David Stone wrote: I'm 21 and a "senior" software engineer Been there. I worked through college for a consulting company. When I graduated, I had four years experience as a programmer on real projects. A lot of my fellow students had either not worked at all or had only done little throwaway projects during their internships. I ended up in a 'senior engineer' slot based on that background. The only bad part of it was the treatment I got from some of the older engineers. It took a long time to earn their respect. They assumed that, since my degree was only a year or two old, I didn't know anything worthwhile. I remember giving a briefing at the local Air Force base a couple years after I got out of school. I had a group of about 30 officers, department heads, and senior developers. I was discussing automated test case generation for Ada software. One of the gray heads in the back popped up and asked "what the hell's this Ada crap good for anyway? I'll bet I can do more in JOVIAL with less code..." Based on little comments he had made during the main part of the briefing, I had the feeling part of this guy's agenda was to discredit the young punk at the front. I spent ten minutes responding to him, citing information from the Ada design document, case studies, and the like. It was all extemporaneous. I waited for just the right amount of glaze over his eyes before I quit. Good luck, and don't let the old farts (like I've now become :-O) get you down. Software Zen: delete this; Fold With Us![^]

1 for using a really long acronym pointlessly in the lounge. ;P When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.

Actually, I think it would be more like "Download" and "play" rather than streaming. Something like http://www.synctv.com[^] Rocky <>< Blog Post: Handy utility app that is always on my machines! Tech Blog Post: Microsoft Live Writer Plug-ins!

Thanks, yes it was. I can't spend most of my life waiting for someone else who is busy. Elaine :rose: Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

What happens when the customer nullroutes the ad server? Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull

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The Santiago Canyon fire is about 1 mile from where I work. We were told to go home Monday because the air system was sucking too much smoke into our building. Not sure if we are going to stay Tuesday or not yet - they said they would send us an e-mail, but those of us who get into work at 6:00 AM are waiting to find out ... :~ We have a good view from the second floor windows out of the building.

A tower block? :confused: Visit http://www.readytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

Very nice! I wonder how they retrieved the balloon. This talks about a tracker, but no sign of an engine.

:laugh::laugh: Regards, Satips.:rose: Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend. - Albert Camus

There has been talk of an Ender's Game movie. Would be interesting to see how they would do it..

Heh. Don't worry, once I get done setting up our new subversion/trac server, I'll get that entered in the bug database and we'll be good.

Roger Wright wrote: Nah. We just slap 'em down on the hood of the truck and smear barbeque sauce over them. About ten minutes on a side and their about medium-well. :laugh: "Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus

Hehe. :-D How true that is... This book is actually good though. :) We are certainly uncertain at least I'm pretty sure I am...

Books: for(int i = 1; i < 7; ++i)    Game Programming Gems [i][^] Graham My signature is not black, just a very, very dark blue

Where's a cloth? I need to wipe coffee off my monitor. Lots of coffee. cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Unfortunately, it's usually (most) female geeks fantasy as well. :laugh::omg:

OOOH! I hate that. When Windows Media Player (evidently iTunes too) plays songs according to what it thinks you want to listen to. It's possible someone said this, I skipped most of the posts. Sorry if anyone did. If i put it on random, I want it random. If I shuffle my songs, I don't want Artist: A B A C B A A D E A B G F B and where you have a remix and original of a song, and it plays one then another shortly after it. I want a delay! I hate anything that uses that technology, especially Google. I like a song, so I play the song. I ended up working with a toolbar pointing to My Music - when one ends, I play another. Anyone else feel the same, that the whole "played at morning, evening, weekend", play-pattern stuff is rubbish?

The dragon book was always one of my favorites - I even wrote some parser-generators to test my little knowledge. As far as I understand the problem with the Regex-Implementations is, that they are using more than you can gain by using DFA or NFA (they are both equally powerfull).

That sounds like a grad school argument for not repeating a 6000 level class. File Not Found