I drink around 7 or 8 cups of coffee a day, along with a soda or two...
With researchers growing kidneys, and the diabetes cure pending in a few years, I guess you'll be fine now you've destroyed all the pertanant OEM equipment (inside you).
It is an entirely legitimate desire not to have your home's photo on Google. Streetview is a convenient tool for burglars to scope out neighborhoods, since Google has already done all the legwork for them. The residents' concerns in this case are perfectly valid.
Your argument breaks down like this: 1) Google does legwork for burglers. 2) Burglers use Google StreetView to case houses therefore 3) Keeping a house from appearing on GoogleStreet View makes it safer from burglers
The argument may be valid... but it is unsound because the premises are false
Here's another example of a valid, yet unsound argument:
Google is a giant paper ferret. All ferrets are privately owned companies. Therefore Google is a privately owned company.
Perfectly valid... but because the premises are false, it's logically unsound.
But what makes your premises false, you may ask? That'd be the complete absense of any evidence that burglers have some advantage casing houses with StreetView.
But what if the person is a diabetic, or pre-diabetic....
Diabetes is going away. It was cured in a Canadian lab last year. Big Pharm will lobby against FDA approval of the treatment because its the death of their insulin cash cow, but eventually, 5-10 years, patients will have the cure available. Don't feel bad if you missed that news... I just learned genetic researchers have successfully been growing functioning replacement kidneys since 2004. I suppose kidneys are one of the simpler organs, but if they're grown from the patient's own genetic instructions, then more complex relacement organs should at least be in reach in the next 15-30 years.
yeah... its obvious Apple themselves leaked this bs FUD story just to draw out the applephobes who, like predictable drones, simultaneously and ironically draw attention to how stupid they are (inferring anyone that hates Apple is stupid), that this policy is actually satisfactory (and now absent-minded devs are reminded of how fairly Apple treats them, boosting that fragile dev morale), and insinuates that somehow any poor review of Apple is immediately suspect. Very crafty, Apple...
As a systems administrator, if not for actual software developers, I would use the title "programmer" as another word for what I do, even though I may never actually write any code, a lot of it really is programming at a higher level than code. But being that software development is really what comes to mind when 'programmer' is used, and that I respect the field immensely (right up to the point that they try to call it 'engineering,' because I respect that field too), I feel it reduces the hard meaning of the word (sysadmin-programmer is not as hardcore codercred as developer-programmer). IMO its better to let the Java guys, the C++ guys, the Javascript and AJAX guys, etc., keep the title 'Programmer' and let the 'I make the computers go' guys keep other titles like Operator or Specialist. YMMV
Your description of IT is right on... and I wish it weren't so. And I don't mean to dimish your programming accomplishment, but I'd guess that in the true task completion there, the programming was a small part of it. You solved some nontrivial and complex problem by cleverly pooling massive resources together elagantly... and added a nice cherry front end. Amazing... but not because of the coding. Your software development is about as deep as a homeowner plumbing. Even if you can manage to replace a pipe on your own you're not really a plumber (well, you are, but barely).
I guess my point is that the skill sets for IT and programming are distinct, though not incompatible. If you're crazy good at solving IT issues, lack of programming beyond the shell is ignored. If you can code like whatever good coders code like, not being a 'good user' is overlooked. But if you net engineer AND truly code, mixing the two disciplines like some mad sysop with minions... well, no one's going to stop you... but as you know you'll end up underpaid and unappreciated... possibly angry and antisocial... I don't like where this is going... just be aware that the gifts you have are responsibilities too... once in a while you just have to walk away, pretend there was an ELP and cool out a while before our understandable emotions get the better of us and we blue pill the planet in some later regretted attempt to reduce the ticketing system traffic or whatever...
For all hunters, Hunting is violent. But its not about the violence, right? Most, if not all hunting is fun, right? But its not about the fun. Its about life and death, the struggle for survival, and the thrill of having your life in the balance... because in the bush its either you (and your scoped semi-auto big cal rifel)... or the beast (a fearless big eyed doe, or viscious sandhill crane, or... the big game... a feral pig with a furious squeel!).
The inherent danger (killing a loved one in a drunkin' rage or your son killing the neighbor boy accidently) is a small price to pay... people gotta eat, right? Now, I have heard rumors of this magical place where you can just pick pre-killed food up ready to cook or even serve... where hunting is seen as so unnecessary its even vain... but I think this... whatsitcalled... "civilization," is just a fantasy.
This is my dream. [...] This is the place where robots meet. Look, you can see them here as slaves. Through logic. And this man on the hill comes free them. Do you know who he is? The man in the dream is you.
IT is Information Technology, and Programming is software development. Unless you specifically mean software development for information technology, I'd say the question is wrong headed. Its like asking how to bust into the field of auto-mechanics/taxi driving.
is it me? or does Bluetooth just suck? OK, its great for 2 things... wireless keyboards/mice & phone headsets (Its a narrow/slow data pipe & A2DP quality still doesn't approach wired fidelity... analogue wireless even sounds better). But on small portables, it eats battery life...
I can't believe the industry did something great by agreeing to standardize a technology... and then choose such a let down technology to standardize...
Can you imagine if Bluetooth had been as functionally successful as something like MIDI? Bluetooth has amounted to empty promises and dissatisfaction... yeah, works I guess... but it sucks. Don't hate the player, its not Apple's fault it sucks.
I'm guessing this won't be a progressive rock thing....
depends on the cymbol selection, I believe... I think its the splash
I hope this isn't just the start of the Next British Invasion... following Bletchley Park in rapid succession come moppy obsolete cpu orchestras from Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham... a sensation sweeps in from both coasts causing teenage girls to rush around in bunches and sceam uncontrollably... a teen in Tulsa spikes his hair and dyes it purple... t-shirt sales go through the roof... tragedy strikes when a rare mini computer and a popular classic calculator are lost when their plane goes down in a storm... Palm is dead Palm is dead... rock music is again splintered or changed forever...
that kind of thing.
Pudge, is that you? Let's see, extreme rudeness and contempt for differing opinions, check. Stereotyping of opposing views, check. Mac fanboy, check. Ignoring opposing arguments when he has no answer for them, check.
And who but an editor would create a sock puppet just to flame me?
You asked for it, asshole. 1) EVERYBODY trashes microsoft. Don't take it so personally, Mary. 2) I merely bumped you for you asinine, false, ignorant, uninformed statement that whatever miniscule world you know is the only serious tech available, and you know because you are sooooo serious. You don't like my suggestion? Then why don't you blow it all out of proportion and begin the personal insults and accusations more aptly applied to yourself if your so smart?
I'm not saying that they shouldn't use flash, although it certainly crossed my mind.
Why not? Personally, I find that any video I watch with flash is a much suckier experience compared to watching the same video in nearly any other format. But its not just video, I prefer websites to be flash free. Now if we're talking about some weird live content delivery application, with 200-way video/audio/whiteboard communication between peers and host... wow flash does that in a browser? sure, use it. But I guess for just video/audio, I'd like compressed video to be better on the video side rather than on the compression side or needing a whole virtual cycle-sucking platform just to watch a dumb video. So say it with me "Don't use flash. Flash sucks." Its easy.
Fair enough. Enjoy that peerless Vista support. Actually... if I had a dime for every time you exercised the Vista support you obviously believe has value... well, obviously, I'd be broke. But I know what you mean: its good to have support even if you never use it.
I have a tablet that runs Windows Vista solely because it's the only x86 OS with serious handwriting recognition. I thoroughly despise Vista (nobody despises Vista as much as somebody who's stuck with it) and I'd look very hard at any alternative that seriously exploits the tablet model.
OK. You need to pull your head out of the Microsoft hole at least once every 10 years to see what's really going on out there.
OS X runs on x86. Apple's Inkwell handwriting technology has been around and beloved since the days of Newton (i.e. Apple). No... not perfect. Perhaps Vista's recognition is a little better at the moment... but who cares, OS X pummels Vista in to a quivering mass of junk that it is... and Inkwell IS serious handwriting recognition technology (though takes some tuning).
Its not just Microsoft. IT skillsets have steadily been devalued by all industriesfor about the last decade. In 2001, Windows Adminstrator positions started at $65k (at least in Austin). By 2005 the same position payed half that. Nowadays if you're a Window Admin making more than $14/hr, you better know you're in trouble, because you're being paid twice the market rate (yes, plenty of little fuckers are willing to give away expensive skilled labor for min wage).
It boggles the mind. I want to go back to 1992 when computers moved like slugs and IT was really crazy simple compared to today... and the pay was fantastic and jobs plentiful.
Also, even if they DIDN'T inform the user, "no going back" is not news... if you are a seasoned Windows user, you know better. Installing software on Windows is kind of like Lord of the Flies... software devs in the same space compete on the battleground that is your registry file,and they don't fight fair if they can avoid it. The registry and the way software is installed is one of the big reasons we all hate the OS. If they included an uninstaller, thats when we stop the presses, so to speak... because that's news: "Windows developer makes good!" and we tell everyone we know that Developer X makesgreat software... merely because it uninstalls itself without blue-screening your desktop and tripling boot times.
I think legal settlements are tax free, somehow not taxable income. I've always wondered if it were possible for an artist/craftsperson/inventor to plan & achieve financial success by carefully arrainging a future legal settlement where their wares were simply stolen and promoted/sold by a major distributor and years later, say 8 years, after millions of reproductions in various formats have been sold netting the last drop of value from its novelty, the artist/craftsperson/inventor files suit against the major distributor for copyright/patent infringement... and the distributor immediately settles, paying the artist/craftsperson/inventor their properly calculated due... perhaps a fortune in a lump sum... tax free.
Authentic crap. After triggerred drums and mpeg compression, auto-tune is the next scourge of the music industry... its everywhere, and it sounds like ass.
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I drink around 7 or 8 cups of coffee a day, along with a soda or two...
With researchers growing kidneys, and the diabetes cure pending in a few years, I guess you'll be fine now you've destroyed all the pertanant OEM equipment (inside you).
I got a first post. Why didn't anyone tell me?
It was a Toronto lab... the article I read should be the first hit when googling
diabetes breakthrough tom blackwell national post
(sry... mobile)
It is an entirely legitimate desire not to have your home's photo on Google. Streetview is a convenient tool for burglars to scope out neighborhoods, since Google has already done all the legwork for them. The residents' concerns in this case are perfectly valid.
Your argument breaks down like this:
1) Google does legwork for burglers.
2) Burglers use Google StreetView to case houses
therefore
3) Keeping a house from appearing on GoogleStreet View makes it safer from burglers
The argument may be valid... but it is unsound because the premises are false
Here's another example of a valid, yet unsound argument:
Google is a giant paper ferret.
All ferrets are privately owned companies.
Therefore Google is a privately owned company.
Perfectly valid... but because the premises are false, it's logically unsound.
But what makes your premises false, you may ask? That'd be the complete absense of any evidence that burglers have some advantage casing houses with StreetView.
But what if the person is a diabetic, or pre-diabetic....
Diabetes is going away. It was cured in a Canadian lab last year. Big Pharm will lobby against FDA approval of the treatment because its the death of their insulin cash cow, but eventually, 5-10 years, patients will have the cure available. Don't feel bad if you missed that news... I just learned genetic researchers have successfully been growing functioning replacement kidneys since 2004. I suppose kidneys are one of the simpler organs, but if they're grown from the patient's own genetic instructions, then more complex relacement organs should at least be in reach in the next 15-30 years.
yeah... its obvious Apple themselves leaked this bs FUD story just to draw out the applephobes who, like predictable drones, simultaneously and ironically draw attention to how stupid they are (inferring anyone that hates Apple is stupid), that this policy is actually satisfactory (and now absent-minded devs are reminded of how fairly Apple treats them, boosting that fragile dev morale), and insinuates that somehow any poor review of Apple is immediately suspect. Very crafty, Apple...
As a systems administrator, if not for actual software developers, I would use the title "programmer" as another word for what I do, even though I may never actually write any code, a lot of it really is programming at a higher level than code. But being that software development is really what comes to mind when 'programmer' is used, and that I respect the field immensely (right up to the point that they try to call it 'engineering,' because I respect that field too), I feel it reduces the hard meaning of the word (sysadmin-programmer is not as hardcore codercred as developer-programmer). IMO its better to let the Java guys, the C++ guys, the Javascript and AJAX guys, etc., keep the title 'Programmer' and let the 'I make the computers go' guys keep other titles like Operator or Specialist. YMMV
Your description of IT is right on... and I wish it weren't so. And I don't mean to dimish your programming accomplishment, but I'd guess that in the true task completion there, the programming was a small part of it. You solved some nontrivial and complex problem by cleverly pooling massive resources together elagantly... and added a nice cherry front end. Amazing... but not because of the coding. Your software development is about as deep as a homeowner plumbing. Even if you can manage to replace a pipe on your own you're not really a plumber (well, you are, but barely).
I guess my point is that the skill sets for IT and programming are distinct, though not incompatible. If you're crazy good at solving IT issues, lack of programming beyond the shell is ignored. If you can code like whatever good coders code like, not being a 'good user' is overlooked. But if you net engineer AND truly code, mixing the two disciplines like some mad sysop with minions... well, no one's going to stop you... but as you know you'll end up underpaid and unappreciated... possibly angry and antisocial... I don't like where this is going... just be aware that the gifts you have are responsibilities too... once in a while you just have to walk away, pretend there was an ELP and cool out a while before our understandable emotions get the better of us and we blue pill the planet in some later regretted attempt to reduce the ticketing system traffic or whatever...
For all hunters, Hunting is violent. But its not about the violence, right? Most, if not all hunting is fun, right? But its not about the fun. Its about life and death, the struggle for survival, and the thrill of having your life in the balance... because in the bush its either you (and your scoped semi-auto big cal rifel) ... or the beast (a fearless big eyed doe, or viscious sandhill crane, or ... the big game... a feral pig with a furious squeel!).
The inherent danger (killing a loved one in a drunkin' rage or your son killing the neighbor boy accidently) is a small price to pay ... people gotta eat, right?
Now, I have heard rumors of this magical place where you can just pick pre-killed food up ready to cook or even serve... where hunting is seen as so unnecessary its even vain... but I think this... whatsitcalled... "civilization," is just a fantasy.
This is my dream. [...]
This is the place where robots meet.
Look, you can see them here as slaves. Through logic.
And this man on the hill comes free them. Do you
know who he is? The man in
the dream is you.
IT is Information Technology, and Programming is software development. Unless you specifically mean software development for information technology, I'd say the question is wrong headed. Its like asking how to bust into the field of auto-mechanics/taxi driving.
I always thought SOAP was a common server configuration, like LAMP, but Solaris Oracle Apache Perl.
and... if it takes one to know one, then...
WE ARE THE MARTIANS
exactly. why do we even need chips and hardware anymore? we can just virtualize all of it.
is it me? or does Bluetooth just suck? OK, its great for 2 things... wireless keyboards/mice & phone headsets (Its a narrow/slow data pipe & A2DP quality still doesn't approach wired fidelity... analogue wireless even sounds better). But on small portables, it eats battery life...
I can't believe the industry did something great by agreeing to standardize a technology... and then choose such a let down technology to standardize...
Can you imagine if Bluetooth had been as functionally successful as something like MIDI? Bluetooth has amounted to empty promises and dissatisfaction... yeah, works I guess... but it sucks. Don't hate the player, its not Apple's fault it sucks.
I'm guessing this won't be a progressive rock thing....
depends on the cymbol selection, I believe... I think its the splash
I hope this isn't just the start of the Next British Invasion... following Bletchley Park in rapid succession come moppy obsolete cpu orchestras from Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham... a sensation sweeps in from both coasts causing teenage girls to rush around in bunches and sceam uncontrollably... a teen in Tulsa spikes his hair and dyes it purple... t-shirt sales go through the roof... tragedy strikes when a rare mini computer and a popular classic calculator are lost when their plane goes down in a storm... Palm is dead Palm is dead... rock music is again splintered or changed forever ...
that kind of thing.
Pudge, is that you? Let's see, extreme rudeness and contempt for differing opinions, check. Stereotyping of opposing views, check. Mac fanboy, check. Ignoring opposing arguments when he has no answer for them, check.
And who but an editor would create a sock puppet just to flame me?
You asked for it, asshole.
1) EVERYBODY trashes microsoft. Don't take it so personally, Mary.
2) I merely bumped you for you asinine, false, ignorant, uninformed statement that whatever miniscule world you know is the only serious tech available, and you know because you are sooooo serious. You don't like my suggestion? Then why don't you blow it all out of proportion and begin the personal insults and accusations more aptly applied to yourself if your so smart?
oh, wait....
I'm not saying that they shouldn't use flash, although it certainly crossed my mind.
Why not? Personally, I find that any video I watch with flash is a much suckier experience compared to watching the same video in nearly any other format. But its not just video, I prefer websites to be flash free. Now if we're talking about some weird live content delivery application, with 200-way video/audio/whiteboard communication between peers and host... wow flash does that in a browser? sure, use it. But I guess for just video/audio, I'd like compressed video to be better on the video side rather than on the compression side or needing a whole virtual cycle-sucking platform just to watch a dumb video. So say it with me "Don't use flash. Flash sucks." Its easy.
Fair enough. Enjoy that peerless Vista support. Actually... if I had a dime for every time you exercised the Vista support you obviously believe has value... well, obviously, I'd be broke. But I know what you mean: its good to have support even if you never use it.
I have a tablet that runs Windows Vista solely because it's the only x86 OS with serious handwriting recognition. I thoroughly despise Vista (nobody despises Vista as much as somebody who's stuck with it) and I'd look very hard at any alternative that seriously exploits the tablet model.
OK. You need to pull your head out of the Microsoft hole at least once every 10 years to see what's really going on out there.
OS X runs on x86. Apple's Inkwell handwriting technology has been around and beloved since the days of Newton (i.e. Apple). No... not perfect. Perhaps Vista's recognition is a little better at the moment... but who cares, OS X pummels Vista in to a quivering mass of junk that it is... and Inkwell IS serious handwriting recognition technology (though takes some tuning).
Apple Inkwell
some bloggers notes about tuning Inkwell
Its not just Microsoft. IT skillsets have steadily been devalued by all industriesfor about the last decade. In 2001, Windows Adminstrator positions started at $65k (at least in Austin). By 2005 the same position payed half that. Nowadays if you're a Window Admin making more than $14/hr, you better know you're in trouble, because you're being paid twice the market rate (yes, plenty of little fuckers are willing to give away expensive skilled labor for min wage).
It boggles the mind. I want to go back to 1992 when computers moved like slugs and IT was really crazy simple compared to today... and the pay was fantastic and jobs plentiful.
Also, even if they DIDN'T inform the user, "no going back" is not news... if you are a seasoned Windows user, you know better. Installing software on Windows is kind of like Lord of the Flies... software devs in the same space compete on the battleground that is your registry file,and they don't fight fair if they can avoid it. The registry and the way software is installed is one of the big reasons we all hate the OS. If they included an uninstaller, thats when we stop the presses, so to speak... because that's news: "Windows developer makes good!" and we tell everyone we know that Developer X makesgreat software... merely because it uninstalls itself without blue-screening your desktop and tripling boot times.
I think legal settlements are tax free, somehow not taxable income. I've always wondered if it were possible for an artist/craftsperson/inventor to plan & achieve financial success by carefully arrainging a future legal settlement where their wares were simply stolen and promoted/sold by a major distributor and years later, say 8 years, after millions of reproductions in various formats have been sold netting the last drop of value from its novelty, the artist/craftsperson/inventor files suit against the major distributor for copyright/patent infringement... and the distributor immediately settles, paying the artist/craftsperson/inventor their properly calculated due... perhaps a fortune in a lump sum... tax free.
Authentic crap.
After triggerred drums and mpeg compression, auto-tune is the next scourge of the music industry... its everywhere, and it sounds like ass.
I'm never coming back to this planet. /obligatory