Things I have printed on my Prusa...wall mountable backplates for my 6 monitors, table stand for my Nexus 7, clips for freezer bags, a bobble-head version of me (we scanned our faces in grad school). If I could print an imagination for you at some point, I'd be happy to snail-mail it over.
A creationist can come onto here and "conflict with my ideology" and still sound like an idiot and get modded down appropriately. Some ideologies (namely those parroted by Fox "News" watchers) are stupid and deserve to be ridiculed.
They're not exactly stereotypes if the states go out of their way to prove it. Arkansas overturning abortion vetoes and Texas holding the rest of the country hostage in regards to putting "Intelligent Design" into everybody's textbooks have actually happened and are not based on prejudices and stereotypes. The South is a very confusing place lately.
You joke about RPG, but at my first gig out of school I worked in RPG/AS400 at a series of local casinos (Reno/Las Vegas). I was in one the other night, popped in and lo and behold the system had not changed. Legacy code does not go quietly.
Makes me wonder, if you pollute their database with intentionally derogatory information, can you sue for defamation? "I keep getting junk mail addressed to Dr. Douchey McTerrorist D.F.A" Or something similar.
I sincerely hope you're just one-upping the tongue-in-cheekiness of the parent poster. It was so thick, people walking around my cubicle slowed to a crawl.
I've been running Squeeze on most of my servers and Wheezy on most of my workstations without any complaint. If I want the latest and greatest I can compile it and add it to my internal apt server. My biggest concern (insofar as my servers are in the conversation) is stability. If you want the latest and shiniest, feel free to download Ubuntu. I know I've hit thirty when I start the day with a "get off my lawn!" statement.
"Highly regarded"? I've seen managers throw out any resume that had University of Phoenix or any other online university. Let's face it, online degrees are a high-priced joke.
I did my undergraduate work from 1999-2004, double majored in anthropology and computer science. Obviously everybody's mileage will vary, but from I saw proper grammar and punctuation was more of an emphasis in my so-called 'soft' science classes than it was in any other. As a graduate student I taught a number of general Liberal Arts courses and can also say that as a very general rule, the upper-classmen in a LA major tended to have a better grasp of proper writing than the others. This isn't to say that engineers are smacking their heads on keyboards and turning the results in, I'm just giving my very anecdotal experience.
My district has been heavily Republican since its inception, no Democrat has ever won it. They didn't want to throw good money after bad for an unknown (and young) candidate.
I ran for Congress last year, even won the primary election. But without the multi-million dollar GOP trust fund that my opponent had, I still came up tens of thousands of votes short. Change isn't easy...
I have no doubt that code editors abound. But (without jailbreaking) can I SSH to my home server and run my test apps? Can I run Nginx (or Apache), Postgres, Python/Django, or a host of other server-side technologies? Of course not! This is despite the fact that the average iDevice is more than capable of handling it and there is a community of developers (myself included) willing to put the time in to make it work. People know I'm an uber-geek, when they see me using a non-Apple device they usually want to know why, I have zero doubt that the majority of/.ers are in the same boat. This is why Apple should be concerned with our use-cases. Whether they like it or not, geeks have at least some influence in the purchase decisions of mundanes.
Edge case my arse! I have a very similar need (albeit a different way of accomplishing it). I develop software but live several hundred miles away from the companies I work for. As such I'm flying in and out at least one a month. Rather than an ultrabook, I have a Raspberry Pi and an Asus Transformer. The theory is still the same. The fact that I know another person in the meat world with a similar set-up tells me that our situations aren't nearly as fringe as people like you would think. Apple will sell millions of these, you are correct. That doesn't change the fact that they are far too locked down from some of our use cases.
Gee...I guess my RaspberryPi in my kitchen linked up to an old touchscreen and custom recipe software is trash and pointless. Or the RaspberryPi in my truck hooked up to a bumper-cam and 1TB hard drive is something my safety conscious family doesn't care about. Just because you lack the creativity and imagination to put these amazing contraptions to good use doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who don't. Idiot.
It's the traditional trade-off we make to live in a civilized society. I could build my own airplane (well not really) but I'd better damned sure make sure it passes the FAA's requirements if only to make sure I'm not a threat to others. Governments DO have the rights that we vote to give them. We give them the right to nose around in some of our personal property and in exchange society is a little bit more secure. It's a delicate balance between the two, but I come down firmly on the side of wanting to know who owns assault weapons.
I'm a sole developer in my shop (in addition to being our Linux server admin). My workstations all run Debian and I'm about as pro-GNU as you can get. With that said, if it weren't for Active Directory keeping our end users from random acts of jackassery, our entire organization would have degraded to a Mad Max-esque wasteland where roving bands of IT geeks roam the cubicle ranges keeping everything in check manually.
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To paraphrase Homer Simpson: To be loved you have to be nice to people...all the time! To be hated you don't have to do squat.
Things I have printed on my Prusa...wall mountable backplates for my 6 monitors, table stand for my Nexus 7, clips for freezer bags, a bobble-head version of me (we scanned our faces in grad school). If I could print an imagination for you at some point, I'd be happy to snail-mail it over.
I'm getting married at 1:59.
You keep using that word. [Communism] I do not think it means what you think it means.
I usually tune ACs out, but this was one of the most accurate descriptions of this entire fiasco that I've read.
A creationist can come onto here and "conflict with my ideology" and still sound like an idiot and get modded down appropriately. Some ideologies (namely those parroted by Fox "News" watchers) are stupid and deserve to be ridiculed.
They're not exactly stereotypes if the states go out of their way to prove it. Arkansas overturning abortion vetoes and Texas holding the rest of the country hostage in regards to putting "Intelligent Design" into everybody's textbooks have actually happened and are not based on prejudices and stereotypes. The South is a very confusing place lately.
You joke about RPG, but at my first gig out of school I worked in RPG/AS400 at a series of local casinos (Reno/Las Vegas). I was in one the other night, popped in and lo and behold the system had not changed. Legacy code does not go quietly.
Makes me wonder, if you pollute their database with intentionally derogatory information, can you sue for defamation? "I keep getting junk mail addressed to Dr. Douchey McTerrorist D.F.A" Or something similar.
or are you really that stupid?
I sincerely hope you're just one-upping the tongue-in-cheekiness of the parent poster. It was so thick, people walking around my cubicle slowed to a crawl.
I've been running Squeeze on most of my servers and Wheezy on most of my workstations without any complaint. If I want the latest and greatest I can compile it and add it to my internal apt server. My biggest concern (insofar as my servers are in the conversation) is stability. If you want the latest and shiniest, feel free to download Ubuntu. I know I've hit thirty when I start the day with a "get off my lawn!" statement.
"Highly regarded"? I've seen managers throw out any resume that had University of Phoenix or any other online university. Let's face it, online degrees are a high-priced joke.
Isn't there a fundamental law that says that if you critique somebody's grammar and/or spelling, you will make a glaring mistake yourself?
I did my undergraduate work from 1999-2004, double majored in anthropology and computer science. Obviously everybody's mileage will vary, but from I saw proper grammar and punctuation was more of an emphasis in my so-called 'soft' science classes than it was in any other. As a graduate student I taught a number of general Liberal Arts courses and can also say that as a very general rule, the upper-classmen in a LA major tended to have a better grasp of proper writing than the others. This isn't to say that engineers are smacking their heads on keyboards and turning the results in, I'm just giving my very anecdotal experience.
For me, it was love of gold. Although others say I was born with a heart full of neutrality.
My district has been heavily Republican since its inception, no Democrat has ever won it. They didn't want to throw good money after bad for an unknown (and young) candidate.
I ran for Congress last year, even won the primary election. But without the multi-million dollar GOP trust fund that my opponent had, I still came up tens of thousands of votes short. Change isn't easy...
Jeff Bezos registered himself as a charity? When did that happen?
Around the same time Fox News had themselves declared the Church of the Latter Day GOP
I have no doubt that code editors abound. But (without jailbreaking) can I SSH to my home server and run my test apps? Can I run Nginx (or Apache), Postgres, Python/Django, or a host of other server-side technologies? Of course not! This is despite the fact that the average iDevice is more than capable of handling it and there is a community of developers (myself included) willing to put the time in to make it work. People know I'm an uber-geek, when they see me using a non-Apple device they usually want to know why, I have zero doubt that the majority of /.ers are in the same boat. This is why Apple should be concerned with our use-cases. Whether they like it or not, geeks have at least some influence in the purchase decisions of mundanes.
Edge case my arse! I have a very similar need (albeit a different way of accomplishing it). I develop software but live several hundred miles away from the companies I work for. As such I'm flying in and out at least one a month. Rather than an ultrabook, I have a Raspberry Pi and an Asus Transformer. The theory is still the same. The fact that I know another person in the meat world with a similar set-up tells me that our situations aren't nearly as fringe as people like you would think. Apple will sell millions of these, you are correct. That doesn't change the fact that they are far too locked down from some of our use cases.
Mr. Ballmer, your medication is ready!
There are plenty of non-strange Linux people around.
Personally, I consider myself quite charming.
Gee...I guess my RaspberryPi in my kitchen linked up to an old touchscreen and custom recipe software is trash and pointless. Or the RaspberryPi in my truck hooked up to a bumper-cam and 1TB hard drive is something my safety conscious family doesn't care about. Just because you lack the creativity and imagination to put these amazing contraptions to good use doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who don't. Idiot.
It's the traditional trade-off we make to live in a civilized society. I could build my own airplane (well not really) but I'd better damned sure make sure it passes the FAA's requirements if only to make sure I'm not a threat to others. Governments DO have the rights that we vote to give them. We give them the right to nose around in some of our personal property and in exchange society is a little bit more secure. It's a delicate balance between the two, but I come down firmly on the side of wanting to know who owns assault weapons.
I'm a sole developer in my shop (in addition to being our Linux server admin). My workstations all run Debian and I'm about as pro-GNU as you can get. With that said, if it weren't for Active Directory keeping our end users from random acts of jackassery, our entire organization would have degraded to a Mad Max-esque wasteland where roving bands of IT geeks roam the cubicle ranges keeping everything in check manually.