The view that we need NO government regulation (e.g., get rid entirely of EPA and replace it with nothing) is roughly as stupid as saying that the government can fix anything, we just need to give it the power to do so (which does seem to be a very real viewpoint).
In my particular case, I came in around 2:30pm (this was about 3 1/2 years ago, so I'm a bit foggy on the exact timing) and I asked, after about an hour, if I should keep trying. They said yes, please do.... so I kept trying until I thought it'd be close to when they'd want to leave (and I had a previous engagement that evening).
But yes, I agree; asking for help on the job is a good idea. Utilizing the skills of your team members, being willing to say "hey, any ideas on how I might be able to do this?" or "can you check to see if I'm doing this correctly before I finish everything?" is something I have seen both ignored (and thus, stupid mistakes are done) and efficiently done (which, in addition to helping get stuff done, also helps the team... work together as a team and "feel" like a team).
As I recall, I was able to make headway on the problem. I got it to display the first set of results... oh, that's what it was. Given XML, display them in this page where designated... including pagination. By 4:30 or so, I had gotten the results displaying correctly and all that, but didn't have pagination done.
I interviewed at a company, some sort of advertising thing. Relatively small - I was fresh out of college and talked to some heads of something-or-other. Anyways, there were two of us that happened to interview at the same time; they had two test stations setup. There were a few multiple choice sorts of questions, and then an actual programming test dealing with extracting ads out of an XML page, as I recall, in PHP. Well, I'd never dealt with XML in PHP at all, so it was totally new to me. I found various things online (XML parser, etc). After a couple hours and making some progress, but not completing it - and having the other guy already finish roughly an hour or so earlier and whatever - I said I wasn't going to be able to complete it very quickly and asked if I should leave or not.
The head hiring people asked if they could talk to me, so I said sure. Asked if I thought I could complete it, given time - I said sure, it wasn't that difficult, it's just that I had never worked with XML parsing before and was having to learn it as I went. Then they pretty much startled me. They said, basically, the following: the other guy interviewing had all the skills, he was able to churn out the problem, and his test scores were good (as were mine, incidentally). But they didn't like his attitude (somewhat arrogant, loudly proclaiming "oh yeah, it was easy!" and that sort of thing). They said that even though I couldn't complete it within an hour or two, they liked my attitude, they liked that I stayed at it for about two hours (without being asked really), they liked that I was honest to say I would not be able to complete it by the end of the business day (my interview was at like 2:30 and it was now 4:30). They basically said they'd offer me a Jr. Dev position based on the work ethic, honesty, and generally good attitude/personality (along with knowledge of general programming stuff based on test scores, resume, etc).
I didn't end up accepting as I got a much better offer elsewhere - also, primarily, based on work ethic, personality, general knowledge, etc.... it was a "we'll train you to do what we want you to do, because we can see you're versatile enough and willing to learn" - but the experience was pretty eye-opening.
I relatively regularly use Ubuntu, RedHat, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Android.
now people just don't have so much reason to complain
So in other words, it's not really that bad, but people still dislike it? out of principle, I guess?
Sounds like the same thing that happens with Linux. People don't like it. Why? I dunno. It's "different" or it's not "supported" or it's "slow" or it's "communist" or who knows what else. Typically, there aren't really good answers by typical users. Actually, I'd say it's not quite ready due to video driver issues, but that's more nVidia and ATI's fault than anyone else, unfortunately.
And until they get the driver thing worked out, I doubt many mainstream games will be ported or written for it, unfortunately.
I love using Linux for work. Way nicer for me, since I do a lot of shell stuff, command line, python, perl, etc. But I use a Windows box for some things that just don't exist on Linux [yet]... like a good music notation program akin to Sibelius (or Finale, though I don't like Finale... at least not the version I tried in school a few years ago), games like The Elder Scrolls series or Neverwinter Nights type things, a relatively easy to use and cheap DAW like Reaper (yes, I know, it works in wine...), etc.
It sounds like Facebook, Disqus, etc., used to use "programming" that made it hard for Google to index them. Apparently, that has changed. So... is this a change by Google or by the comment platforms? It sounds like it's the comment platform that changed, not Google.
Why blame Google, again?
For that matter... if you post something publically (public comments, not private/friends-only)... why should you expect that it won't be indexed?
I actually didn't buy it. It's work-provided. IBM:)
I expected some issues... and Linux does work on it.
I just disabled Optimus, which was relatively easy... the tricky part was finding out I needed to disable parts of ACPI (kernel parameter) in order for the nvidia drivers to not crash and hang when udev starts.
I have the drivers working now. The issue was acpi. And, incidentally, this is not only RHEL; I actually found most of my "fix-it" information on an Ubuntu thread.
As for RHEL, it's RHEL Workstation. Why do I use it? Because it's officially supported by IBM's "open client" thingy (which allows me to use notes, etc., on Linux; much prefer it for my kind of work as opposed to Windows). Debian/Ubuntu is as well, but they only have x86-32 builds (sigh), not x86-64.
But, practically speaking, for general functionality, I really can't tell a difference between Ubuntu and RHEL Workstation 6.1 (using gnome on it). Seems to boot about as fast (LUKS encryption required), basically as stable, suspend works, nvidia drivers work after looking up some information on it, etc.
I'd actually *rather* use Debian/Ubuntu, but the x86-32 part (IBM specific issue there... just no available Notes version for x86-64...) got me.
It's stupid to say that Microsoft cannot have a rendering engine on their OS that is required to be there by other parts of the OS.
I am more than welcome, I'm sure (hey look! a Bingy firefox!), to download my own browser of choice and use it. It just won't be used for the parts of the OS that require their own rendering engine. Which makes sense; how can MS make sure that Firefox would render Metro style UI apps correctly? They HAVE to provide something to render. The fact that it's the same engine as renders webpages is, in my opinion, reusing something they already had developed. Makes sense to me.
If they actually forced web browsing use it and didn't let you install Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, etc.... that'd be different.
The biggest problem I typically run into with installing Linux, nowadays, is the GPU.
The open source drivers are okay for most things. The proprietary drivers (currently, I have an nVidia based laptop for work and am running RHEL Workstation 6.1) tend to have issues.
For example, my current laptop, a Lenovo W520, cannot boot RHEL 6.1 if I have full ACPI enabled as well as the discrete graphics card enabled (BIOS switch; has both integrated Intel GPU and a discrete nVidia GPU). With some kernel parameter and xorg.conf finesse, I have a workaround with little issues... sleep works, brightness controls, battery monitor, etc.
Sound, integrated webcam, wifi, etc., all work fine.
If you don't care about GPU power and are just going to get one with integrated graphics anyways and use the open source drivers (like nouveau), that may make it easier.
There are a variety of online sites that have lists of laptops along with their various distro compatibility results. In general, I've had good results with Dell computers... and I actually haven't really experienced a wireless card issue in a while, nor a sleep/hibernate issue (and "sleeping when I close the lid" is easily changed; I like it not to sleep when I do that, so I disabled it).
And clearly doesn't happen to everyone. My Windows 7 desktop boots quite quickly and the desktop is usable quite quickly after logging in. YMMV, as seems to be always the case, regardless of OS (I have used Sabayon Linux [Gentoo based], RedHat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu... and they all go through the same "gets slower the more I use it" problems. Just like Windows.)
I HAVE noticed that what drivers Windows has to load makes a big difference in how fast it boots and how fast you get to the desktop.
The/. summary tells you what SQL Server and Azure are, because the descriptions arbitrarily happen to occur in the Wired paragraph that's been quoted.
So what you're saying is.... the person who wrote the summary doesn't know how to write a good summary or pick a good quote.:) (no, I'm not new here...)
I like opera, and prefer it on my tablet, actually. I run Firefox, Chrome, and Opera on my "real" computers (and IE on Windows), though I usually use Chrome.
The problem I have with this is that, in my experience, non-scrolling (whether it's a page flip or some sort of click-to-advance) alternatives to scrolling tend to be really, really slow if you want to zoom, like, half-way down. Or even worse, all the way down. I know, you could add quick little buttons to go-to-top and go-to-bottom... but it's just generally hard to quickly flip a long ways back.
The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules.
... not fond of rules for themselves.
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While I agree that Jobs was apparently a good CEO and realize that many people love Apple products...
The history of Windows dates back to September 1981, when Chase Bishop, a computer scientist, designed the first model of an electronic device and project "Interface Manager" was started. It was announced in November 1983 (after the Apple Lisa, but before the Macintosh) under the name "Windows", but Windows 1.0 was not released until November 1985.
Several bitmap display systems preceded X. From Xerox came the Alto (1973) and the Star (1981). From Apollo Computer came Display Manager (1981). From Apple came the Lisa (1983) and the Macintosh (1984). The Unix world had the Andrew Project (1982) and Rob Pike's Blit terminal (1982).
The Xerox Alto (and later Xerox Star ) was an early personal computer developed at Xerox PARC in 1973. It was the first computer to use the desktop metaphor and mouse-driven graphical user interface (GUI).
It was not a commercial product, but several thousand units were built and were heavily used at PARC, other Xerox facilities, and at several universities for many years. The Alto greatly influenced the design of personal computers in the following decades, notably the Apple Macintosh and the first Sun workstations.
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“A lot of design compromises were made especially to give the Marine Corps the STOVL capability which, by the way, they’ve never used in combat,”
Do they currently have that capability? If not, how could they have actually used it in combat already? ...
The view that we need NO government regulation (e.g., get rid entirely of EPA and replace it with nothing) is roughly as stupid as saying that the government can fix anything, we just need to give it the power to do so (which does seem to be a very real viewpoint).
It is both. Sun, and now Oracle, have their own non-OSS version, and there's also an OSS version that has a few features missing.
In my particular case, I came in around 2:30pm (this was about 3 1/2 years ago, so I'm a bit foggy on the exact timing) and I asked, after about an hour, if I should keep trying. They said yes, please do.... so I kept trying until I thought it'd be close to when they'd want to leave (and I had a previous engagement that evening).
But yes, I agree; asking for help on the job is a good idea. Utilizing the skills of your team members, being willing to say "hey, any ideas on how I might be able to do this?" or "can you check to see if I'm doing this correctly before I finish everything?" is something I have seen both ignored (and thus, stupid mistakes are done) and efficiently done (which, in addition to helping get stuff done, also helps the team ... work together as a team and "feel" like a team).
As I recall, I was able to make headway on the problem. I got it to display the first set of results... oh, that's what it was. Given XML, display them in this page where designated... including pagination. By 4:30 or so, I had gotten the results displaying correctly and all that, but didn't have pagination done.
I interviewed at a company, some sort of advertising thing. Relatively small - I was fresh out of college and talked to some heads of something-or-other. Anyways, there were two of us that happened to interview at the same time; they had two test stations setup. There were a few multiple choice sorts of questions, and then an actual programming test dealing with extracting ads out of an XML page, as I recall, in PHP. Well, I'd never dealt with XML in PHP at all, so it was totally new to me. I found various things online (XML parser, etc). After a couple hours and making some progress, but not completing it - and having the other guy already finish roughly an hour or so earlier and whatever - I said I wasn't going to be able to complete it very quickly and asked if I should leave or not.
The head hiring people asked if they could talk to me, so I said sure. Asked if I thought I could complete it, given time - I said sure, it wasn't that difficult, it's just that I had never worked with XML parsing before and was having to learn it as I went. Then they pretty much startled me. They said, basically, the following: the other guy interviewing had all the skills, he was able to churn out the problem, and his test scores were good (as were mine, incidentally). But they didn't like his attitude (somewhat arrogant, loudly proclaiming "oh yeah, it was easy!" and that sort of thing). They said that even though I couldn't complete it within an hour or two, they liked my attitude, they liked that I stayed at it for about two hours (without being asked really), they liked that I was honest to say I would not be able to complete it by the end of the business day (my interview was at like 2:30 and it was now 4:30). They basically said they'd offer me a Jr. Dev position based on the work ethic, honesty, and generally good attitude/personality (along with knowledge of general programming stuff based on test scores, resume, etc).
I didn't end up accepting as I got a much better offer elsewhere - also, primarily, based on work ethic, personality, general knowledge, etc.... it was a "we'll train you to do what we want you to do, because we can see you're versatile enough and willing to learn" - but the experience was pretty eye-opening.
Meh. I like 7. I really disliked Vista.
I relatively regularly use Ubuntu, RedHat, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Android.
now people just don't have so much reason to complain
So in other words, it's not really that bad, but people still dislike it? out of principle, I guess?
Sounds like the same thing that happens with Linux. People don't like it. Why? I dunno. It's "different" or it's not "supported" or it's "slow" or it's "communist" or who knows what else. Typically, there aren't really good answers by typical users. Actually, I'd say it's not quite ready due to video driver issues, but that's more nVidia and ATI's fault than anyone else, unfortunately.
And until they get the driver thing worked out, I doubt many mainstream games will be ported or written for it, unfortunately.
I love using Linux for work. Way nicer for me, since I do a lot of shell stuff, command line, python, perl, etc. But I use a Windows box for some things that just don't exist on Linux [yet]... like a good music notation program akin to Sibelius (or Finale, though I don't like Finale... at least not the version I tried in school a few years ago), games like The Elder Scrolls series or Neverwinter Nights type things, a relatively easy to use and cheap DAW like Reaper (yes, I know, it works in wine...), etc.
It sounds like Facebook, Disqus, etc., used to use "programming" that made it hard for Google to index them. Apparently, that has changed. So... is this a change by Google or by the comment platforms? It sounds like it's the comment platform that changed, not Google.
Why blame Google, again?
For that matter... if you post something publically (public comments, not private/friends-only)... why should you expect that it won't be indexed?
I'm just not seeing the reason for rage here.
I actually didn't buy it. It's work-provided. IBM :)
I expected some issues... and Linux does work on it.
I just disabled Optimus, which was relatively easy... the tricky part was finding out I needed to disable parts of ACPI (kernel parameter) in order for the nvidia drivers to not crash and hang when udev starts.
I have the drivers working now. The issue was acpi. And, incidentally, this is not only RHEL; I actually found most of my "fix-it" information on an Ubuntu thread.
As for RHEL, it's RHEL Workstation. Why do I use it? Because it's officially supported by IBM's "open client" thingy (which allows me to use notes, etc., on Linux; much prefer it for my kind of work as opposed to Windows). Debian/Ubuntu is as well, but they only have x86-32 builds (sigh), not x86-64.
But, practically speaking, for general functionality, I really can't tell a difference between Ubuntu and RHEL Workstation 6.1 (using gnome on it). Seems to boot about as fast (LUKS encryption required), basically as stable, suspend works, nvidia drivers work after looking up some information on it, etc.
I'd actually *rather* use Debian/Ubuntu, but the x86-32 part (IBM specific issue there... just no available Notes version for x86-64...) got me.
It's stupid to say that Microsoft cannot have a rendering engine on their OS that is required to be there by other parts of the OS.
I am more than welcome, I'm sure (hey look! a Bingy firefox!), to download my own browser of choice and use it. It just won't be used for the parts of the OS that require their own rendering engine. Which makes sense; how can MS make sure that Firefox would render Metro style UI apps correctly? They HAVE to provide something to render. The fact that it's the same engine as renders webpages is, in my opinion, reusing something they already had developed. Makes sense to me.
If they actually forced web browsing use it and didn't let you install Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, etc.... that'd be different.
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/26/8491410-nokias-lumia-translates-as-prostitute-in-spanish
The biggest problem I typically run into with installing Linux, nowadays, is the GPU.
The open source drivers are okay for most things. The proprietary drivers (currently, I have an nVidia based laptop for work and am running RHEL Workstation 6.1) tend to have issues.
For example, my current laptop, a Lenovo W520, cannot boot RHEL 6.1 if I have full ACPI enabled as well as the discrete graphics card enabled (BIOS switch; has both integrated Intel GPU and a discrete nVidia GPU). With some kernel parameter and xorg.conf finesse, I have a workaround with little issues... sleep works, brightness controls, battery monitor, etc.
Sound, integrated webcam, wifi, etc., all work fine.
If you don't care about GPU power and are just going to get one with integrated graphics anyways and use the open source drivers (like nouveau), that may make it easier.
There are a variety of online sites that have lists of laptops along with their various distro compatibility results. In general, I've had good results with Dell computers... and I actually haven't really experienced a wireless card issue in a while, nor a sleep/hibernate issue (and "sleeping when I close the lid" is easily changed; I like it not to sleep when I do that, so I disabled it).
And clearly doesn't happen to everyone. My Windows 7 desktop boots quite quickly and the desktop is usable quite quickly after logging in. YMMV, as seems to be always the case, regardless of OS (I have used Sabayon Linux [Gentoo based], RedHat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu ... and they all go through the same "gets slower the more I use it" problems. Just like Windows.)
I HAVE noticed that what drivers Windows has to load makes a big difference in how fast it boots and how fast you get to the desktop.
You can change your build.prop file, if you want to, and make the market think your tablet is a phone. it can enable the market.
Health care is a fundamental right. These two have a right to good health care provided by his fellow man! ...
The /. summary tells you what SQL Server and Azure are, because the descriptions arbitrarily happen to occur in the Wired paragraph that's been quoted.
So what you're saying is .... the person who wrote the summary doesn't know how to write a good summary or pick a good quote. :) (no, I'm not new here...)
You have to love how they specify 'pages' in quotes, like it's something "new" or has some "overloaded meaning."
FTFY :)
I like opera, and prefer it on my tablet, actually. I run Firefox, Chrome, and Opera on my "real" computers (and IE on Windows), though I usually use Chrome.
The problem I have with this is that, in my experience, non-scrolling (whether it's a page flip or some sort of click-to-advance) alternatives to scrolling tend to be really, really slow if you want to zoom, like, half-way down. Or even worse, all the way down. I know, you could add quick little buttons to go-to-top and go-to-bottom ... but it's just generally hard to quickly flip a long ways back.
The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules.
... not fond of rules for themselves.
While I agree that Jobs was apparently a good CEO and realize that many people love Apple products...
The history of Windows dates back to September 1981, when Chase Bishop, a computer scientist, designed the first model of an electronic device and project "Interface Manager" was started. It was announced in November 1983 (after the Apple Lisa, but before the Macintosh) under the name "Windows", but Windows 1.0 was not released until November 1985.
(wikipedia article on Windows)
And from the wikipedia article on the X windows system:
Several bitmap display systems preceded X. From Xerox came the Alto (1973) and the Star (1981). From Apollo Computer came Display Manager (1981). From Apple came the Lisa (1983) and the Macintosh (1984). The Unix world had the Andrew Project (1982) and Rob Pike's Blit terminal (1982).
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The whole "who came up with the idea of "windows" in a GUI" argument can get rather frustrating. It appears that the real first was the Xerox Alto and the Xeros Star back in 1973:
The Xerox Alto (and later Xerox Star ) was an early personal computer developed at Xerox PARC in 1973. It was the first computer to use the desktop metaphor and mouse-driven graphical user interface (GUI).
It was not a commercial product, but several thousand units were built and were heavily used at PARC, other Xerox facilities, and at several universities for many years. The Alto greatly influenced the design of personal computers in the following decades, notably the Apple Macintosh and the first Sun workstations.
But Amazon already has a reputation for the eReader market, too. I don't think Amazon is simply copying Apple here.
Who said the child had to be a biological-related child? Who says he/she can't be adopted?
And, also, one child is hardly "rampant" breeding.
I'm able to change my origin airport...
I'm in the US and it says the movie was removed for content violations.
I'm imagining. Where's my usb drive??? :( ;)