If everybody just donates a few cents, that adds up quick. Just look at the guy who funded his college education years ago by asking a newspaper reporter to ask his audience to send the guy just one penny each. The guy made at bare minimum a few million. And this was just from pennies! Imagine if everybody just donated $1. Spare yourself that on extra soda from the soda machine and send it in for a great show
you actually have to do a search for a specific location (or some such thing) to be able to link to it. At least with Mapquest if you just randomly zoomed in and panned around, you'd be able to link to whatever location you want.
Where's my moderator points when I need them to mod that up as high as it can go. That is entirely true. I myself prefer conversations with anybody older than me because they actually care about issues other than something from the entertainment industry. It's sad that the youth of the nation have formed their opinions based on circumstances of the time. And to realize that those opinions end up snowballing through further generations, I'm kinda glad I won't be around when it gets really bad.
I think this would be a great idea because it would give developers a great starting point for applications. Specifically if your application can handle the files in the repository they way you expect them to, then you've done good. Granted you may be reinventing the wheel because if it's up there, it means that somebody else may have solved the problem already. OR they used the file to solve a different problem...Either way it'd be a great thing to have. Sounds like it'd be prime for Sourceforge (as long as it actually gets built out)...
2.68 microseconds = 0.00000268 seconds lost/day.
(0.00000268 seconds lost/day) * (1,000,000 days) = 2.68 seconds
(1,000,000 day/1) * (1 year/ 365.25 days) = ~2737.8508 years. My bad, so it happens a couple days more often.
Wait, why am I defending myself against a troll???
great, this means that I lose 2.68 seconds every 2737.9257 years. That just won't do. Need more time in the day. Must go to planet with longer day...Just have to convince G. W. that there's oil on Mars and we'll be up there in a month!
I don't really enjoy my job, but I enjoy the ideas it has given me. I too was one of those who ignored most of my non-CIS classes early on and paid for it later when it came time to start looking for a job. I completely ignored the whole social networking thing and figured there'd be plenty of opportunities for me when I get my degree in two years. After a year the whole outsourcing to India became more mainstream. When I got my degree, there was pretty much not openings for me in the area. It was a good thing I had a student aide position and continuing on for my bachelor's degree. I was in Alpha Beta Kappa (National Honors Society for college), received a few awards for best student and the like, and I couldn't get a job because I barely had a full year of experience (part time) under my belt. It wound up that there was a position opening up in my college's corporate office so my boss and many of the faculty put in a great word for me and I managed to get the position. The downfall is that I found out that although they taught newer languages in the classroom (and free languages), they use proprietary and older technologies in actual use. And really poorly designed for the in-house custom app. It makes my head hurt trying to debug database issues sometimes when data that should be stored once is stored in 7 tables, deleting records with no relationships established between tables, and working with fields that sometimes return NULL, sometimes return a blank string, and sometimes just flips a coin and looks at the position of the moon to figure out what the hell to do. Although it has given me a great side project of working on updating it to new technology and redesigning it to actually work efficiently. Just have to work on that, show it to the boss and get a great raise...
The first programming class my college tossed me into was a Programming Logic course and besides covering the fundamental structures, we had to create small Java apps to start seeing how the things worked. Granted we didn't get far because most of the class were bogged down by the logic side of things, but it's a really simplistic start. Plus there's TONS of resources and tutorials out there to get somebody started.
But for those who've already seen the article (like on MSN.com) they know that it started December 1. And if you really were a troll, you'd know how to find the article without having to use the link...
gmail has a confusing interface? gmail's interface is much, MUCH easier to use than Hotmail. I was able to do everything within gmail in an hour, while I'm still learning about things Hotmail has stored away deep in buried menus and such.
Also, in response to the article, I don't think they're upgrading in chronological order because I've had my hotmail account since roughly '97/'98 and it's still sitting at 2 MB...
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If everybody just donates a few cents, that adds up quick. Just look at the guy who funded his college education years ago by asking a newspaper reporter to ask his audience to send the guy just one penny each. The guy made at bare minimum a few million. And this was just from pennies! Imagine if everybody just donated $1. Spare yourself that on extra soda from the soda machine and send it in for a great show
you actually have to do a search for a specific location (or some such thing) to be able to link to it. At least with Mapquest if you just randomly zoomed in and panned around, you'd be able to link to whatever location you want.
Where's my moderator points when I need them to mod that up as high as it can go. That is entirely true. I myself prefer conversations with anybody older than me because they actually care about issues other than something from the entertainment industry. It's sad that the youth of the nation have formed their opinions based on circumstances of the time. And to realize that those opinions end up snowballing through further generations, I'm kinda glad I won't be around when it gets really bad.
I think this would be a great idea because it would give developers a great starting point for applications. Specifically if your application can handle the files in the repository they way you expect them to, then you've done good. Granted you may be reinventing the wheel because if it's up there, it means that somebody else may have solved the problem already. OR they used the file to solve a different problem...Either way it'd be a great thing to have. Sounds like it'd be prime for Sourceforge (as long as it actually gets built out)...
2.68 microseconds = 0.00000268 seconds lost/day. (0.00000268 seconds lost/day) * (1,000,000 days) = 2.68 seconds (1,000,000 day/1) * (1 year/ 365.25 days) = ~2737.8508 years. My bad, so it happens a couple days more often. Wait, why am I defending myself against a troll???
great, this means that I lose 2.68 seconds every 2737.9257 years. That just won't do. Need more time in the day. Must go to planet with longer day...Just have to convince G. W. that there's oil on Mars and we'll be up there in a month!
I don't really enjoy my job, but I enjoy the ideas it has given me. I too was one of those who ignored most of my non-CIS classes early on and paid for it later when it came time to start looking for a job. I completely ignored the whole social networking thing and figured there'd be plenty of opportunities for me when I get my degree in two years. After a year the whole outsourcing to India became more mainstream. When I got my degree, there was pretty much not openings for me in the area. It was a good thing I had a student aide position and continuing on for my bachelor's degree. I was in Alpha Beta Kappa (National Honors Society for college), received a few awards for best student and the like, and I couldn't get a job because I barely had a full year of experience (part time) under my belt. It wound up that there was a position opening up in my college's corporate office so my boss and many of the faculty put in a great word for me and I managed to get the position. The downfall is that I found out that although they taught newer languages in the classroom (and free languages), they use proprietary and older technologies in actual use. And really poorly designed for the in-house custom app. It makes my head hurt trying to debug database issues sometimes when data that should be stored once is stored in 7 tables, deleting records with no relationships established between tables, and working with fields that sometimes return NULL, sometimes return a blank string, and sometimes just flips a coin and looks at the position of the moon to figure out what the hell to do. Although it has given me a great side project of working on updating it to new technology and redesigning it to actually work efficiently. Just have to work on that, show it to the boss and get a great raise...
The first programming class my college tossed me into was a Programming Logic course and besides covering the fundamental structures, we had to create small Java apps to start seeing how the things worked. Granted we didn't get far because most of the class were bogged down by the logic side of things, but it's a really simplistic start. Plus there's TONS of resources and tutorials out there to get somebody started.
But for those who've already seen the article (like on MSN.com) they know that it started December 1. And if you really were a troll, you'd know how to find the article without having to use the link...
I was wondering when the Judge Dredd comment would be made about the Lawmaker.
gmail has a confusing interface? gmail's interface is much, MUCH easier to use than Hotmail. I was able to do everything within gmail in an hour, while I'm still learning about things Hotmail has stored away deep in buried menus and such. Also, in response to the article, I don't think they're upgrading in chronological order because I've had my hotmail account since roughly '97/'98 and it's still sitting at 2 MB...