Just give me a decent screen on my laptop (1920x1200 at least) but these types of screens only seem available on high end machines (read - poor battery life, hot to use, yada, yada)...
Grrr - no one seems to fill this gap!
The guy even says they miss deadlines and the code they produce is crap. Of course people rarely work full out for an entire day, but he's clearly describing a situation far worse than normal.
Maybe, but perhaps he's describing the worst of what he sees? - Probably not reflective of the whole organization.
The organization obviously lacks leadership and focus because tolerance of this sort of behavior comes from the top.
Perhaps the organization values high staff retention and good staff morale. High retention typically means higher domain expertise and better team relationships.
Why is it that coders typically seem to have enormous egos when it comes to their work. Everybody works hard.
Please explain - I see egos in every industry, nothing special about coders.
There's nothing special about coding.
Compared to what? It's nothing like a lot of jobs.
My workday include tasks that are both physically and mentally taxing, I often juggle several tasks at once and am held to a very high standard of quality. Man up, buckle down and produce because you don't work in a vacuum.
A few things that make coding special - not unique - but still special.
1) The knowledge that a coder (or a Software Engineer if you will) accumulate from the individual tasks they perform is of extreme value - high staff retention is crucial to maintaining this knowledge. Typically, this knowledge simply can not be captured and passed on (some live in a fantasy land whey they believe it can - but they are plain old wrong)
2) A coders job does not start and finish when the clock on and off for the day - there is usual (and expected - as in some other disciplines also) continual problem solving that occurs all day and all night - remember most coding is problem solving. I certainly do not stop when I leave the office - this is just where my output hits my employers disks.
3) IT, software, programming and computer science is a rapidly changing and advancing domain and requires continual personal improvement and training - this typically happens in our personal time - coders typically live their career - despite how you perceive their behaviour.
Besides all this guff, and as has been stated - coders are not robots - their socialising and what you think is "time wasting" is part of the way coders work - and it works.
If I was to simply just sit and stare at my screen trying to solve problem after problem, I'd get no where - my time away from the keyboard is when most my real work is done.
Not that I feel I need to justify myself to you, but you have a narrow minded view - their management is most probably tolerant of this behaviour because it works out best for all.
Most of the time interlacing works fine, but for fast moving images, such as sports like baseball and hockey it can cause problems which manifest themselves as a 'stepping' effect on-screen. Progressive scan signals don't have this problem and so are better suited to sports.
It seems like your motivation was low to get it going, which leads me to suspect that they were not losing a great deal of money to your use of homebrew? If not, somewhat of a moot win.
Call me a Luddite, but learning to write without a computer is as important as learning to add without a computer - that is, essential.
Why? I just can't see relationship. Adding without a computer teaches you a mental skill, cursive is more about motor control and dexterity. There is no substitute to mental skill, but I'd rather apply my motor skill and dexterity learning to something applicable in my life. Learning cursive is, in my opinion, a waste of effort that would be better applied elsewhere (typing perhaps).
Cursive is simply not relevant anymore, if we want to scribe fast, we use a computer.
BUT, this is simply not a good option for new users, not only for the reasons given by others but these unofficial repositories tend to become out of sync at times. An example:
Just a few weeks ago, I did an update which updated my kernel, upon reboot, hmmmm, why's my video looking weird.... Hmmm where's my 3d desktop gone?? Oh, it seems the nvidia driver I'm using from livna isn't up to date... Fiddle and fart-ass around for an hour or so and decide to go for the dkms one from freshrpms, this installed and worked, but no compiz... Wait for a few days, update comes out for nvidia driver at livna, swap back and all is good again.
Now, there is no way this is acceptable for a new user. Sure, no rocket science here, and my system continued to work the whole time (well done), but not enjoyable and damn right frustrating for a new user.
This type of event occurs significantly more often when using 3rd party repositories. While I use them I don't think they are a suitable solution for a mainstream distribution that relies on them to be "complete" for desktop users (the market we're trying to reach out to!).
No, but we have a culture where trust is an integral part. I believe that when it is part of your culture and is respected and valued it tends to breed the untrustworthy away.
Perhaps things are different in your world. I can only speak from my own personal experiences and observations.
I have found that if I place trust in someone they are less likely to break that trust. Locking things down and demonstrating that others are not trusted does not foster trust and does not help the problem.
It's a touch of ye ol' 'Negative Reinforcement' vs 'Positive Reinforcement', the negative tends to only work while being enforced where as positive reinforcement encourages a person to want to do the right thing.
Because that would violate separation of content and presentation, and would require an ever-present internet connection to have any meaning whatsoever? I'm not a web developer and have limited knowledge of the mechanics of html/css etc. But I'm sure that this could be done in the presentation layer? Excuse my limited css/html ignore syntax, it's the concepts I'm trying to show:
replaces all values = to "$650.02" with e.g. "$US650.02" or "$AUS788.32"
Does this satisfy the presentation/content rules? I don't know. Possibly also violates the way css works, again, I don't know. But I can't see that such functionality couldn't be implemented in some manner to meet the separation of content and presentation rules.
And of course you would just default to no conversion when a connection is not present.
It's not a bad idea as maybe a feature in a web browser, but it doesn't make any sense an HTML tag. I disagree, I think the information like base currency and value need to be presented in a formal manner. If the web browser must make any assumptions or guesses then I will not trust the value it presents, and I expect I will get values that should not have been converted, converted.
Shouldn't the data required to perform the conversion be part of the content? It really is part of the content, is it not?
Again, I'm no expert.
How many of you worked out that by repeatedly flicking the power switch from on to off quickly, eventually you would see two bullets go up the side of the screen and viola, start a game and you have double fire (ie it would let you have two bullets in action at once)....
I think you'll find that it goes a little like this:
Those who are most likely to take risks and enjoy driving aggressively on the roads are also most likely to enjoy playing car games..
Who would have thought..
BURDICK: It is surprisingly difficult. I spent some quality time with a microbiologist at the Jet Propulsion Lab out in Pasadena, and this guy works in the spacecraft assembly facility where they build, well they built the Mars Rovers that are now out there on Mars. And this guy, his job is to kind of inspect what's left over and to see well, gosh, did any microbes survive the incredibly kind of harsh decontamination process that we've devised to get rid of them? And to his great surprise they have, and he's found at least one microbe that not only thrives in the spacecraft assembly facility, but seems to have actually evolved in it. It's a tough little spore, it eats aluminum. He found it growing on the surface of one of the Mars Rovers. It forms these spores and then the spores kind of group together to form a little, what he calls an igloo. It looks kind of like a macaroon under a microscope and when he cuts it open and exposes it to the light detection techniques that NASA's developed to look for life, he finds no sign of life and then when he puts this little igloo back together, the microbe comes back to life amazingly. And I asked him, "So you know you found this thing on the Mars Rover when it was being built. Do you think it's up there on Mars right now?" And he said, "oh yes, I'm quite certain, I'm almost certain that it is." So you know, I mean, it's just indicative of how life wants to spread. Either they're moving around inadvertently with us or they're moving around intentionally with us, but they are kind of reflections of our ambition, our desire to reshape the nature around us in a way that makes us more comfortable.
You know, we can kind of demonize these things, but in a way they're really kind of impressive little critters. They're sort of doing what nature permitted them to do. And in a Darwinian sense, I mean, they're winners. I mean you've got to be, even if you don't like aliens, and there is quite a number of reasons not to, I think it's worthwhile sort of stopping and at least being impressed by their ability to thrive in a world that we think that we dominate. So far as we know, Earth is the only planet with life on it and the wind is blowing outward. We may well be the dandelion in the solar system.
I'm certainly no expert in this area, but I'd assume there would be an inherent increase in data transfer as the same disk spin speed due to greater density. I would assume that the disk spin speed is a major limiting factor in current day optical media.
There are obviously many factors to be considered (e.g. more tracks due to greater density) which could still contribute to transfer speeds.
Anyone know the real details?
Smart is a much better choice in my opinion.
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The Smart package manager http://labix.org/smart is a much better choice in my opinion. It is a lot faster than yum, much more use friendly than yum. I have used yum and apt for many years but now that I use Smart I will never look back, unless something drastically changes with yum and apt.
Do your self a favour and take a look at it, you'll be supprised at how nice it is.
My intent was not to imply that you did not know the difference between "its" and "it's" or whatever.
Nor did I mean any offense, but when correcting someone, it is poor form to make such an obvious mistake yourself. I was merely (badly) trying to highlight that fact.
Seems to have rubbed you up a little, that was unintended.
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Just give me a decent screen on my laptop (1920x1200 at least) but these types of screens only seem available on high end machines (read - poor battery life, hot to use, yada, yada)... Grrr - no one seems to fill this gap!
Oh look, we'll have to agree to disagree, regardless of how wrong you are.
You guys are a bunch of lazy assholes.
pfft!
The guy even says they miss deadlines and the code they produce is crap. Of course people rarely work full out for an entire day, but he's clearly describing a situation far worse than normal.
Maybe, but perhaps he's describing the worst of what he sees? - Probably not reflective of the whole organization.
The organization obviously lacks leadership and focus because tolerance of this sort of behavior comes from the top.
Perhaps the organization values high staff retention and good staff morale. High retention typically means higher domain expertise and better team relationships.
Why is it that coders typically seem to have enormous egos when it comes to their work. Everybody works hard.
Please explain - I see egos in every industry, nothing special about coders.
There's nothing special about coding.
Compared to what? It's nothing like a lot of jobs.
My workday include tasks that are both physically and mentally taxing, I often juggle several tasks at once and am held to a very high standard of quality. Man up, buckle down and produce because you don't work in a vacuum.
A few things that make coding special - not unique - but still special.
1) The knowledge that a coder (or a Software Engineer if you will) accumulate from the individual tasks they perform is of extreme value - high staff retention is crucial to maintaining this knowledge. Typically, this knowledge simply can not be captured and passed on (some live in a fantasy land whey they believe it can - but they are plain old wrong)
2) A coders job does not start and finish when the clock on and off for the day - there is usual (and expected - as in some other disciplines also) continual problem solving that occurs all day and all night - remember most coding is problem solving. I certainly do not stop when I leave the office - this is just where my output hits my employers disks.
3) IT, software, programming and computer science is a rapidly changing and advancing domain and requires continual personal improvement and training - this typically happens in our personal time - coders typically live their career - despite how you perceive their behaviour.
Besides all this guff, and as has been stated - coders are not robots - their socialising and what you think is "time wasting" is part of the way coders work - and it works.
If I was to simply just sit and stare at my screen trying to solve problem after problem, I'd get no where - my time away from the keyboard is when most my real work is done.
Not that I feel I need to justify myself to you, but you have a narrow minded view - their management is most probably tolerant of this behaviour because it works out best for all.
Valid point, but let's not forget that 720p is a significant increase in quality over 1080i as 720p is progressive scan and 1080i is interlaced.
A simple explanation taken from http://ezinearticles.com/?720p-Vs-1080i-HDTV&id=91443
Most of the time interlacing works fine, but for fast moving images, such as sports like baseball and hockey it can cause problems which manifest themselves as a 'stepping' effect on-screen. Progressive scan signals don't have this problem and so are better suited to sports.
Blaa, blaa, blaa, blaa, blaa - this is one big world now - get over it - things change - stuff should get done where ever it gets done best.
It seems like your motivation was low to get it going, which leads me to suspect that they were not losing a great deal of money to your use of homebrew? If not, somewhat of a moot win.
It costs them a lot of money to try and stop modding etc, when they will fail every time.
Waste of time, money and reputation.
Call me a Luddite, but learning to write without a computer is as important as learning to add without a computer - that is, essential.
Why? I just can't see relationship. Adding without a computer teaches you a mental skill, cursive is more about motor control and dexterity. There is no substitute to mental skill, but I'd rather apply my motor skill and dexterity learning to something applicable in my life. Learning cursive is, in my opinion, a waste of effort that would be better applied elsewhere (typing perhaps).
Cursive is simply not relevant anymore, if we want to scribe fast, we use a computer.
Oh, you Luddite -> There done.
So no one cares?
BUT, this is simply not a good option for new users, not only for the reasons given by others but these unofficial repositories tend to become out of sync at times. An example:
Just a few weeks ago, I did an update which updated my kernel, upon reboot, hmmmm, why's my video looking weird.... Hmmm where's my 3d desktop gone?? Oh, it seems the nvidia driver I'm using from livna isn't up to date... Fiddle and fart-ass around for an hour or so and decide to go for the dkms one from freshrpms, this installed and worked, but no compiz... Wait for a few days, update comes out for nvidia driver at livna, swap back and all is good again.
Now, there is no way this is acceptable for a new user. Sure, no rocket science here, and my system continued to work the whole time (well done), but not enjoyable and damn right frustrating for a new user.
This type of event occurs significantly more often when using 3rd party repositories. While I use them I don't think they are a suitable solution for a mainstream distribution that relies on them to be "complete" for desktop users (the market we're trying to reach out to!).
No, but we have a culture where trust is an integral part. I believe that when it is part of your culture and is respected and valued it tends to breed the untrustworthy away.
Perhaps things are different in your world. I can only speak from my own personal experiences and observations.
I have found that if I place trust in someone they are less likely to break that trust. Locking things down and demonstrating that others are not trusted does not foster trust and does not help the problem.
It's a touch of ye ol' 'Negative Reinforcement' vs 'Positive Reinforcement', the negative tends to only work while being enforced where as positive reinforcement encourages a person to want to do the right thing.
I think you're looking for a solution to a symptom, not the problem.
Your problem is that you work with people you can't trust. Look for a job elsewhere... I couldn't imagine working with people I couldn't trust..
I don't think it was the editor's fault. His post appears to have been hacked, most probably using some SQL injection.
html:
css:
replaces all values = to "$650.02" with e.g. "$US650.02" or "$AUS788.32"
Does this satisfy the presentation/content rules? I don't know. Possibly also violates the way css works, again, I don't know. But I can't see that such functionality couldn't be implemented in some manner to meet the separation of content and presentation rules.
And of course you would just default to no conversion when a connection is not present.
It's not a bad idea as maybe a feature in a web browser, but it doesn't make any sense an HTML tag. I disagree, I think the information like base currency and value need to be presented in a formal manner. If the web browser must make any assumptions or guesses then I will not trust the value it presents, and I expect I will get values that should not have been converted, converted. Shouldn't the data required to perform the conversion be part of the content? It really is part of the content, is it not? Again, I'm no expert.
Cool, although I just did a thorough search and could find a match for 'space invaders', I did a slashdot comments search with a threshold of -1.
Have a good one..
How many of you worked out that by repeatedly flicking the power switch from on to off quickly, eventually you would see two bullets go up the side of the screen and viola, start a game and you have double fire (ie it would let you have two bullets in action at once).. ..
I can't have been the only one who found this..
I think you'll find that it goes a little like this: Those who are most likely to take risks and enjoy driving aggressively on the roads are also most likely to enjoy playing car games.. Who would have thought..
I see how that looks, but it was totally coincidental..
offtopic..
According to this article http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=05 -P13-00024&segmentID=7 the chances are high... Here is an extract
BURDICK: It is surprisingly difficult. I spent some quality time with a microbiologist at the Jet Propulsion Lab out in Pasadena, and this guy works in the spacecraft assembly facility where they build, well they built the Mars Rovers that are now out there on Mars. And this guy, his job is to kind of inspect what's left over and to see well, gosh, did any microbes survive the incredibly kind of harsh decontamination process that we've devised to get rid of them? And to his great surprise they have, and he's found at least one microbe that not only thrives in the spacecraft assembly facility, but seems to have actually evolved in it. It's a tough little spore, it eats aluminum. He found it growing on the surface of one of the Mars Rovers. It forms these spores and then the spores kind of group together to form a little, what he calls an igloo. It looks kind of like a macaroon under a microscope and when he cuts it open and exposes it to the light detection techniques that NASA's developed to look for life, he finds no sign of life and then when he puts this little igloo back together, the microbe comes back to life amazingly. And I asked him, "So you know you found this thing on the Mars Rover when it was being built. Do you think it's up there on Mars right now?" And he said, "oh yes, I'm quite certain, I'm almost certain that it is." So you know, I mean, it's just indicative of how life wants to spread. Either they're moving around inadvertently with us or they're moving around intentionally with us, but they are kind of reflections of our ambition, our desire to reshape the nature around us in a way that makes us more comfortable. You know, we can kind of demonize these things, but in a way they're really kind of impressive little critters. They're sort of doing what nature permitted them to do. And in a Darwinian sense, I mean, they're winners. I mean you've got to be, even if you don't like aliens, and there is quite a number of reasons not to, I think it's worthwhile sort of stopping and at least being impressed by their ability to thrive in a world that we think that we dominate. So far as we know, Earth is the only planet with life on it and the wind is blowing outward. We may well be the dandelion in the solar system.
Interesting...
I'm not sure 'penuntimate' is the word the author wanted... penultimate Pronunciation (p-nlt-mt) adj. 1. Next to last.
I'm certainly no expert in this area, but I'd assume there would be an inherent increase in data transfer as the same disk spin speed due to greater density. I would assume that the disk spin speed is a major limiting factor in current day optical media.
There are obviously many factors to be considered (e.g. more tracks due to greater density) which could still contribute to transfer speeds.
Anyone know the real details?
The Smart package manager http://labix.org/smart is a much better choice in my opinion. It is a lot faster than yum, much more use friendly than yum. I have used yum and apt for many years but now that I use Smart I will never look back, unless something drastically changes with yum and apt.
Do your self a favour and take a look at it, you'll be supprised at how nice it is.
My intent was not to imply that you did not know the difference between "its" and "it's" or whatever.
Nor did I mean any offense, but when correcting someone, it is poor form to make such an obvious mistake yourself. I was merely (badly) trying to highlight that fact.
Seems to have rubbed you up a little, that was unintended.
Have a good one..
It's "It's" not "Its".
Sorry, then you must be referring to some other well known saying ?