Gmail solved all my colaboration needs with the message-board like organizing of email. Its exactly the type of functionality what a programmer with multiple projects on the go needs - solving the whole e-mail "hell" problem alltogether... simply better organization of e-mails. All your records are saved - you can access it from anywhere... You can share certain "threads" with other folks.... I have yet to see a colaboration tool that does everything with the simplicity that e-mail does for me.
This was at one of the Sun conferences in Toronto and Oracle was one of the major sponsors. Well anyway.. it seems that Oracle and Sun are working closely for the EJB3.0 implementation - especially the database abstraction layers and ORM tools. So maybe this has something to do with Hibernate?
Well.. anything with a temperature regulation requirement. I suppose the question would be, what sort of temperature constraints do these paints work under? Or can they be 'configured' to work under any fixed range?
I guess Microsoft feels that they'd rather have countries paying for software liscenses instead of food and medicine. Most African countries from what I understand are at a deficit of both when it comes to domestic production.
Really makes you wonder what a company's willing to do to make more money when the tap runs dry. I blame the system.
Sometime ago I heard that to pull off the space elevator.. the material cost would be massive that we didnt have enough steel cable to do such a thing and only experimental substances (like spiderweb yarn) would meet the challenge of providing that much material.
Is this true? What sort of materials will the Space Elevator make use of?
How about doing a QandA with Slashdot user questions?:D
In Canada atleast, it doesn't feel like there's any shortage in tech workers. The salaries for new graduates keeps going down each year - eventhough the cost of living and the cost of education keeps going up every year.
... Despite this, the government insists that there is a shortage and wants to increase the number of people immigrating as tech workers - when all they really want is a bunch of smart intelligent engineers to move to this country and procede on to fill the void in factory and walmart jobs.
While answering the questions.. the PR team forgot that they are replying to a forum full of geeks. We like technical answers to technical questions. Something like "what would you have done differently during development?" - I think most of us would be more satisfied to hear "yes there were challenges and we learned from em but the rest is one big secret than a suger coated answer for the numbed masses. I for one am downright disapointed by the answers - almost feel like I'm being patronised.
That depends entirely on your relationship to the boss - and how much you figure is riding on your work vs. the amount of profit your company makes.
80 trucks - thats 60k per truck (we're picking a LOW figure here) of profit. 80 x 60 = $4.8 mil of gross profit. I figure you should get paid 100k if you are their entire IT department.
Now you just gotta take the other parts of this problem into account - whats your relationship like w/ the boss? And how much is riding on you staying put?
Cheers!:)
I've very happy w/ Konfubulator as my desktop widget.
Unless this thing does real-time stuff (which will trump RSS / Konfubulator)... I don't see why they bothered. And I'm guessing that its windows only?.
.. Blogger getting bombarded by all sorts of "Questionable Content" flags from all sorts of extremely left / right / PC people... soon they won't be able to keep up w/ the flags and will just turn off the feature..:-/
they legally forced anyone w/ a porn site to move to an xxx domain, and thus freeing up the rest of the domains for non-porn stuff.
Legally force sites to do this. This way parents can block their kids from visiting anything with a.xxx extension. And companies can block their employees from watching porn while at work:D.
.. I owned a Logitech mouse.. and it literally caught fire when I played too much Unreal Tournament w/ it.
If I ever get back into serious gaming.. I'm gonna blow up one of these.. damn.. been a while since I got excited about a mouse.
Mac OS will only run on non-Mac hardware if there's drivers available for that non-Mac hardware. If say.. nVidia decides not to make a driver for their latest PC Card to run on MacOS.. then you're screwed. I'd rather stick to Linux (cuz methinks it would have better support than Mac OS running on non-Mac approved hardware).
Being outside exposes you to strangers - for a kid - it exposes him / her to other kids on the block. It helps you become a bolder person. You take a risk when you talk to a stranger. You learn to judge people better when you talk to lots of them. I think its better for interaction - its makes you a rounder person. When you're inside, you generally deal with other kids that play the same game - and by an extension of that... like the same things that you do. So you hardly ever have to adapt to anything. Being outside with different kids that like different things makes you a more flexible person.... I think you get the gist of what I'm trying to say here.
Also its nice to get some sunlight - healthy even. It has been argued that we need a certain amount of minimum sunlight per day. I know I feel much better when I go out and get some fresh air.
I know of many geeks that make it a practice to take their kids out on a regular basis - away from the computers and all the technology - just to have some good old fashion physical fun. You're not going to put children on an indoor excersise regiment. Here's the twister.. why work out indoors when you could go to the playground in your neighbourhood and play some football / basketball / baseball / soccer.. whatever.
... So thats the angle of my thoughts.. though I've been too wordy..:-/
Its a combination of things.. yes. There are forces that want kids to stay in. And there are forces that make kids want to stay in. TV and Videogames are among those forces. All the cartoons and such are scheduled right when school ends. Even the cartoons these days (now more than ever) are episodic - so you don't want to ever miss the next episode.
The games also often require much more commitment on the part of the player in order to achieve something - there's always rewards for playing more - not just an increase in the player's skill at the game - but things like character upgrades. If you play more - your character will be of a bigger level.
We as humans like it to be as easy as possible for us to feel good. I remember my mother shouting at me (only 5 to 6 years ago) for playing too many games on the computer - eventhough I considered myself relatively active.
Yes parents need to (these days more than before, I guess) be vigilant regarding the whereabouts and safety of their children - but those aren't the forces that are keeping the kids indoors. I'd argue that it is the otherside that keeps them in - since only a handful of parents these days tend to lay the law down like they used to with regards to following in-home rules.
You don't have to dislike games in order to be a critic of their impact on society:P... Kids to tend to stay in a lot more than they used to, and I blame it on TV and Games... on visual media that requires their complete attention - unlike music, which you can listen to and do something else at the same time (though some may disagree)...:)
And I'm quite sure I'll be shouting at my kids with regards to playing too many computer games or the type of games that they pick to play. I personally blame it on the consumer. No one's forcing people to buy such games. What they do hush hush... well we used to watch porn in middle school - all hush hush so our parents wouldn't find out. All the same with mature rated games.
Yes.. but having the laws in place does allow them to sue people as they wish in order to generate revenue. Need to increase profits for Q4 of 2010?.. Just sue a few hundred p2p users.
Most users I know don't use firefox.. "Internet Explorer" - just the name - is so well entrenched into the masses that people will gladly bend over whenever the next Windows OS comes out. I'm the only one in my family that uses Firefox. Eventhough the IE icon has been removed from the desktop, my father (finally) learned how to use the Start Menu just so he could get to the IE icon.
How is your lab organized? How have you divided your linux based boxes, along with your windows boxes in the lab in order to achieve an efficient environment? Can you give us a breakdown of the different tasks in the lab and how much linux / windows muscle has been dedicated to these tasks?
Initial reviews of any game lately have always included and focused a lot on graphics and sound (among other things) because the developers spend a lot of time on them. But if the gameplay isn't right, then the game's longevity is severly hurt. After the first wave of buys and reviews, one gets a sense of how well the games (especially online games) by how many people are still playing it... Part of the reason why I like to wait a few weeks or even months before playing a game. If its good - then there's lots of people still playing it;).
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Gentoo did it best before them all - people that don't talk down to you when you have a linux question.
Gmail solved all my colaboration needs with the message-board like organizing of email. Its exactly the type of functionality what a programmer with multiple projects on the go needs - solving the whole e-mail "hell" problem alltogether... simply better organization of e-mails. All your records are saved - you can access it from anywhere... You can share certain "threads" with other folks. ... I have yet to see a colaboration tool that does everything with the simplicity that e-mail does for me.
If he said anymore, he'd have to KILL US ALL!!!!!
This was at one of the Sun conferences in Toronto and Oracle was one of the major sponsors. Well anyway.. it seems that Oracle and Sun are working closely for the EJB3.0 implementation - especially the database abstraction layers and ORM tools. So maybe this has something to do with Hibernate?
Trovalds farted again.
Well.. anything with a temperature regulation requirement. I suppose the question would be, what sort of temperature constraints do these paints work under? Or can they be 'configured' to work under any fixed range?
I guess Microsoft feels that they'd rather have countries paying for software liscenses instead of food and medicine. Most African countries from what I understand are at a deficit of both when it comes to domestic production.
Really makes you wonder what a company's willing to do to make more money when the tap runs dry. I blame the system.
Sometime ago I heard that to pull off the space elevator .. the material cost would be massive that we didnt have enough steel cable to do such a thing and only experimental substances (like spiderweb yarn) would meet the challenge of providing that much material.
Is this true? What sort of materials will the Space Elevator make use of?
How about doing a QandA with Slashdot user questions? :D
Cheers!In Canada atleast, it doesn't feel like there's any shortage in tech workers. The salaries for new graduates keeps going down each year - eventhough the cost of living and the cost of education keeps going up every year.
While answering the questions.. the PR team forgot that they are replying to a forum full of geeks. We like technical answers to technical questions. Something like "what would you have done differently during development?" - I think most of us would be more satisfied to hear "yes there were challenges and we learned from em but the rest is one big secret than a suger coated answer for the numbed masses. I for one am downright disapointed by the answers - almost feel like I'm being patronised.
That depends entirely on your relationship to the boss - and how much you figure is riding on your work vs. the amount of profit your company makes. 80 trucks - thats 60k per truck (we're picking a LOW figure here) of profit. 80 x 60 = $4.8 mil of gross profit. I figure you should get paid 100k if you are their entire IT department. Now you just gotta take the other parts of this problem into account - whats your relationship like w/ the boss? And how much is riding on you staying put? Cheers! :)
I've very happy w/ Konfubulator as my desktop widget. Unless this thing does real-time stuff (which will trump RSS / Konfubulator) ... I don't see why they bothered. And I'm guessing that its windows only?.
.. Blogger getting bombarded by all sorts of "Questionable Content" flags from all sorts of extremely left / right / PC people ... soon they won't be able to keep up w/ the flags and will just turn off the feature.. :-/
they legally forced anyone w/ a porn site to move to an xxx domain, and thus freeing up the rest of the domains for non-porn stuff. Legally force sites to do this. This way parents can block their kids from visiting anything with a .xxx extension. And companies can block their employees from watching porn while at work :D.
.. I owned a Logitech mouse.. and it literally caught fire when I played too much Unreal Tournament w/ it. If I ever get back into serious gaming.. I'm gonna blow up one of these.. damn.. been a while since I got excited about a mouse.
Mac OS will only run on non-Mac hardware if there's drivers available for that non-Mac hardware. If say.. nVidia decides not to make a driver for their latest PC Card to run on MacOS.. then you're screwed. I'd rather stick to Linux (cuz methinks it would have better support than Mac OS running on non-Mac approved hardware).
K.. I'm no parent.. but here's my take on it:
Being outside exposes you to strangers - for a kid - it exposes him / her to other kids on the block. It helps you become a bolder person. You take a risk when you talk to a stranger. You learn to judge people better when you talk to lots of them. I think its better for interaction - its makes you a rounder person. When you're inside, you generally deal with other kids that play the same game - and by an extension of that... like the same things that you do. So you hardly ever have to adapt to anything. Being outside with different kids that like different things makes you a more flexible person.... I think you get the gist of what I'm trying to say here.
Also its nice to get some sunlight - healthy even. It has been argued that we need a certain amount of minimum sunlight per day. I know I feel much better when I go out and get some fresh air.
I know of many geeks that make it a practice to take their kids out on a regular basis - away from the computers and all the technology - just to have some good old fashion physical fun. You're not going to put children on an indoor excersise regiment. Here's the twister.. why work out indoors when you could go to the playground in your neighbourhood and play some football / basketball / baseball / soccer.. whatever.
Its a combination of things.. yes. There are forces that want kids to stay in. And there are forces that make kids want to stay in. TV and Videogames are among those forces. All the cartoons and such are scheduled right when school ends. Even the cartoons these days (now more than ever) are episodic - so you don't want to ever miss the next episode.
The games also often require much more commitment on the part of the player in order to achieve something - there's always rewards for playing more - not just an increase in the player's skill at the game - but things like character upgrades. If you play more - your character will be of a bigger level.
We as humans like it to be as easy as possible for us to feel good. I remember my mother shouting at me (only 5 to 6 years ago) for playing too many games on the computer - eventhough I considered myself relatively active.
Yes parents need to (these days more than before, I guess) be vigilant regarding the whereabouts and safety of their children - but those aren't the forces that are keeping the kids indoors. I'd argue that it is the otherside that keeps them in - since only a handful of parents these days tend to lay the law down like they used to with regards to following in-home rules.
You don't have to dislike games in order to be a critic of their impact on society :P. .. Kids to tend to stay in a lot more than they used to, and I blame it on TV and Games ... on visual media that requires their complete attention - unlike music, which you can listen to and do something else at the same time (though some may disagree)... :)
And I'm quite sure I'll be shouting at my kids with regards to playing too many computer games or the type of games that they pick to play. I personally blame it on the consumer. No one's forcing people to buy such games. What they do hush hush... well we used to watch porn in middle school - all hush hush so our parents wouldn't find out. All the same with mature rated games.
Yes.. but having the laws in place does allow them to sue people as they wish in order to generate revenue. Need to increase profits for Q4 of 2010? .. Just sue a few hundred p2p users.
Most users I know don't use firefox.. "Internet Explorer" - just the name - is so well entrenched into the masses that people will gladly bend over whenever the next Windows OS comes out. I'm the only one in my family that uses Firefox. Eventhough the IE icon has been removed from the desktop, my father (finally) learned how to use the Start Menu just so he could get to the IE icon.
How is your lab organized? How have you divided your linux based boxes, along with your windows boxes in the lab in order to achieve an efficient environment? Can you give us a breakdown of the different tasks in the lab and how much linux / windows muscle has been dedicated to these tasks?
LMAO.. Its a little site that I'm workin' on.. it may or may not be used once its done.. but its how I learn php :).
Cheers.
Kinda wierd how this story goes hand in hand w/ today's big stem cell announcement ;)..
Initial reviews of any game lately have always included and focused a lot on graphics and sound (among other things) because the developers spend a lot of time on them. But if the gameplay isn't right, then the game's longevity is severly hurt. After the first wave of buys and reviews, one gets a sense of how well the games (especially online games) by how many people are still playing it. .. Part of the reason why I like to wait a few weeks or even months before playing a game. If its good - then there's lots of people still playing it ;).