I understand where you are going and but your buying a house example is not helping you. When you purchase any piece of land it is zoned and that is controlled by the local government. Certain zones are for certain types of housing and what not.
You are allowed to change your house in accordance with their rules as it is zoned. Their zoning is like the EULA. You cannot tear down your home and build a 10 story tower to rent out. So whether you agree to it or not you are participating and bound to these kind of rules all the time. The only reason you are vocal about it now is because someone said Microsoft.
I will have you know that I can't stand MS. And I don't agree with this either but it is their right to do so. It is my right not to purchase it and I haven't and will not.
I agree completely. But, and there always is a but, what would be different with any other language???
With regards to gender; a creative teacher would understand that different people have different interests. That is why there is not one role in software development. You have testers, programmers, builders, integrators, scripters, configurators, design and graphics, audio & visual and a whole host of other roles.
Now imagine that very smart and inventive teacher structuring the class so different people work on different aspects and then come together to deliver one product. So people could be responsible for heads down coding and logic. More graphically oriented people could work on meshes and stuff. Audio and musically inclined students could work on tracks. Map, planning and layout people could design the levels. Hmmm... That sound strangely like a development team which is important to learn.
So back to my question about any other language, at least with this the teacher is ahead of the game because they already have something the kids could connect with. Would it be easy? No. But it would good.
In school kids have objectives that are more short term. Graduating, having fun and being creative are common examples of that. As educators you have more long term objectives for the kids. Preparing them for college or the professional world being prime examples of that. The answer to your question is somewhere in the middle.
If I wanted to interest kids in programming and teach them something useful I would try something like a course in Unreal Tournament editing or some other game that has a well defined scripting language. Yes it is a game but the scripting language is very C like in nature. And let's be honest you should really be focusing on teaching them how to analyze, break down and solve problems progamatically regardless of the language. Teach them that and then let them decide if it is something they want to pursue.
Another great aspect of teaching a course this way is that it shows them both the difficulty and the rewards of programming. It is not easy to create good levels in these games. They have to learn to handle various types of media as well as programming the main logic. As a great bonus they end up with something they all can play with in the end.
Any how, this kind of idea is not for a conservative environment and if you are in that situation then teach them Java and emphasize object oriented development. If your environment is a bit more progressive then I would look at the gaming route.
Forgot about that, yes the SnapShot and Clones rock! We have to have two different configurations of our image for one to operate in the office and the other over a VPN. I just started playing with SnapShot and Clones and it worked like a charm! Definitely the features rank up there with Sliced Bread!
I've outfitted my entire team with VMware Workstation. Our company has a hardline in that tech support will only support the W2K and WXP images that they install. The problem is that my entire infrastructure of servers is primarily Linux/AIX.
VMware allows us to have best of both worlds where we run SuSE 9.2 inside VMware and we basically spend 80% of our time in there. We roll and support our own images but the gains outway the cost/time to do that.
I've been using VMware for about 3 years now and I second the comment! This is one of the most useful tools we have at our disposal. The only other tool that we rely upon and would sadly miss is TextPad.:)
Get a life. It's not so much the spelling but the grammar. When I type for online posting I just brain dump. I'm not getting paid for this so I really don't care if it is grammatically correct or not. I just care that the meaning and point gets through and it did. Now move along cowardly troll...
I've played Ultima Online for a long time but recently took a break because of my schedule. I have some friends on one particular shard and I wanted to move to it. I was not about to take the time and level up my character from NOOB status to where I was in past. For a fair price (less then creating three advanced characters with EA) I purchased an account.
To me it was worth purchasing so I can quickly get back in to the swing of things. Ultima, being on of the most seasoned MMORPG games out there has a unique economic system that has been battered by different events. In the early days it was tough to make a million gold pieces, now it's not so hard. With a solid character I can easily turn out 25-30k in gold by just visiting some dungeons. If I have some vendors then I can turn out an extras 25-30k just selling the loot I gathered in addition to the gold. Pretty good for about 1 hours worth of playing.
So let's say I can make 50k in one hour. I can make about 1 million in 20 hours. Mind you that is 20 hours as a solo player, not with a massive group hording some area. On ebay you can by 1 million gp for about $8.00. Hmm... $8.00 or 20 hours of my time??? To start off I will take enough gold to get me going then I will make my own money in the game. That's why I'm in the game, to play and make things.
UO suffered a gold duping bug about 3 years ago and it hurt the economy. All of a sudden everyone had lots of money too spend and gold lost its value. Very much like a real world economy. Even the gold that was sold on eBay lost its value. It use to sell for about $25 and now it is only $8.00 on average. So did duping help the sellers? Absolutely not.
So the author states he doesn't understand why people would buy something. Try this out, what is owning stock in a company? It is very intangible and gives you the right to a certain portion of an entity. There isn't a physical thing you can touch, it is very intangible. That is the same premise with an online item. It has value to someone and they would like to have it for a certain price.
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...could drive the OLEDs. So if I switched from Firefox to OpenOffice the keys would automatically adjust themselves. This way we could leave to the application developers to interface their apps to something in the OS. This would be the future version of creating icons for your application or an extension of it.
I went to a company called Game Cabinets Inc. and purchased their plans and some supplies for 2 person cocktail cabinet. I ordered almost every electronic part from them with the exception of the Coin Door. I live 20 minutes from Happ Controls and got my last parts, including the door from them.
The plans I got were pretty darn good and has a great checklist for supplies. It took me roughly two weeks to get the cabinet built from scratch. I move it inside and then proceeded to do the electronics and wiring - very tedious. I would highly recommend going to Radio Shack and purchasing the the little wire labels to keep it all in order.
This was definitely a blast to do and I like the fact that I built it from scratch. That said, if you have the room build an upright. You can put more controls on the board which means you can play a variety of games. If you go to the Game Cabinets Inc website you will see the cocktail table that I built.
Arcade Controls website is the place to get all of your information as well!
I can see your point but then I have to ask, who is to blame for the poor usage? Is it the person who is sending the crap to you or is it you that allows that person to send crap to you?
My company has IM and it has the Nextel phones with the two-way radios. When I first joined the company as a team lead I was given the phone. I turned around to each of my employees and peers and stated: you can 2-way page me on this phone if and only if the sky is falling.
As of today, 18 months later, I have not received one 2-way page. If and when I do receive one I know it will be becuase of a true emergency.
You have to tell people how to communicate to you. If someone sends you crap that you don't want, politely ask them not to. It is that simple. My wife use to email me jokes/pics and I finally turned to her and said don't. Unless you know it is something I would like, don't send me the stuff. She sends me something about once every two months.
It's not the technology. It's the people who send crap and the people who allow it to be sent to them.
WSJ is worth every penny. No fluff, jus the facts. Friday offers a great personal journal for things over the weekend.
Student rate rocks! It's about $150, can't remember exactly, and you get BOTH the online version and the print version (delivered to the door). I'm currently pursuing my Masters and this is a great deal.
Rock on WSJ!
Had to go there! People say what they want to say about Paris but there are some facts that no one can dispute.
1) Good looking or not, she is fashionable!
2) If you look at her outrageous outfits you will notice that they are being worn by others now.
3) That dog! How many chicks do you see now with teeny dog?
Paris rocks in my book. Not only does she march to her own drum beat, she damn well built her own drum and others want it too!
First thing is that YDL has been a great solution on the PPC platform. I have had an WGS 8550, G3 Server and a G3 Yossmite running YDL 3 and YDL 4 for a good while and it is great! Support and community rocks as well.
Regarding a "free" distribution, YDL is free. If you want to pay for YDL.net you get access to releases earlier along with other great features. If you want installation support alone you can by the product with it. If you want to just buy the CDs you can as well. And if you want to just download the ISOs for free you can.
I paid for my CDs without support to help chip to a fablous company!
There are people who build the bridges and there are those who engineer them. What are you? There is a big difference here and unless you are going in to talk about Engineering then say you are a developer.
I've got my BS in CompSci and just my thesis away from an MS in SW Engineering, there is a big difference. My advice, tell them you write programs. Convey that programs run stuff like the bank machines, coke machines and games. Explain that programs are all around us.
Cost of a Linux support person compared to a Winblow -> HIGH
Hey if it was no risk and cost justfiable I'd say switch everyone to Linux, I cannot stand MS. But it is not.
I love people who talk about TCO and think they have a grip on it. I spent 5 years consulting and leading TCO based services. I was Gartner TCO certified. The numbers don't add up for this, NOT YET!
I think one good aspect is that this suit implies tht Linux is a viable and competitive solution. I know that we all know that but when you have corporations legitimizing it makes it even better!
Thank you SCO for this! Now go off and die miserably in a corner.
--I still can't believe they made Starbucks a chick--
I saw a local prodcution of "It's a Wonderful Life" where the angel Clarence was portrayed by a female rather than male. She was the hit of production!
Your statement really highlights how small minded and obtuse people can be.
Forget that the upfront cost of Windows or Linux. Focusing on that is like looking and one pebble and using it to describe all the rocks in world.
If you want to look at the cost of any software, Linux or others, in the corporate envrionment you have to considered three main points; managed support costs, unmananged support costs, investment costs. Before you get your undies in a bunch, yes there are other costs but if you slice up all the costs these three can average nearly 75% of the pie.
Managed Support Costs are the things budgeted for. Help Desk technicians, maintenance contracts and such. The cost of a Windows based support person is less than a Linux based support person. There are more Windows people (greater supply).
Umanaged Support Costs are those things that are costs generated by unplanned/budgeted items. For example, I sit at my desk and monkey around with getting something to work for an hour. That is a cost to the company both from a resource time spent perspective and from a loss of productivity perspective. THESE COSTS ARE HUGE!
Finally there are investment costs which are things the business will have to do to switch. Imagine a business with a 10 person support desk that is primarily Windows. There are documents, procedures, how-tos, along with the expertise the individuals have built up. Now you come in and say switch to Linux. The business will have to throw away a lot of that list and then spend even more money re-building it for Linux.
Even if Windows and Linux cost exactly the same to support/manage it is a tough sell to a CIO on the topic of Investment Costs. It will cost to much money to switch and for a period of time 1-2 years it puts the infrastructure at risk (new software, unknown problems, etc).
I'm a huge fan of Linux! I have to CPUs at work one is pure SuSE 9.2 and the other is W2K. Even on the W2K I spend my time in SuSE inside of VMware. I am very anti-MS but this is not about MS vs. Linux, this is about costs and risks to switching.
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I understand where you are going and but your buying a house example is not helping you. When you purchase any piece of land it is zoned and that is controlled by the local government. Certain zones are for certain types of housing and what not.
You are allowed to change your house in accordance with their rules as it is zoned. Their zoning is like the EULA. You cannot tear down your home and build a 10 story tower to rent out. So whether you agree to it or not you are participating and bound to these kind of rules all the time. The only reason you are vocal about it now is because someone said Microsoft.
I will have you know that I can't stand MS. And I don't agree with this either but it is their right to do so. It is my right not to purchase it and I haven't and will not.
I agree completely. But, and there always is a but, what would be different with any other language???
With regards to gender; a creative teacher would understand that different people have different interests. That is why there is not one role in software development. You have testers, programmers, builders, integrators, scripters, configurators, design and graphics, audio & visual and a whole host of other roles.
Now imagine that very smart and inventive teacher structuring the class so different people work on different aspects and then come together to deliver one product. So people could be responsible for heads down coding and logic. More graphically oriented people could work on meshes and stuff. Audio and musically inclined students could work on tracks. Map, planning and layout people could design the levels. Hmmm... That sound strangely like a development team which is important to learn.
So back to my question about any other language, at least with this the teacher is ahead of the game because they already have something the kids could connect with. Would it be easy? No. But it would good.
In school kids have objectives that are more short term. Graduating, having fun and being creative are common examples of that. As educators you have more long term objectives for the kids. Preparing them for college or the professional world being prime examples of that. The answer to your question is somewhere in the middle.
If I wanted to interest kids in programming and teach them something useful I would try something like a course in Unreal Tournament editing or some other game that has a well defined scripting language. Yes it is a game but the scripting language is very C like in nature. And let's be honest you should really be focusing on teaching them how to analyze, break down and solve problems progamatically regardless of the language. Teach them that and then let them decide if it is something they want to pursue.
Another great aspect of teaching a course this way is that it shows them both the difficulty and the rewards of programming. It is not easy to create good levels in these games. They have to learn to handle various types of media as well as programming the main logic. As a great bonus they end up with something they all can play with in the end.
Any how, this kind of idea is not for a conservative environment and if you are in that situation then teach them Java and emphasize object oriented development. If your environment is a bit more progressive then I would look at the gaming route.
Forgot about that, yes the SnapShot and Clones rock! We have to have two different configurations of our image for one to operate in the office and the other over a VPN. I just started playing with SnapShot and Clones and it worked like a charm! Definitely the features rank up there with Sliced Bread!
I've outfitted my entire team with VMware Workstation. Our company has a hardline in that tech support will only support the W2K and WXP images that they install. The problem is that my entire infrastructure of servers is primarily Linux/AIX.
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VMware allows us to have best of both worlds where we run SuSE 9.2 inside VMware and we basically spend 80% of our time in there. We roll and support our own images but the gains outway the cost/time to do that.
I've been using VMware for about 3 years now and I second the comment! This is one of the most useful tools we have at our disposal. The only other tool that we rely upon and would sadly miss is TextPad.
Get a life. It's not so much the spelling but the grammar. When I type for online posting I just brain dump. I'm not getting paid for this so I really don't care if it is grammatically correct or not. I just care that the meaning and point gets through and it did. Now move along cowardly troll...
I've played Ultima Online for a long time but recently took a break because of my schedule. I have some friends on one particular shard and I wanted to move to it. I was not about to take the time and level up my character from NOOB status to where I was in past. For a fair price (less then creating three advanced characters with EA) I purchased an account.
To me it was worth purchasing so I can quickly get back in to the swing of things. Ultima, being on of the most seasoned MMORPG games out there has a unique economic system that has been battered by different events. In the early days it was tough to make a million gold pieces, now it's not so hard. With a solid character I can easily turn out 25-30k in gold by just visiting some dungeons. If I have some vendors then I can turn out an extras 25-30k just selling the loot I gathered in addition to the gold. Pretty good for about 1 hours worth of playing.
So let's say I can make 50k in one hour. I can make about 1 million in 20 hours. Mind you that is 20 hours as a solo player, not with a massive group hording some area. On ebay you can by 1 million gp for about $8.00. Hmm... $8.00 or 20 hours of my time??? To start off I will take enough gold to get me going then I will make my own money in the game. That's why I'm in the game, to play and make things.
UO suffered a gold duping bug about 3 years ago and it hurt the economy. All of a sudden everyone had lots of money too spend and gold lost its value. Very much like a real world economy. Even the gold that was sold on eBay lost its value. It use to sell for about $25 and now it is only $8.00 on average. So did duping help the sellers? Absolutely not.
So the author states he doesn't understand why people would buy something. Try this out, what is owning stock in a company? It is very intangible and gives you the right to a certain portion of an entity. There isn't a physical thing you can touch, it is very intangible. That is the same premise with an online item. It has value to someone and they would like to have it for a certain price.
Let's see how you handle it...
like gMail. MS execs would just love an exodus of people over to google.
If a bunch of hotmail users stop getting email then that will only hurt MS.
...could drive the OLEDs. So if I switched from Firefox to OpenOffice the keys would automatically adjust themselves. This way we could leave to the application developers to interface their apps to something in the OS. This would be the future version of creating icons for your application or an extension of it.
mmmmm... corned beef...
I went to a company called Game Cabinets Inc. and purchased their plans and some supplies for 2 person cocktail cabinet. I ordered almost every electronic part from them with the exception of the Coin Door. I live 20 minutes from Happ Controls and got my last parts, including the door from them.
The plans I got were pretty darn good and has a great checklist for supplies. It took me roughly two weeks to get the cabinet built from scratch. I move it inside and then proceeded to do the electronics and wiring - very tedious. I would highly recommend going to Radio Shack and purchasing the the little wire labels to keep it all in order.
This was definitely a blast to do and I like the fact that I built it from scratch. That said, if you have the room build an upright. You can put more controls on the board which means you can play a variety of games. If you go to the Game Cabinets Inc website you will see the cocktail table that I built.
Arcade Controls website is the place to get all of your information as well!
I can see your point but then I have to ask, who is to blame for the poor usage? Is it the person who is sending the crap to you or is it you that allows that person to send crap to you?
My company has IM and it has the Nextel phones with the two-way radios. When I first joined the company as a team lead I was given the phone. I turned around to each of my employees and peers and stated: you can 2-way page me on this phone if and only if the sky is falling.
As of today, 18 months later, I have not received one 2-way page. If and when I do receive one I know it will be becuase of a true emergency.
You have to tell people how to communicate to you. If someone sends you crap that you don't want, politely ask them not to. It is that simple. My wife use to email me jokes/pics and I finally turned to her and said don't. Unless you know it is something I would like, don't send me the stuff. She sends me something about once every two months.
It's not the technology. It's the people who send crap and the people who allow it to be sent to them.
WSJ is worth every penny. No fluff, jus the facts. Friday offers a great personal journal for things over the weekend.
Student rate rocks! It's about $150, can't remember exactly, and you get BOTH the online version and the print version (delivered to the door). I'm currently pursuing my Masters and this is a great deal. Rock on WSJ!
:)
Had to go there! People say what they want to say about Paris but there are some facts that no one can dispute.
1) Good looking or not, she is fashionable!
2) If you look at her outrageous outfits you will notice that they are being worn by others now.
3) That dog! How many chicks do you see now with teeny dog?
Paris rocks in my book. Not only does she march to her own drum beat, she damn well built her own drum and others want it too!
First thing is that YDL has been a great solution on the PPC platform. I have had an WGS 8550, G3 Server and a G3 Yossmite running YDL 3 and YDL 4 for a good while and it is great! Support and community rocks as well.
Regarding a "free" distribution, YDL is free. If you want to pay for YDL.net you get access to releases earlier along with other great features. If you want installation support alone you can by the product with it. If you want to just buy the CDs you can as well. And if you want to just download the ISOs for free you can.
I paid for my CDs without support to help chip to a fablous company!
I agree with you 100%. Just reading that line from my original post and I did not mean it to sound as if they "cost" to much. They don't.
They have a skill set that others don't. It is basic supply/demand.
There are people who build the bridges and there are those who engineer them. What are you? There is a big difference here and unless you are going in to talk about Engineering then say you are a developer.
I've got my BS in CompSci and just my thesis away from an MS in SW Engineering, there is a big difference. My advice, tell them you write programs. Convey that programs run stuff like the bank machines, coke machines and games. Explain that programs are all around us.
Cost of switching end users to Linux -> HIGH
Cost of switching support staff to Linux -> HIGH
Cost of switching support documents -> HIGH
Cost of a Linux support person compared to a Winblow -> HIGH
Hey if it was no risk and cost justfiable I'd say switch everyone to Linux, I cannot stand MS. But it is not.
I love people who talk about TCO and think they have a grip on it. I spent 5 years consulting and leading TCO based services. I was Gartner TCO certified. The numbers don't add up for this, NOT YET!
I think one good aspect is that this suit implies tht Linux is a viable and competitive solution. I know that we all know that but when you have corporations legitimizing it makes it even better!
Thank you SCO for this! Now go off and die miserably in a corner.
--In that production, did they call the female angel "Clarence"?--
Yes
--I still can't believe they made Starbucks a chick--
I saw a local prodcution of "It's a Wonderful Life" where the angel Clarence was portrayed by a female rather than male. She was the hit of production!
Your statement really highlights how small minded and obtuse people can be.
Speak for yourself. If I could have my PalmOS on my Nintendo DS I'd pay for it!
Kids play nintendo ---> WRONG both do!
Forget that the upfront cost of Windows or Linux. Focusing on that is like looking and one pebble and using it to describe all the rocks in world.
If you want to look at the cost of any software, Linux or others, in the corporate envrionment you have to considered three main points; managed support costs, unmananged support costs, investment costs. Before you get your undies in a bunch, yes there are other costs but if you slice up all the costs these three can average nearly 75% of the pie.
Managed Support Costs are the things budgeted for. Help Desk technicians, maintenance contracts and such. The cost of a Windows based support person is less than a Linux based support person. There are more Windows people (greater supply). Umanaged Support Costs are those things that are costs generated by unplanned/budgeted items. For example, I sit at my desk and monkey around with getting something to work for an hour. That is a cost to the company both from a resource time spent perspective and from a loss of productivity perspective. THESE COSTS ARE HUGE!
Finally there are investment costs which are things the business will have to do to switch. Imagine a business with a 10 person support desk that is primarily Windows. There are documents, procedures, how-tos, along with the expertise the individuals have built up. Now you come in and say switch to Linux. The business will have to throw away a lot of that list and then spend even more money re-building it for Linux.
Even if Windows and Linux cost exactly the same to support/manage it is a tough sell to a CIO on the topic of Investment Costs. It will cost to much money to switch and for a period of time 1-2 years it puts the infrastructure at risk (new software, unknown problems, etc).
I'm a huge fan of Linux! I have to CPUs at work one is pure SuSE 9.2 and the other is W2K. Even on the W2K I spend my time in SuSE inside of VMware. I am very anti-MS but this is not about MS vs. Linux, this is about costs and risks to switching.