Bailing out now is a really bad idea IMHO. I stuck it out myself and had my lean moments but they payoff is great (if you are getting low wages you are being scammed). It takes a long time to develop the skills that you need to do this job efficiently, you really need to have a global mastery of servers, graphic production, and databases each of which is a discipline in its own right. (You often end up managing the project as well, another handy skill). You have to want to learn new technologies every three months or so, but I think this is what makes the job interesting rather than a drag.
You could be a mortgage broker if you just want to make cash, but if you've been doing this for seven years you're probably too smart to last long in that industry. Its true though, this job ain't for everyone...
How long until the rat brains figure out how to use them?
(Just for the record, when I searched/. for that story, here's what came up in the advert window):
Rat Brain at Amazon.com
Low prices on rat brain. Qualified orders over $25 ship free
Rat Brain
Whatever you're looking for you can get it on eBay.
www.eBay.com
Wasn't this largely addressed by this article?
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/02/ 1611210
On that note, apple is not a gaming company. Aspyr and their ilk are the ones who port for the Mac platform. I always find it funny that Apple gets blamed for not producing something that is mainly supported by third-party vendors. As for the hardware not being friendly for games...WTF? The speed of intel hardware combined with superior graphic capability (and that delicious 30" monitor) seem to be perfectly suited to gaming. I think its simple economics: just not enough demand (read as Mac users).
I spent the latter half of the nineties watching people wring their hands lamenting 'how are we going to make money using the web?' crying into their triple lattes. We now have the answer - create something as obnoxious as myspace, get half a million fourteen-year olds using it, and sell the company. If my privacy has to be sacrificed to see their little faces beam, so be it.
Here's a good example of a security flaw: people who extract the database to a flat file and leaves it their hard drive. 26 million veterans can't be wrong. No, seriously, a 10 minute seminar on user permissions should be required of anyone running a DB server. Like a driver's license.
Dr. Denis P. Lynch, notorious Nazi collaborator and part-time crossdresser is the Director of Ass-Hats at Marquette University's School of Dentistry...
Thats the most craptastic proposal I've heard all week.
1) Have you heard of Linux, John?
2) Can we pick up a copy before we go to the movies where we now have to sit through ads not targeted at us to see how much better the ad-enhanced Windows experience is? Have you heard of Tivo, John? I know trendspotting is an art, but...
3) All your base are belong to us.
The other day I went to the local Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant and got a bird's nest. I guess where I grew up they did things different because when I got home and looked at the goods I was like "hmm...they put little potatoes in them here." Then my better instincts kicked in and I poked the so-called potato AND THEY WERE QUAIL EGGS!!! Now, every time I drive by the place all I can think about is those poor quails.
My on-topic comment is if they eat the fruit of the quail on a regular basis, how can our eurocentrism judge their ovariocentricity?
There's a difference between censorship and shutting down goatse-esque calls to intifadah by radical terrorist elements. Anybody calling that censorship would probably jump up pretty quick if someone threw a Molotov cocktail at their PC (I would assume).
Let them blog their little fingers off. In their own country.
Let's not forget that the United States is the major financier of the United Nations efforts. Doens't it figure that the rest of the world wants control of another technical innovation that is in the US's hands? Why don't they just ask China about it as they've seem to made of with the past 15 years worth of US Naval weapons technology. Shit, why don't we just become part of China so we don't have to listen to the bitching anymore?
Well, they're not inherently evil, but they introduce a semi-visible interface that isn't explicit in the app code. Stick with transactions, one faulty trigger can really muck things up.
I've used both SQL Server 2000 & MySQL 5.0.15 (and some others). Unless you want to make pretty pictures with DTS why wouldn't you decouple yourself from Bill Gates's teat and use MySQL 5? The major difference: limited support for triggers (which are generally a bad idea anyways as they hide code from lower-level developers).
I think the problem with this diet crap is that emphasis is placed on a magic number, your poundage. Is a 250 lb bodybuilder fat? If you use the BMI-index it would tell you that he's going to have an imminent heart-attack.
Diets don't work. There is a one-word answer to your question: exercise. The more you do it, the easier it gets, and you can eat pretty much as much as you want as long as you exercise and burn it off. Oh, but there's more. You will naturally want to eat better because when you go work out, it will make your workout better and easier. And if you want to have laser-precision concentration all day, try working out first thing in the morning. You can also take really cool metabolism-boosting supplements which, if nobody has clued you in, is the best legal way to get high I've ever found.
The first week is hard. After that your life will totally change. And you can thank me then.
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Bailing out now is a really bad idea IMHO. I stuck it out myself and had my lean moments but they payoff is great (if you are getting low wages you are being scammed). It takes a long time to develop the skills that you need to do this job efficiently, you really need to have a global mastery of servers, graphic production, and databases each of which is a discipline in its own right. (You often end up managing the project as well, another handy skill). You have to want to learn new technologies every three months or so, but I think this is what makes the job interesting rather than a drag.
You could be a mortgage broker if you just want to make cash, but if you've been doing this for seven years you're probably too smart to last long in that industry. Its true though, this job ain't for everyone...
In Chinese Google, search engine finds you!
How long until the rat brains figure out how to use them?
/. for that story, here's what came up in the advert window):
(Just for the record, when I searched
Rat Brain at Amazon.com
Low prices on rat brain. Qualified orders over $25 ship free
Rat Brain
Whatever you're looking for you can get it on eBay.
www.eBay.com
You really can get anything on eBay!
(I hear a -1 Offtopic coming my way...)
Sounds like a pain in the asp.
Wasn't this largely addressed by this article? http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/02/ 1611210
On that note, apple is not a gaming company. Aspyr and their ilk are the ones who port for the Mac platform. I always find it funny that Apple gets blamed for not producing something that is mainly supported by third-party vendors. As for the hardware not being friendly for games...WTF? The speed of intel hardware combined with superior graphic capability (and that delicious 30" monitor) seem to be perfectly suited to gaming. I think its simple economics: just not enough demand (read as Mac users).
Its the dream home my inflatable doll always wanted.
I spent the latter half of the nineties watching people wring their hands lamenting 'how are we going to make money using the web?' crying into their triple lattes. We now have the answer - create something as obnoxious as myspace, get half a million fourteen-year olds using it, and sell the company. If my privacy has to be sacrificed to see their little faces beam, so be it.
Here's a good example of a security flaw: people who extract the database to a flat file and leaves it their hard drive. 26 million veterans can't be wrong. No, seriously, a 10 minute seminar on user permissions should be required of anyone running a DB server. Like a driver's license.
I can see it already...
Dr. Denis P. Lynch, notorious Nazi collaborator and part-time crossdresser is the Director of Ass-Hats at Marquette University's School of Dentistry...
Thats the most craptastic proposal I've heard all week.
1) Have you heard of Linux, John?
2) Can we pick up a copy before we go to the movies where we now have to sit through ads not targeted at us to see how much better the ad-enhanced Windows experience is? Have you heard of Tivo, John? I know trendspotting is an art, but...
3) All your base are belong to us.
As part of the deal, Sony has agreed to include malicious code that will open gaping security holes on your devices with the higher-priced downloads.
I, for one, welcome our new crank-wielding African pornogapher overlords.
'Lunar lawnmower' to deal with Moon dust menace
I've felt menaced by Moon Dust for years. Thank God our government's clumping technology will finally put an end to my sleepless nights
The other day I went to the local Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant and got a bird's nest. I guess where I grew up they did things different because when I got home and looked at the goods I was like "hmm...they put little potatoes in them here." Then my better instincts kicked in and I poked the so-called potato AND THEY WERE QUAIL EGGS!!! Now, every time I drive by the place all I can think about is those poor quails.
My on-topic comment is if they eat the fruit of the quail on a regular basis, how can our eurocentrism judge their ovariocentricity?
Why can't we just all get along?
There's a difference between censorship and shutting down goatse-esque calls to intifadah by radical terrorist elements. Anybody calling that censorship would probably jump up pretty quick if someone threw a Molotov cocktail at their PC (I would assume).
Let them blog their little fingers off. In their own country.
Let's not forget that the United States is the major financier of the United Nations efforts. Doens't it figure that the rest of the world wants control of another technical innovation that is in the US's hands? Why don't they just ask China about it as they've seem to made of with the past 15 years worth of US Naval weapons technology. Shit, why don't we just become part of China so we don't have to listen to the bitching anymore?
In Soviet China, Moon property buys you.
Well, they're not inherently evil, but they introduce a semi-visible interface that isn't explicit in the app code. Stick with transactions, one faulty trigger can really muck things up.
I've used both SQL Server 2000 & MySQL 5.0.15 (and some others). Unless you want to make pretty pictures with DTS why wouldn't you decouple yourself from Bill Gates's teat and use MySQL 5? The major difference: limited support for triggers (which are generally a bad idea anyways as they hide code from lower-level developers).
"I felt a great disturbance in the Grok, as if a million recording artists cried out in torment and were silenced at once..."
What does "All time record quaterly sales" mean to you? Anyone have a used Economics 101 book they could send this guy?
I think the problem with this diet crap is that emphasis is placed on a magic number, your poundage. Is a 250 lb bodybuilder fat? If you use the BMI-index it would tell you that he's going to have an imminent heart-attack.
Diets don't work. There is a one-word answer to your question: exercise. The more you do it, the easier it gets, and you can eat pretty much as much as you want as long as you exercise and burn it off. Oh, but there's more. You will naturally want to eat better because when you go work out, it will make your workout better and easier. And if you want to have laser-precision concentration all day, try working out first thing in the morning. You can also take really cool metabolism-boosting supplements which, if nobody has clued you in, is the best legal way to get high I've ever found.
The first week is hard. After that your life will totally change. And you can thank me then.