Honestly, as a gay person who knows lots of other gay people, it's pretty easy to tell if someone is gay, even if you "leave the sex life at the door". Sexuality is a lot more pervasive than you seem to realize. What we call "gay" can mean a lot of things, only a few of which actually involve homosexual sex.
You can install the.NET compact framework on WM, so you should theoretically be able to compile them to CLI, and run the executable on a WM device without problem. Even without official support for the Compact Framework from Mono, it's just a subset of the complete.NET Framework -- you all you'd have to do is only call those portions that are available to the CF.
As for the graphical portion, I'm not exactly sure. I am sure you could create your forms in code, the old fashioned way, but I'm not sure if there is any WYSISWG support for WM apps outside of Visual Studio.
I've taken online classes as recently as last year that used sites requiring ActiveX as a critical component. The software you did all the homework and quizzes in was via the book publisher's site, and it was all in ActiveX. Interestingly, though, all the videos were in Quicktime, and some stuff was in Flash. I don't remember what parts were in Flash, but it was a requirement in the "setup wizard".
I also had to install some piece of software, too. I don't recall what it was.
All in all, a horrible experience. Why in the world didn't they just do it all in Flash is beyond me. Or if they're going that far, just write a fat client that you download and run, that talks to a server. Screw the ActiveX crap.
In 100 years I'm sure the computers themselves will be capable of reverse engineering any relatively widespread file format we have today.
Agreed, but how will we interface with the physical devices they are stored upon? I doubt USB, SATA, PATA, CD-ROMs, SCSI, Firewire, or basically ANY interface we use today will be widely available in 100 years.
While a computer might be able to figure out how to render a JPEG file, it can't magically read it off your backup tape.
I fully suspect in 100 years, we'll have fully optical connections, assuming we haven't figured out how to transmit data using quantum entanglement, radio, or some yet-undiscovered property of physics somehow. Consider that even the humble telegraph didn't circle the globe until ~100 years ago. That's how much progress we have to look forward to 100 years from now. I am personally hoping that with medical advancements, I live to see that day (I'm only in my 20s).
Honestly, it would probably be easier just to write it yourself. It's not some super-top-secret bit of magic code that no one else could reproduce. Have you ever tried working with someone else's code, with know knowledge or insight into the project?
It's not pretty. And this isn't an open source project with a wiki and people contributing to documentation etc. It might have been this one guy who worked there 5 years ago and never made a single code comment.
The code that does the actual work (the calculations) is probably very small. Most of it is probably written to interface with the device. And unless you are getting their exact device -- or one with identical specifications -- then you're going to have to rewrite that anyway. And I suspect they DO have a patent on the device, even if you did somehow get the code.
On the other hand, it can't really be destroyed with a pen, either. As long as there are people willing to labor, and resources or assets that have value, "wealth" will exist.
What the pen can do is control how that "wealth" is distributed and how it flows from person to person.
It's like a foreclosure. Consider: banks don't need homes. People need homes. So it really does the banks no good to take a house away if they know they can't sell it to anyone else. It isn't "wealth" if it's sitting on a lot somewhere being unused. But people want the house, and so it has value to those people, in so much that they are willing to labor to make use of it. That basic premise will never change, no matter what happens with the economy.
Absolutely. And if you want to have everything cached to RAM, it's significantly faster. In fact, someone already thought of that and engineered the ACPI S3 power state.
I'm just saying, trying to fight against the corporate bureaucracy to get honest work done only obfuscates the problems. If you have a serious problem that you need IT to address, you boss should be able to help you. If he can't, then let him make the call on what to do.
It's a simple, "You are asking me to do $thing, but I don't have the resources to do it. Please advise."
I work for a business where I am almost always asked to do things I don't have the resources to do. It used to bother me, but now I just send an email to my boss politely explaining the situation and let it go. Sure, it's not great for the business, but it's not my call. When other people ask me, "What's up with $thing?" I just explain that I'm limited in resources and I've forwarded it my boss (by name), and they can talk to her about it.
What will often happen is they go to their boss, who can actually get something done. When IT asks for something, it may not get it. But when sales asks for something, there will indeed be a fire under someone's ass.
I don't like the CYA mentality, but I have communicated and documented all my concerns. When it comes back on me, I can point to and say, "I warned of this, but you didn't want me to work on that project then," or whatever. The more I try to be a squeaky wheel, the more stress I have personally -- and the pay just isn't worth the stress. At some point you let go and realize it's not your business, and if the corporate lords want to run it into a hole in the ground, then there's not much you can do except have contingencies.
Why would you do this? Why not just tell your boss, "I can't complete this project until IT responds to my request." Let your boss deal with it. That's why he or she makes more money than you.
Or more realistically, you'd type "delta flight info" or something into google and then click the link. So Google would know it instead of Microsoft. Okay, maybe you personally wouldn't, but a great many people would. I know I would -- google is easier to navigate than trying to find my way around individual sites.
I've never thought about it that way. I've never been called a "director" of anything. Even when I'm doing software development (which is about half my job), I get called the "IT guy".
I was even being introduced to a new employee who was doing office work, plus a little accounting stuff, maybe A/P. When I was introduced to her she said she did "a little of everything, my job title would be really long if we wrote it out". I told her I knew what that was like, and mine was the same way. Both she and my boss ADAMANTLY disagree with me and said I just did "IT". So I asked them what they thought my title would be, and I kid you not, my boss said "IT Person" with the new girl emphatically nodding as if that was right.
As for paying more for me than regular staff, I know for a fact I make less than most of the staff, probably by about 25%. I complained about this -- not in the sense of making less than everyone else, but as in not making enough for the work I'm doing -- and they played the "well, we're a small company and can't really do much right now." But they did give me a 7k/yr raise, but only because I was ready to walk out on them. Even with that, I'm still making about 25% less than the other employees, with the exception of the receptionist and the shipping guys.
If I bring it up again, which they said to do in 6 months (which was the end of last month), I feel almost certain they'll say something about how bad the economy is and they just can't do it right now. And in truth, it probably would be hard for me to find another job right now better than this one.
All the comments to my post have been positive, though, and they're really making me consider another meeting with my boss to hammer some things out. Even if I can't get more pay right now, we need to get past the contempt and the idea that I'm just the "IT guy", with no real valuable opinions or ability to make IT decisions that are good for the business.
Wow, I don't know why you're taking so much heat. What you're saying is exactly true. I mean, really, a good developer is going to have to know the ins and outs of all the business rules and procedures before he can write or maintain software that implements those rules.
Sure, he may not know that Sandy in accounting is touchy about people using her stapler, but he knows how to process the return requests she needs. What he doesn't know is the human element of the job. Sure, in a perfect world, that would be an issue, but let's face it: office politics are just as critical to getting work done as the processes you use to do them.
I work for a small company, and I HAVE been called on before to do some *CRITICAL* thing that no one else there knew how to do, because people were out sick or whatever. And when someone new comes in, I usually end up having to train them, because no one else knows how to do every job here. I get, "hey, help us figure out what's going on with this order" at least once a week. All the information is in the software, too, they just don't know how to use it, and they forget things they don't use on a regular basis. I've had to show some features to my boss at least five times, because each time she's forgotten it's there.
While you are responsible for EVERYTHING, that means that you get to set up everything the right way. Your way. If there's a problem, you can fix it the right way.
How I wish this were true. You have to do things the bosses way. And if you work for a small company, the boss is probably so hard-set in his entrepreneurial control-everything mindset that you spend more time cleaning up messes than you do actually making progress. He won't ask you what he should do, he'll make some spontaneous, completely uninformed decision and order you to do it -- trying to be circumspect, like you must in this line of work, is considered insubordination.
What's worse is that you're often viewed with contempt because you alone know about a super-critical aspect of the business. People don't like to feel helpless, or at the mercy of another, ESPECIALLY small business owners. Sure, someone else could come in and fix it, but not on short order. And in small business, even a day or two of downtime can break the books.
It's twice as hard for half the pay. It has its benefits, but I wonder if they're really worth it on almost a daily basis.
Since a hydrocarbon is just hydrogen and carbon molecules, shouldn't algae (or any mechanism) be able to theoretically take energy from sunlight to combine hydrogen from water and carbon from the atmosphere into hydrocarbons?
I mean, sure, the algae structures are going to be made of other bits of matter, but you should be able to recycle those with minimal loss, right?
I mean, once you have all the algae you need (you aren't trying to grow more to seed new vats), you'll only need to provide foodstuffs for what you lose in normal processing. None of it should actually be consumed.
As for the other concerns, it probably wouldn't be very economical to grow the algae in sealed vats. I am wondering what the ERoEI of algae is opposed to, say, thermal or photovoltaic solar plans in the same areas? Sure, electricity doesn't have the benefits of fuel, but what's the "price tag" for getting the energy in a fuel form? Or is letting mother nature do it for us more efficient?
Violence against another can be moral, depending on why you're being violent. Self-defense or the defense of your loved ones against someone trying to maliciously cause you serious harm is usually considered moral.
Pacifism is only possible because there are other, sterner folks who AREN'T pacifists keeping the wolves at bay...
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Tomato is good, too. I found Tomato to be less buggy and more responsive and DD-WRT -- and believe me, I was fanatical about DD-WRT. I used it for years before trying Tomato.
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Honestly, as a gay person who knows lots of other gay people, it's pretty easy to tell if someone is gay, even if you "leave the sex life at the door". Sexuality is a lot more pervasive than you seem to realize. What we call "gay" can mean a lot of things, only a few of which actually involve homosexual sex.
Yeah, anyone remember Abraham, father of the Abrahamic religions? That's Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Also all monotheistic.
Just pointing out that he had concubines, and that was perfectly acceptable then.
Wouldn't the documentation be stored on the same devices that used those specifications? :P
(Obviously I'm kidding, people would be smart enough to transfer something like that to a new medium... right? Right..?)
You can install the .NET compact framework on WM, so you should theoretically be able to compile them to CLI, and run the executable on a WM device without problem. Even without official support for the Compact Framework from Mono, it's just a subset of the complete .NET Framework -- you all you'd have to do is only call those portions that are available to the CF.
As for the graphical portion, I'm not exactly sure. I am sure you could create your forms in code, the old fashioned way, but I'm not sure if there is any WYSISWG support for WM apps outside of Visual Studio.
I've taken online classes as recently as last year that used sites requiring ActiveX as a critical component. The software you did all the homework and quizzes in was via the book publisher's site, and it was all in ActiveX. Interestingly, though, all the videos were in Quicktime, and some stuff was in Flash. I don't remember what parts were in Flash, but it was a requirement in the "setup wizard".
I also had to install some piece of software, too. I don't recall what it was.
All in all, a horrible experience. Why in the world didn't they just do it all in Flash is beyond me. Or if they're going that far, just write a fat client that you download and run, that talks to a server. Screw the ActiveX crap.
In 100 years I'm sure the computers themselves will be capable of reverse engineering any relatively widespread file format we have today.
Agreed, but how will we interface with the physical devices they are stored upon? I doubt USB, SATA, PATA, CD-ROMs, SCSI, Firewire, or basically ANY interface we use today will be widely available in 100 years.
While a computer might be able to figure out how to render a JPEG file, it can't magically read it off your backup tape.
I fully suspect in 100 years, we'll have fully optical connections, assuming we haven't figured out how to transmit data using quantum entanglement, radio, or some yet-undiscovered property of physics somehow. Consider that even the humble telegraph didn't circle the globe until ~100 years ago. That's how much progress we have to look forward to 100 years from now. I am personally hoping that with medical advancements, I live to see that day (I'm only in my 20s).
Honestly, it would probably be easier just to write it yourself. It's not some super-top-secret bit of magic code that no one else could reproduce. Have you ever tried working with someone else's code, with know knowledge or insight into the project?
It's not pretty. And this isn't an open source project with a wiki and people contributing to documentation etc. It might have been this one guy who worked there 5 years ago and never made a single code comment.
The code that does the actual work (the calculations) is probably very small. Most of it is probably written to interface with the device. And unless you are getting their exact device -- or one with identical specifications -- then you're going to have to rewrite that anyway. And I suspect they DO have a patent on the device, even if you did somehow get the code.
On the other hand, it can't really be destroyed with a pen, either. As long as there are people willing to labor, and resources or assets that have value, "wealth" will exist.
What the pen can do is control how that "wealth" is distributed and how it flows from person to person.
It's like a foreclosure. Consider: banks don't need homes. People need homes. So it really does the banks no good to take a house away if they know they can't sell it to anyone else. It isn't "wealth" if it's sitting on a lot somewhere being unused. But people want the house, and so it has value to those people, in so much that they are willing to labor to make use of it. That basic premise will never change, no matter what happens with the economy.
Sure, but what about Microsoft, or Adobe, or various other companies that make software?
Microsoft, Adobe, and others are consumers of open source software.
I know the disk is a problem.
Absolutely. And if you want to have everything cached to RAM, it's significantly faster. In fact, someone already thought of that and engineered the ACPI S3 power state.
They are losing $5000 to tax, but still bringing home and extra $5000.
So in the GP's example:
$50000 income = $50000 income
$60000 income = $55000 income
Only the $10000 above $50000 is taxed.
I'm just saying, trying to fight against the corporate bureaucracy to get honest work done only obfuscates the problems. If you have a serious problem that you need IT to address, you boss should be able to help you. If he can't, then let him make the call on what to do.
It's a simple, "You are asking me to do $thing, but I don't have the resources to do it. Please advise."
I work for a business where I am almost always asked to do things I don't have the resources to do. It used to bother me, but now I just send an email to my boss politely explaining the situation and let it go. Sure, it's not great for the business, but it's not my call. When other people ask me, "What's up with $thing?" I just explain that I'm limited in resources and I've forwarded it my boss (by name), and they can talk to her about it.
What will often happen is they go to their boss, who can actually get something done. When IT asks for something, it may not get it. But when sales asks for something, there will indeed be a fire under someone's ass.
I don't like the CYA mentality, but I have communicated and documented all my concerns. When it comes back on me, I can point to and say, "I warned of this, but you didn't want me to work on that project then," or whatever. The more I try to be a squeaky wheel, the more stress I have personally -- and the pay just isn't worth the stress. At some point you let go and realize it's not your business, and if the corporate lords want to run it into a hole in the ground, then there's not much you can do except have contingencies.
I would have bitched and bitched and bitched. You aren't paying all that high-dollar tuition to be shit on by some douchebag professor.
Why would you do this? Why not just tell your boss, "I can't complete this project until IT responds to my request." Let your boss deal with it. That's why he or she makes more money than you.
What are you really helping by going renegade?
A Via Nano or Intel C7 in a super-small form factor is probably perfect for that application.
Or more realistically, you'd type "delta flight info" or something into google and then click the link. So Google would know it instead of Microsoft. Okay, maybe you personally wouldn't, but a great many people would. I know I would -- google is easier to navigate than trying to find my way around individual sites.
I've never thought about it that way. I've never been called a "director" of anything. Even when I'm doing software development (which is about half my job), I get called the "IT guy".
I was even being introduced to a new employee who was doing office work, plus a little accounting stuff, maybe A/P. When I was introduced to her she said she did "a little of everything, my job title would be really long if we wrote it out". I told her I knew what that was like, and mine was the same way. Both she and my boss ADAMANTLY disagree with me and said I just did "IT". So I asked them what they thought my title would be, and I kid you not, my boss said "IT Person" with the new girl emphatically nodding as if that was right.
As for paying more for me than regular staff, I know for a fact I make less than most of the staff, probably by about 25%. I complained about this -- not in the sense of making less than everyone else, but as in not making enough for the work I'm doing -- and they played the "well, we're a small company and can't really do much right now." But they did give me a 7k/yr raise, but only because I was ready to walk out on them. Even with that, I'm still making about 25% less than the other employees, with the exception of the receptionist and the shipping guys.
If I bring it up again, which they said to do in 6 months (which was the end of last month), I feel almost certain they'll say something about how bad the economy is and they just can't do it right now. And in truth, it probably would be hard for me to find another job right now better than this one.
All the comments to my post have been positive, though, and they're really making me consider another meeting with my boss to hammer some things out. Even if I can't get more pay right now, we need to get past the contempt and the idea that I'm just the "IT guy", with no real valuable opinions or ability to make IT decisions that are good for the business.
Wow, I don't know why you're taking so much heat. What you're saying is exactly true. I mean, really, a good developer is going to have to know the ins and outs of all the business rules and procedures before he can write or maintain software that implements those rules.
Sure, he may not know that Sandy in accounting is touchy about people using her stapler, but he knows how to process the return requests she needs. What he doesn't know is the human element of the job. Sure, in a perfect world, that would be an issue, but let's face it: office politics are just as critical to getting work done as the processes you use to do them.
I work for a small company, and I HAVE been called on before to do some *CRITICAL* thing that no one else there knew how to do, because people were out sick or whatever. And when someone new comes in, I usually end up having to train them, because no one else knows how to do every job here. I get, "hey, help us figure out what's going on with this order" at least once a week. All the information is in the software, too, they just don't know how to use it, and they forget things they don't use on a regular basis. I've had to show some features to my boss at least five times, because each time she's forgotten it's there.
While you are responsible for EVERYTHING, that means that you get to set up everything the right way. Your way. If there's a problem, you can fix it the right way.
How I wish this were true. You have to do things the bosses way. And if you work for a small company, the boss is probably so hard-set in his entrepreneurial control-everything mindset that you spend more time cleaning up messes than you do actually making progress. He won't ask you what he should do, he'll make some spontaneous, completely uninformed decision and order you to do it -- trying to be circumspect, like you must in this line of work, is considered insubordination.
What's worse is that you're often viewed with contempt because you alone know about a super-critical aspect of the business. People don't like to feel helpless, or at the mercy of another, ESPECIALLY small business owners. Sure, someone else could come in and fix it, but not on short order. And in small business, even a day or two of downtime can break the books.
It's twice as hard for half the pay. It has its benefits, but I wonder if they're really worth it on almost a daily basis.
Since a hydrocarbon is just hydrogen and carbon molecules, shouldn't algae (or any mechanism) be able to theoretically take energy from sunlight to combine hydrogen from water and carbon from the atmosphere into hydrocarbons?
I mean, sure, the algae structures are going to be made of other bits of matter, but you should be able to recycle those with minimal loss, right?
I mean, once you have all the algae you need (you aren't trying to grow more to seed new vats), you'll only need to provide foodstuffs for what you lose in normal processing. None of it should actually be consumed.
As for the other concerns, it probably wouldn't be very economical to grow the algae in sealed vats. I am wondering what the ERoEI of algae is opposed to, say, thermal or photovoltaic solar plans in the same areas? Sure, electricity doesn't have the benefits of fuel, but what's the "price tag" for getting the energy in a fuel form? Or is letting mother nature do it for us more efficient?
Because it's cheaper to buy a faster chip than it is to hire a programmer who can write more efficient code. I don't think that will change soon.
You don't dodge a bullet, you dodge the arm aiming it at you.
Violence against another can be moral, depending on why you're being violent. Self-defense or the defense of your loved ones against someone trying to maliciously cause you serious harm is usually considered moral.
Pacifism is only possible because there are other, sterner folks who AREN'T pacifists keeping the wolves at bay...
Tomato is good, too. I found Tomato to be less buggy and more responsive and DD-WRT -- and believe me, I was fanatical about DD-WRT. I used it for years before trying Tomato.
And it has such a thin atmosphere because it lacks sufficient gravity to keep gases from floating off into space.