Great post:) someone bothered to read my post history! - don't quite get the drive by instigation thing, but anyway...
The reason why it bothers me is I have restrictions on which licenses I am allowed to use - these are imposed on me from the commercial world... which is annoying to say the least, but understandable from my employers standpoint. I believe the license is the problem and not the employer in many of these instances.
MIT and BSD are real "free"... I can "freely" use the software without worry. Is that so wrong? I've reported and fixed bugs for various OS projects, I don't expect them to acknowledge me, I don't expect people to distribute my source if they use it.
I can appreciate not having hardware/software lockins.
I'm a bit amazed at the flamebait vote I got, my intent wasn't to piss people off, just to voice my dislike, and my preference for the other "better" (imho) free licenses. GPL feels very much like DRM... a set of restrictions which mean I can't use the software.
For a FOSS license GPL seems to be very unfree - imposing restrictions or rules... just a crock of sh!t really.
GPL makes me angry.
MIT or BSD for the win. GPL for the sux.
Blizzard did this the intelligent way with World of Warcraft, and looked at how p2p was being used successfully in the real world.
BitTorrent.
Problem solved - and I dare a "pull" model is a bit less risky than worms "push"ing out patches.
The "in-depth set of concepts, critical thinking skills, research skills" you mention are not present in 95% of the grads I interview or trial for Java positions.
The core "experts" I deal with are college drop outs, self taught, or have degrees in other fields.
Degrees probably make some people feel warm and fuzzy inside, and is crucial for some industries, but in IT, imho, a degree is close to useless.
I think it stems from the saying - "those who can, do; those who can't, teach".
Basically as a "do-er" I spend a lot of time reteaching software development/design to people who apparently have an education.
Why would you do this? Why the biggest message?
When the power of search is realised by the consumer truely wonderous things will happen.
Search is the future... of pretty much every facet of the internet. We use the internet to find information - or send it for others to find. This includes email.
Search rocks:)
Perhaps some glinux will be coming out.
Simple to use/setup, powerful, and wont have the hardware problems and glitchyness of standard linux distros. (I've used Ubuntu for 6 months as a developer.. and its not quite there yet)
I probably exaggerated. Time stands still while i wait for the.AU release of God of War 2. And.. i had to buy an xbox 360 to tied me thru the drought of wii and ps3 games.
I've played LOTS of games. I own around 50-60 for ps2 + xbox360 + wii.
This includes 3 tiger woods for ps2 and 1 for the wii. The wii version disgusted me so much I unplugged the wii and it hasn't had power for over 2 months.
The game sucks. The graphics are poor, and the programming of the motion sensing is pathetic. I can handle being bad at games and sports when its my fault, but EA really fked us this time.
Bit of a shame because it had so much potential.
Without the "Tiger Woods" name, this game would be ranking in there with ET.
Wii sports baseball or wii sports golf are SO much better at interpreting what you do with the controller.
For a game thats touted as being so excellent, its pretty boring and shallow.
I played fl0w for about 30 minutes.. you just grow this creature in a pretty limited fashion by eating things on different z-depth levels.
The stuff I've read on flow is all about freedom of choice, and playing how you want, and being simple to pickup, and the sense of satisfaction - After 30 mins, it becomes extremely boring, there is no sense of satisfaction, and it gets surprisingly hard (well i guess its hard.. these other huge "creatures" try to eat some bulby bits off you.
Perhaps there is some amazing part of fl0w that I've missed - other worlds, a "level up" feature, some ability other than swimming to the mouse cursor
This game is not fantastic, however, the ideas behind its design are great
I just don't understand why people can't accept that others can believe different things than they do. If the whole world was just more accepting of others and respected others' beliefs even if they disagreed, the world would be a much, much better place. Not to mention that millions of innocent people wouldn't have had to die in ages past.
The hardest part is accepting that they don't understand. Otherwise it's a bit hypocritical.
In my ideal world: Do anything, as long as its not harming anyone (physically or mentally). If everyone shared that belief.. ahh it would be good:)
I'm perhaps not a typical business user, but what business wants is more concurrent apps, and more stability. Less hinderance from the computer, and more businessing:)
Currently, I have a Hyperthreaded processor at both home and work. This has made my machine immune to some browser memory leak vulnerabilities, whereby only one of the threads has hit 50% CPU. (Remember just recently there was a leak to open windows calc through IE? I could only replicate this on the single core chips).
Of course hyper threading is apparently all "marketting guff", but the basic principles are the same.
I've found that system lockups are less frequent, and a single application hogging a "thread" does not impact my multitasking as much. I quite often have 30 odd windows open.. perhaps 4 word docs, outlook, several IEs, several firefoxs, perhaps an opera or a few VNC sessions and several visual studios.
On my old single thread CPU this would cause all sorts of havock, and I would have to terminate processes through task manager and pray that my system would be usable without a reboot. This is much less frequent on HT.
With muli-core, I can forsee the benefits of HT with added benefits of actually being 2 cores as opposed to pseudo 2 cores.
For games, optimised code should be able to actively run over both cores. This may not be so good for multi tasking, but should mean that system slowdown in games is reduced as different CPU intensive tasks can be split over the cores, and not interfere with each other.
(I reserve the right to be talking out of my ass... I'm really tired)
It's great:)
Any version of Tekken.
You can learn all the moves, and get uber good at it, and have really high end matches that feel intellectual and thought out... and then still get ur ass whipped by an unpredictable button masher.
Rails is MUCH more than an ORM tool with default forms.
It provides you with database versioning,
Scriptaculous integration (including AJAX stuff (stupid buzzword))
Elegant field validation,
Mailing,
Kickass MVC,
Unit testing,
Fairly advanced cache model,
Beautiful syntax etc etc etc
And combined with ruby gems (like plugins that will update/install with ease), its just too good to pass up.
Every aspect of it is elegant, except unicode, and cross database transactions....
And.. i love the fact that google/yahoo will buy your company if you use it:)
Damnit!! I have my comment threshold set to 5+ and was thinking how clever I was with the laser call, and the hilarity that would ensue, and all the kickass reputation points I'd get.
I didnt realise that the other hundered odd LESS THAN FIVE comments were also about fricken lasers:(. Still.. its a bit of an oversight missing the lasers.
I'm sorry, what has this got to do with "whites"? I do believe you views on racism cloud your mind from rational thought. Especially since you appear racist against whites.
Where I work, we employ people from Thailand and India. We fly some of them over to work here in Australia.
They get paid terribly in comparison to what the roles should be paid here.
This is the "business" trend for bulk labour, regardless of industry. If its cheaper, business will do it. This is where businesses save money. They develop an "easy" to follow process, and then labour becomes cheap. Unfortunatly most of the time (that I've witnessed) it comes at the cost of quality.
IT work should always be about quality.
The contracts/positions are no longer financially feasable for someone with the required experience locally. Business can make huge savings in wages by employing someone from overseas.
IMHO, we would be better off paying more for quality resources. I don't mind offshoring work. Importing workers is bad for the wealth of our local industry.
If someone could be flown to Australia from a country less fortunate, to replace my role for a half of the cost, then thats REALLY bad for me. My value in the workplace diminishes, not because of my knowledge, or my experience, but because of imported labour. Imagine if whatever industry you're in started paying half wage.
Also, different cultures can have different work ethics which are hard to work around. These aren't so easy to measure, and I think businesses quite often ignore the issues. For example, from Thailand we have some issues because the culture says "if you ask questions, you were to stupid to understand the first time". I've had a team of 3 "senior software engineers" each tell me that they understood a project (after reading a tech spec, func spec and a week of meetings), and had no questions. A week later, this was clearly not the case (even after verbal status updates "Yes its very good"). The one employee that did understand it all was a junior who asked plenty of questions (and she rocks at what she does, and I have a lot of respect for her).
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Great post :) someone bothered to read my post history! - don't quite get the drive by instigation thing, but anyway...
The reason why it bothers me is I have restrictions on which licenses I am allowed to use - these are imposed on me from the commercial world... which is annoying to say the least, but understandable from my employers standpoint. I believe the license is the problem and not the employer in many of these instances.
MIT and BSD are real "free"... I can "freely" use the software without worry. Is that so wrong? I've reported and fixed bugs for various OS projects, I don't expect them to acknowledge me, I don't expect people to distribute my source if they use it.
I can appreciate not having hardware/software lockins.
I'm a bit amazed at the flamebait vote I got, my intent wasn't to piss people off, just to voice my dislike, and my preference for the other "better" (imho) free licenses. GPL feels very much like DRM... a set of restrictions which mean I can't use the software.
For a FOSS license GPL seems to be very unfree - imposing restrictions or rules... just a crock of sh!t really. GPL makes me angry. MIT or BSD for the win. GPL for the sux.
Since installing AdBlock I have been unable to get any advertising for any other ad suppressing software. I CALL ANTITRUST!!!
Blizzard did this the intelligent way with World of Warcraft, and looked at how p2p was being used successfully in the real world. BitTorrent. Problem solved - and I dare a "pull" model is a bit less risky than worms "push"ing out patches.
At first glance I thought this was a story about 1000 Gnomes!
I was hoping to find out what that ????? step was before profit.. but alas, its just boring DNA crap.
The "in-depth set of concepts, critical thinking skills, research skills" you mention are not present in 95% of the grads I interview or trial for Java positions.
The core "experts" I deal with are college drop outs, self taught, or have degrees in other fields.
Degrees probably make some people feel warm and fuzzy inside, and is crucial for some industries, but in IT, imho, a degree is close to useless.
I think it stems from the saying - "those who can, do; those who can't, teach".
Basically as a "do-er" I spend a lot of time reteaching software development/design to people who apparently have an education.
Why would you do this? Why the biggest message? When the power of search is realised by the consumer truely wonderous things will happen. Search is the future ... of pretty much every facet of the internet. We use the internet to find information - or send it for others to find. This includes email.
Search rocks :)
Perhaps some glinux will be coming out. Simple to use/setup, powerful, and wont have the hardware problems and glitchyness of standard linux distros. (I've used Ubuntu for 6 months as a developer.. and its not quite there yet)
I've been using PC's for ages.. since the XT's.. no hdd etc.
I'm also a software developer with lots of experience in dotnet, and java etc
This year, I switched from XP to Kubuntu. I'd always had a sceptical view of linux after trying it in 2000. I was pleasantly surprised
As a development/work/web browser machine the linux install blew the pants of XP
Then... i bought a macbook pro. Previously I'd hated macs. I looked down upon those who used them.
The mac is amazing. Every day I'm surprised at how simple and elegant it is. Its powerful too.. all unixy and the like.
You can not buy any laptop that's as good as a mac. Because OSX will be missing
If you must run windows, using parallels i can still use XP at the SAME TIME as OSX - although why anyone would want to do this is beyond me.
Make the switch. It'll be the best, least frustrating "computer" experience you can have
Jack Thompson is a cock bag.
I probably exaggerated. Time stands still while i wait for the .AU release of God of War 2. And.. i had to buy an xbox 360 to tied me thru the drought of wii and ps3 games.
I've played LOTS of games. I own around 50-60 for ps2 + xbox360 + wii.
This includes 3 tiger woods for ps2 and 1 for the wii.
The wii version disgusted me so much I unplugged the wii and it hasn't had power for over 2 months.
The game sucks. The graphics are poor, and the programming of the motion sensing is pathetic. I can handle being bad at games and sports when its my fault, but EA really fked us this time.
Bit of a shame because it had so much potential.
Without the "Tiger Woods" name, this game would be ranking in there with ET.
Wii sports baseball or wii sports golf are SO much better at interpreting what you do with the controller.
It gives you a deep sense of satisfaction?
Don't forget the IT department having to do its job well too.
I've had system administrators swear that they executed some script when its blatantly obvious they haven't (ie, tables missing)
For a game thats touted as being so excellent, its pretty boring and shallow.
I played fl0w for about 30 minutes.. you just grow this creature in a pretty limited fashion by eating things on different z-depth levels.
The stuff I've read on flow is all about freedom of choice, and playing how you want, and being simple to pickup, and the sense of satisfaction - After 30 mins, it becomes extremely boring, there is no sense of satisfaction, and it gets surprisingly hard (well i guess its hard.. these other huge "creatures" try to eat some bulby bits off you.
Perhaps there is some amazing part of fl0w that I've missed - other worlds, a "level up" feature, some ability other than swimming to the mouse cursor
This game is not fantastic, however, the ideas behind its design are great
The hardest part is accepting that they don't understand. Otherwise it's a bit hypocritical.
In my ideal world: Do anything, as long as its not harming anyone (physically or mentally). If everyone shared that belief.. ahh it would be good :)
You are free to do as you wish within the realm of this small regulated box of what is "right" because America is the BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
I can only dream of the satisfaction gained by getting friends to navigate to tubgirl or goatse!
I will benefit from multi-core.
:)
I'm perhaps not a typical business user, but what business wants is more concurrent apps, and more stability. Less hinderance from the computer, and more businessing
Currently, I have a Hyperthreaded processor at both home and work. This has made my machine immune to some browser memory leak vulnerabilities, whereby only one of the threads has hit 50% CPU. (Remember just recently there was a leak to open windows calc through IE? I could only replicate this on the single core chips).
Of course hyper threading is apparently all "marketting guff", but the basic principles are the same.
I've found that system lockups are less frequent, and a single application hogging a "thread" does not impact my multitasking as much. I quite often have 30 odd windows open.. perhaps 4 word docs, outlook, several IEs, several firefoxs, perhaps an opera or a few VNC sessions and several visual studios.
On my old single thread CPU this would cause all sorts of havock, and I would have to terminate processes through task manager and pray that my system would be usable without a reboot. This is much less frequent on HT.
With muli-core, I can forsee the benefits of HT with added benefits of actually being 2 cores as opposed to pseudo 2 cores.
For games, optimised code should be able to actively run over both cores. This may not be so good for multi tasking, but should mean that system slowdown in games is reduced as different CPU intensive tasks can be split over the cores, and not interfere with each other.
(I reserve the right to be talking out of my ass... I'm really tired)
It's great :)
Any version of Tekken.
You can learn all the moves, and get uber good at it, and have really high end matches that feel intellectual and thought out ... and then still get ur ass whipped by an unpredictable button masher.
Rails is MUCH more than an ORM tool with default forms. It provides you with database versioning, Scriptaculous integration (including AJAX stuff (stupid buzzword)) Elegant field validation, Mailing, Kickass MVC, Unit testing, Fairly advanced cache model, Beautiful syntax etc etc etc And combined with ruby gems (like plugins that will update/install with ease), its just too good to pass up. Every aspect of it is elegant, except unicode, and cross database transactions ....
And.. i love the fact that google/yahoo will buy your company if you use it :)
Damnit!! I have my comment threshold set to 5+ and was thinking how clever I was with the laser call, and the hilarity that would ensue, and all the kickass reputation points I'd get. I didnt realise that the other hundered odd LESS THAN FIVE comments were also about fricken lasers :(. Still.. its a bit of an oversight missing the lasers.
Do they have any fricken lasers?
I'm sorry, what has this got to do with "whites"? I do believe you views on racism cloud your mind from rational thought. Especially since you appear racist against whites. Where I work, we employ people from Thailand and India. We fly some of them over to work here in Australia. They get paid terribly in comparison to what the roles should be paid here. This is the "business" trend for bulk labour, regardless of industry. If its cheaper, business will do it. This is where businesses save money. They develop an "easy" to follow process, and then labour becomes cheap. Unfortunatly most of the time (that I've witnessed) it comes at the cost of quality. IT work should always be about quality. The contracts/positions are no longer financially feasable for someone with the required experience locally. Business can make huge savings in wages by employing someone from overseas. IMHO, we would be better off paying more for quality resources. I don't mind offshoring work. Importing workers is bad for the wealth of our local industry. If someone could be flown to Australia from a country less fortunate, to replace my role for a half of the cost, then thats REALLY bad for me. My value in the workplace diminishes, not because of my knowledge, or my experience, but because of imported labour. Imagine if whatever industry you're in started paying half wage. Also, different cultures can have different work ethics which are hard to work around. These aren't so easy to measure, and I think businesses quite often ignore the issues. For example, from Thailand we have some issues because the culture says "if you ask questions, you were to stupid to understand the first time". I've had a team of 3 "senior software engineers" each tell me that they understood a project (after reading a tech spec, func spec and a week of meetings), and had no questions. A week later, this was clearly not the case (even after verbal status updates "Yes its very good"). The one employee that did understand it all was a junior who asked plenty of questions (and she rocks at what she does, and I have a lot of respect for her).
Can we now do the following on a single virtual processor license?
Get 40 xeons all contributing to a single massive virtual processor.
That virtual processor runs 40 virtual virtual processors.