Does spending 1 hour a day just to drive 18 miles sound like fun and comfort to you? I'm pretty sure dealing with "rush hour" on a train/subway is more enjoyable then rush hour in one of LA's freeways where people are cutting you off, driving like morons, having to SLAM your breaks every 5 minutes, frustration, stress, accident prone, horrible radio:) + sun + heat crawling at 5 MPH.... ummm.... I would rather deal with rush hour on a train than what I described above.
Just get in line, get on the train, talk/ignore whoever is on the train and then simply get off at your stop. After that, god forbid you walk a little bit to get to your building. That doesn't sound as painful as LA traffic + its more healthy for you:)
" Or maybe it's because public transportation is a huge pain in the backside. "
The reason its a pain in the backside is because of the "car culture" we are raised with and how we have failed to adopt a new mode of mass transportation. It's being stubborn + ignorant + selfish all combined into one.
" I've lived in NYC and it's faster, nicer and more comfortable to drive than to deal with rush hour. "
More than 75% of NY takes the train system to work, even the mayor. I remember pictures of people (including the mayor) walking and biking to work when they had that transit strike a couple of months ago. Just imagine the nightmare if everyone in NY drove a car (one car per person of course) to do everything from work, school, to recreation. I would imagine it to be worst than LA without a doubt.
Now the mayor is a rich man I assume, why would he take the train to work and not drive? Hmm... beats me:)
I'm starting my new job in San Francisco next month, and a major reason I am leaving Los Angeles is for the horrendous traffic and lack of public transportation. You can't go anywhere in LA without a car unless you want to make it a "journey".
I was just reading an article about how Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to not fund a high speed train for California to alleviate some of the traffic on the highways.
Currently with AMTRACk it takes 11 hours to go from Los Angeles to San Francisco, so you can imagine the time it takes for other routes as well. Americans have no choice but to use their cars and get stuck in traffic. Its a sad sad world when the politicians don't care about the masses but instead care about conserving business. The bullet train proposed would have speeds up to 200 MPH and it would only take 2.5 hours to go from LA to SF. Just imagine all the college studends going to and from their Universities that would actually WANT to get on the train instead of driving... Europe is full of these bullet trains, but america is FAR behind in mass transportation except in New York...
OIL, Gas, Tires, Road construction, Cars, insurance, accidents, etc.. cars and traffic are a HUGE businesses and the politicians don't want to get rid of it since it brings the money into their bank accounts...
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It would be great if they released the source code so people can maintain/upgrade and port the games to new systems in the future.
Old classics like Mclaren F1 racing, crosswars, paratrooper, robotron 200x should all be opeen sourced for the public.
I just ran accross this website (www.liberatedgames.com) where you can download old games and I will be enjoying great classics for years to come:) since I enjoy the simplistic fun nature of these games compared to the hardware intensive multi million button multi player games that are on the market these days.
Games have changed over time and are still fun to play but have become so overly complicated that sometimes I feel its a choir to play a game.
Well I know there was mapquest and what not well before google maps., but I am pretty sure google was the first one to use ajax. I ran accross the ajax version of MS maps and well... its not as good.
As for the calendar feature I guess its correct that both hotmail/yahoo mail had some kind of calendar feature, but you have to admit Google Cal is very creative and adds many features the others lack.
There was a post a couple days ago about 30boxes, and other calendar sites... but I don't know who copied who:)
Copy Search, Copy google maps, copy gdrive, and probably next copy google cal.
Don't these losers ever do anything by themselves? Where are all those "creative" people MS hired from "top" universities?
All those big risk takers and inventors? MS is composed of a bunch of lame copy cats and they will pay the consequences later for their lack of ingenuity and creativity.
My name is very similar to his is all i have to say. I'm proud my name is getting such attention and acclaim.
Also why wouldn't Israeli people be proud that the inventor is Israeli? I mean a lot of technology is invented in Israel from chips to software. They have really good math/logic skills, schools, and DNA:)
Israeli's have to fight and keep on top of technology as a means of survival and not letting what happened to them in the past be repeated. They strive to be the best the can at anything they do.
USA buys everything from materials to brains from other countries <BR><BR> Its a plan to keep America as #1 in world supremacy and technology. <BR><BR> "Brain drain" is the correct phrase to use, but its getting harder and harder as more countries are becoming industrialised and offer more incentives for their citizens to stay and work there.<BR><BR>
Right now there is a "nurse drain" going on. Under developed countries havevery few nurses and medical professionals for their populations because they are coming to the USA, UK and other "western" countries (including Israel) to find work.
"It strikes me as rather odd that the software engineer's "Ease of Entry" (open to everyone from high school drop-outs and up) is rated the same as a professor (minimum PhD for university, usually Master's for community college). "
You are not thinking of the correct type of software engineer. "Open to everyone from high school drop-outs"... Um those are script kiddies, website designers, and PHP/PERL web portal developers.
I had to work my butt off to get my current job offer. I have been interviewing since December with dozens of companies, most of them small mom and pop shops, to the juggernauts. Of course getting into a Juggernaut like IBM, MS, Google is a very hard barrier to entry. I would actually give Ease of entry to Software Engineers a C+ or B- as I had to interview for 3 months with a certain company to get to the point I am at now.
Its pretty hard for me to work from home. Too many distractions, too many fun things to do (music, surf the web, slashdot, chat, food, etc...) I can't get anything done. Maybe I have ADD:)
Its really hard to discipline myself to work from home and dedicate all my time to the task at hand.
Getting up early, taking a shower, eating breakfast and then going into the office makes a more productive day in my mind. Can't mess around in the office:)
What ever happened to SUN and their mobile office program? I wonder if they dropped it after they realized employees weren't doing there jobs:)
I agree with you. Technology & Freedom is always one step ahead of businesses and corporations.
One example is DVD Encryption which was cracked by a 15 year old so he can watch movies in Linux. Its going to be the same with p2p software. Users will find a way around any restrictions imposed on them.
You think bandwidth use is high now? Wait till all p2p traffic is encrypted and then overhead will be noticeable. Who knows, maybe it won't be noticeable since bandwidth lines and router technologies are constantly being updated.
I heard CISCO has already made routers capable of dealing with optics directly and not having to convert them before interpretation and redirection saving valuable time and obviously increasing bandwidth speeds. Cool...:)
I mean some Internet connections are shared with your neighbors. For example if you have hard wired cable Internet and someone is always downloading 24/7 you will notice your network to be always busy, dropped packets, etc...
So doing this will help out people in this type of situation.
On the other hand I do believe that its unfair to restrict someones Internet use or bandwidth for certain ports. Back in the day AOL use to charge per hour... I hope it doesn't come to the point where you have to pay a monthly fee + extra Gigs used or something similar to that.
they have technology and tanks with ball/chains that dig into the ground and scoop up or explode mines before a tank drives in the area.
Anti tank land mines is old school buddy. They have had mine diggers since WWII... where have you been?
Also one tank shoots out a projectile that lands onto the sand/ground and attached to it is a explosive line. The line explodes which causes all nearby landmines to detonate as well...
I have used windows since 3.1... and never used outlook for anything.
Googles cal system seems to be nice, yahoo hasn't adopted ajax yet and their pages are always slow and annoying to click on. 30boxes look nice a swell.
Attack the tank under ground or at a very low altitude (one or two feet off of the ground) or if you can find an angle that the interceptor can't shoot at (90 Degree angle)
Underground sounds hard and impossible, but honestly that is the only part of the tank that is now unprotected.
Someone want to invent missles that dig through the ground? LOL!
Other than legit programs needing more ram and disk space, this is exactly the problem. Most people do not need a CPU > 2 ghz for what they do.
Surf the web, check email, use some kind of Word program and print. 2 ghz is also good for movies and what not.
People are being forced to update their machines every 2 years because of silly operating systems like Windows XP, Vista and because they themselves are dumb and don't know how their 1.8 ghz machine became so slow due to Windows problems.
You wouldn't want to work for a company that advertises on craigslist.org or any other silly job board. Those jobs are just people needing someone to do some silly program and they don't care how you do it. They don't know about Algorithms and data structures nor do they care. They just want you to write it as fast as you can for as little pay they care to offer.
Real computer science jobs will never accept someone without a degree and someone without a BSCS degree doesn't stand a chance at Google or any other truly high tech company.
As I tell everyone I interview with.
YOU DON'T NEED A COMPUTER SCIENCE DEGREE TO DO WEB DEVELOPMENT. HTML/PHP/PERL/SQL/JS You can learn all those by yourself, and true that the are handy and useful, but that is not COMPUTER SCIENCE. That is what most people who don't go to college pick up by themselves learn it and make out OKAY in the tech industry.
Computer Science is about doing things the correct way. Choosing correct Algorithms, Data structures, Knowing how to speed up software, figuring out why software runs slow on certain hardware, and CREATING new technologies. Computer science is what made the internet, what made your monitor communicate with the hardware, how CPUs work and the algorithms behind them, embeded systems and the works.
Well outsourcing isn't going to happen for defense and security related jobs... obviously they aren't going to send code for a missile or jet fighter over seas... DUH....
Also many government jobs for CS students will never be outsourced either. Just the cheap mom and pop shops for HTML/PHP/PERL will outsource their code....
Things no one in the US is desperate to do.
And what mrsam said before, having 2-3 years of $ in the bank and not being desperate to accept the first job offer is a very very very important thing.
I haven't had a job since December and the reason for that is, I have been saying NO and NO NO NO to these damn recruiters bugging me about dead end jobs. Jobs where I will lose my skills and marketability. I would rather spend that time looking for an ideal job with a great company I can work for.
I'm not looking for another job that will only last a year, I'm looking for 2+ years down the road.
I would run across people who just wanted to chase the gold. They where horrible coders and always needed help (bugging me for it) and leeched their way through college.
Some of them become "project managers" and other none coder positions.
You ever hear the phrase
"The people who get A's work for the people who get B's, and the people who get B's work for the people who get C's"
I honestly think that women are more social then men biologically and that has a huge impact on their decision towards the computer science life, specifically towards being a programmer. I remember during my undergrad I had to make huge sacrifices between my computer projects and going out with friends to a movie, mall, and even parties on friday and Saturday nights.
I don't know if its just me trying harder trying to solve a problem, or me just being stupid that I need the extra time.
Maybe I'm a wee antisocial? Maybe being not so social creates someone who can concentrate more on problems and tasks?
LOL
Everything Google does is BETA! Something can be in Beta for 5 years just to give them an excuse if something is wrong or breaks.
I haven't noticed that on any other websites and certainly haven't seen it on Ask
I actually haven't even seen it on their new map system. Beta.... what a joke.
Slashdot Mirror
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what a cheater. I thought he actually walked accross the bridge throughout the whole strike.
Have you lived in LA for most of your life?
:) + sun + heat crawling at 5 MPH.... ummm.... I would rather deal with rush hour on a train than what I described above.
:)
:)
Does spending 1 hour a day just to drive 18 miles sound like fun and comfort to you? I'm pretty sure dealing with "rush hour" on a train/subway is more enjoyable then rush hour in one of LA's freeways where people are cutting you off, driving like morons, having to SLAM your breaks every 5 minutes, frustration, stress, accident prone, horrible radio
Just get in line, get on the train, talk/ignore whoever is on the train and then simply get off at your stop. After that, god forbid you walk a little bit to get to your building. That doesn't sound as painful as LA traffic + its more healthy for you
" Or maybe it's because public transportation is a huge pain in the backside. "
The reason its a pain in the backside is because of the "car culture" we are raised with and how we have failed to adopt a new mode of mass transportation. It's being stubborn + ignorant + selfish all combined into one.
" I've lived in NYC and it's faster, nicer and more comfortable to drive than to deal with rush hour. "
More than 75% of NY takes the train system to work, even the mayor. I remember pictures of people (including the mayor) walking and biking to work when they had that transit strike a couple of months ago. Just imagine the nightmare if everyone in NY drove a car (one car per person of course) to do everything from work, school, to recreation. I would imagine it to be worst than LA without a doubt.
Now the mayor is a rich man I assume, why would he take the train to work and not drive? Hmm... beats me
I'm starting my new job in San Francisco next month, and a major reason I am leaving Los Angeles is for the horrendous traffic and lack of public transportation. You can't go anywhere in LA without a car unless you want to make it a "journey".
I was just reading an article about how Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to not fund a high speed train for California to alleviate some of the traffic on the highways.
Currently with AMTRACk it takes 11 hours to go from Los Angeles to San Francisco, so you can imagine the time it takes for other routes as well. Americans have no choice but to use their cars and get stuck in traffic. Its a sad sad world when the politicians don't care about the masses but instead care about conserving business. The bullet train proposed would have speeds up to 200 MPH and it would only take 2.5 hours to go from LA to SF. Just imagine all the college studends going to and from their Universities that would actually WANT to get on the train instead of driving... Europe is full of these bullet trains, but america is FAR behind in mass transportation except in New York...
OIL, Gas, Tires, Road construction, Cars, insurance, accidents, etc.. cars and traffic are a HUGE businesses and the politicians don't want to get rid of it since it brings the money into their bank accounts...
It would be great if they released the source code so people can maintain/upgrade and port the games to new systems in the future.
:) since I enjoy the simplistic fun nature of these games compared to the hardware intensive multi million button multi player games that are on the market these days.
Old classics like Mclaren F1 racing, crosswars, paratrooper, robotron 200x should all be opeen sourced for the public.
I just ran accross this website (www.liberatedgames.com) where you can download old games and I will be enjoying great classics for years to come
Games have changed over time and are still fun to play but have become so overly complicated that sometimes I feel its a choir to play a game.
Well I know there was mapquest and what not well before google maps., but I am pretty sure google was the first one to use ajax. I ran accross the ajax version of MS maps and well... its not as good.
:)
As for the calendar feature I guess its correct that both hotmail/yahoo mail had some kind of calendar feature, but you have to admit Google Cal is very creative and adds many features the others lack.
There was a post a couple days ago about 30boxes, and other calendar sites... but I don't know who copied who
I'll stay on the sidelines for this one.
It seems all MS does is COPY COPY COPY and COPY
Copy Search, Copy google maps, copy gdrive, and probably next copy google cal.
Don't these losers ever do anything by themselves? Where are all those "creative" people MS hired from "top" universities?
All those big risk takers and inventors? MS is composed of a bunch of lame copy cats and they will pay the consequences later for their lack of ingenuity and creativity.
Well,
:)
My name is very similar to his is all i have to say. I'm proud my name is getting such attention and acclaim.
Also why wouldn't Israeli people be proud that the inventor is Israeli? I mean a lot of technology is invented in Israel from chips to software. They have really good math/logic skills, schools, and DNA
Israeli's have to fight and keep on top of technology as a means of survival and not letting what happened to them in the past be repeated. They strive to be the best the can at anything they do.
hehe
USA buys everything from materials to brains from other countries <BR><BR> Its a plan to keep America as #1 in world supremacy and technology. <BR><BR>
"Brain drain" is the correct phrase to use, but its getting harder and harder as more countries are becoming industrialised and offer more incentives for their citizens to stay and work there.<BR><BR>
Right now there is a "nurse drain" going on. Under developed countries havevery few nurses and medical professionals for their populations because they are coming to the USA, UK and other "western" countries (including Israel) to find work.
"It strikes me as rather odd that the software engineer's "Ease of Entry" (open to everyone from high school drop-outs and up) is rated the same as a professor (minimum PhD for university, usually Master's for community college). "
You are not thinking of the correct type of software engineer. "Open to everyone from high school drop-outs"... Um those are script kiddies, website designers, and PHP/PERL web portal developers.
I had to work my butt off to get my current job offer. I have been interviewing since December with dozens of companies, most of them small mom and pop shops, to the juggernauts. Of course getting into a Juggernaut like IBM, MS, Google is a very hard barrier to entry. I would actually give Ease of entry to Software Engineers a C+ or B- as I had to interview for 3 months with a certain company to get to the point I am at now.
Its pretty hard for me to work from home. Too many distractions, too many fun things to do (music, surf the web, slashdot, chat, food, etc...) I can't get anything done. Maybe I have ADD :)
:)
:)
Its really hard to discipline myself to work from home and dedicate all my time to the task at hand.
Getting up early, taking a shower, eating breakfast and then going into the office makes a more productive day in my mind. Can't mess around in the office
What ever happened to SUN and their mobile office program? I wonder if they dropped it after they realized employees weren't doing there jobs
I agree with you. Technology & Freedom is always one step ahead of businesses and corporations.
:)
One example is DVD Encryption which was cracked by a 15 year old so he can watch movies in Linux. Its going to be the same with p2p software. Users will find a way around any restrictions imposed on them.
You think bandwidth use is high now? Wait till all p2p traffic is encrypted and then overhead will be noticeable. Who knows, maybe it won't be noticeable since bandwidth lines and router technologies are constantly being updated.
I heard CISCO has already made routers capable of dealing with optics directly and not having to convert them before interpretation and redirection saving valuable time and obviously increasing bandwidth speeds. Cool...
I mean some Internet connections are shared with your neighbors. For example if you have hard wired cable Internet and someone is always downloading 24/7 you will notice your network to be always busy, dropped packets, etc...
So doing this will help out people in this type of situation.
On the other hand I do believe that its unfair to restrict someones Internet use or bandwidth for certain ports. Back in the day AOL use to charge per hour... I hope it doesn't come to the point where you have to pay a monthly fee + extra Gigs used or something similar to that.
:) yup yup!
well
:) keep up to date.
they have technology and tanks with ball/chains that dig into the ground and scoop up or explode mines before a tank drives in the area.
Anti tank land mines is old school buddy. They have had mine diggers since WWII... where have you been?
Also one tank shoots out a projectile that lands onto the sand/ground and attached to it is a explosive line. The line explodes which causes all nearby landmines to detonate as well...
C'mon
LOL
:)
... and never used outlook for anything.
You must be sarcastic...
I have used windows since 3.1
Googles cal system seems to be nice, yahoo hasn't adopted ajax yet and their pages are always slow and annoying to click on. 30boxes look nice a swell.
Easy,
Attack the tank under ground or at a very low altitude (one or two feet off of the ground) or if you can find an angle that the interceptor can't shoot at (90 Degree angle)
Underground sounds hard and impossible, but honestly that is the only part of the tank that is now unprotected.
Someone want to invent missles that dig through the ground? LOL!
Other than legit programs needing more ram and disk space, this is exactly the problem. Most people do not need a CPU > 2 ghz for what they do.
Surf the web, check email, use some kind of Word program and print. 2 ghz is also good for movies and what not.
People are being forced to update their machines every 2 years because of silly operating systems like Windows XP, Vista and because they themselves are dumb and don't know how their 1.8 ghz machine became so slow due to Windows problems.
Well,
You wouldn't want to work for a company that advertises on craigslist.org or any other silly job board. Those jobs are just people needing someone to do some silly program and they don't care how you do it. They don't know about Algorithms and data structures nor do they care. They just want you to write it as fast as you can for as little pay they care to offer.
Real computer science jobs will never accept someone without a degree and someone without a BSCS degree doesn't stand a chance at Google or any other truly high tech company.
As I tell everyone I interview with.
YOU DON'T NEED A COMPUTER SCIENCE DEGREE TO DO WEB DEVELOPMENT. HTML/PHP/PERL/SQL/JS You can learn all those by yourself, and true that the are handy and useful, but that is not COMPUTER SCIENCE. That is what most people who don't go to college pick up by themselves learn it and make out OKAY in the tech industry.
Computer Science is about doing things the correct way. Choosing correct Algorithms, Data structures, Knowing how to speed up software, figuring out why software runs slow on certain hardware, and CREATING new technologies. Computer science is what made the internet, what made your monitor communicate with the hardware, how CPUs work and the algorithms behind them, embeded systems and the works.
Best luck to you all.
Well outsourcing isn't going to happen for defense and security related jobs... obviously they aren't going to send code for a missile or jet fighter over seas... DUH.... Also many government jobs for CS students will never be outsourced either. Just the cheap mom and pop shops for HTML/PHP/PERL will outsource their code.... Things no one in the US is desperate to do. And what mrsam said before, having 2-3 years of $ in the bank and not being desperate to accept the first job offer is a very very very important thing. I haven't had a job since December and the reason for that is, I have been saying NO and NO NO NO to these damn recruiters bugging me about dead end jobs. Jobs where I will lose my skills and marketability. I would rather spend that time looking for an ideal job with a great company I can work for. I'm not looking for another job that will only last a year, I'm looking for 2+ years down the road.
I remember in college the exact same thing.
I would run across people who just wanted to chase the gold. They where horrible coders and always needed help (bugging me for it) and leeched their way through college.
Some of them become "project managers" and other none coder positions.
You ever hear the phrase
"The people who get A's work for the people who get B's, and the people who get B's work for the people who get C's"
Heh.... President is a C student.
What does that tell you?
I honestly think that women are more social then men biologically and that has a huge impact on their decision towards the computer science life, specifically towards being a programmer. I remember during my undergrad I had to make huge sacrifices between my computer projects and going out with friends to a movie, mall, and even parties on friday and Saturday nights.
I don't know if its just me trying harder trying to solve a problem, or me just being stupid that I need the extra time.
Maybe I'm a wee antisocial? Maybe being not so social creates someone who can concentrate more on problems and tasks?
W0rd.
:) W00t!
His office does look a bit borring for the richest man in the world. He has 3 19/21 inch flat screens with the default borring background.
Not very creative, no wonder nothing great has come out of MS in the past decade...
And now with automatic parking, expect the number to rise.
The word "ask" is a very too.... They don't need to intervene with the dictionary! Its already there baby!
LOL Everything Google does is BETA! Something can be in Beta for 5 years just to give them an excuse if something is wrong or breaks. I haven't noticed that on any other websites and certainly haven't seen it on Ask I actually haven't even seen it on their new map system. Beta.... what a joke.