I feel I am paid well for what I do. And money isn't everything. The work is challenging and rewarding and I have good benefits that take care of me and my family (good health care, cafeteria plan, good matching for the 401(k), good number of vacation hours, money for educational expenses and conferences, financial incetives for publishing papers, etc.)
see, lets say you and I are friends, and I have a friend named Jane (I know, no geek has a female friend, but lets just say) And you are friends with Jane too. And lets say Jane has a friend named Teresa (try not to get too excited, she's really a guy, all girls online are). And Teresa is friends with all of us. Now if we connect the lines we can draw lines from friend to friend without intersection on a 2D screen. But now theres Don. Don is friends with all of us too. Woah, now we need a third dimension to draw all those lines without crossing. That's why we need a 3D social network, man.
Well, you have 34 million users, so theoretically they must be worth something if you can leverage that for advertising or something.
Yeah, but not all 34 million are active. I'm one of them... I check it about once a month for 5-15 minutes. Once you are out of college for a few years its really just there to get the contact of a former colleague if you need it. Assuming they kept it up-to-date.
uh, I'm an american, who programs, and does overtime. I'm paid by the hour
(now granted my job title doesn't say programmer - it says aerospace engineer, but I spend my time writing computer programs to do engineering analysis)
'commercial activity' extends to making an online purchase via such a link, not just operating a business. If you are party to commercial activity, on either end, you have broken part 97...
analogous to a ham buying a pizza over a telephone patch (via ham radio). Explicitly illegal.
But, this gear is 802.11, not ham gear, the guy posting doesn't know what he is talking about as far as I can tell: (1) you don't need a ham license to operate the radio in question and (2) he broke the rules by amplifying it, ham or no ham. That's my understanding of the situation.
(do note that one of the GHz ham bands covers 2.390 to 2.450 GHz so its possible he modded it or presumes it operates in this region... I don't know. But off the shelf this does not operate by part 97.
The refusal of all the major retailers to sell AO games amounts to nothing more than censorship.
Sigh. Private business should be and are allowed to make their own rules. How is that censorship? Whether the decision is moral, financial (smaller market for those AO games you see) or ass-watching (don't want an employee to accidentally sell one to a kid, or get accused of it, etc), it doesn't matter. My store, my rules. That's like saying you stop by a gas station convenience store, and get pissed off because they don't have (say) bread. Sure 99% of gas stations stock bread, but for some reason this one chose not to. More power to them. Are they now censoring the carbohydrate industry? Your argument is absurd.
If stores are refusing to sell games that aren't ESRB-rated, then the ESRB has a monopoly and should be taken care of by the antitrust laws.
Game studios can sell direct. 18 and a credit card. More power to them.
Tell that to my step-daughter, after she frags you for the 450th time in Q3TA, that males are 'more likely to take risks and indulge in competition.'
You don't understand statistics, apparently. Just because your step-daugher is the exception to the rule, does not make her the rule. In general, males are more likely to take risks and indulge competition. For ever fragging step-daugher out there, there exists 100 step-daughers playing with their barbie dolls and EzBake ovens. (I know. I have a lot of cousins).
I've spent _years_ researching desktop productivity (not in scientific environments, though) and while this may be true, I find that workers tend to be more happy in the long run by having things work as fast as they can.
Then turn off the minimize/maximize and bring-to-top transitions (a singe entry in the configuration menu) and be done with it. They can keep all the snazzy transparencies, glowing buttons, etc. which are graphics card accelerated and won't slow them down. That's what I did with my Vista notebook. I tried dual booting and ran the couple of apps I run (Visual Studio, Everquest, firefox) and noticed no appreciable difference between Vista and XP, so I kept Vista.
but he **rabidly** defended the work even after holes began to appear... I don't see how that is fair reporting, to refuse to bend about a story when holes begin to appear. Rather (no pun intended), it is a sign he has an agenda. He should have said that he would look into the issue, consider all of the evidence (like a good reporter does) and offer an apology if it was determined the story was false. That would have been classy and he'd probably still have his job at NBC.
the practices you mentioned, would a typical hack or code-monkey have any inclination in applying them?
Granted, and such a person would run into problems in any programming language, which is what I was trying to say. The results might not be as insidious, but the problems would still exist.
OK, I have this weird habit of collecting cultural references to Abe Lincoln... if you don't mind, where did you derive your sig from, or did you make it up? thanks
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I feel I am paid well for what I do. And money isn't everything. The work is challenging and rewarding and I have good benefits that take care of me and my family (good health care, cafeteria plan, good matching for the 401(k), good number of vacation hours, money for educational expenses and conferences, financial incetives for publishing papers, etc.)
That's fine for you, me, Jane and Teresa, but what about Don? :) That's why we need the third dimension, man
see, lets say you and I are friends, and I have a friend named Jane (I know, no geek has a female friend, but lets just say) And you are friends with Jane too. And lets say Jane has a friend named Teresa (try not to get too excited, she's really a guy, all girls online are). And Teresa is friends with all of us. Now if we connect the lines we can draw lines from friend to friend without intersection on a 2D screen. But now theres Don. Don is friends with all of us too. Woah, now we need a third dimension to draw all those lines without crossing. That's why we need a 3D social network, man.
Well, you have 34 million users, so theoretically they must be worth something if you can leverage that for advertising or something.
... I check it about once a month for 5-15 minutes. Once you are out of college for a few years its really just there to get the contact of a former colleague if you need it. Assuming they kept it up-to-date.
Yeah, but not all 34 million are active. I'm one of them
uh, I'm an american, who programs, and does overtime. I'm paid by the hour
(now granted my job title doesn't say programmer - it says aerospace engineer, but I spend my time writing computer programs to do engineering analysis)
I'm not sure anything can help Rex Grossman. Then again, I kinda like being on the top of the NFC.
Signed, a Packer fan.
and jonkatz ... i think they all got fed to kdawson :P
'commercial activity' extends to making an online purchase via such a link, not just operating a business. If you are party to commercial activity, on either end, you have broken part 97 ...
... I don't know. But off the shelf this does not operate by part 97.
analogous to a ham buying a pizza over a telephone patch (via ham radio). Explicitly illegal.
But, this gear is 802.11, not ham gear, the guy posting doesn't know what he is talking about as far as I can tell: (1) you don't need a ham license to operate the radio in question and (2) he broke the rules by amplifying it, ham or no ham. That's my understanding of the situation.
(do note that one of the GHz ham bands covers 2.390 to 2.450 GHz so its possible he modded it or presumes it operates in this region
The refusal of all the major retailers to sell AO games amounts to nothing more than censorship.
Sigh. Private business should be and are allowed to make their own rules. How is that censorship? Whether the decision is moral, financial (smaller market for those AO games you see) or ass-watching (don't want an employee to accidentally sell one to a kid, or get accused of it, etc), it doesn't matter. My store, my rules. That's like saying you stop by a gas station convenience store, and get pissed off because they don't have (say) bread. Sure 99% of gas stations stock bread, but for some reason this one chose not to. More power to them. Are they now censoring the carbohydrate industry? Your argument is absurd.
If stores are refusing to sell games that aren't ESRB-rated, then the ESRB has a monopoly and should be taken care of by the antitrust laws.
Game studios can sell direct. 18 and a credit card. More power to them.
From the AP article,
"She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day,"
Just another teenager looking for attention. Unfortunately, not enough brains to think twice first.
Tell that to my step-daughter, after she frags you for the 450th time in Q3TA, that males are 'more likely to take risks and indulge in competition.'
You don't understand statistics, apparently. Just because your step-daugher is the exception to the rule, does not make her the rule. In general, males are more likely to take risks and indulge competition. For ever fragging step-daugher out there, there exists 100 step-daughers playing with their barbie dolls and EzBake ovens. (I know. I have a lot of cousins).
I've spent _years_ researching desktop productivity (not in scientific environments, though) and while this may be true, I find that workers tend to be more happy in the long run by having things work as fast as they can.
Then turn off the minimize/maximize and bring-to-top transitions (a singe entry in the configuration menu) and be done with it. They can keep all the snazzy transparencies, glowing buttons, etc. which are graphics card accelerated and won't slow them down. That's what I did with my Vista notebook. I tried dual booting and ran the couple of apps I run (Visual Studio, Everquest, firefox) and noticed no appreciable difference between Vista and XP, so I kept Vista.
RMS: I will only testify if you call it GNU/linux and state that I am testifying from the RMS/stand.
In GB, The median gross household income in 2004/05 was £24,700 per year. ... so no, I don't think he was.
and the US average wage was around $40k a year
$48,201, a fair bit closer to $50k than $40k
er, yea ... but still.
The only link I put in the submission was the senate.gov link for the record of the voting. The yahoo opinion piece was someone else's doing.
welcome to kdawsonfud.
but he **rabidly** defended the work even after holes began to appear ... I don't see how that is fair reporting, to refuse to bend about a story when holes begin to appear. Rather (no pun intended), it is a sign he has an agenda. He should have said that he would look into the issue, consider all of the evidence (like a good reporter does) and offer an apology if it was determined the story was false. That would have been classy and he'd probably still have his job at NBC.
At least Rather isn't shaking it in his underwear ...
the practices you mentioned, would a typical hack or code-monkey have any inclination in applying them?
Granted, and such a person would run into problems in any programming language, which is what I was trying to say. The results might not be as insidious, but the problems would still exist.
yeah, that ... sry brain thought one thing fingers write another :)
combination wouldn't happen to be 123 would it?
OK, I have this weird habit of collecting cultural references to Abe Lincoln ... if you don't mind, where did you derive your sig from, or did you make it up? thanks
OSG is a far cry from a one-man project, at least over the last three years I've been on the mailing list...
My point with Qt is, that, there are many projects using it, despite the fact it was written in c++. KDE, for example.
the bookstore doesn't have a website ... I look online at the beginning of each semester, but for some reason I know that Amazon will be cheaper...