I'll give you an estimate as soon as the check which covers the extra I had to pay for my house due to inflated housing costs due to the artificially low interest rates shows up.
Yeah, WoW is insane as far as subscriptions goes. It had tons of problems at launch with servers always being overpopulated and not being able to keep up with the load. Blizzard said it was because they had gotten way more subscribers than they had expected based on the number of subscribers other MMOs historically had and so weren't prepared for the number they really got.
I'm with you, man. Every few months I decide to scour eBay for something I don't want to pay full price for with the hope that I'll find the one true, used, item from a normal person in the middle of all of the "new for the same price or more than it costs at a store, plus shipping, plus you have to wait for it to arrive" crap.
Every time I do that, I end up spending the next hour ranting to my wife (seriously, for real, I have one of those) about how eBay has gone to hell and it's just a bunch of overpriced, new products now instead of used stuff.
You're right on there. For the last 2 years I have lived the closest I have ever lived to where I work by at least half of the next closest distance. I am about 15 miles from work. About 12 of those miles are along 45mph and 55mph roads with no bike lane.
Distance/time wise can I do it? Sure. It'd save me the time at the gym on my cardio days. Legally can I do it? Yep. Is it a good idea? Not at all. There are some people that ride their bikes on one of those streets and it's incredibly dangerous. They are literally in the lane of cars going 45+ mph during rush hour. This means everyone in that lane gets slowed down to a fraction of that speed, causing back ups, while attempting to pass the guy on the bike without smearing him all over the road. Passing the biker means getting into the other lane, which given it's rush hour, is no easy task, especially once you've slowed down to half the speed of the cars in that lane.
You may be correct about how people in your neighborhood will react, I have my doubts, though. On Slashdot, though, it's only ever people jumping on an opportunity to talk down about religion that I see making any religion based comments on this stuff. I am also not harassed about this stuff by the religious people at work, at restaurants, or walking down the street.
Man, I wish I would have been able to see this post 8 months ago. I fought with this at work for many weeks. We had a CMS that some contractors developed which used DBIx::Class heavily. They developed it on a SuSE box and had no issues. Then it was deployed on Red Hat (yeah, yeah. Not my choice to have the dev environment different than the live one. I've brought it up several times in the past.) It ran like total crap on the RH machines. Then the contractors left and the project was passed to me, where I had to profile the code and then do a ton of searching to find the bug. I tried several of the reported fixes that were documented at the time and nothing resolved the performance issues.
I don't want to trade monopolies. It's enough time and work to get them changed that I don't believe it would change the way they behave. IMO, the only thing that will change behavior like this using market forces, as you suggest doing, is having multiple companies - and by multiple I mean 3-5, not the 2 you can get if you're lucky.
To be fair, I of course don't have any real suggestions to solve the problem. It's easy to say "allow more cable companies, more phone companies, etc". It's much more difficult to do it due to the cost of entry for a new competitor in the market.
You're almost certainly correct, I was just clarifying what I believe the grandparent to my previous post was getting at as far as I can tell since the parent post to my last one seemed to think it was suggesting that the RIAA got most of their money from CD sales.
The post you replied to was not saying their main revenue stream is selling CDs, it was saying their main revenue stream is getting people to settle out of court rather than going to court and possible having to pay more plus waste a bunch of time.
Your post reminds me of an experience at work some time back. I work with content for mobile phones. As part of my job at one point I would provide ringtones to AT&T that our company had licensed. These had to go through a somewhat stringent approval process. There was one batch I was submitting which contained the song "Drink in my cup". That song was denied due to references to alcohol. In the same batch was "Gat in my lap". That song was passed. Ridiculous.
Others have already covered this, but the article does say "removed". It is entirely likely that you're correct and they're being moved rather than completely removed and it's just not the best wording, though.
In either case, I think it's stupid. That is functionality that I believe should be in the core code. There's very little reason to not want to be using that functionality in a web app.
This is stupid. Removing prepared statements and access control lists? Don't we have enough trouble with people writing insecure web apps when we provide them with the tools easily make them secure?
Has firefox resolved issues with automatic updating and not being logged in as an admin user, since in a perfect world, no one is running as an admin user the vast majority of the time? I had it automatically update while I was logged in as a normal user with a 2.0.x release and then it freaked out because it couldn't write some files it needed to.
Just logging in as an admin and reinstalling didn't do the trick, either. I don't remember the exact situation anymore, but the end solution was for me to log in as admin, change permissions on some firefox files so they were writeable by the user I was logged in as when the auto update ran, then log in as that user and reinstall, then go change permissions back to what they should be and turn off auto update.
Yep, I've been avoiding them for quite awhile. Even when I try to take my money/business to eBay, I can't find what I want. If I'm on eBay then I'm not looking for a new in the box, full price (sometimes even higher than the normal full price) product which I also have to pay shipping on and wait a week for it to show up. If I wanted the new in box one at full price I'd just drive to wal-mart, best buy,e tc. and get the product without having to pay shipping or wait for it to show up.
I've been saying the same thing as you for awhile now. If they want a place for actual business to load ton of new crap at full price on there, that's fine, but make a new site. I want a place where I can go look for a used product being sold by joe average who just doesn't use theirs anymore or bought an upgraded one or whatever and pay him 10%-50% of what it would cost me to buy a new one.
Of course there's still craigslist for that, but honestly, I prefer the auctions and functionality of searching and arranging the sales via eBay moreso than craigslist, which is effectively just online want ads like in the newspaper.
US Robotics makes a small business/pro-sumer line of equipment. That said, I've got the 802.11g access point from that line (or what was that line several years ago) and I can't recommend wasting your money on it.
But, because I want to keep a modicum of anonymity, and because most of my coworkers also read/., I won't really say where I work.
Damn, that was going to be my next question.
I'm back at the place I did the 6 months of Perl dev currently. I was let go the first time due to a pretty massive lay off, but was brought back as soon as they were able to do so.
I know there are places that are willing to hire someone who is willing to learn, the place I am working does and that's how I got hired. Those places are very few and far between. I suppose it's going to have to change sometime soon, though. If nearly all companies are only willing to hire people with 2-5 years full time work experience with their technologies, eventually those people are all going to retire and there are only going to be people with 0 full time work experience with those technologies left in the market.
I really wonder where the guys like you work. I always read all over the internet about hiring managers who claim to be like you, very reasonable.
When it comes time to really find a job, though, "Sure, I can learn that. See, I use this everyday, and have been teaching myself this, this, and this for the last 6 months" mixed in with a little "yeah, I've got some experience with that. I'm not an expert, but I've always been able to get what I need to done." doesn't seem to cut it.
I was looking for entry to mid-level development work in any language, primarily web back end systems, from august '06 until february '07. For development specific experience I had a ~2 year gig where I did a mix of things, including write web apps in tcl (my god, NEVER do that if you have a choice) which were used in a semiconductor fab, worked for 6 months as a perl developer, taught myself C#, C, experimented with php, and had some java experience from years ago. I had a functioning CMS written in perl which I offered the source code for, I used that CMS to host source code for other apps, including a port of that CMS to c#/asp.net, a few good sized system admin scripts in perl, a simple ascii snake game in c, and a little space invaders clone written in c# using xna. The source code for some of those things wasn't great, but it was entry level dev stuff, which is what I was applying for and the quality (or lack thereof) of the code didn't even matter as no potential employers ever actually looked at it. I was told I was underqualified for every single entry level/jr developer position I applied for, no matter what language. Those requirements were almost always 2-3 years of full time development experience in language X. Perhaps I'm wrong, but what I've done on my own seems to me that it should make it plenty clear that I can learn just about anything needed and have a desire to do so.
There very likely were discussions with those managers behind closed doors and in e-mails. They were nothing I was involved with as I was not in a position to do so, really. I was a mid-level contractor, not around when the project started, and leaving shortly anyway. There definitely were people in a proper position to bring it up with the bitching managers and not cause any trouble, and while I can't guarantee it, they most likely did so.
During the meeting? No, that probably would have just resulted in that person being fired and no issues with the factory would have been solved. Behind closed doors? That's very likely. Out in the open, not directly to the management, but where they definitely heard it? Lots of people every day.
I used to work in a semiconductor fab (memory specifically). The original fab was all unix based on our end. Some of the machines ran windows, though. When a new factory was built, for some reason, management decided it would be a good idea to start from scratch on the system that controlled the manufacturing process. Rather than use our proven, stable, and known unix based system we created a new system from scratch which ran on windows.
I left the company in march 06. Not long before I left, though, sometime in February, management pulled everyone together to yell and scream because that windows based factory had already gone over it's allotted downtime for the entire year.
We even saw the virus scenario mentioned in the article. It infected the terminals the people in the actual factory used and all of the tools which were controlled by windows computers. All production had to be stopped while we ran around to every terminal and tool in the factory, rebooted with a clean boot floppy, cleaned the virus, and then booted the thing back up.
And I, and probably many others, think that none was the better choice in this case and probably almost any other that involved giving the telecoms immunity. What good is revised and improved FISA when the government and telecoms will just do whatever they want and be able to get away with it anyway? I'd rather we do what we can to hold them to the rules before we go about making new rules and changing others for them to not follow whenever it suits them.
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How about completely legal, yet still stupid ways? I've done my share of that sort of spending. Do I qualify for a partial bail out?
I'll give you an estimate as soon as the check which covers the extra I had to pay for my house due to inflated housing costs due to the artificially low interest rates shows up.
Yeah, WoW is insane as far as subscriptions goes. It had tons of problems at launch with servers always being overpopulated and not being able to keep up with the load. Blizzard said it was because they had gotten way more subscribers than they had expected based on the number of subscribers other MMOs historically had and so weren't prepared for the number they really got.
I'm with you, man. Every few months I decide to scour eBay for something I don't want to pay full price for with the hope that I'll find the one true, used, item from a normal person in the middle of all of the "new for the same price or more than it costs at a store, plus shipping, plus you have to wait for it to arrive" crap.
Every time I do that, I end up spending the next hour ranting to my wife (seriously, for real, I have one of those) about how eBay has gone to hell and it's just a bunch of overpriced, new products now instead of used stuff.
You're right on there. For the last 2 years I have lived the closest I have ever lived to where I work by at least half of the next closest distance. I am about 15 miles from work. About 12 of those miles are along 45mph and 55mph roads with no bike lane.
Distance/time wise can I do it? Sure. It'd save me the time at the gym on my cardio days. Legally can I do it? Yep. Is it a good idea? Not at all. There are some people that ride their bikes on one of those streets and it's incredibly dangerous. They are literally in the lane of cars going 45+ mph during rush hour. This means everyone in that lane gets slowed down to a fraction of that speed, causing back ups, while attempting to pass the guy on the bike without smearing him all over the road. Passing the biker means getting into the other lane, which given it's rush hour, is no easy task, especially once you've slowed down to half the speed of the cars in that lane.
You may be correct about how people in your neighborhood will react, I have my doubts, though. On Slashdot, though, it's only ever people jumping on an opportunity to talk down about religion that I see making any religion based comments on this stuff. I am also not harassed about this stuff by the religious people at work, at restaurants, or walking down the street.
Man, I wish I would have been able to see this post 8 months ago. I fought with this at work for many weeks. We had a CMS that some contractors developed which used DBIx::Class heavily. They developed it on a SuSE box and had no issues. Then it was deployed on Red Hat (yeah, yeah. Not my choice to have the dev environment different than the live one. I've brought it up several times in the past.) It ran like total crap on the RH machines. Then the contractors left and the project was passed to me, where I had to profile the code and then do a ton of searching to find the bug. I tried several of the reported fixes that were documented at the time and nothing resolved the performance issues.
I don't want to trade monopolies. It's enough time and work to get them changed that I don't believe it would change the way they behave. IMO, the only thing that will change behavior like this using market forces, as you suggest doing, is having multiple companies - and by multiple I mean 3-5, not the 2 you can get if you're lucky.
To be fair, I of course don't have any real suggestions to solve the problem. It's easy to say "allow more cable companies, more phone companies, etc". It's much more difficult to do it due to the cost of entry for a new competitor in the market.
That is a pretty wild idea. It's so wild I just might try it if there was another cable company in my area.
You're almost certainly correct, I was just clarifying what I believe the grandparent to my previous post was getting at as far as I can tell since the parent post to my last one seemed to think it was suggesting that the RIAA got most of their money from CD sales.
The post you replied to was not saying their main revenue stream is selling CDs, it was saying their main revenue stream is getting people to settle out of court rather than going to court and possible having to pay more plus waste a bunch of time.
Your post reminds me of an experience at work some time back. I work with content for mobile phones. As part of my job at one point I would provide ringtones to AT&T that our company had licensed. These had to go through a somewhat stringent approval process. There was one batch I was submitting which contained the song "Drink in my cup". That song was denied due to references to alcohol. In the same batch was "Gat in my lap". That song was passed. Ridiculous.
You mean that's not the reason I'm currently labeled a paranoid weirdo?
Others have already covered this, but the article does say "removed". It is entirely likely that you're correct and they're being moved rather than completely removed and it's just not the best wording, though.
In either case, I think it's stupid. That is functionality that I believe should be in the core code. There's very little reason to not want to be using that functionality in a web app.
This is stupid. Removing prepared statements and access control lists? Don't we have enough trouble with people writing insecure web apps when we provide them with the tools easily make them secure?
Has firefox resolved issues with automatic updating and not being logged in as an admin user, since in a perfect world, no one is running as an admin user the vast majority of the time? I had it automatically update while I was logged in as a normal user with a 2.0.x release and then it freaked out because it couldn't write some files it needed to.
Just logging in as an admin and reinstalling didn't do the trick, either. I don't remember the exact situation anymore, but the end solution was for me to log in as admin, change permissions on some firefox files so they were writeable by the user I was logged in as when the auto update ran, then log in as that user and reinstall, then go change permissions back to what they should be and turn off auto update.
Yep, I've been avoiding them for quite awhile. Even when I try to take my money/business to eBay, I can't find what I want. If I'm on eBay then I'm not looking for a new in the box, full price (sometimes even higher than the normal full price) product which I also have to pay shipping on and wait a week for it to show up. If I wanted the new in box one at full price I'd just drive to wal-mart, best buy,e tc. and get the product without having to pay shipping or wait for it to show up.
I've been saying the same thing as you for awhile now. If they want a place for actual business to load ton of new crap at full price on there, that's fine, but make a new site. I want a place where I can go look for a used product being sold by joe average who just doesn't use theirs anymore or bought an upgraded one or whatever and pay him 10%-50% of what it would cost me to buy a new one.
Of course there's still craigslist for that, but honestly, I prefer the auctions and functionality of searching and arranging the sales via eBay moreso than craigslist, which is effectively just online want ads like in the newspaper.
US Robotics makes a small business/pro-sumer line of equipment. That said, I've got the 802.11g access point from that line (or what was that line several years ago) and I can't recommend wasting your money on it.
Damn, that was going to be my next question.
I'm back at the place I did the 6 months of Perl dev currently. I was let go the first time due to a pretty massive lay off, but was brought back as soon as they were able to do so.
I know there are places that are willing to hire someone who is willing to learn, the place I am working does and that's how I got hired. Those places are very few and far between. I suppose it's going to have to change sometime soon, though. If nearly all companies are only willing to hire people with 2-5 years full time work experience with their technologies, eventually those people are all going to retire and there are only going to be people with 0 full time work experience with those technologies left in the market.
I really wonder where the guys like you work. I always read all over the internet about hiring managers who claim to be like you, very reasonable.
When it comes time to really find a job, though, "Sure, I can learn that. See, I use this everyday, and have been teaching myself this, this, and this for the last 6 months" mixed in with a little "yeah, I've got some experience with that. I'm not an expert, but I've always been able to get what I need to done." doesn't seem to cut it.
I was looking for entry to mid-level development work in any language, primarily web back end systems, from august '06 until february '07. For development specific experience I had a ~2 year gig where I did a mix of things, including write web apps in tcl (my god, NEVER do that if you have a choice) which were used in a semiconductor fab, worked for 6 months as a perl developer, taught myself C#, C, experimented with php, and had some java experience from years ago. I had a functioning CMS written in perl which I offered the source code for, I used that CMS to host source code for other apps, including a port of that CMS to c#/asp.net, a few good sized system admin scripts in perl, a simple ascii snake game in c, and a little space invaders clone written in c# using xna. The source code for some of those things wasn't great, but it was entry level dev stuff, which is what I was applying for and the quality (or lack thereof) of the code didn't even matter as no potential employers ever actually looked at it. I was told I was underqualified for every single entry level/jr developer position I applied for, no matter what language. Those requirements were almost always 2-3 years of full time development experience in language X. Perhaps I'm wrong, but what I've done on my own seems to me that it should make it plenty clear that I can learn just about anything needed and have a desire to do so.
There very likely were discussions with those managers behind closed doors and in e-mails. They were nothing I was involved with as I was not in a position to do so, really. I was a mid-level contractor, not around when the project started, and leaving shortly anyway. There definitely were people in a proper position to bring it up with the bitching managers and not cause any trouble, and while I can't guarantee it, they most likely did so.
During the meeting? No, that probably would have just resulted in that person being fired and no issues with the factory would have been solved. Behind closed doors? That's very likely. Out in the open, not directly to the management, but where they definitely heard it? Lots of people every day.
I used to work in a semiconductor fab (memory specifically). The original fab was all unix based on our end. Some of the machines ran windows, though. When a new factory was built, for some reason, management decided it would be a good idea to start from scratch on the system that controlled the manufacturing process. Rather than use our proven, stable, and known unix based system we created a new system from scratch which ran on windows.
I left the company in march 06. Not long before I left, though, sometime in February, management pulled everyone together to yell and scream because that windows based factory had already gone over it's allotted downtime for the entire year.
We even saw the virus scenario mentioned in the article. It infected the terminals the people in the actual factory used and all of the tools which were controlled by windows computers. All production had to be stopped while we ran around to every terminal and tool in the factory, rebooted with a clean boot floppy, cleaned the virus, and then booted the thing back up.
And I, and probably many others, think that none was the better choice in this case and probably almost any other that involved giving the telecoms immunity. What good is revised and improved FISA when the government and telecoms will just do whatever they want and be able to get away with it anyway? I'd rather we do what we can to hold them to the rules before we go about making new rules and changing others for them to not follow whenever it suits them.
I think it's pretty clear that "existing networks" means the networks currently in existence, like right now, when the article was written.