just wondering when did IT and development become separate entities? wouldn't that make the job all that more difficult? When all the people who ran out and got A+, Network+, MCSE, and ITT degrees thought that they "knew computers" and that IT was just networking and system administration.
I'm not saying that A+, Network+, MCSE, or ITT grads are useless and/or dumb. Quite the contrary, I have known many people in that category that had a wealth of knowledge in those specific realms (networking/system administration). But IT isn't just that. IT encompasses development, networking, and system administration. Basically, this is a nomenclature issue. Their IT department is effectively the development department and operations (networking and administration) department. Someone just renamed the operations department to IT to feel more important and "put the code monkeys in their place".
In other words, your problem isn't "Who's job is it?", it is "Who's being a douchebag?". Once you find that individual and neutralize him, everything else will be resolved nicely.
When people find out what they are worth, they start demanding it. Pretty soon, the entire world's IT population will be high-salaried, no matter where you go.
How about the fact that a circuit only understands two states, on or off. And that a processor is an integrated circuit. And that a 32-bit processor means that the processor has 32 pathways into the circuit, giving you 2^32 combinations to work with. When we have 16 state circuits, then you may be able to program in "hex machine language". Until then, here's a reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
Not to mention the fact that you have not offered any facts, logic, analogy, or anything concrete besides your opinion and are appealing to the authority of yourself. That's hollow condescension.
Watch the Breakup with Vince Vaughn. He plays San Andreas and Madden in the movie. And while I don't play Madden, he was definitely playing San Andreas with the correct sounds.
Except that it wouldn't be that easy. You would need a cross-compiler to actually create a program the alien ship can execute. Then you need to worry about your standard libraries, not to mention your networking libraries (because the mothership sent instructions to the main invasion fleet), and probably a couple of other things.
Now, while it is possible that they had a cross-compiler, and they had enough of a networking library to basically shut down the netowrk on the mothership, which would be easier than actually doing anything over the network since you couldn't effectively test it. We are ignoring the fact that 50 years had passed from the creation of that ship, to the arrival of the fleet. And who's to say that they pull an Apple and switch chip vendors in that time, rendering all of your work useless.
Every time I hear someone say this, I feel free to question their validity. You can't program in "hex machine language", as hexadecimal is a convention to make the jump from decimal to binary easier.
You are neglecting the rest of my post, where I said the distance should be your maximum reaction time. And you put forward the 80ft/s timing, obviously physics demands that this is not a constant due to speed, weight, and all those other things that are factored into momentum.
In any case, 160ft of space between cars is far too extreme as is tailgating.
You are neglecting the fact that it is 80ft/s to a stationary object. Another car is subject to the same forces as you are, so they will continue to move forward at 80ft/s as well. You just need to be far away enough to compensate for your maximum reaction time.
Unless they hit a brick wall. But then, you should've seen that coming from far enough away.
Also, making modifications to the software is a huge process. It is easier to perform workarounds rather than change the code due to the amount of testing they must perform.
As an example, there is code that will fully manage one of those robotic arm things for the right side of the shuttle. Odd thing is, there is only one robotic arm. On the left of the shuttle.* There are no plans to add a second arm to the shuttle. However, if they were to remove the extraneous code, it would have to go through the entire review process before going into production. It is simpler to ignore the fluff and instead fix the things that could kill astronauts.
*I may have swapped the left and right in the example. Doesn't matter, the point is the duplication, not my in-depth knowledge of shuttle design.
I find his theories interesting and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
The things you mention sound well enough in line with my own personal idealology, but you could be just picking his best qualities. He may like kicking puppy dogs in his spare time. We don't know.
Man, I'm politically interested in a Republican from Texas. That's scary.
And for shame Bobby Jindal. I thought better of you.
No, DST has nothing to do with farming. Farmers don't give a squat about the clock. The sun rises when it does and sets when it does. Artificial means of tracking it won't change it.
However, DST _was_ implemented during WWI to conserve energy. Once the war was over, DST was no longer nationally observed. Then it was observed again during WWII for much the same reason. But when that war ended, we didn't switch back.
I know. That was just an example of a labor law. There is a labyrinthine network of them, all of which I have to comply with... but only if I'm a big evil corporation.
And to which I said that the fact that plumbers aren't cheap is irrelevant. All businesses must comply to labor laws. Size is rarely a factor.
Money does the same thing. These are "offered" either because laws require benefits to be paid when "full time" status is reached, or because the corporation is given favorable tax treatment when buying them for employees. The ones that don't have time to figure out this loophole -- well, who cares about them?
Money does not do the same thing. Businesses are not required to provide insurance of any kind. That they do is a benefit. Just like the free drinks for working at Microsoft, totally optional. There are some "benefits" that are mandated (like the Family Medical Leave Act), but for the most part they vary wildly between companies. If two companies were offering the same salary, but one had paid health insurance and the other didn't, which would you take?
??? Yes, they do. Get a clue, kid. The employer pays a tax that matches the amount shown on your paystub. It is in addition to your deduction. Now, there's an important point to make here, which is that the *economic incidence* of BOTH parts falls on the worker. That is, if corporations weren't made to match it, market wages would rise by that amount. But the point is, the corporation has to go through the hassle of properly registering you and making sure that portion goes to that tax, while you don't have to do the same thing for a one-time plumbing job.
By the way, nice ad hominem. Implying that I am young, and therefore ignorant of the world and need to be taught by such wise, savvy souls as yourself is a great debating tactic.
And yes, looking into it, an employer does an equal contribution (up to some $ amount that escapes me). But the self-employed SS tax is 15.3%, while the businesses and employees pony up 6.2% each. So if businesses weren't required to pay SS tax, the burden would fall squarely on the employee. And probably with no increase in pay.
And yes, you do have to do the same for a one-time plumbing job, because you have to file taxes every year. Self-employment does not mean you don't pay taxes, junior.
Businesses in this regard become the government's tool to enforce its policies.
Uh huh. The point is, those laws only attach when it's a "big evil corporation". If you personally wanted to turn away every plumber when you found out he was black, you wouldn't have to worry about being sued. Corproations, on the other hand, have their hiring patterns monitored. Fair, eh?
Well, do you think business should have non-discriminatory business practices? Because if you don't, then it is a non-issue. Plus, in your plumber scenario, you are dealing with private property laws, and that is a whole other ball of wax.
-If you want to hire someone to fix your toilet, you pay whatever they agree to. But if you're a corporation that wants to hire someoen to regularly fix toilets, well, that's just evil. You're going to have to pay his medical and dental, pay minimum wage, contribute to his social security account, be on the hook for discriminatory lawsuits, etc.
First of all, plumbers aren't cheap. Definitely not minimum wage.
But that is besides the point. A corporation will offer medical and dental insurances in addition to wages as an incentive for that person to plumb exclusively for the corporation. Generally a hired plumber makes less per hour than a contracted plumber, but the contracted plumber does not have the benefit of definite work.
Corporations do not contribute to Social Security. Do not. Social Security is taken out of your wages.
As for discriminatory lawsuits. If you think a business has to treat all patrons equally, then they must hire equally as well.
If I'm in Windows at work: Query Analyzer, EMR, SQL Server 2000 Help, various folders, files needing some SQL lovin or I'm referencing, Outlook. At most. Some days, it's just VS 2005, Firefox, and Outlook. If I'm working on the website, Crimson Editor. Somedays it is Word, Excel, Visio, or something along those lines. The computers stay on over there 24/7. And what does Remote Desktop count as?
At home:
If I'm on my main Windows box: Freecell. Sometimes eMule. Firefox. Various games. OpenOffice. Power outages take it down, but that's about it.
If I'm on my laptop (shut down when not in use):
In Windows: Sometimes the same as work. Sometimes the same as my main Windows box. Paint Shop Pro.
In Linux: Firefox, Kate, a shell. Sometimes I'll open GIMP to do some minor (very minor) graphic work.
My server: Headless box. Does not have a windowing environment. Command line only. Once again, outages take it down and that's about it.
I guess I never really go over 20 windows at any given time. And if I'm pushing 20 then there is some really weird reason.
If that's something that gets on my nerves is ignorant people in love with their own ignorance getting annoyed when someone corrects them.
Pointing your errors is "bitching"? Writing shit is lack of respect for the readers.
If there is something that gets on my nerves, it is ignorant people in love with their own ignorance getting annoyed when someone corrects them.
Pointing out your errors is "bitching"? Writing shit shows a lack of respect for the readers.
The primitives of OCaml, and the bytecode interpreter and runtime system of Caml Light are all implemented in C. I am going to assume that OCaml's interpreter and runtime system are similarly situated. So that means that if someone forgot to deallocate memory, Caml can leak memory just as well as any language, regardless of garbage collection. And the fact that you mention that C is used to implement the compilers of GCC just goes to show that C is a good choice of language to write interpreters and compilers. So saying that C++ is an awful language to write anything in, when your hammer is implemented in a language that is generally considered to be more problematic than C++ is a bit fucked up.
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Actually, he was playing tennis. But the point holds. You are not Agassi.
I'm not saying that A+, Network+, MCSE, or ITT grads are useless and/or dumb. Quite the contrary, I have known many people in that category that had a wealth of knowledge in those specific realms (networking/system administration). But IT isn't just that. IT encompasses development, networking, and system administration. Basically, this is a nomenclature issue. Their IT department is effectively the development department and operations (networking and administration) department. Someone just renamed the operations department to IT to feel more important and "put the code monkeys in their place".
In other words, your problem isn't "Who's job is it?", it is "Who's being a douchebag?". Once you find that individual and neutralize him, everything else will be resolved nicely.
I now feel compelled to compare XNA to either Natalie Portman or Hot Grits.
:P
Maybe even Natalie Portman covered in Hot Grits making games using XNA.
I've read these jokes too many times.
When people find out what they are worth, they start demanding it. Pretty soon, the entire world's IT population will be high-salaried, no matter where you go.
Um...
In the Wikipedia article you cited: "[M]achine code is composed only of the two binary digits 0 and 1."
So, how does that make you right again?
How about the fact that a circuit only understands two states, on or off. And that a processor is an integrated circuit. And that a 32-bit processor means that the processor has 32 pathways into the circuit, giving you 2^32 combinations to work with.
When we have 16 state circuits, then you may be able to program in "hex machine language". Until then, here's a reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
Not to mention the fact that you have not offered any facts, logic, analogy, or anything concrete besides your opinion and are appealing to the authority of yourself.
That's hollow condescension.
Stop waving your e-penis, no one cares.
What I'm trying to say is that 'hex machine language' is a mnemonic and that anyone in a (decent) CS/EE/CE program should recognize that.
Watch the Breakup with Vince Vaughn. He plays San Andreas and Madden in the movie. And while I don't play Madden, he was definitely playing San Andreas with the correct sounds.
Except that it wouldn't be that easy. You would need a cross-compiler to actually create a program the alien ship can execute. Then you need to worry about your standard libraries, not to mention your networking libraries (because the mothership sent instructions to the main invasion fleet), and probably a couple of other things.
Now, while it is possible that they had a cross-compiler, and they had enough of a networking library to basically shut down the netowrk on the mothership, which would be easier than actually doing anything over the network since you couldn't effectively test it. We are ignoring the fact that 50 years had passed from the creation of that ship, to the arrival of the fleet. And who's to say that they pull an Apple and switch chip vendors in that time, rendering all of your work useless.
Every time I hear someone say this, I feel free to question their validity. You can't program in "hex machine language", as hexadecimal is a convention to make the jump from decimal to binary easier.
"there's"
That should have been "there are", especially since it was in reference to multiple entities.
Not to mention that you seem to be wrong about your proper noun pluralization as well.
You are neglecting the rest of my post, where I said the distance should be your maximum reaction time. And you put forward the 80ft/s timing, obviously physics demands that this is not a constant due to speed, weight, and all those other things that are factored into momentum.
In any case, 160ft of space between cars is far too extreme as is tailgating.
You are neglecting the fact that it is 80ft/s to a stationary object. Another car is subject to the same forces as you are, so they will continue to move forward at 80ft/s as well. You just need to be far away enough to compensate for your maximum reaction time.
Unless they hit a brick wall. But then, you should've seen that coming from far enough away.
Work it backwards from the formula:
K = ((5/9)(F - 32)) + 273.15
Now assuming K = F, and isolating a constant:
K - ((5/9)(K - 32)) = 273.15
Multiplying 5/9 into the subtraction:
K - ((5K - 160)/9) = 273.15
Bringing the other K into the mix:
(9K - 5K + 160)/9 = 273.15
Consolidating the K's and multiplying both sides by the constant, 9:
4K + 160 = 2458.35
Subtract the constant 160:
4K = 2298.35
Divide by the constant 4:
574.5875
Yes he can, and don't call him Shirley.
Also, making modifications to the software is a huge process. It is easier to perform workarounds rather than change the code due to the amount of testing they must perform.
As an example, there is code that will fully manage one of those robotic arm things for the right side of the shuttle. Odd thing is, there is only one robotic arm. On the left of the shuttle.* There are no plans to add a second arm to the shuttle. However, if they were to remove the extraneous code, it would have to go through the entire review process before going into production. It is simpler to ignore the fluff and instead fix the things that could kill astronauts.
*I may have swapped the left and right in the example. Doesn't matter, the point is the duplication, not my in-depth knowledge of shuttle design.
I find his theories interesting and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
The things you mention sound well enough in line with my own personal idealology, but you could be just picking his best qualities. He may like kicking puppy dogs in his spare time. We don't know.
Man, I'm politically interested in a Republican from Texas. That's scary.
And for shame Bobby Jindal. I thought better of you.
No, DST has nothing to do with farming. Farmers don't give a squat about the clock. The sun rises when it does and sets when it does. Artificial means of tracking it won't change it.
However, DST _was_ implemented during WWI to conserve energy. Once the war was over, DST was no longer nationally observed. Then it was observed again during WWII for much the same reason. But when that war ended, we didn't switch back.
http://www.standardtime.com/
And to which I said that the fact that plumbers aren't cheap is irrelevant. All businesses must comply to labor laws. Size is rarely a factor.
Money does not do the same thing. Businesses are not required to provide insurance of any kind. That they do is a benefit. Just like the free drinks for working at Microsoft, totally optional. There are some "benefits" that are mandated (like the Family Medical Leave Act), but for the most part they vary wildly between companies. If two companies were offering the same salary, but one had paid health insurance and the other didn't, which would you take?
By the way, nice ad hominem. Implying that I am young, and therefore ignorant of the world and need to be taught by such wise, savvy souls as yourself is a great debating tactic. And yes, looking into it, an employer does an equal contribution (up to some $ amount that escapes me). But the self-employed SS tax is 15.3%, while the businesses and employees pony up 6.2% each. So if businesses weren't required to pay SS tax, the burden would fall squarely on the employee. And probably with no increase in pay. And yes, you do have to do the same for a one-time plumbing job, because you have to file taxes every year. Self-employment does not mean you don't pay taxes, junior. Businesses in this regard become the government's tool to enforce its policies.
Well, do you think business should have non-discriminatory business practices? Because if you don't, then it is a non-issue. Plus, in your plumber scenario, you are dealing with private property laws, and that is a whole other ball of wax.
But that is besides the point. A corporation will offer medical and dental insurances in addition to wages as an incentive for that person to plumb exclusively for the corporation. Generally a hired plumber makes less per hour than a contracted plumber, but the contracted plumber does not have the benefit of definite work.
Corporations do not contribute to Social Security. Do not. Social Security is taken out of your wages.
As for discriminatory lawsuits. If you think a business has to treat all patrons equally, then they must hire equally as well.
If I'm in Windows at work: Query Analyzer, EMR, SQL Server 2000 Help, various folders, files needing some SQL lovin or I'm referencing, Outlook. At most. Some days, it's just VS 2005, Firefox, and Outlook. If I'm working on the website, Crimson Editor. Somedays it is Word, Excel, Visio, or something along those lines.
The computers stay on over there 24/7. And what does Remote Desktop count as?
At home:
If I'm on my main Windows box: Freecell. Sometimes eMule. Firefox. Various games. OpenOffice. Power outages take it down, but that's about it.
If I'm on my laptop (shut down when not in use):
In Windows: Sometimes the same as work. Sometimes the same as my main Windows box. Paint Shop Pro.
In Linux: Firefox, Kate, a shell. Sometimes I'll open GIMP to do some minor (very minor) graphic work.
My server: Headless box. Does not have a windowing environment. Command line only. Once again, outages take it down and that's about it.
I guess I never really go over 20 windows at any given time. And if I'm pushing 20 then there is some really weird reason.
My bad then. If I had known that, I would have cut you some slack, because your point is valid.
If there is something that gets on my nerves, it is ignorant people in love with their own ignorance getting annoyed when someone corrects them.
Pointing out your errors is "bitching"? Writing shit shows a lack of respect for the readers.
WHO? Please, what do they have to do with the Internet? And why should they be the ones to govern it?
From the official Caml pages:0 32.html (look at section 18.1.3)
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual
http://caml.inria.fr/caml-light/index.en.html
The primitives of OCaml, and the bytecode interpreter and runtime system of Caml Light are all implemented in C. I am going to assume that OCaml's interpreter and runtime system are similarly situated.
So that means that if someone forgot to deallocate memory, Caml can leak memory just as well as any language, regardless of garbage collection.
And the fact that you mention that C is used to implement the compilers of GCC just goes to show that C is a good choice of language to write interpreters and compilers. So saying that C++ is an awful language to write anything in, when your hammer is implemented in a language that is generally considered to be more problematic than C++ is a bit fucked up.