Back in the day I remember walking out of a tech interview and overhearing one guy urgently whisper to the other "Hire him! He's white!"
It was still kinda cringeworthy to hear even then, but this was before outsourcing, and boatloads (no pun intended) of Very Bad Programmers from Other Countries were flooding the market in person.
I have never once read about a data center catastrophe where a fancy shmancy failover system --or ANY kind of failover system for that matter-- actually worked. Does anyone test or maintain this stuff?
Why? Because none allow a partial text search or advanced search options. This, in my opinion, is the biggest problem with the Android market right now, because if you can't find apps based on a single word -or a fragment of a word- then how will you know what's out there?
By way of example, I just looked up "jewel" in each market you listed, as well as on my phone. I got back a long list of jewel-type games, but the best one, Jewellust, was missing. Who knows what other jewel games I'm missing out on because of a lack of partial matching?
I'm sure there's lots of stuff in the market I'd be happy to buy, but I probably can't find it because of a substandard search mechanism.
If so, RLLs would be out, because the compression system would get in the way of direct bit placement on the platter.
I still have a couple of those old Seagates somewhere (including the full-length ISA RLL controller card), along with a (Western Digital?) 150MB ESDI drive. Ah, the good old days.
I do realize that. And as does any technical person (and no doubt average slashdot reader), I try as quickly as possible to get past tier 1 and up into the ranks of the people who know better.
My sole issue is with the fact that such a terrible story (article? rant? question? discussion) made it to slashdot's front page to begin with. This is hardly the kind of thing I expect to see there, and if the submitter actually made it so far as to get his story (article, rant, question, discussion) posted, he'd better damn well be ready to deal with the typical slashdot reader.
Really now. Some yutz whines about tech support on a forum where most of us have a dim view of tech support, and others have had nothing but bad experiences with tech support? (go ahead, read back a few months/years. Check out some articles and comments. I'll wait)
I don't post much. And usually not so vehemently. But this crap really struck a chord, and I just couldn't let it slide. I had to say what at least a few of us were thinking.
Um...yes. I know that. Hence my rant. I don't know how this topic even made the front page; no clue as to how it got greenlit. Some tier 1 jockey whining about his job? Hardly worthy of a slashdot front page article. In all my years here as a lurker and member I've rarely seen such dross make it past the mods. Slow news day I guess.
How about you help desk workers actually solve some shit for a change. I'm tired of calling the help desk (be it corporate or extra-corporate like my cellphone provider) and never getting anything fixed. I don't give a damn about where you want to get to or what (or who) you think you're supposed to be. That's precisely the problem. You're worried about where you think you're supposed to be instead of getting your fucking job done. Fuck you. To high holy hell. Solve some goddamn problems instead of whining. Or don't work the fucking helpdesk if that's not where you want to be.
Guess what. I don't give a fuck about you or your career, any more than I do the corner mechanic. Solve my fucking computer problems. That's it. That's what you're paid to do. That's what I call you for. That's your job. Goddamn fucking do it. For once. Okay?
'Caprica' will deliver all of the passion, intrigue, political backbiting and family conflict in television's first science fiction family saga.
In other words, all the boring parts.
Wonderful.
If I wanted Desperate Housewives in Space, I'd...well...I...
The new series started out with such a bang, and devolved into some kind of retro-90s self-indulgent pseudo-moralistic narcissistic tripe. This we need more of?
Let's get back to the basics guys: less red dress, more red blood.
Despite what others might say, he is a charlatan in the truest definition of the word.
Most of his advice is utter bunk, and his though process is entirely disconnected from logic and reality. I'll give him credit though for building a reputation around himself the way large consulting firms like Accenture have managed to do --a lot of huff and puff, and very little quality output.
I feel this is important to say, because many people are familiar with his name and when they hear someone ask about "GUI" or "usability" their first instinct is to shout JAKOB NIELSEN!
So...whatever you go looking for, don't waste your time on him.
(note: I spent over ten years of my twenty-five year programming career as a gui programmer/usability expert on both retail and commercial software products for some very well-known companies)
I know we programmers love getting into size wars (almost as much as we love getting into language wars), but sometimes smaller is indeed better.
It's not the individual parts that stand out, but rather the manner in which Asus packaged them into such a rugged, usable, attractive, inexpensive and friendly device that counts. Not since the days of the IBM 240 has anyone managed to pull this off.
The machine is perfectly adequate as a secondary programming platform, and it's stupidly fun to use. It makes you want to play with it.
I installed gcc, jdk6, perl, cpan, perl/tk, python, python wxWidgets, LAMP (with apache2, php5, mysql5 and various pecl extensions incuding pdo and apc), emacs, etc.
The only drawback is the small screen, but editing source in emacs or kate could be a lot worse.
Despite being small, the keyboard is perfectly usable. After a few hours I was able to touch-type on it. And the keys are clicky, something I miss from the days of the old IBM Model M keyboards (well, the eee isn't quite as loud, but I prefer the feel and travel over those on my PowerBook).
Others have mocked and derided the "toylike" asus launcher built on top of icewm, but I actually like it. I can always drop to shell (bash is just ctrl-alt-T away), and the tabbed interface is customizable. You can also install kde or gnome, and even set up compiz if you must.
Plenty of online help over at eeeuser.com as well (I post there as eeeOtter).
I don't often buy hardware, but I was compelled to run out and get an eee, and I'm glad I did. I stick it in my cargo pants side pocket, and now it goes everywhere with me.
Provenance is the backbone of the high-end auction business. These firms employ hundreds of learned and trained individuals whose duties include establishing and verifying the provenance of items auctioned.
If the provenance of a supposedly-"important" piece (or collection) cannot be verified, it is marked as "attributed to." If a piece has no historical significance at all, as with Aunt Tillie's old dining room table, it is simply sold as such: "old dining room table, Victorian reproduction, circa 1932."
Punitive damages are very much in order here if Christie's performed shoddy research and passed off little-used props or seconds as "the actual item/s used by Brent Spiner in specific episodes."
You cannot compare high-end auction houses to eBay at all, because eBay is not an auction house; it is purely a middleman.
Which is why I like cooking French. Quantities and instructions are very precise because they have to be. If you mess with the formula, the dish won't come out right. An ex-girlfriend fancied herself a cook, and was good with Italian dishes but never got the knack for French cooking because it required the kind of precision of which you speak.
I also found that as soon as I switched to better pans, my own cooking improved as well, because the heat transfer required by the recipe was now finally taking place. Nothing like a big heavy copper (or copper core) pan.
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I would play the shit out of Didgeridoo Hero. Also Sackbut Hero and Cornet Hero. Or maybe those are available as (shudder) DLC.
I'm in Chrome on an iMac (*ducks*) and they work fine.
I understood that reference.
5 minutes?
Heck, I can do that in 4 parsecs.
Back in the day I remember walking out of a tech interview and overhearing one guy urgently whisper to the other "Hire him! He's white!"
It was still kinda cringeworthy to hear even then, but this was before outsourcing, and boatloads (no pun intended) of Very Bad Programmers from Other Countries were flooding the market in person.
I loved Temple of Apshai and also the sequel, Hellfire Warrior.
Came here to post this as well. And to think my mod points expired yesterday. Sorry I couldn't mod you up.
Photo Mechanic. It's what the pros use to do exactly what you're asking for.
I have never once read about a data center catastrophe where a fancy shmancy failover system --or ANY kind of failover system for that matter-- actually worked. Does anyone test or maintain this stuff?
Anyone got any success stories to share?
You're not the only one.
Why? Because none allow a partial text search or advanced search options. This, in my opinion, is the biggest problem with the Android market right now, because if you can't find apps based on a single word -or a fragment of a word- then how will you know what's out there?
By way of example, I just looked up "jewel" in each market you listed, as well as on my phone. I got back a long list of jewel-type games, but the best one, Jewellust, was missing. Who knows what other jewel games I'm missing out on because of a lack of partial matching?
I'm sure there's lots of stuff in the market I'd be happy to buy, but I probably can't find it because of a substandard search mechanism.
e.g. a 20MB MFM became a 30MB RLL?
If so, RLLs would be out, because the compression system would get in the way of direct bit placement on the platter.
I still have a couple of those old Seagates somewhere (including the full-length ISA RLL controller card), along with a (Western Digital?) 150MB ESDI drive. Ah, the good old days.
I do realize that. And as does any technical person (and no doubt average slashdot reader), I try as quickly as possible to get past tier 1 and up into the ranks of the people who know better.
My sole issue is with the fact that such a terrible story (article? rant? question? discussion) made it to slashdot's front page to begin with. This is hardly the kind of thing I expect to see there, and if the submitter actually made it so far as to get his story (article, rant, question, discussion) posted, he'd better damn well be ready to deal with the typical slashdot reader.
Really now. Some yutz whines about tech support on a forum where most of us have a dim view of tech support, and others have had nothing but bad experiences with tech support? (go ahead, read back a few months/years. Check out some articles and comments. I'll wait)
I don't post much. And usually not so vehemently. But this crap really struck a chord, and I just couldn't let it slide. I had to say what at least a few of us were thinking.
Um...yes. I know that. Hence my rant. I don't know how this topic even made the front page; no clue as to how it got greenlit. Some tier 1 jockey whining about his job? Hardly worthy of a slashdot front page article. In all my years here as a lurker and member I've rarely seen such dross make it past the mods. Slow news day I guess.
You know what? My excellent karma be damned.
How about you help desk workers actually solve some shit for a change. I'm tired of calling the help desk (be it corporate or extra-corporate like my cellphone provider) and never getting anything fixed. I don't give a damn about where you want to get to or what (or who) you think you're supposed to be. That's precisely the problem. You're worried about where you think you're supposed to be instead of getting your fucking job done. Fuck you. To high holy hell. Solve some goddamn problems instead of whining. Or don't work the fucking helpdesk if that's not where you want to be.
Guess what. I don't give a fuck about you or your career, any more than I do the corner mechanic. Solve my fucking computer problems. That's it. That's what you're paid to do. That's what I call you for. That's your job. Goddamn fucking do it. For once. Okay?
Or ConfusingAnalogyGuy. I'm not even sure which side of the argument he's trying to (dis)prove.
In other words, all the boring parts.
Wonderful.
If I wanted Desperate Housewives in Space, I'd...well...I...
The new series started out with such a bang, and devolved into some kind of retro-90s self-indulgent pseudo-moralistic narcissistic tripe. This we need more of?
Let's get back to the basics guys: less red dress, more red blood.
And don't forget to modulate the shield harmonics.
I lease a server from them and they're moving me into the new data center next week. Exciting stuff!
Despite what others might say, he is a charlatan in the truest definition of the word.
Most of his advice is utter bunk, and his though process is entirely disconnected from logic and reality. I'll give him credit though for building a reputation around himself the way large consulting firms like Accenture have managed to do --a lot of huff and puff, and very little quality output.
I feel this is important to say, because many people are familiar with his name and when they hear someone ask about "GUI" or "usability" their first instinct is to shout JAKOB NIELSEN!
So...whatever you go looking for, don't waste your time on him.
(note: I spent over ten years of my twenty-five year programming career as a gui programmer/usability expert on both retail and commercial software products for some very well-known companies)
...and I'm posting from it now.
I know we programmers love getting into size wars (almost as much as we love getting into language wars), but sometimes smaller is indeed better.
It's not the individual parts that stand out, but rather the manner in which Asus packaged them into such a rugged, usable, attractive, inexpensive and friendly device that counts. Not since the days of the IBM 240 has anyone managed to pull this off.
The machine is perfectly adequate as a secondary programming platform, and it's stupidly fun to use. It makes you want to play with it.
I installed gcc, jdk6, perl, cpan, perl/tk, python, python wxWidgets, LAMP (with apache2, php5, mysql5 and various pecl extensions incuding pdo and apc), emacs, etc.
The only drawback is the small screen, but editing source in emacs or kate could be a lot worse.
Despite being small, the keyboard is perfectly usable. After a few hours I was able to touch-type on it. And the keys are clicky, something I miss from the days of the old IBM Model M keyboards (well, the eee isn't quite as loud, but I prefer the feel and travel over those on my PowerBook).
Others have mocked and derided the "toylike" asus launcher built on top of icewm, but I actually like it. I can always drop to shell (bash is just ctrl-alt-T away), and the tabbed interface is customizable. You can also install kde or gnome, and even set up compiz if you must.
Plenty of online help over at eeeuser.com as well (I post there as eeeOtter).
I don't often buy hardware, but I was compelled to run out and get an eee, and I'm glad I did. I stick it in my cargo pants side pocket, and now it goes everywhere with me.
Um...yes, they do.
Provenance is the backbone of the high-end auction business. These firms employ hundreds of learned and trained individuals whose duties include establishing and verifying the provenance of items auctioned.
If the provenance of a supposedly-"important" piece (or collection) cannot be verified, it is marked as "attributed to." If a piece has no historical significance at all, as with Aunt Tillie's old dining room table, it is simply sold as such: "old dining room table, Victorian reproduction, circa 1932."
Punitive damages are very much in order here if Christie's performed shoddy research and passed off little-used props or seconds as "the actual item/s used by Brent Spiner in specific episodes."
You cannot compare high-end auction houses to eBay at all, because eBay is not an auction house; it is purely a middleman.
The summary warns you about spoilers but you click the link anyhow.
*sigh*
Star Trek used to be so much fun. Now I don't even care.
Ballmer really is the court jester of the computer industry. We need to keep him around just for laughs.
Which is why I like cooking French. Quantities and instructions are very precise because they have to be. If you mess with the formula, the dish won't come out right. An ex-girlfriend fancied herself a cook, and was good with Italian dishes but never got the knack for French cooking because it required the kind of precision of which you speak.
I also found that as soon as I switched to better pans, my own cooking improved as well, because the heat transfer required by the recipe was now finally taking place. Nothing like a big heavy copper (or copper core) pan.