Why is there no 'invite friends' function on Slashdot!?
What we really need is a button you can click when someone says something bad about Linux or advocates Windows. This button would send out an e-mail to all people subscribed to the "Linux Advocacy" mailiing list with a link to the post so that they can all flame the original poster.
Bit of a late reply, I've been a too busy to read slashdot.
Back in 2002 I got a straight C# programming job for US$66 per hour. I was averaging about 42 hours per week, but only worked 48 weeks, so that was about US$133,000 per year. Then in 2004 my rate got bumped to $77 per hour so then I went up to $150,000 per year.
In 2007 I tossed it all in, I don't know why, maybe life got too easy for me. Now I'm trying to work out how to get back to where I was at. Recently I took up a short 6 month C++ contract for $70 per hour as I was hoping to start my own business or something. This 6 month job was so easy to get, I got it over the phone from a different country. There's plenty of demand for IT, now I'm trying to hire people and start a company and getting into a differnt side of the business. It looks pretty healthy. Depends where in the market you are sitting.
I almost hate myself for saying this, but Microsoft's COM interface is a good example of how well multiple inheritance works. A COM object can have lots of standard capabilities, and to add them in you just inherit them. To a master C++ coder COM is pretty interesting, but it would make a Java coder's head hurt. There used to be a joke floating around the net showing how a master coder could write a COM hello world printing object in a 1000 lines of code.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. I've been living in Perth this year and I'm already planning my exit strategy. For someone who is used to living well in a real city it's not a great place to live. The guy probably found no matter how much he tried he still couldn't enjoy living here, so in the end he's going to sell up everything and start again somewhere else.
Yep, we have Notes installed at work and all you can hear all day from the cube farm is the collective zombie moan of "I wish we had outlook, moooaaaannn.... why doesn't this just work like outlook...moooaaannnn". C'mon they should be excited at the opportunity to use something other than Office! Later this year to save money we are going to roll out Linux yeah!
The native c api for win32 is about the worst api ever designed. And the c++ wrapper(I asume you mean MFC) is a hack job too.
Can't really argue too much with you there. I'm an old C/C++ programmer and I've been living with this stuff for years. The Win32 API is based on what was in Win16, it came out for Windows 3.1 in what was called "Win32s", and was basically the same thing with some extensions so it made it simple for Windows programmers to move over.
MFC came out with the original Visual Studio 1.0, and then had some improvements in VS 1.5. At the time it had some good stuff, but the STL library made a lot of it obsolete. I hate it when I get onto a project and see things like CString everywhere.
I moved from MFC to QT and I thought it was fantastic, so nice not to have to mess around with dynamic data exchange, and the event connecting model was nice. I then moved to.NET 1.0 which was an improvement over MFC for sure, but was buggy and the layout model sucked..NET 2.0 also has the same sucky layout model.
However, Window Presentation Foundation - the new Vista graphics API, is a big move from Microsoft, and although not perfect it is a fantastic API. It's powerful, has an excellent data binding model and is incredibly flexible. I think it is the best thing I've seen, however it's not light and I think there will be a lot of developers that will not be able to grasp it's complexity, but that's ok as my grasp of the technology allows me to differentiate myself from other developers. With WPF I can walk in a quickly whip up an app with an appearance that shits on what my competitors (other contractors) produce.
24 were from mainland China, three from Hong Kong and 12 from Taiwan
I'd like to say 39 were Chinese.
Nice troll, and quite a hot topic in the region at the moment. Interesting how an off topic, political troll got modded +5 informative. Must be a lot of pro one china types with mod points today who read slashdot before they started work. Interesting times ahead I think.
My hatred of Java comes about because my company decided to port the backend of all their desktop applications to Java, and then, out of some total madness, they decided Eclipse was a good host for the front end! I just....I just can't be bothered trying to explain how bad this is. It's just too painful.
The "vaunted" MS Research team has put out a "concept" OS that doesn't run _any_ applications
Just been looking at it, has a graphics frame buffer, a text interface, and a C# compiler. Seems to me that it can run applications. The C# language seems to be a bit different to the one on Windows but it looks rather cool. It looks so interest I can't help but try it out. It's definately a real O/S. Doesn't have a window manager though, it's temping to write something like the Amiga window manager to sit on top of this, as the code to the video card divers is there, so it could be easily augmented.
IE gets up to 250MB and then doesn't render the page. Yet Firefox works fine. Interestingly though if you save the Firefox content and then load it in IE is also works fine, so maybe not a fair comparison as it seems to be serving up different material to each browser.
I never even understood why you would want to board the plane first in first class
I've got new for you, most of the pompous prats I know who travel first class wait in the airline lounge until they are personally called to board the plane. So in fact they board last. The worst offenders of this I know have PhDs. They love the sound of "would Dr Blogs please board flight BR564 at gate 6".
We should call it a Duke Fusion Nukem Reactor. 20 years indicates that there is some problem that doesn't have a solution. People always imagine that withing 20 years someone will come up with a solution to that problem. So 20 years basically means
1. Attempt to build a fusion reactor with currently known technology
2. ????
3. Profit!
Who cares about the pay, once you are earning above a certain amount, being happy with what you do is far more important than earning more money.
So you don't like playing golf and banging a continuous stream of new secretaries? Or adding all your old school buddies to the board and paying them huge amounts of money? Or buying the latest bleeding edge gadgets all the time with company funds?
I guess I should be happy rotting away in my cubicle, grass is always greener on the other side of the fence ay? It can't be as much fun as it looks.
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First, for me this story crossed a line. It looks like stock manipulation.
Yeah I'm always watching the front page of slashdot waiting for it to tell me what to buy and what to sell. Actually that might work...stock market is group think, slashdot is group think.
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What they originally wanted to do was merge with nVidia, it made sense at the time because nVidia was producing the best chipset for AMD CPUs. Anyway the communications between the 2 companies went sour, so AMD, still hot to do something picked the number 2 choice, ATI.
Now a merger between nVidia and AMD would have produced a powerful company. nVida has 3DFX tech, Telsa, chipsets and the 2 companies had already done a lot of joint work on the original X-BOX design (intel was a late entry). AMD brought CPU tech, flash and some other tech into the mix. However it was not meant to be.
So buying ATI was just a plan B, and not really optimal.
The Intel Core architechture is impressive. It's powerful enough over the Athlon that they can take shortcuts. Gives them more headroom for later, whereas the Athlon is reaching its maximum efficiency of instructions per clock so they have to be more thoughtful with their engineering.
Supposing the leader of country, lets call him Hitler, made it such that all the german cultural productions couldn't be sold or broadcast unless they went through an organization of his. This organization diddled the originators out of what money they thought they were going to get. Furthermore the artists basically wanted to have their works heard by all the people, but the government decided when and what people could listen too, except for the wealthy who could pay to have their own copies of the large bodies of work.
The money raised by this organization was used to persecute a minority based on their choice of a religion that was a foundation of Christianity which is the dominant religion.
So if a person copied a piece of their culture so that they could listen to it when they wanted to should they be bankrupted for the rest of their lives?
Answer: Of course! They are a pirate, and that's how the law says we treat pirates. You want to obey the law right?
You might argue about how it depends on the use of the money. Well ok, I guess the people working for the RIAA need to open up their uses of the money so that we can judge if revenue from our culture is being spent appropriately or not.
Given that space travel will be more popular by that point, then there must be some technology coming along that can convert electricity into thrust. Given Newtonian Physics that's going to be tricky. There might be a use for all the explodable material afterall.
You might get more action if you wear a shirt that says "Gay and Proud of it!". Christians are fairly hardened towards abuse of their religion as religious debate is not uncommon. Or maybe you could try "NASCAR sucks!"
Yes I would vaccinate my daughter. The setup of society causes too many problems for people who get hooked on Cocaine. Having had an ex wife who got hooked on cocaine, over 2 years became a hooker to pay for her habbit, and who died from some bad stuff, I wouldn't hesitate to get my daughter vaccinated. Drug dealers are persuasive "first one is free". People think "I won't get hooked", and young girls are prime targets. Once someone falls down the hole it's near impossible to pull them out. If a simple injection at a young age can prevent the possibility of all that shit then I say go for it. To me it's as great a boon as a vaccine against bowel cancer. I know it's quite specific though, so I guess the drug dealers will add some other weapon to their tool box if everyone was immune to Cocaine, so the best thing is if just a select few get it, which looking at the attitude here is what is going to happen anyway:-)
With nearly half a century of experience using computers to run their business, Chris M's company knew that law all too well. Ever since that fateful Wednesday -- still known throughout the company as The Crash of '68 -- they swore, Never Again. And forty years later, they've kept their promise.
Over the years, Chris's employer has come as close to a Perfect Technology Infrastructure as anyone. They hire the best network administrators money can buy and give them whatever resources they need to ensure that the infrastructure remains solid. And that they do.
The company's backup and retention plan is nothing short of immaculate. Every system they've ever purchased -- from that old payroll program on the System/360 to that bizarre parts database for OS/2 -- can be brought back to life, if not physically than through virtualization. A walk through their "software archive" was a treat for many; new technicians are often astonished to learn, not only of the existence of 8-inch floppy disks, but that the company still has the 8-inch install disks for CP/M. And a drive to run them on.
Naturally, thanks to the aforementioned Murphy's Law, this elaborate backup and retention is rarely, if ever, called into use. The only excitement the network technicians ever get is that occasional, frantic, "Oh Crap! I accidentally deleted that critical PowerPoint presentation" call. And even that is easily solved by walking the user through their self-service file restoration system.
But a little while back, the network technicians received a restoration request that actually sounded interesting. A production manager needed a report of the "old old" part numbers for a long out-of-production assembly. "Old old" referred an ancient mainframe system that had been replaced by the "old" system over ten years go and finally shut down in 2001. Restoring the "old old" system meant setting up a new emulation environment, mounting the old disk image, and praying that it boots up without a hitch.
This was the first time ever that an actual user had requested such a restoration, so the network technicians were naturally a bit nervous. But thanks to their meticulous planning and procedures, everything went fine. The system booted up without a hitch and the production manager was summoned to log in to the terminal they had set up for him. He sat down at the chair, keyed in his username, and then paused for a moment.
Electric scooters are great for taking out pedestrians Carmageddon style. Those pesky petrol based ones make too much noise and people don't step out in front of you. Helps too if you wear nice black leathers so as to reduce your visibility.
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What we really need is a button you can click when someone says something bad about Linux or advocates Windows. This button would send out an e-mail to all people subscribed to the "Linux Advocacy" mailiing list with a link to the post so that they can all flame the original poster.
Come to Slovakia, we love Americans to come here. We have a nice Hostel for you to stay in too.
Bit of a late reply, I've been a too busy to read slashdot.
Back in 2002 I got a straight C# programming job for US$66 per hour. I was averaging about 42 hours per week, but only worked 48 weeks, so that was about US$133,000 per year. Then in 2004 my rate got bumped to $77 per hour so then I went up to $150,000 per year.
In 2007 I tossed it all in, I don't know why, maybe life got too easy for me. Now I'm trying to work out how to get back to where I was at. Recently I took up a short 6 month C++ contract for $70 per hour as I was hoping to start my own business or something. This 6 month job was so easy to get, I got it over the phone from a different country. There's plenty of demand for IT, now I'm trying to hire people and start a company and getting into a differnt side of the business. It looks pretty healthy. Depends where in the market you are sitting.
I almost hate myself for saying this, but Microsoft's COM interface is a good example of how well multiple inheritance works. A COM object can have lots of standard capabilities, and to add them in you just inherit them. To a master C++ coder COM is pretty interesting, but it would make a Java coder's head hurt. There used to be a joke floating around the net showing how a master coder could write a COM hello world printing object in a 1000 lines of code.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. I've been living in Perth this year and I'm already planning my exit strategy. For someone who is used to living well in a real city it's not a great place to live. The guy probably found no matter how much he tried he still couldn't enjoy living here, so in the end he's going to sell up everything and start again somewhere else.
Yep, we have Notes installed at work and all you can hear all day from the cube farm is the collective zombie moan of "I wish we had outlook, moooaaaannn.... why doesn't this just work like outlook...moooaaannnn". C'mon they should be excited at the opportunity to use something other than Office! Later this year to save money we are going to roll out Linux yeah!
Can't really argue too much with you there. I'm an old C/C++ programmer and I've been living with this stuff for years. The Win32 API is based on what was in Win16, it came out for Windows 3.1 in what was called "Win32s", and was basically the same thing with some extensions so it made it simple for Windows programmers to move over.
MFC came out with the original Visual Studio 1.0, and then had some improvements in VS 1.5. At the time it had some good stuff, but the STL library made a lot of it obsolete. I hate it when I get onto a project and see things like CString everywhere.
I moved from MFC to QT and I thought it was fantastic, so nice not to have to mess around with dynamic data exchange, and the event connecting model was nice. I then moved to .NET 1.0 which was an improvement over MFC for sure, but was buggy and the layout model sucked. .NET 2.0 also has the same sucky layout model.
However, Window Presentation Foundation - the new Vista graphics API, is a big move from Microsoft, and although not perfect it is a fantastic API. It's powerful, has an excellent data binding model and is incredibly flexible. I think it is the best thing I've seen, however it's not light and I think there will be a lot of developers that will not be able to grasp it's complexity, but that's ok as my grasp of the technology allows me to differentiate myself from other developers. With WPF I can walk in a quickly whip up an app with an appearance that shits on what my competitors (other contractors) produce.
Nice troll, and quite a hot topic in the region at the moment. Interesting how an off topic, political troll got modded +5 informative. Must be a lot of pro one china types with mod points today who read slashdot before they started work. Interesting times ahead I think.
My hatred of Java comes about because my company decided to port the backend of all their desktop applications to Java, and then, out of some total madness, they decided Eclipse was a good host for the front end! I just....I just can't be bothered trying to explain how bad this is. It's just too painful.
Just been looking at it, has a graphics frame buffer, a text interface, and a C# compiler. Seems to me that it can run applications. The C# language seems to be a bit different to the one on Windows but it looks rather cool. It looks so interest I can't help but try it out. It's definately a real O/S. Doesn't have a window manager though, it's temping to write something like the Amiga window manager to sit on top of this, as the code to the video card divers is there, so it could be easily augmented.
Here's an interesting one off of Microsoft's own live.com A blog entry with pictures
IE gets up to 250MB and then doesn't render the page. Yet Firefox works fine. Interestingly though if you save the Firefox content and then load it in IE is also works fine, so maybe not a fair comparison as it seems to be serving up different material to each browser.
I think you are doing an honorable job making sure that nobody posts anything wrong on slashdot without being immediately corrected or 1up'd
I've got new for you, most of the pompous prats I know who travel first class wait in the airline lounge until they are personally called to board the plane. So in fact they board last. The worst offenders of this I know have PhDs. They love the sound of "would Dr Blogs please board flight BR564 at gate 6".
We should call it a Duke Fusion Nukem Reactor. 20 years indicates that there is some problem that doesn't have a solution. People always imagine that withing 20 years someone will come up with a solution to that problem. So 20 years basically means
1. Attempt to build a fusion reactor with currently known technology
2. ????
3. Profit!
So you don't like playing golf and banging a continuous stream of new secretaries? Or adding all your old school buddies to the board and paying them huge amounts of money? Or buying the latest bleeding edge gadgets all the time with company funds?
I guess I should be happy rotting away in my cubicle, grass is always greener on the other side of the fence ay? It can't be as much fun as it looks.
Yeah I'm always watching the front page of slashdot waiting for it to tell me what to buy and what to sell. Actually that might work...stock market is group think, slashdot is group think.
What they originally wanted to do was merge with nVidia, it made sense at the time because nVidia was producing the best chipset for AMD CPUs. Anyway the communications between the 2 companies went sour, so AMD, still hot to do something picked the number 2 choice, ATI.
Now a merger between nVidia and AMD would have produced a powerful company. nVida has 3DFX tech, Telsa, chipsets and the 2 companies had already done a lot of joint work on the original X-BOX design (intel was a late entry). AMD brought CPU tech, flash and some other tech into the mix. However it was not meant to be.
So buying ATI was just a plan B, and not really optimal.
The Intel Core architechture is impressive. It's powerful enough over the Athlon that they can take shortcuts. Gives them more headroom for later, whereas the Athlon is reaching its maximum efficiency of instructions per clock so they have to be more thoughtful with their engineering.
Didn't think of that...damn
Is there a rule about people coming up with Bush analogies?
Here's an analogy for you:
Supposing the leader of country, lets call him Hitler, made it such that all the german cultural productions couldn't be sold or broadcast unless they went through an organization of his. This organization diddled the originators out of what money they thought they were going to get. Furthermore the artists basically wanted to have their works heard by all the people, but the government decided when and what people could listen too, except for the wealthy who could pay to have their own copies of the large bodies of work.
The money raised by this organization was used to persecute a minority based on their choice of a religion that was a foundation of Christianity which is the dominant religion.
So if a person copied a piece of their culture so that they could listen to it when they wanted to should they be bankrupted for the rest of their lives?
Answer: Of course! They are a pirate, and that's how the law says we treat pirates. You want to obey the law right?
You might argue about how it depends on the use of the money. Well ok, I guess the people working for the RIAA need to open up their uses of the money so that we can judge if revenue from our culture is being spent appropriately or not.
Given that space travel will be more popular by that point, then there must be some technology coming along that can convert electricity into thrust. Given Newtonian Physics that's going to be tricky. There might be a use for all the explodable material afterall.
You might get more action if you wear a shirt that says "Gay and Proud of it!". Christians are fairly hardened towards abuse of their religion as religious debate is not uncommon. Or maybe you could try "NASCAR sucks!"
Yes I would vaccinate my daughter. The setup of society causes too many problems for people who get hooked on Cocaine. Having had an ex wife who got hooked on cocaine, over 2 years became a hooker to pay for her habbit, and who died from some bad stuff, I wouldn't hesitate to get my daughter vaccinated. Drug dealers are persuasive "first one is free". People think "I won't get hooked", and young girls are prime targets. Once someone falls down the hole it's near impossible to pull them out. If a simple injection at a young age can prevent the possibility of all that shit then I say go for it. To me it's as great a boon as a vaccine against bowel cancer. I know it's quite specific though, so I guess the drug dealers will add some other weapon to their tool box if everyone was immune to Cocaine, so the best thing is if just a select few get it, which looking at the attitude here is what is going to happen anyway :-)
Reminds me of this story:
With nearly half a century of experience using computers to run their business, Chris M's company knew that law all too well. Ever since that fateful Wednesday -- still known throughout the company as The Crash of '68 -- they swore, Never Again. And forty years later, they've kept their promise.
Over the years, Chris's employer has come as close to a Perfect Technology Infrastructure as anyone. They hire the best network administrators money can buy and give them whatever resources they need to ensure that the infrastructure remains solid. And that they do.
The company's backup and retention plan is nothing short of immaculate. Every system they've ever purchased -- from that old payroll program on the System/360 to that bizarre parts database for OS/2 -- can be brought back to life, if not physically than through virtualization. A walk through their "software archive" was a treat for many; new technicians are often astonished to learn, not only of the existence of 8-inch floppy disks, but that the company still has the 8-inch install disks for CP/M. And a drive to run them on.
Naturally, thanks to the aforementioned Murphy's Law, this elaborate backup and retention is rarely, if ever, called into use. The only excitement the network technicians ever get is that occasional, frantic, "Oh Crap! I accidentally deleted that critical PowerPoint presentation" call. And even that is easily solved by walking the user through their self-service file restoration system.
But a little while back, the network technicians received a restoration request that actually sounded interesting. A production manager needed a report of the "old old" part numbers for a long out-of-production assembly. "Old old" referred an ancient mainframe system that had been replaced by the "old" system over ten years go and finally shut down in 2001. Restoring the "old old" system meant setting up a new emulation environment, mounting the old disk image, and praying that it boots up without a hitch.
This was the first time ever that an actual user had requested such a restoration, so the network technicians were naturally a bit nervous. But thanks to their meticulous planning and procedures, everything went fine. The system booted up without a hitch and the production manager was summoned to log in to the terminal they had set up for him. He sat down at the chair, keyed in his username, and then paused for a moment.
"Now, what was my password five years ago?"
Electric scooters are great for taking out pedestrians Carmageddon style. Those pesky petrol based ones make too much noise and people don't step out in front of you. Helps too if you wear nice black leathers so as to reduce your visibility.
It's called a credit card, and look how secure that has been. Yes I know a passport also counts, but I was also making a point about security.