in an accident. Maybe if you had of been paying more attention and realized there was an onramp next to you with cars traveling 30 miles an hour slower than you, you would have either got in the right lane or slowed down before the oncomers physically had a chance to merge.
This is just one of the many things you mentioned that had more to do with you crashing than your speeding did. Yah, if you happened to be driving 30 mph slower in that paticular instance, you wouldn't have had to swerve out of the way of that car, but there's a good chance someone would have crashed because you were going so much slower than traffic, plus what if the guy had of got on the freeway at 15mph when you were traveling 45? You'd still have had a good chance of hitting him.
Sure, the slower you drive, the more time you think you have to react, but hey, if thats the way you're thinking, you have an infinite time to react to peoples driving if you stay at home. Driving is about a lot more than reaction time, its about being aware of all the cars around you and how they're driving, having an escape route in case someone does something dumb where you need to get out of the way, and knowing the limitations of the vehicle you're driving.
Yah you can do this, you just put the write/dupe checking code in a seperate file then you have php fork a the new script in the background and direct stdout and stderr somewhere else like /dev/null. This will return and proceed to the next line of code without having to wait for your write/dupe check code to finish.
Example:
$php_path = '/usr/local/bin/php';
$external_ps = '/path/to/write_dupe_check.php';
$output = '/dev/null';
system("$php_path $external_ps > $output &");
print('Done!');
exit;
Also OSS has just a artificial restrictions as proprietary. As you pointed out "potentially" it can be shared and improved. But as Sourceforge and another "orphan project" awhile back showed.
This isn't true at all, theres plenty of people who get code similar to their needs from sourceforge, tweek it a little to suit their needs, add some functionality and, dont contribute the changes back to the project. This is what's meant by proprietary software having artificial limitations... that you can't change some feature of the program because the developer didn't add an option to change it and you don't have access to the code. With OSS if the developers didn't include something, you at least have the option of adding in the functionality to the code (whether this is done by yourself, your staff, or a programmer you contracted), without having to rewrite the entire program
So that means if I shoot a newborn baby with a .45, the baby will move 3 feet in 1 second in a frictionless vacuum...? good to know.
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