My gut tells me the education is just the "official" or "least objectionable" thing employers are finding to either negotiate a lower salary or show him the door.
Kinda like when you buy a car and find some nitpick thing to get the guy to knock a little off the price.
Yup. I've done it in a Toyota Corolla several times during the winter (snow boots). Usually I'd hit both at once though. One of those things that catches you off guard.
It was actually something I specifically looked for when I replaced it (got a Honda Civic.. lots of pedal spacing there).
On the other hand, it's a good way to advertise games to other parties.
I was first exposed to a lot of the games I bought as a kid by playing them at a friends house. I imagine the inverse was true of my friends. We all kinda had the same game collections, some we discovered on our own, some we were introduced to. I can't think of any games off the top of my head that we played and I liked but I didn't have my own copy of eventually.
I have really fond memories of playing C&C at my friends house on PS1 via link cable, as well as a variety of other games that we played via split screen (I even remember some being 4 screen using a "multitap").
Maybe it's just nostalgia talking, but there's definitely something about being in the same room as the people you are playing with/against, and proper lan parties are a pain.
Oh definitely granted, I've found Java to be much better in this regard than just about anything else still under active development.
Java keeps deprecated stuff around forever and seems to at least generally understand that people can't rewrite their whole code base every few years. I'd put Java's built in libraries over just about any other lib I've ever used as far as likeliness to still work in 10 years goes.
I assume parent was talking more to Minecraft itself not being threaded rather than Java itself.
It's a very annoying and frustrating problem for just about anyone who has tried to run a server, especially if one liked to play with a lot of mods. You've got this killer server with 8 cores, but minecraft can only use one of them, and the log file is filled with complaints of things not executing fast enough.
It got bad enough that someone has actually made a pretty damn good attempt at adding threading themselves via a mod (tickthreading).
-people use methods that have been deprecated since java3 (including 3'rd party vendors that you have to deal with) -massive (and expensive) libraries are used years after they stopped being maintained/supported -new versions do break old functionality by adding new behavior (often around security) -reasonable mistakes/oversights where new situations are introduced and not accounted for in code (statuses are reported differently / new things added to enums / etc)
It's rare to see stuff break recently between even major versions of java (with some notable exceptions). Usually when it does, it's the result of people (inevitably the makers of 3rd party libraries you are forced to use) doing stupid shit (often times using stuff that's been deprecated since like java 3).
It seems like a good idea and all, but I wouldn't consider this a critical must have feature.
My (on the spot off the top of my head) wishlist: - swing that doesn't suck (seriously, how has this not yet been fixed) - file choosers that don't suck (yes I already said swing, but file choosers just stand out as being particularly bad - some standard command line argument processing - unsigned types - multiple inheritance (yes I know, old argument, but I want it damnit!)
Even for home use this is true. I've now ripped my entire (quite large) DVD collection because the cost of the storage to make it happen became low enough to be worth it for the convenience of having my whole collection available on my file server.
That was a few years ago, and at the time I ripped everything to h264 and mainly just ripped the main feature (not all the commentary/bonus tracks/etc). Now storage is cheap enough that if I were to do it all again, I'd probably just store disk images.
It made a certain amount of sense to advertise how many _average_ sized songs you could fit on say, an mp3 player back when this was actually an often limiting factor. The same could be said about cameras and SD cards. It was a useful piece of information to a non-technical person, and in general, wasn't really that inaccurate.
These days, even the cheap "Coby" type mp3 players can hold thousands of songs, so it's just turned into a big shiny number.
To be honest, it wasn't a terrible unit of measure early on, especially with things like mp3 players, cameras, and SD cards.
Yes, an mp3 can vary in size dramatically, but there is a fairly consistent average. Most mp3's are going to be somewhere between 3 and 10 MB. That's close enough to give a rough estimate of how many "songs" you can fit on your mp3 player.
It was a reasonable measure for a non-technical person because it was a capability they were actually concerned with. These days it's silly though, because the number of songs you can fit on even the cheapest walmart mp3 player is in the "probably more songs than you will listen to in your lifetime" kinda range. It's turned into a big cool sounding number rather than a useful piece of information.
We arn't beating a dead horse here. We are beating the pink stain on the floor where the horse used to be. While we are at it, lets talk about how shitty airline food is.
My contribution: this is just a prototype to show that this will work, the real version will be implemented properly.
It's a shitty solution and totally unfair to the kids, but I think it's the only solution.
Trying to reason with an "anti-vaxxer" is like trying to reason with the contrail folks. Just not going to be productive.
The only way this movement is going to die is when a sufficient number of parents watch their non-vaccinated children die or become horribly disfigured from long-since dealt with diseases.
Just about anything good eventually becomes over-hyped.
Actually I don't think anything is described as exactly as good or as bad as it actually is. People either rain praise on something they like, or trash talk something they don't, and it's usually overdone.
Personally, I like xkcd. Yes, it's not consistently ground shattering. The average day to day comic tends to range somewhere from meh to mild chuckle. But for something you get 3 days a week, that's actually pretty damn good.
Then occasionally he goes all out and actually _does_ build something that lives up to hype, which then of course itself gets overhyped like everything else, so he really can't win.
For a long time that's what I did (not the trimming down storage requirements, but the backing up the irreplaceable stuff).
In my 20 TB array (12x2TB drives in raid6) the "irreplaceable" stuff comfortably fits on an external 2TB drive. I have two of them.. one I leave plugged in, one I keep elsewhere, synced daily, swapped out periodically).
However I recently did start backing up the whole 20TB (within the last year) via a completely separate "backup" server made from cheap parts. It sounds extreme, but when you consider that performance and reliability don't really matter, and storage is cheap, you can throw together a backup server pretty quick (in my case I used an old desktop with some sata cards jammed in, and those ultra-cheap "green" drives).
Most of that 20 TB is replaceable (media rips for which I still have the media) or stuff that I probably wouldn't miss, but it would still be an epic hassle if it irrecoverably died, so having a complete mirror as a safety net is nice.
Why buy one array when you can have two at twice the price?/quote
This is actually what I do, except not at twice the price.
I have my high-ish performance (for a home server anyway) file server made from decent parts, and then a server of equal storage capacity made from an old desktop with a couple sata cards, software raid, and those ultra-cheap "green" drives.
Reliability is less important in a backup server, and so is performance. As long as it doesn't die at the same time as your main server dies, or during recovery, it doesn't really matter, so you can really cheap out on it.
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My gut tells me the education is just the "official" or "least objectionable" thing employers are finding to either negotiate a lower salary or show him the door.
Kinda like when you buy a car and find some nitpick thing to get the guy to knock a little off the price.
Yup. I've done it in a Toyota Corolla several times during the winter (snow boots). Usually I'd hit both at once though. One of those things that catches you off guard.
It was actually something I specifically looked for when I replaced it (got a Honda Civic.. lots of pedal spacing there).
If you believe fluke's statement on the matter (personally I do), they didn't initiate this whole mess.
On the other hand, it's a good way to advertise games to other parties.
I was first exposed to a lot of the games I bought as a kid by playing them at a friends house. I imagine the inverse was true of my friends. We all kinda had the same game collections, some we discovered on our own, some we were introduced to. I can't think of any games off the top of my head that we played and I liked but I didn't have my own copy of eventually.
I have really fond memories of playing C&C at my friends house on PS1 via link cable, as well as a variety of other games that we played via split screen (I even remember some being 4 screen using a "multitap").
Maybe it's just nostalgia talking, but there's definitely something about being in the same room as the people you are playing with/against, and proper lan parties are a pain.
Oh definitely granted, I've found Java to be much better in this regard than just about anything else still under active development.
Java keeps deprecated stuff around forever and seems to at least generally understand that people can't rewrite their whole code base every few years. I'd put Java's built in libraries over just about any other lib I've ever used as far as likeliness to still work in 10 years goes.
I assume parent was talking more to Minecraft itself not being threaded rather than Java itself.
It's a very annoying and frustrating problem for just about anyone who has tried to run a server, especially if one liked to play with a lot of mods. You've got this killer server with 8 cores, but minecraft can only use one of them, and the log file is filled with complaints of things not executing fast enough.
It got bad enough that someone has actually made a pretty damn good attempt at adding threading themselves via a mod (tickthreading).
Hmm, I haven't noticed that.
Definitely a step in the right direction, and certainly useful to anyone who has to deal with networking :)
Meanwhile in the real world:
-people use methods that have been deprecated since java3 (including 3'rd party vendors that you have to deal with)
-massive (and expensive) libraries are used years after they stopped being maintained/supported
-new versions do break old functionality by adding new behavior (often around security)
-reasonable mistakes/oversights where new situations are introduced and not accounted for in code (statuses are reported differently / new things added to enums / etc)
Yeah, go for it.
It's rare to see stuff break recently between even major versions of java (with some notable exceptions). Usually when it does, it's the result of people (inevitably the makers of 3rd party libraries you are forced to use) doing stupid shit (often times using stuff that's been deprecated since like java 3).
It seems like a good idea and all, but I wouldn't consider this a critical must have feature.
My (on the spot off the top of my head) wishlist:
- swing that doesn't suck (seriously, how has this not yet been fixed)
- file choosers that don't suck (yes I already said swing, but file choosers just stand out as being particularly bad
- some standard command line argument processing
- unsigned types
- multiple inheritance (yes I know, old argument, but I want it damnit!)
Yup!
Even for home use this is true. I've now ripped my entire (quite large) DVD collection because the cost of the storage to make it happen became low enough to be worth it for the convenience of having my whole collection available on my file server.
That was a few years ago, and at the time I ripped everything to h264 and mainly just ripped the main feature (not all the commentary/bonus tracks/etc). Now storage is cheap enough that if I were to do it all again, I'd probably just store disk images.
It made a certain amount of sense to advertise how many _average_ sized songs you could fit on say, an mp3 player back when this was actually an often limiting factor. The same could be said about cameras and SD cards. It was a useful piece of information to a non-technical person, and in general, wasn't really that inaccurate.
These days, even the cheap "Coby" type mp3 players can hold thousands of songs, so it's just turned into a big shiny number.
To be honest, it wasn't a terrible unit of measure early on, especially with things like mp3 players, cameras, and SD cards.
Yes, an mp3 can vary in size dramatically, but there is a fairly consistent average. Most mp3's are going to be somewhere between 3 and 10 MB. That's close enough to give a rough estimate of how many "songs" you can fit on your mp3 player.
It was a reasonable measure for a non-technical person because it was a capability they were actually concerned with. These days it's silly though, because the number of songs you can fit on even the cheapest walmart mp3 player is in the "probably more songs than you will listen to in your lifetime" kinda range. It's turned into a big cool sounding number rather than a useful piece of information.
"All our users are complaining bitterly about these changes, but I'm sure once they get used to it they will see we had it right all along."
See also: gnome
We arn't beating a dead horse here. We are beating the pink stain on the floor where the horse used to be. While we are at it, lets talk about how shitty airline food is.
My contribution: this is just a prototype to show that this will work, the real version will be implemented properly.
Who is going to do that... the cryptography police?
Crypto and security guys are an opinionated lot. Getting everyone to agree to some kind of standard is unlikely.
It's a shitty solution and totally unfair to the kids, but I think it's the only solution.
Trying to reason with an "anti-vaxxer" is like trying to reason with the contrail folks. Just not going to be productive.
The only way this movement is going to die is when a sufficient number of parents watch their non-vaccinated children die or become horribly disfigured from long-since dealt with diseases.
Just about anything good eventually becomes over-hyped.
Actually I don't think anything is described as exactly as good or as bad as it actually is. People either rain praise on something they like, or trash talk something they don't, and it's usually overdone.
Personally, I like xkcd. Yes, it's not consistently ground shattering. The average day to day comic tends to range somewhere from meh to mild chuckle. But for something you get 3 days a week, that's actually pretty damn good.
Then occasionally he goes all out and actually _does_ build something that lives up to hype, which then of course itself gets overhyped like everything else, so he really can't win.
For a long time that's what I did (not the trimming down storage requirements, but the backing up the irreplaceable stuff).
In my 20 TB array (12x2TB drives in raid6) the "irreplaceable" stuff comfortably fits on an external 2TB drive. I have two of them.. one I leave plugged in, one I keep elsewhere, synced daily, swapped out periodically).
However I recently did start backing up the whole 20TB (within the last year) via a completely separate "backup" server made from cheap parts. It sounds extreme, but when you consider that performance and reliability don't really matter, and storage is cheap, you can throw together a backup server pretty quick (in my case I used an old desktop with some sata cards jammed in, and those ultra-cheap "green" drives).
Most of that 20 TB is replaceable (media rips for which I still have the media) or stuff that I probably wouldn't miss, but it would still be an epic hassle if it irrecoverably died, so having a complete mirror as a safety net is nice.
.. the heck
Why buy one array when you can have two at twice the price?/quote
This is actually what I do, except not at twice the price.
I have my high-ish performance (for a home server anyway) file server made from decent parts, and then a server of equal storage capacity made from an old desktop with a couple sata cards, software raid, and those ultra-cheap "green" drives.
Reliability is less important in a backup server, and so is performance. As long as it doesn't die at the same time as your main server dies, or during recovery, it doesn't really matter, so you can really cheap out on it.
As a fellow Canadian, I'd like to point out that you forgot to say sorry.
Sorry :(
Totally with you.
Sometimes abstract art is actually novel, or does something in a way that actually expresses something.
This type of shit is just pretentious and boring.
Uhh...
From the article:
"...the students were asked to listen to popular music and rate how pleasurable they considered each song."