I'm young and ignorant, but I have used many IBM applications (both internal and external). I am yet to see an app (especially one java based) come out of IBM that doesn't suck.
Are you talking about lotus symphony? I wouldn't bother. I haven't actually tried lotus symphony, but I HAVE to use lotus notes and notes is just terrible. I Can think of so many other solutions (with and without java) that would work better. But IBM paid X million dollars for a groupware software suite and they'll be damned if they don't use it. Frankly, I think something based on google docs and google gears would work MUCH better and have far less problems. But alas, I am but a peon whose opinion relatively worthless.
Wrong Wrong Wrong. Sorry. When I was applying for the job I have now I had to send in my resume in word format after initially sending it in PDF format. Big deal. I saved as a.doc file and sent it in. I prefer pdf because I can be sure it'll look right but OO.o usually gets MS doc format right for me.
As for not wanting to work for a company that insists on MS docs... well. That really only speaks to how HR works. I work for a staffing company that mainly supplies employees for IBM. I'm a tester in IBM's superlab. I get to play with big iron servers: stuff like quad 6-core machines (yeah, 24 cores in a rackmount system). I use linux for my workstation with no problems. I come in and leave when I wish (we report our time via a webapp) and as long as my work is done and I'm here when I say I'm here management has no problems.
What you're doing is fine and what I expect of responsible parents. What isn't fine is keeping your child locked away until they are 18 and sent off to college. I don't think extremes one way or the other are good. Children should be eased into the world, with parents at the ready to help when they need to.
Yes, I was kidding. The generation of people raising kids today were raised by the generation that said, "hey, children, you shouldn't have to take shit from anyone. If you want something, go get it. Demand it. The world is yours. If something is wrong, it's not YOUR fault. Don't take the blame for what isn't in your power to control."
Instead of raising a bunch of ambitious, well-adjusted people, we've got a population with an undeserved sense of entitlement. We have to face it, the West (the USA in particular), has a population that shirks responsibility because they feel it's their right. Or something like that. I'm not sure where I'm going with this.
I agree with the GGP. I don't believe TV, Radio, or the Internet should be sanitized to fit the morals of a few (or even many) as to what's appropriate for children. Who said these media (note: media = plural of medium) had to be kid friendly. A child might see/here this! So? That is a parent's responsibility. It always has been. My other gripe is how we so feverishly protect our children. Hiding things from children doesn't help them. It hurts them. Time and time again we've seen how greatly restricted children, and adults too, run a muck given the first opportunity. People complain of an immature adult population. I believe this is the result. Being a child at heart is wonderful. If you can still giggle at a fart joke when you're middle aged, good for you. But if you can't control your laughter when in court for your third DUI, you have a problem.
Let's not keep our children as children. Let's help them grow up. Help them make informed decisions instead of having to experiment behind closed doors, unsupervised by those who know better.
iDataPlex? Really? I am a tester at IBM. We've just started to qualify various hard drives and IO cards for the iDataPlex systems. They're very oddly designed and in general suck. The firmware (BIOS/uEFI) is really crappy but it usually is at this stage of testing. I'm sure it will get better over time. The thing that most likely will not get better is the horrible, horrible physical design (which was specially request by Facebook). I would say the reason is unknown, but from what I've heard it's because Facebook didn't want to upgrade their racks/rails so they had IBM design servers to fit them.
There's lots of curious and pointless design features. They're almost like big-ass blades, designed to slide out of a larger outer-housing that contains the PSU and fans, but several cables and wires connect the machine to the outer-housing making it impossible to remove without also removing the outer-housing from the rack. In one variant, the pci-slot is literally in the middle of the system (imagine a card slot in the middle of your motherboard, that, when a card is inserted into it, acts as a locking bar).
All the ports are in the front of the system: vga, usb, ethernet. Except for power. Power is in the back, attached to the external shell. There are also ps/2 ports (a rarity among newer servers) but they are completely blocked by the faceplate.
Actually, and I'm no professional physicist (yet), there is a lot of math (confusing and not quite kink-free yet) to support string theory. Parts of the math are supported with physical evidenced produced by particle accelerators. Why do you think we build and operate things like the LHC?
Please don't use the term "survival of the fittest". It was not coined by Darwin, it was coined by Herbet Spencer. He was a social Darwinist. He used the principles described by Darwin and applied them (erroneously, IMHO) to sociology.
Secondly, in evolutionary biology, fitness is defined as number of offspring an organism has. To survive means to have successfully passed on genes to another generation. So if fitness is greater than zero the organism has already survived. To say "survival of the fittest" is to say "those who successfully breed successfully breed."//Took a whole course JUST on evolution.
yeah... sounds like a project I lead (not in coding though) that's still sitting around and not really being used 'cept by the original coder. Like tcl with the tile extension or PyGame, Gojo is a 2d game graphics engine. It uses Lua for coding the games. Gojo itself is written in C using SDL and other cross platform libraries. We know it compiles on x86, ppc, arm (linux, windows, os X) it's fast and powerful you get access to low-level graphics stuff but don't necessarily have to mess around with the low level stuff to make anything since standard libraries are provided for common tasks like a tile system and a sprite system. The lead dev is also working on an openGL port.
Cool stuff, and yet (due somewhat to a lack of organized documentation, and inattention on my part) it's largely unheard of and unused.
I like the idea of getting the basic project rolling via a get-a-coder style site and then setup a sourceforge site with the code, ramble up some interest (perhaps via/.?) and get other devs involved.
Okay, time for me to be shameless. If I find your project interesting, I'll lend a hand (and more than a hand if you give me a little something for my troubles). I know C, perl, tcl, bash, SQL, very well and lots of other languages not quite as well. I also have coder friends who like to do OSS stuff and even more so when there's a chance for pay (even if the pay is slim).
Sounds like you want just general ideas and information about projects in general, but you've got me curious, and I'd like to know more.
I disagree with the biblical names exception. Also, repeating myself once more, I said I was offering some *over-simplified* rules to follow. Over-simplified means I've disregarded other rules and exceptions. I did that for the sake of ease of learning.
It has nothing to do with how things sound. I realized that that was the cause of the mistake. It is still a mistake regardless.
Examples of the articles a and an: a dog an orange a eulogy an NFL football The rule depends on the sound of the next word. This is done for ease of pronunciation.
Possessive apostrophes have nothing to do with that and don't work like that. Even if you pronounce the z as an s, the correct usage is Chavez's, pronounced with that awkward extra s syllable. Sha-ves-sis.
I worry that VIA will stray from staying standards compliant now that it is only making chipsets for its own boards/processors.
Will the chipsets remain more or less as standards compliant and open as they are now or will yet more reverse engineering and mystery registers be on the way?
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Why don't we just kill all the children. That way, we can be 100% sure that they aren't being abused.
/eh. Getting pretty sick of all the censorship that's getting pushed and passed under the flag of "protecting children"
Social Darwinism has little to do with Darwin really and much to do with Herbert Spencer, a nutjob IMHO.
I'm young and ignorant, but I have used many IBM applications (both internal and external). I am yet to see an app (especially one java based) come out of IBM that doesn't suck.
Are you talking about lotus symphony? I wouldn't bother. I haven't actually tried lotus symphony, but I HAVE to use lotus notes and notes is just terrible. I Can think of so many other solutions (with and without java) that would work better. But IBM paid X million dollars for a groupware software suite and they'll be damned if they don't use it. Frankly, I think something based on google docs and google gears would work MUCH better and have far less problems. But alas, I am but a peon whose opinion relatively worthless.
Wrong Wrong Wrong. Sorry. When I was applying for the job I have now I had to send in my resume in word format after initially sending it in PDF format. Big deal. I saved as a .doc file and sent it in. I prefer pdf because I can be sure it'll look right but OO.o usually gets MS doc format right for me.
As for not wanting to work for a company that insists on MS docs... well. That really only speaks to how HR works. I work for a staffing company that mainly supplies employees for IBM. I'm a tester in IBM's superlab. I get to play with big iron servers: stuff like quad 6-core machines (yeah, 24 cores in a rackmount system). I use linux for my workstation with no problems. I come in and leave when I wish (we report our time via a webapp) and as long as my work is done and I'm here when I say I'm here management has no problems.
Don't be so quick to judge a company.
What you're doing is fine and what I expect of responsible parents. What isn't fine is keeping your child locked away until they are 18 and sent off to college. I don't think extremes one way or the other are good. Children should be eased into the world, with parents at the ready to help when they need to.
Yes, I was kidding. The generation of people raising kids today were raised by the generation that said, "hey, children, you shouldn't have to take shit from anyone. If you want something, go get it. Demand it. The world is yours. If something is wrong, it's not YOUR fault. Don't take the blame for what isn't in your power to control."
/end-rant
Instead of raising a bunch of ambitious, well-adjusted people, we've got a population with an undeserved sense of entitlement. We have to face it, the West (the USA in particular), has a population that shirks responsibility because they feel it's their right. Or something like that. I'm not sure where I'm going with this.
I agree with the GGP. I don't believe TV, Radio, or the Internet should be sanitized to fit the morals of a few (or even many) as to what's appropriate for children. Who said these media (note: media = plural of medium) had to be kid friendly. A child might see/here this! So? That is a parent's responsibility. It always has been. My other gripe is how we so feverishly protect our children. Hiding things from children doesn't help them. It hurts them. Time and time again we've seen how greatly restricted children, and adults too, run a muck given the first opportunity. People complain of an immature adult population. I believe this is the result. Being a child at heart is wonderful. If you can still giggle at a fart joke when you're middle aged, good for you. But if you can't control your laughter when in court for your third DUI, you have a problem.
Let's not keep our children as children. Let's help them grow up. Help them make informed decisions instead of having to experiment behind closed doors, unsupervised by those who know better.
But that implies responsibility and self-control.
Sir, you ask FAR too much.
How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb?
Well if you're going to call it a nano, you might as well use the nano processor.
Bingo. On top of what the parent said, it should also be small (less than 12.1" screen) and lightweight with a battery life of at least 3 hours.
All general statements are false.
Kinda reminds me of a certain quote
iDataPlex? Really? I am a tester at IBM. We've just started to qualify various hard drives and IO cards for the iDataPlex systems. They're very oddly designed and in general suck. The firmware (BIOS/uEFI) is really crappy but it usually is at this stage of testing. I'm sure it will get better over time. The thing that most likely will not get better is the horrible, horrible physical design (which was specially request by Facebook). I would say the reason is unknown, but from what I've heard it's because Facebook didn't want to upgrade their racks/rails so they had IBM design servers to fit them.
There's lots of curious and pointless design features. They're almost like big-ass blades, designed to slide out of a larger outer-housing that contains the PSU and fans, but several cables and wires connect the machine to the outer-housing making it impossible to remove without also removing the outer-housing from the rack. In one variant, the pci-slot is literally in the middle of the system (imagine a card slot in the middle of your motherboard, that, when a card is inserted into it, acts as a locking bar).
All the ports are in the front of the system: vga, usb, ethernet. Except for power. Power is in the back, attached to the external shell. There are also ps/2 ports (a rarity among newer servers) but they are completely blocked by the faceplate.
My overall reaction: meh.
Actually, and I'm no professional physicist (yet), there is a lot of math (confusing and not quite kink-free yet) to support string theory. Parts of the math are supported with physical evidenced produced by particle accelerators. Why do you think we build and operate things like the LHC?
Please don't use the term "survival of the fittest". It was not coined by Darwin, it was coined by Herbet Spencer. He was a social Darwinist. He used the principles described by Darwin and applied them (erroneously, IMHO) to sociology.
Secondly, in evolutionary biology, fitness is defined as number of offspring an organism has. To survive means to have successfully passed on genes to another generation. So if fitness is greater than zero the organism has already survived. To say "survival of the fittest" is to say "those who successfully breed successfully breed." //Took a whole course JUST on evolution.
Sounds like good advice. However, I did say I wanted to know more and if it's interesting I'd help.
yeah... sounds like a project I lead (not in coding though) that's still sitting around and not really being used 'cept by the original coder. Like tcl with the tile extension or PyGame, Gojo is a 2d game graphics engine. It uses Lua for coding the games. Gojo itself is written in C using SDL and other cross platform libraries. We know it compiles on x86, ppc, arm (linux, windows, os X) it's fast and powerful you get access to low-level graphics stuff but don't necessarily have to mess around with the low level stuff to make anything since standard libraries are provided for common tasks like a tile system and a sprite system. The lead dev is also working on an openGL port.
Cool stuff, and yet (due somewhat to a lack of organized documentation, and inattention on my part) it's largely unheard of and unused.
If you're curious, http://gojo.sf.net./
I like the idea of getting the basic project rolling via a get-a-coder style site and then setup a sourceforge site with the code, ramble up some interest (perhaps via /.?) and get other devs involved.
Okay, time for me to be shameless. If I find your project interesting, I'll lend a hand (and more than a hand if you give me a little something for my troubles). I know C, perl, tcl, bash, SQL, very well and lots of other languages not quite as well. I also have coder friends who like to do OSS stuff and even more so when there's a chance for pay (even if the pay is slim).
Sounds like you want just general ideas and information about projects in general, but you've got me curious, and I'd like to know more.
But that's such a common error. I normally let most errors go but this Chavez' thing really got to me.
I disagree with the biblical names exception. Also, repeating myself once more, I said I was offering some *over-simplified* rules to follow. Over-simplified means I've disregarded other rules and exceptions. I did that for the sake of ease of learning.
It has nothing to do with how things sound. I realized that that was the cause of the mistake. It is still a mistake regardless.
Examples of the articles a and an:
a dog
an orange
a eulogy
an NFL football
The rule depends on the sound of the next word. This is done for ease of pronunciation.
Possessive apostrophes have nothing to do with that and don't work like that. Even if you pronounce the z as an s, the correct usage is Chavez's, pronounced with that awkward extra s syllable. Sha-ves-sis.
You must not have seen Be Kind, Rewind.
I was completing the response to the line "We'll have these Sweded by tomorrow, no problem."
is it mySpoons?
:(
Last I checked you can't run mySpoons on linux
Does anyone know of a way for us Linux losers to watch the vodcasts?
I worry that VIA will stray from staying standards compliant now that it is only making chipsets for its own boards/processors.
Will the chipsets remain more or less as standards compliant and open as they are now or will yet more reverse engineering and mystery registers be on the way?
Sweden is a country. You can't use it as a verb.