I entered (1993) comp sci not because it promised a high paying job, I entered because I was curious about the field and felt the need to expand my knowledge with some formal education (data structures, os theory. Assembly was learned only to apply the theory, not to learn the language for the sake of learning the language).
My parents were pushing for accounting and business. They were seriously disapointed when I broke them the news. My mother said "You do nothing but play games on that computer, that's not a career!" Back then getting the game to work required REAL skill and knowledge of computer hardware and OS configuration, remember them IRQ's and mem extenders?)Oh yea they got the computer because they wanted me to learn spreadsheets lol!
So long story short, if you attract people with promises other than for the subject itself, you generate crappy employees with no will to follow technology. Some of these people don't know how to extend their knowledge after school. Unlike other fields which with a basic foundation of skills can work serve the employer for a very long time without any "continuing education" (How many ways can you turn a screw anyways)
If you are not naturally motivated, technology and its ever changing playing field will serious crush a non-geek. So those that do enter, however little, are the right people to sustain and serve the field.
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is blowing in the carts and jamming them down (quite violently) repeatedly to get it working. I also had to shove a second cart in there just to get it working on some carts.
If there was an award for shitty design I would bet the NES wins it hands down.
funny at my passport photoshop I charge people 10 dollars for 2 ink jet pictures. I tell them not to wet them or the INS won't accept them. =) Yea its retarded how short a life these ink containers are. I complain even though I already gouge my customers.
They don't need RFID to collect anymore information than they already.
I've seen the amount of information they collect at these POS systems. You use a credit/debit card, your card encodes your zip code, first name, last name. Your purchase is collected already by scanning the item into the register.
Your info is then sent to the 3 credit bueraus and your infor is merged with those large databasese. If you give your email to the retailer, your email is attached to your credit report. Through those credit reports the credit bueraus then sends back your address to the retailer and all other information the retailer can afford.
Your information is already available in catalog dealers, your internet info is available at experian online (yup experian started an internet division). How much you make and how much own is already available at experian, transunion and can't remember the last one.
The retailer already got the information they need, RFID is just a way to track inventory, really no joke. RFID does not add any additional information that the retail/catalog industry does not already have. Oh yea, they used to be able to get large amount of info through the DMV before 9/11.
Experian will sell your info to ANYBODY at the right price, private detective already have this ability, without license. Now the funny thing is the only person that has a hard time getting your info, is yourself! Oh yea don't get me started on the 2 files they keep, one public one that you see, and one that is hidden, that keeps every single transactions you've made in your life. the law says some items fall off the report, but the hiden one is available to anybody with money and can make your life horrible. There are no laws saying that your bank need to tell you they based their decision on this second file. So you think your report is clean, but the hidden one says otherwise. Oh yea that second one contains all your purchase habbits too.
God where's my hat? I can't see an after market of people scanning garbage from a particular locale/district etc. The marketing drones already have this information. Retailers routinely sell their lists to each other. Catelogs company give them to each other as "gifts". Or worse TRADED like comodity. You people are not paranoid enough!
I call my patch CTRL-S I just perform it every 1 second to make sure my WordPerfect... erm I mean word doc is still there when I type the next sentence.
psst you don't need the source code to fix things....
you own a ford. but as the ONLY webmaster for my company I kind of understand.
How can one guy target all browsers when the major player (MS) does not follow standards?
I struggled with that decision as well, if you code against standards, I.E. won't render correctly, because 99% of YOUR company's target audience use I.E. so you sit home 3AM making the decision.
Should you cater to the masses or cater to 1% that probably wouldn't use your product anyway.
Trust me the USPTO probably only has 1 guy doing all the HTML coding and he/she is probably using notepad. But as a government site it SHOULD not make that restriction, its like saying you can't enter the immigration building to get information on getting naturalize, unless you can read US english.
This should not be modded funny. I've been trying to get my hands on some penguin meat since 1990. It is NOT easy to get properly cooked penguin meat ANYWHERE and I live in NYC!
If anybody has any idea please where to get cooked penguin meat please tell me
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I entered (1993) comp sci not because it promised a high paying job, I entered because I was curious about the field and felt the need to expand my knowledge with some formal education (data structures, os theory. Assembly was learned only to apply the theory, not to learn the language for the sake of learning the language).
My parents were pushing for accounting and business. They were seriously disapointed when I broke them the news. My mother said "You do nothing but play games on that computer, that's not a career!" Back then getting the game to work required REAL skill and knowledge of computer hardware and OS configuration, remember them IRQ's and mem extenders?)Oh yea they got the computer because they wanted me to learn spreadsheets lol!
So long story short, if you attract people with promises other than for the subject itself, you generate crappy employees with no will to follow technology. Some of these people don't know how to extend their knowledge after school. Unlike other fields which with a basic foundation of skills can work serve the employer for a very long time without any "continuing education" (How many ways can you turn a screw anyways)
If you are not naturally motivated, technology and its ever changing playing field will serious crush a non-geek. So those that do enter, however little, are the right people to sustain and serve the field.
is blowing in the carts and jamming them down (quite violently) repeatedly to get it working. I also had to shove a second cart in there just to get it working on some carts.
If there was an award for shitty design I would bet the NES wins it hands down.
funny at my passport photoshop I charge people 10 dollars for 2 ink jet pictures. I tell them not to wet them or the INS won't accept them. =) Yea its retarded how short a life these ink containers are. I complain even though I already gouge my customers.
They don't need RFID to collect anymore information than they already.
I've seen the amount of information they collect at these POS systems. You use a credit/debit card, your card encodes your zip code, first name, last name. Your purchase is collected already by scanning the item into the register.
Your info is then sent to the 3 credit bueraus and your infor is merged with those large databasese. If you give your email to the retailer, your email is attached to your credit report. Through those credit reports the credit bueraus then sends back your address to the retailer and all other information the retailer can afford.
Your information is already available in catalog dealers, your internet info is available at experian online (yup experian started an internet division). How much you make and how much own is already available at experian, transunion and can't remember the last one.
The retailer already got the information they need, RFID is just a way to track inventory, really no joke. RFID does not add any additional information that the retail/catalog industry does not already have. Oh yea, they used to be able to get large amount of info through the DMV before 9/11.
Experian will sell your info to ANYBODY at the right price, private detective already have this ability, without license. Now the funny thing is the only person that has a hard time getting your info, is yourself! Oh yea don't get me started on the 2 files they keep, one public one that you see, and one that is hidden, that keeps every single transactions you've made in your life. the law says some items fall off the report, but the hiden one is available to anybody with money and can make your life horrible. There are no laws saying that your bank need to tell you they based their decision on this second file. So you think your report is clean, but the hidden one says otherwise. Oh yea that second one contains all your purchase habbits too.
God where's my hat? I can't see an after market of people scanning garbage from a particular locale/district etc. The marketing drones already have this information. Retailers routinely sell their lists to each other. Catelogs company give them to each other as "gifts". Or worse TRADED like comodity. You people are not paranoid enough!
That's only because there are NO games for it. People are buying UMD to justy their retarded buy. Where are the games for my portable GAME machine?
I call my patch CTRL-S I just perform it every 1 second to make sure my WordPerfect... erm I mean word doc is still there when I type the next sentence.
psst you don't need the source code to fix things....
you own a ford. but as the ONLY webmaster for my company I kind of understand.
How can one guy target all browsers when the major player (MS) does not follow standards?
I struggled with that decision as well, if you code against standards, I.E. won't render correctly, because 99% of YOUR company's target audience use I.E. so you sit home 3AM making the decision.
Should you cater to the masses or cater to 1% that probably wouldn't use your product anyway.
Trust me the USPTO probably only has 1 guy doing all the HTML coding and he/she is probably using notepad. But as a government site it SHOULD not make that restriction, its like saying you can't enter the immigration building to get information on getting naturalize, unless you can read US english.
If anybody has any idea please where to get cooked penguin meat please tell me