Now, I almost never RTFA but in this case I *DID* LTFM (Listen to the BEEP Music). Check out the song on irrational exuberance/depression http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/esuspension-03.m3u It's a great chilling piece that goes from great cheers and you to utter depression. Very cool.:)
There is this fantastic site that keps a copy of sesveral, ahem, "public" accounts for common websites so you dontt need to register. Anyone recall that site?
WHOA! STOP THE PRESSES! You mean, I can't just put my children in front of Linux computers as the sole healthy way to raise them? I mean, I'll at least feed them twinkies and soda like all good computer need...
Work honestly and sincerely and do your best. In the end if u dont get the recognition u expected, move on...
I don't know what planet of idealism you live on, but self-marketing and jockeying for position is what got most executitives where they are today... You know, the squeeky wheel gets the grease?
In the Java world, we have moved to Hibernate, Castor and other Object/Relational engines to get around this problem. Hibernate is especially good at "swapping out" database vendors. But I agree, MySQL is especially poor and SQL compatibility.
So I've been an AT&T Wireless customer for many years now. Cingular recently bought out all of AT&T Wireless and that absorption is almost complete. Funny thing about who owns Cingular.... AT&T owns 60 percent of Cingular and BellSouth owns 40 percent. And now with the upcoming merger, Cingular will revert back to the AT&T name. What the dillio?
Next time may I suggest that you hang up and call back right away. I might also add that A non racist way of explaining your idea would have been to say, "I was having trouble speaking to some of Dells techs" - the moment you bring the specific Indian demographic into this you were on the edge of racism - specificially attacking one race for a characteristic that does not please you. I have worked with many Indian programmers in the past, I have no trouble understanding even the thickest of accents. It's southerners from the US that I personally have the more trouble understanding....
It's my belief that a combonation of IM, email, phone and vid-conference, you just don't need office space (other than showing up at clients site on occasion to have a little facetime). I tend to work within "teams of leaders" of all software architects. Seriously, we are all highly paid experienced telecommuters, and we complete projects in 3-4 weeks that others teams bid 6 months on. It's my belief that long drawn out analysis is doomed to fail - the shorter a window you use to "capture" the requirements of a company, the less chance you have of failing. (And the less chance you have of requirement creep).
Dude, I don't want to rain on your parade, I was just taken aback when I "heard" you say that telecommuting just wont work for you - its the central focus of how I've done business for the last many years, sucessfully. It can be done!
Darkness is in the hearts of all men. Yours was aimed at a specific ethnic group in a rather derogatory way. I aimed mine at your and feel just for calling you the asshole that you are.
PS: And you can stick your [,] right up your arce as well!
How many people here have called tech support and gotten someone with a thick Indian accent named "Steve"?
Look you racist piece of crap, regardless of wether you get an american, indian or ancient time traveler from latin-only speaking rome, as long as they can read from a script (which is exactly what every support person does) they can have the job. YOU need to be intelligent enough to ask the right questions and participate in the support call - something you obviously have problems with. Or maybe you are just a biggot, either way you seem like an asshole to me!
Dude, I'm a long haired hippie, you have no clue who a I am. I just have discipline to do the work I'm paid to do, not surf the web all day when 100$/hr+ is at stake!:)
I've learned from experience that when something really, absolutley needs *doing*, sitting in a comfortable chair at home, with the Web at my fingertips, is a *massive* distraction.
(darth-vader-like-voice)That just shows you lack of discipline.(/darth-vader-like-voice) I'm a telecommuter working from the highly productive comfort of my home in Hawaii while making over 6 figs consulting for the likes of big banks and big geek companies. You CAN work from home, but you must show constant, daily output and be verbose on communitation with those who review your deliverables. Oh yea, and do rock star-like work. I think needing to go into an office is archaic if you have this thing called work ethic.
I buy on the order of 50-100 machines from Dell yearly, and I have yet to need even ONE serviced by dell. I set up a high school computer lab - machines getting pounded on my teenagers all day. I do disc imaging and so on - it all just works. I dare say I know my stuff, and I pounded Dell to make sure I knew how I spent every dime (stuff like, no I wont want to pay 10$ for norton for 3 months) but all in all I have been stoked with Dell's service and overall stability....
Any serious business who wants to protect their computer from an unwanted surge has at minimum a voltage regulator, and at maximum a UPS
No wonder you had so many problems. These things will not help you during a spike. What you need are high-Joule surge protectors + your UPS. "Voltage Regulators" will not help in times of a spike (or a brownout) but a high Joule surge protector will.
A Symantec engineer predicts a 'gradual erosion' of the idea that Macs are a safer operating system than Windows.
Everytime there is a major outbreak Symantec's stock goes up a few *percentage* points! Oh my!
I recommend you download the Java 1.6.0 beta called Mustang.
Thats tomorrow my friend. Lets talk about today. If I had to write a GUI applet, where I wanted thin (low download) and fast (fast GUI performance close to windoze) I would go with Java 1.5 AWT + 3rd party widgets such as those from Protoview. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/35998.htm What you are suggesting about Mustang *might* work tomorrow, but I'm talking about real-world solutions for today!
The fastest and most furious (and most widely jvm comatible) are thin awt + a few thin third part libraries for complex widgets. Swing is to FAT for my taste!
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Now, I almost never RTFA but in this case I *DID* LTFM (Listen to the BEEP Music). Check out the song on irrational exuberance/depression http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/esuspension-03.m3u It's a great chilling piece that goes from great cheers and you to utter depression. Very cool. :)
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There is this fantastic site that keps a copy of sesveral, ahem, "public" accounts for common websites so you dontt need to register. Anyone recall that site?
WHOA! STOP THE PRESSES! You mean, I can't just put my children in front of Linux computers as the sole healthy way to raise them? I mean, I'll at least feed them twinkies and soda like all good computer need...
Dude whats your deal, are you new here?
What, are you referring to the large number of priests and televangelists that were found to be on the list?
Work honestly and sincerely and do your best. In the end if u dont get the recognition u expected, move on...
I don't know what planet of idealism you live on, but self-marketing and jockeying for position is what got most executitives where they are today... You know, the squeeky wheel gets the grease?
Yeah, it often takes me six times as long to fix something as it took some herbert to write it.
Yea, but if I write my own code (MVC good design) fixes are quick and trivial. Luckily my name is not herbert!
In the Java world, we have moved to Hibernate, Castor and other Object/Relational engines to get around this problem. Hibernate is especially good at "swapping out" database vendors. But I agree, MySQL is especially poor and SQL compatibility.
So I've been an AT&T Wireless customer for many years now. Cingular recently bought out all of AT&T Wireless and that absorption is almost complete. Funny thing about who owns Cingular.... AT&T owns 60 percent of Cingular and BellSouth owns 40 percent. And now with the upcoming merger, Cingular will revert back to the AT&T name. What the dillio?
Next time may I suggest that you hang up and call back right away. I might also add that A non racist way of explaining your idea would have been to say, "I was having trouble speaking to some of Dells techs" - the moment you bring the specific Indian demographic into this you were on the edge of racism - specificially attacking one race for a characteristic that does not please you. I have worked with many Indian programmers in the past, I have no trouble understanding even the thickest of accents. It's southerners from the US that I personally have the more trouble understanding....
It's my belief that a combonation of IM, email, phone and vid-conference, you just don't need office space (other than showing up at clients site on occasion to have a little facetime). I tend to work within "teams of leaders" of all software architects. Seriously, we are all highly paid experienced telecommuters, and we complete projects in 3-4 weeks that others teams bid 6 months on. It's my belief that long drawn out analysis is doomed to fail - the shorter a window you use to "capture" the requirements of a company, the less chance you have of failing. (And the less chance you have of requirement creep).
Dude, I don't want to rain on your parade, I was just taken aback when I "heard" you say that telecommuting just wont work for you - its the central focus of how I've done business for the last many years, sucessfully. It can be done!
No buddy, I was aiming my attack directly at your innability to code at home without surfing the web while you should be coding!
Darkness is in the hearts of all men. Yours was aimed at a specific ethnic group in a rather derogatory way. I aimed mine at your and feel just for calling you the asshole that you are.
PS: And you can stick your [,] right up your arce as well!
How many people here have called tech support and gotten someone with a thick Indian accent named "Steve"?
Look you racist piece of crap, regardless of wether you get an american, indian or ancient time traveler from latin-only speaking rome, as long as they can read from a script (which is exactly what every support person does) they can have the job. YOU need to be intelligent enough to ask the right questions and participate in the support call - something you obviously have problems with. Or maybe you are just a biggot, either way you seem like an asshole to me!
I think I would have been driven nuts trying to find the unmatched ' in my code.
And you call yourself a programmer? Build a macro or some kind of simple code to check FOR you!
Dude, I'm a long haired hippie, you have no clue who a I am. I just have discipline to do the work I'm paid to do, not surf the web all day when 100$/hr+ is at stake! :)
I've learned from experience that when something really, absolutley needs *doing*, sitting in a comfortable chair at home, with the Web at my fingertips, is a *massive* distraction.
(darth-vader-like-voice)That just shows you lack of discipline.(/darth-vader-like-voice) I'm a telecommuter working from the highly productive comfort of my home in Hawaii while making over 6 figs consulting for the likes of big banks and big geek companies. You CAN work from home, but you must show constant, daily output and be verbose on communitation with those who review your deliverables. Oh yea, and do rock star-like work. I think needing to go into an office is archaic if you have this thing called work ethic.
Well, you are fine if you use mohagony, epe, or some great hardwood, but then the price would be more than a metal tower..... ;-)
"You choose the Linux you want, Dell does the rest."
Yea, except support the machines at the standard-consumer level! Linux desktop just aint ready yet for the masses?
I buy on the order of 50-100 machines from Dell yearly, and I have yet to need even ONE serviced by dell. I set up a high school computer lab - machines getting pounded on my teenagers all day. I do disc imaging and so on - it all just works. I dare say I know my stuff, and I pounded Dell to make sure I knew how I spent every dime (stuff like, no I wont want to pay 10$ for norton for 3 months) but all in all I have been stoked with Dell's service and overall stability....
Any serious business who wants to protect their computer from an unwanted surge has at minimum a voltage regulator, and at maximum a UPS
No wonder you had so many problems. These things will not help you during a spike. What you need are high-Joule surge protectors + your UPS. "Voltage Regulators" will not help in times of a spike (or a brownout) but a high Joule surge protector will.
A Symantec engineer predicts a 'gradual erosion' of the idea that Macs are a safer operating system than Windows. Everytime there is a major outbreak Symantec's stock goes up a few *percentage* points! Oh my!
I recommend you download the Java 1.6.0 beta called Mustang.
Thats tomorrow my friend. Lets talk about today. If I had to write a GUI applet, where I wanted thin (low download) and fast (fast GUI performance close to windoze) I would go with Java 1.5 AWT + 3rd party widgets such as those from Protoview. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/35998.htm What you are suggesting about Mustang *might* work tomorrow, but I'm talking about real-world solutions for today!
The fastest and most furious (and most widely jvm comatible) are thin awt + a few thin third part libraries for complex widgets. Swing is to FAT for my taste!
I assume you are talking about http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/