Sorry, but the M-61 A-1 20 MM Vulcan cannon fires 6,000 rounds per minute in air-to-air mode, and 4,000 rounds per minute in air-to-ground mode. I spent 15 years working on the F-14 Fighter. It makes a dandy noise too:-)
The ads are on the desktop background or on a screensaver. I'll kill the first asshole that puts pop-up ads that interrupt my work on my Linux/BSD desktop!
I know what you are saying, but even on the WinXP notebook you still have a choice. You don't have to use IE to browse, you can download and use Opera or Netscape or Mozilla. The email client is the same. You can use Netscape mail or Eudora or any of the several Windows email clients out there.
Also, you are not limited to just Microsoft office. You can still buy WordPerfect office, or Sun's StarOffice 6, or like me, you can download and use OpenOffice (which I'm liking more and more!).
The problem in the Windows world is not so much that Microsoft killed all of it's competition, it's that user's perceived that Microsoft products were the best choice and choked-off the other products. If more people would wake up to the fact that there are still choices in the Windows world, you would see competition again!
I heard a radio commercial for the Business Software Aliance this morning while driving into work. This was a first in the Jacksonville, Florida area. I suppose the BSA will start harassing businesses in this area now.
I read the article, went to www.mandrake.com and signed up for a "Silver" level membership. I figure I've downloaded and used Mandrake Linux (along with others as well) since I got ADSL in October, 2000. Since then, I haven't purchased a single copy, so I think I can pony-up $120.00 to help out one of the companies that produces an outstanding Linux distro.
Now we only need 7,997 more people to "dig deep" and help them out.
Bowflex with all the trimmings: $1,650.00
Fold-up Treadmill: $700.00
Sitting in front of the TV to watch 'Enterprise': Priceless
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Actually, we aren't going to rewrite these systems, we just had to bring them down and get (and keep) them running. I used to do a great deal of dBase and Clipper development in the 80's, and with my background in BASIC, Visual Basic, C and C++ (not to mention Java, Perl, Pascal, Delphi,...), I was hired to help ensure a "smooth" transition. Somehow, a three month contract has turned into an eight month contract, and maybe more after that. Don't get me wrong, I have to feed my family somehow. It is just too wierd though, doing the retro-coding thing, because I had just finished a five month contract prior to this, coding in Java for a sports company.
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Cool! I never thought anyone would be interrested in making a free implementation of the Clipper compiler! I will have to investigate this.
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I'm currently consulting to Merrill Lynch in Jacksonville, FL., and I can say it has been an eye-opener! We transitioned 49 PC-based insurance apps from Springfield, MA., down to Jacksonville this past summer, and you wouldn't believe the mix of languages there. By the way, I'm talking about over 960,000 lines of code in these things. The predominant language was Clipper, versions: Summer '87, 5.0 and 5.01a. There are also a couple of RBase apps, one written in something called ArevDos, a generous smattering of C modules (mainly linked into the Clipper apps for faster calculations), a couple of compiled BASIC apps, some C++, Visual Basic and some PowerBuilder. From what I've been able to find out, the Insurance industry is chocked full of applications written in "obsolete" languages.
Now for my real question, how do I write this into my resume and make it look good?;-)
I live 62 miles from my job. I drive in and back each day. I have a job and I'm grateful for that. Maybe when the economy returns to the way it was a year or two ago, I'll worry about asking if I can Telecommute. For now, I'll be happy to drive in and back each day, as long as I collect my paycheck each week:-)
Go to Borland's site and check out Delphi. It is in it's 5th incarnation now, and it's being ported to Linux, which means it can also be ported to the rest of the *NIX family. I don't use it much now, but I did for a while there when I was doing heavy Win16/32 Development. I do the majority of my work in Linux now, but I will probably convince my wife to let me license Delphi for Linux when It's released:-)
With all of M$'s crappy software, the bugs, the stability problems, the BACKDOORS, I just can't for the life of me understand why people keep SPENDING GOOD MONEY for M$'s software! It really is a damn shame that so much money is WASTED each year on CRAP LIKE THIS!
The part that really cracks me up is when someone makes a post like this and three-dozen pro-M$'ers respond back to it, praising M$!
I think the Government should form a task force to discover what M$ uses to brain-wash these poor unfortunates.
After two full years of driving 130 miles a day (I live in Palm Coast, FL. and worked in Jacksonville, FL.), I'd finally had enough. I had managed to scratch together two clients so I gave my two weeks notice at my job, then struck out on my own. I've been a "full-time telecommuter" since the beginning of this year, and I love it. The one thing you have to watch out for is the temptation to get distracted. I set up an office in a spare bedroom, away from the TV and such, and I make myself work. The only other problem I've encountered is the inability to stop! I tend to work for 10 to 12 hours a day now, instead of the standard 8, and I sometimes find myself getting up early on the weekends to go slam out some code before my wife gets up, but other than that, it's a blast!
Speaking as an Amateur Extra Class for the past 9 years, and an instructor of Amateur Radio classes, I think it's a good thing the FCC did. I personally enjoy using Morse Code, but in the Internet age, I think it is no longer a requirement for inter-continental communication. Those people who wish to learn Morse code will, and the rest would just forget it anyway. BTW, Morse code is no longer a requirement for sea-going ships, which If I remember right, was one of the reasons for continuing to require the faster Morse code tests on Amateur licences. --------------------------------------------- Howard Pepper AC4FS
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Sorry, but the M-61 A-1 20 MM Vulcan cannon fires 6,000 rounds per minute in air-to-air mode, and 4,000 rounds per minute in air-to-ground mode. I spent 15 years working on the F-14 Fighter. It makes a dandy noise too :-)
Thank goodness for that, or the noise coming from my 40GB WD drive would keep me out of the office! This is the noisiest drive I've ever used.
The ads are on the desktop background or on a screensaver. I'll kill the first asshole that puts pop-up ads that interrupt my work on my Linux/BSD desktop!
I know what you are saying, but even on the WinXP notebook you still have a choice. You don't have to use IE to browse, you can download and use Opera or Netscape or Mozilla. The email client is the same. You can use Netscape mail or Eudora or any of the several Windows email clients out there.
Also, you are not limited to just Microsoft office. You can still buy WordPerfect office, or Sun's StarOffice 6, or like me, you can download and use OpenOffice (which I'm liking more and more!).
The problem in the Windows world is not so much that Microsoft killed all of it's competition, it's that user's perceived that Microsoft products were the best choice and choked-off the other products. If more people would wake up to the fact that there are still choices in the Windows world, you would see competition again!
Wow! Looking at those pictures sure makes me glad I live in Florida!
I heard a radio commercial for the Business Software Aliance this morning while driving into work. This was a first in the Jacksonville, Florida area. I suppose the BSA will start harassing businesses in this area now.
I read the article, went to www.mandrake.com and signed up for a "Silver" level membership. I figure I've downloaded and used Mandrake Linux (along with others as well) since I got ADSL in October, 2000. Since then, I haven't purchased a single copy, so I think I can pony-up $120.00 to help out one of the companies that produces an outstanding Linux distro.
Now we only need 7,997 more people to "dig deep" and help them out.
Perhaps, but did you know that your body burns approximately 200 calories trying to warm up again after drinking a glass of cold water?
Bowflex with all the trimmings: $1,650.00
Fold-up Treadmill: $700.00
Sitting in front of the TV to watch 'Enterprise': Priceless
Actually, we aren't going to rewrite these systems, we just had to bring them down and get (and keep) them running. I used to do a great deal of dBase and Clipper development in the 80's, and with my background in BASIC, Visual Basic, C and C++ (not to mention Java, Perl, Pascal, Delphi, ...), I was hired to help ensure a "smooth" transition. Somehow, a three month contract has turned into an eight month contract, and maybe more after that. Don't get me wrong, I have to feed my family somehow. It is just too wierd though, doing the retro-coding thing, because I had just finished a five month contract prior to this, coding in Java for a sports company.
Cool! I never thought anyone would be interrested in making a free implementation of the Clipper compiler! I will have to investigate this.
I'm currently consulting to Merrill Lynch in Jacksonville, FL., and I can say it has been an eye-opener! We transitioned 49 PC-based insurance apps from Springfield, MA., down to Jacksonville this past summer, and you wouldn't believe the mix of languages there. By the way, I'm talking about over 960,000 lines of code in these things. The predominant language was Clipper, versions: Summer '87, 5.0 and 5.01a. There are also a couple of RBase apps, one written in something called ArevDos, a generous smattering of C modules (mainly linked into the Clipper apps for faster calculations), a couple of compiled BASIC apps, some C++, Visual Basic and some PowerBuilder. From what I've been able to find out, the Insurance industry is chocked full of applications written in "obsolete" languages.
;-)
Now for my real question, how do I write this into my resume and make it look good?
I live 62 miles from my job. I drive in and back each day. I have a job and I'm grateful for that. Maybe when the economy returns to the way it was a year or two ago, I'll worry about asking if I can Telecommute. For now, I'll be happy to drive in and back each day, as long as I collect my paycheck each week :-)
Hehehe, actually, BillOS should be pronounced:
Bill Us
Hey Hemos, who learnt you your english?
Try here
Now THERE'S an oxymoron for you!
It belongs right up there with "Military Intelligence"
Go to Borland's site and check out Delphi. It is in it's 5th incarnation now, and it's being ported to Linux, which means it can also be ported to the rest of the *NIX family. I don't use it much now, but I did for a while there when I was doing heavy Win16/32 Development. I do the majority of my work in Linux now, but I will probably convince my wife to let me license Delphi for Linux when It's released :-)
Nice sig, why don't you give credit to the person who actually thought it up, Abraham Lincoln.
I just don't get it.
With all of M$'s crappy software, the bugs, the stability problems, the BACKDOORS, I just can't for the life of me understand why people keep SPENDING GOOD MONEY for M$'s software!
It really is a damn shame that so much money is WASTED each year on CRAP LIKE THIS!
The part that really cracks me up is when someone makes a post like this and three-dozen pro-M$'ers respond back to it, praising M$!
I think the Government should form a task force to discover what M$ uses to brain-wash these poor unfortunates.
Oops! I forgot to change my sig when I quit
my last job!
Check out the new one...
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After two full years of driving 130 miles a day (I live in Palm Coast, FL. and worked in Jacksonville, FL.), I'd finally had enough. I had managed to scratch together two clients so I gave my two weeks notice at my job, then struck out on my own. I've been a "full-time telecommuter" since the beginning of this year, and I love it. The one thing you have to watch out for is the temptation to get distracted. I set up an office in a spare bedroom, away from the TV and such, and I make myself work. The only other problem I've encountered is the inability to stop! I tend to work for 10 to 12 hours a day now, instead of the standard 8, and I sometimes find myself getting up early on the weekends to go slam out some code before my wife gets up, but other than that, it's a blast!
Why don't you point us to a link that doesn't
require authentication. It sounds like a good
article, but I can't get to it.
Because, if you haven't noticed, Mr. Berst is a
friggin' idiot. Try reading his Berst Alert on
ZDNet.
Speaking as an Amateur Extra Class for the past 9 years, and an instructor of Amateur Radio classes, I think it's a good thing the FCC did. I personally enjoy using Morse Code, but in the Internet age, I think it is no longer a requirement for inter-continental communication. Those people who wish to learn Morse code will, and the rest would just forget it anyway. BTW, Morse code is no longer a requirement for sea-going ships, which If I remember right, was one of the reasons for continuing to require the faster Morse code tests on Amateur licences. --------------------------------------------- Howard Pepper AC4FS