Oh no, I'm quite sure that meme will continue to live on long after one Anonymous Coward butchers it.....it's like any monster from a low budget horror flick (or big budget, doesn't really matter) in that way.
So, my new hobby will be using my old analog TV to watch your porn bits flying through the air.....please view more ascii porn, it will be easier for me to see.
If you can sell 20 widgets a day and it takes you 2 days to make 20 widgets, then yes, efficiency = more profit. If you can sell 20 widgets a day, but your inefficient process is still good enough to make 20 widgets a day, then being more efficient will just mean layoffs.
Seeing as how I've always worked for large companies, I've always said that my job was "getting people fired". I'm an I/T guy. The projects I work on are supposed to save the company money (CBA and all that stuff). Usually that savings is because a contractor/temp was no longer needed or some employee was no longer needed. Rarely was the savings tied to being able to meet demand.
Is it just me that finds this situation funny (generalizations, so if it isn't you, feel free to ignore)?
Slashdot readers want to get rich. Slashdot readers have something to do with computers/software. Slashdot readers want the world to be taken over by Free (as in beer) and Open Source Software. Not very many people have been able to make money at FOSS (the whole free thing gets in the way of profits).
I want to write some ECSS application (Expensive Closed Source Software), sell the rights to some big company and live comfortably for the rest of my life.....and maybe even do it more than once.
1. Write ECSS application 2. Sell application to customers 3. Sell software rights to some big company 4. Profit 5. Repeat steps 1 through 4 until ( $$$ >= need )
Any job will pay $100k, I was playing Life the other day....and I drew the $100k salary card. It was great....well except for the whole "no raises my entire life" part.
Actually, I think (NAL) it's legal because there is an actual product being sold.....and you don't necessarily have the whole "piece of their action" thing going.
In my case, I'm on the development team. I'm responsible for writing database code. I'm also an expert statement and procedure tuner (so much so that, I am usually engaged by other teams in my org when they are stumped). Our DBA's are responsible for keeping the servers up and running, tweaking settings, managing backups and disaster recovery. Most of them have no inkling how to tune a statement short of "throw hints in" or "add indexes" which usually isn't the best course of action (I encountered one DB that had a key table with 17 indexes on it). I rewrite queries to improve performance. I understand when indexes are appropriate. I rely on a DBA to figure out the best way to implement that index (which tablespace, etc.). It's probably a fine line and might not be exactly what other people think of as the division, but in my case it works very well. Since I don't really deal with the configuration aspects, I consider myself a database developer.
Why not just start with the SQL Server free version.....it scales all the way to SQL Server Enterprise with no code changes.......all you get are extra features as you progress up the scale. It's a standard, supported system. There is tons of information on using it.
Oh wait, I know.....It doesn't run on Linux, so everyone here will trash it.
A DBA is not necessarily a database programmer and vice versa. I am a database programmer. I am *NOT* a DBA. I can write SQL statements, procedures, triggers, etc. better than most people who touch a database and yet, don't ask me to configure an Oracle database or set up replication in SQL Server (SQL Server being the pointy-clicky-draggy-droppy approach to administration, I could probably do it, but it isn't what I do and isn't what I profess to be able to do). An MCDBA is certified to do the pointy-clicky-draggy-droppy stuff, not to write database applications.
Granted, I think a DBA needs some understanding of what is done in the database (code wise), I don't expect him to be an expert in it.....that's my job.
Layne
*Disclaimer, I work in a large company where they can afford to have this division of labor. In a small company, people have to wear many hats and usually the person who wears the database programmer hat also has to wear the DBA hat (and probably the network engineer hat and a couple of others).
Does anyone know how fast these gravity waves travel? Is it possible that the detection of the wave will happen "next week"? It seems that they are assuming the waves travel at light speed. What if they don't?
What about the task bar in Windows 95 and beyond? I can drag a file from an Explorer window to the task bar, make a Window get focus so I can drop it on that Window......
I don't understand from TFA (which I read...I did not read, however, TFPA) what makes their system so smart? Is it the pop-up text that says "Move to Top"? Or just that it does what I want it to do?
Tinfoil hats actually amplify frequencies controlled by the government (very likely the ones the government would choose to use for mind control). The tinfoil hat is a lie.
Unless, of course, this study was produced with government funding and is an attempt to dissuade people from wearing their hats........the conspiracy lives on.
I"ve always been in the "better to beg forgiveness" camp. When I'm told "no" and it is something that really is a benefit, I do it anyway....in secret. If it works, I figure out how to get it implemented. If it doesn't, then I keep quiet. Once it is done, you usually get praise for going above and beyond......and if you get punished, well, there are plenty of other better jobs out there.
We could always wait until 1989 for a revision if we don't like the 1970's version....or wait until 1992 for someone to make it look more like English.....
It's amazing how the generally agreed upon display format is tabular / grid for pretty much any large collection of data. The other agreed upon format is a tree view, but that is for a narrow view of data.
It's easy to understand, it works well with the existing tools, and it fits our two dimensional screens. If you can't figure out how to get what you want out of a dataset with SQL, maybe you need to consider getting people with a specialized skillset. You don't get a Web developer to code in C. You don't get a C developer to write Web code. Why do people insist on getting app guys to write database code?
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If you want devices to be single function, always look for the ones endorsed by the AARP.
Layne
Oh no, I'm quite sure that meme will continue to live on long after one Anonymous Coward butchers it.....it's like any monster from a low budget horror flick (or big budget, doesn't really matter) in that way.
Layne
I think adding letters to the DNA "alphabet" spells TROUBLE.
Layne
So, my new hobby will be using my old analog TV to watch your porn bits flying through the air.....please view more ascii porn, it will be easier for me to see.
Layne
I'd rather get hit by an ISA bus....it so old and slow, it's likely not to hurt at all.
Layne
It really matters what your business is.....
If you can sell 20 widgets a day and it takes you 2 days to make 20 widgets, then yes, efficiency = more profit. If you can sell 20 widgets a day, but your inefficient process is still good enough to make 20 widgets a day, then being more efficient will just mean layoffs.
Seeing as how I've always worked for large companies, I've always said that my job was "getting people fired". I'm an I/T guy. The projects I work on are supposed to save the company money (CBA and all that stuff). Usually that savings is because a contractor/temp was no longer needed or some employee was no longer needed. Rarely was the savings tied to being able to meet demand.
Layne
Well, you can always bet on Goat-C to be up....and that link always manages to appear on Slashdot.
Layne
Is it just me that finds this situation funny (generalizations, so if it isn't you, feel free to ignore)?
Slashdot readers want to get rich.
Slashdot readers have something to do with computers/software.
Slashdot readers want the world to be taken over by Free (as in beer) and Open Source Software.
Not very many people have been able to make money at FOSS (the whole free thing gets in the way of profits).
I want to write some ECSS application (Expensive Closed Source Software), sell the rights to some big company and live comfortably for the rest of my life.....and maybe even do it more than once.
1. Write ECSS application
2. Sell application to customers
3. Sell software rights to some big company
4. Profit
5. Repeat steps 1 through 4 until ( $$$ >= need )
See, a complete plan.
Layne
Any job will pay $100k, I was playing Life the other day....and I drew the $100k salary card. It was great....well except for the whole "no raises my entire life" part.
Layne
Actually, I think (NAL) it's legal because there is an actual product being sold.....and you don't necessarily have the whole "piece of their action" thing going.
Layne
In my case, I'm on the development team. I'm responsible for writing database code. I'm also an expert statement and procedure tuner (so much so that, I am usually engaged by other teams in my org when they are stumped). Our DBA's are responsible for keeping the servers up and running, tweaking settings, managing backups and disaster recovery. Most of them have no inkling how to tune a statement short of "throw hints in" or "add indexes" which usually isn't the best course of action (I encountered one DB that had a key table with 17 indexes on it). I rewrite queries to improve performance. I understand when indexes are appropriate. I rely on a DBA to figure out the best way to implement that index (which tablespace, etc.). It's probably a fine line and might not be exactly what other people think of as the division, but in my case it works very well. Since I don't really deal with the configuration aspects, I consider myself a database developer.
Layne
P/E.....P/E.
Apple's P/E is way out of whack (30's when most everyone else is teens to 20's). If the NASDAQ / DOW / S&P falls, those with higher P/E's fall faster.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AWMT
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL
Layne
Why not just start with the SQL Server free version.....it scales all the way to SQL Server Enterprise with no code changes.......all you get are extra features as you progress up the scale. It's a standard, supported system. There is tons of information on using it.
Oh wait, I know.....It doesn't run on Linux, so everyone here will trash it.
Layne
A DBA is not necessarily a database programmer and vice versa. I am a database programmer. I am *NOT* a DBA. I can write SQL statements, procedures, triggers, etc. better than most people who touch a database and yet, don't ask me to configure an Oracle database or set up replication in SQL Server (SQL Server being the pointy-clicky-draggy-droppy approach to administration, I could probably do it, but it isn't what I do and isn't what I profess to be able to do). An MCDBA is certified to do the pointy-clicky-draggy-droppy stuff, not to write database applications.
Granted, I think a DBA needs some understanding of what is done in the database (code wise), I don't expect him to be an expert in it.....that's my job.
Layne
*Disclaimer, I work in a large company where they can afford to have this division of labor. In a small company, people have to wear many hats and usually the person who wears the database programmer hat also has to wear the DBA hat (and probably the network engineer hat and a couple of others).
Does anyone know how fast these gravity waves travel? Is it possible that the detection of the wave will happen "next week"? It seems that they are assuming the waves travel at light speed. What if they don't?
Layne
The summary said lifesize, so what about:
Horsefly, Dragonfly, or some of the ones on this list: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/flies.html
Layne
What about the task bar in Windows 95 and beyond? I can drag a file from an Explorer window to the task bar, make a Window get focus so I can drop it on that Window......
I don't understand from TFA (which I read...I did not read, however, TFPA) what makes their system so smart? Is it the pop-up text that says "Move to Top"? Or just that it does what I want it to do?
Layne
I think they prefer the mechanical entry.......bzzzzzzzz
Layne
Apparently you haven't read the study on tinfoil hats.....
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
Tinfoil hats actually amplify frequencies controlled by the government (very likely the ones the government would choose to use for mind control). The tinfoil hat is a lie.
Unless, of course, this study was produced with government funding and is an attempt to dissuade people from wearing their hats........the conspiracy lives on.
Layne
I"ve always been in the "better to beg forgiveness" camp. When I'm told "no" and it is something that really is a benefit, I do it anyway....in secret. If it works, I figure out how to get it implemented. If it doesn't, then I keep quiet. Once it is done, you usually get praise for going above and beyond......and if you get punished, well, there are plenty of other better jobs out there.
Layne
Man, that site is almost as bad as those stupid adver-tags that people have.....if it had the floating windows to go with it, it would be as bad.
Layne
We could always wait until 1989 for a revision if we don't like the 1970's version....or wait until 1992 for someone to make it look more like English.....
Layne
Theoretically, classification is not a singleton value but a list of values.
My classifications could include "league bowler" "husband" "programmer" "database programmer" "texas resident" etc.
Layne
You assume 12 is the generated primary key. 12 could very well be a data point (age?, shoe size?). It is a perfectly value tuple.
Layne
It's amazing how the generally agreed upon display format is tabular / grid for pretty much any large collection of data. The other agreed upon format is a tree view, but that is for a narrow view of data.
It's easy to understand, it works well with the existing tools, and it fits our two dimensional screens. If you can't figure out how to get what you want out of a dataset with SQL, maybe you need to consider getting people with a specialized skillset. You don't get a Web developer to code in C. You don't get a C developer to write Web code. Why do people insist on getting app guys to write database code?
Layne