Ultimitely the website will suffer. If an advertiser doesn't get a good return on an ad because the users of a site aren't actually seeing them, then they will pay less or not advertise on that medium at all. So, yeah, in the short term it only hurts the advertiser, but in the longer term, it hurts the websites you are getting the content from.
We should be thankful now, but not all of history has been written yet. There could come a time that the lives saved by the lack of a hot war is outpaced by the lives destroyed by nuclear weapons.
Not that I'm against advances in civilization. I certainly like that we have nuclear power, and I don't think that this experiment is wrong to do. I don't even think us having nuclear weapon technology is inherently bad, but I do believe that it could be used in a bad way eventually.
It's a lot easier to get a coal plant to upgrade/maintain emmissions control equipment than to get a million cars to upgrade their catylitic converters. Even if it is worse for the environment now, centralizing where the power comes from does make sense.
That's not what I said at all. When I apt-get update, I don't analyse every package it's sending me, mostly I just switch the window and work on something else, flipping back to configure the packages that need it. I'd have to make it a regular part of updating to check if a djbdns update came down, and then manually go and make && make install. Relative to other package management, djbdns is a PITA, and I can use other packages (such as dnsmasq) that provide the same simplicity.
Again, I'll say that I agree. A good tactic may be to propose you come in at a junior level with a review at 3 months. If they don't feel you gotten to an intermediate level, then you'll leave, no harm no foul. If they feel you are intermediate, then a raise (possibly retroactive) to that level of pay would be required.
One thing you may not want to do is come in at a junoir level and have the review in 3 months without such guarantees written in. Otherwise the company will jst eval you as a junior regardless of skill level. I've only known one company (the one I work for now did it to a guy we had working for us, and they made the raise retroactive and the review wasn't routine) to ever honor this stuff. I've still yet to have one honor bonuses (the company I'm at now doesn't have bonuses, but we do get paid a lot more than the local market).
I put the "also" in the wrong place so it looked like I was still talking about Jason. I meant "also, stan lee was in Mallrats". Jason Lee was in the movies you listed tho.
The difficult is that many employers will not believe that you can actually do this, even with a history of pulling off "miracles". Sell yourself too hard and you come off as arrogant.
I understand what you are saying here, but I do have to say that there are limits to this philosophy. There is a certain amount of hubris in the belief that because you know OO you can pick up, for example, J2EE in a week or even a month. For a while on a project you are either going to be moving very slowly and learning on your own, or will be moving slowly while learning from others (thus slowing them down). In 97, I'd been using Java for a year and really was an expert in all there was to know about it when designing a solution. Almost 6 years later, and I know I'm not an expert in a small facet of the entire platform (J2EE) applied to either of 2 vertical markets (1 year medical and 2 years logistics). I'm barely qualifies to make architectural decisions, and even there I know I make mistakes and unknowingly pass over technologies that could make systems simpler/more robust/faster to build/have a better ROI/who knows what. It's gotten very big very quickly. It's not just stuff from Sun, it's the Apache Group, and IBM, and a million 3PVs.
In short, reading the Wrox Professional Java Server Programming J2EE Edition isn't going to make you a senior architect. It make help you become an intermediate programmer, but it takes a lot of time to fully understand these things, why and how they work together, and wether or not they are the best tool for the job.
Maybe it's that way where you're from, but around here (NW florida), a junior J2EE developer at $70K can become a senior J2EE admin at $80K, and all you're doing is deploying shit (and meetings meetings meetings). Senior J2EE developers are only making $90K-$100K, down from $110K-$120K.
A agree that it may not be a wise career path, though, on account of the lower top pay and your evaluation that these job have a higher risk to become more and more phased out, like "computer operators".
And back in 97, I played around with a Java applet that could render Quake maps on a PPro-180 just fine. I was making UIs with the AWT that were fast and responsive, and I've done the same with swing. Mostly, my work has me doing J2EE, so it's just web based front ends, but I can still cut a reasonable UI. Check out DBVisualizer for a Swing UI that is responsive, well designed, easy to use, and gives you access to any JDBC database (close to TOAD in quality, but DBV 2.1 lacked updating via the data view and no cration wizards, while TOAD didn't have the relational graphing).
It is possible to do, but if you a) don't care about speeding your UI up and/or, b) believe the UI is slow because of Java and not because of crappy coding then you will end up with a slow UI.
Yeah, but for every person like us, there are a whole bunch of other Java developers out of work. Or, at least I think so. Although, come to think of it, the 19 of the 20 Java developers we laid off here all found jobs within 2 months. The other one had a severe speech impediment which probably effected his job search, although he has a job now too (took him 8 months).
Also, most of the Java systems I've worked on are to replace or run along side COBOL systems, and Java is a shitload (technical industry term there) faster than COBOL.
What really annoys me about most pre-history books and television shows is not the way that they assume, but the way they put forward their assumptions as facts
S/he specifically said they are not annoyed by assumptions. They then said they are annoyed at how the assumptions are presented as fact. I do not see this as "dangerously close" to critisizing the scientific process. In fact, it is a good support of the scientific process, because once assumptions are treated as fact, then it becomes religion.
Yeah, but I know what this guy is talking about. I watch discovery a lot and many the shows themselves, even the historical ones like the egyptian specials (I don't believe I've seen this particular series) will state things that are theories as if they are fact. If you watch discovery long enough, you'll eventually see other shows that state "facts" that contradict the other shows "facts." Regardless of what "behind the scenes" shows say about the shwo they are covering, I do find a lot of these are disingenuous in how they present their "findings".
One show even claimed that the candy necklaces worn by ravers were made out of MDMA pills with holes drilled through them, as if a candy raver is going to wear $1000 worth of pills around their neck that they could destroy just by sweating. That isn't even archeology, it's just anthropology they are getting wrong.
Did nobody else buy gaming magazines at the time? There were many that not only showed the moves for each scene, but showed the paths the plot would follow if you did this, or that, or if the knight scene was mirrored (left on right). For $5 you got all the answers.
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The PS2 only supports 480p in HDTV. The 1280x1024 resolution is only got the RGB output. It is kind of odd that the title is "Dragon's Lair on X-box", though. I can see adding the 1080i stuff where it was, but the title is pretty X-box centric.
Also, don't all games support 1080i (similarily don't they all support 16:9) since they are all rendered?
This isn't that surprising. It's a 3D equivelent of the million side scrollers we played as kids.
I agree with you though, I hate fully linear plot lines. Games like Zelda and GTA (Vice City is awesome) are more my bag because if you get tired of the main quest there are a million side quests you can do for fun and profit.
Consoles have good games that PCs don't, barring emulation. There is also less headache factor (though with the Xbox, it can get PC like because of the hard drive). Consoles also tend to be cheaper than a ninja video card. PCs have a lot of good games consoles don't. PCs have more versatility and better input devices or wont work well on a console (I'm a mouse man for FPSs). They each have their place.
Hell, it was released on the Amiga. I still remember countless hours of swapping disks, waiting for a scene to load as it read off the floppy into my 512K of RAM.
Yeah, but djbdns can only be distributed source only. I just installed dnsmasq on my debian system using the regular apt system. With dbjdns I'd have to apt it and then compile it, and on upgrades I'd have to remember to compile it again. Too much of a PITA.
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Ultimitely the website will suffer. If an advertiser doesn't get a good return on an ad because the users of a site aren't actually seeing them, then they will pay less or not advertise on that medium at all. So, yeah, in the short term it only hurts the advertiser, but in the longer term, it hurts the websites you are getting the content from.
I don't know. I kind of like the new quick launch bar. It makes it feel more like GNOME.
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We should be thankful now, but not all of history has been written yet. There could come a time that the lives saved by the lack of a hot war is outpaced by the lives destroyed by nuclear weapons.
Not that I'm against advances in civilization. I certainly like that we have nuclear power, and I don't think that this experiment is wrong to do. I don't even think us having nuclear weapon technology is inherently bad, but I do believe that it could be used in a bad way eventually.
It's a lot easier to get a coal plant to upgrade/maintain emmissions control equipment than to get a million cars to upgrade their catylitic converters. Even if it is worse for the environment now, centralizing where the power comes from does make sense.
That's not what I said at all. When I apt-get update, I don't analyse every package it's sending me, mostly I just switch the window and work on something else, flipping back to configure the packages that need it. I'd have to make it a regular part of updating to check if a djbdns update came down, and then manually go and make && make install. Relative to other package management, djbdns is a PITA, and I can use other packages (such as dnsmasq) that provide the same simplicity.
Again, I'll say that I agree. A good tactic may be to propose you come in at a junior level with a review at 3 months. If they don't feel you gotten to an intermediate level, then you'll leave, no harm no foul. If they feel you are intermediate, then a raise (possibly retroactive) to that level of pay would be required.
One thing you may not want to do is come in at a junoir level and have the review in 3 months without such guarantees written in. Otherwise the company will jst eval you as a junior regardless of skill level. I've only known one company (the one I work for now did it to a guy we had working for us, and they made the raise retroactive and the review wasn't routine) to ever honor this stuff. I've still yet to have one honor bonuses (the company I'm at now doesn't have bonuses, but we do get paid a lot more than the local market).
I put the "also" in the wrong place so it looked like I was still talking about Jason. I meant "also, stan lee was in Mallrats". Jason Lee was in the movies you listed tho.
The difficult is that many employers will not believe that you can actually do this, even with a history of pulling off "miracles". Sell yourself too hard and you come off as arrogant.
I understand what you are saying here, but I do have to say that there are limits to this philosophy. There is a certain amount of hubris in the belief that because you know OO you can pick up, for example, J2EE in a week or even a month. For a while on a project you are either going to be moving very slowly and learning on your own, or will be moving slowly while learning from others (thus slowing them down). In 97, I'd been using Java for a year and really was an expert in all there was to know about it when designing a solution. Almost 6 years later, and I know I'm not an expert in a small facet of the entire platform (J2EE) applied to either of 2 vertical markets (1 year medical and 2 years logistics). I'm barely qualifies to make architectural decisions, and even there I know I make mistakes and unknowingly pass over technologies that could make systems simpler/more robust/faster to build/have a better ROI/who knows what. It's gotten very big very quickly. It's not just stuff from Sun, it's the Apache Group, and IBM, and a million 3PVs.
In short, reading the Wrox Professional Java Server Programming J2EE Edition isn't going to make you a senior architect. It make help you become an intermediate programmer, but it takes a lot of time to fully understand these things, why and how they work together, and wether or not they are the best tool for the job.
or MCP = Microsoft Cerified Professional
Maybe it's that way where you're from, but around here (NW florida), a junior J2EE developer at $70K can become a senior J2EE admin at $80K, and all you're doing is deploying shit (and meetings meetings meetings). Senior J2EE developers are only making $90K-$100K, down from $110K-$120K.
A agree that it may not be a wise career path, though, on account of the lower top pay and your evaluation that these job have a higher risk to become more and more phased out, like "computer operators".
Actually, a BIOS represents an application of the singleton pattern as well as the proxy object pattern.
And back in 97, I played around with a Java applet that could render Quake maps on a PPro-180 just fine. I was making UIs with the AWT that were fast and responsive, and I've done the same with swing. Mostly, my work has me doing J2EE, so it's just web based front ends, but I can still cut a reasonable UI. Check out DBVisualizer for a Swing UI that is responsive, well designed, easy to use, and gives you access to any JDBC database (close to TOAD in quality, but DBV 2.1 lacked updating via the data view and no cration wizards, while TOAD didn't have the relational graphing).
It is possible to do, but if you
a) don't care about speeding your UI up and/or,
b) believe the UI is slow because of Java and not because of crappy coding
then you will end up with a slow UI.
Yeah, but for every person like us, there are a whole bunch of other Java developers out of work. Or, at least I think so. Although, come to think of it, the 19 of the 20 Java developers we laid off here all found jobs within 2 months. The other one had a severe speech impediment which probably effected his job search, although he has a job now too (took him 8 months).
Also, most of the Java systems I've worked on are to replace or run along side COBOL systems, and Java is a shitload (technical industry term there) faster than COBOL.
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What really annoys me about most pre-history books and television shows is not the way that they assume, but the way they put forward their assumptions as facts
S/he specifically said they are not annoyed by assumptions. They then said they are annoyed at how the assumptions are presented as fact. I do not see this as "dangerously close" to critisizing the scientific process. In fact, it is a good support of the scientific process, because once assumptions are treated as fact, then it becomes religion.
Yeah, but I know what this guy is talking about. I watch discovery a lot and many the shows themselves, even the historical ones like the egyptian specials (I don't believe I've seen this particular series) will state things that are theories as if they are fact. If you watch discovery long enough, you'll eventually see other shows that state "facts" that contradict the other shows "facts." Regardless of what "behind the scenes" shows say about the shwo they are covering, I do find a lot of these are disingenuous in how they present their "findings".
One show even claimed that the candy necklaces worn by ravers were made out of MDMA pills with holes drilled through them, as if a candy raver is going to wear $1000 worth of pills around their neck that they could destroy just by sweating. That isn't even archeology, it's just anthropology they are getting wrong.
Still, the shows are entertaining.
Of course, the really funny thing is that Kevin Smith was saying this to Jason Lee, who is Stan Lee's son.
Stan Lee also appears in Mallrats.
Did nobody else buy gaming magazines at the time? There were many that not only showed the moves for each scene, but showed the paths the plot would follow if you did this, or that, or if the knight scene was mirrored (left on right). For $5 you got all the answers.
The PS2 only supports 480p in HDTV. The 1280x1024 resolution is only got the RGB output. It is kind of odd that the title is "Dragon's Lair on X-box", though. I can see adding the 1080i stuff where it was, but the title is pretty X-box centric.
Also, don't all games support 1080i (similarily don't they all support 16:9) since they are all rendered?
Actually, until I saw that movie, I was more inclined to say "so what." That actually looks pretty cool. Not a $49.99 game, but maybe $29.99
This isn't that surprising. It's a 3D equivelent of the million side scrollers we played as kids.
I agree with you though, I hate fully linear plot lines. Games like Zelda and GTA (Vice City is awesome) are more my bag because if you get tired of the main quest there are a million side quests you can do for fun and profit.
Consoles have good games that PCs don't, barring emulation. There is also less headache factor (though with the Xbox, it can get PC like because of the hard drive). Consoles also tend to be cheaper than a ninja video card. PCs have a lot of good games consoles don't. PCs have more versatility and better input devices or wont work well on a console (I'm a mouse man for FPSs). They each have their place.
Hell, it was released on the Amiga. I still remember countless hours of swapping disks, waiting for a scene to load as it read off the floppy into my 512K of RAM.
Yeah, but djbdns can only be distributed source only. I just installed dnsmasq on my debian system using the regular apt system. With dbjdns I'd have to apt it and then compile it, and on upgrades I'd have to remember to compile it again. Too much of a PITA.
Not to mention that you have to pay just to upgrade to Win XP, while you can upgrade to BIND 9 for free.
It doesn't matter if you're running XP, 2K, linux, OS X or anything if there is a physical problem with the drive (mechanical or curcuit failure).