I agree. I work for a government agency in the state of Kentucky, and we're running into the same problem with several software vendors we've dealt with for years: they're raising prices exponentially and going after the big boys with fat wallets. Is their software any better? Of course not, and companies with limited budgets and a minimal amount of common sense aren't going to bother with these vendors.
Messaging systems (you could produce one of these that is as good as anyone else's at a fraction of the cost). Streaming media tools. There's plenty of opportunities for someone with initiative to swoop in and clean up where the big vendors have left.
Ghost Recon was the first game I played with my new Audigy2 and 6+1 speaker system. The game itself was excellent, but the addition of the buff sound card and surround speakers really made that game a champ. When you hear your support guy laying down suppressing fire--nay, absolutely unloading with his MG3 cannon--from behind you and to the right, it pumps your blood a lot. Especially when you aren't expecting it. One second you're crawling across a compound, and the next instant your support guy spots an enemy and lets loose of a couple dozen rounds in your ear. Great stuff.
No doubt, Thief and Thief 2 were very immersive games. Turn the lights out in the computer room and you are in the game. Loved them, especially since they took the FPS in a different direction where stealth and aversion to contact were keys to success instead of firepower and speed.
You have to admit he has a point about the filesystem. This problem is glaring when you notice the gazillion different locations different distros will install Apache for example. The tarball goes in/usr/local/apache. Some distros toss it in/var/www. Others still in/home/www. Or/home/httpd. Maybe/etc/httpd. It is INSANE!
I think a clearer, more intuitive directory structure would make this a non-issue. I won't offer a concrete list of changes I'd make, but there should be one directory for libraries, one directory for executables, one directory for configuration files, one directory for documentation/help/man pages, one directory for users, one directory for devices/hardware, one directory for logs, one directory for temporary files, one directory for boot related scripts, etc.
I can manage with the current layout, but I give the author of the article credit for challenging the community, and I think he has a good point about the filesystem. I'd rather there be a single directory with six thousand files rather than a wicked tree of subdirectories.
Some people are not ready for this and dont have the aptitude and that is the vast majority of the people I have found that have trouble getting work in this market.
Distinguishing those with the aptitude and those without for this industry is virtually impossible using the classical resume/interview approach. You *must* be networked, and folks who work in the tech industry aren't "Let's Do Lunch" types.
The bigger problem is that people in the tech industry have poor project management skills. Either too many people launch in with their pet ideas and agendas or management can't buy a clue. E.g., a friend got me an interview with her sister at a nice company in Cincinnati after I passed along my resume. Interview went very well. Days turned into weeks into months. Finally, after a couple of calls and e-mails, they confessed that they couldn't fill the position because they couldn't hire anybody for new projects. Seems they were having trouble completing projects they already started. In other words, a clusterfuck.
That guy that wants to put in a 40 hour week and dosent build / hone there skills dosent belong in this business period.
Don't mistake a man with priorities for one who rejects subservience. Again, if the emphasis was put on getting shit done instead of the perpetual feature creep, 40 hours a week would make perfect sense. Sure, your average Slashdotter could show a little more sack, but why is the prevailing sense of the tech industry I read here so fatalist? A lot of folks used to love the art of the hack, and they're railing in the dust these days. So much of what we do now has nothing to do with hacking. The creativity has escaped out into the vacuum of the business world unless you're one of the privileged disallusioned (read: CEO, CIO).
You're right about tech work as a hobby. There's no better way to learn the trade. It's what drove so many of us to this point. Yet if programming for a living were anything like programming as a hobby, nobody would be complaining about work weeks in excess of 40 hours. Instead, I'm told I can't work over 40 hours a week, because I would accrue too much comp time. Additionally, I am told I have to use what comp time I have when I go on vacation despite having 150+ hours of vacation time.
It isn't the technical, geeky half that is the problem. It's the other 90% that sucks.
Yes, people are assholes, but what did you expect when you woke up this morning? That six billion people with distinct socio-economic situations and egos were waiting anxiously to find out what Sabalon wanted from them?
This is what makes being human so frickin' cool. We have these traits that have been given to us by way of evolution. We're self-centered, because nature has taught us that no one else is going to look out for #1 quite like ourselves. But paradoxically, we expect everyone around us to yield. E.g. driving in traffic. That latter trait really glows in a modern civilization. It's fascinating this friction of realization and expectation.
Some work has gone into AI-based investing, and it is fascinating to think about computers picking stocks. A little scary too, but if analysis of securities is a viable means to make money in the market (it's arguable), a computer should be able to process all the information and make timely picks far better than any bloodskull.
Whoa, baby, you just hit a very salty wound I have as a RedHat user. Yes, I build Perl, Apache, and mod_perl from source. But doing so makes a complete RedHat install a fscking nightmare. Every last RPM in their distro seems to depend on a Perl RPM install. Woe be the sysadmin who finds himself in this dependency hell. Want a GUI and install Perl/Apache/mod_perl from source? Bend over.
I should note that I despise building RPMs from source. The premise is a time sink. Breaking software and libs out into separate RPMs is a blessing in many respects, but in the case of building a mod_perl enabled Apache web server on RedHat Linux, it is a nightmare that won't end.
Can someone explain to me why every last RPM in the distro depends on a Perl RPM install? What is with libperl.so?
You can get a decent idea of what's going on in a paragraph or two from the AP or Reuters without all of the marketing baggage that you get from the cable news folks. I should have qualified my remark by saying ignore TV news. I wouldn't expect anybody to hide in a cave or anything. I just believe it is better if folks just got a report like "Troops moved north from Kuwait City across the border into Iraq" than watching some field reporter wax poetic about the feeling of war.
So to summarize. Nobody in the civilized world can possibly grasp what it is like to be there. So if you want to know what is happening and save an hour or five, read an AP or Reuters report. If you're a soccer mom in touch with your feelings, tune into the cable news channels to see the field reporters trying to move up the leaderboard for a gig as host of yet another talking heads show by telling you how they're braving the relentless shelling (some fifty miles off in the distance).
Above all else, keep the troops on both sides in your thoughts and pray for a quick, mostly bloodless resolution.
I knew the branding of the war was imminent. All of the news stations have been doing it since we've begun banging the war drums. I'm surprised to see it to such sickening lengths. It sucks journalists down a few fathoms below lawyers in my book. What are these fucking people thinking splashing "Showdown with Saddam" all over the tube? Good God, these people need to get a fucking life.
The news will not cover the war. You won't learn what it was like for some Iraqi soldier to get carbonized instantly by a gunship (because his country's despot ruler is a punk). Why bother? Read an AP or Reuters report and get on with your life, the one with your $3 latte on the way to work tomorrow morning, because your life ain't the one those Iraqis are living, and it sure as hell isn't anything like what FoxCNNMSNBC is gonna show you.
HP with HPUX, why would they want to sell and support linux?
Answer: cheap R&D. HP can leave the development to someone else and focus its efforts on sales. HP is sure to have RedHat's ear when it wants it too. You have to figure that they see the writing on the wall: open source can do what the big boys do and sometimes can do it better. This move helps preserve their hardware sales a la Apple with OSX. Smart. Selling software anymore seems like selling ice to eskimos.
Who goes to McDonald's with the intention of hanging out? Personally, I don't want to be seen or recognized when I'm plucking down a few dollars for some cardiac arrest food.
In other words, US Tech firms are about to be taught a lesson in global capitalism.
You cannot be serious. I realize this is Slashdot, home of the geek's corporate angst, but this is utter BS. This is Katz posting under a pen name. Has to be.
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I'm about halfway through writing up my PhD thesis on some applications of homological algebra to knot theory and low-dimensional geometric topology (provisional title liber rerum dementiae, but it'll probably end up being called something more mathematically appropriate).
Been a while? A little backed up, perhaps? Do you even remember what a tit feels like?
How many extinction level meteors have we suffered in the last 100 years? Okay, now how many fatal plane crashes have happened in that same span? Considering that extinction level meteors slam into the earth, what every few millions of years (?), thousands of planes take to the sky every day, this is a lousy comparison.
I was having a creative fit when I wrote that. It's an Irish bull. Something like, "I attacked with a sword in each hand and a pistol in the other." But who among us couldn't use a third hand?
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Messaging systems (you could produce one of these that is as good as anyone else's at a fraction of the cost). Streaming media tools. There's plenty of opportunities for someone with initiative to swoop in and clean up where the big vendors have left.
Ghost Recon was the first game I played with my new Audigy2 and 6+1 speaker system. The game itself was excellent, but the addition of the buff sound card and surround speakers really made that game a champ. When you hear your support guy laying down suppressing fire--nay, absolutely unloading with his MG3 cannon--from behind you and to the right, it pumps your blood a lot. Especially when you aren't expecting it. One second you're crawling across a compound, and the next instant your support guy spots an enemy and lets loose of a couple dozen rounds in your ear. Great stuff.
No doubt, Thief and Thief 2 were very immersive games. Turn the lights out in the computer room and you are in the game. Loved them, especially since they took the FPS in a different direction where stealth and aversion to contact were keys to success instead of firepower and speed.
What a bunch of shit.
I think a clearer, more intuitive directory structure would make this a non-issue. I won't offer a concrete list of changes I'd make, but there should be one directory for libraries, one directory for executables, one directory for configuration files, one directory for documentation/help/man pages, one directory for users, one directory for devices/hardware, one directory for logs, one directory for temporary files, one directory for boot related scripts, etc.
I can manage with the current layout, but I give the author of the article credit for challenging the community, and I think he has a good point about the filesystem. I'd rather there be a single directory with six thousand files rather than a wicked tree of subdirectories.
Distinguishing those with the aptitude and those without for this industry is virtually impossible using the classical resume/interview approach. You *must* be networked, and folks who work in the tech industry aren't "Let's Do Lunch" types.
The bigger problem is that people in the tech industry have poor project management skills. Either too many people launch in with their pet ideas and agendas or management can't buy a clue. E.g., a friend got me an interview with her sister at a nice company in Cincinnati after I passed along my resume. Interview went very well. Days turned into weeks into months. Finally, after a couple of calls and e-mails, they confessed that they couldn't fill the position because they couldn't hire anybody for new projects. Seems they were having trouble completing projects they already started. In other words, a clusterfuck.
That guy that wants to put in a 40 hour week and dosent build / hone there skills dosent belong in this business period.
Don't mistake a man with priorities for one who rejects subservience. Again, if the emphasis was put on getting shit done instead of the perpetual feature creep, 40 hours a week would make perfect sense. Sure, your average Slashdotter could show a little more sack, but why is the prevailing sense of the tech industry I read here so fatalist? A lot of folks used to love the art of the hack, and they're railing in the dust these days. So much of what we do now has nothing to do with hacking. The creativity has escaped out into the vacuum of the business world unless you're one of the privileged disallusioned (read: CEO, CIO).
You're right about tech work as a hobby. There's no better way to learn the trade. It's what drove so many of us to this point. Yet if programming for a living were anything like programming as a hobby, nobody would be complaining about work weeks in excess of 40 hours. Instead, I'm told I can't work over 40 hours a week, because I would accrue too much comp time. Additionally, I am told I have to use what comp time I have when I go on vacation despite having 150+ hours of vacation time.
It isn't the technical, geeky half that is the problem. It's the other 90% that sucks.
This is what makes being human so frickin' cool. We have these traits that have been given to us by way of evolution. We're self-centered, because nature has taught us that no one else is going to look out for #1 quite like ourselves. But paradoxically, we expect everyone around us to yield. E.g. driving in traffic. That latter trait really glows in a modern civilization. It's fascinating this friction of realization and expectation.
Some work has gone into AI-based investing, and it is fascinating to think about computers picking stocks. A little scary too, but if analysis of securities is a viable means to make money in the market (it's arguable), a computer should be able to process all the information and make timely picks far better than any bloodskull.
Well? Would you?
Further proof that people are either stupid or do not know what they want.
Or, say this...
"Guess."
There is no such word as guesstimate. A guess can be informed or uninformed; an estimate, informed. Here endeth the lesson.
Well, you could always try Viagra, but...huh...oh, sorry. Misread your post. Nevermind.
If only I had mod points, you would be rewarded.
I should note that I despise building RPMs from source. The premise is a time sink. Breaking software and libs out into separate RPMs is a blessing in many respects, but in the case of building a mod_perl enabled Apache web server on RedHat Linux, it is a nightmare that won't end.
Can someone explain to me why every last RPM in the distro depends on a Perl RPM install? What is with libperl.so?
So to summarize. Nobody in the civilized world can possibly grasp what it is like to be there. So if you want to know what is happening and save an hour or five, read an AP or Reuters report. If you're a soccer mom in touch with your feelings, tune into the cable news channels to see the field reporters trying to move up the leaderboard for a gig as host of yet another talking heads show by telling you how they're braving the relentless shelling (some fifty miles off in the distance).
Above all else, keep the troops on both sides in your thoughts and pray for a quick, mostly bloodless resolution.
The news will not cover the war. You won't learn what it was like for some Iraqi soldier to get carbonized instantly by a gunship (because his country's despot ruler is a punk). Why bother? Read an AP or Reuters report and get on with your life, the one with your $3 latte on the way to work tomorrow morning, because your life ain't the one those Iraqis are living, and it sure as hell isn't anything like what FoxCNNMSNBC is gonna show you.
Answer: cheap R&D. HP can leave the development to someone else and focus its efforts on sales. HP is sure to have RedHat's ear when it wants it too. You have to figure that they see the writing on the wall: open source can do what the big boys do and sometimes can do it better. This move helps preserve their hardware sales a la Apple with OSX. Smart. Selling software anymore seems like selling ice to eskimos.
Who goes to McDonald's with the intention of hanging out? Personally, I don't want to be seen or recognized when I'm plucking down a few dollars for some cardiac arrest food.
You cannot be serious. I realize this is Slashdot, home of the geek's corporate angst, but this is utter BS. This is Katz posting under a pen name. Has to be.
No, flaming other people's sex lives is funny. See I just laughed at your post.
You just did, tit.
Been a while? A little backed up, perhaps? Do you even remember what a tit feels like?
...bacon is gooood...ham is gooood...
How many extinction level meteors have we suffered in the last 100 years? Okay, now how many fatal plane crashes have happened in that same span? Considering that extinction level meteors slam into the earth, what every few millions of years (?), thousands of planes take to the sky every day, this is a lousy comparison.
I was having a creative fit when I wrote that. It's an Irish bull. Something like, "I attacked with a sword in each hand and a pistol in the other." But who among us couldn't use a third hand?