If there are more jobs for C++, do that. If there are more for C# or Java, do that. Coding is either about money or it's masturbation (not that there's anything wrong with that...), but if you're doing it for money, then put yourself in the biggest money stream.
And sorry guys, if you're looking for money, that's probably not python, ruby, coffee, php or web language of the week. Much as I delight in all of them, there are just fewer high-paying jobs there last I looked. Feel free to prove me wrong. I'd be happier proven wrong here.
Fairness and truth don't matter. Like all sociopaths, they feel above the rules. All that matters is winning. Florida in 2000. Canada. It's all the same.
Until it is. Desperately. Hydrocarbons aren't long for this world from an "energy return/aggregate price" point of view. Do they expect to pull power from the behinds of pink unicorns and baby godzillas?
Old joke. An interviewer asks a potential new programmer a question, "If you could be any piece of software, which would you be?" "Windows Media Player, " the interviewee responds, "I like to be left alone."
The football players particularly. Some of them weren't so smart in their senior year or after graduation. At the time, we made fun of them, which in retrospect kind of sucks. They may have been hostile, bullying and overly aggressive, but brain damage isn't something I'd wish on anyone.
Interesting ad hominem attack. I don't suppose you have any actual arguments that would clarify why anything I said was crap? And exactly where do you get "pretentious" out of speculation based on a logical extrapolations?
"...People are not buying desktop PCs anymore Correction. Individual 20-somethings or younger are not buying desktops or laptops because they don't have to. My company, on the other hand, received over 50 brand new Dell (Ugh) desktops yesterday, to be rolled out to new employees, many of which are recent grads.
Suggestion. Don't assume that any of the rest of your working life will in any way resemble your time in college. It won't. If you're not somehow independently wealthy, you're in the slave system we call "employment." Get used to it or get out.
as Windows does, and everyone knows Windows. Zorin is by far the most Windowsy flavor of Ubuntu. To make it or some other distro work, several things have to happen:
1) It has to look like "out-of-the-box" Windows. Nobody gives a rat's ass about "changing the desktop paradigm." They want what they know.
2) Installs have to work the same way as they do on Windows. Installing on Linux is just different enough to be annoying, and believe it or not, there's a universe of software that isn't on the internet. Software doesn't begin and end on the software center. Oh, and by the way, there are still a few of us who are regularly beyond the reach of an internet connection.
3) Make the disk and file system look like Windows, with drives that have aliases like "c:" an "d:" and a copy of something that looks like Windows explorer. It doesn't matter if it's stupid. It's what people are used to.
4) Wine has to be nearly perfect and auto-configuring. Sorry, but if Word doesn't run, your chances are "none."
None of this is fair, sensible or rational. It's also true.
I'm an agnostic, and I suspect that there are plenty of alien critters far in advance of us who would look pretty godlike if we stared at 'em up close. Might even be a few sentients that survived the creation and destruction of universes and possibly have even influenced same (or started a brand new universe as a gaming platform). Depends on what you think might be godlike.
is all that is. As for Texas being against taxes, well, the state is about 24.6 billion or so in debt under the ever amusing "conservative" governor Perry. So make no mistake about it. Governor Perry is against taxes, but he seems to be OK with authorizing *spending* whether there's tax revenue to cover it or not.
NOT! That said, it depends on the depth of your imagination. If the universe is essentially a simulation, the creators of the simulation would fit many of the parameters of a god, from our point of view. Even without that, there have to be plenty of other sentients in the universe that have been around a lot longer than us, perhaps even a few that survived the destruction and creation of the universe. These too, would fall pretty far in to god territory.
Of course, this is just the christian biased, deity-oriented "god" stuff. More abstract religious concepts like Atman, the ain sof, the tao and nirvana probably were never included in the study.
If you're dumb enough to give your source, or any other monetizable data to the Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, etc. don't be surprised to find it suddenly (ahem) "stolen."
VMWare has nobody but it's naive, insular, overly trusting top management to blame. They have no effective legal recourse. What did they think would prevent this, a gentleman's' agreement?
The big problem with all of the aforementioned alternative energy sources is that none of them, even nuclear, can come close to providing the 160 exajoules of energy per year currently gotten from oil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_mile_of_oil#Definition_and_energy_equivalents). All of them work, if you're willing to accept a civilization that uses about 14.3% of the energy used now. On the plus side, you can still do a lot with 14.3%. On the negative side, yeah, you do sort of have to re-organize civilization in a big way. And we will, by 2100-2150 or so.
Oh, and by the way, nuke plants can be made safe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety), hydro needn't involve large dams at all (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_head_hydro_power), solar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sensitized_solar_cell) is advancing nicely and getting cheaper, geothermal "earthquakes" are trivial for the most part (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_seismicity) and biofuels, (inefficient solar collectors with a direct chemical output) will still have spot uses.
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I guess we'll have to think about it...
They can and are defeating us with money. Military force is so passe'
If there are more jobs for C++, do that. If there are more for C# or Java, do that. Coding is either about money or it's masturbation (not that there's anything wrong with that...), but if you're doing it for money, then put yourself in the biggest money stream.
And sorry guys, if you're looking for money, that's probably not python, ruby, coffee, php or web language of the week. Much as I delight in all of them, there are just fewer high-paying jobs there last I looked. Feel free to prove me wrong. I'd be happier proven wrong here.
Fairness and truth don't matter. Like all sociopaths, they feel above the rules. All that matters is winning. Florida in 2000. Canada. It's all the same.
Until it is. Desperately. Hydrocarbons aren't long for this world from an "energy return/aggregate price" point of view. Do they expect to pull power from the behinds of pink unicorns and baby godzillas?
Which would, admittedly, be pretty cool.
And you've got a deal!
I know. I just kind of like the sound of "frack" better.
Or in other words, frack Windows Media Center...
Old joke. An interviewer asks a potential new programmer a question, "If you could be any piece of software, which would you be?"
"Windows Media Player, " the interviewee responds, "I like to be left alone."
You mean differently adjusted.
--Let the PC wars begin!
The football players particularly. Some of them weren't so smart in their senior year or after graduation. At the time, we made fun of them, which in retrospect kind of sucks. They may have been hostile, bullying and overly aggressive, but brain damage isn't something I'd wish on anyone.
Off our meds today, are we?
Interesting ad hominem attack. I don't suppose you have any actual arguments that would clarify why anything I said was crap? And exactly where do you get "pretentious" out of speculation based on a logical extrapolations?
"...People are not buying desktop PCs anymore
Correction. Individual 20-somethings or younger are not buying desktops or laptops because they don't have to. My company, on the other hand, received over 50 brand new Dell (Ugh) desktops yesterday, to be rolled out to new employees, many of which are recent grads.
Suggestion. Don't assume that any of the rest of your working life will in any way resemble your time in college. It won't. If you're not somehow independently wealthy, you're in the slave system we call "employment." Get used to it or get out.
as Windows does, and everyone knows Windows. Zorin is by far the most Windowsy flavor of Ubuntu. To make it or some other distro work, several things have to happen:
1) It has to look like "out-of-the-box" Windows. Nobody gives a rat's ass about "changing the desktop paradigm." They want what they know.
2) Installs have to work the same way as they do on Windows. Installing on Linux is just different enough to be annoying, and believe it or not, there's a universe of software that isn't on the internet. Software doesn't begin and end on the software center. Oh, and by the way, there are still a few of us who are regularly beyond the reach of an internet connection.
3) Make the disk and file system look like Windows, with drives that have aliases like "c:" an "d:" and a copy of something that looks like Windows explorer. It doesn't matter if it's stupid. It's what people are used to.
4) Wine has to be nearly perfect and auto-configuring. Sorry, but if Word doesn't run, your chances are "none."
None of this is fair, sensible or rational. It's also true.
I'm an agnostic, and I suspect that there are plenty of alien critters far in advance of us who would look pretty godlike if we stared at 'em up close. Might even be a few sentients that survived the creation and destruction of universes and possibly have even influenced same (or started a brand new universe as a gaming platform). Depends on what you think might be godlike.
You mean "RTFB"
We'd really like to know *everything* about you, up to and including the contents of your medicine cabinet, refrigerator and trash bins.
"Key Test For Cylon Spaceplane?" I mean, "What the frak?"
is all that is. As for Texas being against taxes, well, the state is about 24.6 billion or so in debt under the ever amusing "conservative" governor Perry. So make no mistake about it. Governor Perry is against taxes, but he seems to be OK with authorizing *spending* whether there's tax revenue to cover it or not.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (Used without permission)
NOT! That said, it depends on the depth of your imagination. If the universe is essentially a simulation, the creators of the simulation would fit many of the parameters of a god, from our point of view. Even without that, there have to be plenty of other sentients in the universe that have been around a lot longer than us, perhaps even a few that survived the destruction and creation of the universe. These too, would fall pretty far in to god territory.
Of course, this is just the christian biased, deity-oriented "god" stuff. More abstract religious concepts like Atman, the ain sof, the tao and nirvana probably were never included in the study.
If you're dumb enough to give your source, or any other monetizable data to the Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, etc. don't be surprised to find it suddenly (ahem) "stolen."
VMWare has nobody but it's naive, insular, overly trusting top management to blame. They have no effective legal recourse. What did they think would prevent this, a gentleman's' agreement?
The big problem with all of the aforementioned alternative energy sources is that none of them, even nuclear, can come close to providing the 160 exajoules of energy per year currently gotten from oil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_mile_of_oil#Definition_and_energy_equivalents). All of them work, if you're willing to accept a civilization that uses about 14.3% of the energy used now. On the plus side, you can still do a lot with 14.3%. On the negative side, yeah, you do sort of have to re-organize civilization in a big way. And we will, by 2100-2150 or so.
Oh, and by the way, nuke plants can be made safe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety), hydro needn't involve large dams at all (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_head_hydro_power), solar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sensitized_solar_cell) is advancing nicely and getting cheaper, geothermal "earthquakes" are trivial for the most part (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_seismicity) and biofuels, (inefficient solar collectors with a direct chemical output) will still have spot uses.
if after we created the first asteroid mine tailings, that we notice the belt is already full of them.
Jesus in a plate? Oh, Christ, it's already been done.