Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Due to all the information that we have at our finger tips if you ever even look like you are thinking this you will get your ass handed to you. People HATE giving money to people they feel are assholes. If they have to then they have to. But if they can avoid it they will.
The other side of this is that if they hear good things about you they will come to you. The next pair of shoes I buy I will buy though Zappos. Why? Look at these stories. http://consumerist.com/tag/zappos/
As for you making money I would recommend
1)Accept donations. Some people might like your stuff so much they will over pay for it.
2)Ask people who did pirate the game to donate if they liked it. This sounds dumb but it's a way of saying "Look I know some of you are gonna steal this game and there is nothing I can do about it. But Please if you actually like it and would like to see more post-pay for it. I'm not gonna be a jerk about it. I'm just trying to make a living." Most people have trouble ripping off people that are honest and human.
3)Try to make it easier to buy then steal. Steam is great network for that. At this point I buy games on steam so that I never have to go CD fishing ever again if I want to play an old game
Making decisions is what management is. A manager who is not calling the shots is not managing. Yes, at some point you don't need the people above you to know the tech but it would be a great help if they did.
Currently Windows is losing share of the OS market. This makes getting locked in to a windows only language something to avoid if you can. I agree with use the right tool for the right job but the story is about what language he should learn for a job not what language to use for a single project. The 'job' in this case is to give the person the best tools for the future. With other OSes getting a foot hold in the market I think that cross platform languages are a better bet.
Again C# is a great language and MS has done many things right with it. But if you are just getting started I think it's a good idea to steer clear of it.
The gang of four book is a must have but I recommend starting to learn design patterns with Head First Design Patterns http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007126/. It's an easy and fun read based off of the gang of four book. Personally I read the Head First book cover to cover but I use the GOF book for reference when I actually plan on writing something.
As for the standards compliant there is a massive feeling of "the MS way is better then the standard way everyone else uses". I was doing Java work to connect to a web service written in C#. We were the first people to start using their web service and we were giving them advice on what needed to be fixed. One of the few issues we found with it were that their WSDL was full of errors. We were able to deal with it on our end but when asked about it their comment was "oh in.NET land this is perfectly acceptable." The result of course is that some other company worked with them and demanded that they fix the WSDL so a month or two later I had to redo a large chuck of our software.
For the record I think that MS did a great job with C# and from the looks of it so does most of/. But there are still many issues with it that make it a poor choice for most apps when you have alternatives like Java and C/C++ around.
Parent is dead on. As for C#, it's a rival to both Java and C++ (mostly for non-games). The problem of course is it's a MS language. I would recommend that any SlashDot reader go with Java or C++ over C# because they are better documented, more standards compliant, cross platform (Mono is nice and all but it's no substitute for MS C# from what I hear) and Open Source(Java was closed for a long time but it is finally Open and GPLed).
But honestly your language is the LEAST important thing you can try to learn now. Make sure you have a good grasp on SQL, UML, XML, design patterns and basic scripting. I just graduated college as well and these things were never really taught. They were all there but tend to get glossed over and taught only in small chunks as needed.
Since a different compiler is used and the code calls different system calls the code might be compiled in such a different way that the windows profile would not be anywhere near as good as a Linux profile. Remember compilers are full of complicated speed tricks to make the code faster where ever they can, one small change can have very big effects to the resulting ASM. It might also be the case that the compilers are so different that you could not even use the windows profile on the Linux version even if you wanted to.
The profile in question here is a profile of what variables and chunks of code the program (in this case FireFox) uses the most, not your FireFox user profile. By knowing this it knows stuff like what variables are read and or written the most and the least and it knows what functions should be next to other functions used at the same time. This gives it a good idea of where to store things when it compiles the source. For example the variable containing the users bookmarks will not get accessed as frequently as variable containing the current tabs. While this profile could be effected by how the user uses FireFox it is very unlikely to be a significant difference.
Not that I agree with it, but the logic is that the calls in question are to/from out side of the U.S. Therefor one person involved is NOT a U.S. citizen and are not a member of 'the people' in question. Because of this they do not have those rights.
Soon after the September 11, 2001 attacks U.S. President George W. Bush issued an executive order that authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct surveillance of certain telephone calls without obtaining a warrant from the FISC as stipulated by FISA (see 50 U.S.C. Â 1802 50 U.S.C. Â 1809 ).
It restores FISA and existing criminal wiretap statutes as the exclusive means to conduct surveillance making it clear that the President cannot circumvent the law and disregard the civil liberties of the American people. It also firmly re-establishes basic judicial oversight over all domestic surveillance in the future. It does, however, grant retroactive immunity, and I will work in the Senate to remove this provision so that we can seek full accountability for past offenses.
Like the GP said, this is getting old and we all know what happened. Stop spreading FUD. Wait until you actually see Obama do something as bad as Bush before you make it seem he is some kind of Bush 3.
Bingo. Additionally Obama is out to get the voices of everyone represented. The dumb asses who think DRM and the like are good ideas are still technically considered 'people' so they need to be in there too. Personally I am waiting to see who his tech pick is. THAT is the one I'll be pissed about if it's not very good.
That breaks programs that depend on the edge cases. It sounds stupid but that is why they are doing it. Java and C# are both designed to have a program work exactly the same way on any platform that it can run on. If you get an overflow bug on one system you should get the same exact bug on any other system you run it on. No mater how big it's native int is. Just look at how far they took this at first for floats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictfp
Bingo. It sounds dumb to any one who codes close to the metal but it's a well known and deliberate part of Java's design. Most likely when (and if) they change this it'll be done from one version to the next. That is typically when they like to break things. If you think this sounds like a mess look back at what they had to do for floats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictfp The internal headache they when through with floats makes this look like a cake walk. Remember Java is designed to be as cross platform as possible, Not as fast as possible.
It depends on how many projects you have and what else you are running. I do JSP work on a huge code base. So I tend to have a web server, Eclipse, and web browser running at all times. I needed at least 2 gigs to work at any kind of normal speed.
I would like to note that the version of Java you are running DOES matter. Java has significant speed and GUI improvements every release. If you can't update the version of Java for the software you're running Eclipse can compile and run software with one JDK and run it self on a different JRE
Agreed. I am a recent 4 year college grad. I have not yet taken the exam but I've been reading the Java core books. There is so much I was never taught about how Java works at collage. You might be able to write a good program in Java but if you can't pass that test you will never be able to write truly great programs that take full advantage of what Java has to offer.
To add to your list... I spent a good week looking for a good description of Java annotations on the web. In the end I just looked it up in the Java core books. The explanation taught me everything I could need to know about what they were and how they worked.
It's because they were in power at the time it all fell apart. If this happened during a Democratic president it would have been blamed on lower class hand outs or something else like that.
Don't kid your self, It was all of those things. BOTH parties messed up.
The left wanted to help the poor so they pushed banks to make bad loans to people who could not afford them. The banks realized that they could make a lot of money off these loans if they just sold them off. After seeing there was money in it the banks requested less and less restrictions. The left was happy to give loans to the poor and the right is happy to make the banks happy. The system looked good and healthy because people were aloud to do things like take out second loans (under these easy loan giving restrictions that did not check their other debts) so they could have money to make payments on the first loan and the banks based the health of the system on how well loans from previous decades (that were not built on ground anywhere near this shaky) were doing.
Both sides were stupid and both sides will pay for it.
I just picture that the White House currently has all the paper shredders going at full speed ever since 11pm last night along side screams of "Oh crap he actually won!"
that politics of personal destruction bullshit. Its getting old, people are tired of it
To bring this back around to tech (this is/. after all) I think that the internet has had a lot to do with that. For example CNN has fact check http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/fact-check/ Back in the day no one knew if these accusations were true or not. If people said something was true a lot it MUST be true...right? Now we can find tons of information on what is and is not true on the net. More importantly we don't need to depend on something we herd ONCE on the nightly news or in a paper telling us a campaign is lieing. The information is always there for us to check and to show others in an argument. It's my personal hope that the internet will raise the bar on political issues.
I agree. His inability to run his own campaign speaks loads about how well he would run a country. In life he does a LOT of things wrong as you have said.
I just feel it's always worth remembering people who really wish harm on others and people who have good intentions and just can't make them happen. I feel that it is the current core of the GOP that wishes harm for their own gain. They do what ever it takes to spread FUD and stay in power. I think that McCain has tried his best in all this. He really did want to run a good campaign. In the end he was a flawed man who is part of a corrupt party so it did not happen.
While I do agree that such things were done and were clearly just plain wrong I can't say that I really blame McCain for them. The GOP has been doing this crap for years when ever they get the chance to. McCain won the primary so they HAVE to deal with him. They claim it's his campaign but I doubt that he could really move them all in a direction they don't want to go in. You say that he hired on the Bush team, I bet they were forced on him and he just could not stop it. Should he have done more to stop these attacks? Oh hell yes. But I don't think he is where they are coming from.
I think the slowness is from the software changes Ubuntu has undergone. As I remember they changed the default audio driver recently, Java started using Iced Tea for 8.10, and they were using an ATI card with the new open source driver in 8.10. That's only what I can think of off the top of my head. From what I've seen Ubuntu has no problem switching to younger software if they feel it can improve the user experience and is the direction that the linux world is going. This is likely to cause some performance hits.
Personally I think this article is making a mountain out of a mole hill. If you look at the numbers in it you'll see that Ubuntu has NOT been consistently getting slower. Every few distros something will cause a massive speed drop and then it gets better and levels off. For me I can honestly say every new version of Ubuntu feels faster. Losing speed is a bad thing but I don't really think Ubuntu has shown it.
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Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Due to all the information that we have at our finger tips if you ever even look like you are thinking this you will get your ass handed to you. People HATE giving money to people they feel are assholes. If they have to then they have to. But if they can avoid it they will.
The other side of this is that if they hear good things about you they will come to you. The next pair of shoes I buy I will buy though Zappos. Why? Look at these stories. http://consumerist.com/tag/zappos/
As for you making money I would recommend
1)Accept donations. Some people might like your stuff so much they will over pay for it.
2)Ask people who did pirate the game to donate if they liked it. This sounds dumb but it's a way of saying "Look I know some of you are gonna steal this game and there is nothing I can do about it. But Please if you actually like it and would like to see more post-pay for it. I'm not gonna be a jerk about it. I'm just trying to make a living." Most people have trouble ripping off people that are honest and human.
3)Try to make it easier to buy then steal. Steam is great network for that. At this point I buy games on steam so that I never have to go CD fishing ever again if I want to play an old game
Making decisions is what management is. A manager who is not calling the shots is not managing. Yes, at some point you don't need the people above you to know the tech but it would be a great help if they did.
To clarify I do think that C# is a good language. This is why I referred to it as "a rival to both Java and C++".
I have already addressed the document and standards issue in another post, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1170319&cid=27289561
Currently Windows is losing share of the OS market. This makes getting locked in to a windows only language something to avoid if you can. I agree with use the right tool for the right job but the story is about what language he should learn for a job not what language to use for a single project. The 'job' in this case is to give the person the best tools for the future. With other OSes getting a foot hold in the market I think that cross platform languages are a better bet.
From the sound of it the UK is far different then the US http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/programming-language-jobs-and-trends http://www.langpop.com/. As you can see Java is in huge demand around here.
Again C# is a great language and MS has done many things right with it. But if you are just getting started I think it's a good idea to steer clear of it.
The gang of four book is a must have but I recommend starting to learn design patterns with Head First Design Patterns http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007126/. It's an easy and fun read based off of the gang of four book. Personally I read the Head First book cover to cover but I use the GOF book for reference when I actually plan on writing something.
For documentation see this link http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/2006/08/06/c-sharp-documentation-comments-useless/ I have not used C# enough to talk about the quality of the C# documentation but all my previous experience with visual studio documentation has been nothing but painful.
.NET land this is perfectly acceptable." The result of course is that some other company worked with them and demanded that they fix the WSDL so a month or two later I had to redo a large chuck of our software.
/. But there are still many issues with it that make it a poor choice for most apps when you have alternatives like Java and C/C++ around.
As for the standards compliant there is a massive feeling of "the MS way is better then the standard way everyone else uses". I was doing Java work to connect to a web service written in C#. We were the first people to start using their web service and we were giving them advice on what needed to be fixed. One of the few issues we found with it were that their WSDL was full of errors. We were able to deal with it on our end but when asked about it their comment was "oh in
For the record I think that MS did a great job with C# and from the looks of it so does most of
Parent is dead on. As for C#, it's a rival to both Java and C++ (mostly for non-games). The problem of course is it's a MS language. I would recommend that any SlashDot reader go with Java or C++ over C# because they are better documented, more standards compliant, cross platform (Mono is nice and all but it's no substitute for MS C# from what I hear) and Open Source(Java was closed for a long time but it is finally Open and GPLed).
But honestly your language is the LEAST important thing you can try to learn now. Make sure you have a good grasp on SQL, UML, XML, design patterns and basic scripting. I just graduated college as well and these things were never really taught. They were all there but tend to get glossed over and taught only in small chunks as needed.
Since a different compiler is used and the code calls different system calls the code might be compiled in such a different way that the windows profile would not be anywhere near as good as a Linux profile. Remember compilers are full of complicated speed tricks to make the code faster where ever they can, one small change can have very big effects to the resulting ASM. It might also be the case that the compilers are so different that you could not even use the windows profile on the Linux version even if you wanted to.
The profile in question here is a profile of what variables and chunks of code the program (in this case FireFox) uses the most, not your FireFox user profile. By knowing this it knows stuff like what variables are read and or written the most and the least and it knows what functions should be next to other functions used at the same time. This gives it a good idea of where to store things when it compiles the source. For example the variable containing the users bookmarks will not get accessed as frequently as variable containing the current tabs. While this profile could be effected by how the user uses FireFox it is very unlikely to be a significant difference.
hmmm. You are publicly and openly building on previous trolling work. Is this open source trolling?
Not that I agree with it, but the logic is that the calls in question are to/from out side of the U.S. Therefor one person involved is NOT a U.S. citizen and are not a member of 'the people' in question. Because of this they do not have those rights.
That's from this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy. Read it, time and time again Bush pushes for this kind of wiretapping. Obama on the other hand voted for the latest FISA bill because
From http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/obama-mccain-reluctantly-endorse-surveillance-deal/
Like the GP said, this is getting old and we all know what happened. Stop spreading FUD. Wait until you actually see Obama do something as bad as Bush before you make it seem he is some kind of Bush 3.
Bingo. Additionally Obama is out to get the voices of everyone represented. The dumb asses who think DRM and the like are good ideas are still technically considered 'people' so they need to be in there too. Personally I am waiting to see who his tech pick is. THAT is the one I'll be pissed about if it's not very good.
P.S. DRM is not cool any more anyway. According to the Apple keynote yesterday iTunes is going DRM free. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090106-apple-mwsf-announcements-new-macbook-pro.html
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That breaks programs that depend on the edge cases. It sounds stupid but that is why they are doing it. Java and C# are both designed to have a program work exactly the same way on any platform that it can run on. If you get an overflow bug on one system you should get the same exact bug on any other system you run it on. No mater how big it's native int is. Just look at how far they took this at first for floats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictfp
Bingo. It sounds dumb to any one who codes close to the metal but it's a well known and deliberate part of Java's design. Most likely when (and if) they change this it'll be done from one version to the next. That is typically when they like to break things. If you think this sounds like a mess look back at what they had to do for floats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictfp The internal headache they when through with floats makes this look like a cake walk. Remember Java is designed to be as cross platform as possible, Not as fast as possible.
Old dynastys die and new ones rise up.
It depends on how many projects you have and what else you are running. I do JSP work on a huge code base. So I tend to have a web server, Eclipse, and web browser running at all times. I needed at least 2 gigs to work at any kind of normal speed.
I would like to note that the version of Java you are running DOES matter. Java has significant speed and GUI improvements every release. If you can't update the version of Java for the software you're running Eclipse can compile and run software with one JDK and run it self on a different JRE
Agreed. I am a recent 4 year college grad. I have not yet taken the exam but I've been reading the Java core books. There is so much I was never taught about how Java works at collage. You might be able to write a good program in Java but if you can't pass that test you will never be able to write truly great programs that take full advantage of what Java has to offer.
To add to your list... I spent a good week looking for a good description of Java annotations on the web. In the end I just looked it up in the Java core books. The explanation taught me everything I could need to know about what they were and how they worked.
It's because they were in power at the time it all fell apart. If this happened during a Democratic president it would have been blamed on lower class hand outs or something else like that.
Don't kid your self, It was all of those things. BOTH parties messed up.
The left wanted to help the poor so they pushed banks to make bad loans to people who could not afford them. The banks realized that they could make a lot of money off these loans if they just sold them off. After seeing there was money in it the banks requested less and less restrictions. The left was happy to give loans to the poor and the right is happy to make the banks happy. The system looked good and healthy because people were aloud to do things like take out second loans (under these easy loan giving restrictions that did not check their other debts) so they could have money to make payments on the first loan and the banks based the health of the system on how well loans from previous decades (that were not built on ground anywhere near this shaky) were doing.
Both sides were stupid and both sides will pay for it.
I just picture that the White House currently has all the paper shredders going at full speed ever since 11pm last night along side screams of "Oh crap he actually won!"
To bring this back around to tech (this is /. after all) I think that the internet has had a lot to do with that. For example CNN has fact check http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/fact-check/ Back in the day no one knew if these accusations were true or not. If people said something was true a lot it MUST be true...right? Now we can find tons of information on what is and is not true on the net. More importantly we don't need to depend on something we herd ONCE on the nightly news or in a paper telling us a campaign is lieing. The information is always there for us to check and to show others in an argument. It's my personal hope that the internet will raise the bar on political issues.
I agree. His inability to run his own campaign speaks loads about how well he would run a country. In life he does a LOT of things wrong as you have said.
I just feel it's always worth remembering people who really wish harm on others and people who have good intentions and just can't make them happen. I feel that it is the current core of the GOP that wishes harm for their own gain. They do what ever it takes to spread FUD and stay in power. I think that McCain has tried his best in all this. He really did want to run a good campaign. In the end he was a flawed man who is part of a corrupt party so it did not happen.
While I do agree that such things were done and were clearly just plain wrong I can't say that I really blame McCain for them. The GOP has been doing this crap for years when ever they get the chance to. McCain won the primary so they HAVE to deal with him. They claim it's his campaign but I doubt that he could really move them all in a direction they don't want to go in. You say that he hired on the Bush team, I bet they were forced on him and he just could not stop it. Should he have done more to stop these attacks? Oh hell yes. But I don't think he is where they are coming from.
I think the slowness is from the software changes Ubuntu has undergone. As I remember they changed the default audio driver recently, Java started using Iced Tea for 8.10, and they were using an ATI card with the new open source driver in 8.10. That's only what I can think of off the top of my head. From what I've seen Ubuntu has no problem switching to younger software if they feel it can improve the user experience and is the direction that the linux world is going. This is likely to cause some performance hits.
Personally I think this article is making a mountain out of a mole hill. If you look at the numbers in it you'll see that Ubuntu has NOT been consistently getting slower. Every few distros something will cause a massive speed drop and then it gets better and levels off. For me I can honestly say every new version of Ubuntu feels faster. Losing speed is a bad thing but I don't really think Ubuntu has shown it.