A lot of simple minded posts against this 9/80 day concept. While I don't think any company should force this on it's employees, I like having 3 day weekends. So much that I work a 10hr per day schedule Mon-Thur.
The extra 2hrs more at work per day isn't really noticeable but the extended weekends are well worth it. In a way, with a 2day weekend, you only have 1 really care-free day which is Saturday, because on Sunday you know when you go to bed that day, it's Monday. With a 3 day weekend I have two days where I don't need to care when I go to bed or when I wake up. In a way it doubles my weekend enjoyment.
I don't think it's the lecture hall size that's the sole factor here. In my college, lecture halls were only used for low brow classes (such as basic High School grade math classes).
Kids taking such rudimentary classes probably aren't very serious about their education so of course their dropout rate would be might higher than those in smaller classrooms. I just think the class size may not be as much of a factor as you might think it is, it sounds like a scapegoat to me.
I took MIS (Management of Info Sys) and CompSci at my college and absolutely none of my classes were in a large class (aka lecture hall) scenario. But I can't say the same for people taking faux majors like Liberal Arts (which I now hear has branched off into General Studies now) or those who needed to learn their basic high school classes.
PS: I'm probably biased on the setup and small size of the no-name college I attended. I can see it's possible that in a large college, everybody needs to take the same Creative Writing course or what-not.
Not somebody I work with or associate with, I recently lost a client for political reasons, and I happen to find out the new site he built, he only used IE8 beta 2 to test it out the whole time.
When it went live guess what, yep, various problems with browsers that people actually use.
Mind you, viewing your work in IE8 is probably a good idea right now, but to use IE8 beta as your production browser... absurd.
while Gears of War was in there, I even moved it gently, no shaking, dropping, etc and it was painfully obvious the disc was contacting the tray bottom at a very fast speed, the amount of scratching was obscene.
Fortunately a drive down to my local movie rental shop, $3 for their "scratch removal service" (it took 3 or 4 sessions in the unit but you pay for the service, not the number of times they execute it to fix the disc) and the disc was pretty good again. Although the unit did create a lot of feather scratches but that's nothing a good laser can't get through now-a-days.
Ultimately I wrote it off to my own stupidity of moving the console, but since MS has changed drive manufactores a couple times, I wonder if the current 360s have the same problem?
Unfortunately I don't have any game I loathe enough to make it victim to testing this theory out on the new Xbox I bought 2 days ago.
You totally forgot to list cons to each, and more importantly, to homebrewed (because programmers want to homebrew, they more easily overlook the cons).
Reuse Cons:
* May not be as flexible as you need
Homebrew Cons:
* Won't be as bug free & secure as an openly adopted framework
* Might not be as fast
* Not Invented Here (which has done unmeasurable damage to many companies, it's virtually the reason for Xerox's downfall)
* Unmeasurable money/time blackhole
Marketing says... "We want to start building our own cars, you're an experienced car designer, we already have a factor ready so you should be able to design and begin producing in 8 months" and let's say they're right, fairly reasonable.
Then after all that they throw in, maybe 4 months into the project "oh yea, 'green' is in now, so we can't use that gasoline stuff, make it run on solar cells".
The.torrent argument is weak at best, especially when respectable companies (ex: Amazon) offer high quality MP3s at an affordable price (imho $8 albums makes up for the fact it's not truly CD quality and there's no physical album, otherwise go to Walmart and buy it for $14).
I agree with the OP dead on, but recommending torrents is not "informative", it's slimey.
When I first saw the article I thought ".Net finally has it's Llama book" but then I saw it was a duck and that was the first thing I thought... "lame duck".
You do realize that's it's possible, albeit likely Norton encouraged them to write the review?
I believe this is tangent to the point of the/. article: not only are tests flawed, but you should inherently not trust any major news source to unbiasedly review a product.
- Why do they only compare it to Kaspersky? - Why do they mention ram but not a speed comparison (I'd gladly give up 15mb of more ram just to have better performance in my AV, ram is dirt cheap) - If NIS2009 is so "lite", why don't they mention the specs in comparison to older NIS (only Norton would want to cover up their old specs, which is a core issue that makes me suspect this is a shill article).
Not to mention I never trust any online news source, including tech sites, to have somebody savvy enough to know how to test an AV properly, which, as the/. article points out, not even the AV "experts" have figured that out, much less some tech site.
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A lot of simple minded posts against this 9/80 day concept. While I don't think any company should force this on it's employees, I like having 3 day weekends. So much that I work a 10hr per day schedule Mon-Thur.
The extra 2hrs more at work per day isn't really noticeable but the extended weekends are well worth it. In a way, with a 2day weekend, you only have 1 really care-free day which is Saturday, because on Sunday you know when you go to bed that day, it's Monday. With a 3 day weekend I have two days where I don't need to care when I go to bed or when I wake up. In a way it doubles my weekend enjoyment.
I don't think it's the lecture hall size that's the sole factor here. In my college, lecture halls were only used for low brow classes (such as basic High School grade math classes).
Kids taking such rudimentary classes probably aren't very serious about their education so of course their dropout rate would be might higher than those in smaller classrooms. I just think the class size may not be as much of a factor as you might think it is, it sounds like a scapegoat to me.
I took MIS (Management of Info Sys) and CompSci at my college and absolutely none of my classes were in a large class (aka lecture hall) scenario. But I can't say the same for people taking faux majors like Liberal Arts (which I now hear has branched off into General Studies now) or those who needed to learn their basic high school classes.
PS: I'm probably biased on the setup and small size of the no-name college I attended. I can see it's possible that in a large college, everybody needs to take the same Creative Writing course or what-not.
64.0 fps should be enough for anyone!
Don't forget that by using bold it makes your text more important.
Not somebody I work with or associate with, I recently lost a client for political reasons, and I happen to find out the new site he built, he only used IE8 beta 2 to test it out the whole time.
When it went live guess what, yep, various problems with browsers that people actually use.
Mind you, viewing your work in IE8 is probably a good idea right now, but to use IE8 beta as your production browser... absurd.
Are you out of your mind, my FireFox 3 folder is like 27mb, I can't afford to waste that much space!
And Opera 9.5 is 5mb! (I only checked because I know some Opera zealot would HAVE to reply to this and try to one-up me).
while Gears of War was in there, I even moved it gently, no shaking, dropping, etc and it was painfully obvious the disc was contacting the tray bottom at a very fast speed, the amount of scratching was obscene.
Fortunately a drive down to my local movie rental shop, $3 for their "scratch removal service" (it took 3 or 4 sessions in the unit but you pay for the service, not the number of times they execute it to fix the disc) and the disc was pretty good again. Although the unit did create a lot of feather scratches but that's nothing a good laser can't get through now-a-days.
Ultimately I wrote it off to my own stupidity of moving the console, but since MS has changed drive manufactores a couple times, I wonder if the current 360s have the same problem?
Unfortunately I don't have any game I loathe enough to make it victim to testing this theory out on the new Xbox I bought 2 days ago.
Who will lead the fight in liberating the ant slaves from their amputee masters?
Think of the cancer cells, they have a right to live too!
If it looks like a trojan, smells like a trojan and acts like a trojan... it's a trojan!
You totally forgot to list cons to each, and more importantly, to homebrewed (because programmers want to homebrew, they more easily overlook the cons).
Reuse Cons:
* May not be as flexible as you need
Homebrew Cons:
* Won't be as bug free & secure as an openly adopted framework
* Might not be as fast
* Not Invented Here (which has done unmeasurable damage to many companies, it's virtually the reason for Xerox's downfall)
* Unmeasurable money/time blackhole
Marketing says... "We want to start building our own cars, you're an experienced car designer, we already have a factor ready so you should be able to design and begin producing in 8 months" and let's say they're right, fairly reasonable.
Then after all that they throw in, maybe 4 months into the project "oh yea, 'green' is in now, so we can't use that gasoline stuff, make it run on solar cells".
Wednesday's (today's) topic should have been:
Obama is becoming president... discuss!
Also on a forum on Joel's site, there was a brief discussion on this subject just a week ago:
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.692342.7
The .torrent argument is weak at best, especially when respectable companies (ex: Amazon) offer high quality MP3s at an affordable price (imho $8 albums makes up for the fact it's not truly CD quality and there's no physical album, otherwise go to Walmart and buy it for $14).
I agree with the OP dead on, but recommending torrents is not "informative", it's slimey.
Doubling the CPU isn't going to make your Crysis faster, but giving it a faster video card will do a boatload of good.
I'm guessing the only reason you see any difference in Crysis on the Core i7 is only because of the faster bus.
discuss!
I'm all for positive political discussions, but this is the lamest attempt to "open the floor" for one I've seen.
seriously, get over it.
At best that guy's post should be marked as humor, but insightful? Since when did SlashDot consider spreading FUD as insightful?
When I first saw the article I thought ".Net finally has it's Llama book" but then I saw it was a duck and that was the first thing I thought... "lame duck".
...when we need to explain to registered members how this kid is not guilty of a crime.
You do realize that's it's possible, albeit likely Norton encouraged them to write the review?
I believe this is tangent to the point of the /. article: not only are tests flawed, but you should inherently not trust any major news source to unbiasedly review a product.
- Why do they only compare it to Kaspersky?
- Why do they mention ram but not a speed comparison (I'd gladly give up 15mb of more ram just to have better performance in my AV, ram is dirt cheap)
- If NIS2009 is so "lite", why don't they mention the specs in comparison to older NIS (only Norton would want to cover up their old specs, which is a core issue that makes me suspect this is a shill article).
Not to mention I never trust any online news source, including tech sites, to have somebody savvy enough to know how to test an AV properly, which, as the /. article points out, not even the AV "experts" have figured that out, much less some tech site.
and I'm not even a woman! (Just don't tell my wife, ok?)
Well when you can buy one for $200 then factor it the hourly rate of a (good) programmer, it's not exactly a good time investment now is it?
I just installed VS2008 and IE8 beta, dragged the "Web Browser" control on to a form and threw in a quick back button.
Now where's my Xbox?
Only /. could take a story that could be about their own demise and turn it into an arguement about semantics.
Who cares if we're dying, you just said to-mah-toe!