The reason that I cannot compete on price with that Indian developer has nothing to do with my willingness to work and everything to do with the fact that I will always pay more for real estate in America.
Even Arkansas farmland is going to be more expensive than a good place in India.
Not to mention that goods and services here are more expensive because everyone around here has to pay the same real estate prices.
If I had a million dollars right now, I'd be investing in Indian and SE Asian real estate.
If it's of any consolation, this is exactly what happened to Europe a few centuries back.
and watch, I missed someone's reply and get modded redundant...
Stress is a hidden enemy. You're working 50s, so I'm guessing that beer has been your stress reduction technique. Take the beer out just for a few weeks, and try alternative stress reduction techniques. Exercise is one. I like meditation, but it's certainly not for everyone.
Find a partner. I have failed a few times because I didn't have anyone to keep me accountable. That's what a workout partner is for. It also allows for...
Weight training. Anarobic exercise (also acheivable through calesthenics) is key to building up the muscle which takes more energy to run. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn, the more beer you can consume.I saw The 5BX plan mentioned earlier. From what I can see, it's a good place to start.
Have acheivable goals. Don't set yourself up for failure. However,
Write down your goals. Studies have shown that writin down and vocalizing a goal keeps you on track.
Now, I'm still on my way, but this is what I'm doing. (BTW, My goal is to be down to 12-15% body fat by the end of the year from about 20. From what I've read, that's an acheivable goal.
sorry, man... but something's wrong with that code
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If you're not doing models of the solar system in real time, I don't know how you're having problems to that extreme of an extent with.net...
Now, I've only been able to give a cursory look to.NET but are you using connection pooling? If you're trying to establish 20 connections simutaneously things are going to complain.
look up C# connection pooling. Then look up C# persistance layer.
1. Textpad. It's a great little editor, though I use vi these days.
2. BRE - back from my SysOp days.:)...poor authors... I was too poor to buy anything when I needed to use shareware. Now there's so much libre and gratis software hanging around that I don't need to buy much...
Though shareware has become much more subtle... if you think about it, Oracle is shareware now. Anyone can download it off Oracle's website...
(OT/thread, I know... but on topic in context of the parent.)
Editing PDF files isn't that painful in and of itself. Acrobat just isn't the tool to do it. If you converted it from another source than.jpg, you should be able to open it up in Pagemaker or Quark and be just fine.
If you have to mark it up as a form for web submission, on the other hand, I feel your pain.:(
I'd actually put a twist on the idea... Instead of losing points, have people gain points for doing these duties. (You start at a base 50 points, for example, then auction down for each 4 day/3 day or 5 day/2 day shift.)
now here's the rub... you reverse auction for desirable days/weeks off. (Christmas, Thanksgiving, et al) People use accumulated points to bid for it off. The two that bid the least are primary and secondary, respectively. Those two would then get some percentage of the points bid.
So, for example, I'd have no problem working Christmas and Easter, but I'm taking the two weeks surrounding my birthday off. (This could conflict with Easter, but you get the point.) I'd also bid for the week containing labor day, for example.
At that point, it's called an import-export business... and there is plenty of money to be made for those willing to put in the time to learn all the forms.
Making development costs low for web companies is a *good* thing.
Now, I'm using Java in my job exclusively, and I'd be the first to admit that it has a high learning curve.
From COBOL on, the promise of programming languages has been to merge the programmer and user. HTML and VB have been two of the closest that we've seen. If.NET can allow a user to go to a week long class and be able to get a few small issues done without paying someone a thousand bucks or pestering the poor admin (who does all his work in perl and has no clue on guis), I'm all for it.
Wasn't the PowerPC line supposed to be a RISC chip, anyway? Why would they (IBM, not the article) feel the need to proclaim that they support one more instruction, anyway?
I'm sure we can find particular instances where the x86 has an instruction that the PPC doesn't have... after all, the PPC is supposed to gain its speed from having fewer instructions, right?
ahhh head is spinning from too little sleep... beat with cluestick as necessary.
That is, if you insure it. It's just a little more expensive.
You're looking at 120 dollars, more or less, and that's for the box sans monitor. Figure about the same for the monitor.
For the same thing at UPS (mind you, I've been guesstimating this all) it's about 60 bucks.
That said, you'd be lucky if the g5 will be ready by then. Buy a used laptop (pentium is fine) for 200-300 bucks (or if you are a mac addict, consider a 5300.) and play the waiting game. Heck, you might find out what you really want.
An exchange clone isn't that hard in the scheme of things. It's been done quite a few times. It's the integration with Outlook and/or cross-platform compatibility that seems to be the gotcha.
But can you tell me how many OSS folk have any experience with fonts? I don't know of any personally...
ummmm... errr... If you want Microsoft's fonts so bad, just pick up SUSE. They might not be on Microsoft's server anymore, but a few distributions have an older copy that has no restrictions.
It looks fine to me.
That's not to mention that there are a few companies working on getting some decent truetype fonts out there.
Furthermore, fonts aren't that easy. They take a lot of work. We're not talking a weekend of work here. It takes specialized knowledge.
Finally, Just because we don't have it yet doesn't mean we won't. The best part about OSS is that it's additive.
First, when creating a DAW, you adapt your hardware for the platform. Linux does have semi-pro and professional audio solutions. The hardware isn't the issue.
Now, you still might be right that real audio production in Linux is a few years off. The kernel patches are a bit of a pain still, from what I understand, not to mention that the plugin support isn't there. However, Linux has a viable future in the audio/video editing arena if some commercial (not necessarily proprietary) vendors come in.
(Why do we need those pesky businesses, by the way? Because those businesses have money to hire engineers who may not be as altruistic as the rest of us, not to mention pay for the use of patents in the field...)
4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License.
6. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
7. (The biggie) If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you`may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
Ergo, if you knowingly redistribute, you must allow others to redistribute. It's been well-established that they still have the binaries up on their servers. There's your authorization to use their source.
Okay, you caught me in an overgeneralization. (BTW, my major point was that most applications will notice no significant speed difference on a jump to 64 bits, and it could be a detriment.)
And at the very least, you need to allocate the chip space to take care of 64 bits as opposed to 32, space that could be used optimizing other parts of the system (IE better branch prediction...)
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It's fairly trivial to normalize to these extreme levels after you have a good mix.
and when you're looking at a 50k budget, another 1k-2k isn't a whole lot.
Even at reduced rates, US land is going to be more expensive just because there's more money floating around.
u can own an ISLAND (albeit small) for 70k in Nicaragua.
http://realestate.escapeartist.com/P-19624/
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That includes a 2 bdrm/1 bath house, of course who knows what kind of condition it's in...
I started looking in Arkansas, and hadn't realized that it was that cheap. you can get an okay house for 40k or so.
Problem.
Let's say that one percent of the people in a given population have what it takes to be a programmer.
That means there are about 10 million people primed and ready for action over there.
How about china? 16 million...
US is down there at 2.5 million... how many programming jobs in the world do you think there need to be?
I know I'm looking to get out.
One very simple flaw in your argument:
The reason that I cannot compete on price with that Indian developer has nothing to do with my willingness to work and everything to do with the fact that I will always pay more for real estate in America.
Even Arkansas farmland is going to be more expensive than a good place in India.
Not to mention that goods and services here are more expensive because everyone around here has to pay the same real estate prices.
If I had a million dollars right now, I'd be investing in Indian and SE Asian real estate.
If it's of any consolation, this is exactly what happened to Europe a few centuries back.
Stress is a hidden enemy. You're working 50s, so I'm guessing that beer has been your stress reduction technique. Take the beer out just for a few weeks, and try alternative stress reduction techniques. Exercise is one. I like meditation, but it's certainly not for everyone.
Find a partner. I have failed a few times because I didn't have anyone to keep me accountable. That's what a workout partner is for. It also allows for...
Weight training. Anarobic exercise (also acheivable through calesthenics) is key to building up the muscle which takes more energy to run. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn, the more beer you can consume.I saw The 5BX plan mentioned earlier. From what I can see, it's a good place to start.
Have acheivable goals. Don't set yourself up for failure. However,
Write down your goals. Studies have shown that writin down and vocalizing a goal keeps you on track. Now, I'm still on my way, but this is what I'm doing. (BTW, My goal is to be down to 12-15% body fat by the end of the year from about 20. From what I've read, that's an acheivable goal.
If you're not doing models of the solar system in real time, I don't know how you're having problems to that extreme of an extent with .net...
.NET but are you using connection pooling? If you're trying to establish 20 connections simutaneously things are going to complain.
Now, I've only been able to give a cursory look to
look up C# connection pooling. Then look up C# persistance layer.
these are the kinds of things that matter...
1. Textpad. It's a great little editor, though I use vi these days.
:) ...poor authors... I was too poor to buy anything when I needed to use shareware. Now there's so much libre and gratis software hanging around that I don't need to buy much...
2. BRE - back from my SysOp days.
Though shareware has become much more subtle... if you think about it, Oracle is shareware now. Anyone can download it off Oracle's website...
And I don't have the "BSD is Dying" troll handy.
We still have the Natalie Portman and SCO dying trolls, right?
__
Seriously, I don't know why BSD isn't taken more seriously as a server. Linux is insecure, whereas BSD...
Damn, another troll.
I give up.
(OT/thread, I know... but on topic in context of the parent.)
.jpg, you should be able to open it up in Pagemaker or Quark and be just fine.
:(
Editing PDF files isn't that painful in and of itself. Acrobat just isn't the tool to do it. If you converted it from another source than
If you have to mark it up as a form for web submission, on the other hand, I feel your pain.
mod points just expired, though. Damn!
I'd actually put a twist on the idea... Instead of losing points, have people gain points for doing these duties. (You start at a base 50 points, for example, then auction down for each 4 day/3 day or 5 day/2 day shift.)
now here's the rub... you reverse auction for desirable days/weeks off. (Christmas, Thanksgiving, et al) People use accumulated points to bid for it off. The two that bid the least are primary and secondary, respectively. Those two would then get some percentage of the points bid.
So, for example, I'd have no problem working Christmas and Easter, but I'm taking the two weeks surrounding my birthday off. (This could conflict with Easter, but you get the point.) I'd also bid for the week containing labor day, for example.
At that point, it's called an import-export business... and there is plenty of money to be made for those willing to put in the time to learn all the forms.
Wait.... What's wrong with that?
.NET can allow a user to go to a week long class and be able to get a few small issues done without paying someone a thousand bucks or pestering the poor admin (who does all his work in perl and has no clue on guis), I'm all for it.
Making development costs low for web companies is a *good* thing.
Now, I'm using Java in my job exclusively, and I'd be the first to admit that it has a high learning curve.
From COBOL on, the promise of programming languages has been to merge the programmer and user. HTML and VB have been two of the closest that we've seen. If
Wasn't the PowerPC line supposed to be a RISC chip, anyway? Why would they (IBM, not the article) feel the need to proclaim that they support one more instruction, anyway?
I'm sure we can find particular instances where the x86 has an instruction that the PPC doesn't have... after all, the PPC is supposed to gain its speed from having fewer instructions, right?
ahhh head is spinning from too little sleep... beat with cluestick as necessary.
well, you do need gnome installed to use it... bonobo and all. it's not just gtk.
wait... you're telling me that you're supposed to do corba to talk to this thing?
the point of vba is that it's easy.
it's not the same company....
and if the spammer solves it... he's on his way to a prize in linguistics...
That is, if you insure it. It's just a little more expensive.
You're looking at 120 dollars, more or less, and that's for the box sans monitor. Figure about the same for the monitor.
For the same thing at UPS (mind you, I've been guesstimating this all) it's about 60 bucks.
That said, you'd be lucky if the g5 will be ready by then. Buy a used laptop (pentium is fine) for 200-300 bucks (or if you are a mac addict, consider a 5300.) and play the waiting game. Heck, you might find out what you really want.
An exchange clone isn't that hard in the scheme of things. It's been done quite a few times. It's the integration with Outlook and/or cross-platform compatibility that seems to be the gotcha.
But can you tell me how many OSS folk have any experience with fonts? I don't know of any personally...
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html my boy. Read and learn.
ummmm... errr... If you want Microsoft's fonts so bad, just pick up SUSE. They might not be on Microsoft's server anymore, but a few distributions have an older copy that has no restrictions.
It looks fine to me.
That's not to mention that there are a few companies working on getting some decent truetype fonts out there.
Furthermore, fonts aren't that easy. They take a lot of work. We're not talking a weekend of work here. It takes specialized knowledge.
Finally, Just because we don't have it yet doesn't mean we won't. The best part about OSS is that it's additive.
First, when creating a DAW, you adapt your hardware for the platform. Linux does have semi-pro and professional audio solutions. The hardware isn't the issue.
Now, you still might be right that real audio production in Linux is a few years off. The kernel patches are a bit of a pain still, from what I understand, not to mention that the plugin support isn't there. However, Linux has a viable future in the audio/video editing arena if some commercial (not necessarily proprietary) vendors come in.
(Why do we need those pesky businesses, by the way? Because those businesses have money to hire engineers who may not be as altruistic as the rest of us, not to mention pay for the use of patents in the field...)
He's been doing that for years... Look at the bottom of www.gnu.org.
connect the dots...
4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License.
6. You may not impose any further
restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
7. (The biggie) If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you`may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
Ergo, if you knowingly redistribute, you must allow others to redistribute. It's been well-established that they still have the binaries up on their servers. There's your authorization to use their source.
Okay, you caught me in an overgeneralization. (BTW, my major point was that most applications will notice no significant speed difference on a jump to 64 bits, and it could be a detriment.)
And at the very least, you need to allocate the chip space to take care of 64 bits as opposed to 32, space that could be used optimizing other parts of the system (IE better branch prediction...)